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Greece - By The Numbers
Greece is reeling from the effects of the biggest economic crisis in its recent history. Here are 12 statistics, via The Wall Street Journal, underscoring the severity of the crisis now reaching into all aspects of Greek life...
But apart from that, staying in the EU seems to have worked out really well...
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I am still amazed at the WHO report from a few years ago, highlighting the massive increase in self-inficted HIV infections to get more monthly Euro benefits.... when time are tough.. give your self AIDS.
this, an other articles misses the point. of course they are a basket case. the bailouts they are getting from the rest of the EU have nothing to do with debt relief or helping the greek people, its about keeping EU banks afloat. they hold billions in greek debt, and the bailouts keep the interest payments flowing. greek bailouts are nothing more than transfer payments from EU taxpayers to EU banks. No matter what political party gets elected in greece, 'the spice must flow' and money must go through the greek govt to pay interest on their debt, otherwise we have another finacial crisis
Greek AIG?
Greece's population is only 11 million people. Not even 1% of the European population. Greece, or the idea of Greece anyway, goes back to antiquity. For that reason it projects bigger than it really is. Not saying they don't have problems, only that those problems shouldn't be too hard to contain. As ever some will suffer greatly but the overall impact on Europe shouldn't be overstated. The real problem is the degree that Greece's problems reflect the problems (maybe to a lesser degree) in the other EU countries... and the rest of the world.
It ain't the meat its the motion ... only 11MM people but $400B+ in debt. And the European banks hold the debt, (majority might be with the ECB now).
Every time I read your Zero Hedge handle, "Clowns on Acid," I smile!
We Greased some folks
Wallstreet, you need to get up to date. That WHO report was wrong. Now stop being amazed.
http://www.thejournal.ie/greece-hiv-infecting-1192171-Nov2013/
well, they should stop crying a get back to work...
if lithuania could do it, if slovakia could do it, if bulgaria could do it, if poland could do it, if all ex-comunist countries could live through post-comunist economical restructuring, Greece can to, just tell EU to really FUCK OFF and get their house in rder...
this greek song is really starting to bore me...
I am still amazed at the WHO report from a few years ago, highlighting the massive increase in self-inficted HIV infections to get more monthly Euro benefits.... when time are tough.. give your self AIDS.
Does that option have less impact on one's body than selling a kidney to George Soros ? The unofficial Ebay site for blood transfusions and body parts holds a private auction in Davos over this weekend.
I bet you can easily find this WHO report, since Euro countries do not give monthly benefits to HIV infected people.
Does this mean Greace is going to default?
Nope, they'll just finally get that haircut which is long overdue. And then there'll be a little hope for Europe once again...
NOPE, ECB will just print more FIAT currency out of the thin air and the theater will continue until the day the EU printer runs out of ink ...
Historicaly they never paid taxes, so the measures are useless, move on.
You may take their money, you may take their homes, but you will never take their SWEATERS!(cuz they are attached to their backs)
Greeks should start these Siberian butt-booty training clubs for young girls (no shitski)
http://siberiantimes.com/healthandlifestyle/others/news/youve-probably-h...
move along .... nothing to see here.... Its all cool
Put up the nepotism #'s.
Greece is terminal but the EU is still playing the same old game. I don't think there's a good way out for them so it's time to choose the least bad one which will start by leaving the EU and then honestly dealing with their many problems, many of which are institutional.
Dear God, you made many, many poor people.
I realize, of course, that it's no shame to be poor.
But it's no great honor either!
So, what would have been so terrible if I had a small fortune?"
If I were a rich man,
Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum.
All day long I'd biddy biddy bum.
If I were a wealthy man.
As the Man says: "On a long enough time line the survival rate for...... Italy, Spain and France...... drops to ZERO"
On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everything drops to zero. Including the universe!
Here are ten "Universe Happy Endings" for your entertainment. http://listverse.com/2014/04/11/10-theories-on-how-the-universe-will-end/
(not that any of us will be around then, at least in physical form!)
Why the hell do Germans continue to work and pay greeks to sip drinks at a road side cafes all day long.
Because that is what the banksters want the proles to think. Do a bit of research and you will see why your comment is naive to say the least.
GDP numbers and most official numbers are next to worthless given how much of the Greek economy has gone black market and either doesn't show up at all or only in bits and pieces. Greek number of scientists doesn't surprise me at all either. Left for Germany, Australia, US, and the UK.
77 billion in non-performing loans and 70 billion in bank outflows.
Someone got robbed.
It is game over...world wide. bend over and kiss your asses goodbye.
