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Eurogroup Meeting On Cyprus Begins In Brussels
A few moments ago, no bailout proposal in hand, no parliamentary discussion having taken place, and certainly no votes having been cast, the Eurogroup sat down with Cyprus' president Anastasiades, in order to preserve the "democratic" theatrical facade of European decisionmaking. Here, to keep up appearances that Cyprus' opinion is even remotely relevant, Europea's unelected leaders will do what they does best - make a closed door decision affecting the lives of millions of people, which ultimately have one purpose: to preserve the crumbling edifice of the Eurozone project (so carefully preserved in the past few months with superglue, scotch tape and empty promises) and of course the jobs and livelihoods of a few unelected EUrocrats.
A preview of this elaborate song and dance ritual is below from Kathimerini. It will be next followed by an even more elaborate song and dance from the Eurozone finance ministers, which will then finally go back to Cyprus, where a decision will likely have to be reached ahead of the Asian FX market open, or all that late Friday "Cyprus is saved" enthusiasm will evaporate in a GETCO millisecond.
From Kathimerini:
A high-level meeting on Cyprus is about to start in Brussels, chaired by European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, with the participation of the Cypriot government and of the European Commission president, Jose Manuel Barroso, Nicosia confirmed on Sunday afternoon.
A spokesman for the Cypriot government said the meeting would examine the possibility of a deal ahead of the Eurogroup meeting of eurozone finance ministers in the evening, Associated Press reported. Van Rompuy’s chairing of the meeting was also confirmed by a European Council spokesman.
Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and Finance Minister Michalis Sarris lead a Cypriot delegation that left Larnaca in the morning on a special flight that also went through Athens.
Following that session, Anastasiades will meet with Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, and Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, Nicosia announced.
Throughout the day's negotiations in Brussels the council of Cypriot party leaders will be in constant session at the President's office in Nicosia and in communication with the President.
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Good luck!
Ah, who needs Luck when you're Banksters with Politicians in your pocket?
No wonder Banksters with Politicians don't show up till noon on weekdays....it's due to all the work they put in on Sundays.
I kept hearing these Euretards saying something like,
Brussels! The home of the Euretards. Just don’t bother, dudes.
http://www.singledudetravel.com/2012/08/brussels-dont-bother-dudes/
Just don't forget your Orwellian pocket translator, 3rd edition, as any of these stories become "breaking newspeak."
Most people fail to properly translate "Troika", which means "daffodils." Furthermore, "Troika parliamentary discusion" = "picking daffodils" when used as a verb.
Also
"spokesman" = "cheese"
"Monday" = "we're all dead"
"constant session" = "Never been to Spain"
"endorsement" = "careful, man, there's a beverage here."
Beggers.
Choosers.
Two terms often confused, at least in the minds of beggers.
Since in Cyprus, the banking industry is the mainstay of the economy with tourism. To some extent, Cypriot bankers are equal to Cypriot people.
Bankers will never be equal to people. Or dogs, or even cockroaches for that matter.
I'd be prepared to grant them parity with tapeworms. Bankers vs tapeworms is a close call.
I disagree. A tapeworm has a legitimate evolutionary niche whereas banksters are cancers targeting the body politic, a disease that eventually kills the host.
+1 Sir. You raise a very valid point. Kudos to you! (to both of you).
I vote for the mites that live in a dung beetles asshole.
They're the crud that lives under pond scum.
I hope they don't forget to bring the hot coals to drag president Anastasiades across.
And many Cypriots are also Russians - born this way
The EU experiment is pretty much done, it's just a matter of how they defuse this bomb. It's too big to put in the trailerable bomb canister; it has to be disassembled into parts after the detonator gets defused.
The biggest clues once again are cosmic: they signed their Rome Treaty (3/25/57..6:30 pm) with absolute astrological symmetry...clear as a bell they were guided. And it took effect (1/1/58 midnight) with nearly the same design ideals aforethought.
Too bad they created an elegant & delicate Maserati; really needed a Humvee for the off-road experience.
actually the design is modular - more like a kitchen than a maserati
Too bad the pieces of this modular EU don't fit together.
