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Man binder os på hånd og mund:
Menneskerettigheder i krise
Jacob Mchangama den 12. december 2011
Den 10. december var FNs officielle menneskerettighedsdag, hvor årsdagen for vedtagelsen af FNs Menneskerettighedserklæring i 1948 markeredes. Spørgsmålet er dog, om der er så meget at fejre?
Mere HER i Berlingske Tidende.
Det er lidt sniksnak-agtigt, det her interview:
The FP Interview: Bill and Melinda Gates
Bill and Melinda Gates on some unexpected new sources of aid - and what they’ve learned from trying to save the world.
By Charles Kenny | December 2011
Bill Gates on what’s lacking in development: The greatest market failure is the lack of investment in innovation, particularly innovation that would be of particular value to the poorest. We’ve been big on funding disease and agricultural innovations; why governments tend to fund delivery more than they fund upstream innovation, I don’t know. In delivery systems, it wouldn’t be typical for us to take on that kind of funding other than in pilot mode because when you’re talking about delivering incentive payments to an entire country, it’s not something that philanthropic means are going to be able to have the scale to do. But a lot of our inventiveness is on how upstream [innovation] and downstream [delivery] work together. So you take the polio campaign: using satellite maps to update the microplans that the vaccinators follow, using the GPS tracker to follow along to see if the independent monitoring person actually goes and visits the houses that they say they’re visiting so that your tracking data is good. I don’t think a lot of what we’re doing with polio deserves a pure classification of upstream or downstream.
Mere HER i Foreign Policy.
Steyn er tilbage på The Source. Kun få timer gammel:
Ezra Levant & Mark Steyn: Section 13 & Obama
Mark Steyn joins Ezra Levant to discuss Conservative MP Brian Storseth’s private member’s bill calling for the repeal of section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act (CHRA) which deals with hate speech.
In the second segment they discuss Obama’s love for tyrants.
Der hører en video til den første artikel. Folkene hos AEI har fattet en hel del af, hvad der foregår:
Amb. Roger Noriega: The Mounting Hezbollah Threat in Latin America
Hezbollah is expanding their network to our hemisphere and recently planned an attack in the heart of our nation’s capital. The terrorist organization is getting much closer to U.S. soil and this is a great threat to our nation that must be recognized and addressed.
The Mounting Hezbollah Threat in Latin America
By Roger F. Noriega, José R. Cárdenas | October 2011
Over the last several years Hezbollah and its patrons in Iran have greatly expanded their operations in Latin America to the detriment of inter-American security and US strategic interests. Today, Hezbollah is using the Western Hemisphere as a staging ground, fundraising center, and operational base to wage asymmetric warfare against the United States. Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez and other anti-American governments in the region have facilitated this expansion by rolling out the welcome mats for Hezbollah and Iran. US policymakers must increase their attention to this problem, expand their assets in the region, and develop a comprehensive strategy to combat this threat in a sustained and meaningful way.
Key points in this Outlook:
- To ward off its international isolation and undermine US influence in the region, Iran, with its Hezbollah proxy in tow, has made a major diplomatic and economic push into the Western Hemisphere.
- Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and other radical anti-American populists have made common cause with Iran and Hezbollah in waging asymmetric warfare against the United States.
Hezbollah’s criminality in the region has multiplied as it- has established deeper relations with transnational criminal organizations.
- Evidence indicates Hezbollah is sharing its terrorist experiences and techniques with Mexican drug cartels along the US border.
Mere HER hos AEI. Americas Forum her.
Quds and Zetas
By Thomas Donnelly | October 12, 2011
The revelation that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps and its Quds Force had plotted to kill Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States–by blowing him up as he dined at a Washington restaurant–is a stark reminder of the nature of the Tehran regime and its ambitions. But perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the story is that Iran’s thugs are developing a strategic partnership with Mexico’s most violent thugs: Los Zetas may only be the second-largest drug cartel in the Drug Enforcement Administration’s rankings, but they’re probably the most lethal. The gang is said to have formed around a platoon’s worth of deserters from Mexico’s special operations forces, and became the elite troops of another Mexican drug organization, the Gulf Cartel. The leader of that cartel got himself arrested, and the Zetas moved out on their own.
