“Starchitects” like Frank Gehry do not build for people — they build to shock.
The controversy over Frank Gehry’s design for a “memorial park” to President Eisenhower—a vast array of hideous metal walls, covered with reflections on the President’s humble origins, and mutilating (should it be built) an important public area of the capital city—has alerted Americans to the difficulty, in modern conditions, of obtaining an appropriate monument. Simple gravestones commemorate private people, and are inscribed with words of love from the few who will seriously miss them. Monuments, however, do not only commemorate public figures who have deserved well of the nation. They commemorate the nation, raise it above the land on which it is planted, and express an idea of public duty and public achievement in which everyone can share. Their meaning is not “he” or “she” but “we.” And the successful monument does not stand out as a defiance of the surrounding order, but endorses it and adds to its grace and dignity.
Mere HER i The American Spectator. Kan også læses her hos Catholic Education Resource Center.
a far greater mistake, which is that of treating architecture as the expression of the architect’s individual vision, rather than a contribution to our collective home Roger Scruton
Forfatteren, Robert D. Kaplan, har fået job hos tænketanken, Stratfor. Det er der kommet lidt presse og lidt video ud af – fra 14. marts 2012:
A Conversation on Europe with George Friedman and Robert D. Kaplan
Stratfor CEO George Friedman and Chief Geopolitical Analyst Robert D. Kaplan discuss the geographic and cultural forces that could existentially challenge the European Union.
Fra 12. marts 2012:
Robert D. Kaplan on Geopolitics and Journalism
Stratfor’s new Chief Geopolitical Analyst Robert D. Kaplan describes how the interplay of geopolitics and journalism can enhance efforts to understand the world.
Islamistan? Det siger Kaplan – fra 16. marts 2012:
Agenda with Robert D. Kaplan on Afghanistan
Chief geopolitical analyst Robert D. Kaplan explains how a look at Afghanistan’s history and geography can offer a forecast of the country’s future.
Artikel:
1848: History’s Shadow Over the Middle East
By Robert D. Kaplan | March 15, 2012
1848 in Europe was the year that wasn’t. In the spring and summer of that year, bourgeois intellectuals and working-class radicals staged upheavals from France to the Balkans, shaking ancient regimes and vowing to create new liberal democratic orders. The Arab Spring has periodically been compared to the stirrings of 1848. But with the exception of the toppling of the Orleans monarchy in France, the 1848 revolutions ultimately failed. Dynastic governments reasserted themselves. They did so for a reason that has troubling implications for the Middle East: Conservative regimes in mid-19th century Europe had not only the institutional advantage over their liberal and socialist adversaries but also the moral advantage.
Lidt af hvert her. I den første video hører man Scruton sige: “Well, the answer was to send them back home but you can’t say that”. Og ja, det er dem, Scruton taler om:
Roger Scruton on Moral Relativism
A conversation with Roger Scruton at Gerbeaud Cafe in Budapest, Hungary on the topic of moral relativism. Hosted by the Common Sense Society on January 25, 2012.
Audio fra RSA – The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce:
Green Philosophy
RSA Keynote – 18th Jan 2012
The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political left, which has seen the principal threats to the earth as issuing from international capitalism, consumerism and the over-exploitation of natural resources.
In his new book ‘Green Philosophy’, philosopher Roger Scruton argues that this way of thinking is fallacious, and poses a danger to the ecosystems on which we all depend.
Instead, he believes that conservatism is far better suited to tackle environmental problems than either liberalism or socialism, and argues that rather than entrusting the environment to NGOs and international committees, we must assume personal responsibility and foster local sovereignty.
People must be empowered to take charge of their environment, to care for it as a home, and to affirm themselves through the kind of local associations that have been the traditional goal of conservative politics.
The current environmental movement directs its energies at the bigger picture but fails to see that environmental problems are generated and resolved by ordinary people – and that there is an alternative path that we can take which could ensure the future safety of our planet and our species.
