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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>It will be interesting in the next 4-weeks to see how the U.S. corporate media covers this upcoming election in Greece scheduled for Jan. 29<sup>th, </sup>It will also be interesting to see what dirty tricks the EU / World-Bank/ IMF will resort to prevent a REAL democratic representative government for the majority of the Greek people from being elected in the form of the Syriza party.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Greek people have suffered enough under neo-liberal economic and political rule and if necessary, if Syriza is elected, tell the EU World Bank Troika to go screw themselves and begin to rebuild a people’s economy.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> Greek Opposition Vows to Safeguard Economy<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img width=600 height=340 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D0241F.172E22B0" alt="Description: Alexis Tsipras, opposition leader and head of radical leftist Syriza party, talks to reporters outside the parliament building after the last round of a presidential vote in Athens December 29, 2014."></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Alexis Tsipras, opposition leader and head of radical leftist Syriza party, talks to reporters outside the parliament building after the last round of a presidential vote in Athens December 29, 2014. | Photo: Reuters<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Published 30 December 2014 (1 hours 11 minutes ago) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>0<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img width=27 height=23 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.png@01D0241F.172E22B0" alt="Description: Coments"></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Greek-Opposition-Vows-to-Safeguard-Economy-20141230-0013.html#comsup" title=Coments><span style='color:blue'>+</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The leader of Syriza assured that accusations that the left-wing coalition would be detrimental to the economy were unfounded.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Greek opposition leader Alexis Tsipras has hit back at accusations that his left-wing government would ruin the economy should Greeks vote to install his Syriza party in next month's elections, promising to protect bank deposits in the country.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>"A Syriza government and its allies will safeguard — without any footnotes or asterisks — the deposits of citizens at Greek banks, in cooperation with the European Central Bank and European partners," Tsipras said in a speech Monday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>"Let's put an end to the horror stories."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Greek parliament <a href="http://telesurtv.net/english/multimedia/Greek-General-Elections-Open-Way-for-Syriza-Victory-20141229-0010.html"><span style='color:blue'>failed Monday to agree</span></a> on a new president in the third and final round of voting prompting a snap general election, which is scheduled to be held January 25, and which places the left-wing Syriza party in a position to grab parliamentary power.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>“Syriza will struggle in an unequal context against the Troika’s dogmatic neoliberal agenda, as well as against the Greek oligarchy. Our electoral program will not be victorious unless it has the support of the majority of the Greek people. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>“The weight on our shoulders does not have to be a burden but a sign of hope and victory for the months and years to come,” Costas Isychos, head of Syriza's Foreign Policy and Defense sector, told teleSUR English.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>However, the left-wing coalition has been met by fierce criticism from Greek and European forces.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The European Union's most powerful official warned Greeks to <a href="http://telesurtv.net/english/news/Dont-Vote-Wrong-Way-Europe-Chief-Tells-Greece-20141212-0024.html"><span style='color:blue'>avoid the “wrong election result”</span></a> by not voting a left-wing coalition party into government.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>"I assume that the Greeks — who don't have an easy life, above all the many poor people — know very well what a wrong election result would mean for Greece and the eurozone," said Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of the European Commission.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>