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The Colonization Begins: Germany May Send 160 Tax Collectors To Greece

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Since the European colonial state of southern Bavaria Sachs (formerly known as the insolvent Hellenic Republic) no longer even pretends to be anything less than a pass-thru funding colony of its creditors, said creditors (European banks and various insurance companies) are about to send out the first group of colonial scouts in the form of German tax collectors. Also, since as reported previously, Greece will literally have to collect taxes to fund the Second "bailout package", which is merely a front for on ongoing Greek bailout of European banks (recall that it is Greece who is partially funding the bailout Escrow Account), said tax collectors will assist their Greek counterparts (who will rather likely miss their quote of becoming 200% more efficient in 2012) in collecting money from Greek citizens to pay off German banks. If in the process a few (or all) bars of gold end up missing, so be it.

From Athens News:

More than 160 German financial services executives are willing to come to Greece in order to strengthen the Greek tax mechanism, according to a report to be published in the German magazine 'Wirtschafts Woche', which will be released on Monday.

 

The magazine cites German deputy finance minister Hans Bernhard Beus, who explains that a key factor is the knowledge of a foreign language - some of them speak Greek - while the return to active duty of retired tax collectors should not be ruled out.

 

Many come from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, whose finance minister, Norbert Walter-Borjans, compares Greece's with 90s East Germany, noting that even the East Germans at the time were suspicious towards the West. "In Greece suspicion will be greater, in part because of the inappropriate language used by some in Germany," he said.

 

The article also refers to a confidential report from the European Commission, according to which the mechanism of tax collection in Greece is especially problematic.

What "problematic"? If it is not clear by now that the Greeks will happily do nothing to change their predicament (and in fact have exhibited a soaring appreciation for their new stepmother-tongue), this will be literally easier than stealing rehypothecated candy from an insolvent baby.

Ironically, the popular German response in the form of comments at German daily Spiegel is widely adverse to this latest now blatantly open attempt at colonization by a few German "leaders", who just like in every other insolvent developed country, operate solely at the behest of their banker funders.

We fear that such incursions into national sovereignty will only accelerate... until they are finally halted, very violently, and very tragically.

 

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Sat, 02/25/2012 - 16:10 | 2196088 trav7777
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maybe the slimy greeks should have focused more of this fighting spirit on PRODUCING something instead of enjoying the fruits of others' labors

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 16:26 | 2196115 MsCreant
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And will you do this when it is Italy's turn? Spain? All of them? Will we then hear of Lazy WOPs and Spics, etc.? 

Germany is in crazy debt too. 

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 17:52 | 2196256 Not For Reuse
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yeah, dude's pretending to be a bit of a retard on this one... Neither a lender NOR a borrower be. You can't live anywhere without paying someone's mortgage & taxes. There is no meaningful difference between Greece & Iceland MMTwise, no matter how clever such an assertion might seem to people who don't think it through on their own

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 14:24 | 2195885 tony bonn
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squeeze blood from a turnip - yep that's the way to do it; money for nothing and your chicks for free...

fuck the eu and the stupid greeks for allowing this bullshit....

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 14:26 | 2195895 Bob Bercy
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Best thing that could happen to them. The Greeks couldn't run a bath on their own, let alone a country.

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 14:28 | 2195899 Instant Wealth
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Germans don't need a greek colony, they need Greece to be kicked out of the euro zone.

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 14:47 | 2195929 Rynak
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Or themselves. Most of them would actually prefer that.

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 14:50 | 2195937 Instant Wealth
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x-actly

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 15:15 | 2195980 noses
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Great idea. Especially having been forced into that dumb monetary union by their "friends", the French. There are few Germany who would not want their old, stable currency back.

 

 

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 14:29 | 2195902 flyonmywall
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That's fucking awesome. Send German tax collectors there, so they can be shot by Greeks. There's the pretext for the next NATO no fly zone.

Priceless.

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 14:36 | 2195915 LookingWithAmazement
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Euro rises against the dollar. #WhatCrisis?

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 14:43 | 2195923 GeneMarchbanks
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Well for one, the $ crisis that you just mentioned.

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 14:41 | 2195920 Roy T
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The situation reminds me of the line from Animal House-"Thank You Sir, may I have another?"  Wake up Greeks

 

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 14:44 | 2195922 Yen Cross
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Lock and Load! [OUZO], as a last resort!

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 14:47 | 2195928 ziggy59
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Are these Sachs related to Goldman's Sack?

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 14:49 | 2195931 radwon
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Arbeit macht frei

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 15:33 | 2196013 radwon
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Junked.

