Iceland's Lesson...Nationalize the Banks, Jail the Corrupt & Do it Peacefully

[mother earth]

[mother earth]

1. Yes, this vid is from 2013, and still you don't hear much from MSM, on the apparent solutions to our

current global dilemma.

[zeemike]

3. And you never will.

The media as well as our political parties and corporations will never allow it.
Money is power and they have the money and so the power.

[dotymed]

2. I have always thought

that concentrating all of the power (politicians, crooks) in one area (the "beltway&quot is ridiculous for such a populated country.
IMO, we should divide the "power" into about a dozen zones. We can remain the U.S.without the centralized beltway influence.
By doing so "our" elected (?) politicians will be closer to their supposed constituents and probably many good idea's would not be quashed by a Boehner or whoever. We would have a better chance at transparency while not having all of the crookedness that is IMO, in the current concentration, a breeding ground for corruption.
We have to do something. This is not the America that I grew up in. Now its all about the Benjamins.
War, greed , very little compassion, wealth inequality that is off the charts and too big to
jail people and of course corporations and banksters.
It used to be said that "freedom is not free." That is still true; only now "they" are talking about cash not sacrifice....
Run Bernie, Run..

[markpkessinger]

4. "But Iceland is a small, homgeneous country, and we are a big diverse country, blah, blah, blah..."

Has anyone else noticed how this line is trotted out anytime anybody points to something that other countries (particularly Scandinavian countries) have done successfully, as a catch-all excuse for why those things couldn't possibly work here? I saw the same rationale used a couple of days ago in a discussion about Norway's much more enlightened approach to crime and punishment. I'm really tired of hearing that excuse, and in most cases, I think it is pure bullshit.

[mother earth]

5. What else can they say to deter others from doing just as Iceland did? or Norway?

The day is coming, the last resort, the only option left is to do what our elected seemingly will not. As Matt Taibbi says, the too big to fails are also the too big to jail. Let's hope there will be a reckoning and a return to rule of law.

When nations are an example of applied success, in whatever scope, we need to applaud and learn from those lessons. It's all about the oligarchs, globally, right now. Unbridled greed has wrought these ills, it can change, but we have to demand it.

TY, markpkessinger, for your comments.

TY to all of you.

[DeSwiss]

6. The West has been bankrupt for quite some time now.....

...but when computers animate the corpse, it looks almost like it's alive.

- And everyone's afraid to tell the Zombie Banks that they're dead.



K&R