1. Newsletter X 2024 - March 3rd to 9th - News+ More courage would be good

    Erstens: Wenn der Staat in die Aktienmärkte drängt, werden die Papiere automatisch teurer. Davon profitieren die Reichen, die diese Aktien besitzen. Es ist also ein Subventionsprogramm für Wohlhabende, was erklärt, warum sich die FDP so vehement für diesen Plan eingesetzt hat. Zweitens: Die Rentner hingegen profitieren fast gar nicht von diesem Aktienfonds. Denn das Geld soll ja in die Aktien...

  2. 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

    predominantly from the party that has so far been unable to appoint a chancellor: the Greens. Where does the rejection come from? Where is it particularly strong? The Greens are not innocent of their image as supposedly wealthy moralizers, says social scientist Silke Borgstedt in ntv's "Climate Laboratory". Added to this is the perceived change from uncomfortable eco-friendly to hip...

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

    were taught otherwise... * Climate protection | AfD | CDU | Thinking anti-fascism climate protection and anti-fascism together Climate protection measures hit people with low incomes harder than those who are wealthier. Nevertheless, support for the AfD is growing, even though the party's economic policies would primarily benefit higher earners. It's not exactly a surprise and the topic is...

  4. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    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 concluded with the traditional leader of...

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

    It's still a former colony: "German Southwest", today Namibia. What was it like back then and what will it possibly be like tomorrow? Are there similarities or certain parallels? The major merchant Adolf Lüderitz, who was born into a wealthy Bremen family in 1834, initially had little luck in increasing his wealth in the slave-owning southern states of the USA. In neighboring Mexico...

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

    reported, the referendum is "the culmination of a groundbreaking proposal made nearly two decades ago when Rafael Correa, Ecuador's then-president, tried to convince wealthy nations to pay his country to open the same Yasuní oil field He asked for $3,6 billion, half the estimated value of the...

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

    the research team. * Taxpayers, tax dollars and tax evaders How the rich can evade $XNUMX trillion Alarming study by the Tax Justice Network. Tax fraud by wealthy people and corporations continues unchecked. It would be easy to change that. Countries worldwide could lose almost five trillion US dollars in tax revenue over the next ten years because...

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

    would be expected? No, is the result of the Leeds study. Neither the interviews nor the discussion groups with a total of 30 people reveal the hope that the wealthy would come to their own accord and make less use of their privileges. Nobody made a connection with climate change. Although the respondents are well aware that they...

  9. Newsletter XVIII 2023 - April 30 to May 6 - News+ Everything green? Energy Colonialism through Hydrogen Cooperation

    Report "Investing in climate chaos" by the environmental organizations Urgewald, Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) and Andy Gheorghiu Consulting is based... May 5th Climate crisis | Society | Wealthy “After me the flood, I have no children”: Millionaire outraged on ZDF with climate statement What role do rich people play against the background of the climate crisis? In the ZDF talk, a millionaire met a...

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

    For the general public, the seizure of land by corporations and foreign rich people is particularly problematic because it means that money flows from economically weak rural regions into metropolises and wealthy areas. Profits that are generated in Saxony-Anhalt, for example, ultimately end up in Starnberg, Hamburg or Leipzig. These profits are often based largely on...

  11. Newsletter V 2023 - January 29 to February 4 - News+ Je suis mud monk

    Already under Prussian rule it was shown what the police were primarily installed for: to harass workers and the poor through sanctions and regulations and to protect the private property of wealthy people. And yet the majority of the population still considers the police to be the most trustworthy institution in the Federal Republic because they are apparently privileged or adapted enough...

  12. Newsletter XLIV 2022 - November 01st to 07th - News+ Do not fear progress and technology, fear capitalism

    for adaptation to extreme weather, but rather compensation, is officially on the agenda for the first time at the UN climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. So far, wealthier industrialized and emerging countries have refused to compensate for damage and losses caused by extreme weather events such as floods and droughts. Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) is here...

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

    keep up. There you wait in vain for delivery at the LNG terminals. The astronomical prices also have consequences in this country: the steeply rising energy costs are forcing the less well-off to self-ration through thrift... * Climate policy | Protest action | Environmental associations Environmental movement on protest course Climate policy from the "pre-war period" is no longer enough In the environmental...

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

    Still, the war will take a huge economic toll, not only on Ukraine but also on desperate poor people living thousands of miles away. The wealthier countries will also feel the negative effects of the war, but will be able to cope with them better... *** Top of page Current information + background information *** Background information **...

  15. THTR Circular No. 130 March 2010

    Double megawatts. The reasons are the entry into energy-intensive industrial sectors such as chemicals and aluminum production as well as strong population growth. The lavish lifestyle of the wealthy residents, for whom air conditioning or their own pool are a given, also contributes to this. So far, the Emirates have met their growing electricity needs primarily with new gas power plants...

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