“BREXIT, GREXIT, FREXIT κλπ.” (ΤΟΥ ΒΑΓΓΕΛΗ ΠΑΠΑΜΙΧΑΗΛ)

Σταμάτης Κ. Ρουσόδημος Posted On 1 Ιουνίου 2016

Where
is the Greek Leadership? Έτσι
ξεκινάει το άρθρο που υπάρχει κάτω από το κείμενο που θα διαβάσετε σήμερα. Πού
είναι η Ελληνική ηγεσία; αναρωτιέται ο αρθρογράφος. –Έλα μου ντε! απαντάμε
εμείς. Το άρθρο πραγματεύεται αναλυτικά την περίπτωση της Ισλανδίας και απαντά
στο ερώτημα γιατί δεν αναφέρεται η Ισλανδία στις ειδήσεις. Σας δίνω μια μικρή
περίληψη.

Η
μικρή Ισλανδία ήταν κάποτε μια ευημερούσα χώρα. Λίγο πριν την παγκόσμια
οικονομική κρίση είχε εγκαταλείψει την παραδοσιακή της οικονομία και είχε γίνει
ένας από τους παράδεισους της αμφιλεγόμενης χρηματοπιστωτικής οικονομίας. Με το
που έσκασε η τραπεζική κρίση βρέθηκε το Ισλανδικό κράτος να χρωστάει τεράστια
ποσά μέσω ομολόγων κλπ κυρίως προς το Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο και την Ολλανδία.
Αυτό σήμαινε αδυναμία εξόφλησης. Κάτι σαν την περίπτωση της Ελλάδας αλλά με
διαφορετικά χαρακτηριστικά. Το αποτέλεσμα ήταν το ίδιο. Η τότε κυβέρνηση της
χώρας έκανε “διαπραγματεύσεις” και συμφώνησε ένα διάστημα αποπληρωμής με
επιτόκιο 5,5 τοις εκατό. Αυτό θεωρήθηκε απαράδεκτο από το λαό. Έριξαν την
κυβέρνηση, ψήφισαν καινούριο σύνταγμα, κήρυξαν αδυναμία αποπληρωμής, έστειλαν
στον αγύριστο το δολάριο και το ευρώ και διέκοψαν τις σχέσεις με την ευρωζώνη.
Δεν έμειναν όμως μόνο σ΄αυτά. Έβγαλαν εντάλματα σύλληψης κατά των διοικητών των
τραπεζών πού έφεραν τη χώρα σ΄αυτό το σημείο.. Φυσικά οι απατεώνες εξαφανίστηκαν
και τώρα καταζητούνται από το Ισλανδικό κράτος και την Ιντερπόλ. Τ΄ακούτε,
Στουρνάρα και Παπακωνσταντίνου και αλαφροϊσκιωτε Βαρουφάκη και Τσακαλώτε με το
ύφος της κουρασμένης γιαγιάς και όλοι οι υπόλοιποι ψευτοπρωθυπουργοί και
αχυροβουλευτές; Τ΄ΑΚΟΥΤΕ ΜΩΡΕ ΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ; ΥΠΑΡΧΟΥΝ ΚΑΙ ΛΑΟΙ ΜΕ
ΑΞΙΟΠΡΕΠΕΙΑ!

Τώρα
η Ισλανδία τρέχει με χίλια. Με δικό της νόμισμα και τα δικά της συγκριτικά
οικονομικά πλεονεκτήματα. Εμείς βουλιάξαμε και καθόμαστε και κοιτάζουμε παθητικά
καταδικάζοντας τουλάχιστον δυο γενιές και βάζοντας οικειοθελώς την Ελλάδα στην
κατηγορία των ανυπόληπτων κρατών τέταρτης κατηγορίας. Και συνεχίζουμε με τον
ίδιο ρυθμό πέφτοντας στα τέσσερα σε ότι διατάξουν τα κοράκια μέσω του
σχιζοφρενούς νέου Χίτλερ της Ευρώπης. Πρωτοφανής ξεφτίλα στα ιστορικά χρονικά
της οικουμένης.

