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the Vikings are revolting - 1/5/2010 12:41:52 PM   
LadyEllen


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Status: offline 		The Icelandic president has vetoed the government plan to recompense the British and Dutch governments in relation to the bail out of savers in failed Icelandic banks, saying that it is for the people to decide!

Whoever heard of such ideas? The people having a say over what their country does? This is heresy, made worse only by the blasphemy involved in refusing to pay up when these are ultimately bank losses!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126269125264416275.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLETopStories

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RE: the Vikings are revolting - 1/5/2010 12:49:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		They're going to have trouble attracting foreign investors in future, but good for them. The cost of living in Iceland is already ridiculous without a tax raise to deal with.

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RE: the Vikings are revolting - 1/5/2010 12:55:22 PM   
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The cost of living in Iceland is already ridiculous without a tax raise to deal with.


Yeah but the babes are totally hawt and usually drunk so old ugly phoques like me have a good chance of getting "lucky"

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RE: the Vikings are revolting - 1/5/2010 12:57:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		What I love is that here is one place where the people feel they should have a say, have a president willing to listen to them and then actually get to have their say.

Mind you, if their vote in the referendum turns in the wrong answer, the question may have to be put again. The PTB want Iceland in the EU and thats how things work in the EU; best to start as you mean to continue

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RE: the Vikings are revolting - 1/5/2010 1:28:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		I think this strategy is working for Iceland because the country is much smaller and definitely geographically isolated from other nations.  

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RE: the Vikings are revolting - 1/5/2010 1:40:59 PM   
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RE: the Vikings are revolting - 1/5/2010 1:58:30 PM   
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Status: offline 		Lady E, we have a "say" in what goes on in the U.S. and the U.K. too.
Lately though our governments simply ignore us after we have our say.

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RE: the Vikings are revolting - 1/5/2010 2:12:42 PM   
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Status: offline 		Bank losses which the icelandic government chose to pay back. Except, now they're saying.....not for foreigners. I can't see Iceland being capable of wriggling out of paying their debts, no matter what the referendum...they are international minnows compared to the dutch, let alone GB...and the whole of the EU is against them, saying they have to pay it back under EU law.

They shoulda thought of this when they chose to bail out originally.

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RE: the Vikings are revolting - 1/5/2010 2:26:22 PM   
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Status: offline 		Oh come on.  Credit default swap derivatives.

Like any real person HAS any money to send off shore.   Give me a break.

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RE: the Vikings are revolting - 1/5/2010 2:34:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		12 and 4 this season. Hardly revolting.

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RE: the Vikings are revolting - 1/5/2010 2:45:57 PM   
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RE: the Vikings are revolting - 1/5/2010 2:51:11 PM   
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RE: the Vikings are revolting - 1/5/2010 2:52:50 PM   
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RE: the Vikings are revolting - 1/5/2010 2:54:44 PM   
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My kinda country.


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RE: the Vikings are revolting - 1/5/2010 3:04:23 PM   
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ORIGINAL: EbonyWood

I KNEW I wasn't the only one.
 
Looks for Iceland on map.
 
National pasttime - Alcohol
 
Exports - Bjork.



What's a "Bjork?" Candy bar?

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RE: the Vikings are revolting - 1/5/2010 3:05:50 PM   
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ORIGINAL: ThatDamnedPanda

As a life-long Packer fan, I just want to say that this is absolutely my all-time favorite Collarme thread title.

That is all.



I told you we'd be talking about this.  How's that purple and gold looking now?


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RE: the Vikings are revolting - 1/5/2010 3:08:00 PM   
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RE: the Vikings are revolting - 1/5/2010 3:12:14 PM   
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RE: the Vikings are revolting - 1/5/2010 3:17:40 PM   
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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen

The Icelandic president has vetoed the government plan to recompense the British and Dutch governments in relation to the bail out of savers in failed Icelandic banks, saying that it is for the people to decide!

Whoever heard of such ideas? The people having a say over what their country does? This is heresy, made worse only by the blasphemy involved in refusing to pay up when these are ultimately bank losses!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126269125264416275.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLETopStories

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It isn't so much that we're refusing to pay up. There was already a law passed last August that says that we do aknowledge the debts and that we have to pay them. However those laws from last August had a few notices, like that if we cannot pay for whatever reason the brits can't seize national treasures or resourses as payment. There were a couple of other notices as well, all put in place to protect the country in worst case scenario.

However the brits and the dutch didn't like those laws so they forced the icelandic government to get rid of the majority of those notices of the previous law. So now basically the country is bare and vulnerable to both britain and holland. The interest rate is so high that there is no way a country of 300.000 inhabitants can pay up.

So the veto isn't about us not paying at all, because the previous law is still there, and we will pay,  but it is a matter of having the terms fair and doable. It's also about us being able to have notices for our protection in case the economic crisis doesn't subside.

I think it is also important to veto the law because if the president had signed it there would be a precedent for other countries of basically saying that private bankers can do whatever the hell they want, anywhere in the world, their home country is always gonna pay the bill.

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RE: the Vikings are revolting - 1/5/2010 3:34:24 PM   
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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

Lady E, we have a "say" in what goes on in the U.S. and the U.K. too.
Lately though our governments simply ignore us after we have our say.


Lately?

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