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I've read a blog piece about the Bordic states (Scandinavia + Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) - they are generally nordic, rather boring and on the border of Europe. Hard to describe them better in a nutshell... :)
I am sorry - did I miss the part in the story that mentioned that Sweden nationalized its banks in 1992? Strange how people seem to forget that when they are suggesting the lessons of capitalism that the Nordic countries can offer other capitalist nations.
Your should be sorry, Sweden did not 'nationalize its banks' in 1992. There was indeed a huge national rescue plan organised and financed by the nation. The worst 2 banks were indeed nationalized and a national rescue agency took on a huge amount of bad debt from other banks. The stongest banks needed little help and survived without transferring equity to the govt. The bailout was deisgned just to avoid nationalization, and the merged operations that were taken over have now been relisted and thru mergers the gv't owns some 30% of a single bank (out of . You should read the facts before sounding off like this in absolutist, domatic terms.
"Sweden spent 4 percent of its gross domestic product, or 65 billion kronor, the equivalent of $11.7 billion at the time, or $18.3 billion in today's dollars, to rescue ailing banks. That is slightly less, proportionate to the national economy, than the $700 billion, or roughly 5 percent of gross domestic product, that the Bush administration estimates its own move will cost in the United States.
But the final cost to Sweden ended up being less than 2 percent of its G.D.P. Some officials say they believe it was closer to zero, depending on how certain rates of return are calculated."
DAG001, I guess your fairly abusive response would have been appropriate if I had said that Sweden had nationalized its banking system (key word: "system"). However, as I said Sweden's government did nationalize banks in the country - as you point out yourself, two of them - it appears I did read the facts and did not make erroneous claims.
Moreover, you appear to incorrectly assume that I am bashing Sweden with my comment. That was an incorrect assumption on your part. My criticism of the omission of the 1992 move by the Swedish government was not a complaint about Sweden; it was a complaint about the author of this article, who apparently would like to ignore the fact that Sweden made some sensible moves in 1992 that would not have necessarily been placed as exibits in the Adam Smith's Museum on Capitalism. I pointed out the 1992 bank rescue as this author and a few other authors in this issue of The Economist apparently claim Nordic countries can be viewed as ideal models for other market economies, yet they forget what made them ideal models may include policies that some would have considered anything but market mechanisms. This is concerning not only because it is showing some disrespect to Sweden and its people, but because it is presenting an incomplete picture of what actually took place when governments in the region tried to turn their economies around. Such omissions can only create future failed policies.
Scandinavia's economies ARE doing pretty well BUT it is also pretty damn cold and dark up here during half of the year. There is not much you can do but work hard...
you can also enjoy the odd sauna with the odd newfound partner for that matter, then cold and dark are no longer an issue
The young people of today are taking house loan that they will never be able to pay back to the bank. Compare to our parents, building family and house during the 70th the inflation was very high, redusing the loan (morgage, not corrected spelled) to nothing. My generation, born 71, will most likely have to sell our house and move to a flat when we retire. The cost of living is extreamly high. Our former socialist leader, göran persson, said "if the young people of today new what we have done with the retirement (pension) system, we woulld never have maintained power. So in reality, when i retire, no money from the state. For US people, remeber that i am paying hell of lot tax for my pension, but the goverment is just taking it away. Greatings from the sweden, you know, the chef in the muppet show....
Instead of being jealous about the scam that our parents pulled on us (buying a house, not paying down the mortgage and having 10% yearly inflation reduce the debt to essentially nothing) pay down your own mortgage.
The fact of the matter is that - if you need to sell your house when you retire in 23 years - you likely bought a house/apartment that you couldn't afford.
You yourself, through the bidding process, likely drove up real estate prices. If people didn't expect or pay absurd amounts (100k kr/m2 in Östermalm!?!) then the housing situation in Sweden (and especially in Stockholm) would be much, much better.
The young people of today are taking house loan that they will never be able to pay back to the bank. Compare to our parents, building family and house during the 70th the inflation was very high, redusing the loan (morgage, not corrected spelled) to nothing. My generation, born 71, will most likely have to sell our house and move to a flat when we retire. The cost of living is extreamly high. Our former socialist leader, göran persson, said "if the young people of today new what we have done with the retirement (pension) system, we woulld never have maintained power. So in reality, when i retire, no money from the state. For US people, remeber that i am paying hell of lot tax for my pension, but the goverment is just taking it away. Greatings from the sweden, you know, the chef in the muppet show....
Interesting article. Just one thing: there are 5 Nordic countries. Iceland as well.
If you read the excellent citizen journalism - dozens of people working on websites like Craigmurray and the Swedish Flashback - that exposes the casual abuses of protocol in the Assange case you can only conclude that Sweden is a profoundly corrupt country. Not corrupt in the sense of economic enrichment but corruption of the rule of law, friendship corruption, lack of political accountability.
Well in the case of Assange vs Sweden, there seems to be something wrong with Assange (and some of his 'fans').
On the other hand, in the case Assange vs official USA, there seem to be more than one alarming problem with the official USA.
In short, your reasoning makes very little sense in this case.
No, it's a terrible miscarriage of justice that highlight all the arrogance of Swedish officialdom at its worst.
I urge you to read Julian Assange by Guy Sims, available as an ebook download for $3. I cannot recommend it highly enough
I still believe Assange and some of his supporters have lost it, seeing more than there is. In this way he and they lose credibility for the real things Wikileaks and others originally exposed.
The worst thing is that Assange's present behaviour protects official America from exposure.
