Thousands of celebrants have rallied in Central Athens tonight, after reports of a neck-and-neck referendum result turned out to be premature, and it turned out the “no” vote prevailed with over 61% of the vote.
The referendum was on the terms of an international bailout. with the IMF and European Central Bank seeking to impose a round of austerity programs and tax increases on Greece as the official, internationally approved way forward.
There was a sense of thrill among the crowds in Syntagma Square that they had stood up against the international demands, but also fear for what is to come, as a new emergency meeting by EU officials on the Greek question is scheduled for Tuesday.
Greece is seen on the verge of defaulting on its national debt without a bailout, and officials are hoping to return to the negotiating table with the EU to seek new terms. There is also the possibility of Greece being expelled from the Eurozone for not agreeing to the international bailout terms.
EU officials have tried to spin Greek reticence to accept the IMF terms as proof of an “amateurish” government that believes it can get money for nothing. On the other hand, the international community may have overreached in believing they could dictate such severe terms on Greece, and the Euro is already plunging this evening after that miscalculation.
Greece should look to the east and get out of the EU and Nato
I wouldn't just say "to the east." Brazil is part of BRICS, and so is South Africa.
Athens had better watch out about giving Boom-Boom McCain a visa, though — or letting Victoria Nuland bring any cookies in her luggage.
Wow! Is Putin really in that much trouble? That's very encouraging news! Tsipras talked to Putin and Putin rebuffed him. If Putin had put money on the table, the sanctions against him would have been lifted in 24 hours. But Putin is a quisling who has sold Russia out to the US neocons and when he found that helping Greece would help the EU, not damage it, he dropped Tsipras like a hot potato.
Is there nothing on this planet, or the entire universe, that somehow doesn't involve Vladimir Putin, in your eyes? Is he a God to you, or the Devil, or do you just admire his shirtless physique?
What the hell are you talking about?
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IMF is a economic institution with stealing peoples rights as their pension, people rights to social services and etc. EU and its governing system are nothing but those who are the servant of IMF and bunch of anti peoples democratical rights, capitalism. Angela Markell is the leader of such political gang, Angela Markell doing all she can and have done to force the germans ideas in slaving other european nations, now with Greece saying NO it is time for Angella Markell and her gang of Neo Liberalism to pack their bag and go where IMF will provide them with housing. Next is time for Spain, Portugal, Italy and others to demand for peoples rights before any thing, because democracy is about peopel and for the people, IMF and all other such intituations are not and will not act as part of peoples democracy, they have their own ways implamenting their baised democracy.
Greece cannot be "expelled" from the Eurozone or the EU! The treaties make no provision for such an eventuality. A "plunging" euro is a boon for the EU because, as has happened every time before, it makes Eurozone goods cheaper on world markets and generates an economic boom, particularly in export-oriented Germany. The interesting point is there has not been a single word of criticism of Greece from any other Eurozone country. German government politicians have made a few ritulaistic noises but nothing more. The German Greens have already come out in favour of Greece. The Linke will probably follow. German public opinion seems to grasp that Schӓuble (age 72!) has gone too far and German history is there to remind them not to, once again, be the disturbers of the European peace. I haven't managed to find any trace in the European media of the EU officials comments that Mr Ditz refers to. Never forget that the attack on Greece is part of a neocon scam to destroy the EU, preceived by them as a threat to US hegemony and therefore to Israel. Bottom line: Tsipras and the EU win, Schӓuble and the neocons lose.
None of it is good for Europe, but then they laid the foundations of their own misery, following to the bitter end trans-Atlantic ideology. European elite, much like their US counterparts, has become single-dimensional. It identifies one goal, and pursues it with imbecile determination, while the reality is ignored. In fact, single-dimensional cultures have only interests they pursue recklessly, while faking all other dimensions, creating narratives of their munificence, dedication to human rights, democracy, free trade… All virtual dimensions to be used as the situation requires. Nothing is to single-dimensional beings sacred, be that human life, happiness and the stability of societies, or if it comes to that — wrecking entire civilizations, species, stability of earth's core or fun and games with nuclear power. They are always right — so what is the problem? Wreck, wreck, wreck. And leave destruction and misery in the wrecking ball's wake.