Speaker: Roger Scruton, writer, philosopher and author of ‘Green Philosophy: How to think seriously about the planet’ (Atlantic Books, 2012).
Chair: Matthew Taylor, chief executive, RSA.
Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 46 minutter. Australske ABC Radio har lavet en udsendelse om ovenstående, men den består mest af klip fra foredraget. Audio fra 30. januar 2012 kan findes her eller her på ABCs hjemmeside.
Og en meget gammel sag fra BBC 2003 – Melvyn Bragg, Jonathan Bate, Roger Scruton, Karen Edwards:
Nature
Og artikler:
How conservatives can help to tackle climate change
Treaty-chasing is a futile waste of time and resources – the search for clean energy begins at home
Roger Scruton – 14 February 2012
Environmental degradation has one cause above all others: the propensity of human beings to take the benefit and leave the costs to someone else, preferably someone far away in space or time, whose protests can be safely ignored. The solution is to give space to the rival tendency in human nature, which is to take charge of costs, when the costs affect one’s home. So my book Green Philosophy is an exploration of the motive I call “oikophilia”, the love of home. The propensity for settlement and stewardship is at the heart of conservative philosophy, I argue, and ought to be at the heart of Conservative politics, too.
The composer’s musical legacy contains more consolation for our loneliness than any other human creation.
By Roger Scruton – 11 Feb 2012
Franz Schubert excelled in every musical genre, writing string quartets that can be set beside the greatest of Haydn and Mozart, symphonies that stand comparison with Beethoven, and works for piano that paved the way for Schumann and Chopin. His String Quintet in C major is perhaps the most beautiful piece of chamber music ever composed, while his 600 songs represent a flow of unaffected melody without compare in the history of music. He died aged 31 in 1828, leaving nearly 1,000 compositions, nearly all of which are marked by his distinctive genius.
Mere HER i The Telegraph. Synopsis-Olsen har oversat den næste artikel til dansk:
By Roger Scruton from the December 2011 – January 2012 issue
There’s no question but that a Greece should be “allowed” to default.
“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
Thomas Sowell’s aphorism is of special relevance to us now, when we discover that, without the matter having been discussed or put to the vote, the most important economic decisions are in the hands of politicians. Democratic politicians secure their following by making economic promises–basically to steal from the few in order to reward the many. And in order to protect themselves from the cost of this they set up supposedly independent economic bodies, like the International Monetary Fund, the Federal Reserve Bank, and the European Central Bank, which they place in the hands of political appointees. In all the excitement over Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s adventures in a New York hotel the media seems to have forgotten to ask the most important question: how was it that a politician, and one of the French sofa-socialist persuasion, should be in charge of the IMF? What conceivable attribute could have qualified him for such a position? Granted that a gargantuan libido might sometimes be useful in politics, in what way could it possibly contribute to the process of maintaining equilibrium in the world economy, and compensating where possible for the rash promises of politicians?
Bawer er meget energisk for tiden. Herligt med noget kvalificeret læsestof:
Normalizing the Kingston Honor Killings
by Bruce Bawer on Feb 1st, 2012
Last month, after the Costa Concordia fiasco in Livorno, Gregoria De Falco – the port official who ordered the cartoonishly cowardly captain, Francesco Schettino, to get back on his ship and aid in the rescue effort – became an instant hero. But De Falco’s wife dissented, saying it was “ridiculous” to call her husband a hero. “The worrying thing,” she said, “is that people like my husband who simply do their duty every day, immediately become idols, personalities, heroes in this country. That is not normal.”
Wise lady. But it’s not only in Italy, these days, that some people are awed when others simply do their duty. Take last Sunday’s guilty verdicts in the Kingston, Ontario, honor-killing case. On June 30, 2009, as Stephen Brown recounted here the other day, three teenage sisters and their father’s first wife were found dead in a car in the Rideau Canal. Three weeks later, police arrested the girls’ father, Afghani-born real-estate tycoon Mohammad Shafia, their mother, Tooba Mohammad Yahya, and their brother, Hamed. All three have now been handed 25-year prison sentences for first-degree murder.
