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Koalitionsvertrag: Energiewende wird ausgebremst

SPD knickt auch bei den letzten Punkten ein. Kein öffentlicher Fonds für AKW-Abriss und Atommüll. Bürgerengagement wird strangulieren. Gorleben wird offengehalten. Keine konkreten Maßnahmen gegen hohe Stromrechnungen geplant.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/155403



Das Ziel ist Umstieg auf 100 Prozent Erneuerbare

"Energiewende retten"-Demo in Berlin für eine Energieversorgung mit Sonne und Wind statt Fracking, Kohle und Atom.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/155423



Strom im Überfluss und wohin damit?
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/155438

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Die große Koalition würgt die Energiewende ab

Ursprünglich wollte die SPD 70% bis 75% erneuerbaren Strom bis 2030 in den Koalitionsvertrag schreiben. Das wäre ein echter und machbarer Fortschritt gewesen. Aber jetzt steht dort ?55% bis 60% bis 2035?. Damit wird das Tempo des bisherigen Ausbaus beim grünen Strom abgewürgt und ausgebremst. Eine Blamage für die beiden Chefunterhändler Angela Merkel und Sigmar Gabriel, die mal beide Umweltminister waren und wissen, dass die Energie- und Klimafrage die Überlebensfrage der Menschheit ist. Und dass der Klimawandel weit höhere Folgekosten haben wird als eine intelligent organisierte rasche Energiewende. Von Franz Alt

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/r/d87416820198ms401.html



Ist die Energiewende in Gefahr?

Eicke R. Weber meint, dass die neue Regierung den eingeschlagenen Weg in der Energiepolitik weiterführen sollte. Die Koalitionsverhandlungen in Berlin beunruhigen viele Freunde des Klimaschutzes und der erneuerbaren Energien: Auf der einen Seite setzt sich die Ministerpräsidentin von Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hannelore Kraft, für den Erhalt von Arbeitsplätzen in der Kohleindustrie und die SPD in Brandenburg für den von Vattenfall geplanten Ausbau der Braunkohleförderung in der Lausitz ein. Auf der anderen Seite gibt es beruhigende Äußerungen, dass alles wohl nicht so schlimm werde, da die von der Bevölkerung mit 92 Prozent Zustimmung gewünschte Energiewende sowohl in CDU/CSU als auch in der SPD starke Unterstützung genießt. Von Eicke R. Weber

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/r/d87416820199ms401.html



Sauberer Strom, zukunftsfähige Energieversorgung

Infos zu den aktuellen Trends

Immer auf dem Laufenden sein in Sachen erneuerbare Energien: mit der neuen Website http://erneuerbare-energie-fakten.de/ .

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/r/d87416820203ms401.html



Erneuerbare Energien sind nicht Schuld an hohen Energiepreisen

Stellungnahme der Energy Watch Group zum World Energy Outlook 2013.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/r/d87416820212ms401.html



Die Zukunft der Energiewende

Die Ergebnisse einer Leserumfrage zur Bedeutung der Energiewende und Erwartungen an die neue Bundesregierung wurden soeben auf CleanEnergy Project veröffentlicht.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/r/d87416820216ms401.html



Der Koalitionsvertrag aus Sicht der Solarbranche

"Eine große vertane Chance," so Carsten Körnig, Hauptgeschäftsführer des BSW-Solar zum Koalitionsvertrag.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/r/d87416820217ms401.html



Koalitionsvertrag: Mit Rechentricks zur Energieeffizienz

Die Energieeffizienz von Gebäuden ist im schwarz-roten Koalitionsvertrag tatsächlich ein Thema.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/r/d87416820218ms401.html



Kohle statt Atom, das neue Feindbild

Bei dieser geplanten Großen Koalition herrscht Gegenwartsversessenheit und Zukunftsvergessenheit. Gesponsert werden überwiegend Ältere, vergessen eher die Jüngeren. Mütter bekommen zusätzliche Rente. Aber für die Bildung ihrer Kinder fehlt das Geld. Noch deutlicher wird die Zukunftsblindheit bei der Energiepolitik: Die Energiewende wird ausgebremst, aber Braunkohle, Steinkohle und Gas sind ?auf absehbare Zeit unverzichtbar? heißt es im Koalitionsvertrag. Die 75% Ökostrom bis zum Jahr 2030, welche zu Beginn der Verhandlungen die SPD noch forderte, tauchen im Vertrag gar nicht mehr auf. Energiewende war früher. Jetzt ist sie zur Politik-Lyrik verkommen. Von Franz Alt

