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1/28/2013 5:02:47 AM

10_1_136.gifHi Miguel,

I watched a program on the Fox channel today that dealt with Stargates and Aliens. It was fascinating for more reasons than one. I have not seen programs of this nature being featured on major channels before that I can recall. They are usually on hard to find channels that are not considered mainstream. I searched for the video on You Tube but could not find the exact one, however I did find one that has part of the information and thought that I would bring it in. Ihope you find it interesting.

illuminati- Stargate in Iraq

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRU9iuJIlFk

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1/28/2013 5:30:43 PM
Hi Mike,

So sorry that you were not able to find the video, it looked promising from your comment and to be frank, the video you did post instead was sort of disappointing maybe for its short length. But my curiosity was piqued and when I searched for 'Stargates' and 'Aliens' together, I found the below article. I hope you find it interesting. :)

ANCIENT ALIEN STARGATE IN PERU
PUERTA DE HAYU MARCA

Puerta de Hayu Marca is the name given to this giant carved rock face in the Mountains of Southern Peru. Translated, the Puerto de Hayu Marca, means the Gate of the Gods (or Spirits) and resembles a large stone gate with a smaller door carved out of the bottom. Could this mysterious door be a portal used by Ancient Aliens to visit the ancient Americas?

In the hills of Southern Peru, near lake Titicaca, lies the city of Puno, referred to by the natives as “The City of the Gods. ” The year is 1996, and Jose Luis Delgado Mamani had recently taken a job as a tourist guide for adventurous mountaineering visitors. In order to acquaint himself with the mountainous region Jose Luis set out to explore the local hills. That is when he stumbled upon the Puerto de Hayu Marca. Standing exactly seven meters in height and seven meters in width with a smaller “doorway” within the gate measuring just
under two meters, the discovery of this “stargate” is recounted by Mamani:

“When I saw the structure for the first time I almost passed out….. I have dreamed of such construction REAPEATEDLY over the years , but in the dream the path was paved with pink marble, and with pink marble statues lining the sides of the path. In the dream I saw the smaller door was open and there was a brilliant blue light coming from what looked like a shimmering tunnel. I have commented to my family many times about these dreams and so when I finally gazed upon the doorway, it was like a revelation from God… How do you make order of such an occurrence?”

This discovery sparked profound interest from historians, archeologists, and Ufologists. According to legend:

“Legend tells of the time when the Spanish Conquistadors arrived in Peru, and looted gold and precious stones from the Inca tribes - and one Incan
“Legend tells of the time when the Spanish Conquistadors arrived in Peru, and looted gold and precious stones from the Inca tribes - and one Incan priest of the temple of the seven rays named Aramu Maru fled from his temple with a sacred golden disk known as The Key of the Gods of the Seven Rays. He hid in the mountains of Hayu Marca. He eventually came upon the doorway which was being watched by shaman priests. He showed them the key of the gods and a ritual was performed with the conclusion of a magical occurrence initiated by the golden disk which opened the portal, and according to the legend blue light did emanate from a tunnel inside. The priest Aramu Maru handed the golden disk to the shamen and then passed through the portal never to be seen again.”

One can see in the construction of the small door that there remains a small indentation that would fit one of these “golden disks” presented by the Incan priest. What purpose other purpose would this indentation serve? Researchers have not been able to find any opening or cracks in the door where an inner passage into the mountain would be possible. Researchers have determined that the structure never served as an actual door to the underground as all of gateway seems to be carved of the same stone. Therefore, why build a doorway to seemingly nowhere?

Visitors to the Gateway have determined that the Puerto de Hayu Marca has mystical properties. Some have reported experiencing visions of star systems or columns of fire, some even hearing strange rhythmic music. According to researcher Paul Damon of TruthSeekers International, the legends conclude that the gods (Ancient Aliens) will one day open the portal again to allow the gods to return in their “sun ships.” Researchers have also concluded that the area has been bombarded with UFO sightings and other paranormal activity for the last 20 years.


