"I have a dream... .. not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Canary In The Mine
"The hate that begins with Jews never ends with Jews.".
If Israel were to fall, the West would cease to exist.

What the Media Gets Wrong About Israel
Bokrecension "Israel och hennes fiender" av Bengt G Nilsson
HonestReporting

"Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states
which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support
Israel's existence." - Pro-Israel gay civil rights leader Bayard Rustin

The Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism

With my brother Leif.

Photo by Leif Ohlsson
Surrounded by my "admiring" classmates at Skansen
before high school graduation in 1969.
Counterclockwise from left to right:
Margareta Lindqvist, Charlotte Nyberg,
Elizabeth Haraldsen, and Maria Curman.

Bengt Kylsberg
My best friend in junior high school, became Curator of Skokloster Castle,
Author of Skokloster, Reflections of a Great Era, and much more.....

Michael Frühling
My best friend in senior high school, became Ambassador of Sweden, and
Director of the Office in Colombia of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
(Michael's aunt, Käte Bronett, owned Cirkus Scott, Sweden's preeminent circus, possibly the best live
entertainment in post-war Sweden, later managed by her son, Francois Bronett,
who created the Monte Carlo International Circus Festival for Prince Rainier III of Monaco).

- The Jews From Shanghai -

**********

My beautiful, loyal friend Maria Axelsson-Henter, M.D.

*****

"A Life lived in Fear... is a Life half lived."
- Strictly Ballroom

- Auntie Mame -

The Viking Heart:
How Scandinavians Conquered the World

France 1969 - 1970

L'amour en français.
Sylvette Kopferschmitt, Lunéville, France
Si Belle! Si Française!

Around The World with MS Kungsholm 1970 - 1971

- Johnny Depp -

The ceremony of Crossing the Line is an initiation rite. . .
that commemorates a sailor's first crossing of the Equator.

Följ med till framtidslandet
av Martin Rogberg, Britta Stenström-Rogberg

Dansen (Dance) by my grandfather Matts A. Stenström

"That Night in Rio" (1941)

"The Gang's All Here" (1943)

Carmen Miranda
Beneath the Tutti Frutti Hat

AfroBrazilian history

- OiBrasil -

Gustavo Dudamel with Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar

- Arturo Márquez 'Conga del Fuego': A Fiery Dance -

- Ballet Lizt Alfonso -

- Leonardo DiCaprio -

Remembering MS Kungsholm
En Stund På Jorden - Laleh

Berlin, Germany 1971-1972

- Victims of Communism -

Life behind the Iron Curtain.
Stasiland

Peter Fechter 1944 - 1962
All he wanted was freedom.

Rome, Italy 1973

San Francisco, CA 1974, 1975 & 1976

Phillip Ruise
Creative artist & loyal friend.

David F. Hart
The man I loved.

- Doris Day -

Arnold and I, selling magazines at a newsstand
on Las Palmas Ave, off of Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, in 1974.
After that, we went our separate ways...

- Hollywoodism -
Jews, Movies and The American Dream.

Met Mrs Norton Simon, AKA Jennifer Jones.

# #

Lived in, and survived, The Castro in 1975 - 1976, with Robert (R.I.P.), and Daniel (?)
Survived black teens wilding in The Castro. A terrifying experience.

Daniel loved the camera. And the camera loved Daniel.
Photo by Eva Johnson?

San Francisco in the 1970s

Stockholm, Sweden 1976-1982

My late friend, Lasse Flinckman, (1949 - 2016). R.I.P. Thank you, Lasse, for the years of friendship, for all the fun and laughter you brought into my life, and eventually to all of Sweden. You were always the life of the party. Without you, After Dark would have been... just a drag.

My late friend, Sydney Onayemi, (1937 - 2016). R.I.P. Stockholm's "hardworking d.j.", in the 70's and 80's. Thank you for the fun we had together with the royals, and Stockholm's "beautiful" people. Sydney, you were one of a kind, always disarming and entertaining.

54 - Director's Cut
- Ryan Phillippe -
Steve Rubell & Ian Schrager

Lost control of my disco. And they renamed it After Dark
Started working with Sydney Onayemi weekend nights...

... and was hired by Sveriges Radio.

My dear & loyal friend Margita Ljusberg,
former V.P. of Communications at STIM,
mother of three exceptional daughters;
one ambassador, one C.E.O., and one Ph.D.!!!

# #

Moved over to Sveriges Television

In the newsroom at Sveriges Television, late 1970's,
with producer K.G. Bergström, anchor woman Ewonne Winblad, and director Ulla Sjöstrand.
Picking K.G. Bergström's brain about domestic Swedish politics was always a real treat.

My co-worker Teresa Moderatho was: Adorable. Beautiful. And simply irresistible!

