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Goodbye Troika: Germany Rides Into Its Greek Colony On The "Quadriga"
With creditors' motorcades having officially returned to the streets of Athens in the wake of Greek lawmakers' approval of the second set of bailout prior actions last Wednesday, tensions are understandably high.
After all, these are the same "institutions" which Yanis Varoufakis famously booted from Greece after Syriza swept to power in January, and they've come to represent the oppression of the Greek people and are now a symbol of the country's debt servitude.
Although an absurd attempt was made to rebrand the dreaded "troika" earlier this year, the new and rather amorphous moniker - "the institutions" - never really stuck and perhaps because everyone involved felt the need to put a new name to the group that Greeks regard as the scourge of the Aegean in order to make negotiators feel safer on their trips to Athens, creditors have now added the ESM to their collective and rebranded themselves "The Quadriga."
Apparently (and unfortunately), this is not a joke. Here's MNI:
The source from the Commission also noted that the group formerly known as Troika is now being renamed as "Quadriga", to note the inclusion of the ESM in the talks.
"Quadriga is the name inspired by Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker for the new Greek project" the Commission source said, adding that "the EU side is a bit nervous of not knowing the IMF stance."
We assume the reference to the IMF's "stance" there refers to the size of the bailout and the prospects for debt relief and not to the new nickname choice, but whatever the case, here's the definition of "quadriga" from Wikipedia:
A quadriga (Latin quadri-, four, and iugum, yoke) is a car or chariot drawn by four horses abreast (the Roman Empire's equivalent of Ancient Greek tethrippon). It was raced in the Ancient Olympic Games and other contests. It is represented in profile as the chariot of gods and heroes on Greek vases and in bas-relief. The quadriga was adopted in ancient Roman chariot racing. Quadrigas were emblems of triumph; Victory and Fame often are depicted as the triumphant woman driving it. In classical mythology, the quadriga is the chariot of the gods; Apollo was depicted driving his quadriga across the heavens, delivering daylight and dispersing the night.
We're not sure what's more ironic there, the fact that an image which once appeared on Greek ceramics is now the symbol of serfdom or the fact that it's the "chariot of the gods", who in this case would be eurocrats and IMF officials.
As amusing - and somewhat sad - as this is, perhaps the most tragically ironic part of the entire rebranding effort is that one of the most significant representations of a quadriga the world over sits atop the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.
Behold Greece, the new symbol of your perpetual debt slavery:
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Should rebrand themselves the "Megalomania".
Another perfect example of why Americans should NEVER give up their guns.
Fucking blockheads.
Americans should NEVER give up their guns.
Never....to infinity.....and beyond.
Guns are for tyranny....hunting if you feel like it.
I just go to Burger King....cause field dressing is a pain in the ass.
You have to take this line of thinking to its logical conclusion. Free men must eventually make tyrannical forces give up their guns...or all is in vain because they won't quit. Oppression is their addiction.
Rome conquers Greece in 146 BC in Battle of Corinth. Quadrigas lead the Victory Procession. Greece enslaved until the 4th century AD.
Germany conquers Greece in 2015 AD in Battle of the Banksters. Quadrigas symbol resurrected to remind Greece who is Slave and who is its new Imperial Master.
The Quadriga is also a hermetic symbol: Conquest, war, famine and death.
The Four Horses' Asses of the Apocalypse.
I'm in the process of shooting in my new 'hunting' rifle and 1200 meters looks like a good bet for max range, I just need to push my range markers out a bit......
A hundred years from now this symbolism will be noted.
They do not see themselves for who and what they are.
Originally, the Quadriga faced East when it was built in 1793, but this was changed after the Berlin Wall came down, and the Brandenburger Tor and Quadriga were renovated.
It probably faces West, in order to pay tribute to Europe's new corporate owners...
having guns has never prevented you idiots to vote for obama, twice, in a row...
statistically, gun owner also voted for him.... so, nope, sorry, it won't change a fuck to the problem.
go downvote me without trying to understand my meaning... are basically obama voters. you should try to see beyond your nose.
as if obama had any influence over the NRA...
Correct in a way, but ZHers did not vote for O'Bummer. Trolls excluded. And those who may have, regret it.
