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Swedish tabloid cleared over Israel organ claims

Published: 20 Sep 09 10:23 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/22182/20090920/

A Swedish tabloid newspaper has been cleared of racism charges by the country's senior legal official over a story alleging that Israeli soldiers stole and sold body parts of dead Palestinians.

The Swedish Chancellor of Justice, Göran Lambertz, was asked to probe whether the report in the Aftonbladet tabloid last month amounted to inciting racial hatred and violated freedom of expression laws.

The TT news agency said the Chancellor of Justice had decided not to open a preliminary investigation into the case.

The Chancellor of Justice, who was unavailable for comment on Saturday, is a government-appointed official who acts as an independent judicial watchdog and is the only prosecutor in Sweden who can take legal action in cases concerning freedom of speech.

Aftonbladet alleged in a story in August that Israeli soldiers had been involved in the illegal harvesting and trafficking of human organs.

The claims sparked outrage in Israel and prompted senior figures in the Israeli government to demand that Sweden condemn the report.

But Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt rebuffed the calls, stressing a free press is an integral part of democracy.

AFP/The Local (news@thelocal.se)

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12:53 September 20, 2009 by peropaco
What can one expect from Sweden and its justice system. Sweden is a country that send rapist, pedophiles and murderers to prison for 18 months and then rewards them financially for time spent locked up. A country that forces its immigrants to change their names to Swedish sounding ones otherwise no job for you Jose.
13:00 September 20, 2009 by Iraniboy
So the judge could distinguish the difference between Judaism and Israeili Defence Force.
15:31 September 20, 2009 by Nemesis
This is nuts.

The article was blatantly anti-semitic and designed to be so.

As Aftonbladet is so much into freedom of speech, way don't they print a series of mohammed cartoons in the interests of parity.
15:33 September 20, 2009 by vladd777
A very enlightening book to read is called 'The Haj' by Leon Uris.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haj_(novel)
16:00 September 20, 2009 by bettan1
When did "Yellow Journalism" becomes an acceptable freedom of speech ?
16:06 September 20, 2009 by DreEstwd
"Designed to be anti-semitic" Youare f-n crazy, man. Give me a break. Why is it that Israel and Israelis never think they are wrong about anything? It's almost comical.
16:17 September 20, 2009 by Moshe
"Aftonbladet tabloid last month amounted to inciting racial hatred"....Incite means: "to move to action : stir up : spur on : urge on."

Yes, Mr.Göran Lambertz, Aftonbladet did incite hatred and you and the PM of Sweden know it to be so. The following quote showes incitement "The claims sparked outrage in Israel and prompted senior figures in the Israeli government to demand that Sweden condemn the report."

Aftonbladet knew it would incite outrage and the fabricated news article proves it. You incited a specific group of people because they were Jewish without any justification; therefore, you incited racial hatred.

The Swedish PM and Göran Lambertz should be arrested and taken in front of the World Court and charged with racial hatred. You are far worse than any Islamic terrorist, you stike fear in a psychological and conation manner. Sweden is a racist nation.
16:35 September 20, 2009 by vladd777
Jewish land purchase in Palestine:

In the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, many land purchases were made through organizations such as the Palestinian Jewish Colonization Association (PICA), Palestine Land Development Co. and the Jewish National Fund. These organizations often offered to purchase the land from the wealthy owners for more than the actual value of the area. The Jewish land purchasers paid extraordinarily high prices for the uncultivated and marsh land. During a visit to Palestine in 1930, John Hope Simpson , a British politician, noticed: "They [Jews] paid high prices for the land, and in addition they paid to certain of the occupants of those lands a considerable amount of money which they were not legally bound to pay" [9]. It was believed that Jews were paying as much as $1,000 to $1,100 per acre in Palestine for non arable land in 1944. At that same time, one could buy rich arable land in Iowa for a mere $110 per acre [10].

Huge tracts of land were purchased by Jews in the 1920s but in the next decade large tracts of uncultivated land were simply not available. Therefore in the 1930s most of the land were bought from small landowners. Of the land that the Jews bought, "52.6% of the lands were bought from big non-Palestinian landowners, 24.6% from Palestinian-Arab landowners and only 9.4% from the Fellahin" [11].

Benny Morris , a leading historian on the subject Israel, has stated that only few families were displaced by the land purchases as oppose the critics who state otherwise. Morris claims that "Historians have concluded that only 'several thousand' families were displaced following the land sales to Jews between the 1880s and the late 1930s" [12].

