H κυβέρνηση Παπανδρέου ανακοίνωσε μόλις σήμερα, την διάθεση κρατικής περιουσίας προς εκμετάλλευση από τρίτους. Το κακό σενάριο φαίνεται ότι έχει επιλεγεί, για να «βγει» η χώρα μας από τα γρανάζια της τρόϊκα και των λοιπών κερδοσκόπων που συνειδητά ο κ. Παπανδρέου μας ενέπλεξε. Σε πρώτη φάση εκποιούνται τα «ασημικά», αλλά με τον καιρό θα διαπιστώσουν όλοι «με οδύνη», ότι το χρέος μεγαλώνει. ( Το 2009 ήταν στο 115% του ΑΕΠ. Με την «σωτηρία» μας από το ΔΝΤ κλπ, το 2013 θα φθάσει στο 155%). Τότε θα αποφασίσουν ότι πρέπει να εκποιηθούν και τα χρυσαφικά. Το χρυσάφι όμως θα είναι μαύρο και βρίσκεται εδώ και πάρα πολλά χρόνια κάτω από την θάλασσα, στον βυθό του Αιγαίου. Τόσα χρόνια οι Έλληνες αποκοιμισμένοι από τις πολιτικές τους ηγεσίες και τα κατάπτυστα ΜΜΕ, αγνοούσαν την ύπαρξη μεγάλων κοιτασμάτων ορυκτού πλούτου σε πολλά σημεία του εθνικού χώρου μας. Από καιρού εις καιρόν ακουγόταν η φωνή κάποιου να σιγοψιθυρίζει περί κοιτασμάτων πετρελαίου και φυσικού αερίου. Αμέσως οι εφιάλτες της πολιτικής και της «ενημέρωσης» έσπευδαν να τον χαρακτηρίσουν ως γραφικό. Τα χρόνια πέρασαν και έφθασε η ώρα του ορυκτού πλούτου της Ελλάδος. Μόνο που στο διάστημα αυτό, έγιναν οι «κατάλληλες» διεργασίες, έτσι ώστε η ελληνικότητα του ορυκτού πλούτου να αμφισβητείται σήμερα ευθέως από την Τουρκία. Πόσοι ήταν οι αφελείς, και ήταν πολλοί, που πίστεψαν ότι η Τουρκία ενδιαφερόταν για τα Ίμια ἤ για τις τσιπούρες του Αιγαίου. Πόσοι αλήθεια εξαπατήθηκαν, και ήταν πάρα πολλοί, ότι οι κραυγές «βυθίσατε το Χόρα», ήταν συμπυκνωμένα δείγματα πατριωτισμού. Σήμερα όμως, δεν είναι λίγοι αυτοί που πιστεύουν ότι το «βυθίσατε το Χόρα» ήταν η διφορούμενη πολιτική παρακαταθήκη του πατρός προς τον υιόν, για να βυθίσει την χώρα. Το αποτέλεσμα της ναυαγιαιρέσεως είναι γνωστό. Χάνουμε το μισό σκάφος.
Σας παρουσιάζουμε απόσπασμα από τα πρακτικά των συνομιλιών που είχαν στον Λευκό Οίκο, την Παρασκευή 25 Απριλίου 1975, ο τότε πρόεδρος Gerald Ford, ο υπουργός εξωτερικών Henry Kissinger και ο σύμβουλος εθνικής ασφαλείας Brent Scowcroft**, με εκπροσώπους της γνωστής ελληνοαμερικανικής οργανώσεως ΑΗEPA.
Διαβάστε στην συνέχεια τους διαλόγους των αμερικανών αξιωματούχων, οι οποίοι γνωρίζοντας ότι υπάρχει πετρέλαιο στο Αιγαίο, ενδιαφέρονται για σύναψη συμφωνιών μεταξύ Ελλάδος και Τουρκίας για την εκμετάλλευσή του.
**Και μία λεπτομέρεια με σημασία. Ο κ. Brent Scowcroft ίδρυσε και διευθύνει το Scowcroft Group. Ενημερωθείτε για τις δραστηριότητες του ομίλου και μάλλον … δεν θα εκπλαγείτε.
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The Scowcroft Group is an international business advisory firm that combines these unique capabilities with a demonstrated record of helping businesses grow and succeed in the rapidly evolving international market place. By offering a wide range of services and area expertise tailored to meet individual client needs and to recognize and capitalize on emerging business opportunities, The Scowcroft Group engages in every stage of strategic planning, raising capital, risk management, market development, ongoing operations, and asset sales.
Sound corporate and financial decisions require a realistic appraisal of the political, economic, and business environment, and practical experience with the many regulatory, political, and financial institutions that affect the activities of companies abroad.
