Is the propaganda machine which supports the financial establishment (perhaps I should rephrase this, they "own" the propaganda machine), which has been pumping out the message that, if a "No" result comes in (which it seems certain), then the Greek world will crash and burn.
Placing
fear in the hearts of ordinary people is, and has been the methodology
of any powerful plutocracy and so long as the public had its toys (in
this country, its beer and football) the public play along.
As this propaganda machine churned away with its message of fire and damnation, another method of communication the Internet, had another following and was playing a different tune.
This blog is but a tiny example of the alternative voice. It evaluates things from a different platform, a platform closer to the people, a platform without any "skin in the game", a platform which could be just as objective because it has little or nothing to loose.
As this propaganda machine churned away with its message of fire and damnation, another method of communication the Internet, had another following and was playing a different tune.
This blog is but a tiny example of the alternative voice. It evaluates things from a different platform, a platform closer to the people, a platform without any "skin in the game", a platform which could be just as objective because it has little or nothing to loose.
The
EU, an unelected bureaucracy has no substantial ties to the voting
public and only through the national parliaments, which can be voted
out, does it feel any sort of heat for its actions if they are felt to
be unfair.
It
is an 'artificial construct' which came into being to draw the
Continents main historical belligerents together in an economic pact
with the intention of preventing notational national conflict.
The expansion of the EU and the creation of a Euro currency zone was to obtain a collective market and in theory a powerful counter to the hegemony of the Americans. It provided, particularly for Germany and to a lesser extent France, a financial bargaining chip and a vastly inflated market to trade in.
It was the driving force behind the economic rise of Germany and contributed billions if not trillions of Euros to the German Exchequer.
The down side of having created the cash cow was that when the cow became ill, the vet bills began to arrive and like many pet owners they began to question the cost.
Most things have a cost and its this annoying aspect of modern day finance only to envisage the upside of any transaction. Growth is their mantra, expansion and consolidation, the emphasis on efficiency and the bottom line to the exclusion of any other consideration. Raw materials sourced and these days often manufactured under slave labour conditions are then sold to countries which are debt ladened with consumerism and fuelled by credit.
The masters of the financial universe couldn't care a damn nor it seems, could their lackeys the politicians and so the machinery of misinformation churns away avoiding real confrontation for a crust today.
Watching a frightened, toned down BBC, questioning the Chancellor of the Exchequer today reminded me of the cost of voting in this unhindered Government, who have threatened to reform the BBC, seen to be left wing, which relays on a Licence Fee under the control of the Government. This is a Government which would like to privatise the organisation, much like it would like to privatise the NHS and destroy another cherished British institution.
This newly elected government was elected largely on the fear it was able to garner in the English Middle Class with a spectra of the SNP, the Scottish dog, wagging the Labour Party tale which drove many potential UKIP voters and the undecided middle class Labour vote into voting Tory.
It was an unrelenting scurrilous right wing media campaign which carried David Cameron back into Downing Street, a campaign based on innuendo with the usual ingredient, "misdirected fear mongering".
The expansion of the EU and the creation of a Euro currency zone was to obtain a collective market and in theory a powerful counter to the hegemony of the Americans. It provided, particularly for Germany and to a lesser extent France, a financial bargaining chip and a vastly inflated market to trade in.
It was the driving force behind the economic rise of Germany and contributed billions if not trillions of Euros to the German Exchequer.
The down side of having created the cash cow was that when the cow became ill, the vet bills began to arrive and like many pet owners they began to question the cost.
Most things have a cost and its this annoying aspect of modern day finance only to envisage the upside of any transaction. Growth is their mantra, expansion and consolidation, the emphasis on efficiency and the bottom line to the exclusion of any other consideration. Raw materials sourced and these days often manufactured under slave labour conditions are then sold to countries which are debt ladened with consumerism and fuelled by credit.
The masters of the financial universe couldn't care a damn nor it seems, could their lackeys the politicians and so the machinery of misinformation churns away avoiding real confrontation for a crust today.
Watching a frightened, toned down BBC, questioning the Chancellor of the Exchequer today reminded me of the cost of voting in this unhindered Government, who have threatened to reform the BBC, seen to be left wing, which relays on a Licence Fee under the control of the Government. This is a Government which would like to privatise the organisation, much like it would like to privatise the NHS and destroy another cherished British institution.
This newly elected government was elected largely on the fear it was able to garner in the English Middle Class with a spectra of the SNP, the Scottish dog, wagging the Labour Party tale which drove many potential UKIP voters and the undecided middle class Labour vote into voting Tory.
It was an unrelenting scurrilous right wing media campaign which carried David Cameron back into Downing Street, a campaign based on innuendo with the usual ingredient, "misdirected fear mongering".
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