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J Ed said:
Yes, it's hard to know whether it's genuine ignorance (doubtful as Helena Smith is actually on the ground) or just standard no vote = spooky commies wooo!
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She's on the ground but all she seems to do is stay in her room with the mini-bar and reports what SKAI tv says.
 
Greece is on EET

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The attitude of the Irish govt and journos has been most unedifying.
“The great myth that we’re all being peddled is that somehow this is a very complex, mysterious situation that nobody really understands. It’s actually all very simple,” Ian argued.

“When people are angry and frightened they make bad decisions - in life and in politics. [The Greek people] made a really bad decision. Greece was beginning… at least their decline was slowing down when Syriza came in. It’s like putting a dog in the driver’s seat, giving it the keys and then being really surprised when it crashes into the wall very quickly.”
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Solidarity? Who now believes that the average person in Frankfurt or Helsinki sees the pensioner rummaging in a bin in Thessaloniki as a fellow citizen? Thresholds of decency? Formulaic expressions of sympathy aside, there is little sense that the European Union as a whole finds it intolerable that hundreds of thousands of Greeks are living without electricity or that millions have no access to public health care.

The “ever closer union” envisaged by the EU’s founders has been replaced in effect by a deeply incoherent mixture of one-size-fits-all thinking and double standards. On the one hand, there is the absolute insistence that there can be no challenge to the technocratic formula for solving the eurozone crisis: austerity plus massive bank bailouts plus privatisation and the dismantling of social and labour protections.

On the other, there is a sharp moral and political divide between the creditor states and the debtor states, with a supposedly virtuous, prudent and righteous core beset by a feckless, reckless periphery. Or, if viewed from that periphery, between victimised citizens and a European political elite bent on punishing them for sins they did not commit on their own.
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Their benign fiction also had a powerful subtext – the need to contain Germany. It is not accidental that it was Schmidt, who was 14 when Hitler came to power, who issued what he called “a serious and carefully considered warning” to his compatriots three years ago: “If we Germans allow ourselves to be seduced into claiming a political leading role in Europe or at least playing first among equals, based on our economic strength, an increasing majority of our neighbours will effectively resist this. The concern of the periphery about an all too powerful European centre would soon come racing back. The possible consequences of such a development would be crippling.”

Schmidt was right – and he was also ignored. No one watching the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, in recent weeks can have picked up the slightest hint of anxiety about being “first among equals”. There is only the absolute certainty that, whatever the evidence to the contrary, Greece can and must be beaten until it learns to become more German.
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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/05/europe-fictional-construct-legacies-of-war

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Sprocket. said:
Had this in my head all day.

'' Why are the proud descendants of Plato
Paying more debt accommodating NATO?
We the caretakers of democracy
No longer tolerate this hypocrisy''

European Superstate : Killing Joke.
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The mountains look on Marathon—
And Marathon looks on the sea;
And musing there an hour alone,
I dream'd that Greece might still be free;
For standing on the Persians' grave,
I could not deem myself a slave.

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Trust not for freedom to the Franks—
They have a king who buys and sells;

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Place me on Sunium's marbled steep,
Where nothing, save the waves and I,
May hear our mutual murmurs sweep;
There, swan-like, let me sing and die:
A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine—
Dash down yon cup of Samian wine!
 
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