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

    helped curb German nationalism and promote European patriotism, as expressed today in the speeches of French President Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The Truman administration drafted a plan for a European Defense Community (EDC) in 1952, but it failed at the hands of the French National Assembly....

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

    In Germany there are demands for a Rwanda model - they come primarily from the CDU/CSU and the FDP. The Greens reject the demands, and the SPD is also skeptical. Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and the heads of government of the federal states agreed in November that the federal government would examine whether asylum procedures were possible outside of Europe. Until June...

  3. Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD

    There are 197 members of the Union parliamentary group. Although there are also supporters of a Taurus delivery in the traffic light parties, the coalition backed the line of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who has clearly rejected a delivery several times... * RWE | Renewables | Fossils | Nuclear power | Billions in profits benefiting from the energy crisis Why RWE is making billions in profits...

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

    A group of young people enjoy a drink in a Parisian cafe on a warm evening. [...] When I ask them what they think of the most important European heads of state and government - Olaf Scholz (Germany) and Emmanuel Macron (France) - they shrug their shoulders and the words "idiotic" and are mentioned "insignificant". [...] What is particularly confusing is that large parts of...

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

    from Germany, France and Great Britain as well as a Leopard 2 tank under the Polish flag about the fact that the German wonder weapon "Taurus" is not (yet) allowed to go east. Quote: “We should give Olaf Scholz a proper march with cruise missiles.” Because he continues to refuse to deliver "Taurus" to Ukraine... * Finland | Olkiluoto | Maintenance work in Finland...

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

    call the idea “indecent.” The coalition is debating whether and how the Bundeswehr can be financed exclusively from the general budget from 2028, as Chancellor Olaf Scholz plans to do. Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner, who is also FDP leader, had proposed freezing social spending at the current level for three years in order to invest more money in defense...

  7. Newsletter LII 2023 - December 24th to 31st - News+ Nuclear power fantasy fails due to desolate industry

    West talked: Are there a threat of angry protests against a diesel price increase in this country, as was once the case in France? [...] This government has the best narrator in the country in Robert Habeck. Olaf Scholz is someone who has a lot of experience with government apparatus. And Christian Lindner? Well, Lindner. These days it is easy for many people to ignore all the traffic light failures in climate protection at the FDP, 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”

    between Germany and Iraq secret. NDR, WDR and SZ have the written declaration on migration and deportations from both countries. The opposition demands clarification. For Olaf Scholz, they are “the most important thing” that is needed in migration policy. In a “short time” they would represent the “most important change”. What the Chancellor is loading up on are agreements with...

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

    out, or that Frank-Walter Steinmeier wasn't smiling in the handshake photo, but that he had rolled out the red carpet for his guest. It was written that Chancellor Olaf Scholz had no response to Erdoğan's criticism. At the press conference, Erdoğan acted relaxed, as if it was a home game, even though it was an away game, just like the soccer game on...

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

    Hectares of forest, i.e. larger than the United Kingdom, as the British “Guardian” reports, among others. A member of Dubai's royal family is said to be responsible for the business... * Olaf Scholz | Climate conference | Exit | fossil | 1,5 degree climate summit COP28: Scholz calls for a global exit from coal, oil and gas In Dubai, the Chancellor is calling for a global move away from fossil fuels...

  11. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    North, as Fortress Europe raises walls and fences to keep people from reaching its shores.” South America: Alternative energy for “motorsport”! When Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz traveled to South America at the end of January 2023, future cooperation in the area of ​​green hydrogen production was also discussed. In the Chilean part of Patagonia (Punta Arenas),...

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

    can even withstand typhoons. Recently there was again shocking news from Europe's wind power industry and thus for the energy transition: Siemens Energy had to ask the federal government around Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) for state guarantees worth billions in order to be able to stay in the business with the giant rotors. And the Danish wind project developer Ørsted reported a loss of around 2,7...

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

    are government money thrown out the window... * Turning point | Defense spending | Two percent target Scholz wants to achieve NATO's two percent target next year. Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been talking about the “turning point” ever since the Ukraine war. Now he is getting specific and is talking about significantly higher defense spending in the double-digit billion range. Is that the...

  14. 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

    decided. The prosecution of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed abroad should be improved in Germany. Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz's cabinet decided on a number of changes. The rights of victims should be strengthened in international criminal law. The Federal Government also wants to increase the international impact of German proceedings and judgments...

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

    but are not appropriate at the moment. Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz's spokesman said that he "basically does not evaluate at all" the statements made by a Secretary General of the United Nations. At the same time, he emphasized the federal government's solidarity with Israel: "We stand closely and unwaveringly at Israel's side." At the UN Security Council meeting on Tuesday, Guterres...

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

    from... * Peace | Ukraine | Europe Gerhard Schröder in an interview: This is how the peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia failed. The former chancellor talks about Olaf Scholz's Israel policy, migrant anti-Semitism, Baerbock's morality and what a new peace plan for Ukraine could look like. Gerhard Schröder and his wife Soyeon Schröder-Kim welcome...

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

    Faeser in Brussels agrees to the crisis regulation. Faeser has quietly turned around and the Greens are left out in the cold. While the SPD is selling its collapse as the result of an alleged “power word” from Olaf Scholz, for which he is celebrated in the tabloids, the Greens have been left speechless... * October 1, 1981 (INES 3 | NAMS 1,3) Sellafield nuclear factory , GBR reprocessing of fuel elements,...

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

    limit. (Telepolis had reported.) But the verdict does not seem to have brought any real insight to those in power. A year later, Olaf Scholz, who had since become Chancellor, compared climate activists who demanded that he abide by the law to Nazis. Meanwhile, the consequences that the Berlin traffic light is drawing from its failure to protect the climate is breathtaking. Not only that she...

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

    17 other people were exposed to varying degrees of radiation depending on the distance from the accident site... Translated with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free 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...

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

    Ministries should actually have presented an immediate program within three months. This is what the current climate law stipulates, but the ministries remained inactive and Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) refrained from using his directive authority. Instead, there is now a new, cross-departmental climate protection program. At least there is support from the expert council...

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