First lock on in Icelandic history

Once again, please do not post pictures so big in size, I am lucky I've got broadband but I am sure people on dial-up will be too long to download it, besides the broadband expense for Indymedia.
I reccomend you search on the internet for some retouching images software, there are quite a few free.

Anyway, thank you for the photos, they are great!

Hey,I've been complaining for years about TOO Large & TOO many photos posted on differant IMC's of no luck. I'm stuck with dail-up,so it can be REALLY slow to see the photos. Looking for the recent G-8 Photos,I gave up on UK IMC & went to Scottland IMC because they use "Button" photography which is REALLY GREAT & wish ALL IMC's use it,including my home base of Arizona.


PS:I'm half Norweign,and the Vikings should come back to life and "Invade" North America,like they did in the 8th Century. USA is a hell hole and did to be fixed by those Smart Scandanavians,ie Vikings!

If you save in the "save for web" format the file size will be small and one can still post large images.

It is the file size not the image size that slows down people on dial up.

Oh by the way. Thanks for doing this direct action. You are heros in my world.

Thank you all!! I am an American by birth, have visited Thingvellir, Reykjavik, Sigglufiddur, Husavik, the Vestmanjaer islands (Hemaey) and other places at age 18, and was absolutely enthralled by the barren nature of these places...though I am not an icelander (obviously) I would mighty ashamed to be an Icelander supporting ALCOA right now.. Icealand's barren places are world treasures, literally. Cheers, thanks and good wishes to all those braving the elements, the cost, the corporate machine(s) and the authoirties to fight this megaDam!!!

I am an American searching for a political movement to support. My problem is that I am dissatisfied by both “the left” and “the right”. All I see from the right is fear and exploitation. All I see from the left is fear and explotation. The right wants Americans to fear anyone opposed to its way of life and the left wants Americans to fear progress. It may sound strange that I feel the left is fearful of progress but it is just my opinion. Something has changed with the liberal movement. It has gone from liberating people from tyranny to opposing almost all industrial progress and in many cases progress itself. The right has obviously become extreme fascists and supports American imperialism.

As you can see I am confused, I like the idea of indymedia but really it just seems like a forum for extreme left movements, hardly independent in the eyes of an independent observer. My fear is that there are millions of people like me who may believe in many of the lefts movements but are becoming disillusioned by the lack of progress from the left and lack of effect the left has on stopping the harmful elements on the globe. So these millions of people turn to the right for safety and results.

I know this is not on topic of any sort. Just a rant from an American wanted to reach out to the world.

Looking forward to hearing from the people of the world.

I am an Icelander. I was born here and this is where I have seen many jobs go to waste and families move to to Reykjavík and other bigger towns of Iceland.

Trevor said that our barren nature was a treasure and that he would be ashamed of supporting ALCOA. Well ALCOA will bring jobs, ALCOA will bring more export profit.

Will you guys give jobs and such to the people of Iceland? I don´t think so.

Will you be here all the time and generate tourism profits for us if we save the sand and rocks for you? Highly unlikely.

Will you generate as much money for us as ALCOA? Hell no.

I love nature and especially snow and rough weather, I am a member of a 4x4 club and a member of a search and resque team. I travel alot up in the highlands, but I also have to make a living and get the most for my money.

I know I´m posting this way to late but I just had to say that you guys don´t know what the f**k you´re talking about. Just go back to where ever you guys came from, put on dashikis and handcuff yourselfs to trees you f**king hippies.

Get with the time, Icelanders no longer live on farms and eat pickled ram testicles all the time, were one of the richest and most technologically advanced nations in the world. But we don´t have millions of people doing the work, there are not even 400.000 of us so we need to work with whatever we can get into.

Haukur Þór Smárason.

There's no jobs on a dead planet, as the old saying goes.

Get with the time - Icelanders no longer have to be prejudiced and ignorant as your comment proves you to be.

And I hope for a future for you over there, and me over here - doesn't matter that I'm not there and you're not here, eh!