Norway: what else?
[ by Charles Cameron — ointment and fly, and how one thing leads to another ]
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Reading..
Not exactly trigger happy! Norwegian police fired just two shots last year, both harmless http://t.co/TdDDWfcmca pic.twitter.com/gBDm2uhgfd
— The Local Norway (@TheLocalNorway) July 7, 2015
and..
@rabiasquared Norway's biggest hotel owner Petter Stordalen has said his hotels will house 1000 refugees – for free. pic.twitter.com/vtcOmi25yW
— Stephan Hansen (@hansenstephan1) September 8, 2015
in rapid succession on my twitterfeed the other day, I’ve been thinking of my Norwegian friend, the artist Jan Valentin Saether..
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What else?
Ah yes, Anders Behring Breivik, the black dot in the white swoosh of the Tai-Chih symbol — and I’m beginning to get the impression the ripples are spreading:
The Guardian, Why are anti-immigration parties so strong in the Nordic states? August: Vocativ, E.U.’s Right-Wing Parties Surging Thanks To Migrant Crisis September: NY Times, Migrant Influx May Give Europe’s Far Right a Lift
Curious fact:
Even in 2011, the year of the Utøya terror attacks, the Norwegian police only fired one shot.
September 13th, 2015 at 3:31 pm
Syrian refugees take Artic route to Europe
http://www.wsj.com/articles/syrian-refugees-take-arctic-route-to-europe-1441273767
The ones who would be able to make this journey seem to have more financial resources than the masses taking the sea route.
September 14th, 2015 at 5:35 am
Why Are so Many Refugees Drowning?:
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Short form:
In his view, it’s all down to EU Directive 2001/51/EC, which makes airlines pay the full cost of repatriating those who are turned back by the countries they arrive in, although there is an explicit exemption in the case of regugees.