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Washington Unable To Mind Own Business: Urges Greece, EU "Tone Down Rhetoric"
In its role as global hall monitor, Washington appears to have jabbed its nose into the Greece-EU talks:
- *LEW SPOKE WITH SAPIN, DIJSSELBLOEM, VAROUFAKIS TODAY: OFFICIAL
- *U.S. URGES SIDES IN GREEK TALKS TO TONE DOWN RHETORIC: OFFICIAL
Treasury Secretary Lew "urges compromise" and explains he is in touch with Eurogroup, IMF, and Greece putting the onus back on Varoufakis' shoulders by urging them to reach a deal of face additional hardhsip.
As Bloomberg reports,
The U.S. is stepping up efforts to encourage Greece and its European creditors to reach an agreement that would prevent the euro area’s economy from weakening further, according to a U.S. Treasury official.
Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew talked today with Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, French Finance Minister Michel Sapin and Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who chairs meetings of the 19 euro-area finance ministers, the official told reporters during a briefing in Washington on condition of anonymity.
The U.S. wants to see both sides tone down the rhetoric and reach a pragmatic compromise, the official said. The talks are at an impasse as Greece and other euro-area countries debate terms to extend a bailout from the European Central Bank and European Commission that expires at the end of February. Greece also has a loan program with the International Monetary Fund that ends in March 2016.
The stalemate has renewed concern that Greece may abandon the euro, setting off shock waves throughout the currency zone and beyond. The Treasury official said Lew has also spoken to his German counterparts and officials at the European Commission and the IMF.
Germany left the door open to an agreement on Greece’s bailout funding as officials prepare their negotiating positions going into a meeting of finance ministers in Brussels Friday.
The latest round of calls follows a conversation on Wednesday between Lew and Varoufakis. Lew urged Greece to reach a deal with its international creditors or face additional hardship and encouraged Greece to find a constructive path forward in its partnership with Europe, according to a Treasury Department readout of a call between the two officials.
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Which is odd because the funny looking man (we think it was a man) on TV just told us that this was a storm in an Ouzo glass? Funny that the US Treasury Secretary would get involved if that was the case.
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Pot meet kettle? Too rayciss?
Quiet down over there you socialist idiots, we're having a leveraged fiat party over here and can't hear ourselves print.
So they mean no rhetoric like Hank Paulson saying that without TARP there would be "civil unrest and martial law"...... that kind of rhetoric ????????
GOT IT !!!!
Greece is now to be sacrificed on the altar of worldwide financial stability.
Makes you wonder just who will lose more, perhaps Uncle Sam in some weird swap arrangement with eurobanks that kind of explode after Greece says bye, bye we're off and taking our ball with us; p.s. thanks for all the fish.
It's rather simple to understand, if Greece defaults, this will be Lehman Bros. tripled.
I agree Latina, there is no reason for the government banker - Oh I mean Treasury Secretary - to squawk unless something BIG is up.
Lew: "Now listen, Varoufakis, and listen good... Having the Dow above 18,000 is how we con the brain-dead US sheeple into believing the economy is strong. Who do you think you are to put that at risk?!! Bend over and cut a deal! Take a page from our book: Get a new deal where the "Troika" is no longer known by that name. Triumphantly announce that the Troika aren't going to tell you what to do anymore and it's a brand new day of hope and change. That should last you until 2016 when the Man Child will be gone and a stock market crash can be blamed on Bush. GOT IT???"
Chosenites counterfeit themselves all the money they want for nothing, then they tax us. Most successful criminal spree in the history of the universe, now going on three thousand years.
Agreed Latina Lover (you're a credit to ZH by the way).
Can I just add a message to Jacob?
OK (clears throat): "Shut up you Lew!"
in closing, I'd like to add: Fuck the Zionist Fed and their usury plans for the world.
Listen... It's only electrons and paper to the Fed. So if your goal is to own the world the easiest way is to do it is buy all of the worlds central banks by bailing them out against the backdrop of a rising dollar.
Think about it.
Unless Varoufakis is Varoufaking the threat to Grexit the EU I fully expect the brains behind ISIS are now busy working up a plan to take out the Tsipras administration and a synagogue in Athens.
Just sayin'...
If you don't come up with a deal, the spx will hit 2200 and if you do come up with a deal the spx will hit 2500! So get with the program and compromise
Time for some "Arm TWISTIN!!!"
Twisting?
My guess is that they are going to rip some freaking arms off in effort to save their global bankster system...
Union buster Jack Lew is probably on his way out, so he wants some publicity before he decamps to a big bank like HSBC.
FUCK LEW!!!!
^ 18trillion and counting
Yeah!!!
