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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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29 September 2008
Double Standards
When a third-world country nationalises their factories or banks it’s called “socialism” or “communism” and against free trade and competition. The government gets economic sanctions and the opposition gets economic support on their fight for “free for free world”.
When US, or any other western, country nationalises a car manufacturer or a bank it’s called economic […]
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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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3 July 2007
How to: Biased information
How to generate biased information? Ingredients: Take a speech with few limping analogies and quote them partially so the message suits your needs.
Examples from speech by Trent Lott on how to deal with immigration:
Newsweek, July 2 2007
“I’ve got two goats on my place in Mississippi. There ain’t no fence big enough, high enough, strong enough, […]
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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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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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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 […]