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The IMF "Trained" Greek Journalists In Washington To Spin Stories In Favor Of Troika

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Submitted by AlexRPT via RedPillTimes.com,

In what can only be described as a shocking testimony, Greece’s former representative to the IMF, Panagiotis Roumeliotis, in front of the special parliamentary committee on the Greek debt, said that several Greek journalists were “trained” in Washington D.C. in order to support the positions of the IMF and the European Commission in Greek media.

Roumeliotis testified that…

“The IMF trained” greek journalists so that “Greek journalists can promote the positions of the IMF and the European Commission in Greek media.”

According to Roumeliotis, the seminars and training classes took place in Washington D.C., as well as various sessions taking place in Greece.

Roumeliotis refused to disclose the names of the journalists involved, in what can only be described as overt and excessive western propaganda, bordering on illegal actions undertaken by the IMF and European Commission given the state of Greece’s debt burden.

Parliament President and head of the committee, Zoe Konstantopoulou, noted that the committee investigating Greece’s debt would seek to discover the names of the journalists that took part in Washington’s training sessions.

Roumeliotis noted that when he was in Washington D.C. he accidentally met with Greek journalists who told him that they were invited to attend seminars on the function of the IMF. He said that the committee can ask the organization’s Director of Communications Department, Gerry Rice, for a list of journalists’ names who attended such seminars in D.C.

Konstantopoulou adopted the proposal and appointed a committee member to draft a formal request to the IMF…

“In Greece, certain individuals who work for the mass media were contracted to conceal the fact that the Greek debt was not sustainable.”

Roumeliotis further testified that IMF head…

“Christine Lagarde and other high officials at the IMF contacted me before my testimony before the committee to remind me that members of the IMF are immune from prosecution.”

Konstantopoulou named television journalist Yiannis Pretenteris as one of the journalists attending the IMF classes. According to Konstantopoulou, the popular Greek journalist admitted in his book that he attended the IMF seminars.

Roumeliotis noted that many journalists fell victim to the IMF’s misinformation campaign, and that the omission of the fact that the debt was not sustainable was detrimental to public interest.

Roumeliotis went on to say that several economists and university professors also attempted to convince the public that the debt was sustainable…adding that he puts them in the same category as the journalists.

Who is Panagiotis Roumeliotis: A Greek economist, academic, banker and politician who served as Minister of National Economy, Minister of Commerce, Member of the European Parliament for PASOK and as Greece’s representative at the International Monetary Fund.

 

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Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:12 | 6213729 Veriton
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You will hear lots of revelations like this. It is part of the effort to turn the Greek people away from thw West and towards the BRICS.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:20 | 6213748 SickDollar
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off topic: Tylers check this out: TWO CIA AGENTS ARRESTED BY MINUTEMEN WHILE CROSSING MEXICAN BORDER WITH 1300 POUNDS OF COCAINE

http://politicalvelcraft.org/2015/06/17/two-cia-agents-arrested-by-minut...

 

CIA: Cocaine Import Agency

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:29 | 6213814 JustObserving
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CIA has a monopoly on drugs- 1 million dead and heroin production up 4000% since US invaded Afghanistan.

Let's not forget the "suicide" of Gary Webb who reported that CIA was selling crack cocaine in black ghettos of Southern California to raise money for the Contras.

'1mn died' from Afghan heroin, drug production '40 times higher' since US invaded

http://rt.com/news/afghanistan-heroin-production-increased-266/

 

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:43 | 6213870 NoDebt
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Like most so-called "journalists" they had to be told what to write because they didn't have a fucking clue on their own.  Just empty vessels to be filled with whatever propoganda we choose to distribute.

And, as always, it's good to know that the US isn't meddling in another sovereign country's affairs again.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:12 | 6213975 Temporalist
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I have a touch of panagiotis roumeliotis and I don't know if I need a cream, pills or if I need surgery.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:23 | 6214011 usednabused
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There's exactly whats wrong with our whole system.

Certain people being IMMUNE from PROSECUTION.

