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From the archives: Remember, remember 11 September; Murderous monsters in flight; Reject their dark game; And let Liberty's flame; Burn prouder and ever more bright - Geoffrey Barto "Bjørn Stærks hyklerske dobbeltmoral er til å spy av. Under det syltynne fernisset av redelighet sitter han klar med en vulkan av diagnoser han kan klistre på annerledes tenkende mennesker når han etter beste evne har spilt sine kort. Jeg tror han har forregnet seg. Det blir ikke noe hyggelig under sharia selv om han har slikket de nye herskernes støvlesnuter."
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Posts, August 2003:
Pot and kettle boogie: Self criticism is an essential part of open and vigorous debate, one we're a bit short of in Norway, (as everywhere else), and so I'm delighted to see this opinion piece in Aftenposten by Arnhild Skre, on media bias and [...] Foreign aid going to waste: The Norwegian Department of Foreign Aid is under heavy criticism from state auditors for gross misspending of aid money. Funds are wasted on pointless projects and expensive consultants, and there are few routines for retrospective self-evaluation and verification that the [...] Scooped by the NY Times: The New York Times has an interesting profile of Norway's Minister of Defense Kristin Krohn Devold, (Conservative Party), and her ideas of the advantages small countries with specialized forces can provide to NATO/US operations. It also describes a lot of [...] Appeasing the bad guys: Åslaug Haga from the agrarian-left Centre Party wants to withdraw the Norwegian forces from Iraq, (150 people or so), following the attack on the UN headquarters in Baghdad. This isn't news, she was never enthusiastic about sending them in the [...] Blame America first: Tore Winsvold works in Iraq with Church Aid, a Norwegian NGO. He is angry. This is understandable - the UN headquarter in Baghdad was blown up by terrorists yesterday, only a few kilometers from his office. People he knew were [...] Yes or no: I didn't watch the immigration debate between the Progress Party's Carl I. Hagen and Labor's Jens Stoltenberg on NRK yesterday, but the press has roundly condemned it, so it must have been good. Much of the criticism is aimed at [...] The gay Muslim vote: Norway is holding local elections in a month, and parties all over the spectrum are reaching out to two voter segments, gays and immigrants, in a way I don't think has been done before. Most active has been the Conservatives, [...] Crimes of the intellectuals: Nina Witoszek, a researcher at the University of Oslo who was born in Poland, has an interesting piece in Aftenposten, Faith and Terror - The Crimes of the Intellectuals, on the threat intellectuals often pose to democracy and freedom, drawing [...] Restoring the caliphate: Gill Doyle points to this article in the New York Times on the increasingly important role of Ansar al-Islam in coordinating resistance in Iraq: In much the same way as the Russian invasion of Afghanistan stirred an earlier generation of [...] Krekar's golden mean: While the charges of terrorism against Mullah Krekar have been dropped, his followers and friends in Ansar al-Islam are apparently stepping up their terrorist activities, and may have been responsible for the Jordanian embassy bomb in Baghdad a few days [...] AKP(ml) and IRA to the rescue: Norway have our own stories of ethnic oppression, of forced sterilization of Romani's and Gypsies, resettlement of their children, as well as cultural imperialism (the genuine kind) against the Sami's, a nomadic people that lives in northern Norway, Sweden and [...] |
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2003-08-26 Vegard Valberg, the Norwegian Blogger, is back, and writes that, contrary to popular belief, Europe is not doomed (part 2)- self-adjusting democratic forces in the form of right-wing populism will prevent the horror scenarios. 0 commentsMullah Krekar denies Ansar al-Islam involvement in UN bombing, but warns the US of new attacks if it doesn't "concede space" to Islam, including in its "own backyard", whatever that means. Elsewhere, al-Qaeda have possibly claimed responsibility for the attack on what it calls a "branch of the US State Department" - but which branch of al-Qaeda carried out the attack? 0 comments2003-08-25 My father, (a protestant minister - really!), sends these links on Mahmoud Abbas' questionable views on the tactic of terrorism and the reality of the Holocaust. "The point", he writes, "isn't to dig up everything wrong about him, but to show where skepticism of Israel can lead to." 0 comments2003-08-24 Four illuminating speeches by Defense Minister Kristin Krohn Devold: On the threat of terrorism, on Europe and NATO, the need to adapt NATO to new circumstances, and on the connection between WW2 and the war on terrorism. 0 comments2003-08-22 William Sjostrom wonders why, according to the Guardian, the Hamas attack on Israel this week wasn't a violation of the ceasefire, while the Israeli retaliation on one of its leaders was. The coverage was no better in Norway, with most media parroting straightfaced that Hamas had abandoned the ceasefire as a response to the Israeli attack. 0 comments2003-08-21 German Hans Ze Beeman has started a blog worth checking out, especially this post on the Swedish pro-capitalist author Johan Norberg, whose book is about to be published in the US. 0 commentsThe good people at document.no have begun some occasional blogging in English, latest with comments on the UN bombing. I'm of course all for Norwegians blogging in English, both out of principle and because I get more good stuff to link to. So here's to more of that! 0 comments2003-08-20 If you can't get enough of Norwegian 70's religious movements, AKP's website has a page with links to every damn article written about them during the last month. For new visitors from the parallell universe their website operates in, my own relevant entries are here, here and here. 0 commentsDutchman-in-Norway Taco has revived his blog, and opens by venting his frustration with Dagbladet. Welcome back! 0 comments2003-08-19 Oslo syndrome strikes again: Victim of Rushdie fatwa to publish Krekar's Support for EU membership in Norway falling but still strong. 0 comments2003-08-13 I've written a few things about Norwegian anti-Americanism and That 70's Legacy at NRK's webforum for media criticism. 0 comments2003-08-12 Sri Lankan marxists protest Norwegian peace involvement. 0 comments2003-08-10 Leif Knutsen and Lars Ruben Hirsch has started an interesting webmag / blog: Tenk Selv, "an alternative to accepted 'truths' presented by the Norwegian media." 0 comments2003-08-09 Ex-AKP(ml)'er Finn Sjue, who teaches journalism at Oslo College: Yes, we denied the Cambodian autogenocide, but the Americans were to blame for lying about Vietnam. 0 commentsStill racists left in the Progress Party, Jan Haugland reports. Kenneth Rasmussen in Bergen Progress Party wants to keep "Norway for Norwegians", and warns against the "dilution of an ethnically secure Norway". What happened to "no discrimination based on race, gender, religion or ethnic origin"? (Update: Hagen calls phrasing "unfortunate", but nothing more.) 0 comments2003-08-05 Dutch government ordered to pay Mullah Krekar EUR 5500 in damages for unjustifiable detainment. Similar compensation claim also made against Norway. 0 commentsLatest poll: Iraqi refugees in Norway beginning to return home. 0 commentsChild molester volunteers for chemical castration. 0 commentsBenazir Bhutto to campaign for Oslo's Conservative Party before September local elections. "Women with minority backgrounds are an important issue for Oslo Hoeyre in the election campaign." 0 comments |
