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Pictures From A Pelting - Icelanders Throw Eggs At PM, Priests, After Being Forced To Start Making Mortgage Payments
In an advance preview of what will happen in the US once tens of millions of "homeowners" are forced to actually start paying their mortgage bills, Iceland's disgruntled population "gathered in their thousands, beating
makeshift drums and hurling red paint at the legislature." As Bloomberg further describes the festivities: "protestors lit a bonfire and threw
firecrackers at police while others threw eggs, tomatoes and
paint at the parliament as they tried to break through the steel
fence protecting the building." And while 8,000 protesters seems like a de-minimis number, keep in mind it is 2.7% of the country total population, and would be equivalent to 9.5 million American lining up to throw rotten vegetables at Ben Bernanke. Seeing how not even one has done so ever, it appears the Volcano dwellers have infinitely more guts than their infinitely more weaponized American equivalents. As to what sparked the ire of the egg-throwers: "A six-month freeze on mortgage repayments put in place by the government expired on Thursday, triggering the anger of many Icelanders who will fall short on home payments." Perhaps when in a decade or so, Americans are once again forced to pay down their debts, we may actually see comparable footage in the US as well. Too bad the world's central banks will start a world war long before that (and yes, you can eat eggs).
And here are some pictures of various members of the Icelandic elite covered in yolk, from Daylife:
Iceland's
First Lady Dorrit Moussaieff (2nd L), Prime Minister Johanna
Sigurdardottir (3rd L), President of Parliament Asta R. Johannesdottir
(4th L), Finance Minister Steingrimur Sigfusson (5th L), Foreign
Minister Ossur Skarphedinsson (6th L) and other members of parliament
walk to seek shelter as protesters fling dairy products during a rally
outside Iceland's parliament in Reykjavik
October 1, 2010. Around 2,000 people protested in front of parliament,
voicing dissatisfaction with, among other things, a recent parliamentary
vote that saw three of four ministers recommended for facing charges of
negligence escaping any charges.
A reverend with eggs thrown by protesters on his coat walk outside Iceland's parliament in front of First Lady Dorrit Moussaieff (C) in Reykjavik
October 1, 2010. Around 2,000 people protested in front of parliament,
voicing dissatisfaction with, among other things, a recent parliamentary
vote that saw three of four ministers recommended for facing charges of
negligence escaping any charges.
Protesters gather around a fire during a rally outside Iceland's parliament in Reykjavik
October 1, 2010. Around 2,000 people protested in front of parliament,
voicing dissatisfaction with, among other things, a recent parliamentary
vote that saw three of four ministers recommended for facing charges of
negligence escaping any charges. The poster on right reads "Do banks'
pension funds practice money laundering?", while the other reads,
"Arrogance, stupidity, greed = collapse".
First Lady of Iceland
Dorrit Moussaieff (C), the Bishop of Iceland Karl Sigurbjornsson (R)
and a parliament staff watch from inside the parliament as protesters
fling dairy products during a rally in Reykjavik
October 1, 2010. Around 2,000 people protested in front of parliament,
voicing dissatisfaction with, among other things, a recent parliamentary
vote that saw three of four ministers recommended for facing charges of
negligence escaping any charges.
Protesters gather outside Iceland's parliament as police officers look on in Reykjavik
October 1, 2010. Around 2,000 people protested in front of parliament,
voicing dissatisfaction with, among other things, a recent parliamentary
vote that saw three of four ministers recommended for facing charges of
negligence escaping any charges. The placard reads, "Kill Capitalism".
A security guard looks through a window broken by protesters in a cathedral in Reykjavik October 1, 2010. Around 2,000 people protested in front of Iceland's
parliament, voicing dissatisfaction with, among other things, a recent
parliamentary vote that saw three of four ministers recommended for
facing charges of negligence escaping any charges.
Iceland's Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir tries to shield herself from food products thrown by protesters outside the parliament in Reykjavik
October 1, 2010. Around 2,000 people protested in front of parliament,
voicing dissatisfaction with, among other things, a recent
parliamentary vote that saw three of four ministers recommended for
facing charges of negligence escaping any charges.
