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

    a real competition between the parties as to how best to keep refugees and migrants away. The most recent highlights, just from the weeks since October 10th: The FDP wants to use “financial blocking” to prevent refugees from supporting their families in their country of origin with parts of their social benefits via bank transfer. The deputy CDU parliamentary group leader Jens...

  2. 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”

    Revier will be compensated,” the EU Commission announced on Monday in Brussels. 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...

  3. Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy

    to keep. But so far, some of those involved in Dubai have given the impression that they are less concerned with limiting global warming and more with climate protection... * Cooperation between the FDP, CDU and AfD Next dam burst in Thuringia The FDP wants an anti-wind power law Enforce votes from the AfD and CDU. Sharp criticism comes from the Thuringian Left – and from business. BERLIN...

  4. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    for wind turbines 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 the proposed Greens...

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

    Inclusion in the coalition agreement of the traffic light parties. And since the debate about escape and migration gained momentum in mid-2023, it has long served as an anchor not only for the FDP, but also the SPD and the Greens to justify ever-increasing tightening of asylum law and upgrading of the borders. “illegal” = dangerous!? Because “irregular” or even...

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

    Spahn (CDU) wants “physical violence” against “irregular” migrants, Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) is calling for deportations “on a large scale” and Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) wants to cut social benefits for asylum seekers in order to mitigate “incentives”. It is rhetoric that we are used to from the political right-wing spectrum. What kind of wind is that...

  7. Newsletter XLIII 2023 - October 22nd to 28th - News+ Municipal utilities are leaving the Future Gas lobby association

    and a momentous individual example from the recent history of the Federal Republic of Germany, because the process contributed to the fact that the FDP, later derisively referred to as the "Mövenpick Party", was no longer elected to parliament in the following Bundestag election. After all, this failure of the FDP at the five percent hurdle already speaks against the thesis of worry-free rule...

  8. Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism

    start... October 20th Green electricity | Power to Heat | Hydrogen traffic light parties want to reduce the curtailment of green electricity with an auction model Berlin - The Bundestag factions of the SPD, Greens and FDP have submitted an amendment at short notice with which a new regulation for dealing with regulated amounts of green electricity will be included in the planned amendment to the Energy Industry Act (EnWG). ..

  9. Newsletter XLI 2023 - October 8th to 14th - News+ India - Flood and destruction - the last generation is right

    the CDU. ... 12,0 percent of all eligible voters support the AfD. ... 9,8 percent of all eligible voters support the SPD. ... 9,6 percent of all eligible voters support the Green Party. ... 3,3 percent of all eligible voters support the FDP. ... 2,0 percent of all eligible voters support the left. The black-green coalition therefore has support of 33,1 percent among the eligible voters. In the state elections in Bavaria … *...

  10. Newsletter XL 2023 - October 1st to 7th - Current news + FDP proposal for industrial electricity price relief is spot on

    of plutonium and irradiated uranium oxide particles into the atmosphere... Translation with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) News+ Background knowledge Top of page News+ ** FDP | Industrial electricity price | Green electricity | Electricity tax FDP proposal for relief from industrial electricity prices is spot on 2024 could be the big year for green electricity in Germany. All you have to do is – surprise...

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

    Bundestag, which had been requested by the Union parliamentary group. For the most part, a functioning fusion reactor to generate energy was not expected for 20 years at the earliest. [...] It was striking that FDP Research Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger had launched an image campaign the day before about the “future energies” of green hydrogen and fusion. Comparable campaigns for increased...

  12. Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread

    Version) September 22nd Climate change | Olaf Scholz | Climate Protection Act Climate Chancellor a. D. Ironically, after the UN's "ambition summit", the traffic light gutted its most important law for saving CO2. The FDP prevails, the SPD ducks away - and the Greens support everything. This week Olaf Scholz became climate chancellor. At the "Climate Ambition Summit", UN Secretary General António...

  13. Newsletter XXXVII 2023 - September 10th to 16th - News+ How Germany is ruining the climate with billions in gifts to industry

    the AfD implemented a tax cut. The managing director of the SPD parliamentary group is horrified. The Greens and the Left are making serious accusations against CDU leader Merz. In Thuringia, the CDU, together with the FDP and the AfD, pushed through a reduction in the real estate transfer tax from the opposition. Now there is criticism because the CDU voted together with the AfD. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies...

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

    Erdbeben und Risiken für das Grundwasser. [...] Bisher war die Technologie auch in der Politik sehr umstritten. Vor allem die Grünen und die SPD sprachen sich dagegen aus, aber auch Union und FDP hielten sie wegen der Proteste für nicht durchsetzbar – daher das restriktive Gesetz von 2012. Inzwischen hat sich der Wind gedreht... * Ukraine | Frieden Exit-Strategie für die Ukraine: "Gerechten und...

  15. Newsletter XXXIII 2023 - August 13th to 19th - News+ Military coup in Niger: Uranium mining and environmental destruction as deeper reasons?

    to the theses of the arch-conservative fans of repression. The left is dismantling itself from within before the right can strike, and the Springer leader's commitment to the neoliberal FDP strengthens the fascists. Have we completely lost the ability to assess cause and effect? I can't help but feel that our democracy is currently being canceled...

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

    but in 2022 only 80 euros per ton. How is climate protection ever supposed to work if the subsidies are higher than the costs for the CO2 emission certificates? You don't hear anything about this from the FDP, which says it is always committed to reducing state subsidies... * Lubmin | Nuclear waste barrels | Corrosion During dismantling in Lubmin, rust on barrels with radioactive...

  17. Newsletter XXX 2023 - July 23-29 - News+ Chomsky: What happens when orders from Washington are not followed?

    “Going too far” in their protest actions... * Wind turbines | Distance rule | Repowering 15.000 transport applications for wind turbines are piling up at Autobahn GmbH. The economic policy spokesman for the FDP in the Bundestag, Reinhard Houben, claims that the expansion of wind power is not happening faster "because we do not have enough permits for the transport of these corresponding wind turbines." Actually...

  18. Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson

    were landed did not harm the company's reputation. The group seems to be too well networked in Berlin. The former FDP minister Dirk Niebel has also been listed in the Bundestag's lobby register as a representative of Rheinmetall's interests since 2015. [...] On November 23, 2004, the Röchling family who owned the company announced that they would be selling their Rheinmetall shares. A day before...

  19. Newsletter XXVIII 2023 - July 9-15 - News+ Bulgaria wants to sell Russian reactors to Ukraine

    failed car toll. 243 million euros in damages for the toll consortium. Taxpayer money. Andreas Scheuer's successor as Federal Transport Minister, Volker Wissing from the FDP, is visibly upset when the damage becomes known. In times of tight budgets, Wissing is now preparing to scrape together the money in his household. He had previously announced that he would...

  20. Newsletter XXVII 2023 - July 2nd to 8th - News+ Is nuclear power experiencing a renaissance? There are also military interests behind it

    in the buildings and electric cars as a buffer - can help to avoid this, a new study shows... * Heating law The stop to the heating law is solely the responsibility of the FDP In the farce of a debate about the heating law, I feel like the small child who is the only one to point out that the emperor is actually naked. There is so much lying here systematically and so well...

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