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"Social Explosion" Begins In Greece As Massive Street Protests Bring Economy To A Fresh Halt
One thing that became abundantly clear after Alexis Tsipras sold out the Greek referendum “no” back in the summer after a weekend of “mental waterboarding” in Brussels was that the public’s perception of the once “revolutionary” leader would never be the same. And make no mistake, that’s exactly what Berlin, Brussels, and the IMF wanted.
By turning the screws on the Greek banking sector and bringing the country to the brink of ruin, the troika indicated its willingness to “punish” recalcitrant politicians who pursue anti-austerity policies. On the one hand, countries have an obligation to pay back what they owe, but on the other, the subversion of the democratic process by using the purse string to effect political change is a rather disconcerting phenomenon and we expect we’ll see it again with regard to the Socialists in Portugal.
After a month of infighting within Syriza Tsipras did manage to consolidate the party and win a snap election but he’s not the man he was - or at least not outwardly. He’s obligated to still to the draconian terms of the bailout and that means he is a shadow of his former self ideologically. As we’ve said before, that doesn’t bode well for societal stability.
On Thursday, we get the first shot across the social upheaval bow as the same voters who once came out in force to champion Tsipras and Syriza are staging massive protests and walkouts. Here’s Bloomberg:
As Greek workers took to the streets in protest on Thursday, Alexis Tsipras was for the first time on the other side of the divide.
Unions -- a key support base for the prime minister’s Syriza party -- chanted in rallies held in Athens the same slogans Tsipras once used against opponents. Doctors and pharmacists joined port workers, civil servants and Athens metro staff in Greece’s first general strike since he took office in January, bringing the country to a standstill for 24 hours.
Greece’s biggest unions, ADEDY and GSEE, are holding marches accusing Tsipras of bowing to creditors and imposing measures that “perpetuate the dark ages for workers,” as the country’s statistical agency released data showing that 1.18 million Greeks, or 24.6 percent of the workforce, remained unemployed in August.
The former firebrand opponent of bailouts was catapulted to power this year on a promise to end austerity, only to capitulate to creditors’ demands after the freezing of aid from the euro area brought the country’s financial system to the brink of collapse, forcing Tsipras to impose capital controls.
Even more belt-tightening will be required before Europe’s most indebted state gains access to additional emergency loans to cover its budget needs next year, and creditors agree to ease its debt burden. The GSEE union of private sector workers says those measures will bring “punitive austerity, poverty and impoverishment,” to a country where a quarter of the workforce is already without a job.
“There’s a risk of social explosion, as pension cuts and tax hikes loom,” said Sotiria Theodoropoulou, a senior researcher at the European Trade Union Institute in Brussels. “Last summer’s shock took a toll on many sectors, and it’s difficult to see where growth will come from.”
Amusingly, Syriza supports the strikes against its own policies (via The Telegraph):
The party's department that deals with labor policy called for mass participation in the walk-out to protest "the neoliberal policies and the blackmail from financial and political centers within and outside Greece."
And more from The Guardian:
Schools, hospitals, banks, museums, archaeological sites, pharmacies and public services will all be hit by the 24-hour walkout. Flights will also be disrupted, ferries stuck in ports and news broadcasts stopped as staff walk off the job.
“We are expecting a huge turnout,” Petros Constantinou, a prominent member of the anti-capitalist left group Antarsya told the Guardian. “This is a government under dual pressure from creditors above and the people below and our rage will be relentless. It will know no bounds.”
“Syriza may now be trying to save its soul but it has gone back on all its promises,” said Kalomoiris, a life-long leftist who joined a rebel group, Popular Unity, formed by Syriza dissidents when Tsipras signed up to the bailout in July.
“In this country a graduate starts off in the public sector with a salary of €775 a month, or €9,300 a year, and we are being told that wages will be frozen for the next decade and that every tax imaginable will be increased. How will people make ends meet? It has got to the point where a social explosion is inevitable and it will come sooner rather than later.”
Finally, from CBC:
Greek workers stayed at home on Thursday to protest austerity measures, in the biggest domestic challenge to Alexis Tsipras's government since he was re-elected in September on a promise to cushion the impact of years of economic hardship.
Public transport was severely disrupted Thursday, with the Athens metro not running, bus and trolley routes reduced and ferries tied up in port. The strike shut down museums, schools and pharmacies, while state hospitals were functioning with emergency staff.
