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Daniel Martin Gray The Washington Times 12/15/2013 …Let’s start with a banking crisis like 2008, caused by greedheads in government and breathtaking risktakers in multinational megacorporations. Assume it was entirely intended, in order to cause critical consequences and cement even more power and money in the hands of elites. Say that nationalizing industry and the […] December 17th, 2013 | Tags: “pots and pans revolution”, 2008, bailouts, cronyism, Iceland, monetizing national debt, revolution | Category: Banking and finance, corruption, Government, Media accountability, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Peter Finn and Sari Horowitz The Washington Post 6/21/2013 Federal prosecutors have filed a sealed criminal complaint against Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked a trove of documents about top-secret surveillance programs, and the United States has asked Hong Kong to detain him on a provisional arrest warrant, according to U.S. […] June 21st, 2013 | Tags: ‘Insider Threat’ program, Abid Naseer, Booz Allen Hamilton, domestic surveillance, Edward Snowden, Espionage Act of 1917, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Iceland, Julian Assange, Najibullah Zazi, National Security Agency, Office of Personnel Management, WikiLeaks | Category: Department of Justice, Great Britain, National Intelligence, terrorism, United States, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Decision to force bondholders to pay for banking system’s collapse appears to pay off as economy grows 1.2% in third quarter Phillip Inman The Guardian 7 December 2011 Iceland’s decision two years ago to force bondholders to pay for the banking system’s collapse appeared to pay off after official figures showed the country exited recession […] December 14th, 2011 | Tags: bondholders, Debt, Iceland, Olafur R Grímsson, recession | Category: Banking and finance, Economy | Comments are closed
Reykjavik community holds formal Rosh Hashana services with a rabbi and a Torah scroll for first time since end of WWII. Alex Weisler The Jerusalem Post 10/9/2011 REYKJAVIK, Iceland – Nearly half an hour after Rosh Hashanah services were set to begin, the congregation in this chilly city still was one man short of a […] October 10th, 2011 | Tags: Iceland, Reykjavik, Rosh Hashana | Category: religion, World War II | Comments are closed
Eyjafjallajökull Awakes by Dinah Deckstein, Manfred Dworschak, Marco Evers, Cordula Meyer, Gerald Traufetter Translated from the German by Ella Ornstein. Der Spiegel 17 April 2010 The eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull has brought European aviation to a near-standstill in the worst disruptions since 9/11. Airlines are hemorrhaging money and tens of thousands of passengers […] April 18th, 2010 | Tags: air travel, Iceland, volcano Eyjafjallajökull | Category: Economy, Europe | Comments are closed
Icelanders have rejected plans to repay £3.5 billion owed to Britain and the Netherlands following the failure of the internet bank Icesave. Richard Tyler and David Harrison Telegraph [UK] 6 March 2010 The government of Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir government admitted defeat after it became clear last night that more than 90 per cent of […] March 6th, 2010 | Tags: Iceland, Netherlands | Category: Banking and finance, Economy, Great Britain | Comments are closed
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