Kollas inte asylsökande eller tiggarna när de kommer in i landet? Skandal om inte!
onsdag, december 27, 2017
Dålig PR... minst sagt
Inom loppet av en vecka har tre män från Sverige, eller med kopplingar till landet, gripits som en del av terrorutredningar. Så sent som på julafton greps en 29-årig svensk man i Nederländerna.
fredag, december 22, 2017
Fridolin tar avstånd från Anderssons asyluttalande
”Inte regeringens syn.” Gustav Fridolin (MP) kritiserar Magdalena Andersson för uttalandet om att flyktingar och migranter borde söka sig till andra länder än Sverige.
– Faran är att om alla säger så, så finns det snart ingen fristad kvar för den som verkligen behöver fly, säger han.
Apropå: Ingen kan förvånas över miljöpartiets urusla opinionssiffror.
The New Sweden. Skrämmande minst sagt
Skjutningar:
Väst 36 4 döda
Bergslagen 7 0
Mitt 17 4
Nord 5 2
Stockholm 110 18
Syd 92 10
Öst 19 3
Totalt 41 personer ihjälskjutna (hittills) under 2017
OBS Ofta har har skjutningarna ägt rum på allmänna platser i tätbebyggt område
Katalonien
Valresultatet i Katalonien pekar på ett fortsatt politiskt ostadigt läge i regionen, skriver CNN:s Tim Lister i en analys. Han konstaterar att även om separatistkoalitionen tog hem segern så utgör de tre partierna knappast en enhetlig allians.
Trump
USA utpressningshot mot FN och många av världens länder påminner om gamla tiders stormaktsfasoner. Den starkes rätt ska gälla. Övriga ska hålla käft./AB
Trump
Donald Trump is 'the most dangerous man in the world', claim leading psychiatrists and academics
'His madness is catching,' opponents assert
Donald Trump is “dangerously mentally ill”, a group of experts and commentators has claimed.
Led by Yale psychiatrist Dr Bandy Lee, 27 writers hold forth in a new book that also claims “his madness is catching”.
The Trump presidency, the authors assert, “has created unprecedented mental health consequences across our nation and beyond”.
torsdag, december 21, 2017
Melbourn. 'Not terror-related': Flinders Street driver of Afghan descent and mentally ill Melissa Cunningham and Tammy Mills
The horrific attack on pedestrians at a busy intersection in Melbourne's CBD was not believed to be terror-related, Victoria Police have said.
Nineteen people were injured, including a four-year-old boy, after the driver of an SUV mowed down pedestrians on Flinders Street at Elizabeth Street on Thursday just before 5pm.
The New Sweden
Hittills har 40 personer skjutits till
döds och 135 har skadats i de totalt
306 skjutningarna. Det är mer än
dubbelt så många som för fem år sedan /Text TV
Det vansinniga, utbredda våldet i USA
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The Quiet Room
N Engl J Med 2017; 377:2411-241 December 21, 2017DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1714825
At the end of an inconspicuous hallway and strategically placed far from the controlled chaos of the trauma room lies a dimly lit waiting area that we in the medical field call “the quiet room.” It is a bland spot; a few soft chairs surround a table that holds a box of crisp institutional tissues. There may be a picture or two on the wall, but generally it is an unassuming room where we physicians tell mothers about the deaths of their children, far too often because of firearm violence.
As we make our way to this room, we recite a careful script; we use words intended to ease this painful first-and-only meeting. The reality is that over the years, we have found that there is no good way to tell a mother that her child has died, especially when the unexpected death might have been avoidable.
We introduce ourselves as the doctor who took care of their child. We take a deep breath, look into their eyes, and quickly break the devastating news — there is no reason to delay. What follows is the visceral, piercing shriek of a mother’s wailing, “Please God, not my baby!” We often weep with these mothers, we sometimes quietly blame ourselves for not being able to do more to save their baby’s life — and when they are alone, as is often the case, we hold them up while they cry.
We walk away from the encounter, our stomachs churning from the stale, metallic scent of a child’s blood barely dried on our clogs, our faces streaked with tears, and our hearts gripped in a vise as we tell ourselves that this senseless dying must end. But it doesn’t end. Another child is shot, and another mother is heartbroken.
There is nothing quiet about this room.
