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The honeymoon is officially over in Greece for the Syriza socialist saviors who, after a series of dramatic pledges to free Greeks from the bonds of austerity have been forced to abandon the very promises which got them elected as the "institutions" (no one is allowed to speak of the "troika" any longer) have refused to budge on demands that Athens institute serious fiscal reforms.
Now, with time running dangerously short, and with looming payments to the IMF and to public sector employees and pensioners, the people are growing restless.
In today's protest, perhaps just as much to celebrate the arrival of spring, 4,000 miners demonstrated in Athens against job cuts they fear will result from the hard-left government's opposition to continued exploitation of their gold mine in northern Greece.
According to AP, "scores of buses transported miners from the Halkidiki region of Greece – about 600 kilometers (370 miles) north of Athens – to protest the SYRIZA-led government's decision last month to review the concession granted to the mines Canadian operator, Eldorado Gold.
Though the mine represents one of the biggest foreign investments projects in Greece today, the government opposes further operation of the mine amid environmental and legal questions surrounding the concession.
A harbinger of more anger at the "radical leftist" government? The march represents one of the biggest labor protests since SYRIZA took power in January on promises of throwing off austerity and using public spending to spark economic growth.
The mine is located in a wooded area near the Mount Athos tourist destination. It has long been the source of repeated clashes between police and environmentalists backed by local residents, who claim the mine poses an ecological threat.
Opponents also denounce the financial terms of the concession granted by previous governments to Eldorado Gold – objections the SYRIZA cabinet shares as it reviews the contract.
But the thousands of miners who descended on Athens Thursday to march by government ministries and parliament warned that putting the mines future into question will lead to mass job cuts.
They noted that in a nation suffering 25.7 percent unemployment – the highest level in the European Union – Greece can scarcely risk provoking new job losses by meddling with the mines operation.
“The honeymoon is over” said Nikos Marantzidis, a pollster and political science professor at the University of Macedonia as Bloomberg reported earlier. “This doesn’t mean that Syriza’s hegemony is under dispute but we’re done with the period when Greek public opinion would agree with everything that the government does.”
The public opinion is only going to get uglier as the government is forced to do whatever the Troika demands.
Meanwhile, as miners shouted anti-government slogans outside the parliament, victims of terrorist attacks protested inside the building against a bill submitted by the justice ministry that would pave the way for the release of a convicted assassin from prison.
Savvas Xiros, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing five people as a member of the guerrilla group November 17, may spend the rest of his sentence detained at home if the bill allowing prisoners with severe disabilities to exit jail under certain restrictions passes. Xiros was maimed after a bomb he was about to plant in 2002 exploded in his arms.
“The case of Xiros would be irrelevant in itself,” Marantzidis said. “But in conjunction with other moves, it reinforces the perception that the government is soft on crime.”
In other words, things are now fully back to normal in Greece.
Live feed.
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And if you think it's bad now, here's what's coming (Via Capital Economics):
Greece may resort... to IOUs to pay public sector workers and pensioners and free up money to repay its debts. But this could cause economic chaos if fears that the IOUs would never be paid sparked riots or public sector employees simply refused to work.
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And Yemen:
Al-Qaida captures major airport, oil terminal in south Yemen
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_YEMEN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEM...
That's as good as money. Those are IOUs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GSXbgfKFWg
Queue KSA and gang bombing them.
Oh wait, you said Al Qaida. I thought you meant Houthis. Please move along now. There is nothing to see. Move along.
Throw those pathetic Greeks out of Europe already.
Pathetic Greeks? Look at this economy and aside from lies, decseption and money printing, tell me how we differ?
Broke Greece closing a gold mine?
There has just GOT to be a lot more to this story.
Greek miners protest to keep open Eldorado gold mine
Thousands of workers employed at a gold mine in northern Greece owned by Canada's Eldorado Gold protested in Athens Thursday over a government decision to revoke the company's licence.
Eldorado Gold's gold mine project in Skouries and a processing plant currently under development were used by the former Greek administration as evidence of that its pro-business policies were working.
Or maybe I am just being a bit too cynical.