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1/28/2013 10:00:29 PM
From Wes Annac personal blog:

Working Toward a New Paradigm: Coming Together, Demanding Truth and Making Contact (Part 1/3)
[28 Jan 2013]

Written by Wes Annac

As a human race, we feed methods of running this world that simply do not work for us. It is clear to the majority of people on this world that the ways we’ve been treating it and each other have been doing us no good and will not help us achieve a prosperous and peaceful future as we rightly should be, as a sentient collective. Separation, hatred and injustice are rife on this world and the continued denial of humanity’s oneness will only keep leading us down the same broken path that is clearly not working for us.

There are and have been for generations and even centuries, plenty of people on this world who recognized and understood that humanity’s methods of collectively running the world have held us back.

There are a lot of people campaigning for truth, peace and collective sovereignty to be restored to this world and as the powers that were are clearly not working in our best interests and have in fact, hidden and suppressed most of our true history and kept humanity feeding a division of the classes; it is up to us as a collective to come together and begin building upon our New Paradigm.

As others have said, it would be silly at this point to wait for anybody to begin establishing the New Paradigm but ourselves. This is our mess to clean up as a planet, and our governments and the private entities running them and bleeding humanity dry will not help us. They have, in fact, worked quite hard against our establishing of a world that does not work for them.

A handful of wealthy and financially-influential yet private individuals have established much of western society as it stands today, in a partial effort to keep unaware rich and middle-class families from realizing the plight of the poor and from knowing about the injustices to our human rights taking place every day. Our heads and hearts have been filled with constant fear, distraction, and violence through the flickering boxes calcifying our pineal glands, and the mainstream news we’re give every day is controlled and spun in the interests of the people funding and running it behind the scenes.

These people have actually benefitted and continue to benefit from the instated division of the classes, and the very tax dollars usurped every year are used for classified black-ops projects and geopolitical actions which are of course, not in the best interests of humanity. Warfare has been supported for centuries on this planet, without the humanity supporting it realizing the widespread harm and damage it causes. At the very least, a blind eye has been turned to it.

I could go on and on detailing things about this world that we as a sovereign humanity need to change, and the great news is that our world is far from unable to be saved. In fact, we have the massive collective power and potential to come together, unite and in doing so, establish the New Paradigm that even the most unaware of people know deep within we are meant to be living in.

I, like many other writers lately, would like to give my perspective of how we can begin bringing this planet into a New Paradigm of collective cooperation, harmony, prosperity and understanding.

For the most part, our instating and feeding of separation on a planetary level has caused the immense unawareness that has allowed the few with influence, money and power to deceive us for generations. The problem with humanity coming together at present is that there are the few who will resist it; they will resist uniting with their fellow man because within, they perceive separation and hate toward others as it is how they were brought up to live.

They were taught to see themselves as separate from one another, and the entirety of humanity has fed this notion by seeing other countries and races as different from themselves.

It will be hard for many people to realize we are one sentient species who is meant to come together if we wish to see our world repaired, which is why the first and most important aspect of establishing our New Paradigm is finding a personal inner-peace and wholeness that can be attained by allowing calm and happiness in, when our egos will try to fight against our doing so.

Again – some people will simply be too resistant to change and their “shells” may go unbroken and that’s ok, because the majority of us do see the need for personal and collective harmony to be established. All of us who do see this can begin to get active in working toward our goals, and we will find a plethora of routes opened up for us if we wish to do so.

The rest of humanity who could be “on the fence” about uniting with their fellow man would benefit greatly from finding an inner-wholeness and happiness, because we cannot express harmony toward others if we are feeling disharmonious in ourselves. Upon finding an inner-peace and opening up to our inner-selves, we can actually begin to find states of consciousness and awareness that will open us up further to the New Paradigm we are tasked with Creating.

After finding an inner-peace and perhaps beginning to seek enlightenment, we would next be tasked with starting the process of coming together.

Social media has proven fruitfully helpful in establishing movements to end separation and tyranny and establish new ways for our society to live by that are based in the underlying principle of respect for all people, and each one of us who understands the importance of these principles can join already well-known campaigns and help their momentum grow even larger than what it already has, or begin our own campaigns and really work work work toward seeking and giving truth to all people who care to hear our message and eventually, to all people on this world.

Even if the task of coming together seems undoable at present, it is not. It is simply that we have remained complacent and have not allowed ourselves to try.

