[Leifur]

At the same time as Iceland is celebrating its 70 years of independence that was only possible to achieve because of the American occupation (more correctly described as protection) during WW2 (american forces came here before Pearl Harbor), this oldest and most trusted alliance is drifting apart (rember we were one of handful of countries supporting your Iraq invasion, even though we couldn´t contribute much, it hurt the governing parties politically) because of Obama´s government insistance on snubbing us because of our sustainable approach to our marine resources.

One of those is our abundant whale stocks which we of course harvest like any other, but even though Iceland has one of the worlds best sustainable fishing system (Individual Transferable Quatas) and industry the government is barring our representitives from a big conference they are holding about world´s oceans. A good way to treat allies, and over what? Sensibilities because some animals are more cute than others, and thus should be allowed to put an imbalance on our efforts to sustainable use of our marine resources (if we hunt some, but not other species, the imbalance accumulates).

http://grapevine.is/news/2014/06/12/iceland-snubbed-over-whaling/

[Leifur]

Ping

[gaijin]

Their banking system got screwed over, but did they shift the debt to the taxpayers..?

No.

They bit the bullet and got through the pain fast and are much the better for it.

We have a lot to learn from this tiny country.

[Azeem]

Lazy Town - Iceland’s revenge on America’s parent. Those puppets are just creepy.

[ZULU]

Uhh, I thought Iceland was founded in about 1000 as a pure Democracy with an assembly call the “Althing”?

[familyop]

Rough Seas Iceland (awesome video of commercial fishing boat in rough seas)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH6OOfh7sFs

How Iceland defeated the Anglo-American Bankster Mafia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zlzC_XMQzI