Guðljómur Rei (arftaki BíBí) fellur eins og gamall staur í kosningaofviðrinu í Rvík

Segja mér konur að vestan sem vita allt um Sjálfseyðingarflokkinn af biturri og langvarandi reynslu. Talið er að alls enginn geti hugsað sér að kjósa Hr. Rei og minnir það helst á framboð Péturs Hafstein til forseta þegar alls 14 manns kusu hann á gjörvöllum Vestfjörðum og dauðskammast sín enn fyrir það.

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Vinnumarkaður á 1. ársfjórðungi 2009

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Atvinnuleysi 7,1%
Á fyrsta ársfjórðungi 2009 voru að meðaltali 12.700 manns án vinnu og í atvinnuleit eða 7,1% vinnuaflsins. Atvinnuleysi mældist 9,2% hjá körlum og 4,8% hjá konum. Þegar litið er til aldurs var atvinnuleysið mest meðal fólks á aldrinum 16-24 ára, eða 12,6%. Frá fyrsta ársfjórðungi 2008 til fyrsta ársfjórðungs 2009 fjölgaði atvinnulausum um 8.500 manns.

Á fyrsta ársfjórðungi 2008 voru að meðaltali 4.200 atvinnulausir og mældist atvinnuleysi 2,3%. Atvinnuleysi mældist þá 2,5% hjá körlum og 2,2% hjá konum. Atvinnuleysi var mest meðal fólks á aldrinum 16-24 ára eða 6,5%.

Þeim sem hafa leitað að vinnu í einn mánuð eða meira hefur fjölgað frá fyrsta ársfjórðungi 2008 úr 1.700 í 9.900 á fyrsta ársfjórðungi 2009, eða um 8.200. Á fyrsta ársfjórðungi 2009 leituðu 77,3% atvinnulausra að starfi einn mánuð eða lengur en 42,5% á fyrsta ársfjórðungi 2008.

Atvinnulausir teljast þeir sem ekki hafa atvinnu í viðmiðunarviku könnunarinnar, eru að leita að vinnu og geta hafið störf innan tveggja vikna eða hafa fengið vinnu sem hefst innan 3 mánaða.

Starfandi fólki fækkar um 8.500 og atvinnuþátttakan var 79,5%
Fjöldi starfandi á fyrsta ársfjórðungi 2009 var 165.500 manns og fækkaði um 8.500 frá sama tíma ári áður. Á vinnumarkaði voru alls 178.200 manns sem jafngildir 79,5% atvinnuþátttöku. Atvinnuþátttaka karla var 83,3% og kvenna 75,5%. Til þeirra sem eru á vinnumarkaði teljast bæði þeir sem eru starfandi og atvinnulausir. Fólk telst vera starfandi ef það hefur unnið eina klukkustund eða meira í viðmiðunarviku könnunar eða verið fjarverandi frá starfi sem það gegnir að öllu jöfnu.

Á fyrsta ársfjórðungi 2008 voru alls 178.100 á vinnumarkaði og atvinnuþátttaka mældist 81%. Atvinnuþátttaka karla var 85,5% og kvenna 76,1%.

Vinnutími 38,9 klst. á viku
Á fyrsta ársfjórðungi 2009 var meðalfjöldi vinnustunda 38,9 klst. hjá þeim sem voru við vinnu í viðmiðunarvikunni, 43,3 klst. hjá körlum en 33,9 klst. hjá konum. Meðalfjöldi vinnustunda hjá þeim sem voru í fullu starfi var 44,7 klst. en 21,4 klst. hjá þeim sem voru í hlutastarfi.

Á fyrsta ársfjórðungi 2008 var meðalfjöldi vinnustunda 40,8 klst., 45,5 klst. hjá körlum en 35,1 klst. hjá konum. Þeir sem voru í fullu starfi unnu 46,2 klst. að jafnaði en þeir sem voru í hlutastarfi unnu að jafnaði 22 klst.

Hagtíðindi
Þessar niðurstöður eru meðal efnis í nýju hefti Hagtíðinda um vinnumarkað á fyrsta ársfjórðungi 2009.

