Monday, May 3, 2010
[speakoutforum] TROJAN HORSE ENTERED THE GATE OF BRUSSELS!
European finance ministers triggered a record 110 billion euro ($147 billion) bailout for Greece, the most corrupt country on Earth, on Sunday after Athens sent a Trojan Horse to Brussels. Basil Venitis muses that giving euros to Graecokleptocrats is giving gin to alcoholics! Fourth Reich becomes a ginmill! A bailout does nothing to fix the misguided policies and Graecokleptocracy that have generated Greece's existing debt and ongoing deficits.
Bailout merely postpones the day of reckoning. Worse, bailout both rewards Graecokleptocrats' bad past behavior and encourages such behavior in future. Greece will be back for additional bailouts in short order, since a bailout will not fix its underlying problem of Graecokleptocracy. Rather than bail out Greece, Fourth Reich and IMF should allow it to default. This will hurt Greece's creditors, but those entities assumed the risk when they loaned to a country long known for its profligate ways and kleptocracy.
After weeks of tough talk and procrastination due to fierce public opposition to handouts for the Greeks, German Chancellor Angela Merkel finally threw her full support behind the EU/IMF package, allowing the Trojan Horse inside the gate of Brussels. Merkel navigates a Graecorescue minefield, making the terms of a rescue so onerous that other eurozone members would never be tempted to follow Greece's lead in seeking aid. She pushes for automatic penalties for future breaches of EU debt rules, with violators forced to give up their voting rights and access to the bloc's cohesion funds. PIGS must adopt the strict budget discipline Germany sees as crucial for the future of eurozone.
Eurozone ministers, meeting in emergency session, approved the three-year package of emergency loans and agreed the first funds would be released in time for Athens to make a big debt repayment to creditors on May 19. In exchange for by far the largest bailout ever assembled for a country, Premier George Papandreou, who covers up all Graecokleptocrats, announced further spending cuts and tax increases totaling 30 billion euros over three years on top of tough measures already taken.
Merkel called the programme very ambitious and said she would work to achieve swift parliamentary approval of Berlin's share, the biggest of any EU state at about 22 billion euros out of 80 billion, of the rescue loans. Graecorescue is money gone with the wind, because Greece can never return the money back! Graecokleptocrats simply rob and churn the money, forwarding kickbacks and loot to their offshore secret accounts.
French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde described the aid proposal as a cocktail of indulgence and great strictness, and in case of default on repayment, France and Germany will immediately put the foot on the brake, in order to cut their losses short. Hans-Werner Sinn, president of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research, asserts Greece would never pay back the loans. Greece is no position to carry out the necessary budgetary rigor to pay Berlin back.
Planetarch Obama told Papandreou on Sunday he welcomes Greece's ambitious reform program, but he did not utter a single word about the impunity of Graecokleptocrats! He also praised the significant support from the IMF and Eurozone members. Eurozone leaders will hold a special summit on Friday to formally launch the rescue after obtaining parliamentary approval where necessary. International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn forecast the IMF board would approve its 30 billion euro contribution to the package this week.
Greeks have already taken to the streets to demonstrate against Graecokleptocrats and VAT, and past governments have backed off from reforms to defuse often violent protests. But Papandreou, who is also President of Socialist International, with a strong personal approval rating, has insisted the country must face the bill for years of drift and graft, but he did not utter a single word about the impunity of Graecokleptocrats!
The first rescue of a member of the 16-nation eurozone aims to stem a debt crisis that has shaken financial markets, dented confidence in the euro and begun to spread to fellow euro zone weaklings Portugal and Spain. Berlin's hesitancy has fueled market panic. The chairman of the Eurogroup of finance ministers, Jean-Claude Juncker, said that at Germany's insistence, all ministers would discuss with their national banking sectors the possibility of voluntary contributions to the aid package, but he did not utter a single word about the impunity of Graecokleptocrats!