More than a dozen domestic flights were cancelled, while journalists also walked off the job, pulling news bulletins off the air except to report strike news.
Here, apparently, is what the beginning of a "social explosion" looks like:
(Expensive looking) Shoe shop targeted by violent protesters
#Greece pic.twitter.com/wde8D2wtcv
— Derek Gatopoulos (@dgatopoulos) November 12, 2015
Good old days in #Athens #strike #Greece pic.twitter.com/c1B1cdmvd3
— Nektaria Stamouli (@nstamouli) November 12, 2015
So we suppose the lesson here for the troika is that you may be able to subvert the will of the people in the short term by forcing democratically elected officials to choose between their election mandate and financial ruin/depression, but that only serves to enrage an electorate that clearly was already fed up in the first place.
Obviously, this is decidedly untenable scenario and if there is indeed a rash of massive protests that causes public (and private) services to go dark for days at a time, something will have to change politically and that, in turn, sets the stage for yet another showdown with the troika. Case in point... here's the Belgian finance minister's response:
Strange & dangerous logic in Athens: Syriza organises strike against program its own government pledges to execute. Sense of urgency needed.
— Johan Van Overtveldt (@jvanovertveldt) November 12, 2015
And last but not least, the latest jobs data for the country is out on Thursday. Unemployment is still exceptionally high, coming in at 24.6% in August with youth unemployment hovering near 50%:
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Wow.....again?
When they force Greece to take the Syrian terrorists....the fireworks will really start.
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Here ya go, guys. your anthem.
I heard somebody say.......
The Greek government should just default on their debts. There is no future for greece as long as they are in the clutches of the banksters. Default now, to hell with Goldman Sachs!
Walk like an Icelander.....or at least fake it.
I'd start there.....maybe improvise after that.
yes, like the last protest worked out well for them.
Think big picture.
http://usuncut.com/world/iceland-sentences-26-bankers-to-a-combined-74-years-in-prison/
Are we sure the stopped economy didn't bring the people into the streets?
Because that it what it looks like to me.
Well, thank goodness Greece is finally back in the news.
Greece back in teh news, record gold coin sales, Bitcoin rallying again, right shoulder of DOW breaking down, is this teh big one? Stay tuned...
It's not the big one until you hear about some major players going under. This shit will be papered over until something breaks in such a way that interferes with the flow of physical goods.
They should have done that at least a year ago..... but late is better than ever
Why should they? Want to know how this ends?
"Dear Angie, weather is great, and having a good wine crop this year, when you get a chance could you please send another 100Billion, love your little Kuchen, Tsakis."
Germans work Greeks party, rinse and repeat.
I thought Draghi fixed Greece?
They should go full greek on Draghi's ass:
http://www.thepornster.net/video/67/
I'm still struggling with the concept of "bringing to a halt" that which has had no discernable movement to begin with...
If you bring imaginary momentum to a halt in the forest does it make any sound?
Welcome to the Euro. We are here to help.
I think I see those green shoots... just the other side of the burning police car...
and a spiderman towel signed by linda Green
Where do I sign?
Guys, do you know that big protests happen for long already in Romania where USSA tries another 'Ukraine' ?!
http://occupywallstreet.net/story/one-week-protests-what%E2%80%99s-going...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34726826
I havent heard anthing about this, figures. Bt I do imagine the gold exploration company and oil co. will certainly provide jobs to ROMANIANS and not global corporate asshats? No you say? Hmmmm Thats like saying the son of a vice president will take over the enrgy department of an entire country!!
"Goldman Sacks". You spelled that wrong. It's "Goldman Sucks".
The only thing Greek people can do is to walk. They became totally useless parasites.
No No No, its Golden Socks.
The "violent" depictions above are due to a couple hundred so-called anarchists that have regularly been derailing every peaceful protest in the last 20 years or so. You haven't seen the people's anger yet.
The "anarchist" provocateurs probably have pockets full of globalist Euros.
They want the defense minister in charge and the "Colonels".
I foresee violence even if the people don't want it.
Blame any collapse on the violence of the population not the German banksters.
There is no violence coming, the Greek public has been pacified and have accepted their systematic impoverishment and loss of sovereignty.
Considering the number of unemployed and the onerous and catastrophic measures Tsipras has been passing with the fast track repossession and auctioning of place of first residence for those with mortgages in arrears coming soon, the reported 30,000 demonstrators is not much of a show.