Mere HER hos AEI. The Weekly Standard her. Vi snupper lige en til for at skære det ud i pap:
Quds Force in Our Own Backyard
W. Thomas Smith – October 14, 2011
[Following is part of a briefing delivered yesterday, adapted for Family Security Matters]
As new information about the alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in the U.S. continues to surface, keep in mind many of the seemingly unrelated particulars many counterterrorism analysts and experts have pointed to for years – and politicians have far too-often dismissed as unimportant fear-mongering – regarding the Iranian-Hizballah threat in the Western Hemisphere, particularly as regards the threat of the Iranian Quds Force (tasked with directing this latest plot) and Hizballah terrorists operating in central and South America.
Politics aside, let’s examine the facts and connect a few of the dots.
FIRST, what is the Quds Force?
Mere HER hos Family Security Matters. World Defence Review her.
Andre kilder: Pajamas Media,
Det går hastigt ned ad bakke. Almindelige private borgere gør klogt i at nedbringe både gæld og opsparing. Fast ejendom – for eksempel ens eget hjem – genvinder før eller siden det meste af sin værdi. Der vil ens penge kunne stå nogenlunde sikkert og vente på bedre tider.
Men videre til Riskær, der skriver om dansk nationaløkonomi. Er manden blevet konservativ på sine gamle dage? Mugged by reality? I så fald er Riskær ikke alene:
Bankkrak er kun begyndelsen
Af Klaus Riskær Pedersen | 12. oktober 2011
Mens bankerne via Bankpakke IV sender låneskrot for milliarder videre til staten, lurer endnu større kriser i horisonten: Nationalbanken har tildelt bankerne finansiering for 400 mia. kr., og som noget nyt kan de stille kundearrangementer som sikkerhed. Det skaber risiko for, at rådne lån ender hos skatteborgerne
Mere HER i Information. Og om den amerikanske variant af krisen:
October 14, 2008: The Day the Economy as We Knew It Died
Hank Paulson’s “gun to the head” hijacking of TARP, and the sickening silence which followed.
October 14, 2011 – by Tom Blume
Almost everyone who believes in the Constitution and free markets properly considers October 3, 2008, one of the darkest days in U.S. history. It was on that day that the “Emergency Economic Stabilization Act” creating the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) became law. A day later, I wrote that law’s passage, accompanied by tactics and threats which amounted to orchestrated blackmail, over the strident objections of over 150 economists from across the political spectrum, only days after its initial voter-driven failure, proved that Washington’s politicians and elites “don’t care what we think.”
Abhorrent as it was, the sickening saga of TARP’s enactment was nothing compared to what transpired less than two weeks later.
Everyone’s understanding of the legislation — at least publicly expressed — was that it would, quoting from the bill’s text, authorize the Treasury Department “to purchase, and to make and fund commitments to purchase, troubled assets.” Specifically identified “troubled assets” included:
Mere HER i Pajamas Media. Og til venstrefløjens tro og overtro – meget kort artikel:
Inequality and happiness
I dream of Gini
Oct 12th 2011
The relationship between wealth, happiness and inequality
Mere HER i The Economist. Og samme emne, – men en anderledes konklusion:
The Instability of Inequality
October 13, 2011 – Nouriel Roubini
New York – This year has witnessed a global wave of social and political turmoil and instability, with masses of people pouring into the real and virtual streets: the Arab Spring; riots in London; Israel’s middle-class protests against high housing prices and an inflationary squeeze on living standards; protesting Chilean students; the destruction in Germany of the expensive cars of “fat cats”; India’s movement against corruption; mounting unhappiness with corruption and inequality in China; and now the “Occupy Wall Street” movement in New York and across the United States.
Mere HER hos Project Syndicate.
Andre kilder: 180Grader,
Anthony Daniels alias Theodore Dalrymple skriver om Brasilia. Vi har jo sommetider lidt om byer her på Veritas Universalis, fordi de fleste mennesker på denne klode bor i byer. Og fordi endnu flere vil komme til det. Vi får flere og større millionbyer i denne verden. Og til dem, der gerne vil bo i en mindre by, er der kun at sige: så find en!
Letter from Brasilia:
Brutal blueprints
by Anthony Daniels – October 2011
On the architecture of Brasilia.
When I was about ten years old, I used to design cities. It was very easy, and I was surprised that everyone before me had made such a hash of it. I could conclude only that the world had hitherto been populated by fools. At the very center of the city was the parliament building, which was like St. Peter’s but on a bigger and grander scale. Round it ran an eight-lane circular road, from which radiated, symmetrically, six large avenues. How the deputies to the parliament were supposed to reach it—dodge between the traffic, I suppose—was not a question with which I concerned myself. I was designing cities and buildings, not human convenience. Along the avenues were situated the institutions that I then considered essential for cities: the natural history museum, the art gallery, the royal palace. Everything was on a grand scale, and no mess of the kind created by commercial or other inessential establishments was permitted or planned for.
