Iceland & Greece

Compiling references

• AVAAZ - Why Greece matters for all of us
  This week could decide the fate of the Greek people, and of Europe, and the only common sense option isn't on the table....
• Austerity Has Failed: An Open Letter From Thomas Piketty to Angela Merkel
  Five leading economists warn the German chancellor, “History will remember you for your actions this week.”
• The Greek referendum result poses the basic question: will Europe be based on listening to the people or the markets?
• What you are not being told by the media
  According to mainstream media, the current economic crisis in Greece is due to the government spending too much money on its people that it went broke. This claim however, is a lie. It was the banks that wrecked the country so oligarchs and international corporations could benefit.
• Lagarde, Juncker y Draghi, los polémicos cerebros de la Troika que tienen a Grecia entre la espada y la pared
  Muchos acostumbran reducir las disputas generadas por la crisis griega como un problema entre Alemania y Grecia. Pero la llamada Troika –integrada por el Fondo Monetario Internacional, Comisión Europea y Banco Central de Europa– también juega un rol determinante.
• http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2015/jul/03/throughout-h...
  Another angle: "corrupt German companies bribed corrupt Greek politicians to buy German weapons. And then a German chancellor presses for austerity on the Greek people to pay back the loans they took out (with Germans banks) at massive interest"
• http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/confessions-of-an-economic-hitman/
  In the context of recent events in Greece it is worth revisiting this clip from Zeitgeist: Addendum - featuring "economic hitman" John Perkins. Greece is the latest in a long line of countries to come under attack from the economic hitmen, and this time their weapon is austerity. Thanks to people like John blowing the whistle on their activities we are now more aware of what they are doing and so better able to resist.
• http://www.refractory-online.com/greek-crisis-between-the-devil-and-the-...
• https://www.facebook.com/solidaritywithgreece
• https://www.facebook.com/geldkomtuithetniets/posts/1681236595428186
• https://www.facebook.com/occupynz/posts/929831780408585
  All over the world, from Bolivia to Greece people are connecting the dots. Austerity is just the latest tool used as a means of imposing ever greater restrictions on sovereign nations, creating debt slaves and forcing structural adjustment programmes that asset strip the people to feed the rapacious greed of capitalism. Strong popular critiques of capitalism and neoliberalism have developed in Latin America where for decades the IMF, World Bank and international corporations have plied their trade. Now the chickens have come home to roost in the birthplace of democracy. It's time for us all to get politically engaged in the true sense of the word.
  ‪#‎OccupyNZ‬ ‪#‎SaveOurPlanet‬ ‪#‎Austerity‬ ‪#‎Greece‬ ‪#‎tweet‬ ‪#‎follow‬
• http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/greece-what-you-are-not-being-tol...
• El “poder del pueblo” vs las élites financieras: ¿estamos presenciando un momento histórico en Grecia?
  PUEDE SER QUE ESTEMOS VIENDO EL REGRESO DEL ESPÍRITU DE LA DEMOCRACIA A SU ORIGEN: EL PODER DEL PUEBLO SE MANIFIESTA EN CONTRA DE LA OLIGARQUÍA QUE SE DISFRAZA DE DEMOCRACIA
• http://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/live-tsipras-we-hebben-geschiedenis-...
• http://www.telesurtv.net/english/multimedia/Greece-Decides-20150629-0010...
• http://www.counterfire.org/articles/opinion/17897-the-last-years-of-neol...

Proud to be European!

(nog checken of het wel de moeite waard is)

• https://www.facebook.com/pages/Proud-To-Be-European-/104570589580603
• We should be proud to be European, say Sir Richard Branson and Mark Elborne
• Why I am proud of being a European

This is what they are trying to achieve in Europe too, and they thought to start it in Greece...

Logical

Actually it is very simple and logical:

After several thousands of years, the inventors -and thus the masters- of Democracy just had to explain again what it is really about. And the best way to explain things happens to be: giving the example yourself. 

And that is what the Greek just did. Thank you for the lesson and reminding us. 

Logisch

Eigenlijk is het heel logisch.

De uitvinders, en dus meesters, van de Democratie moesten na enkele duizenden jaren toch weer even uitleggen waar dat ook alweer precies over ging. En hoe leg je het beste uit? 

Door zelf het voorbeeld te stellen.

De wereld heeft zich zo af laten leiden door zaken die er uiteindelijk he-le-maal niets toe doen (geld, banken, beurzen, speculatie, investeringen, macht, controle) dat het schip een beetje af begon te drijven. Dus nou heeft de kapitein Hellas de zeilen een beetje bijgesteld zodat het vlaggeschip Europa weer de goeie koers gaat varen zodat de zusterschepen zich ook weer opnieuw kunnen orienteren, misschien zelfs de jongste broer Captain America, ook al weten we dat die altijd, heel eigenwijs, zal blijven proberen muiterij te plegen.