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European Nations Such As Sweden And Denmark Are ‘Eradicating Cash’

December 30, 2015 Michael Snyder, www.theeconomiccollapseblog.com Educate! Denmark, Europe, Local Currency, Money, Sweden

By Michael Snyder for The Economic Collapse - Did you know that 95 percent of all retail sales in Sweden are cashless? And did you know that the government of Denmark has a stated goal of “eradicating cash” by the year 2030? All over the world, we are seeing a relentless march toward a cashless society, and nowhere is this more true than in northern Europe. In Sweden, hundreds of bank branches no longer accept or dispense cash, and thousands of ATM machines have been permanently removed. At this point, bills and coins only account for just 2 percent of the Swedish economy, and many stores no longer take cash at all. The notion of a truly “cashless society” was once considered to be science fiction, but now we are being told that it is “inevitable”...

Swedish Fascists Burn Homes, Blame Crisis On Refugees

November 30, 2015 Rory Smith, www.roarmag.org Educate! Europe, Refugees, Sweden

By Rory Smith for ROAR Magazine - These are just two examples of the several thousand remarks left by Sweden Democrats’ online following the most recent case of arson; an incident that left a home sheltering 14 refugees destroyed. One Internet thread detailed the various recipes and necessary ingredients to make napalm. The formerly obscure and enfeebled Sweden Democrats (SD) – a far right, anti-immigrant, nationalist party whose roots are in neo-Nazism – has been transformed into one of the most potent political forces in Sweden. By transmogrifying immigrants into villains – enemies of both the welfare state and Swedish values – the party has gleaned over 25 percent of the popular vote.

Sweden Moves To 6-Hour Work Day, Better For Everybody

October 14, 2015 Weinenkel, www.dailykos.com Create! Sweden, Working Class

By Weinenkel for Daily Kos - Sweden has been slowly, but surely, moving towards a 6-hour workday. Filimundus, an app developer based in the capital Stockholm, introduced the six-hour day last year. “The eight-hour work day is not as effective as one would think," Linus Feldt, the company’s CEO told Fast Company. "To stay focused on a specific work task for eight hours is a huge challenge. In order to cope, we mix in things and pauses to make the work day more endurable. At the same time, we are having it hard to manage our private life outside of work."

Julian Assange Case: Sweden To Drop Sex Assault Inquiry

August 13, 2015 Caroline Hawley, www.bbc.com Educate! Julian Assange, Law, Sweden, Wikileaks

By Caroline Hawley in BBC - Swedish prosecutors will drop their investigation into sexual assault allegations against Julian Assange on Thursday because of the statutes of limitation, the BBC has learned. The Wikileaks founder still faces the more serious allegation of rape. But prosecutors have run out of time to investigate Mr Assange for sexual assault because they have not succeeded in questioning him. He denies all allegations and has said they are part of a smear campaign. The Australian journalist and activist sought asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden. Under Swedish law, charges cannot be laid without interviewing the suspect.

Sky High Activism, Wedding Pics, Rainbows & Flags

July 5, 2015 Eleanor Goldfield, www.occupy.com Resistance Report China, Climate Change, LGBTQ, Pope Francis, Racism, Socialism, South Carolina, Sweden

By Eleanor Goldfield for Occupy.com. Congrats to all the couples who can now tie the knot! But now that you’ve ridden the rainbow to marital bliss, allow me to bring you back down to everything else we gotta fix in this country. A Chinese company stunningly and scarily showcases sky-high activism while a Chinese couple offers up some dystopian and creative wedding pic ideas. Bree Newsome shows the South Carolina legislature it’s actually not that hard to take down the Confederate flag. July 4th is this weekend so go enjoy a celebratory march with some rebels. Let’s get serious and blunt about the global corporate takeover. And finally, Naomi Klein and Pope Francis join forces to battle climate change.

