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Sunday, January 17, 2016

LETTER OF GOOD BYE TO SWEDEN FROM A SWEDISH BLOGGER WHO PACKED UP AND LEFT, fed up with the leftist binge of political correctness and out-of-control Muslim immigration - AN EXPERIMENT GONE SO WRONG THAT IT IS DESTROYING SOCIETY AND THE ENTIRE COUNTRY

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Months ago I found a rather interesting blog, THE SWEDEN REPORT.  I saved the link, but somehow I never had the time to go back to it.  Today I did and, to my disappointment, I found that the blogger had simple given up on Sweden, and packed up and left.
 
Here is his last entry, dated June 2, 2015.  This was about the time when the Muslim migrant tsunami was rising even higher, flooding not only generous and welcoming Sweden but the rest of Europe too.
 
This Swedish blogger does not touch on the subject of sexual violence on this letter, although Sweden is now regarded as the Rape Capital of Europe.  With last year's wave of migrants, Germany is quickly catching up.  Further on this page watch video on The Rape of Sweden by Muslims living in that country.

On this letter he does not mention the existence of Sharia law in the many Muslim enclaves (No-Go-Zones) growing in Sweden (and the rest of Europe) as parallel societies full of crime and violence - although he covers the subject on other columns.
 
While his views are moderate, you can sense his despair as he reports on the country he loved as it simply goes to hell in a binge of out-of-control leftist policies, a collapsing economy, and a broken social foundation "leading" - as he writes -  "to a downward spiral of hardship and strife".  

But it is not leftist economic models that will be mainly to blame for Sweden's collapse.  Countries can recover from bankruptcy and worse.  What will irrevocably destroy Sweden is its migration policy.  It's irreversible, getting worse, and there is no turning back now. 

Sweden's frightful example should have deterred other Western countries from embracing Muslim migration.  Unfortunately, that was not the case.  Germany invited millions of Muslims to settle in Germany and Europe. 

And so in the last few weeks we have read reports of mass sexual assaults against German and other European women by some of the million new Muslim migrants who arrived in Europe in 2015. 

And rape is only one of the problems. Migrants' dependency on social assistance is another.  And then there is crime and terror.  Why is Sweden and the rest of Western Europe committing social and ethnic suicide?  That question hasn't been properly answered yet. 

Good Bye Sweden


 
This is the last post on this blog. I am leaving Sweden for good shortly, and will no longer be following its descent from what was once the third most prosperous country in the world. Frankly, it’s just too damn depressing. 
 
I was born and raised in Sweden, which leaves a cultural mark even though I moved to USA in the 1990s and have spent the better part of my adult life as an American. Coming back for a few years has been a shocking experience.

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When I was a child, Sweden was a dull yet very safe place to live. Yes, there was a heavy blanket of socialism and collectivist values covering everything, but there was a core of pragmatism beneath the redness. The intention and goal was always to benefit the citizens, even though they went about things in a backwards manner. 
 
 
 Prime minister Löfven 
 
Today, it’s as if the inmates are running the asylum. The politicians are participating in a chicken race of “goodness” where everybody tries to one-up each other in caring for the citizens of OTHER countries while Swedish retirees, school children, handicapped and other vulnerable categories of people are thoroughly ignored.
 
Violence is exploding. Jihadist Trojan horses are flowing through the porous border along with the tens of thousands ID-less refugees. 
 
But what makes me the most pessimistic about Sweden’s future is how the social fabric itself has been undermined. 
 
Now, to be clear, it is my opinion that modest immigration is healthy for society and beneficial for trade, cultural development and so forth. Protectionism as a concept is counter-productive, while free trade and the ability for skilled labor to go where they’re in demand is beneficial for everyone.
 
Having said that, what Sweden is doing is something completely different. The once homogenous population has been forever altered by a rapid and massive addition of people from vastly different cultures and value-systems.
 
 
There simply is no possible way to absorb and assimilate such volumes of people, period.
 
Then you are merely creating ethnic enclaves, which due to incompatible language, culture and job skills become ghettos, which in turns brews crime, misery and extremism. Once the inflow has exceeded the capacity for absorption, further immigration only makes the problem worse. 
 
It’s like someone having read that a cup of green tea per day is healthy, so they make it a policy to chug four gallons per day, every day. It’s a good thing overdone to the extreme until it becomes toxic.
 
Then you have the Swedish school system. There really is no nice way to put it; it’s a complete disaster. The minister of education is a man-boy who spends his time making YouTube-videos showing heart-signs with his hands to boost school results, while university-level students can’t read and comprehend the course literature. 
 
 
 
 Education minister Gustav Fridolin
making a cute little heart with his fingers.
 
