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justiceforgreece

May 31, 2016 @ 10:48

“Τα στατιστικά της μνημονιακής γενοκτονίας των Ελλήνων…”.

Γράφει ο Δημήτρης Τσιμούρας

Από τους πίνακες της Εθνικής Στατιστικής Υπηρεσίας διαπιστώνουμε ότι ενώ από το 2003 μέχρι και το 2008 είχαμε κάθε χρόνο μια συνεχή αύξηση στις γεννήσεις, από το 2009 και μετά αρχίζει μείωση, με το ρυθμό της μείωσης συνεχώς να αυξάνει με μεγάλη ταχύτητα, μπαίνοντας στη μνημονιακή καταιγίδα.

Επίσης μπορούμε να παρατηρήσουμε ότι το 2003 οι γεννήσεις ήταν κατά 10 χιλιάδες περισσότερες των θανάτων, δηλαδή είχαμε αύξηση του πληθυσμού της χώρας και αυτό συνέβαινε μέχρι και το 2010.

Το 2014 είχαμε το χαμηλότερο αριθμό γεννήσεων σε σχέση με τα προηγούμενα χρόνια. Συγκεκριμένα, οι γεννήσεις το 2014 ήταν κατά 12 χιλιάδες λιγότερες σε σχέση με το 2003 και κατά 26 χιλιάδες λιγότερες σε σχέση με το 2008, όπου τότε είχαμε τον μεγαλύτερο αριθμό γεννήσεων.

Βέβαια, τα παραπάνω στοιχεία λογικά δεν μπορεί να εκπλήσσουν κανέναν. Λόγω της υπεραυξημένης, πέρα από κάθε όριο, ανεργίας και ιδιαίτερα αυτής των νέων, αυτοί εκ των πραγμάτων αδυνατούν να φτιάξουν δική τους οικογένεια. Και αντί οικογένειας αναγκάζονται σε πολύ μεγάλο ποσοστό να συγκατοικήσουν και να συντηρηθούν από το πενιχρό εισόδημα των γονιών τους, ή να καταφύγουν σε άλλες χώρες, όπου γης, ως οικονομικοί μετανάστες.

Είναι αυτονόητο λοιπόν ότι λόγω της υπογεννητικότητας αλλά και λόγω της οικονομικής μετανάστευσης έχουμε βίαιη γήρανση του πληθυσμού της χώρας μας, μία ακόμη συνέπεια της βάρβαρης πολιτικής τους, μια ακόμη απόδειξη του μεγάλου εγκλήματος, των κάθε απόχρωσης μνημονιακών κυβερνώντων, εις βάρος του ελληνικού λαού.

Από την άλλη, μελετώντας τον αριθμό των θανάτων στο φάσμα της μνημονιακής περιοχής διαπιστώνουμε ότι ενώ μεν έχουμε μια σχετικά μικρή αύξηση θανάτων, αυτό όμως που αυξάνει ταχύτατα είναι ο ρυθμός της διαφοράς μεταξύ θανάτων και γεννήσεων, μ’ αποτέλεσμα το 2014 οι θάνατοι να υπερτερούν των γεννήσεων κατά 21.592. Ένας τόσο μεγάλος αριθμός για μια τόσο μικρή χώρα!

Συνέπεια αυτού η χώρα μας να χάνει κάθε χρόνο σε πληθυσμό τους κατοίκους μιας μικρής πόλης, χωρίς φυσικά να υπολογίζονται οι απώλειες λόγω της οικονομικής μετανάστευσης που μας γυρίζει τουλάχιστον 60 χρόνια πίσω.

http://faretra.info/2016/05/03/tsimouras-statistika-mnimo-genoktonias-ellinon/

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justiceforgreece

May 1, 2017 @ 22:36

Rodney Shakespeare Η απάτη στην Ελλάδα.

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justiceforgreece

May 1, 2017 @ 22:42

FEBRUARY 21, 2017
Finance as Warfare: the IMF Lent to Greece Knowing It Could Never Pay Back Debt
by SHARMINI PERIES – MICHAEL HUDSON

SHARMINI PERIES: The latest economic indicator showed that the Greek economy shrank by 0.4% in the last three months of 2016. This poses a real problem for Greece, because its lenders are expecting it to grow by 3.5% annually, to enable it to pay back on its bailout loan. Greece is scheduled to make a 10.5 billion euro payment on its debt next summer, but is expected to be unable to make that payment, without another installment from its $86 billion bailout.

