Corrupt Government Dismantled and EFF'N Rothschilds Bankers Thrown Out -- For Real!

[Mozart]

http://itmakessenseblog.com/2012/06/...child-bankers/


Iceland has done gone and done it.


They've iced the eff'n Rothschild banker bastards and kicked them out of Iceland.


They've changed their corrupt corporate and de facto government back into a de jure government of, by and for the People.


They are free.


Are you paying attention, America? Huh?


It's high time -- well past high time -- for you to do the same.


Do it!


~Mozart

[WhiteFeather]

Im digging your post, your energy and your motivation. Its truly wonderful news on behalf of Iceland. Hope it becomes contagious. Thank You!

[foreverfan]

[Mozart]

http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2011...#ixzz1yTcyD6N2

MORE bankers have been arrested.

Iceland rocks!

[Avocadess]

As my friend Avocado says, "Iceland is a Niceland." (And a Wiseland...!!!) (smile)

[Marin]

Many of the links are no longer working....

Here's a site that lists a number of working links:

http://transformationtimes11.wordpre.../2012/06/20/6/

I have just read some astonishing news coming from Iceland, it seems they have chucked out the global elites, dismantled a corrupt government, and arrested corrupt bankers. But there doesn’t seem to be anything about it on the mainstream news. In fact when I Googled ‘Iceland’, the latest news was ‘Iceland fish supplies return to normal as trawler protest ends’. Well, here is the real news …

Last week 9 people were arrested in London and Reykjavik for their possible responsibility for Iceland’s financial collapse in 2008, a deep crisis which developed into an unprecedented public reaction that is changing the country’s direction.

It has been a revolution without weapons in Iceland, the country that hosts the world’s oldest democracy (since 930), and whose citizens have managed to effect change by going on demonstrations and banging pots and pans. Why have the rest of the Western countries not even heard about it?

Pressure from Icelandic citizens’ has managed not only to bring down a government, but also begin the drafting of a new constitution (in process) and is seeking to put in jail those bankers responsible for the financial crisis in the country. As the saying goes, if you ask for things politely it is much easier to get them.’

And this:

Iceland’s Lesson for the World: Control Your Own Currency and Help Your People

http://news.firedoglake.com/2012/06/...p-your-people/

Lastly (a bit dated):

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-787377

In Iceland, the people have made the government resign, the primary banks have been nationalized, it was decided to not pay the debt that these created with Great Britain and Holland due to their bad financial politics and a public assembly has been created to rewrite the constitution.

And all of this in a peaceful way. A whole revolution against the powers that have created the current global crisis. This is why there hasn’t been any publicity during the last two years: What would happen if the rest of the EU citizens took this as an example? What would happen if the US citizens took this as an example.

This is a summary of the facts:

2008. The main bank of the country is nationalized.
The Krona, the currency of Iceland devaluates and the stock market stops. The country is in bankruptcy

2008. The citizens protest in front of parliament and manage to get new elections that make the resignation of the prime minister and his whole government.
The country is in bad economic situation.
A law proposes paying back the debt to Great Britain and Holland through the payment of 3,500 million euros, which will be paid by the people of Iceland monthly during the next 15 years, with a 5.5% interest.

2010. The people go out in the streets and demand a referendum. In January 2010 the president denies the approval and announces a popular meeting.
In March the referendum and the denial of payment is voted in by 93%. Meanwhile the government has initiated an investigation to bring to justice those responsible for the crisis, and many high level executives and bankers are arrested. The Interpol dictates an order that make all the implicated parties leave the country.

In this crisis an assembly is elected to rewrite a new Constitution which can include the lessons learned from this, and which will substitute the current one (a copy of the Danish Constitution).
25 citizens are chosen, with no political affiliation, out of the 522 candidates. For candidacy all that was needed was to be an adult and have the support of 30 people. The constitutional assembly starts in February of 2011 to present the ‘carta magna’ from the recommendations given by the different assemblies happening throughout the country. It must be approved by the current Parliament and by the one constituted through the next legislative elections.

So in summary of the Icelandic revolution:
-resignation of the whole government
-nationalization of the bank.
-referendum so that the people can decide over the economic decisions.
-incarcerating the responsible parties
-rewriting of the constitution by its people

Have we been informed of this through the media?
Has any political program in radio or TV commented on this?
No! The Icelandic people have been able to show that there is a way to beat the system and has given a democracy lesson to the world

Still looking for more details.

