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Russia

pikachuears:

“The story about where volcanoes come from” from Adventure Time with Fiona & Cake #1

i-deduce-youre-a-bitch:

YOU NIQQAS WANNA LEARN ELVISH?! HERE YA GO!

diarrefpuckhookyplay-em-offs:

Riots In Sweden. That’s Right. Sweden

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Sweden is one of the wealthiest, most stable and smoothly running countries in the world.

Which would explain why the country’s 9.5 million residents may be shocked by the events of the past few days.

For the past three nights, hundreds of youths have been rampaging through parts of the capital, Stockholm, torching cars, setting fires, and throwing rocks at police and fire trucks.

The trouble began over the weekend, after the police shot dead a 69-year-old man in the city’s Husby neighborhood, where many residents originate from the Middle East and Africa. The exact circumstances are a bit cloudy: The man allegedly threatened officers with a machete.

Sweden’s prime minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt, appealed for calm on Tuesday, condemning the riots as hooliganism. His words failed to prevent another night of violence, in which two schools, a police station and an arts and crafts center were attacked, and 30 cars were burned.

Soul-searching is underway in Sweden — for years admired by the world as a champion of tolerance — over the possible causes of the unrest.

The police blame “youth gangs and criminals.” Others cite a range of factors, particularly high youth unemployment levels among people of immigrant origin, a problem that blights large parts of Europe.

“There’s an underlying problem of a lack of jobs, and a perceived lack of opportunity among people living in these areas,” says David Landes, editor of The Local newspaper in Sweden.

In the troubled neighborhoods, allegations are said to be flying around about police brutality, racism and harassment. Sweden is once again facing a debate over whether immigrants and their families — once welcomed with open arms — are being marginalized, and whether multiculturalism is working.

Immigration is a controversial issue in Scandinavia these days: Resentment over asylum seekers, competition for jobs, and Islamist militancy have helped fuel a surge in support for anti-immigration parties in the region. These include the far-right Sweden Democrats, now running third in opinion polls.

Asked about Stockholm’s unrest, Rami Al-khamisi, a co-founder of Megafonen, a group that works for social change, described Sweden as an “increasingly divided” society. He told Reuters that these “gaps, both socially and economically, are becoming larger.”

Justice Minister Beatrice Ask has reportedly acknowledged “social exclusion” as “a very serious cause of many problems.” She’s promising that Stockholm’s police will forge closer ties to troubled local communities.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2013/05/22/186042744/riots-in-sweden-thats-right-sweden

This has been going on for days now. If this shit is happening in Sweden of all places, the gold standard of progressive society, tolerance and inclusion in the west - something’s fucking up. Perhaps it has a lot to do with how immigration is still dramatically inflating the European population despite a lengthy period of economic stagnation/decline, causing landed immigrants to land in countries with no job prospects and a nation eager to offset the blame for the economic woes on the newcomers. But then again, Sweden’s economy is stable and growing.

So what’s going on?

‘Multiculturalism failing’: Swedish PM pleas for order as riots engulf Stockholm suburbs

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Hundreds youths hurling rocks, burning cars and smashing windows for the second day in a row in Stockholm say they are protesting against police brutality and inequality. In Sweden, critics of the multiculturalism policies lash out at immigration laws.

Seven policemen were injured, at least ten cars and countless containers set on fire, and dozens of windows smashed in several heavily immigrant-populated neighborhoods of the Swedish capital on Tuesday.

The police said some 300 people are now taking part in riots, which started in protest against the shooting of a man allegedly armed with a knife in the Stockholm district of Husby. The protesters also cited beatings and ‘discriminative’ derogatory remarks of the officers.

The protester are mainly young, the police said. Of the seven rioters arrested on Tuesday only four were detained, two of them later released, and one turned out to be underage.

All of the men arrested on suspicion of violent rioting and assaulting a public official were aged between 15 and 19, the police said.

Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt on Tuesday commented on the matter, urging a halt to the violence, but acknowledged in the short term that may be unlikely.

“We have groups of young men who think that that they can and should change society with violence. Let’s be clear: This is not okay. We cannot be ruled by violence,” Reinfeldt said as cited by the Local.

He also urged “everyone, including parents and adults” to help restore calm.

“Husby residents must get their neighborhood back,” Reinfeldt stressed, speaking of the district, where around 80 percent of about 11,000 residents are first- or second-generation immigrants. This particular district has seen employment increasing and crime falling in the last seven years, Reinfeldt added, speaking of the “right direction” it has been going.

But not everyone agreed with Reinfeldt’s assessment of immigrant-populated Swedish districts development, with critics saying the integration policies of the country – and that of the whole of Western Europe – are “not working.”

“This is a clear consequence of this multiculturalism politics that Sweden adopted around ‘80s and increased in the ‘90s… And this is not a unique one single occasion… we have had these ethnic-based riots against Swedish authorities. We have seen this in Western Europe, that is very sad, and I think we will see more of this, if we don’t change the politics,” the chairman of the Sweden’s National Democrats Party Marc Abramsson told RT.

While not elaborating on the incident that caused the current riots, Abramsson said all such incidents have a common “problem beneath” – that is, the immigrants not identifying themselves with the country’s society, nor accepting the country’s authorities, sticking only to their own ethnic group.

“Sweden has been trying harder than any of the countries in Europe to try to push for integration. We have invested virtually billions from taxpayers’ money into it, we have tried everything that the scientists have presented – and still it’s not working,” the politician argued.

“They live in their area, and they feel the area is their own. And when the police arrive, they feel they are you intruding into their, sort of, ‘country.’ The police… who work in these areas, there have to be in two cars, one protecting the other. People are trying to maintain buildings, to have security guards, the fire department can’t work, they get attacked by angry immigrant youth that feel like they’re intruding into their own area, even though they’re trying to help,”Abramsson went on to say.

http://rt.com/news/sweden-riots-multiculturalism-not-working-598/

No idea. I don’t live in Europe but it’s clear to me that European leaders in ivory towers are doing fuckall thinking you can force utopia and as a result, Nationalism is on the rise and white flight has now become a phenomenon in urban Europe as unprecedented levels of immigration is manufacturing ethnic strife and “no go” zones for police and emergency services. Europe should focus on getting its house in order before opening its doors to the world.

History shows us that in times of economic decline, the indigenous population quickly blames the neighbours with different accents or physical features for their woes.

This blame usually develops into something nasty and resentful with results we are all very aware of.

hexx-a-sketch:

tessmilom:

If you’re like me and you can’t play the Sims to practice your furniture arrangement  you’ll appreciate this free browser program where you can upload your floor plan and use pre-made furniture models to do your own interior design.

This will be of use in writing, 

ronweasley:

the way it should be, famous songs from animated movies performed in the language of the place the stories are set in or the character’s mother tongue {listen}

i. hellfire (the hunchback of notre dame) - french; ii. once upon a december (anastasia) - russian; iii. a whole new world (aladdin) - arabic; iv. bare necessities (the jungle book) - hindi; v. i see the light (tangled) - german; vi. can you feel the love tonight? (the lion king) - zulu; vii. i’ve got no strings (pinocchio) - italian; viii. i won’t say i’m in love (hercules) - greek; ix. it’s tough to be a god (the road to el dorado) - spanish; x. under the sea (the little mermaid) - danish; xi. i’ll make a man out of you (mulan) - mandarin; xii. when you believe (the prince of egypt) - hebrew