- urbi et orbi
Befolkningseksplosionen er slut. Rosling forklarer det nok engang. Det kan ikke siges for tit:
Hans Rosling: Religions and babies
Hans Rosling had a question: Do some religions have a higher birth rate than others — and how does this affect global population growth? Speaking at the TEDxSummit in Doha, Qatar, he graphs data over time and across religions. With his trademark humor and sharp insight, Hans reaches a surprising conclusion on world fertility rates.
Andre kilder: Wikipedia,
Om fremtiden, der blev væk:
Muslim Voters Change Europe
by Soeren Kern – May 17, 2012
Muslims cast the deciding voted that thrust Hollande into the Elysée Palace. He also pledged to change French electoral laws so that Muslim residents without French citizenship would be allowed to vote in municipal elections as of 2014, enabling the Socialist Party to tighten its grip on political power.
An analysis of the voting patterns that barrelled François Hollande to victory on May 6 as the first Socialist president of France since 1995 shows that this overthrow was due in large measure to Muslims, who voted for him in overwhelming numbers.
The French vote marks the first time that Muslims have determined the outcome of a presidential election in a major western European country; it is a preview of things to come.
As the politically active Muslim population in France continues to swell, and as most Muslims vote for Socialist and leftwing parties, conservative parties will find it increasingly difficult to win future elections in France.
According to a survey of 10,000 French voters conducted by the polling firm OpinionWay for the Paris-based newspaper Le Figaro, an extaordinary 93% of French Muslims voted for Hollande on May 6. By contrast, the poll shows that only 7% of French Muslims voted for the incumbent, Nicolas Sarkozy.
Mere HER hos Gatestone Institute. Kan også læses her hos Right Side News.
Hans Rosling er med på Time Magazines nye liste over “The 100 Most Influential People in the World“. I den anledning snupper vi lige en video. Nu er Rosling forresten også blevet hip på venstrefløjen. De har opfundet begrebet “social matematik” og så går det pludselig an med lidt af hvert. Fra Skoll World Forum 28. marts 2012:
Hans Rosling at the Opening Plenary of the Skoll World Forum 2012
Andre kilder: Frameworks Institute, Karolinska Institutet, FlowingData,
Hvornår bliver de mullaher væltet?
Preventing a Nuclear Iran
Speaker: Michael Rubin
Startes HER - åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 29 minutter.
Der følger en artikel med:
Preventing a Nuclear Iran
by Alex Berman - March 19, 2012
A briefing by Michael Rubin
Michael Rubin, a former editor of the Middle East Quarterly, is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School. He formerly served as a political adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and has written extensively about Iranian history and politics. He is the author of Into the Shadows: Radical Vigilantes in Khatami’s Iran (2001) and the co-author of Eternal Iran (2005). On March 19, Rubin addressed the Middle East Forum in Philadelphia about the efficacy of sanctions on Iran as well as the prospect and logistics of an Israeli strike.
Can sanctions against the Iranian regime be effective? Michael Rubin addressed this question by citing Tehran’s former nuclear negotiator, who revealed that previous suspensions of Iranian nuclear enrichment had merely been temporary ploys aimed at ameliorating international pressure and preventing a UN consensus on sanctions. Rubin argued that Iran’s bleak current economic outlook is due not to sanctions but to the regime’s mismanagement of the economy.
Mere HER i The Middle East Forum.
The Retreat – fra David Horowitz Freedom Center 30. marts – 1. april 2012:
Losing the Middle East
Ward Connerly
Victor Davis Hanson
På Blip TV kan man se flere videoer fra arrangementet: Congressman Mike Rogers, Senator Ron Johnson, The 2012 Elections: Jay Cost, Martha Zoller, Pat Caddell and Brian Calle, The 2012 Elections Q&A, Hollywood and the Culture Wars: Dwight Schultz, Michael Walsh, Jeremy Boreing, Bill Whittle, Mark Tapson, Hollywood and the Culture Wars Part 2, Hugh Hewitt – Part 1, Hugh Hewitt – Part 2, Daniel Henninger – Part 1, Daniel Henninger – Part 2, Ed Royce, Ben Horowitz: The Economy and Technology, Jim Gilliam: The Economy and Technology,
Andre kilder: Jihad Watch, FrontPageMagazine, David Horowitz Freedom Center,
Der er ingen Global Opvarmning – pressemeddelelse:
49 former NASA scientists go ballistic over agency’s bias over climate change
[...] 49 former NASA scientists and astronauts sent the following letter asking the agency to move away from climate models and to limit its stance to what can be empirically proven.
