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GLOBAL ELITES THROWN OUT OF ICELAND: Iceland Dismantles Corrupt Gov’t Then Arrests All Rothschild Bankers
June 18th, 2012 | Author: The Meister

Since the 1900′s the vast majority of the American population has dreamed about saying “NO” to the Unconstitutional, corrupt, Rothschild/Rockefeller banking criminals, but no one has dared to do so. Why? If just half of our Nation, and the “1%”, who pay the majority of the taxes, just said NO MORE! Our Gov’t would literally change over night. Why is it so hard, for some people to understand, that by simply NOT giving your money, to large Corporations, who then send jobs, Intellectual Property, etc. offshore and promote anti-Constitutional rights… You will accomplish more, than if you used violence. In other words… RESEARCH WHERE YOU ARE SENDING EVERY SINGLE PENNY!!! Is that so hard? The truth of the matter is… No one, except the Icelanders, have to been the only culture on the planet to carry out this successfully. Not only have they been successful, at overthrowing the corrupt Gov’t, they’ve drafted a Constitution, that will stop this from happening ever again. That’s not the best part… The best part, is that they have arrested ALL Rothschild/Rockefeller banking puppets, responsible for the Country’s economic Chaos and meltdown.

Last week 9 people were arrested in London and Reykjavik for their possible responsibility for Iceland’s financial collapse in 2008, a deep crisis which developed into an unprecedented public reaction that is changing the country’s direction.

It has been a revolution without weapons in Iceland, the country that hosts the world’s oldest democracy (since 930), and whose citizens have managed to effect change by going on demonstrations and banging pots and pans. Why have the rest of the Western countries not even heard about it?

Pressure from Icelandic citizens’ has managed not only to bring down a government, but also begin the drafting of a new constitution (in process) and is seeking to put in jail those bankers responsible for the financial crisis in the country. As the saying goes, if you ask for things politely it is much easier to get them.

This quiet revolutionary process has its origins in 2008 when the Icelandic government decided to nationalise the three largest banks, Landsbanki, Kaupthing and Glitnir, whose clients were mainly British, and North and South American.

After the State took over, the official currency (krona) plummeted and the stock market suspended its activity after a 76% collapse. Iceland was becoming bankrupt and to save the situation, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) injected U.S. $ 2,100 million and the Nordic countries helped with another 2,500 million.

Great little victories of ordinary people

While banks and local and foreign authorities were desperately seeking economic solutions, the Icelandic people took to the streets and their persistent daily demonstrations outside parliament in Reykjavik prompted the resignation of the conservative Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde and his entire government.

Citizens demanded, in addition, to convene early elections, and they succeeded. In April a coalition government was elected, formed by the Social Democratic Alliance and the Left Green Movement, headed by a new Prime Minister, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir.

Throughout 2009 the Icelandic economy continued to be in a precarious situation (at the end of the year the GDP had dropped by 7%) but, despite this, the Parliament proposed to repay the debt to Britain and the Netherlands with a payment of 3,500 million Euros, a sum to be paid every month by Icelandic families for 15 years at 5.5% interest.

The move sparked anger again in the Icelanders, who returned to the streets demanding that, at least, that decision was put to a referendum. Another big small victory for the street protests: in March 2010 that vote was held and an overwhelming 93% of the population refused to repay the debt, at least with those conditions.

This forced the creditors to rethink the deal and improve it, offering 3% interest and payment over 37 years. Not even that was enough. The current president, on seeing that Parliament approved the agreement by a narrow margin, decided last month not to approve it and to call on the Icelandic people to vote in a referendum so that they would have the last word.

The bankers are fleeing in fear

Returning to the tense situation in 2010, while the Icelanders were refusing to pay a debt incurred by financial sharks without consultation, the coalition government had launched an investigation to determine legal responsibilities for the fatal economic crisis and had already arrested several bankers and top executives closely linked to high risk operations.

