Afgelopen maandag kreeg ik middels Information Clearing House een volkomen terechte oproep van Peter Koenig aan het Griekse volk om in opstand te komen.
Koenig betoogt o.a. dat Griekenland afgelopen september door de Europese Commissie (let wel: een niet democratisch gekozen orgaan!!) werd gedwongen om in een paar dagen tijd een 2.000 pagina’s tellend document te lezen en te tekenen….. Een in het Engels opgesteld, onleesbaar document met nieuwe wetgeving voor Griekenland, waarmee de Griekse overheid de zeggenschap over haar publieke voorzieningen (eigendom) overgeeft aan de EU…….
Griekenland tekende en gaf al haar staatseigendommen voor de komende 99 jaar over aan het Europees Stabiliteitsmechanisme (ESM), alweer niet democratisch gekozen EU orgaan….. Daarmee staat het het ESM vrij om o.a. de volgende zaken voor een appel en ei te verkopen: havens, spoorwegen, vliegvelden (voor een deel al in handen van een rijke Duitse plork), openbare infrastructuur en zelfs openbaar toegankelijke stranden………
Dit naast het feit, dat onder de druk van de Trojka*, de Grieken voor het grootste deel, inclusief de gepensioneerden in de totale armoede zijn gestort. Voorts werden onder deze druk de arbeidsvoorwaarden van de Grieken uitgekleed en werden de salarissen en pensioenen verlaagd. Door de Grieken in armoede te storten, liep de al wankele Griekse economie grote klappen op en gingen een fiks aantal bedrijven failliet…… Gevolg: minder inkomsten voor de Griekse staat, waardoor de schulden nog verder op zijn gelopen. Intussen kunnen veel Grieken, ook terminale patiënten zich zelfs geen medicijnen veroorloven……….
Het meest zieke is wel, dat grote Griekse bedrijven gebruik maken van brievenbusmaatschappijen, o.a. in Nederland, waarmee de Griekse overheid vele miljoenen aan belastinggeld misloopt…… Hoofdverantwoordelijken voor die belastingontduiking in Nederland: VVD, PvdA, CDA en D66, waar PvdA hufter Dijsselbloem de afgelopen 4 jaar de hoofdrol speelde……. (denk daaraan als u nog gaat stemmen!)
Zelfs de rente betalingen op de zogenaamd aan Griekenland verstrekte gelden, kan Griekenland onmogelijk betalen en kan het land nooit uit de stront komen…….
Hier het artikel van Information Clearing House (onder het artikel kan u klikken voor een ‘Dutch vertaling’):
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Letter to the People of Greece: You Are Being Slaughtered
By
Peter Koenig
You
are being slaughtered right in front of the world’s eyes and nobody
says beep. Least the Greek elite. Your Government. A few, but a few
too many, allow the slaughter because it doesn’t concern them. They
are blinded by the false glamour of the euro and of belonging to the
‘elite class’ of the noble Europeans (sic!).
They
apparently live well enough, including the caviar socialists of
Syriza. They let their country bleed to death literally, morally,
socially and psychologically. Medical care is no longer available or
privatized and unaffordable. Pensions were reduced five times. They
were never more than a survival kit. By now they have been slashed in
some cases by over 50%. Hordes of people live on food handouts. Most
social services, including to a large extent education have been sold
out, privatized. Gone with a flicker. Gone, by order of Germany –
and the holy troika – the criminal gang of three, IMF, European
Central Bank (EIB) and the European Commission (EU); the latter a
mere bunch of unelected corrupt puppets, deciding the fate of some
800 million Europeans – with YOU, the Greek people, accepting
carrying the brunt end of the stick.
In
September 2016, the unelected European Commission sent Greece a
Brussels-drafted legislation of over 2,000 pages, in English, to be
ratified by the Greek Parliament within a few days – or else. –
Nobody asked: ‘What is else’?
Brussels
didn’t even bother translating this unreadable legalistic heap of
paper into Greek, nor did they allow the Parliament enough time to
read, digest and debate the new fiscal legislation. Most
parliamentarians could not read them, either because of language or
due to the imposed time limit. The Parliament ratified the
legislation anyway.
