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Germany Doesn't Get Much Sun. How Did It Become a Leader in Solar Energy?

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Andrew Curry - Apr. 02 (Special Report) - This story first appeared in Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It's been a long, dark winter in Germany. In fact, there hasn't been this little sun since people started tracking such things back in the early 1950s. Easter is around the corner, and the streets of Berlin are still covered in ice and snow. But spring will come, and when the snow finally melts, it will reveal the glossy black sheen of photovoltaic solar panels glinting from the North Sea to the Bavarian Alps. Solar panels line Germany's residential rooftops and top its low-slung barns. They sprout in orderly rows along train tracks and cover hills of coal mine tailings in what used to be East Germany. Old Soviet military bases, too polluted to use for anything else, have been turned into solar installations. Continue Reading ...

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Exhibit of Jews in Germany raises interest, ire

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Times of Israel - By Kirsten Grieshaber - Mar. 30 (News Report) - “Are there still Jews in Germany?” ”Are the Jews a chosen people?” Nearly 70 years after the Holocaust, there is no more sensitive an issue in German life as the role of Jews. With fewer than 200,000 Jews among Germany’s 82 million people, few Germans born after World War II know any Jews or much about them

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Rebels Stand Alone

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - By Chrus Hedges - Feb. 26 (Not sure) - I was in the Swiss village of Begnins outside Geneva shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. I spent three days there with Axel von dem Bussche, a former Wehrmacht major, holder of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross for extreme battlefield bravery, three times wounded in World War II, and the last surviving member of the inner circle of German army officers who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

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German 'plagiarism' minister quits

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Feb. 09 (News Report) - German Education Minister Annette Schavan resigns after a university stripped her of her doctorate for plagiarism.

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Hostages, Militants Reported Dead In Algerian Assault

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

All Things Considered - Jan. 19 (News) - Algerian special forces stormed a gas installation where militants were holding several hostages on Saturday, according to Algeria's state media. The reports claim 11 militants and seven hostages were killed during what is being described as a final assault to end the four-day crisis.

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G8 leaders end summit with pledge to keep Greece in eurozone

Sun, 20 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Ewen MacAskill - May. 20 (News Report) - US and France succeed in putting promotion of growth at top of communique despite Germany's resistance to stimulus package Barack Obama and the other G8 leaders wrapped up their negotiations on the European crisis at Camp David on Saturday with a pledge to keep Greece in the eurozone and to promote growth. The communique, which had the growth promise at the top, represents a victory for Obama and the new French president, François Hollande, over German chancellor, Angela Merkel, who has resisted calls for a stimulus package. But it may be shortlived. The communique was short in detail and Merkel could re-establish her dominance next week at an informal European meeting. The eight leaders meeting at the US presidential retreat in Maryland issued a communique declaring in its opening paragraph: "Our imperative is to promote growth and jobs." It added: "The global economic recovery shows signs of promise, but significant headwinds persist. Against this background, we commit to take all ...

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Those Revolting Europeans

Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - May. 06 (Opinion) - The French are revolting. The Greeks, too. And it's about time.

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Op-Ed Columnist: What Ails Europe?

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Feb. 26 (Opinion) - The two common explanations — call it the Republican narrative and the German narrative — are just wrong.

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Op-Ed Columnist: Jobs, Jobs and Cars

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Jan. 26 (Opinion) - Gov. Mitch Daniels got so much wrong in his reply to the president State of the Union address. To really create jobs, it takes a cluster, not just heroes.

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Germany’s Denial, Europe’s Disaster

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:20:53 -0800

New York Times - Nov. 30 (Opinion) - The only way to restore market confidence is with a real bailout fund financed in Europe.

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What We Can Learn from Germany: How Countries With Publicly Owned Banks Do Better Than America

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Ellen Brown - Oct. 19 (Special Report) - [T]he demand isn't simply to make a public bank, but is to treat the banks generally as a public utility, just as you treat electric companies as a public utility.... Just as there was pressure for a public option in health care, there should be a public option in banking. There should be a government bank that offers credit card rates without punitive 30% interest rates, without penalties, without raising the rate if you don't pay your electric bill. This is how America got strong in the 19th and early 20th century, by essentially having public infrastructure, just like you'd have roads and bridges.... The idea of public infrastructure was to lower the cost of living and to lower the cost of doing business.

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Germans and the Euro: Can't Live With It, Can't Live Without It

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Time - Sep. 28 (News Report) - If it's the big picture you're after, Frankfurt is the only destination in Germany. Most German cities are low-rise, fashioned from timber, stone and brick, though concrete and steel have been widely deployed to plug gaps left by Allied bombing raids. But the city on the Main didn't just repair and restore. It reached for the sky, and in the process helped to power the Wirtschaftswunder, Germany's postwar economic miracle. "Bankfurt" or "Mainhattan," nicknames coined as shining towers rose up to accommodate the core of Germany's financial services industry, is home to the world's fifth largest stock exchange, the national or European headquarters of 218 banks, a thicket of hedge funds and major insurance companies and the Deutsche Bundesbank, Germany's central bank. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2095157,00.html#ixzz1ZHFSl5hM

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Another Space Debris Shower Expected in October, More Likely to Hit Populated Areas

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

International Business Times - By Anne Witter - Sep. 26 (News Report) - NASA's UARS (Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite) has, as predicted, scattered into pieces and fallen somewhere unknown on Earth over the weekend, but the episode of space junk shower is not yet over.

