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Ignoring Tsipras Plea For Calm, Greeks Storm ATMs, Stores, Gas Stations
Just a few hours ago Greek PM Tsipras addressed his nation imploring then to "remain calm" and reassuring them that their "deposits were safe." It appears the Greeks did not believe him. Many were wondering where the Greek bank lines were for the past several months. Turns out the local depositors were merely waiting until just after the last minute to withdraw their funds... horde gas... and stack food. Greece, it appears is Venezuela - the new socialist paradise.
Tsipras implored: "Keep Calm...."
They did not listen...
Call that an ATM line...
Now THIS is an ATM line...
This ia an ATM queue in the centre of Athens now #Greece #Greferendum pic.twitter.com/lx12DYnJIW
— Loukia Gyftopoulou (@loukia_g) June 28, 2015
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— Kosmas Themelis (@kosmasthem) June 28, 2015
How Greece looks like after capital control announcement by SYRIZA-ANEL #europe #euro #Eurozone #EuropeanUnion pic.twitter.com/x6nK9951H1
— Poseidon (@Kons_u) June 28, 2015
#ATM#thessaloniki#greece#krisis pic.twitter.com/Ly4g8B0Paj
— ????? ? (@sissy_mitr) June 28, 2015
Lines outside ATM in #Thessaloniki this evening via @gatosg. #greece #athens #Greferendum #dimopsifisma pic.twitter.com/phf1050KMG
— Omaira Gill (@OmairaGill) June 28, 2015
ATM queues growing by the hour in #Greece. #euro #GreeceCrisis pic.twitter.com/IYx9KAyr2n
— New Europe Investor (@neweuropeinvest) June 28, 2015
Even at the airports...
Resending this as there is at least one other ATM with cash at athens airport out of shot. I've joined the line. pic.twitter.com/EuoIcj9afb
— Elliott Gotkine (@ElliottGotkine) June 28, 2015
And gas stations are overwhelmed...
Scene at the petrol station near my hotel. Busy, certainly. but not manic. #Greece #euro pic.twitter.com/zEODyhbkHk
— John Hooper (@john_hooper) June 27, 2015
As grocery stores and general appliance stores come under seige...
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— ???????????????????? (@LPapastergiou) June 28, 2015
We have seen this before - in Russia recently as the Ruble collapsed and citizens spent any and every piece of currency they had on 'assets'.
The great news for Greece is that GDP for Q2 will be sent soaring.
Simply put - it's all about inflation expectations. And unlike The Fed or The BoJ, who keep trying to jawbone higher expectations into their citizens' minds, the Greek government may have achieved it implicitly through devaluation expectations and with it - a spending spree before things get more expensive and implicitly a surge in GDP. Of course, however, the spending surge can only be short-term and will stop as soon as there are no more euros to spend.
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And not a peep on BBC, CNN or any other msm news site"...
don't worry they'll say this to them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDAmPIq29ro
Yeah, Tyler.
It's on like Donkey Kong;)
So how much good are all of those old Greek gods doing for you now? Huh?...
You MUST pray to the real Messiah: Dear Leader Obama. Dear Leader will save us all...
In the vein of the iconic Heiniken Man after Katrina, we're gonna need an Ouzo Man for this Greek societal collapse to have any gravitas.
Hang the bankers. They are stealing YOUR money
Sheeples to the slaughter.
Looks more like they are lining up in an orderly manner rather than "storming" anything.
Thus far...
And the rest of the world will yet again think "it can never happen here". Banks are an unsafe place to keep your wealth, society learned that lesson once, it looks like it will have to be relearned.
Will not make the great MSM whose directions are to orchestrate the All Clear!
Pay attention to one of the Great Displays of Propaganda of Your Life, for this one will be a Joy to Identify the Falsehoods.
"Fuck US Imperialism" Vlad loves it when a plan comes together
All Prasie Thor, God of Shits and Grins
Central bankers' self anointed omnipotence is now being questioned -- the Emperor wears no clothes. Europeans have been living the 'free lunch' mentality and free money from the government fantasy world for way too long. You can only print so much funny money before people lose faith in it. The other question I'm keen to see tomorrow morning -- will the contagion spread to US Treasuries?
