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World Out Of Whack: Iceland, You Won’t Believe It
World Out Of Whack: Iceland, You Won’t Believe It The developed world is going to hell and probably deserves it. Today, I’m going to show you what should have been done both during and post the GFC. That it wasn’t, and now almost certainly won’t, is a problem for us all but that’s a story for another […]
Iceland Interior Minister Reveals Plot By Obama Administration “To Frame Julian Assange”
Iceland Interior Minister Reveals Plot By Obama Administration “To Frame Julian Assange” Back in October we noted a scheme, linked to the Hillary Clinton campaign, to tie Julian Assange and WikiLeaks to a pedophilia ring (see “Hillary Clinton Linked To Mysterious Front Associated with Julian Assange Pedophile Smear“). Of course, the scheme was revealed amid […]
Panama Papers: Iceland’s PM resigns over offshore tax haven revelations
Panama Papers: Iceland’s PM resigns over offshore tax haven revelations Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson denied any wrongdoing amid protests by thousands Iceland’s Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, seen Tuesday, and his wife have come under fire for being linked to an offshore company that may represent a severe conflict of interest. (Bertil Enevag Ericson/Scanpix/Reuters) Iceland’s embattled […]
The Panama Papers
The Panama Papers A lot of emails have been coming in with regard to the Panama Papers. Let me say this from the outset — Panama has been the key place to establish offshore accounts for decades. This was not a government hack. The German daily Suddeutsche Zeitung obtained the stash of records from an anonymous […]
First Panama Papers Casualty? Former Iceland Premier Calls On Current PM To Resign To “Prevent An Uprising”
First Panama Papers Casualty? Former Iceland Premier Calls On Current PM To Resign To “Prevent An Uprising” One of the more prominent names featured in the Panama Papers disclosure is that of Iceland’s Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson. The reason is that according to the leaked files, Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson and his wife […]
“Unprecedented Leak” Exposes The Criminal Financial Dealings Of Some Of The World’s Wealthiest People
“Unprecedented Leak” Exposes The Criminal Financial Dealings Of Some Of The World’s Wealthiest People An unprecedented leak of more than 11 million documents, called the “Panama Papers“, has revealed the hidden financial dealings of some of the world’s wealthiest people, as well as 12 current and former world leaders and 128 more politicians and public […]
Capital Controls Are Coming
Capital Controls Are Coming The carnage always comes by surprise, often on an otherwise ordinary Saturday morning… The government declares a surprise bank holiday. It shuts all the banks. It imposes capital controls to stop citizens from taking their money out of the country. Cash-sniffing dogs, which make drug-sniffing dogs look friendly, show up at […]
How Iceland Escaped From The One Bank
How Iceland Escaped From The One Bank What have the governments of the corrupt Western bloc spent most of their time doing since the Crash of ’08? We can answer this question in three parts: 1) Creating increasingly falsified “statistics” to fabricate the illusion that their economies were not on the verge of all-out economic collapse; 2) Hacking and slashing every […]
Iceland’s Bankers Face 74 Years in Prison While US Banks Profit After Your Bailout
Iceland’s Bankers Face 74 Years in Prison While US Banks Profit After Your Bailout You could ice skate in Hell sooner than see the United States follow in Iceland’s footsteps with this move: the 26th banker was just sentenced to prison for a combined 74 years between them — each of them jailed for their […]
U.S. To Lead A Fractured Arctic Council For The Next Two Years
U.S. To Lead A Fractured Arctic Council For The Next Two Years The United States is set to take over the two-year chairmanship of the Arctic Council, and although there is a lot of uncertainty over how the U.S. will wield its influence, it will be taking the helm for a period of time that […]
Iceland To Take Back The Power To Create Money
Iceland To Take Back The Power To Create Money Who knew that the revolution would start with those radical Icelanders? It does, though. One Frosti Sigurjonsson, a lawmaker from the ruling Progress Party, issued a report today that suggests taking the power to create money away from commercial banks, and hand it to the central […]
Iceland’s volcanic eruption stokes toxic gas fears
Iceland’s volcanic eruption stokes toxic gas fears The Holuhraun eruption is emitting high volumes of toxic gases and raising health and environmental concerns. Reykjavik, Iceland – For the past five months, Icelandic weather forecasts have included daily updates on the movement of noxious gas plumes emitted by the ongoing Holuhraun volcanic eruption. Poisonous gas appeared in late August last […]
Can Iceland become the ‘Switzerland of data’? – Features – Al Jazeera English
Can Iceland become the ‘Switzerland of data’? – Features – Al Jazeera English. Reykjavík, Iceland – On a cold, windy December afternoon in the southern Icelandic town of Reykjanesbaer, this former NATO airbase looked like nothing more than a huge warehouse from the outside. But the barbed-wire fence surrounding it and surveillance cameras atop its […]
Iceland Unleashes Confiscatory “Exit Tax” On Wealth Deposits | Zero Hedge
Iceland Unleashes Confiscatory “Exit Tax” On Wealth Deposits | Zero Hedge. While on the one hand, Iceland’s decision to inch towards lifting its capital controls is a positive step, it appears what they give with one hand they are taking with another. Just as we predicted three years ago,the muddle-through has failed and there are only hard […]
