Uprising from ALL AGES in Greece CONTINUES MULTIPLIES to Millions

[Rocket Queen]

Received a PDF today.... they even had in English.  I told you that restaurants will now have to tax their customers %23 on food and drink.

So the new PDF says starting on September 1st 

"Sales of juices, sparkling water, soft drink and in general other non-alcoholic drinks"

   So now Alcohol (which was taxed at 18% then 21% and now 23%) will be taxed the same as water, orange juice, soy milk, milk......  etc

even at the supermarket    So tax on drinks went from 9% to 11% to 23%  all within about a year.   I am baffled 


The rest of the document I can't comprehend too well but there are fee's and outlines on what you should own and how you should live with what new taxes you will pay.  wow

WTF? What is their argument for taxing non alcoholic beverages the same as alcoholic bevs?

[polar]

"taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society" FDR

"The expenses of government, having for their object the interest of all, should be borne by everyone, and the more a man enjoys the advantages of society, the more he ought to hold himself honored in contributing to those expenses."  ~Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

quit being unpatriotic guys

[Sean]

WTF? What is their argument for taxing non alcoholic beverages the same as alcoholic bevs?

No argument on specifics that I know about.  but I know, seen, and sold liquor to see the heavy negative impact it had on sales and prices... . 4 tax increases:  18, 19, 21, 23 percent in a small time frame.  Each time making you bring your registers to get reprogrammed and government stamped for a fee. part of the hidden fee's then don't tell you about on the "new measure" forms ... same when they keep retaxing other items.

New Law 3986/2011
“Urgent measures for the implementation of the
austerity package”

This new law aiming at raising additional revenues in the midst of turbulent economic times
in Greece was voted on 30 June 2011 by the Greek parliament. Its main tax provisions are
as follow:

  attachment

[Sean]

A couple statements I made previously

Today the Spanish Embassy has been taken over by protesters because Greece is blocking AID to Gaza.  It blocked 9 vessels and any other vessels going to help Gaza.    This is something to keep a eye out on.... because Greece with its ties to EU and USA have been letting passage of weapons to Isreal


now keep in mind just for the know.... about older news [article]

There are other important reasons why EU has a gun to Greece's head     <<<  Don't forget about it.  Don't forget Turkey borders Greece and Greece has a say if Turkey can enter EU. Don't forget pipeline deals.

So anyway the USA flown Hilary's fat ass to the region.  Talks in Turkey and a loaded trip to Greece. Here is an article...  I'll highlight what a lot of this is really about.

Clinton expresses strong support to Greece         17 Jul 2011
 
Prime Minister George Papandreou welcomes U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during their meeting in Athens on 17 July 2011.
 
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday expressed the US government's strong support for the efforts of the Greek people and the Greek government to overcome the debt crisis, during a press conference following her meeting with Foreign Minister Stavros Lambrinidis.
 
Their meeting was the first in a round of scheduled meetings between Clinton and Greece's leadership during her visit to Athens, where she arrived late on Saturday from neighbouring Turkey after attending a meeting of the Contact Group for Libya.
 
Clinton underlined that the government of Prime Minister George Papandreou had faced tough decisions and expressed Washington's support for his determination to carry out reforms.
 
Doing nothing would have far worse consequences than the current difficulties, she added, expressing her faith in the resilience of the Greek people.
 
"I applaud the Greek government on its willingness to take these difficult steps. Greece has inspired the world before, and I have every confidence that you are doing so again," she said.
 
She stressed that the Greek government was on the right path and that the reforms it had carried out were like "chemotherapy" and would make the country more competitive and more attractive to investors. (Sean: lol ok and hello Tesco)
 
"I am not here to in any way downplay the immediate challenges because they are real. But I am here to say that we believe strongly that this will give Greece a very strong economy going forward," Clinton said.
 
Lambrinidis stressed that the Greece of today bore no relation to the Greece of the past and he emphasised the need for European solidarity in order to overcome the crisis. He also underlined the government's determination to forge ahead with reforms.
 
"We believe that we shall come out of this difficulty victorious," he said. "Many on both sides of the Atlantic have bet on the collapse of Greece and then have been proven wrong. We will continue to prove them wrong."   (Sean: Bitchslap)
 
During one-on-one talks lasting half an hour, followed by a meeting between Greek and US delegations, Clinton and Lambrinidis discussed the economic crisis and issues of foreign policy, focusing mainly on the situation in Libya, the Middle East, the western Balkans, the Cyprus issue and Greece's relations with Turkey.
 
Concerning the Cyprus issue, Lambrinidis expressed his conviction that progress was possible and had to be striven for, while noting that the necessary political will on Turkey's part was an essential precondition for success.
 
