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Im Gespräch: Dirk C. Fleck (“Heroes“ und “Gefleckte Diamanten“)
22.04.2024, 20:13 Uhr. apolut.net - https: - Der Schriftsteller und frühere Journalist Dirk C. Fleck ist unser desillusionierter guter Wille. Ein guter Geist mit einem großen Herzen, der mit einer unvergleichlichen Hartnäckigkeit an unser Gewissen appelliert und gleichzeitig ein Gestalter unsere Ideen von Schönheit und Wahrheit ist. Wie kaum ein anderer hat er sich sowohl in journalistischer...
From Fringe To Mainstream: The Rise Of The BJP In India
21.04.2024, 04:33 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - From Fringe To Mainstream: The Rise Of The BJP In India Voters in India are getting set to head to the polls in what has been dubbed the world’s biggest election. Nearly 1 billion people are eligible to vote and to determine whether 73-year-old Narendra Modi, leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), will rule the nation for a third consecutive...
China Is By Far The World's Largest 'Hydro-Power'
17.04.2024, 08:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Is By Far The World's Largest 'Hydro-Power' China is the world’s biggest hydro power producer, having generated an estimated 1,303 terawatt hours of hydropower in 2022, according to data published by Ember, a UK-based energy think tank. As Statista's Anna Fleck shows in the chart below, this equates to approximately 31 percent of global hydropower...
Less Than One Third Of US Men Enjoy Reading
17.04.2024, 02:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Less Than One Third Of US Men Enjoy Reading It’s National Libraries Week in the United States and to mark it we’re looking at readership patterns around the world. As Anna Fleck shows, based on data from Statista’s Consumer Insights survey shows, women were more likely to say that reading is one of their personal hobbies than men in all of the...
The Best And Worst Countries For LGBTQ+ Travelers
16.04.2024, 11:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Best And Worst Countries For LGBTQ+ Travelers In order to help LGBTQ+ tourists travel safely, the German portal Spartacus started publishing the Gay Travel Index in 2012. In the 2024 edition, the ranking compared 213 countries and territories based on the situation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer people in each location...
Airbus Beats Boeing For Deliveries In 2024
15.04.2024, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Airbus Beats Boeing For Deliveries In 2024 Boeing’s deliveries of commercial aircraft have faltered in the first three months of the year, according to the company’s reports, published this week. The U.S. aircraft manufacturer delivered just 83 planes in Q3, down from 130 in the same three-month period of last year. In the meantime, its sole major...
60% Of Poles Feel Healthcare Is Falling Short; Only 1 In 3 Americans Feel Same
15.04.2024, 08:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 60% Of Poles Feel Healthcare Is Falling Short; Only 1 In 3 Americans Feel Same Just over six in ten people in Poland feel that their healthcare system frequently lets patients down. That’s according to a survey run by Statista’s Global Consumer Insights, which looks at perceptions of healthcare services in different countries around the world...
These Are Asia's Richest Billionaires
14.04.2024, 04:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Are Asia's Richest Billionaires As of the start of April, Mukesh Ambani (66) is the richest man in Asia, with a net worth of $116.1 billion, according to Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires List, Ambani is the chairman of Reliance Industries Limited, a conglomerate that focuses not only on petrochemicals, but also textiles and telecommunications...
Wenn die gefaeserten Demokraten Nazis wittern
10.04.2024, 20:41 Uhr. apolut.net - https: - Ein Meinungsbeitrag von Dirk C. Fleck. „Fans von Nazisymbolen werde ich entfreunden und ihr ‘Tahiti Buch’ wandert in den Mülleimer.“ Das bekam ich eben auf dem Facebook-Messenger zu hören. Die Crux mit den gefaeserten Demokraten ist: sie schäumen vor Wut, wenn sie einen Nazi wittern. Und sie wittern ihn überall. […]...
The Scale Of Food Waste In Europe
10.04.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Scale Of Food Waste In Europe Each person in the European Union generated an average of 131 kilograms of food waste in 2021, according to estimates by the European statistics office Eurostat. This is based on data from the 27 member states. Total food waste in the EU amounted to over 58 million tons in 2021. Private households made up 54 percent...
Grid Bottlenecks On The Way In Europe?
10.04.2024, 08:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Grid Bottlenecks On The Way In Europe? A new analysis by the energy think tank Ember has found that several countries in Europe could soon face bottlenecks in their national transmission energy grids, as more solar and wind power will be generated than these networks have capacity for. As Statista's Anna Fleck shows in the following chart , Spain...
A Lack Of Solidarity Within NATO?
07.04.2024, 13:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Lack Of Solidarity Within NATO? Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is making several countries in Europe reassess their military defenses. Several members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have even said that they will be increasing their numbers of conscripted soldiers, the latest of which were Denmark (announced 13 March, 2024) and...
