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Saudi Arabia bans red stuff ahead of Valentine's Day.
2008-03-28 07:53:00
It appears that the Saudi Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has asked florists and gift shops to remove all red items until after Valentine's Day, calling the celebration of such a holiday a sin. "As Muslims we shouldn't celebrate a non-Muslim celebration, especially this one that encourages immoral relations between unmarried men and women," Sheikh Khaled Al-Dossari, a scholar in Islamic studies, told the Saudi Gazette, an English-language newspaper. Every year, officials with the conservative Muslim kingdom's Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice clamp down on shops a few days before February 14, instructing them to remove red roses, red wrapping paper, gift boxes and teddy bears. On the eve of the holiday, they raid stores and seize symbols of love. The virtue and vice squad is a police force of several thousand charged with, among other things, enforcing dress codes and segregating the sexes. Saudi Arabia , which follows a st...
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Candy-coated cup to make kids take meds.
2008-03-28 07:53:00
Should I cry or should I laugh? The lengths people go to to get our kids to eat more sugar is astonishing. Aren't kids fat enough?
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Geert Wilders' "Fitna - the movie" out at last.
2008-03-28 07:53:00
It's on LiveLeak since this morning, but how long it will remain is anybody's guess. All previous attempts by Wilders to ari the short movie on Islam has been thwarted by the PK of the Netherlands in fear it might provoke muslim violence. It still may. But since muslims are allowed to have an opinion on us and our behavior, we should be allowed to have our say, too. See it now. Tomorrow may be too late.
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Artist Vilks and Johansson sentenced to death by al Quaida.
2007-11-02 00:09:00
A leader of Iraqi al Qaida offers $100,000 to whoever murders Swedish artist Lars Vilks or Ulf Johansson , editor-in-cheif of the Swedish newspaper Nerikes Allehanda. There's even an extra $50,000 bonus offered if either of the two men are "slaughtered like a lamb". This is nothing but another brazen demand for submission by the bigot muslim clergy. And a rare glimpse of our future should we not stand up to their threats. Their demands. Our submission. The decision by the Swedish Government not to offer any kind of comment to the death threats against two of the country's citizens can only be described as cowardly. The threats must be taken seriously, considering the hundreds of thousands of muslims that have been granted asylum or some other kind of permission to stay in this country. Tens of thousands of them are Iraqis and a large number live in the city of Örebro (where the Nerikes Allehanda is published) and the southern province of Skåne, near where Lars Vilks lives and wor...
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Swedish art exhibition censored for fear of muslims.
2007-11-02 00:08:00
A curator for an art exhibition in the Swedish province of Värmland, Märta Wennerström, has decided to remove three drawings by well-known Swedish artist Lars Vilks. The reason? Well, to put it short and blunt, Ms. Wennerström was afraid the works would enrage muslims in Sweden and abroad. After the fuss about the Danish Muhammed cartoons a while back, Swedish authorities and officials at every level have become very anxious not to displease the muslim community for fear of demonstrations, death-threats or worse. The fear of the predictable muslim over-reactions is clear and present at all levels. It makes me think of Germany in the twenties and thirties, where Hitler's nazis, although quite a small minority, through the ruthlessness of their SA-troops intimidated the German majority into submission and silence as they destroyed Jewish property and beat up and killed German Jews and socialists in the streets. The German government at the time was weak and the democratic authorities...
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African Swedish group seeks ban on Tintin comic.
2007-11-02 00:08:00
The group, Afrosvenskanas Riksförbund, (approx. Afro-Swedish National Federation) represented by coordinator Kitimbwa Sabuni, who happens to be a relative of the current Swedish Minister for Integration, Nyamko Sabuni, (who in turn happens to have been employed by the Federation before she became minister) claims the comic book Tintin i Kongo (Tintin in the Congo) is racist and degrading to blacks and wants it ripped from the shelves of bookstores and libraries. The book was first published in 1931, and is written by Belgian Hergé (Georges Remi) who had never visited the Congo or Africa. It naturally reflects the 1920s and 1930s look on blacks and Africa. To demand its banishment and removal from bookstores and libraries is not only offensive to our idea of freedom of speech, it also projects a less than flattering light on Kitimbwa Sabuni. He should know that freedom of speech is fundamental in any civilized society, and it protects anyone's right to express opinions that anyone e...
