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First It Refused To Bail Out Its Insolvent Banks; Now Iceland Set To Officially Withdraw European Union Application
Iceland may be a small country, but when it comes to dealing with big problems it is truly the modern equivalent of David in the battle against the status quo Goliath. First, it was Iceland, and only Iceland, refusing to bail out its banks, when every other western nation was being held hostage by those who stood to lose the most from a financial collapse, and even going so far as throwing some of its banking executives in prison. And now, as MBL reports, Iceland's conservative Independence Party will support a resolution in parliament to formally withdraw Iceland's application to join the European Union.
As MBL further reports, yhis was confirmed today by Bjarni Benediktsson, Minister of Finance and the party's chairman, in an interview with the state broadcaster RÚV.
The EU accession talks were put on hold after the general elections in April 2013. The elections resulted in the Independence Party and the centrist Progress Party forming a coalition government backed by 38 MPs out of 63 in total. Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson said earlier this month that he expected a resolution withdrawing the EU application to be put to the parliament soon and Foreign Minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson, who as Gunnlaugsson belongs to the Progress Party, has said it would be senseless not to withdraw the application. If anything Sveinsson has said there are more arguments for doing so now than a year ago.
The government put such a resolution to the parliament last year but the matter was not concluded before summer recess. Mainly because of a filibusted which was staged by the opposition calling for a referendum on the issue. As a consequence the government decided to postpone the matter as it considered more pressing to get other issues accepted. Primarily laws paving the way for a government program to reduce household debts.
"This is a resolution which we supported last year," Benediktsson said adding that nothing had changed since then. Asked if that meant the conservatives would support a resolution to withdraw the EU application he replied: "Yes, we would do that just like we did last time."
So yes, dear Greece: as you prepare for elections whih may result in the first official departure of a European country from the Eurozone, not only has Iceland shown that one can voluntarily not seek to be part of the "greater European good", but in fact voluntarily seek to not be part of said good.
And the cherry on top: as recently as 2013 the country was growing at over 5%: a rate unmatched anywhere in Europe, and on par with the latest annualized US GDP. The one difference, however, is that Iceland does not mandate the "GDP-boosting" and middle-class impoverishing Obamcare.
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Iceland never wanted to be part of Europe, let alone EU.
Their army trains with US military since ww2.
This means absolutely nothing
Your iconoclastic framework of analysis and thinking consistently provide ample food for thought. Thanks.
You Icelanders are cool!
Tell 'em to stick it where the sun don't shine!
"Tell 'em to stick it where the sun don't shine!"
Thay would be Oregon, yes?
The European Union will not even be mentioned in the history books.
Iceland. A country so small nobody really cares what they do.
(And old news btw.)
If they had brown skin color, they would by now have been bombed to stone age at least three times over
Nidaar
If they had brown skin color EVERYBODY would know they were the first Europeans to discover/settle N America.
But with 100% literacy rate you can be guaranteed they are melanin challenged
I agree. A coup with an American puppet would have taken over. But our white skin gives us an advantage. As badly as the Neoconservative Zionists want to own and rule Iceland, they just can't pull it off. The EU would have swalloed Iceland whole and used it's laws on immigration to end the Icelandic culture, ethnicity and even race. You see, teh communists in Brussels hate all ethnic Europeans, especially us Nordics. The Brussel Soviet will collapse under the dead weight of it's slavery to banks and racists.
Jack Burton
Hope Europeans pull down all those statues that the EU bureaucrats erected to themselves just like eastern Europeans pulled down V. I. Lenin statues when the USSR fell.
The EU multiculturalists really went to work on Sweden. Maybe because Nordics are culturally egalitarian the EU/NWO used them as a stress test to see how far they could go in diluting and twisting cultural identity before things snap. Communism is a psychopathy.
fleur de lis, how much "EU" is in those "EU multiculturalists"? there is a global multiculturalist movement, yes, and Scandinavian countries are at the fore in that
but those "multiculturalists" have strong bonds among each other across the pond that have very, very little to do with many EU countries
I'll make a simple example: generally speaking, Scandinavian countries have recently banned prostitution. In the southern and central european countries it's legal
I don't really understand your question but the EU only exists to control the various European countries through subversion of cultural identity and control of production. There are other alphabet organizations to control other nations. All the alphabetters are friends and apply multiculturalism whenever they want to weaken a target society. They have their central bankers for money to back up their scams and subject the populations to wild economics at will.
