Finance officials in German municipalities report a need for improvement in how state funding is awarded. A study published on Friday by the Ifo Institute in th... https://news.osna.fm/?p=35208 | #news #demand #funding #german #governments
#Governments
#Power doesn't always wear a #flag—sometimes it wears a #logo
If you care about who really shapes #laws controls #markets influences #governments exploits #labor avoids #taxes and impacts our #planet this #article is essential #reading
Discover how #multinational #corporations quietly shape the #world we live in—and why it matters to you.
https://rachidzidine.substack.com/p/the-invisible-government
Around the world, governments are demanding that research funding follow broader political priorities. They should be careful what they wish for. #world #governments #research #funding #broader
Germany’s arms giant says it can flood Ukraine with ammo right now—if Western governments unlock funding
" Europe’s biggest weapons maker is ready to arm Ukraine at bigger scale. "
" The German defense giant Rheinmetall is currently producing more ammunition than it has signed contracts for, including for Ukraine. The company is ready to significantly increase deliveries of weapons and equipment if additional funding is provided, says CEO Armin Papperger, Table.Today reports. "
#WarOfAggression #Europa #Ukraine #Rheinmetall #Germany #governments #warfare #army #war #Russia #WarCriminal #invaders #occupiers #defenders
#перемогаYкраїни
@xanathar OFC they don't.
- Just like with #Governments, #Corporations only follow the rules that are being enforced against their will!
That's why #penalties like in #GDPR, are a sick joke as #US - #Corporations will just calculate those in as "business expenditures" and continue violating, whilst also writung it off on their #tax & #SEC filings.
If the penalty fir a crime is a fine, it's only illegal for the poor!
Really applies here…
Same with #HumanRights and #laws, really...
- #LackOfAccountability and #LackOfConsequences are nornalizing shit!
According to #CatoInstitute #ThinkTank Analysis The #Tariff Tantrums Of Exec Branch Have Forced World To Move Away From Dealing With #USA
#Trade #Policy analysis by Duke #economics prof Scott Lincicome explores how #governments, companies, & citizens are all reducing reliance on increasingly-unreliable US sourcing and trading more with each other - a shift making #America weaker (and #China much stronger):
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-02-12/on-trade-and-tariffs-the-world-is-moving-on-from-the-us?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3MDkwMjk1MSwiZXhwIjoxNzcxNTA3NzUxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUQUNCUzhLSVAzSkUwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDQUZERUIwMjc0RkU0NTc0QjNCQzU5NDIwREEwODExQiJ9.h-KdPD6HykfKWMbnCGFkT240EjYtvg6S5tK9FlUCDw8 #GiftLink via #BloombergNews
Powerful #governments, #institutions, and #individuals #abuse their #authority every day with #impunity. Yet the moment a #Blackman stands up to them without #fear, they treat his courage as a #threat and #investigate him as though he were a #terrorist.
"What is worrying is private money coming in that's not accountable to anyone, in sums that potentially could far exceed what has been on the table thus far from #governments," said Cynthia Scharf, a senior #climate fellow at independent think tank, the Center for Future Generations.
Why #scientists warn of privately funded #geoengineering
https://www.dw.com/en/why-private-investment-in-geoengineering-solar-is-worrying/a-75716067
“But current #economic #models used by #governments and #financialinstitutions entirely miss such shocks, the researchers said, instead forecasting that steady #economic #growth will be slowed only by gradually rising average #temperatures” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Flawed economic models mean cl...
The German federal government claims it cannot quantify how many ships of Russia's shadow fleet have traversed Germany's Exclusive Economic Zone since 2022. Thi... https://news.osna.fm/?p=33026 | #news #environmental #fleet #german #governments
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
"You cannot reward monsters": US lawmakers demand increased pressure on Russia -- Russian attack shows Moscow is not serious about peace, NATO chief says -- How Soviet nostalgia and silence enable wartime complicity on Russian YouTube -- How the Kremlin drafted Russia's hackers to attack the West, leading to a rare US court case ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/wednesday-february-4-2026/
Hims & Hers Returns to the #SuperBowl
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/religon.html#2
#Senate fails to advance funding package as #ICE talks
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/news.html#9
#World #Governments Summit 2026 Unveils Agenda for Dialogues
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/world-capitals.html#AbuDhabi
#China's Xinjiang sees steady growth in 2021-25
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/cities.html#102a
#Spain's opposition accuses PM of using
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/cities.html#13a
#Trump says the #Minneapolis mayor is 'playing with fire'
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/uk.html#thejournal
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@petergleick.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy: “The #climatecrisis and extreme #weather play a part but there are lots of other factors such as state failure and incompetent or corrupt #governments, and lack of or misuse of #infrastructure.”
#water #conflicts #breakdown
Dramatic rise in water-related...
“We’re seeing more #conflicts and they are multicausal,” said @petergleick a co-founder and senior fellow at the institute. “The #climatecrisis and extreme #weather play a part but there are lots of other factors such as state failure and incompetent or corrupt #governments, and lack of or misuse of #infrastructure.”
From the joint letter dated 19 January 2026:
> #Musk is holding us hostage on a site full of illegal #deepfake porn, we must build European social media now
…
> Now is the moment to back #European alternatives to the dominant #SocialMedia platforms. The European #Commission, and European #governments, can support this build out by providing #funding for private initiatives that encourage European #SocialMedia #innovation.
2/4
If it wasn’t clear before, it is now: #Britain needs an escape plan from the #TrumpRegime world order.
#Trump’s #tariffs #trade #war for #Greenland tells us that the time for fence-sitting or wishful thinking is over.
The epoch-defining #judgment call #western #governments have to make isn’t about the #US under Trump, but about whether the US itself is lost to us, for a generation or more.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/18/trump-greenland-britain-europe
“everyone in the world is trying to figure out whether they can trust #American #tech infrastructure with their #governments, #businesses and personal #data.
The answer is a resounding ‘no’” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump may be the beginning of ...
Found this on a Bluesky post (Thanks Justin).
"#Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on #renewables—at half the cost of #fossil #fuels. The #physicist who led that #transformation says the same #playbook could work anywhere—if #governments have the #courage to change the rules."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2025/10/19/uruguays-renewable-charge-a-small-nation-a-big-lesson-for-the-world/
(Note: that a scientist led the transformation)
@HI_Greens
@ScottishGreens
@patrickharvie
@scotbordgreens
The year is 2027. Email is #unreliable; little gets past #Gmail filters without a contract to receive your #email. #Governments don't stop it because (a) they have a contract, and (b) they don't understand how email works. Or worked.
#Tech companies finally realize that #SS7 is #insecure. Phone calls and texts can't be #trusted. Machine-learning-generated ("AI") audio and video means video and voice calls are doubly cursed - too many #FAANG executives have had embarrassing public #failures, falling #victim to the corporate equivalent of the grandparent #scam.
Few people use #TOTP, because the tech #companies don't promote it, they each call it something else and make it work differently, and they all want you to use their "app" rather than the standard 3-line script that can generate the correct code given a key and the current timestamp. The technically-minded try to educate their relatives and friends as part of the free-tech-support assumption, but no one cares.
#Account #recovery now involves waiting at home to sign for an envelope delivered by the lowest-cost (and therefore bribe-able) courier to the #registered home address of the account. Millions each year lose their email, #photos, videos, "purchased" digital #content, password vaults, etc because they've moved since they set up the account, or they have a P.O. box and companies don't believe those #exist.
The #internet is a vast digital #wasteland - wait, a saviour onstage: "Walled Garden-Net!".
Burn it.
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