Will Portugal Spark the Revolution? (Page 3)

duncan124:
Newspapers also point the finger at Google and choose to mention the end of the Greek National TV station.

RTP 'not comparable with Greek broadcaster' - Minister

BY TPN/ LUSA

Portugal’s deputy and rural development minister, Poiares Maduro, said Wednesday there was no comparison between the closure of the Greece TV broadcaster and its Portuguese equivalent, RTP, which the Portuguese prime minister said was guaranteed until 2014.


“This comparison (…) is not positive for Portugal and is false”, he said regarding the closure of the Greece company that has left 2,700 people out of work. Portuguese state TV has about 2,000 employees.

Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho also said there was no comparison between the two companies and repeated the government’s decision to “proceed with restructuring RTP in general so no more state money would go into the company after 2014” and the public broadcaster “will have to plan on just receiving the audiovisual tax”.

Is the BBC going to be next and if not why not???

duncan124:
Necessary and possible

Vibrant parade culminates in Lisbon campaign PCP

time great and decisive battles

The combative parade that ran on 6th streets of downtown Lisbon marked the end of the campaign PCP "Towards an alternative politics, patriotic and left" that in recent months, helped to consolidate many thousands of Portuguese is the conviction that necessary and possible to build a fairer country, sovereign and developed. The campaign may have ended, but the struggle for such a policy and a government that continues to materialize and has the 27th general strike a key moment. With the Communists in the first line.


“The parade held on the last Thursday in Lisbon, was a highlight of National Campaign "for an alternative policy, patriotic and left",

“ As stated by the Secretary-General of the PCP in the speech delivered at the end of the parade of Lisbon, this "campaign demonstrated that politics patriotic and left for which we fight is not only necessary, as is possible", is indispensable to the realization of this possibility that the struggle of the masses to gain size and strength that they will impose as a solution to the fact that many serious problems and dramas affecting workers, the people and the country, the effect of thirty-seven years of right-wing political practiced by successive governments PS, PSD, CDS.”

duncan124:
The Portuguese state TV has been turned off before.

The effect on the polititians was immense. After the TV was turned back on they disappeared!

What they were saying was inline with the TVs editorial but with out any base in real life.

Clearly the BBC and others are depend on the internet for manageing their ideas of what to say.

duncan124:
UK Inflation increases to 2.7% while Portugese remains at .4%.

So the two economys are diverging.

Without an increase in the interest rates the pound will become less valuable in the highstreet while goods and services will be cheaper in Portugal.

In seven days time the Portugese seem to be going on strike.

duncan124:
I have seen much the same one party state as the BBC and newspapers want before in Liverpool. Then it was the Militant Tendency party.

The main characteristic which made other partys attack the MT was that it refused to pay its debts when told to do so and replied inkind to civil servants who wanted them to work one way or another to help balance other people books.

The two main UK partys main gripes were that the Council had failed to collect rents from council houses.---Much the same theme as recent millionaire council homes in London-- while the Militant Tendency run Council argued and won that it legaly could not collect those rents.

What had upset the MT the most was a lot of fat cats were taking over houses which they did n't own and making themselves quite rich by it. The two main partys had supported the councils move to buy large numbers of empty houses which the owners of could not be found. It was legaly clear that the council could not then charge the high rents Mrs Thatcher herself had demanded the council charge.

High unrealistic prices in the high street because of central Govts policy and some people getting quite rich while others suffer and the same unsackable civil servants continue in their jobs.

...And denial of what has really happen just like some on wireclub today!

duncan124:
Networked threats, a response to the Portugese strikes??

A pattern in behaviour here in the UK seems to follow the Portugese workers I have noticed.

There is a number of reconstructed ' ww2 planes ' on the east coast. Most look like Japanese Zeros. These are owned by a large number of people who are difficult to trace.

Their flying habits are a little odd and cause some doubts but when there is news from Portugal or a strike there is mentioned they follow people who are out walking and obviously pull a sight on you.

All you see is two thin lines of the wings a circle of the engine as the pilot watches you often from a distance. The small dark object is often no bigger then your small finger nail. But in the past they have shot at people walking in the open and followed others walking in trees.

I have noticed small photocopied posters selling a flying circus which uses fake US war biplanes which also operated when the Portugese were first protesting about their austerity Govt.

duncan124:
Today there is a ' General Strike' in Portugal. Some people will be protesting about the Govt and hoping to change things for the better.

What if they succeed and the Govt is stopped?

If portugal came out and said the Austerity programe was wrong what would that mean and do to Cameron and Miliband?

duncan124:
The BBC has n't mentioned it today.

Perhaps it will mention it tommorrow and pretend it is a newspaper?

duncan124:
Portugal Finance Minister resigns.

"Portugal's Finance Minister Vítor Gaspar has tendered his resignation from the coalition government after two years in the position which centred almost solely around the implementation the country's controversial bailout programme.