Why they ban this or promote that does not really matter. Nothing so far-reaching would be put in place without the permission of the EU. The indigenous populations have a tenuous grasp on their own futures. All these countries managed very well for centuries without the parasitic EU and the sooner they ditch them the better. The EU is nothing but trouble. It has no other function but to enrich bureaucrats at the expense of workers.
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an agenda long used and still playing out on the African continent, to the benefit of all WhiteEuro nation/corporations, since centuries now, yes? and all "first worlders" so accepting of the "privileged" name-tags, believe it their birth-right, hmm.
because "god".
We can only hope it is erased as thoroughly as Stalin's enemies.
Stalin had enemies!?
Yes, just not for long
Yes BND moles or old Gestapo scouts. from the Volga Germans.
Epic!!
What if Switzerland's move had nothing to do with QE? What if there's a far bigger game being played here, like the dissolution of the EU?
That might drop the Euro too, just a tad.
In Iceland ???
Iceland is a cornerstone NATO (north atlantic duh..) vassal. They can have fun with a few bankers but don't they try claiming any true sovereignty (airspace, money,..)
"Project Iceworm."
Good luck nuking a glacier.
"And welcome to sound money.". They import deminimus oil " and lied about their name."
Liars!
Liars Bjorkkson to you!
Now off to Greenland with ya!
Project Iceworm
Thanks, disabledvet. Never heard if it.
Wasteful and insane, but fascinating....
thx a lot, humbled
The hilarious thing is that Mr no spell check is overstating Iceland’s structural changes. Iceland is a roach motel country and I doubt the EU would let them join unless they actually adopted a long list of policy changes.
1) They still have capital controls
2) They did bail out their local bank branches, but didn't for overseas bank branches
3)Iceland does not want to join the EU because the EU is making them give up on Whaling and other natural resource related laws.
4)Iceland still has HUGE debt to GDP ratio and gigantic loans have been made to Iceland’s "central banks" a.k.a the government.
5)Iceland still has to write off all their national debts and do actual structural changes still.
6)They put a few bankers in jail as a token gesture. The financial system in Iceland was so overleveraged due to banker incompetence the Iceland governent would look like fools if a few bankers didn't go to jail for a few years (I bet most of them are already out of jail by now too...)
So pretty much this article is a steaming pile of BS on par with something you would get from FoxNews.
Here is a Kyle Bass video explaining the real state of Iceland...
http://youtu.be/gJfvLADP3HE?t=43m23s
300k population. Not even a rounding error
Whatever credibility you had, went out the door with Kyle Bass.
After his miss date on Japan and the Yen imploding haven't heard much from the lad...... maybe he figured it was time to get "quiet" and not draw attention to himself....
No doubt.
Iceland is pulling out of all the "Cowboy and Indian Games" and "Red-Blue Olympics". They've HAVEN'T a standing military and terminated a defense agreement with the USA in 2006.
They may be the most sane country on the face of the earth
Iceland might be the ONLY sane country left.
Icelanders are brave. They put banksters in jail. Long live Iceland!
What is happening in Iceland is only possible because they are a culturally cohesive nation. There is much to be said for being white.
so so true...diversity is strength--for the rich and the corporations...but homogeneity is strenght for white workers
Cultural cohesion is what kept nations everywhere growing in size and strength for thousands of years. Not limited to European nations, either. The NWO recognized this long ago, and forcibly injected multiculturalism to weaken national identity and cohesion, all the easier to control them. That's why the social systems everywhere are unrecognizable after each generation. The sooner Iceland exits the EU psychopathic matrix the better for them.
What is happening in Iceland is only possible because they are a culturally cohesive nation. There is much to be said for being white.
Or being black, yellow, red, purple or green; so long as you are "culturally cohesive" right?
Or is this the exclusive domain of "whites"?
The Jim Rickards Euro dream is collapsing...
Bruce Springsteen - I'm going down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZarmRLa2p9Q (3:27)
I agree. Though to his credit, his other predictions in the "the death of money" are playing out as described.
