Scandinavian observations and perspectives

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Sometimes it has been discussed what the Danes could have done on April 9. A map gives an idea of the options seen from a German perspective, several of the officers that later joined the German war effort were sad there was so little resistance.

One thing is to be run over, but joining an effort is another. After writing the last post I decided to use more of the information in the map I used and not only include Demyansk, Velikiye Luki, Lomonosov, Narva, and Kurzerne. The map is not complete but it still gives and idea of the situation and having discovered that there has been a tendency in some European countries to bury unpleasant history, even make a show of being very offended creating a diplomatic row for no good reason when some highly placed and well informed outsider holds up a mirror. The places on screen shots of the maps below are presented by section:
Western Ukraine 1941

The invasion began on June 22 1941 and after about a week they were inside Western Ukraine in the part that had previously been considered Poland:

To the left on the map of Ukraine there was L'viv:

L'viv
In German: Lemberg

The 1. July 1941 Division Wiking moved into the Western capital of L'viv (then Lemberg) and started a pogrom which cost the lives of thousands of Jews.

Instigated by the German security police, Ukrainian nationalists and Wikings SS volunteers committed a series of massacres described in Nazi propaganda as ”retaliation”.

A Norwegian volunteer told us many years later that he helped to slaughter Jews with bayonet.

Other volunteers from the Danish-Norwegian Regiment Nordland has, on various occasions, betrayed detailed knowledge of the massacres, but without implicating themselves.

Zolotjev due east of L'viv

Zolotjiv
In German: Zloczow
Da Division Wiking on the 2nd. and 3. July passed through the city Zolotjiv, continued the brutal crackdown: ”the SS plunder, together with civilian bandits, drives people out of their homes and have treated a significant number of people” reported a shocked German army officer.

Prisoners of war and civilians were shot with impunity, women were raped, and members of Division Wiking were hunting Jews in the streets.

Zboriv southeast of Zolotjev

Zboriv
In German: Zborow

The 4th. July marched the Waffen-SS through Zolotjivs neighbor Zboriv and liquidated 600 jews.

Ukrainian nationalists took the lead, side by side with SS volunteers from Wiking, where most Danish Eastern Front volunteers at that time served.
Only in Zolotjiv did 3,000 Jews lose their lives.

Tjernopil' southeast of Zboriv

Ternopil'
In German: Tarnapol

The 5th. in July, some 600 Jews in Ternopil were shot and killed with the complicity of Regiment Nordland..

Mikulintsi south of Tjernopil

Mikulintsi
In German: Mikulince

The 5th. juli took part in Division Wiking in hard fights at the town of Mikulintsi.

After the battle, the SS troops selected 200 Soviet prisoners of war who didn't look” Germanic " and shot them on sight.

Then another pogrom began: the Jews were mocked, beaten and mistreated before they were killed. Norwegian volunteers certainly participated in the atrocities, probably ALSO Danish.

Southern Russia 1941-1942

Southern Russia - Caucasus

Rostov-na-Donu
In German: Rostov
In the Ukrainian RUSSIAN city, SS Division Wiking, with Danish volunteers, participated in mass killings of civilians in 1941-42 .
Maj-cop
In German: Maikop

During the 1942 German summer offensive, SS Division Wiking conquered with a larger number of Danish voluntary oil town of Majkop. The Danes were part of the German forces that reached the farthest reaches the Caucasus.

Babrujsk in Belarus in 1942-1943

Babrujsk
In German: Bobruisk

In 1942, the Corps Denmark the training of new recruits moved from the barracks in Germany and occupied Poland to the ”Waldlager” in Bobruisk, a city in Belarus, of the size and importance of the Aarhus.


"Waldlager" was one of three major central military bases held by the German SS and police forces in the occupied Soviet territories.

When, at the time of annual changes of 1941/1942, the SS needed Jewish slave workers to expand the "Waldlager" base, they were picked up in Poland in the Warsaw Ghetto. At least 1,500 Jewish men and boys arrived at The New ”Jew camp” in Bobruisk.

Danish soldiers in 1942-43 helped run the slave labour camp for Jews, where only 91 out of more than 1500 prisoners survived. In the camp, weak prisoners were regularly elected and shot, and the Watchmen exposed the prisoners to extreme abuse and sadistic torture.

Central Europe 1941-1945

In the lower left Bad Tölz 1941

Bad Tölz
From May 1941 a larger number of Danish volunteers were trained as officers or junior officers of the Waffen-SS at the SS-Junkerschule Bad Tölz.

In the upper left Hamburg-Langenhorn 1942

Hamburg-Langenhorn
Hamburg-Langenhorn

Barracks. Up to 1942, Frycorps Denmark trained soldiers here. Since 1942, training took place in Bobruisk.

South of Hamburg KZ-camp Laagberg

Fallersleben
Today Wolfsburg

KZ-camp Laagberg

The camp delivered slave labour to Volkswagenwerk in Fallersleben (today Wolfsburg).

The SS man Anton Peter Callesen was after the war sentenced to death in the three courts to have committed a number of cases of serious ill-treatment and killings in the CONCENTRATION camp Laagberg, where he was second in command.

The case ended with Callesen being pardoned to life imprisonment and released in 1960 as the last Danish genocide criminal.

At least 99 Danish SS volunteers served in concentration camps in Germany. Five of these were convicted after the war for crimes against humanity, two of them before British courts.

Lower right Croatia 1943

Zagreb
In German: Agram

To the south of the Croatian capital attended the SS Divison Nordland with the Regiment in Denmark in the autumn of 1943, in the vain German attempts to defeat the strong partisan movement.

Upper middle Berlin 1945

Berlin
in december 1943, a large part of the Danish SS-volunteers migrated to the northern eastern front and took part in the German retreat through the Baltic states and East germany to Berlin.

Here, Scandinavian SS volunteers were among the most fanatical defenders of the government quarter and Hitler's ”driver's bunker” in the final days of the Third Reich.

Upper right near Owinska north of Poznan

Owinska
In German: Treskau

Denmark's Eastern Front volunteers received early insight into the euthanasia programme, i.e. the killing of hereditary and disabled Germans carried out in 1940-45.

In letters home they said, that the barracks in Treskau (today Owinska, Poland), where a part of the Free Corps Denmark training took place, had previously been in the mental hospital, and that one had shot the sick to make room for the soldiers.

Southern Denmark north of Hamburg 1945-1947

Føslev (Fårhus Camp))
East Front Volunteers (Danes and members of the German minority in south Jutland), which during the post-war was doomed for the German military service, serving most of their sentences in Fårhuslejren at Padborg.

The people who come back from fighting in Syria etc will probably get even better conditions than given in to the East Front Volunteers or should we say East Front Soldiers.

 

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On this Поисковый отряд «Демянск» I found some pictures of posters that showed what it looked like for those who had to contend with the uninvited guests from Germany and the volunteers they gathered.
The first invokes the image of the victory of Alexander Nevsky in 1242:

After the Germans and Estonians invaded Pskov, the Novgorod authorities sent for Alexander. In spring of 1241 he returned from exile, gathered an army, and drove out the invaders. Alexander and his men faced the Livonian heavy cavalry led by the bishop of Dorpat (Hermann, brother of Albert of Buxhoeveden). The Rus' force met the enemy on the ice of Lake Peipus and defeated the German knights and the Estonian infantry during the Battle of the Ice on 5 April 1242.

"Who comes riding to us with a sword also dies from a sword"
Next is another image of the war which involved Russia and Napoleon. The details of the actual relation between France and Russia is debated, but the common story is that Napoleon came to loose. The old man in the picture below is Mikhail Kutuzov The idea is to draw inspiration and strength from image of the ancestors.

"Let yourselves be inspired in this war by the manly examples of our great ancestors" - Josef Stalin
At the same time there was suffering and pain:

"Warrior of the Red Army pay back the enemy for the blood and the tears of the Soviet People."

"The Mother Country calls"

Above: "Learn about sanitation" Below: "Give first aid to victims of enemy fighter planes"

"Don't give an inch of our land to the enemy"

"Grandfather is alone, but he has millions grandchildren in the country!!"

"Soldier, save me from slavery"

"I waited for you warrior liberator" -"Liberate all Soviet People from the Fascist captivity" Notice the Christian symbology in the background. with the dove expressing the hope of peace.
The above posters from the defenders are like a response to those that I presented earlier which were invitations to convince young people they should go to war. Today we have no posters, but there are movies, games, slanted news and press releases to take their place. In this year when it is 75 years after World War II hopefully one can extract a few more lessons.

 

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This post is about a spy in Denmark during the Cold War, the threat of nuclear destruction at the time, and how people respond to it today.

Recently there has been a story about a person they claim nobody knew existed in the role of being a spy. He lives in Denmark, is now 81 years old and during the Cold War he spied for Poland. He had Danish citizenship, but was ethnically Polish. What this story smells of is journalistic and academic ambitions by fairly young journalists and young scholars. That is part of life, and one effect is that history in some form can be learned by a new generation and gets an opportunity to be reflected upon by the elder.

The responses in the comments to the news article show there may still be a need to work out the aftermath of WWII which led to the Cold War just as the aftermath of the Cold War led to the present which in fact has so many problems of its own that some commentators also consider this splash of "news" about the Cold War to be just another cover to distract the audience from what is going on around us right now of much greater importance. They are are probably right, but in this post I will choose to learn some details about European history.

Among the many comments, one finds level headed evaluations of the "news" about plans to bomb Denmark during the Cold War. In fact, apart from this person, these plans have been known for decades, they were published after the end of the cold war and were known by the Government even during the cold war. Some in this group of commentators have links to sources where similar "news" have been published long ago, some refer to history and what NATO had in mind to do to the other side, and so on. Of these one claims that although Denmark was nuclear free there was a missile system, Hornest John, that could be armed with nuclear weapons and that nuclear ammunition that could be fitted on these were stored in a bunker in Northern Germany. This is btw similar to what NATO is doing today which is pointing nuclear capable missiles against Russia next to the Russian border and claim they are have no nuclear intention.