So many people have now begun to try; have started up grassroots movements that have grown in influence and are spreading out to multiple countries. What a lot of people don’t yet see is that because of the actions of groups like Occupy Wall Street, Idle No More and a plethora of other groups who are answering to tyranny and oppression, we have already begun building our New World.

It has already begun. The momentum has grown like never before, and the Earth is now ours to come together and begin working upon. The will of the people can simply be ignored no longer and the various movements established to those extents have paved the way for the rest of us to finally sit up and begin taking action. Truly, we can do it and we already are.

A crucial aspect of coming together as a collective is addressing and mending the collective separation and hatred in every form it’s been fed.

Racism, sexism, intolerance and prejudice have no place in the New World we are creating and must be rightly addressed and ended. Upon doing so, we may get a laugh out of the ways we’ve allowed ourselves to break apart from each other, and we will see that every last bit of hatred expressed toward our fellow man has served to separate us further and hold us back.

Addressing and mending our separation from each other and everything that has driven it will further strengthen the coming-together of humanity that has again, already begun. This will be crucial to do, as we will have much work ahead of us and we will have to be able to work with each other despite the outer differences we’ve been programmed to believe make us different people. They don’t!

It will be important for us to respect the beliefs and ideals of those around us, even if they are not our own. As we are all to be aligned with the one goal of restoring this planet and restoring collective sovereignty and freedom, we will always be united in that goal and thus, the specifics of the beliefs of each of us should be respected as we recognize that again, such things do not separate us. It has simply been ingrained into our very doctrine that they do, but we can reverse that programming.

It will also be incredibly important to recognize and rightly put an end to any attempted sabotage of our movement or our attempts to bring humanity together. There have always been attempts to sabotage any good things being done for the planet and again, most of it can usually trace back to orders given from billionaires with power trips who do not want our planet to come together and remove ourselves from their influence.

It would perhaps be a bit naïve to assume somebody with malicious intent wouldn’t try to infiltrate our movement, but it will be fairly easy for us to spot anybody bringing-forth false ideals or beliefs that we all know are not in alignment with the New Paradigm.

Attempts to infiltrate small factions of our overall movement and distract the people within those factions by spreading a distorted message could be likely but again, we will have strongly, strongly established the basic principles underlying our New Paradigm and as most of them are taken as common sense; anybody should be able to recognize an attempted infiltration and rightly remove themselves from the influence of the person doing it.

Even the people doing the infiltrating could eventually “jump ship” and turn over to our collective movement, and their genuinely-positive assistance will be welcomed. However, we will have to be discerning as a collective body.

We will see that demanding truth from those who have hidden it from us will be a big aspect of establishing the New Paradigm. There is so much we haven’t been told and now, I will examine a few crucial things that I personally feel we should collectively demand the truth about.

The first avenue of our demands for answers and retribution will be in the area of worldwide wealth and prosperity.

Two percent of people carry about half the world’s wealth, and funding that was initially meant to aide poverty-stricken countries decades ago has instead been hoarded by the very interests who make money off of poorer countries.

Tax dollars are, again, also usurped and used for the personal gain of the billionaires who have established the legal need for us to pay them, and a crucial aspect of coming together as a collective will be to demand answers from these very people. There is more than enough money for every country and every person to live a middle class life at the very least. We are told otherwise and taught to believe that we are responsible for the current failing economy when it has in fact, been manipulated all along.

There is enough money to go around and we as a planet, after coming together and establishing a solid movement, will have the momentum to demand our prosperity be given back to us from those who have kept the majority of people on this world living in deplorable conditions. We will be able to do this in a completely non-violent manner, as we greatly outnumber those who would keep us down and if all of us were truly aimed toward this goal, we would see how easy it is to assert our demands in peaceful ways.

We must rise up (again, in a non-violent manner) and demand our governments begin telling us the truth. Another important topic humanity deserves to know the truth about is war, as we have been misled into believing war is a necessary measure to achieve peace while most people with a bit of common sense know that that doesn’t make much sense. We have been misled as to the reasons we’ve went into nearly every war, and the wars of Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq have proven this.

Many wars have been started over natural resources and on false pretenses, and the public’s acceptance of them has been aided by false-flag attacks funded not by the “opposition”, but by interests who stand to gain financially from war. A plethora of governments and tyrannical regimes are bought and paid for by the same entities in control of the United States government and Military Industrial Complex and in many cases, war is funded and gained-from by both sides taking place in it.

