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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,
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.
Fukuyama er stadig venstresnoet, men det har været værre. Fra TVO 26. marts 2012:
America: The Land of the Future?
Once hailed as the land of the future. The leader of the Western World. Today’s America looks like it has lost its edge. Is the United States in terminal decline, or will it remain an indispensable power? Robert Kagan, Francis Fukuyama and Walter Russell Mead answer the question: Is the United States declining as a global power?
Foreign Affairs LIVE: The Future of History with Francis Fukuyama
On March 22, Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose led a conversation with renowned political scientist and author Francis Fukuyama on themes from his decades of research and writing, and the conclusions he drew in a recent contribution to Foreign Affairs, The Future of History.
Watch them discuss the history and future of liberal democracy and the factors–from technology and biomedicine to popular uprisings in the East and socioeconomic disparity–that will determine the arc of humanity.
Spiegel Interview with Francis Fukuyama
February 1, 2012
‘Where Is the Uprising from the Left?’
Political scientist Francis Fukuyama was once the darling of American neo-conservatives. In a Spiegel interview, the author of “The End of History” explains why he now believes that the excesses of capitalism are a threat to democracy and asks why there is no “Tea Party on the left.”
Spiegel: Professor Fukuyama, you are best known for your essay “The End of History,” in which you declared that, after the demise of the Soviet Union, liberal democracy had emerged as the triumphant global model. Now, your latest research claims that the flaws of capitalism and globalization could endanger this democratic model. How do you explain this shift?
Fukuyama: Capitalism is the wrong word to use here, because there is not a viable alternative to capitalism. What we are really talking about is just economic growth and the development of modern economic societies. A combination of factors is beginning to challenge their progress in the United States. We have had a lot of technological change that substituted for low-skill labor and made many people in Western democracies lose their jobs.
Mere HER i Der Spiegel. Mangler arabere værdighed og respekt? De kunne jo starte med at respektere kvinder, kristne og andre grupper, der lider under islam. Problemet er dem selv:
The Drive for Dignity
It’s hard power that often makes the headlines. But never underestimate the strength of the simple desire for respect.
By Francis Fukuyama | January 12, 2012
The legend now has it that the Arab Spring was kicked off in early 2011 when a Tunisian vegetable seller, Mohamed Bouazizi, had his fruit cart confiscated by the police. Slapped and insulted by a policewoman, he went to complain but was repeatedly ignored. His despairing response — to set himself on fire — struck an enormous chord across the Arab world.
What was it about this act that provoked such a response? The basic issue was one of dignity, or the lack thereof, the feeling of worth or self-esteem that all of us seek. But dignity is not felt unless it is recognized by other people; it is an inherently social and, indeed, political phenomenon. The Tunisian police were treating Bouazizi as a nonperson, someone not worthy of the basic courtesy of a reply or explanation when the government took away his modest means of livelihood. It was what Ralph Ellison described as the situation of a black man in early 20th-century America, an Invisible Man not seen as a full human being by white people.
Mere HER i Foreign Policy. I en af videoerne refereres der til det berømte essay af Francis Fukuyama fra 1989. Det kan læses i sin helhed hos Wes Jones:
Andre kilder: The American Interest, The American Interest, The American Interest, The American Interest, The Huffington Post, The Huffington Post, Time Magazine, The Blogmocracy, The Spectator,
Brimelow har en lidt speciel tilgangsvinkel til emnet indvandring - fra 15. marts 2012:
Michael Coren with Peter Brimelow (VDare) – immigration
Peter Brimelow, founder of VDare, joins Michael Coren to discuss issues surrounding immigration and to say some words about the passing of Andrew Breitbart.
Fra 12. december 2011:
Michael Coren with Peter Brimelow (VDare): immigration
Peter Brimelow, founder of VDare and author of Alien Nation: Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster, joins Michael Coren via video link.
Der er kun disse små stumper fra “ProEnglish Event at CPAC 2012″ - 9. februar 2012:
Peter Brimelow On Western Culture At The Thomas Jefferson Club
Peter Brimelow, of VDare, talks about western culture and immigration as he addresses the Thomas Jefferson Club in Newtown, PA on April 6. 2011.
