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HazzeSwede
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Nov 3, 2011 - 10:09am |
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cc_rider wrote: Um, yeah. The referendum thing was a non-starter from the git-go: it was just a tactic to allow the politicians to say 'not my fault' when the citizens vote NOT to fall on their collective swords.
I don't see how the Greeks are going to agree to draconian cuts in spending, and I don't see how the rest of the EU (well, Germany) is gonna put up with eating the massive debts they've piled up. Apparently Greeks have raised tax-dodging to an art form, so it's gotta rankle the hard working, tax paying members of the EU. But can the EU really afford to let Greece go down the drain? Too big to fail? Where is the accountability?
I see parallels here at home, but that's another rant...
Yep,they only have some olive oil,bad wine and crappy hotels,I say..bye bye Greece ! ..oh, and cocky waiters.
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cc_rider
Location: Bastrop Gender:
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Nov 3, 2011 - 9:58am |
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HazzeSwede wrote:Is so screwed.
Um, yeah. The referendum thing was a non-starter from the git-go: it was just a tactic to allow the politicians to say 'not my fault' when the citizens vote NOT to fall on their collective swords. I don't see how the Greeks are going to agree to draconian cuts in spending, and I don't see how the rest of the EU (well, Germany) is gonna put up with eating the massive debts they've piled up. Apparently Greeks have raised tax-dodging to an art form, so it's gotta rankle the hard working, tax paying members of the EU. But can the EU really afford to let Greece go down the drain? Too big to fail? Where is the accountability? I see parallels here at home, but that's another rant...
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HazzeSwede
Location: Hammerdal Gender:
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Sep 16, 2011 - 3:43am |
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Is so screwed.
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triskele
Location: The Dragons' Roost
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Jul 29, 2010 - 4:47pm |
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i want saganaki!
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jul 29, 2010 - 4:44pm |
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miamizsun wrote:When Jail Threats Don't Work: Greek Government Punctuates Case Against Strikers By Firing Tear Gas At ThemAs we wrote earlier, Greece is currently paralyzed, literally, due to a wholesale shortage of fuel at gas stations, as drivers of trucks carrying the precious commodity have been striking for several days. As noted previously, the government invoked a war-time mobilization measure forcing the strikers to stop striking or face civil penalties and jail time. Shockingly, this had absolutely no impact ont he angry mob. In order to make its point even more clear, the government accentuated its overturn of labor rights by firing tear gas at protesters, according to the Guardian. And, in an amusing turn of events, the IMF delegation which was rumored to be passing by at just this time to conclude the backroom deal in which US taxpayers would fund a few hundred more billion of failed Greek programs, was subjected to a Greek parliamentary guard wearing the traditional skirty attire, screaming in a bullhorn that the truckers were merely engaged in a modern remixed version of sirtaki and there was absolutely nothing to see there (obviously the guy had just graduated from the CNBC School for People who Want to Fabricate the Truth Good). Yeah, I just love the way the IMF puts our kids on the hook for everybody's debts.
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miamizsun
Location: (3283.1 Miles SE of RP) Gender:
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Jul 29, 2010 - 4:35pm |
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When Jail Threats Don't Work: Greek Government Punctuates Case Against Strikers By Firing Tear Gas At ThemAs we wrote earlier, Greece is currently paralyzed, literally, due to a wholesale shortage of fuel at gas stations, as drivers of trucks carrying the precious commodity have been striking for several days. As noted previously, the government invoked a war-time mobilization measure forcing the strikers to stop striking or face civil penalties and jail time. Shockingly, this had absolutely no impact ont he angry mob. In order to make its point even more clear, the government accentuated its overturn of labor rights by firing tear gas at protesters, according to the Guardian. And, in an amusing turn of events, the IMF delegation which was rumored to be passing by at just this time to conclude the backroom deal in which US taxpayers would fund a few hundred more billion of failed Greek programs, was subjected to a Greek parliamentary guard wearing the traditional skirty attire, screaming in a bullhorn that the truckers were merely engaged in a modern remixed version of sirtaki and there was absolutely nothing to see there (obviously the guy had just graduated from the CNBC School for People who Want to Fabricate the Truth Good).
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miamizsun
Location: (3283.1 Miles SE of RP) Gender:
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May 7, 2010 - 7:31am |
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Central Bankers/Banking in action.
Mal-investment, corrupt leadership, strung out on credit via fiat money poofed(created) out of thin air.
It's a recipe for disaster.
We're on the same path, along with 15 - 20 other countries.
And we're all in trouble to varying degrees.
Grecians should be revolting, they've been robbed.
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sirdroseph
Location: Not here, I tell you wat Gender:
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May 6, 2010 - 12:39pm |
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cc_rider wrote:My thoughts exactly. Mother Earth will recover from our foibles quite well, once she evicts her most destructive tenants.
