Water is an irreplaceable human need, an indispensable resource for the economy and plays a key role in the climate regulation cycle. Drinking water is indispensable for the survival of all life. We use 10 billion tonnes of it a day, but that is not enough, we
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In June 2022, Tanzanian police officers and authorities beat and shoot at the inhabitants of a Maasai village. They also indiscriminately hit old people and children. Poor people protesting in defence of their land, destined as hunting reserves for rich foreigners[1]. These are dark days: officially, 31
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A few days ago, an investigation by several international newspapers identified another person who is conducting international journalistic campaigns against payment in order to discredit a single person. A person unknown to most, who is used as a symbol for a hate campaign. In this case, it
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The world is in constant need of novelty, real or imagined. The myth of unstoppable progress did not die with the end of industrial capitalism fifty years ago, when mankind realised that it is not possible to increase production indefinitely, but it is possible to increase consumer
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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have
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Christian Koch and Richard Burchill. I am sure, you have never heard of them. Yet they are people in key positions, who have been able to influence the decisions of European governments on some fundamental issues: the sale of arms to the Emirates and the acceptance that
Read more →German generalist TV has successfully launched some formats that were unknown to me: reality shows about military exercises that praise war (title: we defend Germany); or following the work of traffic police who give fines to motorists; or showing maramalos who cheat tourists; and, last but not
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He is one of the most powerful men on earth. But he does not want to lead a country, and it is ridiculous (as well as untrue) to accuse him of wanting to dominate the world. Peter Thiel believes in the right of each individual to freely
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The name eagle (Adler) had earned it almost 150 years ago by building the fastest bicycles in the world, and from then on its Frankfurt factory was synonymous with greatness, power and modernity. Until it also became a speculative object, and the management began to play with
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End of August 2022: hundreds of thousands of fish corpses pile up on the banks of the River Oder – 840 km of fresh water linking the Czech Republic, Poland and Saxony with the Baltic Sea, one of the most important Central European ecosystems. Already by the
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