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In een studie naar de top 10 van bedreigingen voor 8688 met uitsterven bedreigde plant- en diersoorten uit 2016 stond klimaatverandering op plaats zeven (1688 soorten). De grote meerderheid van deze 8688 soorten (6241) wordt bedreigd door overexploitatie, waaronder boskap, jacht en visserij, gevolgd door 5407 soorten waarvan het voortbestaan door landbouwactiviteiten op het spel staat.

Het konijn is van oorsprong een soort van het Iberische schiereiland en het uiterste zuidoosten van Frankrijk. Ze werden in de Middeleeuwen voor vlees en bont in Groot-Brittannië en Midden-Europa geïntroduceerd. In dezelfde periode verschenen ook de eerste konijnen in Nederland.

To get 2.5 terawatts of installed wind power by 2030, we would need an aggregate rotor mass of 23 million tons, incorporating the equivalent of about 90 million tons of crude oil. ... Undoubtedly, in less than a year a well-sited and well-built wind turbine will generate as much energy as it took to produce it.

Following the invasion and the revelation that there were no WMD in Iraq, the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Israeli Knesset released separate reports revealing that much of the intelligence Israel gave to the Bush administration was false.

The United States has three main interests in the Middle East today: keeping Persian Gulf oil flowung to world markets, discouraging the spread of weapons of mass destruction, and reducing anti-American terrorism originating in the region. ... many of the policies that organizations in the lobby have promoted over time have left the US worse off.

AIPAC had explicitly Zionist roots ... the organization was renamed AIPAC in 1959. Kenen relied on personal contacts with key legislators rather than public campaigns or mass mobilization, and AIPAC generally followed "Kenen's Rules" to advance Israel's cause. Rule No. 1 was: "Get behind legislation, don't step out in front of it (that is, keep a low profile)."

Might be the first novel where I have to get out a highlighter to differentiate between narrators

De reden dat ze allebei zo waren opgebold was niet dat ze zoveel aten, maar vooral onverschilligheid, het feit dat ze het domweg hadden opgegeven. Ze lieten het gebeuren.

Bijna alles wat je in je leven overkomt vergeet je weer. Hij had een dagboek moeten bijhouden.

"I suggested Malcolm Caldwell [who later disappeared in Cambodian custody] get a list of members of the CPK Central Committee, and asked him to enquire about the whereabouts of my Cambodian in-laws.*

*All nine members of my wife's family, we later discovered, had already been killed."

It's not unusual for communists to die at the hands of their own state, but Cambodia was by far the most wanton self-destruction.

The more I read, the less I understand. Michael Vickery embedded the Khmer revolution in a history of rural jacqueries; Kiernan goes out of his way to debunk this interpretation. Successfully so, but he puts nothing in place. Persecution and murder seem like the only actionable courses that made sense to Angkar. But why? No clue.

I have definitvely lost track of who is killing who here. Even in the early days of Nazi Germany, you have a sense that there is a plan the killers have to take into account; here, there isn't. City people, former soldiers, peasants, communists of a different denomination, communists from the same party ...

His devil's dead. And now he's empty, poor fellow, completely empty, finished! He will be just like everybody else from now on!"
...
"I think you're right, boss! I think I must have five or six demons inside me!"
"We've all got some, Zorba, don't you worry. And the more we have, the better. The main thing is that they should all aim at the same end, even if they go different ways about it."

Because you're like me, too, only you don't know it. You've got a devil inside you, as well, but you don't know his name yet, and, since you don't know that, you can't breathe. Baptise him, boss, and you'll feel better!

This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition.

'How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink! In that day of separation, my friend had helped me to see clearly. I was relieved.'

auteurs 😒😒🙄🙄👉🫩

"In the late 1980s two Marxist regimes, those of Cuba and Seychelles, were still actively collectivizing."

To be a traveling scholar of socialism in a time when the marxist bonafides of the Seychelles were an unquestionable fact...

Bekend verhaal, klungelig gebracht

Nog eens een poging om geschiedenis van eigen bodem te lezen. Maar het feit dat de auteur in haar inleidende oplijsting van slachtoffers van WO2 geen enkele vermelding maakt van bewoners van de Sovjet-Unie geeft me al kriebels.

rip de steur :/

No, sure, it's fun, I just didn't expect it to be Chinese

VAN CAUWELAERT: Ludo De Witte's Lumumba-boek is natuurlijk een PVDA-boek. Er zijn een aantal figuren van wie al op voorhand geweten was dat ze schuldig moesten zijn. Lumumba is uiteindelijk wel een iconische figuur geworden, maar hij was totaal ongeschikt om premier te zijn.