"No, I'll sit..." " You won't be occupied with the camera?" "No, I attend to the camera, ask questions and..." "Do it like I have always done it;" "this is fine." "It's easier talking to me." "This is not a televised address to the nation." "Then he speaks only to the camera." "Now he speaks with me." "I've been working on this film since..." "Since October." "I wass at Arlanda Arport when I heard about Glitnir Bank." "GeirH." "Haarde FormerPrmeMnster" "I was rattled, came to Iceland" "but people were hoping that this could be dealt with." "But already then the whole nation was stunned." "How would you like to start?" "You want me to ask a question." "From that moment when..." "You are wondering what happened..." "Just to warm up." "Go through what happened." "I'll start with that." "October 6, 2008" "Fellow Icelanders," "I have chosen this moment to address the nation as we are faced with serious hardship." "I will encourage everyone to safeguard the values that are most important." "To safeguard those values that will prevail in the coming storm." "With our optimistic bent, our equanimity and solidarity we shall weather this storm." "God bless Iceland." "We hold the world record in stealing other people's money;" "hold the world record in lying and cheating to get our hands on money and this nation has lost its reputation;" "all because of a government that is trash." "What's wrong with you carrying a small baby here when riots are expected?" "You should take it easy;" "show some responsibility instead of cussing out the police." "Who are you?" "Are you some kind of fascist?" "You should be ashamed." "You can see people here with their children..." "Throwing abuse at the police with a child on your tummy..." "You are childish." "Who was hitting you?" " A demonstrator with a placard." "Dúni Geirsson" "In a specialty store..." "You just show your Icelandic police I.D." "Is this ok?" " I have used them since 2002." "Are they not handy to use?" "I have regular type with a chain..." "I have been a policeman for ten years, since 1999." "I wanted to try something different, something interesting and my father Geir Jón has been in the police since 1976." "And I wanted to know what drew him to this work so I applied." "Geir H. Haarde, the prime minister, says that the government is working on the economy with the banks and the unions..." "I will use this opportunity and emphasize that depositors need not worry." "We will guarantee their money." "We will guarantee depositors." "That fear is groundless." "If anybody fears for his deposits in the banks here." "Now we only need Mugabe." "Or put a moustache on Geir." "Then we have it made." "Sturla Jónsson" "The government took over at Kaupthing last night like it has done with Landsbanki and Glitnir." "Kaupthing blames British authorities for the crash." "Good evening..." "Yes, speaking." "Well, I can save you the talk." "I'm maxed out on my overdraft so I won't be buying anything or supporting any cause." "That's ok, bye..." "Three hundred and fifty thousand..." "Five hundred thousand..." "Eight hundred thousand..." "Nine hundred thousand..." "The only thing to do is just smile and let them take the lot;" "there is no use in paying this." "And then leave for..." "It's a nicer place; it's warmer there." "Just move to..." "Just move to Florida." "Bask in the sun." "Dad, I need a towel." " A towel..." "It's in the dryer." "Eva Hauksdóttir" "Haukur Hilmarsson" "Mom, coffee?" " Just brew some." "See here..." "Is it one spoon per cup?" "Yes, there about." "Just brew a full thermos." "October 18, 2008" "Do we want change in management?" "Do we want the forces of corruption out?" "Do we want the government out of the way?" "Do we want elections?" "Einar Már Gudmundsson" "And finally:" "We must recover everything." "Our language which they have debased with their greed and vanity." "The values they have taken from us." "The money they have stolen." "The fisheries and our natural resources." "This is a question of whether the nation elects for itself a government or the government elects a nation." "If they crush us with violence, with Nato's emergency plan, with that Norwegian consultant, our grandchildren can then at least say:" "Our grandparents tried." "I like to thank you for showing up here." "Please show up next Saturday in a weeks time, at the same hours, as we will keep on until the government departs." "And along with The Central Bank's directors;" "and they will not be missed." "I cannot speak right now..." "Let him come down." "Release him..." "UP WITH THE LADDER!" "What are you doing?" "Easy, easy..." "Nobody vandalized anything." "We put up a commercial flag." "Nothing could be more descriptive for this fucking democracy." "Why not rather discuss this with me?" "Listen, I'm on your side." " I know." "But I have a duty