Well,the Greek Govt.passed the harsh austerity measures.I think the Shit is gonna really hit the old fan now!!!OH MY.........
When the protestors and average citizens can muster over one million bodies in the streets of Athens alone...the Gov't is in deep ****! [along with the Western Banksters behind them]. I only wish we could get angry crowds of righteous indignation of that number in the USA!.....but in the USA too many are passive or afraid or brainwashed - or some combination of that. Greece was the cradle of ideas of modern democracy and seems to have retained a sense of that. They also do NOT forget how the USA screwed them by imposing a fascist coup. Now, IMHO, a very secretive neo-fascist coup has been imposed on the USA, but it fooled most Americans and they refuse to see it, unlike their Greek brothers and sisters. Having been to Greece many times and knowing the calm and gentle nature of most Greeks -they are slow to anger...but they are angry now and not going to take it any more.....like Argentina. A model to be followed by more - if not everyone! Leave the banksters and would-be rulers of the World sitting in their own debt with no one to control.
November 2nd, 2011Via:
Telegraph:
As Greek poltics grew ever more chaotic strong political protests erupted as the government moved to replace military chiefs with officers seen as more supportive of George Papandreou, the prime minister.
In a surprise development, Panos Beglitis, Defence Minister, a close confidante of Mr Papandreou, summoned the chiefs of the army, navy and air-force and announced that they were being replaced by other senior officers.
Neither the minister nor any government spokesman offered an explanation for the sudden, sweeping changes, which were scheduled to be considered on November 7 as part of a regular annual review of military leadership retirements and promotions. Usually the annual changes do not affect the entire leadership.
"Under no circumstances will these changes be accepted, at a time when the government is collapsing and has not even secured a vote of confidence," said an official announcement by the opposition conservative New Democracy party.
"It has no moral or real authority any more, and such surprise moves can only worsen the crisis currently sweeping the country".
Flashback: Greece: Possibility of a Military Coup?
Posted in Collapse, Dictatorship, Economy, Elite
November 1st, 2011Via:
BBC:
US and European markets have fallen following Monday's announcement of a Greek referendum on the latest aid package to solve its debt crisis.
Eurozone leaders agreed a 50% debt write-off for Greece last week as well as strengthening Europe's bailout fund.
But the Greek move has cast doubt on whether the deal can go ahead.
New York's Dow Jones fell 2% on opening. London's FTSE 100 was down 3%, while the Dax in Frankfurt and the Cac 40 in Paris were down about 5%.
Shares in banks saw the biggest falls, with Societe Generale falling 16.9%, BNP Paribas down 14%, Credit Agricole down 12.9%, Commerzbank falling 10.7%, Deutsche Bank down 10.3% and Barclays 10.5% lower.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to discuss the Greek announcement with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on the telephone.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said it was "an unexpected decision that generates uncertainties".
Posted in Economy, Elite
Well, now, this is interesting....
Knew about the referendum this moring but just herd about the military chiefs replacement now. So, for months and months Georgy boy was fine to dance the banksters tune despite his people's wishes. Now in one day and with out notice he is changing the choice of music and band members? What ever they were offering him before he is now rejecting it. Will it be death metal, psychadelic rock, country AND western, Euro-Pop? :wirlitzer:
Why Prime minister Papandreou asked for a referendum to validate the EU solution?
Now if you are begging Europe to save you, they agree to a solution you don't suddenly decide to blow everything.
there are two answers: either you are an idiot or you have a hidden agenda.
Papandreou does not have the guts or intelligence to go against Merkel and Sarkozy so somebody is behind him and moves his strings.
George Soros said a few days after the EU solution that he thinks the Eurozone deal will only last a short time, from one day to 3 months.
And a few days later Papandreou makes whatever is possible to prove him right.
Magda Hassan Wrote:Greece: A Very Important Event
October 31, 2011 By Nikos Raptis
Nikos Raptis's ZSpace Page / ZSpace
In my ZNet Commentary, "Greece: 'The Odd Man Out'", of April 22, 2002, I mentioned:
"The palm-gesture...with all fingers extended apart... (known as 'moutza' [pronounced: moo'tza], of Byzantine, or French, or Venetian origin) is considered by the Greeks as the ultimate insult towards a person. ...."
The high school kid, 16 or 17 years old, shows the disapproval
of an entire people, the Greek people, against the adult Greek "proxies"
of Merkel, Sarkozy, Hilary, and Obama.
I thought about posting this wonderful piece but refrained, in part because I did not know if there were a global translation or equivalent for the famous gesture.
In America -- where there is something similar afoot, co-opted and infiltrated as it appears to be, but which also appears to be being rejected--
we are much more efficient as we use only one finger. Other cultures use a full arm gesture. Other cultures actually perform the gesture in the form of torture, sexual abuse, murder, and abombinations of other sorts, such as was done to the Libyan recently.
Perhaps one service we here at Deep Politics Forum might perform is to find or perfect that universal global gesture-symbol and make it a meme.