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Tsipras Releases Statement Following Greek "Deal", Will "Fight To Regain Lost National Sovereignty"
Just released by the website of the Greek Prime Minister is Tsipras' statement about many things but most importanttly how he plans to "fight" to regain the "lost national sovereignty" - sovereignty which one may ask was lost by whom exactly...
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ statement following the conclusion of the Eurozone Summit
We have been fighting hard for six months now, and we fought until the end to achieve the best possible outcome, an agreement that will enable the country to get back on its feet, and for the Greek people to be able to continue to fight.
We faced tough decisions, tough dilemmas. We assumed responsibility for the decision in order to prevent the most extreme objectives from being implemented—those pushed for by the most extreme conservative forces in the European Union.
The agreement calls for tough measures. However, we prevented the transfer of public property abroad, we prevented the financial asphyxiation and the collapse of the financial system—this was planned to the last detail – having recently been designed to perfection, and in the process of being implemented.
Finally, in this tough battle, we managed to gain the restructuring of the debt and a financing process for the medium-term.
We were aware that it would not be an easy task, but we have created a very important legacy. An important legacy, and a much-needed change throughout Europe. Greece will continue to fight, and we will continue to fight, so that we can return to growth, regain our lost national sovereignty. We earned our popular sovereignty. We sent a message of democracy, a message of dignity throughout Europe and the world. This is the most important legacy.
Finally, I would like to thank all of my colleagues–ministers, colleagues and associates who gave, along with me, a very tough fight. A fight, which at the end of the day, will be vindicated.
Today’s decision will maintain Greece’s financial stability and provide recovery potential. However, as we knew beforehand, the agreement will be difficult to implement. The measures include those that Parliament has voted on. Measures that will inevitably create recessionary trends. However, I am hopeful that the growth package of 35 billion euro that we achieved, debt restructuring, as well as securing funding for the next three years will create market confidence, so that investors realize that fears of a Grexit are a thing of the past—thereby fueling investment, which will offset any recessionary trends.
I believe that a large majority of the Greek people will support the effort to return to growth; they acknowledge that we fought for a just cause, we fought until the end, we have been negotiating through the night, and no matter what the burdens will be, they will be allocated – we guarantee this – with social justice. And it will not be the case that those who have shouldered the burden during the last years will be stuck footing the bill once more. This time, those who avoided paying—many of whom were protected by the previous governments–will pay now, they, too, will shoulder the burden.
Finally, I want to make this commitment: Now, we need to fight just as hard as we fought to achieve the best outcome abroad-in Europe, to rid vested interests in the country. Greece needs radical reforms in favor of social forces, and against the oligarchy that have led to the country’s current state. And this commitment to this new effort begins tomorrow.
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Oh I think he'll be doing some fighting alright when he gets back to Greece. Just not the kind he's talking about in this ludicrous nonsense statement.
to tsipras: fuck off sellout prick!
If the Greeks deserve this deal they won't lynch him for it.
there are so many things I am at a loss for words over; tsipras going against a referendum vote, IMF calling for resignation, EU admitting a country can leave the euro, the lack of anger from the greeks etc
what needs to be done to get these people to say no and mean it?
this ranks up there with UKIP getting 4m votes and 1 seat in the house when SNP got 1.5m votes and a shitload of seats in parliament.
word of the decade: Frustration
this state of affairs pisses me off
OK, so the Greeks are actually going to cut entitlements and collect taxes??? Really??? Now people are just making stuff up.
The Great Eurozone kabuki...
Carry on.
FUCK YOU Alexis Tsipras, ok so you have escaped the nailgun treatement but know this
Every hardship on the people, from now on falls on your shoulder bitch
sleep well bitch
He will sleep very well. He accomplished much for those he serves, it is just not the greeks that he serves. He has always been the agent of the EU/bankers/elite.
He has served up Greece to foreign forces. That was always his job, intent and purpose. When he needed to he was so obvious as to ignore and go against the vote (a vote he called for) of the greek people.
Rebel my rear. You expect him to feel bad, even now he is selling himself and the bull to the greeks. He tells them it's the best thing for them and will lead them out of the toilet. He and Yanis have flushed the Greek people.
