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Seeing as you're making dice that are fighting the current situation in the USA right now, I think this would be up your alley. https://stgiga.github.io/gigaware/TarouijaD120files.zip would be up your alley. It is a 3D model with OpenSCAD for tweaks, of a d120 but instead of the numbers 1-120, it has extended Tarot and extended Ouija as its symbols, via Unicode shenanigans, following this mapping https://www.reddit.com/r/d120Lists/comments/17mr2uv/d120_tarot_and_spirit_board/
Roll: Result
1: Ace of Spades
2: Two of Spades
3: Three of Spades
4: Four of Spades
5: Five of Spades
6: Six of Spades
7: Seven of Spades
8: Eight of Spades
9: Nine of Spades
10: Ten of Spades
11: Jack of Spades
12: Knight of Spades
13: Queen of Spades
14: King of Spades
15: Ace of Hearts
16: Two of Hearts
17: Three of Hearts
18: Four of Hearts
19: Five of Hearts
20: Six of Hearts
21: Seven of Hearts
22: Eight of Hearts
23: Nine of Hearts
24: Ten of Hearts
25: Jack of Hearts
26: Knight of Hearts
27: Queen of Hearts
28: King of Hearts
29: Ace of Diamonds
30: Two of Diamonds
31: Three of Diamonds
32: Four of Diamonds
33: Five of Diamonds
34: Six of Diamonds
35: Seven of Diamonds
36: Eight of Diamonds
37: Nine of Diamonds
38: Ten of Diamonds
39: Jack of Diamonds
40: Knight of Diamonds
41: Queen of Diamonds
42: King of Diamonds
43: Black Joker
44: Ace of Clubs
45: Two of Clubs
46: Three of Clubs
47: Four of Clubs
48: Five of Clubs
49: Six of Clubs
50: Seven of Clubs
51: Eight of Clubs
52: Nine of Clubs
53: Ten of Clubs
54: Jack of Clubs
55: Knight of Clubs
56: Queen of Clubs
57: King of Clubs
58: White Joker
59: Fool
60: Individual
61: Childhood
62: Youth
63: Maturity
64: Old Age
65: Morning
66: Afternoon
67: Evening
68: Night
69: Earth and Air
70: Water and Fire
71: Dance
72: Shopping
73: Open Air
74: Visual Arts
75: Spring
76: Summer
77: Autumn
78: Winter
79: The Game
80: Collective
81: 0
82: 1
83: 2
84: 3
85: 4
86: 5
87: 6
88: 7
89: 8
90: 9
91: A
92: B
93: C
94: D
95: E
96: F
97: G
98: H
99: I
100: J
101: K
102: L
103: M
104: N
105: O
106: P
107: Q
108: R
109: S
110: T
111: U
112: V
113: W
114: X
115: Y
116: Z
117: Yes
118: No
119: Hello
120: Goodbye
And in Unicode
🂡🂢🂣🂤🂥🂦🂧🂨🂩🂪🂫🂬🂭🂮🂱🂲🂳🂴🂵🂶🂷🂸🂹🂺🂻🂼🂽🂾🃁🃂🃃🃄🃅🃆🃇🃈🃉🃊🃋🃌🃍🃎🃏🃑🃒🃓🃔🃕🃖🃗🃘🃙🃚🃛🃜🃝🃞🃟🃠🃡🃢🃣🃤🃥🃦🃧🃨🃩🃪🃫🃬🃭🃮🃯🃰🃱🃲🃳🃴🃵𝟶𝟷𝟸𝟹𝟺𝟻𝟼𝟽𝟾𝟿𝙰𝙱𝙲𝙳𝙴𝙵𝙶𝙷𝙸𝙹𝙺𝙻𝙼𝙽𝙾𝙿𝚀𝚁𝚂𝚃𝚄𝚅𝚆𝚇𝚈𝚉👍👎⎆⎋
The first section of characters is the contents of the Playing Cards block in Unicode, minus Red Joker (white is kept) and Playing Card Back. So that means the 52 cards (jokers included) in an English/American deck of playing cards, plus Tarot's Knight cards, so 56 cards (and these are basically a graphical suit with the value above it, in a 12pt cell), plus the 22 cards in the Major Arcana, with "Fool" as XXII as is done on some decks. That section is rendered as a 12pt card with Roman numerals I through XXII with IX and XI having disambiguation dots. The naming I used for the cards is the alias names Unicode gives the cards. So none of the "The Hanged Man" or the generic numbered-only names that Unicode gives as their official codepoint names. After that is Ouija's 0-9 and uppercase A-Z, using Unicode's Mathematical Monospaced characters (Courier) from Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, in order to fit the 1800s playbill font commonly seen on Ouija boards, also 12pt. Now the next ones are the interesting ones. To represent Yes and No, I used the Thumbs-Up and Thumbs-Down emoji respectively, and the real interesting part is what I did for Hello and Goodbye. For those, I used two characters from the Miscellaneous Technical block, namely the Enter Symbol and the Escape Symbol, both seen on old Mac keyboards. The first one is a diamond with an arrow pointing inwards, and the second one is a circle with an arrow pointing outwards. The metaphor here is that "Hello" is entering a conversation, and "Goodbye" is leaving one, obviously with a spirit. And all this fills ALL 120 slots on a d120, with no empty or duplicate entries. A unique glyph for each side. The only fonts usable for this by the way are Unifont Smooth (bundled) or UnifontEX. No other font, even Unifont itself, has all the characters together, due to the fact that Hello and Goodbye symbols are in Plane 0, meanwhile the rest of the characters are in Plane 1 AND even include emoji, never mind that some fonts do not support the Major Arcana part of the Playing Cards block. So basically, you're stuck with these two forks of GNU Unifont, but UnifontEX is pixel and so is not exactly a fitting theme unless you're a hacker like I am. Plus, by a bout of sheer chance, ALL the characters after vectorization turned out fine (though White Joker's J is too skeletal in the loop), something that related characters (some of the other stuff in the same block as the thumbs up and thumbs down emoji didn't vectorize well) have trouble with. I was very pleasantly surprised that the emoji and the Roman numerals turned out fine. But ultimately this was a feat of engineering I did when I was bored from 2023 to nowadays.
Anyways, what makes this a compelling protest product is that it combines several things that fundamentalist Christians are very prone to hating. It takes Tarot cards and Ouija boards and shoves them onto dice that are literally divisible into an entire set of common and rare TTRPG dice, on top of the shape being a D&D d20 but divided into 6 triangles (putting a d4 on each face and then dividing by 2), a D&D d12 but divided into 10 triangles for each pentagon, as well as being a derivative shape of the d30 and d60. So basically, this "Tarouija" d120 combines multiple things that fundamentalist Christians consider "demonic" into one divination ritual item and thus is a great form of protest against the religious right. For the record I live in California. Hopefully this is interesting. Oh the OpenSCAD file needs the nightly build of OpenSCAD. #dicemaking #dicemaker #dice #d120 #unicode #unifontex #tarotcard #tarotdecks #tarotcards #tarotcardsreading #ouijaboard #ouija #3d #3dp #3dprinting #3dprinter #spiritboard #majorarcana #fuckice #protest #unifont #openscad #scad #3dart #art #tech #technology #code #font #fontdev #fonts #3dmodel #3dmodeling #3dmodels #3dmodeled #computerscience #compsci #boredom #activism #ice -
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Seeing as you're making dice that are fighting the current situation in the USA right now, I think this would be up your alley. https://stgiga.github.io/gigaware/TarouijaD120files.zip would be up your alley. It is a 3D model with OpenSCAD for tweaks, of a d120 but instead of the numbers 1-120, it has extended Tarot and extended Ouija as its symbols, via Unicode shenanigans, following this mapping https://www.reddit.com/r/d120Lists/comments/17mr2uv/d120_tarot_and_spirit_board/
Roll: Result
1: Ace of Spades
2: Two of Spades
3: Three of Spades
4: Four of Spades
5: Five of Spades
6: Six of Spades
7: Seven of Spades
8: Eight of Spades
9: Nine of Spades
10: Ten of Spades
11: Jack of Spades
12: Knight of Spades
13: Queen of Spades
14: King of Spades
15: Ace of Hearts
16: Two of Hearts
17: Three of Hearts
18: Four of Hearts
19: Five of Hearts
20: Six of Hearts
21: Seven of Hearts
22: Eight of Hearts
23: Nine of Hearts
24: Ten of Hearts
25: Jack of Hearts
26: Knight of Hearts
27: Queen of Hearts
28: King of Hearts
29: Ace of Diamonds
30: Two of Diamonds
31: Three of Diamonds
32: Four of Diamonds
33: Five of Diamonds
34: Six of Diamonds
35: Seven of Diamonds
36: Eight of Diamonds
37: Nine of Diamonds
38: Ten of Diamonds
39: Jack of Diamonds
40: Knight of Diamonds
41: Queen of Diamonds
42: King of Diamonds
43: Black Joker
44: Ace of Clubs
45: Two of Clubs
46: Three of Clubs
47: Four of Clubs
48: Five of Clubs
49: Six of Clubs
50: Seven of Clubs
51: Eight of Clubs
52: Nine of Clubs
53: Ten of Clubs
54: Jack of Clubs
55: Knight of Clubs
56: Queen of Clubs
57: King of Clubs
58: White Joker
59: Fool
60: Individual
61: Childhood
62: Youth
63: Maturity
64: Old Age
65: Morning
66: Afternoon
67: Evening
68: Night
69: Earth and Air
70: Water and Fire
71: Dance
72: Shopping
73: Open Air
74: Visual Arts
75: Spring
76: Summer
77: Autumn
78: Winter
79: The Game
80: Collective
81: 0
82: 1
83: 2
84: 3
85: 4
86: 5
87: 6
88: 7
89: 8
90: 9
91: A
92: B
93: C
94: D
95: E
96: F
97: G
98: H
99: I
100: J
101: K
102: L
103: M
104: N
105: O
106: P
107: Q
108: R
109: S
110: T
111: U
112: V
113: W
114: X
115: Y
116: Z
117: Yes
118: No
119: Hello
120: Goodbye
And in Unicode
🂡🂢🂣🂤🂥🂦🂧🂨🂩🂪🂫🂬🂭🂮🂱🂲🂳🂴🂵🂶🂷🂸🂹🂺🂻🂼🂽🂾🃁🃂🃃🃄🃅🃆🃇🃈🃉🃊🃋🃌🃍🃎🃏🃑🃒🃓🃔🃕🃖🃗🃘🃙🃚🃛🃜🃝🃞🃟🃠🃡🃢🃣🃤🃥🃦🃧🃨🃩🃪🃫🃬🃭🃮🃯🃰🃱🃲🃳🃴🃵𝟶𝟷𝟸𝟹𝟺𝟻𝟼𝟽𝟾𝟿𝙰𝙱𝙲𝙳𝙴𝙵𝙶𝙷𝙸𝙹𝙺𝙻𝙼𝙽𝙾𝙿𝚀𝚁𝚂𝚃𝚄𝚅𝚆𝚇𝚈𝚉👍👎⎆⎋
The first section of characters is the contents of the Playing Cards block in Unicode, minus Red Joker (white is kept) and Playing Card Back. So that means the 52 cards (jokers included) in an English/American deck of playing cards, plus Tarot's Knight cards, so 56 cards (and these are basically a graphical suit with the value above it, in a 12pt cell), plus the 22 cards in the Major Arcana, with "Fool" as XXII as is done on some decks. That section is rendered as a 12pt card with Roman numerals I through XXII with IX and XI having disambiguation dots. The naming I used for the cards is the alias names Unicode gives the cards. So none of the "The Hanged Man" or the generic numbered-only names that Unicode gives as their official codepoint names. After that is Ouija's 0-9 and uppercase A-Z, using Unicode's Mathematical Monospaced characters (Courier) from Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, in order to fit the 1800s playbill font commonly seen on Ouija boards, also 12pt. Now the next ones are the interesting ones. To represent Yes and No, I used the Thumbs-Up and Thumbs-Down emoji respectively, and the real interesting part is what I did for Hello and Goodbye. For those, I used two characters from the Miscellaneous Technical block, namely the Enter Symbol and the Escape Symbol, both seen on old Mac keyboards. The first one is a diamond with an arrow pointing inwards, and the second one is a circle with an arrow pointing outwards. The metaphor here is that "Hello" is entering a conversation, and "Goodbye" is leaving one, obviously with a spirit. And all this fills ALL 120 slots on a d120, with no empty or duplicate entries. A unique glyph for each side. The only fonts usable for this by the way are Unifont Smooth (bundled) or UnifontEX. No other font, even Unifont itself, has all the characters together, due to the fact that Hello and Goodbye symbols are in Plane 0, meanwhile the rest of the characters are in Plane 1 AND even include emoji, never mind that some fonts do not support the Major Arcana part of the Playing Cards block. So basically, you're stuck with these two forks of GNU Unifont, but UnifontEX is pixel and so is not exactly a fitting theme unless you're a hacker like I am. Plus, by a bout of sheer chance, ALL the characters after vectorization turned out fine (though White Joker's J is too skeletal in the loop), something that related characters (some of the other stuff in the same block as the thumbs up and thumbs down emoji didn't vectorize well) have trouble with. I was very pleasantly surprised that the emoji and the Roman numerals turned out fine. But ultimately this was a feat of engineering I did when I was bored from 2023 to nowadays.
