[pp.int.general] Iceland and International Politics

[Brendan Molloy]

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sj%C3%B3r%C3%A6ningi

Awesome.

2011/4/13 Chr1s Shea7s <yawnbox at gmail.com>

> As an aside, for which I'm not sure if this relates, but Icelandic
> people don't have a word for "pirate." The closest translation that
> I've been told is "sea mugger". There are people who support the PP
> movement, but having an PP organization might be difficult because of
> this linguistic issue.
>
> On Icesave, there is a good blog post written up by Birgitta Jónsdóttir:
> http://joyb.blogspot.com/2011/04/why-i-said-no-to-icesave.html
>
> Birgitta is a member of the political movement "The Movement" and is
> the lady in parliament who helped draft the IMMI framework. She's also
> an ex-wikileaks volunteer, for those of you who haven't heard of her.
> Following her on Twitter is very informative.
> https://twitter.com/#!/birgittaj
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Aza <rata_0071 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Isn't there any pirate party or individual in iceland that we know of?
> > otherwise the PPI could issue a press release inviting the icelandic
> pirates
> > to organize into a political party that could or not be a pirate party.
> >
> > -r
> >
> > 2011/4/10 NingúnOtro <ningunotro at hotmail.com>:
> >> Iceland votes NO 57,7% against 42,3% in the second ICESAVE referendum
> >> held yesterday.
> >>
> >> They may need our help if they are to be able to resist a third time.
> >>
> >>
> >> El sáb, 09-04-2011 a las 13:42 +0200, NingúnOtro escribió:
> >>> Do we have any Pirates at all in  Tortuga Iceland ?
> >>>
> >>> Just in case nobody had noticed, the Icelandic people are voting the
> >>> second ICESAVE referendum today.
> >>>
> >>> Would it not be usefull to launch Pirate Party Iceland and help it to
> >>> collect the benefits of global dissatisfaction with the existing
> >>> political parties?
> >>>
> >>> Maybe even Jon Gnarr (the Major of Reykjavik, elected through an
> >>> improvised parody of a party (The best Party) for this sole occasion,
> >>> might want to join a wider movement, and the grassroots "The Movement"
> >>> could be approached.
> >>>
> >>> We should not leave them alone as they struggle to defend their basic
> >>> rights from an agression we are going to suffer too soon. We might
> >>> regret not to have set a precedent to build upon.
> >>>
> >>> Many countries with shaky political situations have statutory or
> >>> advanced elections showing on the radar...
> >>>
> >>> ... we should raise international awareness to the Pirate Movement and
> >>> use it to help local populations to find an exit strategy to the
> >>> predatory tactics of old-style politics.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> NingúnOtro.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
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Regards,
Brendan Molloy
Pirate Party Australia

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