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Guardian - Swedish Pastor to Stop Criticizing Gays - A Pentecostal pastor who denounced homosexuality as a “cancerous tumor” in a sermon said Tuesday he would stop preaching against gays after Sweden’s highest court acquitted him of hate speech.
The Supreme Court in Stockholm said Ake Green’s anti-gay [...]
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Good riddance! But I reckon most people will take this the wrong way.
SR International - It’s been reported that two women students, one a Swede, the other South Korean, have been deported from Egypt for trying to convert Moslems to Christianity.
According to press reports, the trouble began when the Swede borrowed the Bible from her [...]
Indeed. How does Sweden do it? And I can tell you at once it is not by cluster bombing shepherds in the middle east.
BBC - How the NHS could learn from Sweden - Whenever health systems are ranked, Sweden always seems to come top or at the very least a close runner-up.
With its dazzling array [...]
Apparently the filters are “working.” But no one goes so far as to ask themselves if the path we have started down is worth the loss of liberty and the infringement upon a pristine wired world. Now they “prove” how necessary the bloated filter is by showing that there are 20,000 to 30,000 blocked access [...]
Awfully predictable. It is telling that an exhibit that is supposedly documenting Sweden during WWII is entitled “Sweden and the Holocaust.”
The Local - A new exhibition in Sweden - officially neutral in World War II - displays documentary evidence of war-time medical experiments, commerce with the Nazis and indifference to the plight of Jews.
“Our main [...]
The Swedish branch of McDonald’s is having financial problems. Now that is reason enough to celebrate. Sales are down and net income has virtually been erased. Seven burger joints have closed.
This is the first time since McDonald’s was established in Sweden in 1973 that they have been forced to actually close restaurants.
McDonald’s of course fail [...]
“The most successful society the world has ever known.” Not my words but rather those of Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee. I wont argue with the conclusion though. Le Monde came to basically the same conclusion recently when comparing the Scandinavian model to that of the rest of Europe and the USA.
Guardian - The prime minister [...]
A small note in today’s papers acknowleged that the protests during the EU summit in Gothenburg 2001 almost ended in tragedy as the police turned to the military for assistence. Now that would have been a pretty picture for sure.
Obviously, back then, it was still illegal to use the military for crowd control and suppression, [...]
Everywhere I look madness is slowly overtaking society.
If Sweden’s security police (Säpo) requests details about patients who have threatened politicians or the royal family, medical and care staff should break their duty of confidentiality and hand over the information.
That is the view of the government, which is due to make a proposal to parliament on [...]
The East Indiaman Götheborg just sailed out of Gothenburg harbour for the first leg in its remarkable reenactment of the voyage of the original vessel. The $30 million replica, 10 years in the making, in full scale and built using traditional techniques, departs for her two year long voyage to China and back.
SOIC - On [...]
