1. Newsletter XVIII 2024 - April 28th to May 4th - News+ Hubris of the West: Three decades of chaos and decline

    to keep the “defense alliance” united and armed against Russia and China while watching the annihilation of Palestinians in Gaza and fighting criticism as anti-Semitism. * Pesticides | Occupational disease | Parkinson's Parkinson's disease caused by pesticides is becoming an occupational disease in Germany Germany is the third EU country to recognize the connection between pesticides and...

  2. Newsletter XVII 2024 - April 21st to 27th - News+ Reform of the Climate Protection Act: One step forward, two steps back

    859 billion euros), more than a third (37 percent) of global military spending - about three times as much as second place China with an estimated 296 billion dollars... * Chemicals | Pesticides | Brain Development Study Warns: Common Environmental Chemicals Apparently Damage Brain Development Chemicals found in disinfectants and flame retardants impair...

  3. Newsletter XVI 2024 - April 14th to 20th - News+ Poland: The Tusk government is also relying on nuclear energy

    It is currently the case that the central tax authority has frozen millions of dollars in its bank accounts. In the middle of the election campaign, a serious intervention in democracy... April 19th Farmers | Pesticides | Parkinson's occupational disease in farmers: Pesticides cause Parkinson's disease The Medical Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry of Social Affairs has decided that Parkinson's disease occurs after the use of...

  4. Newsletter VII 2024 - February 11th to 17th - Current+ super election year in the crucial climate decade

    Parastatal group CEZ expects a price of 160 billion crowns (6,3 billion euros) per reactor. At least, the CEZ admits, at 2020 prices... * Italy | farmers | Pesticides Researchers show large-scale pesticide contamination in Vinschgau. Following the traces of the whereabouts of the...

  5. Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?

    The use of the term “plant protection product” in connection with weed killers such as glyphosate is cynical and an example of how greenwashing works. Sooner or later, this pesticide will kill pretty much everything it comes into contact with, so there can and should be no talk of “protection” anymore. * Climate protection | Antifascism | Nazi party climate protection is anti-fascism – and vice versa...

  6. Newsletter LI 2023 - December 17th to 23rd - Current news + steps towards climate change, unsettled OPEC and loving politics

    Due to the still small production volumes, solar cells and modules produced in Germany are higher than the production costs of Asian solar giga factories... * Glyphosate | Monsanto | Pesticide test for harmful substances Toxins discovered in Christmas trees Across Germany, the BUND has examined Christmas trees from hardware stores, street sales and directly from the producer for pesticide residues...

  7. Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy

    do what they are intended for: generate electricity. * Brazil | Glyphosate | Cancer Brazil: More glyphosate leads to more deaths in children As soy production increases, more and more pesticides are being sprayed. More and more children are getting cancer, says a study. Increasing soy cultivation in Brazil is associated with more deaths among children under the age of ten. The reason for this is the...

  8. Newsletter XLVII 2023 - November 19th to 25th - News+ Spectacular setback for the development of small nuclear reactors in the USA - The dead horse

    A firm commitment to phasing out fossil fuels must also be decided at the climate summit in Dubai in order to keep the 1,5 degree target within reach. * EU Parliament | Pesticides | Lobbying EU says goodbye to pesticide targets - expert outraged: "Our research results don't count" After re-approving glyphosate for ten more years, the EU has now...

  9. Newsletter XLVI 2023 - November 12th to 18th - News+ Violence as a consequence of climate change: No cool heads

    5) Sosnovy Bor Nuclear Power Plant, Leningrad, USSR * We are looking for current information. If you can help, please send a message to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de November 18th EU Commission | Glyphosate | Pesticide glyphosate: Scandalous re-approval by the EU Commission Without support from member states – Criminal neglect of the EU precautionary principle! Yesterday the appeal committee of the...

  10. Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?

    which were repealed soon afterwards. It has never been clarified who the agitators were who incited the unemployed to pogrom. Doubts were even raised as to whether this even existed. * Pesticide | genetic | Plant protection New pesticide: This poison knocks out genes. Active ingredient kills Colorado beetles by interfering with the genome. US authorities shorten test phase. How the remedy works and which...