Founded in 1985, Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF), also known as Reporters Without Borders, professes to be motivated by a profound devotion to freedom of expression. The organization has apparently done good work on behalf of journalists in countries like Cuba and China, where press freedom simply doesn’t exist. But RSF also issues an annual Press Freedom Index – the latest was released just the other day – in which it purports to rank countries according to the degree of freedom their journalists enjoy. Let’s just say that the list doesn’t represent RSF at its finest.
As someone who frequently slams the New York Times, I’m glad to be able to say that Times reporter Andrew Rosenthal, writing about RSF’s new list last week, summoned precisely the right word to describe it: “ridiculous.” As Rosenthal put it: “Like US News & World Report with colleges, they freshen the list each year based on new developments, and – again like US News – they sometimes end up with a pecking-order that doesn’t quite mesh with reality.”
This is how it happens, folks. Little by little. Law by law. The proponents of sharia get themselves elected to positions of power – and then, before too long, they start trying to subject the rest of us to it, bit by bit:
Hasan Küçük, Hague councilor for the Islam Democrats, says dogs should be banned as pets in the city, reports De Telegraaf. The Muslim party says that the animals belong in nature, not inside the house. Küçük says that keeping dogs is animal abuse and should therefore be criminalized.
After the Oslo Massacre, an Assault on Free Speech
Norway’s left seeks to silence Islam’s critics by linking them to a mass murderer.
By Bruce Bawer – February 7, 2012
Last July 22, a powerful explosion rocked a government building in downtown Oslo, killing eight people. Later that day, 69 people, mostly teenagers, were shot to death by a lone gunman at a Labor Party camp on the nearby island of Utøya. By nightfall, police had a suspect in custody: a 32-year-old Norwegian named Anders Behring Breivik, who had apparently carried out both attacks on his own.
Contrary to nearly everyone’s original assumption that Islamic terrorists were behind the Oslo attack, a 1,500-page “manifesto” by Breivik showed that he opposed the mass immigration of Muslims into Norway and had targeted the Labor Party gathering because of the party’s role in shaping the country’s multicultural immigration policy.
Prøv først via Google News HER. Ellers her i The Wall Street Journal. Måske virker et af disse link – artiklen er låst inde – her eller her.
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.”
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:
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:
Videoen er fra den alternative Durban-konference. Murray er virkelig i hopla her – fra 20. – 22. september 2011:
Douglas Murray on the Durban Conference
Desuden et par artikler af Murray:
Nobody likes a drunken woman
By Douglas Murray – October 6, 2011
MOST of us enjoy a drink but the spectacle of drunk women falling about in our towns and cities as night falls has become disturbingly commonplace. Here writer Douglas Murray asks why the sight of a woman in the gutter arouses such especially negative emotions.
IF you were asked to give just one example of the way in which British culture has coarsened in recent years what would you land on?
David Cameron just told the Tory conference that he supported gay marriage “because I am a Conservative”. In last week’s issue of the Spectator, Douglas Murray said that the best arguments in favour of gay marriage are conservative ones. For the benefit of CoffeeHousers, here is Douglas’s piece.
In America a new generation of Republicans is challenging the traditional consensus of their party on gay marriage. They — as well as some of the GOP old guard like Dick Cheney — are coming out in favour. In Britain the subject is also back on the agenda with the coalition government, at the insistence of the Prime Minister apparently, planning a ‘public consultation’ on the matter.
Douglas Murray: I’m not a bigot but Paul Goodman is
Douglas Murray – October 15, 2011
Douglas Murray is an award-winning writer and commentator who is currently Associate Director of the Henry Jackson Society
Last week Paul Goodman wrote a response to my criticism of his opposition to gay equality – specifically the issue of gay civil marriage. Paul’s response can be divided into the significant and the personal. Let me deal with the significant ones first.
