Protest iceland 13th december 2008

Today ,saturday 13th ,there was a peacful protest in front of the Icelandic parliement building.
There was silence for 17 minutes,and one minute for every year that the Independence party has been in power in Iceland.
In the end ,ladies burnt clothes,representing the corruption,how relatives and friends got the big jobs ,at the banks and so forth.
The govermnet has taken over the banks in Iceland,but the same guys that controlled the banks before the crisis,are still in controll of the banks.
Corruption here in Iceland ,between the political members of parliemnet and the buisness controllers ,is huge.
There is now an investigation about the crisis ,and who should be responsible,in the goverment and banking sector.
And who is controlling that investigation ? Well ,the goverment ,of course.

Time magazine ,has put Iceland on the top ten list ,of huge buisness mistakes.
On that list are also ,Freddie Mac ,Fannie Mae,Lehman Brothers ,AIG and more.
But Time also says - Iceland might be broke ,but the have geothermal heat,so Icelanders wont freeze to death.

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• ísland
• mótmæli
• protest
• december
• desember
• 2008
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• halldór
• sigurðsson

[Greenhorsemanship]

ye would have been much more fun

[mreisma]

instead of protesting, they should have rioted

[KhmerD0g]

we are just the beginning of the economic turmoil. we have yet hit the middle or the bottom.

once we hit the bottom then the world economy will implode and a lot of protests will take place. U.S. economy will crash and stay at the bottom for at least a decade.

2009 and 2010 will be a historic time

[gerodinis]

Greece stopped blowing up and went back to normal.

And don't let the media misguide you. This shit happens from time to time, last a week or two, and then all goes back to normal.

Did you know the protest were triggered by minor political parties, who also give instructions to the hooligans?

[ParliamentProtest]

I just noticed that I'm in your video at 0:42 to 0:48! Wearing black hat, black fleece, blue jeans, and carrying a camcorder... So, you may find yourself in the background in my response video!

[wolf4555]

I have been watching all of the videos from the begining of the financial crisis.. None of this stuff is on the US meadia, as KhmerD0g says...

[machinenation]

The form of Democracy we have is open to corruption - giving jobs to friends - "jobs for the boys" we call it here in Ireland. There have been demonstrations here too which is why I'm watching with some interest what's going on in your country.

We know that Government employment agencies have been abusing public money among other things - politicians acting corrupt with planning decisions and now banks too ... hmmm. Our country is broke but our banks need money and we're about to give it ..

[KhmerD0g]

i wonder how long will they take this until they blow up. greece is blowing up and it's not even bankrupt yet.

we would never seen this stuff in U.S. media. great info.