1. Newsletter XVI 2024 - April 14th to 20th - News+ Poland: The Tusk government is also relying on nuclear energy

    has been increased the most in recent years compared to the budgets of the other ministries, from 38,5 to 51,95 billion euros. In addition, there are 20 billion from the special fund for the Bundeswehr for 2024. So a total of 72 billion will be spent on defense. That's an increase of almost 90 percent in just five years. In the USA you are at the Pentagon and...

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    February 2023 - Toxic gases, forest fire, oil slick * The search engine Ecosia is planting trees! https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=Financing the military-industrial complex * analysis and criticism of the Bundeswehr's special assets: Is a military-industrial complex emerging? A special fund of 100 billion euros is intended to additionally increase the Bundeswehr's budget over the next five years....

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

    Politics: an end to austerity and instead large-scale investments in climate protection and for social cohesion. As a first step, Fridays for Future is calling for a special fund of 100 billion euros - for the expansion of local transport and the introduction of climate money, but also for an ecological agricultural transition and for natural climate protection... * Israel | Egypt...

  4. Newsletter II 2024 - January 7th to 13th - News+ SMR: US developers of mini-nuclear power plants under pressure - class action lawsuit by shareholders against NuScale Power

    More than 3.000 tractors were on the road in Berlin.” The Farmer's Need Since the Federal Constitutional Court declared the Berlin practice of moving money between special funds to be illegal with its ruling of November 15, 2023, the Berlin traffic lights have been flashing in constant warning mode. Seventeen billion still have to be scraped together for the 2024 budget. Where to take and not to steal?...

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

    that everyone always talks about? Significantly higher defense spending in the double-digit billion range into the next decade. At least that’s what Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) promises. The special fund of 100 billion euros for the Bundeswehr is only “an important first step,” said the Chancellor on Friday at the Bundeswehr conference in Berlin. Germany will...

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

    Almost a year and a half after the start of the war in Ukraine, a German arms company is investing in a new factory for the first time in order to process an order from the Bundeswehr's 100 billion euro special fund. According to Rheinmetall, the plan is to build a “state-of-the-art factory” covering an area of ​​60.000 square meters. The construction costs are around 200 million euros. The area of...

  7. Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th - News+ Heat waves hit poor neighborhoods particularly hard

    Questions about HS 30 should be examined. The number of pieces is reduced, but the program continues. Between September 1959 and February 1962 the troops received 2176 HS 30... * Armament | Special Defense Fund: Expenditure for the Bundeswehr is on the rise German Army on a shopping spree. This is how the military and defense politicians use tricks to get more tax money. When will the population...

  8. Newsletter VI 2023 - February 5th to 11th - News+ War is peace, peace is war

    Arms factories", read: "Europe is preparing for war", read: "You have to switch to a war economy", read: "100 billion will not be enough!", read: "You need 300 billion special funds for the Bundeswehr". This is what Eva Högl, Bundestag Defense Commissioner, is demanding, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is apodictically demanding that weapons production be “ramped up”....

  9. Newsletter IV 2023 - January 22nd to 28th - News+ How the FDP politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann plays down her proximity to the armaments lobby

    Defense budget. The special package of 100 billion is not enough. Rheinmetall boss Armin Papperger has called for more money for the Bundeswehr. In his view, the special fund announced by Chancellor Scholz is not enough. “100 billion euros sounds like a huge sum, but we would actually need a 300 billion euro package to order everything we need...

  10. Newsletter XXXIX 2022 - October 01st to 08th - News+ Belgium shows problems with extending the runtimes of nuclear power plants

    of 200 billion euros is the result of the weak expansion of renewable energies. The German federal government recently decided to pay 200 billion euros from a debt-financed special fund to consumers and companies to compensate for increased energy prices. However, this will by no means reduce the energy price increases for fossil and nuclear energies...

  11. Newsletter XXXVII 2022 - September 17 to 23 - News+ Low-level ionizing radiation also poses a risk

    The activists are demanding compliance with the Paris climate goals and a consistent climate policy. In Germany, the climate and environmental organization Fridays For Future (FFF) recently called for a special fund of 100 billion euros from the federal government to address the climate crisis... * Gas ​​Crisis | homemade | Energy costs The gas crisis is homemade Opinion In winter we are threatened with...

  12. Newsletter XXIII 2022 - June 01st to 09th - News+ Noam Chomsky: From Class Struggle to Green Revolution

    Pretext for exorbitant prices The Merit Order is now being misused as a pretext for skyrocketing electricity prices for electricity customers. The federal government is called upon to put an end to this activity. * Special assets | Basic Law | Upgrade | MIK entry into the upgrade of the military-industrial complex. The Bundestag waves through “special funds” for the Bundeswehr, including a change to the Basic Law. Almost no...

  13. Newsletter XVIII 2022 - April 28th to May 04th - News+ wind vanes and pocket fillers in tireless use

    their work and the mission of the armed forces are not welcome in all educational institutions. The teachers' union GEW warns against recruiting minors. * Green base | Special assets | Bundeswehr Small Party Conference: Greens support Baerbock on the issue of arms deliveries The Foreign Minister successfully promoted the Federal Government's course in the Ukraine war. But...

  14. Newsletter XII 2022 - March 19th to 25th - News+ Collateral damage to the climate?

    General Director Rafael Grossi on Wednesday evening. But there are more fires, he emphasized. Grossi was concerned about the overall situation in Ukraine * No to war! | Upgrade | Special fund appeal against Scholz's 100 billion package: "Democratic political scandal" Celebrities publish appeal against arming the Bundeswehr. Thousands have already signed ** March 23rd...

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