Political Aftermath or Reality Check

Greece experienced a hot summer in more than just one respect. Politically, the summer is an ongoing heatwave and the Greek Parliament is working overtime. Overtime to meet lender requirements and release vital Eurogroup approved funds into the Greek economy (i.e., mostly the Banks really) and overtime to erase the political agenda of SYRIZA as we knew it since January 25, from the memories of those not yet hit by chemtrails or other methods of collective memory loss. In other words the Greek version of landing onto political reality.

Europe welcomed the legislative overproduction by the Greek Parliament as a sign of real commitment to reforms, overlooking the war-zone atmosphere within the Chamber between hardcore SYRIZA MPs and the alienated post Euro-Summit SYRIZA version, while the Greek public is speaking about yet another contemporary Greek tragedy, which will by-pass any economy boost and will leave the usual suspects untouched, while the bill will be passed on to the same layers in the social structure, i.e. the lower and middle-middle class. Mr. Schäuble in his usual tone that some perceive as subliminal sarcasm stated yesterday his lack of understanding why Greece had to go through all the political hardship of the last six months before it realised and accepted the "obvious", i.e., the absence of any slot for past late 19. Century political ideologies in a neo-liberal globalised environment of the 21st century.

Two clicks further down this understanding by-standers from the US and Russia, Turkey and elsewhere are silently pursuing their own agendas with respect to Greece, whether this being the formation of special Committees to advise the Greek economy, or simply by sending over tens of thousands of immigrants from Syria, Iran, Iraq and the Lebanon, who are flooding the Islands of the Aegean Sea on any kind of floating device, rafts, rubber boats or wooden boats that are already dismantled by the time they hit the Greek shores and are suffocating the normality of every day life on the Greek Islands. Mytiline and Kos resemble war zones, and hostility among the immigrants themselves ignite instant upheaval, causing civil turmoil and painting a dark picture of the Greek administration that is charged with the registration of these people. Obviously an already troubled Greek Government that is operating speedily these days on many different fronts, is clearly overwhelmed to cope with this massive flood of immigrants who are adding to the administrative desperation of the Government and is also taking the heat from its European partners about the quality of the handling of this matter. At the same time Calais and the shores of the UK are facing similar problems but that is a different story altogether. This subject is all about Dublin II provisions, for those who understand.

Some say that even the time chosen for all that is happening is not random as nothing is ever random in politics and in mathematics. I believe that there could be some truth in this statement. But when did globalisation or capitalism, for that matter, ever observe the clock? What most people fail to understand is that globalisation, just like capitalism ARE the clock. With this in mind, I wish everyone a nice remainder of their summer.