Global cooling is the new warming

Det er alvorligt, det her. Frygtelige billeder fra sidste uge:

Romania Villages Buried in 13-16 Feet of Snow – 2012

Professor Henrik Svensmark svarer på kritik – tril lidt ned inde hos Die Kalte Sonne for at finde den engelske version:

Some people, including your critic Florian Freistetter on ScienceBlog, seem to think that physics is a democratic process and what matters is to count how many papers favour or disfavour each hypothesis. That of course is nonsense. All that really signifies is the evidence from observations and experiments, and how a theory stands up to attempts to falsify it. Remember Einstein’s comment on the pamphlet Hundert Autoren gegen Einstein (1931) – “If I were wrong, one would be enough”.

Mere HER hos Die Kalte Sonne.

The Global Warming Hoax is Now Killing People

Alan Caruba – February 14, 2012

By Friday, February 10th, an estimated 500 Europeans had died from the freezing weather gripping the continent. This is the price they and British citizens are paying for embracing the global warming hoax, spending billions for wind power when they should have been building coal-fired and other sources of energy to heat their homes and businesses.

As the British daily, The Telegraph, reported on Friday, “Serbia has started implementing power cuts in a desperate bid to stave off the collapse of its national grid as the country suffers the effects of days of freezing temperatures.”

I and others have been warning for years that the Earth has been cooling since 1998 and that the planet is on the cusp of a new ice age because the average length of an interglacial period of warmth between such ages is now coming to an end after the passage of some 11,500 years.

Mere HER hos Family Security Matters.

Tragedy Unfolding in Europe – Is U.S. Media Trying to Ignore It?

Robert W. Felix – February 17, 2012

The cold snap in Europe, which began in late January, has killed hundreds and brought deep snow where it hasn’t been seen in decades,” says this article in the Seattle Times.

This should be front page news. Instead, the article doesn’t appear until page eight. And the title, “At least 3 killed in avalanche in Kosovo,” belies the seriousness of the situation. (The print version carries a different headline: “Cold snap, snow lock down Europe.”)

How about a headline that tells it like it is?

140,000 trapped by snow – Death toll rises past 550.

Mere HER hos Family Security Matters.

Big freeze tightens its grip on Europe

4th February 2012

The big freeze has tightened its grip on Europe. The death toll has risen as temperatures have dropped and snow has swept across the continent from the east.

In Ukraine, at least 101 people have lost their lives. Supermarkets are short of food as trucks struggle to make deliveries.

A state of emergency has been declared in parts of Serbia where the high winds and snow are set to continue. Emergency services are battling to reach remote areas with vital food supplies.

Europe Snow Freezes Global Warming Claims

Der følger en artikel med, som man kan læse her hos CBN. Dale Hurd orienterer – fra 7. februar 2012:

Opdatering 21. februar 2012:

The compelling case against Ed Davey

By Melanie Phillips on 7th February 2012

True to my warning yesterday in the Daily Mail, the new Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey has dashed the naive hope that he would end the Coalition’s suicidal green fanaticism and return Britain to Planet Reality over man-made global warming.  As the Times (£) reported today, he used his first few hours in his new job to tell the 100+ Tory MPs who are in revolt over wind farms effectively to take a running jump. Insisting he was a ‘lifelong supporter’ of wind power, he argued that the case for it was ‘compelling’ and that Britain’s energy production must be ‘clean and green’.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Melanie Phillips her.

Cameron has the chance to end the scourge of wind turbines

By Melanie Phillips on 6th February 2012

With remarkably prescient timing, more than 100 Tory MPs have written to the Prime Minister demanding that the £400 million-a-year subsidies paid to the onshore wind turbine industry should be ‘dramatically cut’.

The MPs warn that it is unwise to force consumers to pay such subsidies for a form of energy production that they claim is ‘inefficient and intermittent’.

They also worry that the Government’s new planning policy will diminish the chances of local people defeating unpopular onshore wind farm proposals through the planning system.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Melanie Phillips her.

Andre kilder: The Seattle Times, Idaho Statesman, Orange County Register, NoTricksZone, Family Security Matters, Family Security Matters, CFACT, CFACT, Der Spiegel, Jyllands-Posten, Jyllands-Posten, Jyllands-Posten, Jyllands-Posten, Jyllands-Posten, Jyllands-Posten, Jyllands-Posten, TV2, BBC,

Opdateret

EUs stoleleg – hvem går ned først?

