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Samstađa ţjóđar krefst međalgöngu fyrir EFTA-dómstólnum

 

  
  
null   Samstađa ţjóđar
   
NATIONAL UNITY COALITION                                                           
   Baráttusamtök fyrir sjálfstćđu ríki á Íslandi

   og fullveldisréttindum almennings.
   Stöndum vörđ um Stjórnarskrá Lýđveldisins.

 
 

 

EFTA Court

1, rue du Fort Thüngen

L-1499 Luxembourg

28 April 2012.

TO THE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE

EFTA COURT

REQUEST TO INTERVENE

Submitted pursuant to Article 36 of the Statute of the EFTA Court by

Samstađa ţjóđar, a registered association in Iceland,

represented by Loftur Altice Ţorsteinsson and Pétur Valdemarsson,

hereby applies to the EFTA Court for leave to intervene in Case E-16/11 in support of the Republic of Iceland and on behalf of the nation of Iceland.


 

Article 36 of the EFTA Court Statute: Any EFTA State, the EFTA Surveillance Authority, the Community and the EC Commission may intervene in cases before the Court. The same right shall be open to any person establishing an interest in the result of any case submitted to the Court, save in cases between EFTA States or between EFTA States and the EFTA Surveillance Authority. An application to intervene shall be limited to supporting the form of order sought by one of the parties.

Our application rests on following argumentation:

With regard to: the efforts of the Government of Iceland to defend the interests of the nation of Iceland, we are urged to intervene in the case brought against the general public of Iceland by the European Union, through the mediation of the EFTA Surveillance Authority.

With regard to: complaints by Samstađa ţjóđar to the Commission of the European Union, concerning breaches of the EEA Agreement by Britain and the Netherlands.

With regard to: our application to the European Ombudsman, to allow the case of Iceland against Britain and the Netherlands to be heard before the European Court of Justice.

With regard to: the refusal of the EU Commission to investigate the obvious illegal behaviour of Britain and the Neterlands.

With regard to: the refusal of the EU Commission to prosecute Britain and the Netherlands before the European Court of Justice for the breaches made by these states against the EEA Agreement.

With reference to: enclosed letters of complaint dated 25 June 2011, 25 September 2011 and 20 December 2011.

With reference to: the fact that the Icesave accounts were fully insured by the Deposit Guarantee Systems in Britain and the Netherlands. The FSCS in Britain and DNB in the Netherlands reimbursed the Icesave account holders in these countries, as they had obligations to do. Regarding Britain this is proven by Article 6.1.17 of the FSA Handbook, which states:

»Incoming EEA firms which obtain cover or 'top up' under the provisions of COMP 14 are firms whose Home State scheme provides no or limited compensation cover in the event that they are determined to be in default. Under FEES 6.6, the FSCS is required to consider whether incoming EEA firms should receive a discount on the amount that they would otherwise pay as their share of the levy, to take account of the availability of their Home State cover. The amount of any discount is recoverable from the other members of the incoming EEA firm's sub-class 

With reference to: Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties 1969, the EEA Agreement is not binding for Iceland in a situation prevailing in the autumn of 2008. This condition is called Rebur Sic Stantibus” and is specifically stated in Article 62 of the Convention.

With reference to: the extremity of the Icesave demands of Britain and the Netherlands, Case E-16/11 is directed against the people of Iceland and is not limited to the Icelandic state. Therefore the limitation stated in Article 36 »save in cases between…EFTA States and the EFTA Surveillance Authority« is not valid.

   

Samstađa ţjóđar.

   
Loftur Altice Ţorsteinsson   -    Pétur Valdemarsson 
 

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Skrásett heimilisfang: Laugarásvegur 4, 104 Reykjavík - Netföng: hlutverk@simnet.is / thrastalundur@simnet.is


The Death of Nation-States and the Rise of Empire

 

  
  
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NATIONAL UNITY COALITION                                                           
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The Death of Nation-States and the Rise of Empire.

Birtist fyrst í American Thinker 30. apríl 2012.


   


Fay Voshell.

Some readers may recall the rant of a couple years ago by Nigel Farage, head of the United Kingdom's Independence Party, against Herman Van Rompuy, president of the European Union.  Mr. Farage described the gentleman from Belgium as possessing "all the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk."  He also accused Van Rompuy of being a non-entity from a non-nation.

Regardless of Mr. Farage's insulting comments, the fact is that he has some valid observations about the nature and goals of the EU.

Farage pointed out that the European Union's unelected officials were asserting authority over (and oftentimes ruining) European nations, without those nations' peoples having any say in the matter.  Belgium, he said, tells Greece what to do if the latter desires to remain a vassal-state bound to the European Union. 

Unfortunately, Belgium has had far too much to say to member-nations.  It never stops chattering.

French-style bureaucracy -- one in four employees has a job as a civil servant -- has self-duplicated as an EU bureaucracy, which issues a constant stream of rules and regulations so finely precise that bananas are categorized based on size.  According to the Official Journal of the European Union, "having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union," the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 133.2011 sternly lays down  "marketing standards for bananas, rules on the verification of compliance with those marketing standards and requirements for notifications in the banana sector."

As of that unhappy date of December 19, 2011, bananas from the Madeira, the Azores, the Algarve, Crete, Lakonia and Cyprus fall into the less desirable Class II category because they do not meet the minimum length laid down by the EU.

Apparently, for the European Commission's regulators, in the case of bananas, as in other aspects of life, size matters.

But the European Union as crazed regulator involves much larger issues than the size, quality, and categorization of various fruits. 

As Mr. Farage intimated, the regulation-driven, powerful, and controlling EU may be putting the very existence of Europe's nation-states at risk.  For example, the impoverishment of Greece and its consignment by the EU to the rump-end of Europe, though hastened by Greece's own feckless governmental policies, means in reality that that nation has been conquered by EU economic means as surely as if an army had marched through its borders and taken over its government.  Greece is now in thrall to the EU, as Mr. Farage has tirelessly pointed out.

Portugal and Spain appear to be the next fatalities.  The end-result may be the rise, once again, of German hegemony.  Germany, hedged in since the end of World War II, has only to re-militarize in order to achieve dominance over Western and even Eastern Europe -- even though presently, as Europe's banker, she is utilizing mostly economic means to increase her power.  The prospect of a revitalized and militarized Germany is not necessarily the horrid vision it was in the 1930s and '40s, but European nations should be aware that the death of sovereign European nation-states and the rise of any single power could result in an unimaginable tragedy.   

Nation-states -- countries in which the peoples share a similar cultural heritage, language, ethnicity, and governmental institution -- have been an historic reality in Europe for some five hundred years.  The immense and distinct cultural, spiritual, and historical treasures of nations constituting Europe have been a wellspring of vitality for countless countries, including the U.S.  It is beyond imagination to conjure a vision as to just what the eradication of Europe's nation-states would involve.

Unfortunately, once again, Europe may be threatened by the universal and historic phenomenon that is the impulse toward empire. 

It is not too far-fetched to describe the European Union as an attempt to establish a European empire by economic means via the currency of the euro, the ubiquitous regulations of the EU, and that entity's accompanying economic dictates.  It is quite possible that unless Europe's individual nations fight for their sovereignty, a unified European entity -- a goal long-dreamed of by military conquerors -- could be achieved by a European economic empire.

The hope was and is that a universal economic union and the universal currency of the euro would unite Europe -- that is, that money and economic hegemony would speak louder than national interests and identities, acting as the glue to hold together disparate nations. 

However, the price of membership has meant that national identities have been submerged under the purely materialist framework of the EU.  A materialistic view of nations which overrides each nation's individual history and culture is to be substituted for the rich tapestry which was once the European heritage.  Individual national governments and national identities are to be supplanted by institutional vehicles which seek to unify by money, finances, and trade.

Though it may be hotly denied by Van Rompuy and other leaders, the European Union is essentially inclined toward a reductionist, socialist/Marxist interpretation of governing institutions, as economic factors alone are assumed to be the essence defining and driving nations and humanity itself.  Language, culture, art, and history are to submit to a purely economic/materialistic view of history and humanity.  The reductionist view of nations means that some will die and others ascend according to whichever nation holds the economic cards. 

