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Tobacco Company Reynolds In Talks To Buy Company For Quitters

AP | MICHAEL FELBERBAUM | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Stop Smoking, Chewing Tobacco, Grizzly, Nicotine, Grizzly Chewing Tobacco, Smokers, Smoking, Camels, Public Health, Cigarettes, Smoking Rates, Niconovum AB, Camel Cigarettes, Quit Smoking, US Tobacco, Reynolds, Tobacco, Smoking Bans, Sweden, Business News

RICHMOND, Va. — Reynolds American Inc., maker of Camel cigarettes and Grizzly smokeless tobacco, is in talks to buy a Swedish company that helps...

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Sweden Gets Lesbian Bishop

Advocate. | Advocate | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home

Read More: Stockholm, Sweden, Home News

A partnered lesbian will serve the Church of Sweden as bishop of Stockholm, the capital city. ...

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One Last Option for Securing Iranian Enriched Uranium

Bruno Pellaud | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

Read More: France, Russia, Sweden, Geneva, Iran Nuclear Program, Switzerland, Enriched Uranium, Iran, World News
Bruno Pellaud

Iran's refusal and counter-proposal to shipping low-enriched uranium to Russia is unacceptable. But before slamming the door on talks, two alternative arrangements still deserve consideration.

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Western Export of the Ballot Box Elixir is Pure Hubris

Simon Jenkins | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Ngo, Afghanistan, Nato, David Petraeus, 9/11, Afghans, Sweden, Barack Obama, Tora Bora, World News
Simon Jenkins

It is insufferable that Afghanistan, a miserable statelet, can reject liberal democracy despite the efforts of 70,000 NATO and NGO staff kicking their heels in Kabul's dust for eight years.

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Swedish church agrees to conduct gay weddings

The Independent | Independent | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home

Read More: Sweden, Home News

Sweden's Lutheran Church agreed yesterday to conduct gay weddings, becoming the first major church to do so. ...

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Interview with Michael Hudson Who Advises Latvia To Default on Their Loans to Sweden

Max Keiser | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Imf, Latvia, Michael Hudson, World Bank, Sweden, Dr.Michael Hudson, Business News
Max Keiser

Latvia should not pay back its loans to Sweden says renowned economist Dr. Michael Hudson. I interviewed him after reading his piece; The Specter o...

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Heating Plant BURNS BUNNIES To Warm Swedes

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 10.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Burning Bunnies for Heat, Stockholm Bunnies, Stockholm Rabbits, Burning Rabbits for Energy, Animals, Burning Rabbits for Fuel, Biofuels, Sweden Rabbits, Sweden, Green News

In one of the more bizarre animal stories in recent memory, The Local, an English Language news site in Sweden, reports on an animal control problem i...

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Why Can't We Just Say "Obama, We're Proud of You?"

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rabin, Lincoln, Nobel, Joe the Nerd, Gop, Gandhi, Congress, Benigno Aquino, Mlk, Palme, Bhutto, Rfk, Obama, Jfk, Sweden, Politics News
Joe The Nerd Ferraro

The Nobel being awarded to Obama is the world saying loud and clear that the right wing zealots in the United States are out-of-line with everybody else on the planet.

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Obama and the Nobel: Just Bizarre

Jesse Larner | Posted 11.13.2009 | World

Read More: Zimbabwe, Sweden, Nuclear Weapons, Peace Prize, Nobel, War, Morgan Tsvangvirai, Norway, Afghanistan, Thorbjorn Jagland, Iraq, Sima Samar, China, Barack Obama, Hu Jia, Muhammad Yunus, Aung San Suu Kyi, Nelson Mandela, Oscar Arias Sanchez, Palestine, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, Israel, World News
Jesse Larner

Now I know a lot of my friends are going to be very happy about this; a new day has dawned, etc. Personally I found it inexplicable. And disturbing. And vaguely annoying.

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Czech leader demands addition of footnote to Lisbon Treaty

The Independent | Independent | Posted 10.08.2009 | Home

Read More: Sweden, Czech Republic, Home News

The Czech President, Vaclav Klaus, raised a new obstacle to ratifying the Lisbon Treaty yesterday, telling Sweden, which holds the EU presid...

