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    <title>Opinion | No, American schools aren't failing</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A claim so familiar, people no longer feel obligated to back it up with evidence."

[archived: https://archive.is/WHzji ]

"The belief that American public schools are an international embarrassment, sites of endless failure, is one of the few things our polarized political system seems to agree on. After all, the transition from George W. Bush’s presidential education policy to that of Barack Obama was one of remarkable continuity, based on a shared premise: Our schools were in a broad state of emergency. Today, politicians of both parties still tell that story, as do op-ed pages and nonprofit organizations and bipartisan cable panels. The notion has hardened into an axiom, a claim so familiar that the people making it no longer feel obligated to back it up with evidence. But we don’t have to buy this narrative, and we shouldn’t — because the evidence tells us that the narrative just isn’t true.

The best way to consider a country’s educational performance is in relation to the performance of international peers, and the most authoritative international benchmark is the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) exam, which tests 15-year-olds across 81 education systems. In the most recent results, from 2022, American students tested better in reading than 68 of the 80 other systems and well above the international average. In science, they bested 56 of 80. Math is our weakest subject, but even there we outscore 43 systems and tie with a dozen more, meaning that on our worst day we still do better than more than half the developed world. Our top performers look particularly good on the PISA; for example, 14 percent of American teenagers scored at the highest level in reading, double the OECD average.

Some critics note that our education system is expensive and say that we should demand better results for our money. But this demand implies that there’s a straightforward relationship between per-pupil spending and test scores; decades of evidence demonstrate that there is not. And the results show that we produce many sterling students for our money.

Indeed, the students at the top of our system aren’t merely fine; they’re the best on earth. American teams have placed in the top three at the International Mathematical Olympiad every year for a decade and won or tied for first in 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, and 2024. In 2025, all five members of the US physics team won gold at the International Physics Olympiad, making the United States the only country to sweep gold that year. Our chemistry, biology, informatics, linguistics, and other teams collect medals year after year. These are overwhelmingly public-school kids from ordinary suburban and urban districts, outcompeting the best academic talent the world can produce. You rarely read about them because their success doesn’t fit the declinist story.

But scores are dropping, aren’t they? Yes, and that’s exactly why international context matters. The 2022 PISA results showed an unprecedented worldwide collapse, with average scores across the OECD falling roughly 10 points in reading and 15 in math. When students in Germany, Norway, and New Zealand decline in lockstep with students in Arizona and Connecticut, the cause is plainly not American teachers, unions, or curricula. (My own guess is that the smartphone is to blame, but I can’t prove it.) Even as our raw scores fell, our international rank rose in all three subjects because our peers’ scores fell further. Again, when was the last time you heard that in our media?

None of this is to deny that some American schools are in crisis. But those failures aren’t spread evenly across our system; they’re concentrated in a small number of places suffering from poverty, structural racism, and institutional decline. The United States has the highest child-poverty rate in the OECD (roughly a quarter of our children live in poverty, versus less than 10 percent in top-scoring nations like Finland and Denmark) and our socioeconomic and demographic stratification is pronounced. As such, our aggregate scores on assessments like PISA are weighed down disproportionately by disadvantaged students.

In Detroit, which sits at the bottom of every large urban US district tested, two-thirds of students were chronically absent in a recent year, speaking to a lack of stability and resources at the family level. What teachers could succeed in those conditions? Cleveland, Baltimore, districts in the impoverished rural areas of West Virginia — they all tell a similar story. The American schools that struggle the worst share no common curriculum, union contract, or pedagogy. What they share is extreme poverty, segregation, and decades of disinvestment — in local labor markets, transportation, and health care.

Imagine swapping the students of Detroit with those of wealthy Bloomfield Hills next door, where the schools have excellent performance metrics. Does anyone believe the students from Detroit would suddenly excel?

Simply shoveling money at urban schools is not the answer. In fact, poorer, higher-minority schools in the United States receive significantly more per-pupil funding than richer and whiter schools. As it stands, the teachers in the Detroit public school system are asked to achieve similar results to the ones in the Bloomfield system, despite the vast disparities in living and learning environments of the students they teach.

I’m known to be very skeptical about the influence of schools and teachers on test scores, which tend to reflect the socioeconomic conditions of groups and the variation in talent levels between individuals. But you don’t have to share my views in that regard to acknowledge that our worst-performing schools face conditions that no amount of teaching quality can overcome. And consider a fact that’s almost never reported: America’s most disadvantaged students, those in the bottom international decile in socioeconomic status, rank sixth out of 64 comparable nations in math. In other words, even in the midst of all that poverty and dysfunction, our poorest kids outperform almost all of the world’s other poorest kids. The problem is not that our schools fail poor children at an unusual rate. It is that some of our communities are deprived to a scandalous degree.

In sum, our median student does just fine, our best students are the envy of the world, but our worst-performing students drag down our averages in a way that makes our overall performance look much worse than it is — and those extreme negative outliers are almost universally found in communities with intense socioeconomic challenges.

This resolves a puzzle that has baffled pollsters for 40 years. American parents consistently rate the nation’s schools quite poorly while giving their own children’s schools high marks. Average grades for the American school system writ large typically fall in the C or D range, but more than three-quarters of parents typically give their own kids’ schools an A or B. Often this is regarded as a kind of cognitive bias, of irrationality on the part of those parents; surely, they must be viewing their own schools with rose-colored glasses, or so the conventional wisdom has long held. In fact, that attitude makes perfect sense when you reflect on the quantitative reality I’ve described: Most American K-12 schools and students really are doing quite well, which is reflected in the high marks parents give to their own local schools, but like all of us, parents have heard the relentless doomsaying about the country’s schools. Parents judge their own schools from direct experience and the national system from what they see on television. That is, on the question they actually know something about, about which they have the best evidence, they’re quite positive, and they have every reason to be.

The myth of universal failure didn’t come out of nowhere, and for the record I don’t think it was born entirely in bad faith. Some of the people who spread it were no doubt animated by a real and decent impulse to improve the lives of American children, saw the awful conditions in our inner cities, and overextrapolated their impression of school failure. Others were likely so motivated to attack public schools for ideological reasons that they didn’t care much about misrepresenting the data. Whatever the motives, over time it became far too common for politicians, pundits, and members of the media to take data that showed a handful of distressed communities dragging down otherwise strong averages and present it as proof that American education was rotten from root to branch. An honest reading pointed toward investing in poor places and pursuing avenues for shared prosperity other than just schooling; the sensationalist reading pointed toward dismantling public schools. Many people chose the sensationalist one and repeated it until it became something “everybody knew.”

The stakes are significant. If the failures of American education really are systemwide, the response has to be wholesale reform — new national mandates and perhaps a federal takeover of local education policy; even more standardized testing; the criminalization of teacher unions; private school vouchers for all. But the reality is that our educational failure is concentrated, and it’s concentrated in predictable places, which means the remedy must be too: Serious investment for the communities where poverty has done its damage, not merely for the schools that sit inside them, along with an effort to build more pathways to middle class stability for those who are not academically motivated.

There is some evidence that such investment, for example in environmental cleanup or direct financial assistance for poorer families, can improve learning outcomes. There too, though, the evidence is contested and the effects unclear. But this investment offers obvious advantages: Even if bringing more money and development into poor communities does not close academic gaps, the direct economic advantages will endure.

These efforts are both harder and more expensive than yet another round of complaining about teachers and their unions, but they have the advantage of potentially solving real problems. If we have a moral duty to improve our schools, as the school reformers insist, then that begins with a moral duty to tell the truth."]]></description>
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    <title>Forget the World Cup. Culture is becoming more fragmented</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-14T09:36:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.economist.com/briefing/2026/06/11/forget-the-world-cup-culture-is-becoming-more-fragmented</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Farewell to the monoculture"

[archived:
https://archive.is/ulDjw

via:
https://social.ayjay.org/2026/06/13/the-economist-it-might-seem.html ]

"It might seem surprising, in a world of global stars, that the 6m Danes, many of whom are fluent in English, listen mainly to homegrown music. And until fairly recently they did not. In 2019 only five songs in Denmark’s top 20 were in Danish. By last year the figure was 18.

A similar trend is under way in other countries — and in other forms of entertainment. From Asia to the Americas, music charts are increasingly dominated by local sounds. Hollywood television-streaming companies are commissioning more local productions in foreign markets, causing consumption of American shows to fall. Social networks are connecting the whole world, but so far people are mainly using them to consume local content. And as video gaming expands, it too is becoming increasingly tailored to local cultures."

...

"In music, video and interactive entertainment, global tech platforms have made it easier than ever to distribute entertainment around the world. Yet the sheer abundance of content that these platforms have helped to generate means that, more than ever, global audiences are able to assert distinctively local preferences."]]></description>
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    <title>Mapping news creators and influencers in social and video networks | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["News creators and influencers operating in social and video networks have become a significant source of news in recent years. Our own Reuters Institute Digital News Report indicates that personalities and news creators often eclipse traditional news brands in terms of attention when using certain social and video networks (Newman et al. 2023, 2024, 2025). Pew Research finds that around a fifth (21%) of adults in the United States (US) and more than a third of Under-30s (37%) now regularly get news from so-called creators or influencers, with the majority of these saying that the way these personalities present the news helps them better understand current events and civic issues (Stocking et al. 2024).

Creators are also having an increasingly important political impact, with Donald Trump courting popular YouTubers and podcasters such as Joe Rogan and the Nelk Boys in the run-up to his 2024 election victory. The recent murder of activist and podcaster Charlie Kirk, and the coverage of the aftermath, reminds us of the critical role these personalities are now playing in shaping both public opinion and political narratives. In other parts of the world, politicians such as Emmanuel Macron (France),1 Anthony Albanese (Australia),2 Claudia Sheinbaum (Mexico),3 and Keir Starmer (UK)4 have also been taking notice of these trends, incorporating social media influencers into their media strategies, prioritising interviews with TikTokkers and YouTubers – as well as inviting them to government briefings. Elsewhere, in countries where press freedom is under threat or where debate in mainstream media is restricted, we have seen creators and influencers playing a different role – providing a much-needed source of critical or alternative views.

Online influencers may be attracting more attention but at least some of their content is considered unreliable by audiences (Newman et al. 2025), with well-documented cases of false or misleading information around subjects such as politics, health, and climate change raising important questions about what this might mean for our democracies.

In this report we aim to show how the trend towards online and social media news influencers is developing in 24 countries around the world. Using an audience-based approach we identify countries where influencers are having the biggest (and smallest) impact as well as some of the most important individuals. We also provide an emerging typology or categorisation of news creators, while recognising the inherent difficulties in this process given the diversity of styles, overlapping approaches, and broad range of content.

After explaining the methodology and typology, this report contains an opening section that summarises the overall findings. This is followed by 24 individual country sections where we highlight the news creators most mentioned by audiences in our Digital News Report surveys, the main networks used, and a few other characteristics of each market. The final section draws some conclusions and references other emerging work in this area."

[via:
https://www.theverge.com/news/812078/the-reuters-institute-developed-a-typology-of-news-influencers ]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In 1966, the musician and artist Max Neuhaus met with some friends on the corner of Avenue D and West 14th Street in Manhattan. He stamped the word “LISTEN” on their hands and led them toward the East River. Without a word, the group went past a humming power plant, across a rumbling highway, over a windy pedestrian bridge, and back through the busy Lower East Side. As a percussionist, Neuhaus worked with composers like John Cage, who integrated sounds from the outside world into their pieces, but he suspected that the audience was more intrigued by the shock of the unexpected than they were willing to consider the sounds on their own merit. Neuhaus repeated his walk for the general public in a series of “Lecture Demonstrations,” explaining that “the rubber stamp was the lecture and the walk the demonstration.” These walks were a way to open the ears of participants, to give aesthetic validity to a world that was sometimes noisy, chaotic, and overwhelming.

Neuhaus didn’t know it yet, but he was one of the first leaders of a soundwalk. In the 1960s, performance artists were questioning the constraints of institutions and increasingly taking their work to the streets, blurring the boundaries between art and experience. His “Listen” series evolved from a tradition of conceptual art in which scores were written to be performed by anyone at any time. Take, for example, these instructions from Yoko Ono’s 1962 Map Piece: “Draw an imaginary map. Put a goal mark on the map where you want to go. Go walking on an actual street according to your map.” Or Milan Knižak’s Walking Event, from 1965: “On a busy city avenue, draw a circle about 3m in diameter with chalk on the sidewalk. Walk around the circle as long as possible without stopping.” By adding the simple command to listen, Neuhaus transformed his participants into both performers and audience members at once, directing their attention to the sonic environment of their everyday lives.

The term “soundwalk” was not formalized until later, with the World Soundscape Project at Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University. In the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, R. Murray Schafer, Barry Truax, and Hildegard Westerkamp began studying noise pollution in their city, leading to the 1973 publication of the book and record set The Vancouver Soundscape. A key part of their research was the soundwalk, which Westerkamp defined as “any excursion whose main purpose is listening to the environment.” She goes on to instruct her readers how to become listeners: “Wherever we go we will give our ears priority. They have been neglected by us for a long time and, as a result, we have done little to develop an acoustic environment of good quality.”

Soundwalking exists at the intersection of art, field recording, urban studies, and acoustic ecology. Perhaps the most important reference point, however, is Pauline Oliveros’s practice of Deep Listening. Oliveros’s 1974 text Native succinctly describes the ideal state of a sound walker: “Take a walk at night. Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears.” This focus on mindfulness has attracted an increasing number of people to the discipline. A soundwalk is a chance to take our eyes off our screens and our headphones off our ears, a tantalizing opportunity in an increasingly distracted world.

Viv Corringham, a vocalist and sound artist who has been practicing soundwalks for 25 years, says that “soundwalks allow our busy eyes to take a break and relax their gaze; this encourages a different focus of attention, allowing everyday sounds of the place to resonate within us.” Since she began her own practice of soundwalking, Corringham has observed how the field has evolved as it has gained popularity. “The basics remain the same but new approaches have arisen, often rooted in environmental concerns or in ‘decolonial’ listening that questions dominant Western understandings of sound.” A soundwalk is fundamentally inclusive, yet also political: Anyone can participate, but the nature of that participation is determined by factors such as location, gender, disability, and many others.

This means that you, too, can start soundwalking, right now. “Just go outside and listen. Remember that you are part of the soundscape too,” Corringham advises. “Notice whether you can hear the sounds of your own presence. Through our walking feet, we can listen to the song of the journey, to traces of previous walkers, to stories from the earth, to echoes of ancient origins, and to our own memories and associations. The essence of a place is revealed to the feet that move through it and listen.”

Soundwalking is an embodied practice, historically experienced firsthand; if a specific walk were to be shared, it was usually through written instructions, maps, or in-person events. However, artists have increasingly incorporated recording into their soundwalking practice, finding exciting ways to share their own experiences through sound. Below is a selection of recordings that demonstrates the many directions that a soundwalk can take."]]></description>
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    <title>La Base Agosto 2x15 | La cara &quot;B&quot; del modelo de bienestar escandinavo - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-09-02T06:47:22+00:00</dc:date>
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Con la participación del enayista y analaista Raúl Sánchez Cedillo."]]></description>
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    <title>Why Icelanders are happier than ever</title>
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For the third year in a row, Finland has topped the 2025 World Happiness Report. While the Nordic countries traditionally fare well in the rankings, Denmark (ranked second), Sweden (fourth), and Norway (seventh) have all reported a net lower total happiness score since the survey started, measuring a slight decline in happiness over time. In fact, out of the top 20, only seven countries have been getting happier year on year – and Iceland stands out as having one of the biggest increases of them all, seeing a 9.1% boost since its measure on the first index in 2008.

Ranked the third-happiest country in the world this year (compared to 18th in 2008), Iceland scores the highest out of all countries in social support, with impressive scores in the freedom and generosity measures as well (third and fifth respectively). Despite its relatively small population – numbering just under 400,000 – the country continues to invest in infrastructure, progressive social policies and tourism.

But the thing that makes many Icelanders the happiest is something that the government has relatively little control over: the nation's otherworldly landscapes.

"From home, from work, it's very easy to get to a national park or open spaces where we can hike, walk by the river, coast or lakes," says Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir, author of forthcoming book InnSæi: Heal, Revive and Reset with the Icelandic Art of Intuition. She especially loves the landscape's variations and stark contrasts, from green and lush to barren and black sands.

As a geologist originally from the US, Jessica Poteet moved to Iceland specifically to be closer to nature. "Being somewhere with volcanoes and Northern Lights and cotton candy-pink skies with snow-capped mountains in winter is a dream," she says. "I never take it for granted. It's one of the key things contributing to my happiness."

That said, residents note that winters can be long and dark, which can be a challenge – but that the summer's midnight Sun more than makes up for it. Poteet notes that on particularly sunny days, employers will often offer a "Sun holiday" so people can enjoy a day of hiking or skiing, depending on the season.

The country's strong social safety net also lends residents a sense of stability and ease. "During Covid, I lost my job. I was able to go on unemployment until I found a new job," says Brenna Elizabeth Scheving, another US expat living in Iceland. She also was able to take advantage of the country's generous parental leave policy, where both parents are entitled to share 12 months parental leave, up to six months each, with six weeks transferrable to the other parent. The policy applies to both adoptive and biological parents, regardless of marital status or sexuality.

Kindergarten is also available to children as young as two, which enables parents to work and generate income, knowing that childcare and education are provided for.

In fact, equitable gender policies have been built into the country's DNA for decades, with the world's smallest gender gap for 15 years running, according to the 2024 World Economic Forum. This no doubt leads to a sense of happiness as well, say residents.

