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.

[...] 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:

• ‘If you don’t believe in climate change you must be sick’: Oregon professor likens skepticism to racism

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 News, The National Post, The Deal, NoTricksZone, The Daily Caller, Canada Free Press, Infowars, CBS Los Angeles,

Henrik Svensmark bør have Nobelprisen

Det er bestemt ikke første gang, man læser det:

Is That Scientific Heretic a Genius—or a Loon?

By Matt Ridley – November 12, 2011

The list of scientific heretics who were persecuted for their radical ideas but eventually proved right keeps getting longer. Last month, Daniel Shechtman won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of quasicrystals, having spent much of his career being told he was wrong.

“I was thrown out of my research group. They said I brought shame on them with what I was saying,” he recalled, adding that the doyen of chemistry, the late Linus Pauling, had denounced the theory with the words: “There is no such thing as quasicrystals, only quasi-scientists.”

Mere HER i The Wall Street Jourrnal.

Theodore Dalrymple om hedninge og malaria

Dalrymple mobber den skinhellige venstrefløj:

The New Paganism of Biodiversity

Dispatches from the Society for the Protection of the Malaria Spirochete.

by Theodore Dalrymple – October 28, 2011

Why do people say things that they cannot, on a moment’s reflection, possibly believe? Mainly, I suppose, to congratulate themselves on their own moral grandeur and to appear right-thinking in the eyes of their peers. Truth is the least of their worries.

What would those who wish to preserve a maximum diversity of species, as a good in itself, make of the announcement in the latest New England Journal of Medicine of the trial of a vaccine that is a step towards the elimination in Africa of the worst and most dangerous kind of malaria? Will they form a society for the protection of Plasmodium falciparum, the causative organism of that malaria? I suggest as a name for the society Friends of Falciparum,  or Friefal.

Mere HER i Pajamas Media.

Video: Hans Rosling – mind the gab!

Fra maj 2011:

Gap in Understanding – Hans Rosling at European Zeitgeist 2011

Hans Rosling explores the demographics of the world, from taxation to population statistics. He highlights the world population broken down by year to prove his point that the countries with the highest number of youth are in the Middle East.

Fra 8. september 2011:

Hans Rosling ‘Epidemiology for the bottom billion’ – Pumphandle lecture 2011

The number of births in the world stopped growing 20 years ago.
Hans Rosling

Video: David Horowitz & Dennis Prager

Fra 13. september 2011 – om Horowitz’s nye bog, jødeforfølgelser, venstrefløjen, tro og mere:

David Horowitz on The Dennis Prager Show Discussing A Point In Time

Med reklamer og det hele:

Opdatering – video fra den 4. oktober 2011 – mere om Horowitz nye bog:

David Horowitz & Martha Zoller

The Martha Zoller Show – A Point in Time

Andre kilder: David Horowitz Freedom Center, The Dennis Prager Show,

Video: David Berlinski & Peter Robinson

Fra The Hoover Institution, som har uploadet dette interview indenfor de sidste 2 – 3 dage. Om tro, videnskab og ateisme:

Science and religion with David Berlinski

David Berlinski, the author of 1,2,3: Absolutely Elementary Mathematics, discusses, with Hoover research fellow Peter Robinson, his book The Devil’s Delusion.

Andre  kilder: Wikipedia,

Indien: Babyer tvinges til kønsskifte

Ny indisk rekord i vanvid:

Girls as young as ONE ‘forced to have sex change operations in India’

By Daily Mail on 27th June 2011

Girls as young as one are being forced into sex change operations in India by parents desperate for a son.

Surgeons in the city of Indore are reported to be ‘converting’ hundreds of girls a year, who are subsequently pumped full of hormone drugs.

A report in the respected Hindustan Times newspaper said the ‘shocking, unprecedented trend, catering to the fetish for a son, is unfolding at conservative Indore’s well-known clinics and hospitals on children who are one to five years old.

Mere HER i Daily Mail. Og endnu en artikel om indiske forhold:

Poor Little Rich Country

How do you categorize India, a nation that is at once fantastically wealthy and desperately poor?

By Patrick French | June 24, 2011

In May, the Indian government announced that it was giving $5 billion in aid to African countries in the interest of helping them meet their development goals. “We do not have all the answers,” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, “but we have some experience in nation-building, which we are happy to share.”

