Moderaternas åsikter de senaste 100 åren

Det finns givetvis inga perfekta partier men det är rääätt viktiga saker som Moderaterna har motarbetat genom tiderna. En intressant sak är hur kommunisterna i dagens Kina är så övervakningsvilliga och högern likaså. Så, hur var det nu hörruni?

Och vi lär oss ingenting

Babylon brinner i girighetens glöd
Demokratier, eller hur var det det löd
Så säljer vi vapen med statligt understöd
Underbygger krig och sprider vår död
Stora Babylon, beskåda din prakt
På toppen av världen berusad av makt
Sprider din terror, en hänsynslös slakt
Suger folkets blod, med slavkontrakt
Nu har ni brutit allt som ni sagt

Dessa rader från Svenska akademiens "Och vi lär oss ingenting" känns skrämmande relevanta, inte minst dessa dagar då vi "uppdagar" (påminns) om hur svenska staten fortsätter att agera mot mot världen och mot de värderingar vi så stolt påstår oss ha och vilja sprida. Att Moderaterna och övriga i Alliansen tycks stå bakom den politik som förs är tämligen uppenbar men frågan om inte tidigare regeringar med Socialdemokraterna i spetsen också varit usla följa de lagar regler och rekommendationer (för att inte tala om moraliskt ansvar). Med en vapenlobbande Göran Persson blir inte förtroendet för Socialdemokraterna bättre, för har de blivit bättre utan Göran?

Nej, vi lär oss ingenting.

VEM röstade fram Ewa Björling (M)?

As true as it gets

Träffsäkert TV-uttalandet av en f.d. missbrukare och uteliggare:

"Man ska inte göra backspegeln större än framrutan".

"Don't make the rearview mirror bigger than the windshield"

See it.

Extremely highly recommended!!

Tina om hur man tillagar kött

Sevärd. Fast, jag vet egentligen en ännu mer sevärd film. Kanske visar er en annan dag.

Enough is enough

Romani children - discriminated

Click!

"Romani children in the Czech Republic suffer discrimination in the enjoyment of their right to education.

In November 2007, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that discriminatory placement in special schools violated the right of Romani children to education. The government was obliged to adopt corrective measures. Two years later, however, the discrimination continues.

The discrimination takes many forms, including through the overrepresentation of Romani children in schools for pupils with “mild mental disabilities” (now called practical elementary schools) and through their segregation in Roma-only schools and classes - offering education of lower quality. This limits their future education and employment opportunities."/Amnesty

The same thing is going on in Slovakia.

IT-companies contribute to oppression

I know a few who works in this business and they tend to be rather uninterested in what I think is among the most important things. That is ridiculous because it's nothing more than ostrich manners. IT and human rights are obvious areas that intersect. It's possible to compare IT with Nobel's dynamite. Can be used for good, as well as great evil. So what am I trying to say? It's all about taking responsibility.

I also want to add the fact that no matter how safe we might feel about Sweden and the system here, it is not permanent. Nothing is to be taken for granted. So don't read the newspapers with the "it only happens over there, far far away"-glasses. Sweden has changed over time and we might change again. Personally I feel that we already are, towards darker times.

http://www.svd.se/opinion/brannpunkt/it-foretag-bidrar-till-fortryck_4107303.svd

Don't take our freedom of speech for granted! And try not to murder/abuse/imprison others in the long run...

A sand story

Everyday life in Uzbekistan

These are some beautiful everyday pictures from Uzbekistan taken by Umida Ahmedova. She might now face six months jail or three years of community service because of the photos and her low key documentaries. When was the last time you thought of Uzbekistan?

The ministry of interior describes her photos and documentaries as "slander" (probably for showing how it is in the country, poor, I guess). Some of her documentaries has been financed by a gender program which was financed by the Swiss embassy and foreign money is not appreciated when they go to cultural activities.

Violence against women cost 1.49 billion EUROS/year in Sweden!