  11. Newsletter XLIV 2023 - October 29th to November 4th - News+ Uranium exports from Lingen to Russia violate EU law - study by the Greens justifies the possibility of a ban

    warned the White House in Washington. At the same time, US President Joe Biden promised a significant increase in aid for the Palestinian territory controlled by the terrorist organization Hamas... * Pesticides | Chemical industry | Mercosur Food: How banned pesticides are returning to German supermarkets Imported products contain active ingredients that are not sold in the EU but are produced here...

  12. Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism

    Power plant can stop global warming. The power of atoms is used to first create the cancer and then the appropriate drug. The chemical industry does the same thing with its pesticides and the arms industry does the same thing with its weapons, first they are sold worldwide and then they are combated with the same means. The dangers of radioactivity, the increasing low-level radiation in all...

  13. Newsletter XL 2023 - October 1st to 7th - Current news + FDP proposal for industrial electricity price relief is spot on

    he. In Paper's opinion, whether a claim for protection can even be considered should be decided before entering the EU and before crossing the border... October 5th Glyphosate | Pesticides | Chemical industry ecotoxicologist on pesticide ban: “Glyphosate is the perfect smokescreen” Dr. Carsten Brühl is an ecotoxicologist at the University of Landau. For years he has been researching the effects of...

  14. Newsletter XXXIX 2023 - September 24th to 30th - News+ “Populist, verbally radical, ethnic” – and no end in sight

    The rain near the northwestern town of Limni poured so much red mud into the sea that the bay glowed red, as pictures in the Greek media showed... * Glyphosate | Monsanto | Pesticide study was missing from the approval application: Bayer reported for glyphosate The chemical company did not submit critical studies to the authorities about the health risks of the pesticide, according to environmental associations....

  15. Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread

    how long a product lasts – and whether it can be repaired. This significantly expands the EU's list of prohibited business practices... * European Commission | Glyphosate | Pesticides Controversial glyphosate to be used in the EU for another 10 years The European Commission will recommend allowing the use of glyphosate in the EU again for 10 years, said...

  16. Newsletter XXXVII 2023 - September 10th to 16th - News+ How Germany is ruining the climate with billions in gifts to industry

    (INES 4) Tōkaimura Nuclear Plant, JPN * We are looking for current information. If you can help, please send a message to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de September 16th Greenwashing | Certificates | Pesticides Pesticide flights without warning How sustainable are our bananas? Green seals promise sustainable and fairly produced bananas - for a clear conscience. Research shows: The certificates...

  17. Newsletter XXXVI 2023 - September 3rd to 9th - News+ Scientist predicts brutal “population correction” later this century

    but the overshoot captures the entire way of life in many dimensions. The number of people has exploded since the industrial revolution with the use of fossil fuels, which also includes fertilizers and pesticides. The richest countries consume the most energy, consume the most resources and destroy the environment the most. Just different techniques for a problem like...

  18. Newsletter XXXIII 2023 - August 13th to 19th - News+ Military coup in Niger: Uranium mining and environmental destruction as deeper reasons?

    I'm for it." She hopes that there will be "more decent people" who will leave the party. "Nobody needs to say afterwards: I didn't know anything about it."... * Water | Agriculture | Pesticide | Insects Small water monitoring: Too many pesticides end up in the water. Small streams and ditches in Germany are not in good condition. Due to a lack of water protection, too many...

  19. Newsletter XXXII 2023 - August 6th to 12th - News+ Hiroshima - The asphalt will burn. Chaos will reign

    South American agricultural industry, which makes billions in profits from beef and soy and at much lower standards, is still large. Deforestation, displacement of the population, use of pesticides, antibiotics and hormones... * August 6, 1945 (1st atomic bomb dropped by the USA) Hiroshima, USA On August 06th and 09th, 1945, the USA detonated atomic bombs over Japan. Wikipedia Atomic bombings...

  20. Newsletter XXVIII 2023 - July 9-15 - News+ Bulgaria wants to sell Russian reactors to Ukraine

    Use at the airport. The airport announced that flight operations had been suspended since 6.10:12 a.m. Takeoffs and landings are currently not possible... July XNUMXth Agriculture | Hunger in Africa | Pesticide expert on the UN hunger report: “There is enough to eat” According to the latest figures, three quarters of a billion people suffer from malnutrition. Africa must be supported, food...

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