Strange Events in Norway.

I was saddened to read of the death of Knut Haugland, whom has recently joined the rest of his comrades in a place fit for heroes such as he.

When I was a child, I received as a Christmas present, The Boys Book of Heroes. I kept that book with me all of my life, until it was tragically destroyed, along with all my other mementos of my childhood, when my house burnt to the ground. Haugland was one of those heroes.

Knut Haugland was a true hero of our times. He it was whom destroyed the Heavy Water production plant, at Telemark in Norway, along with a group of equally courageous Norwegians, putting a stop to the German aim of making an atomic bomb.

He was brave enough to be parachuted several times into occupied Norway on dangerous missions. At the war’s end, he was highly decorated for his bravery.

Not content with his wartime exploits, Haugland joined the crew of the Kon Tiki raft with Thor Heyerdahl, in an attempt to drift from Peru to Polynesia.

News of Haugland’s death was added to a whole plethora of events in Norway in recent times, which have kept my concentration and my scribblings focused in that direction.

Out of curiosity I checked out Heavy Water production in Norway, to see if the Telemark facility was still in production.

I had actually stumbled on a whole can of worms.  Norway was not only still producing Heavy Water, it seemed to be leaking out all over the place. Shipments for German use were diverted to Switzerland.  Another batch for Romania ended up in India and there were, of course  links with Israel,  which the US and UK were also supplying with Heavy Water.

Norway has been completely off the radar, in terms of the production and exportation of arms, however , it is in fact, one of the largest exporter of arms.

Just by happen-stance, I have a friend in Nîmes, whom has been organising a boycott, on local markets of Israeli produce. I mentioned to him the other day, a case in Australia, where a recent Government decision has made the boycott illegal, under pressure from the “I Love Israel Group.” I told him of an incident, where Israeli avocados  had been wrongly labelled, Produce of Spain.

He in turn told me of a similar case in Norway, where a similar boycott group had found oranges from Israel also marked Produce of Spain. There we go Norway again.

I was completely confused by the Anders Breivik attack on the teenagers, at a Socialist Party get together for Young Socialists.  He was making a fuss about the Muslim influx into Norway, seeing it as some sort of evil plot. The whole story had the stench of rotten fish about it.

Norway, despite the economic problems elsewhere in Europe, was still rich and doing well, despite being outside the Eurozone.

This brought to mind, the fate of the Polish Government, which was also doing well outside the Eurozone and preferred to remain so. They were loaded, all together, onto a dodgy Russian aircraft, to be flown to a site in the woods in Russia, to a service of remembrance for a large number of Polish Army Officers, whom had been executed by the Russians in World War Two.

The entire Polish Government died in the ensuing crash and their replacements quickly agreed to join the Eurozone.

I saw the Breivik incident in Norway as a similar warning to the Norwegian Government. I believe there to have been children of serving politicians at the camp.

I undertook the arduous task of digging out a “Boycott Israeli Products” group in Norway.  It turned that the Young AUF was involved. The same group which had been attacked by Breivik. What is more one member of the group had been speaking out strongly against arms sales to Israel. I discovered a short obituary to this man, Frank Nedregaard, in an AUF newspaper, he had strangely, dropped dead from a heart attack, he was thirty-three years old.

 So it turns out that this group of children and young adults, were in fact involved in a deadly cocktail of activities, which was likely to attract reprisals, quite apart from the stance of the Government over entry into the Eurozone. Sudden death from a heart attack, at a young age, is rapidly becoming ubiquitous but it certainly sends a strong message, to those whom may not have understood the first one.

It will be interesting to see if any of this comes out in the Show Trial which is under way in Norway at the moment.