country:iceland

Ce monde n’est plus mon monde : que ceux qui en sont restés prisonniers en fassent ce que bon leur semblera, Major Tom won’t come home.

By the end of the event the mantra that the world of EVE Online is every bit as real as the physical world has been repeated during every panel, every roundtable discussion, and every keynote. The speakers’ tropes become a running joke for media and PR reps alike: “single-shard universe,” “emergent gameplay,” “player-driven narrative,” “sandbox." But the impact behind these ideas is self-evident in the faces of 1,500 people from around the world who flew to Iceland for a week to congregate, talk shop, and party.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/05/at-eve-fanfest-players-celebrate-a-different-world

Free Bradley Manning, Blowing the Whistle on War Crime is no Crime
http://www.freebradleymanning.net
http://www.freebradleymanning.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/manning_1.jpg

ReSource 005:
The Medium of Treason
The Bradley Manning Case: Agency or Misconduct in a Digital Society?

An intervention @ Urban Spree Gallery (S/U Warschauer Straße, Revaler Straße 99, 10245 Berlin), 5 May 2013, starts at 17, free entry.
with: Birgitta Jónsdóttir (Iceland), Andy Müller Maguhn (Germany), John Goetz (USA), N

Moderated by Diani Barreto (USA), Introduced by Tatiana Bazzichelli.

http://www.transmediale.de/resource-005/the-medium-of-treason

This event is organised by the reSource transmedial culture berlin of the transmediale festival in partnership with re:publica.

With the kind support of the www.freebradleymanning.net initiative Berlin

Anti-government sentiment dominates elections in Iceland - World Socialist Web Site

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/26/icel-a26.html

Anti-government sentiment dominates elections in Iceland
By Jordan Shilton
26 April 2013

Elections in Iceland this weekend are likely to see a massive anti-government vote, putting an end to four years of rule by the Social Democrat-Left Green coalition that came to power in the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis.

The latest polls show a dramatic decline in support for both parties, with combined backing falling below 20 percent. In contrast to the 29 percent they received in 2009, the Social Democrats have been polling between 10 and 13 percent. The Left Greens, having won 21 percent of the vote in 2009, have fallen to single digits in today’s polls. According to one tally, they would be unable to garner the 5 percent necessary to clear the hurdle for entry into parliament.

#islande

China signs free trade agreement with Iceland as it looks for foothold in the Arctic - The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/iceland-set-to-become-first-european-country-to-sign-free-trade-agreement-with-china/2013/04/15/6282da48-a5b4-11e2-9e1c-bb0fb0c2edd9_story.html

Intéressant... Et à suivre, les relations Chine-Islande sont loin d’être une anecdote.

BEIJING — China and Iceland signed a free trade agreement Monday, offering hope to the small North Atlantic country for its recession-battered economy and giving Beijing a leg up in its drive for expanded influence in the Arctic.

The China-Iceland free trade pact will lower tariffs on a range of goods and is expected to boost seafood and other exports from the remote Nordic state to the world’s second-largest economy. It comes at the start of a five-day visit to China by Icelandic Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir that highlights her country’s attempts to diversify an economy that was badly mauled by the bursting of a massive financial bubble in 2008.

Anti-incest app built by Iceland college students - GadgetBox on NBCNews.com
http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/gadgetbox/anti-incest-app-built-iceland-college-students-1C9392483

A group of students at the University of Iceland in Reykjavík have created an Android app that prevents Icelanders from accidentally dating their cousins.

The app draws information from the Íslendingabók database, a national record of Iceland residents and family trees dating back into the Middle Ages.

[...]

When you tap phones with someone who has the app, it brings up an alert if the owners of the two phones share a grandparent.

#islande

Knoema: Cinematography across the world
http://blog.knoema.com/2013/04/cinematography-across-world.html

Explore how cinematography industry is developing in different countries across the world.

