In 2025 Germany collected €66.4 billion in cigarette taxes. The German Statistical Office (Destatis) noted that this represented a rise of 0.2 % - or 100 millio... https://news.osna.fm/?p=31567 | #news #amid #cigarette #continued #decline

On Thursday the DAX posted a clear gain. At the close of Xetra trading it stood at 24,856 points, rising 1.2 % compared with the previous day's close. After a v... https://news.osna.fm/?p=31516 | #news #confidence #dax #decline #fed

In gastronomy, revenue rose real 3.9 percent and nominal 4.3 percent in November 2025 versus October 2025, the Wiesbaden authorities reported. Compared with Nov... https://news.osna.fm/?p=31372 | #news #decline #despite #german #hospitality

“The US is No One's Ally: Disband NATO (and 5 Eyes) Now”

by Alon Mizrahi in The Mizrahi Perspective on Substack

@uk_politics
@thegreenparty

“And kick all American bases out. Because giving an out-of-control, hostile power unlimited access to a country's territory, political system, resources and culture is tantamount to national suicide”

https://open.substack.com/pub/alonmizrahi/p/the-us-is-no-ones-ally-disband-nato

#Press #US #UK #NATO #VassalState #Trump #FiveEyes #Exceptionalism #Sadism #Megalomania #Empire #Decline #Panic

Investment goods were 1.9 % higher than 2024; durable goods 1.5 % higher; consumer goods 2.7 % higher; food items 3.1 % higher. Beef and coffee spiked by about... https://news.osna.fm/?p=31246 | #news #annual #costs #december #decline

A quotation from Shakespeare

GLOUCESTER: We have seen the best of our time. Machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders follow us disquietly to our graves.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 118ff (1.2.118-121) (1606)

More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #badtimes #change #corruption #decline #troubles

German agricultural producer prices experienced a significant decline in November 2025, raising concerns about the sector's stability and prompting questions re... https://news.osna.fm/?p=30633 | #news #decline #farm #german #november

Global natural disaster losses in 2025 remained alarmingly high, totaling approximately $224 billion, despite a decrease from the previous year, Munich Re annou... https://news.osna.fm/?p=30522 | #news #decline #despite #disaster #losses

@nek

This is a *must read* in the wider context of Trump’s imperial machinations!

“Venezuela and the logic of US decline”

by Rares Cocilnau in The Canary

@thecanaryuk
@VenezuelaRevolucionaria

https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2026/01/08/venezuela-us-decline/

#US #Trump #Venezuela #Imperialism #Decline

“Venezuela and the logic of US decline”

by Rares Cocilnau in The Canary

@thecanaryuk
@palestine@fedibird.com
@Palestine@masto.ai
@palestine@lemmy.ml

“Trump, albeit unwittingly, has placed the US on the path of decline, one in which imperial power is no longer mediated through neat institutional consensus or economic integration, but increasingly asserted through militarisation and coercion”

https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2026/01/08/venezuela-us-decline/

#Press #US #Trump #Empire #Coercion #Decline #Venezuela #DonroeDoctrine #Hegemony #China #Contradiction

Service Sector Slowdown Signals Underlying Economic Concerns in GermanyPreliminary data released by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reveals a concerni... https://news.osna.fm/?p=30021 | #news #decline #german #october #sales

Germany's provisional data, released this week by the Agora Energiewende think tank, indicates a slight reduction in greenhouse gas emissions for 2025, falling... https://news.osna.fm/?p=29766 | #news #climate #decline #emissions #germanys

Japan joining growing global trend of declining democracy

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16262732

#HackerNews #Japan #Democracy #Decline #GlobalTrend #PoliticalNews #AsahiArticle

Tesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/01/tesla-sales-fell-by-9-percent-in-2025-its-second-yearly-decline/

#HackerNews #Tesla #Sales #Decline #Electric #Vehicles #Automotive #News #Market #Trends

The German bicycle industry, already grappling with a severe crisis, faces a deepening downturn, according to industry leaders. Initial hopes for a market recov... https://news.osna.fm/?p=29268 | #news #bike #decline #faces #fifth

Only 5 Sears stores remain in the U.S.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/business/sears-seritage-edward-lampert.html

#HackerNews #Sears #Stores #U.S. #RetailHistory #BusinessNews #Decline

The #IDC warns of a potential 9% #decline in #PC shipments by 2026 due to a global #memoryshortage. This #shortage, driven by increased demand from #AIinfrastructure, is causing #DRAM and #NAND production to be redirected away from consumer devices. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/idc-warns-pc-market-could-shrink-up-to-9-percent-in-2026-due-to-skyrocketing-ram-pricing-even-moderate-forecast-hits-5-percent-drop-as-ai-driven-shortages-slam-into-pc-market?eicker.news #tech #media #news

How the "Marvelization" of Cinema Accelerates the Decline of Filmmaking

https://www.openculture.com/2025/11/how-the-marvelization-of-cinema-accelerates-the-decline-of-filmmaking.html

#HackerNews #Marvelization #Cinema #Filmmaking #Decline #MovieIndustry

“Decline and Fall: The British Empire, in steep decline on the eve of World War I, is a cautionary tale for a decayed U.S. Empire a century later”

by Chris Hedges in The Chris Hedges Report on Substack

“We [the US] are making the same self-defeating mistakes made by the British political class that oversaw the decline of the British Empire and orchestrated the suicidal folly of World War I”

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/decline-and-fall

#Press #US #Empire #Trump #Decline #Fall #Britain #Poverty #Racism #Eugenics

I know it’s hard to get paper reviewers but sending the invite on Christmas Day and the reminder on 27th isn’t going to help the cause #decline