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to my peepals...
meanwhile they're setting off bombs outside banks in Ireland.
That would make Bono's day! :)
As we speak, he's making the next best single!
Belfast, actually.
That would be in the U.K.
That's what I'm talking about!!! A good old fashioned pelting with produce!
Do you know what you get when you mix equal parts orange juice and gasoline? Tyler Durden, Fight Club (1999)
Time to rev up the soap factory?
"And I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property -- until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered... The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." -- Thomas Jefferson wrote on May 28, 1816
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." -- Thomas Jefferson
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776.
What country ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. -- Thomas Jefferson
Who the hell would junk a post composed solely of such insightful quotes?
Who?
No, you can't foreclose on people who don't pay their mortgages--that's fraud!
Dorrit Moussaieff look like a Wall St. whore.
Agreed. I wonder if she's one of "the Chosen"?
She's an Israeli-born British dual citizen of Uzbekh-Jewish extraction. Presumably she's now a viking too. Ah the beauty of rootless cosmopolitanism...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorrit_Moussaieff
A four minute must-watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yge311sFhC8
Thank you, Bob.
Please share it, people!
If governments cannot be for the people it needs to be overthrown .. eggs and tomatoes will not do the job! start with at least stones...
THAT would be COOL!
THAT would be revolutionary.
And so beyond our conditioning as to be impossible at this stage of the game. More suffering is needed before people begin to act as if they have nothing left to lose.
Sadly, for many, this point will be reached precisely when they have nothing left to lose, having already lost it all.
Not even close to this stage in the USA yet nor will it ever get there in my opinion. Remember, Ed Bernays helped labotomize the entire country back in the 20's, and each generation since has become more and more docile and brainwashed. We are the absolute BEST at this, bar none! None in this world are more compliant as a whole.
"...voicing dissatisfaction with, among other things, a recent parliamentary vote that saw three of four ministers recommended for facing charges of negligence escaping any charges."
Well if our bankers ever got off with a slap on the wrist, I'm sure we'd have a revolution. Oh.. wait...
I would choose to hurl Quantitative Peas.
Give peas a chance.
(sorry)
Then do it. Do it now!
FRENCH REVOLUTION PART DEUX BITCHES!
A worldwide French Revolution against the bankers and the wealthy elite is what the world needs.
Is that guy wearing a toilet seat on his head? Man Iceland is weird.
Symbolism as in "The economy is in the toilet"?
What's so weird about that?
That crowd of old-lady-cave vulcans looks pretty tough. I can see why the copper has his baton out. Batter up for a vegetable?
I did enjoy the writing in this article.
The toilet seat symbolism;
Icelander's may also be fucked up, but are still able to think more clearly.......the air is fresher.
Dorrit Moussaieff look like a Wall St. whore."
bingo!
Moussaieff was born in Jerusalem to a wealthy devout Sephardic-observant Bukharian Jewish family from Bukhara, Uzbekistan, part of the Emirate of Bukhara. The Moussaieff family is part of a long dynasty of jewellers. She is the great granddaughter of Shlomo Moussaieff,
http://lalqila.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/the-first-lady-of-iceland-dorrit-moussaieff-is-an-israeli-jew-which-adds-a-significant-wrinkle-to-the-whole-plot-the-israeli-role-in-the-plundering-of-iceland/
Throw an egg at Bernanke in the US and you'll probably be locked up somewhere, charged as being a 'terrorist', etc etc. Land of the free remember?
True. That must be why Bush was so fastidious in planning FEMA camps everywhere.
+1.
And we should all take note that Obama extended the State of Emergency which has existed since 9/11. Can't let those powers lapse; never know when you might need them . . .
Fuckers.
The American economy has devolved into "take what you can, while you can." For many people, the only things left to "take" is the houses they still live in. There are no jobs, no reasonable investments, no opportunities. They can't sell the homes, can't get out from under the loans. But they can grab some free rent for a while, and it makes total sense that they would do so.