Since there is a delay in the changes in the school system, it is only in recent years the full impact of the knowledge-averse “progressive” school system is starting to be felt. Hard facts are largely irrelevant; the important thing is to sit in a group and discuss things until a consensus is reached.
 
But with no hard facts to base the conclusions on, it becomes an exercise in futility because it’s all random assumptions and opinions. As a university-level history student (!) was quoted as saying in newspaper Svenska Dagbladet the other day: “Why would all these dates matter? Who cares in what order things happened?”
 
That’s not exactly fertile soil for creating the researchers and engineers of the future.
 
Financially, Sweden is an oddity in that it never had its real estate correction when Lehman Bros went belly-up and the housing market everywhere in the West crashed.
 
Sweden just kept steaming ahead, which means housing is ridiculously overinflated. In Stockholm, the real estate prices increased 19% and in Gothenburg 24% in the last 12 months alone — from an already sky-high level. 
 
 Tear-down abandoned house from 1932 with small, unremarkable lot in the outskirts of Stockholm. Current bid: 7,5 million SEK, or close to $900,000.
 
As a result, personal debt of the Swedish population is at an all-time high. To keep all this afloat the normal mortgage interest rates are at 2% with central bank Riksbanken at -0,25%, and yet a significant portion of the borrowers are hanging by a thread.
 
If and when foreign banks and investors decide it’s time to turn their backs on Sweden (as happened in the early 1990s) there’s going to be a lot of pain.
 
Then you have the financial obligations going forward. Like much of the western world, there is a demographic change where fewer tax-paying adults are to support a glut of retirees.
 
What makes it especially dire for Sweden is that in addition to the old Swedes, there’s also a ton of elderly immigrants that are granted “family visas” based on younger relatives having been granted asylum.
 
They’ve never paid a dime in taxes, yet enter the system with full benefits from day one. In theory, this would be made up for by the younger relatives working and paying taxes. Sadly, this is not the case; while ethnical Swedes have a 82% employment rate, immigrants only have 57% with non-Europeans coming in at just 51%.
 
If Sweden was a person, it’d be like the guy with three mortgages, seven maxed-out credit cards and four collection agencies chasing him that just signed a lease for a brand new BMW X6. Simply put, there’s a lot of red ink in the future; it just hasn’t been fully realized yet.
 
Finally, there’s the sorry state of the Swedish defense. After decades of constant slashing of the defense budget, the extent of Swedish ambition is to stall an invader for a week in a limited area.
 
This with war raging in Europe, Russian missiles pointed at Sweden in Kaliningrad, and Russian submarines and bomber jets openly thumbing their nose at Sweden as they intrude on Swedish territory on a regular basis.
 
The power vacuum in Scandinavia is so tangible you can almost hear a sucking sound as you fly over it. This, too, will require massive investments when the penny finally drops amongst Swedish politicians.
 
So while I can’t claim to be any kind of authority on macroeconomics or social predictive models, I see red lights across the board. 
 
In some ways, I’d compare the country to a farm. Previously, Sweden acted like a sensible farmer and planted wheat here, carrots there, potatoes over there et cetera, by implementing free schooling, sound infrastructure investments, state-financed research and so forth. A few decades later, they reaped the rewards and climbed the prosperity ladder.
 
In the late 1960s, this pragmatic line was abandoned as leftist idealist Olof Palme took over. But there was plenty to harvest from previous years, so Sweden continued to be the land of milk and honey for a good long while. Then things started drying up, and the process has been one of gradual erosion and decline since the 1990s. 
 
The famous Swedish health care system is a good example. 120 000 hospital beds in the late 1960s became 20 000 today. Cancer patients are put on waiting lists for months. Entire emergency wards shut down for summer.
 
The crumbling Swedish railroad system is another symptom I examined in-depth last year. The aforementioned defense that now consist of about three fat generals and a rusty rifle (bullets withheld for budgetary reasons).
 
A sensible farmer would see the problems for what they are and hurry to plant new seeds, so as to return to bountiful harvests of wheat, carrots, potatoes etc. Instead, the Swedish politicians goes by dogma and plants what they think SHOULD grow. So they plant M & Ms, hot dogs and pretzels.
 
The results won’t be fully evident for a few years yet, but as the last reserves of the old harvests are depleted, things will get… Interesting.
 
From what I can see, there simply is no plausible scenario where these social tensions and future financial commitments will not lead to a downward spiral of hardship and strife.
 
I hope I’m wrong. I really do, because I have friends and family I care about that will remain here to see it all play out. 
 
