Independence Day, Twice Removed

I envy you being right there; and really look forward to your first hand observations. I know perfectly well that what you see and hear can easily be just a fragment- but it beats the hell out of anything filtered through any media. 🙂

2:30 US East time

30% counted

61% NO

38% YES

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2015/jul/05/live-results-greek-referendum

What happens now?
Is Sun Tzu’s Art of War, there is an injunction against interfering with your enemy, when he is defeating himself.
Russia and China should hang back a bit and let the EU/NATO do a little self-defeating again, right?
On the other hand, one of the truly great breakthroughs in the history of warfare was when generals (Darius the Persian, I think) started freeing the slaves in the cities they captured. Boy, did that help break down the walls!

Perhaps the difficulty the European, and other, elites (over class) have with Greek democracy in action is that it represents a potential time bomb that could blow up their manifesto, as postulated by David Malone on his Golem XIV blog, entitled “The Next Crisis – Part two – A manifesto for the supremacy of the 1%”.

https://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2014/09/next-crisis-part-two-manifesto-1/

This extract gives the list of key objectives for such a manifesto, which in my opinion represent a plausible list for any group planning a corporate takeover of democracy when the next financial crisis explodes, as it inevitably will, together with his core conclusion as to what it represents.

” 1) The Over Class must retain and consolidate their control over the global system of debt.

2) The power to regulate must be taken from nations and effectively controlled by corporations.

3) Professionalize governance. Democracy can be and must be neutered, and an effective way of doing this is to insist that amateur, elected officials MUST take the advice of professional (read corporate) advisors. Expand current law to enforce this.

4) The financial system badly needs un-encumbered ‘assets’ to feed the debt issuing system. A new way must be found to prise sovereign assets from public ownership. Such a new way is suggested.

5) In order to facilitate the political changes necessary, the public mind-set must be changed. National Treasures such as the NHS in Britain must be re-branded as evil State Monopolies.

6) Effective ways must be found to convince people that democratic rule is no longer sufficient to protect them.

7) An alternative to Democracy must be introduced and praised. That alternative must be the Rule of International Law as written and controlled by the lawyers of the 1%. People must be told that this is all that stands between them and an increasingly hostile and anarchic world. But that it can only keep them safe if it has absolute authority over democracy. People must voluntarily bow to it out of fear and its decisions must be as absolute and unquestionable.

In conclusion, I suggest that this amounts to a dystopian version of the old environmentalist idea of Spaceship Earth. A corporate version where we are just passengers who must pay our passage in a ship someone else owns. No longer inhabitants or citizens with the same inalienable right to be there and be heard as anyone else.”

seychelles – “…systemic non-payment of taxes.” That’s something the Greek elite and the self-employed have been doing for years. “…the authors calculate that the self-employed in 2009 dodged taxes on at least €28 billion of unreported income, enough to fill 31% of the Greek budget deficit that year.”

https://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2012/09/tax-evasion-greece

But I agree with what you’ve said. Voting does not appear to work as the elite or the vested interests choose who the candidates are, and they just end up doing whatever they damn well want when they get elected, anyways.

For the average person – defaulting on debts, not paying taxes, refusing to buy products from corporations who offshore jobs overseas or who hire temporary foreign workers to take jobs that could be filled by the citizenry – is the only way we can fight them, throw a wrench in the works.

If everyone did this, the NWO would be toast. Depositor bail-ins could be met with elite jail-ins, plus confiscation of every asset these criminals own.

After my comment of predicting a “nai” two days ago, I give my kudos to the Greeks.

Another name for direct democracy is mob rule. That said, could it be some folks voted themselves out of the frying pan into the fire? Hard to figure where this leads. If this was a psychological vote against austerity (living within means) then there is going to be some disappointment ahead. Certainly, if the same government that sold the public trust down the river nationalizes the banks,,, well, good luck with that.

All eyes on France, Italy, Spain and Portugal now. Looks like some major Nationalists/Socialists have been handed an example at which to point,,, provided it doesn’t all implode, and they all find a need to run from the splash back.

Marine Le Pen, are you watching this?

Professor – direct democracy might be mob rule, but what’s better – mob rule or oligarchic rule? At least this way the “mob” has a friggin’ chance. Now, if we had a benevolent government who actually cared about its citizens, then, yeah, referendums probably wouldn’t be necessary. In fact, a benevolent government would probably want to have a highly educated public, want to have transparency, just so everybody understood the issues.

The oligarchy have got to be plenty ticked off by this “mob” business, the great mass of ignorants having their say. They’re probably screaming, “Why, if anybody is going to be mobbing, it’s going to be us. We can’t allow them to out-mob us.” So much so I expect to see somebody dead in the not too distant future.