The euro zone loans will carry an interest rate of about 5%, just half the rate demanded by markets last week to buy Greek debt, but nearly 2% more than the rate on Germany's benchmark bonds. Greece might negotiate a restructuring of its debt before missing a payment. This would require investors to take a significant discount on their debt holdings and could include extending maturities. Bondholders might see haircuts of anything from 20 to 40% of the net asset value of their debt positions. The current two-year Greek-German bond yield spread is consistent with a 33% chance of a 40% haircut of Graecobonds.
European Commission and the International Monetary Fund will monitor Greece's progress quarterly and loan disbursements will be tied to those reviews. The aid package will help defuse the primary cause of concern for creditors which is the imminent risk of default, but it does not address the root couse of the crisis which is Graecokleptocracy, pure and simple! Underlining the challenge facing Merkel, German politicians voiced reluctance to approve the rescue. Social Democratic opposition leader Frank-Walter Steinmeier said his party would take a lot of convincing to support the bailout.
Citing a choice between collapse or salvation, Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou announced a huge 23% VAT, a three-year public sector pay freeze, further cuts in civil servants' benefits, higher sales and fuel taxes, an increase in the effective retirement age and reductions in pensions. Papaconstantinou said the deal would cover a large part of Greek borrowing needs for the next three years, but he did not utter a single word about the impunity of Graecokleptocrats!
In return Athens promised to slash its budget deficit to the EU limit of 3% of GDP by 2014 from 13.6% last year.
Papaconstantinou said Greece's public debt would soar to nearly 150 percent of GDP, a higher peak than forecast earlier, but start falling from 2014. There had been no talk of restructuring Greece's debts. Greek, European and IMF officials publicly refuse to entertain the idea of Graecorestructuring
Venitis notes that Greece needs the constructive destruction of bankruptcy! Bailout of Greece is a destructive distraction. The default of Greece, a bottomless pit, cannot be avoided. The challenges facing Greece are similar to those that confronted Argentina, which defaulted on $95 billion of debt in 2001. There are a lot of similarities in terms of inflexibility of the currency, capital flight, huge taxes, and the risk of austerity measures leading to a sharp contraction in growth. Greece's financing needs are huge in the coming two years. It needs to prove to the market that it can drastically reduce expenses, taxes, sinecures, and Graecokleptocracy. The markets demand to see at least one Graecokleptocrat in jail!
Returning the loot is hard to do. Untouchable Graecokleptocrats, the most corrupt politicians on Earth, those freaks that enjoy absolute impunity and full parliamentary immunity, assert they will never return the 200 billion euros they robbed from the Greek treasury, kickbacks, and churning the nest eggs of poor workers! The loot is safely deposited in secret offshore accounts, and it's very hard to trace it.
Greeks are at war against their government over VAT. Vatmonger Greek government harasses Greeks by pressuring them to demand receipts when they buy products. Greeks who cannot gather many receipts are penalized with more taxes! Venitis asserts that transforming citizens to VAT enforcers is disgusting, undignified, and against basic human freedoms. President Van Rompuy should call vatmonger PM Papandreou on the carpet now.
Venitis muses that Lysistrata has convinced Greek women to not give birth to more vatstrucks! Yes, Greek women have stopped producing babies until VAT is abolished! This is the second strike organized by Lysistrata. The original strike organized by Lysistrata was the sex refusal until the war is over. Now women will give sex, but no babies! If vatmonger Graecokleptocrats want to have offspring, they must abolish VAT, pure and simple!
Vatstrucks are feeling a growing panic as they watch their constitutional republic descend into a vatmonger republic. Mahatma Gandhi's said we should be the change we want to see. Gandhi also said that civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless and corrupt. Vatsruckss instinctively understand this which is why grassroots of resistance to VAT are leading to a Gandhi-style civil disobedience movement powerful enough to undo this monstrosity.