There are other people who in their comments write it is very scary that there were such plans, which is true, but not new, and few mention that people in Poland also might have lived in fear, or that we actually are in a situation not much better today. Some say that the kind of information he gathered is nothing compared to what is gathered today via technological means. There are others who want to know where this old guy is living, they want him put in front of a court and executed according to the law they claim exist, some even less than a court and right now, others that he should be expelled. To this others reply that this law of execution for treason no longer exists, that the case is old, the news old and that one should leave the old guy alone. One of the commentators goes into detail of the Law on Punishment and explains why. Even if there might have been a case of spying, the case is now too old to give any punishment. Straffeloven In fact the case is way too old, by more than 20 years. A few use the opportunity to release some of their sentiments about Polish people in general, though someone also said one should be grateful to the Poles because of the Battle of Vienna - Wikipedia One interesting comment is af link to an article about how the CIA viewed the Danes as spy material. Perhaps to say that this guy as a spy considered was actually doing pretty well.

These people who want the old man put on trial, executed the sooner the better or similar very much reflect the sentiment after WW2 where irrational sentiments made people mistreat others, and harrass their children for years without concerns for anything but their own feeling of being justified of feeling good about doing it. If gathered together together these people have the shouts one encounters in an unruly mob.

Below are excerpts from the three articles in the tabloid Ekstra Bladet followed by some of the links I picked up from the comments and various searches.

Ekspert om dansk spion: En af de vigtigste

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ekstrabladet.dk

Saturday d. 4. jan 2020 - kl. 06: 47
Expert on Danish spy: one of the most important
However, the spy 'Bret', which the extract has just revealed, denies everything - Polish expert is in no doubt about his crucial role
[...]
♪ Deny it all ♪
Bret - or Bogdan, as his real name is-denies to the exposé that he has ever been a spy for Poland. However, the Polish historian does not judge this, there can be no doubt about it.

- It's one of the strategies of many former spies. They were promised that the documents would never be released.

- In addition, they were not informed about what the folders contained, and they could not get access to them, so they did not know what was in their folders, says Przemyslaw Gasztold.
[...]

Nye detaljer afsløret: Sådan skulle Danmark atombombes

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ekstrabladet.dk

Saturday d. 4. jan. 2020: 17: 50
New details revealed: how should Denmark atomic bombs
DISCLOSURE: Polish spy had an important role in the plan to nuke several cities and invade the country
[...]
Would have complete control
The information is available from the thousands of documents extracted from the foundation for National Memory (IPN) in Warsaw.

- Denmark can be critical to war.

- You see that very early on, says Cold War scientist Thomas Wegener Friis of the University of South Korea for an extra magazine on the plans for a nuclear attack on Denmark.

The problem of the eastern bloc was that people from Denmark can send bombs far into Poland and the Soviet union, and that the countries therefore would rather lose ground in central Europe than lose control of Denmark.
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Tidligere forsvarsminister om Polens atombombe-planer: Uhyggeligt!

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ekstrabladet.dk

Sunday d. 5. jan. 2020: 10: 03
Former minister of defence on Poland's nuclear plans: scary!
Danish politicians are responding to the exposé of detailed war plans against the country during the Cold War.
[...]
Concrete war plans
That information does not surprise Hans Engell, who was secretary of defence from 1982-87 and who has therefore followed the findings of the additional magazine closely.

- If the Waszawa pact had launched an attack on Denmark, Poland would have had a rather central role to play, he explains.

-I won't be able to say what it looked like in the'60s, but in the'80s we had a pretty good picture of how the poles and the GDR people operated.

The documents previously classified also indicate precisely which cities and connecting points were to be bombed with nuclear weapons.

- It was the Cold War. Both in the Warsaw Pact and in Nato, there were very concrete plans for what would happen if the war broke out. Luckily, it didn't happen. But the fact that nuclear weapons were part of the strategic planning of the Warsaw Pact was quite well known – although it is frightening, he says.

The same is true of the former SF Party leader Holger K. Nielsen.

- After all, in the'80s we had a pretty good picture of how the GDR and the poles operated. We knew exactly which units were designated to carry out an attack if the Waszawa pact had launched an attack on Denmark, he explains.

He is nevertheless surprised that Bogdan W. slipped through the net, as he says.

- There's no doubt what he did was reprehensible. It's a little strange that he hasn't been found before, when there's been both a major Cold War investigation and a PET investigation on spies, he notes.

So it's weird that it's Ekstra Baldet that's supposed to find him?

- Yeah, I think it might be. I understand it has been found in the historical Polish archives (Institute of National Memory in Warsaw, red.). I do not know whether the Danish historians who carried out the Cold War investigation did not have access to it.

What if the Cold War investigation and the PET investigation on spies did not forget or overlook him in their searches in the archives? He could be a double agent? Or he could be overlooked in the same way that much is overlooked even today with regard to fraud in the public administration, returning radical Islamists, or the help allowed to be sent to radical Muslims during the war in Syria.

Other articles about the time of the Cold War and the threat of nuclear destruction

Atomkrigen ved Danmark

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www.berlingske.dk

Atomplaner mod Danmark under Den Kolde Krig

Langt op i 1980'erne arbejdede Warszawa-pagtens strateger med angrebsplaner mod Danmark, der skulle inddrages i krigens første fase, og østblokken var parat til at bruge kraftige atomvåben.

jyllands-posten.dk

Hvad ville der være sket, hvis den Kolde Krig var eksploderet?

CLASSIC: Den Kolde Krig bragte verden på randen af atomkrig. Hvordan ville Danmark have udviklet sig, hvis krigen var brudt ud?

videnskab.dk

Militærekspert: ”I 80’erne var Sovjet klar til at sende atombomber mod Danmark. Det er ikke længere aktuelt, men der stopper de gode nyheder så også”

Hvor bange bør vi være for en russisk invasion? Professor Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen giver her sit bud.

www.euroman.dk

Danmark under den kolde krig

Seven Days to the River Rhine - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Here's how the USSR planned to conquer Europe in an all-out nuclear war

DECLASSIFIED military plans reveal the terrifying strategy the USSR was ready to adopt in the case of an all-out war with the West. Seven Days to the River Rhine was a top-secret military simulatio…

www.thesun.co.uk

Denmark | Coldwarsites

Home » Denmark
DENMARK. SOME HISTORICAL REMARKS
The Danish belts were the link between the Baltic Sea and the Atlantic.

During the Cold War period, the Warsaw Pact countries came up with many different plans for attacking Western Europe. The planned attack on Denmark was for a long time structured around the same premise: primarily Polish but also DDR forces would form the advance guard in an attack on Jutland. An attack on Sjælland would be implemented primarily by Polish forces supported by DDR and (later) other Soviet forces. This simplified sketch from the beginning of the 1960s shows two nuclear bombs being dropped on the Danish cities of Roskilde (near the capital Copenhagen) and Esbjerg (on the west coast of Jutland). In the event of war, NATO reinforcements would supplement the Danish forces via Esbjerg. It was expected that these two nuclear bombs dropped in the first days of the war would put a stop to Danish resistance. If this was not the case, the Warsaw Pact plan in the following days was to drop a large number of tactical nuclear bombs all over Denmark, on Jutland between 27 and 52 bombs on the first day and between 16 and 32 on the second. Such an attack would cause incalculable damage to the civilian population. It is a wonder how the invaders themselves imagined they would avoid nuclear irradiation (probably something between an unrealistic belief that they would be protected from exposure and a lack of respect for their own soldiers’ lives). The ship symbol indicates a landing on Sjælland. (Colonel Kuklinski Intelligence Museum, Warsaw Poland).

A more detailed attack plan against the island, Sjælland, than shown above. This plan is from 1970 and signed by the Polish Minister of Defence, Wojciech Jaruzelski, later Communist president of Poland. This plan was handed over to NATO by the Polish colonel, spy and today national hero, Ryszard Kuklinsky. The plan shows that parachute forces would be dropped in the middle of Sjælland and then move north towards the capital, Copenhagen, and west towards the major cities of the coastal Store Bælt. Signatures shows that nuclear bombs were to be dropped on the Stevns Fort (on the east coast of Sjælland, in the middle of the photo), as well as on the towns of Køge (south of Copenhagen), Holbæk and Copenhagen. (Colonel Kuklinski Intelligence Museum, Warsaw Poland).

Officially there were no offensive plans from NATO, but I did find:

The Defence Of Denmark | Kalklandet

kalklandet.dk

NATO Had Only 1 Cold War Plan To Stop a Russian Invasion: Nuclear War

NATO expected to liberally use tactical nuclear weapons to slow the Soviet advance...

nationalinterest.org

A Blueprint for World War III: NATO's Plan to Crush the Soviet Union in Battle

Inside what would have been hell on Earth.

nationalinterest.org

With the expansion of NATO the focus moved East, considering that In a Chess Game with Putin, the Polish City of Gdansk Is Our Queen | National Review One might even ask if that was a motivation?

 

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In this post there is first something about Swedish society and later signs of possible changes in the position of Danish foreign relations

The show keeps rolling in Sweden
Syrian-born Swedish politician arrested on suspicion of smuggling migrants after being CAUGHT ON TAPE saying he does it for money

A Syrian-born Swedish politician has been arrested on suspicion of human trafficking after a damning hidden-camera interview published in October showed him bragging about smuggling people into the country for money.
Former Ljungby politician Rashad Alasaad, 27, was arrested by ten undercover police officers during a raid at his home on Wednesday morning.
“The person was taken for questioning and subsequently arrested. He is entitled to a public defender and that is being arranged,” said police spokesman Ewa-Gun Westford.

Fishing for Swedish cash: Afghan politician collecting benefits for his dead mother – report

An Afghan politician is under investigation in Sweden for collecting benefits intended for his dead mother, according to a new report. Welfare fraud has become a growing problem in the Scandinavian country.

