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Have wondered why Sweden was not on the Paki radar.

The floods are a heaven-sent opportunity for pakis to demand asylum in Sweden
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There is a 100,000 strong caravan of migrants trying to cross from Turkey into Greece. Most will eventually end up in western Europe including Sweden. Apart from the boat people as usual.
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Manish_P wrote:Have wondered why Sweden was not on the Paki radar.

The floods are a heaven-sent opportunity for pakis to demand asylum in Sweden
these countries lack mental acumen to diff between abba dabba jabba, they think all of the immigrants are Syrian/Iraqi etc. For sure most of them are Pks/Afghan
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Has Turdberg yelled “How dare you?” Already to the electorate for the results ? :rotfl:
Too early it is still late sommer on her friends yacht somewhere in the Mediterranean, that’s where most Scandis are this time of the year anyway
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IndraD wrote:
Manish_P wrote:Have wondered why Sweden was not on the Paki radar.

The floods are a heaven-sent opportunity for pakis to demand asylum in Sweden
these countries lack mental acumen to diff between abba dabba jabba, they think all of the immigrants are Syrian/Iraqi etc. For sure most of them are Pks/Afghan
I wonder.

Haven't read / seen Bakis list Sweden as a destination.. neither in their MSM nor in their social media. It's always been the gulf, UK, Europe and US.
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agree.
A casual search shows not more than 100,000 Pakis in Nordic countires when 200,000 can be found in any London borough.
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The far-right is expected to win Italy’s election in Rome’s biggest political shift for decades https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/22/italian ... eloni.html
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IndraD wrote:agree.
A casual search shows not more than 100,000 Pakis in Nordic countires when 200,000 can be found in any London borough.
OK

Need to promote Scandinavia as a welcoming destination for the momeens
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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/crushing ... economist/
A crushing victory for Italy’s nationalist right
Published on September 26, 2022

Thus she will make history as Italy’s first female prime minister, but also remake it by leading a party into office that has its roots in neo-fascism. How much should we worry about the return of the hard right to rule in Italy? As we noted in our most recent cover story, Ms Meloni is not alone in Europe. Look at Viktor Orban in Hungary, the rise of the Sweden Democrats, or the persistent strength of Marine Le Pen in France. A powerful shift in the European balance towards nationalists is under way and profoundly unwelcome.
Even so, Ms Meloni will be constrained. The Italian president has significant clout. And the European Union is another countervailing influence. In tough economic times, Italy needs support from its European allies. So there will be both internal and external checks.
Talking of dire economic straits, what’s next for Britain? After Kwasi Kwarteng, the new chancellor, announced massive tax cuts (without cuts on spending) the pound has taken a beating. On Monday it briefly touched an all-time low. Borrowing costs are also rising sharply. Investors, understandably, aren’t convinced that Britain’s finances are in good shape. All this market turmoil could mean an emergency meeting of the Bank of England. It certainly means rising political pressure on the new prime minister, Liz Truss.
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And this new Italian PM is very clear about reviving Italy and getting rid of the woke de-identity crusade.
The above, bolded statement shows that de-wokeness is coming from non Western Europe.


Rome is the civilizational capital of Europe.
It was Rome turning Catholic that made Europe Christian.
It was the fall of Rome that made Western Europe powerful.
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India should think twice about the UK FTA to be signed in October.

UK has not been welcoming of Hindu Indians
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IndraD wrote:agree.
A casual search shows not more than 100,000 Pakis in Nordic countires when 200,000 can be found in any London borough.
I met a Pakistani "student" in West Berlin, back in 1980s, who had moved to Sweden for "studies". He was all for leaving Germany for Sweden for greener pastures. The cons of moving to Sweden according to him: Language barrier (German on the other hand is offered every where), cold weather, job availability, and lower wages (in comparison to Germany those days), also there was a small number of compatriots as an emotional support (also a pro as the locals did not judge him as a Pakistani, as he was in Berlin). The current low numbers of Pakistanis there could be because of these factors.
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When I was in Oslo (several years ago) there was a significant Pakistani population there. Enough to support Urdu newspapers at the news agents.
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ramana wrote:India should think twice about the UK FTA to be signed in October.

