The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday – 4th July 2016

1. Lets follow Iceland’s model…yus

   ‘Jailed bankers, gender equality & majestic fjords: Reasons to love Iceland’

   https://www.rt.com/viral/349321-iceland-love-landscape-music/

   …”Iceland remains one of the only nations to put their money where their mouth is and place the financial “fat cats” responsible for their country’s economic demise behind bars.

   As in other countries, the Icelandic taxpayer has had to pay a high price for the failure of the banks. But where financial bosses got off with barely a slap on the wrist in some nations, Iceland set up a special investigative commission to probe crime within the banking sector…

   ‘Iceland’s jailed bankers ‘a model’ for dealing with ‘financial terrorists’ ‘

   https://www.rt.com/op-edge/iceland-bank-sentence-model-246/

   “By jailing four top officers of Iceland’s failed Kaupthing Bank, the country showed the world the right way to deal with the people largely responsible for the 2008 financial crisis, said Charlie McGrath, founder of news website, Wide Awake News.

   The US and other nations must take it as a model for the next time the too-big- to-fail corporations screw things up and ask for a bailout with taxpayers’ money, he added…

   ‘Brexit: Iceland president says UK can join ‘triangle’ of non-EU countries’

   http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-uk-eu-referendum-latest-iceland-norway-greenland-faroe-islands-a7105641.html

2. violation of the social contract ( Thomas Hobbs) usually leads to social chaos and revolution…people will take so much inequality and impoverishment and then no more..it amazes me that the ruling classes never seem to learn this lesson from history..are they stupid or has their greed affected their reason?

   … these are interesting discussions on implications of Brexit ( better than most NZ media , especially nz tv ) :

   ‘Russia’s Brexit’

   https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/349095-russia-brexit-democracy-security/

   ‘EU implosion?’

   https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/348831-eu-reform-democracy-brexit/

   ‘Brexit: Goal!’

   https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/348295-brexit-goal-uk-eu/

3. Thanks Chooky – hard to get decent news in NZ – so wishy washy, don’t Know why they bother… ( I do actually, dumb down the masses – throw in some fear, and you have compliant citizens.)

   • Good post, Chooky. I’m 100% behind that.

     ICELAND: Population 323,002 (2013).

     Volcanic, but freezing in winter, And with about 320,00 people who have a firm grasp upon reality!

4. Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!
   New Shub are claiming the Human Headline could be a Winston-like ‘king-maker’
   FFS!
   Now it’s all “proud of his Kiwi heritage” and all that kaka!
   Have we really become that fucking desperate?
   In the MSM, obviously we have.
   It may well be that Human Headline will be buried on NZ shores alongside a rellie or two, but he’s now no more a Nu Zulluna than my grandma’s asshole – and even then it was a nightmare to get that specimen shipped back to Blighty on the Union Steamship Company.
   Actually – long live the USSCo – fuck all else seems to exist.
   Do you think there’s a profit in shipping assholes back to Blighty?

5. DIFFERING PERSPECTIVES:
   Mike Wallace being taken apart for a question he asked on American TV regarding corruption in Nigeria:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k43gK0szK00

   An absolutely superb reply, IMO. And well worth a look (its quite brief) – if nothing else – for the expression of (imperfectly disguised) surprise on the face of Mike Wallace!

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