Með innherjaáætlun ef bankarnir færu í þrot

Ráðuneytisstjórinn hjá dýralækninum seldi sitt og það var haft samband við vinkonu Dabba og hún losaði sig við bréfin og miklu fleiri innherjamál þarf að rannsaka í því gjörspillta kerfi sem hér ríkti og ríkir vafalaust enn. Þá eru það skuldaafskriftir vina og vandamanna og hvernig bankastarfsmönnum var forðað frá gjaldþroti til að þeir gætu áfram starfað í bönkunum í stað þess að verða reknir. Þessi svikamylla gekk fyrir lygum, blekkingum og spillingu og þegar bankarnir fara aftur á hausinn í síðasta lagi í haust eða vetur verður áfram hlúð að spillingar- og innherjakúltúrnum, það er næsta víst.

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Með áætlun ef bankarnir færu í þrot

Seðlabankinn mat hver kostnaðurinn af fjármálaáfalli gæti orðið og birti í fjármálastöðugleikaskýrslu í maí í fyrra. Með hliðsjón af alþjóðlegri reynslu taldi bankinn að heildartap við fjármálaáfall gæti numið allt að 400 til 500 milljörðum króna eða 30-40% af vergri landsframleiðslu eins árs, en það myndi dreifast á allmörg ár.

Matið gerði Seðlabankinn eftir að hafa fengið einn færasta fjármálakreppusérfræðing heims, Andrew Gracie, til að meta mögulegar leiðir vegna svartrar stöðu bankanna. Morgunblaðið hefur glærur sérfræðingsins undir höndum.

Með Gracie voru áætlanir gerðar tækist Glitni ekki að fjármagna sig fyrir stóran gjalddaga í október og færi í þrot. Ráðuneytisstjórar helstu ráðuneyta fengu kynningu.  

 

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Þannig að megnið af skuldunum á að gufa upp en ekki er samt ljóst hvernig, sem aftur alls ekki kemur á óvart, enda fer engin uppgufun fram í vakúmi og sem fyrr mælist takmörkuð hugsun í lofttæmihausunum þarna í seðlabankanum. Amen og kúmen.

Fjármálaeftirlitið var það úldið í gegn að kostaði tugi milljóni að spreija ilmvatni yfir það til málamynda

Hvernig skyldi það vera með sjúkdómaeftirlitið? Er það kannski líka yfirhlaðið af sofandi og ónýtu drasli sem verra en gagnslaust pólitískt rusl kom fyrir í atvinnuleysisgeymslum? Þarf ekki að rannsaka það? Hvers vegna eru alls engar hömlur á ferðalögum hingað á sama tíma og Alþj. Heilbrigðisstofnunin hefur sett á fimmta stig gagnvart svínaflensunni og næsta stig þýðir herlög og almenn upplausn.

Critical Alert: The Swine Flu Pandemic – Fact or Fiction?

By Dr. Mercola

American health officials declared a public health emergency as cases of swine flu were confirmed in the U.S. Health officials across the world fear this could be the leading edge of a global pandemic emerging from Mexico, where seven people are confirmed dead as a result of the new virus.

On Monday April 27th, the World Health Organization (WHO) raised its pandemic alert level to four on its six-level threat scale,¹ which means they've determined that the virus is capable of human-to-human transmission. The initial outbreaks across North America reveal an infection already traveling at higher velocity than did the last official pandemic strain, the 1968 Hong Kong flu.

The number of fatalities, and suspected and confirmed cases across the world change depending on the source, so your best bet -- if you want the latest numbers -- is to use Google Maps' Swine Flu Tracker.

Several nations have imposed travel bans, or made plans to quarantine air travelers² that present symptoms of the swine flu, such as:

• Fever of more than 100
• Coughing
• Runny nose and/or sore throat
• Joint aches
• Severe headache
• Vomiting and/or diarrhea
• Lethargy
• Lack of appetite

Top global flu experts are trying to predict how dangerous the new swine flu strain will be, as it became clear that they had little information about Mexico's outbreak. It is as yet unclear how many cases occurred in the month or so before the outbreak was detected. It's also unknown whether the virus was mutating to be more lethal, or less.

Much Fear Mongering Being Promoted

I suspect you have likely been alarmed by the media's coverage of the swine flu scare. It has a noticeable subplot - preparing you for draconian measures to combat a future pandemic as well as forcing you to accept the idea of mandatory vaccinations.

