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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.
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Bernard Lewis – årgang 1916 – har skrevet en ny bog. Lewis ser tilbage på det århundrede, der gik. Spengler anmelder:
Bernard Lewis’ Stubborn Hope
In Notes on a Century, the historian is still optimistic about a ‘great civilization’ in the Muslim world
By David P. Goldman | May 9, 2012
Bernard Lewis beckons to us as if from the mists of legend. A poet-scholar, linguist, observer and sometime participant in the great events of the Middle East for seven decades, the London-born scholar belongs more to the world of T.E. Lawrence than to ours. At 95, his prose is translucent and his recollection luminous.
But Notes on a Century—his personal and professional memoir—makes for sad reading, for two reasons. The first is that we will not find another like Bernard Lewis; it is a valedictory essay not just for a remarkable man but for an epoch. No university today could train a poet capable of extracting the red thread of history from the obscure orthography of official archives, or a historian-diplomat who knows the songs of a dozen peoples in their own dialects. Part of the reason is ideological. The post-colonial-studies movement typified by the late Edward Said has ruined a field that once was called “Orientalism”—meaning simply a specialty in Near Eastern philology rather than Greek and Roman. Saudi and other Gulf State funding of Middle East studies programs, meanwhile, has made a critical stance toward Muslim culture an academic career-killer. Even without the ideological divide, though, our culture has grown too brittle to nurture another mind of Lewis’ depth.
Mere HER i The Tablet.
Opdatering – Spengler har lidt mere om bogen:
Bernard Lewis’ Valediction
May 9, 2012 – by David P. Goldman
Prof. Bernard Lewis has just published a memoir which is as much a valedictory statement of his views as a reminiscence about a remarkable life; I review it today at the Jewish webzine The Tablet. Lewis has of course been denounced from the left (by the sulfurous Edward Said) as an “orientalist,” which used to mean scholar of Semitic languages but now means “neo-colonialist.” That is an absurd charge by an incompetent and mendacious scholar, but it ruined Middle Eastern studies in the politically correct (and Arab-funded) world of academia. From the right, he has been denounced as an “Arab apologist” by Pamela Geller and as a “Pied Piper of Islamic Confusion” by Andrew Bostom.
One should be cautious about attacking Prof. Lewis, whose analysis of Muslim rage did more to galvanize Western support for the idea of a war on terror than any other single source, and who drew more opprobrium from the academic left than any other personality. His optimism about Islamic democracy ultimately was misplaced, in my view, but should be understood in context. As I wrote in Tablet:
Mere HER hos PJ Media.
Christopher Caldwell anmelder to bøger. Dels “Europe’s Angry Muslims: The Revolt of the Second Generation” af Robert S. Leiken og dels “After the Fall: The End of the European Dream and the Decline of a Continent” af Walter Laqueur:
Europe’s Other Crisis
May 4, 2012 | Christopher Caldwell
In two separate incidents in March, Mohammed Merah, a French-born French citizen who thought he was waging jihad, ambushed four soldiers around Toulouse, killing three of them. A week later, he shot dead three children arriving for morning classes at a nearby Jewish school, along with a young rabbi who was father to two of them. The children were aged eight, six, and three. Merah recorded the killings on a micro-camera mounted around his neck and sent the footage to Al Jazeera, which did not air it. Shortly before he died by gunfire, Merah told the soldiers who had surrounded his apartment that he regretted not having done more of what he did.
These were crazy deeds, and one can argue about what role insanity played in them, but something else needs to be candidly acknowledged: the killer was not a lone wolf. He had a measure of community support and a great deal of family support. His brother Abdelkader professed himself “proud” of his relation to the murderer. His mother refused to convince her son to surrender to police. His father threatened to file a wrongful-death suit against the French state. The contemporary culture of politicized Islam, as deracinated Internet-surfers understand it, is what Merah believed he was fighting for. He was upset about French laws that limit the wearing of the Muslim veil among schoolgirls. Someone had whipped him into a frenzy over Israel’s occupation of the West Bank.
Mere HER hos The New Republic. OBS: Jeg har valgt at linke til printversionen for at undgå den fjantede sideinddeling, som er her.
François Hollande er Frankrigs nye præsident. Nicolas Sarkozy har tabt. Artiklen herunder er skrevet før valget, – på trods af datoen:
The Lady with the Popular Front
France’s rightists have grown too big to ignore.
