Iceland wins Poland , and gets bronze medal

Iceland was just now,winning Poland ,in the Europian Handball Tournement in Austria.
Iceland ( population : 300.000 ) did 29 goals to Polands ( population : 38 million ) 26 goals.
Not much traffic ,while the game was on tv in Reykjavik as you can see on the video .

The real deal --- Iceland member of parliement

One member of Icelands parliement was on the TV show - The Real deal .
Here you can see and hear her opinion.
She was voted on Parliement after the revolution last year.

Still financial problems in Iceland

Police economic investigation,are now investigating ,companys,that where owned by former employees of Straum Investment bank.
The companys, Glacier Capital Partners ,registered in Iceland and Aseria,registared in a foreign country,and the owners,who all recently moved to London,where moving 13 billion kronas ,from a foreing currency into Icelandic kronas,despite that there where restrictions on moving foreign currency .
Few arrests have been made.

Icelands finance minister and two chairmen of the opposition parties in ICeland are now at a meeting in Holland with Hollands finance minister ,mr. Wouter Bos and Britains assistance finance minister,Lord Myners.
They are exchanging information and discussing the Icesave situation in Iceland.

Corruption still going strong in Iceland

A polar bear was killed today in Iceland .
It was in the north east part of Iceland ,at Thistilfjord.

One member of parliement ,mr. Asborn Ottarsson,for the Independence party,is in the committie,that will talk about the black report, about the banking financial crisis.
The Parliement black report,will be made public in a few weeks ,after being postponed for a few months.
Mr. Asbjorn Ottarsson, paid himself illeagally,money from his company,even though it had negative profits,and negative money in its books.
But when the media found out, he paid it back to his company,and said that he did not now about the bad situation his company was in.
He said , that he did not know that the payment was illeagal.

He said ,when he voted on Icesave,that he was against ,letting generations to come,to pay for Icesave.
But at the same time,he sold water rights, to a Canadian for 95 years.

Cooruption in Iceland is still good and strong

Photo: top - Polar bear
below- Asbjorn Ottarsson

Parliement report postponed ,again

Chairman of Parliement Investigative Committie ,investigating the banking crash of 2008,said today ,that the report,will not be public until the end of february.
This is the second delay of the Banking crisis report.
Mr. Tryggvi Gunnarsson,a member of the committie,said that maybe the public should get two to three days vacation, to read and digest the report.
Police is worried about what the public will do , when the report has be finished, and made public.

Icelands state prosecutor , has taken back the indictments against the protesters that attacked the parliemnt building last year.
On of the parliement staff, who pressed charges , is his wifes half sister.
State prosecutor, mr. Valtýr Sigurðsson,said it was embarrasing ,when he found out that one of the staff ,was his wifes half sister.

photo. Valtýr Sigurðsson

Claims on Kaupthing and indictments -video

Now the claims on the Kaupthing Bank ,that crashed , has just passed.
And former bankers,that contolled the crash and made it happen ,are demanding unpaid wages.
Sigurdur Einarsson,who has the Order of the Falcon,given to him by the President of Iceland a few years ago,is demanding 244 million kronas.
And indictments are being handed out,a year after the protests.
Not to the Bankers, no ,to 9 protesters ,who entered the Icelandic parliement ,and made some noise there.
Probably the bankers will get away with what they did.
Here are a few videos i took last year .

MP´s told to cancel visit to Iceland

British Foreign Office ,has warned British MP´s .not to travel to Iceland.
The MP´s are in a committie inquiry into the banking crisis, and due to visit Iceland at the end of the month.
British Ambassador, Ian Whitting ,told the Scottish affairs committie ,that it would be inappropriate to go to Iceland , sahed of the refferandum that is going to be held in Iceland on march 6th, on weather the Iceland should pay back the the collapsed Icesave, 3.4 billion to UK and Dutch taxpayers.

Icelands state prosecutor,says , is now prosecuting 8 protesters ,who took part in the protests last year in Reykjavik.
People do not like his priorities, he is prosecuting protesters, but not the bankers who started it all.
State prosecutor says ,he has not the power to prosecute bankers.

here below you can see videos from the protest on december 31 2009 and january 20 2009