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Biden blames Trump for the decline in Afghanistan
Biden still refuses to take responsibility for the disaster during the withdrawal from Afghanistan. It would seem that he doesn’t really care. Now, in another deflective approach, a new report from the White House holds Donald Trump responsible for something that actuallyhappened eight months after Biden took office. NTB reported on this yesterday, as if […]
Continue reading »Bill Clinton regrets the Budapest memorandum
Former President Bill Clinton expressed remorse for his role in negotiating the deal known as the Budapest Memorandum in an interview with Irish broadcaster RTE. The Budapest Memorandum is, according to the Great Norwegian Lexicon: An agreement from 1994 in which Russia, Great Britain and the United States undertake to respect Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty and […]
Continue reading »Hadia Tajik went to a prayer house as a child
Hadia Tajik and Vårt Land try as best they can to legitimise Islam in Norway by constantly equating the two religions. Photo: GAD, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons The parliamentary representative for the Labour Party claims that growing up she went to meetings at the prayer house in Bjørheimbygd. “My Muslim parents sent me there […]
Continue reading »Your dead pet can be resurrected as a stuffed animal
Filipino toy maker David Tan is inundated with orders from grieving pet owners who want to memorialise their dogs, cats, hamsters and rabbits in the form of a stuffed animal. Tan and a team of 20 employees use photos sent by customers to create lifelike replicas of the dead pets using synthetic fur that is […]
Continue reading »Outcry in India over erasures in history books
The assassination of the Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi is a dark chapter in the country’s history, something Indian schoolchildren have read about in their textbooks for years. From the textbooks, 17 and 18 year old (12th-grade) students learned that the assassin, Nathuram Godse, was “a Brahmin from Pune” (a priest and member of the […]
Continue reading »Sustainability now also in death: Cardboard coffins and water cremation are the latest innovations
The aim is to reduce the ecological footprint during a funeral or cremation. In Denmark, funeral coffins made of cardboard are very successful, and in Norway, sustainability was recently the topic of a cemetery conference, writes Vårt Land. People have really started to take the more environmentally friendly alternative to themselves, says funeral agent Michael […]
Continue reading »Sweden: Two men shot in the south of Stockholm – one dead
A man in his 30s was shot and killed, while a man in his 50s was injured during a shooting incident in the centre of Skärholmen on Wednesday evening. We had a patrol nearby, so we were on the scene very quickly. By then, the perpetrator or persons had already run away, says Stockholm police […]
Continue reading »DNB is among several banks that receive complaints from indigenous people in Australia due to loans for gas projects
A group of Australian indigenous people lodged a complaint with Singapore’s DBS Bank and 11 other international banks on Tuesday. The background is supposed to be that the banks are giving a loan of 1 billion dollars to a company that is building a controversial gas project which they believe threatens their traditional land and […]
Continue reading »Scientists in a race against time to “preserve the memory” of ice in the Arctic
Arctic scientists are to start drilling into old ice to analyse it before the frozen ice sheets melt away due to climate change. Italian, French and Norwegian scientists have set up camp on Svalbard, in what they call a race against time to preserve important ice samples for analysis of past environmental conditions, writes the […]
Continue reading »Slam for the greens: Berlin says no to stricter climate requirements
In a referendum in Berlin on Sunday, a majority said no to making the city so-called climate-neutral as early as 2030. Voters thought the proposal was unrealistic and would require far too large changes in a short time. Germany already has an official goal of becoming climate neutral by 2045, which will require huge changes […]
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