Democracy vs Mythology: The Battle in Syntagma Square

[girl gone mad]

I hope that you will go to his blog and read the rest, then leave a message of support. What he has written is sincere and important. If the Greeks can't put a stop to the looting, there is little hope for us.

Democracy vs Mythology: The Battle in Syntagma Square
By Alex Andreou

http://sturdyblog.wordpress.com/2011/06/18/democracy-vs-mythology-the-battle-in-syntagma-square">Sturdy Blog

I have never been more desperate to explain and more hopeful for your understanding of any single fact than this: The protests in Greece concern all of you directly.

What is going on in Athens at the moment is resistance against an invasion; an invasion as brutal as that against Poland in 1939. The invading army wears suits instead of uniforms and holds laptops instead of guns, but make no mistake – the attack on our sovereignty is as violent and thorough. Private wealth interests are dictating policy to a sovereign nation, which is expressly and directly against its national interest. Ignore it at your peril. Say to yourselves, if you wish, that perhaps it will stop there. That perhaps the bailiffs will not go after the Portugal and Ireland next. And then Spain and the UK. But it is already beginning to happen. This is why you cannot afford to ignore these events.

The powers that be have suggested that there is plenty to sell. Josef Schlarmann, a senior member of Angela Merkel’s party, recently made the helpful suggestion that we should sell some of our islands to private buyers in order to pay the interest on these loans, which have been forced on us to stabilise financial institutions and a failed currency experiment. (Of course, it is not a coincidence that recent studies have shown immense reserves of natural gas under the Aegean sea).

China has waded in, because it holds vast currency reserves and more than a third are in Euros. Sites of historical interest like the Acropolis could be made private. If we do not as we are told, the explicit threat is that foreign and more responsible politicians will do it by force. Let’s make the Parthenon and the ancient Agora a Disney park, where badly paid locals dress like Plato or Socrates and play out the fantasies of the rich.


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[donobry]

1. Hm

While I agree with you that it is extremely worrying that the IMF and other private institutions have the power to hold a nation to ransom, you do need to consider the motivation behind it.

Greed is certainly up there at the top along with self-interest and self-protectionism. The IMF and the currently wealthy countries which back it and also head it, need to keep its eye on history. In the 1990s South-East Asia was bullied buy the international (Western orientated)community into dreadful loans, and just look at their power now - especially China - it is certainly short-sighted policy being implemented. "Greece is being sacrificed to save the euro." Daniel Hannan MEP

That said it is unlikely that Greece will turn itself around in such a way. Their lack of economic and political will has the potential to severely damage the Euro, not their national currency, but on shared by 17 other countries. The people are crippling their government by refusing to accept the consequences of this financial situation. Greece needs to pay its debts in order to protect the Euro. A debt which amounts to about 30,000€ per person in Greece, or to put it another way: 150% of its annual GDP output.

Perhaps if the Greeks let go of their utilities (though given the experience in the UK the idea is perhaps not going to improve the service, but will bring in much needed revenue) then Disney World Agora or the Parthenon by Madame Tussauds could be avoided....

[blindpig]

4. Perhaps they should tell the bankers to go fuck themselves...

perhaps we should too.

Fuck them, they are parasites.

[Art_from_Ark]

2. K&R

:kick:

[girl gone mad]

3. How is everything Art?

I read that the demand for gold and silver is surging in India. What's the demand like in Japan? I think you have mentioned that it's more of a collector's market than an investor's market, but I wonder if perceptions are changing.

[amborin]

5. kr