Greenland crisis US threat
Republican and actor want to make Greenland an AI hub
Drew Horn from the US, former top adviser to Trump's former vice president Mike Pence, and the Greenlandic actor and entrepreneur Svend Hardenberg call themselves a "dynamic duo". Their goal is a huge AI data center in Greenland, writes the Wall Street Journal.
They insist that Greenland's economy needs such projects, and have investigated possible construction sites in the western part of the island. However, analysts call their project overambitious, and skeptical Greenlanders see it as a covert attempt to increase US influence.
Hardenberg previously played the Greenlandic prime minister in the Danish TV series "Borgen". According to the Danish public service company DR, Horn, a former elite soldier who invests in rare earth metals, is part of an American influence operation in Greenland - something he denies.
- I never want Greenland to be pressured to become part of the US, he says.
Greenland crisis Security in Europe
Government sends Jas plane to Greenland
Jas 39 Gripen planes will patrol Greenland. The government confirms this in a press release.
"By participating in Arctic Sentry, we show that we are a solidary and active ally that takes responsibility for our common security," writes Ulf Kristersson (M).
The plane will be part of the NATO mission Arctic Sentry, which TV4 Nyheterna was the first to report on.
In early February, six planes landed in Iceland where the main mission was to protect Icelandic airspace. It is the same plane that will now also patrol Greenland.
Elon Musk's X
Musk posted about whites almost every day in January
Elon Musk's fixation on white majority populations is increasing, and according to experts The Guardian spoke to, his social media posts are becoming increasingly indistinguishable from those of white power supporters.
The newspaper's review shows that he made X posts on the subject during 26 of 31 days in January.
"Whites are a rapidly dying minority," he wrote, among other things, on January 22, shortly before he took the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
The billionaire and tech mogul shares conspiracy theories, among other things, that there is a genocide of whites and that whites would be "slaughtered" by non-whites if they ended up in the minority.
- If you removed Elon Musk's name from these posts and showed them to me, I would think they came from a white supremacist, says Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Extremism.
Population trends in the world
Switzerland to hold referendum on limited population
Switzerland will hold a referendum on taking measures to limit the country's population - currently 9.1 million - to ten million, reports CNN.
The proposal has been submitted by the right-wing populist Swiss People's Party (SVP), which is the largest party in the country. The vote is scheduled for June 14.
If the proposal is approved, the government must put a stop to all asylum seekers and family immigrants when the population reaches 9.5 million. If the ten million mark is reached, the agreement with the EU on free movement will be canceled.
Cocoa prices
Thousands of cocoa farmers are hungry as the price plummets
65-year-old Joseph Bermah Dautey delivered six sacks of beans several months ago, but has still not been paid by the state. He is one of thousands of cocoa farmers in Ghana who are struggling to afford food, his children's schooling and equipment, Reuters reports.
- For the past three weeks, I have only eaten once a day, it is very tough for me, he says.
The situation is similar in neighboring Ivory Coast. Global demand for cocoa has plummeted, causing prices to halve over the past year. Before that, a poor harvest had caused prices to skyrocket.
Ghana’s government-regulated cocoa price system currently means international buyers are making losses on their purchases, leaving tens of thousands of tonnes of cocoa unsold in the country’s ports.
