Recently a Swedish hotelier named Salka Börjeson Eynon was to live for one week in Rosengard, a district in the city of Malmö, and have her experiences filmed for a popular television show. Alas, her stay had to be cut short for safety reasons.
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Excerpts from Vanderleun’s “Father Do Not Forgive Them. They Know Damn Well What They Do” at American Digest:
“It’s common for LeftLibProgs to say, in passing and without much feeling, that all their proposed hopeful changes to the economic system of the United States and the developed world is ‘for the greater good.’ But it is not and it never has been that way. It is and it always was ‘for their greater good.’ In passing they also know to the deepest diseased marrow in their bones that their proposals also lead to a weakened and, they hope, destroyed America. This is also touted as being ‘for the greater good,’ but again it is always and only ‘for their greater good.'”
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“Whenever the objection is made that LeftLibProgism has failed everywhere it has been tried, the response is always that it just wasn’t tried on a large enough scale. This is the argument that the cure for bad pop music is to just make it louder. The implied endgame is that only when the entire world is remade in the LeftLibProg model, ‘world without end always,’ will the promised utopia arrive. Hence the wrecking ball of LeftLibProg economics must be swung against the pillars of civilization until the whole structure comes tumbling in upon itself. With help from the scions of greed at the far end of maxi-capitalism this vision currently has a whisper of a hope of actually happening.
“This is why the sclerotic public unions here and abroad are so increasingly violent and strident in their demands. It’s an economics not based on a rising capitalist tide lifts all boats, but one based on the ancient dictum of Lenin: Who-Whom?”
The whole thing here.
Oh, good, so this is sort of on topic – look, honestly, EBD, just in case you actually are offended, I don’t really genuinely dislike Scandinavia at all. I was just irritated about Barry getting the Nobel Prize, and then I found myself teasing Erik Larsen because he knows a lot more about real music than I do and the alternative to coping with this fact by calling him a Norwegian sabateur would have involved listening to a lot of Bach and Beethoven, which obviously translates to effort. I always thought he enjoyed it.
For the record, I think Scandis are generally tall and smart and good-looking and polite and athletic. I admit I prefer Indian cooking to lutefisk, but that’s about the only negative I can think of off the top of my head. King Haakon VII of Norway was, um, awesome. One of my best friends is (half) Swedish (yes, that old line).
*Sigh*. This is why I shouldn’t try to interact with people. I’ll just go live a compound somewhere with some Leonard Cohen CDs and a bunch of cats. Everyone’s better off. Noone will miss me. (*Sniff*.)
To prove my goodwill, here is a link to the Icelandic saga database: http://www.sagadb.org/ – and this is a site where you can watch Ibsen plays online.
My comment got caught in the filter!
Good to see things are working out for the left’s poster child of societal advancement. Maybe they should allocate more resources towards gender equality programs.
It’s too late for Sweden to avoid a major cultural overthrow or the inevitable violence to stop one.
It’s amazing that the left controllers along with their useful idiots in NA cannot fathom their own suicidal destruction by the failed Swedish example.
The Liberal mental disorder running our nations policies far outweighs the idiotic inability to rationalize a future that is unwinding before their very eye’s.
seems to me in the long term, no one will be left to tell the tale.
in the ultra left finality there is no one left producing good for profit; there’s nothing ‘in it’ for the individual. the remnants of humanity live off their savings, praising the collective… and die out.
in the ultra right wing ending, there is no one left to exploit. capitalism has indeed sucked every morsel of value out of every resource and the working(?) (no one is working!!! the jobs all fled to china!!!) class died out because they had no financial buffer against the downsizing.
with all the exploited now gone, the ruling financial barons are completely lost in the nuts and bolts issues of survival. they all give themselves botulism because they don’t know how to can their own food.
My comment got caught in the filter!
Posted by: Black Mamba (anything but sensitivity training) at February 27, 2011 10:12 PM ”
lol !!!
need some pointers blackie?
“This is not Sweden.”
beagle, comments get caught in the filter all the time. Mine had a couple of links. Are you nurturing a persecution complex?
So that’s why they wear yellow…
The Islamic Republik Of Sweden. Where did the film crew think they were?
