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jax

03-06-2010 @ 10:38 PM

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    93% of voting Icelanders choose not to repay the debts their banks and government had accrued. This marks the beginning of the end of global finance. Watch what happens here closely because I suspect citizens of Greece and perhaps a few other nations are paying attention.
   Politicians break their promises all the time, both to their citizens as well as other nations. Why do government promises to banks have to be sacrosanct?

  Very exciting times indeed. We are all Icelanders today!

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03-10-2010 @ 11:59 AM

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The pressure from officialdom is now building against Iceland. Despite the vote result, finance ministers of Holland and Sweden say that they are confident that Iceland will repay the Icesave debt. Mainstream analysts and officials across EU say Iceland will face isolation, if they will not repay on conditions set out by Britain and Holland. Iceland is more than selfsufficient regarding energy, food and commodities generally, so it should be possible to manage on their own, regarding basic needs. This is the ultimate test which will prove wether the Big Brother bullying will be succesful or not. Icelanders have Always been against EU membership by a large margin, except during 2008-2009, when polls show 50-50 to 55-45 for EU. 93% of Icelanders have now voted against repaying the banks debt, even when they have been told again and again that EU-membership will only be granted if they repay the Icesave debt.

If Iceland does not join EU within the next 2-3 years, they will never join. At least not voluntarily.
It will be interesting to follow the development in Iceland in the near future.

Getting Iceland inside EU will be a major achievement in EU's long term plan to get oil- and food-rich Norway inside EU too. Norway will be quite isolated outside EU if Iceland joins in.
EU wants control of food production and supply. The area which they presently control the least regarding food supply is fishing and seafarming in North Atlantic. Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Faroe islands and Russia are major fish exporters in the area which are not regulated by the destructive, centralized, EU fishing policies. These policies have already wrecked the British and Danish fishing industries, to name a few.