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Hans Rosling er med på Time Magazines nye liste over “The 100 Most Influential People in the World“. I den anledning snupper vi lige en video. Nu er Rosling forresten også blevet hip på venstrefløjen. De har opfundet begrebet “social matematik” og så går det pludselig an med lidt af hvert. Fra Skoll World Forum 28. marts 2012:
Hans Rosling at the Opening Plenary of the Skoll World Forum 2012
Andre kilder: Frameworks Institute, Karolinska Institutet, FlowingData,
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,
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
Skarp artikel:
The Global War on Christians in the Muslim World
Ayaan Hirsi Ali – Feb 6, 2012
From one end of the muslim world to the other, Christians are being murdered for their faith.
We hear so often about Muslims as victims of abuse in the West and combatants in the Arab Spring’s fight against tyranny. But, in fact, a wholly different kind of war is underway—an unrecognized battle costing thousands of lives. Christians are being killed in the Islamic world because of their religion. It is a rising genocide that ought to provoke global alarm.
The portrayal of Muslims as victims or heroes is at best partially accurate. In recent years the violent oppression of Christian minorities has become the norm in Muslim-majority nations stretching from West Africa and the Middle East to South Asia and Oceania. In some countries it is governments and their agents that have burned churches and imprisoned parishioners. In others, rebel groups and vigilantes have taken matters into their own hands, murdering Christians and driving them from regions where their roots go back centuries.
Mere HER i The Daily Beast. The New English Review har artiklen her. AEI her. Nina Shea skriver artikel om artiklen:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Breaks the Media Silence on Anti-Christian Persecution
By Nina Shea – February 7, 2012
Best-selling author, film director, women’s-rights advocate, former Dutch parliamentarian, Islamist death-threat survivor, refugee from a Somalian forced marriage, and a fierce champion of individual freedoms — that of others as well as her own — Ayaan Hirsi Ali has demonstrated her courage once more. In the cover story she penned for the current issue of Newsweek, entitled “The War on Christians,” which is excerpted in The Daily Beast, Hirsi Ali gives a tour d’horizon of the most politically incorrect subject of all human-rights reporting: the ongoing religious persecution of Christians in the Muslim world. It makes heartbreaking reading.
She criticizes the media for giving short shrift to this development, favoring instead the narrative that Muslims are the victims of religious persecution by the West. She writes:
Mere HER hos AINA. National Review Online her.
Opdateret.
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.
Stossel – Hans Rosling – 2011-12-22
Hans Rosling discusses how technology is the solution to increasing prosperity everywhere.
Det er lidt sniksnak-agtigt, det her interview:
The FP Interview: Bill and Melinda Gates
Bill and Melinda Gates on some unexpected new sources of aid - and what they’ve learned from trying to save the world.
By Charles Kenny | December 2011
Bill Gates on what’s lacking in development: The greatest market failure is the lack of investment in innovation, particularly innovation that would be of particular value to the poorest. We’ve been big on funding disease and agricultural innovations; why governments tend to fund delivery more than they fund upstream innovation, I don’t know. In delivery systems, it wouldn’t be typical for us to take on that kind of funding other than in pilot mode because when you’re talking about delivering incentive payments to an entire country, it’s not something that philanthropic means are going to be able to have the scale to do. But a lot of our inventiveness is on how upstream [innovation] and downstream [delivery] work together. So you take the polio campaign: using satellite maps to update the microplans that the vaccinators follow, using the GPS tracker to follow along to see if the independent monitoring person actually goes and visits the houses that they say they’re visiting so that your tracking data is good. I don’t think a lot of what we’re doing with polio deserves a pure classification of upstream or downstream.
Mere HER i Foreign Policy.
Bruce Bawer er fin her:
Oslo’s Epidemic of Rape
By Bruce Bawer – October 29 2011
Back in May it was reported that every rape assault in the city of Oslo in the last five years had been committed by a person with a “non-Western” background – a Norwegian euphemism for Muslim. Now it turns out that there have already been twice as many rape assaults in Oslo so far this year as there were in all of 2010. At least one member of Parliament, André Oktay Dahl of the Conservative Party, calls the situation “critical” and is brave enough to acknowledge that many of the perpetrators come from cultures “with a reprehensible attitude toward women.”