Most Herculean tasks of Global Tax Revolt begin with Hercules getting orders from a hidden tape recorder and an envelope of photos of vatmongers and information which explains the war against VAT. The tape always begins with "Good Morning Hercules", explains the situation, and ends with "Your mission, should you decide to accept it", with a brief explanation of the goal of the mission against VAT, along with a reminder that "as always, should you or any of your force be caught or killed, Baz will disavow any knowledge of your actions. At the end of the tape's instructions, Hercules is notified "this tape will self-destruct in five seconds", and smoke emits from the tape and the instructions are destroyed.
Revolt against vatmongers follows a dozen venitist strategies:
1. False Claims of Taxes Paid. Businesses create false invoices for the purchase of inputs they never bought and get bigger deductions for taxes paid than they are entitled to.
2. Credit Claimed for Non-Creditable Purchases. Typically, VATs have a variety of rates and exemptions. For example, basic needs such as food, medicine, and clothing often receive preferential VAT rates or outright exemptions from the tax, as do certain industries considered economically vital or politically sensitive. Businesses that sell both VAT-exempt and non-exempt items have an incentive to allocate the purchase of supplies they use to produce exempt items toward the production of non-exempt items.
3. Bogus Traders. Businesses are set up exclusively to produce VAT invoices so other businesses can claim refunds on taxes they never paid.
4. Hidden Sales. Professional service providers, such as doctors and lawyers, often engage in this kind of heroism. They offer relatively high-value services, but their purchases from other businesses are relatively low cost. They charge their unknowing customers full price and collect the proper amount of VAT on the sale. But to the authorities, they show that they charged a lower price. The service provider forwards to the government less tax than it collected from its customers and pockets the difference.
5. Receipt Exchange. There are many brokers and traders of real and fake receipts.
6. Missing Traders. Many inporters from member States sell products with VAT, and then disappear, without forwarding the VAT to the government.
7. Carousels. A chain of buffer traders can be formed between the original missing importer and the final exporter, helping to blur the link between the final reclaim of VAT and the original importer.
8. Next Seller. If a seller insists on charging VAT, cancel the sale and go to another seller.
9. List. Keep a list of product providers who are willing not to charge VAT.
10. Tradeoff. Barter your vote for a politician's promise to abolish VAT.
11. Explode. Release your anger against VAT to the media and politicians.
12. Critical Mass. Become a firefly that promotes the Global Tax Revolt.
A call to arms! The global vatwar has errupted. Venitis points out vatmongers demand vatstrucks to surrender, but vatstrucks shout the heroic molon-lave of the 300 Spartans of Leonidas and the mighty words of Winston Churchill:
* We shall fight VAT on the seas and shores.
* We shall fight VAT with growing confidence and growing strength.
* We shall defend our land from VAT whatever the cost maybe.
* We shall fight VAT on the beaches.
* We shall fight VAT on the shopping grounds.
* We shall fight VAT in the markets and the streets.
* We shall fight VAT in the shops.
* We shall never surrender to vatmongers.
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Sunday, May 2, 2010
[epohigroup] Να μην περάσει ο αντεργατικός Αρμαγεδδών [1 Attachment]
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Να μην περάσει ο αντεργατικός Αρμαγεδδών
ΑΝΑΚΟΙΝΩΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΔΙΚΤΥΟΥ συνδικαλιστών Ριζοσπαστικής Αριστεράς
Τα μέτρα που ανακοίνωσε σήμερα η κυβέρνηση του ΠΑΣΟΚ, αφού πρώτα τα συμφώνησε με τους συνεταίρους της ΔΝΤ και ΕΕ είναι βάρβαρα, ακραία νεοφιλελεύθερα, αντεργατικά και γυρίζουν τους εργαζόμενους της χώρας μας πίσω στις αρχές του 20ου αιώνα.
