Scandinavian observations and perspectives

[XPan]

photo by SwebbTV

Russian Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden

writes in their Telegram channel following:

"Perhaps the Swedish leadership should stop driving its own population into paranoia?

During the annual national conference "People and Defence", individual representatives of the Swedish military leadership and government devoted their speeches to once again publicly scaring Swedes with the alleged virtually "inevitable war with Russia".

Well, apparently they have succeeded: in their fear, Swedish children are turning to TV and recording terrifying videos on "TikTok" and the Russian Embassy has received requests from worried citizens asking, among other things, about evacuation routes.

In this context, we would like to appeal to all those who, despite all that is going on in Sweden and in the local media, have managed not to lose an ounce of common sense: keep calm and do not give in to low-quality provocations from some Swedish leaders who are prone to hysteria and heightened alarmism.

And those who escalate militaristic sentiments and imaginary "Russian threat" we would like to recommend to satisfy their pathological adrenaline addiction with much less costly and more peaceful ways, of which there are quite a few: winter time and Swedish landscape create conditions for releasing energy and obtaining sharp impressions, e.g. on the ski slopes.

The inexhaustible enthusiasm of local Russophobes could also be of great benefit to the once prosperous and innovative Sweden. Just imagine the heights this country would have reached if, instead of anti-Russian outbursts, all the talkers had devoted themselves to solving internal problems: fixing power grid vulnerabilities, railway disruptions and an underdeveloped banking system.

Sweden, like all other countries, including Russia, has a huge number of problems. Improve your medicine and education, fight inflation and unemployment, work to consolidate society and increase security in the country. But do all this not just to spite Moscow, but because ordinary Swedes need it.

In conclusion, we would like to remind you once again that planting paranoia in society does not usually lead to anything good: not every person's state of mind will be able to cope with the daily scare of an imaginary war that "will actually start tomorrow". The consequences are likely to be most tragic. Finally, feel compassion for your children and the elderly. Your "experts" have already mistaken herring for submarines.

️In this context, we urge Swedes to avoid hysteria and ask local politicians to direct their energies in a peaceful direction and think about the health and well-being of their own citizens."

END OF THE TELEGRAM MESSAGE

 

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Let the Swedish Political puppets perform the war machine scripts

Now, the Global Banksters and the Jewish Wallenberg family + politicians in Sweden are doing their "Babylonian" thing according to the same classic rules: Problem - Reaction - Solution.

The Wallenberg Family which practically owns Sweden for generations (120 + years) under the motto "Act without being seen" - a dynasty which did a lot of good things in the old days, which were also good for Sweden as a country and its people.

But those times are gone

Now, the Wallenberg Family is eager into making hundred billions from the new war machine and fear mongering. On the Ukraine conflict, they already made 60 Billion SEK / 5.3 Billion € since Feb 2022 due to their 39% ownership in SAAB. Just to mention one example.

Apparently the Wallenberg Family has been highly active in Sweden's decision making lately: e.g. Sweden applying for NATO, as well the High Treason pakt of signing a (single sided) deal with the US Military for the next 10 years (read: "unlimited") making Sweden into a US colony, a roll-out war weapon storage 'facility' - including nuclear weapons. At the same time, no actual influence or decision rights from Swedish law makers and leaders - or the Swedish military.

Just like that !

What a feat. And we - the people - swallowed the bait. What is truly startling - that there are no discussions about it.
It must be the quietest of quiet Coup d'état's.

Without any doubt, and not entirely different from the nefarious the principles behind the outbreak of the Ukraine conflict - just to provoke the Big Bear in the East as much as possible - for no true reasons - solely based on lies, deceit and propaganda.

The head of the Swedish Military
- Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces, Mr Micael Bydén - just happens to be involved into love affairs despite his marriage, even inviting his mistress into representative military residence in Stockholm. Making him in principle wide open to influence from foreign secret services... Isn't that an old trick ? The potential is there... He didn't warn about anything regarding the US deal, made no comments, nor discussed the consequences of whaat such an US military contract has for Sweden. He isn't representing the interest of Sweden (nor do any other politicans today) - and in a wisk - we are abandoning our neutrality and 200+ years of peace.

Just like frikkin that !

Lisa Nilsson and Joakim Berg sang the powerful ballade "Before we fall". A remarkable song about the obliteration of Sweden, performed at the Nobel Prize Ceremony in 2015. It hits - more than ever - straight into the heart of what happens in Sweden.

Before we Fall (2015)
Innan Vi Faller

We’re moving close to the world’s abyss
You throw a stone into the steamy water
Half way but we are nowhere
We are lost again, we only flow with the streams

What we swore to remember, we forgot
What we should have forgotten, we remembered
If there is any point with hiding
if would be, that we can disappear into our dreams

We had everything
Once upon a time, everything this, was ours
Before we fall into each others arms
- we shall fall apart

We laid down a little rose on her grave
And remembered when she said:

"The new Sweden is cruel, stingy. And ugly.
But life is short, too short to waste it away
Leave hate to the vultures"

Everything we should have saved, we threw away
Everything we had learned, we repressed
Oh Oh everything we should have talked about, we hid away
Everything we said we would remember, we forgot

We, who had everything
Once upon a time, all this was ours
Before we fall into each others arms
- We shall fall apart

We had everything
Once upon a time, all this was ours
Before we fall into each others arms
- We shall fall apart


Since the Wallenberg's owns most of the Swedish Weapon industry
- well, go figure. I am sure they are more than eager to make Sweden increase its public debts (which internationally is seen to be at a rather low level) Yet - Sweden as a whole (including private and municipal debts) is one of the most in debt fallen countries in the world, right behind Japan being No 1, I believe.

