The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009)

Re:The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009) by iamcurious on Sunday June 07, 2015 @03:36AM (#9673762)

Can someone that reads Norwegian verify this? I haven't found a lot of material in English.

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Re:The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009) by NegatioN on Sunday June 07, 2015 @05:24AM (#9673958)

I can't verify this particular story, although it sounds true. However, all the general stuff about norwegian policies and ways of thinking are correct.

Interestingly enough, the government involved norwegian philosophers when making plans for all the oil-money that was going to come in. This in turn lead to the oil-fund we have today, where the government can only spend the returns of it, and never dig into the actual fund itself.

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Re:The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009) by petercooper on Sunday June 07, 2015 @09:52AM (#9674603)

Interestingly enough, the government involved norwegian philosophers

It makes me wonder what it'd be like if, as a nation, our upper house of government were replaced with a long-standing group of politically independent philosophers and other "wise people" (here in the UK there is a little of this, as the House of Lords has 26 "Lords Spiritual" who are all Church of England bishops - something more secular but in a similar spirit would also be nice).

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Re:The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009) by lamuerteflaca on Sunday June 07, 2015 @11:30AM (#9675012)

The United States supreme court is the closest thing we have.

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Re:The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009) by nipeko on Sunday June 07, 2015 @06:11AM (#9674047)

He was a guest on a chat show here in Norway a couple of months ago. I had never heard of this guy before, and few norwegians have, so its nice he finally gains some credit for his work.

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Re:The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009) by conwaytwitty on Sunday June 07, 2015 @03:48AM (#9673783)

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/38scem/norways_89...

It was discussed on reddit.

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Re:The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009) by RaSoJo on Sunday June 07, 2015 @05:22AM (#9673952)

Was discussed on HN back in '09 as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=794116

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Re:The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009) by javier2 on Sunday June 07, 2015 @06:25AM (#9674071)

This story is indeed true. The Norwegian Broadcasting Company did a series on oil exploration in Norway and I believe they did credit him for this.

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Re:The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009) by maaaats on Sunday June 07, 2015 @07:30AM (#9674212)

I learned of this story at uni, when I took a course at the institute for petroleum at Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

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Re:The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009) by gpvos on Sunday June 07, 2015 @06:46AM (#9674114)

His article on the Norwegian Wikipedia existed already before 2009, although it didn't have many details back then, and still doesn't.

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