May 7, 2012 • By Christopher Caldwell
The French prefer “tenacity” to “cooperation” by a measure of 51-44 percent, according to a poll about political attitudes published this election season. By 57-41 percent they like “hard work and courage” better than “social justice and solidarity.” Such attitudes have not been widespread in France since the war. On Friday, Dominique de Villepin, the foreign minister who led France out of the Iraq war coalition in 2003, professed himself “frightened” of France’s right-wingers. As Attorney General John Mitchell said of the United States in 1970, “This country’s going so far to the right you’re not even going to recognize it.”
Mere HER i The Weekly Standard.
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Vi skal lige se lidt på, hvad Srđa Trifković egentlig render rundt og laver – blandt andet denne særdeles bemærkelsesværdige video. Trykkefrihedsselskabet bedes promte arrangere en event med denne meget kvalificerede tænker. Uploadet på YouTube den 26. april 2012 – værter Billy Baer og Dan Haggerty:
Dr. Srdja Trifkovic tells us how to defeat Jihad
The Baer/Haggerty Offensive of Repatriot Radio follows up on its recent discussion of Islam, and its deleterious effects on the world. Although Europe as we knew it is probably gone forever, it may still be possible for the USA to save itself from the culturally disastrous impact of Islam.
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Adolf Hitler, Our Contemporary
April 23, 2012 - Srdja Trifkovic
Hitler is 123, and he is alive and well. The Führer is going strong not because a vast neo-Nazi conspiracy is about to take over the Western world, kill the Jews, expel the Muslims and make April 20 the Day of Aryan Rebirth, but because he is an all-time favorite of the neoconservative-neoliberal duopoly at home and abroad.
When you advocate bombing a faraway nation of which we know little, call its leader a new Hitler (and, by extension, condemn the failure to bomb as a new “Munich”). When you want to discredit domestic opponents of migratory population replacement or abortion, compare them to Hitler. When you want to demonize the European civilization, Christian religion, national identity, or traditional culture, Hitler is ready. Six decades after the phenomenon was defined by Leo Strauss as reductio ad Hitlerum, the practice is more widely spread than ever. If you dislike a person/policy/idea, find a Hitlerian point of contact and thus prove that the PPI in question is a priori bad, mad and worthy of criminalization.
Mere HER i Veracity Voice. Kan også læses her i Chronicles Magazine.
Just a Regular French Youth
by Srdja Trifkovic • March 23, 2012
As soon as I heard the news I suspected the score. “Far-Right extremists!” screamed the media pack, but my hunch was right: the murderer of a rabbi and three children at a Jewish school near Toulouse, and of three French soldiers only days earlier, was not French. He was a French citizen of Algerian descent, as we now know, but his allegiance and his identity had nothing to do with passports and ID cards.
Mohammed Merah (23), who was killed at his apartment on Thursday after a 30-hour standoff, was a Muslim—one of at least twenty million who now inhabit the European Union. The “context” was duly provided by The New York Times: “Much of the concern about domestic terrorism in Britain, Belgium, Germany and France has focused on these young people, who may have had little formal religious education but are susceptible to calls for jihad, especially when their own lives have been marked by disappointment, crime, racism and joblessness.”
The suggested narrative about this “soft-spoken and alienated youth” is clear:
Mere HER i Chronicles Magazine.
Sarkozy the Demagogue
by Srdja Trifkovic • March 30, 2012 • Printer-friendly
President Nicolas Sarkozy announced March 30 that French police have arrested 19 persons suspected of belonging to violent Muslim networks. “These arrests are linked to the world of a certain sort of radical Islamism,” Sarkozy told Europe 1 Radio, and added that automatic weapons were found in the homes of some of those arrested in the raids in and around Paris and several other French cities.
It is striking that Sarkozy added matter-of-factly that the arrests were not related to Mohamed Merah, the Muslim terrorist killed by police last week after he murdered seven people in the Toulouse area. This raises some troubling questions.
Mere HER i Chronicles Magazine.
Russia And The Western Media
February 7, 2012 – Srdja Trifkovic
Most Western media professionals tend to subscribe, consciously or not, to a neo-liberal world outlook in general and to the tenets of multiculturalism in particular. The result is notable media favoritism of allegedly disadvantaged, non-Western, traditionally non-Christian societies.
Behind the veneer of all-embracing diversity, however, we find a carefully calibrated scale of acceptance or rejection of “the Other” depending on the cultural and political preferences of the media professionals themselves. The result is moral and intellectual relativism, which enables the media elite to pick and choose, which group or nation will be approved for the status of sympathy or victimhood, and which will be denied the benefit of the doubt.
