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"German City Wins European Green Capital Title With Bold Environmental Vision"
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German City Wins European Green Capital Title With Bold Environmental Vision | Happy Eco News
Heilbronn wins European green capital award for 2027 with 600,000 euros in funding. Learn how the German city's innovative environmental planning beat competitors across the continent.

Sources: US officials raised concerns with Australia over its streaming content quotas that the government is trying to push through the Senate before year end (John Buckley/Capital Brief)
https://www.capitalbrief.co…

Behind closed doors, Trump administration pushes back on Labor’s streaming quotas
The US Embassy has directly raised concerns about the policy in Canberra, raising the stakes for the Albanese government as it pursues an aggressive tech reform agenda.

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People who are not anti-capitalist sometimes wonder: "Why is there a monopoly on X life-critical thing?" (E.g., epipens, insulin, web search).
This one is really simple actually: because monopolies are more profitable than competition, and the foundation of capitalism is that capital = power.
Various societies have recognized the necropolitical outcomes of monopolies and have tried to erect barriers to monopoly; we all know that monopolies are bad, death-and-suffering-causing things. But since these societies mostly remain capitalist, they allow these barriers to be eroded by the power of capital (to do otherwise would be to repudiate capitalism because it puts a limit on the power of money). The barriers are ineffective, and the capital = power equation holds, and monopolies result and get to do their killing & maiming thing (remember: even things like social media monopolies that you wouldn't expect to pay for political assassinations like a mining company still profit from inciting genocides). *Sometimes* there are oligopolies instead of monopolies, but instances of really competitive markets are pretty rare for things that are widely sought-after.
The "government will manage the markets to prevent bad outcomes like monopolies" strategy has failed repeatedly, spectacularly, and almost universally. To actually prevent monopolies you need a population that no longer believes that money should equal power, it's that simple. Sadly, it's actually not that simple, since all of the alternatives which equate something else to power, like "the king" or "party loyalty as judged by the supreme leader" have the same problems or worse. The attitude you need to cultivate is "nobody should have power," which is hard because *all* of the power-systems we have constantly propagandize against this attitude in myriad ways. Still, in the future once we've broken free of this age where hierarchy is accepted, people will look back and wonder whether the historical records are even credible given how much needless death and suffering were endured with little resistance.
#anarchy #capitalism

Source: Kalshi raised $1B led by Sequoia and CapitalG at a $11B valuation, less than two months after it announced a $300M fundraise at a $5B valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/20/source-kalshis-valuatio…

Source: Kalshi's valuation jumps to $11B after raising massive $1B round | TechCrunch
The quickly growing prediction betting market raised fresh capital from Sequoia and CapitalG, according to someone familiar with the deal.

Ray Dalio warns that 'capital wars' could follow Trump's actions, with countries dumping U.S. assets (Yun Li/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/20/ray-dalio-fears-capital-wars-could-follow-trumps-actions-with-countries-dumping-us-assets.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p44#a260120p44

Just me and my trusty phone going up against Western imperialism and its trillion-dollar propaganda machine.
#Anarchism #Capitalism #Fediverse

Financial capitulation: Why the ruble collapsed and China controls Russia’s banks: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/18/financial-capitulation-why-the-ruble.html

US and Russian officials have quietly drafted a new plan to end the war in Ukraine that would require Kyiv to surrender territory and severely limit the size of its military, it was reported on Wednesday
The draft plan, which was reportedly developed by Donald Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, and the Kremlin adviser Kirill Dmitriev,
would force draconian measures on Ukraine that would give Russia unprecedented control over the country’s military and political sovereignty.
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AI dictation startup Wispr Flow raised $25M, after raising a $30M Series A in June, taking its total funding to $81M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/20/as-its-voice-dectation-app-takes-off-wispr-secures-25m…

As its voice dictation app takes off, Wispr secures $25M from Notable Capital | TechCrunch
Voice AI company Wispr is raising $25 million in funding merely months after its $30 million Series A.

Pune-based supply chain robotics startup Unbox Robotics raised a $28M Series B in a mix of primary and secondary capital, after raising $15M in earlier rounds (Anjali Jain/Inc42 Media)
https://inc42.com/buzz/automation-startup-unbox-robotics-r…

Automation Startup Unbox Robotics Raises $28 Mn To Expand Global Presence
Deeptech startup Unbox Robotics has raised $28 Mn (about INR 243 Cr) in its Series B round in a mix of primary and secondary capital.