Mere HER i Foreign Policy.

Andre kilder: Metro, The Daily Star, The Global Post, Hindustan Times, The Telegraph,

Video: Winston Churchill & Adolf Hitler

En helt og en anti-helt. Første video er en spillefilm fra 2002:

Gathering Storm • Winston Churchill • HBO

A remarkable cast lends emotional richness to The Gathering Storm, an HBO movie about the life of Winston Churchill just prior to the onset of World War II. Faced with bankruptcy, his career in decline, Churchill (Albert Finney) is beset with depression until the impending danger of German rearmament, along with the British government’s reluctance to recognize the threat of Hitler, gives him a cause that brings him back to energetic life. The movie focuses as much on the enduring relationship between Churchill and his wife, Clementine (Vanessa Redgrave), as his political struggles. But though The Gathering Storm clearly admires Churchill, it also acknowledges his tyrannical personality and astonishing ego, turning what could be a puff piece into a well-rounded and moving portrait. The truly topnotch cast includes Derek Jacobi, Jim Broadbent, Tom Wilkinson, Linus Roache, and Lena Headey, all of whom turn in superb performances.

Fra november 2006:

Hitler’s Private World

From The Telegraph – November 2006

New computer software that can read lips at almost any angle has helped make sense of one of the Second World War’s lingering mysteries – Hitler’s home movies.

The technology allows the dialogue to be dubbed on to the silent films, many of them made by Eva Braun at Hitler’s mountain retreat, the Berghof. With the new soundtrack, Hitler can be heard encouraging young children towards a life in the military, criticising even his closest henchmen and flirting with Braun.

It has languished in archives since the war after being found by the US Office of Strategic Services in the cellars under the Berghof. The film shows very different Hitler from the strident orator who led Germany into war. At ease among his guests, he cracks jokes and talks animatedly about his love for cinema – his tastes included Mickey Mouse.

He is also seen teasing Braun about a screening in his cinema at the Berghof. “I understand you didn’t like the movie last night,” he says. “I know what you want. You want Gone with the Wind.”

Much of the footage is taken on a terrace at the Bavarian retreat, with Hitler and his guests relaxing in the sunlight. He finds time to flirt with Braun, saying: “What are you filming an old man for? I should be filming you.”

But the war was never far away. “You talk about a dress that does not fit … imagine my problems,” he says with exasperation to his lover.

The technology that has allowed the dialogue to be reconstructed is called ALR — automated lip reading — and has been developed by Frank Hubner, a speech recognition expert. The computer recognises shapes that lips make, turns them into sounds and matches these to a dictionary.

When actors voice the script that this generates, the result is home movies all the more chilling for their apparent happy domesticity. Hitler is shown reading to children, and playing with them. “You be a brave boy,” he says to a small Aryan child. “You will be a fine soldier one day.”
Hitler had bought Braun a cine camera for her birthday in 1936. Given his manipulation of the German people by the use of filmed propaganda, it is hardly surprising that he showed enthusiasm for cameras. “Every German family must have one. Every aspect of the nation’s growth would be captured,” he says.

Among Hitler’s staff shown at the Berghof are Heinrich Himmler, Albert Speer, Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Reinhard Heidrich, Joseph Goebbels and Karl Wolff.

Himmler is seen telling Heidrich and Wolff: “I’m very busy with this project and that project.” A disturbing statement from the man in charge of the Final Solution.

Film shot towards the end of the war shows Hitler complaining about tremors in his arm, giving more credence to the theory that he was suffering from Parkinson’s Disease.

What also becomes clear is that Hitler did not hold back from criticising his inner circle. He is scathing about Himmler’s enthusiasm for archaeological digs to establish the origins of the Aryan race but reserved his bitchiest remark for Goering.

“I looked at him across the dining table and then I knew that what they say was true,” he says, “that pigs eat the flesh of their own.”

Afsked med en helt:

Winston Churchill • Last Farewell • 1965

From BBC. In context: Sir Winston Churchill was the first statesman to be given a state funeral in the 20th century. Former prime ministers, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Henry Palmerston and William Gladstone, had preceded him in this posthumous honour in the 19th century.

Sir Winston left a wife and three children. His eldest daughter, Diana, had committed suicide in 1963 and another daughter died in infancy.

