The Capitol Building in Washington DC – from a safe distance.
… no comment today.
Nauru in 2024
Nauru is the world’s smallest independent island nation (and the third smallest of all sovereign nations). It’s located in an isolated spot close to the equator in the south-west Pacific far from any other islands. I first heard about Nauru as a teenager in school and was fascinated by its extreme rags-to-riches-and-back story. Back then in the late 1970s Nauru was still one of the richest nations on Earth, thanks to the mining of high-grade phosphate deposits on its central plateau. But even back then it was clear that the deposits would be depleted before too long. Indeed from the late 1980s/early 1990s mining declined to a mere
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… or maybe one short comment: yesterday’s footage on the TV news about what happened at the Capitol may have left me pretty speechless, but many others did have something to say afterwards. Out of the countless quotes I read today I pick one made yesterday by the last previous Republican US president, George W. Bush: “This is how election results are disputed in a banana republic – not our democratic republic. I am appalled by the reckless behavior of some political leaders since the election and by the lack of respect shown today for our institutions, our traditions, and our law enforcement.”