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Varoufakis Issues Statement On "Anarchist" Attack
Following the previous report that during dinner yesterday Yanis Varoufakis, whose political position is currently in limbo, was attacked by young anarchists and whose wife promptly swooped in to protect him from literal stones (if not sticks), as opposed to the Eurogroup's metaphorical ones, the is the statement he just issued, courtesy of the Guardian:
Contrary to the conjecture that has been heard, it was not an organised attack or attempt at seriously injuring us, provocation or part of the much wider attempt to politically “econstruct” me in recent days.
I have the impression that their goal was not to hurt us, because if they had wanted to hurt us, they had the opportunity and ‘arithmetic’ supremacy to do so. I think their aim was to force me to flee with a few light humiliating swipes. This, however, will never be known because Danae before the anti-establishment protestors [and before I could stop her], stood up and hugged me hard, turning her back towards them so that they would have to hit her before me.”
Meanwhile, with much confusion over who is now in charge when negotiating with the Troika, Yanis tried to clear things up:
- VAROUFAKIS SAYS HE'S IN CHARGE OF NEGOTIATIONS WITH EURO GROUP.
Ok, just please make sure Moscovici gets the memo:
- MOSCOVICI SAYS VAROUFAKIS DEPARTURE IS `GOOD SIGNAL'
In other news, the person who is now really in charge of the negotiations, Euclid Tsakalotos, the Oxford-educated economics professor who as described by the Guardian, now heads up the Greek negotiating team in debt talks, has just made statements saying Greece has to keep to its “red lines” and that any “areas of compromise” should be within the “political plan”.
In other words, the new boss may or may not be the same as the old boss, but the political party line remains, and Syriza is still terrified of disappointing one of the two core parties: either the Troika or its voters, and as a result it will try to appease both until it runs out of all funds.
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Trust me, I didn't need my wife.
I will break you next time.
Not right now however, I'm negotiating the terms of our surrender.
You insult both the man and the woman. Clearly she loves and respects her husband and just as clearly he loves her. There is nothing comparable in power to this bond.
Would you not protect your wife? So what is wrong with the wife instantly thinking to protect her husband?
Agreed Cog, her reaction was instinctual. My wife is my most cherished love and I would die for her in an instant.
All this internet chastisement comes from those who don't understand or bask in this love from another.
Pity them!
DaddyO
The broader moral of the story is if the peasantry are starving, the king and His Court should not gorge themselves in the public square.
Trickle-Down Broken Window Economics Will Piss the Peasantry Off.
PS I'd protect my best friend and lover Mrs K with my life.
They should send this guy in place of Varoufakis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqUDvjak54o
...and then send Varoufakis back and see whether they prefer to deal with the "good cop."
I have to admit, having his wife step in was brilliant Game Theory (who would hit a woman) - but I still find it hard to believe his buds at the Ouzo stand would resist giving him a heaping dose of shit over this.
As a staunch liberal, I strongly believe that nobody should be allowed to marry anybody or stay married until all gays, transgenders and cross dressers are allowed to marry! This is the issue of our time!
Down with misogyny! Down with white privilege! :D :D :D
You should also fight for trans-species marriage; that may give Obama the legitimacy he has been desperately serching for.
We have no idea what happened. The news media lies.
I didn't realize pussies read ZH..
jk.
lol I upvoted said "pussies" and you.
Unlike feminist who claims that women are empowered and doesn't need men to protect their asses.
The truth is that kind of women (who instinctively protect her hubby) are extremely rare.
"There is nothing comparable in power to this bond"
Would it make a difference if the wife standing in front of Varioufakis were a male ? In Greece yes, in US probably not and would only last for one generation.
And why do you believe any of what he has released to the media? Even the initial AP report was based upon his account of a claimed incident. And with all the "people" said to be around and the amount of time involved not one phone video is available.
Initially he claimed the violent group charged into the place and began throwing items of glass at him:
"threw glass objects at Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and his wife" according to a finance ministry statement
Then he says the gaing waited outside for him and he bravely and in noble fashion offered to go out and talk to them even if they were to attack him.
And yet no video despite the amount of time for the group to start the verbal ruskus that then turned into throwing glasses and other items right at Yanis and his wife, then the struggle to force the gang out of the restraunt and then all the time the group waited foaming at the mouth outside the door.
No video and from what I can tell so far no police arrive and no suspects are arrested.
