#Finnish Police

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The registered names of some Finnish police dogs

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"Unlike most of their brothers and sisters in eastern Canada, socialists in both Port Arthur and Fort William [now Thunder Bay] wholeheartedly embraced the creation of the OBU [One Big Union]. By October 1919, all 160 starch workers, all the bakers, and 18 general workers in Fort William united with the members of the IWW’s LWIU [Lumber Workers International Union] in Port Arthur and joined. The FOC’s [Finnish Organization of Canada] decision to declare itself a propaganda organization of the OBU created an auxiliary in Port Arthur that gained control of the Finnish Labour Temple by assuming its debt.

In the midst of the election campaign of October 1919, local newspapers reported that the OBU had established branches in the region and that an OBU-affiliated Central Labour Council (CLC) had been established in Fort William. The council adopted the structure, constitution, and bylaws of the Winnipeg council. Well attended by workers of all nationalities and by a variety of unions, the council heard predictions that the local trades and labour councils would disappear within the next few months. The newly formed executive board of the CLC reported that both the coal handlers of Fort William, who had been responsible for a number of the strikes before the First World War, and the pulp and paper mill workers were engaged in discussions that would see them joining the OBU within the next few weeks. The Brotherhood of Carpenters local, consisting of 250 members, had already gone over to the OBU. The General Workers’ Unit reported 60 new members in the last week alone.

The OBU thus appealed to a variety of strata within the working class and, in principle and up to a point in reality, transcended the region’s deep-seated ethnic divisions. Finnish workers, however, made up by far the largest ethnic group within its ranks. Well aware of this fact, and in order to discourage their further radicalization, police in both cities began a campaign of repression and harassment that, not incidentally, coincided with the 1919 election. Soon after the establishment of the first OBU branches in Port Arthur, for example, a series of raids shook that city’s “Finnish quarter” (the area immediately around the Finnish Labour Temple on Bay Street). Both local and Royal North-West Mounted Police (RNWMP) admitted to having searched, on 9 October, seven homes described as “propaganda depots,” confiscating a large amount of “Bolshevik” literature and arresting seven “Finlanders.” These arrests were followed the next day by the search and seizure of “red” material at the Fort William bookstore of Edward Ollikkala, including a large amount of IWW literature. The RNWMP was quick to point out that “of the three centers of foreign population,” the Fort William coal dock section remained quiet and those arrested were not “enemy aliens,” merely “aliens.”

The presence of the OBU at the Lakehead worried the TLC [Trades and Labour Congress of Canada] so much that it sent William Varley, an American Federation of Labor (AFL) organizer from Toronto, to the region in late October to address the local Trades and Labour Councils and the General Workers’ Unit of the OBU in Fort William. Varley devoted much of his time to demonizing the Winnipeg General Strike and the “hopelessness of this form of action.” He contended that the AFL “had done much for the workers and was the only form of organization.” Not surprisingly, his comments were met with ridicule, contempt, and often laughter. Rather than promoting a discussion about bridging the growing division among the region’s more radical unions, the ILP [Independent Labour Party], and TLC members, the meeting intensified the general hostility towards the distant labour centre. ILP alderman A.H. Dennis, for example, contended that the TLC and it alone was to blame for the division that existed both locally and nationally among workers. As he suggestively remarked, “Labour had shown by the elections in Fort William, what they could do when it got together.” The TLC, he suggested, “was out of harmony altogether with the workers,” and it no longer represented “the workers any more than the Government did the people.” The OBU, the majority present agreed, was a necessity because of the past actions of the TLC and the AFL. It appears that at this point both leftists and centrists at the Lakehead supported the OBU and identified it as the defender of regional interests against the aloof bureaucrats of the TLC. As one delegate, tired of the double-speak and manipulation demonstrated by Varley, declared: “Well, if that’s what you want, let’s hand in our charter.”"

- Michel S. Beaulieu, Labour at the Lakehead: Ethnicity, Socialism, and Politics, 1900-35. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2011. p. 70-71.

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Sjkfkfkd ok heyy random killjoy disclaimer - I'm personally starting to get really uncomfortable with the word fruity so if you see this and enjoy reblogging gay things from me (ie todolf or whatever) then if it's possible, it'd make me happy if you didn't use it in the tags 🙏 thank you for understanding!

