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        <title><![CDATA[A blog of an ordinary Dane]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I am a clerk in a small danish city. Unlike the elite over in Copenhagen we ordinary Danes live a full life without the limelight and meetings in the European Union. We just want to be alone. Here are some of my toughts on the headlines I read.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Grooming at boarding schools - also in Denmark]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2025 15:29:53 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[For some years former boarding school students in English speaking countries have stepped forward revealing how they became victims of adults who took advantage of children in a vulnerable situation. Several former employees and managers of boarding schools... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jan Kristensen]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Still alive]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 13:26:21 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Years have passed. Somehow, I survived the pandemic and whatever they claimed to have put inside the vaccines. Both 2022 and 2023 were not good years for me. I see my time in the part of Copenhagen where I live - Sydhavnen - coming to an end. Rich people... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jan Kristensen]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Joined a message board]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2022 12:51:18 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Last year I joined a message board where we Danes discuss our country. It is in both English and Danish so you can participate on: The Danish message board ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jan Kristensen]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[2021 was a year we can only write off as wasted]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2022 12:32:12 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I have not been in the mood to write on my blog for a long time. Fact is that 2021 was a year spent mostly at home when I was not at work where I could do nothing. Now where the pandemic seems to be converted into ordinary flu like epidemics there could... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jan Kristensen]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[The end of 2020 is finally near]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2020 11:25:02 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[With only hours left before we leave 2020 for a hopefully better year, I will put some words down in this blog about my thoughts of the year 2020, which for most Danes have proven to be the year where we realized that no people in any other country on... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jan Kristensen]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[An awful future awaits us Danes]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2020 08:56:19 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[It seems that we Danes have been told to pay for Brexit and the rebuilding of Europe which have suffered due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It is very bad because you properly will not be able to find any place on the planet which have suffered more that the... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jan Kristensen]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[It has been a long time]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ordinarydane.over-blog.com/2020/05/it-has-been-a-long-time.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2020 18:11:58 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[It is 2 years since my last post. I had a lot of things going in my private life and frankly said: When you pay 50 percent of your income in taxes like we do in Denmark, little time is left for yourself and family. So I did not update my blog. What have... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jan Kristensen]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[What are Efterskoler?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2018 19:26:39 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Efterskoler is a special kind of boarding schools. They used to be for dropouts who were tired of schooling after the basic 9 years of schooling but today they are very pricy and tend to focus on something where the students have a special interest in... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jan Kristensen]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[New people in town]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2018 19:21:08 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Outside our small village there is a boarding school. It is not for children having done crime (for the most part). Of course some case worker smuggle criminal children into the boarding schools and juvenile detention is costly in Denmark. So they hide... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jan Kristensen]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Will Denmark ever be trustworthy again?]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ordinarydane.over-blog.com/2018/06/will-denmark-ever-be-trustworthy-again.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2018 07:07:21 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Yesterday in Denmark a large IT-company as well as some small employees were convicted in a case involving bribe of several public servicemen. The company Atea had created a special account where some of the discount the customers should have gotten were... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jan Kristensen]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Our summer plans]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2018 19:10:56 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[3 weeks in my back yard. That is my plan for the summer. We bought a gas grill last year so this year we do not need to go on summer holiday. I am so happy. If we need to see something new we can go for a walk along Lalandia but I doubt it will be the... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jan Kristensen]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[When the boat stops come in]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2018 19:06:51 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Here near my house ferries sail for Germany every half hour. It has been so since 1963 when the new fast link to what back then was West Germany started. Over the years people have gone to Germany and they only stop near my house because they have to... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jan Kristensen]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Easter - masive lunch]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2018 18:55:19 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Like many Danes Easter is the time of the year where we gather as a family. Uncles, Ants, cousins and children. In our family we meet the day before and start the cooking. Some have been down in Germany collecting 200-300 cans of beer, candy and soft... