The Governement of Iceland Has Fallen, who is next?

[Chosen]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1126682/Icelandic-government-brought-credit-crunch.html


Icelandic government becomes first to be brought down by the credit crunch

By Graham Smith
Last updated at 3:10 PM on 23rd January 2009

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Geir Haarde

Quit: Iceland's Prime Minister Geir Haarde called a general election for May. He also revealed he has cancer and will not be standing for re-election

The government of Iceland today became the first to be effectively brought down by the credit crunch.

After several nights of rioting over the financial crisis, Prime Minister Geir Haarde, surrendered to increasing pressure and called a general election for May.

A poll would not normally be held until 2011.

Haarde also revealed that he had been diagnosed with a malignant tumour of the oesophagus and would not seek re-election.

'I have decided not to seek re-election as leader of the Independence Party at its upcoming national congress,' he told a news conference.

The global financial crisis hit Iceland, which has a population 320,000, in October, triggering a collapse in its currency and financial system under the weight of billions of dollars of foreign debts incurred by its banks...


...Special forces had to rescue Haarde from his car after he was surrounded by an furious mob hurling eggs and cans outside the government offices, in Reykjavik...

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[Chosen]

There seems to also be unrest and rioting in Latvia and Bulgaria:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5563020.ece

http://euobserver.com/843/27460


A wave of violent protests and riots is spreading across Europe in response to the financial crisis. The outbreak has prompted EU leaders to call a March summit to address the unrest.

Violent protests have erupted in:

* Iceland: After the Icelandic economy collapsed this fall, protests against the government have escalated, with demonstrators throwing eggs, paint, snowballs, and yogurt at government officials and being met with tear gas and clubs. The Prime Minister agreed today to call early elections for May 9, and will not seek re-election.
* Bulgaria: Hundreds gathered outside the parliament, violently protesting the government's corruption and inept response to the financial crisis. EU officials have stated they are particularly worried about developments in Bulgaria.
* Greece: Violent riots erupted around the country in December after the police shooting of a teenager. A second wave of riots continues for the second week over the economic crisis and the failing education system. The riots in Greece prompted sympathetic protests in Moscow, Madrid and Berlin, where the Greek Consulate was briefly stormed.
* Latvia: 10,000 people laid siege to the parliament last week, protesting high taxes and government austerity plans required for EU and IMF loans. Latvians are demanding action or resignations.
o "'Latvians are normally very quiet,' a Latvian diplomat told the EU observer website. 'People obviously are seeing what is happening in other countries in the rest of Europe, such as Greece, and they thought "Why are we so calm?".'"
* Lithuania: Crowds threw stones at parliament, protesting government austerity plans.
* Russia: Unrest erupted in Yekaterinburg and Vladviostok over expensive car import duties.

[Chosen]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/25/europe-uk-recession-crime



Be very worried - rioting's coming home
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* Nick Cohen
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o Nick Cohen
o The Observer, Sunday 25 January 2009

The nervousness of the Latvian police encapsulates how the recession is destroying Europe's idea of itself. They did not know how to respond when an apparently organised group broke off from a demonstration against credit squeezes and spending cuts.

The rioters pelted officers with cobblestones and chunks of ice as they tried to reach the parliament; they also smashed up boutiques, a bank and the finance ministry. Even Aigars Stokenbergs, a left-wing politician who organised the main protest, blamed the police for not being tough enough.

When Latvia escaped from the Soviet empire in 1991, it thought it was joining a boring but contented Europe of peace and plenty. If Latvians expected trouble, they expected it from Russia, not from crowds infuriated by the removal of the promise of affluence, cursing the free institutions which the imprisoned peoples of the Soviet bloc longed for in the days of occupation...

[Chosen]

Rioting Monitored at Security Watch:
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Security-Watch/Detail/?fecvnodeid=118586&fecvid=33&lng=en&v33=118586&id=95684


...Latvia is perhaps the most disturbing example of the three, because, until recently, the country was the fastest-growing in the EU, a place where the average wage doubled over the past three years. Governments did rise and fall rather often, but economic stability in this small Baltic nation seemed virtually guaranteed and the country well on its way to prosperous times and the living standards of nearby Scandinavia...

[Chosen]

Protesters Demand Icelandic Government Quits Now:
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSLO529629

[Chosen]

Icelandic Middle Class in Revolt:
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article5581360.ece

[Ex Post Facto]

We will be nearly the last to collapse most likely...but signs of things to come.

[Chosen]

We will be nearly the last to collapse most likely...but signs of things to come.

I agree we are on the best footing, but I predict when the foundational governments like Britain and France go down things will domino.

