Not really expected, when watching the end of the total lunar eclipse today from our offices in Tannbygget in Tromsø, we were really fascinated that the forecast time of the moon’s appearance was so precise. The moon was not really red this time as the eclipse happened when skies were still rather bright.
This is the second total eclipse I had the opportunity to watch in Tromsø, after the eclipse on winter solstice in 2010, see here.
31 January 2018 @ 5:40 pm.
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The real shocking news about Volkswagen’s ongoing scandal about exhaust fumes is that the Germans are now gassing monkeys. (Humans were only tested for adverse effects nitrogen oxide.) The news broke more or less on Germany’s Holocaust Memorial Day, 27 January, the day when in 1945 the Auschwitz extermination camp was liberated by the Red Army.
When Reinhard Heydrich informed senior NAZI government officials on 20 January 1942 at a villa in Wannsee about the planned “final solution of the Jewish question”, attendees of the infamous conference discussed, in rather private talks, disadvantages of then common mass shootings and experiments with gassing disabled and later Jews in vans with exhaust fumes. The latter’s disadvantages were 1) it took too long, and 2) it wasn’t quiet.
Results of these experiments led directly to Auschwitz.
30 January 2018 @ 6:11 am.
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Trump speaks with leaders from Adidas, Nokia and Volvo at Davos from CNBC.
The above took place yesterday in Davos, Switzerland, on the verge of the World Economic Forum annual meeting. President Trump meets apparently his colleagues. His inquisitorial attitude clearly indicates who’s the boss.
One has to realize that these extremely submissive People, who were asked whether they properly do invest in the US, each lead companies with thousands if not hundreds of thousands of employees.
Aaron Maté has been a brave journalist. He had worked for DemocracyNow! and is now host at TheRealNews (TRN). He was born in Canada to Jewish parents but is a supporter of the Palestinian cause. So, he might be the right person to interview Norman Finkelstein on his promoting tour for his new book Gaza – An Inquest into Its Martyrdom.
Finkelstein had been interviewed by TRN before by its founder and CEO Paul Jay. I had reported on the series of televised parts here. While Jay let him describe his biography almost unchallenged (it becomes instantly clear that Finkelstein is an awfully difficult guest), the new promotion interview with Maté is worse, quite scandalous.
At least in its third part, Maté seems to lose his patience when Finkelstein, who claims to choose his words pretty carefully, compares Hamas’ rockets with “enhanced” firework and an “SOS call”.
