Liked this [via Bishop Hill]….the Media Bubble popped:
Haven’t had time to watch this video with the same fellow, Hans Rosling, starring, but it looks interesting:
Just seen the first bit…lol…if you rely on the news to inform you will actually become more ignorant than chimps who get the right answer more often by ‘guessing’!
Paul Mason or chimp? Paul Mason or chimp? Who’d you believe?
This is great stuff. Sorry to be the first to comment but for those put off by the videos do spend 5 minutes to watch the first part of the second one. A damning indictment of the power of the media to alter perceptions by their biased reporting, which we are seeing day by day, most obviously by the BBC’s mass pro-refugee open-door campaigning.
You are assisting the BBC by referring to these unwanted invaders as refugees.
Desist.
I have seen a lot of his videos. They are excellent and completely blow away any idea that economic generation is bad, that the third world needs socialist aid instead of capitalism and access to free markets.
The old ideas we have about the third world are about 30 years out of date. The world is a rapidly improving place and access to wealth and capital markets is what is saving the third world, not expensive aid.
I only take issue with his believe in carbon caused climate change. Other than that, his work is absolutely spot on!
This has made me look a little deeper. As of 2013 (latest figures), the UK gave 0.7% of its Gross National Income in overseas aid, meeting the UN target. Not commenting on how well spent it was, but that is the fact.
The figure for ‘saintly’ Germany was 0.38% and for Austria 0.28%.
Needless to say, the BBC has failed to mention this, concentrating instead on each and every hard luck Syria refugee story with its ceaseless barrage by holier-than-thou reporters, and implication that the UK is not contributing.