I just released a new group blog that I call TellusBlog.com. Since many years I´ve been frustrated on the established media in Europe for their perspective in the global south. They are always focusing on the negative news, and show the people of the development world as terrorists or victims that needs our help.

TellusBlog.com will be a way to show the other side. During the fall of 2008 I will work together with young journalists from Africa, Middle East, South-east Asia and South America to give our readers new perspectives on this regions. I will give the journalist a room for their views and their ideas for a better tomorrow.

Please visit http://www.tellusblog.com.

Recorded and edited by Omar Ud-Din.

During the first years of the 21st century the tensions in the world are challenging our common security. The weekends three terror attacks in Turkey, Iraq and India that killed over 130 persons showes that the global security just getting worse. And now, in time of change, we should develop the “plan B” in our global security.

The US/Israel developed policy to bomb Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Lebanon, Tibet and others are according to me proven the wrong way to reach security.

I will argue for “plan B”. Where global development in economy and human rights are destroying the foundation for terrorism. Most terror groups are growing in extremely poor areas of the world, where illiterate people have no other views than “the great Satan” that are bombing their countries.

With plan B, where the US puts their money for wars to global development should provide a total change in the political system in the world. The United States could, with some smart development programs could take away the great base for recruitment, funding and public support for the terror organizations. The leading terrorists would still be there, and may be taken down by a armed force, but it´s no need to attack a whole country.

The conflict I know best are the Kurdish situation in Turkey. PKK have been attacking Turkey many times to oppose their agenda and get freedom. And Turkey are always responding the hard way, only leading to more suffering and hate. If the Kurds could get their cultural rights back, economical development and identity the extremists within PKK would get a much smaller support by ordinary people in the region. This could start a positive reaction leading to the funders and leaders of the terror in Turkey. And I would imagine the same thing happening in other terrorist states.

The “plan B” would be an Marshall Plan for global development and a large project to build bridges between cultures. We have much more in common than we think. Give the people in this regions hope for a better future. And their support for terrorist will go down.

The Norwegian Children and Youth Council (LNU) demands a better railway in Norway, and we also demand that the politicians make a plan for building express trains by the end of 2008. Our 72 members organizations have stated that we have to cut our emissions of green house gases, and that the government has to provide a better public transport system, and find ways to cut the emissions from the transport sector. The rich countries in the north are contributing the most to the global warming, but the countries in the developing world are the ones who will suffer the most from the consequences.

This summer LNU will raise the awareness of climate change in our member organizations by giving lectures and showing videos made of youth from Kenya, Colombia and South Africa. You can have a look at the videos here;
http://www.lnu.no/pages/nyhet.aspx?nr=11473

In addition to this, we will bring our climate train all over Norway, and take pictures of all the youngsters who demand express trains in Norway. In September, there will be an exhibition outside the parliament, with all the pictures from the campaign, to show our Minister of Transport and Communications, that she has to take the role as the climate conductor!

Stian Amadeus Antonsen

From tomorrow, Sunday July 26th 2008, I will add a new feature to Joney´s World. I call it Joney´s view. A daily opinion article sign by me. I will comment on news, talks, events and much more. All with a focus on global issues.

I will try to upload it around 8pm GMT every day.

From Monday, July 28th 2008, I will add a new feature to Joney´s World. I call it Joney´s view. A daily opinion article sign by me. I will comment on news, talks, events and much more. All with a focus on global issues.

I will try to upload it around 8pm GMT every day.

Barack Omaba are touring around Europe for the moment and yesterday he held a speech for 200 000 people in Berlin. And as I predicted, the speech where about foreign politics.

Don´t forget he´s an American presidential candidate, and have the pro war rhetorics in some lines. But he´s the best candidate the United States have had in history.

“People of the world – look at Berlin, where a wall came down, a continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one.”

Next week I will go to an island outside Stockholm to work together with the youth network of Save The Children in the Nordic countries.

This summer active youths in Save the Children from the Nordic countries will spend a week together at the idyllic Kärsögården by the coast in Stockholm, Sweden. The week will be filled with different lectures, music, workshops, swimming, volleyball, discussions and much more - all with a focus on childrens rights. The festival is mainly for active members of Save the Children youth in the Nordic countries, but participants from other partner countries are also invited to join the festival.

I will lecture about media relations and lead a media workshop. I like to work together with engaged young people and help them to reach their goals.

I just got the news that the Book Fair in Gothenburg, Sweden, with 100 000 visitors each year will have Africa as an overall theme on the fair 2010.

With the support from the Swedish International Development Agency and the Nordic African Institute, the fair will invite authors and cultural personalities from the continent.

- We have had some 50 African writers in Book Fair since its inception in 1985 but never showed up an overall picture of the African literature. Now, we are making a broad effort together with the Nordic Africa Institute, Sida and several other partners and put Africa in focus on the Book & Library in 2010, says Anna Falck, CEO, Gothenburg Book Fair.

The fair will be held one month after the soccer World Cup finale in Johannesburg, South Africa. So the region will be in focus in Sweden over the whole summer.

I think it´s a very good idea.