Only 59% Of Americans Are 'Satisified' With Their Health
07.04.2024, 04:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Only 59% Of Americans Are 'Satisified' With Their Health Tomorrow, Sunday, marks World Health Day and the 75th anniversary of the World Health Organization. The theme this year is: "My health, my right" and was chosen by the WHO to "champion the right of everyone, everywhere to have access to quality health services, education, and information, as...
Which OECD Countries Allow Donations To Political Parties?
06.04.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Which OECD Countries Allow Donations To Political Parties? Less than half of OECD countries ban anonymous donations for political financing, according to data published in the Anti-Corruption and Integrity Outlook 2024 released by the OECD. The report argues that this leaves these countries “exposed to undue influence.” The following chart, from...
Lab-Grown Meat Isn't For Everyone
06.04.2024, 02:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Lab-Grown Meat Isn't For Everyone Would you eat laboratory-grown meat? This question, as Statista's Anna Fleck reports was posed recently to respondents of their Consumer Insights survey, seems to divide opinions. Laboratory-grown meat, also known as cultivated or cultured meat, is produced from animal cells, often taken by biopsy. These are then...
Meine „Feindesliste“ liegt auf dem Tisch. Was nun?
03.04.2024, 14:38 Uhr. apolut.net - https: - Ein Meinungsbeitrag von Dirk C. Fleck. Nach Veröffentlichung der RKI-Files, die das alternative Medienportal Multipolar eingeklagt hatte, bekommt die Corona-Einheitsfront erste Risse. Das von den Medien unterstützte Narrativ von der Todesseuche, der man nur mit drastischen Maßnahmen wie Lockdowns, Kontaktverboten, Maskenpflicht und einer weitgehenden...
China Is The World Leader In Battery Recycling
03.04.2024, 05:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Is The World Leader In Battery Recycling As many countries around the world scramble towards a green transition, a new era of electric cars is being ushered in and with it comes the need for batteries. While these batteries - also needed for home, industrial and grid energy storage - are being newly manufactured, Statista's Anna Fleck reports...
Where Trust In The News Is Highest & Lowest
02.04.2024, 10:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Where Trust In The News Is Highest & Lowest Each year, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism publishes a report on digital news consumption. The latest edition, based on surveys of more than 93,000 people in 46 countries, documents how overall trust in news has slid downwards by two percentage points in the past year. About four in ten...
27.6 Million People Are Currently In Forced Labor
01.04.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 27.6 Million People Are Currently In Forced Labor 27.6 million people were living under the conditions of forced labor around the world on any given day in 2021, according to data published in a report on Tuesday by the International Labor Organization (ILO). As Statista's Anna Fleck reports, this equates to roughly 3.5 people for every 1,000 people...
Concern Over Food & Water Supply Grows Among Europeans
31.03.2024, 13:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Concern Over Food & Water Supply Grows Among Europeans Spain’s northeast Catalonia region is currently suffering its worst drought on record. And, as Statista's Anna Fleck reports, it’s not just Spain afflicted with this problem: The EU Commission’s Joint Research Center sounded the alarm earlier this year over how prolonged drought events have...
As Easter Looms, Church Attendance In The US Declines
30.03.2024, 02:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - As Easter Looms, Church Attendance In The US Declines Christianity is on the decline in the United States. As Statista's Anna Fleck reports, new data from Gallup shows that church attendance has dropped across all polled Christian groups. As the following chart shows, the biggest drop in attendance in the past 20 years has been amongst Catholics...
10 Easter Traditions Around The World
29.03.2024, 11:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 10 Easter Traditions Around The World It’s Easter this weekend and while many around the world will be celebrating by eating chocolate easter eggs and setting out on easter egg hunts, some communities will be marking the days from Good Friday through to Easter Monday in far more unique ways. The following chart, via Statista's Anna Fleck, depicts...
Die Wehen der Apokalypse
28.03.2024, 10:11 Uhr. apolut.net - https: - Ein Meinungsbeitrag von Dirk C. Fleck. Die „Endzeit“ wurde zu allen Zeiten und in jeder Kultur beschworen. Auch in der Bibel wird der „Abschluss des Weltsystems“ mehrmals genannt (Offenbarung des Johannes, Matthäus 24:3, 2. Timotheus 3:1,). Von den Hopis bis zu den Mayas, von Nostradamus bis Jehan de Vezelay (Johannes von […]...
Who's Leading The Race To Mine The Deep Sea?
28.03.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Who's Leading The Race To Mine The Deep Sea? India has applied to the International Seabed Authority (ISA) for two new licenses to explore parts of the Indian Ocean sea bed for minerals crucial to the green energy transition. If they are granted, India would hold four contracts, making it the country with the second highest number of active contracts...
