Both Sweden’s minister of foreign affairs Carl Bildt and his Norwegian counterpart Jonas Gahr Støre confirm a joint effort to defend Iceland’s air space as of 2011, expected to be joined by Denmark and Finland as the Nordic foreign minister ajourn in Iceland’s capital Reykjavik on Tuesday.
The arrangement is considered controversial, as Denmark, Norway and Iceland herself are NATO members, as opposed to non-NATO countries Finland and Sweden.
Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas G. Støre.
In an interview on Norwegian national TV news Sunday evening, however, Norway’s minister of foreign affairs …

Of course, this is old news to most of you, but recent discussions reminded me of a film project still in the making: The Iron Sky, made by Finnish director Timo Vuorensola. The original title, by the way, is Rautataivas. However scary, yet fascinating, the plot itself is very simple, really. And, as usual, I turn to Wikipedia for support:
As World War II comes to an end in 1945, Hans Kammler and other German scientists make a breakthrough in anti-gravity research. Nazi spaceships are sent to the “dark side” of …

According to Finnish historian Oula Silvennoinen Finland’s intelligence organisation Valpo and the German Reichssicherheitshauptamt cooperated in setting up a unit dubbed Einsatzkommando Finnland during World War 2, Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter wrote last Sunday (in Swedish). The news struck Finland and Finnish historians to the bone as Silvennoinen revealed a very limited number of details from his PhD thesis, to be defended this upcoming weekend.
Silvennoinen claims that the Finnish-German unit’s purpose was to deal with communists and Jews in the northern parts of the east front.
Finland’s role in WW2 has …