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Video: Mark Steyn & Charles Adler om USAs nedtur

Fra Sun News TV den 8. maj 2012, men selve interviewet er optaget 18. april 2012:

Mark Steyn & Charles Adler – America’s Slow Suicide – May 8, 2012

Mark Steyn tells Charles Adler why he believes America is in the midst of a slow suicide.

Og endnu et interview:

Interview: ‘Happy warrior’ Mark Steyn dives gleefully into darkness

Joseph Brean – Apr 21, 2012

In a happier world, Mark Steyn would be spinning Peggy Lee records on a late-night radio show, not cracking jokes about America’s fiscally suicidal deficit, Europe’s culturally suicidal immigration and Canada’s “profoundly wicked” human rights legal regime.

It is a coy sentiment, because someone would surely give him that job. It is hard to imagine any media gig, however, that would not be a step down for the cross-platform media star, an arts critic turned syndicated political columnist with a busy TV schedule, a blog that touts him as a “one-man global content provider,” and a stage show that comes to Toronto next week with a gleefully cheeky vow to violate the human rights of all in attendance.

Mee HER i The National Post.

Andre kilder: The Toronto Sun, The Orange County Register, National Review Online,

Opdateret – nu virker videoen igen.

Video: Ezra Levant om venstrefløjen og “Ethical Oil”

To videoer om samme emne – en kort og en lang. Fra 7. maj 2012:

Ezra Levant: Ethical Oil or Conflict Oil

Ezra challenges the West-hating NGOs to spend a small fraction of their efforts criticizing the scumbags who supply most of the world’s oil, not Canada.

Foredrag fra Economic Developers Alberta 11. – 13. april 2012:

Ezra Levant – EDA Conference 2012

Ezra Levant – TV anchor, newspaper columnist and author speaks about “Ethical Oil” at a keynote address at the 2012 EDA Professional Conference.

To interview med Bernard Lewis

Et par udmærkede ting her:

‘Osama bin Laden Made Me Famous’

Bernard Lewis Looks Back

By Evan R. Goldstein – April 22, 2012

Bernard Lewis left Princeton Univer­sity in 1986, forced out at the then-mandatory retirement age of 70. At his farewell party, Charles Issawi, who was also retiring from the department of Near Eastern studies, delivered some remarks. “There are five ages of professors,” he said, “tireless, tiring, tiresome, tired, and retired; but for people like Bernard and me, retirement means a new set of tires and full speed ahead.”

Issawi was right: Lewis isn’t the retiring type. He has spent the years since then producing 16 books and countless articles, carried on his decades-long spat with Edward Said over the direction of scholarship on the Middle East, helped found a learned society to challenge “intellectual conformism” in the Middle East Studies Association, coined the idea of a “clash of civilizations,” became an informal adviser to the George W. Bush administration, and according to some observers, provided the intellectual firepower for the war in Iraq. Oh, and not least: At the age of 80, Lewis fell in love again.

Mere HER i The Chronicle of Higher Education. Det næste interview er i pdf-form:

Bernard LewisInterview with Bernard Lewis

Winter 2012

In this exclusive interview with TPQ, Bernard Lewis attributes Turkey’s historical progress to the practice of self-critique and to the choice of women’s empowerment. These are also the qualities, if maintained and developed, that will ensure a bright future for Turkey, he states. Indicating that in Turkey “at the moment, the movement seems to be backwards rather than forward,” Lewis points out that Turks currently face a choice. About Turkey’s role in the Middle East, Lewis reflects skepticism but also hope, relaying the message that Turkey can indeed play a leading role in the Middle East but whether this will strengthen Turkey in the global arena or not depends on how Turkey uses this influence, to what end, and in what direction. Decisions made today, in areas such as to enable frank and critical discussion, to innovate, and to provide women with the full range of freedom will determine how the future of Turkey and of the region at large is shaped.

Mere i pdf HER i Turkish Policy Quarterly.

