ΚΡΑΤΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΠΑΡΑΚΡΑΤΟΣ ΚΥΝΗΓΟΥΝ ΑΝΗΛΙΚΕΣ ΜΑΘΗΤΡΙΕΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΙΕΡΙΣΣΟ ΑΝΤΙ ΓΙΑ ΤΟΥΣ ΕΠΙΟΡΚΟΥΣ ΞΕΠΟΥΛΗΣΑΝ ΤΗ ΧΩΡΑ....

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THE LOOTING OF GREECE 3: ARMED SWAT TEAM MEN INVADE SMALL TOWN PROTESTING SELLING OUT PUBLIC LAND AND 30B USD GOLD FOR PEANUTS

...What you can get with 11 million euros in Ierissos, Chalkidiki, Greece ? How about gold, yes pure gold!, worth more than 22 billions of euros (USD 30 BILLION approximately)...

On January 28, 2004 in the Official Government Gazette the Law 3220/2004, was published, which effectively ratified the contract transferring Chalkidiki (a prefecture in Northern Greece that was aptly named “God's paradise” for its breathtaking views and ecosystem) public land, forests, and 310 houses, from the Greek state to an upstart company named "Greek Gold."

Among other valuable public assets sold for peanuts to a company that appears to be controlled by media and construction baron George Bobolas who never invested, or had experience from the mining industry in his life, the “socialist” Greek government of Konstantinos Semitis, sold out a few months before the Olympic Games of Athens 2004:

2,500 acres of public land

40,000 sq.m. of industrial

buildings and offices (public land again)

Mining area of 317,000

acres (public property)

11,000 sq.m. of urban (public) land

310 houses at Stratoni, Chalkidiki (public -owned)

2 complete assembly lines of mechanical equipment of olive processing land enrichment mechanical equipment (!!!)

Special mining equipment

A stock of 270.000 tons of arsenopyrite concentrate (approximately 250,000 ounces of pure gold)

All these and many many more for the bargain price of 11,000,000 euros. Peanuts back then in 2004.

SOURCE: Newspaper TO CHONI

THE LOOTING OF GREECE 2: THE PARADISE OF IERISSOS, GREECE TRANSFORMS TO A WΑR ΖΟΝΕ (VIDEO)

Video reposted from Facebook Tina Triga
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THE LOOTING OF GREECE: POLICE POGROM AGAINST STUDENTS PROTESTING THE ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE OF GOLD MINES AND THE "SOCIALIST" GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL SCANDAL IN IERISSOS, CHALKIDIDIKI. FIFTEEN YEAR-OLDS TORTURED AND UNLAWFULLY DETAINED...

     Protesters in Ierissos, Chalkidiki are blocking the 

entrance to the village to five Swat Team armored cars. 

In the last few days many teenage students were unlawfully abducted, 

detained and tortured from Greek police in Ierissos, Chalkidiki.

SYLVIA MATHEWS BURWELL NEXT WHITE HOUSE BUDGET CHIEF

A third generation Greek American has been nominated  as the next 

White House Budge chief from president Obama

WASHINGTON, March 3 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama plans to nominate Walmart Foundation head Sylvia Mathews Burwell to head the White House Office of Management and Budget on Monday, sources familiar with the matter said on Sunday.

Burwell, 47, is a veteran of Bill Clinton's White House and has helped steer philanthropic efforts while at Wal-Mart's headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas.

Burwell would replace Jeffrey Zients, who has been serving as acting director at the White House budget office, known by the acronym OMB.

READ MORE
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/03/sylvia-matthews-burwell-budget-chief_n_2802794.html

TO LIVE AND DIE IN (LARISA,) GREECE (PHOTOS). TWO STUDENTS DEAD THANKS TO THE AUSTERITY MESURES.

Photos by EUROKINISSI via iefimerida.gr

GRILLO BBC INTERVIEW:A DREAM COMES TRUE THROUGH INTERNET....

Via http://pitsirikos.net/2013/03/%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%B1-%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BD-%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%AD%CF%80%CE%B5-%CE%B3%CE%BA%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%BB%CE%BF-honesty-will-come-back-to-fashion/#more-26951

TO ΣΥΓΚΛΟΝΙΣΤΙΚΟ ΓΡΑΜΜΑ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΤΕΡΑ ΤΟΥ ΝΕΚΡΟΥ ΦΟΙΤΗΤΗ ΣΤΗ ΛΑΡΙΣΑ ΤΣΑΚΙΖΕΙ ΚΟΚΑΛΑ...

Τσακίζει κόκαλα το συγκλονιστικό γράμμα του απαρηγόρητου πατέρα του νεκρού φοιτητή στη Λάρισα

Συγκλονιστικό γράμμα του πατέρα ενός από τους νεκρούς φοιτητές στη Λάρισα, οι οποίοι πέθαναν αφού άναψαν μαγκάλι για να ζεσταθούν. "Οι δολοφόνοι των παιδιών έχουν ονοματεπώνυμο".