 

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Regarding that the Bill & Melina Gates Foundation
sponsored a war oriented conference called "People and Defense 2024" the other day in Sweden: It is apparently a contract for 3 years. The sum of money is unknown. The spokes woman said, that they don't "decide" the content of the Swedish War & Defense conference - but wants that the content to be intertwined with Climate change and health consequences. Shall we give them the "clown of the Year Prize 2024" for total weird content ? Sounds like a Babylonian WHO script, by the way.

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Regeringen öppnar för att låna pengar till försvaret

Att rusta Sverige mot krig blir dyrt: 40-60 miljarder kronor behövs i höjda anslag varje år.

www.dn.se

The original Swedish Article (could be or turn up behind a paywall, albeit I did see the whole article when I first clicked it) Nevertheless - I attach a (in Swedish language held) pdf in the end.

DN.se
(Dagens Nyheter, Swedish mainstream media)
11 Jan 2023



Swedish Government opens the door to borrowing money for defence
text by Mikael Holmström

To turn words into action, a huge increase in defence capabilities is needed. Where the money will come from is unclear, but Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) does not rule out loan financing.

Sälen (a place in Sweden)
There is a broad political consensus to quickly upgrade Sweden's defence. Hundreds of billions of kronor are needed in the coming years, according to DN's sources. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) says he does not rule out the possibility that the state may need to borrow money for the reorganisation.

For three days, the message to the Swedish people from Folk och Försvar's national conference in Sälen has been clear. Russia's war in Ukraine and a number of other events mean a serious deterioration in the security situation. We are living in a 'pre-war period', 'there may be a war in Sweden' and 'prepare for war', were the messages from responsible ministers and the country's highest officers.
- We are now seriously investing in equipping the Swedish defence. And we feel that with war around the corner, time is also a factor. We cannot sit and investigate things year after year. The important thing now is to do things," says Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson.
From right to left on the political scale, there is a consensus on refurbishing total defence, i.e. military and civil defence. All eight parliamentary parties are members of the Defence Committee, which will lay the groundwork for Parliament's defence decision in December. It will apply to the years 2025-2030.
But the key question is how much the upgrade will cost and how it will be financed.



Photo: Alexander Mahmoud


This year, civil defence costs the state SEK 6.4 billion
According to the announcement made by the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) in Sälen, funding must be increased. Depending on the level of ambition chosen by politicians to protect the population, an increase of SEK 10, 20 or 30 billion are needed. Per year.

There are no public estimates of the costs of equipping the military defence. This year the appropriation is SEK 119 billion. According to DN's military sources, the planned continued upgrading requires annual budget increases in the same order of magnitude as for civilian defence.

- This means that the total appropriation for total defence needs an annual increase of SEK 40-60 billion, says a military source with insight.



"Basically, we have a very strong economy that is equipped for serious crises. This should not be abused", says Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. Photo by Beatrice Lundborg


During the closing day in Sälen
Anders Lindberg, political editor-in-chief of Aftonbladet, warned that politicians have so far failed to fully finance defence decisions. 'They have left running bills behind - which has slowed down the rearmament process.

Given the risk of war, more and more voices are now calling for the defence system to be strengthened more quickly, outside of regular government appropriations. By borrowing money, future defence purchases could be made now, according to Anders Lindberg. This would increase the national debt, but this also happened during the pandemic.
A similar solution is also favoured by Lindberg's political opponent, Moderate Party veteran Gunnar Hökmark.

- "We have 15 years behind us when we neglected defence and there is so much material that needs to be restored. The defence must catch up. This cannot be done with the current increases, which I welcome in itself," says Mr Hökmark.



Gunnar Hökmark, moderate party veteran. Photo: Per Larsson/TT


Once defence politicians have submitted their proposals
in the Defence Committee's final report in April, the issue of funding will be decided at party leader level. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson emphasises how military defence will receive an increase of SEK 27 billion this year, to SEK 119 billion. This is the largest increase since 2015, when the Defence Forces began receiving increased funding.

- "We don't do things in a panic. The increase of SEK 27 billion in one year is a very strong signal," says Ulf Kristersson.

Will the consensus across the political bloc remain when the investments are to be financed?
- "That is not at all certain. There will always be people in Swedish politics who have as much money as they want and don't need to prioritise at all. But it says something about the spirit of the times when the Left Party's Nooshi Dadgostar, in response to a journalist's question about our budget, said that they were in complete agreement with us on defence spending," Ulf Kristersson replies and continues:

- "We have just proved that we are capable of prioritising really big upgrades to both defence and the rule of law. We have done this within the framework of an orderly economy. Basically, we must do it in a long-term, sustainable way within the framework of the economic rules we have.



