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16 February 2010
World News Still Draw General Public’s Attention
(STETSON) According to the annual research by Harrison-Stetson Institute the General Public is still quite interested of international news and current affairs.
While the Finnish public was intrigued about the culture and rites of a long term French minority organization (Masonries Reveal Their Secrets in France), supporting the import of less less mainstream foreign artists (“Uncle-Brush” [...]
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2 January 2010
Lucidity awards 2010 starting strongly
(PLAIN SIGHT) Lucidity 2010 awards, competition for creating a statement either oblivous or with no informational value, has started strongly this year. So far we can mostly thank the Finnish editors for the strong start on their commentary of the New Year’s Eve’s shooting incident.
The current leader is “coldblooded murderer himself is responsible for his [...]
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31 December 2009
Head Start with Fireworks in Espoo
(SELLO/ESPOO) New Year’s fireworks started early this year in Espoo. According to the local police officials a Middle-aged Man decided to start celebrating New Year several hours in advance in shopping center Sello, even though police announced earlier today that anyone violating the new firework regulations would get fined. “The target is to protect the [...]
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24 December 2009
Christmas is Cancelled Until Further Notice
(Korvatunturi)The weak economic downturn isn’t affecting just employers and employees of housing and banking companies. Also traditional businesses are reporting bad news. The latest addition to closures was Father Christmas (XMAS), aka SantaClaus, who sent an application for bankruptcy earlier today, just on the eve of Christmas. According to the papers filed “Santa” has outstanding taxes [...]
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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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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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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 [...]