Interpol, meanwhile, had issued an international arrest warrant against Sigurdur Einarsson, former president of one of the banks. This situation led scared bankers and executives to leave the country en masse.

In this context of crisis, an assembly was elected to draft a new constitution that would reflect the lessons learned and replace the current one, inspired by the Danish constitution.

To do this, instead of calling experts and politicians, Iceland decided to appeal directly to the people, after all they have sovereign power over the law. More than 500 Icelanders presented themselves as candidates to participate in this exercise in direct democracy and write a new constitution. 25 of them, without party affiliations, including lawyers, students, journalists, farmers and trade union representatives were elected.

Among other developments, this constitution will call for the protection, like no other, of freedom of information and expression in the so-called Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, in a bill that aims to make the country a safe haven for investigative journalism and freedom of information, where sources, journalists and Internet providers that host news reporting are protected.

The people, for once, will decide the future of the country while bankers and politicians witness the transformation of a nation from the sidelines.
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92 comments // GLOBAL ELITES THROWN OUT OF ICELAND

  • remanns
  • Gravity_Man
  • cmc101
  • Gravity_Man
  • cmc101
  • Varex_Sythe
  • wolfess
    • +2
      wolfess  
    • Varex_Sythe:

      Iceland doesn't need liberation -- WE need more of their progressivism! Actually tho to answer your question ... Syria and Iran, and I have an article to prove it!

      Pwr 2 the FED-UP peons! GUILLOTINE MEDIOCRITY -- NO obama/romney!
      KUCINICH/SANDERS 2012!

    • 11 months ago
  • Varex_Sythe
    • +3
      Varex_Sythe  
    • wolfess:

      It was meant to be a joke poking fun at the fact that the United States has "liberated" other nations in a way that actually does more damage to said nation than good but have suspiciously benefitted corporations which were not favored in those said nations previously.

    • 11 months ago
  • wolfess
  • bailey78
  • circlesquared
  • Varex_Sythe
  • Elaine_Ossipov
    • +1
      Elaine_Ossipov  
    • Varex_Sythe:

      Mexico, don't even get me started on Mexico. All the Journalist that have been killed there. No Responsibility from the government. America has put so much money into Mexico, the country just does what it wants, and knows that all they have to do is say "I won't repay my dept" and America just cows to their demands Corrupt Government. Corrupt Law Enforcement. Human Trafficking, Human Trafficking Victims, and not only do tax payers in the US pay for all the Health Care of the Illegals who use our ER's, and send their maybe legal/illegal children to our public school systems, now our Journalist are Killed, Murdered without remand.

      Don't get me wrong, Via con dios, eh el diablo, but, the 'system' needs to be changed, Why isn't their government billed for the services America provides to their citizens? Why doesn't America Provide Seasonal Migration Visa's? Why doesn't America just say no more until Mexico does something about the Corrupt Government, the Journalist, the Woman who are murdered, hundreds upon thousands enslaved, trafficked, the sexual abuse of the woman who are migrant field workers, the children who are enslaved and trafficked, the men who are enslaved, and trafficked labor and more?

      Also, there are many many law enforcement persons in Mexico who are honest, want to bring these people to Justice. When you have a few top level persons who are corrupt and in power and bring fear of death or worst to not only yourself but your family, your whole family, parents, sisters, brothers, children, nieces, nephews, grandchildren. If you were them you'd drop it too.

      Now, a journalist can't even report on these issues anymore without the fear of death?

      Enough is Enough.
      Mexico Liberation, Stop Drug Trafficking, Stop Human Trafficking or Stop funds now.

    • 11 months ago
  • cmc101
  • circlesquared
  • Varex_Sythe
    • 0
      Varex_Sythe  
    • Elaine_Ossipov:

      ... that went off in a completely bizarre direction. I only included Mexico because bailey78 answered, "Mexico and Canada," to my leading statement of, "Guess what nation we're going to try to liberate next..."

      Also, be very careful about what you wish for. Though Mexico is a very very dangerous, unstable, and violent place, you should keep in mind that the United States has not had that good of a track record for bringing stability to such places. Quite the opposite actually.