Douglas Murray: A final word on my differences with Paul Goodman
October 18, 2011 | Douglas Murray
When, a few weeks back, in an article on gay marriage, I made a glancing reference to the regrettable views of Paul Goodman I never thought I’d end up having to write one – let alone two – lengthy pieces responding to his increasingly vitriolic and obsessive attacks on me. Let alone that readers of Conservative Home would be expected to put up with this exchange. But Monday’s piece by Paul was the blog-equivalent of a drive-by shooting. This is tediously obsessive even for me – and I was the subject – so I can’t imagine how dull it must be for everybody else. But Paul’s had a last say – so I’ll do one more correction of him.
Ja, i Danmark har der jo hele tiden været et demokratisk flertal imod den ikke-vestlige indvandring. Fremmedimporten startede forholdsvis tidligt i 60-erne. I det lille halve århundrede, der er gået, har der endnu aldrig været en meningsmåling, der ikke viste det. Men det har man ordnet meget smart. Det, der engang hed demokratisk flertal, hedder i dag populisme og så kan man bare køre landets vælgere og skatteydere over. Det er tilmed institutionaliseret i Den Europæiske Menneskerettighedskonvention og andre tilsvarende juridiske foranstaltninger, der sætter de fremmedes interesser over vores. I dag er det ligegyldigt, hvad vi stemmer på. Højre, venstre, centrum. Vi kan alligevel ikke ændre noget. Så kom ikke her:
European Concerns Over Muslim Immigration Go Mainstream
by Soeren Kern – August 15,
A new opinion survey shows that more than half of all Europeans believe there are too many immigrants in their countries and that immigration is having a negative impact on their lives.
The findings – which come as Europeans are waking up to the consequences of decades of mass immigration from Muslim countries – point to a growing disconnect between European voters and their political masters regarding multicultural policies that encourage Muslim immigrants to remain segregated rather than become integrated into their host nations.
The survey results mirror the findings of dozens of other recent polls. Taken together, they provide ample empirical evidence that scepticism about Muslim immigration is not limited to a “right-wing” political fringe, as proponents of multiculturalism often assert. Mainstream voters across the entire political spectrum are now expressing concerns about the role of Islam in Europe.
The Gorbachev Files – Secret Papers Reveal Truth Behind Soviet Collapse
By Christian Neef – August 11, 2011
Communist hardliners staged a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev 20 years ago, and the Soviet Union collapsed soon afterwards. Previously unknown documents, which SPIEGEL has obtained, show just how desperate the last Soviet leader was as he fought to retain power — and how he begged Germany for money to save his country.
There is one moment — a single decision — that some people still hold against Mikhail Gorbachev today, 20 years later.
Gorbachev, the last leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and last president of the Soviet Union, his wife and his closest confidants had survived the attempted coup by the KGB, the military leadership and the interior minister. They returned to Moscow from their house arrest at Gorbachev’s vacation home in the Crimean resort of Foros. Their plane landed in the capital at 2:15 a.m., local time, on August 22, 1991.
Mere HER i Der Spiegel. Jeg har valgt at linke til print-versionen for at undgå det der pjat med sideinddeling.
Opdatering: Foreign Magazine har en foto-serie fra perioden her.
Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union is Wrong
By Leon Aron | July/August 2011 issue
Every revolution is a surprise. Still, the latest Russian Revolution must be counted among the greatest of surprises. In the years leading up to 1991, virtually no Western expert, scholar, official, or politician foresaw the impending collapse of the Soviet Union, and with it one-party dictatorship, the state-owned economy, and the Kremlin’s control over its domestic and Eastern European empires. Neither, with one exception, did Soviet dissidents nor, judging by their memoirs, future revolutionaries themselves. When Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party in March 1985, none of his contemporaries anticipated a revolutionary crisis. Although there were disagreements over the size and depth of the Soviet system’s problems, no one thought them to be life-threatening, at least not anytime soon.