Ulf Kristersson talks with Must Director Thomas Nilsson at the Högfjällshotellet hotel in Sälen. Photo: Beatrice Lundborg

Can you borrow money in a crisis and find new solutions?

- Whatever you do, ultimately it has to be paid for. Basically, we have a very strong economy that is equipped for serious crises. This should not be abused, but should be built long-term, systematically and paid for on an ongoing basis.

The Prime Minister points out that there will be a parliamentary review of the budget deficit and expenditure ceiling targets.
He adds: - "Then I don't think we should rule out anything when it comes to what might happen now.

You are open to the possibility that this situation may require new solutions?
- "Yes, but I am not suggesting that we should suddenly release all economic constraints. Basically, what is needed is a long-term approach, a systematic approach and serious prioritisation.

Opposition leader Magdalena Andersson (S)
has been both finance minister and prime minister. For several years, the Social Democrats have called for a special contingency tax to finance the refurbishment, a tax that the centre-right parties are against.



Magdalena Andersson would rather see a contingency tax to finance the refurbishment than borrow money. Photo: Beatrice Lundborg


- "Those with higher incomes and large capital assets should contribute more," says Magdalena Andersson.

How much money would the contingency tax provide?
- "We are open to discuss with other parties how it should be designed and try to reach an agreement. It's about how much should be prioritised before healthcare, elderly care and the police. There is nothing strange about a special contingency tax when we have a war in our neighbourhood. Much of the expansion of the defence is ongoing expenditure that should be financed by a contingency tax," replies Magdalena Andersson.

She is opposed to financing defence through borrowed money, but believes that other types of loans can indirectly benefit the Armed Forces.

- "We are open to borrowing to finance major infrastructure investments, such as the main railway lines, which would mean more money for defence purchases," says Magdalena Andersson, who puts the question back to the government:

- The government parties and the Sweden Democrats owe the answer. These are substantial amounts and it is urgent, how do they intend to finance the defence? What should be removed?

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Facts: The costs of total defence

State budget costs for defence and societal crisis preparedness, in billions of kronor.

• 2021: 70 Billion SEK
• 2022: 83 Billion SEK
• 2023: 96 Billion SEK
• 2024: 126 Billion SEK

Planned expenditure:

2025: 139 Billion SEK
2026: 139 Billion SEK

END OF ARTICLE

 

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Swedish Saab/Jas 39 Gripen War jet

Wallenberg earns billions from 'war threat', says Aftonbladet newspaper

Russia has still not invaded Europe. But the arms industry is making billions from the alleged threat of war, reports Aftonbladet.

There are those who earn large sums from the new threat of war.

And that is the arms industry.

In recent days, politicians have escalated the warmongering by claiming that war could come to Sweden. The scare is reminiscent of the Covid scare - which actually had avery low mortality rate even at the beginning of the "pandemic" - from which the pharmaceutical industry made unimaginable profits.

According to Aftonbladet's Andreas Cervenka, Saab, 39 per cent owned by Wallenberg, has become 60 billion richer since the conflict in Ukraine escalated in February 2022.

- "The geopolitical tensions in the world affect our industry and have resulted in the largest increase in defence investments in 30 years, especially in Europe. In the third quarter, the continued strong demand for Saab's broad product portfolio resulted in significant order intake, strong sales growth and improved profitability," said Micael Johansson, Saab's President and CEO, in a statement in October.

Before the Russian invasion in 2022, a Saab share cost SEK 217, Cervenka points out. Now, the share costs almost SEK 660, which is said to make the share the very best among large companies. Market capitalisation has gone from just under SEK 30 billion to SEK 90 billion. Saab chairman Marcus Wallenberg's own shares are said to have risen from SEK 27 to 82 million in two years, writes the columnist.

Wallenberg was also a big winnerwhen the meaningless Covid passes were introduced in December 2021, as they attracted half a million new users to the digital mailbox Kivra, which is owned by Wallenberg and others.

END OF ARTICLE

Wallenberg tjänar miljarder på "krigshotet", enligt Aftonbladet

Sveriges kan snart vara i krig, om man ska tro landets politiker.

nyheter.swebbtv.se

Original article

 

[Ursus Minor]

I recently talked to a historian to inquire about the apparent willingness of Swedes to join NATO and their particular animosity towards Russia as I had always regarded Sweden as a peaceful country with a longstanding neutrality.

Why was it seemingly so easy for the media and political groups to move the Swedes towards an anti-Russian stance?

I was pretty surprised when I was told that the battle of Poltava of 1709 where Swedish King Karl XII lost the decisive battle of the 'Great Northern war' against Czar Peter the Great may still have a major impact on Swedish minds and souls.

The following treaty of Nystad in 1721 lead to the Swedish loss of Finland (initially), Karelia, Estonia, Livonia and the area where St. Petersburg was to be built.

Could it be that these events are still ingrained in the back of the Swedish mind?

 

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Rampant Cold War Propaganda

Also because of the cold war - where “events” in the Baltic Sea / along the Swedish Coast always pointed towards (claimed) to be Sovjet submarines. At times it even lead to that the Swedish military released bombs into the water. Claiming that evidence of russian submarnine peints where foudn at the bottom (false)

In reality almost all violations where committed by NATO submarines. But our politicians always made a big Russian fuzz about it.

