Peculiar facts: Prime minister Reinfeldt's great-great grandfather was an african American reportedly from New York Mr. John Hood, he sometimes apparently also claimed to be from Borneo and had a circus in Sweden in the 1880's.
Showing posts with label Sweden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sweden. Show all posts
"The Beast" is in Stockholm
Peculiar facts: Prime minister Reinfeldt's great-great grandfather was an african American reportedly from New York Mr. John Hood, he sometimes apparently also claimed to be from Borneo and had a circus in Sweden in the 1880's.
The road to hell is paved by good intentions
I have previously written a piece on evil. I believe that the problem with "evil" is that it always cloaks it self in good intentions.
The communists brutal regimes around the world was rationalized by concern for the poor - that is good right? A good man is his brother's keeper, every body knows that. The Nazis was motivated by far reaching concerns for the German people - the German at least seemed to think that was a pretty good idea at the time.
Now these ideas have hit rock bottom. Communism more or less committed suicide as did Nazism. Its a common mistake to think that totalitarian regimes doesn't mind the public opinion. In fact nothing could be more wrong. Why else did both the Nazis and the Commies spend endless resources on propaganda? Mass-meetings, education and indoctrination of the youth. Nothing is more important for a dictator than the approval of his people, there are just different ways to get it - that's all.
Contemporary politics have found the new Columbi egg of public policy - the magic words are - "It's for the sake of the children."
The Swedish government closes Lundbergs boarding school "for the safety of the children." In Sweden parents that doesn't take their children to the communal day care are suspicious, because the dogma has it that the daycare "is for the good of the children." When Swedish authorities kidnapped Domenic from his parents when they were moving to India, they did it "for the children", i.e. for Domenic, when they put Domenic's father in jail for wanting to spend time with his son it was "for Domenic's sake." The authorities were concerned that his parents taught him wrong values. Now Ms. Begler has the same concerns about Lundsbergs boarding school.
One might think that the children at Lundsberg would now if they are in any danger or abused in any way. When the whole school, all the students, say that they love their school and want to stay in their school, which has one of the best academic records of any school in Sweden by the way, the school Inspectorate only retorts that they do this "for the sake of the children." Never mind that the children lives at the school and has no way to go, at least not on such short notice (24 hours).
The freedoms of all are constantly being encroached by reason of "it's for the children." Well here's an novel idea - why don't we let the parents raise their children? How about that?
I think every parent reacts if he or she thinks that their child is attending a school that is unsafe, teaches weird values or otherwise can be deemed to be unsound. It is also my experience that when people pay for something, they tend to be more demanding for quality and adequate results as compared to when people doesn't pay. This is why Hyundai owners always are more content customers than BMW buyers, it has very little to do with the cars and more to do with the expectations of the consumer.
Is there any person out there that honestly believes that the approximately 400 parents of the students at Lundsberg who pays appx $30.000,00 a year for their kids at this school, would accept that this school would act in any way - any way at all, that would warrant that the government rush in and by force close it down, for the sake of the children?
It's ludicrous.
Lundsbergs boarding school is an excellent school
Lundsbergs boarding school is without doubt one of the best schools in Sweden. A five minute research session on internet with access to public educational statistics is enlightening. Lundbergs boarding school can show a stunning 93.3 % success rate for the graduating elementary classes according to the prevailing measurement criterion.
Students at Lundsberg, whom the School Inspectorate have "saved" from the "abusive" and non conformist value-environment which they are the victims off.
I'm a father, I have been a youth coach in martial arts for many years. I know that kids are like open books. One thing I've learned and this never fails - unhappy children cannot do squat. They can't study, they can't focus, they get bad results. It's not exactly rocket science. A 93.3% success rate tells me two things.
1. The closing of the school by the School Inspectorate (SI) based on alleged lack of safety is nonsense.
2. At least 93.3% of the students at Lundsbergs elementary program are happy campers.
One would naturally think that a government agency like the School Inspectorate would take their assignment seriously and really focus on the schools that fail miserably in their most basic educational duties, like teaching the students Swedish, math and English. If I was the director of this institution with the intimidating English name reminiscent of some ominous government agency in the mind of George Orwell I would bring the Inspectorate's attention elsewhere. There's plenty of work in many other schools in Sweden.
In Sigtuna, the communal schools only succeed in giving 70.7% of the students the most basic educational basis necessary to be able to go on to high school. 30% of the students have failed in Swedish. That is a pretty grim reality considering that the schools are in Sweden.
