turning on the network trying combinations of the Italian economic situation and that the crisis in Argentina a few years ago, I stumbled upon this book, I agree that not everything is written there (guess it's part! ), but surely there are good food for thought. Good reading, George.
http://italia.pravda.ru/italia/5412-8/
Italy and 'a colony?
15.04.2007 Source: Pravda.ru
The media are peddling the image of Italy as a free and democratic country, where the population enjoys political and economic power. But it 's really so '?
The suspicion that the dominant economic-financial elite is appropriate in our country from all points of view and that is driving him to the precipice, he came even to the Financial Times, in an article in the March 16, 2006 wrote that " Italy is following the same path to ruin of Argentina. " The author, Richard Perle, a member of the extreme American right and an avid supporter of George W. Bush, so it's hard to believe that will put a bad light on the ruling elite.
The comparison between Italy and Argentina comes from financial considerations, notably the Italian choice to take the euro as its currency, although the country sentenced to have a weak economy, because of the economic policy choices made by governments, which tend to benefit foreign capital rather than the development of the country, as happens in a colony. Even Argentina, peg their currencies to the dollar, was found to deal with a strong currency, while its economy was in foreign hands. What happened to Argentina is known.
Italian companies have been largely recognized by the big Anglo-American corporation. Today, Italy is the European country less competitive, and that more firms into foreign hands. The International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank are breathing down his neck to control debt payments, ignoring the level of wealth or poverty of Italian citizens. In fact, even to demand payments, the IMF does not hesitate to ask for cuts in public spending (health, education, administration, etc.). And further privatization, worsening conditions in the country.
The main purpose of the IMF (we must remember that it is a financial institution controlled by the Anglo-American Bankers Association) is to impoverish the Italian citizens, in keeping with what is already, in 1998, Zbigniew Brzezinski revealed in his book The Grand Chessboard : American primacy and its geostrategic imperatives. The excessive prosperity of Western Europe, according to Brzezinski, was a serious obstacle, since this level of wealth was higher than that of the average American citizens, and being regarded as an American protectorate of Europe, this was unacceptable.
Europe has a fundamental position of strength for America's geo-strategic. The Atlantic Alliance authorizing America to have political influence and military weight in mainland Europe ... if you grow up, they will benefit directly the influence of American ... Western Europe is largely an American protectorate and its vassals and were reminded Paying tribute to the old empires ... Europe needs to solve the problem caused by its social redistribution system that is too heavy and hampers its ability to initiatives.
Europe was to be indebted and impoverished that would impose U.S. domination over the whole Eurasia. Urgent impoverish the middle class, and what has happened in Italy in part because of the Biagi Law, which legalizes labor exploitation. The rest did the banking system, the dictatorship imposed on the Third World (which has forced millions of people to supply labor semischiavile, lowering labor costs and dismantling the system of rights, the result of political struggles and trade unions), and privatization, promoted by the IMF. Media campaigns are lying to believe that the IMF and the ECB take the "stability" of the country or to the "competitiveness" of Italian companies, as is the exact opposite: want to keep in check the entire country's economy, shrinking with little debt and make it competitive through various strategies.
Our politicians, instead of trying to thwart the power of the IMF, supports him, and touted as fair and authoritative, showing that Italy is also politically subjugated to foreign rule, as a colony. In many ways (privatization, protecting Italian products, agreeing to pay for the rights of seigniorage, foraging private companies, etc.). Our governments work for the economic and financial destruction of our country, and not for our well-being and our values.
The level of poverty in our country increased from 6.5% of population of the nineties, 11, 7% in 2001, up to 12% in 2005. The neoliberal reforms imposed by the IMF Italy have stolen wealth to the middle class and below, to enrich the already rich elites, as demonstrated by the analysis made by the Bank of Italy in the period 1989/1998:
10% of households poor had 2.7% of total income in 1989, while in 1998 this share fell to 2%. 10% of the richest families has instead increased its share from 25.2% to 27.5%. The increase of the Gini index, in 9 years was 11% ... small increases (decreases) of the Gini index cause huge increases (decreases) the gap between the poorest and the richest of all. Today about 20% of the richest families have more than half the country's income while the poorest 20% of Italian households have only about 6%. This explains why the rich Italian families such as Benetton, Pirelli and Falck, is so condescending to the colonization of Italy: this ensures their greater wealth and privilege.
