After “our” meltdown, The Truth About Tax, sounded so familiar.
Take large companies (who recruit top managers who fail the psychopathy test), captured governments and government agencies, PWC, postbox in Luxembourg, loads of secrecy, and if you don’t like the law-flavor, change it. – We are all invited.
The Snake is very, very old.
Are fraudsters, usually screaming about “inflation” and “sound banking” – after thousands of egregious mistakes – loosing ground?
Austerity still?
The Lost Science of Money
The Creature from Jekyll Island
Captured Government’s Increasing Irrelevance
Debt The First 5,000 Years
Airbrush Fraud out of our Crises
Defective By Design
The Money Club
Norway, Denmark, UK, US, and now China.
Now, the infinite wisdom of hillbilly’s is to provide China with 300 square km of land* for a new airbase in Europe, sorry my mistake a luxury hotel and an eco-spa.
The gospel of “foreign investment” and “jobs” sounds loud and clear from the corporate propaganda industry, with nationalism and conspiracy thrown in for the infidel’s. Yes we used to provide prostitutes to the beloved but forgone American airbase. And some privileged people used to live of the American taxpayer.
Who hoards, with greed that never tires?
It is heartwarming to see the Social Democrats of both sexes, having so heartily embraced the neoclassical Vision, sorry The Nordic Model (my bad).
The ‘Kissing Cousins’ syndrome may explain the superior moral aptitude. However, others say that the best stock left the country in 1870-1914, leaving only bankers, politicians, middlemen, and telephone sanitizers.
When the student is ready, the master appears, – but can the Master of “long term” teach the addictive short fixer anything? One of the 22 steps is to ask for more than you want. – but already from 100 to 1% is not negotiating, it’s toying.
* 300sq km (155 sq mile, – US ratio to Hawaii or Massachusetts)
Greenwashing
The Devils Dictionary
How can we buy the air?
List of U.S. states and territories by area
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22-Acre = 0.089030 km² in Wales
Fundamental foreign policy issue (IS)
Geld kann man nie genug haben
The Price of Sex
Transparent governance is a joke.
Debt depreciation is shrouded in bank secrecy.
Parliamentarians are about to stop impeachment proceedings against them self’s*
Parliament is unable to debate the new constitution.
The Indians eagerly await to sell Manhattan.
The “factory” Social Democrats want more aluminum smelters.
The banks drag their feet after a clear Supreme Court ruling.
Discrediting financial regulator(s) is legion.
.The Echo chamber: it’s not the Crime, – it’s the Crime buster, – or is it one and the other?
We are still in the grips of a small clique of insiders.
The failed state of Iceland
Iceland’s campaigning regulator faces dismissal
* Pity the poor prophet – Voting Records
“What horrifies me is that you’ve got a financial system designed by neoclassical economists.”
Numerous “proper” economists have attacked the sacrilegious suggestion that it would be possible to reverse the money creation flow by bailing out the debtors first, – not the banks. No wonder the (Swedish) central bank(s) stole into the prestigious Nobel price to reward the subservient economic priesthood.
However, doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results is the definition of “proper” economists, – or was it insanity?
Reading Debunking Economics – The Naked Emperor Dethroned? should be a pleasurable experience for everyone, except for hypnotized chickens of course.
Debunking Economics
System dynamics
Humpty Dumpty
Debtwatch
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
The Lost Science of Money
Economic Hit Man
The latest ‘investigative’ report informs us of incomprehensible losses of the retirement funds. This, big as it is, is only a fraction of the total losses in the banking meltdown.
Accountability is a concept in ethics and governance with several meanings, nevertheless none of these fit the cognitive climate.
Voodoo priests are currently hard at work stuffing history down the memory hole, their version is that none of this happened, others compare us to post colonial Africa, as we’ve been occupied in succession by: Denmark, UK, US, and the IMF.
Having successfully separated the peasants from their retirement money, the “gentry” wants the serfs to work until they drop, – not mentioning the simple fact that there isn’t work even for young slaves – regardless of how often they redefine the unemployment figures.
Loss of money is one thing but loss of identity is something else.