Atvinnuþátttaka, atvinnuleysi og fjöldi starfandi á 1. ársfjórðungi
	2006	2007	2008	2009
	1. ársfj.	1. ársfj.	1. ársfj.	1. ársfj.	Vikmörk ±
Atvinnuþátttaka, %	81,1	82,2	81,0	79,5	1,3
Hlutfall starfandi	79,2	80,5	79,1	73,8	1,4
Atvinnuleysi, %	2,4	2,0	2,3	7,1	1,0
Vinnuafl, áætl. fjöldi	167.500	176.300	178.100	178.200	2.800
Starfandi, áætl. fjöldi	163.500	172.800	174.000	165.500	3.200
Atvinnulausir, áætl. fjöldi	4.000	3.500	4.200	12.700	1.800
Starfandi í fullu starfi, áætl. fjöldi	120.300	128.500	133.500	123.500	2.600
Starfandi í hlutastarfi, áætl. fjöldi	43.200	44.300	40.500	42.000	2.600
Heildarvinnutími, klst.	41,2	41,6	40,8	38,9	0,6
Vinnutími í fullu starfi, klst.	47,2	47,4	46,2	44,7	0,6
Vinnutími í hlutastarfi, klst.	23,8	23,3	22,0	21,4	0,8
Utan vinnumarkaðar, áætl. fjöldi	39.100	38.300	41.800	46.000	2.800
Mannfjöldi, áætl. fjöldi	206.600	214.600	220.000	224.200
Hlutföll eru reiknuð af fjöldatölum áður en þær eru námundaðar á næsta hundrað.

Framkvæmd
Fyrsti ársfjórðungur 2009 nær til 13 vikna, frá 29. desember 2008 til 29. mars 2009. Heildarúrtakið var 3.877 manns á aldrinum 16–74 ára sem valdir voru af handahófi úr þjóðskrá. Þegar frá eru taldir þeir sem voru látnir eða búsettir erlendis reyndist nettóúrtakið vera 3.790 einstaklingar. Alls fengust nothæf svör frá 3.101 einstaklingi sem jafngildir 81,8% endanlegri svörun. Allar tölur hafa verið vegnar eftir kyni og aldri. Vikmörk niðurstaðna um atvinnuþátttöku eru ± 1,3%, atvinnuleysi ± 1% og vinnutíma ± 0,6 klukkustund.

Vinnumarkaður á 1. ársfjórðungi 2009 - Hagtíðindi

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Nánari upplýsingar veitir Lárus Blöndal í síma 528 1281

"The Financial Barbarians at the Gate" with financial economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson.

Europe; worsening financial situation and indebtedness; the history of banking and the criminalization of the banking system; tax policy; real estate asset inflation; US imperialism via the monetary system; neoliberal/neofeudal economics; classical political economy; finance capital breaking away from industrial capital; the financial crisis leading to a political crisis; similarities with the Roman Republic; what measures labor should take.

Guns and Butter, April 15, 2009 - 1:00pm

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A Danish scientist Niels Harrit, on nano-thermite in the WTC dust (english subtitles)

Helgileikur Sjálfstæðisflokks slær í gegn

Hér sést Andri á krossinum. Hannes Hólmsteinn í hlutverki Maríu meyjar hlúir að sárum hans. Í baksýn má sjá nafna hans, Hannes Smárason, í hlutverki hins þjófótta en stálheppna Barrabasar.

Dabbi, leikklúbbur Sjálfstæðisflokksins, hefur svo sannarlega slegið í gegn með sérlegri páskauppfærslu sinni, þar sem píslarsögu Krists eru gerð eftirminnileg skil.

Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson þykir fara á algerum kostum í hlutverki erkiskúrksins Júdasar, þar sem „slægðin og mannvonskan lekur úr hverjum andlitsdrætti“, eins og einn himinlifandi leikhúsgestur orðaði það.

Ekki þykir Kjartan Gunnarsson síðri í hlutverki Símons Péturs, en gagnrýnandi hafði á orði að afneitanir hans hefðu verið afar sannfærandi – og auk þess mun fleiri en menn eiga að venjast.

Þá hefur endir leikritsins vakið verðskuldaða athygli – því Jesú, í eftirminnilegri túlkun Bjarna Benediktssonar, sleppur undan Rómverjunum með því að fela sig í fjárhirslum Heródesar, sem Davíð Oddsson leikur af innlifun í frábæru kommbakki.

Jesú er því næst bjargað af heitkonu sinni Maríu Magðalenu, sem Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir gerir sæmileg skil – þó henni hafi af einhverjum ástæðum virst mjög í nöp við frelsarann geðþekka. Við skiljum við þau skötuhjú þar sem þau hafa reist sér fallegt einbýlishús í Garðabæ.