Referring to the crisis in Libya, Clinton thanked the Greek government for its willingness to receive Nato force at the naval base in Souda and Athens' support after the attack on the US Embassy in Damascus. She said the two sides had shared views concerning the process of democratisation in north Africa and welcomed Athens' stance on the EU accession of the western Balkan countries.
 
After her meeting with Lambrinidis, the US Secretary of State attended a working dinner with the prime minister at his offices.
 
Arriving for the dinner, she conveyed her family's warm regards to Papandreou and, on a lighter note in response to questions posed by an American journalist, expressed her excitement that the US women's soccer team would be playing in the World Cup final against Japan on Sunday night.
 
She said that US Vice-President Joe Biden and her own daughter Chelsea would be in Frankfurt to watch the game and support the US team, while she would be watching the game in Athens. (I'm glad we are paying these pieces of shit also for touring Europe and continuing to sell out USA.
 
Sources in the government said her talks with Papandreou covered the economic crisis, foreign policy issues, the problems faced by the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul, energy issues and the 'Arab Spring', as well as Greece's role in the surrounding region.
 
There was complete agreement during the meeting on the need for a comprehensive and effective solution for the crisis in both Greece and in Europe in order to send markets a clear message and deal effectively with speculators. (Sean: Future popup walmarts and support for easy GDP based on erasing nationalities)
 
There followed a meeting between Clinton and President Karolos Papoulias. A meeting between Clinton and Greece's main opposition New Democracy party leader Antonis Samaras is to take place on Monday.
 
Τhe Communist Party (KKE), in a statement, claimed that the "US Secretary of State rewarded the (Greek) government's barbarous policy and supported the country's greater involvement in America's and its allies' imperialistic plans and wars against the countries of Africa and Mideast. This alliance is useful for Greek plutocracy and, therefore, is supported by ruling Pasok and main opposition New Democracy and other parties." (Sean Edit.. yep)
 
On its part, the Popular Orthodox Party (Laos) party said the "US is showing Europe that it is ready to bring back the 'lost sheep'. The worst is that the Greek government is reacting as a 'lost sheep', and a black one, no less".
 
Finally, the Radical Left Coalition (Syriza) expressed its apprehension and its opposition to the Clinton visit: "The aim of her visit is not to assist in Greek people's problems and the issue of peace, but to ensure Greece's greater involvement in US, Nato and Israeli war plans against Afghanistan, Libya and in the wider region."

  < said it best right there

[Sean]

I just watched some videos and I'm very sad to say that 4am the police and those in charged planned a massive raid on innocent people in the square. Made many arrests.  Stole their tents. Destroyed their system in place.
Like thieves, who fear the people's outcry and public shame, The police forces invaded the square at 4 am in full riot gear before bringing in other forces. 

from real-democracy.gr

They Came, Like Thieves in the Night


The district attorney and work crews of the Municipality of Athens invaded the square, and began a wholesale destruction and removal of tents and the infrastructure of the various work groups of the square. They then took 13 people into custody from which 8 are now considered arrests.

We condemn the ban on communication of lawyers with those held at the police station in Omonoia. (For this reason, there is no clear picture of the number of arrestees or who they are).

Activists who were present, in resistance to the annihilation of the square, saved what material they could and took videos of what was happening, scenes which make plain that we are living under a cowardly democracy and a justice system that functions on the basis of the law of the jungle.

Let them realise the obvious truth;

The square is all of us, thousands of ordinary people who stand up to a cynical, antipopular, antidemocratic, corrupt economic and political status quo. A status quo, that in desperation, facing its onw failure, is trying to save itself in any way possible.

We will not become its victims.
We do not fear, we do not submit.

We inform them that they are fooling themselves if they think that "cleaning" and making a fortress of Syntagma square, they will protect themselves. There are tens of squares now all over Athens, with their own general assemblies, hundreds of squares all over Greece. We are in every neighborhood, along with every citizen of this country.

We are the millions of society set against a handful of corrupt and subservient minority who try to pretend they have strength by using the police, mercenaries of the power elite.

We are everywhere.

Whatever they do they cannot makes us leave. The streets and the squares, like jobs, productive structures, the wealth of this country and our rights belong to us. They are not for sale. We will continue to demand their return to the people.

we have said it before and we say it again:

we will not leave until they do.


The terrorism of this dictatorial goverment, the imf and memorandum, shall not pass.

You do not scare us. You infuriate us.

We continue the fight peacefully, with determination and creativity.

on another note...  everybody's salary's are now less per month... even more less than I explained previously in this thread (if you can believe that).  I am canceling my Satellite right now to help make up for that loss.