[...] We, the undersigned, respectfully request that NASA and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) refrain from including unproven remarks in public releases and websites. We believe the claims by NASA and GISS, that man-made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated, especially when considering thousands of years of empirical data. With hundreds of well-known climate scientists and tens of thousands of other scientists publicly declaring their disbelief in the catastrophic forecasts, coming particularly from the GISS leadership, it is clear that the science is NOT settled.
The unbridled advocacy of CO2 being the major cause of climate change is unbecoming of NASA’s history of making an objective assessment of all available scientific data prior to making decisions or public statements.
As former NASA employees, we feel that NASA’s advocacy of an extreme position, prior to a thorough study of the possible overwhelming impact of natural climate drivers is inappropriate. We request that NASA refrain from including unproven and unsupported remarks in its future releases and websites on this subject. At risk is damage to the exemplary reputation of NASA, NASA’s current or former scientists and employees, and even the reputation of science itself.
For additional information regarding the science behind our concern, we recommend that you contact Harrison Schmitt or Walter Cunningham, or others they can recommend to you.
Mere HER i The National Post (mit fremhæv).
The Ideology Of Catastrophe
Pascal Bruckner – 10 April 2012
A time-honored strategy of cataclysmic discourse, whether performed by preachers or by propagandists, is the retroactive correction. This technique consists of accumulating a staggering amount of horrifying news and then—at the end—tempering it with a slim ray of hope. First you break down all resistance; then you offer an escape route to your stunned audience.
As an asteroid hurtles toward Earth, terrified citizens pour into the streets of Brussels to stare at the mammoth object growing before their eyes. Soon, it will pass harmlessly by—but first, a strange old man, Professor Philippulus, dressed in a white sheet and wearing a long beard, appears, beating a gong and crying: “This is a punishment; repent, for the world is ending!”
We smile at the silliness of this scene from the Tintin comic strip “L’Étoile Mystérieuse,” published in Belgium in 1941. Yet it is also familiar, since so many people in both Europe and the United States have recently convinced themselves that the End is nigh. Professor Philippulus has managed to achieve power in governments, the media and high places generally. Constantly, he spreads fear: of progress, science, demographics, global warming, technology, food. In five years or in 10 years, temperatures will rise, Earth will be uninhabitable, natural disasters will multiply, the climate will bring us to war, and nuclear plants will explode.
Mere HER hos Global Warming Policy Foundation. City Journal her.
The Population Control Holocaust
Robert Zubrin – Spring 2012
There is a single ideological current running through a seemingly disparate collection of noxious modern political and scientific movements, ranging from militarism, imperialism, racism, xenophobia, and radical environmentalism, to socialism, Nazism, and totalitarian communism. This is the ideology of antihumanism: the belief that the human race is a horde of vermin whose unconstrained aspirations and appetites endanger the natural order, and that tyrannical measures are necessary to constrain humanity. The founding prophet of modern antihumanism is Thomas Malthus (1766-1834), who offered a pseudoscientific basis for the idea that human reproduction always outruns available resources. Following this pessimistic and inaccurate assessment of the capacity of human ingenuity to develop new resources, Malthus advocated oppressive policies that led to the starvation of millions in India and Ireland.
While Malthus’s argument that human population growth invariably leads to famine and poverty is plainly at odds with the historical evidence, which shows global living standards rising with population growth, it nonetheless persisted and even gained strength among intellectuals and political leaders in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Its most pernicious manifestation in recent decades has been the doctrine of population control, famously advocated by ecologist Paul Ehrlich, whose bestselling 1968 antihumanist tract The Population Bomb has served as the bible of neo-Malthusianism. In this book, Ehrlich warned of overpopulation and advocated that the American government adopt stringent population control measures, both domestically and for the Third World countries that received American foreign aid. (Ehrlich, it should be noted, is the mentor of and frequent collaborator with John Holdren, President Obama’s science advisor.)