On April 27, Time magazine published an article which discusses how dozens died and hundreds were injured from vaccines as a result of the 1976 swine flu fiasco, when the Ford administration attempted to use the infection of soldiers at Fort Dix as a pretext for a mass vaccination of the entire country.

Despite acknowledging that the 1976 farce was an example of “how not to handle a flu outbreak”, the article still introduces the notion that officials “may soon have to consider whether to institute draconian measures to combat the disease”.

WHO and CDC Pandemic Preparedness Seriously Broken

The pandemic warning system has failed as it simply doesn't exist, even in North America and Europe. To improve the system, massive new investments in surveillance, scientific and regulatory infrastructure, basic public health, and global access to common sense interventions like vitamin D optimization are required.

According to the Washington Post, the CDC did not learn about the outbreak until six days after Mexico had begun to impose emergency measures. There should be no excuses. The paradox of this swine flu panic is that, while totally unexpected, it was accurately predicted. Six years ago, Science dedicated a major story to evidence that "after years of stability, the North American swine flu virus has jumped onto an evolutionary fasttrack".

However, maybe this is precisely what public health authorities desire.

This is NOT the First Swine Flu Panic

My guess is that you can expect to see a lot of panic over this issue in the near future.  But the key is to remain calm -- this isn't the first time the public has been warned about swine flu. The last time was in 1976, right before I entered medical school and I remember it very clearly. It resulted in the massive swine flu vaccine campaign.

Do you happen to recall the result of this massive campaign?

Within a few months, claims totaling $1.3 billion had been filed by victims who had suffered paralysis from the vaccine. The vaccine was also blamed for 25 deaths.

However, several hundred people developed crippling Guillain-Barré Syndrome after they were injected with the swine flu vaccine. Even healthy 20-year-olds ended up as paraplegics.

And the swine flu pandemic itself? It never materialized.

More People Died From the Swine Flu Vaccine than Swine Flu!

It is very difficult to forecast a pandemic, and a rash response can be extremely damaging.

As of Monday April 27, the worldwide total number of confirmed cases was 82, according to WHO, which included 40 cases in the U.S., confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control.  But does that truly warrant the feverish news headlines?

To put things into perspective, malaria kills 3,000 people EVERY DAY, and it's considered "a health problem"...  But of course, there are no fancy vaccines for malaria that can rake in billions of dollars in a short amount of time.

One Australian news source,³ for example, states that even a mild swine flu epidemic could lead to the deaths of 1.4 million people and would reduce economic growth by nearly $5 trillion dollars.

Give me a break, if this doesn't sound like the outlandish cries of the pandemic bird-flu I don't know what does. Do you remember when President Bush said two million Americans would die as a result of the bird flu?  

In 2005, in 2006, 2007, and again in 2008, those fears were exposed as little more than a cruel hoax, designed to instill fear, and line the pocketbooks of various individuals and industry. I became so convinced by the evidence AGAINST the possibility of a bird flu pandemic that I wrote a New York Times bestselling book, The Bird Flu Hoax, all about the massive fraud involved with the epidemic that never happened..

What is the Swine Flu?

Regular swine flu is a contagious respiratory disease, caused by a type-A influenza virus that affects pigs. The current strain, A(H1N1),  is a new variation of an H1N1 virus -- which causes seasonal flu outbreaks in humans -- that also contains genetic material of bird and pig versions of the flu.

Interestingly enough, this version has never before been seen in neither human nor animal, which I will discuss a bit later.

This does sound bad. But not so fast. There are a few reasons to not rush to conclusions that this is the deadly pandemic we've been told would occur in the near future (as if anyone could predict it without having some sort of inside knowledge).

Why a True Bird- or Swine Flu Pandemic is HIGHLY Unlikely

While in my opinion it is highly likely factory farming is responsible for producing this viral strain, I believe there is still no cause for concern.

You may not know this, but all H1N1 flu's are descendants of the 1918 pandemic strain. The reason why the flu shot may or may not work, however, from year to year, is due to mutations. Therefore, there's no vaccine available for this current hybrid flu strain, and naturally, this is feeding the fear that millions of people will die before a vaccine can be made.

However, let me remind you of one very important fact here.

Just a couple of months ago, scientists concluded that the 1918 flu pandemic that killed between 50-100 million people worldwide in a matter of 18 months -- which all these worst case scenarios are built upon -- was NOT due to the flu itself!⁴

Instead, they discovered the real culprit was strep infections.

