News from Iceland - NFI

15/12/2021

NFI - Wednesday, 15 December 2021

“We are the world”

The Christmas present of the year 2021 according to the Trade Research Centre of Iceland is the jogging outfit.
The cyber security team in Iceland, CERT-IS has not been notified of any incidents where a system has been hacked with the Log4j vulnerability, but there is a great growth in attempts to attack. The level of civil protection uncertainty is still valid due to the weakness.
Mathematical methods shed a new light on Snorri Sturluson, the famous Icelandic author and chief who is considered to have written Heimskringla (World Tour) which is one of Iceland most precious cultural item.
Preparations for the construction of a new Miðgarðachurch in Grímsey (Island of Grimur) are well underway, but the older church burned to the ground almost three months ago.
The reality stars Patrekur Jaimie and Bassi Maraj have a new job. They have started working as a support assistants in an elderly home, Hrafnista, and are "low key" to make a crazy tournament!
From the beginning of next year, the National Registry will stop sending newly issued passports home to people by post. People will instead have to pick them up at the offices of district commissioners or at the National Registry.

Photo - The Esja mountain near Reykjavik.

10/12/2021

NFI - Friday, 10 December 2021

“Baby it’s cold outside”

"I have never been accused of theft before”, says The Governor of the Central Bank of Iceland, Ásgeir Jónsson. The author Bergsveinn Birgisson is accusing the bank manager of steeling from him ideas in book that Ásgeir is publishing about the foundation of the settlement in Iceland.
The employees at the Country Hospital can now choose from seven different types of Christmas presents from the Hospital. Last Christmas they only got chocolate and credit of seven thousand krona to by shoes.
The new beer cooler has not been turned on in the liquor store in Seltjarnarnes since the store was opened after thorough renovations in mid-September. Residents of Eidistorg complained about noise coming from the refrigeration equipment and it turned out that there was no permit to cool beer in the shop.
Investigation journalist from the media “The Hour” found 15 tons of Icelandic plastic waste in a small town in Sweden called Påryd. The plastic waste had been lying there in a old warehouse for five years.
The Court has come to the conclusion that Costco is obliged to pay employees for trips to and from work to the store at Kauptún in Garðabær during the time when buses do not run.

Photo - The pond in Reykjavik City

09/12/2021

NFI - Thursday, 9 December 2021

“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas”

Gudmundur Kristjánsson, the CEO and biggest owner of the fishing company Brim is very concerned about the Icelandic language or tongue. Recently he bought 3000 copies of the children book “Small dreams and big dreams” and gave the lot to children school.
The secretary at the golf buddy group “Stullarnir” has been sentence for 1 month prohibition of playing golf at Reykjavik Golf Club. He was found guilty of using an illegal software system when he was booking tee times for him and his golf buddies.
Eythor Arnalds, the leader of the Independence Party in Reykjavik and a City counsel member has declared that he wants to be the leader for next four years. Another City Counsel member from the same party, Hildur Bjornsdottir, also want to be the leader.
The Icelandic oil search company, Eykon Energy, has been put to sleep. The company had a license to search for oil under the sea at the Dragon Area, which is north of Iceland.
The financial minister of Iceland, Bjarni Ben, wants to put taxes on green energy. He says that the Governments Funds cant be without money to maintain or build new roads.
The Christmas book flood is rising in Iceland. On the weekly top 10 list for the most selling novels is the author Arnaldur Indridason with his new book, Sigurverk (Victory Works) but the crime stories queen, Yrsa Sigurdardottir is close behind him, nibble on his heels, with her new book, “Lok, lok og læs. (Shut, shut and lock)”.

Photo - The house of Christmas.

29/10/2021

There is a light at the end of the horizon. After a long time of technical and finance problems NFI aka NewsFromIceland might be back. Investors from a place far from Iceland, a place called Namibia has shown an interest to support the media. These guys knows that there is more to the world than fish. Hopefully there will be some kind of offers related to some merchandise of all kinds related to this deal. ... we will keep you informed, because NFI is a see through media with no secrets. So behave because it looks like you, the people of the word, will again get informed about the weather, the political and art situation in Iceland the scandals and what ever is of current interest.

