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Markus Frohnmaier criticized that SPD Environment Minister Carsten Schneider referred to the limitation of global warming as a representation of German interests. He accused the CDU and SPD of conveying to the citizens that Germany could stop global warming through sufficiently high CO₂ taxes. Frohnmaier stated that only the AfD represents German interests and will abolish the CO₂ tax as soon as it governs. #Umweltschutz #Erderwärmung #CO2Steuer (translated)

Hertha BSC made a profit of 1.2 million euros in the past financial year, achieving a positive result for the first time since 2018/19, while increasing total revenue to 106.2 million euros, despite the debt still standing at 37.2 million euros. #HerthaBSC #Finanzen #Bundesliga (translated)

Markus Frohnmaier criticized that the EU Commission is currently ruling out resuming gas imports from Russia after the end of the war and fundamentally wants to forgo it. As a result, in his opinion, the Germans would have to continue paying very high prices. Frohnmaier explained that the AfD therefore wants to fundamentally reform the EU and return the responsibility for such decisions to the national parliaments. #EUreform #Energiepolitik #AfD (translated)

Furkan Yildirim wrote that the ongoing attack on Binance is still in progress according to on-chain data and could be the largest crypto hack in history. Therefore, the final amount of damage is not yet determined. So far, outflows of about 5.6 billion US dollars have been confirmed, he wrote. Of that, 2.3 billion US dollars have been frozen in USDT and USDC. Binance has a buffer of around 1.2 billion US dollars from its SAFU fund with 15,000 BTC. According to Yildirim, this leaves more than 2 billion US dollars that Binance would have to cover from its own funds. Whether the exchange is capable of doing so can only be answered by Binance itself, he explained. There are no publicly known reserves of the exchange beyond customer funds and the SAFU fund. Yildirim also described it as remarkable that the Bitcoin price continues to hold in its previous range. #Krypto #Binance #Hacks (translated)

The E-Control has presented a draft for the new network tariffs, which, on average, provides for a savings of 3.6 percent for households, but due to regional differences, not all Austrian households will pay less for network fees next year. #Netzentgelte #EControl #Strompreise (translated)

Gas price in Europe 2022: >100 euros per megawatt-hour Gas price in Europe 2026: >100 euros per megawatt-hour In between, there was a gigantic counter-campaign against heat pumps, renewables, and electrification in general, which mainly came from the right. We are paying the price for that again today. (translated)

Tobias Z. was sentenced to nine years in prison and must pay 40,000 euros in damages after he drugged his partner and committed serious sexual assaults on multiple occasions while secretly filming the acts and publishing them on the internet. #Vergewaltigung #Missbrauch #Justiz (translated)

Emanuel Boeminghaus wrote that the integrated debts of German municipalities would have amounted to 378.9 billion euros by the end of 2025, 9.9 percent more than at the beginning of the year. In the previous year, the increase was 6.3 percent. On average, each resident of the surveyed municipalities incurred debts amounting to 4,907 euros; at the same time, the municipal core and extra budgets recorded a record deficit of 31.9 billion euros in 2025. Hesse's municipalities had the highest debt level at 6,763 euros per capita, followed by Saarland with 6,408 euros. Debts grew particularly strongly in Lower Saxony (13.3 percent) and Baden-Württemberg (13.1 percent). The debts of the municipal core budgets rose by 15.5 percent. Boeminghaus pointed to a Destatis publication from October 29, 2026, and described the growth of debts as a warning signal. https://t.co/9zSG3CUa6M #Kommunen #Schulden #Finanzkrise (translated)

Simon Betschinger referred to a WELT report stating that Volkswagen had plummeted deeply into the red in the third quarter, recording a group result after taxes of minus 5.82 billion euros from July to September. He attributed 70 percent of the responsibility for the decline of the German industry to politics and 30 percent to management, asking how others would weigh this distribution. #Volkswagen #DeutscheIndustrie #Wirtschaft (translated)

NIUS reported that Volkswagen plunged deep into the red in the third quarter. The group's net result after taxes from July to September was minus 5.82 billion euros, the car manufacturer announced according to NIUS. https://t.co/NVCMbsDLHt #VW #Milliardenverlust #Automobilindustrie (translated)

Emanuel Boeminghaus wrote that Volkswagen has published its figures and achieved only 100 million euros in profit from January to September. The company, which has provided Wolfsburg with tax revenues for decades, is significantly struggling. According to Boeminghaus, this could become a financial nightmare for the city, given an already existing budget deficit of 132 million euros. If business tax revenues continue to decline, he estimates that the deficit could grow to around 500 million euros. #Volkswagen #Wolfsburg #Finanzen (translated)

Daniel Gugger 888 wrote that he views NATO's aggressive eastward expansion as a personal motivation for Putin to attack Ukraine. NATO has approached Russia for decades; it has expanded eastward seven times since 1999. He also pointed to Aegis missiles in Poland and Romania that can be reconfigured from defense to offensive systems within two minutes, as well as possible NATO troops and missiles along the 2,000-kilometer-long Russian border. As a comparison, Gugger cited the Cuban Missile Crisis. He wrote that the USA had first stationed nuclear Jupiter intermediate-range missiles in Turkey in 1961, which were reachable by Moscow within ten minutes. The Soviet missiles in Cuba were a response to that; the crisis was resolved through a deal in which both sides withdrew their missiles. Today, Ukraine is a similar red line for Russia as Cuba was for the USA in 1962. Gugger disputed that a potential NATO membership for Ukraine was solely based on a voluntary request. He referred to Victoria Nuland and her statement from 2013 that the USA had invested more than five billion dollars in promoting democracy in Ukraine. A year later, a leaked phone call from Nuland surfaced in which she spoke disparagingly about the EU and discussed the occupation of the Ukrainian government after Maidan. Gugger described the change of power as a coup financed by Washington and pointed out that Arseniy Yatsenyuk had become Prime Minister. Additionally, Gugger claimed that since 2014, more than 14,000 people, mostly civilians, had been killed by the Ukrainian army and the Azov battalion in the Donbass. He wrote that residential areas, schools, and kindergartens in Luhansk and Donetsk had been shelled for eight years, and the people there had voted against belonging to Kiev in a referendum in 2014. Putin cited the protection of the Russian population in the region as justification. In conclusion, Gugger asked who benefits from the war. Rheinmetall shares were worth about 90 euros before the war, and now they cost more than 500 euros; the company is reporting record profits in the billions. BlackRock has a direct stake of more than five percent in Rheinmetall and is simultaneously engaged with Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman. Gugger also pointed out that Friedrich Merz had been the chairman of BlackRock Germany for many years. He wrote that taxpayers fund weapons while Ukrainians and Russians pay with their lives, and companies and individuals like Sigmar Gabriel receive record dividends. #NATO #Ukraine #Putin (translated)

Truth Social, the social media platform founded by Donald Trump, has reportedly gained clients such as Bloomberg and two Wall Street firms willing to pay up to $100,000 per month for quick access to Trump's posts via an API that could potentially influence the financial markets. #TruthSocial #TrumpMedia #Finanzmärkte (translated)