The dilemma facing Europe also faces the United States, which is also seeing the tragic results of a multiculturalism that augers not unity, but fragmentation and then consolidation by a powerful entity.  It is not too much to say the fragmentation and division under the philosophical aegis of multiculturalism have been accelerated by our president and his administration.    

In turn, one result of this consolidation has been an increase in the power of executive branch and its supra-constitutional enforcement agencies, both of which combine to suppress state sovereignty and pull together the power of the federal government.  Individual states such as Arizona are under siege from their own government.  If the erosion of state sovereignty continues, the result will assure the end of the U.S. as a nation-state based on federalism. 

Essentially, the current leaders of both the U.S. and the EU see the world's driving forces as superficial and almost solely material, seeking to exclude the spiritual.  That is one reason why so much attention is given to material minutiae like measuring and denoting the quality of bananas while matters of the spirit/soul of nations and states are almost completely neglected.  Worse yet, attacks on Christianity and the Church universal are increasing as a worldview that insists that humanity is defined by solely material rather than spiritual factors steadily increases its power.

As the great thinker Denis De Rougement noted in his classic Love in the Western World:

People are all more or less materialists today, for they are the heirs of the nineteenth century. [...] It is whatever is lower that we take to be more real.  The superstition of our time expresses itself in a mania for equating the sublime with the trivial. [...] The mania usurps the name of "scientific integrity," and is defended on the ground that it emancipates the mind form delusions about "spirit."

The EU and our current administration are examples of a purely materialist economic model being forced on nations and states, whose deaths are almost assured if the materialistic model is not forsaken.  For let it be said that we are not talking about mutually agreeable and beneficial trade covenants among nations.  We are talking about economic empire that quashes true federalism, which itself respects the integrity of individual states.

Unless the spiritual aspects of national cultures are revived and cherished and the sovereignty of individual nations and states protected, the end-result of the trends toward consolidation of power will be the demise of European nations and of the individual states of America.  All, along with the peoples within them, will be reduced to being defined by bureaucracies reveling in trivial and materialist minutiae such as the measurement of bananas.

Europeans and Americans alike must wake up to the truth that men and nations do not live by bananas alone.


A gold-based currency board, please

 

  
  
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NATIONAL UNITY COALITION                                                           
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A gold-based currency board, please.

Birtist fyrst í maí-hefti GlobeAsia 2012.


   


Steve H. Hanke.

Until early in the 20th century, gold played a central role in the world of money. Gold had an incredible run – almost three thousand years. And why not? After all, Professor Roy Jastram convincingly documents in The Golden Constant just how gold maintains its purchasing power over long periods of time.

But, since President Richard Nixon closed the gold window in August 1971, gold has not played a formal role in the international monetary regime. Today, the “regime” is characterized by many as a chaotic non-system.

In the past decade, gold prices have surged and there have been noises in some quarters that gold’s formal role should be re-established in the sphere of international money. Nobelist Robert Mundell has gone so far as to predict that “Gold will be part of the structure of the international monetary system in the twenty-first century.”

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Automatic Currency Boards versus Central Banks. 
Gold-based currency boards could transform Professor Mundell’s prediction into a reality. Currency boards have existed in more than 70 countries and a number are still in operation today. Countries with such monetary institutions have experienced more fiscal discipline, superior price stability, and higher growth rates than comparable countries with central banks.

An orthodox currency board is a monetary institution that issues notes and coins (some currency boards have, however, also accepted deposits). Its monetary liabilities are freely convertible into a reserve currency (also called the anchor currency) at a fixed rate on demand. The reserve currency is a convertible foreign currency or a commodity chosen for its expected stability. For reserves, such a currency board holds low-risk, interest-earning securities and other assets payable in the reserve currency. Its reserves equal 100 percent or slightly more of its notes and coins in circulation, as set by law.

An orthodox currency board has no active role in determining the monetary base. A fixed exchange rate with the reserve currency and the requirement that the currency board hold foreign reserves equal to 100 percent of the monetary base prevents it from increasing or decreasing the monetary base at its own discretion. Nor does a typical currency board influence the relationship between the monetary base and the money supply by imposing reserve ratios or otherwise regulating commercial banks. An orthodox currency board system is passive and is characterized by automaticity. Regardless of the metric used, the money supply in a typical currency board system, therefore, is determined entirely by market forces—that is, the demands of money users who bring reserve currency to swap for local currency determine the amount of notes and coins that the currency board supplies.

In a currency board system and in a central banking system alike, commercial banks are entrepreneurs of credit. A commercial bank cannot lend more to borrowers than it can borrow from depositors (or credit markets), in the form of deposits held instead of spent. If a commercial bank lends excessively, the borrowers spend the excess, for instance, by writing cheques. In the payments system, more funds flow out of the bank than flow into the bank. To prevent the outflow from bankrupting it, a commercial bank holds reserves. The loans of commercial banks are limited by their need to maintain sufficient reserves to enable depositors to convert deposits into cash (or reserves) on demand and to withstand outflows of reserves through the payments system.

A typical central bank, in contrast, can at its discretion increase or decrease the monetary base. It can lend to commercial banks, creating reserves for them, even if its foreign reserves are decreasing. More reserves tend to enable commercial banks to make more loans, which they do by creating deposits for borrowers. The money supply then increases. Decreasing the monetary base tends to have the opposite effect. Besides changing the monetary base, a typical central bank can also influence the supply of commercial bank loans by changing the reserve requirements for commercial banks.

Despite the inability of an orthodox currency board to create reserves for commercial banks at its own discretion, the money supply in a typical currency board system is quite elastic (responsive) to changes in demand, because the system can acquire foreign reserves. The rules governing a currency board merely prevent it from creating reserves for commercial banks in an inflationary manner, as a central bank can. Other sources of elasticity in the money supply are variability in commercial banks’ ratio of reserves to deposits, the pooling of reserves among branches of commercial banks in the currency board country and the reserve country, interbank lending, and variability in the public’s deposit-to-cash ratio.

In the past, currency boards have issued monetary liabilities that were fully backed by gold and were fully convertible into gold at a fixed rate on demand. The following gold-based currency board law is presented to indicate how a modern, independent, gold-based currency board could be established and would operate. As drafted, the law would allow for the creation of a publically-owned entity. But, with slight amendments, the draft law could support the establishment of a purely private currency board.

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A Gold-Based Currency Board Law.

01.The Currency Board of Country X (“the Board”) is hereby created. The purpose of the Board is to issue notes and coins denominated in a gold currency unit, and to hold foreign reserves sufficient to maintain them fully convertible at a fixed exchange rate into gold.

  

02.The Board shall have its legal seat in Switzerland and shall be subject to the laws of Switzerland.

  

03.     

a.    The Board shall be governed by five directors. Three directors shall be citizens of countries other than Country X , appointed by the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland; by the World Gold Council; or a similar suitable organization, as determined by supplementary legislation. Two directors shall be citizens of Country X, one appointed by the Government of Country X and one by the Bankers Association of Country X. The directors appointed by the BIS shall not be employees of governments or multigovernmental organizations.

  

b.    A quorum shall consist of three of the Board’s directors, including the director chosen by the Government of Country X or the director chosen by the Bankers Association of Country X. Decisions shall be made by majority vote, except as specified in paragraph 15.

  

c.     The first director appointed by the Government of Country X shall serve a term of one year. The first director appointed by the Bankers Association of Country X shall serve a term of four years. The first three directors appointed by the BIS shall serve terms of two, three, and five years. Subsequent directors shall serve terms of five years. Directors may be reappointed once.

  

d.     Should a director resign or die, the organization that selected that director shall select a replacement to serve the remaining term.

  

04.The board of directors shall have the power to hire and fire the Board’s staff, and to determine salaries for the staff. The bylaws of the Board shall determine salaries for the directors.

