Greece was where democracy was invented. Then there was
trigonometry. After that it was down hill all the way. They are pretty good at
thieving though. The fact that their fraud may well break the euro is amusing,
disastrous or both.
Goldman Sachs, Greece, Euros And Fraudulent Accounting [
9 June 2010 ]
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I can’t claim to have invented the
off-balance-sheet sleight-of-hand used by the Greek government, under the
guidance of Goldman Sachs, to beggar itself so spectacularly. But I was
certainly a pioneer in the field....................
But it was nevertheless a forebear of the
exercise by which, according to reports this week, the mighty Goldman Sachs
managed billions of dollars worth of bond sales for Greece after arranging
large-scale swap transactions that enabled the Greek treasury to disguise the
true extent of its fiscal deficit. Some 15 major banks are believed to have
done similar swaps, and those same banks are all likely to have sold Greek
bonds to investor clients — on more favourable terms for Greece than would
have been the case if the bond salesmen had known what their own swap dealers
had been up to.
Ah, but it was all within EU accounting
rules at the time, says finance minister George Papaconstantinou, perhaps soon
to find a new career as an Athens taxi driver........... But in the Greek case, the effect was to allow
Europe’s most profligate government to run up a E300 billion deficit, more
than four times the supposed limit for eurozone states. Both cases illustrate
the perversity of high finance, in which no one ever pauses to ask: if we’re a
party to deception, how can we possibly assume anyone else is telling the
truth?
UNQUOTE
Banking seems to be a form of major fraud, one where the
perpetrators with their high priced lawyers walk away laughing - just like
politicians. They don't get charged because they give the prosecutors their
jobs. Hurd and Maude know that. See
Treason At Maastricht on the point.
The Lying Game - Life
QUOTE
So here’s a brief history lesson on how Greece not only got the whole of
Europe into a mess, but is also now threatening the US and even Asia. People
ask me about Greece, and how a people with such a glorious past could act as
stupidly and irresponsibly as they did. Greek intellectuals and historians
have generally blamed the 400-year Turkish occupation for the nation’s ills.
And it is a fact that, where humiliation persists through several
generations, the oppressed begin — in defence of their own dignity — to
imitate their oppressors. The cruelty, vindictiveness and harshness shown by
warring political factions testify to this theory.
But this is not sufficient explanation. The volatility of the Greek
character, probably the only remaining link with the glorious past of
antiquity, is another. The highly individualistic Greek is too self-seeking
to submit easily to the dictates of others. His unruliness has helped him
survive throughout the centuries of oppression, as well as to rise above
adversity, economic or otherwise. But it has also made him unaware of the
advantages of a communal spirit and true democratic attitudes. He will go to
any length to attain his goals, not hesitating to lie and cheat in order to
achieve them. This has — brutal though it may sound — created a climate
where cheating is a way of life, and where the highest and the lowest of
citizens do not hesitate to use dishonesty, especially where politics are
concerned.
A direct result of this way of life has been the spoils system. Although
not a Greek invention, nowhere has it been practised more assiduously than
in Greece. Successive governments have shamelessly brought in their
favourites, returning favours and expecting new ones in the future, and
changing laws to suit their purposes; thus encouraging resentment,
divisiveness and a ‘wait-until-my-turn-comes’ way of thinking. No Greek
government has ever come to power that truly tried to reconcile the people.............
Ghost jobs, easy hours, spin, political favours, do any of these Greek
habits remind you of modern Britain? They do me. Especially the lying.
Gordon Brown has lied about everything — immigration, stealth taxation,
education, you name it — yet you Brits have yet to kick him out of office
(at least while this is being written). We are all Greeks now should be his
slogan, and it might be sooner than you think. Once upon a time, when I
first came to England, spin was at a minimum and lying unacceptable. In
politics, that is. Blair and Brown made lying the sine qua non of their
administrations. John Profumo lied about a hooker and spent the rest of his
life in the East End making up for it. No one died except Ward, and he took
his own life. Blair and Brown have sent countless numbers to their deaths
and have caused thousands of innocent deaths, yet they swan around in their
limos and dare to show themselves preening to the public.
Thinking about it, we Greeks are not all that bad. At least our leaders
have not sent young men to die for the glory of Bush and Blair and Brown,
despite enormous pressure to do so. So what’s a little stealing from the
crooks of the EU, with a little help from Goldman Sachs, that is.
UNQUOTE
Taki is Greek and rich and honest, an unusual combination. He confirms
Goldman Sachs, Greece, Euros And Fraudulent Accounting in essence if not
detail.
Greece Taken Over By Far Left [
27 January 2015 ]
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The electoral triumph of
SYRIZA in Greece made
worldwide headlines: the
hard-Left party managed to get
an impressive 36.3%, leaving behind the center-right New
Democracy governing party, which got 27.8%.
