Scandinavian observations and perspectives

[Possibility of Being]

Some people are smarter than others.

Al Jazeera, an hour ago:

Swedish MEP invested in three global arms giants during Israel’s war on Gaza: Report

Swedish newspaper ETC is reporting that Swedish European Member of Parliament (MEP) Alice Teodorescu Mawe bought shares in the German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall, which supplies weapons to Israel, on March 18, 2025, the day Israel broke the ceasefire in Gaza.

As an MEP, Mawe must declare her investments, but in a financial update on November 12, 2024, she had no shares. Then, in the next update on March 18, 2025, she had invested in two weapons manufacturers: Sweden’s Saab and Rheinmetall.

ETC reports that since then, Rheinmetall’s shares have risen by 23 percent.

Mawe, who represents Sweden’s Christian Democrats Party, has been a staunch supporter of Israel and its Gaza war.

There is "three" in the title, but only two companies are named. What is the third one? Or was it a translation error?
And I don't think it's a good sign, especially for Europe, when a German arm giant is rising rapidly.

 

[XPan]

Some people are smarter than others.

Al Jazeera, an hour ago:


There is "three" in the title, but only two companies are named. What is the third one? Or was it a translation error?
And I don't think it's a good sign, especially for Europe, when a German arm giant is rising rapidly.

Isn’t she now a Swedish MEP in the EU parliament ? Ah yes. It was in the text. She voted (like all other Swedish 21 EU MEP’s) for the use of long distance weapons against Russia. How quaint.

In the mean time, Rheinmetall has risen like a rocket at the stockmarket. Almost 200% i heard today in “Naktes Niveau #191”, but i don’t remember since when.

Alice Teodorescu Mawe is a weird figure. Dresses like a little doll like for ever - but the impression is deeply deceiving.

 

[Breton]

If one is interested about things in Finland this 12 minute update may be interesting to you as he describes some of the economic and social hits incurred when it decided to mindlessly please the EU, and adopt russo-phobia and counterproductive ideologically driven policies towards Russia like closing its border with Russia.

There may be more to add to the things he discussed, of course.

Finland finds the measures it has imposed against Russia very expensive
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Finland has woken up to the realities of its Russophobia, its joining of NATO and then deciding to close its border with Russia and also cut off its trade ties. Rhod Mackenzie looks at how these measures have had a negative effect the country's economy.

Finland finds its Russophobia expensive

By Rhod Mackenzie Finland has woken up to the realities of its Russaphobia, its joining of NATO and then deciding to close its border with Russia andalso...

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00:00 Introduction
00:21 Closing the Finish border to Russians
00:58 Helsinki still has to pay to maintain closed border
01:31 Finnish customs service in crisis
02:33 Costs of 500 thousand Euros per month for closed checkpoints
03:58 Finnish customs officers fear for their jobs

 

[Aeneas]

I was interested in pension age in Denmark and discovered that while it currently is 67 years of age, it is already planned to lift it with one year every 5 years. So my two nephews can look forward to retiring at the age of 74. Below is a table which shows the expected/planned rollout with it needing to be agreed by the parliament every 5 years. The asterisk next to the year is where it still hasn't been voted on but planned. The official reason is that people live longer yet one more likely reason is that it will give the government an excuse to hold on to the retirement money which people pay into the system and in likely wont see much of.





There is also the likely requirement that people will have to have worked x number of years in order to be eligible for the full retirement. With a rapidly changing job market where the majority of people will have to change jobs many times during their working life, then it poses the question of how likely it is for someone who say loses his/her job at the age of 55 to be able to find another job. Employers will in the future also in many cases favour a younger person rather than an older person which could result in many being unemployed, poor and not able to retire, because they just happen to be below the ever increasing age of retirement.

I don't know how it is in other countries though it likely is a similar picture. With the increase of AI, many mature people in the years ahead could likely find themselves in what WEF would term the useless eater category. Seeing how the Covid shots proportially killed off the older generation, this could be part of how WEF and their alien mindset sees the solution to the 'useless' eater category.

Added: A short explanation to the table. The middle column is the pension age for those born in the period shown in the right hand column. So a person born in say 1998 like my nephew can retire at the age of 74, thus in 2062 2072.

 

[Possibility of Being]

In case someone missed it and would be interested, a conversation with Tuomas Malinen about the militarisation process in Finland, "nordic" countries position on current situation and the Russian-Ukrainian war. The latter is in the middle, beginning and ending about Finland.

Finland: The Next Neocon War To Entrap Russia And The USA | Tuomas Malinen

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Tuomas Malinen, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Helsinki and CEO of GNS Economics, discusses Finland's dramatic shift from neutrality to NATO membership. One of President Alexander Stubb's first acts was signing a defense treaty with Ukraine, marking Finland's first military treaty with a nation at war with Russia since 1944. This represents a stark departure from Finland's historical policy of neutrality ("Finlandization").

Finland is showing signs of military preparation, with airfields being expanded, military reserves planned to increase from 325,000 to 1 million by 2032, and aggressive rhetoric toward Russia unprecedented in Finland's 100 years of independence. Finland formally joined NATO on April 9, 2023 - symbolically the same calendar date as NATO's founding in 1949.

Timestamps:
00:00:00 Preview & Intro
00:02:01 What is Finland's role in the Ukraine war?
00:05:31 Why was Finland's President invited to Washington?
00:16:05 Strategy behind militarizing Finland: being set up as a threat to Russia?
00:22:02 Is the 'Break Up Russia' faction still powerful?
00:33:38 Does Trump have enough power to bypass the deep state?
00:40:36 What is the general mood in Finland right now?
00:46:43 Are Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil refineries effective?

At the end (last timestamp) they say there is a strict censorship in Russian media and no data is available. That's not true. One example, with a link and machine translation:

Tsargrad, Aug 27, 2025

Every fourth refinery in Russia was in the crosshairs this summer. Ten refineries, attacks, fires, shutdowns - the enemy has been methodically trying to hit our fuel complex, hoping to cause chaos and panic. This is a full-scale war against Russia's economy. ...

According to official government reports and company releases, at least ten refineries in Russia were subjected to enemy attacks (with fires or recorded UAV "debris drops" on the site) in July-August 2025:

Ilsk refinery;
Ryazan refinery;
Novokuibyshevsk refinery;
Afipsk refinery;
Saratov refinery;
Ukhta refinery;
Slavyansk refinery;
Volgograd refinery;
Syzran refinery;
Novoshakhtinsk refinery.

According to the Ministry of Energy and industry analysts, there are about 38 refineries operating in Russia. And here's what's alarming: in July and August, attacks affected about 26% of them. If we take a firm lower estimate - Ryazan, Novokuibyshevsk, Saratov, Volgograd, Syzran, it is already 16% of the total refining capacity. And if we add Novoshakhtinsk, Afipsky, Ilsky, Slavyansky and Ukhta, the share of affected plants may reach 26% of the 2024 refining level.

Although Kiev claims that strikes on primary processing plants “complicate the supply of the army” to Russia, the effect is more complex. Reduced deep processing leads to higher prices and reduced export flows, giving the enemy hope for social discontent and economic slowdown [...]