The whole society bemoans of the crime and the injustice perpetrated and executed against it. Everyone wanders why the rest of the people do nothing about it and wait for a deus ex machina to salvage them from this daytime robbery that is absolutely real and tangible, but which somehow eludes the People or remains unclear as to who and how many the perpetrators are.
The answer as to why no one does anything about it and just gets angrier and angrier as they wait, is because they simply do not know the terrain well enough: Everyone knows that speculations are set up against us. Everyone knows that we are victims to the harshest austerity measures waged against us since the 1983 austerity plan which has been going on since then. Everyone knows that the ones on power today have ceded, betrayed and undermined Public Goods and are openly hostile to Popular Demand and Will.
What we do not know however is how exactly these games are set up because we are not economists, or because we do not really hope we shall ever see the end of this, etc.
Yet, the only thing missing is the right knowledge or briefing on what is really going on. The first act of the people in a well-planned and substantiated strategy to put a stop to that hurricane that scythes through not only Greek society but all societies globally, is to learn against whom we should turn, what the names of the speculators are, and those that are legally liable are.
The first and easy answer is of course to name the ‘political scene’, including all politicians, in government or not, who contribute to and promote the robbery and impoverishment of the Peoples, including the Greek People.
This is the right answer but it is a partial one, and the opprobrium of the law granting political immunity to ministers tells us indirectly but surely that in fact we stand defenceless and incapable in front of their onslaught (excepting of course the option of People’s armed revolt, something too extreme for them to really afraid of).
The rest of the answer is the part we should all be interested in at this particular circumstance because this is the starting point of our action: All those responsible for the public deficit as well as the spreads, the ups and downs at the stock exchange and every such chain reaction that eventually effects state loans (and therefore, the real economy) of a country.
From a simple bit of research into the official state sources, we learn the following:
1. The minister of economy (that is, the state, the government) is handling a very small portion (only 6%) of the sum total of the public deficit of Greece. The rest is handled by the Organization for the Management of Public Deficit (PDMA) which is a legal public body and so, even under the auspices of the minister, is in fact free to do what it wishes with the deficit as long as the manager of such organization underwrites that the strategy followed is the best possible for the realization of the goals of PDMA. But the manager and the governing body of people, have names, carry responsibility and are therefore all liable to legal prosecution.
2. Keeping in mind that PDMA (www.pdma.gr) has been in operation since 1998, we can easily calculate that we are referring to the complete cook-up of the deficit, the emptying of the Public Insurance Funds, the fiasco of the Stock Exchange, and of course the cost of borrowing.
3. Our State borrows money (via PDMA which the number one mediator) by means of issuing public bonds, something that is widely known. What is not widely known is that the borrowing and loans take place exclusively through the so-called primary dealers (central negotiators, number two mediators), that is, particular banks and societies who, among others, determine the extent of clientele this bond will be catered to (with clear or not so clear procedures) and the extent of the spread. This they achieve via their liaison (that is, their way of augmenting each such issue of bonds) and via the demand for such bonds that they can control. In other words, we are talking about a rigged game and not ‘naturally occurring physics’ of the market (if we can even argue that in the neo-liberal capitalist economy there can ever be anything naturally-occurring rather than deliberately set up to work in a particular way) and adjustment of the commissions and quotas.
I will just copy from the PDMA web page the following list of primary dealers, the list, in other words, of all those that control the Greek economy. We can easily see that included in this list are banks and fund-handling companies that have already been embroiled in economic scandals, apart from their standard anti-Humanitarian and usurious nature, either now or at previous times. It is also quite interesting that the primary dealers are banks which a year back received substantial state funding to save them from bankruptcy due to their own mismanagement. Today in the market for Greek State bonds the following 22 central negotiators/mediators are officially registered:
a. Alpha Bank
b. Banca IMI
c. Barclays plc.
d. BNP Paribas
e. Citigroup
f. Credit Suisse
g. Deutsche Bank
h. Emporiki Bank
i. Eurobank
j. Goldman Sachs
k. HSBC
l. HVB
m. ING Bank
n. JP Morgan
o. Merill Lynch
p. Morgan Stanley
q. National Bank of Greece
r. Nomura
s. Piraeus Bank
t. RBS
u. Societe Generale
v. UBS
4. By just looking at the ups and downs of the spreads and taking into consideration the relations of the government with the central mediators (as the case of Goldman Sachs and the way they secured low spreads), we can easily deduce that by means of similar tricks that do not become known at the present time and place (just as the trick that rigged the previous ‘successful’ management of the public deficit had not become known then) their present blow up has been caused. This means that in full knowledge of their fraudulence, everyone (and not only the politicians, fronted by G. Papandreou and G. Papakonstantinou, who are just actors simply reading a propagandistic script) presents the situations as uncontrollable and extreme while in fact the whole thing could be something made up to appear that way. Spreads blow up is at least made up, since the basic resource behind the wealth of all these mediators and industrialists hiding behind the managing boards of banks, organizations and specific companies, are precisely the management of those spreads.
The vested interests of the above in the spread business is but a small part of the picture, to say nothing about whom the buyers of the bonds are, and what kinds of rigged games involving the latter are set up to the expense of ourselves and of every People, what other things they aim at and achieve in those countries beyond the amassment of their wealth.
The above are but a few words about the rigged game that is being played on our back and the noose that has been put on our necks and which has now begun to garrotte us, but also about where we should start looking to persecute without being impeded by any sort of diplomatic immunity.