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An Afghan politician is under investigation in Sweden for collecting benefits intended for his dead mother, according to a new report. Welfare fraud has become a growing problem in the Scandinavian country.
Razaq Ahmadzai, co-leader of Afghanistan’s Green Trend party, is expected to receive a top post in Kabul once the new coalition government is formed. But the Afghan politician is already being handily rewarded by the Swedish government, according to an investigation conducted by Fria Tider. The Swedish outlet has alleged that Ahmadzai, a resident of Sweden, has been collecting a pension intended for his long-deceased mother.
The paper found that Ahmadzai’s mother was registered to receive benefits from the Swedish government in February 2017 – one month after her death was reported by relatives on Facebook. Sweden’s Census Register still lists the dead woman as alive and residing in Afghanistan. Fria Tider reported that Ahmadzai has access to his deceased mother’s bank account, and still enjoys Stockholm’s generosity.

The above is more of the same that has been seen for years. The next is about changing perspectives in Danish foreign policy.

If the US will lack political stability will its partners begin to feel uncomfortable?

Denmark better keep an eye on ‘unpredictable’ US as Russia only wants stability in the Arctic – study Russian military assets in the Arctic are now mainly of defensive nature, but aggressive moves by the US and NATO may change that, and see Moscow sending more forces to the region, a top Danish think tank warned.

"Moscow still considers stability in the region a key factor in the development of the Russian Arctic as a strategically important resource base. Therefore, Russia is interested in the Arctic remaining a 'zone of peace and cooperation,"a fresh report by the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), which was seen by RT, read.

But with the rivalry of superpowers – the US, Russia and China – intensifying in the region, it's the stance of Washington that is causing concerns, as the Americans believe that Moscow and Beijing must be "contained and suppressed," the report said.
[...]

The above report could be connected this evaluation from one researcher:

Militærekspert: ”I 80’erne var Sovjet klar til at sende atombomber mod Danmark. Det er ikke længere aktuelt, men der stopper de gode nyheder så også”

Hvor bange bør vi være for en russisk invasion? Professor Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen giver her sit bud.

www.euroman.dk

By Morten Reimar
24. aug. 2018
[...]
Trump did not want to confirm at the NATO summit in July that the United States would come to the aid of any NATO country. Do you trust Trump to save us from a Russian attack?

[Professor Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen:]
”No. I think that is the clear signal from the summit. No NATO members can clearly assume that the UNITED states will live up to their obligations, and it is of course a big weakness for the alliance. There are some countries where it is safer than others. The Baltic Countries can not be absolutely sure that the United States will think it is worth the effort, while Germany and France are large countries that the United States can just look to see if they should be attacked. And that is bad for Denmark, which has put all the money on that colour, NATO. That alliance is our defense guarantee.”

If I understand you correctly, it's unclear whether Denmark is an important enough country for us to count on the United States?

”Yes, and that's exactly why the PM is beating himself up to say that we will meet the requirements. But the demands are not the challenge. The challenge is that the requirements will be made, for then it is suddenly a business, where the UNITED states can change the conditions for when they want to help. It is partly the fault of the small countries themselves, we can only live up to our part of the agreement.”

Regarding the role of China there was in Chefen for Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste: "Jeg vil gerne have os væk fra at blive set som det mørkeste sted i staten" an interview with Lars Findsen who is chief of the Intelligence Service of the Danish Defense Forces. When he in the next passage is translated and uses the expression "Unity of the Realm" he refers to Denmark, Faroe Island and Greenland.

”The Chinese have come up with a plan of how they will be world leaders by the time the people's Republic reaches the age of 100 in 2049. This applies in technological, economic, military, cultural and value terms. Some of it, at least in terms of value is worrying, is that we begin to see system export of the Chinese model to other countries, including on the African continent, with a fierce control of its own people and the totalitarian features in the application of technological monitoring instruments. In a broader context, we see a China that, with investments, takes over or tries to take over global infrastructure. If we look at Greenland, China is showing interest in investment in resources, mining and research. And here it is vitally important that we in the Unity of the Realm are fully aware of a country like China's more long-term agenda, and China have long-term agendas in a completely different scale than we are used to here in the west.”

Interestingly, Sweden like some of its neighbours do not seem to have a long term agenda that is backed up with coherent action. The latest attempt seems to be around fighting CO2, but that is a very poor plan. It is as a situation of chaos is being created where the Chinese model of "fierce control of its own people and the totalitarian features in the application of technological monitoring instruments" is a possible outcome if the Swedish State is to survive in the long run. Besides China, he mentions Russia, cyber attacks as threats. And under Terror he says:

"Although the Islamic State has suffered a great loss, we cannot write down the terrorist threat. The conditions of failed states (states that have collapsed and cannot protect their people or their borders, red.), millions of young people without work and hope, and an anti-western agenda in the radicalised islamist environments is still fully present.”

Terror is one thing, but the lower level crime and disruption is what affects most people.

 

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Besides China, he mentions Russia, cyber attacks as threats.
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Terror is one thing, but the lower level crime and disruption is what affects most people.

That is mainly what the press, the politicians and so on would like us to believe are the problems. But what else?

In Trump orders assassination of top Iranian General. There will be a response @goyacobol had found a quote from a Session with the Cassiopaeans. Following the quote and reading the whole session there was much that puts a perspective on what is going in in Scandinavia and beyond. Excerpts follow:

Session 14 April 2018

cassiopaea.org

A: Dionysius syndrome activated! Earth reacting! All on track!

Q: (Pierre) Dionysus is usually about hedonism, isn't it?

(L) Not exactly, it was about frenzied... just chaos. Chaos!

(Pierre) About parties, orgies, and pleasure?

(L) No. It was about death and destruction and even cannibalism. They would find a victim and cut him in pieces and eat him! Ok, so I suppose that you are specifically referring to the political behavior of the US, the UK, and France and their attack on Syria?

A: Yes and so much more.

Q: (Pierre) Their first reply goes beyond the Syrian conflict. Like the whole human population is starting to embrace this syndrome.

(L) So, we need to explore the Dionysian thing a little more to have more understanding of what that could possibly mean. Of course, what's going on right now might put a different understanding on the ancient reports.

(Joe) I was going to ask how many of the USA's missiles were shot down in Syria?

A: 70 percent roughly.

Q: (L) So in other words, as some of these web sites have been suggesting, it was just much ado about nothing.

A: Fed the syndrome.

Q: (L) So there are people who revel in death and destruction?

A: Indeed.

Q: (Pierre) From what you describe in the Dionysus tradition, they were cutting a victim in pieces and eating him. But right now they're short of victims in Syria.

(L) I don't think that's... I was just giving you a brief, quick summary of what I knew from history. That's why I say that this may give it an all-new interpretation.

(Artemis) Well, hedonism and orgies is just a few steps before...

(L) It wasn't so much about hedonism. It was about...

(Joe) General mayhem.

(L) Yeah, it was about being driven crazy. It was madness.

(Andromeda) The Maenads...

(L) It was just MADNESS!

(Pierre) When did it reach its highest point?

(L) I dunno. It was still going on in ancient Rome. They passed laws against it.

(Pierre) But Ancient Rome around Julius Caesar's time, or later?

(L) Yeah, and I think even later. It may have even gone underground.

(Joe) It kind of erupted periodically.

(L) Yeah, it was a indulgence, going mad, chaos, death, destruction, mayhem...

(Artemis) Hedonism, and then the next step is going mad.

(Pierre) Maybe a question would be: Is the main cause for this rise in Dionysus Syndrome cosmic?

A: Partly. We told you that the STS forces [Gauss meters squeals when spelling out "forces"] would become desperate as the change approaches. Consider the madness of the so-called "liberal" faction in the USA and elsewhere.

Q: (Andromeda) So that's an example of the Dionysus Syndrome.

(L) Oh yeah, I mean think about it! I've seen some videos of those {liberal snowflakes} people acting freaking just absolutely NUTS!

(Artemis) It's their indulgence, bad habits, hedonism...

(L) "And don't say anything mean to me"...

(Artemis) And snowflakery, and, "don't judge me"...

(Joe) It's an entitlement syndrome where you feel in the moment that you're entitled to express it and get it and have those needs met. No restraint.

(Andromeda) Is that what you mean by the Dionysus Syndrome?

A: Close

(Pierre) About revolutionary movements: They seem to me to be some high points in the Dionysian cycle. French Revolution, Bolshevik Revolution, even the Nazis, or what we're experiencing right now. It seems to be always the same template: you have a bunch of pathological individuals that spread a simplistic ideology centered on entitlement and victimhood that ends up with the destruction of everybody who opposed the [Gauss meter squeals] simplistic destructive movements. Ultimately, that also means the destruction of men and women of conscience. So, my question is: Is the ultimate goal of revolutionary movements the destruction of souled beings?

A: Quite often. But avoidance is possible with knowledge.

Q: (Joe) They mentioned the last one there about [Gauss meter squeals] how the STS forces [Gauss meter squeals] would become desperate as the change approaches. Is there a kind of, "as above, so below" thing going on where the US and its allies are basically becoming desperate as a change in the global power structure approaches, and that's what's driving them insane?

A: Yes. We told you that balance was coming.

(L) I think they actually think they're going to have a war!

(Joe) Russia is too smart for them. They can have a World War III with nukes, and everyone is dead. But short of that, they're going to have to accept the new reality.

(Ark) They can have a war to destroy Iran.

(L) That's what Israel wants.

(Ark) That's what they're preparing for. That will be the next one.

(L) Didn't the C's say years ago that that was the ultimate objective?

(Joe) Well, Iran, Iraq, Libya...

(L) The ultimate objective was Iran, but it would result in the destruction of Israel.

(Joe) They may be trying to go in that direction, but it's very foolish.

(L) Is there anything... I guess it's a stupid question to ask, but: Is there anything that can stop this madness?

A: No there isn't nor would you want to stop it!

Q: (L) Why wouldn't I want to stop it?

A: Cleansing.

A: Genetics are about to be hot topics too!

Q: (L) Well, can I finish my question? Just...

A: Genes will (hesitates before selecting word) save for lack of a better term.

Q: (L) So you ARE telling us something... So, anyway...

(Artemis) Do you want to ask...

(Andromeda) They're trying to tell us something.

(Joe) I know what they're talking about: some kind of genetic warfare!

A: Yes

Q: (Artemis) Viral weapons! Resident Evil! Ooooh! I knew it!