Der er ikke noget nyt om euroen, så den gider jeg ikke at skrive om. Men Business Insider har en oversigt over de 19 lande, der har størst risiko for økonomisk sammenbrud:

• UBS: These Are The 19 Countries Most At Risk Of Default

1. Irland
2. Portugal
3. Spanien
4. Grækenland
5. Storbritannien
6. Ungarn
7. Danmark
8. Frankrig
9. Belgien
10. Sverige
11. Holland
12. Bulgarien
13. Finland
14. Italien
15. Canada
16. Norge
17. Rumænien
18. Polen
19. USA

Samme avis har også en artikel om hvordan det foragtelige Goldman Sachs ser på udviklingen:

• This Is What The World Will Be Like In 2012 And 2013

Andre kilder: Los Angles Times, FOX News, The Daily Mail, The Daily Mail, The Guardian, B.T., B.T., B.T., B.T., B.T., B.T., B.T., B.T., B.T., B.T., B.T., B.T., B.T., Berlingske Tidende, Jyllands-Posten, Jyllands-Posten, Jyllands-Posten,

Video: Nigel Farage om euroen, Italien, kommmende økonomisk kollaps og mere

Nigel Farage er endnu mere pessimistisk end sædvanligt:

UKIP Nigel Farage on US Web Radio kingworldnews.com – 9 Nov 2011

UK Independence Party leader on the EURO crisis

Nigel Farage discusses falling apart Euro project

Nigel Farage is on a panel of people discussing the failure of the political project of the Mickey Mouse Euro currency, and the failing European project. The other people on the panel did not like it when Nigel suggested the UK should look to trade with countries outside the EUSSR.

The other EUSSR nations only want the UK in the Communist block because it gives a large amo0unt of money into the Communist club, and gets nothing out of it. What a disaster it would be for the Commies if their free meal ticket was taken away by the UK leaving.

Recorded from BBC Parliament, The Record Europe, 12 November 2011.

Theodore Dalrymple om diktatorer

Jep. Diktatur. Det er det, der er fremtiden:

Dictatorship: The Wave of the Future?

by Theodore Dalrymple – November 2011

No one ever deserved a grisly death more than the late Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, but this is only a proof – if such a proof were needed – that justice is far from the only human desideratum. Gaddafi was responsible for untold misery, its amount limited only by the relative insignificance and impotence of the country in which he seized power; but when I first saw the photograph of him taken, lying bloodied but conscious, by a French photographer (a photograph that is surely destined for such immortality as the world can confer), I felt for him what I did not think I could ever feel for him – compassion. The fact is that no one should die as he died, or be killed as he was killed.

Other dictators have met grisly ends, of course. Mussolini was strung up, Ceausescu shot and Saddam Hussein hanged, all unceremoniously and without dignity. It is possible, even, that Gaddafi’s death was not absolutely the worst suffered by a tyrant in the last hundred years. President Guillaume Sam was dragged out of the French Embassy in Port-au-Prince, in which he had taken refuge, by an enraged mob, impaled on railings, cut into pieces and his parts exhibited in the city. President Sam was no guardian angel of the rule of law: he had just had 169 political prisoners summarily executed, but this should not prevent us from accepting as a basic moral principle that impaling and cutting up people is wrong.

Mere HER i The New English Review. Og om sundhedshysteri:

E.Coli in Organic Food Leads to 50 Dead in Germany

Theodore Dalrymple – November 7, 2011

Perhaps health-food and vitamin supplements should be labelled, “Warning: Over-Concern for Your Health May Be Damaging to Your Health.”

As everyone knows, Mother Nature not only knows best but means us no harm: and therefore, the less we mess around with her and her products, the better. Although many people may have remarked, more in sorrow than in anger, how small and shriveled organic vegetables often appear by comparison with those that have been treated with chemicals, it is obvious that they (the organic ones) must be better for us because they are nearer to what Mother Nature intended.

This item of faith took something of a knock recently with the outbreak of Shiga-toxin-producing E. coli food poisoning in Germany. It was no small matter: more than 4000 people suffered from it and more than 50 died.

Mere HER hos Pajamas Media.

Opdatering 13. november 2011 – Dalrymple om mobiltelefoner:

The Cellular Telephone and its Discontents

by Theodore Dalrymple – November 11, 2011

A new study claims that cell phones don’t cause tumors. Which doesn’t mean that they don’t cause other forms of harm.

When I am a pedestrian I am frequently astonished by the carelessness and selfishness of drivers. When I am driving I am frequently astonished by the carelessness and selfishness of pedestrians. Equally astonishing, of course, is the way I can change the behavior of people so profoundly by the mere act of getting in or out of a car.

Mere HER i Pajamas Media.

