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Μετά το γνωστό εξώφυλλο του Focus αποφάσισα να επιστρέψω εφέτος στην Γερμανία για διακοπές

btw πολύ καλά τα λένε οι Γερμανοί

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yeap yeap

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Banks Bet Greece Defaults on Debt They Helped Hide

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As Greece’s financial condition has worsened, undermining the euro, the role of Goldman Sachs and other major banks in masking the true extent of the country’s problems has drawn criticism from European leaders. But even before that issue became apparent, a little-known company backed by Goldman, JP Morgan Chase and about a dozen other banks had created an index that enabled market players to bet on whether Greece and other European nations would go bust.

Last September, the company, the Markit Group of London, introduced the iTraxx SovX Western Europe index, which is based on such swaps and let traders gamble on Greece shortly before the crisis. Such derivatives have assumed an outsize role in Europe’s debt crisis, as traders focus on their daily gyrations.

A result, some traders say, is a vicious circle.

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the art of billboard

The artist Kerry Tribe’s billboard on LaBrea Avenue was commissioned
by the MAK Center for Art and Architecture as part of its “How Many
Billboards? Art in Stead” exhibition.

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gone

Dec. 2009

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η θεωρία του 20%

η νέα μου θεωρία συνομωσίας αφορά σε αυτό το φρικιαστικό 20%

ένα ποσοστό που ακούω τώρα τελευταία όλο και πιο συχνά

ένα 20% θέλουν να κόψουν από το προσωπικό τους και τα έξοδά τους διάφορες επιχειρήσεις

ένα 20% ζητάνε οι Ευρωπαίοι να κόψουμε γενικά

ένα 20% μιας λίβρας σάρκα μας ζητάνε οι μοντέρνοι τοκογλύφοι αλά Σάιλοκ και Γκόλντμαν Ζακς

είναι συνενοημένοι;

υπάρχει μια μυστηριώδης διεθνής καμπάλα του 20% ?

αν σε αυτό προσθέσουμε ένα 20% που θα ακριβύνουν όλα υπολογίζω η γενική ζημιά να πάει στο -40% χονδρικά

καλό πάσχα

όποιος σκάβει τον λάκκο του άλλου κλπ κλπ

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χαμογελάω σαρκαστικά επειδή ο εκδότης που στηλιτεύει τα λάθη των εφημερίδων από τη στήλη του ... κάνει λάθος

το λάθος που ανέσυρε από την εφημερίδα ΤΑ ΝΕΑ έγινε από την εφημερίδα ΤΟ ΒΗΜΑ

δεν έχει τελειωμό ο θάνατος των εγκεφαλικών κυττάρων

Η ΠΥΘΙΑ

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αυτές είναι οι τράπεζες που τρέξαμε να σώσουμε

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Wall St. Helped Greece to Mask Debt Fueling Europe's Crisis ...

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read and weep

Robert Scheer: It’s Greek to Goldman Sachs - Robert Scheer's Columns - Truthdig

2010/02/17 - “What is this Goldman Sachs and why has it caused us so much grief?” is a question they must be asking in even the most remote of Greek villages, as they are throughout much of this economically troubled world.

The Greek financial scandal in which Goldman Sachs stands accused of selling dubious derivatives that concealed enormous government debt has sent the Greek economy and European markets into a tailspin. But that’s just part of a made-in-the-USA banking hustle that has haunted folks at home and abroad.

At the heart of the worldwide banking meltdown are those mysterious unregulated derivatives that Goldman and JPMorgan led the way in selling. But Greece’s case did not involve the usual questionable mortgages packaged into derivatives with credit default swaps backing them up, but rather expected revenue on airport fees and other potential sources of the cashed-strapped government’s future income.

As The New York Times headlined it: “Wall St. Helped to Mask Debt Fueling Europe’s Crisis.” The story described the scam succinctly: “As in the American subprime crisis and the implosion of American International Group, financial derivatives played a role in the run-up of Greek debt. Instruments developed by Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and a wide range of other banks enabled politicians to mask additional borrowing in Greece, Italy and possibly elsewhere. ... Critics say that such deals, because they are not recorded as loans, mislead investors and regulators about the depth of a country’s liabilities.”

As a result of such shenanigans back in 2001, Greece was allowed to join the European Union while running up enormous debt that went undetected. Greece’s neighbors will now be forced to bail it out, much as U.S. taxpayers have done for banks as a result of the scams Goldman and other financial houses pulled off in this country. The common denominator is that the packagers of the collateralized debt securities, be they based on subprime mortgages or government airport fees, have no real interest in the integrity of the packages, for they will balance them out with credit default swaps that pay off when the assets prove toxic. And they will make their lucrative commissions coming and going, no matter what goes wrong. Even after all the trouble in Greece, Goldman President Gary D. Cohn was back in that country last November with a new derivative scam based on potential revenue from Greece’s health care system.

winter o 2

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euromess

Paul Krugman: The Making of a Euromess

Lately, financial news has been dominated by reports from Greece and other nations on the European periphery. And rightly so.

But I’ve been troubled by reporting that focuses almost exclusively on European debts and deficits, conveying the impression that it’s all about government profligacy — and feeding into the narrative of our own deficit hawks, who want to slash spending even in the face of mass unemployment, and hold Greece up as an object lesson of what will happen if we don’t.

For the truth is that lack of fiscal discipline isn’t the whole, or even the main, source of Europe’s troubles — not even in Greece, whose government was indeed irresponsible (and hid its irresponsibility with creative accounting).

No, the real story behind the euromess lies not in the profligacy of politicians but in the arrogance of elites — specifically, the policy elites who pushed Europe into adopting a single currency well before the continent was ready for such an experiment.

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συλλογική αυτοκτονία ...

Marshall Auerback
Greece Signs Its National Suicide Pact

Agreement has been reached in Europe on a “rescue” package for Greece. But it’s no cause for celebration. It’s the kind of “rescue” sensation one experiences after paying out what’s left in one’s wallet when confronted with a robber with a gun. The insanity of imposed budgetary constraints --harsh cuts, tax increases -- will be manifest to all soon enough. Economists and the EU bureaucrats who advocate a slavish adherence to arbitrary compliance numbers fail to comprehend the basis of government spending. In imposing these voluntary financial constraints on government activity, they deny essential government services and the opportunity for full employment to their citizenry.

Score another one, then, for the high priests of fiscal rectitude. Harsh cuts, tax increases — this is by no means a recovery policy. The capital markets have got their pound of flesh. But Greece is no more able to reduce its deficit under these circumstances than it is possible to get blood out of a stone. Politically, it means ceding control of EU macro policy to an external consortium dominated by France and Germany. Greece becomes a colony.

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la poverina ψωροκώσταινα

Euroland, the Horror Movie

By James Howard Kunstler
On February 15, 2010 7:03 AM


An Olympian game of musical chairs in global finance heads for a climax in the days ahead as so many eyes are diverted to alternate festivities in British Columbia, where grown men compete for gold by riding things that look like cafeteria trays down icy mountainsides -- is this the moment that comes every four years when you wonder why you didn't get your kid a luge for Christmas


The advertisers must be lovin' it, but six thousand miles away a whole lot of European bankers are wondering how to get their fannies in a dwindling number of seats at the money trough. Greece is going bust. History is great prankster this way. Just when you're wondering how America will make Afghanistan safe for democracy, or whether Venezuela will blow itself up along with the oil markets, along comes kindly, picturesque, inoffensive old Uncle Greece -- land of antiquities and pizza entrepreneurs -- to fuck things up.


Those who run Europe have three choices: to bail out Greece, to let Greece sink (into a desperate economic depression), or to pretend to bail out Greece. The sad truth of the situation is that there is not enough productive activity in Europe to really support all the members of the European Union in the style they're accustomed to. (Which also happens to be true of the USA and its constituent states, but you probably know that already.)

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RIP

Alexander McQueen: A life in fashion

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η επιστροφή της Sade

Η Sade πρέπει να είναι η πιο cool γυναίκα στον πλανήτη.

Μια υπέροχη φωνή, μια μεγάλη καλλιτέχνιδα, μια σωστή κυρία.

Επιστρέφει και κάνει πάλι αυτό που έκανε πάντα : να μας μαγεύει !!!

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Στο Γιώργο Παπά

Να ζείς στην ίδια πολιτεία παντοτινά
και να 'χεις των αναχωρήσεων τη μανία,
μα φεύγοντας απ' το γραφείο τα βραδινά
να κάνεις οφθαλμοπορνεία στα καφενεία.

Αλλοτες είχαμε τα πλοία κρυφό σκοπό,
μα ο κόσμος έγινε σαν αδειανή φυλλάδα,
είναι τι ίδιο πιά να μένεις στην Ελλάδα
με το να ταξιδεύεις στο Fernando Po.

Τα φορτηγά είναι κακοτάξιδα κι αργούν,
μες στα ποστάλια πλήττεις βλέποντας τουρίστες,
το να φορτώνεις μήνες ρύζια στο Ραγκούν
είν' ένα πράγμα που σκοτώνει τους αρτίστες.

Οι πόλοι γίνανε σε μας πολύ γνωστοί,
θαυμάσαμε πολλές φορές το Βόρειο Σέλας
κι έχουν οι πάγοι χρόνια τώρα σκεπαστεί
από αδειανά κουτιά σπανιόλικης σαρδέλλας.

Στην Ταϊτή έζησε μήνες κι ο Λοτί,
αν πας λιγάκι παρακάτου, στις Μαρκίζες,
που άλλοτες τρώγανε μπανάνες κι άγριες ρίζες,
καλλυντικά τώρα πουλάνε του Coty.

Οι Γιαπωνέζες, τα κορίτσια στη Χιλή,
κι οι μαύρες του Μαρόκου που πουλάνε μέλι,
έχουν σαν όλες τις γυναίκες τα ίδια σκέλη
και δίνουν με τον ίδιο τρόπο το φιλί.

Η αυτοκτονία, προνόμιο πιά στα θηλυκά-
κάποτε κάναμε κι εμείς αυτή τη σκέψη.
Πεθαίνεις πιό σιγά με τα ναρκωτικά,
μα τελευταία κι αυτά τάχουν νοθέψει.

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όποιος θέλει ας απαντήσει

1. πιστεύετε ότι η ελληνική κοινωνία γίνεται περισσότερο ή λιγότερο ανεκτική απέναντι στους ομοφυλόφιλους;

2. θεωρείτε ότι οι ομοφυλόφιλοι σήμερα στη χώρα μας βγαίνουν πιο εύκολα από την ντουλάπα;

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