(Joe) Are the Americans getting SO desperate that they're going to use some weapon that they developed after they collected those Russian genes last year?

A: Close

Q: (Joe) Something along those lines.

(Pierre) They say it will save, so it doesn't sound like the US will destroy Russians from their ethnic specific weapons. It sounds like it will backfire...

A: Yes. Big time!

Q: (Pierre) No way!

(Chu) So everybody's going to turn Russian!

(Artemis) We'll all speak Russian.

(Pierre) It sounds like they're developing an ethnic-specific weapon in haste which should not be used because...

(Joe) Maybe it's more along the lines of: Will they be caught trying to spread something along those lines?

(Chu) Wait and see.

A: More like finding out that your ancestors were not what you thought. No more on this. Wait and see!

(L) So that kind of goes to my question. Anyway, there's this battle between the Recent Out of Africa thing because of this mitochondrial Eve business...

A: False!

Q: (L) Meanwhile, there is this multiregional development with gene exchange going on at least to some extent between all different human groups that are developing in different regions. And what that means is that there can be a whole lot of things in a person's DNA that they don't know about or that they don't expect because genetic drift can send a false signal. And...

A: Exactly the problem. They believe the ROOA theory and structure their chemistry based on that. Big surprise coming.

Q: (L) Well, the thought that I had while I was reading all of this material, including the relationship between gibbons, apes, chimpanzees and orangutans, was that the original split between the monkeys and the first beings that were going to head off on the way to becoming human must have occurred in China. And then there was traveling. Am I onto something there?

A: Yes

 

[thorbiorn]

Nothing lasts for ever. In this time period where some Scandinavians assure us that human climate change is real they might be shocked to learn that Scandinavia like the rest of the World has not always looked the way it does today and judging by the map below, what is now southern Sweden used to be a peninsula of Central Europe around the time civilizations flourished in what is now Iran and Iraq. Ancylus Lake - Wikipedia has

Ancylus Lake is a name given by geologists to a large freshwater lake that existed in northern Europe approximately from 9500 to 8000 years B.P. being in effect one of various predecessors to the modern Baltic Sea.
[...]
Shorelines of Ancylus Lake can be found today at c. 60 m above sea level in southern Finland and at c. 200 m near the northern Gulf of Bothnia.[1]
[...]

[...]
Evolution of the Baltic Sea
Pleistocene
Eemian Sea (130,000–115,000 BP)
Ice sheets and seas (115,000–12,600 BP)

Holocene
Baltic Ice Lake (12,600–10,300 BP)
Yoldia Sea (10,300–9,500 BP)
Ancylus Lake (9,500–8,000 BP)
Mastogloia Sea (8,000–7,500 BP)
Littorina Sea (7,500–4,000 BP)
Modern Baltic Sea (4,000 BP–present)
[...]

The Russian Wiki is rather rich: Анциловое озеро — Википедия
See also: Baltic Ice Lake - Wikipedia which has

And:

In this winter picture of modern Scandinavia, taken in 2002, the snow line approximates the edge of the glacier c. 10,000 BP. The lake egressed across Sweden just south of the line, through Vänern, which is visible.

Perhaps that is how Scandinavia will look again.

 

[thorbiorn]

In Denmark there was one article:

Nye oplysninger: USAs likvidering af Soleimani var næppe lovligt selvforsvar

Læs mere her.

www.berlingske.dk

New information: Us liquidation of Soleimani was hardly legal self-defense.
Although both the United States and Iran 8. January reported their respective exercise of the right of self-defence to the UN Security Council, as provided for in Article 51 of the UN Charter, both states apparently violated international law.

That is as far as it goes, no wonder some may write a piece like this: What if Russia assassinated Ukrainian Nazi Yarosh like the US did to Soleimani? -- Sott.net

Another hypothetical scenario - the head of Quds Force (Iran's elite special tactical teams and intelligence operations unit that has been playing a key role in fighting the Islamic State and various Al Qaeda branches in the Middle East), Qasem Soleimani, one of the most influential and one of the most popular political figures in Iran, travels to Iraq where he is assassinated by a US drone strike. Later that day, Donald Trump openly boasts about killing him on Twitter (keep in mind that the US is not officially at war with Iran) and an American mainstream news outlet CNBC publishes an article with a headline like "The US took out World's Number One bad guy". Imagine the international reaction, imagine all the diplomatic outrage, imagine all the... oh, wait.



The, so-called, "international community" are just a bunch of US cock-suckers (sorry, the term "vassals" doesn't quite make it anymore).

Recently, the US State Secretary Mike Pompeo delivered a Goebbels-style speech about killing Soleimani in which he compared him to Osama bin Laden and stated that the US implemented a new round of sanctions against Iran because they want Iran to "behave like a normal nation". "Just be like Norway, okay?" - said Pompeo.

Imagine how much Iran, along with countless other countries and individuals, want the United States to behave not like an "exceptional nation", but as a normal nation. Just be like Norway, okay?

In Sweden there was: Vetting fail: 'Fake officer' lied his way into Swedish military intel & NATO, hid forged credentials for decade -- Sott.net On the other hand this is probably just the tip of the iceberg:

Rekordmånga anmälningar mot falska examensbevis - Nyheter (Ekot)

Antalet polisanmälningar mot personer med förfalskade utbildningsdokument har ökat kraftigt de senaste åren. På det så kallade Dark web hittar Ekot flera ...

sverigesradio.se

 

[PopHistorian]

Norway's governing coalition collapses over ISIS repatriation | CNN

Norway's ruling coalition has disbanded after the populist Progress Party (FRP) left the government, partly due to the repatriation of a mother with suspected ISIS links from Syria.

www.cnn.com

 

[Aeneas]

The push by some powerful forces to convert Sweden continues it seems. Is Sweden just a test case?

Outrage as Swedish Elle Picks Hijabi-Clad Influencer as 'Look of the Year'

The winner, Imane Asry, a student of economics, suggested that the time was ripe to normalise the hijab in the fashion industry, which she called “superficial and homogeneous”.

sputniknews.com

Outrage as Swedish Elle Picks Hijabi-Clad Influencer as 'Look of the Year'
08:54 22.01.2020Get short URL

The winner, Imane Asry, a student of economics, suggested that the time was ripe to normalise the hijab in the fashion industry, which she called “superficial and homogeneous”.
During the Elle gala in Sweden, influencer Imane Asry, a popular hijabi blogger was picked for the “Look of the Year” award, in collaboration with L´Oréal Paris.
Asry is an influencer with over 150,000 followers on her Instagram page Fashion with Faith, who earlier described herself as “Muslim fashion-crazy girl”. She received the award from last year's winner Linnea Henriksson.
“This prize, it is for all of us who did not see ourselves in the fashion magazines, because we did not fit in. And with that said, I want to say: We can too”, Asry commented on her victory.

“I was absolutely convinced that someone who looked like me could not win such an award. In addition, being a visible Muslim woman with an influence in fashion Sweden feels almost unreal! It makes me so happy to see such changes in an otherwise very superficial and homogeneous industry.”

Asry, a student of economics, was voted by Elle's readers and followers. She described her style as “modest fashion” and a way of meeting spiritual and stylistic requirements.

“I think my style reaches out and inspires so many, not just Muslim women. Also, many people can identify with my work. This is a confirmation that the time is more than ripe for us to start normalising the hijab in the fashion industry. Fashion is for everyone,” Asry concluded.

However, the nomination ruffled a lot of feathers among the Swedish public, where many thought Elle was indirectly supporting the oppression of women.
Writer and columnist Ann Heberlein likened Elle to the Scripture for fashion enthusiasts around the world, which is why its stance matters.
“What is the message Elle wants to communicate by letting 'modest fashion' win the Look of the Year anno 2020? Well, that women should cover their bodies, take responsibility for the man's sexuality by not tempting him, being modest and humble. Don't take too much space, don't be too visible, don't provoke. I think it is a sad message to communicate to women,” Heberlein, who holds a doctorate in ethics, suggested in her opinion piece in Nyheter Idag.
Others didn't stop there. Writer and journalist Katerina Janouch raged against the choice of nominee as oppressive.

“Every free woman should stand up and demand that the 'Look of the Year' award be given to someone else than Islamist Imane Asry. Otherwise, it seems Elle has taken a stance – FOR women's oppression, against women's freedom”, Janouch tweeted.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1219256978200985602

“Of course, a garment designed to maintain women's chastity, ethnocultural segregation and endogamy should be hailed by a bunch of Swedish progressive upper middle class liberals”, Moderate Party MP Hanif Bali tweeted. “Now I was a bit generous with the imagery. That's how Elle itself pictured it. Even the ayatollahs have more relaxed hijab requirements than this ultra-orthodoxy. This is stricter hijabism than what you find on the streets of Tehran”, Bali added.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1218336582534664194

“'Look of the year'. This encourages women's oppression. Total failure, outrageous”, blogger Micke69 tweeted.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1219311690640175104

The number of Muslims in Sweden has soared in recent decades, from merely about 500 Muslims in 1950s to over 800,000, or amounting to 8.1 percent of the population today, according to Pew Research Centre. In recent years, there has been an ongoing debate on the role of Islam in Swedish society.

 

[thorbiorn]

There is much trickery going on to enforce control; the few hints being published by the MSM, at least were I am in Southern Scandinavia, is often just the top of the iceberg.

A couple of days ago I posted in the Corona thread about the developments in Denmark with regard to the handling of Covid19. At the end of writing, I found a FB post that added details to the story of cooperation between state and cooperate power behind the backs of those who are told they live in a democracy. The long post uses a FB post style, with emotion icons in plenty, but has added references and links to sources, which puts it one level above the usual journalistic article. While the content has a local character, if one takes it as a case study it might inform what to look out for in other areas and countries where the State has in important role in the health service. And if not the state then the health insurance companies.

Below is the text by Robert Hinze translated using Google from the FB post. Bold added to make it easier to get some of the main points. What shines through is the indignation at finding the reality of "democracy" to be different than usually assumed, taught or expected.

COMPLETELY INCREDIBLE DISCLOSURE OF THE STATE!


