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

    who lives right next to the resort. There had certainly been floods in his childhood, “but what we have experienced in recent years is completely new.” In the past, very strong cyclones raced towards the coast from the Indian Ocean and flooded the country. More than half a million people died in the great flood on the Bay of Bengal in 1970...

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

    Culture. In terms of economic policy, “Germany first” is called for. Then there is the ethnic national identity politics with being German as an identity anchor and the reinterpretation of the German past. The radicalism consists primarily in communication and mobilization with group-related misanthropy against certain marked population groups. These components are...

  3. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    From concentration camps to “green” hydrogen The Federal Republic of Germany is acting even more devastatingly in the former German colony of Namibia than in Latin America, Morocco and West Africa. A brief look into the past: The merchant Adolf Lüderitz, who was born into a wealthy Bremen family in 1834, tried to acquire land in South West Africa from 1882 onwards in order to look for mineral resources. In 1883 he graduated with...

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

    Newsletter XLVII 2023 November 19th to 25th *** 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...

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

    Newsletter XLVI 2023 November 12th to 18th *** 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...

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

    Newsletter XLV 2023 November 5th to 11th *** 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...

  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

    cleaned, reprocessed and returned to the manufacturing process. These activities are not new and comparable deliveries from ANF GmbH in Lingen to MSZ JSC have already taken place in the past. For details, please contact Framatome GmbH. MSZ JSC is a manufacturer of fuel elements, including from re-enriched uranium from reprocessing. To...

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

    of cybercrime. This was the result of joint research by SPIEGEL and the ARD political magazine “Kontraste”. The authors' trail leads to a group of men who have already attracted attention through criminal activities on the Internet in the past. Among other things, they are said to have deliberately made false emergency calls in order to trigger police or fire brigade operations... * Bavaria's Kini...

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

    Newsletter XLII 2023 October 15th to 21st *** 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...

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

    Newsletter XLI 2023 October 8th to 14th... *** 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...

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

    to fear. A new project wants to change that. Right-wing extremist chats, data misuse, sexism in the workplace, police violence: the list of scandals with which police officers have made headlines in the recent past is long. Under the domain mach-melde.org, the Society for Civil Rights (GFF) and the Alfred Landecker Foundation are launching a new project on the topic...

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

    Newsletter XXXIX 2023 September 24th to 30th *** 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 list of known incidents from the various areas of civil and military nuclear power industry . Some of this information only reached the public in a roundabout way...

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

    oder die Zukunft unserer Demokratie Aiwanger und die Folgen: Eine Zukunft, vor der mir graut Geschichtsrevisionismus hat das Land fest im Griff. Von Aiwanger und Söder bis zur AfD wird die Nazivergangenheit als gar nicht so schlimm entsorgt. Der Herbst bricht langsam an, jedenfalls in Bayern, wo ich die letzte Woche war. Grauen Himmel und graue Gesichter gab es hier auf Plakaten für die...

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

    Newsletter XXXVII 2023 September 10th to 16th *** 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 list of known incidents from the various areas of civil and military Nuclear industry . Some of this information only reached the public in a roundabout way...

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

    today understood as the condition in which the number of living beings exceeds the ecological carrying capacity of their habitat. In the past, population policy arguments were regularly subject to change. At the international level, the first World Population Conference in Geneva in 1927 dealt with the issue of overpopulation. At the United Nations level...

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

    be brought back in through the window. It's just unfortunate that if there were negative consequences - such as a nuclear accident - they could affect half of Europe. In the past, things seemed to be the other way around: When the Chernobyl reactor accident occurred in April 1986 - then in the USSR, now in Ukraine - officials in France claimed that...

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

    Newsletter XXXIV 2023 August 20th to 26th *** 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 list of known incidents from the various areas of civil and military nuclear power industry . Some of this information only reached the public in a roundabout way...

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

    support the BI “No nuclear waste in Ahaus” and announce decisive protests from Jülich to Ahaus to stop the Castor transports. “Nuclear waste trips to Ahaus have been highly controversial in the past and accompanied by major protests. Nothing has changed to this day. The storage of nuclear waste in Ahaus does not provide any advantages, but it does ensure months of significant...

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

    Newsletter XXXII 2023 August 6th *** 12 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 Current+ background knowledge Nuclear Power Accidents This PDF file contains a list of known incidents from the various areas of civil and military atomic industry . Some of this information only became public in a roundabout way. As soon as...

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

    Yesterday, of course, I had time for Rheinmetall to attend the groundbreaking ceremony for a new weapons factory... Nuclear-free climate greetings SOFA Münster www.sofa-ms.de * France's colonial past and Orano's uranium mines In Niger it is also about uranium and exploitation Niger is the seventh largest uranium producer , but three quarters of its residents are not connected to a power grid. In...