Mere HER i Russia Insights.
Croatia and Nazi Germany: April 10, 1941: A Dark Day In History
by Srdja Trifkovic – May 1, 2012
Some important Westerners may prefer to look forward, to forget, minimize, or even deny, the fruits of the Croatian Holocaust of 1941-45 and its revived legacy of 1995. The endeavor is flawed. Sins unatoned for will continue coming back to haunt us.
The range of moral and political issues raised by the Ustaša movement and the regime it established in Croatia on April 10, 1941, is comparable to the Third Reich. In both cases, a political group, organized into a regime, devoted extraordinary resources to mass murder based on the victims’ race, creed or ethnicity. In both cases most ordinary Germans and ordinary Croats – those not directly affiliated with the regime, or overtly supportive of its goals and methods – opted for passive acquiescence. In both cases only a small minority was directly involved in the killing. In both cases the perpetrators understood why it had to be done; the mass murder made sense to them.
Mere HER hos Global Research.
Macedonia – the new Kosovo?
By Srdja Trifkovic – February 28, 2012
Both demographically and politically, the republic has a precarious present and an uncertain future.
An Orthodox church was set ablaze in the southwestern part of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on January 30. The incident reflects raising tensions between local Christian Slavs and Albanians, more than a decade after an Albanian rebellion brought FYROM to the verge of an ethnic war. It also evokes memories of the early stages of the conflict in Kosovo, in the late 1980s.
The Church of St. Nicholas, in the majority Albanian-Muslim village of Labuniste, was two centuries old and housed valuable icons. The arson at Labuniste followed the burning of a Macedonian flag and the raising of Albanian and Islamic banners in the neighboring town of Struga, allegedly in reaction to an incident of “mocking Islam” at a local carnival last month.
The town, on the shores of Lake Ohrid, lies at the southern edge of the line of ethnic separation between the two communities.
Mere HER hos The Jerusalem Post eller her hos The Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan Studies.
Og link til endnu en artikel af Trifkovic i The Jerusalem Post:
Den artikel fik nogle knuppede ord med på vejen i The Jewish Chronicle:
Trifkovic svarede i Chronicles Magazine:
Andre kilder: Chronicles Magazine, Chronicles Magazine, Chronicles Magazine, Russia Insights, Russia Insights, MarketWatch, MarketWatch, PRNewswire, The Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan Studies, Gnom News, The Centre for Research on Globalization, The Rockford Institute, Veracity Voice, Veracity Voice,
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,
Hvornår bliver de mullaher væltet?
Preventing a Nuclear Iran
Speaker: Michael Rubin
Startes HER - åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 29 minutter.
Der følger en artikel med:
Preventing a Nuclear Iran
by Alex Berman - March 19, 2012
A briefing by Michael Rubin
Michael Rubin, a former editor of the Middle East Quarterly, is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School. He formerly served as a political adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and has written extensively about Iranian history and politics. He is the author of Into the Shadows: Radical Vigilantes in Khatami’s Iran (2001) and the co-author of Eternal Iran (2005). On March 19, Rubin addressed the Middle East Forum in Philadelphia about the efficacy of sanctions on Iran as well as the prospect and logistics of an Israeli strike.
Can sanctions against the Iranian regime be effective? Michael Rubin addressed this question by citing Tehran’s former nuclear negotiator, who revealed that previous suspensions of Iranian nuclear enrichment had merely been temporary ploys aimed at ameliorating international pressure and preventing a UN consensus on sanctions. Rubin argued that Iran’s bleak current economic outlook is due not to sanctions but to the regime’s mismanagement of the economy.
Mere HER i The Middle East Forum.
The Retreat – fra David Horowitz Freedom Center 30. marts – 1. april 2012:
Losing the Middle East
Ward Connerly
Victor Davis Hanson
På Blip TV kan man se flere videoer fra arrangementet: Congressman Mike Rogers, Senator Ron Johnson, The 2012 Elections: Jay Cost, Martha Zoller, Pat Caddell and Brian Calle, The 2012 Elections Q&A, Hollywood and the Culture Wars: Dwight Schultz, Michael Walsh, Jeremy Boreing, Bill Whittle, Mark Tapson, Hollywood and the Culture Wars Part 2, Hugh Hewitt – Part 1, Hugh Hewitt – Part 2, Daniel Henninger – Part 1, Daniel Henninger – Part 2, Ed Royce, Ben Horowitz: The Economy and Technology, Jim Gilliam: The Economy and Technology,
Andre kilder: Jihad Watch, FrontPageMagazine, David Horowitz Freedom Center,
Der er ingen Global Opvarmning – pressemeddelelse:
49 former NASA scientists go ballistic over agency’s bias over climate change
[...] 49 former NASA scientists and astronauts sent the following letter asking the agency to move away from climate models and to limit its stance to what can be empirically proven.
