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Economy & Finance
2025
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The German censorship network
Liber-net reveals Germany's digital censorship network: 330 actors, state funding, steering of opinion and the debate about disinformation.
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Why the “old” money system must collapse
Collapse of the debt-money system, cultural reboot and visionary alternatives – Prof. Hörmann explains why a new money system is inevitable.
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Autarkie & Me • Episode 21 • Regional supply – fish farming
In episode 21 of “Autarkie & Me”, Radio SOL & GAIA look at regional supply through the example of local fish farming with Heinz Heinisch. He talks about the challenges and principles of sustainable farming and gives insights into the concept of regional supply.
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Autarkie & Me • Episode 19 • The art of craftsmanship
Craftsmanship – how it can succeed: Radio SOL & GAIA talk to Martin Buchsbaum about the present and possible future of the art of craftsmanship.
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Autarkie & Me • Episode 18 • Leading a business in a crisis
How modern leadership succeeds: Radio SOL & GAIA talk to Dieter Budinsky about employee retention, corporate culture & potential in tomorrow's world of work.
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Autarkie & Me • Episode 14 • New Technologies & Alternative Financing Models
Radio SOL and GAIA on "New technologies & alternative models of financing", using the example of Neutrino Energy's NET8. With gottfried herrmann and Roberto Reuter, the 14th episode of the series "Autarkie & Me" is devoted to decentralised financing combined with decentralised energy generation.
2024
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Autarkie & Me • Episode 12 • Doing Business Regionally
Radio SOL and GAIA on "Doing business regionally with LEAN management" with Dieter Budinsky (ACON Management Consulting GmbH) – the 12th episode of the series "Autarkie & Me" is devoted to an economic topic
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Autarkie & Me • Episode 9 • Successful Apprenticeship Training
Radio SOL and GAIA on "The natural laws of successful apprenticeship training" – the 9th episode of the series "Autarkie & Me" was broadcast on 06.11.2024. Guest: Karl Zaunschirm
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Radio SOL • Autarkie & Me • Episode 3
Radio SOL and GAIA broadcast the 3rd episode of the series "Autarkie & Me" on 14.08.2024, this time on the subject of the economy & the financial system.
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"Autarkie & Me" on Radio SOL
From 17.07.2024, every two weeks on Wednesdays from 17:00: the GAIA series "Autarkie & Me" in cooperation with Radio SOL – the community radio.
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Generation Basic Income: summer party and activism
No parliamentary party wants to speak up for an unconditional basic income, so we will.
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Radio SOL donation appeal for its broadcast centre
In 2024, Radio SOL international brings a new free media network, community-supported web TV channels, a new regional studio in Klagenfurt and the upgrade of the SOL main studio in Bad Vöslau into a broadcast centre. Become a stakeholder! Donate towards the equipment and receive your own airtime and bonuses.
2023
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S & G Ausgabe 28 / 2023 – Genmanipulation German
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Are these the great changes?
We are living in times of great change – on a personal as well as a collective level. Together with Peter Klein and Sandra Weber, we talk about this ever-present topic in a new episode of "Multiparadigmenwechsel".
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S & G Ausgabe 20 / 2023 German
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S & G Ausgabe 17 / 2023 German
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"Banks must collapse in today's system"
As unbelievable as it sounds, in the current monetary system every bank can actually create money without the central bank – "out of nothing, out of thin air", as I explain in my interview with Boris Reitschuster.
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Radio SOL: everyone can win
With the REGIO QUIZ, Radio SOL wants to bring you closer to local businesses – because shopping from the sofa is convenient, but it can't match competent, personal advice on site.
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Money – the future of our means of payment
Why is cash to be abolished, and how much does this threaten our freedom?! As a financial expert, I give surprising answers that you won't hear in the mainstream.
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Rip-off with the contactless payment function
Contactless payment is meant to be convenient and fast. It is only safe to a limited extent: doing without the PIN for small amounts gives thieves an interesting field of activity if cards are carried unprotected.
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S & G Ausgabe 03 / 2023 German
2022
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S & G Ausgabe 51 / 2022 German
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Your GIFT is wrapped here!
Hello, wonderful you – we would like to give you a gift. Not only because Christmas is just around the corner, but also to say "thank you".
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With new momentum to the general meeting
Parliament has rejected the basic income citizens' initiative. Generation Grundeinkommen is responding with a new leadership circle and a clearer, more professional message.
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LivingEarth Community Call: money • freedom • future
At LivingEarth we want to help widen the limits of money in our consciousness, so that money loses the existential fear, shame and guilt it holds for each of us.
