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The Corner Blog Archives: September 2006

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20 September 2006

Jesus Camp, but not in the camp way

OK. This is scary. These kids are trained in the “camp” to be Army of the god, “just like in Israel, Palestine and other such countries”. The camp’s goal seems to be brainwashing these kids to be extremists, although I suspect that their growing environment encourages such as well.
I thought this kind of activity would […]

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19 September 2006

Thoughts on the Swedish election

So pundits all over the place are touting this election (or, more to the point, it’s result) as epochal and revolutionary (not in the literal sense of the word, though, as Rainer would have you believe). The right-centre coalition won it, which isn’t a new thing per se, although it is indeed very rare. What’s […]

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18 September 2006

Sweden expects heavy casualties on the forecoming civil war

The Swedish general election passed without any major conflicts between the left-wing Social Democrats and center-right coalition although our sources expected such to happen. As no UN observers have been placed to the Nordic capital many fear that the socialdemocrats will start a terror campaign.
Never the less, many Swedes have dared to go shopping and […]

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12 September 2006

China, North-Korea and Myanmar thank Finland of the Asem summit

img © S. Sikaheimo
The ASEM meeting addressed also the matters of terrorism and the rights of citizens. Specially satisfied of the subject were China, Myanmar and North-Korea who thanked the host country Finland of the summit.
“As Finland demonstrated on saturday, our position is understood in Europe as well. Of course we need to increase the […]

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11 September 2006

Saturday’s ASEM demonstration in Finland

The organized anarchist youth -what a contradiction- had a demonstration in Helsinki to “honor” the ASEM summit. They started the demonstration from the “Post Plaza” just in front of Kiasma, the Museum of contemporary arts, and Sanoma, the Finnish equivalent of Time-Warner, building. And there they stayed. The demonstrators and bystanders and people walking though […]

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