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In an interview in Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) yesterday, Greek resistance veteran and composer Mikis Theodorakis spoke of the Evil of Chaos and the Creativity of Harmony. The interview comes at a time when he will soon be celebrating his 90th birthday. He is a very ill man, whose injuries from torture at the hands of various tyrants who occupied Greece have seriously affected his health.
Theodorakis’s remarks on music, Lyndon LaRouche commented yesterday, display a truthful insight into the matter, but are a somewhat romantic expression of what is actually a scientific issue. He is echoing an actual principal, but a discussion of the principal itself is best found in Megan Beets’s recent treatment of the matter on LaRouchePAC’s New Paradigm for Mankind show.
FAZ asked Theodorakis to comment on Thomas Mann’s statement in 1947 about the “demonic potential” of sound, to which he responded:
The interviewer also asked if music can “harmonize human and even political relations.” Theodorakis responded that
“I am surrounded every day by the chaos. And yet … suddenly, totally unexpectedly, I think of a melody. This is a miracle. Everyone has harmony in himself, he wants it, and he needs it. We could establish a harmonious world, we just have to want to. I am not speaking of political manifestos, but of what is feasible, what may be reality. We simply must not allow Chaos to infiltrate us.”
In an interview in Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) yesterday, Greek resistance veteran and composer Mikis Theodorakis spoke of the Evil of Chaos and the Creativity of Harmony. The interview comes at a time when he will soon be celebrating his 90th birthday. He is a very ill man, whose injuries from torture at the hands of various tyrants who occupied Greece have seriously affected his health.
Theodorakis’s remarks on music, Lyndon LaRouche commented yesterday, display a truthful insight into the matter, but are a somewhat romantic expression of what is actually a scientific issue. He is echoing an actual principal, but a discussion of the principal itself is best found in Megan Beets’s recent treatment of the matter on LaRouchePAC’s New Paradigm for Mankind show.
FAZ asked Theodorakis to comment on Thomas Mann’s statement in 1947 about the “demonic potential” of sound, to which he responded:
The interviewer also asked if music can “harmonize human and even political relations.” Theodorakis responded that
“I am surrounded every day by the chaos. And yet … suddenly, totally unexpectedly, I think of a melody. This is a miracle. Everyone has harmony in himself, he wants it, and he needs it. We could establish a harmonious world, we just have to want to. I am not speaking of political manifestos, but of what is feasible, what may be reality. We simply must not allow Chaos to infiltrate us.”
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There is still no agreement between the EU and Greece, as much as some people are saying one will be hammered out in a few days. The real issue is the debt.
Lyndon LaRouche commented yesterday that there are, in fact, no meaningful negotiations underway, because the EU insists on imposing policies which are a crime, which the Greeks continue to reject. If the end of the month is reached this way, LaRouche stated, then the entire EU system will go down, and with it Wall Street and the City of London.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras issued a statement saying,
The big issue on which all the EU leaders remain silent is the question of the debt, which is a key demand of the Greeks. Tsipras’s assertion that the ball was in the court of the EU leaders, is being interpreted as being related to the debt issue; implying that if there is no statement on the debt, then there would be no deal. The deadline, if there is in fact a deadline, is Wednesday, June 24, when the Eurogroup meets again.
On the debt, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, “This is not an urgent question.” German Vice Chancellor and Economic Minister Sigmar Gabriel, sounding more and more like Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, also said he does not support a haircut, and that Germany and Europe will not be blackmailed by Greece [sic].
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said this “wasn’t the time to discuss” the debt question.
French President Francois Hollande told reporters: “Extending repayment deadlines, or restructuring the debt— this can only come at the second stage…The debt subject is not in the discussion (for now) … but it must be signalled to be raised later,” after a short-term deal with Athens, he said.
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, during his meeting with Tsipras, delivered a de facto threat, saying funding of Greek banks was assured only until the end of the month, and thereafter, only if an agreement is signed. Tsipras reportedly mentioned the Greek bonds valued at EU27 billion which had been bought by the Central Bank when Jean-Claude Trichet was at the helm, and whose repayment is now pending.
There is still no agreement between the EU and Greece, as much as some people are saying one will be hammered out in a few days. The real issue is the debt.
Lyndon LaRouche commented yesterday that there are, in fact, no meaningful negotiations underway, because the EU insists on imposing policies which are a crime, which the Greeks continue to reject. If the end of the month is reached this way, LaRouche stated, then the entire EU system will go down, and with it Wall Street and the City of London.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras issued a statement saying,
The big issue on which all the EU leaders remain silent is the question of the debt, which is a key demand of the Greeks. Tsipras’s assertion that the ball was in the court of the EU leaders, is being interpreted as being related to the debt issue; implying that if there is no statement on the debt, then there would be no deal. The deadline, if there is in fact a deadline, is Wednesday, June 24, when the Eurogroup meets again.