Our summation of such phenomena is associated with neocons, but there are many more that are in thrall with so called neocon mantra, some because single dimensional, interest based thought process is in their cultural matrix, others because they need to belong to this "advanced' cult, yet others just so that they can freely indulge in their own particular single dimensionality — while imagining themselves progressive and righteous. Your comments are so single dimensional, that no matter how hard to try to use your power of creating virtual dimensions explaining and justifying your reality, it is not succeeding. The more people grasp what is REAL, the more your virtual dimensions look feeble and contrived.
After the end of WW2 in 1945 there were three European nations with some sort of rebellion. Great Britain did it at the ballot box to oust the Conservatives with Churchill from government. Belgium forced its treasonous King to resign. In Greece there was a real civil war lasting three years between left and right. The right won with the assistance from Great Britain, the US, and Stalin's anti-Tito hands-off. The result of the referendum has absolutely nothing to do with Ohi day of 1940 as is suggested by some but everything with that civil war. This time the left won at the ballot box.
That remains to be seen.
I find it very interesting that no one ever mentions the Greek military. I'm sure many Greek people remember the horrors of the last time they took over. The present government has already refused to cut the military budget as required by the Troika – so they are clearly wary of the generals.
It looks to me that the Troika's plan is to force Greece into chaos as punishment for electing the wrong government. Once chaos takes hold, the military will be "forced" to exert the "Will of the People" (or some such nonsense) and take over – just like in Egypt after Morsi was elected.
This is a coup d'etat organized by the economic hit men. They have declared war on Greece. So far the Greeks are losing; the referendum doesn't change that.
The present government is run by hapless academics with maybe good ideas but no capacity to implement them. They don't seem to understand that the Troika is playing at sharps while the professors are still learning with a plastic sword.
Tsipras just fired the Finance Minister, claiming that the European heads had requested it. How sad, how stupid can you be?
For the Finance Minister is accused of “being deceitful” in prolonging the talks so that a public referendum could be held. You see, among High Finance it is considered deceitful to allow the public to make any kind of decision.
Hurray for Greece, the leader in changing the capitalism world.
Jul 6, 2015 Greeks Vote No: Keynesian Crisis Continues
Sunday's surprisingly strong "no" vote may be less significant than Greek voters think. There is no way to vote oneself out of such a debt burden. Liquidation and bankruptcy are likely the only solutions.
https://youtu.be/yCUjMjQ4BxY
IMF is a economic institution with stealing peoples rights as their primary agenda, Angela Markell is the primary supporter and doing it for the germanized Europe where her party, the not so Christian Democrats, can rule Europe. In one hand you have ISIS in Middle East, a rooten Stone Age caliphate system destroying the heritage of nations in Middle East, in the other hand you have these religious capitalist systems managed by rooten, yet modernized system wanting to destroy the rights of people's social rights. The 61% of Greece people NO vote is not about Greece, is about entire Europe political system being managed by bunch of rooten stone aged politicians who thinks that it was them who built Germany after the Second World War, the communists, the socialist, the freedom fighters and democrats who give their life for working people pensions and all other social rights had nothing to do with it, the Greece vote have shown how wrong these far right monarchist and Neo Liberal fascist with no mind and no understanding of democracy are. Greece is just a beginning, there are more of such uprising to come.
Greece spends a whopping 2.2% of GDP on defense, more than any NATO member-state save the United States and France. Bringing Greece into line with the NATO average would alone achieve ¾ of what the IMF is demanding through pension cuts.
Think about this: Greece actually spent more on defense than th UK!! The biggest military threat Greece faces is from Turkey and both Turkey and Greece are members of NATO and therefore committed to defend each other from attack. Out of all the NATO countries Greece is number three in terms of spending.
It's OK to cut pensions for the elderly, but Ships, Bombs, Bullets , Missiles and Planes? That's off limits you see.
This is all NWO S–t!!