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Related: About this forumExclusive : Former Greek gov. official claimed that Greece's default postponed for 3-4 years!
Nobody seems to have paid significant attention to this video from the past, until today. A former MP from the previous government coalition "guessed" that Greece will default in 3-4 years during a TV show in a big mainstream media channel back in 2011!The most impressive is that actually this was not a guess, nor a kind of prophesy. As Paris Koukoulopoulos, member of PASOK party, said back then, the then Finance Minister, Giorgos Papakonstantinou, made a significant statement according to which the issue of Greece's default was transferred to 3-4 years in the future! Koukoulopoulos said clearly that this was a choice of the EU and an agreement with the then Greek government!
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Demeter
(85,373 posts)Set up by the 1% for the 1%. They aren't going to let anyone walk away with their fiefdom!
no more banksters
(395 posts)only serve their bosses, bankers and lobbyists. Unless they leave soon, Europe is going straight to the new Feudalism.
mother earth
(6,002 posts)will mean and how it could play out.
Greece is in good hands with Syriza, I think they need to look to Iceland to see how there is life after corruption and oligarchy. The Greek people have survived austerity and chaos and have hope with Syriza, whatever the next chapter is for Greece, they will survive and be better for it.
Damn the troika and their austerity policy of greed and exploitation, the corrupt and greedy reveal themselves for what they are. They have helped plunder a nation of people who had no choice in this mess and they've watched it unfold without conscience.
no more banksters
(395 posts)I agree. Syriza is the only option for Greeks right now. The old political class is doomed due to corruption and serving the plutocratic elites. However the system of power still belongs to the banking-media establishment and the Greek oligarchs who are fully aligned with the lenders and their catastrophic policies. They try to throw current government from power and bring a more desirable coalition. The alternative is unfortunately the neo-nazis of Golden Dawn who wait in the corner to rise in power, a nightmare scenario. The battle will be very hard.
mother earth
(6,002 posts)desperate nations, any entity that supports austerity (a KNOWN failure) also supports fascism & the oligarchs...BOTH the enemy of democracy, and humane and ethical governance.
TPTB will not have reform without debt relief, the whole thing is simply not sustainable.
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