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"The Streets Of Athens Will Fill With Tanks": Kathimerini Reveals Grexit "Black Book" Shocker
Over the course of six painful months, round after round of fraught negotiations between Greece and its creditors produced all manner of speculation about what a "Grexit" would actually entail.
With no precedent to turn to for guidance, mapping out the implications of an exit from the currency bloc was (and still is) a virtually impossible task, but the collective efforts of the sellside, the mainstream media, political analysts, and economists did manage to produce a veritable smorgasbord of diagrams, decision trees, flowcharts, and schematics, in a futile attempt to map the complex interplay of politics, economics, and financial concerns that would invariably follow if Athens decided to finally break off its ill-fated relationship with Brussels.
And it wasn’t just outside observers drawing up Grexit plans. Despite the fact that EU officials denied the existence of a “Plan B” right up until German FinMin Wolfgang Schaeuble’s “swift time-out” alternative was “leaked” last weekend, no one outside of polite eurocrat circles pretends that a Greek exit wasn’t contemplated all along and indeed Yanis Varoufakis contends that Athens was threatened with capital controls as early as February if it did not acquiesce to creditor demands.
Now, in what is perhaps the most shocking revelation yet about what EU officials really thought may happen in the event Greece crashed out of the EMU and unceremoniously reintroduced the drachma, Kathimerini is out with a description of what the Greek daily calls the "Grexit Black Book," which purportedly contained the suggestion that civil war would breakout in Greece in the event the country was forced out of the currency bloc.
Here’s more (Google translated):
On the 13th floor of the building Verlaymont in Brussels, a few meters from the office of the European Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, stored in a special security room and in a safe Greece's exit plan from the Eurozone. There, in a multi-page volume, written in less than a month from 15-member team of the European Commission, answered questions on how to tackle such an outflow, including, as shocking as it may sound, even the possibility of the country out of the Treaty Schengen, and not only being driven outside the euro, but also outside the EU
According to European official, in that the European Commission Summit already had a bound volume, a multi-page document, which described the Greek prime minister, before the start of the session, by the same Mr. Juncker with all the details of a Grexit , giving him to understand the legal and political context of such a decision. In multipage document in accordance with European official who has the ability to know its contents, there are detailed answers to 200 questions that would arise in case Grexit.
These questions, as he explains official, are interrelated, as an exit from the euro would create a cascade of events, which would evolve in a relatively short time. From the drachmopoiisi economy to foreign exchange controls that would take place at the country's borders and which will ultimately lead at the exit of Greece from the Schengen Treaty.
The authors of the draft, according to European official, conducted under conditions of absolute secrecy. A special group of 15 people of the European Commission, by direct contact with Greece started to prepare, and was also in direct contact with a number of senior officials and DGs in the European Commission who had expertise in specific areas. The writing of the project started when the expiry date of the program (end of June) was approaching, so it is the Commission prepared for every eventuality, and by the time the referendum was announced, Friday, June 26, the relevant procedures were accelerated. The weekend of the work referendum intensified, so now two days later, Tuesday of that Synod, the project has been finalized.
According to well-informed source, involved in creating the plan worked "suffer the pain" as typically describe the "K" and "overwhelmed" because they could not believe that things had reached this point, and most of them had direct involvement with the Greek rescue programs. The European Commission also was hoped that even until the last minute solution would be found as members of this group knew better than anyone the consequences exit of Greece from the Eurozone and understand the cost of such a decision. One of those involved with direct knowledge of Greek reality in the critical phase of the training, he said the rest of the group that "if implemented this plan, the streets of Athens will sound tracks of tanks."
Sight unseen, it's not entirely clear what is meant by "will sound the tracks of tanks," and we assume the suggestion is not that the EU and its constituent member states would somehow seek to orchestrate a military takeover of the Greek state in the event Athens makes the 'wrong' decision about EMU membership.
Rather, the suggestion seems to be - and again this is simply an interpretation based on the information presented by Kathimerini - that Brussels was of the opinion that the referendum results together with the divergent rhetoric emanating from Greek lawmakers on the right and far-left betrayed the degree to which the Greek people were deeply divided. Although Tsipras' concessions will undoubtedly have far-reaching implications for politics and Greek society in general, it looks as though Brussels feared that the economic malaise that would have resulted from redenomination might have triggered widespread social unrest that would ultimately have to be brought under control by the Greek army.