  

05.The Board shall issue notes and coins denominated in a gold currency unit to be determined by the Board prior to the date of first issuance. The notes and coins shall be fully convertible into gold. The notes shall be printed outside Country X.

06.     

a.    Procedures for setting a conversion rate with the existing fiat currency of Country X, for the purpose of replacing that currency, may be set out in a separate law that accompanies this law.

  

b.    Failure to maintain the fixed exchange rate with gold shall make the Board and its directors subject to legal action for breach of contract according to the laws of Switzerland. This provision does not apply to attempts to redeem embezzled, mutilated, or counterfeited notes, coins, and deposits.

      

07.The Board shall charge no commission for exchanging its currency into or out of gold.

  

08.     

a.    The Board may assume the monetary liabilities and corresponding assets of the Central bank of Country X. The Board need not initially hold gold reserves against this stock of monetary liabilities if it has inherited no corresponding readily saleable assets from the Central Bank of Country X. Over time it shall dispose of any domestic assets initially held as counterparts to its monetary liabilities.

  

b.    The Board may not increase its monetary liabilities without gold or foreign reserves equal to 100 percent of the amount of the increase.

  

c.    The Board shall hold its reserves in gold or in highly rated and liquid securities either denominated in gold or fully hedged against changes in the fiat-currency price of gold. These reserves shall be on deposit at the BIS or at an internationally certified gold warehouse. The Board shall not hold securities issued by the national or local governments of Country X, or by enterprises owned by those governments. The reserves of the Board are the property of the holders of the Board’s monetary liabilities and may not be appropriated by the Government of Country X.

       

09.The Board shall pay all net seigniorage (profits) into a reserve fund until its unborrowed foreign reserves equal 110 percent of its notes and coins in circulation and deposits. It shall remit to the Government of Country X all net seigniorage beyond that necessary to maintain 110 percent foreign reserves. The distribution of net seigniorage shall occur annually.

  

10.The head office of the Board shall be in the capital city of Country X. The Board may establish branches or appoint agents in other cities of Country X. The Board shall also maintain a branch in Switzerland.

  

11.The Board shall publish a financial statement, attested by the directors, monthly or more often on a publicly accessible Internet site. The statement shall appraise the Board’s holdings of securities at their market value. An annual audit of the Board shall be made by an international audit firm and shall be published by the Board.

  

12.The Board may issue notes and coins in such denominations as it judges to be appropriate.

  

13.The Board may not be dissolved, nor may its assets be transferred to a successor organization, unless all of the following conditions are satisfied: two-thirds of the members of Country X approve, the President of Country X approves, all the directors of the Board approve, and all claims against its monetary liabilities can be satisfied.

  

14.[Optional] The Board may accept loans or grants of reserves from multigovernmental organizations or foreign governments to establish initial foreign reserve backing of up to 100 percent of the monetary base. The loans shall not exceed 100 percent of the monetary base. After establishing the initial backing, the Board may not accept loans.

  

15.Exchanges of currency by the Board shall be exempt from taxation by the government of Country X and all its subdivisions.

  

16.The Board’s currency shall be legal tender for paying taxes and settling debts in Country X. However, private parties shall be free to contract among themselves in any currencies they wish to specify, and no currency shall be forced tender for such contracts.

  

17.The Board may not perform banking services for the Government of Country X, and it shall not be responsible for the financial obligations of the government.

  

18.Existing laws that conflict with this law are void.

  

19.This law takes effect immediately upon publication.

 

 

Steve H. Hanke is a Professor of Applied Economics

at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore

and a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C.

 

  
  


Afnám gjaldeyrishafta međ upptöku Ríkisdals

 

  
  
null   Samstađa ţjóđar
   
NATIONAL UNITY COALITION                                                           
   Baráttusamtök fyrir sjálfstćđu ríki á Íslandi

   og fullveldisréttindum almennings.
   Stöndum vörđ um Stjórnarskrá Lýđveldisins.

 
 

  

   

    
Afnám gjaldeyrishafta međ upptöku Ríkisdals
.

Birtist fyrst í Fréttablađinu 26. apríl 2012.


   


Guđmundur Franklín Jónsson.

Gjaldeyrisútbođ og lausnir Seđlabankans viđ afnám gjaldeyrishafta ná ekki flugi og hafa gjörsamlega mistekist vegna vantrausts fjárfesta á bankanum og áćtluninni um afnám haftanna. Međ núverandi fyrirkomulagi mun taka áratugi ađ losa um höftin og ţví ljóst ađ finna verđur nýja leiđ. Gjaldeyrishöft voru sett á til ađ hefta útflćđi erlends gjaldeyris. Síđast ţegar gjaldeyrishöft voru sett á entust ţau í 60 ár.

Gjaldeyrishöft eru ţeim eiginleikum gćdd ađ Seđlabankinn neyđist til ađ ţrengja ţau međ tímanum vegna ţess ađ peningarnir finna alltaf leiđ og hefur Seđlabankinn komiđ sér upp gjaldeyriseftirliti sem rannsakar kreditkort einstaklinga og hefur jafnvel ráđist inn međ húsleitum í fyrirtćki. Ţetta er eitthvađ sem engin siđmenntuđ ţjóđ vill gera. En vandamáliđ er ţađ stórt ađ ef gjaldeyrishöftunum yrđi lyft, ţá mundi allur gjaldeyrissjóđur Seđlabankans tćmast á svipstundu međ tilheyrandi hörmungum.

Ef landsmenn vilja losna viđ gjaldeyrishöftin fljótt og koma á efnahagslegum stöđugleika er ađferđin sú ađ gera Ríkisdal ađ lögeyri, samhliđa gömlu krónunni međ fastgengi viđ Bandaríkjadollar. Međ nýjum lögeyri/Ríkisdal og fastgengisstefnu fylgja ađhaldssöm ríkisfjármál og efnahagslegur stöđugleiki.

Fastgengisstefna yrđi sett á strax og í kjölfariđ 6 til 9 mánuđum seinna upptaka nýja gjaldmiđilsins Ríkisdals (ISD), útgefins af Myntsláttu- og ţjóđhagsráđi Íslands sem vćri ný stofnun sett saman úr Seđlabanka Íslands og Fjármálaeftirlitinu. Nýi Ríkisdalurinn yrđi međ Bandaríkjadal sem stođmynt.

Möguleiki er ađ gera gjaldmiđlaskiptasamning viđ Seđlabanka Bandaríkjanna fyrir stuđning viđ nýja Ríkisdalinn. Afnám gjaldeyrishafta ţarf ađ setja međ sérstökum neyđarlögum.


Myntsláttu- og ţjóđhagsráđ Íslands yrđi ný stofnun sett saman úr Seđlabanka Íslands og Fjármálaeftirlitinu.


Tekin vćri upp fastgengisstefna í stađ verđbólguviđmiđa. Gengi gjaldmiđils yrđi strax fest viđ gengi Bandaríkjadollars.


Međ nýjum Ríkisdal (ISD) sem lögeyri og fastgengisstefnu fylgja ađhaldssöm ríkisfjármál og efnahagslegur stöđugleiki og engin gjaldeyrishöft yrđu á nýja Ríkisdalnum.


Myntsláttu- og ţjóđhagsráđ Íslands hefđi einkaleyfi til útgáfu Ríkisdals sem ásamt Bandaríkjadal yrđi lögeyrir landsins. Eftir sem áđur yrđu engar hömlur á notkun annarra gjaldmiđla.


Myntsláttu- og ţjóđhagsráđ Íslands skal m.a. annast myntsláttu fyrir landsmenn, gefa út bćđi mynt og seđla í Ríkisdölum. Myntsláttu- og ţjóđhagsráđ Íslands skal tryggja ađ Ríkisdalir séu ađ fullu skiptanlegir á pari fyrir Bandaríkjadali.


Stođmynt Myntsláttu- og ţjóđhagsráđs Íslands skal vera Bandaríkjadalur og skiptihlutfall hans gagnvart Ríkisdal vera einn Ríkisdalur á móti einum Bandaríkjadal.


Gengi Ríkisdalsins myndi sveiflast eins og gengi Bandaríkjadals gagnvart öđrum gjaldmiđlum.