Andre kilder: Mondoweiss, William Yale, Brian Sandberg: Historical Perspectives, Middle East Institute, Turkish Policy Quarterly, National Review Online, MemriScrippsNews,

Video: Kevin Freeman om økonomisk terrorisme

Fra The Heritage Foundation den 12. april 2012 – John Hilboldt indleder:

Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It Can Happen Again

Who’s really to blame for America’s catastrophic financial meltdown and devastating national recession? Contrary to what the “Occupy Movement” might tell you, it’s not greedy Wall Street executives. No, as one of America’s top financial professionals Kevin Freeman reveals in his new book, the real culprit is economic warfare, with our foreign enemies exploiting our lurking financial weaknesses. In Secret Weapon, Freeman unveils how all the evidence – including motive, means, and opportunity – points to America’s foreign enemies as deliberately pushing our economy over the brink. He argues that our financial system is profoundly vulnerable to financial terrorism, and that we are being targeted for further and even more destructive attacks by our enemies, who want to cripple America as the world’s leading economy.

Kevin D. Freeman, CFA, is the founder and CEO of Freeman Global Investment Counsel. In 1990, he wrote a business plan for Sir John Templeton and was hand-picked by him to help build the Templeton Private Client group, which managed nearly $2.5 billion in global markets within a decade. One of the world’s leading experts on economic warfare and financial terrorism, Freeman authored the report “Economic Warfare: Risks and Responses” for the Department of Defense in 2009 and has briefed members of Congress, U.S. Senators, and past and present members of the CIA, DIA, FBI, SEC, Homeland Security, Justice Department, and state and local law enforcement.

Interview med Walter Laqueur

Laqueur er årgang 1921 – et mindre interview:

Walter Laqueur: Europe – Recovery Or Collapse? – Interview

Eurasia ReviewOnce again, BrigGen(ret.) Dieter Farwick, Senior Vice President of the World Security Network Foundation, took the opportunity to interview the American historian Walter Laqueur, member of the WSN International Advisory Board.

By Dieter Farwick – April 24, 2012

His book “Best of times, Worst of times” (2009) mirrors his life as a critical observer of worldwide politics.

Six years ago (“The last days of Europe”, 2006) he reached the conclusion that Europe had little chance to maintain its position as a Global Player. WSN published the interview, “Many Europeans were living in a Fool’s Paradise”, with Walter Laqueur conducted by Dieter Farwick on January 3, 2007. This assessment was criticized by several American and European readers who predicted that, on the contrary the 21st century would be dominated by Europe with its political and social culture.

Mere HER hos Eurasia Review. Kan også læses her hos World Security Network.

Andre kilder: Wikipedia, Truthdig,

Video: Hans Rosling, Hans Rosling, Hans Rosling

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,

Video: Robert Spencer, Bruce Thornton, David Goldman, Daniel Pipes, Jamie Glazov, Ward Connerly, Victor Davis Hanson

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,

Video: Kristne myrdes over hele verden

Interview med Nina Shea fra 13. april 2012:

A Global Genocide against Christians Underway?

Der følger en CBN-artikel med:

Oprørere pålægger kristne ekstra skat

Allan Sørensen | 13. april 2012

I den krigshærgede syriske by Homs har Syriens opposition indført den islamiske skat jizya, der kun pålægges ikke-muslimer. Manglende betaling resulterer ifølge vidner i kidnapning af familiemedlemmer

Mere HER i Kristeligt Dagblad.

Andre kilder: Jyllands-Posten, The Age,

Opdateret.

Video: Francis Fukuyama, Gideon Rose & Charlie Rose

Venstreorienteret kapitalisme med omfordeling af velfærd. Det er opgaven, siger Fukuyama. Fra 5. april 2012:

Status Of Liberal Democracy: End Is Nigh? or Rough Patch? Fukuyama & Rose w/ Charlie Rose

Francis Fukuyama & Gideon Rose on: “The Clash Of Ideas: The Ideological Battles That Made The Modern World, And Will Shape The Future” with Charlie Rose 05.04.12 [ part1of2: ~12min | part2of2: ~13min | 1080p ]

“None of these problems are insoluble, but … you do not solve the problems if you kind of complacently believe, ‘well, we’ve been through this before, we’ve seen w

orse, and we’ll get through this in the future’. … Unless people feel that there’s a kind of really pressing sense of crisis about self-correcting the problems of democratic capitalism, then we actually won’t get to this future…” — Francis Fukuyama

Global Warming: 49 videnskabsmænd fra NASA protesterer

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.

