Don’t think for a second this can’t happen here. We have a Constitution that is regularly ignored, and an entire mass of people who tell you what you can and cannot say – then call it being “fair” and “politically correct.” Not only could it happen here, we’re already doing it to ourselves.

Holy crap.

According to that sourcelink, and this one, a new law in Sweden which takes effect now, will allow people to be PROSECUTED for criticizing immigration.  They can also be prosecuted for criticizing politicians’ unwillingness to address immigration.

This is for real, y’all.

Apparently, parliament voted on this issue after a member of the Constitutional Committee, Andrew Norlen, pushed it, claiming it would help deter people from complaining about their country.

He said, “I do not think it takes very many prosecutions before a signal is transmitted in the community that the internet is not…

Eurasian Economic Union: Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan & Kyrgyzstan

Vladimir Isachenkov reports for the AP that on Dec. 23, 2014, Russia and four other ex-Soviet nations — Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan —  completed the creation of a new economic alliance, the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU).

Emblem and flag of the Eurasian Economic Union

The EEU will begin on January 1, 2015. In addition to free trade, the new union will coordinate the members’ financial systems and regulate their industrial and agricultural policies along with labor markets and transportation networks.

Russia had tried to encourage Ukraine to join, but its former pro-Moscow president was ousted in February following months of protests. Russia then annexed Ukraine’s Black Sea Crimean Peninsula, and a pro-Russia mutiny has engulfed eastern Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the new union will have a combined economic output of $4.5 trillion and bring together 170 million people