Funny. None of this is on US news channels. Top news seems to be Bruce Jenner becoming a woman or something.
"...or something."
or his daughters fucking more niggers?
No going back.....
Greece is nothing.....Check out what's going on in South Africa...
Man Killing Man! With all the barbarity possible.
durban johannesburg killings
Maybe "everyone" will start to realise why the Rand was such a strong currency under White "rule" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_rand), but now under Black "rule" - http://www.exchangerates.org.uk/South-African-Rand-ZAR-currency-table.html.
NONE of this is deemed "reportable" by the Western MSM. Something to do with "rocking the White is Bad / Regressive" mindset??
http://rense.com/general39/reose.htm
http://africacheck.org/factsheets/factsheet-south-africas-official-crime-statistics-for-201314/
http://www.issafrica.org/uploads/ISS-crime-statistics-factsheet-2013-2014.pdf
Manthong, you think it's possible uncle Putin has informed Tsipras about the Golden Rule during their recent encounter?
Letting foreign vultures exploit your natural resources for a bunch of FRNs and environmental disaster as change is the trademark of neoliberal stupidity and desperation. Now Greece will suddenly want to nationalize the mine, but being a part of EU it has to play by their neofascist rules. Hence the obstructions of Eldorado Gold's work...
A corrupt deal from the start where the usual suspects robbed the public purse. Start with Hellas Gold, which was bought by Eldorado. They are still being sued by the EU, for the 2nd time. The deal fucking stinks to hell.
The Greeks didnt have kids for so long and to such a degree that they have no future. US birthrates were fine until as recently as 2008. The Greek birth dearth started too many decades ago to recover from.
@ MFL8240 "tell me how we differ?"
Greece is broke and unable to feed and give shelter to the poor and in need. Greece is a third world country. Two of many differences between Europe and Greece. The Greeks just don´t belong to Europe, so let´s throw them out now. I hope not another good change to do that is wasted now.
Maybe IOU's will become the new currency!!???
They are here.
Bitter German.
Dont you have a gas chamber to build?
Why? Do you Greeks need some for your Chrysi Avgi aka Golden Dawn guys to play with? Another difference between Europe and Greece: Greece has an outspoken fascist party like Golden Dawn in parliament, and they are the third largest party.
Technically he did not say that we are not also pathetic. He should have pointed that out.
Well, it can't happen here. Just ask Obozo and the rest of his butt buddies.......
Greece is a preview for the rest of Europe and the USA too.
Fantastic wealth for a few, and misery/austerity/serfdom for their subjects. That's the globalist gangbangkster ZWO plan as it always has been.
It's all coming closer and closer to realization now that they have wiped out the US middle class, as intended.
"Dawn broke. I left my cardboard house under the interstate to look for food for my family. I was able to catch a couple of lizards. They roast up pretty good.
"We had to run when the UN troops came and killed half our group. We have now moved our cardboard to a wooded area. The UN troops are not getting much food. I saw them roast Bill and hungrily devour him only half-cooked."
"At least we avoided the fate of Detroit when Bath House ordered the nerve gas attack. They say you could smell the bodies 200 miles away..."
In view of a confluence of factors such as JH15, everyone should watch [or re-watch] the Jericho series, made for TV by Leslie Moonvies at CBS [his great uncle was the first prime minister of Israel].
The basic plot is that a rogue DHS agency nukes several US cities with truck bombs and blames it on Russia in order to bring iron fisted totalitarianism to the USA.
In the series, as a result of the nuking, Texas goes to war with the "US government" which is no longer actually the US government but controls the military and is operating under the continuity of government constitution shredding laws envoked as a result of the New Pearl Harbor.
Seemed outrageous in 2006. Seems plausible today.
Funny how the future is always depicted by hollywood in advance.
A little fun fact I just found out...the govenment of the Confederacy never surrendered. Lee surrendered his army, nothing else.
dude- you a funny guy.... Thanks for making my day! I hadn't laughed that hard in a while....
"We fleeced some folks."
I leave for Athens in 48 hours. Good timing yrad!!!
I'm making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do... www.globe-report.com
I wonder if drugged, fat, distracted, broke, vaccinated Americans will get the hint.
