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  Politics of Norway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Norwegian politics officially have the structure of a constitutional monarchy, giving the King mainly symbolic power while maintaining a stable Western democracy.
Brundtland strongly influenced Norwegian politics and society during this period and was nick-named the "national mother".
The Norwegian legal system is a mixture of customary law, civil law system, and common law traditions; the Supreme Court renders advisory opinions to legislature when asked; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Norway   (1713 words)

  
 Norwegian parliamentary election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This disparity is caused by the Norwegian electoral system, which assigns seats according to a formula favouring the geographically larger counties with small populations that are located proportionally further from the the capital, and disadvantages Oslo and more dense populated counties.
The red-green coalition was the winner of the election and formed a majority government, with Jens Stoltenberg as prime minister, on October 17, 2005, as soon as a national budget for 2006 had been proposed by the old government.
The Norwegian Labour Party obtained a result that brings it back into the position of "the largest Norwegian party, not just the largest of many middle-sized ones".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norwegian_parliamentary_election,_2005   (1116 words)

  
 History of Iceland
In 930 A.D., the ruling chiefs established a republican constitution and an assembly called the Althingi--the oldest parliament in the world.
Norwegian Iceland is always referred to in public documents of the fifteenth, and in chronicles of the sixteenth, century as a dominion of the Crown (see Styffe, "Skandinavien under Unionstider," Stockholm, 1880), and at first it retained its constitutional organization.
In the year 1281, however, a code of laws was introduced by the judge, Jón Einarsson, patterned on the Norwegian laws (Jonsbok).
www.historyofnations.net /europe/iceland.html   (1077 words)

  
 ::.Angus Reid Consultants.::
The Norwegian government controls the oil industry, and the Great Diet maintains a "petroleum fund" estimated at $43 billion U.S., in order to safeguard the economy in case reserves are eventually depleted.
Norwegian voters rejected European Union (EU) membership in plebiscites held in 1972 and 1994.
Norwegian foreign minister Jan Petersen has acted as a mediator between the government of Sri Lanka and the Tamil Tigers armed group.
www.angus-reid.com /tracker/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewItem&itemID=5892   (1931 words)

  
 INDUSTRIES - Online Information article about INDUSTRIES
Norwegian horses are small and thick-set, and remarkably sure-footed.
Commerce.—The Norwegians, in proportion to their numbers, are the first nation in the See also:
In 188o Norwegian steam vessels had a tonnage of about 52,000; they now exceed 6 o,000 tons.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /I27_INV/INDUSTRIES.html   (4788 words)

  
 http://www.qando.net/ - We Had to Destroy the Party to Save It
No single ideology can win on the national stage, so the neolibertarians are going to have to form an alliance with what centrists and fiscal conservatives can be broken away from the social conservatives in order to win the power struggle within the GOP.
The Republicans, having just held the presidency and consolidated power in Congress, are perhaps entitled to some gloating.
They understand that the Democratic party disagrees with the Republicans as a matter of policy and philosophy but that we are all Americans and under the constitution dissent is protected in order to have a thriving, open democracy.
www.qando.net /details.aspx?Entry=1188   (3795 words)

  
 Tidepool Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Senate Democrats yesterday beat back a Republican effort to scuttle a provision of their energy bill that would require utilities to produce significantly more electricity from wind, solar, geothermal and other renewable sources of power.
European environment ministers were confronted by a giant set of scales outside their meeting here today symbolizing the tons of marine creatures accidentally caught only to be thrown back dead or dying into the North Sea.
Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik voiced concern about the environmental impacts of fisheries, discharges of hazardous substances, and the effects of climate change.
www.tidepool.org /artshowday_new.cfm?day=03/22/02   (9190 words)