A country is subject to colonial rule when it is not master of his territory and does not choose freely their own political and economic organization. Indigenous rights are subordinated to the colonial interests of the dominant power, which stands above the law. The colonial authorities of the countries require substantial payments, as with the banks holding our debt, which put our authorities to prepare a financial report in order to pay the debt.
debt is actually a form of taxation imposed by banks, engineered so that citizens believe they have received from having to pay something, whereas it is a colonial type of taxation, that is designed to impoverish the people and enrich power system. The debt is so high that Italy imposed in 2002 was equivalent to one third of total public debt of all countries of the European Union (which was 4.7077 trillion euro). Despite the financial maneuvers that have bled the country in January 2007, the debt was yet to 1.6054 trillion. It will never be extinguished, allowing Italy to remain for ever liable banking elite. The financial
also the target of allocating money for participation in the wars of the dominant country, and in the last financial, the government increased these costs to 20.354 billion euro, which is a high sum for a country that has no enemies and is not officially at war. It includes such costs only if you think that any country subjected to a colonial power is obliged to participate in imperial military spending in the country. Italians pay 41% of the cost of stationing of U.S. bases, this is a total of 366 million dollars a year. Just as
a colony, we also suffer military occupation and forced to pay it.
(....) (...) The privatization of public enterprises (railways, post offices, highways, etc..) Produced serious economic losses, deterioration in service quality and increased cost to the user. Sell \u200b\u200boff public assets is not just impoverish the country (which loses the profits of the companies sold and is also forced to finance them), but also weaken the government. For example, the Minister of Economic Development Pier Luigi Bersani has touted her as an important reform that eliminates the cost of recharging the phone cards, but without saying that the government had no power to prevent the amount of charge was reinstated by the tariff increase. Within a few days, some telephone companies changed their pricing plans, so as to guarantee the same revenue they had previously.
This is a clear example of how privatization steal their money and power to the entire community, forcing people to submit to the overwhelming power of private companies. If our ministers were really defending the interests of citizens, against the corporations and banks, would be immediately referred to the 'order' by the EU and the U.S..
The privatization of Telecom, in October of 1997, allowed a group of entrepreneurs and banks to seize company, and the Treasury was only 3.5%. The plan for control of Telecom had been designed by Merrill Lynch, the American Banking Group of Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette and Chase Manhattan Bank. After ten years of privatization, the budget was disastrous from all points of view: more than 20,000 people were made redundant, the shares had lost a lot of money to investors, the costs for users were increased and the company was losing money.
Damage to the privatization of Telecom were not only financial, but also for the quality and safety of the service. The privacy of citizens is not in any way protected, and the scandals of the last years have tried.
Today the company is badly reduced, and the titles actionist oscillate. Three big banks, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and UBS can raise or lower any capacity, having 70% in the hands of speculative credit world, and being able to spread news that affect the behavior of investors. Manipulating the value of the shares, it affects the performance of the company, which allows banking giants prepare the ground in order to appropriate, as is happening with Alitalia.
Pirelli opened exclusive negotiations with the giant American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT & T), which belongs to a group of bankers, who this year won a contract in the U.S. rich public, to manage the telecommunications sector, and provide services to 135 of 184 federal agencies, along with Qwest and Verizon. Negotiations with AT & T and America Movil will last until April 30, then Generali and Mediobanca will have 15 days to exercise their right of first refusal.
do not know yet if it will be AT & T to get hold of one of the most important companies of our country, but we already know what will happen after the sale: there will be redundancies, increase the cost to the user, the quality of service will always be poorer, emerging from time to time lawlessness, which revealed the possibility of control over every citizen.
who doubts that today's Italy has characteristics of colonial nature try to write a letter to the Italian authorities to demand explanations on bank debt and seigniorage, on privatization, on the territorial sovereignty of Italy or on nuclear warheads. Will not get any clear answer, thorough and honest (if ever were to receive some type of response), and this will be a proof that our authorities are in the service of banks and international corporations, and subject to, the rights of Italian citizens, as happens in the colonies.