But of course, some just see black and white, and since Assange once has been declared an angel, he cannot do anything bad. Hence the bad things he does must be projected at others. Giving Sweden poor publicity that is undeserved and not very serious, while the poor publicitu should be given to Assange and official USA. Of which the second is much more important since Assange just is a person, be it a somewhat ignorant one that possibly has not learned how to behave.
You just don´t recognize the rule of law when you see it. What Assange already has admitted to doing is illegal in Sweden. It might just make him a Grade A bunghole in other parts of the world but he was dumb enough to do it in Sweden.
Don't forget that the rotten Swedish police with all likelihood killed Olof Palme, and their muddying the waters over 25 years with all spurious dissimulation and exploitation of useful idiots believing in Sweden's infallibility - which the above reports sadly only adds to - has prevented its solution.
Are you familiar with the Assange case or are just one of those blowhards from abroad acting emotionally on some vague perception of Assange's guilt? I am not going to get into a debate with you on a Sunday afternoon. I is funny that those who know about the case in detail all come to the conclusion about rotten Swedish justice. There is perjury, rewritten protocols, witness cajoling, conflicts of interest, politicised direction - wrong even Sweden - no guarantee of fair trial, faked technical evidence. Do yourself a favour and just read one of the reports. A good place to start is here http://www.nnn.se/nordic/assange/suspicious.pdfhttp://www.nnn.se/nordic/...
Don't forget that the case was cancelled after a senior prosecutor looked at the real witness testimony - not a preliminary oe - and it was picked up again only after a secior politician got involved, possibly with the well connected woman who changed her story and out to get revenge.
I don´t need your course in Conspiracy 101 to wrap my head around this one. The reason the case was dropped was that it would be a waste of resources. The reason it was picked up again was due to the high profile of the accused. Not because the swedish government is plotting to send him to Guantanamo, but because not pursuing the case of a high profile accused could damage the peoples trust in the legal system. And when he admitted to ripping off the condom during sex without telling the girl and admitted to forcing himself into a girl while she was sleeping, that makes it even harder for Sweden to drop the case. These girls were in sexual relationships with him so he probably wouldn´t have a problem if he did this in Britain, Australia or even Denmark or Norway. But in Sweden this kind of non-consensual sex is treated as rape by the legal system. He might not agree, you might not agree, and many others might not agree, but that´s where swedish law stands. Notice, I don´t have to look up any conspiracy theories, he admitted to punishable acts, all else is irrelevant.
Yup, the famously free Ecuadorian political system with its clarity, lack of corruption and strongly enforced rule of law makes a mockery of Swedish justice. It's a wonderful place where Assange will find only kindness, honesty and a much more tolerant attitude to sexual abuse.
Sorry - in love in Monday - tweeting "the coolest guy" and being ovrheard saying "mmm. I felt you dumped me when you left the bed to sit your computer" - and then decide you've been raped by Friday. Sorry, I don't buy it. You can't run off to the police to sort out your broken heart problems. It's pretty outrageous when you fake the condom evidence. A Swedish poll has 80% of the 22,000 polled agreeing with Assange. It's clear you don't know anything about the case so I'll stop here.
My Lord this is hard for you! He admitted to doing these things. When both the accuser and the accused agree on the facts, there is no need to turn it into an episode of CSI. The question is juridicial: was there given consent? Swedish law is pretty clear on this point. That´s why Assange wants to go to Ecuador.
No, there is lots of disputes about the exact goings on. I have read the protocols and haven't seen Assange giving an account of the sex that accords with Anna Ardin's. I think she has lied and exaggerated. She is a very controlling woman. An adult and no shrinking violet. Probably the sort of person who liked dominant sex for all I know. Anyway, ripping someone's necklace off (which was part of the absurd rape allegation, not admitted) is not rape if it's done in an erotic context, right? The proof of the pudding is her behaviour afterwards right? And she clearlt loved having him around, wanted to be with him in the future. Words are just words unless put in context. She was obviously was in love with him.
The EAW warrant lies when it sex he had sex with SW when asleep. (which is apparently an offence - but this definition of incapacitation can be stretched, of course.) She has texted she was half asleep in smss we haven't been allowed to see. The cops have probably lied and exaggerated the women's accounts - and we don't have exact protocols because the police did not record it. This "I will call it rape when you dump me" is an appalling precedent for blackmail which will bring the Swedish state into people's bedrooms. When I have sex with my partner when she is a half asleep, I don't want to hav this nagging anxiety she might go to the police if I choose leave her, and at her discretion. Private life is privatte life.
You're probably too young to remember the Swedish kinder gulag, where thousands of children were confiscated from their parents on distorted hear say, he said, she said accounts that were exploited by power mad social workers who wanted to control family behaviour. Sweden is a semi-totalitarian state, a country where the state is unbelievably strong - and now its prestige is at stake. That is what the Assange case is about.
Sweden? A semi-totalitarian state? OK, amuse me. How is it totalitarian?
You, Durandal17, are a fool.
I particularly like your comment about penetrating someone while they are asleep "apparently [being an] offense".
What century do you live in?
Oh, don't tell me. With references to "kinder gulag", which is a mixture of German and Russian words, you likely lost your marbles a long, long time ago...
Incidentally, the Economist report on Sweden reads as if it could have been written by the Swedish foreign ministry, and that is not meant as praise. Why is the Economist so perceptive on propaganda from the former USSR but can't see it coming from Scandinavia. Is is just that that spinmeisters are just one step ahead of the Economists's senior writers? (In the same way the English football team is always defeated by the Swedish one, which follows English football closely.) The lack of language proficiency?. The all too human willingness even at the Economist to award at least one country e utopia in he world? Usually utopianism is thought of as a preserve of the left. Was it the saunas and icy vodka laid on by the foreign ministry entertainments team?