Sweden’s Top Court Will Hear Assange Appeal Over Arrest Warrant

April 29, 2015 Al Jazeera, www.america.aljazeera.com Resist! Julian Assange, Sweden, Whistleblowers

Sweden's Supreme Court said Tuesday it would hear an appeal by WikiLeaks founder Julian to lift the arrest warrant against him issued by prosecutors who want to question him over allegations of sexual assault. Assange, 43, an Australian citizen, has been staying in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over allegations of sexual assault against two women in 2010. He denies the accusations. Prosecutors first insisted he go to Sweden for questioning but in a U-turn in March agreed to conduct the interview in London. Assange has said he fears that if Britain extradites him to Sweden, he could then be extradited to the United States, where he would be tried for one of the largest leaks of classified information in U.S. history.

Assange Breakthrough: Swedish Prosecutors Will Interview Him

March 14, 2015 David Crouch, www.theguardian.com Educate! Criminal Justice, Julian Assange, Law, Sweden

Lawyers for Julian Assange have claimed victory after a Swedish prosecutor bowed to pressure from the courts and agreed to break the deadlock in the WikiLeaks founder’s case by interviewing him in London. Marianne Ny, who heads the investigation into accusations of rape, coercion and sexual molestation against Assange, made a formal request to interrogate him in the Ecuadorian embassy – the first sign of movement in a case that has been frozen since August 2012. The prosecutor will also ask the UK government and Ecuador for permission to carry out the interviews at the embassy in London, where Assange has been staying for more than two-and-a-half years to avoid extradition to Sweden, from where he fears being handed over to the US to face espionage charges.

Swedish Supreme Court Turnaround, Will Hear Assange Appeal

March 12, 2015 Philip Dorling, www.smh.com Resist! Julian Assange, Law, Sweden

Sweden's highest court will hear an appeal by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as he seeks to quash an arrest warrant arising from rape and sexual molestation allegations. On Tuesday the Swedish Supreme Court agreed to consider Mr Assange's appeal against the decisions of lower courts to uphold an arrest warrant issued in November 2010. The Supreme Court has decreed that the Swedish "Attorney-General [Minister of Justice Morgan Johansson] expeditiously submit its reply to the case, especially on the issue of the conduct of investigations and the principle of proportionality". Last week a United States court confirmed that WikiLeaks and Mr Assange are still being targeted by the US Department of Justice in a criminal investigation prompted by leaks of secret military and diplomatic documents by US army private Chelsea Manning in early 2010.

Assange Appeals To Sweden’s Supreme Court Over Arrest Warrant

February 26, 2015 David Crouch, www.theguardian.com Resist! Julian Assange, Law, Sweden

Julian Assange is taking his appeal to Sweden’s highest court in a final attempt to persuade a Swedish judge that the arrest warrant against him should be lifted. His lawyers will ask Sweden’s supreme court on Wednesday to agree that the “severe limitations” on Assange’s freedoms since he claimed asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2012 to escape extradition to Sweden are unreasonable and disproportionate to the case. In August 2010, the WikiLeaks founder and campaigning journalist was accused by two women of rape and sexual molestation, but he has not been charged because the prosecutor insists she is unable to interview him about the allegations. Prosecutor Marianne Ny has declined invitations by Assange to do so in London, where he has taken refuge in the embassy to avoid a perceived threat of extradition to the US for publishing military secrets. Assange denies all the charges.

Swedish Prosecutor Rejects Questioning Assange In London

November 2, 2014 David Crouch, www.theguardian.com Educate! Ecuador, England, Julian Assange, Sweden

Backtacking from an earlier suggestion described by the Guardian below, the Swedish prosecutor has once again rejected questioning Assange in London. Telesur reports: "Sweden’s chief prosecutor Marianne Ny has ruled out questioning Julian Assange in London ahead of a court ruling in Sweden on whether to lift the warrant for his arrest, she stated on Wednesday. "This comes despite suggesting earlier this week that she was considering taking advantage of the offer made by Ecuador to facilitate the interview at its London embassy." An earlier report: Sweden’s chief prosecutor said on Tuesday she was seriously considering an invitation by the British government to question Julian Assange in London, before a court ruling in Sweden on whether to lift the warrant for his arrest. The Foreign Office said on Tuesday it would welcome a request by the Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny to question Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy and would be happy to facilitate such a move, which is seen by Assange’s lawyers as an important step towards breaking the deadlock surrounding the case.

