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Arne Melsom
@melsom.bsky.social
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Menneskerettigheter, mosjon, bridge.
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Regjeringen ville ha i pose og sekk. Det gikk ikke. Så de er «uenige»…

www.nrk.no/nyheter/eu-v...
EU vil innføre toll på jernlegeringer – vil også gjelde Norge
Det får NRK bekreftet. EU har informert regjeringen om at de innfører beskyttelsestiltak på jernlegeringer, og at Norge blir omfattet, opplyser næringsminister Cecilie Myrseth (Ap). – Vi er uenig med ...
www.nrk.no
November 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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defrog.bsky.social
Mamdani is going to implement Aria law. Everyone will be able to sing for their scrambled eggs instead of paying cash. Sriracha available on request.
jentaub.bsky.social Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 7d
Mamdani is going to implement Sriracha law. Everyone will have to slather hot sauce on their scrambled eggs
moryan.bsky.social Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 7d
Mamdani is going to implement My Sharona law. Everyone will have to create songs with undeniable rock beats.
November 9, 2025 at 5:21 AM
melsom.bsky.social
Dagens dobbel!
Spørsmålet om opprinnelsen til SARS-CoV-2-viruset har fått fornyet interesse i det offentlige ordsikftet i Norge de siste månedene. Jeg har skrevet to relaterte innlegg, begge ble publisert i dag.

1. Sensur fra Beijing mørklegger koronavirusdebatten
www.minerva.no/kina-koronav...
Sensur fra Beijing mørklegger koronavirusdebatten
I Norge strides forskere om hvem som har rett om koronavirusets opphav. Men bak uenigheten ligger et større problem: Kinas sensur gjør det nesten umulig for noen å vite hva som faktisk skjedde.
www.minerva.no
November 1, 2025 at 10:13 AM
melsom.bsky.social
VDL: "We are in an era of geoeconomics"
Viktig tale om EUs planer for kursendring.
Risikoen er som vanlig at EUs konsensuskrav gir betydelig forsinkelse eller manglende oppfølging.
Tråd ⏬
@europabevegelsen.bsky.social @altinget.bsky.social @ingridskovdahl.bsky.social @jettefc.bsky.social
fbermingham.bsky.social Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 22d
Breaking: EU ready to retaliate vs China's rare earth controls, VDL says in Berlin

EU is "ready to use all of the instruments in our toolbox to respond" she tells Berlin forum

Comes after Macron on Thursday called on the commission to activate the anti-coercion instrument
October 25, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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peninternational.bsky.social
#China: Today, on the 10-year anniversary of the kidnapping of poet, bookseller and PEN member, Gui Minhai, 65 PEN Centres around the world renew our demand for his immediate and unconditional release.

Read our joint statement ⬇️

www.pen-international.org/news/china-p...

#FreeGuiMinhai
PEN International
#China: Today, on the 10-year anniversary of the kidnapping of poet, bookseller and PEN member, Gui Minhai, 65 PEN Centres around the world renew our demand for his immediate and unconditional...
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October 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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hkc-no.bsky.social
90 NGOs, including us, have co-signed this statement that calls for immediate action to be taken to #FreeGuiMinhai. After 10 years of unjust imprisonment, nothing must be spared in the international effort to bring him back to Sweden, to Angela. @angelagui.bsky.social @utrikesdep.bsky.social
rsf.org RSF @rsf.org · Oct 15
#China: 10 years ago, Swedish publisher Gui Minhai was kidnapped by Chinese agents in Thailand. We’ve had no news of his fate or whereabouts for the past 5 years. RSF has led a coalition of 90 NGOs in another call for his release. He shouldn't spend another second in jail. #FreeGuiMinhai
China: 90 NGOs, led by RSF, demand the release of Gui Minhai on the 10th anniversary of his kidnapping
A coalition of 90 press freedom and human rights NGOs, led by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), has called for the release of Swedish publisher Gui Minhai, founder of the Hong Kong-based publishing hou...
rsf.org
October 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
melsom.bsky.social
Direktør Iver B. Neumann fra Fridtjof Nansens Institutt (fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social) var nylig gjest i NRK-programmene Verdibørsen og Helgemorgen. Mye interessant!