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/r/d87416820250ms402.html



Energie-Lobbytik der CSPDU

Der Energieteil der Koalitionsvertrags kam, wie schon zu vermuten war, offensichtlich unter massiver Lobby-Einflussnahme zustande und wird erfreulicherweise auch von einigen Energiepolitikern in der CSPDU nicht für gut gehalten. Hier einige Schlaglichter auf die - sicher nur, Spitze des dahinschmelzenden Eisbergs. Von Daniel Bannasch

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/r/d87416820252ms402.html



Die großen Linien stimmen nicht

Das Papier der Arbeitsgruppe Energie der Koalitionsverhandler vom 9.11.2013 wird den Herausforderungen des Umbaus der Energieversorgung nicht gerecht. Wer meint, langfristig fossile Großkraftwerke am Netz halten zu können und zu müssen, geht an den großen Linien des notwendigen Umbaus des Energieversorgung vorbei. Und wer den Ausbau der Nutzung Erneuerbaren Energien mit einer Reihe von Instrumenten einbremsen will, statt ihn mit geeigneten flankierenden Maßnahmen zu beschleunigen, verfehlt das Ziel. Folgerichtig steht auch das ?Neu-Denken? des Themas Effizienz nicht im Zentrum der Effizienzvorschläge des Papiers. Das wäre aber bei dem notwendigen starken Ausbau der Erneuerbaren Stromerzeugung erforderlich. Von Daniel Bannasch

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/r/d87416820253ms402.html



79 Prozent der Deutschen wollen erneuerbare Energien zügig weiter ausbauen

Umfrage von Greenpeace Energy: Große Koalition will Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien auf Niveau vor Fukushima drosseln.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/r/d87416820267ms402.html



Blackout des Monats: Die Kohle-Hannelore

"Ich bin ein Freund der Kohle. Und das bleibe ich auch", gesprochen am 15. November in der WDR-Sendung "Kreuzverhör".

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/r/d87416820290ms402.html



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"Die Debatten um die Anwesenheit von Bundeswehr-Soldaten an Schulen und die Militärforschung der deutschen Armee an Universitäten brodeln schon seit Jahren. Besonders die seit 2008 unterzeichneten Kooperationsvereinbarungen zwischen der Bundeswehr und den Schulministerien von mittlerweile acht Bundesländern haben Kritiker dieser fortschreitenden Militarisierung auf den Plan gerufen. An Universitäten streiten Studierende mit so genannten ?Zivilklauseln? gegen den zunehmenden Einfluss des Militärs in den Bildungseinrichtungen?" IMI-Standpunkt 2013/066 von Michael Schulze von Glaßer vom 25. November 2013 http://www.imi-online.de/2013/11/25/die-bevoelkerung-auf-kriegskurs-bringen/


Aus: LabourNet, 27. November 2013

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Bundesregierung weiter auf Kriegskurs

*Kabinett winkt zwei Bundeswehreinsätze durch: Deutschland beteiligt sich an *Krieg gegen den Terror* / Deutschland facht mit PATRIOT und AWACS syrischen Bürgerkrieg an. Friedensbewegung sagt NEIN Zu den Entscheidungen des Bundeskabinetts, deutsche Soldaten weiterhin im Mittelmeer und in der Türkei zu stationieren, erklärten die Sprecher des Bundesausschusses Friedensratschlag in einer Stellungnahme?* Pressemitteilung des Bundesausschusses Friedensratschlag vom 8. Januar 2014 http://www.ag-friedensforschung.de/bewegung1/mandate-baf.html

Siehe dazu:

Der Krieg beginnt hier!

Artikel von Tobias Pflüger zum Koalitionsvertrag von CDU/CSU und SPD sowie die Schwerpunkte und nächsten Aufgaben der Friedensbewegung in junge Welt vom 09.01.2014 als IMI-Standpunkt 2014/001 http://www.imi-online.de/2014/01/09/der-krieg-beginnt-hier/

Der am 16.12.2013 vereinbarte Koalitionsvertrag ist teilweise völkerrechts- und verfassungswidrig

Artikel von Bernd Hahnfeld vom 9. Januar 2014 beim Friedensratschlag http://www.ag-friedensforschung.de/themen/Aussenpolitik1/koalition.html


