A recent report from February 2014 shows, that 25.000 full-timers receiving a social welfare allowance were being activated to work in companies that needed labour in 2012. The companies pay nothing, so in fact it is the company that receives the social welfare, not the person. This is about at least 9 billion DK, directly […]
The meaning of respect and the backside of dialogue
All good and well to declare this century the century of dialogue. Physical violence, we’ve had enough of that. It doesn’t solve any problem, and only creates more violence. But what about the more subtle forms of violence? Recently, we could read that 7 million people died of pollution in one single year. That is […]
Human rights based politics
To act in the best interest of the people, human rights – and the just social principles that follow self-evidently from those – as well as intelligent economics should be the basis for governing a country. Yet what we see in many places in the world, is either a chosen leader with too much power […]
Employees at Danish local authorities score bonus for refusing social rights
Today, a regional Danish television station broadcasted the first proof of the existence of a system, in which those employees, responsible for granting sick or jobless people an allowance, are getting bonuses for not doing so. In 2013 Rebild Kommune paid 171.000 DK as personal bonuses. 111.000 DK was paid for stopping to pay the […]
Slavery in Danmark
Today, a Danish man activated in the financial aid system because he is without a job, had a most horrible experience. As if it isn’t enough, the Danish authorities rule the jobmarket, and activate jobless people as ‘trainee’ at companies who don’t pay a penny – the Danish State pays the trainee – now the […]
Bacteria, viruses and humans
Recent studies have shown, we are much more intertwined with bacteria than scientists were aware of. For example, the human body contains 10 times more bacterial cells than human cells. This discovery has caused a shock in the scientific world; scientists are talking about a fundamental review of how we see an organism. In this […]
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