Black Report

My Tweets from the Black Report press conference this morning

April 12, 2010

I’m currently riveted to the TV watching a programme on RÚV about the investigative report that came out today. I’ll write a bit more about it in due course, but just to give an idea of what was revealed today, here are my Tweets that I wrote on Twitter during the press conference this morning. [...]

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Black Report: the immediate aftermath

April 12, 2010

So, the Black Report is officially OUT and the press conference held to go over its contents is finished. I have to confess that writing about it here feels a bit overwhelming, as you can imagine. After all, it’s 2000+ pages and so much mind-boggling information. In short, there was nothing earth-shattering in the report [...]

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It’s Black Report day!

April 12, 2010

That’s right, dear readers: in about 30 minutes the press conference marking the official release of the Black Report, a.k.a. “The Fact-Finding Report of the Althingi Special Investigation Commission” will commence. You can believe that the entire Icelandic nation is waiting with bated breath. As many of you will know, the report has been delayed [...]

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Of oligarchs, the media, and the truth

April 11, 2010

So old Jón Ásgeir Jóhannesson continues to stun and amaze. A few days ago he announced he would be suing the Glitnir winding-up committee for libel because they suggested he had abused his position as the owner of the bank. Now he’s sending messages to the Minister of Finance, via the press, that Steingrímur should  [...]

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Doddsson does the skedaddle

April 9, 2010

So, as someone mentioned in the comments to the last post, old Davíð Oddsson has decided to leave the country, three days before the Black Report is released. It goes without saying that Doddsson is one of the key players in the 3000-page report. Some might say that he’s simply bowing out graciously to give [...]

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The most ingenious thing I’ve heard all day

April 7, 2010

So, the ominous Black Report is due out next Monday, barring yet another delay [it would be the fourth]. In light of this, the Reykjavík City Theatre announced today that it will be “staging” the Black Report – i.e. its actors will be reading it out loud onstage, from beginning to end, all 2000-odd pages [...]

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Of powerlessness and dejection and the need to get on with things

February 18, 2010

Last night it was announced that the time limit for those implicated in the Black Report [aka the fact-finding report into the bank collapse] to respond to the allegations made against them had been extended. Apparently ten days just wasn’t enough for those poor people to read through what they had allegedly done and come [...]

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The Dirty Dozen

February 12, 2010

As many readers know, we Nicelanders are waiting with bated breath these days for the release of the Black Report – the outcome of the investigation into the bank collapse by a specially-appointed parliamentary committee. The report was delayed at the beginning of February, among other things because high-ranking officials implicated in the report were [...]

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Black Report delayed. AGAIN.

January 25, 2010

The government’s “truth commission” – a parliamentary committee investigating the economic collapse – called a press conference this morning and announced that the so-called Black Report, due to be released on February 1, would be delayed. Again. It was first due to appear in November, but its release was put off as the task turned [...]

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