LIME Archives: Finland
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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 [...]
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8 December 2006
Ex-CEO of Nokia will continue for 2nd season in the Shell
The ex-CEO of Nokia, Jorma Ollila, will continue in shell for a second season. The first season of “In Shell” was a huge success, where Ollila was living in a closet only communicating to outside world via ssh. He will continue “at least for a second season” as Ollila, bit thinner than before, announced on [...]
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19 November 2006
Wartime photo footage released to the public
Censor over pictures from Winter and Continuing Wars was lifted. The wartime picture archive was till now only accessible for researchers, but to cope with the Free Access to Information -act the Defence forces released the restrictions and the pictures became part of War Archive. The reason why the pictures were “hidden” was mostly political [...]
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18 November 2006
A security guard captured using excessive force
The whole nation of Finland was shocked and surprised as “The Voice of Truth”, Helsingin Sanomat, published a video on wednesday showing a security guard using excessive force. The news of naturally came as a surprise specially to the more alternative looking youth with long hair or political outwear. The police forces published their intention [...]
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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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2 August 2006
Self-censorship in Finland
A Finnish journalist writes of self censorship in Finland [FIN] in the light of her own career and I’ll translate the column here to English. If the author has anything against it I’ll be happy to remove this She writes: I lived abroad for 18 years and got a good taste of it. Living abroad [...]
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26 July 2006
Israel is now targeting UN observers and using clusterbombs on civilian villages
I really wonder how long Israel is allowed to “just do what it wants”? How many civilian and UN casualties we need before EU takes action? A Finnish UN observer is believed to have been killed [link: FIN | ENG] yesterday in Israel’s airstrike to the city of Khiam. Israel stroke to a light UN [...]
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16 June 2006
Finnish trucks are 5cm too wide
Finland has ratified the EU directive that illegalized the over 2,55m wide and trucks in Finnish roads. The current Finnish standard is 2,6m -huge difference, eh?- but they can get special permit if they narrow their cargo space to maximum 2,51m. The Finnish, and Swedish by that matter, trucks are already too long for the [...]