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1. Crime scene forest
Contents Foreword 9 Prologue: Why the forest is becoming important again 11 Forestry and hunting: "The German problem" 15 A guest sees more 17 Hunting by the graceof God 22 1. A hunter grows in the forest (1929-1945) 25 The hunt calls 27 A fatal liaison 28 Hunting - sucked in with mother's milk 32 Master's hunting apprenticeship 35 Shooting in Germany 43 Trophy cult 50 Twilight of the gods 53 2. Learning for the dream of a lifetime (1945-1953) 57 Hunting lobby defeats forest lobby 62 Whoever has the (game) damage defies description 67 Career ladder with high rungs 69 Mother Nature knows better 73 3. From game hunter to forest warden (1953-1965) 77 Turning a blind eye to hunting 83 A dream starts to falter 86 The image of hunting starts to crack 92 High up, high mountains at last 94 Looking back to the future 100 Headwinds from above - an episode 102 Hard work for others 104 Punished to the top 108 4. Cassandra remains unpopular (1966-1978) 110 The sustainability of excuses 115 National park - an idea put to the test 117 Yes, just make a plan ... 120 Back to basics 121 Please be nice! 127 The Christmas star and the turning point in the forest 129 Tug-of-war in the shadow of the Watzmann 131 A man becomes a target 136 Eulogy for a warrior 139 5th head of the Bad Reichenhall forestry office - a very special challenge (1978-1994) 142 The coalition of the satisfied 146 It's exasperating 150 "You have to feel sorry for them!" 151 "Forest dieback" - the German press is buzzing 153 Avalanches, floods and drought 154 The state of the forest 155 The shock of giving up trophy hunting 157 Missed opportunities 158 The forest may wither away, but the dogma must live 160 Politicians react 161 Associations fight for forests that fulfil their function162 Hunting trophies outweighed by gold 163 The white wall clarifies the fronts 167 One shines, the other pays 170 The forest visitors are to blame 173 Mixed mountain forests for the grandchildren 175 Motivating the youth 176 Silence in the forest 178 Words are dwarfs, deeds are giants 181 6. "We can forget the fir trees forever!" (1994-2006) 184 World champion in hiding - a success story 187 Trophy hunting prevents near-natural forests 191 Smarter than the good Lord 194 Routine damage 197 Human disturbance 198 "Savings forests" as a result of excessive game populations 200 A national park as the centre of trophy hunting 204 There is no change without a willingness to learn 206 How (un)affordable is flood protection? 217 Is there short-term flood protection? 220 Humus - black gold 221 No clear goals - no future 223 Still a great climate for hunting? 227 7. There is nothing good unless you do it (2007 to today) 236 Epilogue: What can we do in times of climate change? 248 Notes 254 Glossary 259 Graphics 265 Recommended reading 272.
2. Farm animals
Editor: Bernward GeierBERNWARD GEIER worked as a scientist for organic farming after studying agricultural sciences, specialising in animal production, and was directorof the global umbrella organisation IFOAMOrganics International for 18 years. The activist, journalist, author and filmmaker has lived with his family on an organic farm for over 20 years.editor: Stefanie PöpkenStefanie Pöpken is an agricultural scientist and expert on animal welfare and works freelance with international food companies, authorities and farms. She also writes articles for various agricultural magazines.Editor: Renate KünastRENATE KÜNAST (Alliance 90/The Greens) has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2002. She was Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection from 2001 to 2005 and chairwoman of her party's parliamentary group in the Bundestag from 2005 to 2013. Künast is currently spokesperson for the Working Group on Food and Agriculture.
3. The Euro Disaster
Since 2008, the euro has been in a deep crisis that will not end and threatens the continued existence of the monetary union. But Germany refuses to accept thatit is itself decisively to blame for the misery. Instead, "crisis countries" such as Greece, Portugal and Spain are being pilloried as culprits. Jörg Bibow and Heiner Flassbeck show in their book that the Eurogroup under Germany's leadership is responsible for the unnecessary prolongation of the crisis. The prescribed austerity policy and the so-called "labour market flexibilisation" have deepened and prolonged the crisis. To this day it is not understood that wage cuts directly increase unemployment because they destroy domestic demand. And France is showing these days that it has not learned this lesson.