Influence on Population

The population of Palestine increased dramatically by the end of World War II. ..."By 1947, Jewish holdings in Palestine amounted to about 463,000 acres. Approximately 45,000 of these acres were acquired from the Mandatory Government; 30,000 were bought from various churches and 387,500 were purchased from Arabs. Analyses of land purchases from 1880 to 1948 show that 73 percent of Jewish plots were purchased from large landowners, not poor fellahin. Those who sold land included the mayors of Gaza, Jerusalem and Jaffa. As'ad elShuqeiri, a Muslim religious scholar and father of PLO chairman Ahmed Shuqeiri, took Jewish money for his land. Even King Abdullah leased land to the Jews. In fact, many leaders of the Arab nationalist movement, including members of the Muslim Supreme Council, sold land to Jews"[17].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_land_purchase_in_Palestine
16:56 September 20, 2009 by Moshe
""Designed to be anti-semitic" Youare f-n crazy, man. Give me a break. Why is it that Israel and Israelis never think they are wrong about anything? It's almost comical."

How do you know what "Israelis" think? Anybody who has to use words like "Youare f-n crazy, man" can't be very astute.

Stop reading the comics and be more astute!
17:11 September 20, 2009 by Typical Whitey
Swedes have shamefully turned their backs on Israel and the Jews. You have done this at your own risk. And now you have muslims taking over your country - and all of Europe. Your churches are empty. This is so sad to see. It may be too late for you to wake up.
17:13 September 20, 2009 by Hagrid
The ol' Stockholm Syndrome at work again... Identifying with, supporting, and crying out for those people who violate human rights the most. Where was Sweden when a Palestinian father murdered his 15-year-old son for suspicion of him being a 'collaborator'? Or the countless of cases of Arab men murdering their daughters and sisters for violating family honor? Where was Sweden on what happens in Darfur? And today, Yemen butchered 140 people, yet the entire Swedish media never mentioned this. And I haven't yet touched upon what these people do inside Sweden. Rosengård, anybody?...

But no, these stories are not sexy enough. It is much more interesting to concoct a completely unsubstantiated, fictitious libel, with the sole intention of fomenting hate against Israel and the Jews, and then call this "freedom of speech". Yet oddly enough, the Swedish government itself cannot find its own freedom of speech to condemn this incitement.

So Lambertz says this is not racism? Well maybe he's right, if you consider Jews the same race as Swedes (which most Swedes would not consider). But even with that being the case and no 'racism' is involved, then it still doesn't matter. This is still a vicious slander against a certain group of people, having no basis whatsoever, and should be condemned as such.

Seems like Sweden is all too happy to be overcome with the Stockholm Syndrome toward these people who have taken her hostage.
17:57 September 20, 2009 by Uncle
Dreestwd - you have probably missed the last 60 years. For these years Israel and Israelis are ALWAYS wrong about everything, while the wonderful democracies around them are always right.

Now, when the Israelis dare to defend themselves against blood tales of an anti-semite (mind you - he connected other Jews in NJ to this... therefore he IS an anti-semite) they are "always right" he?

BTW, this government condemned media allegations against ministers of this gov't, as well as the "freedom of speech" in relation to Mohammad pics. So lets be frank-the freedom of speech applies again only when the Jews are bullied.
18:23 September 20, 2009 by vladd777
@Hagrid

Or the taliban whipping girls who refuse to be married off to old men.

And in yemen its sunni against shiite..muslim against muslim..because they want 'their version' respected.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8265134.stm

Oh well as 'we' say in sweden..det ordna sig!
19:23 September 20, 2009 by Stone99743
youtube.com/watch?v=22CGlF7l5MI

Mind you please view the link i put above and comment , enjoy!
19:26 September 20, 2009 by sebseb
A lot of Jews here who hate Sweden.... If you don't like it here, you know what to do.

And in Sweden, no one cares if you are Jews, Christian or Muslim. In the end, we all look at you as morally weak and intellectually unstable.

Sweden is a secularized country, swallow it.
20:05 September 20, 2009 by Moshe
Sebseb, you stated: "In the end, we all look at you as morally weak and intellectually unstable."

Don't you think before you write? You opened your racist opinion with "And in Sweden, no one cares if you are Jews, Christian or Muslim" and then you showed your stupity by stating "In the end, we all look at you as morally weak and intellectually unstable." Don't you see the contradiction.

