Thursday, 5 November 2020
Greek CovidClown Parliament in the Service of FrancoGerman Lockdowns
Friday, 31 July 2020
Neo-Ottomanism in the Service of the Greek Covid Coup
Neo-Ottomanism in the Service of the Greek Covid Coup
Ahmet Davudoglou
“The sun almost set. Martin is nice like Istanbul… it has an eye that sees Mesopotamia…it belongs to a desire beyond this world…Just like Jerusalem…is a summary of the history of humanity… divided societies and the contradictions of the nation and of dogma. The colours left behind by the the tribes which passed, the elements left by the civilisations which were created here…an order was established…you must understand that the arrow which expanded from central Asia to eastern Anatolia, how they intermingled civilisations by the people who moved within the arrow and what type of unions they created by intermingling… the order which we refer to as Ottoman was created by the meeting of active human elements and a surrounding of stability.
We represent them all…we have a tremendous experience based on Greek civilisation, Mesopotamia, Persian civilisation, Egyptian, India and China, in the Balkans, in the Caucuses…The spirit of Turkey constitutes the centre of the spirit which in the future is aiming to constitute the spirit of the world order…”
Ahmed Davudoglou
Speech to Turkish Ambassadors South Eastern Turkey January 2010
Erdogan’s arrival on the political scene was inaugurated as a moderniser whose sole aim was to bring Turkey into the EU in the first decade of his rise to power. During his second decade a turn towards his near neighbours was made in an attempt to revive neo-ottomanism once it was becoming clear the US Empire was in retreat after the disastrous Iraq war which led to an Arab Spring and civil wars engulfing a series of Arab countries: Egypt, Syria, Libya etc.
Turkey and the EU
Greece became an ardent proponent and supporter of Turkish entry into the EU at the beginning of the 21st century which was stalled with the French Referendum (2005) and Brexit (2016) when Turkish entry twice became a campaign issue. The Greek love affair with all things Turkish can be seen by all the PMs in the 21st century being photographed with Erdogan, becoming godparents to his daughters children, dancing at NATO summits with Turkey’s Foreign Minister and encouraging mass migration from Turkish shores by a meet and greet policy unparalleled in modern times and can only be compared with the modern tourise industry. Being consistent with neo-Ottomanism the Greek state has funded on its own in times of serious economic crisis and built a Mosque in Athens, buys volumes and volumes of shows from Turkish tv, sells properties, hotels and businesses in abundance to Turkish citizens whilst not once taking retaliatory measures in anything Turkey does.
When Cyprus sold off its sea shelf to foreign multinationals the Turks started to threaten to drill in Cypriot coastal waters. To aid Erdogan the Greek shipowners moll Aggelopoulou (who was the 2004 Olympics organiser and subsequently given the Chairmanship of the 2021 celebrations of the modern Greek revolution of 1821) sold him a drilling ship which Turkey lacked and Greek geopolitics in the region has been to merge with Turkey and that course is still the main direction of ‘Greek’ foreign policy, which in reality is just German.
Since the failed Turkish coup of 2016 and Greece’s anti-Russian line (at the behest of US foreign policy) which became evident in Greece with the Hybrid Wars launched in the 2010 decade and subsequently when Greek agricultural exports towards Russia and the limiting of Russian tourist visas (extended this year to a total embargo) Greece has spent countless flight hours training Turkish pilots who are involved in hundreds of incursions into Greek airspace, but are never confronted only aided in flight manoeuvres. To cover for the blatantly open support for Erdogan a show was created with 8 Turkish officers which apparently sought asylum in Greece and were granted it for their alleged role in the Turkish coup.
Mass Migration
When Merkel ordered millions of AfroAsian migrants funded in part by Turkish airline offers to North Africa with $40 one way tickets to Istanbul then coordinated by buses from there, many ended up staying indefinitely on Greek islands near Turkey: Chios, Samos, Lesvos etc. This led to a people’s revolt on these islands and after the Greek PM tried to quell it by sending in hundreds of riot police from Athens they were beaten to a pulp and forced to return with their tale between their legs. This was a significant defeat not seen throughout the whole decade of the Troika austerity despite mass mobilisations general strikes and protests. Subsequently to this in order to raise the ‘nationalist’ credentials of the Greek PM Mitsotakis (globalist family based clan dominating Greek politics since WW2) Erdogan organised a show in the Greek Turkish border of Evros allegedly trying to storm the borders using AfroAsian migrants and Turkish special forces which the Greek riot police repelled. This was equivalent in form not content with the events that were going on in the US-Mexican border. A form of Trumpism had arrived in the EU by default not intent for the Greek government to gain a new lease of life.
Then Covid hit and the issue of mass migration as a new invading force from Erdogan dissapeared. After the alleged successful Greek Covid Coup and response the Greek govt appears to be repaying Erdogan in kind. Out of the blue and without warranting a reason Greece announced it is willing to go to the Hague to debate ‘disputed’ territorial waters. Open borders once more were back. Erdogan announced a sea corridor all the way to Western Libya cutting across Egyptian sea waters, Cypriot and Cretan and the Greek PMs response was not to ask for a joint Exclusive Economic Zone with Cyprus but to go the …Hague. For a long time now the position of the Greek elite has been to divide up the Aegean and defacto have open borders with Turkey.
Oil Geopolitics
21st Century has led to severe conflicts over competing superpower energy supplies Initially over the Russian South Stream pipeline which Greece signed for then reneged on, then the Azerbaijani pipeline which has been built but not really functionable as the US has fallen out with Turkey, Cypriot hydrocarbon finds and the selling off to Italian, US oil majors, the East Med pipeline deal with Israel, Greek hydrocarbon finds in the Ionian sea has meant everyone is interested and in particular Turkey. The mass investment by the Turkish state in military rearmament in Navy ships even a small aircraft carrier has meant it has arrived on the scene locked and loaded to question various parts of the Aegean Sea from Cypriot to Greek territorial waters.
