The Greek People - Aristotle's Lazy Children Can't Do Simple Mathematics

Although the Greek 'No' referendum result is welcome among those freedom loving people across Europe who want to see the anti-democratic European Union tyranny consigned to the dustbin of history, it doesn't excuse the shameful behavior of the Greek people and their criminal political leaders.

It's hard to imagine that the country which produced history's most noted mathematicians has produced a nation of people that are unable to understand the most basic of mathematical concepts. Either that or they have produced a nation of people so lacking in principle they are happy to enjoy an unaffordable standard of living paid for by the sweat and toil of others.

Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras dates from 571 BC,  his legacy and theorem are with us to this day. The same can be said of Aristotle who blessed us with his genius from 384 BC, Euclid from 300 BC and Archimedes from 287 BC. Democritus gave us his atomic theory of the universe back in in 460 BC.


Looking at the situation in Greece today it's difficult to comprehend that the children of Pythagoras, Aristotle et al, are unable to grasp the simplest of concepts. 'When a nation spends more than it earns, it racks up debt, when that debt becomes unsustainable the country goes bankrupt'. What could possibly be simpler?

For reasons that defy logic the Greek people ignored the legacy of Pythagoras and allowed themselves to be seduced by three generations of the left wing Papandreou family who formed and controlled the Panhellenic Socialist  Movement known to the world as PASOK.

Georgios Papandreou started the spendthrift ball rolling back in the 1960's; this was continued by his son Andreas reaching a disastrous grand finale with his American born grandson Georgios Junior, known as George. Regardless of the arithmetic George went on to spent Greece into bankruptcy.

This culminated in a bloodless coup by EU bureaucrats who suspended Greek democracy, ousted him from power and installed their own troika of unelected technocrats.

One can possibly be forgiven for thinking that the promise of 'free stuff' paid for by someone else had a numbing effect on the collective Greek mind but it's stretching credulity too far by suggesting that George Papandreou, and subsequent Greek politicians, were unaware that they were spending Greece into bankruptcy.

Being a student of the London School of Economics and Harvard University, Papandreou must have known that he was bankrupting Greece and sentencing his own people to perdition for generations to come. Had this been an individual or a business it would be a criminal act with the perpetrators punished accordingly but as we know, politicians are above the law and they take care of their own.

Papandreou is also the leader of Socialist International, an organisation of global socialists who are dedicated to imposing the same disastrous policies that ruined Greece onto all countries around the world. Instead of a conviction and a prison sentence for the millions of lives he has destroyed, Papandreou is feted among the global elite as some kind of elder statesman and given appointments lecturing at prestigious educational establishments such as Harvard University and the School of Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York.

This modern Greek tragedy should serve as lesson to those nations that are being seduced by government propaganda that politicians can mandate equality of outcome and give away lots of 'free stuff' by simply redistributing wealth via taxing the so called 'rich' then when they run out of other peoples money, borrowing more from abroad.

The mathematical principles passed down by Pythagoras, Aristotle Euclid and their historical counterparts are eternal verities which are as applicable today as they have always been and people should not be seduced into thinking otherwise.

In case the theories of the ancient mathematicians are too difficult for the the politicians and the Greek people to understand I consider it my public duty to help.

There is no such thing as 'free stuff', be it health care, education, early retirement, food stamps, welfare benefits or anything else; it all has to be paid for by someone. If it's borrowed money it will have to be paid back with interest. Living within one's means is morally right for individuals, businesses and governments alike. Expecting others to pick up the tab for an unaffordable lifestyle is parasitic and shameful in the extreme.

Greek Economic Trainwreck - Politician Walks Away Unscathed

Looking at the devastated economies of Europe and the USA and the ruined lives of millions of people, it's worth reminding ourselves of how this situation came about and the people who should be held responsible.

It's an accepted fact that the political class in any country, regardless of party affiliation, take care of their own. Transgressions of less severity have been punished with imprisonment when committed by the ordinary person but more serious crimes are routinely glossed over and in many cases just ignored when perpetrated by members of the political class together with their bag carriers and their donors

In previous posts it was noted how members of the political elite such as David Laws MP, Baroness Uddin, Lord Paul etc. effectively got away with stealing tens of thousands of pounds of public money but what of the politicians who were responsible for losing billions, and in the case of the USA trillions, wrecking entire economies in the process.

In response to any crisis or scandal, political leaders repeat the familiar slogan that used to adorn the desk of President Truman that 'the buck stops here' or the latest favourite  'I take full responsibility for the actions of my government' but we know from experience that these are empty slogans thrown out to appease the media for the duration of the twenty four hour news cycle. The politicians don't mean a word of it, they remain safe in the knowledge that the dumbed down public will swallow it whole and then return to keeping up with the Kardashians.