Mere HER hos The New Atlantis.
Growing Out of Poverty
A World Bank report makes clear how free markets—and U.S. leadership—have led millions to better lives.
9 April 2012 – Guy Sorman
The most significant events often escape media attention. How many would know from reading their daily newspaper or watching television that we live in an unprecedented economic period when the number of people living in extreme poverty is declining fast? According to a just-published World Bank report, the percentage of people living on less than $1.25 per day—or its local equivalent—has plummeted from 52 percent of the global population in 1981 to 22 percent in 2008. The World Bank doesn’t provide more recent data, but other indices show that the 2008 financial crisis did not interrupt this trend. For millions of households, crossing the symbolic $1.25 threshold means leaving destitution behind and moving toward a more dignified life—no trivial achievement. Moreover, this escape from poverty happens while the global population continues to grow. Doomsday prophets who warned about a ticking “population bomb” have not been vindicated, to say the least. Global warming messiahs, beware: human ingenuity proves able to cope with the predicaments of Mother Nature.
Mere HER i City Journal.
The Utter Desperation of Global Warmists
Alan Caruba – April 9, 2012
In the “glory years” of the global warming hoax, you had Al Gore picking up Oscars and Nobel Prizes (shared with the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and government employees like James Hansen of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies were picking up wads of cash as awards, speech fees, and grants.
The folks who conjured up the computer models featured in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports also did quite well for themselves, along with all the others who climbed on the gravy train of global warming grants.
And then in 1998 a cooling cycle set in. It was hard to hide because the weather satellite data was indisputable, but try to hide it they did. Even then, however, there was a handful of outspoken meteorologists and climatologists who were trying hard to get out the message that the perfectly natural warming cycle was over and had been replaced, thanks to—guess what?—a lower output of solar radiation by the SUN.
Mere HER hos Family Security Matters.
Is this finally proof we’re NOT causing global warming? The whole of the Earth heated up in medieval times without human CO2 emissions, says new study
- Evidence was found in a rare mineral that records global temperatures
- Warming was far-reaching and NOT limited to Europe
- Throws doubt on orthodoxies around ‘global warming’
By Ted Thornhill | 26 March 2012
Current theories of the causes and impact of global warming have been thrown into question by a new study which shows that during medieval times areas as far apart as Europe and Antarctica both warmed up.
It then cooled down naturally and there was even a ‘mini ice age’.
A team of scientists led by geochemist Zunli Lu from Syracuse University in New York state, has found that the ‘Medieval Warm Period’ approximately 500 to 1,000 years ago wasn’t just confined to Europe.
In fact, it extended all the way down to Antarctica.
Mere HER i The Daily Mail.
Totalitaristerne er i panik – The Daily Mail:
Og så var der den Nobelpris. Hvor bliver den af? Vi venter:
Are global climate changes caused by cycles of cosmic rays?
Cliff Harris – April 2, 2012
Ever since Henrik Svensmark explained his theory concerning the connection between cosmic rays and the formation of clouds in 1996 in Copen-hagen, Denmark, I’ve received at least 100 emails and letters on the possible ‘dawn of the cosmic ray era’ in climate science.
Earlier in March, Jerry Boyd sent me this email on cosmic rays. I found his conclusions very interesting to say the least. Here’s what he wrote:
Mere HER i Coeur d’Alene Press.
UN Global Environmental Constitution: Repressive System of Global Governance
March 20, 2012
Most people have no idea that the United Nations has been drafting an environmental constitution for the world that is intended to supersede all existing national laws. This document has a working title of “Draft International Covenant on Environment and Development” and you can read the entire thing right here. Work on this proposed world environmental constitution has been going on since 1995, and the fourth edition was issued to UN member states on September 22nd, 2010.