Andre kilder: The American Independent, The American Independent, CPAC,
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
Jeg skal lige have blogget disse artikler af Don Feder – helt klart en af mine favoritter:
Top Ten Ways Obama Socialists Are Like National Socialists
December 23, 2011 – By Don Feder
I’m very disappointed in Congressman Allen West, who last week observed that Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels would be “truly proud” of the Democratic Party’s “lies and deceit.”
While correct, Congressman West neglects the other striking similarities between National Socialists and Obama Socialists. This is not to say that the DNC wants to recreate the Holocaust (though its president could do so inadvertently, with his tender-on-Tehran policy) or that the Messiah in Chief will begin giving 4-hour speeches in German. (Where would he find a German teleprompter?)
But, like the pigs and men at the end of “Animal Farm,” it’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell brownshirts and the party which would literally take the shirts off our backs apart.
Here are the Top 10 Ways Democrats Are Like Nazis:
Mere HER hos GrassTopsUSA.
Conservative Pundit Sniffs Play Pile On Newt
By Don Feder – December 13, 2011
H.L. Mencken called his colleagues of the fourth estate “a gang of peck sniffs.” Some conservative commentators have become pundit sniffs, turning up their elitist noses at whoever the frontrunner for the Republican nomination happens to be. You’d think we didn’t have other pressing business – like saving the Republic from the mega-Marxist in the White House.
Mere HER hos GrassTopsUSA. Kan også læses her hos America’s Conservative News.
Obama won’t let God interfere with his religion
By Don Feder – December 02, 2011
Neither a Christian nor a Muslim, our 44th President is a devout leftist who’s not about to let God interfere with his religion.
It’s not easy to take God out of Thanksgiving. Obama has done it twice in the past three years.
Thanksgiving is one of only two national holidays that’s about religion. Christmas is the other.
The 4th of July is America’s birthday. Memorial Day and Veterans Day are dedicated to the men who fought to preserve our country. Labor Day is for those who work – which clearly excludes many Democrat constituencies. But from our 17th century beginnings, Thanksgiving has been a universal acknowledgement of God’s sovereignty.
Mere HER hos GrassTopsUSA.
On The 70th Anniversary Of Pearl Harbor: Americans Can’t Remember What They Don’t Know
By Don Feder - December 05, 2011
Wednesday marks the 70th. Anniversary of the Japanese attack on our Pacific Fleet. “Remember Pearl Harbor” was the Second World War’s most enduring slogan – sported on buttons, blazoned across billboards and blared from the radio in one of the era’s popular songs. (“Let’s remember Pearl Harbor as we go to meet the foe. Let’s remember Pearl Harbor as we did the Alamo.”)
Remember Pearl Harbor? Remember the Alamo? Remember the Maine, Plymouth Rock and the Golden Rule? But how can you remember what you never knew? Americans are tragically ignorant of our past.
How can you know where you are if you don’t know how you got there? Without the past as a guide, the future is fog-shrouded sea marked “Here be monsters” on a map.
Mere HER hos GrassTopsUSA.
Opdatering 31. december 2011:
To Get Ron Paul’s Insanity, You Have To Understand Libertarianism
By Don Feder – December 30, 2011
To “get” Ron Paul you have to understand libertarianism — an ism every bit as delusional as Marxism. The National Libertarian Party, which first ran a presidential candidate in 1972, hasn’t had many wins — electing 4 state legislators in as many decades, as well as a planning commissioner here and an alderman there. Ron Paul is its greatest success.
The Texas congressman is far and away the most prominent proponent of what I like to call rightwing utopianism. Libertarianism is to authentic conservatism what Barack Obama is to 19th century liberalism.
Mere HER hos The American Thinker.
Det er åbenbart EU’s motto. “United in Diversity”:
Creative societies innovate, decaying societies quarrel over the scraps and invite in their own enemies to rule over them
The Decline of Nations
Daniel Greenfield – November 23, 2011
No country falls but from within. Given a sufficient population and resources to hold off its enemies, the only sufficient explanation for its fall is internal.