The first major economy to fail was that of Greece, who's leader Prime Minister George Papandreou was the latest member of the Papandreou political dynasty. The seeds of Greece's destruction were sown by his grandfather, known as Georgios, the first politician from that blighted land to be described as 'progressive' and who set up the Democratic Socialist Party of Greece.

The fundamental transformation of Greece into a socialist state was finally achieved by Georgios Papandreou's hard left son Andreas who dominated Greek politics for over two decades. Exiled to America in 1938 and one time US citizen, he founded the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK).

Andreas Papandreou renounced his American citizenship on achieving office and immediately started a programme of wealth redistribution. He set up the welfare state and a national health service, he index linked pensions, he provided taxpayer support for cultural programmes,  he legislated a wage indexation system designed to close the inequality gap in earnings.

Predictably, by continually expanding welfare entitlements to almost every Greek citizen  (otherwise known as voter bribery)  he won the subsequent election by a landslide.

The share of the Greek Gross Domestic Product (GDP) dedicated to social welfare was massively increased and despite instituting a progressive taxation system designed to force 'the rich' to finance his largess, the revenues were not sufficient to cover the spending and as a socialist Andreas Papandreou was unable to comprehend that this mismatch would lead to deficits, debt and financial collapse.

Andreas Papandreou's son, American born George Papandreou, who was active in his father's socialist creation the PASOK since its formation, was elected to the legislature at the same time that his father became Prime Minister, so the fundamental transformation of Greece and the destruction of its economy was very much a family affair.

When George Papandreou finally became Prime Minister, the socialist state that his family had set up over two generations had crumbled under the weight of the debt that they had accumulated. Forced by reality to go against his socialist instincts George Papandreou introduced austerity measures in an effort to take back what they had given away in welfare entitlements and tax breaks.

The Greek people refused to accept these austerity measures and consequently the economy has collapsed, democracy has been suspended and the Greek people are impoverished. Suicides are increasing and people are dumping their children on the steps of government buildings because they can't afford to raise them.

Bearing in mind that 'the buck should stop' with George Papandreou and that 'he should take full responsibility for the actions of his government' one would think that George would be prosecuted or at the very least he would be suffering from the consequences of his actions along with the Greek people.

Anyone who thought that justice would be done couldn't have been more wrong. As President of Socialist International, George Papandreou is feted around the world as a revered elder statesman, making speeches and promoting the same 'progressive' ideology that has not only wrecked the Greek economy and impoverished its people but has destroyed liberty and prosperity in every country where it has as been imposed.

George Papandreou was feted in Cape Town South Africa in August 2012 at the 24th Congress of Socialist International. He was feted again when he addressed the Bureau of Socialist International at the United Nations in New York in September 2012

As an international socialist George Papandreou has nothing but contempt for the USA, the country where he was born and raised and gave sanctuary to his family in their hour of need.

Speaking to the delegates at the Socialist International junket in Cape Town Papandreou refuses to even acknowledge that the USA gave sanctuary to his family: "my family found refuge in the social democratic societies of the North...we were inspired by the work of leaders such as Willy Brandt, Kreisky, Palme and others".

'societies of the North' you'll notice, not St Paul, Minneapolis in the United States of America where he was born and raised.

'inspired by leaders', not of the stature of  Eisenhower, Truman or Kennedy etc. but hard left German socialist Willy Brandt who was forced to resign when his personal aid was exposed as an East German spy working for the dreaded Stasi. Or the inspiring Bruno Kreiski, Austria's foremost 'progressive' who appointed former Nazis into his government and then slandered Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal for making it public. Then there was Sweden's revolutionary reformist and pro Soviet Union, Olaf Palme, a vocal critic of the USA and financial supporter of the PLO.

To further insult the American people George Papandreou has been appointed lecturer at Harvard University where he will be educating students on the world debt crisis and good governance.

Greek Professor Aroniadou-Anderjaska of Bethesda Medical School, Maryland has not only questioned this appointment but is calling for Papandreou to returned to Greece to be prosecuted for treason.

There is no hope that 'progressive' criminal ideologues like George Papandreou will ever admit that their perverted ideology always ends with poverty, bloodshed and tears but it remains the duty of those of us who see through the spin and PR to keep highlighting their crimes in the hope that someday they will be held accountable and be punished accordingly.

Glenys Kinnock - Labour Party Hypocrisy In Human Form

Whenever the term socialist hypocrisy is mentioned the first people that spring to mind are the Kinnock family. Its no secret that Neil and Glenys Kinnock have shamelessly made themselves very wealthy by helping themselves to millions of pounds of taxpayers money while at the same time falsely championing equality, fairness and compassion for the poor.

The intention of this post was to examine the first family of troughing as a whole but research revealed that Neil and Glenys Kinnock, together with their spawn, are wealthy ultra hypocrites each in their own right.

