I changed somewhat profane references to the minister in   
    question to his name. Most of them.   
      
    Read the article at www.tinyurl.com/pangalos   
      
    From  Greg Palast's book Vultures' Picnic   
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   /By Greg Palast for /Vice Magazine   
      
    Monday, 20. May 2013   
      
    ...   
      
    (We,d both signed on for Kazakhstan's annual Eurasia Media   
    Forum, a kind of Burning Man festival for Eastern oilgarchs and   
    their media camp followers.)   
    ...   
      
    a /New York Times/ story folded in my pocket that begins:   
    /ATHENS-As an elementary school principal, Leonidas Nikas is   
    used to seeing children play, laugh and dream about the future.   
    But recently he has seen something altogether different,   
    something he thought was impossible in Greece: children picking   
    through school trash cans for food; needy youngsters asking   
    playmates for leftovers; and an 11-year-old boy, Pantelis   
    Petrakis, bent over with hunger pains./   
      
       
      
    Pangalos, or Theodoros Pangalos, leader of the Panhellenic   
    Socialist Party (PASOK), Greece's equivalent to UK's Labour   
    Party, thinks the little Greek kiddies should stop belly-aching.   
      
    ...   
      
    Pangalos is best known for blaming the working people of Greece   
    for the horror and the hunger among the ruins of what was once   
    Greece's economy. However, it is, of course, not his fault;   
    until last year, and through the core of the crisis, he was just   
    Greece's Deputy Prime Minister, why should he be held   
    accountable for anything?   
    ...   
      
    squarely on olive-pit-spitting, lazy-ass Greeks who won't work   
    more than three hours a week, then retire while they're still   
    teenagers to swill state-subsidised ouzo.   
    ...   
      
    Just for the record, those Greeks who can get a job, work 619   
    more hours per year than the average German (and way, way more   
    than Britons or Americans as well).   
    ...   
      
    But there's another explanation for wrack and ruin: Greece is a   
    crime scene. And its working people are not the perpetrators of   
    ...   
      
    Greece, fearing expulsion from the euro loony bin, turned to   
    Goldman Sachs. For a mere $400 million in fees, plus golden   
    sacks of ill-gotten trading gain, the investment bank was   
    willing to cook the nation's books via a complex set of   
    ...   
      
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   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
   ... Paul Ryan is still the same flimflamming fiscal phony he always was.   
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