 

OK how about

Steuern zahlen macht frei


Sat, 02/25/2012 - 15:46 | 2196040 Rynak
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Ignore junks in this thread, unless they go beyond 10.

One or two trolls are currently junking every single post in the thread, except of their own.

*votes himself up preemptively* *middlefinger*

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 14:53 | 2195940 booboo
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This is bad, it could lead to culture clash and result in some new ethnic food like wiener baklava or even worse, Germans hooking up with greek womenz and producing offspring that work real hard at fucking off.

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 14:56 | 2195948 Yen Cross
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Papajunken offspring!

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 14:51 | 2195942 non_anon
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goose stepping to a town near you

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 15:00 | 2195958 Dermasolarapate...
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Do these Germans pay Greek taxes then once they move to Greece?

The Greeks learing german are smarter then you think. They will move to Germany for jobs in a few months and no longer pay Greek taxes is my guess..

 

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 15:04 | 2195962 Jack Burton
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Lynch the bastards! Send 'em packing with a few casualties left behind.

What is this shit? Germany sending tax collectors? Fuck 'em. Start shooting, that changes things real fast!

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 15:09 | 2195970 I am Jobe
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Hitler is laughing in his grave. Amerika is not far behind.

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 15:15 | 2195982 Rathmullan
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I've observed that many pundits have warned that the financial and debt crises could bring on another great depression and war. I never got the "war" part. But now I'm beginning to.

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 15:16 | 2195984 digalert
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The people of Greece should greet these "revenue men", embrace them. Then shackle their asses up and haul the theiving criminal collectors to the clink.

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 16:12 | 2196093 trav7777
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yes, because the Greeks are TOTALLY innocent of anything!  The EU just forced them to borrow a bunch of money and never pay it back.

ZH is full of ghetto monkeys.

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 17:50 | 2196255 The4thStooge
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I'll fill in for tmosley here...

 

"The bankers who loaned the money to an insolvent country did nothing wrong, and deserve to be repaid every penny of their bad investment"

So sayeth the mighty Trav.

Sun, 02/26/2012 - 12:41 | 2197835 trav7777
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that was a pretty credible imitation of his usual false dilemma fallacy

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 15:17 | 2195985 Yen Cross
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 It seems the Huffington Post is " long spx"?

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 15:19 | 2195988 adonisdemilo
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The Greeks could import a few Icelandic finance guys so they could apply the only antidote that will cure their problems.

Failing that, just keep talking, promising and stalling until the elections in April and then tell the troika to fuck off.

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 15:37 | 2196025 Yen Cross
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A good old western shoot out! I like it! The Icelandic banksters are behind bars!

   Old Metal " Jail Bars" must be worth something?

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 15:19 | 2195990 lolmao500
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Hell if the MSM call the Greek working 42hres a week WITHOUT GETTING PAID lazy... what they gonna call Americans when the financial reality hits? Lazy as corpses?

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 20:24 | 2196531 Prometheus418
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My vote is... they'll call us crazy.

US is a different sort of beast altogether.  First week my pay doesn't come through is the last week the company accountant draws breath- though considering that corporate is headquartered in another state, odds are I'd have to settle for blowing holes in a casket by the time I got there.

I'm going to repeat what I've said before, and it's still true today.  Americans are not protesting ala Greece because when it goes, we all know how it is going to be.  Millions of pissed off people are holding tactical shotguns and AR-15s, and when the dam breaks, "blood in the streets" is not going to be a metaphor.  No sane person wants that shit- but there are a lot of otherwise sane people who accept that it may come to that, and have outfitted themselves accordingly.

It's telling that the vast majority of people who argue with me about the merits of investing in gold or silver immediately follow their argument with "I buy bullets."

Silver and Gold bugs are the optimists, these days.

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 15:20 | 2195991 SamAdams1234
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Antique - Opa Opa

http://youtu.be/Dqzrofdwi-g

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 15:27 | 2196001 besnook
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blitzkrieg bitches! send in the panzers and stukas. they were more fun not to mention all the money in rebuilding the parthenon when all is done.  euroland reich forever!

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 17:31 | 2196002 Rogier
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1940: 160.000 Wehrmacht soldiers

2012: 160 tax collectors

Now thát's what one calls an efficiency gain...

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 15:27 | 2196005 Fix It Again Timmy
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Here come the Tax Collectors - it's gonna be a cakewalk!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sDnVIeSn_k

 

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 15:39 | 2196030 vitoox
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Null Hecke, Hündinnenzzz!