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Burning the Swedish flag - or so they thought.
2007-11-02 00:08:00
Sweden (along with all other civilized countries) subscribes to the principle of free speech and free press. This means that you're allowed to speak your mind without risking persecution for doing so. A concept far beyond the grasp of the bunch of wankers above. Education can't be a big issue among devout muslims, either. Limiting schooling to learning to recite from the holy book, rather than studying science, is not actually working, as can be judged from the number of muslim Nobel Prize winners. Or by the "Swedish " flag in the picture above. When a bunch of muslim bigots such as these in Lahore, Pakistan, show their contempt for the cornerstones of democracy, I couldn't care less. It's when another bunch of muslim bigots just like them do the same thing in Örebro that I start to worry. Sweden is a democracy with free speech and a free press. Even for muslims, who have the right to protest if they feel insulted. That much they have managed to understand. But freedom of speech...
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Burning the Swedish flag - or so they thought.
2007-09-15 19:57:00
Sweden (along with all other civilized countries) subscribes to the principle of free speech and free press. This means that you're allowed to speak your mind without risking persecution for doing so. A concept far beyond the grasp of the bunch of wankers above. Education can't be a big issue among devout muslims, either. Limiting schooling to learning to recite from the holy book, rather than studying science, is not actually working, as can be judged from the number of muslim Nobel Prize winners. Or by the "Swedish " flag in the picture above. When a bunch of muslim bigots such as these in Lahore, Pakistan, show their contempt for the cornerstones of democracy, I couldn't care less. It's when another bunch of muslim bigots just like them do the same thing in Örebro that I start to worry. Sweden is a democracy with free speech and a free press. Even for muslims, who have the right to protest if they feel insulted. That much they have managed to understand. But freedom of speech...
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Artist Vilks and Johansson sentenced to death by al Quaida.
2007-09-15 19:57:00
A leader of Iraqi al Qaida offers $100,000 to whoever murders Swedish artist Lars Vilks or Ulf Johansson , editor-in-cheif of the Swedish newspaper Nerikes Allehanda. There's even an extra $50,000 bonus offered if either of the two men are "slaughtered like a lamb". This is nothing but another brazen demand for submission by the bigot muslim clergy. And a rare glimpse of our future should we not stand up to their threats. Their demands. Our submission. The decision by the Swedish Government not to offer any kind of comment to the death threats against two of the country's citizens can only be described as cowardly. The threats must be taken seriously, considering the hundreds of thousands of muslims that have been granted asylum or some other kind of permission to stay in this country. Tens of thousands of them are Iraqis and a large number live in the city of Örebro (where the Nerikes Allehanda is published) and the southern province of Skåne, near where Lars Vilks lives and wor...
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African Swedish group seeks ban on Tintin comic.
2007-09-03 10:49:00
The group, Afrosvenskanas Riksförbund, (approx. Afro-Swedish National Federation) represented by coordinator Kitimbwa Sabuni, who happens to be a relative of the current Swedish Minister for Integration, Nyamko Sabuni, (who in turn happens to have been employed by the Federation before she became minister) claims the comic book Tintin i Kongo (Tintin in the Congo) is racist and degrading to blacks and wants it ripped from the shelves of bookstores and libraries. The book was first published in 1931, and is written by Belgian Hergé (Georges Remi) who had never visited the Congo or Africa. It naturally reflects the 1920s and 1930s look on blacks and Africa. To demand its banishment and removal from bookstores and libraries is not only offensive to our idea of freedom of speech, it also projects a less than flattering light on Kitimbwa Sabuni. He should know that freedom of speech is fundamental in any civilized society, and it protects anyone's right to express opinions that anyone e...
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Swedish art exhibition censored for fear of muslims.