One cannot of course know or predict the future course of developments or what Erdogan may or may not do, whether he is being encouraged to question every previous treaty with Greece, whether he seeks a break with NATO, whether he is being encouraged by Russia etc. The only thing that is certain is that he is involved in skirmishes with 3-4 countries already and adding Greece on the list with the effect that would have on existing Covid based tourism (which has already collapsed to 90% of previous years) means that the costs of rearmament, the effects of Great Depression 2 and the balancing act with world powers implies that not even the best trapeze artist on the planet could survive this geopolitical tightrope. In the last decade Erdogan has threatened Russia, America, France, Italy, etc. but all his moves towards Greece are measured and in prior agreement with the Greek government.
The problem that exists is how to sell a victory when in retreat to their respective populations. Both Erdogan and Mitsotakis are in weak positions. The Covid Lockdowns have exacerbated the economic crisis to the point of no return. A war would destroy the existing service based economy in the Aegean sea for both countries and there is no ultimate gain. On the other hand despite and apart from the Quisling nature of the existing Greek political class, the role of the military is an unstable factor for resistance to an invasion could create a real populist backlash. Greeks are concerned there is a presence of a few million Islamic origin migrants in the country and they could constitute a fifth column in support of Turkeys possible territorial ambitions and to forestall this the Greek PM at the behest of Germany (which is facing out nuclear power and requires EU based hydrocarbons) wants to make an agreement with Erdogan.
The issue now is do all the other EU powers: France, Italy or the UK?
Thursday, 30 April 2020
Corona Virus and the World Economic Crisis
MayDay Leaflet circulated in Athens 1st May 2020
Corona Virus and the World Economic Crisis
Today’s demo in support of Mayday is occurring under peculiar conditions. In reality under a concealed illegality. A demo under ‘conditions’. Under what conditions those gather, how many metres apart from each other, what type of health accessories are going to be required (masks, gloves etc.)! A Mayday demo we wouldn’t even dream in our wildest nightmares…
A cause for today’s ‘under conditions’ rally, and for all the stressful hardship which we have suffered in the last months (psychological and mainly economic) is Coronavirus! Which originated from where? In what manner? It’s hidden under a blanket mystery. Did it escape from a Chinese lab? Was it deliberately planted? Was it planted by the Americans? Is it humans fault, bats, nature? The essence is that we have a coincidence, a very big coincidence that it erupted just prior to the dawn of a great economic depression which all the international organisations and economists over a year ago were predicting was coming at full speed. Today the modest word depression has been replaced by the same people with the phrase the greatest economic crash ever. Which appears to be closer to reality. Comparing it with that of 1929 they say it will be bigger. How could it be any different? When in the last few years the profits of big business, the parasites of the world was based on massive financial bubbles which bore no reality to the real productive economy. Where unemployment grew massively and the demand for daily products fell exponentially. With the result being that capital abstained from any productive activity as it bore no …profits.
All these macabre developments which have occurred, met ‘by coincidence’ with Coronavirus. Without realising it we are in the midst of a global economic crash. How else can the measures be characterised that are taken to confront ‘Corona’ when suddenly 700.000 workers and professionals are on the streets and 260k businesses have shut down? How many of them will reopen? How many will be able to reopen? How many will be forced to close from now on?
We have no desire to listen to government pronouncements regarding a general indefinite return to ‘normality’. We are in a position to realise, that from now on we will live under totally new conditions. That using Corona virus, the first phase of the EU-IMF programme 2010-2012 with whatever was withheld from us will appear to be an idyllic situation compared to what is coming from the world system and the Mitsotakis government is preparing to serve us. The issue is that the popular movement, the working class and the youth must be prepared slowly but surely, for forms of struggle, which must in no way have the nature of the passive resistance of 2011…
Patriotic Left
Thursday, 16 April 2020
Greece 2020 Covid Coup: We Are at the End of an Era and the Beginning of a New One
Events usually pace ahead of a conscious understanding of what is occurring. Human consciousness requires time to ‘comprehend’ the true extent of the dimension of the problems which have been created in the intervening period in the near past or even further back.
The adventure with the deadly virus emerged again like a bolt of lightning out of the blue on the heads of all people on the planet… There was nothing that could be handheld something visible in general that could be discerned. Suddenly from MSM (here in Greece regarding) the information started to circulate regarding a virus which originated in China. In less that a week the simple information regarding ‘Coronavirus’ and we finally learnt its name) and was transformed by the MSM into an Armageddon. Not only in Greece but the whole world. The ‘news’ from MSM stopped reporting anything else that was occurring in the country. From dusk till dawn, the presstitutes with a sadistic mania kept on repeating the amount of ‘dead’, counting them (mostly from China and Italy) and the first alleged infections in Greece from whom the the first ….dead appeared. People who died due to serious health ailments who were arbitrarily diagnosed as being Covid-19. This has materialised from the various criticisms by family members have made regarding the adhoc diagnoses as well as banning postmortems… A state attitude which is repeated in other countries in an even bigger scale. The time had matured of course for the intervention of the WHO which characterised the virus as a Pandemic and from that moment onwards the fascistic mentality of banning movements from the ‘serious and responsible’ Mitsotakis government, was just a matter of time…Something which occurred finally with the aid of the MSM who in order to aid the government showed images from various areas that people were still travelling and out and endangering public health. The same aid was given by all the parties of the Opposition to Mitsotakis and not only them…
The majority of people are frightened and that is obviously natural. Its not a panic like occurs with earthquakes, whose murderous knock on effects is heard by all when they break out in a specific area. This is an undetermined fear, invisible, with which one doesn’t have an immediate contact, but is contracted by two human senses. By sight and smell. From the tv networks and radio waves where the people are watching and listening almost 24 hours a day every day, the triumphant increase of victims of Coronavirus in both the country one lives in or from the rest of the world. It’s a hidden fear which isn’t spread by a syringe, but bombards ones head and remains in the cells, in the psychosomatic aura of each individual influencing their psychology. At the same time the enforced enclosure in the house makes the situation worse. That is the reason why on the roads at the Supermarkets and other places various disturbances occur amongst those who are calm and those that are panicking, who behind their masks view those without one in a transmission of fear in a weird manner if anyone is close to them. But this is a transmissionable fear (which we spoke about already) which soon will have a sell by date. That will occur when everywhere will be felt the true dimensions of the economic developments which will bring about economic developments which will exist in the whole planet
The Economic Crisis Which We Will Experience
Coronavirus which they are trying to promote as a deadly virus threatens the whole of humanity, is a lie. Its an attempt to cover up the real disaster, which is the bursting of their bubble. For more than two years the most serious economists on a global level warned about the arrival of the of the current crisis. But the ceaseless bulimic demand for profit for a bunch of multinationals,, dominated. Its not a matter of stupidity. It’s the nature of the system. Thus the chain has been pushed to its breaking point, which inevitably will break. What will follow will be the break up of the chain and what will follow will be linked from the breaking point of this chain, which they have already blamed on the… Coronavirus. But in a very short period of time it will be clearly known: The real pandemic is capitalism itself….
