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Month: September 2009

100 Places to Remember – at least 8 of which are to die for

Posted on 29th September 2009 by Benno Hansen

Having wandered through the exhibition at Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen and now also enjoyed the accompanying book of 100 Places to Remember Before They Disappear I can’t help but take note of a couple of them here. Because the descriptions in some cases explicitly mentions conflicts. Granted: Many will change with potential drastic consequences. Be…

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Climate change: a multiplier for instability

Posted on 22nd September 2009 by Benno Hansen

As a participant in the TH!NK ABOUT IT Climate Change blogging competition I attended Monday’s European Journalism Center conference in Bella Conference Center (venue of COP15 later this year). Among the speakers were Francois Roudié, Policy Coordinator of the European Commission. Very insightful and surprisingly willing to engage in open debate. One of his presentation…

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Nuclear waste dumped in Mediterranean

Posted on 16th September 2009 by Benno Hansen

They have somehow maintained a romantic image while running a business of world wide drug distribution, assassinations and assorted corruption. But no description is too demeaning for the latest crime committed by the Italian mafia. Francesco Fonti, a former member of the Calabrian Mafia, has told of sinking ships loaded with radioactive and otherwise dangerous…

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Trouble brewing in dried-out India

Posted on 13th September 2009 by Benno Hansen

Years of excessive use of water for irrigating fields, a drying trend from global warming, a record drought and astronomical scale pollution all adds up to trouble in India. Harvests go down, farmer income the same direction, malnourishment and desperation up. So much according to The Star / India: Dying of thirst a family was…

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Another MUST SEE: Crude – The Real Price of Oil

Posted on 7th September 2009 by Benno Hansen

Just saw HOME, still planning to see DIRT and now this, CRUDE. (Haven’t these people heard of lower case letters?) Another 2009 film about environmental exploitation and the hidden costs of it; mostly poor and/or indigenous people abused by Western companies and consumers. More at the official website, IMDb, Hollywood and Fine / Crude: The…

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China: Thousands riot over sewage pollution

Posted on 3rd September 2009 by Benno Hansen

That Chinese economic development is taking place more rapidly than environmental protection is no secret. Air pollution in larger cites have been among the worst in the world for years. But a sewage leak was what finally sparked unrest in one town where for at least two years insufficient industrial water treatment has darkened river…

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John Kerry: Climate change to cause conflict; how come deniers can stay in politics?

Posted on 2nd September 2009 by Benno Hansen

In a late evening soon to end brief spell of energetic RSS-feed checking ending a day of trying to sleep away a flu attack I find We Can’t Ignore the Security Threat from Climate Change by John Kerry, US Senator, is a kind of follow-up and sum-up to the articles I posted Sunday, August 02,…

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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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