On the debt, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, “This is not an urgent question.” German Vice Chancellor and Economic Minister Sigmar Gabriel, sounding more and more like Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, also said he does not support a haircut, and that Germany and Europe will not be blackmailed by Greece [sic].
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said this “wasn’t the time to discuss” the debt question.
French President Francois Hollande told reporters: “Extending repayment deadlines, or restructuring the debt— this can only come at the second stage…The debt subject is not in the discussion (for now) … but it must be signalled to be raised later,” after a short-term deal with Athens, he said.
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, during his meeting with Tsipras, delivered a de facto threat, saying funding of Greek banks was assured only until the end of the month, and thereafter, only if an agreement is signed. Tsipras reportedly mentioned the Greek bonds valued at EU27 billion which had been bought by the Central Bank when Jean-Claude Trichet was at the helm, and whose repayment is now pending.
Hamilton did everything he could to undermine the limits on governmental powers in the Constitution.
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Thousands of Syriza supporters rallied in Athens on Sunday, June 21 to send “a loud message of resistance” against demands for more cuts and tax hikes. About 10,000 people demonstrated in front of the Parliament.
In their statement on Sunday, announcing their planned protest, the Syriza party said:
There were pro-Greece demos in other European cities. In Brussels several thousand demonstrated and several hundred in Amsterdam. Addressing the crowd in Amsterdam, veteran 92-year-old Greek MEP Manolis Glezos declared, “This crisis was caused by the financial sector, not by the Greek people. It’s the financial sector that has to pay, not the Greek people.”
Another demonstration took place in Athens yesterday called by Syriza’s youth movement in front Greece’s central bank demanding the resignation of its Governor, Yannis Stournaras, for making an illegal intervention into the country’s political debate. Last week, Stournaras, who is supposed to be “neutral,” issued a bogus warning in the Central Bank’s annual report claiming if Greece does not accept a deal with its creditors, it would face an “uncontrollable crisis.”
The report was rejected by the President of the Greek Parliament Zoe Konstantopoulou, when Stournaras delivered it on a USB thumb drive without even bothering to print it. Stournaras could be in even more trouble because Konstantopoulou has demanded that he testify in Parliament over his role in the notorious Siemens corruption case; as Finance Minister in the previous government, Stournaras signed an out of court settlement with Siemens which let the company off scot free from litigation.
Stournaras, who was named central bank governor by the previous government in order to undermine the new Syriza-led government, has been organizing a run on the banks by his insane statements. Previously, as finance minister, he unquestioningly implemented all the orders from the EU Commission/ECB/IMF Troika.
Thousands of Syriza supporters rallied in Athens on Sunday, June 21 to send “a loud message of resistance” against demands for more cuts and tax hikes. About 10,000 people demonstrated in front of the Parliament.
In their statement on Sunday, announcing their planned protest, the Syriza party said:
There were pro-Greece demos in other European cities. In Brussels several thousand demonstrated and several hundred in Amsterdam. Addressing the crowd in Amsterdam, veteran 92-year-old Greek MEP Manolis Glezos declared, “This crisis was caused by the financial sector, not by the Greek people. It’s the financial sector that has to pay, not the Greek people.”
Another demonstration took place in Athens yesterday called by Syriza’s youth movement in front Greece’s central bank demanding the resignation of its Governor, Yannis Stournaras, for making an illegal intervention into the country’s political debate. Last week, Stournaras, who is supposed to be “neutral,” issued a bogus warning in the Central Bank’s annual report claiming if Greece does not accept a deal with its creditors, it would face an “uncontrollable crisis.”
The report was rejected by the President of the Greek Parliament Zoe Konstantopoulou, when Stournaras delivered it on a USB thumb drive without even bothering to print it. Stournaras could be in even more trouble because Konstantopoulou has demanded that he testify in Parliament over his role in the notorious Siemens corruption case; as Finance Minister in the previous government, Stournaras signed an out of court settlement with Siemens which let the company off scot free from litigation.
Stournaras, who was named central bank governor by the previous government in order to undermine the new Syriza-led government, has been organizing a run on the banks by his insane statements. Previously, as finance minister, he unquestioningly implemented all the orders from the EU Commission/ECB/IMF Troika.
Only around 24,000 New Yorkers, many of them cops, complied with gun control law.
Gigantic, logical disconnect mixed in with economic dogma.
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Waiting period on firearms’ purchases is unnecessary.