[REILLY]

Makes you wonder what the immigration policies are like in Iceland.

[foreverfan]

Coming to a country near you.

[DeDukshyn]

Posted by PurpleLama (here)
Makes you wonder what the immigration policies are like in Iceland.

I've been thinking of this on and off for years .... I'm already used to the cold, besides, I love Bjork

[Unified Serenity]

You will notice that article is from January 2011.

More Icelandic bankers arrested

Posted on20 January 2011.

http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2011...#ixzz1yTcyD6N2

[Marin]

Interpol hunt former Icelandic bank chief Sigurdur Einarsson, May 13 2010

Sigurdur Einarsson, the ex-chairman and chief executive of collapsed Icelandic bank Kaupthing, is wanted by Interpol on suspicion of forgery and fraud.

The former banking executive, who lives in West London, publicly blamed Gordon Brown for Kaupthing’s collapse in October 2008. He has now been listed on the website of the international law enforcement agency as “wanted”.

Iceland’s special prosecutor issued an international arrest warrant for Mr Einarsson yesterday, with a description of him as 1.8m tall, 114kg in weight, bald and with blue eyes.

According to Icelandic media reports, he has told the prosecutor’s team that he is willing to return to his home country to help with their enquiries on the condition that he is not arrested on arrival.

His former co-chief executive, Hreidar Mar Sigurdsson, was arrested last week on suspicion of falsifying documents and market manipulation. He is still in police custody.

Kaupthing's collapse in October 2008 cost the British Treasury £2.5bn and hundreds of UK savers with its Isle of Man branch are still waiting to be fully compensated. Both he and Mr Einarsson have previously denied any wrongdoing over Kaupthing's collapse.

The bank's actions are under investigation by the UK Serious Fraud Office and a special inquiry team in Iceland over claims of share ramping and big loans to related parties. Iceland's special prosecutor is looking into more than 20 cases of potential criminal activity connected to Kaupthing and the country's other failed banks.

A special report by Iceland's parliament showed Kaupthing secretly owned almost half of its own shares.

Two-thirds of Kaupthing's clients were based in London, including high-profile investors such as Robert Tchenguiz, Simon Halabi and the Candy Brothers, who all lost substantial sums in the crash.

After Kaupthing's loan book was leaked on to the internet last August, it showed key shareholders and owners were the bank's main borrowers. Mr Tchenguiz, who was a director of Kaupthing's largest shareholder, had the biggest debt of €1.74bn.

Following the disclosure, Mr Sigurdsson defended the bank's practices but made a public apology. "Mistakes were made," he said. "I'm obliged to offer my apologies to the bank's shareholders, lenders and employees. I should have prepared the bank better for the storm that hit it."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/f...Einarsson.html

[Taurean]

Nothing new here then ;-

All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate people into a state of poverty, especially the farmers, working class people and the very poor. Then as now Jews have to be reminded intermittently anew that they were enjoying rights in any country since they left Palestine and the Arabian desert, and subsequently their ethical and moral doctrines as well as their deeds rightly deserve to be exposed to criticism in whatever country they happen to live.

Pope Clement VIII - 1592

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Cl...II_and_Judaism

[Marin]

Update:

Based on this link it seems a few clarifications are in order. Although arrests were made they were made in March of 2011 and these individuals were released the next day.

http://nimbusters.org/forum/read.php?board=8&id=368235

note the date:

09.03.2011 | 14:16

Former Chair of Iceland’s Kaupthing Arrested in London

Sigurdur Einarsson, former chairman of the defunct Icelandic bank Kaupthing, was arrested in London at 5:30 this morning along with the bank’s biggest customer, Robert Tchenguiz, and five others in a joint operation by the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and the Office of the Special Prosecutor in Iceland.

Raids were conducted at the offices of two companies and the homes of eight individuals in London in conjunction with the arrests, visir.is reports.

According to the newspaper’s sources, Tchenguiz’s brother Vincent and Ármann Thorvaldsson, the former director of Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander, were also among those arrested.

The companies that were searched include Rotch Property, a real estate company under the ownership of Vincent Tchenguiz.

According to the SFO, the raids and arrests are in connection with the fall of Kaupthing. The operation was conducted by 135 police officers.

In Reykjavík, raids were carried out at the homes of two individuals and two persons were arrested. Their names have not been released but they are said to be in their early forties.

