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    Leftist Tsipras Euro Man

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-0...austerity.html

    Tsipras Pushes to Power on Promise to Keep Euro and End Greek Austerity
    By Maria Petrakis Jan 25, 2015 7:19 PM ET

    It was in the U.S. where Alexis Tsipras chose to step into Europe’s political mainstream.

    At a conference at the University of Texas at Austin in November 2013, as Greeks a continent away prepared for winter with higher taxes on heating oil, Tsipras said Greece belonged in the euro area, despite the currency’s faults. No country should leave and any departure would be “game on” for speculators about who the next victim might be, he said.

    “An exit by Greece or any other crisis country would be a disaster for Europe,” he told an audience of officials and academics. “This is something that deep down everyone knows.”

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    Without getting technical Greece is fucked.
    Unless the Germans want the euro so bad they will bend over for anyone , Portugal , Spain , Italy will default next.

    Although after reading an article at the weekend about France's economic woes we might get a surprise announcement soon.
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    Run on the banks with all the pain coming.

    Free electricity, food stamps, free healthcare, homeless freebies, and the minimum wage hike. Sound familiar?

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    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...rits-year.html

    Greece's radical new leader declares war on country's all-inclusive resorts visited by tens of thousands of Brits each year

    PM Alexis Tsipras said all-in deals 'alienate tourists from local economy'
    He warned that contracts with large resort chains will be reviewed
    He is understood to have already briefed major tourism operators on plans
    Estimated two million Brits who visit Greece a year already face a doubling of VAT on hotel rooms under previous government’s plans

    Greece's new radical Prime Minister has declared war on the country's all-inclusive holiday resorts and vowed to limit them.

    All-you-can-eat breakfast buffets and unlimited cocktails and ouzo by the pool could become a thing of the past in Greece despite the all-inclusive travel industry, that brings in £1.5billion for the country.

    Alexis Tsipras, leader of the triumphant anti-bailout party Syriza, believes such deals 'alienate tourists from the local economy' by keeping them behind resort gates and away from local businesses and attractions.

    He has warned that contracts with large resort chains will be reviewed and deals to sell public land to developers could be reopened.

    Former communist party youth activist Alexis Tsipras, whose Syriza coalition won 149 seats in Sunday’s election, is understood to have already briefed major tourism operators on his plans.

    He has insisted he will replace the all-in-one business with domestic tourism - a move described as 'suicide' for Greece by a tourism expert.

    Announcing his party’s policy last month, Tsipras promised to curb the type of mass tourism that Greece has developed over the last few decades.

    ‘We do not want to continue the current saturated model of intensive exploitation of tourism, which is already showing signs of fatigue,’ he said.

    ‘We don’t want to continue the tourism policy promoted by the [bailout] . . . of building all-inclusive units that to a large extent cut off local communities and their economy from the benefits of tourist demand.’

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    No more zip line across Zorba's pool?

    Maybe Turkey will come to rescue the tourist industry so the Brits can watch the ruins................

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    Fucking socialist/Commie/pinko/libtards.
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    http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/0...0KZ12Q20150126


    Germany - no debt haircut for Greece but bailout extension an option

    (Reuters) - The German government stuck to its view on Monday that a third haircut, or debt restructuring, for Greece was out of the question but opened the door to a possible extension of Greece's current bailout programme.

    "That's certainly a possibility or an option and, as I said, we'll go into every discussion constructively ... As always, it depends on how such a request is formulated and on the overall context, but in principle that is an option," German finance ministry spokeswoman Marianne Kothe said at a news conference.

    Greek anti-bailout leftist party Syriza swept to victory in a snap election on Sunday, with leader Alexis Tsipras promising that five years of austerity, "humiliation and suffering" imposed by international creditors were over.

    German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said Berlin would offer the future Greek government its cooperation but said the new government needed to build on the "remarkable" progress the country had already made.

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    Those filthy socialist Germans and their Welfare State!!

    Oh wait, you only say stuff like that when the idiot puppeteers who have their fingers in your ass have some sort of axe to grind with "old Europe"...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nickdfresh View Post
    Those filthy socialist Germans and their Welfare State!!

    Oh wait, you only say stuff like that when the idiot puppeteers who have their fingers in your ass have some sort of axe to grind with "old Europe"...
    nick, Germany had a balanced budget in 2014 a year ahead of schedule. It's the previous generations that are bankrupting old Europe. Sound familiar?

    And... The Chinese bought out port operations and are now running their port at the port of Piraeus, Greece.

    nick, you and kristy should stay with 'rent's too damn high" threads.

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    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...s-sink-further

    Tsipras Aims to Avert Catastrophe But Greek Markets Sink Further

    “There will neither be a catastrophic clash, nor will continued kowtowing be accepted,” Tsipras, 40, said on Wednesday, in comments broadcast live. The new Greek leadership “will not be forgiven” if it betrays its pre-election pledges to renegotiate the terms of the country’s bailout, he said.

    The new premier convened his cabinet that includes a foreign minister who raised questions over European Union sanctions against Russia and a finance minister who has called Greece’s bailout a trap. Germany warned the Mediterranean nation against abandoning prior agreements on aid, after analysts said that setting Greece on a collision course with its European peers might lead to its exit from the euro region.

    The Syriza-led government came to power on a platform of writing down Greek public debt, raising wages and halting spending cuts while remaining in the euro.

    “Talks won’t be easy, they never are in Europe,” Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, 53, said as he took over from his predecessor. “There will be no duel, no threats, or an issue of who blinks first.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by vandeleur View Post
    Without getting technical Greece is fucked.
    I believe that about sums it up.

