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The Greek
PM, Alexis Tsipras, made some significant revelations during
yesterday's interview to the journalist, Nikos Chatzinikolaou.
Revelations that someone could not expect from previous Greek Prime
Ministers.
The first
revelation confirms the dirty role of the ECB as a liquidity
asphyxiation tool for the eurozone members who refuse to apply the
neoliberal agenda and take harder austerity measures.
As Alexis
Tsipras said: “... on the 18th of February the European Central
Bank made a decision that from a political point of view is not a
regular or a rational one. So they limited the capacity and the
possibility on behalf of the Greek state to issue and re-buy Greek
bonds. So there was a capping as regards the treasury bonds, so at
EUR9 billion, whereas the normal capping stands at EUR15 billion. So
in this way they excluded the possibility of the bank to finance, to
re-finance the Greek government, the Greek sovereign debt, by EUR6
billion.” (http://goo.gl/DsFtRf)
Therefore,
this is actually an official confirmation of the role of ECB, which
has been described by this blog back in 2012, when the unlimited
purchase of government bonds in eurozone has been decided: “...
the ECB becomes a corresponding Fed in the European area, 'serving'
the problematic economies that are excluded from the bond markets,
through the print of new money. Therefore, the problematic economies
will be loaded with more and more debt which the ECB, i.e. the
largest private European banks will hold. [...] States that
are excluded from markets, are now trapped within the neoliberal
economic empire of the eurozone and will be forced to follow new
austerity measures every time they need ECB to buy their bonds.”
(http://bit.ly/1aFXdxF)
Obviously,
Draghi fired the first warning shots, reducing liquidity flow, in
order to force the Greek government to retreat on troika lenders'
demands.
At the same
time, the whole structure of the mechanism is revealed, through which
the European economic oligarchy attempts to accelerate the desirable
federalization, which leads to the new Feudalism. On the top of this
mechanism, we find the powerful banking lobby, using the power of
money which completely controls inside the eurozone through the ECB.
There was a
specific plan for the experiment in Greece which was interrupted by
the 25th of January national elections through which the new
coalition SYRIZA-Independent Greeks took the power. As long as the
puppets of previous governments were following faithfully troika's
orders, there was absolutely no problem with liquidity. According to
the schedule, Samaras would finish his term normally in 2016, so that
the last steps of the experiment should be taken: sell off public
property, complete dissolution of labor rights, minimum wage at 300
euros, further cuts in wages-pensions. All these for the benefit of
the big companies that follow the banks in the hierarchy of this
mechanism.
Consequently,
the experiment would have been transferred to Italy-Spain, through
the skyrocketing of spreads and exclusion from the markets, so that
to fall to the ECB trap and follow Greece's path. However, the
interruption of the Greek experiment forced the bankers to loose the
rope around the rest of the eurozone periphery in order to present a
false success story (like Samaras did with the help of Berlin) and
increase the pressure on the new Greek government, pointing the
finger at Tsipras administration, as being eurozone's "black
sheep". All these, of course, with the help of the propaganda
war by the Greek and international media establishment, which is
completely controlled by the banks and the big corporations.
The ultimate
target, is the complete isolation of Greece until the fall of Tsipras
administration and its substitution by other willing puppets in power
to finish the experiment. Alternatively, the lenders will try to form
a more friendly coalition (http://bit.ly/1b3qtqK)
which in the end will be forced to follow their orders.
At this
point, Tsipras' answer to a relative question by Chatzinikolaou was
very clear, showing that Tsipras knows the game very well. He
excluded new elections in order to form a more "solid"
parliamentary team, as Chatzinikolaou proposed. He stated that
pluralism is an advantage for SYRIZA, implying that its most radical
part is the one that brings pressure to the lenders and retains the
red lines according to the latest vote of the Greek people.
The other
significant revelation by Tsipras was the verbal commitment he
received by the lenders to withdraw ECB's decision of 18th February.
A commitment which they didn't follow eventually: “... in a
contact that I had with Mr. Daisebloom and Mr. Varoufakis, when
present before the Eurogroup, raised the issue. And there was a
commitment that, upon the agreement, the European Central Bank
decisions were about to be corrected. Our mistake is that we were
based, that we accepted a verbal commitment instead of a written
commitment. And in the frame of this agreement we were asking for an
extension, not of the Memorandum, but of the loan contract,
explaining the grounds on which we were asking for this extension.
And there was an explicit ground. So we were asking for this
extension in order to have the reintroduction of the waiver by the
European Central Bank, but also in order to rectify this threshold,
this cap as regards T-bills. So indeed the Greek government felt that
there were good intentions behind this verbal commitment. And we also
believed that this agreement of the 20th of February was about to be
implemented in its entirety.” (http://goo.gl/DsFtRf)
It is not
the first time that the euro-puppets play dirty games and try to
destroy any attempt for an agreement (http://bit.ly/17eGveR).
Certainly, this is another reason for which they don't want a clean
and decent negotiator like Varoufakis, because they know that he will
not hesitate to expose them.
As long as
plutocrats see that this government in Greece enjoys a constant
support by the people, they will escalating attacks, trying to
isolate and punish Greece to make an example. However, their position
is difficult too. The coherence of their financial empire is in
danger. There is an increasing skepticism by many countries in Europe
concerning the path that it takes, as they see how it treats Greece.
Read also:
Alexis, you can't trust the euro-hyenas!
Does anyone believe the "emperor"?
Read also:
Alexis, you can't trust the euro-hyenas!
Does anyone believe the "emperor"?
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