[Chosen]

China preparing for a year of civil unrest:
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1219994

[Chosen]

Dutch Banks suffer due to connection to Iceland:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/23/content_10710794.htm

[Chosen]

Latvian Clashes from a week ago:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479903,00.html

http://www.foxnews.com/images/492803/0_61_011409_latvia.jpg

[Uriel999]

Anybody else get chills out of that? I did.

[Anti Federalist]

You've got to figure the NWO stepped on it's dick when Iceland riots.

I mean, c'mon, it's Iceland FFS. It's not like there is a long tradition of "civil unrest" there.

From Wiki:

In the twentieth century, Iceland's economy and welfare system developed quickly. In recent decades, Iceland has implemented free trade in the European Economic Area and diversified from fishing to new economic fields in services, finance, and various industries.

There you have it in a microcosm.

Lose your independence, lose your native skills and industry, invite in the globalists, live it up for a while on cheap credit and worthless fiat currency, and then, boom, crushing debt, bankruptcy and riots.

Yeah, globalism, what a deal.

[Chosen]

I mean, c'mon, it's Iceland FFS. It's not like there is a long tradition of "civil unrest" there.

Absolutely. That is why I find it to be quite significant. This isn't the classic third world native upheaval.

[idiom]

Well the UK is facing exactly what tripped up Iceland. However, are the british uppity enough to riot when the country goes bankrupt or will they just potter on as always?

[Chosen]

Well the UK is facing exactly what tripped up Iceland. However, are the british uppity enough to riot when the country goes bankrupt or will they just potter on as always?
My guess is potter on. Look at what the government has been able to get away with thus far.

[UK4Paul]

My guess is potter on. Look at what the government has been able to get away with thus far.

We'll probably write strong letters to newspaper editors.

[Chosen]

We'll probably write strong letters to newspaper editors.

Hahaha, yes I have witnessed this.

My pick for the next to go in the CFR Olympics is Mexico.

[ShowMeLiberty]

Unfortunately, it sounds as if the people of Iceland are only looking to replace their current politicians with different politicians. Whether they achieve a true revolution will depend on who they choose as replacements. Will they elect rational, pro-liberty people like Ron Paul? Or are they looking for US-style "change" and "hope"?



Now that the ball is out of the government’s court, who is going to lead the way to change? Where is our Obama? No one seems to be stepping up to the plate and we only have five months on the clock.

Iceland Review Online (http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_life/?cat_id=16567&ew_0_a_id=318855)

[Sandra]

Rioting here will be met with deadlier force since our citizens are presumably armed. I think there is a greater caution on both sides to prevent a confrontation.

[Chosen]

Unfortunately, it sounds as if the people of Iceland are only looking to replace their current politicians with different politicians. Whether they achieve a true revolution will depend on who they choose as replacements. Will they elect rational, pro-liberty people like Ron Paul? Or are they looking for US-style "change" and "hope"?Wow. Their Obama? LOL, they have no idea they are calling for a tyrant worse than their current administration.

This actually makes the situation worse, because it is an example of the power of propaganda.

Acorn and other collectivists crash the market, Obama is a member of Acorn. Now they push for consolidation of power and central planning after violating the rule of law and ushering in a new age of rational crime.

Behold the reach of the global messiah as the illiterate masses elsewhere chatter his name. Good Lord.

[Anti Federalist]

Hahaha, yes I have witnessed this.

My pick for the next to go in the CFR Olympics is Mexico.

Mexico is starting to fall apart...

Mexico police chief's head found in ice box (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/4299116/Mexico-police-chiefs-head-found-in-ice-box.html)

The head of a Mexican police chief was delivered to his colleagues in an ice box in the country's latest (CIA sponsored - AF) drug-related violence.

[Chosen]

Quote:


Now that the ball is out of the government’s court, who is going to lead the way to change? Where is our Obama? No one seems to be stepping up to the plate and we only have five months on the clock.

Iceland Review Online (http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_life/?cat_id=16567&ew_0_a_id=318855)


It seems as if this online review publishes email letters regarding their articles. Perhaps they could benefit from some education about B Hussein Obama.



This is your platform. Please email all letters and comments you would like to see published on this website to eyglo@icelandreview.com with the subject headline "Letters/Comments." Please include your name, home town and country.

[ShowMeLiberty]

Wow. Their Obama? LOL, they have no idea they are calling for a tyrant worse than their current administration.

This actually makes the situation worse, because it is an example of the power of propaganda.

Acorn and other collectivists crash the market, Obama is a member of Acorn. Now they push for consolidation of power and central planning after violating the rule of law and ushering in a new age of rational crime.

Behold the reach of the global messiah as the illiterate masses elsewhere chatter his name. Good Lord.