Part of the reason, however, why people don't show is the organized violence that accompanies these demonstrations in Greece carried out by the bought and paid for so called "anarchists". They are anarchists my ass, they are hired Molotov hurling thugs.
The war between the banks and the people in Greece has been fought and regrettably the people were routed.
The bright side is that there is hope for jobs for those kids in Fergeson.
From The Protocols:
6. The people, under our guidance, have annihilated the aristocracy, who were their one
and only defense and foster-mother for the sake of their own advantage which is
inseparably bound up with the well-being of the people. Nowadays, with the destruction
of the aristocracy, the people have fallen into the grips of merciless money-grinding
scoundrels who have laid a pitiless and cruel yoke upon the necks of the workers.
7. We appear on the scene as alleged saviours of the worker from this oppression when
we propose to him to enter the ranks of our fighting forces - Socialists, Anarchists,
Communists - to whom we always give support in accordance with an alleged brotherly
rule (of the solidarity of all humanity) of our SOCIAL MASONRY. The aristocracy,
which enjoyed by law the labor of the workers, was interested in seeing that the workers
were well fed, healthy, and strong. We are interested in just the opposite - in the
diminution, the KILLING OUT OF THE GOYIM. Our power is in the chronic shortness
of food and physical weakness of the worker because by all that this implies he is made
the slave of our will, and he will not find in his own authorities either strength or energy
to set against our will. Hunger creates the right of capital to rule the worker more surely
than it was given to the aristocracy by the legal authority of kings.
8. By want and the envy and hatred which it engenders we shall move the mobs and with
their hands we shall wipe out all those who hinder us on our way.
There you go telling everyone the WHY of it all. "They" won't believe it anyway.
For those that are open to learning more I think it's worth posting, but this plan will happen whether people like it or not, it's beyond the realm of the commoners intelligence to resist it.
Sequels are so yesterday.
Is this " Liftoff? "
I am convinced that the daily events suggesting eminent collapse will repeat until such time as we are led to believe them "normal", and at that point, it WILL collapse. So we simply prepare as we can and then relax.
One amusing timer, huh?
The agenda is entering warp factor......
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/11/666-is-upon-us-the-...
The EU bought the NSA data file on Tsipras-
Looks like they've run out of leverage on the rest of the Greeks tho
Apparently pensions of $94 a month are not enough.
Greek debt is $65,000 per taxpayer versus $1,720,000 per taxpayer in US per Kotlikoff.
Wealthy Germans Forced Pensions of Poor Greeks Down to $94 monthlyhttp://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/07/19/wealthy-germans-forced-pensio...
LOL - Awesome.
Math makes my brain hurt.
That......and scatter charts.
I don't remember spending that $1.7 million. Show me my signature on the note or FUCK OFF. Better yet, try to collect, as I went galt a few months ago.
If the Greeks had welcomed Tsipras back home with a bullet in the head, the next guy to confront the Troika wouldn't be so eager to agree to their assfucking. That is what it is going to take to get your mandate taken seriously.
Well, now is the time to do something since the Germans have decided to fuck themselves in the ass with a muzzie phallus.
Germany hates greeks and loves muzzies. If you are a poor greek, throw away your ID and go to germany posing as a refugee. Free shit for life.
If you feel like it rape a white german woman. They'll make excuses why it's okay.
What will it take for the government to change currencies? The Euro is killing them.
Nothing changes until they "believe" that they have nothing left to lose. With all of the delusion and misinformation, people just don't realize that given their collectivized debts, they have less than nothing.
They have more denial than they have ever had, but their time is running out.
DING DING DING DING DING We have a winner!
Must be nice to be a German politician and know you can export inflation to Greece, Spain, Italy and France paid for by their taxpayers. Bend over Southern Europe, have a German Bratwurst Colonoscopy like its 1939. Smile.
I love you unknown ZH rebell! You made me laugh hard and for that I will be forever thankful. Should I win the lottery, than I will throw a party and invite you to the Bratwurst-Fest here in Portugal! Seriously. You have good humour!!! :-D
Greetings from Portugal (PS: We have now a extrem left government...including the Communists. They want to protect families from Banks: New law will be passed to protect families from eviction. Will see how that goes down).
Much appreciated. Just make sure those Brats haven't been used for medical purposes and I'm there!
Europe and the rest of the "WEST" are going to shit.
