Sunday’s German election told us an important fact: It pays to attack migrants relentlessly. Even if we do not want to make direct references to the rise of the Nazis in 1933 and the devastating impact it still has on us, we are entering a new phase in Europe that has its past troubled history…
Month: February 2025
Europe is toothless and lost
When EU Commissioner for Technological Sovereignty Henna Virkunen (National Coalition Party) and Interior Minister Mari Rantanen (Perussuomalaiset, PS*) meet to boost confidence in Nato’s ability to protect its subsea cables, but the total opposite. Their political record and their extremist stance on asylum seekers reveals why Europe is toothless and lost in the face of…
Riikka Purra and the party’s two-headed monster
The Perussuomalaiset (PS)* are a deadly chameleon. It can look “normal” until it lashes out like a venomous snake. The PS’ neo-conservative cloak is only a deception appealing to right-wingers who justify the paradigm shifts and inhumane cuts in public spending. Finance Minister Riikka Purra is a two-headed monster: with one head she looks sort…
Trump and the horse’s ass
European leaders appear shocked about US President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Ukraine. He did so in a call with Vladimir Putin and by echoing Russia’s priorities: no Nato membership, and Ukraine will lose control of the eastern part of the country and Crimea, and reducing its presence in Europe. Trump, who…
Sanitzing racism in Finland with the help of labelling
With the Örbero mass shooting, the worst in Sweden overtaken now by time and denial, a question remains: Who speaks up for migrants or New Swedes? The sad truth is few if any. What is even sader the silence has grown and is defeaning. In a brilliant column, Mehdi Hasan writes about how DEI, which…
Sweden’s worst mass shooting in Örbero had no ideological motive
Even if the media claims that the 35-year-old gunman Rickhard Andersson was a lone wolf with no ideological ties to the killing of 11 people, the Swedish Police confirmed that they are not ruling out the possibility of a racist motivation behind the killings. As investigations progress on Sweden’s worst mass shooting, the police have…
Linkedin: Down the populist path
A good question is why the public’s fascination with far-right populism has caught on. US President Donald Trump is one sour example but so is the changing political landscape of Europe. In Finland, Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s National Coalition Party (NCP) believes it can continue to do business with the anti-immigration Finns Party (PS) and form…
Swedish PM Ulf Kristersson’s shameful blame game
Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson not only blamed migrants for the violence in Sweden, he sent a message to all of the Nordic region. It’s called the blame game. Blame is an excuse and a tool for attack that distorts reality and a way to avoid responsibility. He reiterated Sweden’s about-turn in strict immigration policy…
Surprise, surprise, immigration to Finland in 2024 plummeted by 13.9%
Migration to Finland in 2024 took a 13.9% dive to 63,049 from 73.236 in the previous year, according to Statistics Finland. Some of the biggest drops were in the number of Ukrainians seeking international protection. Their numbers plummeted by 53.02% 13,551 persons. The number of work permits for specialists retreated to 1,224 permits from 1,604…
Migrant Tales (28.9.2012): Why I write about racism
Migrant Tales insight: I stumbled upon this posting published over twelve years ago. I reposted it because it shows the fuel that I have used to push the blog ahead. Finland is a very different country than it was in 2012. We are slowly but surely awakening to the fact that racism is a dangerous…