Graecokleptocrats span the gamut of political corruption. Bribe is the gift bestowed to influence the recipient's conduct. Kickback is a payment to a person in a position of power or influence for having made an income possible. Embezzlement is outright theft of entrusted funds. Patronage is favoring supporters. Nepotism is favoring kin. Cronyism is favoring kith. Graft is an unscrupulous use of a politician's authority for personal gain. The freakish government of Greece stole my computer!
Greece is the queen of political corruption in Occident. The freakish government of Greece stole my computer and my life! The impunity of the 300 MPs of the Grand Brothel of Democracy on Syntagma Square is the most freakish thing on Earth. Even though Graecokleptocrats loot many billion euros in bribes and churning, Graecokleptocrats cannot go to jail! Graecokleptocrats are protected by the parliamentary immunity, and nobody can touch them, no matter what. Moreover, they have the nerve to jail dissident bloggers. It's a long way from the 300 Spartans of Leonidas! Allons enfants de la Grece! http://venitism.blogspot.com
Michael Christoforakos, former president of the Greek subsidiary of Siemens, revealed some names of the 200 Graecokleptocrats, who shared two billion euros in kickbacks, to the prosecutor of Munich, where he escaped from Greece. He also deposited all names with two public notaries in Munich, in case he gets murdered by agents of Graecokleptocrats. This way he stays alive! But the Greek government has not pressed charges against the 200 Graecokleptocrats, because they are protected by immunity and they are in power in Greece, members and ex-members of the Greek government and parliament. You just cannot press charges against yourself! Moreover, the Greek government does not even reveal their names for the voters to know who they are voting for.
Christoforakos also revealed the names of twenty journalists who received many million euros in hush money to keep their mouth shut about the billion euro kickbacks to the 200 Graecokleptocrats. Needless to say, those Graecokleptocrats who did not receive kickbacks are also guilty, because they all knew about the bribery of their colleagues and said nothing about it. The suitcases with the cash were whistling around them. There is no way they could not hear all that loud whistling! So, in reality we are talking about four hundred guilty people! Since Greeks continue to vote for the same crooks again and again, they deserve what they get!
The largest bribes originate in the military industry. Military procurement is a corrupt business from top to bottom. The process is dominated by advocacy, with few checks and balances. Most people in power love this system of doing business and do not want it changed. War and preparation for war systematically corrupt all parties to the state-private transactions by which the government obtains the bulk of its military products. There is a standard 10% bribe to kleptocrats for military purchases. http://venitism.blogspot.com
Participants in the military-industrial-kleptocrat complex (MIKC) are routinely blamed for mismanagement, fraud, abuse, bribes, and waste. All of these unsavory actions, however, are typically viewed as aberrations, malfeasances to be covered-up, while retaining the basic system of state-private cooperation in the trade of military goods and services and the flow of bribes. These offenses are in reality expressions of a thoroughgoing, intrinsic rottenness in the entire setup.
We all know what happens at Olympics, an international competition of steroids, not athletes. People feel well during the games, but feel miserable after the games when they find out Olympics cost them ten times more than projected, and most of it went to kickbacks of kleptocrats! The Athens Olympics cost was projected to two billion euros, but it finally cost Greek taxpayers 20 billion euros, with all that extra money going not to the games, but to the private pockets of Graecokleptocrats.
Partyfare is a new political disease. Partyfare allows political parties to rob the State Treasury and banks by a simple vote in the parliament! The cost of Greek politics is the highest in Fourth Reich. Recently, a thirty-million-euro injection was granted again by the Grand Brothel of Democracy on Syntagma Square to its hookers! Political parties in Greece are the highest funded in Europe as a proportion of tax revenue, ten times more than in Germany. The Greek political parties receive fifteen euros per vote in State funding, the highest in Europe. http://venitism.blogspot.com
The cost of politics in Greece is a scandal. It's very freakish for hookers to vote for themselves myriad euros all time! Political parties are supposed to serve their citizens and not pump money out of them. Pasok and Nea Democratia are responsible for all structural problems of Greece, leeches that have been sucking out billions of taxpayers' money. This is armed robbery, pure and simple.
