In regards to the parliment video. The reality of the situation and the science...

The House Sgt. at Arms is actually in charge of overseeing security details for the House. Parliment Hill has a weird system, where as the Sgt. at Arms runs security inside the house, the RCMP cover the outsides, and the Ottawa Police cover Wellington St.

His office is right next to the front door that guy ran through, so he was one of the first and closest people to respond.

I'm a Canadian who loves the history behind these types of positions. When things calm down, ask us about our giant mace.

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>> ^imstellar28:
my kind of protest. any links to the story?


They are protesting in front of parliment. We now have protests there every saturday at 15:00. People show up, 3-4 people hold speeches. These motorcyclists weren't an official part of the protest but wanted to do show support in this way. The flag the guy on the roof was raising is the flag of Bonus (icelandic Wal Mart, Tesco). The cops tried to get him but the crowd got him back and he ran away. I was very happy they didn't resort to spraying people with tear gas which they did this summer. When people are shouting at the police there they are saying "YOU ARE WORKING FOR US, NOT THEM". I suspect the police were this passive because most of them probably agree with the protesters.

Basically, Iceland is in turmoil. The credit crisis led to all of our 3 banks collapsing(12x the size of the GDP). It's down to a european trade agreement(can't remember the name in english). It gives companys all sorts of freedoms, some good, some not so good. It meant that our banks could operate anywhere in Europe. So, they went and started loaning in Holland, Germany and England. In England alone over 300.000 people had accounts (these accounts had very high interest rates). So.. when the banks couldn't get loans from other banks they started falling, they had expanded themselves way too much like everybody else. BUT.. while the law gave them freedom to operate in other countries, the banking license was still in Iceland. Which meant 310.000 people were now responsible for accounts of almost 500.000 people, many of which had high amounts in the accounts.

The Icelandic goverment started freezing the banks, to take over. A disputed act, but they couldn't really let the banks go bankrupt because then the country would have no way to buy anything, nobody would have any money. So when Gordon Brown saw what they were doing he talked to our goverment and they said they would probably be able to pay off what the law required of them (about 20-30.000 euros for each person I think). Somehow Gordon took that as us not being willing to pay. So next the British goverment froze all Icelandic assets in England (using the terrorist law) and declared Iceland as a bankrupt nation (even though the country itself had no debts and has been practically debtless for some years, quite rare for a country). Next we knew, iceland was on the same list as terrorist organizations like Al quaida and terrorist supporting nations. It has now come to light that before they did that, the assets of the banks would have sufficed to pay off the legal requirement and then some. But freezing everything and declaring us as a terrorist nation effectively took all value off those assets. Catch 22?.

We are now running down on foreign currency to buy in produce. We have been working with the IMF to get a loan to get the economy moving but word is that the english and dutch are working behind the scenes to deny us of that loan until we agree to pay way over the legal requirements. Gordon Brown is basically trying to look as some savior to the british people, he's been doing horrible in the polls and this is his Falklands war.

In essence, we got fucked by greedy businessmen and inept politicians. 99% of the nation had no idea we were written down as responsible for all these foreign accounts. The politicians championed these businessmenn while everything here was booming, they were buying up huge companies overseas, money here was very easy to come by. But as it turns out, it was a bubble, none of it was real.

In the last few decades unemployment has been from 1,2-2,2%. We are now facing a possible 10-20% next year. Numbers that have never been seen in the history of the country. Our international reputation has been terminally fucked. We read stories of icelanders in england having their dinner plates spat on, people getting verbally abused in the street e.t.c. Just for being icelandic. For the actions of about 30 people.

This rant could probably be 3x longer, but i'll stop here for now .

You know... I think the article is horrible personally... i despite the woman... and this she is a joke... but that article does nothing to help... in only makes her supporters more fervent...

The other thing is... You'd think with their priminister just disolving parliment for politcal motives... she'd have been a little more worried about that...

