“The usually reserved waitress at our favorite Greek-owned Sunday breakfast place approached us in dismay. Her daughter and son-in-law were escaping Greece for the US. Even middle class professionals were finding themselves digging in the garbage for food to eat, she said. Former Greek career diplomat Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos says that the government has hired Blackwater, the American private military firm infamous for its activities in Iraq, which now goes by the name ‘Academi’, along with five other international for-profit security outfits. He says bluntly: ‘The Greek government does not trust the police whose salaries have also been cut.'”
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/132896.html
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