This post should win the "sour loser of the year" competition. Next time, try adding a few facts among your bitterness.
Yours is an unworthy reply. Why not respond factually instead of just brushing his arguments away with a one line unintelligent comment...? This a debate, after all. Haven't you noticed?
The moderators deleted my earlier reply, which had quite a few recommendations. Anyway, it is reposted with modification on the other thread where it is one of the most recommended posts of the last 24 hours.
This chap uses the usual cretinous Swedish style of debate, which is attempted condescension. That is because they have not been trained in critical thinking, are used to the imposed consensus, and therefore find all exchange of views difficult to handle in a normal way. So they get aggressive.
Doesn't work in English, old boy. Pity them. They are brainwashed.
I don't really intepreted this article as utopian, but get your point. There is some marketing word for this kind of act, praising solely one as the best. For example, Messi when it comes to soccer, Michael Jackson when it comes to music (at least around the 90's.)
However, the article is presented by a lot of statistics, so the reader can decide himself of the situation in Nordic.
Thomas. The question to ask. Would the intellectual elites of Scandinavia - the guys who write, I don't know, but say for Axess or Berlingsske or Under Strecket - think "what a great survey". Or are they more likely to look between their fingers and think. "This is a report from the Economist but". The Economist is like a lovesick English public schoolboy.
Not. Cool.
I don't think the Economist enhanced its reputation in Scandinavia with this report. Despite its positivity. Do you?
Drandal17 - Yes, I was wondering, too, why nothing was mentioned about Sweden basically nationalizing its banks in 1992. I am not sure that makes it the model of capitalist economies can use market mechanisms to solve economic and financial crises.
Wrong, it was one of the biggest banks that should go bankruptcy and if it should go down many people should be poor and out of works so instead of just give ordinairy peoples money to the banker so they could get rich again (like they do in europe now) the government took over the bank and its debts and run the bank several years and then in good times sold it with gain, so the swedish people didn't have to loose money. Very clever.
Jonas_BsAs's comment was actually two lines...
This article discusses, in a knowledgeable way, the Swedish conservative government's remaking av the 'Nordic model' with tax cuts, privatizations etc - but not much about growing inequalities, destruction of the unemployemnt insurancesystem etc and recently also tendences of xenophobia. That is changes are presented in a way the government would love. - A rather different view is found in a book mansucript we just left to the publishers, entitled not "Northern lights" like the article but "Nordic lights. Work, management and welfare in Scandinavia". I think we will give food for further thoughts and discussion along the lines of the Economist's article. The remaking of the "Nordic model" can be discussed both on a material level (changes in the economy, welfare etc) and an idelogical level, with reinterpretations of what "the model" really is about and who really the best actor to run it and develop it - the present centre-right or the oppostion centre-left, that is essentially social democrats.
Åke Sandberg, Stockholm University
"tendences of xenophobia"
You have got to be kidding me. You, sir, exemplify the neurotic Swedish fear of being, god forbid, "xenophobic."
The crime rate in your home country has shot through the roof. If this is news to you, it may be because Swedish media don't like to report on this. For example, Sweden has THE SECOND-HIGHEST RATE OF RAPE IN THE WORLD, after Lesotho. If that wasn't so tragic it would almost be impressive.
Jews are being attacked and run out of Malmø:
Ethnic Swedes may be a minority in their own country from 2050
These are ALL very legitimate topics that should be openly and enthusiastically discussed in an open democracy with free speech. Instead, Swedish media is remarkably silent on these issues. And you speak of "xenophobia"...
I am sorry, sir, but you are an example of the perverted brain-washing that has made public discourse in Sweden a dishonest parade of politically correct slogans irrelevant to the very daunting challenges mounting themselves before your country.
That's one of the most abused statistics in the world, and has been reported and discussed extensively all over the Swedish media; of COURSE Sweden has a higher rate of rape - it's one of the few countries wherea a rape victim can report a rape and actually be taken seriously.
I suppose you prefer for example the Indian model, where the police laugh and blame the victim, or the US, where even prominent politicians discuss what constitutes "Real Rape".
You sir, are an idiot.
That, sir, is a rare accusation so thank you. I think I will be shown to be not an idiot at the end of the day. It is true that legal definitions play a role but they do not account satisfactorily for the high number. It is in the order of 6 times higher per capita compared to Denmark. There ARE many real rapes in Sweden compared to other Northern European countries.
"I suppose you prefer for example the Indian model, where the police laugh and blame the victim,"
Yes, let us compare the reactions to rape in India and Sweden. There is a brutal gang-rape murder in New Dehli and the country explodes in rallies demanding change. In January of this year, almost exactly one month after the New Dehli rape case, there was a gang-rape just south of Stockholm. Yes, she wasn't murdered, thankfully. But are you sure you still want to compare the Indian and the Swedish reactions to rape? Where was the Swedish outrage? Where was the call for tougher laws? I think the ordinary Indian people reacted in the more civilized manner. They said "ENOUGH!!" and it echoed around the world. The Swedes….said nothing and just stood by. That is how civilizations die.
Of course the Swedish media focused on the Indian gang-rape not the Swedish one. The former was, after all, a comfortable 8000 km away.
And here is a story about a center for young rapists in Sweden where they try to explain to them that rape is "wrong."