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disco elysium first few hours is really an experience like no other. dont remember anything my face is weird hot troubled bisexual girl walks away from a conversation with me millenial british chap with lightless eyes says i owe him 130 bucks anglodutch youth calling me his loser bitch pig finnish youth calling me a fat fucking faggot my new police partner telling me i need to conduct myself in a more professional manner my old police partner telling me im a waste of air the bloated rotting corpse bloating and rotting (i frew up) and then harassing me inside my brain. At the top of my game like noone else

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The Eagle S – a tanker ship carrying Russian oil and suspected of severing the Estlink 2 power cable running under the Baltic Sea between Finland and Estonia – was reportedly brimming with spy equipment. The cable incident is the latest in a series of such events in this strategically important region as tensions with Russia have mounted in the wake of its war on Ukraine. After being seized by Finnish Police, the Eagle S was found to be “kitted out with special transmitting and receiving devices that were used to monitor naval activity, according to a source with direct involvement in the ship,” Lloyds List reported. That equipment “effectively allowed it to become a ‘spy ship’ for Russia.”

@todays-problematic-ship falling down on the job recently

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🌈LOL this video makes me so happy! 🌈

Somebody brought an anti-gay trailer into the busiest district of Helsinki, thinking they could get away with it.

The people in the streets just got straight into action, tore the trailer away from the car and fucking SHRED the signs to pieces. You can even see one guy pissing on it 😂The police is also there but as soon as they get away people continue tearing down the trailer.

For non finnish-speakers: There's pretty basic idiotic stuff written on the signs like "It's right to be a hetero" and "Gayness ruins population growth"

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Very important Finnish PSA:

kissapoika = catboy, good boy. play with them. pet them. whatever as long as it's consensual

not to be confused with

kissalan pojat = the police. do not interact

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Related to this, the police over here is really good. They're usually pretty chill and just do their job

Do yall ever just enjoy random people reacting to stuff about your culture? It's both mildly interesting and funny to see ppl react to finnish culture lol

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From the collection of the Finnish Police Museum. A photograph from 1906 when the American boxer Jim Johnson (the Black man seated in the middle, wearing a suit) came to Finland to teach the police in Helsinki how to box.

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Once had a story idea where the whole point is that the protagonist sees himself as some sort of a tragic and romantic 18th century byronic hero, despite of pretty much everything except for the narration indicating otherwise. Like the whole style of the text is all over-dramatic high detail old-fashioned purple prose, in a stark, deliberately comical contrast to him just living in regular 21st century Finland. Nothing actually really happens to him to really justify seeing himself as some tortured and righteous hero.

One repeating theme in the book is references to Crime and Punishment, he sees himself as some sort of a Raskolnikov despite of having even less achievements in life, and he does, indeed, actually end up finding a girlfriend named Sonja. His Sonja, however, is not a doe-eyed and sweet childlike docile submissive tragic damsel, but an independent, tough and assertive trans woman who cut her family out of her life for not respecting her. He romanticises himself as seeing beauty in someone that nobody else does, which is quite deliberately gross, and it's clear that his ass would be out of her apartment so fucking fast if he ever verbalised this.

At some point in the story, she invites him to go to Pride with her. He declines, as a straight man he doesn't see what he would have to do with that sort of thing. And while she goes to pride without him, he goes to a bar to get drunk alone, gets into a fist fight, gets his ass beat, and wakes up in a drunk tank.

Filling out paperwork with a police officer - whom he remarks to somehow be the most stereotypical-looking ponytailed finnish female cop he has ever seen - he's asked to explain the incident in his own words. The protagonist explains the general details of why he ended up alone in the bar in the first place, and while there - already drunk and in Tragic Brooding Hero Mode - overheard some guy talking shit about the Pride march and LGBT people as a whole, and decided to turn around and go 'hey buddy fuck you, that's my manic pixie weed-smoking goth gf you're talking about', and the rest is already on record.

Unimpressed, the cop asks him was it really not an option to discuss this in any civil manner. Hung over and badly bruised, the protagonist simply shrugs and calmly says that he doesn't know how long she's been a cop, but she might come to eventually find out that drunk men do not generally opt for 'discussing things in a civil manner'.

