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Drop The Fretting Over Fish, Join The EU
A Swede makes the case for Iceland connecting with Europe Dear Icelanders, It is the year 2015. In the U.K., the Referendum Act was brewing. In Brussels, the migration crisis dominated every conversation. It was a time of uncertainty, division, and political…
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Net Migration To Iceland At All-Time High
In the second quarter of 2022, 3,600 people migrated to Iceland, marking the highest level of net migration recorded since Statistics Iceland began publishing migration data by quarters in 2009. [su_pullquote]We are having a summer sale on all our Icelandic soaps, scrubs,…
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Long Summer Holiday, Short Work Week Increase Inflation, Says Trade Minister
The International Institute for Management Development puts Iceland in the 16th spot on a worldwide competitiveness ranking—below Denmark at first, Sweden at fourth, Finland at eighth, and Norway at ninth—prompting officials to consider how to make the nation stand out on a…
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Emissions From Icelanders Are Twice As Much As Swedes
Iceland’s greenhouse gas emissions were twice as high per capita as Sweden this year, Stundin reports. The greenhouse gas emissions would be five times higher if it wasn’t for renewable energy. This was stated by Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson, Minister of the Environment…
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Football Star Kolbeinn Sigþórsson Arrested After Rowdy Night Out In Sweden
It seems Icelandic Footballer Kolbeinn Sigþórsson drank too deeply from his own horn and landed himself behind bars in Sweden after a rowdy night out. According to Swedish newspaper Expressen, one player in the Swedish league was arrested last night. They were…
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Well, You Asked: Only One Nine-Year-Old Child Welcome
Am I a bad environmentalist if I desire nothing more than warm baby puke upon my bosom? Well, technically, yes. Humans are a plague and the environmental toll of having one child adds up to around 58.6 tonnes of carbon each year.…
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Wages In Iceland Up 60% Since 2012
In the years between 2012-2016, wages in Iceland increased 60%, reports VB.is. Wage increased has slowed down recently, but they still remain far above the countries Iceland does most trade with, where the increase was 6-8% in the same period In Sweden…
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Icelandic National Team Down – Denmark To Blame (Again)
It’s happened again. They are back. On the latest FIFA World Ranking Iceland falls one spot to 22, while this is obviously some sort of bureaucratic error, the real affront is that yet again the Danish inferiority complex towards us is showing,…
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Eliminating Icelandic Water From Your Coke
The distributor of Coca-Cola in Iceland, Coca-Cola European Partners, has announced that from now on large quantities of coke will be imported from Sweden, instead of being produced domestically. There is probably no other country in the world that has a stronger…
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Trump Was Right: Inside The Swedish Dystopia
US President Donald J. Trump recently gave a speech in Melbourne, Florida wherein he alluded to “what’s happening in Sweden right now, problems like they never thought possible.” The cowardly liberal press has been utterly silent on the situation. As you can…
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Swedish Neo-Nazis Come To Iceland, Seeking Recruits
The Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) has started actively looking for recruits in Iceland, and their leader is not disclosing who they may be. RÚV has reported that many Icelanders woke up on Saturday morning to discover flyers delivered to their homes from…
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Petition To Bring Eze Back To Iceland Gathering Signatures
A petition imploring the Minister of the Interior to bring Nigerian asylum seeker Eze Okafor back to Iceland is steadily gathering signatures. At the time of this writing, the petition has just over 1,200 signatures. As Minister of the Interior Ólöf Nordal…
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POWERFUL PETTER B WILL MOVE YOU TOMORROW
Petter B is an artist, DJ and producer from Sweden (incidentally a leading country in the techno community since the ‘90s). Petter hits the world of techno with a big input and a special, forceful sound. He’s been busy lately, playing all…
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Iceland’s Most Pöpulår Reståurånt!
The IKEA restaurant in Garðabær has only 18 reviews on TripAdvisor. Mainly, these focus on the economic value of the meals—especially compared to how notoriously expensive food in Reykjavík is. One calls it a “great value” while another chirpily describes it as…
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Icelandair Staff Adopt Passenger’s Puppies
Icelandair’s staff in Seattle have adopted four puppies who were unexpectedly born to Pepper the sled dog while in transit on route to Stockholm with her owner Torsten. The four puppies have been named after Icelandic volcanoes, Hekla, Askja, Keilir and Katla.…
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Once More Unto The Breach
The past few years have been eventful for 26-year-old Gunnar Nelson. He signed on to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), Mixed Martial Arts’ premier league, in 2012, and has ploughed through four fights there, all the while maintaining an undefeated record. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS07IL_em6Y…
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Do Icelanders Believe in Elves? Really?
“Grönlænderstiv” is a Danish phrase which means essentially “drunk as a Greenlander.” However, recent research suggests that the Danes drink at least as much as the Greenlanders, and teenagers in Denmark drink even more than their counterparts in Greenland do. When it…
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You Can’t Take it With You
Artist Ragna Róbertsdóttir remains remarkably calm even though this is not just some regular glass. She inspects the damage to the giant, now broken panel. So far, they have installed four panels, but eventually the glass will cover the entire 24 meters…