Syriza MP: It's Time to Take Over the Banks

[Jefferson23]

Paul Jay discusses the results of the Greek referendum with Costas Lapavitsas and asks whether Syriza was prepared for this moment -

July 6, 2015

Bio

Costas Lapavitsas is a professor in economics at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies. He teaches the political economy of finance, and he's a regular columnist for The Guardian.

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=14181

[NCjack]

1. The little guys can help Greece. Search the internet for "Made in Greece"

goods and buy. As soon as the police are functioning, go to Greece for a vacation. Looks for ways to buy stuff and services from Greece with American dollars. (I'm buying some Greek olive oil tonight.)

[Jefferson23]

2. A very kind thought...good for you. n/t

[Jack Rabbit]

3. The other side of that coin is seeing what we can do about boycotting Germany

In the event they still don't want to play nice.

[mmonk]

4. Aye. Good idea..

[Peace Patriot]

6. Great idea! I just did it!

About a $100 worth of olive oil, olive oil soap, fig marmalade, dolmas, coffee and Greek Mountain tea, all made in Greece, some shipped from Greece. Just search "made in Greece" at Amazon and be careful that it's actually made in Greece, and best, shipped from Greece.

I hope others are thinking of this. I hope it starts a trend. It's tremendously important that we support the Greek people in their defiance of the banksters!

Thank you for this great idea!

[panfluteman]

5. I'm Here in Nearby Romania, the Homeland of the Panflute, While All This is Going On...

Contemplating whether or not I should visit my friend, a naturopathic doctor in Athens Greece. We wanted to make a short video about the Asklepion at Epidauros for my website, greek medicine dot net. Anyway, she told me she was going back to her village near Sparta to vote OXI / NO. She was basically calling this whole austerity / debt crisis political theater an exercise in blackmail, where the EU countries were foisting their own economic problems off onto Greece as the fall guy. As I have been following the story on CNN, I was thinking - is the Eurozone more like a big, happy family or club, or is it more like a prison? A Pakistani friend of mine sent me a cute little joke about the Greek debt crisis that sizes it up as a vicious circle of robbing Peter to pay Paul, until the wheel comes full circle, and everybody is stealing from everybody just to cover their own financial @$$. It seems like CNN, being a wholly owned corporate subsidiary, was really hoping that NAI / YES would win, and were really shocked out of their gourds that NO passed by such a huge margin. Now, CNN is stating what is really an obvious outcome of all this - that other southern European countries like Spain and Italy are quivering in their boots, since they have upcoming elections, in which they might have to face a "heck no to austerity" electorate that has been emboldened by what happened in Greece. One good way that Greece can lead by example to the rest of the world, especially to us here in the USA, is by showing us what democracy looks like through this recent referendum. And look - no electronic voting machines - paper ballots all the way! At least Greece still cares about what the people think!

[Peace Patriot]

7. Great comment! Thanks! Yes, paper ballots all the way!

Greek democracy lives!