The Villains
Björgólfur Thor and the political game.
Björgólfur Thor is using his website to discredit everyone else and by doing so he can be seen as an innocent victim just as the regular Icelander can. He is a man of the people apparently (sarcasm intended). What is most striking about this website and all the material on it is that it... »
Björgólfur Thor and the media
Björgólfur Thor just opened up a website depicting all his Icelandic business deals. This website is very limited since it does not answer the big questions, such as what happened in Russia? Why did he not pay for Landsbanki with the massive profits he got from the brewery? and so on. The media here in... »
The shroud has officially fallen. The Black Report.
So what is in the “Black Report”? English summary of the report is here. In very short, the report is massive, but in this first hour of its release this is it so far. The banks gave their owners far to much loans and the banks worked for the biggest shareholders (owners and their friends) and ignored... »
and so it begins… Defence Wars II
Monday 12th of April. A historic day. The day the “black report” comes out. The report is over 2000 pages and has taken about a year to write. So far things have been building up to it in the minds of the public and in the minds of those mentioned in the report. The public: Look... »
“The secret investors” of Iceland
After the economic collapse here in Iceland, the words of today are transparency and openness. This has not always been so here. The more secret things were, the more personal deals were, the less paperwork or paper trail left behind to show who did what and why the better the deal according to those involved.... »
The final cry of the last Thatcherist
A very interesting story broke on RUV (Icelandic state TV) in the show Kastljós (Spotlight) yesterday evening. In short: According to RUV reporters, a report from a former banker at Landsbanki shows that the fall of the Icelandic krona was mostly a domestic issue. It had been said time and time again that foreign hedge... »
Is Sweden using Iceland to save it’s own skin?
Swedish influence on the currency laws and its implications on IceSave According to Iceland Talks sources there is more to the Aserta currency fraud case than meets the eye. The media picked this up a few days after Iceland Talks got weather of this matter, so we decided to wait and see what the media... »