to uphold the law." "Yes, and when the revolution starts you will be on our side..." "Listen and this baton will not be used against me but against those guys..." "Listen, you can't force your way into the garden." "Or climb up on the roof." " I didn't." "Listen, listen." "You are all nice people." "But just do this softly, no hassle." "You just vote for somebody else in the next elections." " No..." "That's not the solution." "Who to vote for?" "Dísa Helgadóttir" "Do you think that the situation the nation finds itself in will change anything for you?" "That you will move?" " Yes." "I can very well see that." "That's what I really want to do." "I have been thinking about it for awhile, even before the crash." "But more so now with this situation." "Not very promising." "Do you wanna rest?" "Do you, Sparta?" "Let's call this my full time job on the side." "I'm a policeman and a diver." "And then a grip." "And then the only working private detective in Iceland has asked me to work for him." "Watch houses and such..." "But this is my second main job." "I don't think I will loose my government job." "They say it's the new pickup line:" "I'm state employed." "November 1, 2008 ReykjavíkPo oestaton" "My son has been arrested because of this situation." "November 1, 2008 ReykjavíkPo oestaton" "It's not a guy who has any influence." "He is just a guy who two weeks ago climbed on to the roof of the parliament and raised a commercial flag to indicate how the parliament has been shamed." "Release Haukur..." "I ended up in the emergency room." "My eyes needed to be rinsed out;" "it took more than an hour." "Besides my face was burned and my clothes drenched in mace." "While I'm at the emergency room Haukur calls me, extremely dejected; he had been moved to another room in the building, had fallen asleep and knew nothing about the commotion outside." "He was wakened and told a man wanted to see him." "That man told him that people were rioting outside and that people were in danger of being hurt." "And that he would like to bail him out to avert a disaster." "The consulting agency for household finances says that options to save households from going bankrupt are fewer now than often before as it is difficult to sell properties and reduce the debt..." "49 kronor each minute?" "Is that possible?" "Have you heard about there being shortage of food here in Iceland?" "Yes, I have." "See what they say in the Swedish papers." "This is recent, from October 18. no 22." "No, November 23..." " Yes, Sunday November 23." "So the foreign papers do write about us." "Riots in Crisisland" "Why don't we just eat the last chicken and then board the plane and leave and let someone else take care of the dishes like that woman said." "Just leave." "Do you know for how long you will have work?" "Into the next week anyway." "That's decided but we don't know what happens after that." "We will pour the concrete for this and then see if we add another level." "The financing is not ready." "There is no money." "If we don't continue it'ill just be buried." "Like this over there." "We will just shovel over it." "It can't stand exposed." "Where is the money?" " That's the question." "It has been sent abroad." "There is nothing left." "I don't know." "We know nothing." "We are not told anything." "We have to wait and see." "Isn't it so?" "Nobody knows anything and neither do we." "What?" " I need a rebar... 1,70 cm." " 1,70... 1,75..." "Bjarni Armannsson Oneofthemanarohteotsof the oeandotankngsystem" "Bjarni Armannsson Oneofthemanarohteotsof the oeandotankngsystem" "Just shove the stuff aside." "How long will you stay this time?" " I leave on Tuesday." "And return Saturday." "You come often now." " Yes" "That's fine." " Yes." "I began working in the financial sector in 1991 with Kaupthing." "I was then offered to head FBA Bank late in 1997, which I accepted, and it was a challenge to create an investment bank and participate in the privati - zation of the financial system." "And I ended my tenure at that company at the end of April 2007." "Ok..." "We do it like this..." "Can you see how it..." "It's really nothing so..." "It's nothing." "When I left the bank I felt that the bank was very solid;" "that I was handing over a decade of constructive work." "I take this out." "Is there another wheelbarrow?" " No, this is nothing." "What our ancestors could capitalize on and did was in begetting children; that was their only pension security." "To have children that survived..." "You can come in;" "it's ok." "How was it?" "Did you have money for the bus?" "No..." "So Thomas failed to give you the 30 kronor." "I have never thought of money as such." "I have been dealing with such large numbers and for such a long time so it's just numbers on a page, you see?" "Not in a sense unreal but... in a way they become signs