Jacob Christensen

Yesterday, the High Court for Upper Norrland reached a verdict in a – to put it mildly – infected case about herding and grazing rights for Sami “villages” (quotation marks as we are not talking about physical villages but rather associations of reindeer-owners) in the coastal areas of V�sterbotten.

According to reports the verdict was split with the president of the court dissenting. Press release here.� Press reports here (VK) and here (VF) – if you read Swedish you’ll note not just the quantity but also the viciousness of the venom hurled at the Sami in the reader comments.

Earlier posts here and here.

Pretinha in the 91st minute. Bummer.

If DR is to be believed, the FIFA Women’s World Cup isn’t happening. You have to click through an endless number of pages to get to a link to FIFA and follow the Brazil/Marta – Denmark match.

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I wonder if Gracenote CDDB is performing some kind of poetic justice here.

Still, reducing to Benny Andersen to a number … very strange…