I call Bull Sh*t, if he really wanted sovereignty Greece would just file Chapter 7 and be done with it, or at least chapter 13 and make payments on 20 to 30% of their debt. The EU needs a bankruptcy mechanism.
while you are at it , Greece should contact the Supreme Court !!!!!!!!!
you are thinking too much as an Merikan, Greece is Europe with different laws bozo
Looks like nobody actually noticed this one.
Greece was in danger to go the Iran style CIA intervention to adjust their political & social path
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/07/04/pers-j04.html
And of course,the current government hanged for good. So between being hanged and leaving with a compensatory package this is what resulted :)
They lost their sovereignty, the Germans will cattle prod them into line.
You have no idea. It's not the Germans which reject to pay, Quite the opposite all our german politcians do is to sell us off to the EU. It's not understandabley why you can not see that.
It's an odd fight when you just roll over and show your yellow belly Tsipras.
There is a word for giving away national sovereignty. That word is "treason".
He needs to resign immediately.
how much jibberish does it take to say "I CAVED GREEKS ARE FUCKED"
What's there to fight you talking head? Isn't it a 'done' deal already? hehehe...
Anyway, Greece is irrelevant. Only the yogurt is good. I'll take that as collateral.
european neo-decolonization....
"If you want a vision of the future for Greece, imagine a boot stamping on their Country a human face - forever."
Greece will certainly fight to regain dignity but without Tsipras and Syriza. She'll fight with Golden Dawn.
Goldman is preparing a corner office for Tsipras for after his impeachment next week.
Covington and Burling quite literaly had an empty office waiting for Eric Holder for months before he resigned his Attorney General slot. The law firm represents most of the big banks that Holder did not prosecute during his time in "government service".
Tsipras - "I will continue to suck European banker cock while you meaningless plebs that vote in pretend elections will cop it hard in the arse".
Another traitor! Time to rid the world of this banking cartel! No more time for the lies and fraud!
Greece to Tsipras:
GO FIGHT YOURSELF!!!
"we fought until the end". have you?
Complete and utter bullshit from beginning to end.
Yes, it is just a circus for the banks to play the swings in the markets.
Stockholm syndrome speech
The Goldman suitcase are now in my possesion speech.
"But that Suitcase full of Euro was to large a sum to pass up"
They are all like that....Bush, Clinton.....and the Y-Anus and Tspipras of the world are all on the look out for the suitcase.
Time to break out that 12yr old bottle of ouzo. Well played Greece. I thought you were going to show backbone for a minute, I should know better by now! :) It is time to sells off your assets to pay the creditors. You are a disaster Greece. A complete and utter disaster. Let this be a warning to every single fucking human fucking being on the planet.
Sell your roads, water, rail, ports, increase taxes, VAT, reduce pensions. You are a vassal. You are a province of the EU bureaucracy. Sell your future. Sell out your children.
ATTENTION ALL GREEK YOUTH, BORROW SOME EURO FIAT FROM YOU PARENTS AND BUY A ONE WAY TICKET TO CANADA OR AUSTRALIA.
They showed backbone alright, with their ass up high in the air.
Give it away now.
There will be NO GREXIT ever.
I've said this countless of times already here.
And I've won.
I called Grexit's bluff.
I called Merkel's bluff.
I called ECB's bluff.
I called Rothschild's bluff.
I won.
There will NEVER be a Grexit or any -xit of other EU members.
until the whole shebang blows up at once
Until the Rothschilds dynasty ends.
A well-polished turd if ever there was one.
What's in the suitcase Alexis?
his life.
id love to know how many points the spx has added just because "greece is saved" in the last 6 years. over/under 1000?
the effects of the rufie's haven't worn off yet... a burning Athens my expediate that
www.teamramgold.com
maybe don't give it away in the first place?
https://underinformation.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/kod.gif
HA HA. Who wrote that. Obama ??
What a Bullshit Artist. He sold his Soul to Mutti for some crumps on the Table and expects to get a heroes welcome when he turns up in Athens. If I was Mutti I would also demand that german should be taught to every School Kid. Will Athens go up in Flames this week? Would not surprise me.
Better step down, asshole.
You're the one who disgraced Greek sovereignty and democracy.