Mere HER i The New Criterion.
Andre kilder: The New English Review,
Måske kan Francis Fukuyama også blive nomieret til en Golden Globe? Ok, filmatiseringen skal lige på plads først:
10th Anniversary of 9/11 – Interview with Francis Fukuyama
Terror attack expedited end of U.S. dominance
The Yomiuri Shimbun – Michiro Okamoto – Sep. 11, 2011
American political scientist Francis Fukuyama recently declared that 9/11 facilitated changes that led to a multipolar world today–specifically the rise of China, Brazil, South Africa, Russia and India–because the United States lost trust as a society pushing for democracy and human rights during its campaign in Iraq.
Fukuyama, the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, said although there is no direct link between 9/11 and the Arab upheavals of this year, the former served to delay the topplings of autocratic regimes in the Arab world by five years.
Åh, det er så smukt at være halalhippie. Mere HER hos The Yomiuri Shimbun.
Problemet Iran bliver værre:
Iran in Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay
by Anna Mahjar-Barducci – August 24, 2011
While the world is busy with the economic crisis and the uprising in the Middle East, Iran silently continues its penetration into Latin America. Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Ali Ahani, recently visited Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay with the goal to further strengthen political and economic relations. The visit of Ahani to Uruguay comes in the aftermath of the Iranian Ambassador’s declarations denying the Holocaust — causing outrage throughout the Jewish communities in Latin America.
Brazilian President follows Lula’s steps on Iran
On August 10th, CNN television reported that representatives from Brazil and Iran agreed to enhance relations between the two countries, “a signal that Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will follow the example of her predecessor and demonstrate Brazil’s diplomatic independence by dealing with a nation under scrutiny for its nuclear program.” Former Brazilian President Lula da Silva’s government had backed Iran’s nuclear program in the U.N. Security Council, and had voted against sanctions. Further, under Lula’s presidency, Brazil, along with Turkey, agreed on a deal to swap nuclear fuel to help Tehran end its stand-off with the West over the controversial atomic program. The deal, however, became overshadowed by U.S. sanctions.
Mere HER hos Hudson New York.
Som helt sikkert ikke vil blive brugt til noget, der kunne have gjort en forskel:
How the West Was Drilled
From Alberta to the Brazilian Coast, a tour of the new American oil frontier that could eclipse the Middle East.
By Charles Homans | August 17, 2011
In 1999, Canada surpassed Saudi Arabia as the United States’ largest source of oil imports, and today a full half of the country’s oil production comes from Alberta’s so-called tar or oil sands: a form of petroleum found in a mixture of sand, clay, and bitumen that is either mined in pits or extracted by pumping steam into wells. The U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration predicts that Canada’s oil sands production will double over the next five years, adding another 1.3 million barrels a day.But producing oil sands is a messy, emissions-intensive business; according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the extraction process produces 82 percent more emissions than conventional oil drilling. Canadian officials and oil company executives have argued that these concerns are overstated — and indeed, credible outside calculations have found far lower impacts, closer to 17 percent greater than conventional oil. But Canada’s own environmental agency warns that oil sands production will cancel out the country’s efforts to reduce its overall carbon emissions. Oil sands advocates have seen an opening, however, in Americans’ perpetual nervousness over its reliance on oil imports from unfriendly and autocratic regimes, as well as a newly restive Middle East, and have increasingly argued for Canadian petroleum as an alternative to “conflict oil” tanked in from dodgier countries.
Mere HER i Foreign Policy.
Fødselstallet falder. Overalt på planeten:
The World Will Be More Crowded – With Old People
Actually, the children aren’t our future.
By Phillip Longman | Sept/Oct 2011
And what demography tells us is this: The human population will continue to grow, though in a very different way from in the past. The United Nations’ most recent “mid-range” projection calls for an increase to 8 billion people by 2025 and to 10.1 billion by century’s end.
Mere HER i Foreign Policy.
Follow the money:
Hezbollah: Party of Fraud
How Hezbollah Uses Crime to Finance Its Operations
Matthew Levitt – July 27, 2011
In June, Lebanon’s new prime minister, Najib Mikati, announced the formation of a government dominated by members and allies of the Shiite terrorist organization Hezbollah. The creation of the new government has made Hezbollah the most dominant political force in Lebanon just six years after the “Cedar Revolution,” which placed the group on the defensive and forced its Syrian patrons to leave the country. With control of the Lebanese government, a vast social-service network, an army of soldiers and operatives, and an arsenal of more than 40,000 rockets, Hezbollah has arguably never been more powerful.
