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Month: May 2010

Presidents: “War is money”

Posted on 31st May 2010 by Benno Hansen

The – now former – German President Horst Köhler has just resigned after a slip of tongue in an interview about his visit to the German troops in Afghanistan. So, what did he say? [military operations serves to] protect our interests, for example, free trade routes, or to prevent regional instability, which might certainly have…

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Pipeline bombed twice this week in Yemen

Posted on 30th May 2010 by Benno Hansen

The pipeline isn’t the issue, it’s just a target of a tribes revenge on the government. “The pair attacks came in retaliation of an air raid that mistakenly killed a tribal dignitary, who also served as deputy governor of Marib province, Jabir Ali al-Shabwany, along with his four bodyguards […] The targeted pipeline is located…

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Google Maps shows North Korea logging endangered tigers’ protected forest

Posted on 26th May 2010 by Benno Hansen

This scandal has been reported on several websites: The sharp images from Google Earth clearly shows the North Korean communist dictatorship is logging forest areas in a UN national park. Not only does the megalomaniac Kim Jong-il seek to build a nuclear armament, impoverish his subdued people and occasionally sink South Korean ships – he’s…

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Roosevelt’s WWII Bill of Rights

Posted on 24th May 2010 by Benno Hansen

From President Roosevelt’s [Wikipedia] January 11, 1944 message to the Congress of the United States on the State of the Union in which he advocated a “Second Bill of Rights” [Wikipedia]. It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the…

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Israel uses Golan to build wind energy industry

Posted on 18th May 2010 by Benno Hansen

After decades of focusing on solar power, a natural enterprise for a country two-thirds desert, Israel is starting to pour resources into developing its wind energy industry. Much of that potential, it says, is in the Golan Heights, a strategic and windswept plateau captured from Syria in the 1967 war. Once the focal point of…

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Does poor health cause crime?

Posted on 15th May 2010 by Benno Hansen

Just found The New York Times / For Crime, Is Anatomy Destiny? via Hunter-Gatherer / Does poor health cause crime?The blog looks like something for the watchlist (John Durant, did you read some Kim Stanley Robinson?) and the article is very interesting. Some highlights: shorter men are 20 to 30 percent more likely to end…

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