In the month since the mass shooting in Las Vegas, over 1300 more Americans have been killed, and more than twice that number have been injured, by firearm violence. Every day, 46 children and teenagers are shot and 7 of them die. The overwhelming majority of those shootings and deaths are the result of interpersonal violence, though some are from an accidental discharge of an unsecured firearm and some are suicides and are attributed to underlying mental illness.1 Sometimes the shooting is described in a bylined article in the local newspaper, but most of the time it is not reported at all. What does get reported skews toward senseless acts of terror, with the blame placed squarely on the shoulders of a mentally ill monster. But gun violence in the United States is not primarily a mental health problem.
Nearly a month after the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history, which killed 58 people, we predictably find ourselves witness to another mass shooting, this time in a small town near San Antonio, Texas. In this attack, 25 Americans, including a pregnant woman and up to 14 children (the most children affected since the shooting in Newtown, CT, in 2012), were murdered by a single perpetrator during Sunday prayer services. On the evening news, only hours after the tragedy, we are told once again that it is time for “a national conversation about guns.”
From the vantage point of a trauma surgeon, conversation seems a terribly feeble response. Gun violence, whether on the streets of Chicago or in the churches of Charleston and Sutherland Springs, is a national health emergency. It is an epidemic as deadly as the global Ebola crisis or the opioid epidemic in this country. But in those emergencies, a call for action has been followed by at least some action, not simply by the ritual and empty call for thoughts and prayers and, at most, a mere discussion. Congress appropriated $5.4 billion for the Ebola response as part of its final fiscal year 2015 spending package. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is awarding more than $40 million to support state efforts to address the opioid-overdose epidemic. After the introduction of the Dickey Amendment in 1996, government funding for research into firearm injuries and deaths has been restricted.
President Donald Trump has said that gun violence in America is a mental health problem, but the issue is far more complicated. Only if funding for research on firearm-violence prevention and public health surveillance is reinstated can we determine the best approach to addressing the public health crisis of firearm violence. Furthermore, expanding the National Violent Death Reporting System from 40 states to all 50 states plus Washington, D.C., would provide more information about where we should be focusing our attention.
In addition, the American Academy of Pediatrics has laid out three key priorities for confronting the crisis2: access to appropriate mental health services, particularly to address the effects of exposure to violence; enactment of firearm legislation that includes stronger background checks, banning assault weapons, addressing firearm trafficking, and encouraging safe firearm storage; and protecting the crucial role of physicians in providing anticipatory guidance to patients about the health hazards of firearms.
It is time for more than a discussion. Surely there is, in our collective power, some more concrete way to address the public health crisis that is gun access. We can no longer allow one mother after another to know the pain of losing a child to senseless gun violence. We remain haunted by their screams.
onsdag, december 20, 2017
November 2017 Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” on display at Christie’s two days before being sold for $450.3 million, an auction record.
Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” on display at Christie’s two days before being sold for $450.3 million, an auction record.
Tystnad om krisen under Svenska Akademiens högtidssammankomst
Efter dramatiska veckor med flera avslöjanden höll Svenska Akademien sin traditionella högtidssammankomst i Börssalen i Stockholm under onsdagskvällen. Situationen har beskrivits som Akademiens djupaste kris någonsin, men berördes inte under kvällens möte, där fyra stolar stod tomma./SVT
Pinsamt
Vad löjlig svenska teveprogram blir som i allt härmar (försöker härma) amerikanks diton. Råkade just se sportjournalisten Ekwall intervjua hon som inte lyckades så vidare i längdåkning på skidor, men rönte framgång efter att ha övergått till mindre konkurensutsatta skidskyttet, alltså Magdalena Forsberg. Ekwall på David Letterman-vis sittande bakom ett skrivbord och Forsberg lutandes "lättjefullt" på en soffa alldeles intill.
Nyheter från f.d. välordnade välfärdslandet Sverige
Den friande domen mot männen som åtalats för gruppvåldtäkten i Fittja är en häpnadsväckande uppläxning av polisen, skriver Dagens Nyheter i sin ledare.
Tidningen radar upp flera fel som polisen gjort under utredningen, bland annat att dokumentationen varit bristfällig och att man kringgått gällande rutiner för hur vittneskonfrontationer ska gå till.
”Våldtäktsfallet i Fittja är en rättsskandal. Inte för att männen frias utan för att det sker till följd av polisens inkompetens”, skriver tidningen.
Tidningen radar upp flera fel som polisen gjort under utredningen, bland annat att dokumentationen varit bristfällig och att man kringgått gällande rutiner för hur vittneskonfrontationer ska gå till.
”Våldtäktsfallet i Fittja är en rättsskandal. Inte för att männen frias utan för att det sker till följd av polisens inkompetens”, skriver tidningen.