02/06/2021

NFI - Wednesday, 2 June 2021

“It’s a marvellous night for a Moondance”

The media star, Egill Helgason is delighted with the honour the the president of France, Emmanuel Macron game, but Egill received the Order National Du Merite, metal from the France ambassador yesterday.
The Exam elections for the Independence party in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland for the order of their list for next Congress election will be next weekend. Hunters seems to support the foreign minister, Gudlaugur Thor.
The eruptions in Reykjanes peninsula is still ongoing. There has been some evolution and now there is only one crater active. The behaviour of the crater is almost like a geyser.
The new festival song for the national party in Westman Islands is written and performed by the artist, Hreimur Orn Heimisson, and is called “Corridors in line”.
Dr Vilhjalmur Ari Arason has quit working on the Country Hospital ER. He has been working there for 40 years but says that an emergency situation is going on in the department and the patient is the hospital itself.
A yacht own by a German individual was caught on fire in a harbour in the east side of Iceland last night. No-one was in the yacht and has been in the harbour for a week.
Iceland lost for Mexico in a friendly international football match in the USA last weekend.

Photo - The active volcano in Reykjanes

20/05/2021

NFI - Thursday, 20th of May 2021

“Ten years”

Sergey Lavrov, the foreign secretary of Russia, and the foreign secretary of USA, Antony Blinken met in Reykjavik and had a dinner together in Harpa Music Hall.
A volcano expert says that Icelandic countryman can expect ten til twenty more eruptions in Reykjanes peninsula next two or three centuries. Two months are since the eruption started there and it is still going strong.
The tourist company Prime Tours is bankrupt.
Gudlaugur Victor, the football player is on his way to Schalke in Germany.
“This awards has a deep meaning for me” says the designer and musician, Gunnar Hilmarsson. He received the Indridaawards today for design of clothing.
The Icelandic TV series “Kalta” will be premiered at Netflix 17th of June, the Icelandic national day. The teaser for the series has been released world wide.
Reykjavik City Authorities has fallen from their idea of building kindergarten in the middle of a roundabout in the western part of the City.
Dadi and the Data Volume, the Icelandic entry in the Eurovision Song Contest went trough to the finals in Rotterdam tonight, even without going on stage.

Photo - Volcanic dancers.

18/05/2021

NFI - Tuesday, 18th of May 2021

“Somewhere over the rainbow”

The Middle Party Congressman, Gunnar Bragi thinks that it is strange that the Icelandic Eurovision Song Contest delegation got a permission to step in front of the line when it came to the Janssen covid injection.
The Mountain, aka Hafthor Julius Bjornsson has lost 50 kg and does not longer has to force food in his stomach. The reason is that he has turned himself from a power figure into a boxing person.
The new airline company Play has started selling tickets. Among the destinations cities are Alicante, Barcelona and Paris.
FH, the gymnastic club of Hafnarfjordur, is on the top of the league in the Icelandic premium football league. The club won HK, the handball club of Kopavogur, last evening.
The forrest cat, Leomundur, went to the eruption side last weekend. The cat went with his owners and was carried in a special cat backpack. Leomundur is probably the first cat to see the new volcano side.
A new musical with music from Frikki For will be in a theatre next summer in Reykjavik. The director, author and producer is Hoskuldur Thor Jonsson. Among the actors is Kroli, one half of the famous duet, Joi and Kroli.
The MP Sigmundur David thinks that Iceland as a nation is loosing control in the fight against organised crimes. He was watching Compas on the telly last night.

