Newsletter XXXVI 2023
September 3 to 9
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Nuclear Power Accidents
This PDF file contains a list of known incidents from the various areas of the civil and military nuclear industry. Some of this information only came to the public in a roundabout way...
Excerpt for this month:
September 1, 1982 (INES 5) Chernobyl, USSR
September 3, 2017 (6. Atomic Bomb Test) Punggye-ri, PRK
September 5, 2008 (INES ? Class.?) Ascó, ESP
September 9, 2016 (5. Atomic Bomb Test) Punggye-ri, PRK
September 11, 1979 (INES 4 NAMS 3,4) nuclear factory Sellafield, GBR
September 11, 1957 (INES 5 NAMS 2,3) nuclear factory Rocky Flats, USA
September 13, 1987 (INES 5) Goiânia, BRA
September 18, 1980 (Rocket fuel explosion) Damascus, USA
September 22, 1980 (INES 3 NAMS 1,6) nuclear factory Sellafield, GBR
September 23, 1983 (INES 4) nuclear center Constituentes, ARG
September 24, 1977 (INES 3) Davis Besse, USA
September 26, 2013 (INES 2) Institute of Energy Caps, NLD
September 26, 1973 (INES 4 NAMS 2) nuclear factory Sellafield, GBR
September 29, 1957 (INES 6 NAMS 7,3) nuclear factory Mayak, USSR
September 30, 1999 (INES 4) nuclear factory Tokaimura, JPN
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9 September
Paris climate agreement | 1,5 degree | fossil
A bad climate report for the global community
The first global balance sheet from the UN Climate Secretariat shows major gaps. Experts consider the so-called global inventory to be a possible turning point.
The Paris Climate Agreement is the written promise of 195 countries to limit global warming to well below two degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial times and to make efforts to keep warming below 1,5 degrees. The states made this promise eight years ago now. What has happened since then?
[...] The document has clear words. In order to achieve the climate goals, “a radical decarbonization of all economic sectors is required,” says the draft.
[...] Enormous amounts of money continue to flow into climate-damaging businesses. Because as long as climate damage is not adequately priced in, business in climate-damaging sectors is worthwhile. Tayler: "And as long as these errors in the market are not corrected by governments, emissions will continue to rise."
It will only be possible to judge in December whether the global inventory actually represents a turning point. Only then will we know whether a bad climate report card leads to better climate summits.
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France | Nuclear waste | Bure
anti-nuclear movement
Small farmers against nuclear toilet
Internationalist protest camp in France mobilizes trade unionists and farmers
In Lorraine, near Bure, the busy nuclear state France is planning a nuclear waste dump that will be declared a research laboratory and is second to none. Consequently, at the end of August, the resistance members of the anti-nuclear movement pitched their tents on the planned Castor route as part of the “Encounters of Smallholder and Rural Struggles” (LPR).
"We spent a year and a half planning to set up an international resistance meeting and reject the nuclear mafia," Anne from the camp's organizing team told Radio Dreyeckland.
[...] The most notable confrontation of the procession, which was accompanied by hundreds of people at a distance, was the exclusion of some plainclothes police officers who were exposed as "agents provocateurs".
The LPR organization appears to be prepared for future conflicts with the nuclear industry and the fight against agro-industrial devastation. The upcoming 500th anniversary of the Peasants' Wars aroused in the first evaluative debates a desire for new protests with reference to rural rebellion. For Pierrot, the camp was a "clear statement against the nuclear industry and the final storage agency ANDRA, which showers the districts with millions to benefit corrupt minds", for Anne "a further step towards strengthening rebellious self-government in the countryside through small farming practice."
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September 9, 2016 (5. Atomic Bomb Test) Punggye-ri, PRK
Wikipedia
North Korean nuclear weapons program
On September 09, 2016, at around 2:30 a.m. CET, earthquake monitors in South Korea, China, the USA and Europe registered a magnitude 5,3 earthquake in North Korea. A few hours later, North Korea announced the successful test of a nuclear bomb...
Atomwaffen A - Z
... To date, North Korea has carried out six nuclear tests: in 2006, 2009, 2013, twice in 2016 and most recently in September 2017. North Korea claimed on January 6, 2016 that the country had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb for the first time...