I would forgive anything to a people who gave the world Jussi Bjorling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUbA5y1hnFg
beagle, comments get caught in the filter all the time.”
gotta agree there blackie.
the trick is blowing past the filter. or rephrasing or resetting the ip address. couple things that seem to work.
unlike me. in 2007 I decided to give up trying to convince the small business class to allow me the privilege of using my natural abilities to compete with them ‘down the road’. I then applied for and got a CPP disability (which I had tucked in my sleeve).
now all those scowl faced cigar chomping humorless bosses can pay me to sit at home and poke fun at the plusperfect set in Ottawa out of all those income taxes they have to shell out courtesy lieberals, new democraps and CONservatists.
LOL !!! and when I’m not doing that I’m rolling a couple dozen joints for the upcoming week.
Nuke Berkeley! Wait, maybe it won’t be necessary: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=7960372
“Papermaster heads “Berkeley, No More Guantanamo.” She is so sure that her idea to invite two detainees cleared of wrongdoing to live with local families is safe, she’s willing to let one of them live in her own home.
“They’re, we believe, innocent from the beginning and they simply need to heal and resume their lives and we’d love to offer them that opportunity in Berkeley,” said Papermaster.
So, does anyone know how multiculturalism is working out for Sweden?
I posted this earlier in the wrong place (under the Irish election thing) because when I see anything that resembles Kyoto, my normal faculties desert me.
National Geographic has published an article whose headline is: Small Nuclear War Could Reverse Global Warming for Years
Link: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/02/110223-nuclear-war-winter-global-warming-environment-science-climate-change/?source=link_tw20110225news-nuclear
I thought this would be good news to Dr. Suzuki and that he might propose this course of action at the next climate boondoggle. One would have to study on how “small” it could be but still do the job. Surely that would be worth a grant or two. And would it actually need to be a war? Could not a few nuclear bomb tests suffice? There must be one or two just lying around not doing much good. Thank goodness they exploded a few test bombs in the 50’s (not to mention the ones at Hiroshima and Nagasaki) because otherwise, the effects of climate change would be far worse today.
Did anyone else catch the article in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix on Saturday regarding the UofS College of Education’s new on-line ‘interview’ for applicants?
“Five categories of questions in this year’s online interview will incorporate the following themes: Affirming dignity and respect for students, social and ecological justice, life-long learning, creating a positive community in the class and school, and building instructional competence.”
In other words 80% touchy-feely mush [including ‘ecological justice’ for crying out loud] and 20% establishing whether they actually have any teaching skills.
OK. It’s seriously time for a shakeup at the Ministry of Education. Mr. Norris – what do you have to say about this nonsense?
This is not the Sweden that CCF-NDP MLAs used to brag up back in the 1970’s.
Black Mamba (10:09), I seriously took no offense whatsoever – “We’re people too” was just a joke. I spent a good part of my childhood listening to, and delighting in, the deadpan-serious “ethnic” insults between my Swedish uncle (married to my Norwegian mom’s sister) and my Danish dad.
For the record, though, I not only pee standing up, but I pee wherever I’m standing. It’s a Scandinavian tradition.
RT: “GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — After nearly four years of Hamas rule, the Gaza Strip’s small secular community is in tatters, decimated by the militant group’s campaign to impose its strict version of Islam in the coastal territory.
“Hamas has bullied men and women to dress modestly, tried to keep the sexes from mingling in public and sparked a flight of secular university students and educated professionals…”
Oh good. I didn’t think you were likely offended, being as you’re not a lefty, but this stuff can be hard to judge over the intertubes. So I won’t have to post that epic ABBA saga link then, much to everyone’s relief.
http://www.trueversy.com/the-indian-chromosome-by-dr-farrukh-saleem/
written by one of those Tea-party wacists no doubt!
LOL !!! and when I’m not doing that I’m rolling a couple dozen joints for the upcoming week.
Posted by: beagle at February 27, 2011 11:19 PM
I thought it was glue.
Flashback: Liberal Iggy’s ex-leader.
Ad$Cam MartinJr:
“If Gaddafi was a “mad dog” to Reagan, to Martin, he’s a “philosophical man with a sense of history”.”
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“Gaddafi no terrorist to Paul Martin
by Judi McLeod, Canadafreepress.com
December 20, 2004
For all of those lamenting the minority status of the scandal-plagued Paul Martin Liberal Government, consider yourselves “lucky”.
That comes from Col. Muammar Gaddafi, the man President Ronald Reagan called the “Mad Dog of the Middle East”.