The Conservative Party has proposed several measures to combat what is being described as a rape epidemic: more money for the police; more police in the streets and doing investigations; faster results from DNA tests; the introduction of volunteer auxiliary police. There is something to be said for these proposals. Policing in Norway is a scandal. This summer it was reported that police departments all over Norway were so short-handed that they were unequipped to deal with the armies of drunks staggering home from bars on weekends after closing time. It was also reported that only fourteen of 430 new graduates of Norway’s police academy had been offered jobs.
Mere HER hos AINA. FrontPageMagazine her.
Bawer refererer til en artikel, som af en eller anden grund ikke synes at være blevet blogget:
Oslo Car Fires Highlight Threat to Norway’s Future
By Bruce Bawer – July 15, 2011
A growing Muslim enclave outside of the city is a hotbed of crime and Sharia.
Taken together, two seemingly unrelated news stories from Norway paint a grim picture of that city’s future.
First, you need to know that Oslo is a sprawling, low-lying city, more of a small-scale Los Angeles than a small-scale New York. Out on its eastern flank is a large valley called Groruddalen which, a few years ago, was a sleepy mishmash of industry and suburban apartment blocks. It is now quickly becoming an urban center all its own. It is said that if current trends continue, Groruddalen will, within a couple of decades, dwarf downtown Oslo itself as a population center.
One not-so-little detail: the reason for Groruddalen’s rapid growth is that it is a destination for new Muslim immigrants. Groruddalen is, in short, a Muslim enclave in the making.
Mere HER hos Pajamas Media.
Opdatering 1. oktober 2011 – en boganmedelse:
Veracity, Mendacity – and Islam
by Bruce Bawer on Oct 31st, 2011
The recent arrival in my mail of a book entitled Islam: Critical Essays about a Political Religion has prompted a number of thoughts. Edited by Sam and Wim van Rooy and published late last year, it is a massive compendium, just under 800 pages long. It is in Dutch. (The title is actually De Islam: Kritische Essays over een Politieke Religie.) And it is richly comprehensive, with thirty-four essays on such subjects as the Islamization of Europe, Islam in India, the term “Islamophobia,” jihad in Africa, dhimmitude, apostasy, the myth of Andalusia, taqiyya, Islam and the West, sharia law, Islam’s “fellow travelers,” Jews under Islam, Christians under Islam, Islam and women, Islam and slavery, Islam and fascism, and Islam vs. democracy.
Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine.
Andre kilder: Dagbladet,
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.
Det fyldte ganske meget i dansk presse, da socialdemokraten, Majken Hessner, 1981 forlod folketinget, konverterede til islam, efterlod sin 10-årige søn i Danmark, bosætte sig i Senegal og giftede sig med med landets premierminister, Habib Thiam. Nu skriver Hessner læserbrev:
Et forvrænget billede af Afrika
Anne Majken Hessner Thiam: Afrika Sulter og Tørster står der med store bogstaver på Røde Kors’ plakater. Samme ordlyd toner frem på diverse internetsider, oven i købet med kronprins Frederiks billede som støtte.
Af Anne Majken Hessner Thiam, Tidligere medlem af Folketinget, bosat i Senegal – 10. oktober 2011
Jeg har stor respekt for Røde Kors’ arbejde. Jeg har stor beundring for den indsats, både professionelle og frivillige gør for at hjælpe og støtte andre rundt om i verden. Den sidste TV-rekordindsamling viser tydeligt, at vi er mange, der deler denne respekt.
Mere HER i Berlingske Tidende.
Og det er endda sket flere gange på det seneste, at den 80-årige Nobelpris-tager, Desmond Tutu, fra Sydafrika har gjort sig heldigt bemærket:
Tutu describes ‘passion’ to stop child marriage
September 21, 2011
Archbishop Desmond Tutu said Wednesday he is as passionate about fighting the widespread practice of child marriage as he was when he helped bring down apartheid in South Africa.
