There is some sort of demonstration somewhere in Iceland just about every single day. I haven’t been very active recently. I did attend the demonstration on Austurvöllur last Saturday, but this time it was just 17 minutes of silence. No speaches. The 17 minutes signified each year that the Independance party (Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn) has been in power. That was all.
The Myntkarfan family is very economic when buying presents this year. As a matter of fact this was the case last year also. Only, that time we were optimistic, we thought that this year we would have a bit more money to spend. Little did we know…
Last year it was CDs for everyone, not all new CDs even (some “special offers” were included). This year, well, lets just say that there is a slightly more variation, but the cost will be about the same.
And yes, I know that there are people in the world that simply can’t afford any pressies at all. I know, we should be thankful.
I’m facing daycare problems. It adds to my discontent about soon starting a not so great job. At the same time I am also trying to be optimistic and positively minded.
The husband is very frustrated these days. More fraud is being revealed every day. The hottest news today is that the editor of DV contradicts himself. DV is somewhat a tabloid, but at the same time they have marketed themselfes as ”the voices of truth” and proudly claimed to spare noone… etc.
They have so far used all sorts of methods to reveal scandals, some less ethical than others. However, now it has been proven that the editor stopped a piece of news on bank-related corruption. He was secretly recorded by his employe who wrote the piece. He said that the newspaper would be “run over” by some powerful individuals if they’d go public with this.
So much for the freedom of speach.
But like I was saying, Mr Myntkarfan is about to fix it all. He has been very active lately, founding groups, attending demonstrations, coming up with solutions for families in debt and passing these solutions on to media and politicians. He has gotten quite some attention and I think his plan now is to found a new political party.
I’m all behind him, only I’ve lost faith in politics.