This is dedicated to you super Mario. You too Mr. Yellin
Tomorrow is coming for you & your kind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8ahBqVuT68
The idiots should have been printing Drachmas before now and been offering them at a fixed exchange rate. Now the panic has set in and things will be unpredictable.
Just in..... The ATM's were reloaded and in the early hours of the morning, they are dispencing euro. Lines are much shorter.
60 euro ($66) cash per day for Greeks. No limit if foreign funds. No limit for most electronic or pension payments.
and...now its getting very popular...the JUBILEE...
Puerto Rico’s Governor Says Island’s Debts Are ‘Not Payable’http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/29/business/dealbook/puerto-ricos-governo...
Are you really buying this crap. There's no way that Greece is leaving the Euro. The Grexit is a fiction. Mark my words.
It is important to stand on the hill, gun in hand... and turn, turn your back on this world.
Sit back and relax while the real RUN to watch will be on the precious metals while they continue to surpress the prices all PHYSICAL will disappear from the vaults. The game will get REAL soon.
Haha. Now, let's us hear the new Greek national anthem while we wait in line!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spdSSI2rTKI
New anthem might be this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvKXJUZfqUQ
so many people wait to the last minute. always.
ZH is the source on world economic events, forecasts and analysis. Proud reader since about 2010. I feel I'll be well informed far in advance so I can avoid this hysteria when it finally comes home to roost in the USSA. Tylers: you've helped many find the truth and many more to come. Thank you!
No cable, no Hollywood, no newspapers, no lies. It's ZH and a few other sites, a lot of books and a passport with eligible residency in a South American country. Suck dick .gov.
I always wondered why it is call "socialism" but now I get it. When socialism is working properly everyone is very social, out in the streets, standing in lines. Honestly though, it might be more accurate to call it "queuism".
This is not about socialism, it's about thieving banksters raping the population of a country.
If they get away with it in Greece, it will happen in another country soon, then another ........
Greeks are the mice in the lab as of Monday.
If they roll over for the banksters the banksters win.
This IS about socialism. This is why they borrow to cover their tax revenue shortages. Socialists actually love bankers contrary to popular socialist opinion.
The game is that banks and governments are like bartenders and drunks. The banks are the bar tenders with the booze and knowledge to make the favorite drinks. The drunk is government with a huge taxpayer checkbook and a gun.
Socialists can never tax enough and create enough bureaucracies to solve all world problems as they claim. The end game is a 100% tax rate and infinite regulations.
No it's not. It is about government elites being brought off by the bankers and corporations so the institutions of the State can be used for their benefit. That is NOT socialism. The majority of the debt since 2008 have been created by all the 'printing' to save the stealing banks which has conveniently enriched the 1%. You have no idea and will never understand how the world really works.
Correct. The bought and paid for government elites have created trillions of new money to save the banks from going under as a result of all those fancy debt assets that were on their balance sheets suddenly finding their true value in 2008. That new money now sits as a huge debt on the balance sheets of the countries that created it and therefore every man woman and child in those countires. Then they and the equally bought and paid for msm make a huge effort to convince everyone its the all the fault of the unemployed, single mothers, widows and invalids who are in receipt of state benefits. Meanwhile the banks are now free to start the game again and make huge profits and, incredibly,are insisting on terrible austerity measures to be inflicted on those countries that bailed them out in the first place.
Wake up people for fuck's sake, stop all this USSA bullshit and lets try to remember who caused the problems to start with instead of swallowing the upside down narrative the elites are putting out there to distract attention from the truth.
The Rothschilds funded Marx while he wrote his wretched little red book.
Marxist/Socialist/Communist - it doesn't matter. It's all the same parasitic, psychopathic bankster bullshit. It's designed to drag the goyim down to the animal level so that they might be more easily herded, while also handing control of the entire planet to the filthybanksters.
The idea that banksters and Marxism are at odds is the supreme fiction of our time.
How could the "elites" do such a thing. Don't they "care" about all the leftist idiots that worship and put their trust in them?
To put a straight bat on your facetious comment, the answers are above. They have exerted control over government institutions with their wealth and influence and used the threat of being too big to fail to rob our countries and have been helped to get away with it by the tacit acceptance and swallowing of their narrative by people such as yourself. And yes, lots of people put their faith in those governments and they don't care one little bit.
