- urbi et orbi
Befolkningseksplosionen er slut. Rosling forklarer det nok engang. Det kan ikke siges for tit:
Hans Rosling: Religions and babies
Hans Rosling had a question: Do some religions have a higher birth rate than others — and how does this affect global population growth? Speaking at the TEDxSummit in Doha, Qatar, he graphs data over time and across religions. With his trademark humor and sharp insight, Hans reaches a surprising conclusion on world fertility rates.
Andre kilder: Wikipedia,
Hans Rosling er med på Time Magazines nye liste over “The 100 Most Influential People in the World“. I den anledning snupper vi lige en video. Nu er Rosling forresten også blevet hip på venstrefløjen. De har opfundet begrebet “social matematik” og så går det pludselig an med lidt af hvert. Fra Skoll World Forum 28. marts 2012:
Hans Rosling at the Opening Plenary of the Skoll World Forum 2012
Andre kilder: Frameworks Institute, Karolinska Institutet, FlowingData,
Tag den, Paul Ehrlich! Jeg serverer lidt Rosling nu og da. Internettet flyder med for meget tågesnak og falsk information om overbefolkning. Fra University of Minnesota den 1. juni 2011:
Momentum 2011: Hans Rosling
International health guru Hans Rosling is known worldwide for using animations of global trends to brings statistics to life as he lectures about past and contemporary economic, social and environmental changes in the world.
Almost 85 percent of mankind are living in countries which are below reproductive level
Hans Rosling
Spol 17 minutter frem – indledningen er ikke til at holde ud at høre på. Roslings foredrag rummer ikke meget nyt – Gates starter efter ca. 32 minutter:
Bill Gates & Hans Rosling launch Global Poverty Ambassadors
On January 25th, the Global Poverty Project hosted Hans Rosling and Bill Gates at the London School of Economics to launch Global Poverty Ambassadors in partnership with The Co-Operative.
PBS NewsHour har lavet et portræt af Rosling, som er noget banalt – 10 minutter på YouTube her. Og artikel – ret interessant:
Global Poverty Act is Back: Is Bill Gates the World’s Richest Useful Idiot?
January 5, 2012 – Tom DeWeese
He might be a whiz kid at creating computer software, but beyond that Bill Gates has proven time and again that he hasn’t a clue about why or how freedom works.
He constantly teams up with anti-free market types like the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) to produce “educational programs” in his software packages, misdirecting unsuspecting children with political propaganda. In 2002 he gave the NWF $600,000 worth of software to help these environmental radicals run their programs to block the drilling of American oil. Apparently Gates doesn’t understand that he needs oil to create power to run computers. Most recently his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donated $3 million to eight universities to reinvent the flush toilet. Environmentalists call that device “one of the world’s most destructive habits.”
Mere HER hos Family Security Matters.
Stossel – Hans Rosling – 2011-12-22
Hans Rosling discusses how technology is the solution to increasing prosperity everywhere.
Barsk gennemgang her. Lars Hedegaards kritik af kvinders vilkår i blegner ved siden af virkeligheden:
Clinton’s Africa Vision is Out of Focus, say Critics
Jim Kouri – October 3, 2011
Today (Monday, October 3, 2011) Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will meet with 40 women entrepreneurs from 36 African nations participating in the 2011 African Women’s Entrepreneurship Program, at the U.S. Department of State.
The African Women’s Entrepreneurship Program is a people-to-people exchange that connects women and enhances their ability to be key economic drivers in communities and countries worldwide.
While feminists such as Clinton will applaud such a program, many wonder when these same individuals will address the rampant violence and sexual assault against women and girls in many African nations.
Mere HER hos Family Security Matters. Desuden denne:
A Call to Ban the Full-Face Veil in the U.S. and in Israel
Nancy Kobrin, PhD, Joan Lachkar, PhD – October 3, 2011
As psychoanalysts, we are addressing the psychological implications of wearing a full-face veil. It is well known from psychological research and infant and human developmental psychology that contact with the mother’s face is of crucial importance. The importance of eye contact with the mother’s gaze is substantiated by the research and writings of such famous researchers as Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Margaret Mahler, Otto Kernberg, Mary Ainsworth, Beatrice Beebe, John Bowlby, Daniel Stern and others who have made major contributions to the study of attachment disorders. This is further confirmed by Ayaan Hirsi Ali that the full-face veil is terrifying to children. Babies and children are in constant need to be able to read the nonverbal, covert body language messages of their mother’s face. It goes without saying that the kind of message that the full-face veil communicates to the infant is that the mother’s gaze is cut off and therefore uninvolved or concerned with the infant’s well being. To the public too the mother has been erased, so to speak, from being part of civil society, an individual demanding and deserving recognition and respect. The full-face veil communicates hatred and terror of the female. This is not a good message to communicate to a baby.
