Category Archives: Scandinavian Smorgasbord

Why Jian Ghomeshi could get a life sentence (and Julien Blanc should STILL be banned)

Posted on November 27, 2014 by Sabina Becker

Poor Captain Kirk. He just doesn’t get it. Oh dear. This really hasn’t been a great week for the PUA types, has it? Julien Blanc has been banned from Singapore, now, and has also cancelled his dates in Norway. It’s … Continue reading →

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Icelandic funnyman wants to mack on Julien Blanc. Dafuq?

Posted on November 22, 2014 by Sabina Becker

Squeal like a pig! While Ireland is working hard to make sure Julien Blanc doesn’t get so much as a look-in on their green and rugged turf, a very different situation seems to be brewing in a country just one … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Some random Icelander on daylight saving time

Posted on November 13, 2014 by Sabina Becker

Three hours of sunlight a day? Yikes. No wonder this guy’s mad at the Aussies. Yes, it does get dark quickly this time of year in the northern latitudes. Especially around and above the Arctic Circle. (How close to it … Continue reading →

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Music for a Sunday: There will not be drinking of tea

Posted on November 2, 2014 by Sabina Becker

You go and pee, your drink is SO safe with me.

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German psychologists and the scientific case against prostitution

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Sabina Becker

An 18-year-old Bosnian Muslim war survivor recovering after abortion of a rape-induced pregnancy, September 1992. Photo: Nina Berman, Sipa Press. Even as German politicians are coming under heavy pressure from the local pimp lobby to do away with all laws … Continue reading →

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The German sex trade’s leading lobbyists, unmasked

Posted on September 2, 2014 by Sabina Becker

Johanna Weber and Fabienne Freymadl, two leading “spokespersons” for the recently-assembled German “sex workers’ movement”. Who are they, and what lies behind them? EMMA investigated, and found the following: In the middle of the summer, BILD.de came out with the … Continue reading →

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ISIS is a Goddess; ISIL is shit. Literally.

Posted on August 30, 2014 by Sabina Becker

Aliaa Elmahdy and a Swedish friend show ISIL what they really think of their world-domination plans. Story from EMMA: For this symbolic protest, they risk their lives: An Egyptian and a Swede menstruate and shit on the flag of the … Continue reading →

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Lebensborn, Israeli style?

Posted on August 22, 2014 by Sabina Becker

Nazi officers overseeing the baptism of a baby of the Lebensborn program. Germany, 1936. Photographer unknown. Source: German Bundesarchiv, via Wikimedia Commons. That not-so-fine line between “Never Again” and “It’s not fascism when WE do it!” just got blurred yet … Continue reading →

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Compare and contrast: Ukraine vs. Venezuela

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Sabina Becker

The boys of VTV’s Zurda Konducta dissect a crapaganda campaign that seems to have gone viral (or tried to, in the case of Venezuela). See if you can spot the similarities: Did you see it? Both “viral” videos feature a … Continue reading →

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Oh shit, are we doomed?

Posted on November 19, 2013 by Sabina Becker

A performer at the Jorvik Viking Centre in York, England, plays a primitive tuba found in the ancient Viking part of town. According to Norse myth, the sounding of a certain specific horn heralds doom: The horn belonged to the … Continue reading →

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