People with influenza often get what is known as a "superinfection" with a bacterial agent. In 1918 it appears to have been Streptococcus pneumoniae. 

Since strep is much easier to treat than the flu using modern medicine, a new pandemic would likely be much less dire than it was in the early 20th century, the researchers concluded.

Others, such as evolutionary biologist Paul Ewald,⁵ claim that a pandemic of this sort simply cannot happen, because in order for it to occur, the world has to change. Not the virus itself, but the world.

In a previous interview for Esquire magazine, in which he discusses the possibility of a bird flu pandemic, he states:

"They think that if a virus mutates, it's an evolutionary event. Well, the virus is mutating because that is what viruses and other pathogens do. But evolution is not just random mutation. It is random mutation coupled with natural selection; it is a battle for competitive advantage among different strains generated by random mutation.

For bird flu to evolve into a human pandemic, the strain that finds a home in humanity has to be a strain that is both highly virulent and highly transmissible. Deadliness has to translate somehow into popularity; H5N1 has to find a way to kill or immobilize its human hosts, and still find other hosts to infect. Usually that doesn't happen."

Ewald goes on to explain that evolution in general is all about trade-offs, and in the evolution of infections the trade-off is between virulence and transmissibility.

What this means is that in order for a "bird flu" or "swine flu" to turn into a human pandemic, it has to find an environment that favors both deadly virulence and ease of transmission.

People living in squalor on the Western Front at the end of World War I generated such an environment, from which the epidemic of 1918 could arise.

Likewise, crowded chicken farms, slaughterhouses, and jam-packed markets of eastern Asia provide another such environment, and that environment gave rise to the bird flu -- a pathogen that both kills and spreads, in birds, but not in humans.

Says Ewald:

"We know that H5N1 is well adapted to birds. We also know that it has a hard time becoming a virus that can move from person to person. It has a hard time without our doing anything. But we can make it harder. We can make sure it has no human population in which to evolve transmissibility. There is no need to rely on the mass extermination of chickens. There is no need to stockpile vaccines for everyone.

By vaccinating just the people most at risk -- the people who work with chickens and the caregivers -- we can prevent it from becoming transmissible among humans. Then it doesn't matter what it does in chickens."

Please remember that, despite the fantastic headlines and projections of MILLIONS of deaths, the H5N1 bird flu virus killed a mere 257 people worldwide since late 2003. As unfortunate as those deaths are, 257 deaths worldwide from any disease, over the course of five years, simply does not constitute an emergency worthy of much attention, let alone fear!

Honestly, your risk of being killed by a lightning strike in the last five years was about 2,300 percent higher than your risk of contracting and dying from the bird flu.⁶ I'm not kidding! In just one year (2004), more than 1,170 people died from lighting strikes, worldwide.⁷

So please, as the numbers of confirmed swine flu cases are released, keep a level head and don't let fear run away with your brains.

So is the Swine Flu Getting More or Less Dangerous?

On Sunday, April 26, The Independent reported that more than 1,000 people had contracted the swine flu virus in Mexico, ⁸ but by the afternoon that same day, Mexican President Calderon declared that more than two-thirds of the 1,300 thought to have contracted the disease had been given a clean bill of health and sent home.⁹

Additionally, the number of actual confirmed cases appears to be far lower than reported in many media outlets, leading me to believe that many reporters are interchanging the terms "suspected cases" and "confirmed cases." 

Interestingly Mexico is the ONLY country in the world where someone has actually died from this disease.Mexico has reported 152 fatalities in flu-like cases in recent days, seven of which have been confirmed as swine flu. Another 19 patients have been confirmed as having swine flu but surviving. About 2,000 people have been hospitalized with symptoms.

By contrast, the United States has had 64 confirmed cases, five hospitalizations and no deaths

According to the World Health Organization's Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response site; as of April 27, there are:

• 64 laboratory confirmed cases in U.S. -- 0 deaths (reported by CDC as of April 29)
• 26 confirmed cases in Mexico -- 7 deaths
• 6 confirmed cases in Canada -- 0 deaths
• 1 confirmed case in Spain -- 0 deaths

Additionally, nearly all suspected new cases have been reported as mild.

Personally, I am highly skeptical. It simply doesn't add up to a real pandemic.

But it does raise serious questions about where this brand new, never before seen virus came from, especially since it cannot be contracted from eating pork products, and has never before been seen in pigs, and contains traits from the bird flu -- and which, so far, only seems to respond to Tamiflu. Are we just that lucky, or... what?

