Signs…
In the last 48 hours:
- Another bomb exploded, this time outside the General Secretariat for Information (see the article in Greek). Police believe this was yet another gift from the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, the group that has claimed responsibility for the bomb in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on January 9.
- There were reports that police expected an armed attack on the Athens police headquarters. The building is located on one of Athens’s most busy avenues, right next to the appeals court. According to press news stories, police are implementing a “perimeter security” scheme similar to that which was in force during the Olympics in 2004. Some reports speak of armed patrols in neighboring streets and a preemptive prohibition of parking all around the city block occupied by the police HQ.
- This morning (Saturday, January 16), Kalashnikov-armed robbers attempted to stop an armored van carrying the proceeds of a big toy store in southern Athens. The three security guards locked themselves in the van, trying to thwart the attack. Shots were fired and the driver was hit in the head — the round easily penetrated the “bulletproof” glass of the windscreen. He was later pronounced DOA at a nearby hospital. He was married with two children.
- Farmers in northern Greece are again pouring out with their tractors to cut traffic on major roads. Under the circumstances, their interference with communications and the damage they’re causing to the already moribund economy should be treated harshly. But who’s going to do it?
- The euro is getting knocked because of the Greek debt crisis! I always said that the Greeks may be few, but have their way of corrupting the many!
- Our European “partners” have no patience left for George and his finance minister puppeteer, Papakonstantinou, otherwise known as “robas” (a colloquial Greek expression that is attached to someone who is generally not a serious person, a clown)…
- … but then again, Mr. Trichet of the European Central Bank thinks that Greece leaving the euro zone is an “absurd hypothesis”…
And the world goes round and round…
Alki wrote,
The farmers are spot on in protesting , their mild protests should develop into a more robust and government shaking manifestation. Maybe if the farmers are assertive , an escalation of their disruptive tactics hopefully might shake the marshmallow government and make it fall from its perch . In a similar vein as the farmers in Argentina suppered the ambitions and greed of the paranoiac maniacs of Mrs kirtchner and thieving husband. The farmers are dealing with papagai , masquerading as government; white collar robbers and fraudsters elected by an apathetic and indifferent populace. These unspeakable scoundrels have no interest whatsoever in Hellas or hellenes . Hellas has been turned into a jungle; not that the rest of Europe is any better. If the farmers don’t look after themselves, who will ? There is no serious authority in charge, just hungry scarecrows in suits or open collared shirts ; everything goes, everyone after his own, the survival of the grossest and damnest. This is what Hellas has become. Everytime some gaunt and emaciated EU apparatchik sets foot in Hellas, brandishing their false and beguiling smirks of self contentedness , uttering their emetic statements, is enough to make the dead turn into their graves. Sr Almunia and his abracadabra nostrums peddled in Hellas in the hope of fleecing the last feather from our bodies. Once they crush our bodies and minds, they’ll come for our souls.
Link | January 20th, 2010 at 20:20