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Muy interesante, de parte de nuestras compañeras de la Debt and
Development Coalition (DDCI) y AFRI en Irlanda (que estaran
presentes en el encuentro de Octubre, aquí los primeros resultados
de la auditoria ciudadana de la deuda irlandesa. El informe, adjunto
y en inglés, es bastante técnico, pero en la nota de prensa al final
del mensaje encontraréis algunos datos bien interesantes ...<br>
<br>
Si os parece, enviaré un mail de parte de la campaña a DDCI y AFRI
felicitándoles por la tarea ... que igual nos toca a nosotras bien
pronto!!!<br>
<br>
Besos<br>
<br>
Iolanda <b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:
10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-US"><br>
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<br>
From:</span></font></b>
Nessa Ní Chasaide [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:nessa@debtireland.org">mailto:nessa@debtireland.org</a>] <br>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b>
jeudi 15 septembre 2011
13:59<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nessa@debtireland.org">nessa@debtireland.org</a>;
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Cl5@soas.ac.uk">Cl5@soas.ac.uk</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:andy.storey@ucd.ie">andy.storey@ucd.ie</a>;
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jean.somers3@mail.dcu.ie">jean.somers3@mail.dcu.ie</a>;
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:arbutus@riseup.net">arbutus@riseup.net</a>; <st1:personname w:st="on">Oygunn
Brynildsen</st1:personname>;
<st1:personname w:st="on">Nuria Molina</st1:personname>;
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:lnacpil@gmail.com">lnacpil@gmail.com</a>;
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:keeneba@wamani.apc.org">keeneba@wamani.apc.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b>
unite press release</span></font><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><strong><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Statement
for immediate
release
Thursday, September 15<sup>th</sup> 2011</span></font></b></strong><font
size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><strong><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 13.5pt;">NATIONAL
DEBT PICTURE HAS CHANGED SIGNIFICANTLY FOR THE
WORSE</span></font></b></strong><font size="4"><span
style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><strong><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 13.5pt;">*82%
of long term government bonds in overseas
ownership</span></font></b></strong><font size="4"><span
style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><strong><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 13.5pt;">*Identities
shrouded by clearing house secrecy</span></font></b></strong><font
size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Ireland
is acting as a roulette wheel for the world’s largest
financial gamblers
as a result of a massive increase in secondary trading
on its sovereign
debt. This unedifying picture is painted as the first
audit of
Ireland’s national debt is published in Dublin this
morning.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The
study, undertaken by a team from the University of
Limerick and supported by
the UNITE trade union uncovers the shady complexity
that lies behind the actual
ownership of Irish debt which soared as a direct
result of the decision taken
to turn private debt public via the bank guarantee
scheme introduced in 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Irish
National debt rose from less than €20 billion in the
late 1980’s to
a little under €40 billion in 2007. It has since shot
up to more
than €91 billion. The government’s austerity
programme which
has caused a surge in unemployment, a return to
emigration and despair through
the country has singularly failed to stop the runaway
train that was created in
September 2008 when the government of the day signed
away a generation’s
future in order to protect wealthy overseas interests.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The Audit
of Irish Debt seeks to quantify and explain the debts
for which the Irish
people have been made responsible. It covers the
issuing of government
bonds, explains the way in which ownership of those
bonds is traded in
financial markets without any control by the people
who ultimately have to
repay it, and the liabilities for which Ireland is
responsible through taking
ownership of the largest banks in the state.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 13.5pt;">“The
figures which have been brought to public attention
today are a scandal in
every sense,” said UNITE Regional Secretary, Jimmy
Kelly.
“Back room deals between gilded bankers and their
political stooges have
saddled the people of this country, and their
children, with debts that are
completely unsustainable.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 13.5pt;">“Their
successors are continuing with the myth that cutting
further and deeper will
free us of the debt. That is as much of an insult as
the original decision to
mortgage the country way, way beyond our means.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 13.5pt;">“Today
we shine a light on the circular relationships, the
deliberate confusion and
the disastrous consequences of that September night.
A picture emerges
that will shock those who care about Ireland’s freedom
as a nation to
determine its own future. It asks serious questions
of the financial
markets that are our new masters.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 13.5pt;">“It
must prompt a total revision of our economic
priorities. Without change
we will be crushed under the weight of debt that has
been placed upon
us.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 13.5pt;">-End-<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Notes to
the Editor: An electronic version of the full report
may be obtained by
emailing <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:rob.hartnett@unitetheunion.org">rob.hartnett@unitetheunion.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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