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6 November 2008
OSCE worried of the democracy process in US
(MONTGOMERY) The international electoral assistant organizations are criticize the US elections from severe flaws. According to the international electoral assistants the voting process hasn’t fulfilled the criterias of democracy for the lack of ballots, malfunctioning voting machines and the insufficient amount of them per capita or too long queues.
China, Russia and Cuba have already promised […]
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1 November 2008
Ministry of Justice introduces 2% error margin
(DEMOKRAATTERI) After testing electronic voting, “e-voting”, in the recent municipal elections the Justice Ministry decided to introduce “error margin” of “roughly 2%” in elections to come. The introduction of the error margin came as a reaction to the e-voting pilot on which 232, roughly 2%, votes were lost due to the fact that voters didn’t […]
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13 October 2008
Variable market news
(GAIA): The world as we know is saved or doomed.
Monday started with careful market rise in Asian (~+10%) and European (~+5%) stock exchanges. According to analysts this means that the investors gained suitable trust for the markets and the World is saved now. According to other analysts the rise is based on empty illusion and […]
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28 September 2008
Finnishmen arrested for attempt to smuggle 22 320 eggs to Norway
(NUORGAM) Two Finnish men were caught by the Norwegian customs officials when they were trying to smuggle 22 320 eggs into Norway.
The customs found the hidden eggs on a routine checkup. The Finns told they were heading to Oslo where they were supposed to sell the eggs with a profit.
The customs officials confiscated the cargo […]
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20 August 2008
International news draw average reader’s attention
According to the latest research of Harrison-Stetson institute Average Reader is interested of international news and concerned of the state of the world.
Harrison-Stetson institute made the research by monitoring reading results of the Finland’s biggest newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat.
“It seems that the readers are interested of international news. The top article on the most read news […]
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15 August 2008
Another money withdrawal from Sampo bank on the same week
(TÖÖLÖ) The temporary IT and security issues with Sampo Bank (OMX: Danske) relieved for the second time this week when four were able to withdraw money from the bank. This was noticed by a local man who alerted the police. Usage of firearms is currently not suspected, though they were used in assistance with the […]
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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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23 July 2008
“Cancer has not returned”, close sources claim
Fidel Castro Steve Jobs is still live and well according to source close to the Cuba Apple and well informed on the concerns of Cuban government Apple Senior management. According to the source, who wishes to stay anonymous, the Fidel’s Steve’s cancer has not returned.
The concerns around his health are circling on two key factors: […]
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4 July 2008
Chinese army equips Segways
(Jinan, China) The People’s Army has equipped Segways for their “Anti-Terrorist Rapid Deployment Force”. During their intensive training the RDF went by name “Judean People’s Front”, name taken from well known and honoured group lead by Mr. Eric “Otto” Idle in the late 70s.
According to Hui Lai Lee,the spokesman of the People’s Army, their target […]
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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 […]