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• John Perkins: How to Remake the Global Economy

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 492
  Dandelion SaladFORA.tvCommonwealth ClubJohn Perkins, author of Hoodwinked and Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, blames Iceland’s economic collapse on the tactics of economic hit men from multi-national corporations .—–Economic hit man John Perkins has confessed the sins of predatory politicians and analyzed ...
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• From the archive: Iceland opens fire on British vessel

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Originally published on 12 December 1975 The cod war turned to violence yesterday when the Icelandic gunboat Thor opened fire on British fishery support vessels and was herself badly damaged in collision with the ocean-going tug Lloydsman. The clash began with an apparent attempt by the Thor to arrest the support ...
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• Guest Post: A Hot Future For Geothermal

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 750
  Submitted by Marin Katusa & Marc Bustin, Editors of Caseys Energy Report Capturing energy from the earth’s heat is pretty easy pickin’s for geologically-active areas of the world like Iceland, Indonesia, and Chile. In some locations, hot fluids are so near the earth’s surface that heat from ...
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• Standard Bank says Greece and Ireland may leave Eurozone

  
  Credit Writedowns — Authority: 683
  The headline at Bloomberg reads “ Ireland, Greece May Leave Euro, Standard Bank Says .”  Before I even started reading this I was sceptical.  The Telegraph’s Ambrose Evans-Pritchard makes calls like this, but his Euro-sceptic views are well-known. Here’s what the article says: The absence of a mechanism ...
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• Iceland dairies belatedly subject to competition enquiries

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 528
  The issue of competition in the Icelandic dairy industry has become a hot political topic in recent days. Olina Thorvardardottir, Social Democrat MP, has called for a special meeting between the Parliamentary Trade Committee and representatives of the Ministry for Fisheries and Agriculture to consider the proposed ...
  15 hours ago

• Katona aims to launch Kerrys kebabs

  
  Eleven - The Celebrity Channel — Authority: 540
  Filed under: Most Bizarre We are well used to seeing snaps of Kerry Katona slouched over a kebab these days, but apparently she just cant get enough of them. And having been ditched by Iceland following the cocaine scandal of some months ago, it would appear that Ms Katona is also running a little low on dinner ...
  21 hours ago

• Setting Ssons and Darkling Dottirs, or, Debtpanik at Degree Zero

  
  Alexandria — Authority: 489
  Along a narrow strip between downtown Reykjavik and the northern coastline lies a jumble of half-built high-rise buildings that was to be the new Manhattan of the north. By Spring this year, the place had become an urban graveyard. Someone has scrawled “CAPITALISM R.I.P.” on the side of one of the buildings. ...
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• And the Winner is: Iceland

  
  Viator Travel Blog — Authority: 418
  You’re asked to create your perfect country. What’s on your list? Mine has: endless hot water; spectacular nature; excellent coffee, pastries and cakes, perhaps some fish to balance the diet a little; lots of sea to gaze at; a lively artistic and social life. Did I mention good chocolate? I gave that list to a ...
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• Liverpool sign 16-year-old Kristjan Gauti Emilsson on three-year deal

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 972
  Icelandic 16-year-old Kristjan Gauti Emilsson has joined Liverpool on a three-year contract, his club FH said on Thursday.
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• Daily Highlights: 12.10.09

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 750
  Asian shares were mostly lower Thursday as continued risk aversion hurt demand. Australian employers add 31,200 jobs, six times estimates; currency gains. Australias jobless rate unexpectedly falls to 5.7 percent in November. Bank of Korea keeps key interest rate at record low at 2% as economy recovers. China puts ...
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• Central Bank of Iceland cuts key rate to ten percent

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 528
  Press statement from the CBI: The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted to change Central Bank interest rates as follows. The deposit rate (current account rate) will be lowered by 0.5 percentage points to 8.5%. The Central Bank will continue to issue 28-day certificates of deposit (CDs) with a maximum bid rate ...
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• Icelandic opposition leader denies Macau corruption allegations

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 528
  Bjarni Benediktsson, leader of Iceland’s Independence Party has protested claims he was involved in a property speculation racket in Macau. The company whose board Benediktsson used to chair, had shares in another company which is linked to the Macau situation and is now under investigation by Iceland’s Special ...
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• Icelandic Christmas menu with an Italian twist

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 528
  The Christmas tree in Austuvollur square is standing proud, the warm glow of the Christmas lights brighten up the winter streets, Reykjavik is certainly in the Christmas spirit. In celebration, most of the restaurants in Iceland’s capital city offer a Christmas menu and every year they all offer astonishingly ...
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• Ptarmigan hunting controls reap reward in Iceland

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 528
  Ptarmigan hunting in Iceland went very well during the season which has just finished – perhaps a little too well for some hunters. The ptarmigan is the traditional Icelandic Christmas bird and its popularity as a food source led to it becoming endangered. To counter this, strict hunting controls have been in ...
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• SHORE BIRDS of RELAND

  
  Biodiversity and Ornithology in Ireland — Authority: 122
  SHORE BIRDS of RELAND Originally uploaded by Mike Maunsell I just got a new book, I usually buy a few to read over Christmas, and had planned to keep this one for the holidays, at least that was the plan until I got home and flicked through it, I couldn’t put it down. The Shorebirds of Ireland by Jim Wilson ...
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• Music to my ears, listening to the sound of ice melting

  
  disassociated.com — Authority: 147
  Katie Paterson’s recent musical project is just a little out of the ordinary : Katie Paterson went to Iceland and recorded the sounds of three separate glaciers – Langjökull, Snæfellsjökull, Solheimajökull – and then pressed the dripping noises onto records made from each glacier’s melted (and then ...
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• The Geography of Bliss

  
  GoBackpacking — Authority: 428
  I am, for the most part, a person that looks on the bright side of things, and on a happiness scale of one to ten, a strong 8.5, maybe more. But why? How? And what is it about where I am that makes it so? Eric Weiner attempts to answer all these questions in his book, The Geography of Bliss , a year of exploration ...
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• Kaupthing men sentenced

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 528
  Daniel Thordarsson, former Kaupthing asset manager and Stefnir Ingo Agnarsson, former Kaupthing stock broker, were this morning sentenced to eight months in prison by the Reykjavik District Court. The pair was charged with putting in offers to buy Exista shares six times in January and February last year shortly ...
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• Icelandic party accused of sexism

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 528
  Sigmundur Ernir Runarsson, Social Democrat MP, accused the Progressive Party of contempt for women after its MPs are alleged to have criticised Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir; saying that she lets others write her speeches and has been home baking while Icesave has been on the agenda. “Progressive Party MPs ...
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• Preview - BEYOND THE POLE

  
  Movie reviews for greedy capitalist bastards — Authority: 121
  Reviews are getting posted a little less promptly now that the locks are off the alcohol cupboard in Bishopsgate (quite literally) and the European fixed income divergence trade is starting to bear fruit. Which brings me to a preview of a movie that one might think a little at odds with the purported aim of this blog ...
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