UK has not been welcoming of Hindu Indians
Do we know any specifics ? ...as far as I understand they need a lot of stuff india produces , wonder what they can export !!..and those would be targeted to Indian Middle class consumers.
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https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/po ... 022-10-04/

Poland asks Germany to pay $1.3T in reparation for Nazi invasion
(few days back it was begging for billions from Norway cos they are making money from oil
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Habibi.......Police can not go to Muslim areas? Come to Brussels bad.
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https://www.euractiv.com/section/agricu ... rvey-says/

According to the survey, one farmer commits suicide almost every other day, especially men aged 45 to 54.
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You must acknowledge the magnanimity of euros-they sacrifice their own concerns to be solicitous for India’s racism, farmer welfare, religious conflicts, secessionist movements.
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EU Parliamentary committees are investigating the nebulous vaccine purchases by the European Commission.

Pfizer CEO Bourla was to appear before it, but backed out at the last moment. His representative was questioned. To a question "did Pfizer test the vaccines for their capacity to inhibit human to human transmission before putting them on the market?" the rep replied "No. We were moving very fast at the speed of science".

EU spent 71 Billion € at that time that would be about close to 80B$, for vaccine purchases, 2.4 billion doses of vaccines were bought from Pfizer for an estimated 36B€ !

No clear data is being made public despite formal requests citing confidentiality agreements.

Von der lying was found to be negotiating directly with Bourla, exchanged sms in violation of rules, and refuses to share them with the EU audit and compliance agencies.

This whole thing stinks to high heaven.
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Here is EU buereaucrat after few puffs...

European Diplomatic Academy: Opening remarks by High Representative Josep Borrell at the inauguration of the pilot programme
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Thank you to all of you, and congratulations to all of you for having the extraordinary chance of studying here, in Bruges at the College of Europe. I am sure you are aware of how lucky you are.

Here, Bruges is a good example of the European garden. Yes, Europe is a garden. We have built a garden. Everything works. It is the best combination of political freedom, economic prosperity and social cohesion that the humankind has been able to build - the three things together. And here, Bruges is maybe a good representation of beautiful things, intellectual life, wellbeing.

The rest of the world – and you know this very well, Federica – is not exactly a garden. Most of the rest of the world is a jungle, and the jungle could invade the garden. The gardeners should take care of it, but they will not protect the garden by building walls. A nice small garden surrounded by high walls in order to prevent the jungle from coming in is not going to be a solution. Because the jungle has a strong growth capacity, and the wall will never be high enough in order to protect the garden.

The gardeners have to go to the jungle. Europeans have to be much more engaged with the rest of the world. Otherwise, the rest of the world will invade us, by different ways and means.

Yes, this is my most important message: we have to be much more engaged with the rest of the world.

We are privileged people. We built a combination of these three things – political freedom, economic prosperity, social cohesion – and we cannot pretend to survive as an exception. It has to be a way of supporting the others facing the big challenges of our time.
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Keep the garden, be good gardeners. But your duty will not be to take care of the garden itself but [of] the jungle outside.
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chanakyaa wrote:Here is EU buereaucrat after few puffs...

European Diplomatic Academy: Opening remarks by High Representative Josep Borrell at the inauguration of the pilot programme
Keep the garden, be good gardeners. But your duty will not be to take care of the garden itself but [of] the jungle outside.
^^ So, a colonialism v3.0? :rotfl:
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What difference does it make when EU have already let the choicest of wild animals walk freely into the garden. While they are out to take care of the jungle these beasts will set their homes on fire.
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Does this white man’s burden include culling the inferior races of Europe, again?
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I appologise for my intemperate use of language. I meant “weeding the garden”.
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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/wor ... 896286.cms France paralysed by waves of protest with demands for higher wages, hiding in the crowd are noble prize winners for economics, radical leftists asking people not to work, culture of say no to work sweeping across west.
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France has dabbled with different economic approaches half heartedly but embraced globalisation wholeheartedly in the 90s.

In the past 3 decades it has frittered away a lot of MFG and R&D capabilities, some sold piecemeal to China, others just left to die. Automoitve was privatised decades ago since its non-strategic and Renault & Peugeot, Michelin struggle as best as they can in a fierce market. Even in core sectors like heavy egg like turbines, electrical motors, electronics, Pharma it has been mostly hollowed out.

The only crippled survivors of this suicidal industrial policy are Nuclear, T&D, train sets, and aeronautics and ship building. The last two have some overlaps with Military R&D and MFG and this is the only industrial sector that has survived and developed.

