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    privately used company car (subsidy of up to 690 euros per ton of CO₂) and the energy tax exemption for kerosene in domestic air traffic (at least 130 euros per ton)... * Climate crisis | Banks | Real Estate When trillions of dollars sink into the sea The world is sitting on a huge financial bubble: the real estate market is threatened with climate-related costs of an estimated $25 trillion. Particularly...

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

    can say, I don't want wind energy. Then they would be vulnerable. Instead, things are delayed until the project designer has to start all over again. * Wars | Upgrade | Banks The new world order and Germany's role: Lobbyists of the eternal conflict Elites and banks profit from wars. The John McCloy and JPMorgan cases. To supposedly humanitarian goals and true...

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

    the democracy. It is time for the international community to declare war on it – with a global tax on billions in wealth. When the governors of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund met for their spring meetings last week, the really big questions were on the agenda. What can the international community do to...

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

    and with right things? Or is there something like party political influence? * Climate justice | Consequential damage | Polluter pays principle Priced-in risks, eco-dependent banks and 60 million people with access Calendar week 11: The first insurance companies are reacting to climate risks - this logic needs to be directed from the damage to the causes, says Aysel Osmanoglu, board member of...

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

    does not flow into the future of the country, but literally evaporates in Ukraine. Russia is showing the first signs of economic decline. Recently, several major Chinese banks also turned away from Russia. * Petroleum | refinery | Expropriation Further control by the federal government? Rosneft expropriation in Schwedt increasingly unlikely After the Russian invasion of Ukraine,...

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

    to launch impeachment proceedings against President Biden on corruption charges. Smirnov's statements have played a central role in these efforts so far... February 22 Banks | Money laundering | Law enforcement | Terrorist financing Frankfurt gets the EU anti-money laundering authority The banking metropolis Frankfurt am Main will be the headquarters of the new EU anti-money laundering authority Amla....

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

    Johannemann should go to prison for three and a half years. In the Cum-ex scandal, the verdict has been passed against the former Freshfields lawyer Ulf Johannemann. The influential tax lawyer who advised Maple Bank on cum-ex transactions is to be sentenced to three and a half years in prison for serious tax evasion. In the billion-dollar tax scandal involving cum-ex stock transactions, the regional court...

  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

    a major breach of taboo: millions of people, including German citizens, are to be specifically expelled from the country in order to create an ethnically and culturally pure society... * Banks | financial crisis | Soffin Bund refuses to give banks a gift worth billions For more than a year, the federal government and German financial institutions have been fighting over old funds from the bank levy. The Bund...

  9. Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support

    5,6 percent, and still 2023 percent in 2,4. [...] However, it is not easy to measure the Greek economy correctly statistically because the black market is huge. Greece's central bank chief Yannis Stournaras recently calculated it: Only around 2022 billion euros in private income were declared to the tax authorities in 80 - but private consumption reached 140...

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

    Climate change, unsettled OPEC and loving politics Calendar week 50: The traffic light is taking an important first step in reducing fossil subsidies, says Aysel Osmanoglu, board member of GLS Bank and member of the editorial board of Klimareporter°. But she misses the social security provided by the promised climate money. Climate Reporter°: Ms. Osmanoglu, the traffic light coalition has...

  11. Newsletter L 2023 - December 10th to 16th - News+ The tail wags the dog and those on the right lead us by the nose ring “Back to the Future”

    and social governance (ESG) 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... * Gaza, three Israeli hostages taken by Israeli soldiers...

  12. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    Namibia. The amount of electricity produced would be equivalent to around ten large conventional power plants. Since the Namibian state is involved in the investments with 24 percent and takes out loans from European banks, there is a risk of a debt trap if something goes wrong. As is well known, the supposedly green hydrogen has catastrophically high conversion losses and is associated with exorbitant transport costs...

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

    dpa | The federal government is granting Siemens Energy a guarantee of 7,5 billion euros. It is part of the required guarantee lines totaling 15 billion euros, which were agreed with private banks, among others, as the Federal Ministry of Economics announced on Tuesday. This was preceded by weeks of negotiations. Specifically, private banks grant Siemens Energy...

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

    The “Islamo-Gauchisme” that is very widespread on the left, which continues the errors of Tiersmondisme and now increases it to the most oppressive or completely open sympathy with Hamas, is a declaration of moral bankruptcy. But not in general “the left”, which is not completely deceived by the genocidal politics of Russia and the Islamists. Putin and Hamas pursue similar exterminist...

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

    However, it has not yet come into force because not enough countries have ratified it. The nuclear powers USA and China, among others, have not yet ratified the CTBT... * CO2 | Banks are fueling the climate crisis with loans for large-scale fossil fuel projects How 422 carbon bombs are killing the 1,5 degree target Banks are financing fossil mega-projects with trillion-dollar loans. At the same time...

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

    | Extinction Rebellion | Form of protest Climate activists are testing a new strategy because: “People aren’t listening to us anymore.” The climate movement is struggling to find listeners. In front of a Deutsche Bank branch in Berlin you can see what could be coming: increasing disinterest. What is particularly surprising is how upset the Deutsche Bank employees are. They react poorly when you...

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

    works, should achieve an electrical output of around 20 megawatts... * Transformation | Climate active | ECB The financial world and the climate crisis: ECB is for more climate activism The central bank warns: Delays in transformation lead to higher risks for the financial industry. BERLIN taz | A faster transformation is not only good for the climate, it also contributes to stability...

  18. Newsletter XXXV 2023 - August 27 to September 2 - News+ Historic victory: Ecuador becomes the first country to say no to oil

    against us," the "Indignados", the "outraged" chanted on the streets of Madrid more than a decade ago when an economic crisis shook Spain. They protested against the banks and against the politicians. A similar wave of discontent - albeit with other priorities - has been rolling across Latin America for years. And almost everywhere there are politicians who...

  19. Newsletter XXXI 2023 - July 30th to August 05th - News+ Brussels buys more fire-fighting aircraft to fight forest fires

    The existence of such a treaty at least helps to delegitimize nuclear weapons. He even led dozens of major financial institutions to stop investing in the nuclear weapons industry under pressure from campaigns like Don't Bank on the Bomb. In reality, the situation couldn't be simpler: we must abolish nuclear weapons before they abolish us. It...

  20. Newsletter XXVI 2023 - June 25 to July 1 - News+ Two tips on how we can further strengthen the far-right AfD

    Royals, the daily obligatory LGBTQ problems, the me-too attitude of groupies at rock concerts or parliamentary investigations that are supposed to find out why banks in the financial casino are going to the wall. The real problems of most people, the war in Ukraine, the escalating conflict between the USA and China, events that are affecting the lives of millions...

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