2007-09-03 10:49:00
A curator for an art exhibition in the Swedish province of Värmland, Märta Wennerström, has decided to remove three drawings by well-known Swedish artist Lars Vilks. The reason? Well, to put it short and blunt, Ms. Wennerström was afraid the works would enrage muslims in Sweden and abroad. After the fuss about the Danish Muhammed cartoons a while back, Swedish authorities and officials at every level have become very anxious not to displease the muslim community for fear of demonstrations, death-threats or worse. The fear of the predictable muslim over-reactions is clear and present at all levels. It makes me think of Germany in the twenties and thirties, where Hitler's nazis, although quite a small minority, through the ruthlessness of their SA-troops intimidated the German majority into submission and silence as they destroyed Jewish property and beat up and killed German Jews and socialists in the streets. The German government at the time was weak and the democratic authorities...
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African Swedish group seeks ban on Tintin comic.
2007-08-23 16:45:00
The group, Afrosvenskanas Riksförbund, (approx. Afro-Swedish National Federation) represented by coordinator Kitimbwa Sabuni, who happens to be a relative of the current Swedish Minister for Integration, Nyamko Sabuni, (who in turn happens to have been employed by the Federation before she became minister) claims the comic book Tintin i Kongo (Tintin in the Congo) is racist and degrading to blacks and wants it ripped from the shelves of bookstores and libraries. The book was first published in 1931, and is written by Belgian Hergé (Georges Remi) who had never visited the Congo or Africa. It naturally reflects the 1920s and 1930s look on blacks and Africa. To demand its banishment and removal from bookstores and libraries is not only offensive to our idea of freedom of speech, it also projects a less than flattering light on Kitimbwa Sabuni. He should know that freedom of speech is fundamental in any civilized society, and it protects anyone's right to express opinions that anyone e...
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Swedish art exhibition censored for fear of muslims.
2007-07-25 00:04:00
A curator for an art exhibition in the Swedish province of Värmland, Märta Wennerström, has decided to remove three drawings by well-known Swedish artist Lars Vilks. The reason? Well, to put it short and blunt, Ms. Wennerström was afraid the works would enrage muslims in Sweden and abroad. After the fuss about the Danish Muhammed cartoons a while back, Swedish authorities and officials at every level have become very anxious not to displease the muslim community for fear of demonstrations, death-threats or worse. The fear of the predictable muslim over-reactions is clear and present at all levels. It makes me think of Germany in the twenties and thirties, where Hitler's nazis, although quite a small minority, through the ruthlessness of their SA-troops intimidated the German majority into submission and silence as they destroyed Jewish property and beat up and killed German Jews and socialists in the streets. The German government at the time was weak and the democratic authorities...
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Garuda included in the new EU "no-fly" recommendation.
2007-07-24 14:56:00
The European Union may deserve to be dissed for a lot of things, but the airline warnings seem to be pretty much on the spot. Not long ago the EU banned 96 African airlines from flying into EU airspace. Now the turn has come to Asia. Next week (according to Realtid.se, Swedish only) the EU will ban 51 Indonesian airlines from EU airspace, including the national carrier Garuda . Since none of them fly into EU airspace at the moment, the ban serves as a warning to EU citizens abroad considering booking a flight with these airlines "They are really unsafe", says an anonymous EU spokesperson. Along with these, the TAAG Angolan Airlines and Ukrainian Volare Aviation Enterprise, ten Russian airlines, six Bulgarian, and eight Moldavian are also banned. For Pakistani PIA, however, the ban is lifted.
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The world's top ten most polluted places.
2007-07-24 14:56:00
The Blacksmith Institute has put together a pretty scary top ten list. The world's most polluted places. Looking at the map, it occurs to me that the former Soviet Union has a lot to answer for with five of the world's worst polluted places on what used to be Soviet territory. The Soviet regime stopped at nothing to compete with the west; slave camps, ruthless mining, cardboard nuclear power-plants, you name it. The list is topped by Chernobyl (now in the Ukraine) the most deadly place on the face of the Earth.