Innan árs frá stofnun Myntsláttu- og ţjóđhagsráđs Íslands skal vera búiđ ađ skipta öllum Íslendskum krónum landsmanna, launum, lausu fé, innistćđum, skuldum, verđbréfum, samningum o.s.frv. yfir í Ríkisdal.


Gjaldeyrishöftum yrđi ekki lyft af ca. 1.000 milljörđum af aflandskrónum, ţćr frystar og sérstaklega samiđ um losun hafta á ţeim. Innlánsvextir á aflandskrónunum yrđu keyrđir niđur í 0,0%. Ţessir 1.000 milljarđar aflandskróna halda Íslendska hagkerfinu í gíslingu.


Eigendum aflandskróna yrđu t.d. bođnar tvćr leiđir til ađ losna úr viđjum gjaldeyrishaftanna; a) ađ skipta yfir í Ríkisdal međ 75% afföllum, eđa b) skipti á aflandskrónugengi í 30 ára skuldabréf, gefin út í Bandaríkjadal međ 3,5% vöxtum, fyrsta afborgun á tíunda ári.


Ţetta sparar tugi milljarđa kr. á ári í vaxtakostnađ sem skattgreiđendur borga í vexti af aflandskrónum.


Ţćr upphćđir af aflandskrónum, sem ekki yrđi skipt fyrir Ríkisdalinn, yrđu notađar til uppbyggingar í Íslendsku ţjóđfélagi til áratuga. Líta verđur á 1.000 milljarđana af gömlu krónunum sem hafa Íslendskt efnahagslíf í gíslingu sem tćkifćri, snúa borđinu viđ og leyfa erlendum vogunarsjóđum ađ njóta fjárfestingartćkifćra í landinu međ ţátttöku sinni.


Ţađ tćki ca. 6 til 9 mánuđi ađ koma ţessari leiđ í verk.


Rúsínan i pylsuendanum vćri sú, ađ auđveldlega er hćgt ađ leggja verđtryggingu niđur međ ţessum ađgerđum.


Langţráđ fjármálaöryggi.
Viđ megum ekki gleyma ţví ađ fólkiđ í landinu horfir til okkar sem bjóđum okkur fram til stjórnmálastarfa – međ von um betri framtíđ. Okkar skylda er ađ rísa undir ţeim vćntingum. Stuđla ađ betri framtíđ, betri lífskjörum og hugsa í lausnum. En ekki leggja stein í götu alls sem til framfara horfir. Efnahagslífiđ er einn vefur og starfsskilyrđi atvinnulífs og lífskjör fólksins eru samofin.

Ef landsmenn vilja losna viđ gjaldeyrishöftin fljótt

og koma á efnahagslegum stöđugleika

er ađferđin sú ađ gera Ríkisdal ađ lögeyri,

samhliđa gömlu krónunni međ fastgengi viđ Bandaríkjadollar.


Kanadadalur + Ríkisdalur = afnám gjaldeyrishafta

 

  
  
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Kanadadalur + Ríkisdalur = afnám gjaldeyrishafta.

Birtist fyrst í Morgunblađinu 20. apríl 2012.


   


Loftur Altice Ţorsteinsson.

Eina vitrćna leiđin til ađ afnema gjaldeyrishöftin, hćlbit sem flestir vilja losna viđ, er međ upptöku fastgengis. Međ fastgengi verđur tekin upp »reglubundin peningastefna« en henni fylgjir ađhaldssöm ríkisfjármál og efnahagslegur stöđugleiki. Fagna ber ađ Seđlabankinn verđur lagđur niđur og landsmenn losna viđ ţađ bullandi sukk og torgreindar ákvarđanir sem fylgja slíkum stofnunum.

Fastgengi er hćgt ađ framkvćma međ tvennu móti. Annars vegar međ upptöku Kanadadals og hins vegar međ upptöku innlends Ríkisdals útgefnum af myntráđi, međ Kanadadal sem stođmynt. Ađrir erlendir gjaldmiđlar koma einnig til álita, fyrir utan Evru sem af pólitískum ástćđum er ónothćf. Mjög auđvelt er ađ breyta úr Kanadadal yfir í Ríkisdal, ef taliđ er henta. Ţađ verđur samt ekki gert án samţykkis ţjóđarinnar.

Ef landsmenn vilja losna viđ gjaldeyrishöftin fljótt og koma á efnahagslegum stöđugleika er ađferđin sú ađ gera Kanadadal strax ađ lögeyri, samhliđa gömlu og lúnu Krónunni. Hugsanlega er hćgt ađ semja viđ seđlabankann í Kanada um ađ hann selji Íslandi nauđsynlegt grunnfé (kr.40 milljarđar) á kostnađarverđi. Ef samningar nást ekki viđ Kanada, er sjálfgefiđ ađ hefja tafarlaust undirbúning ađ stofnun myntráđs.

Til ađ tryggja myntráđinu traust er nauđsynlegt ađ festa ákvćđi um ţađ í Stjórnarskrána. Hér eru dćmi um nokkur slík ákvćđi. Fyllri lista er hćgt ađ sjá á vefsetri Samstöđu ţjóđar:

Ákvćđi um myntráđ, sem setja ţarf í stjórnarskrá Íslendska lýđveldisins

 

Ákvćđi um myntráđ, sem setja ţarf í Stjórnarskrána.

Myntráđ Íslands hefur einkaleyfi til útgáfu Ríkisdals, sem ásamt Kanadadal er lögeyrir í landinu. Eftir sem áđur skulu engar hömlur settar á notkun annara gjaldmiđla á Íslandi. Frjáls notkun gjaldmiđla telst til fullveldisréttinda landsmanna.

Tilgangur Myntráđs Íslands er ađ annast myntsláttu fyrir landsmenn, gefa út bćđi mynt og seđla í Ríkisdölum. Myntráđiđ skal á öllum tímum tryggja ađ Ríkisdalir séu ađ fullu skiptanlegir á föstu skiptigengi fyrir Kanadadali.

Myntráđ Íslands skal gefa út Ríkisdali í seđlum og mynt. Myntráđiđ skal láta prenta seđlana erlendis, en myntina er heimilt ađ láta slá innanlands. Myntráđinu er hvorki heimilt ađ taka viđ innlánum eđa veita lán.

Stođmynt Myntráđsins skal vera Kanadadalur og skiptihlutfall hans gagnvart Ríkisdal vera einn Ríkisdalur á móti einum Kanadadal. Myntráđiđ veitir ekki móttöku öđrum gjaldmiđlum en Ríkisdölum og Kanadadölum.

Myntráđinu er ekki heimilt ađ taka gjald fyrir ađ skipta úr Ríkisdal í Kanadadal, eđa öfugt.

Myntráđiđ skal hefja starfsemi međ nćgan forđa af Ríkisdölum í seđlum og mynt, sem nemur ađ jafnvirđi rúmlega 100% af áćtluđum Krónum í umferđ, sem gefnar hafa veriđ út af Seđlabanka Íslands.

Seđlabanki Íslands skal innan árs frá stofnun Myntráđsins skipta gegn Kanadadölum öllum Íslendskum Krónum sem hann hefur sett í umferđ, enda sé ţess óskađ af eigendum ţeirra. Seđlabankanum er einnig heimilt ađ skipta Íslendskum Krónum í Ríkisdali, sem hann hefur keypt af Myntráđinu eđa eignast á annan löglegan hátt.

Myntráđiđ skal varđveita varasjóđ sinn í Kanadadölum, eđa ríkisskuldabréfum útgefnum af Kanadíska seđlabankanum (Bank of Canada), enda skulu ţau hljóđa á Kanadadali. Myntráđinu er óheimilt ađ eiga eđa varđveita verđbréf sem útgefin eru af ríkissjóđi Íslands, bćjarfélögum eđa Íslendskum ríkisstofnunum.