I wonder if they're also immune from lead poisoning and ropes without much stretch.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:49 | 6214110 booboo
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but will their necks stretch or snap like other humans? just a question.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 13:48 | 6214507 MonetaryApostate
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I'm led to wonder if the massive debt burdens aren't simply the way the Elite take from the poor and give to the rich.  I mean what better way to give out "foreign aid" at the expense of ALL the tax payers, right?

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 14:19 | 6214638 yrad
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There we go again, exporting jobs.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:23 | 6214015 strannick
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America.

Fuck off and die already.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:26 | 6214026 Fun Facts
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This is the ZWO at work.

Control the money and the media and you control everything.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:35 | 6214065 OilCaptain
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I'm curious about exactly what response this social engineering experiment is intending to provoke.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:43 | 6214094 SmittyinLA
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Grow the herd

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 13:50 | 6214525 MonetaryApostate
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I'm afraid the herd is already in the pastures, have been grazing for a long time now, and are ready to be slaughtered....

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 16:20 | 6215200 Bobbo
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Providing Training to Journalists = Displaying the Power of the Folder.

And if that doesn't work, Send a firmer Message via a recently deceased friend!

And if THAT doesn't work, Issue Cancellation.

...

Message Received. 

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:42 | 6214092 ThirteenthFloor
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There's the good, the bad, and the ugly...

Then there's black propaganda.

Black propaganda is false information and material that purports to be from a source on one side of a conflict, but is actually from the opposing side.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:30 | 6214039 OhNo
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So fuckin what. Old news troll.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 13:33 | 6214388 Pseudonymous
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FAKE. The article claims that "last night" (article posted June 17, 2015) "36 packages of cocaine, all marked with the symbol of the Sinaloa Cartel, representing a black scorpion" were captured and shows this picture matching the description:

https://rasica.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/minutemen2.jpg

And you can find the same picture (in larger resolution) here (among other places, you can find them by going to images.google.com and searching by the image URL):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Drugpackscorpion.png#filehistory

first seen on 13 August 2007.

P.S.: I'm not saying that the CIA is not involved in such activities. It would not surprise me at all, but then again employees of the other government agencies mentioned - FBI, DEA, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and local policemen would be even less surprising candidates for this and related jobs.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 17:44 | 6215503 Implied Violins
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If you follow the original link all the way back, you can see that this article was taken from a website that is very much like the Onion. It is a FAKE PIECE. Not that I doubt the CIA does this shit, but they'd cap any and all militia men trying to 'arrest' them and no news would EVER be published.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 21:37 | 6216206 Pseudonymous
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Meanwhile, they've replaced the article with a different article while keeping the user comments from the original article. The original URL:

http://politicalvelcraft.org/2015/06/17/two-cia-agents-arrested-by-minutemen-while-crossing-mexican-border-with-1300-pounds-of-cocaine/

now redirects to:

http://politicalvelcraft.org/2015/06/17/two-cia-mossad-agents-arrested-by-special-forces-while-advising-isis-inside-iraqi-borders/

For anyone interested in the original article you can read it from the satirical news website which published it first (as far as I can tell): http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/two-cia-agents-arrested-by-minutemen-while-crossing-mexican-border-with-1300-pounds-of-cocaine/

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:20 | 6213772 Toolshed
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Well at least someone is acting for the good of the Greek people.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:20 | 6213775 walküre
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The Greeks have been lying about their economic output all year. IMF has used the lies to further their own propaganda.

Essentially it is the goal of the IMF to cash out in Greece and get the ECB on the hook for all IMF loan repayments.

In the dictionary the definition of shyster is IMF.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:29 | 6213818 FlipFlop
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Is this a Greek tragedy or comedy? Itmcertainly resembles a full set of Wagnerian intrigue :)

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:46 | 6213847 Veriton
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BTW, Tsipras has signed the pipeline deal with Putin - http://www.stockhouse.com/news/newswire/2015/06/19/greece-signs-deal-wit...

For the next few months, you'll hear lots of revelations about the evil "Western-run" IMF. This is designed to provide support for BRICS governance reform of the IMF this October (in accordance with the globalist plan) - http://redefininggod.com/2015/06/globalist-agenda-watch-2015-update-36-t...

