Al Gore, Nobel prize winner and former Vice-President of the USA, will be the main speaker at the TransAtlantic Climate Conference 08 in the Faroe Islands, on 7 and 8 April, an event focusing on climate change in the North Atlantic and on the new challenges faced by countries in the region…
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Now take a break from design and return to life in Nordic Countries, to be correct, in one of them - Finland.
When I opened up my RSS reader and checked the Finland for thought feed, I don’t believed my eyes and sat down stagnated a while. My first impression was scaring, judge itself:
Helsinki and Vantaa police spot-checking foreigners without residence permit
Inspections in shopping malls and stations
The Helsinki and Vantaa police departments have stepped up the inspections of foreigners’ residence permits. Police officers are making spot checks in places where foreigners typically gather, including shopping malls, railway stations, and harbours.
In Vantaa, spot checks have been made in the shopping centres of Myyrmanni and Jumbo, among others. In Espoo, random inspections are not worthwhile, as the number of targets would be comparatively low, says Chief Inspector Aaro Väätäinen.
Anyone looking or sounding foreign can be chosen as the target of spot checks. ”A foreigner is always obliged to explain why he or she is in Finland. However, they do not have to carry all relevant documents with them all the time, as the facts can be checked through a computer network” reports Chief Inspector Jouko Aromäki from the Vantaa police. ”At some point we will certainly have a meeting involving the police, the Customs, and the Border Guard in order to discuss how the authorities are to cooperate in the matter”, notes Jaakko Heinilä, the head of the Investigation Unit at the Helsinki Immigration Police. ”The point of these checks is to maintain order and security in public places, with a view to the wellbeing of all citizens and residents of this country”, stresses Heinilä.
Here is important point of this publication that giving the whole story more bad smelling twist:
Typically, a foreigner without a residence permit comes from Africa or from the Middle East. Unable to present any identity card, he or she has come into Finland through another Schengen country, without facing border immigration control formalities.
Obviously, these checks will be focused mainly on non-caucasian race persons.
Read the whole article on Helsingin Sanomat:
There is a big discussion on Finland for thought blog, evoking many different points of view.
Ombudsman of Minorities Johanna Suurpää already addressed some concern about this issue on the pages of Helsingin Sanomat.
I am personally, started to think where can I buy a special purse to carry my ID…
About the photo used in this article:
Who’s there?
I sometimes feel like someone’s watching me. Seriously though, this statue is called ‘Daybreak’ and it was made by one of Finlands most prominent sculpters - Wäinö Aaltonen. It stands in front of the Bank of Finland Security Printing House, Rauhankatu 19, Kruununhaka. That’s why the security camera is there.
Uploaded by Kikeb to Nordic Design Photo pool on 26 Feb 07, 10.36PM EET.
Accomplished Iranian film director and Finnish newspaper mogul Alexis Kouros is suing Phil Schwarzman for 9,800 euros over copyright infringement and libel on his popular Finland For Thought blog.
He claims that Phil liable for all negative his readers have written about him - this case is one of the first of it’s kind, not just in Finland but in the world.
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I sporadically reading Finland for Thought blog, and love it for the sense of humour and articles covering various aspects of Finnish life.
Today two articles captured my attention, one is about recent scandal with Ritva Santavuori and her rasist comments on Barack Osama’s step-grandmother, and second one just brilliant story about local magazine called Luottolista, where published personal data of Finnish people who have credit problems… terrific!
Links:
YLE has residual racist features
I owe, I owe, it’s in the magazine I go…
Baltic Sea is still almost ice-free and sea waters are unseasonably warm. According to the Finnish Institute of Marine Research, waters around Finland are one or two degrees above the long-term average.
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It seems that bloggers get the “upraised nose” kind of attitude whenever they submit things to Digg. Bloggers are seen as self-serving and selfish in their self-promotion. I’m here to tell you that it just isn’t so. The story will air on Sky News in the UK on Feb 22, 2008.
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In May, the new incarnation of the Copenhagen International Furniture Fair, Copenhagen Design, or CODE, will take place with an expanded focus on design and a new architecture category.
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The Nordic Battlegroup, a 2,400 soldiers-strong rapid reaction troop, lost a legal battle over its army and was forced to castrate the overtly male heraldic lion…
The Local - Jumbo Jet hostel gets go-ahead: “Visitors to Stockholm could soon have a new option for cheap airport accommodation – a Boeing 747 at Arlanda airport.
Uppsala businessman Oscar Diös has been given permission by airport owner LFV and the Swedish National Roads Administration to open a youth hostel in a Jumbo Jet parked by the airport entrance.
Diös plans to rip out the plane’s 500 seats and instead install 80 beds. The cockpit will be made into a suite, and some of the equipment will be preserved.
’The challenge is that nobody has done this before, so there’s no precedent. But essentially it’s like fitting out any kind of metal barracks,’ Diös told newspaper UNT.”
(Via The Local.)
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