Somebody forgot the glue...
ah, some things are glued together, other stay together because of external pressure - do Cypriots really want to leave the EU and/or the eurozone? how will they vote next time they choose their parliament members?
In every EU/EZ member state, whenever 'somebody' stands up and says "we'd be better off leaving the EU/EZ (or not joining)", the propaganda big guns are wheeled out (including MSM and so-called economists, all sucking on the State's teet) to warn the electorate of how this would isolate the country and destroy the economy etc etc. Even the unelected filth in Brussels chimes in and in the recent example of the debate in Britain, even Obama spouted his view that it would not be right for Britain. The old protocol that one country or external organisation doesn't meddle in the affairs of another has long been abandoned.
The consequence of this barrage of propaganda is that the electorates are very poorly informed and mislead into the actual effects of leaving this fascist EU organisation.
This isn't going to end well.
<unintended double-post>
It's OK....a lot uf unintended things will probably happen today.
hoocoodanode
Or is it?
This is clearly the work of an evil mastermind.
What's your angle? Some kind of plan for world domination?
Is it still a haircut if your brain is showing?
Unlikely that it is a brain which is showing because nobody with a brain would have been keeping money in Cyprus banks since about two years ago.
In microeconomics they call the phenomenon that made people keep money in Cyprus (PIIGS) asymnetry of information. Driven by the MSM, that belongs mostly to the banksters
Until next time,
Engineer
Really? And where is your money now? Cyprus banks are as good as the rest of them, all over the world.
Yeah sort of like Lucy Liu in Kill Bill.
Why am I here on a Sunday.
Only place to get real news, and before it becomes history
The same reason we are all here. To celebrate wonderfullness.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/23/us-usa-stocks-weekahead-idUSBR...
To President: here is envelope of cash and guarantee of your continued wealth. Just do this one little thing for us... or else.
long brown envelopes
Euro Drama Brunch
Almost as entertaining as the Honey Boob
Today I am worse off than yesterday...but it doesn't matter, because I am better off than tomorrow!
That may be the best description of the "new normal" I've ever read.
Raise your hand if your liver has taken a beating since oh, early November or so.
Since "whatever it takes" for me...
My liver was a piece of bad meat in November (after few years of economic recovery) now is just undiscribable piece of something, can I raise my hand?
Absolutely, Brother! All are welcome here.
Excellent! Let's write a book!
I was kind of hoping you would say "how to profit from the collapse of Rome over 2000 years ago...and other past collapses as well" actually.
5th Post of my new blog on Bitcoins.
http://bestbitcoinsites.wordpress.com/
Dude, nobody gives a rats ass if you made your fifth post, or your eight-thousandth post about bitcoins.
Bitcoins are really pissing me off. The posters who hijack threads about bitcoins are the worst. Bitcoins may have a purpose but they are meaningless when the power goes down.
I don't know. I think his 3,000th would read,
"BTC's now worthless because of governments' required self-reporting. Last post."
"in order to preserve the "democratic" theatrical facade of European decisionmaking. Here, to keep up appearances that Cyprus' opinion is even remotely relevant, Europea's unelected leaders will do what they does best - make a closed door decision affecting the lives of millions of people, which ultimately have one purpose: to preserve the crumbling edifice of the Eurozone project (so carefully preserved in the past few months with superglue, scotch tape and empty promises) and of course the jobs and livelihoods of a few unelected EUrocrats."
in light of the fact that whatever comes out of this room has to be voted on in the elected Cypriot parliament and probably afterwards also in the Dutch, German, Finn et al parliaments,
I find this "oh, this is all not democratic there - unelected - closed door" facade quite thin
I repeat, it will be trashed on the floors of several parliaments, starting with the Cypriot one - this is democracy
Let us (troika) hold some guns to your heads (Cypriots), so you can vote democratically on stealing money from depositors and destroying your economy.
can democracies do wrong? yes. can democracies hurt each other? yes.
don't you see the difference between saying that what you are doing is wrong and what you are doing is not democratic?
taken to it's extremes it means bombing scumbags by accusing them of not being democratic
I think I understand your point, but when the Troika shits on the parliments' idea before it is even brought to a vote, that would undermine the democratic process, no?