8 September
Climate policy | Energy transition | Global Warming
paper of terror
The United Nations has compiled where the international community stands in implementing the Paris Climate Agreement. The result is clear.
The bad news comprises 47 pages, 231 sub-points and several appendices, its language is sober. On 47 pages, climate diplomats have compiled how far the Paris climate agreement has brought the world. The result: Not very far. "While some progress is being made, much more is needed, on all fronts" - that's what it says in line 4. And, a few lines further: "The world is not on track to achieve the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement."
This is how the “synthesis report on the technical dialogue on the global inventory” begins, which the UN Climate Secretariat presented in Bonn on Friday. What appears to be technical is actually the core of global climate policy in the coming months. The global community has failed to deliver - and now urgently needs to consider how to respond...
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heating law | heat transition | Climate protection
Difficult birth: Heating law passed in the Bundestag
The SPD and the Greens are satisfied. CDU politician speaks of “insanity”. The Left does not see tenant protection guaranteed. What's wrong, among other things.
After further arguments in the Bundestag, the much-discussed heating law was passed in the Bundestag this Friday afternoon. 399 MPs voted by roll call for the draft law amending the Building Energy Act (GEG), the Heating Cost Ordinance and the Sweeping and Inspection Ordinance in a version revised by the Committee for Climate Protection and Energy. 275 voted against with five abstentions.
Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck calls it "a good law", Union parliamentary group deputy Jens Spahn thinks it is "crazy" and an "economic stimulus program for populists", the left-wing politician Caren Lay thinks it has nothing to do with a "social warming transition", the AfD MP Marc Bernhard continues to call it "heating hammer" - a word that was often to be read in the picture this year...
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fossil industry | Influencers | Social Media
Influence on Instagram, Tiktok and Co:
Fossil industry buys influencers
The companies want to reach young people where they are at home online: on social media services. The method is controversial.
PARIS afp | “Come with me and get some snacks at our Shell gas station,” says US influencer The Petrol Princess in a video on the online service Tiktok. She usually poses in different wigs for her 2,7 million subscribers, sometimes with black curls, sometimes with pink streaks. In between, the influencer advertises for the British oil company Shell.
Just like The Petrol Princess, numerous influencers on platforms such as Tiktok, Instagram and Twitch promote the large fossil fuel companies in addition to their usual content. BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and Total Energies benefit from their reach.
“The fossil fuel industry wants to build social capital among young people,” says Melissa Aronczyk, professor of communication and information at Rutgers University. Because of the climate crisis, the oil companies have a bad image among many young people. “They not only consider them outdated, but also dangerous,” explains Aronczyk.
More than 100 influencers have worked with major oil companies since 2017, according to a count by the climate news site DeSmog.
[...] “Fossil energy companies are the biggest polluters in the world, they are deeply loathed by young people,” says Duncan Meisel. “For anyone watching these videos, the unfollow button won’t be far away.”
Great Britain | Energy transition | offshore | Cost increase
Sluggish energy transition
British tender for offshore wind farms ends without a bid
By 2050, Great Britain wants to almost triple its electricity production on the high seas. But there was not a single bidder in a tender for subsidized wind farms. Inflation is said to be to blame.
Not a single bid was received in a tender to build government-subsidized offshore wind farms in the UK. The government in London confirmed this after the application period ended on Friday.
London's goal of increasing electricity production from offshore wind farms from the current 2050 gigawatts to 14 gigawatts by 50 appears to be even more difficult to achieve than it already is.
[...] British media reported, citing industry experts, that the guaranteed electricity price promised by the government was too low to cover the increased costs due to inflation.
According to the BBC, the guaranteed price was 44 pounds (51,30 euros) per megawatt hour...
The guaranteed price for nuclear power is included 92,50 pounds per megawatt hour...
WirtschaftsWoche from June 3, 2023
EDF also had to adjust the costs of the project several times: While the initial figure was £18 billion, the construction of the power plant is now expected to cost more than £32 billion – a cost increase of 80 percent.
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Over 35 years, EDF should have a guaranteed electricity price of 92,50 pounds per megawatt hour receive. If the market price falls below this amount, electricity customers across the country must make up the difference in the form of a special levy - regardless of whether they are EDF customers or not. Spending watchdogs from the National Audit Office (NAO) have therefore strongly criticized this regulation.
