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Month: July 2010

Russia: Unknown People in Masks and Police Attack Environmentalists

Posted on 24th July 2010 by Benno Hansen

As seen on Global Voices: Russia: Unknown People in Masks and Police Attack Environmentalists From 20 to 40 young people in white masks attacked the camp of the defenders of the Khimki forest park [RUS], Igor Podgorny [RUS] and Novaya Gazeta [RUS] reported. The police intervention didn’t help – instead several environmentalists and journalists were…

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Fox News too busy to support the troops

Posted on 19th July 2010 by Benno Hansen

According to Politico Fox News rejected an ad linking oil consumption with troop deaths. I’d like to try and make up for (a millionth of) that so here it is:Fox News, however, are excused as they have been busy reporting other “breaking news”: Must be a tough job breaking a celebrity drug scandal while the…

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“Climate Change and National Security” parts I & II from Climate Denial Crock of the Week YouTube channel

Posted on 15th July 2010 by Benno Hansen

“If you wait for 100% certainty on the battlefield something bad is going to happen.”– retired Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn The boys in Tehran may not like it. The boys at FOX News may not like it. And the boys from BP may not like it. Climate Change will have profound implications for the security…

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The wisdom of zombie movies

Posted on 13th July 2010 by Benno Hansen

Just read a nice observation at The Christian Science Monitor: If war, as one wit famously observed, is “God’s way of teaching Americans geography,” then environmental disasters such as the BP oil spill seem to be the primary way that Americans learn about ecology. In the absence of environmental disasters we watch zombie movies. Consider…

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The Last Oil Shock

Posted on 2nd July 2010 by Benno Hansen

The Last Oil Shock: A Survival Guide to the Imminent Extinction of Petroleum Man  by David Strahan had been on my wishlist at Amazon for about two years when I found it at a library sale for 2 euros. It has an official website, as well as a two minutes video trailer: Rather than a…

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27 Jun

BBC News - Tracking where Russia is taking Ukraine's stolen grain
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/61790625

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27 Jun

»Paramilitære og kriminelle har øget kontrollen med områderne ved hjælp af vold mod landsbyerne, og staten gør intet for at beskytte dem. De mennesker, der forsøger at beskytte jorden og miljøet, har i stigende grad ryggen mod muren«

https://politiken.dk/debat/art8850399/14-%C3%A5rige-Breiner-gik-sin-s%C3%A6dvanlige-rundtur-som-vagt-i-en-lille-bjergby.-P%C3%A5-hjemturen-blev-han-dr%C3%A6bt-af-skud

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20 Jun

"One cannot imagine that millions of tonnes of wheat remain blocked in Ukraine while in the rest of the world people are suffering hunger ... This is a real war crime."

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-blockade-ukrainian-grain-exports-is-war-crime-eus-top-diplomat-2022-06-20/

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14 Jun

https://www.information.dk/udland/2022/06/droner-skaerper-buddhistmunkes-modstand-illegal-skovhugst-cambodja

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13 Jun

BBC News - Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira: Two bodies found in search for missing pair
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-61786946

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