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

    endlich die Party der Rüstungskonzerne? Aktienkurse der Waffenhersteller explodieren. Kriege treiben das Rüstungsrad an. Über den fatalen, steuerfinanzierten Geldsegen – und Feigheit. Einordnung. Umfragen zeigen uns, dass viele Menschen in Europa und Amerika zunehmend besorgt sind über Kriege und militärische Eskalationen. Nach einer Erhebung in den USA haben zum Beispiel 84 Prozent der...

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

    Das bedeutet keinen Handel. Wo kämen wir denn hin, wenn es keinen Handel gäbe?", gibt Reuters die Worte eines Ökonomen vom Peterson Institute wieder. * Ampel | Vertrauen | Bertelsmann Neue Umfrage Ampel verliert besonders bei Menschen mit geringerem Einkommen Die Parteien der Ampelkoalition kämpfen mit einem massiven Vertrauensverlust. Laut einer Umfrage gilt das vor allem für Milieus der...

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

    nicht einmal eine Kandidatenliste auf. Gegenüber dem SPIEGEL verbucht Oberbürgermeister Boris Palmer diese Schwäche als seinen Erfolg. Während in Baden-Württemberg die Rechts-außen-Partei bei Umfragen zuletzt auf 16 Prozent kam, bleibt die Universitätsstadt Tübingen eine AfD-freie Insel. Für die Kommunalwahl am 9. Juni wurde nicht einmal eine Kandidatenliste aufgestellt, wie jetzt bekannt wurde....

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    Only if people are aware of the danger that threatens us and if they recognize the causes for it. But this is very difficult given the current information policy. Yet polls show that the majority of society opposes war. [...] TAURUS delivery instead of diplomacy. How do you feel about this? I was horrified two weeks ago when I watched the debate in the Bundestag about the delivery...

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

    [...] What is particularly confusing is that large parts of the population in the countries of the north want an immediate ceasefire, but their heads of government ignore their opinions. A poll shows that two-thirds of voters in the United States - including majorities of Democrats (77 percent), independents (69 percent) and Republicans (56 percent) - support...

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

    are also largely in favor. However, a Bundestag resolution expressly calling for the delivery of Taurus failed last week... * Plutonium | Intermediate storage | Survey Survey on interim storage: Citizens support state responsibility What do people in the vicinity of the interim storage facilities for radioactive waste know and think about their...

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

    “But it can only ever be a temporary hedge,” says Mendel. A long-term solution can therefore only be peace with the Palestinians... * Majority supports climate protection Global survey on climate protection Politicians can be bolder A survey in 125 countries shows great support for climate protection and also the willingness to spend money on it. What is remarkable, however, is the...

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

    The announcement of the Potsdam meeting of radical right-wing activists and extremists with AfD officials gained considerable momentum. A new state parliament will be elected in Thuringia in September. In surveys, the AfD is clearly in the lead there. A red-red-green coalition currently governs there under Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (The Left). * Process | Verdict | Cum-ex verdict in...

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

    how individually our response to the climate crisis seems cumbersome at best - even though climate change scares many people and protecting the climate is important to them, as surveys regularly show. Gerhard Reese, Professor of Environmental Psychology at the Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, also says: “In the past few decades...

  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

    to initiate ban proceedings against the AfD - also for current reasons. The year 2024 could be the year of the AfD. Elections will take place in Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg in September, and the polls 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...

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

    the last few years about this party has been documented many times. The arguments for a ban are weighty. It's not a sham debate because, as Merz claims, you "can't simply ban" a party that gets 30 percent in polls. It is a sham debate because no one seriously intends to ban the AfD. This lies in the paradoxical justification practice of the highest...

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

    the party would particularly benefit higher earners. It's not exactly a surprise and the topic isn't new either, but this year the enormous increase in poll numbers for the AfD has made it much clearer and more visible: If we want to make further progress in climate protection, we have to do a lot of climate protection and anti-fascism think more together. Next September...

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

    criticize the Akkuyu project primarily because of the expensive electricity, but they do not take a clear position against nuclear energy. However, if you look at public opinion polls, there is a clear rejection of nuclear power. In the reports from the research organization Konda on climate change, only 5 percent of the population say they prefer electricity from nuclear power plants...

  14. 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

    Greifswald/Berlin (dpa/mv) - Wind power companies in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania complain particularly frequently against authorities because of delayed approval procedures. This emerges from a Germany-wide survey by the German Press Agency. There are also corresponding complaints of failure to act elsewhere. After evaluating the feedback from almost all federal states, there has been no...

  15. Newsletter XLI 2023 - October 8th to 14th - News+ India - Flood and destruction - the last generation is right

    be unanimously condemned. However, opinions differ as to who is to blame, what the solution is and what to do next. Most of the states selected in this survey are among the most important middle powers in the Global South. [...] Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia and South Africa criticize Israel and specifically mention the Israeli...

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

    De Lapuente: How do you explain the “success” of the Social Democrats in the last federal election? Marco Bülow: In the GroKo, the SPD was almost walled in at 15 to 17 percent in all surveys. Then an almost historic opportunity arose. The Greens were seen as the Union's real challengers. So the anti-campaign focuses on all the attacks - which are usually...

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

    The non-governmental organization Pesticides Action Network Europe said the decision was "in stark contrast to the will of Europeans", pointing to a recent IPSOS survey in six EU countries that found only 14 percent of citizens supported extending the use of glyphosate. * France | Fossils | LNG terminal “Gas kills”: Greenpeace against corporations,...

  18. Newsletter XXXVI 2023 - September 3rd to 9th - News+ Scientist predicts brutal “population correction” later this century

    Is this the “game changer” – or an intermediate step to a real breakthrough? Purely electric cars are becoming increasingly popular; there are now over a million of them in Germany. According to surveys, however, over 70 percent of drivers want to continue driving a combustion engine - mainly because of the lack of range of electric vehicles and a lack of charging stations. A new battery from the Chinese...

  19. Newsletter XXX 2023 - July 23-29 - News+ Chomsky: What happens when orders from Washington are not followed?

    should be made as widely public as possible. Casualty figures are at the center of all war propaganda. Because they can be used to create a mood. [...] In Great Britain a survey was carried out in 2013 on the number of victims. It found that around 60 percent of Brits believed that fewer than 10.000 Iraqis died in the war, while 44 percent believed that fewer than 5000...

  20. Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson

    must. How do you assess German climate protection policy? The traffic light coalition must finally act instead of just arguing. The FDP in particular is a blockade party. In surveys, 80 percent of Germans are in favor of climate protection. But woe betide you if it hits your wallet in the short term! Solar and wind energy are already the cheapest forms of energy. But the populists in the FDP and the conservatives...

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