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jan Kristensen]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[When the public failed]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2018 00:15:09 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I just saw the movie "Boot Camp" from 2008 As the text says in the end there were and are many camps like this. Most known is Paradise Cove in Samoa. More than one of the teenagers who were forced there killed family members. It is uncertain what they... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jan Kristensen]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Reaching two goals with one law]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ordinarydane.over-blog.com/2018/03/reaching-two-goals-with-one-law.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2018 18:45:19 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[For some time Danes have been concerned when parents who have been born in another country send their children back home for schooling because they find the Danish culture too demanding. In Denmark you can buy alcohol on your own when you turn 16 years... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jan Kristensen]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Will you accept to be forced into treatment?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2018 07:30:18 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A girl asked for help with her illness at Boston Childrens Hospital. She was already in treatment for her illness but the hospital decided that the diagnose was wrong and asked the court to take custody away from the parents. In the end Boston Children... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jan Kristensen]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[What is &quot;The Rotten Banana&quot; ?]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ordinarydane.over-blog.com/2018/03/what-is-the-rotten-banana.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2018 18:27:59 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The Rotten Banana is a large part of Denmark where nothing happens. Most tourists never see these parts of Denmark and frankly the people like me who are living here are so special that you want to remain at home instead of coming here. When I saw the... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Danish government wants to close down the ghettos]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2018 18:21:23 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I am living in the part of Denmark called Lolland. If I name the village I live in you will know who I am for real, so I will not do that due to concerns of my neighbor. I live in the part of Denmark the people in the cities call "The Rotten Banana".... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jan Kristensen]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[It has been such a cold weather]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ordinarydane.over-blog.com/2018/03/it-has-been-such-a-cold-weather.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2018 19:44:26 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[It is difficult to go to work right now in this part of Denmark. There is snow everywhere and it is very cold. In fact they just announced that the trains between Naestved and Koege has been stopped because a train is stuck near Haslev. I cannot remember... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jan Kristensen]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[At new year - this time 2018 - awaits us]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ordinarydane.over-blog.com/2018/01/at-new-year-this-time-2018-awaits-us.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2018 18:13:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I have hope for 2018. Our small town here in Lolland has not jobs. Many of our youngsters drink and sleep all day long. I cannot hold anything against them. Without jobs. Without any possibility of education beyond high school, there are no future for... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jan Kristensen]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Can you make your child disappear?]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ordinarydane.over-blog.com/2017/11/can-you-make-your-child-disappear.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2014 19:07:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[In the United States you can. Friend and class-mates of Ellie Parker from Corvallis in Oregon are very concerned. On a family trip she suddenly disappeared from the world. Last contact from her was a call from a mobile phone followed by silence. Rumors... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jan Kristensen]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Please to not believe that a Green card to Denmark can give you a job]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2014 19:03:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[If you choose to travel to Denmark on a Greencard you will most likely end up working as a cleaner or waiter. It doesn't matter if you have an engineering title or a PhD. The quality of the Danish education system is so good that you will end up competing... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jan Kristensen]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Petition: Outlaw the use of private &quot;escorts&quot; to transport minors to residential treatment center]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ordinarydane.over-blog.com/2017/11/petition-outlaw-the-use-of-private-escorts-to-transport-minors-to-residential-treatment-center.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2014 21:12:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Text from the petition page: Before dawn when I was 14 years old, three large men burst into my room while I was sleeping. As my parents watched, they pulled me from my bed, forced me to get dressed, handcuffed me, and dragged me from my house. I had... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jan Kristensen]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[The rich Americans brought poverty to Denmark]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ordinarydane.over-blog.com/2017/11/the-rich-americans-brought-poverty-to-denmark.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:01:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The sale of Dong was approved today which will marked as a day of sorrow across Denmark. It won't be long before we cannot afford to heat our houses when the rich Americans drag profit back home without even having to pay taxes. I am almost starting to... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jan Kristensen]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Where are the CPS in Chantilly, Virginia when you need it?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2013 19:31:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I believe that there are one or more children at risk in Chantilly, Virginia The child or children are siblings of 17 year old Sofia Petrova who was abandoned to die in Siberia. It sounds like a story from the purges of Stalin but it is a story about... ]]></description>
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