It is not his fault that he is out of office attending a yacht race. It is OUR FAULT!
How much is he making per year? Does he care if he is laid off? Will it change his
life even a slightly bit? Who else on this earth goes on vacation while his company
is going through a deep crisis that is affecting the livelihood of thousands - if not
millions - of other people? That is exactly who our business leaders are. Send
them your and the Republican Party's sympathies...
When is the Obama Administration going to realize that they have to strongly
remind Gates that he is NOT the appropriate authority to make undiplomatic
and - to a certain extent senile - comments on US foreign policy? The President
and Secretary Clinton are in charge of that sensitive domain and Gates - rightly
so - is not. The Bush era, where an irresponsible official of his caliber could
create undue fear and panic about a potential massive missile attack of Iran
on Europe, or make undiplomatic and harmful comments regarding Russia's
approach on the Iran issue being "schizophrenic" (and this from an official of
one of the most schizophrenic administrations of the entire US history), is gone,
hopefully never to return, and his idiotic comments are most unwelcome and
need to be controlled sooner rather than later.
Η ΕΦΗΜΕΡΙΣ ΤΗΣ ΚΥΒΕΡΝΗΣΕΩΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑΣ δημοσίευσε
στο Φύλλο 87 της 7ης Ιουνίου 2010 το Νόμο Υπ' Αριθμόν 3852 "Νέα Αρχιτεκτονική
της Αυτοδιοίκησης και της Αποκεντρωμένης Διοίκησης − Πρόγραμμα Καλλικράτης."
The Obama administration would do well to reign on the uncalled for statements
of Secretary Gates. When Gates declares that he holds "some in Europe" responsible
for Turkey looking eastward (he does not even have the guts to mention France and
Germany by name!), he should be reminded by the Secretary of State and the
President that what the Europeans decide about their relationship with Turkey is
their own business and a matter for their own Ministers of Foreign Affairs and
Governments to work on. If the US wants, apart from a special relationship with
Turkey, to also give a bigger saying (possibly a proportional representation) to
Turkey in the US Congress, they may vote right away to invite them to become
their 51st State; I do not think that any EU country would interfere, either by
encouraging them to do so or by denying them the right to do so. A little respect
for the sovereignty of other countries and for their right of non-interference in their
domestic affairs never hurt anyone; especially by a representative of a bankrupt
Washington military establishment of the past, a failed politician, who did not
have the personal dignity to turn down a post at which he had failed when it
was offered to him again...
The Jewish state and its "citizens" have to, at last, stop exploiting issues and
citizens of third countries in order to resolve their own problems and to extract
revenge for their bankrupt foreign policies and military affairs. After how many
decades are the victims of the holocaust choosing to remember the victims of the
Turkish invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus? After how many decades
of vacationing in and financially backing the so-called TRNC are now choosing to
condemn the Turkish invasion and occupation? But what else, what more decent
can anyone expect anymore from a state that practices state terrorism, hijacks
ships on the high seas and kills citizens of other countries? SHAME on Israel
If there is one politician for whom campaign promises mean something, that is
Barack. He would therefore be wise to take seriously into account the Japanese
Prime Minister's pledge about the American bases and the American presence in
the region. This issue is not primarily about US interests; it is primarily about
Japanese and other allied interests in the region and the US can assist best by
listening to their concerns and the opinion of the local electorate...
It is sad when the president of a democratic country is pressured to resign over
making a potentially politically unfortunate, but sadly accurate and apparently
true, statement...
If the reports that the Israeli forces have killed more than 10 people on board
the armless armada delivering humanitarian aid to the Gaza strip are true, the
whole world should be up in arms against an aggressive and intransigent Jewish
state that is out of control. Is that the sympathy and the empathy that the
holocaust has imbued to the people of Israel? Is that the reaction of a civilized
nation? Is that the contribution of this underculture brewing in the post World
War II Jewish state to the new world civilization? SHAME, SHAME, just SHAME,
nothing more nothing less...
The director general of the Ministry of Economic Affairs in Greece is right to
complain about the higher prices that Greeks are paying for the same drugs
as compared to other European countries. But Greece is, as usual, at fault on
how it is handling the situation. A country where controls and oversight work
does not wait until its economy is at the edge of a precipice to artificially slash
(by decree) drug prices by 25%. Instead, over the several years when the public
and the insurance agencies were paying higher prices than those in other EU
countries, the Greek government should have encouraged a massive plan of
negotiations with those EU countries to buy those medicines through them at
the same exact prices that they were paying. Why did this NOT happen?
Either Greek incompetence and inertia or, more likely, during the good
times, some pharmaceutical companies, dealers and other intermediaries
were making excessive profits and paying substantial bribes to people in
charge, thus encouraging them to ignore, or delay action on, this very
serious issue...
Tasos Mantelis is admitting that the Siemens bribe was ostensibly a campaign
contribution only to obscure the reality that the money was really a personal
bribe for signing off to Siemens a Greek government contract. How is it possible
for that money to have been a campaign contribution when it is now clear that
the biggest withdrawal went to pay tuition at Columbia University? George
Papandreou and the Greek Parliament should follow proper procedure, lift
any immunities sheltering this first of admitted thieves of public property and
initiate appropriate legal processes for his conviction and incarceration.
CLEAN GREEK PUBLIC LIFE NOW!