But I won’t. I’ll be back in the US being mad at Obama for being a lying scumbag. And if Trump manages to get elected in 2016? Whoo boy. A racist ignoramus who takes pride in the worst qualities of a cranky eight-year old should make George “Dumbo” Bush seem like Abe Lincoln by comparison. So every country has its problems. USA has its corrupt yokel in office, just as Sweden has Stefan Löfven. 
 
I’d like to thank you for having followed this blog and your many insightful comments. It’s been a wild ride at times with heated debates, but it’s been fun — even when I got hate mail from both left-wingers and right-wingers over the same article. :)
 
So thank you, and good luck wherever you are.




Source
http://swedenreport.org/



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RELATED

The Economist - House prices in Sweden soaring
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21677671-house-prices-sweden-continue-soar-regulators-despair-home-where?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/ed/homeiswheretheheartacheis



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No, this is not the satirical website The Onion. But it is madness.  Why would Sweden give sniper training to Muslim refugees?

This story from the Swedish publication Allehanda is from 2013, but it is well worth revisiting now. Is this training continuing? Where are the Muslim migrants who have gone through this training now? What are they doing?

 

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Allehanda’s original article now contains this “clarification” in English:
 
 “Because of the recent international citations of the 2013 Allehanda article ‘Laddad för prickskytte’, I as News Editor feel that a few clarifications are in order. Several websites refers to the immigration project in Sollefteå as ‘sniper training’. This is not a correct description. The word sniper training implies military combat education which is something completely different from this.
 
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"Although the refugees in the pictures can be seen holding what looks like sniper rifles, it is in fact biathlon sports equipment. Biathlon is since the 1960s recognised as an Olympic discipline, and the Sollefteå Ski High School runs an international upper secondary school programme for elite competitors. This is where the refugees were invited to try rifle shooting, the only element of biathlon possible in the summer. It was done by the authorities as part of their work with local immigration. I hope this clarifies the circumstances surrounding this article.”
 
So it supposedly wasn’t sniper training, but rifle shooting, and that makes it OK?

Read more
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/01/sweden-state-funded-rifle-shooting-practice-for-muslim-refugees

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SWEDEN BLAMES THE JEWS FOR THE PARIS TERROR ATTACKS
 - Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom tries to deflect anger against Muslim carnage in Paris and elsewhere by blaming it on Palestinian frustration
-  In the meantime SWEDEN SPIRALS DOWN INTO COLLAPSE due to unrestricted Muslim migration and criminality
- Police can't cope and tells citizens they are on their own
-  Read article on how Sweden descends into anarchy.

Read more
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2015/11/sweden-blames-jews-for-paris-terror.html

 
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ELIN KRANTZ was brutally raped and murdered by an African in Sweden, who followed her after she got off the bus. 
-  She had been strong advocate of Muslim migration into her country
- SHE WAS LIKE SWEDEN AND THE WEST, welcoming those who will destroy them.

Read more
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2016/01/elin-krantz-was-brutally-raped-and.html

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Sweden is now the rape capital of Europe
Pat Condell




Pat Condell's YouTube Channel
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NEW YEAR OF MUSLIM RAPE AND TERROR IN EUROPE Raping women travellers at COLOGNE train station, stealing, terrorizing the public, torching hundreds of cars in PARIS, and plotting mass terror attacks at various European cities

Cologne ExplosionOn this page:  The New Europe:
  • GERMANY:  1,000 migrants brawl, rape, and steal at Cologne train station on New Year's Eve.
  • PARIS:  Over 800  cars torched in what is now a Muslim tradition in France.
  • GERMANY:  Authorities close Munich train stations over credible reports of impending carnage by Muslim terrorists.
  • BRUSSELS:  Migrants set fire to a Christmas tree in a public plaza.
  • UPDATE - MAYOR OF COLOGNE blames victims 

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THE RAPE AND SUICIDE OF EUROPE 
- AND WHY ISLAM CANNOT BE INTEGRATED INTO WESTERN SOCIETY
 
 
Watch excellent videos:  The Rape of Europe, and The Truth about the Regressive Left. 
 
Read more and watch videos
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Other sites covering Sweden, Northern Europe, and the rest of Europe, as it is being invaded by Islam.
 
Twitter -  Swedish Surveyor
 
Soeren Kern

Gates of Vienna

Geert Wilders

Tundra Tabloids

Andrew Bostom

Vlad Tepes
 
 
ISLAM IN THE WEST

Creeping Sharia

Bare Naked Islam

Refugee Resettlement Watch

Money Jihad (recommended)

Sharia Finance Watch

The Muslim Issue

The Islamization of Europe and European Anti-Semitism
Columns by Dr Manfred Gerstenfeld

Jihad Watch
 
Palestinian Media Watch

Frontpage Magazine

 

 
 
 

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