    • 11 months ago
  • Tayllerand
    • +1
      Tayllerand  

    • The Elite think that by destroying the economies of the world they are going to have a better control of the planet and it's the opposite.

      The End

    • 11 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
  • circlesquared
    • +1
      circlesquared  
    • Tayllerand:

      if we continue to hold onto their systems of control as necessities to maintain comfort than yes we will get a global system from this that is, for the first time, stepping out of the shadows were it's roots have grown for a very long time.

    • 11 months ago
  • mrpuma2u
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      mrpuma2u  
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    • Gravity_Man:

      Hey Senor gravitas, then why, pray tell, did Mount Pinatubo end up net warming the earth's temps??? Just a question, an interrogative if you will.

      By comparing the climate simulations from the Pinatubo eruption, with and without aerosols, the researchers found that the climate model calculated a general cooling of the global troposphere, but yielded a clear winter warming pattern of surface air temperature over Northern Hemisphere continents. The temperature of the tropical lower stratosphere increased by 4 Kelvin (4°C) because of aerosol absorption of terrestrial longwave and solar near-infrared radiation. The model demonstrated that the direct radiative effect of volcanic aerosols causes general stratospheric heating and tropospheric cooling, with a tropospheric warming pattern in the winter.

      Full article at link.

      http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Volcano/

    • 11 months ago
  • Elaine_Ossipov
  • cmc101
  • gatormouth
    • +7
      gatormouth  

    • Wow! And we had to struggle to get Occupy! That is only a sop to public outrage. If we could just end this Reaganism/Thatcherism Neoliberal organized crime wave like Iceland did.Free Trade is unilateral disarmament in a world running on Corporate Mercantilism. We are sheep being led by Judas goat politicians into a new colonial servitude and this time we have to provide the Hessians and costs!

    • 11 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
  • bailey78
  • wolfess
    • +8
      wolfess  

    • Molly Ivins must be rolling over in her grave right now -- especially if she is reading this thread; for every positive comment talking about doing this we have another comment saying that it couldn't happen in this country!
      Molly Ivins said this: "Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors." There have been far too many closed governmental doors for far too long -- it is past time that WE THE PEOPLE voiced our dissent of this current LACK of democracy!
      If not us, who? If not now, when?

      Pwr 2 the FED-UP peons! GUILLOTINE MEDIOCRITY -- NO obama/romney!
      KUCINICH/SANDERS 2012!

    • 11 months ago
  • rerushg
  • VFORVENDETTA
  • Leen61
  • wolfess
    • +2
      wolfess  
    • Leen61:

      Me too Sis and boy do we need her today :-)! Well maybe I'm 'channeling' her ... anyway, I couldn't resist that quote -- it's perfect for this article!

      Pwr 2 the dissenting peons! Be the change you want to see -- GUILLOTINE MEDIOCRITY!

    • 11 months ago
  • wolfess
  • wolfess
  • VFORVENDETTA
    • 0
      VFORVENDETTA  
    • wolfess:

      Ha,ha,ha,ha.....nether does a Mormon! You should vote for Romney! ha,ha,ha,ha But they hate just about everything else-at least if is fun-except corruption, they LOVE that!

      Kill em' kill em' KILL THEM FUCKIN ALL!

    • 11 months ago
  • Leen61
  • circlesquared
  • Leen61
  • mrpuma2u
    • +4
      mrpuma2u  
    • Leen61:

      I do too, but most people don't even realize this happened, they are too busy watching "Dancing with Stars" or some other meaningless crap like that. How do we stop people from being mass media hypnotized philistines???

    • 11 months ago
  • VFORVENDETTA
  • Leen61
    • +1
      Leen61  
    • mrpuma2u:

      I agree, mrpuma2u. "How do we stop people from being mass media hypnotized philistines???" Sadly, that probably won't happen until this country hits rock bottom. Most people have been asleep at the switch for too long.