Under
this new law, Greece is transferring all public assets (public
infrastructure, airports, ports even public beaches, natural
resources, etc.), unconditionally, for 99 years, to the European
Stability Mechanism (ESM) which is free to sell (privatize) them at
fire sales prices to whomever is interested – supposedly to pay
back the Greek debt. The fund was originally estimated, certainly
under-estimated – at about 50 billion euros. In the meantime, the
value of the Greek assets has been further downgraded by the troika
to between 5 and 15 billion euros, as compared to Greece’s debt of
more than 350 billion euros. The ESM is a supranational undemocratic
apparatus, accountable to no one.
With
this legislation, the Greek Parliament – YOUR Parliament, Esteemed
People of Greece! – has annulled itself. It is no longer allowed to
pass any budget or fiscal (tax) legislation. Everything is decided in
Brussels in connivance with the IMF and the ECB. The last time a
similar situation happened was in 1933, when the German “Reichstag”
(Parliament) transferred all of its legislative power to Chancellor
Adolf Hitler.
This,
Dear People of Greece – is sheer economic fascism, right in front
of your eyes, the world’s eyes, but nobody wants to see it. The
worst blind is the one who doesn’t want to see.
This
asset seizure was confirmed when the last hope for at least some debt
relief was dashed at the end of February this year. Even the IMF
initially recommended and today still privately recommends debt
relief. However, Germany without mercy announced the final pillage of
Greece, requesting Greece to surrender gold, utilities and real
estate to the ESM – largely managed by Germany. The next ‘bailout’
amount, if Greece goes to her knees and surrenders everything, might
be 86 billion euros, meaning NEW DEBT. In exchange of what? More
interest, a higher debt service (interest and debt amortization) —
and an even bleaker outlook to ever, and I mean ever, getting out of
this US-European fascism imposed process of killing of a nation.
Chancellor
Angela Merkel is reported to have said, “Berlin’s stance on
Greece’s bailout program remained unchanged”, after she met with
IMF chief Christine Lagarde a few days ago
(http://russia-insider.com/en/greece-surrender-gold-public-utilities-and-real-estate-exchange-pieces-paper-printed-brussels).
Some
facts about Greece’s debt, as of 9 March 2017:
Population
10.8 million.
Debt:
352 billion euros (interest per second: 617 euros; debt per citizen:
32,580 euros).
Interest
per year: 19.5 billion euros.
Total
Greek bailout funds from 2010 to end 2016: in excess of 250 billion
euros – none of which went to Greece for the benefit of the people,
but to pay debt service to the troika and pay off mostly German and
French private banks.
Debt
as a percentage of GDP: 181% (GDP 195 billion euros);
2008 Debt to
GDP: 109% (less than today’s US debt to GDP ratio of 109.63%).
Greece’s
GDP amounts to less than 2% of EU’s GDP.
Greek
GDP has collapsed by more than 25% since 2008.
Unemployment
is rampant – with an average of 26% – and close to 50% for young
people (18 to 35).
Greece’s
debt in 2008 would have been totally manageable internally, without
outside interference, or so-called ‘bailouts’ – which are
really not bailouts but forced debt accumulation.
Greece’s
debt was NEVER a threat to the European Union, as the FED / ECB / WS
bankster propaganda made you believe. The Greek and subsequent
“European Crisis” was entirely fabricated by the banksters for
their benefit, at the detriment of Greece and Europe. It had nothing
to do with the Greek or European debt. But nobody questioned it.
Those European and international top economists and politicians who
knew, didn’t dare to speak out. The voices of those who did dare to
speak the truth were muffled. The people of Europe were lied to,
including the Greek, as usual by the presstitute media.
Let’s
put the Greek debt in perspective.