Mere HER i Foreign Affairs. Mere om kriminelle Hizbollah:
Nuclear Cooperation between Argentina and Iran?
by Anna Mahjar-Barducci – July 27, 2011
With the help of Venezuela, there is reason to believe that Argentina is cooperating with Iran on its the nuclear issue in a deal that involves Argentina’s willingness to drop the accusations against Iran for the 1994 bombing in return for business.
In a confidential letter that was sent by Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who chairs the House Foreign Relations Committee, to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Ros-Lehtinen sought to establish “status of any possible economic projects Argentina may be engaged in with Venezuela that may involve Iran.” Ros-Lehtinen also sought to establish “the extent of any nuclear cooperation that may be at play between Argentina, Venezuela and Iran.” The letter was co-signed by Florida’s Republican Congressmen Connie Mack and David Rivera. “We are writing to express our concerns about information that our offices have received about potential efforts by Iran of nuclear cooperation with Argentina, using Venezuela as its intermediary,” the three legislators wrote.
Mere HER hos Hudson New York.
Ny indisk rekord i vanvid:
Girls as young as ONE ‘forced to have sex change operations in India’
By Daily Mail on 27th June 2011
Girls as young as one are being forced into sex change operations in India by parents desperate for a son.
Surgeons in the city of Indore are reported to be ‘converting’ hundreds of girls a year, who are subsequently pumped full of hormone drugs.
A report in the respected Hindustan Times newspaper said the ‘shocking, unprecedented trend, catering to the fetish for a son, is unfolding at conservative Indore’s well-known clinics and hospitals on children who are one to five years old.
Mere HER i Daily Mail. Og endnu en artikel om indiske forhold:
Poor Little Rich Country
How do you categorize India, a nation that is at once fantastically wealthy and desperately poor?
By Patrick French | June 24, 2011
In May, the Indian government announced that it was giving $5 billion in aid to African countries in the interest of helping them meet their development goals. “We do not have all the answers,” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, “but we have some experience in nation-building, which we are happy to share.”
Mere HER i Foreign Policy.
Andre kilder: Metro, The Daily Star, The Global Post, Hindustan Times, The Telegraph,
Hvorfor skal vi have menneskerettigheder, som der er demokratisk flertal imod? Ned med domstolsstyret:
Menneskerettighedskrise
Jacob Mchangama, chefjurist i tænketanken Cepos – 11.05.11
En udefrakommende iagttager må nærmest uvægerligt have fået det indtryk, at Danmark er et land plaget af racisme og fremmedhad, og hvor etniske og religiøse minoriteter behandles som i 1930′ernes Tyskland.
Den 2. maj var Danmark til ”eksamen” i menneskerettigheder ved det såkaldte Universal Periodic Review (UPR) i FN’s Menneskerettighedsråd i Geneve. [...]
Mere HER i Jyllands-Posten. Og fra et læserbrev i samme avis:
Tina Kaare, chef for ledelsessekretariatet, Udlændingeservice:
[...] Udlændingeservice har understøttet en markant udvikling i indvandringen. I 2010 blev der samlet set givet dobbelt så mange tilladelser (ca. 60.000) som i 2003 (ca. 31.000), ikke mindst pga. en eksplosion i indvandring af arbejdskraft.
Mere HER i Jyllands-Posten.
Opdatering 12. maj 2011 – Søren Krarus skriver om samme emne:
Racismeparagraffen er totalitær i sit ophav
Søren Krarup | 12. maj 2011
Racismeparagraffen er diktaturlandenes værk og farlig for ytringsfriheden, skriver Søren Krarup (DF)
Samme dag som Lars Hedegaard blev kendt skyldig i “racisme” af Østre Landsret, var der en lang og hed debat om emnet i Folketinget. Det var mærkeligt at opleve. Ét sted, i Østre Landsret, herskede jagten på det frie ord eller foragten for ytringsfriheden i form af dommen over Lars Hedegaard.
Mere HER i Kristeligt Dagblad.
Nogen har været ved at lege med animation:
Hans Rosling: Child Mortailty, Family Planning & the Environment | TEDxChange
In this animated version of his talk from TEDxChange, Hans Rosling discusses Millennium Development Goal #5: Reduction in child mortality rate of two-thirds by 2015. Dr. Rosling highlights progress happening in Africa and the need to measure each country individually.