This means that British consumers will face additional costs of up to £35 billion. The power plant will only deliver an additional net output of 3,2 gigawatts. For comparison: British wind turbines already had a capacity of over 28 gigawatts last year, and the trend is rapidly increasing.
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Great Britain | Hinkley Point | construction time | Cost increase
Nuclear power expansion in Great Britain:
England's radiant C-side
Citizens are suing the Sizewell C nuclear power plant. The government wants to build it despite safety concerns.
[...] The British government sees nuclear power as a fundamental part of its future non-fossil energy strategy. By 2050, 25 percent of electricity is to be generated by nuclear power and the current capacity of 5,5 gigawatts is to be increased to 24 gigawatts. To achieve this, the country needs a new generation of nuclear power plants.
The then Energy Minister Kwesi Kwarteng granted approval for Sizewell C in 2022 just two weeks after Boris Johnson resigned as Prime Minister. Two new reactors are planned for Sizewell C, essentially a copy of the Hinkley Point C reactor currently under construction near Bristol in the west of England. The Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant project has come into discussion because construction costs have increased from the equivalent of 2015 billion euros to up to 21 billion euros since construction began in 38.
Nuclear power plants in Europe
14 of 27 EU member states – around half – do not currently operate their own nuclear power plants. This emerges from data from the Austrian Ministry of the Environment, which refers, among other things, to the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA. France is the leader with 56 reactors in operation, followed far behind by Spain with 7 reactors. Germany shut down the last reactor in April. According to the IAEA, Great Britain still has 11 nuclear power plants on the grid. With a total of around 110 reactors, a quarter of all reactors in operation worldwide are in Europe.
On or off? While countries like Germany have abandoned nuclear energy, a massive expansion of nuclear power is planned in France. Great Britain also wants to stick to nuclear power. The Netherlands, Belgium, Bulgaria, Sweden and the Czech Republic have postponed the already planned phase-out and in some cases have launched new construction plans for nuclear power plants instead.
[...] Nuclear critics agree that there are many arguments against Sizewell C that still need to be examined. Nuclear energy critic Paul Dorfman from the University of Sussex also believes that the current government, but also a possible future Labor government, would find it difficult to justify the costs of nuclear power plants. “95 percent of all new electricity capacity these days comes from renewable energies.” In addition, given the climate crisis, there is simply no longer any time to wait for a nuclear power plant, which, according to the government, will take 17 years to build...
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WikiLeaks founder:
Celebrities ask Baerbock for help for Julian Assange
Numerous celebrities wrote a letter calling on the Foreign Minister to stand up for Julian Assange in the USA. Among them is one of Baerbock's predecessors.
Prominent supporters of Julian Assange have called on Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock to speak out for the release of the WikiLeaks founder during her upcoming visit to the USA. “We expect that you, as a member of the federal government, will bring up the Assange case with your counterpart Antony Blinken in your upcoming talks in Washington and will clearly advocate for an end to the persecution of Assange,” write the signatories of a document initiated by investigative journalist Günter Wallraff open letter to the Green Party politician, which is available to the dpa news agency...
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Surveillance | Squirrel | State authority
Anti-nuclear activist successfully sues:
Wrongly observed
Cécile Lecomte was wrongly monitored by the federal police and listed in a search system. This was decided by the Hanover Administrative Court.
HAMBURG taz | The Lüneburg anti-nuclear activist Cécile Lecomte has successfully sued against the search and covert surveillance by the federal police. The federal police had listed her in the police information system Inpol for two years and that is why Lecomte was checked more thoroughly each time than her fellow activists. The court now ruled: This was unlawful.
The covert surveillance took place around the protest against a Castor transport in 2020 from Sellafield in the UK to Biblis. Lecomte was monitored for several weeks and the police allowed video and audio recordings to be made until the end of the transport.
The police justified this order by saying that the activist could endanger herself and others with her climbing activities. In addition, further actions should be prevented, according to the police. However, there was no evidence that further protests were planned. This covert surveillance was also illegal...
