Stríðsglæpamönnum og öðrum síkópötum í æðstu stöðum á vesturlöndum er góðu heilli að takast að ganga af NATO dauðu

Vísir, 17. júl. 2008 12:02

NATO í tilvistarkreppu - Ræður ímyndarsérfræðing frá Coke

Ráðamenn ríkja NATO á fundi í Búkarest.

Steinþór Helgi Arnsteinsson skrifar:

Stjórnarherrar Atlantshafsbandalagsins (NATO) hafa ákveðið að ráðast í markaðsherferð til þess að styrkja ímynd bandalagsins. Bandalagið virðist svo sannarlega í einhvers konar tilvistarkreppu því til þess að hjálpa sér hefur það fengið til liðs við sig einn aðalímyndarsérfræðing Coca-Cola fyrirtækisins. Frá þessu greinir The New York Times í gær.

Lögmæti bandalagsins í húfi
NATO fagnar sextíu ára afmæli sínu á næsta ári en á tímum alþjóðavæðingar og brottnám gömlu austur og vestur blokkanna þarfnast bandalagið greinilega endurskipulagningar á hugmyndafræði sinni. Hér áður fyrr stóð NATO vörð um vestrið gegn austrinu en í dag eru aðalvígstöðvarnar í Afganistan og fundarsölunum í Brussel.

„Ef fólk finnur ekki tenginguna á milli þess hvað hermennirnir eru að gera og þeirra eigin öryggi, þá er lögmæti [NATO] í húfi," sagði Jean- François Bureau, háttsettur embættismaður hjá NATO, í viðtali við The New York Times.

Álit almennings versnar
Nýlegar viðhorfskannanir eru NATO ekki í hag. Þrátt fyrir að fjöldi þeirri sem telja að NATO sé nauðsynlegt fyrir öryggi heimsins aukist um 4% í Bandaríkjunum frá árunum 2002 til 2007 dregst hann saman um 19% í Þýskalandi, 13% í Ítalíu og 12% í Bretlandi.

Þess fyrir utan er talið að aðeins mjög lítill hluti íbúanna innan NATO þekki almennilega hvert hlutverk og tilgangur bandalagsins er.

Danir borga fyrir NATO TV
Til að mæta þessari ímyndarkreppu NATO hefur bandalagið sett á laggirnar sérstaka sjónvarpsstöð á netinu en hún verður í upphafi fjármögnuð af Dönum. Tilgangur hennar verður að koma í veg fyrir síur óháðra fjölmiðla sem talsmaður NATO segir að einblíni of mikið á neikvæðar fréttir.

Ráðamenn í Brussel gera sér grein fyrir að þeir standa frammi fyrir erfiðu verkefni og að breyta ímynd NATO hefst ekki yfir eina helgi. Þeir vita að upprunalegur tilgangur bandalagsins er brostinn og spurningin er því einfaldlega: „Hver er tilgangur NATO?"

Yfirstjórn Seðlabanka Íslands er í höndum forsætisráðherra og bankaráðs

Eins og skýrt kemur fram í lögum um Seðlabanka Íslands.

http://www.althingi.is/lagas/nuna/2001036.html

Bankastjórar Seðlabankans eru því undirmenn forsætisráðherra og bankaráðs sem er skipað af álþingi. Allar leiksýningar og sjónarspil um að þessir aðilar eigi að vera að vinna gegn markmiðum hvers annars eru því hlægilegar. 

Nú, ef undirmennirnir þarna í seðlabankanum eru í raun að stjórna forsætisráðherranum þá þarf auðvitað að hefja opinbera rannsókn á því. Geti forsætisráðherrann ekki haft stjórn á undirmönnum sínum - bankastjórum seðlabankans - þarf augljóslega að byrja á því að láta bankastjórana fara og ráði hann ekki heldur við að stjórna næsta gengi þarf að reka hann sjálfan. Það er alveg dagljóst. 