[...] We, the undersigned, respectfully request that NASA and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) refrain from including unproven remarks in public releases and websites. We believe the claims by NASA and GISS, that man-made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated, especially when considering thousands of years of empirical data. With hundreds of well-known climate scientists and tens of thousands of other scientists publicly declaring their disbelief in the catastrophic forecasts, coming particularly from the GISS leadership, it is clear that the science is NOT settled.
The unbridled advocacy of CO2 being the major cause of climate change is unbecoming of NASA’s history of making an objective assessment of all available scientific data prior to making decisions or public statements.
As former NASA employees, we feel that NASA’s advocacy of an extreme position, prior to a thorough study of the possible overwhelming impact of natural climate drivers is inappropriate. We request that NASA refrain from including unproven and unsupported remarks in its future releases and websites on this subject. At risk is damage to the exemplary reputation of NASA, NASA’s current or former scientists and employees, and even the reputation of science itself.
For additional information regarding the science behind our concern, we recommend that you contact Harrison Schmitt or Walter Cunningham, or others they can recommend to you.
Mere HER i The National Post (mit fremhæv).
The Ideology Of Catastrophe
Pascal Bruckner – 10 April 2012
A time-honored strategy of cataclysmic discourse, whether performed by preachers or by propagandists, is the retroactive correction. This technique consists of accumulating a staggering amount of horrifying news and then—at the end—tempering it with a slim ray of hope. First you break down all resistance; then you offer an escape route to your stunned audience.
As an asteroid hurtles toward Earth, terrified citizens pour into the streets of Brussels to stare at the mammoth object growing before their eyes. Soon, it will pass harmlessly by—but first, a strange old man, Professor Philippulus, dressed in a white sheet and wearing a long beard, appears, beating a gong and crying: “This is a punishment; repent, for the world is ending!”
We smile at the silliness of this scene from the Tintin comic strip “L’Étoile Mystérieuse,” published in Belgium in 1941. Yet it is also familiar, since so many people in both Europe and the United States have recently convinced themselves that the End is nigh. Professor Philippulus has managed to achieve power in governments, the media and high places generally. Constantly, he spreads fear: of progress, science, demographics, global warming, technology, food. In five years or in 10 years, temperatures will rise, Earth will be uninhabitable, natural disasters will multiply, the climate will bring us to war, and nuclear plants will explode.
Mere HER hos Global Warming Policy Foundation. City Journal her.
The Population Control Holocaust
Robert Zubrin – Spring 2012
There is a single ideological current running through a seemingly disparate collection of noxious modern political and scientific movements, ranging from militarism, imperialism, racism, xenophobia, and radical environmentalism, to socialism, Nazism, and totalitarian communism. This is the ideology of antihumanism: the belief that the human race is a horde of vermin whose unconstrained aspirations and appetites endanger the natural order, and that tyrannical measures are necessary to constrain humanity. The founding prophet of modern antihumanism is Thomas Malthus (1766-1834), who offered a pseudoscientific basis for the idea that human reproduction always outruns available resources. Following this pessimistic and inaccurate assessment of the capacity of human ingenuity to develop new resources, Malthus advocated oppressive policies that led to the starvation of millions in India and Ireland.
While Malthus’s argument that human population growth invariably leads to famine and poverty is plainly at odds with the historical evidence, which shows global living standards rising with population growth, it nonetheless persisted and even gained strength among intellectuals and political leaders in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Its most pernicious manifestation in recent decades has been the doctrine of population control, famously advocated by ecologist Paul Ehrlich, whose bestselling 1968 antihumanist tract The Population Bomb has served as the bible of neo-Malthusianism. In this book, Ehrlich warned of overpopulation and advocated that the American government adopt stringent population control measures, both domestically and for the Third World countries that received American foreign aid. (Ehrlich, it should be noted, is the mentor of and frequent collaborator with John Holdren, President Obama’s science advisor.)
Mere HER hos The New Atlantis.
Growing Out of Poverty
A World Bank report makes clear how free markets—and U.S. leadership—have led millions to better lives.
