All it wanted was to cook books and falsify financial and political documents and get away with it.

And for that the IMF and the ECB behaved as if Greece would try to weasel its way out of responsibility as soon as it would get some leeway.

I say, everybody who commits financial fraud while living large deserves a second chance!

mainstream media narratives used from the beginning of the crisis to distract the public from the enormous responsibilities of the banking mafia. German, French and Greek banks were saved with billions while Greece literally destroyed.

Get over with the mainstream media propaganda. Won't work anymore.

Funny how the Greece-apologists never approach that question.

- how Greece falsified financial documents to the ECB to qualify for Eurozone-entry
- how Greece kept submitting falsified documents to hide this from the ECB
- how Greece hired Goldman Sachs to hide their debts via creative accounting

This isn't propaganda or narrative. There are documents, there are witnesses and even former greek politicians freely admit to it.




Counter-question:
If Greece is the innocent victim in this, what was the cause for their financial crash in 2009?

who ran the place

Everbody dodged taxes. Everybody. Not just the 1% boogeyman.

The greek bureaucracy was notoriously overstaffed, inefficient, incompetent and a cushy do-nothing-and-get-paid job for relatives and friends.
Everybody bribed them to get shit done in a reasonable time. Everybody.
Need a surgery-appointment? You better bring a bribe.
A house-warden once cleaned out an elevator-shaft in a hospital: the whole bottom of the shaft was covered in discarded envelopes that were used for bribes.



The problem is: Greece was living beyond its means. Top-notch military equipment to always be ahead of Turkey. Ever-growing social expenditures to keep the population complacent. Massive tax-evasion on all levels of society. Graft, corruption.

Or do they follow their leaders' example?

If the rich were dodging taxes, openly, would the Americans meekly make up the gap? Why do you think Bernie Sanders is overcoming Hillary Clinton?

Fromm the year 2000, when Greece started submitting falsified numbers to the ECB, to the year 2009, when the crash revealed that Greece had cooked the books, why did no whistleblower come forward?

Why did nobody come forward and say:
"No way those tax-numbers are correct."
"You wouldn't believe the tax-loopholes rich people get in Greece."
"Who here takes paying taxes actually seriously?"
"How come the greek bureaucracy is so big for such a small country?"



The 99% were in on the deal. They knew it. And they kept their mouths shut because it was a sweet life and nobody wanted to ruin that.

Because the European Financial Dictatorship wanted an excuse to declare economic war on Greece and transformed it into a debt-enslaved colony. That's why.

I'm talking about the origins of the greek financial crisis. I'm talking about the years 2000 to 2009 when they forged financial documents to the ECB and cooked their books.

Why did nobody from within Greece blow the lid on that scheme?

The corrupted political system was taking huge bribes to manipulate public concerning the euro. There was no referendum. They didn't ask Greek people if they want to join euro. And besides, they were many voices back then who were warning of the disaster that will come for Greece inside euro. The banking-media establishment buried their voices.

Greece paving the way for the oligarchs to approve the loans they knew all too well could never and would never be repaid.

This is classic Shock Doctrine & and steps to it are always the same, and the results are always the same.

If you aren't outraged, you aren't paying attention. The Greek people never had a choice in any of this, all of the decisions that brought them into this tragedy were made by big money buying influence and approving loans for predatory gain.

Greece's borrow-and-spend policy began in the 1970s. And nobody cared.

Greece cooked its books in 2000 to join the Eurozone as a matter of prestige. And the greek politicians thought they would get their house in order one day and be able to stop cooking their books one day.

Greece hired Goldman Sachs to hide their debts with creative accounting.




It's very simple:
Greece lied.
Greece forged financial documents.
Greece lied to its closest allies and falsified political documents.

The ECB and the IMF had no fucking reason whatsoever to believe that, after 9 years of lies, Greece was all of a sudden telling the truth.

The ECB and the IMF had no fucking reason whatsoever to believe that, after 9 years of lies, Greece wouldn't continue forging documents and weasel its way out of reforms.

That's why german finance-minister Schäuble insisted on a comprehensive deal that covered all financial areas of Greece. Varoufakis would have prefered quick action and a million quick&dirty-solutions. Varoufakis' solution would have been better for Greece, but for the ECB and the IMF it also would have meant trusting the word of a habitual liar.

Lending Greece money before meaningful reforms were enacted would have meant pissing away millions and billions of Euros, THEIR MONEY, into a swamp of mismanagement, graft and corruption.




Yeah, the financial situation in Greece sucks.
Yeah, the ECB and the IMF are too harsh with Greece.
But the reason for that isn't some world-domination scheme of some boogeyman.
The reason is simply that none of the organisations tasked with rescuing Greece had the luxury of believing Greece.