The Mysterious Deaths of Cats Falck and Lena Gräns

# #

Sigge Ågren, (1910 - 1989). My late journalism teacher.
Legendary Managing Editor of Expressen

# #

Photo: Ingvar Hedenrud Kulturbyggnad AB
Monténska huset
Lived in the glorious, palatial apartment before moving to ...

... Narvavägen 21, Stockholm
My last home in Sweden. Close to work.
Building was full of celebrities,
incl. ABBA's Anni-Frid Lyngstad

- ABBA -

The New Totalitarians

Michel Houellebecq

Jag vågar inte längre säga vad jag
tycker av rädsla för att bli utfryst

Så har Aftonbladet Kultur utvecklats till
att följa en stalinistisk tradition

Sverige fast i Socialdemokraternas hajburar

Sverige är de facto en socialdemokratisk enpartistat.
Och Public Service är husbondens röst

I loved my job and my co-workers at Sveriges Television
but Sweden is creepy. Culturally dominated by the lunatic, regressive, suffocating Left,
Sweden gives me a form of claustrophobia, and I must live in freedom, and be...

Free To Choose

- Sammy Davis, Jr. -

New York, NY 1982-1983

Worked at CNN New York, in the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center,
with Tom Cassidy, Sandi Freeman, Jeanne Moos, Stuart Varney, a.o.
Met Ed Koch, Bruno Kreisky, a.o.

Egyptian tv-host:"Muslims Have Contributed Nothing but Terror"

"Palestinians" Celebrated On 9/11

"You may not be interested in war,
but war is interested in you."
- Leon Trotsky

Identifying the Enemy, Defining the War

Two Decades After 9/11, Militants Have Only Multiplied

America's Real Enemy
THE SALAFI-JIHADI MOVEMENT

The Evolution of the Salafi-Jihadist Threat

Europe is blind to the next jihadi threat

Down South

Atlanta, GA 1983-1987

Worked at CNN Atlanta during the era of Ted Turner, Reese Schonfeld, and Burt Reinhardt,
with Lou Dobbs, Bill MacPhail a.o. , met Coretta Scott King, a.o.

Remember Ahmaud Arbery!

Out West

San Francisco, CA 1987-2004

August Coppola, my dean at the School of Creative Arts, at SFSU.
Worked with Brian Banmiller, and Tom Vacar, at KTVU, and Ziggy Stone at KRON-TV
Survived the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
Met Jerry Brown, Randy Shilts.

My dear & loyal friend Dan Tirman,(childhood friend with Scott Rudin).
Here with the late Burt Reynolds.

My dear & loyal friend Maria Axelsson-Henter, M.D.
Here with her brilliant husband Jan-Inge Henter, M.D.
attending the Nobel Banquet.

My dear & loyal friend Britt-Marie Ljung, M.D.
world renowned cytopathologist, and
mother of my gorgeous godson, Erik Miller.

My late wonderful mother, Britt M. Oehman, née Stenström
with my adorable godson, Erik Miller.
Today he's fluent in English, Mandarin and Swedish!

# #

- Brad Pitt -
Kvinnoskönheten (Female Beauty) by my grandfather Matts A. Stenström

With habibti, my college sweetheart.
The prettiest girl in the world,
with kisses so sweet.

Bachelor of Arts
Film, television & theater
Master of Business Administration

Ex-Muslims of North America

"...Nisha is a bright and beautiful teenager, as much the ideal assimilated daughter of Norway
as she is the ideal daughter of her Pakistani immigrant parents. At home, Nisha
... speaks Urdu and diligently maintains her grades so that she might one day become a doctor.
But at school, she is indistinguishable from her Norwegian friends who wear makeup,
sneak out of their homes at night and lust after boys while dancing to techno music.

After Nisha spends a clandestine night out, her father Mirza... catches her bringing a boy home.
Her parallel lives collapse into chaos. Mirza beats the boy...
With the help of extended family, he kidnaps his daughter and sends her to Pakistan,
where she can be watched with surveillant strictness by her aunt and uncle... the film is based in part
on the director Iram Haq's own experience of being kidnapped by her parents and sent to Pakistan.
Her familiarity grounds even the story's most horrific details in reality." - The New York Times
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali with Bari Weiss:
Islam, Immigration and Women's Rights

National Association Against Honor Related Violence

Vad hederskultur är - och inte är

Khatoon

Sara Omar

Why Do Dubai's Princesses Keep Trying To Escape?

Henderson, NV 2004-

Adopt, Don't Buy! Buying Animals = Killing Animals.

German Shepherd Dog,
perhaps the most challenging, difficult, loving, loyal dog you can adopt.

George Angle,
My late next-door neighbor.
Best Neighbor Ever. Brilliant. Caring. Fun.
R.I.P.

*****

My late neighbor Tony Curtis, together with Jack Lemmon,
revisit Billy Wilder's "Some Like It Hot", starring Marilyn Monroe,
in this photograph by Annie Leibovitz.

