the auctioneers being the kindly souls who brought us the credit crunch, spawning summers and geithner along the way, adds a piquant twist to the tale.

wanna be owned by the saudis, or the chinese?

interesting also that they, with all their own story of domestic poverty, are getting the taste for high stakes international gambling on greece's economy, or in this case, not biting.

any one here feel that greece has a chance of pulling out of the red without the streets filling with the disgruntled, to the point nothing can contain their feelings?

what prevision or provision, or any kind of vision have they to counter the twin bogeys of climate change or peak oil?

they could be a solar leading edge euro nation, have they even considered incentives, i wonder?

maybe they're still in national PTSD from the colonels... the pakistan of europe, in that way.

papandreu doesn't seem like a fool, to my ignorant media-eye, but then neither does karzai, lol.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~