In other news from Sweden, Jews are being attacked and run out of Malmø:
Ethnic Swedes may be a minority in their own country from 2050, from the official Swedish Census Bureau:
And you think I abuse statistics…. You, sir, are a well-trained sheep, ready to be herded and worked by your neurotic, PC-obsessed Swedish "leaders." It is not "manipulated statistics;" it is real…..
Morani ya Simba: read this article from BBC:
I think you have misused statistics in this case.
"I think you have misused statistics in this case."
I do not think I have abused statistics here but thanks for the link. I readily concede that legal definitions play a role but this simply cannot account for the gigantic difference in reported rapes between Denmark and Sweden:
Year 2011:
Sweden: 6509 rapes reported (preliminary so possibly a few more)
Denmark: 392 rapes reported
Per 1000 inhabitants this is a rate of (and using the populations given in this Economist article:
Sweden: 0.69 rapes per 1000 inhabitants per year
Denmark: 0.07 rapes per 1000 inhabitants per year
Mr. Lindstrom, does it sound reasonable that this ratio of 10:1 in relative rate between two countries with very similar cultures and legal systems, can be satisfactorily accounted for by differences in legal definitions?? I do not find that to be a credible conjecture. I would add to the case that it cannot (its accounts for some difference but far from all of it) that Sweden is having a crime wave in other violent offenses, not least in Malmø but also in other areas. For example, when was a 50% of homicides solved anything but an abject failure for a Scandinavian community??
"Vi är framme vid 50 procent, alltså hälften av de här svåra morden är uppklarade och det är jag oerhört nöjd med."
Finally I would like to say this: I am not trying to rub Sweden's nose out of spite. I realize that Swedes cannot be happy reading my comments and I am not trying to make you happy (short term at least). I am trying to provoke you to THINK about whether you think it is a good idea for Sweden to take in this many people from cultures so different from Scandinavian culture. And I think your media at home in Sweden have failed you in not fascilitating this important debate.
Also if we compare across time rather than space, please note that there were 2650 reported rapes in Sweden in 2004. Has the legal definition of rape changed so drastically between 2004 and 2011 in Sweden as to make the rate almost triple? This further supports my conjecture that there are unusually many rapes in Sweden. I would have liked to tell you the breakdown in country of origin of the perpetrators but I cannot since Sweden does not collect such data, at least for publication. I don't think it is white "Per" and "Kalle" that are on rampages here.
Yes, the law changed in 2005...
"Yes, the law changed in 2005..."
That is certainly relevant so thanks for providing that information (I am not trying to "be right", I am trying to understand what exactly is the deal with immigration and Islam in Sweden and Scandinavia. And yes, I may certainly be proved wrong. But only if I am. And I actually mean well for Sweden but sometimes being friendly and being a friend are polar opposites).
But how to use this information? The law changes in 2005. Reported rapes by year are, where available:
2004: 2650 rapes reported
--law changes--
2007: 4749 rapes reported
2008: 5446 rapes reported
2009: 5937 rapes reported
2010: 5960 rapes reported
2011: 6509 rapes reported
First I would note that even the number from 2004, 2650 is EXTREMELY HIGH compared to Denmark. Sweden has about 1.7 times as many people as Denmark. Again, there may have been legal differences between the countries back then. But if Denmark had around, say, 350 rapes back then you would expect in the ball-park of 350 x 1.7 = 595 cases in Sweden. In fact we have just over 4 times that number, before the law changed. (and this doesn't even take into account that Sweden's population has grown faster because if higher levels of immigration, which means that the factor 1.7 may be too high for 2004).
The second thing to notice is that the Swedish numbers have risen steadily from 2007 to 2011, presumably under the same law(??).
So while we cannot be sure how many rapes there are in Sweden as adjucated by the laws of other countries (Denmark, US, UK etc.) there is very strong reason to doubt that it is just "legal definitions" that account for the differences because the numbers were high even before the law changed and have been rising steadily even after it changed. (Finally one could ask, if in fact it is down ot legal definitions, where that would leave Swedish men if seemingly "everything" beyond holding hands can suddenly become "rape". Something's fishy in Sweden here. I think there are many rapes. But if not, Sweden has unusually screwy rape laws.)
I think Morani ya Simba simply has a problem with Sweden.
Comparing "rape" as defined in Sweden with "rape" as defined in other countries is nonsense.
First of all, crime statistics are based on reported crimes. Not on actual committed crimes.
Second, one jurisdiction's definition of rape (or murder or whatever) is likely different than another's
I think the most telling bit of statistics concerning "rape" is that Hong Kong - a city of over 7M inhabitants - has not had a single case of rape since 1999. You tell me why.
I think you are, as your name partially implies, a PC wanker so well-chosen moniker. I address your specific questions above.
And, not particularly for this wanker but in general, no I do not have a problem with Sweden. Quite the contrary. The changes taking place in the demographics of Sweden should provoke lively debate in any open democracy. My fundamental question is why that debate is lost in action in Sweden.
I invite ppl to challenge my statistics and facts. But with data, not PC fluff, of their own, please. Mr. Wanker shows how not to do so:-)
Nonetheless, crime is a major problem associated with increased non-western immigration to Sweden.
"In the latest available year foreign nationals constituted 6% of the Swedish population and 29% of the prison population. Foreigners are thus 6.2 times as likely to be incarcerated than Swedes, or 520% higher incarceration rate.
The over-representation is even higher for middle eastern citizens, who are 6.6 as likely as Swedish citizens to be in prison.
Lastly African citizens are 10.9 times as likely as Swedish citizens to be in prison.
Swedish citizens have an incarceration rate of 45 per 100.000.
African citizens in Sweden in contrast have an incarceration rate of 490 per 100.000.