9 April 2012 – Guy Sorman
The most significant events often escape media attention. How many would know from reading their daily newspaper or watching television that we live in an unprecedented economic period when the number of people living in extreme poverty is declining fast? According to a just-published World Bank report, the percentage of people living on less than $1.25 per day—or its local equivalent—has plummeted from 52 percent of the global population in 1981 to 22 percent in 2008. The World Bank doesn’t provide more recent data, but other indices show that the 2008 financial crisis did not interrupt this trend. For millions of households, crossing the symbolic $1.25 threshold means leaving destitution behind and moving toward a more dignified life—no trivial achievement. Moreover, this escape from poverty happens while the global population continues to grow. Doomsday prophets who warned about a ticking “population bomb” have not been vindicated, to say the least. Global warming messiahs, beware: human ingenuity proves able to cope with the predicaments of Mother Nature.
Mere HER i City Journal.
The Utter Desperation of Global Warmists
Alan Caruba – April 9, 2012
In the “glory years” of the global warming hoax, you had Al Gore picking up Oscars and Nobel Prizes (shared with the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and government employees like James Hansen of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies were picking up wads of cash as awards, speech fees, and grants.
The folks who conjured up the computer models featured in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports also did quite well for themselves, along with all the others who climbed on the gravy train of global warming grants.
And then in 1998 a cooling cycle set in. It was hard to hide because the weather satellite data was indisputable, but try to hide it they did. Even then, however, there was a handful of outspoken meteorologists and climatologists who were trying hard to get out the message that the perfectly natural warming cycle was over and had been replaced, thanks to—guess what?—a lower output of solar radiation by the SUN.
Mere HER hos Family Security Matters.
Is this finally proof we’re NOT causing global warming? The whole of the Earth heated up in medieval times without human CO2 emissions, says new study
- Evidence was found in a rare mineral that records global temperatures
- Warming was far-reaching and NOT limited to Europe
- Throws doubt on orthodoxies around ‘global warming’
By Ted Thornhill | 26 March 2012
Current theories of the causes and impact of global warming have been thrown into question by a new study which shows that during medieval times areas as far apart as Europe and Antarctica both warmed up.
It then cooled down naturally and there was even a ‘mini ice age’.
A team of scientists led by geochemist Zunli Lu from Syracuse University in New York state, has found that the ‘Medieval Warm Period’ approximately 500 to 1,000 years ago wasn’t just confined to Europe.
In fact, it extended all the way down to Antarctica.
Mere HER i The Daily Mail.
Totalitaristerne er i panik – The Daily Mail:
Og så var der den Nobelpris. Hvor bliver den af? Vi venter:
Are global climate changes caused by cycles of cosmic rays?
Cliff Harris – April 2, 2012
Ever since Henrik Svensmark explained his theory concerning the connection between cosmic rays and the formation of clouds in 1996 in Copen-hagen, Denmark, I’ve received at least 100 emails and letters on the possible ‘dawn of the cosmic ray era’ in climate science.
Earlier in March, Jerry Boyd sent me this email on cosmic rays. I found his conclusions very interesting to say the least. Here’s what he wrote:
Mere HER i Coeur d’Alene Press.
UN Global Environmental Constitution: Repressive System of Global Governance
March 20, 2012
Most people have no idea that the United Nations has been drafting an environmental constitution for the world that is intended to supersede all existing national laws. This document has a working title of “Draft International Covenant on Environment and Development” and you can read the entire thing right here. Work on this proposed world environmental constitution has been going on since 1995, and the fourth edition was issued to UN member states on September 22nd, 2010.
This document is intended to become a permanent binding treaty and it would establish an incredibly repressive system of global governance. This “covenant”, as it is being called, claims authority over the entire global environment and everything that affects it. Considering the fact that everything that we do affects the environment in some way, that would mean that this document would become the highest form of law for all human activity. This proposed UN environmental constitution for the world is incredibly detailed. The U.S. Constitution only has 7 articles, but the UN document has 79 articles. If the U.S. eventually ratifies this treaty, any national, state or local laws that conflict with this covenant will be null and void. This is potentially one of the greatest threats to our national sovereignty that we have ever seen and we need to warn the American people about it.
Mere HER hos Family Security Matters eller her hos The American Dream.