His political legacy lives on. His grandson, Nicholas Soames, is a Conservative MP and former armed forces minister. Another grandson, Winston Churchill, served as a Tory MP until 1997 when he lost his seat.

A BBC survey in January 2000 voted Sir Winston the greatest British prime minister of the 20th century. BBC viewers and users voted him the greatest Briton in November 2002.

Dateline January 30th 1965:

Thousands of people have paid their last respects to Britain’s greatest wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill who was buried today after a full state funeral.

Silent crowds lined the streets to watch the gun carriage bearing Sir Winston’s coffin leave Westminster Hall as Big Ben struck 0945. The procession travelled slowly through central London to St Paul’s cathedral for the funeral service.

Sir Winston died six days ago, following a stroke earlier in the month from which he never regained consciousness.
A total of 321,360 people filed past the catafalque during the three days of lying-in-state.

World watches funeral

Today, millions around the world watched the funeral procession at home and abroad as television pictures were beamed from 40 BBC cameras placed along the route.

The mourners were led by Sir Winston’s wife, Lady Clementine Churchill, his son Randolph and daughters Mary Soames and Lady Sarah Audley. The Queen and other members of the royal family, the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, and representatives of 112 countries packed into the cathedral for the service.

The funeral cortege was accompanied by a 19-gun salute and an RAF fly-past as it began the journey to Sir Winston’s final resting place. At Tower Hill, the coffin was piped aboard the launch Havengore for the voyage up the Thames.

Coffin route

From Waterloo, it was placed onto a train drawn by a Battle of Britain locomotive named Winston Churchill. Thousands gathered to pay tribute at wayside stations. At many football matches a two-minute silence was observed.

Sir Winston was finally laid to rest in the Oxfordshire parish churchyard of Bladon, close to Blenheim Palace where he was born 90 years before, with only family members present.

Andre kilder: Tommy Peters’ Bicycles,

Igen: En advarsel imod incest

Denne helt, helt nødvendige viden, der skal udbredes. Forbyd fætter-kusineægteskaber! Her fremhævet som en blandt flere faktorer:

Sometimes Marriage and Childbirth Customs Have Serious Consequences.

Dr. Laina Farhat-Holzman – June 10, 2011

Anthropologists have been telling us for the past century that traditions and cultures have survival value for their people. We have been carefully taught not to criticize another culture because there is no single way to be human. Today, however, we see cultural practices around the world utterly disconnected from “survival value.” People persist in certain behaviors because they believe they are sacrosanct parts of either their religion or traditions.

• Africa.   One is hard pressed to find survival value in mutilating female genitalia (FGM), a cherished custom from Egypt through Black Africa. The survival value, they say, is that when women are deprived of sexual pleasure, they are less likely to “stray” and men will know that their offspring are really theirs. However, what kind of survival value is that for women, for whom this practice kills many even before puberty and maims others during childbirth?

Mere HER hos Family Security Matters.

Video: Portræt af Hans Rosling

“Roslings värld“. Programmet er produceret af SVT og ret interessant – fra maj 2009:

Rosling’s World – a documentary about Hans Rosling

Hans Rosling is a professor in international health, who has made an unlikely global success. His Gapminder presentations on global development evokes laughter, rejoice and reflections. In this SVT (Swedish Television) documentary, film maker Pär Fjällström lets Hans Rosling tell the story about his life and what has shaped his world view.

Oplysningerne om aids og sex i visse dele af Afrika var delvist nye for mig. At halalhippier forhindrer livsvigtig information i at nå ud, er derimod en gammel nyhed:

Igen, igen: Advarsel imod fætter-kusineægteskab

Halalhippierne reagerer ikke, før europæerne ikke længere kan betale regningerne for de fremmedes belastning af sundhedssystemet:

It’s time to confront this taboo: First cousin marriages in Muslim communities are putting hundreds of children at risk

By Sue Reid on 3rd June 2011

The man wept as he told how his beautiful, dark-eyed child died in a hospital cot with medical tubes snaking from his frail body as nurses fought unsuccessfully to save him. Sick with pneumonia, the two-year-old gave up the battle for life.

A rare tragedy, you might think, in  modern Britain, with all the advances of medical science.

