Another Greek freighter of base and of his crew they were kidnapped recently by Somali pirates, and the Greek fitters had to pay a rescue which quantity has not been revealed.
These constant acts of shameless piracy on the beach of Somalia have attracted the attention of the mass media, but the journalists specializing in this type of news leave aside (or they ignore), a much more bold theft to armed hand, more important and that extends in the time. A theft of which victim is Greece and there commit thieves who dress themselves in pledges Gucci: a few thieves much more sophisticated than the common pirates, but who also lack all moral depth.
I refer: could they be different? - to the financiers of Wall Street. I refer, in particular, to Goldman Sachs.
Goldman, a world financial conglomerate and the biggest bank fief of America, is known by his arrogant corporate ethics of "everything costs" and his incredible avarice, even for the dissolute standards of Wall Street. The company is sufficiently villain as to be able to lead his titled own one "reality show" "The bankers behave badly". Some examples emphasized from his bad behavior would be:
* During the last decade, the Goldman magicians were particularly inventive like predators, and they prepared big part of the devices of investment that Wall Street enriched, although with it they beat our economy in.
* In 2006, the CEO of Goldman was considered to be a genius of such a magnitude who was raised to Treasury Secretary (and later it was delivered to the task of arranging the economic foul-up that it had helped to create). His "solution" was ludicrously, egoist, multibillonario-rescue in dollars of the taxpayers that it saved Wall Street... but it has stopped to our economy in the ruin.
* Instead of apologizing for his defeats and using the rescue funds to grant loans to the companies that needed them, the corrupt Goldman financiers played again immediately the well-known global game of high risk that had put the United States at the edge of the failure, making to roll this time the dice with the support of our taxes.
* Thanks to the injection of federal funds, the executives of Goldman could declare that this year they had obtained benefits, and quickly m were granted ás of 16 billion euros in bonuses for themselves.
* To support the roulette turning, Goldman is lobbying angrily in Washington to abort any rules or compensation towards the consumers that could brake his destructive ambition. 
* Going on from the mere greed to the pure and hard narcissism, the current executive director of Goldman, Lloyd Blankfein, it has proclaimed that the bonus that he has received justifies itself because it is "doing the God work."
Perhaps it was recounting to one of the Greek gods, because it turns out that, during the last decade, Goldman also has been practising his ethical cajolery in Greece, a country that was sinking in the stormy sea of the debt.
In 2001, the financial Goldman alchemists formulated a plan to allow the Greek government to be able to conceal the scope of the increasing debt of the public sector before the supervisors of the European Community... and to your own village. By virtue of a diabolical agreement, Goldman canalized new capital of super-rich investors to the arks of the Greek government.
Marvelous. What is already not so well, nevertheless, is that, in return, the Greek authorities were gaining access, secretly, to that the investors were pocketed for 20 years, the annual income generated by government properties as the airports of Greece. For his part, Goldman was remunerated by 300 million euros that they paid, without knowing it, the Greek taxpayers.
The financial giant named his airport system "Eolo", name of the Greek god of the wind - and, of course, any long-term financial benefit for Greece also was going to take the wind towards the pockets of the investors of Goldman Sachs. On having concealed the fact that the future income of the Greek government was sent secretly to the private investors, the Goldman bankers made a balance of payments of the much more optimistic country, which allowed in turn the Greek officials to keep on spending as if there was not tomorrow.
Nevertheless, tomorrow last month came. The overwhelming debt of Greece exploited turning into an entire crisis; his leaders fell down in the misfortune and the country in the abyss of the unthinkable thing: the failure of a sovereign nation.
Nevertheless: who is being punished by the tricks of the Greek politicians and the speculators of Goldman? The normal and current people, of course - how here, how in the whole world! The Greeks face now wage clippings of depth, increase of the taxes and the elimination of the majority of his public services only because his government could pay a few debts that the population did not even know that it had. Meanwhile, the financial conflagration of Greece is putting in danger the stability of the European currency, and the financial systems of the whole world (including ours) have started trembling again. And everything to enrich to a fistful of global speculators.
Thank you, Goldman Sachs!
Jim Hightower is a commentator of radio, writer, lecturer and author of the book, to Swim against the current: Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
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