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Faldende fødselstal ændrer verden. Fra Heritage Foundation den 14. marts 2012:
Population Decline and the Remaking of Great Power Politics
The conventional wisdom about the shifting balances of world power usually ignores demographic trends. When experts on geopolitics do consider demography, they usually conclude that population growth is a liability. In this provocative new edited collection on Population Decline and the Remaking of Great Power Politics, the distinguished contributors contend that a key challenge to global stability stems increasingly from the demographic transitions in key world powers. In the coming decades, the effects of diverging population trends in the U.S., Europe, Japan, India, and China will likely increase transatlantic tensions, and destabilize Asian security. In tomorrow’s world, the danger is not that there will be too many people being born, but that there will be too few. Join a panel of expert contributors to this collection as they review their findings and discuss the interactions between population declines, world security, and great power politics.
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The Myth Of Soaring Muslim Fertility Rates
It is considered common wisdom among Western analysts that Muslim countries are plagued with large families and ever-swelling masses of young people are a threat to stability. Only problem is all the hard evidence to the contrary.
By Anna Lietti – March 31st, 2012
This story starts with a myth. It is the myth that the Muslim world is uniformly dedicated to making many (too many) babies, and that this has gone on for centuries.
This mythology also has its very own Bible: “Factors Affecting Muslim Natality,” by Dudley Kirk, an American professor of Population Studies. Published in 1965, this study embodied, scientifically speaking, the notion of a demography unique to Muslim countries that won’t transition to a family model with two children, as it did in the Western world.
Kirk’s theories have influenced this debate in a lasting way. Thirty years later, they were still inspiring Samuel Huntington in his work “The Clash of Civilizations,” where he presents his theory of an eternal conflict between the West and Islam. The demographic threat plays a central role in his thesis.
Mere HER i Worldcrunch.
Demography Is Destiny in Syria
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi & Oskar Svadkovsky on February 6, 2012
The “peripheralism” and Malthusian underpinnings of an unexpected uprising.
Among the second wave of Arab Spring uprisings that followed Tunisia, Syria was the most spectacular “out of the blue” that suddenly arose in the face of the media and analytic community. Just days before Deraa exploded with protests last March, some analysts were still scrutinizing Syria’s circumstances and declaring the country to be immune from the Arab Spring. Nor did reporters who visited the country spot signs of a brewing storm.
In fact, throughout the Arab Spring, the media and experts repeatedly fell into the same trap of confusing the capital city with the whole country. On the eve of the Islamist landslide in Egypt’s elections various polls and informed individuals were putting the popularity of radical Salafis at between 5% and 10%. The Salafis have indeed won about 10% of the vote… but only in Cairo. Nationwide they took almost 30%, beating even those unrepentant pessimists who were betting on a Muslim Brotherhood spring. In some provinces they grabbed all of 50%.
Mere HER i The American Spectator. The Middle East Forum her. AINA her.
America’s Demographic Future
by Joel Kotkin and Erica Ozuna – January 28, 2012
Perhaps nothing has more defined America and its promise than immigration. In the future, immigration and the consequent development of what Walt Whitman (1855: iv) called “a race of races” will remain one of the country’s greatest assets in the decades to come.
At a time when anti-immigrant fervor has been building, a number of states—including Arizona, Georgia, and Alabama—have enacted draconian laws aimed at apprehending undocumented immigrants. Those laws are widely seen even among legal immigrants and long-term residents as hostile to immigrants. Indeed, newcomers are already leaving those states. This Latino exodus has been happening in once-thriving neighborhoods in Gwinnett and Cobb counties in Georgia—as shown in business closures, arrest statistics, and declining church attendance—caused both by the economy and the increased immigration enforcement (Simmons 2010). Nationwide, there has been a declining number of unauthorized immigrants living in the United States, a decrease of 1 million from 2007 (Hoefer, Rytina, and Baker 2011).
Mere HER i New Geography eller her i The Cato Journal.
Muslim demographics: Pull and push factors
by Nicolai Sennels on April 1, 2012
In Denmark, 89.1 percent of Muslims vote on the Left. In France the number is 95 percent. And certainly this tendency is the same all over the West. Thus Muslim immigration is in fact the importation of votes for the Left. Therefore it is not surprising that Leftist parties are the ones that work hardest to open our borders to more non-Western immigration. They burden their own countries with weak immigrants from a less civilized culture in order to secure their own reelection. They invite people to our part of the world who have many children and are only able to manage few kinds of jobs, and who will therefore always vote for the socialists.
While our states and municipalities spend billions of Euros, Kroners and Pounds on immigrants, the rest of us have to pay more and more in taxes.
Mere HER hos Jihad Watch.
