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December 10-16
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The PDF file "Nuclear Power Accidents" contains a number of other incidents from various areas of the nuclear industry. Some of the incidents were never published through official channels, so this information could only be made available to the public in a roundabout way. The list of incidents in the PDF file is therefore not 100 % identical with "INES and the disturbances in nuclear facilities", but represents an addition.
2 December 2009 (INES 2) Cruas, FRA
2 December 1949 (INES 4 | NAMS 3,8) Nuclear factory Hanford, USA
5 December 1965 (Broken Arrow) Douglas A-4E Skyhawk, USA
6 December 1972 (INES 3 | NAMS 1,6) Nuclear factory Sellafield, GBR
7 December 1975 (INES 3) NPP Greifswald, GDR
8 December 1955 (INES 3) Nuclear factory Windscale/Sellafield, GBR
10 December 1994 (INES 2 Class.?) NPP Pickering, ON, CAN
12 December 1952 (INES 5) NPP Chalk River, Ontario, CAN
16 December 1987 (INES 1) NPP Biblis A, GER
21 December 1972 (INES ? Class.?) Pawling, NY, USA
27 December 2009 (INES 1) NPP Fessenheim, FRA
27 December 1999 (INES 2) NPP Blayais, FRA
30 December 1958 (INES 4) Los Alamos, NM, USA
31 December 1978 (INES 4) NPP Beloyarsk, USSR, Rus
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16. December
Agriculture | Subsidies | Farmers Association
The abolition of subsidies for fossil agricultural diesel is long overdue
Alternative fuels and drives have long been ready for use in agriculture.
The traffic light coalition has decided to abolish the agricultural diesel subsidy, which would reduce the burden on the federal budget by around 900 million euros. This step seems logical in view of the constitutional lawsuit filed by the CDU against the federal budget.
As was to be expected, the farmers' association strongly opposed it. Chairman Rukwied speaks of a declaration of war and announces protests in Berlin for Monday, thereby fueling farmers' protests. In doing so, he shows that he is still unwilling to work on solving central social tasks: climate protection and dependence on oil, including all of its serious problems.
The abolition of agricultural diesel is years overdue
Climate policy calls for the abolition of fossil subsidies such as agricultural diesel have existed for many years. It has long been clear that agriculture - as well as other social groups - must make its contribution in order to move away from oil and to ensure both climate protection and a crisis-proof energy supply in agriculture. But one of the major mistakes of the governments under Chancellor Merkel is that they have implemented exactly the opposite policy...
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Fossil Investments fall after Climate conference
Historically: Over 1.600 institutions with $41 trillion draw money from coal, gas, oil
Fossil divestment works. While states fail to implement energy transitions, campaigns divert fossil fuel investments. About the story of a huge success.
More than 1.600 institutions, including universities, pension funds and governments, holding about $41 trillion in assets have now divested from fossil fuels, the Global Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement said Friday.
The announcement comes days after the 28th UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai, which ended with a call for a "transition away from fossil fuels" but failed to agree on the required "phase-out" of oil, gas and coal advocated by scientists, Climate protectors and communities that are particularly affected by the climate impacts are supported.
[...] Will Hares, analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, attributes the opposite development to the promotion of so-called "environmental and social governance" (ESG) in investments.
Oil companies are finding it increasingly difficult to raise finance amid rising ESG and sustainability concerns, while banks are under pressure from their own investors to reduce or stop financing fossil fuels...
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Gaza, three Israeli Hostages were shot dead by Israeli soldiers
Hostages carried white flags
Despite a visible sign of protection, three Hamas hostages were shot dead by Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip. Prime Minister Netanyahu regrets the incident.
More than a hundred hostages still in the hands of Hamas
Of the approximately 250 hostages who were kidnapped in the major attack on Israel by the radical Islamic Hamas at the beginning of October, 129 are still in the control of the Palestinian organization and its allies in the Gaza Strip, according to the latest Israeli information. 110 hostages have now been released, and the Israeli army has also brought the bodies of eleven deportees back into the country. Among them are the remains of the three men who were “accidentally” killed by Israeli soldiers in northern Gaza on Friday.
[...] A soldier saw the three hostages appear tens of meters away, says a military spokesman. “They all had no shirts on and had a white cloth tied to a stick. The soldier felt threatened and fired. The soldier stated that they were terrorists and then several soldiers opened fire. Two of the hostages died immediately, the spokesman said.
The third hostage, wounded, sought shelter in a building and called for help in Hebrew, the spokesman continued, describing the process. The battalion commander immediately ordered the fire to be stopped, but the third hostage continued to be shot, who then died. “That was against our rules of engagement,” said the military spokesman...
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Climate conference | CCS | OPEC
Dubai balance sheet
"The oil states are getting nervous"
The UN climate conference, COP28, was certainly not a breakthrough. But the Dubai decision makes it clear where we are headed, says climate expert Frauke Röser: "It is the beginning of the end for coal, oil and gas." Even the oil-producing countries have now understood "that they are sitting on a product that will probably no longer be in such high demand in the future."
ntv.de: Does COP28 really “de facto mark the end of the fossil age,” as Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said? Or is that optimism?
Frauke Röser: Annalena Baerbock is a diplomat, so people talk differently about the results of such a conference. Of course, it is good that all fossil energies are mentioned in a final declaration for the first time, including oil and gas in addition to coal. The final declaration does not contain a commitment to an exit, but only to a move away from fossil fuels. But it is clear where we are headed: it is the beginning of the end for coal, oil and gas. Given the climate policy situation, the only question is whether this will happen quickly enough. It is of no use to us if the COP decides to move away from coal, oil and gas, but the practical implementation is postponed into the distant future...
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Israel | Palästinians | Genocide
Israel War: Death and Destruction in Gaza
According to the UN, 18.800 people were killed and at least 50.000 injured in Gaza. 90 percent of the 2,3 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are on the run. John Mearsheimer on the dimension and perspective of the conflict. A guest post.
I do not believe that anything I say about what is happening in Gaza will influence Israeli or American policy in this conflict. But I still want to put my assessment on the record so that when historians look back at this moral catastrophe, they will see that some Americans were on the right side of history.
What Israel is doing to Palestinian civilians in Gaza – with the support of the Biden administration – is a crime against humanity that serves no useful military purpose. As J-Street, a major organization in the Israel lobby, puts it: "The scale of the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe and civilian casualties is almost unimaginable."
