This morning in the Assembly

BY KYLE ANDREW BROWN

Athens, July 11 – The Hellenic Parliament voted shortly after midnight this morning to support the Government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras reform package for consideration by the Institutions.

The measure carried YES – 251, NO – 32, PRESENT – 8  

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Government’s Humiliating Defeat

Zougla.gr characterizes the outcome of the vote as a blow to the government and a personal defeat for the Prime Minister. 

Perhaps the characterization of a defeated Alexis Tsipras is both a simplistic and naive observation.

It is true that the Government during the past week was in the politically precarious position of putting forth a so called reform package that – on it’s surface – is completely contrary to it’s electoral mandate.

The Government which Alexis Tsipras formed emerged from the 30 percent of votes his SYRIZA party carried.

News writers around the globe have made sure each opening paragraph of each article they write emphasizes that the government of Alexis Tsipras and SYRIZA is “the far left government of ….”

This far left government line has been repeated by North American news anchors in the United States and Canada. Their occasional five or six sentence Greece summary over the past months places particular attention on this far left business.

Indeed, Angela Merkel sent out her proxys a week ago in both her government and the European Union to pronounce that the Greek government is illegitimate.

Everyone knows that this far left government choice of words used by big shot politicos and talking head commentators is dismissive shorthand that says the Establishment wants you to know Alexis Tsipras and his Government really do not represent many people who are mostly socialists, anyway.

Weren’t the Communists sorta far left? And that guy Noreiga back in Nicaragua? Oh, right, and that guy that ran Venezuela – he was a leftie, too.

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Belgium’s Storm Trooper

Just set the far left Alexis Tsipras government stuff aside for a moment.

Here we have now Zourga.gr the most widely read media in Greece pitching the Tsipras’ government’s defeat in the Hellenic Parliament.

However, from our vantage on the American shore as we watched the debate and the casting of MPs votes this morning – we just didn’t feel the defeat.

True, in the fine tradition of parliamentary government some forcefull views were expressed.

But not in the nasty manner of the former prime minister of Belgium Guy Verhofstadt who stood up in the European Parliament this week and screamed in Alexis Tsipras’ face that he was a False Prophet.  

That was rich stuff coming from a dude in Belgium who has forgotten his own country’s history.

It’s not like after the German’s came in and butchered his country, hauled away the Jews and gypsies and all the misfits – that anyone stood up to defend the common people from the invader.

It’s not like Belgium rose out of the ashes of defeat on its own after the Soviets and Americans and Brits crushed Germany. 

And it is surely in naming this historical truth that Alexis Tsipras and his Government have surely prevailed over the Germans in the whole German rationalization of Greece’s historical financial ledger sheets to Germany’s economic benefit.

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German Denominated Euro

For it is the German euro that denominates all economic – and all financial – activity in Continental Europe

The paniced pensioners outside Athens banks this week tell the story.

All economic activity halts whereever the German denominated euro threatens withdrawal.

And the opposition parties in the Hellenic Parliament understand this all too well. The YES neighborhoods they largely represent depend on the euro as well for both the lifestyle they lead and the work they do.

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SYRIZA’S ACCOMPLISHMENTS

What SYRIZA has accomplished – particularly through the economic offensive play of Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis on the Brussels pitch – is to arrive full circle in coalescing the Nai  : Oxi  positions of the Referendum around political  : Πολιτική  the political consensus of all the citizens of Greece.

And this was abundantly present in this early morning’s Hellenic Parliament session.

Once Alexis Tsipras brought his star athlete Yanis Varoufakis home from his Greek Road Trips to Brussels he watched events spiral out of Berlin’s control.

And under the control of the citizens of Greece.

As the citizens of Athens watched the faceless German denominated euro ATMs spit out the Humanitarian Relief of €60 a week that the German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble had promised.

As the citizens of Greece showed the entire world this week that a country – any country – can put together a One Week Plebiscite to decide – one citizen : one vote – To decide a question that at it’s very core projects the entire social and economic fate of the nation.

And leave it to the simplistic and naive Establishment politicos and headline writers in Berlin and across the globe to look at the Oxi : No vote and tell us how very foolish those Greek common folks be.

How foolish these Oxi  should dare stand up to the German Denominated Debt that the German Financial Pyramid Scheme has placed upon Germany’s little provincial Debtors Colony.

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Citizen’s Plebiscite

Never in a million years did the German Chancellor ever consider that Alexis Tsipras would be calling a snap Citizen’s Plebiscite. A one week electoral exercise that Germany could not narrate. That international financial heavy weights could not influence.

After all – “It’s against the rules!”  

Perhaps it is best to contemplate the Referendum’s outcome in the Greek way of Logic : λογική.

Logic and its intertwining to the natural and supernatural worlds is intuitively hard wired into the Greek cognitive awareness.

Logic places man’s interaction with the natural world in such a way that everything comes around full circle.

In this one week of the Greek Plebiscite all the many months of Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis spade work on Germany, the Institutions, and the European Union came to fruition.

In the votes cast by each Greek citizen.

That the Greek nation has shown herself to arrive both socially and politically full circle is abundantly apparent in the decorum of the Greece Parliament MPs this morning.

This is the decorum of the united Greece nation in the face of the crippling chains of the German bankers debt ladden financial spread sheets.

This was not the Parliament of Australia which functions exclusively on cruel personal attacks on sitting members. And whatever Prime Minister happens to be in office. 

Again we come full circle:

The translation of Βουλή των Ελλήνων as the Hellenic Parliament suggests to Americans the Westminster form of government is in play in Athens with the rigid party alignments of say Tory : Labor in Britain. And Liberal : Labor in Australia.

But the translation is more akin to the Ancient Greeks Assembly : Εκκλησία. We witnessed this morning the relative ease the Assembly undertook to constitute it’s vote across party lines to accommodate the Assembly’s consensus on the spirit of their deliberations as a unitary whole on behalf of the nation.

What has been witnessed this morning in the Greece Parliament is the coming full circle of the ancient  Assembly : Εκκλησία.

Take note rigid two party democracies.

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Germany’s Defeat

This week’s Greek Plebescite’s unamousinity of expression for preserving the social and economic security of the nation has found her place and her echo in the Greece Assembly.  

When the NBR‘s and the Forbes of click bait journalism go on to report that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his Government have suffered a humiliating defeat in this morning’s Assembly – hit the remote.

For surely this morning in Athens the Greece Assembly – united  : ενωμένος – beat the crap out of Germany, the Institutions, and the European Union.

For Greece has dissected the euro for what it is: the denominated German coin of the realm in service to financial institutions – not real nations, not real peoples, not real places that can be engraved on the euro’s paper thin currency.

For Greece has dissected the European Union for what it is: a financial FIFA with all power vested in Germany and her collaborators among a handful of  elite power brokers in Brussels.

Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis says SYRIZA is going to continue to be a powerful voice in Government. He was not speaking so much for SYRIZA the far left party.

Rather,

SYRIZA, the collective voice wthin the united Assembly protecting and preserving the spiritual, social and economic sovereignty of the Greek nation.