In a twist of fate and a crease in vested interests Merkel recommends Greece has a plebiscite. It is so ironic that when Goerge Papandreou, the elected Prime Minister at the time, had suggested a plebiscite last October, Merkel along with the Troika and the IMF had demanded he step down and be replaced by an interim government. They also demanded that a governing coalition be formed that would include the opposition and one more party. We then spent the next six months with no parliamentary opposition and new austerity measures with no end and no discussion. Merkel and her allies achieved this by holding back on loan payouts while collecting loan payments. Like getting your balls caught in a vice. I am told that the Nazi party was outlawed in Germany. It makes perfect sense, Merkel couldn't stand the competition.
Talk about dejavu...http://ellinomangia.blogspot.com/2011/11/dear-goerge.html. The big difference is in the time frames. Back in October we were talking about an interim government that would last into February, it lasted into May. Goerge Papandreou was made to be seen as a madman and the Germans made recommendations with a wink and a nudge. I guess that second part has changed to a hard shove. Nowadays with Tsipras and his party leading the polls their is an absolute panick in the press to discredit him. The power elite, be it represented by Merkel or by the bankers, feels threatened right now. If Tsipras manages an upset in the June 17th elections it will be the end of an era. I will remind everybody that a short three months ago the German president was forced to step down in a banking scandal. He was pressuring banks to give no interst loans to his powerful friends in return for his presidential favors. So in this Roman style orgy of mismanagement and Christian Democracy, with no opposition in sight, a hard turn to the left is clearly in sight. There is no other choice.
In local news members of Golden Dawn, our own NeoNazi party, arrived in busses in the city of Patras today. Along with locals a total of about three hundred "activists" entered the abandoned factory of Piraiki-Patraiki to kick out Afghan squatters. Earlier in the week a thirty year old Greek died in a scuffle with Afghanis after kicking their dog! Go figure eh. Tonight is the Eurovision semi-finals and we will have a mindless night of bad music and great scenery on the teli. Eurovision is like hockey night in Canada. Oh and Olympiakos, our own team from Pireaus, won the European basketball cup. So take that eh!
Talk about dejavu...http://ellinomangia.blogspot.com/2011/11/dear-goerge.html. The big difference is in the time frames. Back in October we were talking about an interim government that would last into February, it lasted into May. Goerge Papandreou was made to be seen as a madman and the Germans made recommendations with a wink and a nudge. I guess that second part has changed to a hard shove. Nowadays with Tsipras and his party leading the polls their is an absolute panick in the press to discredit him. The power elite, be it represented by Merkel or by the bankers, feels threatened right now. If Tsipras manages an upset in the June 17th elections it will be the end of an era. I will remind everybody that a short three months ago the German president was forced to step down in a banking scandal. He was pressuring banks to give no interst loans to his powerful friends in return for his presidential favors. So in this Roman style orgy of mismanagement and Christian Democracy, with no opposition in sight, a hard turn to the left is clearly in sight. There is no other choice.
In local news members of Golden Dawn, our own NeoNazi party, arrived in busses in the city of Patras today. Along with locals a total of about three hundred "activists" entered the abandoned factory of Piraiki-Patraiki to kick out Afghan squatters. Earlier in the week a thirty year old Greek died in a scuffle with Afghanis after kicking their dog! Go figure eh. Tonight is the Eurovision semi-finals and we will have a mindless night of bad music and great scenery on the teli. Eurovision is like hockey night in Canada. Oh and Olympiakos, our own team from Pireaus, won the European basketball cup. So take that eh!
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