Norway

Norway
Capital city	Oslo
Location	Europe, Nordics, Northern Europe
Leader	Prime Minister of Norway
Type	nation state
Interest of	Andrew Thorne
Member of	International Criminal Court, International Energy Agency, NATO, OECD, UN
Subpage	•Norway/Ambassador •Norway/Assisting Director of Public Prosecutions •Norway/Deep state •Norway/Director of Public Prosecutions •Norway/Media •Norway/Military •Norway/Military-industrial-academic complex •Norway/Ministry of Foreign Affairs •Norway/Permanent Representative to NATO •Norway/Permanent Representative to the UN •Norway/Police •Norway/Politics •Norway/Politics Member of Parliament •Norway/Stay Behind
Strategically located nation with money to spend on supranational deep state policies.

Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country whose mainland territory comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. With a population of 5,385,300 in November 2020, the country shares a long eastern border with Sweden and a highly strategic coastline. It borders the Russian Kola Peninsula to the east.

Since 1945, the country has been firmly positioned towards NATO and the Anglo-American sphere of influence. By 2020, Norway was aggressively pushing supranational deep state policies.

Norway is a founding member of the United Nations, NATO, the European Free Trade Association, the Council of Europe, the Antarctic Treaty, and the Nordic Council; a member of the European Economic Area, the WTO, and the OECD; and a part of the Schengen Area. In addition, the Norwegian languages share mutual intelligibility with Danish and Swedish.

The country has the fourth-highest per-capita income in the world on the World Bank and IMF lists.. Norway maintains the Nordic welfare model with universal health care and a comprehensive social security system, and its values are rooted in egalitarian ideals. The Norwegian state has large ownership positions in key industrial sectors, having extensive reserves of petroleum, natural gas, minerals, lumber, seafood, and fresh water. The petroleum industry accounts for around a quarter of the country's gross domestic product (GDP). On a per-capita basis, Norway is the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas outside of the Middle East.

Deep state

Full article: Norway/Deep state

The Norwegian Deep state had a reboot after World War 2.

COVID

In November 2020, Norway’s National Institute for Public Health estimated that "The lethality rate for COVID-19 in Norway is 0.12%”.

Prescient emergency law

The government established an Emergency Response Committee on 9 February 2018 to assess whether "a sector-wide authorization provision should be introduced outside the cases regulated by the Emergency Preparedness Act, which gives the Government authority to temporarily supplement, and if necessary make exceptions from, current legislation". The committee was also asked to consider whether, in addition to this, a legal basis should be formulated for temporarily suspending individuals' statutory rights, or possibly modifying how the rights must be fulfilled.

Since the law gave the government dictatorial powers, The Lawyer's Association and several senior law professors called it unconstitutional and a "threat to the rule of law"

The timing of the law is curious, as it was heavily pushed by the government and came in the run-up to the COVID-19 deep event, and there were no existing situations that called for it.

In March 2020, a new crisis law was introduced and express processed by Parliament to "keep the wheels of society running during the corona crisis". Again, the legal community opposed it. Morten Walløe Tvedt, associate professor of law at Molde University College and a senior researcher at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, calling the proposal "democratic madness", an opionion also expressed by other legal experts, stated: "The law gives very broad powers to do anything - that is, if the government decides, for example, to detain all infected without medical help and lock the door, they have the authority to do so. I do not say that the government will do it, but in principle they can. "

Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund

During 2019, the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund ('Oil Fund') purchased large amount of stock in pharmaceutical companies, an increase of 31.5% year on year.

100 years secrecy about COVID

the Corona Commission discussing its own mandate in May 2020 - all classified.

The Corona Commission, established to review the decision to lock down the country in March 2020 against Covid-19, will have a 60 year confidentially clause. Originally the government wanted an extended 100 year confidentially clause, but relented, and agreed to the standard 60 year clause "for personal matters, as well as operational and trade secrets."

In a legal "gymnastics exercise to avoid the intention of the Public Access to Information Act" all the documents are defined as internal proceedings and withheld from the public. Not even the members of the government will receive a copy of what they have stated, and must read through and approve their own minutes in person. As a result, the public will only see the commission's conclusions, but not the basis for them.

This wish for secrecy have led journalists' union to point it fits a pattern, that the journalists "have struggled to gain access during the pandemic, and the duty of confidentiality has been used as a pretext to withhold important knowledge and block free public debate.

Destroying the COVID evidence trail

Ministry of Health Ministerial Councilor Bjørn-Inge Larsen was one of the key people when the major decision on lockdowns were made from March 2020 onwards. According to a previously secret letter the Corona Commission received from the department and leaked to the press, it was confirmed that all text messages to Bjørn-Inge Larsen had been deleted.