Anyways, what makes this a compelling protest product is that it combines several things that fundamentalist Christians are very prone to hating. It takes Tarot cards and Ouija boards and shoves them onto dice that are literally divisible into an entire set of common and rare TTRPG dice, on top of the shape being a D&D d20 but divided into 6 triangles (putting a d4 on each face and then dividing by 2), a D&D d12 but divided into 10 triangles for each pentagon, as well as being a derivative shape of the d30 and d60. So basically, this "Tarouija" d120 combines multiple things that fundamentalist Christians consider "demonic" into one divination ritual item and thus is a great form of protest against the religious right. For the record I live in California. Hopefully this is interesting. Oh the OpenSCAD file needs the nightly build of OpenSCAD. #dicemaking #dicemaker #dice #d120 #unicode #unifontex #tarotcard #tarotdecks #tarotcards #tarotcardsreading #ouijaboard #ouija #3d #3dp #3dprinting #3dprinter #spiritboard #majorarcana #fuckice #protest #unifont #openscad #scad #3dart #art #tech #technology #code #font #fontdev #fonts #3dmodel #3dmodeling #3dmodels #3dmodeled #computerscience #compsci #boredom #activism #ice -
@[email protected]
Seeing as you're making dice that are fighting the current situation in the USA right now, I think this would be up your alley. https://stgiga.github.io/gigaware/TarouijaD120files.zip would be up your alley. It is a 3D model with OpenSCAD for tweaks, of a d120 but instead of the numbers 1-120, it has extended Tarot and extended Ouija as its symbols, via Unicode shenanigans, following this mapping https://www.reddit.com/r/d120Lists/comments/17mr2uv/d120_tarot_and_spirit_board/
Roll: Result
1: Ace of Spades
2: Two of Spades
3: Three of Spades
4: Four of Spades
5: Five of Spades
6: Six of Spades
7: Seven of Spades
8: Eight of Spades
9: Nine of Spades
10: Ten of Spades
11: Jack of Spades
12: Knight of Spades
13: Queen of Spades
14: King of Spades
15: Ace of Hearts
16: Two of Hearts
17: Three of Hearts
18: Four of Hearts
19: Five of Hearts
20: Six of Hearts
21: Seven of Hearts
22: Eight of Hearts
23: Nine of Hearts
24: Ten of Hearts
25: Jack of Hearts
26: Knight of Hearts
27: Queen of Hearts
28: King of Hearts
29: Ace of Diamonds
30: Two of Diamonds
31: Three of Diamonds
32: Four of Diamonds
33: Five of Diamonds
34: Six of Diamonds
35: Seven of Diamonds
36: Eight of Diamonds
37: Nine of Diamonds
38: Ten of Diamonds
39: Jack of Diamonds
40: Knight of Diamonds
41: Queen of Diamonds
42: King of Diamonds
43: Black Joker
44: Ace of Clubs
45: Two of Clubs
46: Three of Clubs
47: Four of Clubs
48: Five of Clubs
49: Six of Clubs
50: Seven of Clubs
51: Eight of Clubs
52: Nine of Clubs
53: Ten of Clubs
54: Jack of Clubs
55: Knight of Clubs
56: Queen of Clubs
57: King of Clubs
58: White Joker
59: Fool
60: Individual
61: Childhood
62: Youth
63: Maturity
64: Old Age
65: Morning
66: Afternoon
67: Evening
68: Night
69: Earth and Air
70: Water and Fire
71: Dance
72: Shopping
73: Open Air
74: Visual Arts
75: Spring
76: Summer
77: Autumn
78: Winter
79: The Game
80: Collective
81: 0
82: 1
83: 2
84: 3
85: 4
86: 5
87: 6
88: 7
89: 8
90: 9
91: A
92: B
93: C
94: D
95: E
96: F
97: G
98: H
99: I
100: J
101: K
102: L
103: M
104: N
105: O
106: P
107: Q
108: R
109: S
110: T
111: U
112: V
113: W
114: X
115: Y
116: Z
117: Yes
118: No
119: Hello
120: Goodbye
And in Unicode
🂡🂢🂣🂤🂥🂦🂧🂨🂩🂪🂫🂬🂭🂮🂱🂲🂳🂴🂵🂶🂷🂸🂹🂺🂻🂼🂽🂾🃁🃂🃃🃄🃅🃆🃇🃈🃉🃊🃋🃌🃍🃎🃏🃑🃒🃓🃔🃕🃖🃗🃘🃙🃚🃛🃜🃝🃞🃟🃠🃡🃢🃣🃤🃥🃦🃧🃨🃩🃪🃫🃬🃭🃮🃯🃰🃱🃲🃳🃴🃵𝟶𝟷𝟸𝟹𝟺𝟻𝟼𝟽𝟾𝟿𝙰𝙱𝙲𝙳𝙴𝙵𝙶𝙷𝙸𝙹𝙺𝙻𝙼𝙽𝙾𝙿𝚀𝚁𝚂𝚃𝚄𝚅𝚆𝚇𝚈𝚉👍👎⎆⎋
The first section of characters is the contents of the Playing Cards block in Unicode, minus Red Joker (white is kept) and Playing Card Back. So that means the 52 cards (jokers included) in an English/American deck of playing cards, plus Tarot's Knight cards, so 56 cards (and these are basically a graphical suit with the value above it, in a 12pt cell), plus the 22 cards in the Major Arcana, with "Fool" as XXII as is done on some decks. That section is rendered as a 12pt card with Roman numerals I through XXII with IX and XI having disambiguation dots. The naming I used for the cards is the alias names Unicode gives the cards. So none of the "The Hanged Man" or the generic numbered-only names that Unicode gives as their official codepoint names. After that is Ouija's 0-9 and uppercase A-Z, using Unicode's Mathematical Monospaced characters (Courier) from Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, in order to fit the 1800s playbill font commonly seen on Ouija boards, also 12pt. Now the next ones are the interesting ones. To represent Yes and No, I used the Thumbs-Up and Thumbs-Down emoji respectively, and the real interesting part is what I did for Hello and Goodbye. For those, I used two characters from the Miscellaneous Technical block, namely the Enter Symbol and the Escape Symbol, both seen on old Mac keyboards. The first one is a diamond with an arrow pointing inwards, and the second one is a circle with an arrow pointing outwards. The metaphor here is that "Hello" is entering a conversation, and "Goodbye" is leaving one, obviously with a spirit. And all this fills ALL 120 slots on a d120, with no empty or duplicate entries. A unique glyph for each side. The only fonts usable for this by the way are Unifont Smooth (bundled) or UnifontEX. No other font, even Unifont itself, has all the characters together, due to the fact that Hello and Goodbye symbols are in Plane 0, meanwhile the rest of the characters are in Plane 1 AND even include emoji, never mind that some fonts do not support the Major Arcana part of the Playing Cards block. So basically, you're stuck with these two forks of GNU Unifont, but UnifontEX is pixel and so is not exactly a fitting theme unless you're a hacker like I am. Plus, by a bout of sheer chance, ALL the characters after vectorization turned out fine (though White Joker's J is too skeletal in the loop), something that related characters (some of the other stuff in the same block as the thumbs up and thumbs down emoji didn't vectorize well) have trouble with. I was very pleasantly surprised that the emoji and the Roman numerals turned out fine. But ultimately this was a feat of engineering I did when I was bored from 2023 to nowadays.
Anyways, what makes this a compelling protest product is that it combines several things that fundamentalist Christians are very prone to hating. It takes Tarot cards and Ouija boards and shoves them onto dice that are literally divisible into an entire set of common and rare TTRPG dice, on top of the shape being a D&D d20 but divided into 6 triangles (putting a d4 on each face and then dividing by 2), a D&D d12 but divided into 10 triangles for each pentagon, as well as being a derivative shape of the d30 and d60. So basically, this "Tarouija" d120 combines multiple things that fundamentalist Christians consider "demonic" into one divination ritual item and thus is a great form of protest against the religious right. For the record I live in California. Hopefully this is interesting. Oh the OpenSCAD file needs the nightly build of OpenSCAD. #dicemaking #dicemaker #dice #d120 #unicode #unifontex #tarotcard #tarotdecks #tarotcards #tarotcardsreading #ouijaboard #ouija #3d #3dp #3dprinting #3dprinter #spiritboard #majorarcana #fuckice #protest #unifont #openscad #scad #3dart #art #tech #technology #code #font #fontdev #fonts #3dmodel #3dmodeling #3dmodels #3dmodeled #computerscience #compsci #boredom #activism #ice -
Ten Tactics of ‘Sustainable’ Palm Oil Greenwashing
What is greenwashing?
At the end of the 20th century, environmental problems began to arise from unchecked capitalist growth. Out of-control global corporates needed strong storytelling and PR to support their continued exponential growth.
The marketing and PR tactics employed to justify the continued growth of these brands and products despite their destruction, is known as:
Greenwashing
Read moreThere has never been a more urgent time for consumers to wake up to the devastation wrought by global supermarket brands for palm oil
Here’s 10 different ways #consumers are deceived by so-called ‘sustainable’ #palmoil which is a multi-billion $ lie. #Fightgreenwashing with your wallet! #deforestation #extinction #Boycottpalmoil
Here is a ten-part series abt #greenwashing by ‘sustainable’ #palmoil lobbyists, certified #palmoil is a greenwashing lie according to @greenpeaceUK @EIA_News @foeint @sumofus @mightyearth @NZZ @AP #Boycottpalmoil
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1. Greenwashing with Hidden Trade-Off
2. Greenwashing with No Proof
3. Greenwashing with Vagueness
4. Greenwashing with Fake Labels
5. Greenwashing with Irrelevance & Deflection
6. Greenwashing by Lesser of Two Evils
7. Greenwashing by Lying
8. Greenwashing with Design & Words
9. Greenwashing with Partnerships, Sponsorships & Research Funding
10. Greenwashing by Gaslighting, Stalking, Harassment & Attempting to Discredit Critics
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Further Reading on Palm oil Greenwashing and Deceptive Marketing
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1. Greenwashing with a Hidden Trade Off
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Claiming a brand or commodity is ‘green’ using a narrow definition or series of characteristics
For example, when a brand talks about satellite monitoring to stop palm oil deforestation, however deforestation continues to take place or perhaps even accelerate in spite of this, that’s ‘Hidden Trade-Off’
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Greenwashing Tactic #1: Hidden Trade Off: Claiming a brand or commodity is ‘green’ using a narrow definition or set of characteristics. #Boycott4Wildlife #Boycottpalmoil #FightGreenwashing
2. Greenwashing with No Proof
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Claiming a brand or commodity is ‘green’ without any supporting evidence
Making baseless claims is one of the easiest greenwashing tactics. For example when an advertisement claims that a product has several environmental benefits, but the company can’t back up these claims with any scientific data or evidence.
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Greenwashing Tactic #2: No Proof: Claiming a #brand or #commodity is sustainable without any evidence. We’ve had enough of #greenwashing lies to sell so-called ‘sustainable’ #palmoil #Boycottpalmoil #FightGreenwashing #Boycott4Wildlife
3. Greenwashing with Vagueness
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Claiming a brand or commodity is ‘green’ or ‘sustainable’ based on broad generalisations, unclear language or vague statements
For example having vague requirements for certification schemes like the RSPO that are easily manipulated or where loopholes or vagueness in certification standards can be exploited by RSPO members.
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Greenwashing Tactic #3: Vagueness: Claiming a brand or commodity is green by using vague generalisations or by having vague guiding principles which are subject to #corruption. We #Boycott4Wildlife #Boycottpalmoil #FightGreenwashing
4. Greenwashing with Fake Labels
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Claiming a brand or commodity is green based on unreliable, ineffective endorsements or eco-labels such as the RSPO, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) or FairTrade coffee and cocoa.
Most certifications and eco-labels add a ‘green sheen’ to brands. Yet according to Greenpeace – even the most respected certifications in the world rarely have a positive environmental and social impact.
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Greenwashing Tactic #4: Fake Labels: Claiming a brand or commodity is green by using fake certifications such as @RSPOtweets that do not stop #deforestation #landgrabbing. We #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #FightGreenwashing
5. Greenwashing with Irrelevance & Deflection
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Claiming a brand, commodity or industry is green based on irrelevant information
A common greenwashing tactic is to shift the conversation towards a an irrelevant issue that deflects from the environmental issue at hand.
For example, palm oil lobbyists steer online conversations away from criticising ‘sustainable’ palm oil or calling for a boycott of palm oil, towards other topics that are irrelevant.
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6. Greenwashing by Lesser of Two Evils
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Claiming that brand, commodity or industry is greener than others in the same category in order to excuse ecocide, deforestation, human rights and animal rights abuses
For example, the main justification for using palm oil over other oil crops by palm oil lobbyists is: “Palm oil uses less land than other oil crops. Therefore, even though this crop is causing indigenous land-grabbing, ecocide, deforestation, fires, species extinction and causing air and water pollution – it’s still better than other oils”
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7. Greenwashing by Lying
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Telling outright lies over and over to consumers, or skillfully omitting the truth in statements, until the lies are believed as truth
Brands and food agriculture lobbyists generate blatant lies that appear in advertising or on social media. The lie could be falsifying support from respected authorities or individuals on environmental issues. The lie could also be a turn of phrase which ‘massages the truth’ for consumers.
‘Deforestation by fire is prohibited for RSPO members’
Yet in reality, deforestation is allowed to continue by palm oil traders, manufacturers within that certification scheme.
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#Greenwashing Tactic #7 Lying: Telling outright lies over again to #consumers until they are believed as truth. This is commonly done by #palmoil lobbyists and global food companies #Boycott4Wildlife #Boycottpalmoil #FightGreenwashing
8. Greenwashing with Design & Words
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Using design principles and greenwashing language in order to trigger emotional and unconscious responses in consumers
Some examples of greenwashing design include:
- Hand-drawn typography and fonts.
- Pastel colours or blue and green hues.
- Hand-drawn or vintage and nostalgic animals and children illustrations in packaging and advertising design that bring to mind children’s books.
- Happy, uplifting and nostalgic music.
- Visual storytelling involving nature.
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Greenwashing Tactic #8: #Design and #Words: Using subliminal design principles and #greenwashing #language to convey ‘greenness’ to #consumers. We #Boycott4Wildlife #Boycottpalmoil #FightGreenwashing
9. Greenwashing with Partnerships, Sponsorships & Research Funding
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Using corporate partnerships, sponsorships and research funding to give a commodity, an industry, certification scheme or supermarket brand a ‘greener’ reputation
Global supermarket brands that are members of the RSPO provide sponsorship money to Zoos, city councils in the UK and small businesses in order to push the lie of sustainable palm oil to school children and unaware consumers.
Corporate partnerships, sponsorships and research funding are easy ways to gain legitimacy and win consumer trust.
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#Greenwashing Tactic #9: Using #corporate #partnerships, #sponsorships and #research #funding to give a #commodity, #industry or
a #brand a ‘greener’ reputation. #Boycottpalmoil #FightGreenwashing #Boycott4Wildlife10. Greenwashing by Gaslighting, Harassment, Stalking and Attempting to Discredit Critics
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Attempting to humiliate, gaslight, discredit, harass and stalk any vocal critics of a brand, commodity or industry certification in order to scare individuals into silence.
Greenwashing’s most insidious and darkest form is the attempt to discredit, humiliate, harass, abuse and stalk individuals in order to stop them from sharing information with others about corporate corruption.
Targets of this kind of greenwashing could be researchers, conservationists, activists, investigative journalists, whistle-blowers or concerned and aware consumers who delve too deeply into issues, such as corruption in the palm oil industry.