Your Fear Will Make Some People VERY Rich in Today's Crumbling Economy

 According to the Associated Press at least one financial analyst estimates up to $388 million worth of Tamiflu sales in the near future¹⁰ -- and that's without a pandemic outbreak.

More than half a dozen pharmaceutical companies, including Gilead Sciences Inc., Roche, GlaxoSmithKline and other companies with a stake in flu treatments and detection, have seen a rise in their shares in a matter of days, and will likely see revenue boosts if the swine flu outbreak continues to spread.

As soon as Homeland Security declared a health emergency, 25 percent -- about 12 million doses -- of Tamiflu and Relenza treatment courses were released from the nation's stockpile. However, beware that the declaration also allows unapproved tests and drugs to be administered to children. Many health- and government officials are more than willing to take that chance with your life, and the life of your child. But are you?

Remember, Tamiflu went through some rough times not too long ago, as the dangers of this drug came to light when, in 2007, the FDA finally began investigating some 1,800 adverse event reports related to the drug. Common side effects of Tamiflu include:

• Nausea
• Vomiting
• Diarrhea
• Headache
• Dizziness
• Fatigue
• Cough

All in all, the very symptoms you're trying to avoid.

More serious symptoms included convulsions, delirium or delusions, and 14 deaths in children and teens as a result of neuropsychiatric problems and brain infections (which led Japan to ban Tamiflu for children in 2007). And that's for a drug that, when used as directed, only reduces the duration of influenza symptoms by 1 to 1 ½ days, according to the official data.

But making matters worse, some patients with influenza are at HIGHER risk for secondary bacterial infections when on Tamiflu. And secondary bacterial infections, as I mentioned earlier, was likely the REAL cause of the mass fatalities during the 1918 pandemic!

Where did This Mysterious New Animal-Human Flu Strain Come From?

Alongside the fear-mongering headlines, I've also seen increasing numbers of reports questioning the true nature of this virus. And rightfully so. 

Could a mixed animal-human mutant like this occur naturally? And if not, who made it, and how was it released?

Not one to dabble too deep in conspiracy theories, I don't have to strain very hard to find actual facts to support the notion that this may not be a natural mutation, and that those who stand to gain have the wherewithal to pull off such a stunt.

Just last month I reported on the story that the American pharmaceutical company Baxter was under investigation for distributing the deadly avian flu virus to 18 different countries as part of a seasonal flu vaccine shipment. Czech reporters were probing to see if it may have been part of a deliberate attempt to start a pandemic; as such a "mistake" would be virtually impossible under the security protocols of that virus.

The H5N1 virus on its own is not very airborne. However, when combined with seasonal flu viruses, which are more easily spread, the effect could be a potent, airborne, deadly, biological weapon. If this batch of live bird flu and seasonal flu viruses had reached the public, it could have resulted in dire consequences.

There is a name for this mixing of viruses; it's called "reassortment," and it is one of two ways pandemic viruses are created in the lab. Some scientists say the most recent global outbreak -- the 1977 Russian flu -- was started by a virus created and leaked from a laboratory.

Another example of the less sterling integrity of Big Pharma is the case of Bayer, who sold millions of dollars worth of an injectable blood-clotting medicine to Asian, Latin American, and some European countries in the mid-1980s, even though they knew it was tainted with the AIDS virus.

So while it is morally unthinkable that a drug company would knowingly contaminate flu vaccines with a deadly flu virus such as the bird- or swine flu, it is certainly not impossible. It has already happened more than once.

But there seems to be no repercussions or hard feelings when industry oversteps the boundaries of morality and integrity and enters the arena of obscenity. Because, lo and behold, which company has been chosen to head up efforts, along with WHO, to produce a vaccine against the Mexican swine flu?

Baxter!¹¹ Despite the fact that ink has barely dried on the investigative reports from their should-be-criminal "mistake" against humanity.

According to other sources,¹² a top scientist for the United Nations, who has examined the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa, as well as HIV/AIDS victims, has concluded that the current swine flu virus possesses certain transmission "vectors" that suggest the new strain has been genetically-manufactured as a military biological warfare weapon.

The UN expert believes that Ebola, HIV/AIDS, and the current A-H1N1 swine flu virus are biological warfare agents.

In addition, Army criminal investigators are looking into the possibility that disease samples are missing from biolabs at Fort Detrick -- the same Army research lab from which the 2001 anthrax strain was released, according to a recent article in the Fredrick News Post.¹³ In February, the top biodefense lab halted all its research into Ebola, anthrax, plague, and other diseases known as "select agents," after they discovered virus samples that weren't listed in its inventory and might have been switched with something else.

