In the wake of the ongoing conflict involving Israel and Hamas militants operating from the Gaza Strip, Sweden has been experiencing a rash of anti-Semitic attacks throughout the country. Such is the escalation in incidents against Jews that Swedish police have put themselves on heightened alert, and are closely watching prominent Jewish sites.
The Local newspaper reports that the incidents are fairly benign, but still certainly unnerving to local Jews. The Israeli embassy in Stockholm has been covered in graffiti, with exclamations such as “Die!” “Murderers,” and “Crush Israel, you broke the ceasefire!”
Swastikas have also been appearing on Jewish buildings around the country. A Jewish centre in Helsingborg was almost burned down two times in three days by arsonists who poured flammable liquids on a wooden staircase, according to the Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) newspaper.
Threats against members of Jewish congregations, including more cases of graffiti, as well as another arson attack at a Jewish burial chapel in Malmo are further proof of a rise in anti-Semitism within Sweden.
The same trend happened following the 2006 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, but local authorities are uncertain whether the perpetrators are Palestinian sympathisers or just anti-Semites. Police in Stockholm have boosted security around the Israeli embassy and the offices of the Jewish congregation.
To Mr. Daniel Occeno,
perhaps you are unaware that Hawaii is
a state of the United States of America, all of it’s citizens are American citizens, thus someone born there is an American citizen and is entitled to run for presidency of the United States. In fact, under our law, and child born to an American citizen ( which would be the case for President Obama) has American Citizenship no matter where they are born.
Our American economy is in a shambles because our banking/financial system was deregulated, “exotic” financial vehicles ( such as “derivatives) were created without any understanding or governance of them, and large corporations have been allowed to ship nearly all of our manufacturing away to countries that pay very low wages that our workers cannot compete with. The manufactured products made this way are then “dumped” back into our country and sold for high prices, with high profits going only to the CEO’s and managers of these companies.Everyone else becomes more poor.
Until our politicians work for the people instead of the bankers and international corporations ( we have much corruption in government here), until our manufacturing base returns to U.S. soil, things will continue to grow increasingly grim.
Are Bailouts of Corporations Good for the Business Society?
by Daniel Escurel Occeño
The continuation of the working world with salaries, the answer is yes because it will continue the cycle of prosperity of “spending and saving”.
The working class back in the seventies didn’t “gripe” about social welfare because the employed were heartless with no feelings for the poor while demeaning the underprivileged.
The complaints were that it would add to the social ills of society instead of improving communities.
Historically and documented, social welfare added to more social problems and tribulations in neighborhoods instead of taking care of families.
Just as an example, food stamps were sold to buy cigarettes, alcohol, illegal drugs, and to gamble. Although the monetary flow cycled, the attitude towards the good deed led to more corruption.
Without a sense of purpose the children of those on welfare will continue crime, violence, and the deterioration of the inner societies within, eventually destroying the country so “make them work for a living” was the counter-argument.
Increasing the taxes on the working class to give to the “lazy bones” will only create more apathetic and mentally lethargic nomads increasing the dependency on more taxation to provide for a “big government”, creating a new race of indolent people.
Private enterprise in America have evolved into a new “idea” (after the Cold War idea) since the Clinton/Gore Administration learned socializing and nationalizing of total industries will not work in America, but “big government” wants to stay in the game so competition must be allowed.
My more specific question is: “What happens when a private corporation buys a bailed-out company, like Volvo buying Ford? The Detroit Redwings are mostly Swedish now. Somebody was probably doing long-term planning and didn’t count on another team showing up before liquidation value.
But like I wrote back then and mouthed-off in college, the new conglomerate (even big government) must allow the individual companies to compete “freely” with the private sector or it will eventually influence more corporations wanting “social welfare”, cushy jobs for cronies when to have a stable economy needs real jobs for the poor and not just handouts.
Desire to succeed must continue for the bailouts to work and benefit the future.
The salary cap is sending a positive message to the executives that couldn’t win the Super Bowl or just profit.
Remember that the American President is the new CEO of those companies needing a bailout, so why should leaders that ruined the company and couldn’t make it profitable make more money than the new CEO that bailed them out from unemployment.
Instead of a salary limit to all, a pure capitalist would have fired those incompetent executives and hired a younger “gung ho” willing to make the company profitable for less salary hoping to be rewarded after success, preserving capitalism.
A five-year coach’s contract to win a super bowl I would even consider with the bailout.
Instead of laying-off workers maybe they will build cars with less gas mileage and cut prices as an alternative to playing along with oil giants wanting continued gasoline consumption, sell that SUV with a Cadillac interior as a primary vehicle.
