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A Drone's Eye View Of The Massive Numbers Behind The Greek "No" Vote
Tens of thousands of Greeks flooded the streets of central Athens on Friday evening ahead of Sunday's referendum.
Both the "yes" crowd and the "no" crowd were out in force with the former camped out in front of Olympic stadium and the latter in front of Parliament. Each rally boasted participation of more than 20,000 people according to local police.
“I call you to say again a big proud ‘no’ to ultimatums on Sunday,” PM Alex Tsipras shouted, in a speech to the "No" supports. "We can also say it in German: Nein, Frau Merkel, Nein,” another speaker quipped.
Indeed, the size of the rallies was quite impressive, if somewhat disquieting.
As you can see from the drone footage below, Athenians are restless and we can't help but wonder what the scene will be in the streets of Athens on Sunday evening once the results are tallied and one of these two dueling groups is forced to acquiesce to the other's vision of Greece's future.
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The OXI rally was massive, the biggest seen in many many years. There was also an attempt to create distress by 500 hooded and masked club-bearing men who were crushed by the "MAT" (Greek Riot Police) before making any trouble.
The NAI rally was significantly smaller, full of posh Athenian shits listening to club music.
Go little Greece go!
OXI OXI OXI
Tomorrow is the electoral version of the Battle of Crete.
The Greece people will conqure Germany.
You're a moron. No one is going to take over anyone, apart from the Banksters who currently occupy Germany as well, are about to be throw out of Greece.
You are a moron. Remember if I owe you a $100,000 I have a problem. If I owe you $10,000,000 you got a problem. Germany has the problem ass wipe.
Germany will eat 80 Billion if Greece leaves. Less than 1% of its economy. Not the end of the world. Spain on the other hand will be eating 53 Billion, and is 4% of its GDP.
Germany can shurg of 80 Billion without batting an eye. If the CDS start flowing -- then the whole world has a problem, including Greece.
Pull your head out of your ass.
I've been involved with large outdoor crowds for 30 years. I've worked at many music festivals. That is way, way more than 20,000 people. I would guess at least 100k.
I was thinking the exact same thing.
That's way more than 20K. I agree. Remember there will bee all sorts of news reports and misleading stories about how small this crowd is and how large that crowd is. All to temper the opiions and steer the minds of the people. The real challange will be in the counting of the votes. Who is doing that and who will be watching is what really matters in the end.
The real challange will be in the counting of the votes.
I don't know about that. Let me show you. 'One for me and one for me.....one for me, and one for me.' See how easy that was. Oh, and have you noticed, you can't even see what I'm counting here?
Gyges said:There was also an attempt to create distress by 500 hooded and masked club-bearing men who were crushed by the "MAT"
I'd like to know a little more about that. The basics: names of the 500, who organized them, who was paying them and how much. Were they Greek or German or French? Anybody go to jail? Did the organizer get arrested? Did Soros have anything to do with it?
You know, stuff like that. Got any links?
And with 30x derivatives leverage, more like 30 million!!!
Then that settles it.
'No' will win.
I'm going to sleep in tomorrow
It is wrong of ZH to equate both “no” and “yes” rallies as somehow being equal after the drone video shows massive crowds in Syntagma Square. As RT explains, this rally was “in support of a ‘NO’ vote in the upcoming ballot referendum in Athens on Friday.”
I am familiar with anti-war crowds in San Francisco and I would say this crowd could even be a million.
The only thing I know about large crowds is that I avoid them like the plague. However, even I can guess that the crowd shown is many multiples of 20,000. The propaganda never ceases.
Exactly right - that crowd shits over the supposed 20000 figure.
What the fck is going on with ZeroHedge of late....im seeing some MSM type bullshit propaganda reporting.
Take yesterdays article about the referendum question being posed and what a YES or NO vote meant.....well, it was complete bullshit how ZeroHedge framed it...it was actually the reverse of what was actually being asked of the Greek ppl.
Some dark elements have infected the Tylers. I can smell a turncoat a mile away.....just like asswipe Greg Hunter over at USAWatchdog.com showing his true zionist colours after sucking everyone in.
Get your shit together Tylers.
ZH is owned by ABC Media Ltd., which should give you an idea about its mission in life (hint: it's 100% crypto-corporate).