This Cyprus government and its banksta oligarchs, corrupt and bankrupt, are the very opposite of a democratic government as exemplified by their repeated and ongoing shenanigans; absolute example of a pierced conduit for Russian hot money laundering into Eurozone.
Its time somebody brought this scam to an end; and the Greek situation was also a good example of Squid manipulated greek governments feeding on the Euro teat by government balance sheet manipulation.
The world does not work on pretence for long, ultimately it works on facts and when scam becomes shit hole of Augean stables we need Herculean reset. Simple. A cancer is a cancer...
Of course this is unacceptable to those whose Pax Americana model is BASED on repeated pretence. Troika is half US half EU trying desperately to obtain a reset; and... totally oligarchy matrix.
Toxic head up ass mixture and it needs a good dose of Nemesis...Too late to save the day in fine heroic play.
Perseus and Theseus, like the Argonauts, are all dead and buried in first world.
We are now in the age of assassins of religious cum oligarchy wars. Renaissance chimes and counter reform rumblings.
It looks like it will be a bloody century like the 1500-1600 s with herd slimming in Amerindia conquered world...maybe worse, from our perspective, like the 1300s of herd slimming in first world.
I think that lately you got on high wave, with that drunken feeling of beeing the most refined erudite in the whole world or at least at ZH.
What the hell is this bullshit about "This Cyprus government and its banksta oligarchs, corrupt and bankrupt, are the very opposite of a democratic government as exemplified by their repeated and ongoing shenanigans; absolute example of a pierced conduit for Russian hot money laundering into Eurozone." ? I don't see any facts supporting your high flying ideas except something about Russians with all the info coming from MSM.
"Troika is half US half EU trying desperately to obtain a reset; and... totally oligarchy matrix." what that means? Troika is oligarchy matrix and wants reset? Reset of what?
"Toxic head up ass mixture and it needs a good dose of Nemesis...Too late to save the day in fine heroic play." Sounds good but meaning?
Ok, that's enough, I got headache. Just last question, what the fuck is "1500-1600 Amerindia conquered world"?
lol, american idol is fine.
Depends on how you spell Parliament
If you say it with funk then it sounds different then the way is is spelled.
TfT, this crisis started in June 2012 - you don't mean it has never been discussed, don't you?
Just look on how they voted on Friday, and on what
A forced vote is not democratic, because it turns the principle of reprensentation on it's head. They're not representing the electorate if they're not free to decide on how to vote. That has been the EU tactic everytime a vote/referendum didn't turn out the way the Eurocrats wanted it. Just let the suckers vote again, until they come with the desired outcome.
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"taken to it's extremes it means bombing scumbags by accusing them of not being democratic"
I don't see what this has to do with the current farce. It's false logic. According to that statement, there would be a moral justification to bomb the European comission.
+1787
I've been unsuccessfully explaining to Mr. Ghordius Eurotardian that democracy has been hijacked from the people since the enthronement of our new Pax Americana Empire after WWII ended, but it seems he never got the message.
You don't get a better proof than recent happennings in Greece, Spain, Portugal etc. where "democratic elected parliaments" voted against the will of their enraged electorate that protested out in the streets.
Have you heard of anyone resigning? Anyone held accountable? Where's Corzine and Venizelos?
Oh, have you heard that Barsani was given mandate to try and form a new government? So much for Italian democracy too...
Democracy and fiat money are mutually exclusive.
The world fiat-money system, backed by American military power after WWII, was first used to create a finance-based empire. The US Empire conquered the American Republic in 1964.
After that, democracy in the US quickly became a children's fable. Opium for morons, and a fig leaf for those who are not morons, but who choose not to see.
yours is a blanket criticism of 27 constitutions? you mention for example the way the Italian President is exercising his constitutional duties
Riddle me this, Mr. Legality - did your Belgian MP's ask for electoral opinion before voting to bail out Dexia?
Whom did the Greek parliament consult upon changing electoral rules and granting the winning party nearly 20% of the seats?
Did Frenchemen go out to the polls and cast a ballot to approve tax hikes?
What about Spain, did protesters on the street impose austerity measures on themselves while letting government's spending rise in same tact as previously?
