1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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,...

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  10. 1980 to 1989 - INES, NAMS and other events

    gehalten, nur die Internationale Atomenergie-Organisation (IAEO) wurde informiert. Eine INES-Einstufung konnten die Betreiber offensichtlich verhindern. Nur durch Nachforschungen gelang es den Medien, den Störfall an die Öffentlichkeit zu bringen. Bis 2007 ereigneten sich insgesamt zehn Störfälle im Akw Embalse... 1982 1. September 1982 (INES 5) Akw Tschernobyl, UdSSR Wikipedia de Kernkraftwerk...

  11. 2010 to 2019 - INES, NAMS and other events

    | 1949-1940 | Vorher 2017 3. September 2017 (Nordkoreas 6. Atomwaffentest) Punggye-ri, PRK Wikipedia de Nordkoreanisches Kernwaffenprogramm Japans Außenminister Tarō Kōno und südkoreanische Medien gaben am 3. September 2017 bekannt, dass Nordkorea wohl erneut einen Kernwaffentest durchgeführt habe. Darauf deuteten die Messungen verschiedener Erdbebenwarten, die zwei Erdstöße registrierten. Die...

  12. 2000 to 2009 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Akw Riwne, UKR Wikipedia de Kernkraftwerk_Riwne Knapp eine Woche nach Krško wiederholte sich dasselbe Szenario (04.Juni 2008 in Krško) im ukrainischen KKW Riwne/Rowno. Diesmal berichteten die Medien nur sehr spärlich bzw. gar nicht darüber. Das Kraftwerk wurde vorübergehend vom Netz genommen... AtomkraftwerkePlag Riwne_(Ukraine) 6. Juni 2008 (INES 1) Akw Philippsburg, DEU Wikipedia de Liste von...

  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. 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...

  16. 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...

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

    blieb. Insofern kann die einzig sinnvolle Auseinandersetzung nur daran bestehen, sie an den konkreten Herausforderungen zu messen und die inhaltliche Leere ihrer Antworten zu entlarven... * Medien | Journalisten | Aufklärung Müssen wir konstruktiv über Krieg oder Klimakrise berichten? Nötig wäre ein aufklärerischer Journalismus, der auch mal provokativ Profiteure benennt. Wie stattdessen ein...

  18. 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...

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

    In 2005, for example, tritium leaked from the nuclear power plant and contaminated the local water supply; the damage cost $48 million. In June 2011, it was reported in the US media that tritium leaks had been discovered at 48 of 65 nuclear power plant sites in the US. According to a list from July 2014, Braidwood was also affected... Slowly but surely all relevant information is being...

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

    he has made documentaries on these topics. But the end of Snowden reporting cannot be explained by topic fatigue alone. One reason for this is likely to be the state pressure on the media and their subsequent buckling. This became clear and publicly known in the case of the British newspaper “Guardian”. On July 20, 2013, one of the most bizarre...