Vikingsson on January 29th, 2008

Nice to see some sensible free trade happening between Canada and Iceland. Maybe we’ll see more variety of products between the countries and finally have some choices besides the same old crap from China. Who knows, I might become more of a consumer. I want a Pönnukökkupanna Framleidd síðan 1943…

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Vikingsson on January 9th, 2008

With the continuing drama that never ends and starts much too early which we call the U.S. election process, it is refreshing to study the workings of a tiny country and how that system works. Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson is running for a fourth term as president. Sometimes, a country doesn’t need high [...]

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Vikingsson on November 11th, 2007

“A pittance of Time” / “C’est si peu de temps”

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Vikingsson on October 4th, 2007

The Asian papers and online news are filled to the brim today with the giant scandal about Bjarni Vestmann, Minister Counsellor of the Foreign Ministry of Iceland in Sri Lanka meeting with the Bad Guys (TM.), the LTTE. That would be the Tamil [...]

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