And please to remember the Greek President who had the termity to *suggest* that the people actually vote on whether or not they wanted to stay in the Eurozone - he was replaced by a Eurocrat in like two weeks? The Greeks, the sorrowing Greeks who have a claim on inventing democracy, watched it die before their very eyes. The only Democratic country to pop its head up the last few years has been Iceland.
But Ghordius must get his nome de plume from the Gordian Knot:
The Gordian Knot is a legend of Phrygian Gordium associated with Alexander the Great. It is often used as a metaphor for an intractable problem (disentangling an "impossible" knot) solved easily by cheating or "thinking outside the box" ("cutting the Gordian knot").
To call the Eurozone Eurocrats a 'democracy' is cheating AND thinking outside the box (of logic). To call the 'discussions' they are having with the Cypriot leadership 'democracy' is, to be polite, a very confused view. If I put a gun to your head Ghordius, and say 'Vote the way I demand or I shoot', do you think the fact you get to vote makes it democratic?
legality and legitimacy are indeed Gordian knots - and there lies the rub
look at the properly constituted sovereign republics of Finnland, Cyprus, et al in this spat. they are using diplomacy for a deal involving all authorizing tax-payer money to be used for a bank bailout, and this deal might be made legal by the parliaments of those nations, who are legitimized by the fact that they were elected to tasks of this magnitude by their peoples
laws of nations, democratic processes, according to various constitutions
either you respect the above or you are on the path of asking for constitutional amendments to those nations while still respecting the above or
you can't moan about "unelected" and "undemocratic" in your diatribes about how little you like those deals without being false and disingenuos, as the author of this article is doing
of course, laws of nations don't count if you are a "globalist"/imperialist, but then don't moan if drones don't respect your national borders, then they follow only your mindset
Sorry to cut your beautifully tied knot again, but you already know it's in my genes and I can't help it... besides, there's a lot of crap coming out of you today.
None of EU's member-states are sovereign. They have one Soviet-style Commission consisted of corporate-owned bureaucrats to rule them all. Lest you're sclerotic, you surely know those rules stretch from a banal directive of a cucumber's dimensions to more systemic issues like what is this year's extortion fee that peasants have to pay to their Brussels masters.
Let me ask you again - if Cyprus, Greece, Portugal or Ireland were sovereign countries, what was it that prevented them from simply defecting, a.k.a. pulling an Iceland?
to your question, my answer: the political will to do so - indeed, I just read that the president of the Cypriot parliament and leader of the opposition to the president approves the deal - now let's watch on this Monday if the Cypriot people on the street will protest or not
btw, interesting commentary on the Cyprus Mail http://www.cyprus-mail.com/opinions/our-view-we-ve-paid-ultimate-price-a...
where were "forced" votes? In the Cypriot parliament?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjkMh0tKCZo
Democracy literally means the rule of people. However, how many times have we witnessed that politicans promise something in the election campaign and break the promises after getting elected. The rule of parliament and democracy (the rule of people) are not the same thing.
Politicians' broken promises:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiIlwqSfbL4
(1 minute - closing slide: "And they wonder why nobody trusts politicians")
Just to clarify...They are unelected blood sucking parasites in case the article was not clear.
Ticks & Leeches
This is a quite thin facade as well (from the reuters article I linked above).
"The worry "is the psychological knock-on effect of the credible possibility of some (country) saying ‘Cyprus got out, now they are on their own, they devalued their currency, they don't have to go through austerity'," said Art Hogan, managing director at Lazard Capital Markets in New York."
it goes on..
"Assuming Cyprus's troubles are solved, investors will turn their attention to economic data due during the holiday-shortened week, with equity markets closed on Friday for the Good Friday holiday".
What a mess of ass backwards propoganda. Cyprus must be forced into staying in a union even if they decide they want out....and as long as they are forced to stay in, we can all just assume their troubles are solved, and move on to the all important seasonally adjusted gorilla farts numbers expected out on Tuesday,......
Ghordius............Do you think OPEC would like to sell oil with EURO's vs Dollars?
Would OPEC have more 'puchasing power' using a 'petro euro' vs 'petro dollar'?