    • 11 months ago
  • bailey78
  • circlesquared
  • bailey78
  • gatormouth
    • +3
      gatormouth  
    • bailey78:

      True. They whipsaw us us with wedge issues and controlled information and dissimulation while both parties jump through corporate hoops and cooperate on turning us into corporate colonies.

    • 11 months ago
  • VFORVENDETTA
  • bailey78
  • Gravity_Man
  • VFORVENDETTA
  • VFORVENDETTA
  • ampersand
    • +7
      ampersand  

    • The part of this that makes me winch is the use of Rothschild/Rockefeller as a sloppy name tag for international banksters.
      It pushes the story in the direction of whacko conspiracy land.
      Yes, there are still members of the Rothschild family involved in finance, and Rockefellers involved in banking, but to hang the enormity of the devastating culture of toxic greed on them is not only historically quaint, but also lazy and misleading.
      I've know some Rockefellers who were deep and committed hands on ecologists.
      I don't know any Rothschilds personally but I imagine they are a varied lot as well. And, if not aghast at this sort if thing, probably bemused or bewildered to see themselves singled out as the sole identifiable targets of internet labeling.
      Let's not let an entire class of financial criminals off the hook by convenient and time-tested but hoary mis-labeling.
      List the names. List the corporations. List the officers and the board members. Publish the names. Should be easy-peasey in this day and age.

    • 11 months ago
  • rerushg
    • +1
      rerushg  
    • ampersand:

      Good point. I noticed that too.
      The site is more of a blog than rigorous journalism. No criticism intended; they do good work. And "proper journalism" is very hard to find anymore this side of The Guardian.
      There's also not much here that's new. It's sort of a refresher on the Icelandic approach to the crisis. That's a good thing too.

    • 11 months ago
  • ampersand
    • -1
      ampersand  
    • rerushg:

      Yes, quite so. I've posted stories very early on Iceland's admirable and successful revolt against the international banksters. We could learn a lot from their example.
      We could also learn a lot from observing what happened the portion of the Irish government allied with banking interests volunteered to let Irish taxpayers pay the debts of the international speculators (again, primarily Germany) in the hope it might help their "credit rating."
      Ireland is now broke and devastated and will continue to struggle under that crushing debt for years if not decades.

    • 11 months ago
  • Dagum
    • +1
      Dagum  
    • ampersand:

      Certainly,not all the fruit of Robber baron, John. D Rockefeller's tree is completely rotten. Just most of it.

      The closer you get to the current patriarch David, the more vile they are.

      Have you ever met Nick?

      And let us not forget the late Nelson Rockefeller.... a total morally corrupt p.o.s.

    • 11 months ago
  • artemis6
  • warman1138
  • MSII
    • +8
      MSII  

    • Wonderful story! Gives a person a glimpse of a sane country of sane people who stood up for REAL democracy! A country for and about it's actual real CITIZENS, and not the 1%! Wonderful!

    • 11 months ago
  • circlesquared
  • Littlewolf
  • attilatheblond
    • +5
      attilatheblond  
    • Littlewolf:

      And they have been using alternative energy for decades too. All that volcanic activity close to the surface puts them at risk, but until any big blow, they harnessed a lot of that hot steam they have in abundance and make greenhouses warm to grow foods.

      Gotta love a people with that sort of resolve. Gotta take heart from their delft action against the money hoarders who rape and pillage whole nations.

    • 11 months ago
  • gatormouth
    • +1
      gatormouth  
    • Littlewolf:

      A democracy that resists being taken over by corporations! Theoretically, in OUR country sovereignty resides in the people too. Politicians and jurists are only their delegates and paid employees, NOT their divine right rulers. Like Mitt said, I like the idea of being able to fire our employees.

    • 11 months ago
  • MSII
  • wolfess
  • Des_Akkari
    • +5
      Des_Akkari  
    • wolfess:

      that is so obvious....how did I miss that. For the first time, I may have a little hope that the American public will get their crap together. If you are unemployed or lost your house your JOB should be protesting....by my count there could be close to 50 million.