4. The abolition of democracy
"Satire must exaggerate and is, in its deepest essence, unjust. It inflates the truth so that it becomes clearer." Kurt Tucholsky The rebirth of greedy shipownersas oil-eating bacteria, the use of nude scanners at airports, thanking the US president for his "commitment to peace" or the introduction of a mouth tax for mouths not kept open - Wolfgang Bittner presents a wide range of satirical and polemical texts in his new book. Peppered with references to the progressive de-solidarisation in society and the erosion of democratic conditions. Sometimes they make you laugh or smile, often they have an aha effect and every now and then they really hurt. But Bittner always shows the discrepancy between seriousness and fun, theory and reality, aspiration and reality.
5. Right-wing populists in parliament
Polemics, agitation and propaganda of the AfD.
6. Failed
Never has it been so clear as in the international financial crisis: politics is failing the economy. There is a system in Germany. Instead of offering convincingconcepts, all parties offer themselves exclusively to the logic of business. Politicians get bogged down in details instead of developing competing solutions to the big problems. Heiner Flassbeck shows how and why politics has long capitulated to business and calls for a radical reversal. The answers of all parties in Germany to the pressing economic policy questions are clear. Moreover, the politicians do not offer alternative solutions to the central questions of the economy and its management. Instead, the political actors have declared pure entrepreneurial logic to be the doctrine of the state. As a result, politics and society are dominated only by individual interests. This failure of all politics before the economy could endanger our democracy. Heiner Flassbeck, renowned economist at the United Nations in Geneva (UNCTAD) and former Secretary of State in the Federal Ministry of Finance, shows how politics must emancipate itself from pure entrepreneurial thinking. And he demonstrates that the parties must compete with economic concepts in order to make our society fit for the future.
7. You shoot and cry
The Other Side of War - Conversations with the Soldiers of the Six-Day WarAfter the Six-Day War of 1967, Avraham Shapira initiated, together with Amos Oz, probablythe most influential Israeli book: "Conversations with Israeli Soldiers". It was written when "there was a kind of victory frenzy in the country after the Six-Day War," Oz says in the preface to the new edition. "No one in Israel spoke of human suffering, and certainly not of the defeated enemy. We felt that you had to go from person to person and experience what the fighters experienced on the battlefield and what they experienced after the battlefield." Heavily censored by the Israeli military at the time, the interviews, now largely authorized, provide an impressive glimpse into the other side of even today's wars.
8. In the spider's web of the secret services
Why did Uwe Barschel die? Secret services like CIA, FSB, Mossad or BND are simply a forbidden zone for us, where not only discreet spying is done, but also the bloodydirty work is done in top secret. Robert E. Harkavy and Patrik Baab throw a bright light on the covert operations of these shadow warriors with their book. Using the still unsolved deaths of Olof Palme, Uwe Barschel and William Colby as examples, they shed light on the puppet masters and the background. They have tapped sources from five different secret services, interviewed numerous former secret service agents, and bring the three deaths together against the background of the Iran-Contra affair and a shadow war by the CIA, most of which is still in the dark. A thrilling espionage thriller, which unfortunately is dark reality.
9. Left Popular
Acting forward instead of thinking backward.
10. Condorcet's error
The ideals of the Enlightenment are often summed up in the slogan of the French Revolution, "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity." This wording seems a bit outmoded tous today. "Liberty" has been commandeered by the political right and is mostly reduced to "economic freedom" in these circles. "Fraternity" excludes the female half of the population.
A modernized version of the slogan would be "rationality, equality, democracy." "Rationality" denotes the right to question, in principle, everything-philosophical and religious dogmas, social institutions-and thus preserves the broader meaning of the concept of freedom. "Democracy" more broadly includes universal and equal suffrage, equality before the law, gender equality, freedom of the press, and other aspects of liberal democracy. If we take this definition as a starting point, what about the ideals of the Enlightenment today?...
