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Besteuert die Superreichen! Hohe Ungleichheit zersetzt die Demokratie. Es ist an der Zeit, dass die internationale Gemeinschaft ihr den Kampf ansagt – mit einer globalen Steuer auf Milliardenvermögen. Als die Gouverneurinnen und Gouverneure der Weltbank und des Internationalen Währungsfonds vergangene Woche zu ihrer Frühjahrstagung zusammenkamen, ging es um die wirklich großen Fragen. Was kann...
verschont Superreiche Die Mittelschicht zahlt in Deutschland und Österreich mehr Steuern als Milliardäre und Multimillionäre. In der Schweiz müssen diese mehr abgeben. BERLIN taz | 73 Milliarden Euro: So viel könnte der deutsche Staat einnehmen, wenn die Vermögensteuern auf Schweizer Niveau angehoben würden. Österreich würde das Schweizer Steuerniveau etwa 5 Milliarden Euro einbringen....
Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty
müssen Millionen Suchen bei Google und zig Routen bei Google Maps verarbeitet, Videos gestreamt und Überweisungen durchgeführt werden. In Deutschland haben Rechenzentren dafür 2023 knapp 20 Milliarden Kilowattstunden (kWh) Strom verbraucht. Das ist fast doppelt so viel wie die ganze Stadt Berlin (12,5 Mrd. kWh) im Jahr benötigt, schreibt das Borderstep Institut für Innovation und Nachhaltigkeit...
Newsletter XIV 2024 - March 31st to April 6th - News+ - It's not just Germany that is getting out
Lohnabhängige. Da ist dann so ein NGO-Angestellter, der unter Lebensgefahr arbeitet, im Zweifel eben selber schuld, wenn wertewestliches Militär ihn killt. Der inzwischen über 90-jährige milliardenschwere Großinvestor Warren Buffett sagte einst zu Recht: „Es herrscht Klassenkampf und meine Klasse gewinnt.“ Darum geht es... * Vereinigte Staaten | Präsidentschaftswahl | Diktatur | Imperialismus...
about "changing the circumstances in which making the right decisions is so difficult"... * France | Duration | cracks | Lifespan | Flamanville energy policy France's nuclear billion dollar hole New construction of European pressurized water reactor in Flamanville delayed - and more expensive The completion of the French nuclear power plant (nuclear power plant) Flamanville is delayed again. Since...
Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany
At the beginning of January 2024, six of nine nuclear power plants were shut down. One nuclear disaster follows another. The future belongs to renewables. The sun sends us 15.000 times more energy than all eight billion people currently consume. The solar age begins - the sun wins. Goodbye nuclear power! The world's largest solar plant is currently being built in the United Arab Emirates... * Climate protection |...
Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD
from the Federal Environment Agency is not up to date. The authority has not yet taken the budget crisis into account. This has resulted in the federal climate and transformation fund missing 60 billion euros. When Habeck argues that the government spared key climate protection projects during the austerity measures, that is only half true. [...] After all, there is talk of enormously rising CO2 prices...
Newsletter X 2024 - March 3rd to 9th - News+ More courage would be good
The Federal Statistical Office announced that of the electricity generated in Germany in 2023 was generated from wind power. This means that electricity feed-in from wind power has reached a new high of 139,3 billion kilowatt hours. Coal remained the second most important source of electricity generation, but its share fell by almost a third to 2022 percent compared to 26,1. [...] Renewable energy...
Western Poland is also supplied, as is Berlin-Brandenburg Airport. * Investment | Power grid | Network expansion The Federal Network Agency is planning five mega routes, 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 networks. As always, the paper is likely to cause debate. The Federal Network Agency has new plans...
“Location would be in danger”. However, the numbers don't show that. In 2023, the Federal Republic recorded a whopping export surplus of 4,1 percent of economic output, which corresponds to around 200 billion euros. Germany is very successful on the world market. The whispers about “competitiveness” also have a different purpose: the Liberals and the CDU/CSU want tax cuts...
austerity measures and instead large-scale investments in climate protection and social cohesion. As a first step, Fridays for Future is calling for a special fund of 100 billion euros - for the expansion of local transport and the introduction of climate money, but also for an ecological agricultural transition and for natural climate protection... * Israel | Egypt | Palestinians |...
Roundup gave him cancer. The decision is the latest setback in the company's efforts to fend off thousands of similar lawsuits, potentially worth billions of dollars in damages. Several other appeal courts had previously come to the same conclusion in similar proceedings... * February 6, 1974 (INES 4-5) Sosnovy Bor nuclear power plant, Leningrad, USSR Wikipedia...
(free version) * United States | Defense industry | Weapons deals US arms industry Record sales made in the USA USA exports armaments for 238 billion US dollars The USA handled a record volume of armaments exports last year. The US State Department said on Monday (local time) that the total value of military goods and...
Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?
This means higher electricity bills for households in the future. Households in France will have to dig deeper into their pockets for nuclear power in the future. The state-owned nuclear company EDF has debts of almost 65 billion. One reason: Until now, he had to sell part of his nuclear power at a fixed price - previously for 42 cents per kilowatt hour, well below production costs. With this...
Between 1965 and 1970, the Livermore Lab released approximately 650.000 curies (23.700 TBq) of tritium into the air from the chimneys of the tritium facility (Building 331). Note: One curie corresponds to 37 billion radioactive decay processes per second, in Becquerels 37 GBq. After the 1965 accident, not much data is available on wind patterns, precipitation, etc., but after the 1970 accident,...
Not only economic fields but also social classes? “Fridays for Future” in particular now focuses on those who are the decision-makers in the climate crisis. Those who invest billions in oil, gas and coal do not want to fulfill customer wishes, but rather make as much money as possible. Last year, a Guardian investigative team researched that...
Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support
| Black market economic ranking of countries: The bankrupt Greeks in first place Greece's economy was named by the “Economist”. How can that be when the black market is booming and billions of taxpayers' money is being lost? What a surprise: the former bankrupt state of Greece was named the “best economy of the year” for 2023 by the British business magazine Economist...
Survive competition and win in some important market niches. The NNWI estimates that developing 150-160 GWe of SMR capacity by 2050 will require an investment of approximately US$800-900 billion globally, based on 2023 prices... Translated with https://www.DeepL .com/Translator (free version) * Japan | TEPCO | Kashiwazaki-Kariwa security breaches...
Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant construction site, as reported by the Bloomberg news agency. The French partner, the highly loss-making state-owned company EDF, could be stuck with the construction costs currently estimated at 32,7 billion pounds (37,9 billion euros). The Financial Times writes that costs are likely to continue to rise. The government in London has signaled to EDF that...
To achieve this in Ukraine, the 27 EU states must reach a consensus decision. But Hungary is standing in the way. Although the path to accession negotiations with the EU is clear for Ukraine, further billions in aid from the 27 member states have failed for the time being due to Hungary's resistance. Now Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has given his country's consent to the release of all...
