7.4.2025 | 16:08
Dagarnir líða eins og þeir gera
Aðgerðir Trump virka á verðbólgu
"While the Biden-era inflation crisis crippled family budgets with prices soaring past 9% in 2022, Trumps return to the Oval Office has unleashed a wave of economic stability.
The February Consumer Price Index (CPI) report released last on March showed annual inflation dropping to 2.8% (compared to 3.0% in January), defying expectations and marking another victory for Trumps pro-growth agenda."
Þetta geta íslensk stjórnvöld ekki.
Evrópusambandið opið fyrir allskonar samningum
"We stand ready to negotiate with the US, the EU president said. We have offered zero-for-zero tariffs for industrial goods as we have successfully done with many other trading partners. Because Europe is always ready for a good deal. So we keep it on the table.
However, the German politician did not address other significant areas of concern expressed by the Trump administration, such as restrictions on American food imports or, perhaps more significantly, on EU tariffs against U.S. made automobiles, which currently stand at around four times the rate European cars are taxed when sent to the United States."
Ef fram fer sem horfir, verðum við með hæstu tollana.
"Idaho Governor Brad Little has signed into law a bill that will allow courts to impose the death penalty on individuals convicted of aggravated lewd conduct with children aged 12 and younger. The legislation, which creates a new criminal charge, will go into effect on July 1.
The law establishes that aggravated lewd conduct with children under 12 is punishable by execution. In cases that do not meet the death penalty criteria but involve victims up to age 16, mandatory prison sentences will apply."
Talandi um íslenska pólitík:
Le Pen dæmd í stofufangelsi fyrir minni sakir en Inga Sæland sleppur með
"Convicted of embezzling public funds and banned from running for office, far-right politician Marine Le Pen stood unshaken before a sea of French flags in Paris on Sunday. "For 30 years I have fought against injustice," she told the crowd. "And I will continue to fight.""
Já... misjafnt aðhafst menn.
Fasisminn lifir.
"Rökræður Sólveigar Önnu Jónsdóttur, formanns Eflingar, og Hallgríms Helgasonar, rithöfundar, um hugtakið woke hafa dregið dilk á eftir sér. Woke virðist nú á allra vörum en mikil umræða á sér nú stað um hugtakið á samfélagsmiðlum. Ekki sér fyrir endann á skoðanaskiptum Sólveigar og Hallgríms."
Það var og.
Eiga ekki allir popp?
4.4.2025 | 17:33
4.4.25
Evrópusambandið vill sekta X vegna þess að Musk vill ekki ritskoða fyrir þá
"Under the Digital Services Act, which came into law in October 2022 to police social media companies and prevent illegal and harmful activities online, companies can be fined up to 6% of global revenue for violations.
A spokesman for the European Commission, the blocs executive branch, declined to comment on this case to The New York Times but did say it would continue to enforce our laws fairly and without discrimination toward all companies operating in the EU.
In a statement, Xs Global Government Affairs team said that if the reports about the EU's plans are accurate, it represents an unprecedented act of political censorship and an attack on free speech."
EB vill bara breiða út lygum, og allir sem eru á móti því verða sektaðir.
"Gibson lost his gun rights as part of a 2011 plea agreement in a misdemeanor domestic violence conviction and Oyer was assigned to a DOJ working group tasked with restoring firearm rights to individuals convicted of crimes. The NYT noted that the group came up with 95 candidates for consideration but did not list Gibson among them. After submitting the list, Oyer claimed that they received a response from the office of the deputy attorney general saying, We would like you to add Mel Gibson to this memo."
Það er örugglega gaman að fara á skotbakkana með honum.
Krabbinn breiðist út sem aldrei fyrr
"Ten nurses in single Massachusetts hospital ward have developed brain tumors over the last few years
Nurses at Newton-Wellesley Hospital say they're concerned about growing numbers of cancer cases among longtime nurses who have been working on a fifth-floor maternal care ward. 'You're going into work every day with that feeling in your gut, and it's a lousy feeling,' a nurse who doesn't want to be identified tells WBZ-TV.
She's speaking out after being diagnosed with a brain tumor and says she's not alone among her nursing colleagues."
Allir vita hvað veldur.
Það hefur virkað, nú vilja allir ræða við kallinn
"President Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Thursday evening that every country is already calling the White House in response to his reciprocal tariffs.
