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Heating, airing, showering and lack of IT security: What information can smoke detectors give about the residents?

With the advent of so-called intelligent smoke detectors, the function of these devices is undergoing a profound change. While they used to only serve to protect against fires, today they often take on an additional role as acquisition and data transmission units in the... [...]

The Königsbrücker Heide in the Lausitz: Why does official action lead to problems?

The Königsbrücker Heide, once an important military training area in Lusatia, has experienced a checkered history over the decades. Today it is a protected nature reserve that plays an important ecological role and at the same time... [...]

Why is the Lusatian Spreewald a cultural landscape and not a wilderness?

The Lusatian Spreewald, often referred to as the "Green Venice", is a region of impressive beauty and ecological diversity. With its branched watercourses, lush meadows and dense forests, at first glance it looks like an untouched... [...]

The Convenient Narrative: 20 Million Bitcoin Question – The Expensive Mistake of All-Healing Money Blessing

The assertion that the state only has to be given enough money for all problems to be solved is repeated with remarkable stubbornness and hardly questioned. Officials and politicians carry this narrative as if it were... [...]

The deceptive appearance of the state-decreed money

The history of human civilization is inextricably linked to the development of means of exchange, with state intervention in the monetary system always entailing profound social upheavals. When rulers gain sole control over the currency,... [...]

The unequal distribution of privileges in the state structure

Today's social debate often talks about social justice and the fair distribution of resources. Certain groups of people with special legal protections are often out of the public eye. It is the structure... [...]

The untouchable protection of intellectual freedom from state capture

The constitutional anchoring of intellectual freedoms forms the indispensable foundation of free societies. These guarantees prevent citizens from the state that the state equates thinking and gaining knowledge. In-depth analysis of historical and democratic motives reveal... [...]

Electricity, Shadow and State – How Blackouts Become a Tool of Political Control

Large-scale power outages have long been more than just technical faults. They are symbols of the powerlessness of a society who believes it lives in the light of reason, while darkness is being organized politically in the background. Every blackout hits that... [...]

The unlit page of public broadcasting: Political control and the myth of remote independence

Public service broadcasting is officially firmly established in Germany as a guarantor for diversity, objectivity and democratic control. However, daily practice reveals a power structure that is of a close entanglement with current politics and its... [...]

The Invisible Price – How Shadow Inflation Destroys The Life of the Worst

Shadow inflation is the kind of inflation that no one openly admits, but everyone feels. It does not take place on the front pages of the reports, but on the shelf, at the checkout, on the bill. It's inflation... [...]

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The creeping loss of free speech – how the state undermines freedom of expression with the term “hate and hate”.

Freedom of expression, once the untouchable core of democratic self-understanding, is increasingly becoming a playing field of vague definitions and questionable interpretations. Anyone who expresses an uncomfortable, pointed or provocative opinion today runs the risk of being under the nebulous suspicion of "hate... [...]
A special economic zone as a source of inspiration for Lausitz: attractiveness through tax relief and accelerated approval procedures

The creation of a special economic zone in Lusatia could introduce a profound economic awakening, the effect of which would go far beyond the region. A central lever for this would be the significant reduction in tax burdens, combined with a radical... [...]
Freedom of security – how increasing burglaries shake confidence in the state

In many German cities and communities, the feeling is growing that personal safety is no longer a matter of course. Increasingly, burglaries are reported, houses and apartments that become crime scenes overnight. people who... [...]
Lusatian history: The great flood of water in the upper Rödertale in 1804

The upper Rödertal has repeatedly been hit by huge floods, the last time on July 29th and 30th, 1897. But the biggest flood of water that the inhabitants of the Upper Rödertal afflicted broke in June 1804. [...]