"Enligt Socialstyrelsen kostar mäns våld mot kvinnor samhället uppemot 3,5 miljarder kronor per år. Men i dessa beräkningar räknas inte med kostnader för smärta och lidande. I internationella studier där smärta och lidande inkluderats i samhällskostnaderna skulle mäns våld mot kvinnor i Sverige kosta samhället cirka 16 miljarder kronor per år." From this article.

Men's violence against women in Sweden cost the society 33 000 000 EUROS per year, EXCLUDING costs for pain and suffering. According international studies that includes pain and suffering, the cost in Sweden is 1,49 BILLION EUROS.

Keep in mind that this is only about Sweden, with our about 4,5 million women.

And people talk about how horrible it is to pay tax. Then stop beating up women you idiots!

Don Quijote!

Aung San Suu Kyi's birthday today

Screw midsummer. What's more important is that it is Aung San Suu Kyi's birthday today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
AUNG SAN SUU KYI,
you are not forgotten!

Although, I am going to celebrate midsummer. I am going to spend the evening with some very nice people, eating loads of food, eg. including fish, potatoes, meatballs, sausages, strawberries, ice cream and of course drinking a bunch of snaps. Hopefully in a sunny garden. Enjoying life to the fullest!

Don't forget how lucky we are to be able to do all these things and not having to be maltreated.

"Russian History Will Be Controlled"

That is what TT writes. A new state history commission will see to that no one will "diminish the country's international prestige". Medvedev is saying that he will fight attempts to hurt the Russian interest by falsifying history. The commission has 28 members, of which only TWO are academics.

I just want to remind people not to forget about Russia. Things are from good there, still. Potentially (probably!) rewrite history by having an officially accepted state history is as the human rights activist Oleg Orlov says "a typical attribute for a totalitarian state".

Aung San Suu Kyi

I’ve taken action for Aung San Suu Kyi who was arrested by the military junta in Burma. Call for her immediate release at www.amnesty.org.au

My former friend - the racist (about Roma people in Slovakia)

An ok day just turned ugly. My heart was beating so fast when having this chat conversation with what I used to consider a friend/buddy from Slovakia. I have just shortened it a little and unfortunately I missed to save the first part of the conversation which included how this guy says that he thinks that Roma in Slovakia should die. His "arguments" for this are shown below. He also told me about how they stop buses by standing in the middle of the road to rob them and that they teach their kids to do the same. Another thing he said when I called him a racist is that he isn't one, that he likes white, red, yellow, black just not Roma people, as if they don't count when it comes to racism. I have now erased him from my list and have no intention to have further contact with him. Unfortunately this is far away from a unique opinion among Slovaks about Roma.

21:38M

in the school

and they never finish it even its for free

21:38Natasja

Do you say that they receiveeducation like all ther kids?

21:39M

yes

many

21:39Natasja

no

21:39M

oh yes

21:39Natasja

That’s a lie!

21:39M

that is not

21:39Natasja

they don't get education like everyone else....

21:39M

there are schools mostly around kosice

21:39Natasja

that just shows how little you actually KNOW about them

21:39M

lets call them white kids

they have to pay for lunch

at school

21:40M

they have to buy the books and pens

21:40Natasja

the white kids?

21:40M

everything

roma kids

they get lunch for free

transportation or dorms for free

books and pens and everything for free

and what happens

as i said

they dont go to school

if they go

21:41M

they steal from there

and they dont even finish it

what matters

?

education

last time they were trying to educate them

21:42Natasja

what kind of education?

21:42M

it was some kind of an american project

like 10 people from usa

they came

like how they will change them and teach them i dont know what

they came

after 3 days

they got robbed

romas took everything they had

even their passports

and americans went home

end of the storry

21:44Natasja

you're such a racist...

21:44M

milions and milions are spent on support of any kind for them

effect?!

nada

they take destroy and then they ask for more

21:45Natasja

so they are not worth as much as others?

so what? Slovaks steal and rob too? Did you think that slovaks don't??? In what universe are you living in?