We as a people must demand the full truth as to why our governments and the entities behind the scenes have falsely taken us into so many wars and as goes without saying, we must work to put an end to all warfare as we further establish collective peace, harmony and prosperity. The giving of prosperity to all will in itself see a lessening of crime, violence and hatred and if one looks at many of the violent crimes occurring at present, one will see that many of them are money-related.

(Continued in part 2 tomorrow.)

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1/28/2013 10:05:09 PM
Dear friends, here is the second part of our invitation to join in the work to build Nova Earth.

The Invitations to the Party Have Gone Out – Part 2/2



New Earth(Continued from Part 1.)

Removing the Barriers to the Equality of Women, Ending Violence

Matthew Ward reminds us that, if the world is to work for everyone, it must end the discrimination of women and it must lay down its arms.

“To your great accomplishments that we have heralded previously we add the global spotlight you are shining on the need to uplift the status of women and to end the proliferation of weapons. These heavily negative aspects of your society that long have been dominant in the collective consciousness now are in the forefront of the public eye.

“Generation after generation after generation tolerated unjust cultural laws and practices that demean women and accepted perpetual warring and violence as ‘that’s just life.’ Now the voice of your society worldwide is saying Stop!” (1)

He describes the contribution of sacrifice souls who agreed to step in harm’s way to awaken our consciences.

“Light beings throughout this universe honor the myriad souls who agreed to participate in the multitude of tragic situations that have stirred the peoples to take bold steps forward in those two areas and all others where change so sorely has been needed. The souls who accepted those exceedingly harsh missions did so with unconditional love and they leapt forward in soul growth.” (2)

These are concrete steps we can take and we can take them by expressing ourselves. That doesn’t require money.

Creating Community

Archangel Michael on An Hour with an Angel told us to begin the communication and cooperation that would build our new communities.

“Begin the communication. Expand the communication. Become involved in your community, whether it is in a community garden, in a community action group; whether it is bringing together singers who are interested — and we do not mean simply scientists — who are interested in the issue of free energy.

“There are many among you who are in very active collaboration with your star brothers and sisters. Why are you not coming together and sharing what you are learning? And I do not simply mean about the technology or the play, I mean about the vibration that is required for you to actually come and conjoin.” (3)

Through Ron Head he asks us to be ready to orient those newly awakening.

“Be ready now to answer the question, briefly, briefly, that you will soon begin to hear, ‘What is going on?’ Do not overtax the questioner. As we have mentioned before, rather give enough to tweak his or her interest. You will remember how, in the past, you have disliked unasked for advice. Don’t give it. Give the answer that is asked for and let it be examined. The questioner is on the way and will not be turned aside, just as you were not. (4)

And the Divine Mother reminds us that we came to model the new paradigm for the newly-awakened: “You, our beloved and hard-working light-workers, are needed here on the planet, to continue to hold the light and to be examples of how to live in the new energies.” (5)

These are the traditional tasks that wayshower take upon themselves. Again these also do not require money.

Replacing Authoritarianism with Love

Jesus told us recently, via John Smallman, that:

“Humanity is evolving spiritually, and the rate of that evolution has increased enormously during the last fifty or sixty years, which is why you now see so many — not ego-driven but loving beings — actively involved in bringing peace and harmony to the planet as they strive to raise humanity’s awareness of the insanity of the old ways.” (6)

Nevertheless, he says, “the energy of the old ways still maintains its hold on those who have bought into authoritarian attitudes as a way to feel secure, and the results of that are apparent in areas where the authorities continue to maintain order by means of enforcement.” (7)

Part of our work as lightholders is to bring this situation back into balance by extending our love outwards, Jesus says.

“You, the Light-holders and wayshowers, are changing that by extending outwards from yourselves the ever-intensifying, divine field of Love, into which you are permanently integrated and anchored, and by intending to share it with all of humanity.

“You have been doing this for most of your present earth life time, ever since you awoke to the reality of your essential spiritual nature and became aware that your reason for being embodied was to assist in this massive task of bringing all of your brothers and sisters home to their natural state of living consciously in peace, harmony, and abundance.” (8)

According to him, “the intent for that state is spreading through your collective consciousness and will not be denied, despite the efforts of those who would maintain the old structures that have been dividing you and setting you against one another for so long.”

