In the last issue of Ny Tid (9/2021) ecological re-organisation was a main topic, and there were at lest 4 contributions concerned with it, none of which, though, presented a clear idea what to do. Which I thought a pity, especially as one of the contributors (Amanda Pasanen) is an …
A short while ago we had the 20th anniversary of 9/11. In honor of the event HBL was publishing several (partly pretty long) articles, none of them containing even some shadow of a doubt about the official version of the events. Presumably because such would mean to promote one (or …
Today (12.01) Hbl reported that in Sweden a discussion about a possible NATO option (for Sweden) has made its appearance in political circles, and according to a recent poll it also seems that about as many people support joining NATO as there are against it. It was shocking me more …
Philosophy, the attempt to bring some order into the load of experiences which live can bring, is something which very many people, also quite usual ones, are not so rarely busy about – it DOES help in live if one sees a bit more clearly and does not need to …
Some readers of HBL will have noticed that there was recently some discussion about conspiracy theories between Torsten Fagerholm, Hannes Nykänen, and let’s see who else will still get involved. Even I was at one point writing a (private) email to Torsten Fagerholm. But while thinking about these matters, more …
I was already on an earlier occasion referring to the incompetence by which the house assembly of the house in which I own a place was agreeing to a renewal of ALL of the outer layer of the house. Meanwhile the work has been in progress for a good while …
In HBL of 17 Juni there was a long article titled “Nylandsplanen godkändes utan förändring” in which also several persons who had been in the meeting when the decisions were made were quoted with expressions of DEEP dissatisfaction. And after reading the article I do think that I recognized the …
It was already during summer last year that Jan Vapaavuori, mayor of Helsinki, was announcing that there would be a competition of ideas how to make Helsinki carbon neutral by 2035. My eagerness to participate was then frustrated – although his secretary was assuring me three times that there would …
In HBL of Sö 9.02.20, p.5, it was mentioned that in the “gamla gruvorten Otamäki i Kajanaland” it was in the summer of 2013 possible to buy a three room flat with a balcony for 18.000 Euros. And if I think about it, my two room flat with a balcony …
In the climate debate the question from where to get sufficient amounts of non-polluting energy for our future energy needs is certainly an important point. After all, the city in which we live is still burning ship loads of coal in order to produce the electricity which we need for …