Corruption

Live And Learn

Unbelievable, – to see professionalism at work in this godforsaken country is just astounding.

First (although I didn’t have any faith in it) the Special Investigation Commission (SIC) released it’s report.

And now, the Icesave negotiation team under the leadership of Lee Buchheit has produced another landmark.

Eva Joly got French and Norwegian investigators to look at two of the failed banks and they have confirmed the SIC’s report, ‘negligence’ on behalf of bankers and auditors and they have condemned PriceWatherhouseCoopers for not adhering to International Standards.

The Special Prosecutor is predicting legal action against some of the ”culprits” early next year.

Even the former PM will have to face an Impeachment Court, although I would have preferred to see all of the accused ministers there with him.

Faith in politicians is at an all time low (<10%), but hopefully the Constitutional Assembly will manage to curb the current unhealthy and corrupt political “cult” for something better.

The SIC Report
Ministry of Finance
the Special Prosecutor
The Constitutional Assembly

The Land of the Free

let’s get 1 million voices against the crackdown this week!
(700.000)

Self-censorship

Advice to Students and Employees:

“We received a call today from a SIPA alumnus who is working at the State Department. He asked us to pass along the following information to anyone who will be applying for jobs in the federal government, since all would require a background investigation and in some instances a security clearance. The documents released during the past few months through Wikileaks are still considered classified documents. He recommends that you DO NOT post links to these documents nor make comments on social media sites such as Facebook or through Twitter. Engaging in these activities would call into question your ability to deal with confidential information, which is part of most positions with the federal government.”

“Any classified information that may have been unlawfully disclosed and released on the Wikileaks web site was not ‘declassified’ by an appopriate authority and therefore requires continued classification and protection as such from government personnel… Accessing the Wikileaks web site from any computer may be viewed as a violation of the SF-312 agreement… Any discussions concerning the legitimacy of any documents or whether or not they are classified must be conducted within controlled access areas (overseas) or within restricted areas (USAID/Washington)… The documents should not be viewed, downloaded, or stored on your USAID unclassified network computer or home computer; they should not be printed or retransmitted in any fashion.”

Thomas Jefferson: – Anyone?
“Information is the currency of democracy.”
“Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.”

JFK Secret Society Speech?

DemocracyNow!
NYT (Avert Your Eyes)
Spine Transplant for …
Emulating the Chinese
Killing the Messenger
De hemliga telegrammen (SVT)
Women Against Rape
Of, By, And For the One Percent?
🙂
Rap News
Is it Payback Time?
The Cone? of Scilence
Captured by World’s Dating Police
🙁
‘Liberal Democracies’ Public-enemy No. 1 (2 & 3)
Because the most unpardonable sin in a ‘Liberal Democratic’ society is, – independence of thought.
Let the eye of vigilance never be closed

Up Yours – In the Name of Progress.

Socially responsible corporations, privatized and back in the taxpayers care are retracting a service to the public for the benefit of the few.

The TV signal we got through cable is to be ‘cut’ for a new version of the same.

This means that we either have to go back to the antenna jungle or ADSL winch is good for one TV. This for an unspecified time period before the ‘new’ service is ready, which of course will come at a cost. By the way we already paid for the old perfectly good one.

This downgrade from Broadband to ADSL (one decoder for every appliance) is “sold” as an Optical fiber connection (my ass). – No wonder this company is under the watchful eye of the Consumers’ Association, and has repeatedly been fined by the Competition Authority.

Our corporations are renowned for their total inability in planning anything which benefits the people, but excellent at controlling forced consumerism.

Politicians as usual serve the corporations on a daily basis, the people only the day before elections.

Maybe we should just be happy to be rid of the mass media, and it’s distorted signal.

The question these geniuses forgot to ask them selfs was. – How to implement “New” Technology affecting the Whole Population and Live to Tell About It?

The Century Of The Self
Kill Your Television
The Betrayal by Technology
The Story of Stuff
They Treat Us Like Cattle (in so many ways)

Defenders of the Faith

“God Bless Iceland”.
“Maybe I should have“.
“It’s not to much for the state to swollow”.
“We should shout Hurray! for these men”.
“We do not pay debts for irresponsible men”.
“Slavery for another’s fault”.
“You are Not the Nation”.
“I can afford a Diet Coke”.
“Tortola? No, don’t know it”.
“Hi Magnus, We didn’t finalize our bonuses for last year. I suggest 1 million Euros. What say you. Bye. Se”.
“There are no money, they have gone to Money Heaven“.
“Macau bundle? No, not me, I was just the carrier”.
“Equivalent to appointing Nixon editor of the Washington Post during Watergate”.
“The Special Investigation Commission’s Report is getting in our way, temporarily”.
“Eva Joly is a Cuckoo Old Hagg”.
“I’m in NYC, just met Soros and BRuce Kovner. It tempts them to attack the Krona”.
“I can’t appear in a New York Court because of my English”.
“The Bank can’t punish people for having been in politics”.

