Always better to read from the source!
Netherlands. Greek students confront minister Giannitsis.
So many facts and such an interesting intervention!
Must watch , if you are even slightly interested in what’s going on.
Express money. An alternative proposal for economic recovery.
http://www.eurorettung.org/69.0.html
Here you can find and download the complete guide to recovery.
A proposal called “Express money”, crafted down to the last detail, from the German alternative economy scene. They have produced and translated this proposal in Portuguese, French, English and Greek.
More translations are on the way.
Please read it carefully and support it until it can reach an implementation dynamic.
For more information on alternative monetary systems, you can keep scrolling, I have plenty!
Growing lemons in the Alps!
http://www.krameterhof.at/en/index.php?id=aktuelles
Use this link to look at the amazing edible garden of this couple, in Salzburg!
Already famous in Austria, Sepp Holzer and his wife were doing permaculture, years before the rest of us found out about it! They are situated at the top of the Alps,where everything is covered in snow for 4 months, but that doesn’t stop them from producing lemons and cherries and all kinds of Mediterranean produce!
Enjoy, learn, imitate!
IMF in Africa
http://www.gregpalast.com/strauss-kahn-screws-africa/
Use this link to find out some IMF tactics in Africa.
Then compare them with what’s going on in Greece.
Then wait for your turn.
27/3/2012 – Der Standard – Daniela Rom interviewing Margrit Kennedy
“Geldsystem fürht zur Krieg, Crash oder Revolution”
Read from the source, here!
For those of you who don’t know who Margrit Kennedy is, check this out:
It does start with a D…
Forgive my silence.
I have been numbed by all the insanity.
I will just give a latest news report, of what I’ve been reading these past few days:
A 77 year old pharmacist committed suicide in front of the parliament two days ago. He left a suicide note directly blaming the austerity measures for not being able to feed himself and suggesting that the youth takes arms and revolts against the oppression.
The BBC is hosting a reportage about the humanitarian crisis in Perama, Athens: 80% of the MSF aid goes to Greeks and not immigrants like it used to..
Suicides have more than tripled in the last two years.
Which constitution kills its own citizens? Please remind me…
The president of Greek Photo-reporters’ Union, has had his head cracked open by the MAT squad, during the people’s demonstration that followed the suicide. He is undergoing brain surgery as I type.
Another reporter has also been severely beaten.
These incidents follow tens of reporters’ blunt injuries, that have not yet been investigated or addressed by our constitution, including the reporter that lost his hearing after a MAT officer threw a sound/flash bomb straight AT him and the woman reporter that had her face cracked in front of the international press.
In which constitution is the press attacked and silenced? It keeps evading me...
The IMF suggests in a press release that the elections are cancelled, until they have time to implement their plans.
No announcement on the elections’ exact date, yet. Rumors of “postponing” it all over the media.
What is the name of that constitution that is run by exterior policies and interests…?
The police are arresting and detaining all immigrants, while the politicians are preparing concentration camps.
Meanwhile the extreme fascist party is polled to enter the parliament.
What was the name of this constitution, that uses fascism to control the population, again..?
I can’t seem to remember.
It does start with a D…, though…
Anyone?
Here is Germany’s profit from the Euro crisis. From the German national news channel.
From the German news, an enlightening calculation of the German profits, from the Greek enslavement.
So that my German friends can have some facts while trying to spread the truth!
So that the rest of you can get to grasp what it is all about.
For my English speaking friends, here is the resume: (In brackets and Italic are my personal comments…)
//// From the 130 million euros, that the German gov, supposedly agreed to pay, only 15.2 millions are actually given for the “support of Greece” (money been paid to the German and French banks and not to the Greek state…). Still the German media is creating a huge anti Greek propaganda publishing lies about how they should stop wasting hundreds of millions to bail out the Greeks. The reporter then asks some of the members of the German finance committee, that are being interviewed. They actually don’t know the true number.
Moving to a German factory called Tenbrick, we find out that work has increased, workers are given rises and orders have doubled, while the Chef of the factory, directly connects it to the crisis and the fact that the devaluation of the euro, has made their products cheaper to export. At the same time, in the Greek department of this factory, located in Macedonia in northern Greece, the Chef has cut back the workers from 40 to 15 and the salaries are now 500 euros for a full time employment, due to the cuts that the Greek gov. is forced to implement.
We move to the German Institute for Macroeconomics, where prof. Gustav Horn gives us the actual gain, from the euro devaluation, for German exports: 50 million euros, or 2% of the German GDP!!!
Then Mr Folker Heimailer, from the Trading offices in Bern, provides the reporter with the calculation of profits of the last two years, due to the cheap borrowing interest of the German state. He says that money flows into Germany, due to the weakness of the other countries: Total profit , the last two years is 45 million euros, even rising to 65 millions. ( Greeks are given 4 and 5% interest loans from their “partners”, while they themselves, borrow that money with 1% interest from the ECB!)
The German economic committee is once again interviewed and proven clueless..