German language press is also reporting on the pipeline deal - http://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/russische-pipeline-fuer-athen-1.18565622

(Google Translation):

  The visit of Tsipras has actually brought a halfway tangible result, namely a letter of intent signed on Friday on the extension of the planned gas pipeline through the Turkish stream EU country. They should fully fund the Russian state bank VEB, which wants it to spend 2 billion. Construction is expected to begin in 2016 and be completed by 2019. Revenues from transit fees should receive only Athens when the gas actually flows. Whether it comes to that, is meanwhile in the stars: The Russian natural gas giant Gazprom plans to Turkish stream to replace the end of 2014 surprisingly stopped construction of the South Stream pipeline. The new tube will transport Russian natural gas through the Black Sea to the Turkish mainland and the Greek border. With Ankara, Gazprom has not yet agreed conclusion.
Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:27 | 6214028 walküre
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LOIs are often useless. In this case, I would even suggest that Putin has a reason to stick it to Europe and Tsirpas is using it as leverage in negotiations. There hasn't been any payment and the Russians are ill advised to buy into Greece unless the Greeks are devalued into Drachmas. But it makes good press and the timing is sure a winner!

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 12:29 | 6214239 Veriton
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The globalists are taking down the EU and putting the BRICS to the fore, and Greece is the lynchpin to their whole plan. "The 'birthplace of democracy' flees from the 'insane' West to the BRICS 'freedom fighters'." There will be no deal (except with the BRICS next month at their summit meeting). Greece will lead the way to our "glorious" NWO future. This whole drama is stage managed for public consumption.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:50 | 6213899 TheReplacement
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Why the downvotes on this?  He said "revelations" not lies or propaganda.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:55 | 6213908 TheGreatRecovery
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<  Save the bales!   :-)

<  Save the BRICS!   :-)

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:02 | 6213941 joak
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The efforts of whom ? Please, bring the truth from every side, so that the Greeks can see where their future lies, East or West. What the West is waiting for revealing the shocking policies of Russia ?

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:40 | 6214084 SmittyinLA
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Ya right, like Greeks have a learning curve or respond to negative stimulus, theyre dead.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:17 | 6213989 JLee2027
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Pravda would be proud.

For those who don't remember, that was the mouthpiece of the Soviet Union.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:58 | 6214137 booboo
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and "Pravda" means "truth"

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 18:06 | 6215582 Al Tinfoil
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Jeez - a government organ tries to give out some good news for a change, and look at the criticism they get.  You'd think the sheeple would welcome good news.

 

EVERYTHING IS AWESOME.  

 

/sarc

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:09 | 6213723 QQQBall
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You wanna be the best, train with the best

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:09 | 6213724 This is it
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Peak rumor-mongering?

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:14 | 6213725 JustObserving
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"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." -- William Colby, former CIA Director, cited by Dave Mcgowan, Derailing Democracy

Apparently, in the Greek media too.

"You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month." - CIA operative 

 

And a Greek journalist for a tenth that price

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:18 | 6213763 Questan1913
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A timely reminder for all to keep in mind.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:20 | 6213776 BullyBearish
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Especially disgusting when you realize they print the "payment" out of thin air

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:33 | 6214050 OhNo
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Old fuckin news troll with yr up votes i could be a gay black presidante.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:20 | 6213740 astoriajoe
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In the words of Clyde Frazier, that's odious and contemptible!

http://celebritybase.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/ny_clyde_01.jpg

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:15 | 6213744 LoneStarHog
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SHOCK!...What?...WaShitOn is involved in something nefarious?...SHOCK!

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:17 | 6213753 q99x2
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Washington D.C. a nest of vipers; the most hated vermin on the planet.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:18 | 6213758 Toolshed
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Sounds like an act of war to me.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:26 | 6213799 DeadFred
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It just sounds odious to me.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:40 | 6213865 TuPhat
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If it sounds odious and looks odious does it smell odious as well?

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:18 | 6213762 Calculus99
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Take the advice of Bruce Lee from Enter the Dragon -

"The enemy has only images and illusions behind which he hides his true motives. Destroy the
image and you will break the enemy."

Never been truer words said about what we're all peddled these days.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:09 | 6213965 KJWqonfo7
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Upvote and slow clap for the Bruce Lee and Enter the Dragon reference.

