Current affairs in Sweden

Beasty · 12-09-2019 6:01pm

Wanderer78 wrote: »

Oh shut up

Don't be telling other posters what to do. If you have a problem with a post or poster report it and leave the mods to deal with it

Any questions PM me

Thanks

rossie1977 · 12-09-2019 6:25pm

Ireland's national debt was about $50 billion just before banking crisis

realitykeeper wrote: »

Let me explain where I am coming from. I think certain things are too important to be left to the public sector. Water works, healthcare, rescue services and such are examples of these things which are just too important not to privatize. I would fully support the government if it wanted to monopolize unimportant things like the sale of alcohol, tobacco products, gambling and cocaine.

We see the chaos in the US re private only healthcare where millions are uninsured and people have to sell their house to pay for simple enough procedures.

Private water and rescue services only would be a disaster. Likely vast areas of the country would be left without because they don't or can't pay. You would turn large parts of major cities into something out of dystopian sci-fi movies.

Timberrrrrrrr · 12-09-2019 7:08pm

realitykeeper wrote: »

Let me explain where I am coming from. I think certain things are too important to be left to the public sector. Water works, healthcare, rescue services and such are examples of these things which are just too important not to privatize. I would fully support the government if it wanted to monopolize unimportant things like the sale of alcohol, tobacco products, gambling and cocaine.

So you want a system that makes sure you have insurance before treating you? Keep.a spare €200 tucked away for the ambulance to ensure you actually get to hospital:rolleyes:

realitykeeper · 12-09-2019 9:38pm

Wanderer78 wrote: »

...and theres little or no evidence to support that austerity actually truly has any positive effects in society, anywhere on this planet, but plenty of evidence to support, its a train wreck of an idea

It was the austerity and cutbacks of the late eighties that stimulated the economy, brought unemployment down from 18%, ended a recession and mass annual emigration and gave us the celtic tiger.

I think I know where you might be confused, you are thinking of consumer led economic growth which I would consider a terrible idea. Export led economic growth is what really drives an economy forward.

realitykeeper · 12-09-2019 9:45pm

Wanderer78 wrote: »

unimportant, highly addictive substances and activities!!!!

People may want addictive things but irrespective of cravings, they don`t need them. So yes, unimportant.

realitykeeper · 12-09-2019 9:47pm

Beasty wrote: »

Don't be telling other posters what to do. If you have a problem with a post or poster report it and leave the mods to deal with it

I agree Beasty. Some people!!!

realitykeeper · 12-09-2019 9:58pm

rossie1977 wrote: »

Ireland's national debt was about $50 billion just before banking crisis.

... and now its more than 200 billion. The taxpayer was taxed a lot of money to pay for a state run financial regulator that failed to regulate. The state made the incompetent decision to bail out the banks and worse, they did it with borrowed money.

Wanderer78 · 13-09-2019 5:43am

realitykeeper wrote:

It was the austerity and cutbacks of the late eighties that stimulated the economy, brought unemployment down from 18%, ended a recession and mass annual emigration and gave us the celtic tiger.

I disagree of course, when the neoliberal/neoclassical ideology truly took hold in the 80's/90's, globally, the world economy took off, resulting in the tiger, and sure we all know what happened next.

realitykeeper wrote:

I think I know where you might be confused, you are thinking of consumer led economic growth which I would consider a terrible idea. Export led economic growth is what really drives an economy forward.

No I'm not all that confused, export to who, with a global slow down looking inevitable, and the fact we ve moved more towards a service economy?

realitykeeper wrote:

People may want addictive things but irrespective of cravings, they don`t need them. So yes, unimportant.

Please research addiction problems, you clearly don't have much knowledge here either, just a dreadful judgemental approach

realitykeeper wrote:

... and now its more than 200 billion. The taxpayer was taxed a lot of money to pay for a state run financial regulator that failed to regulate. The state made the incompetent decision to bail out the banks and worse, they did it with borrowed money.

