Austerity & Fascism In Greece – The Real 1% Doctrine

[coyote]

In the end, the bankers and the West got their coup. And they didn’t need an ugly military spectacle to make it happen. Papandreou was overthrown, the referendum was withdrawn, an austerity regime put in place to carry out the bankers’ demands, without democracy getting in the way. Nice ‘n’ clean.

Not only did the West get its coup, but fascists like Makis “Hammer” Voridis got what they’ve been struggling for all their lives: Power, and vindication for far-right nationalism over democracy.

That’s where we are today. Greece drowning in debt, its democracy broken, and despite fighting the Nazis in World War Two, and taking back democracy from a fascist junta in 1974–in the end, it was the EU and the Western banks that put a guy like Makis “Hammer” Voridis, the guy who patrolled his law school with a makeshift ax, in power, administering banker-pain.

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[JDPriestly]

1. Interesting. I remember the regime of the generals very well.

They did not permit any Western media, no magazines, no newspapers, not the NY Times, not the London Times, not the Financial Times, not the Herald-Tribune, not Time magazine, nothing into Greece.

Can you imagine trying to run an international business out of Greece when you could not so much as get a Western newspaper to read?

It was stupid, beyond stupid. It was a horrible regime.

Fascism does not work. It is extreme. There is far too much regulation, too much repression. It is self-defeating.

The only thing that works is to allow for creativity within just enough regulation to insure honest dealings and everyone's safety.

[malaise]

2. Ding ding we have a winner

More Shock Doctrine - more disaster capitalism.
The end is nigh! This can't work, won't work and people know it.

Occupy the planet!

[xchrom]

3. Recommend

[fasttense]

4. A certified club wielding fascist is now the new minister of infrastructure.

Since when are fascists considered technocrats?

And the banksters are loving it.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Bankers seem to prefer fascists in government rather than deal with

the time-consuming intricacies of democracy.