We'll leave it to readers to determine both the accuracy of our interpretation and the degree to which the "secret" document's mention of "tanks" represented an accurate assessment of the situation versus yet another attempt to scare Tsipras into capitulating, but one thing is for sure, even mentioning the possibility that "the streets of Athens" will be occupied by the military doesn't seem like something one "partner" would say to another.
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They are usually named after big cats. Tiger, Panther come to mind.
They have a lot of think-tanks.
Problem is they don't work and there isn't one functional one to jump start the rest!
See 'Jaspergers'
Of course there will be a civil war. I suggested this some weeks ago. The EU and US will support the Greek military. The insurgents will get weapons from Russia. I'd guess the insurgents will eventually win and Greece will have Russian military bases and seaports. Europe's soft underbelly will get a lot fatter and a lot softer. All the turmoil in Greece and its many so-called solutions have never really been about finance. It has been about NATO (i.e. the United States) and Russia.
A civil war with many international playrs is not really a civil war.
It's a global war one country at a time.
WW3 being fought financially first.
They think they can control it.
It opens its eyes.
The Greeks could only be so lucky to get a Civil War.
Does anyone think the Troika would see a dime back during or after the the fighting?
The EU central planners failed to prevent/predict the present. Are they more enlightened now?
There is no good/omniscient king, nor good/omniscient central planners.
Note that all the countries along the Eastern Mediterranean have blown up. Libya, Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey (currently in political turmoil), and Greece.
The former Yugoslavia had its war in the 1990s. For the rest of the Med, Tunisia just took a big hit. Cyprus was partitioned in 1974 and had a bank crisis in 2013. Algeria's revolution was in the 1950s, a particularly nasty conflict that ended with Algeria leaving France.
I am not much into geographic determinism, but this seems more than coincidental. Italy and Spain appear to be next.
As if war in the Balkans ever ended.
The Greeks could simply walk right up to the tanks. Good luck. Truckers could block all roads and tanks are very thirsty.
This is where the honest Greeks may get a shot. If they are lucky and good. Gods Speed.
With no precedent to turn to for guidance, mapping out the implications of an exit from the currency bloc was (and still is) a virtually impossible task
No it's not.
1) Create a "normative model" ... i.e. if we could have the best alternative available, what does it look like in steady state operation.
2) Draw "descriptive model" ... i.e. what is our situation now ... what is going away, what is staying.
3) Subtract (1) from (2) yielding "gaps" ... i.e. what needs to change and in what order
4) Remove the gaps.
It was every bit as problematic going into the union as it is to exit it. Moving one way, one set of interests' ox get gored. Moving the other way, another set of interest's ox get gored.
As far as what (1) ... the normative model should be? I say it should be a properly managed Medium of Exchange where money is taken for exactly what it is: "a promise to complete a trade". Where proper management means:
Pretty simple ... except the new gore-ees are very powerful and will resist at every step.
Solution?
Spread out ... don't give them any concentrated targets. And let those thinking they are getting gored know they are really better off under new scheme and are needed to implement and operate it.
I like it. But you left out the perp walks.
I like it. But you left out the perp walks.
Take names. For now, pretend you're going to pardon them. When the properly managed MOE takes hold and displays and proves itself, the contrast to what the perps were doing will become dramatic and pardons won't be possible.
Sorry perps. When the facts change, the promise changes ... remember? It's the new farming operation called the perp cycle.
ya right, more like the sound of goat's hoofs
Civil War - as in 'the people' versus 'the Parliament'. Only one of those sides would need tanks...
Love the google translation. Sounds like if talking with a Greek hooker. SHit and they know moar about market actions anyway.
:)
I posted this elsewher but its relevant here too:
The government of Greece had a specific mandate to stay IN THE EURO by the electorate.
They also were elected on a mandate to alleviate the most egregious aspects of austerity as applied to the weakest parts of society, as well as remove or curtail those aspects which were exacerbating the un-sustainability of their economy especially in terms of unemployment. That does not mean that they did not accept the necessity for reforms, including collecting taxes from the oligarchs.
But, the most important aspect of all this is that if Greece was to be thrown out of the Euro as was discussed there are no protocols for such, but certainly the damages caused to Greece would be directly attributable to the EU and its ECB for breach of their responsibilities under the existing mechanisms. However if Greece pulled out of its own accord the case would be much weaker and there would be little to no responsibility for the EU to support the humanitarian and economic fall out during transition to another currency.