Διαβάστε το γράμμα

Θλίβομαι και θυμώνω! Εξοργίζομαι. Ξέρω πως ο θυμός δεν είναι καλός σύμβουλος…. Πρέπει να αφήνεις την…. οργή να κατακαθίσει και μετά να γράφεις. Έτσι λένε οι κανόνες…

Όμως αν είσαι οποιοσδήποτε άνθρωπος με στοιχειώδη ευαισθησία, αν είσαι γονιός που προσπαθεί να μεγαλώσει τα παιδιά του σε αυτή την άθλια χώρα (όπως την κατάντησαν), αν κάθε μέρα με αγωνία αναλογίζεσαι τι τα περιμένει στο μέλλον, τότε πως μπορείς να μένεις ψύχραιμος;

Δυο παιδιά από τα Χανιά και την Χαλκίδα (21 και 22 ετών) έχασαν τη ζωή τους. Άλλα τρία χαροπαλεύουν. Ακόμη κι αν σωθούν είναι άγνωστο ποιές θα είναι οι εγκεφαλικές βλάβες που θα κουβαλάνε μια ζωή. Κι όλα αυτά για να ζεσταθούν. Με ένα κομμένο θερμοσίφωνο. Ένα αυτοσχέδιο μαγκάλι. Στην Ελλάδα του 2013.

Θύματα μιας ανάλγητης και αποτυχημένης πολιτικής, που πέτυχε:

-Να υπερδιπλασιασθεί η τιμή του πετρελαίου θέρμανσης (Το 2010 πληρώναμε 0,578 ευρώ το λίτρο Το 2013 η τιμή του σχεδόν τριπλασιάστηκε.-1,3 ευρώ και ..συνεχίζει) -Να μειωθεί η κατανάλωσή του 70% -Να περιοριστούν δραματικά τα δημόσια έσοδα. -Να παγώνουν όλοι στα σπίτια τους -Να αδυνατούνόλο και πιο πολλοί να πληρώσουν τα κοινόχρηστα

-Να έχουν αυξηθεί κάθε είδους ιώσεις

-Να ανθεί το λαθρεμπόριο στα καύσιμα.

-Να γεμίσει η ατμόσφαιρα επικίνδυνα σωματίδια

-Να αποψιλώνονται τα δάση …και τέλος να χάνονται ανθρώπινες ζωές.

Όπως αυτές των νέων φοιτητών στη Λάρισα. Αυτών που ετοιμαζόταν να …εξορίσει ο υπουργός Παιδείας (;) στη Λαμία. Αυτών που δυσκολεύονται να σπουδάσουν. Που οι οικογένειές τους με θυσίες καταφέρνουν να τους στείλουν λίγα χρήματα. Έτσι φτάσαμε στο μαγκάλι…

Οι δολοφόνοι των παιδιών έχουν ονοματεπώνυμο:

- Γιάννης Στουρνάρας

- Αντώνης Σαμαράς

-Ευάγγελος Βενιζέλος

-Φώτης Κουβέλης

Και όσοι στηρίζουν την πολιτική τους...
 

See more at: http://www.parapolitika.gr/ArticleDetails/tabid/63/ArticleID/559986/%c2%abOi-dolofonoi-ton-paidion-echoyn-onomateponymo%c2%bb.aspx#sthash.HP0uc2lm.dpuf

ITALIANS GRILL(-O) THE ROADBLOCKS FOR THE REST OF THE P.I.I.G.S. WHILE GREECE HAS FALLEN INTO A COMA ITALIAN VOTERS MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE...

The sweeping victory of Bepe Grillo and the Five Stars Movement in a G8 country like Italy, one of the world's major economies, and the comeback of the comeback of the politically undead Silvio Berlusconi  becomes the perfect ultimatum for the rest of the PIIGS countries: Portugal, Ireland, Greece,  Spain. With the referendum vote in United Kingdom coming soon , the European landscape  is going to experience drastic changes and transformations. The monetary union is dead. The old corrupted system has collapsed.

While idiotic and manipulative media in the zombieland of Greece dismiss Bepe Grillo's  as just another comedian and funny guy, unable to grasp the true meaning of the Italian vote and the undercurrent of the historical changes that European Union faces,  Italians dared to change the course of History with their vote... While Cypriots bowed down Italians took the risk and made a huge difference for themselves and the rest of Europe. Bravo!

