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Old 02-01-2015, 11:51 AM   #31
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Love the way this guy patiently puts this bitch BBC propagandist banking suckup in her place.

 
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Old 02-01-2015, 12:13 PM   #32
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Blogger?

He used to work for Valve:
http://www.polygon.com/2015/1/27/792...work-for-valve

The new Greek finance minister used to work for Valve

Greece's newly elected prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, has named a finance minister who gamers should recognize. The Wall Street Journal reports that Yanis Varoufakis has been tapped to help turn the Greek economy around, but fans of virtual economies will remember him as Valve Software's former economist-in-residence.

"Before the Euro Crisis erupted in 2009 I was just another economics professor, minding my own little theoretical endeavours," Varoufakis wrote in that first blog post at Valve in 2012. "Writing obscure papers and esoteric books that only a few hundred nutcases around the world (like myself) would ever read, terribly satisfied in my very own academic cocoon."

"The leading expert on virtual hats has been named the finance minister of Greece"

But he came down from the ivory tower to slum it with the digital generation, and went on to become fascinated with the virtual economies he found there — an estuary of curious and ephemeral economic issues. In his blog, he mused over the nature of an online bartering economy and how buying low and selling high was to be achieved when trading hats in Team Fortress 2.

Varoufakis also lent Polygon his expertise in our journey to find Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious figure behind Bitcoin, where he argued that the end result of the virtual currency boom would inevitably be deflation.

In Greek and Roman times, change was made by literally cutting coins in half. Bitcoins can be subdivided as well, down to the 1/100,000,000, a denomination dubbed the "Satoshi." But Varoufakis says that when the last Bitcoin is mined there will be no more to go around, causing deflation. As the Bitcoin economy continues to grow, there will be the same amount of money shared in the system, and no amount of chopping it up will help it spread far enough.

In joining the Greek cabinet, Varoufakis has a lot of trouble ahead of him. Greece is locked in a serious depression, brought on by the European economic crises of 2009. The bailouts needed to prop the country up lead it dangerously close to default, and the austerity measures mandated by the European banking system have ground the Greek economy down. Varoufakis has routinely described the austerity measures as "fiscal waterboarding."

Statistics show that today more than one in four Greeks are unemployed. Youth workers, defined as those aged 15-24 who want a job, fare even worse with unemployment rates over 55 percent.

"More than half of Greek workers under 24 are unemployed"

The Wall Street Journal says that the self-described "libertarian Marxist" will be sworn in later today. Just how he'll use the financial levers available to him to help the Greek economy is unknown.

"The ancient Greek word for money, for currency, is 'nomisma.' It comes from the verb 'to imagine,'" Varoufakis told Polygon in 2013. "Money has value to the extent that we imagine that it has value, according to the ancient Greeks. They knew that more than 2,000 years ago, and we kind of forget that simple, important notion at times."

 
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Old 02-01-2015, 06:57 PM   #33
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libertarian marxist huh

 
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Old 02-09-2015, 02:08 PM   #34
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I think Merkel is not very happy

Greek PM seeks reparations over Nazi occupation & war-time loan

"Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, referring to Nazi Germany’s four-year occupation of Greece and a forced war-time loan during World War II that saddled the Greek economy in huge debt, wants Berlin to pay reparations.

Tsipras, leader of the anti-austerity Syriza party, said Athens had a “historical obligation” to claim from Germany billions of euros in reparations for the physical and financial destruction committed during Nazi Germany’s occupation of Greece.

Beyond the historical obligation, he said Greece had "a moral obligation to our people, to history, to all European peoples who fought and gave their blood against Nazism," he said in a keynote address to parliament on Sunday. "

http://rt.com/news/230479-greece-tsipras-germany-nazi/

 
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Old 02-09-2015, 02:45 PM   #35
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Germany is bullying half of the EU into a prolonged recession with their insane austerity agenda. I don't understand why Greece, Spain, Portugal and even Italy remain in the EU. It's destroying their economies. If Greece doesn't get out from under the thumb of the Germans soon it will be decades, not years, before they recover.

 
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Old 02-11-2015, 12:09 AM   #36
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THE FOURTH REICH

 
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Old 02-11-2015, 12:09 AM   #37
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ALL HAIL EMPRESS MERKEL OF HOLY ROME

 
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Old 04-16-2015, 02:07 PM   #38
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Greece is fucked, there is no serious solution for the financial crisis there. The stupid voices calling for them leaving the euro area won't solve anything, as well as giving any more financial credits. I am excited to see how it will go on. Same procedure as every year might not work for much longer.

This whole (ECU)/euro project has been a failure from the start

 
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Old 04-17-2015, 01:34 AM   #39
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Syriza is in a difficult position but they are trying. Rather have them in power than Golden Dawn.

 
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Old 04-18-2015, 03:01 AM   #40
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Well now they got a billion dollar contract with a gas pipeline from russia going, seems to solve their financial situation. So there's the russian friendship thing again.

 
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Old 04-18-2015, 07:41 PM   #41
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ties look cool

 
Old 04-22-2015, 03:24 AM   #42
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ties with russia

 
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Old 04-22-2015, 07:50 AM   #43
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i'm going to go write this in my new book ATLAS HUGGED
Where can I put in my preorder?

 
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Old 06-17-2015, 08:33 PM   #44
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things are getting a bit tenses...