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Euro Zone Death Trip - New York Times

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 19:25:20 -0700

New York Times - Sep. 25 (Opinion) - Financial TimesEuro Zone Death TripNew York TimesIs it possible to be both terrified and bored? That's how I feel about the negotiations now under way over how to respond to Europe's economic crisis, and I suspect other observers share the sentiment. On one side, Europe's situation is ...Merkel Says Greece Needs 'Barrier' Erected to Stave Off DefaultBusinessWeekMerkel: Europe's rescue fund needs to be expandedThe Associated PressGreek default would destroy faith in Europe: MerkelReutersBoston Globeall 250 news articles »

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Gay Mayor of Berlin Elected to Third Term

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Advocate - By Julie Bolcer - Sep. 19 (News Report) - Klaus Wowereit, the openly gay mayor of Berlin, won a third term on Sunday in a convincing victory that makes some believe he could be the Social Democratic Party’s candidate for German chancellor in 2013.

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It's the Economy, Dummkopf!

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Vanity Fair - By Michael Lewis - Aug. 10 (Special Report) - With Greece and Ireland in economic shreds, while Portugal, Spain, and perhaps even Italy head south, only one nation can save Europe from financial Armageddon: a highly reluctant Germany. The ironies—like the fact that bankers from Düsseldorf were the ultimate patsies in Wall Street’s con game—pile up quickly as Michael Lewis investigates German attitudes toward money, excrement, and the country’s Nazi past, all of which help explain its peculiar new status.

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'Naked' body scanners a failure, police union says -

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

thelocal.de - Aug. 02 (News Report) - The head of the Gewerkschaft der Polizei (GdP) police union, Bernhard Witthaut, told the daily Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung on Monday that the two full body scanners had proved a failure. “The trial in Hamburg has shown that body scanners aren’t suited right now for widespread deployment,” he said.

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The Coming Euro Crack-Up

Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Weekly Standard - By Irwin M. Stelzer - May. 09 (News Analysis) - The “European project” won’t go quietly into the night. But it just might go noisily into the ashcan of history if the Germans decide they cannot convert the Greeks into hard-working, tax-paying euro-citizens worthy of continuing handouts. Or, at minimum, we might end up with a euro-nord and euro-sud, as Martin Feldstein once suggested.

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Scrapped Euro Coin Scam Costs Bundesbank Millions

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Der Spiegel - Mar. 31 (News) - German prosecutors have uncovered a 6 million euro scam involving reconstituted euro coins that had been sold to China as scrap metal. One and two euro coins were then brought back to Germany, some via Lufthansa airline employees, and traded in at the central bank.

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250,000 across Germany protest nuclear power

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Juergen Baetz - Mar. 27 (News Report) - Tens of thousands of people Saturday turned out in Germany's largest cities to protest the use of nuclear power in the wake of Japan's Fukushima reactor disaster, police and organizers said.

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Germans pull forces out of NATO as Libyan coalition falls apart

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Mail - By Anonymous - Mar. 23 (News) - The infighting comes as a heated meeting of NATO ambassadors yesterday failed to resolve whether the 28-nation alliance should run the operation to enforce a U.N.-mandated no-fly zone, diplomats said. Yesterday a war of words erupted between the U.S. and Britain after the U.K. government claimed Muammar Gaddafi is a legitimate target for assassination. U.K. government officials said killing the Libyan leader would be legal if it prevented civilian deaths as laid out in a U.N. resolution. But U.S. defence secretary Robert Gates hit back at the suggestion, saying it would be 'unwise' to target the Libyan leader adding cryptically that the bombing campaign should stick to the 'U.N. mandate'.

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2 U.S. airmen shot dead at airport in Germany

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

MSNBC - Mar. 02 (Breaking News) - A gunman fired shots at U.S. military personnel on a bus outside Frankfurt airport on Wednesday, killing two airmen and wounding two others before being taken into custody, the U.S. Air Force said.

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A Superpower's View of the World

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Der Spiegel - Nov. 28 (News Analysis) - 251,000 State Department documents, many of them secret embassy reports from around the world, show how the US seeks to safeguard its influence around the world. It is nothing short of a political meltdown for US foreign policy.

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Axis of Depression

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Nov. 19 (Opinion) - China, Germany and the Republican Party are all trying to bully the Federal Reserve into calling off its efforts to create jobs.

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Fearing Terror Threat, Germany Raises Security

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Michael Slackman, Eric Schmitt - Nov. 17 (News Report) - Germany dispatched heavily armed police and bomb-sniffing dogs to train stations, airports and key landmarks on Wednesday as a new picture emerged of the terrorist threat that had already raised security levels in Britain and France. In a hastily called news conference in Berlin, the country’s interior minister, Thomas de Maizière, said the government had “concrete indications of a series of attacks planned for the end of November,” and German, Pakistani and American officials offered similar accounts of intelligence that pointed to imminent attacks by terrorists trained in Pakistan or Afghanistan.

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