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Greek Finance Minister Attacked By Anarchists, Shielded By Wife
When it comes to the Eurogroup's sentiment for the still relatively new Greek FinMin, it is no secret how Europe's financiers feel toward the self-described Marxist academic: earlier today European commissioner Pierre Moscovici made it quite clear when he said that the Varoufakis "job change" is a "good signal" for Greece adding that the Greek negotiating team is now more coherent. And sadly for Varoufakis, who is becoming increasingly estranged from European negotiations, there is nobody to "have his back" as even Tsipras appears resigned that Yanis' days are numbered.
However, when it comes to far more personal and direct attacks, Varoufakis can at least rely on his wife. As AP reports, last night while dining with his wife in the bohemian Exarchia district of Athens, "a neighborhood popular with extreme leftists and anarchists" a group of "young anarchists" barged into the restaurant telling them to leave "their area" at which point they "threw glass objects at Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and his wife" according to a finance ministry statement.
According to Reuters, Varoufakis said his wife hugged him to shield him from the attack, the finance ministry said. They tried "for a few seconds to reach me without hitting her," he said in the ministry statement.
Then "they retreated fast continuing their curses and threats, got out of the courtyard and waited for us outside the restaurant," Varoufakis added.
The statement did not go into details on what prompted the attack. The outspoken economist has won fans in Greece for opposing austerity policies but has also garnered criticism at home for his brash style and a celebrity photo shoot in a French magazine.
The minister said he thought the group was more interested in embarrassing him than injuring him.
The couple left the courtyard and got on their motorcycle to leave.
"I started a dialogue with them, saying that I wanted to hear them out, even if that meant that I would be hit," said Varoufakis. "After 15 minutes of a tense but non-violent talk spirits calmed."
And while Varoufakis' blazing game theoretical star may be setting, if only among his European finance minister peers, this morning he was the talk of the town. As the Guardian's Helena Smith reports, "if Varoufakis has been sidelined, he has definitely not lost the interest of media at home and abroad. Waiting for him as he turned up for work on his powerful motorbike - without a security detail as he has done from his first day in office - the finance minister was assailed by scores of journalists wanting to ask him about his run-in in Athens last night.
Rucksack on back, Varoufakis smiled broadly for the cameras but was uncharacteristically mealy-mouthed - perhaps not wanting to further inflame passions amongst the anarchist bloc and extreme left with which the governing Syriza party has long had ties.
Varoufakis may be Europe’s most vocal anti-austerian but to this day has not signed up to Syriza unlike the new man coordinating Athens’ negotiating team Euclid Tsakalotos, who was shadow finance minister when Syriza was in opposition and is a member of the party’s central committee (both however are university economic professors).
Last night’s incident in Exharcheia - with Varoufakis, his wife and a female friend being rounded on by a group of around 30 masked protestors - has sent tremors through the government with some officials fearing it could be a warning sign of worse to come.
If only Varoufakis' wife could have also shielded him from the vicious, if non-stoning, attacks of the European commission...
As for the attack being a "warning sign of worse to come", well all the "radical leftist" government will need to do to find out, is agree to become an extension of the hated Samaras government, and concede to all Troika demands. Then the answer will promptly manifest itself.
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I would tap that for sure.
really ? :-\
Never underestimate loyalty, or the power of ugly chicks.
Sounds like scripted horseshit to demean someone who would attempt to oppose the banksters.
Kudos to him for at least wanting to hear them out.
They actually look more like brother & sister. Hmmmm. Get to work WB7, put that blonde wig on him & see what I mean.
The anarchists are all tough butter till they get the mommy slap.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/28/us/baltimore-riot-mom-smacks-son/
Who said he was an anarchist? Looks more like a thug.
Thugs are not ideologically driven. Anarchists are.
she pegs.
perhaps simple thugs are mis-labeled as anarchists. What is the ideology of an anarchist? What is the meaning of the term anarchy?
They could at least thrown some old shoes around instead of that glass, you can get hurt that way, shoes? not so much.
And more kudos for driving himself to work without a security detail.
Supernova is totally right. Anarchists are the latest group to be demonized. Where are all the pics of these alleged anarchists?
Even the Baltimore Police are in on the game:
http://hobbleknee-smashencrush.tumblr.com/post/117628670363/anunreliable...
if you think that's an ugly chick, you're hopeless... quit chasing teenage tail and start dating women
Who? Varoufakis or his wife.
Not only hot, but will shield you with her body.... That is a keeper.
What's the point in having a wife if you cant use her as a meatshield?
In Muslim countries it was the tradition for women to walk behind their men.
This has now changed ever since land mines have become a problem. Women now walk ahead of their men.
We're building a great case for polygamy here...
You must either be dating a sadomasochist or single?
Ok.
Now that was Groucho funny.
" Not only hot, but will shield you with her body.... That is a keeper."