21:46M

nope they are worth much more, coz others are working their asses of paying taxes

and they hardly survive from month to month

21:46Natasja

I am talking about human worth not fucking money

21:46M

of course slovaks do

21:46Natasja

so, what's you point?

21:47M

but we are talking about 10 percent top

21:47Natasja

so?

21:47M

in case of romas it is 95

21:47Natasja

you are nothing more than a racist

21:47M

slovaks are having 1 or 2 kids top

coz they can not afford more

but one roma 30 years old has ten kids

just to get the money from the state

that is all

and if that makes me a racist fine, i am a racist like everyone who lives in slovakia and is not roma

21:51Natasja

as I said, slovaks are infamous for their racism..

21:51M

well

too bad

go there try something teach them help them

change their mentality

and then we can talk

they live there coz they recieved nice house with appartaments

poor romas they live in the suburbs without electricity and water

that is not there

they had a nice house with water electricity

they were not paying for water nor electricity btw

21:57Natasja

I will end this conversation know. Bye

21:57M

they destroyed the house selling everything they could including water pipes

they destroyed the house selling everything they could including water pipes

and the house fell down

they said build us a new one

their ooown fault

and btw, i have rome friends, mother rome father roma kids roma.I know this family since forever.And they are great, but that is sadly those 5 percent i mentioned!

i dont have a problem with the fact that they are roma

coz they live and they behave like people

and they hate and they have the same oppinion about the roma u are so fighting for as i do!!!!

weird isnt it?!

bye

Financial crisis and the death penalty - not compatible

Unfortunately a common argument FOR the death penalty is the cost of keeping people alive. Very many people think that it is cheaper for society to have eg. murderers and pedophiles executed than locked up for the rest of their lives. They assume that "getting rid off" them must be cheaper than to store and feed them. Not only are they as wrong as they possible can, they are also arguing that there is a rather clear price on human lives. It's a cynical and primitive way of regarding fellow human beings.

The media is filled with articles about the consequences of the financial crisis and for once there is actually a positive thing about it.

Last Thursday 19 February I read a press item with the headline. "Expensive Death Penalty Can Be Abolished". "Several American states has started to discuss the abolishment of the death penalty. The reason is the financial crisis - it is expensive to execute people. 36 of the 50 states allow executions. The bill for one person sentenced to death is 1,26 million [!!] dollars while a life sentenced cost 740 000 dollars, according to researchers. Two thirds of the people is pro capital punishment."

Then people ask why does it cost so much to kill someone. Well, to understand why it is expensive, and should be expensive I can compare it to the death penalty in eg. China.

* When accused for eg. murder (among the 68 [!] different offences that are imposed with death penalty), when do you get a defence lawyer?
= Maybe 10 days before trial. Maybe never.

* When are you guilty?
= Until proven innocent.

* Who pays for the execution itself, that is for the bullet?
= The family of the convicted. For some that can be a month's salary.

* When is the execution implemented?
= Usually pretty quick after sentencing.

* How is the appeal procedure?
= The possibility exist but only if they have the time...and money. Keep in mind many Chinese are poor.

How is it then in the States?

Defence lawyer?
= Yes, of course. (Although there is no guarantee that he's educated or has the experience of this kind of cases)

* When are you guilty?
= When proven guilty.

* Who pays?
= Not the family.

* The execution?
= An person on death row sits there on an avarage of 11 years.

* Appeal procedure?
= AHA! Plenty! You can appeal several times. Useful since there are plenty of cases where people has been sentenecd to death despite their innocence.

Do you STILL wonder why it costs more to execute a person in USA than feeding them and keep them locked up? USA actually has a judicial system that "works" and China...well, you fill in the obvious.

The question that remains is still whether you can put a price on a human life...

Abolish it!

What whould you do if you turned into the opposite sex for a day?

What would you do if you turned in to the opposite sex for an entire day? I mean besides sexually related things.

I can only think of two, maybe three things:

* Negotiate for a larger salary

* Apply for a job/new job

* Change my name to "Anders" since it's a bigger chance of becoming a MD (VD) for a large company here in Sweden with that name