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Pirates And The Right Bond Over A Little Herb
The Icelandic Pirate Party has a new best friend in Ásmundur Friðriksson, MP for the Independence Party. According to Vísir, an unlikely alliance between the libertarian Pirates and this stalwart of the right has formed over a shared interest in cannabis—despite a…
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Pirate Party MP Forced To Wear Eyepatch To TV Debate
Pirate Party MP Eva Pandora Baldursdóttir wrote on Facebook that due to unforeseen circumstances she’d be forced to wear an eyepatch to a TV debate later today. “Sometimes astounding things can happens at the worst time,” Eva wrote. “My one year old…
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Pirates Call For Vote On New Constitution Ahead Of Elections
The Pirate Party has just released a statement supporting the idea of new elections, but they contend a new constitution for Iceland needs to be voted on in Parliament first. “The Pirate parliamentary party calls upon all parties in Parliament to answer…
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Young Pirates Defy Good Friday Religious Laws
You might be aware of the fact that Iceland has a national church. This brings with it certain laws that many, if not most, Icelanders consider to be a bit outdated. One of these laws concerns what one may not do during…
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Debate Over Trade Agreement With Philippines
Members of parliament for the Left Greens and the Pirate Party are fighting a free trade agreement with the Philippines due to major human rights violations at the hands of President Rodrigo Duterte, reports Vísir. Members of Parliament with the ruling coalition insist however, that…
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Pirates Propose Free Dental Care; Conservative Calls Idea “Populism”
Vísir reports that the Pirate Party has put forward the idea of dental care free of initial fees. While Icelandic Health Insurance estimates that such an implementation could cost the state some 11 billion ISK, the Pirates have proposed covering the cost…
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Priests Support Change In Law On Holidays
The Society of Priests in Iceland believe it is time for the law to reflect “modern society” where Christian holidays are concerned. A bill submitted to parliament last March would change Iceland’s current laws about working and operating a business on Easter…
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Presenting: The Year 2015 In #Hashtags, #Gates & #Thrones
Wow, 2015 went by FAST, huh. There was so much going on! The real world continued to turn, and to contain almost all of IRL human existence inside its atmosphere. And in that parallel online planet, THE INTERNET, people shared, discussed, reported,…
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Anonymous To Continue Anti-Whaling Attacks
The animal welfare entity within the hacktivist group Anonymous plan to continue their cyber attacks on Iceland in a bid to end whaling. Yesterday we reported that Pirate Party MP, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, had been in touch with the group and convinced them…
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History Repeating: The Pirates Came And The Vikings Conquered
Icelanders ignored the warnings. Nobody took notice. Well, most people took no notice. Others were convinced that the threat had gone away. Internationally, people boasted that the people of Iceland, a Viking settlement, would flee at the first sight of trouble. Then…
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Why Am I A Pirate? We Speak To The Pirate Party Grassroots
Bergþór Heimir Þórðarson (36), Reykjavík, secretary of the Pirate Party of Reykjavík, substitute in the Pirate Party executive committee, and organiser in Pirate grassroots and healthcare form/reform First and foremost, it is the party most likely to succeed in changing our government…
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WTF Is Hacking?
Ever since first the term first entered public discourse in the 1980s, the stereotypical “hacker” has generally been conceived of as a nefarious young male, permanently hunched over his computer in a dank basement, surrounded by heaps of pizza boxes and crumpled…
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Hacking Politics: An In-Depth Look At Iceland’s Pirate Party
Alþingishúsið, or The Parliament House, is a hulking grey stone building that sits on the edge of the sleepy Austurvöllur square in downtown Reykjavík. It’s the seat of Iceland’s Alþingi, an institution that was famously inaugurated in the year 930 by a…
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Don’t Get Too Excited, It’s Only Paper: An Editorial
Here is an anecdote: I ventured inside that Alþingi building the other day. I believe it was a Tuesday. The time was 3pm. The weather was mostly OK. I was there to help this tall wunderkind, the redhead superstar photographer man,…
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MP Says Bishop’s Words “Smell Of Nonsense”
MP for the Pirate Party, Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson, has challenged the Bishop of Iceland’s comments regarding the separation of church and state, saying her comments “smelled of nonsense,” reports Vísir. After news broke that the majority of Icelanders want the separation of…
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Gallup: Progressives At All-Time Low For Current PM
The results of a new Gallup poll show the Progressives ranking lower than they ever have since Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson was made chairperson in 2009. At the same time, the Pirate Party is now large enough to go from three seats to…
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PHOTOS: Fencing at Reykjavík International Games
The Reykjavík International Games Fencing competition took place on January 24 & 25 at the Fencing Centre in Laugardal. This competition was hosted by the Icelandic Fencing Federation and the Nordic Sabre Centre. There are three types of fencing competitions: foil, sabre,…
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Two Minutes Of Silence To Commemorate First Rate Health Care
For two minutes on Tuesday, Jón Þór Ólafsson, member of Alþingi on behalf of the Pirate Party, stood silent by Alþingi’s podium, to commemorate first rate healthcare in Iceland. This was during a session about next year’s State Treasury budget. Two minutes…
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Opposition Proposes Condemnation Of CIA’s Torture
On Friday, members of all the parties currently in opposition proposed a resolution to Alþingi, by which the parliament would “severely condemn torture conducted by the USA’s secret service and which authorities have condoned since the terrorist attack on September 11, 2011”.…
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Pirate MP Defies ISNIC By Opening Blasphemy.is
Pirate MP Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson registered the domain Guðlast.is, translatable as blasphemy.is, to point out what he claims is mistaken reasoning behind ISNIC’s closure of the Islamic State’s .is domain. Vísir quotes Helgi Hrafn as saying: “I wanted to show that if…
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Party Leading Ruling Coalition Has Single-Digit Support
The Progressive Party, which leads the ruling coalition and is the seat of the Prime Minister, is currently polling at 9.5%. According to a new poll from Market and Media Research, this level of support is down from 10.2% when the last…