 

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:15 | 6213982 Temporalist
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Bruce Lee slow clapped by blinking but had to stop because of the sonic booms.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 13:46 | 6214510 LooseLee
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Couldn't have said it any better myself. Take heed; the 'image' is 'the self' and to break it requires deep self knowledge. Bruce Lee was killed by the HK mob because he wouldn't play their game of 'protection' so they slipped him some 'tainted' hashhish. Only the 'Good' die young..

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:20 | 6213771 Crtrvlt
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were those fascist pieces of shit @greekanalyst and @yannikouts one of them? where were these traitors (and who is greekanalyst?) when the previous government destroyed the Greek economy and sold off Greek assets for virtually nothing?

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:20 | 6213774 r101958
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Sounds like 'Confessions of an Economic Hitman'.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:26 | 6213792 JustObserving
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Just recently, the CIA flexed its power over the free and fair press of the West:

Since the beginning of the week, the three most influential mass circulation newsmagazines of the United States, Britain, and Germany—Time, The Economist, and Der Spiegel—have published cover stories that combine wild accusations against Vladimir Putin with demands for a showdown with Russia.

The most striking and obvious characteristic of these cover stories is that they are virtually identical. The CIA has scripted them all. The stories employ the same insults and the same fabrications. They denounce Putin’s “web of lies.” The Russian president is portrayed as a “depraved” mass murderer

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/30/pers-j30.html

 

 

‘Global media control allows US to sell black for white’: Putin’s key Valdai quotes

http://rt.com/news/199028-putin-speech-best-quotes/

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:35 | 6214066 OhNo
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Its all red white and fuckin blue troll. PLANET 7X BITCHES

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 12:12 | 6214184 Urban Roman
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An anti-troll is still a troll, OhNo. (and no, that wasn't my red arrow)

Just sayin'

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:49 | 6214093 topshelfstuff
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Yes and recall the recent disclosure from a well known German reporter. I'll leave a youtube and great read article link

 

Ulrich Ulfkotte tells the truth about Germany and NATO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAufGfCQXKw ========== [[[ note: its not just the bribes & payoffs, its also the employment, because if you don't accept, you're out, one way or another, very similar tactic revealed in "Confessions of an Economic Hitman"...also link left at bottom, and important view ]]] Leading German Journalist Admits CIA 'Bribed' Him and Other Leaders of the Western ‘Press’ washingtonsblog.com › GeneralOct 7, 2014 http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/10/leading-german-journalist-admits-cia-bribed-leaders-western-press.html Is this only the case with German journalists? No, I think it is especially the case with British journalists, because they have a much closer relationship. It is especially the case with Israeli journalists. Of course with French journalists. … It is the case for Australians, [with] journalists from New Zealand, from Taiwan, well, there is many countries, … like Jordan for example. …
Confessions of an economic hitman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVsB07CcSNw Uploaded on Dec 15, 2011

I'm uploading this in connection with the financial crisis in Greece and Europe.

[[[ You can be Pres, plus get $Millions sent to secret accounts, or be "eliminated" ]]]

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:22 | 6213782 ebworthen
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IMF = International Malevolence Fund

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:53 | 6213903 Peter Pan
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IMF = International Mafia Foundation

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:16 | 6213988 Temporalist
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Illegal Monetary Fraud

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:23 | 6213784 suteibu
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  Christine Lagarde and other high officials at the IMF contacted me before my testimony before the committee to remind me that members of the IMF are immune from prosecution.

There's your problem with a lot of shit, right there.  There is no incentive for these psychopaths to worry about thier actions.

 

 

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:32 | 6213825 ebworthen
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An international organization made of bankers that gets money from taxpayers.  Sounds like a syndicate to me.

A mafia, whose goons are the state police in any place they reside or visit.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:29 | 6214033 buzzsaw99
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she and the imf ain't nothin' special. every swinging dick with a pair of wh cufflinks is immune.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 14:23 | 6214651 BobRocket
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They may be immune from prosecution but they sure aren't immune from execution (just sayin')

It could be put to a popular vote - priced in at a $ a vote the executioner takes the pot (don't you love Democracy)

 

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:24 | 6213789 Jacksons Ghost
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Where do they get the money for such illegal propaganda? Nevermind....alt-p. Out of thin air!