Speak for yourself bub. If I gave "tacit acceptance" then why would I be mocking the leftard idiots? Try again.
Thanks for taking the time to make your position clearer
Your welcome.
That time I was being facetious. I have absolutley no idea what your position is other than you wish to mock 'leftards'. Since that is an entirely subjective pejorative term and not a real word only you know who or what you wish to mock. Maybe you should try again ?
It's not government OR powerful financial interests , it's both - a symbiotic, predatory partnership, and has been that throughout history. As Bill Bonner put it only a month ago at lewrockwell.com:
"Of course, that’s what government was designed for: to allow one group to rob another. If the elite could take no advantage from it, why would they bother with government at all?"
Looks like the EU is finally on the highway to hell! ...'bout time.
Got my front section tickets to hear HIghway to Hell live end September - if we're still standing by then.
WTF is your problem with Thor? What did he ever do to you? Huh?
Obviously these people have not been reading ZH, or they would have panicked much earlier. Why is there no Greek translation of ZH, I wonder?
Never underestimate the stupidity of the average person. Like George Carlin said: "We all know how stupid the average person is - just remember, half of them are even stupider".
This is one reason why I don't subscribe to the "everything is a false flag" meme - Never attriubute anything to malice that can be explained by stupidity.
Sorry but that quote is quite invalid. Malice and stupidity are not in any way mutually exclusive.
Just because sometimes it can be both, does not mean that stupidity is not often the underlying reason. One might even posit that perhaps much apparent malice is actually a result or consequence of stupidity.
double post
Supply chains start breaking down without the free flow of capital.
Expect shortages by Wednesday.
If you are reading this and are Greek with babies at home, go out tomorrow and purchase an additional month of diapers. Everyone in Greece needs to go out and purchase a months worth of toilet paper as well.
Food might also be a good idea, depending on how hostile the EU gets with you guys.
""Expect shortages by Wednesday...Food might also be a good idea, depending on how hostile the EU gets with you guys.""
Maybe Vlad can reassign this to the Greece Express .. http://fortruss.blogspot.com.au/2015/05/another-syria-express-run.html
;))
Any fucking idiot that waited until the negotiations broke down to stockpile at least a few weeks of the necessities of life doesn't deserve to get them, IMO. How stupd does someone have to be to watch this shit going on and not take precautions?
Note to americans, get your shit purchased and put away, right now, before you "need" it. People that "hoard" foodstuffs are going to be the new criminals. If you buy it well before a panic, the store restocks, and now you've not hurt the fucking idiots in life who are incapable of thinking for themselves and basically have helped the community overall since your family is one less in need of food/necessities. So you can't (or shouldn't) be considered a "hoarder". Not that it will stop Obama from trying to take your stuff and claim you are a terrorist.
Real people games? Imagine some uber wealthy group setting around monitors in some smoking room, sipping brandy and playing/keyboarding real world games with real people, governments, nations? Building them up, crushing them, droning them, drugging them, diseasing them, all in a real world, real time using politicans/governments/bankers/corportations/CEOs as their tools. There is a movie in here.
Might turn out to be a documentary.
Like Mike Judge's 'Idiocracy'?
It's call Late Stge Liberal Financial Kapitalism, aka Fuck-You-All debt slavery. Get used to it.
No one will call you a hoarder if they don't know you have anything.
Stack a spare closet with food, water treatment, Candles & flaslights, First aid, cooking stoves and fuel.
Remove anything more than next month's reng/mortgage payment from the bank.
Cross your eyes, legs AND fingers.
could be an interesting week.
"Any fucking idiot that waited until the negotiations broke down to stockpile at least a few weeks of the necessities of life doesn't deserve to get them"
Fuck Yeah!
It's starting, I think..... may not get here right away but, if you don't take this queue to get ready for whatever may come.... it's on you.
I'm preaching to the choir here but, I think something is brewing. It's going to happen one way or the other.... if not now.... pretty soon.... It has to... you can't defy 4th grade math forever.
Pussy gonna get pretty cheap, boys!
