Sweden's welfare state at heart of final election debate

Centre lead
THE centre-right, dominated by Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt's Moderates, has held a lead in Swedish Opinion Polls since June. A rapid Economic Recovery in the country and solid public finances have combined to give a boost to the governing coalition. Mr Reinfeldt has pledged to cut Income taxes further if The Economy and spending on the cherished Welfare State allow. The likeliest consequence of an inconclusive result would be Mr Reinfeldt staying on to head a minority government.

Swedish govt seeks re-election amid far-right rise
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How a young woman's blog post is changing the Swedish elections
I'm in Sweden this week as part of my ongoing work to help develop a progressive blogosphere outside of the US, and have had the unique opportunity to follow the Swedish national Elections, which are taking place this Sunday. While, like much of Europe, Sweden has a flurry of political parties from Left to Right, the two main contenders in the upcoming election are the conservative Prime Minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt, and his progressive opponent, Mona Sahlin. While Sweden was an early contender...

Cal Thomas Hits a New Low (if That Is Possible)
For years, Cal Thomas has been giving us his Theocon message (Thanks, Lew, for that term) of Police State at home and invasions abroad. Oh, I know he once wrote a book that James Dobson didn’t like in which Thomas said that politics was not the ultimate Christian goal, but basically the message we get from Thomas is this: The Right-Wing American State is worthy of worship. In a recent column Thomas looks at Cuba’s recent decision to lay off Government workers and create more private...

Chinese premier urges officials to obey laws
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Chinese Premier Wen cites 'political reform,' urging officials to obey laws, fight corruption
Beijing — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has urged officials to obey the law and fight Corruption in an effort to further political reform he said was necessary for the country's success. Wen did not specify what he meant by reform, but his remarks reflected Beijing's concerns that widespread public unhappiness over rampant Corruption and a lack of transparency and accountability in the government poses a threat to Communist rule. "Without political system reform, reforms in the economic...

David Cameron and Nick Clegg look to Sweden for inspiration on winning
Prime Minister's closest conservative European ally on course for election victory after four year coalition with Liberals Fredrik Reinfeldt, the Swedish Prime Minister, pictured on the right with Jose Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, is on course to win the election. Photograph: Georges Gobet/AFP/Getty Images The Liberal Democrats will be in nervous mood as they gather in Liverpool this weekend for their annual conference. With Opinion Polls showing a fall in their support,...

DEMOCRACY IN SWEDEN A FARCE AS POLICE BAN ALL SWEDEN DEMOCRAT MEETINGS DUE TO THEIR FAILURE TO PROTECT THEM.......
IN Sweden, THUGGISH Leftism  AND Radical Islam RULES "YOUTHS" This is the face of Sweden, the self promoted "social Democracy paradise" where equality and social justice reigns for all, except for all those who fall outside the narrow prism of what is deemed to be acceptable thinking and progressive political social policies by the Socialist-faux conservative elitist cabal that rules Sweden. KGS The Baron writes:   The police have told Sverigedemokraterna (the Sweden Democrats) that...

FINNISH STATE BROADCASTER YLE2 ATTACKS SWEDEN DEMOCRATS IN SMEAR-REPORT.......
Thanks to Vlad for grabbing this and uploading the Tundra Tabloids' translation. I find it incredible that a state TV channel funded by the Finnish Taxpayer is spending hard earned tax money in attacking a political party of a neighboring country.  Of course they more than likely got help from their counterparts in Sweden. This political environment in which we live, is really retarded, especially in Sweden. KGS NOTE: I wonder if the Finnish state broadcaster YLE2 violated any rule in...

SWEDEN DEMOCRAT ON ISLAMIZATION IN SWEDEN: IT CAN HAPPEN REAL FAST.......
The Tundra Tabloids couldn't care less how many individual Muslims -writing in the comments to any given article here, or in the MSM, critical of Islam- whine on about how all Muslims are being unfairly tarred with the same brush, and then "give proof" by saying that they themselves are not pushing for Islamization, "so there". Until  we see Muslims, or anyone that identifies with Islam, in a very high profile way, and in increasing numbers, denouncing political Sharia, the violent...

Sweden heads to the polls
The Sweden Democrats have been demonized and are referred to below as “far-right” but they are in fact little different from any other conservative party except that, unusually for Sweden, they are very critical of Muslim Immigration, which is apparently very naughty of them. A similar party in Denmark has succeeded in getting very tough Immigration laws passed so they do seriously threaten the Swedish establishment. There is a lot of public support for a crackdown on...

Sweden looks set to re-elect centre-right
A NUMBER of polls show Sweden's centre-right government is heading for re-election today, although its majority could be threatened if a small, Anti-Immigrant party enters the Swedish parliament. One survey in the country shows the centre-right, four-party Alliance winning 183 of the parliament's 349 seats. The opposition Red-Green bloc got 166 seats in the poll results yesterday, while the nationalist Swedish Democrats narrowly missed the 4 per cent bar needed to gain a seat. The error margin...

