For dishing out misinformation, lies and slander, the nation’s most notorious nameless columnist receives 4 million ISK a month. Courtesy of the fishing lobby.

Gudbjorg Matthiasdottir must surely be the economic crisis’ ultimate winner. She displayed astute business sense by selling off her 1.71% share in Glitnir worth 3.5 billion ISK on the last day before it collapsed. She then partnered with a few other fishing magnates to buy the financial wreck that was Morgunbladid, after a 4 billion [...]

Word is that the Icelandic government has hired this British spin doctor named Jaimie to help them with the Magma fiasco. A sample of his previous work: “He is the real international deal, Harrow, Harvard, thereafter intelligent guidance of the family’s shipping money… He has the experience in business and he has the clout, above [...]

They say that the Icelandic government is having a crisis. It is true but it might not mean that its days are numbered. The loud barks from the unruly wing of the Left Greens regarding Magma Energy are like just about anything which comes from that direction, completely void of anything in the way of [...]

So the cat is out of the bag… or the book is heading for the printers. I met Gerard Van Vliet in December 2009 after he contacted me because of this blog. He had found it extremely difficult to get anybody in Iceland to talk to him, be it officials or ordinary people. I met [...]

From Joseph Stiglitz’ lecture in Iceland last year. From Lara Hanna’s blog. “What kind of society do you want to create?”

Egill Helgason points out that it is hard to interpret events as they happen. He takes 9/11 for example. It was a landmark event, yet it did not change the world as everyone expected it to. Samuel Huntington’s predictions of Clash of Civilizations have so far been found to be lacking on many affronts, except [...]

Due to the effects of global warming I won’t be posting until the weather in Iceland returns to normal!

The news that the Icelandic banks in Luxembourg helped out some of their customers by hiding their assets by using other customers’ businesses and accounts abroad seems to confirm a story I heard a year ago. An elderly businessman who had sold his production company (someone who actually dedicated his life to creating something), had [...]

“Independence” in Icelandic society today means we have no control over anything and none of the aforementioned jerks are accountable to anyone: this is why Bruxelles scares them, plain and simple. We are owned from within, and the irony with which this man stands on his soap box after being replaced at the national newspaper [...]