In Stockholm, the capitol of Sweden, the Rågsvedsskolans elementary program only succeeds in giving a shocking 31.8% of the students the necessary educational basis to be able to go on to high school. That is absolutely flabbergasting; 60% of the kids in Rågsvedsskolan graduate from 9th grade practically illiterate.
This is a picture of Rågsvedsskolan. An example of a school that upholds the government endorsed values and culture according to the School Inspectorate and where the SI don't think that student safety is an issue.
The School Inspectorate spends millions on investigations and a media circus to defame the Lundsbergs school, an excellent school with happy students and a success-rate of 93.3%. This also effectively sabotages seniors' at Lundsbergs boarding school's possibilities to maximize their grades and their academic futures since they now must move to a school where their academic results are unknown.
Not only that, they choose to punish studious students collectively to set an example against punitive traditions(!?),
I'm a father, I have been a youth coach in martial arts for many years. I know that kids are like open books. One thing I've learned and this never fails - unhappy children cannot do squat. They can't study, they can't focus, they get bad results. It's not exactly rocket science. A 93.3% success rate tells me two things.
1. The closing of the school by the School Inspectorate (SI) based on alleged lack of safety is nonsense.
2. At least 93.3% of the students at Lundsbergs elementary program are happy campers.
One would naturally think that a government agency like the School Inspectorate would take their assignment seriously and really focus on the schools that fail miserably in their most basic educational duties, like teaching the students Swedish, math and English. If I was the director of this institution with the intimidating English name reminiscent of some ominous government agency in the mind of George Orwell I would bring the Inspectorate's attention elsewhere. There's plenty of work in many other schools in Sweden.
In Sigtuna, the communal schools only succeed in giving 70.7% of the students the most basic educational basis necessary to be able to go on to high school. 30% of the students have failed in Swedish. That is a pretty grim reality considering that the schools are in Sweden.
In Stockholm, the capitol of Sweden, the Rågsvedsskolans elementary program only succeeds in giving a shocking 31.8% of the students the necessary educational basis to be able to go on to high school. That is absolutely flabbergasting; 60% of the kids in Rågsvedsskolan graduate from 9th grade practically illiterate.
The School Inspectorate spends millions on investigations and a media circus to defame the Lundsbergs school, an excellent school with happy students and a success-rate of 93.3%. This also effectively sabotages seniors' at Lundsbergs boarding school's possibilities to maximize their grades and their academic futures since they now must move to a school where their academic results are unknown.
Not only that, they choose to punish studious students collectively to set an example against punitive traditions(!?),
Royal Wedding
HRH Princess Madeleine of Sweden and Mr. Christopher O'Neil are getting married June 8, 2013. HRH Princess Madeleine is fourth in line to the Swedish throne.
Congratulations to the happy couple!
Aftonbladet
The Royal Court
Daily Mail
Ilta-Sanomat
Swedish shrink fired after mimicking movie
Ola Gefvert, refused Ms. Salander Nora treatment
after she was raped by the police chief.
"The girl with the dragon tattoo" is a 2011 American mystery thriller film based on the Swedish novel of the same name by Stieg Larsson (original Swedish title: ”Men that hates women”). It tells the chilling story about the abuse of the main character Ms. Salander, and her struggle to overcome it. Many have commented that although very good criminal novels, the trilogy suffers from a certain lack of connection to reality. Based on sentiments in line with; ”Sweden is such a wonderful country” or something to that effect.Well, it seems that the image and likeness of Sweden as expressed be these utterances is not in agreement with the reality of things, just as image seldom is.
Swedish media is just reporting, something that is strikingly similar to the horrible backdrop of the trilogy, to the point that one wonders if it is fiction describing reality or reality mimicking ficition. Based on a documentary called ”the girl that was kept in restraints” media reports that ”Nora” a young woman that was brutally raped by the Swedish police chief Göran Lindberg (also called ”Captain dress”), was refused treatment and subjected to psychological abuse by the psychiatrist Ola Gefvert.
Captain dress was before he was caught and convicted for several counts of aggravated rape, known for his diligent work to achieve workplace equality within the police force and also in the treatment of victims and an advocate for women's rights, hence his nickname ”Captain dress.”
In a recording the psychiatrist, Gefvert, is stating that he doesn’t have to listen to her (Nora’s) yapping, and that she doesn’t need treatment and that ”Captain dress” is nothing compared to what his other patients have experienced. Nora also requested a female doctor due to her traumatic experiences with men but her request was refused by Gefvert, instead he assigned a male caretaker to her. Gefvert is now being sacked from the clinic in Uppsala, Sweden because of his misconduct and a spokesperson for the clinic says that they consider Gefvert to be a security risk.
