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dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

5. "Stunned and in shock"....really?

Reply to mother earth (Original post)

Mon Jun 29, 2015, 06:46 PM

Jun 2015

This has been a slow rolling and predictable avalanche...who could not see it coming?
Who could forget Cyprus?

My god, even to the dimmest of Greeks, this has been in the headlines for months.
Piling up emergency cash for worst case scenario was not that hard to figure out, was it?

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Greece in shock as banks shut after snap referendum call (Referendum date: July 5th) [View all] mother earth Jun 2015 OP

Profits>people. daleanime Jun 2015 #1

In spite of the fact that it looks like Greece is out of the EU or soon may be, I still believe they mother earth Jun 2015 #2

It's too easy to paint people as villains... daleanime Jun 2015 #4

We should beware, because the poison is global, look what's happened here with too big to jails, mother earth Jun 2015 #6

Amen..... daleanime Jun 2015 #9

in a TPP run world corporations and profits rule human beings of any nationality nt msongs Jun 2015 #3

Exactly. nt mother earth Jun 2015 #7

"Stunned and in shock"....really? dixiegrrrrl Jun 2015 #5

My shock comes after even KNOWING all of what you say, the Troika is hell bent on putting all of mother earth Jun 2015 #8

I keep thinking of that old saying... dixiegrrrrl Jun 2015 #13

Yes. Michael Hudson has said, "Debt that cannot be paid, will not be paid." What they are really mother earth Jun 2015 #14

Banks will be bailed IN, actually. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2015 #15

I am familiar with it, worst than bailouts really, I follow Ellen Brown, yes people who don't mother earth Jun 2015 #16

Apparently you thought they should keep Greece "under the tent". mother earth Jun 2015 #10

heh...... dixiegrrrrl Jun 2015 #11

Bad dixie, bad, bad, bad. mother earth Jun 2015 #12