7 September
Last Generation | Violence | police violence
Attacks on Last Generation in Mannheim
Police officer poured oil on demonstrators during road blockade, car driver slapped activists in the face
During a last generation protest march in Mannheim on Wednesday evening, a driver kicked activists several times and brutally punched one of them in the face. The scene can be seen in a video shared by the group on Platform X. According to the last generation, the march began as a slow walking demonstration on the B36 until cars driving behind it stopped and their occupants are said to have molested the demonstrators.
When they sat down on the street, the documented violent attacks followed. “The federal government ignored our protest for so long that scenes like yesterday in Mannheim have now occurred. This saddens and shocks us,” explains Aimée van Baalen, spokeswoman for the group...
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Responsibility | Last Generation | Hamburg
Process after action at the Hamburg University:
Penalty reduction for air-conditioning sprayers
An activist from the last generation successfully defended himself against a penalty order before the Hamburg district court. His performance impressed the judge.
HAMBURG taz | The judge also liked the picture of the apricot tree. In the final speech by the accused Kristoffer K., he symbolizes the connection between insects and plants, people and animals. But there is already destroyed nature everywhere. However, according to K., people watch the destruction comfortably, in the darkness of a theatre, and yet they know that it is already real. "As viewers, we consume the misfortune that we cause ourselves," said the accused.
[...] Because their action was correct, since the university does not live up to its responsibility, said the defendant. With reference to its scientific neutrality, it eludes its necessary political positioning. "However, research is not neutral if one forecasts four degrees of global warming by the end of the century," said K. On the contrary, she had to make demands on the Bundestag. The proclaimed neutrality is also racist, since people in the Global South would suffer from it...
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Bavaria | Last Generation | preventive detention
Preventive detention for the last generation – the “now more than ever” effect
During the IAA auto show in Munich, 29 people who could disturb remain locked away. Also a 73 year old grandfather. This makes an election poster look like real satire.
"Grandpa, please vote for me" is written on a poster with which the Bavarian Greens are campaigning for votes - illustrated with a serious girl's face. On October 8th, a new state parliament will be elected in Bavaria - and the Greens' target group includes family people who are concerned about the future of their children because of the environmental and climate crisis.
This seems like a sad real satire, because at least one very worried grandfather and several like-minded people are currently in preventive custody for actions of civil disobedience against the inadequate climate policy of the red-green-yellow federal government in the Munich-Stadelheim prison.
Because he doesn't believe that a cross for the Greens or any other party can save the world, Ernst Hörmann has joined the Last Generation climate initiative, which the Munich Public Prosecutor's Office suspects of being a "criminal organization".
At 73 years old, he is the oldest among the 29 climate activists in preventive detention in Bavaria. According to the Last Generation, the trained mechanical engineer from Freising has eight grandchildren to whom he feels committed...
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Battery | Lithium | geothermal energy
Upper Rhine Graben: Lithium lasts for decades
Lithium production through geothermal power plants would be possible without supply drying up
Great potential: In the Upper Rhine Graben, the extraction of the sought-after battery raw material lithium is also worthwhile and sustainable in the long term. Even if the lithium-rich deep water is pumped out for decades, there is no risk of the supply of raw materials being exhausted, as researchers have determined. According to this, a single geothermal power plant could produce enough lithium to cover up to three percent of German battery production needs for more than 30 years.
When it comes to lithium as a raw material, Germany has so far been completely dependent on imports - most of it comes from China and South America. But that doesn't have to be the case, because there are also rich lithium deposits in Germany. Some of these resources are found in minerals from the Erzgebirge, while a second, larger lithium source is in the Oberreingraben. The warm deep water there contains up to 190 milligrams of lithium per liter. If it were extracted, existing geothermal power plants could produce up to 4.700 tons of lithium annually, as researchers have determined...
6 September
Wind energy | District heating | Power to heat
Power-to-heat system of the Rostock public utility company inaugurated
The Rostock public utility commissioned a so-called power-to-heat system in the Marienehe district on Wednesday. This is intended to convert wind energy into district heating.
With the help of a huge electric boiler, wind energy will be converted into district heating in Rostock-Marienehe. The newly built power-to-heat system, which works like an oversized immersion heater, is intended to achieve an electrical output of around 20 megawatts...
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Transformation | climate active | ECB
The financial world and the climate crisis:
ECB is for more climate activism
The central bank warns: Delays in the transformation lead to higher risks for the financial sector.
