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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! Share this:

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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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Eva Joly bids farewell

October 13, 2010

Eva Joly announced at a press conference this afternoon that she is stepping down as special advisor to the Special Prosecutor’s Office in the investigation into potential criminal activity in connection with the meltdown. This is effective immediately. Mme Joly intends to run for the presidency in France — hence this change. Originally she had [...]

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And now for the sports news

October 11, 2010

So, the Icelandic national under-21 football team [men's!] beat Scotland this evening 2-1, which means Iceland is headed to the u-21 European Championships for the first time ever in the history of the republic. According to EPI there are all these young and talented footballers coming up in Iceland now because around five years ago [...]

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The immortal plumber returns!

October 10, 2010

Yesterday EPI and I discovered, much to our dismay, that the drain in our kitchen had sprung a leak. While EPI tried in vain to halt the leaking and mopped up the puddle that had found its way onto the floor, YT got on the blower and tried to find plumbers who might possibly have [...]

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Yoko and Sean light the Tower of Peace

October 9, 2010

As many of you will know, old Yoko Ono has become somewhat of an Icelandophile of late. She constructed her Imagine Peace Tower on Viðey island in 2007, and has been back regularly since then. Today, on the day that John Lennon would have turned 70, Yoko and her son Sean are both in Reykjavík. [...]

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