"The government is run by women," says Gunnsteinsdóttir, noting that Iceland had the world's first democratically elected female president in 1980. "I was six years old when she was elected a president, and I didn't necessarily conceive of a man being a president." 

Those gender equality gains were hard fought. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Women's Day Off, when Icelandic women went on strike for a day to underscore the lack of equal representation in politics and the labour force. "I'm truly grateful to these women and the men who supported them," says Gunnsteinsdóttir. "Where you have gender equality, the social, economic and political aspects tend to be more stable and better for people and the natural surroundings. In countries with greater gender equality, people are healthier, happier and have better wellbeing." 

That's not to say Iceland hasn't had its own share of growing pains in recent years. Costs, particularly in the capital city of Reykjavík, have grown particularly high. "The cost of living is steep, especially housing, which can be a struggle for both locals and expats," said Kevin Mercier, a French photographer who has lived in Iceland the past six years and chronicles his travels at Kevmrc Travel.

The high cost of short-term rentals has been partially blamed for this rise in housing expense, and tourism in general has put some pressures on the small island. The nation has been transformed by tourism over the past decade, welcoming around 2.3 million international visitors in 2024 – nearly double the 2015 numbers) and around six times the number of residents. That said, the benefits of tourism have outweighed the costs, say many residents, and as visitor numbers continue to grow, the country is adopting new initiatives to manage the impact and protect its natural resources.

"The movement around making tourism more responsible has been very grassroots and run by Iceland Tourism in collaboration with local and central authorities and private companies," says Gunnsteinsdóttir.

Iceland's infrastructure has also seen a boost from tourism. "Finishing The Ring Road [the looped highway around Iceland that was fully paved in 2019] was great for everyone, making sometimes isolated communities now easily accessible," said Poteet. "Also, the amount of tourists to the Fagradalsfjall volcano meant the government built trails in the area almost immediately. So impressive!"

Accommodations are pushing to educate visitors about sustainability and the Icelandic way of life. Family-owned property Hotel Ranga on the south coast offers a "Live Like an Icelander" programme, where a local guide takes guests through ancient farmsteads and lets them drink from a well that is said to promote longevity. ION Hotels, owned by female entrepreneur Sigurlaug Sverrisdóttir, has committed to having a female-majority staff across its two properties, ION City Hotel in Reykjavík and the ION Adventure Hotel on Lake Thingvellir, the largest lake in Iceland.

The number of restaurants, bars and cafes has also grown to meet tourist demand, leading to more vibrant urban centres. "When I was growing up, you would walk the streets in Reykjavík and there was hardly anyone walking around in most of the year," said Gunnsteinsdóttir. "I personally quite like having people around."

Regardless of the external factors, it may be an internal sense of adaptability and resilience that leads to Icelanders' ultimate happiness. Gunnsteinsdóttir points to the ancient Icelandic word for intuition, innsæi, which translates to the "the sea within". 

"It's the world beyond words – of vision, feelings, imagination and things that brew before they come to the surface of our attention," she explains. "It also means 'to see from the inside out', which refers to having a strong inner compass that enables us to navigate the ocean of life and the world we live in."

Gunnsteinsdóttir theorises that this sense of direction comes directly from living alongside an often-unpredictable natural environment and fast-changing weather conditions. "In recent years, we've had multiple eruptions and earthquakes. When you constantly feel the earth is shaking, it really reminds you that things can change quite rapidly," she says. "When it comes to happiness, it encourages us to make the best out of what we have when things don't go according to plan.""]]></description>
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[See also:

The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World, by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian (2024)
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667306/the-hidden-globe-by-atossa-araxia-abrahamian/

"About The Hidden Globe

“Vivid, revelatory, and politically unpredictable…What bothers Abrahamian, in the end, isn’t the anarchic but the unfair; if capital is free, people deserve the same respect.” — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker

“A season of unrest looms ahead, and The Hidden Globe lays out the unvarnished truth in a luminous feat of reportage.”—Hamilton Cain, Minneapolis Star Tribune

Borders draw one map of the world; money draws another. A journalist’s riveting account exposes a parallel universe that has become a haven for the rich and powerful.
 
A globe shows the world we think we know: neatly delineated sovereign nations that grant or restrict their citizens’ rights. Beneath, above, and tucked inside their borders, however, another universe has been engineered into existence. It consists of thousands of extraterritorial zones that operate largely autonomously, and increasingly for the benefit of the wealthiest individuals and corporations.

Atossa Abrahamian traces the rise of this hidden globe to thirteenth-century Switzerland, where poor cantons marketed their only commodity: bodies, in the form of mercenary fighters. Over time, economists, theorists, statesmen, and consultants evolved ever more sophisticated ways of exporting and exploiting statelessness, in the form of free trade zones, flags of convenience, offshore detention centers, charter cities controlled by foreign corporations, and even into outer space. By mapping this countergeography, which decides who wins and who loses in the new global order—and helping us to see how it might be otherwise—The Hidden Globe fascinates, enrages, and inspires."

and

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/books/review/the-hidden-globe-atossa-araxia-abrahamian.html

"Freeports, Free Zones and Other Places With Perks — for the Rich
In “The Hidden Globe,” the journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian examines the rise of spaces where wealthy countries and companies bend rules and regulations to their advantage.

...

In the early 1960s, an American named Richard Bolin, who was working for the consulting firm Arthur D. Little, pitched an idea to the Mexican government. What if it put factories along its border with the United States and allowed them to produce goods that could be exported duty-free? The goal was to jump-start the economy in the border region while at the same time encouraging free trade. The factories built under this plan, called maquiladoras, exist to this day. The concept behind them — that you could siphon off part of a country and allow it to play by different rules — has spread globally.

Take, for instance, the Geneva Freeport, a warehouse complex where collectors can store, buy and sell art, wine and other valuables without being taxed. Or the Dubai International Financial Center, a 110-acre “free zone” spread across the center of Dubai where registered foreign businesses can benefit from tax breaks and expedited immigration procedures for employees. Or Próspera, a resort town on the Honduran island of Roatán that functions as a semiautonomous territory, with its own tax and governance system, as well as an e-residency program enabling people to incorporate a business there even if they don’t live on the island.

The rise and spread of these “extraterritorial domains” is the subject of Atossa Araxia Abrahamian’s new book, “The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World.” Abrahamian, a journalist who grew up in Geneva, a city rife with enclaves “bound by some Swiss laws, but immune from others,” traces the development of such zones, talking to some of the people who made them happen, including a few who regret their role in helping countries excise pieces of themselves in the name of allowing the already privileged to become even wealthier.

In Abrahamian’s telling, these features of what she calls the hidden globe have their roots in freeports, places that emerged centuries ago, originally in Italy, so that traders on long journeys could store perishable merchandise for a short time without having to go through local customs. But these zones have lately taken on a life of their own, she writes, as “capitalists, forever pursuing profit, regard liminal and offshore jurisdictions as frontiers.” Shipping companies have figured out how to reflag their ships, registering them to countries with less regulation. Nations have developed special economic zones exempt from tariffs and other taxes to attract foreign investment. And governments eager not to admit asylum seekers have established offshore domains where they can hold and process people arriving at their borders without documentation.

One interesting argument Abrahamian makes is that these exceptional areas came about as imperialism was declining; in some respects, they represent a less conspicuous form of colonialism. By setting up special economic zones, for instance, richer countries push poorer ones into participating in manufacturing and trade relationships without having to deal with local rules or regulations. In Mauritius in 1970, the Parliament passed a law giving tax breaks and customs exemptions to firms that produced exports; though the firms were located within the nation’s territory, they functioned as if they were outside it — not subject to normal protocols. The law led to an economic boom that generated jobs but not necessarily good ones. The concessions lowered the minimum wage and made women — the majority of the firms’ work force — more vulnerable to sexual harassment.

Abrahamian’s interviews with the people — the vast majority of them men — who helped develop and run these special economic zones provide a window into how just a few economists and consultants could change the way countries around the world operate. But her accounts of the conversations can be meandering, and sometimes divert her from a focus on the final product: the unusual jurisdictions her book seeks to illuminate.

Abrahamian is ostensibly looking at how wealthy nations and companies create zones for the benefit of capitalists and entrepreneurs, and for the states themselves. But some of her examples don’t fall obviously into this category. She devotes a heart-wrenching chapter to Abdul Aziz Muhamat, an asylum seeker from Sudan who spent years detained on Manus Island, which is part of Papua, New Guinea, but was used by Australia to detain migrants and prevent them from entering Australian territory. While Muhamat’s story is fascinating, Abrahamian does not explain how such “extralegal” zones figure in Australia’s economic interest. Moreover, as she acknowledges, almost all its offshore detention centers have been shut down, undercutting her argument that these places are hallmarks of the new world order.

Abrahamian ends her book with the tale of Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago with no passport control and thus where, at least in theory, anyone can live. In some ways, it is the anti-special zone: a place where capitalists can’t expect special treatment because no one can. “Svalbard suggests that out of the darkness we might coax some light,” she writes. Finding solace in a place without borders makes for a nice conclusion, but it skips over the question of what to do about the rest of the world — the hidden globe of Abrahamian’s title. The answer might require another book."]]]></description>
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    <title>Mads Gilbert Unapologetic - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2024-05-29T19:54:13+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["“There shall be no trace of Palestinian society, culture, history because they going to be wiped out… This is I think the plan for the Zionists.”

Mads Gilbert is a Norwegian anesthesiologist and emergency medicine specialist who has made frequent trips since 1982 to Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza to help deliver urgent medical care to Palestinian victims of Israeli atrocities.

On UNAPOLOGETIC he shares his experiences, and how by providing medical services he has come to understand both Israel and the Palestinian liberation struggle against occupation and colonisation. 

He is a firm advocate on the right for Palestinians to resist the occupation with arms within the confines of International law.

00:00 Intro
01:12 The medical situation in Gaza
04:57 First trip to Lebanon in 1982
07:28 Israel's brutality in 1982 Lebanon
10:22 Learning about the Palestinian story and Israeli colonialism
12:30 The epistimicide of the Palestinians
16:12 Did you think there would be justice after Bierut 1982
19:30 A brief history of Israeli impunity
23:00 International law is being torn up
25:12 Gaza's gas and continental shelf
27:33 Did you think this would go on for 7 months
30:41 Society let the holocaust happen and are doing the ame now
32:00 The importance of Palestinian resistance
35:40 Gaza health care workers killed and tortured
39:00 accuracy of health stats out of Gaza
42:00 Scale of the destruction
45:50 heroism of Palestinian healthcare workers
50:00 Impact of Israel's seige on health pre October 7th
52:40 800 people to 1 toielt in Gaza right now
55:10 history of false accuations against al shifa hospital
58:35 fake claims against UNRWA
01:01:00 ever heard of an Israeli hopsital or ambulance bombed
01:02:30 Right to resist with arms
01:04:22 Gaza 2008
01:07:37 Compassion fatigue
01:10:26 Our obligation is to rebuild Gaza
01:13:39 Protests need to translate into electoral losses
01:15:17 Not a difficult conflict a difficult occupation
01:17:00 What if the worst happens
01:20:30 The pier may be used for sinister reasons
01:23:00 We are all Gaza"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The transition to a zero-emission passenger vehicle fleet has become imperative because of the growing concerns about climate change. Here, we investigate the trends and socioeconomic determinants influencing emitting and battery electric vehicle ownership using longitudinal data of Norwegian households with any vehicle ownership record from 2005 to 2022, accounting for over 2.4 million unique households. Intriguingly, more than half of the households owning battery electric vehicles had three or more of these vehicles in 2022, indicating an unbalanced ownership distribution concentrating on the wealthiest. Moreover, almost one in ten households once owned battery electric vehicles discontinued ownership by 2022. Our population-level panel data analysis indicates that lower income, having children, and working away from the residence municipality are positively linked to owning emitting vehicles, while demonstrating the opposite effect for battery electric vehicle ownership. Household size and educational attainment also appear to drive vehicle ownership positively."

[via:

https://twitter.com/materialist_jew/status/1775584295794495727

"market-based, "green" consumption strategies (as exemplified by current US policy) mostly just generate new market segments (luxury markets, etc.) https://twitter.com/materialist_jew/status/1775584295794495727 "

<blockquote>This is really hurting my mind: "more than half of the households owning battery electric vehicles had three or more of these vehicles in 2022" https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01303-z "<blockquote>]]]></description>
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    <title>We Did It to Make Margarine. Nobody remembers why we killed the… | by Seth Miller | Mission.org | Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2024-03-21T17:55:26+00:00</dc:date>
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https://www.scopeofwork.net/whale-on-toast/ ]

"Nobody remembers why we killed the whales.

We remember that we saved them. In 1975, a splinter group from the anti-nuclear organization Greenpeace set out on dinghies to chase the Soviet whaling ship Vlastny, positioning itself between its harpoon and a pod of eight sperm whales. The activists intended to serve as shields, betting that the Soviet harpooner would not fire with humans at risk.

They were wrong. After an animated discussion amongst the Vlastny crew, the harpooner fired over the heads of the activists and into a female sperm whale. She screamed in agony. The bull whale accompanying her did what bulls always do, charging the Soviet ship in response. The harpooner fired a second shot into him, and he screamed too.

The water filled with blood; the whales were dragged in to be butchered and reduced to oil. The activists’ immediate mission ended in failure, but saving these particular whales was never the point. Photos and footage of the carnage were soon broadcast by Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News, causing a public firestorm. When Greenpeace returned to confront the same ship the following year, the harpoons did not fire. And within another decade, commercial whaling would cease entirely, driven back by a never-ending barrage of Save the Whales bumper stickers and the highest level of international diplomacy.

But in all honesty, whaling mostly ended because we ran out of whales.

Over the course of the 20th century hunting claimed almost 3 million whales, reducing the population over 80%. More than half the ocean’s blue whales were killed in the 1930s alone. The whaling industry itself declared a moratorium on the hunting of humpback whales in 1966, to protect them from extinction. We slaughtered the whales so fast, and so thoroughly, the killing undermined the industry that depended on it.

Surely we must have done this for a reason. Governments argued that national security, jobs, and their very culture depended on it. Whaling was not just another industry — it was a source of national pride.

So what does it say about us that, just a few decades later, we can’t remember almost any of the specifics?

And what does it say that we hear the exact same claims being made today to defend an even greater danger to the environment — fossil fuels?

***

By all rights, Abraham Gesner should have saved the whales.

Humans have been hunting whales for centuries, though unlike other hunters, whalers had little interest in eating their kill. Whale blubber, boiled down, yields an oil which burns brightly with little stench or smoke. In the 1800s, the hunt claimed about 300,000 whales, most of them sperm whales — the species with the highest quality oil for lighting. And we used that oil to illuminate our city streets, lighthouses, and (for the well-to-do) our homes.

Gesner, a Canadian doctor and amateur geologist, discovered in 1846 that the distilled “essence of coal” burned as a high quality flame, and began a quiet but profound revolution — the move towards liquid fossil fuels. Gesner founded the Kerosene Company (a name of his own invention, combining the Greek words for wax and oil), and by 1857 the Kerosene brand of coal oil was being offered as an illuminant and lubricant throughout the United States. Up to that time, the poor burned cheap concoctions such as camphene, a mixture of camphor, turpentine, and ethyl alcohol that produced a dim, smoky light, and had an unfortunate propensity to explode without warning. Safer, brighter Kerosene took over that market, and briefly provided Gesner a comfortable life in Brooklyn.

Within a couple of years, however, free-flowing oil was discovered in Pennsylvania. And newly-derived petroleum kerosene married the quality of the best whale oil with a cost lower than Gesner’s coal oil, and so put both out of business.

The whales should have been able to rest.

Of course, they weren’t. Over the next 70 years the hunt would push nearly all whales to the brink of extinction. We hunted nearly every species: sperm and grey and blue and humpback and fin and more. We hunted in both hemispheres. There was no escape; whales were without exception killed and rendered for their oil, the meat thrown back to the sea or ground up for animal feed. By 1900, petroleum kerosene was so cheap and plentiful that the whaling fleet should have been run ashore and sold for scrap. But newer, diesel-powered ships also made whaling cheap.

And so whaling companies considered a very simple question: If they could reduce the price of the hunt, what beyond lighting could a whale be good for?

***

Lighting was the major market for whale oil in the 1800s, but not the only one. Whale oil literally lubricated the industrial revolution in the US, keeping cotton spindles and other equipment in operation. Baleen — a bone-like structure used by whales to filter seawater — was in demand to architect women’s corsets, thanks to the material’s unique strength and flexibility.

But petrochemicals and steel soon proved superior in these tasks, and these markets for whale also collapsed. In 1857, Cincinnati’s William Fee invented a huller to split the tough seed of cotton, enabling inexpensive extraction of this vegetable oil for lubrication, and use in candles and soap. By the end of the 19th century, the American whaling fleet — once the greatest in the world — barely existed. It had no reason to.

Yet the Norwegians, without access to fats from vast fields of cotton or sprawling prairies of lard-rich cows, still prized oil from whales. They brought the cost of whaling down by introducing steam-powered ships and explosive harpoons. Rudolf Diesel’s new, efficient petroleum engines soon powered Norway’s hunt to breeding grounds in Antarctica. Massive, fast whales would have torn apart previous ships or evaded capture entirely, yet by the turn of the century even a 30 meter blue whale could be hunted and trapped with diesel and steel. 1903 saw the production of the first large-scale factory ships which could process whales into oil right on the Antarctic ice; to save room, the crews threw the worthless meat and bones overboard.

