les banquiers eux le oublient l'important est que les bénefs rentrent.

et n'oubliez pas le meilleur parti en Grèce est l'EPAM

(et parmi les "grands" partis seul le Parti Communiste Grec avait raison, et LUI SEUL est un parti de gauche)

eh oui ! ça les "journaputes" de nos médias (propriété de 8 milliardaires) ne nous en disent pas un mot, curieux non ?

posez-vous des questions sur cette discordance entre ce qui se passe et ce qu'on vous en dit ! hmm ? conclusions ?

on nous présente une addition de morts, mais une chose qu'on "oublie" de nous dire c'est que la violence est le fait de la droite oppositionnelle !

Ce qui fait que ce que le gouvernement doit s'occuper c'est des victimes des violences, car ces gens ont été victimes des "gentils démocrates" vantés par notre presse journapute au service de ses 8 milliardaires et de leur clan

Full text of interview conducted with Dimitris Kazakis, a traditional-leftist (qu’est-ce que ces amerloques veulent bien dire par ça ??) economist and leader of the patriotic (et par ça ils veulent dire quoi ???) party United Popular Front (EPAM). The interview was conducted on Saturday, February 25 in Athens.

The core of the interview was published on COMPACT Magazine: “Interview: «Wir müssen raus aus dem Euro» on May 28, 2017.

Dimitris Kazakis is a traditional-leftist economist and leader of the patriotic party United Popular Front (EPAM). The interview was conducted on Saturday, February 25 in Athens.

DK (Dimitris Kazakis): Right now we have more people coming [to EPAM] from the Right, looking for a patriotic organization, that can fight to overthrow the occupation regime of this country. Nowadays everybody feels that we are under occupation. Of course, we are not under a military occupation but we are under occupation. Our state is not our state even formally. In every department of our state you will find foreign emissaries controlling everything. So we have four independent authorities that were created by the Europeans that control everything. For example, we have TAIPED – the independent authority of privatization of the public utilities and public assets. Another independent authority is the General Secretariat Of Public Revenue – the president of this independent authority is Dutch. And another independent authority is the one that gives money to the systemic banks. And the fourth is the new fund, created by the Syriza government, that will control the big utilities of the public, for example electric energy. And of course all kinds of assets that were part and parcel of the Greek Republic. Everything will go to this particular fund. So the laws that created these independent authorities say that you cannot go back. You cannot introduce another law that will take back what you gave to these independent authorities. So we don’t have a constitution. We have laws that we cannot take them back. We have foreigners that control everything. There is no way Greek citizens can find protection in the justice system or in any other institution in Greece. We are under occupation. And everything comes down to the simple truth that they want everything. They want the whole country. IMF in their last report on the « debt » gave spectacular data about the tax collection system in Greece. They say that in 2015, 55% could not pay their taxes to their tax collection system – the IRS – here in Greece.

JT (Joshua Tartakovsky): They are avoiding taxes?

DK: No. They cannot pay any taxes because they do not have enough income. So the conclusion of the IMF is that we have a huge avoidance of tax-paying citizens so you have to reduce the basis of the income that is not obliged to pay taxes, and of course put more taxes on the citizens. That would create…

JT: Through VAT for example?

DK: Not just VAT. A new kind of tax system where you have to declare anything you have as an asset. Even a car from your grandfather that he gave you and that you keep it as a collection, you have it because it reminds you of your grandfather – you have to declare it. The tax authority will say that Ok, I estimate that since you have an old Beetle from your own grandfather, we estimate that having that you probably have at least 3,000 euros per year, so the tax will be 35% on the 3,000 euros, because of that item. Or you probably have some jewelry, Ok, you have to declare it. And that’s the new kind of taxation.

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JT: So you wouldn’t be sad if Germany would kick Greece out of the Euro?

DK: No, of course not. The thing is that we don’t want to leave based on the proposition of Schäuble, because Schäuble doesn’t want us to leave on our own terms. But we want to leave on our own terms. We propose using Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, and announcing that we are leaving the European Union and the Eurozone, that we are not going to pay any damages and things like that, because the damage that we sustained as an economy, as a society, inside the Euro, is profound. And from that point and on we will introduce our own national currency, and follow our own path. New alliances, economically and of course geo-strategically. Invest in our own production infrastructure, a new kind of economy.

JT: But Mr. Tsipras said that austerity is over now….

DK: In the next few months they have to go down with their cutting of the pensions. The Institutions insist on having the higher pension increase, must be 1,200 Euros including taxes, which normally is around 800 or 900 euros. The highest. Which means that we have to go down to 300 euros – a medium pension. That’s around 6,000 euros per year for a retiree. And the statistical agency says that in order for someone to be over the poverty limit they have to have 8,000 euros income per year. So austerity will be even worse.

