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This video below may help one to understand some of the
seemingly obtuse demands from the Troika with regard to Greece.
The video is a bit dated, but
the debt scheme it describes remains largely unchanged. The primary
development has been the creation of an experiment called the European Union
and the character of the targets. One might also look to the wars
of 'preventative intervention' and 'colour revolutions' that raise up
puppet regimes for examples of more contemporary economic spoliation.
From largely small and Third World countries, the
candidates for debt peonage have become the smaller amongst the developed
Western countries, the most vulnerable on the periphery.
And even the domestic populations of the monetary powers,
the US, Germany, and the UK, are now feeling the sting of
financialisation, debt imposition through crises, and austerity.
What used to only take place in South America and Africa has now taken place
in Jefferson County Alabama. Corrupt officials burden taxpayers with
unsustainable amounts of debt for unproductive, grossly overpriced
projects.
It would be wrong in these instances to blame the whole country, the whole government, or
all corporations, except perhaps for sleepwalking, and
sometimes willfully, towards the abyss. For the most part a
relatively small band of scheming and devious fellows abuse and corrupt every
form of government and organization and law in order to achieve their private
ambitions, often using various forms of intimidation and reward. It is
an old, old story.
And then there is the mass looting enabled by the most
recent financial crisis and Bank bailouts. If the people will not take
on the chains of debt willingly, you impose them indirectly, while giving the
funds to your cronies who use them against the very people who are bearing
the burdens, while lecturing them on moral values and thrift. It is an
exceptionally diabolical con game.
The TPP and TTIP are integral initiatives in this effort
of extending financial obligations, debt, and control. You might ask
yourself why the House Republicans, who have fought the current President at
every turn, blocking nominees and repeatedly staging mock votes to denounce a
healthcare plan that originated in their own think tank and was first
implemented by their own presidential candidate, are suddenly
championing that President's highest profile legislation,
and against the opposition of his own party? Where did
that come from?
The next step, after Greece is subdued, will be to extend
that model to other, larger countries. And to redouble the
austerity at home under cover of the next financial crisis by
eliminating cash as a safe haven, and to begin the steady stream of
digital 'bailing-in.' They will not even have to ask, as if it
mattered.
This is why these corporatists and statists hate
gold and silver. And why it is at the focal point of a currency
war. It provides a counterweight to their monetary power. It
speaks unpleasant truths. It is a safe haven and alternative, along with
other attempts to supplant the IMF and the
World Bank, for the rest of the world.
So when you say, the Philippines deserved it, Iceland
deserved it, Ireland deserved it, Africa deserves it, Jefferson County deserved it, Detroit deserved it, and now
Greece deserves it, just keep in mind that some day soon they will be saying that
you deserve it, because you stood by and did nothing.
When they are done with all the others, for whom do you think they come
next? If you wish to see injustice stopped, if you wish to live
up to the pledge of 'never again,' then you must stand for your fellows who
are more vulnerable first.
The economic hitmen have honed their skills amongst the
poor and relatively defenseless, and have been coming closer to home in
search of new hunting grounds and fatter spoils. There is nothing 'new'
or 'modern' about this. The only thing that changes are the names
for it.
This is as old as Babylon, and evil as sin. It is
the power of darkness of the world, and of spiritual wickedness in high
places. The difference is that it is not happening in the
past, or in a book, it is happening here and now.
"Economic powers continue to justify the current
global system where priority tends to be given to speculation and the pursuit
of financial gain. As a result, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is
defenseless before the interests of the deified market, which becomes the
only rule."
"Plunderers of the world, when nothing remains on the
lands to which they have laid waste by wanton thievery, they search out
across the seas. The wealth of another region excites their greed; and if it
is weak, their lust for power as well. Nothing from the rising to the setting
of the sun is enough for them. Among all others only they are compelled to
attack the poor as well as the rich. Robbery, rape, and slaughter they
falsely call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace."
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