It has been pretty common every summer to see roofs peeking out of the water at the Lindoso reservoir in northwestern Spain.
If it was an especially dry summer, parts would appear of the old village of Aceredo, submerged three decades ago when a hydropower dam flooded the valley.
But never before has the entire skeleton of the village emerged in the middle of the usually wet winter season.
With nearly no rain for two months and not much expected anytime soon, the ruins of Aceredo are dredging up a mix of emotions for locals as they see the rusted carcass of a car, a stone fountain with water still spouting from it and an old road leading to what used to be the local bar.
In the last three months of 2021, Spain recorded just 35 percent of the average rainfall it had seen during the same period…
A screenshot from BBC video. “What do the couriers want? What is the gig courier model?”
Prices are rising in Turkey and people have had enough. The leader of a Turkish opposition party recently tweeted he won’t be paying inflated electricity bills following January price hikes on basic commodities. At the same time, shop owners have been posting their electricity bills on shop windows calling for help, fearing bankruptcy. Meanwhile, scores of couriers, factory workers, and grocery store employees have been protesting across the country demanding minimum wage increases amid soaring inflation rates. For…
A newly discovered document from March 1991 shows US, UK, French, and German officials discussing a pledge made to Russia that NATO will not expand to Poland and beyond.
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Its publication by the German magazine Der Spiegel on Friday proves Moscow right and NATO wrong on the matter.
The minutes of a March 6, 1991 meeting in Bonn between political directors of the foreign ministries of the US, UK, France, and Germany contain multiple references to “2+4” talks on German unification in which the West made it “clear” to the Soviet Union that NATO will not expand past the eastern borders of Germany.
“We made it clear to the Soviet Union – in the 2+4 talks, as well as in other negotiations – that we do not intend to benefit from the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Eastern Europe,” the document quotes US Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Canada Raymond Seitz.
“NATO should not expand to the east, either officially or unofficially,” Seitz added.
A British representative also mentions the existence of a “general agreement” that membership of NATO for eastern European countries is “unacceptable.”
$ 1,200 Billion 'Defense' budget https://t.co/rdY3DcqsYn vs the $ 67 Billion of Russian military expenditure !https://t.co/4N4vSkAkID. Maybe try to explain to your kids how to deal with a schoolyard bully.
“We had made it clear during the 2+4 negotiations that we would not extend NATO beyond the Elbe,” said West German diplomat Juergen Hrobog. “We could not therefore offer Poland and others membership in NATO.”
The minutes later clarified he was referring to the Oder River, the boundary between East Germany and Poland. Hrobog further noted that West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher had agreed with this position as well.
By Brian Shilhavy | Health Impact News | February 18, 2022 The European (EEA and non-EEA countries) database of suspected drug reaction reports is EudraVigilance, verified by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), and they are now reporting 39,997 fatalities, and 3,666,011 injuries following injections of four experimental COVID-19 shots: COVID-19 MRNA VACCINE MODERNA (CX-024414) COVID-19 MRNA […]
Seán Binder, alongside 22 other humanitarians, faces criminal charges related to his life-saving work helping to rescue refugees in the Mediterranean. Declan Owens argues that Greece is attempting to criminalise solidarity.
— Sarah Mardini, a 25-year-old Syrian refugee, and Seán Binder, a 27-year-old German national, face a series of unfair and baseless charges …
In 2017 and 2018, Seán Binder, a 27-year-old Irish citizen, worked with the humanitarian organisation Emergency Response Centre International on the Greek island of Lesvos to rescue refugees in the Mediterranean.
Along with other 22 other humanitarians, including a Syrian refugee now based in Germany, Sarah Mardini, he faces criminal charges related to their lifesaving humanitarian work. Seán and Sarah face trial on four charges classified as “misdemeanours”: espionage; disclosure of state secrets; unlawful use of radio frequencies; and forgery.
In what can only be described as a political prosecution, Seán and Sarah were held in pre-trial detention for 107 days in 2018 while authorities investigated the “misdemeanours” and possible felony charges: facilitation of illegal entry; money laundering; and fraud..
If convicted on all misdemeanour and felony charges, they could face up to 25 years in prison.
Riverbed mining activities in India has not only been affecting river ecology, geo-morphology in multiple adverse ways but also leading to collapse of crucial infrastructures along rivers. This includes dams, barrages, bridges, drinking water projects, embankments etc. In 2021, there have been several of such incidents particularly damaging or threatening the bridges across the country most of which we have tried to compile here.
We are witnessing on the grounds of Parliament the organic evolution of a city within a city and without designated leaders: where a problem exists, someone comes up with a solution as was amply demonstrated when the sprinklers were activated. We laughed at that one, by the way. Then he resorted to blaring loud, screechy, torture music, rumoured to have been supplied by the CCP.
According to the news, the real occupation is just a few hundred and they lack unity; they say there are faeces everywhere – portaloos are overflowing, that children are feeling unsafe, listeria is about to break out and neo Nazis are threatening Wellingtonians.
Alofa and I have been down there every day and that is not what we are seeing: there has been so much love, including kisses and hugs – well, I’m all hugged out – but…
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