Eric Toussaint who was a Doctor of Political Science and President of the Committee of Abolishing the Debt of the Third World in Belgium wrote the following in this big excerpt which we consider useful to quote: of dodgy products
“Whilst dominant mass media constantly maintain that the crisis of the stock exchanges has been provoked by the coronavirus I have emphasized for years now that we have all the conditions for a new financial credit crisis and that the coronavirus is just the spark or the excuse for the crisis in the stock exchanged and not the cause. The financial credit sphere is full years now with massive amounts of dodgy products who only required a spark to provoke an explosion: we weren’t sure for the precise year and cause but we knew it would come. Thus something had to be done to avoid it but nothing was done. Many writers of the radical left wrote about this crisis like Michael Roberts, Robert Brenner Francediil Chenais, Michael Hudson. From 2017, I have written frequently regarding the topic. A serious stock exchange collapse happened in December 2018 in Wall Street when under the pressure of a bunch of large private banks and the administration of Donald Trump, the Federal Reserve Bank of the USA started once more to lower the interest rates something which was supported by the large private companies which dominate in the stock exchange. The rapid increase in the value of stocks started when companies started to buy their own stocks. Utilising the fall in interest rates large private companies increased their debts and the big investment funds increased the purchase of all goods including those of industrial one utilizing debts.
Once again in Wall St from September 2019 there was a large liquidity crisis in a financial credit market which was already stretched by liquidity. A crisis of liquidity whilst having an oversupply of liquidity. It was a serious crisis and the federal reserves required an injection of billions of dollars to avoid a collapse of the markets. They maintained as well in their budget more than 1.3 trillion of toxic dollars of collateralized products which was bought from the banks in 2008 and 2009 as they correctly assumed that if they dumbed in the secondary debt market their values would collapse and would lead to a bigger stock market collapse and a bank collapse. The Fed did not act to defend the general interests of the population but to defend the interests of big business, the richest 1% of society. The ECB and the other big central banks (UK, Japan, Switzerland, China…) have implemented in the past the same policy and bear significant responsibility in accumulating toxic products in the financial credit sector.
I maintain the pandemic isn’t the true and deep rooted cause of the crisis of the stock markets which occurred in the last week of February 2020 and has continued since then. This pandemic was the detonator and a spark. Other serious causes of a different nature also had the result to constitute the spark like the development of a war between Washington and Iran, or the immediate invasion of Venezuela. For the current stock market crisis war would have been the cause. But I would also argue that if such a war did occur it would have been the excuse but not the cause. Therefore if there is an undoubted connection between the two phenomena, the crisis of the financial market and the pandemic of the Coronavirus, that does not mean we shouldn’t condemn the simple and basic explanations which put all responsibility on coronavirus. This almost mystical expalanation is an excuse which aims to divert public opinion (99%) from the role the policies which serve the large businesses on a planetary level and in agreement with governments”
This with regard the so called stock market bubbles, which are created from the moment the real economy in the realms of production, but the exchange of produced goods, is collapsing irretrievably. Despite and apart the unavoidable inter-imperialist (essentially amongst the multinationals) a trade war that has broken out in the last years amongst the US, China amongst the USA and with the, whole of the EU mainly Germany there has been a big stasis in production. Which was of course related to a big drop in demand. Eric Toussaint once again informs us that in 2019 a crisis of overproduction of goods occurred in particular in the auto industry with a mass drop in car sales in China, India, Germany and Great Britain and elsewhere. This led to a reduction in the production of cars. There was also overproduction in the German tools industry and industrial infrastructure being one of the global leaders in this field. There was also a rapid fall in Chinese industrial production which had serious consequences for countries that export infrastructure, cars and raw materials towards China. During the second six month period in 2019 the industrial sector in Germany, Italy and Japan, in South Africa and Argentina and elsewhere and the construction sector in the USA went into depression.
Even if all these components didn’t exist, the massive reduction in the demand of oil internationally, is the most clear (we have written this before) clear witness for the great reduction in production. What relationship do all these events therefore have with the coronavirus?
What Will Occur from Now On?
All the signs indicate that todays situation not only shows but screams that we are at the final disruption of what they term ‘normality’, which in the last decade has become part of our life determined by the IMF Memorandums. Whatever one calls todays development the essence is one. We are at the end of one era and the beginning of another. It’s like reading the introduction of a book isolating it to understand the main topic of the book. Hyperbolic this explanation? We is will soon know.
