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[–] refugee610 2 points -2 points (+0|-2) ago 

Is this even a bad thing? Multiple Greek governments in a row have shown they can't run a country.

Hell, maybe it's time to dissolve Greece as a country and make it a ward-state of the EU itself. Let them make minor decisions but always have to abide by the central authority's decisions first.

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[–] Wirtzling ago 

Umm! I may be mis-informed but I am under the impression that the reason the last couple of Greek Governments failed was becuase of the debt deals. They have always had their backs against the wall. There is only so much you can do with what you have. When most of the "loans" are used to pay interest to other "loans", bailouts, and such. If the government cannot use the money to build the nation how can it advance. This is nothing more then the principle of predatory lending that took down the housing market in the US. Greece has been forced for years to make bad agreements in order to "save" Europe from it's ultimate fate. I have a feeling after all this mess. The UK will solidify their position to move out of Europe, and frankly......They should.

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[–] daskapitalist 2 points -1 points (+1|-2) ago 

Debtors refusing to pay their bills getting their stuff repo'd? This is not exactly a surprise.

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[–] unatco ago 

yes

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[–] etvmueller 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

The surprise will be if the cumulative debt of the world will be paid by this world.

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[–] Wirtzling ago 

If this is all true. I would say it is par for the course. They don't want to give money to someone they know hates and is against them. The greeks would be taking their money and showing them the finger as they do. (which in my opinion is justified). They want a more controllable person in power so they can control how the money is used. More importantly a person who will change the minds of the Greek people to drink the coolaid of Europe.

If this is how it goes down then I would definatly say this has been a coup. Get the Finance director to step down (check), Get them to agree to a terrible deal that only helps the banks(check), get the PM to step down and insert a more agreeable leader.(time will tell).

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[–] k_digi [S] ago 

Isn't that just the problem but?

And I mean everywhere, how do you get 'the people' to keep working so you can extract them?

If they are aware of the extraction, all the flouride in the world can't "hit them on the head" and make them all reset.

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[–] dahlia ago  (edited ago)

The Eurozones confidence in Greece is basically nil after their actions during the last couple of months, not to mention Greece haven't actually implemented most of what they promised in the last couple of years. It's perfectly understandable they don't trust the Greek government to do what they promise, so now they require insurance. That does not strike me as strange at all. IMF also denies demanding Tsipras resignation. This is just clickbait.

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[–] k_digi [S] ago 

Ha, yeah those poor banks. Getting worked over by the Greeks.

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[–] dahlia ago 

The "poor banks" here are the other citizens in the Eurozone. All private banks have pulled out of Greece a long time ago, the risk was simply too high. There are no "rich banks" being winners here (if you don't count that they pulled out in time), there are only citizens being losers.

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[–] lordslag ago 

Wow...the head of a vast financial institution demanded that the leader of a nation step down. Greed rules the world.

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[–] TOPMAN 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Markets about to open in Australia i wonder how they will take this news

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[–] k_digi [S] ago 

Well I can say there have been some staff "movements" that's all I can say ha ha.

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[–] technologyisnatural 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

The sticking point is the humiliating German proposal to put 50 billion euros of Greek assets into an offshore fund while they are sold off.

Holy shit, Greece is to be sold to the highest bidder.

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[–] krankysaurus 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I really hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but is it possible that the NSA bugged Angela Merkel's phone because of her involvement with the IMF and the other big financial institutions?

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[–] k_digi [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

NSA works for Goldman etc, they basically are all on the "team"

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[–] dahlia 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I think you're wastly oversimplifying here. Everbody looks after their own backs -- there are no real "teams" here. I think /user/krankysaurus has a point. However, it's probably more likely she was bugged along with all other world leaders, it's just that we haven't found out about the others yet.

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