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The backbone of over-cooked spaghetti. And the brains.
2007-07-24 14:55:00
The scandinavian hotel chain Scandic decided in April, after public critique by an anti-religious activist group, to remove all Bibles from the chain's 23,000 hotel rooms. Instead, Bibles, Qur'an's, and other religious writings were to be made available upon request at hotel receptions. Now, the chain, after suffering hundreds of booking cancellations by Swedish church organizations, have reversed their former stance and will now allow the Bibles back in hotel rooms. The initial withdrawal of Bibles and the sudden decision to allow them back is not, according to Scandic spokesmen, a result of opportunism or pressure by different interest groups. Not very likely. The Scandic corporate people, in their efforts to be politically correct, have shown an unprecedented and deplorable lack of backbone. Making decisions, supposedly in the best interest of the company and its shareholders, is what these people are hired to do. Not to be weathervanes to the slightest whiff of criticism.
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The world's top ten most polluted places.
2007-07-21 18:36:00
The Blacksmith Institute has put together a pretty scary top ten list. The world's most polluted places. Looking at the map, it occurs to me that the former Soviet Union has a lot to answer for with five of the world's worst polluted places on what used to be Soviet territory. The Soviet regime stopped at nothing to compete with the west; slave camps, ruthless mining, cardboard nuclear power-plants, you name it. The list is topped by Chernobyl (now in the Ukraine) the most deadly place on the face of the Earth.
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Garuda included in the new EU "no-fly" recommendation.
2007-06-29 02:18:00
The European Union may deserve to be dissed for a lot of things, but the airline warnings seem to be pretty much on the spot. Not long ago the EU banned 96 African airlines from flying into EU airspace. Now the turn has come to Asia. Next week (according to Realtid.se, Swedish only) the EU will ban 51 Indonesian airlines from EU airspace, including the national carrier Garuda . Since none of them fly into EU airspace at the moment, the ban serves as a warning to EU citizens abroad considering booking a flight with these airlines "They are really unsafe", says an anonymous EU spokesperson. Along with these, the TAAG Angolan Airlines and Ukrainian Volare Aviation Enterprise, ten Russian airlines, six Bulgarian, and eight Moldavian are also banned. For Pakistani PIA, however, the ban is lifted.
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Recruiting an American mercenary army.
2007-05-03 14:21:00
The Roman empire, in its decline, was forced to rely heavily on recruiting foreign mercenaries to defend its conquests. Rome could not find enough able and willing Roman men to fill up its legions. Hitler's Third Reich, too, had to resort to recruiting outside of its own nation as the need for more men on the Eastern front became more and more desperate. Starting with recruits judged "Aryan", like the "Volksdeutsche" in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, Scandinavians and Finns, the Waffen-SS soon had to widen its search and finally ended up with people from the Baltic, Russians, Bulgarians, Romanians, and Italians in their ranks. There was even a muslim SS division manned with Bosnian muslims and a sprinkle of Croatian catholics. Just to mention a few. These examples from history come to mind as one reads Jeremy Scahill's "Blackwater - The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Merc enary Army ." Scahill's book documents with a multitude of references the tremendous growth of Blackwa...
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The backbone of over-cooked spaghetti. And the brains.
2007-05-03 14:20:00
The scandinavian hotel chain Scandic decided in April, after public critique by an anti-religious activist group, to remove all Bibles from the chain's 23,000 hotel rooms. Instead, Bibles, Qur'an's, and other religious writings were to be made available upon request at hotel receptions. Now, the chain, after suffering hundreds of booking cancellations by Swedish church organizations, have reversed their former stance and will now allow the Bibles back in hotel rooms. The initial withdrawal of Bibles and the sudden decision to allow them back is not, according to Scandic spokesmen, a result of opportunism or pressure by different interest groups. Not very likely. The Scandic corporate people, in their efforts to be politically correct, have shown an unprecedented and deplorable lack of backbone. Making decisions, supposedly in the best interest of the company and its shareholders, is what these people are hired to do. Not to be weathervanes to the slightest whiff of criticism.
