Greece For Dummies

Don't get drawn into the fictitious oversimplified scenarios that those good dogs barking for their biscuits will have you buy into.

Think, use your brain, the whole "investors just drifted into lending naughty Greece money because of mommy EUs credit card" and "Greeks are Lazy" rubbish. Also, as media forgets, the Greek people have little to do with it, being asked to pay the debt with tax and pension, and pass it onto their grandchildren is criminal.

The ECB pays its failure and debt by printing €60 Billion per month in Fed style QE, bond buying which is free money when translated from beaurocrat, more than the Greek debt:
http://www.bloombergview.com/quicktake/europes-qe-quandary

and the IMF head calling for tax austerity PAYS NO TAX. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/9298501/Christine-Lagarde-attack-on-Greece-backfires-as-she-pays-no-tax.html

The IMF incidentally has made more profit from Greece just since 2010 that the Greek default instalments have bottlenecked to, around €2.5 billion.http://jubileedebt.org.uk/news/imf-made-e2-5-billion-profit-greece-loans

Let's make it simple:

1) The investment shepards troika IS THE EU, they are not the saviors. They are the European Commission, European Central Bank and those bastards over at the IMF.

2) The only excuse EU finance has is that someone else screwed them and Greece, you guessed it, those lovable usual suspect financial terrorists at Goldman Sachs made massive upfront money and ran in a derivative scheme parading as a loan to gleen monumental upfront profits and pass off criminally high interest onto innocents like Greeks and lenders, they did it by principally hiding true debt figures. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-03-06/goldman-secret-greece-loan-shows-two-sinners-as-client-unravels

3) One of few real journalists left in Mainstream Media, Joseph Stiglitz, former World Bank economist, points out how none of the money actually went to Greece but to German and French banks, amongst other things.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/29/joseph-stiglitz-how-i-would-vote-in-the-greek-referendum

4) When the Globalization plot known as the EU, with its Fed style central bank in Brussels, rolled out in Europe, French banks knew that they could not make billions by competing in Germany, nor were German banks expecting to vanquish the French. They looked instead to a simpler and easier market to loan out the plentiful supply of cash they had  – the poorer, mostly southern European states that had agreed to take part in the launch of a common currency called the Euro in 1999.

The logic was clear: In the mid-1990s, national interest rates in Greece and Spain, for example, hovered around 14 percent, and at a similar level in Ireland during the 1992–1993 currency crisis. So borrowers in these countries were eager to welcome the northern bankers with seemingly unlimited supplies of cheap cash at interest rates as low as one to four percent.

5) But there is a broader game afoot, and the best article I've seen on the internet Can be found here. By Alex Andreou. Without the bigger picture, without context, there can be no understanding.

Where to from here? A less forgiving article than mine explains quite well how the rest of Europe has a similar fate to contend with: http://www.hangthebankers.com/how-greece-was-robbed-by-the-bankers/

Bend Over So That We Can Stick Another 4th Of July Firecracker Up Your Arse, America. Kind Regards, The Elite.

Happy 4th of July US people, hope you get your country back soon, but don't panic just yet, Rumour has it that Nestle will sell your water back to you at reasonable ransom. I mean rates. Monsanto's sorry about the whole bee fiasco but will make it up to farmers by getting good rates on their repossessed farms from the banks to rent back to them and might even pay them a small salary as gene patented crops will be made available for all your benefit.
Thats right, you and I get to eat their property if we are lucky, they own the food even after we pay for it in a manner of speaking, ain't they swell?

To the unions and middle class, um, never mind...

To Detroit and the motor industry, we may witness a raise in McDonald's & Walmart min wages to provide you with new careers and keep boosting those jobs figures! Yay. Go team!

Of course we'll be docking multinationals taxes and upping yours so we can enrich our kind folk at the Military Industrial complex. Er, I mean guard against low Russian Gas prices, sorry I mean Russian aggression as their border moves towards our new Eastern European military bases with open hostility and stationary deceptiveness. Also, those coups in the old eastern block are expensive and our costly fracking shale gas costs a hell of a lot, because its flavored with pure environment, so its a superior product, by that I mean superior high costs at least.

Lets be realistic though guys, there may be the odd funding cut though, like in education and roadworks etc along with other low priority stuff. You can't have it all.

The poor banks keep failing and debt is tragically high, but don't panic, that's what pensions are for! Just kidding, ha ha, we won't use your pensions, they likely went already invested in AAA rated junk bonds to build our massive engineering legacy, the derivative Great Pyramid, the one with that market value figure so silly and high you probably realized we were making a little joke. Eleventy five bazillion gazillion shazallion dollars, those same dollars which go up in value against emerging market currencies whenever we print each new worthless one! In similar sorcery we reduce the gold price vs $ somehow as demand climbs! We use magic spells to defeat economics.  Think of it as a nice party trick, for free. Lol kidding, there's a fee.

We got your backs! And balls. You may get them and other body parts we may come to posses, on financed terms at your friends neighborhood bank. Hurry, they will soon be owned by JP Morgan Chase.

Um  also,...what else, oh yeah Welfare's broke , sorry to the poor and infirm but you understand of course there is only enough for bank bailouts, the banksters need their welfare more than you do, they don't waste it on food, they finance stuff, like their helicopters and yachts.

If you are really in a fix cheer yourself up with a loan. I say cheer because we can all have a little chuckle together because we won't really lend to money silly, we just invent it, we gave ourselves permission, but charge you interest and claim your mortgage surety if you default anyway.