Canadians are “lucky” to have “His Excellency, the Prime Minister” as their leader,” Gaddafi said.
Martin, who was in Tripoli on a visit that happened to coincide with the first anniversary of Gaddafi’s decision to abandon production of mass destruction weapons, is a Gaddafi fan.
If Gaddafi was a “mad dog” to Reagan, to Martin, he’s a “philosophical man with a sense of history”.”
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2004/cover122004.htm
http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/00250/Martin_and_Gadha_250081artw.jpg
beagle>
“…now all those scowl faced cigar chomping humorless bosses can pay me to sit at home and poke fun…”
Figured you were one of those “class act” trolls beagle.
Console yourself with the fact that I’m one of those so called big money boss’s that look down their nose at you in the real world. The nice thing for me and many others like me is that all my income is earned out of the country and I pay no (zero) Federal Income Tax to fund your pathetic lifestyle. Little thing called Foreign Tax Credit you probably don’t know allot about.
Anyway enjoy the joints, useless is as useless does, no? 🙂
Can today’s Swedes truly be the descendants of the Vikings? My mind boggles at the supineness of the Swedish people before arrogant, antisocial foreigners on their soil; they not only tolerate the challenge to their national sovereignty, the rape their women, the terrorizing of Swedes who must go into neighborhoods like Rosengard . . . they support these ungrateful vipers in their bosoms on the dole!
This should tick off a certain religious group.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/europe/uk-removes-human-breast-milk-ice-cream-from-shop-on-health-concerns/article1923234/
Now we can all rest comfortably.
Carlos, those are signs of culture in decline.
The last American WWI veteran has died at 110 – http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110228/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_last_wwi_veteran
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPhf4DCxAl0&feature=player_embedded
Amtrack passenger pat-downs, by the TSA, AFTER getting OFF the train in Savannah, Georgia.
(Feb 2011)
My poser of the day, how can things fall at twice the force of gravity? I do have to agree it would most likely be unique.
“The unique thing about this earthquake is that it lifted the ground and the buildings and then dumped it at two times the force of gravity,” McCarthy said.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2011/02/21/17357396.html
San Francisco’s big push for low-flow toilets has turned into a multimillion-dollar plumbing stink.
Skimping on toilet water has resulted in more sludge backing up inside the sewer pipes, said Tyrone Jue, spokesman for the city Public Utilities Commission. That has created a rotten-egg stench near AT&T Park and elsewhere, especially during the dry summer months.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/02/27/BAVP1HUSUD.DTL#ixzz1FHH0dptG
I watched the Oscars last night and when it came to the Best picture category, I thought it was somewhat unusual that the movie’s audio of the King’s Speech on the eve of WWII was very audiable while scenes of the nominated movies played. Listening, it occurred that it is relevant to what we are facing as a civilization today.
George VI – King’s Speech, September 3, 1939
“In this grave hour, perhaps the most fateful in history, I send to every household of my peoples, both at home and overseas, this message, spoken with the same depth of feeling for each one of you as if I were able to cross your threshold and speak to you myself.
For the second time in the lives of most of us, we are at war.
Over and over again, we have tried to find a peaceful way out of the differences between ourselves and those who are now our enemies; but it has been in vain.
We have been forced into a conflict, for which we are called, with our allies to meet the challenge of a principle which, if it were to prevail, would be fatal to any civilized order in the world.
It is a principle which permits a state in the selfish pursuit of power to disregard its treaties and its solemn pledges, which sanctions the use of force or threat of force against the sovereignty and independence of other states.
Such a principle, stripped of all disguise, is surely the mere primitive doctrine that might is right, and if this principle were established through the world, the freedom of our own country and of the whole British Commonwealth of nations would be in danger.
But far more than this, the peoples of the world would be kept in bondage of fear, and all hopes of settled peace and of security, of justice and liberty, among nations, would be ended.
This is the ultimate issue which confronts us. For the sake of all that we ourselves hold dear, and of the world order and peace, it is unthinkable that we should refuse to meet the challenge.
It is to this high purpose that I now call my people at home and my peoples across the seas, who will make our cause their own.
I ask them to stand calm and firm and united in this time of trial.
The task will be hard. There may be dark days ahead, and war can no longer be confined to the battlefield, but we can only do the right as we see the right, and reverently commit our cause to God. If one and all we keep resolutely faithful to it, ready for whatever service or sacrifice it may demand, then with God’s help, we shall prevail.
