Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
First of many or isolated event?
Greece
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Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
I'm thinking the same.
It's funny to me that they are basically saying fine we will default.
Think about it. Why would they not? If this is the first of many and will have devastating effects rippling from it, that the world economies could be teetering on edge and many collapse, why not take the plunge?
first of many. fraud is rampant. its well known that american did not re-regulate their banks. theirs all kinds of fraud going on in london too. spain is about to vote in a far left wing government. france is voting in a new right wing party. australia has a housing bubble. chinas got a bubble too i believe. canada has a housing bubble.
i personally like the instability.
i personally like the instability.
soberups
Pees in the brown Koolaid
It doesn't change the fact that they will still be making the rules. Although technically speaking, I think the Russians have about 300 more than we do. But if we count the UK's and France's nukes in with ours it makes it about even. So it looks like the 4 of us will be making the rules.
Greece was never bailed out; it remains a debtor’s prison and the EU won’t let go of the keys - op-ed in The Observer - Yanis Varoufakis
Over the past week, the world’s media have been proclaiming the successful completion of the Greek financial rescue programmemounted in 2010 by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. Headlines celebrated the end of Greece’s bailout, even the termination of austerity. Buoyant...
www.yanisvaroufakis.eu
UnionStrong
Sorry, but I don’t care anymore.
Greece was never bailed out; it remains a debtor’s prison and the EU won’t let go of the keys - op-ed in The Observer - Yanis Varoufakis
Over the past week, the world’s media have been proclaiming the successful completion of the Greek financial rescue programmemounted in 2010 by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. Headlines celebrated the end of Greece’s bailout, even the termination of austerity. Buoyant...
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the Greeks…were all greeks now
UnionStrong
Sorry, but I don’t care anymore.
Speak for yourself there Socrates
From the beginning, the first Eurogroup, it was clear that the troika leaders dominating those meetings were determined to prevent any serious debate on Greece’s ‘program’. I would arrive with a determination to find an honourable compromise on the basis of apt technical proposals the purpose of which was to help the people of Greece breathe again while minimising the costs to our creditors (that dominated the Eurogroup).
In sharp contrast, the troika leaders, and their complicit finance ministers, would stonewall while refusing to discuss my proposals or to counter-propose anything that made financial, political or moral sense. Again and again they demanded our government’s surrender to a neocolonial, austerity, neocolonial program that they themselves, behind closed doors, confessed it had failed!
www.yanisvaroufakis.eu
In sharp contrast, the troika leaders, and their complicit finance ministers, would stonewall while refusing to discuss my proposals or to counter-propose anything that made financial, political or moral sense. Again and again they demanded our government’s surrender to a neocolonial, austerity, neocolonial program that they themselves, behind closed doors, confessed it had failed!
Euroleaks: Why release? And why now? - Yanis Varoufakis
During 2015’s first half, as Greece’s finance minister, I participated in thirteen crucial Eurogroup meetings – before the SYRIZA government (disrespecting the referendum result of 5th July) capitulated. The result of that capitulation was my immediate resignation and a permanent austerity...
www.yanisvaroufakis.eu
Human life is of no concern to corporate capitalists. The suffering of the Greeks, like the suffering of ordinary Americans, is very good for the profit margins of financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs. It was, after all, Goldman Sachs—which shoved subprime mortgages down the throats of families it knew could never pay the loans back, sold the subprime mortgages as investments to pension funds and then bet against them—that orchestrated complex financial agreements with Greece, many of them secret. These agreements doubled the debt Greece owes under derivative deals and allowed the old Greek government to mask its real debt to keep borrowing. And when Greece imploded, Goldman Sachs headed out the door with suitcases full of cash.
We Are All Greeks Now - Truthdig
What is happening in Greece in the name of austerity has already happened to the poor and the working class in the United States. If the global financial elites continue in power, the misery of the Greeks will become our own.
www.truthdig.com
UnionStrong
Sorry, but I don’t care anymore.
Human life is of no concern to corporate capitalists. The suffering of the Greeks, like the suffering of ordinary Americans, is very good for the profit margins of financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs. It was, after all, Goldman Sachs—which shoved subprime mortgages down the throats of families it knew could never pay the loans back, sold the subprime mortgages as investments to pension funds and then bet against them—that orchestrated complex financial agreements with Greece, many of them secret. These agreements doubled the debt Greece owes under derivative deals and allowed the old Greek government to mask its real debt to keep borrowing. And when Greece imploded, Goldman Sachs headed out the door with suitcases full of cash.
We Are All Greeks Now - Truthdig
What is happening in Greece in the name of austerity has already happened to the poor and the working class in the United States. If the global financial elites continue in power, the misery of the Greeks will become our own.
the GreeksAn inspection of the new government’s cast and programme shows that they are aiming for a Latvian solution to our permanent Great Depression: dealing with under-employment via the emigration of even more young people; subjecting the remaining workers to medieval terms and conditions; devastating small businesses whose market share will be taken over by troika-supported multinational oligopolies; using the banking system to launder dark money; surrendering public assets and the property of indebted households to assorted vultures; and leaving the state too impoverished to look after the weak but ever so generous to the strong.
As this naked class war will provoke considerable resistance, I expect the new government to turn viciously authoritarian. Already, New Democracy cadres warn of new draconian laws against dissent. The alliance of neoliberals and post-fascists entering Greek ministries will work together to violate basic civil liberties in the name of … economic liberalism.
www.yanisvaroufakis.eu
As this naked class war will provoke considerable resistance, I expect the new government to turn viciously authoritarian. Already, New Democracy cadres warn of new draconian laws against dissent. The alliance of neoliberals and post-fascists entering Greek ministries will work together to violate basic civil liberties in the name of … economic liberalism.
How Syriza’s capitulations allowed the Greek right to escape the dustbin of history - The New Statesman - Yanis Varoufakis
The left-wing party’s embrace of austerity created the conditions for a parasitic and cruel oligarchy to return The Greek right is back: greedier, uglier and more focused than ever. The incoming New Democracy government is determined to reclaim full control of the state on behalf of the most...
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