http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/sweden/ en-us Sun, 3 Jan 2010 03:26:23 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419810/posts The lesson to be learned from Sweden of today (a nation lead by a - predominantely - Conservative government) is that during a global finacial crises, a government brave enough to sell off some formerly nationalized businesses to the free market could finance tax cuts and pay off national debt. I guess this is preferable to one striving to take on hefty loans in order to try and save unhealthy companies and launch costly health care reforms. But, it's not for me to say in the case of America, as I'm not a citizen of that country (although I sure... www.thelocal.se http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419810/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 03:26:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419790/posts As of New Year's Eve evening, police had no suspects for an attack against a mosque in Malmö earlier in the day when shots had been fired through the window of the building. Nobody was seriously injured during the incident. The imam was taken to hospital to treat minor cuts from glass splinters, but he was not struck by a bullet. He was allowed to leave the hospital after his cuts were bandaged. Around five people, including the imam, were in an office following the evening prayers. “The imam was sitting in front of the computer when (we heard) a... The Local [Sweden] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419790/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 02:22:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412786/posts The Swiss minaret ban and the leaked climate e-mails are really the same story — or, more precisely, are symptoms of the same disease. In the Times of London, Oliver Kamm deplored the results of Switzerland’s referendum, consigned it to the garbage can of right-wing populism, and for good measure dismissed my analysis of Euro-demographics (“This is nonsense,” he pronounced magisterially). Instead, Mr. Kamm called for a “secularist and liberal defense of the principles of a pluralist society.” That’s not the solution to the problem, but one of the causes. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for liberalism and pluralism... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412786/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:38:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2409397/posts A 60-year-old Church of Sweden pastor faces a remand hearing this Friday for the alleged sexual abuse of two children during an overseas trip with a group of candidates for confirmation. The pastor is suspected of three sex offences carried out over the course of the confirmation group's trip to a major European city in October. Friday's remand hearing at Varberg district court will determine whether the public prosecutor's case is sufficiently strong to warrant detaining the cleric in custody for one charge of child rape and two of child sexual abuse. As of Thursday, the pastor remained active at... The Local http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2409397/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:36:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410443/posts Unable to find a buyer for Saab after a year-long search, General Motors said Friday that it would begin shutting down operations at the Swedish carmaker. www.nytimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410443/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:03:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410559/posts NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- General Motors is shutting down its Swedish car brand, Saab, after attempts to close a deal with a buyer failed. GM had announced earlier this year that it was close to reaching a deal with Swedish super-carmaker Koenigsegg. That deal fell, though. "In the end, Koenigsegg discovered some issues they didn't think could be overcome in a timely fashion," said John Smith, GM vice president of corporate planning and alliances. Dutch exotic carmaker Spyker then emerged as a bidder for Saab, but that deal couldn't be concluded in time, GM said. In both cases, according to... CNN Money http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410559/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:14:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2407584/posts Translated from the blog Politically Incorrect: "The Cultural meltingpot - One Student's Experience in High School and College First of all i want you to know that I don't want to write a sob story to make you feel sorry for me. I want to tell you what it's like to be young in today's Sweden. Every day when I come to School I meet people from foreign countries. this has been the case for my entire life. My first experience of multiculturalism was in elementarm, but that is not something I want to write about since I was just... Politically Incorrect http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2407584/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:54:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407765/posts Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2009/December/09-nsd-1338.html FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, December 14, 2009 Terrorism Defendants Sentenced in Atlanta Ehsanul Islam Sadequee Receives 17 Years in Prison; Co-defendant Syed Haris Ahmed Receives 13 Years Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, 23, of Roswell, Ga., and Syed Haris Ahmed, 25, of Atlanta, were sentenced today in federal court following their convictions earlier this year in separate but related criminal trials, the Justice Department announced. "With their words and their actions, these defendants supported the wrongheaded but very dangerous idea that armed violence aimed at American interests will force our Government and our people... US DOJ.gov - Justice.gov/opa - Press Release http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407765/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:14:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2406834/posts Scandal-hit golfer Tiger Woods' wife Elin Nordegren has bought a vast beachfront estate on an island near Stockholm that can only be reached by boat, a residents' association said on Sunday. "Elin Nordegren bought a house on the island, it's true. She's the owner since December 1," Sten-Aake Johansson, head of Faaglaro island's residents association, told AFP. There are around 140 properties on Faaglaro, which is about 40 kilometres (25 miles) southeast of the Swedish capital. "The property consists of several houses, it's a renovated farm, on the water with a beach," Johansson said. According to the Swedish Aftonbladet daily... France24 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2406834/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:19:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2406129/posts STOCKHOLM — A Swedish residential official confirmed Saturday that Tiger Woods' wife bought a house on a small island off Stockholm. Stenake Johansson, the chairman of the Residential Association on Faglaro island, told the Associated Press that Elin Nordegren became the owner of a six-bedroom house on Dec. 1. The island is only reachable by boat. