Archive for September, 2005
The World Economic Forum has released its Global Competitiveness Report for 2005-2006. And not surprisingly, the small, somewhat “planned” economies of the Nordic region are excelling. Macroeconomic management if you will. Nevertheless, top ten looks remarkably … “socialistic”.
1. Finland
2. USA
3. Sweden
4. Denmark
5. Taiwan
6. Singapore
7. Iceland
8. Switzerland
9. Norway
10. Australia
Take Sweden for example. One should note that [...]
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September 30th, 2005
Björn Hallberg
Many countries, including Sweden already have such laws in place.
Civilrights.org - Hate crime prevention advocates applauded the September 14 bipartisan House vote (223-199) on a new bill that would expand federal hate crimes laws.
The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2005, which passed as an amendment to H.R. 3132, the Children’s Safety Act [...]
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September 30th, 2005
Björn Hallberg
The symbol for the Abu Ghraib abuse, Lynndie England, was sentenced to three years in jail. Someone has to take the fall and every token investigation has been strangely unable to show any sort of pattern beyond the already indicted low ranking soldiers. It’s almost too good to be true.
BBC - Private Lynndie England, who [...]
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September 28th, 2005
Björn Hallberg
As a follow-up to the story about gory and demeaning pictures (”Blood and guts for porn”) of war and occupation being posted on Nowthatsfuckedup.com … the US military command is now on the case. It only took them a month to get up to speed with the blogosphere.
BBC - Allegations that US soldiers posted photographs [...]
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September 28th, 2005
Björn Hallberg
Interestingly enough, the freedoms we hear so much about in the US apparently doesn’t include Norman G. Finkelstein and the op-ed he tried recently to get published. It’s a telling example of how power and control really works and a rare opportunity to peak behind the curtain of all the great freedoms that the US [...]
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September 23rd, 2005
Björn Hallberg
Aid as a weapon, again. To further the agenda, appease conservatives Christians, to publicly castigate international organizations as something that hurts “american values”, promoting unilateralism and keeping China on the list of bad guys. The US never gets tired of willingly letting poor people suffer to promote themselves.
IPS - For the fourth year in a [...]
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September 23rd, 2005
Björn Hallberg
Reuters - Sixty-one women have given birth at Israeli checkpoints since 2000 due to delays in getting through the checkpoints, and 36 of their babies died as a result, the United Nations said on Thursday.
The incidents took place between September 2000 and December 2004, the World Health Organization said, relying on statistics from the Palestinian [...]
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September 23rd, 2005
Björn Hallberg
But of course there was no fingerpointing. And no outrage to indicate that anyone actually cares.
The Local - A Swedish parliamentary commission on Wednesday unanimously criticized the government for the controversial deportation of two suspected Egyptian extremists to Cairo, where they were later allegedly tortured.
“Sweden should not have accepted Egypt’s guarantee that it would not [...]
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September 22nd, 2005
Björn Hallberg
So to sum it up, some arbitrary US imposed pretence for empire trickled down and hit an unfortunate Swedish citizen. Tough shit? Well according to the EU it seems so. A fluke of US influence? According to Jan Hallenberg of FHS, yes. I’m not so sure and anticipate more “flukes” to follow.
The Local - A [...]
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September 22nd, 2005
Björn Hallberg
Seems to me the lambasting has very little to do with Taiwan’s security or American lives but rather those 10 billions ending up in the pockets of said official and his cronies. The US continues to play an unscrupulous game with its Asian satellite states, forcing them to acquire US hardware at alarming rates and [...]
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September 22nd, 2005
Björn Hallberg
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