Aus: LabourNet, 10. Januar 2014



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Major sectors of the US economy are reporting financial damage as the recent revelations shake consumer confidence and US trade partners distance themselves from companies that may have been compromised by the NSA or, worse, are secretly collaborating with the spy agency.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/how-nsa-mass-surveillance-hurting-us-economy



CNN whitewashes NSA Tracking EVERYONE s Cell Phone

Video report
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oABQsmRfUxY&feature=youtu.be



World s leading authors: state surveillance of personal data is theft

500 signatories include five Nobel prize winners, Writers demand 'digital bill of rights' to curb abuses.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/10/surveillance-theft-worlds-leading-authors



Intel Contractors Give Millions to Lawmakers Overseeing Government Surveillance

Analysis of campaign contributions from political action committees (PACs) and individuals from the top 20 intelligence services contractors working with the Department of Defense, ranked by total value of contracts received, to members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

http://maplight.org/content/73373



Federal Judge Says NSA Program Appears to Violate Constitution

By Pete Williams

A federal judge rules that the National Security Agency s program of gathering data on all telephone calls made in the US is unconstitutional.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37143.htm



Tech executives to Obama: NSA spying revelations are hurting business

Leaders of the nation's biggest technology firms warned President Obama during a lengthy meeting at the White House on Tuesday that National Security Agency spying programs are damaging their reputations and could harm the broader economy.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2013/12/17/6569b226-6734-11e3-a0b9-249bbb34602c_story.html



The Sordid Roots of the National-Security State

By Jacob G. Hornberger

We have all been inculcated with the notion that the enormous military empire, CIA, and NSA are a necessary and permanent part of our lives.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37179.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Demand an End to Mass Surveillance: Support the People s Principles
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/27-5

World Fights Back Against the Biggest Brother in History
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/29-1

UN to Investigate 'Unqualified Secrecy' of US, UK Spy Agencies
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/02-5

Australian Spy Agency Goes 'Orwellian' with Nation's Privacy Laws
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/02-0

Nation s Libraries Warn of NSA s 'Ravenous Hunger' for Data
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/04-6

Docs Show NSA Infiltrates Digital Playlands
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/09-0

Amnesty International Brings Claim Against UK Over State Surveillance
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/12/09-1

Greenwald Reveals 'Crux' of NSA Spying: The 'Elimination of Individual Privacy Worldwide'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/18-2

The NSA Review Panel Didn t Answer the Real Question: Was Any of This Legal?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/19-10

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?1984? as Instruction Manual
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/peter-van-buren/1984-as-instruction-manual/

State Surveillance of Personal Data: What is the Society we Wish to Protect?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/no_author/our-masters-delusional-nightmare/

On Persuading the Faithful To Reject the National Security State
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/scott-lazarowitz/jfk-iran-israel/

Almost Orwellian?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/andrew-p-napolitano/almost-orwellian/

The NSA and CIA are Criminal Enterprises
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/01/no_author/forget-the-goodfellas/

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Obama s national security state

CounterPunch
by Norman Pollock

12/17/13

Welcome, then, to Fortress America, Obama s Kafkaesque Castle, in which the impenetrability of government is intimately associated with secretiveness...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/12/17/obamas-national-security-state/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Op-Ed

The pre-eminent problem confronting humankind is human violence. It is our own violence, in its various guises, including the ongoing possibility of nuclear war and the ongoing devastation of the natural environment, that threaten to consign us to the fossil record within decades, if not sooner.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1311/S00231/why-dont-we-try-to-understand-and-end-human-violence.htm


From Information Clearing House



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By Reuters

How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?"

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36971.htm



John Perkins: The Economic Hitmen

Video

A great illustration on how corporations take control of countries, and how capitalism drives the expansion of the Military Industrial Complex.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36999.htm



The High Price of Rising Income Inequality

Op-Ed

Incomes of the top 1% grew by 31.4% from 2009 to 2012, compared to just 0.4% for the remaining 99%.

http://blogs.wsj.com/experts/2013/11/26/the-high-price-of-rising-income-inequality/



'There Are Now Two Americas: My Country is a Horror Show'

By David Simon

The notion that capital is the metric by which we are going to measure the health of our society is one of the fundamental mistakes of the last 30 years. I would date it in my country to about 1980 exactly, and it has triumphed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37050.htm



3 Shocking Ways Inequality Keeps Getting Worse in America

By Paul Buchheit

Anyone reviewing the data is likely to conclude that there must be some mistake.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37256.htm