As far as I know thats always been free
"purchase an additional month of diapers"
That's the problem here. Consume or die is the message for losers in this game.
Rather the reality is consume -- and die.
You don't need a month's diapers to throw away. You can't afford that anymore and buying a month's time is worth what? Worth nothing. You need 20 cloth diapers can be washed in the toilet and dried on the line and used for a year. And after that you can use them for shop rags for another year.
And all those cars lined up for gas? Are you shitting me? Nobody will be driving to work after Wednesday, and if you are one of the lucky few who do, in another 3 weeks you won't even be able to fill up again at all because nobody with market ties to the eurozone will be selling fuel to Greece. Forget that game, it's over. Don't buy the gas, and sell your car at a loss to the first stupid fuck will buy it. Dust off your bicycle, you are working in construction or the fields now buddy everybody is.
Pull up your lawn or patio, plant vegetables. Doesn't matter if you can't grow enough to feed your family your unproductive property consumes water and effort and doesn't feed anyone, get rid of it use your water and effort growing tomatoes. Grow enough and you can trade them in the market for cash, oligarches gotta eat too.
The game is over. All the games, are over. Everything you thought was a life worth living, was really just a game or a racket, and it's over. Find another life -- something not a game but a right occupation -- and fight for that because even dogs in the streets have a life. And there is no shortage of things want to live.
^This. Post of the Day. A brief outline of what I've been trying to do with my life for the past decade plus. Thanks for the validation.
cougar w has always cut through the ridiculous bullshit and stated what needs to be said. I couldn't agree more, it is fuckan over and anyone thinking otherwise has their head firmly in their ass.
Clarity Cougar clarity. FWIW, in the sustainable community I find myself in, nobody uses TP. They wash instead.
I picked a heaping handful of cherry tomatoes this morning and sat in peaceful bliss as I popped them one by one into my mouth and sustained myself completely matrix-free.
I gave you a +1, but Greece''s reality is not really so bleak. If not for interest on existing debt, Greece is close to running a budget surplus. With some modest additional budget cuts they could be sulf sufficient. Then they need only reject their debt (and renegotiate in a couple years at 10 cents on the dollar), and convert back to drachma to re-cap their banks.
You're right, but it's still kind of fun to imagine The Road Warrior with chariots.
It will be something between your rosy scenario and the painful, agonizing death ZH'ers usually envision.
Supply chain breakdown will be the most immediate and devastating immediate effect.
I t might help if they did not run up more debt, too. Seems I remember a time not so long ago when the USA (accidentally) ran a surplus. How long did that last?
Yea that... or they could have just pulled all their Euros in cash last week and put it in a safe in their basement. The new Drachma is going to serve massive inflation to the pensioners and public workers but the Euro will still hold up its relative value in the EU. It'll be like Bolivars and Dollars in Venezuela, bet a lot of people wished they swapped their bolivar bank deposits for US dollar cash a year ago when the exchange rate was 40:1 not 400:1.
Excellent points. Gas for the rototiller, not the car.
Whether or not total collapse is on our doorstep this is an excellent message that people should consider just in order to conserve their own assets and also help our environment and teach the next generation a more sustainable way of life than the current destructive consumer paradigm.
Haus, if you don't have food, a weeks worth of toilet paper is more than enough
Unlike Ferguson, Baltimore and trayvonville. Greece and the Greek need to join the BRICS and their fellow Orthodox Christians - the Russians.
Folks in Puerto Rico seem to get it. When will the EU recognize that it's just MATH?
BREAKING NEWS Puerto Rico’s Governor Says Island’s Debts Are ‘Not Payable’ Sunday, June 28, 2015 9:01 PM EDT Puerto Rico’s governor, saying he needs to pull the island out of a “death spiral,” has concluded that the commonwealth cannot pay its roughly $72 billion in debts, an admission that will probably have wide-reaching financial repercussions. The governor, Alejandro García Padilla, and senior members of his staff said in an interview last week that they would probably seek significant concessions from as many as all of the island’s creditors, which could include deferring some debt payments for as long as five years or extending the timetable for repayment. “The debt is not payable,” Mr. García Padilla said. “There is no other option. I would love to have an easier option. This is not politics, this is math.”SO it's not possible to flip the island over thus getting rid of the inhabitants?