Η
Βρετανική επαρχία έδωσε την απάντηση στον ψυχανώμαλο Σόιμπλε και του έδειξε πού
τον έχει γραμμένο. Κανείς δεν μπορεί να ξέρει πως και γιατί ξεκίνησε το
δημοψήφισμα και τι έχουν κατά νου τα think tanks που δρομολογούν
καταστάσεις τις οποίες μαθαίνουμε 20 – 30 χρόνια μετά. Σίγουρα τίποτα δεν είναι
τυχαίο. Μερικές φορές όμως ξεχειλίζει το καζάνι της οργής και δεν το σταματάει
κανείς και τότε οι συνέπειες είναι απρόβλεπτες. Έγραφα σ΄ αυτή τη μικρή
αρθογραφία κάποτε ότι η Ευρώπη και οι θεσμοί της έχουν ξεφύγει από τις αρχικές
τους θέσεις και αυτή η Ευρώπη δεν θα πάει μακριά. Κάποιοι ανόητοι σχολιαστές
μίλησαν για συναισθηματικές εκρήξεις και θεωρητικές οπτικές. Πάρτε τα τώρα και
δεν έχετε δει τίποτα. Σε λίγο καιρό θα ξεσηκωθεί ο Γαλλικός λαός που έκανε
το σφάλμα να εμπιστευθεί μια Εβραίικη καρικατούρα, τον Σαρκοζύ, και έναν
ανύπαρκτο ανθρωπάκι, τον Ολλάντ και τώρα βλέπουν την κάποτε περήφανη και
πρωτοπόρα χώρα τους να έχει γίνει κομπάρσος με ασήμαντο ρόλο. Οι εξελίξεις είναι
ραγδαίες και για ακόμη μια φορά οι Έλληνες θα είναι παθητικοί θεατές που απλά τα
ξέρουν όλα (ξεράδια) αλλά δεν είναι σε θέση σηκώσουν το κεφάλι μπροστά στο
έγκλημα που έγινε σε βάρος τους. Οι σοβαροί λαοί χαράζουν το δικό τους
δρόμο.

Διαβάστε
όσοι μπορείτε και έχετε χρόνο το άρθρο που ακολουθεί. Σε μερικά σημεία είναι
δύσκολο αλλά το νόημα μπορείτε να το καταλάβετε.

Why Iceland
Should Be in the News, But Is Not !!!

Where Is Greek
Leadership? Iceland Dropped The Euro Last Year And The World Did Not End – In
Fact, Iceland Is Prospering!
June 19, 2012 2:07

Americans, Iceland is
the only country to revolt against the foreign-run banking system – Do not
follow Greece and the EuroZone. Follow Icland and start your Revolution
now!

“Work is the basis for
all well-being, while monopoly and cartels are obstacles for the beneficial
processes.” – Adam Smith, ‘The Wealth of Nations’ in 1776, the same year
Congress declared the United States of America independent from the Britsh
banking system and the British Banking Act of 1775.

There are two peoples
in America today: We the People, and the Other People running the illegitimate
regime called the federal government. Illegitimate because it does not represent
We the People; it represents its own financial interest in a war economy and not
your well-being.

Just look around you:
those two peoples need to separate from one another.

The current
illegitimate American government is carrying on its illegitimacy with the money
from your work using your money to wage imperialistic, materially beneficial
wars instead of directing it toward your well-being.

The material benefits
of your work are going to the companies (the monopolies and cartels) that make
the products and systems used for war – tanks, guns, planes, weak body armor,
many through monopolistic no-bid contracts to cartels – but not for your
well-being.

Your money was not
used to maintain the New Orleans levees jor the Colorado levees or to clear out
the California underbrush and the other fires now burning up this great
country.

Your money has not
been used to maintain your roads, schools, bridges, and medical
schemes.

YOUR MONEY IS NOT
BEING USED FOR YOUR WELL-BEING.

You can change that by
holding your money back until it is spent on your well-being – it is your
money!

And you can
legitimally, constitutionally, withhold it by not paying taxes (interest on
money “borrowed” from the FED by the Other People in your government) that are
not used for your well-being.

Ask your firm to pay
for your work in cash that you can put directly toward your
well-being.

Put the cash under the
mattress, buy (and learn how to use) a gun to protect it – you still have that
Constitutional right. That may not last: the Other People would like you unarmed
and defenseless.

You may soon have to
protect those rights and other rights once guaranteed by your
Constitution.

TAXES ARE
ILLEGAL

The Sixteenth
Amendment to the United States Constitution was never properly ratified and
therefore there is no legal imperative or obligation to pay taxes to the Other
People in the federal government. See TAX PROTESTER CONSTITUTIONAL
ARGUMENTS

So basically, you do
not legally have to pay taxes. The reason you think you do is because you
believe the meme that your money has been spent on your well-being for all these
years, looking after you and your interests and your family’s interests and your
country’s state and regional interests.