I've been lurking here for some time and I have to say that I am somewhat underwhelmed by the intellectual acuity I find on display here. What I do not find surprising is that it's members appear to be republican inclined scroungers who think they are financially astute and are probably ALL broke and have far too much time on their hands. That says old, on social security, tea kooks who don't want anyone to take any of what little they do have. Misers is the word, calls to my mind a bunch of Silas Marners. Nothing to add to the discourse except spew. I come by to see what the latest msm crap is because this site is an aggregater that appeals to slugs, mostly......sometime entertaining, mostly lame. FYI
I come by to see what the latest msm crap is because this site is an aggregater that appeals to slugs, mostly......sometime entertaining, mostly lame.
Why do you think WTC7 fell down?
47 story steel framed highrises always fall into themselves at freefall speed (NIST admitted over 100 ft of freefall) from office fires. It's just a silly coincidence that several networks reported its collapse early. The alternative is too scary, if one building was wired for demo then towers 1 and 2 were controlled demo as well.
That's impossible. We have a free and accountable media that acts as the 4th branch of government. If Israel and traitors within the Bush administration killed nearly 3K Americans on live TV to justify the theft of our rights and illegal wars... The talking heads would SURELY tell us!!!
Do I really need to write "sarc off"?
You've been here for 4 years plus and this is your best commentary while your country burning to ashes?
To label and attack and characterize your fellow ZH's instead of contributing ideas?
Bravo!!
I logged in to vote you down. You are an enemy of private property and no doubt a friend to the welfare state. The truth is that conservatives are far more generous (with their own money) than liberals who are are happy to be generous with other peoples money. In my oppinion, that makes you a thief.
http://dailycaller.com/2010/09/23/surprise-conservatives-are-more-genero...
I believe many people come here for independent financial news that is concealed by the big-6 mainstream media corps. To you, the truth is sometime entertaining but mostly lame. That is the response of ostrich peaking out of their hole in the ground and deciding their normalcy bias is more comfortable to their sense of superiority.
Interesting, still don't give a shit about you.
It's not the NRA I'm worried about.
I'm worried about the people that don't know any better than to buy their groceries from 7-11 with free EBT cards.
That my friend is a formidable army.
Formidable until the shooting starts. That's when they show their true colors. Brave until it becomes apparent that they misjudged the whites. Japan made the same mistake.
Oh come on. Just how many Obama Supporters do you think there are on zerohedge?
That's right you keep your guns. Well, what about during when Roosevelt executed Executive Order 6102 in 1933?
How do your right to bear arms work there?
Divine Wind, come down from the heavens, not even gun ownership will help you when the Executive Orders come out.
Besides, unless you have an ammunitions factory under your home, owning a gun is meanless without an infinite supply of ammunition, and the government already knows that....they're stupid but not that stupid.
Believe it or not, Americans trusted their govt's in the 30's ("if we can just get the right people in").
I have reason to believe that the amount of amunition already in private hands is sufficient. A Vietnam hero told me he doubts he'd survive in a combat situation long enough to shoot through my amunition. I suspect that is the case for the majority of gun owners.
There will be plenty of rotting blueberries and dead turtles to take ammo off of. So many that I would say if you are in good enough shape, you won't even need to buy a rifle. Just a good knife to take one.
put some 90 degree right-turn bends on that cross in the center of the photo and they'll have themselves a real nice lookin' Quadriga Swastika to go with it. 4th Reich is on the move again...
WB7, we are awaiting your artistry on this new Quadriga LOL!
Should call themselves the Four Horsemen. Because Junkers sure as shit is bringing the Apocalypse to the Spartans
Goddamn krauts
The Four Horsemen of the Debtpocalypse
Yea, always an easy consensus blaming the krauts. But think twice! It was the French, the Italians, and Cyprus that decisively ruled out a grexit two weeks ago, and thus put Greece into said debt slavery, not the krauts.
The tribe will always push the anti-German narrative.
The troika was a deeply hated word in Greece. Best to invent another throwaway word for servitude
Should've gone with dildoga
I just searched the interwebs for "dildoga" and saw amazon ad and sex karaoke.
The four horses represent the "Apocalypse" Also a Greek word meaning revelation loosely translated, "The emperor has no clothes", "the men behind the curtain"
Banzai please do a composite of the four horsemen with their heads!
What a childish species we are
Stop referring to the head of the DNC.....she has feelings.
She or It?
They may as well start talks for the next bailout and the one after that and on and on.
Another day older and deeper in debt!
Always +1 for 16 Tons reference
See, in America, we would call it The Freedom and Prosperity Committee.