Saddam Hussein did
OPEC (Saudi's) is/are btw a rock and a hard place.........secretly or behind closed doors, they prefer the EURO to the Dollar..........but the EURO as a currency has no standing army
I think that was a while ago. It never went anywhere because even the Saudi Royal Family is smart enough to know that they need a military sponsor, which Eurpoeans will never be.
The people talking to the Saudis behind those closed door lately come from a lot farther east.
Euro supporter supporting Sadam? How many nuclear reactors does he have now? Darn French!
The Euro is going out the same way Sadam did, slowing dying by choking to death.
eh? I was stating a fact
So is the Dollar....just sayin
But is it truely democracy when they agree in secret to cut-off peoples access to thier money while they debate how much of it they need to take or is that more like blackmail?
Democracy would be what would happen if the people were allowed to vote on it, right?
Beyond democracy there is the issue of rights - can people vote to take other peoples property?
Potentially you have elected an unelected officials voting to take peoples money to propup an insolvent system to preserve thier own wealth and power - is that really democracy?
+1 an action done on the authority of the gov of the Cypriot CB and endorsed by the elected president of Cyprus
and note it was not criticized neither in parliament nor on the streets in this detail alone
you think that the mob rule is democracy. no, it is not. mob rule is mob rule. the majority cannot fleece anyone even if the popular vote turns out to be in favor of it.
These bureaucrats a very dangerous - they have such a sense of entitlement and empowerment. They believe that anything they do is justfied because they went to all the right schools and know all the right pepeople and after all they are doing it for the good of the people and of Europe history will prove them right.
The situation is a few orders of magnitude worse in the us. At least you have some insight into what is going on because of the diverse parties involved. In the us thier is a complete information blackout (the mass media chooses to play along and not even a Tyler can see through the secrecy leaving us to guess at what is going on) and there is essentially open disregard for the people and the laws.
Are you serious? Do you pay taxes?
Acts of Appropriations
That is an important issue in itself, but I think obsconding with peoples funds is different from passing a law which takes a cut of future income or even property.
Not everything is the same bad or good.
Well, that's a good point.
I regard all taxation as theft, so I missed the distiction between more-formalized-and-legalized theft, and totally-arbitrary-oh-fuck-let's-grab-any-damn-thing theft.
Yes there is a line to be drawn.
The problem is there is apparently precedent for this.
The upside is that they have exposed thier true nature - bad as it is.
I think the ZH description of how the EU operates is good.
These meetings are called by unelected EU-crats, to discuss an agenda drawn up by unelected EU-crats (which is based upon a set of options which suit their agendas). Decisions taken at these meetings are handed to member state reps who are expected to go home and implement them.
The people of the member states rarely get a look-in. And if they do get a vote (or referendum), if they vote wrongly, they are ordered to vote again. Rinse and repeat until the right outcome is achieved to suit the EU-crat elites.
This is rule by an unelected autocracy and it is exactly why so many Brits are up in arms about it.
I have often described what's happened in the EU as a coup d'état by a mish-mash of old commies, 21st century fascists and other assorted heads of the giant socialist snake. Because that is what it is.
People like yourself would be better convinced of how it operates if there existed a hierarchical organisation chart which showed the reporting lines (and therefore the power groupings) of the EU.
"and they call it the euro." seems a rather odd to way to "conquer" actually. seems an awful lot like a taking...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDqJmYJ2ol4
NCAA is much more interesting and exciting than this BS.
why wasn't Farage invited?
Jim Sinclair the narcissistic shill believes that gold is ready to go to $3000.
Izabella Kaminska the intelligent expert believes that the gold bubble has burst.
Since Izzy is not an old coot and has bigger boobs, I think she is correct. Gold to ZERO by the end of month!
Fine, then I can finally afford all the jewelry my wife want's.
+1000000
You are correct..........the PAPER price will go to ZERO
because there ain't no paper no mo...
Izabella Kaminska doesn't even understand how the forward market works. She seems to have zero experience in actual gold trading.
Can you contribute to a thread without badmouthing gold? Especially one attached to an article that says nothing whatsoever about gold?