Just don't complain about the austerity you signed up to.
They gave Tsipras the Bill Hicks JFK "at another angle" treatment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8IvKx0c19w
I'm not your buddy guy...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFCd4ZOTVg4
They're fucking Dante!
http://www.miramax.com/watch?v=J1cHBvYTqLP_7yoqfwW7rGfPbh4G7QX8
Deep down I knew they would reach a last minute deal (they always do) although this one went so down to the wire that I almost began second guessing myself.
So essentially, a bankrupt country that is drowning in debt with ever declining revenues, has been given yet another loan to "fix" their insurmountable debt problems. You really couldn't make this stuff up.
The smart money says that he will be gone in three weeks, replaced by a former Goldman Sachs employee.
Delusional!
He should have his travel plans ready as many will want to treat him like Mussolini.
Why did they bother with the referendum vote? What a huge waste of money to hear the people say no only to bend over and say yes. I dont think he will get this passed through Greek parlament. The terms are brutal to a country that already cant collect existing taxes, much less add a whole host of new ones.
This new austerity proposal should bring debt/GDP ratio up way past 200% in no time.
Winning!
I swear; this time I really will fight.
And Varoufakis speaks out about the behind the scenes backstabbing of Greeks:
http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2015/07/exclusive-yanis-varouf...
The Greeks voted in the wrong lawyer to represent them and now will have to pay even more for their choice.The more he negotiates the more they loose. Idiot. leader he has proven to be.
If he wanted to bust the oligarchs, he should have told them to take the notes they are holding and stick them up their asses thereby throwing off the debt chains and freeing his country and getting back his sovereignty.
I understand this is probably more complicated than surface news reports can reveal, but it would seem this was a show the whole time.....and nothing changed..... more debt issued and Banksters got what they wanted.......classic kickiñg of the can.
What an idiot.
Tsipras has struck a deal with the devil, let the corporate rape of Greek assets begin.
Asset-stripping of Greece was always the plan. The plan is back on track, thanks to Tsipras.
Winning!
The next referendum should be over whether to hang their PM with a new rope....or an old one for selling them out. I feel sorry for the Greeks being played but yet another poiltician who folded like a wet paper bag...
Tsipras, you have pulled off a mindboggling sellout.
Yes you can get back to surplus when pigs start flying, you just signed with the devil. Wake up, Greece will never ever ever ever be able to repay the debt ever.. What will they sell? they just sold their childrens future ffs.. There is nothing left to sell.. what a fail, why even vote in the first place, what a disgrace. No fucking hope ever of being free people, 250% debt to GDP FFS and they voted NO, enough, nothing to lose, well now that is 100% true, because they have lost everything including hope from Pandoras box.. What a mess, its a modern day tragic and every western nation can now see what the future holds when the unplayable debt gets called, the banksters version of the grim reaper of nations....
Your time for fighting just came and went and you rolled over like a complete pussy. Bitch slapped on the world stage and now he comes out with fighting talk. Fucking embarrassment of a man. Hope the banksters didn't bend you over too far..
He talked a good game at least. It does make one wonder if any elected official in the world today (aside from perhaps Uruguay) can possibly represent the people over the central bankers.
Some on ZH commented that the Greeks would reach a deal and that it was the Greek way to haggle and that's exactly what Tsipras did. Also there were many in Germany and the EU who made it sound lke a deal was not reachable.
I would love to see the trade accounts of those same people. I wonder how many of these pundits got richer from convincing the people that the opposite was going to happen (Grexit).
What a freakin' soap opera. Greece is the country who cried wolf (Grexit)... and in the end they totally caved.
Way to go Tsipras. Way.... to... go...
Greece had a chance to do this the easy way... now let's see what happens when the anger of the Greek people spills out into the streets. UN peacekeepers in the near future? Probabaly.
The next step for Greece. Perhaps Tsipras signed the deal so they would let him out of the room and he could live to fight another day. It goes to parliment now and this deal is not expected to be approved. But it does kick the can for a few more days.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/tsipras-faces-hard-sell-of-bailout-to-parlia...
What does the hangmans measurement guide say about a person of Tsipras' height and weight?
