Month: January 2023

Coal Mine: What’s happening in Lützerath

Lützerath, a small town in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany, has become a symbol of a fierce battle against fossil fuels. This abandoned village has been, for months, an example of climate activism resisting the return to coal in Europe. Now, it has become another victim of the energy crisis that the continent…

Coal Mine: What’s happening in Lützerath
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The most beautiful city in Germany that you never heard of

Zur deutschen Fassung. It always makes me sad when people visit Germany, and their only plan is to see Berlin and Munich. Or maybe that silly castle in the mountains. Which is really just one of thousands of castles in Germany, but the tourists think there is only one, so they all flock to the […]

The most beautiful city in Germany that you never heard of

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Class Notes

When FDR took over the presidency, he brought with him a new type of brain trust made up of Ivy Leaguers and New York social workers. These advisors were highly influenced by the Progressives and believed government could solve of the world’s ills. There was one major difference between the New Dealers and the Progressives, […]

Class Notes

This blogger had a way with words when he presented this quote about Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. Check this out and his website via link.

Have a great weekend! 😎

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Humanity Closer Than Ever to Destroying Itself: The Doomsday Clock Over the Years

This week, in response to the escalating situation in Ukraine, the bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that they had moved the Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been.  Nuclear war and climate change are the main dangers our world currently faces. The probability of those catastrophes actually happening […]

Humanity Closer Than Ever to Destroying Itself: The Doomsday Clock Over the Years

Germany’s ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ revels in nine Oscar nods

By Claudia Doerries BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s reboot of the famous anti-war classic “All Quiet on the Western Front” landed nine Oscar nominations on Tuesday, including best picture, a haul that surprised its creators. The Netflix movie, the first German version of the epic 1929 novel by German author Erich Maria Remarque, was one of […]

Germany’s ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ revels in nine Oscar nods

EU drug regulator must do more to tackle medicine shortages – patient orgs

The European Union drug regulator needs to do more to tackle shortages of some widely-used antibiotics in the region, according to a letter from a group of European patient and consumer organisations. The letter to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) comes as antibiotics, including amoxicillin and amoxicillin plus clavulanic acid, and particularly formulations for children, have […]

EU drug regulator must do more to tackle medicine shortages – patient orgs

Strike over pay at Berlin airport grounds all flights -operator

BERLIN, Jan 25 (Reuters) – Staff at Germany’s BER airport in capital Berlin went on strike to press their pay demands on Wednesday and the airport operator said all regular passenger flights were cancelled as a result. Around 300 take-offs and landings with just under 35,000 passengers were originally planned for Wednesday. The Ver.di union […]

Strike over pay at Berlin airport grounds all flights -operator

Germany’s education advantage over European peers at risk – IW Study

BERLIN, Jan 21 (Reuters) – Germany is well positioned in education levels when compared with its European peers, but a study conducted by the IW economic institute showed that this privileged position could be at risk.  Having a strong education and vocational training system is important to Germany’s economy, Europe’s largest, which relies on skilled labour to […]

Germany’s education advantage over European peers at risk – IW Study