Just a rudimentary research lifted the lid on the culture of nepotism and patronage which is the hallmark of the Labour Party and socialist hypocrisy.

I have to give credit to the image makers of the Labour Party, they have the ability to change the public persona of anyone, no matter how awful, into an electable commodity. (see previous postings on Hain, Bryant and co.) Glenys Kinnock is a classic example.

The people were conned into believing that she was the dutiful, fragrant wife of a Labour MP who, as the representative a constituency mired in poverty, had pulled himself up by his own bootstraps to reach the dizzy heights of Leader of the Labour Party.

Glenys Kinnock, we were led to believe, was a noble school teacher dedicated to the education of our children who also empathised with the plight of the poor and downtrodden. The image makers spun that she was a devoted mother who was being touted as a suitable consort for the next Prime Minister of Great Britain.

Absolute nonsense, just scratching the surface of this manufactured image revealed a dedicated, ruthless, hard left extremist with an agenda all of her own.

Her biographies reveal that Glenys Kinnock is a member of the GMB union which is a financial supporter of the Labour Party and famous for its typically socialist habit of ballot rigging.

Glenys is also a member of the NUT (National Union of Teachers). This is now a militant outfit dedicated to the interests of teachers and not to the education of the country's children.

The NUT is led by fellow hard left extremist Christine Blower. In keeping with socialist hypocrisy Blower had an elite education in the Grammar stream of a bilateral school, something which she fights to deny other children.

Her first act as General Secretary of the NUT was to lead the first national teachers strike for decades.

Glenys's colleague Christine Blower lied when she claimed that she didn't belong to any particular faction. Blower was a member of the London Socialist Alliance which morphed into the Socialist Alliance when it welcomed Trotskyist organisations like the Socialist Workers Party, the Internationalist Socialist Group and the extreme communist group Workers Power, into its ranks.

This is the fanatic that leads Glenys's union and influences the education of our children.

Glenys joined the mega gravy train when somehow she gets elected as Member of the European Parliament  for South East Wales, which by coincidence, covers her husband former constituency.

Of all the school teacher mothers in South East Wales, what was it that singled out Glenys Kinnock for this ultra safe seat? There's a bad smell about this appointment and this bad smell turns into a veritable stench when the Kinnock children appear on the Labour Party scene.

Anyway, with a husband and wife team in place surely the people of Blaenau Gwent and South East Wales are in for a new Golden Age of prosperity.

As we've noted previously in the cases of Peter Hain, Chris Bryant et al. when these people get elected they know its a job for life, therefore they take advantage of their new position by putting their constituents needs to one side in order to pursue their personal agenda.

Under the banner of concern for the worlds poor and disadvantaged, Glenys Kinnock set about with gusto her ambition to further the cause of global socialism and the redistribution of other peoples wealth.

Glenys Kinnock's personal agenda kicked off when she joined the Pan European Socialist (PES) group immediately upon her arrival in Brussels.

This insidious group of totalitarians all share a common contempt for democracy.  All members are individual members of the Socialist International which was formed by an alliance of socialist, communist, anarchist and unionist groups from across Europe. This Socialist International split due to the usual hard left habit of bickering over method and is now known as the Progressive Alliance of Socialists.

The current loser in charge of this outfit is the spectacularly incompetent Georges Papandreou, the former Greek socialist Prime Minister who spent his country into bankruptcy and ruin.

Glenys Kinnock who is supposedly committed to spreading democracy elsewhere in the world supported the removal of the democratically elected Papandreou and the imposition of unelected EU bureaucrats to take over the Greek government.

Glenys Kinnock continued to ignore the needs of her constituents and began to redistribute their wealth when she joined the Committee on Development.

This committee was responsible for handing out aid money to developing countries together with the promotion of democratic values and the promotion of good governance and human rights. Glenys also got herself onto the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms, Rights and Justice.

Bearing in mind the actions of the European Union with regard to referendum results and the overthrow of the governments of Greece, Ireland and Italy, its difficult to take Glenys Kinnock's democratic credentials seriously.

In an act of stupefying irony Glenys Kinnock was anointed the Co-President of the African, Caribbean and Pacific-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly which was supposed to promote Human Rights, Democracy and Common Values between these countries.

The truth is that Glenys Kinnock has been given a taxpayer funded platform which she uses to spread her own and her PES colleagues' failed socialist philosophy around the world.

Interestingly, Glenys Kinnock and her colleagues work within the Contou Agreement which promotes this hug- touchy-feely left wing  nonsense around the developing world. This agreement was signed in Contou, the capital of the West African hell hole of Benin.

After independence Benin became a Marxist country, the type of country preferred by Glenys Kinnock and economic collapse soon followed. In the 1979 elections President Kekokou was duly elected and just like the EU leaders Herman von Rumpuy, Jose Manuel Barrosso and Baroness Ashdown, he was the only candidate allowed.

