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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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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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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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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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4 July 2007
Afghanistan needs Kalashikovs
As the situation in Afghanistan is escalating again putting Finnish UN mandated peace cores on tougher and tougher situations that almost endanger their lives, the Finnish government has decided to take action.
Afghanistan, being a country where guns and ammo has historically stayed and delivered to locations where they’ve been dedicated, and it’s government troops will […]
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23 April 2007
Grassroots triumph
Wow. In Norway, the congress of Arbeiderpartiet (Labour, or Social Democrats) voted against all their own ministers to force them to introduce a law illegalizing purchases of sex. I can’t really say whether the law is a good one or not (I’m simply not read up on the topic at all and have no idea […]
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22 February 2007
Grand theft: The thieves took several thousand kilos of …
Finnish police is investigating a theft of rocks. Some one stole several tons of street pebbles from the centre of Helsinki. The rocks would’ve covered area of 20 square meters. The police is now trying to get hints of how the rocks look and checking if any of the surveillance cameras have footage of the […]
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21 February 2007
Finnish SDP has solved the unemployment problem
As the Finnish general election is coming closer the biggest Finnish party Social Democratic Party (SDP) has announced that they will make things better for workers, elders, families, mid-class, poor, rich, disabled and the unemployed by using good old “stick and a carrot method”. The previously mentioned ones will get the “carrot”. Students and singles […]
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14 February 2007
H&M bikini ad = pedophilia? Not
Pedophilia. Hah, got your attention now not to mention loads of google hits. Pedophilia has lately been widely broadcasted in Finnish media. Specially the pedophilistic material one can so easily find in the wild wild internet. I think it has something to do with the fact that the elections are coming to town. According to […]