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 15:43 | 2196035 besnook
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greece should play the china card as in conversion to the yuan. that would extract trillions from the ecb and fed. free feta, olives  and ouzo forever

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 15:47 | 2196044 pashley1411
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Das Reich Tax Division.

This will end quite similar to the end of the US involvement in Afganistan.  Germans will have to move on to Cyprus for their nudie vacations.

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 15:50 | 2196049 jack stephan
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The Greeks are getting humiliated like cartman when he bought pubes from Scott tenorman and found out they were worthless. But cartman got him at the end, eventually the Greeks will give up on civility and make the bankers eat their parents.

"your tears are so yummy, aww the tears of unstoppable sadness!"

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 15:52 | 2196053 q99x2
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The Great Grecian Gold Rush. Or not so great but more exciting than another bailout.

Now we have sides to cheer for. The 160 German Tax Collectors or the young Greek mother that awaits emergency medical supplies for her child.

 

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 15:56 | 2196061 wiser
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The new greek metro bitchez...compare with your own

http://www.ametro.gr/files/photogallery/AM_Stathmos_Eleonas_LG.jpg

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 16:13 | 2196098 trav7777
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nothin's too good for them!

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 15:56 | 2196064 alfa
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AN OPEN LETTER TO INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC OPINION

THE TRUTH ABOUT GREECE
 
There is an international conspiracy whose target is the complete destruction of my country. They began in 1975 aiming at Modern Greek civilization, continued with the distortion of our modern history and our national identity and they are now trying to eliminate us biologically as well through unemployment, hunger and impoverishment. If Greek people don't rise as one in order to prevent them, the danger of Greece becoming extinct is evident. I place it within the next ten years. There will be nothing left of us but the memory of our civilization and our battles for freedom.
 
Until 2009, there was no serious economic problem. The major wounds of our economy were the enormous expenses related to the purchase of war material and the corruption of a part of the political and economic-journalistic sector. For both of these wounds, foreigners are jointly responsible. Germans, for instance, as well as French, English and Americans, earned billions of Euros from annual sales of war material, to the detriment of our national wealth. That continuous hemorrhage brought us to our knees and did not permit us to move forward, while at the same time it made foreign nations prosperous. The same was true of the problem of corruption. The German company Siemens, for instance, maintained a special department for buying off Greek stakeholders in order to place its products in the Greek market. Hence, the Greek people have been victims of that predatory duo of Greeks and Germans, growing richer at their expense.   
 
It is obvious that these two big wounds could have been avoided if the leaders of the two pro-American parties in power hadn't been eroded by corrupt elements who resorted to excessive loans in order to cover the leakage of wealth  (the product of the Greek people's labor) into the hands of foreign countries, resulting in the public debt reaching 300 billion Euros, i.e. 130% of GDI (Gross Domestic Income).
 
Due to that confidence trick, the foreigners I mentioned before made a double profit: firstly from the sales of the weapons and their products. Secondly, from the interest on the money they lent to the governments and not to the people. As we have seen, the people were the primary victims in both cases. A single example should convince you: the interests on the one billion dollar loan that Andreas Papandreou received in 1986 from a big European country reached 54 billion Euros and was eventually paid back in ... 2010!
 
Mr Juncker declared a year ago that he had realized the Greeks' financial hemorrhage caused by the excessive (and compulsory) expenses in buying war materials exclusively from Germany and France. And he concluded that our sellers were leading us on a path to destruction. However, he confesses that he didn't take any action in order not to hurt the interests of friendly countries!
 
In 2008 came the big financial crisis in Europe. It was therefore only logical that the Greek economy should be affected. However, our living standards, high enough for Greece to be ranked among the 30 richest countries in the world, remained unaffected. There was an increase, though, in public debt. But public debt doesn't necessarily lead to financial crisis. There are big countries, like the U.S. and Germany, with debts amounting to trillions of Euros. The key is in economic growth and production. In that case, one can borrow from large Banks with an interest rate of up to 5%, until the crisis ends. 
 
That was exactly our position in 2009, when the government shift took place in November and G. Papandreou took over as prime minister. In order for the current opinion of the Greek to become clearer I cite two figures: in the elections of 2009 PASOK gained 44% of the votes. Today the polls give PASOK 6% of the public support.
 
Mr. Papandreou could have dealt with the financial crisis (which as I have said reflected the European one) by borrowing from foreign Banks under the usual interest rate of under 5%. If he had done that, there wouldn't have been the slightest problem for our country. In fact, the opposite would have occurred; because we were on an economic growth path, our standard of living would certainly have risen.
 
However, Mr. Papandreou had already begun his conspiracy against the Greek people since the summer of 2009, when he secretly met with Strauss-Kahn, with the objective of driving Greece under the domination of the IMF. The information concerning this meeting was released by the former President of the IMF himself.
 