These people live under the Swedish welfare system. If the welfare system was the reason Swedes commit so little crime, it should have affected the immigrants similarly. Clearly it has not. My conclusion is that demography is as important or even more important than policy in explaining Swedish crime rates."
Too bad Britain are implementing one of the worst ideas to come out of the Swedish school system, the free charters school. It has only created a greater divide between individual schools, and their PISA-results have not improved.
Look instead to Finland, ranked No. 1 by PISA, and having no free schools. They have concentrated on equality among schools, leave no one behind. The results speek for themselves...
Sweden has rather weak universities, due to academic corruption and a herd like political - or politically correct - mentality that tends to discourage independent thinking.
Durandal17: your name implies southern European origins.
Where you denied an immigrant visa to Sweden? Is that why you are so bitter? Or did you not get accepted to the veterinary program at SLU?
Sweden has three top tier universities (Uppsala, Lund and KTH) as well as some of the best medical research institutes in the world.
But you are a sad, bitter person. Despite this, I wish you well during the rest of your pained existence.
Dear Economist. Skipping Iceland in your coverage of the Nordic countries feels a bit like skipping Wales, or Northern Ireland when covering the UK. While Icelanders don't necessarily agree with the rest of their Nordic cousins at every step, and we did suffer quite a bit from the financial crisis, we do take a certain pride in calling ourselves Nordic and saying that the Nordic countries simply consist of Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland does feel like a giant slap in the face.
And I still believe you have the Nordic model too, in spite of the costly Icelandic laissez-faire mistake in the financial sector.
Jens Määttä
They skipped in this article because there is another one, that I am so happy about, that finally concedes Gordon Brown was wrong and a jerk in putting Iceland amongst the terrorist states. well done Iceland !!!
You fly high and with a rather ideological bias in this article, and hence miss some of the picture.
For example you praise the privatisation of a large piece of the Swedish school system (from elementary school to upper secondary school). In reality this privatisation (as many of the other changes of the school at that time) was highly questionable, and probably cost more than it tasted. Actually almost anyone could start a new school, and to a large extent employ cheaper unskilled teachers if they preferred this. There were some controls of these schools, but largely the politicians missed that a new ownership structure required a new control system. Hence, some private schools (as well as to a lesser extent many municipal schools) found out that they could economise by not providing certain required services and qualities. Many, especially among the private upper secondary schools, actually even lured the students with higher grades than they would get for the same performance elsewhere. In an extreme chain of upper secondary schools, they even tried to get more students by offering them half school days (counting as whole school days), and in another case they lured the students with free laptops.
Recently, Sweden has introduced some changes to the school system, that maybe could have more benefits than drawbacks. However, I know little about these new changes since I moved to richer Norway some years ago. On the other hand, right and left wing politicians, in Sweden and Norway, tend to be rather simplistic and impractical in regard to school questions, at least according to my own experience. Nevertheless, the politicians are just one of the parties involved, and there are a lot of others contributing to the strengths and weaknesses.
And flying high, you in the Economist missed all this, and a lot of other things, due to your focus on degree of private ownership and debt.
"This report will suggest that the trick is not just to get to Denmark; it is to stay there."
Wow, what a cheap PC shot at Denmark's immigration laws. Where does the author of "this report" think those laws came from? When was the last time the author took a walk in a Muslim ghetto in his home country, Britain (presumed since TE doesn't like to publish authors' names)? Just this last week there were reports of gays being beaten up by Muslims on "gay safaris" (there's a new term for you) and of Jewish children being advised to avoid certain schools because "there were many Palestinians there," right in the heart of Copenhagen. I suppose it never crossed "this author's" mind that such laws seek to protect Danish gays and Jews, among others. But of course any well-informed Briton would understand such problems given stories of British girls being kept as sex slaves by young Pakistani men. Perhaps the author could do a report on that? Newsflash, Mr. PC: Muslim immigration has victimized quite a few Europeans and Jews are afraid, from Liverpool to Stockholm for the first time since 1945. PC fool...
P.S. Where did TE stand on appeasement and the Munich deal in 1938? Yeah, figures. Hasn't changed much, huh...
I can say about the Palestinians who scare the jews in Denmark that they (the Palestinians reached Denmark because that their land is stealt by Israeli settlers,or theyr homes is destroied by Israeli occupier or many thing like these about which you cpuld learn reading the last report of UN Council for Human Rights.
"the Palestinians who scare the jews in Denmark"
Those Palestinians belong in jail. Or maybe we should just hand them over to the Israelis :-) Don't be fooled by the PC addicts at TE. Attitudes across Europe are hardening towards those Muslims who do not understand the most basic of civilized norms.
I think the phrase means "modernising your economy to be like that of Denmark", and not "immigrating to Denmark without getting kicked out" :)
Danish press mentioned advice on avoiding specific schools in Copenhagen. The school leader of that school refuted this and said it refered to problems that had been resolved a few years back.
The principal did retract the statements. Others say they are still there, including the Jewish Organization of Denmark. Trying wearing a kippah in Copenhagen, you will see that the problem is very much alive. If it is gone from that school it may be because it has been made "Judenrein."
The principal did retract the statements. Others say they are still there, including the Jewish Organization of Denmark. Trying wearing a kippah in Copenhagen, you will see that the problem is very much alive. If it is gone from that school it may be because it has been made "Judenrein."
Are you incapable of recognising a metaphor? It's nothing to do with immigration. It's about how to keep a relatively generous welfare state functioning with a market economy under pressure from globalisation. Duh!