6 maybe 7 foot fall should do it. Or shorter if you just want the twat to strangle to death.
I'd go longer. Snap the head off and you have yourself a free soccer ball.
They need a real leader who can ignore 5-eyes blackmail. One who is willing and able to motivate and inspire the people to do what is necessary to rid themselves of bankster rule.
zerohedge, you first pumped Mr. Tsipras and them dumped him gladly. I know you have not put your own opinion in this verbatim news release. I see only one signal here that Mr. Tsipras gave: It is not sufficient to unite only in vote. The need is to be united indeed. If people are all too eager to line up at ATMs then that is one of the signs that the nation is ready to deliver on their vote. There is no need to be harsh on anyone. The need is to understand that almost all nations will cave to pressure like that.
http://just-a-thought-from-thinair.blogspot.com/
Tsipras you PUSSY! You didn't fight very hard to keep your Sovereignty, why would you fight to get it back???
If he's a man of his word he will file a law suit against Goldman Sachs today. Don't hold your breath.
As many have been pointing out,
FROM THE START,
Tsipras always promoted the fantasy
that it would be "reasonable' and "honest"
for Greece to continue on with the EU, the TROIKA banksters, and NATO.
He always contended that what was best for Greece was
to remain in the EU despite pending EU agreements for TISA/T-TIP Obamatrade,
to make an indenture and privatization bargain with the TROIKA, and
to participate in NATO belligerence from the M.E. to Ukraine.
He never argued for anything different because he never wanted anything different.
His endorsement of such false premises has led to the predictable outcome.
Kill yourself now, Alexis. Its not going to get any better.
I'm no military or martial arts expert on optimal fighting stances ... but ... surely the most effective position to fight from is NOT when you are on all fours getting double teamed in every orrifice while gurgling through the rivers of sperm you're swallowing that you will fight?!?
We live in a world where "Friends" means "People on Facebook"
Where "Like" means "Don't like"
Where "No" means "Yes"
Where "a beautiful woman" could be "a former male athlete"
Where "debt" means "money"
Where "black" means "white"
Where "a horse" is "a politician"
It seams like everybody is taking LSD these days.
Comment of the week....
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AMERICA. We're all here for the same thing.
What color is your aura?
Tsipras is a coward, a traitor, and a bungler.
And I'm a gullible idiot for once thinking he had the balls and the brains to stand up to the Fourth Reich. His decision to call a referendum seemed like political brilliance.
What I didn't realize was why he called it (detailed in AEP's exclusive). Never did I expect that he had NO PLAN to follow through on an OXI vote. Fuck, I am such a gullible sheep.
Ordinary Greek people don't deserve what is coming. But Tsipras does.
Here is the best way for the Greek people to reject further bailouts (the details have yet to be released) and reclaim their soverinty over central bankers.
1) Stop paying taxes. The government cannot continue if they cannot collect money from the people.
2) Take ALL OF YOUR MONEY out of the bank. The banks cannot continue if they cannot use your deposits to maintain the fractional reserve lending ponzi scheme.
3) Get as much as you can locally via small business. Do not shop at large multi-national places as this only feeds the beast.
4) Stop working. Have the nation go on strike. The government cannot continue if the people stop feeding the machine.
Here's something that the banksters don't want you to know. The power has ALWAYS resided with the people... if they UNITE and make their COLLECTIVE voices heard as ONE. Now is the time to say enough to this unsustainable global debt bubble. We are enslaving the people and future generations by refusing to say NO MORE. The global banking cartel must be broken up and the criminals must be held accountable. If not, it will get a lot worse for the working class and we will see more social unrest and our collective rights reduced to a pure Orwellian society where you can't take a crap without someone watching you.
Sad times we live in.
What a coward, and disgusting.
If this is not an alarm bell to freedom loving people everywhere then I don't know what is.
I was going to say the exact same thing.
BTW...I just watched Terminator again yesterday while working actually...and to Jack burton on here, I rewatched Big Trouble in Little China the day before. Hotter than hell here right now...hunting mushrooms in the morning before BTLC and mowed in the morning before Terminator, but you can't be in heat indexes of 102-106 long.
Those are some great characters. In retrospect, the 80s produced some classics.
How many alarm bells do people need?