You're welcome.

Don't forget to celebrate our puppets, I mean democracy, again next year, another fine election is lining up with much progress being made.

Choose ..Um,... Bush or Clinton, er, again...um,

Don't thank us yet, Putin may take it all away from you tomorrow. Or not. Got anything left? No? Then he will do it because he hates our freedom, which is now taxable by the way.

Gradual Consolidation & Eventual Takeover Of Banking. How 37 Banks Became 4 In Just 2 Decades.

Chart courtesy of Realities Watch.

If you were wondering how banks got “too big to fail,” here’s a good place to start. This chart shows us how, over the last couple of decades, 37 banks have became just 4 mega-banks. These same 4 mega-banks have, thus far, been immune to the consequences of any and all of their terrible decisions that places the entire world economy in jeopardy.

Why? Because we, the taxpayer provide government with the welfare they allocate to banks in the form of bailouts.

Our reward? Welfare cuts to the poor and tax breaks to big biz. Secret Deals like the TPP that kill entrepreneurs and ensure big corporations like Monsanto and Nestle will control food , land and water as farmers and real politicians that can't be bought become extinct. Hardly seems fair does it?

The four remaining banks are but an illusion, one ideologically aligned entity benifiting from the same circumstantial interests (therefore having almost identical agendas) working to create political positioning of key candidates, funding of key industries and creation of unions of centralized power and trade deals such as the alarming TPP which has cast such a menacing shadow of freedom and democracy in North America and Europe, which spills over into Asia, Russia, South America and Africa in military action designed to protect the resources so critical to their perpetuation, and to position their diplomats for geopolitical strategy.

Read more in detail about the connections in global finance in my related article HERE.

Gradual Consolidation & Eventual Takeover Of Mainstream Media. We Keep Hearing It, But What Does It Mean?

Its not just the complex shareholder arrangements that have allowed just 6 ideologically aligned corporations to exercise their influence over the entirety of western mainstream media, it goes deeper than than that. Find out some more recent developments and protect yourself from mind-policing in this far reaching and interesting article, published on that excellent Globalization Watchdog, Global Research.

You can find the article, which will open in a new window, HERE.

Censored blogger back online

Its always pleasing to see  a blogger who brings well researched causes that don't receive extensive coverage, even in alternative media, win a groundless censorship battle against the inane front that seeks to suppress the most socially relevant  cases of genuine injustice for reasons not always immediately apparent.

Cases like this are critical to such causes, I frequent Mohsen Abdeloumens wordpress blog regularly because he frames the relevance of his issues so well within the broader global context that you never get the sense you are dealing with an isolated issue, which makes for more satisfying reading.

Check it out here 

Scandal in Kyrgyzstan After Protest Organizer caught colluding with US diplomat

Read the article and view the clip here:

Armenian Unrest Funded By The West. Is Naming & Shaming The NGOs Involved Possible?

A number of pro-Western NGOs in Armenia perform various functions, including the support of political processes and even overseeing foreign elections. Now, as protests against an electricity rate hike drag on, these groups are getting a second look.

Protesters, demanding the cancellation of a 17 percent electricity price hike that is set to take effect on August 1, have spent another night on the streets of Armenian capital. The demonstrators have refused to meet with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan to discuss their grievances, opting instead to continue their street sit-in that began last Friday.

In the midst of these protests, and with the Ukrainian political crisis still smoldering on Russia's doorstep, attention is being given to some of the non-governmental organizations operating in the country. Many of these NGOs have been funded by the United States ever since Armenia voted for its independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

“The Choice is Yours” organization, for example, which is fully funded by Washington, actually performs in the election processes outside the territory of Armenia. In December 2004, during the third round of presidential elections in Ukraine, for example, over 100 independent observers from Armenia were sent to a province in Ukraine to monitor the elections. By the time the 2010 Ukrainian elections rolled around, the number of Armenian election monitors from this US-funded group appeared to more than triple.

An official from “The Choice is Yours” NGO told Armenpress that “450 short-term observers took part in the international observation mission in the Ukrainian presidential elections.”

However, proving that Washington is directly bankrolling NGOs lobbying on behalf of American interests in the political and socio-political sectors is “practically impossible,”writes Susanna Petrosyan, in Vestnik Kavkaza. “Armenian fiscal structures have information about the finances but they do not publish it.”

Meanwhile, other NGOs with an anti-Russian bias, such as the "Committee for Support of Ukraine," pop up like weeds for a short period of time and therefore are not registered at the Justice Ministry, Petrosyan says.

Mger Simonyan, the president of the Fund for Development of Eurasian Cooperation, believes that the number of pro-West NGOs grew significantly since Armenia joined the Russia-led Customs Union and the Eurasian Union.

“Russian and pro-Russian public organizations of Armenia are far behind their Western competitors. Armenia has 5-10 competent Russian organizations and about 200 Western ones,” says Simonyan.

Meanwhile, some observers are cautious about drawing parallels between the current Armenian unrest and the violent upheaval that occurred during last year's Maidan protests in Kiev, Ukraine, which ultimately forced out a democratically elected leader.

"If American NGOs were directly involved in the Armenian unrest we would be seeing a lot of crude street slogans talking about the need for 'good governance,' which is just another way of describing politicians supported by Washington," Dmitry Babich, a political analyst based in Moscow, told RT. "The protesters all seem to be holding homemade signs demanding economic justice, while there has been no overt blaming of Russia."

"Armenians understand that Russia is not the source of their problems," Babich said.