Christopher Hitchens om Libyen post Gaddafi

Muslimer er nu engang som muslimer er. Forløbet overrasker ikke nogen:

The New Libya’s First Mistake

Muammar Qaddafi should not have been killed, and his surviving son should be captured.

By Christopher Hitchens | Oct. 21, 2011

Surrendering to a feeling of deep impotence and slight absurdity, I borrowed an iPad on Thursday afternoon and used it to send my first-ever message by this means. It was addressed to one of those distinguished Frenchmen who have been at the fore in pressing the outside world to remove Muammar Qaddafi from the obscene toadlike posture in which, for more than four decades, he has squatted on the lives of the Libyan people. Please, I wrote, intercede with your friends on the National Transitional Council, plus any other revolutionary tribunal however constituted, in order to stop the killing of the Qaddafi family and to ensure smooth passage to the dock at the Hague for those who have already been indicted for crimes against humanity.

Simple enough? It is some time since the International Criminal Court in the Hague has announced itself ready and open for business in the matter of Libya. But now Muammar Qaddafi is dead, as reportedly is one of his sons, Mutassim, and not a word has been heard about the legality or propriety of the business. No Libyan spokesman even alluded to the court in their announcements of the dictator’s ugly demise. The president of the United States spoke as if the option of an arraignment had never even come up. In this, he was seconded by his secretary of state, who was fresh from a visit to Libya but confined herself to various breezy remarks, one of them to the effect that it would aid the transition if Qaddafi was to be killed. British Prime Minister David Cameron, who did find time to mention the international victims of Qaddafi’s years of terror, likewise omitted to mention the option of a trial.

Mere HER i Slate. Kan også læses her hos ICJS.

Håbløse England

EU praktiserer hvidt slaveri. Indfødte europæere er bare skaffedyr for resten af verden. Det må være konklusionen. Englænderne har lige fået klar besked:

‘We’re throwing open the doors to benefit tourists’: EU plan to let migrants claim as soon as they enter UK is blasted

By Daniel Martin on 30th September 2011

The EU’s ruling that Britain should allow all European citizens to claim benefits ‘must be vigorously opposed’, according to a migration watchdog.

Sir Andrew Green, chairman of Migration Watch UK, has warned that the decision is ‘an open invitation to benefit tourism’.

Europe has given Britain two months to scrap its policies which prevent benefit tourists claiming billions of pounds in handouts.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail. The Daily Express har en tilsvarende artikel om sagen her. Det hele er planlagt. Englænderne skal straffes på denne måde:

Migration boom DID drive down wages and living standards, admits Labour

• Both Miliband and Cooper confess that Labour ‘got it wrong’
• Former government also hushed up potentially damaging reports

By James Slack on 26th September 2011

Labour’s open-door immigration policy drove down wages and living standards in Britain, party leader Ed Miliband has admitted.

He conceded that the last government ‘got it wrong’ on border controls and said  that British workers had  been ‘undercut’.

The bombshell confession came amid revelations that, when in power, Labour suppressed a string of damaging reports about the impact of mass immigration on the UK.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail.

Asylum seekers from Arab spring pour into Europe

27th September 2011

Refugees from war and revolution in the Arab world have begun to pour into Europe, according to research.

A count covering the first three months of this year – the months that saw the outbreak of the Arab Spring – showed that number of Tunisian asylum seekers rose more than 20-fold after their country became the first to be engulfed in the chain of uprisings.

The study covered the first three months of this year – the  period of the Arab Spring.

The influx raised fears that Britain faces a fresh asylum boom as tens of thousands of individuals and families try to flee other countries convulsed by violent upheavals.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Englændernes egne politikere udbytter også sine borgere:

Muslim Polygamists Exploiting British Welfare System

by Soeren Kern – September 29, 2011

Tens of thousands of Muslim immigrants in Britain are practicing bigamy or polygamy in order to collect bigger social welfare payments from the British state, according to experts interviewed in a British newspaper exposé on the subject.

The September 24 report shows that the phenomenon of bigamy and polygamy — which is permitted by Islamic Sharia law — is far more widespread in Britain than previously believed, even though it is a crime there, punishable by up to seven years in prison.

The rapid growth in multiple marriages is being fuelled by multicultural policies that grant special rights to Muslim immigrants who demand that Sharia law be reflected in British law and the social welfare benefits system.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York. Når man nu ingen racister har, må man jo opfinde dem selv:

Nurses ‘wore golliwog keyrings to mock black colleagues’, tribunal hears

22nd September 2011

Two nurses used gollywog keyrings to mock black colleagues, a tribunal heard today.

The trinkets were bought as holiday souvenirs and Susan Horton clipped one to her uniform at St Mary’s Hospital in Kettering, Northamptonshire.