Man sagde ellers, at russerne gav op overfor Vestens IT-revolution. At det især var udfordringen fra EDB, som det hed dengang. Det mangler i artiklen. Mere HER i Foreign Policy – kan også læses her hos AEI.
Meltdown
For the first time, Boris Yeltsin’s right-hand man tells the inside story of the coup that killed glasnost — and changed the world.
By Gennady Burbulis & Michele A. Berdy | July/August 2011
“That scum!” Boris Yeltsin fumed. “It’s a coup. We can’t let them get away with it.”
It was the morning of Aug. 19, 1991, and the Russian president was standing at the door of his dacha in Arkhangelskoe, a compound of small country houses outside Moscow where the top Russian government officials lived. I had raced over from my own house nearby, after a friend called from Moscow, frantic and nearly hysterical, insisting that I turn on the radio. There had been a coup; Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev had been removed from power.
The European Union was the best thing that could have happened to the continent. But over the years it has grown into a demon, uncontrollable and impossible to throw out of office. To avoid collapse, there is only one road open: back to the nation. And back to democracy. (Excerpts) Excerpts.
Dirk Schümer – 8 June 2011
The European Union is the best thing that could have happened to the continent since the fall of the Roman Empire. For the jostling nations of the West to reach a state where they could no longer wage war on each other first required total catastrophe. After 1945, no sane European could go on seeking his salvation in nationalism. The ideal of a Europe united was simple: by gradually intertwining national economies, every motive for going to war – indeed, the sheer logistics of such an effort – would render war impossible. Who would lay waste to his own factories and fields?
Mere HER hos Presseurop. Kan også læses her i The Free Republic.
Caroline Glick on the Holocaust: Competing Visions of ‘Never Again’
Caroline Glick spoke at a special Yom Ha Shoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) at Young Israel of Hillcrest synagogue in Queens, New York. Her column in the Jerusalem Post deals with the same subject.
Danmark er et foregangsland både i historien og nu om dage. Vi får lidt ros af Fukuyama:
From ‘End of History’ Author, a Look at the Beginning and Middle
By Nicholas Wade – March 7, 2011
Human social behavior has an evolutionary basis. This was the thesis in Edward O. Wilson’s book “Sociobiology” that caused such a stir, even though most evolutionary biologists accept that at least some social behaviors, like altruism, could be favored by natural selection.
In a book to be published in April, “The Origins of Political Order,” Francis Fukuyama of Stanford University presents a sweeping new overview of human social structures throughout history, taking over from where Dr. Wilson’s ambitious synthesis left off.
Mere HER i New York Times. Den næste artikel handler om den internationale økonomiske krise og stammer fra Foreign Affairs, der har låst den inde. Men den kan læses hos Center for Global Development eller i pdf hos Stanford University:
The Post-Washington Consensus – Development After the Crisis
Nancy Birdsall and Francis Fukuyama – March/April 2011
The last time a global depression originated in the United States, the impact was devastating not only for the world economy but for world politics as well. The Great Depression set the stage for a shift away from strict monetarism and laissez-faire policies toward Keynesian demand management. More important, for many it delegitimized the capitalist system itself, paving the way for the rise of radical and antiliberal movements around the world.
This time around, there has been no violent rejection of capitalism, even in the developing world. In early 2009, at the height of the global financial panic, China and Russia, two formerly noncapitalist states, made it clear to their domestic and foreign investors that they had no intention of abandoning the capitalist model. No leader of a major developing country has backed away from his or her commitment to free trade or the global capitalist system. Instead, the established Western democracies are the ones that have highlighted the risks of relying too much on market-led globalization and called for greater regulation of global finance.
Mere HER hos Center for Global Development eller i denne pdf hos Stanford University.
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.
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.