BERLIN taz | A faster transformation is not only good for the climate, it also contributes to the stability of the financial world. The European Central Bank (ECB) warned in its second climate stress test, the results of which it published on Wednesday, that if politicians continue to hesitate on climate protection, this could massively increase the risk of default for banks.
"We need stronger policy action to ensure a faster transition to a net-zero economy in line with the Paris Agreement goals," said ECB Vice President Luis de Guindos. "If we continue as before, the risks and costs for the economy and the financial system will increase," said de Guindos.
The ECB carried out its first climate stress test two years ago. For the almost 100-page report, the ECB analyzed the effects that different speeds of transformation could have on the economy in the euro area...
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Ukraine | Uranium ammunition | United States
Ukraine escalation: After cluster bombs, now also uranium ammunition from the USA
Washington wants to supply missiles with depleted uranium. Russia threatens to respond with the same ammunition. Why DU bullets, cluster bombs and landmines continue to contaminate the war.
According to Reuters, the US government under President Joe Biden will supply Ukraine with the controversial armor-piercing ammunition with depleted uranium (DU) for the first time. Washington is following Great Britain. The British government announced at the end of April that it had sent DU ammunition at the beginning of the year.
The uranium shells can be fired from US Abrams tanks. The tanks are expected to arrive in Ukraine in the coming weeks. The munitions come from surplus US inventories, allowing the President to send them in emergencies without US Congress approval. The shipment is likely to be worth between $240 million and $375 million...
5 September
EU Commission | Glyphosate | Monsanto
Glyphosate before registration:
Weed killer in drinking water
On September 15, the EU Commission will decide whether to reauthorize the herbicide glyphosate. But a study shows the risks of an approval.
BRUSSELS taz | The Greens in the European Parliament warn against re-authorizing glyphosate in the European Union. It would be “grossly negligent” if the EU Commission were to approve the controversial weed killer again, said Green MEP Martin Häusling in Brussels on Tuesday. As justification, he referred to a study that detects glyphosate in industrial and drinking water.
[...] The authorities have ignored significant risks, the Greens are now warning. For example, no studies have been carried out on the effect of glyphosate on food and the intestinal flora. However, glyphosate could act like an antibiotic there, warned Austrian MEP Sarah Wiener, who became known as the “TV chef”. She also called a re-registration “highly negligent”.
The concerns are underpinned by a new study commissioned by the Greens themselves. It will be published on Wednesday and examines the effects of glyphosate use on industrial and drinking water. The Pesticide Action Network Europe, which was commissioned with the study, found that the weed killer has been detected in flowing and standing water in almost all EU countries...
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Fossil | Subsidies | industrial electricity price
Criticism of the subsidy proposal
Industrial electricity price promotes fossil electricity
The introduction of an industrial electricity price would be a massive intervention in the electricity market in favor of fossil generation and would slow down the energy transition. Electricity prices for energy-intensive companies are already heavily subsidized today.
The debate about the industrial electricity price is developing into a long-running political issue. In the spring of this year, the following story came up: Before the energy crisis triggered by the Ukraine war, industry had to pay around seven cents for a kilowatt hour of electricity. This price then increased several times over, and since then it has fallen again, but not enough.
Currently, a kilowatt hour on the exchange – electricity supply in 2024 – costs around 13 cents. In the short term, electricity can be had for eight or nine cents...
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Italy | Renaissance nuclear power | Referendum
Italy is planning a renaissance of nuclear power
The Italian government believes that the country must rely on nuclear power in order to become autonomous in the energy supply.
The Italian government wants to take the first steps to generate electricity from nuclear power again in the country. Energy and Environment Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin has convened a national platform for sustainable nuclear power. On September 21st, actors who deal with nuclear power, security, radiation protection and nuclear waste are to meet for the first time. According to a statement by the Italian government, the focus should be on nuclear technology that meets high safety and sustainability criteria.
In 1987, the year after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Italy voted in a referendum to phase out nuclear power. In that year the last Italian nuclear power plant was shut down...
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Weather extremes | Mediterranean | Heavy rain
Now comes the omega location
Central Europe can look forward to sunny late summer weather. In the Mediterranean, however, there is a risk of extreme rainstorms. A special weather situation is responsible for this.
