The unmaking of world order

The war on global jihad represents a greater threat to the liberal world order than the jihad networks themselves

Lars Erslev Andersen

"The rest of this article argues that the most serious threat to development of a liberal world order is the way in which liberal states have decided to wage the War on Terror and the different contradictions of the idea of a liberal world order. The article argues that the way in which liberal states, spearheaded by the US, have waged the War on Terror is a greater threat to a liberal world order than the threat from transnational and global Jihadists and terrorists."
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"It is true that the US President, Barack Obama, and the former British Prime Minister, David Cameron, stopped referring to the war against the Sunni Muslim Jihad network as the War on Terror, but despite this, not least Obama has actually intensified the war considerably during his term of office."

Are Danish women the most abused women in Europe?

One in three women report physical or sexual abuse since age of 15, with largest number of victims in Denmark

• A total of 43,000 women were interviewed – 1,500 in Denmark.
•  One in three women reported having been the victim of physical and/or sexual abuse at some point in her life.
•  8% reported having been sexually assaulted by their partner, ex-partner or a third party within the last year, and 5% had been raped.
•  12% of all Danish women between the ages of 18 and 77 had been physically or sexually assaulted by their partner at some point, compared to an EU average of 8%.
•   Every second Danish women reported that she had been the abused or assaulted by her partner, ex-partner or a third party at some time in her life, compared to one in three in the EU in general.
•   4% of Danish women reported having been abused by a partner within the last year, compared with 3% in the EU in general.

Eco-fascism

Travis Rieder, assistant director for education initiatives at the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University, told NPR that bringing down global fertility by half a child per woman “could be the thing that saves us.”

"Here’s a provocative thought: Maybe we should protect our kids by not having them"


His paper, “Population Engineering and the Fight Against Climate Change,” written with two Georgetown University professors, is scheduled to be published in October.



Sadly, what Reider misses, is that, unlike many of the world’s poor, it is highly likely that his daughter will be raised in a safe, nurturing environment with access to high quality education, plentiful energy and food, and someday may well find the cure to cancer. She is not a burden. The world will be better, not worse off, because of not in spite of her.

The New Global Financial Cold War

Suppose a country owes money to another nation’s government or official agency. How can creditors collect, unless there’s an international court and an enforcement system? The IMF and the World Bank were part of that enforcement system and now they’re saying: ‘We’re not going to be part of that anymore. We’re only working for the U.S. State Department and Pentagon. If the Pentagon tells the IMF it’s okay that a country doesn’t have to pay Russia or China, then now they don’t have to pay, as far as the IMF is concerned.’ 

The United States is ham-handed and brutal

The historical record is unequivocal. The United States is ham-handed and brutal in conceiving and executing clandestine operations, and it is simply no good at espionage; its operatives never have enough linguistic and cultural knowledge of target countries to recruit spies effectively. The CIA also appears to be one of the most easily penetrated espionage organizations on the planet. From the beginning, it repeatedly lost its assets to double agents.
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Nothing has done more to undercut the reputation of the United States than the CIA's "clandestine" (only in terms of the American people) murders of the presidents of South Vietnam and the Congo, its ravishing of the governments of Iran, Indonesia (three times), South Korea (twice), all of the Indochinese states, virtually every government in Latin America, and Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Iraq. The deaths from these armed assaults run into the millions. After 9/11, President Bush asked "Why do they hate us?" From Iran (1953) to Iraq (2003), the better question would be, "Who does not?"

Trade Liberalization and Mortality: Evidence from U.S. Counties.

greater exposure to the trade liberalization is associated with higher rates of death due to suicide and alcohol-related liver disease

"Long-term prediction of climate is not possible" IPCC

"In climate research and modelling we should recognize that we are dealing with a coupled-nonlinear chaotic system and therefore that long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible" IPCC 3rd Assessment Report (2001) Section 14.2.2.2 page 774.