QUESTION: Who is the third biggest arms importer in the world, behind India and China?
ANSWER: Greece
QUESTION: If Greece had spent the EU average on defence over the past 10 years (1.7%) of GDP rather than spending 4% of GDP, how much money would it have saved?
ANSWER: 52% of GDP or Euro150 billion. So why are France and Germany not demanding that Greece reduce its defence budget?
QUESTION: In the period 2006-2010 which country was Germany’s largest market for munitions?
ANSWER: Greece, which accounted for 15% of total German arms sales.
QUESTION: In the same period, what country was France’s largest arms export market in Europe (third largest overall)?
ANSWER: Greece
QUESTION: In 2010 (last year data is available) social spending in Greece was cut by 1.8bn Euros, how much did military spending change?
a) Decreased by Euro 900 million
b) No change
c) Increased by Euro 900million
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: Greece
QUESTION: If Greece had spent the EU average on defence over the past 10 years (1.7%) of GDP rather than spending 4% of GDP, how much money would it have saved?
ANSWER: 52% of GDP or Euro150 billion. So why are France and Germany not demanding that Greece reduce its defence budget?
QUESTION: In the period 2006-2010 which country was Germany’s largest market for munitions?
ANSWER: Greece, which accounted for 15% of total German arms sales.
QUESTION: In the same period, what country was France’s largest arms export market in Europe (third largest overall)?
ANSWER: Greece
QUESTION: In 2010 (last year data is available) social spending in Greece was cut by 1.8bn Euros, how much did military spending change?
a) Decreased by Euro 900 million
b) No change
c) Increased by Euro 900million
ANSWER: C
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Using a NATO plan to protect Greece against a communist invasion, a handful of junior officers led by Colonel George Papadopoulos, fearful of the upcoming election and the rise of the left, overthrew the Greek government and declare martial law.
They outlawed strikes, labor unions, long hair on men, mini-skirts, the peace symbol, the Beatles, Sophocles, Tolstoy, Aeschylus, Socrates, Eugene Ionesco, Sartre, Chekhov, Mark Twain, Samuel Beckett, free press, new math and the letter Z
Vrasidas Karalis
"... the 1967 Dictatorship showed the real face of the Greek political establishment. Indifferent to the needs and concerns of the Greek people,servile to foreign intervention, unable to govern on the basis of consensus, ...For over a century Greece is governed by the same families, the crypto-dynasties of wealth and influence, whose hold on power is never questioned and is continued unchallenged-and the new politicians choose to join them in strange alliances instead of beating them and marginalising them out of the political arena.
These families have been responsible for the Dictatorship, the tragedy in Cyprus, the widening social inequality, the crisis of culture and education that we see dominating the country for the last forty years.
Professor Vrasidas Karalis teaches Modern Greek at the University of
Sydney.
http://neoskosmos.com/news/en/The-Greek-dictatorship-forty-two-years-lat\
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THE GHOST OF THE COLONELS
Adam Curtis [in his BBC Blog], Thursday, 3 November 2011:
In the present crisis over Greece there is a furious argument about whether the Greek people should be allowed to vote on the proposed solution. Many of the voices against this come from the world of finance and economics. They say that the crisis is too dangerous to leave to the
will of the people.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/11/the_ghost_of_the_colonels.\
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