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Soccer is no longer justified as a spectator sport.
2007-04-12 09:51:00
Yesterday's Italian soccer riots where 18 people had to be hospitalized, combined with an almost endless series of fights, deaths and human suffering connected to soccer that has occurred during the last twenty or so years has finally brought me to this point: Soccer is no longer justified as a spectator sport. I know soccer is big business, and I know I'll probably get my behind chewed on for saying this, but here it is. If you want to keep employing teams and players and play games and tournaments, make them spectator free and broadcast via PPW. The betting can go on like before, and fans can still watch the games. But never again should thousands of supporters be allowed to try to kill each other in arenas. Never again should innocent citizens have their property vandalized by enraged fans of a losing team. Never again should tax payers have to pick up the bill for the hundreds of police officers required to keep the gangs apart. Stop it now!
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The French should be very much ashamed of themselves.
2007-04-12 09:51:00
The French government recently passed a law, proposed by infamous French Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy, that in effect harsh puts a gag on bloggers and citizen journalists The law is threatening any non-journalist who photographs or videotapes for instance French police brutality and riots and posts the pictures on the internet with a prison sentence. Furthermore, anyone publishing such images could face up to five years in prison and a fine of EUR 75,000:- (approx. USD 98,537:-) possibly a harsher sentence than that for committing the violent act in itself. The French authorities obviously wants to control the internet, and what people can see and read. Remember Rodney King? With the French legislation, George Holliday, who filmed the cops brutally beating Mr. King would have been put on trial instead of the police. And my guess is he would not have been found innocent like the police officers were. France has taken a huge step towards a vile dictatorship, severely limit...
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The French should be very much ashamed of themselves.
2007-04-05 15:22:00
The French government recently passed a law, proposed by infamous French Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy, that in effect harsh puts a gag on bloggers and citizen journalists The law is threatening any non-journalist who photographs or videotapes for instance French police brutality and riots and posts the pictures on the internet with a prison sentence. Furthermore, anyone publishing such images could face up to five years in prison and a fine of EUR 75,000:- (approx. USD 98,537:-) possibly a harsher sentence than that for committing the violent act in itself. The French authorities obviously wants to control the internet, and what people can see and read. Remember Rodney King? With the French legislation, George Holliday, who filmed the cops brutally beating Mr. King would have been put on trial instead of the police. And my guess is he would not have been found innocent like the police officers were. France has taken a huge step towards a vile dictatorship, severely limit...
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The French should be very much ashamed of themselves.
2007-03-13 19:38:00
The French government recently passed a law, proposed by infamous French Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy, that in effect harsh puts a gag on bloggers and citizen journalists The law is threatening any non-journalist who photographs or videotapes for instance French police brutality and riots and posts the pictures on the internet with a prison sentence. Furthermore, anyone publishing such images could face up to five years in prison and a fine of EUR 75,000:- (approx. USD 98,537:-) possibly a harsher sentence than that for committing the violent act in itself. The French authorities obviously wants to control the internet, and what people can see and read. Remember Rodney King? With the French legislation, George Holliday, who filmed the cops brutally beating Mr. King would have been put on trial instead of the police. And my guess is he would not have been found innocent like the police officers were. France has taken a huge step towards a vile dictatorship, severely limit...
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Parking ticket record - SEK 11 million!
2007-03-13 19:38:00
The municipality of Malmoe in the South of Sweden are frustrated over an enormous debt for unpaid parking fines. More than SEK 57,000,000:- (approx. USD 8,200,000:-) are owed by the good citizens of Malmoe. And if that was not bad enough, it turns out that four people alone have amassed a hefty SEK 11,000,000:- (approx. USD 1,500,000:-) in debt to the community. Since these four people do not have any assets (at least on paper) the municipality are virtually helpless and see little chance of collecting the much needed cash. One way of getting some money is impounding and selling the perp's vehicles. Some 50 cars have thus been processed during the past year, but it has done little to fill the tresury, since most offenders cars are worth very little. The four offenders with the biggest debt to the community have been named by the local paper, Sydsvenska Dagbladet, perhaps in hope they'll be ashamed and finally pay up to get off the list. I don't really see how that is going to wo...