But luckily, we adaptable folk know how to get by their silly attempts to frame conversations and thoughts. For example, I now rarely read the articles and generally just go dive into the comments, knowing that amongst the paid trolls are also some decent people who will actually tell it like it is.
And here is how I see it: this referendum is BS distractions by stupid puppets. Syriza is a 100% confirmed lying bankster puppet (they broke all their key promises and have been doing nothing but theater since being elected), and as such they need to shake things up to make people care about their BS again.
Hope and change! Will you fall for it, again?
You guys really should read ZH during the week some. Such as the recent article announcing the squid's opinion that the EU can't devalue the euro enough with Greece in. I read that as "how do we stage a NO vote to minimize collateral damage?"
Sorry, double post.
It's not just the 80B it's the derivatives based on those amounts, which are in the T's
Bingo. Just remember in Cyprus in 2013 when all the CDS got triggered -- they were all declaired void and unenforceable.
BINGO.
Exactly why it'll be worse....a casino where the house never losesy must eventually destruct. What you are seeing in Greece are gamblers pushing back against a rotten twisted system. The fiat master fck-twads (I just made that word up btw) pushed too far for too long.
Burn the motherfcking house down I say.
Here comes the avalanche, Italy, Portugual, Spain will be next. Germany can't afford that penis breath. USA is on the chopping block, but Europe(Germany) is going first. Jack off my friend.
I don't doubt a word of what you say.
However, much to your dismay, Germany will pick itself up from this coming shitshow, and get itself sorted out again much quicker than everyone else I do imagine.
I'm not sure where you are -- but I am sure Germany in 5 years will be doing better than wherever you may be.
I will bet you 100 OZ of gold that my balance sheet looks better than Germany's in 5 years?
I'll be you that Germany's balance sheet looks better than your country's balance sheet in 5 years.
I never bet on these I DON'T control
But you made a bet on Germany's balance sheet.
Wolfgang -- Wolfgang is that you?
Most cuntries' gubbermints have negative net assets. That means if you have a positive net worth, your balance sheet is stronger.
So in the contest between Germany's balance sheet in 5 years & whatever shit hole he is from -- which of the two will likely be closer to 0?
Germany, China and Russia can be the new Troika of industrial infrastructure and resources outside the influence of the prevailing cancerous fiat.
It will be interesting to see how the dominos fall and how the usual suspects try and manage the chaos towards a new order.
I won't take that bet, but as long as I can stop losing all my gold in these damned boating accidents, I think my balance sheet will look better.
H-T, are you suggesting that the USA will bankroll Germany's recovery yet again!? (&if not the USA then who?)
No.
I am saying that the cultural homogeny that Germany enjoys, coupled with its export oriented ideals will keep Germany going when everyone else is toast. Germany has been financially wiped out 4 times in the past 100 years. Each time coming back better than before.
I don't think this time will be different.
I do respect your view, still my point is that Germany needed substantial help -including debt forgiveness- from abroad each time and I agree with you that "I don't think this time will be different" either.
(re "export oriented ideals", ideals is not a word I'd use in this context)
Moar like Clash of the Titans
The Greek media certainly seem to treat it as such. Commercial Greek TV stations overwhelmingly represented the "yes" campaign, and virtually ignored the "no" camp.
https://twitter.com/damomac/status/616355087020113920
Why have Tspiras and Varofakous said they will step down if a yes vote?
Think about this, they could just say they will "honor the wishes of a democratic people." Heck, Tspiras has bowed a few times to the Troika.
So, this signals that we will see a yes vote, BUT it won't end as people assume. The Troika/Germany/EU will quickly annouce that the deal was no longer on the table and Greece will get no further monies, despite the yes vote.
Tspiras will step down immediately, there will be blood in the streets, and someone will need to step in to restore order. It will be this man:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/10/us-eurozone-greece-kammenos-id...
And isn't it interesting? He already has his own "Plan B" which is going to Russia/China for money, which both have offered and will be waiting to give at the BRICs summit on Wednesday the 8th.
'Titans' is a misnomer given the fact that they were non-existent March 10th 2008, and afterwards. In brief, if 'titans' actually existed in reality they would have put their brains together to solve the downing of Lehman Bros. before the Casino Capitalism Ponzi started to implode. Never forget that 'titans' do not exist in reality. Neither Greenspan, Rubin, or Samuelson Summers, or Geithner, are to be thought of as 'titans'. Soros is no 'titan', and neither is John Paulson, Henry Paulson, Roubini, Buffett, or Corzine.
