Crap Rises From the Ashes

What happens when government and businesses mingle? Too much shit to fit on a web page, Alex.

Well here's another mutant child of such a marriage--disaster capitalism.

We've been seeing it in New Orleans and Florida, we've seen it in Iraq, and now we're gonna see it in Greece. Disaster capitalism is when a disaster clears the field of local competition so that big businesses can come in and take over. After the mega fires in Greece this summer, which destroyed communities and forests alike, government-ass-kissing developers of resort hotels and second-home suburbs are making headway into taking over prime (and now, charred) real estate.

Basically, the fires put the locals out of business, so they have no money and no way to rebuild their towns. The government isn't opening its pockets, so, enter big business, which has money and power. Unfortunately, big business doesn't help local economies, so the people most screwed over stay fucked. Fire charred their land....the government is burning their dignity and hope.

Out with the old in with the new=No justice, no peace.

Source: The Guardian