Let me elaborate...
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16 December 1987 (INES 1) NPP Biblis A, GER
AtomkraftwerkePlag
An accident occurred in Biblis A on December 16, 1987, in which radioactive water escaped outside the containment container due to valve failure and misconduct by the operating team. "There (...) the outside world was only protected from radiation by highly radioactive cooling water from reactor block A for 15 hours by a barrier, the so-called secondary barrier." The incident was not reported by the operator, but was discovered days later by the regulator during an investigation into another fault at the nuclear power plant. During the subsequent investigation, TÜV Bayern found that an uncontrollable incident had only just been avoided and that there had been serious violations of safety regulations for years.
The story of this accident, which almost led to the closure of Biblis, as well as the cover-up by RWE and German politics, in which the then Environment Minister Klaus Töpfer was also involved, was examined in detail by "Spiegel" in 1988...
Spiegel
11 December 1988
For almost a year, the operators of the Biblis nuclear power plant and the supervisory authorities kept the worst incident in the history of German nuclear technology secret. The course of this accident refutes the safety philosophy of nuclear energy production at its weakest point: the incorrect actions of humans in relation to a highly complex machine system are not predictable.
25 December 1988
Big sloppiness New highlight of the series of breakdowns in nuclear reactors
Brokdorf was operated without functioning emergency generators, in Biblis specially developed protective circuits failed - the reactor is switched off...
Wikipedia
When the reactor was started up, a valve that had to shut off a connecting line to the reactor circuit, which was under 150 times atmospheric pressure, got stuck and remained open. Only after 15 hours did the operating personnel take the warning lamp seriously, as the control logic of the lamp was considered defective. The personnel did not shut down the reactor immediately, but opened a second, redundant safety valve to flush out the stuck valve and thus close it. The valve did not close and 107 liters of radioactive cooling water ran into the annulus. The incident only became public after a year through an article in an American trade journal (Nucleonic Weeks), but the operator reported it to the authorities in good time, which in turn did not publish a press release ...
Nuclear power accidents by country#Germany
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15. December
Brazil | Indigenous people | Land rights
Parliament votes against indigenous protected areas
The Brazilian parliament has made it much more difficult to designate indigenous protected areas. It overruled a veto by President Lula and thereby confirmed large parts of a controversial law.
Brazil's Congress has overruled a veto by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to reinstate a law repealing protections for indigenous peoples' land rights. In October, Lula da Silva vetoed key passages of the law passed by Congress that threatened indigenous people's land rights. Representatives and senators voted again for the law with a clear majority. This meant that supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro and his allies in the powerful agricultural industry prevailed.
Now only land that was inhabited by indigenous peoples on the day the constitution was promulgated on October 5, 1988 can be designated as a protected area. Critics complain that this would no longer allow indigenous people to get back tribal areas from which they had previously been expelled...
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Nuclear power plants | Nuclear waste | CDU
Return to nuclear power:
Warning sign Lower Saxony
The CDU wants nuclear power back. What a return to work would mean ecologically and financially can be seen in Lower Saxony.
The CDU wants to get back into nuclear power. In its draft for a new basic program, the party comes to the conclusion that Germany “cannot do without the nuclear power option at the moment”. The “total energy supply of tomorrow” also includes nuclear power plants. As a reminder: After the reactor accident in Fukushima in 2011, it was the Christian Democrats who heralded the end of nuclear energy under Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The CDU wisely remains unclear as to exactly how it wants to achieve re-entry. If you ask, there is a vague reference to the alleged German special approach: While all over Europe and the world people are again or still relying on nuclear power, “we” reject this environmentally friendly and climate-neutral technology for ideological reasons.
Apart from the fact that nuclear power is anything but ecological and - if you look at the entire nuclear "cycle" from uranium mining to nuclear waste disposal - it is also far from climate neutral, the reference to supposedly insightful foreign countries is misleading. Nuclear energy worldwide has long since passed its peak. In mid-2023, 32 reactors were online in 407 countries, compared to 20 438 years ago. There are only significant new buildings in the USA and China...
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Brazil | Rainforest | consumption
Tropical hardwoods often from illegal felling
The popular hardwood Ipe comes largely from illegal logging, a Swedish study finds.
The wood for outdoor furniture and decking usually comes from the tropics and therefore often has a sustainability problem. It is used because it is very durable. Native hardwoods such as oak or ash are less durable in European weather conditions.
Tropical hardwoods, on the other hand, grow slowly and are often only found sporadically in natural forest areas. Growing them in plantations is usually not possible and the origin of the wood is often unclear. The suspicion: Many come from illegal logging...
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“Bribery” scandal
Orbán makes approval of aid to Ukraine dependent on the release of all EU funds to Hungary
In order to make aid payments to Ukraine, the 27 EU states must reach a consensus decision. But Hungary is standing in the way.
Although the path to accession negotiations with the EU is clear for Ukraine, further billions in aid from the 27 member states have failed for the time being due to Hungary's resistance. Now Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has linked his country's approval to the release of all previously blocked EU funds.
Hungary is demanding "not half, not a quarter, but everything," Orbán said in an interview on Hungarian radio on Friday, referring to EU funds amounting to twelve billion euros, which are still being withheld due to violations of the rule of law...
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International Energy Agency
Global coal consumption rises to record high
The demand for coal is higher than ever this year - this is mainly due to Asian countries. In Europe, consumption fell by 23 percent.
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), the climate-damaging consumption of coal has reached a new high worldwide this year. The IEA said total consumption rose by 1,4 percent to 8,5 billion tons. A sharp decline in demand in Europe and the USA was offset by growing consumption in Asia.
In China alone, 220 million tons more coal were consumed than in the previous year, which corresponds to an increase of 4,9 percent. According to the IEA, an increase of eight percent was recorded in India, while consumption in Indonesia increased by eleven percent. Demand there is increasing because more electricity is being generated and hydroelectric power plants are providing less energy.
According to the International Energy Agency, coal consumption in Europe fell by 23 percent and in the USA it fell by 21 percent. This is mainly due to weaker industrial activity and the move away from coal-fired power generation in favor of renewable energy...
