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

    Unequal treatment? In Germany and Austria, income from work is taxed more heavily than income from assets - i.e. dividends, capital shares from real estate and shares, and participation in company profits. Therefore, according to the study, the actual taxation of income is only up to 30 percent. This is significantly lower than the forecast...

  2. Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty

    In order to justify military spending on its own population, an impending attack by Russia on NATO territory in a few years is invoked. At the same time, its own involvement in the proxy war in Ukraine is constantly increasing and a direct conflict with the nuclear power Russia is at risk. [...] main beneficiaries are arms manufacturers NATO, supported by the...

  3. Newsletter XIV 2024 - March 31st to April 6th - News+ - It's not just Germany that is getting out

    in which they want to participate. The Emirates Nuclear Energy Company (ENEC) aims to become an international player in the field of nuclear energy. The company wants to invest in facilities and infrastructure in various countries through minority investments without managing or operating them. [...]The UAE's share of total foreign...

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    make it true to end democracy support programs. This can still be prevented. Last fall, the Thuringian regional association of the AfD presented a 5-point plan in the event of government participation. The MDR summarizes point three as follows: “No more money for democracy, diversity and commitment against right-wing extremism.” This refers to the state's own program "Denk-Bunt", which...

  5. Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD

    in North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Rhineland-Palatinate. And they are happy, because after the billion-dollar profit, RWE is increasing its dividend: the energy company is paying out 744 million euros as a profit share. This is a welcome additional income for many urban households. * EU Commission | International law | Financial crisis Why the expropriation of Russian assets led to the global financial crisis...

  6. Newsletter X 2024 - March 3rd to 9th - News+ More courage would be good

    In fact, almost the entire conversation revolves around how quickly Ukrainians can be trained for such attacks and what tricks can be used to prevent them from being interpreted as German involvement in the war. In the conversation between Air Force Chief Gerhartz and his colleagues - General Gräfe and officers Florstedt and Fenske - it is said that destroying the bridge would...

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

    said works council chairman Wolfgang Wolter. Opponents of the project, on the other hand, fear sabotage and espionage in all nuclear power plants supplied by Lingen. [...] "The close involvement of Russian nuclear companies in the planned expansion of the fuel element factory comes across politically against the background of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and the role of the state-owned company...

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

    Gerhard Roller for the Federal Environment Ministry. Fuel elements for nuclear power plants in Europe have been manufactured in Lingen for more than four decades. [...] "All dangers caused by Russia's participation in production must be ruled out," explained Minister Christian Meyer from the Greens. "The report confirms our view that questions of internal and external...

  9. Newsletter VI 2024 - February 4th to 10th - News+ Nuclear power is a dead horse - why isn't Merz getting down?

    Newsletter VI 2024 February 4th to 10th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge 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 made public through official channels, so this information is only made available to the public in a roundabout way...

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

    According to the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG), the advertised quantity was almost three and a half times oversubscribed. “There has never been such a large participation in a tender for open-space facilities,” said authority President Klaus Müller on Wednesday. The amount tendered as of December 1st was 1,61 gigawatts. However, bids with an output of 5,48 gigawatts were submitted....

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

    Breakfast, as they said, to plan mass murder. How do you bring this historic event closer to children and young people? Matthias Haß: It is indeed a complex story to convey the involvement of the state administration in the organization, planning and execution of mass murder. We have to orient ourselves towards the participants and do this based on concrete history...

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

    Measures are diverse and numerous. When it comes to wind energy, the changes range from the requirements for the federal states to designate areas for wind energy, to better municipal participation in the system yield, to the redesign of the way in which species protection issues are dealt with, so that, for example, the species protection assessment takes place when the area is designated and not just at the project level. ...

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

    Spain says it only wants to take part in an EU or NATO mission. The federal government is also considering joining the coalition, according to a Defense Ministry spokesman... December 21 Great Britain | EDF | Electricity price | Hinkley Point | Hinkley Point C electricity production costs: Electricity from the new British nuclear power plant costs over 15 cents per kilowatt hour...

  14. Newsletter XLVIII 2023 - November 26th to December 2nd - Current News+ Greenwashing at COP28: How corporations lobby against climate goals

    the dictatorship in Chile, his contempt for human rights and his support for dirty and even genocidal wars abroad, secret bombing campaigns in Southeast Asia, his involvement in the criminal activities of the Nixon administration, including the secret wiretapping of his own high-ranking aides. In order to achieve a balanced and more comprehensive...

  15. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    “Wind corridors” for wind turbines are to be built in the Amazon. This means clear-cutting on a large scale! It can be seen that the current trade policy of the Federal Republic of Germany, with the participation of the SPD, FDP and the Greens, with its focus on one-sided import of raw materials and energy, is hardly different than that of China. To get an idea of ​​the dimensions of...

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

    and it takes large sums of money to manage them. A new study shows where they could come from: the profits of oil and gas multinationals. [...] developing countries also discussed the participation of the fossil fuel industries. The Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, has called for a XNUMX percent tax on the profits of oil and gas companies, the revenue from which will be...

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

    out of. The title of the letter: “Back to the Greens”. More than 400 members nationwide signed within two days. After the federal election, they hoped that the Greens' participation would really make a difference, the letter says. “Then came the decision on Lützerath, came the 100 billion for the Bundeswehr, came GEAS. There came a...

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

    in any case published. [...] Communications Minister Karhi wrote to the New York Times: “I am writing to you with deep concern at recent reports about the alleged involvement of your staff in the tragic events in southern Israel. It has come to our attention that certain individuals within your organization, including photographers and others, are being targeted by these...

  19. 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

    Nuclear fuels. [...] In March 2021, TWEL announced its planned entry into the Lingen fuel assembly plant of the company Advanced Nuclear Fuels. The application for approval of this investment by the Federal Cartel Office was withdrawn a few days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. In 2021, TWEL supplied around 75 nuclear reactors in 15 countries with...

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

    and suffering have become everyday companions, in the news worldwide and for many people here personally. The traffic light gives free rein to the destruction of the climate, the removal of participation rights for environmental associations and the erosion of asylum and human rights. The racists from the AfD and CDU are becoming louder and stronger. Some people find it difficult to become active or...

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