{"id":9174,"date":"2015-06-17T06:30:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T11:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9174"},"modified":"2015-06-17T06:30:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T11:30:39","slug":"is-telling-lies-a-democratic-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9174","title":{"rendered":"Is Telling Lies A Democratic Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"posttitle\"><a class=\"entry-title\" title=\"Is Telling Lies A Democratic Right?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theautomaticearth.com\/2015\/06\/is-telling-lies-a-democratic-right\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Is Telling Lies A Democratic Right?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>While I\u2019m on the Greece topic again today, I can\u2019t help but pointing out some of the changes in tone I\u2019ve noticed in the press recently, shifting towards outright oftentimes vicious if not ridiculous antagonism vs Greece. Remember, there is an agenda, there are pre-cooked narratives galore, and these people are not your friends.<\/p>\n<p>I won\u2019t be able to cover all the things I would like to right now, let\u2019s start with just the one. And I\u2019m warning you: it might get philosophical.<\/p>\n<p>This is from Marc Champion for Bloomberg yesterday:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloombergview.com\/articles\/2015-06-15\/tsipras-isn-t-on-the-side-of-democracy\" target=\"new\">Tsipras Isn\u2019t on the Side of Democracy<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Recently, I asked whether the Greek government actually wants to strike a deal on its debt, or if\u00a0<b>its increasingly erratic approach to negotiations<\/b>might reflect a determination to ensure that Greeks blame their creditors, not their government, for a coming meltdown. [..]\u00a0<b>Here\u2019s what Tsipras said<\/b>in a statement about the abortive talks and current bailout:<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>\u201cOne can only suspect political motives behind the fact that the institutions insist on further pension cuts, despite five years of pillaging via the memoranda. The Greek government has been negotiating with a specific plan and documented proposals. We will wait patiently till the institutions adhere to realism.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><i>Those who consider our sincere wish for a solution as well as our efforts to bridge the gap as a sign of weakness, should have in mind the following: We are not only carrying a historical past underlined with struggles. We are carrying our people\u2019s dignity as well as the aspirations of all Europeans. We cannot ignore this responsibility.\u00a0<b>It is not a matter of ideological stubbornness. It has to do with democracy<\/b>.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Tsipras\u2019s proposition that he\u2019s\u00a0<b>championing the hope of downtrodden masses across Europe is nonsense<\/b>. Germans may be wrong and unfair to prefer losing the loans they made Greece to taking a haircut, but\u00a0<b>they have a democratic right to believe they\u2019re correct.<\/b><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Telling Lies A Democratic Right? While I\u2019m on the Greece topic again today, I can\u2019t help but pointing out some of the changes in tone I\u2019ve noticed in the press recently, shifting towards outright oftentimes vicious if not ridiculous antagonism vs Greece. Remember, there is an agenda, there are pre-cooked narratives galore, and these [&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":[2,5],"tags":[195,200,204,279,281,284,1167,5177,2858],"class_list":["post-9174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-debt","tag-default","tag-democracy","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-greece","tag-the-automatic-earth","tag-tsipras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9174","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=9174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9175,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9174\/revisions\/9175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}