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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER: Herta Muller

AP | KARL RITTER and MALIN RISING | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books

Read More: Literature Prizes, Sweden, Nobel Prize, Joyce Carol Oates, Nobel, Nobel Literature, Amos Oz, Books, Literature, Nobel Prize Winner, Literary Prizes, Books News

STOCKHOLM — Americans Joyce Carol Oates and Philip Roth join Israel's Amos Oz at the top of the buzz surrounding the Nobel Prize in literature, ...

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Britney Spears' "3": New Song Is About Threesomes

Posted 09.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Video, Max Martin, 3, Threesomes, Britney Spears, Sex, Britney Spears 3, Audio, Listen, Music, Sweden, Menage a Trois, Entertainment News

Britney Spears' new single "3" premiered on a New York radio station today. The song is about threesomes. The New York Daily News: News flash...

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Hyundai Latest To Pull Out Of 2009 Tokyo Motor Show

The Car Connection | CarConnection | Posted 09.28.2009 | Home

Read More: Detroit-Michigan, Germany, Sweden, South Korea, China, France, Home News

The Japan Automobile Manufacturers' Association (JAMA) has decided not to cancel this year's Tokyo Motor Show, despite most of the world's automaker...

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Sweden Robbery: Police Slammed After Hollywood-Style Helicopter Heist

AP | KARL RITTER | Posted 09.24.2009 | World

Read More: Crime, Sweden Robbery, Sweden Helicopter, g4s, Sweden Robbery Helicopter, Sweden, World News

STOCKHOLM — Swedish police faced stinging criticism Thursday for failing to stop helicopter-borne gunmen from pulling off a Hollywood-style heis...

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Swedish police criticized after helicopter heist

AP | KARL RITTER | Posted 09.25.2009 | Home

Read More: Stockholm, Sweden, Britain, Home News

Swedish police faced stinging criticism Thursday for failing to stop helicopter-borne gunmen from pulling off a Hollywood-style heist against a cash depot while blocking an air pursuit with a fake bomb.

Investigators had made no arrests as of Thursday morning, a day after the predawn raid on the G4S cash storage facility in southern Stockholm. Two men detained for questioning Wednesday were no longer suspects in the robbery, police spokesman Ulf Goranzon said.

Swedish media mixed awe of the robbers' military precision with anger against the police for not mounting a more effective response. The bandits prevented an air pursuit simply by placing a fake bomb at a poorly guarded helipad outside the capital.

"It's just embarrassing that criminals can knock out the police with tricks from a book for boys," columnist Lena Mellin wrote in tabloid Aftonbladet.

In an editorial, Stockholm daily Svenska Dagbladet police have to become better at protecting themselves and their property "or they won't be able to protect society and citizens."

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Sweden launches manhunt after helicopter heist

AP | KARL RITTER | Posted 09.24.2009 | Home

Read More: Stockholm, Britain, Sweden, Home News

With cinematic flourish, the masked robbers dropped from a helicopter onto the roof of a Swedish cash depot before dawn, broke into the building through a glass pyramid, set off explosions to get to the millions inside and escaped by hoisting themselves and their haul back up on rope lines.

All in 20 minutes, and all while Stockholm police were grounded by a fake bomb planted outside their own helicopter hangar.

Sweden has had its share of high-profile heists against cash storage facilities, post offices and armored cars in recent years, but police said Wednesday's commando-style robbery was the first to use a helicopter.

"There are about 100 hardcore criminals in this country who have specialized in this type of serious robbery," said Jerzy Sarnecki, professor in criminology at Stockholm University. "They are definitely no amateurs."

He said every successful heist inspires others to follow suit, which explains why they have become relatively frequent in Sweden.

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Scandinavia Fights Female Genital Mutilation

globalpost.com | Posted 09.20.2009 | World

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- When she was 11, a Swedish-born girl was taken on vacation to her mother's native Somalia. The mother wanted to "make her daughte...