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Asylum policy | Migration | deportations
Secret migration deal with Iraq
The federal government is keeping a migration agreement between Germany and Iraq secret. NDR, WDR and SZ have the written declaration on migration and deportations from both countries. The opposition demands clarification.
For Olaf Scholz, they are “the most important thing” that is needed in migration policy. In a “short time” they would represent the “most important change”. What the Chancellor is pushing so hard are agreements with countries from which many asylum seekers come to Germany.
For the federal government, they are considered the central instrument in migration policy. Iraq, on the other hand, has been considered a particularly interesting negotiating partner for many months, as an exceptionally large number of rejected asylum seekers come from there.
[...] Germany has been trying to increase the number of deportations to Iraq for years. At the end of October, according to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, there were around 26.000 Iraqis who were required to leave the country - by far the most common nationality among those required to leave the country. However, in the entire year of 2022, only 77 people were deported directly to Iraq. So far there has been little sign of the “repatriation offensive” announced in the coalition agreement...
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war | Armaments | Returns | Venture capital
From Ukraine to the Middle East: Does big money want eternal war?
Billionaires are increasingly investing in defense start-ups. They speculate on war. Peace is an obstacle for the risky business. Guest post.
In view of the global conflicts, the war that is dragging on in Ukraine and the flaring violence in the Middle East, venture capital is betting on armaments.
In fact, U.S. venture capital investment in defense startups has doubled in four years. While venture capital companies (VCs) based in the USA invested around $2019 billion in 16, they closed over 2023 deals in the areas of defense and aerospace in the first five months of 200 alone Space travel worth almost $17 billion.
VC giant Sequoia invested in its first defense group, Mach Industries, earlier this year.
Who are the defense VCs?
Through their collective efforts, prominent venture capital firms such as billionaire Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), and Lux Capital are among today's rising stars in the defense sector, including Anduril, Hadrian, and Rebellion Defense. VCs not only achieve high returns on investments, but also gain increasing influence on US foreign policy...
14. December
South Africa | Coal exit | KfW
With 500 million euros: Germany is supporting Africa with renewable energy and the phase-out of coal
The BMZ has announced that it will support South Africa with 500 million euros to reform the energy sector through the KfW development bank. But the country needs significantly more money.
The coal phase-out in South Africa should be pushed forward in an ecologically sustainable and socially responsible manner. For this purpose, the federal government is providing additional financing through KfW, as announced last week. The BMZ is providing half a billion euros to address the acute energy crisis. The aim is to create new jobs and, in the long term, to build a competitive and transparent electricity market through private investments.
However, the money does not flow into the construction of new power plants. “The KfW funds are provided in the form of a policy-based financing approach,” says KfW. “This means that the funds are available as an incentive for the implementation of a reform program agreed with the South African government.” The South African government has implemented the agreed reform steps. In return, the government will now receive concessional loan funds from KfW and other participating financiers for the general financing of the national budget...
See also: South Africa begins procuring new nuclear energy
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Atomic power for Climate protection? COP28
“Economically an absolute zero number”
Negotiations at the world climate conference COP28 in Dubai were tough until the very end. It was about phasing out coal, gas and oil and expanding renewables. Nuclear energy hardly played a role. Nevertheless, an initiative by around 20 countries caused quite a stir.
Countries, including France, the USA and Great Britain, are calling for nuclear energy to be significantly expanded to protect the climate. The German-Australian energy expert Prof. Sven Teske doesn't think so.
ZDFheute: The initiative claims in its statement that climate neutrality cannot be achieved by 2050 without nuclear energy. Is that so?
Tough: No, it's not like that. We have had a decreasing share of electricity from nuclear energy and an increase from renewable energy for over 15 years. We have over 400 old reactors that are gradually reaching the end of their service life. More are being removed from the network than are being added. There is a reason for this: the costs.
The average construction time for a new nuclear power plant is around twelve years. That means it would already be too late for the 2030 climate targets, and probably too late for the 2035 targets.
Sven Teske, University of Technology Sydney
By then we must have decarbonization of almost 80 percent in the electricity sector. In this respect, purely technically, purely mathematically and economically, this is an absolute zero number. You can also see what is really being implemented on the market: 80 percent have been solar and wind in the last five or six years. This is due to the lower costs and the very quick implementation options...
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Great Britain | EDF | Hinkley Point | CGN
Electricity is even more expensive: Europe's flagship nuclear power plant is no longer receiving any money
The construction of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station is a key part of the UK's strategy to reduce carbon emissions and increase its energy independence. The departure of an important investor is now disrupting all plans for a cheap electricity supply.
Similar to France, Great Britain also continues to build modern nuclear power plants. The new plant is located in Somerset, close to the older Hinkley Point A and B nuclear power stations. The idea for a third plant at this site arose in the 1980s, but various political and economic factors delayed construction until the 21st century. Now, according to the Bloomberg news site, there is another setback in financing.
China General Nuclear Power Corp. (CGN) stopped financing the power plant, which experts see as a new sign of tensions between London and Beijing. CGN has missed several payments in recent months, meaning Electricite de France SA (EDF), which built the €40 billion plant with CGN, may have to pay for completion alone...
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abstinence | Climate conference | COP28
Reality slowly sinks in
At the climate conference, the delegates decided to move away from fossil fuels. That's tough. That is not enough. But there is success.
This climate conference could not have ended more symbolically. The delegates decide on a final document on Wednesday morning, the conference president praises the "historic" result, and everyone applauds each other. But then, a few minutes later, the representative of Samoa said in the plenary session: "The decision was made when the representatives of the small, threatened islands were not yet there." None of this is enough for her.
[...] In Dubai, governments have agreed on a "transition away from fossil fuels", indirectly acknowledging that the use of coal, oil and gas is a problem. One can smile tiredly at this matter-of-factness. But one could also remember the conference in Glasgow two years ago: back then, the phase-out of coal only made it into the final document by a whisker.
[...] The elephant in the room continues to be renunciation. The phase-out from coal was announced in Glasgow, and now in Dubai the phase-out from oil. The one from the gas is still missing. Could this possibly be decided in Brazil in two years - President Lula is already working towards a successful conference?
It is possible. It will not be fast enough to keep global warming below the 1,5 degree target. Therefore, the conclusion from Dubai remains: climate conferences still do not deliver what is necessary. Without these conferences, however, things wouldn't be any better, on the contrary: the world would be heading towards an average temperature increase of five to six degrees...
