The other day I listened to a program on NPR where Terry Gross was interviewing someone who has written extensively about the Greek economy. From what he reported, the main points hat stuck with me were this: There is a plutocratic elite in Greece who has consolidated a huge amount of power, which they've used to avoid paying taxes. This situation has starved the Greek economy from the necessary funds for its proper function.
What struck me about it is that I see this happening across the board, in the U.S., in England, in Italy. It's a clear sign of a nascent neo-feudalistic world where a worldwide financial elite has been able to put into place a system designed to help them accumulate and consolidate wealth and power, while oppressing the populace.
As much as the bought-off mainstream media in these countries (U.S., Italy, Greece, England, etc.) tries to obfuscate, and to make everything so complicated, in the final analysis it's not complicated at all. We are being taken for a ride... And the destination is not nice place.
As the prime ministers of Greece and Italy step down, banksters are taking over the reigns of power--not that they were already in control; but now they have stepped up to actually take over, directly. That was going to happen, eventually. And here we are.
Put all the Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times, and New York Times, etc., accounts aside for a second, and realize that what we are witnessing is some sort of international coup d'etat, as these criminal international financial entities take full control of governments, and move to establish some sort of new neo-feudalistic world order.
Simple as that. That's what we are witnessing. Of course, it will not work, but it seems that the only way it will be stopped is by an escalation of the ongoing revolutionary Occupy Wall Street movement.
There is your (our) challenge guys... Let's get to it.