mánudagur, 1. febrúar 2010
föstudagur, 15. janúar 2010
Haiti skjálftinn
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/01/haiti_48_hours_later.html
Það þarf engan teksta við þessar myndir.
Það þarf engan teksta við þessar myndir.
sunnudagur, 27. desember 2009
Bara fínt
Wolfang er að búa til aðferð sem nota má til að stjórna hvaða landi sem er hvorki mynna né meira. Og svo sjáum við hvað skeður á næstu vikum ef skriffærin fynnast aftur, en þaug glötuðust í haust.
Wolfang
Wolfang
mánudagur, 14. desember 2009
Sko karlinn!!
http://visir.is/article/20091214/FRETTIR01/963435114
Það er bara að gratúlera hr.Forseti.
Wolfang
Það er bara að gratúlera hr.Forseti.
Wolfang
fimmtudagur, 3. desember 2009
icesave???
http://go.startsiden.no/go/e/main;siteId=209;afu=www.abcnyheter.noa47nodea4798515/http://88.80.16.63/leak/icesave-commercial1-medium.flv
miðvikudagur, 2. desember 2009
mánudagur, 23. nóvember 2009
Einkaréttur á að falsa loftslagsvitleysuna
.Nú nú!! þetta svipar annsi mikið til þekktra mafíupólitíkusa!!
Já, klikkaðu á þessa norsku frétt og sjáðu að það er ekki bara á íslandi að sannleiknum er stjórnað eftir pólitískum lit og eða peningum. Wolfang sagði satt þegar hann benti á brenglunina í norskri ap pólitík í 1986.
Já, klikkaðu á þessa norsku frétt og sjáðu að það er ekki bara á íslandi að sannleiknum er stjórnað eftir pólitískum lit og eða peningum. Wolfang sagði satt þegar hann benti á brenglunina í norskri ap pólitík í 1986.
sunnudagur, 15. nóvember 2009
þriðjudagur, 20. október 2009
Singur einn svo singga allir....
Iceland heading for insolvency
Published: September 7, 2009Posted in: European Union and Iceland, Icelandic energy, Icesave, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Situation in Iceland
According to Gunnar Tómasson and Icelandic economist and a employee of the IMF for 25 years is very disappointed by the IMF stand towards Iceland. He claims that the IMF has failed Iceland in its effort to restore the nation and that the IMF has been acting on behalf of the British and Dutch governments.
This website has claimed since it began that Iceland was in a worse situation that reported officially. That has now been confirmed when the Central bank of Iceland published its findings on the financial status of the Icelandic state. The debt numbers as they were in June show that the debts as a percentage of the GNP (Gross National Product) are close to 233% of the 240% limit of the IMF. According to Gunnar Tómasson Iceland is reaching its payment tolerance limit and is heading towards insolvency. That is, the nation cant pay that much.
The Icelandic government, homes, companies and the banks owe 3323 billion ISK in foreign currency. To put this number in perspective, the Icesave deal is around 750 billion ISK. The whole debt over assets of Iceland is around 6000 billion ISK.
The interesting thing about those numbers is that they are 3 month old. And the numbers have not been released before because they kept postponing them, just like the IMF is postponing the disucssion about Iceland, again and again.
This means that today each citizen of Iceland owes 10.4 million ISK. Every man, woman and child.
The IMF was supposed to discuss the Icelandic situation on the 14th of September, but that was recalled and now it is expected to be discussed most likely in October. After that it will become clear if they will grant Iceland the big loan or not. The same thing goes for the Scandinavian loans, that will not be delivered until the IMF gives the green light.
The IMF loan is for 2.1 billion USD total, and the Scandinavian nations have pledged to lend 2.5 billion USD and will the first quarter of that loan be delivered at the same time as the IMF second payment of it’s loan.
The conclusion must be that the situation is worse than they care to admit.
In an interview yesterday Josheph Stiglitz, the Nobel price winner for Economics said that the IMF is doing Iceland harm. Stiglitz part is in English and is in the second half of the show.
Below is a quote from an article by Nathan Lewis from the Huffington Post. The article is called; The IMF Destroys Iceland and Latvia.
„The International Monetary Fund operates primarily as a banker bailout machine. They cajole and tempt and confuse and threaten the leaders of governments worldwide to pay off the failed bets of the big bankers using the taxpayer funds of their countries. This has been going on a long time, at least since the early 1980s.
Thus, I am not in the teeniest bit surprised that the same thing is happening today in Iceland and Latvia.