Meanwhile, the "état providence" = maai bap sarkar = welfare state has flourished under spells of left and centrist parties, and any initiative that has potential to rebuild domestic competitiveness gets mired in EU redtape that no French. Govt has been able to take on.

Dwindling purchasing power ie raising impoverishment has been cleverly masked by increasing cheap imports from China etc. by successive govt while doing nothing to stop or reverse the loss of R&D and industrial capabilities. Today you have less and less youth in STEM fields and one has to be blind beyond belief to not see the cul de sac France is heading into.

The only saving grace is that France is not totally debt driven like the US, people's savings rate is very good, demographics are relatively OK, and it usually avoids over spending on global delusions like Iraq, Afg or Ukr war. So the country is able to survive from day to day.

All these no-bell laureates, Sciences Po elites and service sector fed middle class protestors are only clamouring for the guaranteed prolongation of the welfare state, and they make it a virtue to work even less on jobs they cannot and will not take the risk to create, and dislike if not hate entrepreneurs, businesses. They have no clue what it takes to innovate, manufacture and market any product or service. These airheads plus the ecologists who are more and more prominent and promise an alluring escape into some utopian pastoralism, with buzz words like zero carbon circular economy, while wilfully ignoring historical and geopolitical realities, are the ones who seem to be the next wave of ideologues laying claim to power.

Ideology driven ecologists are no less dangerous than communists who were ready so sacrifice individuals for the sake of community. The Greens will sacrifice communities ie humanity for the sake of the planet.
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IndraD wrote:https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/wor ... 896286.cms France paralysed by waves of protest with demands for higher wages, hiding in the crowd are noble prize winners for economics, radical leftists asking people not to work, culture of say no to work sweeping across west.

these woke commie jokers already have a 36 hr week
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https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... nment-mess

Banana monarchy...explained
That bought some stability in financial markets but piled absurdity on to the political balance sheet. Hunt is the fourth chancellor this year. He came last in the leadership race that put Truss in Downing Street. Now the loser instructs the winner, whose grip on power – and reality – is so tenuous she can barely hold the pen to take dictation. Fiscal policy might be back on track, but there is no plan to close the seriousness deficit.
Johnson endorsed Truss, via loyal proxies, partly to be avenged on Sunak, whose resignation had precipitated his downfall, and partly because he knew she was incapable of doing the job. He hoped his own dismal tenure would look brighter in hindsight, lit by the glow of his successor going down in flames.
Johnson begat Truss. Before that, Theresa May begat Johnson. She made him foreign secretary not because she expected him to do the job well but because she knew he couldn’t, and hoped conspicuous failure in a great office of state would scupper his prospects of challenging her for the greatest one. Instead, he established the precedent that buffoonery carries no penalty when climbing the Tory hierarchy.
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Forecast by the IMF shows Germany and Italy are to tumble into recession in 2023 | Business Special
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday predicted that Germany and Italy would both tip into recession next year, as it also lowered its global growth forecast.
Germany — Europe's largest economy — is heavily dependent on Russian gas, which Moscow has cut in suspected retaliation for Western sanctions.
Italy, which is also reliant on Russian fuel imports, is set to see its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contract by 0.2% — down sharply on the July forecast of 0.8% growth.
Although the eurozone is expected to avoid a recession, the output of the 19 countries in the single-currency bloc is forecast to grow by just 0.5%, worse than previously predicted.

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chetak wrote:
IndraD wrote:https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/wor ... 896286.cms France paralysed by waves of protest with demands for higher wages, hiding in the crowd are noble prize winners for economics, radical leftists asking people not to work, culture of say no to work sweeping across west.

these woke commie jokers already have a 36 hr week
In European media it is explained as strike by oil workers. That is half truth. It is about anti war and anti NATO. High energy prices due to follies of Americans. Pan European media is self censoring themselves. Salam
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g.sarkar wrote:Forecast by the IMF shows Germany and Italy are to tumble into recession in 2023 | Business Special
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday predicted that Germany and Italy would both tip into recession next year, as it also lowered its global growth forecast.

