{"id":20274,"date":"2010-06-06T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/icelands-capitol-has-a-new-libertarian-mayor\/"},"modified":"2010-06-06T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T11:15:00","slug":"icelands-capitol-has-a-new-libertarian-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/icelands-capitol-has-a-new-libertarian-mayor.php","title":{"rendered":"Iceland&#8217;s Capitol has a new Libertarian Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/TAuG6jwiZbI\/AAAAAAAALsE\/T7GFsFftrhM\/s1600\/JonGnarrIceland.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f6739_JonGnarrIceland.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, routinely refers to himself as a \"libertarian.\"  Now another major European city is confirmed to have a libertarian Mayor.  <\/p><p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icelandreview.com\/icelandreview\/daily_news\/?cat_id=16567&amp;ew_0_a_id=363401\">Icedland Review on-line<\/a>, June 6:<\/p><blockquote><p>When icelandreview.com called the Best party a &ldquo;joke party&rdquo; earlier this spring a spokesman for the party complained. However, the party seems to be very hard to define on old fashioned political scales. Nobody can deny that party leader, J&oacute;n Gnarr, is a comedian, and one of the most popular in Iceland.<\/p><p>He is also a member of the Libertarian Society in Iceland according to an article in Morgunbladid. The party campaigned for putting a polar bear in the domestic zoo in Reykjav&iacute;k. It also said that it would do &ldquo;all sorts of things&rdquo; for &ldquo;wretched&rdquo; people and a drug free Althingi (Iceland's Parliament) by 2020. <\/p><\/blockquote><p>See Gnarr's campaign video \"Simply the Best,\" at our sister site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwideliberty.blogspot.com\">WorldwideLiberty<\/a>.<\/p><p>The Libertarian Society <a href=\"http:\/\/frjalshyggja.ning.com\/video\">website<\/a> features videos of Margaret Thatcher, Milton Friedman, Penn Jilete, and Peter Schiff, many translated into Icelandic.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d6101_7828681836623105417-2572146843576928525?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, routinely refers to himself as a \"libertarian.\" Now another major European city is confirmed to have a libertarian Mayor. From the Icedland Review on-line, June 6:When icelandreview.com called the Best party a &ldquo;joke party&rdquo; earlier &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/icelands-capitol-has-a-new-libertarian-mayor.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}