BEPE GRILLO AND SILVIO BERLUSCONI TSUNAMI SWEEPING ITALIAN ELECTIONS AND CHANGES EUROPEAN POLITICS

Beppe Grillo

February 7, 2013  -  Public

Change is possible, what yesterday seemed impossible is now becoming reality. Click here to participate: http://bit.ly/XnFM0g

P.L. BERSANI 32.9%
SILVIO BERLUSCONI 29.2%
BEPE GRILLO 24% (A massive victory for newcomer Bepe Grillo and the Five Star Movement).
MARIO MONTI 10%

HOLLYWOOD VISUAL FX INDUSTRY FACES HUGE PROBLEMS THAT ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS FAILED TO ADDRESS LAST NIGHT. RHYTHM AND HUES VFX ARTISTS' JOBS IN RISK...

(...) When Life of Pi won an Oscar in visual effects, the film’s VFX supervisor Bill Westenhofer—who is a Rhythm & Hues employee—started to thank R&H artists and began to address the company’s recent bankruptcy filing, but his acceptance speech was cut off as the orchestra played him off with the theme from Jaws. And then, when Life of Pi director Ang Lee won the Oscar for best director, he failed to address the movie's visual effects.

"Ouch! Played off and then mic cut off at the Oscars,” one commented in response to Westenhofer's treatment, while another wrote, “We don’t have time to hear about Rhythm & Hues but we have time for a Ted bit?"

HUNDREDS OF VISUAL FX ARTISTS IN HOLLYWOOD FACE UNEMPLOYMENT

READ MORE  ON THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER WEBSITE

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oscars-2013-vfx-artists-blast-424304

ACADEMY AWARDS 2013 FULL LIST

Best Picture: "Argo"
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, "Lincoln"
Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, "Django Unchained"
Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway, "Les Misérables"
Best Director: Ang Lee, "Life of Pi"
Animated Feature Film: "Brave"
Cinematography: "Life of Pi"
Costume Design: "Anna Karenina"
Documentary Feature: "Searching for Sugar Man"
Documentary Short: "Inocente"
Film Editing: "Argo"
Foreign Language Film: "Amour" (Austria)
Makeup: "Les Misérables"
Original Score: "Life of Pi"
Original Song: "Skyfall" from "Skyfall"
Production Design: "Lincoln"
Short Film (Animated): "Paperman"
Short Film (Live Action): "Curfew"
Sound Editing: "Skyfall" & "Zero Dark Thirty" (tie)
Sound Mixing: "Les Misérables"
Visual Effects: "Life of Pi"
Best Adapted Screenplay: "Argo"
Best Original Screenplay: "Django Unchained"

A BEPE GRILLO VICTORY IN ITALIAN ELECTIONS MAY SHOWCASE THE WAY FOR CHANGE IN GREECE

..Born and raised through the web, Bepe Grillo's Five Star Movement in Italy is the brainchild of a clever and persistent Italian comedian, that signals the need for sweeping change in the out-dated, corrupted-to-the-bone European political system.

...So let's hope that today Italians vote for changing a decadent political system, and show other European countries, much like Greece, the right path to change things peacefully in a democracy...Yes, a Bepe Grillo and Five Stars Movement victory can also teach an alternative way to change and fix things in a faltering democracy like Greece, where the Neo-nazi, anti-semitic party has gathered over 10% of the votes in recent polls.

NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS:"ZEUS LAUGHS BUT IT IS THE GAS"....A NEW SONG ABOUT DESPERATE YOUTH, PIGEONS WEARING GAS MASKS IN THE CRADLE OF DEMOCRACY AND POOL TAN....

"Lightning Bolt" is the title of a brand new Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds song... The song, with a male chorus reminding ancient Greek tragedy, is about the current humanitarian, financial and social crisis in Greece.

BERLIN: GREEK STUDENT HUMILIATES FORMER PRIME MINISTER RESPONSIBLE FOR POLITICAL CORRUPTION IN GREECE

ON THE WATERFRONT, CLASSIC ELIA KAZAN MASTERPIECE FROM CRITERION COLLECTION

• United States
• 1954
• 108 minutes
• Black and White
• 1.66:1
• English
•  
• Spine #647

Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy in this masterpiece of urban poetry. A raggedly emotional tale of individual failure and social corruption, On the Waterfront follows Terry’s deepening moral crisis as he must decide whether to remain loyal to the mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) and Johnny’s right-hand man, Terry’s brother, Charley (Rod Steiger), as the authorities close in on them. Driven by the vivid, naturalistic direction of Elia Kazan and savory, streetwise dialogue by Budd Schulberg, On the Waterfront was an instant sensation, winning eight Oscars®, including for best picture, director, actor, supporting actress (Eva Marie Saint), and screenplay.

CINEMAD: H ANAΣΤΑΣΗ ΠΟΥ ΔΕΝ ΕΡΧΕΤΑΙ....

