tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11608199675287930482024-11-08T10:38:03.561-05:00HellasFrappeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5613125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160819967528793048.post-18971465862428033552018-03-06T14:37:00.004-05:002019-04-29T22:39:52.527-04:00HellasFrappe is Back And in Full Operation!!! It has been a a long time since I last posted an article on hellasfrappe, but I am back and excited to begin posting again. As Editor of HellasFrappe I want to thank all of you for trusting this blog all these years and for allowing me to continue the dream that Mike and I had when we first designed it and published our first article. Since his passing in 2014, I was not successful in Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160819967528793048.post-5262702221168562572015-11-04T14:22:00.000-05:002015-11-04T14:40:32.555-05:00SPECIAL REPORT - There are reasons why Filis says the GENOCIDE of Greek Pontians never took place By Marina Spanos Editor in Chief HellasFrappe  Famed philosopher George Santayana once said that "those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Over the last one hundred years our world witnessed the Holocaust, countless wars and the genocide of millions of people. All these events noted above occurred in a short period proving that remembrance alone is not the issueUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160819967528793048.post-30904406515278195102015-09-26T12:39:00.001-04:002015-09-26T12:49:06.318-04:00SPECIAL REPORT - Why Greece needs Costas Karamanlis to rise to the occasion once more! We kick off a new news year at a time when PASOK, which now calls itself SYRIZA, begins governing Greece for the seventh time, while the refugee crisis is at its height and austerity has without a doubt impoverished one third of the Greek population. In all this chaos, there is no opposition because the conservatives -who lost to the SYRIZA party on September 20th- are seeking to settle scoresUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160819967528793048.post-43305087109040285142015-08-20T11:21:00.000-04:002015-08-20T11:31:09.960-04:00Tribute to Mike - Two year memorial Today, I ask all of you to feel the joy and beauty of Mike’s boundless spirit as I write this brief two-year memorial for him. For those of you who do not know, Mike was my soulmate, my confident, my partner in crime, my best friend and the co-founder of HellasFrappe. He died on August 20th, 2013 after suffering from pancreatic cancer. I hope that by sharing this private moment in my life youUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160819967528793048.post-53165010799751793162015-07-28T11:56:00.000-04:002015-07-28T12:51:23.026-04:00Supreme Court Takes Action Against Yianis (with one n) Varoufakis' Plan B - VIDEOS After playing down the initiative as a contingency plan that had never been implemented, and after denying the report and claiming that the media was using it to discredit him, former Finance Minister Varoufakis finally admitted that he had made secret preparations to hack into Greek citizens' tax codes to create a parallel banking payment system. More exactly, Varoufakis admitted that he wasUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160819967528793048.post-40754869257106223402015-07-22T23:17:00.000-04:002015-07-22T23:17:19.060-04:00Gov't passes crucial bailout bill by 230 votes, 31 SYRIZA MPs vote "NO" - Varoufakis votes YES The Greek government passed a crucial bailout bill by 230 votes early on Thursday morning in Parliament on a second package of prior actions linked to the third bailout memorandum agreed to with creditors last week, with only 31 SYRIZA MPs voting "NO" this time as opposed to the 39 who did not back the first round of reforms last week. The legislation was opposed by 63 lawmakers, while five Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160819967528793048.post-25080387763616689952015-07-17T00:55:00.003-04:002015-07-17T13:58:30.037-04:00BREAKING - Major fire breaks out near Neapoli, Laconia - Local villages threatened Greece is under attack. Once again we are witnessing an unprecedented and suspicious attack on our country just like we did eight years ago (or in 2007) with the fires in the Peloponnese. Currently there are 43 fires blazing across the country (or in Attiki, Laconia, Argolis, Evia and Malakasa). (Please note: HellasFrappe will continue to post updates on the fire in the Peloponnese Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160819967528793048.post-28838544388140497242015-07-15T12:06:00.001-04:002015-07-15T12:06:13.605-04:00Tsipras' battles drachma lobby to avoid Grexit, and fights to achieve Greekment - Possible Scenarios Today is one of the greatest moments in post-dictatorship modern history. Our government has to decide whether or not Greece will go bankrupt and avoid bankruptcy or fall off the cliff and die. As we witness the events unfold, we now finally know who the patriots are who support the will of the people -as well as Greek national interests-, and which groups have a plan to destroy everything Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160819967528793048.post-26545148509647123942015-07-14T10:52:00.001-04:002015-07-14T15:29:12.034-04:00The