Η κατεδάφιση των εργασιακών, κοινωνικών, μισθολογικών και ασφαλιστικών δικαιωμάτων των εργαζομένων, η καταδίκη τους στην ανεργία, την ανέχεια και τη φτώχεια δεν πρέπει να περάσουν. Οι αγώνες, οι θυσίες και το αίμα γενιών και γενιών της εργατικής τάξης δεν πρέπει να πεταχτούν στα σκουπίδια.
Όλοι και όλες στους δρόμους των αγώνων, όλοι και όλες στη Γενική Πανελλαδική απεργία στις 5 του Μάη, στις διαδηλώσεις, τις καταλήψεις και στην κλιμάκωση των αγώνων για να μην περάσει ο αντεργατικός Αρμαγεδδών.
Απεργιακή συγκέντρωση στην Αθήνα στις 11:00 πμ στο πεδίο του Άρεως
Προσυγκέντρωση στις 10:30 πμ στο Μουσείο.
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[epohigroup] Eκδήλωση εφ.«Εποχή»: Πνευματικά δικαιώματα στην τέχνη και στο διαδίκτυο [1 Attachment]
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Πνευματικά δικαιώματα στην τέχνη και στο διαδίκτυο
Με αφορμή το διάλογο που έχει ανοίξει τον τελευταίο καιρό για τη σχέση πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων και διαδικτύου, καθώς και το κλείσιμο ιστοσελίδων διαμοιρασμού (peer-to-peer)
· Νίκος Σμυρναίος, λέκτορας του τμήματος επιστημών πληροφορίας και επικοινωνίας του πανεπιστημίου της Τουλούζ
· Κωστής Ζουλιάτης (μέλος του μουσικού συγκροτήματος Night On Earth).
Επιδιώκουμε να ενημερωθούμε αλλά και να ανταλλάξουμε απόψεις για τη λειτουργία των ιστοσελίδων διαμοιρασμού.
Ήδη στις προηγούμενες ευρωεκλογές, με την εκλογή του «κόμματος των Πειρατών», διαπιστώσαμε ότι ο διαμοιρασμός αποτελεί ένα κοινωνικό φαινόμενο που έχει στήριξη από τη νεολαία, και όχι μόνο, σε όλη την Ευρώπη. Η αντίδραση της νεολαίας στο κλείσιμο των ιστοσελίδων διαμοιρασμού ήταν άμεση με πορείες διαμαρτυρίας, συλλογή υπογραφών και δράσεις στις γειτονιές.
Από την άλλη διαμορφώνεται και μία αντίθετη άποψη, η οποία ορίζει τον διαμοιρασμό ως «βλαβερό» για τους καλλιτέχνες και τη βιομηχανία του θεάματος. Η καμπάνια που έχει ξεκινήσει ενάντια στην «πειρατεία» επικεντρώνεται στις επιπτώσεις που έχει η «πειρατεία» στην οικονομική διασφάλιση των καλλιτεχνών. Την περασμένη βδομάδα η Εταιρεία Προστασίας Οπτικοακουστικών Έργων (ΕΠΟΕ) κατηγόρησε τις κινηματογραφικές ομάδες του Πολυτεχνείου Θεσσαλονίκης για παράνομη προβολή ταινιών. Η κοσμητεία επέλεξε αντί να προστατέψει τους φοιτητές, να «διευκολύνει» την εταιρεία και της παρέδωσε τα στοιχεία αυτών που είχαν αναλάβει την ευθύνη της αίθουσας προβολών.
Τελικά πώς μπορεί να εξασφαλιστεί η προστασία των πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων; Ποια είναι η νομοθεσία για τον διαμοιρασμό; Ο πολιτισμός «κινδυνεύει» από τον διαμοιρασμό; Ποια θα μπορούσε να είναι η λύση για να πάψει η δίωξη των διαχειριστών ιστοσελίδων αλλά και κινηματογραφικών ομάδων, χωρίς να πλήττονται τα πνευματικά δικαιώματα των δημιουργών;
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Saturday, May 1, 2010
[speakoutforum] I WILL NEVER ALLOW A FEDERAL EUROPE
I, David Cameron, descendant of King William IV, leader of Tories,
believe Britain's interests are best served by membership of a European Union that is an association of its member countries. A Tory Government would never allow Britain to slide into a federal Europe.
