This whisky made a Dutch guy in Berlin feel silently Finnish for an evening.
Difficult Finnish decisions on a Berlin evening.
🇫🇮 Lapin Kulta.
🇫🇮 Kyrö Wood Smoke.
One is a beer from Lapland.
The other is a whisky apparently born in a sauna.
I wasn’t prepared for this level of responsibility.
Raja Ampat is presented as untouched paradise. The reality is more complicated. Nickel mining has already cleared forests on parts of Raja Ampat, threatening ecosystems that support the world’s richest coral reefs. You can’t celebrate biodiversity while ignoring the industries putting it at risk.
West Papua:
Colonisation With Bulldozers
Soldiers. Deforestation. Land grabs.
Jakarta calls it a food estate.
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Now Journalists Are Receiving Death Threats
IDP UPDATE — West Papua
122,931 internally displaced people.
Let that number sink in.
That's not a town.
That's not a village.
That's an entire population forced from their homes by military operations and armed conflict.
June 2026.
Still happening.
Still growing.
Still largely ignored.
Jakarta, June 11, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the repeated harassment of Indonesian news site Floresa following its coverage of an investigative documentary about deforestation ...