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how Norway voted and "not voted".

category international | politics / elections | other press author Wednesday September 14, 2005 01:17author by ribbid ribbid Report this post to the editors

If both elections in Japan and Egypt proved the rule that the government wins, Norway just about proves it.

Its a tripartite, 3 party coalition which is described as red-green. In much the same ways that commentators described the german coalitions of the past, but little of the analytic substance needed to make the description fit.

What the norwegians who voted wanted and not wanted, and what they sought is...

Good Question.

We know they're arguably the best off people on the planet. For the 5th year running they've topped the UN HDR report as being really the nicest place to be a citizen in the world. So are they unhappy?
Or do they want more citizens? Or is it all a big lie?
& they aren't the happiest best cared for most content long living peaceful secure well provisioned clean tidy neat healthy wellfed literate numerate best educated in the world?

Let's ask the english speaking commercial press:-

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1779029,00.html
http://afr.com/articles/2005/09/14/1126377338597.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/13/international/europe/13norway.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/12/news/norway.php
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050913/w091330.html

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L13603559.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5275454,00.html

this is norwegian english speaking commercial press -
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1113898.ece
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1113960.ece

this is the commie mujahadeen website in Qatar which is really the most succesful commercial new media in the last 4 years and they're all posh and rich.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/EBB74B36-8862-464C-8AF4-143271AA8AE2.htm

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useful facts:

They make Statoil in Norway.
Norway like New Orleans is abbreviated as NO
They got Marshall Aid.
They invented quisling and put it in the english language.
They invented Roald Dahl.
They invented tetrabricks.
They've got lots of Oil.
They have less herring now to put in it.
They are really much more "mixed up & mixing" in political cultural and ethical matters at both internal and international level.
They're well into the UN they helped pay for it.
They don't want to pay for the EU and aren't in it.
They invented Grieg.
They invented Munch, who invented the Scream, which got stolen. twice.
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will they lower the price of Oil?
will they take Oil from the Artic?
will they change the price of a cup of tea?

Find a norwegian ask them if they voted, remember unlike Ireland, they got free school books, and a postal vote and are polite and friendly and speak decent english.

Then add your comment.

author by floating voterpublication date Sun Oct 02, 2005 12:46author address author phone Report this post to the editors

on social matters,
such as education, health, pensions and infrastructure.
the preservation of their artic reserves from Oil exploration.

They voted not only for better spending of their taxes,
but in certain cases higher taxes. They voted for a program of government closer to "the left" than at any stage in the last twenty years, But as a rich country they can afford to.

 
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