I remember agreeing with the majority of his reasoning, but very suprised he didn't realize that the EU was doomed.
I think he talks about the Eurozone, and goes on and on and on about it for... let's just say... important reasons. There's a purpose he put that whole bit in 'The Death of Money'.
Looking at what Rickards has talked about in the past and what he says in his books, and how he mentions austerity is important and can talk clearly about many other issues, it's "odd" he included this in there. And of course he's someone that straddles both sides of the fence of elitism & everyone else.. while devoting a whole chapter to this.
Iceland has balls. They may be cold and riding high, but they have a pair. More power to you Iceland. Nice to see some sanity in the world.
Since the Crisis began, Iceland has become more subversive of the NWO than Cuba...
Iceland bucking the NWO directive says you?
Cue testing grounds for low frequency directed energy into highly volcanic region...
Can you say "Ruh roh!"?
Iceland will be designated a terrorist state along with N. Korea and Iran.
That's a SOSUS base
"The Bear is on the move.". This is Goobermint business now.
Already have been by the Brits in 2008. UK government froze Icelandic asets under the 2000 Terorism Act.
Fool me once shame on you..
Fool me twice and fuck you!
that's an old Russian proverb...
Go Iceland, go.
We are all Icelanders now!
When do they send usa-mossad mercenaries over there to "fix them?"
Great news along with the blueprint how to do it. I'd like to see more on the legislation to reduce household debt. All we have here is Clark Howard on radio and bankruptcy courts.
Advocates of free market economics should see this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrpA46YS7P0&index=17&list=PLMTk07rWd6ioF...
Demonstrates the historical impact of the Chicago school.
Far, far more destructive than Keynesianism in my view. Thanks.
See kids?
This is what sort of governance you get when you allow multiple parties, instead of just the status quot, to run for office.
Real change.
Real progress.
Real hope.
Everybody's happy.
A small country with a big spirit
<-- Fuck the EU
<-- Exactly
That was the only smart thing that ever came out of Victoria Nuland's big fat mouth.
Whoever wrote the article is a fucking moron. Iceland has national health care, you fucking dumb ass. Is it too hard to at least look up wikipedia? Typical Sarah Palin Tea Party bullshit. Which just goes to show you that the Icelanders have more brains (and balls) than both the European Union and the USA.
...put together!
Zero hedge used to have people who thought out of the box - independent thinkers. Now all that's here is a bunch of Sarah Palin/Michelle Bachmann/FOX News assholes. I got downvoted for pointing out the FACTS - the actual facts. Iceland has national health care - GET OVER IT! God forbid these FOX News fucking assholes get confused by the facts. BTW FUCK YOU!
Someone has to start some shit to get any kind of dialectic going.
I like the way you roll...
+1
while I note that you use certain stereotypes to make your point - repub-women not noted for their, erm, intelligence, but more for their, um MILF-qualities oft quoted here - I'll upvote you for at least noticing how certain narratives get trimmed of facts along the way. . .
like Iceland elected Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
irrespective of all politicking and "sides" - that alone speaks volumes for Icelanders being more mature, independent thinkers when compared to those nations still mired in past dark ages patriarchal ritual thinking.
an observation borne out in all of the Icelanders I've met so far - intelligent, creative, aware.
Iceland has WMDs, and "yellow-cake" from Niger!
Where's Colin Powell with the pics and "proof?"
The banksters need to repay us.
Coming to Iceland, a Benny Hill style shoot 'em up, like in Paris.
Iceland is part of Scandinavia - founded by the Vikings on the way to America. They still have a 'social contract' which in most anglo saxon neo lib neo con places in the world is destroyed or never was put in place.
Icelandic is how the Norwegians spoke a thousand years ago
Not really.
approximately or loosely
Iceland was governed by the Danes/Norwegians over centuries. Todays Icelandic is somewhat different than the Old Norse of 1100 AD. It´s somewhat archaic though.
Gee, you think maybe they smell a rat?
Yeah, and his name is Mario Draghi. NY City cabs smell better
They got a putrid whiff off of Europe
Wanna see some hairy footage,just look up the "Cod Wars",when the Brits and Icelanders were smashing their trawlers together in the 60's over fishing rights.Whew! Breaking a few marine regulations....
