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The Scandinavian press unions voice their concern

December 7, 2009

Last week, the journalists’ unions in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland issued a formal statement expressing deep concern about the state of the media here in Iceland. The statement outlines their view that freedom of the press and freedom of speech have recently been under attack in Iceland. This based on the fact that a [...]

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Glitnir’s Kiddiegate Affair

November 4, 2009

A few off-topic comments were written beneath the last post referring to the loans that Glitnir [bank] made to children. Most commenters expressed a mixture of outrage and indignation that a bank would make loans to minors and – not least – that the children’s parents would have applied for those loans on behalf of [...]

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The Icelandic mafia and that RÚV injunction

August 2, 2009

Some pretty serious questions are now being raised about the injunction I wrote about in the last post. The injunction was ordered by the Reykjavík District Commissioner, one Rúnar Guðjónsson. As it happens, the son of the Reykjavík District Commissioner, Guðjón Rúnarsson, is head of the Icelandic Financial Services Association and one of the top [...]

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Kaupthing’s loan book exposed and an injunction ordered against RÚV

August 1, 2009

Yesterday the website WikiLeaks* published TOP SECRET information about loans made by Kaupthing bank just before the Big Meltdown last October. The info is a 209-page inside document containing slides used at a meeting of the bank’s loans committee on September 25 last year. The leaked document shows definitively that the bank made massive, high-risk [...]

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