Myntráđiđ skal setja allan myntgróđa í varasjóđ sinn, ţar til varasjóđurinn hefur náđ ađ verđa 110% af útistandandi Ríkisdölum. Varasjóđurinn skal metinn í lok hvers árs og ríkissjóđi Íslands fćrt ţađ fjármagn sem umfram kann ađ vera 110%.

Ef Myntráđiđ telur ástćđu til ađ breyta um stođmynt, eđa gera ađrar breytingar á starfsemi ráđsins, skulu slíkar hugmyndir rćddar fyrir opnum tjöldum. Ákvörđunum um breytingar skal hrint í framkvćmd innan tólf mánađa, frá ţví ađ nauđsynlegar breytingar hafa veriđ gerđar á Stjórnarskránni.

 

Enginn verđur svikinn af ađ taka Kanadadal í fóstur.

Sem stođmynt er Kanadadalur einkanlega hentugur. Ađ undanförnu hefur Kanada blómstrađ og horfur framundan eru ekki síđri en á Íslandi. Athygli vekur ađ síđust 10 árin hefur landsframleiđsla á mann veriđ nćr jöfn í báđum löndunum. Mikilvćgt er ađ um efnahag Kanada ríkja ekki sömu efasemdir og gilda um Bandaríkin, svo ESB sé nú ekki nefnt í ţessu sambandi.

Flestum Íslendingum er ljóst ađ flotgengi undir stjórn Seđlabankans hefur mistekist hörmulega undanfarna áratugi. Ţannig liggur fyrir ađ Íslendska krónan hefur frá 1939 veikzt um 99,95 prósent gagnvart Dönsku krónunni. Ţetta samsvarar  ţví ađ Dönsk króna hafi haldiđ verđgildi sínu 2.000 sinnum betur en krónan okkar.

Ţađ er mikil kokhreysti ađ halda ţví fram ađ vandi peningakerfisins verđi leystur međ mannaskiptum í Seđlabankanum. Kerfisvandi verđur einungis leystur međ kerfisbreytingu. Kanadadalur er góđur kostur til ađ koma á langţráđum stöđugleika. Ađ taka Kanadadal í fóstur gefur einnig tilefni ađ rćkja betur frćndsemi viđ ţá fjölmörgu Íslendinga sem búa í Kanada.

 

Ef landsmenn vilja losna viđ gjaldeyrishöftin fljótt

og koma á efnahagslegum stöđugleika

er ađferđin sú ađ gera Kanadadal strax ađ lögeyri.

 

 


Utanríkisţjónusta Íslands í höndum vangefinna trúđa ?

 

  
  
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   og fullveldisréttindum almennings.
   Stöndum vörđ um Stjórnarskrá Lýđveldisins.

 
 

  

   

    
Utanríkisţjónusta Íslands í höndum vangefinna trúđa ?

                                 

19. apríl 2012.


   


Loftur Altice Ţorsteinsson.

                                 

Hvađ eftir annađ er utanríkisráđuneytiđ stađiđ ađ vinnubrögđum sem benda til ađ vangefnir trúđar haldi ţar um stjórnvölinn. Raunar eru margir vissir um ađ landráđ séu heldstu áhugamál sumra starfsmanna ráđuneytisins. Í Morgunblađinu í dag segir svo af athöfnum Utanríkisráđuneytis:

Kristján Guy Burgess, ađstođarmađur utanríkisráđherra, sagđi ađ haft hefđi veriđ í sambandi viđ sendiherra ESB á Íslandi, sem var staddur erlendis, og var haldinn fundur embćttismanna međ stađgengli sendiherrans til ađ koma athugasemdinni á framfćri. Einnig komu embćttismenn athugasemdinni á framfćri viđ fulltrúa framkvćmdastjórnar Evrópusambandsins í Brussel.

Ţarna er veriđ ađ fjalla um ţađ sem ćtti ađ vera “harđorđ mótmćli viđ fjandsamlegri framkomu Evrópusambandsins gagnvart Íslandi”. Allur almenningur veit ađ ţessi “athugasemd” er ekkert annađ en blekking. Ţarna er ekki veriđ ađ koma á framfćri harđorđum mótmćlum. Ţvert á móti er Utanríkisráđuneytiđ ađ fullvissa Evrópusambandiđ um ađ kjölturakkar ţess hafi ekki hvikađ í hollustu sinni viđ hiđ erlenda vald.

Enginn nema “vangefinn trúđur” lćtur sér detta í huga ađ hvísla blíđmćlum í eyra andstćđings síns og halda ţví síđan fram viđ samherja sína ađ um harđorđ mótmćli hafi veriđ ađ rćđa. Hugsanlega gćti svona blekking tekist einu sinni, en Utanríkisráđuneytiđ hefur orđiđ uppvíst ađ sömu vinnubrögđum áđur og ţá í alvarlegri kringumstćđum.

Svo nefnd Brussel-viđmiđ voru sögđ niđurstađa í samningaviđrćđum Utanríkisráđuneytis og Evrópusambandsins. Fulltrúar ráđuneytisins hafa fullyrt ađ ţarna hafi veriđ gerđir sögulegir samningar sem hafi bundiđ Evrópusambandiđ ađ ţjóđarétti. Á grundvelli Brussel-viđmiđanna var Alţingi talin trú um ađ Ísland fengi blíđar móttökur viđ samningaborđ nýlenduveldanna. Međ Icesave-kröfurnar yrđi fariđ í samrćmi viđ ţá grundvallarreglu ESB, ađ ríkisábyrgđ vćri óheimil.

Brussel-viđmiđin reyndust fullkomin blekking sem núna er vitađ ađ var samin í Utanríkisráđuneytinu, undir stjórn Össurar Skarphéđinssonar. Viđmiđin voru ekki samningur ţar sem gćtt var hagsmuna beggja ađila, heldur voru ţau illa dulbúin yfirlýsing um uppgjöf Íslands. Í bréfi til Samstöđu ţjóđar stađfesti Framkvćmdastjórn ESB ađ enginn Brussel-samningur var gerđur. Yfirlýsing utanríkisráđherra um “sameiginleg viđmiđ” var ekki papírsins virđi, enda skorti bćđi haus og undirskriftir á plaggiđ.

Stađreyndin er sú ađ vangefnir trúđar halda á utanríkishagsmunum Íslands og ekki nóg međ ţađ, ţví ađ sumir starfsmenn ráđuneytisins hafa veriđ stađnir ađ landráđum. Ţannig voru Kristján Guy Burgess og Einar Gunnarsson starfsmenn Utanríkisráđuneytis kćrđir til Ríkissaksóknara fyrir landráđ. Ţeir biđluđu til erlendra ríkja um ađstođ viđ ađ hindra ţjóđaratkvćđi um Icesave-lögin. Ţetta sannađist ţegar Wikileaks birti leyniskjöl úr Bandaríska sendiráđinu:

CDA met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary Einar Gunnarsson and Political Advisor Kristjan Guy Burgess January 12 to discuss Icesave. After presenting a gloomy picture of Iceland's future, the two officials asked for U.S. support. They said that public comments of support from the U.S. or assistance in getting the issue on the IMF agenda would be very much appreciated. They further said that they did not want to see the matter go to a national referendum and that they were exploring other options for resolving the issue. The British Ambassador told CDA separately that he, as well as the Ministry of Finance, were also looking at options that would forestall a referendum.

Ţarna sannađist einnig ađ Steingrímur Sigfússon (Ministry of Finance) tók ţátt í landráđunum međ viđrćđum viđ sendiherra Bretlands um hvernig hćgt vćri ađ stöđva stjórnarskrárbundiđ ferli ţjóđaratkvćđisins. Hversu lengi ćtlar ţjóđin ađ greiđa ţessu fólki laun fyrir ađ blekkja sig og vinna gegn hagsmunum landsmanna ?

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A German Social Democrat who has Ireland by the throat

 

  
  
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A German Social Democrat who has Ireland by the throat.
                                 

Birtist fyrst í The Commentator 16. apríl 2012.

 
 


Tom Gallagher.