As to Sweden, how do you know who cares or doesn't care who is or isn't a Jew? Do you speak on behalf of Sweden or just your racist self? You just might be smarter than a fifth grader but it doesn't appear so!
20:41 September 20, 2009 by sebseb
Why are u just defending the Jews?

My mistake, I will talk for a great percentage of Europeans who are younger than 40 yrs old: We are secularized, do you have a problem with it?

Furthermore, this whole story about Aftonbladet was not about religion and Jews, but about Israel, precisely about the Israeli army. Fanactic Jews have been invading The Local to spit on Sweden for weeks, so I think it tells a lot.

And I still believe that, in the 21st Century, if you still need some gods and mythology to know what is good or bad, what to do or what not to do, yes, I believe that YOU, precisely, you are morally impaired and intellectually weak.

Thats a fact backed by all psychologists and philosophers. A religion is nothing more than antidepressive for people who can't bare life as it is, they need "something" more, they need to believe in something better in the aftermath since religions makes this world a place with perpetual wars.

Swallow it!
21:08 September 20, 2009 by Nutcracker
There have only been two ideologies in human history that are "anti-religion": Communism and Nazism. The correct opposite of 'secular' is 'theocratic'; Western nations, founded on Judaeo-Christian principles, are secular (Christ: "Render unto Caesar - the State - what is Caesar's, and unto God what is His"). Islam is a theocratic ideology, no separation between religion and state. A nation or civilisation which denies its foundational roots has nothing to rely upon for moral values but the rule of whoever/ whatever is the strongest power. After WWII Western countries sought to eradicate anti-semitism but with the EEC (later EU) agreement with OIC for unrestricted oil in return for permitting unrestricted Moslem 'emigration' to Europe, it was 'necessary' to accommodate Islam's Jew (and Christian)-hatred by stressing perceived (and false) "palestinian" claims (it's Part 11 of Muslim Brotherhood's Project Report in 1970s). A pact with evil that will end in civil wars in Europe.
22:19 September 20, 2009 by jag2009
i got a headacke
00:47 September 21, 2009 by honorable
Stone: your link is great. Must be seen. From someone who loves Sweden and loves Israel.
06:18 September 21, 2009 by Tony Ryals
Go Aftonbladet ! Now before the Zionazis of 'my country' Amerikkka bring you New York Isreo-Zionazi 'justice' PLEEEEZE investigate Judge Alvin Hellerstein of New York and why he has covered up for 8 to 9 loooong years the obvious involvement of Israeli ex army men and Israeli government money launderers Menachem Atzmon and Ezra Harel in guarding Logan Airport Boston on 911.The 'news' is that the New York Times and CNN and Fox News and all U.S.new sources have colluded in a news black out !

And just check it out - Judge Alvin Hellerstein appears to have a corporate relative in the Israeli 'defense' company Elbit that Norway to its credit just disinvested in !

This Elbit relative of NY cover up Zionist Judge Alvin Hellerstein is named Ran Hellerstein and is a big exec at Elbit and they may make nano-thermite that the Danish scientist Niels Harrit believes brougt down the WTC and building 6 and 7 on 9/11/01.He does not point the finger at Elbit himself and we need a real newspaper to investigate because the corrupt Zionazis who own the NY Times and Rupert Murdoch who owns the NY Post WON'T !

Hooray for official free speech in Sweden since 1766 ! Something to be VEEEERY PROUD OF !

A danish scientist Niels Harrit, on nano-thermite in the WTC dust ( english subtitles ):

http://current.com/items/90004370_a-danish-scientist-niels-harrit-on-nano-thermite-in-the-wtc-dust-english-subtitles.htm
07:06 September 21, 2009 by Moshe
Sebseb, you stated: "My mistake, I will talk for a great percentage of Europeans who are younger than 40 yrs old: We are secularized, do you have a problem with it?"

How can you speak for the "great percentage of Europeans" (under 40 years of age) when you can barely speak for yourself? How do you know those under 40 are "secularized"? Do you know what the great percentage of people under 40 think? Are you a mind reader? No, I don't have a problem with your belief system but it appears you do?

Sebseb, you also stated: "Furthermore, this whole story about Aftonbladet was not about religion and Jews, but about Israel, precisely about the Israeli army. Fanactic Jews have been invading The Local to spit on Sweden for weeks, so I think it tells a lot".

When you talk about Israel, you are talking about Jews and their religion. Being secular as you stated you were and by your writing style, it appears you know squat about Israel and why and how the nation of Israel came about it's name. Israel and Judasism are one. There is no difference.