Again, another fine element of your beloved neoliberal/neoclassical ideology, 'light touch', I do suspect, if the bailouts didn't occur, we d probably be dealing with far more serious problems, possible a world war, who knows

realitykeeper · 13-09-2019 11:43am

Wanderer78 wrote: »

I disagree of course, when the neoliberal/neoclassical ideology truly took hold in the 80's/90's, globally, the world economy took off, resulting in the tiger, and sure we all know what happened next.

The Celtic tiger was really two boom periods in rappid succession. The first part was real and export led and later there was the artificial stimulus era for which Bertie is to blame.

Wanderer78 wrote: »

No I'm not all that confused, export to who, with a global slow down looking inevitable, and the fact we ve moved more towards a service economy?

All recessions mean fewer buyers and that is to a certain extent beyond our control but by becoming a low pay economy, we can compete. Things that were uneconomical to produce become economical and if nothing else it ensures a degree of self sufficiency which is needed during recessions. It also means employment opportunities, by contrast there will be no such employment opportunities if labour costs are kept high. As for a service economy, that cannot happen in credit crunch conditions as the velocity of money around the economy slows. The solution is low labour costs, I mean people can always work even if nobody will employ them. Its simple, find something to do and do it. By using ones brain, one will derive benefit as a result.

Wanderer78 wrote: »

Please research addiction problems, you clearly don't have much knowledge here either, just a dreadful judgemental approach

My research tells me that people who have a vested interest in the government employing and spending money on counselling and the like invariably bleat on about such things. I understand cold turkey also works and it requires no more skill than slamming a door and turning a key.

Wanderer78 wrote: »

Again, another fine element of your beloved neoliberal/neoclassical ideology, 'light touch', I do suspect, if the bailouts didn't occur, we d probably be dealing with far more serious problems, possible a world war, who knows

The world war you want to avoid is now practically inevitable because we did not take the bitter medicine before it was too late. Yesterday when Mario Draghi put questions to the journalists, one of them made the observation that the markets see ECB policy as QE infinity. So QE has failed to do what it was intended to do (as I predicted so many times before) and the consequences will be much worse than if the tough decisions had been made a decade ago.

13-09-2019 11:54am

realitykeeper wrote: »

The world war you want to avoid is now practically inevitable because we did not take the bitter medicine before it was too late.

This is surely correct, and not a ludicrous falsehood. I have the bomb shelter reinforced. Room for one more. Make sure you bring Barry's, as Lyons will lead to expulsion.

Timberrrrrrrr · 13-09-2019 12:26pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

This is surely correct, and not a ludicrous falsehood. I have the bomb shelter reinforced. Room for one more. Make sure you bring Barry's, as Lyons will lead to expulsion.

He's gone from wrongly predicting recession/Depression to now predicting WW3 :ROLLEYES:

realitykeeper · 13-09-2019 9:39pm

Deleted User wrote: »

This is surely correct, and not a ludicrous falsehood. I have the bomb shelter reinforced. Room for one more. Make sure you bring Barry's, as Lyons will lead to expulsion.

Thanks but I`d rather take my chances with the nuclear fallout.

Odhinn · 14-09-2019 12:54am

realitykeeper wrote: »

Thanks but I`d rather take my chances with the nuclear fallout.

Safer than being in a confined space with a barrys drinker. Probably reads the examiner as well.

biko · 14-09-2019 10:52am

https://www.government.se/government-policy/a-feminist-government/
Sweden officially claim to have the first feminist government in the world.

Sweden government visits Iran, look at their happy feminist faces under the hijabs

International new outlet
Fury as feminist Swedish minister wears HIJAB as she 'bows down to oppressive' Iran https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/766744/Swedish-minister-Ann-Linde-feminist-hijab-Iran-oppressive

Merkel visits Saudi Arabia, a country even more anti-women than Iran. Does not wear scarf.

Merkel is more feminist than Sweden.

biko · 14-09-2019 12:48pm

Sweden delivers again:

Sweden: Nigerian migrant rapper with 280,000 YouTube subs urges blacks to shoot, enslave, and kill white people

https://theliberal.ie/nigerian-rapper-in-sweden-tells-followers-to-attack-and-kill-white-people-in-racist-rant/

pjohnson · 15-09-2019 9:21am

biko wrote: »

Sweden delivers again:

Sweden: Nigerian migrant rapper with 280,000 YouTube subs urges blacks to shoot, enslave, and kill white people

https://theliberal.ie/nigerian-rapper-in-sweden-tells-followers-to-attack-and-kill-white-people-in-racist-rant/

Given how much Sweden upsets you have you considered not looking it up each day? Save yourself the trauma.