                                 
Europe is once more in the grip of arrogant technicians of power who believe they can engineer society, oblivious to history, culture, values and place. Prominent in their ranks is Jorg Asmussen, the young German representative on the European Central Bank. He has been at the heart of the operation to socialize the debts of the ailing financial sector in the core EU states.

It has been the only coherent policy to emerge from the ECB since the financial emergency began just over two years ago. Smaller and weaker states in the eurozone are being penalized for mistakes that were made at all levels of the eurozone. The priority is to protect the banks of France and Germany which spurred on the credit splurge and property boom in countries like Spain and Ireland in the 1990s.

The ECB has always insisted that when it forced a €85 billion loan on Ireland in November 2010, the aim was to prevent the country’s financial collapse and the social distress and dislocation that were sure to follow. Critics argued that it would have been better for toxic banks like Anglo, which had lost more than eight times its capital, to go bust and for Ireland to step outside the eurozone in order to be able to make the adjustments necessary for it to return to competitiveness.

As a member of the eurozone it cannot, like Iceland, devalue its currency or adjust its interest rates so as to promote growth. The one-size-fits-all policy shaping the eurozone is a classic utopian project, defying reality; and despite the emancipatory language, it benefits the best-placed members of the currency union. (Auđvelt er ađ komast frá Evrunni, ef menn vilja.)

Asmussen was in Ireland last week to supervise the steps that its citizens were taking to service a huge debt that was forced on them by bad political judgment in 2008 and an EU diktat in 2010. As a senior figure at the German finance ministry in 2010, he had been involved in drawing up the deal imposed on Ireland. Under it, the debts of private bondholders were to be met even though there was no provision in the Maastricht Treaty requiring it.

The loan was set at the usurious rate of 5.7 percent. A spokesperson for the European Commission said the ‘profit’ that the EU makes by lending to Ireland will be invested back into the EU budget and will be distributed to EU members at the end of each financial year.

A strategy of austerity without growth looks certain to plunge Ireland into depression conditions unless it is reversed. Ireland’s citizens face the prospect of setting aside, long into the future, a massive part of their state’s GDP to service a huge debt that was forced on them by bad political judgment in 2008 and an EU diktat in 2010. Foreign investment is bound to be discouraged, domestic business is certain to remain flat and the departure abroad of a large proportion of people often with valuable skills but who are unwilling to endure years of economic inactivity appears guaranteed.

On his Dublin visit, during an unguarded moment, Asmussen made a significant admission. He related that, ‘the main reasoning’ [behind the bail-out] was to ensure that no negative spillover effects would be created to other Irish banks or to banks in other European countries.’ In other words the imperative was to ring-fence (skjaldborg) the badly managed and over-extended banks in core Europe. It was the first time that a leading ECB official had been so candid.

In light of such an admission, it is not hard to view the bail-out as one in which it is Ireland coming to the rescue of the Franco-German pivot regulating the workings of the eurozone.

Perhaps Asmussen had become blasé because opinion polls showed that in a referendum on 31 May, a majority of Irish voters were prepared to back the EU’s Social compact which is meant to legitimise the centralisation of financial control across the eurozone. But there is mounting anger even in Ireland at the surrender of democratic control to faraway institutions that are responsible for decisions that have drastic impact on the livelihood of millions.

Searching into Jorg Asmussen’s background, it turns out, perhaps unexpectedly for some, that he is not a free market radical located on the political Right. On the contrary, he is a high-flying member of the SPD, Germany’s Social Democratic Party. Nor is he unique as anyone can soon see by a cursory glance of the last century of European history.

Successive Socialist figures have grown impatient with what they find to be the unglamorous task of lifting the living standards of the working-class or operating within the constraining framework of the nation-state. Instead of fighting the class war and restructuring society, successive number have been tempted to become involved in missions to promote sweeping change in Europe or even globally.

One striking example from the pre-1940 era is the leader of the Belgian Socialists, Hendrik de Man. He was well-known to many on the British left, later prominent in the Attlee government, through organizing conferences in the 1930s on the need to embrace corporatist planning. His chief collaborator was Paul –Henri Spaak, one of the architects of the European Union.

Hendrik de Man welcomed the demise of parliamentary socialism and endorsed the need for a new project that would take European civilization forward to a new era. In 1940, after the Nazi occupation of Belgium, he drew up the pro-collaborationist manifesto of the Belgian Socialists, one passage of which read:

Peace has not been able to develop from the free understanding of sovereign nations and rival imperialisms: it will be able to emerge from a Europe united by arms, wherein the economic frontiers have been leveled’.

The elite character of the European project would appeal to similarly restless and ambitious men of de Man’s stamp eager to experiment with a ‘third way’.

In June 1999, Tony Blair and Gerhard Schroder of Germany issued a paper called the “Third Way” (in German, “Neue mitte”), a sketch of a new kind of socialism to modernize Europe with the state taking the lead to shake up both capitalism and the labour market. Schroder described the idea as an attempt to ‘modernize the interpretation of basic social democratic values’.

In France, this spring, the Socialist candidate in next Sunday’s presidential election, Francois Hollande has struggled to obtain the support of sister parties in Germany and elsewhere for a crisis strategy that looks beyond the needs of corporatist interests and the financial sector. As a result, he has had to backtrack on his promise to renegotiate the fiscal pact if he defeats Sarkozy.

European Socialism is now largely in the hands of dedicated careerists, uttering empty phrases about socialist solidarity in a continental union dominated by economic cartels against which they only mount token resistance. Grand projects like the eurozone still have a mesmeric attraction even if mired in crisis. This helps to explain why an ambitious and able Social Democrat like Asmussen is prepared to act like a European colonial district officer in Ireland.

Ironically, it was Germany that in the 1950s produced an antidote to top-down Euro corporatism. Ludwig Erhard, the architect of Germany’s ‘economic miracle’ fought a lonely battle to slow the rise of the EU in its current form. He believed, in the words of one biographer, that ‘there were so many differences among the various European peoples or among the places where they lived that a single economy or fiscal policy for the entire continent would inevitably fail’.

As an alternative to creating supranational organisations shaped around French centralist planning, Erhard called for adoption of the subsidiarity principle in international relations. In effect, he wanted decisions to be made at the lowest possible level, thereby preventing the growth of a large European central bureaucracy.

He was unsuccessful in his attempt to place the economist Wilhelm Ropke in charge of the European Commission when it was created in 1958. Ropke wanted a Swiss model for the new Europe based on limits to bureaucracy and an active democratic component. He believed:

Decentralism is the essence of the spirit of Europe. To try to organise Europe centrally, to subject the continent to a bureaucracy of economic planning, and to weld it into a block would be nothing less than a betrayal of Europe and the European patrimony. The betrayal would be the more perfidious for being perpetrated in the name of Europe and by an outrageous misuse of that name

It is doubtful if even the vigilant Erhard could have imagined the ascension of someone like Jorg Asmussen and how far the Eurocrats are prepared to go in building a proto-European state so thoroughly drained of real democratic content.

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Viđ munum kjósa - um fjölmiđlalögin !

 

  
  
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   Stöndum vörđ um Stjórnarskrá Lýđveldisins.

 
 
  
   

    

Viđ munum kjósa - um fjölmiđlalögin !


Birtist fyrst í Morgunblađinu 20. júlí 2004.

 
 


Loftur Altice Ţorsteinsson.

                                 
UMRĆĐAN um fjölmiđlalögin, sem í upphafi var einungis ađ hluta til um stjórnarskrármál, snýst núna eingöngu um Stjórnarskrána. Ég vil fagna ţessu, ţví ađ hrein og djúp umrćđa um mörg stjórnarskrárákvćđi er nauđsynleg. Ţetta er öll ţjóđin orđin međvituđ um, eftir tilraunir ríkisstjórnarinnar til ađ fara á sveig viđ Stjórnarskrána. 

Međ ólíkindum er ađ sjá hversu djúpstćđur ágreiningur hefur komiđ í ljós varđandi sum atriđi Stjórnarskrárinnar og er engu líkara en menn tali ekki sama tungumál, svo ekki sé spurt hvort menn lúti sömu lögum. Hér verđur eingöngu fjallađ um ţađ afmarkađa atriđi, sem núna skiptir öllu máli. Spurningin er: mun yfirstandandi átökum ljúka međ ţjóđaratkvćđagreiđslu um fjölmiđlafrumvarpiđ ?

