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BERN WOULD LIKE YOU TO REVOICE THE FIRST FEW LINES YOUR VOICE SOUNDS TOO TIRED | IT’S A STRANGE FEELING WHEN YOU KNOW YOU’RE BEING WATCHED…
THAT YOU’RE BEING SCRUTINIZED…
STRANGER STILL IF YOU CAN’T SEE WHO IT IS THAT’S WATCHING…
BUT – SOMEHOW - YOU KNOW THAT SOMEONE IS THERE… LOOKING OVER YOUR SHOULDER…
AND THAT HOW ALL OF GREECE HAS FELT FOR THE LAST TWO WEEKS…
THE WHOLE WORLD WATCHING AS EVERY GREEK WAS CALLED ON TO VOTE…
ON WHETHER IT WAS FINALLY TIME TO TURN THEIR BACK ON EUROPE – DEFAULT ON THEIR CRIPPLING DEBTS – AND FACE FINANCIAL DISASTER – ALONE…
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| MANOLI – We’re in an economic crisis. The deals we signed to help pay off our debts have lead to a deadend.
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| I STARTED COVERING THIS STORY 5 YEARS AGO, WHEN THE GREEK CRISIS WAS JUST GETTING STARTED… AND IT WASN’T SO MUCH INTRACTABLE… AS IT WAS CHAOTIC…
THINGS HAVE SINCE RAPIDLY DETERIORATED.
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THIS BIT NEEDS TO BE REVOICED TO REMOVE MENTION OF THE VOTE | MANOLIS LIONAKIS CAN’T HELP BUT WORRY ABOUT WHAT THE ONGOING CRISIS WILL MEAN FOR HIS 1 YEAR OLD SON GEORGE…
AND FOR THE GREECE THAT GEORGE WILL GROW UP IN…
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| MATINA IS GEORGE’S GREAT GRANDMOTHER.
I MEET HER WHILE SHE’S MINDING THE SHOE KIOSK SHE’S WORKED AT EVERY DAY FOR THIRTY SEVEN YEARS…
THE BUSINESS STARTED BY HER LATE HUSBAND…
MATINA IS NOW A PENSIONER… ONE OF THE THOUSANDS OF ELDERLY WHO HAVE HAD TO WAIT ENDLESSLY OUTSIDE AILING GREEK BANKS – TO CLAIM WHAT IS NOW ONLY 120 EUROS A WEEK.
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| MATINA GRAB: 02.48 - 02.56 We stand in the lines, people from “black night” (i.e.: really early in the morning), pensioners, old people, sick people 03.01 - 03.20 There was a guy standing right in front of me 80 years old, and he was ready to collapse, fall down and I started crying because I was scared he’d collapse and I started pushing people so he can get there and take his 120 euros.
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| MATINA SAYS THIS IS THE HARDEST TIME SHE’S EVER LIVED THROUGH…. INCLUDING THE SECOND WORLD WAR…
IT’S NOT MERE HYPERBOLE EITHER… MANY ECONOMISTS HAVE POINTED OUT THAT GREECE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS NOW HIGHER THAN IN AMERICA DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION…
THESE ARE – BY ANY TALLY – HARD TIMES INDEED. |
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GRAB MATINA
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Please Check your pronunciation of Papandreou and make sure it’s clear, muffled in current cut: http://www.pronouncenames.com/pronounce/George%20Papandreou
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WHEN THIS GREEK TRAGEDY BEGAN, THE MAN IN CHARGE WAS NEWLY ELECTED-PRIME MINISTER GEORGE PAPANDREOU.
HE’S SINCE SHOULDERED A LOT OF THE BALME FOR THE COUNTRY’S WOES.
SINISTER GRAFFITI OF HIM BEGAN APPEARING EVERYWHERE IN THE STREETS..
AND ASK – HOW DID THINGS GO SO WRONG?
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| GRAB: POMPEDREOU
The previous government had fudged he numbers – the numbers that they sent to Europe were wrong.
