Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

"Would you host a refugee in your home?" Why would/should I? Are refugees humans? They have a (very) different culture from mine, they don't know "Western values", hosting them would encourage more refugees to come and change our 'homogenous' society, take our jobs and live on benefits....We have worked hard to make our country propserous and rich, why should other people share our wealth with us? And one day some of them might blow us up...If you asked me whether I would host a stray cat or dog, that would be a reasonable question... If you agree with the above, I am sure you would relate to this  man and host him in your home than to the Syrian children, women and men who were made refugees.

Tapia points out that  “the evolution of CO2 emissions and the economy in the past half century leaves no room to doubt that emissions are directly connected with economic growth. The only periods in which the greenhouse emissions that are destroying the stability of the Earth climate have declined have been the years in which the world economy has ceased growing and has contracted, i.e., during economic crises. From the point of view of climate change, economic crises are a blessing, while economic prosperity is a scourge.” Climate change and mitigation Related: Climate change, uneven development and poverty, obscene inequality, comsumerism, destruction of the environment, exploitation, etc. Is there a solution? Instead of inventing ways to minimize resource consumption, our smartest companies like Apple and Google work only to invent “needs” we don’t really need: drones, robots, iPhones 5-6-7, 3D printers, hoverboards, the “Internet of Things,” self-driving cars, biometric T

History of the British Empire How Britain's opium trade impoverished Indians A new research

Scholars, Spies and the Gulf Military Industrial Complex Related: (an e-book) AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain

Syria as a globalised war A critical liberal view of the West, bit it is wishful thinking. "Europe's fear of refugees is the only thing that can save Syria"

A powerful, but oft-ignored factor underlying the frustrations of Hong Kong’s people is inequality . And, contrary to the prevailing pro-democracy narrative, the failure of Hong Kong’s autonomous government to address the problem stems from the electoral politics to which the protesters are so committed. Hong Kong - the least affordable city on earth; where the inequality ratio is among the highest. A capitalist enclave left over by British imperialism. Via Michael Roberts "The cosiness between Hong Kong’s tycoons and government – both locally and extending to Beijing – a nexus blamed by many of the city’s street protesters today as the major cause of their woes: one of the developed world’s widest income gaps in the least affordable housing market on earth ." The fortunes of Hong Kong’s 75 wealthiest billionaires – estimated at US$224 billion in 2013 – made up nearly 82 per cent of the city’s gross domestic product, according to Wealth-X’s Billionaire Census. By l

A BBC journalist makes an atrocious "explanation" of atrocities Allan Little speaks about how hatred combined with fear are mobilised to commit atrocities throughout history! I emailed the BBC requesting the scholars and the studies Little relied upon to make his claims, for he never mentions a single source or authority on the subject. I am still waiting fir a response. In The Dark Side of Democracy , an article (which is also the title of his book ), the prominent sociologist Michael Mann included in his analysis of genocide and mass killings an excellent discussion of other scholars of the subject. (Michael Mann 1999) "Murderous ethnic and political cleansing is seen as a regression to the primitive—essentially anti-modern—and is committed by backward or marginal groups manipulated by clever and dangerous politicians. Blame the politicians, the sadists, the terrible Serbs (or Croats) or the primitive Hutus (or Tutsis)—for their actions  have little to do with u