Video created by and provided courtesy of TEDxMadrid and BBVA Banca para Todos.
Vi snupper også lige den om vaskemaskinen. Den er overalt lige for tiden og bliver tekstet på alverdes sprog:
Magic Washing Machine
What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine. With newly designed graphics from Gapminder, Rosling shows us the magic that pops up when economic growth and electricity turn a boring wash day into an intellectual day of reading.
Fødselstallet falder. Børnedødeligheden falder. Andelen af fattige mennesker i verden falder. Folkesundheden stiger. Den såkaldte 3. verden indhendter Vesten i et forbløffende tempo. Fra Seattle BioMed 24. marts 2010, men først youtubet i februar 2011:
Hans Rosling Keynotes Passport to Global Health Celebration
Dr. Hans Rosling uses his famous Gapminder data bubble statistics software to unveil a fact-based world view. Using global health data, he demystifies the gap between the so-called developing and developed worlds.
Danmark er et foregangsland både i historien og nu om dage. Vi får lidt ros af Fukuyama:
From ‘End of History’ Author, a Look at the Beginning and Middle
By Nicholas Wade – March 7, 2011
Human social behavior has an evolutionary basis. This was the thesis in Edward O. Wilson’s book “Sociobiology” that caused such a stir, even though most evolutionary biologists accept that at least some social behaviors, like altruism, could be favored by natural selection.
In a book to be published in April, “The Origins of Political Order,” Francis Fukuyama of Stanford University presents a sweeping new overview of human social structures throughout history, taking over from where Dr. Wilson’s ambitious synthesis left off.
Mere HER i New York Times. Den næste artikel handler om den internationale økonomiske krise og stammer fra Foreign Affairs, der har låst den inde. Men den kan læses hos Center for Global Development eller i pdf hos Stanford University:
The Post-Washington Consensus – Development After the Crisis
Nancy Birdsall and Francis Fukuyama – March/April 2011
The last time a global depression originated in the United States, the impact was devastating not only for the world economy but for world politics as well. The Great Depression set the stage for a shift away from strict monetarism and laissez-faire policies toward Keynesian demand management. More important, for many it delegitimized the capitalist system itself, paving the way for the rise of radical and antiliberal movements around the world.
This time around, there has been no violent rejection of capitalism, even in the developing world. In early 2009, at the height of the global financial panic, China and Russia, two formerly noncapitalist states, made it clear to their domestic and foreign investors that they had no intention of abandoning the capitalist model. No leader of a major developing country has backed away from his or her commitment to free trade or the global capitalist system. Instead, the established Western democracies are the ones that have highlighted the risks of relying too much on market-led globalization and called for greater regulation of global finance.
Mere HER hos Center for Global Development eller i denne pdf hos Stanford University.
Jeg har spurgt før og nu gør jeg det igen: hvis halvdelen af alle mænd har to koner, hvem skal den anden halvdel så gifte sig med? I islam må en mand endda have hele fire koner. Det kommer Niall Ferguson imidlertid ikke ind på her:
Men Without Women
by Niall Ferguson – March 06, 2011
The ominous rise of Asia’s bachelor generation.
In 1927, Ernest Hemingway published a collection of short stories titled Men Without Women. Today, less than a century later, it sums up the predicament of a rising proportion of mankind.
According to the United Nations, there are far more men than women on the planet. The gender gap is especially pronounced in Asia, where there are 100 million more guys than girls. This may come as a surprise to people in the Western world, where women outnumber men because—other things being equal—the mortality rate for women is lower than for men in all age groups. Nobel Prize–winning economist Amartya Sen calls it the mystery of Asia’s “missing women.”
Mere HER i Newsweek. Og så interviewet – spørgsmålene stilles af Daniel Johnson:
Is China Really a Threat to us?
Dambisa Moyo and Niall Ferguson – March 2011
Daniel Johnson: I want to start with something that happened exactly 100 years ago, in 1911. Oswald Spengler had the idea of writing The Decline of the West during the Agadir Crisis — a bit of gunboat diplomacy by the Kaiser which went wrong. Spengler decided this was an example of the West losing its nerve and he began this whole genre of literature about Western decline. He included the threat from Japan — “the Yellow Peril” — but now we talk about China. So is this something really new that we’re talking about, or have we been here before? And how worried should we be?