This document is intended to become a permanent binding treaty and it would establish an incredibly repressive system of global governance. This “covenant”, as it is being called, claims authority over the entire global environment and everything that affects it. Considering the fact that everything that we do affects the environment in some way, that would mean that this document would become the highest form of law for all human activity. This proposed UN environmental constitution for the world is incredibly detailed. The U.S. Constitution only has 7 articles, but the UN document has 79 articles. If the U.S. eventually ratifies this treaty, any national, state or local laws that conflict with this covenant will be null and void. This is potentially one of the greatest threats to our national sovereignty that we have ever seen and we need to warn the American people about it.
Mere HER hos Family Security Matters eller her hos The American Dream.
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,
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.
Ja, jeg har set video hele søndagen, det bruger vi jo meget her på stedet. Nedenfor kommer noget af det, jeg valgte at se undervejs i mit klima-flip. Fedt interview med Monckton – fra 14. marts 2012:
Lord Christopher Monckton: The Courtier’s Conundrum
Brian Lilley & John Robson – fra 5. marts 2012:
Lilley & Robson on Climate Change Craziness
“The science is settled!” gets kookier and kookier.
Peter Diamandis og Tim Cavanaugh i Reason TV den 15. marts 2012::
Why The Future Is Better Than You Think
Can a Masai Warrior in Africa today communicate better than Ronald Reagan could? If he’s on a cell phone, Peter Diamandis says he can.
Peter Diamandis is the founder and chairman of the X Prize Foundation, which offers big cash prizes “to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity.” Reason’s Tim Cavanaugh sat down to talk with Peter about his new book Abundance and why he think we live in an “incredible time”, but no one realizes it. Peter thinks that there are some powerful human forces combined with technological advancements that are transforming the world for the better.
“The challenge is that the rate of innovation is so fast…” Peter says, “the government can’t keep up with it.” If the government tries to play “catch up” with regulations and policy, the technology with just go overseas. Certain inovations in “food, water, housing, health, education is getting better and better.” Peter “hopes we are not going to be in a situation where, entrenched interests are preventing the consumer from having better health care.”
Matt Ridley
English biologist and journalist Matt Ridley talks about our “collective brain.” This address, which was delivered on February 1, 2012, was one in a series of lectures that are sponsored by the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University and named after the economist Friedrich Hayek.
Og næste – introduktion ved Christopher Monckton:
Repeal the Climate Change Act
Revised part 1 of 2 Campaign to Repeal the Climate Change Act Prof Richard S. Lindzen Seminar Held at the UK House of Commons on the 22nd February 2012
(Part 2 of 2) Campaign to Repeal the Climate Change Act – Prof Richard S. Lindzen Seminar (Global Warming: How to approach the science) held at the House of Commons Committee Rooms Westminster. London on the 22nd February 2012.
Questions & Answers Session following MIT Prof Richard S. Lindzen’s seminar on Reconsidering the Climate Change Act Global Warming: How to approach the science (Climate models and the evidence ?) at the UK House of Commons in Committee Room 14 held on the 22nd of February 2012.
De to næste videoer: Philip Stott, Ian Plimer, Donna Laframboise, Ruth Lea, Matt Ridley:
Climate Change Act Reconsidered I
A public meeting held in the UK House of Commons on the 30th of November 2011
Climate Change Act Reconsidered II
Og artikler – Fakegate:
Why the Climate Skeptics Are Winning
Too many of their opponents are intellectual thugs.
Mar 5, 2012 • By Steven F. Hayward
The forlorn and increasingly desperate climate campaign achieved a new level of ineptitude last week when what had looked like a minor embarrassment for one of its critics—the Chicago-based Heartland Institute—turned out to be a full-fledged catastrophe for itself. A moment’s reflection on the root of this episode points to why the climate campaign is out of (greenhouse) gas.
In an obvious attempt to inflict a symmetrical Climategate-style scandal on the skeptic community, someone representing himself as a Heartland Institute insider “leaked” internal documents for Heartland’s most recent board of directors meeting to a fringe environmental blog, along with a photocopy of a supposed Heartland “strategy memo” outlining a plan to disseminate a public school curriculum aimed at “dissuading teachers from teaching science.”