Photo - Mountain view

12/05/2021

NFI - Wednesday, 12th of May 2021

“Walk on the wild side”

The congressman Kolbeinn Ottarsson Proppe, a Left-Greenist, will not run for another term. The reason is the second Me-To revolution in Iceland. The congressman says that he did not behave probably in his relations with women in his past.
Today the eruption side area at Reykjanes peninsula will be closed to public, workers are fixing the walkway to the volcano.
Hildur Sverrisdottir has announced that she wants to run for the Independence Party in the upcoming elections. She is asking for a trust to be in the third place for the party in the capital constituency.
The football striker Kjartan Henry will join KR football club. He has been playing for Esbjerg in Denmark.
The fire department has been fighting agains a dry grass burn in the south west area of Iceland. Using helicopters with a water bucket, the water bucket got damaged so the fire department is trying to find another bucket from Sweden.
A wine merchant has compliant to the consumer office about the behaviour of the government own liquor store.
The candy fabric, Noi-Sirius, which is own by a Norwegian candy guys, has put on the market a very similar product as the Icelandic candy fabric Goa has been selling for years. The spokesman of Goa think that it is lame.

Photo - Private.

06/05/2021

NFI - Thursday, 6 May 2021

“Eight days a week”

The Icelandic candy fabric, Noi-Sirius hf is now fully owned by a Norwegian fellows, Orkla ASA. The CEO of the company, Finnur Geirsson will quit and Lasse Ruud-Hansen will be the main guy.
Two guys stole the tip jar in a restaurant down town Reykjavik yesterday.
Daddi Disco, a famous DJ from the eighties is turning records in the Injection Hall (Laugardalshöll) The purpose is to create a good spirit while the middle age people are getting their injection.
The City authorise in Reykjavik wants to build a kindergarten in the middle of a traffic roundabout in the western part in the City. The neighbourhood residents think so and so about the idea.
The Icelandic police says the organised crime groups is importing women in the prostitution game in Iceland. This is won of the most profitable sprouts in the crime industry.
The head coach of the football team Stjarnan (The Star), Runar Pall Sigmundsson, was the first head coach to quit managing his team this season. His team has played one game and made a draw.

Photo - A mountain south-east corner of Iceland.

02/05/2021

NFI - Sunday, 2 May 2021

“Swing low, sweet chariot”

Yesterday was the first of May in Iceland, the labour day in Iceland. Workers do not have to work today.
The author Stephen King says that it was a waste of a perfectly good drone to fly it into an active crater. That happened in the drone show that Bjorn Steinbekk did around the volcanic area near Fagradalsfjall (Beauty Valley Mountain).
The band Kaleo is the main sponsors of the football club Afturelding. The name of the band is on front of the jerseys.
The eruptions near Beauty Valley Mountain in the Reykjanes peninsula is going through some changes. Now there is only one active crater and is he acting strange sometimes.
126 women are on their way up to the highest peak of Iceland, Hvannadalshnukur which is on Wilderness Glacier. They are collecting money for The Cancer Institute.
An individual in a strange mode was throwing furniture from a balcony when the police had to put him in a jail cell.
The media star Gisli Marteinn put some hidden message in his last weekend show in the TV. He had a picture of princess Diana and a mug with a picture of person from the mummy elves on his side table.
The best football club in Iceland, FH won the team Fylkir in the first game of season in the premier league in Iceland.

Photo - The motorcycle club “The Snails” heading for their labour day ride

29/04/2021

NFI - Thursday, 29 April 2021

“I can see clearly now”

90 students and their families are now in quarantine after a one fellow student got Covid. They are all in The Polytechnic School in Southland.
The old post office building downtown Reykjavik City will in the future be a food palace. The style will be a little bit France and a gourmet atmosphere will surround the food palace.
“Think About Things” the Eurovision song that never went on stage, the song that Dadi and the Data volume wrote has earn the artist a silver record in Great Britain. Over 200.000 copies have been sold there.
The new airline company “Play” will go in the air on the 24th of June. The first destination place is a top secret for now.
The epidemiologist and the leader in the fight against Covid in Iceland, Thorolfur Gudnason got a standing ovation when he went to Laugardalsholl to get his first vaccine injection with AstraZeneca.
The Icelandic police will special train officers to deal with digital violence.
John Cleese, the British actor, says in a birthday greetings to his Icelandic actor colleague, Throstur Leo that he is convinced that the Icelandic bank Kaupthing was responsible for the world wide banking crisis in 2008.
The soccer player at the Vestmanneyjar FC, Gary Martin, has been sacked. The reason is that he took picture of his fellow football player in a shower.
Iceland won Israel in a handball game.

