Iceland economic crisis and more

Icelandic Symphony ,and Indiana Jones theme

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YouTube - Indiana Jones theme - Icelandic Symphony
  

Mr. Micheal Krajewsky was conducting,and the theme was , John Williams movie music.
Mr Krajewsky ,is known for conducting Movie music and has worked with many Symphony orchestras , in San Francisco ,Dallas,Detroit, Baltimore,Stþ Louis to name a few.
I called the Symphony ,and they gave me permission to videotape and put it on the Internet, and everywhere else .
And on this clip ,there is a little bit of a Shocker !
There comes a unknown individual ,dressed in black and with a helmet ,and he walks on the stage ,and pushes mr.Krajewsky off the stage ,and takes over conducting the Symphony .

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YouTube - Darth Vader takes Icelandic Symphony
  

 And on this clip ,there is a little bit of a Shocker !
There comes a unknown individual ,dressed in black and with a helmet ,and he walks on the stage ,and pushes mr.Krajewsky off the stage ,and takes over conducting the Symphony .

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YouTube - John Williams movie music by Icelandic Symphony
  

Last night the Imagine Peace light was lighted.
It is on between the Birthday of John Lennon and to the date ,of his death.
Yoko Ono is in Iceland ,and was going to light it yesterday ,but weather was not good ( pretty bad weather ) ,so she will officially light it tonight.
The light was on last night,and as you can see on the video i took , the weather was not good.

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YouTube - Imagine Peace Light in Iceland
  

Some sort of a ball game ,was played today in Reykjavik .
And only women played . 

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YouTube - Ball sport in Iceland - and only women play
  

 Dog singing

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Today is cultural day and night in Reykjavik.
Great festival, with lots of things for everybody.
It started this morning with the Marathon,and other running activities.
About 11.000 signed up for the running events.

 

 

And all around downtown reykjavik there is music everywhere,and festivals for the chirdren and grown ups.
The goverment ministers had their offices open today for the public,and they greeted everybody that came for a visit.
I visited the Foreign secretary and the the Prime minister office.
I took photos in the goverment building ,where the Prime minster has her officve.
One of the photos is of a gift ,a broom,she got ,tho sweep up the courruption .

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YouTube - Culture day and night in Reykjavik -Iceland 2009
  

Today is the annual Gay Pride walk in Reykjavik - Iceland.

It is a great and big festival,with parades,music,and lots of fun.Today there attended more thatn 90.000 thousand people.

And that is pretty much,since the total population of Iceland is just above 300.000 thousand people.
There was lots of music,trucks,driving with people on board,flame throwers and dancing and music.
And Icelands prime minister , Johanna Sigurdardottir,is openly gay.
The weather was great ,sunny ,warm and a little cloudy.

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YouTube - Gay Pride Festival in Iceland - august 8 2009
  

The annual mud soccer tournement in Isafjord in Iceland.
It is held every year in the first weekend of August.

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YouTube - The Annual mud soccer in Iceland
  

Lots of discussion about the the injunction that was ordered by the Reykjavík District Commissioner against the state TV news media ,RUV .
RUV was planning to cover the news about Wikileaks top secret information about loans from Kaupthing bank ,just before the banking collapse ,last september.
The injuction,was only against the state media ,RUV,but not any other media in Iceland.

Kaupthings leagal team tried to get the information removed from Wikileaks.
But the sent the leagal team a letter,that wikileaks made public.
The answer to Kaupthing is as follows :

No. We will not assist the remains of Kaupthing, or its clients, to hide its dirty laundry from the global community. Attempts by Kaupthing or its agents to discover the source of the document in question may be a criminal violation of both Belgium source protection laws and the Swedish constitution. Who is your US counsel ?

Icelands blog pages have today been on overdrive .
People are very angry, and words such as ,revolution and more have been used.

The son of Reykjavík District Commissioner Rúnar Guðjónsson , is head of the Icelandic Financial Service association and one of the top banker at the failed banks.

These day ,summer vacation season is on.
And next weekend ,is a holiday weekend - public holiday on monday.
That means ,festivals all over Iceland next weekend .
And in Reykjavik today ,a heatwave is upon us.
The heat is a staggering 16 on the celcius.
So ,you go to the Reykjavik beach,and go sailing on your kajak,like these i saw today.

Summer vacation ,are about 4 to 5 weeks in Iceland.
And due to the banking crisis,not many are going abroad,so they travel in Iceland instead.

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YouTube - Heatwave and sailing in ICeland july 2009
  

The controlling parties in Iceland,the Left Green Movement and the Social Democratic Alliance,are putting to a vote at the Icelandic parliement,to join the Europian Union.
And people where today at the parliement protesting,and shouting at parliement building.
Not everybody is for the Europian Union.
Part of the Left Green Movement is not for it ,and now there are a lot of discussion in parliement.
Some in the oppositon parties are for joining the EU .
The vote will probably be tomorrow at 12:00 .

One og the protester who was shouting at the parliement building,using words ,like - Treason ,traitors and such - was asked by the parliement guard to go farther away from the building,wish he refused.

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YouTube - Protest in Iceland - july 15 2009
  

Big boat leaving Reykjavik ,and in the end of the video -
you can see the Reykjavik harbour pilot leave the big boat to a smaller boat

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YouTube - Costa Magica leaving Reykjavik Iceland july 2009
  

Tanks being moved to another part of iceland

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Here is Asbyrgi , a natural formation in Iceland - it is located in the northeastern part of ICeland ,and it is said ,to be formed by Odins horse - The eight legged horse named - Sleipnir.

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YouTube - Asbyrgi - Odins horse shoeprint on the ground
  

Family reunion ,and people having fun ,two groups trying to get victory ,by pylling a rope - and the loosers go into the river.

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YouTube - Family reunion - and pulling rope - and a rive between them
  

This is in the west part of ICeland ,near Borgarnes.
Here the police and coast guard are checking on the traffic - speed and such

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YouTube - Icelandic Police and Coast Guard on traffic duty
  

Today , ( july 1 2009 ) a new Icelandic Coast Guard plane landed for the first time in Iceland.
This is a DASH 8 q 300 - type,and with all the neccesary equipment that a coast guard plane should have.
Two coast guard helicopter came in formation with the new plane.
Then after landing there where speaches at Icelandic Coast GUard HQ.
Before this,the coast used for the last 32 years, a Fokker 27 .
So it was about ti More..me to get a new plane for the Icelandic coast guard.

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YouTube - New Icelandic coast guard plane arrives in Iceland
  

Great weather for taking videos yesterday - and the sunset is vidotaped at 23:30 hours in Reykjavik . Enjoy

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YouTube - June 26th 2009 iceland sunset
  

Today there was a protest meeting in Reykjavik.
People where protesting,that the parliement is going to accept the debt about the ICelave accounts.
One of the Banks that collapsed last year,had started an invesment scheme in Europe,with the name - Icesave.
And when the banks collapsed,they owed about 650 billion kronas.
The exchange rate is now - 1 dollar = 129 kronas .

And to pay that - the goverment must raise taxes,save in the welfare system,pay less pension to the old people and more.
People are angry ,that why should the public pay ,for what the viking bankers and politicians did .
Some firecrackers where shot during the protest today.
But it was ,of course,very peaceful.
Protest will be next saturday again - and mabey in the middle of the week - when the Icesave accounts are being discussed at parliement in Reykjavik - Iceland.

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YouTube - Protest in Iceland june 20th 2009 Icesave