A society where the politicians aren't all bought,because they are your neighbors.
A lesson to Brussels.Also,I cannot say this enough.The Euro-experiment was supposed to prevent war.....
Fighting over the best fishing spot makes sense. Fighting over oil? Not so much.
Iceland proved again that it is a real Nation with a back bone - not like all those spineless European dreamers and puppets who have stopped thinking themselves!
Aceland !!!
Go Iceland! ( you silly savages )
iceland has true national healthcare--far far beyond obamacare
Peace can be achieved in two ways
1) as the result of fight (try this out with any bully - it works)
2) giving up and submitting to exploitation and tyranny
They've got great ice cream parlours - in the snow!
But...but...It's Icelandic Honey Week!
There's 'honeys' all over the world. Some are like bees that buzz (and make honey), and some also look good doing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BADZW9tZ1uc
Homogeneous White and coherent nation. Iceland has it all.
They must have a shortage of jews too.
JoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooZ!
Go Iceland.
Any bad news for the EU frakensperiment is good news for the rest of the world.
So what will it be, A terrorist attack or cyber attack?
WELL, OBVIOUSLY...
It's going to be a 'terrorist cyber-attack'! ICELAND will be found as the 'source' of a series of attacks upon, well, the offices of ABC, or HSBC, or the BBC (anything that calls attention to 'plan C'). A spooky 'NEW' terrorist organization that has 'melded Icelandic economic policies with Al-Nusra/Al-Quaida/I.S.I.S./Yemen/Ron Paul Supporters/Von Mises Institute Subscribers' will suddenly be 'DISCOVERED', operating within the Icelandic Parliament.
Hitlery and Cannigula will convince the 'western powers' that INVASION is the only way to STOP this 'new menace to freedoms' (Mario Dragi will be on the sidelines, cheerleading, and Merkel will be once again trying on her father's old military uniform that was salvaged in haste in May 1945). Jamie Dimon will go LONG 'Raytheon' at this turn of events...
ICELAND will join the other nations that were once named 'THE AXIS OF EVIL' by GWB, back in December 2001. IRAN, IRAQ, NORTH KOREA (and YEMEN, and LYBIA, and SOMALIA, and PAKISTAN, and AFGHANISTAN, and RUSSIA, and EGYPT, and PALESTINE, and... ICELAND, and...).
Will it be a 'TERRORIST ATTACK', or a 'CYBER-ATTACK'?
YES.
Beam me up Scotty.
And let's get the warp 9 outta here.
Iceland sided with Hitler during WW2 Perhaps if the Euro-weenies took a page from Iceland's script they wouldn't be a multicultural hellhole today.
"Iceland sided with Hitler during WW2"
You are surely forgetting your '<sarc> tag, Bangalore Equity. WHAT UTTER BULLSHIT you spout!
Iceland was overrun by Hitler's stormtroopers with an approximately 100 to one advantage militarily. They were fucking INVADED before they knew what hit them. HELL, Hitler's army sent more troops in that there were in ICELAND ITSELF!
Where are you REALLY from? Western Ukraine, perhaps? KYEV? NO, it's not THAT easy...
Let me guess.
Northern Idaho enclave; re-living the 'glory days' of the Northern California meetings in the Bohemian Grove; praising the 'race' that inhabits Tel Aviv and Haifa and Alexandria, Virginia; and the security of your bank backers who pay you to post this shit diatribe are assured...
he's prolly from Heibville ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland_in_World_War_II
Read your history, dumbass.
Winning!
The EU is quicly becoming the Leper.
EU is in the hands of the zio-bankers. Once, these zio-holes take control of the money, the politicians suddenly are up for sale. Just look at the last spending bill with the FDIC Derivs backstop.
Dear Iceland,
Here are some very good reasons NOT to want to be a part of the European Union:
1. Mario Draghi
2. Failing Currency
3. Insolvent banks
4. Massively high Peripheral Nation unemployment
5. Accelerating deflation
6. Likely Imminent (2015) Eurozone Destruction
hmm... trying to figure out if I left any of the "goodies" out.
nope.
Oh yeah!....