Greek Central Bank: "Greece will leave the European Union"





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Old 06-26-2015, 06:08 PM   #46
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Greece Rejects Bailout Extension: Tsipras Calls For Referendum, Will Convene Parliament On Saturday



The saga continues...and seems to be ratcheting up with each day at present. I like this guy's comment from ZH here:


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Soooo...Greece sells itself into chattel slavery to the oppressive slave master who, with drool running, wood swelling and lips licked, readily agrees to the sale. The slave master demands the slave do as its told just like all the other slaves on the EU Plantation. But the slave has a change of heart after realizing slavery is just that - chains, confiscation, lack of freedom, no rights, etc..and declares itself not a slave. The master says "you're still a slave!" and cracks the whip. Slave says to stop cracking the whip and calls the whip blackmail. The master says the slave is the one who is blackmailing (but how the slave can blackmail the master is not clear, unless Greece has pictures of Merkel, Draghi and Hollande in a 3some or with animals - then again..

 
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Old 06-26-2015, 06:19 PM   #47
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THE DELPHI DECLARATION

On Greece and Europe





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European governments, European institutions and the IMF, acting in close alliance with, if not under direct control of, big international banks and other financial institutions, are now exercising a maximum of pressure, including open threats, blackmailing and a slander and terror communication campaign against the recently elected Greek government and against the Greek people.


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You may live in Lisbon or in Paris, in Frankfurt or in Stockholm, you may think that you are living in relative security. Do not keep such illusions. You should look to Greece, to see there the future your elites are preparing for you, for all of us and for our children. It is much easier and intelligent to stop them now, than it will be later. Not only Greeks, but all of us and our children will pay an enormous price, if we permit to our governments to complete the social slaughter of a whole European nation.

Nice to see some in the academic and political circles feel compelled enough to call out the banksters on this, unlike the media they own who can't.

 
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Old 06-27-2015, 12:12 AM   #48
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Old 06-27-2015, 12:29 AM   #49
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they're not so radical, as everybody else was already pointing out, it seems

 
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Old 06-27-2015, 05:18 PM   #50
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Greece Blows Up Negotiations – Bank Run Has Started – Some Banks Won’t Be Able To Open On Monday




And so it begins...



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Despite cautious optimism earlier last week about reaching a deal, the talks have suddenly derailed after Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced he would organize a referendum in Greece about whether or not accepting the proposal from the three institutions. Strange enough, Tsipras received a standing ovation from his coalition partners when he arrived in the Greek parliament earlier today (see next image)



Guess we're about to find out if this domino/butterfly effect is gonna happen or not...


http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/defau...utterfly_0.png


The Greek Butterfly Effect


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This next week is not so much about Greece the butterfly, but it is about keeping the butterfly from becoming a hindrance to the math working globally. And the Greek government knows this. They are negotiating on the basis that a bad Greek deal from Europe’s point of view is better than a default. Angela Merkel wanted a concluded Greek deal before markets open on Monday. Now she has a mess.

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Old 06-27-2015, 05:18 PM   #51
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Ignoring Tsipras Plea For Calm, Greeks Storm ATMs, Stores, Gas Stations


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Just a few hours ago Greek PM Tsipras addressed his nation imploring then to "remain calm" and reassuring them that their "deposits were safe." It appears the Greeks did not believe him. Many were wondering where the Greek bank lines were for the past several months. Turns out the local depositors were merely waiting until just after the last minute to withdraw their funds... horde gas... and stack food. Greece, it appears is Venezuela - the new socialist paradise.


If there's a consensus analysis of how this can (errr...will) become a contagion that reaches the States, it's one to three years out after Greece folds.


So, my fellow Americans, take heed, I have for years now. Don't be like the Greeks in all these pics of long lines when its too late.


end game is total financial chaos to trigger social upheaval and have the plebes begging for a new system which the Hegelian's already have prepped with (what appears at this point) the BRICS with trade laws like the TPP in place to grease the skids for this NWO.

 
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Old 06-29-2015, 11:09 AM   #53
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Greece needs to suck it up and go ahead with devaluation. Default and start over is probably best in the long run for Greece but scary as hell for the next few years.

 
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Also they waited wayyy too long for the referendum and have no plans in place following it.

Yes or no? No should win, but I'd say yes will because people are scared of the unknown.

 
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fucking rich guy

 
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Pretty sure literally 100% of all countries' economic policies are specifically to avoid "the unknown."

 
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I had an inkling that this time around was going to be different. All signs showed that an 'extend and pretend' IMF loan bailout was not possible this time around and sure enough, it aint happening.


This also gives Ben Fulford a full point on credibility (he's been on the larger story of the Federal Reserve and the other central banks as crooks and Greece a symptom of a grand Fiat lie). *


Greek Domino falls, China moves in to pick up the pieces


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So, it has finally happened, Greece has shut down its banks and imposed capital controls. And so the dominoes start to fall. This is only the first act in a grand opera that will continue to unfold in the coming months. To try to guess what is in store for the European Union, it is good to take a look at how the fall of the Soviet Union took place...



*It's still entirely possible Fulford is controlled opposition. Nevertheless, his reports of late have been seeringly accurate.

 
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Pretty sure literally 100% of all countries' economic policies are specifically to avoid "the unknown."
"It's no big deal, let the economy collapse. I have a summer home in Nantucket, I'll ride it out there."

 
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Old 06-30-2015, 01:59 PM   #59
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The biggest difference between Greece and a State like Florida is that the government of Florida can spend more money than it raises in revenue because the Federal government of the United States will cover the cost things like highways, social services, coast guard, etc. etc. But the European Union won't do a damn thing to help Greece. Germany isn't going to send billions of dollars to Greece the way that California and New York send their federal tax money to "red states" so they can operate in what would otherwise be a deficit.

 
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Old 06-30-2015, 02:22 PM   #60
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if the Greece defaults they would be better off adopting another country's currency, like the US dollar. Or at least peg the Greek Drachma to the dollar.

 
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