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(5,178 posts)Martin Eden
(12,875 posts)Sadly, RW "Christians" in the US do the opposite of Jesus.
DhhD
(4,695 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)daleanime
(17,796 posts)Bucky
(54,068 posts)[font size="4"]Iceland abolishes law which orders Basques to be killed on sight[/font]
Iceland has repealed a 400-year-old law which said Spaniards from the Basque Country should be killed as soon as they set foot in the Westfjords region
Icelandic authorities in the Westfjords region have repealed a law which orders the murder of any visitor from the Basque region.
The law, which applies only in Westfjords a northern peninsula jutting out into the sea, and the most remote part of Iceland dates back to 1615.
I expect Iceland to be run over by Basque shepherds any day now... Oh, my!!
Blanks
(4,835 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)to Spainify the entire country. Them and the Catalans.
IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)because that would sure be an unpleasant surprise to any Basque who decided to visit
rpannier
(24,338 posts)Soon their centuries old Westfjords culture will be no more
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)I so want to see Jamie Dimon in chains!
nikto
(3,284 posts)peecoolyour
(336 posts)Too bad Wall Street is out of the DOJ's jurisdiction.
DrBulldog
(841 posts)... Wall Street is out of Hillary's jurisdiction as well. BUT NOT SO FOR BERNIE SANDERS!
nikto
(3,284 posts)That was so funny (and true) I had to cry.
DrBulldog
(841 posts). . . because too many Americans refuse to learn from ANYONE.
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)Sadly most of the rest of the world refused to hold the bankers accountable and even recently the DOJ let them buy their way out of going to jail with a measly fine that was a drop in the bucket to how much money they made with their illegal actions.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)when you can think straight and aren't as crooked as a dog's hind leg.
Bravo Iceland!!
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Obama should have gone after them
nikto
(3,284 posts)That's why he didn't.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)that the Green/Left coalition government that did it just had its asses handed to it in elections. And that Iceland's home repossession rate is higher than the US's.
nikto
(3,284 posts)Thanks in advance.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)It's a massively more complicated situation than a simple meme makes it appear. Another good starting point is NPR's "Planet Money" report on it:
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/12/05/368723679/episode-587-jubilee
nikto
(3,284 posts)Looks like the big international bank$ter$ have got everybody by the balls.
niyad
(113,556 posts)Autumn
(45,120 posts)aspirant
(3,533 posts)and donate it to the masses?
bhikkhu
(10,724 posts)gives a good overview. I quick read would show that the solutions found would be difficult (or impossible) to replicate here, though perhaps if the motives were followed we might have been able to do better. I think our politics have been a bit on the poisonous side, and what we got was what we voted for more or less (looking at congress especially).
Recursion
(56,582 posts)in Icelandic electoral history in 2013 after they did what this meme says.
nikto
(3,284 posts)Iceland's Finance Minister asks business to help raise wages.
Sound familiar?
http://icelandreview.com/news/2015/05/11/finance-minister-employers-must-do-part-increase-wages
IMO, it looks like they've got the same Left vs right dynamic going on there as we do here.
Those folks in the street are probably Iceland's equivalent to T-baggers.
If Bernie Sanders ever got elected and we raised taxes on the rich, you'd see the same
demonstrations in the streets organized here, and pushed by FoxNooz.