Dats right.
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cc_rider
Location: Bastrop Gender:
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May 6, 2010 - 12:32pm |
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jadewahoo wrote:Me? I am placing my hopes in a few more volcanoes and earthquakes, maybe an asteroid or two, eh? Why not? Seems as fatalistically feasible as the fostered psychopathologies of polarity politics and a caring God.
My thoughts exactly. Mother Earth will recover from our foibles quite well, once she evicts her most destructive tenants.
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rosedraws
Location: close to the edge Gender:
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May 6, 2010 - 5:11am |
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BlueHeronDruid wrote: Not China or India.
Or Denmark.
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jadewahoo
Location: Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica Gender:
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May 6, 2010 - 2:37am |
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Once again the greed and disdain of the Corporatists raping and pillaging the resources and trust of yet another country reap their inevitable outcome: Disability, destruction and disintegration of a society coupled with the demand that the common citizen pay the ransom to the IMF and WMF to sustain the entitlements of the privileged.
Is the US next? Not next, necessarily, but the sucker punch dealt this country by the Corporatists of Goldmann Sachs and their curmudgeon cotillerie of bankers and con-artists such as Rove, Cheney and Geithner is but round one. They will await the minor recuperation of the US economy so they can demand even further blackmail payments under threat of total annihilation of the society's ability to sustain itself, so as to twist every remaining drop of water from the damp towel of Americans' productivity.
And whom do you have to thank for this? Republicans? Democrats? Nah. These are but the stage show puppets meant to distract the public's eye from the string pullers who sit in gluttonous opulence in the Corporate thrones of the world. And as long as the sheep continue to bleat their hatred and ignobility, regurgitating the Corporatists' scripted daily screed for the masses, disseminated through the likes of Fox and CNN and MSNBC, while fed a warm Super-Sized MacMeal and Kool-Aid, there will be no opposition in the US streets as Greece has. Contentment breeds arrogance.
Step upon the mat that lies at the threshold of the second decade of the 21st Century. Look up. Do you see that iron heel coming towards you? It is about to scrape the mud from its boot upon your life and that of your children. Say nothing. You are allowed your voice only with your vote, this 'privilege and honor and responsibility of citizenship', this manipulated sham that keeps you thinking you actually have a say in your own demise. Drink another beer and rant about 'them damned others'. Or take refuge in the newage paradigm that 'we only get the government we deserve'. Either way, the boot is about to crush all that remains of the fantasy of freedom.
Me? I am placing my hopes in a few more volcanoes and earthquakes, maybe an asteroid or two, eh? Why not? Seems as fatalistically feasible as the fostered psychopathologies of polarity politics and a caring God.
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cookinlover
Location: Auckland, New Zealand (former Boston native and Atlanta transplant) Gender:
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May 5, 2010 - 10:18pm |
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icee wrote:
If? More like when. And I don't think they're down with the god thing.
True on both counts. It's the second one that's the bigger concern.
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icee
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May 5, 2010 - 10:14pm |
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cookinlover wrote: God help us all if China takes control of the world.
If? More like when.
And I don't think they're down with the god thing.
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cookinlover
Location: Auckland, New Zealand (former Boston native and Atlanta transplant) Gender:
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May 5, 2010 - 10:03pm |
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BlueHeronDruid wrote: Their economies are growing and strong. And there's that debt thing....
God help us all if China takes control of the world.
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GeneP59
Location: On the edge of tomorrow looking back at yesterday. Gender:
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May 5, 2010 - 10:03pm |
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BlueHeronDruid wrote: Not China or India.
Nope, they're the landlords.
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BlueHeronDruid
Location: Заебани сме луѓе
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May 5, 2010 - 9:58pm |
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cookinlover wrote: They're far from bullet proof... if America and the rest of the world can no longer afford to buy their products or services, they'll fall, too.
Their economies are growing and strong. And there's that debt thing....
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cookinlover
Location: Auckland, New Zealand (former Boston native and Atlanta transplant) Gender:
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May 5, 2010 - 9:57pm |
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BlueHeronDruid wrote: Not China or India.
They're far from bullet proof... if America and the rest of the world can no longer afford to buy their products or services, they'll fall, too.
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BlueHeronDruid
Location: Заебани сме луѓе
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Posted:
May 5, 2010 - 9:54pm |
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cookinlover wrote: and the rest of the world.
Not China or India.
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cookinlover
Location: Auckland, New Zealand (former Boston native and Atlanta transplant) Gender:
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May 5, 2010 - 9:35pm |
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musik_knut wrote:Greece has crossed a threshold the US is approaching...
and the rest of the world.
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musik_knut
Location: Third Stone From The Sun Gender:
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May 5, 2010 - 7:25pm |
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Greece has crossed a threshold the US is approaching...
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