The two curling players below certainly are beautiful. They are from a calendar full of similar curling players. Female, that is. And good looking!

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As it turned out, the young lady was sitting in the man’s lap, and they were in the middle of an intercourse. The man lost his driver’s license, while the young lady kept hers and was allowed to drive the car home after the little incident!

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It started with a false SMS (text) chain message, which stated that “McDonald’s will donate all the money they are making today, Saturday, to Israel”.

That was enough. In the very tense situation in Oslo, the mob did not stop to think, nor check the sources of the message. They just acted. And totally wrecked all the McDonalds they came across in the center of the city!

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As they have one two previous occasions, the police responded with tear gas and spread the crowds. Then the violent demonstration turned into more or less undisciplined street fighting, breaking windows, beating up bystanders, and wrecking havoc on the usually quiet and peaceful city of Oslo.

Norwegian public opinion has increasingly turned in a pro-Palestinian direction over the last few years. Some of the leading newspapers, most notably the once liberal Dagbladet, are relative extremist in its pro-Palestinian view-points. Also, the current left-wing government of the Social democrat party and the Socialist party is pro-Palestinian in its orientation.

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Statistics Denmark 2007 figures show Denmark to have the highest consumer prices for goods and services in the 27 European Union countries – 38 percent above the EU average.

Number two on the list is Ireland with 25 percent above the average. The lowest consumer prices among the old EU countries are to be found in Greece and Portugal where prices are 11-15 percent below the average.

The lowest prices are to be found in the new EU countries, with Bulgaria coming in at 53 percent below the EU average.

Denmark is also the most expensive country in the EU for foodstuffs and non-alcoholic beverages where Danish price levels are 43 percent above the EU average.

I am sure those numbers are correct. The only country in Europe more expensive than Denmark is Norway, which is not a member of the EU and thus not included in these statistics.

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The Fredriksen controlled oil drilling company Seadrill is also negotiating cancellation of four floating oil rigs, valued at 850 million dollars, with the Keppel Fels & PPL yards in Singapore. As well, Fredriksen’s Golden Ocean is negotiating cancellations of some of its ordered ships at yards in China and South Korea.

There is no indication that Fredriksen’s businesses is suffering more than other businesses due to the current crisis. Rather it is assumed that the cancellations reflect Fredriksen’s view that the next few years may be somewhat tougher than the previous years in shipping.

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Iceland’s Prime Minister has been in contact with his Nordic counterparts ‘for some time now’, according to Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, and Nordic help may be on the way to the beleaguered Icelanders.
The prime minister’s comments came as the benchmark Icelandic index, which has been closed for business for some days, reopened and plummeted a full 76 percent. Trade in Iceland’s three largest banks, which have been taken over by the state, remain suspended.

Elsewhere in the paper, Politiken reports that Iceland will be receiving a borrowing facility for 500 mill. Euro from the Danish national bank. The Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet, on the other hand, reports that the loan is 400 mill Euro, and that the borrowers are Denmark and Norway, both with 200 mill.

See also:

• Times – Iceland secures €200m from Norway, Denmark
• New York Times – Iceland Turns to Neighbors to Prevent a Collapse

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Bob Geldorf recently visited Norway, to speak at an international conference on trade and peace at the Oslo City Hall. According to Aftenposten, he “praised Norway’s intentions to fight poverty and control global warming, but respectfully suggested that Norway could start by changing some of its own policies at home.

Specifically, Geldorf zeroed in on Norwegian politicians’ tendency to portray the country as a champion of the environment and human rights, at the same time as they consciously block agricultural imports from poor countries and pollute the environment with their oil and gas industry.”

Geldorf is not the first one to note this discrepancy between words and action. I seriously doubt that he well be that last.

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The man, who did not have an Internet connection at home, used two years before his arrest in March 2006, sitting in a former NATO bunker in Kolsås and filling 99 CDs with child pornography, involving the abuse of minors as young as four to five years of age.

.. The NSM worker had the highest security clearance at the time, with access to top secret material when arrested.

The NSM’s own control system picked up the abnormal network traffic on their service server, and notified police.

The secret agent actually had compiled a collection of 600 films and 1750 images of hard-core child porn while on the job.

I guess secret agents aren’t all like James Bond after all?!? Sad, sad.

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The piece will be shown for the first time at VESTFOSSEN KUNSTLABORATORIUM, starting Sunday May 4. At the same exhibition they will also show a piece by Luis Vidal, entitled Qiero ser Lindo 1:

To me, this is somewhat easier to recognize as art. But who am I to judge – a nekkid blogger?

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