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»A shift has taken place in the past few years, from the ambition of the Green Deal to tackle hazardous substances, especially in consumer products and to halve pesticide use, to the industry summit tomorrow (being held between the Belgian EU presidency and big business, including the chemicals industry) with its promotion of an Industry Deal including demands for less regulation and more subsidy for business’ energy bills.«
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📢 Write to MEPs now!
👉 #NewGMOs pose risks for health and environment, so we demand safety checks
👉 Patents are big issue, cannot be fully resolved in this new deregulation law
👉 Consumer labelling and Liability crucial to protect GM-free sector #gmo #food
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Von wegen Schluss mit „business as usual“: Sechs Monate nach #Katargate im 🇪🇺-Parlament ist nichts zu sehen von den versprochenen Reformen, fasst der Der Spiegel gut zusammen (Payall):
In unserer Pressemitteilung mit Transparency International EU und @corporateeurope zeigen wir, was jetzt geschehen muss:
👉 https://www.lobbycontrol.de/pressemitteilung/sehttps://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/eu-parlament-nach-der-katargate-affaere-um-eva-kaili-reformen-lassen-auf-sich-warten-a-e296356f-2f13-431b-92f1-266e289b7f26?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#ref=rss
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#EU #BigTech #Lobbying #RevolvingDoors: "Big Tech might be the EU's biggest lobby spender by sector, but a little-known band of economic consultancies are still managing to fly under the radar on behalf of their tech clients. These consultancies are effectively 'spamming the regulator' with supposedly neutral reports to influence the EU's competition policy and smooth the path for Big Tech monopolies and mergers. What's worse, the Commission's DG Competition in charge of competition policy enjoys a regular revolving door with these consultancies."
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...politicians on their payroll. The US have become a clear plutocracy since #CitizensUnitedVsFEC (see thread.)
A pars pro toto, #Elon: he controls 50% of global satellite 🛰 internet communications, and hardly any government can risk to alienate.
So, no, they do not factor out. Different groups/entities.
Here are some links regarding lobbyists, if needed:
https://mstdn.social/@corporateeurope/110513996813840660
https://newsie.social/@nbcnews/110433183224846421
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110663430156794308
https://mstdn.social/@corporateeurope/110514000647075242
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È partito a Ginevra il corteo de la @[email protected] contro il #Wto #omc.
@[email protected] presente!
#wtoenough #omcbasta #omcdegage
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I cannot stress enough how important this initiative is:
“Big Tech has used deceptive lobbying tactics to sustain a toxic business model. This has to stop.🤚
📢 Today CEO and @lobbycontrol launch http://lobbyleaks.eu. Have you witnessed shady or opaque Big Tech lobbying? Let us know anonymously.
Follow: @corporateeurope
Please share widely.
#eu #lobbying #BigTech #institutionalCorruption #lobbyLeaks #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming
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Bayer, BASF & Co kämpfen in Brüssel gerade heftig gegen Gesetze, mit denen der Einsatz problematischer Chemikalien deutlich eingeschränkt würde. Mithilfe von #Lobbyfacts zeigt unsere Partnerorganisation #CEO, welche riesigen Geldsummen sie dafür ausgeben.
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Bayer, BASF & Co kämpfen in Brüssel gerade heftig gegen Gesetze, mit denen der Einsatz problematischer Chemikalien deutlich eingeschränkt würde. Mithilfe von #Lobbyfacts zeigt unsere Partnerorganisation #CEO, welche riesigen Geldsummen sie dafür ausgeben.
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Bayer, BASF & Co kämpfen in Brüssel gerade heftig gegen Gesetze, mit denen der Einsatz problematischer Chemikalien deutlich eingeschränkt würde. Mithilfe von #Lobbyfacts zeigt unsere Partnerorganisation #CEO, welche riesigen Geldsummen sie dafür ausgeben.
👉 https://corporateeurope.org/en/big-toxics-firepower -
Bayer, BASF & Co kämpfen in Brüssel gerade heftig gegen Gesetze, mit denen der Einsatz problematischer Chemikalien deutlich eingeschränkt würde. Mithilfe von #Lobbyfacts zeigt unsere Partnerorganisation #CEO, welche riesigen Geldsummen sie dafür ausgeben.
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Bayer, BASF & Co kämpfen in Brüssel gerade heftig gegen Gesetze, mit denen der Einsatz problematischer Chemikalien deutlich eingeschränkt würde. Mithilfe von #Lobbyfacts zeigt unsere Partnerorganisation #CEO, welche riesigen Geldsummen sie dafür ausgeben.
