https://twitter.com/philyuck/status/612471162614910976
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https://twitter.com/LostCatDog/status/284763918264582144
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https://twitter.com/GrowlyGrego/status/615967324101701632
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As most of you know, I was hoping for a “Yes” vote in the Greek referendum, especially as the proposal which the Tsipras government put forth this week encompassed most of the demands which Greece’s creditors had been making.
The Syriza proposals were approved by the creditors, and sent to the Eurozone finance ministers. And then Germany got in the act.
In an act of suicidal hubris, Germany is demanding nothing short of humiliation for Greece. Even though I had hoped for a Yes vote, this petty revenge is unbelievable from a country which plunged Europe into two World Wars. It is Germany’s gambit to establish the EU as merely a Greater German Co-Prosperity Sphere.
Here is where we stand at the moment.
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Frankfurter Allgemeine
Translation: Trust has been lost; Doubts of Greece’s willingness to reform.
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Le Figaro
Translation: Greece has driven a wedge between France and Germany
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Liberation
Translation: What game is Germany playing?
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Wall Street Journal
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(Posting again because of all the talk of a deal being close-ish)
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The President will deliver remarks at the White House Conference on Aging.
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The President will travel to Philadelphia to deliver remarks at the NAACP’s national convention.
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The President will travel to Durant, Oklahoma where he will visit the Choctaw Nation and deliver remarks on expanding economic opportunity. The President will spend the night in Oklahoma.
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He will make the first visit by a sitting President to a Federal prison, the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution located just outside Oklahoma City. While there the President will meet with law enforcement officials and inmates and will conduct an interview for a Vice documentary, that will air in the Fall, about the realities of the criminal justice system.
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No details as yet.
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“Chuck Kennedy covered the funeral of former First Lady Betty Ford at St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church in Palm Desert, Calif. In attendance were three former First Ladies as well as the current First Lady, all shown here backstage, from left: Nancy Reagan, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Rosalynn Carter and Michelle Obama.” July 12, 2011 (Photo by Chuck Kennedy)
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