The jargon K. Karamanlis used in his speech on 6/9/2008 was a professional jargon from the several existing (e.g. medical, psychological, accountant, engineering, legal, and others) and it was one used not by the People but by those the mass media named ‘production agents’ who are not, of course, the People whom K. Karamanlis completely and with flaunting airs while the People was demonstrating en masse in the periphery of the International Trade Fair, as much as that was allowed by the police blockades.

Before even the speech of K. Karamanlis at the Thessaloniki Expo began, a great tide of commentaries was caused by the desecration, as all the media called it, of the icons of a chapel in the centre of the city of Thessaloniki. Over the glass of the icons, with white/silver spray they had blotted out the faces of the saints depicted or they had drawn the symbol ‘A’ for anarchy.

In full honesty the prime minister confessed that he will demand of the Greek Citizens to cover his errors in management on all levels, from the demise of social quality of life to the great fiscal debt which he augmented and promised to augment even more with works, the use of which is questionable to downright non-existent, such as the investment of billions for the transfer of the facilities of the Expo from its fully functional current area to another place in the outskirts of the city of Thessaloniki.

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Over the past several weeks the government of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced drastic funding cuts to arts and cultural programmes across the country. This is in addition to earlier funding cuts, and part of a concerted campaign against the Arts community and the Canadian heritage begun at the very outset of his governance.

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The assorted representatives of the two big political parties tried to hide their anti-social profile by attempting to give several excuses and explanations for the unacceptable condition in which the fire victims of Ileia province continue to live in.

The minister of financial affairs Alogoskoufis dared present officially, according to the news, the reasoning behind the raising of taxes which are already unconstitutionally high. In particular, he mentioned as his excuse the international crisis, the ‘black hole’ of the state budget and the incapacity of the ministry of financial affairs to deal with these problems, whereupon he transfers this responsibility to the People, calling the People to, in essence, pay for the errors in managements and programming that he himself has repeatedly made with the continuous support and coverage of the prime minister Karamanlis.

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