Whereas many EU countries are currently reviewing the funding system of political parties to respond to the crisis, Graecokleptocrats are not setting a good example. In the context of the reforms Greece has to undertake to receive a new aid package, this kind of payment is a slap in the face of the Greek citizens and the European partners. It is not acceptable for the European tax payer to effectively pay for the enrichment of Graecokleptocrats. Eurozone should not continue with another Greek bailout package since Graecokleptocrats continue robbing the Greek Treasury. Partyfare undervalues the intelligence of European taxpayers.
Graecokleptocracy and the overflowing bureaucracy in Greece makes it very easy to embezzle Fourth Reich funds. Many professors and administrators at Panteion and other colleges, well connected to piggish Graecokleptocrats, were sentenced to long prison terms for embezzlement. A Greek court found they had misused many million euros in research funds.
The guilty of Panteion include a former rector, a former vice-rector, and an accountant who bought a red Ferrari using research money. Money was embezzled from research budgets and spent on rugs, marble bathrooms, and furnishings for holiday apartments.
Greece has received a hundred billion euros in Fourth Reich funds, but big parts of that went down the drain in economically useless or imaginary projects of Graecokleptocrats. You won't find a study in Greece looking at where exactly the Fourth Reich billions are flowing to. You won't get an overview of the total costs and the projects' exact status of implementation.
Olive oil cooperatives, well connected to Graecokleptocrats, report a higher production output to Brussels compared to what their actual figures are to receive more subsidies. Databases to document their demands are run by the cooperatives themselves and are easily manipulated.
The freakish government of Greece is so stupid that it hoodwinked all media that I conspired to trigger a war between Greece and Turkey and blame Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou, Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece, for it! Accusing dissident bloggers of treason, Graecokleptocrats have manufactured a blood libel in cyberspace, which in turn incites hatred and violence. The barbaric government of Greece gave my head on plate to Erdogan. Brutal Graecokleptocrats have destroyed my life. My life is stolen. Now I demand my life back! For those who are kind enough to contribute to my legal defense, please click the Donate button on the right column of venitism blogspot. http://venitism.blogspot.com
Licensure is a sign of slavery. All licenses of the kangaroo justice government of Greece should be abolished, including doctors, lawyers, and marriage. The kangaroo government of Greece licensure is an immoral exercise of force, an overly burdensome restraint on trade, a violation of the right to liberty, a mill of kickbacks. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of economic freedom.
One of the many reasons why the kangaroo government licensure is incompatible with
liberty, therefore, is because it is destructive to economic freedom. No other nation demands more licenses than the Cradle of Kleptocracy. Any Greek has the natural right to pursue any means of providing for his family, so long as in doing so he does not act fraudulently or otherwise violate the rights of others.
The kangaroo government mandated license turns the market of the Cradle of Kleptocracy upside down. It prohibits every Greek from producing in a given industry except for those who are granted the privilege of doing so by the kangaroo government, especially those who provide huge bribes to kleptocrats. The kangaroo government, in such a scenario, absorbs all individual rights unto itself and then divvies up some of those rights in any number of ways.
Under the licensing system of the kangaroo government, such as it exists today in the
Cradle of Kleptocracy, if some Greek attempts to exercise his natural right to provide for himself without the kangaroo government's nod of approval, which usually comes with bribes, that person goes to jail. Imprisonment for supporting oneself in an honest and non-fraudulent manner which does not infringe on the rights of others just doesn't seem right.