but not directly money-signs;" "it's hard to explain." "...man fears that he will have to pay upwards to 400 thousand towards his mortgage and he is critical of Free Investment Bank for denying freezing the loan..." " A bill from a collection agency" "Although all is gone bust as they say." "...on the one hand to define the scope of the committee and the extent of the investigation and on the other hand it is difficult to..." "I don't understand this any more that must be above suspicion." "Can I get some small change for the bus?" "Yes..." "Can you get a transfer or do you need two fares?" "I can get a transfer but I'm not sure for how long it's valid." "Thanks..." "We bought the house as a roofed building in 1996." "I owned a condo and my wife likewise." "We wanted to sell but couldn't and I was not going to start working on the house unless we were able to sell." "So I didn't start work on the house until..." "September..." "October 1997." "And I was here every day for nine months." "Came here after work and left around midnight." "Every weekend." "And when we moved in after nine months we just slept on the floor." "We lived, four of us, on eight sq." "M. For nine months." "That was enough..." "So it has taken ten..." "Eleven years to get to this stage." "And now..." "Now it will be taken from us." "Is Helgi back home?" " No." "Those politicians have never been responsible for anything they do." "That's just the way it is although they will not admit it." "It just shows how Geir Haarde behaves when he is spoken to on TV;" "he is arrogant and overbearing." "David was like that;" "remembering the Bermuda Bowl." "When he showed up at the airport greeting them dead drunk." "They don't think straight." "If they started talking to the people and treated others like people." "We need more policemen like Saemi Rokk was." "Who could talk to the young people." "Without being overbearing." "These guys don't have common sense." "How does it feel, Johanna, to have to use the rear entrance?" "That's not good; we would like to use the main entrance but we can't get through." "This is a bit scary." " Yes, you can say that." "Wimp..." "We want to pass through, peacefully." "We are not threatening anyone." "You can line up in front or something..." "We just want to pass through." "Without hassle." "Yes, we will see what we can do." "Are you going downtown?" " Yes." "I never took those demonstrations personally except for that one time when the official car of the prime minister was attacked while I was in the car." "At that time I was greatly upset as the windows of the car were violently hammered on where I was sitting." "And we could have been hurt, I or the driver." "GET OUT!" "INCOMPETENT GOVERNMENT!" "Right now I have no income." "I have not been able to pay myself a salary." "As I'm an entrepreneur I don't qualify for unemployment benefits." "So I manage by going through the dumpsters." "The excessive consumption society." "There is nothing wrong with this food;" "it might be past expiration date but this apple is fine." "The drawback with the dumpsters is that you get a lot of the same stuff." "You get maybe ten kilos of sugar but no rice." "And it's not about saving money but when the income is non-existent that too matters." "I have not paid my study loans and I don't care." "I haven't paid my mortgage for four months and I don't care." "And I don't care if I use my overdraft with the bank;" "The KB-bank that lent to Tchenguiz 280 billions with a collateral in a company which was losing money." "I did not receive such a loan..." "I don't care, they can wait and this is new for me." "It has always mattered for me to pay my debts and no later than on deadline." "So the attitude changes when you see through the abuses of power and the corruption everywhere." "In the Icelandic banking sector, everywhere..." "Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson Deoared oeandsfrstt onare FormermanownerofLandstank" "Was it three or four?" "Three." "The total value of the transactions was 6,3 billion euros." "Ah..." "Yes..." " At Enterprise." "What talents does one need to run a bank?" "To acquire a bank; that's quite something to acquire a whole bank like Landsbanki which is the bank of the nation." " Yes." "What you need to do..." "You can't..." "Anybody can buy a bank." "The largest banks in the world are on the stock exchange." "If you have sufficient funds you can buy the whole bank." "If Icesave becomes a problem..." "I think the likelihood of that is minimal and we could discuss that but let's rather discuss the current problems;" "how to deal with them." "Like household debt, households borrowing in euros and now the Krona is in a free fall." "How to manage the banks, how they can help." "How to create more jobs in Iceland as the banks did." "Who is going to pay the