HailSatan · 15-09-2019 11:34am

pjohnson wrote: »

Given how much Sweden upsets you have you considered not looking it up each day? Save yourself the trauma.

Warning for back seat moderation!

Edit. Just a joke. I'm not a mod. Or even saying pjohnson shouldn't have posted what he posted. I'd like to offer a heartfelt and sincere apology to all those I've offended and from here on out I will explicitly tag jokes and sarcasm as required by the Boards.ie old brigade.

Timberrrrrrrr · 15-09-2019 11:43am

HailSatan wrote: »

Warning for back seat moderation!

The irony :rolleyes:

15-09-2019 12:16pm

pjohnson wrote: »

Given how much Sweden upsets you have you considered not looking it up each day? Save yourself the trauma.

Galway is a fairly boring place to be fair, gives them something to do with their time.

HailSatan · 15-09-2019 1:11pm

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

The irony :rolleyes:

How do you mean?

Timberrrrrrrr · 15-09-2019 1:36pm

HailSatan wrote: »

How do you mean?

What you did is considered backseat moderation

HailSatan · 15-09-2019 1:39pm

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

What you did is considered backseat moderation

Is it? Have you been chatting to somebody?

Timberrrrrrrr · 15-09-2019 1:42pm

HailSatan wrote: »

Is it? Have you been chatting to somebody?

Nope, i have been here long enough though.

HailSatan · 15-09-2019 1:52pm

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Nope, i have been here long enough though.

You have indeed.

Where is the definition of back seat nodding?

Are we required to explicitly tag sarcasm and jokes here? If so could you link me to the SOP please.

biko · 15-09-2019 3:49pm

pjohnson wrote: »

Given how much Sweden upsets you have you considered not looking it up each day? Save yourself the trauma.

You mean - "If you don't like the way things are going, maybe you just shouldn't think about it?"

biko · 18-09-2019 2:44pm

3 years ago this was written:

Why does Sweden have more boys than girls?

There is something odd going on with the ratio between boys and girls in Sweden. The latest estimates suggest there are 123 boys for every 100 girls among 16 and 17-year-olds. That's an even greater imbalance than in the same age group in China.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35444173

biko · 18-09-2019 11:32pm

Since less than 10 years Sweden have started loving explosions and hand grenades.

Detonated hand grenades in Sweden

The grenades are exclusively from the Yugoslav Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M75_hand_grenade

A shipment of leftover grenades of this type (and the M-93) from the Yugoslav Wars was taken to Sweden and sold for as little as 20 kronor to organised criminals and street gangs, who have been using them in numerous attacks since 2008

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_grenade_attacks_in_Sweden

According to Swedish police the use of hand grenades in crime is unprecedented in all comparable European and non-European countries, and the only countries with similar characteristics are those with warlike conditions, such as Mexico with the ongoing drug war

So Sweden invited Rick Fuentes, earlier police chief for New Jersey State Police
He has never seen the level of violence before.
https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/amerikanske-polischefens-oro-for-svenska-gangvaldet/
Video i English

biko · 18-09-2019 11:59pm

BBC interview with Swedish police and others about hand grenade violence and the immigrant violence

What is the link between immigration and crime in Sweden? - BBC Newsnight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORl7l-7_YMQ

Sweden today, Ireland in 20 years? Ask your progressive friends, it's up to them.

HailSatan · 19-09-2019 6:41am

Isn't all of this fake news? We were told it was fake news.

pjohnson · 19-09-2019 8:16am

HailSatan wrote: »

Isn't all of this fake news? We were told it was fake news.

How dare you interupt biko's twitter-esque Sweden updates.

biko · 19-09-2019 8:46am

One day Irish people will think "how did we get here?" and I will be there showing them how they ignored warnings for years and years.

The easiest way to do this is to show the true face of a country Ireland aspires to be.