That could never happen here.
We are too exceptional.
IOUs? Greeks want cash, which is just as good as money ;-)
Looney
Just call the IOU's Drachma.
In theory there's no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is (yogi). Same with money and cash.
But this could cause economic chaos if fears that the IOUs would never be paid sparked riots or public sector employees simply refused to work.
If only we could get some of that in the USA! What's it gonna take to get some public sector employees to refuse to work? Revoke FMLA or other gov't nannypants BS programs?
California used to pay in IOU's already, a couple of years ago... We're ahead of them !
"US soldiers will not fire on us, we are AMericans!
"We are mercenaries, serfs! Die! We took an oath to Bath House Barry! Hahahaha, "American Soldiers! What a joke. Excuse me while I rack this bolt! Blam! Blam!"
Looks like they still have enough to pay the riot police...at least for the moment.
I would think that the minute the police have to accept an IOU for wages that there will be much less police presence to stave off the protests...but I could be wrong about that...
With +170k regulars in the miitary, I'd be more concerned about them being handed IOU's tbh...
"Bullish" is the only word that comes to mind.
the Country sure looks like a good credit risk - better lend them some more.
/s/
It is important for the Greek government to survive against the propaganda war, at least until the Spanish national elections. It is also important for Podemos to mark a clear victory then. This could trigger a decisive change in Europe's course against today's dark path towards the new Feudalism.
And make no mistake, this "march" by 4000 miners bussed in from a distance and obviously well equipped for street battles is a well-funded move in that propaganda war! ZH: don't get swept up in the planned theater of chaos here!
Just think this: Tens of thousands gathered in the anti-mining concert in Chalkidiki last September. The vast majority of the people in Chalkidiki are against the mining gold and the environmental destruction there.
easier to get people to attend a concert than attend a riot with police and tear gas
Draghi: Mr Bath House, the situation is getting dangerous!
BH: We must have a military coup in Greece! I'll send you my Jade Helm plans!
LMAO that live feed tho...
Not sure what language they are speaking. It's Greek to me...
It is Greek! Not that I would know what they're talking about but it sounds like the end times are getting closer...
Greek "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire".. HAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHA! What does $1 million drachmas buy?
Greece may resort... to IOUs to pay public sector workers and pensioners and free up money to repay its debts.
ho lee fuk
Hey, as long as you can buy groceries and gas with those IOU's there shouldn't be a problem.
this is nothing other then the .gov issuing money. Like it's supposed to be with fiat money, anyways.
.gov can do that, without going into debt. Funny, why am I smelling democracy coming from high above for Greece?
Hello: What is a dollar but an IOU?
Sum Ting Wong is in Greece.
Wow - Brookings Institute said Greece would goto IOU's back in January, followed by certificates, followed by price controls.
Following a script?
How many gay hairdressers does Greece have?
Greece may resort... to IOUs to pay public sector workers and pensioners and free up money to repay its debts
IOUs are worth 50 cents on the dollar or 10 cents on the dollar?
if Greece has diificulty paying off 400 million euros of debt, how can it ever pay off its debt of 320 billion euros?
Just call them Drachmas not IOUs - problem solved.
Simple, Mint a trillion dollar coin.
I mean really! I came up with that idea when I was 7 and it took a PhDouche to make it "legitimate."
How many drachmas to build a death star & put the entire population to work?
Hephaestus could mint a coin in one hammer blow...
How about a trillion drachma coin?
Better mint 18 of them for the US.
These IOUs have been used before...
Worked like magic in Germany in 1933-39.
1. MEFO Bills -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mefo_bills
2. Oeffa Bills -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oeffa_bills
Greece produces shit. Nothing.
Economy is based upon tourism, which is dwindling at best. So it's a huge seaport. Not from whatI'v been reading. The few "families" that support this "business" are getting taxed and squeezed........soonto be leaving for more favorable business entures.
Germany is on the hook or Greece fails.
Apparently you weren't paying attention. They produce gold. Hence the mine.
They produce gold for Canadians same as here in Nevada.