After the fall of the UDSSR - it was silent a long time. Until the (US) winds started to get hostile again towards Russia - we could see a renewed Russian threat propaganda go rampant in the news. Back to square one, in other words. There is no business like monkey business. The plays for the public.

There also was the very odd event from 28 Oct 1981 when a Sovjet submarine known under the name “U 137” in Sweden got “stranded” at Gåsefjärden bay outside of Karlskoga. Supposedly they had nuclear weapons on board.

Supposedly.

That was a highly strange event and i am not sure if this might have been staged by the west. A very long time ago i listened to a podcast with people involved from that event - which indicated / pointed towards that the whole handling of this accident was performed in an highly odd, strange way. But I don’t remember any details - only that i was startled over that the event wasn’t so clear cut like we earlier had been told (via media)

 

[Ursus Minor]

The 1981 Karlskrona Incident

On the morning of October 28, 1981 two Swedish fishermen were hauling their catch back to Karlskrona when they noticed a mysterious oil slick. One Bertil Sturkmen later returned to the area to investigate, and at 10 a.m. came across a startling sight: a seventy-six-meter long submarine wedged on its starboard side against the sharp rocks of Torumskär island. An officer was standing on the submarine’s conning tower, staring at him through binoculars—and holding a machine gun.

Sturkmen sailed back to Karlskrona and notified the nearby Swedish naval base, which harbored two of Sweden’s three coastal defense flotillas. Karlskrona was well protected from attack due to its position in a shallow bay shielded by a belt of rocky islands which demanded careful circumnavigation. Somehow, the submarine had wended it way through this daunting aquatic obstacle course to a point only six miles away from the base.

The patrol boat Smyge reached the grounded vessel by 11 a.m., and Comm. Karl Andersson managed to converse with a crew members in German—who informed him that the submarine had strayed off course due to a faulty navigation system.​

The boat in question was S-363, a Soviet Whiskey-class coastal patrol submarine—thus giving the incident its moniker “the Whiskey on the Rocks.” (At the time, the submarine was widely mis-identified as U-137.) The short-range diesel-electric submarine had a crew of 56 and had been designed in the 1940s with snorkel and battery technology derived from the Nazi Type XXI “electric boat.” The Soviet Union built more than two hundred of the submarines.​

[nationalinterest.org]

 

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Stockholm, Sweden
26 Jan 2024

Macgregor: Svenskarna är hjärntvättade får

Sverige och Finland hade kunnat vara fredliga platser där förhandlingar om konflikter hade kunnat ske. Men nu blir det inte så. Vi ska i stället in i krigsmaskinen.

nyheter.swebbtv.se

(The referred video [in english] - is embedded in the Swedish article)

Macgregor: Swedes are brainwashed sheep

Why is Sweden joining NATO and signing a military agreement with the US? Because the US/NATO wants access to military bases up here, explains Douglas Macgregor in an interview with Stephen Gardner. And the fact that many Swedes fell for the NATO psychosis is not so strange, according to Macgregor, because it is such a sheepish group that believes everything the state says, he claims.

Sweden and Finland could have been peaceful places where diplomatic negotiations on conflicts could have taken place.

So says US Army Colonel and military analyst Douglas Macgregor, who also has a PhD in international relations.

But that's not going to happen now. Instead, we are going into the war machine. To confront Russia.

- This is dangerous. Because Russia is not a threat, says Douglas Macgregor. But if we continue to surround and threaten Russia... God knows what would happen if we put missiles and radar up there. All sorts of things could happen in the future, but these are things that we have provoked.

- Swedes and Finns as a group I would characterise as sheeple.

- They believe whatever their government says. I have been to Sweden many times. I love the place and appreciate the people.

But when he talks to Swedes, he wants to vomit. Because they are so mentally controlled.

- One problem I have with them is that they always answer a question with "Well, the government has done a study and concluded that it is good". As one American told me (croaking sound).

- Why the hell would you want to trust the state? I don't trust mine," Douglas Macgregor continues. And I don't think you should unconditionally trust anyone anywhere. I want to know why. I thought that's what distinguished us as Americans. People came here because they were tired of their old regime, because they wanted to have a say. And anyone who does something to us will hear "why". But I don't hear many "whys" anymore.

END OF ARTICLE

 

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Stockholm, Sweden
26 Jan 2024

Sveriges politiker "en skam" - man kan tro "att de alla är köpta"

Tidigare i veckan varnade WHO för att man kanske inte får igenom sin planerade pandemilag. Motståndet har nämligen varit för hårt. “Fake news, lögner och konspirationsteorier” på nätet, som WHO uttrycker det, har underminerat förslagen.

nyheter.swebbtv.se

Sweden's politicians "a disgrace" - you might think "they are all bought"

The WHO's pandemic treaty and amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) may fail, the organisation itself is warning. But not because all of Sweden's politicians protested, but because of ordinary people spreading information. The fact that Swedish authorities have not tried to stop the globalists' plans is shameful. "You can't help but think that they are all bought off", Elsa Widding, a member of the Swedish Parliament and one of the main critics of the WHO proposal, told Swebbtv News.