He claimed a group threw, at close range, glasses and other object, yet no injuries. The story gets critical comments about the unbelievable inability of this claimed violent group to strike a single hit so Yanis changes the story to deflect the critical comments and says the violent group attacked and DID throw glass objects but intended to miss on purpose. But he claimes it was to humiliate him and was not a staged event by himself and his supporters.
Smells like a staged event to create sympathy for himself and his wife. His wife comes from the fringes of the rich elite, they found each other because they socialized in the same circles. His game theory expertise is directed against the common Greek not the bankers.
Well this all sounds very manly.
Yeah just put his wife in charge
leather jackets and motorcycle aside, tell me that you live in a country where the Finance Minister drives every day unattended and without armed escort to work (well, this is ZH, where I find myself defending a Greek Politician and Marxist's manhood from a Brit's allusions! This after half of Britain's fair sex was swooning about Varoufakis)
oh, since we talk about motorcycles: Tylers, did you forget to bring the story of Putin's Tour of Europe on his motorbike? Or did I miss it
Oooh Ghordy, I might have felt slightly insulted there if I was a massive statist prick. As it stands, bash away - I still enjoy your posts.
and I yours, though I'm still waiting for a loooong one about the current election campaign you are having on Bog Island
Not going to happen I'm afraid, I simply couldn't give a shit which glove puppet dances about on the little electronic bullshitter in the corner of my living room. We all know who runs the show, and that isn't going to change without some serious adjustments, everything else is just a waste of breath.
As for Bog Island? I should have never come back here, and I'll be leaving the accursed place soon. I made the mistake of coming back once before. Never again.
Just trying to picture Yellen and wife on a motorcycle, going to a waterfront bistro somewhere in NYC to dine.
... but the picture just won't come in ... maybe ... yeah, I think it could work. Naaah.
How about if'n the bike had three wheels?
Ooo look! A beleaguered 'hero'! For fucks sakes....
this greek thing is like chinese water torture. make it stop.
Bah, the government will defend the Euro to the last Greek.
if only it was so simple... my biggest worry is that the Greek gov miscalculates and loses the Greek banking system
switching to a new currency is way easier, both technically and politically, then having to rebuild a whole banking landscape
Let the banks fail. There are plenty of other banks ready to step into the vacuum.
Varoufakis didn't want to sell out country and they threw him under the bus..
make up your mind. did he plunder the pension funds or not? did he plunder the local gov funds or not? is he still the Greeek Taxman-In-Chief or not?
is He making decisions or he is just under PM and taking order?
well reminds me of who's in charge here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeDq_tCCj3o
let me put it this way: he is a Game Theory expert. For me, this means that he will either find a way to look good, whatever happens, or prove he is a bad expert at that
He is a game theory expert just like the guy who studies chess by reading a lot of books. But reading/writing about it, is very different than actually playing it out.
The has been it trying to keep himself in the spot light. Face it you failed your people move on has been.
He most have been Greeking the shit out of her....
It really bothers me for some reason when people call a militant revolutionary Marxist an "anarchist"
I suspect that the worst thing the plantation owners can conceive of is the great unwashed waking up to the blindingly obvious logical conclusion that government is violent and unnecessary. Therefore it's important to misuse the word 'anarchy' and associated terms as much as possible. Similar deal with 'atheism'.
if the "plantation denizens" really think that governments aren't violent, then sorry, no hope for them. You just have to point to the police, the army and the monopoly on violence
but the "logical conclusion" that government is not necessary... well, that theory is still lacking proof
I'd cheer for any territory that would become free from any statehood and government... and prosper. But I'm still waiting on the explanation of how
Particularly, since you talk about "plantation owners", without them becoming feudal lords with private armies and private police forces. In short, Oligarchs. Which, btw, are usually the biggest supporters of less government, the dear little rascals
Now I understand why the neighbors dont wave since I told them I am an Anarchist.
His wife looks like man. Too much steroids.
Dude... the pics sevral months ago of her with him at their home.... she's pretty damn good looking.
print drachmas endlich.
They just want to be as embedded .... in fiat security .... as our entitlement class is .... it's human nature !
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/04/28/how-the-yuan-could-win-reserve...
So when does he do a Bruce Jenner and admit he likes wearing his wife's clothes?
LOL, his wife is more of a man than he is.
Banksters Inc. is not done with Greece just yet.
They have them upside down by the ankles and will keep right on shaking until the last few coins have fallen out of their pockets.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
Hitting Varoufakis in the head with a hard object might prove beneficial in the sense that it might brake the Marxist tumour he has in there.
This is what the leftists-anarchists-CIAeemployees must have thought.
Greek "Anarchist" are pussies they fail to get the job done.
