'Americans just work harder' than Europeans, said the CEO of Norway's $1.6 trillion oil fund
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Business Insider ^
| 25th April 2024 | Matthew Loh
Europeans are less ambitious and don't work as hard as Americans, said Nicolai Tangen, the CEO of Norway's $1.6 trillion oil fund. "There's
a mindset issue in terms of acceptance of mistakes and risks. You go bust in America, you get another chance. In Europe, you're dead," Tangen told The Financial Times in an interview published on Wednesday. "We are not very ambitious," Tangen added. "I should be careful about talking about work-life balance, but the Americans just work harder." Tangen made these remarks as he gave an overview of his firm's push toward investments in the US, which now...
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A French frigate 'destroys' a German sub in Norway's waters in NATO's biggest drills since Cold War
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ABC News ^
| March 9, 2024 | JOHN LEICESTER
Large NATO drills in the frigid fjords of northern Norway may be just war games meant to hone the fighting skills of the newly expanded 32-nation military alliance. But
for troops taking part, they are very real. This week, crew members aboard the French frigate Normandie, one of France’s most modern warships, were roused from sleep and scrambled to hunt down and kill a submarine that snuck into cold Norwegian waters. The submarine belongs to Germany, also a NATO member. But for the purpose of the war games dubbed Nordic Response 2024, it was acting as an enemy vessel. The...
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Norway military chief warns Europe has ‘2, maybe 3 years’ to prepare for war with Russia
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new york post via msn ^
| 1/23/24 | Story by Ronny Reyes • 3h
he head of the Norwegian armed forces is warning fellow NATO countries that they only have “two, maybe three” years to brace for a Russian attack — just days after it was revealed that Germany is preparing for the likelihood as well. Norwegian
Gen. Eirik Kristoffersen claimed Moscow is building up its military stockpile at a rate far faster than previously predicted, all while Western nations have depleted their own weapons by supplying them to Ukraine, according to local outlet Daglabet. “There is a window now that will perhaps last for one, two, maybe three years, where we have to...
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Norway Breaks Ground as First Nation to Approve Deep-Sea Mining
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EuroWeekly News ^
| 12 Jan 2024 | Catherine McGeer
Nod to deep-sea mining sparks global concerns. Image:
Shutterstock/Hermann Viria IN a historic move, Norway has become the first country to approve commercial-scale deep-sea mining, passing a bill in its Parliament on January 9. The legislation aims to accelerate the search for minerals crucial for green technologies, including electric vehicle batteries. This decision permits exploration in approximately 280,000 square metres of the country’s national waters, equivalent to the size of Italy, situated in the Arctic between Svalbard, Greenland, and Iceland. What Lies Beneath: Minerals and Green Technology While the Norwegian government asserts caution, Energy Minister Terje Aasland emphasised the need...
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Maine spends $132,000 of taxpayer cash on group who say state should be renamed DAWNLAND to honor Native Americans and that its place names - including Norway, Paris, Nipple and Old Maid's Rock - are racist or sexist
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UK Daily Mail ^
| January 13 2024 | WILL POTTER
Maine officials are coming under fire after handing a $132,000 contract to a racial justice group, only for it to conclude with a 30-minute webinar on 'problematic' place names. Taxpayers
footed the bill for the lecture as part of the state's employment of non-profit Atlantic Black Box (ABB), which claims to 'engage the public in the collective rewriting of our regional history.' In footage of the webinar this week, ABB founder Meadow Dibble urged attendees to acknowledge suffering caused by 'white settler people' as she rattled off place names Maine residents should feel offended by.
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Mass Killer Tries to Sue Norway for Alleged Human Rights Breach
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Euronews ^
| 07/01/2024
Norway's most prolific peacetime killer is claiming his prison life in solitary confinement is illegal. Anders
Behring Breivik, the Norwegian right-wing extremist who killed 77 people in a bomb and gun rampage in 2011, will try for the second time on Monday to sue the Norwegian state for allegedly breaching his human rights. Breivik claims his solitary confinement since being imprisoned in 2012 amounts to inhumane treatment under the European Convention of Human Rights. Norway favours rehabilitation over retribution - and Breivik is held in a two-story complex with a kitchen, dining room and TV room with an Xbox, several...