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Radio SOL tops up time & money for ideas and projects
More broadcasting reach and support for people and value communities of the new era in Austria and the German-speaking region. Join in and get your goodies in the Radio SOL crowdfunding.
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Radio SOL – YOUR station of the NEW ERA
Your future is SUNNY with SOL! Let's build up our free media and business network in Austria and German-speaking Europe together.
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S & G Ausgabe 47 / 2022 German
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Globale Resets German
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S & G Ausgabe 39 / 2022 German
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S & G Ausgabe 37 / 2022 German
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S & G August 2022 German
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S & G Ausgabe 28 / 2022 German
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S & G Ausgabe 25 / 2022 German
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S & G Ausgabe 23 / 2022 German
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Gift economy – the financial system of nature
The gift economy is based on principles of solidarity – and I have been living by them for ten years. Trusting in the principles of nature, you get back more than you give.
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S & G Ausgabe 21 / 2022 German
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Popular initiative clears the hurdle to parliament
The second popular initiative "Implement UBI!", this time brought by all basic income initiatives together, was supported 168,981 times. Are we satisfied?
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S & G Ausgabe 12 / 2022 German
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News | Popular initiative signing week 2–9 May
The signing week has been set! Only from 2 to 9 May 2022 can our initiative be signed at all district offices throughout Austria.
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Weakening security of supply in the economic system – and possible solutions
Security of supply with everyday goods has entered our consciousness. Long delivery times show how vulnerable our economic system is when supply chains are interrupted.
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ila talk with Prof. Dr. Franz Hörmann
What came first – COVID-19 or the pandemic plan? Peter Klein and Prof. Franz Hörmann talk about who profits from the crisis and changes in the macroeconomy.
2021
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News | There is something to celebrate!
As announced in the invitation email in mid-November, there is something to celebrate: the association Generation Grundeinkommen was founded on 19 January 2017.
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27 basic incomes of 1,000 euros a month for 1 year
What happens if 1,000 euros suddenly arrive in your account every month without you having to do anything for it? Mein Grundeinkommen is raffling 27 basic incomes.
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PayPal cooperates with the ADL
All transactions are now to be checked by the ADL, a private external organisation. The full article (German) is reserved for members.
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Fed speaks of unprecedented inflation phenomenon
The surge in inflation associated with the reopening of the US economy has evidently caught the Fed off guard. Fed Chair Jerome Powell admitted that this historically "unique" inflation was higher than expected.
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Blackout in autumn: is Schwab planning a cyber attack?
It does not take a large-scale power failure (blackout) to disrupt our everyday lives lastingly. Even the failure of "only" parts of the highly complex internet can plunge our lives into chaos.
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News | July 2021
On 3 July the closing rally of the basic income road show took place at Stephansplatz in Vienna. Plus: the Wiener Festwochen and a pilot project in Germany.
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Draw of 25 basic incomes for 12 months
25 people each receive 12,000 euros as a gift – just like that. Draw show on 24 June 2021 at 7 p.m. with Gloria Viagra and Mein Grundeinkommen.
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News | May 2021 – the Austria road show and more
Our road show starts in Vienna on 25 May and ends back in Vienna on 3 July.
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If the economy is doing well, are we all doing well?
Today I invite you to a particularly holistic look at the economy. Dr Michael Ehrenberger's article, the editorial of the current issue of his magazine "natur heilt", has already made waves among readers.
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Would there still be homeless people with a basic income?
When someone loses their home because they can no longer pay the rent, a vicious circle begins: no registered address, no employment contract; no work, no money for a flat. Could a basic income break this circle?
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News | April 2021
Our member Evelyn Heinzl is a doctoral student at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg and is interested in the links between corporate communication and the unconditional basic income.
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Does a basic income make people more tolerant and engaged?
Our society is becoming increasingly divided. Yet one thing is clear: social cohesion will be more important than ever in the future, as digitalisation, global pandemics and climate change confront us with unprecedented challenges.
2020
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Hooray, our brochure is ready …
After almost two years of work and many discussions, our comprehensive brochure on the unconditional basic income is ready. From page 75 it contains the feasibility study by the JKU Linz Society for Applied Economic Research (GAW).
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S & G Ausgabe 40 / 2020 German
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S & G Ausgabe 39 / 2020 German
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Einladung zur Generalversammlung German
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“Wendezeit – was ist noch normal?” German
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20 basic incomes of 12,000 euros each to be raffled again
In six years, a non-profit NGO has given away 648 basic incomes – and it carries on. On 12 August, another 20 basic incomes of 12,000 euros each will be raffled, financed by 130,000 donors. Anyone can win.