On Wednesday President Trump signed an executive order imposing reciprocal tariffs on dozens of countries.
Trump announced the implementation of a 10% baseline tariff on all imports, effective April 5, 2025."
Hvernig nær Íslenska ríkið að gera ástandið verra?
Sennilega innan 5 ára.
3.4.2025 | 16:51
Mannasetningar sem fólk telur nauðsynlegar herja á okkur
Samhengi...
Mér sýnist styttast í að Samherji og kannski einhverjir aðrir kaupi upp allar eignir smærri firskiðnaðarfyrirtækja hér og þar um landið - aðallega á Vestfjörðum.
Sá kvóti sem losnar endar í höndum þessara 10-11 stórfyrirtækja sem eftir verða.
Það verður engin nýliðun, fólk annað-hvort fæðist inní þetta, eða kaupir sig inn, ef nokkur kærir sig um slíkt.
Vinnzla færist mikið til Grænlands, jafnvel á Austurströnd USA til þess að sleppa við tolla.
Það er framtíðin.
Ég býst við að Samherji blómstri - fyrirtækið sem Íslenska ríkið hatar svo mikið að það eitrar fyrir starfsmönnum þess.
Írónía.
"The Texan (17) was fatally st*bbed in the chest by Karmelo Anthony (17) at a Texas track meet. Legacy media would call this a hate crime if races were reversed."
Það verður að benda á þetta.
Bandaríkjamenn hóta að vera áfram í NATO
"US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reassured NATO member states that Washington remains committed to the military bloc, insisting however that the members must drastically increase their defense spending."
Það verður auðveldara fyrir aðildarríkin að verja 5% af GDP í þetta þegar GDP lækkar ört.
"Shocking footage shows a red car driving slowly into a crowd in central Dam Square before bursting into flames at around 1.30pm.
Seconds later the driver - a 50-year-old Dutchman - was seen stumbling around on fire before he was doused with an extinguisher and arrested. He was left 'seriously injured'. "
Menn verða að fá að hafa sín áhugamál.
Fær mig til þess að efast um að björgunarsveitin sé starfi sínu vaxin
"Það er nú bara þannig með upplifanir fólks af atburðum að hún er einstaklingsbundin. Þetta er hans upplifun og ég hef enga ástæðu til að andmæla henni á neinn hátt. Upplifun þeirra sem voru með honum á vettvangi er önnur. Það er alveg óumdeilt að byssu var lyft, það var ekki að beiðni björgunarsveitarfólks, alls ekki."
Menn hafa verið að ræða að stofna hér her, en á meðan það fólk sem óhjákvæmilega færi í þann her, sama lið og fer í björgunarsveitir, getur ekki séð haglabyssu án þess að verða brátt í brók og byrja að þjást af shellshocki, þá held ég að það verði ansi lágt risið á þeim her.
Er þessum björgunarsveitarmönnum nokkuð sigandi út úr húsi, svona almennt? Það hefði geta verið eitthvert ógnvekjandi veður, eins og dalalæða eða gróðrarskúr. Þeir hefðu misst þvag. Hvað ef þarna hefði verið nautgripur, sem hefði gjóað til þeirra auga? Hefðu þeir lifað það af?
Hvernig er eiginlega útvarpsauglýingin til ess að fá svona kauða til stafa?
"Ertu skarpur sem kökukefli? Hefur þú hjartað í buxunum og taugar eins og blautan klósettpappír? Þá er Landsbjörg með starf fyrir þig!"
Ja hérna.
"SpaceXs Dragon Spacecraft is crewed by a privately-funded mission that, for the first time, has astronauts orbiting planet earth over the poles, rather than around the equatorial regions.
A bitcoin investor who bought a SpaceX flight for himself and three polar explorers blasted off Monday night on the first rocket ride to carry people over the North and South poles."
Já.
Besti krakkinn.
Rússum & Namibíumönnum kemur vel saman
"The Russian official said trade turnover between Moscow and Windhoek nearly doubled in 2024.
We managed to achieve impressive results. I hope we will continue working in the same atmosphere of mutual understanding and cooperation as we did during all those years, he stated."
Friður þeirra á milli.