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:26 | 6213797 Omega_Man
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default now

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:45 | 6213879 Bearwagon
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"Iceland! Iceland! Iceland!"

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:26 | 6213798 RogerMud
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training was followed by hookers and blow.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:37 | 6213848 Peter Pan
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Guess where previous Greek Ministers Andreas Papandreou, George Papndreou  and Antonios Samaras were "trained".

 

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:38 | 6213856 cwsuisse
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I would not be surprised to learn one day that there is an academy that constantly provides such training to journalists from a variety of countries. There is presuambly no participation fee but a participation reward and all amenities are in place. I would guess that amongst others the journalists from the German newspapers "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" and "Die WELT" receive a regular training there to provide a US-friendly picture of the world affairs to their poor readers.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:45 | 6213861 JustObserving
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"In Greece, certain individuals who work for the mass media were contracted to conceal the fact that the Greek debt was not sustainable.”

 

As if US debt and unfunded liabilities of at least $1,400,000 per taxpayer are sustainable.  But no US journalist or economist dare mention that.

Truth is treason in an empire of lies.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:54 | 6213905 TeethVillage88s
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None Dare Call it Conspiracy, 1971 (44 years ago).

In this book, Allen and Abraham assert that the modern political and economic systems in most developed nations are the result of a sweeping conspiracy by the Establishment's power elite, for which he also uses the term Insiders. According to the authors, these Insiders use elements of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto to forward their socialist/communist agenda:

- Establish an income tax system as a means of extorting money from the common man;
- Establish a central bank, deceptively named so that people will think it is part of the government;
- Have this bank be the holder of the national debt;
- Run the national debt, and the interest thereon, sky high through wars (or any sort of deficit spending), starting with World War I.[9]

He quotes the Council on Foreign Relations as having stated, in its study no. 7 : ”The U.S. must strive to: A. BUILD A NEW INTERNATIONAL ORDER.” (Capitals in the original).[10]

As an investigator of U.S. financial, industrial, and political elites, Allen wrote other books about the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission, asserting that the term "New World Order" was used by a secretive elite dedicated to the destruction of all national sovereignties.[11]

hm... TPP, TTIP, TISA, TAA, TPA, NAFTA.

I'd say we need a new Gary Allen to say where we go now with the Group of 30, and the International Players now obviously involved. I still call it Fascism tho.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:43 | 6213871 TeethVillage88s
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Another Counter-Intelligence Operation, wonder which agency participated. Not that it matters. The Loyalty and Capture of US Press and all Government Agencies is complete.

- We the Stakeholders want reform of US Powers

We don't have Honest Brokers in DOJ, FBI, SEC, FINRA, FTC, GAO, CBO, FED, Treasury, OCC, FSOC, BCFP, CFTC, FDIC, FHFA, SIPC... or in the US Press, MSM.

S.1471 - Transparency for the Families of 9/11 Victims and Survivors Act of 2015

- To require declassification of certain redacted information from the Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 2001 and for other purposes.

Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY] (Introduced 06/01/2015)
Committees: Senate - Intelligence
Latest Action: 06/01/2015 Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:47 | 6213883 The Carbonator
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These JournOlists are just political hacks for the FED and their muppet Obama.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 10:57 | 6213916 Joebloinvestor
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Hey just like Goldman Sachs trained economists to LIE about the state of Greek finances to get it into the EU.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:00 | 6213931 cherry picker
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Looks like there is good income potential spreading misinformation around.

Maybe those people offering $10,000 grand a month working from home are fronts for CIA and stuff hiring people to say good things about evil organizations so the idiots will keep feeding them money to do their dirty work.