Take the decline of the West, which is often talked about and attributed to leftist conspiracies and Islamic colonialism. But why is Japan, a First World nation whose culture and geography differs dramatically from America and Europe also in a state of economic, political and cultural decline? Not to mention demographic decline.
Mere HER hos Canada Free Press. Kan også læses her hos Sultan Knish.
BBCs interviewer, Sarah Montague, forstår ikke en hel masse, men Kyle Bass er efterhånden ret berømt, fordi han forudså den økonomiske krise. Fra 15. november 2011:
Those damn short sellers….
Læs også denne artikel i Business Insider:
Andre kilder: Zero Hedge, The Blaze,
Om USA og især Kina:
A STRATFOR Conversation: George Friedman and Special Guest Robert Kaplan
There is widespread international debate on the extent to which China’s naval expansions pose a threat to U.S. dominance of the world’s oceans. George Friedman and author and foreign affairs expert Robert Kaplan agree on China’s ambition, but have very different views on its geopolitical impact.
Og om Iran:
Agenda: With George Friedman and Robert Kaplan on Iran
In the wake of the latest IAEA report on Iran, STRATFOR CEO George Friedman and special guest Robert Kaplan discuss potential threats to world oil supplies from the Persian Gulf, and U.S. President Barack Obama’s limited options.
Fra i går:
Brian Lilley: 1 hour with Mark Steyn
1 hour of Mark Steyn: Greece, the Eurozone, demographics, China, Christmas music, “human rights” commissions, Obama’s Christmas tree tax, etc.
Ezra Levant & Nina Shea on The Source – November 1, 2011
The OIC – Organization of Islamic Cooperation – is suppressing freedom of expression all over the Western world.
Alarmisterne hyler ganske vist op, men vi kan sagtens få mad, vand, varme og elektricitet allesammen. Men tag lige at spise nogle flere kartofler til hverdag:
Global Warming – RIP
By Victor Davis Hanson – October 27, 2011
Not long ago, candidate Obama promised to cool the planet and lower the rising seas. Indeed, he campaigned on passing “cap-and-trade” legislation, a radical, costly effort to reduce America’s traditional carbon energy use.
The theory was that new taxes and greater regulations would make Americans pay more for fossil-fuel energy — a good thing if it reduced our burning of coal, oil and gas. Obama was not shy in admitting that under his green plans, electricity prices would “necessarily skyrocket.” His energy secretary, Steven Chu, at one point had even said, “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe” — that is, about $8-$10 per gallon. Fairly or not, the warming movement seemed to cast a tiny elite imposing costs on a poorer and supposedly less informed middle class.
Mere HER i RealClearPolitics. Kan også læses her hos Orange County Register. The Patriot Post her.
The World at 7 Billion
This month, the 7 billionth person will be born on a planet already strapped for resources. To mark this extraordinary milestone, TIME explores the most pressing population issues of the day, from the quest for sustainable energy sources to a look at what our biggest cities could look like in the decades to come
By Bryan Walsh – Oct. 26, 2011
Maybe it’s just the fact that the official day has been set for Oct. 31 — Halloween — but there’s a distinct whiff of panic and fear around the expected birth of the 7 billionth person on the planet. Here’s Roger Martin, chair of the NGO Population Matters, writing in the Guardian recently:
The 7 Billion Day is a sobering reminder of our planet’s predicament. We are increasing by 10,000 an hour. The median UN forecast is 9.3 billion by 2050, but the range varies by 2.5 billion — the total world population in 1950 — depending on how we work it out.
Mere HER i Time Magazine.
It’s a Small World
The United Nations is celebrating a planet with seven billion people. But some projections now warn that the global population may actually start shrinking.
By Colum Lynch | October 26, 2011
Sometime around Halloween, the United Nations will celebrate the birth of the world’s 7th billion baby. As U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told world leaders in New York last month, the 7th billion baby will most likely be poor and will inhabit an earth buffeted by the ravages of global warming, desertification, and dwindling food shortages.
