Riots in Iceland re financial crisis, why didnt we hear?

delop · 23-01-2009 06:42PM #1

Why are we not hearing more about this, this has been increasing in intensity for the past 5 days, with the Icelandic PM being attacked yesterday...

Sounds news worthy to me....

Now I dont what to start talking about stupid conspiracy theories but.... :-)

http://news.scotsman.com/world/A-nearriot-and--parliament.4722970.jp

I am pie · 23-01-2009 06:48PM

Article is 2 months out of date. PM has resigned, new election to take place.

Hard Larry · 23-01-2009 06:50PM

Did Kerry Katona get any death threats?

jester77 · 23-01-2009 06:51PM

It has been all over the news. PM called an election this week and is not running because of an illness he has been diagnosed with.

Hard Larry · 23-01-2009 06:55PM

Must be a cover up, no mention of it at all on their website

http://www.iceland.co.uk/

Hopefully a brave blogger can fill us in from behind the firewall.

My ma has only gone there

phasers · 23-01-2009 06:57PM

I knew putting one in Ballyfermot again was a mistake!

antodeco · 23-01-2009 07:20PM

phasers wrote: »

I knew putting one in Ballyfermot again was a mistake!

Ha! I thought that too!

lostexpectation · 23-01-2009 09:16PM

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5559773.ece
Icelanders all but stormed their Parliament last night.

it restarted last night though, but as you said they are calling elections now

panda100 · 23-01-2009 09:37PM

Theres been little media coverage over ALL the riots breaking out in Greece,Bulgaria,Latvia,Lithuania,Iceland etc.
There was a tiny snippet of news (2 sentences squashed on to the side of page 25) in The Irish Indo on how the EU is calling an emergency summit on how to deal with the recent waves of riots.

I presume the lack of media coverge is they dont want to encourage Irish people to do the same.If the mass of people rise up and revolt,then Murdoch,O'Reilly and the rest who get massively rich of an exploitative,capitalist system will be fu*cked.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2169939/posts .

Collie D · 23-01-2009 10:27PM

Reminded of my favourite joke of 2008

What's the capital of Iceland?

About €3.50

godtabh · 23-01-2009 10:29PM

delop wrote: »

Why are we not hearing more about this, this has been increasing in intensity for the past 5 days, with the Icelandic PM being attacked yesterday...

Sounds news worthy to me....

Now I dont what to start talking about stupid conspiracy theories but.... :-)

http://news.scotsman.com/world/A-nearriot-and--parliament.4722970.jp

I heard. I get daily updates from my friends over there. When they stormed the parliment it was meant to be a good day out

DonJose · 23-01-2009 10:37PM

Bah!!! Last time I threw an egg at Mary Harney I missed, didn't stop the fat fukk licking the egg off her limo, no more free lunches from me :mad:

ejmaztec · 23-01-2009 10:46PM

DonJose wrote: »

Bah!!! Last time I threw an egg at Mary Harney I missed, didn't stop the fat fukk licking the egg off her limo, no more free lunches from me :mad:

How on earth did you miss? If you closed your eyes and threw from five miles away, you wouldn't miss that tub of lard.

Saibh · 23-01-2009 11:20PM

DonJose wrote: »

Bah!!! Last time I threw an egg at Mary Harney I missed, didn't stop the fat fukk licking the egg off her limo, no more free lunches from me :mad:

ejmaztec wrote: »

How on earth did you miss? If you closed your eyes and threw from five miles away, you wouldn't miss that tub of lard.

Did you shop in Iceland:rolleyes:

conor052001 · 23-01-2009 11:53PM

Collie D wrote: »

Reminded of my favourite joke of 2008

What's the capital of Iceland?
About €3.50

heard two english lads in the bar the other night;

whats the difference between ireland and iceland?

one letter and about six months...

laughed their heads off

AckwelFoley · 23-01-2009 11:57PM

Why did we not hear?
Because its fcuking iceland!

delop · 24-01-2009 12:06AM

http://icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=16539&ew_0_a_id=318736

24-01-2009 12:10AM

Because it might give us ideas!

Kintarō Hattori · 24-01-2009 01:28AM

conor052001 wrote: »

heard two english lads in the bar the other night;

whats the difference between ireland and iceland?

one letter and about six months...

laughed their heads off

Maybe it's cause it's late and I'm tired, maybe because I'm still a little drunk but I just don't get that. Six months???