Mere HER hos Family Security Matters.
FNs troværdighed falder hele tiden:
Millions May Die … Or Not.
How disaster hype became a big global business.
By David Rieff | Sept/Oct 2011
On Sept. 28, 2001, with the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan imminent, Jeremy Hobbs, the executive director of Oxfam Community Aid Abroad, issued an urgent call for donations to the group’s Afghan Refugee Crisis Appeal. “Up to 5 million innocent people face starvation and death in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran,” he insisted. “We must act now to prevent what could possibly be the worst humanitarian catastrophe since World War II.”
Really? Worse than Biafra in 1967, worse than the Cambodian refugee crisis, worse than the Ethiopian famine of 1984-1985, and worse even than Somalia in 1991? How could a senior official at one of the most experienced and well-respected private relief agencies in the world suggest with such confidence that the crisis in Afghanistan was likely to outstrip these tragedies?
Mere HER i Foreign Policy.
Ja, klimaændringer eller ej, – vi skal have gang i urbaniseringen i tredjeverdenslandene. Et glimt af fornuft hos de radikale? Det er ellers sjældent:
Christian Friis Bach om Somalia: Når ørkenen spreder sig
August 3, 2011
”Bistanden til landbrugsudvikling har været faldende de sidste 15 år, fordi det er bøvlet og besværligt. Her har regeringer og det internationale samfund svigtet. Klimaforandringerne vil ramme Afrikas Horn hårdt, og tørken rejser en række komplicerede dilemmaer: Hvornår skal vi erkende, at store befolkningsgrupper må flytte fra områder, der omdannes til ørken og – primært – ind til de store byer?” Sådan spørger Christian Friis Bach, tidligere chef for Folkekirkens Nødhjælp, folketingskandidat for de Radikale.
Malthe Rasmussen interviewer HER hos Ræson. I artiklen refereres til et interview med Linda Polman, som kan ses her.
Vestens skyldkompleks. Oikofobi. Weltschmerz – find selv på mere:
Israel and Western guilt
By Aryeh Tepper – May 22, 2011
Wilfred McClay’s new essay ‘The Moral Economy of Guilt’ is helpful to understanding how and why so much energy has been invested in singling out the Jewish state, and by implication the Jewish people, as founts of contemporary evil.
‘Confront Your Privilege.” So reads a “subtly coercive” sign on display at American liberal-arts colleges. Why coercive? Because, as Wilfred McClay explains in his illuminating essay “The Moral Economy of Guilt” in First Things, what such signs are really telling the students is “Feel Guilty.” Feel guilty about the money that sent you here and the advantage conferred by the degree you will receive. Oh, and in the meantime, “pay us $50,000+ a year so that we can certify the very privilege for which you are apologizing.”
Mere HER i The Jerusalem Post. Omtalte essay er dette:
The Moral Economy of Guilt
The curious process by which notions of sin and guilt have become both illusory and omnipresent.
Wilfred M. McClay -May 2011
In his grand and gloomy book Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud identified the tenacious sense of guilt as “the most important problem in the development of civilization.” In fact, he continued, it seems that “the price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.” Such guilt made for an elusive quarry, however. It was hard to identify and hard to understand, and even harder to counteract, since it so frequently dwelled at an unconscious level and could easily be mistaken for something else.
Mere HER i First Things.
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.
Africa’s Worst Dictator
How has Robert Mugabe been able to rule Zimbabwe for so long?
By Christopher Hitchens – April 11, 2011
Now that the South African political leadership has—after years of shameful silence and even complicity—declined to continue its open-ended indulgence of Robert Mugabe, it becomes possible to envisage a time when Zimbabwe will be free of the hideous regime of one man and one-party rule. Other contributing factors, such as Mugabe’s age and the inspiring influence of events at the other end of Africa, can be listed. But the democratic opposition in Zimbabwe predates the “Arab spring” by several years and must now count in its own right as one of the world’s most stubborn and brave movements.
Peter Godwin’s most recent book, The Fear, updates the continuing story of popular resistance. In my opinion it’s not quite as powerful as his earlier book, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, but it does convey the awful immediate reality of a state where official lawlessness and cruelty are the norm. It also maps the symptoms of regime-decay: If only for nakedly opportunist reasons, there are increasing numbers of people among Mugabe’s own clientele who are looking to a future when the near-nonagenarian (he is 87) will no longer be with us.
Mere HER i Slate eller her i National Post. Desuden denne artikel om bla. Philip Larkin og George Orwell:
Philip Larkin, the Impossible Man
How the most exasperating of poets met his match
By Christopher Hitchens – May 2011
In May 1941, Philip Larkin was the treasurer of the Oxford University English Club and in that capacity had to take the visiting speaker George Orwell out to dinner after he had addressed the membership on the subject of “Literature and Totalitarianism.” Larkin’s main recollection: “We took Dylan Thomas to the Randolph and George Orwell to the not-so-good hotel. I suppose it was my first essay in practical criticism.”