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EU Parliament | Electricity price | Supply chains | reforms
EU agrees on electricity market reform and supply chain law
Consumers in Europe should be better protected from high electricity prices in the future. There is also a breakthrough in a uniform supply chain law - with this the EU wants to strengthen human rights worldwide
The EU has agreed on two important legislative proposals: The electricity market in Europe is to be reformed, and the EU will also receive a uniform supply chain law. Negotiators from the EU states and the European Parliament agreed on this on Thursday morning.
The law to restructure the electricity market is intended to better protect consumers in Europe from escalating electricity prices in the future. In addition to more stable prices, the innovations are intended to promote the expansion of renewable energies. The compromise still needs to be formally confirmed by the EU Parliament and the states...
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Japan | Corruption | LDP
Parties, bribes and slush funds – things are getting uncomfortable for Japan's head of government
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has long been unpopular. Now a financial scandal is shaking his party. He wants to turn things around with a clean-up operation. Can that succeed?
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida actually wanted to celebrate the diplomatic climax of his Asia strategy next weekend. In Tokyo he will receive the heads of state and government of the Southeast Asian community of states Asean to realign the 50-year-old relationship. With this, Japan wants to counter China's growing influence in the region. But now a scandal about slush funds is shaking the ruling party.
[...] The fact that the Abe faction has carried out such activities for so long under different leaders points to a system of organized corruption, experts say.
It remains unclear whether Kishida has the courage to replace the key post of cabinet minister with a convinced reformer or whether he will fall back on the party establishment. Former Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, a confidant of Kishida, is considered the favorite.
A clear commitment to a new beginning would be the appointment of Digital Minister Taro Kono or the 40-year-old Shinjiro Koizumi, whose father was Prime Minister between 2001 and 2006. Their appointment would be risky, says Japan expert Tobias Harris from the German Marshall Fund. “But it would resonate with the public.” And that's exactly what Kishida needs now.
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Saudi Arabia's nuclear programme destabilizes the Middle East
Does Biden want to start a nuclear arms race in the Middle East with Saudi Arabia?
Washington appears willing to help Riyadh in its nuclear ambitions against Iran. A dangerous change of course. How can escalation be prevented? A classification.
Israel's Gaza war has put the normalization talks between Saudi Arabia and Israel, based on the so-called Abraham Accords, on hold. But Riyadh's interest in a deal remains.
Because coupled with this is nuclear support and a security pact from the United States. Normalization with Tel Aviv would be the price of the US green light for a nuclear program.
That would again be a fatal change of course by Washington. The two countries have been negotiating the limits of such a program for a decade, but with no result.
This has led to Saudi Arabia repeatedly threatening to acquire nuclear weapons if Iran follows the same path...
13. December
EU Commission | Hungary | Ukraine
Before the Ukraine summit
EU Commission releases blocked billions for Hungary
The EU withheld the funding because Orbán had weakened the country's justice system. According to the EU Commission, the rule of law is now improving.
The European Commission releases ten billion euros in frozen EU funds for Hungary. The Brussels authority justified the move on Wednesday by saying that Hungary had met the necessary requirements. Meanwhile, criticism of the rule of law in the country continues. Other budget funds amounting to almost twelve billion euros as well as billions in Corona aid remain blocked.
EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders said Hungary had met all agreed requirements with recent judicial reforms. There are now sufficient guarantees that the independence of the judiciary in Hungary will be strengthened. However, today's decision is not the end of the process. We will continue to monitor the situation closely and react early if there are any setbacks...
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Climate change | Climate conference | COP
COP28 ends without a clear end to coal, oil and gas
The UN climate conference in Dubai ended with a compromise. A non-binding call to transform the energy infrastructure remained the main result.
After tough negotiations, this year's UN climate conference ended on Wednesday morning in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. There had been a long debate about whether we should talk about “phasing out” or “phasing out” the use of fossil fuels.
In particular, some states and small island nations that are already particularly hard hit by climate change had pushed for clear language and, above all, more commitment to climate change...
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Map shows regional radon pollution in Germany
A new map from the Federal Office for Radiation Protection shows the average exposure to the radioactive gas radon in Germany. Concentrations are particularly high in mountainous regions.
The Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) has a nationwide Map of the distribution of the radioactive gas radon created. As the federal authority in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony, announced, the overview shows the average radon concentration to which people are estimated to be exposed in their homes.
According to new calculations by the BfS, the nationwide average radon concentration is around 65 becquerels per cubic meter (Bq/m3). The new map shows whether the average value in your own municipality is above or below this average. Regional fluctuations range from less than 35 in western Lower Saxony to well over 150 in many middle and high mountain regions. According to BfS forecasts, around 10,5 million people in Germany are exposed to radon concentrations of over 100 becquerels per cubic meter in their homes. At just under 2 million, the concentrations even exceed 300, and in some cases even over 1.000 becquerels per cubic meter...
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Traffic light coalition | Federal budget | Federal Constitutional Court
Budget for 2024
Traffic light tips solve their budget dispute
The leaders of the traffic light coalition have reached an agreement in their talks on the federal budget for 2024. They want to say at lunchtime what solution they came up with.
The leaders of the traffic light coalition agreed on the 2024 budget during the night. A government spokesman confirmed corresponding information from the ARD capital studio this morning. Details will be announced at midday. Then Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck and Finance Minister Christian Lindner want to appear before the press. According to information from the dpa news agency, a coalition committee is planned for the afternoon...
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Fossil energies | 1,5 degrees | COP28
World Climate Conference calls for a move away from fossil fuels
Not an exit, but a change: For the first time, the global community is calling for a move away from fossil fuels at a UN climate conference. From a German perspective, an important part is missing from the text.
At the World Climate Conference in Dubai, the presidency presented a compromise draft resolution for a vote that calls for a "transition" away from fossil fuels. Countries like Germany had made it more stringent compared to the previous draft text, but did not push through with their demand for a global exit from coal, oil and gas.
The conference president, Sultan Al Jaber, spoke of a “historic package”. It is a robust action plan to keep the 1,5 degree target within reach
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Brokdorf | Wind energy | Battery storage
Storage instead of nuclear power:
Brokdorf nuclear power plant is to get an XXL battery
Nuclear power plant operator PreussenElektra has made a concrete proposal for the reuse of the decommissioned nuclear power plant in Brokdorf. The company wants to build Europe's largest battery storage facility. For example, there should always be enough electricity available even during calm periods when wind turbines are at a standstill.