Here are some facts that may interest you. There are more than 6000 indoor cinemas in USA where as total number of screens is a little bit less that 40.000. Iceland has the best attendance frequency per capita in the world which is 5.8.

#cinema via @opironet

«Indian Storm», par R Martin Seddon (Touch #Radio)
http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/news/touch_radio_92_r_martin_seddon.html

Touch est un label de #phonographie (field recording) et #musique_électroacoustique qui met en ligne un podcast gratuit (en plus de la vente des CD), intitulé «Touch Radio» : extraits de lives ou pièces entières. Ici, 22 minutes d’orage indien.

http://www.touchshop.org/touchradio/Radio92.mp3

After our evening meal of vegetable curry which followed a long, bumpy day in the Corbett Tiger Reserve (looking for... tigers of course!), we settled down to the sound of distant thunder. Our hosts advised that we took shelter before the rain started and soon after the short walk to my hut the first spots were falling. Recording equipment was hurriedly set up under the veranda and my hut-mate and I settled down on deck-chairs. After only a very short wait, with skipper frogs calling from the nearby pond, the rain started. Very soon the only sound was of rain and distant thunder and everyone, even the monitor lizard that lived in the thatch of our roof, stayed put until the storm passed.

#audio #création_sonore

Seeding ocean with volcanic iron did little to lower CO2 – study — The Daily Climate
http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2013/03/volcanic-iron-fails-co2

http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2013/03/03fotos/Eyjafjallajokull-768.jpg/image_large

The eruption almost three years ago of an Icelandic volcano added iron to the seas south of the island. But in a blow to supporters of geo-engineering, the natural fertilizer failed to dent carbon dioxide levels.

#géoingéniérie

La définition même d’un paradis fiscal : 10% des dépôts bancaires réalisés dans l’ile de Chypre équivalent à 80% de son PIB http://pawelmorski.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/cyprus-fight-club-capital-controls

Morozov et la rhétorique web - Repubblica.it
http://www.repubblica.it/politica/2013/03/05/news/morozov_english-53968261

Dans l’édition anglaise de la Repubblica, Evgeny Morozov analyse la montée du mouvement de Beppe Grillo. La #politique a toujours besoin de leaders et de messages universels. Internet n’est-il pas une astuce pour légitimer un mouvement d’amateurs ? L’arrivée de Grillo et de son mouvement ne tient pas à l’ère de l’internet, mais bien plus aux problèmes structurels de la politique et de l’économie italienne. Le mouvement 5 étoiles n’est pas sans chefs, ni hiérarchie, contrairement à ce qu’il voudrait (...)

#démocratie

Iceland, Prosecutor of Bankers, Sees Meager Returns - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/world/europe/iceland-prosecutor-of-bankers-sees-meager-returns.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — As chief of police in a tiny fishing town for 11 years, Olafur Hauksson developed what he thought was a basic understanding of the criminal mind. The typical lawbreaker, he said, recalling his many encounters with small-time criminals, “clearly knows that he crossed the line” and generally sees “the difference between right and wrong.”

Today, the burly, 48-year-old former policeman is struggling with a very different sort of suspect. Reassigned to Reykjavik, the Icelandic capital, to lead what has become one of the world’s most sweeping investigation into the bankers whose actions contributed to the global financial crisis in 2008, Mr. Hauksson now faces suspects who “are not aware of when they crossed the line” and “defend their actions every step of the way.”

#banquier #crise #Islande

Le FBI complètement tricard en Islande. Que c’est réjouissant.

FBI Banned from Iceland | Rixstep Industry Watch

Bravo l’Islande, après avoir dit merde aux banques, c’est au tour du FBI qui débarque comme en pays conquis pour enquêter sur les activités Wikileaks sans en avoir informé les autorités préalablement... Et qui se fait salement expulser !

C’est réjouissant.

http://rixstep.com/1/20130131,00.shtml

FBI Banned from Iceland. Attempted to infiltrate country in hunt for WikiLeaks.