You have been paying
taxes because you believe that.

THAT IS NOT
HAPPENING

Your money is not
going toward your well-being it is going toward the benefit of the Other
People’s monopolies and the corporate cartels, Big Government, Big Armament and
Big Pharma (which, as you have no doubt heard, is murdering you and your
children for your money – The single biggest cause of death in America is the
‘Health Care’ system!)

It’s a sad state of
affairs, but it makes the present sitting government illegitimate not only in
terms of it not working in the interests of your well-being, but also of it
saddling you with exactly the same ‘odious debt’ Iceland was saddled with AND IS
NOW FREE FROM!

You did not incur that
debt! YOU do not have to pay it back – who says, and to whom? To a Usurious
banking system that exists to create and maintain debt, mostly through
war.

What if all this
global debt – like Iceland’s – was illegal? We, the people, can prove it and get
out of it for our own benefit and well being.

Follow Iceland, the
economic leader of our time.

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/2277/954/Where_Is_Greek_Leadership_Iceland_Dropped_The_Euro_Last_Year_And_The_World_Did_Not_End_-_In_Fact,_Iceland_Is_Prospering.html

In Iceland, the people
have made the government resign, the primary banks have been nationalized and it
was decided not to pay the debt that these created with Great Britain and
Holland due to their bad financial politics, and a public assembly has been
created to rewrite the constitution.

And all of this has
been done in a peaceful way. A whole revolution against the powers that have
created the current crisis.

This is why there
hasn’t been any publicity during the last two years: What would happen if the
rest of the EU citizens took this as an example? What would happen if the US
citizens took this as an example?

This is a summary of
the facts:

2008. The main bank of
the country is nationalized. The Krona, the currency of Iceland devaluates and
the stock market stops. The country is in bankruptcy

2008. The citizens
protest in front of parliament and manage to get new elections that make the
resignation of the prime minister and his whole
government.

The country is in bad
economic situation. A law proposes paying back the debt to Great Britain and
Holland through the payment of 3,500 million euros, which will be paid by the
people of Iceland monthly during the next 15 years, with a 5.5%
interest.

2010. The people go
out in the streets and demand a referendum. In January 2010 the president denies
the approval and announces a popular meeting.

In March the
referendum and the denial of payment is voted in by 93%. Meanwhile the
government has initiated an investigation to bring to justice those responsible
for the crisis, and many high level executives and bankers are
arrested.

The Interpol dictates
an order that make all the implicated parties leave the
country.

In this crisis an
assembly is elected to rewrite a new Constitution which can include the lessons
learned from this, and which will substitute the current one (a copy of the
Danish Constitution). 25 citizens are chosen, with no political affiliation, out
of the 522 candidates. For candidacy all that was needed was to be an adult and
have the support of 30 people.

The constitutional
assembly starts in February of 2011 to present the ‘carta magna’ from the
recommendations given by the different assemblies happening throughout the
country. It must be approved by the current Parliament and by the one
constituted through the next legislative elections.

So in summary of the
Icelandic revolution: -resignation of the whole government -nationalization of
the bank. -referendum so that the people can decide over the economic decisions.
-incarcerating the responsible parties -rewriting of the constitution by its
people.

– Crowz Eye via Debi
Samuels

Why Iceland Should Be
in the News, But Is Not
By Deena Stryker

An Italian radio
program’s story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how
little our media tells us about the rest of the world. Americans may remember
that at the start of the 2008 financial crisis, Iceland literally went bankrupt.
The reasons were mentioned only in passing, and since then, this little-known
member of the European Union fell back into oblivion.

As one European
country after another fails or risks failing, imperiling the Euro, with
repercussions for the entire world, the last thing the powers that be want is
for Iceland to become an example. Here’s why:

Five years of a pure
neo-liberal regime had made Iceland, (population 320 thousand, no army), one of
the richest countries in the world. In 2003 all the country’s banks were
privatized, and in an effort to attract foreign investors, they offered on-line
banking whose minimal costs allowed them to offer relatively high rates of
return. The accounts, called IceSave, attracted many English and Dutch small
investors. But as investments grew, so did the banks’ foreign debt. In 2003
Iceland’s debt was equal to 200 times its GNP, but in 2007, it was 900 percent.
The 2008 world financial crisis was the coup de grace. The three main Icelandic
banks, Landbanki, Kapthing and Glitnir, went belly up and were nationalized,
while the Kroner lost 85% of its value with respect to the Euro. At the end of
the year Iceland declared bankruptcy.