Re-Engineering Humans: An Old Solution to Climate Change
March 29, 2012 – by Ed Driscoll
It’s no coincidence that global warming took off as an issue just as the Soviet Union fell; it’s top-down centralized government’s last best hope of controlling the masses. And like other forms of totalitarian worldviews, it doubles as a religion as well, as Czech President Vaclav Klaus noted late last year:
“I’m convinced that after years of studying the phenomenon, global warming is not the real issue of temperature,” said Klaus, an economist by training. “That is the issue of a new ideology or a new religion. A religion of climate change or a religion of global warming. This is a religion which tells us that the people are responsible for the current, very small increase in temperatures. And they should be punished.”
Mere HER hos PJ Media.
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Purim meditation anti-semitism, Harvard and Obama’s ears
By Don Feder – March 5, 2012
Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government Worship just concluded its One-State Conference, aimed at abolishing the Jewish state. On Wednesday, Jews will celebrate Purim, commemorating an event in Persia of the 4th century BC, when a court official plotted the world’s first genocide – back in the days before anti-Semitism acquired an academic aura.
I was born just after World War II – a conflict that claimed the lives of one out of every three Jews on earth. Growing up, I considered myself among the most fortunate of Jews. Revelations of the Holocaust’s horrors had ended anti-Semitism as a political force forever, I thought. Other than a lingering social anti-Semitism (which stereotyped Jews as clannish, crass and avaricious), and the occasional cemetery desecration and graffiti, Jew-hatred was a relic of humanity’s brutish past.
What a fool I was.
Mere HER hos GrassTopsUSA.
Desuden link til disse små interview fra i år, der alle handler om det kommende valg i USA. Fra Jeff Katz Show på Radio Talk 1200 Boston den -
Endelig denne video – Feders hidtil mest “amerikanske” tale:
Don Feder (summit speech)
A truly epochal event occurred in Moscow on June 29-30/20011: Moscow Demographic Summit has taken place. Russian and foreign advocates of traditional family values had long been waiting for this very important event. The summit speech of Don Feder proposing to your attention.
Andre kilder: Impeach Obama Campaign, Canada Free Press,
Syge kulturer:
The Global War Against Baby Girls
Nicholas Eberstadt – Fall 2011
Over the past three decades the world has come to witness an ominous and entirely new form of gender discrimination: sex-selective feticide, implemented through the practice of surgical abortion with the assistance of information gained through prenatal gender determination technology. All around the world, the victims of this new practice are overwhelmingly female — in fact, almost universally female. The practice has become so ruthlessly routine in many contemporary societies that it has impacted their very population structures, warping the balance between male and female births and consequently skewing the sex ratios for the rising generation toward a biologically unnatural excess of males. This still-growing international predilection for sex-selective abortion is by now evident in the demographic contours of dozens of countries around the globe — and it is sufficiently severe that it has come to alter the overall sex ratio at birth of the entire planet, resulting in millions upon millions of new “missing baby girls” each year. In terms of its sheer toll in human numbers, sex-selective abortion has assumed a scale tantamount to a global war against baby girls.
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Opdatering 28. marts 2012 – der kommer lige lidt om underbefolkning her:
The Islamic World’s Quiet Revolution
Forget politics. Muslim countries are poised to experience a new wave of change — but this time it’s all about demographics.
By Nicholas Eberstadt | March 9, 2012
Everybody who pays attention to these sorts of things knows Muslim societies are almost uniquely immune to the forces that have been driving down fertility rates on every continent for decades. But everybody, it seems, fell asleep before the final act.
Throughout the ummah (the Arabic term for the global Muslim community), the average number of children born to women is falling dramatically. (Apoorva Shah and I examine the evidence in detail here.) According to the UN’s Population Division, all Muslim-majority countries and territories witnessed fertility declines over the past three decades. To be sure, in some extremely high-fertility countries of sub-Saharan Africa (think Sierra Leone, Mali, Somalia, and Niger), declines have been modest. And in the handful of Muslim countries where a fertility transition had already brought childbearing down to around three births per woman by the late 1970s (think Soviet Kazakhstan), subsequent declines have also been limited. But in the great majority of the rest, declines in the total fertility rate have been jaw-dropping.
Mere HER i Foreign Policy.
The global fertility implosion
David Brooks – March 12, 2012
When you look at pictures from the Arab Spring, you see these gigantic crowds of young men, and it confirms the impression that the Muslim Middle East has a gigantic youth bulge — hundreds of millions of young people with little to do. But that view is becoming obsolete. As Nicholas Eberstadt and Apoorva Shah of the American Enterprise Institute point out, over the past three decades, the Arab world has undergone a little noticed demographic implosion. Arab adults are having many fewer kids.