From one extreme to the next: This is the result of a special weather situation for parts of southern Europe that has now become established. The so-called Omega weather conditions bring sunny and dry late summer weather to Central Europe with a strong, blocking high that reaches far into the atmosphere, but the two flanking lows to the west and east bring catastrophic heavy rain to Spain and Greece. Because low-pressure areas are guided in a wide arc around Central Europe, in this case their tracks run across the Mediterranean Sea on a southern path.
Spain got its first taste of this on the first weekend of September: torrential rains caused flash floods in various parts of the country; the rock-hard soil after the long, dry summer could not absorb the masses of water, which is why they poured in muddy streams through valleys and streets in many places. At least three people died and others are missing. In Toledo, a record-breaking 24 liters per square meter fell in 3 hours on Sunday (September 90).
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Lithium iron phosphate battery
The super battery from China
The manufacturer CATL promises short charging times and a range of 700 kilometers with its LFP battery. Is that the "game changer" - or an intermediate step to a real breakthrough?
Pure electric cars are becoming increasingly popular, and there are now over a million of them in Germany. However, according to surveys, over 70 percent of drivers want to continue driving a combustion engine - mainly because of the lack of range of electric vehicles and a lack of charging stations.
A new battery from the Chinese manufacturer CATL could now become a so-called game changer if the announced performance data proves to be true in practice: charging would be almost as fast as refueling and the desired long ranges would be possible.
[...] The car expert only sees the real breakthrough in battery technology coming with the so-called solid-state battery, which all manufacturers are working on. Unlike previous batteries, it works without liquid electrolytes, does not heat up as much and has a high storage capacity. In addition, super-fast loading times are expected.
"This brings the electric car into a new dimension," says Dudenhöffer. "The manufacturer who is the first to bring this onto the market has won."
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September 5, 2008 (INES ? Class.?) Ascó, ESP
These incidents from 2008 are in the Post Ascó Nuclear Power Plant in Wikipedia can no longer be found, the link to the source of the information has been deleted.
Wikipedia
Between September 5, 2008 and November 6, 2008, eight INES accidents were registered in the double-unit facility, five of them in Unit II. (Source: CSN)
List of accidents in European nuclear facilities
4 September
Guatemala | Elections | Human right
Stage win for Semilla in Guatemala
International pressure shows visible successes
The Supreme Electoral Court has decided: the suspension of the Movimiento Semilla (seed) has been lifted for the time being. This is a success for the lawyers of the party of President-elect Bernardo Arévalo, but also an indication that international pressure is at work.
In addition, not all judges in key positions in the justice system appear to be on the payroll of the »Pact of the Corrupt«. That is the good news, and the rationale of Gerardo Ramírez, spokesman for the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE), fits in: »It is not reasonable or prudent to challenge the status of political organizations (...) before the electoral process is over.«
This is a de facto legal slap in the face for those who have been trying to checkmate the Semilla party for months: Judge Fredy Orellana and Prosecutor Rafael Curruchiche.
[...] Attempts to suspend or even annul Semilla will continue, and the indications of assassination plans against Arévalo, to which the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights drew attention a week ago, are also alarming. For observers like the German lawyer Michael Mörth, it's time for Bernardo Arévalo to be better protected and less visible in public. The 64-year-old politician, who is close to the people, needs better protection, says Mörth.
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antisemitic, right-wing and deputy from Kini Jödler
The Aiwanger case:
What can be said again recently
Public discourse is shifting to the right. Memorials criticize a "remembrance policy shambles".
BERLIN taz | On Sunday, the Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) ended the Aiwanger case and the revelations about an anti-Semitic inflammatory newspaper. For right-wing extremism researcher Miro Dittrich from the Center for Monitoring, Analysis and Strategy, the case is not over. Because: “We are experiencing a shift over the years. Things that were considered unspeakable, for which you had to step back in the past, are now tolerated in this way," Dittrich told the taz. The applications for new members from the Free Voters reported by the media and the jubilant supporters of Aiwanger in the beer tents speak for great resentment.
[...] That Aiwanger claimed that he should be politically "annihilated" was an "intolerable" formulation for survivors of the Holocaust. All the events caused "the right-wing extremist scene in Germany to cheer" and led to an "increasing disruption" of the image that the survivors had of German politics. According to Heubner, Aiwanger would do himself and society a great favor if he took a break and asked Söder to be released.