Her er mine betraktninger om temaene som ble diskutert.

hongkongsettfranorge.org/2025/10/12/v...
Verdibørsen: “Hva truer Europa?”
I slutten av september var Fridtjof Nansens Institutts direktør Iver B. Neumann gjest i NRKs Verdibørsen. Dette ble en interssant samtale, som i stor grad kretset rundt Kinas økende geopolitiske be…
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October 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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ytsl.bsky.social
Any article about To Kai-wa (the Hong Kong protestor who bit off part of a police officer's finger in 2019) should include this photo taken shortly before he bit said police officer's finger.
Photo of To Kai-wa (in the white shirt) on the floor mid struggle while one police officer holds on to him and another sticks his fingers onto his face (including near his mouth and eyes), and yet another looks on.
October 9, 2025 at 6:40 AM
melsom.bsky.social
Jeg har skrevet et innlegg i Altinget (@altinget.bsky.social) med kritikk av regjeringens manglende solidaritet, både med EUs industri og med ofre for menneskerettighetsbrudd, og dårlige prioritering for det grønne skiftet.
www.altinget.no/artikkel/reg...
Regjeringen har selv satt solidaritet på prøve - Altinget
Regjeringen ønsker åpenbart å forholde seg solidarisk med EU når vi har noe å tape, mens solidariteten får seile sin egen sjø når reelle behov for beskyttelse mot subsidier ikke påvirker norsk industr...
www.altinget.no
October 9, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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hkc-no.bsky.social
Today, 53 rights groups deliver an urgent letter to UN Hi Comm Volker Turk and UN Human Rights bodies urging action on abuse in #HongKong prisons: solitary confinement, forced indoctrination, sexual assault & medical neglect against nearly 800 political prisoners.
Letter: thecfhk.org/52-rights-gr...
September 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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sariarhohavren.bsky.social
China’s remarks on Ukraine at the UN Security Council yesterday insisted on calling Russia’s over three-year war of aggression and invasion of Ukraine still a crisis.

by Ambassador Geng Shuang at the UN Security Council High-level Briefing
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September 25, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Chinese officials on Friday turned diplomats and journalists away from a Shanghai court where rights groups said the trial of a prominent citizen journalist was taking place. In full: buff.ly/l1F59uI
Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan reportedly on trial again
Chinese officials on Friday turned diplomats and journalists away from a Shanghai court where rights groups said the trial of a prominent citizen journalist was taking place.
buff.ly
September 19, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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fbermingham.bsky.social
Great news that there's a new rare earth magnets plant in Europe! Maybe not the most strategic move for it to be located just across the river from Russia...

"Europe’s EV Makers Line Up at Estonia Rare-Earth Magnet Site"
Europe’s EV Makers Line Up at Estonia’s Rare-Earth Magnet Plant
Executives from Europe’s electric-vehicle industry are trekking to the continent’s sparsely populated northeastern parts to queue for something they struggle to find anywhere outside of China: rare-earths magnets that are essential components in EVs.
www.bloomberg.com
September 19, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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cpspange.bsky.social
Har kronikka.
På vegne av alle partier ⬇️
Nå er det din tur til å påvirke politikken!
Stortingsvalget 2025 ligger bak oss – og jeg tror på vegne av politikere OG velgere: Vi er litt slitne alle sammen. Enten vi var på vinner- eller tapersiden.
www.tb.no
September 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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ingeborgsenneset.bsky.social
Holy fuck, dette er mange.

Med denne andelen kan fx meslingviruset (som krever ca 95% oppslutning for flokkimmunitet) få fritt leide til å ta knekken på alt fra uvaksinerte barn til voksne kreftpasienter.