Blackrock is the biggest shareholder followed by Van Eck and the Market Shares Gold ETF
http://investors.morningstar.com/ownership/shareholders-major.html?t=EGO
Royal Bank of Canada is a prominent shareholder as well. Here is a tidbit from FOFOA:
How he did that was groundbreaking. One almost wonders if the BIS was involved behind the scenes as Another said. In fact, in the book, there's a curious story about a big Canadian bank (also a bullion bank) who, in 1986, suddenly did an about-face and started courting Munk.
In 1985, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) was in a fight with Barrick over $74M, and the bank accused Barrick of dishonesty. Then, a year later, the bank suddenly apologized to Peter Munk in grand fashion and made nice, and then a year after that, the same bank made the largest gold loan ever to Barrick. Here's how Peter Munk described it:
How often do banks come cap-in-hand and throw a fancy lunch in their finest boardroom to apologize to a client? It makes me wonder if someone wasn't pushing them to make nice with Barrick.
http://fofoa.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-golden-phoenix.html
Bath House: Putin has sabotaged the EU! We must arm up and prevent the dastardly schemes of Putin!
My sources report Russian Agents are instigating riots in Greece! Today it is Ukraine! Tomorrow, Greece! Next week, France!
Greece sells sunshine, shipping, wine, high-grade olive oil...........
Total collapse and WWIII kindling hotter and hotter.
Looks like a LOT of weed being smoked over there.
Enough, exit!
Regarding the live feed, woman looks like she just came out of the shower and put her bath robe on. Can't understand the lingo.
Who is that beautifull Greek woman at the table ?
I wonder how many police / military show up to protect the Oligarch when they don't get paid? If I were rich...I'd pack my shit and haul ass before the desperate masses mistook me for Louis XVI or Marie Antoinette.
You can be sure not one Greek Leader is missing his 7-course dinner during all this trouble.
On the ohter hand, Greece may just default on it's debt and pay the pensioners/public sector workers. What's to prevent that?
The fear that they will get paid in constantly devaluating Dreck-mas ever afterwards.
an IOU...I would last a minute if you gave me one of those.....and you can bet the higher ups would get cash...just the lowlifes get the iou.....not gona happen and wont work......you need way to much trust for that and Greece has zero...a big fat Greek Wedding ZERO
I'll see your IOU and raise you some pocket lint.
See the banner "Solidarity with political prisoners", notice some red/black flags and tell me which NGO brewed that kinda storm.
The globalist NGOs have carefully infiltrated many of these groups.
All this after the meeting in Moscow.
Fake ? False Flag ? BlackBlock ?
umm, this is still the calm before the storm. The real unraveling starts when the IOU's are rejected.
IOUs huh? Sounds hyperinflationary to me.
No shortage of funds for police and military,,, so it seems.
We may see subtle change when the useful idiots start getting IOUs for a paycheck.
In the meantime, they won't bit the hand that feeds them.
Soros and the Cabal have begun their colour revolution in Greece with the Gold Miners used as a first line of division. Expect moar, mucho moar troika mischief in the coming weeks. Same old, same old . . .
There's more chance of finding a decent plumber in Spain than all of these confused puppies getting their act together, Unfortunately.
Think of the protection Soros has from any government prosecuting him!
The network of anarchist/provocateur organizations he has funded with Billions of untraceable dollars is simply amazing.
He is not the head of the snake, but he is one of the heads.
He has carefully carried out the orders of the Globalists for many years. In reality, he is an International War Criminal, yet just as protected as Corzine.
http://geopoliticainternazionale.blogfree.net/?t=5111570
The Greek people suffer at the hand of its elites and the EU elites to keep Greece in the EU hell or high water.
Greece should take the plundge and exit the EU and turn East.
How much more can a people bleed in the interests of others?
hey, would ya look at that, Greece is rioting again.whoduh thunk... golly gumbucks. nice lil' red and black "anarchy" flag they have got in that pic there now isn't it? gee willikers
She looks like a drowned river rat being eaten by a leopard.
Stop the handouts to the FSA and America is Greece over night.
if it looks like it might happen in the US, at least in a few big cities, the feds may well decriminalize {if not legislatively legalize per se} weed.
Bread and circuses always involved wine and mead - and now other intoxicants.