In
September 2011, without warning, the Swiss National Bank (SNB)
devalued the Swiss franc by about 12% against the euro to protect its
economy. This was an unfair move – to say the least, since none of
the euro-zone bound countries has the liberty to re-or devalue its
currency, as deemed necessary by their economy, i.e. Greece. While
Switzerland is not a direct member of the EU, Switzerland is
nevertheless bound to the EU by more than 120 bilateral contracts,
thereby de
facto a
EU member.
During
the 3 ¼ years of locking the exchange rate into a fixed rate of at
least CHF 1.20 per euro, the SNB amassed more than 500 billion francs
in extra foreign currency, mostly in euro. This is about 150% of
Greece’s current debt.
Switzerland,
a country of 8 million people, in theory, could bail out Greece’s
full debt, say, at no interest, by a 50-year loan (World Bank IDA
terms) – in solidarity; and to compensate a bit for the SNB’s
questionable ethics vis-à-vis EU members. Switzerland would not
suffer. To the contrary, such a move would help stem the risk of a
Swiss currency inflation, due to the huge amounts of Swiss francs
that needed to be ‘printed’ to maintain the artificial exchange
rate against the euro. Would Switzerland be prepared to engage in
such a solidary rescue action? –Probably not.
People
of Greece! – Wake up.
Take
things in your own hands! Don’t believe you politicians, your
media! Get out of this criminal organization called the European
Union, and this fraudulent western monetary system that is strangling
you to death. Take back your sovereignty, your own currency. Default
on your debt – the west can do nothing about it. Not if you run
your country with your own public banks, and your own money,
gradually but surely rebuilding a destroyed economy. Debt repayment
is negotiable. Cases abound around the world. Argentina is one of the
more recent ones. Even Germany renegotiated its foreign debt in 1952
(see London Agreement of German External Debt).
Germany,
the leader of this economic massacre of Greece, owes Greece huge WWII
reparation payments. On
8 February 2015, PM Tsipras requested Germany to pay up her full
reparation debt to Greece of an equivalent of 279 billion euros, in
today’s terms.
Germany replied in April 2015 that the reparation issue was resolved
in 1990 – which, of course, it wasn’t. It cannot be excluded that
much of the German pressure on Greece today is a means of deviating
the world’s attention of the reparation debt Germany owes to
Greece.
People
of Greece, be aware of what is going on. Do NOT ACCEPT what your
government, Brussels and the troika are doing to YOU and YOUR
country. To the contrary, request the full reparation payment from
Germany – and demand GREXIT, as a fully legitimate follow-up to
YOUR July 2015 overwhelming NO vote to more austerity-imposing troika
‘rescue’ packages.
If
you do, you will soon see the light at the end of the tunnel — a
light that has been blacked-out for too long by Germany and the
gangsters of the troika and your own government.
Threats
of Expulsion from the Euro Zone
German
Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble still is attempting bluffing the
Greeks and impressing the rest of the world by threatening Greece
with expulsion from the Euro. Any sane government would turn that
threat into its own initiative and abandon this putrefied monster
called European Union, along with its fake and fraudulent common
currency, called euro. But that’s the problem, Greece is reigned by
insanity.
So,
the Greek Government responds to insanity (from the troika) with
insane submissiveness, namely with meek compliance – to the
detriment of millions of their already deprived and enslaved
compatriots.
Among those (still) influential Greek highflyers is
Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis; the legendary and
charming, ‘radical’, Motorcycle Minister. Though he resigned in
apparent protest of the Syriza compliance with the troika’s
requests despite the NO vote, today he is nothing more than a
conformist, who is seeking few nominal ‘reforms’ in Brussels, but
by no means wants Grexit, let alone the collapse of the EU – which,
by the way, is fortunately imminent. As Greek Minister of Finance,
Varoufakis never even had the ‘Option Grexit’ as a Plan ‘B’
(http://www.defenddemocracy.press/greece-disaster-capitulation/).
