I have seen, this week, opinion on the situation in Greece that, while cunningly diverting attention from cluelessness at home, makes a good point about how that situation will be represented away in the chronicles of corporate-media – to wit that there will plenty of column inches written on the subject, but no one will have a real grasp of what is about to come, and when it arrives, why it is occurring.
I aim to be a bit more useful than that; not being correct in analysis as measured by the outcome won’t stop me trying to figure out things for myself (and I rushed this out a wee bit, so we might not even need to wait for an outcome for it to be deemed rubbish). So, first of all, I don’t think I agree with the idea that Greece is certain to exit the euro; as I’ve said all along, Greece will be used up while there is juice to squeeze and to give its flesh definition. This is based on the idea that the euro has been used by one faction in the global corporate-government to instigate designed collapse whereby the banking cabal get rich sucking out the wealth; don’t forget how it was Goldman Sachs who finagled the books so that Greece could join the single currency in the first place. We always thought that the euro was a tool for yet another faction, the European governments, to bring about political union on the continent – but I don’t think we imagined their method correctly. It is now entirely likely that the EU will use collapse to bring about political union, and thus the euro has served the same purpose for the EU as it has for the banking cartel.
As I understand it, none of this is about the dominance of one particular country, and it’s quite possible that any who tell you it is are leading you astray. Western leaders are all Internationalist Elitists – meaning that they think they should compartmentally contribute to the rule of as much of the mass of humanity (a lower order of people than they are) as possible. They don’t have the patriotic feelings that observers attribute to them for whichever territory they are the president or prime minister of – a territory which is actually controlled by the globalised corporate-government. One should think of this body like the Medieval Catholic Church in Europe which controlled certain fountains of wealth across the entire continent through its bishops. Hence Merkel is never really thinking about German dominance out of personal Wagnerian fantasies (or vengeance on behalf of her genetic father, Hitler – as the real way-out-there theories have it), but instead, like some medieval bishop in the unified Catholic Church, she is interested in making the particular regional corporate body that she heads powerful a)to keep her in office because she still has to deal with a voting German public, and b)to strengthen her hand in dealings with the other criminals.
So I can envision the other euro countries expelling Greece (not that I know how this would be done), but the EU won’t let it happen in a way that will enable Greece to thrive. They can’t afford to let a successful model outside the euro, which failed catastrophically while it was within the single currency, to come into being. Greece will have to be well and truly raped and ruined before it is slung out of the car and left by the side of the highway to die. I wonder if the reader can spot what I have just articulated in this commentary by the BBC’s Robert Peston, Business Editor:
Maybe – and this is what some people believe – if they dropped the euro for a new drachma, and were able to retain some access to credit, perhaps from the IMF, the transition for Greece wouldn’t be quite as painful.
There are quite a lot of serious people who take the view that a managed exit of Greece from the euro might be the way to go. The difficulty is that there’s no obvious sign Germany, France and other countries will help Greece make that transition.
So, Germany and France don’t want Greece to be recover after the euro; it’s not about saving money because letting Greece go might very well be the less expensive thing to do. Instead, consider this as the intent of the EU: Greece is going to be imprisoned and ravaged until its people are considered dangerous, and every corporate-media outlet in the West will be advocating some humanitarian intervention to stop some heavily demonised real Greek independence group from taking power in a war. Then what we could have is EU forces sitting on the natural resources and defending them from an ungoverned population in tumult in the same way as is happening in Afghanistan, and in Libya, and to a degree in Iraq. Greece would be the NATO-style zombie-state in Europe – the first of many to follow.
I wonder if Greek politicians have any inkling of the possibility of this kind of endgame? We do know that leaving the euro is something that not many Greek politicians actually want to happen (it wasn’t that popular in the population according to a recent poll where 78% were against leaving the euro). The “leftist” Syriza bloc, which the BBC reckons will win the rerun of the elections, definitely do not want to leave the euro – even if they don’t like the EU/IMF bailout package and associated austerity (for which read grinding poverty and starvation).
Let’s analyse the dynamic that this creates, while assuming that the EU doesn’t want Greece to leave the euro until it can control the outcome. The Greek anti-bailout parties have a bargaining chip in that if Greece isn’t ready for throwing away, and the EU isn’t ready to police the country when it is dumped, the EU will have to pay for Greece; what else does a Federal Government do if a member state is failing massively to a point where it might even be necessary to secede, other than invade it? The EU has a bargaining chip in the form of a threat not to pay for Greece after it leaves the euro and becomes bankrupt – would, in that case, the Greek politicians risk a more painful and perhaps terminal form of expulsion from power if Greece goes revolutionary?
I think that there will be some new path found where the Greek Government accepts some other (further) imposition by the EU in return for the end of the impoverishment of the people through bailouts and austerity. After all, what are bailouts really all about – in any country for that matter? They are about the swapping of real wealth and assets for fiat debt – stuff that doesn’t really exist. It’s robbery, basically, and when it involves swapping out whole tracts of land, public utilities and the like, then it’s about the winnowing away of sovereignty and its transplantation into the hands of a foreign power. It’s about invasion.
I envision the Greek Government eventually giving up some other further aspect of sovereignty so that the people of Greece can have material and welfare – for the time being. Just look at what the leader of the right-wing Independent Greeks Party, Panos Kammenos, said: “The pro-bailout parties would prefer a government which will further torment the Greek nation, rather than finding a solution.” It’s either the bailout, then, or some other solution – but it’s not leaving the euro.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the Greek bank runs now being reported aren’t provacateured so that one side or the other gains more leverage. Somehow the Greek president, Karolos Papoulias, was able to cite a “secret government document” detailing the €1 billion withdrawn from the country’s banking facilities. He was warning the Greek party leaders that their continued failure to agree was risking “fatal consequences”, so it certainly sounds like it might be a designed source of pressure. Bank runs could, after all, have been predicted. With talk of the reissuing of the drachma making it look all too inevitable, people would want to be able to trade physical euros rather than run the risk of their money having been made to disappear after the banks reopen. All in all, this kind of positioning for the upper hand, whoever is doing it, is a dangerous game to be playing, and maybe it’s why the Greek president acknowledged that there was a “threat to our national existence”. I can’t help seeing, therefore, that ultimately, because the country, perhaps a bit more than Britain, it has to be said, is full of people who don’t know what it is they are up against and for whom their government really works, Greece is looking at some kind of total loss of identity or sovereignty, and by then, being too weak and enslaved to do anything about it. All Greece is fit for, I fear, is as a cautionary lesson about the need for some urgent shake-up of the political landscape in the UK; i.e. an end to the LibLabCon. I don’t think that even a Greek meltdown will be enough for certain people in the UK, what with their obsession with sucking prestige out of their contact with the Establishment methods and outlets of control, can ever get over themselves enough to be taught; but then luckily, hopefully, we won’t need them.