Exactly, retorical question but why does the media insist on making males out to be weak fucks just because someone stands up for them.. ie from the article "However, when it comes to far more personal and direct attacks, Varoufakis can at least rely on his wife."
What the fuck sort of horse shit is that - it's almost as though they are saying finding a chick that has your back is a bad thing, I'd love to find a chick with the same ideals and I've been through more than enough.. so many it's turned me off marriage entirely. Most women would cower at the slightest sign of danger or "expect to be protected" fuck that why can't she do some protecting? A+ Kudos for this guy in chosing a women who actually gives a shit about him and will stand up for him.
Rant over.
Cheers.
You have a better chance to win Euro-Million lottery (1/ 116,000,000) than finding a women that would truly take care and protect her man in case of danger especially with modern women.
Note that the White Knight attitude from the anarchist greatly helped the situation:
I thought men were supposed to protect the women.
So who has the balls?
Q: Think chivalry is dead ?
A: Well feminism and women revolution killed it.
Q: Where all the good men have gone ?
A: They've gone Galt. (Ask Japanese Grass-Eater).
No suprise, it is fact how many Eastern Ladies will kick you if you threaten their family, home.
Russian girl are like that ? I know that Chinese waifu can be quite angry when the family is threatened but I don't know so much about Russian ones.
I read his last book, very interesting. Smart guy.
If you mean the Global Minateur, it is an excellent book indeed.
An interview (in four small videos) on the book here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpiE8zh3l9Q
Beta male hides behind wife . Pathetic.
Actually, betas and white knights are the ones who always feel the need to prove themselves.
Anyone with one iota of self esteem has nothing to prove, and thus has no issues accepting help whether it be from a male or female.
This.
Behind that manly facade hides a little bitch.. Yes, Eirik I am talking about both of you.
Actually beta males only try to prove themselves when goated by stronger alpha females and males. Otherwise they are whimps.
Alpha males don't care about proving themselves and have no problems with putting themselves in danger to protect THIER own. That doesn't mean they won't accept help. But they are the first to react, not the last to react.
She is the alpha, protecting her own. He is the beta.
I know, right? Quick, get this guy an Apple Watch!
Good, we might see Greeks grow balls.
Fuck the EU
Another typical bullshit story. The truth is that the Minister told the anarchists to meet him outside to solve their differences rather than do damage to the shop premises they were in. There were heated words outside and at one point the Minister actually pushed one of them to the ground. The confrontation lasted for an hour at which point the anarchists left.
The strange thing is that the police did not turn up.
Source? I just got up so it may be all over the news. If so, disregard.
If your story is correct Peter Pan then I take back my accusation of Betaness. Definitely Alpha if he took them on alone outside . Kudos and apologies . Of course these days one also has to consider the possibility of the whole thing being some kind of "false flag"
No need to apologize FMOTL. The world is getting crazy.
If that's all true, then it was almost certainly a false flag. I wouldn't be surprised if Yanis paid the shills out of his own pocket. Lord knows young, desperate manpower is easy to find in Greece these days.
Only in Greece would men go after him and not her, En masse, that is.
They weren't after him. They simply wanted him to get out of their area.
Anarchists have very strict rules about who can be "their" area.
Which is quite ironic considering the fact that anarchism and property are two concepts incompatible with each other.
and this comment proves to me that you are either trolling or don't have any clue about the sheer variety of anarchist groupings. Further down you even claim you walk often through Exarchia, but no, no Anarcho-Syndacalists there, eh? (Of course all with a five week old account)
Private property is the unique anarchist law (including the property rights over your body and physical integrity).
The absence of "chratos" (power) or "archos" (boss) above you means that only you decide about the stuff you posses (and that you decide only about the stuff you posses).
Anarcho-socialism is and has always been the only incompatible "thing" here.
Anarchists can smell government cheese from a mile away.
The Tea Party and the Oath Breakers smell like government cheese to me.
Does that make me an anarchist?
Does that make me an antichrist?
Fixed your typo.
Your welcome.
"Anarchists" is perhaps misleading. Those are self-styled Anarcho-Syndacalists
The main difference lies in their belief in groups, while Anarcho-Capitalists believe in The Individual
I visit Exarcheia at least 2 times per week, these people are not syndicalists lol. They are anti-authoritarians.
of course they are anti-authoritarian. but the also believe in self-organized groups. Did you ever TALK to them? Suit yourself...
Not everyone is Varoufakis Ghordo.
Why? You just have to ask... and then listen. The trick is about shutting up while hearing out
Cuz 99.9% of the time all you get are incessant rants about theories and dogma.
No wonder the people are confused. Anarcho-syndicalo-hybrido-capitalo-communisto-banko-screwedup-o ....sheesh.... pick one already!
Blaming anarchists in this context is akin to calling monopolistic currency creation "capitalism."
