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Originally posted by iBallinU
How does that make me ignorant?
Originally posted by iBallinU
For your sake?
LOL you ignorant individual.
Originally posted by iBallinU
Do you actually still believe that this is all for your benefit? You, as in individual people of Europe..the citizens..the common man?
Originally posted by iBallinU
So those funds ended up back in Germany, except rather then back in German taxpayers hands, they went to private German businesses.
Originally posted by iBallinU
I really do hope that # really does hit the fan in Greece. Because either by the will of the people, or by the will of the army, Greece will tell you to shove your EU and your Euro currency up your rectums, and once again forge it's own path.
Originally posted by iBallinU
And people like you, who couldn't spell the word Greece before this crisis, fall for the propaganda.
It's laughable.
Originally posted by ColCurious
reply to post by HattoriHanzou
Yes and thank you.
I'd like to add that I see worrying resemblances between the U.S. federal government and the superstate the EU centralists in Brussels try to enforce on the nations of Europe.
I wish I could give you fifty independent stars for your post.
Originally posted by HattoriHanzou
Something that was said by a recently convicted radical comes to mind. When legitimate dissent is quashed, people are driven to desperate measures.
Originally posted by R_Clark
Greece: "A promise from the army has been obtained to not intervene against a civil uprising
www.newstatesman.com
(visit the link for the full news article)
It is always enlightening to hear the frank assessment of a diplomat upon leaving the service, once unshackled from "the patriotic art of lying for one's country", as 19th Century American journalist Ambrose Bierce described the craft.
Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos was a career diplomat with the Greek foreign ministry. As a junior officer with the service in the 1970s, he helped assure the then freshly democratic nation's accession to the European Union (at the time the EEC). He was at different times Athens' ambassador to Poland, Albania and Canada, and finally the director general of EU