Det är mycket som händer på
Island nu, försöker här samla artiklar och videos för att
hålla koll och hänga med. Jag kommer ihåg att Johan
Ehrenberg varnade för att det spekulerades på ett ohållbart
sätt på Island åtminstone ett år innan det började krascha.
Ehrenberg har ju även skrivit en bok om detta, Sagan om
bonusgrisen och bläckfisken. Även Max Keiser varnade
tidigt för att situationen inte var hållbar, se videos med
honom från 2007 längst ner på denna sidan.
Bill Still har
varit på besök på Island. Intressanta nya koncept för att få
ordning på ekonomin har diskuterats, från juni 2010. I linje
med de förslag som ges av Ellen Brown,
exempel 1, fler artiklar.
Bernard Lietaer har
intressanta förslag för Island
Birgitta Jónsdóttir gäst hos
Max Keiser 15 april 2010
The next morning I learned that
Iceland was taking a stand. It was refusing to pay its
British and Dutch debts. It is claiming the debts are a
result of fraud, and it’s right. They have made the offer to
pay some years from now, if they can afford it at that time,
and only as a percentage of their GDP. This offer has been,
of course, declined by Iceland’s creditor banks as they
demand payment in the form of real assets.
The Icelanders
have grown a pair, so to speak. They are doing something I
wish Americans would have done, or will do in the future.
They are standing up to the privately owned banks that seem
to think they are above the law, that they can change the
rules at their whim, and that they alone know what’s best
for the world, which of course happens to empower them and
help their profits. ... Those
that own the banks now hope that they can swoop in and buy
up the nation’s infrastructure for pennies on the dollar, or
in this case aurar on the krona. This is how they operate.
They print money based on nothing but debt at negligible
cost to themselves, then charge interest on that debt,
interest that is never created by the way, and then when the
debt can’t be repaid they end up acquiring all the real
wealth that’s been created. It’s a brilliant scheme in its
simplicity. They end up with all the real wealth and they
risk nothing of any real value. I could be wrong, but I
think it’s safe to say that the Icelanders figured this out
when their creditor banks started demanding things like
their geothermal power stations and other such publicly
owned infrastructure as payment for their defaulted loans.
They cried “foul!” – as well they should having played by
the rules all this time – and charged that they had been
defrauded. They may well have shocked the establishment with
their refusal to pay the extortion.
9 mars 2010 - 93% av
islänningarna har just röstat nej till det föreslagna
avtalet om hur Islands folk ska ta ansvar för
finansskojarnas äventyr.
Birgitta Jónsdóttir gästar
Alex Jones Show och berättar om läget. Här uppdelat
i 4 ljudklipp, eller för nedladdning
HÄR
Let’s also put
this debt into perspective: 320.000 people live in Iceland,
each and every person on the island, including children and
the elderly, the disabled and the poor, would have to pay
around $30,000 under the bill. The danger if Icelanders will
accept this enormous burden is that the entire welfare
system would simply collapse with no money to run it. On
January 5th the Icelandic president had the courage, backed
up by his nation, to place the interest of the people before
that of the banks.
Birgitta Jónsdóttir hos Alex Jones 13 jan 2010.
Övriga delar av intervjun - del 2 -
del 3 -
del 4
Europe’s small, debt-strapped countries could follow
the lead of Argentina and simply walk away from
their debts. That would shift the burden to the
creditor countries, which could solve the problem
merely by a change in accounting rules.
Total financial
collapse, once a problem only for developing
countries, has now come to Europe. The International
Monetary Fund is imposing its “austerity measures”
on the outer circle of the European Union, with
Greece, Iceland and Latvia the hardest hit. But
these are not your ordinary third world debtor
supplicants. Historically, Iceland was settled by
the Vikings, who successfully invaded Britain;
Latvian tribes repulsed even the Vikings; and the
Greeks conquered the whole Persian empire. If anyone
can stand up to the IMF, these stalwart European
warriors can.
Den amerikanske ekonomen Michael Hudson
har engagerat sig för Island och varit på besök på ön.
17 oktober 2009
hos
Max Keiser
Iceland promises to be merely the first sovereign
nation to lead the pendulum swing away from an
ostensibly “real economy” ideology of free markets
to an awareness that in practice, this rhetoric
turns out to be a junk economics favorable to banks
and global creditors. Interest-bearing debt is the
“product” that banks sell, after all.
What seemed at first blush to be “wealth creation”
was more accurately debt-creation, in which banks
took no responsibility for the ability to pay. The
resulting crash led the financial sector to suddenly
believe that it did love centralized government
control after all – to the extent of demanding
public-sector bailouts that would reduce indebted
economies to a generation of fiscal debt peonage and
the resulting economic shrinkage.
IMF och EU har försökt tvinga Island att betala av
sina failerade privata skulder genom att låta staten
ta över fordran och sedan försöka få ut pengar till
avbetalning genom höjda skatter, kraftigt reducerad
välfärd och se till att medborgarna spenderar sina
besparingar.
...
Island är dock en modern demokrati med en utbildad
befolkning och så radikala förändringar för att
betala av skulder för en mycket liten bankelit på ön
har inte gått utan stora protester vilket nu leder
till en mindre revolution.
...