Lower Saxony's Anti-Semitism Commissioner Gerhard Wegner misses above all Aiwanger's clear stance on what was and no messing about. "I fear that this will open a door to the reawakening of underlying anti-Semitic talk, not only in Bavaria," Wegner told the taz. “The firewall against anti-Semitism has cracked.” Right-wing extremism researcher Dittrich also has to draw the same conclusion: “A limit has been crossed here – and this crossing of the limit shifts the discourse to the right.”
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Freie Wähler | Aiwanger | AfD
At the age of 16? Read what he says today at age 52!
Aiwanger denies any serious sins of his youth. Still, he apologizes. What he spreads today is less known to us.
Today, 52-year-old Hubert Aiwanger, Deputy Bavarian Prime Minister, Bavarian Economics Minister and state chairman of the Free Voters, is not distributing leaflets today, but is addressing his potential voters directly:
“Now the point has been reached where the silent vast majority of this country must finally bring back democracy and tell those in Berlin that you have your asses open up there, ladies and gentlemen.”
June 2023, on the Federal Government's Heating Act
I am convinced that Bavaria and Germany would be safer if every decent man and woman were allowed to have a knife in their pocket, and we would lock up the serious criminals.
June 2023
A strong AfD is a strategic calculation by left-wing circles to bring Greens into governments.
August 4, 2023
Politicians have to listen more to the regulars' tables and less to ideological advisers.
July 20, 2023
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3 September
Energy transition | Climate protection | Emissions trading
Fossil state aid slows down climate protection:
Where is the energy transition?
High subsidies flow into the fossil fuel industry. A climate-friendly reform could save ten billion euros, a new Greenpeace study shows.
BERLIN taz | Germany invests almost six times as much tax money in climate-damaging subsidies for industry as in climate-friendly conversion. This is shown by a new study by the Forum Ökologisch-Sociale Marktwirtschaft e. V. (FÖS), which was carried out on behalf of the environmental protection organization Greenpeace. While more than 16 billion euros per year flowed into fossil business models, just 2,8 billion euros in funding were available for more climate protection.
According to the calculations, around 10 billion euros are attributable to relief in national and European emissions trading. Electricity production from fossil fuels is also subsidized to the tune of almost 3,8 billion euros annually. In addition, there are tax reliefs for the use of fossil fuels, which add up to 2,2 billion euros per year...
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Funding | Photovoltaics | Wissing
Funding program: Wissing did not understand his political toolbox
Anyone who already has an electric car and buys a PV system should get up to 10.200 euros. Wrong incentives and a fatal signal, finds c't editor Jan Mahn.
What hasn't the transport and digital minister had to put up with in the past few weeks? First he came under pressure because the transport sector for which he is responsible failed to meet the government's climate targets, then various groups nagged about the federal government's digital strategy for which he was responsible. And then there was criticism again when he announced that he did not want to spend more federal funds on the 49-euro ticket. Accompanied by the constant demand for a speed limit. It must have been enough for the minister at some point and so he started the liberation. i-Kfz, the digital registration for motor vehicles, started on September 1st. And just one day later, in a TV interview, he announced details of a new support program for owners of electric cars who now want to use solar power. You read that right: A program that provides financial help to those who already own an e-car. And a house. This is what the critics get out of it now: they put the poor minister under so much pressure and cornered him that he panicked and aimlessly flailed around with the tools in his political toolbox. Because nothing about this promotion is carefully considered...
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September 3, 2017 (6th nuclear weapon test) Punggye-ri, PRK
Wikipedia
North Korean nuclear weapons program
On September 03, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. local time, earthquake monitors worldwide registered an artificially caused earthquake in North Korea. According to the Chinese earthquake agency, it had a magnitude of 6,3 - the agency corrected initial American measurements, which had initially indicated 5,6. North Korea announced the successful test of a hydrogen bomb.
This was the last one so far 2056 nuclear weapons tests worldwide ...
As a consequence of this nuclear weapons test, the UN Security Council decided to further tighten sanctions against North Korea. On May 22, 2018, North Korea closed its nuclear test site at Punggye-ri...