And nothing can stop it untill the debt stops
Hubris at the highest level
As my parents would say "theres no money tree at the bottom of the garden"
Not so much debt as debt based on "created" money. It is this "money from nothing" that is distorting and ultimately destroying world economies.
wrong asshat...............its the fucking USURY attached to fiat (created ex-nihilo) that is the problem...........
Why the adolescent, insecure personal attack in your response, you can be better than that, your counbtry needs better than that.
What economy might that be?......
How much longer can Greece milk the freebies. Cut ‘em off.
They can't.
The german banks would implode.
Have you been huffing paint again?
The most lethal thing to a system based on delusion is reality.
Greece is fixed. Didn't you get the memo? Move on.
Yes. The only thing left to do is plant more gardens.
Crap! I was all ready to make that comment!
Fortunately the ROW's banking risks have been fixed! (squirms on couch seat trying to hold down powder keg)
and to the north there is this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/11989250/EU-flag...
And so it begins.....with no end in sight.
I will bet any leader that challenges the $tatus quo is told that if they keep it up, they will find their family buried in a landfill the next morning, with bullets to the back of their heads.
When there are TRILLIONS to be made-these vile people will stop at nothing.
I'll go you one further: I think they will be set on fire, beated, then burned, then beaten again, then burned again ... then beaten ... then shot.
Wait! Could you write that a bit slower so I can get it all down? (never did real well on tests)
Look, this is how the threat went down... "Hey, Tsipras, get your country (snigger) under control, harsh austerity measures, submissive populace or else we'll send Hillary round to your house to give you a soapy tit-wank."
Oh no ......not the soapy tit wank.
Exactly, they will be Kennedy'd
Sorry Greeks, but you are a bunch of pussies, just like the Yanks and the Brits, I mean seriously, they targeted a shoe store for fuck sake, protests in England they target McDonalds, protests in the U.S. they target local shopkeepers.
Wake me up when ANY protesters against government, government policies, are targeting the mother-fucking government and their buildings....until then, Fuck Off Greece, go and smash your own house up in protest you bunch of queer, peasant, EU shit-licking, piss-ants.
maybe coz they don't have money thanks to crisis/capital control and there is actually something to steal in a shop, government money is digital, just numbers on a screen.... negative ones.
i'd do a massive strike until the country leave the euro or until the IMF pay off their debts with yellen printing machine, now that would be an idea ! frenchstyle!
Well, that action of targeting stores because you need money is hardly a protest against the gov't and more like a mob looting event. These is a difference between those two actions. One is against the gov't and be considered legitimate, the other against your fellow member of society and be considered a crime. NOTE: I'm sure protesting against gov't is also considered a crime by gov't employees.
Once the shops are empty, with nothing to loot ....
Yeah, really, why can't anyone get it right? ISIS/ISIL/<whatever today's alphabet-soup is> FAILS to attack Israel?
Either people are really stupid or TPTB's programming is amazingly effective.
Not "either"
Both
Rational, thinking people either aren't pissed off enough yet, or they realize that they'll be looked at as nutters because people actively refuse to belive that things are going to shit. Things need to get worse before we have a critical mass and then we need to be worried about a strong man who wants to come in and take control.
I hear you on where to protest Snake, but everyone needs to remember the banks [Bis, IMF, GS] didn't actually have the money to loan, they printed it. The protests need to be at the banks, not the shoe store.
Now the bankers and wall streeters are buying up med islands on the cheap.
The problem isn't/wasn't Greece, it is Portugal and France. Greece is an example.
they just had to leave the euro and nationalize their state, was telling the same thing in july they just delayed the process by 6 months ..
its hopeless to stay i just hope europe won't send the army or the S will HTF
Tsipras is a globalist agent. This is exactly how it was always supposed to go. Destroy Syriza from the inside, laying the ground work for a militarist right wing government led by the globalist defense minister Panos Kammenos. The "refugees" are just an added pressure point so this kind of thing happens through all of Europe. Good right thinking fascists in charge of the new UN led globalist world.gov.
I smell something.
yeah i think i saw that before somewhere ... like on half the planet thanks to america empire expension classic technic :
propaganda around the current leader to destroy his media image, following by strong actions taken either by militaries or by rioting, then replace him with a savior who will agreed to everything the former president refused, classic song indeed.
Leaving the Euro still won't pay back their debts, and it won't pay all those entitled civil servants.
