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Greece Deputy PM Warns Of Tanks In The Streets, Mass Suicides, If Second Bailout Voted Down By Greek Parliament
With just days left until the crucial vote on passing the Greek mid-term austerity package, the assured destruction rhetoric used by the Greek status quo has hit fever pitch. Just to make sure the message is not lost on the broader population that Europe's banks will not admit defeat in a vote that could end the kleptocratic cartel's hegemony for ever, Greece's Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos has blasted suggestions that it would be better for his country to abandon the euro and return to the drachma as an "immense stupidity". He didn't stop there. For dramatic impact, the Greek vice PM also said that the country would devolve into complete anarchy, with tanks roaming the streets, a population on the verge of civil war, with mass suicides, just for dramatic impact, should bankers not get their way. More or less in line with the Hank Paulson script that is regurgitated every few years when the Ponzi system is on the verge of imploding yet again.
"Those who say this are extremely stupid. While they may be analysts, university professors or economists, saying that is an immense stupidity," Pangalos told daily Spanish newspaper El Mundo in an interview published Sunday.
Debt-wracked Greece has been told by European peers that it cannot hope to continue receiving aid from a 110-billion-euro rescue package agreed with the EU and the IMF last year without biting budget reforms and privatisations.
The Greek parliament will vote on an austerity package this week but some economists have argued that Athens needs to restructure its debt and leave the euro to become economically competitive again.
"Returning to the drachma would mean that on the following day banks would be surrounded by terrified people trying to withdraw their money, the army would have to protect them with tanks because there would not be enough police," said Pangalos.
"There would be riots everywhere, shops would be empty, some people would throw themselves out the window ... And it would also be a disaster for the entire European economy."
And since we continue to live in bizarro world, the inverse truth is that this is likely a far more accurate description of reality should the mid-term package be voted through in just a few day, although with the country on a general 2 day strike beginning Tuesday, everyone will be able to celebrate with the bankers right in front of the Athens parliament once again.
As for austerity, something tells us Pangalos will be the first casualty should Greece finally truly implement some "leaner" policy measures.
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Not porky's best camera angle.
If all these are facts there's no way Greeks will ever pay back their debt.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2007949/The-Big-Fat-Greek-Gravy-...
Any way what the Greeks are doing is just peanuts to what Goldman & JPM are skimming off from the world.
Just a casual observation, from an untrained eye, but isn't the tank still seated?
The difference between European countries and the US is that we have an armed population. Riots here would take a different meaning and don't think our government is not getting prepared.
http://lonerangersilver.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/living-through-a-curren...
ME thinks Theodoros likes the galactopudico too
much. Maybe he should eat more fat-free
yaorti.
Man....politicians all sound the same.... Ex. Treasury Secretary Paulson.....
Senator James Inhofe has revealed that Henry Paulson was behind the threats of martial law and a new great depression prior to the passage of the bailout bill, having made such warnings during a conference call on September 19, 2008, around two weeks before the legislation was eventually approved by both the Senate and Congress.
On October 2, Democratic Congressman Brad Sherman gave a stunning speech on the House floor during which he decried the fact that, “Many of us were told in private conversations that if we voted against this bill on Monday that the sky would fall, the market would drop two or three thousand points the first day, another couple of thousand the second day, and a few members were even told that there would be martial law in America if we voted no.”
They always say the world will fall apart if you don't give them ultimate power to frack you when and how they want.... Greece seems to be lining up just fine...saying the exact same crap.
Why not just fly in Hank Paulson so he can threaten, tremble, and shake in front fo the cameras warning the world will end unless the Bankers are Bailed out and The People must take the entire loss......Hank is so good maybe he will grab the Nobel Emmy Award.
Seriously, where is that mofo?
Out chasing butterflies. He is actually a renowned lepidopterist, as was Vladimir Nabokov. One was an eloquent genius, the other a Satanist asshole. I'll let you do the math.
The truly twisted irony is that Pangalos is Pangloss in a literary sense. Suicide, then, must be the best of all possible outcomes.
Better dead than wed to the EU?
This is hardly a convincing testimonial for the Mediterranean Diet, fiscal or otherwise.
The Minister is correct about tanks and suicides. The tanks will be for the protection of the reptilian politicians and the mass suicides (hopefully) will be those of politicians. They are only extending the inevitable as well as the length of the rope that will adorn their necks when the people get to them.
Greece: DEFAULT.
Then nuke the predator banksters, who lent you nothing in the first place - they just pressed a few keys on a keyboard and created fiat, fake, fraud, fiction, fantasy, fractional-reserve debt out of nothing. They gave you nothing, so give them back nothing. Up theirs!
The world will not end. Any rational human being can just about guarantee the life of everyone in Greece will be vastly better if you just throw off that fake burden the predators have dumped on you. True, you will need to cut back on government employees, their salaries, their retirement terms (which are absurd). But you need to do that anyway. Better to do that with zero debt.
DEFAULT.
You'll be fine. Don't believe the hysterical banksters. They are intentional self-conscious predators on principle, pure and simple.
The tanks and police won't be protecting banks (which likely deserve to be burned anyway) they will be protecting the politicians (which allowed Greece to get into this mess to begin with)....Oh well...
It's not over until the fat guy has sung.
Wait a while. That first coughing fit will only clear the lungs and splatter the first three rows of those most at risk from his actions.
The rest of the song will go out one of two ways. A successful conclusion or death from Heart Failure during the effort.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt076twzblU
The sky will fall down if you don't give me what I want
Molon Labe.
+1000
'cats and dogs living together...mass hysteria'
I'm personally calling for every person in Greece or elsewhere in Europe who owns a tank to start it up and proceed to make every bank in Europe (and the USA) an air conditioned drive through. Does the European Constitution allow for dragging banksters behind the tanks? Please advise. Thank you
Holy endomorphium, did Pangalos eat the first tranche of the Greek bailout? Or is his "prosperous" look a simple case of late-stage cocaine addiction? Both? What do you imagine would be his motivation to show up at the 11th hour for an ostensibly poison chalice? One supposes a trough is a trough is a trough. And in any event the poison will be consumed by ordinary Greeks, not this orotund apparatchik.
That fat shit in the middle is overstimulated.
His bubble reminds me of Americas... it could pop in any minute and when it does pop, LOOK OUT!!!!!
lol.
Pretty determined to get the money, eh? Just print, boys, just print.
THE WORLD WILL END IF YOU DO NOT DO WHAT WE SAY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4smD0xy6w08
For the record; ex-puppets don't get thrown from windows these days, they mysteriously perish from heart conditions or strokes that were miraculously staved off by their government roles. Looking at his cardio, my money is on a heart attack - although, be aware his warning wasn't to the plebs, it was an unsubtle reminder to whip his fellow voters into line.
Speaking of heart attacks, seems they're getting more common:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2008280/Christopher-Shale-Did-Ca...
Do a roll call of ex-MENA dictators... At least Idi got a retirement package, right? All bets are off with maid service becoming a line in the sand.
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