“Their time is past, and their power structures are crumbling though poor maintenance and lack of support. Love is sweeping across the planet and melting all resistance.” (9)

Jesus tells us that our efforts represent “the divine plan, that it cannot fail. … You are divinely supported in every moment, and your Father’s Will for Love to prevail, which is also yours, will not be denied.” (10)

Change will be Incremental

Some of the changes that need to occur may not happen as quickly as we may wish, Matthew tells us.

“Just as you, we wish that all necessary changes could happen overnight. It will take many negotiators, many discussions and some logjams before all hearts and minds are in accord. The Golden Age master planners knew that you couldn’t transform your world any way other than step by step, and at soul level you and everyone else on Earth knows this too.

“Even with extraterrestrial aid, a third density civilization evolving into a peaceful peoples living in harmony with Nature is a transitional process. All along our messages and answers to readers who questioned this have been the same—changes will come incrementally.” (11)

He tells us that change and growth will be incremental.

“Spiritual and intellectual growth and technological progress will continue—you wouldn’t want it any other way! …

“The glories of the Golden Age are not all sitting on its doorstep and that one day will not differ dramatically from the day before and the day following. …

“Balance will be attained so that Earth and her residents can ascend out of third density. As microcosms of the universe, which always is in a balancing mode, you too will continue balancing as your spiritual and conscious awareness keeps expanding.” (12)

SaLuSa thanks those of us who have already taken up the work of building Nova Earth.

“We salute those of you who have continued to wear the mantle of Love and Light, and are making a path into the New Age. The goals you are aiming for are nearer than ever, and your persistence in helping them manifest will soon bring results.” (13)

This week (Jan 28-Feb. 1, 2013) we feature a series showcasing people who are work to bring in Nova Earth. We’ve shown you in these two articles the invitation that’s gone out and the articles featured this week show you how people have responded.

There can be no doubt that the human collective has responded to the invitation to build Nova Earth. The Company of Heaven has showered the Earth in loving vibrations, raised its frequency level, and we now are beginning to feel its impact and get down to the work involved in co-creating a world that works for everyone.

Footnotes

(1) Matthew’s Message: January 19, 2013, athttp://www.matthewbooks.com/mattsmessage.htm

(2) Loc. cit.

(3) “Archangel Michael: You’re Building the New Reality of Gaia,” Jan. 21, 2013, athttp://goldenageofgaia.com/building-nova-earth-toward-a-world-that-works-for-everyone/nova-earth-society/archangel-michael-youre-building-the-new-reality-of-gaia/

(4) “Archangel Michael Through Ron Head: This Party is Underway, Beloveds,” ibid.

(5)“Divine Mother via Tazjima: Your World and Everything Upon It Has Been Moved Up into the 4th Dimension and Will Now Move Gradually into the 5th, Jan. 11, 2013, athttp://bluedragonjournal.com/2013/01/11/message-from-the-divine-mother-10-jan-2013-by-tazjima/.

(6) Jesus, Jan. 25, 2013, at http://johnsmallman2.wordpress.com

(7) Loc. cit.

(8) Loc. cit.

(9) Loc. cit.

(10) Loc. cit.

(11) Matthew’s Message: January 19, 2013.

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1/28/2013 10:07:31 PM

Iceland: Showing Us All the Possibilities of Nova Earth

Iceland-Black-sANDIceland: Showing Us All the Possibilities of Nova Earth

Stephen: Last year, we posted some of the wonderfully uplifting stories about what appeared to be going on in Iceland, as the country and her people defiantly took on the ‘might’ of the big banks, big business and the European Union.

As you may recall, the mainstream media wasn’t giving us the full picture of what was happening in this country of just 320,000 people and I even wrote to the Icelandic government seeking confirmation of some of the stories that were making their way to alternative media sites. Without much luck, I should add.

Nevertheless, in his last edition of Cosmic Vision News for 2012, Geoffrey West voted the Iceland “story’ his top news item of 2012. Why? Because what has evolved in Ireland in recent times has been truly remarkable. It sets the scene for the way the new world could be operating very soon – complete with a new constitution written by the people for the people.