You have to be so stupid to believe that .... that you have to be in congress to get it.
https://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/doral.html
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 27, 2015 Doral Bank, San Juan, Puerto Rico, was closed today by the Office of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions of Puerto Rico The FDIC estimates that the cost to the Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) will be $748.9 million.
Doral Bank is the fourth FDIC-insured institution to fail this year, and the first in Puerto Rico. The last time an FDIC-insured institution was closed in Puerto Rico was on April 30, 2010.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 30, 2010 R-G Premier Bank of Puerto Rico, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico The FDIC estimates that the cost to the Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) will be $1.23 billion
A billion here and billion there.........................
“death spiral” Coincidentally, that's what they'll say about his plane 'accident'.
It was MATH when they borrowed it, as well.
I doubt they are armed....
He who panics first, panics best.
USA better wait the fuck up pretty quick. This is coming soon and the time to prepare is closing. I'm done trying to warn the idiots around me. Doesn't matter if they plaster it on the news 24/7, they won't see.
If I hear " it won't affect our country" one more time I think I'll vomit.
Miffed
Not just the US though is it, I hear the same from deadhead friends in many places.
I don't know. Most Dead Heads I know are pretty together.
It won't affect our country.
NOT AT ALL...It won't affect our Nation at all.
Now isn't that is the most laughable denial which you have ever heard?
Bend over baby. The Derivatives Shaft is headed toward your browneye ...without any lube.
"But this won't hurt a bit. It is contained...by your ass."
Signed, Your Central Bankster
Damn right Tom.
This is financial Ebola. And there is no fucking containment. Bloody liquidation of a body and no organ is safe. At least with Ebola you can run away and not be infected. In this case there is nowhere to run. If you touch this in any way, you are dead.
Miffed
It will have to blow up at some point.... even with the corrupt system that says that some defaults are "voluntary".... ( Like I know anyone who just gives up their investments )... there is a point when it simply can not go on anymore....
I fear we're close and, I've been watching this for a long time.... I know how those in power just change the rules when they don't suit them.... even so... there is a point when the music stops.
USA!USA!USA!
yeah, baby!
USA!USA!USA!
yeah, baby!
I gave up trying to warn others a while back. They just dont care and I dont care if they starve. NASCAR and football are more important...until they cant sit around drinking pissy light beer and eating super-fuckin' cheddar cheetos or what-have you. It annoys them to hear the truth and it annoys me they can be so willfully stupid. I saw a quote the other day but dont recall who said it..."Ordinary people have big tv's...extraordinary people have big libraries" Look around at any of your 'friends' houses and see how many people own any books of import (if any, whatsoever). This country has become absolutely pathetic. Rock on, America!
Preppers drink real beer.
I dont consider myself a 'prepper' (though, Im well stocked) but I make my own beer, wine, mead...and etc. Burp
gun & knives, all is needed to scavange and loot from others :) survive bro'...not camping, wake the fuck up, you say shortages i see plenty stores, everywhere.
ROL may not apply, but commandments still do.
that'll be fine until a few shells of 00 buck go into yer ass.
Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.
Weapons work both ways.
The trouble with bullys is sooner or later they run into a bigger bully
Shit, I was really worried there for a while, but now that we have gay marriage, I think the worst is over.
Sarc from you is a rare treat. Thanks for the laugh. I'm tired of smashing my fist against the wall.
Funny to think 30 years ago I was so pathetically clueless that I would see the end of our nation in my lifetime. Now I just wonder how I will pay for my lack of vision.
Is there a country left to save? Is it worth fighting for? Everything I see seems to tell me no. I am done manning the oars. When the producers go Galt, the parasites will fight for scraps and eventually consume themselves.
Miffed
Its all I have left in me.
Was going to a relative's gay wedding reception yesterday afternoon and got a call from our dog sitter that our 14 year old, 140lb Newfoundland/ridgeback mix "Brutus" had died, so we whipped a U turn and came home. Spent the morning digging a grave on his favorite hill and burying him. Sad day for us as we have no children but rescue mutts, and losing this one was tough. I did appreciate his sacrifice in saving us from the event, but we will miss him.
