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Month: February 2010

Occupation 101

Posted on 27th February 2010 by Benno Hansen

Just watched Occupation 101 two years late. It’s a gripping documentary about the history and status quo of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands. While not being about battle for resources it does mention the grabbing of fertile lands by Jewish settlers. [In 1947] The UN – under pressure – proposed to divide the land…

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Food security: climate change and sustainable development (TH!NK2½ part I)

Posted on 24th February 2010 by Benno Hansen

I and the other TH!NKers are moving from part 2 to part 3, from climate change and COP15 to sustainable development and the Millennium Development Goals. Both topics are multifaceted, overlapping and quite complex.In fact, apart from climate change essentially being a sustainability issue, sustainable development was addressed directly several times during TH!NK2. Including by…

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Minor oil conflicts saber rattling

Posted on 7th February 2010 by Benno Hansen

Oil conflicts are not just about Iraq, Afghanistan and obscure former Soviet republics in between. The Falkland Islands As drilling equipment approaches Falkland Oil & Gas stocks are up. So is the Argentine-UK diplomatic heat. “The Foreign Ministry reiterates its sovereign rights over the Malvinas Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and the…

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Pentagon report on climate change and renewable energy

Posted on 2nd February 2010 by Benno Hansen

Via Current.com/Green (which is filling up with dumb asses so I can’t really recommend it) I noticed Treehugger had an article about one “Abu Muqawama” at Center for a New American Security posting the US Department of Defense’s Quadrennial Defense Review 2010. Scroll to pages 107-111, chapter “DoD’s Approach to Climate and Energy”, in the…

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markamesexiled Mark Ames @markamesexiled ·
20 Nov

EU using Azerbaijan dictatorship to launder its Russian gas supplies. Russia gets its gas revenues, EU gets its winter gas at a premium, a premium worth paying because it allows them to continue pontificating. Europeans are whacky.
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Russia’s Gazprom will supply Azerbaijan with up to 1 billion cubic metres of natural gas this winter, Moscow’s Kommersant reports, saying the deal will relieve domestic demand and help Baku meet its commitment to export more to the EU and other Western nations.

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theredlinepod The Red Line - Podcast @theredlinepod ·
15 Nov

WE'RE HIRING 💼💼

The Red Line is currently expanding our research and analysis teams here at the show.

So if you have a mind for geopolitics, and want to work one-on-one with ambassadors, analysts, and security experts, we would love to hear from you.

https://www.linkedin.com/hiring/jobs/3354920920/detail/

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guardian The Guardian @guardian ·
1 Nov

Enormous emissions gap between top 1% and poorest, study highlights https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/01/polluting-elite-enormous-carbon-dioxide-emissions-gap-between-poorest-autonomy-study?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1667286667

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theredlinepod The Red Line - Podcast @theredlinepod ·
24 Oct

THE GREEN LINE << PART 2 >>

HOW THE CHINESE MILITARY IS PREPARING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE 🇨🇳🇨🇳

Climate Change has become THE make or break issue for the Chinese government, and the effects are already threatening internal security, and regional alliances.

https://www.theredlinepodcast.com/post/how-the-chinese-military-is-preparing-for-climate-change-the-green-line

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petergleick Peter Gleick 🇺🇸 @petergleick ·
22 Oct

Weaponizing water in the Russia-Ukraine wr.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/how-water-has-been-weaponised-ukraine-2022-10-22/

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