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

    zu den Budgets der anderen Ministerien in den letzten Jahren am stärksten aufgestockt, von 38,5 auf jetzt 51,95 Milliarden Euro. Dazu kommen noch 20 Milliarden aus dem Sondervermögen für die Bundeswehr für 2024. Also insgesamt werden für Verteidigung 72 Milliarden ausgegeben. Das ist eine Steigerung von fast 90 Prozent in nur fünf Jahren. In den USA ist man beim Pentagon- und Sicherheitsbudget...

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

    Kriegstüchtigkeit besteht offenbar vor allem in der Förderung der Profite von US-Rüstungsunternehmen durch Aufträge europäischer Verbündeter. Der Militärhistoriker Sönke Neitzel prophezeite der Bundeswehr mit ihrer Stationierung an der russischen Grenze aufgrund ihrer fehlenden Kampfdrohnenabwehr, dass »sie dort nur mit Anstand sterben könne«, sollte es zu einem bewaffneten Konflikt kommen....

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

    und Verteidigungsindustrie". Es bedürfe einer "industriepolitischen Agenda", um "Deutschland, seine Industrie und die dortigen Arbeitsplätze sowie die Fähigkeiten und Souveränität der Bundeswehr zu stärken". Jürgen Kerner, Zweiter Vorsitzender der IG Metall, betonte in diesem Zusammenhang, 2024 sei "das Jahr der Entscheidung für die wehrtechnische Industrie in Deutschland". Gegen Aufrüstung und...

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    Gase, Waldbrand, Ölteppich * Die Suchmaschine Ecosia pflanzt Bäume! https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=Finanzierung militärisch-industrieller Komplex * analyse und kritik Sondervermögen der Bundeswehr: Entsteht ein militärisch-industrieller Komplex? Ein Sondervermögen von 100 Milliarden Euro soll den Haushalt der Bundeswehr in den nächsten fünf Jahren zusätzlich aufstocken. Unter Einbeziehung der...

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

    von ägyptischem Boden aus bewaffneten Widerstand gegen Israel leisten – aus Sicht Kairos ein Albtraum-Szenario... * Propaganda | Marschflugkörper | TAURUS Super-GAU für Super-TAURUS Die Bundeswehr nimmt Politik und das ganze Land in Geiselhaft mit ihren War Games. Der Bundeskanzler ist in diesem Falle nicht das Sicherheitsrisiko. „Russische Propaganda-Kanäle haben eine Aufzeichnung einer...

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

    Who has ever been in control during a war? Does AI improve quality of life? Man-made wars are better? So many implications, I can't wait for part 2. * Poland | Bundeswehr | Lithuania To protect the NATO area How Poland is recruiting Bundeswehr soldiers - and how the Bundestag is reacting Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski is announcing the stationing of more...

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

    slow. * Arithmetic artist Lindner wants to freeze social benefits Moratorium on social benefits Criticism from the SPD and the Greens of Lindner's proposal to freeze social spending in order to have more money for the Bundeswehr - this proposal from Finance Minister and FDP leader Lindner met with sharp criticism from the coalition partners SPD and Greens. Social groups call the idea “indecent.” The...

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

    The commitments for grants and loans for cycle paths and buses in Peru, for example, date from 2020. They were given by Schulze's predecessor: Gerd Müller - like Huber from the CSU.... * Bundeswehr | NATO | Military exercise war games in Europe: How the Bundeswehr is preparing for a possible attack on Russia The Quadriga maneuver is about the rapid transfer of troops to the Russian border....

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

    which is so low that he is even allowed to continue owning weapons. [...] The network in which men and a few women arm themselves and prepare for “Day X” extends from the Bundeswehr and police to secret services and other authorities. It was initiated by André S. alias “Hannibal”, at the time a soldier in the Special Forces Command (KSK) of the Bundeswehr, an elite unit....

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

    and the FDP would not have wanted to know anything about it, even though the reduction of environmentally harmful financial aid and tax breaks even made it into the coalition agreement as a common goal... * Bundeswehr | Federal Audit Office | Armament spending “The Bundeswehr is purchasing machine guns that it cannot use” In the middle of the budget debate, the Federal Audit Office is severely criticizing the...

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

    They would have hoped that the Greens' participation would really make a difference, the letter says. “Then came the decision on Lützerath, came the 100 billion for the Bundeswehr, came GEAS. There was a basic child benefit that will effectively not help any child out of poverty, and a federal budget that wanted to make savings, especially for young people. It was too complicated, too...

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

    Defense spending in the tens of billions 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 meet NATO's two percent target for the first time next year...

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

    out. 18 newer Leopard 2A6 main battle tanks were delivered in March, which, among other things, are better protected against mines. For this purpose, 18 new Leopard 2A8 main battle tanks will be purchased for the Bundeswehr. Poland and Portugal also sold off slightly older Leopard 2s. As is often the case, Ukraine serves as a combat zone for the scrapping of older weapons caused by the war, which the governments at the same time...

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

    Years 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 ​​the factory corresponds...

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

    in the state of Lower Saxony, in the immediate vicinity of two large NATO military training areas called Munster and Bergen. [...] For decades, the German Ministry of Defense has said that the Bundeswehr does not have any uranium ammunition. But “Der Spiegel” revealed something different in January 2001: “The Bundeswehr also had uranium ammunition,” was the headline in the news magazine at the time. The secrecy went...

  16. Newsletter XXVII 2023 - July 2nd to 8th - News+ Is nuclear power experiencing a renaissance? There are also military interests behind it

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research). The first minister was Franz-Josef Strauß (CSU), who - like Chancellor Konrad Adenauer - considered building an atomic bomb to arm the Bundeswehr. Both distrusted the American security guarantee for Germany. When Adenauer trivialized the atomic bomb as a “further development of artillery,”...

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

    The President of the EU Commission explains this step in order to take precautions together. The "air combat system of the future", which is intended to replace the Tornado fighter jets and the breakdown-prone Eurofighter of the Bundeswehr as well as the Rafale aircraft of the French Air Force, is expected to provide even more military security from 2040. The package is also worth 100 billion euros...

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

    Decade, but as quickly as possible." Germany is moving in the right direction and has decided to buy fifth-generation fighter jets and helicopters... * Bundeswehr | Corruption | Franz Josef Strauß With the pale aftertaste of corruption Since its founding, it has been performing The Bundeswehr had major mishaps in procurement. Two scandals occurred in the...

  19. Newsletter XIV 2023 - April 2-8 - News+ Wars and School Massacres: The Cancer of Dehumanization

    Year brought influx: Thousands of people demonstrated across the country for peace between Moscow and Kiev, an end to arms aid for Ukraine and a renunciation of arming the Bundeswehr. Probably the largest Easter march with up to 2000 peace activists took place in Berlin. The organizers there warned of an escalation of the war in Ukraine. Germany shares some of the blame for this -...

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

    since the Russian attack on Ukraine. Back then, Chancellor Olaf Scholz proclaimed a turning point: What does that mean for the German arms industry and the Bundeswehr since then? A conversation with the disarmament expert Alexander Lurz from Greenpeace Germany.. Friday: Mr. Lurz, you are an expert in disarmament. But since the so-called turning point...

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