September
09
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Jenis av Rana Always Proud and Gay + the Wolof People
Jones, who has about 50 followers ...
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September
10
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Icelandic MP thinks WikiLeaks Assange should step aside
Julian Assange, the subject of a rape investigation in Sweden, has come under attack from Birgitta Jónsdóttir, who is a member of Iceland's parliament. She says that Assange's public persona overshadows the site's mission, and suggests that he step down.
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August
30
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Hraunsvatn, North Iceland Mountain Lake
Click on the picture to watch an audio slideshow of a hike to Hraunsvatn lake in Öxnadalur valley in north Iceland, which lies at a height of 490 meters, interlocked between two steep mountains and a small glacier with a view of the majestic Hraundrangar peaks.
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Fjallabyggd (“Mountain Settlement”) is a skier’s dream. Its slopes are perfect for slaloming and there are also tracks for telemark skiing. Winter sporting enthusiasts can also go ice skating or rent snowmobiles. In summer, Fjallabyggd turns into a paradise for hikers. Read this special promotion about one of Iceland’s best hidden gems.
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08/03/2010 | 11:34
Concerning the Icelaw:
Any politician who takes on this obligation without questioning it should be thrown out of office. This debt was NOT a debt guaranteed by the Icelandic people and/or government. UK and Dutch speculators and depositors at their own risk deposited their money in an internet PRIVATE bank. For political purposes, the Dutch and UK governments, having no obligation to do so, rescued these speculators and depositors by bailing them out 100% and now turn to YOU to pay for a debt you have no moral or legal obligation to pay in the first place for it was not a debt YOU incurred or guaranteed.
This "deal" have required each Icelander to pay around $135 a month for eight years -- about a quarter of an average four-member family's salary. There is a flawed assumption in this, i.e. that EVERY Icelander everyone one of them would be paying. The one's on welfare won't be...as usual everywhere. They live off the fruit and labor of others. The ones unemployed won't. The ones who flee Icelander for "better pastures" probably won't, so as usual only a select few will end up having to pay this debt that they never entered into or promised to pay in the first place. These working stiffs (taxpayers who without said taxpayers the world could not exist as it is & others could not leech onto them if they have nothing to give), as usual, will be the ones stiffed having to pay for this farce. Perhaps people who work (slave by paying taxes) to support the socialist globalist agenda should take the shackles off and refuse work saying screw you I'm tired of being your slave to your "agenda". People around the world need a tax revolt. The political class throughout the world is corrupt.
By the way, I am a capitalist and not a socialist. I hate socialism. Socialism is slavery. It's operates on the sin of envy and covetousness. It is thievery and it uses the coercion of government to support said thievery. Contrary to the prevailing propaganda and myth out there, Capitalism did not cause this mess. The US Congress did via the Community and Redevelopment Act. Said Act and Congress threatened banks, threatened to close them, threaten to protest them, and threaten to call them racist if they did NOT make loans to people who could not pay them. Banks were forced to lower their standards and you end up with this mess. Then our government has the audacity to blame the banks for the mess forced on the banks by that very government. Typical of government bureaucrats everyone. Bureaucrats should never ever be taken at face value. It was a social agenda, like sewage dripped into a glass of clean drinking water of capitalism, that polluted it all.
I note you chose a "socialist" government. A socialist government always makes a people less free by imposing its "share the wealth" or as the Dutch and UK did to their people of "share the losses" with their compensating speculators and depositors who should have been told "your loss" you deal with it and/or "it sucks to be you. You'll have to live with the consequences of your bad banking choices".
Finally, why would anyone want to SUBMIT to the control of a bunch of fat unelected bureaucrats in the EU? I would rather go to war than be ruled by Brussels, I.e. the EU. PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain) and about to fall like dominoes and you want to join that? Join? You should flee! Depose any leader who even advocate joining the EU and/or who says "we owe this debt and should repay it". Don't take on debt that you are not morally or legally duty bound to take on in the first place. Don't be their slaves and the globalist movement is a movement that will only enslave us all. Death to tyrants everywhere and that includes globalists and their apologists who want to subject to their rule.