But in the terraced streets of Bradford, Yorkshire, a child’s death is anything but rare. At the boy’s inquest, coroner Mark Hinchliffe said Hamza Rehman had died because his Pakistan-born parents (shopkeeper Abdul and housewife Rozina) are first cousins.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Denne engelske avis skal have ros for at tage emnet op. Men det skal også siges, at det ikke er nok kun at snakke om børn. Skaderne givet en øget sygelighed livet igennem. Øget kræfthyppighed, øget forekomst af hjerte-karsygdomme, diabetes og hvad som helst. Indvandrerbyrden koster kassen:

Deformed babies and a shameful conspiracy of silence

By Saira Khan on 3rd June 2011

Few subjects are more universally heartbreaking than the plight of sick children. Yet in this country babies are routinely born with terrible disabilities that could easily be avoided — if only the dangerous tradition of first cousins marrying, which still prevails in many Muslim communities, could be stamped out.

A whole raft of genetic disabilities —from blindness and hearing problems to blood disorders — are being bred into our children thanks to this antediluvian practice.

As a British-born Pakistani Muslim, this is something I have seen first-hand — and yet, in this politically-correct age, it is seen as a taboo, with precious few people willing to speak out.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail.

Og så er der så situationen i de lande, disse elendige kulturer stammer fra… 

Andre kilder: Jihad Watch,

Endnu en advarsel imod fætter-kusineægteskab

Hay Festival 2011: Professor risks political storm over Muslim ‘inbreeding’

Prof Steve Jones, one of Britain’s most eminent scientists, has warned that the level of inbreeding among the nation’s Muslims is endangering the health of future generations.

By Jonathan Wynne-Jones – 29 May 2011

The geneticist said that it was common in the Islamic world for men to marry their nieces and cousins.

He said that Bradford has a particular problem and warned that it could affect the health of children born into these marriages.

Mere HER i The Telegraph.

Andre kilder: The Daily Mail, The Daily Star, The New Statesman, Pickled Politics, BBC,

Video: Lars Hedegaard & Wafa Sultan

Nu dukker videoerne fra Trykkefrihedsselskabets seneste konference op:

Lars Hedegaard Free Press Society – The Place of Women in Expansionist Islam

“The Place of Women in Expansionist Islam” – 8th of May /2011

Lars Hedegaard, recently convicted for “hate speech” in Danish court, explains how the subjugation of women is essential for Islam to uphold its expansionist agenda, and how setting free the women would cause Islam to collapse.

Born 1942 in Denmark, Lars Hedegaard is a historian, journalist and author of several books, including I krigens Hus, 1400 års Krigen and the recently published Muhammeds piger: Vold, mord og voldtægter i Islams Hus. Hedegaard is the president of the Danish Free Press Society, as well as the International Free Press Society.

Man kan følge med i en udskrift her hos Sappho:

Wafa Sultan Speech in Copenhagen, May 8 2011

En kultur, der ikke respekterer halvdelen af menneskene, kan ikke sejre i det lange løb

Man kan følge med i en udskrift her hos Sappho:

Posten opdateret.

Video: Sam Harris & Richard Dawkins

Fra 12. april 2011:

Who Says Science has Nothing to Say About Morality?

Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins discuss: Who Says Science has Nothing to Say About Morality?

Taped at The Sheldonian Theatre, University of Oxford

Videoen har for nylig været blogget her på Veritas Universalis som audio:

• Audio: Sam Harris & Richard Dawkins

Opdatering – Sam Harris har også et par gode blogposter om Bin Laden. Den første er citeret i fuld længde:

Osama bin Laden: 1957-2011

By Sam Harris | May 1, 2011

I have no illusions that this will be the end of the war on terror, but it does not seem irrational to think that it could be the beginning of the end. Personally, I feel like a tumor was just removed from my brain—so present has the man been in my thoughts this last decade.

I cannot begin to express my gratitude and admiration for our troops…

Og den næste:

Further Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden

By Sam Harris | May 4, 2011

President Obama has announced that the U.S. government will not release photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse. I don’t know which fact is more alarming, that this appears to have been a very difficult decision or that the head of the CIA believes that these photos will leak in any case. Officially placating the conspiracy theorists of the Muslim world would have been fatuous in the extreme. Let them waste their lives chasing bin Laden’s ghost. But the idea that we cannot contain a few photos beggars belief. Which member of Seal Team 6 is going to put them on his Facebook page?

Mere HER på Sam Harris’ blog.

