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The Nordic countries The next supermodel
The Economist ^ | Feb 2nd 2013 | unknown

Posted on 02/04/2013 5:50:35 PM PST by beaversmom

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1 posted on 02/04/2013 5:50:41 PM PST by beaversmom
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Did anybody point to the observation that they are shrinking the state in the Nordic countries?. Mostly in Sweden.
2 posted on 02/04/2013 5:53:36 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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Bump


3 posted on 02/04/2013 5:55:14 PM PST by The SISU kid (I think they taste like Barbie dolls smell.)
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Oh, I thought this was an article dealing with Sweden’s state sponsored Eugenic program.

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=les%3B&gs_rn=2&gs_ri=hp&cp=10&gs_id=87&xhr=t&q=swedish+eugenics

Never mind.


4 posted on 02/04/2013 5:55:36 PM PST by TArcher
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>>On public services the Nordics have been similarly pragmatic. So long as public services work, they do not mind who provides them.<<

A gilt cage is still a cage. It sounds like you can be comfortably numb for all your life in these countries. If you want to really succeed, you have to choose your parents well.

Until 2008, you could succeed in the USA with average talent and intelligence but a lot of drive. Now, I don’t think so.


5 posted on 02/04/2013 5:57:56 PM PST by freedumb2003 (I learned everything I needed to know about racism from Colin Powell)
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To: beaversmom
Strange article. The Author mixed the Sweeds and the Nords freely, the Sweeds as examples of how not to do it, the Nords as examples of socialism that works.

Yet he ignored the 600 pound Gorilla in the room, the Nords fund their socialism experiment with the North Sea Oil fields and the Sweeds with chocolate...

Taxation in Norway is extreme and the social bennies are great, till the oil runs out. But the cost of living is insane, a hotdog in a gas station runs 6 bucks, and it is the cheapest food in town.

Norway is a great socialist experiment, till they run out of oil. Then like all socialistic schemes, when the money runs out, it will inevitably collapse destroying the Society.

I have spent some time in Norway, love it and the people. Just get tired of all the “Obama is going to teach you how to be good socialists” cocktail talk.

To ignore the vast funds pouring into Norway from the State run North Seal Oil sales to make socialism look good is duplicitous at best.

6 posted on 02/04/2013 6:02:06 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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Not only that, but the Nordic peoples may well have been the progenitors of ancient Greek civilization. Felice Vinci, in his seminal and well researched “The Baltic Origins of Homer’s Epic Tales”, hypothesizes that the scene of Homer’s “Iliad” and “Odyssey” transpired in the Baltic Sea before the proto-Vikings pulled up stakes due to a global cooling period that rendered their lands uninhabitable. They then invaded the Middle East by two routes- overland via the Volga and Dneiper rivers and by sea in their long boats which were recorded by the ancient Egyptians as the “Peoples of the Sea”, an enigmatic and massive history changing migration for which archaeologists have few explanations for. The book is a fascinating read and anyone of Scandinavian descent will have their notion of “roots” re-engineered” into the position of being the wellsprings of Western Civilization. More here:

http://www.kiskoseura.fi/troija/english/3.2.html


7 posted on 02/04/2013 6:07:16 PM PST by Yollopoliuhqui
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To: American in Israel

Sweden and Finland does not have oil. Denmark has some natural gas resources, but negligeble compared to Norway.

And, the Economist talks about how Sweden has learnt from “some” of its socialistic mistakes.


8 posted on 02/04/2013 6:08:56 PM PST by Eurotwit ("Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.")
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To: beaversmom

Well okay then, where are the Nordic supermodels?


9 posted on 02/04/2013 6:09:17 PM PST by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Gone Galt, 11/07/12)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1372959/posts

Muslim Rape Epidemic in Sweden and Norway—Authorities Look the Other Way
10 posted on 02/04/2013 6:10:02 PM PST by 45semi (A police state is always preceded by a nanny state...)
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Article fails to discuss, or ignores for politically correct reasons, the violent crime epidemic in Nordic countries, i.e. Sweden.

Sweden’s rapes are double Britains and four times France’s or Germany’s.

Sweden is now experiencing the results of multiculturalism and and its facilitating of Islamization.

“According to a new study from the Crime Prevention Council, Brå, it is four times more likely that a known rapist is born abroad, compared to persons born in Sweden. Resident aliens from Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia dominate the group of rape suspects. According to these statistics, almost half of all perpetrators are immigrants.