Healthcare assistant Sandy Smith told the Nursing and Midwifery Council that Horton put the golly on her uniform ‘so it was always accessible.’

Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Ligesom nøgleringe er hvidt papir nu racistisk, skriver The Telegraph:

• Dress witches in pink and avoid white paper to prevent racism in nuseries, expert says

Muslimske indvandrere har menneskerettigheder. Det har englænderne tilsyneladende ikke:

Terrorist we can’t kick out: Released after half his sentence but still ‘a risk to the public’… the suicide bomb fanatic who’s free to stay – thanks to his human rights

By Chris Greenwood on 25th September 2011

• Eritrean-born Ali will not face deportation because judges rule he could face ‘inhumane treatment’
• The Home Office is appealing the decision and pledges to try to have him removed from the UK

A fanatical terrorist has escaped being thrown out of the UK because it would breach his human rights.

Hate-filled Siraj Yassin Abdullah Ali, graded the highest possible risk to the public, was released after serving just half of his nine-year sentence for helping the July 21 bombers.

He now mingles freely among the Londoners his co-plotters tried to kill six years ago.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Samme avis har endnu en artikel om terrorister, der ikke må udvises her.

Our language is being hijacked by the Left to muzzle rational debate

By Melanie Phillips on 25th September 2011

One of the most sinister aspects of political correctness is the way in which its edicts purport to be in the interests of minority groups.

This is despite the fact that, very often, they are not promulgated at the behest of minorities at all, but by members of the majority who want to destroy their own culture and who use minorities to camouflage their true intentions.

The latest manifestation stars once again that all-time world champion of political correctness, the BBC. Apparently, it has decided that the terms AD and BC (Anno Domini, or the Year of Our Lord, and Before Christ) must be replaced by the terms Common Era and Before Common Era.

Mere HER i Daily Mail. Englænderne trækkes naturligvis også med æresdrab:

• Mother and father accused of honour killing are banned from contacting their other daughter

Andre kilder: Politisk Ukorrekt, The Daily Mail, The Daily Mail, The Daily Mail, The Daily Mail, The Telegraph, The Daily Express,

Video: Europarådets våde drømme

Jeg kan ikke engang føle magtesløsheden længere. Løbet er kørt. For længst. Mange europæiske lande kan ikke længere reddes. Og i resten kan man ikke råbe relevante beslutningstagere op. EU og Europarådet bestemmer europæisk indvandrerpolitik. Højre, venstre, centrum – det er ligegyldigt hvilken regering, vi vælger. De kan ikke ændre noget.

Europarådet skriver på sin hjemmeside, at de vil have “social cohesion”. Sikke noget fis. Det har de haft. EU havde homogene folkeslag i hine tider. Det, Europarådet derimod vil, er at ødelægge sammenhængskraften. Og det er lykkedes. Vi kan jo ikke hænge sammen med hvad som helst. Fremmedimporten og den frie bevægelighed dokumenterer, at Europas beslutningstagere vil noget andet.

Vi må ud af Europa. Udvandre. Der er ikke mere at udrette her. Europarådet har produceret en video om deres politik, der tvinges ned over hovedet på os populister, – alias det demokratiske flertal. Det handler om Norge:

Oslo – the Multicult Dream

Pro-immigration propaganda from the Council of Europe. Europeans, you must hand over your living space to aliens! It is wrong to resist!

Kebab i den form, man kender det i dag, er i øvrigt opfundet i Tyskland i 70′erne af en tyrker. Ordet kebab betyder bare kød eller en ret med kød.

Det er Europarådet, der kører EU-Domstolen:

Stop meddling in our laws, Clarke tells Euro judges, UK commission

By Steven Doughty on 9th September 2011

Human rights judges should stop interfering in the minor details of British law and justice, Government advisers said yesterday.

A commission, set up by David Cameron after a backlash over a string of rulings by the European Court of Human Rights, said there should be ‘urgent and fundamental reform’ to limit the meddling.

But critics said they were failing to address the fundamental problem with the court.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail.

I England går multikulturen sin skæve gang:

Crime by EU migrants trebles – and we still can’t throw them out

By James Slack And Jack Doyle on 8th September 2011

Britain is suffering an explosion in crimes by EU nationals, who are amassing more than 2,700 convictions every month.

Since 2007, the number of EU citizens punished for breaking the law in the UK has more than trebled.

The total is expected to hit a record 33,000 this year, placing huge pressure on the police, courts and overcrowded jails.

But because of EU diktats and Labour’s Human Rights Act, officials are finding it extremely hard to remove European lawbreakers once they have completed their sentences.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail.