The state has long had concrete plans to steal the Danes' DNA through a decided 'National DNA coup' as we see it play out in the corona test tents. The purpose is many, including the sale of all Danes' DNA to the pharmaceutical industry and China.

The requirements have changed for the test, for example one can now see a dentist without having a test done first, there is also mounting opposition to the storing and use.

Theft has already occurred on several 'smaller' occasions and the Danes are not asked before their DNA and health data are collected in registers and sold to the highest bidder.

It sounds like a sick Big Brother shuddering from steroids, but those are the icy facts!

It now appears that the state has invested heavily in the sale of DNA focusing on gross domestic product, savings and medical trials on humans. As a citizen, one stands back and asks: Where does the patient perspective, legal certainty and respect for the individual and private life come from?

Commercial growth dreams and the prospect of financial gains are the focal point of the state's plans for utilizing Danes digital health data and the mapping of Danes DNA profiles in a National Genome Center. It is estimated that Denmark has invested more than DKK 500 million [67 million Euro] in recent years, in research infrastructure with relevance for personal medicine, on biobanks, DNA sequencing machines and supercomputers (See source 7).

Investment of this size does not happen without expectation of return.
In the spring of 2017, the so-called Growth Team, where 7 out of 11 members were from the pharmaceutical industry, handed 17 advice to the government on how the use of Danes' health data and DNA can best ensure financial return, among other things, by attracting pharmaceutical companies to make their medical tests on People in Denmark. (See clip 5). Such draconian suggestions you would think our dear politicians would never let go of earth, but alas.

Targeted law changes
Over the past few years, the state has made targeted legislative changes that make it possible to use the Danes' health data for a wide range of purposes, which the individual citizen and patient neither know nor can tell from.

A new data protection law (see bridle 2), which should have increased the rights of individual citizens and control over their own health data, is criticized by leading lawyers (see bridle 10) for doing exactly the opposite.

The Data Protection Act is criticized for impairing (see bridle 15) the privacy of citizens by strengthening public authorities 'opportunities for covert analysis, profiling and exploitation of citizens' sensitive personal data. A very central part of the new Data Protection Act is that in the future, the state must be able to move data from one ministry to another - without citizens being informed and without the need for data supervision. It opens up a host of other and uncanny opportunities.

The last shot on the trunk is a change to the Health Act, which is currently being processed in Christiansborg. The bill allows the Danes' DNA data to be collected in a central register and here enriched with data (see source 1) from the numerous Danish registers.

No dictator or regime in world history would have had the imagination to imagine a larger buffet table than the one the Danish state is in the process of.

Publicly, the purpose of the so-called National Genome Center is uniquely presented as an opportunity to research personal medicine (see bridle 16) and thereby the use of DNA information in patient care. But the purpose is by no means limited to this and it is noteworthy that personal medicine is not mentioned once in the legal text.

The bill mentions, for example. Management of medical and health services, prevention and research in general. This all sounds immediately forgettable, but what do the aforementioned purposes really mean, and what are the plans that have been purposefully prepared with the legislative changes?

The Danish health records
For many years, Denmark has systematically collected almost everything that is known about the individual citizen in digital registers. Each time you are in contact with the health service, most of the medical record is copied and transferred to another register.
As a citizen, you are not informed, nor are you asked for permission, and few people know that this data is available on a CPR level for a wide range of purposes on a daily basis.

The Danish rules for the use of data in personal and health registries are today - among other things due to the targeted legislative changes - among the most convenient in the world (see source 17). It now turns out that the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has for several years marketed the easy and fast access to the diverse health records of the pharmaceutical industry abroad. (See source 18) Have you heard ever of such a grotesque privacy violation ?? I have not!!

Some call the union of cooperate and state interests for fascism.

Research in health registries can search for new contexts on an overall anonymous level, as we know it from Statistics Denmark.

But research can also bring together a wealth of information about each citizen to create accurate, detailed and highly personal profiles of everything from inquiries, diagnoses, medication consumption and health habits and then combine it with income, sickness benefit, educational level, family status and much more. At the individual level.

These profiles have a HUGE potential for control, control and commercial exploitation of the individual.

When research and prevention flow together
As a general rule, research must be driven by a desire to do good for patients. But the term research today covers many things that are not necessarily driven by the prospect of better patient care.

For example, the state has a responsibility and interest in being able to monitor the development of disease patterns in order to plan and prioritize the consumption of health care and prevent disease development at the community level. Preventive disease control has so far been based on general population-level statistics to support the knowledge underlying an overall health policy.

However, a wild twist is happening. Prevention is increasingly directed at the individual in these years. The state must not intervene regulatively against the individual citizen, it is prohibited. But through research (see source 19) you can still make individual profiles on the individual citizen. In this way, it is most often the research purpose that opens the doors to the Danes' register information, and thus makes it possible to interconnect and extract data at the individual level without consent. Smart isn't it!?

Several such large individualized prevention projects are currently being run for full blowout without the consent of the citizens involved. For example, in the study 'Cross tracks' (see source 8), personal register information about the approx. 170,000 adult citizens living in Horsens, Skanderborg, Hedensted and Odder municipalities.

It was recently revealed (see source 9) that the Ministry of Education has collected so-called well-being studies in primary schools, under the guise of anonymity. Data is about well-being and bullying and it appears to have been stored under the Ministry of Education forever and fully cpr number attributable.

For example, preventive efforts may be directed to the 'system' delivering better patient care. But one also has a vision that data can predict a citizen's risk of being included in the health care system, thereby becoming a citizen who draws heavily on healthcare.

For example, we can already predict high risk of blood clots in patients with risk disease and risk behavior. The new thing is that the system can alert inappropriate behavior and then seek out the citizen to 'help' correct health behaviors and give them a push in the 'right' direction so that, perhaps, society can save on many expensive health services and admissions.

After all, if not a 'push' helper can always do the job.
It should be obvious that not all citizens necessarily find it reasonable that the public has found a way to gather all this detailed information. But they get no choice! For when it is research, they do not need to be asked.

Had the region had to do this interconnection, citizen division and profiling as part of the normal health policy service and prevention, it would not have been allowed.

That's why politicians have found this smart 'research hole' to fall on the back of the public handing out all their data and meeting their real bosses in the Cabal-controlled pharmaceutical industry, which is part of the multi-headed NWO dragon.

In China, a similar but far-reaching system for dividing citizens' so-called social credit has been called an 'IT dictatorship' by Politiken. (See source 10)

It is not unusual for Danish medias to not report about the abuses in other places why not having time to issues within to the extend that it will make a difference.

In Denmark, they also want to move on, because the researchers and regions that have financed “Cross Tracks” want access to the Danes' DNA data (see bridle 11) in order to make the profile of the citizen even more accurate.

However, it is far from certain that the individual Dane thinks it is fair to be divided into expensive and cheap citizens of society in order to get the push in the 'right' direction and to allow genetic probabilities to decide on treatment options without being able to say. Ultimately, one can imagine that municipalities and regions begin to regulate in which citizens it is worth 'betting'.

The NEXT partnership is big business, big pharma and human trials
Research is also about the trials of people in the pharmaceutical industry. Development of new drugs and treatment methods is today 'big business'.

In Denmark, we benefit from a thriving pharmaceutical industry with Novo and Lundbeck at the forefront. Due to their gigantic earnings, they have great political influence. The pharmaceutical and research industries need profiled information so that they can quickly select subjects. This is where the Danish registers come in.

Since 2014, the state innovation fund has pumped over $ 100 million [13.4 million Euro] into a new public-private partnership between the country's regions, hospitals, universities and the pharmaceutical industry, which has itself sputtered nearly $ 300 million in construction.

The purpose is to make Denmark the preferred country in the world for the early trials of new drugs that have not yet been approved as pharmaceuticals by the pharmaceutical industry. The hope is to attract foreign pharmaceutical companies to Denmark to try new medicines on people. The partnership is called NEXT. (See source 12)

When trying to invent new drugs, the drug must first undergo a series of tests before it can end up on the market as an approved drug. First, a large number of experiments have to be done on animals and then on humans, where in several single phases the side effects, dose, effects and more are investigated.

We need to be sure that the drugs are safe and have a measurable beneficial effect that exceeds disadvantages before they can be marketed.

The earliest and most dangerous phase 1 trials are the so-called 'first in human' trials. They cover trials where, after animal testing, a new drug is introduced for the first time in humans, in small trials to investigate the safety of a new drug. “Proof of safety,” it is called.

In all phase 1 trials, there is a high risk of side effects including even very dangerous side effects. Unfortunately, deaths in 'first in human' trials are also seen periodically. These trials are typically made on very healthy volunteers who are compensated for risk and disadvantage, but also on incurably ill patients with, for example, cancer.

It is expensive for the industry to have to go through all phases of drug approval. If you can accelerate the process there is a lot of money and time to save. It could be to test drugs directly on the patient group for which you want to produce medicine. This can be done if you can easily and quickly match new personal test medicine with potential Danish test subjects with the right DNA profile in the National Genome Center. Bingo!

The chance of new drugs reaching through all phases of testing and ending up being approved as a drug is very small. Only about 10% end up as approved drugs on the market. An even lower figure for cancer test substances, where less than 5% (see look 20) of the drugs end up as approved active drugs.

Therefore, the risk that no effect will be experienced in early phase 1 trials of test drugs for cancer is over 95%, while the risk of serious side effects is real.

Through the NEXT partnership, the state has given the pharmaceutical industry easy access to targeted recruitment of sick Danish patients, among other things by means of Danish registries and an effortless and optimized treatment of 'legal and regulatory' processes and approvals. The concept is called 'one-stop-shop'. The goal is to quadruple the amount the pharmaceutical industry invests in early trials for Danish patients. In this way, NEXT acts as a link for the pharmaceutical industry directly into the Danish patient registries. (See source 13) Data interconnection provides the opportunity to accurately identify the type of patient the industry wants to try. NEXT is thus a kind of state straw company that disseminates the use of Danes' health data to the pharmaceutical industry, without the consent of the patients.

Can the state make money at a genome center?
100 million DKK 1[3 million Euro] has been allocated to the Finance Act 2017 for the following four years for the establishment of the National Genome Center and the mentioned investment for the commercial link to the Danish test patients - namely NEXT.

