Is Julian Assange’s new best friend Ecuador a paragon of freedom, compared to Sweden, which he and his followers denounce? On its website, the American-based Committee to Protect Journalists writes: Ecuador not fit to champion free expression The Quito government’s…
Month: August 2012
Two years in jail for singing a protest song in a church?
You’ve got to be kidding: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19297373
Two years in jail for singing a protest song in a church?
You’ve got to be kidding: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19297373
Netflix is about to destroy Lovefilm
Here in Sweden we used to have a service called Brafilm, which, like Netflix, would send DVDs to your home. You could subscribe to having one, two, or three DVDs at home at the same time. This was great, as…
Raoul Wallenberg and Lidingö
Last Saturday marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved the lives of tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust. He was born in his family’s then-summer house, here on the island…
100 years since the birth of Raoul Wallenberg
Today marks what would have been the 100th birthday of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved the lives of tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust during the last months of World War II. When the Red…