Bald pussy.
Nazis in Ukraine, Anarchists in Greece... America really knows how to pick losers to do their bidding every time Russia "invades".
Watch out Ireland - the Riverdancers are gonna double tap you!
So, Tsakalotos is a Troika appointed unelected technocratic stooge? Good luck with him forcing the people of Greece to do what he wants. Well, that is not important is it? All he has to do is give clear direction to his co-conspirators, the Greek banks.
Greece has made it apparent, that (almost) every country in the world has become a slave to the banking empire by turning over their constitutionally guaranteed money creation power to the evil Gnomes of Zurich. Freedom is available to people, but not through fighting each other. We should never do that. Freedom is found through destroying the banks and rebelling against those who control the banks... regardless of their technology supremacy and evil will ... the people have numbers.
The question is whether a critical mass of people willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of the world and for humanity has been reached. They will want to force us to fight each other again. We cannot do that. Currently it is a difficult choice to give up the increasingly less comfortable cage for freedom. It will not be as difficult in the future when the bars and hard concrete are fully exposed and the jailor is clearly revealed.
Ask him how much he paid the "anarchists" to make him look good.
I wonder instead who paid the "anarchists" to stage such an attack. The Troika? The Greek government? I suspect this is going to escalate until Varoufakis flees the country or is killed.
Does this mean that some other Greece is going to default.
Or not?
We forgot to take selfies at that dinner,
but there will be some of me hugging young Anarchists at breakfast in the May 12 Paris Match edition....
http://www.parismatch.com/Actu/Economie/Yanis-Varoufakis-et-Paris-Match-...
ROFPMSL.
Yanis.
Question:
Who runs an anarchists restaurant?
My late wife did something like that for me once. This prison-muscled black guy came charging at me at an outdoor mall.. Next thing I knew, I was looking at the back of her head and she was yelling at him -stopped him in his tracks. Very good looking, athletic, 5'8” Strawberry blond - just messed up the guy's head. He was actually spouting Jesus stuff as he came on. Weird day; but Cog has it right, above. I'll never forget that.
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I may be considered a sexist pig - but I would never let my wife stand between me and a physical threat - the only way that happens is if I am unconscious.
But - Good for her - she has more balls than he does.
Varoufakis could reach out to Bruce Jenner.
Bruce can give him his balls - he doesn't want them and Varoufakis needs to find some.
Greece should be meeting with Italy, Spain and Portugal.
If the strong refuse to help you - then get the weak countries together -negotiate as a group.
Have the Greeks already tried this? Seems like this would rip the Troika a new asshole.
I was thinking the same...
But I've gotta give her credit for being brave. Not everyone has stones like her.
most greek restaurants serve anarchist punk cuisine.
They chew ideas and articulate dietary practices, and they rehash their experiences with one another. Being anarchists, in many ways, a way of critiquing privileges and a way of challenging social hierarchies. Contemporary punks are generally inspired by anarchism, which they understand to be a way of life in favor of egalitarianism and environmentalism and against sexism, racism, and corporate domination. This way of being shows up in a vast assortment of anarchist routines—in their conversations, in their travels, and in their daily approach to feeding themselves in greek anarchist restaurants.
WR;)
Somebody had to many glasses of wine before exposing BUND fraud
about 'Greece should be meeting with Italy'...
Political gaffes have afflicted Varoufakis from the outset.
He offended the Italian government, a potential ally, when he said Feb. 8 their country was close to bankruptcy.
Most famously, he posed for a photo spread in Paris Match magazine, showing the minister and his wife on their roof terrace overlooking the Acropolis in Athens.
For any European governments sympathetic to the plight of Greeks, the picture made it harder to justify additional aid to their voters. The episode also hurt Varoufakis’s credibility and gave other ministers an easy way to needle him.
After his comments to the meeting in Riga, Varoufakis was approached by France’s Michel Sapin, a Socialist.
“I told him I had read Philosophie Magazine,” Sapin said, alluding to Varoufakis’s academic style. “It’s better than Paris Match.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-26/the-rumble-in-riga-how...
Ironic the protestors are the ones described as anarchists.
LOL & more drama for the inevitable outcome as predictable as. Leftist, Anarchist's ..... LOL, the BORG eats it's own....
Scripted Kabuki Theatre w/ a few odd ball fliers thrown in there.
Austerity, it's the new Freedom ! lol.....
He's handsome!
Does is it seem like Troika and voters interests have merged? 75% want Euro, 75% don't want "rupture", 60% don't want referendum.