For the situation to reach that end, the country's real financial status had to be distorted, so that foreign Banks would become nervous and raise the loan interest rates to prohibitive figures. That odious project began with the phony raising of the Public Deficit from 9,2% to 15%. For that felonious deed, the District Attorney, Mr. Peponis indicted Messrs Papandreou and Papakonstantinou (Minister of Finance) 20 days ago. What followed was the systematic campaign by Mr. Papandreou and the Ministry of Finance throughout Europe that lasted 5 months, during which they tried to persuade the foreigners that Greece was a Titanic about to sink, that Greeks were corrupt, lazy and therefore incapable of dealing with the country's needs. After each of their declarations the interest rates increased, so that it became impossible for us to borrow any more, giving IMF and the European Bank the appearance of being our slavation, when in reality it was the beginning of our death.    
      
In May 2010 a single Minister signed the notorious Memorandum, our complete subservience to our lenders. Greek law stipulates, in such situations, that the adoption of such an important agreement must be decided by three fifths of the Parliament. Therefore, in essence, the Memorandum and the Troika that essentially govern us today, operate illegally not only under Greek but also under European law.  

By now since then, if the steps leading us to our death are twenty, we are already more than half way there. Imagine that with this Memorandum we concede to foreigners our National Independence and our National Property. That is, our harbours, airports, road networks, electricity, water supply, subterranean and underwater wealth, etc., etc. Add to that our historical monuments, like the Acropolis, Delphi, Olympia, Epidaurus and such sites, since we have waived all our legal defenses.

Production has come to a standstill, the unemployment rate has reached 18%, 80.000 shops have closed down, along with thousands of small businesses and hundreds of industries. In total, 432.000 enterprises have shut down. Tens of thousands of young scientists are abandoning the country, which is every day sinking into medieval darkness. Thousands formerly wealthy citizens are scavenging on rubbish heaps and sleeping on the pavement.
 
In the meantime, we are supposed to be surviving thanks to the magnanimity of our lenders, the Europe of the Banks and the IMF. In reality, every package deal which charges Greece with tens of billions of Euros is repaid in full, while we are burdened with new unbearable interest rates. And since it is necessary to maintain the State, the Hospitals and the Schools, the Troika is burdening the middle and lower economic strata of society with excessive taxes, leading directly to starvation. A famine took place at the beginning of the German occupation in 1941, with 300.000 people dead in a period of 6 months. Since then, the ghost of hunger is now returning to our defamed and unfortunate country. 
 
If one considers that the German occupation cost us one million people dead and the total destruction of our country, how is it possible for us Greeks to accept Ms Merkel's threats and the Germans' intention to impose on us a new Gauleiter... This time wearing a tie...

 And to prove just how rich a country is Greece and how hard working and conscious the Greek people (conscious of their Debt to Freedom and love of their country), I cite as an example the time of the German occupation from 1941 until October of 1944.

When the SS and hunger killed one million citizens and the Wehrmacht was systematically destroying the country, and stealing all its agricultural production and the gold from the Banks, Greeks saved the people from hunger by creating the National Solidarity Movement and a partisan army of 100.000, which tied down 20 German divisions in our country. 

At the same time not only did Greeks manage to survive thanks to their hard work, but there was also a large growth in Modern Greek art -especially in literature and music- under the terrible conditions of the occupation.

Greece chose the path of self-sacrifice for the sake of freedom and simultaneously of survival.

That is when we were unnecessarily punished, and we responded with Solidarity and Resistance and we survived. Now we are doing exactly the same thing, with the certainty that the Greek people will be the ultimate victors. This is the message I am sending to Ms Merkel and Mr Schouble, declaring that I remain always a friend to the German People and a fan of their great contribution to Science, Philosophy, Art, and especially Music! And the ultimate evidence of that is probably that I have entrusted the whole of my musical work to two German Publishers, Schott and Breitkopf, who are among the greatest publishers of music in the world and my co-operation with them is extremely friendly.

They are threatening to throw us out of Europe. If Europe doesn't want Greece to be a part of it, Greece, for her part, is 10 times more unwilling to be a part of this Merkel- Sarkozy Europe.

Today, Sunday February 12, 2012, I am about to take part in the demonstrations, along with Manolis Glezos, the hero who,  in the past,  took the swastika down from the Acropolis, signaling the beginning of resistance against Hitler, not only in Greece but throughout Europe. Today, our streets and our squares will be flooded with hundreds of thousands of citizens who will demonstrate their rage against the government and against theTroika.

