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Announcing our new eBook!

February 14, 2011

As some of you may recall, when I decided to stop writing this blog last October I claimed I was just about ready to launch a new eBook. For various reasons it’s taken a bit more time than I initially thought; however, it is FINALLY ready now. Huzzah! It’s called The Little Book of the [...]

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Some links, as per your request

November 14, 2010

Hello everyone! Thank you so much for your kind and lovely words — and your encouragement — in the comments to the last post. I am truly touched. Some of you have been asking for links to other blogs about Iceland written in English, and of course it was remiss of me not to think [...]

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The end of the line

October 29, 2010

Well, we’ve seen it happen across the blogosphere, and now it’s happening here: after six years online, this blog has finally run out of steam. It’s time to stop. This decision has been a long time coming and has certainly not been easy. I’ve put a lot into this little project, and over these past [...]

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Beaty polishes his halo in The Globe and Mail

October 18, 2010

So, Toronto’s Globe and Mail today publishes an interview with Ross Beaty, CEO of Magma Energy, which focuses [among other things] on the controversy surrounding Magma’s acquisition of HS Orka here in Iceland. Now, we know this about Ross Beaty: he is a smooth talker. He’s got this slightly self-depreciating manner that instantly invites rapport. [...]

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Eva Joly in a farewell interview

October 18, 2010

So, Eva Joly gave a final interview on Silfur Egils this afternoon, recorded just after she stepped down as advisor to the Special Prosecutor into the bank collapse. As always, her lucid comments and composed, assured demeanor inspired confidence — to me, at least. I know there are a handful of people out there who [...]

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Totally inspired by Belgian Adventurer

October 17, 2010

I can’t say I’m in the least inspired by the Inspired by Iceland campaign, but I am inspired by this guy! Here are the details of his Iceland excursion — sans dancing!

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Ingvi Hrafn hangs himself on TV

October 15, 2010

OK, I just have to share this. What we have here is one Ingvi Hrafn Jónsson, supporter of the Independence Party and castigator of all things Eva Joly, denouncing [um, too polite a word] the good lady and the work of the Special Prosecutor’s Office on his private television station, INN. I doubt if such [...]

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Population trivia from the second quarter

October 15, 2010

Here we have some population stats from the third quarter of this year that some of you may find interesting.* At the end of the third quarter of this year, precisely 318,200 people resided in Iceland. This is 300 more than at the end of the second quarter. There were 160,000 men and 158,200 women. [...]

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Machinations of the shadow elite

October 14, 2010

A new article in the Huffington Post by economist Robert Wade from the LSE and Sigurbjörg [Silla] Sigurgeirsdóttir from the U of Iceland is a chilling read. It gives a pretty concise account of the machinations of the Independence Party and their cronies in the lead-up to the meltdown, and proves how a handful of [...]

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On keeping Iceland’s energy resources under Icelandic control

October 13, 2010

As I mentioned in the last post, Eva Joly has joined ranks with those who oppose the sale of Icelandic energy company HS Orka to Magma Energy of Canada. This afternoon, Mme Joly, along with a group of people who oppose the Magma deal, gave a press conference in which the Magma affair was once [...]

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