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

    sowie der zeitlichen und örtlichen Nähe davon aus, dass es sich in beiden Fällen um dieselben Täter handelt... * Israel | Palästinenser | Gaza | UNRWA UNRWA: So bearbeitete ein Israel-Lobbyist Parlamentarier Fakes: Zuerst habe sich die Hilfsorganisation am Terror vom 7. Oktober beteiligt und dann antisemitische Schulbücher verwendet. Die pro-israelische Seite habe mit «wortgewaltigen Auftritten»...

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

    to glyphosate, whose approval has just been extended in Europe despite many protests. There are large manufacturing companies behind glyphosate and other pesticides. Did these companies or their lobbyists try to prevent a decision? Kraus: No, there was no influence from the manufacturers... * Coal phase-out | Lützerath | According to the analysis, brown coal in North Rhine-Westphalia needs much less...

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

    instead of "agitation". The other demonstration (approx. 400 participants) was driven directly in front of the church by its registrant, the Gera right-wing extremist Christian Klar... * FDP and lobbyists against reusable EU packaging regulation: 189 kilos of plastic waste The EU wants Set quotas for recycled plastic and specifications for reusable offers. It is unclear whether the FDP will torpedo this...

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

    However, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea also possess nuclear weapons, although Israel does not admit it, and are therefore not a member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty... February 27 EU Parliament | Lobbyists' ID cards are blocked: EU Parliament denies Amazon lobbyists access The EU Parliament draws conclusions: After Amazon representatives did not appear in the...

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

    and higher tax revenues." Engelmeier named an excess profits tax for companies, a reform of the inheritance tax and a wealth tax for the super-rich. * United States | Lobbyist | guilty US gun lobby: Former NRA boss found guilty of embezzlement The former chairman of the US gun lobby NRA, Wayne LaPierre, was convicted by a jury in New York...

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

    Through drying and landfill storage, the process is profitable from an iron oxide content of 35 percent in the bauxite sludge, as the team reports... * Nuclear lobby | Renewables | WNISR nuclear lobbyist elected to the board of the Renewable Energy Research Association Union and FDP, together with the right-wing radical AFD, are trying to give nuclear energy in Germany a future again. They justify this...

  7. 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

    The war in Ukraine will not be cut, but spending on the country's own population will... * Lobby register | Banks ahead of energy and cars Study on interest groups: “45 lobbyists for every member of the Bundestag” With 43 million euros, the financial industry has more money at its disposal than any other interest group in Berlin, says a study by the initiative...

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

    However, the CDU chairman Merz, CSU boss Söder and the FDP parliamentary group leader Dürr have repeatedly spoken out in favor of building new nuclear power plants. IMHO the nuclear lobbyists Dürr, Merzthutjanix and also the flag in the wind Kini Jödler cannot claim ignorance. They know exactly what they are doing... * India builds reprocessing plant in Kalpakkam Indian...

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

    should be allowed to apply for more. “It appeals to people who want an alternative but actually prefer not to vote for the AfD,” says Ralph Ghadban... * Climate conference | Lobbyists | 1,5 degrees | COP28 Anything is still possible for the climate The climate conference in Dubai is teeming with lobbyists from the oil and gas industry. This shows that for them - and the climate - it is...

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

    become. However, greenwashing actors have long been present at international climate conferences. As data from the non-governmental organization Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) shows, lobbyists for the large fossil fuel companies have often had access to the UN climate negotiations over the past 20 years. In at least 7.200 cases, representatives of corporations and their lobby associations...

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

    arbitrary comparisons with the size of the economy. [...] The defense industry spends even more on lobbying than on campaign contributions, employing a total of over 800 registered lobbyists - more than one for every member of Congress. Most of these lobbyists have come through the revolving door of high-level positions in Congress or the Pentagon, and they use their...

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

    the financier to make. In such cases, lobbying is a form of corruption. The term lobbying therefore often has a negative connotation, so that the respective interest representatives (lobbyists) rarely appear under this term, but instead use euphemistic terms such as consultant, public affairs manager or policy advisor... Back to: Newsletter XLII 2023...

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

    above the average value from 1991 to 2000. This means that June 2023 was a total of 1,46 degrees warmer than an average June before the start of industrialization... * SPD | profit | Lobbyists "The SPD primarily made politics for the top 10 percent" A few years ago, Marco Bülow was seen as the SPD's hope - as the face of a social democracy that does not...

  14. Reactor failure THTR - problems

    of the operating companies As eloquently as the THTR operating company HKG remained silent in May 1986, their company spokesmen and lobbyists babbled as openly, meaninglessly and incessantly in the months and years that followed. They tried to downplay the problems and obscure the public's view of the facts with huge clouds of words. Likewise in 2007 the head of Vattenfall...

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

    »Criticism of interventionism. Studies on contemporary economic policy and economic ideology« The more politically influential Koch Industries became, the more it emphasized that its lobbyists were pursuing an exclusively ideological mission. Koch's lobbyists and public relations teams said their goal was not to increase Koch Industries' profits, but only to...

  16. Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South

    ever founded, emerged from the bloody soil of colonial exploitation. It is therefore more than appropriate to critically question these ideals, our previous thinking and actions... * Lobbyists in the energy industry have prevented climate protection Who is preventing climate protection in the CDU/CSU: hardliners, defectors, lobbyists When Union politicians are thwarting climate protection, ...

  17. Newsletter XXIII 2023 - June 4th to 10th - News+ Politics with poison, hate speech and propaganda

    under the patronage of the United Nations, at least with a minimal compromise. For almost a week, around a thousand delegates from 175 countries argued with numerous lobbyists and NGOs in Paris. The agreed so-called zero draft for the global agreement will be prepared by the international secretariat of the conference under the chairmanship of the Peruvian Gustavo Medra-Cuadra for the next...

  18. Newsletter XVI 2023 - April 16th to 22nd - News+ Poisons for eternity - Uranium and its radioactive relatives

    that can be invested to combat climate change. Financial products can therefore be advertised as “sustainable”, even if they involve investments in gas or nuclear power plants... * Lobbyists | Lobby Rules | EU Parliament EU Parliament is tightening its rules for lobbyists In the future, EU representatives will not be allowed to work as lobbyists for six months after leaving parliament...

  19. Newsletter XV 2023 - April 9th ​​to 15th - News+ Traffic light climate, Switzerland as a role model and the better alternative to e-fuels

    speak a different language, says nuclear expert Mycle Schneider. However, governments and representatives in many EU countries followed an irrational nuclear myth and influential lobbyists. Climate Reporter°: Mr. Schneider, Germany, as the EU's largest economy, is finally phasing out nuclear power. Neighboring countries, on the other hand, want to build new reactors: France, the...

  20. Newsletter XI 2023 - March 12th to 18th - News+ 12 years after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima – What have we learned from it?

    ... - - Wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernkraftwerk_Saint-Laurent#Zwischenf%C3%A4lle,_partielle_Kern Schmelzen - Nuclear power accidents by country#France *** March 12th Wissing Lobbyist | combustion engine | E-Fuels | Exxon Wissing blocks the end of combustion engines: E-fuels could save Big Oil The FDP is fighting against the end of combustion engines and the use of synthetic fuels....

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