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Further reading on palm oil ecocide, greenwashing and deceptive marketing
- A Brief History of Consumer Culture, Dr. Kerryn Higgs, The MIT Press Reader. https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-brief-history-of-consumer-culture/
- A Deluge of Double-Speak (2017), Jason Bagley. Truth in Advertising. https://truthinadvertising.org/blog/a-deluge-of-doublespeak/
- Aggarwal, P. (2011). Greenwashing: The darker side of CSR. Indian Journal of Applied Research, 4(3), 61-66. https://www.worldwidejournals.com/indian-journal-of-applied-research-(IJAR)/article/greenwashing-the-darker-side-of-csr/MzMxMQ==/?is=1
- Anti-Corporate Activism and Collusion: The Contentious Politics of Palm Oil Expansion in Indonesia, (2022). Ward Berenschot, et. al., Geoforum, Volume 131, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.03.002
- Armour, C. (2021). Green Clean. Company Director Magazine. https://www.aicd.com.au/regulatory-compliance/regulations/investigation/green-clean.html
- Balanced Growth (2020), In: Leal Filho W., Azul A.M., Brandli L., özuyar P.G., Wall T. (eds) Responsible Consumption and Production. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham
- Berenschot, W., Hospes, O., & Afrizal, A. (2023). Unequal access to justice: An evaluation of RSPO’s capacity to resolve palm oil conflicts in Indonesia. Agriculture and Human Values, 40, 291-304. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-022-10360-z
- Carlson, K. M., Heilmayr, R., Gibbs, H. K., Noojipady, P., et al. (2018). Effect of oil palm sustainability certification on deforestation and fire in Indonesia. PNAS, 115(1), 121-126. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1704728114
- Cazzolla Gatti, R., Liang, J., Velichevskaya, A., & Zhou, M. (2018). Sustainable palm oil may not be so sustainable. Science of The Total Environment, 652, 48-51. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30359800/
- Changing Times Media. (2019). Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil is ‘greenwashing’ labelled products, environmental investigation agency says. Changing Times Media. https://changingtimes.media/2019/11/03/roundtable-on-sustainable-palm-oil-is-greenwashing-labelled-products-environmental-protection-agency-says/
- Client Earth: The Greenwashing Files. https://www.clientearth.org/projects/the-greenwashing-files/
- Commodifying sustainability: Development, nature and politics in the palm oil industry (2019). World Development, Volume 121, September 2019, Pages 218-228. https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/wdevel/v121y2019icp218-228.html
- Contrasting communications of sustainability science in the media coverage of palm oil agriculture on tropical peatlands in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore (2020). Liu, F. H. M., Ganesan, V., Smith, T. E. L. Environmental Science & Policy, 114. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343772443_Contrasting_communications_of_sustainability_science_in_the_media_coverage_of_palm_oil_agriculture_on_tropical_peatlands_in_Indonesia_Malaysia_and_Singapore
- Cosimo, L. H. E., Masiero, M., Mammadova, A., & Pettenella, D. (2024). Voluntary sustainability standards to cope with the new European Union regulation on deforestation-free products: A gap analysis. Forest Policy and Economics, 164, 103235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103235
- Dalton, J. (2018). No such thing as sustainable palm oil – ‘certified’ can destroy even more wildlife, say scientists. The Independent. https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/palm-oil-sustainable-certified-plantations-orangutans-indonesia-southeast-asia-greenwashing-purdue-a8674681.html
- Davis, S. J., Alexander, K., Moreno-Cruz, J., et al. (2023). Food without agriculture. Nature Sustainability. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01241-2
- EIA International. (2022). Will palm oil watchdog rid itself of deforestation or continue to pretend its products are sustainable? EIA International. https://eia-international.org/news/will-palm-oil-watchdog-rid-itself-of-deforestation-or-continue-to-pretend-its-products-are-sustainable/
- Environmental Investigation Agency. (2019). Palm oil watchdog’s sustainability guarantee is still a destructive con. EIA International. https://eia-international.org/news/palm-oil-watchdogs-sustainability-guarantee-is-still-a-destructive-con/
- Federal Trade Commission. (n.d.). Green Guides. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/topics/truth-advertising/green-guides
- Fifteen environmental NGOs demand that sustainable palm oil watchdog does its job (2019). Rainforest Action Network. https://www.ran.org/press-releases/fifteen-environmental-ngos-demand-that-sustainable-palm-oil-watchdog-does-its-job/
- Friends of the Earth International. (2018). RSPO: 14 years of failure to eliminate violence and destruction from the industrial palm oil sector. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/rspo-14-years-of-failure-to-eliminate-violence-and-destruction-from-the-industrial-palm-oil-sector/
- Lang, Chris and REDD Monitor. Sustainable palm oil? RSPO’s greenwashing and fraudulent audits exposed. The Ecologist. https://theecologist.org/2015/nov/19/sustainable-palm-oil-rspos-greenwashing-and-fraudulent-audits-exposed
- Gatti, L., Pizzetti, M., & Seele, P. (2021). Green lies and their effect on intention to invest. Journal of Business Research, 127, 376-387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.01.028
- Global Witness. (2023). Amazon palm: Ecocide and human rights abuses. Global Witness. https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/environmental-activists/amazon-palm/
- Global Witness. (2021). The True Price of Palm Oil. Global Witness. https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/forests/true-price-palm-oil/
- Grain. (2021). Ten reasons why certification should not be promoted in the EU anti-deforestation regulation. Grain. https://grain.org/en/article/6856-ten-reasons-why-certification-should-not-be-promoted-in-the-eu-anti-deforestation-regulation
- Green Clean (2021). Armour, C. Company Director Magazine.
- Green marketing and the Australian Consumer Law (2011). Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. https://www.accc.gov.au/system/files/Green%20marketing%20and%20the%20ACL.pdf
- Greenwash and spin: palm oil lobby targets its critics (2011). Helan, A. Ecologist: Informed by Nature. https://theecologist.org/2011/jul/08/greenwash-and-spin-palm-oil-lobby-targets-its-critics
- Greenwashing: definition and examples. Selectra https://climate.selectra.com/en/environment/greenwashing#:~:text=Greenwashing%20is%20the%20practice%20of,its%20activities%20pollute%20the%20environment.
- Greenwashing of the Palm Oil Industry (2007). Mongabay. https://news.mongabay.com/2007/11/greenwashing-the-palm-oil-industry/
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- Helan, A. (2011). Greenwash and spin: palm oil lobby targets its critics. Ecologist: Informed by Nature. https://theecologist.org/2011/feb/15/greenwash-and-spin-palm-oil-lobby-targets-its-critics
- Hewlett Packard. (2021). What is Greenwashing and How to Tell Which Companies are Truly Environmentally Responsible. Hewlett Packard. https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/tech-takes/what-is-greenwashing-environmentally-responsible-companies
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- How Cause-washing Deceives Consumers (2021). Truth in Advertising. https://truthinadvertising.org/resource/how-causewashing-deceives-consumers/
- International Labour Organization. (2020). Forced labor in the palm oil industry. ILO. https://www.ilo.org/topics/forced-labour-modern-slavery-and-human-trafficking
- Jauernig, J., Uhl, M., & Valentinov, V. (2021). The ethics of corporate hypocrisy: An experimental approach. Futures, 129, 102757. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2021.102757
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- Li, T. M., & Semedi, P. (2021). Plantation life: Corporate occupation in Indonesia’s oil palm zone. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/plantation-life
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Research: Palm Oil Deforestation and its connection to RSPO members/supermarket brands
The RSPO is a global certification scheme for palm oil that certifies palm oil as ‘sustainable’. Yet this word means absolutely nothing, as RSPO members – the biggest supermarket brands in the world: (Unilever, Nestle, Colgate-Palmolive, L’Oreal, Avon, Mars, Mondelez, Cargill, Danone and more) continue with illegal indigenous landgrabbing, deforestation, human rights abuses, slavery and violence on their palm oil plantations.
This is why Palm Oil Detectives advocates for a full boycott on these global brands because of their palm oil corruption. Here is some collected peer-reviewed research, OSINT and investigative journalism about these issues.
Read #research from @EIA_News @Greenpeace @AP @NZZ @Global_Witness @crresearch @FOEInt @ECCHRBerlin how the @RSPOtweets is #greenwashing #ecocide #deforestation #extinction #illegal #landgrabbing Join the #Boycott4Wildlife on #palmoil
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Burning Questions – Environmental Investigation Agency (2021)
Dying for a Cookie – Greenpeace (2019)
Who Watches the Watchmen 2 – Environmental Investigation Agency (2019)
The RSPO: 14 Years of Failure – Friends of the Earth International (2014)
Destruction Certified – Greenpeace (2021)
Trading Risks ADM and Bunge – Global Witness (2021)
Keep the Forests Standing – Rainforest Action Network (2019)
License to Clear West Papua – Greenpeace 2021
FMCG’s Zero-Deforestation Challenges – Chain Reaction Research (2020)
Plantation Life Corporate Occupation in Indonesia’s Oil Palm Zone (2021)
Planet Palm – Jocelyn Zuckerman (2021)
Rethinking Dayak Identity – Dr Setia Budhi
Human Rights Fitness of the Auditing and Certification Industry – ECCHR (2021)
Is there such a thing as sustainable palm oil? – Neue Zürcher Zeitung (2021)
The True Price of Palm Oil – Global Witness (2021)
Research: Do certified sustainable palm oil plantations support more animal species?
Research: Does RSPO palm oil certification stop deforestation, human rights abuses, illegal land-grabbing and does it meet sustainability metrics?
The RSPO: 14 Years of Failure – An Open Letter from Friends of the Earth and 100 Human Rights NGOs (2014)
Which RSPO members continue to cause deforestation? – Mighty Earth (2021)
Which supermarket brands (RSPO members) cause deforestation, human rights abuses for palm oil? Palm Oil Detectives (2021)
Ecocide & Corruption Whistle-blowers on Twitter
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Investigative journalism, OSINT investigations into the RSPO and ‘sustainable’ palm oil
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Burning Questions – Credibility of sustainable palm oil still illusive – Environmental Investigation Agency (2021) Read report Dying for a cookie: How Mondelez’s Dirty Palm Oil is feeding the climate and extinction crisis by Greenpeace (2019) Read report Who Watches the Watchmen Part 2: The continuing incompetence of the RSPO’s assurance systems (2019) Read report The RSPO: 14 Years of Failure by Friends of the Earth International and Co-signed by 100 Indigenous and Human Rights Organisations (2014) Read report Destruction Certified by Greenpeace (2021) Read report Trading Risks ADM and Bunge and failing land and environmental rights defenders in Indonesia (2021) Read report Keep the Forests Standing: Exposing the brands driving deforestation – RAN (2020) Read report License to Clear Dark Side of Permitting in West Papua by Greenpeace (2021) Read report FMCG’s Zero-Deforestation Challenges and Growing Exposure to Reputational Risk. Chain Reaction Research (2020) Read report Plantation Life Corporate Occupation in Indonesia’s Oil Palm Zone (2021) Read report Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up In Everything and Endangered the World by Jocelyn Zuckerman (2021) Read report Rethinking Dayak Identity Dr Setia Budhi Read report Read report Adina Renner, Conradin Zellweger, Barnaby Skinner. ‘Is there such a thing as sustainable palm oil? Satellite images show protected rainforest on fire’. (May 2021) https://www.nzz.ch/english/palm-oil-boom-threatens-protected-rainforest-in-indonesia-ld.1625490 Read report The True Price of Palm Oil: How global finance and household brands are fuelling deforestation, violence and human rights abuses in Papua New Guinea Read ReportBack to top ↑
Research: Do certified sustainable palm oil plantations support more animal species?
Answer: NO
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Oil palm plantations support much fewer species than do forests and often also fewer than other tree crops. Further negative impacts include habitat fragmentation and pollution, including greenhouse gas emissions.
Emily B. Fitzherbert, Matthew J. Struebig, Alexandra Morel, Finn Danielsen, Carsten A. Brühl, Paul F. Donald, Ben Phalan, How will oil palm expansion affect biodiversity?,
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Vol 23, 2008, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2008.06.012.Currently certified grower supply bases and concessions in Sumatra and Borneo are located in large mammal’s habitat and in areas that were biodiverse tropical forests less than 30 years ago. We suggest that certification schemes claim for the “sustainable” production of palm oil just because they neglect a very recent past of deforestation and habitat degradation.
Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Alena Velichevskaya, Certified “sustainable” palm oil took the place of endangered Bornean and Sumatran large mammals habitat and tropical forests in the last 30 years, Science of The Total Environment, Vol 742, 2020,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140712.We analyse consequences of the globally important land-use transformation from tropical forests to oil palm plantations. Species diversity, density and biomass of invertebrate communities suffer at least 45% decreases from rainforest to oil palm.
Barnes, A., Jochum, M., Mumme, S. et al. Consequences of tropical land use for multitrophic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Nat Commun 5, 5351 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6351
We found that certified plantation concessions that are committed to deforestation-free production are limited in their ability to prevent further biodiversity loss, due to the past conversion of forest habitats to plantations. Concession holders can improve forest habitats through corridor development and other measures, which would mitigate, but not prevent, further biodiversity loss.
Hideyuki Kubo, Arief Darmawan, Hendarto, André Derek Mader,
The effect of agricultural certification schemes on biodiversity loss in the tropics,
Biological Conservation, Volume 261, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109243.Research: Does RSPO palm oil certification stop deforestation, human rights abuses, illegal land-grabbing and does it meet sustainability metrics?
Answer: NO
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https://twitter.com/earthsight/status/1192827396451438592?s=20&t=rnSAWHikl-a8C6GAd9n09g
February 2021
Read reportWe find positive effects on prices and income from sale of certified products. However, we find no change in overall household income and assets for workers. The wages for workers are not higher in certified production.
Oya, C., Schaefer, F. & Skalidou, D. The effectiveness of agricultural certification in developing countries: a systematic review. World Dev. 112, 282–312 (2018).
There was no significant difference was found between certified and non-certified plantations for any of the sustainability metrics investigated, however positive economic trends including greater fresh fruit bunch yields were revealed. To achieve intended outcomes, RSPO principles and criteria are in need of substantial improvement and rigorous enforcement.
Morgans, C. L. et al. Evaluating the effectiveness of palm oil certification in delivering multiple sustainability objectives. Environ. Res. Lett. 13, 064032, 2018.
This article argues that the form of sustainability offered by certification schemes such as the RSPO fetishes the commodity palm oil in order to assuage critical consumer initiatives in the North. This technical-managerial solution is part of a larger project: the “post-political” climate politics regime (Swyngedouw) that attempts to “green” the status quo.
Commodifying sustainability: Development, nature and politics in the palm oil industry (2019) World Development
Volume 121, September 2019, Pages 218-228- The palm oil industry is neither sustainable nor a viable development model.
- Certification represents a technical fix which neglects underlying dynamics of power, class, gender and accumulation.
- The fetishised commodity ‘certified sustainable palm oil’ has no impact on the regional scale of expansion.