Rådet har en YouTube-kanal her.

Andre kilder: Politiskt Inkorrekt, Wikipedia,

Canada: Nu skal man have licens, før man må skrive noget?

Det kommer ikke bag på nogen. Canada nærmer sig den multikulturelle afgrund:

Corrupting journalists

Quebec’s communications minister has come up with a conceited, self-important, cockeyed plan

By Ezra Levant – August 28, 2011

The government of Quebec wants to licence journalists.

Christine St-Pierre, its minister of culture and communications, thinks it just ain’t right there aren’t controls over people like me. Or, more to the point, people like you — mere citizens who aren’t “official.”

She thinks journalism should be left to the “professionals.”

But stop just for a moment.

What is St-Pierre’s title again? Minister of culture and communications? What kind of self-respecting, free society has a minister of communications?

Well, Quebec, for starters. In fact, this same minister of communications is in charge of enforcing the censorship laws in Quebec called Bill 101. Those are the sign laws that say it’s illegal to have public signs where English words are bigger than French words.

Mere HER i The Toronto Sun. Ottawa Sun her.

Kriminelle Hizbollah

Follow the money:

Hezbollah: Party of Fraud

How Hezbollah Uses Crime to Finance Its Operations

Matthew Levitt  – July 27, 2011

In June, Lebanon’s new prime minister, Najib Mikati, announced the formation of a government dominated by members and allies of the Shiite terrorist organization Hezbollah. The creation of the new government has made Hezbollah the most dominant political force in Lebanon just six years after the “Cedar Revolution,” which placed the group on the defensive and forced its Syrian patrons to leave the country. With control of the Lebanese government, a vast social-service network, an army of soldiers and operatives, and an arsenal of more than 40,000 rockets, Hezbollah has arguably never been more powerful.

Mere HER i Foreign Affairs. Mere om kriminelle Hizbollah:

Nuclear Cooperation between Argentina and Iran?

by Anna Mahjar-Barducci – July 27, 2011

With the help of Venezuela, there is reason to believe that Argentina is cooperating with Iran on its the nuclear issue in a deal that involves Argentina’s willingness to drop the accusations against Iran for the 1994 bombing in return for business.

In a confidential letter that was sent by Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who chairs the House Foreign Relations Committee, to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Ros-Lehtinen sought to establish “status of any possible economic projects Argentina may be engaged in with Venezuela that may involve Iran.” Ros-Lehtinen also sought to establish “the extent of any nuclear cooperation that may be at play between Argentina, Venezuela and Iran.” The letter was co-signed by Florida’s Republican Congressmen Connie Mack and David Rivera. “We are writing to express our concerns about information that our offices have received about potential efforts by Iran of nuclear cooperation with Argentina, using Venezuela as its intermediary,” the three legislators wrote.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York.

Sappho om ytringsforbrydere og kommunister

H, S og L: – Ytringsforbrydere på spil i Nakskov

14. juni 2011 – artikel af Lars Hedegaard

Nakskov Politi forsøger at afdække, hvem der står bag agitation for ytringsfrihed. Nu får de assistance af en virkelig voldsekspert.

I Nakskov har to unge mænd, der betegner sig som “Danish Defence League”, under en såkaldt “Blitz aktion” opklæbet nogle plakater og et banner på Baitul Hamd moskéen. Plakaterne viser Kurt Westergaards kendte tegning af bomben i turbanen og bærer påskriften “For ytringsfriheden”. [...]

Mere HER hos Sappho.

Et vidnesbyrd om kommunismens ofre

14. juni 2011 – klumme af Monica Papazu

Ingen tilgivelse for kommunismens forbrydelser er mulig, før sandheden kommer frem. En beretning fra det rumænske Sibirien.

Sappho HER.

Christopher Caldwell om Danmarks grænser

Europe’s Arizona Problem

By Christopher Caldwell – June 11, 2011

Alongside Greek debt and the Libyan intervention, European Union countries are bickering over another issue, one that could well determine the future of their would-be megastate: immigration and internal borders. A growing number, including Italy, France and Denmark, want to carve out exceptions to the agreements under which member states open their borders to one another.

The issue has been simmering for years, but unrest in the Middle East and North Africa and fears of a new wave of migrants have brought it to a boil. Of course, closing off Europe to newcomers violates the cosmopolitan vision on which the European Union was built, and doing so could kill the project altogether. But as the continent’s leaders are now learning, it’s also possible to kill Europe by opening its doors wider than its citizens will tolerate.

Mere HER i The New York Times. Today Online her.

Schengens dødskramper?