The battery storage system is to be built in two expansion stages. Initially in a first step on a one hectare area near the Brokdorf information center (Steinburg district). Because this area is undeveloped, PreussenElektra can start construction there earlier. The first expansion stage of the storage system with an output of 100 megawatts could be ready in 2026, according to PreussenElektra's plan. Then the second expansion stage could start on the twelve-hectare nuclear power plant site. It is scheduled to be completed in 2036 with an output of 700 megawatts. For Guido Knott, CEO of PreussenElektra, the company's plans would fit in very well with the state government's energy transition plans. “Schleswig-Holstein has set itself the goal of becoming the first climate-neutral federal state in 2040. If we were finished with battery storage in 2036, that would fit well into the strategy,” says Knott...
12. December
South Africa | Nuclear Energy | Koeberg
South Africa begins procuring new nuclear energy
As the second unit of the Koeberg Nuclear Power Plant goes offline for extended maintenance, the South African Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has confirmed that it will embark on the procurement of 2500 MWe of new nuclear power capacity and will issue tenders by March 2024.
The National Energy Regulatory Authority of South Africa (NERSA) has announced that the DMRE can proceed with the procurement process after meeting a number of "conditions precedent" imposed by the regulator, Minister in the President's Office responsible for Electricity, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, said. at a live-streamed press conference.
The DMRE submitted a report to the regulator in July addressing these conditions, Ramokgopa said. NERSA has now concluded that these conditions have been satisfactorily met and granted formal approval on September 2nd. This means that the 2020 ministerial decision to begin the process of procuring the new nuclear capacity will now be published...
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War in the Middle East
UN General Assembly calls for ceasefire - USA is against it
The UN General Assembly has passed a resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. The paper achieved the necessary two-thirds majority, Germany abstained and the USA voted against.
The United Nations General Assembly has voted by a large majority in favor of an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza war. 153 member countries voted in favor of the resolution, 23 abstained. Ten countries voted against it, including the USA and Israel.
[...] The US Ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said before the vote that her country supported some aspects of the resolution - including the need to improve the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, protect civilians and to free hostages. A ceasefire, however, "would be dangerous for Israelis, who would face relentless attacks, and also dangerous for Palestinians, who deserve the chance to build a better future, free from Hamas."
[...] Pakistani Ambassador Munir Akram said that if you deny people freedom and dignity, humiliate them and put them in an open-air prison "where you kill them as if they were beasts - then they get very angry and do this to others, what was done to them"...
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Würgassen | Nuclear waste | Interim storage
The Würgassen nuclear waste storage facility is not coming
The planned interim nuclear waste storage facility in Beverungen-Würgassen will not be built. Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke announced this at a press conference at midday.
This news comes as a surprise to everyone: The planned storage facility for nuclear waste in Beverungen-Würgassen (Höxter district) is not to be built. Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke announced this on Tuesday in Berlin.
The Federal Environment Ministry said that the project could probably not be implemented on time and therefore economically because of "too many legal and planning risks." Announced lawsuits have significantly delayed commissioning, there is a lack of political support for enforcement and there is also no time to find another location.
The project would be worth billions
Since the federal government would have had to buy the property in Würgassen for a double-digit million sum by the end of the year, the plans are now finally being stopped. The ministry suspects that the project would have turned into a billion-dollar grave...
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FragDenStaat creates Transparency
Government regulations now available free of charge
Until now, anyone who wanted to read state regulations often had to pay for the documents from a private publisher. The transparency initiative FragDenStaat is now changing that – and is publishing it for free download.
FragDenState once again frees government information that makes everyone wonder why this information has not always been freely accessible. One such case is the Common Ministerial Gazette (GMBl), in which the state has published regulations, orders, circulars and notices for more than 70 years. FragDenStaat has 2.713 issues of the ministerial newspaper placed online.
The GMBl is the official publication organ of the federal government and is published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. Almost all ministries publish so-called sub-statutory regulations. But the publisher that publishes the ministerial newspaper is private. The Wolters Kluwer company gets paid if someone downloads the official regulations.
[...] FragDenStaat does not agree with this practice:
We believe: Official documents of general interest belong to the public - not into the hands of private publishers. In our view, free access to the documents is not only legal, but also necessary.
That's why they decided to publish it. It is not the first time that FragDenStaat has forced the state to act with such a public stunt...
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Climate Protection Act | Solar expansion
Climate policy in the Bundestag
Traffic light postpones solar package and climate law
Not only will the 2024 federal budget no longer be decided this year, the draft laws on solar expansion and changes to the Climate Protection Act that have been available for months will also be postponed until the new year.
They are not on the agenda for the last week of the Bundestag session in 2023 and, as is now known, will no longer appear there: the “Law to Increase the Expansion of Photovoltaic Energy Generation”, the so-called Solar Package One, and the “Second Law Amending the Federal Climate Protection Act", i.e. the new Climate Protection Act.
The solar package was already passed by the cabinet in mid-August, and the draft of the new climate protection law was passed on June 21st. The months-long and now fruitless impasse is causing considerable discontent among energy transition associations and environmentalists...
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Natural gas | Blackout | Whistleblower
Gas emergency and panic: Putin's nasty plan
Revelations: Germany narrowly avoided a blackout in early 2022. There was probably already an emergency. Why we are world champions at suppression.
Germany narrowly avoided a blackout in spring 2022 with dramatic consequences for the economy and large parts of households. The Handelsblatt reported last week and gave details.
Accordingly, it is thanks to two Russian whistleblowers that there was no chaos in the energy supply in April of this year. An ad hoc federal government task force was able to prevent (quote) "Vladimir Putin from plunging Germany into chaos"...
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Renaissance | Renewable energies | Storage
The new nonsense about nuclear power
Politicians are calling for the renaissance of nuclear energy – because only it can save the climate. What nonsense
It's strange: the Christ child comes every year. And every year politicians or other supposed experts call for a return to nuclear power because supposedly only it can solve our climate problems.
[...] nuclear power plants are mainly built by those states that cannot do otherwise at the moment. Those who advocate for new nuclear power plants in this country have the biggest blinders on - not those who advocate renewable energy. Physically, politically and economically it makes much more sense to use the sources for which no one sends a bill: wind, sun and water. These can easily meet the entire global energy demand at any time, and no villain in the world can turn off their supply.