- Working conditions in the plantations and mills entrench social inequality and poverty.
From: Commodifying sustainability: Development, nature and politics in the palm oil industry (2019) World Development
Volume 121, September 2019, Pages 218-228
Read report Deceased Estate: Illegal palm oil wiping out Indonesia’s national forest, Greenpeace Indonesia, Oct 2021“Both Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) schemes are failing to ensure that palm oil is being produced and traded legally, let alone sustainably. They cannot be relied upon by overseas consumers concerned about their role in the global chain that leads to deforestation.”
Deceased Estate: Illegal palm oil wiping out Indonesia’s national forest, Greenpeace Indonesia, Oct 2021
No significant difference was found between certified and non-certified plantations for any of the sustainability metrics investigated, however positive economic trends including greater fresh fruit bunch yields were revealed. To achieve intended outcomes, RSPO principles and criteria are in need of substantial improvement and rigorous enforcement.
Evaluating the effectiveness of palm oil certification in delivering multiple sustainability objectives. (2018), Morgans, C. L. et al. Environ. Res. Lett. 13, 064032.
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RSPO: 14 years of failure to eliminate violence and destruction from the industrial palm oil sector
Friends of the Earth and 100 other human rights and environmental NGOS co-signed this letter in 2018
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During its 14 years of existence, RSPO – the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil – has failed to live up to its claim of “transforming” the industrial palm oil production sector into a so-called “sustainable” one. In reality, the RSPO has been used by the palm oil industry to greenwash corporate destruction and human rights abuses, while it continues to expand business, forest destruction and profits.
RSPO presents itself to the public with the slogan “transforming the markets to make sustainable palm oil the norm”. Palm oil has become the cheapest vegetable oil available on the global market, making it a popular choice among the group that dominates RSPO membership, big palm oil buyers.
They will do everything to secure a steady flow of cheap palm oil. They also know that the key to the corporate success story of producing “cheap” palm oil is a particular model of industrial production, with ever-increasing efficiency and productivity which in turn is achieved by:
- Planting on a large-scale and in monoculture, frequently through conversion of tropical biodiverse forests
- Using “high yielding” seedlings that demand large amounts of agrotoxics and abundant water.
- Squeezing cheap labour out of the smallest possible work force, employed in precarious conditions so that company costs are cut to a minimum
- Making significant up-front money from the tropical timber extracted from concessions, which is then used to finance plantation development or increase corporate profits.
- Grabbing land violently from local communities or by means of other arrangements with governments (including favourable tax regimes) to access land at the lowest possible cost.
Those living on the fertile land that the corporations choose to apply their industrial palm oil production model, pay a very high price.
Violence is intrinsic to this model:
- violence and repression when communities resist the corporate take over of their land because they know that once their land is turned into monoculture oil palm plantations, their livelihoods will be destroyed, their land and forests invaded. In countless cases, deforestation caused by the expansion of this industry, has displaced communities or destroyed community livelihoods where
- companies violate customary rights and take control of community land;
- sexual violence and harassment against women in and around the plantations which often stays invisible because women find themselves without possibilities to demand that the perpetrators be prosecuted;
- Child labour and precarious working conditions that go hand-in-hand with violation of workers’ rights;
- working conditions can even be so bad as to amount to contemporary forms of slavery. This exploitative model of work grants companies more economic profits while allowing palm oil to remain a cheap product. That is why, neither them or their shareholders do anything to stop it.
- exposure of workers, entire communities and forests, rivers, water springs, agricultural land and soils to the excessive application of agrotoxics;
- depriving communities surrounded by industrial oil palm plantations of their food sovereignty when industrial oil palm plantations occupy land that communities need to grow food crops.
RSPO’s proclaimed vision of transforming the industrial oil palm sector is doomed to fail because the Roundtable’s certification principles promote this structural violent and destructive model.
The RSPO also fails to address the industry’s reliance on exclusive control of large and contingent areas of fertile land, as well as the industry’s growth paradigm which demands a continued expansion of corporate control over community land and violent land grabs.
None of RPSO’s eight certification principles suggests transforming this industry reliance on exclusive control over vast areas of land or the growth paradigm inherent to the model.
Industrial use of vegetable oils has doubled in the past 15 years, with palm oil being the cheapest. This massive increase of palm oil use in part explains the current expansion of industrial oil palm plantations, especially in Africa and Latin America, from the year 2000 onward, in addition to the existing vast plantations areas in Malaysia and Indonesia that also continue expanding.
On the ground, countless examples show that industrial oil palm plantations continue to be synonymous to violence and destruction for communities and forests. Communities’ experiences in the new industrial oil palm plantation frontiers, such as Gabon, Nigeria, Cameroon, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Peru, Honduras, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, are similar to past and ongoing community experiences in Indonesia and Malaysia.
RSPO creates a smokescreen that makes this violence invisible for consumers and financiers. Governments often fail to take regulatory action to stop the expansion of plantations and increasing demand of palm oil; they rely on RSPO to deliver an apparently sustainable flow of palm oil.
For example, in its public propaganda, RSPO claims it supports more than 100,000 small holders. But the profit from palm oil production is still disproportionally appropriated by the oil palm companies: in 2016, 88% of all certified palm oil came from corporate plantations and 99,6% of the production is corporate-controlled.
RSPO also claims that the principle of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) is key among its own Principles and Criteria. The right to FPIC implies, among others, that if a community denies the establishment of this monoculture in its territory, operations cannot be carried out. Reality shows us, however, that despite this, many projects go ahead.
Concessions are often guaranteed long before the company reaches out to the affected communities. Under these circumstances, to say that FPIC is central to RSPO is bluntly false and disrespectful.
RSPO also argues that where conflicts with the plantation companies arise, communities can always use its complaint mechanism. However, the mechanism is complex and it rarely solves the problems that communities face and want to resolve.
This becomes particularly apparent in relation to land legacy conflicts where the mechanism is biased against communities. It allows companies to continue exploiting community land until courts have come to a decision. This approach encourages companies to sit out such conflicts and count on court proceedings dragging on, often over decades.
Another argument used by RSPO is that industrial oil palm plantations have lifted millions of people out of poverty. That claim is certainly questionable, even more so considering that there is also an important number of people who have been displaced over the past decades to make space for plantations.
Indigenous communities have in fact lost their fertile land, forests and rivers to oil palm plantations, adversely affecting their food, culture and local economies.
The RSPO promise of “transformation” has turned into a powerful greenwashing tool for corporations in the palm oil industry. RSPO grants this industry, which remains responsible for violent land grabbing, environmental destruction, pollution through excessive use of agrotoxics and destruction of peasant and indigenous livelihoods, a “sustainable” image.
What’s more, RSPO membership seems to suffice for investors and companies to be able to claim that they are “responsible” actors. This greenwash is particularly stunning, since being a member does not guarantee much change on the ground. Only recently, a company became RSPO member after it was found to deforest over 27.000 hectares of rainforest in Papua, Indonesia.
Certification is structurally dependent on the very same policies and regulation that have given rise to the host of environmental devastation and community land rights violations associated with oil palm plantations. These systemic governance issues are part of the destructive economic model, and embedded in state power.
For this reason, voluntary certification schemes cannot provide adequate protection for forests, community rights, food sovereignty and guarantee sustainability. Governments and financiers need to take responsibility to stop the destructive palm oil expansion that violates the rights of local communities and Indigenous Peoples.
As immediate steps, governments need to:
- Put in place a moratorium on palm oil plantations expansion and use that as a breathing space to fix the policy frameworks;
- Drastically reduce demand for palm oil: stop using food for fuel;
- Strengthen and respect the rights of local communities and Indigenous Peoples to amongst others, self-determination and territorial control.
- Promote agro-ecology and community control of their forests, which strengthens local incomes, livelihoods and food sovereignty, instead of advancing industrial agro-businesses.
Signatures
- Aalamaram-NGOAcción Ecológica, Ecuador
- ActionAid, France
- AGAPAN
Amics arbres - Arbres amics
- Amis de la Terre France
- ARAARBA (Asociación para la Recuperación del Bosque Autóctono)
- Asociación Conservacionista YISKI, Costa Rica
Asociación Gaia El Salvador - Association Congo Actif, Paris
- Association Les Gens du Partage, Carrières-sous-Poissy
- Association pour le développement des aires protégées, Swizterland
- BASE IS
- Bézu St Eloi
- Boxberg OT Uhyst
- Bread for all
- Bruno Manser Fund
- CADDECAE, Ecuador
- Campaign to STOP GE Trees
- CAP, Center for Advocacy Practices
- Centar za životnu sredinu/ Friends of the Earth Bosnia and Herzegovina
- CESTA – FOE El Salvador
- CETRI – Centre tricontinental
- Climate Change Kenya
- Coalición de Tendencia Clasista. (CTC-VZLA)
- Colectivo de Investigación y Acompañmiento Comunitario
- Collectif pour la défense des terres malgaches – TANY, Madagascar
- Community Forest Watch, Nigeria
- Consumers Association of Penang
- Corporate Europe Observatory
- Cuttington University
- Down to Earth Consult
- El Campello
- Environmental Resources Management and Social Issue Centre (ERMSIC) Cameroon
- Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria
- FASE ES , Brazil
- Fédération romande des consommateurs
- FENEV, (Femmes Environnement nature Entrepreneuriat Vert).
- Focus on the Global South
- Forum Ökologie & Papier, Germany
- Friends of the Earth Ghana
- Friends of the Earth International
- GE Free NZ, New Zealand
- Global Alliance against REDD
- Global Justice Ecology Project
- Global Info
- Gobierno Territorial Autónomo de la Nación Wampís , Peru
- GRAIN
- Green Development Advocates (GDA)
- CameroonGreystones, Ireland
- Groupe International de Travail pour les Peuples Autochtones
Grupo ETC - Grupo Guayubira, Uruguay
- Instituto Mexicano de Gobernanza Medioambiental AC Instituto Mexicano de Gobernanza Medioambiental AC
- Integrated Program for the Development of the Pygmy People (PIDP), DRC
- Justica Ambiental
- Justicia Paz e Integridad de la Creacion. Costa Rica
- Kempityari
- Latin Ambiente, http://www.latinambiente.org
- Les gens du partage
- LOYOLA SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY, MANILA
- Maderas del Pueblo del Sureste, AC
- Maiouri nature, Guyane
- Mangrove Action Project
- Milieudefensie – Friends of the Earth Netherlands
- Movimento Amigos da Rua Gonçalo de Carvalho
- Muyissi Environnement, Gabon
- Nature-d-congo de la République du Congo
- New Wind Association from Finland
- NOAH-Friends of the Earth Denmark
- Oakland Institute
- OFRANEH, Honduras
- Ole Siosiomaga Society Incorporated (OLSSI)
- ONG OCEAN : Organisation Congolaise des Ecologistes et Amis de la Nature et sommes basés en RD Congo.
- OPIROMA, Brazil
- Otros Mundos A.C./Amigos de la Tierra México
- Paramo Guerrrero Zipaquira
- PROYECTO GRAN SIMIO (GAP/PGS-España)
- Quercus – ANCN, Portugal
- Radd (Reseau des Acteurs du Développement Durable) , Cameroon
- Rainforest Foundation UK
- Rainforest Relief
- ReAct – Alliances Transnationales
- RECOMA – Red latinoamericana contra los monocultivos de árboles
- Red de Coordinacion en Biodiversidad , Çosta Rica
- REFEB-Cote d’Ivoire
- Rettet den Regenwald, Germany
- ROBIN WOOD
- Sahabat Alam Malaysia (Friends of the Earth Malaysia)
- Salva la Selva
- School of Democratic Economics, Indonesia
- Serendipalm Company Limited
- Sherpa , The Netherlands
- SYNAPARCAM, Cameroon
- The Corner House, UK
Towards Equitable Sustainable Holistic Development - TRAFFED KIVU ,RD. CONGOUNIÓN UNIVERSAL DESARROLLO SOLIDARIO
University of Sussex, UK - UTB ColombiaWatch Indonesia!
- WESSA
World Rainforest Movement - Youth Volunteers for the Environment Ghana
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Which RSPO members continue to cause deforestation?
Have a look at these quarterly and at-a-glance reports by Mighty Earth, they show the RSPO members (palm oil manfacturers, traders, processors and retail brands) at the centre of deforestation. Click on image to go to most recent report. This information below is a stark contrast to the greenwashing WWF Palm Oil Scorecard, which allocates many of these same brands with a ‘green’ and ‘sustainable’ label and encourages people to buy from them! We call out this form of greenwashing and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife!
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Retailers and banks at the heart of palm oil deforestation
Source: Rainforest Action Network (RAN)’s March 2020 Whitepaper
The True Cost of Palm Oil & Wood Pulp (2019)
https://palmoildetectives.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/greenpeace-palm-oil-and-wood-pulp-2019.pdf
Read reportHow Unilever and other global brands continue to fuel Indonesia’s fires (2019)
https://palmoildetectives.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/mondelez-nestle-p-and-g-unilever-bad.pdf
Read reportLoopholes in the palm oil supply chain allow RSPO members to continue to destroy forests with fire July 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlXmWWql6AM
Retailers and FMCG Giants do not take deforestation seriously enough to warrant change (2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2_uu4EOyqQ
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With so much misinformation, greenwashing and BS out there. It is difficult to know who is telling the truth.
Here’s a list of NGOS, individuals and media outlets you can trust for clear information that exposes the corruption going on around so-called ‘sustainable’ palm oil, deforestation and many other issues.
Also these media outlets, individuals and NGOs regularly cover other topics like deforestation for soy, meat, gold, timber, cocoa, coffee and other commodities. They also expose corruption, abuse, violence and death of indigenous people, land grabs etc and how this links to global companies.
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Research: Palm Oil Deforestation and its connection to RSPO members/supermarket brands
The RSPO is a global certification scheme for palm oil that certifies palm oil as ‘sustainable’. Yet this word means absolutely nothing, as RSPO members – the biggest supermarket brands in the world: (Unilever, Nestle, Colgate-Palmolive, L’Oreal, Avon, Mars, Mondelez, Cargill, Danone and more) continue with illegal indigenous landgrabbing, deforestation, human rights abuses, slavery and violence on their palm oil plantations.
This is why Palm Oil Detectives advocates for a full boycott on these global brands because of their palm oil corruption. Here is some collected peer-reviewed research, OSINT and investigative journalism about these issues.