Hard Larry · 24-01-2009 01:30AM

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Maybe it's cause it's late and I'm tired, maybe because I'm still a little drunk but I just don't get that. Six months???

Banks collapsed in Iceland roughly 6-7 months ago

Kintarō Hattori · 24-01-2009 01:31AM

Hard Larry wrote: »

Banks collapsed in Iceland roughly 6-7 months ago

OOoooh tanks Larry.

Mena · 24-01-2009 01:36AM

Stop watching Sky News tbfh. This has been all over Al Jazeera and a few other stations for a while now.

Biggins · 24-01-2009 01:53AM

Haven't ye heard - Fianna Fail has banned certain words from the media - they don't want us getting ideas!
The words "riot" "rebellion" "Rising" "Fighting opposition" etc are now illegal to use in context with Ireland and its economy.
Its a conspiracy I tell ya - RTDH where are ya when we need ya???

Run_to_da_hills · 24-01-2009 12:56PM

Biggins wrote: »

Haven't ye heard - Fianna Fail has banned certain words from the media - they don't want us getting ideas!
The words "riot" "rebellion" "Rising" "Fighting opposition" etc are now illegal to use in context with Ireland and its economy.
Its a conspiracy I tell ya - RTDH where are ya when we need ya???

You are all reading the wrong media,

http://www.wiseupjournal.com/?p=763

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 24-01-2009 01:10PM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

You are all reading the wrong media,

http://www.wiseupjournal.com/?p=763

Why do I get the feeling I've just taken the Red Pill....?

EDIT:

In Riga last week 10,000 protesters laid siege to the Latvian parliament; yesterday hundreds of Bulgarians rallied to demand that the Socialist-led Government should take action or step down, in a second week of demonstrations, and last month […] days of running battles in the streets of Athens and Salonika.

Not just Iceland. Now this, my friends, is what you need to do in Ireland. Instead of bending over with your pants around your ankles. ESPECIALLY if you think Enda Kenny is no better an option.
(And this is probably why you don't hear about such riots)

pickarooney · 24-01-2009 01:10PM

lostexpectation wrote: »

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5559773.ece
Icelanders all but stormed their Parliament last night.

it restarted last night though, but as you said they are calling elections now

Althing's being equal, it's not really big news.

blackgold>> · 24-01-2009 01:22PM

pickarooney wrote: »

Althing's being equal, it's not really big news.

dumbest thing i've heard in a long long time.
It's massive news more than expose anyway.....

towel401 · 24-01-2009 02:28PM

Hard Larry wrote: »

Hopefully a brave blogger can fill us in from behind the firewall.

http://icelandweatherreport.com

Dob74 · 24-01-2009 02:36PM

Hard Larry wrote: »

Banks collapsed in Iceland roughly 6-7 months ago

Banks collasped in iceland october 08, thats four months me thinks

24-01-2009 02:43PM

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Not just Iceland. Now this, my friends, is what you need to do in Ireland. Instead of bending over with your pants around your ankles. ESPECIALLY if you think Enda Kenny is no better an option.
(And this is probably why you don't hear about such riots)

The riots in Riga were all over the news.. It seems what an awful lot of you mean by "HOW COME WE DIDNT HEAR ABOUT THIS OMG CONSPIRACY!!!11" is really "I don't really watch the news or read newspapers."

The sad fact is that the vast majority of people who don't think Enda Kenny is a better option just don't like the look of him. True I think he should have dropped out after the last election, but when you see FFers like Bev and co STILL trying to swindle us while at the same time expecting us mere peasants to take the hit financially, it really is sickening to see people refer to FG as "no better".

Acacia · 24-01-2009 05:06PM

The Greek disturbances, the worst since 1974, were triggered by the killing of the teenager, but the anger was stoked by a sense that the young were going to have to pick up the bill for the miscalculations of the political class. Unemployment among Greeks aged 15 to 24 has reached 21.2 per cent; for 25 to 34-year-olds it is 10.5 per cent. The good years have come to an end suddenly.

Sounds similar to Ireland. Wouldn't be surprised at demonstrations here, were they to occur. There hasn't been much coverage of these European riots, there has been more coverage of Obama here than what's going on in Europe. :rolleyes:

From this article-
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5563020.ece

Riots in Iceland re financial crisis, why didnt we hear?

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