Swedish court: Homeschooling = abuse
This needs to be put into perspective because frankly I find this judgment so repulsive and repugnant to all I believe in that the statement in itself cannot carry the absurdity of it.
The Swedish court is making it legal to act in direct contradiction to the UN declaration of human rights. A declaration that Sweden has signed.
The court motivated their decision with the phrase that the parents because of homeschooling are isolating their child from meeting peers and therefore are: ”lacking in care of Domenic in a way that results in permanent danger for his health and development.”
In Sweden there is an administrative policy and rule that courts shall adhere to current scientific results and research, apparently the court ignores this. There are tons of research contradicting the opinionated view of the court about homeschooling and isolation.
Its ironic that the ruling that goes against science and violates the most fundamental human right, is delivered the same day as the Nobel prize is delivered, hosted by the Swedish royal family in Stockholm, celebrating science and the peace prize.
Its ironic that the ruling that goes against science and violates the most fundamental human right, is delivered the same day as the Nobel prize is delivered, hosted by the Swedish royal family in Stockholm, celebrating science and the peace prize.
The court ruling means that parents that homeschool in Sweden loose custody of their child!
Not only that, it will be done without any due process. The child can be removed from the parents without previous notification or possibility to defend your right as a family or parent or child in advance.
I wonder what has happened to Sweden and when did this start?
Tomboys will be tomboys
"More surreal news from Occupied Sweden. The most insanely socialist, watchful, interfering, nannying and just plain paranoid society on earth appears to have arrived at its nadir. How did this clique manage to quietly take control of a previously independent-minded people?"
The author of the article in SVD sums it up at the end of the article by asking what men are so afraid of?
I don’t think that one automatically is afraid just because one does not agree on all the ideas and theories that are popular at the moment. When I grew up as a boy, no one tried to make me wear dresses or decided for me that I should play with dolls. When I think back I cannot recall that I have had any major trauma due to this. I played with typical boy toys, all days long. I have daughters, they play with toys. They have cars, guns, bows, firetrucks, spiderman suits and pirate stuff, when my daughter recently turned 8, I got her a compound bow but also some typical girl toys. They love girly toys, dolls, ponies, princess dresses and what not. But here’s the thing, first of all, no one is telling me what is right or wrong to buy, secondly, they prefer to play with the girl stuff, it is their choice.
I have daughters that now are adults, they were raised the same way. They turned out just fine. They were more into the boy toys growing up, they were real tomboys. Sometimes they’d crack me up running around with helmets and waiving toy swords wearing princess dresses, taking off their helmets and underneath they had their hair full of pink bows! Now they're two typical young women with nail polish and make up and all that. But again its been their choices no one else’s.
The world’s best schools are in Finland
Homeschooling in Finland, the best educational system in the world
The study can detect that there is a correlation between results and spending, but it is not as important as the general attitude towards education. It is also interesting that of the top 20 countries it’s only one that has made homeschooling illegal, Germany. In Sweden homeschooling is also illegal, but then again, Sweden did not make it to the list of the 20 best educational systems in the world.
Finland allows homeschooling and has the best educational system in the world. My conclusion based on this, is that the ban on homeschooling has nothing what so ever to do with quality of education. So what is the Swedish agenda, really?
In Sweden homeschooling is a crime and parents wanting to homeschool labeled as mentally challenged.
Conformity
SWEDISH CONFORMITY 2.0 @AlexTJohansen: "@Noterad: #SvD Swedes want to censor public art that is perceived as provocative. http://t.co/bnt873bl #noterad"
Haddile's home is in Sweden
Haddile have been cared for by her Swedish foster parents since she was 4 months old. She is now 2 1/2 and knows no other family than her Swedish family, her Swedish foster parents and her Swedish foster siblings. She speaks Swedish with an adorable southern dialect like any native. According to Swedish law, it is the best interest of the child that should govern the decision concerning her future. This may sound good, but really is no better then the person making the judgment. This since it pretty much can be construed to mean anything, which the vast record of violations of children's and families civil rights in Sweden is a grim record of.
In this case there are several factors that come into play. Haddile was deserted and left with a man, not her father, and he took the baby to a hospital, claiming the mother had left the baby with him. Haddile had signs of abuse, suffering from malnutrition and head injuries and probably brain damage.
