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Published on The Local.de, Feb 26, 2015:

BILD, Europe’s biggest-selling daily newspaper, on Thursday targeted plans for an extension to Greece’s bailout by asking readers to email in selfies with the paper’s “NEIN” headline. NO! No more billions for the greedy Greeks! the paper declared in its print and online editions. It urged readers to snap a selfie while holding it and email it back to the paper as part of a campaign against further subsidies.  

The paper also prominently quoted earlier promises by top Greek officials that “Germany will get its money back, and with high interest”, adding “No one believes it any more!” People from across Europe reacted angrily on Twitter, with one Greek responding to Bild with a picture of German soldiers executing Soviet partisans during the Second World War … //

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Related Links:

• Yanis Varoufakis interview: Anything’s better than austerity, on Irish Times, by Damian Mac Con Uladh, Feb 26, 2015: Greek finance minister insists deal with troika has not compromised his leftist principles;
• The Greek Debt Interim Agreement, Necessary Step or Sell-Out? on ZNet (first on teleSUR English), by Jack Rasmus, Feb 26, 2015;
• The Alternative in Greece, on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, Feb 26, 2015: as Robert Parenteau noted by e-mail …:
• Merkel faces dissent on Greek bailout among her lawmakers, on Chicago Tribune, by Rainer Buergin and Arne Delfs, Feb 26, 2015;
• Schäuble starts selling Greek deal to MPs, on The Local.de, Feb 25, 2015;
• Greece alone cannot do it; austerity victims of the world, unite, on Intrepid Report, by Ismael Hossein-zadeh, Feb 24, 2015;
• Greece submits reform document in bid to secure bailout extension, on The Guardian, by Ian Traynor in Brussels and Helena Smith in Athens, Feb 24, 2015: Six-page blueprint aimed at appeasing eurozone creditors expected to be endorsed by finance ministers;
• Syriza wins time—and space, on VersoBooks/Blog, by Étienne Balibar and Sandro Mezzadra, Feb 23, 2015;

Other Links:

Insight: West’s offer to rebuild Ukraine faces reality check, on Reuters, by ROBIN EMMOTT and ANNA YUKHANANOV, Feb 26, 2015;

India to negotiate free trade zone with Russia-led Customs Union, on Russia Today RT, Feb 26, 2015;

Ukraine ’starts heavy weapons withdrawal, on BBCnews, Feb 26, 2015;

Bailed-out RBS offers staff ‘outrageous’ bonuses despite £3.5 bn losses in 2014, on Russia Today RT, Feb 26, 2015;

Why corruption in Ukraine ‘must be destroyed, on CNBC, by Holly Ellyatt and Stephen Sedgwick, Feb 26, 2015;

Tireless promoters of temporary foreign workers have fallen silent … Why’s that? on rabble.ca, by DAVID J. CLIMENHAGA, Feb 26, 2015;

ISIS travel guide: UK police remove jihadi manual from web, on Russia Today RT, Feb 26, 2015;

Ukraine Risks Losing IMF Support for Aid If War Escalates, on Bloomberg Business, by Andrew Mayeda, Feb 25, 2015;

Haiti: Carnival Tragedy — U.S., France and Canada Are Accessories to the Crime Wave and Gang Wars, on Global Research.ca (first on Haiti Liberté), by Kim Ives and Thomas Péralte, Feb 25, 2015;

Ebola update, Global vaccination, on Intrepid Report, by John Klyczek, Feb 25, 2015;

From the Black Stack to the Red Stack, on VersoBooks/Blog, by McKenzie Wark, Feb 25, 2015;

Greek Finance Minister Varoufakis: Austerity Has Done Nothing to Solve Greece’s Problems, on Spiegel Online International, Interview conducted by Thomas Hüetlin and Alexander Neubacher, Feb 16, 2015: Greek Finance Minister Giannis Varoufakis has had little luck convincing his EU counterparts that Athens needs a debt cut. He speaks with SPIEGEL about why austerity has failed, how aid conditions are like waterboarding and where the bailout money went …;

International UFO Congress 2015, Full Doc – Dr Steven Greer, 91.14 min, uploaded by Remember Documentary Channel, Dec 22, 2014;

24 Pictures From Around the World That Will Make You Re-Evaluate Your Entire Life, on 4D magazine;

… and this:

• Seven Of Nine/Jeri Ryan: Best Moments in Star Trek Voyager, 15.03 min, uploaded by Caradoc Falcon, Jan 23, 2014 … and other videos in autoplay;
• Star Trek, Klingon, 69.33 min, uploaded by STO Idrona, Aug 2, 2013: This episode is from the 1996 Interactive Movie game “Star Trek: Klingon”;
• Star Trek, Nemesis Deleted Scene, 5.45 min, uploaded by Bethany Hill, May 29, 2012 – Chateau Picard 2267 … and other videos in autoplay.