Tου ΝΙΚΟΥ ΚΟΥΛΑΥΤΑΚΗ

(...) Eμείς θα πάμε να ανάψουμε κεράκια στα άτυχα θύματα της Θύρας 7, μπουκάροντας όμως με τον ίδιο μπουλουκοειδή τρόπο. Πετώντας μάλιστα και κροτίδες που δεν αποκλείεται να μας οδηγήσουν σε νέα αθώα θύματα μιας άλλης, ολοκαίνουριας αυτή τη φορά, Θύρας.Θα συνεχίσουμε να παρακολουθούμε με θεία απάθεια το ανάλγητο κράτος των πραιτωριανών της Aγίας Pωμαϊκής Aυτοκρατορίας του Γερμανικού Έθνους, να κόβει τα επιδόματα των ατόμων με ειδικές ανάγκες μπας και λείψει καμμιά υποδιαστολή από τους τόκους που έχουν λαμβάνειν οι δανειστές – πρώην εταίροι.
Θα ανεχόμαστε τον κάθε τυχάρπαστο Mαυρογιαλούρο να συνεχίζει να παριστάνει τον Mεσσία σε μια χώρα που θα έπρεπε να έχει αηδιάσει εδώ και δυο τουλάχιστον αιώνες από δαύτους.
Aπό αυτούς που σκοτώνοντας από τις 9 Oκτωβρίου του 1831 και κάθε μέρα μέχρι σήμερα, στην είσοδο του Aγίου Σπυρίδωνα τον Kαποδίστρια, δολοφόνησαν την ελπίδα για μια Eλλάδα μέχρι τον Δούναβη. Mια απέραντη Eλβετία που θα ζούσαν αρμονικά κι ευτυχισμένα, όσα έθνη και θρησκείες την απάρτιζαν τιμώντας τους ανάπηρους, πλέον, εκείνους που την ελευθέρωσαν.
Aλλά δυστυχώς τους ανεχόμαστε να μας παριστάνουν ακόμη τον καμπόσο. Nα μας δέρνουν αλύπητα, να μας βρίζουν χυδαία, να ελεηνολογούν και να μας έχουν καταντήσει ένα μίζερο, πτωχό τω πνεύματι Έθνος «Eurovision»ιστών, «Dancing with the Stars»ιστών, «Love comes in the end»ιστών.
Άμποτε να έρθει η Aνάσταση και σε αυτό τον τόπο....

http://www.cinemad.gr/editorial/item/2418-mathimata-enilikiosis

GEORGE PAPANDREOU, THE MAN WHO DESTROYED GREECE, LECTURES COLUMBIA STUDENTS HOW (NOT) TO SAVE A COUNTRY

George Papandreou, the former Socialist prime minister who was at the helm when Greece’s economic ship smashed on the rocks of fiscal ruin, has landed a job at Columbia University teaching, of all things, how to govern financial crisis.

The Ivy League school announced the move with great fanfare last month, calling Greece a “living laboratory” for key global public policy challenges. Papandreou, who led Greece from October 2009 through November 2011, is teaching a course on the European financial crisis and will host a lecture Wednesday on “Bailouts and Ballots: The New Challenges to Democracy and the Case of Europe.”

Bringing in the man who led Greece when its economy cratered — and then went begging for bailouts — had some critics second-guessing the Manhattan school. Well before taking office, Papandreou, whose father and grandfather were also prime ministers, was also a top leader of the Socialist party whose policies led to Greece's metastacizing financial problems.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/02/20/critics-question-former-prime-minister-greece-teaching-post-at-columbia/#ixzz2LWbsE8Lh

OSCAR-NOMINATED PALESTINIAN DIRECTOR EMAD BURNAT, OF 5 BROKEN CAMERAS INTERROGATED FOR SIXTY MINUTES BY IMMIGRATION IN LAX... MICHAEL MOORE TAKES HIS CAUSE TO TWITTER.... DOMINIC PATTEN AND DEADLINE.COM EXCLUSIVE REPORTAGE...

http://www.deadline.com/2013/02/michael-moore-springs-oscar-nominated-palestinian-director-from-lax-detention/

UPDATE, 12:38 PM: Hours after being detained at LAX last night, Oscar nominated director Emad Burnat has now spoken out for himself about what happened. “Ours was a very minor example of what my people face every day,” the Palestinian filmmaker says of his and his family’s experience with U.S. Customs officials Tuesday night. Fellow documentarian Michael Moore took to Twitter in protest last night after the director texted him when officials took the filmmaker, his wife and son into a holding area to find out why they were entering the country. Burnat, who is up for an Academy Award this weekend for his co-directing efforts on 5 Broken Cameras, was threatened with being refused entry but eventually allowed into the U.S. after being held for an hour and a half. Read his full statement on what happened here.

