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March 15 2012
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Transcript of the Intervention:
Mr. Schäuble, thank you for your beautiful Orwellian speech — I have to congratulate you on [unintelligible mumbling] that mind-numbing political rhetoric.
You are undoubtedly a very smart and affable man. I’m sure you read the news; I’m sure your advisers pass you very important reports that you read. So you know. You know that the Greek economy is entering its fifth year of recession; you know that the economy contracted by 6-7 percent last year and is set to contract by another 4-6 percent this year.
You know that the austerity measures that are being imposed by you and your colleagues are actually aggravating the situation. You know this because the IMF actually formally stated this; it admitted it in a recent report. You know it because in a secret document circulated in a meeting between you and your fellow European finance ministers, it was admitted that despite the second bailout, despite the haircut that is being asked of private lenders, Greece will probably still need another bailout by next year.
At the same time you know that the ‘bottomless pit’ here is not Greece. You know that the bottomless pits are the overleveraged financial institutions that overextended themselves on Greek bonds in the lead-up to the crisis. You also know that public spending in Greece — that much-hated Greek welfare state — is actually anemic. It’s below the EU average. It’s below Germany’s.
You know all these things.
You know all these things, yet you continue to impose the same counter-productive austerity measures on the Greek country [sic.], in complete disregard for the national sovereignty of the Greek people and the democratic legitimacy of the Greek state.
So I’m asking you, basically, a very simple question: Who are you really trying to help here? Who are you really trying to save? Whose side are you on? The peoples of Europe, or the financial institutions you’re trying to serve?
eat-slowFebruary 28 2012
Was macht unser Angestellter Wolfgang Schäuble während der Griechenland-Debatte im Bundestag? Er löst Sudoku! (Foto von bz-berlin.de)
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urfinFebruary 03 2012
1 ΕΚΑΤΟΜΜΥΡΙΟ ΥΠΟΓΡΑΦΕΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΔΙΑΓΡΑΦΗ του επαχθούς Χρέους. - Citizens Initiative : 1 million people against Greek Odious Debt.
PURPOSE The collection of one (1) million signatures in electronic format. The signatures should cover as many regions of Europe as possible on the basis of geography and population. The text bearing the signatures will then be sent to the President of the European Commission.
THE MEANING OF SIGNATURES
Signing the petition will indicate OPPOSITION to poverty and to individual and national subjugation. European Solidarity: this is a huge duty and responsibility for all of us.WE DEMAND:
The REMOVAL of the onerous Debt. When countries are in “a state of necessity'' (when they are experiencing the collapse of their health and education systems, as well as their wages and pensions), repayment of the burdensome debt must be put aside. The necessity for survival and human dignity must come before repayment of a debt.NOTE: under Article 8 of the Treaty of Lisbon, about one (1) million signatures will be officially put into force on 1/4/2012. From that point onwards, European citizens will be able to make their requests for the passing of Laws in the European Union.
There is a NEED: by that date, SEISACHTHEIA must have collected the signatures of one (1) million European citizens in order to claim and establish the validity of the state of necessity. (When the people are suffering, the usurer cannot be paid).
ONE MILLION SIGNATURES FOR “A EUROPE OF SOLIDARITY”
President of the European Commission
1049 Brussels, Belgium.
Mr President,
I. It is hard to accept that Europe has established a usurious relationship with Greece (and other countries). The rate of interest of the loans which Troïka have lent to Greece is much more than those rates at which the State creditors borrow. (Germany borrows at a 0,25% rate of interest and afterwards lends to Greece at 5%.) The financial crisis in Greece has been taken advantage of by Member States, who gain inadmissible enrichment at Greece’s expense. And that meets with the total denial of communal solidarity. Such economic cannibalism against a Member State constitutes the highest risk for the values of Europe.
II. The solutions that are given are NOT viable for Greece – and moreover, not generally viable for the European financial structure as a whole. The loans to Greece, at a destructive rate of interest, create a higher debt; as well as the misconduct of every smooth public functioning of the institutions within the Eurozone. The situation REQUIRES IMMEDIATE ACTION.
III. We invite you, under Article 8 of the Lisbon Treaty, to introduce to the European Commission the following resolutions, for adoption:
Write off every part unilaterally: in particular, the part of the public debt, which falls under the category of the “odious debt”, such as the “Greek” debt. Most of the debt consists of the capitalization of the interest, which goes back many decades. The capital of the loans themselves has been paid. In other words, write off this COMPOUND INTEREST.