As to "Fanactic Jews have been invading The Local to spit on Sweden for weeks, so I think it tells a lot". Sebseb, now why would those "Fanactic" Jews spit on Sweden? Do you think, they just got together one day and say "lets get to gether and spit on Sweden"? No, some people just know it is not right to accuse a nation and it's people of crimes as mentioned by Aftonbladet and without the evidence to support their claim? Would you not like it if someone accused you of being a stupid idiot and could not prove it? I don't think you or anyone would? Now, accusing Israel of crimes as previously mentioned is the same thing.
10:23 September 21, 2009 by mysticbumwipe
"...When you talk about Israel, you are talking about Jews and their religion..." writes Moshe.

Well... Here seems to me to be the problem in a nutshell.

Viz. any criticism of the IDF, or Israeli foreign policy, or any Israeli organisation and people like Moshe assume you are criticising Jews AND their religion!??? :-o

Holy moly!

This is a serious problem.

Moshe and his ilk see to think they are above international law and if you don't agree then you are clearly anti-jewish!
10:58 September 21, 2009 by sebseb
MOshe,

obviously, you are such a fool since you prove my point. You wrote

"the nation of Israel came about it's name. Israel and Judasism are one. There is no difference."

Man, this is what I call a THEOCRACY.

Don't take it personally, but I know A LOT of Iranians who live in Sweden, they all criticize their country, they refuse to live in a theocracy. So yes, Iran is a Theocracy but not in the name of all Iranians.

Israelis claim that Israel is not a theocracy, but you say that Judaism and Israel is ONE.

So, my conclusion, according to all the Jews here who haven't yet understood that we live in the 21st Century and that no one cares about theocracy, not even the people where they live under one (like Iranians), Jews want to live in a theocracy and every time someone somewhere in the world criticize Israel, they all come together like fanatics on the Local and other newspaper comment section.

Israel is a theocracy per se, and is also colonizing land around. This is dangerous.
14:29 September 21, 2009 by Gröna gräset
The Aftonbladet article wasn't the best of articles. But the proportions this has taken is incredible. I participated in the heated debate on the Jerusalem Post-site, the accusations and peculiar interpretations both in the JP-articles and the people posting - was strange indeed. But it made me understand at least one important thing. The israelis live ther lives, every day under a terrible psychological pressure, and they can't take it.
15:25 September 21, 2009 by mysticbumwipe
I think any "terrible psychological pressure" for Israeli's is of their own making. An ingrained 'victim mentality' creates a policy towards their neighbours and in this case Sweden that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

And just as with G.W.Bush getting re-elected by whipping up fear in his electorate, it serves the purpose of Neo-Zionist politicians also to feed the fear and victim mentality in Israel.

Sadly and ironically, in actuality it is the poor Plaestinians who live daily under both "terrible psychological pressure" AND ""terrible physical hardship and pressure".

P.S. History lesson:

http://www.jatonyc.org/181.html
15:35 September 21, 2009 by Gröna gräset
I was only discussing the relations Sweden-Israel in my post. But of course I don't want to neglect the terrible situations of the Palestinians either.
16:51 September 21, 2009 by Stone99743
youtube.com/watch?v=22CGlF7l5MI

I guess people missed my comment , except for honorable.

Mind you please view the link i put above and comment , enjoy!
16:55 September 21, 2009 by Moshe
mysticbumwipe wrote: "Viz. any criticism of the IDF, or Israeli foreign policy, or any Israeli organisation and people like Moshe assume you are criticising Jews AND their religion!??? :-o"

Didn't you read or understand the gist of the entire subject? The essence of the Aftonbladet news article was they made-up or fabricated a false story against Israel, knowing the history and essence of Israel and it's people, in order to incite their racist hate. The news report wasn't a factual report and therefore people, who are not blinded by racial hate, saw the story for what it was. It was racist in nature. It incited!

Now, Sebseb, "I" believe is not only a racist but he lacks the intelligence to understand that no one, including you, would like it if a newspaper like Aftonbladet wrote false accusations about you.