We know the masses are frightened from the myth of Coronavirus they are asleep and other ‘explanations’ which we have been hearing for years. All those that argue like this done understand or ignore that in periods of severe economic crisis and social crisis none of the above external or even internal sociopolitical characteristics which people acquire can continue indefinitely. The motor of life just goes to zero and starts to measure once more. Marx’s famous aphorism that the ‘masses make their own history making revolutions that they did not want to make’ is what will in last analysis determine the developments that will follow. This immediate turn of the people’s attitude in critical periods of history, always bothered the ruling classes (but also the useless intellectuals) and surprised them. That is why they continue to see the masses with a vantage point of superiority from the high pedestal of brain waves in their head which are primary and their actually confused head secondary…
There must be no doubt. We have entered into a different period now. It’s a new historical stage to which the working masses have to go through and not only them. This new level apart from its tragedy, maintains a new but very significant element. The necessary political economic materials which have been battle hardened via the fire of developments the new views and new ideas which will once more see the light of day. This will apply to all the countries of the earth. This already is the big change with today and before. Each country with its own idiosyncrancies and the balance of class forces which have been created internally will enter the cauldron. A cauldron with which the hope exists that when it ends the historical time will emerge that the planet will radically change as a whole.
Friday, 20 March 2020
Greece 2020: Covid Dictatorship to Mask Capitalist Collapse for a Totalitarian New Order
‘We are here for the health of the people and their well being’ Mitsotakis Greek Premier
Governments and Oppositions all singing from the same hymn sheet.
An article appeared way back that the Chinese lockdown would last six weeks and today that this is being written no new cases of Covid have hit China and the circus of this virus is over at least there. So the Chinese shutdown ensured around two months of production ceased which is equivalent to between 10-15% of all production and if not everyone returned at once then this could increase.
They are already predicting around 25% of new unemployment and in Greece added to the official amount we are back once more to the levels of 2012 with the added difference that no one now can leave the country and go anywhere. All new measures will be passed provisionally and will then be attempted to become permanent. To get from A to B they will test people’s reactions, the extent to which they follow the rules and they have taken provisions to empty the prisons to add new clients who refuse to cooperate. Already we have a massive coordinated campaign by the opposition to attack the govts for not imposing the lockdown and adopting religiously the campaign Stay At Home and treat pensioners as pariahs. The old tactics of divide and rule.
In the first week of this campaign they emphasised that people should not be in the beaches or go to the parks, everyone should religiously wash hands every five minutes and wear silly masks. They have cancelled the Army Parade for Independence Day 25th March and they have asked all Church goers to abstain from the Church, measures which haven’t realistically happened ever. Of course all these measures are done for our health and safety as govts have that as a top priority in particularly when they allow homelessness to go through the roof, anyone to come into the country who is able to rob loot and steal primarily pensioners, and children to be fainting in class from hunger or the legions of unemployed who live on the margins of society. So the only logical explanation is that once the full extent of the measures are announced and implemented reaction will occur and then the quarantine measures will go out of the window overnight and announcements will occur that the virus has subsided. But the problem from the Greek point of view is that the weather isn’t identical to Northern Europe, or Northern Italy and to keep people in when temperatures reach 30c will be impossible. Divorces will skyrocket, children of a certain age will not be able to be policed…
Coffins attirbuted to Bergamo City in Lombardy Region but from the Lampedusa earthquake- Fake News in Greek Media
Presstitutes attacking the people on behalf of the Capitalist Lockdown.
The mass media of disinformation that gave us the fake 9/11, the fake WMD’s, fake ISIS, fake climate change etc. has now added the fake virus to control all reaction to collapsing capitalism. In the last two weeks there are daily attacks on ‘Greeks’ those who don’t follow the prescriptions of the collapse and stay in to commit voluntary hara-kiri and the irony of the situation is that the 150-200k migrants in camps who are living in third world conditions have never caught the alleged ‘virus’. It is only a phenomenon for Greeks.
So despite and apart from the 24/7 propaganda those that have lost their jobs wont easily be controlled by people with their verbal propaganda and only the club of the riot police can ensure the total lockdown continues. Already Lombardy is suffering a four week lockdown and then Bloomberg comes along with the Italian medical report and states 99% of victims have other ailments and are of a certain age and that is the area which in 2018 there were 100000 deaths so to rebrand a few thousand as dying of a …virus, which is the new plague, out to succumb millions is beyond a joke as now its officially also stopped spreading in China.
There was a unit of the now defunct paper Eleftherotipia that ran all the 17N fake terrorist group propaganda for a few decades and guess what it was called ‘the virus’, so the Greek media isn’t new to this type of bullshit. It is its bread and butter. It’s the same media that sold the IMF crisis as being the fault of the ‘lazy Greek’ the ‘plumber who didn’t issue invoices’ ‘the Mediterranean lifestyle’ etc. but not the overleveraged corporate banks or the financial oligarchy that runs the world.
People have changed the slogan Stay At Home and have written of the migrant blow ins We Will Enter your Homes
What will Mitsotakis do with the mass repossesions he inaugurated in April? The hotel industry will collapse if it loses this summers bookings and all associated trades leading to the question that will he then utilise the migrant blow ins to become hotel guests? Either which way shutting down business activity based on a false premise doesn't imply that when they cease this nonsense things will function as they did before.
