Iceland’s elite looks after its own.
Citizens before banks?
Or planners hard at work rewriting history?
Le Monde diplomatique, has a ‘fair and balanced’ reminder of what’s already forgotten.
Media
Fair & Balanced
Even the “public” broadcasting station fails the Fair & Balanced test by censoring the former presidents views in todays referendum.
For years the newscasters have secured their jobs by nudging up to the powerful, – What new(s)?
This is the gist of what she said:
” I have not made ??a habit of declaring my views on controversial issues, but now a large number of people have sought my opinion on the referendum which is now at hand. I am very concerned about the future of the nation and after some careful reflection I would like to make public that I’ve gone to a polling station (absentee ballot), because of by absence for the next upcoming days, and voted with my Yes, in the contracts favor.
In my position I have not least kept in mind the old truth that disputes should be settled through negotiations. It is an adage between peaceful nations, not to wage protracted wars about uncertain content. It is thus, that trust is formed between nations. From my point of view there is no doubt that our repute as Icelanders awaits great harm from the ongoing controversy, conflicts in front of courts and complex legal battles. Then, it is vital that we Icelanders turn away from division and conflict and rather stand together to build a comprehensive and successful future for the land and its people. ”
Would You Rather?
A: Pay an undefined sum of money for the unforeseeable future, accompanied by endless information wars and court battles, resulting in further austerity for all, except the financial terrorists who will continue the occupation.
Or
B: Pay an undefined sum of money for the unforeseeable future, accompanied by endless information wars and court battles, resulting in further austerity for all, except the financial terrorists who will continue the occupation.
The Land of the Free
let’s get 1 million voices against the crackdown this week!
(700.000)
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.”
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“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.”
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
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‘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
Ministry of Truth
Life in a totalitarian political system, was much alike in 1984 as it is in 2010, the ruling party (with many names) achieved psychological mastery over its subjects by willfully altering the past. “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past”
The infamous Central-bank governor was as always first on the mark, when he got is Editor to translate the SIC report, and subsequently made himself the Editor in chief to ensure proper workmanship.
Having been advised to go through a thorough public relations image radiosterilization, the other players in the meltdown are now preoccupied with publishing their accounts of events. Ministers, who should have been impeached, escaped because of our stealth quality nepotism and where exonerated by their pairs.
Memorable was a blistering speech by the head jailer of the country, who feared for the “rule of law”, if her party mates should have to risk her hospitality.
It is thus understandable that all hell broke loose when a worker at one of the memory holes (squarely faithful to the party) got fired from the news manufacturing room.
No wonder that they all want to own influential media, as we are all to believe that their inherent qualities of: lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride have over night turned into: chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, patience, kindness, and humility.
The Propaganda model explains factors such as Agenda Setting which predetermines, selects, shapes, controls and restricts by the selection of topics, distribution of concerns, emphasis, framing of issues, filtering of information, and bounding of the debate.
The systemic filters, concentrate on private ownership, strict bottom-line profit orientation, over-reliance on governmental and corporate sources for news, primary tendency to avoid offending the powerful and a religious worship of the market economy, strongly opposing alternative beliefs.
Against the ruling masters of our cognitive systems, manipulating the actual experience of remembering we have: transience, absent-mindedness, blocking, mis-attribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence. – May God help us all
Nineteen eighty-four
Propaganda model
Black, Galbraith, & Stiglitz ?
The news about the news [1], [2].
Some good stuff from the Grapevine
The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers?
Our Empire Friend
Blood on whose hands? The military was given “assignment”, – illegal, immoral, stupid and counterproductive – by state authorities who promote and endorse that sort of thing.
We where listed in the “Coalition of the Willing”, and famously, this was actualized by Two (2) men. They also laid the foundations for the meltdown, but thats another story.
How far is it possible to marginalize the public of any country?
Psyops of course is all about Assange, is he a prick? – Who the f*** cares?
warlogs.wikileaks.org
news.sky.com
guardian.co.uk
spiegel.de
telegraph.co.uk
dailymail.co.uk
Most Censored 2009-2010
The free and hard-hitting western press, the forth estate and all that B.S., has totally “missed” this: Global Plans to Replace the Dollar.
“The cycle supporting a permanent US war economy appears to be almost over. Once the dollar cannot flood central banks and no one buys US treasury bonds, the American global military empire collapses. The impact on daily living for the US population could be severe.”
“The United States tells debtor economies to sell off their public utilities and natural resources, raise their interest rates and increase taxes while gutting their social safety nets to squeeze out money to pay creditors. ”
“When Mr. Geithner put on his serious face and told an audience at Peking University in early June that he believed in a “strong dollar” and China’s US investments therefore were safe and sound, he was greeted with derisive laughter.”
It may be helpful if “Geithner can show us some arithmetic,” said Yu. “We need to know how the U.S. government can achieve this objective.”
Referring to the Federal Reserve “as the world’s biggest junk investor,” and to Chairman Ben S. Bernanke as “helicopter Ben,” Yu said the Fed has dropped “tons of money from the sky since the subprime crisis.”
If the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO are but drawers in the US Treasury, what does that mean for an Icelandic Finance Minister of the left freaking kind who pusses their neocon economic theories (confirmed by a typewriter) culminating the absurdity by speaking at Goldman Sachs meat. Are we insane or just simple farm-folks.
Chris Hedges, The American Empire Is Bankrupt
Michael Hudson, De-Dollarization: The Yekaterinburg Turning Point
Fred Weir, Iran and Russia Nip at US Global Dominance
Lyubov Pronina, Medvedev Shows Off Sample Coin of New ‘World Currency’ at G-8
Edmund Conway, UN Wants New Global Currency to Replace Dollar
Jose Arturo Cardenas, Latin American Leftists Tackle Dollar with New Currency
A country under siege
Capacent Gallup: 85 percent of the population is opposed to foreign entities being able to buy Icelandic Natural Resources. (Gallup.pdf)
” These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. ” – Thomas Paine
William K. Black
The “F” Business Plan: Mathematically Proven Formula to enrich CEO’s and? impoverish everyone else.
1. Grow like crazy
2. Bad loans – high yields
3. Extraordinary leverage
4. No meaningful loss reserves
Never “Fuzzy” & No “Boundaries”: The Best Way to Rob an Icelandic Bank Was to Own One
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Holding Abusive and Fraudulent Elites and Enablers Accountable
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