All things Swedish...

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[Snusdog]

kind of says it all don't it

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I think the guy in the stripped shirt trying to cop a nip feel is Precious007

[whalen]

Ah.......precious! Thanks for the memories!

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Sweden welcomes UN vote denouncing Israeli settlements

The Swedish government has welcomed Friday’s UN resolution calling for Israel to end illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, with Foreign Minister Margot Wallström calling the decision “very positive”. […]
In a statement, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the resolution “shameful”.
Sweden is scheduled to join the security council for two years starting in January 2017, and will chair the council during that month. …

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Swedish judge refuses to deport teens who gang-raped child

A Swedish judge has refused a prosecutor’s request to deport five Afghan teenagers who forced a younger boy into a wood and then gang-raped and beat him at knife-point.
“Given their age and the security situation in Afghanistan, they would be hit very hard by the expulsion,” the judge said in his ruling.

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Sweden to focus on women and peace during UN Security Council presidency

Sweden’s presidency of the UN Security Council will focus on conflict prevention and the inclusion of women in peace processes, Foreign Minister Margot Wallström has revealed.
Writing in Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, Wallström highlighted three areas Sweden will tackle during its presidency of the Security Council through January 2017. It is the first month of a two-year term as part of the body, after being elected in June last year as a non-permanent member for the 2017-18 period. […]
Mali, Syria, Somalia, the DRC, Cyprus, Colombia and the peace process in the Middle East will all be discussed during the Swedish presidency. …

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Swedish fake fact-checker page pulled from Facebook

A Swedish fake fact-checking page reported on by Britain’s Guardian newspaper has been pulled from Facebook after a string of critical articles.
The Mediekollen page, which purported to be a fact-checking website but instead itself pushed propaganda and fake news, was removed from Facebook on Friday afternoon after Viralgranskaren, a fact-checking site run by Sweden’s Metro newspaper, contacted Facebook to complain and wrote an article on the site.
“We noticed that after we wrote the article, they wrote an article saying our article was fake,” Viralgranskaren’s Hugo Ewald told The Local. “I then posted some comments under that article, and five minutes later it was taken down.” …

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[Andy105]

Immigrant jobs in Gothenburg?
http://www.angeredskamelcenter.se/?lang=eng

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Immigrant jobs in Gothenburg?
http://www.angeredskamelcenter.se/?lang=eng

dam...........I'd walk a mile for a Camel.........




and you would too.

[Andy105]

Ha, yeah. My doctor always had a Camel hanging out of his mouth, when he was telling me how to be a healthy boy.

[Burnsey]

Ha, yeah. My doctor always had a Camel hanging out of his mouth, when he was telling me how to be a healthy boy.

Of course:

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A Swedish town could give employees paid time off to have sex

Sweden isn't just good at helping parents care for their babies, as demonstrated by its generous parental-leave policies.

A local Swedish official also wants to help people create those babies.
Per-Erik Muskos, a councilman from the small town of Övertorneå, has announced plans to give the municipality's 550 employees paid time off to have sex.
"There are studies that show sex is healthy," Muskos told AFP, adding that couples in Sweden weren't spending enough time together. "It's about having better relationships."
As in many developed countries, Sweden's fertility rate has been gradually falling for the past several decades. In 1960, according to World Bank data, Swedish women had an average of 2.2 children — a rate scholars call "replacement fertility," as it tends to keep the population steady. But by 2014 the rate had fallen to 1.9 children per woman.
Övertorneå's population has been dwindling for at least the past decade. Municipality data shows the population in 2005 was 5,229. Ten years later it was 4,711.
Muskos' plan for paid sex breaks, however, is really just a proposal to amend an existing work break given to employees for fitness and exercise. Employees already get one paid hour off each week to work out; Muskos is suggesting they should also be allowed to go home and have sex during that time. He said sex was often a form of exercise "and has documented positive effects on well-being," though employees could, of course, abuse the benefit and just work one hour less.
Sweden is no stranger to innovation at the workplace. For the past two years, a group of nursing homes ran an experiment involving shortened workweeks. Staff members had to log just 30 hours a week — an average of six hours a day. Though employees were happier, the government ultimately decided it was too expensive a change.
Then, of course, there's the parental leave. Sweden is far and away the most generous country when it comes to paid time off for new parents. A couple can split 480 days however they choose and receive 80% of their normal pay during that time. Ninety of those days are reserved just for fathers, and none of the time expires until the child turns 8.
Research into worker productivity suggests employees would be better off if more governments or companies took cues from Sweden. People with more time to spend with family tend to be happier and do better work.
As for Muskos' motion, he told AFP he saw no reason it wouldn't pass, except that officials may not place enough trust in the town's employees.
But even here, Sweden has statistics on its side: The country has some of the highest levels of trust in the world.

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Good Lord....sweden is turning into the usa, liberal-wise. Stay home from work or don't have a job at all and still get paid. While you are home go ahead and have some more babies that the government can take care of as well.

That's really sweet, until you realize that you have a real job and are one of the tax paying workers that have to pay for all this.

[Snusdog]

Wait......stay at home.....have sex....get paid for it.......didn't they used to have a name for that

Just throw in a video camera and now you are a movie star too