Having now pumped in globally around $100 trillion since since the crash of 2008 they have outstanding derivative commitments to the tune of $60 trillion and whatever they do the stock markets they will continue to collapse and a capitalist lockdown will make everything worse. But the main reason they require it is socio political. In previous times in the past when there was a crash there were severe social disturbances in particular the Veterans March on Washington in 1932 which brought down Hoover and inaugurated Roozevelt's New Deal. But this was almost 100 years ago and US imperialism is in the doldrums, totally indebted, with military bases in 1,000 locations worldwide and a laughing stock being attacked abroad and unable to secure any military victories two decades now when it launched its unipolar path to total global control. Not only are the stock markets going to continue to collapse but the capitalist lockdown is an attempt to use the old medicine under new conditions by assuming people will Stay Home (‘Menoume Spiti’) and commit collective hara-kiri.
The Greek Premier via the paid presstitutes will announce a total lockdown which will be broken as it’s impossible to lock people in their homes 24/7 without having the army on the streets and with patrols everywhere. They don’t have the manpower nor the social forces anymore to impose it as the globalists are in their homes and frightened of venturing out as they believe they will catch a …virus. The last great crash exposed the fragility of global capitalism. This crash will collapse the states themselves as the old medicine of bailouts for banksters and Universal Basic Income for people will destroy the value of all money…
Tuesday, 17 March 2020
Greece 2020: Covid Lockout as a Cover for Global Capitalist Collapse Part One
Greece 2020: Covid Lockout as a Cover for Global Capitalist Collapse
“Our first priority is to save lives. Our interest are humans and public health” Mitsotakis Greek PM
“We correctly suspended all mass party activities as we have a high concept of social responsibility” Tsipras
From Stay in Europe to... Stay at Home
All beaches closed to the public and the hotel industry closed till 30th April 2020
For decades the fake left had maximum 24 hours strikes. During the arrival of the IMF they extended it to a whopping 48 hours. Now we have a government General Strike against its citizens by initially closing down schools, then all shops and now by shutting down all economic activity bar supermarkets and pharmacies, for 14 days which will be extended and at the same time with no actual support of those sectors closing down. Never before have we had so much political unity with all the parties supporting the measures to commit collective economic and social hara-kiri over a 2nd pandemic by the WHO since 2000.
A 24/7 propaganda started of an alleged virus which originated from China that they have taken war measures without actually completing any other related issues, like ration cards, emergency payments, emergency hospitals just one attack after the other against the citizens for being outside by the sea, for people opening their businesses but at the same time they are accepting and shipping in migrant blow ins to various parts of the country. They also allegedly banned marches but the antifa brigades marched in central Lesvos.
The US crisis started in 1971 and the transfer of production to China alongside the rise of technology ie automation in many sectors of the economy meant a lot of economies in the West became service sector economies and the expansion of wars in the last two decades during the USA’s attempt at becoming the unipolar leader of the world failed abysmally.
Marx noted over 170 years ago analysing capitalist production that the rapid development of production and the constant competition that increases the availability of material goods, productive forces would eventually pass into fewer and fewer hands, at the same time as unemployment rising, whilst products produced cannot be consumed by the actual markets.
What can we say about our era? Trains drive on their own, buses and cars are being tipped to be driverless, whole sectors of production are automated, this is now the main blockage for the global economy and why they started importing migrants for cheap labour to lower all standards and wages. It appears the microchips have held their necks hostage and blood is no longer flowing to the brain. Noticing everything that is going on around us they are trying to solve the problems they haven’t so far been able to ie have skeleton workforces and computerise everything using the feeble excuse of a fake virus with silly masks on people’s faces. Capitalism in decline has entered clown world and its difficult to see how they step back from this after the stock market collapses and the shutdown of cities, ie the general lockouts imposed.
What measures will they Take? The Future is Here in the Present
As days go by more and more the lies surrounding the Corona virus will spread much faster than the actual non-existent virus itself. Here we are dealing with a crime and the alibi a murderer always requires before he gets the victim and this is a global crime started in China for their own specific reasons and spread to the EU via Italy and finally to the UK and the USA (with the lockdown of New York and Los Angeles)
Already many workers are in the air as many businesses have shut down by government dictat. If the individual boss lockdowns the business then the responsibility falls on the shoulder of the owners to pay the wages, but in the case it is a government decision then there is no such obligation. So what will happen?
To support all those on wages they claim they will give Euro 400 that all obligations to Inland Revenue to be suspended. In reality all anti worker provisional measures taken will become… permanent like the old ‘haratsi’ (property tax which was a provisional tax by the IMF) which a decade later is still here.
What are they actually preparing? To increase home working another step in the direction of part time work which they have introduced. A lecturer at the Athens Economic and Business school said “maybe the Corona virus epidemic is something extraordinary in business activities but the practice will remain intact when the ‘alarm’ is over. As many businesses and govts are losing billions of Euros due to the epidemic, some actions will become permanent.
Thus what will be supported significantly in the last years like remote working which isn’t something new, but now is given an extra impetus by a virus and increases massively its development. Already technological giants like Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Facebook asked from the workers to work from home.
The changes which are coming will lead or stigmatise our society and its structures but the economy and its businesses with a more sudden and violent way, processes that came to arrive. As is noted in Harvard Buisness Review in an article on Corona virus and business ‘prepare for a changed world’. Everything is changing, in such a fashion where the change could be characterised as a darwinian development’ The man is stating it in a veiled form but for the peoples of the world he implies the gates of hell have opened.
The lecturer at the University of Athens George Doukidis noted ‘In Greece one can discern that we can be influenced negatively by serious pillars of the national economy like tourism, transportation and various export sectors.