These raids and arrests were conducted at the request of the SFO. Police officers and investigators from the Special Prosecutor’s Office were involved along with SFO representatives.

http://www.icelandreview.com/iceland...5043.news.aspx

And this:
note date again:

10.03.2011 | 11:30
Tycoons and Bankers Released after Questioning

All nine individuals who were arrested in Iceland and London yesterday in a joint operation by the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and Iceland’s Special Prosecutor in relation to their investigation of the affairs of the defunct Icelandic bank Kaupthing were released after questioning last night.

Special Prosecutor Ólafur Thór Hauksson told RÚV’s radio program Morgunútvarpid that investigators decided not to demand custody over these people and therefore they were released, ruv.is reports.

He added questioning will continue today but wouldn’t say whether the same people would be questioned as yesterday.

Hauksson assured listeners that all of his office’s investigations would continue to be worked on effectively—in addition to the Kaupthing investigation, affairs connected with Landsbanki were in the spotlight earlier this year and of Glitnir Bank at the end of 2010.

The schedule is for these investigations to be completed by the end of 2014 and that schedule will stand, he stated.

Among those arrested were former chairman of Kaupthing Sigurdur Einarsson, former director of Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander Ármann Thorvaldsson and the British businessmen and brothers Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz.

http://www.icelandreview.com/iceland...5070.news.aspx

Although this news may not be as timely as initially thought.....it does not detract from what the people of Iceland have accomplished. Still much to learn......

[Unified Serenity]

Posted by PurpleLama (here)
Makes you wonder what the immigration policies are like in Iceland.

That's a great question. I have looked into it and it is not easy to immigrate to Iceland. For this reason, it is very difficult to compare their culture and political situation to America's or other countries. Their demographics are very different from ours in America and what works there would not work here because of the plantation state mentality we have here. The size of the population is vastly smaller and it is much more homogenous in general thus you don't have to easily divided population as a whole. Gone are the days people can "escape" to a new world. We have to bloom where we are planted, and actually it's in our own best interest to do so.

[applecrusher1992]

Posted by Unified Serenity (here)

Posted by PurpleLama (here)
Makes you wonder what the immigration policies are like in Iceland.

That's a great question. I have looked into it and it is not easy to immigrate to Iceland. For this reason, it is very difficult to compare their culture and political situation to America's or other countries. Their demographics are very different from ours in America and what works there would not work here because of the plantation state mentality we have here. The size of the population is vastly smaller and it is much more homogenous in general thus you don't have to easily divided population as a whole. Gone are the days people can "escape" to a new world. We have to bloom where we are planted, and actually it's in our own best interest to do so.

You mean people weren't divided over their race, creed, or political party. Shocking!!!!!!!

[Ba-ba-Ra]

Posted by Unified Serenity (here)
Gone are the days people can "escape" to a new world. We have to bloom where we are planted, and actually it's in our own best interest to do so.

I great way to put it and I agree wholeheartedly.

I've been to Iceland - (when we arrived for a month stay the winds were sustaining at 80mph and they were cold. I could barely walk. This was in early September.) Besides the harsh weather, remember most of the Island is volcanic . As I recall, you have to live there for 5 years (or was it 7!) before you can buy property or become a citizen - this was in 2000 - perhaps different now.

Back to the news. Yes, what they did there was great, but this is all old news. I would really like to know what's happening now. Does anyone have current information?

And yes, I agree with the thought that this could be contagious. I was hoping that Greece would follow Iceland's lead instead of opting to stay with the Euro and taking another bailout.

[Avocadess]

Did anyone post this yet?

6:05 p.m. | Updated LONDON - Iceland's former prime minister, Geir H. Haarde, was found guilty of failing to keep his cabinet informed of major developments during the 2008 financial crisis, but was cleared of three more serious charges of negligence on Monday.
April 24, 2012, Tuesday

Here's an article from 5 June 2012 in the UK's Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/f...ical-list.html

Then there is this from the Icelandic Ministry of Finance dated June 21, 2012. (Written in a way that goes over my head as I do not really understand financial jargon):

http://eng.fjarmalaraduneyti.is/publ.../news/nr/15577

[Marin]

Address by the Prime Minister of Iceland H.E. Ms. Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir 17 June 2012
17.6.2012

My Fellow Icelanders,

Today we join together in celebrating our national day, an important anniversary in the life of our country.

........What is the situation now in Iceland, nearly four full years since we found ourselves faced with the most serious economic crisis since independence, with the possibility of national bankruptcy and international isolation?