And just as technology enabled the harvesting of nature’s vast reserves of blubber, two new fads spiked demand in Europe — enough to make the whaler’s adventures pay.

First came soap: In the late 1800s the germ theory of disease and the popularization of hygiene ended the European aversion to washing, and soapmakers were suddenly faced with the task of disinfecting 400 million commoners. Soapmakers needed abundant, cheap fats, and whaling rose to the challenge.

And then came margarine.

In 1867, with rising European population and wealth driving up the price of traditional fats, Emperor Napoleon III of France offered a prize to anyone who could create a low-cost butter substitute for his army. French chemist Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès rose to the challenge, delivering an inexpensive formulation of beef fat and skim milk. He sold his formulation to the Dutch company Jurgens, who in turn improved the process and scaled it. Buoyed by Jurgen’s successes, competitors moved in to develop their own spreadable fats, and in 1911 Procter & Gamble created the first hydrogenated vegetable oil, Crisco, marketed as a replacement for lard and butter, and every kitchen baker’s best friend.

Within a few years, hydrogenated margarine would become the whale’s greatest enemy.

British interest in margarine soared during WWI when rural men left the countryside to fight, temporarily halting agriculture production of butter. With a fishy smell and taste, whale oil was inferior to both butter and Dutch margarine in nearly every respect, yet offered a new supply of fats to the blockaded nation, and provided glycerine for the manufacture of explosives. Britain declared whale oil critical to national defense in both WWI and WWII, negotiating with Norway to ensure that barrels flowed towards it, not Germany.

But the true market breakthrough was not until 1929, when research scientists working for the Lever Brothers and the Margarine Union (which included Jurgens) learned to make whale oil odorless and stiff. The collaborators merged in 1930 to form the Anglo-Dutch conglomerate Unilever, and from that point forward margarine surpassed soap as the decisive market for whales. Unilever integrated vertically to ensure its supply, effectively becoming the sole buyer for Norwegian whale oil, and the dominant seller to European markets. Its formulation was a success, and word spread: in just one year — 1931 — the whale harvest more than tripled. And while this torrid growth could not be sustained, whalers never looked back, and never found a stronger market.

It was margarine that built the modern whaling fleet. It was margarine that pushed nearly all of the world’s whales to extinction. In the 1950s and 1960s, some whales were harvested for meat by the Japanese. More fell to the Soviets, who under Stalin would extinguish over half a million animals with almost no thought to their value, in support of yet another five year plan.

But mostly, the whales were spread on toast.

***

Today, every environmental story feels like the history of the whales. Yet in this, the end of whaling offers hope.

The International Energy Agency is insistent that the world’s transition away from fossil fuels will be slow, requiring the entire century to complete. Careful, deliberate movement is needed to preserve our economy and our jobs. Wind and solar energy has fallen dramatically in price, but in all but the sunniest areas of the globe coal remains cheaper. The internal combustion engine adds carbon dioxide to the skies and soot to our lungs, yet battery-powered transport looms frustratingly out of reach. Cost, not capability, lingers as the planet’s greatest enemy.

Yet starting in the 1960s, the global economy transitioned away from cheap whale oils to replacements. And no one noticed.

At its peak in the 1840s, the US whaling industry employed roughly 0.2% of the US population (the equivalent of 650,000 people today), and was America’s fifth largest industry. By the 1860s, its total economic output had fallen by half; by the 1870s it had fallen by half again. The United States moved to iron and steel.

American whalers were supplanted by Norwegians, who not only undercut US wages, but out-innovated them as well. Norway remained the dominant whaling nation for a century, and was an opponent of the quotas set by the International Whaling Commission from its inauguration in 1949, a year when Norway alone accounted for over half of global whale oil production.

But in the 1950s the Norwegian government recognized whaling as an industry in decline, due to both increased competition from vegetable oils and the global slump of whale stocks. By 1960, when Japan took over as the world’s premier whaling nation, Norway had already idled thousands of sailors, carpenters, and blacksmiths. Norway’s whaling capital of Vestfold County should have, by all accounts, seen a huge rise in unemployment. But it did not, because the country had prepared. Sailors were laid off slowly, and found work in shipping and transport; suppliers of specialized whaling equipment retooled, and moved into new markets. The Scotland-based Salvesen Company diversified from whaling into cold storage, and began a profitable business transporting frozen food from Norway to the rest of Europe.

Norway’s century-long dominance of whaling unwound in just a decade. The economy, even in Vestfold, did not pause.

And all nations finally stood down in 1986, thanks to continued pressure from groups like Greenpeace. Whaling ships idled. Whalers found new jobs. The world turned its attention to the stock market and the space shuttle and the ominous threat to national cultures from heavy metal music.

And finally, slowly, the whales began to return.

***

Oil and gas employment is, proportionately, about as large today in the US as whaling was in the 1850s. Or as whaling in Norway was in the 1950s. There is talk of petrochemical jobs, and economics, and of course national security — all of which are true. But they were all true for whaling.

Thirty years after we relinquished our floating factories, we have forgotten even why we hunted.

We will say the same about carbon. We have the opportunity — the moral freedom — to choose whether to chase the climate to exhaustion as we once chased the whales. We can declare the end of fossil fuels before they are gone, just as we declared the end of whaling before the last whales went extinct. We can change.

And we can make this transition without the economic devastation predicted by those who make their money off of oil today.

For those who talk about the unique importance of coal and gas oil, and the value they bring, I ask: Why did we kill the whales? We slaughtered millions of nature’s largest creatures for the most pedestrian of reasons. And on the very brink of losing them forever, we learned we did not really need to consume them at all. Whaling could have ended in the 1950s or 1930s or even 1850s without history batting an eye.

We did it to make margarine.

We have let go of industries before in the interest of saving the planet, with losses so trivial we can’t even recall what they were.

So please, remind me again: Why do we burn fossil fuels?"]]></description>
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"Sources:

Strmiska, Michael. “Ásatrú in Iceland: The Rebirth of Nordic Paganism?” Nova Religio 4.1 (2000): 106–132. Web.

Zarrillo, Dominick. “The Icelandic Witch Craze of the Seventeenth Century” (2018)

Gunnell, Terry “The Performance of Ásatrú: The Background and Nature of the Annual and Occasional Rituals of the Ásatrúarfélag in Iceland” (2005)

The Galdrabók, translated by Stephen E Flowers, PhD

Icelandic Magic: Aims, tools and techniques of the Icelandic sorcerers by Christopher Alan Smith"]]></description>
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    <title>Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: Debunking &quot;Norwegian Prison Reform&quot; As Propaganda with Oakland Abolition and Solidarity</title>
    <dc:date>2023-04-02T20:41:15+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this episode we interview Brooke Terpstra and James Carlin, members of Oakland Abolition and Solidarity. Oakland Abolition and Solidarity supports prisoners’ efforts to organize for their own self-defense against inhumane treatment. They function as a liaison, building bridges between inside and outside to support prisoners organizing their local chapters. They advocate the abolition of incarceration, white supremacy, and capitalism.

We speak with Brooke and Carlin about a recent announcement made by California Governor Gavin Newsom, that claims that he will transform San Quentin prison into a Norwegian style prison. This claims has been widely disseminated within mainstream media, alongside visions of Newsom as some transformational prison reformer. Ultimately this is a form of carceral propaganda that serves a similar function of other forms of copaganda that we see all the times with relation to policing. 

Brooke and Carlin talk about some of the realities of San Quentin, its role in our imagination of prisons in the US which unsurprisingly out of step with the reality on the ground inside. We also talk about these concepts of "the Norway Model," or "Norwegian prisons," or "Scandinavian prisons," and how these concepts function in our society. Discussing the propaganda purpose they serve, which is more significant than the actual reality of these types of projects. There’s also some discussion of efforts, which happen across the country, to develop a small set of programs inside individual prisons that can serve as smokescreens for the prison system as a whole. To have an individual prison capable of hosting tours, and producing 5 o’clock news segments of prisoners doing organic gardening, taking yoga classes, or training emotional support dogs as part of an effort to mystify the level of violence that is the every day reality of all prisoners locked up.

We also talk a little bit broadly about why the idea of Norwegian prisons has currency in the US, who this appeals to, and discuss possible motivations for politicians deploying this language and image through the media.  We close with a brief discussion of whether California actually represents a model for decarceration with its declines in prison population over the last 15 years or so. 

Most of this conversation is dedicated to debunking certain ideas and mythologies, but the work of groups like Oakland Abolition and Solidarity is extremely important. Here is a link to their website [https://oaklandabosol.org/ ] and also a link where you can donate to support their work [https://oaklandabosol.org/support/ ]."


...

"[Brooke Terpstra] Well, I was debating how to approach thinking about this interview. Should we even talk about the reality of what goes on in Scandinavia, or just talk about it as the mythological contours in the United States? I think more important and at hand is how it plays out in terms of narratives and building legitimacy. It’s essentially an invocation here in the United States. The reality of the Nordic or Scandinavian model is never instituted in the United States. Even if all these programs in San Quentin – that’s not the Nordic model. But even if it were the Nordic model, Scandinavia is not some utopia. You have no idea what it actually constitutes.

I think that should be a topic for another show: the mythology of social democracy and of whiteness in northern Europe. Globally, incarceration has a direct relationship between income inequality, settler colonialism, and the rate of incarceration. We have nothing in common in Norway, except that it’s also a deluded white supremacist nation state. Which – I don’t need the Nordic model for that – I already live in the United States, which is a white supremacist nation state. We have more in common with Brazil, with Palestine, with the Philippines in terms of the actual, structural function of incarceration. But in terms of the discourse, capital T capital D, around the Norway model and how it functions as an invocation – as an image – within the imaginary, especially the liberal-progressive one. And those are synonyms, at this point: progressives are basically liberals with stolen vocabulary from radical movements.

It’s basically an invocation because, one, it’s highly legible to white liberals. Norway is 90 percent white and it’s a 91 percent white, gated community. So, they can imagine themselves in that context. Two, it affirms their fantasies about the beneficence of the state. Whenever there’s headway made about accurately portraying – when understanding progressives in the United States, [when] incarceration is delegitimized, which it has been over the past 20 years, that’s due our hard work and to resistance inside. Everybody breaking their backs, organizing, and pushing. Not to mention the completely obvious failures on every front in terms of what it’s promised to deliver in material terms and lived conditions. I mean, half the country knows what time it is with prisons, and that’s the populations and communities that are policed and go inside, that get locked up."

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    <title>HandsOn: Touching the Digital Planet | Society for Cultural Anthropology</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["HandsOn is about the extraordinary ways our fingers and hands sense, guide, and grip our digital world. In this series we examine the tensions and connections between our sense of touch and the digital universe that drives our everyday lives. That said, this is not a series on the digital, rather it is a collection of essays about hands on and in a digital planet. To understand the impact of the digital environments in which we live, we also need to understand and write forth situations where there are hands on the material world, grasping non-digital spaces.

The most extraordinary thing about hands, palms, and fingers are the ways they move, touch, and reveal disparate human conditions. The thirteen essays in this series connect to different parts of the sensory cortex, yet they are all concerned with the ways our hands touch, absorb, or are indifferent to the digital segments of living. From Zanzibar, Krishnendu Ray keeps an eye on Wahida, as she skillfully uses her hands to prepare and serve food. He reconsiders the human hand in a digital world that still cooks and cleans too close to sharp edges and fires. From Unjárga-Nesseby in Northern Norway, Stine Rybråten writes about Sara, who picks cloudberries with one hand. In her other hand she holds the smartphone that makes it possible for her dad to share what they used to do side-by-side. While many youngsters seem to live online, their fingers always busy, Trygve Beyer Broch examines how young boys thrive in handball arenas, throwing, embracing, and high-fiving. Don Kulick pays much more attention to his hands than he used to. Diagnosed with Raynaud’s syndrome and living in Sweden, he puts his digits to use to search online for warmer weather elsewhere—Portugal perhaps. Tuva Beyer Broch considers her young interlocuters swiping and scrolling, and remembers her own youth, taking turns in writing a diary with a friend. Lenore Manderson shares the history of her hand, its brace and finding the nerve to manage nerves and nervousness. Our hands are mischievous and can do many tasks online and off, as Anne Meneley explains. Marie Heřmanová examines a closeup of entwined fingers, a mother holding her baby’s hand, baby feet in a father’s big hand. Instagram is full of hands. Saiba Varma uses creative prose to explore—perhaps to lessen the hurting of writing about hands that hurt. To explore how hands convey feelings of injury, she brings in two voices that share their experiences about hands that hurt through and by music and social media. Aalyia Sadruddin writes from Rwanda, where young and old train their hands to participate in new forms of social and economic life defined by digitalization. Anna-Maria Walter generally follows Alpine skiers online, however, to take snapshots in remote destinations, she holds her smartphone and ski poles tight in their pursuit. From Japan Daniel White and Hirofumi Katsuno ask, “How does the design of artificial hands transform what hands can do?” as they consider the edges between our sense of touch and technology. Ninety-nine percent of all online communication moves through cables at the bottom the oceans. Nefissa Naguib considers Per’s freezing hands as he splices together cables that have come undone to keep us in touch online."]]></description>
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    <title>Chile is rewriting its constitution. Americans should pay attention. | The Week</title>
    <dc:date>2022-01-16T22:44:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://theweek.com/feature/opinion/1008980/chiles-bold-new-political-experiment</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Unlike America, Chile is trying to fix the problems"

"Chile has a new president-elect: Gabriel Boric, a scruffy 35-year-old who looks like any of about a hundred leftist podcasters. The country is also in the process of writing a new constitution, thanks to a referendum that passed by an eye-popping 4-1 margin. A prime focus of the new government will be what to do with its enormous reserves of lithium, even as the departing president continues to sell off leases to extract it.

Meanwhile, the American Supreme Court recently struck down President Biden's coronavirus vaccine mandate in part because COVID-19 "is not an occupational hazard in most" workplaces. Chile is blazing a totally new political trail in the process of tackling the most urgent problem facing humanity, while the American government is a mummified hulk unable to carry out elementary acts of self-protection.

Climate policy, the relationship of the people to their government, the ownership of national resources — these questions and more are being decided right now by the Chilean people. It's a time of danger and opportunity for Chile, and a lesson for the United States that national institutions can be changed at will.

Let me start with some background. Both Boric's election and the new constitution are rooted in a giant outbreak of political unrest that began back in 2019. As Lili Loofbourow explained at Slate at the time, this was due to a confluence of factors: extreme inequality, rampant corruption, high debt, and rent burdens, and perhaps most importantly, a political system that was virtually non-responsive to the popular will. Prior to 2019, voter turnout was pitiful, and only about one-fifth of the population was affiliated with a political party.

This was intentional. The old constitution was written under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in 1980 (after seizing power, with American help, in 1973), and approved through a referendum of dubious legitimacy. In its original incarnation, it was highly anti-democratic: It had two chambers of the legislature, extremely unequal representation between districts, a military veto over certain policy matters, and other structures intended to prevent voters from having much influence over policy, especially taxation and welfare.

Aside from the typical dictator instincts, these structures of economic authoritarianism came from Pinochet's American advisers. He invited a bunch of neoliberal economists from the University of Chicago (often called the "Chicago boys") to use Chile as a sandbox for their utopian theories. They were very upfront about their preferences. "Personally, I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking in liberalism," the economist Friedrich von Hayek told a Chilean newspaper at the time (with "liberal" meaning "neoliberal" in a current context).

A central tenet of neoliberalism is that property should be protected from democracy — that it should be illegal, if at all possible, to expropriate the rich or even tax them much. This kind of thinking is naturally highly attractive to the wealthy, like Pinochet's backers and the dictator himself, who accumulated a huge hoard of wealth while in power. Thus all the numerous obstacles to taxing and spending, and thus Chile's enormous inequality today.

At any rate, while the constitution has been amended numerous times over the years to remove these structures, it still created an ossified and corrupt political class. Soon enough, a classic brushfire social rebellion got started thanks to a modest subway fare increase that was simply one imposition too many. Two years of mass protests, strikes, and organizing later, and Chile's got a fresh new president and is in the process of writing a new constitution.

But what is Chile's upcoming new government going to do with its power? A new constitution is all well and good, but there will still be difficult policy decisions to consolidate a prosperous egalitarian system.

That brings me to lithium. As Somini Sengupta writes at The New York Times, Chile has the second-largest proven lithium reserves in the world (behind Australia), and what should be done with them is a central question for the constitutional drafters. These are both a promise and a danger. On the one hand, they will be fantastically lucrative to develop, and the world very badly needs lithium to produce the necessary batteries to power the transition away from fossil fuels. On the other hand, international mining corporations will swipe all the money if they possibly can, the process of extraction can be environmentally toxic, and if the Chilean economy becomes dependent on lithium profits, it will be harmed by its inevitable wild gyrations in price.

The example of what Norway did with oil is an instructive model to follow. When that country found huge reserves in the North Sea, the first thing it did was declare them the property of the Norwegian state and people. They then hired an outside firm to teach their state-owned oil company how to build an ocean drilling platform, and proceeded to carry out drilling in-house, rather than hiring a contractor to do it. Then, when the money started rolling in, Norway invested it rather than spending it outright.

Today, the Norwegian government owns three-quarters of its national wealth outside of owner-occupied homes, and a staggering 1.4 percent of all the stock market equities in the world, in trust funds that are the collective property of all Norwegians. This also prevented the oil money from giving Norway the economic "Dutch disease" or becoming too dependent on the price gyrations of a single commodity — as Venezuela learned in 2014 to its chagrin.