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Andre kilder: AEI, AEI, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The Trumpet, LifeSiteNews, Mitu Khurana, ABC News, CNS News, The Blaze, The Telegraph, The Telegraph, Foreign Policy, The Global Post, The Daily Mail, The Guardian,
Det her angreb på venstrefløjen er superfedt:
Ezra Levant on anti-industry Luddites
Originally broadcast Feb 22, 2012.
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
Man skal indtil C-Span for at se video:
In Depth with Mark Steyn
C-SPAN | BookTV | Feb 5, 2012
Author and columnist Mark Steyn talked about topics such as American culture, free speech, terrorism, the economy, and the worldwide demographic shift to Muslims. He responded to telephone calls and electronic commmunications.
Mark Steyn is a regular guest host of Rush Limbaugh’s radio show, a visiting fellow in journalism at Hillsdale College, and the author of nine books: Broadway Babies Say Goodnight: Musicals Then and Now (1997); The Face of the Tiger: And Other Tales from the New War (2002); From Head to Toe: An Anatomical Anthology (2004); America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It (2006); Mark Steyn’s Passing Parade: Obituaries & Appreciations (2006); Mark Steyn’s American Songbook (2008); A Song for the Season (2008); Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech and the Twilight of the West (2009); After America: Get Ready for Armageddon (2011).
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Statistik, folkekirke og kristendom
Af Lone Nørgaard – 29.01.12
Andelen af danskere, der er medlem af folkekirken, må være knapt 90 pct.
Der er én megafordel ved kombinationen af igangværende normsammenbrud og massetilvandring. [...]
Mere HER i Jyllands-Posten.
Medieløgnenes bagmænd
Ole Hasselbalch, professor jur.dr. – 04.02.12
Medierne har i dag et frirum, der giver dem mulighed for at bruge metoder, som i andre dele af samfundslivet – f.eks. finanssektoren – ville føre til fængselsstraf.
Mere HER i Jyllands-Posten.
Lad os følge Storbritannien
Katrine Winkel Holm – 04.02.12
Da Margrethe Vestager i DR2′s Debatten lagde hovedet på skrå og med sin særlige overbærende pædagogstemme forklarede os, hvorfor Danmark, uden folkeafstemning, skal tilslutte sig EU’s finanspagt, selv om vi for længst og gudskelov har sagt nej til at være med i euroen, blev jeg kort øjeblik grebet af en heftig længsel efter at være englænder.
Mere HER i Jyllands-Posten.
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.”
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Misvisende overskrift her:
Religion giver mindre integration
16. januar 2012 – Af Rasmus Karkov
Undersøgelse af herboende vietnamesere viser, at religioner – især dem med strenge krav til de troende – mindsker integrationen. Religion påvirker til gengæld ikke efterkommeres integration. Vietnamesere er blandt de mest veltilpassede flygtninge i det danske samfund.
Mere HER hos Videnskab.dk.
Norsk studie avslører:
Tror jentefostre blir valgt bort
09.01.12 – Av Shazia Sarwar og Synnøve Åsebø
En norsk studie avslører at indisk-norske kvinner føder unormalt mange guttebarn. Forskerne tror jentefostre blir bevisst valgt bort.
Funnene i studien, som er utført ved Rikshospitalet, er oppsiktvekkende:
Før ultralyd ble tilgjengelig ble det født 108 jenter per 100 fødte gutter hos indisk-norske mødre. Etter ultralydens inntog i 1987 – hvor det ble mulig å fastslå fosterets kjønn – har tallene falt dramatisk til 65 fødte jenter per 100 fødte gutter.
Mere HER hos VG.
Andre kilder: TV2 Norge, ABC Nyheter, Videnskab.dk, Dagens Medisin, BMC Pregnancy Childbirth,
Opdatering – nu også i videoform:
Audio-version:
Islamic Civilization is Dying
A briefing by David P. Goldman
November 15, 2011
Startes HER - åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 1 time og 11 minutter.
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Islamic Civilization is Dying
A briefing by David P. Goldman – November 15, 2011
David P. Goldman is best known for his “Spengler” column at Asia Times Online, which draws a million readers a month. He headed global bond research for Bank of America as well as other Wall Street research groups. Trained in music theory as well as economics at City University of New York and the London School of Economics respectively, he has written extensively on music, mathematics, religion, and the cultural heritage of the West, in Forbes, The Tablet, First Things, and Pajamas Media. Mr. Goldman addressed the Middle East Forum in New York on November 15, 2011.
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Warning: The English translation is hopeless
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