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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Aurora and Milky Way over Norway
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NASA ^
| 12 Dec, 2023 | Image Credit & Copyright: Giulio Cobianchi
Explanation: What are these two giant arches across the sky? Perhaps
the more familiar one, on the left, is the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy. This grand disk of stars and nebulas here appears to encircle much of the southern sky. Visible below the stellar arch is the rusty-orange planet Mars and the extended Andromeda galaxy. But this night had more! For a few minutes during this cold arctic night, a second giant arch appeared encircling part of the northern sky: an aurora. Auroras are much closer than stars as they are composed of glowing air high in...
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Metal detectorist finds "very rare" ancient gold coin in Norway — over 1,600 miles away from its origin
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CBS News ^
| DECEMBER 5, 2023 / 12:01 PM EST | BY EMILY MAE CZACHOR
A "very rare" ancient gold coin found recently in the mountains of central Norway could be lost cash that once belonged to an early monarch, according to Norwegian officials. The
gold coin was discovered by a metal detectorist in Vestre Slidre, a rural city known for skiing, in Norway's south-central Innlandet County. Technically called "histamenon nomisma," the coin was first introduced around 960 C.E. and used as standard Byzantine currency, the Innlandet County Municipality said in a news release. That means the artifact would have traveled more than 1,600 miles from its origin site to the spot where it was...
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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Creature Aurora Over Norway
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NASA ^
| 5 Nov, 2023 | Image Credit & Copyright: Ole C. Salomonsen (Arctic Light Photo)
Explanation: It was Halloween and the sky looked like a creature. Exactly
which creature, the astrophotographer was unsure (but possibly you can suggest one). Exactly what caused this eerie apparition in 2013 was sure: one of the best auroral displays that year. This spectacular aurora had an unusually high degree of detail. Pictured here, the vivid green and purple auroral colors are caused by high atmospheric oxygen and nitrogen reacting to a burst of incoming electrons. Birch trees in Tromsø, Norway formed an also eerie foreground. Frequently, new photogenic auroras accompany new geomagnetic storms.
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Norway an EV role model? Their pathway is expensive and paid for with oil & gas exports
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Energy Post. ^
| June 4, 2021 | Schalk Cloete
Norway is an EV leader thanks to a generous pot of tax incentives. Today,
battery-electric cars make up more than half of all new car sales in Norway. Schalk Cloete takes a detailed look at what those incentives cost, and how many tonnes of CO2 they avoid. Norway – a major oil and gas exporter – needs to sell over 100 barrels of oil (which emits 40 tonnes of CO2) to pay for the tax breaks it gives EVs to avoid one tonne of CO2. And Norway’s electricity is almost completely clean thanks to hydro power, so the CO2 avoidance...
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Melting ice near Norway's highest mountain reveals horse bridle that could stem from the Viking Age
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Sciencenorway.no ^
| Wednesday, September 20, 2023 | Eldrid Borgan, tr by Alette Bjordal Gjellesvik
Archaeologists have discovered an ancient bridle and other artifacts from a mountain pass almost 2,000 meters above sea level.Near a mountain pass, not far from Norway's highest mountain Galdhøpiggen, archaeologists have found traces of horse travel.A metal bit and parts of the leather straps that fasten around the horse's head have emerged
from under the ice...Traffic through a mountain pass on Lomseggen was at its peak during the Viking Age.Snow and ice melting in the area has previously uncovered hundreds of ancient artifacts. They have revealed that Norwegians used this mountain pass for more than 1,200 years (link in Norwegian)...The...
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Russian troops withdraw from Norway border in drop since start of Ukraine war: official
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Fox News ^
| Danielle Wallace
Norwegian chief of defense claims Putin 'knows very well' NATO is not a threat to Russia Norway said Russian forces have pulled back from its border in the Arctic, claiming the number of soldiers Moscow has there now is "20% or less" compared to the start of the Ukraine war
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1500-year-old gold treasure discovered by metal detectorist: “This is the gold find of the century in Norway”
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Science norway ^
| 07. September 2023 | Lasse Biørnstad
Nine gold pendants with rare horse symbols, ten gold beads, and three gold rings from the 6th century were recently discovered by a metal detectorist in Southwestern Norway. Erlend Bore just wanted a hobby. So
just before this summer, he bought a metal detector. To get him off his couch and go treasure hunting. He was searching around the shore of the island Rennesøy in Stavanger, in Southwestern Norway, when the metal detector started to beep. In a lump of soil, he saw something that looked like gold coins. “At first I thought I’d found chocolate money with a gold...