Of course, such a massive investment does not happen without the State having assessed what the return will be. It is believed that it will create great growth to make Danes available in this experimental laboratory (see source 6).

Instead, test patients have been interviewed who can tell how happy and grateful they are for the extra loving attention they get when they make themselves available for human trials.

On the other hand, it is not mentioned that patients, by entering as subjects, are at risk.
The state, on the other hand, runs almost no risk by investing and investing in the commercialization of patients.

Danish patients do not know that they are a commodity. They usually hope for healing or feel that by participating in drug trials they are doing a good deed for science and the patients of the future. The question is whether just as many subjects would join if it were to do a good job for the future of the economy and the profits of the pharmaceutical industry.

DNA records and research
The state currently holds $ 24.5 million. 5.7 million tissue samples Danes. They may have been removed by ordinary procedures at the doctor, where a cell test, a blood test or a mother mark have been performed. It may also be the saved heel-blood tests that all infants get taken at birth. The heel samples have been stored since 1981. The heel samples can be DNA read. This has already been demonstrated (see source 14).

The Danish health records have found patients with diagnoses such as ADHD, schizophrenia, anorexia, manic depression and found their old heel tests. These patients have subsequently had their DNA mapped to uncover inheritance for mental illnesses. In this way, heel samples from random Danes have also been DNA mapped. In total, 80,000 Danes born between 1981 and 2005 have had their DNA mapped, after which DNA data have been linked to health records and other data on eg social benefits and socio-economic data. All this happened without informing and asking participants about the law. (See source 13)

About heel samples see also. Neonatal heel prick - Wikipedia

With the new legislation, DNA profiles such as these could be transferred to a National Genome Center and be included as active in the commercial profiling.

Denmark is moving away from democratic principles
The link between utilization of Danes' health data, DNA and the possibility of financial gain through human trials and savings in healthcare is a politically sore toe. (Mildly spoken)

Political fear of the indignation of citizens, and the anxiety of scientists and universities for their grants lead to denial. When it comes to utilizing Danes 'personal digital health information and DNA, we just don't get over that even when we disregard The New World Order, the dream of economic growth and public savings is a key focal point of plans to use Danes' health data.

In countries we prefer to compare with, that time is over, where citizens can be deprived of basic rights in the form of co-determination, transparency and control over something as sensitive as their own health data.

In some other places this control which in Denmark is associated with the state might be with the health insurance companies. With privatizing this may eventually also happen in Denmark.

In the United States, Norway and England, patients after battle and democratic discussion have been given the right to decide whether their mapped DNA enriched with other registry data should be placed in national genome centers and used for various purposes including the multifaceted 'research purpose'. The Danes are not offered this right. In Denmark, we are instead focused on removing rights regarding privacy and transparency in what is going on!

Is there a focus on removing rights or does it just happen? There are actually several examples of reduced openness as if the solution to corruption or dubious administration is update the system to hide it better. For instance this case about pollution at a cobber mine in Armenia. What seems to be happening is that the widening gap between proclaimed ideals and practical politics is being covered up.

They play on exploiting the trust we have in each other in Denmark and on only mentioning the 'good sides' of research and not the potential for exploitation. Research is thus used as an excuse for the removal of rights and for the use of data for a number of purposes the few associate with research. In Denmark, people are moving in the opposite direction to what the new EU personal data regulation otherwise proposes. It is here stated that the individual citizen has full control over the use of their own health data.

We cannot continue to maintain the state monopoly on the utilization of Danes' health data without self-determination, when it is increasingly aimed at commercial exploitation and growth, governance and control and other countries are going in the opposite direction. Lack of consent is a bomb under the confidence in the Danish health care system, the politicians and the state as a whole.

It is time that we as citizens take a serious look at our social model and the people who are at the top, because if there is something the corona crisis has made undeniably clear, then it is that there is another trail behind the facade where the elite and the state has its very own and largely hidden agenda and where the citizen is a product that serves the interests of the state and the elite.

This has been going on for years and unfortunately no one can save us from this situation than ourselves. The state and the elite live high on the fact that the private citizen trusts the system and refuses to look the devil in the eye, but hopes that there are some others who will fix the problem. There is not - there is only you and me.

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In the first part of the 20th century there was a Danish painter, philosopher, economic thinker, and author, Johannes Hohlenberg. A few of his letters have been published in a book with comments. The book description ends with: "Because one attaches all sovereignty in society to the state, Hohlenberg said, it was on the road toward a totalitarian democracy." This was written in the 1930s. If Hohlenberg had been alive today, he would probably not have hesitated to say that the the road toward a totalitarian democracy has ended.

 

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There were a couple of bits, published on the same day in the same paper, that might illustrate how Denmark participates in the Western realm with the US leading. One is about a secret agreement from 1995 that allows the US to tap Danish communication cables, and the other is about a Dane who was sentenced in a Spanish court for being a terrorist and a member of ISIS, but who was in fact a Danish Intelligence Asset. This post is for the sake of the record, and there is nothing really surprising as such.

Terrordømt dansk agent er på vej hjem

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A safe at Kastellet has for decades stored on a deeply confidential document. Now the secret is broken
In a safe deposit box at the Danish Defence Intelligence Agency at Kastellet in Copenhagen lies the only copy of the agreement between the United States and Denmark that allows us access to tap Danish cables. And the only copy of the piece of paper where changing defense ministers are asked to sign that they know the secret. For 25 years it has managed to keep close – but then Trine Bramsen (S) would clean up.

Terrordømt dansk agent er på vej hjem

Terrorist-condemned Danish agent is on his way home
Danish Ahmed Samsam traveled several times between 2012-2015 to the Civil War in Syria as an agent for Danish intelligence services, but was subsequently arrested in Spain and, according to Berlingnes information, wrongly convicted of joining the Terrorist Movement Islamic State on the same travels. After three years in a Spanish prison, he's on his way home. The 30-year-old Danish agent for PET and FE, Ahmed Samsam, who has been imprisoned in Spain since 2017, is finally on his way home to Denmark.

A court in the Spanish capital Madrid has on Wednesday approved that the 30-year-old can be transferred to Denmark as soon as possible. The transfer must now also be officially approved in Copenhagen City Court, after which the transfer can see.

"Finally, something is happening, and this is very positive. For he has nothing to do in a Spanish prison," says Thomas boards, attorney for the 30-year-old Samsam.

Since early summer, the Danish authorities have been in dialogue with the Spanish authorities about a transfer – and have pressed hard to make the transfer happen. The case has been particularly complicated due to the fact that large parts of the Spanish justice system have been in lockdown due to the Corona situation, but the hope is that transfer "can finally happen", sources with insight into the case say to Berlingske.

The transfer is a delicate maneuver. The Danish authorities have not officially admitted to the civil, Spanish authorities – the court system, the justice authorities and the National Police – at any time that Samsam was a Danish agent – only the Spanish intelligence service CNI, which was informed at several meetings with PET and FE in the summer of 2018, knows the proper context of the case. This also means that Samsam is not officially released when he arrives in Denmark, but must continue his service in Denmark "until further notice". The entire transfer is based on an agreement with the Spanish authorities that the judgment given to Samsam in Spain in 2018 – eight years for terrorism-is "valid", that is to say that it has legal effect in Denmark and that the judgment must therefore be served.

According to sources, "in the current situation there is no other way" than to play this play – Ahmed Samsam has been convicted of a normal judicial process in an EU country, and if he is to be completely acquitted, it requires a new, lengthy-and public – judicial process in Spain, in which the Danish authorities must officially and openly acknowledge that Samsam was an agent. It's unthinkable. The case is also embarrassing for Denmark and a fist in the Danish-Spanish relationship in the Justice area, because Denmark – despite a number of obvious possibilities – did not immediately after SamSam's arrest get the Spanish authorities informed of the proper context of the case and the man brought home.

On the question of whether it is reasonable that Samsam should officially continue his serving in Denmark, says his lawyer Thomas boards:

"No, it's not fair. But this is a big step in the right direction. That's all I have to add right now«

Ahmed Samsam was recruited as an agent by the Police Intelligence Service on the 19. december 2012, in 2013, was transferred to the Defense Intelligence Service, and was on several trips to Syria as an agent of the two services until the 28. October 2015, when Cooperation stopped when Samsam for the second time rejected a wish of the FE that he should travel to Syria and join the Islamic State.

In 2017 he was arrested during a holiday in Spain and in 2018 sentenced to eight years in prison for joining the terrorist organization Islamic State on just the trips to Syria he had made in Danish service. The evidence was, among other things, a series of" Warrior pictures", taken during SamSam's travels for PET and FE in Syria with jihadists, and two remittances totaling approx. 35,000 kroner that Samsam had received from PET and fairy. The Spanish authorities mistakenly believed that this was terrorist financing.

Late summer 2012

Ahmed Samsam decides to go to Syria to fight in the civil war against President Bashar al-Assad. He joins the militia Kata'ib al Iman, the Brigade of the faith in Danish, which, according to an expert, is a salafistic (conservative, Sunni Muslim faith) but far from both Islamic State and al-Qaeda. During his first tour in Syria, Ahmed Samsam openly talks about the matches in an interview with DRs Puk Damsgaard.

December 2012

Ahmed Samsam is serving a rest sentence of 30 days in prison in Kalundborg. Here he is contacted by two employees of the Police Intelligence Service (PET), who recruit him to work for the service as an informant in Syria for a fee.

February 2013

Ahmed Samsam again travels to the war in Syria, but this time the journey and stay are funded by the intelligence service.

November 2013

Ahmed Samsam is being handed over from PET to the Defense Intelligence Service (FE), which has better opportunities to lead agents abroad.

Spring 2014

Ahmed Samsam drives to Syria in a four-wheel drive with a caravan packed with military equipment on the back, all paid for by FE.

October 2015

Ahmed Samsam is back in Denmark, and FE asks him to travel to Syria again, this time to join the Terrorist Movement Islamic State. He refuses, bl.a. because he estimates that it will be too risky. Ahmed SamSam's work for the Danish intelligence service stops here.