Big huge import taxes on everything. Just to kickstart the home grown economy. A ban on all none esential imports like toys and soap of all types. Stop all new car imports too! Insurence funds should also be done in house exclusivly.
Correction on ONLY this item. DO YOU know that soap is made from OLIVE OIL????
Even now all that old olive oil can be used for: soap and fuel (30% more efficient) for diesel cars. NO NEED TO IMPORT for soap only.
Correct on IMPORT DUTIES.
At least part of the original Euro idea was to prevent warfare among Eurostates.
Maastricht.Open borders.Political union and common currency.
Open borders has not worked and this exodus from Libya is getting worse by the hour.
Political union: don't make me laugh!
Common currency: never had a chance in the first place (cooked the books with help from Goldman Sachs).
Stop banging on about Greece.Spain is going to be the next exciting chapter....
What I fail to understand is who are the Germans going to sell armaments to now that everyone is broke.
I really do not see any difference between events/players/economics in Greece and Ukraine.
The first priority of "the creditors" is to otherwise vacate the current coalition regime that voted this bailout/in agreement.
Four months?
In the end (or frankly the beginning) one might as well perceive Greece not much better off than Somalia in terms of who is "in control."
Long food convoys and technicals.
MAYBE they IMF/EU will planning a hostile coup takeover in case the GREEK POLITICIANS were preparing for a GREXIT.. BUT Needless to say they never honored the GREEK PEOPLES RIGHTS! IN which case the BANKS send a message to other EU countries don't even think about it... TSIPRAS will go down as one of the worst Presidents/Prime ministers in history! I will have him in the same breath as WOODROW WILSON.. WE MISS you JFK and Winston Churchill..
Churchill was a war criminal.
Correct. He installed concentration camps in South Africa during the Boer wars for killing women and children and had Dresden bombed during WW2 killing some 30.000 people - while in Dresden, there were only refugees and nothing military or industrial worth bombing apart from a beautiful baroque architectural heirloom.
@ Hendrik1730
Wrong, they were not concentration camps they were refugee camps, rapidly set up by Lord Roberts when the Boers sent their families to the British to be looked after, so they could continue the war, and they they knew the British would look after them to the best of their ability.
Unfortunately, tragically, Roberts, Kitchener, etc., didn't have the first clue about essential hygeine in such an environment (this was more than 40 years after Florence Nightingale, and the ignrance was inexcusable), and the inmates of the refugee camps suffered equally with the troops under Roberts command.
The troops suffered appalling and completely unnecessary casualties for the exact same reasons, and with the exact same diseases, as those that suffered in the refugee camps. This was absolutely nothing to do with Churchill, because during the Boer War he was a reporter for a London paper, The Morning Post, he was captured there by the Boers while doing that reporting, and escaped.
Dreseden was all about the Russian Front and a request from Stalin for assistance (look where Dresden is on a map). At the time of bombing, the Soviets were conducting their Lower Silesian Offensive, and ULTRA-based intelligence showed that dozens of German divisions deployed in the west were moving to reinforce the Eastern Front, and that interdiction of these troop movements should be a high priority, and hence Chemnitz, Leipzig and Dresden, became priority targets, because they weren't harmless sleepy little towns, they were important transport and manufacturing hubs in the German war effort, and it was estimated that the bombing of those targets at that time could shorten the war by around 6 months (it could have dragged on until November).
Revision of history used to be carried out by people with some intelligence - please try harder.
But most important, we'd not have had Tomaso Albinoni's Adagio in G minor. Maybe it's just me (I really like elegiac music), but I consider it totally worth it.
the currency system is, obviously, an artificial construct - a matrix of tokens of value exchanging.
But the real trick is someone or something has the "issuing power" - the power to print the fiat currency {just ink and paper and good will} and charge "interest" in the form of more of that ink and paper, to the government that uses it.
Private central banking is the Dark Side's One Ring.
http://www.darkmoon.me/2015/the-looting-of-greece/
While not every war is a war engendered by bankers, a great deal are....
But war or no war, the private central banking/fiat scheme is the greatest robbery and swindle ever.
Greece should simply refuse to pay, followed by every sovereign.
The EU should dissolve, and every Brussels bureacrat and staff economist made to find productive work.