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Guaranteed minimum income vs. basic income
Again and again, basic income and guaranteed minimum income get confused. A basic income is always meant to be unconditional; a guaranteed minimum income is always full of conditions, because it asks whether you are in need.
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20 people test a basic income for one year
Twenty people who can test for a year what it is like to live with a basic income. Financed by donations, given away by a non-profit NGO: on 22 July, 20 basic incomes of 12,000 euros each will be raffled. Anyone can take part.
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“I only trust the study I faked myself!”
This study came about in cooperation with three economists who found the approach of Generation Grundeinkommen worth examining. As you know, we are fans of consumption taxes, which are known to hit small incomes harder than large ones.
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Open letter with prominent support
The introduction of a temporary basic income is receiving more support than ever before. It is the political idea of the moment. Several petitions are currently calling for a basic income that secures people's livelihoods to bridge the corona crisis. More than one million citizens have already signed – within a few weeks, the demand of a few individuals has become a broad social movement.
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Spain and its idea of a basic income
Spain's economy minister is thinking aloud about introducing a basic income. Austrian broadcaster ORF reported on it yesterday in ZIB Nacht and asked the economist and film-maker Christian Tod to explain the topic from his point of view.
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A limited basic income for six months
Germany is a rich country. Politicians are talking about large loans. What would also help the country is an unconditional basic income of 800–1,200 euros per person for six months: quick, unbureaucratic and limited in time. It would prevent thousands from falling into poverty and at the same time preserve purchasing power in the country.
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Replacing existential fear with security
Press release from the initiative Mein Grundeinkommen (My Basic Income): the association is giving away 30 basic incomes of 1,000 euros a month for six months. "It is time for a basic income that replaces existential fear with security" is the motto. They will be raffled in Berlin on 1 April, with a livestream.
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The multi-paradigm shift becomes visible, part X: "Debts do not exist"
"Debts do not exist" – a provocation intended to invite a fundamental rethink about money and indebtedness.
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New basic income citizens' initiative
Application for a new citizens' initiative submitted to the Ministry of the Interior. As authorised representatives of the basic income movements in Austria, Klaus Sambor and Ingrid Farag successfully submitted the application entitled "Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen umsetzen!" (Implement an unconditional basic income!) in January 2020. It was approved on 6 February. Now it is time to take part.
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Stimme und Gegenstimme Ausgabe 02/2020 German
2019
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Stimme und Gegenstimme Ausgabe 50/2019 German
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Stimme und Gegenstimme Ausgabe 46/2019 German
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42 basic incomes to give away in Berlin
A Berlin association is giving away more than half a million euros in basic income. Mein Grundeinkommen is holding the "biggest basic income raffle of all time" and awarding 42 unconditional basic incomes.
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Stimme und Gegenstimme Ausgabe 39/2019 German
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Stimme und Gegenstimme Ausgabe 38/2019 German
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Stimme und Gegenstimme Ausgabe 37/2019 German
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Stimme und Gegenstimme Ausgabe 33/2019 German
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Stimme und Gegenstimme Ausgabe 31/2019 German
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Stimme und Gegenstimme Ausgabe 28/2019 German
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The multi-paradigm shift becomes visible, part IX
The multi-paradigm shift becomes visible – part IX: on the current state of money awareness. "Nothing in the world is as powerful as an idea whose time has come." How do we recognise whether the time of an idea has come? Franz Hörmann pursues this question by reviewing three current books on money.
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Stimme und Gegenstimme Ausgabe 22/2019 German
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Brilliant: Italy introduces a basic income
Since the last elections, the wind in Italy has changed quite radically. It seems that the Italians have managed to usher in a peaceful change of system by democratic political means.
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Donation appeal: let's save Radio SOL
Dear listeners, today we are turning to you with an urgent request: larger commercial radio stations are about to buy up our licences. We want to prevent this and need your support to do so.
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Video messages from our 2nd birthday
Both videos from our 2nd birthday party in Linz are now online. Please share the videos on an eco-social tax reform through and with a UBI, and actively support the idea of a basic income!
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Wir haben gefeiert: Es war ein Knaller! German
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The multi-paradigm shift becomes visible, part VIII: Systemic crash analysis and forecast
Part VIII of the series presents the methodology of Systemic Science – with a crash analysis and a forecast.
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Generation Grundeinkommen celebrates
Generation Grundeinkommen was launched on 19 January 2017 with the mission of bringing the unconditional basic income (UBI) into a nationwide debate. 2018 was all about "Why a basic income". 2019 will revolve around the "How". It all kicks off on 19 January in Linz.