No wonder my predecessor in the office of Prime Minister asked for God's blessing on Iceland, faced as it was with such a terrifying prospect at that time. The problem seemed virtually insurmountable.

In my address on the national day three years ago, I voiced the hope that the turmoil that followed the collapse would be short-lived and that it would be remembered chiefly because the nation did not falter in its purpose. That we would made a success of tackling the new struggle for our economic independence; that we would learn from our experience and manage to build a better Iceland, one that was fairer, more honest, juster and more egalitarian.

Looking back now, I think it fair to say that in many ways, my hopes have been realised. The Icelandic people have demonstrated incredible strength, stamina and determination and have risen to the challenges successfully.

National bankruptcy has been avoided. Together, we have defended our welfare system, our resources and our natural environment and Iceland has been saved from international isolation. At the same time, we have re-examined and improved many of the fundamental elements in our society; we have learned from experience and have begun a determined drive towards a better standard of living.

In just a few years, the basis has been laid for a new and better society in Iceland, one with more financial equality, greater social justice and healthier rules of the game than we had before the crisis.

In terms of greater equality, the fact is that we have achieved far more than I allowed myself to dream of when I stood here three years ago.

While the economic upheaval we have been through was in many ways more serious than other countries in our part of the world had to deal with, it is notable that the main bite of the recession here was relatively short-lived, though it was felt painfully and in many areas.

For two years now, the situation in Iceland has been improving, and our recovery has been considerably larger than that in most of the countries with which we usually compare ourselves. It is clear to me in my meetings with leaders abroad that they are watching with interest the positive developments that have taken place here since the crash. The results can be seen clearly.
The fiscal deficit has been brought under control and the national debt is being steadily reduced.

The emergency loans we took are being paid off more quickly than was expected, and the Treasury has taken deliberate steps to give institutions and companies in Iceland access to foreign credit markets.

Some agreements have already been made on foreign investment for business development in Iceland, and others are being prepared.

We have broken our way out of isolation and regained trust to a substantial extent.

We can be proud that, compared with the lowest point of the recession,the national economy has grown by nearly 11%,
- the number of people without work has fallen by more than 30%,
- household debt has been substantially reduced
- and the purchasing power of wages has grown steadily. Only once in the past
thirteen years has the purchasing power of wages risen more than it has in the
past 12-13 months.

The best news, though, is that there is every indication that the general standard of living will continue to rise as it has done over the past two years. During this period, the proportion of people who consider themselves as doing well, economically, has almost doubled to nearly 70%, with a corresponding reduction in the number of people who are struggling or feeling the pinch has fallen correspondingly.

Also, extensive changes have taken place in our society – changes that will be of immense importance in the long term.

I should like to mention a few examples.

There has been a complete transformation the distribution of income in the direction of greater equality.

Few western countries had witnessed anything like the growth in inequality that Iceland experienced in the years before the crash. Most of us had the feeling that part of our community had actually begun to live in a completely different world from the rest of us.

Much of this imbalance has now been swept away, and Iceland has once again joined the group of the world's richest countries with the greatest degree of equality in terms of income.

The same can be said of gender equality. Iceland has come out in first place in the world in the world over the past three years in this respect, with further progress being made every single year.

Women now form a majority in the cabinet for the first time, and about 40% of MPs and half of the permanent under-secretaries in the ministries are now female. Women have served in most of the senior public positions in Iceland, and later this month, for the first time in our history, a woman is to be ordained Bishop of Iceland.

Women have also broken the barriers into other leading positions in society and in business, and gender-based wage differentials have been steadily reduced in recent years, though much still remains to be done in that area.

Environmental affairs and natural resources have also undergone a complete review in recent years. Various steps have been taken to ensure that control over these resources, the most valuable communal assets that we have in Iceland, and the right to benefit from their utilisation, will rest with the Icelandic people, and not only during our lifetimes but also, and perhaps more importantly, for the benefit of future generations.

It is planned to submit draft legislation to the next session of the Althingi on the ownership of water resources and the overall supervision and the levying of fees on nationally-owned resources. It will include provisions on the creation of a natural resources fund.

I also trust that the present session of the Althingi will go ahead and pass legislation to ensure the nation the fair dividend on its fisheries resources for which it has striven for so long. This dividend could amount to tens of billions of krónur in the years ahead in times of good catches such as we have had in the past few years, at the same, the new law securing a favourable environment for well-run companies. This important issue must not be derailed.