Hey, take it easy on the little animal.
He's just trying to make a living.
By helping to direct his fellow men into the slaughter-chute.
Kaminska lays it out here: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/03/15/1424472/a-new-era-for-gold/?
(registration required)
According to the boobed one:
* without central bank demand, gold would slump in price
* the US economy is improving, strengthening the dollar, therefore "it’s ever harder to justify a role for gold."
Keen insights there, jolly good. As to *why* central banks are buying gold and won't be stopping soon, well, that doesn't get a mention (can't be important then, can it).
to repair the West's balance sheets, all is needed is a revaluation of that one asset (gold) to match liabilities (entitlements).
we are all narcissistic shills, otherwise you wouldn't be posting drivel and i wouldn't be responding to it.
therefore, Izzy is also a narcissistic shill, even if she's ignorant about it or refuses to be honest about it.
she represents a point of view opposed to seeing the price of gold go parabolic.
that's all fine though.
allows us all to buy more at cheaper prices.
"we are all narcissistic shills, otherwise you wouldn't be posting drivel and i wouldn't be responding to it. "
So funny. So true.
Well, when the MSM's drivel becomes a total bullshit fest, one must find other sources of drivel.
Place your bets.
Shit, I can't wait for the markets to open so that I can divest!
Why is the Troika not discussing the derivative and off balance sheet counterparty exposure of Cyprus that is subordinate to most all banker obligations? Because banker property is being protected by raiding private property.
Ekathimerini.com says that the ECB declared bankrupt banks cannot be funded. Nonsense. The Federal Reserve and FDIC do so all the time in the US.
Put the banks in bankruptcy, erase subordinated debt and derivative exposure. Stop the nonsense of secrecy for what should be out in the open. Otherwise, democracy and human rights are at risk.
There are few bondholders in cyprus so hence why they are going after deposits. few bondholders equals few bond insurance policiies (derivatives). Minimal derivatives (whatever minimal means these days)
Much of those deposits were invested in Greek bonds, that do have derivative exposure. Derivative exposure is driving every funding decision in Europe and the US.
They are going to take Money from people with more than 100K in deposits which means they are finally moving up the food chain. Things must be incredibly bad...incredibly bad...in fact most likely worse than anyone can imagine.
Wait..let me imagine...the Greeks own you a shit ton of money...you are never getting it back.....not even close...and wait now not even the interest can be paid. Think about that...things are really fucking bad.
Hundreds of Billions of dollars bad...and all that Spanish real estate that was backing all those loans...it's ALL gone...fuck me...To quote George Bush: "This sucker might go down." At least he was honest about something.
Put on this background music and the Eurogroup meetings start to make more sense:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D5Sa2Yq-2g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y6K-2Ptptw
Why not go with the whole show--it's certainly appropriate, Monty Hall and his costume party:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKR6dNDvHYQ
+1 because as I am listening to this music, I am picturing the whole eu-parliament in the little outfit with the toutous running around like morons under the big tent.
Since this is a EU production don't forget the volkswagon beetle and its inhabitants.
tragicomedy or farce? the system is beyond repair IMHO and yet Marios, Bens, Angelas etc. have found ways to further destroy the system while convincing most that the system is patched up and good to go. will this be another round of same? i am sure it will be. so sad. closed door decision is not same as the impact of that invisible hand - now never to be seen...ever ;)
has anyone seriously thought through pros and cons of both socialism and capitalism and why capitalistic invisible hand had an upper hand late last century and why that same invisible hand is way too outdated or too costly?
"has anyone seriously thought through pros and cons of both socialism and capitalism and why capitalistic invisible hand had an upper hand late last century and why that same invisible hand is way too outdated or too costly?"