What's wrong?
No Greek's Idol or Kim Bigasskaras's to keep them busy?
Looks like a game show intead of a live feed.
Greek 'Who Wants To Be a Millionaire'. The irony is thicker than Stavros' back hair.
This may be the first Globalized gold mine....................more to follow.
Many here and elsewhere called this as soon as Varoufakis was named finance minister.
Just another Zionist farm manager of Zion's Greek farm.
The banksters need to repay us.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”? Marcus Tullius Cicero
Lagarde: No grace for Greece on repayment delayInternational Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has rebuffed talk of Greece obtaining a delay on its debt payments to the Fund.
Her remarks came at a meeting with the World Bank in Washington. The IMF chief did her best to puncture Greece's hope's at the meeting in Washington.
"It's clearly not a course of action that would actually fit," she said to reporters' questions on Greece, adding: "We have never had an advanced economy ask for payment delays."
Lagarde said a Greek delay on its repayments to the Fund would not be recommended in the current situation.
Greece is struggling with a tight liquidity situation while it negotiates with its foreign creditors.
In its update of global prospects this week, the IMF stuck to its forecast of "subdued" growth of 3.5 percent this year, picking up to 3.8 percent in 2016.
But IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard warned that countries need to commit more effort to investments, especially in infrastructure, and implement market-opening reforms to increase output faster.
"It would be wrong to speak, as some have done, of stagnation, but prospects are more subdued," he said. "And more subdued prospects lead, in turn, to lower spending and lower growth."
Progress on finding a solution to Greece's financial woes has not been satisfactory, the European Commission warned Thursday, a week before eurozone finance ministers are due to tackle the issue.
"We continue to work with the other institutions and the Greek authorities. Talks are ongoing. However, at this stage, we are not satisfied with the level of progress made so far," said Margaritis Schinas, a spokesman for the European Union's executive.
More warnings
Lagarde and her World Bank counterpart Jim Yong Kim have already warned middle and low-income countries that they face more financial turbulence ahead, as the US Federal Reserve tightens up monetary policy with fresh interest rate hikes later this year.
But Kim will also try to keep the focus on fighting extreme poverty, and is planning a new fundraising effort for long-term relief and rebuilding for the three West African countries savaged by the Ebola epidemic, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
After the World Bank, the IMF and individual governments threw in hundreds of millions of dollars to confront the outbreak last year, Ebola is now mostly under control, though with a toll of more than 10,000 dead.
Oxfam International is urging the World Bank to raise $1.7 billion to help countries hit by the epidemic to improve their sanitary infrastructure.
Longer-term efforts are needed to build the capacities of the health care systems in each country to prevent a future outbreak, said Oxfam's Washington office chief Nicolas Mombrial.
"If you don't do anything, it will happen again," he added.
bk/pad (AFP, Reuters, dpa)
http://www.dw.de/lagarde-no-grace-for-greece-on-repayment-delay/a-18388367
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Rioting for prosperity. hell ya
What's the deal over "IOU's"? All fiat currency's are less than an IOU; its "O's" and "1's" run by adolescent kleptomaniacs.
Putin's got a huge grin on his face and is rubbing his hands at the prospect of further EU divisions on the near horizon.
Can't say i blame him and his Chinese partners, handily place to mop up the fallout.
There's will be NO french kissing in the good ol' USSofA.
Turn off the lights , pull down your tights, i'm ashamed, ashamed to find you there!
We're interupt your regularly schedule austerity riot to bring you 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire!?'
You can't make this shit up.
" The march represents one of the biggest labor protests since SYRIZA took power in January on promises of throwing off austerity and using public spending to spark economic growth. "
Didn't anybody tell the Greeks that:
This was totally predictable because once you understand the socialist mind you know how they are going to go with populist rhetoric and paint themselves (and their sheeple) into a corner. The only cynical beneficiaries of a socialists bullshit is the usurer oligarch and SYRIZA is playing right into their hands.
If SYRIZA knew what they were doing they would:
There has to be early pain from the realignment surgery, but they are in pain already anyway. I think a Greek president gets five years, make use of it through the unpopular parts of the process and the system will turn economically in the time the sheeple kick them out and try to redistribute the newly created wealth. Anyway thats the pipe dream, what will really happen is the usual clusterfuck clownshow.