Straight away next year, we will see this resource dividend put to use in the government's investment programme, resulting in additional economic growth and a significant number of new jobs. Extensive projects will be put into practice to improve transport and communications in the rural areas and to develop social infrastructure and create a broader-based economy to meet the demands and requirements of future generations.

One of the most important tasks facing governments, and politicians, at any given time, is to prepare the ground for future generations. Our new investment programme certainly does this, with increased priority given to science and research, the development of a ‘green' economy, innovation and creative occupations.

We are also about to see the completion of the largest structural changes in the government ministries in the history of the Republic. The number of ministries will have been reduced from twelve, as it was when this government took office, to eight.

Many people believe that ministers should give up their seats in parliament when they take up their portfolios. The reduction in the number of ministries, and the expansion of the number of portfolios covered by each, certainly opens the way to putting this idea into practice. I am of the opinion that his radical change would strengthen parliamentary government in Iceland, and I call for serious attention to be given to the idea.

While many aspects of our reconstruction work since the crash have gone better than we could have expected, there is still a lot of unresolved anger in society, and the political process is coloured by bitter confrontations – more bitter than I ever saw previously in my 34 years as an MP and a minister.

We can see the consequences of this, for example, in a profound lack of faith in many of the most important cornerstones of our democratic society, in greater scepticism regarding politics and the established political parties and diminished respect for the Althingi, the government, the opposition and many of the key social institutions.

Of course some ups and downs in confidence are only natural, and not least when it proves necessary to take difficult and unpopular decisions, but permanent dissension and a lack of confidence in the fundamental institutions of our society, such as we have experienced ever since the crash, is a cause for great concern.

We, the elected representatives of the nation, all bear responsibility for this, and to a large extent we have failed in the important task of earning the nation's trust anew. I deplore this state of affairs, we must improve our record on this point over the next year or two if we are to avoid serious consequences.

Notwithstanding a few amendments and attempts at complete revisions, Iceland's constitutional structure is still largely based on the constitution which King Christian IX granted us in 1874.

Now, at last, it seems that the vision cherished by Jón Sigurðsson and others at the ‘national meeting,'[in 1845] and shared by many ordinary people in Iceland ever since the beginning of the independence campaign for a new, all-Icelandic constitution, may become a reality.

Tens of thousands of Icelanders played a role in formulating the proposals that were approved unanimously by the Constitutional Council, a body of 25 representatives elected by the nation as independent candidates.

Many people, lay and learned, put a huge amount of work into these proposals, and in my opinion their efforts have not received the general recognition they deserve.

A year ago, I expressed the view that it was both symbolic and appropriate that the Althingi should demonstrate its courage and democratic responsibility by holding a referendum on what is to be done in the future with the product of this important work.

Parliament has now made its will clear and agreed to hold a referendum on whether the Constitutional Council's proposals should be adopted as the basis of a new constitution for Iceland.

This important referendum is to be held later this year.

It is vital that a programme of public awareness-raising be started in the weeks ahead to explain the substance of the Constitutional Council's proposals so that people can make an informed choice when they vote in the referendum. If the nation so wishes, then the first truly Icelandic constitution could take effect as soon as next year, perhaps on the national day, 17 June 2013.

Today, our national day, is an ideal time to pause and consider where we stand and where we are heading. We should call to mind periods of progress in our history and take pleasure in our nation's good achievements. We should also face the reality of our failures, and draw lessons from them. This is our duty, not least towards our children and future generations.

On all sides, Iceland's future is bright and the opportunities we have here are virtually inexhaustible. We are the most peaceful country in the world, and surveys by international bodies reveal that some of the highest levels of gender equality, social justice and general welfare are to be found here. Our energy resources are becoming ever more precious, and the same applies to our invaluable unspoiled landscapes and other bounties of nature.

But our most valuable resource lies in our people themselves, as has been demonstrated so clearly in recent years.

The self-image we cultivate, as individuals and as a nation, and the attitudes we adopt, will be the most decisive factor in how we fare in the long term.

As the poet Stephan G. Stephansson said: ‘To a great extent, prosperity resides within us all.'

If we combine our efforts and aim at progress, we should have everything it takes, as a nation, to achieve miracles, small and large.

My best wishes to you all.

http://eng.forsaetisraduneyti.is/new...ticles/nr/7210

[Tane Mahuta]

This is one "Contagion" I hope freakin spreads!!!...

TM