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population | Disaster | collaps
Scientist predicts brutal 'population correction' later this century
Since the Industrial Revolution, humanity has been caught in a “boom-bust cycle” of population and a progressive destruction of natural resources. Business continues in this way due to “cognitive incompetence” and the fixation on global warming contributes to the misunderstanding of the dynamics.
Homo sapiens seems to be anything but the crown of intelligence and wisdom. Modern humans reproduce exponentially, consuming all existing resources that cannot regenerate. Normally, of course, there is negative feedback, says Canadian population ecologist William Rees from the University of British Columbia, but with the scientific revolution and the use of fossil fuels, humanity has so far been able to achieve exponential growth. In the last two centuries, humanity has increased from one billion to 8 billion on a limited planet, which corresponds to a 100-fold increase.
But that will not be a permanent solution, and homo sapiens should gradually know that. People are destroying their own livelihoods, which Rees tries to demonstrate with many data and tendencies. The future after him will not be pretty. In his essay, published in World magazine, he writes: “Humanity is exhibiting the characteristic dynamics of a one-time population boom-bust cycle. The world economy will inevitably contract, and humanity will see a major population correction this century.” In that case, we would be the last generation that might be able to make corrections to the prophesied correction, or at least the generation that should feel the horror Rees are right, still will keep within limits.
The warning is not new. In the 1960s, Paul Ehrlich was already talking about the coming “population bomb”. As early as the late 18th century, the British economist Thomas Robert Malthus predicted in his book “Essay on the Principle of Population” that the world population would grow exponentially, but food production would couldn't keep up. This follows the warning of the British economist Thomas Malthus, who assumed in his "Essay on the Principle of Population" (1798) that the increase in food production would not keep pace with the geometrically increasing world population.
Until now, it was believed that technically, for example due to the green revolution, the population explosion would not pose a problem if resources were distributed fairly. But with global warming or the accelerated mass extinction of species, technology seems less and less able to provide growth without increasing the risk of destruction. Rees' thesis is that with the growth-based capitalist economy and population growth, humans have long been exploiting the ecosphere far beyond the means of regeneration, and that despite the switch to renewable energy use, this overshoot is leading to economic collapse and a catastrophic population correction will lead if developments continue as they have been.
Similar to Malthus, Rees posits that the reason cannot be explained economically but lies in people's drives that need to be changed: "Efforts to manage the demographic anomaly and the resulting ecological crisis without attempting to Regrettably, attempts to change innate human behaviors that have led to malformations are incomplete and doomed to fail.” While the wealthy consume the most, “even the average material standard of living is dramatically inflated.”
The overexploitation of the earth, the overshoot, is also happening, although according to the World Bank, a quarter of the people still live below the poverty line of US$3,65 a day and almost half below the poverty line of US$6,85. Reducing consumption a little is not enough. It sounds like humanity as a whole needs to be subjected to therapy or basic education in order to develop different behaviors. So is it about a culture war, about a re-education that might already be hinted at in the fights against Wokeness? Not anymore for Rees, the prophetic warner of doom, for him mankind is already inevitably heading towards its catastrophe.
Disregarding the catastrophe we are approaching, and knowing this through numerous warnings and studies, points to a "cognitive incompetence" of our still "Palaeolithic brains". As an example, Rees cites the fixation on global warming as the existential threat. You only see one problem at a time, but the overshoot captures the whole way of life in many dimensions. Human numbers have exploded since the industrial revolution with the use of fossil fuels, which include fertilizers and pesticides. The richest countries use the most energy, consume the most resources and degrade the environment the most. Only other techniques for a problem like CO2 emissions would not change much in the overall overshoot.
And for Rees, too much includes population growth, which will slow down, but according to forecasts, the world population will initially increase to over 10 billion, now the population is still growing by 80-90 million people a year...
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The term overpopulation (also overpopulation) is understood today as the condition in which the number of living beings exceeds the ecological carrying capacity of their habitat. Demographic argumentation has been subject to regular change in the past. At the international level, the first World Population Conference in Geneva in 1927 dealt with the issue of overpopulation. At the level of the United Nations, the issue of reproductive health in relation to overpopulation was placed on the UN agenda under the umbrella term of human rights from the 1960s onwards...
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