Nepal & China: Intercepted Audio Tape Controversy
Nepal provides an important buffer zone between two giant countries - India and China - in the mighty Himalayas. So far this cushion has worked well. But now an intercepted telephone call between a senior Nepalese Maoist leader and an unknown Chinese discussing the use of $6.75m to bribe members of Nepalese parliament to elect a Maoist Prime Minister, has created a serious controversy, and concerns about China’s motives. The intrigue comes at a sensitive time for Nepals...

Alert Maddow! Dem Staffers Hoist Nazi Signs of Beck and Palin
It seems to me that the truth ought to be a defense against any charge of Racism or slander. You shouldn’t be able to generate outrage over the fact that person A calls person B a Communist, for instance, if person B is on record identifying them-self as a Communist. And yet that’s partly what Rachel Maddow does in her extremely lame attempt to prove that Fox News in general [...] Video: Anita Dunn on the War on Fox This was reported Friday, but the video wasn’t broadcast...

Anti-Japan protests break out in China
ProtesterS in several cities across China marked a politically sensitive anniversary yesterday with anti-Japan chants and banners as authorities tried to stop anger over a diplomatic spat getting out of control. As some chanted "Wipe out the Japanese devils!" and stamped on Japanese flags, China's Foreign Ministry called for calm. Ever-present anti-Japanese sentiment in China has been inflamed in recent weeks by Japan's arrest of a Chinese captain after h ADVERTISEMENT is fishing boat collided...

Obama File 96 Coincidence? Obama, Frank Marshall Davis and the Earl Durham Connection
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China -- economic juggernaut, running scared
The country's Communist leadership — it's still a Communist country, remember? — has staked its legitimacy on an implicit bargain: Let us rule, and we'll create good jobs, increase workers' incomes and reduce rural Poverty. But in a nation of 1.3 Billion, with wild extremes of Poverty and wealth, that's harder than it sounds. To keep expansion on an even keel, Economist Fan Gang says, China's economy needs to keep growing by at least 8% a year for the foreseeable future. And to...

Just a Little Genocide
I asked, "well what is going to happen to those people we can't reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?" and the reply was that they'd have to be eliminated. And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers. And when I say "eliminate," I mean "kill." Twenty-five million people. I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and...

Security, rain dampen China protests against Japan
By Chris Buckley and Maxim Duncan Beijing/Shanghai | Sat Sep 18, 2010 1:43am EDT Beijing/Shanghai (Reuters) - About a hundred Chinese Protesters on Saturday demanded Japan free a Chinese boat captain, but tight security and rain deterred a bigger show of anger over an issue that has ratcheted up territorial tensions between the Asian powers. Under a steady downpour, the Protesters, mostly in their 20s gathered in front of the Japanese Embassy in Beijing and held placards and yelled slogans...

George Lopez's Mejicano Moron Moment " Trying to Diss Sarah
g One more reason to hate this ugly mofo.. (Newsbusters) Guest and fashion guru Tim Gunn [and pendejo George Lopez] took part in the segment as the two poked fun at Palins outfit supposedly resembling that of the Communist despot. Lopez joked, “For people who dont know, one is an evil egomaniac that might destroy the world, and the other one is Kim Jong Il,” inspiring Gunn to respond, “I love you for that.” Below is a transcript of the relevant portion of...

Bravo as bidder buys a Berlin icon
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watched several times the screening of National Geographic Documentary " The Emergency in Malaya" specially filmed in conjunction with the National Day celebration recently. The Documentary detailed the "undeclared war" where the Communist Terrorists (termed by the British) tried to capture Malaya and rule her in accordance with the Communist ideology, doctrine and principles. The British colonists, at all cost, must stop this spread of Communism, resulting in a series of bloody battles, mainly...

Tiananmen Square Hypothetical, by Bryan Caplan
Suppose the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests ended not in a bloodbath, but in the collapse of Chinese Communism and the establishment of multi-party Democracy.  What would have happened to the Chinese Economy between 1989 and today?  Would it have done better, worse, or about the same? Fans of Democracy will probably insist that Chinese Growth would have been even higher. Censorship and fear make it hard for China to fully integrate with the world marketplace.  And Democracy...

Kerplunk - Common sense from Down Under
Being a major piece of work doesn't make it right, though. Marx was an intelligent man but still manage to bring to life The Communist Manifesto, which brought so much suffering to, especially, people in the 20th century. Like Tolkein, Marx and Keynes invented their own reality and then proceeded to solve all of the problems within it. However, Keynes's reputation suffered a severe blow in the 1970s when major economies around the world went through a period of Stagflation - the combination of...

Top Iraqiya Official: Govt Deal Will Have Abdulmahdi as PM
Over six months after the initial election, the clearest indications yet have come that the Iraqi Government is about to be formed, as top Iraqiya member Aliya Nusseif has claimed an “initial agreement” which for the first time ever has two major blocs agreeing on leadership Candidates. The deal would have the Government formed by Iraqiya, the Iraqi National Alliance (INA), and the Kurdistan Alliance. T he Prime Minisitership would go to current Vice President Adel Abdulmahdi, a...