Efnahagur Argentínu fer batnandi
"Local outlets reported that INDEC, a decentralized entity within the Argentine Economic Ministry, observed a nationwide decrease in poverty and indigence (extreme poverty) rates during the last six months of 2024. During that time period, poverty fell 14.8 percentage points and 8.2 percent of the population was documented living below the extreme poverty line."
Milei er maðurinn.
Á meðan getur íslenska Ríkið ekki einusinni rekið RÚV þá það hafi til þess 6 milljarða á ári
"Tæplega 200 milljón króna halli var á rekstrinum þó svo að tekjur hafi aukist um ríflega 400 milljónir króna og námu meira en níu milljörðum. Rekstrargjöldin námu tæplega níu milljörðum og hækkuðu um 730 milljarða milli ára." (sic)
Í hvað fer peningurinn?
1.4.2025 | 13:04
Ég er viss um að ríkið nýtir eldgosið til þess að klúðra stórt
Þýzka ríkið vill að ungdómurinn deyji fyrir islömsku nauðgunargengin
"The magazine writes, Taking all of this into account, Germany faces a tremendous challenge. We must dare to embrace more heroism and less hedonism. More communal commitment and less responsibility-avoiding individualism. And be careful not to lose sight of what we want to defend: freedom and diversity.
Stern doesnt want right-wing people who love their country fighting a patriotic war at the front. This could lead to people voting for the AfD, and then Hitler will come back. This is the logic of Der Spiegel, Stern, and many others.
They instead want iPhone-wielding hipsters who love diversity dying in the trenches. These iPhone-wielding youths should be at the front to defend guys like Gerwien so they can go to Vietnamese restaurants, attend book readings from African authors, and enjoy art installations from Brazilian LGBT activists."
Úrkynjunin er mikil þar á bæ.
Hitler lifði lengur en menn héldu... er sagt
"The document was the CIAs response to the allegations that Hitler was living in Colombia and had been for several years.
Here is the full document Analysis of Document HVCA 2592 Suggesting Hitler Survived World War II.
The CIA document goes over the details of the claim that Hitler was still alive. Allegedly, an SS Officer traveled from Caracas to Colombia to see Hitler once per month."
Who cares?
"Canadians will soon find themselves paying more for imported American accordion parts, emus, bovine semen, and clothing made with asbestos fibers. Toronto residents who dreamed of reaching the stars with an American-made spaceship will pay 25 percent more to make their dreams come true. Ottawa diarists will have to pay 25 percent more if they want to record their daily adventures in a diary imported from the United States."
Alvöru.
"Recent advances in biotechnology now provide a pathway to producing living human bodies without the neural components that allow us to think, be aware, or feel pain. Many will find this possibility disturbing, but if researchers and policymakers can find a way to pull these technologies together, we may one day be able to create 'spare' bodies, both human and nonhuman."
Semsagt... framtíðin er kattastelpur.+
31.3.2025 | 17:36
Opinberun Elons
Le Pen reynist of vinsæl fyrir glóbalistana
"As a reminder, Le Pen led in the polls...
Her conviction will strengthen her aura in French society: thats what we can learn from Trump-style American politics, said Christophe Marion, a lawmaker from Macrons party.
The presidential elections in Romania and the Le Pen verdict show that democratic norms are being trampled upon, in Europe, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Je suis Marine, Orban tweeted following the ruling.
For Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders, the verdict was "tough". "I trust she will win the appeal and become President of France," he wrote on X.
Italys deputy prime minister and leader of the League party Matteo Salvini called the ruling a declaration of war by Brussels."
Augljóst svindl er augljóst.
"Joined by Antonio Gracias, a private equity titan and a key member of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team tasked with rooting out waste in the federal government, Musk unveiled a shocking chart: a dramatic spike in Social Security Numbers issued to non-citizens, soaring from 270,000 in 2021 to a mind-blowing 2.1 million in 2024.
Thats almost 5 million non-citizens now embedded in the systemcollecting benefits, draining taxpayer dollars, and, most alarmingly, infiltrating the voter rolls."
Allt kemur í ljós.
Leftistar kveikja í húsum líka
"On Sunday morning, the Republican Party of New Mexicos headquarters was violently attacked in a coordinated act of political terrorism.
While no injuries were reported, the message from the perpetrators was clear: disagree with the far-Left, and you will be intimidated, silenced, or worse."