If a lithium company was similarly set up as part of a Chilean national fund, it would be only natural to mine it slowly and carefully so that environmental damage is minimized and the reserves are not tapped out too quickly. A private company will logically tend to skimp on protections, pillage the land, and leave behind a polluted wasteland, but if profits are only one objective among several, a state-owned firm could take its time and keep degradation to a minimum. Fundamentally, if the Norwegian government can operate oil rigs in about the most difficult location imaginable, then Chile should be able to mine its own lithium.

In any case, from an American vantage point, this is all frankly staggering. The U.S. Constitution is so entrenched as a part of national culture and identity that it is practically a fetish object. No other country has our kind of quasi-theological legal culture, where various factions try to achieve political outcomes by installing their partisans on the bench and dreaming up tortured readings of constitutional provisions.

At present, it's impossible to imagine a referendum to draft a new constitution passing at all, let alone by anything close to Chile's 4-1 margin. It's similarly impossible to imagine using any of America's vast natural resources to set up a social wealth fund that might distribute some of the profits currently hoarded by the billionaire class to all the people.

To be fair, Chile's constitution was tainted by its association with a brutal, mass-murdering and -torturing dictator, and so it was relatively easy to convince Chileans to ditch it. But for an American, this only underlines the importance of imagination and organization in politics. The American Constitution is objectively just as bad as the Pinochet-era Chilean one, if not worse, and for basically the same reasons. It was deliberately designed to insulate political power from voters, its basic structure is wildly unfair and easily a century out of date, and for complex reasons, it has gotten even worse over time.

Chile is not the only country in the western hemisphere where the political system has frozen into an ossified, dysfunctional mess. But it turns out a constitution, no matter how old, is just some words on a page. If enough people demand a new one, it can be done. After all, it's how we got our current Constitution in the first place. No time like the present to start asking."]]></description>
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    <title>This Norwegian Island Wants to Become the World’s First Time-Free Zone | Smart News Arts &amp; Culture | Smithsonian Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2021-12-24T15:46:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews-arts-culture/norwegian-island-wants-become-worlds-first-time-free-zone-180972443/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["‘Our goal is to provide full flexibility, 24/7,’ one resident said. ‘If you want to cut the lawn at 4 a.m., then you do it.’"

[See also (note that only the Guardian has a correction at the top of the article):

"The Norwegian island that abolished time: 'You can cut the lawn at 4am'
Residents of Sommarøy, bright 24/7 in summer, say they want to do ‘what we want, when we want’

Update: After publication, as anticipated in the article, it was confirmed that the proposal had been a publicity stunt to promote tourism."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/20/sommaroy-island-norway-attempt-create-first-time-free-zone

"Living Life by the Clock? Norwegian Island Wants to Go ‘Time Free’"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/26/world/europe/norway-time-free-island.html

"Meet The Residents Of A Norwegian Island Who Want To Kill Time — Literally"
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/23/735237020/meet-the-residents-of-a-norwegian-island-who-want-to-kill-time-literally]]></description>
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    <title>BonneGueule x Norwegian Rain : le vêtement de pluie le plus élégant. Travaillé jusqu’à l’obsession. - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2021-09-27T02:16:00+00:00</dc:date>
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https://norwegianrain.com/
https://www.instagram.com/norwegianrain/
https://www.t-michael.com/ ]]]></description>
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    <title>The dark side of the Nordic model | Europe | Al Jazeera</title>
    <dc:date>2020-11-12T23:13:00+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Scandinavian countries may top every ranking on human development, but they are a disaster for the environment.

Scandinavians have it all. Universal public healthcare and education that is the envy of the world. Reasonable working hours with plenty of paid vacation. They have some of the highest levels of happiness on the planet, and top virtually every ranking of human development.   

The Nordic model stands as a clear and compelling contrast to the neoliberal ideology that has strafed the rest of the industrialised world with inequality, ill health and needless poverty. As an antidote to the most destructive aspects of free-market capitalism, the egalitarian social democracies of Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Iceland inspire progressive movements around the world.

These countries are worth celebrating for all they get right. But there is a problem. They are an ecological disaster.  

You might not notice it at first glance. Their air is crisp and fresh. Their parks are free of litter. Waste collection works like a charm. Much of the region is covered in forests. And Scandinavians tend to be environmentally conscientious.

But the data tell a different story. The Nordic countries have some of the highest levels of resource use and CO2 emissions in the world, in consumption-based terms, drastically overshooting safe planetary boundaries. 

Ecologists say that a sustainable level of resource use is about 7 tonnes of material stuff per person per year. Scandinavians consume on average more than 32 tonnes per year. That is four and a half times over the sustainable level, similar to the United States, driven by overconsumption of everything from meat to cars to plastic.  

As for emissions, the Nordic countries perform worse than the rest of Europe, and only marginally better than the world’s most egregious offenders – the US, Australia, Canada, Saudi Arabia. Yes, they generate more renewable energy than most countries, but these gains are wiped out by carbon-intensive imports.

This is why the Nordic countries fall toward the very bottom of the Sustainable Development Index. We think of these nations as progressive, but in fact, their performance has worsened over time. Sweden, for example, has gone from 0.755 on the index in the 1990s down to 0.328 today, plunging from the top seven to number 143.

For decades we have been told that nations should aspire to develop towards the Nordic countries. But in an era of ecological breakdown, this no longer makes sense. If everyone in the world consumed like Scandinavians, we would need nearly five Earths to sustain us.

This kind of overconsumption is driving a global crisis of habitat destruction, species extinction and climate change. You will not see much evidence of this in Norway or Finland, but that is because, as with most rich nations, the bulk of their ecological impact has been outsourced to the global South. That is where most of the resource extraction happens, and where global warming bites hardest. The violence hits elsewhere.

Of course, Scandinavia is not alone in this. Many high-income countries pose just as much of a problem. But as we wake up to the realities of ecological breakdown, it becomes clear that the Nordic countries no longer offer the promise that we once thought they did. 

It is time to update the Nordic model for the Anthropocene. Nordic countries have it right when it comes to public healthcare, education and progressive social democracy, but they need to dramatically reduce their consumption if they are to stand as a beacon for the rest of the world in the 21st century.

The good news is that the high levels of welfare for which Nordic countries are famous do not require high levels of consumption. Happiness in Costa Rica rivals Scandinavia with 60 percent less resource use. Italians live longer lives with half the resource use. Germany has higher education levels with 30 percent less resource use. Of course, wintry climates require slightly more materials, but there is still much room for improvement.

A recent study by a team of environmental scientists lays out a detailed plan for how Nordic countries could cut their material footprint by nearly 70 percent: scaling down fossil fuels, shifting to plant-based diets, retrofitting old buildings instead of constructing new ones, requiring consumer products to be longer-lasting and repairable, and improving public transportation. In Finland, scientists have rallied around similar measures as part of a call for “ecological reconstruction“.

The good news is that all of this can be accomplished while improving human welfare and advancing the cause of social democracy. But it ultimately requires shifting to a different kind of economy – one that is not organised around endless GDP growth. 

According to new research findings, which I reviewed with a colleague in the journal New Political Economy, it is not feasible for high-income nations to reduce their resource use and emissions fast enough to get down to sustainable levels while at the same time pursuing economic growth. More growth means more resource use and more energy use, which makes ecological objectives ever-more difficult to achieve.

Politicians talk about making growth “green” – but scientists reject this strategy as inadequate. The evidence is clear: the only way to build a truly ecological economy is to stop chasing GDP growth. 

The first step is to abandon GDP as a measure of progress – as New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern recently pledged to do – and focus instead on human well-being and ecology. There is a strong scientific consensus forming around this approach. A new paper signed by more than 11,000 scientists argues that high-income nations must shift to post-growth economic models if we are going to have any chance of preventing climate breakdown. 

Nordic countries can lead this transition, renewing the Nordic model for the 21st century, or they can continue to remain among the world’s worst ecological offenders. They have a choice to make.“]]></description>
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    <title>What Have We Done to the Whale? | The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2020-09-21T20:38:53+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The creatures once symbolized our efforts to save the planet; now they demonstrate all the ways we have devastated it."

...

"The whale’s aura lies in its unique synthesis of ineffability and mammality. Whales are enormous and strange. But—in their tight familial bonds, their cultural forms, their incessant chatter—they are also like us. Contained in their mystery is the possibility that they are even more like us than we know: that their inner lives are as sophisticated as our own, perhaps even more so. Indeed, contained in whales is the possibility that the creatures are like humans, only much better: brilliant, gentle, depthful gods of the sea.

The I.W.C. moratorium on commercial whale hunting has some important exceptions. It grants special whale-hunting rights to indigenous communities, including the native peoples of Alaska and of Russia’s Chukotka Peninsula, the Greenlanders, and the residents of the island of Bequia, in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. It also excludes species classified as “small cetaceans,” such as the long-finned pilot whale, a species of dolphin hunted off the Faroe Islands, an autonomous Danish territory about two hundred miles north of Scotland. (The Faroe Islands, unlike Denmark, are not part of the European Union, which prohibits the hunting of whales and dolphins.) The grindadráp—or the grind, for short—is a traditional Faroese drive hunt that dates back to at least 1298, when the first law regulating the hunt was introduced. Records of the hunt have been kept since 1584 (the longest such archive), and show that an annual average of eight hundred and thirty-eight pilot whales have been killed by the Faroese during the past three centuries. The grind has long been the focus of anti-whaling advocacy: gruesome photographs showing rows of black whale corpses, their necks slit, floating in a sea bright red with blood, spark outrage on Facebook and Twitter. Faroese defenders of the grind argue that the hunt is not only a traditional part of their culture but also a sustainable and ecologically friendly practice. They point out that they monitor the pilot-whale population, and hunt only a small proportion each year, consuming what they kill. In an extreme northerly landscape that does not support agriculture, the Faroese maintain that they still depend on the ocean for their food.

The irony is that pilot whales, like whales the world over, are becoming inedible. Whale blubber stores toxins that have made their way to the sea, in the form of agricultural and mining runoff or condensed emissions—an effect magnified by whales’ longevity. Mercury levels in pilot whales are so elevated that scientists have advised the Faroese to drastically reduce their consumption of whale meat, which might in turn force them to import farmed protein from elsewhere, increasing their carbon impact. The breast milk of Inuit women in Greenland, one of the least industrialized places on earth, has, because of mercury levels in beluga whales and other marine animals, become a dangerous substance. Some studies suggest that the Inuit’s mercury exposure is comparable to that of people living downstream from gold mines in China. Orca in Washington’s Puget Sound have been declared among the earth’s most toxified animals; the carcasses of beluga whales that wash up on the shores of Canada are classified as toxic waste. The most prolific whale killers are no longer the whale hunters. They are, instead, the rest of us: creatures of late capitalism whose patterns of consumption make us complicit, however unwittingly or unwillingly, in an unfolding mass biocide.

Whales consume much of the eight million metric tons of plastic that enter the oceans each year, which gather in swirling trash vortexes known as gyres and can extend for miles. Often, this plastic is from packaging that allows us to consume non-seasonal food year-round. A sperm whale that recently washed up on the Spanish coast had an entire greenhouse in its belly: the flattened structure, together with the tarps, hosepipes, ropes, flowerpots, and spray cannister it had contained. The greenhouse was from an Andalusian hydroponics business, used to grow tomatoes for export to colder climes. Food waste produced by the globalized supply chain accounts for eight per cent of carbon emissions (air travel accounts for only about 2.5 per cent), which melt the ice on which whales depend indirectly for their food. Since the nineteen-seventies, with the loss of ice-fixed algae, Antarctic krill populations have declined by between seventy and eighty per cent. Noise from industrial shipping—eighty per cent of the world’s merchandise is transported on cargo vessels—has shrunk the whale’s world: the distance over which a whale’s vocalizations can travel is just one-tenth of what it was sixty years ago. Whales have washed up on the Peloponnesian coast with ears bleeding from decompression injuries caused by anti-submarine-warfare training.

Ecologists have warned that the dramatic shifts associated with climate change could subject even relatively large whale populations to sudden extinction. There are signs that this is already happening. In 2015, three hundred and forty-three sei whales, an endangered species, were found dead on the coast of Chilean Patagonia, likely because of a toxic algae bloom. The seis, scientists said, could be “among the first oceanic megafauna victims of global warming.” Meanwhile, because whales are enormous carbon sinks, the era of commercial whaling hastened today’s climate crisis. According to one estimate, a century of whaling equates to the burning of seventy million acres of forest. The people of the Lummi Nation, who live on the coast of the Salish Sea, between the U.S. and Canada, have started to feed salmon to wild orca that are starving because of the effects of pollution and climate change. “Those are our relations under the waves,” one Lummi tribal member said.

On an Argentine beach in 2017, a stranded baby dolphin was killed by a mob of tourists intent on taking selfies with it. Something similar had happened in Argentina the year before, when a baby La Plata dolphin washed up at a Santa Teresita beach; the animal was passed from tourist to tourist until it died of dehydration. Ecological historians may one day write about the early twenty-first century as a time of frenzied cultural obsession with wild animals: anime-eyed lorises, badass honey badgers, “trash panda” raccoons. As Rebecca Giggs observes, this frenzy has been facilitated by the rise of social media. On Twitter and Facebook, animal cuteness has become the only antidote to political fury. Instagram encourages us to curate our encounters with the extraordinary, so that we may ourselves seem extraordinary. Driven by a search for the perfectly “grammable” shot, ecotourism is everywhere on the rise, though it rarely delivers on the promise of its name, which is to reconcile the impulse to consume nature with the desire to conserve it. At least thirteen million people worldwide have been going on whale-watching tours each year, leading to more and faster diesel-powered boats. Wildflower superblooms are trampled by social-media influencers. Thousands of recreational drones—like the one that produced that video of the whale swimming through the surfers off Dana Point—disturb the wildlife they so rapturously capture.

Future historians will have the task of explaining how our performative love for animals relates to our relentless extermination of them. It is not simply a lack of knowledge. Could the Argentine tourists not sense the dolphin going limp in their arms? Don’t many of us acknowledge the contradiction of flying across the world to lose ourselves in nature? Who doesn’t grasp the vulnerability of the world to our collective power? Perhaps it’s something more like willful self-deception: a refusal to believe what it is we know. Or perhaps we are simply embracing what we sense will soon be gone, memorializing what does not really exist, as social media has taught us to do. Here is my fabulous holiday; here is my happy wedding day; here is the vast ocean; here is a whale."]]></description>
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But is Scandinavian socialism really all its cracked up to be?

Today, Dr Steve Davies and Kate Andrews of the IEA put the Nordic model under the spotlight - and examine to what extent these countries are indeed socialist, or even ‘left wing’."]]></description>
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    <title>What the Nordic nations can teach us about liveable cities - BBC Worklife</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Inclusivity issue?

But others working in the field are more sceptical about the idea of singling out Nordic methods as a global ideal worthy of their own postgraduate programme.

“There is a great paradox between how Sweden, Norway and Denmark sell themselves and what is actually the case,” argues James Taylor Foster, a British curator at ArkDes, the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design in Stockholm. He says that the Nordic concept of Jantelagen, which discourages standing out from the crowd, can hinder frank conversations about challenges and the need to adapt for the future. “Urban planning should be about inclusivity and I am not sure how inclusive the region is in reality, in relation to how it can often describe itself,” says Taylor Foster, who is trained in architecture.

There is a great paradox between how Sweden, Norway and Denmark sell themselves and what is actually the case – James Taylor Foster
One issue he believes deserves particular attention is the region’s dwindling stock of affordable housing. Many major urban hubs including Copenhagen, Stockholm and even Tromsø are experiencing a squeeze amid rapid population growth, gentrification and increased tourism. This has led to increased segregation as lower earners are forced further out of city centres and exacerbated integration challenges following record immigration, especially in Sweden.

In Stockholm, for example, outer suburbs such as Tensta and Rinkeby are largely populated by low-income immigrant families. While these areas comprise well-maintained apartment blocks, parks, pedestrianised shopping areas and subway stops connecting them to the city centre, Taylor Foster argues that residents can still feel isolated and may find their interaction with city services limited.

 “If you need to go to a specialist hospital, they are largely in the centre of the city. Tax offices, museums… they are largely in the centre,” says Taylor Foster. “But some low-income families simply can’t afford a monthly SL [Stockholm public transport] pass, which is set to get even more expensive in the new year.” He argues that mobility – physical, cultural and social – needs to be prioritised in future.  “We need to be able to think in a holistic way that allows engagement and experimentation. Practically speaking, public transport within a city could be completely free of charge,” he says.

We could learn a lot from other places that experiment and test ideas quickly – Jordan Valentin Lane
Jordan Valentin Lane, an Australian-born sustainability strategist and architect who works in Södertälje, a municipality south of the Swedish capital, describes urban planning practice as “quite homogenous”, with middle-class locals tending to dominate the field. This, he argues, can promote a limited perspective, while the region’s penchant for strict rules and consensus-based decisions can sometimes limit innovation. “Cities are works in progress, but sometimes things take too long, we could learn a lot from other places that experiment and test ideas quickly.”

However, Valentin Lane argues that courses like the Nordic urban planning master’s programme can play a positive role in promoting diversity in the field. “We can learn in the Nordics from hiring people with international backgrounds,” he says. “They have different ways of knowing the world and what’s possible. They take with them a whole history of place-making and city-making that may not have even been considered in the Nordics”.

