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

    (since the “medicine” was administered more gently and the economies were much more stable). But there was also a gradual socio-economic decline in the form of growing inequality, the spread of poverty, stagnating to falling real wages and the dismantling of the welfare state. In fact, life expectancy in the US is now higher than at any time in the last hundred years...

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

    which Corona protesters fall into. Together with these numbers, the total number of wanted people from the right-wing spectrum increases “again drastically,” said Renner. * Assets | Inequality | Justice Global Billionaire Tax Taxes the Super Rich! High inequality corrodes democracy. It is time for the international community to declare war on it – with...

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

    what is right; On the other hand, you try to "evade the laws of the state" that don't suit you and consider "every escape to be a gain." Oh, what does “at the end” mean? We're already there. * Inequality | Income | Wealth tax Billionaires pay more in Switzerland: Germany spares the super-rich The middle class pays more taxes in Germany and Austria than billionaires and...

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

    was the fight against corruption. In a country like Russia, where corruption forms the basis of authoritarian rule over a society with extreme concentration of wealth and social inequality, he raised not only the question of power, but in some ways also the question of sociality. His exposé videos about the grotesque wealth of political rulers reached a...

  5. 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

    are the super-rich actually coming under the radar of climate activists? Sighard Neckel: That depends on the available data. In the last decade, a special variant of inequality research has emerged, called climate inequality research. In detailed studies, it has shown how different the proportion of different income classes in...

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

    with his politics in the background. Trump can score points with vague and implausible substantive promises while the Democrats work on his person... * Inequality | Justice | Climate protection climatologist: "The business model of fossil companies is based on killing people" Our economy and our society are based on the exploitation of people...

  7. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    THTR 300 The THTR newsletters Studies on THTR and much more. THTR breakdown list The HTR research The THTR accident in the 'Spiegel' THTR circular No. 156, December 2023: *** 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 XNUMX Contents : “Green” hydrogen: colonial energy? - No thanks! China: HTR future in the stars? South Africa – on the way to...

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

    According to some researchers, this could have been triggered by a climate-related drought. Of course, peace and conflict research knows many causes of conflict such as poverty, inequality or nationalism, and the conflict dynamics in civil war regions are sometimes so complex that it is difficult to differentiate between individual triggers and causes. Droughts seem...

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

    found an increased risk of autism spectrum disorder in children if their mothers were exposed to glyphosate during pregnancy or they themselves were exposed to glyphosate in the first year of life... * Inequality | Stability | Wealth "We cannot allow extreme wealth to ruin our shared future." Millionaires, politicians and economists have called on G20 countries to...

  10. Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson

    History of Humanity Chomsky says: Nuclear risks have been amplified by US triumphalism. The climate crisis in particular requires cooperation with China. And what does neoliberal inequality have to do with the rise of the right? Part 1 We live in a world facing existential threats as extreme inequality tears our societies apart...

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

    Newsletter XXVI 2023 June 25th to July 1st *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 News+ Background knowledge Nuclear Power Accidents This PDF file contains a non-exhaustive list of known incidents and releases of radioactivity. . Excerpt for this month: June 04th, 2008 (INES 0 class?) Krsko nuclear power plant, SVN June 06th, 2008 (INES 1) nuclear power plant...

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

    founded, the Greens blocked the disclosure of the NSU files, an FDP member was elected Prime Minister in Thuringia with AfD votes. And all parties are responsible for the growing social inequality... * Brazil's indigenous population Supreme Court decides Indigenous rights in Brazil under attack So that the agroindustry can more easily use their cultivated land...

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

    Finally, there are also conspiracy myths – about Jews who ruled the world. This resulted in the Second World War and the Holocaust... * Climate balance | rich people | Pigeon chess Climate social inequality How rich people justify their inaction Rich people have a particularly bad climate footprint. But there is hardly any awareness of the problem, shows a British study and recommends...

  14. Newsletter XVII 2023 - April 23rd to 29th - News+ Faulty SPD, self-deception at 1,5 degrees and war as a climate destroyer

    Newsletter Some of this information was only made public under the most difficult conditions. As new information emerges, this...

  15. Newsletter XII 2023 - March 19th to 25th - News+ The poison of doubt is the sugar for the bastard

    The richest percent consumes almost 35 times as much as the poorest. This information is based on data from the World Inequality Labs, which the taz evaluated for Germany. Because this inequality is a global problem, models are being developed around the world on how to make the rich pay for climate-damaging behavior. Here we present three models and an author of the...

  16. Newsletter VIII 2023 - February 19th to 25th - News+ Mönch von Lützerath: Sympathetic figures of the climate movement

    Medium. This money doesn't come out of nowhere, which means it has to be saved elsewhere. We already have significant social inequalities and distortions in Germany and beyond. Apparently there is no money to counteract this. It is similar with climate protection. If, like this federal government, you want to comply with the debt brake at the same time, you have to...

  17. Newsletter LI 2022 - December 20th to 25th - News+ One UN for all

    truly an irresponsible reaction. I believe in the potential of the power of active civil society - here and worldwide. The urgency to address mega-crises such as climate change or inequality of life chances and the fear of the possible use of nuclear weapons in crisis situations will bring us, civil society, and many governments together to...

  18. Newsletter XL 2022 - October 09th to 15th - News+ In the hyperloop of excitement

    for more civil disobedience to make it clear how deep we are in "shit"... * Climate crisis | Greenhouse gas The largest emitter is spared The growing social inequality in the world is partly responsible for the climate crisis. But politicians have so far remained inactive. Researchers now want to change that and are proposing progressive carbon taxation. Survey...

  19. Newsletter XXIX 2022 - July 17th to 24th - News+ Government in the climate crisis

    “Masters of humanity” who control the economy are architects of a policy that guarantees enormous profits for the powerful, but brings wars, economic decline, inequality and climate collapse to the world. Chomsky shows how to stop upward redistribution and bring the fossil fuel industry under control. It's more than a...

  20. Newsletter XIX 2022 - May 05th to 12th - News+ The economic consequences of the Ukraine war

    Newsletter and military nuclear industry. Some of this information only reached the public in a roundabout way... Excerpt...

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