At the same time the psychology of the consumers is being influenced negatively. The reduction of markets, of movements and those who take part in meetings/festivals beyond the reasons of hygiene are also linked to the insecurity which dominates and is ‘translated’ into behaviour which we observe in periods of deep economic crisis’…
Friday, 13 March 2020
Greece 2020: Self organisation, Self arming, Revolutionary Repatriations
Greece 2020: Self organisation, Self arming, Revolutionary Repatriations
Almost all reports surfacing and almost all discussions by Greeks are now centred on how the nation can survive with the external direct threats of being flooded with millions of migrant blow ins from neighbouring Turkey. A real collapse of Greece will lead severe regional disruption and a collapse of major trade routes East to West due to the geographic position of Greece. The comprador Greek ruling class wants to integrate with Turkey to co-manage the Aegean and ensure Greeks are beaten down indefinitely and are destroyed as a nation. Without a nation at its core there is no possibility of any social gains or improvements.
Self-organisation Self-arming of Greeks
The day after the defeat of ND globalist hordes in Chios, Samos, Lesvos the ‘Guardian’ set the tone whose phantom reporter Helena Smith immediately set upον the peoples committees which are manning roadblocks and the skittle was taken over by EfSYN (Greek pro Syriza paper) and Bogiopoulos (KKE presstitute) characterising not the whole islanders (how could they) but individuals and self-appointed committees as being hidden Nazis etc. Without understanding whats happened to them they try to continue in the old format under new conditions and are failing abysmally. Why?
Lesvos historically was a ‘red island’ so selling ‘war refugees’ to them was easy when everyone politically sang from the same hymn sheet. There was an indication something else would happen but few picked up on it. When the NGO’s round occupying empty govt. buildings they extended it to the offices or space of the official union movement without realising that these offices are where a bunch of parasites now reside and in many regional areas the only ones who still play lip service to workers are those association with the KKE. When their Labour Centre was taken over in Lesvos they retook it with clubs and threw out the NGO’s. At the time the Greek Home office ‘anarchists’ who reside in Exarchia then went on a search and destroy mission trying to attack KKE militants for being ….anti-refugee.
Five years down the line after living through a subsidised illegal immigrant occupation of their islands which has made it impossible to have a basic right of free movement on the islands without the fear of theft, being mugged or raped one sees that the right of ‘free movement’ becomes the right to suppress the basic democratic rights of citizens in a county they grew up in and were born. Turning indigenous workers into a minority in their own country would not obviously occur without major eruptions and as such was the earthquake that hit the Aegean islands. This has already forced the government to not accept new migrant blow ins by the boatload despite them arriving in their tens of hundreds.
We have heard reports of NGO’s leaving the island of NGO warehouses being burnt of NGO’s being attacked. This was obviously a characteristic of every retreating occupying army they destroyed their tracks and traces. Without doubt in the not too distant future we will hear reports of their drug dealing, organ selling, torture and rapes after all when you dump a whole bunch of self-serving neoliberal lumpenised individuals from many nations, give them free food and nothing to do all day but watch porn inevitably you have created conditions of an internal prison but in open spaces where contact with the local population would always become adversary. We aren’t dealing here with real ‘war refugees’ those that show humility in their surroundings, aim to integrate or learn a new culture but an army of neoliberal fakeugees, who assume they will replace the host population as they have been told by the army of NGO’s that they are worthless, useless pointless.
One now sees how a real strike and a few protests lead a change in the balance of forces to the host nation and can clearly discern the contours which this path will take. If the anti-austerity protests of the first half of the decade led to the rise of Syriza and a stalemate, the next half of the decade saw an attempt at a state subsidised approach at replacing Greeks both by propagating they should all emigrate to greener pastures abroad or that the demographic collapse of the Greek nation should be arrested by bringing in tens of thousands of AfroAsian ‘school age’ children. By breaking the back of the Greek nation ie what binds a specific group of people in any given nation state they could then do whatever they wanted in whatever way they wanted.
One can also view the rebellion in the Aegean islands as the dying act of a nation in its death throes. That is also certainly the case. If this new decade does not lead to Greeks getting armed and remaining in popular committes to defend their existing way of life they will be unable not only to make any gains but to actually be able to exist within the realms of a society where gains can actually be made. The irony of history is that the Americanisation of Greek life led to its breakdown and the roots of this breakdown are that it can provide either the seeds of national renewal or disappearance.
Evros
Under pressure from the Aegean islands ND adopted a ‘nationalist’ line sending troops riot police, border guards, national guards etc. to defend the border with Turkey. Mitsotakis went on a walkabout tour and people came out to cheer the same people that would have been screaming at him for sending riot troops to the Aegean islands. Therein lies the contradiction, of a state which is solidly committed to mass replacement migration having to act in a manner with which it appears to be on the side of the nation it wants to dismember. This is a sign of weakness and creates a vacuum that inevitably gets filled. When one sees farmers sending their trucks there to defend the border and over the last years they have been mobilised many times over blocking the imports and exports of products for their sectional demands (ie reduction of CAP subsidies etc.) they bring a wealth of experience and mobilisation to any new situation. When one sees individuals turning up with their trucks and putting their beam lights on to show the paths and routes where the migrant blow ins may cross one sees that all these disparate groups are united with one aim. To close the borders. Enough is enough.
This obviously has a revolutionising effect on Greeks on the Aegean islands and they mobilise greeting the fakeugees on the coast telling them they not wanted. Once large enough numbers of people get mobilised over issues they would put their life on the line it implies the genie is out of the bottle and its difficult to put it back in. The general culture changes and the dictatorship of political correctness which was never particularly strong in Greece goes out of the window.
Pakistanis undressed Syrians being shot, boats being ordered to be sunk blow ins being teargassed etc. Creating a picture of a defensive Greek state for global circulation a tough new ‘nationalist’ PM who is so embedded in the in the globalist system of mass migration that many members of his family actually run migrant NGOs.
When we see alleged university professors writing a joint statement about mass migration and how planet AfroAsia needs to be housed and fed and when we see Greek lawyers taking Greece to court for allegedly suspending asylum for one month alongside Erdogan their cover has been blown.
