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

    die alten Kraftwerke. Im Namen eines aufgemöbelten Fortschritts konsumieren wir fröhlich weiter und zehren – in Reichweite von Krieg und Umweltkatastrophen – von der wohltätigen Illusion der Freiheit. Und strapazieren den Planeten wie gehabt mit an Sturheit grenzendem Zivilisationsoptimismus. Bis an sein absehbares Ultimo. Fossile Brennstoffe, Eisen und Stahl, die herkömmliche Elektrizität -...

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

    sarcastically congratulated on the election victory. "I would like to congratulate Vladimir Putin on his landslide victory in the elections that start today," the Belgian wrote on X. "No opposition. No freedom. No choice," he added mockingly. The voting started this morning and will last until Sunday. Kremlin leader Putin competes with three insignificant candidates in the mock vote as...

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

    [...] It is the second time in the history of the EU Parliament that lobbyists have been denied access. The first case involved representatives of the chemical company Monsanto in 2017. * Poland | Freedom of the press | Solitary confinement Journalist Pablo González: Two years in Polish custody without charges The situation of Pablo...

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

    another purpose: the Liberals and the Union want to implement tax cuts for companies. FDP Finance Minister Christian Lindner would like to completely abolish the solidarity... * Media | Freedom of the press | State power Press freedom threatened: For or against power? Wikileaks, FragDenStaat, Correctiv: The state is closing in on freedom. But those who are supposed to defend them often promote...

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

    The West is hypocritical and politically exploited. Chancellor Scholz announced via X: “The death of Alexei Navalny depresses me deeply. He campaigned for democracy and freedom in Russia and apparently paid for his courage with his life. The terrible news shows once again how Russia has changed and what kind of regime governs in Moscow.” Foreign Minister...

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

    "Biblis is initially located in a low-altitude training zone and is often directly overflown by fighter jets." Biblis-C and -D were abandoned because of the protests... February 7th Freedom of the press | Assange | War crimes Wallraff stands up for Assange - death in installments Investigative journalist Günter Wallraff calls for Assange's immediate release before the EU Parliament in Strasbourg. On the 20th and...

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

    Supporter. It is scheduled to be handed over on Thursday. According to the Basic Law, fundamental rights can be forfeited if, for example, a person abuses their right to freedom of expression to fight against the free democratic basic order. The petition was started a good two months ago and after the Potsdam meeting of radical right activists and extremists became known...

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

    Winning elections is something Milei has demonstrated impressively. But winning majorities in Congress like this would be very difficult. And with only 38 representatives for his Libertad Avanza (Freedom Advances) in a 257-seat Chamber of Deputies and seven seats in a 72-seat Senate, Milei is in desperate need of support. This is not the case anywhere at the moment...

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

    Davis, who as a Tory is most likely to be heard in government circles. “Everyone, regardless of color, politics, origin or religion, deserves a fair trial, fair justice, not arbitrary deprivation of liberty,” he begins with a remark about his former work for prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. [...] Davis ended his speech with a quote from the well-known British high judge...

  10. 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

    yourself, but 86 percent from abroad... * WiP When voting changes something... For two weeks (end of December 2023 to beginning of January 2024), Google News pushed me articles from "Junge Freiheit", "Bild" and others almost every day even though I had opted out of these news sources years ago. So I consistently marked each and every one of these articles with "Hide all messages from...."...

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

    is actually unconstitutional. The Basic Law states the prerequisites for this: "Parties which, based on their goals or the behavior of their supporters, aim to impair or eliminate the free democratic basic order or endanger the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany are unconstitutional," says Article 21 , paragraph 2... * At...

  12. 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”

    dangerous for the Palestinians, who deserve the chance to build a better future, free from Hamas." [...] Pakistani Ambassador Munir Akram said that if you deny people freedom and dignity, humiliate them and put them in an open-air prison "where you kill them as if they were beasts - then they get very angry and do this to others, what was done to them"... *...

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

    coined: "As soon as the economy is discussed, the authoritarian state completely renounces its authority, and its supposedly conservative spokesmen only know the slogan: Freedom of the economy from the state." , large industrialists and large farmers, but rather an authoritarian dismantling of social policy." The...

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

    in Thuringia sparked outrage. The Thuringian Left co-chair Ulrike Grosse-Röthig spoke of an “attack on our democracy and the constitutional right to freedom of the press.” The state press conference wrote on X: “Freedom of the press is not negotiable. Anyone who sees it differently is endangering democracy.” Insults, punches and screws in the tire...

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

    held. We call on the British and Russian governments to release the journalists immediately. A lot has already been said about Julian Assange. For many, he is considered a freedom hero who spread uncomfortable truths with his revelation platform WikiLeaks at the beginning of the decade and changed journalism forever. For others he is the hacker crook who...

  16. 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

    improve. In addition, gaps in criminal liability in German law should be closed. According to the draft law, this concerns victims whose rights to physical integrity, freedom, religious, sexual or reproductive self-determination or undisturbed physical and mental development were violated in childhood. Victims or relatives of those killed should in future...

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

    Half of the century will be more than three degrees higher than before the start of industrialization... October 22 Israel | Palestine | Dissenters | Hamas Open Letter from Jewish Intellectuals: The Freedom of Those Who Think Differently Over 100 Jewish artists, writers and scientists based in Germany sign this open letter. They appeal for...

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

    Footnote. You have to assume that whoever speaks like that really thinks that way. And the future suggests that the sources of such stupidity will not dry up, but will increase. Without freedom, fairness and education, fascism remains a companion and permanent threat to political modernity. And between today's events and those in Europe a hundred years ago...

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

    right-wing extremist tendencies, against hatred and incitement. But then the meeting becomes more and more a celebration of democracy. People laugh and clap and dance. [...] Maxi Schafroth: Anyone who does not value freedom in democracy, who finds it too colorful, should please leave and make room for those who are new and "want to participate in freedom". Tens of thousands applaud. * 5....

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

    was, as the last generation tried to explain, part of the “turning point”. Hundreds of people came to Berlin to initiate this. Attacking the symbol of freedom in this way seemed almost unimaginable - just like attacks on unique works of art. On Friday the group announced: “Yes, we are interrupting the Berlin Marathon. Before the...

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