The county in which Haddile lives, is paying the foster parents for their care, that's why it is also an economical question, although I'm convinced that the county would never admit to that. But as it happens it is the same county and its social services that will investigate and decide on where Haddile will live. Let us not forget, this is the same social services that wanted to send Haddile of to an orphanage in France not so long ago. Where they claimed she should be, instead of living with her foster parents in Sweden. They had to go back on that since they got public opinion protesting against it and Swedish media was all over it, which apparently also notified her biological relatives in Algeria about it. Also they can easily circumvent Swedish law since Haddile according to Swedish judicial logic or lack of it, the law doesn't apply to Haddile even though she is born in Sweden, because she doesn't have status as a legal permanent alien.
Haddile was born out of wedlock and Haddile's biological mother have reportedly received death threats against herself and Haddile because of this, and now the biological mother apparently want to have Haddile to live with her under those circumstances. Haddile doesn't speak a single word her biological parents language, from her perspective she has a swedish mother and a father and knows no other. We cannot know the underlying motives for the biological parents sudden wish to have Haddile. At one point they saw it as the best alternative to leave her with strangers when they were in Sweden and going back to Algeria. Now they are in Algeria and claim they want her back. What's to say they are not being threatened?
In Swedish media the parents are now refereed to as the Algerian couple. But when Haddile was born there was no couple, her biological mother was a single mother and Haddile was born out of wedlock. Now they claim it's a "couple" without explaining how that came about. The Swedish state department has a report that shows that children born out of wedlock in Algeria are traumatized in the Algerian society and made to suffer their entire life.
For me its a simple choice. Let her stay in Sweden. She will grow up in a loving family. She wont be traumatized and not made to suffer the rest of her life.
Sweden on egalitarianism
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ON SWEDISH GENDER DOCTRINE @RT_com: Swedish toymaker publishes 'gender-neutral' children's Christmas catalogue http://t.co/NXVSUNgq
Edwarda O'Bara so beautiful.
Sometimes I come across a story that brings me pause. The story about Edwarda O'Bara is one of those stories. Almost unimaginable in its message of the unconditional love and loyalty of a mother transforming words, a promise, to her daughter, into a monument of the importance of family, and what a family is and the unconditional love of a mother.
In a time when families are marginalized more and more, maybe this is an example that is offered in the right time. 1970 before loosing consciousness Edwarda asked her mother Kaya not to leave her side. Kaya gave her daughter her word and stayed by her side for 40 years. Taking care of her when in a coma.
A family pulling together, mother, father and sister, loving and caring. No one had to tell them what was best for their daughter. No one had to teach them to love her. They didn't have to have a degree in socioligy to be able to determine how to honor, and love and cherrish their daughter and sister.
A family doesn't need law, a mother doesn't need the social services telling her what is best for her child. Why would I bring this up, certainly this is a view that all societies is founded on, the family? Unfortunately not. Not Sweden. In Sweden this amazing story and testimony of faith, family and love would be utterly impossible. I can guarantee that it could never have happened and I am sorry to say it will never happen.
There is first the issue of the Swedish health care system. It would simply not allow for someone laying in a coma for 40 years. The plug would have been pulled after a few months. Not very long ago, I experienced the nightmarish side of the Swedish "health care" system when me and my wife tried to stop doctors from terminating the life of a little baby with braindamages. The doctors refused to wait for a second opinion from a specialist in Germany that the parents had begged and pleaded the doctors to allow since the baby had started to show improvements. The doctors turned of the respiratory machines without remorse, the tears and pleadings of the parents and others couldn't even move the doctors to postpone the death sentence of the baby one single day. In Sweden there is no law, or court that has jurisdiction over a doctor. The parents had NO way of defending their daughter's life.
Secondly there is the issue of the subordination of the family and the parents to the government. In Sweden it is not the parents that decide how the children is to be raised, it is the state. Parents that have their own ideas, such as raising their children the way they think is the best or wanting to homeschool, loose custody of their children, its a fact. In Sweden family is only what the social services in your local county decides it to be.
Thirdly, the kind of faith and self sacrifice and loyalty and love expressed by this family to their loving daughter would in Sweden only be considered as some kind of extremist behavior. To prove my point, DN's artikel on the subject is void of any emotional, religious or loving subject. In comparison the Miami Herald is full of warm empathy and respect. That's because these are subjets that in Sweden only is allowed and approved when expressed in a non committing manner, balanced and calm, as to minimizze the risk of anyone thinking you are overly emotional or even worse, a religious fanatic. Dominic Johansson that I have mentioned earlier in my blog was deemed by the social services to be too trusting and outgoing, which was held against his parents, obviously they must be some kind of extremists, and as it happens they actually called them "human rights extremists."
That's why, for me, as someone that has been exposed to the Swedish society for so many years, Edwarda O'Bara is a beautiful reminder of what we are or more importantly what we must strive to remain. We are loving parents. We care for our children the best way we can. We try to never let our children down and we always try to keep our words. We never seize to love.
