Quote from: Jez on September 05, 2013, 11:55:19 PMWow, 5.8 million.
Goddamn furries!
Darnit! Scooped by llama-heads!
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Jez on September 05, 2013, 11:55:19 PMWow, 5.8 million.
Goddamn furries!
Darnit! Scooped by llama-heads!
Quote from: http://www.indregard.no/2013/08/22/norsk-kultur/Bjørn Myklebust: What is Norwegian culture?
Siv Jensen: Heh. We've often had this debate. What is the basis of the report that we're going to discuss today is that the Norwegian immigration policy is not sustainable. Therefore, we have had an internal committee that has been working to look at various measures to strengthen Norway's ability to cope with this in the future, to reduce costs. We must, in other words, turn all stones.
Many of the proposals put forth by the committee are Progress Party policy already, but some of them are new. And these are measures that we intend to discuss thoroughly and see whether - and if - and when, we plan to implement [them] as the Progress Party's policies.
But I am very happy to see that someone dares to try out new ideas, and I'm not very surprised, then, that our proposals get dismissed almost without anyone having had time to think through what they actually imply.
It's always been like this in the discussion about Norwegian asylum and immigration policy, every time we've gone ahead and thought new thoughts, the others compete to denounce it, then ten-fifteen-twenty years afterwards they all agree anyway.
BM: That was a long answer to something that was not the question. What is Norwegian culture?
SJ: Yes, well, the baseline in this report is that we must dare to be proud of the Norwegian simultaneous to being generous with other cultures. I think it is an important starting point. We must dare to highlight our heritage, our uniqueness, our origins, our history. I think it strengthens every nation, in their encounter with other cultures.
BM: But Siv Jensen, this is also an answer to a question I didn't ask. I asked: What is Norwegian culture?
SJ: But I don't really understand why you're asking about that...
BM: [Interrupts] Because a central concept in this report that you have ordered is "cultural sustainability". And then maybe you have to define what Norwegian culture actually is?
SJ: No, that is a contribution that has come to us in this process, and which we gladly will discuss. But what is the Progress Party's starting point in this discussion, is that we highlight and dare to be proud of our origins. And that's what culture discussion is about. It's about our cultural history, our identity, our ancestry. And unfortunately, it has been ...
BM: [Interrupts] But what Norwegian culture is, you don't want to say?
SJ: Yes, but, hehe, that's the definition we have of our cultural heritage that has evolved over many generations ...
BM: But what is it?
SJ: ...that very many now believe that is okay to put aside in a sort of misunderstood tolerance towards other cultures.
BM: But what is it?
SJ: Norwegian culture is defined by our longstanding background and history, that is ... that maybe ... highlights Norway and Norwegians more than one will find corresponding features in other countries.
BM: Is Norwegian culture threatened?
SJ: It is certainly so that the more we focus on putting this aside, the less we think, maybe, of the importance of remembering our own history. And I hear more and more politicians who say that this is not so important. The Progress Party believes that is important to be proud of one's history, one's origins and one's culture.
Quote from: Junkenstein on July 16, 2013, 02:40:59 PM
Oh FFS Varg:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23327165QuoteA Norwegian musician with links to mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has been arrested in France on "suspicion he was preparing a major terrorist act".
The French interior ministry said Kristian "Varg" Vikernes constituted "a potential threat to society".
He was arrested in central France after his wife bought four rifles.
Vikernes, described by French officials as a neo-Nazi, had in the past received a copy of a manifesto from Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011.
He planted a bomb in central Oslo and went on a shooting spree on the nearby island of Utoeya in July 2011. He was imprisoned for the maximum 21-year term last year.
An official at the Paris Prosecutor Office said Breivik sent a copy of a manifesto setting out his ideology to Vikernes, who is also a convicted murderer.
Did not know about the Breivik link, though it's not a surprise.
Nicely timed though. Frances version of PRISM/GCHQ was getting some shit and outrage recently. I think this will guarantee their budget rises for the foreseeable future.
Quote from: Waffles, Viking Princess of Northern Belgium on June 13, 2013, 03:11:50 PMWell, Trondheim. Something like 600 kr per way, cheaper if I find some Minipris tickets but they're not NOW.Quote from: Lenin McCarthy on June 13, 2013, 02:00:15 PM
And to add to all this madness:
Being consistently stupidly happy and seriously making plans to hitchhike 350 kilometres (spending 180$ on train tickets is not an option for me at the moment) to meet someone does suggest that I'm in love or something.
$180? where are you going? Azerbaijan?
Anyway, the stupidly happy being in love thing is all kinds of awesome!