May He bless and keep us all.”
I wonder if someone was trying to tell us something…
PET Cemetery:
More Truth Ads featuring Iggy’s socialists: Brown and Liberal Ad$Cam MartinJr and the Mohammedan mad dog.
>>> “I hope I will be forgiven if I indulge in a few tasteless comparisons between the crazed and increasingly blood-soaked tyrant Muammar al-Gaddafi and former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown.” and Liberal Iggy’s MartinJr.
>>> Here is Liberal Iggy’s Fraud: MartinJr* with the Mohammedan mad dog.
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“Johnson: AV was a last gasp from Gordon Brown’s bunker – and it’s a gigantic fraud”
“I hope I will be forgiven if I indulge in a few tasteless comparisons between the crazed and increasingly blood-soaked tyrant Muammar al-Gaddafi and former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. After all, the two men look vaguely similar; they both appear to believe in the efficacy of Grecian 2000; they both favour long and rambling speeches on socialist economic and political theory, with Col Gaddafi’s efforts perhaps having a slight edge in logic and coherence. And even if most fair-minded people would say that they were very different political personalities, there is one essential point in common between Tripoli in 2011 and the dying months of the last Labour government.
When a regime has been in power too long, when it has fatally exhausted the patience of the people, and when oblivion finally beckons – I am afraid that across the world you can rely on the leaders of that regime to act solely in the interests of self-preservation, and not in the interests of the electorate.
That is why Labour continued to spend and borrow and bribe right up to the wire, desperately hoping to hang on, and racking up such huge debts that Treasury Minister Liam Byrne left a note to his successor gloating that there was “no more money left”. And that was why in February last year the doomed Gordon Brown performed his breath-takingly cynical U-turn, announcing after a lifetime’s opposition that he was a convert to the Alternative Vote system for parliamentary elections. Why did he do it?
What was behind this mad last roll of the dice? It is a bizarre feature of the AV referendum that it was actually proposed by neither of the parties who won the 2010 election, and who now form the government, but emerged as a last gasp from the bunker of the man who lost.”
http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/
*Liberal Ad$Cam MartinJr:
http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/00250/Martin_and_Gadha_250081artw.jpg
Liberal McGuinty Truth Ads.
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“Ontario approves 40 green energy projects”
“We know it’s not always going to be easy,” Duguid said.”
(No mention of $$$$$$ >>>>)
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Environment/2011/02/24/17392261.html
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“McGuinty tells Ford “there’s no more money”
“Ford asked for $150 million in specific projects, including roadwork, transit projects and increased funding for subsidies for child care for low-income families.
He also renewed his predecessor David Miller’s call for the province to pay half of the TTC’s $429 million annual operating costs, which boosts Ford’s funding request to more than $365 million.
McGuinty told reporters at a downtown hotel that it’s up to the City of Toronto to chart its own course, and the province’s first priority is reducing a deficit that is currently pegged at about $18.7 billion.”
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/946132–mcguinty-tells-ford-there-s-no-more-money?bn=1
Hey Black Mamba – I always enjoyed your good-natured teasing! I haven’t been hanging out here much lately – don’t go!!
gord
I work in a brand new building at the University with these waterless toilets and urinals. It’s embarrassingly disgusting. One can only hope that the Sask government isn’t sold this pile of i$ht when they build the new football stadium.
something for the sky-is-falling gang:
3w dot lfpress dot com/news/london/2011/02/28/17439511.html
what say ye now ye naysayers?
The Wobblies’ One Big Noodle vs Huxley’s Dystopia.
“This corroborated a long-held suspicion that “progressive” ideology is predicated on feelings, rather then logic.” S’course.
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“A Brave New Plan for America, the World, and Noodles: My Time in Madison, Wisconsin”
“To the contrary, they are warm, kind-eyed, genuine. Among them are some of the politest protestors I have met at a left-wing rally.”
“The ideas expressed seemed to all be traceable to a common emotional impetus – a general disdain for “the ruling class” and the free market instead of any sober assessment of economic science. This corroborated a long-held suspicion that “progressive” ideology is predicated on feelings, rather then logic.
I did not show up to this meeting uninvited. The night prior, I had encountered within the Capitol a young man named Rob Lewis, early 20s, an activist with ISO. Kind, bright and friendly, he explained, very eloquently, just what was going on upstairs in that building, and how it ought to be interpreted and addressed from the standpoint of “the workers.” He told me he was one, at a local chain restaurant called Noodles. So I asked him how things would be different at Noodles if he had his way, and could successfully implement the ISO vision.