So the next time your progressive friends says "Sweden is great isn't it?" you can say "well, did you know that...?"

old_aussie · 19-09-2019 8:58am

Does he drive a Volvo?

pjohnson · 19-09-2019 9:08am

biko wrote: »

One day Irish people will think "how did we get here?" and I will be there showing them how they ignored warnings for years and years.

The easiest way to do this is to show the true face of a country Ireland aspires to be.

So the next time your progressive friends says "Sweden is great isn't it?" you can say "well, did you know that...?"

Whats a "progressive friend"?

HailSatan · 19-09-2019 9:21am

Like a progressive fiend but more naive and likeable

alastair · 19-09-2019 9:36am

biko wrote: »

https://www.government.se/government-policy/a-feminist-government/
Sweden officially claim to have the first feminist government in the world.

Sweden government visits Iran, look at their happy feminist faces under the hijabs

International new outlet
Fury as feminist Swedish minister wears HIJAB as she 'bows down to oppressive' Iran https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/766744/Swedish-minister-Ann-Linde-feminist-hijab-Iran-oppressive

Merkel visits Saudi Arabia, a country even more anti-women than Iran. Does not wear scarf.

Merkel is more feminist than Sweden.

The law is different in the two countries. Head covering required in Iran, not in Saudi. If Merkel went to Iran, she’d wear a hijab too.

PostWoke · 22-09-2019 1:55pm

biko wrote: »

The easiest way to do this is to show the true face of a country Ireland aspires to be.

You couldn't just link a picture of Trudeau in his Halloween getup? :pac:

WB Yokes · 22-09-2019 2:08pm

biko wrote: »

BBC interview with Swedish police and others about hand grenade violence and the immigrant violence

What is the link between immigration and crime in Sweden? - BBC Newsnight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORl7l-7_YMQ

Sweden today, Ireland in 20 years? Ask your progressive friends, it's up to them.

They dont care because they hate what Ireland is and was and want it changed beyond recognition. Most of them are childless and will be most likely dead in 20 years.

biko · 17-10-2019 12:47pm

Swedish politician forms party to fight "anti-Muslim sentiment" in probably the least racist country on the planet.

Mikail Yüksel, dismissed from the country's Center Party, which is known as a party that has center-right, liberal policies, said the new party will fight not only against anti-Muslim sentiments but also for the rights of migrants.

"I was dismissed from the party before the elections, because I did not speak against Turkey or President [Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan," he claimed.

"We want Islamophobia to be declared a crime.
We want Muslims to be recognized as a minority in the constitution,"
said Yüksel, while spelling out the agenda of his party.
https://www.dailysabah.com/politics/2019/08/23/turkish-origin-swedish-politician-forms-party-to-fight-anti-muslim-sentiment

CinemaGuy45 · 17-10-2019 12:57pm

biko wrote: »

https://www.government.se/government-policy/a-feminist-government/
Sweden officially claim to have the first feminist government in the world.

Sweden government visits Iran, look at their happy feminist faces under the hijabs

International new outlet
Fury as feminist Swedish minister wears HIJAB as she 'bows down to oppressive' Iran https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/766744/Swedish-minister-Ann-Linde-feminist-hijab-Iran-oppressive

Merkel visits Saudi Arabia, a country even more anti-women than Iran. Does not wear scarf.

Merkel is more feminist than Sweden.

Look there are some people out there that say all feminists are man haters because they are ugly which is just not true.:D

biko · 17-10-2019 2:50pm

When two brothers fall out because the stupider brother imports violence.

Denmark Introduces Checks On Swedish Border To Combat Terrorism

The announcement is surprising given the extremely close relationship of the two Scandinavian countries.

The move from the Danish government is in response to several incidents in Copenhagen this summer. Denmark’s Minister for Justice Nick Hækkerup said the temporary checks are to counter cross-border crime and terrorism.

Among other crimes, Danish Police blame the explosion at the Danish Tax Agency in Copenhagen and the double murder in Herlev on criminals who had crossed the border from Sweden.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2019/10/14/denmark-introduces-checks-on-swedish-border-to-combat-terrorism-travel-delays-expected/

CinemaGuy45 · 17-10-2019 5:54pm

biko wrote: »

One day Irish people will think "how did we get here?" and I will be there showing them how they ignored warnings for years and years.