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New product adds even more sugar to kid's diet.
2007-02-27 20:15:00
We got an e-mail to Smart Stuff the other day asking if we accepted products for possible review. We answered in a positive manner as we always do, but stating our submissions policy just to make things crystal clear. So, a couple of days later, the packages above arrives, along with a photo CD and a press release. The product is called Sipahh and consists of a plastic straw filled with flavored granules. The idea is you sip cold milk using the straw thus adding flavor to the milk. Sort of an instant milk drink if you like. Now do find the straw thing pretty clever, but that does not help. This thing adds 1.8 grams of sugar to every glass of milk your children drink through the flavored straw. Total carb content is 3.0 grams per straw (chocolate). More than 50% of the product is sugar, 85% is carbs (92% in the strawberry variant). Ten glasses of this Sipahh flavored milk adds 18 grams of sugar. Sugar our kids don't need. I know kids need milk, but do they really have to add sugar t...
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Blogger gets four years in Egyptian prison.
2007-02-27 20:15:00
Abdel Kareem Nabil Suleiman, Egypt ian blogger, was sentenced to three years in prison this week for "inciting hatred of Islam" and an additional year for "insulting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak" on his blog, where he wrote under the pseudonym of "Kareem Amer". Suleiman's blogs regularly criticised the government's religious and authoritarian excesses. He also criticised Egypt's highest religious institutions including the Sunni university of Al-Azhar, where he studied law. His father has reportedly taken the step to disowning Abdel Kareem, stating that he would like to see Sharia Law applied to his son, in which he would have three days to repent at the end of which if he is not repentant, he would be killed. Dreadful things happen when medieval beliefs meet the modern world.
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Estonia - 852 souls are still waiting for the truth.
2007-02-22 16:40:00
The loss of the passenger ferry m/s Estonia in hard weather in the Baltic Sea on September 28, 1994 cost 852 lives (only 95 bodies have been recovered). About half of them were Swedes, the rest mostly Finns and Estonians. This was the worst disaster at sea in the Baltic since the sinking by a Soviet submarine of the steamer Wilhelm Gustloff on 30 January 1945, where some 9,000 German civilians, most of them children, and wounded troops fleeing the advancing Red Army in Eastern Prussia is believed to have drowned. Sweden is a small country, and almost everyone know or know of someone who perished in the icy 13°C (55°F) waters that night. Estonia, being an even even smaller country, felt the impact of the shipwreck as something close to a national trauma. The ship, and the connection to the west it provided, was a matter of national pride in the young democracy recently liberated by the fall of the Soviet Union. From the moment the Estonia settled on the bottom, there has been wild sp...
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Why the famous Audi commercial is a fake.
2007-02-22 16:40:00
It's been doing it's rounds on the 'net, and it looks truly amazing. Great commercial. A car that can climb a ski jump? WOW! What a great car. I'm gonna have to get me one of those Audi quattro's. But... have you watched the video really close? I mean REALLY close? That is REALLY, REALLY CLOSE? No? Watch it again, and then take a look at the screenshots I just made below. Now answer this: What is that CABLE in front of the car doing? Is it PULLING the car up the ski jump? You be the judge. And if you don't believe me, run the video one more time. I think it's very suspicious looking...
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Löfgren finally confesses, too.
2007-02-22 16:40:00
Patrik Löfgren, the third of the three Swedish athletes caught by police in Gothenburg in mid August and charged with posession and use of cocaine, has finally decided to come clean and confess, both to the police and publicly via a staement to the press. Why Löfgren waited three weeks to face the music, when his partners in crime Patrik Sjöberg (left) and Sven Nylander (right) admitted to use almost immediately, was not explained. Possibly he thought he could get away with it, but finally realized the evidence was too strong. All three are now awaiting trial and sentencing. Previous posts on the subject, here and here.
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