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shoot at sight?
OK, so everybody must have heard about Katrina and the lootings in New Orelans, that were connected with it by now. However, it seems that the news picture is differing quite a bit depending on where on the planet you…
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activism for the sake of itself
The mobilization for September 3rd (Oslo, but Trondheim’s site is better) is about to come to an end. That is pretty much the end of the election campaign for me for this time. With the peace group we had one…
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The tent thing…
went great! We were the stars out there, and won most of the stuff we had hoped for. The most important thing was probably a resolution condeming the sitting government and their cuts on student financing. Now we thought we…
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Douglas calling
Ok, so we had one last day of sumemr today, so I used the chance to consume the last soft ice this summer. But now we’re going for the cold and dark time of the year… and Douglas is calling.
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fall…
hmm, I worte earlier this summer that my Norwegian sumemr would be over. While that turned out not quite to be the case back then, by now it definitely has. While one could walk aorund with just a T and…
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going camping…
Ok, so now at semester start there is this student parlament thing comming up. First thing is a stay at a hotel to decide upon a paper that, quite frankly, does not really have all that much contents, and more…
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Douglas Dispatch
Ever been bothered by your local “yellow press” – just making headlines out of nothing? Well, meet the Douglas Dispatch, where everything is a bit different. It’s the newspaper of the 12000-people village I did my field work on. It’s…
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oil profits
Want to know a secret about me that even I had no clue of? I got a tip on this comment on Indymedia: Det går rykter på børsen om at økonomiansvarlig i Blindern Fred og Johannes Wilm har lånt og…
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reforming the time systems?
In these times of constant reform, one might wonder we nobody seems to try to reform the time system that we have had for seemingly ever. And now I’m not talking about how the various units are divided up, but…
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German elections and Iran
The NY Times talks about Schröder saying that there will be no military intervention with German participation: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/16/international/europe/16germany.html?hp . The most important part in the article though is what it doesn’t mention: all parties currently in parliament, including the opposition,…