 

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:01 | 6213936 lbrecken
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Media was also "trained" to talk down oil but ZH here is blind to it.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:02 | 6213939 TheGreatRecovery
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I always wondered why anyone would need a college degree in Journalism to be a journalist.  I thought, should only those with Political Science degrees be Congressmen?  I suspected that the degree might be a sign that the degreed had survived some sort of process that weeded out potential troublemakers, people who might actually DO the truth-finding-and-telling that I always thought REAL journalists (Benjamin Franklin or Thomas Paine, for example, or Tyler Durden) SHOULD do, and that citizens NEED them to do.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 13:59 | 6214564 TheGreatRecovery
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But, once again, I guess I might be failing to discriminate.  I'm sure many good people get Journalism degrees.  But perhaps few of them who do important work get printed or voiced by the "premier" media outlets.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 20:02 | 6215949 SmedleyButlersGhost
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Hmm. I have a degree Journalism, owe 50,000 and desparately need a job what should I write?

Sat, 06/20/2015 - 16:10 | 6217813 TheGreatRecovery
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You should write exactly what you are writing here.  Write.  Write.  Write.  An idea will come.  Good luck.  Thanks for writing here.

Sat, 06/20/2015 - 16:13 | 6217817 TheGreatRecovery
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Write about General Smedley Butler.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:02 | 6213940 sbenard
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Agitprop! Propaganda!

Ie., LIES! They teach people to LIE!

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:05 | 6213947 escapeefromOZ
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That's to be expected .  A German Journalist and editor recently wrote a book of his memoirs and told the readers that he embellished certain types of news punlished on a German Newspapers to favor the USA . 

He was infact  working for the CIA in Germany . He confessed that many of his colleagues also did the same work . 

This writers knows with absolute certainty that in Italy no news is published without been vetted by the Italian Secrete services before pubblication . 

The story of the German Journalist 

http://russia-insider.com/en/germany_politics_media_watch/2014/11/06/01-...

 

The moral of the story is that the press in Europe is controlled by the

local secret services and the CIA . it has been like that now for 70 years . Europe is an occupied country and the press is rigged . 

Another phenomen that happens in Italy is this . Jewish journalists 

get a lot of notoriaty and invitation by the major TV network .... 

To have a brilliant carrer in Journalism or art jewishness is important . AS Woody Allen said : Success is 80 % being Jewish !

 

 

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:31 | 6214042 jms2112
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fucking goddamn rabbit hole gets deeper every day.  :(

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:07 | 6213957 RealityCheque
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"Journalism" really needs to be redefined at this point.

A new term, like "propaganda regurgitatist" or just straight up "shill cunt" would be more fitting for 99% of media workers.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:12 | 6213972 Surveyor4Pres
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^^^^^^^^^^ Nicely said ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 12:14 | 6214190 The Delicate Genius
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I'm partial to 'shill cunt.'

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 23:24 | 6216498 hedgiex
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Oh NO ! ZH does not need competition.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:13 | 6213978 escapeefromOZ
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This is another beauty "

“Christine Lagarde and other high officials at the IMF contacted me before my testimony before the committee to remind me that members of the IMF are immune from prosecution.” 

 


The ones that should be sent to jail are " immune from prosecution !            Brilliant system ! In a world  in which the PTB is trying to implement agenda 21 , with 

the killing of 7 billion people , we the people should try to exterminate the member of the elite and government officials .  We are 99 % and they are the 1 %  . It is better to exterminate the 1%  it is even cheaper to do it .



Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:15 | 6213983 Jameson18
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“Christine Lagarde and other high officials at the IMF contacted me before my testimony before the committee to remind me that members of the IMF are immune from prosecution.”

What she was really saying is zionist don't go to jail.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:20 | 6214003 JailBanksters
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Immune from prosecution, WTF

HOW WHAT WHEN WHY did this happen

is this witch sayimg the IMF can commit any Financial Fraud they like because the Rothchilds is holding the Immunity Idol

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:30 | 6214040 Atomizer
Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:33 | 6214054 TalkToLind
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And it's gone!

Greece's pending sovereign default plus an international banking system in peril = plunging precious metals.  That's right, "Investors" are racing out of hard assets in favor of paper "assets" LOL.  

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:43 | 6214087 Everybodys All ...
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I wonder when a news story like this will come out on the American financial media like the CNBC commentators. There is no doubt in my mind that they have been captured and have been for some time.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:55 | 6214123 TeethVillage88s
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War and Rumors of War.

I would think local, county, state Lawyers & Bankers would start to build a fund to go after National Level & International Bank Criminals.