Conventional capitalism evolved to exploit a debt=money fractional reserve banking system which depends upon perpetual exponentional growth in output which in turn depends on the cost of energy falling in real terms. When the cost of energy was falling in real terms the capitalist system easily had the upper hand over communism which is a system designed to allocate existing resources, not grow new ones. If the invisible hand were to be allowed to do its job then capitalism would continue to have the upper hand, by evolving to something which is better adapted to a world where the real cost of energy is rising. Unfortunately governments are controlling the invisible hand to the extent that it is unable to work, for example by preserving the world's bankrupt banks, which was the root cause of the Japanese lost generation. I believe we are moving into a period when conventional capitalism will be derided and we will all be governed by a form of communism, albeit with a new name. For a much more detailed consideration of this problem see http://www.zerohedge.com/news/project-armageddon-tullett-prebon-thinks-u... and http://tullettprebonresearch.com/2013/01/21/perfect-storm-report-now-liv...
How do you define crisis?
To me, it would be an unforseen situation of extraordinay circumstances that would require a novel solution that results in a new status quo, one protected from a future crisis of the same type.
Yet, the solution to the financial crisis is always the same: more debt issued and capital seized. Worse, it always results in greater austerity, crippling the ability of an economy to function, therefore guaranteeing a continuing crisis.
As it is always the same leaders, providing the same solutions, perhaps the People might want to question, nay demand a different solution- guaranteeing a different result? If your leaders are dead set on enslaving you, why are they your leaders? Do you want to be enslaved?
As long as the People continue to play the banker's game, with the banker's equipment, on the banker's field, by the banker's rules: how can you expect to win the game?
If we allow currency to be the only means to conduct trade, we must either have a neutral currency or the freedom to chose a currency of our liking AT ANY TIME! Since we can control the language of the contract, we should be able to value it as we see fit. For if modern life is to have any value whatsoever, it must be based on personal liberty. Demand the freedom to choose, end legal tender laws. End CB control of the banking sector. End barriers to entry.
The People may choose to remain in the current system, they may treasure slavery over freedom, the safety of being guaranteed a standard of living that promises something, rather than nothing. Until we have the ability to make these choices as individuals, we should be at war with our would be owners.
Cyprus, America, China, it matters not. Your real votes are made with currency. We need to make them count.
Bravo! Well written Sir!
whoo, hold everything
austerity slows the economy
ah, but what isn't addressed in your comment is the freeloaders and government layers of b.s.
this is the result overttaxation and a lack of checks and balances, crony politics and payolla scams.
budgets based on tax RECEIPTS(5 year rolling average) only, and approved by majority elected leaders with 2 term limits and campain donation limits of $100/per entity.
an entity being an individual or corporation only.
until the funding of governmet is limited by law /constitution this will NEVER be corrected...
Are you so naive, you think that politicians and government function independently of the bankers? Do you really think that YOU have some effect on the type of legislation being passed? Worse, if your government is captive of special interests, how do you expect to control or influence it?
The government exists to be a front for the Elites. They give us the vote, because they know it has zero effect on how the State will function. Thus, we blame the government and the politicians, rather than the ones operating it for their profit.
The organizing function of all governments is control and by definition, control can NEVER be limited. This is why we have the governments we have.
It is requisite upon us all to QUESTION our environment and compare what we are TOLD with what is REALITY. There are plenty of paid EXPERTS in every field that will attempt to convince us of the Elite's perogatives- they are captive intellectuals. WE must challenge their assertions through observation and testing. Theory and result must match to be valid.
OK, here's a thought-experiment for you.
Let's say we have the power to create any amount of fiat money and spend it how we please, with no oversight.
I give you the task of, within 30 years, bringing the US political establishment completely under our control -- without spending a fiat dime on campaign contributions.
Can you do it?
Re: Currency Choice...Sure, we should be able to do that. But TPTB are smart, and they know exactly what you are referring to, and they know it strips them of their monopoly, which is why there are laws to prevent you from doing just that.
and the fact that we do so much business with a card (of any flavor) even gives them more control.
So, we should just give up? Are we so asset poor that we cannot conclude a trade in another value instrument?
In order for law to be effective, it requires the acceptance of the people. When the people refuse to obey the law, in significant numbers, the law ceases to have any effect. For example, prohibitions on alcohol or homosexuality.
We are the great masses, we are the consumers and the producers. This gives us great power, if we are only slightly organized and determined.
Hey Guys/Gals you are describing Argentina, where people despote beibg given 30% discounts if they pay wuth credit cards they still prefer to pay more and remain anonymous. The government has been forcing stores to write down peoples data if they buy more thab 125 dollars of merchandize. But guess what, they dont check ids so people lie. Civil disobedience is normak course of business in Argentina...
