Icelanders Don’t Like Being Pushed Around

    • He is partly right, at least about not willing to be pushed around, or controlled fram afar through the EU also. But his last words are wrong, we did did maintain a deposit-insurance system, The Depositors’ Guarantee Fund was founded according to the letter and spirit of European Union directive 94/19/EC, which specifically prohibits sovereign guarantee of the fund. That fund was depleted when Iceland suffered the collapse of every major bank, a systemic collapse, within a few days, partly because of the anti-terrorist laws enacted against all Icelandic companies. It is also important to note that the directive was never intended to cover systemic failure.

    • "Meanwhile, on the political front, Iceland’s negotiations for European Union membership—widely backed by the population ..."

      According to polls the majority of Icelanders are against joining the EU.

    • It is about time that Icelanders said "NO' to European Economic Area and Trading Court too. There is a limit for a small country to being pushed around by the crooks (and I mean it) from London and other big European countries.

      Romesh Chander
      Bellingham, WA, USA

    • If I may, I would like to squeeze in a short comment here to everybody.

      All the Iceelandic banks were privatized about a decade ago against the will of the prople and our constitution demands that such big desicions go for a nation wide referendum, which was not done which makes this desicion illegal and treasonous.
      So the Landsbanki was in private hands and their subsidiary was the internet Icesave bank which was not an Icelandic bank in any way and Icelanders could not use it !
      There is a dabate about if the Icesave bank was somehow not fully finalised as a brit or a dutch company inside the EU and there are many other things which are being debated but everything was in fact like it was supposed to be and accepted by the brits as can be seen on the page of the website of FSCS (financial service compensation scheme).

      The most important thing is that eferyone of Iceave savers have been compensated fully and above the compensation limit and more than that.
      The brits and the dutch just decided this without our consent and then they say they loaned or lended this money to us !
      You must see how outagous this is.

      The agreement which we re supposed to accept is beyond any normal agreement to settle very complicated matters and the criminal and corrupt regimes of the brits and the dutch and other states supporting them are trying to let us give away our sovereignity and independence in many important areas of our society like our resources and jurisdiction in everything related to the forced and controlled or handsteered economical "crash".

      So people or the "Icesavers" have been paid more than they could dream of getting back and the brits and the dutch states have a claim to something from the sales of the assets from the Landsbanki when and if they will be sold but there are other claimants like our central bank and many people here in Iceland.

      So some people are trying to take all af Landsbanki assets for them selfs and much much more than that, and nobody else will get anything !?!
      This is considered by me and many others as an attack by fellow NAT0 "allies", the betrayal of the brits and the dutch an that the criminals who benefit from this terrorattack on our economy, resources country and people, do control the politics of the brits and the dutch and other states who support this act of warfare, and it is is so obvious, and there are so many other similar things going on against our nation.

      It is absolutely forbidden by our constitution to let private banks let alone oparating in other contries, issue money in the name of our people or our central bank (Sedlabanki 'Islands - ís or 'Is (pron. ees) means ice and 'Island means Iceland).
      Also a very important thing, the majority of Icelanders are in general against the false undemocratic bureaucratic-criminal organization calling them selfs
      EU (European Union).
      We are already having like 70 % of the EU regulations since 1990´s we are a part of the EEA (european econonmic area) and that is when our problems began with the privatization of public assets, banks and many other things like importing of foreign dubious workforce which is now a burden with very high criminal ratio in our society and more things which we were not prepared for.
      All these points about EEA end the change of legislation, desicions and actions following was really an illegal and treasonous act by all parties in Iceland because all such big jepordizing and possibly threatening acts are demanded by the constitution to go for a nation wide referendum !
      The stupid regulations which have been adopted here are so strange and silly and others are absolutely dangerous as has been proven often times.
      Iceland is an island in the middle of the North Atlantic with no borders to anyone and in many ways absolutely different in so many ways like, we never have had a military, the energy production which is almost 100 % geothermal for house heating and also much of the electricity production which is increasing, and the rest is hydrolic.
      We do nut burn anything to get all of this !
      And then there is the grid which was like the energy and heating doing wonderfully to say the least, and in our or the hands of the people, perfectly sufficient and efficcient in every way and no problems, but since the EEA/EU/globalisation membership we have ridiculous problems and silly rules about ownership, competition and so forth which are totally against the benefits of our society.
      What to call this I do not know but I think it would be appropriate to call the cantralization or clobalization EEA/EU etc. a bureaucratic communist-facist-capitalist collectivism controlled by central "special" rich people, crime and corruption.

      How about that if the EU would stop thinking and talking about that we need to adopt to their nonsense rules and regulations and instead they would adopt to us and our rules which are basically friendly and peaceful in practice and self sufficient or substantial or what ever you call it ?!
      What Islendingur says here on this blog is absolutely correct and important to mention.

      Here is another comment from me explaining some more:

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