Source: 45% of New Cars in Germany Non-Gasoline Vehicles, 25% EVs
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Electric Cars let German Consumers Save Huge on Gasoline, Cut Russian Oil – Greenpeace
By Edgar Meza | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – Electric vehicles can save up to 300 euros [$331] a …
Source: Electric Cars let German Consumers Save Huge on Gasoline, Cut Russian Oil – Greenpeace
Will Crisis in Ukraine Speed Up Germany’s Transition to Renewables?
Germany now gets about 55 percent of its methane gas imports from Russia, and Nord Stream 2 would have raised that to 70 percent.
Source: Opinion | Will Crisis in Ukraine Speed Up Germany’s Transition to Renewables? | Juan Cole
Germany’s Counterrevolution Paved the Way for the Rise of Nazism
A revolutionary upsurge after 1918 could have democratized German politics. Instead, the brutal repression used to contain that upsurge strengthened the authoritarian right, divided the German workers’ movement, and facilitated the rise of Hitler.
Source: Germany’s Counterrevolution Paved the Way for the Rise of Nazism
COVID-19 and Privatization in Germany
The Covid-19 crisis and the privatization of many healthcare systems are by no means separated entities – the one speeds up the other. While health
Source: COVID-19 and Privatization in Germany – CounterPunch.org
COVID Europa: the Fourth Wave
Medical experts say the best indicator of how effective the vaccines are is the correlation between vaccinated and unvaccinated in ICUs. In Germany the ICU ratio is 1 vaccinated/10 unvaccinated with the above-mentioned 70% of the population partially vaccinated. That is to say, German unvaccinated individuals have a risk of ending up in an ICU that is 21 times as high as their vaccinated counterparts. Vaccine uptake is lowest in the conservative and rural south and the former East Germany, the latter attributed by some to a long-lasting distrust of government going back to its days as a Soviet satellite.
Americans have the chance to choose their response to rising fascism
Every week we witness a new, sometimes hidden or subtle, sometimes very blatant step toward normalizing violence as the solution to political problems. The Republican party is taking the late 1920’s-1930’s strategy of the Nazi party in Germany and using this model of bringing fascism to our door and manipulating voting so it will appear to be an elected choice.
Source: Americans have the chance to choose their response to rising fascism – Alternet.org
1848+: The End(s) of History 