Darren Young, Esq.
Attorney at Law
Sebring, FL USA
This "deal" have required each Icelander to pay around $135 a month for eight years -- about a quarter of an average four-member family's salary. There is a flawed assumption in this, i.e. that EVERY Icelander everyone one of them would be paying. The one's on welfare won't be...as usual everywhere. They live off the fruit and labor of others. The ones unemployed won't. The ones who flee Icelander for "better pastures" probably won't, so as usual only a select few will end up having to pay this debt that they never entered into or promised to pay in the first place. These working stiffs (taxpayers who without said taxpayers the world could not exist as it is & others could not leech onto them if they have nothing to give), as usual, will be the ones stiffed having to pay for this farce. Perhaps people who work (slave by paying taxes) to support the socialist globalist agenda should take the shackles off and refuse work saying screw you I'm tired of being your slave to your "agenda". People around the world need a tax revolt. The political class throughout the world is corrupt.
By the way, I am a capitalist and not a socialist. I hate socialism. Socialism is slavery. It's operates on the sin of envy and covetousness. It is thievery and it uses the coercion of government to support said thievery. Contrary to the prevailing propaganda and myth out there, Capitalism did not cause this mess. The US Congress did via the Community and Redevelopment Act. Said Act and Congress threatened banks, threatened to close them, threaten to protest them, and threaten to call them racist if they did NOT make loans to people who could not pay them. Banks were forced to lower their standards and you end up with this mess. Then our government has the audacity to blame the banks for the mess forced on the banks by that very government. Typical of government bureaucrats everyone. Bureaucrats should never ever be taken at face value. It was a social agenda, like sewage dripped into a glass of clean drinking water of capitalism, that polluted it all.
I note you chose a "socialist" government. A socialist government always makes a people less free by imposing its "share the wealth" or as the Dutch and UK did to their people of "share the losses" with their compensating speculators and depositors who should have been told "your loss" you deal with it and/or "it sucks to be you. You'll have to live with the consequences of your bad banking choices".
Finally, why would anyone want to SUBMIT to the control of a bunch of fat unelected bureaucrats in the EU? I would rather go to war than be ruled by Brussels, I.e. the EU. PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain) and about to fall like dominoes and you want to join that? Join? You should flee! Depose any leader who even advocate joining the EU and/or who says "we owe this debt and should repay it". Don't take on debt that you are not morally or legally duty bound to take on in the first place. Don't be their slaves and the globalist movement is a movement that will only enslave us all. Death to tyrants everywhere and that includes globalists and their apologists who want to subject to their rule.
Darren Young, Esq.
Attorney at Law
Sebring, FL USA
The second issue of the print edition of Iceland Review 2010 has just been published. Entitled “Under the Volcano” the magazine dedicates 20 pages, words and pictures, to the volcanic eruption in Eyjafjallajökull glacier which made headlines all over the word. New subscribers will receive the book Puffins as a gift and all subscribers are part of a draw to win a trip to Iceland. Click here to subscribe to the magazine.
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September
06
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It’s Time to Make Some Changes: Future of Hope
Future of Hope is an aptly named documentary directed by Henry Bateman about what some people are doing to shape the future of Iceland, hoping that above all, the crisis will ultimately strengthen the country.
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September
06
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Feature of the Week: No Ordinary Journey
There can’t be many novels that are heralded as being “a purification for body and soul” recommended to “those who enjoy experimental cookery” (review of November Rain in DV newspaper) and “as beautiful as a painting from the golden age” (review of The Offspring by Danish newspaper Politiken). However, Reykjavík based writer, Audur Ava Ólafsdóttir, has attracted such attention not to mention literary prizes.
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September
06
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Event of the Week: Humor in Icelandic Art
Have a laugh this week by visiting Hafnarborg, the Hafnarfjördur Centre of Culture and Fine Art, where the exhibition “Humor in Icelandic Art” is currently running. The exhibition consists of works by contemporary Icelandic artists from different generations which deal with humor and irony.
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