Det ville da være skønt! Desuden: EU vil splitte England op i nye lande – og Frankrig, åbenbart:

EU countries scrap open borders to halt flood of Arab refugees

By Daily Mail Reporter on 14th May 2011

The European dream of a continent without borders appeared dead last night.

A majority of EU countries voted to reimpose passport controls between countries – in response to fears they would be deluged by refugees from the revolutions in the Arab world.

Fifteen out of the 22 EU countries who currently operate the Schengen Agreement said they would be in favour of its demise at a meeting of home affairs ministers in Brussels.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Sindsyge bureaukrater i EU går helt over gevind. Det er tvunget at flage med det grimme fascistsymbol, EU-flaget:

Angry Pickles flies in the face of EU flag rule

By Alison Little – May 14,2011

The EU will come under renewed attack today from the Government for forcing public buildings in Britain to fly the European flag.

The edict reveals “a deep sense of insecurity” in Brussels, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles will say.

Mere HER i The Daily Express. Og mere fascisme:

Should parts of Britain be merged with France?

Fury erupted last night after a European Union plot to “carve up Britain” by ­setting up a cross-Channel region was exposed.

Senior Tories condemned plans to merge southern England and northern France into a territory called “Arc ­Manche” complete with its own flag.

Brussels chiefs have already earmarked millions of pounds for lavish projects designed to give the zone its own “identity”.

Mere HER i The Daily Express.

Ned med EU og domstolsstyret!

Fury as EU migrants carry out 500 crimes every week in Britain

By Macer Hall Political Editor – April 12, 2011

Crimials from other European Union nations are being convicted of more than 500 offences a week in the UK, disturbing police figures showed yesterday.

Poles and Romanians were among the worst cases, raising fresh concerns about the wisdom of expanding the EU eastwards.

The overwhelming majority of the foreign crooks could not be sent home after serving prison sentences because their deportation has been forbidden under Brussels freedom-of-movement laws.

Last night, the revelation of the EU crime wave ignited fresh anger at the collapse of border controls caused by laws from Brussels.

Paul Nuttall, a UK Independence Party Euro-MP, said: “A sovereign nation should be able to decide who is allowed to live within its borders and who is not.

Mere HER i The Daily Express.

Om massakren i Afghanistan

Mord, halshugninger, angreb på FN og anden typisk islamisk fred. Så som afbrænding af en pigeskole og en skolebus. Logisk konsevens af, at nogen futter en bog af i USA, ikke? Svenske Joakim Dungel og norske Siri Skare var blandt ofrene. Også i dag er der vold i Afghanistan:

Lørdag blev ti mennesker dræbt og over 80 såret i hårde sammenstød i Kandahar under en tilsvarende demonstration.

Fredag blev syv udenlandske FN-ansatte, blandt dem en kvindelig norsk officer, dræbt i Mazar-i-Sharif nord i Afghanistan i forbindelse med en lignende protest.

Det skriver Jyllands-Posten. Helle Merete Brix har en god artikel om sagen:

Krigere uten ære

Fredagens angrep mot FNs kontor i Mazar-i-Sharif i Afghanistan som resulterte i flere døde, blant dem den norske oberstløytnant Siri Skare, er en tragedie på flere måter. Angrepet kom på bakgrunn av at en prest i Florida brente koranen, en handling som Afghanistans president Hamid Karzai noen dager senere fant nødvendig å offentlig fordømme. Men også FNs menneskerettighetsråd – og spesielt OIC – bærer et ansvar for angrepene i Afghanistan.

Helle Merete Brix – 3. april 2011

Siri Skare, der i fredag blev dræbt i Afghanistan, blev 52 år. Hun var gift og havde et barn og boede i Oslo. Skare var også oberstløjtnant, Norges første kvindelige jagerflyver og hun gjorde tjeneste i Afghanistan som militær rådgiver under “United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan”.

Siri Skare var ubevæbnet, da en afghansk folkemængde i fredags efter bønnen trængte ind i FNs hovedkvarter i det relativt fredelige Mazar i-Sharif i det nordlige Afghanistan.

Mere HER hos Human Rights Service. Præsten, Terry Jones,  der var “bisidder” ved den famøse koranafbrænding, vil muligvis køre en fingeret retssag imod “profeten” Muhammed:

Pastor Terry Jones: ‘I may put Mohammed on trial’

Terry Jones, the radical pastor who oversaw the burning of a Koran in his Florida church last month after a mock court hearing, may put the Islamic prophet Mohammed on trial in his next ‘day of judgement’, he told The Sunday Telegraph.

Mere HER i The Telegraph.