Kekokou promptly put into practice the same policies preached by Glenys Kinnock, the Labour Party and her fellow EU socialists. He put the petrol industry, the banks, all other businesses and economic activity under government control with predictable results. The professional class left the country, the economy collapsed even further and the country has never recovered.

Be advised that Glenys Kinnock and her Labour Party comrades are busy applying the same failed logic to Wales and history will confirm that the results will be the same. Wales is already more than halfway there.

Glenys Kinnock likes a junket and one famous anecdote had her on a taxpayer funded jolly to Barbados where the banana market was the main issue on the agenda.  If this is how she spends her time it is abundantly clear that poverty and despair in South East Wales is way down the list of her priorities.

More evidence of Glenys Kinnock's hypocrisy is her membership of the British Humanist Association which is dedicated to secularism, human rights, democracy and egalitarianism (the removal of inequalities among people). She has failed on all fronts.

There's precious little human rights in the African countries, who's leaders she rubbed shoulders with as Co-President of the EU-JPA.

Glenys Kinnock could have demonstrated her commitment to egalitarianism by redistributing her own vast wealth among the poor people she represented, but in line with all the other Labour Party hypocrites it is unlikely she will practice what she preaches with her own ill gotten gains.

On the subject of equality, as was the case with socialist governments the world over, Glenys Kinnock has demonstrated that equality is only for the little people it does not apply to the elites of our modern day political class.

The peasants of South East Wales should know their place and give the Labour Party thanks for their generous welfare cheques. In exchange for that thanks your votes will do.

If the choice of Glenys Kinnock as MEP for South East Wales had a bad smell about it then the questionable appointment of her daughter Rachel leaves a real bad odour in the air.

 Rachel Kinnock gave up her job in the taxpayer funded British film industry and surfaced in her mothers taxpayer funded EU office on a taxpayer funded salary. The hard pressed taxpayers of Blaenau Gwent are now paying for not one, not two but three members of the Kinnock family.

Glenys never misses an opportunity to pick the taxpayers pocket for that extra few pennies.  She was caught red handed signing in at dawn on Friday in order to claim the MEP,s daily two hundred and sixty pounds attendance allowance, before heading to the airport for a weekend at home.

There was a fiddle at the airport too. Glenys Kinnock would buy Economy Class tickets then claim Business Class fares from the taxpayer, pocketing the difference. At the airport she would then hassle the check in staff for an upgrade to Business Class, using the "don't you know who I am" ruse no doubt.

It boggles the mind that the hard pressed taxpayers of South East Wales are giving this trougher two hundred and sixty pounds per day on top of her salary and expenses, just for turning up for work.

After fifteen years of selfless devotion to the worlds poor outside of South East Wales and with a taxpayer funded fortune in the bank, that bad odour turns into a outright stench when Glenys Kinnock is offered the job of Minister for Europe in Gordon Browns government.

This position is in the House of Lords, an institution which is supposedly hated by the Kinnocks, who want it abolished. The very same Kinnocks who swore by all that is holy that they would never sit on those red benches until hereditary peers were abolished.

It appears that their long held principles are not worth as much as a taxpayer funded package of allowances and expenses, therefore Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead's backside is firmly planted onto the same red benches as her husband Lord Kinnock of Bedwellty, and their bank accounts are once again being stuffed with taxpayers money.

One drawback of Glenys Kinnock moving seamlessly from the EU gravy train to the House of Lords was that Rachel Kinnock was now out of a job...........but only for a little while.  The stench of nepotism and patronage that accompanies this family returns once more as Rachel surfaces in Gordon Brown's office as a member of his political staff.

Its unclear whether her salary was taxpayer funded or paid out of Labour Party coffers but if past form is anything to go by we can take an educated guess.

It doesn't end there for poor Rachel - when Gordon Brown got kicked out of office she lost her job yet again...........not for long...that old familiar whiff of nepotism comes to her rescue once more. She has now miraculously appeared in Red Ed Miliband's office as an Events Organiser or some other such non job.

Its unlikely that these jobs were advertised to the world outside of the incestuous political class but they are more likely the result of Labour party string pulling, patronage and downright nepotism.

We the people are being used, abused, ripped off and taken for fools.

The Kinnock family are so far removed from the people of South East Wales, and Blaenau Gwent in particular, that they might as well be on another planet.

While she has grown rich out of representing them, the people of South East Wales continue to suffer the indignity and hopelessness of high unemployment, welfare dependency, poor health, substandard educational achievement, drink and drug fuelled crime.

While Glenys Kinnock enjoys the lifestyle of the class she claims to despise, there is no evidence that conditions will ever improve for the people she represented for all those years.