I heard, yesterday, the banker-prime minister proclaiming to the Greek people that "we have reached point zero". But who has led us to this ZERO point within two years? Those same people, who instead of having been imprisoned, blackmail the members of the parliament to sign the New Memorandum, which is even worse than the first one and which will be implemented by the same people following the same methodology which brought us to this point ZERO. Why? Because this is what the IMF and the Euro-Group dictates, blackmailing us that if we disobey, we will go bankrupt?This is a play of the theater of the absurd. All these parties who in fact hate us (foreigners and Greeks) and are the only ones responsible for the dramatic situation to which they have led our country, threaten and blackmail, aiming at continuing their devastating work, i.e. to lead us even beyond point ZERO, to our final elimination.

We have survived very difficult situations throughout the centuries and it is certain that if they lead us to the brink of death by force, Greeks will not only survive but they will be reborn.

At this point in time, I have devoted all my efforts to an attempt to dynamically unify the Greek people. I am trying to convince them that IMF and Troika is not a one-way street, that there is an alternative solution. And that solution is to radically change the course of our nation and turn towards Russia for economic co-operation and the setting up of joint ventures in order to exploit our natural wealth under beneficial terms that will safeguard our national interests.

As for Europe, I suggest we stop buying war material from Germany and France. And that we do everything in our power so that Germany pays back the war reparations they owe us and which currently amount to approximately -including the appropriate interest- 500 billion Euros.

The only force capable of effecting all these revolutionary changes is the Greek people, unified under a huge Front of Resistance and Solidarity in order to remove the Troika (the IMF and the European banks) from our country. At the same time all their illegal actions (loans, debts, interest, taxes, privatization of national wealth) should be considered as if they never took place. Naturally, their Greek partners, already condemned in our conscience as traitors, will have to be punished.

I am totally dedicated, body and soul, to this cause (the unification of the People in one Front) and I believe that I will be proved right in the end. I have fought, gun in hand, against Hitler's occupation. I have experienced the Gestapo's dungeons. I have been sentenced to death by Germans and have miraculously survived. In 1967 I founded PAF (The Patriotic Anti-dictatorial Front), the first resistance organization against the military junta. I fought underground, was caught and imprisoned in the junta's "slaughterhouse". Once again I survived.

I am today 87 years old and it is very possible that I will not live to see the salvation of my beloved country. But I will die with a clear conscience, because I will continue doing my Duty towards the ideals of Freedom and Justice until the end.

Athens, 12.2.2012

Mikis Theodorakis

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 16:10 | 2196087 Instant Wealth
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Mikis Theodorakis has been long revolution for decades.

*yawn*

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 16:14 | 2196101 Yen Cross
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Elloquent read. Lure me with " Short and Sweet", next time. I don't want to demean your conjure. 

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 16:19 | 2196107 trav7777
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what a total crock of shit.

The truth is that the public debt of Greece was being LIED about by slimy, greasy greeks for a decade.  Now the truth is out and they are going to claim it was the Germans' fault for shit.  Germans have been getting scapegoated for a century.

Think about it...what other nation hasn't been beholden to the zionist clans for the entire 20th century?  Russia only recently broke away from them after 80 years of domination, the UK and US are still under the thumb of Redshield and FRB, Wall St and the City.

Germany's high crime was repudiating The Warburg Plan, I mean Versailles Treaty and striking out on its own when people like jacob schiff in the West was funding the Bolshevik revolution by his cousins in the east.

What needs to happen here is not German enforcement of usury, but the Germans and greeks should combine to attack the City of London or something.

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 16:29 | 2196118 Yen Cross
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 Did WW2 escape your last century? It's really simple. Greece defaults, and Portugal, (2013), Spain, Italy, Ireland( HOPIUM), France( downgrade), like a stack of Dominoes.

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 17:34 | 2196230 PR Guy
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If you come on here writing stuff like that they will call you a commie.

There is a very simple means of keeping these German tax collectors away. I have never ever known a tax collector who was prepared to step off a plane when there were bullets flying around outside!

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 18:21 | 2196293 falak pema
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Moving beyond words, from one of Europe's greatest symbols of culture in its broadest sense. 

Those who remember what this man stands for will understand. Those who don't will realise one day what a void the disappearance of a voice like his means to us all, if we be men of heart and memory. 

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 20:32 | 2196551 ISEEIT
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Just die already dumbass.

It's 2012.

RON PAUL.

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 16:02 | 2196075 suckerfishzilla
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I plan on staying one step ahead of the herd so as to avoid being the next meal.   keep stacking bitchez. 