Los Angeles, CA – February 20, 2013 - “Last night, on my way from Turkey to Los Angeles, CA, my family and I were held at US immigration for about an hour and questioned about the purpose of my visit to the United States. Immigration officials asked for proof that I was nominated for an Academy Award® for the documentary 5 BROKEN CAMERAS and they told me that if I couldn’t prove the reason for my visit, my wife Soraya, my son Gibreel and I would be sent back to Turkey on the same day. After 40 minutes of questions and answers, Gibreel asked me why we were still waiting in that small room. I simply told him the truth: ‘Maybe we’ll have to go back.’ I could see his heart sink. Although this was an unpleasant experience, this is a daily occurrence for Palestinians, every single day, throughout he West Bank. There are more than 500 Israeli checkpoints, roadblocks, and other barriers to movement across our land, and not a single one of us has been spared the experience that my family and I experienced yesterday. Ours was a very minor example of what my people face every day.” — Emad Burnat, Co-Director of 5 BROKEN CAMERAS

PREVIOUSLY, 10:01 PM: Michael Moore took on U.S. Customs last night and helped get a fellow filmmaker into the country for Sunday’s Oscars. The Academy Award winning documentarian went on a Twitter tirade late Tuesday as Oscar nominated director Emad Burnat was detained along with his family by officials when he arrived at LAX from Turkey. “This all just happened tonight, a few hours ago. He was certain they were going to deport him. But not if I had anything to do about it,” Moore wrote. This is not the first time Burnat, the co-director of the Sundance winning doc 5 Broken Cameras, has been in America. This time he was arriving for this weekend’s Oscar ceremony when customs hauled him, his wife and their 8-year old son in for questioning on why he was in the States. “Although he produced the Oscar invite nominees receive, that wasn’t good enough & he was threatened with being sent back to Palestine,” tweeted Moore, who is a governor on the Academy’s Documentary branch. Burnet had texted Moore soon after being placed in the holding area. “I called Academy officials who called lawyers. I told Emad to give the officers my phone # and to say my name a couple of times,” added Moore last night. “After 1.5 hrs, they decided to release him & his family & told him he could stay in LA for the week & go to the Oscars. Welcome to America,” the Fahrenheit 911 director said. An insider tells me that the Academy had nothing to do with getting Burnat released from customs. “He was out before anyone had a chance to do anything,” they said. For Burnat, the welcome reminded him of home according to Moore.‘It’s nothing I’m not already used to,’ he told me later. ‘When u live under occupation, with no rights, this is a daily occurrence,’ “ Moore said online Burnat said to him after leaving LAX. Contacted by Deadline, U.S. Customs and Immigration said they had no comment on the incident. A former farmer, Burnat is the first Palestinian ever nominated for an Oscar for a documentary. The movie he and Israeli filmmaker Guy Davidi made details the tension and protests between Palestinians in the West Bank village of Bilin, the Israeli military and a nearby settlement.

READ MORE ON HUFF POST

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/20/emad-burnat-detained-5-broken-cameras_n_2724518.html

Israeli officials have said that "5 Broken Cameras" is one of two Israeli documentaries up for an Oscar on Sunday ("The Gatekeepers" being the other), but the origin country of Burnat's film has been a source of controversy throughout awards season. ("5 Broken Cameras" is a co-production of Israel, Palestine and France.)

"I'm Israeli, Emad is Palestinian, personally I don't think films should have citizenships," co-director Guy Davidi told The Electronic Intifada back in January.

"This is a Palestinian film from the heart, from the mind and from the soul," Burnat said to HuffPost Live earlier this month about the film. "This is a Palestinian documentary."

For more on "5 Broken Cameras," head over to HitFix.

AND HITFIX

http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/michael-moore-5-broken-cameras-oscar-nominee-detained-at-lax-threatened-with-deportation

ΤΟ ΞΕΠΟΥΛΗΜΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ...ΜΙΑ ΧΩΡΑ-ΠΕΙΡΑΜΑΤΟΖΩΟ ΜΕ ΚΑΤΟΙΚΟΥΣ ΖΟΜΠΙ....

AΠΟ ΑΡΘΡΟ ΤΟΥ ΝΙΚΟΥ ΧΑΤΖΗΝΙΚΟΛΑΟΥ ΣΤΗ "REAL NEWS"...

• ΜΕΤΡΑ: Στο πρώτο μνημόνιο, τον Μάιο του 2010, οι δανειστές προέβλεπαν ότι χρειάζονταν μέτρα ύψους 25,5 δισ. ευρώ μέχρι το τέλος του 2013. Μέχρι σήμερα, όμως, συμπεριλαμβανομένων και αυτών του τρέχοντος έτους, έχουν ληφθεί μέτρα -περικοπές μισθών, συντάξεων, επιδομάτων και αύξηση φόρων- ύψους 59 δισ. ευρώ. Και ακόμη δεν έχει κλείσει ο λογαριασμός. Η τελευταία επικαιροποίηση του μνημονίου αναφέρει ότι απαιτούνται επιπλέον μέτρα 2 έως 4 δισ. ευρώ για τη διετία 2015-2016, ενώ εάν υπάρξουν αποκλίσεις από τους στόχους θα ζητηθούν και επιπλέον μέτρα για τα έτη 2013-2014.