This article – featured on Truthout.org – gives a good insight into the ‘new world’ Icelanders have created for themselves – when all else seemed to be stacked against them. Please note: as Truthout requires permission for re-publishing this particular report, I’ve posted the early section of the story and provided the link for you to read further.

With New Constitution, Post-Collapse Iceland Inches Toward Direct Democracy

By Sam Knight, Truthout – Janauary 27, 2013

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/14097-with-new-constitution-post-collapse-iceland-inches-toward-direct-democracy

When the global financial system crumbled over four years ago, Iceland played host to one of the most dramatic economic collapses in modern history. Its three largest banks were unable to refinance debt roughly ten times the size of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), causing one of the world’s wealthiest nations to limp with hat in hand to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The island became a symbol for capitalism’s systemic failure.

Now, Iceland is making headlines for more positive reasons: activists there are in the process of advancing some of the strongest freedom of information laws and journalist protections in the world, and the Icelandic economy, while still beset by problems, is significantly outperforming other crisis-stricken countries.

Most recently, on October 20, a remarkable constitution – written by an elected council with help from the public – took a step closer toward ratification after it was approved in a referendum by a 2-1 margin.

Before the changes are signed into law, the draft must be approved by the Althingi, Iceland’s Parliament, approved again by referendum and finalized once more by the legislature after a fresh parliamentary election in April.

Uncertainty is swirling around the status of the constitution, however. Those opposed to it – primarily right-wingers – claim that the 48.9 percent turnout for October’s vote doesn’t lend the document legitimacy. There is also fear among the constitution’s supporters in Parliament that some of their colleagues are trying to abrogate the public’s influence by altering the document’s content instead of offering the technical revisions they were given the mandate to make.

Birgitta Jónsdóttir, a member of the Icelandic parliament, at the Open Government Camp 2011. In a conversation with Truthout she insisted she doesn't want "the new constitution to be plagued with (bureaucrats') language, but the language of the people." (Photo: Florian Apel-Soetebeer / Government 2.0 Netzwerk Deutschland)

Birgitta Jónsdóttir, a member of the Icelandic parliament, at the Open Government Camp 2011. In a conversation with Truthout she insisted she doesn’t want “the new constitution to be plagued with (bureaucrats’) language, but the language of the people.” (Photo: Florian Apel-Soetebeer / Government 2.0 Netzwerk Deutschland)

“I truly believe that our democracies have been hijacked by bureaucrats,” said Parliamentarian Birgitta Jónsdóttir, a self-described “realist-anarchist” elected after the Kitchenware Revolution protests which ensued following the 2008 financial crisis and forced the long-ruling conservative government to resign in 2009.

“I don’t want the new constitution to be plagued with their language, but the language of the people,” she insisted in a Skype conversation with Truthout. “Their time is over. They just can’t get over it.”

It’s unsurprising that inertia is casting a pall over the constitution’s future. In January 2011, the constitutional council’s election was controversially nullified by Iceland’s Supreme Court. Parliament effectively overruled this decision by appointing the 25 candidates who received the most votes to take seats on the council to rewrite the constitution.

Regardless of the document’s final status, the drafting process – inspired by crowdsourcing techniques – has produced a remarkably progressive legal code and generated significant interest from around the world.

“A PBS TV crew of seven or eight followed a group of us around the north of the country before the [October] vote,” Thorvaldur Gylfason, an economics professor and member of the constitutional council, told Truthout. (The footage will be part of a four-hour series on the US Constitution set to air in May.)

At home, supporters are hoping that the constitution can create more momentum for innovative reform. Information technology specialists who opened the drafting process to the public through social media are expecting to set up open data projects in partnership with the government. There has also been another web-based open government reform in the city of Reykjavik: the city council passed a law forcing it to consider 16 citizen-initiated proposals made each month through a web site called “Betri Reykjavík” (Better Reykjavik). There has been talk among its boosters that the constitution could mark the beginning of a gradual movement toward direct democracy.

But to better understand the significance and global appeal of the new constitution, it is worth discussing the state of Iceland’s economy, which has defined both the constitutional movement and international scrutiny of the diminutive subarctic nation since 2008.

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