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

    of home learning kits and online learning support. In 2023, Unicef ​​reached 1,3 million children with formal and informal learning. * Lobby | Propaganda | Transport policy | Car industry "Promotion of cars is generally questionable" With the still massive support for combustion engines, Germany is heading towards the end economically, warns Helmut Holzapfel. The traffic researcher...

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

    geben?“, fragt meine Freundin eine Zuschauerin. „Ach, lassen Sie mich in Ruhe mit Ihrer Demokratie“, antwortet diese. * Bangladesch | Energiekonzerne | Textilfabriken Bangladesch: Eine überpowerte Autokratie Fossile Kraftwerke, ein Atomkraftwerk und Billigkleidung: Deutsche Konzerne, indische, chinesische, russische und US-amerikanische Konzerne profitieren davon. Was aber geschieht mit dem...

  3. Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany

    eine abrupte Verlangsamung des Anstiegs der Methankonzentration in der Atmosphäre festgestellt. [...] Gesellschaftliche Umwälzungen als Ursache für erhöhte Methanemissionen Insgesamt vermuten die Autoren, dass die gesellschaftlichen Umwälzungen dazu geführt haben, dass die Infrastruktur immer maroder wurde, Öl- und Gasquellen weniger überwacht wurden und durch den Rückgang der Exporte mehr Gas...

  4. Newsletter IX 2024 - February 25th to March 2nd - News+ Deceptively real AI videos: What if we can no longer believe anything?

    Reason: The solution consists of tiny molecules. These form “tubes” in which lithium ions move faster, as the team reports in “Nature”. Whether in cell phones, laptops or electric cars: lithium-ion batteries have become an integral part of the world. They form the basis for numerous battery-powered applications that not only make everyday life more efficient, but also...

  5. Newsletter VIII 2024 - February 18th to 24th - News+ On the death of the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny

    | Staatsmacht Pressefreiheit bedroht: Für oder gegen die Macht? Wikileaks, FragDenStaat, Correctiv: Der Staat rückt der Freiheit auf die Pelle. Doch die, die sie verteidigen sollen, fördern oft den autoritären Turn. Diese Woche häufen sich – mal wieder – die schlechten Nachrichten zu Grundrechten in der liberalen Demokratie, zur Presse- und Meinungsfreiheit. [...] Deswegen ist die...

  6. Newsletter V 2024 - January 28th to February 3rd - Current news + US foreign policy: Profit over peace?

    for civil use only... * Subsidies | Competition | Solar industry | Protectionism China dictates solar expansion Should we save small fish like Meyer Burger? China dominates the construction of electric cars, the market for important raw materials such as lithium and now also the solar industry: The People's Republic produces so many solar modules that the prices for them rose by almost 50 percent last year...

  7. Newsletter III 2024 - January 14th to 20th - Current news + Psychological explanations for doing nothing

    with the quote from the well-known British High Judge Lord Sumption: “Freedom of expression includes the right to publish information, even if it is controversial, disturbing or embarrasses authorities or other people.” Anyone who believes in a free society, in a free press and in a fair justice must be convinced that Assange has been on...

  8. Newsletter II 2024 - January 7th to 13th - News+ SMR: US developers of mini-nuclear power plants under pressure - class action lawsuit by shareholders against NuScale Power

    of the Gundremmingen A nuclear power plant destroyed. The weather is damp and cold. Freezing rain and hoarfrost caused the insulators on two high-voltage lines to break. Short circuits occur. An automatic quick shutdown is then initiated. However, several parts of the system are not functioning properly. Due to incorrect control, too much water is forced into the reactor for emergency cooling. Through...

  9. Newsletter LII 2023 - December 24th to 31st - News+ Nuclear power fantasy fails due to desolate industry

    [...] Two million bottles of “Ecoviel” emit 2986 tons of CO2 over their lifetime, the Institute for Technical Environmental Protection at the TU Berlin calculates for ZDF Frontal – about as much as 2000 cars emit per year. For 2400 euros, 3000 tons of CO2 are greenwashed. But compensation is not a problem, the editorial team believes. A climate certificate including seal is easily available for 2400 euros...

