Rejecting Austerity, Greece Squares Off with Its Creditors & Risks Future in Eurozone
By Paul Mason and Amy Goodman
Source: Democracy Now
February 19, 2015
Less than a month after the anti-austerity Syriza party swept to victory in Greece, a major dispute has broken out between Greece’s new leaders and European finance ministers. On Monday, talks between Greece and its European creditors collapsed amid disagreement over the future of German-backed austerity. Greek negotiators rejected a deal to extend the terms of the current bailout scheme with no alterations to the austerity terms. Greece is reportedly now planning to submit a request to the eurozone to extend a “loan agreement” for up to six months, but Germany says no such deal is being offered and that Athens must stick to the terms of its existing international bailout. Lawmakers from the ruling Syriza party say Greek voters had rejected the terms of the bailout and that Greece would not be intimidated into accepting them. The breakdown in talks has raised fears Greece may be on the verge of leaving the eurozone. We are joined by British journalist Paul Mason, who has closely covered Greece’s economic crisis for years.
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...and I use that term loosely as well as temporarily, is even more a Granfalloon than most of the others out there are. Including our own. In fact it's like a granfalloon, in a false karass, wrapped inside of a Bokononism.
Germany is caught up inside a design of their own making. When Greece sought EU membership it looked the other way at the crooked books because debt is the master of all Central Banks. And Greece was/is nothing, if not DEBT. And not just any debt, but Nation/State-level Debt. That's like having a country under the control of a pawnbroker.
- But the elected officials and employees of Goldman-Sachs criminals who committed this atrocity upon the Greek people, are scott-free and rolling in it.
But all this only works if you buy-in to the fiat-monetary system bullshit. This is all smoke and mirrors. Money (debt) pulled from thin air. Jacques Fresco said that TPTB will never relinquish control no matter how bizarre things become and I agree. What's the alternative for them? The entire monetary system must fail. Period.
And it will, because it's foundation is all based upon imaginary values -- the idea that a monetary system is needed at all is the main issue that no one talks about. That's the real problem which is why these things keep failing.
- We never stop to ask ourselves should we be doing things this way at all?
Resource Based Economy
Everything on the planet is held in-common. There would be no need for private ownership of property. We provide, using our best minds and technologies, everything that everyone on this planet needs without fear or favor.
The evolution of the species is only possible when everyone evolves. Not just the rich. I know it's a hard idea for many to get their heads around because we've all been indoctrinated with the hierarchy ideals we now operate under. We know no better.
But there is absolutely no reason why any one person, or group of persons should have more of anything than anyone else on this planet. We are all made from the materials found on the earth. So we are it and it is us. We must claim our rightful heritage from the thieves and ne'er-do-wells now (nominally at least) in control. It is not as hard as one would think because they are nothing without us running things for them.
All a lofty goal indeed. One that we can and must achieve, or something like it.
- But we really have no other choice because the alternative is oblivion.....
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[/center]...they come frequently enough, but as a species we've been in a daze.
Sometimes they go totally unnoticed.
In others, we will gloss-over the contradictions in order to void confrontations with reality.
But catalyzing events give us a chance to change directions.
- If we're brave enough to trod upon unbroken ground......
We are watching a display of intestinal fortitude the likes of which we haven't seen in a long while. The Masters of the Universe™ have shown their brass-feet. They have demonstrated that they can't even run a planet without fucking things up, let alone the universe. It's time for them to go.
- Paradigms shift. Everything shifts or it won't exist.......
I dedicate this song to the newest band out there: THE TROIKA BUSTERS!!!!! 
K&R!
There can be a slow road to ending these evils that are at the heart of every single problem globally, or there can be a fast road. We are watching and saluting you Syriza, Podemos and all that will follow.
Let's all stand in solidarity to end austerity. We have had our fill of the economic hit men. Greece, and yes many countries will follow to reject this imposed debt slavery that enriches the few and makes slaves of the masses.
K & R and keep these OP's coming, everyone, let our global community know we stand with them.
Let's not kid ourselves here at home about those who would impose TPP, they are enablers of poverty & the problem globally. Keep shining the light on these issues.
TY, polly7, K & R
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