Basil Venitis, twitter.com/
A Tory Government will be active and energetic in Fourth Reich, promoting Britain's interest and engaging in the shared challenges all European countries face: global competitiveness, global poverty and global warming.
Venitis muses the hateful Lisbon Treaty was meant to address the question famously attributed to Henry Kissinger Who do I call if I want to speak to Europe? by instituting a permanent Fourth Reich president and foreign minister and by streamlining Brussels' mammoth bureaucracy, but it has created more confusion than clarity, with no fewer than five people now sporting the title of president within Fourth Reich. In reality, the real power is Chancellor Merkel. The driving ethos behind the Fourth Reich's foreign policy power-grab is the idea that the nations of Fourth Reich will be stronger collectively than they are separately, but sovereignty cannot be traded for influence.
The Lisbon Treaty has created an institutional hydra with growing numbers of appendages responsible for different aspects of the foreign policy toolbox. Venitis points out that when Planetarch Obama asks to speak to Fourth Reich, he could be referencing one of six people: Herman van Rompuy, President of the European Council; Durao Barroso, President of the Eldorado of Corruption; Spanish Premier Zapatero, current MC of the rotating Fourthreichian Junketry; Britain's Catherine Ashton, High Representative of Fourth Reich for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy; Jerzy Buzek, Madam of the Eldorado of Prostitutes; German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Whigs and Libdems broke their promise of a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, a betrayal of democracy. So Tories will deal with the worst problems caused by the Treaty:
* A Tory government will change the law so that never again would a government be able to agree to a Treaty that hands over areas of power from Britain to Fourth Reich without a referendum. That would include any attempt to scrap the pound for the euro;
* A Tory Government will also introduce a United Kingdom Sovereignty Bill, to make it clear that ultimate authority over our laws stays in this country; and
* As the Lisbon Treaty allows a number of the further changes to the EU's rules without a new Treaty, a Tory Government would change the law so that any use of these "ratchet clauses" would require full approval by Parliament, and where they amount to handing over an area of power, e.g. abolishing vetoes over foreign policy, a referendum would be required. A Tory government will never sign up to a European Public Prosecutor.
The steady and unaccountable intrusion of Fourth Reich into almost every aspect of our lives has been made worse by the Lisbon Treaty. Charlemagne'
These are tough times for Fourth Reich. And Barroso walking into the European Parliament(EP)
The slave states of Fourth Reich are the world's most flagrant debtors. These debts are not being used to invest in profitable endeavors, but rather in welfare hand-outs, make-work projects, and sinecures. Worse still, these governments are adding new debt with such speed and volume that Moody's has begun to degrade them. Besides introducing tremendous regime uncertainty into the markets, spendthrift fiscal policy has the added harm of crowding out corporate and private borrowers.
Fourthreichian private sector can ill-afford this deprivation. While corporate earnings have risen substantially since Fourth Reich began careening toward recession, this has largely been achieved by layoffs, improvements in inventory controls, and consolidated product lines. With top-line sales decreasing, the ability to produce rising profits by slashing costs cannot continue for long. Fourth Reich is looking for another wave of corporate bankruptcies.
Venitis asserts that VAT and kleptocracy are two good reasons to secede from Fourth Reich(EU) now. Vatstruck Fourthreichians are looking for a Moses to liberate them from the yoke of Brussels. They have to do it now, before a new imposed treaty between Eurokleptocrats tie their hands forever. Californians and Texans want to secede from USA, but Uncle Sam does not allow it. The same thing might happen with Britons and Greeks. Infinite infinitesimal amendments to treaties might accumulate over time, leading to huge changes of original intent, enslaving all Fourthreichians to antivenitist Brussels forever!