Our focus must therefore be on bringing storage methods to market maturity in order to make this energy available at all times. With batteries for cars, but especially with the construction of electrolyzers to produce green hydrogen, which are used to operate gas power plants, we are on the right track. No serious research institute doubts that cheap energy can ultimately only come from renewable sources...
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12 December 1952 (INES 5) NPP Chalk River, Ontario, CAN
A hydrogen explosion damaged the interior of the reactor and released 30 kilograms of uranium oxide particles. (Cost approx. US$53 million)
Wikipedia
The first serious reactor accident occurred in the so-called NRX reactor at Chalk River Laboratories near Ottawa, Canada. During a test of the research reactor, the reactor core was destroyed in a partial meltdown due to incorrect operation, misunderstandings between the operator and operating personnel, incorrect status displays in the control room, misjudgments by the operator and hesitant actions. An oxyhydrogen explosion in the reactor core threw the dome of a four-ton helium gas container 1,2 m high, causing it to get stuck in the structure. The explosion killed at least 100 people TBq of fission products released into the atmosphere. Up to four million liters with around 400 TBq Long-lived fission products radioactively contaminated water were pumped from the basement of the reactor containment into a sandy septic tank in order to prevent contamination of the Ottawa River, which is not far away. The damaged reactor core was buried. The later one US President Jimmy Carter, then a nuclear technician in the Navy, helped with the clean-up work that lasted several months ...
List of accidents in nuclear facilities
Nuclear power accidents by country#Canada
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During an experiment on December 12, 1952, four valves under the reactor were accidentally opened, but they could be closed again. Nevertheless, after opening, some control rods got jammed, the radioactivity increased rapidly, and the pressure vessel lid blew up after an explosion. After misunderstandings by the operating team, the reactor went out of control and the fissile material began to melt. To stop the chain reaction, hundreds of thousands of liters of highly radioactive water were released, which collected in the basement of the reactor. The evacuation of the buildings was initiated. Since only a few control rods were affected and the NRX only had low power, the reactor calmed down again after a few hours and the damage was limited...
11. December
Moshe Zuckermann: “We expect an economic catastrophe in Israel”
In conversation about the economic consequences of the war that is turning the Gaza Strip into an uninhabitable lunar landscape, the goals of the Israeli government and a possible confrontation between Israel and the USA.
Florian Rötzer: After the ceasefire, the war in the Gaza Strip continues unabated. We keep hearing that hostages have died. The reason is not clear. Did they die because of the bombing, did Hamas kill them, were they possibly sick? What is the status of the hostages' relatives movement at the moment? It also has support among the population and is probably still against continuing the war, which endangers the lives of the hostages. Or are there divisions within the hostage members?
Moshe Zuckerman: Broadly speaking, one can say that a division has opened up in Israel. On the one hand, there is the objective that Hamas should be liquidated both politically and militarily. We're still a long way from getting there. This takes months that you don't necessarily have. And on the other hand, there is pressure from the relatives of the abductees, including the parents of the captured soldiers, who definitely want their children back. There is strong popular support for the family movement, but the government does not always act as if it is pursuing this as a real goal. Nobody knows for sure because they don't know what happens diplomatically. Yesterday there was news that a military operation attempted to free hostages. Two Israeli soldiers are said to have been seriously injured, but no hostages were found.
Of course the government would like to free the hostages, but it is clear that they are more interested in continuing the war. This also has to do with the fact that the person at the head of the government, Netanyahu, has a personal interest in continuing the war indefinitely because this means he is postponing his trial and can essentially postpone his political downfall. Because when the war is over, there will be a movement here that will ensure that no one who was responsible for the debacle on October 7th goes unscathed...
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Indictment | Reichsbürger | Extreme right
Measures against right-wing extremism:
Where is the pressure against the right?
The Federal Prosecutor's Office brings charges against Reich citizens. The Greens are calling for more commitment in the fight against right-wing extremism.
BERLIN taz | The indictment has just been made. A year ago, the Federal Prosecutor's Office took action against a group of Reich citizens led by the Frankfurt entrepreneur Heinrich Prinz Reuß, had 27 people arrested and almost 400 weapons confiscated. They are accused of planning a coup, including storming the Bundestag.
Der Spiegel first reported on the indictment, but the Federal Prosecutor's Office did not want to comment on it for the time being. Due to the large number of defendants, the case is to be heard in three higher regional courts, those in Frankfurt/Main, Stuttgart and Munich. It is one of the largest terror trials in the history of the Federal Republic.
And particularly worrying: Among the accused were several state employees - police officers, soldiers and the judge and AfD politician Birgit Malsack-Winkemann...
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Fossil | World Climate Conference | 1,5 degrees | COP28
Germany and the EU reject the draft resolution
“A disappointment”, “unacceptable”: Foreign Minister Baerbock rejected the draft resolution of the COP28 in Dubai in clear terms.
Germany and the EU have rejected the draft resolution of the World Climate Conference in Dubai. The text presented by the Emirati COP presidency was “a disappointment,” said Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens). Baerbock is leading the negotiations on behalf of the EU in the area of emissions reduction.
Overall, it is not sufficient; essential elements are not acceptable to us as the European Union.
Annalena Baerbock, Foreign Minister
Above all, the text lacked the concrete instruments for implementation in order to even get to the 1,5 degree path.
The Foreign Secretary went on to say that the passage on fossil fuels incorrectly suggests that coal, oil and gas could continue to play a crucial role in our future...
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Compensation from the state
Germany is getting out of coal, that has been clear for a long time. There has now been a decision regarding Germany's billion-dollar payment to RWE.
BRUSSELS dpa | Germany is allowed to pay the energy company RWE 2,6 billion euros in state aid for the coal phase-out. “The aid will compensate RWE for the early closure of its lignite-fired power plants in the Rhenish region,” the EU Commission announced in Brussels on Monday.
According to the German coal phase-out law, electricity will no longer be generated from coal from 2038. The traffic light parties SPD, Greens and FDP had agreed in their coalition agreement to “ideally” bring forward the coal phase-out from 2038 to 2030.