taxes that the banks did and contributed to the system to pay for public works." "How to we fill those gaps?" "Those are the problems." "The problems that must be solved." "I need some water." "And to go to the rest room." "What?" " Going to the restroom." " Of course." "You must be clear about one thing." "Bjorgolfur was never on the board of Landsbanki." "Never in the bank's council." "So he never had any information about Icesave, you see?" "He only was involved in hiring the bank's directors in 2003." "So he was just a shareholder?" " Yes, a shareholder." "But he was, on the other hand, a director of the board at Straumur." "Just so, it is..." "I never follow those notes..." "Many think I was involved in this all." "But in way I'm a foreigner;" "I live abroad and visit Iceland for a wedding and get entangled in this." "What can I do?" "And I come again next weekend; at that time I was asked to come." "I say ok." "But what can I do?" "And the one who is furthest from the operation like the coach who is not on the field, he is best suited to calm things down." "Often you only have to say to people..." "And I do that in my dealings." "My role is very similar to a coach's role in soccer or handball." "I'm not close enough to this." "I'm not involved in politics and such;" "I know so little about that." "YOUR BANK DOES NOT CARE FOR YOU" "YOUR BANK DOES NOT CARE FOR YOU" "NO MONEY" " NO POWER" "Hi there, now and again we greet you on the New Years Eve from Hotel Borg in downtown Reykjavik" "December 31, 2008 where our yearly program is about to begin;" "a program that has become a fixture and in which the political leaders discuss the past year." "A part of the nation is here outside demonstrating as people have been doing recently and we can hear clearly that the people are angry." "The government has not been able to soften the public's anger." "You have failed." "Well, I think it's too soon to say that we have failed." "Do you think the nation agrees?" "Well, I can't say; we in the government call for actions and it's hard to ask the nation..." "Leave the premises." "We will employ mace if..." "Everybody out..." "We delivered the banks into the hands of inexperienced people and this was the result." "And the nonsense that The Independents got this and The Progressive party got that." "But the fact is that we advertised." "We have to differentiate between the demonstrations outside the parliament where people have demonstrated peacefully and this demonstration here now..." "These people is the nation." "I think seven or eight thousands are a good cross-section of the nation." "Don't twist my words." "I'm talking about this group that is here now." "I don't know what group that is." "We know that this is a limited group of people which in a violent manner..." "Don't open that door." "Don't open it." "Anarchistic trash, get out of here." "Get out of the way." " You go." "Why?" "Piss off, what's wrong with you?" "Can't we stand here?" " Are you going to hit me?" "What's the matter with you?" "Don't you stand in the way..." "Who are you?" " You are attacking people." "No, we were holding a discussion." " Holding a discussion?" "You call this attacking?" " Yes." "You are spoiling things for people." " Is that so?" "How..." " Fuck off..." "You commie bastard." "You anarchist idiot." "I'm not an anarchist." " So what are you?" "I'm a communist." "What are you?" " We are not." "You guys are nothing, not even thinking beings." "No, you do that." "You should lay off the hashish..." "Says the policeman." "We don't do such things here." "There are two things important in metal:" "Two basedrums for the look and then the squeal in the guitar." "Everything's crazy then." "I thought of it the other day when we played the Stryper song" "To Hell With The Devil you get on the screen The Stryper logo..." "We must dress in Stryper outfit." "I'm not going to..." "Let's dress him in yellow and black spandex outfit." "You guys will just be ordinary and I the only one in spandex." "Yellow and black." " Yack." "It's disgustingly funny." "And rock..." "Everybody with long hair..." "Wigs..." " Yes, wigs." "And I will wear a torn t-shirt to show off my tattoos." "What tattoos?" "You only have one." "No, he has two." " This..." "Ok, four." "But you can count each letter as one tattoo." "What happens if a policeman becomes bankrupt?" "I lose my job." "If I go bankrupt I can't work for the government." "I'll just go on the dole." "We'll not let that happen." "I'll win the Lotto or something." "As the outlook is today;" "I have work, steady work." "Which is very good; being employed by the government" "It's steady work and it's not easy to get rid of you." "I will just stick with it and see what the future brings." "It must get better one day." "And hopefully the situation will not be too bad