On A Top-Heavy Planet, A Bit Of A Nordic Puzzler

October 21, 2014 Sam Pizzigati, www.inequality.org Educate! Income inequality, Sweden, wealth inequality

These contrasts in wealth concentration shouldn’t surprise anyone. The United States, after all, has a much more unequal distribution of income than Japan. American top 1 percenters take in 22.5 percent of U.S. income. The comparable top 1 percent income share in Japan: only 10.4 percent. In other words, America’s top 1 percent is annually adding to its net worth a much higher share of national income than Japan’s top 1 percent. Given this dynamic, how could a great deal more wealth not sit in the pockets of America’s 1 percent? Nations with narrower income divides, common sense tells us, are always going to have narrower wealth divides. Or will they? Consider Sweden. This Nordic nation today sports an income distribution even more equal than Japan’s. At last count, says the World Top Incomes Database, Sweden’s top 1 percenters were pulling in only 8.7 percent of their nation’s income.

Sweden To Recognise State Of Palestine

October 4, 2014 John Ahlander, www.reuters.com Educate! Palestine, Sweden

Sweden's new center-left government will recognise the state of Palestine in a move that will make it the first major European country to take the step, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said on Friday. The U.N. General Assembly approved the de facto recognition of the sovereign state of Palestine in 2012 but the European Union and most EU countries, have yet to give official recognition. "The conflict between Israel and Palestine can only be solved with a two-state solution, negotiated in accordance with international law," Lofven said during his inaugural address in parliament. "A two-state solution requires mutual recognition and a will to peaceful co-existence. Sweden will therefore recognise the state of Palestine."

99 Per Cent Of Sweden’s Garbage Is Now Recycled

September 9, 2014 Zi-Ann Lum, www.huffingtonpost.ca Organize! Environment, Sweden

There’s a “recycling revolution” happening in Sweden – one that has pushed the country closer to zero waste than ever before. In fact, less than one per cent of Sweden's household garbage ends up in landfills today. The Scandinavian country has become so good at managing waste, they have to import garbage from the UK, Italy, Norway and Ireland to feed the country’s 32 waste-to-energy (WTE) plants, a practice that has been in place for years. “Waste today is a commodity in a different way than it has been. It’s not only waste, it’s a business,” explained Swedish Waste Management communications director Anna-Carin Gripwell in a statement. Every year, the average Swede produces 461 kilograms of waste, a figure that's slightly below the half-ton European average. But what makes Sweden different is its use of a somewhat controversial program incinerating over two million tons of trash per year. It’s also a process responsible for converting half the country’s garbage into energy. “When waste sits in landfills, leaking methane gas and other greenhouse gasses, it is obviously not good for the environment,” Gripwell said of traditional dump sites. So Sweden focused on developing alternatives to reduce the amount of toxins seeping into the ground.

Swedish Court Upholds Detention Order On Julian Assange

July 18, 2014 Karl Ritter, www.ctvnews.ca Resist! Journalism, Julian Assange, Law, Sweden, Wikileaks

A Swedish court on Wednesday upheld its detention order on Julian Assange, reaffirming the legal basis for an international warrant for the WikiLeaks founder which has kept him hiding in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London for two years. Assange's defence team said it would appeal. Defence lawyer Per Samuelson said they would study the judge's decision in detail and then "write a juicy, toxic appeal" to a higher court. Julian Assange's lawyer Tomas Olsson, centre, talks to media prior to a public court hearing in Stockholm on Wednesday July 16, 2014. (AP / Roger Vikstrom) "Our legal arguments are solid and powerful," Samuelson told The Associated Press. "That they didn't work could be because the judge didn't give herself enough time to think." Last month, Assange's lawyers filed a court petition to repeal the detention order -- imposed by the Stockholm district court in November 2010 -- on the grounds that it cannot be enforced while he is at the embassy and because it is restricting Assange's civil rights. Assange has not been formally indicted in Sweden, but he is wanted for questioning by police over allegations of sexual misconduct and rape involving two women he met during a visit to the Scandinavian country in 2010. He denies the allegations.

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