Hollande, Obama, Bush II, Clinton, Blair, Harper, etc. ad nauseum
Tsipras ... what a fucking loser. Even Greeks aren't stupid enough to buy the line of bullshit in that statement.
Anyone else catch this line? ...
. . . "the collapse of the financial system - this was planned to the last detail – having
. . . recently been designed to perfection, and in the process of being implemented."
Of that I no no doubt, whatsoever.
Tsipras is the trojan horse. He works for the international black hand of Europe.
There simply is no Sovereignty for any entity that borrows that amount of money.
I heard Greeks like it in the bum, so this works out well for them.
No Alexis...the way to gain national soveriegnty is to take it back and you had the chance. It doesn't get easier the longer you are without it or the more indebt you get to those who are claiming it for their own now. Few Greeks who can critically think (which are usually the most motivated as well) are going to buy this line of BS. What a seriously silly statement you put together here...I doubt you could have included anymore contradictions if you had tried.
Now nothing says the Greek people have to go along. I know this story has already dragged on and on, but I just don't think it's over with quite yet.
Should have sold stuff when first had trouble, before the subsequent damage to economy and books was done, and avoided all the interest.
Would be in better shape today.
But moral courage and prudence are to government as garlic to a vampire.
Start with making no more debts. It was the Greeks decision to live beyond their means. So bear the costs -otherwise you deserver what you got.
GoldIsMoney
the Greeks "decided"?
Did you miss the articles how the TBTF banksters & Goldman Sachs KNEW the loans could not be repaid?
Did you miss the article how they then transferred most of their debt exposure to the public sector?
Are you aware that the banksters can bribe and dupe government officials?
Aren't you wrongly blaming the marks in a confidence racket ?
The responsibility for committing the crime lies with the fraudulent con men and their shills. They have deceptively taken advantage of the gullibility, trust, ignorance, and vulnerability of others.
The observation that we get a limited choice of crime bosses is a pointless and misdirected blaming. Vetted and subsidized sociopaths become liar politicians, thanks to legalized racketeering, secretive government, even more secretive corporations, and a servile mass media which combine to insure that the majority of voters remain ignorant about issues, or ignored when informed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick
Debts need two sides. One to give the credit one to get it. The Greeks did get credits, way too many and way to cheap and so markets do not have spoken, that was alone a decisoin of the ECB to manipulat the intereste rate. If you do not get that right, you can not come to the proper conclusions.
Is it not possible to you to see that Greece problem is way to much polticis and too less econimics? Way to high expenditures in comparison to their income?
I really just an suggest to all Greeks to never ever pay any tax again. I just can suggest to send all the politicians and bureaucrats on some of the islands. Don't ever return to this island, let them live the "happy" live of moochers. Ob this islands they may hopefully no one who earns an honest living, he will get kiiled by Tsipras and it's gang in no time after that they will starve to death - and they deserve that.
And you should take you lessons with you. There's too much debt. And it's breaking everyone back and neck - sooner or later. No it's Greece which is broken, do you really believe the USA will get away with their way of live without any harm? If anyone believes that you are even more stupd as the Greeks and Germans.
We are in much worse shape than Greece, but we cover it up because the dollar is still accepted as the global reserve currency. When we go, we will take half the world with us.
Just released by the website of the Greek Prime Minister is Tsipras' statement about many things but most importanttly how he plans to "fight" to regain the "lost national sovereignty"
National soverignty wasn't lost, Tsipras gave it away.
What an imbecile. The greeks seem to be equally "sheepy" based on the fact that he is still alive.
Total fucking FAIL. All Greeks are now officially surfs with no hope.
I would have invested in Greece real estate if they would have given the Troika the boot .... will forget about investing in Greece now - they will now be going into debt slavery hell.
One step plan to regain national sovereignty
Step 1
Dont take the deal
O wait. . .
Tsipras is a sell out/coward. . . . with luck the Greek parliament has the balls to do what he is afraid to.
"keep you life - take the deal"
Eat shit and die you fucking lying deceitful manipulative thieving PARASITE socialist collectivist corrupt immoral scumbag !!!
Now THAT would be the perfect headline for any Greek newspaper! I would click that link/buy that paper