Erwin, I haff a new Mission for the Afrika Korps."
Yes, mein Fuhrer!
Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,
Über alles in der Welt,
Wenn es stets zu Schutz und Trutze
Brüderlich zusammenhält,
Von der Maas bis an die Memel,
Von der Etsch bis an den Belt -
|: Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,
Über alles in der Welt. :|
the favourite song of student "brotherhoods" from a time when there was no such thing as Germany. because it is a quite young country, born 1871, in Versailles, btw
the implied part is "Ich will", i.e. I want a Germany, "I want all those small countries to stop being the battlefield of French, Austrian and Russian interests"
have, for example, a look at the battles of John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough. in particular, the Battle_of_Blenheim, which resulted into the Crown presenting him Blenheim_Palace
the same place where his later scion, Winston Churchill, was born. btw, German Law deems the third verse of the song to be the current national anthem, not this first one
Kali-Fornia Uber Alles 21st Century
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_b-sC9XmCg
Hahaha, that's actually pretty damn funny.
Instead of Puerto Rico Greece can now call itself Quatro Rico
Catchy!
Just hope they have a fence to keep all the illegal aliens out.
Reggie calls Obama "Rico Suave" while Obama bows to his phallic symbol.
First thing that came to mind was the four horsemen of the Apocolypse.
SOON THE GREEKS WILL HAVE THEIR OWN SYMBOL
Oh good. I was wondering when the fourth horseman would appear.
At this point, what I'd give to witness these four riders of the apocalypse fall straight off the nearest cliff...
the staff should carry the new symbol of the zionazis to be appropriate. perhaps a few hapless goy being trampled would be fitting also.
"the most tragically ironic part of the entire rebranding effort is that one of the most significant representations of a quadriga the world over sits atop the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin."
that's actually the favourite of some. by all rights, the most significant and oldest known representation of a quadriga is over the basilica of St. Mark, in Venice
which was stolen by the Venetian Republic, at that time still a theoretical vassal of the Eastern Roman Empire, i.e. Greece, when they sacked Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, during a squabble about how to pay for the Crusade
the horses, though, were already stolen goods, from a disputed source somewhere in Asia
yup, europe has very bad coordination in all things related on "Public Relations". well, that's a war of words where the US, China and Russia excel
so be it, a "EU commissioner for public relations", i.e. propaganda is the very last thing I want to see. enjoy the "nazi symbolism" where actually that cross is Prussian
Why was Varoufakis trying to start a new currency? All he had to do was give debt-slavery a new name and VOILA, problem solved.
was he really trying to start a new currency? or was he trying to get his hands on data, first, and "then see"?
powerful stuff, the data on every taxpayer, complete with tax assessments, amounts, etc. etc.
Powerful stuff indeed that was in the hands of the Troika...
well, that's the "kick the Troika out of Greece question"
as I was mentioning, there is a simple concept, here at work:
a database where the single points of data are private and confidential... while the aggregates and statistics aren't
one where Greek Law states that both "Quadriga or Troika" have the aggregated/statistical access... and Varoufakis wanted to get the detailed access
Perhaps but I think that the Troika has shown what they think of Greek law. You really think that they'd only have aggregated/statistical access? A list with detailed data on some of the notorious Greek tax evaders was handed to them anyway. Not that they did anything with that (nor previous or current Greek governments). You know these evaders being of their own sort (like Lagarde being a tax evader herself).
Joe A, note the very words you used: "A list with detailed data on some of the notorious Greek tax evaders was handed to them anyway"
there are even private companies where the CEO or the CFO needs a reason to delve into personal data of customers, with IT systems that are set up this way
as a reminder, by his own admission Varoufakis planned to hack into them
instead of writing on a piece of paper something on the tune of: "I, by the authority given to me by the Greek Parliament as Minister of Finance, hereby want to have the same access as foreigners have to confidential Greek data", which would have become a ministerial decree, supported by law
he could not do such thing, because if the "Quadriga" has that kind of access, then not by law. and actually, it does not need this kind of access anyway, literally
Planned to hack. And according to him he had permission from the PM to set up an alternative system. That is not the same a something written in law indeed. This is all word play and speculation. Taking liberty with the 'truth'. But Troika/Quadriga/Institutions do the same. Who says that these teams of Troika people visiting Athens tax office did not have full access?
