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

    instead of "agitation". The other demonstration (approx. 400 participants) was driven directly in front of the church by its registrant, the Gera right-wing extremist Christian Klar... * FDP and lobbyists against reusable EU packaging regulation: 189 kilos of plastic waste The EU wants Set quotas for recycled plastic and specifications for reusable offers. It is unclear whether the FDP will torpedo this...

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

    However, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea also possess nuclear weapons, although Israel does not admit it, and are therefore not a member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty... February 27 EU Parliament | Lobbyists' ID cards are blocked: EU Parliament denies Amazon lobbyists access The EU Parliament draws conclusions: After Amazon representatives did not appear in the...

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

    Newsletter VIII 2024 February 18th to 24th *** 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 released through official channels, so this information is only available to the public on...

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

    Development, Monika Schnitzer, the German Press Agency. If the debt brake is left as it is, the debt ratio will fall much more than necessary in the next few decades... * Lobbyists | Corruption | Transparency “There are some open flanks”: Germany is stagnating in the corruption index. When democratic structures and an independent judiciary are missing, corruption flourishes. Germany...

  5. 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

    The war in Ukraine will not be cut, but spending on the country's own population will... * Lobby register | Banks ahead of energy and cars Study on interest groups: “45 lobbyists for every member of the Bundestag” With 43 million euros, the financial industry has more money at its disposal than any other interest group in Berlin, says a study by the initiative...

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

    However, the CDU chairman Merz, CSU boss Söder and the FDP parliamentary group leader Dürr have repeatedly spoken out in favor of building new nuclear power plants. IMHO the nuclear lobbyists Dürr, Merzthutjanix and also the flag in the wind Kini Jödler cannot claim ignorance. They know exactly what they are doing... * India builds reprocessing plant in Kalpakkam Indian...

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

    should be allowed to apply for more. “It appeals to people who want an alternative but actually prefer not to vote for the AfD,” says Ralph Ghadban... * Climate conference | Lobbyists | 1,5 degrees | COP28 Anything is still possible for the climate The climate conference in Dubai is teeming with lobbyists from the oil and gas industry. This shows that for them - and the climate - it is...

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

    become. However, greenwashing actors have long been present at international climate conferences. As data from the non-governmental organization Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) shows, lobbyists for the large fossil fuel companies have often had access to the UN climate negotiations over the past 20 years. In at least 7.200 cases, representatives of corporations and their lobby associations...

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

    Compare with the size of the economy. [...] The defense industry spends even more on lobbying than on campaign contributions, employing a total of over 800 registered lobbyists - more than one for every member of Congress. Most of these lobbyists have come through the revolving door of high-level positions in Congress or the Pentagon, and they use their connections to...

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

    the financier to make. In such cases, lobbying is a form of corruption. The term lobbying therefore often has a negative connotation, so that the respective interest representatives (lobbyists) rarely appear under this term, but instead use euphemistic terms such as consultant, public affairs manager or policy advisor... Back to: Newsletter XLII 2023...

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

    above the average value from 1991 to 2000. This means that June 2023 was a total of 1,46 degrees warmer than an average June before the start of industrialization... * SPD | profit | Lobbyists "The SPD primarily made politics for the top 10 percent" A few years ago, Marco Bülow was seen as the SPD's hope - as the face of a social democracy that does not...

  12. Reactor failure THTR - problems

    of the operating companies As eloquently as the THTR operating company HKG remained silent in May 1986, their company spokesmen and lobbyists babbled as openly, meaninglessly and incessantly in the months and years that followed. They tried to downplay the problems and obscure the public's view of the facts with huge clouds of words. Likewise in 2007 the head of Vattenfall...

  13. Newsletter XXVI 2023 - June 25 to July 1 - News+ Two tips on how we can further strengthen the far-right AfD

    »Criticism of interventionism. Studies on contemporary economic policy and economic ideology« The more politically influential Koch Industries became, the more it emphasized that its lobbyists were pursuing an exclusively ideological mission. Koch's lobbyists and public relations teams said their goal was not to increase Koch Industries' profits, but only to...

  14. Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South

    founded on the bloody soil of colonial exploitation. It is therefore more than appropriate to critically question these ideals, our previous thinking and actions... * Lobbyists in the energy industry have prevented climate protection Who is preventing climate protection in the CDU/CSU: hardliners, defectors, lobbyists When Union politicians are thwarting climate protection, ...

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

    under the patronage of the United Nations, at least with a minimal compromise. For almost a week, around a thousand delegates from 175 countries argued with numerous lobbyists and NGOs in Paris. The agreed so-called zero draft for the global agreement will be prepared by the international secretariat of the conference under the chairmanship of the Peruvian Gustavo Medra-Cuadra for the next...

  16. Newsletter XVI 2023 - April 16th to 22nd - News+ Poisons for eternity - Uranium and its radioactive relatives

    can be invested to combat climate change. Financial products can therefore be advertised as “sustainable”, even if they involve investments in gas or nuclear power plants... * Lobbyists | Lobby Rules | EU Parliament EU Parliament is tightening its rules for lobbyists In the future, EU representatives will not be allowed to work as lobbyists for six months after leaving parliament...

  17. Newsletter XV 2023 - April 9th ​​to 15th - News+ Traffic light climate, Switzerland as a role model and the better alternative to e-fuels

    speak a different language, says nuclear expert Mycle Schneider. However, governments and representatives in many EU countries followed an irrational nuclear myth and influential lobbyists. Climate Reporter°: Mr. Schneider, Germany, as the EU's largest economy, is finally phasing out nuclear power. Neighboring countries, on the other hand, want to build new reactors: France, the...

  18. Newsletter XI 2023 - March 12th to 18th - News+ 12 years after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima – What have we learned from it?

    Is Brussels now drying up the lobby swamp? Since the corruption scandal involving former Vice President Kaili, the European Parliament has been working on its regulations for dealing with lobbyists. It is clear that many MPs have so far ignored them without being punished for it. The EU now wants to readjust. The European Parliament is still under pressure. The...

  19. Newsletter IX 2023 - February 26 to March 4 - News+ 48 days until the last nuclear power plants in Germany are switched off

    Müller, SPD thought leader and member of the editorial board of Klimareporter°. The climate crisis also requires an absolute reduction in energy consumption. He sees ministries as the main target of lobbyists. Klimareporter°: Mr. Müller, the transparency initiative Lobbycontrol has examined the influence of the natural gas lobby in an analysis. How dangerous is the gas lobby for...

  20. Newsletter IV 2023 - January 22nd to 28th - News+ How the FDP politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann plays down her proximity to the armaments lobby

    like the tire manufacturer Continental refuse to disclose the origin of the raw material. And further research shows that the entire rubber industry has a transparency problem... * Lobbyists | Energy transition | Lützerath Lützerath – just a cog in the system of the lobbyists column “Lobbyland”. Germany's absurd energy policy. How representatives of business interests systematically...

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