Sounds swell. Given this kind of apocalyptic rhetoric, it’s no surprise that much of the media’s focus has been on the strain of an over-populated planet, one where more than 79 million people are added each year to the human family, overwhelming already overcrowded cities, fighting it out over a dwindling pool of natural resources.
But what if the world’s population actually shrank?
Mere HER i Foreign Policy.
It’s Libel – Except When Mike Does It
Paul Driessen – October 26, 2011
Lewis Carroll died too soon. Just imagine the fun he’d have with the cliquish clan of climate catastrophe researchers who seek to control science, debate and public policy on global warming and energy – and then get outraged when someone challenges their findings, methodologies or integrity.
On October 1, Dr. Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University and “hockey stick” fame published an angry riposte in Colorado’s obscure Vail Daily Voices (circulation 15,000), expressing his umbrage over an article that had appeared in the free coffee shop newspaper a day earlier.
Mere HER i Family Security Matters.
Global Warming: An Obituary
Alan Caruba – October 26, 2011
I used to write obituaries when I was a young journalist and I daresay they are one of the best read sections of any newspaper. We have arrived at a time when the obituaries for global warming (now falsely called climate change) are increasing.
The October 25th edition of The Wall Street Journal sports an editorial titled “The Post-Global Warming World” commenting on the fact that the 17th annual United Nations-sponsored climate change conference in November is likely to be an even greater flop than recent ones. Few, if any, nations will sign on to the huge hoax of reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) to save the world from burning to a crisp.
Mere HER hos Family Security Matters.
Global Warming Is Real
James Delingpole – October 27, 2011
We know it’s getting warmer. That’s not the point
“The planet has been warming,” says a new study of temperature records, conducted by Berkeley professor Richard Muller. I wonder what he’ll be telling us next: that night follows day? That water is wet? That great white sharks have nasty pointy teeth? That sheep go “baaaa”?
No, the only surprising part of the results of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project is the good professor’s chutzpah in trying to present them as new or surprising – let alone any kind of blow to the people he calls “skeptics” (or, when speaking to his friends at the Guardian, “deniers”).
Mere HER hos Family Security Matters.
Andre kilder: Foreign Policy,
Men vi starter lige med historien om et mordforsøg på Salman Rushdie. Iranerne igen:
Echoes of Iran
Stewart Bell | Oct 15, 2011
Mansour Ahani said he was fleeing religious and political persecution in Iran when he arrived at Vancouver airport from Singapore in October 1991.
“I am dead if I return,” he wrote in his refugee claim.
But after spending months following Ahani, Canadian intelligence officers came to a startling conclusion: He was a highly trained Iranian government assassin whose handlers were planning an attack on the British author Salman Rushdie.
Mere HER i The National Post.
Interview / Salman Rushdie is not afraid
He thinks ‘Game of Thrones’ is dumb, bemoans the lack of good modern novels and believes terrorism is dying out; over 20 years after fleeing for his life from an Iranian-issued fatwa, novelist Salman Rushdie is still unafraid to speak his mind.
By Gidi Weitz – October 14, 2011
New York. One fine evening a few weeks ago, the writer Salman Rushdie walked, unattended by bodyguards, to the site of the 9/11 memorial. “It was very strange to walk into that space after ten years,” the 64-year-old recalls as we sit in the offices of the Wiley literary agency in the center of New York. “I remember post-9/11, many journalists from all over saying to me, ‘Ah, now we understand what happened to you.’ And I responded, ‘Really? That’s what it took for you to take note?!’ But in some way that was the moment at which these things, like the attack on ‘The Satanic Verses’ or the persecution of other people in different places, suddenly became a big thing.”
Mere HER hos Haaretz. Se eventuelt også denne i Global Toronto:
Eller denne i Pajamas Media:
Andre kilder: Foreign Policy,
Opdatering 22. oktober 2011 – endnu et interview;
A Conversation With: Salman Rushdie
By Shivani Vora – October 20, 2011
The author, who was a guest at the Pierre’s recent Diwali party, agreed to answer a few questions before the event about his connection to Mumbai, his time on Twitter and the state of Indian fiction today.