Drachma Lobby Has Its Man: Yianis (with one "n") Varoufakis credit kourdistoportocali For UPDATE please check end of present article Beginning in 2001 and up until 2009 more than 300 billion euros were removed from Greek banks and transferred to foreign accounts while a further 200 billion was transferred over the last FIVE years. When one takes this into account then one can understand that the drachma lobby -which is rallying for Greece to remove Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160819967528793048.post-58132245060803226492015-07-10T21:14:00.000-04:002015-07-10T21:19:07.900-04:00251 Greek MPs Vote YES On Agreement With Creditors - But SYRIZA Suffers Serious Losses - BREAKING (VIDEOS) The Greek Parliament on Saturday morning authorized the SYRIZA government to sign an agreement with creditors and avert a meltdown of Greece’s eurozone membership, with an unprecedented vote drawing cross-party support for a deal. Several ruling party MPs defied the party line and voted “present”, including outspoken Parliament President Zoe Konstantopoulou and two ministers. In all, 251 MPs Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160819967528793048.post-66586415960792815742015-07-07T10:39:00.001-04:002015-07-07T10:39:25.648-04:00Greek crisis prompts FYROM to push for NATO membership Greece’s growing political and economic problems have its small neighbor FYROM sensing an opportunity to push hard for joining NATO, a move that has been stalled for years thanks to Athens’ opposition because of disputes over FYROM’s name.Defense Minister Zoran Jolevski told POLITICO his country would be prepared to apply to join NATO using the ungainly name “Former Yugoslav Republic of Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160819967528793048.post-86039701436532881232015-07-06T01:58:00.002-04:002015-07-06T02:04:34.326-04:00Varoufakis Resigns From Post - BREAKING Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis apparently resigned from his post following Sunday's night's historic referendum which voted against accepting creditors' terms for a bailout. He said that the reason for his resignation was to help the Greek government to come to better terms with Greece's lenders. His statement was published on Twitter. Here is the complete statement by Varoufakis: Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160819967528793048.post-79232122266653684752015-07-02T09:09:00.001-04:002015-07-02T09:09:19.939-04:00Declaration of 246 Economics Professors at Greek Universities on Referendum & Importance of YES Vote The following declaration, which is signed by 246 professors of Economics Schools and Universities across  Greece, and which was first published on kathimerini, explains why they are going to vote YES at this Sunday's referendum.      By this declaration, we want to express our great distress about the latest developments in our country. We strongly believe that, at Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160819967528793048.post-40484288779809368672015-06-29T05:26:00.003-04:002015-06-29T05:44:10.268-04:00ANALYSIS - Greek Referendum Is More Con Than Democracy The Greek parliament has approved a referendum to decide whether to accept the latest bailout terms offered by the country’s creditors. It will come too late and ask the wrong question. This is a vote that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras should have called at least a month ago -- if it were an honest effort to let the Greek people make a democratic choice on where their future lies, which it isUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160819967528793048.post-38051784675019397292015-06-27T05:44:00.000-04:002015-06-30T10:09:37.940-04:00Karamanlis breaks silence - Warns that “unwise choices" will have irreversible consequences on Greece In a very rare public statement, former Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis on Saturday called on Greece to remain in the Eurozone. The former premier stressed that Greece's interests require participation in the Eurozone, adding that “unwise choices" will push the country "into an adventure” with unpredictable and possibly irreversible consequences. Karamanlis, who has kept silent since he Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160819967528793048.post-24840728035351767232015-06-27T04:40:00.004-04:002015-06-27T04:40:57.979-04:00NO SURPRISES - George Papandreou hails Tsipras, in favor of referendum Former PM George Papandreou on Saturday said that his party is going to support a YES vote in the July 5th referendum that was called by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras early on Saturday morning.Papandreou, who always forgets that he is the one that ignited this whole crisis by bringing the IMF to Greece -and to a wider extent to Europe- also accused Tsipras of shifting the burden of a difficultUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160819967528793048.post-39405905308950496772015-06-26T16:27:00.002-04:002015-06-30T10:08:31.995-04:00Plot "Silver drachma" - A sick plan to get Greece out of the euro following the downfall of Karamanlis - MUST READ The evidence that was presented by Supreme Court investigator against Corruption Dimitri Foukas