Artiklen er ikke meget værd. Jeg er skuffet over Ferguson:
Why democracy will not catch on in the Arab world
Niall Ferguson – 1 Mar 2011
Today the world watches enthralled as the Arab world – from Morocco to Yemen – gropes its way towards… what? Two tyrants have been toppled and a third is teetering on the brink. The post-colonial order of feudal monarchs and military dictators is crumbling. But only a Prozac-addicted optimist would put money on the emergence of anything resembling Western-style democracy from the current revolutionary upheaval.
Where democracy has been tried in the Arab world, the results have thus far been dismal. Even full-scale military intervention by the United States, backed up with billions of dollars over nearly eight years, has created only the most fragile elected government in Iraq. Elsewhere, elections have increased rather than reduced the power of Islamist organisations such as Hamas and Hezbollah. Just why have North Africa and the Middle East lagged so far behind other parts of the world in making the transition to democracy? Much of Asia (China is the big exception) has done it. So have most Latin American countries.
Multikultur fungerer ikke, siger manden og lukker et rekord stort antal indvandrere ind i landet. Forræderiet startede under Labour og vil blive Tony Blairs eftermæle. Han ødelagde England:
Record rise in immigration as 240,000 given right to stay in just one year
By Jack Doyle on 25th February 2011
Labour’s ‘shambolic’ stewardship of the immigration system was exposed last night by figures showing that almost a quarter of a million migrants were handed the right to stay in Britain last year.
Grants of settlement, which are one step short of a passport, rose 35 per cent to 238,950 in the year to September 2010 – the highest since records began in 1960.
Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Englænderne har aldrig villet have alle de fremmede ind i landet:
How Labour let in 3 million immigrants, in defiance of the overwhelming wishes of the British people
By Sir Andrew Green on 22nd February 2011
Official figures to be published on Thursday will confirm that foreign immigration under Labour added more than three million to our population.
At the same time nearly one million British citizens voted with their feet, some saying that they were leaving because England was no longer a country that they recognised.
How could all this have happened in the teeth of public opposition? Even the Labour government’s own survey last February showed that 77 per cent of the public wanted immigration reduced, including 54 per cent of the ethnic communities, while 50 per cent of the public wanted it reduced ‘by a lot’.
Mere HER i The Daily Mail. The Daily Mail har mere om sagen – mere end 80 pct. af indvandrerne kommer fra lande udenfor EU-området:
How three million migrants came to UK under Labour in biggest population growth since Saxon times (… that’s nearly one every minute)
By James Slack on 22nd February 2011
Labour’s open-door immigration policy led to the largest population explosion since the Saxon invasion more than 1,000 years ago.
An audit of official figures last night revealed that during the party’s 13 years in power Britain’s foreign-born population increased by three million.
At the same time, nearly a million British citizens left the country.
At long last a European politician, Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron, lifted the curtain on the pernicious dimensions of multiculturalism. After several decades of home grown terrorism and an acceptance of separation by Muslim groups in the United Kingdom, the prime minister said, “Enough.”
A new course will be charted that moves from accommodation to integration. There may be a risk of xenophobia with the Cameron approach, but it is a worthwhile trade-off if terrorist impulses are thwarted.
Mr. Cameron called his strategy “muscular liberalism”: confronting extremist Islamic thought, and challenging those efforts that attempt to undermine Western values. The prime minister made special mention, for example, of zero tolerance for the subjugation of women, a practice permitted because of Islamic separation and application of Sharia Law.
Opdatering den 27. februar 2011 fra The Daily Mail, der refererer en ny meningsmåling:
Almost half the country would back a far-Right party if they gave up violence, an astonishing new poll revealed today.
A total of 48 per cent said that they would support a group that vowed to crack down on immigration and Islamic extremists.
They would also restrict the building of mosques and order the flag of St George or the Union Jack be flown on all public buildings.
Opdatering 28. februar 2011 fra The Daily Mail, der skriver, at indvandrerne også er imod indvandring:
Asians more likely to be anti-immigration than white Britons
More Asians are now opposed to immigration than white Britons, according to a new poll which reveals that opposition to new arrivals now transcends race.