This article by Michael Hudson has some of the details:
For the past decade Iceland has been a kind of controlled experiment, an extreme test case of neoliberal free-market ideology. … Is there a limit, a point at which government will draw a line against taking on public responsibility for private debts beyond any reasonable capacity to pay without drastically slashing public spending on education, health care and other basic services? …
The European Union and International Monetary Fund have told them to replace private debts with public obligations, and to pay by raising taxes, slashing public spending and obliging citizens to deplete their savings. Resentment is growing not only toward those who ran up these debts — Iceland’s bankrupt Kaupthing and Landsbanki with its Icesave accounts, and heavily debt-leveraged property owners and privatizers in the Baltics and Central Europe — but also toward the neoliberal foreign advisors and creditors who pressured these governments to sell off the banks and public infrastructure to insiders.
This is the trick: replacing private debts with public obligations. Lots of people loaned money to banks and corporations in Iceland. They are now facing huge losses.
What is supposed to happen here is: they take their losses. There was no government guarantee. Why should someone with no relation to this business deal have to pay off their losses just because they happen to live in Iceland?
The government of Iceland may not actually have the money to pay this off. They would have to borrow it. When the IMF makes a “rescue loan” to a government, the money spends no time in Iceland or Latvia. It goes directly to the foreign creditors, in places like New York and London.
However, the debts remain, to be paid off by the taxpayers of Iceland. Taxes rise, which just makes a bad economic situation worse. Valuable and important services are cut — precisely when they are most needed. Then, the IMF “advisors” come in and start to make a lot of demands.
For example, they may demand that the government sell off “public infrastructure” and the assets of failed banks (which still have considerable value) to pay off the loans which were used to bail out the bankers in New York and London. Who buys this “public infrastructure”?
Typically, it’s the bankers in New York and London! Normally, at very good prices — very, very good prices. Extraordinarily good prices.
Prices for assets in a crisis are normally very low. But, a government that can be coerced into bailing out the bankers can also usually be coerced into selling off state assets at values that no private owner would accept.
Hudson calls this “neoliberal free-market ideology.” Of course, it has nothing to do with the principles of capitalism. You could call it a form of fascist imperialism. I think John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and The History of the American Empire, would agree with this terminology.
It is hard to tempt and cajole and confuse world leaders when you use unpleasant terms like “fascist imperialism.” That’s why these proposals are camouflaged with labels like “neoliberal free-market principles,” when they have nothing to do with free-market principles.
It’s not about “conservative” and “liberal.” It’s about us against the banker imperialists.
The IMF should be abolished.
Article ends.
This website has claimed since it began that Iceland was in a worse situation that reported officially. That has now been confirmed when the Central bank of Iceland published its findings on the financial status of the Icelandic state. The debt numbers as they were in June show that the debts as a percentage of the GNP (Gross National Product) are close to 233% of the 240% limit of the IMF. According to Gunnar Tómasson Iceland is reaching its payment tolerance limit and is heading towards insolvency. That is, the nation cant pay that much.
The Icelandic government, homes, companies and the banks owe 3323 billion ISK in foreign currency. To put this number in perspective, the Icesave deal is around 750 billion ISK. The whole debt over assets of Iceland is around 6000 billion ISK.
The interesting thing about those numbers is that they are 3 month old. And the numbers have not been released before because they kept postponing them, just like the IMF is postponing the disucssion about Iceland, again and again.This means that today each citizen of Iceland owes 10.4 million ISK. Every man, woman and child.
The IMF was supposed to discuss the Icelandic situation on the 14th of September, but that was recalled and now it is expected to be discussed most likely in October. After that it will become clear if they will grant Iceland the big loan or not. The same thing goes for the Scandinavian loans, that will not be delivered until the IMF gives the green light.
The IMF loan is for 2.1 billion USD total, and the Scandinavian nations have pledged to lend 2.5 billion USD and will the first quarter of that loan be delivered at the same time as the IMF second payment of it’s loan.
The conclusion must be that the situation is worse than they care to admit.
In an interview yesterday Josheph Stiglitz, the Nobel price winner for Economics said that the IMF is doing Iceland harm. Stiglitz part is in English and is in the second half of the show.
Below is a quote from an article by Nathan Lewis from the Huffington Post. The article is called; The IMF Destroys Iceland and Latvia.