Without foreign exchange (euros, dollars) they won't be able to buy/import ANYTHING and that includes oil and gas.
100 years ago they did not need oil and gas, maybe it will not be so hard.
Greece cannot balance their budget until they recover the wealth stolen by their leaders.
FUCK THE EU- featuring Victoria Nuland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6PVmhkDIDg&list=LLVDO3dI4RbXyNJEGWS_blD...
I were them, I'd be heading to Germany.
@ silverer
I had simular thoughts but then they may...................have to work and pay taxes!
Just a thought
Well, I think they're realizing that their pensions will drop to zero and in a socialist paradise where most people work for the government and are all joined by a union, that can get pretty violent FAST!
Some goes for the rest of Europen and America.
America isn't immune to that either! There's plenty of govenrment employees that get paid royaly and don't give a fuck about the rest UNTILL their benefits get cut.
Then you'll see the same fires over there also!
And it's easy to see how they don't give a fuck about the rest. That shoestore for example? That's from a small business owner trying to keep his head above the waterline.
They didn't give a fuck and destroyed his shop and made sure he couldn't make a living to add pressure to his own cause.
That's why these protest should be beaten down with a hard stick.
It's these protestors who are at the root of the problem in the first place. And they don't represent the average person who doesn't work for the government.
When you think it's time to protest, you're already too late. - some guy called Tsar Pointless
"That's why these protest should be beaten down with a hard stick.
It's these protestors who are at the root of the problem in the first place. And they don't represent the average person who doesn't work for the government."
Very well stated and 100% accurate!
Faustian bargain socialism is .. I tell you. It's out come is coming to all nations that embraced this fraud of a system.
so they want more money..that they dont have....I am so glad Greece is back in the NEWS....
The best dissection of this insanity was given with this (many years ago):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5QwKEwo4Bc
Boooooringgggg.
Can someone send those sheeple to their enclosure?
Europe was plagued with impossible debts after the first world war.
What you see first is the soft Left, the bleeding heart liberals who tend to back down.
International creditors keep demanding their cash, then you get National Socialism (Nazis), Fascism, the very hard Left.
It took Hitler to default on Germany’s debts in 1933.
1920s/2000s - high inequality, high banker pay, low regulation, low taxes for the wealthy, robber barons (CEOs), reckless bankers, globalisation phase
1929/2008 - Wall Street crash
1930s/2010s - Global recession, currency wars, rising nationalism and extremism
Fascism on the very hard Left? Not this shit again...
it is not really a line between Left and Right.
It's a circle, the extremes of the Left and Right look very similar.
UKIP in the Uk is treated as right, but keeps pulling voters from the Left and Right
The Nazis were National Socialists.
Was the old Russia communist or Fascist?
It's a straight line and they are both on the left.
Compare what was considered left and right in the '90s to now, and you come to the conclusion that the concepts are a moving target and they might just be bullshit targets. Am I left or right? I just don't give a shit.
I'll make it simple for you.
The Left = Big Government, Government always there to interfere in your life / lend a hand. Ie Communist, Socialist, and yes - Fascist.
The Right = Small Government. Individual liberties lifted high above the rights of the State, Government favoured enterprises.
Do you really think when the Governmenr, industry & banks are joined at the hip (hello bank bailouts, TARP, QE 4Ever are examples of small Government???)
Really???
It is sliding towards totalitarian, authoritarianism. Classic Left-Wing fundamentals.
This is not confusing. You've been confused by the false paradigms pushed by the MSM.
The Left is ascendant in most of the world - despite what labels pollies attach to themselves.
I’ll make it easy for you: you’ve been fooled!
Big government is not equal left-wing – it’s a ridicules statement and is telling of the power of the US corporate propaganda-machine.
A state is just a tool – in can be used for and by the right-wing or the left-wing.
A Monarchy is right-wing by definition (actually the term right- vs. left-wing originates from the time of the first parliaments – the Kings/Queens men/woman were sitting at the right-wing of the parliament and the opposition (at that time the capitalists) were sitting at the left-wing). The ‘left-wing’ at that time ended up taking power of the state – and became the right-wing after a new opposition to the capitalist state emerged (the – at first banned – left-wing parties of anarchists/libertarians (the real sort), socialists, communists, social democrats etc.).
In Denmark some of the old parties that are now extreme right-wing have names that tells this story: Venstre (currently the only party forming the government of Denmark) literally translate to the left – it’s a pro-business, pro-capitalism and pro-EU/banksterism party = a right-wing party. A hundred years ago it was the left-wing (vs. the conservatives who supported the power of the King/the state).
