Oxford vs Stratford – a short summary

The case of Shakspere of Stratford

The De Vere Society

The plays and poetry of ‘Shakespeare’ reveal a person who received the best education available, yet there is no record of Shakspere attending Stratford Grammar School (the registers for the period are missing) nor either University nor one of the Inns of Court. Nor do we have any record of him being in the household of a great family where he could have received an education.

Shakspere never claimed to be a writer. None of his children, or grandchildren or their families ever claimed that he was an author. If Shakspere were a great writer would he not have wanted his children to be able to read and write? Yet his daughter Judith could only sign her name with a mark.

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“Although a spontaneous uprising of the people forced the government to resign, I see no signs that the new bosses will respond to the nation’s demands for change. Why hasn’t “the group of thirty” that bankrupted the country been arrested and questioned as formal suspects, their assets frozen? The special prosecutor should have a smorgasbord of charges – theft, fraud, tax evasion, conversion, to name a few (he doesn’t have to start with the treason immediately, although it belong on this list). The Icelandic authorities diligently throw people „suspected” of selling drugs or stealing a car in jail and confiscate coke and stolen goods, but these individuals who have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars cannot be touched! Who is protecting them and why?”

The “group of thirty” remain untouched because so many other people were implicated in their misdeeds: perhaps almost the whole of official society. This is what Oddsson seems to be hinting at anyway. It is  important for the street movement to put up its own candidates at the election and not leave things to the professional  politicians.

Iris Erlingsdottir

Huffington Post

25th February, 2009

The Iceland of my youth was not a rich country. When I was growing up, our diet mostly consisted of fish, lamb, potatoes, and the few crops that could be grown near the Arctic Circle. “Exotic” foods like fresh apples and oranges were reserved for Christmas – “The deli-síjus apples have arrived…” announced the ad-reader on the state-owned radio each December. I was 14 when I first tasted iceberg lettuce. I thought I had died and woken up in consumption heaven when, as a 17 year old exchange student, I first experienced an American supermarket.

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FT

25th February, 2009

Iceland’s new government has dropped plans to take the UK government to the European Court of Human Rights over its use of anti-terror laws to freeze Icelandic assets, ending the most vicious spat between the UK and Iceland since the 1970s cod war. The previous government pledged in January to pursue legal action against the UK in Europe for its decision to use the anti-terror legislation, claiming the British move massively undermined confidence in its banking system and triggered its eventual collapse.

“Confidentiality serves to promote thorough decision-making. Disclosure of the cabinet minutes in this case jeopardises that space for thought and debate at precisely the point where it has its greatest utility.”

Richard Norton-Taylor

Guardian

25th February, 2009

The government took the unprecedented decision yesterday to block the release of cabinet minutes about the invasion of Iraq on the grounds that it would undermine democratic decision-making, the very argument used by freedom of information bodies which had ordered their disclosure.

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