„The International Monetary Fund operates primarily as a banker bailout machine. They cajole and tempt and confuse and threaten the leaders of governments worldwide to pay off the failed bets of the big bankers using the taxpayer funds of their countries. This has been going on a long time, at least since the early 1980s.
Thus, I am not in the teeniest bit surprised that the same thing is happening today in Iceland and Latvia.
This article by Michael Hudson has some of the details:
For the past decade Iceland has been a kind of controlled experiment, an extreme test case of neoliberal free-market ideology. … Is there a limit, a point at which government will draw a line against taking on public responsibility for private debts beyond any reasonable capacity to pay without drastically slashing public spending on education, health care and other basic services? …
The European Union and International Monetary Fund have told them to replace private debts with public obligations, and to pay by raising taxes, slashing public spending and obliging citizens to deplete their savings. Resentment is growing not only toward those who ran up these debts — Iceland’s bankrupt Kaupthing and Landsbanki with its Icesave accounts, and heavily debt-leveraged property owners and privatizers in the Baltics and Central Europe — but also toward the neoliberal foreign advisors and creditors who pressured these governments to sell off the banks and public infrastructure to insiders.
This is the trick: replacing private debts with public obligations. Lots of people loaned money to banks and corporations in Iceland. They are now facing huge losses.
What is supposed to happen here is: they take their losses. There was no government guarantee. Why should someone with no relation to this business deal have to pay off their losses just because they happen to live in Iceland?
The government of Iceland may not actually have the money to pay this off. They would have to borrow it. When the IMF makes a “rescue loan” to a government, the money spends no time in Iceland or Latvia. It goes directly to the foreign creditors, in places like New York and London.
However, the debts remain, to be paid off by the taxpayers of Iceland. Taxes rise, which just makes a bad economic situation worse. Valuable and important services are cut — precisely when they are most needed. Then, the IMF “advisors” come in and start to make a lot of demands.
For example, they may demand that the government sell off “public infrastructure” and the assets of failed banks (which still have considerable value) to pay off the loans which were used to bail out the bankers in New York and London. Who buys this “public infrastructure”?
Typically, it’s the bankers in New York and London! Normally, at very good prices — very, very good prices. Extraordinarily good prices.
Prices for assets in a crisis are normally very low. But, a government that can be coerced into bailing out the bankers can also usually be coerced into selling off state assets at values that no private owner would accept.
Hudson calls this “neoliberal free-market ideology.” Of course, it has nothing to do with the principles of capitalism. You could call it a form of fascist imperialism. I think John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and The History of the American Empire, would agree with this terminology.
It is hard to tempt and cajole and confuse world leaders when you use unpleasant terms like “fascist imperialism.” That’s why these proposals are camouflaged with labels like “neoliberal free-market principles,” when they have nothing to do with free-market principles.
It’s not about “conservative” and “liberal.” It’s about us against the banker imperialists.
The IMF should be abolished.
Article ends.
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mánudagur, 19. október 2009
Aftur og aftur og alltaf sömu leið!
Þorvaldur Örn KristmundssonViðskipti | Morgunblaðið | 8.7.2009 | 05:30
Sjóvá skuldaði í bótasjóð
Eftir Þórð Snæ Júlíusson thordur@mbl.is
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- laugubloggÞað hefur verið stolið af okkur á öllum…
- Þrymur Sveinsson.Ótrúverðugt tryggingarfélag eftir þetta!
- Heimir L Fjeldsted"Fólk er fífl"
- Jenný Stefanía JensdóttirStórglæpur hefur verið framinn .... hver og hverra…
Sjóvá átti ekki fyrir vátryggingaskuld sinni og leggja þurfti félaginu til fé svo það gæti staðið undir henni. Það er helsta ástæða þess að sérstakur saksóknari rannsakar nú hvort færsla á fjárfestingaeignum úr móðurfélaginu Milestone inn í Sjóvá á síðastliðnum tveimur árum varði við lög um hlutafélög, lög um starfsemi tryggingafélaga eða séu umboðssvik. Húsleitir voru framkvæmdar vegna rannsóknarinnar á tíu stöðum í gær. Meðal annars var leitað í höfuðstöðvum Milestone og Sjóvá og á heimilum helstu stjórnenda félaganna tveggja.
Frá húsleit í gær RÚVMilestone eignaðist Sjóvá að fullu í byrjun árs 2006. Á næstu tveimur árum voru færðar fjárfestingaeignir inn á efnahagsreikning félagsins sem bókfærðar voru sem 50 milljarða króna virði. Þessum eignum fylgdu vaxtaberandi skuldir að upphæð um 40 milljarðar króna. Þorri þeirra skulda var í erlendum gjaldmiðlum. Bæði fjárfestingarnar og vaxtaberandi skuldirnar voru geymdar í dótturfélagi Sjóvár sem var stýrt af félaginu Milestone.
