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July 14, 2015, 02:38:48 PM
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The Simpsons had it right all along:



With the provocative and dramatic Greek "time out" language pulled from the final finmin and summit draft language, the two most humiliating aspects of the latest extend and pretend "deal" for the Greek people will be the return of the Troika's (surely we can call it the Troika again as part of the Greek capitulation) IMF mission to Athens, and the escrowing of some €50 billion in  Greek assets in a liquidation fund.

Granted said fund will not be domiciled in Luxembourg as was originally envisioned, but Europe will still have control and first refusal rights over what are technically Greek properties, in the process Athens handing over about 25% of Greek GDP (and sovereignty) over the Brussels.

What are these assets? For the answer we go to the horse's mouth, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who laid out the holdings of the proposed Greek privatization that would be sold off as follows: "it still is going to be an independent fund, valued at €50 billion which can be airplanes, airports, infrastructure and most certainly banks.”

Bloomberg quotes the Eurogroup finmin president:

They will be brought in with the target to privatize those in the coming years, but we will take our time for that.
 
We then hope for proceeds of EU50 billion, but that will be clear later.
 
The banks first have to be refinanced from this aid program, but after that I take it that they’re worth money and then we can sell them.
 
The proceedings are aimed at lowering Greece’s national debt.


In other words, Greece will be liquidated piecemeal to repay creditors. In even other words, the proceeds from the Third Greek Bailout will not only not reach the Greek people, but Greece will have to sell itself in pieces to top off the creditors' funding needs.

Dijsselbloem concludes: "That is good for Greece, but also good for us. We are in the end the ones from whom the money is borrowed."

It was not exactly clear why this would be good for Greece.

So for all those curious, here are some of the "assets" that already have, or soon will hit Ebay.


http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-13/what-assets-did-greece-just-hand-over-europe-airports-airplanes-infrastructure-and-m


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July 14, 2015, 04:36:56 PM
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It is actually interesting that the Simpsons have had a number of predictions of events that were correct. However, that is quite a different discussion. It is worth noting that, the episode that mentioned Greece was released in 2012.
This is horrible, and the Greeks should never agree to this. Even though the situation is extraordinarily desperate, however they should not sell one fifth of their land. I'm pretty sure that this will be very hard to push through and there is going to be a lot of resistance. I wonder if Greece will ever be able to repay the whole debt?

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July 15, 2015, 05:59:46 PM
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Islands!!! They actually go for what Merkel wanted from them several years ago. They plan to sell some of the islands to cover the debt!!!

So far tens of uninhabited islands (and let's not forget their territorial waters) have been put on sale.

http://russian.rt.com/article/103567

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July 15, 2015, 06:05:42 PM
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It is actually interesting that the Simpsons have had a number of predictions of events that were correct. However, that is quite a different discussion.

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