Gratulerer, RFK jr. Du er godt i gang med å gjøre USA til en smittepøl
September 17, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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hkc-no.bsky.social
Vi har skrevet om forrige ukes tilbakeslag for skeives rettigheter i Hongkong. Takk til Blikk!
www.blikk.no/homofobi-hon...
– Så viktig er det å undertrykke homofili for Xi Jinpings tilhengere
Hongkongkomiteen i Norge forklarer det store tilbakeslaget for skeives rettigheter i Hongkong.
www.blikk.no
September 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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yaqiu.bsky.social
Pleased to see Chinese journalist Dong Yuyu honored with CPJ’s Press Freedom Award. It’s a reminder to the Chinese government that those it brands as criminals are, in fact, recognized as heroes by the rest of the world.
September 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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ytsl.bsky.social
And this is why we thought the (2023) Gay Games being held in Hong Kong was ridiculous/hypocritical/inappropriate.

(Over on Twitter, the Gay Games organiser/account blocked me and so many others for expressing this!)
kjoules.org Joel Chan @kjoules.org · Sep 10
For: 14, Against: 71, Abstain: 1

Hong Kong's Registration of Same-sex Partnerships Bill fails
Via Phoebe Kong/Twitter: screenshot of the LegCo vote for the Same Sex Partnerships Bill: 14 for, 71 against, 1 abstain
September 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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fbermingham.bsky.social
Police in China detained a man for comments critical of President Xi Jinping’s military parade, highlighting the ruling Communist Party’s intolerance of dissent.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
China Detains Man for ‘Defamatory’ Remarks About Xi’s Parade
Police in China detained a man for comments critical of President Xi Jinping’s military parade, highlighting the ruling Communist Party’s intolerance of dissent.
www.bloomberg.com
September 5, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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langley127.bsky.social
Recently, Anti-communist slogans such as "Dictator, step down" & "The CCP Should Perish" have appeared on the doors of numerous public restrooms in #Beijing in #China . Public restrooms are surveillance blind spots, so citizens can express their opinions anonymously.
photonmedia.net/anti-ccp-slo...
September 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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razvenhk.bsky.social
Police already deployed on this sunny late afternoon to remind everyone they nothing happened on this day 6 years ago.
August 31, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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snoen.bsky.social
UTAKKNEMLIGE SNYLTERNE SOM ER BLITT RIKE UNDER USAS BESKYTTELSE HAR VALGT Å KJØPE BILLIGE SKRAP-FREGRATTER FRA MISLYKKEDE MULTIKULTURELLE OG SOSIALISTISKE BRITER! FOR Å UNNGÅ STRAFFETOLL (500%!) MÅ STATSMINISTER STORE STRAKS TILDELE FREDSPRISEN TIL DONALD J. OG MELANIA TRUMP. MAGA!
August 31, 2025 at 11:14 AM
melsom.bsky.social
Journalister som arbeider for vestlige medier har blitt utsatt for stadig hyppigere visumnekt i Kina. I senere år har utviklingen i Hongkong gått i samme retning. Hongkongs autonome status smuldres opp i skyggen av de nye sikkerhetslovene i byen.
hongkongsettfranorge.org/2025/08/31/u...
Utenlandske journalister i Kina og Hongkong
Journalister som arbeider for vestlige medier har blitt utsatt for stadig hyppigere visumnekt i Kina. I senere år har utviklingen i Hongkong gått i samme retning. Dette er et av mange eksempler på …
hongkongsettfranorge.org
August 31, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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stephenmcdonell.bsky.social
WW2 ended with… “negotiation”???
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 24
JD Vance: "This is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to World War 2, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."
August 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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hkc-no.bsky.social
An important initiative!
We strongly support this, and are among the signatory organizations.
rsf.org RSF @rsf.org · Aug 21
In a joint letter, RSF and a coalition of 72 NGOs urged UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to act urgently to secure the release of British publisher Jimmy Lai, whose health has dangerously deteriorated after more than 1,680 days in detention in Hong Kong. It’s time to #FreeJimmyLai
Hong Kong: RSF and a coalition of 72 NGOs urge UK Prime Minister to secure Jimmy Lai’s release on medical parole
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and a coalition of 72 human rights and press freedom organisations are urging British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to secure the release of publisher Jimmy Lai, whose he...
rsf.org
August 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM