Practically electrocuted by this report. Who the fuck else benefits from austerity programs if not for the Banksters?

First, the Euro was created as a mechanism for enforcing supply side economics. The Treaty of Maasticht, which led to the creation of the Euro, prevents running up national debt to stimulate the economy. Robert Mundell "the father of the Euro" is a notorious supply side economist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply-side_economics

and has admitted that the Euro was a mechanism for enforcing supply side economics. Second, Greece never qualified for admission to the Euro zone. Goldman-Sachs helped a former right wing Greek government to create financial instruments to hide Greece's debt (and then created an instrument to bet against the instrument they had created). The governments of Germany and other Northern European Industrial countries happily pretended not to notice that the Greeks were hiding debts because they wanted Greece and other Southern European countries in the Eurozone to weaken the Euro so that they would have a competitive advantage in exporting industrial goods. The Greeks were never bailed out. The money went to banks and hedge funds as mentioned in this post. The banks and hedge funds took the risk when they bought phony Greek debt instruments, but relied on the EU to bail them out.

Although the idea of a European Union was promising, it has been turned into a neoliberal mess. The problem with Brexit is that it will cause lots of problems in the short and medium term. Brexit is not a real solution, but there was no solution on the table or even in sight. The EU is run by an unelected commission and the "constitution" is a set of treaties that can not be amended. There is no mechanism for fixing this mess.

Now only if we can get it together somehow to wi our own fights.

Confessions of an economic hit man:

Fear and debt drive this system. We are hammered with messages that terrify us into believing that we must pay any price, assume any debt, to stop the enemies who, we are told, lurk at our doorsteps. The problem comes from somewhere else. Insurgents. Terrorists. "Them." And its solution requires spending massive amounts of money on goods and services produced by what I call the corporatocracy -- vast networks of corporations, banks, colluding governments, and the rich and powerful people tied to them. We go deeply into debt; our country and its financial henchmen at the World Bank and its sister institutions coerce other countries to go deeply into debt; debt enslaves us and it enslaves those countries.

These strategies have created a "death economy" -- one based on wars or the threat of war, debt, and the rape of the earth's resources. It is an unsustainable economy that depletes at ever-increasing rates the very resources upon which it depends and at the same time poisons the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the foods we eat. Although the death economy is built on a form of capitalism, it is important to note that the word capitalism refers to an economic and political system in which trade and industry are controlled by private owners rather than the state. It includes local farmers' markets as well as this very dangerous form of global corporate capitalism, controlled by the corporatocracy, which is predatory by nature, has created a death economy, and ultimately is self-destructive.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35161-john-perkins-the-former-economi...

to get their money out of the banks? It was covered on websites like counterpunch, truthout and the intercept.people were unable to buy food, gas, pay their mortgages and other items. I saw pictures of elderly men crying in front of the bank because his wife was sick and he couldn't get money for her medications. There wer countless stories about the people not being able to get their money.
That was called a bail in. Any money that people have in a bank can be refused to be given to people.
And guess what went into the last omnibus bill if they crash the economy again? A bail in and they have also put a limit on how much money you can withdraw at one time. The fdic might give you a little recourse, but when you are talking about millions of people trying to get their money, it won't go very far.
Another thing they are doing is going to cashless societies. They want people to have to have their money in the banks so that when the next crash comes, you can't get your money.
They are already doing this in two countries in Europe. Australia and Sweden I think.
Plus the other reason for cashless society is so that people won't put their money in their mattresses. Many of the banks are charging people for putting their money in them. Look at how much you have to have on your balance before you are charged. Or you have to use direct deposit to avoid paying a fee.
gjonsit did a great essay on this maybe 6-8 months ago.
But do a search for bail ins and cashless societies and be prepared to be speechless.
As Durbin told us "the banks run this place" and he was speaking of congress.