Major town & city names in Sweden

notes from The Local article:
https://www.thelocal.se/20190306/the-history-behind-swedens-town-and-city-names

Stockholm  Stokker = log, Holm = islet

Göteborg / Gothenburg  Gothic Göta älv or Göta River, borg, = castle, stronghold

Malmö  Malmöghae  Malm = ore, older meaning sand, högar = piles/mounds

Karlstad / Tingvalla   Charles  King Karl XI  stad = city

Umeå   Norse 'roaring' rapids, å = stream French eau, water  Ume River (Ume älv)  Ume stream

Visby Old Norse vi, 'place of sacrifices' or 'holy place' by today 'village' but earlier, larger towns

Uppsala / Östra Aros, Eastern Estuary where river Fyrisån meets Mälaren
Upp Sala differentiated from town of Sala, a ceremonial building

Västerås / Västra Aros (Western Estuary) melded to one word

Kiruna /  Luossavaara, from Luossavárri mountain. Deliberately shortened from another area mountain Gironvárri, Sami 'mountain ridge', Kiirunavaara in Finnish;

Jokkmokk / Jåhkåmåhkke / Dálvvadis 'winter settlement' seems 'bend in the stream', but original muorkke, strip of land between two rivers

Linköping  Lionga ting assembly, Liunga Kauping was a Swedish Church site in the 1100s
köpa (to buy), prev. 95 "köping" = market or trading towns, many became städer but kept names

Nyköping  New market

Norrköping  North market


Snopptorp  Erik af Snoppenström's torp = Croft (seems penis croft)

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Lambert Proposal: EU Holidays

French President Macron calls for a "European Renaissance" and this week suggests assorted progressive policies, mostly political.

Please consider as well that Europeans still know little about each other.

I suggest European holidays; specifically, four EU-wide days-off each year rotating among the national days of member states. Requiring seven years for one cycle, we'll perhaps one year drink French beer on 14 July, another year have Swedish fish 6 June. We may learn why 12 October is important in Spain, what happened 18 November in Latvia, and how Portuguese celebrate on 10th June.

It's a modest proposal, and a chance to learn & party. Let's admit: it'll be FUN.

-- Dr. Bruce Henry Lambert, Stockholm
in response to "Pour une Renaissance européenne"
Publié le 4 mars 2019, Emmanuel Macron

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Quick research generated the below data for EU National Days
(open to revision & refinement)

Austria; Österreich	26 Oct
Belgium; België; Belgique; Belgien	21 July
Bulgaria; България (Bǎlgariya)	3 March
Croatia; Hrvatska	25 June
Cyprus; Κύπρος (Kípros); Kıbrıs	1 Oct
Czechia; Česko; Czech Republic	28 Oct;  28 Sept
Denmark; Danmark	5 June
Estonia; Eesti	24 Feb
European Union; Council of Europe	9 May; 5 May (Europe Day)
Finland; Suomi	6 Dec
France	14 July
Germany; Deutschland	3 Oct
Greece; Ελλάδα (Elláda)	25 March; 28 Oct
Hungary; Magyarország	15 March; 20 Aug; 23 Oct
Ireland; Éire	17 March
Italy; Italia	25 April; 2 June
Latvia; Latvija	18 Nov
Lithuania; Lietuva	16 Feb; 6 July
Luxembourg; Luxemburg; Lëtzebuerg	23 June
Malta	31 March; 7 June; 8 Sept; 21 Sept; 13 Dec
Netherlands; Nederland; Nederlân	15 Dec; 27 April; 5 May
Poland; Polska	3 May; 11 Nov
Portugal	10 June
Romania; România	24 Jan; 1 Dec
Slovakia; Slovensko	1 Jan; 29 Aug; 1 Sept
Slovenia; Slovenija	25 June; 25 Oct; 26 Dec
Spain; España; Espanya; Espainia	12 Oct
Sweden; Sverige	6 June
United Kingdom; Teyrnas Unedig; An Rìoghachd Aonaichte	2nd Sat June

Love the Police

SHAM Love   - Ugly undercover seduction & continuing betrayal tactic by British police deceives citizens seeking better communities.

"My partner had never existed and was played by an actor, sent in by the State in order to spy on me as a peaceful green activist."

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-47240670

Another Grievous Wrong by Establishment Britain

Civility for Dummies

Calling for "civility" in response to abuse and criminality is wrongheaded. 

Blame Pres. Obama for refusing to prosecute Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld-Rice-Powell for organizing torture & engineering public deception to wage illegal war in Iraq. Bullies are emboldened when there is no accountability. We're adept at ignoring our own genocidal crimes.

• Until the 1860s we allowed buying, whipping, owning "colored" people, and subsequently let former "owners" keep all proceeds from their now-illegal trade. 

•  Native lands & resources are being stolen even today.

In semicivilized America, civility is a dummy (pacifier = what babies suck)

Stealing inheritance

The United States of America stole huge tracts of land from native peoples, forcibly displacing many communities. People were aggressively assimilated or exterminated by mandatory reeducation and military force. 

Systematic efforts to uproot indigenous inheritance continue today, promoted by American industry via corrupt political & legal systems. 

WE Pay for this Outrage; continuing over 400 years we've provided, hired, and paid for the soldiers & muscle, the walls, writs, whips and whitewash. How can just a few rich families claim the pie, leaving crumbs for the rest of us?

2019 Ghetto Bowl

SCANDAL: American football is focus for concerns & protest over racist attacks in America. 

Racist brutality was peacefully highlighted by Colin Kaepernick and Black Lives Matter, contrasted with blackballing and hostility among smugly wealthy NFL club owners in bed with the US military.

So it is beyond simply insensitive when the US Super Bowl presents a hated Ghetto life stereotype front and center: the large fancy pimp-mobile with fur-coated rapper Big Boi.  

Black Lives Matter? The NFL displayed the scary black Devil stereotype !  Football's fat owners Suck

Pro-vocative! Dis irony?

 

Alienating Britain

Abandoning efforts to create a better Europe, the Brexit Brigade alienates non-British allies. Outright lies and exaggeration cloud the minds of the British public. They're convinced the EU wants to manipulate negotiations, somehow forcing Britain to remain under EU influence. 

But British antagonism toward Europe alongside perceived British arrogance lead many Europeans to feel:
Be Gone -- Good riddance.
Fuck Off.

Militarist capitalism FAILED

In my opinion, we can humanize our enemies, and confront the true enemy of communities: militarism. 

I'm not suggesting working people in military service are bad - it's a tough & dangerous job. 

But after criminal operations such as the Vietnam War we should have imprisoned 1000 planners & politicians... same for America's ongoing genocidal war on the "redskin" and Hawai'i's occupation. How could slave traders & slave owners escape paying compensation? 

Militarist capitalism has failed. Architects of chauvinist America should be held accountable for crimes.

Tantrum of the Will

Improving regulation of inward migration is reasonable.

But Republican leaders partner with America's fascists, maliciously insulting and threatening our Mexican & Latin American neighbors.

I fear America's ultra-right menace! 

Everyone should beware.

Thumb-Up, Assholes

Local stewardship & locally-led development weaken w/o controls over licensing, immigration & investment.

The USA widely regulates inward migration; these laws & penalties need revision. 

Government shutdown when one suggested remedy can't gain consensus = crazy

America politico thumb up butt