Lagen säger lite förenklat att Island bara kommer
att betala av på sina utlandsskulder till England
och Holland med 6% av BNP tillväxten varje år. Det
innebär att om EU och IMF går igenom med sina krav
på att krympa ekonomin genom ”Austerity packages”
för att frigöra kapital till skuldunderhåll så har
Island inte heller någon ekonomisk tillväxt det
året. Det innebär i sin tur att de inte får betalt.
Islänningarna har fått ställa frågor till
Michael Hudson om hur han tycker att dom ska hantera sin
besvärliga ekonomiska situation. Mycket intressant! På bloggen
larahanna.blog.is
den 6 maj, Hudson:
"- The strategy of creditors is to make
debtors feel that they are committing a social sin by not paying.
Yet creditors always try to avoid paying among themselves. A double
standard is at work. - Most people are willing to give you goodwill if they think you're
fair. And if we're talking about what is fair, the fact is that here
in New York, the terms of IMF and other foreign loans are not fair
and indeed are deemed fraudulent. The definition of a "fraudulent
loan" (under New York State's fraudulent conveyance law) is a loan
that the debtor cannot pay in the normal course of living and doing
business. - IMF conditionalities require a change in such behavior. And to use
such a loan to pay private-sector foreign debts is simply folly. It
gives a free lunch to the irresponsible creditors who made these
loans and pseudo-investments. Of course THEY will like you if you
give them money that nations such as the United States have refused
to give them on losses in the American subprime and mortgage market.
But why would you want to have their "goodwill" under these
circumstances?" ... "The problem is not a small currency. It's the way in
which the financial and fiscal system is managed. High
interest rates raise prices and the cost of living..." ... "Every
country should create its own money, because that is
done freely by the government. If you use the US$ or
other currencies, you have to export the products of
your labor and natural resources to obtain this
money."
In the
wake of the failure of the Icelandic banks
Messrs Brown, Barroso and Strauss-Kahn prove
that they have understood nothing
From G8 to G20, many heads of state and
government seem to delight in repeating that
nothing will ever be the same again. The
world is changing, to the point of being
turned on its head by the crisis; the way we
think and act in terms of financial
regulation, international relations and
development aid must therefore, according to
them, change too. However, numerous examples
contradict all this big talk. The situation
in which Iceland now finds itself following
the implosion of its banking system and the
emergency nationalisation of its three main
banks (Kaupthing, Landsbanki and Glitnir) is
undoubtedly one of the most significant of
these examples. This small country of
320,000 inhabitants is now reeling under the
weight of billions of Euros of debt, which
has absolutely nothing to do with the vast
majority of its population and which Iceland
cannot afford to pay. ... Even the Scandinavian countries, which
heralded international solidarity, are
conspicuous by their lack of reaction to the
blackmailing of Iceland – which certainly
puts the generosity of the loans they have
promised into perspective. ... the countries of the European Union
could have devised a mechanism that would
allow them to consider their own
responsibilities in this situation, to
improve the regulation of financial markets
and even take on at least part of the debt –
which European legislation in no way
prohibits – for having failed in their
banking supervision role. ... the Swedish presidency of the EU does
not seem to be in a hurry to improve
regulation of the financial sectors
Ut ur
askan – in i elden. Islands fortsatt
hopplösa situation.
Man kan börja tro att det är avbetalningar
för den förlorande parten efter ett stort
krig. Totalt så är var man i island nu
skyldig ytterligare 18 600 USD per person i
konkursskulder som de inte har något med att
göra. ... En skuld som inte kan betalas av ska inte
heller avbetalas. De tre storbankernas
vidlyftiga spekulering på Island skulle ha
aldrig ha räddats av Isländska staten och få
konkursa spektakulärt på den fria marknaden. Staten skulle ha garanterats var mans
besparingar genom att trycka skuldfria
statliga krediter och landet som sådant
skulle vara i en mycket mer angenäm
situation, även om de förmodligen skulle bli
utfryst en tid från de ekonomiska eliten
runt omkring i världen.
"Välgörenhetsorganistationen Christies vill komma åt
sina pengar som sitter fast i Kaupthing Edge. Christies
behandlar cancerpatienter och det är ju både dyrt och
inte kan man låta folk vänta på att marknaden vänder
heller..
Gordon Brown får frågan vad han tänker göra åt det. Då
skyller han på att islänningrna inte betalat än och
säger att han har "hållit möten" med IMF och andra för
att se hur fort vi kan pressas betala.
Problemet är bara att Kaupthing Edge är ett dotterbolag
till den isländska, rekordkraschade, banken Kaupþing
(världens femte största konkurs! *nickar stolt*). Att
det är ett dotterbolag betyder att vi inte har ett smack
med dem att göra, de faller helt och hållet under
brittisk lag och det är BRITTERNA själva som inte har
betalat ut! ... Lite otäckt är det att han blandar in IMF i det hela.
IMF säger att de "blandar sig inte i mellanstatliga
delomål" men det tror jag väl på hur mycket jag vill.
Storbritannien - som styrs av Herr Brun och hans
kumpaner - ÄR en av de största "delägarna" i banken och
har aldrig varit blyga med sitt imperialistiska
beteende. Att IMF brukar lägga huvudet på sned och
kvittra "jamen vi vill ju bara hjääälpa" lurar i alla
fall inte mig: de kan inte dölja vare sig klorna eller
de vassa
rovdjurständerna."
