Protest today in Reykjavik - against military bases -video

Today - The Campaign Against Military Bases – CAMB- ( http://fridur.is/english/ )held a protest meeting ,against military bases.CAMB was originally set up to oppose the US military bases in Iceland and the NATO membership, but the main mission of CAMB is peace.

Today was 60 years since Iceland joined NATO.The protest was in downtown Reykjavik ,in front of the PArliement building.
After they made their speaches,the crushed a barrel - wich was to symbolize NATO.

In 1949 ,when parliement joined NATO - there was riots in Reykjavik and police used for the first time teargas agaisnt protesters

Here is a video from 1949 and in the middle of the video - you can see the protest in 1949 .
And below that video - is a video from the protest today - at the same location.

Former Prime minister and Central Bank CEO ---iceland

Mr: David Oddsson ,former Prime minister and CEO of the Icelandic Central bank, was the Independence party conference yesterday.
He is also the former party chairman.
In his speach,he compared ,that when he was fired from the Central Bank,to the Crusifixion of Christ.

And today there will be vote on who will be the next chairman of the Independence Party

Former Prime minister apologizes to his party

This weekend ,the Independence party is having party conference.
1900 party memebrs attend ,and disuss policy and vot for a new party chairman and more.
The former prime minister,mr: Geir Haarde,made the opening speach yesterday .
There he apologized about the mistake in privatizing the national banks in 2001 and for his part in the banking crisis.

When the banks where privatized ,the two partys then in control,where the Independence party and the Progressive party.
And people say,that they sold the banks ,cheap ,to their party members .
So the sale was political.

He did not apologize to the nation, just to his party.
Mr: Geir haarde will not continue to be party chairmen ,and on saturday there will be an election between two about the chairman seat.

Pensions also having problems in Iceland

Pension corruption

Now informnation about the Icelandic Pension funds ,show that corruption is widespread there also.
Members in the boards of many Pension funds,have accepted salmon fishing trips,and traveling abroad,payed by companys,the pension funds invested in .
And there is still no investigation or interrigation of the bank managers about the Banking Crisis and where all the money is.

The Independence party accepted 2.00 dollas donation from the country emergency services 112 ( same as 911 in the us )
But it is illeagal to accept donations from public organisations.
They have now repaid the money .

Last weekend ,at the general meeting of the Left Green Movement ,agreed to not to cooperate with the Independence party after the next election in Iceland.

The public is getting more angry in Iceland - and on talk radio stations,many call in ,and use the wourd " treason " about how the bankers and politicians have behaved before and during the Banking crisis.

Here below is a video i took on the 20th of january - 2009 .

Iceland goverment takes over another bank.

Another bank has fallen in Iceland.
During the weekend ,the Icelandic goverment took control of SPRON savings bank .
The people working at SPRON , where not informed on saturday ,but had to see on the tv news about the collapse of the bank.
The goverment will loose 1.6 billion US dollars,according to the Icelandic finance minister.
5 banks have now been nationalized in Iceland.

And here is a video i took of the Danish Coast Guard in Reykjavik on saturday.
Denmark was once our country

Corruption still in Iceland ?

Buisness minister in the Icelandic goverment,says,that he cant take away the banking secrecy ,until after election.
So the Special Prosecutor,cant investigate the corruption surrounding the Banking crisis in Iceland.
Just before the crisis ,they where still paying themselfs big bonuses , and putting the money in tax havens in the Cayman Islands and othere tax havens.

Also they gave themselfs big loans ,and with no sequrities.
But still ,they will probably get votet to parliement in the next election.
Voters seem to have Goldfish memory.

Here below is a video a took of an Icelandic Choir at Fludir.
Fludir is the Mushroom capital of ICeland .
Hope you can enjoy that.

Members of parliement use Prostitutes ?

Catalina Ncoco ,a foreign lady living in Iceland ,says in a interview ,that she rents 12 foreign prostitutes ,apartments in Reykjavik.
She says that the only money she gets from the prostitutes,is rent money.

The men that used the service,came from every walk of life.
Even members of parliement and Goverment ministers,according to Catalina Ncoco .