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

    insbesondere die deutsch-französische Zusammenarbeit wichtige Faktoren für Frieden und Stabilität auf dem Kontinent. [...] 1952 gründete McCloy zusammen mit Eric M. Warburg von der gleichnamigen Hamburger Bankenfamilie den Thinktank "American Council on Germany", der Vertreter aus Politik und Privatwirtschaft versammelt, um die transatlantische Ausrichtung Deutschlands aufrechtzuerhalten. Mit...

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

    Bonn zu acht Jahren Gefängnis rechtskräftig verurteilt. Öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit erfuhren Brorhilkers Ermittlungen auch, weil sie bis in die hohe Politik führten. Die Erkenntnisse um die Hamburger Privatbank MM Warburg brachten schließlich auch Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz in Erklärungsnot, gegen den aber kein Anfangsverdacht besteht. "Schwach aufgestellte Justiz" Im Interview mit...

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

    and the number of car parking spaces reduced. Now a study shows how the transport policy measures work. Paris, France). In many large cities, including Hamburg according to data from TomTom, traffic is moving ever more slowly. In order to reduce car traffic and emissions in the city, Paris has significantly reduced the number of parking spaces in recent years and...

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    is not investigating Correctiv people The Potsdam public prosecutor sees no evidence of illegal sound recordings by Correctiv. Another participant in the secret meeting fails in court in Hamburg. Potsdam - The Potsdam public prosecutor's office will not prosecute employees of the investigative portal Correctiv and other defendants in connection with reporting on...

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

    In Germany, thousands of people once again took to the streets at the weekend to demonstrate against right-wing extremism. One of the biggest events began on Sunday afternoon in Hamburg. The organizers, including the climate movement Fridays for Future, expected around 30.000 people. At the beginning the police did not mention the number of participants... * Fossile | Energy prices |...

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

    a surprising offer. After Meyer Burger's announcement that it would stop the production of solar modules in Germany in March, a surprising solution is emerging. The Hamburg energy start-up 1Komma5° wants to take over the Swiss manufacturer's module production. »Should Meyer Burger completely give up production in Saxony, we are ready to at least take over module production...

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

    Tens of thousands of people are expected to demonstrate against the right and for democracy across Germany at the weekend. [...] A demonstration against the right-wing and the AfD in Hamburg even had to be canceled on Friday evening because of the large number of people. One of the organizers cited safety concerns. People collapsed in the crowd and the...

  8. 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”

    can emigrate to Iran»... December 10th Fakes: Kulturkampf fully flared up, Kini Jödler saves Christmas The “War against Christmas”, an imported fairy tale This week it hit a Hamburg daycare center: “Bild”, “Focus” and Markus Söder claim , Christmas is being fought there. That's not true - but it illustrates the dark topic ideas of German culture warriors. [...] Whether Markus Söder...

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

    Justice under corrupt control Even before he is sworn in, obstacles are being placed in the way of elected President Bernardo Arévalo. He will still take office in January. HAMBURG taz | Even after more than sixty days of protests, the ability of Guatemala's indigenous authorities to mobilize remains unbroken. On Monday, tens of thousands protested around the Ministerio Público, the...

  10. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    would rise. The dimensions are gigantic. "A project planned in Namibia takes up a fifth of the Tsau Khaeb National Park - that's more than five times the size of the federal state of Hamburg," says Professor Franziska Müller from the University of Hamburg. To make matters worse, a deep-sea port for...

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

    too many people would demand the sensible from their rulers, too many of the possible victims would desert? With the cry: “Never again war!” He was on the Russian front, he was a Hamburger, he died far too early, far too young from his war injuries, shortly before his death Wolfgang Borchert wrote his great poem “Then there is only one!” In it, annoying reminder, it says:...

  12. 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

    the competent courts a number of at least 30 such actions for failure to act. Accordingly, in most federal states these are isolated cases. No cases were reported in several countries, including Bavaria, Hamburg, Saarland and Saxony. The neighboring northern federal state of Schleswig-Holstein recorded three lawsuits, Lower Saxony two... * CO2 as a fuel double blow against...

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

    it has been proven that this type of electricity generation could be economically attractive... * Global warming | Glacier | Apocalypse Ice shelf melt inevitable: New York and Hamburg will sink into the sea Apocalypse The West Antarctic ice shelf will melt, even if global warming is limited to 1,5 degrees. This will cause the global oceans to rise by up to five meters...

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

    continues as a senior professor at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel (CAU) to advance climate protection. In addition, among other things, he is President of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg... * State elections | Bavaria | Hesse After the shift to the right in Bavaria and Hesse: AfD successes create pressure to act in Berlin After the election successes in Bavaria and Hesse, party leader Weidel dreams...

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

    weaken. On Friday last week, a corresponding cabinet draft was discussed in the Bundestag in its first reading... * Climate change | 1,5 degrees | Extreme Weather Extreme Weather Congress in Hamburg Scientists: Climate change will go largely unchecked Weather and climate experts have warned that the earth is facing massive changes. At the start of the 13th...

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

    approved: Russian uranium remains welcome According to opponents of nuclear power, 40 new uranium deliveries to the Lingen fuel element factory have been approved. They come from the Russian company Rosatom. LINGEN/HAMBURG epd | According to opponents of nuclear power, German authorities have approved 40 more uranium shipments from Russia to the fuel element factory in Lingen, Emsland. The first of these deliveries...

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

    successfully sues: Wrongfully under surveillance Cécile Lecomte was wrongly monitored by the federal police and listed in a search system. This was decided by the Hanover Administrative Court. HAMBURG taz | The Lüneburg anti-nuclear activist Cécile Lecomte has successfully sued against the search and covert surveillance by the federal police. The federal police had her in custody for two years...

  18. Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years

    in Ecuador: Oil exploration in the Amazon voted out The majority of people in Ecuador vote to protect the Yasuní National Park. It is a groundbreaking vote – and not just for the indigenous people. HAMBURG taz | Until election day, Pedro Bermeo was traveling with the YASunidos activists throughout Ecuador to campaign for a Sí. A yes to the protection of the Yasuní National Park and the end of...

  19. Newsletter XXXII 2023 - August 6th to 12th - News+ Hiroshima - The asphalt will burn. Chaos will reign

    concludes that “any additional meltwater in this lake can be attributed to climate change.” The mountain guide Lliuya is represented in court by the lawyer Roda Verheyen from Hamburg. Their goal: RWE should contribute to the costs of a protective dam... * August 10, 1985 (INES 5) Submarine K-431, USSR Wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo-Klasse#K -31 In the...

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

    People in the country, whether renters or homeowners, are taking precautions against increasing heat stress. There are a whole range of possibilities here... * Last generation sticks in Hamburg and Düsseldorf Hamburg and Düsseldorf "Last generation" blocks airports In Hamburg and Düsseldorf, climate activists have gained access to the tarmac at the airport and stuck it...

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