A growing impasse between the International Monetary Fund, and the European Central Bank, Greece’s two main lenders, is threatening to push Greece into default, and pull out of the euro. Meanwhile, the Greece government told its lenders, that we now call “Troika” today, that it will not agree to any more austerity measures. Joining us today, to take a closer look at the Greek situation is Michael Hudson. Michael is a distinguished Professor of Economics, at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He’s the author of many books, and the latest among them is, J is for Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in the Age of Deception.

Thank you so much for joining us today, Michael.

MICHAEL HUDSON: It’s good to be here. But I take issue with one thing that you said. You said the lenders expect Greece to grow. That is not so. There is no way in which the lenders expected Greece to grow. In fact, the IMF was the main lender. It said that Greece cannot grow, under the circumstances that it has now.

What do you do in a case where you make a loan to a country, and the entire staff says that there is no way this country can repay the loan? That is what the IMF staff said in 2015. It made the loan anyway – not to Greece, but to pay French banks, German banks and a few other bondholders – not a penny actually went to Greece. The junk economics they used claimed to have a program to make sure the IMF would help manage the Greek economy to enable it to repay. Unfortunately, their secret ingredient was austerity.

Sharmini, for the last 50 years, every austerity program that the IMF has made has shrunk the victim economy. No jjunkeconausterity program has ever helped an economy grow. No budget surplus has ever helped an economy grow, because a budget surplus sucks money out of the economy. As for the conditionalities, the so-called reforms, they are an Orwellian term for anti-reform, for cutting back pensions and rolling back the progress that the labor movement has made in the last half century. So, the lenders knew very well that Greece would not grow, and that it would shrink.

So, the question is, why does this junk economics continue, decade after decade? The reason is that the loans are made to Greece precisely because Greece couldn’t pay. When a country can’t pay, the rules at the IMF and EU and the German bankers behind it say, don’t worry, we will simply insist that you sell off your public domain. Sell off your land, your transportation, your ports, your electric utilities. This is by now a program that has gone on and on, decade after decade.

Now, surprisingly enough, America’s ambassador to the EU, Ted Malloch, has gone on Bloomberg and also on Greek TV telling the Greeks to leave the euro and go it alone. You have Trump’s nominee for the ambassador to the EU saying that the EU zone is dead zone. It’s going to shrink. If Greece continues to repay the loan, if it does not withdraw from the euro, then it is going to be in a permanent depression, as far as the eye can see.

Greece is suffering the result of these bad loans. It is already in a longer depression today, a deeper depression, than it was in the 1930s.

SHARMINI PERIES: Yeah, that’s an important… at the very beginning of your answer here, you were making this very important point, is that although the lenders – this is the Eurozone lenders – had set a target of 3.5% surplus as a condition on Greece in order to make that first bailout loan. The IMF is saying, well, that’s not quite doable, 1.5% should be the target.

But you’re saying, neither of these are real, or is achievable, or desired, for that matter, because they actually want Greece to fail. Why are you saying that?

MICHAEL HUDSON: Because when Greece fails, that’s a success for the foreign investors that want to buy the Greek railroads. They want to take over the ports. They want to take over the land. They want the tourist sites. But most of all, they want to set an example of Greece, to show that France, the Netherlands or other countries that may think of withdrawing from the euro – withdraw and decide they would rather grow than be impoverished – that the IMF and EU will do to them just what they’re doing to Greece.

So they’re making an example of Greece. They’re going to show that finance rules, and in fact that is why both Trump and Ted Malloch have come up in support of the separatist movement in France. They’re supporting Marine Le Pen, just as Putin is supporting Marine Le Pen. There’s a perception throughout the world that finance really is a mode of warfare.

If they can convince countries somehow to adopt junk economics and pursue policies that will destroy themselves, then they’ll be easy pickings for foreign investors, and for the globalists to take over other economies. So, it’s a form of war.

SHARMINI PERIES: Right. Michael, you were saying that the newly appointed ambassador, Ted Malloch of the Trump administration to the European Union has suggested that Greece should consider leaving the European Union, or the euro in particular.

What do you make of this, and will this be then consistent with what Greece is suggesting? Because Greece has now said, no more austerity measures. We’re not going to agree to them. So, this is going to amount to an impasse that is not going to be resolvable. Should Greece exit the euro?

MICHAEL HUDSON: Yes, it should, but the question is how should it do it, and on what terms? The problem is not only leaving the euro. The problem really is the foreign debt that was bad debt that it was loaded onto by the Eurozone. If you leave the euro and still pay the foreign debt, then you’re still in a permanent depression from which you can never exit.