Lewis proceeded to illustrate how the world is made up of “workers,” and “capitalists,” and how he and his fellow Noodles employees, whom he describes as “the workers,” would act as a virtual board of directors, while the owner, the “capitalist” would be kindly offered a seat at the table (socialists are, after all, humanitarians), but would be forced to accept their terms and sit down as a “co-equal,” or be simply kicked to the curb.”
http://biggovernment.com/chartsock/2011/02/28/a-brave-new-plan-for-america-the-world-and-noodles-my-time-in-madison-wisconsin/
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2011/02/28/cant-buy-me-love/#comment-146748
Leftists: Burning Democracy Down to Save It.
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“Hiding Out at the Clock Tower Resort”
“Driving up to Madison, Wisconsin, on Interstate 90, from Chicago’s O’Hare airport on business last week, a colleague pointed out the Clock Tower Resort as we passed through Rockford, Illinois.
This establishment was recently elevated to the status of a historic landmark by the Wisconsin Democratic senators who decamped there with the aim of blocking reforms of public workers’ pension and health benefits as well as collective bargaining rights, as proposed by Badger Governor Scott Walker.
“Fleeing Wisconsin lawmakers bring circus to Illinois resort,” was the rather telling headline in the Los Angeles Times.
The main event, of course, was the three-ring circus underway back in the Wisconsin state capitol where the constitutional process has ground to halt, resulting in a vacuum that public workers are filling with non-stop demonstrations protesting the Governor’s proposed legislation.
Governor Walker and the GOP majority in the legislature show no sign of backing down. Indeed, as Charles Krauthammer has opined, they have, metaphorically speaking, crossed the Rubicon.
This is a battle to the death. Too much blood, sweat, tears and political capital have been expended. Nothing short of victory would justify the sacrifice for either side. There appears to be no avenue for retreat or a face-saving compromise at hand. Moreover, the national significance of this confrontation — along with similar ones in New Jersey, Indiana, and Ohio — is recognized by every American still maintaining a pulse.
These political battles are as consequential as anything the nation has experienced since slavery, even greater than the 1960s. It is no longer a question of losing a war on the other side of the globe but of preserving a political and economic order so crucial to the opportunity, growth and prosperity at the core of the American project.
One measure of this high-stakes controversy is the anti-democratic tactics of the Democratic senators from Wisconsin, who, presumably, are sworn to uphold the state and federal constitutions and elected to serve the people and a system more important than any passing controversy of the moment. Having been unable to win within the system, they are now hell bent on subverting it. Saul Alinsky would be proud. Rather, they are challenging the very legitimacy of the democratic republic and its constitutional foundations.
The idea that they have a constitutional duty, an obligation, to show up, enable a quorum and cast a vote, up or down, on the subject legislation, is completely lost on these senators.”
http://spectator.org/archives/2011/02/28/hiding-out-at-the-clock-tower
Update: Liberal Iggy’s Bob Rae.
Rae is the nephew of Red China’s Maurice Strong*.
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“Nervous Beijing blocks social network sites like LinkedIn
Vancouver Sun – 39 minutes ago
In efforts to stave off infection by the Middle East’s “Jasmine Revolution,” the Chinese government has intensified its Internet censorship, including closing down the business networking site LinkedIn last week.
Bloomberg Journalist Assaulted as China Heightens Security Bloomberg
China blocks any hint of protest BBC News”
(googlenews)
*Rae & Strong
“Maurice Strong: The new guy in your future!
By Henry Lamb
January, 1997
Shortly after his selection as U.N. Secretary General, Kofi Annan told the Lehrer News Hour that Ingvar Carlsson and Shirdath Ramphal, co-chairs of the U.N.-funded Commission on Global Governance, would be among those asked to help him reform the sprawling, world-wide U.N. bureaucracy. His first choice, however, announced in the Washington Post on January 17, 1997, was none other than Maurice Strong, also a member of the Commission on Global Governance.