Mere HER i The Weekly Standard. The Global Warming Policy Foundation har den her. Den næste artikel omhandler en reel trussel:
The Giant, Underestimated Earthquake Threat to North America
The enormous fault off the coast of the Pacific Northwest has been silent for three centuries. But after years of detective work, geologists have discovered that it can unleash mayhem on an epic scale.
by Jerry Thompson – March 13, 2012
From the Extreme Earth special issue
Just over one year ago, a magnitude-9 earthquake hit the Tohoku region of northeastern Japan, triggering one of the most destructive tsunamis in a thousand years. The Japanese—the most earthquake-prepared, seismically savvy people on the planet—were caught off-guard by the Tohoku quake’s savage power. Over 15,000 people died.
Now scientists are calling attention to a dangerous area on the opposite side of the Ring of Fire, the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a fault that runs parallel to the Pacific coast of North America, from northern California to Vancouver Island. This tectonic time bomb is alarmingly similar to Tohoku, capable of generating a megathrust earthquake at or above magnitude 9, and about as close to Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver as the Tohoku fault is to Japan’s coast. Decades of geological sleuthing recently established that although it appears quiet, this fault has ripped open again and again, sending vast earthquakes throughout the Pacific Northwest and tsunamis that reach across the Pacific.
What happened in Japan will probably happen in North America. The big question is when.
Mere HER i Discover Magazine. Outside Magazine skrev om “The Great Cascadia Earthquake” i august 2011:
Dying to be Green
by Daniel Greenfield on Mar 2nd, 2012
Some 8,000 people die in the UK every year due to what is being called “fuel poverty” or, more simply, when it costs too much to heat your home. Naturally the left is already on the case, staging “die-ins” outside energy companies and demanding that carbon credits be used to make homes “super-energy efficient.”
Left out of the equation is that rising fuel prices can in no small part be attributed to the environmental mania which is at the heart of the movement. It isn’t oil and gas companies that are killing the elderly with high fuel prices. It’s carbon mania and environmentalism. Energy companies are not run by saints, but they don’t have an interest in putting oil and gas prices out of reach of ordinary people. It’s hard to sell home heat to the dead or the destitute. On the other hand environmentalists do indeed have that agenda.
Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. Canada Free Press her.
Gone With the Wind
Bjørn Lomborg – 16 Mar 12
Efforts to stem global warming have nurtured a strong urge worldwide to deploy renewable energy. As a result, the use of wind turbines has increased ten-fold over the past decade, with wind power often touted as the most cost-effective green opportunity. According to Connie Hedegaard, the European Union’s commissioner for climate action, “People should believe that [wind power] is very, very cheap.”
In fact, this is a highly problematic claim. While wind energy is cheaper than other, more ineffective renewables, such as solar, tidal, and ethanol, it is nowhere near competitive. If it were, we wouldn’t have to keep spending significant sums to subsidize it.
Mere HER hos Project Syndicate.
Opdatering – Nej, det er ikke en aprilsnar:
Danske forskere finder fejl i klimamodel
18.03.12
Global opvarmning slår knapt så hårdt ved Middelhavet år 2100. Det bliver “kun” 3-4 grader varmere i regionen.
Mere HER i Jyllands-Posten.
Andre kilder: The Telegraph, The Telegraph, The Telegraph, The Telegraph, The Telegraph, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Independent, The Spectator, CNS News, Foreign Policy, The University of Western Ontario Department of Applied Mathematics, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, Energy Tribune, Watts Up With That?, TED2012, DR, Information, Ræson,
Artikel, audio og video:
Purim meditation anti-semitism, Harvard and Obama’s ears
By Don Feder – March 5, 2012
Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government Worship just concluded its One-State Conference, aimed at abolishing the Jewish state. On Wednesday, Jews will celebrate Purim, commemorating an event in Persia of the 4th century BC, when a court official plotted the world’s first genocide – back in the days before anti-Semitism acquired an academic aura.
I was born just after World War II – a conflict that claimed the lives of one out of every three Jews on earth. Growing up, I considered myself among the most fortunate of Jews. Revelations of the Holocaust’s horrors had ended anti-Semitism as a political force forever, I thought. Other than a lingering social anti-Semitism (which stereotyped Jews as clannish, crass and avaricious), and the occasional cemetery desecration and graffiti, Jew-hatred was a relic of humanity’s brutish past.