Golden Dawn, a
new anti-immigration party widely denounced as neo-Nazi,
came third with 6.28%........ SYRIZA is the first [
blatantly ] hard-Left party to take power in
Europe since the collapse of the Soviet Union. (The name is
an acronym, in Greek, for Coalition of the Radical Left.).
UNQUOTE
Greek politics are corrupt and vicious. The
Communists tried to take over in 1944 when we
were busy. That is why
Athens 1944 is
one of the
Parachute Regiment's battle honours. Greece may well be kicked
out of the European Union as a result of major
fraud. Of course the
BBC has a very relaxed view of communist takeovers because it is a
Marxist
propaganda machine.
SYRIZA Is Run By Spendthrift Marxist Liars
QUOTE
ALEXIS Tsipras was
sworn in as prime minister yesterday after his far-left SYRIZA party’s
resounding election victory on Sunday. He will head a coalition government with
centre-right party Independent Greeks and will have a comfortable majority in
parliament.........
Tsipras, like Papandreou in 1981, has made countless
promises he will not be able to keep. He has promised higher pensions,
public sector jobs, raising the minimum wage, free healthcare for everyone,
lower taxes for the majority and a host of other reforms that were music to
voters’ ears. Presumably he will implement all these social reforms by
keeping his two key election promises – negotiating an easing of the
austerity measures and a write-off of some of the public sector debts.
The big problem is that neither of these issues can be tackled without
the agreement of the eurozone countries and in particular Germany which has
repeatedly made it clear that Greece had to stick to what had been agreed
with its lenders. The head of the euro group Jeroen Dijsselbloem, could not
have been clearer yesterday, when he said: “The most important thing is that
if you remain in the eurozone, you stick to the rules we have.”.......
The possibility of a Grexit now looms large despite the new PM’s
assertion that he does not want to leave the euro. Yet the Grexit may be
unavoidable irrespective of who won Sunday’s election, given that the Greek
debt, which in September 2014 stood at 176 per cent of GDP (Greece received
€240 billion in loans since 2010), is unsustainable. Tsipras will merely
speed up the country’s exit from the euro, if he tries to keep his promises
to the electorate.
UNQUOTE
Telling lies is what politicians do.
Corruption is what Greeks do too.
Syriza's Marxists
Fail Greece - Rioting Ensues [ 1 March 2015 ]
QUOTE
Police and protesters have
clashed in Athens after the first anti-government demonstration since
Greece's leftist SYRIZA party took power last month......
The deal, approved by Greece and international creditors last week, has
triggered dissent within SYRIZA itself. If ratified, the agreement will give
Greece a four-month bailout extension in return for government reforms.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has defended it, but some on the hard left
[ harder left in fact ] have accused the government of going
back on pre-election pledges. SYRIZA swept to power in January by promising
to renegotiate the country's debt and end austerity.
UNQUOTE
Where did
all the money go? Nobody is saying but stolen is the answer. All of those
EU subsidies for non-existent olive trees were just too
easy to get. The little people get hurt, which is a pity.
Greece Promises An IMF Default [ 1 July 2015 ]
QUOTE
Greece's deputy PM has been speaking to local media. He's revealed the
government asked for a delay to its looming 11pm IMF deadline tonight. No word
however on whether that has been granted.
UNQUOTE
This is just another
Sovereign default; a problem for some; it's an opportunity for
Capitalist
Swine, for the world's
Vulture Funds.
England had been there thrice. The last time was in 1932 during the
Great Depression.
Greeks Want Reparations For German War Crimes [ 7 April 2021 ]
QUOTE
Athens has reminded Berlin that it is still owed reparations from the
devastation caused to the country during the years of occupation by the
Wehrmacht, between 1941 and 1944. The reparation cost us estimated to be in
billions of euros. A Greek parliamentary commission has estimated the amount of
war damage Nazi Germany caused in the country to be at least 289 billion euros.
This includes a forced loan that Greece had to grant the Deutsche
Reichsbank during the war.
Former president of Germany Joachim Gauck said how he longed for a German
leader from the time of the atrocities to have apologised earlier for the
invasion.
In 2014 the former German president said: "I wish so much that someone
who gave and carried out orders at the time would have long since said, 'I
apologise'...........
On April 6 it will be the 80th anniversary of the attack by the Wehrmacht
on Greece in 1941. Athens has used this as an opportunity to reiterate its
demand for negotiations on reparations for the war damage to begin.
UNQUOTE
The Greeks would like the money because they are a spendthrift bunch. Recall
that
Jews With Light Fingers Took German Mugs For €63.2
Billion using their Holocaust® Story and it was
all tax free. That is different of course. Jews worm
their way into positions of power then abuse it. Their greed is unlimited.