Shook the hand of fellow SCA-resident John Briggs.
He was surprisingly pleasant.

*****

- Robbie Williams -

*****

Peter Boghossian
How To Destroy Civilization In 10 Easy Steps

The West's Islamist capitulation

Fractured: can the West fix itself?

Why the West is Best:
A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy

Why We Must Teach Western Civilization

We Shall Never Surrender!

These brave young men did not sacrifice their lives
on the beaches of Normandy, in defense of civilization,
so we could throw it all away, and surrender to Islam and Socialism.
Look Into Their Eyes! Honor Their Sacrifice! Defend Western Civilization!

Emmanuel Macron, Président de la République Française:
'The fight of our generation in Europe will be a combat for our freedoms.'

Count Axel von Fersen the Younger (4 September 1755 - 20 June 1810),
Diplomat and statesman, lover of Queen Marie-Antoinette of France,
aide-de-camp to Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
in the American Revolutionary War.
von Fersen died at the hands of a Stockholm lynch mob.

"In 1774, Count Axel von Fersen, teenage scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families,
found himself chatting with a charming masked girl during a ball at the Royal Opera of Versailles...
he only realized he was speaking with Marie Antoinette, the teenage Dauphine of France,
when a crowd began to form around them.

From this Romeo and Juliet-like meeting would eventually spring a decades-long "intimate friendship,"
which would titillate historians and storytellers for centuries. The handsome Fersen, nicknamed "the Picture,"
was said to have a melancholy, "icy countenance" that made women want to "give it animation."
According to noblewoman Comtesse de Boigne, Marie Antoinette was no exception
- "Intimates scarcely doubted that she yielded to his passion."

The dashing statesman and soldier was the globe-trotting opposite of the bumbling, well-meaning Louis XVI.
He worshipped Marie Antoinette, whom he called the "model of queens and of women." A perennial bachelor,
he seemed to allude to their untenable romance in a letter to his sister: "I can't be with the only person I want,
the only person who really loves me, so I don't want to be with anyone."

As revolutionary fever swept France, Fersen began to hatch a plan to help the royal family escape from Paris,
where they were being held virtual prisoners.

Working in conjunction with the king and queen, Fersen secretly commissioned a large traveling carriage, which he paid for,
according to Fraser. On the night of June 20, 1791, the royal family escaped from Paris. Fersen, dressed as a coachman,
drove them to the outskirts of the city, before being relieved by another conspirator.

But the flight from Paris was a failure, and the royal family was captured. In February 1792, after having fled France,
Fersen sneaked back into Paris, to stay with the queen for a single night at the Tuileries Palace. They continued to
smuggle letters (often in code) to each other, Marie Antoinette signing off, "I love you madly...
there is never a moment in which I do not adore you."

Even after the execution of Louis XVI in 1793, Fersen continued to try and secure her freedom.
Shortly before her execution, she sent him a message, bearing the queen's seal with the embedded motto:
"All things lead me towards you." - Vanity Fair

"Axel von Fersen was a Swedish Count best known for the close friendship he enjoyed with Queen Marie Antoinette.
He also played a prominent political role, earning fame for his military exploits during
the American War of Independence and as an ardent defender of the royal family during the Revolution.

Count Axel von Fersen, scion of one of Sweden's most illustrious noble families, met Marie Antoinette for the first time
at a masked ball in the Royal Opera House at Versailles in 1774.

He made a lasting impression on the Queen, who greeted him as "my old friend!" when their paths next crossed at
the French court, some four years later. The Count moved to Versailles in 1779, winning the favour of the Queen and
becoming part of her inner circle. In 1780 he was also given the rank of colonel in the German infantry fighting
in the American War of Independence. Upon his return from North America in 1783, and thanks to the patronage of
both Marie Antoinette and King Gustav III of Sweden, von Fersen was made colonel of the Royal Suédois regiment of
the French army. Thereafter he split his time between the court and his regimental headquarters.

The nature of the relationship between the Queen and the Swedish soldier was the subject of much speculation.
There is no solid historical proof that they were lovers, but enough mystery persists to maintain the myth.
Nonetheless, their secret correspondence provides ample evidence of their mutual attachment,
as do the count's letters to friends and family. Writing to his sister Sophie Piper, von Fersen declared:
"I have decided never to marry. It would be unnatural. I cannot belong to the one person I truly want.
So I prefer to belong to nobody."

At the onset of the Revolution Marie Antoinette's circle of friends rapidly evaporated, but von Fersen remained
faithful to his queen. He organised the royal family's flight to Varennes in 1791 and tried everything in his power
to save the Queen's life, including making diplomatic overtures to foreign powers. He was profoundly affected
by the execution of Marie Antoinette in 1793: "I have lost everything I had in this world [...]
The one I loved so much, for whom I would have given my life a thousand times over, is no more."
- Château de Versailles

God Bless America