then." "And then there is..." "And then there is the house." " Yes, the house up west." "I don't know how that's going to go." "Hopefully I can sell it." "Hi, my name is Eva." "I'm going to cast a spell, vargastefna." "I will call upon this government pests and predators." "You can participate." "I'm rousing the nations anger, its anxiety, its worries against this people and you can participate by focusing your minds on these people and imagining that your anger, anxiety, worries are rodents;" "anxiety is a mouse, anger is a rat..." "And to intensify this I will offer a sacrifice, a meat sacrifice." "I will offer ravens, mice, seagulls and rats this meat." "I asked the Deputy Commissioner of the police to walk with me to the Central Bank and help me get inside." "He was very nice about it and did that; walked with me and asked that I was allowed to speak with David." "Can I speak with David Oddsson." "And I looked in his eyes and saw that he believed what he was saying." "He is sincere and he believes that this attitude is ok towards the nations." "And he really believes that he bears no responsibility." "And I perceive him as a human being and I have compassion for him because of that." "But despite that he is unqualified as the director of The Central Bank and even more so if he believes that such an attitude is ok." "Throw him out." "Down with the interest rates." "Out with David." "David Oddsson is a fatso but now I'm taking him and throwing him out from this bank." "Whatever David is..." "I don't like how government institutions, institutions like The Central Bank, The FSA..." "They are scot free so I will start by spanking him." "You can have him and do what you want with him." "Iceland is a beautiful contry." "Here live strong people with a strong sense ofjustice, a robust nation that has fought with nature for thousand years and will not give up." "Lárus Birgisson Assstantnurse" "But what stink is this I smell?" "Is it possible that the whole nation has shat in its pants or just a few enfeebled individuals?" "Now is not the time to search for those guilty they say and that's correct; we don't need to search for the guilty ones." "We know who they are." "They are not bigger than us." " They are high up." "That's it." "But we are all equal." "The only thing that can save this nation now, I think, is if everybody pulled together, ready to deal with this problem that is facing Iceland." "Should we say a prayer?" " Jesus saves." "Do you know what my only god is?" " No, who?" "The one I see in the mirror every day." "You are full of yourself." " No." "Nobody sets the alarm but me." "Right?" "Unless your wife does it for you." " No." "Unless my wife..." "When you meet Him..." " Yes." "Give me a call." "You think we will be in the same place?" "I'm asking you to give me a call when you meet Him." "So that I could meet Him too." "I'll do it tonight." " Yes, call me." "Say your prayers and ask God to meet you." "I'm always in front of the fucking mirror." "Don't swear then." "I don't swear in front of the mirror, are you crazy?" "Geir is afraid and rightly so" "Katrín Oddsdóttir Lawstudent as long as he hinders us from having elections and as long as he shields David Oddsson who has made such a mess of the nation's finances that it must be a world record." "And let's be clear about one thing, Geir, that not one of those 90% of Icelanders who want David out of the way is personalizing the problem." "This is a professional assessment that is based on human actions and not on human character." "January 20, 2009" "January 23, 2009" "Hi, everybody." "I want to read a short personal statement." "And I will not answer questions afterwards." "That's how I want to have it for now." "The statement reads thus:" "In a routine check-up last week a small tumour was found in my oesophagus." "Last Tuesday I was told that tests showed the tumour to be malignant." "It was here at home that I received this knowledge." "And..." "And I had then to work through that mentally and the family got together." "And then it developed as I have described." "And you had to show up for work the next day?" " Yes." "Yes of course." "And I didn't confide in my colleagues, not right away." "Not until I had decided within myself what I was going to do." "INCOMPETENT GOVERNMENT!" "This is very simple." "One thing only." "What do we want?" "Elections, elections, elections..." "We have the right to demonstrate." "January 26, 2009" "There is nothing new, nothing." "The government parties held meetings at ten this morning and on the agenda was whether the government should continue or resign." "Good morning." "How are you?" " I'm fine." "We get complaints and specially because of you." "You could be in for something later in the day." "Ok, when Geir comes and knocks on my back" "I will put the stuff into the