Sniđganga ríkisstjórnarinnar ? 

Eins og öllum er kunnugt, vilja ákveđnir valdaađilar forđast ađ stjórnarskrárbundinn málskotsréttur forsetans vakni til lífsins. Eftir ađ viđrađar voru ótrúlegar hugmyndir um mismunandi atkvćđavćgi landsmanna, var haldiđ í dćmafáa sniđgöngu sem enn stendur yfir.

Ríkisstjórnin kaus ađ reyna ţá leiđ ađ leggja fram nýtt fjölmiđlafrumvarp, sem er lítt breytt frá ţví fyrra. Hluti af ţessu frumvarpi er ákvćđi sem fellir niđur fyrra frumvarpiđ. Ţessi brćđingur er heimskulegur, ţví ađ vilji forsetinn halda fast viđ fyrri ákvörđun sína um ţjóđaratkvćđagreiđslu, er hann nauđbeygđur til ađ vísa einnig hinu nýja frumvarpi í heild til ţjóđarinnar. Í raun á forsetinn engan annan kost en neita frávísunarfrumvarpinu undirskriftar. Fjölmiđlafrumvarpiđ nýja yrđi ţá einnig fellt, hversu gott sem ţađ annars kynni ađ vera. 

Ríkisstjórnin átti annan kost, sem var ađ leggja fram sérstakt niđurfellingarfrumvarp og síđan nýtt fjölmiđlafrumvarp. Ţetta getur ennţá orđiđ niđurstađa Alţings. Vert er ađ vekja athygli á, ađ til ađ fella lög úr gildi ţarf Alţingi ađ samţykkja sérstakt frumvarp um niđurfellinguna og samţykki forsetans ţarf ađ koma til, á sama hátt og ţörf er um öll önnur lög. Ađ sniđganga forsetann er ţví alls ekki mögulegt.

Hvađ gerir forsetinn ? 
Ríkisstjórnin kaus ađ leggja fram brćđingsfrumvarp um fjölmiđla, sem samtímis fellir úr gildi fyrstu gerđ fjölmiđlalaganna. Hinn kosturinn var ađ fella fyrst úr gildi lög númer eitt og leggja síđan fram frumvarp númer tvö. Eitt af ţví sem menn greinir á um, er hvort lögleg leiđ hafi veriđ valin. 

Hvađ varđar framkvćmd, skiptir nákvćmlega engu máli hvor hátturinn er á hafđur. Í báđum tilvikum fćr forsetinn lagafrumvörp til stađfestingar, í öđru tilvikinu tvö frumvörp, í hinu eitt. Til ađ ţau öđlist lagagildi ţarf stađfestingu forsetans, annars fara ţau til ţjóđaratkvćđagreiđslu. Ţótt hendur forsetans séu ekki ađ neinu leyti bundnar, verđur ađ telja ólíklegt ađ hann taki afstöđu til meints stjórnarskrárbrots. Ađ minnsta kosti mun hann aldrei vísa lagafrumvarpi til ţjóđaratkvćđis vegna slíks gruns. 

Vísvitandi brot á Stjórnarskránni er auđvitađ alvarlegur gerningur og ćtla verđur ađ allir ađilar stjórnkerfisins forđist slíkt og láti Stjórnarskrána njóta vafans. Á ţessu stigi, skiptir hins vegar engu máli hvort lögin standast ákvćđi Stjórnarskrárinnar. Hugsanleg brot á Stjórnarskránni verđur ađ kćra til dómstóla og niđurstöđu ţeirra er ekki ađ vćnta fyrr en ţjóđaratkvćđagreiđslur hafa fariđ fram.

Afstađa forsetans hlýtur ađ byggjast á ţremur atriđum: 

a) Forsetinn vísađi fyrstu útgáfu frumvarpsins til ţjóđaratkvćđagreiđslu. Önnur útgáfa hlýtur ađ hljóta sömu örlög, nema um gjörbreytt frumvarp sé ađ rćđa. 

b) Forsetinn tók ekki málefnalega afstöđu til fyrstu útgáfu frumvarpsins. Hann var hlutlaus. Ţar af leiđir ađ hann getur ekki tekiđ málefnalega afstöđu til laga um niđurfellingu fyrstu útgáfu. Ef hann samţykkti niđurfellingarlög, vćri hann ađ ganga á rétt ţeirra sem eru fylgjandi fyrri lögunum. 

c) Til ađ festa málskotsrétt/málskotsskyldu forsetans í sessi má hann ekki láta ţetta tćkifćri fram hjá sér fara. Ef forsetinn bregst á ţessari stundu, getur ţurft vopnađa baráttu til ađ endurheimta réttinn til ţjóđaratkvćđagreiđslu. 

Margir halda fram ţeirri fullyrđingu ađ forsetinn geti ekki annađ en samţykkt niđurfellingar-frumvarp, hvort sem ţađ er hluti af síđara frumvarpi eđa ekki. Ţetta sé svo, vegna ţess ađ ţannig fái andstćđingar fjölmiđlafrumvarpsins framgengt sínum vilja. Ţetta er alrangt, vegna hlutleysis forseta í málinu. Hvort sem niđurfellingarađferđ ríkisstjórnarinnar er í samrćmi viđ Stjórnarskrána eđa ekki, er hćgt ađ fullyrđa ađ öll frumvörp er ţetta mál snerta, hljóta ađ enda hjá ţjóđinni, í allsherjaratkvćđagreiđslu. Menn ćttu ţví ađ hrađa afgreiđslu Alţingis og láta ţjóđina taka viđ ţessu máli sem fyrst.

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Menn ćttu ţví ađ hrađa afgreiđslu Alţingis

og láta ţjóđina taka viđ ţessu máli sem fyrst.

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Viđbrögđ Íslands viđ ítrekuđum ögrunum Evrópusambandsins

 

  
  
null   Samstađa ţjóđar
   
NATIONAL UNITY COALITION                                                           
   Baráttusamtök fyrir sjálfstćđu ríki á Íslandi

   og fullveldisréttindum almennings.
   Stöndum vörđ um Stjórnarskrá Lýđveldisins.

 
 
  
   

    

Viđbrögđ Íslands viđ ítrekuđum ögrunum Evrópusambandsins.


13. apríl 2012.

 
 


Loftur Altice Ţorsteinsson.

                                 
Ögranir Evrópusambandsins og tilraunir til ađ koma Icesave-klafanum á Íslendinga eru óţolandi og krefjast öflugra viđbragđa. Neyđa verđur ríkisstjórnina til ađ gćta hagsmuna Íslands í viđskiptum viđ ESB. Nauđsynlegt er ađ grípa til eftirfarandi ađgerđa:

  

1.    Sendiherra Evrópusambandsins verđi vísađ úr landi.

 

2.    Evrópustofu verđi lokađ og Ríkislögmanni faliđ ađ ákćra ţá sem bera ábyrgđ á starfsemi hennar.

 

3.    Samningnum um Schengen verđi tafarlaust sagt upp.

 

4.    Hafinn verđi undirbúningur ađ úrsögn Íslands úr Evrópska efnahagssvćđinu.

 

5.    Gullforđi Íslands (13 milljarđar) verđi tafarlaust fluttur frá Bretlandi.

 

6.    Kanadadalur verđi strax gerđur lögeyrir á Íslandi.

 

7.    Hafinn verđi undirbúningur ađ starfsemi myntráđs, međ Kanadadal sem stođmynt.

 

8.    Ţjóđarkönnun verđi gerđ um hug landsmanna til samningaviđrćđna um innlimun Íslands í ESB.

