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Babylon
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 Posted - 21 Feb 2006 : 15:59:13
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I agree, there are huge class distinctions there. The poor people are really poor. It´s shocking to see how people can live in such poverty in a western country, there are whole families -children living on the streets or shelters!
In USA, if you don´t have the education or ambitions (or special talents) you wont go nowhere further. But the good thing is that you have the Chance to succeed a 100% if you use the right tools, here in Sweden it´s much harder to make it and even if you do make it, you will never get rich (the social democratic system).  |
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 25 Feb 2006 : 15:41:08
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| Bamba and Babylon, Sweden has changed at lot since the murder if Olaf Palme. I have never lived in Sweden but traveled there many times and used to watch the Swedish TV daily in Denmark before the invasion of the satellite TV channels. Sweden used to be ahead of most Scandinavian countries with regards to job opportunities for immigrants. I know they have a lot of restrictions (Systembolaget etc.) almost like communist countries but I remember being very impressed seeing fellow Gambians working in many public institutions the first time I visited Stockholm in the early eighties. I believe they are still ahead of Denmark with regards to accepting immigrants as part of the society. |
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bamba
Sweden
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Posted - 25 Feb 2006 : 16:45:56
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| Momodou, you’re very right, Sweden has changed a lot since the tragic assassination of Olof Palme. I am not in a position to compare Sweden with Denmark; I’ve been to Denmark on few brief visits. But I do go by your words. |
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Babylon
Sweden
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Posted - 27 Feb 2006 : 23:42:08
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It´s been 20 years now since the great Olof Palme was murded, he was shot on the 28th of February in 1986.
Most people here in Sweden can clearly remember what they did that day, it is a day that we can not forget.
Even I, who was only 9 years old by the time, can still remember how me and my friends were sitting down at the playground that following day and talked about how awful it was that our prime minister was murded.
Of course by that time I did not understand the how great he was, all I heard about him at home was negative.
By the time of the murder he was infact one of the most hated men in Sweden, there were many who didn´t agree to his politics. He was a true democrat and there has not been a politician of his kind since here in Sweden. When he died, so did true democracy. They never catched the killer, maybe they did not want to? Only God knows who really did it. There has been too many speculations.
It is now as an adult that I understand the greatness of Olof Palme.
I remember Olof Palme as a fantastic champion, fighting for the rights of the less fortunate. A man with a big, righteous heart. One of his big dreams was to free South Africa.
May his soul rest in peace. |
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bamba
Sweden
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Posted - 28 Feb 2006 : 09:44:33
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Babylon, it’s amazing that Olof Palme’s assassination still remains a mystery. A reward of 50 million Swedish kronor hitherto fails to help apprehend the killer or killers. Olof Palme lost his life fighting for the oppressed. Maybe Palme was seen as a traitor to his race, who knows? It’s today twenty years ago since Palme was brutally killed and yet no convict, flabbergasting!!
I have my reservations.
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Babylon
Sweden
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Posted - 28 Feb 2006 : 11:46:34
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Yes Bamba, it is amazing. Either the police here in Sweden are just extremely lousy or then the government knows more than we do...? I have my theories.
Anyhow, there is no doubt about that he was seen as problem by many. |
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 28 Feb 2006 : 12:46:10
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| What do you think about the new documentary shown on the Swedish and Danish TV last night? The new revealation is that he was mistakenly killed because the target was a narcotics dealer according to a witness. The witness also says that the Swedish Nacortics Police were involved and a corrupt police chief gave orders for all police personel to abandon the area just before the asassination. |
A clear conscience fears no accusation - proverb from Sierra Leone |
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Formby
United Kingdom
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Posted - 28 Feb 2006 : 15:44:50
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Sounds a bit fishy, since he was considered a left winger. It really does stink a bit, you have to admit.
On another note, there is to be a conference room named after Anna Lindh at the European Commission HQ in Brussels, so I hear. |
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Babylon
Sweden
691 Posts |
Posted - 28 Feb 2006 : 15:57:27
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It is really fishy.
I can not say for sure of course, but according to my own theory it was not a mistake that he was shot. It was a well planned murder. And I think that there are many on top positions involved...
That is why they made that documentary shown yesterday, to add even more speculations to the story. The truth is well kept and hidden.
Palme had too many enemies to justify the shooting as just a mistake.
JFK, Martin Luther King had different opinions too, so they had to dissapear. |
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bamba
Sweden
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Posted - 28 Feb 2006 : 18:40:31
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The assassination of Olof Palme has generated and still generates many circles of thoughts. Personally, I belong to the circle that believes the investigation of the murder was derailed from the onset to place the focus on drop outs like the late Christer Petersson and associates. Those frail associates of Christer Petersson interviewed on the TV documentary yester night are not to be trusted. They are victims of their very hard way of lives; they are social outcast on their dying days.
The late Christer Petersson and associates welcome with open arms the focus of Palm’s murder on them. It gave them the opportunity to earn cheap monies to finance their hard lives of booze and drugs. There was a need for the authorities responsible for the investigations to focus somewhere to avoid professional disgrace. Speculations still suggest that some authorities know far more about Palme’s murder than the public. Whatever classified information it may be will only continue to worsen suspicions.
My theory is, Olof Palme’s murder was well planned and executed.
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