Earlier this week, the WHO warned that its planned pandemic measures and changes to global health rules may not be realised. Opposition has been too strong. "Fake news, lies and conspiracy theories" online, as the WHO puts it, have undermined the proposals.

The WHO rejects the claim that the proposals threaten national sovereignty.

According to Elsa Widding, who confronted the government about the WHO's plans, not only she but "very good lawyers" have carefully scrutinised the proposals.

- "There is no doubt whatsoever about what this is all about," Ms Widding told Swebbtv.

To understand it, however, you have to be "literate" and understand what it says, she says.

But it is clear. If something goes the "democratic" way, it can always be argued that it does not threaten the country's sovereignty.

- "It says that we are expected to change our legislation in line with this," Widding continues. "Then you can say that if we are so stupid that we would agree to this medical tyranny, it does not threaten our sovereignty - because we voluntarily agree to this misery.

- So we can really hope that we have now succeeded. Quite a few of us have been working intensively on this. And I have worked together with several other countries. This just has to be stopped. And it is a shame for Sweden that we have politicians who do not see this clearly. You can't believe anything other than that they are all bought off in one way or another.

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Stockholm, Sweden
24 Jan 2023

Sveriges Nato-medlemskap sägs hota mänskligheten

Efter att Turkiets parlament är nu Sveriges maktelit ett steg närmare att föra in svenska folket i den USA-ledda krigsalliansen Nato.

nyheter.swebbtv.se

Sweden's NATO membership said to threaten humanity

Turkey had a chance to act on behalf of humanity. Instead, the Turkish parliament chose to approve Sweden's NATO application. This is according to Konstantin Kosachev, Deputy Speaker of the Russian Federation Council, reports Tass.

Sweden's power elite is now one step closer to bringing the Swedish people into the US-led NATO alliance after Turkey's parliament approved the politicians' NATO application.

But not everyone is happy.

"Turkey's parliament, the US Senate, Hungary's parliament, 349 NATO friends and turncoats in the [Swedish Parliament]. Feels like everyone except the Swedish people have now voted on our membership in NATO. Why were the politicians afraid of a referendum?", writes Nils Littorin, a doctor and leader of the Malmölistan party, on X.

The Russian side claims that the interests of the whole world are at stake when it comes to Sweden's NATO membership, which means further military expansion against Russia.

This is how dangerous the decision is considered to be.

Sweden could now become NATO's "marshalling area" against Russia, as Swebbtv's Lars Bern previously warned.

"It is only regrettable that Turkey - unfortunately! - is about to make a final decision on Sweden's NATO membership. A historic chance for Turkey to act in the interests of all mankind, rather than [the narrow interests of] a separate bloc, will also be lost," Russian Senator Konstantin Kosachev wrote on Telegram.

According to Mr Kosachev, "NATO is the main source of instability in the world".

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[thorbiorn]

An observation:
Are some Finns realizing they have become merely a sword wielded by someone else to serve as a front force against Russia on behalf of the Western elites? The following information, I first discovered on a Polish page, which translated gave this headline:

Finns in government departments. Record number of applications for withdrawal from the reserve
yesterday, 13: 15

Looking for a source, there was:

Finnish Defence Minister calls resigning reservists "unpatriotic", plans law change
A record number of reservists applied to switch to the civilian service in 2022.

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Defence Minister Antti Häkkänen of the National Coalition Party. Image: Yle
YLE NEWS
2.2. 12:45•Updated 2.2. 15:59

Finland's Defence Minister Antti Häkkänen (NCP) is planning to introduce legislation that would prohibit people from resigning from the Finnish Defence Forces' (FDF) military reserve.

Häkkänen told the weekly Kyrönmaa newspaper, based in the western city of Vaasa, that he considers it unpatriotic for reservists to resign.

News agency STT reported on Friday afternoon that a relatively large number of reservists had applied to switch to serve in the FDF's civil service unit over the past couple of days.

A total of 160 such applications had been submitted on Thursday and by noon on Friday, the Civilian Service Center's director, Mikko Reijonen, told STT. He added that the figure was relatively large, considering there were only 255 civil service applications filed during all of January.

A record number of people applied to switch to the civilian service from the FDF's reserve in 2022.

Although the exact reasons are unknown, Reijonen noted that Russia's invasion of Ukraine was certainly a factor.

Every male Finnish citizen aged 18-60 is liable for military service, and women can volunteer to serve. Men liable for military service must complete either armed or unarmed military service or non-military civil service.

Responding to Häkkänen's comments, the head of the Finnish Reservists' Association (FRA), Kari Salminen, told STT that he would not support a complete ban on resigning from the reserve — noting that people should be allowed to resign for health or personal reasons.

Salminen added, however, that he broadly agreed with Minister Häkkänen, telling STT that he does not understand people who resign from the reserve out of fear or a diminished sense of responsibility.

Edited to add that 160 reservists had submitted civil service applications on Thursday and Friday.

In February 2023, there was from Yle.fi: Record number switch from reserve to civilian service. In the last few days and weeks, the noise from up high has been in the EU and NATO that the people have to prepare for conflict with Russia. Considering the timing, some NATO/EU/US memo is very likely what spurred the Finnish Minister to act rather than the old stats from 2022.

