Of course I cannot produce any newspaper articles on this since that is not where I got these information, and quite frankly I have so many more productive things to do at this time of crisis, than to go around looking for newspaper articles to prove my point to a stranger. Besides, my level of caring weather you believe me or not is below zero!

If you can read Icelandic than maybe you should check out this woman’s blog. She is the one who had to call for police protection outside her house the other night.

http://blekpennar.com/?p=524

Kind regards
Ms. E

Ps.
Mr. Cod says: “I have never heard so much rubbish in my life. In fact you are either a crazy liar, or you are believing what your neighbours neighbours old Uncle Magnusson said, while he spoke to Jesus.”

I do not take kindly to being called a liar, although the “crazy” part is in fact true, but who’s not a little crazy from time to time.
I find this whole comment very rude and not really fitting your previous comments on how much you like Icelanders. It does sound a bit like it came from the mouth of a Dane. Very disrespectful! Have we started to annoy you yet?

I cannot believe that you are wasting your time discussing the cod wars! The only number in the universe that is important now is 350! Not 350 trillions, or billions, or millions in whatever currency you use but 350 ppm CO2! That is the maximum concentration of CO2 that produces a safe planet to live on. We are at 384 ppm and rising about 1 ppm every 6 months. This needs to be reversed – or we will cook the planet and the livelihoods of our children.

Join the 350 movement – now. I live in England but I am moving to Iceland and will plan 350 events all next year, culminating in a major event on October 26 when the 350 movement will be launched across the planet.

Organise 350 events yourselves – 350 primary school children playing, 350 people in the Blue Lagoon, 350 bankers in jail, 350 kronas in a jar – whatever comes to mind!

Find out more at:

http://350.org/

… and join …

How can we reduce CO2 in the atmosphere? We can pump it into oil reservoirs (being done in Norway), we can pump it into geothermal systems (experiments under way in Iceland), we can bury it in the form of charcoal in soils (Amazon indians used to it) – a world-wide action is starting, we can produce less CO2 (park the hummers and cycle in stead), take the bus, fly less etc etc

Dump the above web link into your address books and lest get started in producing a habitable planet.

I’d just like to point out that you’ve taken Geir Haarde’s words out of context. You cite it as if this is a statement that he made and endorsed. That’s misleading, almost a lie. In fact this was his interpretation of the reaction he got from other countries. He said: “It seems it’s every country for itself” referring to what he took to be the way others view matters. This was crystal clear from his statement. Please don’t misattribute to Geir Haarde sentiments that he has never expressed.

It touches the core of our proud hearts when somebody who is fighting an honest struggle for their lives is kicked in the head and the chance of survival is taken from him.

I hope that when the dust settles people see this PR stunt for what it was.

Slítum stjórnmálasambandi við þá og förum í mál! Við erum kannski blönk en við þurfum ekki að láta koma fram við okkur eins og við séum orðnir nýlenduþrælarnir þeirra.

Kv.
Kristín

If there are any Icelanders under police protection, or Icelanders refused in shops my name is George W Bush and I am a lizard from the planet Zog.

I have never heard so much rubbish in my life. In fact you are either a crazy liar, or you are believing what your neighbours neighbours old Uncle Magnusson said, while he spoke to Jesus.

I bet you can’t give me one newspaper report of this can you? Thought not.

Mr Cod:
Do not give me the drivel about those poor Hull fishermen, Iceland also had poor fishermen. The resources of the seas are not without limits and it’s sort of annoying to see the neighborhood bully raping those resources just off your shores. When the international consensus started to form about a 200 nm exclusive economic zone in the early 1970s the Icelandic government jumped on that opportunity like any government even remotely concerned about the interests of their nation would. The dying empire knew from the start of that conflict that they were on the losing side in the matter but still they chose to kick tiny Iceland around for a while, apparently for the fun of it.

If this current banking crisis is any reason to bring up the Cod Wars, then why don’t we go even further back to the illegal invasion and occupation of a neutral sovereign nation in World War II?

Mr. Cod says: “I don’t think any British citizen has any animosity to Iceland at all.”

FYI we have been getting reports here in Iceland from Icelanders all over the UK who have had to call for police protection outside their houses 24/7. One woman and her family have endured rude comments, threats and accusations from her neighbors and one even came up to her front door and smashed a couple of empty milk bottles she had just put outside. She has called for police protection and there are presently two police cars outside her house, guarding it. She is now not only living in fear of how to overcome this financial crisis, the fear for her family’s safety has now been added.

Other Icelanders living in the UK have similar stories to tell from the past few days, since PM Brown, so conveniently, decided to “misunderstand” words that were quite clearly spoken.

One man was refused service at a local supermarket, where he had gone to buy groceries, and told that it was company policy not to service Icelanders. I would understand shops being reluctant to take Icelandic credit cards given the situation, but this man wanted to pay for his bread and milk with cash from his pocket.

Now, please don’t get me wrong here, I’m not stating that the people of Britain are evil or that you are in any way bad people. I have lived in London myself, loved it to death and hope to move there again someday, and some of my best friends are English. It’s the ridiculous accusations of PM Brown and his almost psychotic attempt to turn the eyes of the world away from him and his problems, that have gotten through to the people and somehow made them believe that 305.000 people met at a street corner and decided they were going to steal loads of money from those evil Brits who tried to take some of our fish a million years ago. Like Hjalli said:

“This is probably a new world record in PR spin”

My heart goes out to all those who, right at this moment, are losing their money all over the world. Of course we will do everything we can to make sure that the damage is minimal for everyone. It’s terrible that institutions like fire departments and local police in Britain are suffering heavy losses in their funds. It’s also terrible that my best friends grandparents have lost almost 40 years of life savings because the only bank still standing in Iceland was forcibly taken over and “shut down” because one mans popularity ratings were a bit down.

The point I´m trying to make here is that what Gordon Brown did was completely irresponsible, unprofessional and only made matters worse. Tens of thousands of People, both in the UK and in Iceland lost even more money. And it is my opinion that the man should not be allowed to speak officially anymore, just as a part of damage-control, in case he lets something slip about, say for example Bush. He’s war-hungry enough as it is.

We had a good run, here in Iceland, for the past few years. Some people got richer than they could handle and big-fish bankers bit of more than the whole nation could chew in 12 years, and they will get what´s coming to them. We are all mad. We are all hurting. The last thing we need is to turn on each other and play a blame game. It will get us nowhere.