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2406129/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:52:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404390/posts PAF gets first airborne early warning aircraft By Iftikhar A. Khan Wednesday, 09 Dec, 2009 ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Air Force on Tuesday received first of its four Saab-2000 Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft from Sweden. According to an official announcement, the aircraft landed at one of main operating bases, marking a major milestone in PAF’s overall modernisation plan. With the induction of the Swedish system, PAF has become one of the few air forces in the world to have Airborne Early Warning capability. Besides detecting high- and medium-altitude aircraft, this state-of-the-art system is also capable of detecting low-level flying... The Dawn http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404390/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:09:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401431/posts Department store cancels sale of Swedish jeans made in N.Korea Jeans confiscated because of 'working conditions in North Korea'. -AFP Sun, Dec 06, 2009 AFP STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN - A Swedish department store on Saturday cancelled what was to be the sale of the "first ever" brand of jeans made in North Korea, the Swedish company behind the communist-made dark denims said. "Apparently PUB has censored our exhibition/store by shutting it down and 'confiscating' the jeans because of the 'working conditions in North Korea'," Jakob Ohlsson of company Noko Jeans told AFP in an email. "At first i thought it was... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401431/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 11:33:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397605/posts Sweden, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, is pushing the EU to make an official statement next week backing both a unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood and also the division of Jerusalem, a draft resolution obtained exclusively by Israel’s Haaretz newspaper shows. EU foreign ministers may now make a declaration along such lines at a meeting on December 7. It would be the first significant foreign policy initiative following the creation of a de facto EU foreign ministry under the terms of the Lisbon Treaty which came into effect today. Israel is still reeling from the... Robin Shepherd Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397605/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 15:05:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394514/posts A deal for General Motors Co. to sell Saab to a specialty carmaker has collapsed, leaving the storied Swedish brand born from jets in 1947 close to extinction. Koenigsegg Group AB, a consortium formed by Swedish luxury sports car maker Koenigsegg Automotive AB, said Tuesday it pulled out of the deal in part because it was unable to agree with investors on how best to move the brand from mass-market to premium. For GM, it was the third time this year that a deal to shed one of its brands fell apart as it tries to recover from a stay... The AP, via Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394514/posts#comment Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:30:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391718/posts ScienceDaily: “Slowing Evolution to Stop Drug Resistance” --snip-- For years, evolutionists have pointed to antibiotic resistance as proof of evolution in action. The argument often amounts to this (in simplified form): the fact that certain organisms grow resistant to certain antibiotics is evidence for the evolutionary idea that all animals must have descended from a single ancestor. Collapsing the argument does make it seem a bit silly, but that’s our point. We certainly don’t want to belittle the very real threat of dangerous organisms becoming immune to the best drugs we now have (though the vast majority of microbes are... AiG http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391718/posts#comment Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:32:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2391652/posts What's wrong with America? Last time I posed this question to the other members of this forum, I got response like "go finish your acquavit elsewhere" and such things. Now, that was pretty rude and not particularly nice, was it?:) Is it my fault that I drive a Volvo V70 and an average American drives a ridiculous part of the Ford F-series? Is it my fault that we Swedes can build superior subs (not talkin' fast food here) and our competitors can not? Most states of the US hasn't let in as many Muslim settlers as Sweden has, I'll give... