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Acquiring the Panama Canal falls into the category of something Trump may want but is also using as an economic pressure campaign. For years, he has felt that President Jimmy Carter should not have returned the Panama Canal to Panama. Yet, this person said, Trump believes his trolling could get some policies to cut his way and help with negotiations. Greenland is closer to New York than Copenhagen, and the United States briefly occupied it during World War II. “Let’s say somehow Donald Trump buys Greenland and renames [the Gulf of Mexico] the Gulf of America,” this person said.

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Now they find themselves — and their political future — on the shopping list of the incoming U.S. president. He told reporters that he would not rule out military or economic force to make the Arctic island part of the United States. But it comes a little suddenly.”Donald Trump Jr. poses for a selfie with a local man after arriving in Nuuk, Greenland on Tuesday. Scott Olson / Getty ImagesInger Skydsbjerg, an administration worker in Nuuk, told Danish television channel DKTV that she was in favor of remaining linked to Copenhagen and "not so happy" with Trump's designs. “We are a peaceful country and we want to live our own life,” he told DR. “And then to make threats like that, that is far beyond the line.”

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☆ Worrying or welcome? What Greenland residents think of Trump’s bid to buy the island
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-08 | by ( Eve Brennan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

They also come amid a widely publicized trip to the island by Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. Some residents canvassed by KNR criticized Trump Sr.’s comments, saying they would prefer the island to remain under Danish control. “I see Donald Trump’s interest in Greenland as very dangerous,” said Greenlander Jens Danielsen. Another resident, Anguteq Larsen, told KNR he would prefer Greenland to be independent, without having to rely on either Denmark or the US. “So Greenland is not MAGA and Greenland is not going to be MAGA,” she said.

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☆ What to see at the Venice Biennale 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( Nicole Mowbray | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —This week sees the opening of the Venice Biennale, an 8-month-long festival of art and culture staged every other year. For 2024 — the show’s 60th iteration — Brazilian curator Adriano Pedrosa has chosen the topic of “Foreigners Everywhere,” and announced an intention to spotlight artists from diverse and historically marginalized backgrounds. With the main event running from April 20 to November 24 2024, here’s our pick of what to see if you’re headed to Venice. “Willem de Kooning e l’Italia” — Willem de KooningThe show at Gallerie dell’Accademia will include 75 Willem de Kooning works, including "Screams of Children Come from Seagulls (Untitled XX)," 1975. Yoo Youngkuk Art FoundationThe first exhibition in Europe of one of Korea’s most influential artists, including many works never exhibited before outside Korea.

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☆ A new company is shipping Arctic ice from Greenland to chill posh drinks in Dubai
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Laura Paddison | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

The startup company, Arctic Ice, shipped its first container of around 22 tons of Greenland ice to Dubai this year for sale to high-end bars and restaurants. Founded in 2022 by two Greenlanders, Arctic Ice has an interesting — and controversial — business model. Arctic Ice claims it’s offering a novel way to harness a natural resource, carving out new economic opportunities and raising awareness of the Arctic. Various attempts have been made over the past few decades to bring back natural ice commercially, but with little success. But perhaps inevitably for a business model that involves shipping a diminishing natural resource halfway across the world, Arctic Ice has attracted controversy.

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☆ Rising sea levels may have forced the Vikings out of a successful settlement
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-18 | by ( Katie Hunt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Why they abandoned a successful settlement is a mystery that historians never have been able to fully explain. The idea that sea levels would have been rising as temperatures fell is a little counterintuitive, according to the researchers. However, Earth’s oceans aren’t like a bathtub, and the study noted that changes in sea level don’t affect all areas equally. The Greenland Ice Sheet readvanced during Viking occupation of the eastern settlement and peaked in the Little Ice Age. That advance caused sea level rise near the ice margins because of the sinking of Earth’s crust, according to the study.

☆ Climate Change Is Real. Markets, Not Governments, Offer the Cure. - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Bret Stephens | Mr. Stephens Is An Opinion Columnist. Mr. Winter Is A Staff Photographer On Assignment In Opinion. | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +32 min

worse-case, highest-carbon-emission scenario.” (The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the U.N. body that assesses climate change.) How do we weigh the risks of underreacting to climate change against the risks of overreacting to it? While he’s not an expert on climate change, he has spent decades thinking deeply about every manner of risk. That’s particularly true if climate change is akin to cancer — manageable or curable in its earlier stages, disastrous in its later ones. Maybe, I realized, in assessing my newfound concerns about climate change, my long-held beliefs might provide a solution — look to the market.

☆ The US and Canada are updating a Cold War-era system to keep an eye on Russian and Chinese missiles. Experts say they need to add a lot more territory too.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The US and Canada are modernizing NORAD to watch for Russian, Chinese, and North Korean missiles. At the same time, some experts argue that the command should expand beyond North America to include Denmark and its North American territory, Greenland. North American Aerospace Defense Command, as it's now known, is also responsible for detecting and tracking North Korean missile launches. But the North Pole is still a dagger pointed at North America. The defense of North America is still on NORAD's radar.

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