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Burning Questions – Environmental Investigation Agency (2021)
Dying for a Cookie – Greenpeace (2019)
Who Watches the Watchmen 2 – Environmental Investigation Agency (2019)
The RSPO: 14 Years of Failure – Friends of the Earth International (2014)
Destruction Certified – Greenpeace (2021)
Trading Risks ADM and Bunge – Global Witness (2021)
Keep the Forests Standing – Rainforest Action Network (2019)
License to Clear West Papua – Greenpeace 2021
FMCG’s Zero-Deforestation Challenges – Chain Reaction Research (2020)
Plantation Life Corporate Occupation in Indonesia’s Oil Palm Zone (2021)
Planet Palm – Jocelyn Zuckerman (2021)
Rethinking Dayak Identity – Dr Setia Budhi
Human Rights Fitness of the Auditing and Certification Industry – ECCHR (2021)
Is there such a thing as sustainable palm oil? – Neue Zürcher Zeitung (2021)
The True Price of Palm Oil – Global Witness (2021)
Research: Do certified sustainable palm oil plantations support more animal species?
Research: Does RSPO palm oil certification stop deforestation, human rights abuses, illegal land-grabbing and does it meet sustainability metrics?
The RSPO: 14 Years of Failure – An Open Letter from Friends of the Earth and 100 Human Rights NGOs (2014)
Which RSPO members continue to cause deforestation? – Mighty Earth (2021)
Which supermarket brands (RSPO members) cause deforestation, human rights abuses for palm oil? Palm Oil Detectives (2021)
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Investigative journalism, OSINT investigations into the RSPO and ‘sustainable’ palm oil
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Burning Questions – Credibility of sustainable palm oil still illusive – Environmental Investigation Agency (2021) Read report Dying for a cookie: How Mondelez’s Dirty Palm Oil is feeding the climate and extinction crisis by Greenpeace (2019) Read report Who Watches the Watchmen Part 2: The continuing incompetence of the RSPO’s assurance systems (2019) Read report The RSPO: 14 Years of Failure by Friends of the Earth International and Co-signed by 100 Indigenous and Human Rights Organisations (2014) Read report Destruction Certified by Greenpeace (2021) Read report Trading Risks ADM and Bunge and failing land and environmental rights defenders in Indonesia (2021) Read report Keep the Forests Standing: Exposing the brands driving deforestation – RAN (2020) Read report License to Clear Dark Side of Permitting in West Papua by Greenpeace (2021) Read report FMCG’s Zero-Deforestation Challenges and Growing Exposure to Reputational Risk. Chain Reaction Research (2020) Read report Plantation Life Corporate Occupation in Indonesia’s Oil Palm Zone (2021) Read report Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up In Everything and Endangered the World by Jocelyn Zuckerman (2021) Read report Rethinking Dayak Identity Dr Setia Budhi Read report Read report Adina Renner, Conradin Zellweger, Barnaby Skinner. ‘Is there such a thing as sustainable palm oil? Satellite images show protected rainforest on fire’. (May 2021) https://www.nzz.ch/english/palm-oil-boom-threatens-protected-rainforest-in-indonesia-ld.1625490 Read report The True Price of Palm Oil: How global finance and household brands are fuelling deforestation, violence and human rights abuses in Papua New Guinea Read ReportBack to top ↑
Research: Do certified sustainable palm oil plantations support more animal species?
Answer: NO
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Oil palm plantations support much fewer species than do forests and often also fewer than other tree crops. Further negative impacts include habitat fragmentation and pollution, including greenhouse gas emissions.
Emily B. Fitzherbert, Matthew J. Struebig, Alexandra Morel, Finn Danielsen, Carsten A. Brühl, Paul F. Donald, Ben Phalan, How will oil palm expansion affect biodiversity?,
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Vol 23, 2008, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2008.06.012.Currently certified grower supply bases and concessions in Sumatra and Borneo are located in large mammal’s habitat and in areas that were biodiverse tropical forests less than 30 years ago. We suggest that certification schemes claim for the “sustainable” production of palm oil just because they neglect a very recent past of deforestation and habitat degradation.
Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Alena Velichevskaya, Certified “sustainable” palm oil took the place of endangered Bornean and Sumatran large mammals habitat and tropical forests in the last 30 years, Science of The Total Environment, Vol 742, 2020,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140712.We analyse consequences of the globally important land-use transformation from tropical forests to oil palm plantations. Species diversity, density and biomass of invertebrate communities suffer at least 45% decreases from rainforest to oil palm.
Barnes, A., Jochum, M., Mumme, S. et al. Consequences of tropical land use for multitrophic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Nat Commun 5, 5351 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6351
We found that certified plantation concessions that are committed to deforestation-free production are limited in their ability to prevent further biodiversity loss, due to the past conversion of forest habitats to plantations. Concession holders can improve forest habitats through corridor development and other measures, which would mitigate, but not prevent, further biodiversity loss.
Hideyuki Kubo, Arief Darmawan, Hendarto, André Derek Mader,
The effect of agricultural certification schemes on biodiversity loss in the tropics,
Biological Conservation, Volume 261, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109243.Research: Does RSPO palm oil certification stop deforestation, human rights abuses, illegal land-grabbing and does it meet sustainability metrics?
Answer: NO
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https://twitter.com/earthsight/status/1192827396451438592?s=20&t=rnSAWHikl-a8C6GAd9n09g
February 2021
Read reportWe find positive effects on prices and income from sale of certified products. However, we find no change in overall household income and assets for workers. The wages for workers are not higher in certified production.
Oya, C., Schaefer, F. & Skalidou, D. The effectiveness of agricultural certification in developing countries: a systematic review. World Dev. 112, 282–312 (2018).
There was no significant difference was found between certified and non-certified plantations for any of the sustainability metrics investigated, however positive economic trends including greater fresh fruit bunch yields were revealed. To achieve intended outcomes, RSPO principles and criteria are in need of substantial improvement and rigorous enforcement.
Morgans, C. L. et al. Evaluating the effectiveness of palm oil certification in delivering multiple sustainability objectives. Environ. Res. Lett. 13, 064032, 2018.
This article argues that the form of sustainability offered by certification schemes such as the RSPO fetishes the commodity palm oil in order to assuage critical consumer initiatives in the North. This technical-managerial solution is part of a larger project: the “post-political” climate politics regime (Swyngedouw) that attempts to “green” the status quo.
Commodifying sustainability: Development, nature and politics in the palm oil industry (2019) World Development
Volume 121, September 2019, Pages 218-228- The palm oil industry is neither sustainable nor a viable development model.
- Certification represents a technical fix which neglects underlying dynamics of power, class, gender and accumulation.
- The fetishised commodity ‘certified sustainable palm oil’ has no impact on the regional scale of expansion.
- Working conditions in the plantations and mills entrench social inequality and poverty.
From: Commodifying sustainability: Development, nature and politics in the palm oil industry (2019) World Development
Volume 121, September 2019, Pages 218-228
Read report Deceased Estate: Illegal palm oil wiping out Indonesia’s national forest, Greenpeace Indonesia, Oct 2021“Both Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) schemes are failing to ensure that palm oil is being produced and traded legally, let alone sustainably. They cannot be relied upon by overseas consumers concerned about their role in the global chain that leads to deforestation.”
Deceased Estate: Illegal palm oil wiping out Indonesia’s national forest, Greenpeace Indonesia, Oct 2021
No significant difference was found between certified and non-certified plantations for any of the sustainability metrics investigated, however positive economic trends including greater fresh fruit bunch yields were revealed. To achieve intended outcomes, RSPO principles and criteria are in need of substantial improvement and rigorous enforcement.
Evaluating the effectiveness of palm oil certification in delivering multiple sustainability objectives. (2018), Morgans, C. L. et al. Environ. Res. Lett. 13, 064032.
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RSPO: 14 years of failure to eliminate violence and destruction from the industrial palm oil sector
Friends of the Earth and 100 other human rights and environmental NGOS co-signed this letter in 2018
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During its 14 years of existence, RSPO – the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil – has failed to live up to its claim of “transforming” the industrial palm oil production sector into a so-called “sustainable” one. In reality, the RSPO has been used by the palm oil industry to greenwash corporate destruction and human rights abuses, while it continues to expand business, forest destruction and profits.
RSPO presents itself to the public with the slogan “transforming the markets to make sustainable palm oil the norm”. Palm oil has become the cheapest vegetable oil available on the global market, making it a popular choice among the group that dominates RSPO membership, big palm oil buyers.
They will do everything to secure a steady flow of cheap palm oil. They also know that the key to the corporate success story of producing “cheap” palm oil is a particular model of industrial production, with ever-increasing efficiency and productivity which in turn is achieved by:
- Planting on a large-scale and in monoculture, frequently through conversion of tropical biodiverse forests
- Using “high yielding” seedlings that demand large amounts of agrotoxics and abundant water.
- Squeezing cheap labour out of the smallest possible work force, employed in precarious conditions so that company costs are cut to a minimum
- Making significant up-front money from the tropical timber extracted from concessions, which is then used to finance plantation development or increase corporate profits.
- Grabbing land violently from local communities or by means of other arrangements with governments (including favourable tax regimes) to access land at the lowest possible cost.
Those living on the fertile land that the corporations choose to apply their industrial palm oil production model, pay a very high price.
Violence is intrinsic to this model:
- violence and repression when communities resist the corporate take over of their land because they know that once their land is turned into monoculture oil palm plantations, their livelihoods will be destroyed, their land and forests invaded. In countless cases, deforestation caused by the expansion of this industry, has displaced communities or destroyed community livelihoods where
- companies violate customary rights and take control of community land;
- sexual violence and harassment against women in and around the plantations which often stays invisible because women find themselves without possibilities to demand that the perpetrators be prosecuted;
- Child labour and precarious working conditions that go hand-in-hand with violation of workers’ rights;
- working conditions can even be so bad as to amount to contemporary forms of slavery. This exploitative model of work grants companies more economic profits while allowing palm oil to remain a cheap product. That is why, neither them or their shareholders do anything to stop it.
- exposure of workers, entire communities and forests, rivers, water springs, agricultural land and soils to the excessive application of agrotoxics;
- depriving communities surrounded by industrial oil palm plantations of their food sovereignty when industrial oil palm plantations occupy land that communities need to grow food crops.
RSPO’s proclaimed vision of transforming the industrial oil palm sector is doomed to fail because the Roundtable’s certification principles promote this structural violent and destructive model.
The RSPO also fails to address the industry’s reliance on exclusive control of large and contingent areas of fertile land, as well as the industry’s growth paradigm which demands a continued expansion of corporate control over community land and violent land grabs.
None of RPSO’s eight certification principles suggests transforming this industry reliance on exclusive control over vast areas of land or the growth paradigm inherent to the model.
Industrial use of vegetable oils has doubled in the past 15 years, with palm oil being the cheapest. This massive increase of palm oil use in part explains the current expansion of industrial oil palm plantations, especially in Africa and Latin America, from the year 2000 onward, in addition to the existing vast plantations areas in Malaysia and Indonesia that also continue expanding.
On the ground, countless examples show that industrial oil palm plantations continue to be synonymous to violence and destruction for communities and forests. Communities’ experiences in the new industrial oil palm plantation frontiers, such as Gabon, Nigeria, Cameroon, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Peru, Honduras, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, are similar to past and ongoing community experiences in Indonesia and Malaysia.
RSPO creates a smokescreen that makes this violence invisible for consumers and financiers. Governments often fail to take regulatory action to stop the expansion of plantations and increasing demand of palm oil; they rely on RSPO to deliver an apparently sustainable flow of palm oil.
For example, in its public propaganda, RSPO claims it supports more than 100,000 small holders. But the profit from palm oil production is still disproportionally appropriated by the oil palm companies: in 2016, 88% of all certified palm oil came from corporate plantations and 99,6% of the production is corporate-controlled.
RSPO also claims that the principle of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) is key among its own Principles and Criteria. The right to FPIC implies, among others, that if a community denies the establishment of this monoculture in its territory, operations cannot be carried out. Reality shows us, however, that despite this, many projects go ahead.
Concessions are often guaranteed long before the company reaches out to the affected communities. Under these circumstances, to say that FPIC is central to RSPO is bluntly false and disrespectful.
RSPO also argues that where conflicts with the plantation companies arise, communities can always use its complaint mechanism. However, the mechanism is complex and it rarely solves the problems that communities face and want to resolve.
This becomes particularly apparent in relation to land legacy conflicts where the mechanism is biased against communities. It allows companies to continue exploiting community land until courts have come to a decision. This approach encourages companies to sit out such conflicts and count on court proceedings dragging on, often over decades.
Another argument used by RSPO is that industrial oil palm plantations have lifted millions of people out of poverty. That claim is certainly questionable, even more so considering that there is also an important number of people who have been displaced over the past decades to make space for plantations.
Indigenous communities have in fact lost their fertile land, forests and rivers to oil palm plantations, adversely affecting their food, culture and local economies.
The RSPO promise of “transformation” has turned into a powerful greenwashing tool for corporations in the palm oil industry. RSPO grants this industry, which remains responsible for violent land grabbing, environmental destruction, pollution through excessive use of agrotoxics and destruction of peasant and indigenous livelihoods, a “sustainable” image.
What’s more, RSPO membership seems to suffice for investors and companies to be able to claim that they are “responsible” actors. This greenwash is particularly stunning, since being a member does not guarantee much change on the ground. Only recently, a company became RSPO member after it was found to deforest over 27.000 hectares of rainforest in Papua, Indonesia.
Certification is structurally dependent on the very same policies and regulation that have given rise to the host of environmental devastation and community land rights violations associated with oil palm plantations. These systemic governance issues are part of the destructive economic model, and embedded in state power.
For this reason, voluntary certification schemes cannot provide adequate protection for forests, community rights, food sovereignty and guarantee sustainability. Governments and financiers need to take responsibility to stop the destructive palm oil expansion that violates the rights of local communities and Indigenous Peoples.
As immediate steps, governments need to:
- Put in place a moratorium on palm oil plantations expansion and use that as a breathing space to fix the policy frameworks;
- Drastically reduce demand for palm oil: stop using food for fuel;
- Strengthen and respect the rights of local communities and Indigenous Peoples to amongst others, self-determination and territorial control.
- Promote agro-ecology and community control of their forests, which strengthens local incomes, livelihoods and food sovereignty, instead of advancing industrial agro-businesses.
