👍 I also thought about writing about the aid, but I thought you had already covered it and it was getting too long. But it’s scary how much could be saved without those in charge seeming to care. The total budget for the state, regions, and municipalities is probably around 2000 billion? 5-10% could easily be saved (then add, for example, defense) without affecting any of the core activities.

That thing about the defense side, I brought up the other day 😀

The remarkable thing about Jens Nylander is that the public has started to close ranks and make it harder for him to get information 😲

Wherever he has delved deeply, there has been rampant corruption with our tax money.

Agree that our economy may not matter so much now if it risks being shattered in a war in a few years.
 
But much could probably be sorted out by working smarter. For example, it is said that 1,200,000 people are not self-sufficient; if ten percent of these were to go from costing the state (the municipality) 10,000 SEK/month to paying in 10,000 SEK/month, it would result in 28.8 billion SEK in reduced expenses and increased revenues. This would give municipalities and regions a better economy, which could lead to a reduced need for support from the state budget.
 
Some estimates suggest that welfare fraud costs the state and municipalities 15-30 billion SEK/year. If one were to invest one billion in controls, one could probably get several times that back in saved expenses.
 
What Jens Nylander has done when he examined invoices sent to municipalities using AI should make those responsible wake up.
 
But then we must also be careful where we throw the money when we are now arming ourselves in panic. Quoting Johan Westerholm, Ledarsidorna.se
 
“If corruption in aid is significant, there is an even greater black hole in defense material procurement. Where billions are now allowed to flow into the Swedish Defense Materiel Administration without control for more or less panic-induced material purchases. Experience shows that large capital injections into this sector lead to extensive structures of ‘kick-backs’ where individual officials can receive reverse bonuses from specially selected suppliers for everything from the authority buying weapon stands for marksmen to other more advanced systems such as 155 mm field howitzer ammunition. The stands for the army’s marksmen that the FMV procures are of such poor quality, actually intended for cameras, that they break after a week’s use, and the soldiers now buy their own. With their own money.”
 
Westerholm has previously mentioned that at the FMV, there is an individual who procures each item. They sit for a long time and become close acquaintances with those who sell the goods they procure. If one wants to avoid corruption, they should not sit for so long, and then there should be a group of people who keep an eye on each other.    

16-24 I have heard rumors about

One should not count out Canada but suspect that a lot has to do with being able to push against the USA.

Must be a bomb crater

It looks like he’s crawling around on a garbage dump.

Intercepted calls released by Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) suggest a Russian commander losing his temper and ordering soldiers to shoot at their own comrades in a neighboring unit.

https://bsky.app/profile/kyivindependent.com/post/3lm5txsxhnk2z

There might be some frustration with the commander.