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Maybe a dull topic for a saturday afternoon but who cares :) Tonight there will be congress elections here in Iceland. The fight between the right and left wing is increadibly tense at the moment but according to a poll published today the conservatives will hold a very slim majority 50,4-49,6%. The right-wing "IndependantParty" have been in control here in Iceland for 12 years and its about bloody time they loose their control over this country. Im a left wing activist so I will be keeping my fingers crossed for this regime to collapse. The current government e.g. very openly supported the attacks on Iraq (something I will never forgive them) only because they didnt want to miss the US military air base thats close to Keflavik airport. Iceland has never participated in any war so its a disgrace the government supported it despite 90% of the people here were against it. Another terrible thing the government here has done is allowing the aluminium company Alcoa to plant a giant factory right on the east coast that totally will destroy a large untouched and beautiful mountain area. The government needed the factory to cover up for the failures that were surfacing in the terribly managed welfare system. Financially though Iceland has been doing kinda well in the last years but poverty is widely increasing and the gap between rich and poor is growing larger day by day. After the financial market here was opened up the government did nothing to stop the newly rich yuppies from playing with company stocks so a very small group of buisness men got a complete control over the markets and played around with it like toys :( All heavenly praise and thanks to the wonderful Capitalism.........Iceland is right now turning into a small version of the mafia run Russia :( Also the fishing system that produces a very large% of Iceland´s income has come under the scrutiny of servising only the biggest fish companies so the their executives have been able to sell their fishing rights and thereby taking they mone |
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globalization now, globalization forever! |
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i hope the people you voted for win! what is the population in iceland? (how many inhabitants) and "gap between rich and poor is growing larger day by day" sounds very familliar-same thing happening here... (luckly we dont have the russians invading yet) |
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the money and power away from the small villages out in the country. Its possible here to inherit fishing rights and sell them for as much as 50 million $$$ and there are many examples of teenagers selling their rights for such a sum and then they´re of to Ibiza chilling with loads of money!! Meanwhile the villages loose their right to fish and a lot of ghost towns sadly have emerged. So now its essential a left-wing goverment is elected to put an end to this fucking madness!! Lets pray for that together :) |
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best of luck! argh! i wish my country's election would start soon |
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there are 280.000 of us here inhabiting this island. We got independence from Denmark 1944. The british army invaded here in WW2 but the bloody american took over after the war in 1949 and have sadly been here with an air base ever since:( The prime minister here e.g. said in a recent interwiew George Bush jr was an extremely smart and gifted individual :=) so he will probably defend every stupid military action Bush takes. The same M.P. also says there is absolutely no poverty in Iceland, and when confronted with the question why there was such an increase in people looking for help from the Red Cross Charity he told "people will always line up for things that dont cost anything, its human nature" !!! So you can hopefully understand now why I hate that arrogant idiotic P.M. of ours :( |
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Þetta er lÃklega sú umræða sem ég bjóst sÃst við að sjá hérna :). Well the thing is that those friggin' bastards will win again, I think there's no question about it. People say that they will guarantee stability, that's just crap. The rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer situation will probably continue. |
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