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Denmark's Immigrants Offered Money to Leave Country
Region: Denmark
Denmark is offering immigrants from “non-Western” countries 100,000 Danish kroners (US$20,000) if they volunteer to give up their legal residency and move “home”. This is just one of many creative initiatives spearheaded by the anti-immigrant Danish People's Party to make foreigners - and especially Muslims - feel unwelcome in this small European country of 5.5 million inhabitants. Acco... more
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Denmark's Immigrants Offered Money to Leave Country
Region: DenmarkBy Solana Larsen Denmark is offering immigrants from “non-Western” countries 100,000 Danish kroners (US$20,000) if they volunteer to give up their legal residency and move “home”. This is just one of many creative initiatives spearheaded by the anti-immigrant Danish People's Party to make foreigners - and especially Muslims - feel unwelcome in this small European country of 5.5 million inhabita... more
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Denmark: #TV2Wikigate
Region: DenmarkLast month, two Danish television hosts aiming to show that the participatory online encyclopedia Wikipedia is unreliable, instead ended up defending their own credibility when it was uncovered that the errors they showed off on television had been created by someone working for the program. Wikipedia enthusiasts took up the fight [da] with TV2, and the ensuing public debate has centered on questions of journalistic i... more
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Rich Danes, Wealthy Swedes
Region: DenmarkEverybody knows that during the world war first, there was very bad economic situation in Europe. People in most European countries couldn’t eat properly. A few weeks ago, scientists discovered a very strange fact: according to statistics, each citizen of Denmark used 750kg fat (butter and oil) in a week, and each citizen of Sweden ate 80 kg chocolates in a week. Scientists say that the appetite of Swedes and... more
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Danes Use Twitter and YouTube to Attract a New Breed of Tourist
Region: Denmark
Twitter and Facebook have hit the mainstream travel industry. The Danes have launched an entirely online campaign entitled 48hoursindenmark.com, in which they are promising a free trip to Denmark, for whoever shows the best command of social media. Basically applicants are to video themselves explaining why they are the best facebook’ers tweet’ers around, and the reward is a all expenses paid trip to Aar... more
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Scandinavian airlines (SAS) lower wages
Region: DenmarkAccidents, fuel pricing and finacial crisis. These are some of the things whitch have been bad for the airline, and have now forced a company-wide lowering in wages. It has not yet been decidet how much they go down, but the pilots have already agreed to work more, for less. The airline is the biggest in scandinavia, and is half owned by the 3 states: Sweden, Norway and Denmark. It's and old compa... more
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Killing of Dolphins by Danes: An Animal's Rights Issue
Region: Denmark
This might come as a surprise to many that Danish people not only are notorious in making mockery of religious figures but also have no respect for animal rights at all. It is said that a picture worths 1,000 words; hence I would leave you with horrific dolphin slaughter scenes happening in a Danish Island. Residents of Feroe Island celebrate their toughness by killing innocent dolphins once these innocent a... more
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Health Risks of Mobil phones
Region: DenmarkPreliminary Research conducted by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Aarhus, Denmark suggest a possible linkage to behavioral and emotional problems in Children whose mothers use mobile phones during the pregnancy, even if the usage was limited to as low as TWO to THREE times a DAY These researchers had surveyed Mohters of little more than 13,000 children from DENMARK in the late 1990's abo... more
Views: 546Over Muhammad Cartoon, 'Bin Laden' Threatens EU In Newest Tape
Region: DenmarkThere was a new tape released on one of the Islamist extremist websites with an image of Osama Bin Laden, the Al-Qaeda leader. However, the image was a still image of Osama Bin Laden, it is unknown if it is really him or not. If the voice on the audio message is confirmed to be that of Osama Bin Laden, it will be his first message since November of 2007. The latest message threatens the European Union (EU) over the... more
Views: 833Westergaard's Muhammad Cartoon Is Up For Sale
Region: DenmarkCurrently, Kurt Westergaard remains in hiding from the Islamic militants that are out to kill him. The cartoon had sparked outrage once again as newspaper publishers across Denmark ran it on their papers once again in protest of the assassination attempt on Westergaard’s life. Two Tunisians were arrested on allegations they were planning to kill Westergaard. Westergaard explains that the cartoon was ins... more
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