1. Newsletter XVIII 2024 - News+ April 28th - Hubris of the West: Three decades of chaos and decline

    and dependent on being able to play its role as a raw material supplier and market. For over twenty years, the power system in Russia has failed to use the wealth of resources and the profits from their sale to sustainably modernize the economy in order to build international power not only on dependencies through trade and military strength. That through the...

  2. Newsletter XVII 2024 - April 21st to 27th - News+ Reform of the Climate Protection Act: One step forward, two steps back

    What can the international community do to advance decarbonization and combat climate change? How can highly indebted countries regain fiscal space to invest in poverty reduction, social services and global public goods? What does the international community need to move towards the goals for sustainable...

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

    In Germany and Austria, income from work is taxed more heavily than income from assets - i.e. dividends, capital shares from real estate and shares, and participation in company profits. Therefore, according to the study, the actual taxation of income is only up to 30 percent. This is significantly lower than the predicted maximum tax rates. What's amazing is that...

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

    Apples are more marketable," explains Greta Ott from the LTZ. However, the researchers have not yet been able to detect any differences when it comes to diseases or pest infestation. A few more years are needed to obtain more reliable information. The research has only been going on for about a year. Win- Win: Energy through photovoltaics and increasing fruit yields Hansjörg Vollmer can also make changes...

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

    out of. [...] Russia's prospects are bleak because Putin has no economic exit strategy. For the economy it doesn't matter whether he wins or loses. Even if Russia were to win the Ukraine war, which we hope won't happen, Putin would need a lot of soldiers to permanently occupy the neighboring country. At the same time, Russia would have to continue to arm itself because NATO is now also in its...

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    (around 25.000 euros at the time). The court agrees with Büyüknohutçu and he doesn't have to pay anything. About two months later, on May 9, 2017, the couple was found shot to death. “I'm not running to win. I want to show what political corruption can lead to. It was corruption that killed my parents,” says Büyüknohutçu. Public money would be invested in luxury company cars for...

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

    Waste of resources unparalleled in human history. We thought we were free of it; as well as the archaic idols of territorial space. [...] The rich profits of the arms industry The pacifist ethos of yesteryear ends on the stock market. The arms company Rheinmetall is aiming for the ten billion mark this year, and according to recent reports,...

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

    the coalition backed the line of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who has clearly rejected a delivery several times... * RWE | Renewable | Fossils | Nuclear power | Profits in the billions Profit from the energy crisis Why RWE is making profits in the billions The energy company RWE's profits last year were almost a billion euros higher than expected - also because...

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

    In recent years, the dominant discourse in Germany about anti-Semitism has become so detached from its subject, the real anti-Semitism that is prevalent, that one could get the impression that more than the alleged fight against real anti-Semitism, it is about perpetuating the intrinsic value has achieved its ideological distortion. Was it the German political...

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

    Security Conference meets. There they are talking about further help for Ukraine so that Putin cannot destroy it. [...] If Trump wins the presidential election against Joe Biden and then - as announced - fails to defend defaulting NATO partners against a possible attack by Russia, the world will completely fall apart. This isn't scaremongering, this is a...

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

    Newsletter VI 2024 February 4th to 10th *** 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 made public through official channels, so this information is only made available to the public in a roundabout way...

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

    War started by Britain, France and Israel to overthrow the then Egyptian government and regain control of the Egyptian-nationalized Suez Canal. Eisenhower forced his allies to stop this brazen and illegal attack, including through a U.S.-sponsored United Nations General Assembly resolution....

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

    Communists are categorized as “collectivists”. For him, these are all those who attribute important functions to the state. With such an attitude you can win elections against an unpopular government, as Milei demonstrated impressively. But winning majorities in Congress like this would be very difficult. And with only 38 MPs for his Libertad Avanza (Freedom advances...

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

    These questions asked the Venezuelan people to reaffirm their country's sovereignty over Essequibo. “Today,” said Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, “there are no winners or losers.” The only winner is Venezuela's sovereignty. The main loser, according to Maduro, is ExxonMobil. In 2022, ExxonMobil made a profit of $55,7 billion and...

  15. 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

    is not for you and will not save your future. It is a party that is only interested in exploiting polarizations in the population for its own purposes and gaining more supporters. One thing should have been clear since the farmers' protests began: the AfD wants to deceive you. In December 2023, she voted in the Bundestag, together with the traffic light parties, for an abolition...

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

    | Subsidies | Peasants' Revolt | Peasant uprising of the farmers: Are the protests fundamentally justified? Agricultural diesel subsidies are gradually being phased out. Large companies continue to make profits. Things are different for small farms. Coercion, breach of the peace, damage to property, interference with road traffic - the list of offenses in the context of the farmers' protests is getting longer and longer. As Vice Chancellor...

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

    d. H. without pressure, without any kind of “structural” threats. Because the need for loud reflection is not primarily about winning others over to one's own views, educating them or even carrying out propaganda for social changes. This view is itself an element of that identitarian label ideology that is present in every word, wherever...

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

    produced under license from BAE Systems, to Great Britain. There is a current shortage of these bullets in Ukraine... * Ukraine | soldiers | Conscription Kiev wants to recruit more soldiers: Bushman: Don't force Ukrainians to the front Ukraine needs more soldiers. Justice Minister Buschmann does not want to force Ukrainians living here to do military service. From the Union comes a...

  19. 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”

    (a16z) and Lux ​​Capital among today's rising stars in the defense sector, including Anduril, Hadrian and Rebellion Defense. VCs not only achieve high investment returns, but also gain increasing influence on US foreign policy... December 14th South Africa | Coal phase-out | KfW with 500 million euros: Germany supports Africa with renewable energy and...

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

    published independent “World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2023” shows. Renewable energies are far behind nuclear power in terms of expansion... * Climate change | Oil companies | Record profits Naomi Oreskes: "They won't go down without a fight" The oil companies foresaw climate change five decades ago. Science historian Naomi Oreskes has researched what...

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