At the end the reporter makes the calculation: In 100 millions, Out 15.2 !!! She also mentions that a ‘Marshal plan ” type of support for Greece is needed for the euro to survive and also reminds the viewers that it was the Marshal plan, that allowed Germany to recover after WWII. ( It also deprived Greece of the well-deserved war compensations, that it never, since, received, even though there was a clause deciding that Germany would have to pay war compensations, after the reunification with East Germany. German officials and media pretend this never happened… Surprisingly so does the Greek gov., while they are selling out the country and allowing -even repeating- this slander and propaganda against the Greek people. We are talking hundreds of billions, here, not less…). /////
That’s that!
On a personal comment, I truly believe that logic will prevail. I also believe, that the solutions will come from Germany, from the German people, to the rest of Europe. For their preparation for an alternative monetary system, has had already many years on its back. Also, because their reflexes to the propaganda, that their (also traitorous) government has laid upon them, are admirable.
I only hope the people get to rise their voices loud enough, soon enough..
For some examples of the exciting studies that have been going on, since years, in Germany on how we should and could deal with finance, please keep an eye for the alternative monetary systems category, that I am about to create.
I would also like to point out that the German news channels have been more accurate since this whole mess started, than the Greek media will ever be, any time soon.
I am also initializing a category called: German news on the crisis, so you get what I mean about the way they deal with reality. Of course there are media mechanisms that support the slander in Germany, too. But it looks that their media is not completely sold off, like the Greek ones, are.
Give me a day or two… : )
European people’s money, Bailing out Banks.
A graph showing who gets what from the new “bail out” money, supposedly helping the Greeks.
To help the English speaking readers:
Purple, 40% goes to Foreign Banks
Green, 18% goes to European Central Bank
Red, 23 % goes to Greek Banks
Blue, 19% goes to the Greek state
Please remind me, why are the poor paying to save the rich, while it is they, who should be punished for their bad investments?
How Stupid Are We? Do we really see ourselves as credits?????
This is not a damn Video game!
You only get ONE LIFE.
How dare we be convinced, that our worth, anybody’s worth, is expressed in “money” ?
How shameful an era for humanity…
“Euro exit strategy crucial for Greeks” Must read
On Guardian 21/6 2011, Costas Lapavitsas wrote:
Greek default and exit has always been the most likely outcome of the eurozone crisis. The truth is that economic and monetary union has failed, not least because it has created an unsustainable gap between core and periphery. For peripheral countries, EMU membership is likely to be a source of stagnation and income inequality. For Greece it has already been a failure of historic proportions.
The problem faced by the country in 2009-10 had much in common with the rest of the periphery: vast public and private indebtedness, low competitiveness, huge current account deficits, and rapidly ballooning public deficits and debts. The response of the EU was obtuse. A so-called bailout was advanced to Greece, but at rates 3% and 4% above those paid by Germany. Severe austerity was imposed, cutting national income by 4.5% in 2010 and probably 4% this year.
Even a first year undergraduate could have worked out that the last thing a bankrupt needs is further punitive loans and a cut in income; inevitably the stabilisation plan has been a disaster, missing just about all its original targets. The numbers are breathtaking. Under current policies, the EU/IMF/ECB (European Central Bank) “troika” expects sovereign debt to rise to 200% of GDP in 2015, up from roughly 150% at present. Servicing the debt will cost 12% of GDP – vastly more than expenditure on health and education – while the government deficit will be 15% of GDP. The country will be unquestionably bankrupt. Fully aware of this, financial markets are refusing to advance a penny in new private loans. And since the troika had planned for Greece to return to the markets in 2011 on the back of the expected success of the stabilisation plan, the crisis has reached fever pitch.
The response of the troika reveals systemic failure at the heart of the eurozone. Greece will receive another large loan but must impose further austerity, including wage and pension cuts, perhaps 150,000 lost jobs in the civil service, more taxes, and sweeping privatisation. And what is likely to happen if the country accepts this? By the calculations of the troika, in 2015 sovereign debt will be 160% of GDP, servicing the debt will cost 10% of GDP, and the government deficit will be 8% of GDP. In short, Greece will still be bankrupt.
What, then, is the point of the fresh bailout ? The answer is rescuing international bondholders and buying time for banks. Jean-Claude Trichet, the ECB president – an unelected bureaucrat – has imposed his will on Angela Merkel, Europe’s most powerful politician. In 2015 Greece will be bankrupt but its debt will be held overwhelmingly by public lenders: the EU, ECB and IMF. When default comes, the banks will be out of it and Europe’s taxpayers will bear the burden. Meanwhile, Greece will have gone through the austerity mangle, putting up with official unemployment of about 15%. And when the EU writes Greek debt off, as it must, it will impose extortionate demands, perhaps including open pressure to exit the eurozone.
Unfortunately for the troika, this time the Greek people have worked out the nastiness of what is proposed. They are also profoundly angry at their politicians, and at being slandered. After all, they work longer hours than most people in the EU and, as wage earners, can’t avoid tax. The Rubicon appears to have been crossed in recent weeks as the country is openly weighing the option of default and exit.
Should that take place, it will be a major blow to the economy. But Greeks are prepared to put up with straitened circumstances if they see a path to recovery, something EU policy is denying them. A political force that promised to deliver default and exit in a democratic and sovereign manner while putting people before banks would sweep all before it. As for the EU, it would have to deal with the aftermath for banks and EMU, hopefully finding someone other than Trichet to guide it.
