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13 August 2008
Finland violated the Paris treaty!
President Dmitri Medvedev of Soviet Uni… Federation of Russia issued a diplomatic missive for Finland early this morning as Finland violated the 1947 Paris Peace treaty.
The violation happened when the Finnish Rail Administration failed to maintain and protect a 7km long border railroad in Salla, Northern Finland, and let someone steal several hundreds of metres […]
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18 February 2008
Lapland and Åland also striving for independence
Finland expressed “deep concerns” regarding Kosovo’s one-sided independence declaration. Finland is a Northern European country with two different separatistic areas Åland and Lapland who both have tried to declare independence several times in the past, but the acts have so far been crushed by the efficient and well trained Finnish Army as well as fast […]
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18 February 2008
Kosovo’s Trust on herself
Kosovo, who just declared herself independent, wows to stand on her feet and does not express any regrets or fears, but still hopes that EU, US, UN, IMF and World Bank, not to mention NATO, to back her up a bit. “Just a bit politically, monetarily and militarily till next week - or latest to […]
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6 February 2007
Video: US Airforce bombing British convoy on 2003 in Iraq
If you need to find one good thing about tabloid magazines is that they publish anything to get viewers and publicity. The Sun just published “a video that does not exist” on their website about the bombing of English convoy by US Airforce on 2003 which lead to a kill of a British soldier.
The video […]
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4 December 2006
Britain renewing it’s nuclear warheads
Great Britain announced today with the mouth of Tony Blair that they will continue the upkeep of their nuclear arsenal. Blair announced that they will replace the obsolete strategic warheads in nuclear subs with new ones.
“We just cannot be sure that our brave country wouldn’t be threatened with nuclear weapons in the next decades”, Blair […]
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23 August 2006
Should we burn some crosses now?
This is an absolutely appalling news story:
British holidaymakers staged an unprecedented mutiny - refusing to allow their flight to take off until two men they feared were terrorists were forcibly removed. The extraordinary scenes happened after some of the 150 passengers on a Malaga-Manchester flight overheard two men of Asian appearance apparently talking Arabic.
Passengers told […]
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11 August 2006
Lessons for Bush
Ok, so we’re all pretty pissed off about the fact that we can now no longer carry laptops and so on onto our flights. Our eminent Rainer has already covered that. And a lot of people seem to think that there was never any plot at all, that this was a bluff, a fake in […]
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10 August 2006
Security measures at Heathrow just getting stricter
In addition to the security measures already taken, the Heathrow officials have also banned jackets, shirts, sweaters, overcoats, etc, but especially cardigans. The only exception to the rule is that if the person is not wearing anything under the shirt (such as a tank top, sleeveless t-shirt, etc) he may wear one layer of clothing.
“You […]
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10 August 2006
UK airports’ new “security” measures
I don’t know how many of you reads all of your mails, but I received and read an email today of the new “immediately effective” measures on UK airports.
“Further to today’s national security alert at UK airports, the Department for Transport (DoT) has issued additional security measures. With immediate effect, the following arrangements apply to […]
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25 July 2006
The middle east buddy list by Slate
The middle east buddy list by Slate