“My passion (that) now I hope to translate, transfer to this, is the same passion, commitment that I had when I was fighting, we were fighting, against apartheid,” Tutu told a conference in New York, where activists spoke out against the estimated 10 million marriages of underage girls around the world each year.
Mere HER i The Vacouver Sun. Kan også ses hos AFP Google Hosted her. Lidt kortere version her i The New Age.
Iran’s War Against Knowledge — An Open Letter to the International Academic Community
Desmond Tutu and José Ramos-Horta – September 25, 2011
The forward progress of humankind in the last centuries has been fueled, more than any other factor, by increasing access to information, more rapid exchange of ideas, and in most parts of the world, universal education.
Freedom of education and freedom of information are integral to freedom of thought. Few advances have been made for humankind which were not preceded by new ways of looking at our world and new schools of thought.
Mere HER i Huffington Post. Det er anden gang inden for to år, at Sydafrika har nægtet Dalai Lama visum, skriver Foreign Policy:
South Africa: Tutu blasts ANC over Dalai Lama visa
By Donna Bryson – Oct. 4, 2011
Retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu, an anti-apartheid hero often described as South Africa’s conscience, slammed the ANC-led government Tuesday as “disgraceful” and said it is worse than the country’s former oppressive white regime for not issuing a visa to the Dalai Lama.
The African National Congress responded by calling Tutu’s comparisons to the apartheid regime and to toppled Arab dictatorships “very unfortunate and totally misplaced,” and said the government should be given time to explain its actions.
Mere HER i The Statesman. Global News her. MSNBC her.
Apostasy – Tutu asks Iran to free pastor
October 9, 2011
Cape Town – Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu on Sunday called on Iran to free a pastor who faces the death penalty for refusing to give up Christianity and return to Islam.
“I would like to appeal to the Iranian authorities to free Yusef Nadarkhani, and allow him and all other members of minority religions in Iran to worship God,” Tutu said in a statement.
“Forcing anybody to renounce his or her faith is an utter violation of our universal human and religious values, and a renunciation of God,” Tutu said.
Mere HER hos News24. Den næste artikel er en påmindelse om, at Tutu ikke altid er så heldig med sine udtalelser:
Arch-enemies: What’s not to like about Desmond Tutu?
Katharine Child – Oct 07 2011
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, who turned 80 on Friday, has been awarded the Nobel peace prize, led South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and even donated DNA to the Human Genome Project.
But as with any leader, he has earned himself his fair share of critics along the way.
The ANC government, for example, has often found itself squirming under the glare of his criticism — President Jacob Zuma’s administration, currently the subject of Tutu’s wrath for delaying the issuing of an entry visa to the Dalai Lam until it was too late for the Tibetan spiritual leader to attend the cleric’s birthday celebrations, is not the first: Run-ins with Zuma’s predecessor, former president Thabo Mbeki, were not unknown.
Mere HER hos Mail & Guardian Online. Kan også læses her hos Afrika.no.
Andre kilder: Christian Today, Christian Today, Times Live, Slate, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, BBC, BBC, Sky News, CNS News, Daily News, Dallas Voice, San Antonio, Payvand, DR, Berlingske Tidende,
Barsk gennemgang her. Lars Hedegaards kritik af kvinders vilkår i blegner ved siden af virkeligheden:
Clinton’s Africa Vision is Out of Focus, say Critics
Jim Kouri – October 3, 2011
Today (Monday, October 3, 2011) Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will meet with 40 women entrepreneurs from 36 African nations participating in the 2011 African Women’s Entrepreneurship Program, at the U.S. Department of State.
The African Women’s Entrepreneurship Program is a people-to-people exchange that connects women and enhances their ability to be key economic drivers in communities and countries worldwide.
While feminists such as Clinton will applaud such a program, many wonder when these same individuals will address the rampant violence and sexual assault against women and girls in many African nations.