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 16:07 | 2196080 tsuki
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From the House of Glücksburg to the House of Merkel.  The more things change; the more they stay the same.

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 16:10 | 2196081 tsuki
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Sorry, a dupe

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 16:09 | 2196085 Fix It Again Timmy
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German Tax Collectors - the only thing successfully taxed will be their patience.  Long live Greece!!! OPA!!! "F" Das Bankers....

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 16:44 | 2196133 noses
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Wait and see…

 

There is a big, strong barkeeper who is alway squeezing the lemons with his own hand, promising anyone who would get any more juice out of them a month of free cocktails. Nobody ever succeeded. Until one day, a small guy with a worn down leather briefcase appears at his bar...

"Hand me that lemon, please."

"Oh, really?" the barkeeper can't stop laughing.

The little man takes the lemon, concentrates, squeezes... and five more drops of juice are dripping down on the bar.

Silence. "How did you do it? There was next to nothing left in that lemon."

"It's part of my job."

"Karate trainer?"

"No. Tax collector."

 

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 16:10 | 2196091 rustymason
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Like the Palestinian and Israeli conflict, it's hard to take the side of either country over this one. One thing is clear; it's all the doing of the leaders of the German and Greek governments. They are clearly thieves and liars, with no redeeming value at all. Time for them all to go.

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 16:11 | 2196092 wiser
Sat, 02/25/2012 - 16:24 | 2196112 astroloungers
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Hessian accountants?

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 16:26 | 2196114 PontifexMaximus
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Ja, ja, die deutsche Gründlichkeit: rasch und geordnet! For the good orders sake I have to affirm that the generation has changed, the mentality.......

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 16:30 | 2196119 Hugo Chavez
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BDSM is only fun for me if the woman is a true submissive pain slut, not just doing it cuz she thinks the guy likes it.

When you know the bitch really likes getting slapped around and roughly fucked then it is a blast.

I know the germans are enjoying the hell out of this while greeks pretend they dont like it.

Choke on it, bitchez.

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 16:45 | 2196135 lolmao500
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We should do a ZH pool on how much time it will take for one of these to get kidnapped/killed. Kinda like a death pool...

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 18:05 | 2196276 Moneyswirth
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Meh.  The joke's on you.  The Greeks aren't bright enough and are too lazy to think of, and enact such an act.

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 16:54 | 2196146 JPMorgan
Sat, 02/25/2012 - 17:17 | 2196199 anonnn
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Tax farming is an old, even ancient, kingly practice. You can inspect the Dead Sea Scrolls for even more understanding.

Tax farming is what it was and still is. Only the name has been changed.

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 17:39 | 2196235 JennaChick
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Greeks would be stupid and would deserve everything if they let this happen.

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 17:40 | 2196239 alfa
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The People Power of the Greeks accepts and encourages all cooperation and assistance of foreign capital or international organizations will contribute to the promotion of the Greek economy and based on the principle of equivalence. It recognizes, however, abolishes any privilege or right granted to foreigners, those companies or states, incompatible with the Greek national independence and popular sovereignty. State Contracts and privileges granted to foreigners and which are incompatible with the popular and national interests are not recognized by people power.

we are welcome the nazi german collectors with red carnations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnAFaIM-s8M&feature=related

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 17:42 | 2196242 Atomizer
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Some things are played out as wisdom foretold future events.

Joy Division – Colony

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 18:11 | 2196254 BlackholeDivestment
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 Mene Mene Teckel Upharsin ...all the nations and Israel are found wanting.

...who is not bruising their heel in the global Fight Club? Labor is leveraged to death globally and the market is leverage beyond the energy to justify corruption's claim of dominion. The host for the beast is in the mirror. If you can't see that, well, is it's because you are not standing fast? Is it because you are working for the Suicide Vampire Squid of the Great Wal Mart of China and Chairsatan's tax collectors ..still? The Greek government workers are not being paid, they are being asked to pay for working (confirming the seal of Suicide Vampire image AKA Black Hole upon their head or the ''mark of the beast'') for not being paid(LMAO) and this same blindness, and willful ignorance, defines the mark and seal of the same domino (black hole) among all nations.

In the U.S. the median income does not afford the gas to show up for work in the D.C. Metro Area (now the wealth Capital and Capitol) and it does not pay the rent or the mortgage. That is the revelation of the same strong delusion and the short term price being paid by working for the same Greece'd PIIGS Suicide Vampire Squid. ''Working'' at Zero Interest, this market reality defines the tax of the new world order black hole and the mirror image of the same Suicide Vampire Beast at work under the legal tender of Chairsatan's Fiat Debt Note and the Capitol of Corruption.  The global reality of the situation defines the short term gains of those given strong delusion, because they do not love the Truth, thinking their judgment will not come upon them in the form of a global war. It will.The war will confirm the evil bastards that do know this. The one's that do council with the fallen, thinking to preserve the image of a man above his Father in Christ.  

