12-10-29 Greece - A Health System in Shambles

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GREECE: A Health System in Shambles

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 07:03 AM PDT
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StopCartel TV broadcasts live from Athens, Greece on Mondays and Thursdays  
@ 6 pm Athens time. The following post is a loose transcript of the 25  
October 2012 broadcast.

By snake arbusto and greydogg, 99GetSmart

- The New York Times reported that if you are unemployed in Greece, you  
die. If you have a serious illness like cancer and you are unemployed, you  
will die. There is no health care for the people – an example of the  
humanitarian catastrophe in the country.

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- Malaria, tuberculosis, and rabies are appearing in Greece after decades  
of dormancy.

Diseases that have been absent in Greece for many decades are appearing  
because of the economic crisis and its effect on the health-care system,  
which is in shambles. Some places in northern Greece have suffered from  
West Nile disease, and many people have died. Apart from that virus,  
malaria – not seen since the 1970s – has come back to Greece. So has  
tuberculosis. Recently an animal with rabies was found. These diseases have  
not come to Greece via immigrants or tourists; they are transferred from  
person to person. And due to the lack of vaccination due to the ongoing  
crisis, Greek children are vulnerable. Many parents are not able to  
vaccinate their children because they are unemployed. Vaccines are very  
expensive and children are going without them.

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- A six-member family, for the second time in six months, has had their  
water turned off. The landlord asked the water company to cut off the  
supply because they are behind on their rent.

The family had asked for lower rent due to the crisis. In response, the  
landlord filed an eviction notice. And instead of waiting for the court to  
decide, the landlord spitefully went to the water company and demanded they  
cut off the supply of water to the flat.

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- The mass media in Greece are talking about the Parliament voting on new  
austerity measures next week. But this does not reflect reality. Everyone  
knows that the real decisions were made in February and that this vote is  
just more theater from the government-of-the-regime.

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- Yesterday, the Greek police announced they have purchased two X-Ray vans  
for €2.3 million, as revealed by a document from the Ministry of Public  
Order and Citizen Protection

A commenter on Facebook says “one of the few institutions that actually  
work nowadays in Greece is the Police.”

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- The buyout of Olympic Air by Aegean Airlines, which had been blockaded by  
the European Commission, is now to be finalized. The EC had said of the  
merger in 2011 that it:
“…would have resulted in a quasi-monopoly on the Greek air transport  
market. This would have led to higher fares for four out of six million  
Greek and European consumers travelling on routes to and from Athens each  
year. Together the two carriers control more than 90% of the Greek domestic  
air transport market.”

The main justification now given for the merger is “…the prolonged Greek  
recession that has reduced dramatically the domestic demand for both  
airline companies.” In other words, the main justification is the state of  
the Greek economy, which is the direct result of the policies of the EU  
itself, via the European Central Bank and the Troika of which it is a  
member.
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StopCartel TV broadcasts live from Athens, Greece on Mondays and Thursdays  
at 6pm Athens time @ http://www.livestream.com/stopcarteltvgr

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Golden Dawn and the Antifascist Movement in Greece

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 06:36 AM PDT
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Posted by Elena Tiniakou, 99GetSmart

International Antifascist Solidarity  from Florence, Italy.

VIDEO @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XLOESazVHL4


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Greece: Journalist Kostas Vaxevanis, "They are searching for me instead of  
the truth." - English Subtitles

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 01:15 PM PDT
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Posted by Elena Tiniakou, 99GetSmart

VIDEO @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=F_xspdxrB8I

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