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Danish, European. Climate born at 310ppm, politics, biking, outdoor, nature. I'm a curious man. Retired since 2013. Happy taxpayer and supporter of the welfare system. Posting mainly on politics and Denmark. Great grandfather😊
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In 1943 ordinary Danes saved Jews from being deported. Now we call on ordinary Israelis to help save the people trapped in Gaza to survive deliberate starvation and endless bombings. 210 Danish authors call for recognition of a Palestinian state and sanctions against Israel.

🇩🇪🤝🇺🇦 Merz: Support for Kyiv. Pressure on Moscow.

Should Canada and the west coast states of California, Oregon and Washington be associated members of the EU together with progressive east coast states? The rest of America could be named Trumpistan, and could peacefully disappear into oblivion under the confederate flag The Trump family kingdom

If all conflicts could be fought and solved the way this was ended, the world would be a much better place. Basically the peace agreement takes the nomadic rights of the Inuit people seriously. www.thearcticinstitute.org/legal-implic...

Denmark can thank immigration for a booming economy and a growing population, despite a declining birth rate. Major immigration groups are Ukrainians, Polish people and a growing number of Americans and Europeans. Denmark is a popular place to study, and many stay here after education.

This article is in Danish but the conclusions is clear. Save 3-4.000$ per year by exchanging heating to a heat pump and the car to an electric car. Just be smart and use electricity when it's abundant and cheap. Of course a smart meter is the key to this. greenpowerdenmark.dk/nyheder/akti...

The oceans are getting progressively warmer. CO2 emissions continue to climb and America has a president that denies climate change and says "burn baby burn". Americans already feel the more frequent disasters Below picture are 15 years apart. From this article www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/c...

Four months into his turn, Trump is a destroyer, and congress is doing absolutely nothing to stop him. America will be hard hit by the climate change, that Trump is doing his best to accelerate. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

MADDOW: “What is this country going to allow him to do? This is an attempted authoritarian overthrow of the 🇺🇸 Constitution and Government… imposition of a dictatorial regime. The strength of the movement against him is what will determine our fate as a country.”

My thoughts on what’s going on in Los Angeles:

With a direct link to the weather gods, Denmark has now solved the drought situation

This is Trump's America. Cutting research grants. Forcing star researchers to leave America. A brain drain that will influence the future negatively for all Americans. In this case an Armenian refugee that built a research lab and got the Nobel price. From my newspaper Politiken today.

6 million Today Denmark reached 6 million inhabitants. 1973 the year we joined the European community we reached 5 million. In the same period GDP grew from 31 to 415 billion DKK thanks to being part of the European market.

Danes are crazy. Gifted with perfect weather close to 100.000 Danes participaited in the Royal Run. One news channel TV2 transmitted the whole day from the 5 cities of this year's races.

This is the Danish EU minister of EU affairs Marie Bjerre. 39yo. Daughter of an electro technician dad and a nurse mom. Educated from Copenhagen law school, with a Masters of Law from Berkeley School of Law. She will heading the Danish chairmanship of EU from July 1st. Wishing her the best of luck

Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"

Danish inflation figures were published this morning. Both Inflation and core inflation ended at 1,6%. Under the TACO circumstances this is an acceptable result. The government dept in May is expected to reach a 50 year low of 5% despite the Ukraine support and increased defence spending.

Here an Australian news reporter is being shot with a rubber bullet in LA He had a clear view that she was a peaceful reporter. This is totally unacceptable. Where are the Republican politicians?

This is the status of lawmaking in America now. Read the whole article in the link. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/c...

How to protect your hearing and still be able to communicate in a very noisy environments. Danish Audiovox has a clever solution. Read more here from Ingeniøren Tech Weekly. ing.dk/artikel/3d-p...

Cruise ships visiting Copenhagen and Aarhus can now stop engines while docked, significantly reducing air pollution and CO2 emissions by an electric connection powerful enough to power a city with 20.000 inhabitants. Here King Frederik inaugurated the Copenhagen system. Source Green Power Denmark

Oh America What is happening to you? The world watches in sadness.

Short documentary films are powerful in telling stories. The yearly Copenhagen documentary festival was held in March. 56 of 98 municipalities participated in showing the films. Here a report from this year's festival. cphdox.dk/cphdox-2025-...

The erratic tariff policy of Trump is making Europeans avoid American products. Inflation in May under 2% in Euro area The Euro is gaining strength over the Dollar as a reliable currency. Interest rate dropped again by the European Central Bank Danish rate now 1,6% www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/b...

Macron to visit Greenland in display of ‘European unity’ with Denmark