Greek politician from the Popular Orthodoxy Rally Party, Giorgos Karatzaferis, noted in Parliament that the first public suicide since austere measures to save the economy began two years ago has finally struck the conscience of mainstream leadership.

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The spectacle of being shouted down by a Greek chorus of political operatives and their media handmaidens defending the entrenched orthodoxy, who routinely cast their critics as political stooges and tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy theorists, is enough to keep others silent.

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