Smiley Surrender[...] 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.

Andre kilder: PowerLine, The Hill, Ræson, Ingeniøren, Ingeniøren, The Telegraph, The Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal, Family Security Matters, Family Security Matters, Family Security Matters, Family Security Matters, The Huffington Post, The Huffington Post, Fox NewsThe National Post, The Deal, NoTricksZone, The Daily Caller, Canada Free PressInfowars, CBS Los Angeles,

Video: Den demografiske revolution

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.

Video: Francis Fukuyama om “The Origins of Political Order” – igen

Fukuyama har en særegen opfattelse af Danmark, – vi får en ny udlægning hver gang. Islam er lidt af et tabu for Fukuyama, – der skal et spørgsmål til, før det emne kommer op.

Noget af denne forelæsning er hørt før, andet er nyt. Fra AEI den 2. april 2012 – lyden glipper et par sekunder, men bliver straks ordnet:

The Origins of Political Order

Andre kilder: RealClearPolitics,

Demografi & Homo Islamicus

Sære udviklinger:

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.

Logo Worldcrunch

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.

Andre kilder: Time Magazine,

Video & artikler: Francis Fukuyama, Robert Kagan, Walter Russell Mead, Steve Paikin, Gideon Rose

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,

Video: Yaakov Kirschen om Dry Bones

Lille interview – fra februar 2012:

“Dry Bones”: 40 Years of Zionist Cartooning

Dry Bones: 40 Years of Zionist Cartooning

Long-running political cartoon Dry Bones to receive award from the Israeli Museum of Caricature and Comics.

By Elad Benari and Yoni Kempinski – 2/6/2012

The political cartoon Dry Bones and its creator, Yaakov Kirschen, will receive the Israeli Museum of Caricature and Comics’ “Golden Pencil” award next week. The prize is awarded annually as a lifetime achievement award and a prize designed to encourage creative young artists and students.

Dry Bones has appeared for almost 40 years in newspapers around the world, in The Jerusalem Post and on a successful internet blog.

Mere HER hos Arutz Sheva.

Foreign Policy om forholdet mellem Israel og Kina – fra 13. marts 2012:

Video: Peter Brimelow & Michael Coren

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,

Video, audio & artikler: Michael Coren & Mark Steyn om ytringsfrihed

Fra 13. og 14. marts 2012:

Michael Coren with Mark Steyn: Steynamite! April 24 Toronto

While Dick Cheney may be too afraid to enter Canada, bestselling author Mark Steyn will be taking to the stage as a replacement with ‘Steynamite’, where Steyn will be taking his fearless brand of commentary and analysis to the stage for Torontonians to hear.

Ryan Ruppert, president of Spectre Live and organizer for the Cheney event said, “While we are disheartened that the Cheneys do not feel comfortable coming to Canada, we are gratified that our own Mark Steyn will not be intimidated either by protestors or government censors.” He added, “On April 24th, Mark will exercise his freedom of expression at the Metro Convention Centre with bestselling author Michael Coren.”

Tickets are available with discounted prices for earlybirds at Spectre Live’s Steynamite page.

Næste video fortæller lidt mere om baggrunden – følgetekst under videoen:

Steynamite! Steyn & Coren in Toronto April 24

Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, Liz, were scheduled to do a speech in April at the Metro Toronto Convention Center. Now, six weeks away, organizers are announcing that the event has been canceled, citing security concerns.

Spectre Live, the organization sponsoring the Cheneys in Toronto issued a statement saying that the Cheney family made the unilateral decision to cancel their Toronto engagement after reconsidering fallout at the former Vice President’s last Canadian event.

In September of 2011, Dick Cheney was protested at a speech in Vancouver, where an NDP Member of Parliament threatened legal action against Cheney days prior.

While Dick Cheney may be too afraid to enter Canada, bestselling author Mark Steyn will be taking to the stage as a replacement with ‘Steynamite’, where Steyn will be taking his fearless brand of commentary and analysis to the stage for Torontonians to hear.

