A few months before the terrorist attack in Oslo, Arfan Bhatti received confirmation from the EOS committee, which controls the secret services in Norway, that PST had monitored him illegally. The EOS Committee received a complaint from Bhatti which we processed in accordance with the EOS Control Act. We did investigate and found reasons to […]
Continue reading »TV2 gives a very gloomy outlook for Ap before the autumn elections. A forecast shows that the bourgeois parties are close to a majority in 35 of the 50 largest municipalities in Norway. New stones are constantly being added to the burden of the Labor leadership. They may be about to steer the party into […]
Continue reading »Two recent opinion polls in Germany show a deadlock between the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) and the social democratic party SPD as to who is the second largest party in the country. Both currently have 19 percent support.
Continue reading »An argument in the UN about LGBT people could lead to a budget of US$885 million not getting approved. African and Arab countries are putting their feet down. A dispute over the terminology for LGBT people could cause the $885 million budget of the United Nations Labor Organization (ILO) to be rejected, according to sources. […]
Continue reading »A completed application form for exemption from Pride events at school is spreading in closed groups on Facebook, reports TV2. The initiative is treated so seriously that it apparently comes from Muslim quarters.
Continue reading »Norwegians contribute more than twice as much greenhouse gas emissions through air traffic as the average worldwide. That is what Norwegian climate scientists claim. Borgar Aamaas is a researcher at Cicero with a background in meteorology and climate and has made a short list of possible ways to reduce emissions from aircraft: 1. Don’t travel […]
Continue reading »Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre recently appointed his former chief of staff Torgeir Larsen to the top of the Foreign Ministry. Soon he will appoint one of his closest associates, Kjersti Andersen, head of foreign affairs in his own office. It has long been in the cards that Kjersti Andersen (54) will become the new […]
Continue reading »Benjamin Silseth promoted his new book about being young and queer in Norway. Then the “hate comments” poured in. NRK reports that on the same day that psychologist and media profiler Benjamin Silseth published his book, hate comments started to pour in. Here are some examples of what are described as hate comments: “I’m going […]
Continue reading »The union’s leader, Jørn Eggum, reacts very strongly to the fact that the management of Thon Hotels has informed their hotels that they are not allowed to raise Pride flags. We have not raised rainbow flags on our flag poles because we want to be neutral, that inclusion and diversity should embrace everyone, says executive […]
Continue reading »Employees at Thon Hotels are not allowed to raise the rainbow flag at work. This has caused a commotion, with the group trustee claiming to be “stunned”. While more or less “the whole of Norway” competes to put up as many pride flags as possible, everywhere, the Thon hotels have a different policy. The flags […]
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