Revolutionary Repatriations
To what extent are they going to be able to run the border show for internal and global consumption and for how long is the question under review. The only thing certain is that after the revolt in the Aegean islands it will be difficult for any government to re-package the same globalist propaganda regarding ‘war refugees’ and flood the islands to such an extent the Greeks are finally pushed out. The only prospect left for Greeks is to arm themselves and demand revolutionary repatriation and take back control of their destiny.
9th March
VN Gelis
Monday, 9 March 2020
'I Stand With Greece' Who is Behind It? Turkey opens the Floodgates
This week on a special English-language edition of Dialogos Radio, producer-host Dr. Michael Nevradakis, along with author and ex-university lecturer Evans Agelissopoulos, discuss in detail the rapidly changing developments following Turkey’s decision to “open the floodgates” and release hundreds of thousands of migrants towards Greece and Europe.
Topics that will be covered on this week’s broadcast include the following:
- Are Greece’s borders really “closed” or does the sea passage towards Greece remain open while the media narrative focuses on the pressures at the mainland border with Turkey?
- Are the Greek and Turkish governments mutually taking advantage of this situation for their own ends?
- In Greece, might we be headed towards the establishment of a national unity government?
- Will the current government attempt to proceed with the construction of “closed” migrant camps, but this time on the mainland?
- Are the “refugees” really escaping war and violence in Syria or are they from elsewhere?
- Are these developments leading to the resurrection of patriotic sentiment in Greece?
- What was the outcome of Erdogan’s recent meeting with Vladimir Putin and what can be expected from Erdogan’s meeting with EU officials?
- How are the mainstream media, the “left” and the “alt-right” each framing the narrative surrounding the migrant crisis through their own biased lens?
- How is #IStandWithGreece being co-opted by “patriotic” Greek organizations that have not supported Greek national issues in the past?
- How is it that Turkey does not have one reported Coronavirus (Covid-19) case when it operates as a transit point from countries where there have been outbreaks of the virus?
- Finally, what’s behind the politics of open borders and free migration?
All this and more will be discussed in detail on this week’s special edition of Dialogos Radio—hear it via our network of affiliated radio stations worldwide during the week of March 9-15, 2020, or online via our podcast, YouTube, or Mixcloud:
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Monday, 2 March 2020
Greece 2020 Working with Turkey: Erdogan Mitsotakis Aiming to Co-manage Migrant Flows and the Aegean Sea
Greece 2020: Erdogan Mitsotakis Aiming to Co-manage Migrant Flows and the Aegean Sea
What you gonna do when they come for you?
“Those who attacked the riot police are scum” Mitsotakis Greek PM
We live in strange times. Never before has a government which allegedly represents the interests of a specific nation requisitioned land at the point of a gun to hand it over to illegal immigrant occupiers. But that is the specific case point in Greece. After destroying wages and pensions in an economic freefall attack creating a collapse of GDP to the tune of 25% far greater and longer than any semi-developed state in modern history we are now witnessing an avalanche of coordinated hatred against all those who refuse to be replaced.
Three islands have become the focal point of conflict: Chios, Lesvos, Samos, but not only, after they created migrant receptions centres in 2016 when over a million passed through Greece allegedly from the Syrian war. Since then it has been revealed over 80 odd nations are represented from these fake ‘wars’ gaining ‘refugee’ status which grants them around €3-400 monthly and if they manage to get out of the reception centres an apartment in any major Athenian city.
Premier Mitsotakis explaining border security to the nation
We used to have backpack tourism in the 1960’s and 1970’s whereby tourists would camp on or near beaches in the summer months which for some spread over to most of the year, that then gave way to mass tourism, the package holiday and the emergence of 4x and 5x hotels, now we have a new type of tourist the Afroasian migrant ‘refugee’ who if he declares he is under 16 but in reality way over gets special treatment ie a trebling of benefits equivalent to a minimum of €1,500 a month which is double the starting salary of Greek public hospital doctor. This is the only economic roadshow for our times.
We saw in the Greek media details published of three companies granted around a €1 millioneach to set up new migrant camps on land which they just took from citizens. Now normally land is taken for issues of national emergency ie. if one is facing an external threat, an invasion etc. Here we have a continuation of the policies of the 3rd Reich which requisitioned land and food for the occupation army of Hitler but this time round for Merkel's fake refugees to break the back of the Greek nation and destroy its capacity to reproduce and get erased, a prospect it has faced many times over its 5,000 year history.
New Democracy: Merkels Boot Boys
Having assumed power on a campaign of reducing migrant flows and controlling the free for all on the Aegean islands which has led to Greeks becoming prisoners in their own homes, they opened the floodgates once in power shipping tens of thousands over from Turkey and creating in the last six months a new situation which was noted in a previous article, of creating migrant camps everywhere in Greece and housing migrant blow ins in more than 70 Greek cities.
A campaign started by the Soros funded ‘antifascist’ KEERFA alongside the Muslim Association of Greece (who are on record in stating the islands in the Aegean are Islamic) to educate and take on board migrant blow ins in all schools under cover that if they don’t the schools will close as Greeks aren’t having children. Taking into account over 500.000 citizens have left the country and wages for those in work are so low that one can’t live independently or start a family by the EU austerity imposed on Greeks, it’s ironic the government can finance health care for blow ins to the tune of €30 billion and provide free housing, free food and free money which isn’t provided to the homeless Greeks or those that live in the dark as they have no money to pay for electricity or feed their children which continue to faint in schools due to the lack of nutrition.