Q.You’ve agreed to read an excerpt of a new book about the history of the Taj hotel in Mumbai. What connection do you have to the hotel?
A.I’m a Bombay boy, so my connection to the Taj is life long. I went there as a boy with my parents, and as an adult I’ve taken my own family to stay there a number of times, and in general have always made a beeline for it when in Bombay.
Mere HER i The New York Times.
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,
Engang imellem skal vi også høre, hvad de røde siger. Snik-snak:
American Political Dysfunction
Francis Fukuyama – November/December 2011
During the summer’s controversies over the debt ceiling and U.S. credit downgrade, there was a lot of talk about the “dysfunctional” American political system. Obviously, a country that has to play a game of chicken with its reputation for full faith and credit isn’t working very well. But what exactly is the source of this dysfunction? If it is a systemic dysfunction, is there something about it that can be fixed?
One possible answer is that the problem doesn’t lie in the system, but in the underlying polarization of American society, which is divided over basic governing ideology and increasingly angry in its public discourse. There has been a huge literature on polarization and its sources, which is blamed on electoral districting, residential self-segregation, an ideologically compartmentalized media and the like.
Mere HER i The American Interest. Og noget kritik af Fukuyama:
Getting to Denmark: On Francis Fukuyama
Thomas Meaney | October 5, 2011
Francis Fukuyama became a headline in the summer of 1989 when he informed the world that he had discovered the end of history. The essay in which he made his brazen claim, published in The National Interest, excited journalists and transformed him overnight into a favorite soothsayer of the foreign policy establishment. In the past two decades, Fukuyama has consolidated his position with a variety of professional gambits. As a political analyst, he continues to broaden his portfolio, whether he is filing a World Bank report on state-building in the Solomon Islands, duly noting the need for a national university and an intertribal police force, or co-chairing a panel on “competitive Eurasia” with strongmen like Vladimir Putin and Nursultan Nazarbayev. As a public intellectual, Fukuyama oversees his own magazine, The American Interest, which he co-founded in 2005 after leading a revolt against the publication where he had first gained notoriety. And as the author of bestsellers on big subjects—social trust, biotechnology, state-building—Fukuyama so far exceeds his peers in his uncanny sense of timeliness that his critics dismiss him as a happy hostage to the present. Fukuyama does not help his case by trading in one label—neoconservative, Wilsonian realist, liberal statist—just in time for the debut of a new one. Nevertheless, it would be a mistake to call him an ideological opportunist.
Mere HER i The Nation.
Andre kilder: National Review Online,
Fra Secure Freedom Radio den 30. september 2011. Det handler bla. om Israel og mulige dystre fremtidsperspektiver:
Raising Awareness about Jihad
What starts and ends wars in the Middle East? The famed historian and the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Victor Davis Hanson continues today’s show answering the question of a possible war between Israel and it neighbors in the region. The situation for Israel is looking more and more hostile than it has in the last thirty years, as former allies to Israel such as Turkey are angling for more confrontation. Although there were major conflicts in 1973, 1982, and 2006 in the Middle East, what stopped them from turning into full-blown wars? Hanson states that a strong stance from the US blocked the region from turning totally volatile. However, all this has changed due to Obama’s weak Middle Eastern policy. Thus, it is only a matter of time before things turn sour for Israel and the United States under Obama’s leadership will be unable to step in to stop it.
Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 10½ minut.
Andre kilder: Big Peace,
Mahound. You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog. And you ain’t no friend of mine. Nej, det er ikke den, vi skal høre. Det bliver U2 og Bono i stedet. Artikel først:
Honoring Banned Books’ Week by Defending Salman Rushdie
22 September 2011 – Raymond Scott
Before it became gospel that no concert could even be mentioned in the same breath with the immortal performances staged by U2, the band was sort of, well, boring. The Edge lacked whatever quality it was that gave him such a namesake; the group’s routines seemed overly disciplined, and fans could muster no more flattering a term to describe Bono than “austere.” Their reputation was to dramatically change however after the 1991 release Achtung Baby and the subsequent ZooTV Tour, both designed to be unashamed sensory overloads. Full of messy rhythms, alter egos and notorious prank phone calls, the tour demolished the band’s stoic reputation and carved for itself a spanking new personality, an audacious one. U2’s newfound spunk embodied itself in the late summer of ‘93 when during a performance at the world’s most distinguished arena, London’s Wembley Stadium, Bono welcomed the only man in England who could rival his celebrity, Salman Rushdie. The crowd erupted into cries of adulation at the sight of this bespeckled author, who not too long ago, would have been unrecognizable outside of highbrow literary coteries. Yet, who by this time had earned himself the distinction as the world’s most controversial figure.