He cites the example of outdoor pavement seating areas at city centre restaurants and cafes, a concept popular in other European cities which experienced “a real push-back” from city officials when planners suggested introducing it to Stockholm the 1970s. This kind of al fresco experience proved highly popular, despite Sweden’s cooler climate, with bars and restaurants now allowed to open their outdoor areas from April until October.

Valentin Lane also believes international students have much to gain from working in the region. “There is a good level of English, generous parental leave which you don’t get in other countries, and a lot more discussion and research being done from critical perspectives.”

Adapting the Nordic way

Back at Roskilde University, David Pinder says he is aware of the danger of “presenting a too celebratory perspective on Nordic urban planning”. He says the course also raises “critical questions” about past and present regional projects and hopes that it will help play a role in solving future issues.

“As cities grow and become prosperous, we really need to look at the downsides of that development, especially questions about affordability and growing inequality,” he argues. “What is meant by liveability, is this potentially an exclusive agenda and how can it address these problems of inequality and social justice? [This] will be a key area of debate in the coming years.”

Students take part in regular discussions with practitioners who are already starting to deal with these challenges, including local municipalities, urban consulting firms and non-profit organisations. Pinder hopes some of these practitioners will hire students after they graduate or inspire them to embark on their own planning projects. Meanwhile there are signs that the international students are already bringing a critical perspective to the table.

Leo Couturier Lopez argues that while he appreciates living near parks, having wide streets and the trend for low-rise buildings in Denmark, he believes that Copenhagen could become more attractive by densifying, rather than focusing on creating new areas such Lynetteholmen, a new island which is set to provide 35,000 new homes east of the city centre. 

He also misses Paris’ buzzing late-night restaurant and cafe culture; in Copenhagen he is “sometimes a bit disappointed” with the social life in some residential neighbourhoods. “Copenhagen could develop and revitalise its existing centralities with small restaurants, small shops and little cafes and affordable houses, rather than the risk of creating lifeless new neighbourhoods.”

The region is perhaps best used as a source of inspiration for other cities, rather than as a direct guide to ‘copy and paste’
It’s an observation that has recently started to enter mainstream social and political debate, following studies suggesting that Nordics countries are some of the most challenging for expats and immigrants to make friends in, while concerns about social isolation and loneliness among the local population have also come to the fore.

Student Camilla Boye Mikkelsen says she will likely remain biased towards Nordic planning methods in future, having grown up in Copenhagen. But for her, a key takeaway from the course so far is that the region is perhaps best used as a source of inspiration for other cities, rather than as a direct guide to “copy and paste”. 

“Saying ’now we are going to make London into a bike-friendly city like Copenhagen’ might not be the right thing to do,” she argues. “London is way busier and a stressful city where there are always people around.”

“If you were to be inspired by the Nordic perspective on planning, the most important thing would not be to directly copy and put it on your city, but instead think: how can I adapt the Nordic model to our city and how our city works and our city’s unique rhythms?””]]></description>
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    <title>Flying shame: Greta Thunberg gave up flights to fight climate change. Should you? - Vox</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Greta Thunberg gave up flights to fight climate change. Should you?”

…

“Rosén said there isn’t anything unique in the Swedish soul that has made so many across the country so concerned about flying. “This could have happened anywhere,” she said. “We’ve had some good coincidences that have worked together to create this discussion.”

Nonetheless, the movement to reduce flying has created a subculture in Sweden, complete with its own hashtags on social media. Beyond flygskam, there’s flygfritt (flight free), and vi stannar på marken (we stay on the ground).

Rosén said that judging by all the organizing she’s seen in other countries, she thinks Sweden won’t long hold the lead in forgoing flying. “I wouldn’t be surprised if the Germans would follow us soon,” she said.”

…

“Scientists are having a hard time overlooking their own air travel emissions

Kim Cobb, a climate scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has curbed her air travel by 75 percent.

“I really started thinking about my carbon footprint after Trump was elected,” she said. “Doing my climate science and donating to the right candidates was never going to be enough, even if you took that to scale.”

She created a spreadsheet to track her personal carbon footprint and found that flying formed the dominant share of her emissions. “By the end of 2017, 85 percent of my carbon footprint was related to flying,” she said.

Much of Cobb’s research — examining geochemical signals in coral to reconstruct historical climate variability — required her to travel to field sites in the equatorial Pacific.

While she doesn’t anticipate giving up those visits entirely, Cobb has taken on more research projects closer to home, including an experiment tracking sea level rise in Georgia. She has drastically reduced her attendance at academic conferences and this year plans to give a keynote address remotely for an event in Sydney.


[embedded tweet by Susan Michie (@SusanMichihttps://twitter.com/SusanMichie/status/1144799976377200641e):

"I have begun replying to invitations “Due to the climate emergency, I am cutting down on air travel …” Have been pleasantly surprised how many take up my offer of pre-recorded talk & Skype Q&A’s @GreenUCL @UCLPALS @UCLBehaveChange https://twitter.com/russpoldrack/status/1144368198227120128 "

quoting a tweet by Russ Poldrack (@russpoldrack):
https://twitter.com/russpoldrack/status/1144368198227120128

"I’ve decided to eliminate air travel for talks, conferences, and meetings whenever possible. Read more about my reasons here: http://www.russpoldrack.org/2019/06/why-i-will-be-flying-less.html "]

Cobb is just one of a growing number of academics, particularly those who study the earth, who have made efforts in recent years to cut their air travel.

While she doesn’t anticipate making a dent in the 2.6 million pounds per second of greenhouse gases that all of humanity emits, Cobb said her goal is to send a signal to airlines and policymakers that there is a demand for cleaner aviation.

But she noted that her family is spread out across the country and that her husband’s family lives in Italy. She wants her children to stay close to her relatives, and that’s harder to do without visiting them. “The personal calculus is much, much harder,” she said.

She also acknowledged that it might be harder for other researchers to follow in her footsteps, particularly those just starting out. As a world-renowned climate scientist with tenure at her university, Cobb said she has the clout to turn down conference invitations or request video conferences. Younger scientists still building their careers may need in-person meetings and events to make a name for themselves. So she sees it as her responsibility to be careful with her air travel. “People like me have to be even more choosy,” she said.

Activists and diplomats who work on international climate issues are also struggling to reconcile their travel habits with their worries about warming. There is even a crowdfunding campaign for activists in Europe to sail to the United Nations climate conference in Chile later this year.

But perhaps the most difficult aspect of limiting air travel is the issue of justice. A minority of individuals, companies, and countries have contributed to the bulk of greenhouse gas emissions from flights and profited handsomely from it. Is it now fair to ask a new generation of travelers to fly less too?”

…

“Should you, dear traveler, feel ashamed to fly?

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts,” wrote Mark Twain in The Innocents Abroad. “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”

Air travel has yielded immense benefits to humanity. Movement is the story of human civilization, and as mobility has increased, so too has prosperity. Airplanes, the fastest way to cross continents and oceans, have facilitated this. And while some countries have recently retreated from the world stage amid nationalist fervor, the ease of air travel has created a strong countercurrent of travelers looking to learn from other cultures.

Compared to other personal concessions for the sake of the environment, reducing air travel has a disproportionately high social cost. Give up meat and you eat from a different menu. Give up flying and you may never see some members of your family again.

So it’s hard to make a categorical judgment about who should fly and under what circumstances.

But if you’re weighing a plane ticket for yourself, Paul Thompson, a professor of philosophy who studies environmental ethics at Michigan State University, said there are several factors to consider.


[embedded tweet by @flyingless:
https://twitter.com/flyingless/status/1151524855982039046

"No need to tell me about your feelings of guilt. I see no reason for you to feel guilty. You already excel at ethical thinking in many other areas of your life and relationships. Judge for yourself what the times require of you, personally and politically. Act or don’t act."]

First, think about where you can have the most meaningful impact on climate change as an individual — and it might not be changing how you are personally getting around. If advocacy is your thing, you could push for more research and development in cleaner aviation, building high-speed rail systems, or pricing the greenhouse gas emissions of dirty fuels. “That’s the first thing that I think I would be focused on, as opposed to things that would necessarily discourage air travel,” Thompson said. Voting for leaders who make fighting climate change a priority would also help.

If you end up on a booking site, think about why you’re flying and if your flight could be replaced with a video call.

Next, consider what method of travel has the smallest impact on the world, within your budget and time constraints. If you are hoping to come up with a numerical threshold, be aware that the math can get tricky. Online carbon footprint calculators can help.

And if you do choose to fly and feel shame about it, well, it can be a good thing. “I think it’s actually appropriate to have some sense of either grieving or at least concern about the loss you experience that way,” Thompson said. Thinking carefully about the trade-offs you’re making can push you toward many actions that are more beneficial for the climate, whether that’s flying less, offsetting emissions, or advocating for more aggressive climate policies.

Nonetheless, shame is not a great feeling, and it’s hard to convince people they need more of it. But Rosén says forgoing flying is a point of pride, and she’s optimistic that the movement to stay grounded will continue to take off.”]]></description>
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    <title>On making work in new surroundings Visual artist Cory Arcangel discusses leaving NYC and moving to Norway, the change in process and perspective that results from having a child, and how he will always be just a media artist from Buffalo.</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-14T22:37:55+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Yes. It’s like everything else. It`s always worse before you jump. It’s been liberating to let things go, especially all the things that I’m not really good at. And the Scandinavians are such chill people. They’re very talented, and really understated.

It’s the opposite of New York in a way. In New York, there’s a focus on money or success. It’s what a lot of culture is built on, and all arrows are pointing in those directions. In Norway, and in Scandinavia as a whole, everything is built for family life."]]></description>
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    <title>Welcome to the witch capital of Norway | The Outline</title>
    <dc:date>2018-11-30T17:51:59+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["VARDØ, NORWAY
Known as “the witch capital of Norway”
Killed 91 suspected “witches” in the 17th century
Is very dark, and very cold"

…

"Vardø, Norway, makes Salem look like a walk in the park."]]></description>
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    <title>OCCULTURE: 67. Carl Abrahamsson &amp; Mitch Horowitz in “Occulture (Meta)” // Anton LaVey, Real Magic &amp; the Nature of the Mind</title>
    <dc:date>2018-02-25T19:40:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://45minuteradiohour.libsyn.com/67-carl-abrahamsson-mitch-horowitz-in-occulture-meta-anton-lavey-spiritual-migration-re-enchanting-the-mind-0</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Look, I’m not gonna lie to you - we have a pretty badass show this time around. Carl Abrahamsson and Mitch Horowitz are in the house.

Carl Abrahamsson is a Swedish freelance writer, lecturer, filmmaker and photographer specializing in material about the arts & entertainment, esoteric history and occulture. Carl is the author of several books, including a forthcoming title from Inner Traditions called Occulture: The Unseen Forces That Drive Culture Forward.

Mitch Horowitz is the author of One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life; Occult America, which received the 2010 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for literary excellence; and Mind As Builder: The Positive-Mind Metaphysics of Edgar Cayce. Mitch has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Salon, Time.com, and Politico. Mitch is currently in the midst of publishing a series of articles on Medium called "Real Magic".

And it is that series paired with Carl’s book that lays the foundation for our conversation here."]]></description>
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Ovrebo says that in Norway, organized youth sports teams cannot keep score until they are 13. “We want to leave the kids alone,” says Ovrebo. “We want them to play. We want them to develop, and be focused on social skills. They learn a lot from sports. They learn a lot from playing. They learn a lot from not being anxious. They learn a lot from not being counted. They learn a lot from not being judged. And they feel better. And they tend to stay on for longer.”"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[20:15] "We're all primed to value and prefer those ho seem like us though the preferences hues have themselves re remarkably greater. No doubt due to centuries of brainwashing that have led them to actually believe often unconsciously, that they are in fact superior. Marc Mauer in his book "Race to Incarcerate" cites data that the most punitive nations in the world are the most diverse. The nations with the most compassionate or most lenient criminal justice policies are the most homogeneous. We like to say that diversity is our strength, but it may actually be our Achilles heel. Researchers have reached similar conclusions in the public welfare context. The democarcies that have the most generous social welfare programs, universal health care, cheap or free college, generous maternity leave, are generally homogeneous. Socialist countries like Sweden and Norway are overwhelmingly white. But when those nations feel threatened by immigration, by so-called foreigners, public support for social welfare beings to erode, often quite sharply. It seems that it's an aspect of human nature to be tempted to be more punitive and less generous to those we view as others. And so in a nation like the United States, where we're just a fe generations away from slavery and Jim Crow. Where inequality is skyrocketing due to global capitalism, and where demographic changes due to immigration are creating a nation where no racial group is the majority, the central question we must face is whether We, the People, are capable of overcoming our basic instinct to respond more harshly more punitively with less care and concern with people we view as different. Can we evolve? Can we evolve morally and spiritually? Can we learn to care for each other across lines of race, class, gender, and sexuality? Clearly these questions are pressing in the age of Trump.

[via: "Michelle Alexander asks the most fundamental question: Can we learn to care for each other across lines of difference?"
https://twitter.com/justicedems/status/934478995038572544 ]

[See also: "Michelle Alexander: I Am 'Endorsing The Political Revolution' (Extended Interview) | All In | MSNBC"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFHNzlx24QM ]]]></description>
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    <title>Flatbread Society Seed Journey</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["ABOUT

This journey to the Middle East can be seen as an awakening of the memory—the long journey the grain itself has taken—through the hands of time.

-Michael Taussig

Seed Journey is a seafaring voyage connected to a public art project* in the former port of Bjørvika in Oslo, Norway. Seed Journey moves people, ideas and seeds through time and space. This voyage—its crew and cargo—are agents that link the commons as they relate to local networks and a more global complex of seed savers and stewards of the land, air and water. A rotating crew of artists, anthropologists, biologists, bakers, activists, sailors and farmers join the journey and share their findings at host institutions along the route from small harbors to large ports from barns to museums (contemporary art, natural history and maritime) to social centers.

"NOT STUCK ON TIME"

Seed Journey departs from the port of Oslo, Norway beginning with a few key defining points and space for new stops and invitations along the way. The crew’s interests will influence the route, but ultimately grains are the compass. Seed Journey maps not only space, but also time and phylogeny: while the more familiar space yields a cartographic map, time yields history and phylogeny yields a picture of networks of relationships between and among living beings—relationships between cultural groups, but also between human and non-human living forms such as seeds, sea-life and the terrestrial species from the various places and times we will traverse.

****

FLATBREAD SOCIETY

Flatbread Society is a permanent public art project created in a “common” area amidst the waterfront development of Bjørvika, in Oslo, Norway. In 2012, the international arts collective, Futurefarmers formed Flatbread Society as a proposition for working with local actors to establish an aligned vision for the use of this land. The groups’ dynamic activation of the site through public programs, a bakehouse and a cultivated grain field has attracted the imagination of farmers, bakers, oven builders, artists, activists, soil scientists, city officials; while simultaneously resulting in the formation of an urban gardening community called Herligheten, a Declaration of Land Use, and a permanent grainfield and bakehouse.

Flatbread Society has extended beyond Oslo into a network of projects and people that use grain as a prismatic impetus to consider the interrelationship of food production to realms of knowledge sharing, cultural production, socio-political formations and everyday life.

Flatbread Society is part of Bjørvika Utvikling (BU) public art program Slow Space, commissioned and produced by Bjørvika Utvikling and supported by The Norwegian Public Road Authroities (Eastern Region)."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Societies where people trust one another are healthier and wealthier. In the U.S. (and the U.K. and elsewhere), social trust has been falling for decades — in part because our populations are more diverse. What can we do to fix it?"

…

"HALPERN: We almost seem to hardly notice that it’s there. So it’s incredibly consequential and we see it in lots of areas of policy that we touch on.

DUBNER: So you write this about low trust: “Low trust implies a society where you have to keep an eye over your shoulder, where deals need lawyers instead of handshakes, where you don’t see the point of paying your tax or recycling your rubbish since you doubt your neighbor will do so, and where employ your cousin or your brother-in-law to work for you rather than a stranger who’d probably be much better at the job.” So that has all kinds of business and ultimately economic implications. However, when you talk about high trust being good for us on a personal level, whether it’s health or individual income, do the two necessarily go in hand? In other words, can we have a society that has a business climate where there isn’t a lot of trust and, therefore, you do need all those lawyers instead of the handshakes, but where you have good social trust among neighbors, family and friends, communities and so on, or are they really the same thing that you’re talking about?

HALPERN: Well, there is a key distinction and Bob Putnam has often made this too, between what’s sometimes called bonding social capital and bridging social capital.

PUTNAM: Social capital is about social networks. But not all social networks are identical, and one important distinction is between ties that link us to other people like us, that’s called bonding social capital.

HALPERN: Bonding social capital often refers to your closeness to your friends, your relatives, those that are immediately around you. It’s particularly important, it turns out for, things such as health outcomes.

PUTNAM: Because, empirically, if you get sick, the people who are likely to bring you chicken soup are likely to represent your bonding social capital."

…

"PUTNAM: What strategies I would want to emphasize for moving in a positive direction would be more contexts in which people connect with one another across lines of race or economics or gender or age."

