Just started. Eruption in Iceland close to the mountain Litli-Hrútur
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#iceland #eruption #photography #news #nature #naturephotography
Just started. Eruption in Iceland close to the mountain Litli-Hrútur
▻https://framapiaf.org/@hjorleifur@mastodon.social/110691178185496226
#iceland #eruption #photography #news #nature #naturephotography
The last whalers: commuting from the North Sea to Antarctica | Aeon Essays
▻https://aeon.co/essays/the-last-whalers-commuting-from-the-north-sea-to-antarctica
In the mid-20th century, young men from #Shetland would come of age and travel to Edinburgh. ‘Quite a lot of Shetland boys did that,’ says Gibbie Fraser, who was that boy some 60 years ago. ‘And I remember goin’ and dere was a lot of men dere and dey all seemed huge and in dose days dey all wore … dere dress clothes as almost a uniform.’ For many, this would have been their first trip to the mainland, their first trip to ‘Scotland’ proper at all, and the boys would watch the double-decker buses for the first time, or board a black cab for the neighbourhood of Leith. There, they would stand in lines that snaked around city blocks.Shetlanders are some of the only living people who participated in Antarctic whaling. #Whaling in the Southern Ocean followed the devastation of whale stocks in the North Sea around #Britain, #Iceland and #Norway in the late-19th and early 20th centuries. Whaling has been a foundation of Shetland’s economy for more than 300 years. It began with subsistence whaling, in the 18th and 19th centuries, and then developed into large-scale #Arctic and #Greenland hunts in the mid-19th century. Salvesen began whaling in Shetland at Olna in 1904, when the company established a whaling station. ‘That’s where [they], I suppose in a way, came to appreciate the Shetland men,’ said Fraser.
Road trip en Islande, guide spécial hiver !
▻https://www.carnets-de-traverse.com/blog/road-trip-islande-hiver
« un autre voyage, un autre monde, une planète blanche, mystérieuse, silencieuse, un peu plus dangereuse. Il va falloir dompter la route. Pas si simple en plein hiver… »
“Encrypted virtual servers and web hosting based in #Iceland \ Locating in Reykjavík, Iceland, is an easy way to reduce your carbon footprint — the Icelandic grid is powered by 99% green electricity. Ecological and Dissident Hosting, a service provided by Webarchitects, in partnership with 1984.is, offers green encrypted GNU/Linux Virtual Servers and Website Hosting.”
“Available operating systems:
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Fedora 15 64 bit
FreeBSD 32 Bit
OpenBSD 32 and 64 bit
Ubuntu 11.04, 10.10 and 10.04 LTS, 32 and 64 bit”
Humm...
@X_cli It’s cold in Iceland, that’s why the version numbers are frozen.
Who’ll take you home tonight ? Iceland’s campaign against drunk driving...
L’#Islande envisage une révolution monétaire - AgoraVox le média citoyen
▻http://www.agoravox.fr/actualites/international/article/l-islande-envisage-une-revolution-165941
C’est une nouvelle qui devrait faire la une de toutes les rubriques économiques car elle pourrait représenter une véritable révolution monétaire : l’Islande, décidemment en pointe de grands débats démocratiques, envisage de reprendre le contrôle de la création de la monnaie aux banques !
Les prémices de la révolution ?
Il faut remercier les médias belges, qui couvrent cette nouvelle ignorée en France. Le Premier ministre a commandé un rapport intitulé « Un meilleur système monétaire pour l’Islande », recommandant au parti au pouvoir de confier l’intégralité de la création de monnaie à la banque centrale.
Le rapport Monetary Reform - A better monetary system for Iceland, Frosti Sigurjónsson, mars 2015
▻http://www.forsaetisraduneyti.is/media/Skyrslur/monetary-reform.pdf
et la fin des Recommendations
The present fractional reserve system is unstable and encourages risk taking. Banks have an incentive to create money and central banks have failed to constrain them. Without reform, the Central Bank must proactively enforce credit controls; set limits to the growth rate of bank lending and set limits to lending to the financial sector. Such measures will not be popular with banks, but necessary since traditional instruments have failed.
It would be preferable to remove the root-cause of the problems and secure the money power with the state owned Central Bank. Furthermore, the power to create money should be separated from the power to allocate new money. This will effectively reduce the risk and instability of the monetary system, debts will be substantially reduced and the income from creating money will accrue to the state rather than banks.
#Iceland, being a sovereign state with an independent currency, is free to reform its monetary system from the present unstable fractional reserves system and implement a much better monetary system. Such an initiative must however rest on further study of alternatives and a widespread consensus on the urgency for reform.
The debate on the money creation process in Iceland is just starting and will need time to run its course. The findings in this report will hopefully be part of that debate.
Meanwhile, the #Sovereign_Money_Proposal seems to offer a very pro-mising basis for reform. It is therefore recommended that a feasibility study of its potential implementation in Iceland will be conducted.
Occupy The Banks - Let’s Roll!: #ICELAND NOBEL PEACE PRIZE #BradleyManning Nominated! #OTB
►http://www.occupythebanks.com/2012/02/iceland-nobel-peace-prize.html
And so the rumour is true. The heroic Icelandic Parliamentary group “The Movement” has nominated PFC Bradley Manning for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize. Here is the full statement made by their Representative Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Member of the Icelandic Parliament.
"February 1st 2012 the entire parliamentary group of The Movement of the Icelandic Parliament nominated Private Bradley Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize. Following is the reasoning we sent to the committee explaining why we felt compelled to nominate Private Bradley Manning for this important recognition of an individual effort to have an impact for peace in our world.
Our letter to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee:
#Iceland to become international transparency haven | International Modern Media Institute
►http://immi.is/?l=en
Le site de l’#IMMI
I am proud to advise the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative’s proposal to create a global safe haven for investigative journalism. I believe this proposal is a strong way of encouraging integrity and responsive government around the world, including in Iceland. In my work investigating corruption I have seen how important it is to have robust mechanisms to get information out to the public. Iceland, with its fresh perspectives and courageous, independent people seems to be the perfect place to initiate such an effort towards global transparency and justice."
— Eva Joly MEP