Contrary to what could
be expected, the crisis resulted in Icelanders recovering their sovereign
rights, through a process of direct participatory democracy that eventually led
to a new Constitution. But only after much pain.

Geir Haarde, the Prime
Minister of a Social Democratic coalition government, negotiated a two million
one hundred thousand dollar loan, to which the Nordic countries added another
two and a half million. But the foreign financial community pressured Iceland to
impose drastic measures. The FMI and the European Union wanted to take over its
debt, claiming this was the only way for the country to pay back Holland and
Great Britain, who had promised to reimburse their
citizens.

Protests and riots
continued, eventually forcing the government to resign. Elections were brought
forward to April 2009, resulting in a left-wing coalition which condemned the
neoliberal economic system, but immediately gave in to its demands that Iceland
pay off a total of three and a half million Euros. This required each Icelandic
citizen to pay 100 Euros a month (or about $130) for fifteen years, at 5.5%
interest, to pay off a debt incurred by private parties vis a vis other private
parties.

It was the straw that
broke the reindeer’s back.

What happened next was
extraordinary. The belief that citizens had to pay for the mistakes of a
financial monopoly, that an entire nation must be taxed to pay off private debts
was shattered, transforming the relationship between citizens and their
political institutions and eventually driving Iceland’s leaders to the side of
their constituents. The Head of State, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, refused to ratify
the law that would have made Iceland’s citizens responsible for its bankers’
debts, and accepted calls for a referendum.

Of course the
international community only increased the pressure on Iceland. Great Britain
and Holland threatened dire reprisals that would isolate the country. As
Icelanders went to vote, foreign bankers threatened to block any aid from the
IMF. The British government threatened to freeze Icelander savings and checking
accounts. As Grimsson said: “We were told that if we refused the international
community’s conditions, we would become the Cuba of the North. But if we had
accepted, we would have become the Haiti of the North.” (How many times have I
written that when Cubans see the dire state of their neighbor, Haiti, they count
themselves lucky.)

In the March 2010
referendum, 93% voted against repayment of the debt. The IMF immediately froze
its loan. But the revolution (though not televised in the United States), would
not be intimidated. With the support of a furious citizenry, the government
launched civil and penal investigations into those responsible for the financial
crisis. Interpol put out an international arrest warrant for the ex-president of
Kaupthing, Sigurdur Einarsson, as the other bankers implicated in the crash fled
the country.

But Icelanders didn’t
stop there: they decided to draft a new constitution that would free the country
from the exaggerated power of international finance and virtual money. (The one
in use had been written when Iceland gained its independence from Denmark, in
1918, the only difference with the Danish constitution being that the word
‘president’ replaced the word ‘king’.)

To write the new
constitution, the people of Iceland elected twenty-five citizens from among 522
adults not belonging to any political party but recommended by at least thirty
citizens. This document was not the work of a handful of politicians, but was
written on the internet. The constituent’s meetings are streamed on-line, and
citizens can send their comments and suggestions, witnessing the document as it
takes shape. The constitution that eventually emerges from this participatory
democratic process will be submitted to parliament for approval after the next
elections.

Some readers will
remember that Iceland’s ninth century agrarian collapse was featured in Jared
Diamond’s book by the same name.

Today, that country is
recovering from its financial collapse in ways just the opposite of those
generally considered unavoidable, as confirmed yesterday by the new head of the
IMF, Christine Lagarde to Fareed Zakaria. The people of Greece have been told
that the privatization of their public sector is the only solution. And those of
Italy, Spain and Portugal are facing the same threat.

They should look to
Iceland. Refusing to bow to foreign interests, that small country stated loud
and clear that the people are sovereign.

That’s why it is not
in the news anymore.

Stryker is an American
writer that has lived in six different countries, is fluent in four languages
and a published writer in three. She looks at the big picture from a systems and
spiritual point of view.