Mere HER hos Family Security Matters. Desuden denne:
A Call to Ban the Full-Face Veil in the U.S. and in Israel
Nancy Kobrin, PhD, Joan Lachkar, PhD – October 3, 2011
As psychoanalysts, we are addressing the psychological implications of wearing a full-face veil. It is well known from psychological research and infant and human developmental psychology that contact with the mother’s face is of crucial importance. The importance of eye contact with the mother’s gaze is substantiated by the research and writings of such famous researchers as Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Margaret Mahler, Otto Kernberg, Mary Ainsworth, Beatrice Beebe, John Bowlby, Daniel Stern and others who have made major contributions to the study of attachment disorders. This is further confirmed by Ayaan Hirsi Ali that the full-face veil is terrifying to children. Babies and children are in constant need to be able to read the nonverbal, covert body language messages of their mother’s face. It goes without saying that the kind of message that the full-face veil communicates to the infant is that the mother’s gaze is cut off and therefore uninvolved or concerned with the infant’s well being. To the public too the mother has been erased, so to speak, from being part of civil society, an individual demanding and deserving recognition and respect. The full-face veil communicates hatred and terror of the female. This is not a good message to communicate to a baby.
Mere HER hos Family Security Matters.
Både børn og voksne får skåret kønsorganerne helt eller delvist af i islam:
Indonesian Government’s Backward Step on Female Genital Mutilation
by Irfan Al-Alawi – September 26, 2011
Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting (FGM/C) is increasing in Indonesia, with the issuance in June 2011 of official guidelines from the Ministry of Health for its infliction – even though the Indonesian authorities banned the practice in 2006.
Indonesian media report that the new government regulations on FGM call for “scraping the skin” but not “cutting” the clitoris of Muslim girls. While the Jakarta government had forbidden FGM altogether because it “could potentially harm women’s health” and was “useless,” a lack of state oversight allows its prevalence and increase, especially on the island of Java.
Mere HER hos 
udson New York.
Andre kilder: Family Security Matters,
Nu kommer videoerne fra de mange FN-, Durban III- og protest-arrangementer dryssende. Her er resten af dem, der ikke allerede er blogget, men jagten går naturligvis videre. Først Wafa Sultan – fra CBN News 23. september 2011:
P.A. Submits Statehood Application to the UN
While dozens of Muslim nations support a Palestinian state, some Arabs are opposed to the idea. Syrian-born Wafa Sultan is a human rights activist and political commentator.
CBN News asked Sultan what he believes is the underlying reason and motivation behind the P.A.’s effort.
“To create another Islamic country,” Sultan replied without hesitation. “We have enough of those dictatorships. We don’t need any more dictator countries in our region.”
CQBlogger fra Hot Air interviewer – 22. september 2011:
Zudhi Jasser at Durban Watch
I spoke with Jasser for a few minutes about the obstacles to American action in the Arab Spring.
Dr. Zuhdi Jasser discusses his objections to Durban III
Dr. Zuhdi Jasser joined a list of prominent speakers at the Hudson Institute’s critique of the Durban III Conference. Dr. Jasser discusses how the UN is losing faith by continuing to allow Despots to run the Human RIghts efforts of the UN. He also discussed the opportunity that exists with the Arab Spring.
John Bolton on the legitimacy of the UN
Also on the Palestinian proposal being essentially meaningless, at least legally.
Jon Voight TV appeal: ‘Defend Israel, the Jewish State, against global anti-Semitism’
Jon Voight speaks-out for Jewish Israel on US TV telethon, Sept 25, 2011
Den canadiske integrationsminister, Jason Kenney, har fået meget ros for denne tale:
Minister Kenney Speaks at Durban Watch Conference
Fra 23. september 2011 – her spørges der en smule ind til talen ovenfor:
Brian Lilley Interviews Jason Kenney On Durban III
Canada’s Jason Kenney, Current Minister of Citizenship, Promises Canada WILL Stand by Israel
Rally at Canada Christian College to protest the unilateral declaration of Palestinian Statehood.
