Corruption

The Exception

 

Politicians and multinationals with prestitudes of all kinds at their service control the narrative about their plunder, – “they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” – Frédéric Bastiat

Thin Capitalisation  (Norway 4:1 – Alcoa Iceland  40:1 ?)
Luxembourg Leaks: Global Companies’ Secrets Exposed
Senior ‘Telegraph’ writer resigns over ‘fraudulent’ HSBC coverage
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George Carlin – “you have to be asleep to believe it”

 

Not to big to jail

Al-Thani

The Supreme Court Verdict in the Al-Thani case:

“The market manipulation is said meticulously planned, committed by a focused intent and unusually reckless and disregarded.”

The Supreme Court says that the breach of the defendants regarded enormous amounts and their conduct constituted serious breach of trust to the public at large and lead to catastrophic financial loss. Furthermore, the market manipulation directed “against the public and financial markets in the country as a whole and the damage that resulted directly and indirectly, can not be measured in money.”

  • Sigurður Einarsson 4 years
  • Hreiðar Már Sigurðsson 5 1/2 years
  • Magnús Guðmundsson 4 1/2 years
  • Ólafur Ólafsson 4 1/2 years

Mutobia

Mutobia

The President of Mutobia prepares for his nth term in office, probably because he is indispensable, if not invincible. He and Mugabe must be very old friends.

The grandest looser of them all, got the biggest newspaper for his rants, and promptly reduced its readership to less than Farmers-News.

Our Most prominent anchor at the State TV repeats warnings that we will be unable to see him with out a cable (we would be so lucky). His female counterpart declared the PM innocent in the middle of his trial before the High Court of Impeachment, and another reads the Pentagon bulletins most diligently.

Increasing the nations financial literacy is commendable, but can only be done in a patronizing tone. – Maybe they should start with the economists (including the danish ones).

Father a field, the Russian media is all propaganda, they lied to us about: the Chevron lady with the cookies, the Gorbachev agreement, the “Oh Gosh!” replay from occupied EU, etc.

Thank God for FOX, CNN, and Hollywood at least they are true (fair and balanced).

Disinformation

And then (1940) there was NAM
Now there is PCES
.. more than neoclassical theory
Trends In The News 🙂

CIA “asset” gets own talk show.

eimreidarhopurinnDo a little Social networking

Stjórn LÍÚ 2013_1418078687

Fisheries pay billions in dividends to the “owners” of a natural resource.
The infrastructure crumbles, – in preparation for privatization.
White collar criminals get suspended sentences.
Special prosecutor crippled by cuts.
Investigation Commissions suspended.
Information about 400 “entities” in tax-havens ignored.
Government bails out selective % of private mortgages.
New constitution buried, – after a referendum.
After repeated exodus of the young and able, – who is left behind?

Please stop referring to our success

Idiot no more

idiotShakespeare will have to be rewritten, “it is a tale Told by an idiot” ?

The political class, it’s voodoo doctrines and it’s voters, will hereafter be refereed to as mentally challenged.

By the way, in the district court, “breach of trust” appears to be perfectly legal in the upper half of our two-tiered justice system. ~ Banksters and their cohorts rejoice.

Edwin Sutherland: The 75th Anniversary of His Coining The Term White-Collar Crime

The vile maxim are now after everything from our health, food & education to the ISP’s. – It’s Not Trickledown But Gush-Up.

The police secretly arms with Glock 17 & old MP5’s.  – Thanks Norway, but we prefer the Christmas tree.

It is now confirmed, that, the police collects information about individual citizens on the basis of presumed political opinion. WAP – Surprise or not, police officers have always been appointed because of their affiliation to the Independence party.

Ministers Aid Demands Imprisonment of Journalists
Without ECHR Journalists would be in it.

In this asylum for imbeciles, political corruption, incompetence and anti-merit must be protected and nurses loving the peace arrested.

The Finish ambassador had it right when he prayed never having to return.

Divert, Deflect, Deny & Deceive.