Thereafter the large international banks and financial advising forms should be broken up, glass-steagall put back in place, and the issuing power taken to the banks and restored to The People {in the form of Treasury, though it is firmly a department run by sayanim now) to whom it properly belongs...
Genius,
The sovereign nations cannot simply refuse. They have all taken a 'poison pill' to the banking BIS. People are in place of Greece to ensure they stay the course, meaning -- stay in the EU. It's a sad state of affairs that was planned by NWO folks 250+ years ago.
13th floor?
Yep thats right, Not the 12th or the 14th. Was it Friday as well,......... uhm uhm. They mentioned Friday didn't they, I am sure they meant it.
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends...
Hi Moe! Onto the show!!
https://dublinsmick.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/welcome-my-friends-to-the-s...
The show that never ends. I post about it all the time.
Zion to Greece: "If you run, we'll cut off part of one of your feet."
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
In Zion, "You can checkout anytime you like, but you can never leave."
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Greece: 100% DEFAULT.
Greece: 100% exit EU and euro.
Greece: 100% no borrowing in the future.
That humans in Greece want to have ANYTHING to do with the EU is stunning. They're obviously completely off their rockers, and must have some utterly wrong notion of what life would be like outside the EU (with zero debt, having defaulted) versus inside the EU (with infinite, irresolvable debt).
Humans are so clueless.
Humans are finished.
Cannot say it better!
You are one of the smartest bloggers here Ann, keep posting...
I like Ann, too, but why not man up and tell her you love her, like me.
Ann, if you're as smart as you appear to be and look anything like the picture in your avatar, just say the word and I'll be on my way.
I admit, I've been drinking. A LOT. Lately.
Fair enough. However, how does Ann know you don't look like Hillary's and Yellen's love child?
Yes, that photo is me. As long as you love me for my brain, I'll take all the nice comments above as complements.
But seriously, not many people would want to live where I do (125km from the nearest human being and 250km from the nearest town of many-thousand). I totally love it here in what I consider an absolutely gorgeous pristine paradise, but I'm quite sure a great many other people wouldn't be happy here.
Also, being honest means most people don't want to hear most of what comes out of my brain. I'm definitely not the beloved stereotype blonde bimbo. That's for sure!
But... keep dreaming. Dreaming is good for the brain... as long as you know you're dreaming! I'm a dreamer too.
"'I miss my family but it's worth it': Banker swaps £75,000-a-year job for a bamboo hut on remote island in Laos... and says he's never been happier"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3165600/I-miss-family-s-worth-...
Yup, life "in the boonies" really is great. Being a die-hard scientist, engineer, inventor and techie, the place I built for myself (mostly from modular pieces I purchased or had fabricated to my specs) is vastly more... modern.
Plus, I'm in the southern hemisphere, out of the Fukashima water and air current loops (which pretty much don't cross the equator). Plus, likely not in the "line of fire" in any likely actions in the next decade or three (nuclear or otherwise).
But I explored quite a few places before I chose my favorite (all things considered), and the "locals" who lived the furthest and most disconnected from "civilization" were the happiest and most helpful and welcoming (whether on remote islands, the high andes or elsewhere).
Frustrating, isn't it? I think that every time I drive down the road, that about every other car I pass is driven by a voter so clueless, as to defy imagination.
The known devil for the unknown devil. A very rationale choice actually. We all do it.
NOT rational... unless the alternative to the known appears to have only slight to modest potential advantages.
To remain in prison when they are willing to release you is not rational! At least, not for any sane and semi-healthy human being. And that's pretty much what the humans in Greece are doing by staying in the EU and euro... staying in prison.
PS: We don't all do it. For one, I don't do it. I spent ~95% of my life savings to move to a location I've never lived in the southern hemisphere, where I set up my self-sufficient digs 125km from the nearest human being. That is definitely not an instance of doing what is easy.
Did this take "guts"? Sure. And I freely admit this step was easier for me than most individuals due to the fact that I've taken almost as radical steps in the past, all of which ended up being vastly more than worth it. But still, I object to the notion that we all do it. Some of us don't.
Having said that, I want to be clear. This doesn't mean we [should] follow every whim that enters our brain. Every change has costs in risk, time, effort, expense, resources and inconveniences which need to be carefully and objectively balanced against perceived gain. When the likely [fully discounted] gain substantially outweighs "staying put", then we should make the change.
BTW, the cliche "the devil we know..." exists at the same time as the cliche "the grass is greener...".