Edit: Not to mention that Varoufakis creature looks like a predator ferret that would sell his countrymen to zionist slavers with no problem at all. Just from his reptilian looks I wouldn't trust that thing at all.
"Edit: Not to mention that Varoufakis creature looks like a predator ferret that would sell his countrymen to zionist slavers with no problem at all. Just from his reptilian looks I wouldn't trust that thing at all."
whatever value your words had prior to this: 'Edit:.....' are completely negated. buffoon
Live feed = who wants to be a millionaire...greek version. LOL
"after a series of dramatic pledges to free Greeks from the bonds of austerity have been forced to abandon the very promises which got them elected as the "institutions" (no one is allowed to speak of the "troika" any longer) have refused to budge on demands that Athens institute serious fiscal reforms"
Germany, who really is the EU now a days, was never going to budge. They want repayment to their and other EU banks. Even if every Greek must be cast into debt slavery, and austerity shut down education, health care and all public trust assets sold off.
Germany won the war on Greece. Now they have sent in the occupation forces, i.e. The Troika, to steal everything not nailed down. In WWII Germany did this with Panzer Divisions and the Luftawffe, then sent in occuptaion forces to steal everything not nailed down. Now days Loans and Bankers conquer a nation, and EU fiscal Officials come in as the occupation forces.
In past history, no European nation would ever have allowed what is happening today. Wars would have been fought over national sovereignty. Occupiers would never be allowed to come to Greece and run the banks, the tax authorites and government. Merkel is the Defacto Ruler of Greece. She and her Banker minions are the rulers. If Greece does not exit the EU slave ship, they will be landed and used as plantation slave labor by Germany for centuries to come.
Iceland is the only independent nation left in Eruope, the only nation with any sense left, and freedom left and any self sufficiency left!
The reason the USA and EU have declared war on Russia, and threaten to destroy it with NATO is because Russia will never let Merkel and Brussels rule their nation. The USA and EU each want their piece of Russia, to rule for corporate profit, and as a base to attack China.
Make no mistake, China's northern flank is held by Russia. If China loses that flank to NATO, then China will go down. China knows it, the US and EU have sent emissaries to China, offering a rich alliance against Russia. China will be given a cut of the take over and much economic gain, IF they join NATO now to destroy Russia. But China knows this is sweet talk lies. NATO promises much to China, but once Russia falls, and NATO armies build up on China's northern border, then the US and NATO will call China a threat, and take it down.
My thoughts are that 2015 is the year where the USA and NATO are starting their all out war to destroy Russia. If China refuses to play ball with NATO, which it looks like they will not, then NATO must move fast to take Russia down. China will be the target in say 2020. The next five years will be all about destroying Russia, and holding the EU together by force if need be. Because the EU is the US puppet who can be used to send east in the war on Russia.
I think the USA Neo-Cons know that dollar hegemony is going to slip away by 2020. That is why armed forces are going to be used to prevent the loss of dollar hegemony. When you see the termoil in the world, just think Dollar Hegemony, and what the USA must do to maintain it!
Hmmm, nuclear war, mass depopulation, just Perfect for TPTB.
"Bang! Bang! Hey! Barry and Reggie here! Let us in the shelter. You Promised!
"No."
"My thoughts are that 2015 is the year where the USA and NATO are starting their all out war to destroy Russia"
usa will be toast, burnt toast.
nato? what nato? poland, estonia, latvia,.....
you think DE & FR are going to attack RU?
nato is a paper tiger.
the ussa is fast losing credibility.
you talk like you think the ussa and nato are invincible.
that is BS.
Because the EU is the US puppet who can be used to send east in the war on Russia.
The Europeans are too busy being on holiday and eating rich buttery sauces to be sent east in the war on Russia.
But don't worry. We have the F-35.
ZH I expected more informed info from you.
This is a University demonstration that has been going on for weeks and eventually had to be ended!
Please dont degrade ZH to the common media sources reporting whatever they want!