Until next time,
Engineer
"If we are only slightly organized and determined"
For three years I have been looking for a person who might have the capacity to organize and inspire determination. I think I may have found him. But in case I am wrong you should be looking too.
it is not "austerity" to stop spending money that you don't have on things that produce no value, hence the constant analogy to "spending like drunken sailors".
the correct term is "prevention of pathological kleptomania".
to carry on spending money that you don't have, and can't possibly pay back, is "stealing".
20% x 5 years = 100%
With Rule of 72...Actually less.. 72/20 = 3.6
This is all irrelevent. The cat is out of the bag, bank runs to follow whatever the outcome.
If you hold any savings in a bank from here on out, you are mad, and (almost) deserve what is coming.
Cyprus is history, anyone in any other country, not just in the Euro, should be 'getting the hell out of dodge'.
Cyprus is the test run for Italy, Spain, and the next global meltdown.
Instead of stealing your savings by inflating the prices of energy and food, which - surprise, surprise - don't get included in consumer price indices, the fuckers are going to steal your savings directly. That's much more efficient.
Does big money destroy common sense? Or is it too much sunshine and sand? Is everyone in Europe in a meeting to divvy up Cyprus? For once I would like to see a bank fail and have their off balance book of derivatives exposed....nope...have to keep those hidden..from EVERYONE.
Jose and Herman were supposed to be winging their way to Japan today to meet with the new Japanese government tomorrow. How embarrassing for them that they had to cancel. Imagine if the US Potus had to cancel an important meeting with a foreign leader because Detroit went bankrupt! My guess is by next year Jose and Herman will only be able to meet with some low level functionaries from the Dutch or Portugese embassies in Japan after the EU blows up.
Simple solution, pay your Visa card with your zero interest Mastercard (ECB), and zero interest American Express (Bernanke bucks via the IMF). It works for a period of time as long as the rate is zero, once it becomes not zero, well...... it also assumes you dont run your Visa up again....
Not scotch tape! Duct tape!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjnC9Jmo_6o
I have every belief that the Europera will once again play out like every other act in a we saved the EU once again ramp job come Monday morning. Count on it...
Ok, that'll be a case of champagne, a couple of tins of caviar, several hookers and a shower.
We'll just slip the tab into the haircut.
Let the negotiations begin!
Scotch tape??? If they haven't pulled out the duct tape by now all hope is lost.
"A high-level meeting on Cyprus is about to start in Brussels, chaired by European Council President Herman Van Rompuy ... ..."
Hells's teeth!
Getting The Garden Gnome to chair a meeting has to be a joke. The guy's a fully paid up member of the 'buffoon brigade'.
If a deal isn't done soon, there will be blood on "the Street" tomorrow. I'm talking DOW -50! Followed by a 2:45 rumor of a Cyprus bailout from Mongolia, a 3:15 algo ramp up, a DOW +80 close and a Bob Pisani orgasm.
Someone should start a rumor that the Cypriot PM is bringing the Finance Minister of Iceland to the meeting with him. Just his presence will send them into apoplexy!
Better get him to Brussels before they announce it. I'm sure he wouldn't want his plane to accidently explode over the North Atlantic.
thanks for link. if this crap is sitting in Italy too...well, let's just say it really does make one wonder what Trichet was thinking when he was raising rates only to lower them soon thereafter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Tre
You are forgeting the as needed POMO interventions to keep the market up. Until some revolt in the House or the Senate sets an upper limit to the size of the Fed balane sheet, there is no hope. And that will take a major crisis.
What nobody is taking about is what will happen to all the projects that get started at the lowest ever discount rate for capital that will stop making economic sense as soon as interest rates go up... Armaggedon ... Thus FOMC knows they con not stop POMO in our lifetime...
Until next time,
Engineer
Champagne flowing like water...moar 7 course dinners...keep it coming!
Iceland should send, or Cyprus invite, a special delegation of Icelandic politicians to discuss and explain the "Icelandic" option to the people of Cyprus.