Photo - Statue of a woman

27/04/2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqg_tJtMbRk

A live drone festival from the volcano side in Iceland from master Bjorn Steinbekk, All evening and til next morning.

On the 27th of April at 2.00 PM local time (10 AM eastern) I will start my 14 hour live drone stream from the volcano eruption in Geldingadal, Iceland. I hop...

26/04/2021

NFI - Monday, 26 April 2021

“Where the mountains sing through the screams of seagulls”

The song “Husavik” didn’t win the Oscar last night. The song was in Will Ferrells Eurovision movie and is about the town Husavik in Iceland. Although it didn’t win the Oscar it was one of the five runners up and was performed in the celebration last night.
Next weekend it is the plan that 104 thousand Icelanders will be vaccinated. This week will be big when to injections.
Last night a woman in the capital area came to her home and noticed that some intruder had broken into her house and dressed up in the woman’s clothing.
The Icelandic football player, Isak Bergman, was the hero in Sweden when his team Norrköping won Halmstad in the Swedish premier league.
The lava stream from the volcano area near Fagradalsfjall (Beauty Valley Mountain) has started to float down in Meradalur (Mare Valley) again. Catration Valley is getting full.
A congressman from the Left-Green party, Lilja Rafney, did not get the first seat in the preselection in the party in North-West constituency as she had hoped. She is the forth congressman within her party that has been “rejected” by her own people so far in the preselections.
The Icelandic championship in chess is ongoing. Three chess masters are even in the first place, Johann Hjartarsson, Vignir Vatar and Bragi Thorfinnsson.

Photo - A quit fjord in the West Fjords.

22/04/2021

NFI - Thursday, 22 April

“We can be heroes, just for one day”

The Place Names Committee has decided that the new lava field in the Reykjanes Peninsula near the town Grindavik will be called Fagrahraun (Beauty Lava) or Fagradalshraun (Beauty Valley Lava). Castration Lava does exist in the area.
Paweł Bartoszek, a member of the City Counsel in Reykjavik says that the ideas that the rapper, Mr Peanut Butter, has to protest and close the Icelandic borders are very unpleasant.
The Norwegian Ministry of Health does not recognize the intention to lend Icelanders AstraZeneca vaccines. This is in contrast to the Icelandic government, which claims that 16,000 doses are on its way to Iceland.
The TV program “Good Morning America on ABC was live from the eruption area yesterday. talked to Icelandic experts in volcano matters.
After a long Congress meeting all night long a new legislation was approved, new epidemiology law that mostly concern the borders and authority that the minister has to handle visitors to the country.
Johannes Stefansson, a former employee at Samherji, the fishing company, was reserve a award in Sweden, “WinWin 202” for his whistleblowing.

Photo - … and still it goes.

21/04/2021

NFI - Wednesday, 21 April 2021

“Run to the hills”

The eruptions in the Reykjanes peninsula, Castrations valleys, is live and kicking. Last evening an earthquake shake the area and was found in the Capital area.
Covid is up in Iceland after an individual broke the quarantine rules. The consequence was that the covid virus erupted in a kindergarten school in Reykjavik. The epidemiologist Thorolfur, the leader in the fight agains the virus, says that it is no need to strict the rules.
Thordis Palsdottir a sub counsel city member in Reykjavik says that the media star, Gisli Marteinn has broken the ethics rules of the government own broadcast giant RUV when Gisli told his view about speed limit in the City. Gisli is an employee at RUV and falls under the ethics rules as such, although he is a star.
Norway will lend Iceland 16.000 portions of AstraZeneca. It is for 60+ old people.
“I say that this is the soul of Iceland” says the minister of culture, Lilja Alfredsdottir. She is referring to the Old Scripts. Today she will put down a corner stone in the new building of Icelandic inform.