Next time you go out to a pub to have a good time, tell the biggest persons there that their mothers looks like moose in heat and be sure to tell them about your Swedish right to freedom of speech! Let me know the outcome. It is called incitement!
17:12 September 21, 2009 by mehrdad1111
@stone:

i find this video great. the absolute truth about sweden today.

and things like this video are the reason why swedish decided to be antisemitic and not antimuslim. because they know that jews are civilizied and answer with funny videos and not with death-fatwahs and burning embasys like muslims do.

freedom of speech in sweden? a big LOL here. fredom of speech only when you not insult muslims.
18:41 September 21, 2009 by honorable
An (apparently) crazy swedish theology student supports the antisemitism of Bostrom:

http://www.middle-east-online.com/English/opinion/?id=33945
23:58 September 21, 2009 by sebseb
Moshe,

the journalist supposed it happens according to sources. From that point on, a review of the case is needed. Everyday journalists do that using words like "according to", "based on", "potentially" etc. This is what the journalist did. He did not say "for sure". And if Aftonbladet was cleared, it is because they verified the source and that the source was okej.

Israel is the only one doing it toward Iran saying " THEY HAVE THE ATOMIC BOMB" but they have absolutely no proofs of it.

So, before coming here and bash all Sweden about one article in the Aftonbladet, please, look at yourself first. This time, I won't talk for others, only for myself: I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF JEWISH SELF MISERABLENESS AND VICTIMIZATION.

Don't you think that most of the people aren't fed up to be called antisemite every time they criticize Israel?

2009, most of the people who participated in the Jewish genocide are 6 feet under. Now, we all know that some of your ancestors ended up in a oven or a gas chamber, but you are not the only one who ended up dead under a war, a genocide, a massacre, name it!. First nations in America, North, South, name it, were also quite massacred in the past. Same thing for Africans, who were used as slaves... So, I don't give more importance to your cause than the cause of natives in America. As a matter of fact, I care more about the natives in America since they are not paranoid and bringing back old history.

If you want to blame the unstable situation of Israel in the Middle East, look at how Israel was founded and blame the British. Stop annoying the rest of the world with anti-Semitism.
05:26 September 22, 2009 by Moshe
Sebseb,

My friend, you stated "Stop annoying the rest of the world with anti-Semitism."

Response: And, that is what Israel expects, also. Stop annoying people by accusing them of stealing human, body parts.

Mate, you also stated: "If you want to blame the unstable situation of Israel in the Middle East, look at how Israel was founded and blame the British."

Now, you being a non-believer as the Quran would classify you, wouldn't know how Israel was founded. Now, if you do some research, without being biased with hate, you will find how the nation of Israel got it's name and how long it was in existence before the British existed. The British helped fullfill Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, and Micah's prophecies of the Gathering of the Jewish people to Israel.

You are blind to the Truth because you lack the insight and knowledge in the world around you.
09:00 September 22, 2009 by sebseb
Moshe,

no, I can think for myself and I don't give a radish of any book, qran of the bible. And Mickey Mouse, Lucky Luke or Ezekiel and Jeremiah are all the same for me. Pure fiction!
14:41 September 22, 2009 by mysticbumwipe
Dear Moshe,

You seem to write from a position of surety concerning what you consider the falsity of the Aftonbladet allegations.

But, I wonder how can YOU possibly know?

Whether the article is badly written or whatever,

whether jews have been upset by this or whatever,

the FACTS remain that this reporting is not unsubstantiated, nor an isolated example of the same story, nor is it based on rumour and libel. You need to do more research and be more open to conclusions that you clearly find unthinkable.

If you are at all interesetd in the facts then read the following article which appears to be touching just the tip of the ice-berg:

http://counterpunch.org/weir08282009.html

Daniel Böström and Aftonbladet deserve respect for daring to bring this back into the public domain.

Bilal Achmad Ghanem - repeatedly shot, then kidnapped then killed, all without ANY proof of any crime - may you R.I.P. (remember that thing... what was it ...er, ...oh eyah, "innocent till PROVEN GUILTY" as many Israeli-upporters keep protesting?)

May your sorrowing family and all the other relatives of killed youths in the occupied territories find comfort in the fact that the ex-judicial killings of their near and dear ones by the IDF has not been nor will be forgotten.

I still hope that the veracity or not of the many reports of unpermitted organ theft by Israeli forces be investigated thoroughly and honestly by the Israeli authorities.
15:48 September 22, 2009 by honorable
Mystic, in another century here, or in this century in some arab countries, you would, it seems to me, wonder the following: " how can we possibly know that Jews do not use christian blood to make matza bread for Passover, or hamantachens for Purim? How can we possibly know that Israelis do not remove eyes from children for the purpose of transplants (a news item in some iranian and arab medias 2 years ago)? How can we possibly know that these clever Israelis are not responsible for 9/11?"