The drama of Greece running out of money and threatening to quit Euro has become more voilent each time. This time same as last time nothing has been solved, more money pumped into the system. Next time when Greece trouble surfaces again, it will be more chaos. Perhaps next time the bankers will fill the country with tanks, soldiers and new government but it will be a false flag event.
greeks are used to this they've been there more than once.
they will go back to the simple life - olives, fish, a little wine, a little music.
........brought under control by the Greek army.....
but what if the army goes with the people?
I don't know about you all, but I'm getting sick of eating popcorn.
Think of it as a multi-year soap opera series rather than a feature movie.
Hey! When you've 'over-topped', just aim it at the banksters.
Wage a bet? Lloyd dead in under 24 months, happens in the Monday morning while he is shaving with a box cutter. This will be blamed on a slip and fall.
$200.00 Dead in 24 months.
Yer on. Blanfien is a vampire. And a squid.
Shoot. Easy money. Thanks.
On July 20, 2017, I will accept a check from bunnyswanson for $200, with which I will be able to purchase 287 ounces of silver, or, two eggs.
Still, sounds like a wager to me.
200 2015 dollars or 200 2017 dollars? Why not just make that 13 or 14 ounces of silver at today's price ?-)
“If we take our money out of chests and from our homes - where they are not safe in any case - and we deposit them in the banks, we will strengthen the liquidity of the economy,” Louka Katseli, the head of Greece’s banking association, said in a television interview on Sunday.
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FIFY.Kathimerini is the rag that, that Cunt Papahelass from the Bilderberg Group Fame writes his Propaganda Shit.
From my sources most of the Militrary are really pissed off with those cunts, in that Brothel they call Parliament. After they cut their wages by more than 40% back in 2009 (God only knows what level are now a days). They will be willing to shoot at their countrymen for the benefit of the Hedge Fund Hyenas and their corrupt politicians 100% of them.
Of course there are corrupt officers as well (they got backhanders from the politicians) in order to approve highly priced junk from Germany and America to defend themselves from their NATO ally Turkey, THATS RIGHT, ALLY not less.
61.3% that voted OXI (No) According to their manipulated poll count (private organisation Owned by a Greek Banker) Are going to sit about doing nothing, while they are being robbed blind in daylight.
GOOD LUCK WITH THAT.
Man is born to TROUBLE as sparks fly upward.
It won't be tanks! It'll be truck-vans hauling anything of value not welded down, back to Brussels.
@Molly. How does that go? They'll take it if it isn't nailed down, and anything they can pry loose isn't nailed down.
If it's easy taking.
/just saying
Seems a alot of think tank papers end with real tanks.
So we still give a shit about these losers?
Zerohedge and Greece is becoming as repetitive as Huffington Post and the Kardashians or CNN and MH 370
You'd better give a shit about those "losers". We're on the same ship.
Stick this coordinate into google earth.
12° 5' 20.87"N 104° 9' 6.80"E
MH370
The Civil War of tomorrow will be global, including Greece. The battle will be between those getting entitlements and those paying for entitlements.
Merkel's mercenaries.
what a laod of absolute bollocks.. please stay focused 0n the truth. this article is as bad as Fox News.
The price of gold is crashing. Right now.
Silver prices are going down faster than Monica Lewinsky at a presidential conferance.
On its way to $10.
No problem. Oil will also collapse to $20 and the S&P 500 will be trading at 666 before this shitstorm is over.
Waiting for September...
The price of gold are crashing for a few years... Must restore confidence
Yeah, that one minute candle at 21:29 that's a nearly $60 candle in a market that hardly ever budges $5 in a minute this time of day.
Whatever .... BRING it bankstas !!
They can't get anymore 'in your face' than that.
The manipulation is pretty blatant now. Actually, I was looking for them to pull this shit once $1140 was breached.
No surprises here, my shiny is holding strong ... not going anywhere :)
Best buy
I think it is closer to the mark to say we are all Ukrainians now .... eeerrr or soon will be.
Make no mistake, the IMF is actually the US treasury. Negotiations on a yearly basis probably go something like this .... this year you will invade country A and B. Next year you will invade country C and the we will keep printing the useless dollar for you. You will rig the diebold machine for Hillary, Trump is the ace in the hole to make her installment look legitimate.
Any politician not going along can look to have party film of him appear or his brake lines could go bad.
Who's paying for the tank fuel?