REYKJAVÍK (Rixstep) — FBI agents landed in Reykjavík without prior notification in an attempt to investigate WikiLeaks operations in the country, but Home Secretary Ögmundur Jónasson found out about the visit and forced them to leave the country, with the Icelandic government then issuing a formal protest to US authorities, according to Islandsbloggen.

Iceland president: Let banks go bankrupt - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTljJA_0Y6Y

Signalé par Frank Barat sur facebook. L’interview est assez géniale.

« Mais laissons donc les banques faire faillite, toutes seules, sans nous, et nous, occupons nous de ce qui est important »

« We introduced currency controls, we let the banks fail, we provided support for the poor and did not introduce austerity measures. Why do we consider banks to be like holy churches of the modern economy? »

Publiée le 25 janv. 2013

Iceland President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson tells Al Jazeera’s Stephen Cole that Europe should let banks that are ran “irresponsibly” go bankrupt.

Avis aux #étudiants, lycéens et collégiens ! Le #concours Dot Award 2013 vient de s’ouvrir aux sites en .re ! Soumettez votre projet et remportez jusqu’à 750 € !

http://www.afnic.fr/fr/l-afnic-en-bref/actualites/actualites-generales/6634/show/concours-dot-award-2013-exprimez-vous-en-re.html

#Students, the Dot Award 2013 #contest just opened to .re websites ! Submit your project and win up to 750 € !

http://www.afnic.fr/en/about-afnic/news/general-news/6635/show/dot-award-2013-contest-win-fame-and-fortune-with-the-re-tld.html

#AFNIC #DotRE #Réunion

Midnight Sun | Iceland on Vimeo
http://vimeo.com/30581015

#Étudiants, #collégiens, #lycéens : exprimez-vous en .fr et remportez les Dot Awards 2013 !

http://www.afnic.fr/fr/l-afnic-en-bref/actualites/actualites-generales/6547/show/concours-dot-award-2013-exprimez-vous-en-fr.html

#concours #dotFR #AFNIC #ccTLD #contest

Students ! Express yourselves in .fr and enter the Dot Awards European contest !

http://www.afnic.fr/en/about-afnic/news/general-news/6548/show/dot-award-2013-contest-win-fame-and-fortune-with-the-fr-tld.html

Rachel Corrie’s parents accept LennonOno peace grant from Yoko Ono on behalf of their daughter | The Electronic Intifada
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/rachel-corries-parents-accept-lennonono-peace-grant-yoko-ono-beh

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Carol Blue Hitchens, US author John Perkins, Yoko Ono, US singer Lady Gaga, Craig and Cindy Corrie, parents of peace activist Rachel Corrie pose during the Lennon Ono Grant For Peace awards ceremony in Reykjavik, Iceland on October 9, 2012.
(Thorvaldur Orn Kristmundsson / AFP/GettyImages)

Omerta sur l’Islande ?
http://www.lesnouvellesnews.fr/index.php/revue-de-presse/54-lu-sur-la-toile/2022-omerta-sur-lislande-

Les citoyens islandais ont mené une « véritable révolution pacifique contre les pouvoirs qui sont à l’origine de la crise ». 93% des citoyens se sont prononcés pour un défaut de paiement et des cadres et banquiers ont été arrêtés...

En VO via CNN + http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-787377

#Islande #OWS #banques #révolution #CNN

Arctique Chine Alaska Climat changement

« Why is China seeking more influence in Arctic ? » | Alaska Dispatch

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/why-china-seeking-more-influence-arctic

HONG KONG — As rising temperatures melt ice caps and uncover previously inaccessible natural resources and sea routes, the Arctic has caught the attention of countries near and far — including the world’s second-biggest economic power, China.

At the center of the action is the Arctic Council, the most important intergovernmental organization in the region. Now, China is seeking to become a permanent observer.