Ryan Ruppert, president of Spectre Live and organizer for the Cheney event said, “While we are disheartened that the Cheneys do not feel comfortable coming to Canada, we are gratified that our own Mark Steyn will not be intimidated either by protestors or government censors.” He added, “On April 24th, Mark will exercise his freedom of expression at the Metro Convention Centre with bestselling author Michael Coren.”

Tickets are available with discounted prices for earlybirds at Spectre Live’s Steynamite page.

Opdatering – fandt endnu en video om sagen. David Akin & John Robson – fra 13. marts 2012:

John Robson on the crypto-fascist Left

Og så er der audio – Mornings with Steve Austin fra 5. marts 2012:

Mark Steyn – the humourous voice of the right

Mark Steyn is a commentator, advocate for freedom of speech and critic of multicultural policy.

He was in Brisbane last week and spoke to Steve Austin.

Part two of this interview will be played next week.

Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 14 minutter. Og 2. del udsendt 14. marts 2012:

Mornings with Steve Austin

More from conservative commentator Mark Steyn.

Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed knap 24 minutter. Næste er fra 5. marts 2012 – mest om musik og kultur. Værter Michael Duffy og Paul Comrie-Thomson:

Counterpoint

In a broad ranging conversation Mark Steyn explains why it’s better to have political leaders who don’t carry on like rock stars and he wonders why the term “ it’s a free country” seems to be slowly vanishing from the vernacular. Satirist Patrick Cook offers his observations on the body politic.

Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 40 ½ minut. Steyn slutter efter 32 minutter. Og fra i dag – 15. marts 2012:

Strictly Right Radio – Episode 169 (with Mark Steyn)

In this fun-filled edition of Strictly Right, Andrew Lawton and Ben Swenson give the latest update on the vetting of President Barack Obama, talk about how the U.N.’s gone too far (again), and go into a story from a Canadian Catholic school that will make you cringe. As well, bestselling author Mark Steyn returns to the program for a hilarious interview with the men of Strictly Right!

Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 55 minutter. Steyn begynder efter godt 31 minutter og slutter efter 46 minutter.

Og artikler:

The Quit and the Dead

By Mark Steyn – March 14, 2012

Pamela Geller was struck by that ad The New York Times ran the other day, “It’s Time To Quit The Catholic Church“, an “open letter to ‘liberal’ and ‘nominal’ Catholics”. So she sent in her own ad, “It’s Time To Quit Islam“, an “open letter to ‘moderate’ Muslims”. Analogous artwork, same pitch, only difference being the intended target. The Times’ Senior Vice-President for Corporate Hogwash called to tell Miss Geller that – surprise! surprise! – they were way less eager to rush this one into print:

Mere HER National Review Online.

The Euro-Emperor has no Clothes

By Mark Steyn – March 4, 2012

This story caught my eye in the print edition of Monday’s Australian. I can’t find it online, but here’s the gist:

OLLI REHN, the European commissioner in charge of handling the eurozone debt crisis, has been accused of sexism for briefing male journalists while naked in a sauna beneath his office in Brussels.

Mere HER National Review Online.

Andre kilder: Wikipedia, National Review Online, National Review Online, National Review Online, National Review Online, National Review OnlineThe Bert Kelly Research Centre, Australian Conservative, Institute of Public Affairs, The Spectator Australia,

Video: Mark Steyn i Adelaide

Dette australske tv-program hedder Q&A og er fra ABC 5. marts 2012. I panelet: Paul Grabowsky, Amanda Vanstone, Natasha Stott Despoja, Mark Steyn, Jianying Zha. Udsendelsen handler mest om australske forhold og en lille smule om indvandring. Man kan følge med i en udskrift her:

Mark Steyn ABC March 2012

Startes HER - åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 1 time og 3 minutter. Artikler:

The Church of Big Government

By Mark Steyn – March 6th 2012

Discussing the constitutionality of Obamacare’s “preventive health” measures on MSNBC, Melinda Henneberger of the Washington Post told Chris Matthews that she reasons thus with her liberal friends: “Maybe the Founders were wrong to guarantee free exercise of religion in the First Amendment, but they did.”