14. June 2017

Ahmed Samsam travels to Spain, partly on vacation and partly on the run from criminal groups in Copenhagen.

30. June 2017

Ahmed Samsam and four other Danes are arrested in Estépona on The Sun Coast. The other four will be released. On Ahmed's phone, Spanish authorities find imagery, which places him in Syria with weapons in his hands. Among the material are also violent images from the battlefield, which Ahmed Samsam has either looked at or downloaded.

July 2018

Ahmed Samsam is sentenced in Spain to eight years in prison for joining the Islamic State.

 

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Today there was
Sensational report sends a clear signal: NATO does not trust Denmark enough to send reinforcements if we get in trouble

I don't know what to make of it, might it be related to Sweden:

Session 10 October 2020

Session Date: October 10th 2020 Laura, Andromeda, and Artemis at the board Pierre, Joe, Chu, Ark, PoB, Scottie, Niall, Noko the Wonderdog, the Lunar Module, Princess Leia Q: (L) Alright... A: Hello children of Cassiopaea. Q: (L) And who do we have with us this evening? A: Nighhillaea of...

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(Joe) Why did Sweden not act in lockstep with pretty much everyone else in terms of lockdown and the fear mongering and controls? Why did they get a pass? Why were they ABLE to not follow the mandate?

A: Just wait!

Q: (Joe) Really?!

If one makes a search on Sweden in the above thread there are more opinions. Denmark has followed but also dragged its feet sometimes.

Or is it just that Denmark now is too much of a Eurasian strategic asset to be worth the risk of the NATO military forces to fight over it? Or is the "lack of trustworthiness" an indication it might be allowed to float away in an approaching collapse of the economy? Or is it an attempt to milk more money from the people to increase the military spendings to prove the "trustworthiness"? Or was it because Denmark did not readily sell Greenland to the US? Or is it not really Greenland or Denmark, but a message to the Baltic states, because if Denmark is not worth fighting over, then the Baltic ports in Poland, Germany, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia are hanging in a line too.

The above are simply speculations. Feel free to make your own.

 

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Two crane ships early on Tuesday began raising a submerged Norwegian navy frigate which collided with an oil tanker in November and has remained stranded off Norway's west coast since, the armed forces said.

February 26, 2019 - Crane ships begin raising Norwegian Navy ship damaged by oil tanker

The above post seems to be the last one concerning the Helge Ingstad frigate accident, so since the 2nd investigation report was just released, I thought it may be worth to be documented here.


Crew could have saved their frigate
21/04/2021

Crew could have saved their frigate

Norway’s accident investigations commission has determined that the crew of the doomed frigate KNM Helge Ingstad failed to close doors and hatches when they abandoned ship after colliding with a tanker in November 2018. A full shutdown, claims the commission, could have kept the frigate from becoming a total loss if the crew had been better trained.

The Norwegian Navy was under harsh criticism once again on Wednesday, when the commission (Havari-kommisjonen) delivered its second report on the collision. It has turned into a costly embarrassment that could have been avoided, according to the commission.

“If the crew had been better trained, they would have had a better understanding of how to save the ship,” claimed Dag Liseth of the commission’s maritime division. The report itself notes that the Navy did not provide the crew with a “good enough understanding to be able to handle the scenario they found themselves in on the night of the accident.”

The commission has already delivered its first report on the loss of the NOK 5 billion frigate that cited a series of mistakes and misunderstandings on board the frigate before it crashed into a fully-laden oil tanker leaving Equinor’s Sture terminal northwest of Bergen. The first report also found fault, however, with those in charge of maritime traffic in the area at the time and with lighting on board the tanker, which the frigate’s crew mistook to be the refinery itself.

The new report covers what happened after the Helge Ingstad rammed into the tanker Sola TS in the Hjeltefjorden as it was sailing to its home port at the Norwegian naval base Haakonsvern in Bergen after taking part in NATO’s largest exercise in Norway ever. Norway’s defense ministry and Naval officials themselves have praised the captain and crew for evacuating the vessel safely with no loss of life and only few minor injuries.

Now the commission concludes that its “most serious” findings are linked to a lack of training and instruction “at a higher level” than the crew on board Helge Ingstad had. Liseth blames the Navy and defense command for that.

“We’re talking about a military vessel that’s meant to tolerate a gash in its hull and damage from water pouring in,” Liseth said. “We must be able to expect that such a ship can be damaged but still function in a war operation.”

Instead it was evacuated with doors and hatches left open. “The crew viewed the water flowing in as so extensive that the vessel would be lost anyway,” the report stated, and an evacuation order had been issued. “Our assessment shows that a shutdown could have hindered the capsizing,” the commission claimed.

When the vessel grounded shortly after the collision, even more water flowed in. That could have further raised already high stress levels among officers and crew on board.

“I won’t say that the frigate should have been saved,” Liseth told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK), rather that it could have been. He also noted that “it’s natural” that the crew, given the circumstances they were under, “chose to abandon ship.”

‘Important report’ and an expensive lesson

The collision also cut all electricity on board. The crew on the bridge believed they’d lost control over the vessel and it grounded just 10 minutes later. It took around a hour more to get all 137 people on board off the vessel. Both the commission and the defense department’s own investigation have concluded, however, that it remained theoretically possible to operate its machinery.

That can also reflect a lack of adequate training. “They didn’t understand that various systems were still functioning,” said Kristian Haugnes of the commission. The collision was strong, though, and the crew on the bridge didn’t know whether anyone below deck had been been killed. In the end, the once-proud frigate began to sink where it lay.

Naval officials claimed on Wednesday that the new report from the commission will help strengthen safety at sea. “This is an important report,” Navy chief Rune Andersen told NRK. “The most important thing for us after this accident has been to gain experience and examine all sides of it. There’s a lot to learn here.”

It’s been an expensive lesson, not least from the taxpayers’ perspective and for NATO, after one of its member lost 20 percent of its frigate capacity. The Helge Ingstad, after being stripped of sensitive equipment, was recently towed to a scrapyard where it’s been torn apart, after less than a decade of service.

Few heads have rolled since, despite all the human error involved and rules that were broken. The admiral in charge of the has retired, but the head of the Navy itself now heads Norway’s military intelligence unit. The frigate’s captain has had his say. Defense Minister Frank Bakke-Jensen is also still in office.

The first report of November 2019 reported:
Many responsible for frigate fiasco

To read through the roughly 200-page report, click here (external link to the board’s website).

In summary, it was the actions and inaction of Norwegian naval personnel on the bridge of the frigate KNM Helge Ingstad that bore the brunt of the mistakes and “misinterpretations” that emerged during the accident investigation. Cooperation among those on the bridge at the time of the collision “did not function,” according to the report. Many of them were inexperienced, several were undergoing training that also apparently distracted the duty officer, and no one was paying attention to the radar. Among those being trained was an American naval officer, the investigators said, who had sailed with the frigate following a large NATO exercise that had just taken place in Norway.

The accident investigators strongly suggested that the Norwegian Navy “needs to reevaluate its training procedures,” which in this case was underway in darkness at 4am in busy shipping lanes near a major oil terminal. To make matters worse, neither the starboard nor port observation posts on the bridge were crewed at the time of the crash, which occurred during a duty change and just after two crew members had been allowed to take a meal break.

Perhaps the most serious criticism, however, was directed at how the frigate’s automatic identification system (AIS) was set in “passive mode,” meaning that the vessel was not transmitting any signals. That in turn meant that no other vessels in the area were fully aware that a warship was amongst them. That’s reportedly been part of Navy policy and practice for what was Norway’s already small fleet of just just five frigates (now reduced to four, since the Helge Ingstad sank after the collision). The frigates prefer to sail as secretly as possible even, in this case, at relatively high speed in busy merchant shipping lanes just outside Bergen. The accident investigators said they will issue a strong recommendation that the Navy re-evaluate its practice and sail with the frigates’ AIS turned on.

The investigators stated repeatedly that this all contributed towards the duty chief on the frigate’s bridge having a “situation understanding that was not correct.” By the time he realized the frigate was on a collision course with the tanker Sola TS, operated by the major Greek shipping company Tsakos, “it was too late,” they said.

The tanker, meanwhile, was sailing out of the oil terminal where it had just loaded an oil cargo with its deck lights on. That’s ordinary practice, the accident investigators noted, but in this case it confused those on the bridge of the frigate. They thought the tanker was a stationary object, not a full-loaded tanker heading straight for the frigate of which the tanker’s crew was unaware. The pilot on board the tanker, when he finally established communication with the frigate, “could have better identified the tanker,” and both the tanker’s operators and maritime authorities should reconsider use of deck lighting, the board noted.

... Summing up the situation on the bridge of the frigate, though, the investigators clearly noted that cooperation among those on the bridge of the frigate was not good enough, that no one on the bridge had a good situation understanding, and that too many on the bridge were inexperienced.

Maritime traffic controller forgot the frigate

Criticism was also directed at the local maritime traffic controllers at the Fedje Vessel Traffic Service (VTS). It had been notified by the frigate’s bridge team that the Helge Ingstad was entering the area, even though the team didn’t activate AIS. The tanker’s crew had also notified Fedje VTS of its departure from the terminal with a load of crude oil. The man on duty at Fedje VTS, however, had not followed the frigate’s passage south through the Hjeltefjord and allegedly forgot it was there. The accident investigators stated on Friday that he “did not give sufficient information” to the vessels and mistakenly thought the two vessels on a collision course would have enough time to swerve and avoid a crash. They did not.

Between those two investigation reports, in August 2020, Sputnik reported:

Frigate sank after rules were broken

Fully 53 of 88 applicable safety rules and “barriers” were broken before one of Norway’s five frigates collided with an oil tanker near its home port nearly two years ago. The Norwegian defense department’s own report also noted that the crew on the bridge of the KNM Helge Ingstad had little experience.

“Even though all technical navigational assistance was in working order and functioned, and all mandatory posts on the bridge were staffed,” reads the report released Tuesday, the tanker Sola TS was not identified in time as a vessel moving towards the frigate as it left a local refinery fully laden and bound for the UK.