  
 Keyword   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Norwegian Red Cross workers were unable to set up their field hospital after unexpected resistance from the Indonesian military.
The Norwegian Red Cross has received official permission to set up a field hospital with a few hundred beds and a surgical and isolation ward on a grassy area in front of a soccer stadium in Banda Aceh, an area currently being used by the military.
The Norwegian officers are first leaving for Poland towards the end of July, to become acquainted with the Polish military system, before going on to Iraq in August.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=norwegian   (2262 words)

  
 ILW.COM - immigration news: Politics Of Class And Corporations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
It may be that the type of alliances formed by the National Council of La Raza, National Immigration Forum, and other champions of immigrants have succeeded over the past couple of decades in advancing a pro-immigration policy agenda and holding the line against restrictionist forces and their anti-immigration agenda.
The alliances and the positions of pro-immigration groups make them extremely vulnerable to the charge of constituting an open borders lobby backed by corporate interests.
Their diminishing ability to establish the prevailing framework, however, has as much to do with their unwillingness to compromise and make new alliances as with the type of alliances and compromises the leading pro-immigration groups have already made.
www.ilw.com /articles/2005,1017-barry.shtm   (5464 words)

  
 Human Conduct
Renzi had been considered one of the most vulnerable Republican incumbents but won easily with 59 percent of the vote.
Republican Rep. Mark Kennedy was re-elected with 54 percent.
Prescott and Norwegian Finn Kydland won the 2004 Nobel Economics Prize for research into the forces behind business cycles.
humanconduct.blogspot.com   (1033 words)

  
 MartiniPundit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Norwegians say the axe was aboard and they don’t think it was terrorism related:
Police operation leader Arve Westgaard said that the axe used was taken from an overhead rack, and is carried on board to smash windows in an emergency situation.
Now the Norwegians are saying that the axe used was indeed brought on board by the
www.martinipundit.com /index.php/weblog/calling_an_axe_nothing   (481 words)

  
 Ireland's OWN: News Updates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Bloody Sunday 1972 and because of the split in the republican movement in 1970 I had become disillusioned primarily because of the said split and the lack of proper screening in the recruitment of volunteers.
Thus no republican worth his or her salt would endanger the lives of civilians opposing such a draconian power for they were in the main the victims of it.”
The Republican plot at Milltown is a hallowed place for the IRA and Sinn Féin as it holds the bodies of hunger striker Bobby Sands and other activists — including the three IRA members killed at Gibraltar in 1988 in the shoot-to-kill controversy.
irelandsown.net /News47.html   (14762 words)

  
 Running Scared
Two prominent Republican governors - George Pataki of New York and Arnold Schwarzenegger of California - have urged Washington to make sure that states be allowed "to have stronger pollution controls than those set for the nation as a whole," as is the case under current law.
He said he is not sure Republicans have enough votes in the full Senate to confirm appellate court nominee William G. Myers III, but he will formally restart the contest by conducting a committee hearing Tuesday.
The two major parties in the victorious Shiite alliance are Jafari's party, the Dawa, founded in the late 1950s to work for an Islamic republic, and the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, or SCIRI, the goal of which can be guessed from its name.
runscared.blogspot.com   (10851 words)

  
 IMMS FYI -- Daily Newsletter
House Republican leaders on Tuesday rejected what many lawmakers believed was the chamber's best chance at a sweeping bipartisan tobacco bill that would have sharply raised cigarette prices and provided tobacco companies none of the lawsuit protection they demand.
The senior Republicans also objected to what they said was a request from Democrats that they accept or reject the deal within 24 hours.
Unlike Senate GOP leaders, senior House Republicans believe voters will not punish the party at the polls if it fails to pass legislation as broad as the $368 billion settlement reached in June by the industry and 40 states suing it, several of those present at the Tuesday leadership meeting said.
www.imms.com /fyiarch/FYIarch430.htm   (2908 words)