Lots of Deadbeat countries like Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Italy and of course, Greece that would love to Suck Your Juicy 5% GDP dry and Sponge Off Of You (Like they've been doing with Germany) for as long as they can before they drag you under with them into the abyss that is becoming the EuroZone Quagmire (love that word.)
Iceland's alcoholic version of QE
Manure-smoked whale testicle beer anyone?A whole whale testicle is used for each brewing. screenshot/ Steðji website
Icelandic microbrewery Steðji is producing a new beer, Hvalur 2, for the winter month of Þorri. The beer is flavoured with the testicle of fin whales who, according to old Icelandic traditions have been salted and then smoked using horse manure. According to the Steðji website, a whole testicle is used for each brewing.
When (not IF, but WHEN) the SHTF, and the people remember Iceland (and try to get there en masse), they won't be able to, you know.
May God bless their efforts; but they're probably going to get targeted and nuked in the first salvo of the major global conflaguration that is sure to come now ('by mistake', of course).
FUCK THE E.U.! It's a dead cat that is about to bounce!
Praise Iceland all you want but what the hell were they thinking by trying to join that damn mess anyway???
People at the top really don't pay much attention to what's really going on do they, they only see things how they want to see them.
Actually Greenland left the EU and split away from Denmark over the issue in 1985
Greenland isn't in Europe. It's at the northeastern tip of the North American continent.
The 'E.U.' didn't exist before 1990.
The theory of 'continental drift' states that it takes MILLIONS and MILLIONS of years for landmasses to separate.
Greenland has been a U.S. protectorate since before my father went up to Thule to help build the first NORAD 'early warning radar' installation in 1959.
In closing:
Shut the fuck up, and keep your lying ass stories over at 'The Blaze', you uneducated, ignorant, and LYING fuckweed.
You're on a roll MS--+1--
MontgomeryScott
"Greenland has been a US protectorate".... No, Greenland is under the rule of Denmark since 1814. Your father built NORAD radar up there because Denmark is a member of NATO.
Iceland is setting a bad example! It might be time for a regime change!
Funny how I? and Iceland both start with I??
Looking for some help here. Can anybody tell me whether all Europeans are arseholes or just their elected and unelected representatives?
iceland is a very small country and because of this its citizens have a very big advantage.
They know where the bankers and politicians live and can pay them a visit.
This ensures the politicians don't upset their countrymen to much.
When its citizens are angry with the bankers the politicians listen.
Batman
Helps too that the Icelandic police don't have MRAPS and military gear to protect said politicians and bankers.
So what are you getting at, actual (gasp!) accountability to your constituents?
What a novel concept!
Since you brougt up bankers, have you heard about an AIG banker being found in a pond in California? Did I miss something?
Yup, no Obamacare there! But then there's no fraud like Obamacare anywhere! In fact Iceland already has what Obamacare was meant to avert:
"Healthcare in Iceland is universal. The healthcare system is largely paid for by taxes (85%) and to some extent by service fees (15%) and is administrated by the Ministry of Welfare. A considerable portion of government spending is assigned to healthcare. There is almost no private health insurance in Iceland and no private hospitals.[1]" - Wikipedia
You will get downvoted for pointing out an inconvenient fact. These assholes prefer to think that Iceland has no national health care system. So they can babble on about Obamacare.
Oh, there sure is gonna be a whole lotta babbling going on when the American people finds out what April 15th means as the irs slams down the outrageous costs of oscambacare. Hummm...yup!
This is the way that has been shown to the world in regards to how to deal with corruption, and this evil of the banksters and their money-god.
Here for all to see, moar and moar are being targeted as the ringleaders behind the evil doers on the world stage. What is becoming moar and moar apparent is, they are all a bunch of sicko two-bit clown actors. Every day moar people are levelling their sights on these evil things, and firing away.
Bully!
Let the Light shine.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/meet-the-three-american...
Moar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQNykN2uaWA
expanding your link:
If you watch FOX News and you think like Sarah Palin and/or Michelle Bachmann, I have a special FUCK YOU for you. FUCK YOU! The only thing I want to hear out of their mouths are their moans while they're making porn flicks with big black......
yo dude, yer needle is stuck - there are many FAUX Entertainers distracting from any truths available on any given day.
that you continue to only point out these two is shallow thinking - the FAUX "news" followers do love their shouty-dudes even moar than the eye-candy provided.
of course, you tip yer hand with the "porn flick" desires. . . hope you wash your hands when "finished".
