Icelanders voting NO on debt referendum so far

[lynnf]

voting on a debt they do not owe.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8552971.stm


Early provisional results from just 18,000 voters showed the "No" campaign ahead with a dominant 98% of votes.

Talks between Iceland, the UK and the Netherlands three countries broke down on Friday without agreement.

[lynnf]

duplicate

[lynnf]

According to results released Sunday, just over 93 percent of voters said "no" in Saturday's ballot, while only 1.8 percent voted "yes," according to a count of all but 2,500 of the 143,784 votes cast. The rest were blank or spoiled ballots.


http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/business/6901332.html

[Nate]

Niður með Vanhæf Ríkisstjórn!

Uppreisn!

ÁFRAM ÍSLAND!

[lynnf]

Niður með Vanhæf Ríkisstjórn!

Uppreisn!

ÁFRAM ÍSLAND!



I think I can figure out what uppreisn means, but you'll have to translate the rest!

lynn

[puppetmaster]

nice !let the games begin

[XNavyNuke]

The McDowell News: Revolt in Iceland offers glimpse of America's future (http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/content/2010/mar/09/combs-revolt-iceland-offers-glimpse-americas-futur/)


It's regrettable that the American press, other than business-specific niche outlets, virtually ignores the news from the rest of the world. The news from Iceland this week is instructive, because we Americans are facing a very similar situation of mounting untenable debt and our federal and local governments and financial institutions are taking a similar approach -- borrow more money -- to dealing with the financial crisis.

Iceland saw what may have been the first volley of return fire in a global war with governments, banks and monopoly business on one side and productive people on the other. The peasants have revolted. In a national referendum last weekend, the people of Iceland rejected their country's version of the bailout for the rich.

Occasionaly, here and there, some folks are starting to do a little analysis on the facade of the global economy.

XNN