U.S. Debt Up $1,608,304 for Each Baby Born the Year Obama Took Office

Under President Barack Obama, the total debt of the U.S. government has increased by approximately $1,608,304 for each of the 4,130,665 babies born in the United States in 2009, the year Obama took office.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/us-debt-1608304-each-baby-born-year-obama-took-office



The Historical Evolution of Money and Debt

Michael Hudson and Randall Wray

Video

Persistent budget deficits will burden future generations with inflation and higher taxes. TRUE OR FALSE.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37457.htm



Jack Lew: US could default on debt by 'end of month'

US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has warned the US may default on its debt by the end of the month if Congress does not raise its borrowing limit.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26021640


From Information Clearing House

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Pope Francis Understands Economics Better Than Most Politicians
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/27-3

How Inequality Became as American as Apple Pie
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/10-7

Americans to Wall Street 'Scrooges': Give Your Bonus to Homeless
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/26-1

Wall Street Sings While Americans Sob: Happy New Year One and All
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/01-4

Jobs or Inequality? That s No Choice At All
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/03-5

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A Pope s Pointed Message

Eugene Robinson, Washington Post Writers Group: In a stunning new treatise on the Catholic Church and its role in society, Pope Francis addresses the widening gap of inequality that capitalism is creating around the globe and charges Christians to be accountable for their own worship of the false idol better known as money.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20330-a-popes-pointed-message



From Rome, Five Basic Insights on Inequality

Sam Pizzigati, Inequality.org: In plain yet powerful language, Pope Francis is challenging the givens of our deeply unequal world and helping inspire resistance to it.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/20348-from-rome-five-basic-insights-on-inequality



Actually Existing Capitalism: Wrecking Societies for the Benefit of Big Capital and the Super-Rich

CJ Polychroniou, Truthout: Evidence suggests that capitalism has become wholly predatory and has given up all pretense of being "socially responsible."

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20558-actually-existing-capitalism-wrecking-societies-for-the-benefit-of-big-capital-and-the-super-rich



Gaming the System: The Relevance of The Hunger Games

Sarah Page, Truthout: As The Hunger Games trilogy gains popularity in bookstores and the box office, its themes of extreme class inequality, poverty, class warfare and oppression gain prominence in reality across the globe.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21097-gaming-the-system-the-relevance-of-the-hunger-games



Economic Update: The Trend to Inequality

Richard D. Wolff, Economic Update / Truthout: Today, major discussions of conservative inequality denials and of the significance of *productivity* statistics. Also, a response to question on the nature, origin and meaning of *profit.*

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/21129-economic-update-the-trend-to-inequality



Inequality Remains a Critical Issue in the US

Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: It has taken an amazingly long time, but inequality is finally surfacing as a significant unifying issue for progressives in the United States, including the president. And there is also, inevitably, a backlash, or actually a couple of backlashes.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21082-inequality-remains-a-critical-issue-in-the-us



The $17 Trillion Delusion: The Absurdity of Cutting Social Security to Reduce the Federal Debt

Marty Wolfson, Dollars & Sense: Seventeen trillion dollars certainly sounds like a big, scary number, especially when national debt clocks tell us that this translates into more than $53,000 for every person in the United States. But we shouldn?t be focusing on that number.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21154-the-17-trillion-delusion-the-absurdity-of-cutting-social-security-to-reduce-the-federal-debt



Reclaiming the Radical Imagination: Challenging Casino Capitalism's Punishing Factories

Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: American politics and culture have been handed over to the rich and now function largely to produce a state that offers the ultrawealthy and powerful all of the benefits, regardless of the massive inequality in wealth, income and suffering such policies produce, says Giroux.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21113-disimagination-machines-and-punishing-factories-in-the-age-of-casino-capitalism

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Necessity: The Argument of Tyrants
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/01/glenn-jacobs/necessity-the-argument-of-tyrants/

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Freedom or *security?*

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

01/08/14

Never mind that it is the foreign policies of the Pentagon and the CIA that has led to the constant threat of terrorism that they say they need to protect us from. That s considered irrelevant. What matters is that the terrorists, like the communists, are coming to get us and that the only way to prevent that is to have the government spy on its own citizens and destroy other aspects of civil liberty. This is precisely the type of thing that goes on in totalitarian countries...

http://fff.org/2014/01/08/freedom-or-security


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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