So we had a deficit problem, a competitiveness problem, and a credibility problem…
And the credibility problem was the worst – Greece was no longer seen as credible. |
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A CREDIBILITY CRISIS…
THE POLITICANS AS CORRUPT, ORDINARY CITIZENS AS TAX EVADERS.
EVERYONE WAS LYING. EUROPEAN POLITICANS AND GOLDMAN SACHS WERE COMPLICIT IN COOKING THE BOOKS TO GET GREECE INTO THE EU.
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STILL WORKING ON THE GFX, YOU CAN JUST LEAVE A BLACK HOLE AND WE WILL DROP IN |
GFX
BY 2010, THE ONLY LOANS GREECE COULD SECURE NOW CAME FROM EUROPE AND THE IMF… LOANING 50 BILLION EUROS.
THEY GAVE MORE AGAIN WHEN THE COUNTRY’S STRUGGLES CONTINUED.
ALL UP - GREECE NOW OWES CLOSE TO HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. (END GFX)
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ATTACHED TO THE HANDOUTS - STRICT CONDITIONS THAT INADVERTANTLY CRIPPLE THE GREEK ECONOMY’S ABILITY TO RECOVER ENOUGH TO PAY ANYONE BACK.
GREECE WAS BOTH BAILED OUT… AND PUNISHED… AT THE SAME TIME.
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| GRAB – PAPANDREOU There were mistakes on the Greek side – we had this huge deficit and debt – and there were mistakes on the side of Europe – for not supporting real change in those early stages // We ended up in blame games. |
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Line in here about banks still closed?? | THIS MIGHT BE THE MOST VITAL LESSON OF THE GREEK CRISIS…
DON’T BREAK THE BACK OF THE DEBTOR IF YOU EXPECT HIM TO WORK OFF HIS DEBTS…
Upsot of Manolis at bank: ‘I just took out my last fifty Euros from the bank’
UPSOT: Manolis: ‘I’m not worried for me, I’ll find my way – but I’m worried for my kid…’
BECAUSE EVEN AS HE’S SPENDING HIS LAST FIFTY EUROS STOCKPILING ANTI-BIOTICS AND BABY FORMULA FOR HIS LITTLE BOY…
MANOLIS IS STILL WILLING TO STAY THE COURSE – TO KEEP WITH THE EURO – AND HELP PAY PACK GREECE’S STAGGERING LOANS…
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BLAME GAME CRED CRISIS VIBE HERE…. | THE DAY OF THE REFERENDUM THE VOTING OPTIONS FOR GREEKS LIKE MANOLI LOOK SIMPLE ENOUGH
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| YES – NAI
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| AND NO – OHI
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MUSIC HERE FEELS WRONG – IF YOU HAVE NO TIME – DITCH MUSIC ALTOGTHERE, I CAN PUT SOME IN HERE
| SIMPLE ANSWERS, IT’S JUST THE NOONE SEEMS TO KNOW THE QUESTION.
Vox 8.30 – 9.20 The point is that previous governments had borrowed huge sums of money, and we know that they had been paid out already. I have heard that we havepaid 1.5 trillion euros in interest alone.
IT TAKES ME A LITTLE WHILE TO COME TO GRIPS WITH THE FACT NO ONE IS VOTING ON THE ACTUAL QUESTION
BOTH SIDES HAVE INSTEAD ATTACHED THEIR OWN DIFFERENT MEANS TO THE BALLOT,.
THE YES VOTERS BELIEVE THEY’RE VOTING TO CARRY ON IN THE EURO.
NO VOTERES BELIEVE THEIR VOTING AGAINST AUSTERIT
TRUMPING FEAR W DEMOCRACY DOES SOUND PRETTY GOOD EXCEPT THT THE ACUTAL REFENDUM, THE WORDS ON THE PAGE, ARE ABOUT WEHTER OR NOT HE SUPPORTS A BAILOUT AGREEMENT WITH EUROPE, THAT’S NO LONGER BEING OFFERED
THE REFERENDUMM STARTS LOKING A LOT LIKE EMPTY POLITICAL THEATRE.