 

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Stockholm, Sweden
7 Feb 2024

NORD STREAM.
Swedish Investigation shut down.

Swedish alternative channel (possibly controlled opposition) - called SwebbTV - reports that the Swedish Investigation into the Nord Stream attack, is being shut down. Well, should we be surprised ? I don't think so. Given what possibly really was used behind the terror act; e.g. the use of nuclear weapons in Swedish / Danish waters... and the economic destruction of Germany's cheap energy from Russia... it is a far too hot topic for little Sweden to dig into the subject.

Swedes are simply not known to be "in your face" and to avoid all possible conflicts. It is after all now a colony of the US Military Complex, a new playground to experiment on in future wars. No heroic actions are to be expected coming from the Royal Kingdom of Sweden... that is for sure.

Germany's Scholz also just stated that because the country is in crisis, they are not interested into investigating the Nord Stream terror attack...

I think Scholz is really a primary candidate of being an organic portal; slippery and void of all real life in that man. The latter has been commented in german alternative media several times by different people in the last weeks - which I thought was interesting how they described Chancellor Scholz - making me wonder if he is literally an organic portal, under the open influence to/from 4D STS. With him, i find it remarkably visible. Like the void in that mans face, when Biden declared that there would be no NORD Stream in the future if Russia attacks Ukraine. While Scholz was just sitting next to Biden, looking... like a big void of nothingness.




Russia: "Remarkable" that Sweden shuts down Nord Stream investigation

Russia finds it remarkable that Sweden chooses to close the Nord Stream investigation. This is according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, reports Tass. According to Peskov, Russia has not been given access to any investigation material, but Germany has.

On Wednesday, the Swedish Prosecutor's Office confirmed that Sweden is closing the investigation into the Nord Stream attack in September 2022. It claims that it lacks jurisdiction. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a statement to the media that Sweden's decision is "remarkable".

Meanwhile, the German investigation continues.

- "It will be interesting how carefully the German authorities approach this investigation," Mr Peskov said, noting that Germany has lost a very important asset with the attack on the gas pipelines.

German companies and taxpayers are "suffering" from the attack and Germany has lost its competitiveness, he added.

Prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist said in a press release: - "We have had good international co-operation with several countries, especially Denmark and Germany, where we have continuously shared information and situational pictures. We have had in-depth co-operation with the preliminary investigation conducted by the German authorities. Within the framework of this legal co-operation, we have been able to hand over material that can be used as evidence in the German investigation.

But according to Mr Peskov, Russia has been denied any information. - "So far they have simply refused to share information on this case, and now they have decided to simply close the case," Mr Peskov said, according to Tass.

In February 2023, the legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh revealed that it was the Biden administration in the United States that bombed the gas pipelines, a fact that the Western media hushed up.

END OF ARTICLE

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In an earlier article from SwebbTV:

Confirmed: Nord Stream investigation closed



The Swedish investigation into the attack on Nord Stream in the Baltic Sea in September 2022 will be closed, confirmed Mats Ljungqvist in a press release.

On Tuesday, it was announced that the Swedish investigation into the Nord Stream attack on 26 September 2022 would be closed. Today this is confirmed by the Prosecutor's Office. The prosecutor claims that "Swedish jurisdiction is lacking and the investigation will therefore be closed".

"The primary purpose of the preliminary investigation has been to examine whether Swedish citizens were involved in the offence and whether Swedish territory was used to carry out the offence and thus risked damaging Swedish interests or Sweden's security", the press release explains.

- The preliminary investigation has been systematic and thorough. Among other things, a large number of ship movements have been analysed in order to understand what happened. In addition, an extensive crime scene investigation has been carried out and several hearings have been held in the case. "In the light of the situation we now have, we can conclude that Swedish jurisdiction is lacking," says Mats Ljungqvist, Chief Prosecutor, in a statement.

According to the Prosecutor's Office, the investigation has reached such a stage that the authorities have a "good picture of the event and that nothing has emerged that indicates that Sweden or Swedish citizens were involved in the attack that took place in international waters".

At the bottom of the press release it states: "The prosecutor will not, with reference to the secrecy that still prevails, comment further on the case." Already in February 2023, the legendary American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh revealed that it was the Biden administration in the US that bombed the gas pipelines, a fact that the Western media hushed up.

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What's up with that ?!

Thorbiorn's entry made me stuble across something...


• So, there is Finland's defense minister Antti Häkkänen



• And here is Sweden's Defense Minister Pål Jonson, like and older version of the above dude's "look"

Again, there are these strange similarities. Like a couple years ago, there was that thing with eyes... i remember during the Covid Plandemic - those peculiar staring, empty looking "glass" eyes of Finalnd's Prime Minister Sanna Marin, also were visible in another female minister (but i can't remember which one that was).

Strange phenomena, given how each of those Defense Ministers stand for some quite radical changes... In the case of Sweden extreme, as I consider Pål Jonson having committed High Treason.

 

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Now, the Global Banksters and the Jewish Wallenberg family + politicians in Sweden are doing their "Babylonian" thing according to the same classic rules: Problem - Reaction - Solution.