    • 11 months ago
  • wolfess
    • +1
      wolfess  
    • Des_Akkari:

      You are so right! I read an article this afternoon about the 'occupy homes' movement where everyone involved in it spent a couple of days calling the banks that were foreclosing on a number of families and the banks got so tired of the flood of calls that they capitulated. Why couldn't there be thousands of people on Wall St using their cells to call the banks they're standing in front of? AND ... for those of us who really can't be there in person, if we were notified about when these calls were planned there would be many of us all over the US that would jump at the opportunity to be part of this :-)!!!!!

      Pwr 2 the FED-UP peons! GUILLOTINE THE BANKSTERS!

    • 11 months ago
  • gatormouth
  • artemis6
  • gatormouth
  • artemis6
  • COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM
    • +8
      COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM  

    • Perhaps the People should compile our own list of American traitors and enemies of the People/State, and set about making citizen arrests, and possibly hold our own tribunals and sentencing... I see a movie script in this that should be copying life.

    • 11 months ago
  • wolfess
  • bailey78
  • wolfess
  • bailey78
  • attilatheblond
  • bailey78
  • wolfess
    • +3
      wolfess  
    • bailey78:

      There's got to be some enterprising person out there that could build a guillotine -- there are stores that sell working miniature guillotines -- why couldn't we actually build one to scale?

      Pwr 2 FED-UP peons! GUILLOTINE THE BANKSTERS!

    • 11 months ago
  • bailey78
  • HarukoHaruhara
  • Mark701
    • +11
      Mark701  

    • This is pretty incredible to say the least. But a repeat of it in this country would be unlikely. Specifically, it didn't appear from the story that there was any popular resistance to the changes. Without a doubt it made things easier and clearly shows that the perceived power of ANY government only derives from the people who are willing to support them.

      Unfortunately here in the good ol' USA we have the Koch Brothers, the likes of Karl Rove, Grover Norquist, FAUX News, the Heritage Foundation,along with a host of other institutions and individuals whose sole objective is to keep the facts from the population to ensure we keep fighting each other instead of them.

      They have been stunningly successful, largely by legitimizing the prejudices and stupidity of a "not so bright" part of the population. I'm not even sure in the event of a total financial collapse that we could pull together enough to dig ourselves out. Only time will tell.

    • 11 months ago
  • MSII
  • Des_Akkari
    • +5
      Des_Akkari  
    • Mark701:

      I am in your camp, but this does give me hope with one caveat. I think a couple more Repub. administrations would make the "Red" states so poor, broke, and sick that maybe....just maybe they will stop voting gays, guns, and god....and oh yea, the who fear of people of color. When these states hit rock bottom, I don't think Faux news is going to get it done anymore....even now most people who call them selves Democrat can barely tolerate voting for Obama but they do.....soon repub voters will have to do the same. Soon everyone will just stop voting and start banging pots and pans... I hope. However, I have NO faith that the general populous of the USA are smart enough for real Democracy.

    • 11 months ago
  • attilatheblond
    • +3
      attilatheblond  
    • Des_Akkari:

      Just reading an article on polls showing majority of GOP voters STILL think Iraq did have WMD. I have so little hope that anything will save America when so many people here are that damned dumb or unwilling to deal with reality.

      But a girl can dream.....

    • 11 months ago
  • Des_Akkari
  • wolfess
  • mitekillem
    • +11
      mitekillem  

    • I want to live there now. :/ Why can't we be like Iceland?
      Oh yeah, most American's are brain washed by the GOP, Fox News, and are too stupid to count their fingers and toes with their shoes on.

    • 11 months ago
  • MSII
  • galwayman
    • +8
      galwayman  

    • The people of every country should do the same! This shows that the rich elite and it's political lackies can be fought and that the people when united can win!

    • 11 months ago
  • friskn8er
  • gump
  • mrpuma2u
  • Vic_Romano
  • circlesquared
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