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"Guantanamo Swede" Allegedly Caught With Suicide Bomb in Pakistan

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 09.17.2009 | World

Read More: Oussama Kassir, Sweden, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Mehdi-Muhammed Ghezali, South Waziristan, Dick Cheney, Tora Bora, World News
Nathan Hegedus

The United States created, one way or another, the mess that is Ghezali. And what a mess it is.

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Thanks Glenn Beck -- This 'Socialism' Sounds Great!

Paul Raushenbush | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Housing Market, Amazing Grace, Rush Limbaugh, Carter, Laissez-Faire, Michael Steele, Glenn Beck, Socialism, Jfk, Capitalism, Health Care, Christian, Forclosure, Arianna Huffington, Fdr, Russia, Marx, Rasmussen-Reports, Norway, Sweden, Politics News
Paul Raushenbush

Capitalism has been given a pass while Americans struggle. When will capitalism be a word as dirty as socialism?

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Health Care Reform: It's About Community, Stupid

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Continental Army, Community, Medicaid, Italy, Health Insurance, Wall Street Journal, The Gaggle, Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Russia, Bill Mcinturff, Town Hall Meetings, Health Care, Sweden, Great Depression, Politics News
Nathan Hegedus

Here in Sweden, forsaking your neighbor is the unforgivable sin. Even if you let the state do the caring, even if you never smile at them, you do not forsake them.

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The Free Press Defense: Sweden, Aftonbladet and What Wallenberg Would Think

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Blood Libel, Foreign Minister Bildt, Sweden, Red Cross, European Union, Congressman Hastings, Palestinians, World News, Iran, Eichmann, Israel, Senator Cardin, Wallenberg, Budapest, World News
Rabbi Abraham Cooper

A country's leading newspaper publishes a lurid attack, and no-one less than the Foreign Minister invokes 'freedom of speech' to protect the newspaper and its reporter. Iran? No. Sweden.

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Controversial Swedish Article Spurs Palestinians To Seek Organ Theft Probe

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 09.25.2009 | Home

Read More: Sweden Israel, Palestinians, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Swedish Article Israel, Aftonbladet, Aftonbladet Israel, Sweden Israel Organ, Sweden, Israel, Home News

Several Palestinians in the West Bank have called for an international inquiry into a Swedish newspaper report that suggests members of the Israeli ar...

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Sweden summons Israel envoy for talks over IDF organ harvesting article

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 09.21.2009 | Home

Read More: Stockholm, Sweden, Israel, Home News

Sweden's foreign ministry has summoned the Israeli ambassador to Stockholm in a bid to solve the developing crisis between the two nations over a rece...

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Occam's Razor Can Cut Down the Health Care Lobbyists

Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: National Health Insurance, Electronic Medical Records, Sweden, Jack Abramoff, Cigna, President Obama, OpenSecrets.Org, Catastrophic Health Insurance, Canada, The Health-Care Industry, Aig, General Motors, Nancy Pelosi, Paul Krugman, Pharmaceutical Industry, Aetna, Federal Deficit, Occam's Razor, Lobbyists, United Health Group, The National Debt, Cyberounds.com, Peter Orszag, Single Payer, Cookbook Medicine, Single Payer Health Care, Japan, Blue Cross Blue Shield, France, Chrysler, Dow Jones, Great Britain, Wellpoint, Max Baucus, Medicare, Health Care Reform, Cuba, Holland, Scandanavia, Politics News
Gary S. Chafetz

Private health-insurance and pharmaceutical industry lobbyists are threatening the health and stability of America. Some argue that this is equivalent to crimes against humanity.

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Robot Attack Of Swedish Man Leads To Fine For Company

Huffington Post | Posted 08.29.2009 | World

Read More: Sweden Robot Attack, Sweden, Factory Robot Attack, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Robot Attack, Sweedish Robot Attack, Robot Attack Sweden, Swedish Robot Attacks Worker, Robot Attacks Worker, Machine Attacks Man, Robot Attacks Factory Worker, Robot Attacks, Swedish Robot Fined, Robot Attacks Worker Sweeden, Swedish Robot Attacks Man, Huffington Post Robot Attack, World News

A Swedish company is being fined $3,000 for a 2007 incident when a robot attacked and seriously injured a factory worker, The Local reports. The inci...

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