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"POLICE COURT," North Bay Nugget. May 9, 1934. Page 2. ---- Found in possession of a gun when he was arrested by C. N. R. Constable Carroll for breaking into one of the sheds on the tracks, James McCarthey, 18, of Toronto, was fined $25 and costs or three months by Magistrate Weegar this morning. He took the jail term.

A companion, Frank Glover, 16, was given the choice of paying a $10 fine or going to jail for 15 days for having stolen goods in his possession. He, too, went to jail.

The boys had stolen a number of railway signal caps which were found on Glover when arrested. Police did not suggest that McCarthey was using the gun for robberies. He said he merely had it to take pot shots at squirrels on his travels.

Trespasser Pays Fine Three railway trespassers went to jail for 10 days and a fourth paid a $10 fine when they appeared in police court this morning.

Forgiving Victim A scrap in a Finnish boarding house Monday evening culminated in a North Bay man being arraigned in police court Tuesday morning to face an intoxication charge. He paid $16.50.

The complaint was made by a Finlander who came to the police station with his face a mass of blood. He, however, did not want to lay an assault against his assailant.

Costly Hangover Still groggy, a North Bay inebriate was brought before the cadi Tuesday morning.

"Were you drunk last night?" the magistrate asked.

"No," the man stammered.

"Why you are still drunk, $16.50 or ten days," Magistrate Weegar decreed. The man paid up.

Deer Out of Season Pleading guilty to having deer meat in closed season in Salter township, Ormond Staples, Toronto, was given the option of paying a $20 fine or going to jail for 30 days by Magistrate Arthurs at Massey, Saturday. He took the jail term. Ormond was arrested by Game and Fishing Overseer Tom Tayler at Espanola, April 28. A rifle and a piece of spoiled deer meat were seized.

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THURSDAY HERO: Algoth Niska

Algoth Niska was a Finnish athlete and bootlegger who repeatedly risked his life to save 151 Jews during the Holocaust.

Born in Viipuri, Finland in 1888, Algoth excelled in soccer as a youth and played on the Finnish national team at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm. During World War I, Algoth entered navigation school and got married and divorced twice. In 1919, Finland, like the US, enacted a law prohibiting alcohol and Algoth saw a lucrative business opportunity. An experienced sea-goer, he bought a boat and started smuggling liquor from Sweden, Germany and Estonia into Finland.

Algoth became known to bon vivants in Finland as the man who could get a large variety of intoxicants. He tried to keep ahead of the police boats, but was shot at and arrested multiple times. Algoth served prison sentences in both Finland and Sweden. Though a tough seadog, he was well-liked by prison authorities and often released early.

In 1938, Algoth’s focus shifted to a new kind of illegal cargo: Jews. Finland was relatively safe for Jews at the time, but Germany was becoming a death trap. Over the next year and a half, Algoth took German Jews over land and sea to Finland, thus saving them from concentration camps. He provided the Jewish refugees with passports – some stolen, and some fake.

Algoth refused payment for smuggling Jews. Perhaps he welcomed the opportunity to redeem himself for past mistakes. In 1939, Algoth’s smuggling operation was discovered by the Nazis. He fled to Estonia, only to find that the Soviet Union had occupied the country. Finally, Algoth returned to Finland in a rowboat.

After the war, Algoth was broke. He made a little money from writing two books about his colorful life. Algoth died of a brain tumor in 1954 at the age of 65. Twice divorced, he left two children. Well-known Finnish musician Ilkka Lipsanen is his grandson.

For risking his life to save 151 Jews, we honor Algoth Niska as this week’s Thursday Hero at Accidental Talmudist.

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Timestamp Roulette Art Challenge: They Eat Horses, Don't They?

Just wanted to doodle some horseys, probably haven't done that since I was 10 or so. :D

I notice this episode aired exactly 30 years ago today. I didn't watch Due South in the 90s - its Finnish title does sound familiar so I must've seen it in the TV listings back then, but it had the word's "Chicago" and "police" in it, and I had no love for American cop shows as a teen. I think I may have had a vague idea the show was about a police horse unit in Chicago (which I guess doesn't even exist?). I didn't know anything about Canadian Mounties then, so my only context for "mounted police" was the Finnish mounted police whom I had sometimes seen patrolling in Helsinki (the link goes to their official Instagram account - it seems the police horses are really popular). Actually, a cop show about a mountie unit like that in a big city might be really interesting!