Sex, Lies and Julian Assange - Four Corners
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2012/07/19/3549280.htm

When Julian Assange arrived in Sweden in August 2010 he was greeted like a conquering hero. But within weeks there was a warrant out for his arrest and he was being investigated for rape and sexual molestation. Today he is taking sanctuary in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, arguing he won’t receive justice if he’s taken to Sweden and that US authorities are building a case for his extradition.

#wikileaks #suède #justice

Canada rises to 4th in world peace rankings - World - CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/06/12/world-peace-index.html

Canada has come in fourth on an annual ranking of world peacefulness, trailing only Iceland, Denmark and New Zealand.

The 2012 Global Peace Index released Tuesday — the sixth produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace, an Australia-U.S. think-tank, with data from the Economist Intelligence Unit — saw Canada move up three spots from the 2011 list

The 2012 index ranks 158 nations using 23 indicators which gauge ongoing domestic and international conflict, societal safety and security, and militarization. The 2011 list included 153 countries

UNICEF: US Among Highest Child Poverty Rates in Developed Countries | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/30-6

A new report released this week by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reveals alarming child poverty rates within affluent, or ’developed’, nations. The US ranks second highest among all measured countries, with 23.1 per cent of children living in poverty, just under Romania’s 25.6 per cent.

https://www.commondreams.org/sites/commondreams.org/files/imce-images/childpovertychart.jpg

New Route From China? | Journal of Commerce
http://www.joc.com/new-route-china

New Route From China?
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor | Jun 6, 2012 8:16PM GMT

There’s talk about a future container hub in an unlikely place – Reykjavik, Iceland.

Gerhardt Muller, retired professor at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, said the shrinking of the polar icecap could eventually provide ocean carriers with an Atlantic-Pacific shortcut through the Arctic Circle.

Speaking at a Transportation Research Forum in Newark, N.J., on the future of the port industry, Muller said he’s heard discussion in Europe that Reykjavik could eventually serve as a hub port for container shipments if a Northwest Passage route ever becomes a reality.

Don’t look for Reykjavik to overtake Singapore or Shanghai anytime soon, however. The Northwest Passage’s shorter distance would reduce carriers’ fuel costs but global warming would have to be much more established trend before anyone takes a plunge on an Arctic Circle route.

#transports #conteneurs

Enemy Mine | 1985
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_Mine_(film)

Enemy Mine is a 1985 science fiction #film based on the story of the same title by Barry B. Longyear. It was produced by 20th Century Fox, directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and starred Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett, Jr. The whole film was originally shot in Vestmannaeyjar in Iceland, but original director Richard Loncraine and the producers ran into “creative differences”, and the project was shut down. Wolfgang Petersen took over direction and reshot the whole film, with the production moving to Munich.
Beset by production problems, including a change of director, that caused its budget to spiral out of control, it was a critical and financial disappointment.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a7/Enemy_mine.jpg/220px-Enemy_mine.jpg

#navet #science-fiction

Iceland’s former prime minister acquitted over role in financial crisis
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/icel-m03.shtml

L’ancien premier ministre islandais, Geir H. Haarde, vient d’être reconnu non coupable de l’essentiel des charges retenues contre lui (sa responsabilité dans la crise financière qui a emporté l’Islande en 2008)

Iceland’s former prime minister acquitted over role in financial crisis
By Jordan Shilton
3 May 2012

Last week, Iceland’s high court, the Landsdómir, acquitted ex-Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde of all major charges in the case brought against him over his role in the 2008 financial crisis. The crisis led to the collapse of the country’s three main banks in a matter of days, as the economy entered a deep recession.

On three out of the four charges against him, Haarde was found not guilty. The court judged that he had done all he could to urge the banks to reduce their exposure to foreign debt, that he had not been negligent by failing to react to the danger of a financial crisis, and that he could not be held responsible for having failed to compel the banks to transfer the liabilities for foreign deposits in savings accounts to subsidiaries based in other countries. The only count on which he was found guilty was the token charge of failing to organise a sufficient number of cabinet meetings to discuss the issue of the financial crisis.