Germany had already reported the compensation payment to the Commission in 2021, a total of 4,35 billion euros for two operators. 2,6 billion euros were earmarked for the RWE lignite plants in the Rhineland and 1,75 billion euros for the Leag plants in Lusatia...
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Israel | Expulsion of Palästinians from Gaza
Israel wants to drive the Palestinians out of Gaza
There are many indications that the Netanyahu government's war goal is an Israel from the Jordan to the Mediterranean.
For the ultra-conservatives in Israel, the “total victory” in Gaza, which Netanyahu is striving for in his own words, does not just mean the disempowerment of Hamas, but the expulsion of the Palestinians and the annexation of the Gaza Strip.
Since the beginning of the war, many Palestinians have feared that Israel wants to expel them to Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. “This fear is fueled by statements from Israeli politicians and commentators who demand or threaten a new Nakba.” The “NZZ” wrote this on November 15th.
Netanyahu's ultra-nationalist security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, had declared that the Gaza Strip should be "ours" and that "the Palestinians can emigrate to Saudi Arabia or other places like Iraq or Iran"...
10. December
Fakes: “Kulturkampf” fully inflamed, Kini Jödler saves Christmas
The “War on Christmas,” an imported fairy tale
This week it hit a Hamburg daycare center: “Bild”, “Focus” and Markus Söder claim that Christmas is being fought there. That's not true - but it illustrates the dark topic ideas of German culture warriors.
[...] I don't know whether Markus Söder went to a daycare center. In any case, I visited the Martin Luther Kindergarten in Würzburg. Today I know that a subversive battle was apparently being waged there, unnoticed by children and parents: the fight against Christmas. There was no Christmas tree in our Protestant daycare center.
[...] "Your child fell over in the tree and broke his arm" is pretty much the last sentence that educators would like to say on the phone.
It is therefore completely understandable that a Hamburg daycare center decided this year, as in many years before, not to put up a Christmas tree, but to limit itself to Advent calendars, fir branches, Christmas tree baubles and other Christmas decorations. So far, so normal and irrelevant, you might think.
[...] »Cancel Culture«! “Parents outraged!” Markus Söder, who doesn’t like to miss out on a template for unbridled populism, then passed the copied “Focus” message on to his 420.000 followers on X, formerly Twitter. With the comment: “This is absurd. Don't we have any other problems? A Christmas tree belongs to Christmas.« ...
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Palestine | Evictions from the West Bank
“Palestinians have no right to live in the West Bank”
Israel is taking advantage of the war to “unnoticed” advance its annexations in the West Bank. Two-state advocates are watching.
A 20-year-old settler in the West Bank explained to a team of ARTE reporters:
I believe that in this limited territory there can only be them or us. Peace between Jews and non-Jews can never work […] The Palestinians have no right to be here. We can throw them out.
The settlers are doing this at an accelerated pace in the shadow of the war in the Gaza Strip. They enjoy the support of right-wing extremist ministers in the Israeli government.
As the world watches Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza, over 7 Palestinians have been displaced from their West Bank villages since October 1000...
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Ocean | Pisces | Happy Christmas
Animal suffering and death
Millions of fish die for domestic aquariums
A saltwater aquarium for Christmas or a birthday - that sounds like a nice idea. And since “Finding Nemo” at the latest, many children have wanted fish as pets. But anyone who is thinking about it should also consider: These mini-oceans mean animal suffering and millions of fish die because of them.
They are pretty to look at, the colorful fish in saltwater aquariums. Many viewers have no idea how much animal suffering lies behind this hobby. Almost half of the marine animals caught in the sea die by the time they swim in the pool at retail, according to a study just presented in the journal Science Advances. The majority of animals in saltwater aquariums - around 90 percent - come from the wild.
Many of the creatures fished from the sea die directly during the catch or in the exporters' facilities; the length of the supply chain is also an influencing factor, as the research team explains. Estimates by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the UNEP environmental program of the United Nations showed a few years ago that up to 80 percent of marine ornamental fish die during capture and transport...
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Climate justice | World Climate Conference | COP28
“You cannot demand change from us that you yourself undermine.”
Countries like Germany must stop the double standards when it comes to climate protection, demands Denise Ayebare. A conversation with the Ugandan activist about the empty promises of the global north at the climate summit in Dubai.
Climate reporter°: Ms. Ayebare, politicians and the media are celebrating the early agreement on the climate damage fund at the COP 28 climate conference in Dubai as a great success for climate justice. Is the joy premature?
Denise Ayebare: That can be a good start, but so far none of this is legally binding.
It seems like a success that some countries have already pledged money for the fund. But so far these are all just promises that can be taken back. I had hoped that this global climate summit would not be a summit of mere promises, like so many before it.
Climate damage is already a reality in the global south. That’s why solutions are urgently needed. People cannot adapt to starvation, and small island nations cannot adapt to rising sea levels.
The fund must be legally binding.
Climate Reporter°: Germany has pledged $100 million for the fund, with a total commitment of $655 million. Given the climate damage, isn't that just a drop in the ocean?
Denise Ayebare: Naturally. The damage worldwide amounts to trillions of dollars
So where are the poorest countries? You can't keep people in Tuvalu saying, "You know what, the money will come this year or that year." These people are confronted with the crisis every day and have been for years.
Significantly more money must flow into the fund and countries must be able to access it easily. A country that is currently affected by flooding cannot go through a slow bureaucratic process...
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10 December 1994 (INES 2 Class.?) NPP Pickering, ON, CAN
An accident with loss of coolant. A burst pipe released 185 tons of heavy water.
Slowly but surely, all the relevant info on disruptions in the nuclear industry is coming out Wikipedia away!
Wikipedia en
On December 10, 1994, an accident involving loss of coolant occurred. The Senate Standing Committee on Energy, Environment and Natural Resources called it the deadliest accident in Canadian history (June 2001). The emergency core cooling system was deployed to prevent a core meltdown...
Nuclear power accidents by country#Canada
Page No. 8 - Safety Issues at the Pickering “A” Nuclear Station
Ontario's Nuclear Generating Facilities - English - PDF file
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AtomkraftwerkePlag
The grassroots organization Sierra Club Canada protested against the lifetime extension in 2013 and called for the nuclear power plant to be shut down immediately due to aging, increasing radiation and increasing release of tritium. In June 2010, for example, unexpected beta-gamma radiation from reactors 5 to 8 was released into the water.