The Plutocratic Legacy


Iceland’s Financial Miracle: People queuing for food in front of the Family-Help Center.

Wikipedia: “In recent years, Iceland has been one of the wealthiest and most developed nations in the world. In 2007, it was ranked as the most developed country in the world by the United Nations’ Human Development Index, and the fourth most productive country per capita.”

How to help: Fjölskylduhjálpin (Family Help Center): Account Number: 101-26-66090 “Social Security Number”: 660903-2590

“You cannot solve a problem from the same level of consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew.” ~ Albert Einstein

Shadow Elite (flex nets), “you could practically fit them into a restaurant.”

Old Peoples Savings

Old peoples savings is the new Battle cry of desperadoes.

It is shameful to see “Political Economists” who by the way have not apologized for the state of their Dismal Science, propagate this “simple” solution, whose personal savings by the way are of cause safely tucked away in foreign banks.

What they and desperadoes in general don’t want to understand, is that these meager life savings are rapidly disappearing anyway, with negative interest, multiple taxation and worthless currency.

These creatures  should try to understand real money which is counted in trillions and who controls it. – It sure ain’t the old folks.

Young people have the option to find a new job, to leave the country, and to start anew. Older people in their seventies and eighties have no such options.

If people choose to get lied-to they can’t blame the liar for the lie, they them selfs have become the People of the Lie

So Wrong
Bought … Profession
Religion, not a science
Arbitrary numbers
Cult(ural) Myths
Confirmed by a typewriter
Adam’s Fallacy
The Dismal Science
The Lost Science of Money
The Creature from Jekyll Island
Trends: Bullets, Bombs & Banks

Clueless 2

 

From the Blogosfair.

~ There is a profound misunderstanding on the part of the authorities to claim that they understand the nations anger.
We can’t begin to talk about understanding, until at least one of them has experienced some of the following: auction of their home, life on unemployment benefits, – pensions, – disability benefits, standing in the food line at the family help center, having to eat at the Salvation Army’s day center and sleeping in a homeless shelter. Until then their balderdash is just insulting ~

At the same time the political and corporate ‘elite’ who collaborated and orchestrated the meltdown flatly refuse any accountability, and eagerly work towards getting back to their unfettered plunder and impunity.

Next on their agenda is to auction off thousands of peoples homes for pittance, as happened in America, and to sell them to people with “access” , who in turn will rent these properties to “commoners” at extortionist prices. – “Look ma no hands”. Disregarding their impunity , the pattern is distinctively SCAD-ish.

Does anyone remember Hudson? or Perkins?
Oct. – Nov. 2008
4th October 2010
~
List of fallacies
How individuals “attribute” causes to events and behavior
Perception Management

Shields-up for the Political Class

Token Trial for bankrupting a nation.

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Prime minister –S – Impeached (+3)

Foreign minister –Sf- Acquitted (-5)

Finance minister –S – Acquitted (-1)

Banking minister –Sf- Acquitted (-8)

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Atli Gíslason VG Yes Yes Yes Yes
Álfheiður Ingadóttir VG Yes Yes Yes Yes
Árni Páll Árnason Sf No No No No
Árni Johnsen S No No No No
Árni Þór Sigurðsson VG Yes Yes Yes Yes
Ásbjörn Óttarsson S No No No No
Ásmundur Einar Daðason VG Yes Yes Yes Yes
Ásta R. Jóhannesdóttir Sf No No No No
Birgir Ármannsson S No No No No
Birgitta Jónsdóttir H Yes Yes Yes Yes
Birkir Jón Jónsson F Yes Yes Yes Yes
Bjarni Benediktsson S No No No No
Anna Margrét Guðjónsdóttir Sf No No No No
Björn Valur Gíslason VG Yes Yes Yes Yes
Einar K. Guðfinnsson S No No No No
Eygló Harðardóttir F Yes Yes Yes Yes
Guðbjartur Hannesson Sf No No No No
Margrét Pétursdóttir VG Yes Yes Yes Yes
Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson S No No No No
Guðmundur Steingrímsson F No No No No
Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson F No No No No
Helgi Hjörvar SF Yes No No No
Huld Aðalbjarnardóttir F Yes Yes Yes Yes
Sigurður Kári Kristjánsson S No No No No
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir SF No No No No
Jón Bjarnason VG Yes Yes Yes Yes
Víðir Smári Petersen S No No No No
Jónína Rós Guðmundsdóttir SF Yes Yes Yes Yes
Katrín Jakobsdóttir VG Yes Yes Yes Yes
Katrín Júlíusdóttir SF No No No No
Kristján Þór Júlíusson S No No No No
Kristján L. Möller SF No No No No
Lilja Rafney Magnúsdóttir VG Yes Yes Yes Yes
Lilja Mósesdóttir VG Yes Yes Yes Yes
Magnús Orri Schram SF Yes Yes Yes No
Margrét Tryggvadóttir H Yes Yes Yes Yes
Mörður Árnason SF Yes Yes Yes –
Oddný G. Harðardóttir SF Yes Yes Yes No
Ólína Þorvarðardóttir SF Yes No Yes Yes
Ólöf Nordal S No No No No
Pétur H. Blöndal S No No No No
Ragnheiður E. Árnadóttir S No No No No
Ragnheiður Ríkharðsdóttir S No No No No
Róbert Marshall SF No No No No
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson F No No No No
Sigmundur Ernir Rúnarsson SF No No No No
Sigríður Ingibjörg Ingadóttir SF Yes No Yes Yes
Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson F Yes Yes Yes Yes
Siv Friðleifsdóttir F Yes Yes Yes Yes
Skúli Helgason SF Yes No No No
Steingrímur J. Sigfússon VG Yes Yes Yes Yes
Svandís Svavarsdóttir VG Yes Yes Yes Yes
Tryggvi Þór Herbertsson S No No No No
Unnur Brá Konráðsdóttir S No No No No
Valgerður Bjarnadóttir Sf Yes Yes Yes No
Vigdís Hauksdóttir F Yes Yes Yes Yes
Þorgerður K. Gunnarsdóttir S No No No No
Þór Saari H Yes Yes Yes Yes
Þórunn Sveinbjarnardóttir SF No No No No
Þráinn Bertelsson VG Yes Yes Yes Yes
Þuríður Backman VG Yes Yes Yes Yes
Ögmundur Jónasson VG Yes Yes Yes Yes
Össur Skarphéðinsson SF No No No No