+1. "do the same" is a completely different thing. Varoufakis was on the record of complaining that "the EU" wanted access to the aggregated level data. at one EuroGroup meeting, he harped on until one collegue cited not only the EU treaties, but also the membership agreements to the... IMF
saying that the IMF has nearly the same access to nearly the same level of data as the Greek government. and this shut him up, and yet he continued to refuse to give this aggregated data... until Tsipras whistled him back, after a few months
personal details of taxpayers... the story is old, by now. plenty of precedents among the european sovereigns. they are very, very interesting... for political local reasons
long time ago there was a leaving Italian FinMin that out of spite published that data, in full. for hours, until it was taken down. and you can still get copies on illegal markets
that precedent made every parliament in europe to discuss the matter, and to set the standards of accessibility that are now law, including in Greece
we get your view, ghordy..."troike entitled, greece not"..idiotic as your twisting is...
And a Quisling for every take-over.
Bail-ins and home evictions are on the menu:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/tsipras-and-varoufakis-approve-of-home-evic...
In the 90s I witnessed an EU motorcade driving at high speed in Rhodes. (why have their meeting there at one of the EU's furthest outposts?)
It was the attitude of the system-serving uniformed brigade that got to me. All peasants had to be swept aside.
They were of course, only obeying orders.
Loathesome.
note that it was the Greek Police that would have organized it. so, in any terms, it was a Greek Police motorcade with "an EU delegation" in it
interestingly, in some EU countries the police does not like to do motorcades, and so they... don't
(loathsome order disobeyers /S )
Well, NO one can say the heretofore Troika now to be referred to as the Quadriga doesn't have solid steel balls. Wow - Greece made a terrible, absolutely terrible, choice.
Germany is not the colonizer, but like the role the DC US plays for Zion, just the front, shield, for the real colonizers.
A zeminence front.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
You have it backwards. Germany is killing off the Keynesian model. People need to get a deeper understanding of history. Hitler is not the German Pysche.
Who could have thought ?
A brilliant naming
It's arguable that offing your assailant whilst being raped is acceptablein law.
If this argument could be applied to the " Troika, Institutions or Quadriga" then, bearing in mind, what they are doing to the Greeks they should take some tanks and SS Troops with them---AGAIN.
Now....
The Four Horsemen? Death come to us all.
This is why they get up in the morning. This is the nature of bankers and Germans. This is what they do.....
so schauble and his lesbo friend angela have now achieved what 5 hitler divisions could not.
Defeat the soviet union?
Quadriga: to rig four times
(already planning for the next bailout)
Notice the chariot is going over the cliff.
Greeks should arm themselves with red laser pointers, and make sure these folks all get a nice red dot hovering around center mass.
Follow-up bullets are not necessary, yet. It's just a friendly reminder.
Funny that most of Greek's debt are from useless military arms from Western arms dealers. All part of the Western screw job.
Greece could have managed their affairs if they had never joined the EU.
The good part is that they won't be forced to buy the F-35.
Dies sind die Tage meinen Freunde. Genießen Sie.
Germany is a pussy.
Controlled by nazizio bankers.
"Greek Project", I effin hate that bullshit language. How comes everything nowdays is a "project"? It's like everything has become a game, something to toss aside when it all goes tits up. It's the talk of cunts.
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I'll tell you why it's now the Quadriga and not the Troika:
Christine Lagarde is an Obama administration plant. Since her tenure began, the IMF has always had sympathy fo Greece. She hampers 1/3 of the Troika. A new addition to the party helps Germany's Fourth Reich work more efficently.
https://glblgeopolitics.wordpress.com/2015/07/27/goodbye-troika-germany-...
Sort of a riff on the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse.
Nice.
The standard should have a swastika on it instead of the iron cross.
Actually I think the symbol should be a Greek being fucked by another Greek, like on some of the pottery.
http://www.sexworldrecords.com/art/first-sex-in-art.html
A rapist, a thief and a banker walked into a bar.
He had a number of drinks while he was there.
Shades of Ben Hur in Athens. On the road to the Parthenon from the Piree (port), in the olden days, lay the old Circus Maximus where the chariot races used to occur, with a statue of Zeus dominating the entrance.
Well, I think they will have to build Circus Maximus again for Mutti's triumph. Ave Mutti !
Circus Maximus was in Rome, not Athens. Its most famous charioteer was named Gluteus.
The Quadrigia in The Vatican was looted from
Constantinople when it was sacked by the Western Europeans! This is so appropriate.
Ride of the Quad Riggas