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If some kind of war breaks out in the USA, many people are going to know it was the Bankers & Lawyers that orchestrated Events.

Self Survival would deem that State Powers would set up Emergency Actions to go after the Traitors in DC & Wall Street.

Greece is a great example, but so are the Unjustified US Wars all over the Middle East, and Slanted Foreign Policy that has made Americans unpopular. And we can't forget the 2008 Financial Crisis with Toxic Derivatives touted all over the world destroying the World Reserve Currency through Poor Stewardship of the USD.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:48 | 6214107 FIAT CON
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When the guitine's come out we  are going to need a very large pit to burry all the heads of criminals

 

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 11:56 | 6214128 The Delicate Genius
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This is off the topic, if you'll forgive me [hope this is okay if done rarely...]

But did anyone catch Cass Sunstein's essay in the Times?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/opinion/sunday/when-america-says-yes-t...

I think this is a 'read between the lines' sort of deal.

Samantha Powers husband.

Wonder what their sex is like.

I'd bet you everything in my safety deposit box it is pretty fucked up.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 12:44 | 6214293 SillyWabbits
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Journalism is today what Elmer Gantry was to his flock.  The flocks are international today as opposed to gatherings in a tent.  But the message is enhanced beyond do as I say and not as I do:

It has simply become; do unto others

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 12:53 | 6214326 Bemused Observer
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The IMF is immune from prosecution? Are they immune to getting their asses kicked, cause I'm thinking that should happen...

What an arrogant bunch of scumbags. I hope they find themselves targeted by pissed-off people. Let's see how immune you are when the angry mobs start calling.

I don't think they're immune...I think they'll bruise up pretty good.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 13:34 | 6214460 VWAndy
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Did he name names? Maybe media outlets they worked for?  When can we expect perp walks?

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 13:35 | 6214469 VWAndy
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Na boys they are just rubbing our faces in it now.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 14:20 | 6214643 activisor
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Perhaps people will start to realise just how devious, corrupt and Machievellian the vermin running the US really are.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 15:03 | 6214833 wildbad
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lagard is an ugly mean old man who respect nothing..not even freedom of the greek press.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 15:05 | 6214837 Downtoolong
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Interesting that the brainwashing (er training) took place in Washington D.C. That suggests something Roumeliotis neglected to mention in his confession, possibly due to ignorance, that the propaganda being imprinted on Greek reporters by the IMF and Euro Commission was probably written by Goldman and the Federal Reserve.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 20:49 | 6216072 RMolineaux
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No doubt the IMF gives informational seminars to journalists and other interested parties on how the IMF works, and how it assists governments in resolving trade imbalances, etc.  This is in fulfilling the responsibilities of any governmental organization to its public.  While I object to the IMF's total dedication to neo-liberal principles, I see nothing wrong with its giving informational seminars.  Far more insidious is the training given to third world military officers at Fort Leavenworth and Fort Benning in which they are encouraged to transfer their loyalty from their home governments to the US, to support US global military objectives.  In other words - sponsored treason.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 23:32 | 6216515 bunnyswanson
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International MoFo.  They are a bank.  Any bank with power today is corrupt and designed to topple governments - It's the NWO stupid.  I recall the video from a decade ago, of young Greeks sitting in their living rooms, doing nothing, when for-no-reason, they all begin leaving their appartments and running into the streets, to join hundreds of others, including grandpa, marching toward the center square - WE MEAN BUSINESS, come together and we shall overcome!  Background music was MUSE - Uprising.  Hollow-wood style production.  And then, it was gone.  No more videos, no songs for the greek people.

The whole show including the terrorists is a means to an end.  Expand Israhell, transfer of wealth, or theft of middle class generational wealth, diverting it into devloping nations where global investors have placed their bets.

Nothing is real if it comes out of Main Stream Media.  Predatory lending in the new enemy.  Debt will take you down. 

Dismantle the banks and jail the bankers are face a world not worth living in for anyone but those very special people, the bankers at the top and the kings and queens and now filthy rich politicians, industry leaders which have now monoplized and can do anything because our military forces have been hijacked and are actually aiding and abetting in the destruction of their own nations (if you can believe that!).  Glad I did not have kids.

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