Signatures
- Aalamaram-NGOAcción Ecológica, Ecuador
- ActionAid, France
- AGAPAN
Amics arbres - Arbres amics
- Amis de la Terre France
- ARAARBA (Asociación para la Recuperación del Bosque Autóctono)
- Asociación Conservacionista YISKI, Costa Rica
Asociación Gaia El Salvador - Association Congo Actif, Paris
- Association Les Gens du Partage, Carrières-sous-Poissy
- Association pour le développement des aires protégées, Swizterland
- BASE IS
- Bézu St Eloi
- Boxberg OT Uhyst
- Bread for all
- Bruno Manser Fund
- CADDECAE, Ecuador
- Campaign to STOP GE Trees
- CAP, Center for Advocacy Practices
- Centar za životnu sredinu/ Friends of the Earth Bosnia and Herzegovina
- CESTA – FOE El Salvador
- CETRI – Centre tricontinental
- Climate Change Kenya
- Coalición de Tendencia Clasista. (CTC-VZLA)
- Colectivo de Investigación y Acompañmiento Comunitario
- Collectif pour la défense des terres malgaches – TANY, Madagascar
- Community Forest Watch, Nigeria
- Consumers Association of Penang
- Corporate Europe Observatory
- Cuttington University
- Down to Earth Consult
- El Campello
- Environmental Resources Management and Social Issue Centre (ERMSIC) Cameroon
- Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria
- FASE ES , Brazil
- Fédération romande des consommateurs
- FENEV, (Femmes Environnement nature Entrepreneuriat Vert).
- Focus on the Global South
- Forum Ökologie & Papier, Germany
- Friends of the Earth Ghana
- Friends of the Earth International
- GE Free NZ, New Zealand
- Global Alliance against REDD
- Global Justice Ecology Project
- Global Info
- Gobierno Territorial Autónomo de la Nación Wampís , Peru
- GRAIN
- Green Development Advocates (GDA)
- CameroonGreystones, Ireland
- Groupe International de Travail pour les Peuples Autochtones
Grupo ETC - Grupo Guayubira, Uruguay
- Instituto Mexicano de Gobernanza Medioambiental AC Instituto Mexicano de Gobernanza Medioambiental AC
- Integrated Program for the Development of the Pygmy People (PIDP), DRC
- Justica Ambiental
- Justicia Paz e Integridad de la Creacion. Costa Rica
- Kempityari
- Latin Ambiente, http://www.latinambiente.org
- Les gens du partage
- LOYOLA SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY, MANILA
- Maderas del Pueblo del Sureste, AC
- Maiouri nature, Guyane
- Mangrove Action Project
- Milieudefensie – Friends of the Earth Netherlands
- Movimento Amigos da Rua Gonçalo de Carvalho
- Muyissi Environnement, Gabon
- Nature-d-congo de la République du Congo
- New Wind Association from Finland
- NOAH-Friends of the Earth Denmark
- Oakland Institute
- OFRANEH, Honduras
- Ole Siosiomaga Society Incorporated (OLSSI)
- ONG OCEAN : Organisation Congolaise des Ecologistes et Amis de la Nature et sommes basés en RD Congo.
- OPIROMA, Brazil
- Otros Mundos A.C./Amigos de la Tierra México
- Paramo Guerrrero Zipaquira
- PROYECTO GRAN SIMIO (GAP/PGS-España)
- Quercus – ANCN, Portugal
- Radd (Reseau des Acteurs du Développement Durable) , Cameroon
- Rainforest Foundation UK
- Rainforest Relief
- ReAct – Alliances Transnationales
- RECOMA – Red latinoamericana contra los monocultivos de árboles
- Red de Coordinacion en Biodiversidad , Çosta Rica
- REFEB-Cote d’Ivoire
- Rettet den Regenwald, Germany
- ROBIN WOOD
- Sahabat Alam Malaysia (Friends of the Earth Malaysia)
- Salva la Selva
- School of Democratic Economics, Indonesia
- Serendipalm Company Limited
- Sherpa , The Netherlands
- SYNAPARCAM, Cameroon
- The Corner House, UK
Towards Equitable Sustainable Holistic Development - TRAFFED KIVU ,RD. CONGOUNIÓN UNIVERSAL DESARROLLO SOLIDARIO
University of Sussex, UK - UTB ColombiaWatch Indonesia!
- WESSA
World Rainforest Movement - Youth Volunteers for the Environment Ghana
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With so much misinformation, greenwashing and BS out there. It is difficult to know who is telling the truth.
Here’s a list of NGOS, individuals and media outlets you can trust for clear information that exposes the corruption going on around so-called ‘sustainable’ palm oil, deforestation and many other issues.
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**Koofr on Linux**
Read it on my blog, it has a nicer image/text layout.
As a newly Mint-ed desktop Linux user I tried to connect to various cloud storages (Dropbox, Google Drive, Google Drive – Team drive) and lastly, Koofr.
Some brief words about my experiences connecting to Koofr.
There are 2 ways to connect to it (that I’m aware of): Koofr desktop app and rclone.
Connecting via rclone
Because I already have rclone setup for Dropbox and GDrive, I tried it first.
rclone has built-in support for Koofr (#26), which is great.
I had some minor difficulties to set it up. Nothing serious. Easier than connecting to Google Drive (and obtaining their app ID), for example.
Firstly, I went to my Koofr account -> Preferences -> Passwords and created a new app password especially for rclone.
Then I ran
rclone configAll went smooth until the step after entering an username:
Option password. Your password for rclone (generate one at https://app.koofr.net/app/admin/preferences/password).Choose an alternative below.y) Yes, type in my own passwordg) Generate random passwordy/g>I was a bit puzzled. What does it mean ‘my own password’? Should I make it up? Or use Koofr generated password?
Firstly, I chose the g) option. I thought rclone will somehow communicate with Koofr and set the password. I was wrong. It didn’t work. Then I restarted the config and chose y) option and pasted previously created app password from Koofr website.
It worked.
Then I adapted my Dropbox/GDrive mount script (mount_koofr.sh):
#!/bin/bash# Define remote name and mount pointREMOTE="Koofr-Tomi"MOUNT_POINT="$HOME/Koofr-Tomi"# Create the mount directory if it doesn't existmkdir -p "$MOUNT_POINT"# Unmount if already mountedif mountpoint -q "$MOUNT_POINT"; then echo "Unmounting $REMOTE..." fusermount -u "$MOUNT_POINT"fi# Mount Koofr with VFS caching enabledecho "Mounting $REMOTE to $MOUNT_POINT..."rclone mount "$REMOTE": "$MOUNT_POINT" \ --vfs-cache-mode full \ --daemonecho "Mounting complete!"After running this script, a new mount appeared with 3 pre-made folders:
Then I added some files and subfolders and it synced as it should.
Bottomline: It works fine, setup of password in rclone could be more understandable for ordinary users like me.
Connecting via desktop Koofr app
I’ve installed the app (Linux Mint), no errors or issues, which is good.
But when I tried to run the app, I saw this screen. No login input field or buttons. Maybe because I use fractional desktop scaling to 125%? Don’t know. When I set it to 100%, there was no change in app layout.
I contacted their support on Saturday afternoon and…
Their support was super quick (during the weekend & I’m just a rando non-paying user) and helped me to resolve the issue in less than a day. Do you hear that, Google?
As I understood, their app uses built-in stripped browser.
According to the support’s instructions, I had to deleted the file:
~/.koofr-dist/storagechromebut I rather renamed it to:
~/.koofr-dist/storagechrome_oldThen I ran the app again, Koofr login screen opened in a system browser (Firefox) and I could login. It looks like a Koofr desktop app is actually a local web app. Cool.
Sync app looks similar to Google Drive’s app and shows the status of sync and last synced files.
Bottomline: It works. I know it’s a Linux and all the difficulties because of different distros and desktops and libraries, but nevertheless. The install could be a bit more polished. Desktop app (first login) is the first thing user experiences. I’m not easily scared away, but many less experienced users are.
Can not comment on long-term usage yet. But the syncing looks quick enough and so far without issues.
Observations after several days of usage:
- When computer wakes up from suspend state, the app doesn’t wake up immediately. It needs several minutes to start syncing. Until then, it shows sync error. Rclone starts syncing immediately.
But why, would you ask?
Just prepping for possible Google (Drive) enshittification. Having EU (Slo) cloud storage alternative at hand makes me calmer.
Tags: #koofr #rclone #mint #linux #cloudstorage
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYcUS8mJIvg
La Versión 3D del infame Among Us presenta un nuevo modo basado en un nuevo personaje... el infectado. Que parece que puede capturar/convertir tripulantes en más infectados.
Sinceramente, me parece estirar el chicle en un juego cuya mayor premisa era la simplicidad y su accesibilidad.
Pero bueno, tendrá su público.
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if any of y’all are paying attention you’ll have realized that I have a large spectrum of music that I enjoy. even stuff you could legitimately describe as, “That’s really weird, man.” that’s cool.
I find myself really attracted to “throat singing” and the large range of tribal cultures who’ve independently developed similar styles.
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if any of y’all are paying attention you’ll have realized that I have a large spectrum of music that I enjoy. even stuff you could legitimately describe as, “That’s really weird, man.” that’s cool.
I find myself really attracted to “throat singing” and the large range of tribal cultures who’ve independently developed similar styles.
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if any of y’all are paying attention you’ll have realized that I have a large spectrum of music that I enjoy. even stuff you could legitimately describe as, “That’s really weird, man.” that’s cool.
I find myself really attracted to “throat singing” and the large range of tribal cultures who’ve independently developed similar styles.
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if any of y’all are paying attention you’ll have realized that I have a large spectrum of music that I enjoy. even stuff you could legitimately describe as, “That’s really weird, man.” that’s cool.
I find myself really attracted to “throat singing” and the large range of tribal cultures who’ve independently developed similar styles.
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if any of y’all are paying attention you’ll have realized that I have a large spectrum of music that I enjoy. even stuff you could legitimately describe as, “That’s really weird, man.” that’s cool.
I find myself really attracted to “throat singing” and the large range of tribal cultures who’ve independently developed similar styles.
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Et Moriemur – Tamashii no Yama (2022, Czechia)
As randomly chosen by survey[1] on Mastodon, our next spotlight is on number 499 on The List, submitted by HailsandAles.
It’s been a bit since we had one for the metalheads! Often it’s possible to tell from a metal album cover what you’re in for, but not so with this one. And, as might be gathered simply from the title of this post, there’s some stuff to unpack here. I, uh, may have gone on a bit of journey to figure out my thoughts on this album and what the take-off and destination points should be for this spotlight. So, if you’re just here for the music, click here and, happy listening (it is a good listen). But, if you want to join me in recounting said journey, well, I hope you have some snacks…
Band name: Latin for “and we will die”, is a quote from Western Attitudes Toward Death from the Middle Ages to the Present by French historian Philippe Ariès. All of the band’s albums except for this one in fact feature song titles and/or lyrics in Latin.
Genre: Atmospheric/melodic funeral/existential doom metal, with a smattering of…goth/baroque stuff? I mean, the opener is primarily piano, with some harpsichord weaving in and out all over the place.
Album name, song titles, some lyrics, album art: In Japanese/Japanese-inspired. Okay, so. Tbh, my first thought when taking a look at Tamashii no Yama – the album/song titles, the art, and the statement that the album is “exploring Japanese themes” – made me go, ‘uhh, why’. Translation: ‘is this cultural appropriation’. Upon first listen, if it weren’t for the album/song titles and art, I’m not sure I would’ve grasped that it was inspired by anything Japanese (and it wasn’t until my third listen that I realized some lyrics are sung in Japanese). Sure there’s one traditional Japanese instrument listed as being on the album, the shakuhachi, but that plus the Japanese titles and Japanese-inspired art aren’t exactly a “theme”, anymore than having Eddie dressed as a samurai and having the title written in Japanese characters makes Iron Maiden’s Senjutsu album Japanese-themed. And so, worried that this album was perhaps another example of cringe-inducing orientalism, I bristled a bit about this one, hummed and hawed about what to do with the spotlight, and asked the Fediverse if a country/existing culture could be tastefully and respectfully used as a “theme” by someone not from that country/culture. The comments were interesting, appreciated, and, as I expected, varied widely. I continued to hum and haw. And then, I dug some more.
First up, I thought it was odd that there was so little info on the Bandcamp or label (Transcending Obscurity) page, and no lyrics on any of the various lyrics websites that exist. So, I went to the Discogs to see if someone had uploaded images of liner notes. No liner notes photos, but someone had uploaded images of the inside of the gatefold LP, which is how I found out that some of the lyrics come from Japanese poets – Ono no Komachi, Matsuo Bashō, Kobayashi Issa, Masaoka Shiki, Takahoma Kyoshi, Ozaki Hōsai, and Masajo Suzuki. With no other info provided or personal knowledge of these poets, I looked them all up and found them to be from widely different periods, from the 9th century up to the 21st. Okay, hmm, so are the “Japanese themes” not musical in nature but rather a literary tour of Japanese poetry through a wide time span? And perhaps the song names, all seemingly real Japanese locations except possibly the last one (being either the mythical Takamagahara or the real Mount Takamagahara), are places somehow tied to those poets?
I took a step back, and looked at Et Moriemur’s other albums. All of their previous three LPs have a bunch of lyrics pulled from poetry or other works from various writers (e.g., Rilke, Goethe), in various languages. So the band definitely has a bit of a literary thing going on, meaning my Japanese poetry tour idea could hold… Have they done other “concept” albums? Indeed yes, the album before Tamashii, Epigrammata, tackles a central theme, in terms of topic (death/grief) and/or another location/concept as the main inspiration (the so-called ancient world, specifically Greece and Rome), and through a more or less literary lens at that. For that album, all song titles are in Latin, much of the lyrics are either in ancient/later Greek (taken from the Palatine Anthology and other poetry) or in ecclesiastical Latin (i.e., not classical Latin, but taken from the Catholic Mass for the dead) performed by a Greek choir in Gregorian chant style, and the album art is taken from ancient Greek black figure pottery. There’s also a quote thrown in from the Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk Thích Nhất Hạnh, stemming from the singer’s (Zdeněk Nevělík) interest in Zen Buddhism. In other words, though at first glance Epigrammata may look like a tidy concept album, it still pulls from a number of widely different eras/peoples/sources, with the written word at its core. So, perhaps that’s another vote in favour of a multi-century Japanese poetry tour concept for Tamashii.
The thing is, all of Et Moriemur’s previous albums have liner notes complete with lyrics in their original language plus indication of the author when it’s a quote from someone else. Given that Nevělík is a journalist – who writes on East and South East Asia for a Czech newspaper, no less![2] – this sort of attention to detail is no surprise. So at first I thought that it was weird that Tamashii would be treated differently. But then, I realized, it’s not. The disconnect is in the band’s/label’s approach to digital vs. physical media. For the previous albums, Bandcamp also doesn’t have any lyrics, citations, or extra info that are in the physical liner notes (which I can only see via Discogs images). And, if you look very closely at the tiny photos on Bandcamp, it appears that the CD version of Tamashii (but possibly not the LP?) does indeed have liner notes. So, not having access to those liner notes – which are presumably complete with citations – is here a case that the Discogs users who created the entries for the physical versions couldn’t be bothered to take photos of the liner notes, unlike with the previous Et Moriemur albums.