Nýtt förgunarúrræði fyrir treggáfaða pólitíkusa: Hagtalnasamræmingarstofnun ríkisins

Ég held að forstöðumaðurinn þurfi helst að vera með yfir 90 í IQ sem strax útilokar 83.3% ríkisstjórnarinnar og 66.7% álþingis. En Geir Haarde gæti verið skrifstofustjóri þarna, Þorgerður Katrín væri kjörin í ritvinnsluna og Pétur Blöndal sæi örugglega um kaffivélina með glans.

Hálfvitar í æðstu stöðum geta ekki einu sinni haft samræmi milli hagtalnahönnurstofnana ríkisins

Viðskipti | mið. 16.7.2008

Atvinnuleysi 3,1% á öðrum fjórðungi

Á öðrum ársfjórðungi 2008 voru að meðaltali 5700 manns án vinnu og í atvinnuleit eða 3,1% vinnuaflsins. Atvinnuleysi mældist 3,2% hjá körlum og 2,9% hjá konum, samkvæmt upplýsingum, sem Hagstofan birti í dag. Samkvæmt viðmiðun Hagstofunnar mældist atvinnuleysi 3,2% á sama tímabili á síðasta ári og 2,3% á fyrsta ársfjórðungi þessa árs.

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Innlent | fös. 11.7.2008

Atvinnuleysi mælist 1,1% í júní

Skráð atvinnuleysi í júní 2008 var 1,1% eða að meðaltali 1.842 manns, sem eru 103 fleiri en í maí sl. eða um 6% aukning. Atvinnuleysi var 1% á sama tíma í fyrra.Atvinnuleysi jókst á höfuðborgarsvæðinu um 18% í júní en minnkaði á landsbyggðinni um 7% .Atvinnuleysi kvenna jókst meira en meðal karla á höfuðborgarsvæðinu en minnkaði meðal kvenna á landsbyggðinni, svo og meðal karla þar.

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Er eitthvað að marka opinbera hagtalnahönnuði ríkisins ?

Allt í einu finna þeir út að atvinnuleysið sé 3.1% en samt hafa ruslveitur og pólitíkusar haldið því fram síðasta árið að það sé aðeins 1%. Ég tel víst að margir hér hafi tekið eftir þessu.

Skv. The Economist frá 5/7 var það 1% á fyrsta ársfjórðungi 2008 og að sjálfsögðu hafa þeir það frá hérlendum opinberum hagtalnahönnuðum.

Er kannski verið að endurskilgreina hugtakið atvinnuleysi? Æfingarnar við að reikna niður verðbólgu eru ævintýralegar. Hagtölur eru hápólitískt málefni eins og gefur að skilja og mikið í húfi að leiktjöldin séu sannfærandi.

WTC 7 Emergency Head Was Building Collapse Specialist

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Thursday, July 10, 2008

The former New York City chief emergency manager Jerome Hauer, whose office was on the 23d floor of WTC 7, was also a building collapse specialist, according to a recently uncovered New York Times article. Hauer has attracted suspicion from the 9/11 truth movement because of his zeal to push the official story in the hours after the attack when details were still sketchy.

Hauer was also Managing Director of Kroll Associates - the company that provided security for the WTC complex on 9/11 - and he also betrayed advance knowledge of the anthrax attacks a week before they happened.

In a July 27 1999 NY Times article unearthed by 9/11 Blogger entitled What Could Go Wrong? It’s His Job to Know, Hauer is given a glowing write-up by journalist Randy Kennedy.

“There is one story he tells in which this fascination is quite literal….But another illustration, a bit more metaphorical, is hard to miss when you walk into his office on the 23rd floor of 7 World Trade Center, otherwise known as ”the bunker,” the $13 million bulletproof, hurricane-proof, blackout-proof emergency crisis center opened by the city last month.”