On March 17, 2011, 73.000 liters of water, slightly contaminated with tritium, flowed into Lake Ontario because of a sealing problem at a pump. The operator and supervisory authority described the risks as "negligible".
In January 2012, according to the Sierra Club, the "broken" reactor 4 leaked contaminated water due to a leak ...
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Media | Propaganda | populism | WiP
The tail is wagging the dog and the right-wingers are leading us by the nose ring "Back to the future"
- Individual ministers are sabotaging the urgently needed sustainable restructuring of society, but people are talking about the mistakes of others.
- At the world climate conference COP28, 22 of 197 countries spoke out in favor of expanding nuclear energy and there was a rustling of leaves in the forest. The fact that 175 countries do not want to take part is hardly mentioned in the press.
- "Hater in Chief" Don Trumpl slobbers the worst insults into the microphones every day, but instead of a "red card" he gets a worldwide echo in all the media.
Of humans and mice
1. Some of the former member states of the "Warsaw Pact", which desperately wanted to become a member of the EU after the fall of the "Iron Curtain", are increasingly pushing the EU to the limits of its usefulness with greed, corruption and destructive behavior.
2. The FDP is increasingly turning the traffic lights into a wildly flickering light show with the confusing effect of a stroboscope on the audience's autonomic nervous system. Agreements in the coalition agreement are not adhered to and/or are reinterpreted at will.
Regarding points 1 and 2, the same question always arises: Who pays for this decomposition work?
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Climate change is largely man-made and the effects are already truly animal
"If the donkey is too comfortable, he goes on the ice"
Ever since George Orwell's fable "Animal Farm" we have known that the parable about animals is a truly brilliant idea to give people an insight into their own nature. With this trick, the narrator avoids the usual defensive reactions.
The story that ostriches give up when in danger Bury your head in the sand, is based on observations from a distance and their misinterpretation. Up close, it turns out that the large bird keeps its head on the ground to look at the nesting hole or simply to eat something.
Black Swan - The elephant in the room
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A well-fortified democracy looks different
What is happening now is very reminiscent of what happened a hundred years ago. The global economy is weakening and voters are making the right “Great again”. Propaganda replaces reporting and hate speech replaces democratic political debate.
In the early 1920s, Mussolini came to power in Italy and after Lenin's death, Stalin took control of Russia. In the 1930s, Hitler, Franco and Mao took sole control.
Man is a wolf to man
We humans love to hear beautiful stories of wise, kind kings and passionate, strong leaders who would change everything for the better if they only had enough power. And many people are under the mistaken belief that everything will get better if something changes. Spurred on by mass discontent, articulate populists seize the opportunity to convince people that all they have to do to become big and powerful is to be brutal enough. Once these seducers have really excited their audience, they set about destroying democratic structures.
Political opponents are labeled as animals and thus verbally dehumanized. In the hate speech of the agitators, dissidents mutate into pigs, spiders and ticks. Progressive democratic forces are first defamed as enemies of the people and then persecuted, imprisoned or murdered at will by the military and other violent thugs. These well-funded, fascist perpetrators of violence and their leading agitators at the microphone are then confirmed in power by an intimidated and fearful majority.
And when people are later torn from their dreams by reality, it is once again too late. The child fell into the well and the wine turned to vinegar.
By the way, then as now, no one knows exactly where the money to finance these right-wing horror clowns comes from.
Not a conspiracy theory, but demonstrably common practice!
The manufacturers of nuclear power plants such as EDF, Westinghouse, etc. have actually been bankrupt for years and would have long since disappeared from the energy market without the intervention of honorable statesmen and their billions in taxpayer subsidies.
This has absolutely nothing to do with a market or planned economy, but "planless" doesn't really apply either, because after all everything works wonderfully, as if according to a sophisticated plan to redistribute tax money from bottom to top. More specifically, money flows from the civilian to the military sector of the economy, from the many taxpayers to the few shareholders in the uranium industry.
The "Friends of MiK" in the governments of the nuclear states should finally be honest, reveal the true costs of their nuclear plans and publish them in the state budgets...
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Hate speech from the right horror clowns wash brains worldwide...
The “Internal Search”
with the search terms
Propaganda | Hate | populism
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November 15, 2023 - War is peace, distance is closeness and humanity is hate
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May 9, 2022 - Criticism of German media: They avoid background information
The search engine Ecosia is planting trees!
Search word = propaganda
https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=Propaganda
Wikipedia
Propaganda (from Latin propagare, "to spread further", "to spread", "to spread") in its modern meaning refers to targeted attempts to shape political opinions or public perspectives, to manipulate knowledge and to direct behavior in a direction desired by the propagandist or ruler steer. Failing to present the different sides of an issue and mixing information and opinions characterize propaganda techniques. This is in contrast to pluralistic and critical perspectives, which are formed by different experiences, observations and evaluations as well as a rational discourse...
Russian interference in the 2016 election campaign in the United States
The 2016 US presidential election campaign was disrupted by a hack of communications infrastructure, attacks on the US digital voting system and false reports. According to a study commissioned by the US Senate, millions of entries on social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram were influenced in favor of Donald Trump. Former US President Donald Trump has been under pressure since February 2017 because of possible illegal contacts between his campaign team and Moscow. The present investigation results indicate that the Russian GRU is behind the attacks and that the country tried to influence the 2016 US presidential election in favor of the eventual winner Trump...
National Socialist propaganda (also Nazi or Nazi propaganda) was one of the central activities of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). During the Weimar Republic it served the goal of seizing power, and during the time of National Socialism in the German Reich it served the “realization of the cultural will of the Führer” and the “permeation of the entire German people with the National Socialist worldview”. The press, radio and film were used for propaganda purposes.
The central themes of National Socialist propaganda were the so-called November criminals and the Versailles Dictate, the conspiracy of the alleged world Jewry and the closely linked anti-communism (fight against Jewish Bolshevism), the ideology of the national community, the glorification of the movement's fallen soldiers and the hero's commemoration, the National Socialist one Image of women and the unconditional leadership cult around Adolf Hitler as dictator...
YouTube
Search word = propaganda
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Propaganda
ARD Monitor - August 14, 2023 - 11:14
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How the Nazis convinced so many Germans
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One year of fake news: The “Best Of” of Russian TV propaganda
Playlist - radioactivity worldwide ...
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