President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

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Friday October 09, 2009 · 2:25 AM PDT

2009/10/09 · 02:25

US president Barack Obama has won the Nobel peace prize for 2009 according to Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten. Britain's BBChas also a story about this.

The Nobel committee based their decision on president Obama's efforts to strengthen international bodies and promote nuclear disarmament.

I think it is a great choice. It will be fun to see how the US right wing extremists react.

Newspaper laid off people while hiding the Sanford emails

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Thursday June 25, 2009 · 3:03 AM PDT

2009/06/25 · 03:03

An interesting side note to the Sanford scandal: The State Media Co. laid off 11 percent of its work force in March 2009. And this happened while the newspaper was sitting on Sanford emails they had received in December 2008.

I guess they didn't want to sell any additional copies at the time. After all, with increased revenues they might have been able to... Well, not lay off so many people. No wonder newspapers are going down in flames.

Pirates win election in Sweden

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Monday June 08, 2009 · 3:04 AM PDT

2009/06/08 · 03:04

The Pirate Party of Sweden has been a big winner in the election of a new European parliament. Defending online privacy rights, taking a stand against software patents and opposing too strickt copyright laws have been the main planks of the Pirate Party platform.

Its membership shot up after a Stockholm court on April 17 sentenced four Swedes to a year in jail for running one of the world's biggest file sharing sites, The Pirate Bay.

The other big winner in Sweden was the Green party who almost doubled their vote. In Finland the Greens did also well, even though their gains were more modest. The Finnish Pirate Party did not take part in the European election, but they plan to field candidates in the next national parliament election in 2011.

Marriage equality in Sweden

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Wednesday April 01, 2009 · 10:49 AM PDT

2009/04/01 · 10:49

The Swedish parliament has passed a new, gender-neutral marriage law by a huge margin. Radio Sweden reports that

in a free vote in parliament 261 MPs voted in favour of the reform, 22 voted no, while 16 abstained

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Sunday February 01, 2009 · 6:53 AM PST

2009/02/01 · 06:53

Finland's Ministry of Defence has just released a new report titeled Russia of Challenges. Included in the report is this startling fact about Russia's demographic trends:

If no changes occur, within three decades the majority of the citizens of the Russian Federation will be Muslims.

This is a huge change taking place in a country with vast natural resources and a formidable nuclear arsenal.

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President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Newspaper laid off people while hiding the Sanford emails

Pirates win election in Sweden

Marriage equality in Sweden

Russia: a muslim majority by 2040?