Yep, that pretty much sums it up.

I wish it was real revolution in Iceland, but I no longer believe that is the case.

[Chosen]

Yep, that pretty much sums it up.

I wish it was real revolution in Iceland, but I no longer believe that is the case.
I suspect there will be many governments falling with authoritarians stepping up to the plate. Only here in the US we let the CFR play a ZeroSum game and push one into position.

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Fuck! What just occured to me was the Obama response to this. Let's wait and watch how he responds to the new "leader" in Iceland. I guarantee as these governments fall he will embrace the replacements under a banner of "change!" Calling them into this worldwide mantra. As if these new leaders are part of a movement against corruption.

The irony is an organization he worked for Acorn, intentionally caused this crash and now the purpose is evident to the masses. Except they can't see it.

[ShowMeLiberty]

I suspect there will be many governments falling with authoritarians stepping up to the plate. Only here in the US we let the CFR play a ZeroSum game and push one into position.

*edit
Fuck! What just occured to me was the Obama response to this. Let's wait and watch how he responds to the new "leader" in Iceland. I guarantee as these governments fall he will embrace the replacements under a banner of "change!" Calling them into this worldwide mantra. As if these new leaders are part of a movement against corruption.

The irony is an organization he worked for Acorn, intentionally caused this crash and now the purpose is evident to the masses. Except they can't see it.

Ok, that's freakin' scary. I've never been a believer in "end times" and the "anti-Christ" but lately I'm beginning to wonder...

[Andrew-Austin]

Wow. Their Obama? LOL, they have no idea they are calling for a tyrant worse than their current administration.

This actually makes the situation worse, because it is an example of the power of propaganda.

Acorn and other collectivists crash the market, Obama is a member of Acorn. Now they push for consolidation of power and central planning after violating the rule of law and ushering in a new age of rational crime.

Behold the reach of the global messiah as the illiterate masses elsewhere chatter his name. Good Lord.

I would not look too much into that...

1. Its just a news blog
2. I doubt the person who typed that up has a good understanding of the "changes" Obama is going to bring, its likely she only supports the image and rhetoric of the man and not so much his policies. She quoted Jefferson a few paragraphs up..

[Chosen]

Ok, that's freakin' scary. I've never been a believer in "end times" and the "anti-Christ" but lately I'm beginning to wonder...

I don't believe in these sort of things either, but I do believe we are seeing end game. The end of the "long march thru culture" by the authoritarian collectivists. We missed our window of opportunity to prevent them from destroying our society as they exploited its virtues for their political gain.

Of course, we either accept global totalitarianism or we revolt and create a new society as our founding fathers did.

[Chosen]

I would not look too much into that...

1. Its just a news blog
2. I doubt the person who typed that up has a good understanding of the "changes" Obama is going to bring, its likely she only supports the image and rhetoric of the man and not so much his policies. She quoted Jefferson a few paragraphs up..
I know what you are saying.

But I did notice a sort of warped sense of the purpose of Obama when I was abroad lately. In Berlin, Der Spiegel has successfully created an image of Obama that embodies the ever ambiguous 'change.' Europeans still look to the US for guidance in bad times, now they are adopting this mantra as an American stance without seeing it as a non-American slogan for central planning and authoritarianism.

[ShowMeLiberty]

I don't believe in these sort of things either, but I do believe we are seeing end game. The end of the "long march thru culture" by the authoritarian collectivists. We missed our window of opportunity to prevent them from destroying our society as they exploited its virtues for their political gain.

Of course, we either accept global totalitarianism or we revolt and create a new society as our founding fathers did.

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Wolverines!!

[fedup100]

We will be nearly the last to collapse most likely...but signs of things to come.

I agree with you. The elite that have instigated this mess have lost all real control and will be shocked at the swift and lethal response by the Americas middle class if and when they are forced to do something. This situation today could well be a free peoples friend in the long run.

[Chosen]

I agree with you. The elite that have instigated this mess have lost all real control and will be shocked at the swift and lethal response by the Americas middle class if and when they are forced to do something. This situation today could well be a free peoples friend in the long run.Yes, I agree with you. We have to be ready to act on this, not do as the people of Iceland are doing and possibly enthrone an even worse authoritarian.

They are clamoring for accountability and reform against corruption, but it looks as if they may put central planning on the throne. This is essentially what we did.

[Chosen]

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Wolverines!!

The chair is against the wall.

[Anti Federalist]

The chair is against the wall.

John has a long mustache.

The looters have entered the package store.

[Chosen]

hahahaha yes!

[roho76]

Yeah, but what does Bjork think of all this?

[angelatc]

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