Photo - New hotel building downtown Reykjavik.

16/04/2021

NFI - Friday, 16 April 2021

“Although years and centuries pass”

Yesterday the road to the eruption was closed because of bad weather. The eruption is still on and people are aloud to take the volcano walk today and during the weekend.
The Transportation Bureau is criticised in a report that The National Audit Office has made regarding the fall of WOW air. The bureau did drag its legs when it was crystal clear that the company was in bad shape and was on a red alert regarding the operating license.
Reykjavik City authorities are reducing the speed limit in the City. The speed limit will mostly be maximum 30-40 km per hour.
The media star, Gisli Marteinn, is mourning his dog. “My loved Tinni (the dogs name) is dead. He left us after three weeks of illness. He was the best and most beautiful dog I have ever known and the family misses him very much.”, write this popular media star on his Instagram account.
One of the biggest yachts in the world is now by Akureyri, the largest town in the northern part of Iceland. The yacht is own by Andrey Melnichenko, the Russian millionaire and is called A.
Today is the birthday of the pop legend Bjorgvin Halldorsson aka Bo Hall. He turns 70 years old and wishes NFI the maestro happy birthday. Bjorgvin was born and raised in the beautiful town Hafnarfjordur. To celebrate his birthday he is live on the internet with a huge concert this evening (senalive.is/bo)

Photo - New Constitution outcall.

14/04/2021

NFI - Wednesday, 14 April 2021

“Ain't No Mountain High Enough”

New craters opened up in yesterday morning in the eruption area in Reykjanes peninsula. The volcanic activity is still constant and nothing is pointing in the direction that it will stop soon. Now the active volcano holes in the area are eight.
Birgir Jonsson, the drummer, will be the new director at the the airline company Play. The company has secured 40 million us dollars in a closed share offering. Birgir has lot of experience in the flight business but lately he was running the Icelandic Post Bureau.
The congressman, Kolbeinn Ottarsson Proppe, a member of the Left-Green party, is checking out his position after he lost the fight about who will lead the party in the South Constituency for the upcoming elections next fall. Kolbeinn ended up number four with 176 votes.
Minister of Justice, Aslaug Arna, says that live is not fair. She is a social person and hates to be alone.
An episode about oxycontin was elected the best episode in the podcast series “In the light of history”. Second up was episode about a hostage situation in a theatre in Moscow. Vera Illugadottir is the editor of the podcast series.
Reverend Benjamin Hrafn Bodvarsson, a pastor in the eastern part of Iceland calls out for a more discussion about s*x within the church community.

Photo - Volcanic activity behind a church.

12/04/2021

NFI - Monday, 12 April 2021

“Where the streets have no name”

The 4 craters in Reykjanes peninsula is still on fire. The public can visit the area after lunch time today, if people want to visit the area before that time they are on their own. The gas pollution is mostly west of the craters because the wind is blowing from the east today. The eruptions, although it is very small in the eruptions scale is the most popular in Icelands history.
Karen Kjartansdottiir is now a former managing director at the Come Together Array, a political party in Iceland. She has quit.
The traveling agency, Elderly people Travels, is planing a group trip to the Faroe Islands. Faroe Islands is Covid free.
Janssen vaccines from Johnson & Johnson will arrive in Iceland next Wednesday. 2400 doses.
A new country record was set in women’s shot put. Erna Soley throw the ball 16,72 meters.
The capital area police stopped a driver last evening, the police suspected that he was driving under influence of drugs. Then the police discovered that this was a wanted man
NFI send condolences to the British nation because of the death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburg.

Photo - Geothermal power plant in distant