can only be described as shocking and something that can only be found in spy movies. Foukas, who has been investigating the wire tapping case that occurred during Costas Karamanlis' rule as well as the assassination attempt against the former prime minister, in a clear and documented way, shows Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160819967528793048.post-84788447171055837802015-06-21T08:40:00.001-04:002015-06-21T13:04:33.910-04:00PROVOCATION: McCain Says FYROM should join NATO as "Macedonia" (VIDEO) In a flat out provocation against Greece, US Senator (and well known war-monger) John McCain on the weekend suggested that FYROM should refer to itself as as it sees fit, meaning as "Macedonia", and left it to be understood that it can do so by disrespecting international treaties, laws as well as Greece! More specifically, while answering a journalist's question at the GLOBSEC convention inUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160819967528793048.post-8937807488762957792015-06-19T07:32:00.003-04:002015-06-19T07:32:47.752-04:00BREAKING - Russia States That It Is Willing to Consider Loans To Greece Ahead of talks between Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich was quoted in an interview on RT television as saying that Moscow is willing to consider giving financial aid to Greece.      "We will support any decision (on the Greek debt crisis) that is proposed by Greece and our European partners,"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160819967528793048.post-79892393289962684142015-06-19T07:05:00.003-04:002015-06-19T07:05:56.479-04:00Lafazanis Slams TA NEA Report over fuel shortages in case Greece leaves Euro Minister of Productive Reconstruction, Environment and Energy Panagiotis Lafazanis on Friday slammed reports stating that he had instructed Hellenic Petroleum (ELPE) to prepare an emergency plan to secure Greece’s petroleum supplies for a period of nine months, should Greece be forced out of the euro. According to a report in the (PASOK backed) Ta Nea newspaper, ELPE’s rumored emergency plan Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160819967528793048.post-43778327314292229002015-06-19T06:10:00.000-04:002015-06-19T07:59:44.658-04:00Russia & Greece Sign Memorandum On Extension of Turkish Stream Pipeline Russian and Greek Energy Ministers, Alexander Novak and Panagiotis Lafazanis respectively, signed a memorandum on construction of the extension of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline across Greek territory at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum.      "Our meeting today is a historical meeting… The memorandum expresses the readiness of both sides to bring the south direction of Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160819967528793048.post-89737834343890953912015-06-18T10:18:00.001-04:002015-06-20T08:14:17.194-04:00Volos Mayor Attacks G.Papandreou - Calls Him A Crook Who Destroyed Greece! (VIDEO) - LOL credit - www.e-volos.gr Please read report below before watching updated video report. UPDATE -In a new video which was released on Saturday the Mayor of Volos is filmed outside of the hotel screaming and heavily criticizing Papandreou, as well as his supporters. Original story During a working visit at the city of Volos, former Prime Minister George Papandreou was verbally attackedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160819967528793048.post-91454401298886005842015-06-18T07:17:00.003-04:002015-06-18T07:17:48.204-04:00Greek State News Agency to sign with Russia's Rossiya Segodnya (Part of RT) ANA-MPA on Thursday announced that it is ready to sign a cooperation agreement with the Russian news organisation Rossiya Segodnya. The announcement came from St. Petersburg on the sidelines of the International Economic Forum, where Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is also to participate. It should be reminded that Rossiya Segodnya is the largest news group in Russia and includes the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160819967528793048.post-31332908505174193462015-06-18T05:00:00.002-04:002015-06-18T05:00:49.381-04:00Debt Truth Committee Results: Greek debt is "illegal, illegitimate and odious" Ahead of Thursday's crucial Eurogroup meeting, the Greek Parliament's Truth Committee on Public Debt on Wednesday released a preliminary report deeming that the Greek debt is illegal, illegitimate and odious. The committee concluded that the debt imposed on Greece and its citizens by the country's creditors directly infringes on the human rights of Greeks and is "illegal, illegitimate and Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160819967528793048.post-45775117207546514282015-06-17T08:47:00.001-04:002015-06-17T08:47:04.988-04:00Violent clashes on Lesvos - Migrant Attacks Greek Official - Situation out of Control (VIDEOS) Without a doubt, Greece is collapsing from within and citizens all over the country do not know how (or in what way) to protect themselves. At present Greece is struggling to rise above a six year economic crisis and as such can hardly sustain its own citizens let alone support an unprecedented influx of illegal migrants which are flooding its shores on a daily basis. The government's open Unknownnoreply@blogger.com