Þess vegna á maður ekkert að lúffa fyrir þeim.
Það styttist í þjóðarmorð múslima á bretum.
"The British people need to decide fast what that something is. Otherwise, their experiment in woke secularism is about to come to a crashing halt. No company, institution, or country can survive being devoid of a specific identity, purpose, and belief for very long. Nature abhors a vacuum."
Milljónir munu deyja.
DOGE skoðar dularfulla auðsöfnun valdhafa
"The worlds richest man is dying to figure out how lawmakers on Capitol Hill got strangely wealthy despite their comparatively modest public salaries.
Speaking at a town hall in Wisconsin Sunday night, Elon Musk suggested that his team at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will investigate how certain members of Congress have achieved generational wealth."
Gaman að fylgjast með.
Úkraníustríði gengur sinn vanagang
"On Sunday another key village was captured which lies less than ten kilometers from Ukraine's central Dnipropetrovsk region. This particular boundary has not yet been breached after more than three years of war.
Russian forces "liberated the village of Zaporizhzhia" in the eastern Donetsk region, the defense ministry said.
Ukraine forces are still on the retreat in Kursk region, but there are reports of new fighting erupting inside Russia's Belgorod."
Fólk þráir þetta víst heitar en lummur.
Eitthvað allt annað.
30.3.2025 | 16:42
Heimsbókmenntunum hefur eitthvað hrakað undanfarið
Vinsælt verk. Núna...
Kannski tengt.
Sama.
Meira af sama
Það má alltaf velta sér uppúr fortíðinni.
Goff.
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29.3.2025 | 16:41
Mississippi gerir það betur
Rifrildið um Grænland heldur áfram
"A video shared by US President Donald Trump on Friday has promised to defend Greenland, an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, from both Russia and China. Moscow has not expressed aggressive intentions towards the island and has repeatedly denied Western claims of planning to attack NATO countries."
Skemmtilegt.
"Crimes like murder, manslaughter, and rape increased in Germany last year, police statistics reveal, with the number of non-German suspects increasing as well.
In those cases 155 suspects have been identified, and 71 of those are German citizens. Known migrants are therefore already thought responsible for over half of attacks, the statistics reveal, but the disparity becomes even more clear when the forenames which can be released in line with German privacy law, if not the surnames are studied, it is claimed.
Welt notes German suspects on the list included individuals with names like Bilal, Ibrahim or Muhammed. As previously reported, as mass migration continues to transform German society, names like Mohammed and its spelling variants are already becoming more popular in Germany for new-born babies."
Fyrirsjáanlegt.
Hinir geðbiluður evrópumenn gerast prepparar
"
for humanitarian aid and crisis managementKeep in mind, these are the same people that ridiculed the preparedness movement only ten years ago and then accused survivalists of being "hoarders" during the covid lockdowns. Suddenly the EU elites claim to be concerned about the survival pantries of the citizenry and this may be a signal of expanding hostilities between Europe and Russia."
*facepalm*
Mississippi gerir það sem Íslesnkum stjórnvöldum er ofvaxið
"Today, I was proud to sign into law a complete elimination of the individual income tax in the state of Mississippi. Let me say that again: Mississippi will no longer tax the work, the earnings, or the ambition of its people.
This is more than a policy victory. This is a transformation. And it's a transformation that I have believed in, fought for, and worked toward for many years. From my days as lieutenant governor to my first campaign for this office and every legislative session since I have made this my mission."
Í Mississippi ráða menn fólksins. Á Íslandi ráða stríðsæsingamenn, barnaníðingar og hvítflibbaglæponar.
28.3.2025 | 16:16
Spicy
"Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made it an agency's mission to reverse the chronic disease epidemic by implementing the "Make America Healthy Again" initiative, which aims to eliminate toxic food dyes and processed foods from the nation's food supply chain. In response to the incoming HHS policy, one of the world's top players in the spices, herbs, and seasonings industry has announced plans to reformulate its products to align with the MAHA agenda."
Kryddið verður ekki lengur eitrað. Jákvætt.
Frakkar óttast að fjölmenning valdi borgarastyrrjöld
"A survey from Ifop published in Le Figaro to coincide with the 120th anniversary of the passing of the Secularism Act of 1905 and the 10th anniversary of the Bataclan Islamist terror attacks in Paris in 2015, has found that the French public is increasingly sceptical of the multicultural project foisted upon the nation, with many fearing that their society may devolve into full-on chaos.