Maybe. A lot of other constitutional types in the Western world have grown increasingly comfortable with circumscribing religious liberty. In 2002, the Swedish constitution was amended to criminalize criticism of homosexuality. “Disrespect” of the differently orientated became punishable by up to two years in jail, and “especially offensive” disrespect by up to four years. Shortly thereafter, Pastor Ake Green preached a sermon referencing the more robust verses of scripture, and was convicted of “hate crimes” for doing so.

Mere HER hos SteynOnline.

The Fluke Charade

Why should we have to fund a middle-aged schoolgirl’s sex life?

By Mark Steyn – March 10, 2012

I’m writing this from Australia, so, if I’m not quite up to speed on recent events in the United States, bear with me — the telegraph updates are a bit slow here in the bush. As I understand it, Sandra Fluke is a young coed who attends Georgetown Law, and recently testified before Congress.

Oh, wait, no. Update: It wasn’t a congressional hearing; the Democrats just got it up to look like one, like summer stock, with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid doing the show right here in the barn, and providing a cardboard set for the world premiere of Miss Fluke Goes to Washington, with full supporting cast led by Chuck Schumer strolling in through the French windows in tennis whites and drawling, “Anyone for bull****?”

Mere HER i National Review Online. Orange County Register her. Investor’s Business Daily her.

Andre kilder: National Review Online, National Review Online, National Review Online, National Review Online,

Gendercide

Syge kulturer:

The Global War Against Baby Girls

Nicholas Eberstadt – Fall 2011

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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.

Mere HER i The New Atlantis. Se eventuelt også:

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.

Mere HER i Times Union.

Andre kilder: AEI, AEI, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The Trumpet, LifeSiteNews, Mitu Khurana, ABC News, CNS News, The Blaze, The Telegraph, The TelegraphForeign Policy, The Global Post, The Daily Mail, The Guardian,

Video: Mark Steyn i Australien

Alan Jones’ interview med Mark Steyn foreligger som audio i to dele - første del HER, anden del HER eller her. Første del er blevet YouTubet:

Alan Jones Interviews Mark Steyn on 2GB

Alan Jones Interviews Mark Steyn about his latest book during the Steyn down under tour, Wednesday 29th February 2012.

Endnu en video:

Mark Steyn on the Drum

Mark Steyn’s brief appearance on Australian Broadcasting Corporation‘s ‘The Drum’ Tuesday 28th of February 2012.

Der er endnu en ny audio fra ABC – Jon Faine on the Conversation Hour. Det er en panel-debat om australsk politik med Lyn Allison, Mark Steyn og George Megalogenis. Den kan høres på ABCs hjemmeside HER. Og artikler:

‘Die, Die, Foreigners!’

We have everything in Afghanistan except strategic purpose.

By Mark Steyn – March 3, 2012

Say what you like about Afghans, but they’re admirably straightforward. The mobs outside the bases enflamed over the latest Western affront to their exquisitely refined cultural sensitivities couldn’t put it any plainer:

“Die, die, foreigners!”

And foreigners do die. USAF Lieutenant Colonel John Loftis, 44, and Army Major Robert Marchanti II, 48, lost their lives not on some mission out on the far horizon in wild tribal lands in the dead of night but in the offices of the Afghan Interior Ministry. In a “secure room” that required a numerical code to access. Gunned down by an Afghan “intelligence officer.” Who then departed the scene of the crime unimpeded by any of his colleagues.

Mere HER i National Review Online.

The Perversion of Rights

They’re now gifts that a benign king graciously showers upon his subjects.

By Mark Steyn – February 25, 2012

CNN’s John King did his best the other night, producing a question from one of his viewers:

“Since birth control is the latest hot topic, which candidate believes in birth control, and if not, why?”

To their credit, no Republican candidate was inclined to accept the premise of the question. King might have done better to put the issue to Danica Patrick. For some reason, Michelle Fields of the Daily Caller sought the views of the NASCAR driver and Sports Illustrated swimwear model about “the Obama administration’s dictate that religious employers provide health-care plans that cover contraceptives.” Miss Patrick, a practicing Catholic, gave the perfect citizen’s response for the Age of Obama:

Mere HER i National Review Online. Kan også læses her i The Orange County Register.

Andre kilder: Human Events, Sheik yer’mami, National Review Online,

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