“Pots and Pans revolution” – What? – Where?

pacifier

Jon Gnarr for president. – Oligarchs for breakfast.

They are back, but did they ever leave?

6 AM (Arno Meltdown)

Ministers lie to the parliament and the people (with impunity), banksters excel at their waiting game, – the “new” constitution resides in a comity, –  and the D’s march on (Deflect, Delay, Deny, Discount, Deceive, Dulcify, Discredit..).

Buying information about tax-havens, proven to give 1000 fold return on investment, is being debated. – while the infrastructure crumbles

Almost daily, media owned by “special interests”,  make officials such as: The State Prosecutor, The Special Prosecutor, The Chief of Police, The Parliamentary Ombudsman, and The Competition Authority – suspect in some opaque way.

The Paris Declaration Against Corruption, – in the memory hole.

The One Satire Solution

 

@ Home:

In the Shadow of the Sun King – The new bestseller about how guilt and power never met.

Selling a bank for a hospital is nice. – Wait! what? We already sold the Telecom company for just that. Well at least we didn’t sell the Royal Mail.

 Home is Best (is) ~ “All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.”

Some 20 years ago, Sagan worried about: 95% being ‘scientifically illiterate’,  10 seconds sound bites representing ‘substantive’ media content, and Dumb and Dumber being the number one video. We, however,  in the run up-to the local-elections and our brush with Big-Pharma, might add illiteracy about increasingly sophisticated persuasion technologies.

The Fine Art of Baloney Detection

Perception management

Edward-Bernays

A new ‘farming’ season has just started. Well crafted public relationship exercise, with all the usual ingredients, from sweet words to celebrities and nationality.

No mention of private profits, or dangers of exploiting personal information.
– No Place to Hide and ‘Secrets‘ expose the myth of secure data.

Endorsement from captured ‘bodies’ does little to support informed opinion, – when a ‘label’ and a ‘flag’ is used to hide the actual owners.  2011/12 Amagen acquires deCODE for $415 million (from Chapter 11 Furniture Sales?).

The guardians of public interest also forgot to mention, that, in 2012 Amgen paid $762 million after pleading guilty to criminal charges of improper promotion and sale of misbranded drugs.

in a minuscule country we have little use for revolving doors, classmates and bridge partners suffice.

And who are the masters of disguise? – The Snakes in Suits. Those parading under the Mask of Sanity. Their Character traits are well known.- But how do we protect our self?

What about the ‘consent’ media, – why are they calling what they do ‘churnalism‘?
Liz Hayes? – Anyone?

Is this inability to learn and tendency to line up to be pruned a subject worthy of a paired study with e.g. Nulandistan?

By the way,  there is no need for  amateur  postmen, except of course to foster  “aggressive narcissism”.

The Five Ws:

  • Who?    deCODE genetics is a subsidiary of Amgen
  • What?   Collection of 100,000 ‘missing’ DNA samples and Signed Open-ended Agreements
  • Where? Iceland
  • When?  Now and for future use
  • Why?   .– …. .- – .—-. … / – …. . / …. ..- .-. .-. -.– ..–..

Perception management
Propaganda by Edward Bernays
Search and Rescue for Social influence
The Mask of Sanity
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Big Parma: What?, Who? Amgen?
Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher
Pill Pushers
Is your Doctor for Sale?
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‘Nothing to Hide‘
SophieCo / Eric King – Privacy International
Ethics in Science and Medicine
Decoding broken promises

Manufacturing Consent 25 Years Later

At long last,  – a response to the blitzkrieg:
Contrary to practices in a mature democratic society (is)
Scientific rationality, uncertainty and the governance of human genetics
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We have TWO (2) News media actually doing journalism (my bad):
Abused the rights of thousands of Icelanders (.is)
Same 100,000 they are after now? – Grounds for  Class action lawsuit?
kjarninn (.pdf .is) pointed to conflicting information about what Amgen actually bought, and  NextCODE   (a spin-out),  also tells a different story. –  More on the Synonym.
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Our leaky vessel (sic)

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