Mere HER i The Atlantic. Printformatet er uden sideskift - link her.
Did We Give Up on Libya?
Victor Davis Hanson – April 7, 2011
Don’t bet on Qaddafi stepping down. Or on America stepping up.
President Obama has announced that America will stop attacking Col. Moammar Qaddafi’s forces in Libya. He instead hopes that others can force Qaddafi out — or that the dictator will leave because of economic and diplomatic pressure.
It will apparently be up to NATO to finish the war — without direct American combat participation. The relieved Obama administration had never quite explained what the mission was in the first place — or for whom and for what we were fighting. Was the bombing to stop the killing, to help the rebels, to remove Qaddafi, or to aid the British and French, who both have considerable oil interests in Libya?
Mere HER i National Review Online. Kan også læses HER i Jewish World Review.
Opdatering 9. april 2011 – mere om Libyen og USA her:
The Libyan Stalemate
April 8th, 2011 • by Srdja Trifkovic
The Libyan operation is being quietly aborted, barely three weeks after its ill-conceived onset. There will be no mission creep, no American boots on the ground, and no arming and training of the rebel forces.
Mere HER i Chronicles Magazine. Kan også læses her hos Novakeo.
Opdateret med ekstra link.
Fra programmet Background Briefing with Ian Masters den 24. marts 2011. Luttwak er virkelig fin her:
Criticism of NATO in Libya
Edward Luttwak discusses the ideas in his article, “Libya: It’s Not Our Fight.”
Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 22 minutter.
Andre kilder: CSIS – Center for Strategic and International Studies,
For anden gang på få timer har Veritas Universalis en artikel af Anne Bayefsky:
U.N. Hypocrisy On Full Display
By Anne Bayefsky | March 04, 2011
Today, Iran officially becomes a member of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women. Only three days ago, the U.N. General Assembly voted to suspend Libya’s membership on the U.N. Human Rights Council in a desperate bid to save the Council’s tattered reputation and itself.
But not a single state, including the United States, has indicated anything but smooth sailing for today’s membership of Iran on the U.N.’s top women’s rights body.
The double-talk surrounding the Libyan maneuver was breathtaking. It was only nine months ago, after getting to know Qaddafi over four decades, that the General Assembly had elected Libya to serve on the U.N.’s top human rights body. And Libya still serves on the U.N. Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, the U.N. Commission on Information, and the Executive Board of U.N. Women.
Mere HER hos Fox News.
Andre kilder: National Post, The Vancouver Sun, Times Colonist, Ynet News,
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,
Interview with Phyllis Chesler: ‘Israel Under Existential Siege’
by Fern Sidman – February 21, 2011
Israel National News reporter Fern Sidman interviewed op-ed columnist, Dr. Phyllis Chesler, at a first-of-its-kind conference in Toronto organized by Advocates for Civil Liberties and entitled, “When Middle East Politics Invade Campus”. Held on February 16th, the event dealt with the continued and increasingly hostile demonization of Israel, both on the college campus and in the media.
INN: Today, you addressed the escalating hatred of Israel in the realm of Western academia. Can you tell us your observations of this phenomenon since your book, “The New Anti-Semitism” came about some years ago?
Mere HER hos Israel National News (Arutz Sheva). Desuden disse artikler om overfalet på Lara Logan:
A War Crime in Cairo
by Phyllis Chesler on Feb 21st, 2011
Something is very wrong with the mainstream American media. By now, we all know that CBS did not find it newsworthy that, on February 11, 2011, their own chief foreign correspondent had been gang-raped by a mob of 200 men on the Muslim “Sabbath”—on the very day that President Mubarak stepped down. Instead, they spent four days continuing to celebrate the freedom fighters in Tahrir Square.
Only after CBS finally broke this story did other American media networks come forward with news of their own: Apparently, CNN’s Anderson Cooper had also been beaten up by the brave pro-democracy freedom fighters in Tahrir Square and ABC’s Brian Hartman had been threatened with beheading in that same allegedly pro-democracy uprising. Even Christiane Amanpour had to be hustled away to safety by her handlers.
Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. Kan også læses her hos AINA.
What Every Good Cultural Relativist Knows About the Gang Assault on Lara Logan UPDATED
by Phyllis Chesler on February 21 2011
On February 11th CBS foreign correspondent, Lara Logan, was publicly gang-raped and beaten for 20-30 minutes by Egyptian men in Tahrir Square who, all the while, cursed her as a “Jew.” CBS only revealed this four days later. Writing at the London Guardian, blogger Amanda Marcotte chose not to focus on this act of jihadic barbarism because she did not want anyone to draw negative conclusions about Islam, Muslims, Egyptians, or about the so-called Egyptian pro-democracy “revolution.” Instead, like many other commentators, Marcotte bemoaned the fact that “rightwingers” might now draw some politically incorrect conclusions. Marcotte writes:
“In this case, rightwingers who have an interest in stoking fear and loathing of Muslims worldwide pounced at the opportunity to smear all Egyptians with this crime.”