Factory Farming Maybe Source of Swine Flu

Another theory as to the cause of Swine Flu might be factory farming. In the United States, pigs travel coast to coast. They can be bred in North Carolina, fattened in the corn belt of Iowa, and slaughtered in California.

While this may reduce short-term costs for the pork industry, the highly contagious nature of diseases like influenza (perhaps made further infectious by the stresses of transport) needs to be considered when calculating the true cost of long-distance live animal transport.

The majority of U.S. pig farms now confine more than 5,000 animals each. With a group of 5,000 animals, if a novel virus shows up it will have more opportunity to replicate and potentially spread than in a group of 100 pigs on a small farm.

With massive concentrations of farm animals within which to mutate, these new swine flu viruses in North America seem to be on an evolutionary fast track, jumping and reassorting between species at an unprecedented rate.

Should You Accept a Flu Vaccine -- Just to be Safe?

As stated in the New York Times¹⁴ and elsewhere, flu experts have no idea whether the current seasonal flu vaccine would offer any protection whatsoever against this exotic mutant, and it will take months to create a new one.

But let me tell you, getting vaccinated now would not only offer no protection and potentially cause great harm, it would most likely be loaded with toxic mercury which is used as a preservative in most flu vaccines..

I've written extensively about the numerous dangers (and ineffectiveness) of flu vaccines, and why I do not recommend them to anyone. So no matter what you hear -- even if it comes from your doctor -- don't get a regular flu shot. They rarely work against seasonal flu...and certainly can't offer protection against a never-before- seen strain.

Currently, the antiviral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza are the only drugs that appear effective against the (human flu) H1N1 virus, and I strongly believe taking Tamiflu to protect yourself against this new virus could be a serious mistake -- for all the reasons I already mentioned above.

But in addition to the dangerous side effects of Tamiflu, there is also growing evidence of resistance against the drug. In February, the pre-publication and preliminary findings journal called Nature Precedings published a paper on this concern, stating¹⁵:

The dramatic rise of oseltamivir [Tamiflu] resistance in the H1N1 serotype in the 2007/2008 season and the fixing of H274Y in the 2008/2009 season has raised concerns regarding individuals at risk for seasonal influenza, as well as development of similar resistance in the H5N1 serotype [bird flu].

Previously, oseltamivir resistance produced changes in H1N1 and H3N2 at multiple positions in treated patients. In contrast, the recently reported resistance involved patients who had not recently taken oseltamivir.

It's one more reason not to bother with this potentially dangerous drug.

And, once a specific swine flu drug is created, you can be sure that it has not had the time to be tested in clinical trials to determine safety and effectiveness, which puts us right back where I started this article -- with a potential repeat of the last dangerous swine flu vaccine, which destroyed the lives of hundreds of people.

Topping the whole mess off, of course, is the fact that if the new vaccine turns out to be a killer, the pharmaceutical companies responsible are immune from lawsuits -- something I've also warned about before on numerous occasions.

Unfortunately, those prospects won't stop the governments of the world from mandating the vaccine -- a scenario I hope we can all avoid.

How to Protect Yourself Without Dangerous Drugs and Vaccinations

For now, my point is that there are always going to be threats of flu pandemics, real or created, and there will always be potentially toxic vaccines that are peddled as the solution. But you can break free of that whole drug-solution trap by following some natural health principles.

I have not caught a flu in over two decades, and you can avoid it too, without getting vaccinated, by following these simple guidelines, which will keep your immune system in optimal working order so that you're far less likely to acquire the infection to begin with.

• Optimize your vitamin D levels. As I've previously reported, optimizing your vitamin D levels is one of the absolute best strategies for avoiding infections of ALL kinds, and vitamin D deficiency is likely the TRUE culprit behind the seasonality of the flu -- not the flu virus itself.

This is probably the single most important and least expensive action you can take. I would STRONGLY urge you to have your vitamin D level monitored to confirm your levels are therapeutic at 50-70 ng.ml and done by a reliable vitamin D lab like Lab Corp.

For those of you in the US we hope to launch a vitamin D testing service through Lab Corp that allows you to have your vitamin D levels checked at your local blood drawing facility, and relatively inexpensively. We hope to offer this service by June 2009.