2018
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Gehört mir mein Haus? German
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Over a million people want an unconditional basic income
The idea of a basic income is winning more and more supporters, including outside party politics. More than a million people already support the young NGO Mein Grundeinkommen and want to try out an unconditional basic income.
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The background to Varoufakis's dismissal
In 2015 a new bailout package was up for debate for the Greek government, which was up to its neck in debt. Of course, this was not about rescuing Greece but about rescuing the creditors. Various major European banks exploited Greece's miserable credit rating to buy government bonds at exorbitant interest rates (up to 18%).
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A crash will come, but not as planned
It has long been five minutes to midnight, and now the Fed is preparing to deliver the death blow. Trump has recognised the signals and sharply criticised the incomprehensible interest rate rise.
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The multi-paradigm shift becomes visible, part VII: Book money creation and its consequences
In the last newsletter, after a short introduction to bookkeeping and the structure of a balance sheet, we looked at "credit money creation out of thin air". Part VII shows what consequences this book money creation has.
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The multi-paradigm shift becomes visible, part VI: News on the monetary system
After the summer break, the series returns to its core subject: the monetary system and its mechanisms.
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Appeal for help for our web team
Super Typhoon Mangkhut has robbed members of our web team in the Philippines of their livelihoods. The Pacific storm received less media attention than its Atlantic sister "Florence", but it also caused considerable damage in its path. Our supporters in the web team are personally affected. Homes and livelihoods have been destroyed. We are asking for direct help.
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Basic income experiment in Rheinau
A basic income field trial is due to start in Rheinau, Switzerland, in 2019. It was launched by the filmmaker Rebecca Panian, 39, who chose the municipality in the canton of Zurich from a large number of applicants. For one year, every one of the 1,300 residents will be able to take part in the experiment – with exceptions.
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Italy's “Decree of Dignity”
On 7 August the Italian Senate voted for a “Decree of Dignity” that includes a citizens' income from 2019. Is it a basic income?
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"You've got some nerve!"
Our crowdfunding campaign is off the starting blocks. "You've got some nerve!" was one of many reactions. "500,000 euros is a lot of money." Admittedly, the sum is high. We are taking a risk. We can win or lose. But a person who takes no risks, who is sure of their cause, cannot gain anything. They change nothing.
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Vera Lengsfeld: The great expropriation of the Germans
The former East German civil rights activist Vera Lengsfeld sees in the coalition agreement an indirect expropriation of the Germans.
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Wir ziehen in den Markhof German
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Projekt bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen in Finnland beendet German
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Diskutiere mit: Stadtteilzentrum Wilten, 14.04. – Innsbruck German
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Generation Grundeinkommen war im Wissensturm Linz German
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Der Multiparadigmenwechsel wird erkennbar Teil III: Gedanken, Sprache, Wirklichkeit German
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Wir sind eingeladen! German
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Der Multiparadigmenwechsel wird erkennbar Teil II: Ein neues Menschenbild German
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Rückblick GAIA Stammtisch Walserberg German
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Die Blockchain: Vertrauen durch Hoffnung ersetzen? German
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Unser neuer Onlineauftritt wächst German
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Ein Schuldenberg von 233 Billionen Dollar German
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Herzlich Willkommen bei meiner Beitragsserie German
2017
2016
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Einladung zu einem Diskussionsabend German
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Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen German
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Einladung zur Podiumsdiskussion German
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Bank für Gemeinwohl German
2015
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Bewusst-Sein-Treff, Klagenfurt German
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Souverän – Treffen German
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Vermögensverteilung und Machtstrukturen German
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Geldschöpfung und Schulden German
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Schwundgeld German
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Das Zinssystem German
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Tauschkreise German
2014
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Wachstum – was nun? German
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Bedrohungen im Internet – was passiert? German
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Gutes Geld – Schlechtes Geld German
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KIK – ARD Reportage German
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UBUNTU Kontributionssystem German
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Friends of GAIA – Treffen, Payerbach German
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Friends of GAIA – Treffen, Payerbach German
2013
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Tricks der Pharmaindustrie German
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BIZ: Die mächtigste Bank der Welt kündigt den Crash an German
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Geheime Machenschaften der Finanz-Elite zerstören die Welt German
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hartgeld.com German
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Die City of London German
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Water makes Money German
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Neue Finanzordnung German
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Let’s make money German
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Wasser als Wirtschaftsgut? German
2012
2011
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Das Öl German