Greece should probably do whatever it thinks is germaine. A quick look at the map shows a Greece with open waters on profitable smuggling routes, abutting a still sketchy Balkans region, and a constitutionally volatile Turkey.

As for the Greek government buying into risky funds, one has to cast back to the time in which they did it, wherein they looked like revenue salvation at a time (like today,) where an overgrown public sector wanted more-more-more at whatever cost it came to the rest of society.
If they were more reasonable and left some features of life to the individual instead of demanding the impossible of government, the government would not have needed to seek higher yield, risky investments.

What if they have no choice?

[i](Reuters) - In a [url=http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62M1Q520100323]bizarre twist[/url] to the Greek debt crisis, France and Germany are pressing Greece to buy their gunboats and warplanes, even as they urge it to cut public spending and curb its deficit.[/i]

Be careful with RT, it's a rather underhanded operation that's owned by the state.

While they salve it with real news stories,sports, and weather reports, they (like clockwork,) go on smear campaigns whenever the right kind of flunky in the government tells them that "the great Russian nation has been slighted".

In other words, they are an unstated propaganda outfit whose intent is to build international leverage for the Russian government. It's exactly why so many Americans are sceptical and critical of any form of state funded and operated media.

If you aren't too deep in the wilds of NoVA, you can pick it up over the air on MHZ's 10 channel propaganda [url=http://www.mhznetworks.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=36&Itemid=62]cluster[/url] which [url=http://www.mhznetworks.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=91]includes[/url] France24, Euronews, RT, Al-Jiz, NHK, and a feed that runs tacky Vietnamese game shows.

The really funny thing about the European news operations, is that they don't appear to work weekends, and have a hard time managing breaking news from Friday p.m. to monday a.m.

Did I say -I relied on it?- No. I said that these were state-run operations. They are entertainingly mockable, if anything, and I don't wrire for Pajamas Media as you imply.

I take in many sources. How, from what I said, you can assume that I don't take in any American news sources is another example of your sad emotionalization of everythign you see around you - just like the CIA red cell memo. You didn't even seem to read it, but went straight to someone trying to spin something off of what it doesn't say.

As for your other retort "based the arguties, cuz your sources are nuts!" makes no sense at all. You're angry at me for pointing out, again, that you take up any headline you think appealing to you without questioning the source, and with no accurate knoledge of American political life, you declare that a fringe lunatic truther website who are obsessive in their hatred of conservativesm is, in fact "conservative."

You dion't even seem to look at WHAT people say or DO. You're a trainwreck.

In case you haven't been able to understand it at this point, it is called "tit-for-tat", and it's an effort to balance out the unfounded degradation of the US that is taken to be a home truth in mainstream European communications. I am not even a drop in the bucket compared to the baiting and accusitory nature of your own society's politicians, "intellectuals", and tedious cultural figures.

It is also, very plainly, an effort to expose prejudices and bias of Europeans largely have against Americans as a society and individually.

It is also impossible to take anything sensible away from you when you prefer to get their information from truthers and the like, who, by their very nature, try to revise events for the purpose of the deligitimization of the United States and American society.
In fact, since you like to construct theories out of thin air without fact, you are a fine example of someone whose notions need to be put on display to as many people as possible.

Getting agngry about my blogging when is is a mere drop in the ocean compared to Soral, Meyssan, LePen, etc., etc., etc., and every mindless amusement? Are you kidding? Your efforts seem more driven by the need to silence people. Not to mention the fact that you "demand that I am cencoring you and that you have rights" when commenting, or recycling whole articles in the comments, etc.

I never say "poor Americans", I make not of what is plainly visible across Europe. So, for the sake of your feelings, you want people to say nothing, then?

In fact, your -reliance- on suspicious sources whose motivates are to -construct- events as they like to see them proves the point better than I could ever.

Let's take your logic: if Meyssan is in Lebanon, you are certain that it is because there is absolute uniformity of views in teh Arab world, and that you know precisely what it is, and it is entirely about the matter that your society figures into. That is arrogant beyond belief.
Meyssan is clearly a political propagandist of the type I would criticize, and your response is aimed at somehow minimizing the nature of my criticism, and somehow say that he's not a problem, and invent the idea that he's banned in france. He isn't. You simply fabricated that, because you imagine that it will improve your feelings about your own opinion. That says far more about you than it does about me.

The other thing what I do brings out is something rather interesting about people: you want me to never criticise your society's absolute and ongoing slander, but in fact believe that I'm supposed to aid it along even if I don't want to (insisting that i MUST publish any comments you leave at my blog), because we're all supposed to believe that there is something magically right about your attitude.

You typify something very special, did you know thta? Since you are fond of the moronic fabricated identification "anglo-saxon", I'm going to start calling those who promote that inaccurate silliness "Visigoths".

Because under your Pseudo, you put in dozens of comments, some just cut-and-pasted from neo-nazi revisionist sites, and you citing as an explanation to the present economy, an inflamatory screed written in teh 70's meant not to explain the Federal Reserve system, but say that it was "run by Jews for their benefit".

Moreover, you have no natural right to be published in a private forum. I delete open obcenity, no matter who puts it there, and because you drop in and leave dozens of comments that have NO relationship to the item, I delete yours'.

The very idea that you think that you can keep changing names and doing the same thing over and over is empty and irresponsible.

In case you haven't figured it out yet, the cause of the venom directed at Germany is quite simple: they are a success at something, navigate through life without the overwhelming tension of revolutionary movements and mob rule... of course the usual haterz will be on you!

These movements and the unspoken attitude of so many "well read" critics simply *hate* any society or situation that reminds them of happy, normal people!

Actually, if you think I don't, why don't you tell me.

Everybody goes hat-in--hand to the Berlin, just as they did to Bonn, and when they heard no, there were mobs in the streets demanding more services from their Governments that they were assumed to be able to borrow or beg to cover for.

They go and demand these things, becuasae they believe they can try to use emotional pressure to get something for nothing, like all good little "social movements" who pretend to be acting in the interest of humanity.

Others' are not entitled to Germans' resources without condition, but make them out to be cretins when they refuse. To the contrary of what people like to imagine, the abusive use of the Nazi comparisons is far more frequently seen on the personal level from the mouths of Europeans, not Americans.
Strangely, the empathy that Germans and Americans have built for one another over the past 6 decades is probably stronger than it is between individual Germans and the kind of people who use out loud, or under their breathe, the term "bosch" or "Capo", out of simple egoism, self-amusement, or abusiveness. Even young American soldiers who came from the sticks rarely uttered anything of the kind.

And to think that these people are to form a union when you know that most of them think of Berlin as little more than a wallet for them to pillage?