It's something as simple as a dog's death to make you appreciate things you have sometimes. The Greeks will have to go it alone tonight, as I'm not carrying much sympathy.
My 15 year old cat and good buddy had to be put down this week, so I feel your pain.
Peace and Aloha bro...I really enjoy your well reasoned and thoughtful posts here. Cheers...
Sorry to hear about your losses. I lost my 18yr old tabby recently so I know just how you guys feel about losing a good friend - it's not easy to express, but perhaps John Hobhouse/Lord Byron did a good job:
Written on the tomb of Boatswain, Byron's Newfoundland Dog:
Near this Spot
are deposited the Remains of one
who possessed Beauty without Vanity,
Strength without Insolence,
Courage without Ferocity,
and all the virtues of Man without his Vices.
This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery
if inscribed over human Ashes,
is but a just tribute to the Memory of
Boatswain, a Dog
who was born in Newfoundland May 1803
and died at Newstead Nov. 18th, 1808
I didn't know this poem, but I find it weirdly appropriate to recite a poem aboyt Lord Byron's dog in an article about the death of greek economy...
Our 25 year old cat needs to die (really!). The damned thing keeps on going and going...meows and whines and sheds and eats, pukes and shits and keeps on going. Wife and I debate each time about how much cat food we should buy...but we go to Costco and get the megameal and damned if that cat eats through it all.
We talked aobut putting it down and our 27 year old son got all upset. We know how old the cat is by his age, he was 2 when we got her.
I never knew cats could live so damned long. It's likely to outlast me!
We're real sorry to hear that Oldwood, that so blows. I've been there and don't envy that on any pet lover.
I alternate between Fight and Fuck It Let It Burn. Can't decide.
I moved South specifically because I could see the nation headed in this general direction. Just didn't think things would deteriorate so quickly since the mid-2000's. Sadly, I am not ready for any seriously adverse scenarios yet.
On one hand I want things to continue a while longer, on the other hand I wish collapse would come while Half Black Cracker is still in the White House. A lot of people deserve it, imho.
I have been through many homes and am amazed that so few have books, any books at all, not even a comic book. It is sad for them and especially the children, their parents are idiots.
Please move, you're blocking the TV. Oh, and did you bring a pizza when you came in?
Do not worry citizen. Your xfinity voice controlled remote has reported your need for pizza and it will be delivered in 20 minutes.
Now citizen, about that other thing you were discussing. Worry.
Big Brother Pizza
I look to my right at my bookshelf. Beyond the college texts, there's a bookcase double stuffed with sci-fi/fantasy shit, a bookcase with the 'Harvard Classics' (five foot shelf of books), a Bible, a Koran, a book of Mormon, and one I haven't read 'Vedas' (saving for boredom when shit collapses). I also have TM 31-200-1 Unconventional Warfare Devices and Techniques w references, a number of Boy Scout Manual and Handbooks, my Guidebook for Marines (circa 1978), Road to Serfdom, Economics in One Lesson...all set aside (after I read them) to subvert my grandson (currently 1.5).
I've also got a bookshelf that has every disney movie ever made, MAD magazines from late 1950's to present (no not pristine), and copies of my various software copyrights.
My wife and sons are still TV addicts. Though the younger son does occasionally read (Harry Potter, for instance). My wife can read and write but avoids it at every chance except at work (and compared to younger people she's Albert Einstein). Our older son prefers to pour over milspec/drawings/plans and military bullshit than anything else..but his position as a military contractor has kept his ass in Afghanistan for the last 13 years (went back 6/27 after three weeks off.)
When my boys were young I used to do the same to them my folks did when I complained I was 'bored'. I handed them a book, any book, never even looked at the cover. What I didn't know was that back in the 80's schools were starting to discourage independent reading. There was a list of books that they preferred kids to read. My handing a random book to my sons confused them. It wasn't approved. And I was too dumb-assed to even think there was an approval needed. My younger son even referred to certain books as 'Chapter Books'. I had no idea what he was talking about until much later and, regretfully, far too late.
Who would have suspected that Webster's Dictionary was never on the list?
I have an ongoing joke with my husband that the real riots don't happen till the pepsi and doritoes are gone.
everytime I hit the store I'll snap a picture of either one and send a text "no riots this week"
but the joke may be reality soon.
if they plaster it on the news 24/7, they won't see.