What a fool I was.
Mere HER hos GrassTopsUSA.
Desuden link til disse små interview fra i år, der alle handler om det kommende valg i USA. Fra Jeff Katz Show på Radio Talk 1200 Boston den -
Endelig denne video – Feders hidtil mest “amerikanske” tale:
Don Feder (summit speech)
A truly epochal event occurred in Moscow on June 29-30/20011: Moscow Demographic Summit has taken place. Russian and foreign advocates of traditional family values had long been waiting for this very important event. The summit speech of Don Feder proposing to your attention.
Andre kilder: Impeach Obama Campaign, Canada Free Press,
Syge kulturer:
The Global War Against Baby Girls
Nicholas Eberstadt – Fall 2011
Over the past three decades the world has come to witness an ominous and entirely new form of gender discrimination: sex-selective feticide, implemented through the practice of surgical abortion with the assistance of information gained through prenatal gender determination technology. All around the world, the victims of this new practice are overwhelmingly female — in fact, almost universally female. The practice has become so ruthlessly routine in many contemporary societies that it has impacted their very population structures, warping the balance between male and female births and consequently skewing the sex ratios for the rising generation toward a biologically unnatural excess of males. This still-growing international predilection for sex-selective abortion is by now evident in the demographic contours of dozens of countries around the globe — and it is sufficiently severe that it has come to alter the overall sex ratio at birth of the entire planet, resulting in millions upon millions of new “missing baby girls” each year. In terms of its sheer toll in human numbers, sex-selective abortion has assumed a scale tantamount to a global war against baby girls.
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 Telegraph, Foreign Policy, The Global Post, The Daily Mail, The Guardian,
Det her angreb på venstrefløjen er superfedt:
Ezra Levant on anti-industry Luddites
Originally broadcast Feb 22, 2012.
Tag den, Paul Ehrlich! Jeg serverer lidt Rosling nu og da. Internettet flyder med for meget tågesnak og falsk information om overbefolkning. Fra University of Minnesota den 1. juni 2011:
Momentum 2011: Hans Rosling
International health guru Hans Rosling is known worldwide for using animations of global trends to brings statistics to life as he lectures about past and contemporary economic, social and environmental changes in the world.
Almost 85 percent of mankind are living in countries which are below reproductive level
Hans Rosling
Journalistisk aktivisme er obligatorisk i de fleste europæiske lande, bla. Danmark. Medietilskud gives under forudsætning af, at man fremmer multikultur og mellemfolkelig forståelse. Kritik nedprioriteres. Islam er ikke så farlig. OIC skubber lystigt på. Halalhippier har kronede dage. Omfanget af denne dumhed står klart nu, men det vil ikke ændre noget. Lov er lov og lov skal holdes. Ingen mistænker tilskudsreglerne for meddelagtighed i Vestens gigantiske fejltagelse. Fra Fox News:
Walid Phares & Harris Faulkner on American hostages in Egypt – Feb 6, 2012
Egypt detains 19 American aid workers – What can U.S. do to bring them home?
Der bliver sagt nogenlunde det samme i næste video, men de supplerer hinanden. Fra 1. februar 2012:
Walid Phares on Americans in the US Embassy in Egypt
Most Egyptians Oppose U.S. Economic Aid
Most favor aid from Arab nations
by Ahmed Younis and Mohamed Younis – February 6, 2012
About 7 in 10 Egyptians surveyed by Gallup in December 2011 oppose U.S. economic aid to Egypt, and a similar percentage opposes the U.S. sending direct aid to civil society groups. This rebuke of U.S. financial support may be a challenge for Egypt’s newly elected parliament and its future president as the government attempts to bolster the nation’s financial stability.
Mere HER hos Gallup.
