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

    Newsletter Some of the events were never released through official channels, so this information is only available to the public on...

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

    Attack. The mere fact that Israel did not confirm the airstrike is enough to describe the destruction of the building in Damascus as an "allegedly Israeli" attack. Hardly anyone internationally disputes the responsibility of the Israeli armed forces and the government of the right-wing conservative Benjamin Netanyahu. In the USA, for example, both...

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

    they are equally affected by the consequences. The fight against the climate crisis is a fight for justice. Thousands of people around the world are going to court to clarify who bears what responsibility and who needs to be protected. This has already been successful nationally, for example in Germany with the Federal Constitutional Court's ruling for stricter climate targets for 2021. Swiss climate protectors...

  4. Newsletter XIV 2024 - March 31st to April 6th - News+ - It's not just Germany that is getting out

    15 lignite and hard coal power plants were welcomed on Easter Monday as a “great success for climate justice”. The shutdown of the plants “is done in the knowledge of the historical and global responsibility for achieving our climate goals,” she explained on Sunday. The phase-out of hard coal also means an end to imports from regions where hard coal mining has been...

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    * Commitment to democracy and against right-wing extremism Promotion programs for democracy How to protect civil society from enemies of the constitution The AfD could soon come into government responsibility and make good on its threat to end democracy promotion programs. This can still be prevented. Last autumn, the Thuringian regional association of the AfD presented a 5-point plan for...

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

    I have to let some German officials tell me that I am an anti-Semite because I criticize the country in which I live and, as a citizen of this country, I also have a civil responsibility to criticize this country. For example, the 50-year-old occupation regime, which violates international law and is dehumanizing, is worthy of criticism. Every decent person has to be critical...

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

    The destroyed reactors cannot be entered, and radioactive water contaminates groundwater and the Pacific Ocean. This must be kept in mind in order to be able to assess the degree of irresponsibility of the Japanese government in its decision to bring nuclear power plants that were shut down after the GAU back online despite the resistance of the population. * March 11, 1958...

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

    explicitly requested by Taurus, but failed last week... * Plutonium | Intermediate storage | Survey Survey on interim storage: Citizens support state responsibility What do people in the vicinity of the interim storage facilities for radioactive waste know and think about their radiant neighbors? To this end, the Society for Intermediate Storage (BGZ) conducted a survey...

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

    is embarrassing and short-sighted. One of the important statements with which politicians react to the threat to democracy is that of “state political responsibility”. That means: Any lack of seriousness is inappropriate here, party political tactics are out of place. In recent days, Union politicians have also often spoken of state political responsibility...

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

    wants to address the central Trump demand in a guest article for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). He is now demanding that European NATO members take greater responsibility for alliance defense in order to relieve the burden on the USA. Of course, that means spending a lot more money on armaments, which of course will then be missing in many other areas. He...

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

    Ways to Control have misrepresented several key aspects of the deep-rooted conflict between Ukraine and Russia and the resulting Russian invasion. Russia's responsibility is not in the least diminished by the West's mistakes. But an honest discussion about the latter is certainly overdue... * Public Prosecutor's Office | right-wing extremist |...

  12. Newsletter V 2024 - January 28th to February 3rd - Current news + US foreign policy: Profit over peace?

    helped to deceive the tax authorities with the stock deals. He was accused of aiding and abetting serious tax evasion. For the first time, the trial concerned the criminal liability of a tax advisor at a major law firm in the complex of cum-ex stock deals... * Debt brake | Economic policy Advisor to the federal government “Economic policy” with a push for easing the...

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

    Newsletter IV 2024 January 21nd to 27th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge The PDF file "Nuclear Power Accidents" contains a number of other incidents from various areas of the nuclear industry. 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...

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

    Kaiserslautern-Landau, says: “In recent decades, climate awareness has risen to a very high level.” There is a small group of people who deny both their own responsibility and climate change itself. However, this is probably not the majority, but an often very loud minority. “So many people are aware of what is happening, and yet...

  15. 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

    Step by step, expensive bureaucracy will also be reduced. That would only be fair,” said Lindner. The farmers' protests were triggered by cuts in aid for farmers, for which Lindner shares responsibility. However, the minister apparently does not want to offer farmers a withdrawal of the savings on agricultural diesel on Monday. The government had already completed most of its planned...

  16. Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support

    Newsletter I 2024 January 1st to 6th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current information + background knowledge The PDF file "Nuclear Power Accidents" contains a number of other incidents from various areas of the nuclear industry. 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...

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

    Newsletter LII 2023 December 24th to 31st *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge The PDF file "Nuclear Power Accidents" contains a number of other incidents from various areas of the nuclear industry. Some of the incidents were never released through official channels, so this information is only available to the public on...

  18. Newsletter LI 2023 - December 17th to 23rd - Current news + steps towards climate change, unsettled OPEC and loving politics

    What is missing are convincing financial commitments for poorer countries. So was the summit a small success for climate protection, but a failure for climate justice? We all have a responsibility to shape the transformation in a climate-friendly way - this was colorfully and audibly reminded by demonstrators in front of the congress center in Dubai and activists elsewhere. It is important that COP 28...

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

    Environmental associations are also a bitter disappointment. Wissing, whose area of ​​responsibility, the transport sector, is at the bottom when it comes to climate protection - Wissing, of all people, is being released from responsibility, summarizes the environmental protection organization Greenpeace. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) speaks of a “frontal attack on climate protection”. And the think tank Agora Transport Transition...

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

    from 2018, which the authority is still distributing. “This statement contradicts recent scientific findings,” said the association “Doctors for Social Responsibility and the Prevention of Nuclear War” (PSR/IPPNW) in an article in the “Schweizerische Ärztezeitung” last year. The authors referred to “results from more than 20 epidemiological studies...