Antonella Randazzo www.disinformazione.it
http://italia.pravda.ru/italia/5412-8/
Italy and 'a colony?
15.04.2007 Source: Pravda.ru
The media are peddling the image of Italy as a free and democratic country, where the population enjoys political and economic power. But it 's really so '?
The suspicion that the dominant economic-financial elite is appropriate in our country from all points of view and that is driving him to the precipice, he came even to the Financial Times, in an article in the March 16, 2006 wrote that " Italy is following the same path to ruin of Argentina. " The author, Richard Perle, a member of the extreme American right and an avid supporter of George W. Bush, so it's hard to believe that will put a bad light on the ruling elite.
The comparison between Italy and Argentina comes from financial considerations, notably the Italian choice to take the euro as its currency, although the country sentenced to have a weak economy, because of the economic policy choices made by governments, which tend to benefit foreign capital rather than the development of the country, as happens in a colony. Even Argentina, peg their currencies to the dollar, was found to deal with a strong currency, while its economy was in foreign hands. What happened to Argentina is known.
Italian companies have been largely recognized by the big Anglo-American corporation. Today, Italy is the European country less competitive, and that more firms into foreign hands. The International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank are breathing down his neck to control debt payments, ignoring the level of wealth or poverty of Italian citizens. In fact, even to demand payments, the IMF does not hesitate to ask for cuts in public spending (health, education, administration, etc.). And further privatization, worsening conditions in the country.
The main purpose of the IMF (we must remember that it is a financial institution controlled by the Anglo-American Bankers Association) is to impoverish the Italian citizens, in keeping with what is already, in 1998, Zbigniew Brzezinski revealed in his book The Grand Chessboard : American primacy and its geostrategic imperatives. The excessive prosperity of Western Europe, according to Brzezinski, was a serious obstacle, since this level of wealth was higher than that of the average American citizens, and being regarded as an American protectorate of Europe, this was unacceptable.
Europe has a fundamental position of strength for America's geo-strategic. The Atlantic Alliance authorizing America to have political influence and military weight in mainland Europe ... if you grow up, they will benefit directly the influence of American ... Western Europe is largely an American protectorate and its vassals and were reminded Paying tribute to the old empires ... Europe needs to solve the problem caused by its social redistribution system that is too heavy and hampers its ability to initiatives.
Europe was to be indebted and impoverished that would impose U.S. domination over the whole Eurasia. Urgent impoverish the middle class, and what has happened in Italy in part because of the Biagi Law, which legalizes labor exploitation. The rest did the banking system, the dictatorship imposed on the Third World (which has forced millions of people to supply labor semischiavile, lowering labor costs and dismantling the system of rights, the result of political struggles and trade unions), and privatization, promoted by the IMF. Media campaigns are lying to believe that the IMF and the ECB take the "stability" of the country or to the "competitiveness" of Italian companies, as is the exact opposite: want to keep in check the entire country's economy, shrinking with little debt and make it competitive through various strategies.
Our politicians, instead of trying to thwart the power of the IMF, supports him, and touted as fair and authoritative, showing that Italy is also politically subjugated to foreign rule, as a colony. In many ways (privatization, protecting Italian products, agreeing to pay for the rights of seigniorage, foraging private companies, etc.). Our governments work for the economic and financial destruction of our country, and not for our well-being and our values.
The level of poverty in our country increased from 6.5% of population of the nineties, 11, 7% in 2001, up to 12% in 2005. The neoliberal reforms imposed by the IMF Italy have stolen wealth to the middle class and below, to enrich the already rich elites, as demonstrated by the analysis made by the Bank of Italy in the period 1989/1998:
10% of households poor had 2.7% of total income in 1989, while in 1998 this share fell to 2%. 10% of the richest families has instead increased its share from 25.2% to 27.5%. The increase of the Gini index, in 9 years was 11% ... small increases (decreases) of the Gini index cause huge increases (decreases) the gap between the poorest and the richest of all. Today about 20% of the richest families have more than half the country's income while the poorest 20% of Italian households have only about 6%. This explains why the rich Italian families such as Benetton, Pirelli and Falck, is so condescending to the colonization of Italy: this ensures their greater wealth and privilege.