…

"HALPERN: People that go to university end up trusting much more than those who don’t, particularly when they go away residentially. It doesn’t look like it’s explained by income alone. So there’s something about the experience of going off as a young person in an environment where you have lots of other young people from different backgrounds and so on, hopefully, and different ethnicities. You learn the habits of trust because you’re in an environment where you can trust other people; they are trustworthy. And you internalize these habits and you take them with you the rest of your life. So we tend to not think of going away to university as being the reason why you’re doing it is to build social capital and social trust, we think about learning skills and so on, but it may well be that it has as much, or even more value, in terms of culturing social trust going forward. The question is: do you have to do that in university, can you do it another way? So in the U.K., following partly an American lead, the government has championed a national citizen service. And what this means is for every young person, essentially a 17-year-old, increasingly, starts off with a — not everyone does it alone, but more and more every single year, goes and does voluntary experience, community service. This deliberately includes a couple of weeks which are residential and deliberately includes mixing with people from all different walks of life. Look, it’s only limited data, but in terms of before-and-after data, we see significant impacts in terms of higher levels of trust between groups and individuals, as well as instantly higher levels of life satisfaction and well-being too. So it looks like we can do something about it."

…

"HALPERN: In the most recent data, it looks like it’s one of the biggest risers. So the Netherlands had pretty similar levels of social trust in the 1980s to America and the U.K., but whereas we have now drifted down towards sort of 30-odd percent, they are now up close to 70 percent in levels of those who think others can be trusted. 

DUBNER: What would you say it’s caused by?

HALPERN: Well, I mean, one of the characteristics of the Netherlands, and you have to be a bit careful when you pick off one country, is it has wrestled quite hard with the issues of, not just inequality, but social differences. They’ve really tried to do a lot in relation to making people essentially build cohesion. Particularly Amsterdam, is a very famous area for — it’s long been an extremely multicultural city. It’s had issues over that over time, but they’ve really in a sort of succession of governments have tried to quite actively make groups get along with each other in quite an active way. So that may itself, of course, root in the Netherlands, it’s quite a deep culture of a strong sense of the law, being trustworthy and that contracts will be honored and so on. It’s what helped to power its economic success in previous centuries, so it does have that tradition also to draw on."

…

"PUTNAM: I looked hard to find explanations and television, I argued, is really bad for social connectivity for many reasons.

“More television watching,” Putnam wrote, “means less of virtually every form of civic participation and social involvement.”

HALPERN: As Bob sometimes put it, I think, rather elegantly, when we were looking forward in terms of technology or the Internet and of course, even pre-Facebook and so on, would it be, in his words, a “fancy television”? In other words, it will isolate us more and more. Or would it be a “fancy telephone” and would connect us more and more?  Because technology has both those capabilities. So when I played video games when I was a kid, you basically did them mostly by yourself or with a friend. When I look at my teenage kids playing videos, they’re actually talking to each other all the time. To some extent it looks like, to me, that we get the technology that we want, and even this is true at sort of a societal level. So one of the arguments you can make, in my view is true anyway, by explaining some of these differences in the trajectories across countries is in Anglo-Saxon countries, we’ve often used our wealth to buy technology and other experiences. That means we don’t have to deal with other people — the inconveniences of having to go to a concert where I have to listen to music I really like, I can just stay at home and just watch what I want and so on and choose it. And even in the level of, if I think about my kids versus me growing up, I mean when I was growing up we had one TV and there were five kids in the household. You know, had to really negotiate pretty hard about what we were going to watch. My kids don’t have to do that and probably not yours either. There are more screens in the house than there are people. They can all go off and do their own thing. To some extent, that is us using our wealth to escape from having to negotiate with other people, but that isn’t necessarily the case. Some people and some countries seem to use their wealth more to find ways of connecting more with other people. And the technology has both these capabilities and we can’t just blame it. It’s the choices we’re making and how we use it and the technology which we’re, kind of, asking and bringing forth.

DUBNER: It reminds me a bit of — we once looked into the global decline of hitchhiking, for instance.  One of the central reasons being that people no longer trusted strangers to not kill each other, really, is what it boiled down to, even though there was apparently very little killing involved, but just the fear of one. And yet now, Uber is a 60-some billion-dollar company that’s basically all about using technology to lure a complete stranger into your car. Which, I guess, argues, if nothing else, the fact that technology can be harnessed very much in either direction. 

HALPERN: That’s right. Indeed, so, as you say, there’s actually two points here, and there’s a really important behavioral one, which I think we’ve only figured out in recent years to bring together these different literatures, how does it relate to behavioral scientists versus those people studying social capital? We look like we have certain systematic biases about how we estimate whether we think other people can be trusted. And in essence, we overestimate quite systematically the prevalence of bad behavior. We overestimate the number of people who are cheating on their taxes or take a sickie off work or do other kinds of bad things. This doesn’t seem to be just the media, although that may reinforce it. It seems to be a bit how we’re wired as human beings. So why is that relevant and why does this have to do with technology? Actually, technology can help you solve some of those issues. So when you’re buying something on eBay or you’re trying to decide where to go using, you know Trip Advisor, you’re actually getting some much better information from the experiences of other people as opposed to your guesstimate, which is often systematically biased. So it turns out it’s a way we can sometimes use technology to solve some of these trust issues. Not just in relation to specific products and “Should I buy this thing from this person?” but, potentially, more generally in relation to how do we trust other people because, ultimately, this social trust question must rest on something. It must be a measure of actual trustworthiness. "]]></description>
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    <title>Discrimination by Design - ProPublica</title>
    <dc:date>2016-09-06T02:03:37+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It’s likely that as long as humans and their institutions hold prejudices and bias, their designs will reflect them. But some progress is possible. Two decades ago architect Ronald Mace imagined a new standard, in which anything humans make — a new piece of technology, a public park, a household product — is usable by everyone. He called this idea “universal design.” Today it’s an enforceable legal standard in Norway. One way to help us get there? Make sure the design process itself is also accessible to all."]]></description>
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    <title>The American Dream Is Alive in Finland - The Atlantic</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["If the U.S. presidential campaign has made one thing clear, it’s this: The United States is not Finland. Nor is it Norway. This might seem self-evident. But America’s Americanness has had to be reaffirmed ever since Bernie Sanders suggested that Americans could learn something from Nordic countries about reducing income inequality, providing people with universal health care, and guaranteeing them paid family and medical leave.

“I think Bernie Sanders is a good candidate for president … of Sweden,” Marco Rubio scoffed. “We don’t want to be Sweden. We want to be the United States of America.”

“We are not Denmark,” Hillary Clinton clarified. “We are the United States of America. … [W]hen I think about capitalism, I think about all the small businesses that were started because we have the opportunity and the freedom in our country for people to do that and to make a good living for themselves and their families.”

Opportunity. Freedom. Independence. These words are bound up with American identity and the American Dream. The problem is that they’re often repeated like an incantation, with little reflection on the extent to which they still ring true in America, and are still exceptionally American.

Anu Partanen’s new book, The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life, argues that the freedom and opportunity Americans cherish are currently thriving more in Nordic countries than in the United States. (The Nordic countries comprise Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and Finland.) But she also pushes back—albeit gently—against the trendy notion that Nordic countries are paradises.

Partanen is an unusual messenger. After all, her personal story is a testament to the Land of Opportunity’s enduring magnetism and vibrancy; she recently became a U.S. citizen, after moving from her native Finland to the United States in part because she felt she was more likely to find work as a journalist in New York City than her American husband was as a writer in Helsinki. But her time in America has also convinced her that Finland and its neighbors are doing a better job of promoting a 21st-century version of the American Dream than her adoptive country.

Partanen’s principal question is the following: What’s the best way for a modern society to advance freedom and opportunity? She explains that Nordic governments do so by providing social services that the U.S. government doesn’t—things like free college education and heavily subsidized child care. Within that big question, Partanen poses more pointed questions about contemporary life in the United States: Is “freedom” remaining in a job you hate because you don’t want to lose the health insurance that comes with it? Is “independence” putting your career on hold, and relying on your partner’s income, so you can take care of a young child when your employer doesn’t offer paid parental leave or day care is too expensive? Is “opportunity” depending on the resources of your parents, or a bundle of loans, to get a university degree? Is realizing the American Dream supposed to be so stressful?

“What Finland and its neighbors do is actually walk the walk of opportunity that America now only talks,” Partanen writes. “It’s a fact: A citizen of Finland, Norway, or Denmark is today much more likely to rise above his or her parents’ socioeconomic status than is a citizen of the United States.” The United States is not Finland. And, in one sense, that’s bad news for America. Numerous studies have shown that there is far greater upward social mobility in Nordic countries than in the United States, partly because of the high level of income inequality in the U.S.

In another sense, though, it’s perfectly fine to not be Finland. As Nathan Heller observed in The New Yorker, the modern Nordic welfare state is meant to “minimize the causes of inequality” and be “more climbing web than safety net.” Yet the system, especially in Sweden, is currently being tested by increased immigration and rising income inequality. And it’s ultimately predicated on a different—and not necessarily superior—definition of freedom than that which prevails in America. “In Sweden,” Heller argued, “control comes through protection against risk. Americans think the opposite: control means taking personal responsibility for risk and, in some cases, social status.”

Last week, I spoke with Partanen about what she feels Nordic countries have gotten right, where they’ve gone wrong, and why, if Finland is really so great, she’s now living in America. An edited and condensed transcript of our conversation follows.

Uri Friedman: You make an argument in the book that if you think about the American Dream in a certain way—if you define it in terms of opportunity, independence, and freedom—it is actually flourishing in the Nordic region more than in the United States. Why?

Anu Partanen: For a long time now, we’ve all, both in the United States and in Europe, thought that the United States is the land of freedom. For a long time, it was certainly true: American democracy was leading the way, the American middle class was the wealthiest. America was really the place where you could make your own life and you could decide who you wanted to be and pursue the dream.

When I moved to the United States in 2008, that was the idea I had. [But] when I came here, I was actually surprised [to learn that] people were very anxious. They were in many ways very dependent on their circumstances, the opposite of being a self-made woman or man. And a lot of this is related to family: if, [when] you were a child, your parents could provide opportunities, if they could offer you a life in a good neighborhood, offer you a life in a good school.

…"]]></description>
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    <title>7 Things Nordic Countries Are Totally Doing Right, According To 'The Nordic Theory Of Everything' | Bustle</title>
    <dc:date>2016-07-10T05:06:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bustle.com/articles/171014-7-things-nordic-countries-are-totally-doing-right-according-to-the-nordic-theory-of-everything</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["1. Balancing Federal Budgets …

2. Curbing Income Inequality …

3. Bringing Equity To Education …

4. Closing The Gender Gap …

5. Supporting Families …

6. Aiming For True Work-Life Balance …

7. Insuring Everyone …"
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    <title>Brexit: why it may be the leftist, progressive vote. — Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2016-06-29T18:14:30+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Ignoring the highly suspect post-vote media hysteria I thought I’d look at all the reasons why I thought, as a leftist, a vote to leave the EU was a positive step towards a more progressive world, and Europe.

Democracy.
The EU is not democratic, at least not the sense where people can actually direct it. It’s what Marx might call a bourgeoisie democracy, that works very well for the powers that be. This is set to become even more of a problem as the EU continues to move towards its own sovereignty. The 2007 Lisbon treaty also made it impossible for any member state to petition a law once it was put into force.

Austerity.
Austerity is official hard-line EU policy, that is it forcing on many of its states through various measures, punishing the most in need. Most leftists are anti-austerity. Yet a vote to Remain is a vote for the largest, most stubborn austerity campaign on the planet, that you can do nothing to change.

Visas.
You can get visas to live and work in other countries. You do not need the EU to do this. I’ve worked and lived on four different continents. I had to get a visa. The idea you will no longer be able to live and work in European countries is without any basis, especially if you hold a UK passport.

Neoliberalism.
Leftists and progressives are usually anti neoliberalism. EU is the neoliberal Prometheus. It is the neoliberal Hulksmash.

TTIP and CETA.
TTIP is a corporate assault on democracy, the environment, and the common people, yet EU bureaucrats are pushing TTIP in what has been called “open defiance of public opposition”. The leave vote mean UK has escaped any TTIP EU-US deal, but doesn’t mean UK won’t try to do its own. However, the Brexit may well have killed the EU deal dead too, something millions of signatures on online petitions was not doing. As in the words of one high ranking EU official working on the TTIP deal, “I do not answer to the people”.

Privatisation.
It may surprise UK citizens to know, but the EU is putting extreme pressure on European countries to follow the disastrous British system of privatising its rail networks, in place of the fantastic nationalised ones they already have in place.

Immigration.
Unlikely to change too much.

The Euro Currency.
It’s introduction overnight wiped out entire countries of small business owners, and is currently a failed currency, being propped up in big Southern European countries like Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal by the North half of Europe. There is no end in sight for its demise either, as no one in Europe has any idea how to fix the fiscal dilemma in places like Spain and Italy. Rise of far-right extremist parties also closely tied to the forced acceptance of the single currency.

The Labour Party.
The Brexit vote seems to have cleared the decks of the horrible bunch of Blairites that were driving the party away from actual voters off the cliff to oblivion. Paving the way for a new party that could potentially be better, more in touch with real people, and with a direction, if all goes well.

Poor Towns That ‘Benefited’ from EU Cash Still Voted Out.
Poor towns whose very welcome signs let all people living there know that the EU were giving them money, still voted to leave. A commendable example, and tells you all you need to know about what they thought EU was actually doing for their lives.

Political Correctness and Bigotry.
Post-vote fallout has confirmed what many like me already suspected of many fellow ‘liberals’, the they are indeed some of the most bigoted, and intolerant of our society. The veneer of P.C has been shown to be a sham, as scores of proudly PC bros couldn’t wait to denigrate the old and the poor as dumb, stupid, scum, sub-humans and unworthy of a vote. PC culture has been thrown out with the bathwater, as ageism, sexism, elitism, classism, and racism has been on full display by card carrying liberals. Never again can these people pretend to be on the moral side of the debate.

Italy.
Only Zimbabwe and Haiti had lower GDP growth in Italy from 2000–2010. The country has been taken toits knees while in the EU, all stemming from the introduction of the Euro. Italy, a proudly European country, in ways that a Brit can never understand, where the EU anthem, Ode To Joy, is taught and memorised across schools, has somehow become the most Eurosceptic country in Europe.

The Environment.
I sweated over this one, and I’m still 50/50. But the Common Agricultural Policy has undoubtedly been disastrous for the environment, favouring intensive industrial farming over small farm owners and pushing up prices artificially for consumers. The climate change and renewable energy directives cost the UK upwards of £5 billion a year, but need to be kept on. The EU has done nothing to save the Polish forest, or fracking in the UK. And I believe independent initiatives and local government bodies and organisations do the most incredible work for the British environment. (also see: TTIP)

V.A.T
The EU does not allow the government to have no VAT on certain items or even lower the standard rate of VAT to below 15%. A leave vote opens the possibility of a socially progressive moves such as removing VAT from certain things (like energy bills) which would be a huge help low income families.

Internationalism.
The possibility is now there that UK may be able to allow more people from other parts of the world that are not EU be part of the country. It also makes international trade, something Britain has usually led the world in, which the EU actively makes difficult, much easier.

Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Switzerland.
As non EU members in Europe, these countries have some of the best most progressive living standards in the world. Iceland was the only country who put the bankers in prison, rather than bail them out. Norway will ban the sale of all fossil fuel-based cars in the next decade."]]></description>
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    <title>The “parenting happiness gap” is real, new research confirms — Quartz</title>
    <dc:date>2016-06-21T17:10:30+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It’s an almost immutable fact: Regardless of what country you live in, and what stage of life you might be at, having kids makes you significantly less happy compared to people who don’t have kids. It’s called the parenting happiness gap.

New research to be published in the American Journal of Sociology shows that American parents are especially miserable on this front, posting the largest gap (13%) in a group of 22 developed countries.

But the research also shows that it doesn’t have to be this way. Every other country had smaller gaps, and some, including Russia, France, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Hungary, and Portugal, actually showed happiness gains for parents.

The researchers, led by Jennifer Glass at the University of Texas, looked at what impact policies such as paid sick and vacation leave and subsidized child care have on closing that gap. It was 100%.

“As social scientists we rarely completely explain anything, but in this case we completely explain the parental happiness gap,” said Glass. In countries with the strongest family-friendly policy packages, “the parental deficit in happiness was completely eliminated, accomplished by raising parent’s happiness rather than lowering nonparents’ happiness,” the authors wrote.

It’s not just one policy, like paid parental leave, that makes the difference. It’s the magic of a package of policies spanning over a lifetime, that allow people to care for children, support them financially, and even enjoy them every once in awhile on a holiday.

The study looked at 22 European and English-speaking countries using surveys from prior to the recession, including the International Social Surveys of 2007 and 2008 and the European Social Surveys of 2006 and 2008. The group created a a three-item policy index including combined paid leave available to mothers, paid vacation and sick leave, and work flexibility, and then looked at the effect of the basket of policies, as well as the impact of each individual one, on closing the happiness gap.

They found that in countries high on the comprehensive policy index, there was no gap, or, parents were even happier than non-parents. Countries low on that index were less happy.

All policies are not created equal. Paid sick and vacation leave and subsidized child care showed the largest impact on improving the happiness of non-parents as well as parents, Glass said. This is important, because policies that spend tax money to help parents at the expense of non-parents tend to be less popular.

Studies like this present some obvious challenges. For one, people in the US are actually a weirdly happy lot overall. On a scale from 1-10, they log in around the 8-10 range. People in France rate their happiness in the middle of the scale, from 5-7. “We aren’t sure if this means the French are truly less happy than Americans, or just don’t think it is appropriate to use the extremes of any scale,” Glass wrote.

To allow for these cultural differences, the research focused on the differences between parents and non-parents in the same country. They asked: “What factors are associated with parents being less happy than nonparents, given their country’s overall average level of happiness?” The key is association (or correlation), and not causation, which is impossible to prove in studies like this.