Opdatering 1. juli 2011:

Ask Sam Harris Anything

Sam Harris, author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, and The Moral Landscape, answers questions submitted by users on Reddit.com.

Hear Sam talk about everything from meditation to religion, and see if one of your questions got answered!

Opdatering 14. august 2011 – ny del uploadet:

Ask Sam Harris Anything #2

Sam Harris, author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, and The Moral Landscape, answers questions submitted by readers.

Andre kilder: The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science,

Christopher Hitchens: The Freedom of Speech

Det er synd for verden. Det ser ikke ud til, at Hitchens får det bedre:

Unspoken Truths

Until cancer attacked his vocal cords, the author didn’t fully appreciate what was meant by “a writer’s voice,” or the essential link between speech and prose. As a man who loved to talk, he turns to the masters of such conversation, both in history and in his own circle.

By Christopher Hitchens • June 2011

I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid.
—T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”

Like so many of life’s varieties of experience, the novelty of a diagnosis of malignant cancer has a tendency to wear off. The thing begins to pall, even to become banal. One can become quite used to the specter of the eternal Footman, like some lethal old bore lurking in the hallway at the end of the evening, hoping for the chance to have a word. And I don’t so much object to his holding my coat in that marked manner, as if mutely reminding me that it’s time to be on my way. No, it’s the snickering that gets me down.

Mere HER i Vanity Fair. Se eventuelt også denne lille artikel i Vanity Fair, hvor der er indsat videoer med T.S. Eliot og Leonard Cohen:

• Audio: Christopher Hitchen’s Favorite Authors

Video: Niall Fergusons nye serie fra Channel 4

Denne store, flotte serie om Den Vestlige Civilisation blev sendt på Channel 4 i marts og april i år. I følge Niall Ferguson kan Vestens succes især tilskrives: konkurrence, forskning, demokrati, lægevidenskab, forbrugerisme, protestantisme:

Civilization: Is the West History – Pt1. (Competition)

“The first programme in the series begins in 1420 when Ming China had a credible claim to be the most advanced civilization in the world: ‘All Under Heaven’. England on the eve of the Wars of the Roses would have seemed quite primitive by contrast.

Yet the lead that China had established in technology was not to be translated into sustained economic growth. In China a monolithic empire stifled colonial expansion and economic innovation. In Europe political division bred competition.

The question for our own time is whether or not we have lost that competitive edge to a rapidly ascending Asia”

1. Competition: a decentralisation of political and economic life, which created the launch pad for both nation states and capitalism.

Islam skal ud af min mad!

Der er islam i min mad. Imamer, falske profeter, koraner, sharia, dhimmiskat, dyremishandling og jeg ved ikke hvad, har været inde over. Det skal standses!

Hvorfor er det kun hver tredje dansker, der mener det? Det er, hvad man skriver i Kristeligt Dagblad.

Dyr, der får halsen skåret over uden bedøvelse, lider mere end dyr, der er bedøvet, skriver Landbrugsavisen. Halalslagtede dyr lider i 2 minutter. Bedøvede dyr kun i 5 sekunder.

Samtlige danske kyllinger og hver 20. ko bliver udsat for dette babariske dyrplageri, oplyser Landbrugsavisen i en anden artikel. Hele 25.000 om året! Og de fleste ænder halalslagtes ligeledes, kan Jyllands-Posten tilføje.

Dyreværnsloven overtrædes på det groveste.

Islamisk Kultur Center i København skal have penge for halalcertifikater. De afkræver betaling for at indføre en grusom kultur, vi overhovedet ikke vil have.

Mellem 450 og 600 kr faktisk. Det fremgår ikke, hvor tit beløbet skal betales. Man skønner det bliver til et par hundrede tusind om året.

Det handler om eksport til muslimske lande.

I det mindste slipper danske soldater nu for dele af den tvungne islamisering. Forsvaret har indset, at feltrationer uden svinekød nok ikke går i længden. Centralforeningen for Stampersonel fik så mange klager fra de stakkels udsendte, at de endte med at gå til pressen. Så vågnede DF op og krævede handling. Deres forsvarsordfører, Ib Poulsen, siger nu i følge Altinget:

Kaptajn ved Forsvarets Sundhedstjeneste, Klaus Gabriel Sørensen, har sagt, at der nu kommer proteinbarer, nødder og rosiner i feltrationerne samt at disse generelt bliver mere nærende. Nu skal vi gribe chancen for også at servere den leverpostej, og de frikadeller og koteletter, soldaterne ønsker. Vi kan simpelthen ikke være andet bekendt, siger Ib Poulsen.