There’s a broad moral principle here: If you lend money to a country that your statistics show cannot pay the debt, is there really a moral obligation to pay the debt? Greece did have a commission two years ago saying that this debt is odious. But it’s not enough just to say there’s an odious debt. You have to have something more positive.

I’ve been talking to Greek politicians and Syriza leaders about what’s needed, and what is needed is a Declaration of Rights. Just as the Westphalia rules in 1648, a Universal Declaration that countries should not be attacked in war, that countries should not be overthrown by other countries. I think, the Declaration of International Law has to realize that no country should be obliged to impose poverty on its population, and sell off the public domain in order to pay its foreign creditors.

The Declaration would say that if creditors make a debt that cannot be repaid, the debt is by definition odious, so there is no need to pay it. Every country has the right not to pay debts that are unpayable except by bankrupting the country, and forcing it to sell off their public domain to foreign countries. That’s the very definition of sovereignty.

So, I’m hoping to work with politicians of a number of countries to draw up this Declaration of Debtor Rights. That’s what’s been missing. There’s an idea that if you withdraw from the euro, you can devalue your currency and can lower labor standards even further, wipe out the pensions, and somehow squeeze out enough to pay the debt.

So, the problem isn’t only the Eurozone. True, joining the euro meant that you’re not allowed to run a budget deficit to pump money into the economy to recover – like America has done. But the looming problem is that you have to pay debts that are so far beyond your ability to pay that you’ll end up like Haiti did after it rebelled after the French Revolution.

France said, sure, we’ll give you your independence, but you’ll have to reimburse us, for the fact that we no longer hold you as slaves. You have to buy your freedom. You can’t say slavery is wrong. You have to make us, the slaveholders, whole. So Haiti took this huge foreign debt to France after it got its independence, and ended up not being able to develop.

A few years after that, in 1824, Greece had a revolution and found the same problem. It borrowed from the Ricardo brothers, the brothers of David Ricardo, the economist and lobbyist for the bankers in London. Just like the IMF, he said that any country can afford to repay its debts, because of automatic stabilization. Ricardo came out with a junk economics theory that is still held by the IMF and the European Union today, saying that indebted countries can automatically pay.

Well, Greece ended up taking on an enormous debt, paying interest but still defaulting again and again. Each time it had to give up more sovereignty. The result was basically a constant depression. Slow growth is what retarded Greece and much of the rest of southern Europe.

So unless they tackle the debt problem, membership in the Eurozone or the European Union is really secondary.

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Michael Hudson is a former Wall Street economist. A Distinguished Research Professor at University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC), he is the author of many books, including Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (new ed., Pluto Press, 2002). His new book is: Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy (a CounterPunch digital edition). Sharmini Peries is executive producer of The Real News Network. This is a transcript of Michael Hudson’s interview with Sharmini Peries on the Real News Network.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/02/21/finance-as-warfare-the-imf-lent-to-greece-knowing-it-could-never-pay-back-debt/

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justiceforgreece

May 1, 2017 @ 23:03

Open Letter to the People of Greece: You Are Being Slaughtered before the World’s Eyes
http://www.globalresearch.ca/open-letter-to-the-people-of-greece-you-are-being-slaughtered-before-the-worlds-eyes/5579023

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justiceforgreece

February 16, 2018 @ 11:47

Stiglitz: A cultural Genocide in Greece

05.02.2018

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Let’s talk about Greece, where you have been quite vocal in the past, especially at the peak of the 2015 negotiation process. This year we have started to see signs of sluggish growth and hear narratives of an economic recovery. How do you evaluate those?

I think what has happened in Greece is a normalization of poverty. I see no real recovery yet, I just think the economy has fallen so far that it’s almost inconceivable for it fall further. But I don’t see a reason to celebrate depression continuing, but not getting much worse. I think Greeks are finding way to cope as a society, but the long-run effects on society are devastating. The good side of Europe is that you can move freely and seek opportunity, the downside is that young people are now leaving Greece behind to seek jobs. It’s like a cultural genocide.

http://www.ekathimerini.com/225467/article/ekathimerini/comment/joseph-stiglitz-discusses-value-crisis-at-davos-greek-crisis

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justiceforgreece

April 19, 2018 @ 09:06

Μπορείτε –και πρέπει– να αναφέρετε παραβιάσεις των ανθρωπίνων δικαιωμάτων. Ακόμη και αν δε διώκονται, η δημοσιότητα ή η προοπτική μιας διερεύνησης μπορεί να έχει περιοριστικό αποτέλεσμα για τους δράστες.

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