JT: Many people are very afraid that if Greece moves to the drachma it will become like North Korea. (ce serait bien, la Corée du nord est prospère, regardez les vidéos de ceux qui sont allé là-bas et ont REELLEMENT VU de LEURS YEUX ! ..) It will become totally isolated, (comme l’Islande ? ….. comme la Suisse ?) everything will be very expensive. They won’t have money to buy anything. And also historically Greece exported more than it imported. So what would be your response to that?

DK: If you want to be isolated, the only way to be isolated is by your own decision. Especially nowadays. North Korea is isolated because they decided to be isolated, not because the international community wanted to isolate them. Of course the only example of an embargo situation was Cuba. Even in Cuba now we have an opening up with the US, because even the US decided that the embargo was going nowhere. It’s even harder to do that in Greece. Because the Eurozone has 60% of its commerce with the east and it passes through our waters and through our ports. For example, if someone decides to shut down the ports of Greece, the bulk that is coming from China or the Pacific region has to reach the Italian ports but that’s another day or two. Every day that passes needs more than a million in costs for the shipments in terms of security agreements and things like that. That will make the prices for the goods higher in the EU. So nobody would do that.

JT: So Greece is lucky to be located in a very strategic place?

DK: Exactly. And if you use it, for your own good, it’s very useful because everybody will negotiate their relation with you. So, there will be no such thing as total isolation. We probably have enough food. In Greece it’s a joke matter to say that we don’t because right now we have in Greece food sufficiency of 90% according to official data. Of course, if we get rid of the European restrictions our own production will climb to new heights. And we will cover every aspect of our food production. We take most of our oil and natural gas from Russia. Why would Russia want to make things difficult for us? We are located in a very important geostrategic position. Russia would love to have access to the Aegean. Right now they cannot do that because NATO is controlling the Aegean. As soon as we leave the European Union, everything will open up, even for Russia.

JT: So that would mean you would have to leave NATO too…

DK: At least we will re-negotiate with NATO and we will see. Of course we are against NATO.

JT: From what I understand, Trump’s advisor Stephen Bannon is against the European Union and he believes in strong European national states. Do you think there is a chance that Trump will wage a trade war against Germany and try to bring down the Euro?

DK: It’s not an easy option for the US to go into a trade war right now. Things will probably escalate. The actions they were taking against European corporations, banks and Volkswagen will escalate. They will try to support political moves away from the hard core of the EU. And that’s why we believe that with the changeover of the American administration it will be easier for Greece to leave the Eurozone and the EU without a lot of trouble. We are not going to have a particular problem. The major problem will be to regain all the industrial capacity we had as an economy that we lost it in the last 7 years. But we don’t need to get this industrial capacity from Germany. We were discussing with the Czech ministry here in Greece the possibility of leaving the EU. The Czech ministry said that officially I cannot say anything because my government is inside the Eurozone but personally because I’m an economist, I’m in favor of even my country leaving the EU. And we asked him if Greece would leave, would Czech Republic agree to cooperate and help with industrial expertise and in building capacities, and he said just say ask and we will do it.

JT: But I don’t think it’s possible to have bilateral relations inside the EU. It’s all in theory.

DK: No. All you have to do is to have mutual relations on a mutual basis. You don’t need to have to order us to do something.

JT: Do you think Britain will work to bring down the Euro and will pursue bilateral agreements with member states?

DK: Well if I believe that if Britain goes ahead and creates a new pole in the international system, on terms of international economic policy, because it has more than 20 or 25 countries around Britain in the Commonwealth, if it uses the Commonwealth as a new pole in international relations, in an economic or political level, then the EU cannot hold anymore. You will have the US, you will have something new created by China, Russia, BRICS, the Far East with Japan going their own way with the rest, you will have the British once again having their own way in the international level. And for the first time you will have a truly multipolar world. In a multipolar world the EU cannot be sustained. No way.

JT: What do you think about the elections in France? Actually, in France and in Germany, the only two parties that oppose the EU are the Front National and Alternative for Deutschland.

TOTALEMENT FAUX ! Tendancieux ! Le « journaliste » en question doit être un gars dextrème-droite. Le Pen n’est pas du tout contre l’UE, elle critique, mais quand on lui demande si elle veut sortir elle dit NON ! SEUL FRANCOIS ASSELINEAU, en plus d’être un humaniste, un républicain se réclamant de la Révolution Française et du gouvernement du CNR, est REELLEMENT contre l’UE, lui il veut sortir de l’UE ET DE L’OTAN)