Iceland's peaceful revolution CENSORED (video)

Amber Larson, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; Abby Martin (RT.com)

 

Abby Martin talks with economist and editor Steinar Bjornsson of "News of Iceland" about Iceland's peaceful revolution about how the people of the island-nation in the Atlantic changed the system through non-violent dissent.

All about Iceland

(IcelandAir) Thora Karitas hosts an entertaining and informative documentary about Iceland -- the capital Reykjavik, its surrounding countryside, and its natural wonders. This island country between Greenland and Ireland is different from all other countries. Visiting is an experience that combines luxury and natural wonders, extreme forces and, of course, a lot of modernity.

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Iceland liberates itself from its gov't (video)

Ashley Wells, Pat Macpherson, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly

(The R.E.A.L. Institute - Max Bliss) The people of Iceland forced their corrupt government to resign. A citizens' assembly was created to rewrite the constitution. The banks were nationalized, and it was decided not to pay debt PRIVATE banks created. All of this was accomplished peacefully. What would happen if the rest of the world followed this example?

In spite of a wall of silence by the American mainstream media, Icelanders took to the street and ousted everyone from its government, forcing all members to resign. Ask your relatives in Iceland, because you won't be hearing about it on the US evening news.

 

The unprecedented move followed the worst financial crisis the world had ever seen, which in 2008 set motion the worldwide bank and real estate crises. It all began in relatively safe and isolated Icelandic banking system, which are nevertheless connected to the Euro zone system.

 

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Bjork loves her Scandinavian homeland

Iceland, a green wonderland and home of Bjork (apparently its main export), took to the streets and peacefully replaced the incompetent government and took to rewriting its constitution in a citizens' referendum. Government agents may have colluded with bankers and high finance traders to enrich themselves personally. That will have to be worked out later if ever. In the meantime, Iceland gets a fresh starts. World governments seem terrified that anyone find out that such a thing is possible.

Iceland is closer than most Europeans think and far stranger than anyone imagines. Over the millennia, glaciers, erosion, and tectonic movement have shaped the land. Winter is amazing as white snow accentuates black lava fields and the dark sky is suddenly disturbed by dancing, flickering veils of Northern Lights. In spring the sun climbs ever higher, warming the earth, and the green vegetation turns a picturesque red, yellow, or brown. It is a paradise for bird watchers. Látrabjarg in the West Fjords is the largest birdcliff in the known world. Iceland is among the 10 best destinations for whale and dolphin watching just offshore in the Grundar fjord and Kolgrafar fjord on the north coast of the Snaefellsnes peninsula.

 

Bloody coups and deposings (depositions?) are the norm in the history we hear. If such a thing were known to have taken place peacefully and by popular revolt -- which was easier in Iceland with its small, homogenous, and unified population -- citizens or libertarians might get the idea to "occupy" their capitals.

Is there a movement across the globe? The Ukraine, formerly a part of Scandinavian Finland and Russia, wants to join the Euro zone. Russia will not stand for it. The solution? A long standing protest and demonstration continues in the Ukraine. Lenin statue toppled in symbolic challenge to Ukrainian government.

• AUDIO: Lenin deposed in Kiev, Ukraine (The World) Ukrainian protesters took down Vlad Lenin in Kiev over the weekend. It has been more than 20 years since the break up of the USSR, so it is kind of surprising that it was still there.

"Compassion is revolution" (GR)

Buddhist Thailand is discontented with its government, the Yingluck Shinawatra adminstration, while still loving its king (who is no more involved with actual governing than the British monarchy is seen to fiddle with the country's Parliament). The solution? A long standing protest and demonstration continues in Bangkok and is growing beyond the capital. This is part of an older direct action between Red Shirts (radicals) and Yellow Shirts (reactionaries).

Now Singapore, an idyllic police state in Asia, is being rocked by an unexpected series of protests. This is unheard of in modern Singapore, an economic powerhouse that traded its civil liberties for order and productivity. But it did once happen in the sixties. Singapore shocked by worst riots since 1969.

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Iceland: 100% increase in police killings (video)

Amber Larson and Seven, Wisdom Quarterly; TheWorld (BBC+PRI); Euronews

WARNING: Girl fight with senseless violence as Bjork attacks female reporter in Thailand!

I'll kill you, fart-chicken!

The world's most famous Icelander, the angelic singer Bjork, goes ape sh-t in once peaceful Buddhist Thailand -- violently attacking a reporter at Bangkok Airport. Why? Iceland is deep, a green Scandinavian wonderland, but wild. (Unlike Greenland, which is full of ice). Bjork sings, "I am a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl." That, or she was on something. It's like her song in the movie "Sucker Punch" -- full of girls fighting to Bjork's "Army of Me." She wasn't kidding.

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Police killing is first in country's history

(EuroNews) A gunman has [been killed] after a shootout with police in the Icelandic suburb of Reykjavík on Monday morning, reportedly becoming the first person in Iceland to be killed by a bullet shot by a police officer, who do not carry guns.... Police returned fire. According to eyewitnesses, some sort of smoke bomb was thrown into the apartment... Armed police entered the man's apartment at around 06:00 am and [shot] him. More

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World Cup: Iceland, Ireland's 33rd county

Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; Producer Clark Boyd (TheWorld.org)

Icelandic bhumi-devi and pop idol Bjork's call for Tibetan freedom at a Shanghai concert unnerves Chinese communist officials (Hannah Johnston/Getty Images/Epoch Times).

  

Kill 'em all in the name of my lord!

It’s nail-biting time for many soccer fans out there -- the World Cup playoffs. Over the next week, national teams will do crippling, brain-trauma inducing, war-like battle to try and snag one of the few remaining tickets to next year's World Cup in Brazil.
 

The smallest nation with a dog still in this fight is Iceland, who plays Croatia on Friday. Now, Iceland has a very small population, and thus a small pool of professional players to choose from. And yet, they have a chance, however slim, of making it to Brazil. That's more than IRELAND can boast.

 

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Not my Iceland, Patty, no way! (DMSI)

The Irish national [soccer] team has already been eliminated, and most Irish fans are already looking well beyond Rio. But not Eoin Conlon.

 

Over a drink of yeast-contaminated carbs with a Brazilian co-worker in Dublin recently, Conlon started wondering out loud about throwing his support behind ICELAND.

 

“And we kind of laughed, saying: ‘Well, that’s as close as Ireland's going to get to Brazil. It's only a letter difference. A “c” for an “r.” We might as well be brothers,’” says Conlon. Conlon and his friend work for a digital agency, so they did what comes naturally. They built a website in support of Iceland's soccer team.

 

Then, they started a Twitter feed urging Irish soccer fans to back Iceland. The campaign is called County Iceland. Ireland already has 32 counties. So, Conlon says, why not make Iceland the 33rd?

 

“There are only about 320,000 people in Iceland. So if they were a county in Ireland -- I'm calling them the 33rd county -- it would [be] only the fifth-largest county in Ireland. It's incredible the success they've had. And I hope it continues,” he says.

 

Conlon says the website is just a bit of fun. All a visitor has to do is click a "support" button. LISTEN