Research commissioned by the Searchlight Educational Trust found that 39 per cent of Asians, 34 per cent of whites and 21 per cent of blacks believed immigration should be halted either permanently or at least until the UK’s economy was back on track.
BBC har fortjent fået masser af kritik for dette stykke politisk propaganda. Biased BBC, kaldes foretagenet blandt kendere. En ynkelig omgang værthus-psykologi baseret på uvidenhed om islam. Forsøget på at manipulere seerne er chokerende talentløst lavet. Løgn og manglende research gennemsyrer programmet. Utroligt, at de vil være det bekendt.
Fra 15. februar 2011 – BBC skriver om udsendelsen:
Geert Wilders: Europe’s Most Dangerous Man?
He was once refused entry to Britain. He has called for the Qur’an to be banned and has proposed a tax on wearing headscarves. And he is also the first politician ever to stand trial on charges of ‘incitement to hatred’. Geert Wilders, instantly recognisable for his quiff of platinum blond hair, is one of Holland’s most controversial and well-known politicians and, some argue, Europe’s most dangerous man.
Bafta-winning filmmakers Mags Gavan and Joost van der Valk follow Wilders on his campaign trail during the recent Dutch elections, meet members of the international anti-Islamic network who support him, and find out about a conspiracy theory promoting the belief that Europe is being taken over by Islam.
With anti-Islamic, anti-immigration parties on the rise all over the European continent, why has Wilders, on the brink of real power in the Netherlands, become the poster boy for the far right?
PS:Pamela Geller har aldrig sagt eller skrevet, at præsident Obama var søn af Malcolm-X. Se eventuelt også de fire artikler nævnt i “andre kilder” her under videoerne. Der er link til Melanie Phillips’ artikel i The Spectator.
If you missed my TV and radio appearances this week, here’s a recap of my thoughts on Egypt:
This is not a happy ending but the beginning of something potentially very dark. The end of the Mubarak regime is the biggest shift in the region in 60 years, since Nasser overthrew King Farouk’s dissolute monarchy and diminished London’s influence in Cairo. We are witnessing the unraveling of the American Middle East – that’s to say, of the regimes supported by Washington in the waning of British and French imperial power after the Second World War. The American Middle East was an unlovely place, and perhaps the most obviously repellent illustration of the limitations of “He may be an SOB but he’s our SOB” thinking. It’s “our” SOBs who are in trouble: After the fall of Mubarak, what remains to hold up the Hashemites in Amman? Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood is more radical than Egypt’s, the regime is less ruthless, King Abdullah’s Arabic is worse than his English, and pretty westernized Queen Rania, who seems so cute when CNN interviewers are fawning all over her, is openly despised outside the palace gates.
Mere HER i The OCRegister. Kan også læses her på Mark Steyns hjemmeside.
Roger Scruton fortæller om det undergrundsarbejde, han var involveret i før murens fald. Styret i det daværende Tjekkoslovakiet arresterede Scruton og smed ham ud af landet. Vi hører også om tiden efter murens fald og delingen af landet. Fra 31. oktober 2010 – man kan følge med i en komplet udskrift fra Radio Prague her:
Roger Scruton and a special relationship
31-10-2010 By David Vaughan
One of the most prominent guests at the Forum 2000 conference in Prague earlier this month was the conservative English philosopher and writer Roger Scruton. In the Czech Republic he is well known not just for his extensive writings on the history of modern philosophy, but also for close links he forged with Czechoslovakia in the years before the fall of communism. In this week’s Czech Books, Roger Scruton talks to David Vaughan about how his special relationship to this country has developed over the years.
Programmet startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed knap 17 minutter.
Et klart mønster tegner sig. Konservative medier får etiketten ‘højreorienteret’, hvorimod venstreorienterede får ‘uafhængig’, ‘velanset’ eller ‘troværdig’.
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