Minister of Health Bent Høie stated to media that all contact he had with Health Director Bjørn Guldvog until the decision to enforce a COVID lockdown was made on March 12, 2020, went via Larsen. Thus, an important part of the most dramatic days in Norwegian history is no longer possible to document. As much of the communication between the key people happened via text messages, and these have now been deleted permanetly, it will be almost impossible to reconstruct and verify what was communicated in this critical period.

The reason for the deletion is to be "technical problems with receiving text messages from the mobile phones of Ministerial Councilor Bjørn-Inge Larsen", as well as limited storage of mobile data.

It turns out that the notes of health director Bjørn Guldvog are also gone, according to a meeting minute that Aftenposten has had access to. Guldvog regrets this, and explains it by that many loose notes were not systematized under strong time pressure. "In hindsight, he realizes that this was unwise".

The deletion of documentary evidence is similar to what happened in Denmark.

The right to detain all infected without medical help and lock the door

All restrictions is stated to be lifted from September 2021. However, just three days before the September national elections Prime Minister Erna Solberg introduced new changes to the Infection Control Act with the intent to make permanent the 'temporary' measures that were adopted by the Storting with express speed in 2020. The government also set a short timeline for this suggested change - the consultation deadline was set at 14 days. In the proposal, the government itself writes that it does not believe that the legal instruments will be needed in the next few months -a tacit admission that the hurry has other purposes, and that more lockdowns are coming.

The 'temporary' law that now will be made permanent was described by legal expert Morten Walløe Tvedt as:

The law gives very broad powers to do anything - that is, if the government decides, for example, to detain all infected without medical help and lock the door, they have the authority to do so. I do not say that the government will do it, but in principle they can.

Law professor Terje Einarsen , an expert on human rights and head of the International Division of the International Law Commission, ICJ-Norway warned strongly against the government's bill, stating:

It has not been public anywhere that they have worked with such a law. I find it very strange that such a far-reaching law is being rushed without public debate. It seems very undemocratic

Mass surveillance

During the decades after WW2, the intelligence services conducted large-scale phone surveillance. The program did not only include "reds", but politicians from all parties. The 1994 Lund Commission did a limited hangout of some of the surveillance done by the Norwegian Police Security Service, but their report noticeably avoided even looking the most powerful intelligence agency, the military Norwegian Intelligence Service.

2020

From June 2020, the Norwegian secret services are legally allowed to perform mass collection of metadata that crosses the borders to Norway. The information will be stored for 18 months, to "identify foreign threats"and "find digital clues to the co-conspirators" in Norway, said parliamentary committee leader Michael Tetzschner. The Norwegian Data Protection Authority criticized the law heavily, and stated "This will generate huge amounts of data about almost all Norwegian citizens, about our everyday, legal and ordinary communication, for the use of the intelligence service".

2023

• From 2023, the military intelligence service will be able to install technical equipment at providers of electronic communications such as Telenor, Telia, and others. In practice, this means that virtually all emails, text messages, chat messages and other communications can be monitored. The overall surveillance will ensure that most of the digital life of Norwegian citizens is captured, collected and recorded. "The possibility of maintaining a private life towards the authorities, becomes completely illusory", said Line Coll, Director of the Norwegian Data Protection Authority.

• The military intelligence service can monitor, store and analyze all data traffic going in and out to Norway. It covers most of all electronic communication, including between Norwegian residents.

• The Norwegian Police Security Service will be able to monitor and store everything that is done on the open internet in Norway. This will include article comment fields, open discussions on social media, public registers, blogs and leaked data sets.

• The police] were given permission to collect 18 different types of information about anyone who gets on a plane to or from Norway. The data may formally be stored for five years. This include name, contact information, itinerary, who you are traveling or sitting with, luggage details, payment information and passport number. The information may be exchanged with other countries.

• All providers of electronic communication services must store IP addresses and subscriber information for 12 months and make these available to the police.

Other

"Hate Speech"

Full article: “Hate speech”

In November 2020, the Norwegian legislature adopted (without a vote) a criminal law to punishes people for "hate speech" toward transgender people, including in their own home or private conversations.

Child sex abuse

After "one of the largest child sex abuse cases in history", Norwegian police announced in November 2016 that a year-long special investigation entitled “Operation Darkroom” had resulted in the seizure of 150 terabytes of photos, movies and chat logs containing atrocities against young children. The Washington Post briefly reported on the story, but later withdrew the page. Over 50 people are accused, including “highly educated” individuals, including two former or current elected politicians, one teacher, a lawyer and a police officer.