 

9.    Setja ţarf ströng lög um landráđ, sem taka fast á framferđi ríkisstjórnarinnar.

   

    
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Krafist er ţjóđaratkvćđis um ađild ađ ESB - ţjóđarkönnun nćgir ekki

 

  
  
null   Samstađa ţjóđar
   
NATIONAL UNITY COALITION                                                           
   Baráttusamtök fyrir sjálfstćđu ríki á Íslandi

   og fullveldisréttindum almennings.
   Stöndum vörđ um Stjórnarskrá Lýđveldisins.

 
 
  
   

    

Krafist er ţjóđaratkvćđis um ađild ađ ESB - ţjóđarkönnun nćgir ekki.


Birtist fyrst í Morgunblađinu 12. apríl 2012.

 
 


Loftur Altice Ţorsteinsson.

                                 
Ţjóđaratkvćđi, sem er bindandi og endanlegur úrskurđur fullveldishafans, er eitt af mikilvćgustu fullveldisréttindunum í lýđveldum. Ţjóđarkönnun er hins vegar ekki fullveldisréttindi, heldur eitt af tćkjum höfđingjaveldis til ađ blekkja almenning. Ţjóđaratkvćđi er ákvörđun, en ţjóđarkönnun er bara álit.
  

Ţingrćđissinnar nefnast ţeir sem ađhyllast höfđingjaveldi, ofurvald stjórnmálaflokkanna og afnám lýđveldis. Ţeir hafa gjarnan uppi hótanir um ađ leggja niđur embćtti forseta Lýđveldisins, en forseti er ómissandi hluti ţess stjórnarforms sem nefnist lýđveldi. Ţingrćđissinnarnir í ríkisstjórn Íslands hafa engin áform um ađ halda ţjóđaratkvćđi um innlimun landsins í Evrópusambandiđ. Ćtlun ţeirra er ađ ţjóđarkönnun verđi látin nćgja, enda geta ţeir ţá hćglega sniđgengiđ niđurstöđuna.

  

Í núgildandi stjórnarskrá ţjóđarinnar er getiđ ţriggja tilvika sem leitt geta til ţjóđaratkvćđis og varđa ţau: uppsögn forsetans (11. grein), stađfestingu lagafrumvarpa (26. grein) og breytta kirkjuskipan (79. grein). Engar almennar heimildir eru í Stjórnarskránni um ţjóđaratkvćđi og ţá ekki frekar um ţjóđarkannanir, enda teljast kannanir ekki til fullveldisréttinda.

  

Nú gćti einhver í barnaskap sínum álitiđ, ađ engu máli skipti hvort um ESB-máliđ verđi haldiđ ţjóđaratkvćđi eđa ţjóđarkönnun. Getur Alţingi ekki fariđ eftir niđurstöđu ţjóđarkönnunar, eins og ţví er skylt ađ gera međ niđurstöđu ţjóđaratkvćđis ? Stađreyndin er sú ađ Alţingi er ekki heimilt ađ fara eftir niđurstöđu ţjóđarkönnunar og um ţađ tekur Stjórnarskráin af allan vafa. Ţetta kemur fram í 48. grein Stjórnarskrárinnar, en ţar segir:

  

Alţingismenn eru eingöngu bundnir viđ sannfćringu sína og eigi viđ neinar reglur frá kjósendum sínum.

  

Auđvitađ getur ţađ skeđ ađ skođanir fullveldishafans og Alţingis fari saman, en mismunandi afgreiđsla ţings og ţjóđar á Icesave-kröfum nýlenduveldanna markađi spor sem ennţá hrćđa. Hćgt er ađ fullyrđa ađ ţingrćđissinnarnir í ríkisstjórn munu ekki fara ađ vilja almennings, ef ţjóđarkönnun verđur gerđ um afstöđu til ESB-ađildar og innlimun landsins hafnađ.

  

Samningur ríkisstjórnarinnar viđ Evrópusambandiđ verđur ekki afgreiddur af Alţingi sem lagafrumvarp, heldur sem ţingsályktun. Ţar međ sneiđir samningurinn hjá ţjóđaratkvćđi, ţví ađ ţingsályktanir ţurfa ekki undirskrift forsetans til ađ taka gildi. Hugmyndasmiđir Samfylkingarinnar hafa fyrir löngu gert uppdrátt af ţessari málsmeđferđ. Liđur í undirbúningi ţingrćđissinna var setning laga 91/2010 um framkvćmd ţjóđaratkvćđa og ţjóđarkannana. Svo segir í 1. grein:

     

Álykti Alţingi ađ fram skuli fara almenn og leynileg ţjóđaratkvćđagreiđsla um tiltekiđ málefni eđa lagafrumvarp fer um framkvćmdina samkvćmt lögum ţessum. Niđurstađa slíkrar atkvćđagreiđslu er ráđgefandi. Lögin gilda einnig um framkvćmd ţjóđaratkvćđagreiđslu sem fer fram skv. 3. mgr. 11. gr., 26. gr. og 2. mgr. 79. gr. stjórnarskrárinnar.

  

Ţarna getur ađ líta verulega annmarka sem eru til ţess fallnir ađ rugla skilning fólks. Hugtökunum ţjóđaratkvćđi og ţjóđarkönnun er hvoru tveggja gefiđ heitiđ ţjóđaratkvćđagreiđsla. Skýrt kemur ţó fram ađ ályktun Alţingis getur einungis leitt til ţjóđarkönnunar, sem nefnt er »ráđgefandi ţjóđaratkvćđagreiđsla« til ađgreiningar frá ţjóđaratkvćđi sem nefnt er ţjóđaratkvćđagreiđsla. Jafnframt er gefiđ í skyn ađ Alţingi geti ákveđiđ atkvćđagreiđslu sem hvorki er almenn né leynileg.

  

Alvarlegasti ágalli laga 91/2010 er ţó, ađ ţau beinlínis brjóta gegn hugsun Stjórnarskrárinnar. Fram kemur ađ Alţingi getur sett lagafrumvörp í ţjóđarkönnun og »niđurstađa slíkrar atkvćđagreiđslu er ráđgefandi«. Nú er ţađ svo ađ lagafrumvörp sem hlotiđ hafa samţykki Alţingis halda áfram ađ vera frumvörp ţar til forsetinn hefur undirritađ ţau eđa hafnađ undirskrift. Undir ákvćđi laga 91/2010 geta ţví falliđ frumvörp sem forseti myndi ađ öđru jöfnu vísa til ţjóđaratkvćđis. Alţingi getur ţannig tekiđ synjunarréttinn af forsetanum og gripiđ inn í stjórnarskrárbundinn feril.

  

Ef horft er til fyrirhugađs samnings ríkisstjórnarinnar viđ Evrópusambandiđ, er ljóst ađ samningurinn sjálfur mun verđa samţykktur sem ályktun Alţingis. Hins vegar verđur nauđsynlegt ađ styđja samninginn međ lagasetningu sem brjóta mun ákvćđi Stjórnarskrárinnar. Ef vitađ er ađ forsetinn mun virđa rétt fullveldishafans til ađ stađfesta eđa hafna lögunum, ţá mun Alţingi nota lög 91/2010 til ađ hindra ađkomu forsetans. Lagafrumvarpiđ verđur sent í ţjóđarkönnun, sem verđur endurtekin međ breytingum ef frumvarpinu er hafnađ.

  

Forsetinn mun ţá ekki fá til undirskriftar umdeild lagafrumvörp, fyrr en ţeim fylgir samţykkt úr ţjóđarkönnun. Slík frumvörp mun forsetinn varla neita ađ undirrita og senda í ţjóđaratkvćđi. Lög 91/2010 eru ţví atlaga ađ ţví sérstaka sambandi sem í lýđveldum er á milli forseta og ţjóđar. Sú nöturlega stađreynd liggur fyrir, ađ margir ţingmenn stjórnarandstöđunnar greiddu atkvćđi međ lögunum. Alls greiđu 48 ţingmenn lögunum samţykki og enginn á móti. Niđurlćgingu Alţingis eru engin takmörk sett.

    

Ţingrćđissinnarnir í ríkisstjórn Íslands hafa engin áform

um ađ halda ţjóđaratkvćđi um innlimun landsins í Evrópusambandiđ.

    
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