Mere HER på NewsRealBlog. The Daily Mail har denne artikel om Lara Logan:
Opdatering den 23. februar 2011. Der er åbenbart udbrudt en twitterkrig mellem Phyllis Chesler og Amanda Marcotte:
We Are All Lara Logan
by Phyllis Chesler on February 22, 2011
Thank you, Amanda Marcotte!
You have given me an opportunity to tear my hair out—yet again; indeed, you have actually driven me to “tweet” in response to your tweet.
I never tweet. You have dragged me, kicking and screaming, into the future.
Ah, Marcotte: You are too thin-skinned. Just because I’ve criticized your piece in the London Guardian about the Lara Logan tragedy does not mean that you have to insult the critic—and in so few words! Why not really take me on at length, but on the issues, not personally? Better yet: Why not consider talking to me? I’d do it.
Mere HER på NewsRealBlog.
The People of Egypt Were Abandoned By the U.N. For 30 Years
By Anne Bayefsky | February 03, 2011
There is one main reason why the Obama administration misjudged Egypt entirely – they cannot get their facts straight. For the last two years they have been busy defending the U.N. as an effective vehicle for promoting U.S. interests, in the name of engagement.
But for the three decades of Hosni Mubarak’s reign the U.N. has dedicated its human rights apparatus to demonizing the state of Israel and ignoring the human rights victims in Egypt and across the Arab world. As dissatisfaction and unrest have grown in the region over his presidency, the Obama administration failed to recognize the U.N.’s gross negligence or to take responsibility for ensuring an alternative vehicle to promote democracy. Instead, it legitimized the U.N.’s top human rights body, the Human Rights Council (HRC), by joining it.
Mere HER hos Fox News.
Fra 10. eller 11 oktober 2010:
Anne Bayefsky at CAMERA conference, Oct. 2010
Anne Bayefsky’s address about “The United Nations’ War on Israel” at CAMERA’s October 2010 conference, “War By Other Means: The Global Campaign to Delegitimize Israel.”
Christopher Hitchens: ‘You have to choose your future regrets’
In June Christopher Hitchens, the hard-drinking polemicist and atheist, met his toughest opponent yet when he was diagnosed with cancer. The question on many lips was: would his illness alter his beliefs – on Iraq, on Islam, on God? At home in Washington, with a large glass of Johnnie Walker to hand, he responds with characteristic combativeness
By Andrew Anthony – The Observer – 14 November 2010
I wasn’t sure what, or perhaps whom, to expect as the door opened at Christopher Hitchens’s top-floor apartment in downtown Washington. The last time I had interviewed the renowned polemicist, author, literary critic and new resident in the medical state he’s called “Tumortown” was in 2005. On that occasion, after a 5am finish to our extravagantly lubricated conversation, it was I who had felt the pressing need of hospital attention.
Mere HER i The Guardian – eller The Observer, som avisen også kalder sig.
Dershowitz bliver undertiden beskyldt for at have for mange forbehold i sin støtte til Israel. Det er der imidlertid ikke noget af her:
Double Standard Watch: Moonbats against Israel
By Alan M. Dershowitz
It must be the summer heat, but the moonbats seem to be loonier than ever when it comes to Israel and Jews.
Oliver Stone urges us to see the positive side of Hitler and Ahmadinejad, while imitating his two heroes by railing against Jewish control of the media. (To his credit, Stone has apologized for his bigoted statements, but Meg Ryan has refused to apologize for canceling a scheduled visit to the Jerusalem Film Festival, even after learning that the festival has promoted pro-Palestinian and pro-peace films for years.) Doctors Without Borders suddenly erects borders when it comes to Israeli doctors who flew to the Congo to treat 50 local villagers who had been severely burned. The Israeli volunteers worked around the clock, treated the burn victims and trained local doctors to perform skin grafts, and donated tons of medical equipment. But the bigoted Doctors Without Borders refused to work with them and treated them “as though we were occupiers.”
This should not surprise people who have been following Doctors Without Borders over the years. Dr. Marie Pierre Allie, President of the french branch of the organization, said that Israel’s self defense actions in Gaza were actually worse than the Darfur genocide in the Sudan. Only a blind moonbat could even make such a comparison! As one critic put it well, these are doctors with borders but without scruples.
Mere HER på Alan Dershowitz blog i The Jerusalem Post.
Warning: The English translation is hopeless
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