{"id":4872,"date":"2015-01-26T07:34:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T12:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4872"},"modified":"2015-01-26T07:34:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T12:34:20","slug":"greeces-new-finmin-warns-we-are-going-to-destroy-the-greek-oligarchy-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4872","title":{"rendered":"Greece&#8217;s New FinMin Warns &#8220;We Are Going To Destroy The Greek Oligarchy System&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-01-25\/greeces-new-finmin-warns-we-are-going-destroy-greek-oligarchy-system\" target=\"_blank\">Greece&#8217;s New FinMin Warns &#8220;We Are Going To Destroy The Greek Oligarchy System&#8221;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2012-12-02\/yanis-varoufakis-greeces-destruction-and-europes-bogus-growth-pact\">Over two years ago, we first highlighted Yanis Varoufakis&#8217; perspectives<\/a>\u00a0on the destruction of Greece and\u00a0<strong>Europe&#8217;s bogus growth pacts<\/strong>. Since then he has grown in both reason and popularity as his no-nonsense discussons of the mis-design of the euro (and potential solutions) have made him the front-runner to be Syriza&#8217;s new finance minister. Never one to\u00a0 mince words or play politics, Varoufakis tells Channel 4&#8217;s Paul Mason in this brief (but chilling for Brussels) interview, what his party would do if it gets into government in Greece, and admits the prospect of power in Europe is &#8220;scary&#8221;. As he sums up,<strong><em>\u00a0&#8220;we are going to destroy the Greek oligarchy system,&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and with it, we suspect, much of the narrative that holds the fragile European Union together&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As Varoufakis previously explained,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><strong>The Troika is trying to suffocate us and to put pressure on the democratic choice<\/strong>\u00a0by telling us: either you follow our requirements, or you will be cast into hell.<\/div>\n<p>They actually have their own threats as exogenous circumstances of the situation, as they are simply part.\u00a0<strong>They are trying to terrorize the Greek voters.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t seem like much middle-ground there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But if no agreement is possible, or found?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece&#8217;s New FinMin Warns &#8220;We Are Going To Destroy The Greek Oligarchy System&#8221; Over two years ago, we first highlighted Yanis Varoufakis&#8217; perspectives\u00a0on the destruction of Greece and\u00a0Europe&#8217;s bogus growth pacts. Since then he has grown in both reason and popularity as his no-nonsense discussons of the mis-design of the euro (and potential solutions) have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[284,1167,1092,2236,2868,2921],"class_list":["post-4872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-european-union","tag-greece","tag-oligarchy","tag-syriza","tag-troika","tag-yanis-varoufakis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4873,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions\/4873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}