Gautam
Quite possible india would overtake Germany as 4th largest an year earlier than predicted!
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Kaivalya wrote:https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... nment-mess

Banana monarchy...explained
Johnson begat Truss. Before that, Theresa May begat Johnson. She made him foreign secretary not because she expected him to do the job well but because she knew he couldn’t, and hoped conspicuous failure in a great office of state would scupper his prospects of challenging her for the greatest one. Instead, he established the precedent that buffoonery carries no penalty when climbing the Tory hierarchy.
per some polls, johnson is the favorite to replace tante truss.

the powers that be don't want dishy rishy to outshine anyone of the gora losers posing as prime ministers
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chetak wrote:these woke commie jokers already have a 36 hr week
They want 32 hr week just like their British counterparts where Oxbridge babooze literally down a peg every two hours.
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These are the same white skins and hypocrites who constantly sermonize India on human rights and alleged lack of democracy

These racist bigots who traditionally excel at deceit, deception, dishonesty, duplicity, and fraud among other things.

They are charlatans and crooks who say one thing and always do another.

Jaishanker had rightly called them out, time and again.
European Union Vice President and four others arrested in a huge corruption probe linked to Qatar.

A Greek member of Parliament and head of International Trade Union (ITUC) were also arrested.

https://www.rfi.fr/en/international-new ... tion-probe
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Qatar has over the years lined so many pockets, funded so many European politicians some of whom became heads of state... way too many skeletons in every country's cupboards.

BTW, why do we leave it to Europeans to demand better workers' rights when most of them come from India and South Asia ? This needs to change...
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Dear Germans, you killed 6 million loyal, patriotic, brilliant, hardworking, Germanised Jews and allowed 1 million Muslim refugees with zero love for Germany or its ethos. Now repent at leisure.
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https://www.opindia.com/2022/12/france- ... community/
From the article,
On Friday (December 23), violence broke out in the French capital of Paris as members of the Kurdish community clashed with the police.

According to reports, the Kurdish men had gathered outside the Ahmet-Kaya Kurdish centre on Rue d’Enghien in the 10th district of Paris. The development came following a ‘racist attack’ that left three Kurdish activists dead.

Although the demonstrations were initially peaceful, the law and order situation quickly deteriorated. The protestors tried to break through barricades, forcing the police in riot gear to lob tear gas shells at them.

Reportedly, the Kurdish protestors also smashed car windows and set streets on fire. They also threw projectiles at the police. One violent demonstrator was also caught on camera hurling a bench at the cops.

Later on Saturday (December 24), the Kurdish Democratic Council in France (CDK-F) organised a gathering at the Place de la Republique, which was joined by the local Mayor Alexandra Cordebard. Hundreds of Kurdish demonstrators turned up for the event and listened to the tributes offered to the victims.

“We know that we are under threat, Kurds in general, Kurdish activists and militants. France owes us protection,” CDK-F spokesperson Berivan Firat remarked. A meeting was also held with the Parisian police chief Laurent Nunez wherein Kurds raised concerns about the lack of police protection.
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ritesh wrote:https://www.opindia.com/2022/12/france- ... community/
From the article,
On Friday (December 23), violence broke out in the French capital of Paris as members of the Kurdish community clashed with the police.

According to reports, the Kurdish men had gathered outside the Ahmet-Kaya Kurdish centre on Rue d’Enghien in the 10th district of Paris. The development came following a ‘racist attack’ that left three Kurdish activists dead.

Although the demonstrations were initially peaceful, the law and order situation quickly deteriorated. The protestors tried to break through barricades, forcing the police in riot gear to lob tear gas shells at them.

Reportedly, the Kurdish protestors also smashed car windows and set streets on fire. They also threw projectiles at the police. One violent demonstrator was also caught on camera hurling a bench at the cops.

Later on Saturday (December 24), the Kurdish Democratic Council in France (CDK-F) organised a gathering at the Place de la Republique, which was joined by the local Mayor Alexandra Cordebard. Hundreds of Kurdish demonstrators turned up for the event and listened to the tributes offered to the victims.

“We know that we are under threat, Kurds in general, Kurdish activists and militants. France owes us protection,” CDK-F spokesperson Berivan Firat remarked. A meeting was also held with the Parisian police chief Laurent Nunez wherein Kurds raised concerns about the lack of police protection.
Its turkish gangs like greywolf behind the attack on kurds. Kurds need to hunt down those turkish greywolf members instead of turning their anger on french police.
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