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Government sources have said that Prime Minister David Cameron is seeking parliament’s approval for Britain’s readiness to launch airstrikes against the new militant Syriza government in Greece.
The NATO decision to attack Greece would reportedly be at German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s request. Mr Cameron is due to meet the German leader today and sources in Cameron’s office have said that during the meeting, they are expecting Mrs Merkel to request British air strikes against the dug-in positions of the militant Syriza government.
Cameron is also set to deliver a speech before the UN General Assembly in New York, in which he is expected to call on the world to unite against the extremist left-wing group, which has taken control of Greece and whom the Prime Minister has warned is preparing to spread its dangerously militant ideology to other countries in Europe.
Mr Cameron told NBC News in an interview last night, “This is a fight you cannot opt out of,” and added, “These people want to destroy civilized, democratically elected right-wing governments like us. They’ve got us in their sights and we have to put together this coalition…to make sure that we ultimately destroy this evil organisation.”
Earlier, the British leader’s office had said he supported air strikes by the United States and allies on Syriza targets in Greece, and would even consider ground troops in response to any Syriza threats to austerity policies in Europe.
The moves come just days after Nick Clegg denied he was getting desperate after he offered Syriza a coalition with the Liberal Democrats in exchange for a chauffeur-driven car and a seat in the new Greek cabinet.
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Pride's Purge 
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This is satire, but historically it’s literally accurate. It was military action taken to recover unpaid debts owed by Egypt in 1880 that led to the country becoming a British protectorate. Similar tactics were used to enforce British suzerainty over Persia in the 19th as the country became similarly indebted to British financiers for various modernisation programmes under the Qajar shahs.
And British history with Greece has been hardly different. In the 19th century Britain supplied arms and ships to help the Greeks in their fight for freedom against the Ottoman Empire, but we expect them to pay dearly for it afterwards. Again, we were not above sending gunboats to make sure the debts were paid. Such actions would be unthinkable against another European power now, but expect some very dirty manoevrings by the EU and Cameron in the coming months.
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Cameron on speed
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Perhaps not so much in jest, as covered here. Tom, you may have already seen it given the tone of the blog.
http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2015/01/28/why-debt-is-an-excuse-in-the-case-of-greece-guest-post/
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radical scots from the north and greeks from the south….the dangers of strong drink and men wearing skirts in public is not a threat to be taken lightly…
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Itll take to the end of the year before USAID gets funding in place for Golden Dawn to start having protests outside parliament, make increasingly unreasonable demands, throw bricks and petrol bombs, get shot at by snipers, call for EU, UN, USA to intervene….you can see where this is going?
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…And British history with Greece has been hardly different. In the 19th century Britain supplied arms and ships to help the Greeks in their fight for freedom against the Ottoman Empire, but we expect them to pay dearly for it afterwards. …
Er, you what?
Byron gave his personal fortune to help the Greeks. The British government funded nothing at all. The British Empire were and remain allies of the Ottoman Empire
The British were always on the side of the Ottoman Empiure and fought wars to protect it.
In 1922 came the Smyrna massacre of civilian Greeks, of the last piece of Greece left in Anatolia (the Turks came in recent history to what they called Turkey from their central asian original homeland), by the Turks, with the British Navy in port, who clubbed Greeks trying to flee the civilian massacre, back into the sea of blood.
After 1945, the Allies including Britain stole a whole chunk of Greece, of the north of the county of Epirus and gave it to the nation who had fought with Mussolini, Albania. They did not tell the local Greeks to give them time to leave and they were trapped for a generation, amongst ancient enemies they had had when the Ottoman Empire ruled.
Today there is the rubbish that Macedonia is in former Yugoslavia and not just the county within Greece and Alexander the Greek was not a Greek. This racist tosh has gone on for decade after decade in moronic idiocy.
It’s all Greek to me. Don’t endeavour to understand Greek history. The rest of Europe have never understood the Balkan nations.
The British are repeating history by going against the Russians on Crimea, because the British did the Crimea War back in 1853-1856 when Britain and other allies came to the aid of the Ottoman Empire that initially lost to Russia. Britian did not want Russia to gain territory as the Ottoman empire declined.
Syriza is saving Greek lives already, only a matter of days into their government.
Who cares what the rest of the world think? The Coalition is killing enough of its own poor by design with pension and welfare reform.
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Tom is good at making his satire reflect the truth. The Snarling Dogs of the “Troika” will not just want the bone but “The pound of flesh, threefold” Let us hope Spain and Italy give the same message to the austerity merchants. “We in Britain have nothing to lose but our chains”
An extract from “In defence of Marxism” http://www.socialist.net/alan-woods-and-ben-peck.htm
The Greek bourgeois cannot eliminate democracy without a struggle, which could end in open civil war. They do not want to go down that road – not because they are sentimental pacifists, but because they would not be sure of victory. That is why they were obliged to take some kind of action against the Golden Dawn. At present the main leaders of Golden Dawn are following the election campaign from behind bars. But in the next period that can change.
Let us remind ourselves that democracy has already been suspended once in Greece since the crisis. Following the resignation of Prime Minister Papandreou of PASOK in November 2011, parliamentary democracy was de facto suspended for six months. A “technocratic” government, a peculiar mix of EU-imperialist governance combined with a mild form of Bonapartism, was installed by the Troika under the leadership of Papademos with the aim of imposing the austerity demanded by Greece’s bailout.
However, it will not be possible for the Greek ruling class to install an openly Bonapartist or fascist regime in the short or medium term. But if the working class does not take power, sooner or later the bourgeoisie will say: “The situation is intolerable: too many strikes, too many demonstrations; too much chaos. We need Order. We demand Order” .
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NO EU country — and by extension that country’s Government — whether left, right, or center, should be allowed to default on their EU Bailout allotment [Greece got £185 BILLION POUNDS in 2010] — because it sets a very dangerous precedent for other EU member countries….. For example, if Greece were allowed to default, then Spain would claim: “Well, you’ve let Greece off, so we’re buggered if we’re going to comply..” — and Spain has plenty of left-wingers as does Greece.
Mrs Merkel needs to hang tough and tell this lefty Tsippy-Dippy dude that the bailout MUST be paid back, and not in marbles — otherwise — Greece is HISTORY!!
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