The bruised heel declares the Kings of Babylon; behind the military police force, of the Suicide Vampire Squid, established in the image of the Great Wal Mart of China, and the ill liquidity of the Euphratese. What nation or Israel would think to have any defense, having soldout mercy and forsaken their own?  http://bible.cc/revelation/16-12.htm There is no escaping Egypt through a dried up sea (parted by the breath of mercy, which did not come from you as the host of and for the Breath of Life) when you are Egypt. There is no mercy for you when you have sacrificed mercy to defend your own short term claim of dominion, which comes at the expense of mercy. That is the mirror image of the Suiside Vampire Squid of the Great Wal Mart of China showing up to work at the slaughter house. You cannot escape good work. LMAO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXyK4ko8yXo&feature=related

 

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 18:45 | 2196322 MobBarley
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And yet, it is not judgement, for God judges not, but men do and say their judgement is from God,

thus setting themselves apart from God.

 Only a black hole, or in this case, a bottomless pit, would speak as the Accuser.

Know ye whom the accuser is? One Lucifer, fallen angel, fool and theif, but above

all liar, formulated a plan to acheive a dominion when he should have asked.

Thus, the first rapist, reserved for the Lake of Fire.

:)

 

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 20:38 | 2196348 BlackholeDivestment
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIAHV3LJ7X0 

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+7&version=KJV 

http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/6-2.htm 

...what is the seal of God, if not the revelation of mercy in Christ? Even if people deny our Father in Christ, is it possible to escape the fulfillment of the law which is sustaining? ...and is this not the revelation of mercy? ...which the ''(g)ods work'' of Loyd an Company do not define, even at the U.S. Supreme Court ''level'' which declares the company robot equal as a man/voter/lobby under their own image of the U.S. Constitution? Lol. http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Revelation-9-4/ If we consider one of the symbols of the Occupy movement, that of the 99% http://occupydesign.org/gallery/sites/default/files/images/Unify%2099%20Sticker.jpg do we not see the revelation at hand? Lol http://bible.cc/revelation/6-5.htm <<Ironic? Consider the Wheat of the harvest and what is risen, when you look and the market and the art it has now established. Lol http://bible.cc/luke/10-2.htm 

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2013:%2024-30&version=KJV 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyfaYHMNIuA 

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 18:47 | 2196325 fiddy pence haf...
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that's the paradox. An invasion of guys in suits, holding briefcases.

 

Maybe the Greek won't recognise it as an invasion as they always

visualise the Germans of their nightmares in the red/white/black armbands

over a soldier's uniform.

 

I wonder how long it will take the German accountants to realise that you cannot

collect taxes from Greek oligarchs. They had a sweet deal with the former Greek

government- now known as Reichstag Deputies, South.

Some of those forthright Germans might end up dead.

 

 

 

 

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 18:49 | 2196327 Yen Cross
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Every child loves a  " Weenie roast" The smell of that Hickory popping under the grill! INTOXICATING!

  Yep you guessed it. Good ole Saturday FUN!  Those charts are HAUNTING ME though.

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 19:24 | 2196343 grunk
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They send 160 tax collectors.

The question is: How many will they get back in one piece? 

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 19:23 | 2196392 gwar5
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The occupation begins. I sill think the Germans/EU have their work cut out for them and won't have the stomach for enforcement when the Greeks finally grasp that they are now a banker occupied country and turn violent to take their country back. 

 

The bankers are the ones who created this fiasco. They knew Greece and some other countries should not be in the EU. They played and they lost, and they are the ones who should now pay. 

 

 

 

 

 

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 19:35 | 2196421 IQ 101
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We should just just all Blob Up with our Citizenism, I know I will.

that should fix this mess.

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 20:32 | 2196550 TheFourthStooge-ing
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Made me laugh.

 

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 19:48 | 2196452 Travis Bickel
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People of the world need to get their prioriities in order and focus on the REAL news. It's Oscar week!

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 20:29 | 2196545 robertocarlos
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Shoot them on sight. They are out of uniform and therefore spies.

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 20:49 | 2196584 PLove
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Here come de Zionazis.