The Fear of Erdogan’s Turkey
Never before as well has the ruling class and all its representatives in Parliament been so in unison in their final war against the Greek nation. They are all singing from the same hymn sheet and characteristic is the manoeuvring over hydrocarbons found in the Aegean sea which the Greek government wants to share with Turkey to bail Erdogan out of the bind he is currently in, in both Syria and Libya. The two pronged attack against Greeks is the constant fear peddling MSM about an imminent Turkish invasion (ships drilling off the coast of Cyprus and Crete, fighter jet incursions etc.) and the unleashing of Turkeys migrant blow ins, to ensure that all the islanders are there to serve their own disappearance and extinction with their own money, land, jobs and women.
The three islands in question have their own idiosyncratic existence with Lesvos being famous for ouzo production Chios being famous for world famous mastiha (tree plant producing chewing gum) and Samos being famous for sweet wine production. Lesvos being the largest of the three with its own electricity generating plant became famous for being a ‘red’ island throughout its history with a strong labour movement in power generation and guerrilla war activity against the German occupation and the subsequent civil war whereby they continued to fight months later even after the official downing of arms by EDES forces under the then General Secretary of the Greek KKE, Zahariades…
These islands are currently housing over 50k blow ins and there aren’t more than 150k citizens on them, most of them of a certain age due to the catastrophic demographic collapse of Greece in the last two decades. Requisitioning land at the behest of three large private property companies to ship over containers to house just as many blow ins turning the islanders a minority on the islands doesn’t take into account the physical landscape and how the actual infrastructure is going to cope in terms of water usage, sewage, power. These are all minor issues in the globalist era as accommodating the self-IDing of migrants in order to grant them ‘refugee status’ nowadays is all the rage. If someone doesn’t support the situation they are then labelled with abusive epithets reaching the point of being branded a …nazi. Whilst the concept of the territorial integrity and independence of nations is now just a byword in the era of globalism, the way of life of citizens no longer holds as accepting your neighberhood or your city centre to turn into a migrant dumping ground is what is acceptable.
Mass replacement Migration at the Point of a Club and Rubber bullets
Mitsotakis not wanting to repeat the mistakes of his erstwhile member Kammenos (ex Independent Greeks) who was part of the coalition government that governed with Syriza tried the Kos effect on the islanders. He bused in probably around 1,000 riot police on the three islands in a coordinated attack to occupy the requisitioned land and crack some heads open in the process for any that stood in the way. They landed on over three ports with army personnel as well (engineers with diggers) hiding the signal of the ships so the locals couldn’t know when they are arriving and then proceeded to attack the locals in battles that lasted for two days in many parts of the islands.
To name a few of the battles as there were so many. Farmers used tractors to attack riot police vans and to repel them after riot police attacked unarmed citizens protesting, stopped cars and motorbikes of citizens who weren’t involved in the protests and took them out and beat them, a video clearly shows 4-5 riot police cracking the head open of a protester by rubbing his face into the concrete ground, other citizens showed casings of rubber bullets fired at them, riot police are seen smashing up cars on their retreat, riot police are seen retreating into an army base and being confronted by enraged citizens, riot police used police helicopters to fire tear gas at citizens etc.
The actual list is endless and the attacks occurred in so many places at once it’s difficult to write anything all one can add is that riot police were created to police junctions in city blocks and disperse citizens congregated in certain areas. Taking them to mountain roads, mini forests, open air plots of land is extremely foolish as local citizens in many of these islands are armed and if attacked under any conditions will respond as they did apparently sending around 70 riot police to hospital with reports of even injuries up to and including death.
Greek Churches raised to the ground in Lesvos
First major defeat of the globalist oligarchs of Greece
Despite all the strikes and battles of the last decade up to and including the anti-IMF protests of the early 2010 decade, the rise of the alleged ‘anti-austerity’ Syriza and the protests over the name Macedonia, the defeat inflicted in the Aegean islands following on from the successful local general strike where everything stopped for a day about a month ago is significant. Local citizens without the ‘fear’ of Erdogan, Golden Dawn tainted labels, antifa etc. resisted and beat New Democracys goons in the first major battle of the 2020 decade.
Whilst the battles of the 2010 decade when Greeks marched in their tens of thousands held over 30 general strikes, protest days etc. tried to overturn road tolls, electricity cut-offs, stave off mass sackings, wage and pension cuts and they were defeated either in part or in whole, the stage is now set for our extinction as a nation by the rapid mass replacement agenda forestalled in part with the rise of Brexit and Trump but now being returned with a vengeance as the last throw of the dice by the globalists.
Their aim of course is to go over to a co-management of tens of millions of AfroAsians in migrant camps set up all over Greece and the co-management of the Aegean sea which has extensive hydrocarbons to help out ErDOGan in his time of need in particular to make him honorary President of the Committee to Celebrate the 200 years from the 1821 Revolution which saw Greece break away from the Ottoman Empire as after all our oligarchs sell him the drilling platforms he uses to invade Greek and Cypriot territorial waters to go on exploratory missions whilst at the same time questioning the whether various islands in the Aegean are actually Greek.
Having lost the Aegean islands the Greek govt must have got on the blower to Erdogan and asked him to send over tens of thousands of migrants to create a border issue so as to draw attention away from the Aegean islands. The govt so far has responded with troops, border guards and riot police arriving at Kastanies the Greek Turkish border post that links the Greek motorway and Turkey. Far quicker would have been if the Greek government just closed the border blocking Turkish road freight passing through. That would last maximum 2-3 weeks. If the Turks then sent across any weaponised migrants they would go bankrupt.
But knowing the globalist roots of the whole of the Greek political class in and out of Parliament they have continued to accept and accelerate the migrants in the Aegean islands. So Evros has been set up to counterattack the Aegean islanders.
The promising news from the islands is that without party political control the islanders are thinking outside the box. They have confronted the riot police guerrilla style as well as NGO’s, they are blocking roads, setting up peoples committees and taking back control of their islands and their lives. This is a battle that will only have one outcome. Those who labour will rule. Or they will become extinct. The local just went national…
VN Gelis
1st March 2020