Hundreds of millions of people throughout the Western world are being forced to admit an obvious, yet uncomfortable reality. Democracy is dead. Your vote and your voice doesn’t matter. Not at all.
No group of people understand this as intimately as the Greeks. They voted for one thing, got something else, and in the process were unceremoniously reminded of their political irrelevance.
– From the post: Greeks Flock to Grassroots Alternative Currencies in Affront to Euro Debt Slavery
Just in case you still had any doubts as relates to how slimy, nefarious and undemocratic the EU is, check out the following from Ekathimerini:
Yanis Varoufakis was instructed last year by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to put together a small team of people to draw up a plan for introducing a parallel currency if Greece was unable to reach an agreement with its lenders on a new bailout, the ex-finance minister said in a TV interview late Tuesday.
Speaking on Skai TV’s “Istories” (Stories) program, Varoufakis outlined what was known as Plan X. He said that a small team of about six people examined the various parameters surrounding a potential standoff that would lead to Greece being unable to meet its obligations. Among the issues examined by Varoufakis and his advisers were how the country would continue to have access to medicines, fuel and food under such circumstances.
Varoufakis said that he advised Tsipras to put the plan, which would see Greece defaulting on 27 billion euros in Greek government bonds held by the European Central Bank, into action as soon as he called a referendum at the end of June.
Varoufakis added that he was against efforts to secure funding from Russia but that there had been an agreement with China regarding investment in Greece, including in Greek bonds. “This agreement was overturned, though, with a phone call from Berlin,” he claimed.
Varoufakis admitted that he “failed” during his time in office. “I carry a great responsibility,” he said. “I would do a lot of things differently.”
A man that can admit this so easily, is a man you can’t help but respect.
For related articles, see:
“This is a Coup” – The Story of How Greece Lost Democracy
Greeks Flock to Grassroots Alternative Currencies in Affront to Euro Debt Slavery
This is Sparta – 1,000 Bitcoin ATMs are Coming to Greece
Yanis Varoufakis on “Europe’s Vindictive Privatization Plan for Greece”
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No conspiracy theory just a quote from a UK prime ministers memoirs.
From Harold Wilson’s memoirs:
“The Governor of the Bank of England became a frequent visitor. . . we had to listen night after night to demands that there should be immediate cuts in Government expenditure.. . Not for the first time, I said we had now reached the situation where a newly elected government with a mandate from the people was being told, not so much by the Governor of the Bank of England but by international speculators, that the policies on which we had fought the election could not be implemented.”
This was in 1964 and even then there was a power that sat above democracy …..
International speculators.
Capital controls were still in place then and this limited the power of international speculators.
Without capital controls, international speculators can make or break any nation.
I don’t buy this! How could Berlin prevent Greece from dealing with China. The funds would be there for Greece to reboot itself and perhaps negotiate a payment plan with the EU that didn’t require destruction of Greek society and social security.