These fuckers wouldn't so much as stick a finger in a leaking dyke, let alone slow the collapse down from freefall speed, so muppets can exit!
Germany won the Battle of Crete, for those playing along at home.
yep, they beat the New Zealanders but guess what, the Cretans are still there, proud in their generosity to all visitors
Oh they won the battle alright.....and pretty much were decimated and non-usable afterwards...Pyrrhic Victory...
I'm buying more Silver next week, this thing is going savage when the Greeks vote OXI.
X2
freefom vs serfdom
Fck to high hell the troika,debt enslavement and the whole fiat CB system.
Im sincerely hoping the Greeks break away from devil EU
Interesting! But the respect for the political opponent should always prevail. The huge question irrespective of the result of tomorrows referendum is going to be what happens to the debt pile. Without a very significant reduction of the debt (preferably to zero) the situation in Greece will not improve.
Ummm, can we compost it?
The oligarchs superbowl sunday in greece....
just like superbowl here and worldcup and libor, and ....and
The fix is already in
Yahoo news was describing the crowds as 'yes' voters. I think that drone is being closely followed by a swam of bees.
Orwellian double speak it was actually a NO rally.
"What we've got here is failure to communicate.
Some men you just can't reach...
So, you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it!
Well, he gets it!
N' I don't like it any more than you men."
Truer words were not said before !
GO GREECE! Show them you won't be a Goldman Sacks puppet
I notice with mild dismay that even some of the more well-reasoned articles and opinion pieces I've seen written about this whole fiasco recently, never seem to mention Goldman Sachs' role in all this. IIRC, it was this bit of book cooking, somewhere in early 2002, that first made me aware of Goldman Sachs, and just how central to all this evil that actually are/were.
Sadly, GS is likely set to profit from whatever happens in Greece. Never let a crisis go to waste
Too late for that but a good hard kick into Goldman's nut sack might get some of their own back.
It's all I ask...For now...
Reporting the pre-vote is not the vote itself, but it's getting the people thinking about it. I get the feeling it will be somewhat lopsided toward 'no' but people in large groups tend to do strange things so it's wait and see time......
"Nein, Frau Merkel, Nein"
Translation:
'No we will not pay back what we have borrowed to pay for the unrealistic benefits and retirements we as politicians promised to our citizens so they would vote for us. This is socio/communism and we like it - free shit for everyone! PS: The rest of the EU, get to work, our debt needs paid and our retirement numbers are growing''
Fuck the free shit crowd no matter the nation.
The western world + Japan will learn to live within their means soon enough. I understand the frustration with those who don't want to pay back debt, but many of those who took on the debt and benefited from the borrowed money are dead and gone. Should those who did not enjoy the fruits of that borrowed money repay the debt. I'm with Jefferson, debts should not be taken on that can not be paid back in a generation.
It may be frustrating to see debt forgiven that was used for social programs, but the German debt that was used to kill millions of people was forgiven. One thing I hate much more than a freeloader is a hypocrite.
No, fuck debt-based "money". Period. And that goes for the bankster masters too.
Let me get the facts straight :
1) "We have to pay for the lazy Greeks" : 77 % of the money given to Greece between 2010 and 2013 went to bail-out the banks. And the remaining was mainly used to pay interests. At the end, less than 15 billions went to the people in Greece, but they have to pay the whole debt ? (source but in French : https://france.attac.org/nos-publications/brochures/article/grece-petit-...)
2) "Pensions in Greece are outrageous" : another lie spread by some media and by people like you not checking their facts : http://blogs.wsj.com/brussels/2015/02/27/greeces-pension-system-isnt-tha...
3) "There are so many public servants in Greece paid to do nothing" : they are behind Italy, France... and Germany lol http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/4ed3979feab8eac055000053/chart-...
Now there are problems in Greece, true, but they are similar in any "developped" nation. Why the Greeks have to take the hit and the blame ? Let's impose austerity to every country then, let's forbid any deficit. In Greece, in the US, in Germany, etc.
Just like in America - if you vote fucking communists and retards into office you only fuck yourself.
The free shit crowd is stupider than a union teacher in Chicago.
"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."
Or as the saying goes in America: "Those who cast Electoral College votes decide nothing. Those who count Electoral College votes decide everything."
