Yanis Varoufakis, we had what appeared to be a
serious (or playful) attempt to break the status quo.
I am certain that Varoufakis managed to present
the Eurogroup and Germany as the despots that
they are. He continues to do so, as a free agent.
Of course, that did not end Greeks' pain, but it
did provide a trip off the beaten track that has
changed the EU forever.
News-watching people with functioning brains,
i.e. on twitter, can never again look at JC
Juncker as a serious politician. We would
have discovered that he's a drunk- always
tipsy. We would have known that his country
has been a sink-hole for tax evasion. But we
now know that he has the brinksmanship skills
of a drunken insider. It's just that we're not
invited to the party, so we have to assume
what he's doing is for a reason, and figure out why.
Prolly, he's an employee of the Germans.
It's very late doing this, and I don't have the
telling news reports handy, but it's worth it
looking back in anger and amazement at
what happened.
Anyway, the referendum did so many things
to make me believe that Syriza were different
and that they were cunning fighters in the
kind of battle that the EU forces us to do
with our "colleagues" (ftoooo, wretch).
Firstly, Syriza took the proposal that the troika
thrust on the table, saying "sign it." It included
corrections of the Greek positions in red ink and
track changes, like a prof to a PG student. The
Trickies also provided Greece with the same
slavery deal
i.e. we agree to enslave you, you agree to wear chains, etc
that was essentially the agreement that ND party
would not dare enforce, from summer 2014 onward.
There may have been some changes to account
for the troika being pissed off at Samaras, who
despite not stooping enough, was a man that
Juncker "could negotiate with." We know what
that means:
JCJ: Here. take this paper and fuck yourselves
Samaras: thank you , sir, can I have some more
Here's the ceremony in Brussels:here's a copy of the front page of the doc. You can get it
easily I imagine, but remember to thank Yanis Varoufakis
and his Intern for thinking "this is amazing. We're gonna
tour the country with this! And they will praise God":
So, Greece revealed the skulduggery, or more precisely
skull-fucking
that goes on in a Eurogroup that has no standing inlaw. Do you know what that means? It's the political
equivalent of :
Troika: oh. you're pissed at me and my 17 friends?
well, step into this dark room and we'll solve
our differences.
Are you nuts? It's a mind-fuck exercise and we have
already said, the Eurogroup (or Troika, interchangeable, really)
were negotiating in the way that a tyrant lets a pleb
tire himself out ranting, and then (checking his fingernails)
orders his guards to behead the man and impale the rest of
his lifeless body on an appropriate stick for all to see.
Varoufakis and company, at the very least, made this lynching
a public affair. You and I felt that we were in that darkened
room in Brussels. A room where nobody took notes, because
the tyrants had already decided to let Greece exhaust itself
with portraying all their reasonable ideas about how to
pay and yet improve the Greek economy. It was fingernail
time for the tyrants. They gave Greece its final offer
i.e. same as the last one
and Syriza said let's put it to a referendum. The timing of
the referendum firstly, was amazing. It was for after the
ending of the last slavery contract (June 30th, I think),
meaning that there would be no money for Greece
while the people were deciding their fate. And so it
happened. In the middle of the referendum campaign,
the troika closed the banks. If some Greeks (or anybody)
had any doubt who these troika fuckers were, that was
an eye-opener. The ECB, the backstop of the Eurozone
economy, closed banks, as a threat, in cooperation with
the rest of the Troika/Eurogroup.
Satan unmasked!
Brilliant move. Obviously I am not belittling the
fact that Greeks were paying the price for this
absurdist theatre, and were starting to starve.
Nevertheless, their answer was to vote 61% against
the troika offer.
The only fly in that ointment was the fact that
it SEEMS that Greeks want to reject an offer from
the troika and yet stay in the Eurozone, but actually,
that was the troika blackmail.
"Do this slavery thing, or you're gone."
I'll take on the grexit issue in another blog.
So, the next step was to take the results to Brussels and
get a better deal. Well, I think it was dawning on Syriza
that the troika was gonna screw Greece one way or another.
Kinda like the Kama Sutra for love slaves.
"oh. you don't like pages 33-45?
Well, let's try page 55. ha-ha!"
Tsipras knew that he had the savings and house value
of every Greek and/or their business in his hands. He knew
that the troika would not loosen the noose, so he had to
bow his head. For me, he was then beheaded. He is no
longer a person, let alone PM. His lifeless body just
won the re-election campaign. I'm indifferent.
won the re-election campaign. I'm indifferent.
Varoufakis still has his impudent head and he's making
quite a scene in France and other places, seeking discussions
of justice and fairness and democracy. They love that.
So, let's just assume that Greece was screwed to begin with
and then you can see the wisdom of the Syriza plan.
1 it shook faith in the Euro and EU to the ground
2 the Euro is at lows not seen since it was the EMU
1.40 Euros for one British pound.
3 it has cast the Euro/EU oligarchs in very bad light
4 it has made countries like Poland, Czechs and Romania
run screaming from the Euro table, even though they
are required to switch.
5 it has sped up the disintegration of the Eurozone, because
of the lack of faith in Germany
6 Shown how the Euro genesis was a twisted affair with
two protagonists.
It was created by the French because
two protagonists.
It was created by the French because
they thought their elite would run the EU this way, and
the Germans because they knew that the French were
lightweights and that they (Germany) would end up
dictating life and death in the whole EU.
7 It was shown, to those who were really good at
reading between the lines that the troika was not
interested in solutions, but in providing a workable
plan such that German taxpayers could bail out
Deutschebank, without it looking like that. It looks
like a Greek bailout, so in return, the Greeks must
be screwed. Tangled web, anyone?
Now, there were a number of economists who got
involved in the referendum case, at least in theory.
They offered opinions that were either economic,
political, or both, and it says a lot about who they are.
Let's go through the list. The first 4
involved in the referendum case, at least in theory.
They offered opinions that were either economic,
political, or both, and it says a lot about who they are.
would have voted "no" and the last
two, though Grecophone, would have
voted "yes".
Let's examine them:
Stiglitz and Sachs, among others, were being
regularly consulted by Varoufakis,
and they knew the case well.
Krugman is just a statist nut, but sometimes
he gasps for oxygen and does the right thing.
Piketty, though Varoufakis is not a fan of his,
also sided with the Greeks.
On the Dark side we have Pissaridis, a
Cypriot economist who is big in LSE
circles. He won an Economics
(pseudo) nobel for his thesis that the
way to make sure that wage inflation
does not happen is by cutting unemployment
money. Ya. thanks Pisser. He was later
found on BBC talking about how he was
worried for his nest egg in a Cypriot
bank when the banking oligarchs came
to rob Cyprus. I had no sympathy for him.
The last is Katey Price, the Greek ex-wife of
Chris Huhne (Labour minister & social
climber). They had divorced and both
spent time in posh jail because she
was proved to have said "yes" to her
husband (the Transport Minister) when
he asked her to take his speeding points
on her licence. Once again, we have caught
her saying "yes" to the big dick in the room.
Again, no sympathy. She happens to be
an economist, but of what quality, I don't
know.I think she may have had the right
to vote.
to vote.
