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Great Britain Stars in Its Own Greek Tragedy

For the darkest hours in the fight against Adolf Hitler, the British Ministry of Information -- which existed for the duration of World War II -- had set aside a special poster. Intended to bring calm to the home front, it depicted the crown of King George VI against a red background, with the words "Keep Calm and Carry On" printed beneath the image.

The situation never became sufficiently desperate to justify using the poster, and the millions of copies that had been printed were stored away unused. Ten years ago, a bookseller discovered a single copy and hung it up in his shop. That may well have been the end of the poster's career, but then the country was suddenly faced with multiple crises: terrorist attacks, a banking debacle and, finally, the economic and credit crisis.

The bright-red poster now hangs in the offices of directors and members of parliament, in soldiers' barracks and student dormitories. Entire ministries are using it to boost morale, and framed versions of the posters are even said to grace the walls of No. 10 Downing Street and Buckingham Palace.
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The country that was once referred to as "Cool Britannia" is in a serious crisis, with a hole in its budget even bigger than Greece's budget deficit, now at 12.2 percent. And nobody knows how to fix the problem.

Indeed, the problem has become so worrisome, that the European Commission told London on Wednesday to do more to tighten its budget, according to a draft report leaked to Reuters earlier this week. "The fiscal strategy outlined in the United Kingdom's convergence program does not foresee the correction of the excessive deficit by the fiscal year 2014/2015, as recommended by the Council," the European Commission said in a statement.

... as long as we are alive there is a solution ...
... but "the planet" is running out of time ...
... so, here some things that would make sense to do ...
... (I have repeated some of this things for decades ...
... but I guess they touch the interests of the godly thugs ...
... and their friends, the Nazi-Bolshevik bankers ...
... so I gave up on seeing this progresses in my countries) ...

... health system back to the family doctors as first filter ...
... eliminate all the administration burden from the public medical system ...
... end of "conventions" between public hospitals and private medicine ...
... "but" cost of the public system charged against taxation ...
... regardless if people have "private" insurance or not ...
... if they want private insurance, they are free to pay for it ...
... but they are required to pay for public insurance ...
... because that is going to be where they have to go if/when bankrupt ...

... revision of fiscal system ...
... flat rate of 60% taxation, including medical, education and social security ...
... revision of tax exempt status ...
... "nobody" tax exempt "except" the government ...

... revision of legal system ...
... elimination of penalization of victim less crimes ...
... random drugs testing and automatic termination, every week for public employees ...
... "and" for any and all licenses (business, driving, maritime etcetera) ...
... maybe excluding dog licenses (for small dogs only), and fishing licenses ...

... gasoline tax, to make the price at about $8 per gallon ...
... so people may stop wasting gas ...
... unless they are willing to be taxed for the planetary damage they are causing ...
... burning irreplaceable fossil fuel ...

... mandatory use of open software and hardware in government, TPM free ...
... this means, no keys in hands other than the owner ...
... open software and user "flashable" open firmware ...
... minimize of purchases, retrofit back to "light" free operating systems ...
... IT government program ...
... to hire all possible unhealthy unemployed ...
... and re-start building Sparc and ARM based national systems ...
... "bug free" from other countries espionage agenda ...
... and to hire all possible healthy unemployed ...
... to convert the national telephone and cable network ...
... to data multiplexed over electric lines ...

... transit to telecommuting ...
... for the highest possible percentage ...
... of government administration agencies ...
... distance diagnostics and paperwork for medicine ...
... conversion to 100% distant learning ...
... for public high school, colleges and universities ...
... physical presence only required ...
... for finals, ID, Passport, and licenses ...
... disposal of least efficient public buildings ...
... conversion of most efficient buildings ...
... to utility self-sufficiency ...

... railroad government program ...
... to hire all possible healthy unemployed ...
... and electrify the railroads in the whole country ...
... is going to be critical to deliver food ...
... at the oil crash time ...

... agriculture government program ...
... ban of OGM ...
... conversion of the country to permaculture ...
... 200% tax on production of bio-fuel from usable food-chain sources ...
... (such as eatable grass, hay, corn, soy, rice, etcetera) ...
... taxation on meats based on carbon profile ...

... nationalization of the central bank ...
... law on usury rate, fixed at 12% for unsecured debt ...
... 9% for secured non real debt ...
... and 6% for secured real debt ...
... convertibility to variable term loans, open end leases and lease-hold ...
... the usury rate must be inclusive of all and any fees "and" service charges ...

... population control policy ...
... free mandatory reversible sterilization (of both) at the first birth ...
... government license required for second child ...
... in no event third child admissible ...

... army/navy military program ...
... for operation of nuclear railroad/maritime engines ...
... also usable as emergency power plants ...
... military medical and justice systems ...
... deployment for support of crises of various nature ...
... in the corresponding civilian fields ...

... industry incentives for companies with over 50% of work hours ...
... done trough tele-commuting ...
... industry incentives for companies with over 50% use of non-fossil energy ...
... industry incentives for companies building private transport vehicles ...
... powered for 90% or more, by non-fossil energy ...
... industry production tax based on environmental profile ...
... customs tolls based on environmental profile ...
... incentive program, free electric bicycle ...
... when turning in a running gas car for demolition and recycle ...

... heavy transport program ...
... navigability of channels ...
... rivers use for irrigation and fertilization ...
... gradual conversion of merchant marine fleet to nuclear and coal ...
... gradual conversion of airline fleet to airships ...
... increase of capacity of railroads ...

... energy program ...
... eastern tidal plants, wind farms, under water currents farms ...
... home thermo-electric energy appliances (VW technology) ...
... to supplement the grid "on demand" ...
... national "private" optical control network ...
... for critical systems (mass transit, energy, military, government) ...
... ventilated bed multi-fuel thermal centrals ...
... capable of using tires chips as fuel ...

... small energy program ...
... to hire all possible healthy unemployed ...
... to replace all street illumination and traffic lights ...
... with LED technology ...
... and all the public buildings ...
... with a mix of energy saving low consumption lights and LED ...

... aggressive recycling policy ...
... differentiated collection ...
... paper+cardboard+plastic, glass, metal, mineral oils, electronics ...
... home gardens ...
... urine bags, for home fertilizer ...
... recycling of gray waters ...
... into sprinklers systems and towelette flush tanks ...

... repudiation and penal prohibition ...
... of enforcement of any and all ...
... genetic patents, ...
... medical-pharmaceutical patents, ...
... and information patents ...
... MOU to be signed by the Ambassadors ...
... of the Countries of origin of "any" imported product ...
... whereas the Country "guarantees" conformance under international treaty rules ...
... revocation of licenses and nationalization of violating companies ...
... regardless if domestic or foreign ...

... new national architectural and insurance rules ...
... with mandatory design based on geodesic domes ...
... (the best resistant design to calamities, see Katrina and the super dome) ...
... prohibition of residential construction in flood areas ...
... government ran national mandatory property insurance ...

... and much much more ...
... and if not enough ...
... elimination of currency ...
... and introduction of "nominal" "non transferable" ...
... earth impact credits ...
... based on real resources global true value ...
... instead than the "bulls" of the wall street vultures ...
... of supply demand artificially manipulated ...

... sooner or later the end of currency will have to happen ...
... in a world of scarcity and overpopulation ...
... parasites are a social danger ...
... useless categories such as money changers, bean counters ...
... administrators, ministers, priests and economists ...
... may need to find a real job ...
... now that has been proven "empirically" ...
... that neither the godly doctrine, ...
... nor the planned economy theories ...
... nor "the market" have a clue ...
... neither of capacity analysis, nor of efficiency, nor of reality ...