The bankers are taking whatever they can, and enjoying a large amount of wealth doing it. But the only thing the average American CAN take is the space he occupies. At the very least, he's not going to give that up without a fight. Forget morality, honor, honesty and cooperation. Life today is about clutching on to whatever you can in a world where everything you thought was "yours" is disappearing.
Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light . . .
It all starts with an egg...
Or was it the Chicken?
or a penny
They look like they need a few cocktails. The kind with 20% diesel oil, 80% gas.
Pay your fucking bills, Iceman. Nobody forced that mortgage on you.
ZH is really talking out of both sides of the mouth on this one...
And pay to who? The bank you're paying doesn't own the note. The note was sold and the owners misplaced. Might as well give your neighbor the check.
You'd better not support a single penny to bail out a single bank - or you are talking out of both sides of your mouth with a forked tongue and deserve more than eggs and tomatoes.
Right, but that ignores the morality of imposing onerous creditor rights upon a debtor. There is a reason we do not have debtor's prison here... I suggest you research the policy reasons for doing so.
Repudiation is coming... and it will be a worldwide movement... and it will probably, in the end, be a good thing.
I wouldn't count on that situation remaining much longer.......
Junked by an ostrich! Oh well ... News just in:
http://maxkeiser.com/2010/10/05/casino-gulag-report-debtor-prisons-on-the-rise/
http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/criminal_justice_debt_a_barrier_to_reentry#Author
Does the faceless junker have any links to refute this?
I see this on a daily basis and can vouch... I get calls all the time to represent these people... they complete 80% of community service or something else and end up having to pay more fines, etc...
The cool thing is, it will fix itself the way it is currently run... they jail people to pay $100 fines and it costs them $1000 to jail them... a fix is coming soon (especially with no way/less and less ways for the government to put them to work to produce as much as the cost of jail)
Unfortunately for your theory, the Head Printer (Turbo Timmy, with Helicopter's permission) neatly solves that cash flow problem for the government. ;)
As I see it, they are teaching people to pay all debts -- no matter how small or illegitimate/unconstitutional -- to train them for all the coming new taxes and fees in addition to their outstanding student loans, mortgage loans, credit card balances, etc. Anyone who is defiant enough to not pay a traffic fine, unconstitutional tax or illegal late payment fee is a potential "trouble maker" and must be separated from the herd before they infect the rest of the herd. Same principle applies when labelling (and soon imprisoning) even the mildest dissident as a "terrorist".
Simple Tax Farming 101.
let's see, why don't you get back to us when:
your national currency drops dramatically, foreign currency transactions are suspended, the stock exchange drops more than 90%, the gdp drops 6% in six months, the banking debt exceeds 75% of the country's GDP, more than half a million depositors (far more than the entire population of Iceland) find their bank accounts frozen infaltion of consumer prices is 14%, and your interest rates have been raised to 15.5%
or better yet, just wait
I have a serious question that has been bothering me for a while now. Are the fingerhut ads on ZH a joke?
No, they are not. The reason you are getting the Fingerhut ads is because there is a new breed of "tracking" cookies that track where you visit on the Internet, and then all web sites that are part of the advertising network present "relevant" ads. Somebody in your household has either visited Fingerhut or related web sites (junk gift sites), and that is why Fingerhut's ads are being presented to you. My ads are all gun, gold, and butter related:)
Do this----clear your Internet cache, cookies, history, etc., then open ZH back up and you won't see those Fingerhut ads again until your wife goes back to Fingerhut.
Violation of privacy? Blatant and criminal in my opinion---I would like to have a few hours in the ring with the progressives that don't feel this is a violation of privacy; nonetheless, these progressives are watching you, be sure of that, and those context ads are evidence of it.
Another option you have is to use Internet Explorers "In-Private" browsing feature----this works well and prevents all tracking.
I use TOR but it is slow.
Also the internet is not as useful if you totally lock down your browser. That is how they get me, stupid java.
The 12 people who use TOR to pass kiddee porn are going ruin it for you.
Or just install flash blocker plugun for mozilla and put a few strategic "block pictures from add.xxx.com"(right click on gif banners) and after a few weeks - you would be surprised how the site looks somewhere else :)
Yes, unfortunately, ZH itself seems to stream tracking cookies like a mother fucker. What's up with that, Tyler??
