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Amen.

Varoufakis, 53, studied in Britain and has also taught in Australia, Greece and the US. In pre-election interviews he promised to end what he described as Greece’s humanitarian crisis, slice a chunk off its €320bn debt mountain, and destroy the country’s oligarchs who “viciously suck the energy and the economic power from everybody else”. A prolific blogger and media commentator who dresses in brightly coloured shirts and jeans, Varoufakis – who has dual Greek and Australian nationality – abandoned a job at the University of Texas to join Tsipras’s team in the election runup, and celebrated Sunday’s result by paraphrasing Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, saying: “Greek democracy today chose to stop going gently into the night. Greek democracy resolved to rage against the dying of the light.” http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/27/greek-pm-alexis-tsipras-economist-yanis-varoufakis Varoufakis has long criticised Europe’s handling of the economic crisis, attacking the conservative economic orthodoxy that demands budget rigour and market-friendly structural reforms. That approach amounted to “a cynical transfer of banking losses on to the shoulders of the weakest taxpayers”, he said on his blog earlier this month. He has also likened the tough terms of bailout deals to “fiscal waterboarding” that risked converting southern Europe into “a form of Victorian workhouse”.

Used to paint his toenails.

All us deluded lefties are watching with baited breath.

Good to see retro Dahl usage.

If we don't beat a poor Hull side then it will really slide from there.

They have to go to the drachma. Historically loads of things that seemed impossible turned out they weren't....Like free education, pensions, free healthcare. All these things at one time or another were said to be pipedreams. Fuvk people were saying the abolition of slavery would destroy America. There are a miariad of reasons why austeriy will never work. The main one is that it supresses the economy and job creation and cuts money to the periphery. This combines in a toxic manner with the overproduction of goods (waste). Germany is the main culprit in the greek catastrophe. Firstly letting Greece into the euro (a debacle) and then lending it enough to buy German military hardware and Siemens trains and debt repayments. Some 80% of the loans didn't touch the actual Greek infastructure in any meanigful way. It was money given to keep the wheel turning at the behest of Deutsche Bank and the ECB. Germay owes Greece money for war reparitions. Let's call it 400billion in todays numbers.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/26/syriza-victory-lifted-greek-politics-cynicism-hope Even that soft shite Owen Jonea is getting in the mood.

Don't care the leader looks sexy.

The ECB and the Germans can't win here. Debt cancellation is the only way Greece can recover and stay in the EU. If they don't get that they leave and there is a massive domino crisis of conficence in the euro across Spain and Portugal etc....Plus many fragile financial entities will go to the wall and the eurozone will be back to where it was 5 years ago.

Large collars drained the public purse.

They could just start printing a free flaoting drachma. Greece must appeal to forces outside the EU. Then shit will get real. 1. Cancel the debt. 2. Second all excessive private wealth. 3. Jail a few ex politicians, fraudsters, bankers. 4. Arm the people. 5. Get some nice shirts.

I don't know. But it's gonna be interesting. Doom was predictied for Iceland as well. They're doing really well now. Jailed a few bankers and re-wrote their entire strategy. We shall see. I'm loving this cause of the historical context of Greece. If any country can make a stand againt the monolith of the ECB and its cohorts it might well be the Greeks. The conditions are right. The poeple have had the right amount of suffering and are ready to fight. Historically when the conditions are right and the poeple are energised they've nearly always won. I'd tell the ECB I was going to default and see what happens.

Ah good point. Turing caught me more off guard cause I knew less about him. Hawking at least had some semblence of a private life for refuge, yet there seemed nowhere for Turing.

One of the fascinating things about the Greek election campaign has been listening to Syriza candidates reply to questions about what to do if the European Central Bank (ECB) becomes angry, or the markets panic. Miranda Xafa, a former IMF board member and supporter of the centrist Potami party, said in an emollient voice (in a Radio 5 Live interview), “I am sure the ECB will be patient.” The gulf between Syriza and all the other parties was suddenly, dramatically clear: the leftwing party no longer thinks of the ECB as its dad. It does not seek its patience. It will not take its terms at any price. This is the necessary precondition for credible leftism: a rejection of the bodies, mostly central banks and attendant forecasting agencies, currently in charge. You can’t build a new game to their rules." http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/25/syriza-uk-left-labour This has the makings of a really important moment in the history of Europe.

Why cause you had a little man cry?

This bit in there is important. I fail on the canned toms. http://eatlocalgrown.com/article/12214-8-foods-even-the-experts-won-t-eat.html

Never understimate my powers.

2015 big year for Sci fi fans. Loads of stuff in the works.

Imitation game was very good. Cumberbatch terrific central performance like only British actors can give.

I don't do Twittah or Facespook.

Thought it was quite brilliant and stylised, saw it about 5 years ago.

There is a kind of glass ceiling in football which is hard to break with regard to income unless there is massive investment and the brand becomes global ie CL. With SD and its policy of continually expanding into Euro and picking up failing brands there isn't really any barriers to continued growht (yet).