Albuquerque was proposed by the prime minister, accepted by Portugal's president Cavaco Silva and formally will take office on Tuesday 2nd of July in the Palace of Belém.

Vítor Gaspar was more than just the Minister of Finance as he had been named as prime mminister Pedro Passos Coelho’s number two and was a trusted pair of hands in the big austerity experiment that is close to blowning up in the government’s face."

http://algarvedailynews.com/news/10197-vitor-gaspar-resigns-as-minister-of-finance

... and other newspapers.

duncan124:
" BBC Uk manufacturing growth at a two year high " -----panic at the BBC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23127126

""...the big austerity experiment that is close to blowning up in the government’s face.""

The BBC suddenly tries to put a gloss on economic data that just wont shine, and ends up confusing people about which month they were talking about.

duncan124:
BBC runs out of time to mention the Portuguese Finance Ministers resignation.

It is possible that the BBC can not mention some events in Portugal but to ignore two in a row means they are just not reporting the news they don't wont.

The BBC has no end of fake stories including this one;-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23155533

The Labour Party has forgotten what an elected assembly for England means or the BBC wants to remind people that there is no democracy left.

duncan124:
"I will not resign. I will not abandon my country. I embrace the service to my country with the same dedication and expectation as ever", Passos Coelho told the press at the official residence.

It is still unclear whether Portas' resignation means he personally wants to leave the government or if his Popular Party is leaving the coalition sustaining the government and if they would back the government on any future no-confidence motion.

"We need clarity", Passos Coelho said in his press conference. "It is not just up to me to solve this problem, both (coalition) parties have the job of not letting the country down", he said.

The leader of the main opposition party (Socialists) said that they were "surprised" the prime minister had not stepped down, as the country was in an "intolerable" situation and the "population had to have their word", through general elections.


from The portugal News

duncan124:
As a local Govt TAX was a Liberal Party policy the BBCs report that the Labour Party might be thinking of the same thing could have been a hint that it sees the situation in Portugal as serious.

As the BBC has reported a coaltion Govt in the UK and the stopped reporting any debate between the coalition partys the logic of the Dictator has come to its end and llike an idiot is standing there with nothing to say.

As happened before when William and Harry arrived there seems to be large scale scamming perhaps with a view to the position of the Windsors. Back then it was because the Army and then diseases had decimated large areas and local govt had to change.

duncan124:
Gov't may collapse in 48 hours, 2nd bailout probable - Saxo bank

BY TPN/ LUSA, IN GENERAL · 04-07-2013 00:15:00

The Portuguese government may collapse in the next 48 hours and Portugal will probably have to ask for a second bailout in the next six months, the chief economist of the Danish Saxo Bank said on Wednesday.

"The Portuguese centre-right coalition government is breaking up. We expect the government may collapse in the next 48 hours and new elections will be called", Steen Jakobsen send in a note sent to the markets.

"Portugal may have to ask for a second bailout in the next six months", he added in his note.

Jakobsen also said that the yields on Portuguese sovereign debt at 8% are "unsustainable".

From The Portugal News.

duncan124:
Lisbon ends in the red with political turmoil in the country

The PSI-20 benchmark index closed 1.5% lower Tuesday at 5,530.42 points, after Minister of Finance Vítor Gaspar tendered his resignation and former Treasury secretary Maria Luís Albuquerque took the helm at the all-important ministry. Also before the session’s close, Foreign and State Minister and leader of the junior coalition party Paulo Portas tendered his resignation.

The Portugal News.

The country does not allow the President to continue before the show unacceptable degradation policy and institutional, to be complicit in a government and politics that are driving Portugal and the Portuguese into the abyss - words Jerónimo de Sousa, yesterday, in reaction to the crumbling of the Executive. On the eve, the statement of the Central Committee, which was convened on 30 June and 1 July, had already pointed out the development of the struggle of the workers and other sectors of the population as an essential requirement for affirmation of a break with the direction of economic and social disaster for the country is being pushed.

Avante, front page.

duncan124:
Portugals online media seems to take a ' wait and see ' break at the weekend.

This seems to indicate some sort of connection to Banking.

duncan124:
Petrol and diesal prices rise in Portugal.Portugal news online reports.

"Petrol and diesel prices rose by 1.5 or two cents a litre this Monday in line with an increase in crude oil product costs when purchased in the single European monetary unit.

An industry source said that one of the reasons behind the increase was the fall in the dollar against the euro (partly due to the political crisis in Portugal), making these products more expensive for European consumers.

The Portuguese agency responsible for overseeing pump prices said that the average price of Diesel in Portugal was €1.3568 a litre, up on the price at the beginning of 2013.