The easiest way to do this is to show the true face of a country Ireland aspires to be.

So the next time your progressive friends says "Sweden is great isn't it?" you can say "well, did you know that...?"

Don't be silly Biko all record of these warnings will be totally nuked under some hate speech law long before that.

Sure boards.ie nuked the politics forum because the insane libs lost the argument on uncontrolled open boarders.

Timberrrrrrrr · 17-10-2019 6:46pm

CinemaGuy45 wrote: »

Don't be silly Biko all record of these warnings will be totally nuked under some hate speech law long before that.

Sure boards.ie nuked the politics forum because the insane libs lost the argument on uncontrolled open boarders.

Can you cite a single post that has called for this?

biko · 25-10-2019 11:07am

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/10/bomb-attacks-are-now-a-normal-part-of-swedish-life/

Bomb attacks are now a normal part of Swedish life
Gang violence is now at a level where it threatens to undermine the Swedish state

The police bomb squad was already on its way to the first explosion in the district of Vaxholm when it had to turn around and prioritise the detonation at a residential building in the more densely populated city centre. Residents whose doors had been deformed by the shock wave had to be rescued.
The third target (seemingly unrelated) was a facility belonging to a Syriac Orthodox church, which had already been bombed twice in the past year.

Explosions have become so normalised in Sweden that SVT, Sweden’s equivalent of the BBC, did not even mention the three explosions in the country’s capital on its national news programme that evening.

take everything · 25-10-2019 5:20pm

Biko, IIRC your username references Steve Biko, the anti-apartheid activist. Or am I totally wrong on this.

If so, it would be interesting to hear what your adversaries here make of this. The muh racism brigade would have a hard time contextualising this.

In fairness, what Biko posts isn't untrue from what I can make out and there is a ****-ton of suppression of such stats by countries like Germany and Sweden.

Harvey Weinstein · 25-10-2019 5:44pm

Stockholm
https://mobile.twitter.com/BasedPoland/status/1187483472996290562

Danzy · 25-10-2019 5:50pm

Harvey Weinstein wrote: »

Stockholm
https://mobile.twitter.com/BasedPoland/status/1187483472996290562

Import mass groups of people wirh views hostile to your own, hostile to society or a shared society, hostile to the rule of law responsibility, work etc.

This is what you get.

It's only starting in Sweden.

biko · 26-10-2019 1:04am

take everything wrote: »

Biko, IIRC your username references Steve Biko, the anti-apartheid activist. Or am I totally wrong on this.

You are correct, Steve Biko is a hero of mine.

biko · 03-11-2019 2:36pm

Six radical Muslim leaders were designated serious risks, by security police, to Sweden's national security and were taken into custody to be ejected from Sweden.

CAGE of course jumped in on the accused's side
https://www.cage.ngo/cage-calls-for-solidarity-with-swedish-muslims-as-police-arrest-four-imams-during-ramadan

The problem with deporting these people is that it is claimed they may face problem in their home countries, and therefore cannot be ejected from Sweden.
But at the same time Swedish law doesn't allow them to be further detained.

So they are simply set free again to continue making more ISIS warriors.

One of them, Abo Raad, has inspired many Islamic State sympathisers, has hailed an IS victory in Iraq, and has called for homosexual men to be executed.

But that's fine, set him free again

Swedish impotent Social Democrat/Liberal/Green party government:

joseywhales · 03-11-2019 3:54pm

Danzy wrote: »

Import mass groups of people wirh views hostile to your own, hostile to society or a shared society, hostile to the rule of law responsibility, work etc.

This is what you get.

It's only starting in Sweden.

For a moment I thought I was reading about Irish unification

kowloon · 03-11-2019 6:02pm

CinemaGuy45 wrote: »

Don't be silly Biko all record of these warnings will be totally nuked under some hate speech law long before that.

Sure boards.ie nuked the politics forum because the insane libs lost the argument on uncontrolled open boarders.

I'm calling BS, nobody has ever won an argument on the politics forum.

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