Nothing to do with the scouries protest. The pics are from outsude the uni!
Show us the peasant blood greek_one and my donation to the cause will follow shortly after.
Hunger talks, bullshit walks.
In my country there is problem, and that problem is the ______
you fill in the blank.
One: Eldorado Gold deal is drenched in sleaze and corruption, going all the way back to Hellas Gold. Just google it and read. And that's only the corruption we know about. The bribes and kickbacks are surely in there somewhere as it was the usual suspects involved.
This protesting between the miners and the local people has been going on for weeks, and their battles with each other for years. Now they go to Athens to burn some shit. Fuck them, I hope they lose their jobs and suck on the big one. More attention seeking assholes.
Two: Nikos Marantzidis for years was silent about the previous governments sleaze and corruption. He found an opportune time to suddenly find a truth dispensing pulpit. I see now he's joined the Potami party, ie The Bobolas party. Bobolas is one of the infamous oligarchs, Potami is full of the cocksuckers who benefited on previous state corruption. Reads like just another of the plentiful rotten cocksuckers that come out of the woodwork in Greece.
Now, with time running dangerously short, and with looming payments to the IMF and to public sector employees and pensioners, the people are growing restless.
Who are "the people"?
In Greece, what is the ratio of government workers and dependents to non-government workers and non-dependents?
If that ratio is significant at all (anywhere near 1 or greater), the ultimate outcome is well known.
The ultimate outcome? That ratio will get larger exponentially ... it will reset ... and it will repeat.
There's only one solution. Drive that ratio to zero as fast as possible ... and don't let it raise its ugly head ever again!
If it can't be reduced, support its growth shortening the time to reset ... no sense in prolonging the agony.
When the inevitable reset happens, be prepared to hold it at zero!
Send about half a dozen Amerikan Kops over there -- in a week the remaining Greek survivors won't dare come out of their houses to protest!
LOL they won't even have to arm them. Just give them cars and they'll run 'em all over.
Well IOUs, like Euros, are promissory notes, so this will be a defacto new fiat currency, unless it is denominated in Euros and backed by 1% gold exchange ;-) maybe they need to keep that gold mine open, those 4,000 miners are now worth their weight in gold!
THIS JUST IN ... 18:07 ZULU
Preliminary reading - 6.1 earthquake 47 kilometers SW of Karpathos, Greece
REF: ens.usgs.gov
Who financed the travel and accomodation for these broke miners to go from Skouries in Northern Greece to Athens? To go to Athens to burn some shit so media can turn Greeks against Syriza as they have done every European?
I don't trust Syriza but with so many enemies outside and inside Greece maybe they really are the good guys.
Bobolas (Big Oligarch with the suction pipe attached to the Greek State for All State Projects) and the El Dorado lot (Rothchilds and Co.).
Also the Black masked "protesters" are the usual suspects paid by the International Mob (MI6 Mossad and CIA, a.k.a C-yntrof-IA)
It is the Deep State and obviously WARN the pretenders to the Governorship SYRIZA that they are only there temporarely.
Those So-called Anarchist Fuckers are on A PAID JOB. The Greek Police have a UKRANIAN Right Sector member in custody that was arrested only a couple of weeks ago doing his job, RIOTING that is.
Another day, another Socialist meltdown.
If Syriza really was "radical left", they'd nationalize the mine under management control of the mine workers, who already know how to dig stuff up. Plus, it's a gold mine, literally producing money out of the ground, so it is not like the miners need to learn how to sell what they produce for money.
Yup. The sure cure for socialism is even more socialism.
What were the Greeks thinking of in the last election? Did they really think that the cure for all the socialist debt and corruption would be to vote in an even more socialist government? I guess they were just "voting themselves a paycheck" as usual.
What was it that Albert Einstein said about the definition of insanity?
sigh you still dont get it , do you? The only Socailists are the Banks-they force loans on countries that couldnt pass a Credit check and force at gunpoint interest payments-
THAT IS THE ENDGAME. Money sitting around is producing nothing. FORCE loaning it out to unelected Bank execs in each countryis such and unbeleiveable scam!
Wake up and get a clue for gods sakes-or hell RENT ONE