It’s no big surprise that parents in Sweden, with its dreamy parental leave policies, are happier (compared to their non-parent peers) than parents in the US, where there is no paid leave for anything—having a baby, much less raising it. But the research helps point to which policies could help most.

Glass says it’s not that parents are unhappy. They often find parenting fulfilling, and wouldn’t have it any other way. But their stress levels tend to be high, which can overshadow any happiness to be gained from shepherding another human being through life.

And why should we even care about whether parents are happy? “Parental happiness does in fact determine our fertility rates, it does determine the types of bills we get for stress-related diseases,” Glass said. “When you have a system that is not very efficient in supporting parents, you can expect to have problems motivating people to have children and care for them.”

Conversely, she said, “People want to have more children when you make it possible for them to be effective parents and effective workers.”"

[See also: http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/06/us-has-largest-parental-happiness-gap.html ]]]></description>
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    <title>I live in Denmark. Bernie Sanders’s Nordic dream is worth fighting for, even if he loses. - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2016-05-02T04:05:50+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There is no question that America — heck, the world — would be a better place if it more resembled the Scandinavia that Sanders evokes. Even I, a British transplant to Denmark and sometime-Scandiskeptic, can see that America is badly in need of a little Scandi-therapy. But Scandinavia doesn't offer a quick fix for what ails the United States — and in recent years even Scandinavia itself has been backing away from some of the qualities that Sanders praises it for.

Scandinavia is more equal than the States

In terms of economics, the gap between richest and poorest, measured by the Gini coefficient, is far smaller here than in the States; in terms of gender equality it has a greater proportion of women in the labor force and more women in positions of power, and there is absolutely no question that women should have the right to decide over the inhabitants of their own wombs. Sweden was recently ranked the best country in the world in which to live as a woman.

And Scandinavia is more equal in terms of opportunity. It is far easier for a working-class Scandinavian kid to achieve a university education and attain professional qualifications than it is for a child from a similar background in the USA. Social mobility is far, far better here than in the States. As I only slightly grudgingly conclude in my book The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia, these are the true lands of opportunity.

As Sanders rightly points out, America badly needs a dose of wealth redistribution. Rapidly spiraling poverty, unemployment, and homelessness with record repossessions, while billionaires pay 17 percent income tax? That doesn't tend to happen up here "beyond the wall."

Scandinavia's multi-party system works better than America's two-party system

America's political system would also benefit from a little Scandi-style transparency and multi-party consensus. Both help temper the extremes of political dogma that have afflicted the US political landscape. "But doesn't that lead to political stalemate?" I hear you ask. Like Washington, you mean? No, it's not that bad.

But really it all comes back to equality, the bedrock of the so-called Nordic miracle and Sanders's campaign mantra. The awkward truth about capitalism is that without proper equality of opportunity, the market cannot distribute wealth fairly or democratically, nor can it provide a safety net for the vulnerable. That's the role of government, and I'm afraid it requires everyone to pay their taxes.

But prosperous, Scandinavian-style societies don't happen overnight

Though Scandinavia has much to teach the world, sadly there is no quick fix to be found here. As with any region, Scandinavia has attained its current state of almost near perfection as a result of decades, perhaps centuries, of evolution, conflict, and change. The region is a product of its history, climate, and topography — not to mention of living so close to Germany and Russia.

You don't impose tax rates like these overnight; they creep up on you like bindweed without people really noticing until, whoops, you have five weeks of holiday a year and free health care, and young people are paid to go to university — but you are also paying more than half your income to the state.

You don't pick up democratic systems like this at the checkout. These levels of political and corporate transparency, devolution, equality, and accountability are formed following decades of debate and negotiation. Decent public transport takes long-term cross-party will; consensus politics require multiparty systems free of interference from large-scale corporate interest; effective labor relations are only possible if trade unions remain strong and are integrated into the decision-making process.

Even as Sanders praises Scandinavia, Scandinavia is becoming more and more like America

The great irony in all this is that while Sanders advocates Scandinavia as the default reset for America, the region itself is busy changing and reforming itself in the face of regional crises and global challenges — often making itself more American in the process.

In my book, I explain why these societies are so successful and happy — but I also spend some time explaining why Denmark, Sweden, and Norway (plus Finland and Iceland, for the full Nordic spread) are not the utopias the global media has made them out to be this past decade or so.

I live in Denmark of my own free will and find a great deal to admire about the Danes and the society they have built, but I felt there was a need for a counterbalance to the Scandimania that has characterized much of the reporting on Denmark and Scandinavia.

In many ways, Scandinavia has had enough of being Scandinavian. It has certainly had enough of socialism. As the Danish prime minister said in a recent speech at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, "I would like to make one thing clear. Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy."

In many ways, Scandinavia has had enough of being Scandinavian. It has certainly had enough of socialism.

These days, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway are all mixed economies with relatively low corporation taxes, for instance. Many former state-run services are now privatized, and a large proportion of the population has private health care. Denmark regularly ranks high in global "ease of doing business" surveys, and Sweden in particular is currently experiencing impressive economic growth. Goldman Sachs recently bought a large stake in the Danish state energy company. Economies don't get much more mixed than that.

Some argue that high taxes are a disincentive to risk-taking and innovation and that generous welfare benefits engender a sense of complacency and entitlement, and I am sure there is some truth to this. There have been high-profile cases of able-bodied Danes playing the unemployment benefit system for years, and I once overheard a Danish parent complaining that her son's first choice of university did not have the surfing degree he wanted to take. Still, the region has given birth to a notable number of innovative global brands: Skype, Spotify, Novo Nordisk, Carlsberg, Ikea, and Lego to name just a few.

And Nordic governments are cutting back on their welfare states

Meanwhile, all of the Nordic governments have curbed the expansion of their welfare states over the past years to varying degrees, and many inhabitants of the region have opted out of their struggling state health and education systems. Politically, these countries began to move to the right 10 years ago, to the extent that far-right parties are now among the most popular with voters.

Neither do any of these countries have the "free" health care or "free" university tuition that Sanders wishes for. Bernie, let me tell you, we who live here pay for those free services with tax rates that would make your hair turn white. In Denmark I pay around 56 percent income tax, along with 25 percent retail tax, the highest energy taxes in the world, a veritable smorgasbord of property taxes, huge tariffs on alcohol and cars, and even a tax on air. (Soft ice cream is taxed based on its volume after the air is mixed in.)

And all of these countries have problems: Norway's oil income, upon which so much of its prosperity relies, has fallen off a cliff; like the teenager who advertised a house party on Facebook, the Swedes are now somewhat dismayed that tens of thousands of refugees and economic migrants have turned up on their front lawn; and with its own modest oil revenues dwindling, Denmark is facing up to the fact that the growth of its much-vaunted welfare state is no longer economically sustainable.

Believe me, get a Dane talking about the country's school system or to ask a Swede about immigration, and you will unleash a torrent of moans, gripes, and complaints that would make a New York cabbie blush. But — and it's a big "but" — all of these countries remain highly affluent, well-educated, free, democratic, "happy," and relatively equal. So that's why I'm rooting for Bernie and his vision for a more Scandinavian America."]]></description>
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    <title>Scandi Crush Saga - Curbed</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Scandinavia’s focus on the home and family, assertions of democratic principles, and emphasis on traditional craftsmanship fit in well with consumerist ideals of the postwar period. Gordon, a staunch critic of the radical direction American modernism was taking, published a series of articles lashing out against the International Style—another name for the modernist architecture and design that emerged out of Europe in the 30s—which she referred to as "totalitarian," and those responsible for it as "dictators in matters of taste." Such sentiment played on Cold War era politics of the period."

…

"Today, Scandinavian design is once again riding a wave of success that many say stems from a wider fascination with Nordic countries. Kjetil Fallan, professor of design history at the University of Oslo, attributes the present popularity to the greater visibility of the Nordic lands during the period after the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009.

"When a lot of large stable economies like the U.S. were having major problems, they discovered small Nordic countries were hardly affected by it at all," said Fallan, barring Iceland, of course. He cites a renewed interest in what is commonly referred to as the Nordic model in governance and society, which is typically categorized by a strong welfare state and an emphasis on individual autonomy. Just in the past year, Sweden’s flirtation with six-hour workdays and Finland’s planned experiment with universal basic income have grabbed headlines, further piquing the world’s curiosity. Such publicity may have had trickledown effects on the design field. "There is a tendency," Fallan says, "to equate Scandinavian design as a reflection of Scandinavian society."

Nordic arts and culture, too, have become increasingly popular abroad. "I think it started with a mix of different furniture, interiors, food, music, and film," says Poul Madsen, co-founder of Normann Copenhagen, a Danish interior design brand. "Danes were announced as the happiest people in [the] world a couple of years ago and even Oprah was talking about it," he added. "Suddenly, everything we did in Scandinavia really echoed." Indeed, increased media coverage, the popularity of Danish TV in the UK, and Copenhagen’s cache of Michelin-starred eateries, like world favorite Noma, have been rolled into what Madsen describes as "one big mass of Nordic living."

Even 2009—a shaky year for consumerism in the West—was a success for the firm. Normann Copenhagen’s New Danish Modern furniture series designed and produced within Denmark included Jesper K. Thomsen’s molded beech wood Camping set, which was awarded the Good Design award by the Chicago Athaeneum later that year.

Since then, business has been booming. The company, which sells to 82 countries, has seen export markets up 45 to 50 percent per year for the past two years, although Madsen admits that their pieces are still most successful within Denmark."]]></description>
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    <title>The American Way over the Nordic Model? Are we crazy? - LA Times</title>
    <dc:date>2015-01-13T05:29:01+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In my long nomadic life, I've been to both poles and most countries in between. I still remember when to be an American was to be envied. The country where I grew up after World War II seemed to be respected and admired around the world.

Today, as one of 1.6 million Americans living in Europe, I instead face hard questions about our nation. Wherever I travel, Europeans, Asians and Africans ask expatriates like me to explain everything odd or troubling about the conduct of the United States. Polite people, normally reluctant to risk offending a guest, ask pointedly about America's trigger-happiness, cutthroat free-marketeering, and "exceptionality."

Their questions share a single underlying theme: Have Americans gone over the edge? Are you crazy?

At the absolute top of the list: "Why would anyone oppose national healthcare?" Many countries have had some form of national healthcare since the 1930s, Germany since 1880. Some versions, as in France and Britain, have devolved into two-tier public and private systems. Yet even the privileged would not begrudge their fellow citizens government-funded comprehensive healthcare. That so many Americans do strikes Europeans as baffling, if not brutal.

In the Scandinavian countries, long considered to be the most socially progressive in the world, a national (physical and mental) health program is a big part — but only a part — of a more general social welfare system. In Norway, where I live, all citizens also have access to free education from age 6 through specialty training or university; low cost, subsidized preschool; unemployment benefits, job-placement and paid retraining; paid parental leave; old age pensions, and more. These benefits are not a "safety net" — that is, charitable payments grudgingly bestowed upon the needy. They are universal: equally available as a human right, promoting social harmony.

In the Scandinavian countries, long considered to be the most socially progressive in the world, a national (physical and mental) health program is a big part — but only a part — of a more general social welfare system. In Norway, where I live, all citizens also have access to free education from age 6 through specialty training or university; low cost, subsidized preschool; unemployment benefits, job-placement and paid retraining; paid parental leave; old age pensions, and more. These benefits are not a "safety net" — that is, charitable payments grudgingly bestowed upon the needy. They are universal: equally available as a human right, promoting social harmony.

This is the Nordic Model: a balance of regulated capitalism, universal social welfare, political democracy and the highest levels of gender and economic equality on the planet. It's their system, begun in Sweden in the 1930s and developed across Scandinavia in the postwar period. Yes, they pay for it through high taxation. (Though compared with the U.S. tax code, Norway's progressive income tax is remarkably streamlined.) And despite the efforts of an occasional conservative government to muck it up, they maintain it. Why?

They like it. International rankings cite Norway as the best place to grow old, to be a woman and to raise a child. The title of "best" or "happiest" place to live on Earth comes down to a neighborly contest among Norway and the neighboring Nordic social democracies, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland.

All the Nordic countries broadly agree that only when people's basic needs are met — when they cease to worry about jobs, education, healthcare, transportation, etc. — can they truly be free to do as they like. While the U.S. settles for the fantasy that every kid has an equal shot at the American dream, Nordic social welfare systems lay the foundations for a more authentic equality and individualism.

These ideas are not novel. They are implied in the preamble to our own Constitution. You know, the part about "We the People" forming "a more perfect Union" to "promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity."

Knowing this, a Norwegian is appalled at what America is doing to its posterity today. That top chief executives are paid 300 to 400 times as much as an average employee. Or that Govs. Sam Brownback of Kansas and Chris Christie of New Jersey, having run up their state's debts by cutting taxes for the rich, now plan to cover the loss with money snatched from public pension funds. That two-thirds of American college students finish in the red, some owing $100,000 or more. That in the U.S., still the world's richest country, 1 in 3 children lives in poverty. Or that the multitrillion-dollar wars of Presidents George W. Bush and Obama were fought on a credit card, to be paid off by the kids.

Implications of America's uncivilized inhumanity lurk in the questions foreign observers ask me: Why can't you shut down that concentration camp in Cuba? Why can't you stop interfering with women's healthcare? What is it about science and climate change you can't understand?

And the most pressing question of all: Why do you send your military all over the world to stir up trouble for all of us?

Europeans often connect America's reckless conduct abroad to its refusal to put its own house in order. They've watched the United States unravel its flimsy safety net, fail to replace decaying infrastructure, weaken organized labor, bring its national legislature to a standstill and create the greatest degree of economic inequality in almost a century. As they see it, with ever less personal security and next to no social welfare system, Americans are bound to be anxious and fearful. They understand as well why so many Americans have lost trust in a national government that for three decades has done so little for them (save Obama's endlessly embattled modest healthcare effort).

In Norway's capital, where a statue of a contemplative President Franklin D. Roosevelt overlooks the harbor, many America-watchers think he may have been the last U.S. president who understood and could explain to the citizenry what government might do for all of them.

It's hard to pin down why America is as it is today, and — believe me — even harder to explain it to others. Some Europeans who interrogate me say that the U.S. is "crazy" — or "paranoid," "self-absorbed," or simply "behind the times." Others, more charitably, imply that Americans are merely "misguided" or "asleep" and may still recover sanity. But wherever I travel, the questions follow, each suggesting that the United States, if not exactly crazy, is decidedly a danger to itself and others."]]></description>
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    <title>Norway the Slow Way - NYTimes.com</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I eventually called Rune Moklebest, a producer at NRK who was in charge of the Slow TV programing. “[Slow TV] feels different than anything you see on TV,” he said. “If you slow the pace down... if you wait past the moment you feel you should cut away, a whole new story emerges. And then it doesn’t take much to become dramatic.” He pointed to a particular 10-minute sequence from “Hurtigruten Minute for Minute” in which the only action is a cow walking across a beach.

“Will the cow keep walking? Will it stop?” he said. “You just don’t know. And this is exciting.”"]]></description>
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    <title>Future Library – Framtidsbiblioteket – Katie Paterson</title>
    <dc:date>2014-09-05T20:49:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.futurelibrary.no/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Scottish artist Katie Paterson has launched a 100-year artwork - Future Library - Framtidsbiblioteket - for the city of Oslo in Norway. The prizewinning author, poet, essayist and literary critic Margaret Atwood has been named as the first writer to contribute to the project.

A thousand trees have been planted in Nordmarka, a forest just outside Oslo, which will supply paper for a special anthology of books to be printed in one hundred years time. Between now and then, one writer every year will contribute a text, with the writings held in trust, unpublished, until 2114. Tending the forest and ensuring its preservation for the 100-year duration of the artwork finds a conceptual counterpoint in the invitation extended to each writer: to conceive and produce a work in the hopes of finding a receptive reader in an unknown future.

Margaret Atwood comments on being the inaugural writer for Future Library: “I am very honoured, and also happy to be part of this endeavor. This project, at least, believes the human race will still be around in a hundred years! Future Library is bound to attract a lot of attention over the decades, as people follow the progress of the trees, note what takes up residence in and around them, and try to guess what the writers have put into their sealed boxes.”

A ceremony in 2015 will mark the handover of Margaret Atwood’s manuscript.

The manuscripts will be held in trust in a specially designed room in the New Deichmanske Public Library opening in 2018 in Bjørvika, Oslo. Intended to be a space of contemplation, this room - designed by the artist - will be lined with wood from the forest. The authors’ names and titles of their works will be on display, but none of the manuscripts will be available for reading – until their publication in one century’s time. The library room design is in collaboration with Lund Hagem Architects and Atelier Oslo.

Support for this 100-year long artwork has been given by the City of Oslo, who are working with the artist and Future Library Trust to ensure the protection of the forest and manuscripts until 2114.

Guiding the selection of authors is the Future Library Trust, whose trustees include the artist, Literary Director of the Man Booker Prize Ion Trewin, Publishing Director of Hamish Hamilton Simon Prosser, former Director of the Deichmanske Bibliotek Liv Sæteren, Publishing Director of Forlaget Press Håkon Harket, Editor in Chief of Oktober Press, Ingeri Engelstad, Director of Situations Claire Doherty and Anne Beate Hovind, Bjørvika Utvikling's Project Manager for the Slow Space Programme.

