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

    Stand? Haben Sie schon etwas vom Gericht gehört? Die Klage ist noch gerichtsanhängig, wie man so schön sagt. Das heißt, es gibt noch keine Entscheidung, aber Gespräche. Sie kennen das, der Richter sagt: Könnt ihr nicht miteinander reden? Wie ironisch. Das Gericht hat dem Stalu wirklich ins Gewissen geredet, endlich was zu tun. Seitdem sind schon wieder zwei Jahre vergangen, aber seit dem...

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

    are often water, grease and dirt repellent. That's why they are found in many products, including everyday products. The PFAS group includes several thousand individual substances... * Spain | Judge | Corruption | Spain accidentally lets drug lord go who wanted to kidnap Princess Amalia Karim Bouyakhrichan is said to have planned to kidnap Dutch Princess Amalia...

  3. Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty

    What flourishes in times of crisis is deception. Transparency, if it exists at all, is replaced by camouflage. This is increasingly true in our democracy. Most media reporting is also becoming more one-sided. Differentiated, open debates are even rarer than usual. This is not without impact. The credibility of the government and state bodies...

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    fails in court in Hamburg. Potsdam - The Potsdam public prosecutor's office will not investigate employees of the investigative portal Correctiv and other people accused in connection with reporting on a meeting of radical right-wingers. The public prosecutor's office announced on Thursday (March 28) that there was no initial suspicion of prosecutable crimes. Against the corrective and...

  5. Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany

    Courts and ministries with lawsuits and inquiries A veritable flood of lawsuits and inquiries from the AfD is burdening the Federal Constitutional Court and the federal ministries. In Karlsruhe, the judges can hardly keep up, and the ministries are also groaning under the inquiries. “For the AfD, mass rather than class seems to apply,” says the CDU. With numerous lawsuits and inquiries, the AfD is...

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

    The party failed right at the beginning of the hearing at the Münster Higher Administrative Court. Among other things, the court rejected an application against the appointment of the Senate. The presiding judge Gerald Buck accused the AfD of abusing the law. The party did not present any new arguments. The request was made across the board and obviously without reason... * Right-wing extremism |...

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

    Newsletter Some of the incidents were never made public through official channels, so this information is only made available to the public in a roundabout way...

  8. Newsletter VII 2024 - February 11th to 17th - Current+ super election year in the crucial climate decade

    must be stopped. Further legal proceedings are ongoing. The French State Council has cleared the way for the controversial final storage of toxic waste on the border with Baden-Württemberg: The judges lifted a stop imposed by the Strasbourg administrative court in an emergency decision. There is no urgency for this, the State Council ruled on Friday, as the newspaper "Les Dernières...

  9. Newsletter VI 2024 - February 4th to 10th - News+ Nuclear power is a dead horse - why isn't Merz getting down?

    in Strasbourg Assange's immediate release. On February 20th and 21st, the highest English court will decide whether Julian Assange can be extradited to the USA. If the judges reject the appeal of the founder of the disclosure platform Wikileaks, Assange could be charged and convicted in the United States under the so-called Espionage Act - a law that covers over a hundred...

  10. Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?

    all measures in his power would be taken to prevent genocide. At the same time, Israel must ensure that the humanitarian situation there improves, the judges said. Israel must report to the UN within a month. [...] Federal Foreign Minister Baerbock explained, "There are also rules when it comes to the right to self-defense and also when it comes to fighting...

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

    Wikipedia has no information on the accidents from 1965 and 1970. Lawrence_Livermore_National_Laboratory Wikipedia en The English Wikipedia also only contains the usual court reports. Lawrence_Livermore_National_Laboratory#Public_protests Public Protests The Livermore Action Group organized numerous mass protests against the production of...

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

    the difference between the actual and the maximum possible water content of the air, so to speak the "thirst for water" of the air... * Democracy | AfD | Anti-Semitism Former Constitutional Judge Voßkuhle "It may be that our democracy turns out to be just a phase in history" The former President of the Federal Constitutional Court, Andreas Voßkuhle, is concerned about growing...

  13. 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”

    is one of the largest terror trials in the history of the Federal Republic. And particularly worrying: Among the accused were several state employees - police officers, soldiers or the judge and AfD politician Birgit Malsack-Winkemann... * Fossile | World Climate Conference | 1,5 degrees | COP28 Germany and EU reject draft resolution "A disappointment", "unacceptable": With...

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

    "If we win the final verdict, it will mean that all of Europe's biggest emitters can be brought to justice." In May 2022, a group of independent experts and judges from Germany traveled to Peru. They wanted to assess on site the extent to which the plaintiff was at risk of an impending climate catastrophe. They presented their report in August 2023. The hearing should...

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

    who had introduced both the original law and the amendments together with the Union under Angela Merkel, is apparently no longer bound. The Karlsruhe judges reprimanded the legislature in March 2021 because postponing climate protection into the future would unduly restrict the young generation's freedom...

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

    to restrict the constitutional right of indigenous peoples to land allocations. Only the two judges appointed by former right-wing extremist President Jair Bolsonaro voted in favor and nine against. Experts see the protected areas as a bulwark against deforestation in the Amazon rainforest - and thus as an important contribution to the fight against climate change... * Poland |...

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

    Hamburg University: Penalty reduction for climate sprayers A last generation activist successfully defended himself against a penalty order before the Hamburg district court. His presentation impressed the judge. HAMBURG taz | The judge also liked the picture of the apricot tree. In the final speech of the defendant Kristoffer K. he symbolizes the connection between insects and plants, people...

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

    to 39,09 percent. Arévalo's party suspended. However, the outcome of the election is far from decided. Arévalo's party was temporarily suspended at the request of a judge shortly before the final result was announced. An electoral court authority decided on Monday to suspend Arévalo's Movimiento Semilla (Seed Grain Movement) party due to alleged irregularities in its founding...

  19. Newsletter XXXI 2023 - July 30th to August 05th - News+ Brussels buys more fire-fighting aircraft to fight forest fires

    Operators will be obliged to share in the profits from wind power, especially municipalities, but also citizens. The Federal Constitutional Court paved the way for this last year. In the case of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the judges ruled that an “obligation for residents and local communities to participate in wind farms is in principle permissible.” * Energy prices |...

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

    that was aimed at the business world was the hard, conservative side. The Trilateral Commission report was the soft, liberal side. The Powell Memorandum, written by Justice Lewis Powell, did not mince his words. It called on the business world to use its power to fend off what it saw as a major attack on the economy - what it saw...

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