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19 June 2006
Ireland threatens to search US (military) planes
After finding a shackled and manacled prisoner being transported by an US military “charter” plane, the Irish goverment threatened to start having random inspections for the US planes on Shannon. The revelation that US is actually transporting prisoners via Shannon is violating the international laws because no permission to transport a prisoner via Irish soil [...]
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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 [...]
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15 June 2006
Is that really the best you’ve got?
I don’t understand what’s wrong with the English. Or more specifically, the small part of the English which are still the by far worst, most loutish and yobbish guests anywhere in Europe. They’re going to Germany – supposedly to support that under-achieving football team of theirs – with fake Nazi helmets, singing songs about the [...]
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22 May 2006
Info Punk
PowerPoint Karaoke (it strikes me as funny that the only English link I could find is in a bioinformatics blog) seems to be the latest business monkey catharsis strategy in Berlin. The concept is simple: Gather some friends, get yourself a set of random PowerPoint presentations, bring up a beamer, and improvise a presentation on [...]
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12 May 2006
Religious extremists against political debate of euthanasia
Britain is debating today in the House of Lords of the right for euthanasia. Not surpricingly the religious side, anglican and catholic churches, have formed an alliance not just against the right to end one’s life but even the debate. Something which I think is preposterous. The Guardians columnist Polly Toynbee suspected that the debate [...]
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8 May 2006
Anarchist Group turns Hamburg into Sherwood Forest
What’s that about Germans and altruism lately? Seems like people are developing some very creative approaches towards it. A group of anarchists calling themselves “Hamburg for free” is raiding delicatessen shops for food and drinks – for the better of the lads that are stuck on the dole or in brainless, underpaid internships, as they [...]
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8 May 2006
Germany’s Most Vengeful Father
Probably improbable to act this out the natural way, but hey, isn’t that what the concept of adoption is there for? Thought the German Jürgen Hass, who is aiming to adopt a 1.000 kids in Paraguay and other countries. Already rightful father of 300, he is taking advantage of a grey area in German paternity law. Becoming a legal offspring, each child has the right to gain German citizenship, and thereby can take advantage of the social benefits the country has to offer – which of course is the bottom line of the enterprise altogether. The dole money he gets for one kid easily feeds an eight headed family in his home country of choice Paraguay.