Skrivet i demokrati, in english den november 8, 2006 | 8 kommentarer »
Professor R J Rummel is complaining about IFPRIs Global Hunger Index, because they exclude “developed countries” from their data, simply because there is no hunger there. I agree with him, it makes the data much harder to use. It also, more specifically, makes it hard to know if a country missing from the data [...]
Skrivet i in english, skolan den januari 16, 2006 | 1 kommentar »
In Florida, a school voucher system that already have given seven hundred students from poor areas with poor schools a chance to get an education has been shot down by the Florida supreme school. Why? Well, you see, Florida’s state constitution guarantees a “uniform, efficient, safe, secure and high quality system of free public schools”. [...]
Skrivet i frankrike, in english den november 30, 2005 | 2 kommentarer »
The French Prime Minister and presidential hopeful, Dominique De Villepin was interviewed on CNN yesterday. It was a brilliant display of how to not say anything substantial, something French politicians and philosophers excel at. Most significantly, De Villepin avoids all kinds of answers. He avoids answering questions, and he ducks any answers to the French [...]
Skrivet i frankrike, in english den november 13, 2005 | 1 kommentar »
The integrated and the rejected. The whole fucking universe is split into two…
- From the movie “Immortal”
So, it seems I was wrong. I thought this whole debacle would not end until the French minister of interior, Nicolas Sarkozy, resigned. But he has played high political stakes and won before, and he seems to do [...]
Skrivet i frankrike, in english den november 5, 2005 | 2 kommentarer »
The sickly smell of burning rubber blankets the Paris suburbs as you ride through them. The day is calm as police wander around and large groups, but during the nights the twinkling parisian streetlights has an old companion back for a visit: The fires of riots.
For those who has read any french modern history, this [...]
Skrivet i frankrike, in english den november 2, 2005 | Inga kommentarer »
Nobody should complain that immigrants in France don’t act French. They have picked up that most French of all traditions: Street riots. I thought at first that it was just a one-off clash between police and some angry youth, Gothenburg-style, but now it’s been going on for for almost a week, in true french government-vs-people-standoff. [...]
Skrivet i in english den oktober 2, 2005 | Inga kommentarer »
Often, what distinguishes non-doctorates from doctorates in the psychology, the social sciences, and humanities is common sense versus incomprehensible or empty rhetoric. - R.J. Rummel
Skrivet i in english den september 14, 2005 | 2 kommentarer »
Niklas Hedell lives in Stockholm since 1988. When he studied in Uppsala he wanted to sublet his apartment and stay in Uppsala until he had finished the studies. However, the Rent and Tenacies Tribunal, a special court that decides issues of who is right in conflicts regarding rented apartments, and therefore in many cases decide [...]
Skrivet i in english den september 13, 2005 | Inga kommentarer »
One of our times most interesting fighters for peace and democracy is R. J. Rummel. In his blog today he has drawn a curve of the global level of democracy. Happily it is increasing in a steady pace, and Rummel comes to the conclusion that it is quite likely that we will achieve global democracy [...]
Skrivet i in english den september 12, 2005 | 2 kommentarer »
Via Johan Norbergs blog I encountered an article where Fredrik Erixon argues that foreign aid to developing countries doesn’t work. In fact he says that it actually is hurtful to the recipient countries. It’s food for thought, and actually quite a scary idea.
But I think he is wrong. Because he looks only on how [...]