The ‘state of Denmark’ is now – as all Western nations – a tool for the ownership class (the FIRE-sector in particular).
In US it’s pretty obvious that the state have been taken over by big business – it’s not the US Government who calls the shots, they are just following orders from their masters on Wall St. (and City of London). States today are owned by the capitalists.
Fascism is Not Far Right!
National Socialism is more properly called ethnocentric fascism – fascism that uses ethnicity as a propaganda tool (as the US version of fascism uses ‘patriotism’, ‘national security’, ‘terrorism (the Muslim-scare)’ as propaganda tools).
The German version of National Socialism was otherwise known as Nazism. It was basically the concept of Nationalism taken to its extreme in an era when Communism and Socialism were gaining broad support among the poor. In Germany, National Socialists blamed the tiny minority of non-natives for all crises (most know of course the Jews, but actually all ethnicities that didn’t look ‘Aryan’ enough). They used the "Socialist" moniker to draw in popular support.
The Nazis arranged protests, pamphlets, rallies etc. to build hatred against Jews, Socialists, Communists, gays, and intellectuals (replace Jews with Muslims/immigrants and you have the US-version of Fascism). The Center Party in Germany at that time liked the Nazis' anti-Communist, free market beliefs and allowed its rise to power in what was probably the worst political underestimation in history. The Nazis then banned the Center Party (together with the socialist and communist parties).
Fascism (Nazism is a version of fascism – se above) is a right-wing ideology. It supports and is supported by the ownership class – today and historically.
Great analysis! The only thing I would disagree with is placing Fascism on the Far Right. I believe Fascism to be a far left wing ideology and have written about it here, here and here. The popularity of Trump, for me, is concerning.
You two are some serious leftist degenerates. It's not surprising to see that you're concerned about Trump. Fuck your worthless third world rapist invaders, your cherished gun control, your idiotic social justice, and above all your vile zionist financiers. The regular folk that you people look down on are sick of your shit. SIEG HEIL!
"Europe was plagued with impossible debts after the first world war."
This is the sick part: Yes, WW I created massive debts and this ultimately lead to WW II. Now, not war, but living high on the hog has lead to the current conditions. The enemies of young Greeks are older generations of Greeks. This is not complicated. The sutuation is no different in any other Socialized western country and the problems will need to be solved internally, not blaming and going to war with bankers or other countries.
None of these protests and marches will mean “squat” until the other 95% of the world’s sheeple population has their MSM mask removed. Most sheeple are slopped from elites propaganda trough. When they do awaken and find they have been deceived the sheeple rage will be enormous.
Against one another. The elites have locked themselves away, far away from the proles.
The sheeple haven't been deceived by anyone except themselves. They only chose to hear what they wanted to hear and ignored reality.
Reality is just catching up and now has them by the nuts and they're screaming.
I guess when outsiders intrude and take over your lands, the last resort is to burn it all down.
NO, this is what happens when a country lives beyond their means.
Do they already forget that they voted for it? TWICE? haha fucking retards don't know if they're coming or going. Yeah let's protest... ourselves. Maybe! just maybe, they're lazy cunts and will do anything not to work. Fuckers are forwarding all the 'refugees' so let them burn.
This is what suckers look like when they wake up.
They did not woke up(yet). They did this same shit for years already and yet when vote was to be made they always wanted to stay in EU and keep euro. Once they specifically and in majority openly declare to quit both, only then had they awaken. But I dont see that happen any time soon if ever so they will remain suckers forever.
Meanwhile they destroy their own economy for no real reason. If you look at posted unemployment data here, since 2013 they actually kept improving. How much better could they be if no strikes? Much quicker, probably double rate or more. People are more stupid than their government and that go for most countries. I regret buying that Greek honey last week, will never support suckers that dont know what they really want anymore.
This comming from a guy who breaks a mirror every morning just by looking at it.
I think we are finally starting to see the real beginning....
Not quite. There's still a trickle of money flowing into the country. Like the EU promising €1 billion euros if Greeks accept refugees, instead of implementing drastic cuts like they were supposed to.
That €1 billion only buys them a few weeks to a month max. Just wait. The party is just getting started.
Didn't the BSers on CNBC say that Greece was fixed?
LOL, What a recovery!