Edge of Terrorism
Al-Qaeda’s Strength Lies in its Ideology, not its Leaders
Walid Phares – February 6th 2012
Ten years have slipped by since Osama bin Laden’s jihadists massacred thousands of men, women and children in the northeastern United States, prompting the start of what Americans came to know as the War on Terror. The current administration, however, insists on more benign terminology, choosing for political reasons to describe the conflict as an “overseas contingency operation,” and a “war against al Qaeda.” But are we making progress in this conflict, whatever the name? Gaining an objective assessment begins with asking the right questions.
Mere HER i The Cutting Edge. Gidseltagning er meget oppe i tiden:
Iran ‘detains alleged BBC Persian journalists’
7 February 2012
Reports from Iran say several people have been detained for alleged links to the BBC’s Persian service, which is banned in the country.
Mehr news agency said they were involved in newsgathering, recruiting and training for Iranian journalists and had arranged trips abroad for them.
A BBC statement said no BBC Persian staff members were working inside Iran.
Mere HER hos BBC.
Opdatering:
Now it’s $11 Billion for the Muslim Brotherhood? Only in America
February 12, 2012 – by David P. Goldman
Now that America-hating Islamists control three-quarters of Egypt’s parliament and the military government has rejected American protests at the prosecution of U.S. citizens for supporting democracy, Egypt is asking for $11 billion in Western aid. That has to be the least popular idea to float down the Potomac in a long time. Nonetheless, the Obama administration and its supporters in the Punditeska doubtless will ask American taxpayers to ante up a large part of the $11 billion handout, in the interest of “promoting Egyptian democracy.” Only in America do we feed the mouth that bites us. CPI Financial News reported on Sunday:
Mumtaz El Saeed, Egypt’s Finance Minister, says the country needs $11 billion to help it get through the next fiscal year, as well as help with economic reforms, according to a report in Al Ahram, a local newspaper.
Mere HER hos PJ Media.
Opdatering 1.marts 2012 – fra The Voice of Russia den 8. februar 2012 – vælg mellem video eller mp3:
Walid Phares on Voice of Russia Radio: Trial of Americans in Egypt
Walid Phares comments on pending trial of US citizens for funding NGOs in Egypt
19 Americans to face trial on NGO funding
Sam LaHood, the son of U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood is among 43 people charged in Egypt after a probe into a foreign funding of non-governmental organizations. The inquiry into the NGOs whose stated aim is to promote democracy has added the strains between the U.S. and Egypt and jeopardized American financial aid to the Egyptian military, a close ally. The U.S. State Department said yesterday that it wants Egypt’s government to clarify reports that 19 Americans are among 43 people to be prosecuted. The U.S. has responded by saying that 1.5 billion dollars in annual aid from the U.S. sent to Egypt could be in jeopardy if the situation is not resolved. We are joined on the line to tell us more about the latest Walid Phares, the author of the book “The Coming Revolution: Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East”.
Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player – varighed 17½ minut.
Opdatering 2. marts 2012 fra The San Francisco Chronicle:
Seven Americans on trial over charges that their pro-democracy groups fomented unrest flew out of Egypt on Thursday after the United States posted nearly $5 million in bail for them and nine others who managed to leave before a travel ban was imposed.
Andre kilder: Reuters, Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, The Washington Post, The Tablet, BBC, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy,
“War is deceit”
koranen
Lidt guf fra Jyllands-Posten:
Statistik, folkekirke og kristendom
Af Lone Nørgaard – 29.01.12
Andelen af danskere, der er medlem af folkekirken, må være knapt 90 pct.
Der er én megafordel ved kombinationen af igangværende normsammenbrud og massetilvandring. [...]
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Medieløgnenes bagmænd
Ole Hasselbalch, professor jur.dr. – 04.02.12
Medierne har i dag et frirum, der giver dem mulighed for at bruge metoder, som i andre dele af samfundslivet – f.eks. finanssektoren – ville føre til fængselsstraf.
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Lad os følge Storbritannien
Katrine Winkel Holm – 04.02.12
Da Margrethe Vestager i DR2′s Debatten lagde hovedet på skrå og med sin særlige overbærende pædagogstemme forklarede os, hvorfor Danmark, uden folkeafstemning, skal tilslutte sig EU’s finanspagt, selv om vi for længst og gudskelov har sagt nej til at være med i euroen, blev jeg kort øjeblik grebet af en heftig længsel efter at være englænder.