Altså. Jeg var lige på YouTube i aften og gik som sædvanlig i fælden: jeg gav mig til at se en konference – “Facing Tomorrow 2011 – The Israeli Presidential Conference” fra Jerusalem den 21. – 23. juni 2011. Jeg har plukket disse taler fra den:
Professor Niall Ferguson at Facing Tomorrow 2011
Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks at Facing Tomorrow 2011
Mr. Bernard-Henri Lévy at Facing Tomorrow 2011
H.E. Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu at Facing Tomorrow 2011
Rt. Hon Tony Blair at Facing Tomorrow 2011
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
Narkomani er en af hovedforklaringerne på den tredje verdens fattigdom:
Drug Trade In Africa: How The Queen Of Khat Got So Rich
For many Africans khat is a stimulant drug that also stills hunger pangs. But the world’s biggest seller of khat doesn’t fit the typical profile of a drug dealer. Indeed, throughout much of the continent it is legal.
By Philipp Hedemann – August 30th, 2011
For many Africans khat is a stimulant drug that also stills hunger pangs. But the world’s biggest seller of khat doesn’t fit the typical profile of a drug dealer.
In Somaliland, not a lot works. Somaliland is a republic in the north of Somalia, which, although it declared itself a sovereign state, is not internationally recognized as such. But one thing you can count on here: Suhura Ismail’s trucks, driven at breakneck speed, arriving as regular as clockwork every night on the unpaved roads. The trucks are delivering khat, a drug that is mostly forbidden in Europe.
Mere HER i The Worldcrunch.
Barbarene skærer stadig små børns kønsorganer helt eller delvist af:
Female Genital Mutilation “An Obligation” According to Iraqi Muslim Cleric
by Irfan Al-Alawi – August 18, 2011
In June, the parliament of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) adopted a ban on domestic violence, including female genital mutilation (FGM), a “procedure” that is widespread among Iraqi Kurds. The law will come into effect once it is signed by KRG president Mesud Barzani, who represents the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
But a local cleric, Ismail Sussai, in the major Iraqi Kurdish city of Arbil, has delivered a televised sermon in which he described FGM as “obligatory,” called on fathers to kill themselves, on pain of losing their “honor,” if they are legally prevented from abusing their daughters for using mobile phones; and he defended the beating of wives and children.
Mere HER i Hudson New York.
“The truth is, the interpretation of human rights legislation has exerted a chilling effect on public-sector organisations, leading them to act in ways that fly in the face of common sense, offend our sense of right and wrong, and undermine responsibility”
David Cameron
Man tør næsten ikke tro det. Europarådet svækkes? Venstrefløjens store højborg. Griber Cameron virkelig ind eller er det bare snak? Og kommer nationernes ret til at begrænse indvandring og udvise kriminelle med? Går England enegang eller kan vi andre også se frem til forbedringer? Holland og Tyskland støtter:
Cameron’s war on feckless families: PM attacks the human rights laws and backs national serviceDavid Cameron declares ‘all-out war’ on gangs behind looting sprees
- Announces plans to rewrite European human rights rules
- Re-launches plan for ‘national citizen service’ for 30,000 16-year-olds
- Critics ask where the money will come from
By Tim Shipman and Kirsty Walker on 16th August 2011
David Cameron announced a crackdown on 120,000 feckless families yesterday in a campaign to combat the ‘moral collapse’ which led to the riots.
Declaring ‘all-out war’ on gangs, the Prime Minister vowed to ‘turn around’ the most troubled families in the land and said he wants to see every 16-year-old complete a civilian version of national service.
He also denounced the ‘chilling effect’ of human rights legislation on behaviour and vowed to rewrite the rules when Britain takes over the chairmanship of the European Council in November.
Artiklen omtaler både National Service og National Citizen Service. Altså både værnepligt og en art samfundstjeneste. Mere HER i The Daily Mail.
England har flere problemer i sigte:
UK population grows at twice EU average: Migrant baby boom fuels 400,000 rise in one year
- Britain set for Europe’s highest population in 40 years
- Population growth accounts for 30% of European total
- Rate of growth is DOUBLE European average
By Steve Doughty on 17th August 2011
Britain’s population is growing at more than twice the European average.
The number living in the UK soared by 400,000 last year – almost a third of the increase across all 27 EU countries.
The rise is underpinned by high levels of migration and a baby boom itself brought about mainly by immigrants.
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Eight out of ten Somalis were found to live in homes provided by the taxpayer
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