Denmark tightens border controls
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Denmark has tightened its border controls in a move which opponents claim could sound the death knell for the EU’s principle of free movement. The Scandinavian country deployed an extra 50 customs officers at crossings on the German and Swedish borders in an attempt to curb cross-border crime and illegal immigration. Danish custom officers check a unindentified driver from the Netherlands at the Danish-German border in Padborg, Denmark This figure will rise to 98 by the end of the year. Denmark, which belongs to the EU’s passport-free Schengen zone, also plans to increase video surveillance at crossings and build four...
Published on Friday 18th of May 2012 03:12:20 AM
Technical glitch grounds homemade Danish rocket
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COPENHAGEN (AFP) – The first launch attempt of a homemade rocket built by two Danes failed on Sunday because of a technical glitch, according to Danish media. Live footage of the launch off the Baltic island of Bornholm appeared to show brown smoke coming out of the rocket after the countdown. Experts interviewed by TV2 News said the likely cause was a failure of the ignition system. After an inspection, the builders of the rocket decided against a second launch and did not set a date for a new attempt. Peter Madsen and Kristian von Bengtsson have toiled for over...
Published on Friday 18th of May 2012 03:12:20 AM
Salute the Danish Flag - it's a Symbol of Western Freedom
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In 1978-9 I was living and studying in Denmark. But in 1978 - even in Copenhagen , one didn't see Muslim immigrants. The Danish population embraced visitors, celebrated the exotic, went out of its way to protect each of its citizens. It was proud of its new brand of socialist liberalism one in development since the conservatives had lost power in 1929 - a system where no worker had to struggle to survive, where one ultimately could count upon the state as in, perhaps, no other western nation at the time. The rest of Europe saw the Scandinavians as free-thinking,...
Published on Friday 18th of May 2012 03:12:20 AM
Drunk soldiers sent back to Denmark
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark,- Danish air force officials said four soldiers were sent home from the U.N. mission in Lebanon for excessive drinking. Tactical Air Command spokesman Lars Skjoldan said military personnel are allowed two drinks two days per week, but the four soldiers were extremely intoxicated when their commanding officer confronted them, the Copenhagen Post reported Thursday. He said the alcohol consumption occurred during free time for the soldiers, but that did not mitigate the circumstances. Skjoldan said the soldiers will go before the Military Auditor Corps and will likely face fines
Published on Friday 18th of May 2012 03:12:20 AM
Chicago Resident David Coleman Headley Pleads Guilty... [Re: Mumbai, India, Let, Denmark]
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Note: The following text is a quote: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, March 18, 2010 Chicago Resident David Coleman Headley Pleads Guilty to Role in India and Denmark Terrorism Conspiracies Admits Conducting Surveillance for Lashkar e Tayyiba in Planning 2008 Mumbai Attacks David Coleman Headley, a U.S. citizen of partial Pakistani descent, pleaded guilty today to a dozen federal terrorism charges, admitting that he participated in planning the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, as well as later planning to attack a Danish newspaper. In pleading guilty to all 12 counts that were brought against him in December and were...
Published on Friday 18th of May 2012 03:12:20 AM
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