Peaceful protest was held today in Reykjavik.
It is the weekly protest demanding that the goverment help the public.
But it looks like the people in Iceland have given up.
Only a handful of people attended.
The goverment is raising taxes ,left and right, and the public sees that whatever they do , it doesent matter.
The unions do not supprt them , the church is on goverment payroll ,so tit looks like that the people of Iceland have been deserted by everybody.
But they help there party members, so they are ok .
I took a few phtos today in Reykjavik .
The three big media companys in Iceland , are now all owned by ladies.
Lilja Skaftadottir,a art dealer,purchased the newspaper DV.IS ,with Reynir Traustasson,the editor of DV.
Guðbjörg Matthíasdóttir,a fishing industry lady from the Westmann Islands,is a majority owner of the MBL.is
Former Prime minister and Central Bank CEO, David Odsson ,is the editor of Mbl.is
Ingibjörg Pálmadóttir, has 90% in 365 media, wich is Frettabladid and channel two tv and radio station.
Ingibjörg is the wife of Jón Ásgeir Jóhannesson, who is regurarly in the news these days.
Yesterday there there was a entertainment show on the state tv.
It had been going all winter, and it was a quis show,between towns and cities in Iceland.
And the final was yesterday.
And the winners got prizes,and the price was a flight with Iceland Express airline.
One of the winners was Vilhjálmur Bjarnarsson ,a teacher at a university ,and a private investor.
He refused to accept the prize,becuase it was from Iceland Express,wich is owned by Pálmi Haraldsson, who was prosecuted last week , for getting strange loans from Glitnir Bank.
Vilhjalmur confirmed that he did not accept the prize,and said, "I will not accept something that was stolen "
The Black report, about waht happened and who is to blame for the banking crash in 2008, will be made public on april 12 .
The President of the Parliement ,will get the first copy at 10:00 and the report will be online on the internet at 10:20 .
Part of it will be in english ,and here is a link to that part. http://sic.althingi.is
Reporter prosecuted
Pálmi Haraldsson has sued Svavar Halldórson,a reporter at the state TV and radi station.
He is prosecuting the reporter,for not making a difference between Him and Fons,his company.
Svavar reported that Pálmi got a 2.5 billion krona loan, but Pálmi says that his company ,Fons ,got the loan.
Pálmi sold Sterling ,from FL group at a high price,and made a lot of profit.
The Black report, the report on how and why the banking crisis occured and who ae the maine players in it, will be made public on april the 12th , that would be on next monday.
Now it is coming to light,that Banks CEO´s gave themselvesbig loans ,and with little or no sequrities.
And in emails, at the bank , money to CEO´s should be made to the Cayman ISlands ,could be seen.
The Reykjavík City Theatre, is goinf to read the report, wich will be published next monday.
It will be in 9 volumes,and the actors will read it,nonstop , a marathon read, day and night.
The
y say that many politicians are not very happy about the black report, because ,many politicians, still in parliement, are also to blame.
But since they control the system in Iceland, then they should not worry.
The public in Iceland , forgets fast who is to blame.
Icelands voters are very party loyal, and it does not matter what the elite in the parties do , they are forgiven ,and voted into parliement again.
One member of parliement today , was a few years ago in jail, for stealing and accepting bribes from a a big contract company.
But ,he was voted into parliement,after sitting in jail for a while.
So , the public might be angry for a week or so,after the black report is public.
And then we go and watch the volcano ,and forget the past.
Three former CEO´s of Glitnir Bank, Jón Ásgeir Jóhannesson, Pálmi Haraldsson,and Lárus Wielding, have been prosecuted by the Glitnir Bank, for breaking rules when they loaned 6 billion kronas . They manipulated the Glitnir from the inside, and loaned themselves lots of money,and with little or no sequrities. The E-mails , that have been published , says it all. One of the senior executives ,says in his e-mail " I must admitt that is dont understand why we dont just loan Pálmar two billion kronas to put in a Cayman account, before he goes banckrupt.And not go into the Goldsmith exersice"
Looks like that the CEO´s of Glitnir Bank where having a good day at the bank.
Photo: left: Jón Ásgeir center: Pálmi Right: Lárus Wielding
Wikileaks published a vide tape on its website,when a US Apache helicopter attacked and killed 12 individuals. Amoung the dead where two Reuters reporters. Birgitta Jonsdottir, member of the ICelandic Parliement, says that ICeland should apologize to the Iraqi people,for supporting the USA invacion into Iraq. Birgitta helped bring the video online at Wikileaks. According to Birgitta , the Apache Helicopter attacked and killed unarmed civilians in Baghdad. A senior member of the US defence minestry ,has confirmed that the video is real. Here you can see the video .