"Are you incapable of recognising a metaphor?"
Guess not, f*cker lol
The school leader said the problem was 4 years ago, and now the situation is different.
Well, 4 years ago Israel started bombing Gaza, and later attacked on the ground. This made arabs from palestine very angry with jews.
If something similar happened today in Israel/Gaza, the problem for jews in certain schools would come back like before.
The US via its pre 1975 legal system gave the world a standard for carefulness that made the world rich. If you didn't make it safe to use and consume you got wiped out. Whether Volvo or Volkswagen or Ford Chry GM or AMC etc. Also, a marketing reality became apparent: Selling Insurance to Americans. This morphed into selling tort reform to USA population so as to not have to weather the beneficial effects of the exercise of tort law. This is the crack in the foundation that will probably undo all the good that the industrial revolution filtered through tort law has accomplished.
The prior stringencies of the US virtually built the rest of the world. Now the rest of the world is killing the goose that laid the golden eggs.
My wishes to Sweden.
I am envious living here in the United States. They seem to be good decent people who want a clean decent system. In the US, anything done by the government costs huge amounts of money. It does not help that Uncle Sam has no budget either.
Again, my best wishes to Sweden!
"I am envious living here in the United States."
Trust me, friend. You are not.
Most people are probably better off in Sweden than they would be in the US, even if Sweden has weak sides too.
Sweden has the second-highest rates of rape in the world. I think your statement applies to ppl on welfare and very few others.
As you could read in the BBC's internet sight some month ago that statistics you are referring to is misleading. The main reason for this is that a single rape incident in Sweden often is registered as several criminal cases, since each part of the crime is registered for itself. Not that I expect that you will believe me or the BBC. You probably still will think that Sweden has a rape frequency challenging that of war torn Congo, as seemingly some Assange followers, some islamophobes, and some odd hard line right wingers think.
"You probably still will think that Sweden has a rape frequency challenging that of war torn Congo"
I do not in fact. I think Congo may have the highest *rape rate* in the world but Sweden has the second-highest rate of *reported* rapes in the world. I also concede that you have a point about legal definitions playing a role. But the fact remains that Sweden has an astonishingly high rate of rapes in the actual, physical, tragic and dirty sense.
I have another statistic for you. Malmø Police had as official goal the objective of solving 50% of homicide cases last year. That may be pass for "realistic" in Detroit. But in Scandinavia it is forewarns of a very new age decending, darkly upon the Swedish land and people. Sweden is in real trouble with its massive influx of non-assimilating immigrants. It's not make-belief or echos of old fears. It is new, it is real and it is scary.
"Vi är framme vid 50 procent, alltså hälften av de här svåra morden är uppklarade och det är jag oerhört nöjd med."
Sweden, (and Nordics), is probably the most equal country in the world. I think that in many other countries many cases of rape are never reported. While in Sweden, woman's rights are among the best in the world which means women actually report rape and men are punished for it. In many other countries it's simply a shameful thing and many women wouldn't dream of reporting it.
I live in Sweden and I have been all over the world, and rape is certainly not more common in Sweden than elsewhere (while probably not much better either). In fact, the Nordic people are amongst the happiest in the world and it probably one of the safest places to live in.
As I more or less said, you are one of those persons deriving all problems to Muslim immigrants. Maybe you should try to get a more balanced view on society.
"As I more or less said, you are one of those persons deriving all problems to Muslim immigrants. Maybe you should try to get a more balanced view on society."
That is a typical accusation one hears. Unfortunately it isn't true. I do not ascribe "all" problems to Muslims. I am saying there are VERY BIG problems with Muslims in Europe, including Scandinavia.
The statistics, daily stories in the papers, even personal impressions walking the streets, make it impossible to deny that the problems with crime, especially violence and intimidation, with extremism, with terror-planning (Stockholm was one incompetence away from the first car-bomb attack), with abuse of women (Muslim and non-Muslim), with giant expenditures on welfare and worst with parallel societies that are showing signs of decreasing affinity with the ambient society and thus creating "two nations in one state", are all absolutely real. But unlike you, I am trying to look at reality instead of flocking with the PC crowd like most "small people" do as good, well-trained sheep. Here's a story from Britain. I am sure she must just be "a racist" too, right???
Well, following your line of comments in the nearby surroundings, I would still say the same thing once more. That is, you seem to have got stuck in your 'Muslims-are-the-problem' quest. Maybe you are the problem, just as some from every other group are, of course including a few of the Muslims too.
"Well, following your line of comments in the nearby surroundings, I would still say the same thing once more."
I am sure you would and your reaction illustrates how surreal Swedish debates on this are. Consider that I bring statistics. You do not engage these by bringing more updated or different numbers yourself. I document that Jews in Malmø are feeliing, and being, persecuted. I document that Malmø police consider it a "success" to solve 50% of homicides. I document that the Swedish Statistical Bureau estimates that ethnic Swedes may be a minority in Sweden by 2050. None of this strikes you as something worth debating????
What is really going on here with you? Permit me, as a former hobby profiler and hobby pick-up artist, to tell you: People are herd animals and not merely in the physical sense. They know that it can be dangerous to get too far outside the general frame of mind of the group because then you can be ostracized and your chances of survival drop. On the other hand it can feel very empowering to have the opinion of the group square behind you. When that happens you *really* feel like a part of the group. That is why people coordinate opinions, views and even fashion styles and often subconsciously. And you know, as a "normal" Swede, that the views I am presenting here are pretty much considered taboo in Sweden. So you expect, probably subconsiously, that if you attack these views, "the group" will come right behind you and you will receive two emotional awards: You will feel very much part of the group which is good for your natural herd instict that all humans have. And, you will have removed the uncomfortable challenge to the consensus that keeps asking if you are like a group of lemmings on your way to the edge. So, sir, I am not at all surprised by your reaction. But you are not engaging my data. And that, but not that you disagree with me, is your real fault.
all have weak sides , but its allways an work in progress , no one here in cold north think "we have it good now , lets just stop there"
and we to hope the best for US and hope you sooner than later get rid of corporations are people and elections that takes years, first then you guys will get some goverment that works.