You misheard, they said 'fucked'.
The new term is actually 'fuxed' which obviously stands for a bit of both.
What is CNBC?
Too late Greece, you made your choice, now you have to live with it.
Look at my left hand and not the right states, IMF Muppet magician.
Global Transitions Implications for the GCC RegionSo why doesn't Greece just leave the Euro if it is killing them? Oh, right - because they don't want to live with their own worthless currency. Maybe they'll finally realize they can't have it all but that would be too simple.
Lagarde is the next Amway spokesperson.
"they don't want to live with their own worthless currency"
A little time and all fiat currencies will be seen as the worthless things they are. Don't be too hard on the Greeks, their future, may save yours.
The SDR is a joke. You have to plant seed money in order to use it under conditions.
memo to greeks: u mad bro?
The United Snakes of Urupp...(that Anglozionazi remake of the United Snakes of Amerika) is dead. Long live the revolting EuroPeons.
Onward ever faster to the much awaited collapse of bankst€ri$m!
Boy, you sure live in a paranoiac's fantasy bubble!
Yawn. Boring!
They know what they need to do if they're serious about freedom from debt-peonage. The army of the Hellenic Republic needs to do what they did in 1967---take direct control and remove, promptly, the elements in Greek public life that keep Greece from living within her means. They need to go do it or stop expecting anybody else to give a shit if they live or die.
The banksters want your first born? Lot of that going around. What did you ever do to stop them taking him? What are you going to do now?
The men of Novorossiya shit bigger things than the Greeks.
"They know what they need to do"
No they don't!
That is the whole reason for this, 95% of "people" do not know.
I think they will learn fast.
Soros$$$$$$$.....do I need to say more.
Yes destroy more shops, that make sense. Hopefully you wont need to buy anything ever.
“There’s a risk of social explosion, as pension cuts and tax hikes loom”- do you think? What exactly was going through the minds of the Troika when they destroyed the Greek economy, cut pensions and subsidies, increased unemployment, austerity and poverty, while looting public assets in the country? The ECB’s policy towards Greece is based on Bankers greed, with little if any regard for the long term social consequences of their actions. Unfortunately, problems in Greece are relatively minor compared with upcoming financial problems in Portugal, Italy, Spain and France, all confronted with high unemployment, anemic job growth, increasing austerity, poverty, debt and increasing social unrest. To quote the Wicked Witch of the West (Wizard of Oz) “Why my little party's just beginning”.
'“There’s a risk of social explosion, as pension cuts and tax hikes loom”- do you think? What exactly was going through the minds of the Troika when they destroyed the Greek economy, cut pensions and subsidies, increased unemployment, austerity and poverty, while looting public assets in the country?'
The Schaüble Manifesto.
The Greeks destroyed the Greek economy, not the Troika!
You Greeks are MORONS.
You voted back into power the very traitor who sold you out to the bankers. You chose as your leader the same scumbag who renounced your referendum result as illegitimate and imposed the austerity measures required by the bankers that you Greeks opposed.
You Greeks are full of shit and you're wasting our time. Go suck some Turkish dick. Looks like you still crave for it, as it seems stinky German cunt is too bland for you.
You're confused.
The Greeks voted against the banks and austerity, but they STILL WANT the BAILOUT MONEY. What do you think these protests are all about? They want MONEY, not austerity.
Tell us, how can they get BOTH? Hint, they CAN'T
YOU are confused. The referendum result was NO to austerity. It had nothing to do with bailouts per se. The Greeks may want money/bailouts for themselves but the bailouts are for the BANKS ONLY and not for the Greeks. Of course the Greeks being the stupidest people on the planet right now, they don't get it, or anything else.
Again, the Greeks were not going to get anything regardless of what the referendum results were. The banks were going to get something or all of the bailout, regardless.
Stupid Greeks.
There's no sense in bashing the Greeks seeing as the US put the coffee brown turd obama into office twice. At least the Greek "leader" is actually Greek. I find it highly unlikely that the zionist subversion is going to be dealt with by elections anyways.
Dear Greeks - get in line behind the Muzzies and head for Germany!
50,000 Greeks marching in the streets changes nothing. 50 football players at Muzzou threatening to not practice brings down the Mizzou leadership.
Looks like the protesters can still afford gasoline for street fires, and material to make signs -- move along...
if doctors do not want to work for their wage, there are plenty of people on the street that will take their job......