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

    On the sidelines of an AfD event in Plothen, he was first insulted and then beaten as he left the event hall. In addition, his headgear was removed. When he wanted to drive off in his car, he discovered four sunk screws in his tires... * Energy transition | Climate impacts | Debt brake After the Constitutional Court ruling, traffic lights in a climate emergency Nothing is better...

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

    about the medical crimes of the Nazis in the medical community today, perhaps apart from a vague idea of ​​Josef Mengele's experiments in Auschwitz," said lead author Herwig Czech from the Medical University of Vienna. For this reason, he and his colleagues had told the editor-in-chief of the journal " The Lancet" founded a commission three years ago...

  12. Newsletter XXII 2023 - May 28th to June 3rd - News+ Political style in Germany Please, strengthen the AfD

    that could revolutionize electricity production. Xiaomeng Liu's team has discovered the so-called “generic air-gen effect”. “The air contains an enormous amount of electricity,” explains co-author Jun Yao. “Think of a cloud, which is nothing more than a lot of drops of water. Each of these drops has a charge and if the conditions are right, the cloud can...

  13. Newsletter XXI 2023 - 21 to 27 May - News+ World Biodiversity Day: Will the plan to restore Europe's biodiversity fail?

    been. But who knows today what is typically German? A young Syrian recently told me that what is typically German for him is that the trains are never on time. He now wants to save for a car... * Energy transition | Expansion of wind and solar | Electricity production Global energy transition: Where does green electricity work? Solar and wind expansion is a painfully slow project? Does not have to be. A...

  14. Newsletter XVII 2023 - April 23rd to 29th - News+ Faulty SPD, self-deception at 1,5 degrees and war as a climate destroyer

    can be driven faster than 50 km/h. In 1972, a speed limit of 100 kilometers per hour was introduced on country roads. Previously, anyone could drive as fast as their car and driving skills allowed. The speed limit was also imposed because citizens regularly went wrong in their self-assessment and drove their cars around trees...

  15. Newsletter XIII 2023 - March 26 to April 1 - News+ What uranium ammunition would do to Ukraine

    used a lot, put it on. Poorer households would particularly benefit. Their CO2 emissions are usually low because they usually live in small apartments and don't drive a car or only drive a small one. [...] Similar to Switzerland, where a CO2008 tax has been levied on fossil fuels since 2 and two thirds of the income from private consumption is expressed as a per capita amount...

  16. Newsletter IX 2023 - February 26 to March 4 - News+ 48 days until the last nuclear power plants in Germany are switched off

    Wages for train and bus drivers are harmful to the climate: “This is how Verdi and Fridays for Future are on strike destroying the transport transition,” says the headline. The SZ seems to have missed the fact that car traffic has been receiving huge amounts of money for decades and that rail has been neglected. To date, the transport transition has been successfully blocked by the car and oil lobby. The current intervention of...

  17. Newsletter VII 2023 - February 12th to 18th - News+ Buzzword climate neutrality, saviors of the fossil lobby and the talk of alarmism

    plan to at least triple the pace of expansion of renewable energies by 2030. This will hardly be possible without so-called open-space photovoltaics. Large solar parks are currently being built on many motorway sections. An example from the north. [...] The community wants to use the income from trade tax to support the many offerings in town - from daycare to...

  18. Newsletter II 2023 - January 8th to 14th - News+ We have already won

    back in Lützerath. Because they can no longer stand the injustice and ignorance. Because they won't let themselves be persuaded that it should be enough to just take a cold shower, eat vegan and never drive a car again while villages are being demolished. We, who are protesting in Lützerath, feel the destruction every day: the fine dust makes our throats raw. With excavator sounds and floodlights...

  19. Newsletter I 2023 - January 1st to 7th - News+ Where Are the Peacemakers?

    To completely phase out coal-fired power generation by 2030. This also applies to a significant increase in electricity consumption, for example if more heat pumps were used in buildings or if more electric cars were on the roads... *** January 04th Lützerath | RWE | Eviction of the village before eviction because of lignite: The RWE machines are moving forward The residents of the village of Lützerath in...

  20. Newsletter XL 2022 - October 09th to 15th - News+ In the hyperloop of excitement

    | Truth “Workers must fight for Julian Assange’s release” This statement was sent by UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman to the nearly one million members of the United Auto Workers (UAW). The WSWS supports Lehman's election campaign... It's about the case of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. He is currently imprisoned in the UK and faces...

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