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OSCE worried of the democracy process in US

Rainer — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:08:49 +0000

(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 assistance for the United States and support them on the process of building democracy. OSCE is already monitoring the situation and and is preparing to send electoral assistants.

Ministry of Justice introduces 2% error margin

Rainer — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:26:42 +0000

(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 know how to properly use the voting system.
“We found out that the problem wasn’t the system but human after all” Tuija Brax, the Minister or Justice, stated referring to the fact that 232 voters didn’t know hot to press the OK-button for second time after casting their votes.
The minister also stated that regardless of the mistake the election will not be re-held on the municipalities where the error occurred because “roughly 1% of voters leave a ”protest vote” such as a blank election note or vote for imaginary characters such as Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Fantom or Osmo Soininvaara”. Minister Brax also reminded that “during testing no-one though that a voter could erroneously interrupt the voting process; the e-voting system was, after all, designed by engineers”. Now the Ministry of Justice is considering also considering that “perhaps the people just aren’t qualified enough to vote”. According to the official statement from the Ministry of Justice the 2% error margin will “sufficiently address the possible issues with the e-voting system”.
The Prime Minister Vanhanen reminded that “even though an option or a choice is presented it should not be used”. On his statement to representatives of media Vanhanen said he resented everyone who voted wrong or incorrectly and is considering sanctions to prevent any such behaviour in the future. “Democracy is a right too valuable to be given to everyone” he reminded.

Variable market news

Rainer — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:24:03 +0000

(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 they suspect the rise to fall and our World is doomed.

Double Standards

Rainer — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:07:00 +0000

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 salvation and the government gets economic support on their fight for “free for free world” from the opposition.

Finnishmen arrested for attempt to smuggle 22 320 eggs to Norway

Rainer — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:32:04 +0000

(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 and the Finnish men are suspected of illegal import.

International news draw average reader’s attention

Rainer — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:15:47 +0000

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 is about less known South-American country Paraguay and it’s population, “Pretty Paraguay’s javelin thrower gathers attention”, second regards to difficult ethical decisions in US, “Both of Chistina Applegate’s breasts were removed” and the Domestic news are taking the third place and is about an important statistical research, “Finnish have sex less than before” Harrison Stetson summarised the research “Clearly we can draw a conclusion that the Finnish population and Average Reader seem to be strongly fascinated of the international news and know what matters”.

On other news 148 was reported dead on a plane crash in Madrid.
Corner Blog tried to contact Average Reader for comments regarding the level of interest of a plane crash but he was too busy of reading about “Bono listening to music too loud” and “Argentinean hero is Maradona’s son-in-law and the father of Maradona’s grandchild” to answer

Another money withdrawal from Sampo bank on the same week

Rainer — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:02:33 +0000

(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 first incidence.

The first occurrence happened on Monday this week when two men were able to withdraw small amount of money from different accounts using the same office as was used today. The bank and police are investigating connection between the incidences.

More accurate news from YLE

Finland violated the Paris treaty!

Rainer — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:51:09 +0000

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 of railroad.
Medvedev threatened Finland immediately to rebuild the railway or ~~Soviet Un…~~ Russia will come and build it, even by force to protect it’s sovereignty from the fascistic Axis powers. ~~Soviet U…~~Russia is already training a peace keeping force to make sure the 7km long rail road will stay intact. “We do not care if the railroad hasn’t been used since 1944 — Finland has impudently violated the section of Paris treaty they forgot to dismiss in 1992. This is a matter of a principle” Medvedev stated on his missive.

Finnish Foreign Minister and the Chairman of OSCE Alexander Stubb has already agreed to travel on site to Salla and has already dismissed the treaty talks between Russia and Georgia to address this more compelling issue.

“Cancer has not returned”, close sources claim

Rainer — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:04:29 +0000

~~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: his weary appearance when he is seen in public and published reports from ~~2006~~ 2003 that he had pancreatic cancer when he didn’t report his condition to the ~~citizens~~ investors for ~~six~~ nine months.

~~Cuba~~ Apple has for the most part remained silent regarding the health of it’s leader. When questions were raised about his absence from the ~~50th anniversary of the Granma boat~~ last night’s earnings call the ~~Cuban officials~~ Apple spokesperson dispelled them stating that “Idle, speculative and uninformed talk is feeding fear, uncertainty and doubt, that is not worth serious consideration”

UPDATE: ~~Fidel Castro~~ Steve Jobs is reassuring some of his closest associates that rumors of his health are greatly exaggerated, but is telling those same people that he recently underwent a procedure related to his weight loss, the New York Times is reporting.

Related news in corner blog: August 18th 2006, Apple says Steve is in good healt

Chinese army equips Segways

Rainer — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:10:44 +0000

(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 is to catch the terrorists by surprise. “No one in their right mind would expect rapid deployment group to use Segways — one gets around faster and in better cover by foot”, Mr. Lee explained. “It’s the element of surprise and disbelief we’re aiming for. When you see a group like this approaching you the first idea in your mind is not ”shoot!” but ”what?!”. I mean look at them; they don’t even have real sized guns. Our enemies won’t expect a thing”.
When asked if broadcasting the new RDF strategy in widespread international news like AFP, Al Jazeera and CornerBlog will taint the “element of surprise” as even the terrorist read news Mr. Lee pushes away stating that “They still won’t believe it’s true. It’s the disbelief built into all of us that will take over in the event of their attack“.