Opdatering – video fra CNN 5. april 2011:

Ayaan Hirsi Ali & Irshad Manji: Karzai to blame for Islamist riots in Afghanistan

Irshad Manji and Ayaan Hirsi Ali blame Hamid Karzai for inciting to violence weeks after Koran burning in Florida.

Andre kilder: TV2, TV2, The Washington Post, Human Events, Ynet News, Barnabas Fund,

Interview: Nonie Darwish, Michael Ledeen, Jamie Glazov og flere

Desuden deltager Pavel Stroilov og Lt. General Ion Mihai Pacepa – fra FrontPageMagazine:

Symposium: The Red Arabs

by Jamie Glazov on Mar 11th, 2011

Nonie Darwish siger blandt andet:

[...]The reason that Red Arab ideology can survive inside the brutal political environment of Islam was because it did not challenge Sharia Islamic law as much as Western free style democracy. Red Arabs and Islamists were brought closer together by their Western mutual enemy. That is the state of Egyptian politics today, where the Islamist and Socialists have often cooperated, however, this cooperation evaporates as soon as the Muslim Brotherhood is in control.

The self-exiled Egyptian Yusuf Al-Qaradawi arrived in Cairo after the revolution to speak at Tahrir square Friday and socialist activists were prevented from joining him on the stage after his prayers sermon. That is perhaps a message that socialists are no longer needed by the Brotherhood after the revolution. I do not predict that socialism in Egypt will disappear with a triumph of Islamists, but the dance between the two ideologies will continue to manifest itself.

In that dynamic, the possibility for Egypt’s supporters of a Western style democracy to appear as a force is very week. This group will immediately be branded as puppets of the West and traitors to Islamic aspirations. For such a group to gain power, tremendous change and growth in Egyptian thinking and education must take place.

Unfortunately, my guess is that the situation in Egypt will get worse before it gets better and Egyptians need to experience the horrors of life under Islamic Sharia for a Western style democracy to emerge. The Egyptian culture is still extremely anti-Semitic and anti-American after many decades of indoctrination and propaganda that Islam is the solution. For now the power in Egypt will be with Islamists who will adopt some socialist policies.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine.

Mellemøsten: Christopher Hitchens pessimisme

What I Don’t See at the Revolution

As someone who has witnessed many stages of upheaval, whether in Eastern Europe, Asia, or South Africa, the author puts forth a wary prognosis for the brave Egyptians who thronged Tahrir Square: they likely haven’t got the resources to break the chains of tyranny.

By Christopher Hitchens – April 2011

When anatomizing revolutions, it always pays to consult the whiskered old veterans. Those trying to master a new language, wrote Karl Marx about the turmoil in France in the 19th century, invariably begin haltingly, by translating it back into the familiar tongue they already know. And with his colleague Friedrich Engels he defined a revolution as the midwife by whom the new society is born from the body of the old.

Surveying the seismic-looking events in Tunis and Cairo in January and February of this year, various observers immediately began by comparing them to discrepant precedents. Was this the fall of the Arab world’s Berlin Wall? Or was it, perhaps, more like the “people power” movements in Asia in the mid-1980s? The example of Latin America, with its overdue but rapid escape from military rule in the past decades, was also mentioned. Those with longer memories had fond recollections of the bloodless “red carnation” revolution in Portugal, in 1974: a beautiful fiesta of democracy which also helped to inaugurate Spain’s emancipation from four decades in the shadow of General Franco.

Mere HER i Vanity Fair.

Audio & artikler: Uregerlige Palæstina

Vil palæstinenserne have en selvstændig stat eller vil de ikke? Middle East Forum har skrevet et resume af Efraim Karshs forelæsning, som kan høres som mp3 her hos Veritas Universalis:

Does the Arab World Truly Want a “Palestine”?

A briefing by Efraim Karsh – January 25, 2011

Efraim Karsh is editor of the Middle East Quarterly and Professor of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at King’s College London. He served as an intelligence officer in the Israel Defense Forces for seven years before obtaining graduate and doctoral degrees in international relations from Tel Aviv University. He is the author of fifteen books, including Arafat’s War, Islamic Imperialism, and most recently Palestine Betrayed. On January 25th, he addressed the Middle East Forum on what the leaked Palestine Papers reveal about Arab and Palestinian aspirations for a Palestinian state.

According to Mr. Karsh, the documents recently released from Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations shed some light on the position of the Palestinian leadership and neighboring Arab states toward the creation of a Palestinian state. By tracing the history of both parties, Mr. Karsh stated that neither party has ever been, nor is, truly interested in forming a Palestinian state.