Good advice. Set your antispyware software to do regular, i.e., at least daily sweeps.
But how could you possibly imagine that "progressives" support this shit?
Just a rhetorical question, however. Let's not divert the progress of this thread in other directions. Let's get to that issue another time. This is no time for the ole partison divide and conquer.
if you are using firefox, download No-Script. I blocks all scripts until you allow it to run. Amazing what was running in the background, MF'ers.
Well now, that explains all that porn crap back before my ex was my ex.....
:o/
Even after you clear your cookies, your system is still infested with Flash cookies. See for yourself by clearing your cookies, closing your browser, reopening it, and going to:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/sett...
Fortunately, you can automatically clear these Flash cookies when you close your browser by using a Firefox add-on called Better Privacy.
To manage regular cookies, I suggest a Firefox add-on called Selective Cookie Delete. Simply tell it to just keep certain cookies which you find useful, and it will delete all others when you close your browser.
Install the following file(s) in your OS where the directions tell you:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts2.htm
Most ad sites won't even get loaded by your browser afterwards.
For so long the elites have been aloof,unquestioned and untouchable.You destroy your nation you take the consequences.
You got that right. I love the Icelanders
<keep in mind it is 2.7% of the country total population, and would be equivalent to 9.5 million American lining up to throw rotten vegetables at Ben Bernanke. >
No, this time, it will be a real (instead of a bogus) holocaust and not only in the USA.
PS
Built on a Colonial slavery, the protestant religion, and a free-market enterprise, the "Western Civilization", is going down a toilet since we are living in a Jewish money-changing paradise.
This is just pure unadulterated win. Go Iceland.
well, in America, rather than a half dozen unarmed police officers we'd have a riot police, microwave crowd control evices, and perhaps blackwater if other means fail. the right of assembly from the bill of rights does not apply where microwave crowd control weapons are used!
this is because the people generally support authority and are too busy watching stupid tv shows to give a damn. in other places people wouldnt stand for this crap
Perhaps voting against every single incumbant in the coming election might make the point in another way.
Not to mention everyone pulling their money out of the Big 5 . . . who wants to trust them or the gov's absurdly impossible guarantee of deposits to infinity??
exactly, pull your money out and never for either party ever again. They are criminals.
When you bail out banks wholesale (in toto) but only give a six month moratorium to the taxpayers bailing out the banks you should expect bullets and hangings.
Eggs and tomatoes is a way of saying "brains and blood are next you idiots".
When will we take eggs, tomatoes, or tar, feathers, and rope it to our malfeasant Washington and Wall Street thugs who have debased the very notion of paying bills and allegiance to any stupid flag or other lie called "nation"?
In a free country like Iceland, the People protest by throwing eggs and fruit.
In a free country like America, the People go to jail by throwing eggs and fruit.
Remember, Freedom is Slavery.
Soon, they'll want to hurt anyone with money. Someday soon, that could be us gold bugs.
As folks look at the worthless paper in their hands
and know that it's no good and find themselves shit out of luck...
They will, for sure, look to attack
the ones who thought ahead.
I'm concerned about that as well. My plan is to blend in. Hide the PMs, in your clothing if necessary ( I sew). Talk like a sheeple, dress like a sheeple. Live like a sheeple. Hide in plain sight....eventually the crisis will pass and things/tempers will settle down. You may never safely 'come out' but you may find that you can enjoy the fruit of your planning further down the road.....
Monkeys may have more intelligence than people.
Monkeys throw feces!
Exactly. Damn, monkeys look smarter every day.
So more great pictures and a video for your viewing pleasure - http://www.iceland-dori.blogspot.com/
Irrelevant.
A tiny, fraction of the people whining and pictures of a few politicos. Nothing going to happen tomorrow or the next day except everyone going back to work, paying their bills and watching TV and feeling sorry for themselves.
No punishment for politicians, bankers or royalty. What's new? Nothing.
Miss Expectations - When I was much younger an older lady who lived in Germany through the Nazi era explained that was one of the big reasons the Germans hated the Jews and Gypsies and some of the others. Germans held their money in Reichmarks because they were told it was patriotic. The others put their money in gold and silver and art and had something left. Yes - anyone who keeps their wealth will be a target.