Niall Ferguson: What’s novel is that now nobody in their right mind believes history is a seasonal process, as Spengler did, and that we’re somehow destined by some natural force to enter the winter of our civilisation’s existence.
DJ: But some people think the decline of the West is inevitable, don’t they?
NF: That’s right. They might have a different model from Spengler’s, and there are lots of different ways of thinking about the historical process. Most people like to think of it as being cyclical — I think that’s wrong actually, but that’s why people keep coming back to this idea. We’re all young enough — or should I say old enough? — to remember Paul Kennedy’s Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, which said in the 1980s that the West was in trouble, and Japan and West Germany were going to overtake the United States. We’ve seen this movie more than once and it’s a recurrent feature of the 20th century that somebody at some point is predicting the decline of the West. But what I think is different about today is that compared with 1911, there really is a very rapidly narrowing gap between the West and the rest, which there wasn’t then. True, before 1911, one non-Western country — Japan — had begun the process of catching up but it was still miles behind. It had some industry, but by comparison to Britain or any of the major European powers, and particularly in comparison to the United States, it was tiny. We’re in a different world now because if you use purchasing power parity as a measure, China’s gross domestic product is close to 90 per cent that of the US. The Soviets never got that close. For the first time since 1872, there is the possibility of another economy being bigger than that of the US, and it could happen within the next ten years.
Mere HER i Standpoint Magazine.
Opdatering 12. august 2011:
China vows crackdown on sex-selective abortions in bid to close yawning gender gap
August 8, 2011
China is vowing to strengthen enforcement to prevent sex-selective abortions and close a yawning gender gap in a country that already has tens of millions more boys than girls.
Mere HER i The Washington Post.
Og selv om Rosling er svensk, er det faktisk sjældent. Fra Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan i Stockholm - uploadet den 3. februar 2011 og ser ud til at være fra 1. februar 2011. Hans Rosing er virkelig god her:
Lunchseminarium med Hans Rosling
Lunchseminarium med Hans Rosling “En konvergerande värld”
Andre kilder: Wikipedia,
Donald Trump meddeler, at han seriøst overvejer at stille op til det amerikanske præsidentvalg, som afholdes den 6. november 2012 og at den officielle meddelelse nok kommer i juni. Udsendelsen her handler bla. om USAs konkurrenceevne, OPEC, Mellemøsten, præsident Obama og mere.
Newsmax har flere artikler i tilknytning til interviewet, – bla. her, her og her.
Fra 30. og 31. januar 2011, men først uploadet på YouTube den 21. februar 2011 i to dele – Kathleen Walter interviewer:
Donald Trump: I’ll Probably Run for President in ’12
Jan. 30, 2011 — Real estate mogul Donald Trump tells Newsmax.TV he probably will announce his candidacy for president in June. The New York billionaire is confident he can restore the United States to glory after President Barack Obama has made America “a laughingstock.”
Trump Won’t Tape ‘The Apprentice’ in White House
Jan. 31, 2011 — In part two of an exclusive Newsmax.TV interview, Donald Trump explains where housing, oil, and gold prices are headed. ‘The Apprentice’ host gives viewers a sneak peak at the upcoming season, which features celebs, and says, if elected president, he wouldn’t tape the show at The White House.
Opdatering den 17.maj 2011: Trump siger nu, at han ikke stiller op alligevel, skriver The Washington Times.
Abbas’s Intifada: Isolating Israel and Unilateral Steps
by Khaled Abu Toameh – February 18, 2011
Palestinian President Abbas has reached the same conclusion as his predecessor, Yasser Arafat — that he will not get all of what he wants from Israel at the negotiating table; also the reason he opposes a third intifada [uprising] against Israel — he has instead decided to take the battle to the international arena.
His Prime Minister, Salam Fayyad, is basically hoping that by September, the plan’s deadline, the Palestinians will have created new facts on the ground that will convince the US and the Europeans to support their unilateral declaration of statehood.
Mere HER hos Hudson New York. Og en til:
Will the Palestinian Authority and Hamas Ever Learn?
by Khaled Abu Toameh – February 15, 2011
The Palestinian Authority and Hamas seem to be nervous about the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.
Both rival parties, which have been fighting each other for over three years, are now scrambling to avoid possible revolts by Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Authority has finally agreed to hold presidential, local and parliamentary elections.
In addition, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has decided to reshuffle the cabinet of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. The decision to hold new elections and reshuffle the cabinet is seen as a pre-emptive measure that is designed to appease Palestinians.
Mere HER hos Hudson New York.
Warning: The English translation is hopeless
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