*working as intended*
If you watch FOX News and you think like Sarah Palin and/or Michelle Bachmann, I have a special FUCK YOU for you. FUCK YOU! The only thing I want to hear out of their mouths are their moans while they're making porn flicks with big black......
You sound exactly like a typical liberal political fanatic.
Is it possible for you to talk about anything else, or only what most of the media repeats often & in small pieces for you to think?
Hate-rape fantasies are not still being promoted by the operant conditioners, are they?
"Hate-rape fantasies" are always highlighted and encouraged
when wars are being engineered.
consistent throughout all recorded history, no?
When you put it like that, I guess it is a never-ending meme. "Your reward is that you get to rape your enemy or watch them get raped."
True Justice
If the Icelandic people could get their hands on Goldman Sachs officials they would.They impeached and convicted corrupt politicians who were in league with Wall Street, many of which are serving prison sentences. Iceland is on its way to a full economic recovery while still saying no to the corrupt Goldman Sachs influences in Europe. Iceland is saying no to the Bank for International Settlements. Iceland is a beacon of hope for the rest of the G20 nations including the United States, or is it?
Why Did the Uprising Work in Iceland and Nowhere Else?
Gadaffi showed the same level of defiance to the corrupt banksters as did the people of Iceland, yet he is dead. What is the difference? In Iceland, the people are engaged and are committed. This was not the case in Libya and this is certainly not the case in the United States. Both Libya and the United States have been invaded by massive immigration (i.e. many al-Qaeda took up residency in Libya before the revolution) and America’s immigration issues have been well chronicled. Both countries lacked the solidarity which ultimately served to dilute their national resolve. Further, in America, the mainstream media keeps the masses docile and dumbed down while conducting their version of “Occupy America”.
The Major Reason Why Iceland Beat the Bankers
Most of Congress has been bought off. The so-called representative government is beyond the reach of the people. In Iceland, that is not the case and even if it was, it would not matter.
The most important fact related to the Icelandic revolution happened after the implementation of a type of self-governing approach which includes some elements of “Direct Democracy“. Icelanders have much more say in their government than we do. This is a huge advantage for the citizens of Iceland, as from this moment on, no external power can conquer their country through hidden activities and the creation of bribed puppets. Politicians can theoretically be bribed, but it would not matter.
Iceland’s President, Olafur Ragnar Grimmson, was interviewed earlier this year at the World Economic Forum in Davos on why Iceland has enjoyed such a strong recovery after its completefinancial collapse in 2008, while the rest of the West is still mired in debt, poverty and hopelessness to go with empty promises of an economic recovery.
When asked whether Iceland’s policy of letting the banks fail would have worked in the rest of Europe, Grimsson stated:
http://www.trueactivist.com/bankers-arrested-civil-war-averted-economy-on-the-rebound/
After President Putin of Russia announced the death of the South Stream pipeline project and the new Turk Stream line to Turkey to take all the gas that now passes through Ukraine, President Erdogan has been rather emboldened. Turkey has been trying to get EU membership for about 20 years, but the EU keeps finding excuses to deny membership. After Putin's announcement, Erdogan announced that Turkey was giving up on entering the EU. Then he hinted that if the EU begged enough, Trukey might reconsider. As the most likely pipeline route for gas to the EU from Russia, the Middle East, and the 'Stans', Turkey is enjoying a new sense of leverage. Errdogan also expressed some doubts about remaining in NATO. If he doesn't get suicided for that, he might get some additional benefits from NATO.
The Turk Stream is planned to end at a gas hub on the Turkey/Greece border. This seems to strengthen Greece's position in negotiating debt reductions with the Troika. And Russia just told Greece that if Greece left the EU, Russia might remove the sanctions against Greek food imports. Your move, EC. The Greek election is on January 25 and Syriza is ahead in the polls. No pressure.
"The one difference, however, is that Iceland does not mandate the "GDP-boosting" and middle-class impoverishing Obamcare."
Yes, like any sensible country, it has universal healthcare (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Iceland).
There is almost no private health insurance in Iceland and no private hospitals
If only Obamacare had included a public option...