Summary of the Principal Conclusions of the Review
Networks of Power in Iceland: The Labour Movement Paradox. (pdf)
On Thin Ice, a modern viking saga about corruption deception and the collapse of a nation
Nepotism
The State of Africa
The Ascent of Money
Conversations With History
Bright Minds and Dark Attitudes
“the members of the black priesthood”
Keen 2012 Google Talks
Is parliament about to top its previous and incredible achievement.
Will the majority, vote to stop the investigation of the national bankruptcy of Iceland, by interfering in the proceedings of the impeachment court, – with the removal of the special prosecutors office to follow?
It is said that parliamentarians connected to the murky waters of the previous administration have been blackmailed and threatened with exposure.
It is also said that, members of parliament who through the years have advocated transparent governance and claimed to be champions for the “public interest”, are about to reveal their true nature.
Language, it’s use and it’s control, is said to reflect the reality of a nation. There are no words in Icelandic for competence and accountability.
Sample contributions from the fallen banks: (Voting Record: r = +1.0)
| Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir * | Kaupþing 1.500.000 Landsbanki 1.500.000 = 3.000.000. |
| Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson * | Kaupþing 1.000.000 Landsbanki 1.500.000 = 2.500.000. |
| Kristján Möller * | Kaupþing 1.000.000 Landsbanki 500.000 = 1.500.000. |
| Össur Skarphéðinsson * | Landsbanki 1.500.000 = 1.500.000. |
| Ásta Ragnheiður Jóhannesdóttir | Kaupþing 250.000 Landsbanki 300.000 = 550.000. |
| Ragnheiður Elín Árnadóttir | Kaupþing 250.000 Landsbanki 300.000 = 550.000. |
| Árni Páll Árnason | Landsbanki 300.000 = 300.000. |
* On the witness list (govt minister)
The SIC Report (8.11.2) stopped at overall debt position of more than 100 million, so these figures (p. 165 – 167) are peanuts, what’s interesting is the correlation.
Shields-up for the Political Class (28 Sept.2010)
Representatives and why we care
Conversations with History: Glenn Greenwald
How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful
The Quiet Coup
Insestious relationship
The Many Faces of Corruption
Power Elites & Corruption
Pandora’s box
Voting Record (1) (29/31)
Money in Politics Handbook
The Business of Perception Management
Politics and the English Language
Framing: Values before Issues. & Twelve Traps to Avoid.
Game theory (Political science)
Are you sure you want to move these 63 items to the Recycle Bin?
Combating Transnational Organized Crime
Organized Crime and Banking
The offshore City
Money laundering
Wall Street Merging With Organized Crime?
Italy’s Largest Bank
The Story of Broke
At least the savings and investment functions are clearly separated
Bill Black’s eye-popping opening statement
PLUNDER – The Crime Of Our Time
Dissecting Occupy Wall Street
If Stieg Larsson had given Lisbeth Salander this picture and the name “Eimreiðarhópurinn” (The Locomotive Group) the result would have matched or surpassed the Millennium trilogy. However the closest we have come to Mikael Blomkvist (so far) is Johann Hauksson and his Threads Of Power: Nepotism, abused positions and Iceland’s collapse.
In his book, Johann looks at the web of power and corruption, the far reaching and disastrous outcome, and the habitual inability to face this daemon, – thus it continues*.
In a “micro” nation, where close-up and personal has profound consequences socially, politically, and economicall, – his courage is commendable.
* Petit échantillon: Large part of the electorate take pleasure in electing convicted villain/parliamentarian, conveniently pardoned by the Prime Minister, the President of Parliament and the President of the Supreme Court. And now parliament is in a frenzy to withdraw its narrow margin referral of the former Prime Minister to the Court of Impeachment, thus saving him from the clutches of his close friends. – It fills my heart with pride.
Transparency Is The Answer
The Declaration of Paris: A Call for Action Against Large Scale Corruption
GRECO
The Gift (When discredited economics are of dubious use, sociology and anthropology must suffice)
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Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice
Shadow Elite: How the World’s New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market
Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Killed the Celtic Tiger
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Den nya överklassen. En bok om Sveriges nya ekonomiska elit
Public-private partnership (PPP)
Power: A Radical View
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Justice under seege
* Power Elites & Corruption
The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One
Excerpts from the report of the Special Investigation Commission (SIC)
