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Sweden: Jews leave Swedish city after sharp rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes

…hat the harassment of Jews by some young Muslims was “embarrassing” to his community. Many of them are unemployed and confined to life on bleak estates where the Scandinavian dream of prosperity and equality seemed far away. For many of Malmo’s white Swedish population, meanwhile, the racial problems are bewildering after years of liberal immigration policies. “I first encountered race hatred when I was an au pair in England and I was shocked,” sa…

Japan – A personal story

…hink about other than ourselves.  We are not the only ones.  2.  We cannot come there, and it is best that you do not come here at this time.   3.  It is like we are living in older times.  We were simply too used to the comforts of modern society. They now are experiencing 3 hour black outs and the stores have run out of necessities.  They went to Kawagoe the other day and he simply said that the crowd was “sugoi” (very large). The Japanese are a…

Racism in Japan

…after being here for three years and learning the language, my life has become 300% easier. I think that if gaijins made more of an effort to understand Japan and the Japanese instead of trying to have Japan adjust to them, this racism stuff would ease up a bit. The article lists a website at www.debito.org/roguesgallery.html that apparently catalogs pictures of foreigners being barred entry. Might be worth a look but not getting too angry over….

American Automakers, Capitalism, India and Christmas

…omic news plays a small part, but much more it is the society which I have come to not like very much since coming back from Asia. Perhaps the pinnacle example of this is the Wal-Mart employee that was crushed by hordes of animals trying to get a good deal on some trinket. This once act really defines a society at large which has become nothing more than a consuming monstrosity. The point of life in America seems to be to “purchase” to “consume” a…

Ron Paul, Tea Party, Fox News and Colorado Springs

…in Colorado Springs stopped paying taxes then they would have no job. BUT, free market could take over and set up private companies that would ensure efficiency which means they would not be paid just to sit around waiting for things to happen but only when there was a fire or criminal on the loose.  Firemen would have to stop responding to cats in trees and would not have to report to work to just sit.  Instead they would have to report when ther…