    The potential fall-out from this is very worrying.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jacksmar View Post

    Dickforbrains, you and Krusty should stay with 'rent's too damn high" threads.
    Amen to that...
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    Or on the other hand, Tsipras could become the FDR of Greece, save his country from bankster-caused depression, and hopefully inspire others around the world - including the US - to also rise up against austerity, greed, and psuedo-reality bullshit of the 1%.
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    Right, because according to asscrack here, it's not the European Central Bank, the European Commission, or even the International Monetary Fund who fucked Greece in the ass and how no problem in continuing to rape an entire country over an economic barrel, it's the "leftist/socialist/cliche/whatever" currently in power who are solely to blame. I'm also sure asscrack will explain how the European Central Bank is also an "Indy invention."

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    Greece is a Unique country , when all the protests and riots were happening it wasn't your usual suspects it was academics and doctors and you know nice people not dirty types .
    The mayor of Athens did explain how bad their behaviour was whilst explaining that although their pensions were long gone he hadn't paid taxes for many years.

    Can't believe the country went broke .

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    I bet that twat jacksmar is just pissed because his Nazi brothers from Golden Dawn didn't win any more seats in the Greek parliament.
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    Quote Originally Posted by vandeleur View Post
    The mayor of Athens did explain how bad their behavior was whilst explaining that although their pensions were long gone he hadn't paid taxes for many years.

    Can't believe the country went broke.
    Greece is hardly "unique." What asscrack can't understand is that avarice combined with laziness is not a sole "leftist agenda." The same bleeding is happening here in the U.S. only more slowly with mega-corporations hiding behind their lobbyists tax loopholes while blaming the poor for being the true parasites while the rich exploit every remaining resource for themselves. It's an economic give-and-more-take that cannot sustain itself much longer.

    I have no axe to grind that America (along with much of the world) is progressing into a welfare state; the signs are self-evident. However, when the gap between the poor and the rich becomes too wide only chaos can ensue and any distribution when it comes to quality of life fails. This is happening on a rapid scale in education, the socioeconomic middle class, human and civil rights, job opportunity and prosperity. Asscrack's failure is one of the right, in that it's so easy to blame those who are lacking any favorable outcome due to the aforementioned examples and opt for burying the F A T asses in the sand and cry like the little bitch babies of "Why can I be rich like those who are fucking this county over" assholes. As if life owes asscrack something based on [his] warped political and ideological beliefs and values.

    Is Tsipras a socialist? Probably. That or he stills believes in arbitrage. Which is stupid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BITEYOASS View Post
    I bet that twat jacksmar is just pissed because his Nazi brothers from Golden Dawn didn't win any more seats in the Greek parliament.
    first off BYA, it's asscrack, cracksmear, jerksmear, jackoff etc but thanks for the twat NAZI.

    next, the KKE (communists) got 8.48% of the vote and 26 seats but fail to back Tsipras. It's a true house of cards.

    The Wall Street Journal reports:

    Greece’s new government on new sanctions on Russia the statement, which it said it hadn’t approved.

    The statement “was circulated without having followed the correct procedure for ensuring the consent of member states and, in particular, without ensuring Greece’s consent,” said Dimitrios Tzanakopolous, a senior aide to new Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

    Looks like Tsipras’s left-wing Syriza party my not go along with further EU sanctions against the Kremlin.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kristy View Post
    Right, because according to asscrack here, it's not the European Central Bank, the European Commission, or even the International Monetary Fund who fucked Greece in the ass and how no problem in continuing to rape an entire country over an economic barrel, it's the "leftist/socialist/cliche/whatever" currently in power who are solely to blame. I'm also sure asscrack will explain how the European Central Bank is also an "Indy invention."
    http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/greeces-new...nomist-1485336

    Greece's new finance minister Yanis Varoufakis is Valve's former Steam Market economist
    Varoufakis once oversaw sales of virtual goods via Dota 2 and Counter Strike micro-transactions

    The fate of the Eurozone economy could well be in the hands of a man who once monitored the sales of virtual goods via micro-transactions in video games Dota 2 and Counter-Strike.

    Yanis Varoufakis was hired by Valve three years ago to oversee the Steam Market and its fledging economy, and now, as confirmed by Sky News political editor Faisal Islam on 27 January, he is Greece's new finance minister.

    Congratulations @yanisvaroufakis new finance minister of Greece, member of the Eurogroup & general dude: pic.twitter.com/qtsSqWD6p0
    — Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) January 27, 2015

    This past weekend Greece voted in left wing anti-austerity party Syriza, who campaigned on a platform of hope for the troubled country and plans to end government cuts. They are seeking to renegotiate Greece's €240bn (£179bn) bailout by international lenders.
    Yanis VaroufakisYanis Varoufakis outside the Syriza party headquarters in Athens yesterday (26 Jan).(Reuters)

    In his own words Varoufakis says he was hired by Valve "to forge narratives and empirical knowledge that (a) transcend the border separating the 'real' from the digital economies, and (b) bring together lessons from the political economy of our gamers' economies and from studying Valve's very special (and fascinating) internal management structure."

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    Checked your Indycar reference but Indycar and Steam had a problem due to some licensing issues.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FORD View Post
    Or on the other hand, Tsipras could become the FDR of Greece, save his country from bankster-caused depression, and hopefully inspire others around the world - including the US - to also rise up against austerity, greed, and psuedo-reality bullshit of the 1%.
    Greece peaked in 350 B.C. lol

    Greece has something that Putin wants and needs, a boat ramp on the Mediterranean.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ELVIS View Post
    Amen to that...
    Maybe you and your new boyfriend can stick to the gay right wing closet cases threads?

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    Jacksmar please don't thank my posts , you're knocking my left wing street cred

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    Quote Originally Posted by vandeleur View Post
    Jacksmar please don't thank my posts , you're knocking my left wing street cred

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