VOX: NO TO AUSTERYIT NO TO WHAT THE EU WANTED TO IMPOSE ON US, THIS IS WHY WE ARE CELEBRATING TODAY
BUT THE CELEBRATION IS SHORT LIVED
GREECE’S HARDLINE, FIERY HEALTH MINISTER TOLD US THE VOTE SENDS A CLEAR MESSAGE TO EUROPE:
UPSOT HEALTH MINISTER? -How confused is European Ministers after such a resounding no? I think that I am a European citizen and I believe that democracy in Europe isn’t dead. MAYBE NOT, BUT IT SEEMS EUROPE WON’T LISTEN TO THE GREEK PEOPLE.
I ASK IF HE & THE REST OF THE COUNTRY HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO SUBMIT TO EUROPE’S TOUGH DEMANDS:
Health minister 11.45 – 12.15 I want to say something from my heart. They can force me to sign this
impose their own requirements and may be forced to sign them too. But for me, the faith I got in the European project, will die.
THE REFERENDUM SENT GREECE’S CREDITORS A CLEAR MESSAGE:
AND TSIPRAS ARRIVES IN BRUSSELS TO A CHILLY RECEPTION…
GRAB MERKEL – THEY WILL BE HARD TALKS AND NOT UNITY AT ANY PRICE I KNOW IT’S TENSE BUT WE MUST BE SURE TO WIEGH THE PROS AND CONS
LEGARDE GRAB “The IMF should not make exceptions to the rules”
GERMANY’S REPLY TO GREECE’S ‘NO VOTE’ … IS TO HAND PRIME MINISTER TSIPRAS THE HARSHEST TERMS EVER PRESENTED TO A MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN UNION IN A NEGOTIATION…
HE’S ORDERED TO SIGN ALMOST IMMEDIATELY OR EXIT THE EUROZONE WITHIN A WEEK – WITH GREECE BANKRUPT AND INDEBTED BEYOND COMPREHENSION.
HE SIGNS – AND RETURNS TO GREECE WITH HIS OWN CREDIBILITY CRISIS…
UPSOT…. |
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THIS LAST WEEK BEGS THE QUESTION: WHY DID TSIPRIS EVEN HOLD THIS REFERENDUM IN THE FIRST PLACE?
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| PAPENDREAOU SAYS THE REFERENDUM WAS ORIGINALLY HIS IDEA BUT THAT TSIRPIS WENT ABOUT IT ALL WRONG
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THIS SECTION GOES FOR WAY TOO LONG (1:45) PLEASE TRIM AS BELOW | PAPANDREOU – 13.32 I suggested he announce when he was elected a referendum
after the agreement and a referendum where the govt says yes and asks the people to say yes He came out and said I don’t have an agreement I want you to vote no to the agreement and then no will simply be to strengthen my negotiating hand
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TSIPRAS’S FAILED NEGOTIATION STRATEGIES HAS LEFT HIS PRIME MINISTERSHIP IN TATTERS…
PUBLIC SPECTACLE HAVING BEEN MADE OF HIS POWERLESSNESS AT THE NEGOTIATING TABLE…
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AND THAT ECHOS THE BIGGEST COMPLAINT I’VE HEARD IN THE LAST FEW WEEKS FROM PEOPLE ON THE STREETS OF GREECE
… NOT THAT THEY FEEL POOR…. EVEN DESPITE THEIR SHUTTERED BANKS, AND HISTORIC UNEMPLOYMENT…
THE BIGGEST COMPLAINT I HEAR IS THAT THEY FEEL POWERLESS
…. TO CHANGE THEIR FUTURE….
… TO SECURE THEIR CHILDREN’S FUTURE…
… THAT THEY’VE BEEN LEFT STRANDED IN EUROPE WITHOUT OPTIONS…
AND THEY’RE CLEARLY RIGHT.
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