Never happen. You will never live to see the day. The media will spew the lie even after there is not one person left believes it, because the media belong to the oligarch .01% and they will never allow any minion under their control to say any single word out of line, ever for evar. When the land is nothing but ashes and there is only one 40" TV out there in an empty sports bar with the last bartender on the planet wiping down over and over endlessly the last bar serving nobody at all ever again, there will still be 400 channels of 24/7 infotainment and not a single syllable -- not a peep -- of truth about all those ashes or how they came to pass.
Wrap your head around that, and you will have turned an important corner.
+1 had to login just to up vote you. I watch TV for about 10 minutes once or twice a year when I'm traveling and staying in a hotel. It only takes me about that long to remember why I turned if off in the first place. You're right. Propaganda never changes even as the tanks drive by in the background of the location shot....
Ditto, it gets harder to watch every year too.
You're right.... there are like 6 corporations that give us everything we need to know about the world..... yeaaaaa us.
I'm with you, Miffed!
I've been very busy lately..... Like... I've been messing around for the last 6yrs or so and, this year.... I'm actually making lists and finishing projects that were sort of done.
I have real off grid power now.... enough to run my 3 freezers..... and, I'll stop there... I'm sure I'm already on every list just for reading this site. LOL
Seems like lately, I'm spending most of my time trying to get the stuff I've been considering for a long time finished up.... It's like I'm being prompted to do so.... whether it's by news or something else ( which is what I believe ).... I feel like it's important now and no longer a game or hobby.
It could be a quck reset.... it could be much worse.... I've come to love living outsite of town.... I work a high tech job too.... working in the cloud now.... programming an automating the orchestration layer of it and lucky enough to work wherever I want to and go in to town every now and then.... I'm seculded now... 7mi from the gas station... when I moved out here I didn't even realize how it would to be away from things.....
when I see folks saying things like, "bring it on"... I'm sad for them.... I thought I knew something when I got way away from things and everybody.... I didn't......
One example.... do you know how dark it gets when there is NO light around? If power were out..... you'd see every star in the sky except you'd be in town..... or, how much gas it takes to get stuff done... how you need working machines to make things happen.... without a tractor and an auger.... it'd be hard to drill a hole to crap in...... In Texas... if you can't cool yourself off in august, you may die of heat exhaustion trying to do simple work. It takes 3ga of gas to mow my front 4 acres.... 6fa of diesel to shred my pasture...... no.... I don't hope things change.... I love a simple life away from folks..... but, these days, you're labled a terrorist to even prepare for if anything goes bad.....
I've tried to address the power situation.... we'll see... may not matter but, if the grid failed, I'm producing an average of 45kwh / day with about 830ah at 48v. of battery backup.... I'm grid tied but, when the grid fails, the other thing takes over. LOL 36 panels and over 2k pounds of AGM batteries.
No... I hope everything will stay in tact.... I'm not counting on it but, I hope it does or... I hope that it's not as bad as I think it could be.... it's been a long time since the world has gone off it rockers and, we're overdue... the WWII generation that could at least remember it... even when war never came here understood it..... my father and uncle fought in WWII... they're both buried now but, I've heard some stories.... even my mother would tell me about rations and... we never saw fighting on this land.
sorry for venting.... I've got to get some sleep tonight... I have a big presentation to give tomorrow. I have a very new presentation of something I've been working on since Jan.... to a VERY old phone company VP.
Fuck, and I'm still working on the 1,000 gallons of water deal...
can't stand the pressure!
Well, actually I can, I'm in a pretty good position, but can always use moar.
Start with the bankers in the USA that sold all of these goverments junk paper rates AAA. They are responsible for the entire global collapse.
Once you have a CDO, supposedly made up of 100's of pieces of pieces of "real" property that the paper can never be easily tracked back to, the next easy step was to sell CDO, MBS backed by phantom nothing. The there's the whole issue with these things changing hands left and right but nobody ever told the county clerk or paid the transfer tax so in reality, a lot of nothing changed hands for a lot of money. Banksters committed bond fraud an poisoned their own golden egg laying goose. Now the casino is crashing.
