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The CDU wisely remains unclear as to exactly how it wants to achieve re-entry. If you ask questions, the alleged German special approach is vaguely referred to: 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 that...
Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy
collapse in Gaza.” * EU Parliament | Qatargate | Corruption “What the hell is happening here?” The “Katargate” scandal broke out a year ago – now new details are coming to light. The Green MEP Hannah Neumann talks about the ego trips of the accused Eva Kaili, glamorous trips and ineffective rules of conduct. SPIEGEL: A year ago the “Qatargate” corruption scandal broke...
Energy diverted into financing coal mining. A popular strategy is also to sell the dirty coal business to other companies that will then continue to operate it - in Europe there have been several sales to Energetický a Průmyslový Holding (EPH). E.ON, in turn, founded its own new company, Uniper, to outsource its climate-damaging business. As green electricity...
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“We are dealing with a familiar colonial pattern: cheap resources (including green energy) flow freely from the global south to the rich north, while Fortress Europe builds walls and fences to keep people from reaching its shores.” South America: Alternative energy for “motorsport”! When Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited South America at the end of January 2023...
The media world is amazed that Greta is not what she never wanted to be. I don't see this dynamic as my problem... * Health | Limits | Pollutants health risk in Europe 250.000 people died from fine dust in 2021 Pollutants in the air make you sick and can even kill. How many deaths could be avoided is shown by Europe's Environment Agency in a new...
More than ten billion euros have flowed into green energy since the beginning of the year. For example, in the purchase of a US solar park operator, a British solar park developer or in our own wind and solar systems in Europe and the United States. [...] In Germany, RWE will shut down its climate-damaging lignite-fired power plants by 2030 - although Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) has doubts about...
Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?
Case agreed, this has never happened before," says Christoph Bals, political director of Germanwatch. "If we win the final verdict, that means that all of Europe's largest emitters can be brought to justice." In May 2022, a group traveled from independent experts and judges from Germany to Peru. They wanted to assess on site the extent to which the plaintiff benefited from...
Violates EU rules. Business is being done with Rosatom - the Russian state-owned company is actively involved in the war against Ukraine and is working on the development of weapons that also threaten Europe. This violates EU regulations, according to environmentalists. The fuel element factory in Lingen, which belongs to the French Framatome group, plans to export enriched...
The silence could not be duller or louder, write the signatories, including two authors who have published on Telepolis. Jews are threatened in this country, in Europe and worldwide. It is time to speak out with all due force. We've had enough of any kind of relativistic maneuvering. We see the suffering of the Palestinian civilian population...
Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism
When the law comes into force at the beginning of 2024, they must specifically explain which laws or decisions their attempts to influence are aimed at... * United States | Ukraine | Europe Perfect Storm: Do we want to sacrifice the health of Western Europe for the sake of Ukraine? The USA is risking the stability of its allies in Europe. Germany is at the center. What's that for everyone...
are among the largest LNG exporters in the world. Nevertheless, the EU wants to buy an additional 2030 billion cubic meters of LNG per year from the USA by 50. This corresponds to a third of the amount of natural gas that Europe received from Russia in 2020... * Renewables | Solar cells | Monument protection Solar systems and monument protection: In Salzwedel there is a dispute about the energy transition A solidarity...
structured, simple tariff system. Three out of four customers are satisfied with both the service and the timetable offers for what is - in relation to the country's area - the densest rail network in Europe... * Brazil | Climate change | Heat rescue operation in Brazil Dolphin mass extinction alarms researchers Extreme heat and severe drought, plus the weather phenomenon El Niño: In...
on the coast Many residents of the nearby coastal towns of Gedser and Nysted asked themselves at the time: Why in our untouched coastal landscape, in the middle of one of the most important bird migration areas in Europe? Resistance also came from local summer home owners and even farms... * Species extinction | El Niño | Amazon Amazon region: Over 100 dead river dolphins discovered Manaus (dpa)...
Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread
If a person asks for asylum at the border, the asylum application must be examined in Germany. The protection of the EU’s external borders remains crucial. * Denmark | Asylum seeker | Refugee Europe's strictest asylum policy How Denmark has reduced its refugee numbers Refugees and migrants are increasingly dominating the debate in Germany. The focus is on Denmark. In the...
in the country... * Climate crisis | Forest fires | Floods 6 climate graphics that show how extreme it is now The climate crisis is here and we are already feeling the consequences today: forest fires in southern Europe, heat waves after heat waves. The summer of 2023 will actually be by far the hottest since records began in 1940. In addition, there are more and more extreme weather situations with which we are learning...
2016 (5th atomic bomb test) Punggye-ri, PRK Wikipedia North Korean nuclear weapons program On September 09, 2016 at around 2:30 a.m. CET, earthquake monitors in South Korea, China, the USA and Europe registered a magnitude 5,3 earthquake in North Korea. A few hours later, North Korea announced the successful test of a nuclear bomb... Punggye-ri (test site) List of nuclear weapons tests Nuclear weapons A - Z...
is, it accumulated in the deer truffles loved by wild boars - and thus entered the food chain. The Chernobyl reactor disaster in 1986 also left its mark in Central Europe: to this day, mushrooms in some regions of southern Germany are contaminated with radioactive cesium-137 and other radionuclides from the fallout. The meat of wild animals was also...
Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years
To make a contribution against the country's fatal ignorance of science... * Energy companies invest 93% in fossil energies Companies against energy transition Oil and gas multinationals as "fire accelerators" Europe's large energy companies maintain their fossil fuel business and hardly invest in renewable energies, two new analyzes show. With the announcements that by 2050...
ersten Blick lediglich ein wenig kurios, jedoch nicht von sonderlicher Wichtigkeit oder gar Brisanz: Thomas Haldenwang, der Präsident des Bundesamtes für Verfassungsschutz (BfV), hatte im Zuge der Europawahlversammlung der AfD mehrfach auf rechtsextremistische Strömungen in der Partei und entsprechende Äußerungen auf dem Parteitag hingewiesen. [...] Wenn aber die politischen Protagonisten dieser...
the geopolitical weight of the matter. But even without Moscow's influence, the Niger is of central importance for many things in the Sahel Niamey - Hardly anyone in Europe would be able to find the cities of Arlit and Agadez on a map. And the places made up of mainly low clay houses are not exactly what one would consider huge, even considering the conditions of the 25 million-inhabitant state of Niger...