The Scowcroft Group helps businesses succeed by assigning project teams tailored to the specific business or investment opportunity and the country involved. We work with our investment partners to identify and invest in companies that deliver value to customers and returns to investors, strictly applying the highest levels of transparency and accountability. Our services include:
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| Armenian National Committee of America PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release ~ 2005-09-12 | ||
BRENT SCOWCROFT ATTACKS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE LEGISLATION | ||
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Former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft Sinks to Accusing Genocide Resolution Supporters of "Careless Use of Genocide Language" | ||
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| WASHINGTON, DC - Only days before Armenian Genocide legislation is set to come before a key U.S. House panel, American Turkish Council (ATC) Chairman Brent Scowcroft has warned Speaker Dennis Hastert that even the discussion of the Armenian Genocide on the floor of the U.S. House would be "counter-productive to the interests of the United States," reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA). In his September 12th letter, Scowcroft, speaking on behalf of the corporate members of the ATC, accused Congressional supporters of Armenian Genocide legislation (H.Res.316 and H.Con.Res.195) of trying to "pull Turkey away from the West. He stressed that: "The careless use of genocide language provides and excuse to do so, delivering a direct blow to American interests in the region." "We are outraged that Brent Scowcroft appears to have so compromised his own integrity in pursuit of personal business interests that he finds himself enlisted by the Turkish government in its desperate and patently immoral genocide denial effort," said ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian. "We are particularly troubled by his baseless comment regarding the 'careless use of genocide language' - a hateful insult to the victims of this crime, a direct offense to the Congressional authors of this legislation, and a repudiation of the U.S. archives, the unanimous judgment of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and the overwhelming evidence documenting this crime against humanity." The ATC has come under scrutiny in recent weeks as the result of a 10-page story in Vanity Fair detailing FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmond's reports that it's officials were involved in illegal efforts to defeat Armenian Genocide legislation in the fall of 2000. According to the article by contributing editor David Rose, Edmonds claimed FBI wiretaps - including those of the Turkish Embassy and Turkish groups such as the American Turkish Council (ATC) and the Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA) - reveal that the Turkish government and its allies boasted of bribing members of Congress as part of an alleged deal to stop consideration of the Armenian Genocide Resolution. In a related effort, the Assembly of Turkish American Associations has distributed an action alert against both Armenian Genocide resolutions - H.Res.316 and H.Con.Res.195. Among the factually unfounded and morally bankrupt points raised by the ATAA in the space of its one-page alert, are the following: * The ATAA warns its members: "Inaction on the part of the Turkish American Community will compromise U.S.-Turkish relations, encourage more acts of harassment, violence and terrorism against people of Turkish and Turkic descent, and could potentially lead to territorial and compensations claims against the Republic of Turkey." * The ATAA urges its members to tell members of Congress that H.Res.316 and H.Con.Res.195 "provide a one-sided, misinformed view of WWI Ottoman history and would deal a great blow to the Turkish American community, and furthermore inflict damage upon the partnership between Turkey and the United States." * The ATAA stresses that resolutions such as H.Res.316 and H.Con.Res.195 "impede dialogue and reconciliation between Armenia and Turkey, discouraging the Armenian side from engaging in scholarly examination of these complicated historical events." * The ATAA notes that, "As the Armenian American lobby acts up again, we have only two choices: we can be passive and allow these allegations to go on, or we can stand up and defend ourselves, our history, and the future of our children here in the United States." * The ATAA stresses that its efforts are not "anti-Armenian," explaining that, "Armenians people are held hostage by the agenda of their country's ultra-nationalist government and extremists in the Armenian American, European and Middle Eastern communities." The full text of the Scowcroft letter is provided below: September 12, 2005 The Honorable J. Dennis Hastert Speaker of the House of Representatives The Capitol Washington, DC 20515 Dear Mr. Speaker: As Chairman of the American-Turkish Council, I am gravely concerned about plans to debate in the House of Representatives H. Con. Res. 195, a resolution “Commemorating the Armenian Genocide” and urging the Government of Turkey to acknowledge the culpability of Ottoman Turks for it, and H. Res. 316, a resolution recognizing claims of “genocide” of Armenians by Ottoman Turks. Together with ATC’s members, I strongly urge opposition to these resolutions and suggest that floor deliberation of them would be counter-productive to the interest of the United States. Whatever people individually decide on the merits of these resolutions, it is important to note the real world consequences of their adoption. When the French Senate passed such a resolution, it cost France over $1 billion in cancelled contracts and lost business opportunities. Enactment of genocide language would jeopardize our ability to achieve strategic interest with Turkey and in the region. Furthermore, it is quite likely that the business interest of several of our American members would be jeopardized by passage of such prejudicial legislation. The American-Turkish Council strongly believes that the events about which H. Con Res. 195 and H. Res. 316 speak are matters for historians to decide-not politicians. Unfortunately, these resolutions express, as matters of law and fact, issues that remain widely disputed by scholars, historians, and legal experts. Accordingly, we strongly urge you to review the attached letter that Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan sent Armenian President Robert Kocharian on April 10, 2005, seeking to normalize bilateral relations as well as address painful long-standing historical issues. Although Armenian President Kocharian rejected his offer, we are encouraged that Prime Minister Erdogan and his government, by reaching out to Armenia with an offer for an open dialogue on difficult issues involving Turks and Armenians, are taking an historic step. Turkish-Armenian rapprochement is in the best interests of both nations, and the ATC believes now is the time for reconciliation. We sincerely hope that President Kocharian and his government will take the opportunity to reciprocate the olive branch extended by Prime Minister Erdogan. Turkey’s strategic location at the crossroads of Europe, the Middle East, the Caucasus, and the Balkans places it at the center of American’s current and long term strategic interest. As Turkey stands on the threshold of accession talks with the European Union, the U.S. should be doing all it can to encourage positive momentum for Turkey. H. Con. Res. 195, while purporting to support Turkey’s EU accession talks, and H. Res. 316, do exactly the opposite. The resolutions encourage those who would pull Turkey away from the West. The careless use of genocide language provides and excuse to do so, delivering a direct blow to American interests in the region. The ATC believes that legislators should not attempt to resolve historical issues by resolution. Historical commissions, fairly staffed, adequately supported, and afforded full access to the archives, are better suited to attempting the reconciliation that we all support. On behalf of the members of the American-Turkish Council, I strongly urge you to oppose floor deliberation and adoption of any language that would substitute political pronouncements for historical analysis of this highly sensitive issue. Sincerely, Brent Scowcroft Chairman of the Board | ||
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