But it’s still weird that the names of the Japanese poets quoted in the lyrics aren’t in the Bandcamp description, isn’t it? And none of the reviews of the album that I’ve read mention them at all, so I feel like that piece of info didn’t get passed on. Indeed, all of the reviews I’ve read seem to scratch their heads at how Tamashii could be considered a “Japanese themed” record, assuming that would mean musically themed and pretty much all saying that they couldn’t hear it. What gives?
Then, after sifting through 2 1/2 years of Transcending Obscurity’s IG posts, I found this, in an interview between No Clean Singing and Nevělík:[3]
NCS: The new Et Moriemur songs are named after Japanese cities, mountains, and… and I don’t know. I didn’t find much. Let’s make it easier: What are your songs about? Are they connected with one general line?
ZN: Tamashii is inspired by the crash of the Japan Air Lines Flight 123 in August 1985 and the stories of the people aboard. The names of the songs point to the route of that flight, from the Tokyo Haneda airport to the mount Takamagahara where the plane crashed. So it’s a concept album and the songs are meant to be listened to in a row, though I think they work individually as well…
NCS: The band sounds quite traditional, quite western still, so didn’t you think to channel these Japanese themes we see in the album’s artwork and song titles using some eastern vibe, Japanese lyrics maybe? You have a bit of it in ‘Izu’ but it’s not too much.
ZN: Yes, the lyrics on the album are partly in Japanese, taken from traditional haiku poems. And we tried to put some Eastern melodical progressions on it, plus we used the Japanese traditional shakuhachi bamboo flute as well. So in my opinion the record sounds rather different from the previous Gregorian chant-based and in Ancient Greek-sung Epigrammata. But it’s still Western metal basically, I am not denying that.
It wasn’t until my third listen that I realized the odd recording in the background of the final track is meant to be voices of those on the Japan Air Lines Flight 123 as it’s going down, if not the actual recording (which appears on a Rammstein album also inspired by the same crash). I then thought to take a look at the Japanese characters on the cover, 魂の山, the translation of which I couldn’t recall seeing in any of the reviews/interviews, and definitely not in the album materials. According to the Internets, it translates as: “Mountain of Souls”. I.e., Mt. Takamagahara, where the plane crashed and 520 passengers died.
So, friends, what we have here is a concept album. And, thankfully, it does not seem to have been intended as a potentially cringe-y ‘this is what I think Japan sounds like’ concept, but is instead a look at a historical event that happened in Japan, told with the help of some poetry by historical Japanese poets. Tbh, I’m still not sure how I feel about the art (by Samantha Dibattista), as it’s not Japanese and doesn’t obviously fit the concept (perhaps there’s an explanation in those dang liner notes?). My main question though: why on Earth was the concept behind this concept album essentially buried?! All the effort that went into realizing that concept is completely lost on listeners if they have to dig to find an interview that actually explains it. Also, for the love of metal, can someone please upload these liner notes to Discogs?!!!
Anyway, for those who have stuck around to the end of this post, many thanks (and my apologies). 🤘
- Bandcamp: Et Moriemur – Tamashii no Yama
- Discogs: Et Moriemur – Tamashii no Yama
- Encyclopaedia Metallum: Et Moriemur
- The survey choices that initially led to this spotlight were “I’m not your lover, I’m not your friend”, “I am something that you’ll never comprehend”, “No need to worry, no need to cry”, and “I’m your messiah and you’re the reason why”, following surveys that had “I’m not a woman, I’m not a man”/“I am something that you’ll never understand”/“I’ll never beat you, I never lie”/“And if you’re evil I’ll forgive you by and by cuz” and “You, I would die 4 U, yeah”/”Darling, if you want me to”/”You, I would die 4 U”. There was a 3-way tie between the last three options, so there will be a spotlight resulting from each of those options. For the third option and this spotlight, the survey result was translated as picking the third album in The List that contained a word in the phrase – in this case, “no”. ↩︎
- https://www.metal-rules.com/2022/03/09/interview-with-et-moriemur/ ↩︎
- https://www.nocleansinging.com/2022/04/14/an-ncs-interview-et-moriemur-2/ ↩︎
#conceptAlbum #CzechRepublic #Czechia #doom #EtMoriemur #KobayashiIssa #MasajoSuzuki #MasaokaShiki #MatsuoBasho #metal #OnoNoKomachi #OzakiHosai #TakahomaKyoshi
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Bizcocho al cacao
Horno 180º - 50'
Molde rectangular 25 x 10 cms180 g harina de trigo
50 g cacao en polvo
2 cta levadura química (Royal)
Pizca de sal
3 huevos medianos
200 g azúcar moreno
140 g mantequilla derretida
160 g leche entera
100 g agua calienteForrar el molde con papel de horno
Tamizar harina, cacao, levadura y sal
Batir huevos y azúcar hasta que los gránulos desaparezcan
Agregar la mantequilla y mezclar bien
Añadir la leche poco a poco y continuar batiendo
Incorporar la mezcla tamizada de harina y cacao, hasta integrar completamente
Agregar el agua caliente, mezclar bien y volcar en el molde
Hornear el tiempo indicado
Comprobar el punto de cocción pinchando en el centro con un pincho para brocheta o similar
Retirar del horno y colocar sobre una rejilla
Dejar reposar 10' y desmoldar
Enfriar completamenteEs un bizcocho bastante húmedo y muy suave
Usar el ventilador del horno tienden a resecar los bizcochos#recetas
#cocina
#cacao
#bizcochos
#MastoRecetas
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:batman: O M G :batman:
Una buena oportunidad para ver Batman Origins, que no la vi en el cine.
👇🏼
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Trilogía de Batman dirigida por Christopher Nolan vuelve a cines chilenos: ¿Cuándo y dónde verlas? — Rock&Pop
https://www.rockandpop.cl/2023/10/trilogia-de-batman-dirigida-por-christopher-nolan-vuelve-a-cines-chilenos-cuando-y-donde-verlas/#Batman #Nolan #ChristopherNolan #BatmanOrigins #TheDarkKnight #TheDarkKnightRises #Cine #Películas
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@AmnestyDdorf Czech regime IMO brutally tramples the basic human right to fair trial.As I understand,it considers the fact that one contacts a lawyer,a sign of paranoid delusions and being a dangerous person,and one is IMO abducted based on that into an IMO concentration camp Bohnice,and if you want to defend yourself,you need time and money to get through all court instances which reject you,all the way to the Constitutional Court,which agrees with you:
Time 0:52,rem.24:42:"young mother,who was separated from her newborn,based on a report of her partner,and forcedly hospitalized on psychiatry.She was defending herself but lost all courts[…]wrote,that the mother suffers from delusions and is therefore dangerous[…]Constitutional judge Dita Řepková:"The general courts haven't considered that the complaintant was contacting a lawyer at the moment a police and rescue services were acting in her home,they considered it a sign of paranoia nevertheless we believe that one cannot say it was a sign of paranoia if you want to contact legal help,it's not clear to us,and it also doesn't follow from the court's justification." In other words,Constitutional Court said,if you are defending yourself from forced hospitalization by a request for legal help,ie you want to call your lawyer,it definitely doesn't mean you are dangerous,paranoid,that you are suffering rom delusions.
Czech TV video:Untangled:Diagnosis Dissident, https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/17448830218-rozpleteno/226563231000004/
I feel
e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t
towards the Czech regime when I am seeing this.
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#humanrights #humanrightsviolations #czech #czechia #czechrepublic #regime #contempt #psychiatry #dissent #concentrationcamp #abduction #authoritarianism #totalitarianism
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@AmnestyDdorf Czech regime IMO brutally tramples the basic human right to fair trial.As I understand,it considers the fact that one contacts a lawyer,a sign of paranoid delusions and being a dangerous person,and one is IMO abducted based on that into an IMO concentration camp Bohnice,and if you want to defend yourself,you need time and money to get through all court instances which reject you,all the way to the Constitutional Court,which agrees with you:
Time 0:52,rem.24:42:"young mother,who was separated from her newborn,based on a report of her partner,and forcedly hospitalized on psychiatry.She was defending herself but lost all courts[…]wrote,that the mother suffers from delusions and is therefore dangerous[…]Constitutional judge Dita Řepková:"The general courts haven't considered that the complaintant was contacting a lawyer at the moment a police and rescue services were acting in her home,they considered it a sign of paranoia nevertheless we believe that one cannot say it was a sign of paranoia if you want to contact legal help,it's not clear to us,and it also doesn't follow from the court's justification." In other words,Constitutional Court said,if you are defending yourself from forced hospitalization by a request for legal help,ie you want to call your lawyer,it definitely doesn't mean you are dangerous,paranoid,that you are suffering rom delusions.
Czech TV video:Untangled:Diagnosis Dissident, https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/17448830218-rozpleteno/226563231000004/
I feel
e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t
towards the Czech regime when I am seeing this.
The inclusion of the following hashtags is not meant to represent a relation to the content or topic of the post and may be only loosely related or based on loose,multiply indirect,emotional,impressional or subconscious associations,or completely unrelated:
#humanrights #humanrightsviolations #czech #czechia #czechrepublic #regime #contempt #psychiatry #dissent #concentrationcamp #abduction #authoritarianism #totalitarianism
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@AmnestyDdorf Czech regime IMO brutally tramples the basic human right to fair trial.As I understand,it considers the fact that one contacts a lawyer,a sign of paranoid delusions and being a dangerous person,and one is IMO abducted based on that into an IMO concentration camp Bohnice,and if you want to defend yourself,you need time and money to get through all court instances which reject you,all the way to the Constitutional Court,which agrees with you:
Time 0:52,rem.24:42:"young mother,who was separated from her newborn,based on a report of her partner,and forcedly hospitalized on psychiatry.She was defending herself but lost all courts[…]wrote,that the mother suffers from delusions and is therefore dangerous[…]Constitutional judge Dita Řepková:"The general courts haven't considered that the complaintant was contacting a lawyer at the moment a police and rescue services were acting in her home,they considered it a sign of paranoia nevertheless we believe that one cannot say it was a sign of paranoia if you want to contact legal help,it's not clear to us,and it also doesn't follow from the court's justification." In other words,Constitutional Court said,if you are defending yourself from forced hospitalization by a request for legal help,ie you want to call your lawyer,it definitely doesn't mean you are dangerous,paranoid,that you are suffering rom delusions.
Czech TV video:Untangled:Diagnosis Dissident, https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/17448830218-rozpleteno/226563231000004/
I feel
e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t
towards the Czech regime when I am seeing this.
The inclusion of the following hashtags is not meant to represent a relation to the content or topic of the post and may be only loosely related or based on loose,multiply indirect,emotional,impressional or subconscious associations,or completely unrelated:
#humanrights #humanrightsviolations #czech #czechia #czechrepublic #regime #contempt #psychiatry #dissent #concentrationcamp #abduction #authoritarianism #totalitarianism
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@AmnestyDdorf Czech regime IMO brutally tramples the basic human right to fair trial.As I understand,it considers the fact that one contacts a lawyer,a sign of paranoid delusions and being a dangerous person,and one is IMO abducted based on that into an IMO concentration camp Bohnice,and if you want to defend yourself,you need time and money to get through all court instances which reject you,all the way to the Constitutional Court,which agrees with you:
Time 0:52,rem.24:42:"young mother,who was separated from her newborn,based on a report of her partner,and forcedly hospitalized on psychiatry.She was defending herself but lost all courts[…]wrote,that the mother suffers from delusions and is therefore dangerous[…]Constitutional judge Dita Řepková:"The general courts haven't considered that the complaintant was contacting a lawyer at the moment a police and rescue services were acting in her home,they considered it a sign of paranoia nevertheless we believe that one cannot say it was a sign of paranoia if you want to contact legal help,it's not clear to us,and it also doesn't follow from the court's justification." In other words,Constitutional Court said,if you are defending yourself from forced hospitalization by a request for legal help,ie you want to call your lawyer,it definitely doesn't mean you are dangerous,paranoid,that you are suffering rom delusions.
Czech TV video:Untangled:Diagnosis Dissident, https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/17448830218-rozpleteno/226563231000004/
I feel
e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t
towards the Czech regime when I am seeing this.
The inclusion of the following hashtags is not meant to represent a relation to the content or topic of the post and may be only loosely related or based on loose,multiply indirect,emotional,impressional or subconscious associations,or completely unrelated:
#humanrights #humanrightsviolations #czech #czechia #czechrepublic #regime #contempt #psychiatry #dissent #concentrationcamp #abduction #authoritarianism #totalitarianism
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@AmnestyBochum Czech regime IMO brutally tramples human right to fair trial.As I understand,it considers the fact that one contacts a lawyer,a sign of paranoid delusions and being a dangerous person,and one is IMO abducted based on that into an IMO concentration camp Bohnice,and if you want to defend yourself,you need time and money to get through all court instances which reject you,all the way to the Constitutional Court,which agrees with you:
Time 0:52,remain. time 24:42:"young mother,who was separated from her newborn,based on a report of her partner,and forcedly hospitalized on psychiatry.She was defending herself but lost all courts[…]wrote,that the mother suffers from delusions and is therefore dangerous[…]Constitutional judge Dita Řepková:"The general courts haven't considered that the complaintant was contacting a lawyer at the moment a police and rescue services were acting in her home,they considered it a sign of paranoia nevertheless we believe that one cannot say it was a sign of paranoia if you want to contact legal help,it's not clear to us,and it also doesn't follow from the court's justification." In other words,Constitutional Court said,if you are defending yourself from forced hospitalization by a request for legal help,ie you want to call your lawyer,it definitely doesn't mean you are dangerous,paranoid,that you are suffering rom delusions.
Czech TV video:Untangled:Diagnosis Dissident, https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/17448830218-rozpleteno/226563231000004/
I feel
e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t
towards the Czech regime when I am seeing this.