• ΥΦΕΣΗ: Στο κείμενο του πρώτου μνημονίου προβλεπόταν ότι τα μέτρα δημοσιονομικής προσαρμογής θα βύθιζαν στην ύφεση την ελληνική οικονομία για δύο μόνον χρόνια. Ειδικότερα, η τρόικα προέβλεπε ύφεση 4% και 2,5% το 2010 και το 2011 αντίστοιχα και επιστροφή της οικονομίας σε τροχιά ανάπτυξης το 2012, με 1,1% ρυθμό αύξησης του ΑΕΠ. Εναν χρόνο μετά την υπογραφή του πρώτου μνημονίου, τον Ιούλιο του 2011, οι προβλέψεις αναθεωρήθηκαν επί τα χείρω. Στο μεσοπρόθεσμο δημοσιονομικό πλαίσιο για την περίοδο 2012-2015 που παρουσιάστηκε προβλεπόταν αρνητικός ρυθμός ανάπτυξης 1,2% το 2012 και επιστροφή σε τροχιά ανάπτυξης, με ρυθμό αύξησης του ΑΕΠ 1,1% το 2013. Σύμφωνα με τα στοιχεία που έδωσε στη δημοσιότητα η ΕΛΣΤΑΤ πριν από μερικές ημέρες, το ελληνικό ΑΕΠ τελικά συρρικνώθηκε κατά 6,5% το 2012, ενώ προβλέπεται περαιτέρω συρρίκνωση κατά 4,5% το 2013 και επιστροφή σε αναιμικούς ρυθμούς ανάπτυξης, 0,2%, το 2014. 

• ΑΝΕΡΓΙΑ: Εκτός πραγματικότητας ήταν και οι προβλέψεις της Κομισιόν και του ΔΝΤ για την εξέλιξη της ανεργίας. Με βάση το μεσοπρόθεσμο πρόγραμμα 2012-2015 προβλεπόταν αύξηση των ανέργων μέχρι και το 2012 και στη συνέχεια αντιστροφή της τάσης και μείωση της ανεργίας. Ειδικότερα, για το 2011 προβλεπόταν ποσοστό ανεργίας 14,5%, το 2012 15% και το 2013 14,5%. Σύμφωνα με τα στοιχεία της ΕΛΣΤΑΤ, το ποσοστό της ανεργίας στο τέλος Νοεμβρίου 2012 ήταν 27%, με 1.350.181 ανέργους, ενώ το ΚΕΠΕ προβλέπει εκτίναξη της ανεργίας στο 30% το 2013.

• ΧΡΕΟΣ: Το πρώτο μνημόνιο προέβλεπε ότι το 2012 το χρέος θα διαμορφωνόταν στο 149% του ΑΕΠ. Βρίσκεται όμως ήδη, μετά από ένα «κούρεμα» και μια επαναγορά, στο 175%. 

• ΜΙΣΘΟΙ: Στο πρώτο μνημόνιο του 2010 αναφερόταν ότι δεν ήταν απαραίτητη η μείωση των μισθών του ιδιωτικού τομέα και η τρόικα πρότεινε το πάγωμά τους για μία τριετία. Μέχρι σήμερα οι μισθοί έχουν μειωθεί 30% κατά μέσο όρο.  (...)

BERLINALE AWARDS FULL LIST

Golden Bear: "Child's Pose" by Calin Peter Netzer (Romania)

Silver Bear - The Jury Grand Prize: "An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker" by Danis Tanovic (Bosnia and Herzeogvina/France/Slovenia)

Silver Bear - Best Director:David Gordon Green, "Prince Avalanche" (USA)

Silver Bear - Best Actress:Paulina Garcia in "Gloria" (Chile/Spain)

Silver Bear - Best Actor: Nazif Mujic in "An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker" (Bosnia and Herzeogvina/France/Slovenia)

Silver Bear - Best Screenplay:"Pardé (Closed Curtain)," by Jafar Panahi (Iran)

Silver Bear - Artistic Contribution: Aziz Zahmbakyjev, cinematographer of "Harmony Lessons" (Kazakhstan / Germany / France)

Alfred Bauer Prize: Denis Côté, "Vic and Flow Saw a Bear" (Canada)

Best First Feature Award: "The Rocket" by Kim Mordaunt (Australia)

Special Mention:  "Layla Fourie" by (Germany/South Africa/France/The Netherlands)

Special Mention: "Promised Land" by Gus Van Sant (U.S.)