Why is it so difficult for these businessmen that are involved with either
Panathinaikos or Olympiacos to understand that professional football
clubs are companies and that, in the same way that they do not go around
in the press bad-mouthing their fellow shareholders and making informal
and irresponsible statements about their own companies, they should do
the same and respect the same principles when governing their football
company interests. Why do they exhibit such severe lack of judgment
and such lackluster professionalism when it comes to managing football?
Δυστυχώς, πολλοί πλούσιοι "ευεργέτες" στην Ελλάδα είναι αυτού του
επιπέδου, του επιπέδου Βγενόπουλου. Διαβάστε για να καταλάβετε...
Μετά τί μπορούμε να περιμένουμε σε μία χώρα που κυβερνάται από
τέτοιους...
Πώς είναι δυνατόν σε μία χώρα στην οποία οι μισθοί, οι συντάξεις, οι
παροχές κ.λ.π. μειώνονται δραστικά, οι αυξήσεις στις τιμές των προϊόντων
και των άλλων υπηρεσιών να αυξάνονται ταυτόχρονα με ξέφρενους ρυθμούς?
Ακόμα και σε τομείς όπως μέσα μαζικής μεταφοράς, όπου το κράτος θα
έπρεπε να έχει μία δυνατότητα συντονισμού και συγκράτησης, φαίνεται
ότι τα πάντα είναι πια εκτός ελέγχου. Ελπίζω, αλλά δυστυχώς δεν αισιοδοξώ,
ότι ό,τι λέγεται για ανάκαμψη έχει κάποια, ακόμα και ασθενή, βάση...
What I hear when I read the public statements by the BP CEO Tony
Hayward is a man that, clearly, does not know what he is talking about.
First, from BP's response to the oil spill, it is apparent that BP had not
planned for anything like what happened. How is it then possible for its
CEO to "underestimate" the disaster, if he does not have any reliable
estimates in the first place? Obviously he underestimated purposedly
to save as much as possible his company and his fat salary and bonuses.
Second, how can he provide an estimate of 60 to 70 per cent success for
a technique that the company has never used before, nor, obviously, was
it ever intending to use for the purpose it is forced to use it now? He is
again going to have to admit that he "overestimated", although no real
estimate ever existed for its success beforehand... Besides a mess in action,
this CEO is also in a big mess, and creates a big liability, in words...
According to new evidence, it now seems that the world's premier gangster
state had a very good reason for not signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty. Not only does it own nuclear armaments, but it was also aspiring
in proliferating them...
Australia is right in expelling an Israeli diplomat over the forgery of fake
Australian passports used in the Hamas murder affair in Dubai. Enough is
enough. The memory of the holocaust, its victims and its survivors cannot
justify illegal and agressive acts by a state claiming to represent and honor
them. Even worse, it cannot justify, under any provision of international
law, endangering the citizens of third countries, such as Australia, for the
short-sighted gains in a bilateral conflict, in which Israel, after all, is
partially to blame for refusing to abide by its obligations as laid out by
repeated UN resolutions on the conflict.
It is really sad that a regime that has been making the lives of the majority
of its citizens so miserable has been taking as agressive and dangerous a
stance against the lives of its relative citizens that have so often advocated
for help and support and brotherly attitude in this conflict. I am confident
that, despite this unforgivable incident, the peaceful spirit and the dynamism
of South Koreans will again shine through in helping create a unified nation
without artificial boundaries and oppressive regimes.
One more peek at the true character of Evangelical Christian and abstinence
promoting conservative politicians that teach unto others the theories that
they are clearly unwilling to abide by themselves... BLACK TO THEM ALL in
the November 2010 elections. Let us return an even more liberal and open
minded Congress with people that, instead of being bigots and hypocrites and
instead of professing an old and bankrupt version of Christianity for the sake
of electability, are ready to adopt modern ideas adapted to contemporary
needs and dealing with the concerns emanating from the current form and the
current demands of civilization; not those of the first centuries A.C.
There has been some sort of a deal between Brazil, Iran and Turkey on the
exchange of quantities of Uranium of various degrees of enrichment between
Iran and Turkey. Of course, any deal or compromise that would return Iran
in a path of reintegration to the community of civilized nations without the
need for further UN sanctions would be welcome. On the other hand, the
deal attained is highly suspicious for several reasons. The most serious
among them are, first, that it does not address one of the thorniest issues,
which is Iran's continued uninspected domestic enrichment of Uranium, and,
second, Turkey's very suspicious bias in vehemently promoting Iran's position
and opposing international condemnation, even when it is deserved. This
policy has made Turkey's position inherently ureliable and is causing
concern of the possible existence of an undisclosed agreement between Iran
and Turkey on nuclear and security cooperation.
Δεν υπάρχει κανένας αποπροσανατολισμός της κοινής γνώμης. Ο Γιώργος
Αλογοσκούφης ήταν από τα πιο σημαντικά μέλη της συμμορίας που λεηλάτησε
τη χώρα και είναι ντροπή που δεν έχει ακόμα παραιτηθεί από το οικονομικό
πανεπιστήμιο, αλλά τολμά να παραδίδει μαθήματα οικονομικών σε μέλλοντες
οικονομικούς επιστάτες κράτους και επιχειρήσεων. Λίγη ευθυξία πια στην
Ελλάδα δε βλάπτει και κανέναν...
The Russian forces aboard the Marhal Shaposhnikov did the right thing by
releasing the pirates in the wild. In the same way that these pirates are expecting
the sailors that they capture to do their jobs and survive in the wild, they should
know that there are serious and determined governments and navies that are
willing to use all means at their disposal to destroy them and their operations.