I'll give you a hint: if it seems unbelievable that Swedes would do it, trust also that Israelis or Jews would not do it. In other words, do not demonize Israelis or Jews. Both are very similar to Swedes: they have a funny language and a funny alphabet, for example; they are a little insular relative to the rest of their continent, but they are at the same time very open and very "americanized". They love science and are good at it; at technology too; they love nature and try to preserve it; they are free, honorable and democratic peoples.
17:51 September 22, 2009 by Moshe
Sebseb stated: "no, I can think for myself and I don't give a radish of any book, qran of the bible. And Mickey Mouse, Lucky Luke or Ezekiel and Jeremiah are all the same for me. Pure fiction!"

No, Sebseb, I believe you when you stated you can think for yourself but your thinking is defective and it's not all your fault. You think the way you do because you lack the education. You, at this time, are a sum total of your life's experiences and your experiences in life are shown in your responses. Now, it is not your fault because you are like a computer that has not programmed as you went through your stages of life. Some of your faults were taught to you by your mother and father and they are not at fault either because their parents, your grandparents, were also destitute of knowledge or education beyound their comprehension.

Now, you just might be a kind person but I doubt it. Your writing style is racist and you are a racist because you never were given a chance to interact with others. Do yourself some justice and start believing in a Creator higher than yourself and I not talking about your boyfriend.
19:49 September 22, 2009 by Tony Ryals
Gates of Sw Eden by Bob Dylan

Of war and peace the truth just twists

Its curfew gull just glides

Upon four-legged forest clouds

The cowboy angel rides

With his candle lit into the sun

Though its glow is waxed in black

All except when 'neath the trees of SwEden

The lamppost stands with folded arms

Its iron claws attached

To curbs 'neath holes where babies wail

Though it shadows metal badge

All and all can only fall

With a crashing but meaningless blow

No sound ever comes from the Gates of SwEden

The savage soldier sticks his head in sand

And then complains

Unto the shoeless hunter who's gone deaf

But still remains

Upon the beach where hound dogs bay

At ships with tattooed sails

Heading for the Gates of SwEden

With a time-rusted compass blade

Aladdin and his lamp

Sits with Utopian hermit monks

Side saddle on the Golden Calf

And on their promises of paradise

You will not hear a laugh

All except inside the Gates of SwEden

Relationships of ownership

They whisper in the wings

To those condemned to act accordingly

And wait for succeeding kings

And I try to harmonize with songs

The lonesome sparrow sings

There are no kings inside the Gates of SwEden

The motorcycle black madonna

Two-wheeled gypsy queen

And her silver-studded phantom cause

The gray flannel dwarf to scream

As he weeps to wicked birds of prey

Who pick up on his bread crumb sins

And there are no sins inside the Gates of SwEden

The kingdoms of Experience

In the precious wind they rot

While paupers change possessions

Each one wishing for what the other has got

And the princess and the prince

Discuss what's real and what is not

It doesn't matter inside the Gates of SwEden

The foreign sun, it squints upon

A bed that is never mine

As friends and other strangers

From their fates try to resign

Leaving men wholly, totally free

To do anything they wish to do but die

And there are no trials inside the Gates of SwEden

At dawn my lover comes to me

And tells me of her dreams

With no attempts to shovel the glimpse

Into the ditch of what each one means

At times I think there are no words

But these to tell what's true

And there are no truths outside the Gates of SwEden
10:06 October 4, 2009 by Cornelius Hamelberg
Markvs,

(For Mark - v s):

Yes,

Iceland is no longer at the tip top of the iceberg, after the financial meltdown and yes

You and all the other baby Karlssons remember what Denmark and the holy Danes did

with Hamlet and the bomb and fuse that they placed in the cartoon version of Mohamlet's turban, don't you?

Needless to say, they are still saying SKOL as they empty their Carlsberg from poor Yorick's skull.

Now Mr. Karlsson if you need another version to satisfy your soul and

"Insure you not to quit

To keep it in your mind and not fergit

That it is not he or she or them or it

That you belong to"

Well, here it is:

http://photius.com/rankings/freedom_of_the_press_2008.html
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One in five Swedes 'believes in ghosts'

One in five Swedes 'believes in ghosts'

One in five Swedes believes that people rise from the grave after they've died, a new survey has shown. READ (14 COMMENTS) »

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20 things to know before moving to Sweden

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 »

How far can English take you in Sweden?

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 »


Blog Update: Julie's Nordic Island

12 February 21:30

The consciousness of one »

"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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Swedish word of the day

fin

adjective

Fin means anyhting from sweet to proper. When someone says, Du är så fin it's quite a compliment.

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