"urging them to reach a deal of face additional hardhsip"
amazing, the US with the endless printer telling greece to take another hit. man the russian swift is probably looking pretty good to the greece now.
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Monkey meet cauldron? Too rhesus!
It would be a pleasure to see Varoufakis headbutt Jack Lew. Or maybe that's just me.
Hopefully GoPro is on it.
It might bend and twist...markets.
Bet Dr. V pulls a Vulcan Mind Meld/grip on Lew...watch the hands for the mind bend...or maybe Dr. V has the Voice (Dune).
guess the imf is their business
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That's right, Mister Kittycat, and don't you forget it. Otherwise, something .... unfortunate ... might happen to your economy and bank accounts.
which economy is that...i'd be ecstatic to see the decapitation of the imf?
Yeah, I thought so.
Somehow it didn't take long at all after I mentioned those bulk bin Kitty Crunchies from Aldi.
A begrudging +1.
Makes me wonder if Greece is stalling - all the while - in the back room they are lining up programs with Russia and China.
If Greeks were smart they would have the Drachma at the ready for "the day after" (damn, that movie again...)
such a cold comment!
Need to find somebody at De La Rue to spill the beans. It took them 6 months to print the new South Sudanese currency. So if greece want's some new Drachmas, they may have already been printed, or perhaps look for a Grexit 6 months from tomorrow.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/supportservices/8907868/...
http://www.delarue.com/
would be a win win. fuck the eu and china/russia
OK, that does it! No more canned food for a month, just the el cheapo Kitty Crunchies from the bulk bin at Aldi.
And forget about trying to open the canned food yourself. It requires opposable thumbs. Hahahaha!
that would be knowledge known ie. nsa
unless negotiations were done via person to person in the middle of nowwhere which could be tracked.
hmmm, kinda gets back to our privacy...
If it exposes the current sociopatic bastards controlling the west, I am in.
I get butterflies in my stomach when you say things like that
So, maybe Jacob hopes to change his name to Israel after wrestling with the Central Banks?
"Washington appears to have jabbed its nose..."
One thing is for sure. Washington is full of [jabbing] noses.
We jabbed some Greek folks...
He's a Lew & he's here 2 help!
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The PPT must be really blowing thru their budget right now.
What budget? It looks like a free spin from here.
clincher Lew.
done. ?
Ouzo? No, my friend, this is a nice tall glass of SHUT THE FUCK UP. Drink deep.
Fuck Lew (metaphorically speaking) ! He's just a dumb midget.
I would like to be the Rhetoric CZAR and drone tha sh*t outta anyone getting too Rhetoricy.
Sapin, Spain.... who cares.
So, uh hum, let me see if i got this straight..we are 18 TRILLION dollars in debt. Excellerating at an almost exponential rate. And WE HAVE THE BALLS? surreal--
There is no sannity clause"- marx bros.
will the expanding -at an accelerating rate - universe end in a big crunch?
a black hole most likely
The US certainly does not want a breakup of the EU now. Transatlantic Treaty is coming, they want to net as many as possible with that one.
"Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew" AKA Asshole!
Another on a very long list that needs to shut the fuck up and do the world a favor...Assume room temperature!
"Washington Unable To Mind Own Business: Urges Greece, EU "Tone Down Rhetoric"
But then when one considers that the DC US is Zion, and Zion's banksters', wardog?!
The banksters need to repay us.
MOAR stealing from U.S. taxpayers, to fund Greece.
Must preserve the NATO "War Machine".
Uncle Sam: "OK you guys, tone it down some. You're distracting from my 3-D Russian Invasion and Conquest of Europe® narrative. Seriously."
Unnamed US Government Official* whispers something to Uncle Sam.
Uncle Sam: "Uhhhh... hey Greece? EU? Juuuuuuust kidding. You're putting on a great show. Keep it up. Seriously."
*Yeah, that one guy, you know who I mean. Yeah...
Are you vetting me? ;-)
Correction: MOAR stealing from U.S. taxpayers to recapitalize German banks through the Greece bailout.
Fuck off you power mad pricks. Only interested in war
You stupid meddling Americans.
I keep saying this over and over.
SpanishGoop,
Only 50% of Americans are stupid; the problem is that is the stupid half that runs the country. The rest of us saw this mess coming from way off but could not stop this train wreck.
i can't get it right to quote exactly, but i think close enough - something that i saw here a few years ago, and i literally got tears in my eyes.
'by definition, 50% of the people are below average intelligence. so all it takes is one candidate with an idea that the stupid people can grasp, and one guy having a bad day, and you are elected. that's the american president'.
What a mess
Gobble your own "Goop" !
Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis · Feb 18
US Treasury Sec did indeed tell me that nonagreement would damage Greece. He added that it would also damage Europe. Advice to both sides!
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In case you're wondering which lobby the guy belongs to, check wikipedia:
'Lew is an Orthodox Jew who observes the Jewish Sabbath and has attended Beth Sholom Congregation in Potomac, Maryland, Kesher Israel Congregation in Washington, D.C. and the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in the Bronx, New York... A 2011 press release from the Religion News Service noted that Lew also "has extensive connections in the American Jewish community," and that he might be able to help President Obama "build a more friendly rapport" with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.'
A ZioZombie! Run!
But I still think he puts the interests of the ordinary American goym first. /sarc
i was working in nyc with a young lady of paid education. up on the socio-economic scale.
her father and brother were attorneys, her father was also a nyc small claims court judge.
they were in total uproar and disownership mode because another brother was thinking about marrying a christian.
now - let me ask you, brothers and sisters, cousins and family.
if i, a goy was to appear before this man, in a claim against a jewish person, well? do i really?
i already KNOW what they think, believe, act on.
but - maybe they were an exceptionally bad example.
Seriously?
I can think of around 18T+ reasons Lew is in no position to give other countries advice.
Lew: Let's all work together and kick the can down the road.
This system operates at maximal efficients when it comes to kicking the can down the road.
and so on ...
i agree, all isms are cold temporal prisms and
light has always source-defined our content, limits, boundaries,
language and prisons. prisons of prisms, enlightening ....,
yet the mind has an insatiable appetite for everything,
as,
(the cat killer), curiosity. i never cared for cats
too much, not to the point of extinguishing curiousity.
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so, i found this link on zero h.. apologies to the
hedger whose avatar, here, goes UN-recited.
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http://www.globaldeflationnews.com/the-global-minotaur-a-global-finance-...
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The Global Minotaur – a global finance metaphor by the new Greek Finance Minister, Yanis Varoufakis
Minotaur
February 10, 2015 Economics, Editorial
EDITORIAL
By Sannleikur Komist
Yanis Varoufakis, the new Finance Minister of Greece, has a very interesting view of how the current global economic problems developed and why they continue to get worse instead of better.
In this four part video interview with Varoufakis, he explains, in metaphorical terms, how the United States has played the major role in collapsing the global economies and why Europe’s economies, through their own mismanagement, have little hope of surviving another looming financial crisis.
Varoufakis recounts the Greek myth of the Minotaur, a creature kept confined in the Labyrinth by King Minos of Crete. The Minotaur had the head of a bull and the body of a man and was kept alive by devouring human sacrifices. The Minotaur eventually required more sacrifices than the King was able to provide and had to be slain if the kingdom was to survive.
Varoufakis relates the myth to the roles of the United States and Europe in creating an all-consuming monster that the world can no longer afford to feed."
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end quote
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music ...
Paul Newman - Plastic Jesus (Cool Hand Luke OST)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNtftzGqrmY
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but never forget this!
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AMeRiCaN NeoCoN: F*CK THe EU!
by williambanzai7 on 02/12/2015 11:20 -0500
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-12/american-neocon-fck-eu
how can Eurogroup lend money when it s in deficit?
when you have no wealth you cant lend it. EU is lending promises only.
currency units is no wealth.
China on the other hand has a surplus, so there is real wealth to borrow from them.
Bring in the Clowns ! The puppet AnalCysts have been caught. Stall it & don't let the first Domino cascade just yet.
Yes sir, got to keep this show on the road, we'll tone it down. After you suck our big Greek dicks.
Jack The Zionist "Jew" Lew cliffnotes version...
To "Jizz"elbloom: Listen you Brussels fuckwad we've got 60 years of military hardware and property on those island(s). So stall them!!!
To Varoufakis: Can't we work something out? I'm sorry but you guys just have too much debt! You're going to have to give us some more of your land (that has oil and gas on it) but we'll make sure we renegotiate with some more "equitable terms"so you have a little more than you did through the previous agreement with the "Union".. Capiche ??? Or however the fuck you Greeks say "understand"!!!
Oh Happy Day. Jacob Lew assumes the role of unbiased arbitrator. The Greeks must welcome this generous intervention.
they say that greece is-was the birthplace
of democracy. perhaps there is more to it?
perhaps the birthplace of something greater?
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Financial "Crisis" in Greece
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvl9N9GdraQ
And NaziPelosi is visiting Cuba on a goodwill mission.
Me thinks they're afraid of being usurped by Chicoms.
Chicoms occupy many influential areas of Cali already.