This article was
originally published by the Daily Kos. SACSIS cannot authorise its
republication.

http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/728.1

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-12-01/europe/30461990_1_glitnir-bank-icelandic-usd

http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2011/01/20/more-icelandic-bankers-arrested/

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Iceland, a country
that wants to punish the bankers responsible for the
crisis

Redacción
Chile
Since 2008 the vast majority of the Western population dream about
saying “no” to the banks, but no one has dared to do so. No one except the
Icelanders, who have carried out a peaceful revolution that has managed not only
to overthrow a government and draft a new constitution, but also seeks to jail
those responsible for the country’s economic debacle.

Image by: Helgi
Hall
Peaceful protests, pots and pans and demonstrations against the
banks
Pressenza Reikjavik, 3/28/11 Last week 9 people were arrested in London
and Reykjavik for their possible responsibility for Iceland’s financial collapse
in 2008, a deep crisis which developed into an unprecedented public reaction
that is changing the country’s direction.

It has been a
revolution without weapons in Iceland, the country that hosts the world’s oldest
democracy (since 930), and whose citizens have managed to effect change by going
on demonstrations and banging pots and pans. Why have the rest of the Western
countries not even heard about it?

Pressure from
Icelandic citizens’ has managed not only to bring down a government, but also
begin the drafting of a new constitution (in process) and is seeking to put in
jail those bankers responsible for the financial crisis in the country. As the
saying goes, if you ask for things politely it is much easier to get
them.

This quiet
revolutionary process has its origins in 2008 when the Icelandic government
decided to nationalise the three largest banks, Landsbanki, Kaupthing and
Glitnir, whose clients were mainly British, and North and South
American.

After the State took
over, the official currency (krona) plummeted and the stock market suspended its
activity after a 76% collapse. Iceland was becoming bankrupt and to save the
situation, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) injected U.S. $ 2,100 million
and the Nordic countries helped with another 2,500
million.

Great little victories
of ordinary people

While banks and local
and foreign authorities were desperately seeking economic solutions, the
Icelandic people took to the streets and their persistent daily demonstrations
outside parliament in Reykjavik prompted the resignation of the conservative
Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde and his entire
government.

Citizens demanded, in
addition, to convene early elections, and they succeeded. In April a coalition
government was elected, formed by the Social Democratic Alliance and the Left
Green Movement, headed by a new Prime Minister, Jóhanna
Sigurðardóttir.

Throughout 2009 the
Icelandic economy continued to be in a precarious situation (at the end of the
year the GDP had dropped by 7%) but, despite this, the Parliament proposed to
repay the debt to Britain and the Netherlands with a payment of 3,500 million
Euros, a sum to be paid every month by Icelandic families for 15 years at 5.5%
interest.

The move sparked anger
again in the Icelanders, who returned to the streets demanding that, at least,
that decision was put to a referendum. Another big small victory for the street
protests: in March 2010 that vote was held and an overwhelming 93% of the
population refused to repay the debt, at least with those
conditions.

This forced the
creditors to rethink the deal and improve it, offering 3% interest and payment
over 37 years. Not even that was enough. The current president, on seeing that
Parliament approved the agreement by a narrow margin, decided last month not to
approve it and to call on the Icelandic people to vote in a referendum so that
they would have the last word.

The bankers are
fleeing in fear

Returning to the tense
situation in 2010, while the Icelanders were refusing to pay a debt incurred by
financial sharks without consultation, the coalition government had launched an
investigation to determine legal responsibilities for the fatal economic crisis
and had already arrested several bankers and top executives closely linked to
high risk operations.

Interpol, meanwhile,
had issued an international arrest warrant against Sigurdur Einarsson, former
president of one of the banks. This situation led scared bankers and executives
to leave the country en masse.

In this context of
crisis, an assembly was elected to draft a new constitution that would reflect
the lessons learned and replace the current one, inspired by the Danish
constitution.

To do this, instead of
calling experts and politicians, Iceland decided to appeal directly to the
people, after all they have sovereign power over the law. More than 500
Icelanders presented themselves as candidates to participate in this exercise in
direct democracy and write a new constitution. 25 of them, without party
affiliations, including lawyers, students, journalists, farmers and trade union
representatives were elected.

Among other
developments, this constitution will call for the protection, like no other, of
freedom of information and expression in the so-called Icelandic Modern Media
Initiative, in a bill that aims to make the country a safe haven for
investigative journalism and freedom of information, where sources, journalists
and Internet providers that host news reporting are
protected.

The people, for once,
will decide the future of the country while bankers and politicians witness the
transformation of a nation from the sidelines.

Β.Παπαμιχαήλ

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