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Object permanence

I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel PICKS AND SHOVELS. Catch me in NYC on WEDNESDAY (26 Feb) with JOHN HODGMAN and at PENN STATE on THURSDAY (Feb 27). More tour dates here. Mail-order signed copies from LA's Diesel Books.

#20yrsago Italy runs out of wiretaps https://edri.org/our-work/wiretapping-data-access-by-foreign-courts-why-not/

#20yrsago Online anonymity https://web.archive.org/web/20050220170713/http://www.law.com/jsp/ltn/pubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1108389943380

#20yrsago WIPO pulls out dirty tricks to kill participation from consumer groups https://web.archive.org/web/20060909232701/https://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1689

#20yrsago UK Labour MP flays govt over terror laws – incredible speech! https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2005-02-23a.365.0#20yrsago Finnish blogger faces disgraceful, bogus libel charge https://mummila.net/marginaali/2005/02/24/total-lack-of-respect-for-the-law/

#15yrsago Vice-principal denies using laptop to spy on student https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/principal-accused-in-webcamgate-im-no-spy/2138343/

#15yrsago IP Alliance says that encouraging free/open source makes you an enemy of the USA https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2010/feb/23/opensource-intellectual-property

#10yrsago Chicago Police Department maintains “black site” for illegal detention and torture https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-police-detain-americans-black-site

#10yrsago HSBC boss used tax havens to keep underlings from discovering his outrageous pay https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/02/bill-black-hsbc-ceo-pay-outrageous-use-tax-havens-hide-peers.html

#10yrsago Huge trove of surveillance leaks coming https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/2/23/the-spy-cables-a-glimpse-into-the-world-of-espionage

#10yrsago Big Content publishes a love-letter to TPP https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/hollywood-lobby-groups-creepy-open-love-letter-tpp

#10yrsago Laura Poitras’s Citizenfour OPSEC https://www.wired.com/2014/10/laura-poitras-crypto-tools-made-snowden-film-possible/

#5yrsago A flat earther commits suicide by conspiracy theory https://pluralistic.net/2020/02/24/pluralist-your-daily-link-dose-24-feb-2020/#epistemological

#5yrsago 81 Fortune 100 companies demand binding arbitration https://pluralistic.net/2020/02/24/pluralist-your-daily-link-dose-24-feb-2020/#iamthelaw

#5yrsago My interview on adversarial interoperability https://pluralistic.net/2020/02/24/pluralist-your-daily-link-dose-24-feb-2020/#dragons

#5yrsago Key computer vision researcher quits https://pluralistic.net/2020/02/24/pluralist-your-daily-link-dose-24-feb-2020/#oppenheimer

#5yrsago How "Authoritarian Blindness" kept Xi from dealing with coronavirus https://pluralistic.net/2020/02/24/pluralist-your-daily-link-dose-24-feb-2020/#thatswhatxisaid

#1yrago Vice surrenders https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/24/anti-posse/#when-you-absolutely-positively-dont-give-a-solitary-single-fuck

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RAINBOW SIX OC: Lilja Järvinen

there it is a bit with lilja's bio that for sure it will not be completed fully as I want to make a sort of bio like r6s operators in future plus she doesnt have a reference draw for her yet so...I'll reblog if any change is made :D --------------------------------- GENERAL INFOS

Full name: Lilja Järvinen

aliases/nicknames: One of the first thing that Harry did as soon as she joined the rainbow six is to think about how to refer to her and ''hound'' was what came into his mind immediately. Later then Lilja decided to just translate it into her native language, becoming it ''koira''but she likes the hound one as well

Age: around 30-35 years old

Gender: cis Female

Pronouns: she/her

Sexual orientation: Unknown, probably bisexual

Date of birth: April 30th

Place of birth: Kemijärvi, Laplan, finland

Current residence: Unknown

Nationality: finnish

Spoken languages: Finnish(main), Swedish(second one learned) and english

Affiliations/organizations: Rainbow six, utti jager regiment, finnish army

Occupation: K-9 operative with certification got with training and working with police and army dogs and robotic engineer with a egree in automation engineering, computer engineering