Mere HER hos Middle East Forum.

Audio startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Kan også høres på ovenstående artikels hjemmeside.

The Palestinians’ New Enemy: US and Obama

by Khaled Abu Toameh – February 22, 2011

The Palestinian Authority, which over the past two decades has received millions of dollars in aid from the US, is now waging a fierce campaign against the US Administration and President Barack Obama.

The anti-US campaign began immediately after the US vetoed last week a Palestinian-initiated resolution condemning construction in Jewish settlements.

Since then, the Palestinian Authority leadership in the West Bank has been urging Palestinians to take to the streets to denounce the US and Obama. It has also called for a “day of rage” against the US, which is being accused of being “biased” in favor of Israel.

Mere HER i Hudson New York.

Opdatering:

Obama Was Right to Veto The Security Council Resolution

by Alan M. Dershowitz – February 22, 2011

The Obama Administration was right to cast its vote against the Security Council Resolution condemning the continuation of “all” settlement activity in the West Bank and East Jerusalem as “illegal” and a “major obstacle” to “peace on the basis of the two-state solution.”

Although I oppose the expansion of Israeli civilian settlements deep into the West Bank, I also strongly opposed the one-sided, overbroad, legally erroneous and factually inaccurate resolution.

Read as intended by its draftsmen, the vetoed resolution would include the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem and the Western Wall as “occupied Palestinian territory,” even though Jordan originally captured and desecrated these Jewish holy places illegally when it attacked the new Jewish state in 1948. Israel lawfully recaptured these areas in a defensive war started by Jordan in 1967. They are not occupied territory and Israel is entitled to build as much as it wants to there.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York.

Durban III truer forude

U.N. Pours Salt in America’s Wounds

By Anne Bayefsky – November 24, 2010

Just when we were beginning to get into the holiday spirit, the United Nations decided that Durban III is coming to town.

Late yesterday, the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee adopted a resolution which launches another global “anti-racism” hatefest. It is intended to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the debacle held in Durban, South Africa in 2001. But this time, the UN has outdone itself: the celebration of a notorious prescription for intolerance, closely linked to Islamic extremism, is now scheduled for New York City just days after the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

Like the Ground Zero mosque architects, the UN has decided to pour salt in the wounds of still grieving Americans. The crowds at Durban I held high their signs reading: “For the liberation of Quds, machine-guns based upon faith and Islam must be used,” and “The martyr’s blood irrigates the tree of revolution in Palestine.” The obvious connection between hate and terror, or incitement to violence and violence itself, is either irrelevant to the UN or part of the plan.

Mere i FoxNews HER.

Christopter Caldwell om kriminelle sigøjnere

Eller romaer, som de hedder nu. Hvad vil Europa stille op med romaerne, spørger Caldwell:

Shutting out the Roma

With its immigration policy marked by an unwillingness to assert national interest, France needed a pretext to crack down on gypsies

By Christopher Caldwell

Last week in Lille a Catholic priest announced that he was praying that French president Nicolas Sarkozy would have a heart attack. The priest, Arthur Hervet, who has since retracted his words, is passionate about fair treatment for immigrant gypsies (or Roma, known in France as Roms).

They are currently in the French president’s line of fire. In the Loire in mid-July, a group of French gypsies (known in France as ‘travelling people’) attacked a police station with axes.

Two weeks later, in Grenoble, Sarkozy launched an ‘offensive securitaire’. He would break up 600 illegal encampments and squats, many of them occupied by immigrants from Romania, and repatriate the inhabitants.

Resten i GulfNews HER.

Pletskud fra Asger Aaamund

Kommentar: Ytringsfriheden er en ballon

Asger Aamund. Ytringsfriheden er en ballon, der er spændt og flot, når demokratiet blomstrer i fredstider, men som hænger slatten og ynkelig, når samfundet kommer under pres. I Danmark anser vi freden for vigtigere end friheden – også ytrings­friheden.

Af Asger Aamund

Ytringsfriheden er konstant til debat i Danmark; og det er godt, for der er en snæver sammenhæng mellem fri tale og et frit land. Som danske foretrækker vi naturligvis ytringsfrækheden. Ytringsfrihed kan dog også gå an. Værst af alt er ytringsfrygten. Muhammed-krisen efterlod ikke bare brændte ambassader, men også en nation af brændte børn, som uden ophold diskuterer, om vi stadig er frie danske, der uden frygt og dadel siger tingene, som vi ser dem. Eller om vi er blevet en flok pryglede aber, der har smurt honning om munden, og derfor kun kan sige det, alle er enige om at sige.

 Det hele HER i Berlingske Tidende.