Nu er spørgsmålet så, hvornår politikerne bliver så vågne, at vi andre også kan blive fri for sharialoven. Jeg vil have islam ud af mit køleskab!

Andre kilder: Jyllands-Posten, Jyllands-Posten, Jyllands-Posten, Kristeligt Dagblad, Kristeligt Dagblad, TV2 Øst, Pressemeddelelse fra Dansk Folkeparti, Pressemeddelelse fra Dansk Folkeparti, DR, EkstraBladet, Avisen,

Poul Høi om miltbrand

Foruroligende historie med foruroligende afslutning:

Døden kom med posten få dage efter 9/11

Poul Høi – 19. april 2011

Få dage efter 9/11 ramte en terror, som truede alle – fra amerikanske toppolitikere til danske buschauffører. På baggrund af nye oplysninger fortæller Poul Høi den foruroligende historie – med en foruroligende afslutning.

En politirapport er et studie i kontrast.

Prosaen er livsforladt, grammatikken selektiv, og fremstillingen handler om hvem, hvad, hvor, hvornår og – i meget mindre grad – hvorfor.

Mere HER i B.T. Kan også læses i Berlingske Tidende HER.

Interview med Sam Harris & Robert Winston

Fra The Guardian:

Is there any place for religious faith in science?

Can scientists be religious? Sam Harris argues science and faith are completely incompatible, while Robert Winston would like to be more inclusive. Emine Saner adjudicates

Interview by Emine Saner – 16 April 2011

Last week, the astrophysicist Martin Rees was awarded the Templeton prize, which aims to promote religion. Emine Saner brings together atheist writer and neuroscientist Sam Harris and Professor Robert Winston to discuss the conflict between science and faith. So, should Rees have accepted that award?

Sam Harris: No. There is a price paid whenever an eminent scientist pretends that there’s no conflict between the claims of science and religion. I mean no special criticism of Rees – I think he’s someone who believes, perhaps as you do, that it is pragmatic to try to teach science wherever people are willing to listen, and not criticise faith and try to allay the points of conflict as much as possible. That’s a political position which I think is in the end unsustainable.

Mere HER i The Guardian.

Opdatering 21. april 2011 – endnu et interview. Kan høres her eller her som mp3:

The NS Profile: Sam Harris

Jonathan Derbyshire – 20 April 2011

Sam Harris, one of the “Four Horsemen” of new atheism, believes that science can never be reconciled with religion, and that it is dangerous even to try.

Sam Harris, the American writer, neuroscientist and leading proponent of the new atheism, rarely invites indifference. The novelist Marilynne Robinson wrote recently that his “aspirations . . . contain much that is not laudable”. The writer and commentator Andrew Sullivan once accused Harris of a “form of intolerance that reminds me of some of the worst aspects of fundamentalism”. The columnist Theodore Dalrymple said of a passage from Harris’s first book, The End of Faith, that it was “quite possibly the most disgraceful that I have read in a book by a man posing as a rationalist”.

Mere HER i The New Statesman.

Opdatering 25. april 2011:

An interview with Sam Harris

Posted by Jonathan Derbyshire – 25 April 2011 15:52

The complete transcript.

Given the amount of interest and comment that my profile of Sam Harris has attracted, I thought it’d be useful to post the complete and unedited transcript of my conversation with him. The interview took place on 11 April, at the headquarters of Random House in London.

Mere HER i The New Statesman.

Audio: Sam Harris & Richard Dawkins

Lidt af, hvad Sam Harris indleder med, har vi hørt før her på bloggen, men audioen kommer med alligevel. Harris og Dawkins har jo mange fans – også blandt ikke-ateister. Harris’ sandhedsvidenskab er jeg nu ikke fan af:

Sam Harris & Richard Dawkins talk in Oxford about The Moral Landscape

Recorded on the 12th April 2011 at the Sheldonian Theatre.

Audioen begynder med trommer. Man får et helt chok. Startes HER. Åbner Windows Media Player. Varer 1 time og 32 minutter.

Andre kilder: British Humanist Association, The Pod Delusion, iPadio,