If you are coming down with flu like symptoms and have not been on vitamin D you can take doses of 50,000 units a day for three days to treat the acute infection. Some researchers like Dr. Cannell, believe the dose could even be as high as 1000 units per pound of body weight for three days.

• Avoid Sugar and Processed Foods. Sugar decreases the function of your immune system almost immediately, and as you likely know, a strong immune system is key to fighting off viruses and other illness. Be aware that sugar is present in foods you may not suspect, like ketchup and fruit juice.

• Get Enough Rest. Just like it becomes harder for you to get your daily tasks done if you're tired, if your body is overly fatigued it will be harder for it to fight the flu. Be sure to check out my article Guide to a Good Night's Sleep for some great tips to help you get quality rest.

• Have Effective Tools to Address Stress . We all face some stress every day, but if stress becomes overwhelming then your body will be less able to fight off the flu and other illness.
  
  If you feel that stress is taking a toll on your health, consider using an energy psychology tool such as the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), which is remarkably effective in relieving stress associated with all kinds of events, from work to family to trauma. You can check out my free, 25-page EFT manual for some guidelines on how to perform EFT.

• Exercise. When you exercise, you increase your circulation and your blood flow throughout your body. The components of your immune system are also better circulated, which means your immune system has a better chance of finding an illness before it spreads. You can review my exercise guidelines for some great tips on how to get started.

• Take a good source of animal based omega-3 fats like Krill Oil. Increase your intake of healthy and essential fats like the omega-3 found in krill oil, which is crucial for maintaining health. It is also vitally important to avoid damaged omega-6 oils that are trans fats and in processed foods as it will seriously damage your immune response.

• Wash Your Hands. Washing your hands will decrease your likelihood of spreading a virus to your nose, mouth or other people. Be sure you don't use antibacterial soap for this -- antibacterial soaps are completely unnecessary, and they cause far more harm than good. Instead, identify a simple chemical-free soap that you can switch your family to.

• Eat Garlic Regularly. Garlic works like a broad-spectrum antibiotic against bacteria, virus, and protozoa in the body. And unlike with antibiotics, no resistance can be built up so it is an absolutely safe product to use. However, if you are allergic or don't enjoy garlic it would be best to avoid as it will likely cause more harm than good.

• Avoid Hospitals and Vaccines In this particular case, I'd also recommend you stay away from hospitals unless you're having an emergency, as hospitals are prime breeding grounds for infections of all kinds, and could be one of the likeliest places you could be exposed to this new bug.  Vaccines will not be available for six months at the minimum but when available they will be ineffective and can lead to crippling paralysis like Guillain-Barré Syndrome just as it did in the 70s.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/29/Swine-Flu.aspx

Swine Flu Samples Explode On Swiss Train - Report

LONDON (Dow Jones)--The Swiss authorities have confirmed Tuesday the explosion on a train of a container transporting swine flu virus samples Monday, but said there was no danger to public health, South African Web site Independent Online reports Tuesday.

A laboratory employee picked up the samples of the H1N1 virus in Zurich to transport them to Geneva, but the package exploded near Fribourg and Lausanne, the report says.

It is thought dry ice had melted after being placed incorrectly near the container, which caused a build up of pressure.

Police at the scene confirmed two people suffered slight injuries.

Full story: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=24&art_id=nw20090428082323478C842016

-London bureau, Dow Jones Newswires; [phone]; [e-mail]

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Erlendar skuldir þjóðarbúsins nema um 13 þús. milljörðum

