One Greek Blogger's view of the Current Situation:

[the_future_modernes]

via: ginny_t Democracy vs Mythology: The Battle in Syntagma Square

I have never been more desperate to explain and more hopeful for your understanding of any single fact than this: The protests in Greece concern all of you directly.

What is going on in Athens at the moment is resistance against an invasion; an invasion as brutal as that against Poland in 1939. The invading army wears suits instead of uniforms and holds laptops instead of guns, but make no mistake – the attack on our sovereignty is as violent and thorough. Private wealth interests are dictating policy to a sovereign nation, which is expressly and directly against its national interest. Ignore it at your peril. Say to yourselves, if you wish, that perhaps it will stop there. That perhaps the bailiffs will not go after the Portugal and Ireland next. And then Spain and the UK. But it is already beginning to happen. This is why you cannot afford to ignore these events.

The powers that be have suggested that there is plenty to sell. Josef Schlarmann, a senior member of Angela Merkel’s party, recently made the helpful suggestion that we should sell some of our islands to private buyers in order to pay the interest on these loans, which have been forced on us to stabilise financial institutions and a failed currency experiment. (Of course, it is not a coincidence that recent studies have shown immense reserves of natural gas under the Aegean sea).

China has waded in, because it holds vast currency reserves and more than a third are in Euros. Sites of historical interest like the Acropolis could be made private. If we do not as we are told, the explicit threat is that foreign and more responsible politicians will do it by force. Let’s make the Parthenon and the ancient Agora a Disney park, where badly paid locals dress like Plato or Socrates and play out the fantasies of the rich.MORE

Comments

[nagasvoice]

Thank you for posting, it becomes like a series of snapshots of different areas, showing the same larger picture. And I feel this is a battle that has to be won by the people, because the guys with the bank strings are running everything into the ground. I am still wondering where all the money getting sucked out of our economies is going. If rich people own more property, if they own a greater and greater percentage of the wealth of the world, the money still has to be invested in *something*.
It should be getting put into other places, getting recirculated, but as far as I can tell, it evaporates into thin air. Nobody is getting it. Where is the money going?

[the_future_modernes]

In their bank accts. There to be spent on pricy clothing, palatial houses and ridiculously expensive private transportation, in short circulating among other rich people.

[willow]

It is pretty much a vampiric system of siphoning wealth from everywhere else, and then sharing it about those like themselves, in a wealth orgy (sharing it about themselves and dangling it at the right sections of politics to get more of what they want).