car or turn down the volume a bit." "Ok..." "Hey..." "Should I not treat you guys to ear muffs?" "I know; it gives you something to do." "You don't say that with your praying hands." " No..." "You said that the other day." "Don't be surprised if I mace you a bit." "And follow through with the club..." "That's just to clean your nose." " Yes, total cleaning." "It's a question of whether this government stands or falls." "How long yet?" " I don't know." "No comment." "Can we..." "Will the government survive the day?" " I will survive." "You want to borrow my ear muffs?" " No, it's ok." "I'm not joking." " No, I'm fine." "I know this hurts." " Yes." "You know you have to keep a distance." " Yes, what is off limit?" "The garden over there." "And this area here." " So I can be on the street?" "Yes, just so you know." " It's good working with you guys." "There is a lot going on inside now." "This is out of control." "The worst is that many look at you like some fool;" "that you don't have a clue what you are talking about." "We are on air." "Have you come to a conclusion?" "I would like to tell you that we, the chairmen of the parties, have agreed to end this government coalition." "It's extremely enjoyable to see thousands of people demonstrating in illegal demonstrations." "It's illegal to interfer with the work of the parliament." "People don't realize that they have been taking part in illegal actions." "The whole nation has become activists." "Now the plan is to go home, take a shower and apply makeup." "I have been ugly for days." "You can't go with a makeup into actions like this." "If you are maced then everything you put on your face, facial creme and makeup intensifies the effects." "So you have to be ugly demonstrating and that's ok." "Congratulations..." "For me?" "Yes, I had to give somebody flowers." "A white rose." "We celebrate a national holiday tonight." " I'll drop in for tea." "Yes, please do." "Nice flower." "This is the first step." "We have got rid of the government but we need to do more;" "we need changes in the governance." "And people will not be complacent." "There will probably be a national coalition;" "I don't know but anyway the general public will watch what's going on and I don't think anyone will settle for less than changes made to the system so that this lunacy can't continue;" "that few people control everything here keeping everybody else in the dark." "Jón Asgeir Jóhannesson ManownerofGtnr FLGroug Baugurand365 medaoorgoraton Ahghyoontroversa fgure n oeand AFnanoa Vkng Vng nnew york" "Jón Asgeir Jóhannesson ManownerofGtnr FLGroug Baugurand365 medaoorgoraton Ahghyoontroversa fgure n oeand AFnanoa Vkng Vng nnew york" "You have to pull us to the shore." "Now it rains." " Yes, it rains." "That happens sometimes." "But tell me something else." "When someone suddenly has access to such vast sums of money, not being used to it;" "how does it affect him?" "I think it's quite human that you become careless." "More careless." "How do you feel you reacted?" " I think that..." "We thought we were doing business that was solid." "And we still think that most of what we did was good business." "But maybe we had a bit too much freedom." "...for a period 35% of people born in a given year and that is a great loss..." "The Germans lost more than anybody on the crash." "They just don't want to tell." " Why is that?" "I think they are ashamed of having loaned all that money out." "My mother often says:"tread lightly on the joyous path. "" "She said that often when I was younger and going out on town." "And maybe I treaded too heavily." "But something happened when all this was going on and not only here in Iceland." "It was like this..." "I did extensive business in Britain and it wasn't different there." "The living was high." "How do you feel about such things like we heard about recently;" "Kaupthing and loans to owners?" "Yes, I'm sure you can criticize loans that were given when the situation had become very tight." "But loans granted, according to the books, a few days before..." "I don't know exactly how that was." "But they say that that was not the case;" "that these owners had received loans." "I read about this in Swedish papers." "Where it was on the front pages." "And I was almost shocked when I saw those sums." "Those sums; it was simply hard to swallow." "How could this happen?" " Yes..." "Like it was in our case; we had considerable assets to back us." "But some had better access than others, that's obvious." "Have you sold the TV-rights here in Iceland?" "From being one of demonstrators I could end up in parliament." "That would be great if that were to happen." "I would not say no to that." "I would have a steady income and could keep on working for the people who started this." "We began demonstrating as we were dissatisfied and