According to the poll, a record eight in ten people in France believe the country is at risk of experiencing a social explosion in the coming months."
Hvort landið fer fyrist til helvítis út af fjölmenningu: Frakkland eða Brteland?
Maður með tattú sem sýnir að hann er ekki villimaður
"Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseths latest tattoo is triggering Muslim activists.
In photos circulating across social media, Hegseth appears to have a new tattoo that says kafir, an Arabic term used by Muslims to describe unbelievers.
The choice of tattoo has triggered Muslim activists, who have accused Hegseth of being Islamaphobic."
Svona gerir maður þetta: móðgar leiðinda imbasúlt með táttúum.
Atvinnumálaráðherra veit ekki hvernig rekstur virkar
"Atvinnuvegaráðherra segir að ef fiskvinnslum verði lokað verði það ekki vegna hærri veiðigjalda heldur vegna þess að eigendur þeirra geri það til þess að lýsa óánægju sinni. Hann trúi því ekki fyrri en á reyni að sjávarútvegsfyrirtæki grípi til slíkra aðgerða."
Hún hlýtur að hafa sniffað mikið lím á uppvaxtarárum sínum.
Það sem gersit, fyrst árið, er að svona 500-1000 manns missa vinnuna. Það orsakar tap fyrir ríkið uppá 1-2 milljarða, og útgjöld uppá 2-4, í formi bóta.
Það er svipað og ríkið tapar á rekstri RÚV á ári. Svo það yrði að selja það batterí til þess að standa á sléttu.
Áður en aðal tapið hefst.
Við skulum ekki flækja málin með tapi á útflutningsverðmaætum.
"Segir hún Alexöndru hafa öskrað á móður sína, sett bringuna fram og baðað út höndum með kreppta hnefa."
Við þessu að búast.
27.3.2025 | 17:42
Evrópumenn þrá ekkert heitar en heimsendi
"Ex-FBI agent and federal whistleblower Kyle Seraphin has uncovered a fake Polymer80 website selling illegal Glock Switches (devices that convert pistols into machine guns), which he describes as a likely honeypot operation set up by the ATF."
Entrapment, er orðið.
"The Barton County Sheriff's Office says that as she was checking under the bed to alleviate the child's fears, she came face to face with an intruder.
The man sprang out, knocking over her and the child in the bed before fleeing the house."
Ég er viss um að hún bjóst ekki við þessu.
"... it seems both Kiev and Europe are setting up the Trump-backed partial ceasefire to fail before it even gets off the ground.
French President Emmanuel Macron is hosting nations in Paris who make up a 'coalition of the willing' in their continued support to Ukraine, and on Thursday he has announced that sanctions on Russia will not be lifted, as unanimously agreed to among participants.
"What came out was strong from the meeting was so many countries standing, as theyve stood for over three years now, with Ukraine in this crucial moment for as long as it takes for" he said. This certainly pushes peace back further on the horizon - but at this point Moscow is probably OK with that, as its forces gobble up more territory. The longer this drags on, the worse the ground reality gets for the Ukrainian side."
Það er ekkert í lagi með Evrópsk yfirvöld
"...the flower of the Liberal-Globalist elites has fully invested themselves in a prepper-like effort, as the European Union today (26) urged citizens in the old continent to stockpile food, water, and other essentials to last at least 72 hours.
The reasons for that are the perceived (by the EU establishment) threats of war, cyberattacks, the inevitable climate change, and also disease pandemics."
Stríð, kvef og koma sumars. Allt miklar ógnir, að sjálfsögðu.
"We are, of course, concerned by the fact that NATO countries as a whole are more frequently designating the far north as a bridgehead for possible conflicts, practicing the use of troops in these conditions, including their new recruits from Finland and Sweden, he declared.
Moscow has been closely monitoring the situation in the region, and has taken an adequate response approach by increasing the combat capabilities of the armed forces and modernizing military infrastructure facilities, the president explained.
I would like to emphasize that Russia has never threatened anyone in the Arctic, he said, adding that Russia will not tolerate any encroachments on its sovereignty and will reliably protect its national interests."
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