Nobody
screams, yells, revolts, takes to the streets, blocks streets,
bridges, railways, for days, weeks, interrupts the still ongoing
commerce of the foreign owners of what’s left of YOUR country’s
public assets. Nobody. This is not to blame the Greek who have to
fight for sheer survival, who have to find ways to feed their kids
and families, but the j’accusegoes
to the Tsipras- Syriza clan and all those Greek elitists, the media
(are they all bought like in Germany by the CIA?) and
parliamentarians, who just watch in awe – but stand by. No action.
Watching Greece – YOUR country, People of Greece! – bleeding to
death.
Be
aware, this is in fact not about debt and bailouts. If they tell you
that the European ‘debt crisis’ is Greece’s fault, and that a
new crisis is brewing, depending on how well Greece will conform to
the rules of the next bail out – it is an outrageous lie. This
crisis is manufactured by the very European, their elite, the FED-led
Goldman Sachse’s of this world, who run the European Central Bank
through Mario Draghi, a former GS executive – who de
facto runs
the European economy.
Why
do they want Greece under their boots? – They, the scum of Brussels
and ‘swamp’ of Washington (as President Trump used to call the
Washington Deep State ‘establishment’), want a submissive Greece.
Because Greece is in a highly strategic geographic location, at the
cross-roads of west and east. Greece is a NATO country. Maybe the
second most important NATO country (after Turkey), because of its
strategic position. They don’t want Greece to be run by a
‘left-wing’ government. Syriza, of course, is everything but
left-wing. It is as neoliberal as they come. The masters of the
universe want ‘Regime Change’ – the good old regime change that
threatens all those who do not bend to the rules of the west. Right
now, the Syriza government is bending backwards over to please the
money masters and to let her people be miserably humiliated and
ruined.
Were
Greece to hold new elections and let a right-wing party and Prime
Minister win, à la New
Democracy or
even the fascist Golden
Dawn,
or a coalition of the two – the debt problem would go away, almost
overnight. What Washington wants, and Brussels by (puppet) extension,
is a compliant Greece that will never ever question its role in NATO,
never question the EU, never question its shackles to the euro, and
never question the US access to the Mediterranean Sea – rich in
deep off-shore minerals and hydrocarbons. The same applies, by the
way, also to Italy, Spain and Portugal – also riparian states of
the Mediterranean Sea. Their governments have already been changed by
outside (US / EU) interference to right-wing neoliberal compliant
stooges.
The
Greek elite and government inaction is inexcusable. This is Stockholm
syndrome at its worst. Submissive to their hangman, until death do us
part. And death in the form of total destruction, total pillage,
total slavery, is not far away.
Do
you, People of Greece, want to continue this path to slavery by a
predatory empire, that will eventually call the shots on every move
you make?
Or
do you want to get your sovereignty back, your own currency – and
be unshackled from the dictate of Brussels – and start afresh –
as the noble and wise Greek people, who brought Democracy to the
world some 2500 years ago? – Surely, Greece still has visionaries
and the wisdom to remake Democracy. Remember, while we cannot change
our geographic location – the future is irrefutably in the EAST.
Let’s
live again Greece!
Long
live the People of Greece!
Peter
Koenig is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a
former World Bank staff and worked extensively around the world in
the fields of environment and water resources. He lectures at
universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly
for Global Research, ICH, RT, Sputnik, PressTV, The 4th Media,
TeleSUR, TruePublica, The Vineyard of The Saker Blog, and other
internet sites. He is the author of Implosion
– An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and
Corporate Greed –
fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience
around the globe. He is also a co-author of The
World Order and Revolution! – Essays from the Resistance.
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* De Trojka: de ECB, de Europese Commissie en het IMF, gesteund door ‘onze’ PvdA hufter Dijsselbloem als voorzitter va de Eurogroep, die op uiterst onbeschofte manier de Grieken te kakken zette, e.e.a. gebaseerd op fantasieën en ronduit leugens. Daarmee oefende Dijsselbloem als voorzitter van die Eurogroep grote druk uit op Griekenland, zich te houden aan de afspraken met de Trojka en waarmee hij in feite andere EU landen opriep druk uit te oefenen op de Grieken…….
Nogmaals mensen, weg met de EU dictatuur: NEXIT NU!!
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