As you may know Ive created a playlist of many of the dead videos on the sift. As its been there for awhile, and there have been quite a few views of it, very few vids have been fixed or discarded. I thought a list just of yours might be of some help. The list below are all your videos on my playlist. There may be a few errors, but I gave it my best shot.


http://www.videosift.com/video/New-Army-recruiting-technique
http://www.videosift.com/video/How-Billiard-Tables-are-made
http://www.videosift.com/video/Marine-speaks-out-about-Iraq
http://www.videosift.com/video/ABC-on-FoleyGOP-Sex-Scandal-Republicans-Knew-Did-Nothing
http://www.videosift.com/video/Parliment-Give-up-the-Funk
http://www.videosift.com/video/Killer-Blues-Song-Play-the-Blues-for-You
http://www.videosift.com/video/How-Guitars-are-Made
http://www.videosift.com/video/Attack-of-the-Flying-Dongs

Upvote for benjee, please, answer this question for a perplexed musician....What is it about Canadian popular music, it always has something missing, some key element it seems, that keeps it in a Canadian box, that has cultured the musical reputation of this enormous land of many peoples in a dish that only yields one or two, noteworthy artists of renown, every decade??? Rush, Triumph, K.D. Lang....(very hard to kick more out of an American brain....)

An Observation: What does almost every black bluesman answer, when asked the question about what is the blues?

A: "If you have to ask that, then you have never had the blues"....(or something along those lines)

Perhaps, there is something wonderful to be said, for a country that has produced more musical styles and influential artists and genres, than any other on the frikkin' planet....speaking of course, of the U.S.of A.-

Perhaps Canadian's need the blues,some SOUL- the struggle that comes from more than just chopping wood, and living where yer nipples are like diamonds most of the year!!

This is some of the most cliched, uni-chord, plain-jane, cracker-fied bleating ever to be heard......perhaps the little Fiona Apple-lookin chickadee needs some soul, or blues, or singing lessons, anything!! Oh wait, here's the volume knob....yessss, that's the ticket!!!


The reason we produce music in the U.S. that sets the standard??? Soul. A fucking freight train full of it, enough to spread around, enough to trade English knickers for spandex, to make a Swede give up ice-fishing for guitar lessons....etc. etc. etc.

We are losing an edge in a sense, much regurgitation of late, but hell, musicians must cry foul from the mountaintops whenever social and cultural commentary must be sung.......Art baby, comes with suffering....so Boooodah would say, does life.........(God I wanted to downvote this horrific song!!!)

......but if I had, there is a chance that this nugget of truth would never have been read again...Isn't Neil Young Canadian???? Ok, he's got some soul now....must have left Canada early on, to get some from somewhere else....

Do love y'alls Parliments' decision to crack the fuck down on letting in all-comers.....we need some similar sanity with our freekin' borders.....

the fact is all countries sell wepons all over the place
god knows how mutch usa mony is directly responsable for killing there own troops, with groups like the taliban been traind by amercans its quite amusing. so to try and say iran is activly trying to kill amercans by seeling wepons ore having wepons end up in iraq is prity stupid. if we go to war with iran i hope sumone burns down the amercan embisy in london. shud get a bunch of people together and project burning flags of britan and usa onto the houses of parliment

i used to (well, my dad bought them) get my grandmother a carton of parliments (cigs) every christmas!

kinda makes me sad now, but what else could you buy a 75 y/o woman who lived in a studio apartment? *shrugs*

Westy? Community College English 101 perhaps? ZING. And you don't stand in the house of the parliment, you only stand if you are making a speech addressing the opposition. It's the same as the US.

I think the video is pretty stupid. What's so funny about terrorism attacks? If it somehow educated while being satirical (Daily SHow) I understand, but this, seems like mere sensationalism.

LOL dont know why it was banned. i vote for the plane into the houses of parliment it wud actualy be a favor the boulding sucks i meen ok looks nice but its crap to actualy do polatics in half the people have to stand up