Unleaded petrol was being sold at €1.564, a fraction under the €1.568 seen on 1 January."

duncan124:

The country does not allow the President to continue before the show unacceptable degradation policy and institutional, to be complicit in a government and politics that are driving Portugal and the Portuguese into the abyss - words Jerónimo de Sousa, yesterday, in reaction to the crumbling of the Executive.

On the eve, the statement of the Central Committee, which was convened on 30 June and 1 July, had already pointed out the development of the struggle of the workers and other sectors of the population as an essential requirement for affirmation of a break with the direction of economic and social disaster for the country is being pushed.
From Avante front page.

After a round of auditions that lasted for three days, the President shall thereupon communicate the country its approval to remodel governmental collaboration between Pedro Passos Coelho and Paulo Portas. Even if there adjustments. The absence of the convocation of the Council of State, an indispensable step for the dissolution of Parliament, indicates that the President will not use the so-called "atomic bomb".

The two coalition partners of the government led to the Belém Palace guarantees stability and a political solution "comprehensive and solid", two adjectives used by Paulo Portas. In his first statement after the resignation and retreat announced last week, the president of the CDS and also Minister of State for Foreign Affairs was accompanied by a delegation of weight. Nuno Melo, "Vice" party, Nuno Magalhães, parliamentary leader, Asunción and ridges Pedro Mota Soares, the two ministers centrist heard Gates say Cavaco that the value of political stability "is relevant" and that there was "commitment" and " will "bipartisan coalition to proceed.

Without it even the Deputy Prime Minister, the leader of the CDS has already signs of protecting economic coordination, as it advanced last week the Prime Minister. Yesterday, stressed that, together with the completion of the program of economic and financial assistance, it is necessary to focus on growth and employment in the second half that left the current legislature.
From Publico

duncan124:
Poland adopts new measures to boost employment
July 10, 2013

The Polish government adopted a package of measures aimed at increasing employment, including a reform of job agencies and distribution of subsidies for certain vulnerable employee groups, Labor Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said at a press conference after the Cabinet sitting.

The government will alter the rules of financing job agencies so as to reward those which are efficient at helping the jobless find employment, the minister said.
Warsaw voice

duncan124:
Algarve daily news

"Ex-finance minister Vítor Gaspar is to be dragged back to the parliamentary committee investigating the 'swaps' contracts.


Calling the former Minister Vitor Gaspar to the parliamentary committee of inquiry into the swap contracts scandal came on the day that Gaspar's predecessor Teixeira dos Santos reiterated that information on 'Swaps' was indeed handed to the incoming government when he left office.

The committee wants to hear as soon as possible from former Minister Vitor Gaspar regarding the transfer of information between the previous government and the current one about the swap contracts that has left the public purse with €3 billion in liabilities and has necessitated huge payouts already to banks to end the various schemes."

Avante

"If Cavaco Silva wrestle in giving coverage to the current government is complicit in keeping with its policy, workers and populations "are prepared to fight," he warned. "If you think that the months of May and June were hot, the month of July still be more 'anticipated, ensuring that" we are in this fight to win. "

Intolerance: God you love to make long rants. No insult, but everything you talk about is meaningless. Do you think in 500 years time any of this political crap happening in a tiny nothing country will be remembered? And even if some future form of Wikipedia exists, will anyone bother to look it up?

duncan124:
Oh! Intolerance you are feeling guilty!!

duncan124:
"President calls June elections"

Newspapers change their story as different parts of the Presidents story come under pressure.

"The election process should coincide with the end of the financial assistance programme (bailout) next June, he said."

Secondly, the national salvation commitment must involve all three parties that subscribed to the troika memorandum of understanding, "ensuring support to take the decisions that are needed for Portugal to return to the markets in early 2014 and successfully complete the adjustment programme".

Algarve Resident

"An official source from the office of Prime Minister stated that the PUBLIC Passos Coelho is committed in order to obtain agreement by Cavaco Silva

"The prime minister expressed fully committed we could find an agreement with the characteristics that the President enunciated," said the same source.

Nuno Magalhães, the CDS, in a statement to reporters in Parliament, without question, was laconic on the conclusions of the meeting of the executive committee of the CDS held in the early afternoon of Thursday before Paulo Portas go to the Palace of Belém"

Publico

Intolerance: Portugal doesn't matter man, Germany is the powerhouse you have to keep an eye on. They dominate the EU, something happens there and it'll be a big issue. Because remember we're talking about a country with a smaller economy than mexico.

duncan124:
However the President is walking tall and has drawn a line in the sand.


You must remember that the ' swaps' idea includes going to the banks with the Bonds agreement and reaching across the table and rewiting the interest rate or date of repayment.

Or in the case of the President the local ' police ' walk in to the Palace with a handfull of friends and shoot everyone-----a ploy that has been tried several times.

Europes ideas and history is more often made by events in small countries from Greece to Scotland.