You may believe its game over, but wait another scam is in the making. We could bring them all to the USA and put them on disability.
The germans waiting for a reason to send in the tanks, you just know it!
perhaps we are all thinking in conventional ways...what if debt doesn't matter...what if the value of the dollar doesn't depend on gdp or interest rates...what if it only depends on whether the sheep believe it has value...and thus covet its accumulation...perhaps confidence is the only thing that truly matters. They appear calm to instill calm so long as the herd continues to go about their normal daily lives so to does the illusion continue, but this time their greed went to far...its past the point of return...we have reached the law of diminishing returns...the facade must continue...there is no other answer without huge consequences a reset is not fisable without dire collapse, thats how i see it.
I repeat an insight that I read here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-brown/stock-market-collapse-mor_b_568164.html
Ellen Brown on Goldman Sachs ...
Repeating the view of Greece that:
Greece...the sacrificial play in the EU,
just as Lehman Brothers was in the US.
"The hostage the kidnappers shoot to prove they mean business."
Since the vast majority of people are not willing and able to understand that money is measurement backed by murder, the banksters do that for them, to them. I.e., "Greece was the hostage that the kidnappers executed in order to demonstrate that they were serious." Those "kidnappers" in general being the international banksters, which in the case of Greece were particularly Goldman Sachs, manipulating their Greek political puppets, in order to fool enough of the masses of Greek Muppets to "Party On!"
As this 12 minute long video summarizes,
the Cyprus story was a similar situation:
http://www.vimeo.com/64641714#
Cyprus crisis: The road to the March Eurogroup
The only significant exception was Iceland, which was fortunate enough to be bansktered BEFORE it joined the Euro, and therefore, has recently backed away from joining the European Union. (Iceland also had the advantage that the standard bag of dirty tricks that the CIA types like to play did not work too well in the Icelandic situation.)
The only other country that I am currently aware of putting up some resistance is Hungary. However, overall, the vast majority of people are NOT able to understand the deeper levels of these problems, which are that the banksters are currently the best organized gangsters, able to control governments, in order to operate systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, through which the debt controls are backed by the death controls.
Within the overall established systems, there is practically only controlled opposition, which tends to promote the impossible goals of stopping governments being the biggest form of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals. Therefore, Greece is likely going to be driven through some sort of reactionary revolutions, because the banksters have kicked the shit of out them so blatantly, (although not so specatularly and suddenly as was the case in Iceland.)
Of course, that is happening EVERYWHERE, with some of the relatively best off countries not quite having to face the music yet, the ways that places like Greece and Cyprus already did. The overall problems are that people are so USED to living inside systems of ENFORCED FRAUDS that whatever the hell "reality" might be outside of that is something which they can no longer perceive!
For those who enjoy a good comedy routine, here is a flashback video, whose main point is that ITS QUESTION WAS NEVER ANSWERED:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOzR3UAyXao
World Collapse Explained in 3 Minutes
Wickedly true humour.
"Called laughing why you sink."
That classic comedy bit became painful reality!
Critical analysis of the European Union
demonstrates that it is the USSR again!
Greece is going through the hangover from the banksters' Bubble Party, which hangover is coming to every other country, to whatever level they also participated in those Bubble Parties:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-cl=84359240&v=Q3peAYJSJSg
And, for more macabre comedy "relief:"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p3vCw72Vgg
The ten statistics featured in the article above are the description of the GREEK hangover, after their Bankster's Bash.-1. it pains me to junk such a considerate poster like Radical Marijuana, but the above is a jumble of propagandistic items of dubious value
Cyprus, Greece and Hungary are put on a too simplified plane of victims and perpetrators, here, including the damn Squid's propaganda
Ghordius, I agree that those links were jumbled together, and too simplified, since they were mostly music video parodies, or comedy skits: "Called laughing why you sink."
10% is the actual amount of the 250 billion euro 'bailout' that reached Greek society. The rest went to pay off creditors (such as German and French banks that made bad investments) and interest. True capitalism, I don't think so. That bailout needs to be paid back in full with interest. Win-win for creditors, lose-lose for Greek people. They might be responsible collectively for their own mess but so are the creditors that made bad investment decisions. However, they get a bailout.
http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2015/01/18/where-did-greeces-bailout-mo...
Keep Talking Greece also reports that mobile phone listening devices were found in the vicinity of ND and Syriza party headquarters. Some secret service at work here.
http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2015/01/20/daily-ta-nea-traces-of-mobil...
Greek fail 99.99%