Andri Óttarsson, í hlutverki lærisveinsins Andrésar, er hins vegar krossfestur mjög kyrfilega í stað meistara síns. Ólíkt Jesú rís hann þó ekki aftur upp frá dauðum. Því miður.

 

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Viðskipti eins og venjulega: Íhaldið lýgur eins og það mígur

Bjarni Ben. er sársvekktur yfir að þurfa að borga risastyrki eigenda pólitíkusa til baka enda hefur þetta fallít batterí ekki nein efni á því. Þó Kjartan Gunnarsson, frkv. íhaldsins sem var þá, hafi komið grátandi í sjónvarpið, varaformaður bankaráðs Landsbankans, kannist ekki við neitt og þykist vera heilög belja, þá er það ljóst að upptökin áttu sér stað stað við eldhúsborðið heima hjá honum. Hann treystir sér þó alveg til að skera Bjarna greyið niður úr þessarri snöru.

9/11 Was an Inside Job: Sunjata

April 06, 2009

Lemonade from lemons: How Rescue Me producers turned Daniel Sunjata's wild-eyed 9/11 conspiracy theories into compelling drama

It was an uncomfortable moment, even for guys who make a living spinning tough drama out of fart jokes and sex talk.

But when critics asked the minds behind FX's blockbuster firefighter drama Rescue Me about the inspiration for a storyline where one of the guys insists the 9/11 terrorist attacks was an inside job, they simply pointed to cast member Daniel Sunjata, who plays Franco.

That's because Sunjata, a buff, accomplished actor who has played everyone from Reggie Jackson to Langston Hughes, believes a faction in the American government pulled off the attack.

"There’s alternative theories about what really happened on 9/11," he told TV critics in January. "They’re not discussed a lot in the press.
And I think that the way the show addresses the issue is going to be socio-politically provocative in a way that — you know, not that the show has lacked that – not been provocative in the past, but in – specifically in dealing with 9/11, I think it’s going to be more so than it ever has been before, and I’m really gratified that they allowed that to be focused through my character, because I happen to subscribe to a lot of those theories and beliefs that 9/11 was an inside job."

Turns out, Sunjata has spoken out publicly for a while on this subject. So, as Rescue Me returns for its fifth season Tuesday, I present a Q&A with Sunjata on his 9/11 beliefs -- which start with Sunjata seeing another celebrity advocate, Charlie Sheen, speaking out on the issue:

Sunjata: (Charlie Sheen) had basically the same conclusion on the Jimmy Kimmel Show, and subsequently on the Alex Jones radio program that broadcasts out of Austin, Texas. And he said two things that stuck with me. He said, Look at Building 7 and look at the five frames from the Pentagon and then start doing your own research, you know. Because, again, he was on the Jimmy Kimmel Show … he was on a talk show and there is the structural constraint of concision, speaking in a sound-bite format, I think he knew that the best thing to do was just to put a couple tidbits out there and then trust that people might start Googling and clicking and doing their own research, and that’s what I did.

Question: Why do people ignore it, though?
S: It’s really … that’s really difficult for me to understand because I can understand shell-shocked Vietnam war veterans standing on street corners saying, “9/11 was an inside job,” being ignored. But when you have got physicists, when you have got members of the intelligence community, Sibel Edmonds, you know, counterintelligence expert from the FBI, you know, who’s, by the way, the most gag-ordered person in the history of the United States … of the American justice system because of what she wanted to come out and say. When you’ve got members of the FDNY … you know, credible experts from relevant fields of expertise, whose track records speak for themselves, being absolutely … shouting from the rooftops that this needs to be looked at with much greater scrutiny and being absolutely and totally ignored – that, to me, is something I really … I don’t understand, I can’t understand.

