Greek Riots

[Guest TK-421]

It's not about business, it's about the international superclass. The poeple who run the banks, who run the firms and who run the governments and the media. A breed of people for whom not paying their fair share while enjoying a champagne lifestyle is a fine art, and yet who shape the perceptions of the plebs to believe that they are in fact a commodity who must be placated at all costs - even though their various machinations have led us all to ruin.

 

[Strontium]

You could send this well thought out, heartily analytical sentence in as a doctoral thesis.

 

 

I'm expecting to be confirmed as Ed Balls' chief speech writer any day now.

 

Great article on Greece's plight from the Guardian last year, when they were still a serious paper:

 

Greek profligacy, pensions and perks cost nation dear | Business | The Guardian

 

Around one million Greeks are employed in the wider public sector with the vast majority holding jobs from which constitutionally they can never be fired. It is a security that has not only assured the popularity of such positions, but the exponential growth of the public administration in the wake of democracy's return following the collapse of military rule in 1974.

 

For successive governments, power has been used to dispense patronage and reward voters with jobs – a practice that increasingly triggered labour unrest and dragged down the economy. In the shadow of bloody civil war, the state was the great connector.

 

By the time the modernising socialists were elected last October, the civil service was not only bloated but at bursting point with even the finance minister George Papaconstantinou admitting in an interview with the Guardian that he was "clueless" as to the real number of employees.

 

"Until now the only dream of nearly every Greek has been to get a state job," says the author Nikos Dimou. "Because they knew that it was not only a job for life but involved little work."

 

Most civil servants reasoned that with average monthly salaries being no more than €1,000, the cushiness of state posts also allowed them to hold second jobs (policemen working for security firms, tax inspectors working as accountants, department heads running boutiques) which they invariably never declared. Such jobs account for Greece's huge black economy conservatively estimated at over 30 percent.

 

 

It's like the UK times 1,000

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

They stopped becoming a serious paper when your lot got into to government? What a fucking shock, Stronts!

[Ezekiel 25:17]

I got bills, theyr'e multiplying....

[Preston Red]

Whilst doing something about the economy and plumbing, they want to do something about ignorant German bastards you find in Rhodes.

 

Fucking ignorant twats who blank you, nick the sunbeds and jump queues!!!!

 

We won the war you selfish twats now get fucking queued up with the rest of us for the all-inclusive dish water ale!!!!

 

Apart from them our honeymoon is going swimmingly :)

[Stu Monty]

The richest 1,000 people in the country increased their wealth last year by £60bn.

 

So, if they gained that, where do you think they gained it from? You know, given that the masses are beeing squeezed to fuck and all that?

 

And that's an international phenomenon too. You'd find very similar figures wherever you looked. Section knows, Stronts certainly doesn't.

[Mr T]

Section, your 'international breed' who runs the media, business etc sounds a lot like the international Jewry. Another one of your conspiracy theories?

[Stu Monty]

Yes, clearly a conspiracy theory. What with Goldman running the US treasury, the person who was a massive player in the sub-prime loans putting Obama in the whitehouse, the last Labour goverment all working for BP and the PM and Milliband having a night with Murdoch where they can fight over who can deepthroat him the best...all a massive conspiracy.

 

It's not an even remotely controversial opinion to anyone who has eyes. Even the massive extremist that is Robert Peston has written about it.

[Mr T]

Of course individual groups seek to utilise their power. However, it starts sounding like a conspiracy theory when these vying groups are viewed as a homogenous bloc, or a 'breed', all pushing for the same end with every world permutation being a function of this bloc pulling the strings.

 

Such analysis is attractive because it allows one to sound off without having any particular knowledge of the specifics. That's why these threads, no-matter the actual topic, all read the same. The same tired old SWP-lite rhetoric from the bedroom revolutionaries.

[Stu Monty]

You know the bits where I'm talking about Goldman fucking up the economy and then running the treasury, or the bit where I point out that the person who pioneered the sub-prime mortgage was the driving force in getting Obama in the Whitehouse; that's someone having pretty decent examples of the specifics of what he's talking about.

 

The term of a breed is fully justified and 95% of them are pushing for the same end, more money and more power. The reason why it spans many topics is because the influence of that top 1% spans many topics. From war, to the economy, to health, to the media...they are all issues dominated by the differing interest of that "international breed". You're straw-manning for your life here.

 

Some people are annoyed that 1% of the people have 90% of the power and therefore raise it quite often, some people, for some reason, are cool with that situation and would rather call people bedroom revolutionaries.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

You know the bits where I'm talking about Goldman fucking up the economy and then running the treasury, or the bit where I point out that the person who pioneered the sub-prime mortgage was the driving force in getting Obama in the Whitehouse; that's someone having pretty decent examples of the specifics of what he's talking about.

 

The term of a breed is fully justified and 95% of them are pushing for the same end, more money and more power. The reason why it spans many topics is because the influence of that top 1% spans many topics. From war, to the economy, to health, to the media...they are all issues dominated by the differing interest of that "international breed". You're straw-manning for your life here.

 

Some people are annoyed that 1% of the people have 90% of the power and therefore raise it quite often, some people, for some reason, are cool with that situation and would rather call people bedroom revolutionaries.

 

He also calls people 'bedroom revolutionaries' without any knowledge of who he is talking to or what they have or haven't d one in their life. He says it right after talking about how those 'bedroom revolutionaries' are use blanket statements to hide their lack of knowledge.

[Unrighteous]

This dog loves a riot.

 

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[Unrighteous]

Apparently... this dog has been rioting since 2008.

 

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[L19red]

Louk is the star of the show. I haven't seen him much the last few days though, hope he's ok, he has a rather dangerous habit of chasing smoke bombs like they are tennis balls.

[Liverpool lad]

Scouse that dog

[Anubis]

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Google translate says:

 

Woov Woov.