Me thinks she is on a scouting mission to spread the californication lifestyle of diversity and the prosperity that comes with it
Greece has 300 + billion Euros is debt it can never pay.
Germany wants Greece to take more loans to service that 300 billion Euro debt. And impose more austerity and pay cuts on all Greeks to pay interest to German banks.
Greece's economy is shrinking, thus killing any ability to service debts. Thus the German demand they take more loans, and cut pay deeper.
Some people believe if the two parties simply negotiate, they can solve this problem!
One question. How does talking solve Greece's insolvency? How do you squeeze Euros in the billions out of a shrinking economic base?
It amazes me that Germany thinks this problem is open to extend and pretend. What Germany is really mad about it the threat to their direct rule of Greece through the Troika. Once you rule a country, you don't want to give up that power. Thus Germany is loath to give up their direct dictatorship powers over all of Greece.
For average Greeks, what's not to like in another bridge loan with interest, 100% of which goes to German and French banks as debt serivce. Greece deeper in debt, but a very happy Germany.
Why even fight world war II greece? You lost then, and you are losing now, and you hvae no allies to save you this time. The USA and EU are both troika supporters.
so sad, so true. Many countries are colonies. Nothing changed.
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Mish wrote something on this last month. He figured what it would take for Greece to pay back that debt (using some rather generous assumptions) if the interest rate remained 0% in perpetuity.
Short version: forget it.
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2015/01/greek-payback-math-at...
Translation of Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew's comments: "American banks don't want to lose money. Find a way to prevent default."
It's always about what the banks want, not what the citizens want. Abolish the banks.
Jack Lew....rhymes with..."..."
Jack off ?
Greece has them by the balls......EU caves.......stocks soar.............ladifuckingda
Lew is making demands on Greece about their rhetorical "tone" long after they've openly played the Russian card? What a maroon....
I must be missing something here... what a maroon? What does a purple-red color have to do with anything? Or is that something akin to the cookie macaroon?
Squid fried with olive oil Greek recipe with a bit of ouzo, delicious....
Time to fleece those fuckers, kill the Minotaur Theseus!!!
Oh my but things are going so well for Jacky "Lew" and the boyz at the MIC on the negotiations with Greece...
Jack... Jacky!... How much longer can you keep the plates in the air spinning Brotha?!!!
So much so we wrote a little song in your honor!
It's our Ponzi Pyramid .... we can console the investors .... so they don't try to pull their money out !
Great article today from David Stockman concerning Greece on his ContraCorner site. He laid out the possibilities and did it in a style (yeah, he's a good writer) & manner few could. Did any of you'all catch it? Basically it comes down to either .... Greece walks the walk (and is willing to face the short to medium term consequences), or compromises with all the attendant long term, debt slavery ramifications.
I know many ZHers are fervent in their desire that "somebody" finally stick it to the banksters. Apparently, David Stockman too after reading this article. But consider this:
You are, essentially, urging someone else to get up out of the trench and charge into blistering machine gun fire. Oh so easy to advise. Which amoung you are willing to subject yourselves to that?
Put another way, how many of you have left the fraudulent sovereign bond markets? How many of you still invest in companies that are principals in warmongering, how many still hold accounts with the TBTFs because they have a conveniently close branch or offer some business feature that would be awkward for you to do without?
Chicken Hawks are notorious for urging others to fight and die. Are you in that crowd?
You are a Lew, sir- now continue to act like one!
"U.S. URGES SIDES IN GREEK TALKS TO TONE DOWN RHETORIC "
translation:
"WHO TOOK A SHIT IN MY PUNCHBOWL?!"
Dow goes down. Rates goes up.
I smell shit stains from NYC to DC.
I smell shit stains from NYC to DC.
And it won't stop Meat until you burn them both to the ground and start over!
Fuck You Lew!!! Nobody gives a Shit what you have to say. I pray to Jesus that Greece leaves the euro and blows-up the derivative markets. Especially the US Derivatives. I would love to see all you Banksters bleeding out every orifice when this goes down...
Do ya see?!... See that ???!!! See that Booby???!!!!
These fucking Zionist Jews are so famous they even have signs in war zones named after them even when they keep fucking up with moar war crimes!!!!
The emperor of America finds your squablings vexing.
Fuck you Lew. Piss off and continue to fuck your own country. Varoufakis don't blink. The people are behind you. Let's get at these bankster cunts.
In other words don't fuck this up by showing that an insolvent country can actually default. If you do they may figure it out and realize that we're all fucked.
The eurobanks are leveraged 26-1 on Greek debt. It's all interconnected. If the eurobanksters derivatives blow up so do the TBTF. The implosion will show how naked they all are when the tide goes out. Thus says The Lord "everything is awesome."