During the recent election campaign, the Greek prime minister promised to renegotiate the memorandum with the so-called troika, but now he has categorically rejected such a step.

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Just over a week after the European Union summit, at which the government leaders spoke of growth and an end to austerity, all European governments are preparing to implement massive cuts across the continent along Greek lines. In Greece itself, despite the deep recession, further cutbacks are being pushed through.

Wow! No one saw this coming! Well, except for KKE. For weeks, months, KKE has been telling anyone who would listen that these were the kinds of things that would be coming. Man, it must be a bitch, being right so much...

Wow! No one saw this coming! Well, except for KKE. For weeks, months, KKE has been telling anyone who would listen that these were the kinds of things that would be coming. Man, it must be a bitch, being right so much...

And it must be frustrating that this rightness does not resonate more. The patience required for this endeavour....all the worse for the expectation of immediacy with which we have been conditioned.

"Have it your way", "On demand", "One day shipping", these indulgences, besides catering to the juvenile need for immediate gratification(and sealing the C-M-C) seems to have the effect of vastly shortening our perspective. To be sure, the depth of our dilemmas scream for attention 'yesterday' yet history teaches otherwise, these things will stew with perhaps minor oscillations but the trend being unmistakable until BOOM, and then ya gotta be ready. And the Maytag Man thinks he's got it rough.....

http://www.planetdeland.com/Dir/Appl/Deal/sunshine/maytag-man.GIF