Question: Do you think it will be investigated more fully?
S: I don’t know, I don’t know. I would like to believe that it will be examined with greater scrutiny. I mean, it’s a piece of the puzzle. I don’t know if you’re familiar with Naomi Wolf’s work, but she’s written a book about the end of America. And I think it’s a kind of … it’s a contextual piece of that overall puzzle that seems to make everything make sense – the curtailing of our civil liberties here at home, the gutting of our Constitution, the warrantless wiretapping, you know, the loss of habeas corpus, the legalization of torture – all of these fit well within the pattern of a fascist state, or a state that is slipping toward fascism, and so does false-flag terror. 9/11 is not the first example in history. You have the Reichstag fire in World War II. You’ve got the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which has now been declassified as an event that never happened, which was responsible for the deaths of millions of Vietnamese and tens of thousands of American troops. So false-flag terror is used often, and why should we put this past an administration that has shown many other, you know, tendencies toward similar types of behavior? So …

Question: I know it’s hard to sum it up, but can you give us a sense of what you think happened?
S: I think that we have a … I think that there’s a criminal faction, a small criminal faction, within probably some mixture of the intelligence, government community that carried out the attack – that planned it, that allowed it to happen. I’m not saying that there weren’t people from the Middle East involved but, you know, there were certainly … I mean, according to my research – and I’ve been looking at this for about three years – there’s clear evidence for the presence of explosives in those three buildings. I mean, they found partially evaporated steel columns in the wreckage of Building 7, and no plane even hit that building. And it collapsed at 5:30 – yeah, it collapsed at the end of the day … It was not hit by … it wasn’t hit by a plane. It’d be the first time in the history of modern architecture that fire caused the collapse of a … you know, steel-frame construction. It’s never happened before except three times on 9/11.

Question: Why would they do it?
S: Why would they do it? Well, if you look at what has unfolded, you know, our foreign … especially our foreign policy agenda and our agenda in the Middle East. If you look at what subsequently unfolded, you know, who benefited . . . It certainly wasn’t the 19 guys with the box-cutters taking orders from a guy hiding in an Afghan cave. They didn’t benefit; they died that day. But, you know, you have weapons manufacturers, you’ve got oil companies, you’ve got politicians, you’ve got Larry Silverstein, who was the owner of the World Trade Center properties, who was, you know, on PBS in 2002 – said that he spoke to the fire commissioner that day, and they decided to pull Building 7, and they pulled it and they watched the building come down. I mean, I don’t know much about controlled demolition but I have heard the term “pull” in reference to setting off a preplanned implosion.

And if you look at the collapse of Building 7, it looks exactly like a controlled demolition. It falls just like those old casinos that they bring down in Nevada, Las Vegas. It fell in 6.8 seconds, it fell evenly, you see the penthouse fall first, which is indicative of the core column of the building having been taken out and fell in on itself in a concise, small, neat pile of rubble. And that happened by chance? I mean, fire causes slow, creeping deformations in architecture. It doesn’t cause global, top-down collapse like that, and even if they say, well, you know, Tower 7 sustained some light damage … some damage from the, you know, collapse of the North Tower. Um, okay, but if that’s true … you know, if you broke your left leg, you would probably fall to the left. You would favor the injury. You would not fall, you know … you wouldn’t just crumble straight down.

So, I mean, there’s just … and then you have reports of firefighters hearing many, many, many, many explosions going off as the building was coming down. If you look at it, you can see squibs ripping up the side of the building or things that appear to be squibs. Again, I feel like all of the circumstantial pieces of the puzzle are there, but a real investigation has not been conducted. What they did was, they started out with a conclusion and then they only entertained evidence that led them to the conclusion that they started with, and that is not an investigation. That is a whitewash.

Question: When you talk about this to friends, do they just say, ahh, Daniel?
S: They think I’m a little bit crazy, they think, oh, you know … but, again, I refer to people who are clearly not crazy, who are coolly rational individuals not easily given to believing in outlandish conspiracy theories who are saying the same things – scientists, people who made … who are the most rational individuals, who work, again, as I said, in relevant fields of expertise, people from inside the intelligence community, top-gun pilots, Lynn Margolis won the National Medal of Science. That’s the highest scientific accolade that we have to bestow. She says, unequivocally, 9/11 was clearly an inside job.

Now, to say that, I’m going that far because I feel that I have proven it to myself, but I think the only thing that we can say with any certainty is that a real investigation has never been conducted and that until we have one – one with power of subpoena – the truth would never be known. But at this point, the course that was taken post-9/11 is leading this country and the entire world down a very, very dark path and it’s something that we should all take a very close look at. It’s terrifying.

