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Yes, there IS another way.
Yes there is another way. But you won’t hear about it from the mainstream media. Wonder why?
No news from Iceland… why?
How come we hear everything that happens in Egypt but no news about what’s happening in Iceland:
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In Iceland, the people has made the government resign, the primary banks have been nationalized, it was decided to not pay the debt that these created with Great Britain and Holland due to their bad financial politics and a public assembly has been created to rewrite the constitution.
And all of this in a peaceful way.
A whole revolution against the powers that have created the current crisis. This is why there hasn’t been any publicity during the last two years: What would happen if the rest of the EU citizens took this as an example? What would happen if the US citizens took this as an example.
This is a summary of the facts:
2008. The main bank of the country is nationalized.
The Krona, the currency of Iceland devaluates and the stock market stops.
The country is in bankruptcy
2008. The citizens protest in front of parliament and manage to get new elections that make the resignation of the prime minister and his whole government.
The country is in bad economic situation.
A law proposes paying back the debt to Great Britain and Holland through the payment of 3,500 million euros, which will be paid by the people of Iceland monthly during the next 15 years, with a 5.5% interest.
2010. The people go out in the streets and demand a referendum. In January 2010 the president denies the approval and announces a popular meeting.
In March the referendum and the denial of payment is voted in by 93%. Meanwhile the government has initiated an investigation to bring to justice those responsible for the crisis, and many high level executives and bankers are arrested. The Interpol dictates an order that make all the implicated parties leave the country.
In this crisis an assembly is elected to rewrite a new Constitution which can include the lessons learned from this, and which will substitute the current one (a copy of the Danish Constitution).
25 citizens are chosen, with no political affiliation, out of the 522 candidates. For candidacy all that was needed was to be an adult and have the support of 30 people. The constitutional assembly starts in February of 2011 to present the ‘carta magna’ from the recommendations given by the different assemblies happening throughout the country. It must be approved by the current Parliament and by the one constituted through the next legislative elections.
So in summary of the Icelandic revolution:
-resignation of the whole government
-nationalization of the bank.
-referendum so that the people can decide over the economic decisions.
-incarcerating the responsible parties
-rewriting of the constitution by its people
Have we been informed of this through the media?
Has any political program in radio or TV commented on this?
No!
The Icelandic people have been able to show that there is a way to beat the system and has given a democracy lesson to the world
Apr18
Modern Life
Apr17
someone else’s business.
The lovely Lpeg reminded me yesterday to mind my own business.
It doesn’t mean what it sounds like. How many of us end up misunderstanding when something is our business and when it is not? I do it all the time and it’s because I am a nice, caring person not because I am a busybody. Asking the question “who’s business is it?” is a technique that is used in therapy when someone is becoming upset and overwhelmed by the People Pleaser inside them.
I rarely say no outside of a work situation. I do not like to let people down and I don’t like to hurt their feelings. Quite often if I am faced with a choice between putting myself first and someone else first I will choose the latter.
That’s not a bad thing.
It is unhealthy though, if like me, you do that at the expense of what you really want. What really makes you happy. I think I have been conditioned, like many people are, into thinking that saying no makes you selfish. It’s the fear of being horrible to someone else often makes me end up being horrible to myself.
That’s silly, isn’t it? I would not have realised that this is what I have been doing, if it hadn’t been for LPEG. So thank you kind lady. I am not here to manage everyone else’s expectations. Sometimes I focus too much on trying to make something difficult happen in order to make someone I care for happy just because I know that’s what they think should happen. Or I worry too much about offending someone by rejecting their well-intentioned suggestions. But as Lpeg pointed out, my business is to put my well-being first.
So next time you’re squirming in your seat because you don’t want to let someone down…just stop for a second and think about whether the situation has arisen because you created an expectation in the first place or because they have created it in their own mind. If it is the latter… you know what to do.
I pledge to mind only my own business. No matter how difficult.
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