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 22:36 | 2196772 rufusbird
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This is just like when we were kids again. We had little green plastiac soldiers, and we had little brown plastic soldiers and little model tanks and jeeps. Hundreds of pieces and we spent entire afternoons creating battle fiels in the dirt. We were the green soldiers, and the brown ones were the Germans. We always smashed em. Funny thing is I have German background. Ha ha!

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 23:43 | 2196919 cnhedge
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it is necessary not only to collect debt but also ease the hatredness.

http://www.jinrongbaike.com

http://www.cnhedge.com

Sun, 02/26/2012 - 06:38 | 2197344 pcrs
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all been done before by the dutch, sending tax collectors to the dutch antilles, to rape and plunder.

http://www.inoverheid.nl/artikel/nieuws/1258425/honderden-ambtenaren-naar-antillen.html

Sun, 02/26/2012 - 09:53 | 2197507 supermaxedout
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Greece is free and independent.

Nobody is forcing the Greece government to accept this. There is the alternative to declare any time  bankruptcy and all these people which seem to be a pain in the ass of the Greek elite would disappear and Greece would be on its own. The debt would be gone and Greece is free and life would go on..

Not a bad solution in my view and the Greece population would be in the best hands, their own elite and blood suckers and ignorant gangsters. To improve the mood and to sweeten this deal the Greek government could re-introduce its policy of the last 12 years. One of the cornerstone of the Greek success story was the little known fact, that in the years before the crisis reached Greece, the salaries of all employees (private and public) were hiked year by year by a percentage fixed by a governmental decree. Simply said all salaries were adopted to infaltion and way beyond in election years. Thus its no wonder that Greece is not anymore competive in Europe.

Now the only solution is whether to leave the Eurozone and create a new Drachma. This would settle all problems as far as the exchange rate is concerned. The money the Greeks would have then in their hands would be of little more value than toilet paper.

Or stay within the Eurozone, accept the economic downfall which is anyhow inevetable and to try to reach a better future within the EU, which would mean that they are not alone and that Greece can expect help for the case it manages the essential structural reforms.

Sun, 02/26/2012 - 10:33 | 2197558 rsnoble
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You're forgetting most of the assholes in parliment, from what I understand, are banker representatives.

Sun, 02/26/2012 - 10:32 | 2197555 rsnoble
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Here in the US I am burried in tax bills.  Just think if things really got out of hand.  I can't keep up with them.  Every year it's like oh gee, what do I want to sell to pay these bastards now?

Sun, 02/26/2012 - 13:15 | 2197936 boiltherich
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Next up, Canada to send tax collectors to the US to pay for their tar sands.  Suddenly the Greeks don't look so lazy eh? 

Mon, 02/27/2012 - 01:00 | 2199725 chindit13
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There seems to be a certain lack of understanding here based on preconceived notions and emotionalism.

Greece isn't paying back anything.  When it comes time to make a payment to banks---bondholders, really---the Eurosystem is either taking it from taxpaying citizens of other Euro nations, or else printing it, and that money is going to the bondholders.  It is Euro area citizens who are getting shafted to repay the banks, not Greeks.

Greeks haven't repaid anything in a long time.  The EU has been fronting them the cash to service their debt.  There is no outflow of Greek money, so the domestic conditions are not being exacerbated by an outflow which does not exist.  Yes, Greek is accumulating more obligations, but there won't ever pay it and no Greek is going to lose a cent paying it back.

Conditions in Greece are not bad because the EU is making Greece pay back its borrowings, conditions are bad in Greece because outsiders have decided to stop funding Greek deficits and the Greeks themselves cannot pay for their own lifestyle.  They are not "going without" because all their money is going to repay bankers, they are going without because nobody will give them new money and their own economy does not generate enough to pay for what they have come to expect.  Yes, it is a sad state of affairs, but repayment is not the issue.

The austerity measures demanded by the EU relate to NEW money given Greece.  If Greece will not agree to the measures, the EU will not give them the money and the Greeks will have to fend for themselves.

The outrage on this site against the bailout is misplaced.  Greeks are suffering because nobody will give them new money.  On top of that, the deficits were rung up paying for a public sector that is large, generous and inefficient.  Laying off public workers is the equivalent of laying off Postal workers or BLS statisticians in the US.  I doubt such layoffs, if they occured, would generate anywhere near the same degree of sympathy public worker layoffs get in Greece.  Also, the deficits run up by the Greek Government filtered through the entire economy, even private sector firms.  Since nobody wants to give Greece new money, there is no money to pay the public sector, and no benefit filtering through to the private sector.

German, Dutch, Austrian, French, etc. workers are the ones stuck with the tab to repay bondholders.

Mon, 02/27/2012 - 08:29 | 2200058 connda
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WTF! 

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