Frá húsleit í gær RÚVÞegar hrun varð á fasteignamarkaði á síðasta ári og íslenska krónan hrundi á sama tíma þá lækkaði virði fjárfestingaeigna Sjóvár afar mikið á sama tíma og skuldirnar ruku upp. Þetta varð til þess að skilanefnd Glitnis þurfti að setja háar upphæðir inn í Sjóvá til að félagið gæti staðið við vátryggingaskuld sína. Heimildir Morgunblaðsins herma að sú upphæð hafi numið allt að tíu milljörðum króna.
laugardagur, 10. október 2009
Nýtt embætti!
Nýtt embætti hefur verið stofnað. Og er það svosem ekkert nýtt í þessu ebættismannalandi. En það sem slær Wolfang er að þetta er Umboðsmaður lántakenda og embættið er ekki embætti í þeim skilningi að embættið sé stofnun fyrir almenning heldur heldur sérstaklega skylgreint sem Embætti fyrir Rukkunarmenn í Credítinfó og ekki í opinbera geiranum sem Wolfang hefði nú haldið að hýtsti alla embættismenn í landinu. Er hann kominn svo langt þessi skylnaðarmúr sem er á milli þjóðflokkanna tveggja á Íslandi að eftilits og rukkunarfélög útí bæ geti stofnað "Embætti umboðsmanns lántakenda"? Er það ekki í verkahring þess opinbera að vera umboðsmenn almennings í landinu. Ég get ekki séð fyrir mér Jón Ásgeir,Björgólf Thors,Bjarna Benediktsson eða Sigmund Davíðs panta tíma hjá þessum svo mjög sérstaka Umboðsmanni til að hvarta undan ágengni handrukkara frá Credítinfó.
Wolfang
Wolfang
miðvikudagur, 7. október 2009
Hvað gerðist?
Jú hvað gerðist þegar Wolfang fékk flensuna? Jú mbl-bloggið datt í núll! Verður Wolfang nú að herða sig í að hressast og komast í sitt fyrra horf með þetta vinsæla blogg. En þó verður Wolfang að huga um heilsunni og blogga varlega og þá kannski bara með einum(1) putta eins og lögregluvarðstjóri í enskri sjónvarpsþáttaröð. Mun gæði bloggsins falla um nokkur strik eins og heimsóknartölur mbl bera gott vitni um og afdankaðir pólitíkusar og ungir fjármálasnillingar geta loksins farið að sofa á kvöldin í þeirri vissu að mbl blogg Wolfangs verði ekki það fyrsta sem þeir sjá þegar þeir oppna mbl.is í morgunsárinu með allt sitt "þetta veit Wolfang". Mætti halda að púkarnir taki Wolfang fyrir að vera nokkurskonar "alliríslendingar" vel falinn á bak við þetta Wolfangs-nafn? Wolfang er nú ekki viss á þessum punkti þar sem efnið dettur bara svona inn með öðrum pósti á hverjum einasta degi nema sunndaga, þá er Wolfang meðal fólks og hefur ekki þennan eina putta með sér til að ota framan í eða upp í nefið á fólki.
Þetta veit Wolfang
Þetta veit Wolfang
fimmtudagur, 6. ágúst 2009
miðvikudagur, 22. júlí 2009
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t became clear that the people in question who lead the discussion had very strong opinions about matters and had some very strange ideas about what a political party was and how it operates. Many of the people involved where a part of the saucepan revolution, they have left wing opinions and quite a few of them where either registered in the Left Green party and one even running for office for them (he did not succeed). Other people where obviously from other parties as well, but most had in common that they either didn’t like their party or simply had not fitted in there and therefore they gave up on them (drop outs)
sunnudagur, 21. júní 2009
Það sama
Allt er við það sama. Allir að stela af öllum kröftum og þeir sem ekki geta stolið frá öðrum lengur, eru farnir að stela frá sjálfum sér. Eins og í dag þegar ég gat stolið smá kríu í sófanum án þess að nokkur hafi tekið eftir því. En ég fór fínt í það, svaf með opin augun allan tíman. Það er kúnst maður minn!
fimmtudagur, 18. júní 2009
Barasta það?
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