Það gera yfir 40 milljónir per hvert mannsbarn eða á annað hundruð milljónir per fjölskyldu í landinu. Eignir eru á móti þessu á fallandi erlendum mörkuðum en samt er nettóstaðan neikvæð um nokkur þúsund milljarða. Það er alveg ljóst að eftir að málin hafa verið gerð upp munu skattgreiðendur (ríkissjóður og aðrir opinberir aðilar) sitja uppi með amk. 3000 milljarða kr. skuldir og tel ég þá með stærstu þrotabúin auk þrotabús ríkissjóðs það er þrotabú seðlabanka og Landsvirkjunar og Orkuveitu Reykjavíkur. Þessi vitleysa samanlögð mun því bera árlegan vaxtakostnað upp á amk. 200 milljarða auk afborgana af þessum tröllvöxnu skuldum (sem ég reyni þó að áætla sem allra minnstar). Efnahagslegt sjálfstæði landsins er því algjörlega fyrir bí enda engin leið að standa undir þessum skuldum en samt er ekki hægt að fella þær niður að mestu þar sem það gæfi óheppileg fordæmi vegna annarra og stærri þjóðargjaldþrota sem eru í pípunum auk þess sem erlend fjármálaöfl hafa skiljanlega meiri áhuga á að hirða draslið á slikk upp í skuldasúpuna. Það er svo sem ekki margt að gera í stöðunni og bankarnir fara vafalaust á hausinn aftur á næstu mánuðum enda skuldararnir að missa vinnuna í hrönnum, velta í hagkerfinu í frjálsu falli og uppblásinn húsnæðismarkaður dæmdur til að falla um amk. 50-60%. Ég geri ráð fyrir að markaður fyrir atvinnuhúsnæði muni falla á undan íbúðarhúsnæðinu en hvort tveggja er þetta ótrúlega yfirmettað og verðlagið skrípaleikur. Viðskipti eru lítil sem engin og á tilbúnu gerviverði og þannig ákvarðar smávægilegur leikaraskapur örfárra aðila verð allra eigna. Við getum því sagt sem svo að þessi markaður sé á sirka 98% "margin" og tóm þvæla og vitleysa.

Iceland’s New Government Must Settle Creditor Talks - Bloomberg

By Tasneem Brogger

April 27 (Bloomberg) -- Iceland’s coalition of Social Democrats and Left Greens, which won the weekend’s parliamentary elections, has little time for self-congratulation.

Creditors impatient for repayment and financiers demanding compliance with the terms of an international bailout will be knocking on the door before the champagne runs dry.

The administration takes office as the country awaits the next part of a $5.1 billion International Monetary Fund-led loan. Payment depends on the success of talks over debt owed to creditors of the island’s collapsed banks and failure may derail hopes of economic recovery. The creditors seek to recoup more than $80 billion, almost eight times Iceland’s national output.

“They’re saddled with the same problems,” said Lars Christensen, head of emerging markets at Danske Bank A/S in Copenhagen. “There’s no quick fix. This isn’t a structural problem. They just need to repay their debt.”

Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir’s alliance of Social Democrats and Left Greens won 51.5 percent of the vote on April 25. The Independence Party, blamed by many voters for the island’s economic collapse under former Prime Minister Geir Haarde, got 23.7 percent. Sigurdardottir will meet President Olafur Grimsson at 4 p.m. to discuss the formation of the government.

“New times have arrived,” Sigurdardottir told party members in comments on national broadcaster RUV after early results were announced. The people “are settling the score with the past, with the neo-libertarianism, with the Independence Party which has been in power here for too long.”

Future ‘Vision’

It won’t be long before her coalition has to focus citizens’ minds on the future.

Sigurdardottir has promised to create greater probity and transparency throughout the economy and wants to put the island on course to join the European Union, with euro adoption an ultimate goal.

“This result shows that people want our vision for the future, that they want our plan for the way in to the European Union,” she said as the scale of her victory became clear.

Still, the economic challenges facing the coalition will be first on the agenda, a fact the voters recognize.

“The politicians aren’t talking about the fact that the country has lost its creditworthiness,” said Benedikt Johannesson, managing director of a publishing house, in downtown Reykjavik before the election. “The political parties don’t seem to realize that if we do not take action now, we will have another major blow and the nation will be stuck in a trap of poverty for a long time to come.”

Economic Gloom

The IMF says the economy will shrink 10.6 percent this year and household consumption will plunge by a quarter. Unemployment, lower than 1 percent just over a year ago, surged to 8.9 percent in March, Statistics Iceland said on April 15.

Rising joblessness is exacerbating the plight of households. As many as 30,000 homeowners have negative equity or debt burdens that exceed their property value, excluding car loans and bank overdrafts, Sigurdadottir said last month.

“I see nothing but great difficulties ahead of the new government, regardless of who wins,” said Olafur Th. Hardarson a professor of political science at the University of Iceland, in an interview on April 24. They “probably haven’t told voters how and where they’re going to cut costs and raise taxes.”

Iceland had targeted a settlement with international creditors of the failed, Reykjavik-based banks, Kaupthing Bank hf, Landsbanki Islands hf and Glitnir Bank hf, this month, Gylfi Magnusson, interim business affairs minister, said on March 11.

Likely models would include offering creditors stakes in domestic units of the failed lenders or extending maturities on the debt, Magnusson said. The financial watchdog said on April 16 that talks with the creditors won’t be finished until the second half of May.