Rank: Unknown

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APPEARANCE

By the national average, Lilja is a rather short woman who stands at around 166 cm tall. She is slim and athletic, with messy blonde hair, freckles scattered across her cheeks and nose, and eyes with partial heterochromia on both irises that are both blue and brown in color, which are easily distinguishable between the two. She is the one who usually wears heavy, long clothes that are uncomfortable when it comes to grabbing objects and that hide her body well. She wears glasses because she is astigmatic, which she removes to use contact lenses when she has to work in the field. more facts about her aspect: -Lilja has a lot of bite wounds on her body, done of course by the dogs she worked in the past with most of them being reactive ones that easily snapped when something even small bothered them. The most visible one is on her left cheek that resembles a two cut done by a feline instead of a dog and people usually asks her how could a dog do such damage; -She always wanted a tattoo on her left cheek that resembled a dog jaw but changed her mind when she wasn't allowed to do so in the army. -She doesn't hide her body due to insecurity, in fact, she also can wear swimming costumes and bikinis, she just prefers baggy clothes over normal ones.

Favorites and personality traits

-Color: Mint green

-Food: Lihapullat (finnish meatballs)

-Drink: Hot chocolate

-Song: Killer by Mareux

-Flower: Lilly of the valley

-Hairstyle: wolfcut Moral alignment: Chaotic good MBTI: INTP Personality overview:

Lilja is a reserved woman by nature, she doesn't like to talk to people too much and generally prefers to be alone. Sometimes she seems detached and lost in her thoughts, it almost seems like her brain is constantly working, constantly creating new thoughts. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, as she always has new ideas that she can implement in the form of robotic objects useful to her team. She seems to prefer small speeches to long, deep ones, which is often not in good taste with other operators and those in command, but she often ignore the thoughts of others. This doesn't mean she's a totally insensitive person, she just doesn't know how to relate to people without seeming weird, which leads her to avoid social situations most of the time.

BASIC INFOS AS RAINBOW SIX OPERATOR:

Name: Lilja ''hound/koira''Järvinen Side: defender Squad: Nighthaven (she probably joined them because they were more willing to fund her projects) Speciality: Anti-gadget, Intel and trapper Unity: Utti jaeger regiment support battalion/support company-trains conscripts in support tasks and handles logistics in cooperation with the Logistics Centre.

OPERATOR ICON:

BASIC LOADOUT

Primary weapons: -Assault rifle, RK 95

-9.00 submachine gun 2000

-pump-action shotgun remington police

Secondary weapon:

-Pistol 80/Pistol 80-91

Gadgets

-Smoke grenade -Frag grenade -Claymore

LOADOUT PART 2: Unique ability:

''K-9 puppies'' Highly intelligent robotic dogs with different speciality based on the selected one. They can be used as attack weapons, anti gadget, trapper or intel. They are all comanded by a tablet which makes you vulnerable to the attackers that can sneak and kill you. The robotic dogs are not vulnerable to bulletts or explosives. BIOGRAPHY

COMING SOON PSYCHOLOGICAL REPORT: COMING SOON

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I’d love to be turned into your typical idiotic young biker, having no sense of hygiene or even anything else than bikes.. if that’s possible ?

Thanks a lot

What a hot body! And a huge cock. You're always horny. And you don't give a shit about the whole world.

What counts is your bike and the feeling of freedom when you're racing down the country road on it. And when you take a break, leave your helmet on and unzip your leather suit a little, you can smell the scent of sweat and musk rising from your body. You immediately get a hard-on!

During your coffee break in the café on the country road, you open the zipper wide and let the sun shine on your chest. You wear the leather suit on your bare skin. A few guests complain about the strong smell. You pay, pull up the zipper, put on your helmet and show the bourgeois what you think of them.

The weekend belongs only to you and your bike. Nothing else matters. But unfortunately, a weekend like this is over at some point.

Monday morning, 05:30, your alarm clock rings. You jump out of bed, do 100 push-ups to wake up and then start your morning run. Your shift starts at 08:00, before that you have to take a shower and shave your head and body. Iron discipline is important.

You love your job. Law and order are just as important to you as working in the fresh air on your bike. And if you go over the top at the weekend, you can be pretty sure that your colleagues will turn a blind eye.

Sorry, buddy! We have this cooperation with the Finnish police. I get a bonus if I can combine the implementation of a customer request with the recruitment of new employees. Yes, you have to shower during the week. But I hope it's worth it.

Pics found @daineselad and @workingdudes