The O'Bara family has given the world a standard, not an unclimbable mountain or impossible to achieve, not like that at all. They have shown something better I think. They have inspired and shown that there is love. They have done this in a time when family and parenthood is marginalized in Sweden. Think about that. I think that's amazing.
The slippery slope of Swedish totalitarianism
These children are also taught to be free in the state school and banned from homeschooling.
I'd like to address the bizarre and inverted prevailing attitudes in Swedish society on parental, child and family rights. In doing so, this article by a Swedish columnist, Sakine Madon, in a major Swedish daily newspaper will serve as an excellent backdrop.
Ms. Madon is comparing homeschooling with imprisonment of the children. Her column is addressing the fact that an orthodox Jewish family was permitted to homeschool their four daughters in a court decision recently. Ms. Madon is questioning the reasons for the decision, which is based on religious rights. She makes a point out of comparing it to another court decision apparently not to the liking of Ms. Madon, where a Swedish court ruled that children of the Muslim faith, did not have to participate in taking showers naked with other children in school. Personally I don't see how children will be able to learn the "virtues" of Ms. Madon's "ideal state" when forced to undress in front of others. It is not clear though in Ms. Madon's column in what way this is relevant as to homeschooling.
Ms. Madon praises the new Swedish educational code, which prohibits parents to base applications for homeschooling on religious or philosophical reasons, although Ms. Madon doesn’t exactly put it that way. As commonly is the habit of the suppressors of these fundamental rights of the family in my experience, she misrepresents the truth by stating that the new law, prohibits religious and philosophical reasons to keep children out of school. With the intentional implication, that homeschooled children does not receive education.
Ms. Madon adds what at first may seem to be a voice of reason when she states that homeschooling is motivated under certain circumstances. But unfortunately, this seemingly gracious standpoint is negated by her next statement; “that it is the best interest of the child, not the parents interest that should be ruling.”
Ms. Madon’s view is the kind of view that the Swedish society uncritically accept as a truth, that parental rights are adversarial to the child's. This view is also apparent in Swedish laws, wherein a child can be taken into protective custody and parental rights removed, without even notifying the parents about it or allow them to oppose such actions.
The essence of this view, so appalling to myself and to all who uphold civil rights and concepts as due process and the rule of law, is that it is not within the competence of the parents, to decide what is best for their child, it is the prerogative of others. This is plainly obvious in Ms. Madon’s column. She is obviously, accordingly to her, in her own eyes at least, better equipped to decide on parental decisions, than the actual parents of any child.
Ms. Madon finally directs criticism against those who criticize her and her views as being violating on civil rights by turning the world upside down. She writes in essence:
“We that criticize homeschooling are described as prejudicing. The editor tries to sum up our motives: “Its about what the children cannot be allowed to become, they are not allowed to become like their parents.”
On this Ms. Madon answers: No, it is about the freedom of children to become something else than their parents.”
Ms. Madon’s final statement is chilling in its full implications, as the state must force children to be free. Every nightmare society construed until this day, have all been obsessed by making the children their possession. To make children mere creatures of the state. Among these are the Communist Soviet, Nazi Germany, North Korea, China and Cambodia. Individuality of any kind is not allowed, it need not be religious views that are suppressed, any way of life that does not please the collective is by right suppressed. This is evident in the Alexander Aminoff case, where parental rights was taken away from a mother and the boy taken into official custody because his mother, an outspoken critic of local authorities, intended to take her son with her on a job related trip. The authorities kidnapped the boy by force with the help of Swedish police. He was kept in custody for years until he at age 15 finally managed to escape to the neighboring country of Finland. The European Court of Human Rights later vindicated the family and the boy and mother received damages from the Swedish state.
It is also notable that all the totalitarian regimes share another view with Ms. Madon, and that is the aggressive atheist and anti-religious view. This to such a degree that the passing on of religious views from one generation to the next, is looked upon as a violation of the rights of the child and something the state should prevent and legislate to counteract. Which is exactly what Sweden is doing, in violation of universal human rights.
In this specific case it is a question of the Jewish faith. With values, traditions and beliefs that represent the oldest continuing human tradition in our history as a species. It has been upheld for thousands of years, often under adverse circumstances from one generation to the next. In itself a remarkable accomplishment. But were it for Swedish politicians and conformist demands, its ancient traditions would be erased from the face of the earth. So that all can be "perfectly happy" in the ongoing creation of our brave new world were all must shower naked together. Is memory so short?