Defense officials went through all 88 regulations meant to hinder such a collision, and concluded that 53 were broken. Details weren’t revealed, reportedly to shield those responsible. As in earlier investigations of the collision in the busy waters of the Hjeltefjorden northwest of Bergen, right near a large oil refinery, no single error was found that set off the collision but rather a long string of them.

There was also “too little experience and competence among the crew and weak coordination among them.” Even though the crew on the tanker sent out repeated warnings and frantically asked the frigate to turn, communication between the two vessels was described as “imprecise” and the frigate’s crew simply didn’t grasp the looming danger. The captain of the frigate was not on the bridge in the early morning hours when the collision occurred on November 8, 2018. The frigate later sank slowly after all crew and officers on board had to abandon ship.

 

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If Greenland has self rule under a European country, has Denmark self rule under a North American country?

Arrest of Surveillance Officers Shows Denmark Is US’s Lead Eye Into Spying on Other European Allies

Ron Ridenour

December 10, 2021
© Photo: Flickr/7th Army Training Command
Danish military intelligence has been systematically spying upon its own citizens for United States economic profit and political interests.

Two former or current secret surveillance officers for Denmark’s Military Intelligence Service (Forsvars Efterretningstjeneste FE) and two current or former Police Secret Service (Politiets Efterretningstjeneste PET) were arrested for leaking “deeply confidential information”. Three of them appeared before Copenhagen’s City Court yesterday. To fængslet i hemmeligt grundlovsforhør: Medarbejdere anholdt for lækager fra FE og PET | Indland | DR

The court forbad media coverage in court. The nine-hour indictment hearing was held behind double locked doors. Denmarks Radio (DR), the public service radio-television-online medium, learned only that three of the four were heard in court, one was released and two remanded in custody. There is no information about the fourth person arrested.

FE is the equivalent to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. While the FE jurisdiction also covers military intelligence, they must not spy on Danish people—only foreigners and those in other countries. The Police Intelligence Service (PET) surveils Danes, as the FBI surveils people within the U.S. The constitution forbids blanket spying on any Danish resident without court approval.

Trine Maria Ilsoee, DR legal reporter, wrote that there is “nearly no precedence” that there is an “internal investigation in PET and FE.” If found guilty they could end up in prison for 12 years. (1)

As of now, the public does not know what the leaking is about. Ilsoee mentions two possibilities. One of those is Denmark’s biggest spying scandal to date.

Last May, Denmarks Radio (DR) published information provided by at least one FE whistleblower exposing how Danish governments (right and so-called left) have been violating its own constitution by spying upon all its inhabitants and upon its closest neighbor leaders. Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste lod USA spionere mod Angela Merkel, franske, norske og svenske toppolitikere gennem danske internetkabler | Indland | DR (2) (See France and Germany ‘seeking full clarity’ from US and Denmark on spying report – CNN )
Ironically, it may be that the state prosecutor in the current case is contending that those charged have violated Denmark’s constitution by revealing secrets. This may well be associated with the US’s Espionage Act, and Britain’s Official Secrets Act.

FE has been illegally and systematically spying upon its own citizens for United States economic profit and political interests. This has nothing to do with spying upon their “enemies” (Russia, China, Iran, et al.).

Operation Dunhammer is the codename for a FE internal investigation of how the US’s National Security Agency (NSA) was sucking all surveillance out of its spy network with the Danish military secret service.

For several months DR has been working with journalists from Sweden (SVT), Norway, Germany (Süddeutsche Zeitung, NDR, WDR) and France (Le Monde) on these new developments. Their work forced some of 35 national leaders known to be spied upon by the U.S. to come forth.

“We demand to be fully informed about matters concerning Swedish citizens, companies and interests. And then we have to see how the answer sounds from the political side in Denmark,” Swedish Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist told national broadcaster SVT.
Norway, Sweden Demand Answers on Espionage After Report of Denmark Helping NSA Spy on EU Politicians – Sputnik International (sputniknews.com)
PM Emmanuel Macron said such behavior is “unacceptable among allies”.

Danish Defense Minister Trine Bramsen said the government “cannot and will not enter into speculation about intelligence matters”, yet she emphasized that she views the systematic wiretapping of close allies as “unacceptable”.

The information of long-standing illegalities, which the understaffed and weak Danish Intelligence Oversight Committee (TET) presented to the public last August, includes:

1. Withholding “key and crucial information to government authorities” and the oversight committee between 2014 and today;
2. Illegal activities even before 2014;
3. Telling “lies” to policy makers;
4. Illegal surveillance on Danish citizens, including a member of the oversight committee. (Some of this illegal spying had been shared with unnamed sources [perhaps the U.S.?]);
5. Unauthorized activities have been shelved and;
6. The FE failed to follow up on indications of espionage within areas of the Ministry of Defense.

When DR first exposed some of this spying, Defense Minister Bramsen suspended five FE leaders responsible. Under pressure from several political parties, and most likely the U.S., she reinstated them in different jobs.

Bramsen said that a secret internal investigation into the reports by TET would begin in December and last one year. Results will be shown only to a select few in government and to only five parliamentarians, who must not share information with anyone else.

What is to be and not be investigated will not be revealed either. That was made clear by the government to DR when it first published the whistleblower’s revelations. Reporter Trine Marie Ilsøee wrote:

“We cannot expect that most of the possible illegalities committed will be made public.” She added that Denmark’s intelligence services are connected to and dependent upon foreign powers [i.e. U.S. and not Europe]. Denmark could be compromised if secrets were revealed. “After all, intelligence services operate in secrecy.”

Edward Snowden first revealed some of this spying, XKEYSCORE, in 2013, which also involves spying within the “international community”. XKEYSCORE: NSA’s Google for the World’s Private Communications (theintercept.com) and Portrait of the NSA: no detail too small in quest for total surveillance | NSA | The Guardian.

Denmark is one of the US’s closest Eyes, part of “9 Eyes” (UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand—5 Eyes—plus the Netherlands, Norway and France, and “14 Eyes”, which includes Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Italy and Spain).

What is unravelling seems to show that Denmark is US’s lead Eye into spying on other European allies. The Nordic countries share the same original language and cultural roots, including having been the warring Vikings. Sweden and especially Norway were also under Danish colonial control for centuries. Outposts of the U.S. Surveillance Empire: Denmark and Beyond – CovertAction Magazine.

Notes
(1) FE Major Frank Grevil revealed in 2004 that Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen knew that Iraq did not have “massive weapons of destruction” when he convinced the parliament to declare war on that country. This was the first time Denmark had declared war since 1864 when it did so against Germany. Rasmussen was rewarded by being named head of NATO. Grevil went to prison for four months. This was Denmark’s Julian Assange case, albeit the Yankees and British aristocratic state seek Julian’s death.

(2) The headline reads in English: FE (Military Secret Service) let USA Spy against Angela Merkel, French, Norwegian and Swedish top politicians through Danish internet cables. (The US had helped provide the technology.)
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In the article in Covert Action Magazine, there are more examples of how the system works and why nothing is going to change.

 

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In the article in Covert Action Magazine, there are more examples of how the system works and why nothing is going to change.

Here are just two:

Outposts of the U.S. Surveillance Empire: Denmark and Beyond
By
Ron Ridenour
December 10, 2020
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Danish Defense Intelligence Service property collects massive data for the NSA. Sandagergaard, Amager Island, close to Copenhagen. [Source: computerworld.dk]

Data acquired by the NSA has been used to convince the Danish government to buy fighter jets from Lockheed-Martin.
Denmark’s military allows the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) to spy on the nation’s Finance Ministry, Foreign Ministry, private weapons company Terma,[1] the entire Danish population, and Denmark’s closest neighbors: Sweden, Norway, France, Germany and the Netherlands (NL).

Information that the NSA acquired, with the aid of Denmark’s Defense Intelligence Service (FE) under the command of the Defense Department, was used to convince the government to buy Lockheed-Martin’s Joint Strike Fighter F-35 capable of carrying nuclear weapons, albeit Denmark forbids the possession of nuclear weapons on its territory.[2]

Such favoritism for both the U.S. government and the country’s private weapons industry knocked out European competition from the Eurofighter GmbH Typhoon and Sweden’s Saab Gripen-fighter. Boeing’s Superhornet was also a competitor. [...]

And:

Denmark: Bernie Sanders’ Socialist Utopia Functions as Banana Spy Kingdom for U.S. Empire
By
Ron Ridenour
August 6, 2021
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Danish military base at Sandagergãrd on the island of Amager which granted access to the NSA as a data center. [Source: datacenterdynamics.com]
Denmark’s Social Democrat female leaders have followed their American counterparts in adopting a Russophobic discourse to justify the sell-out of their country
France and Germany’s demand last May for “full clarity” from the United States and Denmark concerning their spying upon its leaders fizzled out as Russophobia took preference during President Joe Biden’s recent European tour.

The same goes for Sweden and Norway among three dozen national leaders so infringed upon. [...]

How bad is the above in perspective? A few years ago, the Norwegians lost a ship:

The above post seems to be the last one concerning the Helge Ingstad frigate accident, so since the 2nd investigation report was just released, I thought it may be worth to be documented here.

One could ask if accepted corruption in Denmark leading to additional military expenses and the violation of the rights of people is more profitable or worse than loosing a ship in Norway due to human error? One could also ask if it more honorable? And to match the play of such questions regarding countries, the Danish NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen was replaced by Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg.

Looking up the latest notes from Jens Stoltenberg gave https://www(.)nato(.)int/cps/en/natohq/news_189092.htm

At the Riga Public Diplomacy Conference on Tuesday 30 November 2021, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg shared his ideas on NATO’s next Strategic Concept.

The new document, which NATO leaders will endorse at the Madrid Summit in June 2022, will set out how NATO will deal with a more unpredictable and competitive world. In his speech, Mr. Stoltenberg outlined five elements that should be at the heart of the next Strategic Concept:

• protecting our values,
• reinforcing our military power,
• strengthening our societies,
• taking a global outlook, and
• building NATO as the institutional link between Europe and North America. [...]

As we can read, the Danish spying scandals are right in line with the last point
"building NATO as the institutional link between Europe and North America."