  
 Whiskey Bar: Ourselves Alone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Republicans are good at leading, which is why they've got the Democrats on the defensive, and why you're so worried about it that *you're* on the defensive.
It is as though the republicans embraced economic liberty as the democrats embraced personal liberty.
But now I believe that the threat to personal liberty embodied by the republican alliance with the radical right, and the neocons is so great, that the balance is tipped in the other direction.
billmon.org /archives/001169.html   (16934 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Scotland
Not many years later the Norwegian power in Scotland received a fatal blow by the death of Sigurd, Earl of I Orkney, the Norwegian provinces on the mainland passing into the possession of the Scottish Crown.
The French alliance enabled Scotland to drive back her English invaders; peace was declared in 1550, Mary of Guise appointed regent in succession to the weak and vacillating Arran, entering on office just as a Catholic queen, Mary Tudor, was ascending the English throne.
Charles I sanctioned the ruthless execution of the penal statutes, perhaps hoping thus to reconcile the Presbyterians to his unwelcome liturgical innovations; and his policy was continued by Cromwell, apparently out of pure hatred of the Catholic religion.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/13613a.htm   (9453 words)

  
 Unusual Candor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The study, which was funded by the Norwegian government and written by a scientist at the University of Oslo, suggests that lobsters and other invertebrates probably don’t suffer even if lobsters do tend to thrash in boiling water.
Although law enforcement, security guards and others who require weapons for work are exempt from the measure, current handgun owners would have to surrender their firearms by April.
Excuse me? To quote from former NRA President Charlton Heston, they can have my guns “when they pry them from my cold, dead hands.” I cannot imagine that very many people are going to willingly hand over there guns.
www.unusualcandor.com /wordpress   (3498 words)

  
 <MVCA Commentary and Journal>
If the Republicans want to win, win big in 06 and 08, then there has to be a solid grassroots effort.
The party has to look to the small republican donor base for support; it has to develop precinct captains; it has to help the precinct captains organize and rejuvenate their precincts; and most all, it has to gain control of the party in the General Assembly and start being capitalist rather than socialist.
The whole of Ohio is in the hands of the Republicans at this moment.
mvcajournal.blogspot.com   (2237 words)

  
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Another task in the early transition phase is to begin building a network of support for fundamental political reform beyond the small cadre of activist organizations that survived state repression in the pretransition era.
Sources of support and alliances may exist in such quarters as labor or women's organizations, student unions, and professional associations.
Fourth, there is some indication that groups sponsored by the nationally dominant Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena) may be crowding out less well prepared civic advocacy organizations at the local level.
www.usaid.gov /pubs/usaid_eval/ascii/pnabs534.txt   (21091 words)

  
 archives | AfterDowningStreet.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Norwegian Nobel Committee picked the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and ElBaradei, an Egyptian, from a record field of 199 candidates.
For 30 years, beginning with the Nixon presidency, advanced under Reagan, stalled with the elder Bush, a new political economy struggled to be born.
The idea was pure and simple: centralization of power in the hands of the Republican Party would ensure that it never lost it again.
www.afterdowningstreet.org /?q=archive/2005/10/07   (1755 words)

  
 Katia Landau: Stalinism in Spain (Part 2) - RH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
However, Ilse Kulcsar, like Moritz Bressler and a number of others, are showing their devotion to the cause of Republican Spain in the course of the tragic hours that they are now quietly passing taking coffee in the ‘Dome’ in Paris.
Wolfs wife, a Norwegian, the daughter of a socialist deputy with whom Trotsky stayed in Norway, searched for her husband in all the prisons of Barcelona.
It was only thanks to the energetic intervention of the Norwegian Consul that she escaped arrest at the time she was due to leave.
www.marxists.org /history/etol/document/spain/spain09.htm   (9765 words)

  
 UN Future in Doubt -- Opinion Central -- GOPUSA
A little more than a year earlier they wallowed in glory when the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, in two equal portions, to the UN and to its Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, for "their work for a better organized and more peaceful world."
They have long yearned to install a global government with all the trappings of a failed Marxist ideology and borderless and godless worldview -- and they expected the Nobel Peace Prize to greatly enhance the UN's stature and accelerate the deliverance.
Otherwise, the UN is doomed to suffer the same fate as its predecessor, the League of Nations.
www.gopusa.com /opinion/fg_0529.shtml   (870 words)