Preemptive protection is offensive in nature, and therefore, is itself a violation of natural rights. In a free society, it is only after fraud or another violation of rights takes place that the state has the right to intervene on behalf of the consumer. By means of the licensure power, the kangaroo government can permit a Greek to eat or it can condemn him to starve, unless he bribes kleptocrats. So long as the kangaroo government has the power to issue licenses to live in the Cradle of Kleptocracy, Greeks cannot claim to be free, and living without freedom is not much of a life. http://venitism.blogspot.com
The root causes of Greece's crisis are corruption, VAT, and the enormous regulatory burden that crushes the country's economy. Foreign investors have long been put off by bribes, myriad licenses, bureaucracy, and lack of clear laws. There is mistrust in entrepreneurship. Greek bureaucracy treats anyone trying to start a business as if he is guilty of something. Civil servants are throwing you into a labyrinth on purpose, in order to get bribes. The law gives them the latitude to delay you or punish you.
One of the main obstacles to more investment is the legal jumble that dictates how Greek businesses work. Even Graecokleptocrats admit the lack of clear laws and the endless requests for opinions, studies, and permits are there to give work to unionized specialists. There are whole businesses and technical offices employing engineers and experts specifically for the purpose of licensing.
Requests for bribes are not always explicit. Sometimes people quote you a price and sometimes they drop hints about the cost of things and how hard it is to get by. A civil servant might tell you that politicians come and go, but he'll be here waiting for you!
Avoiding the state is the best way to get ahead. To sidestep the maze of permits that torment many entrepreneurs, one should buy an existing business that has the licenses already in place. Graecokleptocrats create myriad stupid fuzzy laws that everybody ignores. Several interests prefer a fuzzy system they can manipulate, especially in building permits, which are a hub of corruption.
Investors are bewildered by the way tax rates and rules constantly change. The unstable system makes business planning difficult. The tax code requires such complicated book-keeping that most companies find it impossible to follow. It also requires constant visits by tax inspectors, which open the way to corruption.
The Greek depression might turn to a constructive destruction. One hopes that with the nightmare that Greece is going through at the moment, Graecokleptocrats might have a reality check and decide to change things. Let's hope Graecokleptocrats can do it, otherwise you are not going to see any investment in Greece.
Piggish Graecokleptocrats chose former Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos of
Pasok as a scapegoat for their sins, because his living style corresponds to the Royal House of Saudi Arabia. This way they hope Greeks could cool down and forget about the myriad briberies and scandals of Graecokleptocrats. Obviously, Graecokleptocrats undervalue the intelligence of Greeks. Greeks know very well, there is no just a single culprit, but at least four hundred culprits who stole billions of euros, safely deposited in their offshore accounts. http://venitism.blogspot.com
Scapegoating Tsochatzopoulos is a hostile social-psychological discrediting routine by which Graecokleptocrats move blame and responsibility away from themselves and towards Tsochatzopoulos. It is also a practice by which angry feelings and feelings of hostility are projected, via accusation, towards Tsochatzopoulos. Tsochatzopoulos feels singly persecuted and receives vilification, blame and criticism, even though four hundred Graecokleptocrats did similar things. Tsochatzopoulos suffers rejection from Greeks who Graecokleptocrats seek to influence.
In scapegoating Tsochatzopoulos, feelings of guilt, aggression, blame and suffering are transferred away from Graecokleptocrats so as to fulfill an unconscious drive to resolve or avoid such bad feelings. This is done by the displacement of responsibility and blame to Tsochatzopoulos who serves as a target for blame both for Graecokleptocrats and Greeks.
The Graecokleptocrats' drive to displace and transfer responsibility away from themselves may not be experienced with full consciousness as self-deception is a feature. Tsochatzopoulos experiences exclusion, ostracism, and expulsion. Scapegoating frees Graecokleptocrats from some self-dissatisfaction and provides some narcissistic gratification to them. It enables the self-righteous discharge of aggression.
Scapegoating Tsochatzopoulos also can be seen as the Graecokleptocrats' defense mechanism against unacceptable emotions such as hostility and guilt. Scapegoating Tsochatzopoulos is an example of projective identification, with the primitive intent of splitting, separating the good from the bad. Graecokleptocrats are also insecure people driven to raise their own status by lowering the status of Tsochatzopoulos.
