Re: The Greek elections?

2015-02-05 Thread Flick Harrison
On Feb 5, 2015, at 15:06 , t byfield wrote: I worry about Syriza. If they succeed on their own terms, it will completely reframe how the entire world thinks about debt. It's very hard to imagine how they'll be allowed to succeed, and it's very easy to imagine how they could be pushed

Re: The Greek elections?

2015-02-05 Thread t byfield
Flick, the Schäuble-Varoufakis press conference today was very interesting, so you might want to watch it: http://youtu.be/hlbJHSsnOBs -- the action starts after 7:30 or so. At around 30:00, Varoufakis addresses some of what you talk about -- and, given the anodyne setting, he's shock

Re: The Greek elections?

2015-02-05 Thread Pavlos Hatzopoulos
I will burge in again, because Flick's analysis is too Greek to me. The Kaisariani "monument" that Tsipras visited after his inauguration as prime-minster is not really a "national" monument, it is not really a monument at all. The event that occurred in this space is not connected to Greek nation

Re: The Greek elections?

2015-02-05 Thread morlockelloi
Look what you've done - now everyone is going to try this! On 2/5/15, 12:47, Flick Harrison wrote: money taken from the mouths of babes # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural p

Re: The Greek elections?

2015-02-05 Thread Flick Harrison
Thanks for the insights, Felix; very helpful. But, to get argumentative a bit: On Jan 28, 2015, at 01:04 , Felix Stalder wrote: > First, it's generally never wrong to remember victims of the fight > against a brutal occupying force. I don't think this counts as > "militant nationalism". But th