Funny how we forget about that institution, for an entire 4 years, minus 1 day.
You need to think a little deeper, headhunt. Do you know how the debt got this big? Seems to me the vampire squid was in there explaining to the financially ill-informed that it wouldn't be a problem. All the debt that matters was transferred from the financial institutions run by the IMF and BIS (which are, by the way, all of the big ones) to sovereign states. It's business as usual for the Rothschilds, et al...
Could be but then, providing petty annoyances to the elite has become good, clean American fun.
Who is more guilty and sort of a parasite?
-) the junkie
or
-) the guy/doctor/banker who provides the shit (for 25% interest)
The slave, or the enslaver, hmmm, let me percolate on that and get back to you.
A slave is forced and held captive in slavery, a junkie (Greece) is a product of their own decisions.
Our pension crises is coming.
But, our crisis will have a fix (again) - Taxpayers!
It will be fixed at midnight with 'bi-partisan' support. Pass the gavel please!
Any junkie would have OD'd on that much dope!!!
What if the dealer (Goldman and others) told them it was aspirin while they collected a commission for selling them aspirin. Behind every cirisis you will find these lying mofo parasites.
The junkie will always blame the dealer but the fact is it is their lousy decisions that put them in the position they are in.
Free will - it is a bitch.
correct answer> The Pusher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEnszZ6G0sQ
for profit while depraved indifference
Greece has had the chance to leave the EU each any every second of each and every day since it joined 30-some years ago (obviously the same holds for every second since it joined the EMU and adopted the Euro).
The vast majority of Greeks still want to remain in the EU and EMU. The MSM narrative is only slightly more nutty than the ZH (commenters') narrative. The fact that still virtually no one in the periphery nations has come out calling for their nation to exit all EU related institutions, agreements, loan programs, treaties, etc., immediately and forever, tells us all we need to know: either (a) they are simply braindead and will never grasp the reality of their situation or (b) they are "sophisticated peasants" who believe they can get a better deal with the EU/Euro than without, damn everything and everyone else.
Option (b) is the pure essence of the Free Shit Army.
The top article on the front page states, in a horrendous abortion of logic, "Greece is not the victim of its own profligacy, it’s the victim of a structure that makes it possible to unload the losses of the big countries’ failing financial systems onto the shoulders of the smaller. There’s no way Greece could win."
Right, because the EU is holding a literal gun to Greece's head, and has been for 30 years? The Greeks were forced at gunpoint and under extreme duress to join? They only accepted the Euro under torture? They've been trying to escape but get caught each time? Bullfuckingshit. If 51% of Greeks, or 51% of the Greek parliament, decided it wanted out, then out it would be, the very same damn day.
Anyone who thinks Greeks weren't thrilled to get the Euro wouldn't sell their children (already happening) to keep it, is both ignorant and insane.
No, no, Greeks did nothing wrong. Greeks (who continue to demand that they remain in the Eurozone, by a wide margin), are completely innocent. Accepting loans and debt-funded public programs (which are still being viciously guarded, in the form of the "no vote") you can quite obviously never even dream of paying off is not their fault. How dare the rest of Europe and the people who fund the IMF's loan program even think about telling us how to spend that money, or even dream of suggesting we impose actual austerity, or even entertain the possibility that they we don't deserve their loand dictacted on our terms (even though we're among the greatest deadbeats in modern history). No, it's those damned "predatory" lenders (satisfying very real and very organic and very omnipresent demand).
No one invaded Greece, took the women and children hostage, and demanded that Greeks routinely, for decades, turn out and vote for More Free Shit at every conceivable opportunity. It never happened. Suppliers offered products, Greeks, through duly elected intermediaries, opted, on a regular and ongoing and documented basis, to buy these products.
For ZH commenters, let alone the MSM, the elementary notion that entire national populations could be so stupid and so greedy as to make self-serving and self-destructive political and economic decisions, and will continue to do so and to defend their decisions, for years, even as every benefit, real or imagined, quite definitely vanishes, and consequences become utterly undeniable, far from being entirely self-evident in all times and all places, is not just an anathema or blasphemy, is not even conceivable.
Anyone who participates in this sham referendum, rather than abstaining and demanding Greece's immediate uncoditional exit from everything Euro- is a Quisling and deserves no sympathy, rather immense shame for voluntarily perpetuating their own debt serfdom and attacking anyone who suggests they do otherwise. There's a reason Greeks gave up on the whole democracy thing very, very quickly.
