{"id":573911,"date":"2010-05-21T02:45:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T06:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidicke.com\/headlines\/34186-grotesque-global-financial-system-greece-economic-theft-on-an-unprecedented-scale"},"modified":"2010-05-21T02:45:35","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T06:45:35","slug":"grotesque-global-financial-system-greece-economic-theft-on-an-unprecedented-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/573911","title":{"rendered":"Grotesque Global Financial System: Greece. Economic Theft on an Unprecedented Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Via <a href=http:\/\/www.davidicke.com\/headlines\/34186-grotesque-global-financial-system-greece-economic-theft-on-an-unprecedented-scale>Headlines &#8211; David Icke Website<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidicke.com\/images\/stories\/May20103\/19243.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"459\" height=\"261\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;As Britain&#8217;s political class pretends that its arranged marriage of Tweedledee to Tweedledum is democracy, the inspiration for the rest of us is Greece. It is hardly surprising that Greece is presented not as a beacon, but as a &#8220;junk country&#8221; getting its comeuppance for its &#8220;bloated public sector&#8221; and &#8220;culture of cutting corners&#8221; (Observer). The heresy of Greece is that the uprising of its ordinary people provides an authentic hope unlike that lavished upon the warlord in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The crisis that has led to Greece&#8217;s &#8220;rescue&#8221; by European banks and the International Monetary Fund is the product of a grotesque financial system that itself is in crisis. Greece is a microcosm of a modern class war rarely reported as such, but waged with all the urgency of panic among the imperial rich.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/globalresearch.ca\/index.php?context=va&#038;aid=19243\" >Read more: Grotesque Global Financial System: Greece. 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It is hardly surprising that Greece is presented not as a beacon, but as a &#8220;junk country&#8221; getting its comeuppance for its &#8220;bloated public sector&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}