 

Events carried out

Event	Location	Description
2011 Attacks on Libya	Libya	"Perhaps one of the most egregious examples of US military aggression and lawlessness in recent memory", carried out under a pretext of "humanitarian intervention".
Evacuation from Afghanistan	Afghanistan	The evacuation of foreigners from Afghanistan, one of the largest airlifts in history

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
PRIO	“Researchers who question the legitimacy of US wars seem to experience being ousted from their positions in research and media institutions.”	Ola Tunander	6 March 2021
Erna Solberg	“It was not an attempt at a coup, it was an attempt to make people's everyday lives work.”	Erna Solberg	March 2021

 

Events

Event	Description
2011 Norway attacks	A car bomb in Oslo and subsequent mass shooting at a summer camp in Norway on 22 July 2011, claiming a total of 77 lives.
2014 Norway terror threat	An (apparently not very) "specific terror threat against Norway"
Alexander Kielland	Oil rig capsizing in 1980, the biggest disaster in Norwegian oil production. Theories of sabotage is a third rail subject.
Bilderberg/1982	The 30th Bilderberg, held in Norway.
Lillehammer assassination	In 1973 Mossad assassinated a Moroccan citizen in Lillehammer,Norway.
Mehamn Accident	Passenger plane that crashed because of actions of British fighter jet. The cause was covered up by 3 investigation committees, and is still not officially admitted.
William Nygaard assassination attempt	The attempted murder of the publisher William Nygaard in Oslo on 11 October 1993. Deep state police networks went to great lengths release the suspected perpetrator - who may have been a police/intelligence informer.

 

Groups Headquartered Here

Group	Start	Description
"Alfa"	1965
Aftenposten	14 May 1860	Norwegian newspaper with high Bilderberg attendance.
Civita	2003	Norwegian (neo)liberal think tank
Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise	1 JL	The main employers' organisation in Norway. The Presidents and Director-Generals have a Bilderberg habit.
Conservative Party (Norway)	25 August 1884
Faktisk	2017	Norwegian "fact-checking" website with close personnel ties to the intelligence services and the military.
Fritt Ord	1974	Norwegian grant giving foundation with Cold War origins.
International Democrat Union
Norges Bank	14 June 1816
Norsk Hydro	2 December 1905	Norwegian company with heavy Bilderberg habit. One of the largest aluminium companies worldwide. Formerly also world big in fertilizers and heavy water, used to make nuclear weapons.
Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation	1 July 1933	State TV and radio corporation dominating the national media landscape.
Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions	1899	The largest and most influential umbrella organization of labour unions in Norway, closely connected to the Labour Party.
Norwegian Defence University College	2002	Offers 'leadership courses' for key military and civilian decision-makers
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs	1959	A semi-official foreign policy think tank close to the [Norwegian Defence Research Establishment and the military intelligence service.
Norwegian People's Aid	1939
Norwegian Police Security Service	1937
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration	1936	A large part of Norway's financial and business establishment was educated at the NHH.
Norwegian Shipowners' Association	15 September 1909
Norwegian University of Science and Technology		NTNU has the main national responsibility in Norway for education and research in engineering and technology.
Oslo Commerce School	1875	A traditional mercantile high school in "the best part" of Oslo.
PRIO	1959	Peace Research Institute founded by the legendary Johan Galtung in 1959. In recent years ousting researchers who question the legitimacy of US/NATO wars, instead theorizing on "just wars".
Red Party (Norway)	11 March 2007
Schibsted	1839
TV 2 (Norway)	13 November 1991	Norwegian TV channel
The Norwegian Armed Forces Intelligence School	1958	Norwegian intelligence school
University of Bergen	1946	Norway's second most important university
University of Oslo	2 September 1811	Most prominent university in Norway
Yara International	1905	Chemical company that is one of the world’s largest producers of synthetic fertilisers

 