Down The Drain: Wastewater With The Most Cocaine
27.03.2024, 09:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Down The Drain: Wastewater With The Most Cocaine Cocaine use tends to be higher in western and southern European cities, according to the database of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. As Statista's Anna Fleck reports, researchers analyzed the wastewater of 88 cities in 23 EU countries and Turkey for levels of a number of illicit...
Where The EU Exports Its Waste
26.03.2024, 10:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Where The EU Exports Its Waste The European Union exported 32.1 million tonnes of waste to non-EU countries in 2022, according to Eurostat. This is a slight decline from the 33.0 million tonnes of waste exports to these countries in 2021. As Statista's Anna Fleck reports, Turkey was the primary destination country for EU waste that year with some...
Die Steigerung von tot | Von Dirk C. Fleck
25.03.2024, 15:01 Uhr. apolut.net - https: - Grund für das Aussterben der Spezies Mensch werden nicht so sehr die anstehenden Herausforderungen sein als unsere Unfähigkeit, ihnen entschlossen zu begegnen. In unserem Krieg gegen die Natur sind wir scheinbar auf der Siegerstraße. Denn unsere überaus erfolgreiche Spezies hat — zusammen mit einem Millionenheer von Nutztieren — der Erdoberfläche...
Where People Are (Un)Happiest With Their Lives
22.03.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Where People Are (Un)Happiest With Their Lives In 2012, the United Nations proclaimed March 20 as the International Day of Happiness or World Happiness Day, which has been held on this date every year since. The aim is to promote awareness for a "more inclusive, equitable and balanced approach to economic growth that promotes the happiness and well-being...
More Than Half Of Migrant Deaths Are From Drowning
19.03.2024, 09:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - More Than Half Of Migrant Deaths Are From Drowning At least 8,565 people died on international migration routes in 2023, according to data from the Missing Migrants Project of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). This marks the deadliest year on record, up 20 percent from one year before. "These frightening figures collected by the...
Trust In Flying Still High, But Passengers Take More Precautions
19.03.2024, 02:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trust In Flying Still High, But Passengers Take More Precautions The Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into the panel blow out of a Boeing 737 MAX operated by Alaska Airlines in January, according to the Wall Street Journal. The incident was the first in a chain of events reported this year, which have led to increased scrutiny...
More & More Americans Turn To TikTok For News
19.03.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - More & More Americans Turn To TikTok For News The House of Representatives passed a bill last week that could lead to a nationwide ban of the social media platform TikTok in the United States, unless its Chinese owner Byte Dance sells its stake in the company within 165 days. U.S. lawmakers had raised concerns over the question of data and national...
Which Countries Have A Legal Cannabis Market?
18.03.2024, 07:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Which Countries Have A Legal Cannabis Market? Non-medical cannabis sales are forecast to surge by around 74 percent in the United States between 2024 and 2028, increasing from $20.2 billion to $35.1 billion. This is according to estimates calculated on July 2023 by analysts at Statista Market Insights and is based on the 11 countries in which cannabis...
Der gute Ton ist nicht von dieser Welt
25.01.2024, 11:37 Uhr. apolut.net - https: - Ein Meinungsbeitrag von Dirk C. Fleck. „Der Ton ist nicht von dieser Welt.“ Manche Sätze schwingen nach, einige sogar jahrelang. Dieser zum Beispiel. Er fiel in einem Gespräch, das ich Ende der Neunziger mit Daniel Barenboim geführt hatte, dem damaligen Generalmusikdirektor der Berliner Staatsoper Unter den Linden. „Wir Musiker ziehen […]...
Where WEF 'Experts' See False Information Posing The Biggest Threat
21.01.2024, 20:38 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Where WEF 'Experts' See False Information Posing The Biggest Threat In an unprecedented year for elections, false information is one of the major threats that people around the world will face according to experts surveyed for the World Economic Forum’s 2024 Global Risk Report. In the chart below, Statista's Anna Fleck shows the varying degrees to...
These Are The Countries Trusting The Government Most (And Least)
19.01.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Are The Countries Trusting The Government Most (And Least) A new report sheds light on the level of trust - or in many cases distrust - in governments around the world. As Statista's Anna Fleck reports, according to the latest Edelman Trust Barometer, Saudi Arabia came first for government credibility among the public in 2023. You will find...
With Ecuador "In A State Of War", Prison Overcrowding Soars In Latin America
19.01.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - With Ecuador "In A State Of War", Prison Overcrowding Soars In Latin America After several days of violence perpetrated by criminal gangs, in which at least fourteen people lost their lives, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa declared last week that his country was “in a state of war”. Ecuador is currently in the grip of an unprecedented wave of...