Violent anarchists? Then they're not real anarchists.
Really? Charlatan anarcho-capitalists trying to teach anarchists what anarchism is. Priceless!
They're not really violent, this morning their parents are probably chewing them out and telling them about the "good old days" of the Greek anarchist movement when they walked 10 miles in newspaper shoes and back (uphill both ways) to bomb or kidnap members of the elite (while battling the Statiists and their tanks and helicopters armed with only genuine anarchist flint lock muskets)...
And yes, anarchists can be violent. To claim otherwise is to ignore over century of the actual history of the movement, and the major schisms along the way (i.e. to make up some new fictitious word that is simply a homonym of anarchism).
Any violence any anarchist may have performed is only a drop in the bucket comparted to violence committed by the State and statists.
Well since he is gay, she is not his wife but a companionship. Just for clarification.
Anarchism is the most efficient form of govt.
depending on the scope of gov. Anarchy has, for example, little efficiency when it comes to borders
The world is evolving towards true anarchy. The time for domination by a tiny elite has passed.
Sooner or later borders won't matter, because thuggish nation states will cease to exist as will the supra-national monstrosities such as the EU. Dinosaurs go extinct eventually.
People do not need to be managed by their betters. Threats of scarcity will no longer convince people to submit to "authority", even in the cattle breeding grounds of Europe. The anti-Statist disease of anarchy that is spreading through America will reach Europe, destroying centuries of crypto-aristocracy and finally ending the elitist rule that acts through finance and monopolization of currency.
Technology will set the world free, and those who cannot adapt and wish to remain in chains will not matter. The hordes of beta personality type individuals will not be enough to stop it this time. Forward, comrade.
seriously? including a nice "cattle breeding grounds of Europe"?
and how do you corroborate your theory, nicely mixed up with those views on Europe? do you have less police? less SWAT teams? less prisons? less military?
It is understandable to Europe to attack Varoufakis but for his own people to attack him is rediculous.
Donny: Are these the Nazis, Walter?
Walter Sobchak: No, Donny, these men are nihilists, there's nothing to be afraid of.
Nihilist: Ve don't care. Ve still vant ze money, Lebowski, or ve fuck you up.
Walter Sobchak: Fuck you. Fuck the three of you.
The Dude: Hey, cool it Walter.
Walter Sobchak: No, without a hostage, there is no ransom. That's what ransom is. Those are the fucking rules.
Nihilist #2: His girlfriend gave up her toe!
Nihilist #3: She though we'd be getting million dollars!
Nihilist #2: Iss not fair!
Walter Sobchak: Fair! WHO'S THE FUCKING NIHILIST HERE! WHAT ARE YOU, A BUNCH OF FUCKING CRYBABIES?
The Dude: Hey, cool it Walter. Look, pal, there never was any money. The big Lebowski gave me an empty briefcase, so take it up with him, man.
Walter Sobchak: And, I would like my undies back.
[Stunned, the Germans confer amongst themselves again]
Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter?
Walter Sobchak: No, Donny. These men are cowards.
Nihilist: Okay. So we take ze money you haf on you, und ve calls it eefen.
Walter Sobchak: Fuck you.
They must not add fluoride to the water there as the anarchists at least try to get at the source of the problem. While in Amerika, the anarchists, sponsored by Soros, just burn down their own nests and let the zionist, bolshevik terrorists rape and pillage at will.
he married her so he must be smart
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness." (Matthew 23:27-28)
Hypocrites...from the Greek Hupokrites: hypokrit?s (a masculine noun derived from 5259 /hypó, "under" and 2919 /krín?, "judge") – properly, a judging under, like a performer acting under a mask (i.e. a theater-actor); (figuratively) a two-faced person; a "hypocrite," whose profession does not match their practice – i.e. someone who "says one thing but does another."
Did I miss something? Seems to me that Varoufakis has merely calmed the Greek people long enough for the Troika to take their pensions and local government cash.
I call false flag. Anybody serious about teaching Yanis a lesson wouldn’t have been as shy about sharing it with his moll. Lord knows after Paris Match Danae deserved it as much as he.
Either way, Yanis, at least your supper wasn't boring.
What a pussy...
Sorry, just cun't resist...
Time for a new Varofakis video.
Yes, they are evil aliens. Pictures do not lie ... (well unless they have been PhotoShopped)
I think his wife looks pretty good, but I also think she looks pretty much like his sister, or maybe a 1st cousin. Quite similar features.
Agreed, agreed, agreed, agreed.
from that picture his wife looks like she could be his twin sister
My first thought when I read about them and a female friend was "threesome."
I think he and his wife showed some measure of bravery, that is all but absent in the US. The cowards were the masked Hamasites.
Finally -- a Greek tough enough to stand up to the EU and IMF -- they have been sending the wrong Varoufakis!!