The article describes Building 7 for what it was, a structurally reinforced immovable object built for the express purpose of standing strong in a crisis situation, not the weakling tinderbox that allegedly became the first steel building in history to collapse from fire damage alone, according to debunkers like the BBC, the History Channel, Popular Mechanics and others.

Indeed, as the NY Times quotes Larry Silverstein as stating in 1989, WTC 7 designers “Built in enough redundancy to allow entire portions of floors to be removed without affecting the building’s structural integrity,” a solid structure that was again improved upon that year with “More than 375 tons of steel - requiring 12 miles of welding.”

The article describes Hauer’s role, “As the city’s chief emergency manager, Mr. Hauer oversees the response to building collapses, of which there have been no shortage over the last three years.”

	Jerome Hauer: Pictured in 1996 with Rudy Giuliani.

“For much of his professional life, it has been the task of Jerome M. Hauer, 47, to know a lot about how things work so that when they stop working — when they fall down, when they get blown down or blown up, when they freeze or burst or burn out — he knows what to do. Like all self-described emergency junkies, he sits around all day thinking up horrifying ways for things to be destroyed and people to die and then hoping that all his plans stay on the shelf.

Interesting therefore that Hauer would have his office in the middle of a 47-storey building that collapsed into its own footprint within 7 seconds in the late afternoon of 9/11 having been hit by minimal debris and suffering limited fire damage.

The article emphasizes the emergencies Hauer would list in his resume that he was an expert on, “Helicopter crash, subway fire, water main break, ice storm, heat wave, blackout, building collapse, building collapse, building collapse.”

In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, Hauer appeared on CBS News with Dan Rather and immediately set about crafting a surprisingly affirmative explanation for the events and spun a yarn that soon became the official story.

Watch the clip.

Hauer was suspiciously keen to stress that the buildings were not demolished by explosives but by the planes that hit them, despite this being a complete reversal of what chief WTC architects and designers had concluded during studies about the impact of planes into the twin towers beforehand.

Hauer also pointed the finger directly at Bin Laden as the script began to unfold.

“[M]y sense is that just the velocity of the plane and the fact that you have a plane filled with fuel hitting that building that burned, that the velocity of the plane certainly had an impact on the structure itself. And then the fact that it burned and you had that intense heat probably weakened the structure as well. And I think it was simply the planes hitting the buildings and causing the collapse,” Hauer told Rather.

Rather also asks Hauer if the attacks could have been carried out without state sponsorship. Hauer replies: “I’m not sure I agree that this is necessarily state-sponsored. It… certainly has the fingerprints of somebody like bin Laden.”

Hauer was surprisingly “accurate” with his foreknowledge of how the official story would later appear to confirm all of his initial presumptions despite the chaos surrounding the attacks in the hours after they took place.

On 9/11, Hauer was Managing Director of Kroll Associates, a security firm intertwined with the military-industrial complex that was also coincidentally in charge of security for the entire World Trade Center complex on that fateful day.

Furthermore, it was Hauer that reportedly advised the White House to begin taking Cipro, an antibiotic which is effective against anthrax, on the very day of 9/11 and one week before the first anthrax letter was received.

Two months after 9/11, Hauer was part of a Council on Foreign Relations panel that released a document entitled Independent Task Force on America’s Response to Terrorism, which in part called for alternative explanations behind 9/11 to be countered.

Hauer’s almost instant and precise summation of the cause of building collapses that were completely unprecedented in history, along with his “expertise” in the characteristics of controlled demolition, in addition to his foreknowledge of the anthrax attacks and his position with Kroll Associates, justifiably continue to attract interest amongst researchers in the 9/11 truth movement.

RELATED: Meet Jerome Hauer, 9/11 Suspect Awaiting Indictment

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http://www.infowars.com/?p=3272

Afskrifa þarf strax sirka 99% hluta félaga í kauphöllinni

Þetta er almennt séð hryllileg eyðimörk. Mér sýnist hver hlutur kosta meira en hundrað kall í fimm félögum, þar af fjórum færeyskum. Meðal helstu ofútgefinna sápukúlna þarna má nefna,

Exista - þarf þegar í stað að gefa út einn nýhlut í stað 400 gamalla.