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2391652/posts#comment Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:00:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391113/posts STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Swedish police have arrested two North Korean diplomats on suspicion of smuggling 230,000 cigarettes into the Nordic country, the Swedish Customs Office said Friday. The pair, a man and a woman who have diplomatic status in Russia, were stopped by Swedish customs officers Wednesday morning as they drove off a ferry from Helsinki, the Finnish capital. Customs officials discovered Russian cigarettes in the car driven by the couple, Swedish Customs spokeswoman Monica Magnusson told Reuters. The two North Koreans claimed diplomatic immunity. "They were accredited as diplomats in Russia, but had no accreditation in Sweden," she said.... Reuters on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391113/posts#comment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:24:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2389301/posts font size="2" color="black">Geneva (ENI). Church of Sweden Archbishop Anders Wejryd triggered outrage from a Lutheran church in Africa when he ordained an openly lesbian woman as bishop of Stockholm on 8 November. The archbishop asserts, however, that neither his church nor his country supports promiscuity, but that Sweden is a "surprisingly moral society". He said the Swedish church encourages faithful and stable relationships between people whatever their sexual orientation may be.The Church of Sweden issued a press statement when 55-year-old Eva Brunne was consecrated as the bishop of Stockholm in a ceremony at Uppsala cathedral, the mother church of the... Ecumenical News International http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2389301/posts#comment Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:03:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2386754/posts A Swedish man who saved a woman from assault has been sentenced to prison rather than being applauded for performing a civic duty. In a case which has provoked outrage across the country, Per-Anders Pettersson was found guilty of aggravated assault despite the would-be Samaritan’s claims he was acting in self-defence on behalf of 66-year-old Gard Forsgren who was being attacked in her car. Forsgren, now 69, was assailed in 2006 while inside her vehicle near Nas in the central Swedish county of Dalarna when Pettersson intervened. He dragged the woman’s attacker from the car and hit him two times... IceNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2386754/posts#comment Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:47:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385061/posts Swedish taxpayers helped fund a youth recreation centre in the north Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby which served as a recruiting station for the Somalia-based Islamist group al-Shabaab. More than ten young people from the predominantly immigrant neighbourhood who spoke with Sveriges Radio (SR), said that the recruitment drive was led by a youth leader at the Kreativitetshuset recreation centre. The recreation centre was started by a mosque and received a total of 480,000 kronor ($70,400) from the Stockholm city sports and recreation administration over four years before closing down in 2008. "It's horrible. There was no suggestion of this when... The Local (Sweden) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385061/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:41:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382990/posts [PRESS RELEASE, 10 November 2009] Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have discovered a mechanism that controls the brain's ability to create lasting memories. In experiments on genetically manipulated mice, they were able to switch on and off the animals' ability to form lasting memories by adding a substance to their drinking water. The findings, which are published in the scientific journal PNAS, are of potential significance to the future treatment of Alzheimer's and stroke. Lars Olson Photo: Camilla Svensk "We are constantly being swamped with sensory impression," says Professor Lars Olson, who led the study. "After a while, the brain must... Karolinska Institute (SWEDEN) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382990/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:19:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2381899/posts Seriously, Why do America think it rules the Earth? It does not. My home country, Sweden, has 9 million inhabitants and we rule Europe, aka the largest economy on the planet. Test me. Does a Koenigsegg embarrass a Lamborghini or what.. China, the US as well as Germany are loosers in the game of industrial achievments compared to my "little" nation. Why is it so hard for you to manufacture real world products? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2381899/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 03:37:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378678/posts A Swedish radical Muslim has started political cooperation with both right and left wing extremists to build up an anti-Semitic party. Poet and journalist Mohamed Omar intends to fight what he calls the “danger of Zionism” that poses a threat to the world. Even though Omar’s political movement is rather weak as of today, experts warn of the anti-Democratic potential of this development. Radio Sweden http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378678/posts#comment Wed, 4 Nov 2009 22:24:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374207/posts Stockholm-area police arrested nine left-wing activists on Wednesday in connection with a string of disturbances in the southern suburb of Fittja in Botkyrka. For several nights earlier in the week, Fittja Centrum was plagued by several car fires and other acts of vandalism. Police who responded to the violence were then met with a barrage of stones when arriving on the scene. But when police responded to calls about continued unrest in the predominantly immigrant area on Wednesday night, they recognized a 20-year-old woman who is wanted on suspicion of rioting from an earlier case. Police then tracked her to... www.thelocal.se http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374207/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:47:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2371417/posts Stockholm, Sweden, Oct 25, 2009 / 04:52 pm (CNA).- The Catholic and Orthodox Churches of Sweden have responded with “sadness” to the Swedish Lutheran Church General Synod’s decision to hold homosexual “weddings” in churches, saying the move departs from the Christian tradition and will widen the gap between the churches.Fr. Fredrik Emanuelson, head of ecumenical efforts in the Swedish Catholic Church, joined Orthodox representative Fr. Misha Jaksic in a statement that said the churches learned of the Lutherans’ decision “with sadness.”“It is a swing away not only from Christian tradition but also from the point of view on the nature... cna http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2371417/posts#comment Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:29:49 GMT