Establish the Principle of the “state of necessity ”. When the financial and the political existence of a State is in danger because of the serving of the abhorrent debt (galloping unemployment; the collapse of wages and pensions; the closure of hospitals and schools, as well as of social services; individual wretchedness; etc.) the refusal of its payment is necessary and justifiable.
02mydafsoup-01January 18 2012
“— Vorschau des Kommentars | meta.tagesschau.deUnd?
18. Januar 2012 - 15:57 — ochnöö”Dafür beginnen sie in Griechenland gerade damit, das Tafelsilber, sprich, die essentielle Infrastruktur, die wir vorher noch mit EU-Steuergeldern saniert haben, unter die Banken zu bringen.
Ich bin sehr erstaunt, dass die Tagesschau diesem denkwürdigen Augenblick keine Beachtung schenkt.
Griechenland wird gerade zu eine Drittweltland transformiert.
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Griechenland muss ungeachtet der extrem schlechten Marktlage den Verkauf von Staatsunternehmen und staatlichen Immobilien forcieren.
January 07 2012
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Ich persönlich wäre traurig wenn wir diesen Bundespräsidenten verlieren. Was in Sachen Christian Wulff über Silvester wieder für Knaller gezündet wurden. Der Mann ist wunderbar. Jetzt stand in der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung, dass er dem Chefredakteur der Bild-Zeitung auf den Anrufbeantworter geschimpft haben soll, bevor Mitte Dezember diese Kreditaffäre losging. Es sollen auf Kai Diekmanns AB Sätze gefallen sein wie „Für mich und meine Frau ist der Rubikon überschritten“. Wulff im Affekt! Kann man sich kaum vorstellen. Wir haben mal nachgestellt, wie wir uns die AB Aufnahmen vorstellen. Die komplette Sendung gibt's unter wdr5.de bei den Podcasts: http://medien.wdr.de/m/1325529448/radio/politikum/wdr5_politikum_20120102.mp3
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October 16 2011
“— Eine anonyme Teilhabe am politischen Meinungs- und Willensbildungsprozess ist abzulehnen » Von markus » netzpolitik.orgUnklar ist aber, ob die CDU/CSU nun geheime Wahlen abschaffen will, wenn sie schreibt:
”“Eine anonyme Teilhabe am politischen Meinungs- und Willensbildungsprozess ist abzulehnen.”
October 01 2011
“— Dangerous Minds | New twist: BBC’s ‘candid financial expert’ is really more of an attention whore”
On Monday, the BBC’s supposed “financial expert,” Alessio Rastani, became the human face of the financial crisis within the space of a single day, when the video of him telling astonished newscasters that he goes to bed every night “dreaming of another recession” because for him, that’s “an opportunity,” went viral in a big way. The following morning, there was speculation that Rastani’s “candid” remarks were all part of an elaborate hoax played on the BBC by the Yes Men, who denied it.Now, Rastani admits that he is, fact, not much a trader, he’s more of an, um, in his own words, an “attention seeker.”
“They approached me,” he told The Telegraph. “I’m an attention seeker. That is the main reason I speak. That is the reason I agreed to go on the BBC. Trading is a like a hobby. It is not a business. I am a talker. I talk a lot. I love the whole idea of public speaking.”
So he’s more of a talker than a trader. A man who doesn’t own the house he lives in, but can sum up the financial crisis in just three minutes – a knack that escapes many financial commentators.
“I agreed to go on because I’m attention seeker,” he said on Tuesday. “But I meant every word I said.”
Good to know he’s a man of his word! Not that this new revelation about his resume in any way contradicts what Mr. Rastani actually said on BBC News about how Goldman Sachs runs the world and all that, but we thought you might like to know…
Is a blunt truth told by a liar—even when he’s more or less caught in the act—invalidated in any way? I don’t think so, the truth is the truth, even if, in this case, the messenger is far less than perfect. Everyone, even professional traders, knows what he said accurately describes the way rapacious final stages of capitalism really works. WHAT he said no one seems to hava a problem with!
Hoaxer, liar, blagger, chancer or merely an “attention seeker, no matter how you slice it, I’m just glad that someone said this out loud... It’s worth watching this clip one more time before you completely forgot about Alessio Rastani’s existence...
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