As for me...I think the Bankers will not only LET Greece suffer, they will do everything they can to exacerbate the suffering in order to show all other countries the suffering that will come to them if they dare to challenge the fascist banking regime sponsored/controlled EU/FED.
That depends on how heavily Douchebank and other large financial institutions are exposed to Greece. Two words: Counterparty risk. How exposed is The Squid to Douchebank?
The squid, probably not too exposed.
The squid's clients however...
They will only do what is profitable to them. If there is no profit in Greece suffering more then Greece will not suffer more.
I don't always leave my money in the bank after they close it...
But when I do,
I burn it down.
ha ha, stay frosty.
would be a fun night
to be hanging at a Greek bar,
with a pocket full of $20's
drinking with the locals..
Yeah there is..
http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/28/news/economy/greece-banks-ecb/index.html
Who knew that there were so many naturally blonde women in Greece?
Contained....just like Lehman was
Here's what the Greek People need to hear from their leader:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04xOsNW7zTA
You forgot the "sarc" mention at the end of your post...next time you try to be funny please warn everyone ... and please do it in manner which will also be understood by the new Herrenrasse over the pond.
Remember how civil and orderly the Japanese were after the earthquake and tsunami? The Greeks seem civil enough as they fall into the unkown...but there is not a chance in hell that this will be the case in USSA.
The anarchists and immigrants will be out tomorrow night. It's early, get your popcorn ready.
Its going according to plan. After it gets violent, NATO or UN peacekeepers can be called in (to keep the peace while the bond payments are made). Maybe the US will have an excuse to send in some forces to make sure the Russian gas pipeline deal falls through...
Greece will not be allowed to leave the Eurozone any more than the confederate states were allowed to leave the united states. Stay tuned to see if the Greeks resist the occupation.
Ready to go at a moment's notice
"Greece became a NATO member in 1952 and is host to several facilities including the NATO Deployable Corps Greece (NDC-GR) located in Thessaloniki, the Combined Air Operations Centre (CAOC 7) in Larissa, the Multinational Peace Support Operations Training Center (MPSOTC) in Kilkis, the NATO Maritime Interdiction Operational Training Centre (NMIOTC) at the naval base of Souda Crete, NATO Missile Firing Installation (NAMFI), Athens Multinational Sealift Coordination Centre (AMSCC), and the Naval Base of Souda."
http://www.aco.nato.int/page127301423.aspx
or maybe a different sort of Grexit:
http://sputniknews.com/analysis/20150207/1017930909.html
A lot of training facilities and command centers, but how many troops available for urban warfare?
It's going to get ugly.
Depends on what that NATO Deployable Corps is. At the very least, all the bases, airstrips and naval facilities are set up and prepositioned for troop arrival if so ordered.
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Black Fridays at Walmart were training exercises.
You mean Jade Helm command centers.
Haven't these fools heard that we've legalized gay marriage? They should be celebrating! All is well.
Hey MSM Talking Heads, stop making nonsense!
This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no foolin' around!
Sure you're not really BA Baracus? Just checkin'...
Mr. Jones is back in town and he's got ventilated slacks!
This is "fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round."
hard body tweakers and freakers
make the bad boys go down
Funny how when people stop getting paid they riot.
Reminds me of Baltimore actually.
Soon the State of New York would appear...
Dont pitty those who stand in line now.
They deserve it all.
If they actually cared about their country and knew what was happening, they would have pulled it all out and would already have made preperations to move out of the country.
No pitty here.
Come on, it actually needed to be said 1000 times that the jig is up before they started to act.
And the poor people will still be able to withdraw 80 euro’s a day. Most don’t make that per day.
So most probably, they’ll also be in that line but if they listened they could be drinking relaxed at home.
There won't be any drinking at home, relaxed, sitting on your preps if your neighbours riot and the community goes up in flames.
I have an enormous amount of pity for the Greeks - their government exchanged debt that could be evaded for debt that could not be evaded, all so European banks could be made whole.
And how does the EU thank mom and pop in Greece - by demanding pensions be given up, taxes be raised to the point of killing the rest of the Greek economy.
It's always the little guy who suffers.
But the new debt is odious, right?