The Fourth Reich project and its important components, ranging from the euro to enlargement, have been the result of political leadership, not the result of a groundswell of love toward each other among different European nations. In fact, very little would have happened without political leadership and hoodwinking. It was not an easy task to enslave the freedom-loving peoples of 27 nations to Brussels.
Venitis notes that Greenland was the first country to secede from Fourth Reich. The Lisbon Treaty introduces a secession clause. A slave State may notify the Fourthreichian Council that it wishes to secede, upon which secession negotiations begin; if no other agreement is reached, the hateful Lisbon Treaty ceases to apply to the seceding State two years after such notification.
Vatmonger Eurokleptocrats declare that Fourth Reich aid to Third World is a manifestation of Fourth Reich's benevolence! To whom vatbuster Basil Venitis replies: It's not yours to give! Antivenitist Eurokleptocrats cannot understand how much it hurts when a poor vatstruck Greek mother who cannot pay the rent and feed her children learns that the VAT money she pays goes to motherfucker cacodemon kleptocrats of Third World! Arafat's widow inherited two billion euros; that's Fourth Reich aid money Yasser Arafat stole from the Palestinian people! Most Fourth Reich aid money finds its way to the secret offshore accounts of kleptocrats and the laps of terrorists. This is Euromalevolence, pure and simple! Allons enfants de la Patrie!
Venitis points out there is no joint guarantee for euro adopters. Eurozone debt is not backed by a single lender of last resort. Not only would a bailout of a distressed budgetbuster be undesirable for moral reasons, it would also be illegal.
PIGS are not left to face the consequences of their profligacy, and the integrity of the euro is now not preserved. Venitis points out the future of Fourth Reich is being tested severely, together with much of the wealth of investors who have diversified into euro. This crisis will draw the Fourth Reich member States into a covert political struggle over the future of Fourth Reich. As this battle ebbs and flows, both the euro and the dollar will suffer great volatility.
There is a golden Fourthreichian revolving door for the movement of Eurokleptocrats between roles as legislators and regulators and the industries affected by the legislation and regulation and pullpeddlers. An unhealthy relationship develops between the private sector and Eldorado of Corruption, based on the granting of reciprocated privileges to the detriment of Fourth Reich, leading to Fourthreichian regulatory capture.
In 1999, German politician and acting European Industry Commissioner Martin Bangemann quit to move to the executive board of Spanish telecommunications giant Telefonica, controversial because he had been responsible for EU information and telecommunications policies since 1992!
In 2010, European Commissioner Charlie McCreevy quit to work for Ryanair, sparking renewed discussion over potential conflicts of interests that arise when public officials make the jump to the private sector. Ryanair has a long-running fraught relationship with Fourth Reich, and seven of Ryanair's contracts with European airports are subject to long-running state-aid inquiries by the Eldorado of Corruption.
A Tory Government will address the worst of these problems by negotiating for three specific guarantees over powers that we believe should reside with Britain, not Fourth Reich:
* We want to restore national control over those parts of social and employment legislation which have proved most damaging to our businesses and public services. For instance the application of the Working Time Directive on the NHS;
* Whigs claimed to have obtained an opt-out from the Charter of Fundamental Rights, but were forced to admit it was just a clarification. We want to upgrade this to a full opt-out so that it cannot be used by Fourth Reich judges to re-interpret Fourth Reich law affecting the UK; and
* We want broader protection against Fourth Reich judges extending their control over Britain's criminal justice system and we want to ensure that only British authorities can initiate criminal investigations in Britain.
The Tory Party is seeking a mandate at this election to bring back these powers to Britain. Fourth Reich originates from the Red House Report, a detailed account of a secret meeting at the Maison Rouge Hotel in Strasbourg, a couple of blocks from today's Eldorado of Prostitutes(
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