More about the Wallenbergs, and Swedish history

I was not able to show that the Wallenbergs are a Jewish family. Sure, there was Raoul Wallenberg, who helped Jews, but a site that is obsessed with Jew or not Jew could not find much, even if they like him and give him 10 of 15.

Raoul Wallenberg

August 4, 1912 – July 17, 1947(?)

To achieve the perfect Jew Score, one must be, in one word, awesome. Oh, and Jewish. It's a Jew Score, after all. So, two words: awesome and Jewish.
So sadly, we cannot award Raoul Wallenberg the 15. But we'll try to get close.

For Wallenberg is beyond awesome: during World War II, the Swedish diplomat saved thousands upon thousands of Hungarian Jews by issuing them Swedish passports.

(Just don't tell the Soviets that Wallenberg was awesome. After the war, they detained him, and he died in captivity. What a fucked up country the Soviet Union was.)

But alas, Wallenberg was not Jewish. Oh, do we ever kvell for him, so here goes a K Score of 5, but, sadly, the O and the I have to be pretty low.
Except... his name does end with "berg", doesn't it? Sure, that's not exclusively Jewish, Swedes have that as well, but sounds kinda Jewish, right? Perhaps enough to earn an extra O point?

And what's this? His great-great-grandfather was Jewish? Well, that's worth an I point right there!
So, once we add it all up, we have a 10. Not a perfect 15, mind you, but as high as we'll ever go for someone with just a smidgen of Jewishness.
Hard to deny someone so awesome, after all.
Verdict: Barely a Jew.

The Wiki gives a few more details:

Wallenberg was aware of his one-sixteenth Jewish ancestry and proud of it. It came from his great-great-grandfather (his maternal grandmother's grandfather) Michael Benedicks, who immigrated to Stockholm in 1780 and converted to Christianity.[22][23] Ingemar Hedenius (one of the leading Swedish philosophers) recalls a conversation with Raoul dating back to 1930 when they were together in an army hospital during military service:

We had many long and intimate conversations. He was full of ideas and plans for the future. Although I was a good deal older – you could choose when to do your service – I was enormously impressed by him. He was proud of his partial Jewish ancestry and, as I recall, must have exaggerated it somewhat. I remember him saying, 'A person like me, who is both a Wallenberg and half-Jewish, can never be defeated'.[24]

Raul Wallenberg's Jewishness is supported also by Sweden researcher Paul A. Levine, who wrote in his monograph about Wallenberg:

There is general agreement that around the end of the eighteen[th] century, a German Jew named Benedicts emigrated to Sweden, establishing the material line of [Raoul's] Wallenberg’s family.[25]
Wallenberg as a youth
He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1935. Upon his return to Sweden, he found his American degree did not qualify him to practice as an architect. Later that year, his grandfather arranged a job for him in Cape Town, South Africa, in the office of a Swedish company that sold construction material. After six months in South Africa, he took a new job at a branch office of the Holland Bank in Haifa.[26] He returned to Sweden in 1936, securing a job in Stockholm with the help of his father's cousin and godfather, Jacob Wallenberg, at the Central European Trading Company,[27] an export-import company trading between Stockholm and central Europe, owned by Kálmán Lauer, a Hungarian Jew.[citation needed]

The number of people saved varies:

Hungarian Jews and the Wallenberg Legacy
May 19, 2013 by Michael Streich Leave a Comment
History measures real heroes through the lives touched by their selfless actions. In late 1944 Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat in Budapest, helped save the lives of 100,000 Hungarian Jews scheduled for transportation to Nazi extermination camps.

Returning to the Wiki

Tibor Baranski was a 22-year-old religious student who was recruited by Papal Nuncio Monsignor Angelo Rotta to help save Jews. Baranski, who posed as a Vatican representative, saved about 3,000 Jews. He collaborated with diplomats, including Wallenberg. He met with and talked with Wallenberg on the phone several times. Baranski described Wallenberg's motivation as "divinely human love." "We knew in a second we shared the same opinion … the same recklessness, the same determination, all through," said Baránszki.[41]

At a guess, the Wallenberg family probably earned a much goodwill (=business opportunities later) from the actions of Raoul Wallenberg, but is that unfair?
There was another aspect:

U.S. Documents Indicate Family of Raoul Wallenberg’s Aided Nazis
May 24, 1996
While Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was saving the lives of Jews in Hungary during World War II, some of his relatives were collaborating with the Nazis, according to the World Jewish Congress.

“While Raoul was a saint, he was performing superhero feats to save the Jews in Budapest, the U.S. government knew that the Wallenberg bank, controlled by his uncles, was cooperating wholly with the Nazis,” said Elan Steinberg, WJC executive director.

The WJC reported this week that it discovered the activities of the Wallenberg- owned bank while searching recently declassified U.S. intelligence files for information concerning the whereabouts of assets of Holocaust victims that are believed to be in Swiss bank accounts.

The Wallenberg documents shed lights on “Sweden’s involvement with and collaboration with the Nazis during the war,” Steinberg said. “Sweden is clearly emerging as one of the places where the Nazis moved assets.”

According to the documents, the Enskilda Bank, owned by Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg, Raoul’s uncles, dealt in large black market operations, money laundering and concealing German investments in the Unites States.

