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

    is. They presented their report in August 2023. The hearing is scheduled to begin in a few months. It is the first transnational climate dispute case of its kind to reach this stage... * Media | Journalists equal terrorists? Photojournalists from CNN, NYT, Reuters or AP as accomplices of Hamas? The Israeli government calls on the media to clarify. On October 7.10th have...

  2. 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

    But they need publicity. Forget the thinkers, bring on the “experts”. That's been the motto since Corona at the latest. Why this may be obvious, but it is a mistake Whenever a statement by Richard David Precht is discussed in the German media, the question quickly arises as to whether he is actually a philosopher. The question is obvious because...

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

    a “security problem” is created... October 27 Terror | threats | Anonymous Internet trolls are apparently behind bomb threats. Threats of attacks against schools, media and foreign embassies have been alarming Germany for days. According to research by SPIEGEL and ARD-Kontraste, they probably come from criminal copycats. A multitude of anonymous bomb threats made in the...

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

    The attack by the Islamist Hamas from the Gaza Strip escalates yet another war in the Middle East that rarely makes the headlines in the major Western media. In this case, the question of the extent to which EU funds directly or indirectly benefit jihadists is also rarely asked. Turkish warplanes and drones have been destroying civilian infrastructure in...

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

    including on the island of Euboea. There, the rain washed so much red mud into the sea near the northwestern town of Limni that the bay glowed red, as pictures in the Greek media showed... * Glyphosate | Monsanto | Pesticide study was missing from the approval application: Bayer reported for glyphosate The chemical company provided the authorities with critical studies on the health risks of...

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

    finally in front of the microphones. He decided to take the arrogant route. The reports about the visa affair are “a cascade of fake news,” he told the media on Monday, seemingly confidently. There were only 200 such cases. Michal Szerba and Dariusz Jonski, two opposition politicians from the “Citizens Coalition” (KO) party alliance, who have access to documents...

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

    and those who want to educate themselves. The resistance of the security authorities to the committee is only formally criticized by the BR. Finally, the broadcaster also leaves out the negative role of the media, which largely ignored this committee. Otherwise he would have had to criticize himself. [...] Finally, the committee also had opponents within its own ranks. No questions, no paperwork,...

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

    Increasing electricity production from offshore wind farms from the current 2050 gigawatts to 14 gigawatts by 50 appears to be even more difficult to achieve than it already is. [...] British media reported, citing industry experts, that the guaranteed electricity price promised by the government was too low to cover the increased costs due to inflation. The...

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

    want to save. The pleas seek to revoke the Supplementary Climate Change Delegated Act (CCDA), which has been in force since January this year. [...] The media has lost the ball. In their opinion, the inclusion of gas and nuclear power violates the entire purpose of the taxonomy regulation. The media has lost the ball This kidnapping of the most important...

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

    This is not an isolated case, although the town is now seen throughout Belgium as a synonym for an environment that has become toxic. At the same time, as the investigative “Forever Pollution Project” published by 18 European media outlets in the spring, there are around 17.000 such polluted areas in Europe. Over 2.100 of these are considered “hotspots” where the concentration “reaches a level that is...

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

    on social networks: The Tiktok star had featured Otto's hit "Friesenjung" in one of his songs, and since then the two have appeared together again and again. Even in the classic media people want to celebrate Otto's birthday appropriately. The WDR brought the “Otto Show” from the 70s back into the program. But this is now causing a stir. Because in the media library of...

  12. 1980 to 1989 - INES, NAMS and other events

    held, only the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was informed. The operators were obviously able to prevent an INES classification. Only through investigations did the media manage to bring the incident to the public. By 2007, a total of ten accidents had occurred at the Embalse nuclear power plant... 1982 September 1, 1982 (INES 5) Chernobyl nuclear power plant, USSR Wikipedia de nuclear power plant...

  13. 2010 to 2019 - INES, NAMS and other events

    | 1949-1940 | Previously 2017 September 3, 2017 (North Korea's 6th nuclear weapon test) Punggye-ri, PRK Wikipedia en North Korean nuclear weapons program Japan's Foreign Minister Tarō Kōno and South Korean media announced on September 3, 2017 that North Korea had probably carried out another nuclear weapon test. This was indicated by measurements from various earthquake monitoring stations, which registered two tremors. The...

  14. 2000 to 2009 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Rivne Nuclear Power Plant, UKR Wikipedia de Nuclear Power Plant_Rivne Almost a week after Krško, the same scenario (June 04, 2008 in Krško) was repeated in the Ukrainian Rivne/Rovno NPP. This time the media reported very little or not at all about it. The power plant was temporarily taken off the grid... Nuclear power plantsPlag Rivne_(Ukraine) June 6, 2008 (INES 1) Philippsburg nuclear power plant, DEU Wikipedia de List of...

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

    | Propaganda | Victims Ukraine: If only Russians die in the war All warring parties use casualty figures for their propaganda. New death figures from the Ukraine war show how dangerous it is when the media ignores unpleasant things. About a mystery and its solution. The classic “fog of war” also affects the Ukraine war. Much of what happens on the battlefield remains vague, unverified...

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

    and sent to the National Archives. The accused Republicans are prominent politicians in the state - such as the party's former deputy leader, Meshawn Maddock... * War of Aggression | Politics and media | double standard Baerbock: Putin on trial (but not the Western mass murderers) The German Foreign Minister is recognized for her speech to the UN Security Council. Wars of aggression should...

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

    Cylinder escaped. The substance is highly toxic, radioactive and evaporates easily. It was not stated why the one cubic meter cylinder was leaking. According to local media reports, more than a hundred employees at the facility were hospitalized, and the majority were released after they were decontaminated. 24 were still in hospital treatment on Friday evening...

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

    more than 110 states that signed and ratified the 2008 Oslo Convention. The USA, Russia and Ukraine are not included. Following reports in the New York Times and other media about a possible delivery of cluster munitions from the USA to Ukraine, the federal government has now pointed out that Germany is following the international agreement banning this...

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

    stayed. In this respect, the only meaningful debate can only consist of measuring them against the specific challenges and exposing the emptiness of their answers... * Media | Journalists | Education Do we have to report constructively about war or the climate crisis? What is needed is enlightened journalism that sometimes provocatively names those who profiteer. How instead...

  20. Newsletter XXV 2023 - June 18th to 24th - News+ US war machine: Many knew, only he disagreed

    in Canberra: Oil and gas heating is now over. The Australian capital only uses clean, significantly cheaper electricity. Now politicians pushed through a ban on natural gas, despite media campaigns. What Germany should learn from this. The success is remarkable: Canberra has been supplied with 2020 percent green electricity since 100. This means that almost half a million people and...