Mere HER i The Bi-College News.
Dernæst dette interview, hvor Bono ser tilbage på den episode, der indledte artiklen ovenfor. Fra februar 2010:
The Ground Beneath Her Feet interview
Bono discusses how U2 explored the theme of celebrity in the ’90s. Includes a clip of Salman Rushdie on stage with MacPhisto at Wembley Stadium.
Og så vil vi godt have noget musik, tak:
U2 – With or Without You
U2 live in Boston 2001
Interviewet er kort og en ret så teknisk, men det handler jo også om videnskab:
Henrik Svensmark: The Cosmic-Ray/Cloud Seeding Hypothesis Is Converging With Reality
02 September 2011 – David Whitehouse
Dr Henrik Svensmark of the Danish National Space Centre in Copenhagen has pioneered the study of the effects of cosmic rays on cloud formation. The GWPF put a series of questions to him concerning the recent results from CERN’s CLOUD experiment.
How significant are the CERN results?
I welcome the CLOUD results. They basically confirm our own experimental results since 2006, and does so within a larger variation of parameters. It seems to say that ions are fundamental for the nucleation of new aerosols.
Mere HER hos The Observatory.
Here Comes the Sun:
And There Goes Man-Made Global Warming
Andrew Bostom – September 2, 2011
As Lawrence Solomon has reported, with little fanfare—certainly none from pseudo-scientific, apocalyptic, anthropogenic warmists and their uncritical (if witless) media and political champions—Jasper Kirkby et al. have just published a seminal paper in Nature (“Role of sulphuric acid, ammonia and galactic cosmic rays in atmospheric aerosol nucleation.” NatureVolume: 476, Pages: 429–433 (25 August 2011) DOI: doi:10.1038/nature10343).
Solomon’s pellucid lay description summarizes the key study findings and their devastating impact upon the so-called “settled science” of greenhouse gas- mediated, “anthropogenic warming”:
Mere HER hos Family Security Matters. Big Peace her. Andrew Bostom her. Mere om klimaet og om galningen Al Gore:
The Madness of King Gore the Second
Daniel Greenfield – August 31, 2011
They say that everyone talks about the weather, and no one ever does anything about it– but since the mid-1980′s we’ve been expected to do things about it. Two generations of children have grown up with the mantra that putting the empty soda in the right trash can is all that stands between them and the destruction of the planet, not to mention all the dead dolphins, paddling polar bears and crying indians.
There are just too many people, we’re told, and too many of them are buying things and eating things and living too long. And all that is killing the planet. Sure you can guzzle Fair Trade coffee until your face turns green, bike to work until you’re sterile and smugly lecture everyone else on the importance of saving the planet– but no matter what you do, you’re coughing up carbon into the air like a defective air conditioner.
En boganmeldelse:
The Meaning of Pyongyang
by Theodore Dalrymple – September 2011
There are some countries that, once visited, retain a disproportionate hold on your imagination. Among them, for me at least, are Haiti and Liberia, two small states that are known to the world at large principally for their political, and sometimes for their natural, catastrophes. They are marginal from the point of view of the world economy, I need hardly say, and yet their history has something about it that makes it seem significant beyond itself. No one, I think, can study the early history of either country without being moved by it; and just as the biography of a single person can also be a portrait of an age, so the history of an otherwise insignificant country can tell us something important about the human predicament as a whole, for example our tendency to turn liberation into a new form of servitude.
Mere HER i New English Review.
Warning: The English translation is hopeless
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