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not go to prison for abusing
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Speak no Finnish or
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small but increasing
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11:31PM - “Finnish parents are
increasingly taking their kids
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schools with a heavy
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11:30PM - “Success by Finnish
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11:28PM - “The ECONOMIST wrote that
Obama "shows an alarming lack
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November 22, 2009 10:24PM
John Lammi's Links
Unemployment and immigration
Excerpt of Written Testimony by Roy Beck, Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA.Congressional Forum, 'American Jobs in Peril: The Impact of Uncontrolled Immigration'.Nov. 19, 2009, 2237 Rayburn House Office Building
The Pew Hispanic Center estimated last spring that 8 million illegal foreign workers held U… Read full post »
Academic achievement in finland
Finland breaks point record in PISA study
The Finnish result is significantly better than
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Innovation without illegal immigration
… Read full post »A new report on Innovation for Development out of the European Business School ranks countries’ ability to propel innovation in ways that advance societies. (The United States comes in a respectable third, behind Sweden and Finland.) The study assessed countries using an index t/
Saariaho ..great composer
She was first again...
In a ceremony that took place on October 9th, Finnish contemporary composer Kaija Saariaho, 57, was awarded the prestigious Wihuri Sibelius Prize, which carries with it a cash award of EUR 100,000.
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Obama promised no health care for illegal aliens
Sweden pays asylum seekers to be repatriated
Sweden to pay more asylum seekers to leave
from The Local;
Sweden has decided to expand a programme which gives unsuccessful asylum seekers money to voluntarily return to their homelands, at the same time as the number of refugee applications continues to drop.
Gay archbishop of sweden
Anglican bishops from England and Northern Ireland have rebuffed invitations to attend the ordination of the openly gay Eva Brunne to be the next Bishop of Stockholm.
Five bishops from various levels within the Anglican Church, including Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Wi… Read full post »Huge legal immigration with massive unemployment
The federal government has continued to issue 125,000 new green cards and temporary worker visas each month? And 15 million Americans are out of work.
It's all well and good that the economic stimulus has created 650,000 jobs (at $230,769.23 per job), but this is far outweighed by the 1 mi/… Read full post »
Nordics lead in gender equality
NEW YORK —" Iceland and three other Scandinavian countries lead the world in gender equality, according to a report released Tuesday by the World Economic Forum.
The forum, a nonprofit group based in Switzerland, ranked countries according to how much they had… Read full post »
No immigration sanctuary in Nordic democracies
Sanctuary policies encourage illegal immigration by sending a signal across the globe that anyone who manages to enter the United States will be able to stay here as long as they wish - regardless of their status - because our government lacks the will to enforce its own laws.
The Nordics… Read full post »
Is Easter Island racist?
from the BBC: The inhabitants of Easter Island in the South Pacific have voted to restrict immigration amid overpopulation fears… Read full post »
Internet access a legal right in Finland
from CNN- Finland has become the first country in the world to declare broadband Internet access a legal right.… Read full post »
Massive labor surplus
According to The Financial Times,"Research by Andrew Sum, a labor economist at Boston's Northeastern University, shows that the ratio of unemployed persons to job openings has widened in America to 5.7 to 1 in August of this year from 1.2 to 1 in December of 2000.
71% of Americans want hirers of illegal aliens arrested
Sixty-four percent of respondents want local police officers to conduct raids where illegal aliens routinely gather to find work. Only 19% oppose these raids. During these tough economic times, though, Americans are realizing the impact of 8 million illegal aliens in the workforce and want some… Read full post »
More Finnish-born Kids Speak no Finnish or Swedish
World's best school system
Finnish parents are increasingly taking their kids out of schools with a heavy
Immigration laws do work
The new Zogby poll in Mexico found that our enforcement efforts in the U.S. -- weak as they may be -- are intimidating about 39 million Mexicans from moving to the U.S.
Imagine what would happen if we had mandatory verification to keep illegal aliens out of all U.S. jobs.&nb/… Read full post »
No jobs for drop-outs, just for illegal immigrants
The U-6 Unemployment rate for U.S.-born high school graduates without college is 19%.
These are the Americans who predominate in the construction, service and manufacturing jobs that are most sought by immigrant workers. Our current level of immigration is keeping millions of people out of jobs.… Read full post »
Finland turning back economic "refugees"
from YLE:
Finland turned back a record number of people seeking refuge
without jobs in the US has risen by 7.6m
"It was the 21st consecutive month that the US economy has shed jobs. Since the recession began in December 2007, the number of people without jobs in the US has risen by 7.6m to 15.1m."
And the US Chamber of Commerce wants to keep the millions… Read full post »
Finnish metal band invades
Bodom mania grips the United States
Children of Bodom bring extreme metal to the U.S. charts on a North American tour that takes in the boondocks as well as the big cities
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Crime to work in Sweden without a permit
Brazilian striker Wanderson do Carmo has been netting goals for Swedish football clubGais without a residence permit.
- The football authorities are now considering whether to penalize the club while the Migration Board (Migrationsverket) has reported Wanderson to the police over the issue. … Read full post »
Female PM & gay foreign minister in Germany
In Germany
The left-leaning daily Die Tageszeitung, mourning the
election victory of the centre-right, tried to cheer up its readers
with an ironic list of its upsides including—at number
two—a gay foreign minister.
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Family planning helps the environment
from The Financial Times:
"For too long population control has been virtually absent from international political discourse. Leaders have been reluctant to raise the issue for several reasons. One is fear of the powerful religious lobbies opposed to contraception. Another is t
Good international managers Nordic style
from Financial Times:
How the Nordic region became a seedbed for UK chairmen
Joan Walsh
Kerry Lauerman
Salon.com