Let’s do the Math! What would consume more gasoline? Fuel-efficient vehicles traveling the highways or dealerships closing with manufacturing plants lowering production?
Promoting spending with cash instead of buying with credit would probably re-open downtown small businesses again and the nightly deposits would return to the banks, but good jobs are needed to help the housing crunch.
I’m not an advocate of “supply-side economics” and against intentional high mark-ups for immediate profits. I’d rather sell cars than play the game. I want to win the super bowl.
Kurt Warner still didn’t have a defense. Mannn, he made it to the Super Bowl again.
Chairman Obama and his board of directors were forced to try a new approach to a capitalistic society. It is as risky as proposing a new theory in Medicine like “Diabetes is a protein deficiency.”
The potential of irresponsible practice without tangible proofs with the theorem could cause more harm than good, after all what happens to extra protein not burned into energy? Diabetics might plunge into a protein-loaded diet without monitoring blood sugar levels and stop taking diabetic medicine.
Diabetics need to exercise for good circulation anyway like borrowed capital from the working class in the form of taxation is now needed to stimulate “spending and saving” since business conservatives didn’t win the White House, continuing the cycle of prosperity.
How much money did Mayor Michael Bloomberg voluntarily gave to charity last year?
An independent run in 2012 is in my crystal ball if the bailouts add to more dependency on government. To you moderates, better start spinning and leave the Lady Governor alone.
I still like the movie “Double Jeopardy”. She killed a wolf in that movie. I didn’t get it, why did a very cute movie star decided to get political?
The spin of marching with homosexuals during the St. Patrick’s Day Parade won’t work and losing the support of cigarette giants is not worth mentioning since the Mayor of New York City is now “buds” with a former Forbes magazine “richest man in the world”.
I told my mother who graduated from the School of Commerce at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila (50 years ago) that profitable pharmaceutical companies will be buying the banks in America or at least their subsidiaries needed by drug giants to profit more in the States so “big government” has competition for the future, but what about that budget deficit caused by military spending favored by “moderates”?
The American genius worrying about the infrastructure of the Philippines is pointless when the former American President while claiming to be a conservative needed to borrow money from China to pay for the War in Iraq.
Gloria is better off meeting with China or even talking with Singapore to pay to pave the pot-holes in the South Road towards “Mayon Volcano”. There would be less jumbo bus accidents in those mountainous S-curve roads.
From:
Daniel Escurel Occeño
Panganiban Street
Gubat, SORSOGON 04710
Philippines
(FedEx delivers to Gubat)
Local call: (056) 311 0035
International Direct Dial to call from U.S.A.: 001163563110035
E-mail: danielocceno@yahoo.com.ph
Being born in 1960 during the Chinese calendar “year of the rat” I’m a little hesitant to write this said opinion.
During the “year of the dog” the stereotype of those with Chinese blood is one of laziness within that entire year.
During the “year of the pig” Chinese restaurants make a fortune.
Twice-cooked pork is a little spicy, but I love sweet and sour pork with cooked white rice.
2009 in the Lunar New Year is the “year of the ox”. I can only imagine a billion or more Chinese devoted to hard work for one full year and what it would mean to the country of China’s economy, since the “earth ox” is the working animal.
Maybe Wall Street in New York City will have a “bullish market” to keep up with China in financial news worldwide without the tainted international political slant.
The average yearly income in the United States is now $40,000 a year; is that really true?
Is that before or after the mudslide or downslide in the American economy?
Will the average continue during the “bailout” administration?
In my memory the last report used to be $18,000 a year. That’s still more than $2,000 a year in China.
$18,000 multiplied by 250 million American people or $2,000 multiplied by 1.3 billion Chinese people; I can’t multiply that in my head.
“Economics-caused poverty” might be over. Now let’s work on “war-caused poverty”.
The Chinese are very superstitious. The talk of the 100 days of Barrack Obama’s first term in office as the America President will determine his legacy to the world.
It would be a questionable move, increasing the tax on gasoline now that gasoline prices have lowered to the point the American economy is starting to improve and the price on goods and service such as food dropped tremendously.
After the war in Iraq “a missile attack” on Pakistan indicates the desire to continue increasing military spending that caused the uncontrolled budget deficit during the George W. Bush Administration, adding to the meltdown in the American economy of bank failures.
During the Clinton/Gore Administration it was the downsizing of the American military that reduced the trillions of dollars budget deficit into a surplus.
Releasing convicted terrorists? I hope none of them move to Muslim Mindanao. That’s all the Philippines would need is 1,000 American Marines destroying the countryside looking for Obama’s bad judgment, more NPAs.
I’m not an expert on the State Constitution of the State of Hawaii, but can a native-born Hawaiian run for president in the United States of America? Was that overlooked since many believed President Obama was an African American?