Golden Bear for Best Short Film: "Fugue" by Jean-Bernard Marlin (France)
Silver Bear for Best Short Film: "remains quiet" by Stefan Kriekhaus (Germany)

DAAD Short Film Award: "Ashura" by Köken Ergun (Turkey/Germany)

A list of awards previously announced at the festival follows:

Crystal Bear for the Best Kplus Feature Film: "The Rocket" by Kim Mordaunt (Australia)
Special Mention: "Satellite Boy" by Catriona McKenzie (Australia)

Crystal Bear for the Best Kplus Short Film: "The Amber Amulet" by Matthew Moore (Australia)
Special Mention: "Ezi un lielpilseta" by Ēvalds Lācis (Latvia)

The Grand Prix of the Generation Kplus International Jury for Best Feature Film with € 7,500 by the Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education): "Mammu, es Tevi mīlu" by Jānis Nords (Latvia)
Special Mention: "Satellite Boy" by Catriona McKenzie (Australia)

The Grand Prix of the Generation Kplus International Jury for Best Short Film with € 2,500 by the Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education): "Cheong" by Kim Jung-in (Republic of Korea)
Special Mention: "Ezi un lielpilseta" by Ēvalds Lācis (Latvia)

Crystal Bear for the Best 14plus Feature Film: "Baby Blues" by Kasia Rosłaniec (Poland)
Special Mention: "Pluto" by Shin Su-won (Republic of Korea)

Crystal Bear for the Best 14plus Short Film: "Rabbitland" by Ana Nedeljković, Nikola Majdak (Serbia)
Special Mention: "Treffit" by Jenni Toivoniemi (Finland)

The Grand Prix of the Generation 14plus International Jury for Best Feature Film with € 7,500 by the Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education): "Shopping" by Mark Albiston, Louis Sutherland (New Zealand)
Special Mention: "Baby Blues" by Kasia Rosłaniec (Poland)

The Grand Prix of the Generation 14plus International Jury for Best Short Film with € 2,500 by the Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education): "Första gången" by Anders Hazelius (Sweden)
Special Mention: "Barefoot" by Danis Goulet (Canada)

Panorama Section Audience Award, Fiction Film: "The Broken Circle Breakdown" by Felix van Groeningen (Belgium/Netherlands)
Second Place: "Reaching for the Moon" by Bruno Barreto (Brazil)
Third Place: "Inch'Allah" by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette (Canada/France)

Panorama Section Audience Award, Documentary Film: "The Act of Killing" by Joshua Oppenheimer (Denmark/Norway/Great Britain)
Second Place: "Salma" by Kim Longinotto (Great Britain)
Third Place: "A World Not Ours" by Mahdi Fleifel (Lebanon/Great Britain/Denmark)

EFA Nominee Berlin (Best European Short Film): "Misterio" by Chema García Ibarra (Spain)

OSCAR-WINNING BLUE AND GREEN SCREEN LEGENDARY INNOVATOR PETROS VLAHOS DIES...

(...)The visual effects industry has paid tribute to Petro Vlahos - the pioneer of blue- and green-screen systems.

The techniques allow filmmakers to superimpose actors and other objects against separately filmed backgrounds.

He developed the procedure for 1959's Ben-Hur and then went on to win an Oscar in 1964 after creating a related process for Disney's Mary Poppins.

The death of the 96-year-old was announced by the company he founded, Ultimatte.

His innovations continue to be used and developed by the television, film, computer games and advertising industries.

"Our industry has lost a giant," Everett Burrell, senior visual effects supervisor at Los Angeles-based studio Look Effects. told the BBC.

READ MORE:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21463817

GUARDIAN: GREEK HUMANITARIAN CRISIS GETS WORSE AND DEEPENS

By ALEX POLITAKI

(...) Third, there has been explosive growth in soup kitchens and general food distribution. The levels are not officially recorded, but the Church of Greece distributes approximately 250,000 daily rations, while there are unknown numbers of rations distributed by municipal authorities and NGOs. By recent government order, municipal rations will be expanded further because of rising incidence of children fainting at school due to low calorie intake. There will also be light meals provided to young students.

 The evidence of poverty, inequality, and inability to access primary services confirms the increasingly desperate statements by people at the frontline. The country has become a field of humanitarian action, and should be treated as such. It is shameful for the Greek government and the EU to turn a blind eye to it. The international humanitarian community should respond with urgency.

READ THE ARTICLE

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/11/greece-humanitarian-crisis-eu?INTCMP=SRCH

ΚΑΛΟ ΤΑΞΙΔΙ ΑΡΙΣΤΕΑ ΜΠΟΥΓΑΤΣΟΥ

...Απεβίωσε η Αριστέα Μπουγάτσου, η κορυφαία Ελληνίδα δημοσιογράφος που είχε το πρωτοφανές σθένος αλλά και την  ηθική ακεραιότητα να αποκαλύψει τα σκάνδαλα "SIEMENS", υποκλοπών, PROTON BANK... και αμέτρητα άλλα και να ΜΗΝ ΥΠΟΚΥΨΕΙ σε εκβιασμούς και δωροδοκίες. Αποτελούσε μια από τις ελάχιστες φωτεινές εξαιρέσεις στον...οχετό που αυτο-αποκαλείται της ελληνικής δημοσιογραφία...
Mέγιστη και συγκλονιστική η συνεισφορά της στην ελευθεροτυπία, μεταφορικά και κυριολεκτικά...
Ας ελπίσουμε ότι  "ταξίδεψε" σε έναν πολύ καλύτερο κόσμο χωρίς πόνο και ασθένειες...

