Hi Steve. I've updated my post with "Detailed Revenue Trends for German Automakers (2014–2024)" VW has €208B in debt, faces disaster as profits shrink. Factory closures, union tensions & production cuts signal systemic collapse. While the declines might seem small, they reveal an accelerating trend.

an hour ago, france connected its first nuclear reactor to the grid this century.

construction was to take 56 months.

timeline:
• decision: 2004
• initial works: 2006
• reactor concrete: 2007
• grid connection: 2024
• commercial operation: 2025Q1

…20+ years end to end.

Best article I’ve seen about expectations from the next administration

www.noahpinion.blog/p/how-well-k...

It’s quite extraordinary that Newscorp papers are publishing front page stories, pushing gas, which are being sponsored by Santos, Tamboran, Jemena, and Australia Energy Producers, without attribution.

The Newscorp media are utterly compromised.

Trucks have been getting bigger, more energy & space consuming, more polluting, and much deadlier to everyone around them including kids. Not because most of us actually need bigger vehicles, but as ego boosts, status symbols & “indicators of male virility.” Note the truck bed is basically the same.

Home Alone could've had a very different ending if it was made more recently.

A tax system that incentivises people buying big utes for "work" is terrible for the environment.

Emissions from passenger cars have fallen since 2005.

But that has been more than cancelled out by the increase in emissions from utes and other light commercial vehicles.

Oligarch Musk thinks illegal drugs are subject to tariffs.

Gutless from Govt.

There’s a clear path through parliament for gambling advertising reform with support of crossbench - even the coalition to a point.

Why won’t they prioritise an issue that’s so important to our communities & protecting young people?
www.skynews.com.au/australia-ne...

Francesca Albanese: ICC should seek more arrest warrants for Israeli leaders - https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/un-francesca-albanese-icc-more-arrest-warrants-israel-leaders

Senate is the house of review, our job is to scrutinise

The govt has 30 bills for next week & they’re prioritising mis/dis bill first - will not pass & will just waste time

We should sit in Dec & pass stuff like housing, grocery code, student debt
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

Global shipping 2024
~12,400 tankers for oil and gas
~10,400 bulk carriers shipping coal
= 34% world merchant ship fleet (65800 vessels) fossil fuels
Ship fleet ageing - av age 22.2y
Older ships pollute more!
UNCTAD

MarineTraffic map
red = tankers
green = cargo vessels
270k vessels at sea

The Australien Government has made an ad about our next federal election, and it's surprisingly honest and informative.

#auspol #preferentialvoting #twopartysystem #2025election www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oxQ...

Laura Tingle as she always does has nailed it.....labour just continue to punch themselves in the face, while Dutton & his media pals continue to elevate the key issues facing the country, albeit not offering solutions, but just to continue to attack labour

Laura Tingle. "you can only sell things to an audience that is listening. And a government that doesn't want to upset people finds itself outgunned by a man with simple and angry messages." www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

In the early months of the NACC, one of its chief integrity officers saw the writing on the wall and quit. There were alarm bells, they told colleagues, and hints that the new executive didn't grasp the heightened responsibility of their roles. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri...