CNN published a timeline of the Greek crisis this morning. Here are a few of the takeaways: 1. Greece’s deficits were concealed by a “center-right” government. 2. Building expensive sports arenas on the public dime (sound familiar?) and hosting the 2004 Olympics brought indebtedness, not prosp[...]
Posts Tagged ‘EU’
July 6th, 2015 - 10:40 am § in Politics
Whose fault is Greece?
Nearly everyone is beating up on Greece. The media paint Greeks as spoiled-brat children, who don’t work or pay taxes and live off the generosity of others. Reality doesn’t actually work that way; there isn’t much real charity in the world, and the Vatican, not European government[...]
July 5th, 2015 - 11:57 am § in Politics
Greek voters reject EU’s austerity demands
UPDATE: CNBC has called the Greek election; the “No’s” have won. Greek voters resoundingly rejected the European Union’s austerity demands in a referendum today, with “No” winning by 61.3%-38.7% with all the votes counted. That means Greece’s socialist gove[...]
July 4th, 2015 - 10:10 am § in Politics
“Austerity is an ideology”
“No country in the history of the world has ever cut its way to prosperity” And yet that’s the regimen conservatives want to impose on every economy they can get their hands on.[...]
Stall em out
The world is Sick and tired of the ongoing fighting between Israel and Palestine, it is safe to say that the world wants peace between the two. 135 nations recognize Palestine as a state, the UN granted Palestine with observer-state status in 2012. The recent news that the Vatican now recognizes P[...]
Can someone call a doctor?
While we complain about our broken healthcare system in the United States, there are 5 billion people worldwide who lack access to surgical care. http://www.bbc.com/news/health-32452249 &nbs[...]
(Neo)Imperial Russia
RT Russian State Press April 20, 2015: ‘Inexplicable and absurd’ – Russia blasts Norway’s overreaction on official Svalbard visit Norway summoned the Russian ambassador in Oslo to express frustration over an unapproved visit by a Russian Defenxe Minister to Svalbard, an Arctic archipe[...]
A BLOGGER CLAIMS OBAMACARE IS NOT WORKING
ObamaCare Is it working? Posted on March 20, 2015 by hughschwartz on his blog Our president and the Democratic Congress are singing the praises of Obama care. It definitely has given more people access to health care. It protects people with pre-existing conditions from losing their benefits when [...]
Can’t defend Evil
I recently got into an argument about whether or not the Islamic State was fighting for justice. Not sure why I entertained statements made by someone who I thought was intelligent on this subject. How do people sympathize with a group that enslaves women and children? According to the Islami[...]