Bakkavör - nýhlutur í stað 100 gamalla.

Glitnir - nýhlutur í stað 150 gamalla.

Eimskip - einn á móti 150

Iceair - einn á móti 150

Kaupþing - einn á móti þremur

Landsbankinn - einn á móti 100.

Marel - einn á móti 30

Nýherji - einn á móti 100

Össur - einn á móti 30

Straumur - einn á móti 300

Teymi - frítt far í kirkjugarðinn sýnist mér, annars einn á móti 1500

Hafi ég gleymt einhverju sem er farið að slá í þarna þá biðst ég velvirðingar á því.

Það er ekki sæmandi að vera með á hlutabréfamarkaði sem vill láta taka sig alvarlega, alveg verðlaust drasl. Þú færð ekki einu sinni eina karamellu fyrir 20 kr. Lágmarksverð hlutar þyrfti að vera amk. 1000-2000 kr. og því er nauðsynlegt að skera mesta spikið af þessum ofurútgefnu félögum. 

Góðar stundir. 

Ótrúlega litlar eldsneytishækkanir hér síðasta árið miðað við hrun krónu gegn dollar og tvöföldun heimmarkaðsverðs olíu

Fyrir ári kostaði dollar 61 krónu og heimsmarkaðsverð olíu var 72 dollar oíufatið.

Olíufatið kostaði þá um 4400 kr.

Núna kostar dollar 78 kr. og fatið er á 146 dollara.

Olíufatið kostar núna 11400 kr.

Það er hækkun upp á um 160%.

Hins vegar hefur díselolía hækkað um aðeins rúmlega 50% síðan fyrir ári, úr 130 kr. í tæplega 200.

Olíufélögin hafa augljóslega tekið á sig mikið af hækkun olíunnar trúlega í von um að heimsmarkaðsverð myndi lækka. Hið gagnstæða hefur hins vegar orðið raunin og því geri ég ráð fyrir miklum hækkunum framundan hjá olíufélögunum jafnvel þó svo ólíklega vildi til að krónan félli ekki enn frekar og heimsmarkaðsverð stæði í stað. Góðar stundir.

Elli/alzheimers- og förgunarúrræði álþingis og bitlingar í bland

Bankaráð, kjörið af Alþingi, 13. júní 2007:
Kosning sjö manna og jafnmargra varamanna í bankaráð Seðlabanka Íslands til fyrsta þings eftir næstu almennu alþingiskosningar, að viðhafðri hlutfallskosningu, skv. 26. gr. laga nr. 36, 22. maí 2001 um Seðlabanka Íslands. Bankaráð velur formann og varaformann úr eigin röðum.

Aðalmenn
Halldór Blöndal, formaður
Jón Sigurðsson, varaformaður
Erna Gísladóttir
Ragnar Arnalds
Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson
Jónas Hallgrímsson
Sigríður Ingibjörg Ingadóttir ( kosin 3. október 2007 í stað Jóns Þórs Sturlusonar)

Varamenn
Halla Tómasdóttir
Birgir Þór Runólfsson
Tryggvi Friðjónsson
Sigríður Finsen
Guðný Hrund Karlsdóttir (kosin 3. október 2007 í stað Sigríðar Ingibjargar Ingadóttur)
Ingibjörg Ingvadóttir
Valgerður Bjarnadóttir

IndyMac grew by issuing mortgages online, now it's opening branches (Sept 26, 2005)

"The one thing I have a lot of confidence in is the American consumer in being able to be smart enough to make their own financial decisions," said Perry, chairman and chief executive of IndyMac Bancorp Inc., which is at the forefront of a mortgage industry that has become more aggressive during the housing boom.

