– From today’s Guardian:
Migrants face ‘living hell’ in Greek detention
M?decins Sans Fronti?res reveals outbreaks of scabies and TB and human waste seeping through the floor.
– Greek prisons are not only grossly overcrowded, conditions appalling, disease rife, but now murder and counter murder have also been added. An Albanian inmate Ilia Kareli reportedly stabbed a guard to death and after being found dead in his cell in his turn, several prison guards have been charged with torturing him and murder in their turn.
– The medical record is equally full of Samaras’ successes. Deaths from influenza soared, infant mortality has gone up too, healthcare has been steadily eroded. Could this have anything to do with the savage cuts in healthcare and pricing heating fuel so high Greeks could no longer afford to heat their homes?
Well, who cares if it did. The more deaths achieved the less demands on welfare, no? In any case all Stournaras and Samaras care about is the sham “primary surplus”! And how else could they achieve even a semblance of this farcical figure without such “collateral damage”?
Because now! They gleefully tell us, we can return to the markets!!! As if this were a panacea. They fail to point out that “Going to the markets” is another way of saying we shall increase our unsustainable debt burden even more… and why? Is this extra debt going to go towards funding investment in production?
Hell no! What a quaint idea! No. It’s just that Brother Schauble has declared he does not want any reduction in Greek debt so all Greece must do according to the Eurogroup elite, fuzzy haired Dutchman, fiendish Finn, potty Portuguese megalomaniac etc, is keeping inflating it’s already unsustainable debt in order to keep… what?
The pretence of the existence of a European Union before the whole edifice comes crashing down, not because a Samson pulled it down, but because all the rest were too short sighted, self centred, unimaginative and plain small minded to see what their brilliant handling would lead to.