1000 yard bitch slap.
The first thing that "lefties" and greens do when they get into power is start buying expensive clothes at taxpayer expense. The right wing is equally horrible managing tax money, but at least they dont lie in this way.
This type of so obvious hipocresy gets to me. If they dont even bother to hide this, I dont want to imagine what the fuck they are doing on the backs of their citizens.
Give it a rest,
your obvious prejudice blinds you to such as the "no-bid" contracts and missing billions in Iraq.
"Left-wing" politicians are no more inherently corrupt than are right-wing ones. It is one thing to disagree over policies, but it is quite another to fan prejudice by posting misleading and abusive ad hominem generalizations.
Just another partison divide and conquer mongerer.
I wrote this:
I dont get why you reacted like this. I did not say that right wingers are better than left wing. I just pointed to the hipocresy in this way that is more present in the "lefties" and greens than in the right wings, because they claim to be more for the working class when they are just corporatist.
The Icelanders were protesting the INFLATION of their debts,
- coupled with IMF economic strangulation, all approved by corrupted politicians from Iceland to England.
?
“Iceland’s banks have linked many business loans, as well as auto loans and other debts to a market basket of foreign currencies”
?
“On top of normal mortgage interest, Icelandic personal and real estate debts are subject to indexation of the principal to reflect the consumer price index – which in turn mirrors the fall in the króna’s exchange rate.”
Thus grow debts faster than they can be paid.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13558?
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I noticed that some posted comments are taking the side of the global banking syndicate, as though financially bankrupted Icelanders were being morally bankrupt not to pay their “debts”. Perhaps those commentators do not realize that the banking syndicate is attempting to impose a multi-generational regime of debt servitude on Icelanders ( and other countries as well).
Of course, here in America, most citizens have more “hope” to prevent any such racketeering by an alliance of the banking cartel and politicians.
Moreover, many of the SAME insiders who created the fraud are still receiving grossly inflated salaries from banks rescued by the Icelandic government..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/iris-lee/crime-and-incompetence-pa_b_738710.html"Its only after you've lost everything, that you are free to do anything." - Tyler Durden
Iceland's Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir tries to shield herself from food products thrown by protesters outside the parliament in Reykjavik October 1, 2010...
I would pay gold to see that happen here in freedumb's land.
Indeed. I have some to trade for a ticket to that event. People are starting to get it. When TARP Part Duex is announced we may just get an opportunity to be a witness.
Tomato, egg, or paint? Which will you choose.
GO ICELAND!
I would suggest that we take a page from the playbook of monkeys and start with feces. Half the population has pets . . . why let all that material go to waste?
Chinese officials are looking to the advice of Hu Flung Pu regarding their current US Federal Debt holdings.
LOL
Just to sum-up (what everyone knows already i guess). You can't say "jews get pummeled with eggs" without getting junked. Either Johanna is lurking ZH herself - which i doubt - or we got a few politically correct and vigilant defenders of you know whom. Suit yourselves, "chosen people".
Fuck political correctness and those that promote it's merits.
Why these ingrate pagans! Don't they know they are supposed to worship the fiat system and bury themselves in unreasonable amounts of debt? Oh, right, they tried that already.
People in Iceland are too darn civilized.
We are not. This is when the fun will really start.
PS
Some people mentioned about our unionized and corrupt police to control people by using some exotic weaponry. WOW, you people are stupid. Just look at Iraq and Afghanistan: without a huge foreign military power, police is totally powerless to control anything unless 90% of people support the existing Law & Order. How many people will fight and die for our politicians?
It's just not Iceland.
The corporate veil requires you to believe that a "TWP" is the same as a "township" (that would be US centric (but the confusion is executed globally under different names)).
The TWP is a descriptor under one corporate veil.
The township describes something (oh so similar) somewhere else.
In the US, property hasn't been transferred in the townships for quite some time (in most instances)
PAY THAT INTEREST!!!
Eggs??? Don't throw away hard assets like that!