I Live in Oslo, Norway, where an ever increasing number of Swedish youth come to get work. They all seem to say the same thing. Sweden is going down the drain. They do not feel entitled to their own opinion and the career oportunities for young people are very bleak. Many also claim that democracy is under serious treath as the government and media seem to work together in controlling/manipulating and downright enforcing the collective mind of the swedes. Many say they do not feel like free people and that they have serious fear of the nations future and identity as it is changed dramatically by immigration from developing countries. To mee it seems like the good friendly swede is nothing but a fasade, while many of them are actually seriously concerned, angry and frustrated by the nations development. Many of them say work is only part of the reason they come here. Many seem to enjoy the fact that they can state their true opinions here withouth getting severly punished by the PC clan. Money is not everything.
Many norwegians share these concerns too, but we are not in it as deep as Sweden. We use Sweden as an example of a potential worst case scenario when it comes to cultural breakdown, intellectual corruption and a totalitarian regime in the making.
@guest-lalwena: you can't take the opinion of Swedes who moved to Norway at face value. There are, after all, reasons why these people chose to move from Sweden.
Maybe they don't have children and don't want to support the child welfare system;
Maybe they are interested in earning lots of money;
Or, most likely, they just want to fit in and praising [new country], at the cost of [old country], is one of the most common tools used by immigrants.
In any case, Moranyi ya Simba is an intellectual midget and, if living in Sweden, votes for Sverigedemokraterna.
small note to readers from Scotland. This is how your country could be, not as it is
Like Iceland would be a better metaphor if you compare RBS, BoS to the Icelandic banking system.
True but Scandanavian countries in general did not allow their banks get into too risky buisness.
Also living in Finland, I must say I must object o the idea that Scandanavia is taxing higher income than anywhere else. Yes income tax maybe somewhat higher BUT If you include health care costs (private in US, Switzerland, National insurance contribution in the UK), the level of income taken by tax & health care are much the same across the board.
The only difference seems to be that smaller countries appear better (more efficient) to deliver benefits to the ordinary citizen. On this point I think it is better for Scotland to emulate other small countries
Who cares about the Scandinavian countries? Australia has all of the same quality of life, comparable middle class tax liabilities to the US, an economy robust enough to shrug off the global economic fiasco and beautiful weather to boot! I think the Economist is too cheerful about the northmen. What does Scandinavia really have besides rally car drivers?
Fast internet ;)
Australia has a big current account deficit
Scandinavian countries like Denmark, Sweden and Norway are running high current account surpluses
Even though Australia's net public debt is low compared to USA is the Scandinavian countries having even lower net public debt
Australias export are very dependent upon resource export and in particular dependent upon resource export to China.
Scandinavian countries like Denmark and Sweden are having very diversified export and Norway do of course have their oil fund
beautiful weather with skin cancer causing sun, crocs all around, nasty wasp jelly fishes, spiders of the worst type. Ok so you don't have bears and vikings, but who cares ?
stereotypical jokes aside, Australia is lucky to have mines and China buying lots of raw materials, nothing close to fancy innovation. The same size population is Sweden has produced way more technology and products, and added value in export.
enjoy your Fosters, cheers mate :)
"Who cares about the Scandinavian countries? Australia has all of the same quality of life, comparable middle class tax liabilities to the US, an economy robust enough to shrug off the global economic fiasco and beautiful weather to boot! I think the Economist is too cheerful about the northmen. What does Scandinavia really have besides rally car drivers?"
Hmm, do 10 times as many Nobel Prizes in the sciences count?
I do, since I live there (since 1939).
Bo Widegren
I do, since I live there (as from 1939).
Bo Widegren
Gnostic Liberal - While I agree with you Australia could be used more often as an example here at TE, it should be kept in mind that one thing which holds the nation back from being a universal model for all capitalist nations is that it's economic boom has somewhat (if not largely) been on the back of a commodities boom spurred by Chinese demand for raw materials. Not all developed economies can rely on such a model for growth as mining is not an opportunity all advanced nations can count on.
lego and B&O ;)
all have an basically free (tax paid) educations system.
clean air and water
we bet on the future of our kids not the dying past.
Australia have worse immigration policy's than the Scandinavian country's ftm
US have none yet ;)
Regarding government debt it should be noted that Norway is a net creditor. Details are available her http://www.regjeringen.no/en/dep/fin/Selected-topics/economic-policy/the...
All the four major Nordic countries now (2011) have a negative "Total Government Net Debt".
If capitalism is remodelled, does it still called by the same name? Surely not and perhaps we can label it Nordicism. Then again the ability to change with time and season is the key to a successfully run country. Clearly, having national growth measured by GDP per capital is the best sustainable way forward.