Citizens of Norway on Wikispooks

Title	Born	Died	Description
Torvild Aakvaag	27 January 1927	9 July 2017	Single Bilderberg Director General of Norsk Hydro
Henrik Aasarød	28 July 1928	8 April 2000	Attended the 1984 Bilderberg as President of The Norwegian Seafarers' Union
Svein Aaser	7 October 1946		Single Bilderberg Norwegian businessman. Led Foundation for Social and Business Research & The Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise
Kjetil Alstadheim	26 September 1968		Single Bilderberger Norwegian journalist and editor
Johan Andresen	25 July 1961		Second generation Bilderberger businessman billionaire.
Jens Anfindsen	1973		Norwegian academic who attended the 2007 CounterJihad Conference.
Nils Astrup	12 November 1935	5 September 2005	Norwegian shipowner who headed the Norwegian Shipowners' Association. Close friend of the Norwegian royal family.
Andreas Aulie	17 November 1897	17 January 1990	Norwegian Director of Public Prosecutions 1946-1967
Jon Fredrik Baksaas	21 November 1954		Resigned as CEO of Telenor after corruption exposed. Bilderberg/2009
Alf Roar Berg	17 April 1933	2022	Leader of the Military Intelligence Service in the period 1988–1993.
Eivinn Berg	31 July 1931	23 September 2013	Possible deep state operative, attended the 1985 Bilderberg as Permanent Representative of Norway to NATO. Died in a car crash
Finn Bergesen	3 September 1945	11 September 2012	Norwegian deep state connected businessman
Eivind Berggrav	25 October 1884	14 January 1959	Norwegian Lutheran bishop who cooperated closely with the military intelligence service
John Bernander	22 September 1957		Norwegian Bilderberger politician and Director-General of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.
Alf Bjercke	30 May 1921	9 December 2011	Norwegian business magnate and member of the 1001 Club
Halvdan Bjørum	23 July 1926		Norwegian businessman who attended the 1983 Bilderberg meeting.
Svein Blindheim	29 August 1916	17 March 2013	Resistance hero who later revealed Stay Behind activities, and was convicted to prison for it.
Karl Gether Bomhoff	6 August 1842	23 September 1925	Norwegian Central Bank Governor 1893-1920
Per Borten	3 April 1913	20 January 2005	Norwegian prime minister spied upon by the US and "his own" spooks.
Erik Braathen	31 October 1955		Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Braathens.
Kjerstin Braathen	1970		Norwegian Bilderberg banker with a WEF AGM habit
Svein Richard Brandtzæg	23 December 1957		Member of the Bilderberg Steering committee.
Trygve Bratteli	11 January 1910	20 November 1984	Attended the 1977 Bilderberg as former Prime Minister of Norway
Anders Breivik	13 February 1979		Convicted of planting the bomb that killed 8 people in central Oslo, Norway, followed by the shooting to death of 66 teenagers on a nearby camping island on 22 July 2011
Tor Brekke	3 March 1934	6 March 2009	tunnel building expert
Børge Brende	25 September 1965		Bilderberg Steering Committee, President of the World Economic Forum 2017-
Erik Brofoss	21 June 1908	7 May 1979	Central Bank Governor of Norway 1954-1970
Arne Olav Brundtland	16 October 1936		Single Bilderberger academic married to Norwegian PM and big pharma lobbyist Gro Harlem Brundtland.
Gro Harlem Brundtland	20 April 1939		Deep state/WHO connected Prime Minister/DG, concerned about "too much freedom of speech"
Kate Hansen Bundt	17 May 1962
Tor-Aksel Busch	17 March 1950		Norway's Director of Public Prosecutions 1997-2011
Ronald Bye	23 November 1937	24 September 2018	Norwegian politician who exposed the Norwegian Stay Behind and Norwegian deep state.
Kristin Clemet	20 April 1957		Triple Bilderberger Norwegian politician
Halfdan Ditlev-Simonsen	8 February 1924	19 December 1989
Per Ditlev-Simonsen	12 June 1932		Mayor of Oslo who resigned after revelations about his Swiss bank account.
Espen Barth Eide	1 May 1964		Attended the 2013 Bilderberg as Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Trine Eilertsen	1 May 1969		Norwegian journalist and editor who wrote about the "mythical gathering" after being criticised for attending the 2015 Bilderberg.
Torolf Elster	27 May 1911	4 November 2006	Norwegian Labour Party stalwart and Director-General of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
Arvid Engen	15 December 1924	14 October 1996
Hans Engen	22 August 1912	6 April 1966	Permanent Representative of Norway to the United Nations for 5 years, reportedly died in a skiing accident
Odd Roger Enoksen	25 September 1954		Norwegian Minister of Defence who was forced to resign after sexual harassment accusations - coinciding with Norwegian participation in Nordstream sabotage.
Rolf Rynning Eriksen	1 November 1911	7 March 1994	Norwegian officer who dominated official history writing on WW2, including hiding how many army officers collaborated with the Germans.
Thor Gjermund Eriksen	2 October 1966		Director General of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
Øyvind Eriksen	1 June 1964		Norwegian attorney and head of industry. Crony of billionaire Kjell Inge Rokke.
Grete Faremo	16 June 1955		Well-networked Norwegian Trilateral Commission Labour Party politician.
Kjartan Fløgstad	7 June 1944
Iver Frigaard
Knut Frydenlund	31 March 1927	26 February 1987	Norwegian foreign minister who attended 2 Bilderbergs in the early 1980s. Handpicked by spook Trond Johansen for the job.
Einar Førde			Director-General of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.
Johan Galtung	24 October 1930	17 February 2024	Norwegian peace researcher and activist
... further results

 

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