Tsipras wins Parliament voting, suffers heavy blow by 39 SYRIZA MPs

1. And the humanitarian aid for the hospitals is already in Pireus but can’t get off the ships because of sanctions, just like the names of the bidders for oil and gas drilling in the Libyan and Ionian Sea are not allowed to make public because of the embargo; the bid ends on 17th?

   • Which humanitarian aid? Sent by whom? Which sanctions, exactly?

     • humanitarian aid Juncker+ Schulz said in June to be sent to Greece. ‘sanctions’ = EU Commission has stopped EU structural Funds to Greece. see other post on Juncker 35bn euro package

2. This vote or even putting this EU bailout on the table for a vote was treason of the highest order. The people of Greece spoke loud & clear with their referendum giving their government a clear mandate. This will do nothing more than further enslave the Greek people with more Odious debt to further line the Bankster pockets. The people of Greece will not receive a Penney of this money, It bails out no one but the Private Central Banks while suffering the people to repay it. Greece should have cancelled this debt, Nationalized their Bank & began using their own sovereign currency. In the name of justice I hope the people of Greece drag out

   • part of the problem is that the NO vote was not a clear message at all. people are still confused about what it means. the majority was still emphatic about not wanting to abandon the euro, and i think tsipras is acutely aware of this.

     i can only hope that the will of the ‘people’ to abandon the euro or not is more clearly articulated in the next few weeks.

     it is a process, and more and more people seem to be reaching the obvious conclusion on their own…i think that this is long game strategy of the tsipras government!

     • fact is that people have moved from Referendum NO to daily struggle with the closed banks & capital controls that have paralyzed the market.

3. The party of No (OXI) — we do not support PM’s major legislative proposal, but we will not resign our seats.

4. RIP Greece

5. From the Irish experience, where the then FinMin, the late B. Lenihan also wanted to exit the Euro and issue “Punts” again, only to “get bounced into a deal”, here’s the result
   – 25% of those who have work do not earn a living wage
   – unemployment is dropping, but only because net emigration is higher that the alleged drop in unemployment and thus the cause of that drop.
   – new jobs are uncertain, insecure and often unpaid schemes to artificially manipulate the unemployment figures
   – since 2008, the number of children living in deep, consistent poverty has doubled to 12% and is still rising
   – homelessness has more than doubled while 100s of 1000s of houses are standing empty around the country, owned by banks
   – the restructuring of Irish debt is a hollow and false argument. All it did was transform what was cancelable debt in to sovereign debt, to be paid in full until 2053!

   The so called “recovery” after “the deal” is partial (the richer got richer), unequal (the rich got it all, the poor pay for it) and largely illusory.
   The Irish “deal” was not half as severe as the Greek “New deal”.

   All Tsipras did was protect that what was left to the “have’s” by throwing the have-nots to the sharks…

   • FinMin, the late B. Lenihan = when was that?

     • Brian Lenihan died June 10th 2011 RIP

     • This was the famous blackmail/threats issued by the then ECB boss JC Trichet, given in writing to the Irish government.

       The European Central Bank (ECB) explicitly threatened in late November 2010 to cut off emergency funding from the Irish banking system, unless Ireland immediately applied for a bailout and agreed a programme of austerity and bank recapitalisation.

       The letter from then ECB president, Jean-Claude Trichet, to former finance minister Brian Lenihan – marked “secret” – was sent on November 19th, 2010.

       Sound familiar?

       • So the problem will occur when they punk SinnFein like this that a lot of people will start digging for long lost IRA caches and hope that the shit isn’t too rusty

6. My heart is breaking for the Greek citizens today and, like many others, I can’t understand how Tsipras could have accepted a deal worse than the one the Greek people voted against. Democracy is a farce. The EU is a farce. Crucifying the poor and vulnerable in the name of making the rich and powerful even more rich and powerful.

   We, in Ireland, have suffered the effects of austerity. Our children have no future here. The ones who got out were the lucky ones. So much hunger, poverty, homelessness, suicide and desperation, all while Ireland’s richest became €13.65bn richer last year.

   • The reason that Tsipras has accepted the vicious and cruel punishment imposed on the Greek people (primarily by Germans) is that the Greek banks are illiquid and the Greek economic is all but collapsed. The Troika used the ECB to blackmail Greece into an unconditional surrender.

     Of course, what people have failed to realise until now is that the eurozone required the former central banks (like the Bank of Greece) to be removed from the control of democratic governments and placed under the control of the ECB. This means that the ECB (and indirectly the power of Germany) controls everything in the Greek economy that requires banking support — that is, all imports and exports, as well as salaries and domestic non-cash transactions.

     Simitis, advised by Papademos and Stournaras amongst others, surrendered Greek national sovereignty — for what? Well, Pasok managed to steal a lot of money in the last 15 years, along with ND. These criminals are still lurking in the Parliament and giving interviews with the international press, telling everyone how bad the Syriza government is — presumably, for not embezzling money from the people of Greece.

7. Again, “You can’t have your cake and eat it too”. You take the bankster’s money and you will be their slave forever. Greece is now a colony and no longer sovereign country. She is on the hook and hooked well. There is only one way out and it is a very, very difficult one.

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