När Göteborgs förskolor nyligen skulle uppmärksamma samernas nationaldag (!) valde man att servera hjortkött från Nya Zeeland (!!), eftersom detta visade sig vara billigare än renkött från lappmarkerna (?!). Ger en helt ny innebörd åt uttrycket "go Woke, get broke"...
Kritik mot att hjortkött serverades
Tycker inte rixmedias bevakning av skandalen i Alingsås har varit riktigt adekvat. Då vänder vi oss alltså till Samnytt...
Värre än frimurarna och "druiderna" i Älmhult resp. Piteå?
Terrorsekten "Islamiska Statens" operative ledare är tydligen göteborgare. Ja, nästan i varje fall...
“Miraklet i Gullspång” (The Miracle in Gullspång) is a somewhat peculiar Swedish documentary,
directed by Maria Fredriksson. It was released last year and won a couple of awards.
Recently, the public service network SVT made it more widely available. Interestingly,
the critics are not so amused this time around, and it´s possible that the docu
was overhyped at its initial release. It´s dragging, raises more questions than
it answers, and ends with a weird cliff-hanger. However, it seems to be tolerably
popular among ordinary TV viewers. I even encountered a couple just the other
day who discussed it on the metro! Another problem with “Miraklet i Gullspång”
is that the director snaps at one point and starts reaming out the people she
is interviewing, while the camera is still rolling. Major cringe, if you ask
me. Some people also wonder whether the “documentary” is really scripted and
hence sheer fiction.
The story,
such as it is, revolves around two Norwegian sisters, Kari and May. To simplify
somewhat, both live in Gullspång in Sweden. The sisters are Christians and see miraculous
signs all around them. During a visit to a real estate broker named Olaug, they
realize that she looks like a copy of their long lost sister Lita, who committed
suicide about 30 years earlier?! DNA tests show that Olaug indeed is the
half-sister of Kari and May. Some searches in the Norwegian archives seem to confirm
that Olaug is Lita´s identical twin. The two sisters were separated at birth in
1941, during the German occupation of Norway, supposedly for fear that they
would be abducted by crazy Nazi race scientists who conducted experiments on
twins.
Olaug soon
starts questioning the official story that Lita killed herself. First, she theorizes
based on the police report that Lita died of natural causes, perhaps a drowning
accident. This endears her to Kari and May, who apparently believed that Lita´s
immortal soul went straight to Hell due to her suicide. Soon, however, Olaug
starts to suspect that Lita was actually murdered. This is apparently too much for
her new Christian family, who desperately want to be seen as socially respectable
despite their poor rural background. Lita may or may not have been unfaithful,
embezzled money, or perhaps exposed criminal activity at her work. Either way, Kari
and May want Olaug to stop prying into Lita´s fate. It also turns out that
Olaug grew up in a privileged family, has served in the military, has a very high
IQ and is an atheist. The social and philosophical distance between her and her
sisters is just too great.
At this
point, the story takes a sensational turn. Olaug makes a new DNA test, and this
time the result indicates that she is *not* related in any way to Kari and May (and
hence not Lita). It´s at this point that the director loses her temper and starts
screaming! It´s perfectly possible that Olaug manipulated the second DNA test
to get the other sisters off her back, since they refused to cooperate with her
on investigating Lita´s possible murder. At the very end of the docu, Olaug
asks *the director* to make a DNA test with the words “I think we may be
related”. Nobody knows what the line means, and Maria Fredriksson refuses to
say. It certainly sounds as if Olaug might be a confidence trickster. Has she
manipulated Kari and May into thinking that she is their unknown sister? Since
Olaug hasn´t sued Swedish TV, I assume the real meaning of her parting words is
something else, or deliberately shrouded in mystery.
As already indicated, I don´t think “Miraklet i Gullspång” is ultimately *that* interesting, and I can understand that some suspect the whole thing to be scripted. After all, all the expected plot elements are there: Nazi medical experiments, twins separated at birth, doppelgängers, a murder mystery, even seemingly paranormal events (like when the director narrowly escapes being hit by a falling lamp during an interview, apparently “warned” by forces unknown). True miracle? Or miraculous script? I suppose we have to wait a couple of more years to find out…
En rubinnäktergal har siktats vid Vinga, eller rättare sagt på Vargön någonstans i Västergötland. Förstår inte riktigt uppståndelsen kring fyndet, eftersom den jäkla tättingen är väldigt vanlig i Sibirien och Östasien. Så varför kallas den "den heliga graalen" av "vallfärdande" fågelskådare? Det hela känns så 1820-talet. Numera kan man ta flyget till Japan, eller se videoklipp av "näktergalen" (egentligen en flugsnappare) på nätet. Snälla, det finns bönder som tar hit fucking strutsar, som ibland sliter sig och springer ut på Nynäsvägen. Om en struthiomimus skulle dyka upp på västgötaslätten så kan vi snacka om graaler ock så vajter...
