Comments on: More Members of Parliament against the Icesave deal

By: George Cowell

George Cowell — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:07:32 +0000

The best way to lose sovereignty is to take money from the IMF.
The next thing to happen is to have foriegn big box U.S. companies forces into your local economy.
It is not worth it.
I am from Canada. Most of our local companies are gone, due to the infestation of us by U.S.companies, such as Walmart and the like.
They dictate the rules, and the way Countries do thier business.
Be very thoughtful about taking any IMF money.
IMF,WTO = big trouble. It means welcome to the “New World Order”.
Pass along this tidbit of info. We in Canada are being bought out by U.S. companies and friends of local Governments.
REMAIN INDEPENDAND.

By: American

American — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:32:07 +0000

Christianne is either a shill or someone overcome by the propaganda. The FDIC is broke. It is now a leech on the taxpayer, plugged directly to the pockets of bankers.

I support an Icelandic default. In fact, it would cause me to have even more respect for your nation. My only fear is that your politicians are playing games with you, and in the end they will capitulate somehow.

If the other countries and whoever else want the money back, get it out of the hides of those bankers…leave the everyday citizen of Iceland alone!

By: Stewart Rogerson

Stewart Rogerson — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:20:58 +0000

Remember that we in the UK have our own debt per capita at nearly the same as Iceland, yes, we and you have to pay. But, I think Iceland is far too vunerable to be held up against crippling demands and therefore some long term plan needs to be beaten out between Iceland, UK and the Netherlands. This has to be on realistic terms which in my opinion would probably never pay it all back but would be preferable to bailing out Iceland with emergency funds.

By: Christianne

Christianne — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:43:09 +0000

The bottom line here is to pay back your debts as outlined by your own Government Laws! Your government regulated the banks, the banks took your citizens money as well as citizens of other countries monies and squandered it. Your government regulations was clearly lax, but that happens everywhere.

You bank went bankrupt and now your government does not want to honor its obligations and the citizens agree with this for the most part. To offer protections for its own citizens in a global economy is foolish, short-sighted and foolhardy. Guess what, the time for a closed economy is over folks, you either get with the program or lose in the economic sense. Hmm…does Iceland want to be a 3rd world country? I suppose you do. How very xenophobic of you.

I propose here in the US where we have FDIC insurance for such a situation, that we issue regulations that in the event of a bank default, the US only pays back its citizens and disregards the rights of any and all other depositers who are not US citizens…Sounds unfair…well this is exactly what you are doing!

By: Fisy

Fisy — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:29:04 +0000

That you for that Brumley. But this just sucks.

We need to see all comments on the * same * long page.

( As it was before. )

I like most other things about new site templates but this is just crushing posters ability to have a good debate here.

By: Bromley86

Bromley86 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:32:56 +0000

Ah, I see. If there's a Trackback showing, the Older Comments link disappears. Posting or clicking on a direct link to a comment (i.e. where it says February 4th, 2010 at 7:24 am) seems to get rid of the trackback (or move it to the first page, the currently-viewed page being the last page). That allows the Older Comments link to display in the blank box between the Trackback text box and the Leave a Reply box.

By: Bromley86

Bromley86 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:24:54 +0000

Wierd. I was just able to access them via an “Older comments” link above the Reply box. But now I can’t see it.

When I could see it, there was no “Newer comments” link, which meant you could only travel one way through the history.

By: Fisy

Fisy — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:55:14 +0000

Let’s see if by posting this it will make the template view all the comments.

By: Jon - SEO Manchester

Jon - SEO Manchester — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:24:23 +0000

This will be so great if there is only one loan…

By: Bromley86

Bromley86 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:21:15 +0000

>I guess the point is all moot after Hannibalsson himself said, “Iceland cannot solve the problems that it is facing by itself”.

But then as a long-time supporter of Iceland joining the EU, he would say that. It’d be more relevant if Benediktsson said something similar.

Anyway, a link to the article where he made that statement (these guys don’t believe in obsure URLs :) ):
http://www.cidob.org/en/news/europe/iceland_and_the_eu_the_road_ahead_european_breakfast_with_jon_baldvin_hannibalsson_ex_minister_of_foreign_affairs_and_international_trade_of_iceland