Question: Do you have to be careful who you say this to ?                 
S: I have had some … you know, I wouldn’t say bad experiences, but I’ve had people like just … not receive the … I don’t know … not want to have this conversation, not receive it very well. But, you know, I find that people who give me that kind of a knee-jerk response haven’t taken the time to really look at the evidence. They haven’t pored over Web sites and documents. They haven’t talked to people who were, you know, people, the firefighters who were there, or first-responders who have similar questions. And I find that those people who actually do take the time, at the very … they might not end up on the same page that I’m at, but they end up certainly further to the left of center than they were, and they end up with very troubling questions that they … you know, they’re like, well, that’s right, that doesn’t make sense, and how did that happen, and why was there molten metal found and, you know … ad infinitum.

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http://blogs.tampabay.com/media/2009/04/lemonades-from-lemons-how-rescue-me-producers-turned-actors-wildeyed-911-conspiracy-thoeries-into-co.html

FL Group styrkti Sjálfstæðisflokk um þrjátíu milljónir

FL Group styrkti Sjálfstæðisflokkinn um þrjátíu milljónir króna aðeins nokkrum dögum áður en lögum var breytt um hámarksframlög til stjórnmálaflokka. Skattrannsóknarstjóri hefur reikning um þennan styrk meðal annars til rannsóknar.

Fréttstofan hefur séð gögn sem sýna að 29. desember árið 2006 hafi 30 milljónir króna verið yfirfærðar af reikningi FL Group inn á reikning Sjálfstæðisflokksins. Heimildir fréttastofu herma jafnframt að reikningur fyrir greiðslunni hafi ekki verið gefinn út fyrr en einhverjum mánuðum síðar, eða þegar nokkuð var liðið á árið 2007. Hannes Smárason, þáverandi forstjóri FL Group, mun hafa gefið vilyrði fyrir greiðslunni, samkvæmt sömu heimildum. Málefni FL Group eru nú til rannsóknar hjá skattrannsóknarstjóra, en umræddur er reikningur er meðal þess sem til skoðunar er.

1. janúar 2007, fáeinum dögum eftir millifærsluna, tóku gildi lög um að stjórnmálaflokkum væri óheimilt að taka við hærri fjárstyrkjum en sem næmu 300 þúsund krónum frá einstökum lögaðila. Andri Óttarsson, framkvæmdastjóri Sjálfstæðisflokksins, segir að flokkurinn hafi ekki frekar en aðrir flokkar verið með opið bókhald fyrir þann tíma. Flokkurinn hyggist að svo stöddu ekki tjá sig um einstök fjárframlög til flokksins sem áttu sér stað fyrir setningu laganna.

Kjartan Gunnarsson, einn helsti bandamaður Davíðs Oddssonar, fyrrverandi formanns Sjálfstæðisflokksins, var nýhættur sem framkvæmdastjóri flokksins. Eftirmaður hans hefur því væntanlega veitt fjárstyrk FL Group viðtöku. Rifja má upp að Davíð líkti FL Group meðal annars við bandaríska stórfyrirtækið Enron og fjármálahneykslið í kringum það á sínum tíma - og nefndi félagið Flenron. Því má jafnframt halda til haga að Baugur var á þessum tíma í hópi helstu hluthafa í FL Group.

Það skal tekið fram að Jón Ásgeir Jóhannesson einn stærsti hluthafi FL Group, er aðaleigandi 365 miðla, sem rekur meðal annars Stöð 2.

Vísir, 07. apr. 2009 18:34

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Interview with William K. Black on Moyers

BILL MOYERS: For months now, revelations of the wholesale greed and blatant transgressions of Wall Street have reminded us that "The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One." In fact, [William K. Black] wrote a book with just that title. It was based upon his experience as a tough regulator during one of the darkest chapters in our financial history: the savings and loan scandal in the late 1980s.

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The former Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention now teaches Economics and Law at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. During the savings and loan crisis, it was Black who accused then-house speaker Jim Wright and five US Senators, including John Glenn and John McCain, of doing favors for the S&L's in exchange for contributions and other perks. The senators got off with a slap on the wrist, but so enraged was one of those bankers, Charles Keating—after whom the senate's so-called "Keating Five" were named—he sent a memo that read, in part, "get Black—kill him dead." Metaphorically, of course. Of course.

Now Black is focused on an even greater scandal, and he spares no one—not even the President he worked hard to elect, Barack Obama. But his main targets are the Wall Street barons, heirs of an earlier generation whose scandalous rip-offs of wealth back in the 1930s earned them comparison to Al Capone and the mob, and the nickname "banksters."

Bill Black, welcome to the Journal.

WILLIAM K. BLACK: Thank you.

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