...statistics from Sweden’s National Council for Crime Prevention (Brottsförebyggande rådet) show that the number of reported paedophile rapes against children is on the rise. The figures have nearly doubled in the last ten years: 467 rapes against children under the age of 15 were reported in 2004 compared with 258 in 1995.

According to a new study from the Crime Prevention Council, Brå, it is four times more likely that a known rapist is born abroad, compared to persons born in Sweden. Resident aliens from Islamic republics of Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia dominate the group of rape suspects.

1) 2001: According to these statistics, almost half of all perpetrators are immigrants.

2) In Norway and Denmark, we know that non-Western immigrants, which frequently means Muslims, are grossly overrepresented on rape statistics.

3) The numbers in Denmark were the same (2001), and even higher in the city of Copenhagen with three out of four rape charges.

3) In 2011 the rape statistics had skyrocketed and were now fully dominated by immigrants, mainly Muslims. Authorities in Oslo, Norway, reported that immigrants were responsible for 100% of all rapes in the capital, while 90% of these were committed by Muslim immigrants.

Sweden has a larger immigrant, including Muslim, population than any other country in northern Europe. The numbers there are likely to be at least as bad as with its Scandinavian neighbors.

Link: http://europenews.dk/en/node/22631

http://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/sweden-shocking-muslim-rape-wave-epidemic/

Also: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1372959/posts


11 posted on 02/04/2013 6:16:02 PM PST by CharlesMartelsGhost
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Yeah, not good news on that front. Maybe Sweden will wise up in that area too...hopefully before it’s too late.


12 posted on 02/04/2013 6:18:03 PM PST by beaversmom
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Graphs of Sexaul Offenses committed in Sewden
13 posted on 02/04/2013 6:20:09 PM PST by CharlesMartelsGhost
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Sweden has a population just a bit greater than Long Island, New York, and Norway about half that. To compare the United States, with it’s ethnically diverse population of 310 million, vastly larger physical size and economy, with a couple of largely racially homogeneous and sparsely habited forested strips of land, with comparatively miniscule centrally planned economies is laughable on the face of it.


14 posted on 02/04/2013 6:21:29 PM PST by SpaceBar
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When does the ridiculous Pollyanna who wrote this drivel get to the part about Muslims overrunning Malmo and many another hapless burg in marvelous Scandinavia.

Or the hordes of Muslim gang-rapists and other violent criminals making life miserable in their big cities. Or the police forces' seeming inability to arrest anyone darker than your average Viking? OK, OK, they seem to be recovering some economic common sense. But in every other regard, Scandinavians are so politically correct and far left they make Barbara Streisand look like Maggie Thatcher

What the Swedes and Norwegians need is for some hardheaded Swedish Americans and Norwegian Americans to hightail it back there and set a few things straight. On the way, they might drop off a few more Euro-Americans to do the same for Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal.

Before we all go Viking-gaga, let's stop and remember that these are the people that gave the Soetoro Kid the Nobel Peace Prize when he had been in office about 16 minutes, and think Al Gore is a great scientist. Steady men. Lutefisk poisoning can sneak up on anyone.

15 posted on 02/04/2013 6:23:15 PM PST by Kenny Bunk (The Obama Absolution Molecule: Teflon binds with Melanin = No-Fault Marxism.)
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16 posted on 02/04/2013 6:23:55 PM PST by EEGator
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Bankruptcy tends to teach a hard lesson. But the economist is trying to teach an entirely different lesson.

Carefully omitting the gorilla is a calculated lie. Shame on them. No integrity these days. Why would I buy a magazine that that reports what they think I need to hear, instead of simply reporting what IS.

Economist my eye, more like Anti-Economist.

17 posted on 02/04/2013 6:28:21 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: EEGator
Admirable bone-structure. Admirable.
18 posted on 02/04/2013 6:28:51 PM PST by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Gone Galt, 11/07/12)
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Looks like Finland too :(

Muslim Immigration Transforms Finland
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2075/finland-muslim-immigration


19 posted on 02/04/2013 6:29:20 PM PST by beaversmom
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Norway is a great socialist experiment, till they run out of oil.
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most obviously through Norway’s $600 billion sovereign-wealth fund...

Norway is still pumping money into that fund which will be around producing income for that small country long after the oil is gone.


20 posted on 02/04/2013 6:29:58 PM PST by ckilmer
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