February 14, 2012
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A Stockholm-area investment executive received a package of live cockroaches in protest of his firm’s perceived negligence in upgrading run-down apartment buildings in Malmö’s Rosengård neighbourhood.
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A Stockholm woman fed up with male passengers on public transport taking up the space of women sitting next to them, has started a blog snapping secret pics of straddle-legged commuters and posting them on the internet. READ (30 COMMENTS) »
A suburb of Mjällby, southern Sweden, known by locals as ‘Negro Village’ for forty years, will be changing its name after a storm of recent attention. READ (9 COMMENTS) »
A 27-year-old German man has been living at the Gothenburg Landvetter airport for two months having no wish to return to Germany and nowhere to go in Sweden. READ (12 COMMENTS) »
Every second Swede is at risk of developing dementia, according to a new study from Umeå University, which concentrated on the 85+ population in northern Sweden. READ »
After a 28-year-old woman was pulled off her bicycle and raped by an unidentified assailant in Malmö over the weekend, and police are fearing it could be the work of a budding serial rapist. READ (13 COMMENTS) »
Families of children in Sweden suffering from narcolepsy caused by vaccination for the swine flu can expect some form of compensation, Swedish health minister Göran Hägglund said on Sunday in response to new calls for help from parents. READ (1 COMMENT) »
The new leader of the Social Democrats Stefan Löfven has indicated he's ready to negotiate with the government over the future of nuclear power despite a previous party decision to phase out nuclear energy in Sweden. READ (2 COMMENTS) »
One in five Swedes believes that people rise from the grave after they've died, a new survey has shown. READ (14 COMMENTS) »

As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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I see you guys are following step by step the manual "how to create a happy Orwellian state".
Mr. Editor do you really think ignoring what the people think about immigration in general, and Islam in particularly, will make them change their minds?
Surely they'd be imposing and creating a hostile environment for the natives? Who would be responsible for paying for security for workers sent in to these areas?
Or would it be beneficial to consider hiring some of the vast numbers of unemployed "youths" and training them in construction (perhaps with tax breaks from the government)....or would there be no takers for a serious job offer?
Section 1 of the discrimination act states
"The purpose of this Act is to combat discrimination and in other ways promote equal rights and opportunities regardless of sex, transgender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion or other belief, disability, sexual orientation or age"
Many of the posts recently in TL are encouraging discrimination and should be stopped
So lets stop the mindless hate messages and just comment on the real subject matter. This story is about a company that is one of the countries worst landlords who are not providing the standard of accommodation that the tenants are paying for. The tenants have used an innovative way of getting the situation in the national headlines and good luck to them!
Which of the above comments do you consider `mindless hate messsages`, `slimball purveyors of hatred`, `breach of discrimination act` and such? Or are you perhaps a member of the über-liberal falanx on the anarchic left, with blinders on, which believes that certain things should not be said, notwithstanding the truth? I challenge you to revert with a constructive, meaningful, retort.
the comments appeared first but then editors removed all the comments.
otherwise it would get easily more than 100 commnets.
The root cause of the problems or rather perceived problems is people like YOU. Who use any media to stir up antagonism against anybody who you don't like you use phrases like "The roaches are a direct result of the cultural degradation resulting from insufficient social infrastructure serving recent thrird world arrivals." I take it that 'thrird" means third? But you most probably have been lobotomized by your own hatred so are word blind.
You make statements without any foundation whatsoever, lay the blame for anything and everything at the door of immigrants. It is precisely narrow minded people like you that lead to the rise of Nazi Germany making false accusations and spreading lies. I am not a member of the anarchic left, just somebody who has spent many more years on this planet than you, and have seen the damage that your kind of posturing can do.
You leap on this story to spout your poisonous views without any link between the story and immigration. It is not about immigration but about Rachman type landlords who fail to maintain properties . the company in question - Norwegian owned ACTA is already in trouble with Malmo Komun
Hem &Hyra says re ACTA
"Efter avslöjandet har fastighetsägaren hamnat i en utdragen strid med kommunens miljöförvaltning som krävt snabba renoveringsåtgärder. I somras beslutade en enhällig miljönämnd att skärpa kravet ytterligare. Ägaren har fått tio månader på sig att renovera och sanera 302 badrum, 155 toaletter och 278 kök, annars hotar vite."
Where in the story does it say anything about immigration?
Oh sorry the word "Rosengård" was mentioned therefore your tiny brain thought immigrants and off you go ranting again. You are entitled to have your opinion. What you are not entitled to do is to use TL or any other form of media to create racial tension. That is Racial discrimination and is a crime
Sieg Heil Mein Führer better take down your swastika before Säpo come
Well spoken. Just ignore those people who's first (and last) "best argument" is accusing the interlocutor of racism. This kind of people are not willing to have a dialog, but to attack the person, not the ideas. Better simply ignore them; You are not going to reach a common point with them.
Good luck!
I know. Forgive them Father, for they do not know what they are saying.
@Rick Methven
Thank you for helping me prove my point. You dotted the `i`. I now rest my case.
You prove in your posts that you are the ones that are not open to any dialog. I am always open to dialog and discussion on any subject and am always ready to listen to a point of view that is based on verifiable FACT not unsupported supposition and accusation.
I would be one of the first to say that the handling of immigration by the Swedish authorities has been mishandled to some degree. In theory immigrants should be spread around different Komun's, which has not always been the case. This has lead to concentrations of migrants in the larger conurbations (where the opportunity for work is better). This is not good for integration into the wider community as those migrants who live in areas where there is a majority of people from their own country/language have little pressure to learn Swedish. I speak 5 languages, but Swedish is most probably my weakest language even though I have been married to a Swede for 28 years, because Swedes like to speak English which reduces the pressure on me to improve my Swedish and I always have a native born Swede to help me out when required.
The lack of knowledge of either the language or culture leads to instances of abuse from some unscrupulous individuals/companies such as ACTA who do not do the maintenance work that they should do because they think that no action will be taken against them because the migrants are ignorant of their rights.
The current government seems to have accepted that there is a problem, in that they have now proposed new ways to speed up integration of immigrants. The Social Democrats where most probably a little naïve in there handling of mass migration and could of handled the situation better. BUT the Sweden Democrats utopian idea of a racially pure Sweden for ethnically pure Swedes is not going to happen. Stirring up trouble and marginalizing the migrant community is not going to result in getting all migrants from third world countries to leave Sweden. Neither is it going to stop further immigration. Get used to it, if you can not, vote with your feet and leave the country if it is the hell whole so many posters seem to believe. On the other hand you could try to be positive and help with the assimilation of migrants into Swedish society. Sure there are certain sections of the migrant communities that display anti-social or criminal behavior, but NOT ALL migrants are criminals and NOT ALL crime in Sweden is carried out by migrants. It is human nature for people to behave in the manner that the wider society perceives of them. When groups of perfectly ordinary people find that they are perceived as being bad then they start to behave badly. Making unsubstantiated accusations of criminal or anti-social behavior against any group or individual just strengthens the 'Us and Them' mentality which only deteriorates the situation further. Look for the positive aspects in multi-cultural Sweden rather than make unfounded statements.
This is not the place to write an epic doctorate. In a forum like this it is advisable to limit your commentary to seven lines or less. Could you restate your message once more, so that I too can read it without losing the train of thought? Thank you.
Are merely back ground noise, something you notice for a moment, then you get used to it and don't notice it so much, best to ignore the incomprehensible noise.
Dhyana I have to agree I see no threat in the note just an urgent plea for something to be done about a bug problem, and the sender was very kind to send a power point presentation, In 3D no less, Kudos.