No need to change anything in the Constitution, – Fit For A King
(and the current Scam and Sleaze at the Top)
“The very low Swiss voter turnout rate (40 per cent) reflects citizen perception that voting has little impact on how the country is run” – political scientist Mark Franklin.
To the 1% and their servants; left, right and center.
They may have all the power in the world, but they are still overtly superstitious and paranoid.
Reference
Saving Iceland
Our Banana Republic
The Threat is Culture
We want you all bankrupt!
If a Níðstöng worked for Iceland maybe it will work for us …
” So, the results are in from the discussion work at the various tables this morning. The fundamental values that participants at the National Assembly would like to see form the basis of the new constitution can be roughly divided into the following:
1. Morality / ethics
2. Human rights
3. Distribution of power, responsibility and transparency
4. Democracy
5. Iceland’s nature, its protection and utilization
6. Justice, welfare and equality
7. Peace and international collaboration
8. The country and its people ”
There is a story, that during the genocide in Cambodia, a exceptionally beautiful girl was killed just because of her beauty.
True or propaganda, it comes to mind as we are about to elect representatives for a Constitutional Assembly. Forces are out in telling us who we should and shouldn’t vote for.
Beautiful women are obviously a threat to some, as the possibility of gifted women has always been a thorny issue, – beautiful and intelligent it just does not happen.
Lets hope that there is such a creature as a rational voter and not just an easily manipulated upright monkey.
It must be a terrible plight to be both impotent and stupid.
Able to entertain a thought?
Inside Job
Killer Coke
The Union
Banksy’s Simpsons
The Corporation
Innovation? Yeah, right.
Top Secret (WaPo)
A trend or something?
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
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List of fallacies
How individuals “attribute” causes to events and behavior
Perception Management
It appears that the “traditional” and “vitally important” political parties and cohorts will be ousted from their comfort zone on Saturday 29th.
Before, in, and after the “meltdown” voters found their public servants somewhat lacking when it came to serving the public, and actually that they had reversed the roles, i.e. that the public should serve them and of course pay for the deliberate, callous and premeditated (reptilian) crimes committed by their sponsors.
It will be most gratifying to see politicians join the common people on the dole queue and thus share with the people what their “vitally important” brilliance has accomplished.
“playing with their minds gives me such a pleasure”
x-Æ
For almost two years now, we have been blessed by a “problem” which has shielded us from looking at our own selfs. The haunting shadow of our own failure of our own weakness has been but forgotten.
Somehow, I’ve been reminded of Graham Greene’s novel The Comedians. There are similarities to our own fate. The country was governed for a very long time by “Papa Doc” and his “Tontons” have been woven into the fabric. There is a sustained denial of any wrong doing. Nothing which was done in the years up-to the crash may be personalized or even given a name. Or as Stieg Larsson put it, “fraud that was so extensive it was no longer merely criminal—it was business.”
We the Demos handed over our responsibility to Representatives,just as in the days when the horse was the fastest form of communication. Now we look at our representatives in horror and only 13% or less have any faith in their abilities or intentions. Professionally educated people have been prominent in this saga. Few questions have been asked about the state of their education. Science or Junk are we shielding educators that have forgotten the search for knowledge, and replaced it with the manufactured truth?
In crawling our selfs out of this quicksand there will be no grand victories, only small ones, if we are lucky.
Will The Truth Report alleviate any of my trepidations??
Hoodwinked: An Economic Hit Man Reveals Why…
… a tide in the affairs of men
Infinite representative wisdom
Democracy hasn’t been doing well lately, or as Arundhati Roy put it “the crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market has reduced them to commodities available on sale to the highest bidder”.
The priesthood for the private banker’s theology is all pervasive, and governments have become little more than “escorts” on their payroll. This is all the more peculiar as it should be the legal prerogative of governments of the people by the people to give money its value.
But today we celebrate victory, the people say NO 93,3% – Yes 1,7% to the bailing out of private banks that have pretended to work on the behalf of the people, and in their infinite arrogance, have claimed to be doing Gods Work.
Congratulations Iceland with the National Referendum the first in the history of the Republic.
The Referendum
Birgitta Jonsdottir On the edge with Max Keiser [1] [2]
January 6, 2010 I wrote: The “political class” is franticly trying to abort the referendum in Iceland because of the dangerous precedence it would set for other plebeians, and God save our “principal men” from Democracy.
This is now confirmed in a classified letter from the US Embassy in Reykjavik published on Wikileaks. It is easy to demonize the president and forget about the 56,089 Icelanders (23,3% of Icelandic voters), that petitioned him to refer the law to a national referendum. Will our “principal men” succeed in breaking the Constitution in these remaining days?
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May the hand wither that works against the inherent rights of the people.
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New form WikiLeaks: UK-NL “profiteering” from deal. (pdf)
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REF: REYKJAVIK 9
Classified By: CDA SAM WATSON FOR REASONS 1.4 (B) AND (D)
1. (C) Summary. CDA met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary Einar Gunnarsson and Political Advisor Kristjan Guy Burgess January 12 to discuss Icesave. After presenting a gloomy picture of Iceland’s future, the two officials asked for U.S. support. They said that public comments of support from the U.S. or assistance in getting the issue on the IMF agenda would be very much appreciated. They further said that they did not want to see the matter go to a national referendum and that they were exploring other options for resolving the issue. The British Ambassador told CDA separately that he, as well as the Ministry of Finance, were also looking at options that would forestall a referendum. End Summary.
Skuggathing or Shadow Parliament is a social networking portal based on Open Active Democracy a system which in turn is a merger between: NationBuilder and Open Direct Democracy.
Bills and discussions are collected from Alþingi (Parliament) and added onto the web
Everyone can participate in the discussions, vote for or against arguments and add their own”bills” to the Skuggathing (Shadow Parliament).
In a TV interview the authors said that the Skuggathing (Shadow Parliament) portal came out of frustration with the lack of opurtunity ordinary people had to participate in the discussions after the Crash, in a way other social networking portals did not provide.
+ Is something good coming out of the Crash?
– “Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.” Henry David Thoreau
