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April 11, 2011

Icelandic people tell UK UP YOURS over banking compensation

By Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall

In a deal the Icelandic, UK and Dutch governments had struck and thought would get voted through, the people of Iceland voted in a referendum to not pay back the UK and Netherlands the money they lost in the Icelandic bank collapse. Good for the people of Iceland for telling the UK and Dutch UP YOURS! Start from asking why was this money deposited in such abnormally high interest accounts, who was laundering money, why were UK local councils putt ...

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In a deal the Icelandic, UK and Dutch governments had struck and thought would get voted through, the people of Iceland voted in a referendum to not pay back the UK and Netherlands the money they lost in the Icelandic bank collapse. Good for the people of Iceland for telling the UK and Dutch UP YOURS! Start from asking why was this money deposited in such abnormally high interest accounts, who was laundering money, why were UK local councils putting money into such ventures DESPITE warnings that the offer was too good to be true.

Authors Website: http://www.stuartbramhall.com

Authors Bio:
I am a 63 year old American child and adolescent psychiatrist and political refugee in New Zealand. I have just published a young adult novel THE BATTLE FOR TOMORROW (which won a NABE Pinnacle Achievement Award) about a 16 year old girl who participates in the blockade and occupation of the US Capitol. I also have a new non-fiction ebook REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE and a 2010 memoir, THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY ACT: MEMOIR OF AN AMERICAN REFUGEE describing the circumstances that led me to leave the US in 2002 to start a new life in New Zealand. My memoir won an Allbooks Review Editor's Choice Award. I have a political commentary blog at my website.

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