Climate Crisis
Reuters: Four of world’s five largest vehicle makers fail to back COP26 emissions agreement
Germany, Volkswagen, BMW refuse to sign up. Read here
Reuters
Climate Crisis
Reuters: Vanishing tropical rainforests
With humans destroying tropical rainforests faster than any other type of woodland, the world’s largest living store of greenhouse gas is rapidly vanishing — along with hopes of avoiding catastrophic climate change Read here
Corruption
Reuters: ECB urged to tighten trading rules for policymakers
Ethics standards at the ECB were never high, but they are showing another low: Top brass of the ECB have investments in companies benefited by ECB bond purchases….ECB urged to tighten trading rules for policymakers […]
EU politics
Putin: Nord Stream 2 to start gas sales to Europe right after its approval
The Germans have sold the EU down the river again to maintain its hegemony Read here
EU politics
Reuters: Poland passes legislation allowing migrant pushbacks at border
This is the sort of stuff Donald Trump dreamed of. Now in the EU. Read here
Economics
Reuters: Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands, documents show
A trove of internal Amazon documents reveals how the e-commerce giant ran a systematic campaign of creating knockoff goods and manipulating search results to boost its own product lines in India – practices it has […]
Climate Crisis
Reuters: Xi says China will not build new coal-fired power projects abroad
If true, this would be a massive step toward closing down coal. Purportedly South Korea and Japan have committed to the same this year. Now Germany (who else?) and the Czech Republic are apparently the […]
EU politics
Reuters: Norway’s left-wing opposition wins in a landslide, coalition talks next
Norway’s centre-left opposition parties are on course to win a majority in parliament after Monday’s election and will now negotiate how to form a coalition, with climate change and a widening wealth gap expected to […]
Economics
Reuters: Germany cashes in on record-low yields, earns 4 billion euros with new bonds
How do they finance it? By borrowing at negative rates. Read here
Economics
Reuters: Uber drivers are employees, not contractors, says Dutch court
Union says ruling will give workers more pay, rights Uber says to appeal against Dutch court decision Latest setback for companies in gig economy Read here