The documents also contain evidence disproving the belief in some circles that Marcus Wallenberg was on the side of the Allies. He traveled to the United States in 1940 on behalf of German interests to buy back a block of German securities being held by America, according to the documents.

The disclosed information about the collaboration between the Nazi regime and Marcus and Jacob Wallenberg suggests a reason for the feeble attempts to find their nephew.

“It’s long been out there that the Wallenberg family in Stockholm apparently did very little to locate Raoul after his disappearance into the Soviet gulag in January 1945,” Steinberg said.

Stationed in Budapest, Raoul Wallenberg helped to save some 20,000 Jews from deportation to Nazi death camps. He was arrested by Soviet occupation forces in January 1945.

The Soviet authorities maintained that Raoul Wallenberg died in prison in 1947, but others have claimed that he was alive as the 1980s. U.S. News & World Report reported earlier this month that newly unearthed documents showed that Raoul Wallenberg spied for an agency that was a predecessor of the CIA.

Some of the released CIA documents are stored on Archive.org here, though not that easy to read.

Swedish history is older than one might think
Oppenheimer’s “The Origins of the British” is mentioned in Session 30 January 2010

Q: (Joe) In this study that was done that was investigating why a majority of English have no Celtic genes - they're all Anglo-Saxon - they had two theories. One was that...

A: Not "Anglo-Saxon" proper, but Germanic certainly.

Q: (Joe) The theory was that the Anglo-Saxon or Germanic peoples came over with the fall of the Romans and they came into Britain. And the ones that stayed established an apartheid society and they essentially outbred the indigenous population.

A: Read Laura's book, it is closer to the facts.

Q: (Joe) What book was that? (laughter)

(L) (L) Oppenheimer’s “The Origins of the British”. He has quite a different thing to say about it. So, next question.

The book concludes the role of invasions on the genetic signatures of the British is less than previously thought, however for the topic of this thread, there are very interesting passages that discuss the links to Scandinavia including Sweden. It turns out some of the Scandinavian history that has no records in the Nordic countries, has left traces elsewhere.

Commenting on our current times, I don't think that it is a coincidence that Jens Stoltenberg, the Norwegian, following in the steps of the Danish Anders Fogh Rasmussen, was chosen to promote the inclusion of Sweden and Finland into NATO, even if Sweden is not fully in yet. Concerning the Swedish seeming capitulation to the US, how much is due to blackmail, intimidation, or bribes, how much is a result of willing cooperation, how much is one fox trying to cheat another, or a product of elite/alien world government announcing itself is not clear. Perhaps we will find out, as the game unfolds.

 

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Debate on climate change, or is it earth change
Of course, Denmark and all the other Nordic and NATO/EU countries competing for greener-than-green policies spend many headlines on the advantages of being the greenest. Still, there has been a little back-and-forth debate. The Norwegians for instance have a very active FB group with more than 150,000 subscribers. In Denmark, it is less, but thanks to a friend, I received a link to a documentary about scientists who disagree with the concept that global warming is caused by humans. It has commentary in Danish, but interviews are in English because it is a slightly shortened version of the more than 15 year old The Great Global Warming Swindle - Full Documentary HD screened on the British Channel 4.

For the translated and edited version the description on the DR page about their climate/global warming series was:

Thursday 12 July, 19.55: The Great Global Warming Swindle
In this controversial Channel 4 programme, we meet a number of scientists who oppose the prevailing view that global warming is a result of human activity. The claim is that we are subject to major and longer-term changes, over which we basically have no influence ourselves.

Now: The great lie about global warming (Nu: Den store løgn om global opvarmning ()
Bitchute link

For comments on the original British documentary from 2006-2007 see this Forum search result. A part of one comment read:

So much about the documentary was spot on - the fallacy of 'CO2 emissions' causing global warming, pointing to the sun as primary catalyst for weather pattern changes, highlighting how the politicisation of the issue coupled with the media-induced hysteria cultivated a self-reinforcing 'industry', nay religion, with its preachers and its heretics, how pressurising developing countries to take on solar and wind energy is tantamount to telling them they cannot have electricity - but I was left with a nagging suspicion that the program was tasked simply with killing the issue flat, reassuring skeptics that this 'global warming malarky' is all a load of hot air. Temperatures go up, temperatures go down. Ice sheets expand, ice sheets recede. Basically, move along please folks, nothing to see here! Nevermind the wealth of information indicating definite underlying change taking place on our planet, it'll be just business as usual... The devil is in the details as Ark likes to say, and TV doesn't do details.

Which got me thinking about this 'CO2 emissions' nonsense. From what I saw in the documentary, it is easily dismantled as a theory. Could it be that it is such a ridiculous proposition, that it was set up to be knocked down? In the process subverting people from paying attention to the signs?

Maybe one could say the irony in the global warming debate is that those who argue for no climate change could be more off than those who hype it, if one considers the climate change agenda as a possible screen for earth changes, though most who promote the carbon footprint nonsense would be as blind to that possibility as those who claim all is normal. Nevertheless, it is not bad the documentary was screened, considering the interest in climate research, partly due to Greenland and its ice being part of the Danish kingdom. Perhaps some viewers caught in the conflict between one opinion and the other will decide to find out more and end up with a more nuanced conclusion than either of the advertised views.