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Sweden warns of 'certain foreign powers' meddling in the 2018 election
TheLocal.se ^ | 22 February 2018 14:48 CET+01:00 | AFP/The Local

Posted on 02/22/2018 9:10:27 PM PST by Olog-hai

Sweden’s intelligence service has warned “foreign powers” could try to meddle in the country’s upcoming general election, singling out Russia in light of alleged interference in the last US vote.

However, the Swedish Security Service (Säpo), which is responsible for tackling espionage and terrorism, said in its annual report that Sweden’s “robust” and “decentralized” electoral system was tough to influence.

“It cannot be ruled out that certain foreign powers will take advantage of the Swedish election campaign to enhance conflicts in Swedish society and attempt to weaken the democratic system,” said Säpo head Anders Thornberg in the document, which was written last year and presented on Thursday.

“Russian espionage constitutes the greatest security threat” against non-NATO member Sweden, Säpo warned, adding that a third of Russian diplomats in the country were spies.

“Russia is in Sweden’s vicinity and could be linked to a potential military conflict,” Johan Olsson, a Säpo chief for countering security threats, said in the report. …

(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.se ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: electionfraud; eussr; foreignpowers; sweden
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1 posted on 02/22/2018 9:10:27 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Islam would seem to be an interfering entity.


2 posted on 02/22/2018 9:12:19 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Olog-hai

But, then again, with enough Arabs, anything is possible.


3 posted on 02/22/2018 9:13:02 PM PST by Bogie
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To: Olog-hai

Yes. Sweden should probably make sure that British agents (like Steele) don’t interfere with the election.


4 posted on 02/22/2018 9:15:08 PM PST by familyop (President Trump said that we're all important, so let's do something!)
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To: Olog-hai

This is Soros and Obama making a full on attack against Democracy. If you vote “properly” the vote is accurate. If you vote improperly (IE populist and nationalist) then they’re spreading the story that the vote is illegitimate and they can contest the results.

They’re doing it with Trump now.


5 posted on 02/22/2018 9:15:09 PM PST by Skywise
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To: Olog-hai

Is there any country on earth, that is NOT claiming that the Russians are meddling in their affairs?


6 posted on 02/22/2018 9:23:34 PM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: Olog-hai
And don't allow Obama's chosen election meddler, James Carville, into the country either.
7 posted on 02/22/2018 9:24:04 PM PST by KarlInOhio (I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own.)
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To: Olog-hai

World-wide ‘meddling’ !!!

Who knew ?!

(don’t you just hate meddling?)


8 posted on 02/22/2018 9:27:46 PM PST by A strike (Academia is almost as racist as Madison Avenue)
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To: familyop

Not to mention a host of international characters with a Democrat credit card.


9 posted on 02/22/2018 9:28:48 PM PST by Bogie
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To: Olog-hai

Syria? Afghanistan? Asscrackistan? Somalia? Mali? Iraq? Turkey? Morocco? Libya?


10 posted on 02/22/2018 9:32:24 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Skywise

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/paul-wolfowitz-may-vote-clinton-227452


11 posted on 02/22/2018 9:33:14 PM PST by Bogie
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To: Olog-hai

Ask the EU if they’re doing the fiddling.


12 posted on 02/22/2018 9:37:17 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Olog-hai

So instead of the really really liberal winning, only the really liberal will win?


13 posted on 02/22/2018 9:47:35 PM PST by LukeL
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When foreigners criticize the left’s champions, that is criminal election interference, and cause for indictments. When they criticize the right, that is, of course, legitimate as a preventive measure against all manner of bad things. Because Hitler.


14 posted on 02/22/2018 9:50:46 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Olog-hai

BTW, who is/are the most conservative political party/parties/individuals in Sweden?


15 posted on 02/22/2018 9:57:13 PM PST by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
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It depends on your take on conservatism.
The most popular party are Social Democrats (the name talking) followed by Moderata samlingspartiet who describe themselves as ‘liberal conservatives’ being socially liberal and economically moderate. The third are Swedish Democrats who are somehow conservative by Swedish standard arguably being to the left of US Democrats but to the right of the two above.
In any way the Left (Communist) and Green party combined has more followers than this poor excuse of ‘conservative’ Democrats. Also Democrats has at best four times lesser followers than Social Democrats.


16 posted on 02/22/2018 10:17:56 PM PST by NorseViking
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You all have your bags packed for Sweden?

17 posted on 02/22/2018 10:20:08 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: johnthebaptistmoore

There is exactly one party, the Sweden Democrats (SD) that does not want to destroy Sweden through the replacement of Swedes with Muslims from various sh-t holes source countries.

Every other party either actively seeks, or passively accepts, the obliteration of the Swedish people and their homeland.

Unfortunately, the Swedes are a weak people with a very feminized society, so the SD is very unlikely ever to get the 51 percent it would need to govern alone.


18 posted on 02/22/2018 11:06:39 PM PST by Dagnabitt
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The Soviet communists always interfered in Scandinavian politics from Sweden to Finland and Norway.

Every “peace” movement in those three countries were literally controlled by the KGB through it’s “World Peace Council” front.

For Sweden, their four delegates to the WPC from 1977-80 were:
Stellan Arvidson - Poet; literary critic; FORMER member of Parliament
Harald Edelstem - Diplomat; Ambassador of Sweden to Algeria and very anti-American
Vide Svensson - Civil Servant
John Takman - Physician; FORMER member of Parliament

Norway - Roald Halvorsen - President, Norwegian Peace Council

Recent finds in diplomatic records at the National Archives showed that key Norwegian political figures and even one or two of their leaders were either KGB operatives or assets
There might be a book coming out on this in a year or two.

Finland - a neutered country abounds in Soviet/KGB operatives and assets
WPC delegates including
Peter Backa, Swedish peace Committee in Finland; Swedish People’s Party
Seppo- Kanerva- V-Chm, Foreign Political section of Democratic Union of Finnish People
Matti Kekkonen - Government Councellor; Centre Party
Tellervo M. Koivisto - MP; Social Demcoratic Party; Chairman, Friendship Committee with the Arab Peoples, etc. - SUSPECTED KGB AGENT

Some FROM THE CENTRE PARTY - Kalervo Siikala; Paavo Vayrynen.

Ulf Sundqvist - MP; Sec. Gen, Social Democratic Party, Former MINISTER

Bo Winqvist - Journalist; Chairman, Socialist Workers Party

Paavo Rintala - Writer, Chman, Finnish Peace Movement etc.

Jarmo Makela - Chief Editor of Liberal Party organ

Foreign influences in Sweden? No shit Sherlock!

And PUTIN likes to sky, like any good imperialist RusSki.


19 posted on 02/22/2018 11:28:55 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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Like the literal Caliphate isn’t influencing Sweden’s elections....

Dumb as a Swede!


20 posted on 02/23/2018 2:01:31 AM PST by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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