  
 Madison Independent Media Center: feature/16925
As you may have heard, the detentions of election observers was finally resolved, and observers with credentials from the Supreme Electoral Tribunal were allowed into the country.
However, there was some apparent intimidation of foreign observers in the form of an armed robbery of a Norwegian CIS observer at a local cyber cafe a few days before the election.
It was clear by the actions of the assailants that they were specifically looking for foreign observers, and it may have been an attempt to terrorize other observers.
madison.indymedia.org /feature/display/16925/index.php   (1519 words)

  
 Left in the Heartland: March 2005
The Alliance Defense Fund sided with the teacher and began to push the story nationally.
Her name was entered after College Republican Alliance President Colorado Robertson was informed the White House was looking for young adults whose grandparents receive Social Security benefits.
The most notorious example was the chant by college Republicans of "Hey-hey, ho-ho, Social Security has got to go" at the kick -off of Rick Santorum's re-elect bid.
leftintheheartland.blogspot.com /2005_03_01_leftintheheartland_archive.html   (12314 words)

  
 Akaka bill, Alaska Oil money, Native Alaskan Corporations, Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement, Drilling in the ...
The Hawaiian recognition bill is being supported by the Alaska oil industry, by the Republican delegation from Alaska, and by Alaska native corporations.
Newly elected Republican Governor of Hawaii, Linda Lingle, helped kick off the lobbying campaign on Capitol Hill, and met with Attorney General John Ashcroft and Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton to discuss the bill.
Members of the InterTribal Economic Alliance, a coalition of tribal leaders focused on business development and creating economies in their homelands, also plan to attend.
www.angelfire.com /hi2/hawaiiansovereignty/AkakaAlaskaKelly.html   (5988 words)

  
 Signs of the Times - 2005-02-15
Hitler protested his love of Norwegian neutrality; then he hit, claiming that he was protecting it from the British.
The Republicans tested the phrase private accounts and found public support was much lower than when the same, exact, identical concept was called personal accounts.
Such an alliance is to be expected in a world where the US holds itself above international law and international organisations such as the UN and the World Court.
signs-of-the-times.org /signs/signs20050215.htm   (13475 words)

  
 Constitutional government (from political system) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
British foreign secretary (1812–22), who helped guide the Grand Alliance against Napoleon and was a major participant in the Congress of Vienna, which redrew the map of Europe in 1815.
Includes pages on the search for a political settlement in Northern Ireland, information on community relations and crime prevention, and a presentation on the prison system, which lists the prisons in the department's estate and provides brief overviews of policies regarding allocation, transfer, and living conditions.
Focuses on the nation’s political system after World War II, concentrating on the balance of power between the federal government and local authorities.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-36727   (997 words)

  
 Humanitarianism & War Project
Expenditures on health and education increased as government income expanded and in response to pressure from the US-created Alliance for Progress.
Though this program facilitated the expansion of health and education services into most rural areas, many of them spurred by hundreds of Peace Corps volunteers, it also highlighted for Central American elites the overriding US strategic goal of preventing the sort of violent revolution that might lead to communist regimes similar to Castro’s Cuba.
Oppression relaxed somewhat in the early 1960s as the Alliance for Progress and Peace Corps established their presence.
hwproject.tufts.edu /publications/electronic/e_op14.html   (19601 words)

  
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He said of himself, 'Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.' His early paintings were primarily concerned with images of illness and death, with women portrayed as either frail sufferers or life-devouring vampires.
For 10 points, name this Norwegian artist, painter of works such as The Sick Child and The Scream.
The upcoming election is considered to be a referendum on the Republican Congress' witch hunt for Clinton's impeachment.
www.stanford.edu /group/CollegeBowl/archive/psu98/technophobia3/berk2.html   (3906 words)

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