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

    Polizei sorgten in der Vergangenheit Brandstiftungen und Farbattacken auf neu gebaute Häuser für Schlagzeilen. Die Polizei rechnet diese Taten dem linksextremen Spektrum zu. In Connewitz gibt es Debatten um Mietsteigerungen und Verdrängung. * Jahresbericht | Amnesty International | Doppelstandards Jahresbericht von Amnesty International: Amnesty kritisiert Doppelstandards...

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

    dieser Onshore-Flügel landen in Cuxhaven an. Die Mengen und die Rotorblätter selbst sind deutlich größer geworden und der Hafenausbau nicht hinterhergekommen. [...] Derzeit wird auch eine große Debatte über fairen Wettbewerb mit China geführt. Die EU ermittelt in den Bereichen E-Autos, Solarindustrie, schaut sich aber auch chinesische Windturbinenbauer an. Es stehen Strafzölle und...

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

    Kind. Der israelische Heimatschutz hat vorerst Entwarnung gegeben: Die Einwohner Israels müssen sich nun nicht mehr in der Nähe von Schutzräumen aufhalten. * Erneuerbare | Stromversorgung | Atomdebatte Ein Jahr ohne Atomstrom: Und Deutschland gibt es immer noch Die düsteren Prognosen für Deutschland nach Abschalten der letzten AKWs haben sich nicht bewahrheitet. Das Thema kann endgültig ad acta...

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

    | Speed ​​limit | Transport Minister “With a speed limit of 100, we could achieve the climate goals this year” An ongoing issue, but no solution: This is how Transport Minister Volker Wissing assesses the debate about the speed limit. It is not effective due to a lack of acceptance among the population. Now a scientist contradicts him. Politicians and experts have been discussing a speed limit for years...

  5. Newsletter

    As old-fashioned as it sounds, the word remains our most important weapon. Reintroduce conscription, abolish the civil clause, endless rearmament: all signs point to war. How can a debate about peace be brought back into the public eye? Good question. Only if people are aware of the danger that threatens us and if they recognize the causes for it. But that's the case with...

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

    Ukraine is currently unable to stop the Russian army. In the interview, recorded last month, Francis was asked for his opinion on the ongoing debate. Should Ukraine give up or would this legitimize the attackers' actions? The interviewer used the term "white flag" in the question. [...] "Don't be ashamed to negotiate before...

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

    4800 kilometers of new lines, an estimated 76 billion euros in additional costs: the Federal Network Agency has presented its new plan to expand the electricity grid. As always, the paper is likely to cause debate. The Federal Network Agency has presented new plans for the expansion of the so-called transmission network. According to these, five new DC connections with a capacity of two...

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

    Criticism. [...] "It is indecent that the finance minister wants to make savings for the poorest and weakest in society," said SoVD board chairwoman Michaela Engelmeier. [...] The debate is fundamentally wrong, Engelmeier continued. “It is primarily anti-democratic actors who benefit from this.” The head of the association demanded: "Instead of financing upgrades at the expense of social benefits,...

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

    this is questioned again. France is not the only customer. In light of the death of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck has reopened the debate about an EU import ban on uranium and fuel elements from Russia. While Germany has stopped supplying Russian energy, there are "still uranium supplies from Russia or...

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

    The signatories include the trade unions IG Metall, Ver.di and GEW as well as Pro Asyl, the Berlin Medical Association and the Protestant Church. In the past few weeks there have been repeated debates about who is welcome at the demos against the AfD and right-wing extremism and who is not. An organizer of the Munich demo, for example, declared that the CSU was undesirable...

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

    became the location of the Wannsee Conference, they are diverse. I think we have all been surprised over the last ten years that at many points we have to carry out discussions, debates and educational work that we thought we had already left behind at some points. That's not the case. That is a challenge. *...

  12. 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

    Surveys are already predicting great success for the party. But the year 2024 could also be the year in which a question needs to be answered that is currently trickling into the public debate: Should the AfD be banned? Would that even be legally possible? Would it make political sense to initiate such a procedure? A party ban procedure, that's what happened in...

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

    they haven't even been born yet... * Citizen's money | Arithmetic artist Lindner | Money laundering method to compensate for inflation Lindner wants to have the calculation of citizen's money checked. In the citizen's money debate, the finance minister has long been advocating that work should always be more worthwhile than giving up a job. Now Christian Lindner has made a suggestion that should help. The...

  14. Newsletter L 2023 - December 10th to 16th - News+ The tail wags the dog and those on the right lead us by the nose ring “Back to the Future”

    The global economy is weakening and voters are making the right “Great again”. Propaganda replaces reporting and hate speech replaces democratic political debate. In the early 1920s, Mussolini came to power in Italy and after Lenin's death, Stalin took control of Russia. In the 1930s, Hitler, Franco and Mao took...

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

    People don't talk about money. However, that is exactly what should be done with regard to the federal budget. Now, due to the constitutional ruling and the “missing” 60 billion, a public debate can no longer be prevented. But the discourse is characterized by smokescreens, deceptions and distractions from what is really at stake: our money, influence and profit lobbying. A particularly...

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

    and the first reactor is scheduled to be operational in 2024, as you said. The vast majority of media in Turkey is controlled by the ruling AKP party, so there is no real debate about it. In the last 23 years, the government has never had a debate with the anti-nuclear movement. The opposition parties criticize the Akkuyu project primarily because of the expensive electricity,...

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

    prioritize over climate policy. People would rather build walls than wind turbines. Global warming is fueling a form of authoritarian populism, which could also be observed in this country in the debate about the heating law, where the AfD stirred up the mood with aggressive election posters such as “Let’s heat up the traffic lights” or “Stop the heating hammer”. To say that one has to be in the heat of interpreting...

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

    has little to do with freedom, equality and fraternity. Not everyone can be blinded. On the occasion of the almost unbearable expressions of solidarity from intellectuals who are positioned on the left in the public debate, it is said that “the left” has failed collectively. Objection: You have to be more precise about who is meant by this. The organized party left, which is in Germany...

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

    There are no so-called “hot cells” in Ahaus and this work could only be carried out in the Jülich Research Center... * Israel | Terror | Hamas | self-defense | Palestine Debate on Israel and Gaza: Against herd instinct and geopolitical platitudes Hamas is not a liberation movement. Now an open letter shows courage for clarity among German intellectuals. How to...

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

    benefit from the principle of “use instead of restrictions”... * Asylum | Migration | Immigration Arguing about migrants doesn't solve a single problem. While politics gets tangled up in populist migration debates, the real problems in Germany remain unsolved. And in the end even the AfD is happy. There is currently an astonishing political consensus in Germany: all parties...

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