All Of Spain Is Now Paying For An Orgy Enjoyed By A Few
When someone asks me about what happened in Spain I often use the same metaphor: A few people enjoyed a long and luxurious orgy and now all of us have to pay for it, without even being able to take part. It may sound hard but basically that is what it is. Bankers, politicians, the monarchy, etc, seem to have been playing tricky. And now they keep on telling us that we have been living over our capacities. Really?
Spain seemed to be going great until the recession in the US opened our eyes and struck us. Now that America seems to be recovering, Spaniards are still in shock. Speculation and the housing bust are some of our major problems but we are also having an internal fight. As ‘The Economist’ recently reported, despite being a unified country, we actually live in a complex regional system where each region has followed their own rhythms and played their own tricks with finances. Now, the areas that are doing better do not want to help those with the worse problems. And this increases the feeling of independence of some regions such as the Basque Country or Catalonia. So, if we cannot even agree in our own country, how can we reach an agreement with the European Union?
The numbers are disastrous. Around 25 percent of households do not have any family member working. As a consequence, hundreds of families are forced to leave houses they cannot pay for anymore. Those that have relatives in Spain, ask for help; the rest, try to find their way in other regions or countries. The Government can’t afford to take care of all of them anymore. There are several cases of families that have to live off a grandparent’s pension.
Greeks Have Given Everything: President
GREEK President Carolos Papoulias says the nation’s people have given all they have to drag the country out of its crippling economic crisis, and voiced hope it will end soon.
Papoulias says recovery from the crisis, which has made the heavily indebted country dependent on international aid for two years, has to come “soon, because you cannot ask more from these people who have given everything”.
Hungary Says The IMF And EU Want To Make It A Colony Of Debt Slaves
After publishing Hungary Throws Out Monsanto AND The IMF 10 days ago, I’ve been keeping an eye on what goes down along the twin Buda and Pest shores of the Danube river.
That’s how I came upon a video from Johnny Miller for PressTV, which is sort of Iran’s version of Russia Today and Al Jazeera, news channels that find their niche and viability “behind the biases” of western media, in much the same way that the Automatic Earth and numerous other websites do. Of course, there is no lack of people who declare exactly those alternative voices to be biased, but wherever the truth may lie, fact is that many readers and viewers in the west are fed up with, and no longer trust, their traditional media, let alone their political systems. Hungary may prove to be an excellent example of why that is and how it all plays out.
Now, first, let me state once again that I don’t know much about Hungary, and I happenstance upon the things I view and read about it with the eyes of an innocent child. I do have a long history, however, of not believing a word I read at first glance – or The Automatic Earth would not exist. Which is why, when I picked up on the ideas US and European media hold up as undeniable truths about Hungarian PM Victor Orbán and his Fidesz party, what a vile and crazy man he basically is, I questioned them off the bat. It’s obvious he’s made enemies of Monsanto and the entire GMO industry, as well as the IMF/EU/ECB troika, and therefore western media have plenty incentives to paint him off as a lunatic.
And also, let me repeat that he may well be a bully himself, like he is being bullied by the troika, the seed industry and the media they control. All I said was, certainly in light of the fact that I know little about him, I did – and do – tend to give him the benefit of the doubt, for the moment, because of his refusal to kowtow before those who act as if they rule the entire planet.
I urge you to please watch the video, 20 minutes or so, but I’ll write down some key points below.
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What I’m interested in for now is not politics, but finance, even if the two seem intricately intertwined. Any country, and its leaders, that dares resist the ever more suffocating global powers of the IMF, the EU/ECB, and the banking system and multinationals (think Monsanto) they serve, quite simply looks of interest to me. There are schemes and policies being executed in our names that we shouldn’t wish to sign off on, by power hungry people hiding behind the veils of global corporations and über-government institutions, and the victims of these policies are real people, just like we are. If anything, that’s what Hungary teaches us.