Der blinde Fleck
17.01.2024, 13:39 Uhr. Manova Magazin - https: - Der blinde Fleck...
Who Sells The Most Weapons?
17.01.2024, 10:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Who Sells The Most Weapons? The United States was the largest arms exporter between 2018 and 2022, making up 40 percent of all international arms sales, delivering weapons to 103 states. This marks an increase from the 33.0 percent it accounted for between 2013 and 2017. As Statista's Anna Fleck shows in the chart below, Russia followed in second place...
Taiwan's Thinly-Woven Diplomatic Web
17.01.2024, 08:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Taiwan's Thinly-Woven Diplomatic Web Nauru, a small island country in the southwestern Pacific, announced on Monday that it was realigning its diplomatic ties to China, having previously been an ally of Taiwan. The move came shortly after Lai Ching-te of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won Taiwan’s presidential election on January 13. Lai...
Das große Warten auf die Mistgabeln
16.01.2024, 12:26 Uhr. apolut.net - https: - Ein Meinungsbeitrag von Dirk C. Fleck. Endlich, möchte man sagen, endlich war einer dieser superreichen Säcke (sorry) zur Besinnung gekommen. Im März 2012 hielt der Multi-Milliardär Nick Hanauer bei TED TV einen bemerkenswerten Vortrag, der allerdings nicht gesendet wurde. Zur Rechtfertigung führte der Sender aus, dass Hanauers Vortrag „deutlich...
Over Half Of Italian Women Struggle With Sleep
19.12.2023, 08:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Over Half Of Italian Women Struggle With Sleep More than four in ten Italians are struggling to sleep, according to data from a Statista Consumer Insights survey. The new data casts light on the prevalence of the problem in different countries, afflicting more than a third of respondents in each surveyed population and over 40 percent in the United...
The Swiss Are The World's Greatest Savers
18.12.2023, 08:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Swiss Are The World's Greatest Savers The Swiss are by far the largest savers among OECD countries. As Statista's Anna Fleck reports, according to data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the average savings rate for Swiss households is around 19 percent (data from 2022). This is well above the European Union’s average...
A Record Number Of American 40-Year-Olds Have Never Been Married
17.12.2023, 19:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Record Number Of American 40-Year-Olds Have Never Been Married A quarter of 40-year-olds in the United States have never been married, according to an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by the Pew Research Center. As Statista's Anna Fleck reports, this marks the highest figure since the data first started being published back in 1900, and a major...
How Skeptical Are Europeans About Vaccinations?
17.12.2023, 15:58 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Skeptical Are Europeans About Vaccinations? 32 percent of people surveyed in Poland as part of Statista’s Consumer Insights survey say they have little confidence in the safety of vaccinations. As Statista's Anna Fleck notes, the low influenza vaccination rate among older individuals in Poland points to the potential practical consequences...
Americans Are Getting Married Older Than Ever
17.12.2023, 05:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Americans Are Getting Married Older Than Ever Americans are delaying (or putting off altogether) getting married for longer than before, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. As Statista's Anna Fleck reports, the median average age for men to first get married has risen to 30.2 years in 2023, while for women the figure is 28.4 years. As...
Das Friedensangebot eines Träumers
14.12.2023, 18:56 Uhr. apolut.net - https: - Ein Meinungsbeitrag von Dirk C. Fleck. Ich starre auf die sieben Mädchenhintern im Tanga, die an der gegenüberliegenden Kachelwand des U-Bahnhofs Klosterstern für einen Reiseveranstalter werben – aufgereiht wie bunte Holzkugeln auf einer Rechenmaschine. Ein kalter Lufthauch kündigt den Zug an. Es ist nicht meiner, meiner fährt in die andere […]...
NObamacare? Americans Are Skipping Doctor Visits Due To Costs
13.12.2023, 00:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NObamacare? Americans Are Skipping Doctor Visits Due To Costs Twenty-eight percent of U.S. adults were forced to skip or delay medical care in 2022 because they could not afford to pay for it, according to a survey by the Federal Reserve Board. As Statista's Anna Fleck reports, this is an increase from the 24 percent in 2021 and the highest share...
USA Is Not #1! These Are The Top-Performing Countries For Education
11.12.2023, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - USA Is Not #1! These Are The Top-Performing Countries For Education Singapore has topped the latest world education ranking informally known as PISA, the Program for International Student Assessment, run by the OECD. The city-state’s pupils excelled in the core areas of math, science and reading, securing a high score of 560 points with students...
13% Of American Teens Suffer 'Food Poverty'
10.12.2023, 17:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 13% Of American Teens Suffer 'Food Poverty' The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2022 results were released by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) this week, marking the first edition of the standardized education achievement tests since the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition to questions on math, science...