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

    to talk to Erdoğan on the phone: "I won't talk to him again until he apologizes." When tourism companies canceled trips to Turkey and the import of some Turkish export goods to Russia was banned, Erdoğan was forced to apologize. When the same Erdoğan claimed in 2017 that 680 German companies were supporting terrorism, Berlin issued a travel warning for...

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

    It was said that the use of fossil fuels should be reduced. The USA, France, Great Britain and the host country United Arab Emirates are among those involved in the joint declaration. Russia and China, which also have a large number of nuclear power plants, have not signed... * Climate protection | Justice | CO2 budget study on justice in climate protection:...

  3. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    - "Camus: Wisdom without a slotted spoon" Dear readers! “Green” hydrogen: colonial energy? - No thanks! The consequences of the climate catastrophe and the lack of gas deliveries from Russia have led to hectic activities on numerous levels in order to produce more energy in a climate-neutral, sustainable and environmentally friendly manner in the future. This is supposed to be especially true...

  4. Newsletter XLVII 2023 - November 19th to 25th - News+ Spectacular setback for the development of small nuclear reactors in the USA - The dead horse

    The biggest health burden is heart disease, followed by strokes, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), lung cancer and asthma... * Austria | Russia | Gas imports Where Russian gas is still in demand Russian gas imports in Austria are increasing in percentage terms. The semi-state energy company OMV is doing a bit of drilling itself. Is there a threat of fracking now?...

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

    a project must be carried out in order to receive CO₂ certificates. The results are climate protection projects in which balance sheet optimization is part of everyday life - and which have recently aroused the interest of Belarus and Russia. ntv.de: Are there any projects on the market for CO₂ certificates that actually reduce emissions? Lambert Schneider: Yes, but these projects are for both...

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

    A scandal. The Berliner Zeitung is campaigning for the release of journalists Julian Assange and Evan Gershkovich. Julian Assange is in custody in Great Britain, Evan Gershkovich in Russia. Both journalists are being wrongly detained. We call on the British and Russian governments to release the journalists immediately. A lot has already been said about Julian...

  7. 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

    is distributed... * Fuel element factory in Lingen | Rosatom | Framatome Anti-nuclear organizations protest: No uranium for Putin's Rosatom No enriched uranium is allowed to be delivered to Russia from Lingen, environmental NGOs complain. This violates EU rules. BERLIN taz | Four environmental organizations are protesting against the planned exports of enriched uranium from Lingen to Russia....

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

    Weiler is located about 200 km from the German border in eastern France. In its ruling, however, the court also expressly mentions the rights of future generations... * Nuclear Test Ban Treaty | Russia | United States Nuclear deterrence: Inhibition against using the atomic bomb is decreasing. Russia's withdrawal from the nuclear test ban treaty should be a warning signal. The danger of Armageddon used to be...

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

    on relations with the EU and not with the United States... * 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...

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

    belong worldwide. Nevertheless, the EU wants to buy an additional 2030 billion cubic meters of LNG per year from the USA by 50. This corresponds to a third of the amount of natural gas that Europe received from Russia in 2020... * Renewables | Solar cells | Monument protection Solar systems and monument protection: There is a dispute about the energy transition in Salzwedel A solidarity cooperative wants to build houses in Salzwedel...

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

    finances police barbecues and fire engines, I learned, sponsors football clubs and festivals, concerts and exhibitions, viewing platforms and historic castles... October 1st Russia | AfD | multipolar Bensmann on the AfD and Russia "They do it out of conviction" Little has changed in the close connection between the AfD and Russia after the war of aggression in Ukraine....

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

    of a man with an oil can on his head... * Denmark | Offshore | Energy generation from offshore wind farms: How Denmark became Germany's energy supplier After the end of cheap gas from Russia, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is relying on energy generation at sea. The Baltic Sea is to become a gigantic wind power plant. This will produce cheaper electricity and later also hydrogen...

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

    Powerlessness of the UN Security Council when it comes to war or peace. As long as the five permanent members of the Security Council can only make unanimous decisions and the USA, China, Russia, France or England have veto rights, this so-called Security Council remains ineffective. The USA vetoed the Iraq war, Russia took care of the war in Ukraine...

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

    the Lingen fuel element factory was approved. They come from the Russian company Rosatom. LINGEN/HAMBURG epd | According to opponents of nuclear power, German authorities have approved 40 more uranium shipments from Russia to the fuel element factory in Lingen, Emsland. The first of these deliveries had already arrived last week, the anti-nuclear organization “broadcast” and that...

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

    could have... * Ukraine | Uranium ammunition | United States Ukraine escalation: After cluster bombs, now also uranium ammunition from the USA Washington wants to deliver projectiles with depleted uranium. Russia threatens to respond with the same ammunition. Why DU bullets, cluster bombs and landmines continue to contaminate the war. According to Reuters, the US government under President Joe Biden will...

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

    extended for three months. “It is both unbearable and unusual that a journalist from one EU member state has been imprisoned in another EU member state for a year and a half” as an alleged Russian spy, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) just tweeted. The Spanish section of the NGO highlights the case of the Basque Pablo González, who has been imprisoned for 18 months in a Polish...

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

    there must be an end to the hostilities. The debate over the delivery of "Taurus" cruise missiles to Ukraine is heating up, while at the same time Kiev is apparently increasingly attacking targets in Russia. According to media reports, from the point of view of the USA and the Chancellor, attacks with Western weapons on the Russian core area would "carry the danger that NATO will be involved in the conflict...

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

    The uranium supply of France and the EU as a whole is very dependent on politically unstable and autocratically ruled countries, such as Niger, Kazakhstan or even belligerent Russia. There can therefore be no question of a permanently secure uranium supply - for geopolitical reasons alone. In this context, it is significant that the fuel elements for...

  19. Newsletter XXXII 2023 - August 6th to 12th - News+ Hiroshima - The asphalt will burn. Chaos will reign

    contributed more to Japan's surrender than the atomic bomb. August 8 Niger | Uranium Orano | Islamists Terror, uranium and migration - why the West is so interested in Niger The fact that Russia could benefit from the coup gives the matter geopolitical weight. But even without Moscow's influence, Niger is central to many things in the Sahel Niamey - The cities...

  20. Reactor failure THTR - problems

    The other pig replies: “Oh, you always with your conspiracy theories!” * Anyone who speaks the truth is accused of lying and insulted by the horror clowns. Information War | In Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, the reigning rulers have successfully made the topic of Chernobyl a taboo. Stories about the place and the events are no longer told and...