The inclusion of the following hashtags is not meant to represent a relation to the content or topic of the post and may be only loosely related or based on loose,multiply indirect,emotional,impressional or subconscious associations,or completely unrelated:
#humanrights #humanrightsviolations #czech #czechia #czechrepublic #regime #contempt #psychiatry #dissent #concentrationcamp #abduction #authoritarianism #totalitarianism
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@AmnestyBochum Czech regime IMO brutally tramples human right to fair trial.As I understand,it considers the fact that one contacts a lawyer,a sign of paranoid delusions and being a dangerous person,and one is IMO abducted based on that into an IMO concentration camp Bohnice,and if you want to defend yourself,you need time and money to get through all court instances which reject you,all the way to the Constitutional Court,which agrees with you:
Time 0:52,remain. time 24:42:"young mother,who was separated from her newborn,based on a report of her partner,and forcedly hospitalized on psychiatry.She was defending herself but lost all courts[…]wrote,that the mother suffers from delusions and is therefore dangerous[…]Constitutional judge Dita Řepková:"The general courts haven't considered that the complaintant was contacting a lawyer at the moment a police and rescue services were acting in her home,they considered it a sign of paranoia nevertheless we believe that one cannot say it was a sign of paranoia if you want to contact legal help,it's not clear to us,and it also doesn't follow from the court's justification." In other words,Constitutional Court said,if you are defending yourself from forced hospitalization by a request for legal help,ie you want to call your lawyer,it definitely doesn't mean you are dangerous,paranoid,that you are suffering rom delusions.
Czech TV video:Untangled:Diagnosis Dissident, https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/17448830218-rozpleteno/226563231000004/
I feel
e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t
towards the Czech regime when I am seeing this.
The inclusion of the following hashtags is not meant to represent a relation to the content or topic of the post and may be only loosely related or based on loose,multiply indirect,emotional,impressional or subconscious associations,or completely unrelated:
#humanrights #humanrightsviolations #czech #czechia #czechrepublic #regime #contempt #psychiatry #dissent #concentrationcamp #abduction #authoritarianism #totalitarianism
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@AmnestyBochum Czech regime IMO brutally tramples human right to fair trial.As I understand,it considers the fact that one contacts a lawyer,a sign of paranoid delusions and being a dangerous person,and one is IMO abducted based on that into an IMO concentration camp Bohnice,and if you want to defend yourself,you need time and money to get through all court instances which reject you,all the way to the Constitutional Court,which agrees with you:
Time 0:52,remain. time 24:42:"young mother,who was separated from her newborn,based on a report of her partner,and forcedly hospitalized on psychiatry.She was defending herself but lost all courts[…]wrote,that the mother suffers from delusions and is therefore dangerous[…]Constitutional judge Dita Řepková:"The general courts haven't considered that the complaintant was contacting a lawyer at the moment a police and rescue services were acting in her home,they considered it a sign of paranoia nevertheless we believe that one cannot say it was a sign of paranoia if you want to contact legal help,it's not clear to us,and it also doesn't follow from the court's justification." In other words,Constitutional Court said,if you are defending yourself from forced hospitalization by a request for legal help,ie you want to call your lawyer,it definitely doesn't mean you are dangerous,paranoid,that you are suffering rom delusions.
Czech TV video:Untangled:Diagnosis Dissident, https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/17448830218-rozpleteno/226563231000004/
I feel
e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t
towards the Czech regime when I am seeing this.
The inclusion of the following hashtags is not meant to represent a relation to the content or topic of the post and may be only loosely related or based on loose,multiply indirect,emotional,impressional or subconscious associations,or completely unrelated:
#humanrights #humanrightsviolations #czech #czechia #czechrepublic #regime #contempt #psychiatry #dissent #concentrationcamp #abduction #authoritarianism #totalitarianism
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@AmnestyBochum Czech regime IMO brutally tramples human right to fair trial.As I understand,it considers the fact that one contacts a lawyer,a sign of paranoid delusions and being a dangerous person,and one is IMO abducted based on that into an IMO concentration camp Bohnice,and if you want to defend yourself,you need time and money to get through all court instances which reject you,all the way to the Constitutional Court,which agrees with you:
Time 0:52,remain. time 24:42:"young mother,who was separated from her newborn,based on a report of her partner,and forcedly hospitalized on psychiatry.She was defending herself but lost all courts[…]wrote,that the mother suffers from delusions and is therefore dangerous[…]Constitutional judge Dita Řepková:"The general courts haven't considered that the complaintant was contacting a lawyer at the moment a police and rescue services were acting in her home,they considered it a sign of paranoia nevertheless we believe that one cannot say it was a sign of paranoia if you want to contact legal help,it's not clear to us,and it also doesn't follow from the court's justification." In other words,Constitutional Court said,if you are defending yourself from forced hospitalization by a request for legal help,ie you want to call your lawyer,it definitely doesn't mean you are dangerous,paranoid,that you are suffering rom delusions.
Czech TV video:Untangled:Diagnosis Dissident, https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/17448830218-rozpleteno/226563231000004/
I feel
e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t
towards the Czech regime when I am seeing this.
The inclusion of the following hashtags is not meant to represent a relation to the content or topic of the post and may be only loosely related or based on loose,multiply indirect,emotional,impressional or subconscious associations,or completely unrelated:
#humanrights #humanrightsviolations #czech #czechia #czechrepublic #regime #contempt #psychiatry #dissent #concentrationcamp #abduction #authoritarianism #totalitarianism
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@EUCommission Czech regime IMO brutally tramples human right to fair trial.As I understand,it considers the fact that one contacts a lawyer,a sign of paranoid delusions and being a dangerous person,and one is IMO abducted based on that into an IMO concentration camp Bohnice,and if you want to defend yourself,you need time and money to get through all court instances which reject you,all the way to the Constitutional Court,which agrees with you:
Time 0:52,remaining time 24:42:"young mother,who was separated from her newborn,based on a report of her partner,and forcedly hospitalized on psychiatry.She was defending herself but lost all courts[…]wrote,that the mother suffers from delusions and is therefore dangerous[…]Constitutional judge Dita Řepková:"The general courts haven't considered that the complaintant was contacting a lawyer at the moment a police and rescue services were acting in her home,they considered it a sign of paranoia nevertheless we believe that one cannot say it was a sign of paranoia if you want to contact legal help,it's not clear to us,and it also doesn't follow from the court's justification." In other words,Constitutional Court said,if you are defending yourself from forced hospitalization by a request for legal help,ie you want to call your lawyer,it definitely doesn't mean you are dangerous,paranoid,that you are suffering rom delusions.
Czech TV video:Untangled:Diagnosis Dissident, https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/17448830218-rozpleteno/226563231000004/
I feel
e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t
towards the Czech regime when I am seeing this.
The inclusion of the following hashtags is not meant to represent a relation to the content or topic of the post and may be only loosely related or based on loose,multiply indirect,emotional,impressional or subconscious associations,or completely unrelated:
#humanrights #humanrightsviolations #czech #czechia #czechrepublic #regime #contempt #psychiatry #dissent #concentrationcamp #abduction #authoritarianism #totalitarianism
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@EUCommission Czech regime IMO brutally tramples human right to fair trial.As I understand,it considers the fact that one contacts a lawyer,a sign of paranoid delusions and being a dangerous person,and one is IMO abducted based on that into an IMO concentration camp Bohnice,and if you want to defend yourself,you need time and money to get through all court instances which reject you,all the way to the Constitutional Court,which agrees with you:
Time 0:52,remaining time 24:42:"young mother,who was separated from her newborn,based on a report of her partner,and forcedly hospitalized on psychiatry.She was defending herself but lost all courts[…]wrote,that the mother suffers from delusions and is therefore dangerous[…]Constitutional judge Dita Řepková:"The general courts haven't considered that the complaintant was contacting a lawyer at the moment a police and rescue services were acting in her home,they considered it a sign of paranoia nevertheless we believe that one cannot say it was a sign of paranoia if you want to contact legal help,it's not clear to us,and it also doesn't follow from the court's justification." In other words,Constitutional Court said,if you are defending yourself from forced hospitalization by a request for legal help,ie you want to call your lawyer,it definitely doesn't mean you are dangerous,paranoid,that you are suffering rom delusions.
Czech TV video:Untangled:Diagnosis Dissident, https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/17448830218-rozpleteno/226563231000004/
I feel
e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t
towards the Czech regime when I am seeing this.
The inclusion of the following hashtags is not meant to represent a relation to the content or topic of the post and may be only loosely related or based on loose,multiply indirect,emotional,impressional or subconscious associations,or completely unrelated:
#humanrights #humanrightsviolations #czech #czechia #czechrepublic #regime #contempt #psychiatry #dissent #concentrationcamp #abduction #authoritarianism #totalitarianism
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@EUCommission Czech regime IMO brutally tramples human right to fair trial.As I understand,it considers the fact that one contacts a lawyer,a sign of paranoid delusions and being a dangerous person,and one is IMO abducted based on that into an IMO concentration camp Bohnice,and if you want to defend yourself,you need time and money to get through all court instances which reject you,all the way to the Constitutional Court,which agrees with you:
Time 0:52,remaining time 24:42:"young mother,who was separated from her newborn,based on a report of her partner,and forcedly hospitalized on psychiatry.She was defending herself but lost all courts[…]wrote,that the mother suffers from delusions and is therefore dangerous[…]Constitutional judge Dita Řepková:"The general courts haven't considered that the complaintant was contacting a lawyer at the moment a police and rescue services were acting in her home,they considered it a sign of paranoia nevertheless we believe that one cannot say it was a sign of paranoia if you want to contact legal help,it's not clear to us,and it also doesn't follow from the court's justification." In other words,Constitutional Court said,if you are defending yourself from forced hospitalization by a request for legal help,ie you want to call your lawyer,it definitely doesn't mean you are dangerous,paranoid,that you are suffering rom delusions.
Czech TV video:Untangled:Diagnosis Dissident, https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/17448830218-rozpleteno/226563231000004/
I feel
e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t
towards the Czech regime when I am seeing this.
The inclusion of the following hashtags is not meant to represent a relation to the content or topic of the post and may be only loosely related or based on loose,multiply indirect,emotional,impressional or subconscious associations,or completely unrelated:
#humanrights #humanrightsviolations #czech #czechia #czechrepublic #regime #contempt #psychiatry #dissent #concentrationcamp #abduction #authoritarianism #totalitarianism
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@EUCommission Czech regime IMO brutally tramples human right to fair trial.As I understand,it considers the fact that one contacts a lawyer,a sign of paranoid delusions and being a dangerous person,and one is IMO abducted based on that into an IMO concentration camp Bohnice,and if you want to defend yourself,you need time and money to get through all court instances which reject you,all the way to the Constitutional Court,which agrees with you:
Time 0:52,remaining time 24:42:"young mother,who was separated from her newborn,based on a report of her partner,and forcedly hospitalized on psychiatry.She was defending herself but lost all courts[…]wrote,that the mother suffers from delusions and is therefore dangerous[…]Constitutional judge Dita Řepková:"The general courts haven't considered that the complaintant was contacting a lawyer at the moment a police and rescue services were acting in her home,they considered it a sign of paranoia nevertheless we believe that one cannot say it was a sign of paranoia if you want to contact legal help,it's not clear to us,and it also doesn't follow from the court's justification." In other words,Constitutional Court said,if you are defending yourself from forced hospitalization by a request for legal help,ie you want to call your lawyer,it definitely doesn't mean you are dangerous,paranoid,that you are suffering rom delusions.
Czech TV video:Untangled:Diagnosis Dissident, https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/17448830218-rozpleteno/226563231000004/
I feel
e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t
towards the Czech regime when I am seeing this.
The inclusion of the following hashtags is not meant to represent a relation to the content or topic of the post and may be only loosely related or based on loose,multiply indirect,emotional,impressional or subconscious associations,or completely unrelated:
#humanrights #humanrightsviolations #czech #czechia #czechrepublic #regime #contempt #psychiatry #dissent #concentrationcamp #abduction #authoritarianism #totalitarianism
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@EUCommission Czech regime IMO brutally tramples human right to fair trial.As I understand,it considers the fact that one contacts a lawyer,a sign of paranoid delusions and being a dangerous person,and one is IMO abducted based on that into an IMO concentration camp Bohnice,and if you want to defend yourself,you need time and money to get through all court instances which reject you,all the way to the Constitutional Court,which agrees with you:
Time 0:52,remaining time 24:42:"young mother,who was separated from her newborn,based on a report of her partner,and forcedly hospitalized on psychiatry.She was defending herself but lost all courts[…]wrote,that the mother suffers from delusions and is therefore dangerous[…]Constitutional judge Dita Řepková:"The general courts haven't considered that the complaintant was contacting a lawyer at the moment a police and rescue services were acting in her home,they considered it a sign of paranoia nevertheless we believe that one cannot say it was a sign of paranoia if you want to contact legal help,it's not clear to us,and it also doesn't follow from the court's justification." In other words,Constitutional Court said,if you are defending yourself from forced hospitalization by a request for legal help,ie you want to call your lawyer,it definitely doesn't mean you are dangerous,paranoid,that you are suffering rom delusions.
Czech TV video:Untangled:Diagnosis Dissident, https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/17448830218-rozpleteno/226563231000004/
I feel
e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t
towards the Czech regime when I am seeing this.
The inclusion of the following hashtags is not meant to represent a relation to the content or topic of the post and may be only loosely related or based on loose,multiply indirect,emotional,impressional or subconscious associations,or completely unrelated:
#humanrights #humanrightsviolations #czech #czechia #czechrepublic #regime #contempt #psychiatry #dissent #concentrationcamp #abduction #authoritarianism #totalitarianism
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@EUCommission Czech regime IMO brutally tramples human right to fair trial.As I understand,it considers the fact that one contacts a lawyer,a sign of paranoid delusions and being a dangerous person,and one is IMO abducted based on that into an IMO concentration camp Bohnice,and if you want to defend yourself,you need time and money to get through all court instances which reject you,all the way to the Constitutional Court,which agrees with you:
Time 0:52,remaining time 24:42:"young mother,who was separated from her newborn,based on a report of her partner,and forcedly hospitalized on psychiatry.She was defending herself but lost all courts[…]wrote,that the mother suffers from delusions and is therefore dangerous[…]Constitutional judge Dita Řepková:"The general courts haven't considered that the complaintant was contacting a lawyer at the moment a police and rescue services were acting in her home,they considered it a sign of paranoia nevertheless we believe that one cannot say it was a sign of paranoia if you want to contact legal help,it's not clear to us,and it also doesn't follow from the court's justification." In other words,Constitutional Court said,if you are defending yourself from forced hospitalization by a request for legal help,ie you want to call your lawyer,it definitely doesn't mean you are dangerous,paranoid,that you are suffering rom delusions.
Czech TV video:Untangled:Diagnosis Dissident, https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/17448830218-rozpleteno/226563231000004/
I feel
e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t
towards the Czech regime when I am seeing this.
The inclusion of the following hashtags is not meant to represent a relation to the content or topic of the post and may be only loosely related or based on loose,multiply indirect,emotional,impressional or subconscious associations,or completely unrelated:
#humanrights #humanrightsviolations #czech #czechia #czechrepublic #regime #contempt #psychiatry #dissent #concentrationcamp #abduction #authoritarianism #totalitarianism