‘Stagnate Totally’

Since the failure of the island’s banks, Iceland has been forced to impose capital restrictions to prevent a sell-off of the krona. That means foreign investors with krona-denominated holdings of about 700 billion kronur ($5.4 billion) can’t exit their investments.

“Nobody wants to stick their money in Iceland now,” Christensen said. “But it’s absolutely critical for the economy that Iceland remains open and that its capital markets start to function. Otherwise the economy will stagnate totally, which would be just as catastrophic.”

The headache of resolving international obligations isn’t what motivated most Icelanders to seek a change of government, Christensen said.

Islanders put their faith in parties who pledge more welfare and bigger government, rejecting the free-market policies of the Independence Party that oversaw the failure of the island’s financial system, throwing the nation into the arms of the IMF.

“It was high time that the voters were given a chance to vent their anger, and the international investment community just has to live with that,” said Christensen. “The election result is also completely natural.”

To contact the reporter on this story: Tasneem Brogger in Copenhagen at [e-mail]

Last Updated: April 27, 2009 06:56 EDT

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Háðuleg niðurstaða íhaldsins. Borgarahreyfingin kemur sterk inn

Það virðist vera helsta niðurstaða kosninganna. Ríkisstjórnin heldur áfram og þingflokkur íhaldsins verður það lítill að hann getur ekki valdið teljandi skaða. En kerfið er samt enn undirlagt af undirmálsjólasveinum sem algjörlega óhæft fólk í ráðherrastólum hjá íhaldinu hefur raðað á jötuna. Það eru því mikil völd enn til staðar hjá þessu hrynjandi og hugmyndafræðilausa og hugsjónalausa stjórnmálaafli og virkilega þörf á róttækum hreinsunum á því sviði.

Pólitískar eignir fjármálakerfisins fengu óeðlilega fyrirgreiðslu hjá eigendum sínum

Stjórnmálamenn fengu óeðlilega fyrirgreiðslu úr bönkum

Dæmi eru um að stjórnmálamenn og forsvarsmenn lífeyrissjóða hafi fengið fyrirgreiðslu úr bönkunum. Samsett mynd/ Kristinn.

Mörg dæmi eru um að stjórnmálamenn, jafnvel ráðherrar í ríkisstjórn Íslands, aðilar tengdir þeim og forsvarsmenn lífeyrissjóða, hafi fengið óeðlilega fyrirgreiðslu í bankakerfinu. Þetta var kallað vildarkjarakerfið eða "special deal".

Fréttastofa hefur heimildir fyrir því að fyrir bankahrunið hafi ýmsir stjórnmálamenn, jafnvel ráðherrar í ríkisstjórn, fengið óeðlilega fyrirgreiðslu hjá gömlu viðskiptabönkunum. Í þessum hópi var einnig fólk sem tengdist stjórnmálamönnum og forsvarsmenn lífeyrissjóða.

Í sumum tilvikum var um að ræða tugmilljóna króna lán til þess að kaupa hlutabréf, meðal annars í bönkunum sjálfum, án þess að leggja fram nein veð. Slík fyrirgreiðsla var ekki í boði fyrir almenning.

Þetta var í hópi banka- og stjórnmálamanna kallað "special deal" sem mætti kalla vildarkjör, eða vildarkjarakerfi stjórnmálamanna. Stundum þurfti einungis eitt símtal til þess að fá fyrirgreiðslu af þessu tagi. Ef vel gekk og hlutabréf hækkuðu í verði myndaðist eigið fé og menn högnuðust, en ef illa gekk og verð hlutabréfa lækkaði þurftu þeir ekki að taka skellinn.

Rannsóknarnefnd Alþingis um bankahrunið rannsakar meðal annars hvort stjórnmálamenn hafi notið óeðlilegrar fyrirgreiðslu í bankakerfinu, eins og fréttastofan hefur áður greint frá. Rannsóknanefndin hefur heimild til að keyra kennitölur stjórnmálamanna í gegnum bankakerfið til að rekja slóð fjármuna. Bankaleynd gildir ekki um þá aðgerð.

Hins vegar gildir rík bankaleynd í Lúxemborg, en talið er að hluti af þessum viðskiptum hafi farið fram í gegnum dótturfélög íslensku viðskiptabankanna þar. Það torveldar starf Rannsóknarnefndarinnar, sem hefur enn ekki heimild til að fá þær upplýsingar sem hún óskar eftir að fá þaðan.

Vísir, 21. apr. 2009 18:30