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In Norway, deer were executed for crossing the border with Russia
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RIA Novosti Russia ^
| 8/27/2023 | Elena Karaeva
The directorate of agriculture in the kingdom considered that the Russian reindeer moss, eaten by the Norwegian deer, is now too expensive, and instead of paying for the damage caused in the Pasvik nature reserve, they preferred to destroy the northern beauties in the amount of 42 individuals. In
the treasury of one of the richest countries in the world, 47 million crowns (approximately 420 million rubles) were not to be found to save the animals, settling the claims of the Russian side. Russian zoologists acted strictly within the framework of an agreement signed thirty years ago, which regulated the...
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Rare Stone Age discovery in mid-Norway
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Phys dot org ^
| August 22, 2023 | Frid Kvalpskarmo Hansen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
...at Vinjeøra in southern Trøndelag County... The first discoveries to make it to the surface... large pieces of flint that were highly reminiscent of early, pioneer settlements...When the excavations in Vinjeøra got under way properly... the researchers found evidence from people who came to Finnmark from the east around 9000 BC.The ice
remained the longest in Scandinavia compared to the rest of Europe during the last Ice Age. The Norwegian coast only became free of ice around 12,500 years ago. The first people arrived in what we now know as Norway and Sweden about 1,000 years later.Skeletal analyses have previously...
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Norway LOCKED man in psychiatric ward for questioning mRNA shots
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The Freedom Corner with PeterSweden ^
| 08/23/2023 | PETER IMANUELSEN
First a word of warning. This
story you are about to read is WORSE than you think. I did not believe this could happen in a democracy. This should not ever happen in a democracy. But then again, I am beginning to ask myself if we are actually still living in a democracy. Let's start from the beginning... This is about a Norwegian man named Trond Harald Haaland. He has long been outspoken about things like the World Economic Forum, climate change and vaccine passports. He has posted a lot about the excess death rates we have been seeing after...
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Reports: NATO-member Norway Follows the Netherlands, Denmark to Donate F-16 Fighters to Ukraine
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Breitbart ^
| 08/24/2023 | SIMON KENT
Numerous reports Thursday said NATO-member Norway has rushed to follow the Netherlands and Denmark to donate U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. Norwegian media outlets made their revelations as Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre was visiting the Ukraine capital Kyiv. AP reports there was no official confirmation of the plan, which
was reported by Norwegian broadcasters NRK and TV2. Ukraine has long pleaded for the sophisticated fighter jets to give it a combat edge, as Breitbart News reported.
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Penguin at Edinburgh Zoo Promoted to Major General in Norway Army
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Euronews Weekly ^
| 22/08/2023 | Joshua Askew
Major General Sir Nils Olav III, Baron of the Bouvet Islands, is now the most highly decorated penguin in the world - probably even the universe. A
penguin has been promoted to the third highest rank in the Norwegian Armed Forces. Sir Nils Olav III, a resident of Penguin's Rock in Edinburgh Zoo, was given the honorary title of Major General in the King's Guard of Norway on Monday, as their official mascot. Some 160 uniformed soldiers visited the Scottish zoo to bestow the unique honour upon the king penguin, involving much military pomp and circumstance. The decorated bird, already...
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Phosphate Discovered in Norway Could Help in Electric Power Generation for the Next 50 Years
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Times of India ^
| Jul 14, 2023,
A significant discovery has been made in Norway that could have a positive impact on electric cars. Norge
Mining, a government organization responsible for finding valuable minerals, recently found large deposits of phosphate rocks in the country. These rocks can be used to power electric cars. According to the mining company, there could be up to 70 billion tonnes of phosphorus in Norway, which is enough to meet the demand for electric power generation for the next 50 years. Phosphorus is an important mineral listed by the European Union as crucial to the economy. Previously, the largest deposits of phosphate...
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UK islands could be about to defect to Norway after upcoming bombshell vote
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Daily Star ^
| 7/2/2023 | Lizzie McAllister
A group of UK islands could become a territory of Norway under dramatic new proposals. Orkney,
off the northeast coast of Scotland, has a population of less than 23,000 people spread across its 20 inhabited islands and makes up one of the country's 32 council areas. But next week a motion will go before the council, exploring "alternative forms of governance" including changing the archipelago's status within the UK or becoming a self-governing territory of the Scandinavian nation. "We are looking for the very best position for future generations and our place in the world," council leader James Stockan told...
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