The computers that sell the gold and silver buy the gasoline... Duh
Awh hell the bankers came to Washington D.C. met with Bush and told him the same thing. Pretty sure Bush's response was hold off for 8 years until we have the DHS prepared enough to protect the banksters.
supposedly in Greece all the foreclosed properties are being placed into German holding accounts, in which only Germans will be able to bid on and buy those properties (Greeks will be banned from bidding and owning homes in Greece).
The land is being stolen quite literally from under the Greek peoples feet , the entire collapse is being orchestrated by the Germans in order to impoverish the Greek people and take from them their heritage, history, land, livelihood and eventually their lives.
This is hilarious!
Oh PLEASE! Are you expecting us to believe, a secret group in the EU were put together to come up with either plans and/or contingencies for a Greek exit, when at the same time, there is an internal battle splitting the EU to keep or drop kick Greece out of the EU? There is this mysterious Black Book that gives step by step instructions of how to go about a Greek Exit?
Ok, lets get some things straight. The EU got the EU wrong. The EU is a motley, dysfunctional family of countries that can't agree upon anything or implement anything that they haphazardly, if they do, agree on, with any bit of alacrity or competence. They take months even years to put anything together that amounts to anything, and even then they get it horribly wrong.
What ever, this so called black book is, I can tell you, if it ever comes public will be shown to be nothing more than a comical inept attempt to factualize and realize the rationalizations of the perverted financial delusions exemplified in Joseph Heller's Catch 22, and the lunatic political expositions outlined in Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! And nothing more. Bwahahaha!
What have the EU done to give you confidence they know what they are doing? Whoever are these people that make up this secrect group, and tell you one thing for sure, they are a group of people who have never had an honest job in their lives, they are socially detached and intellectual sycophants of political numb-skulls. I can just imagine who they are, french, german, italian, belgian or two, maybe a dutch. Oh yes, they all know Greece very well enough to writing about the Greek mindset and propensity for military coup's. Question does anybody in Greece even know how to drive a tank? Bwahahahah! And what is this military coup going to take over? The Athens Olympic sites? How great industrial regions are they going to militarize? Bwahahaha.
Oh this is so funny. And the Greeks themselves? Bwhahaha.
This is even more ridiculous. They have no money, they don't even know how to build a toaster. Who in Greece, a country where nobody works, is going to risk their life for what measely out come? If there is a coup, what are the military going to do? Start their own economy? Go to Russia ask for a bail out? Bwahahahahaha!
Greece can't even print its own money!
Oh please. The EU is already a circus. Do we really need to turn it into freak carnival show of the 19th century. Enough is enough....bwhahahaha.
I'm sure there is something like this black book in existence, don't get me wrong, but to treat it with sincerity and caution? Treat it with disdain, like everything the EU does. The EU is run by corrupt idiots. This black book ... treat it like everything else the EU does, with a shake of the head and contempt.
If a coup, or whatever, does happen in Greece, I'll tell you what will happen, and how much of an effect it will have on Europe... go look at Fiji. Fiji loves coups, they happen every other weekend. And what happens? Everybody shrug their shoulders, and move on like nothing has happened. Big deal!
Greece to Putin...come "in" Putin..situation critical...copy that!
Best next-step for long-term future of greece's youth who were too young to participate in greece's decades-long socialist parasite thieving and defrauding spending spree, is
a purging of ALL the communists and socialists in the entire country
and
banning ALL entitlement programs
AND
shrinking the government labor force to microscopic numbers
AND
instituting truly free & open labor & capital markets with zero income taxes
THEN
the greek economy will BLOOM !
Read Article 6 of NATO Charter
Will the modern equivalent of the German Junkers Stuka fly over Athens again?
Read "The Wealth of Nations."
Honestly, I've read more than half of it and I don't know anybody who's read that much, so, I figure I'm way ahead.
Andf really I am.
But you already knew that, right?
Aw, fuck off.
Listen to: "Bite > The Hand That Feeds You"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwhBRJStz7w 9 Inch Nails
Did you get that Italy, Spain, Portugal?
The world today reminds me of the second half of Atlas Shrugged. Now I want to reading it again.
Just getting warmed up.......wait for it.....
Question of course is: Whose tanks?
One way or the other the Greek economy is going to tank.
The problem of course for the tank drivers is that it's hard to give chase through the narrow streets of Athens and good luck trying to make a right or left hand turn.