Norway has a population density of 34; Sweden's is 50, Finland has a population density of 39, but Britain has a population density of 614. While the Scandinavian have a concept of pace and time we are thoroughly submerged in the cares, the confrontations and the pace of a life style which, with current ideas of modernisation and the dramatic expansion of suburban areas will mean that such necessary and life affirming factors will disappear. With a small population and the life work balance catered for the Scandinavian countries manage to maintain greater number of GDP per capita. In dollars: 26,000, 28,000 and Finland at 21,000 (rounded numbers). The equivalent figures for the UK are 18,000. One can only assume that with the arrival of a projected large scale influx of people from Baltic states, with unknown provenance, the British figures will be impacted. In fact, across a spectrum of statistical data, Scandinavian countries are assured of better medical care, more people in higher education and equality in purchasing power parity. With the British lifestyle about to be seriously impacted by higher living density then one can expect a decline in all the numbers represented. We are a country in which the State has taken over the lives of the individual, where we are reduced to being the foot soldiers of Governmental ambition discounting the ambition, choice and welfare of the individual. Apparently, in the lottery of life, you would have won had you been born in Stockholm and being born in England entitles you to a small plastic toy.
"With the British lifestyle about to be seriously impacted by higher living density.."
The new advent in Europe is that immigration has become an ideology that does not need justification in its own right. When it is being justified, disproven arguments such as "they will help pay for all the retiring people" are brought forward despite immigrants being a net expense on the public. This is very irrational when coupled with the most generous welfare states in the world and an aversion to selecting for attractive (meaning well-educated and/or wealthy) immigrants "because that is discriminatory" (states exist to "discriminate". Between citizens and non-citizens. But rationality is not prized in Europe these years.)
Immigration can work but the first, and perfectly legitimate question for any state, is "do we need immigrants." And the second question should be "what kind of immigrants do we need."
If you want to help refugees that is fine but they are more efficiently helped in their neighboring countries. The expense of one immigrant to Northern Europe could have helped many locally. And we have also largely abandoned the idea that a refugee should return once the situation stabilizes in his home country.
Immigrant policies in Europe are tranparently an expression of collective traumas from WWII. Traumas are not a good starting point for rational or humane policies...
Excellent! To the point!
"Immigrant policies in Europe are tranparently an expression of collective traumas from WWII. Traumas are not a good starting point for rational or humane policies..."
yes, and the refugee convention has been grossly abused and should be renegotiated ASAP.
Indeed, the Swedish policies are unsustainable as they become more diverse.
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This article is about the anime character Giovanni (anime). For other uses, see Giovanni.
Giovanni (サカキ Sakaki) | |
General | |
Hometown: | Viridian City |
Region: | Kanto |
Family: | Unknown |
First Appearance: | IL015: Battle of the St. Anne! |
Voice actor: | English: Ted Lewis (current) English: Craig Blair |
Giovanni (Japanese: サカキ Sakaki) is the leader of Team Rocket and the Viridian City Gym Leader.
Giovanni serves as the Head of Team Rocket in the anime, never really shown taking action in field work, but rather sends the grunts and other members for that. Jessie, James, Meowth, Butch and Cassidy along with other members, are constantly striving to please him in their actions, usually without his compliance.
In the early episodes of Pokémon, his face was hidden from view and his voice was distorted. However, this version was later dropped as the series went on to become more comical. Giovanni has only been shown once as the Gym Leader of Viridian Gym, in the episode The Battle of the Badge, facing off against Gary. In this episode he used Mewtwo, which he was controlling with a machine, against Gary's Pokémon, brutally defeating him. By the time Ash challenged the Gym, Giovanni left on account of an emergency, leaving Jessie, James and Meowth in charge. Ever since the destruction of the Gym, he had never returned to it, rather it was rebuilt and had Agatha of the Kanto Elite Four take temporary leadership of it. Giovanni in the anime series might be some sort of businessman, because he is revealed to own Pokémon Island.
He possesses knowledge of the other crime syndicates in the Hoenn, Sinnoh, and Unova regions, which are also regions that he does not have a branch of Team Rocket. Despite his dislike of Jessie, James and Meowth, he allows them to try setting up new branches (as they kept following Ash to capture his Pikachu). Upon Team Galactic's defeat, Giovanni began looking into the working of a mysterious organization in Unova as he wished to obtain artifacts there to further his plans for global domination without confronting them. Giovanni allowed Jessie, James and Meowth to do as they please in Unova, working with Dr. Zager.
Giovanni returned to spearhead Team Rocket's: Operation Tempest, a stratagem which involved caputuring Meloetta. He did just this using goggles created by Dr. Zager to see the mythical Pokémon even when she was invisible. Giovanni quickly defeats Ash and rejoins Jessie, James, Meowth and Zager. Team Rocket led Giovanni to the Abyssal Temple which they had spent a while looking for. With Ash & Pikachu captured, Giovanni uses Meloetta to summon the Reveal Glass and rise the Abyssal Temple, using Meloetta's calming song, that Team Rocket had insidiously recorded during her time with Ash. Meloetta is caused to suffer in this ceremony. The Kami trio are summoned and the Reveal Glass morphs them into their, feral, vicious Therian Formes. At Giovanni's command, they battle the resistance created by the escaped Ash, Pikachu and their friends, Iris's Dragonite leds this resistance. In the midst of a titanic battle, Ash and Pikachu confront Giovanni. Ash orders Pikachu to use Electro Ball, because Piakchu had been charged up from an earlier attack, the Electro Ball's size and power are augmented significantly. The electric attack incinerates the platform Giovanni was standing on and severes the link between the sadistic leader and the tortured Meloetta. However Giovanni loses his mind because of this, ordering the Kami trio to destroy the Unova region. Jessie, James and Meowth throw themselves at their beloved boss and successfully save him, not only from a fatal explosion but from his insane state. Team Rocket then make a total retreat to Kanto.