Strong’s appointment as Senior Advisor, “to assist planning and executing a far-reaching reform of the world body,” is seen by U.N. watchers to be a masterful strategic maneuver to avoid political opposition while empowering Strong to implement a global agenda he has been developing for years. More than 100 developing nations coordinated a “Draft Strong” movement in 1995 to replace Boutros Boutros-Ghali. But Strong’s name was never presented publicly as a candidate. His appointment avoids the public scrutiny and the possibility of a veto. As a Senior Advisor to Kofi Annan, Strong will have a free hand to do what he wants while Annan takes the heat – or the praise. Strong prefers to operate in the background. He, perhaps more than any other single person, is responsible for the development of a global agenda now being implemented throughout the world. Although various components of the global agenda are associated with an assortment of individuals and institutions, Maurice Strong is, or has been, the driving force behind them. It is essential that Americans come to know this man who has been entrusted with the task of “reforming” the U.N. – this man Maurice F. Strong.
According to Elaine Dewar, author of Cloak of Green. Strong is a Socialist. He was born into a family who worked to get out the vote for Prime Minister Mackenzie King, who in 1943 was promoting the National Council for Soviet-Canadian Friendship. Strong’s cousin, Anna Louise Strong, was a Marxist, and a member of the Comintern, who spent two years with Mao and Chou En-lai. Her burial in China in 1970 was organized personally by Chou En-lai. Maurice is well received in China, partly because of his cousin’s connections.[1]
Strong is also closely aligned with Mikhail Gorbachev and was a participant in Gorbachev’s State of the World Forum in San Francisco in 1995.[2] His organization, Earth Council, and Gorbachev’s organization, Green Cross International, are currently developing a new “Earth Charter” for presentation to the U.N. General Assembly and ratification by all U.N. members before the year 2000. He served on the Brundtland Commission, headed by Gro Harlem Brundtland, then-Vice President of the World Socialist Party. Strong’s love for socialist ideas is scattered throughout his professional life – as they apply to everyone else. For himself, he is quite the capitalist.
He ran away from home at 14. His father retrieved him from Vancouver. But in 1945, after completing the 11th grade, Strong was off again to become an apprentice fur trader in Hudson Bay. Strong’s business success was remarkable. At 19, he was an investment analyst. At 25, he was Vice President of Dome Petroleum. At 31, he became the President of Power Corporation of Canada. He headed both Petro Canada and Hydro Canada, and made a few deals on the side as well, one of which was the acquisition in 1978 of the Colorado Land & Cattle Company which owned 200,000 acres of San Luis Valley in Colorado — from Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi.[3] ”
http://www.sovereignty.net/p/sd/strong.html
Uh-oh, the unions aren’t going to like this ruling. It is not enough to make me join a church but for the less heathen SDAers, who know.
Sask. churchgoer exempted from union
CBC News
Posted: Feb 28, 2011 12:07 PM CST
A Saskatoon woman who says being in a union is against her religion has won a case heard by the Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board.
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After she was hired as an employment counsellor at the social agency and told she would have to join the union and pay dues, the woman refused.
She explained she is a longtime member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which believes its members should not join or financially support labour unions or similar organizations.
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Under the ruling, the woman will not have to join the union or pay union dues. Instead of dues, she will be required to pay an equivalent amount to a charity that she and the union agree on.
LC Bennett, I am surprised she managed to get a ruling like that in Saskatchewan. The Sask Party must have been able to replace a few board members.
That is possible, Ken. The Sask Party has already constrained the unions by passing essential services legislation. Hopefully, they will also bring in rulings that allow all workers the choice to not have their union dues go to political parties and/or political organizations like the SFL.
Another, more cynical explanation, is that the board didn’t want to paint themselves into a corner. After all, denying a religious exemption to 7thDA might make it difficult to grant a religious exemptions to other groups at a later date – Kirpans, headscarves, etc.
I dunno, Erik, nice cosy bunker, no Scandis, lots of cats – wait, lots of Scandis! – nope, just me and the cats. Some Norwegian Forest cats, definitely. Possibly a few pigs. I’ll watch old movies and develop a crippling germ phobia and maybe finish The Inferno. It’ll be grand. No more agita. Booze, I’ll need lots of booze.
Don’t stop to mourn, organize!
When a gang of pullstarts tries that in Texas, THATS the video I want to see…unedited!
Malmo comes up regularly as a place name or scene in the numerous Scandinavian police procedurals I’ve been reading over the last several months. some classics cover the 60s in a fashion where one actually isn’t sure of the writers’ political leaning. In truth lots of political and social criticism across the board. But, at heart Marxist.