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RESEARCH
PROJECT
How
safe is your tap water?
 Fish with two
sexes, lesbian birds, alligators with
abnormally small penisses: the effects of so
called 'hormone disrupting chemicals' on animals is establihed beyond doubt. But
there are also signs that the hormone
disruptors can harm the health of humans.
And that is an alarming thought, since that
the potentially harmfull chemicals appear to
be present in... drinking water! They leak
from plastic waterpipes. This is discovered
in recent research by different European
laboratories, gathered by the Investigative
Reporters Network Europe (IRENE). Even a
normal, daily dose of hormone disrupting
chemicals can cause a serious threat to the
devopment of sexorgans of male babys. Read more
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RESEARCH
PROJECT
The porn connection
 Summer
2006- The Danish journalists Thomas Sael and
Ulrich Dahlin, at that time working for the
Danish trade union magazine 3F, were looking
for help from Belgium. They were
investigating the fate of sex slaves in
Denmark - at that moment often coming from
Nigeria and Ghana. In Kopenhagen the girls
were involved in forced prostitution for
wich they often made use of a porn club -Cinerotic
- near Kopenhagen station.
Strangely
the owners of the porn club at that time
were also active as top managers in a
Belgian financial holding. Thomas Sael and
Ulrich Dahlin wanted confirmation of the
identity of the owners involved. Brigitte
Alfer brought them into contact with Marleen
Teugels who could confirm - using financial
databanks - the owners of the Danish porn
club indeed were the top mananagers of the
holding.
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RESEARCH
PROJECT
Farm
subsidies - where do they go?
 In
alle westerse landen wordt de landbouw- en
voedingssector al decennialang gevoed door
een miljardenstroom aan subsidies. Het gaat
daarbij om belastinggeld, maar slechts in
enkele landen geeft de overheid de cijfers
vrij: wie krijgt hoeveel en waarom?
Woensdagavond, 21 september
2005, 22.30 uur. Een koerier van het
Nederlandse ministerie van Landbouw in Den
Haag levert een pakje af aan het kantoor van
de niet-gouvernementele organisatie De Evert
Vermeer Stichting in Amsterdam. Het bevat 2
cd-schijfjes met 8 miljoen gegevens.
Waaronder: lange lijsten met cijfers en
namen van
grote multinationals en van
landbouwbedrijven. Een voor een ontvangers
uit de grote pot van 1,26 miljard euro
Europese landbouwsubsidies die in Nederland
worden verdeeld. De informatie kwam niet
zomaar vrij. Er gingen verschillende
procedures en rechtszaken aan vooraf.
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