You gonna happily pay back your share of the $20 trillion that was borrowed in your name, and in the name of your wife and children, dude?
Money is lent out knowing that it cannot be paid back. Debt is slavery. The Goldmans of the world push these nations into debt for one reason: Control. Once, these nations owe a mountain of debt that was printed from thin air, they own you. This is Greece's chance to become free. I hope the Greeks can muster enough courage to say NO!
Great book out there, 'The Economic Hitmen'. Also at the local libraries to check out.
you mean John Perkin's book?
if so, that is not exact title...
Greece
America
Absolutely Correct. Which is why I believe the subprime bubble was intentionally created and inflated by the US government and the Fed.
By forcing a worldwide and jumbo recession in 2008, and causing large losses in the banks of many nations, the fiends soon accommodated the necessary borrowing of the debtor nations.
After printing their loans, they had absolute control of them.
Or so they thought.
Wow lots of Grown ups.
Around here they are collectively known as 'the Grups', eh.
Even if you are dumb enough to take a loan from Tony Soprano, you are still within your rights to tell Tony to fuck off after he threatens to break your legs if you miss a payment. Hopefully the Greeks have the balls to tell the EU to fuck off.
The outcome has already been talied and we all know slaves will have to fight for thier freedom. Voting rites are not given untill after they fight to the death. So open the Patheon up and gather the elites.
Wow.
The only type of turnout we see like that in the U.S. is when effeminate hispsters in skinny jeans show up at Apple (AAPL (NASDAQ)) stores enmass for a new iPhone release.
Speaking of turnout, I would not trust anyone under age 40 to operate long arms in a fight for freedom, so we had better get this Revolution thing going soon.
Go Greeks. Screw the Banksters.
That said when was the last time TPTB lost a vote they wanted to win.
And lastly:
Fuck you Goldman.
Iceland....
This isn't about money, loans or debt.
It is about Eurasia which Brzezinski (Obama's handler) said extends from Portugal all the way through China.
He said in his book Grand Chess Board that "he who controls Eurasia controls the world and gets the Middle East by default.
The pivot country is Ukraine" Its why he said to Bush "What are you doing mucking around in the Middle East, its Russia and China that need to be challenged."
They are going for broke to make this happen now, they put all chips on the table.
Its why Obama destroyed Libya, Syria and soon to be Egypt.
Russia knew the road to Moscow goes through Damascus.
They thought they could run the color revolutions all the way to Moscow and Beijing.
Good post, Chris.
Sic semper tyrannis!
OXI should just use this line:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SqC_m3yUDU
So who counts the Votes....
it will all be fair and open i am sure /s
This is SPARTA!!!! Throw them in the pit!
retracted
Arrest Lloyd Blankfein.
Don't forget Jamie Dimon.
Or Jon Corzine.
Feed them all to a tiger, or maybe a cougar?
Coming up next on FUX:
Nail Gun Idol
We are all Greek.
That was a threat Tyler from RT. RT is CIA. That video is overtly disturbing.
RT is CIA? What are you talking about?
meant FT
Bankers hate nationalism.
Scottland wants to count the votes.
LOLOL
They will definitely vote "No". This is a country that put itself into massive, unsustainable debt by embracing lefty economics for years and then in the face of that crisis elected an even more radical far-left president. Can't fix stupid....to quote Saving Private Ryan "don't shoot - let 'em burn."
They were smart to have everyone come out in the streets. I thought that should have been
done with Ron Paul who they stole Iowa from. Show yourself.
20,000 people? LOL, that's called lying to your face.
I think That's every Greek Pension Holder
Would you rather experience one quick and dirty rape or live through 50-plus years of continuous raping at the hands of the EU. Just say no, Greece. Go for the exit.
The Greek People are in revolt against central banksters and their criminal weapons of selling debt as wealth, fraud and corruption.
A “no” vote will give them democratic solidarity against criminal debt.
A “yes” vote will bring a Greek revolution.
Looks great. But c'mon - you know that the result will be a "YES" (for whatever BS that means), that the 'OXI' camp will probably lose, and Athens burn afterwards.
I wish it wasn't so. But this is the Troika "having a bit of fun" with Greece, making an 'example" of them (newsflash - ONLY the peeps get stiffed) so that the other PIIS don't revolt and ask for debt forgiveness.
I can't wait for the "can't pay -won't pay" to play out, Greece is fucked or Greece is fucked.
Happy 4th of July celebrating our American Independence (sovereignty gone) and our American democracy (overthrown by fascist government of, for and by multinational corporate monopoly). The only un-American people celebrating our lost democracy today are low life Teabaggers and bankster fascist.
Bravo!! Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. You are a democratic (government of, for and by the People) statesman of the highest order in Greek civilized tradition; Aristotle would be proud of you for calling for a referendum.
The fate of Greece is the fate of the USA and all other nations under the octopus of central bankster criminal debt, fraud and chaos.
Criminal activity must be framed as criminal activity and therefore the solution has to be framed in how do we break the criminal stronghold and bring the criminals to Justice for their conspirator criminal activity and repudiating the criminal debt.
We should be examining how to prosecution the central bankster fascist (merger of multinational corporate monopoly with government) criminal cabal and review professors Black, Chossudovsky, Hudson and researchers Gavin Marshall and Nomi Prins research into the criminal cabal activities.
I am a 71 year old student that has been following the maneuvers of the American bankster fascist most of my life. The EU was designed, financed and implemented by the criminal banksters and their shadow government of the Council on Foreign Relations. The banksters CFR activities are well documented over the last 60 odd years in plotting Treason against the USA and implementing the fascist New World Order. Selling debt as wealth is their weapon.
Do gold bugs really believe that the central criminal banksters are going to lose control of the gold market in the USA? Today, the currency is fiat but the BRICS gold backed currency of tomorrow will set a new gold standard. The bankster criminals stole all the USA gold when we went off the Gold Standard. The criminals’ loot, pillage, burn bridges and destroy as they move forward so that there is no way back. When the bankster criminals need gold, Emperor Obama via decree, will confiscate the gold in your teeth.
In my opinion, it will take a violent revolution to bring the fascist bankster criminals to Justice, until then, we are all victims.
Happy INDEPENDENCE DAY indeed.
I would not wish violent revolution on the "voluntary union" of American states, or on Greece or on any other country, but when it comes down to it, America is the modern-day Switzerland, an untenable military target with tens of millions of rifles behind every blade of grass, an American people bristling with far more small arms firepower than any standing army foreign or domestic, because the American people are the largest standing army on Earth.
That is why disarming Americans is an agenda item of the UN and of the fascist Washington Empire of Debt, Fraud and Chaos.
The “Peoples Laws” have been cancelled and the fascist are coming for our guns real soon. There will be another American revolution if the American People have the will to fight for their rights in our overthrown constitutional democracy.
Cant' wait to see Drachma with the OXI vote...
Funny move on EURGRD, USDGRD.
What I should do ? :)
Up --> Long GRD
Down --> Short GRD
Noisy no votes in Athens. Sullen yes majority in the Hinterlands
Greece, start cutting off your pound of flesh already. This is the price you pay for sucking your country dry. Too many parasites sucking blood from the host. More than the host could provide. The host falls over. The parasites double down, sucking as much out as they could before the hosts heart stops pumping.
Greece. This is your next play. Start teaching it in kindergarten, the perils of having a corrupt and bureaucratic government. The dangers of a welfare state and an indifferent population. Make a book about it. Read it in kindergarten. Have more advanced versions of the same story for school, high schools. Make a lesson out of it. Make a park. Call it the "Park of the Profligates".
Greece is at an impasse. Reinstating the Drachma is not a panacea. Geo-political winds are blowing. This doesn't help the cause, and neither do predatory organizations like Goldman Sachs, however, if the Greek people are happy to fuck over themselves and their children, serve them up a big ol' bowl of taxation without representation, then so be it. Fold. Let your creditors carve out a kidney, part of your liver, perhaps some skin and an ear or two, pull your pants down, and take it like a bitch.
But don't feel to poorly, Greece. You are not an anomoly. Japan, USA, China, they are by no means model financial citizens. They will have their turn.
What a joke. The sheeple like being fleeced. It's in their DNA
I met an Athenian living in the states recently and believe me, she feels the the anxiety and the passion.
This reminds me of the *closing scene* in Zeitgeist Moving Forward (the best in the series) when the mountain of money is hurled back in front of the FED.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w
hope they stand strong against ultimatums.
banksters deserve a slap in da face