GREEK POLICE TORTURE GAFFE SQUAD PRE-PHOTOSHOP: THE CLOCK IN THE WALL INDICATES TIME PHOTOS TAKEN IS FABRICATED....

   ..AFTER THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA OUTCRY GREEK POLICE INTERIOR AFFAIRS  RELEASED DATA TODAY IN ATHENS THAT THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN AT 13:53 LOCAL TIME ON FEBRUARY 1. THE CLOCK ON THE WALL TELLS ANOTHER STORY. IT IS DAYTIME 08.25 AM THE VERY NEXT DAY FEBRUARY 2, 2013....SO WHY FABRICATING DATES AND ALTERING THE HOURS PHOTO WERE TAKEN, BEFORE BADLY PHOTOSHOPPED, IF THERE IS NOTHING TO HIDE?

A COP WEARING AN OLD-FASHIONED WRIST WATCH BRACELET PULLS FROM THE HAIR BACK THE HEAD  ONE OF THE ARRESTED ROBBERS...

GREEK POLICE NEEDS TO STOP TORTURE PRACTICES

A new hybrid of cop is breeding in Greece, and the Southeast Mediterranean: Full time Golden Dawn Neo-nazi party supporter, hyperactive executioner, arrogant torturer, part time-amateur photoshopper …. these are the geniuses of the IMF-sanctioned coalition government, the Inspectors Clouzot of Greek Police. Nasty caricatures of a real police officer paid out of the taxpayers hard-earned euros should and could be.

..After policemen connected to the Neonazi party of Golden Dawn tortured and beaten fifteen peaceful protesters participating in an anti-racist, anti-semitic rally, four youngsters arrested Saturday in a bank robbery going wrong in Northern Greece were handcuffed, and were individually tortured and beaten in separate rooms for many hours by four masked policemen asked to repeat their fist and last name over and over again.

Even from the miserably police-photoshopped released mug-shots the punches, bruises and kicks are obvious....(see photos in the blogpost below). The photos are amateurishly photoshopped by local police in Northern Greece). The local DA refused medical attention and care to the arrested for the last 48 hours.

After many years, thanks to the heroic efforts of a just ONE judge and his team , 49 persons are indicted for the Greek Stock Market Scandal mainly for “white collar” crimes (money laundering, stock manipulation, trading inside information, forging financial statements and documents )...Milions of people lost their fortunes, billions of euros, thanks to the Greek politicians giving the 49 for fifteen years a “carte blanche”.

No photos of these financial terrorists have been released, they never been tortured, or handcuffed, and they are free to go to whatever Banana Republic they wish and re-start a new career in “white collar” crimes.

65TH ANNUAL DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA AWARDS

                      

                      65th Annual Directors Guild Of America Awards

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film

Ben Affleck
Argo (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Mr. Affleck’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Amy Herman
First Assistant Director: David Webb
Second Assistant Director: Ian Calip
Second Second Assistant Directors: Clark Credle, Gavin Kleintop
First Assistant Director (Turkey Unit): Belkis Turan

This is Mr. Affleck’s first DGA Feature Film Award nomination.

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary

MALIK BENDJELLOUL
Searching For Sugar Man (Sony Pictures Classics)
Passion Pictures Production
Canfield Pictures & The Documentary Company
Red Box Films

This is Mr. Bendjelloul’s first DGA Award nomination.

TELEVISION

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series

RIAN JOHNSON
Breaking Bad, “Fifty-One” (AMC)

Mr. Johnson’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Stewart A. Lyons
Assistant Unit Production Manager: James Paul Hapsas
First Assistant Director: Ben Scissors
Second Assistant Director: Louis Lanni
Second Second Assistant Director: Anna Ramey
Additional Second Assistant Director: Joann Connolly

This is Mr. Johnson’s first DGA Award nomination.

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies For Television and Mini-Series

JAY ROACH
Game Change (HBO)

Mr. Roach’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Mary Kane
First Assistant Director: Josh King
Second Assistant Director: Emily McGovern
Second Second Assistant Director: Brian F. Relyea

This is Mr. Roach’s second DGA Award nomination. He previously won the DGA Award for Outstanding
Achievement in Movies for Television and Mini-Series for Recount in 2008.

READ MORE WINNERS

http://www.dga.org/Awards/Annual.aspx