Pasadena-based IndyMac was one of the first lenders to allow homebuyers to get a mortgage over the Internet, and some of its newfangled plans have no resemblance to the plain-vanilla fixed-rate mortgages of the past 25 years.

Perry, who joined the financial institution in 1993 when it had just four employees, is credited with creating a "hybrid model"--that is, combining a mortgage bank with the capability of an investment house that buys and sells pools of securitized loans.

The success of these products has helped catapult IndyMac to be the largest savings and loan institution in Los Angeles County, and the 12th-largest thrift in the U.S., with $19.4 billion in assets.

"They're definitely a different sort of animal," said Manuel Ramirez, a banking analyst at Keefe Bruyette & Woods. "They are actually fortunate because there haven't been many pure-play mortgage companies that have become regulated thrifts."

But with all the innovation comes risk.

Despite his "outperform" rating, Ramirez and other analysts question IndyMac's plan to open new branches in Southern California at the time that mortgage originations are slowing. The company expects to open as many as 80 branches in the next four years in an attempt to grow deposits--a cheap source of capital. that could then be put to use funding loans.

In that arena, IndyMac faces stiff competition.

Los Angeles already has 1,500 branches of competing thrifts, including Washington Mutual Inc., the nation's largest thrift with $335 billion in assets and the largest home lender in California.

"We're not talking about a radical model here, but doing something that a lot of lenders have been doing, but in a distinct way," said company President Richard Wohl, who helped build IndyMac's broker network.

IndyMac reported a 52 percent jump in second-quarter net income to $83.1 million, up from $54.6 million in the year-earlier period. Loan production hit $14.2 billion in the second quarter, up from $9.7 billion a year earlier.

'Fear and loathing'

IndyMac began life as a real estate investment trust, but ran into trouble in 1998 when capital markets hit a snag and the company ran out of funding. That year, it posted a $73.7 million loss.

Under the threat of collapse, Perry made the unusual decision of changing IndyMac's corporate structure by purchasing a federally regulated thrift. The purchase allowed IndyMac to both tap the deposits at its 10 newly acquired branches and get a line of credit from the Federal Home Loan Bank to continue funding home loans.

Since then, IndyMac has led the boom in mortgage originations over the Internet by creating an electronic system that allows potential homebuyers to fill out a Web-based form with 55 questions. The application can be analyzed within minutes for quick approvals.

IndyMac's expansion comes just as the housing boom appears to be peaking. Last month, mortgage companies received a drubbing on Wall Street after several years of record stock performance.

Bank of America Securities analyst Robert Lacoursiere sparked a sell-off last month when he downgraded Calabasas-based Countrywide Financial Corp. to "sell" from "neutral," and IndyMac and Oakland-based Golden West Financial Corp., the parent of World Savings Bank, to "neutral" from "buy."

"We think market sentiment for mortgage sector stocks will be increasingly characterized by fear and loathing," Lacoursiere wrote in a research note, citing "rising anxiety and difficulty gauging the scope and impact of prospective origination declines."

Shares of IndyMac have fallen 15 percent in the past month to $39.39 each, causing investors to become slightly nervous as the stock's momentum stalls.

A few analysts have expressed concerns about the high percentage of option-ARMs issued to California homebuyers, especially with indications that the Federal Reserve will continue to hike short-term interest rates.

As much as 37 percent of IndyMac's single-family loan production--a total of $900 million on its balance sheet--comes from option-ARMs in which borrowers have the option to pay interest only, or pay interest and principal, or make a minimum payment. If they choose the minimum, they are deferring not only principal payments but also interest payments as well. This results in negative amortization--adding to a homeowner's total mortgage debt instead of reducing it each month.

IndyMac executives and some Wall Street analysts don't see the ARM loans as a big problem, figuring that consumers will switch to fixed rates as interest rates rise. [more]

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m5072/is_39_27/ai_n15689009