A country is subject to colonial rule when it is not master of his territory and does not choose freely their own political and economic organization. Indigenous rights are subordinated to the colonial interests of the dominant power, which stands above the law. The colonial authorities of the countries require substantial payments, as with the banks holding our debt, which put our authorities to prepare a financial report in order to pay the debt.
debt is actually a form of taxation imposed by banks, engineered so that citizens believe they have received from having to pay something, whereas it is a colonial type of taxation, that is designed to impoverish the people and enrich power system. The debt is so high that Italy imposed in 2002 was equivalent to one third of total public debt of all countries of the European Union (which was 4.7077 trillion euro). Despite the financial maneuvers that have bled the country in January 2007, the debt was yet to 1.6054 trillion. It will never be extinguished, allowing Italy to remain for ever liable banking elite. The financial
also the target of allocating money for participation in the wars of the dominant country, and in the last financial, the government increased these costs to 20.354 billion euro, which is a high sum for a country that has no enemies and is not officially at war. It includes such costs only if you think that any country subjected to a colonial power is obliged to participate in imperial military spending in the country. Italians pay 41% of the cost of stationing of U.S. bases, this is a total of 366 million dollars a year. Just as
a colony, we also suffer military occupation and forced to pay it.
(....) (...) The privatization of public enterprises (railways, post offices, highways, etc..) Produced serious economic losses, deterioration in service quality and increased cost to the user. Sell \u200b\u200boff public assets is not just impoverish the country (which loses the profits of the companies sold and is also forced to finance them), but also weaken the government. For example, the Minister of Economic Development Pier Luigi Bersani has touted her as an important reform that eliminates the cost of recharging the phone cards, but without saying that the government had no power to prevent the amount of charge was reinstated by the tariff increase. Within a few days, some telephone companies changed their pricing plans, so as to guarantee the same revenue they had previously.
This is a clear example of how privatization steal their money and power to the entire community, forcing people to submit to the overwhelming power of private companies. If our ministers were really defending the interests of citizens, against the corporations and banks, would be immediately referred to the 'order' by the EU and the U.S..
The privatization of Telecom, in October of 1997, allowed a group of entrepreneurs and banks to seize company, and the Treasury was only 3.5%. The plan for control of Telecom had been designed by Merrill Lynch, the American Banking Group of Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette and Chase Manhattan Bank. After ten years of privatization, the budget was disastrous from all points of view: more than 20,000 people were made redundant, the shares had lost a lot of money to investors, the costs for users were increased and the company was losing money.
Damage to the privatization of Telecom were not only financial, but also for the quality and safety of the service. The privacy of citizens is not in any way protected, and the scandals of the last years have tried.
Today the company is badly reduced, and the titles actionist oscillate. Three big banks, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and UBS can raise or lower any capacity, having 70% in the hands of speculative credit world, and being able to spread news that affect the behavior of investors. Manipulating the value of the shares, it affects the performance of the company, which allows banking giants prepare the ground in order to appropriate, as is happening with Alitalia.
Pirelli opened exclusive negotiations with the giant American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT & T), which belongs to a group of bankers, who this year won a contract in the U.S. rich public, to manage the telecommunications sector, and provide services to 135 of 184 federal agencies, along with Qwest and Verizon. Negotiations with AT & T and America Movil will last until April 30, then Generali and Mediobanca will have 15 days to exercise their right of first refusal.
do not know yet if it will be AT & T to get hold of one of the most important companies of our country, but we already know what will happen after the sale: there will be redundancies, increase the cost to the user, the quality of service will always be poorer, emerging from time to time lawlessness, which revealed the possibility of control over every citizen.
who doubts that today's Italy has characteristics of colonial nature try to write a letter to the Italian authorities to demand explanations on bank debt and seigniorage, on privatization, on the territorial sovereignty of Italy or on nuclear warheads. Will not get any clear answer, thorough and honest (if ever were to receive some type of response), and this will be a proof that our authorities are in the service of banks and international corporations, and subject to, the rights of Italian citizens, as happens in the colonies.
Antonella Randazzo www.disinformazione.it
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