Col-1 Political parties
F = The Progressives
H = The Movement
S = The Conservatives
Sf = The Social Democrats
VG = The Left Greens

 	MP's	Yes	No	Nov.
Sf	20	24	55	1
S	16	0	64	
VG	15	60	0	
F	9	24	12	
H	3	12	0	
Total	63	120	131	1

Col-2 Prime minister – Impeached
Col-3 Foreign –“– – Acquitted
Col-4 Finance –“– – Acquitted
Col-5 Banking –“– – Acquitted

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Quod licet Jovis non licet bovis.

The majority of the parliamentarians didn’t have “convictions” for this that or the other so they just became, L’avocat de la terreur.

These same “democrats” want us to look to the future as looking to the past isn’t “productive”.
What’s wrong with “now”? – The consequences of their actions are “now” apparent everywhere.

Dilemma 2008
Slavery for who’s fault?
The Illusion Of Choice

Connecting the dots

After the “Truth Report”, we are obsessed with an new investigative pastime. Numerous people are “investigating”, others are demanding new investigations and the inevitable result is that the investigative reports pile up.

The “Truth Report” consisted of nine volumes, and only God knows how many shelf meters are covered by the rest. It’s all starting to look like Damage Control, a cover up by drowning. – What we need is an NLP / Bayesian “spin” filter.

I think William Black put it succinctly when he pointed out that the investigators had done a fine job but then failed to draw the obvious conclusions. We have not seen him since.
?Madame Joly is likewise leaving the investigation for other and more pressing engagements.

Parliamentarians are hard at work preventing the findings of “juniors” to come to any harm to real people. Furthermore, they or rather their sponsors are eager to get back to their calculated dishonesty and unfettered plunder.

?It is becoming glaringly obvious, dot to dot, that the only people that will stand trial in the whole of this saga are the evil protesters. “Public” impeachment trial would only “shine a harsh light onto the murky world of corporate behaviour” and their “spivs”. It would be to much to bear to discover that after all the horrors to date, we had only seen the top of the iceberg

Maybe the “spiritualists” are right when they say that we should not try to inflate our constantly deflating egos by fighting windmills.  And maybe they are wrong as “It is not necessary to hope in order to persevere.”


Lacking in hindsight
The spiral of silence.
The “dismal” Science
Marginalizing the Masses
A (lovely) Lesson from India
Special interests, the most dire warnings
Clarke & Dawe with the Australian facsimile.

Delusions

Some twenty years ago Chomsky wrote about Necessary Illusions, however today and after these last couple of years I think it’s the more malignant cousin delusions which is at work.

The numerous people involved with the “Crash” and the events leading up to it are all “Innocent”. The consequences of their actions are nevertheless obvious everywhere. The destruction of peoples livelihoods, bankruptcies, food-lines, austerity measures, the war against the land, everywhere except with the perpetually innocent.

A delusion is a “fixed belief that is either false, fanciful, or derived from deception. In psychiatry, it is defined to be a belief that is pathological (the result of an illness or illness process) and is held despite evidence to the contrary. As a pathology, it is distinct from a belief based on false or incomplete information, dogma, stupidity, apperception, illusion, or other effects of perception”.

A belief held despite evidence to the contrary. If we assume that we are not in the grips of dangerous disease what remains is, – false or incomplete information, dogma, stupidity, apperception, illusion, or other effects of perception.

Maybe thats the whole basis for perception (deception) management?

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