If Barrack Obama was really born in Hawaii, then he wasn’t born in America. He would be considered a “tropical islander” and not a natural born American.
By birthright Mr. Obama is a Hawaiian American (tropical islander) since Hawaiians have a separate classification to “White” and “African American”, legal ease in contractual law such as applications for employment.
And the talk of impeachment of Obama/Biden for election fraud (ACORN) might not go away. Nancy Pelosi or the Speaker of the House might end up the American President before 2012.
Is Missouri Congressman Roy Blunt the Minority Whip?
It will be “the longest 100 days” of the first Hawaiian American President, sounds like a movie title, pass me the sweet and sour pork.
Happy Chinese New Year to one and all!
From:
Daniel Escurel Occeño
Panganiban Street
Gubat, SORSOGON 04710
Philippines
(FedEx delivers to Gubat)
Local call: (056) 311 0035
International Direct Dial to call from U.S.A.: 001163563110035
E-mail: danielocceno@yahoo.com.ph
Swastikas and why. It involves the Kazarian Nazis that came from Georgia.
wethepeoplefoundation.org/MISC/TheLobby/emails-More-FOR.htm
wethepeoplefoundation.org/MISC/TheLobby/emails-More-FOR.htm
heres some video on it.
youtube.com/watch?v=dDHCgu4N7eE
This web site may be of some help to understand the Swastikas and why. It involves the Kazarian Nazis that came from Georgia.
wethepeoplefoundation.org/MISC/TheLobby/emails-More-FOR.htm
wethepeoplefoundation.org/MISC/TheLobby/emails-More-FOR.htm
First “Swedish jews” are not such they are jews no matter where they reside. The arab invasion ,raping of nordic women, plunder of nordic countries is distgusting to any Nordic person who lets this to continue.
Most Muslims blame the jews for their problems and occupation of their lands which is true .
However to use this as an excuse to invade whether through refugee status from the united nations and EU which pay compensation to local goevernments is criminal
Norics rise up and claim your land and dna .
>I am amazed that the Israelies cannot see how negativly their violent actions reflect upon on all jews all over the world.
Then you won’t have a problem with the American invasion of Iraq on some cooked up pretense because Osama is a muslim?
Pretty sure Rosa Parks didn’t blow up the bus, so I’m not sure where you’re going on that point.
I am amazed that the Israelies cannot see how negativly their violent actions reflect upon on all jews all over the world. Israel is occupying land that is not theirs, suppressing and harrasing the palestinian people. Why do we see these wild overreactions with brute force? Israel is heavily backed up by the US (perhaps actually an American entity in the Middle East)
Such reactions were no where to be seen when Rosa Parks stood against suppression and refused to stand up for the white man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ6VI_bc1j4
In my opinion swedish are friendly and pacifistic people, even more so than the dutch. Sweden has no tradition of anti semmitism. We all know who causes the present threats and incidents
EYE FOR EYE AND WE WILL END ALL BLIND.
IS IT SAFE * CORRECTION
I THOUGHT ABOUT GOING TO SWEDEN AND MAKE RESEARCH WORK THERE AND PROBABLY DO ANOTHER MASTERS DEGREE THERE. SWEDEN IS A BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY THAT I WANT TO VISIT. BUT NOW I SEE THAT THERE IS A LOT OF VIOLENCE AND CRIMINALITY GOING ON… IS IS SAFER OVER THERE??
Mona Sahlin was at the rally in Stockholm. Take that for what it is worth…
Eh? How did Daniel’s post past moderation :) ?
That’s awful! It’s great that the Swedish Police are responding, but it’s intensely saddening that that kind of belief still exists today. I admit that the swastikas in particular shocked me.
As with most violent crimes in this country the perpetrators are immigrants and not swedes. You had to look very hard to find an actual swedish person in the crowd during the anti-jewish riots and demonstrations the last few weeks in swedish cities. When you managed to find a swede it was a representative of one of the communist parties who came to suck up to the “new swedes” and buy votes by joining in the jew-bashing. It’s the same in every western country that saw these pro-gaza demonstrations/riots and attacks on jews, only arab immigrants as far as the eye can see. Hilariously enough they’re doing Israel a favour, they’re showing their host countries exactly what kind of hateful psychopaths Israel are up against. The police are not at all uncertain who the perpetrators are, the media here just have a policy of concealing ethnicity in the reports(revealing it would be racism you see), even going so far as to pixle the arms on photos to hide the skin colour.
WHAT WE NEED IN THIS WORLD IS MORE PEACE, LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING..
THis is a part of Sweden that very seldom gets reporte don. The latent racism and prejudices that exist in this country are staggering.