WITCH HUNT.

Which hunt?

The hunt for bad guys. The Greeks, the current pick of the euro-crop of cheeky naughty, cheating boys, have been sussed out!

Beware the anger of a patient man -- in other words, the Germans. The repressed German psyche is now allowed to express itself in no uncertain terms...

The icon on the left is a token of what German culture could have looked like -- but doesn't: the person in the picture is not German.


Anyway, in their rantings, Germans should stick to what they know and can stomach.

Instead of Aphrodite, a statue which is hopelessly beyond the scope of the average German, here is something that is not. A great place to spend holiday, to boot. And, it is in Germany -- the right place to spend money rather than on the cheats that got away with it.
Greetings from DACHAU!

Greece: today's the day...

...that Greece's prime minister announces the first batch of austerity measures.

It took five months of television-based test-marketing to get here (and an incremental cost of close to Euro 1 billion). Numerous ideas have been bandied around Greek television, ostensibly to gauge and measure public discontent with each proposed idea... in the meantime, Euro 8 bill. have flown out of the country as people prefer to expatriate their savings despite (belated) government assurance that savings will not be touched.

And still, in midst of all this, attempts at deflecting public attention away from Greece's dire financial straits are still rampant: committee to examine the Siemens scandal, committees to analyse creative accounting... all of course for the present socialist party's political expediency.

Discrediting the previous government, however, will not bring along Santa bearing presents of a few billion Euro in cash. Nor will creative communication 101 as in, Ministry of Commerce and Competitiveness, Ministry of Citizens Protection...
For the record, it is the present prime minister's father, one Andreas Papandreou, whose innovative borrowing and gleeful spending put Greece on the road to over-debt.

The country, Greece, is plagued by bullshit and a television nomenclature created by Greece's socialist party denizens in the 80s and 90s that seems to support this bullshit. These people are loth to see the good times gone.

These are the "good fellas".

Unlike the movie, however, this is not Hollywood and a happy ending where good is vindicated for its efforts and all is better after, is not on the agenda.

Austerity and a weak negotiating position is.

And this position is all the more compromised by internal squabbling: after all, all of the provacative complaints made by Greece's euro-partners originated in Greece itself!


While Greeks point at one another shouting, his fault!, the country's credibility is sinking and so is the inhabitants'. Whose fault is that?