with this I would be in a position to make changes or at least have some say what goes on in parliament." "I think it would be great fun doing that." "I just have to wait for the elections." "To see whether I get in or not." "In a month's time I will know whether I will be on unemployment or having a job." "It would be brilliant to get a job." "Kristófer Sturluson" "What do you think of your father seeking a seat in parliament?" " It's good." "He can hopefully change something and then he has work." "Things will hopefully be better here at home." "Or else it's Florida." " Yes." "That was always the plan." "We have been talking about it since 2007." "We were going to move abroad then but we never had the money for it." "So now, if daddy gets elected..." "So in a year's time or so we move abroad." "I have not done much ironing;" "he is not a shirt wearing guy." "So this is new for me." "She is ironing my shirts;" "I'm going to a meeting with the MPs." "Is there anything else I can iron?" " Just iron it all and keep it on hangers;" "I need eleven or some shirts." "It has to go directly on a hanger." "Listen, I was having a shirt ironed." "I was having a shirt ironed." " A shirt ironed?" "Yes, I'm going to a meeting." "I'm in the top seat in Reykjavik constituency." "Dear Icelanders, with your support I will win a seat in parliament to change what needs to be changed." "This is all there is to this town;" "seven hundred people." "Is it heavily mortgaged?" "Yes." "I own nothing in this." "That's just how it is." "Owe everything, own nothing." "What does money mean to you?" " Money is just a tool." "I find it interesting what is being talked about now." "Money is like a tool, a tool like seed;" "something the farmer needs to get into a fertile earth, nurture and tend to, harvest and repeat the whole thing next year." "That's how I look at money." "And it's interesting because here at home..." "What happened to all the money?" "And people have said:" "What happened to this money and that money?" "People look sometimes at money like some piece of stone." "A stone standing there for thousand years." "That's not what money is;" "money is like foodstuff." "If it's not tended to it rots." "And that which has happened during these recent months..." "An incredible amount of money has disappeared." "It gets lost and not by one losing and another making profit." "That's Marxian economics." "When money get lost it disappears." "Many things have been taken from you:" "The car, the excavator, the SUV..." " Yes." "Yes, that's done." "We own an old Toyota which we can get around in here in Reykjavik and maybe a bit further." "It's funny but we bought the Toyota..." "Our boy in the middle was confirmed last year and we gave him a motocross bike;" "he loves motocross and as things are now we had no car and no money to buy a car so we sold the bike;" "made a deal with him and bought this car." "And said to him that when things got better he would get his motocross bike." "We made a deal as to that." "So the car we drive is his confirmation present." "I'll see you down there." "Eligible to vote were 43,747;" "20,498 votes are counted." "April 25, 2009" "The Liberal Party. 487 votes..." "The Citizens Movement: 2149..." "The Liberal Party is out." "These are the lead weighs that were thrown through the window." "I use them for candelabras." "This will go to the muzeum for The Kitchenware Revolution as this happened clearly in connection with the demonstrations." "It was not that somebody wanted to vandalize;" "this was a message intended for me." "So isn't it right and proper to keep them?" "I'm leaving for Denmark at the end of the month." "My sister lives there." "I'm going to look for work there and will be back for Easter." "And if that doesn't pan out I will go to Norway." "There is no work to be had here and I'm not too excited about it anyway." "So I'm leaving the country." "And this could end by us losing our independence." "That we would not control our natural resources which independence is about." "It's not that a foreign asshole controls us instead of an Icelandic one." "Our aim is The States." "My wife's friend is helping her getting a work permit over there." "And then just leave the place." "I have been documenting people who are fleeing the country." "People who has lost everything." "And has to leave the island;" "start anew." "Families have dissolved and..." "If you could blame this on one thing" "what would that be?" "One thing or a person?" "I have very strong views on that if you are saying that people are leaving the country because of the crash or leaving looking for a better place to build themselves up?" "Then I think the crash didn't have to go the way it went;" "the crash did never have to happen." "I forgot to wake Kristofer up." "Well, you can't do everything."