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Spol 17 minutter frem – indledningen er ikke til at holde ud at høre på. Roslings foredrag rummer ikke meget nyt – Gates starter efter ca. 32 minutter:
Bill Gates & Hans Rosling launch Global Poverty Ambassadors
On January 25th, the Global Poverty Project hosted Hans Rosling and Bill Gates at the London School of Economics to launch Global Poverty Ambassadors in partnership with The Co-Operative.
PBS NewsHour har lavet et portræt af Rosling, som er noget banalt – 10 minutter på YouTube her. Og artikel – ret interessant:
Global Poverty Act is Back: Is Bill Gates the World’s Richest Useful Idiot?
January 5, 2012 – Tom DeWeese
He might be a whiz kid at creating computer software, but beyond that Bill Gates has proven time and again that he hasn’t a clue about why or how freedom works.
He constantly teams up with anti-free market types like the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) to produce “educational programs” in his software packages, misdirecting unsuspecting children with political propaganda. In 2002 he gave the NWF $600,000 worth of software to help these environmental radicals run their programs to block the drilling of American oil. Apparently Gates doesn’t understand that he needs oil to create power to run computers. Most recently his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donated $3 million to eight universities to reinvent the flush toilet. Environmentalists call that device “one of the world’s most destructive habits.”
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Misvisende overskrift her:
Religion giver mindre integration
16. januar 2012 – Af Rasmus Karkov
Undersøgelse af herboende vietnamesere viser, at religioner – især dem med strenge krav til de troende – mindsker integrationen. Religion påvirker til gengæld ikke efterkommeres integration. Vietnamesere er blandt de mest veltilpassede flygtninge i det danske samfund.
Mere HER hos Videnskab.dk.
Norsk studie avslører:
Tror jentefostre blir valgt bort
09.01.12 – Av Shazia Sarwar og Synnøve Åsebø
En norsk studie avslører at indisk-norske kvinner føder unormalt mange guttebarn. Forskerne tror jentefostre blir bevisst valgt bort.
Funnene i studien, som er utført ved Rikshospitalet, er oppsiktvekkende:
Før ultralyd ble tilgjengelig ble det født 108 jenter per 100 fødte gutter hos indisk-norske mødre. Etter ultralydens inntog i 1987 – hvor det ble mulig å fastslå fosterets kjønn – har tallene falt dramatisk til 65 fødte jenter per 100 fødte gutter.
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Andre kilder: TV2 Norge, ABC Nyheter, Videnskab.dk, Dagens Medisin, BMC Pregnancy Childbirth,
Opdatering – nu også i videoform:
Audio-version:
Islamic Civilization is Dying
A briefing by David P. Goldman
November 15, 2011
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Der følger en artikel med:
Islamic Civilization is Dying
A briefing by David P. Goldman – November 15, 2011
David P. Goldman is best known for his “Spengler” column at Asia Times Online, which draws a million readers a month. He headed global bond research for Bank of America as well as other Wall Street research groups. Trained in music theory as well as economics at City University of New York and the London School of Economics respectively, he has written extensively on music, mathematics, religion, and the cultural heritage of the West, in Forbes, The Tablet, First Things, and Pajamas Media. Mr. Goldman addressed the Middle East Forum in New York on November 15, 2011.
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Det meste er hørt før, men verden har brug for Rosling, så vi snupper lige denne video også. Fra Skagen Fondenes Nytårskonference 12. januar 2012:
SKAGEN – Hans Rosling: “Poor to Rich – in the G20World” – SKAGEN Funds’ New Year Conference 2012
Hans Rosling was speaker at the SKAGEN Funds’ New Year’s Conference 2012 – “Poor to Rich – in the G20World”. He is a Swedish Professor of international health at the Karolinska Institute. He co-founded the Gapminder Foundation which promotes a fact-based world view by converting international statistics into moving, interactive graphics. Using animations of global trends Hans Rosling lectures about past and contemporary economic, social and environmental changes in the world. In 1993 he was one of the initiators of Médecins Sans Frontières in Sweden.
Warning: The English translation is hopeless
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