Katie Paterson's 100-year-long project is one of four public artworks produced for Slow Space a programme of public artworks for Bjørvika Oslo's former container port, and commissioned by Bjørvika Utvikling. For Anne Beate Hovind, Bjørvika Utvikling’s, Project manager, “Future Library is beyond what we could ever imagine or hope for. The longevity of this artwork will make it resonate with the people of Oslo for the next 100 years and it holds a treasure for future generations to enjoy.”

Conceived by Katie Paterson, Future Library is commissioned and supported by Bjørvika Utvikling, produced by UK-based Situations, and managed by the Future Library Trust. Supported by the City of Oslo, Agency for Cultural Affairs and Agency for Urban Environment.

Katie Paterson has created a limited edition artwork - a certificate that entitles the owner to one complete set of the texts printed on the paper made from the trees after they are fully grown and cut down in 2114. Please contact the artist's galleries in the UK (Ingleby Gallery, Parafin) or the USA (James Cohan Gallery)."

[introductory video: https://vimeo.com/97512418 ]
Margaret Atwood video: https://vimeo.com/104917141 ]]]></description>
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    <title>Elevated Child Poverty: A Capitalist Problem | Demos</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-13T23:07:38+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The way capitalist market institutions distribute the national income is hostile to child-rearing. This is so for at least two reasons.

First, adding a child to your family increases the amount of income your family needs, including the amount it needs to be above poverty. But capitalist institutions do not respond to this need by distributing more income to families as they add more children, which is what sensible child-friendly and family-friendly distributive institutions would do.

Second, capitalist institutions distribute the least amount of money to workers who are at the normal age of child-having. Left to their devices, then, capitalist institutions will always have child poverty rates that are much higher than the overall poverty rate.

Indeed, we see that in the US. In 2012, the official child poverty rate was 21.8 percent, while the overall poverty rate was 15 percent. This is a child-to-overall poverty ratio of 1.45, which indicates that children are 45 percent more likely to be in poverty than the population in general.

I've written about these basic anti-family problems with market distributive institutions before. [http://www.demos.org/blog/5/20/14/child-allowance-market-failure-corrective ] Since then, I've tried to think of clever ways to illustrate my point with data. I am still working on that for the first point. Here, I attempt to illustrate the second point that capitalist income life-cycles feed elevated child poverty rates.

Life-Cycle Effect

The life-cycle effect argument is pretty straightforward and obvious once you consider it. People have children when they are young. People receive the lowest amount of market income when they are young. Their incomes then go up later on in life when they receive promotions and raises and whatnot.

I figured that, if this was true, it would also mean that the youngest children have the highest child poverty rates and the oldest have the lowest child poverty rates. This is because (given parenting norms surrounding child spacing and such) the parents of older children are, on average, older as well, meaning they are deeper into their income life-cycle. All else equal, a family with a 15-year-old child in it has had more years to receive promotions and raises than a family with a newborn (obviously sometimes these families overlap, but not typically).

Using the latest 5-year American Community Survey (5% population sample), I calculated the poverty rate for every age from 0 to 17. This was the result: [graph]

As you can see, the rates move exactly as you'd expect. At age 0, 25.5 percent of children are in poverty. So, one in four children are born into poverty. At age 1, it inches up a little to 25.8%. I suspect it ticks slightly up instead of down for reasons related to determining the poverty status of a family in the prior 12 months when their kid is less than 12 months old. From there it's down, down, down as the the parents and kids get older and older. At age 15, the child poverty rate bottoms out at 18.2%. At age 16 and 17, you see upticks again, which is likely because 16 is the age at which the Census will categorize you as an adult if you move out, meaning your poverty status will be determined by your own income and not the income of your parents.

So from age 1 to age 15, child poverty rates fall a whopping 30%. This is because of income life-cycles, which are an artifact of the way market institutions distribute income.

Some takeaways:

1. Blaming parents for the anti-family consequences of capitalist distributive institutions doesn't make much sense. When child poverty rates fall 30 percent over the life cycle, that's an income distribution problem. Moreover, the 30 percent figure can mislead. It's not as if the remaining 70 percent who are impoverished at age 15 were also impoverished at age 0. People move in and out of poverty a lot. Half of all adults will spend at least one year in it.
 
2. This is utterly crazy from a child development viewpoint. Child poverty in general is, but this particular pattern of it especially. We distribute the least amount of income to people right when their kids are at their crucial development stage. If you are going to throw some kids into poverty, you'd much rather it be the older ones than the younger ones. Capitalist institutions do the reverse.
 
3. Child benefit programs, like the child tax credit and personal exemption, that pay more benefits to those with higher incomes are similarly crazy. In addition to just broadly giving more benefits to richer families than poorer families, they also end up giving more money to families with older children than younger children for these life-cycle reasons. Yet, younger children are in more need of the money (because they are much more likely to be poor) and it is more important for child development reasons that younger children have it. One way to fix this issue is to have a universal child allowance where families with children aged 0-5 get more benefits than those with children aged 5-17.
 
4. This is not just about poverty. The fact is that all parents, even those not in poverty, are going to face a similar life-cycle income issue wherein they have the lowest incomes when their kids are young and highest when they are old. This is also bad and counter to everything we know about child development. This makes the case again for a universal child allowance, perhaps with a higher benefit level for young children than old children.
 
5. The only solution is non-market income supplements of some sort. You are not going to be able to get capitalist firms to pay entry-level workers (aka parents of young children) more money. Nor are you going to force them to pay parents more than single workers. No amount of coaxing or manipulating the market will eliminate the Child Poverty Premium as I think I will begin calling it. 

Conclusion

In closing, I thought it might be useful to compare the child-to-overall poverty ratios globally using disposable income (so income that includes child benefits and the like). Here are the best 5:

1. Finland - 0.53
2. Denmark - 0.62
3. Korea - 0.64
4. Norway - 0.68
5. Sweden - 0.68

As you can see, it's the usual suspects plus Korea. In Finland, children are about half as likely to be poor as the overall population. This is because it has a robust network of family benefits. Same with the other usual suspects."]]></description>
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    <title>The Revolution at Your Community Library | New Republic</title>
    <dc:date>2014-03-03T06:27:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112443/revolution-your-community-library</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Now that a digital copy of the Library of Congress’s entire book collection could fit in a single shoebox, the future of the contemporary library is up for grabs. The New York Public Library’s proposed reconfiguration of its Manhattan headquarters is only the most recent high-visibility entrant in a debate that has been ongoing since the mid-1990s, manifested in the press and in a series of large urban central library projects in Berlin, Singapore, Seattle, and elsewhere. What should a contemporary library be? 1 Seattle is one oft-cited exemplar: there Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus of the Office of Metropolitan Architecture jettisoned the reading rooms, study carrels, and hushed whispers of the traditional library in favor of a dramatic multi-story “living room” where patrons could, according to the architects, “eat, yell, or play chess.” But to find architects, librarians, and municipalities who have re-conceptualized the contemporary public library with a more nuanced and promising vision, we must turn our attentions away from noisy Seattle and other large projects toward the modest community library.

Around the globe, a handful of innovative architects are forging a new building type with a deceptively familiar name. These libraries offer something found nowhere else in the contemporary city: heavily used, not-for-profit communal spaces that facilitate many and various kinds of informal social interactions and private uses. Ranging in size from five thousand square feet, a smallish McMansion in Westchester, to thirty thousand square feet, the size of Derek Jeter’s home near Tampa, some of these community libraries are neighborhood branches of an urban library system,  and others stand alone. These buildings look nothing like one another, yet they all offer exemplary moments of architectural innovation. Collectively, they make the case that excellent design is no luxury, certainly not for the civic buildings and lives of people and their communities."

…

"No wonder that, around the world, the construction of new small community libraries has spurred an impressive efflorescence of architectural innovation. People have wearied of bowling alone. Individuals need places where they can engage with others like and unlike them, with whom they share an affiliation just by virtue of inhabiting a particular city, town, or neighborhood. Groups of people need places that can help constitute them into and symbolically represent their community. Everyone needs what the urban sociologist Ray Oldenberg calls third places—the first is home, the second is school or workplace.2 That is what these new community libraries provide.

THE FUTURE OF THE LIBRARY IS UP FOR GRABS.

This creates an engagingly complex architectural challenge, as the community library presents many competing mandates that are difficult to resolve in built form. To become a lively centrifugal social force that can buttress or, in more troubled areas, constitute a neighborhood’s sense of identity, it must project the impression that it is a civic icon and a public place. And yet it must also offer people opportunities to engage in solitary pursuits. Today’s community library might well be a place where one can eat and play chess, but it must not be a place to yell; it must still offer private moments in communal places, moments saturated in silence, light, the knowledge and the creativity of human expression. And all on a tight budget.

How to distill such competing if not colliding imperatives—public, private; iconic, domestic; distinctive, local—into a coherent design? Even though technically all that a community library actually needs is enclosed, climate-controlled loft spaces, in fact it needs more. Only good design can make a mute, inert edifice convey to people that it embraces all comers and embodies their community’s shared identity. Many of the new library designs are loft-like spaces writ monumental, but they are much more than warehouses for computers, books, and people. Monumentalizing domesticity by design, they take their cues from the needs of people in general and community library patrons in particular: the neighborhood’s scale, the proportions of the human body, people’s innate receptivity to natural light, their tactile sensitivity and associative responsiveness to materials."]]></description>
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    <title>Address by Prime Minister in Oslo Cathedral - regjeringen.no</title>
    <dc:date>2013-04-21T21:34:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.regjeringen.no/en/dep/smk/Whats-new/Speeches-and-articles/statsministeren/statsminister_jens_stoltenberg/2011/address-by-prime-minister-in-oslo-cathed.html?id=651789</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We are still shocked by what has happened, but we will never give up our values.
Our response is more democracy, more openness, and more humanity. But never naivity.

No one has said it better than the Labour Youth League girl who was interviewed by CNN:
“If one man can create that much hate, you can only imagine how much love we as a togetherness can create.”"]]></description>
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    <link>http://www.satellitemagazine.ca/2012/06/the-new-norwegians/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Like other Norwegians of his generation, Oslo architect Geir Haaversen has watched his country’s demographic makeup change profoundly during his adult life. “In the late eighties and nineties, when I went to college, there was one Pakistani guy and that was it. Where I lived, outside Oslo, that was the only family. Now it’s very multicultural. Change for Norway has come quite quickly.” …"]]></description>
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    <title>Bookshop Index</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-04T03:23:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bookshop-index.tumblr.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Directory of independent art bookshops around the world."]]></description>
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    <title>Immerse yourself in the sounds of the Arctic (Wired UK)</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Adams, Plaid and Persen combined the poem with electronic music and the ambisonic field recordings to produce a piece titled Nord Rute -- the first in a four-part collection of performances about indiginous peoples titled The Compass Series, which merge poetry from Valkaeapää, music from Plaid and ambient audio from Adams. Nord Rute is a narrative account of the Sami people's annual migration.

The resulting performance is described as a "three dimensional psycho-acoustic experience" and an "ambisonic narrative evocation". During a performance the floor is covered with reindeer pelts and surrounded by speakers that create a plane of sound within which blindfolded audience members can immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the journey across the frozen wastes. To enhance the experience, there'll be absolutely no heating -- blankets will be provided and schnapps will be served instead."]]></description>
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    <title>How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’ | Common Dreams</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["While many of us are working to ensure that the Occupy movement will have a lasting impact, it’s worthwhile to consider other countries where masses of people succeeded in nonviolently bringing about a high degree of democracy and economic justice. Sweden and Norway, for example, both experienced a major power shift in the 1930s after prolonged nonviolent struggle. They “fired” the top 1 percent of people who set the direction for society and created the basis for something different."]]></description>
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    <title>What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success - Anu Partanen - National - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-01T23:04:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/what-americans-keep-ignoring-about-finlands-school-success/250564/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Yet one of the most significant things Sahlberg said passed practically unnoticed. "Oh," he mentioned at one point, "and there are no private schools in Finland."

This notion may seem difficult for an American to digest, but it's true. Only a small number of independent schools exist in Finland, and even they are all publicly financed. None is allowed to charge tuition fees. There are no private universities, either. This means that practically every person in Finland attends public school, whether for pre-K or a Ph.D.

The irony of Sahlberg's making this comment during a talk at the Dwight School seemed obvious. Like many of America's best schools, Dwight is a private institution that costs high-school students upward of $35,000 a year to attend -- not to mention that Dwight, in particular, is run for profit, an increasing trend in the U.S. Yet no one in the room commented on Sahlberg's statement. I found this surprising. Sahlberg himself did not."]]></description>
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    <title>for the love of learning: Paradoxes of the Finland Phenomenon</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-09T00:01:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.joebower.org/2011/10/paradoxes-of-finland-phenomenon.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["So why is comparing and contrasting Finland and Norway important?

Upon hearing about the progress Finland has had with their education system, many policy-makers in other countries may be inclined to point towards the Finns smaller, more homogenous population as the primary reason for their successes in the classroom. That Norway and Finland can share such similarities in population and yet differ with their education systems may be enough proof that policy choices, rather than demographics, can play a potentially larger role in a nation's educational success."]]></description>
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    <title>G.D.P. Doesn’t Measure Happiness - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-29T21:00:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/opinion/sunday/gdp-doesnt-measure-happiness.html?pagewanted=all</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What these societies have in common is that rather than striving to be the biggest they instead aspire to be constantly better. Which, in the end, offers an important antidote to both the rhetoric of decline and mindless boosterism: the recognition that whether we are falling behind or achieving new heights is greatly determined both by what goals we set and how we measure our performance."]]></description>
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    <title>Oslo bombing/Utoya shooting: SHUT UP about: type of gun used, Islam, if x had gun... - The Something Awful Forums</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-29T07:33:46+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the safest, most boring country, the worst lone gunman shooting happens. The worst in the world, in history. But it will not make our country worse. The safe, boring democracy will supply him with a defense lawyer as is his right. He will not get more than 21 years in prison as is the maximum extent of the law. Our democracy does not allow for enough punishment to satisfy my need for revenge, as is its intention. We will not become worse, we will be better. We lived in a land where this is possible, even easy. And we will keep living in a land where this is possible, even easy. We are open, we are free and we are together. We are vulnerable by choice. And we will keep on like that, that's how we want to live. We will not be worse because of the worst. We must be good because of the best."<br />
<br />
[via: http://tobia.tumblr.com/post/7987038256/in-the-safest-most-boring-country-the-worst-lone ]]]></description>
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    <title>Norwegian v American justice: Plush and unusual punishment | The Economist</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-29T03:56:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/07/norwegian-v-american-justice</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In general, my reaction to Norway's lenient, rehabilitation-focused justice system is not that the Norwegian sense of retributive justice is underdeveloped and defective, but that America's is. Norway has one of the world's lowest murder rates. America is worst in the developed world. Maybe we could learn something. Perhaps we should wonder why our detention facilities aren't more like Halden. Of course, we couldn't afford it, as we imprison such a disgracefully huge portion of our population, and in often sub-human conditions…

Were the mass-kid-killing Mr Breivik thrown into this lion's den, there's a good chance he would not come out alive. And I think a lot of Americans would cheer that result. But clearly there is something wrong with a lot of us such that so many of our jails and prisons are like this. And maybe there is something wrong with relishing the idea of Mr Breivik's lawless death at the hands of wilding prisoners."
]]></description>
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    <title>The Ideas of Norway's Young Victims Also Draw Praise and Criticism - NYTimes.com</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the five days since the deadly attacks in Norway, the world has paid a huge amount of attention to the ideas of Anders Behring Breivik — as he no doubt intended when he posted a manifesto online before setting off on his killing spree.

As my colleague Nicholas Kulish reports, the attacker’s ideology has already entered into the political debate in several European countries — including Sweden, Italy and France — where nationalist politicians opposed to immigration were forced to denounce some of their party members who suggested that, while the killings were repulsive, the killer’s fear and hatred of Muslim immigrants was understandable or even inevitable.

A good deal less attention has been paid to the ideas of the dozens of people he killed, among them young members of a Norwegian political party, who were attending a summer conference at a camp ground on Utoya…"]]></description>
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    <title>oliverstrand: Final thought. When you go to Tim... - Bradley Allen</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-27T20:11:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://gaiwan.tumblr.com/post/8133236410</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Final thought. When you go to Tim Wendelboe in Oslo, order a sort kaffe, black coffee, grab a seat, let it cool. This could be the cup of coffee that changes your understanding of coffee.

There are four or more kinds of beans on the menu, so the play is to ask the person behind the bar for what is brewing best. This is a Tekangu from Kenya, AeroPressed by Ida. It was like drinking fresh juice made with Seville and Valenica oranges, clean and sweet and bright.

It stays with you."]]></description>
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    <title>Enriching Executives, at the Expense of Many - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2011-04-11T17:30:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/business/10gret.html?pagewanted=all</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Mr. Meyer’s favorite pay-and-performance comparison pits Statoil against ExxonMobil. Statoil, which is two-thirds owned by the Norwegian government, pays its top executives a small fraction of what ExxonMobil pays its leaders. But Statoil’s share price has outperformed Exxon’s since the Norwegian company went public in October 2001. Through March, its stock climbed 22.3 percent a year, on average, Mr. Meyer notes. During the same period, Exxon’s shares rose an average of 11.4 percent annually, while the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index returned 1.67 percent, annualized."

"OTHER aspects of Statoil’s governance also appeal to Mr. Meyer. Its 10-member board includes three people who represent the company’s workers; management is not represented on the board. In addition, Statoil has an oversight group known as a corporate assembly, something that is required under Norwegian law for companies employing more than 200 workers…"]]></description>
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