👉 https://corporateeurope.org/en/big-toxics-firepower -
💢 ALTERNATIVES TO THE USE OF GLYPHOSATE
📅 Tuesday 11 April 2023
➡️ Programme : https://bit.ly/3nNqxFy
📌 Read the study : https://www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/study/weed-management-alternatives-to-the-use-of-glypohosate
#StopGlyphosate
#PesticideFreeFuture
⛔☠️ #StopAgrotoxics #AgrotoxicsKILL
#AgroecologyNurturesLIFE
#LaViaCampesina
➡️ https://www.facebook.com/StopAgrotoxics@ecvc @beuc @miramap @corporateeurope @mondiaalnieuws
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Shocking article on how big companies (in this case big IP holders) have lobbied massively and dirty against EU citizens and got the EU parliament to vote for #filternet or #Article13 of the EU Copyright Directive. So this prompts the question who is the EU parliament actually representing. I guess I already know.
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"You’ve certainly experienced it: you grab your phone to do something specific, and end up getting lost in the maze of stimuli – sounds, colours, videos, notifications, urgent messages –so much so that you forget why you picked up the phone in the first place and stay far longer on it than planned. We keep inventing new words to describe aspects of the experience, whether it’s doomscrolling, internet rabbit holes, or brainrot. The good news is, this isn’t just something that happens to you. There’s a growing political consensus that this is a structural problem by design, that Big Tech has gone too far, and EU legislation is on the way to give you more control over addictive features in social media apps. The bad news is, Big Tech has begun a full scale lobbying battle against this legislation.
As the European Commission is preparing rules to rein in the addictive design of social media app – as part of the forthcoming Digital Fairness Act – the tech industry is drawing on its considerable lobbying firepower to oppose it. The legislation comes in response to growing concerns about the public health impacts of social media addiction, both for children, adolescents, and adults alike. But the Big Tech giants behind Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and other social media apps are pushing back. Keeping people on the apps for as long as possible is a central part of their business model and restrictions in addictive features would hurt their profits and power. In its lobbying, Big Tech aims to capitalize on the fact that EU decision-makers – with Commission President von der Leyen in the lead – are currently heavily prioritising industrial competitiveness via deregulation over other concerns. This means there are major new obstacles for legislation to pass."
#SocialMedia #BigTech #EU #Lobbying #DFA #DigitalFairnessAct #Addiction #BrainRot
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🔥 ⛔️ Schluss mit der bevorzugten Behandlung der fossilen Industrie bei Klimaverhandlungen! Es ist Zeit, eine klare #Brandmauer zwischen Politik und fossilen Interessen zu errichten, um unsere Zukunft zu schützen. #Klimagerechtigkeit #NoFossilLobby
✍️ https://action.wemove.eu/sign/2024-08-Fossil-Fuel-Firewall-petition-DE
Zwischen Dezember 2019 und Mai 2022 hat die EU-Kommission unter Ursula von der Leyen fast täglich Meetings mit der fossilen Brennstoffindustrie geführt – insgesamt 500 Treffen! #Lobbyismus #Klimakrise
Obwohl die Bekämpfung des Klimawandels Priorität haben sollte, sitzen Öl-, Gas- und Kohlekonzerne im Fahrer*innensitz der EU-Politik. Das Ergebnis? Eine Politik, die die Interessen der Fossilwirtschaft zementiert. #Greenwashing
Besonders auffällig: Die plötzliche Begeisterung für Wasserstoff, vor allem den „grünen“ H2. Doch ein Großteil davon wird nach wie vor aus Gas gewonnen – eine clevere Strategie der fossilen Lobby. #Wasserstoff #FakeSolutions
👉 https://friendsoftheearth.eu/news/why-hydrogen-bubble-burst-europes-face/
Nach dem Einmarsch Russlands in die Ukraine wandte sich von der Leyen an genau die Unternehmen, die Europas Abhängigkeit von russischem Gas verursacht haben. Diese sollen nun Lösungen liefern? Ironisch und gefährlich. #Energiewende
👉 https://corporateeurope.org/en/2022/10/fuelling-cost-living-crisis
Die Macht der fossilen Lobby zeigt sich auch in der Förderung von „Partnerschaften“ wie dem Wasserstoff-Programm. Milliarden öffentlicher Gelder fließen in die Taschen von Öl- und Gasriesen – auf Kosten echter erneuerbarer Lösungen. #Energiekrise
Wir brauchen dringend eine Trennung zwischen fossilen Interessen und der Politik. Klimapolitik darf nicht länger durch Konzerne diktiert werden, die Profite über das Gemeinwohl stellen. #FossilFreePolitics #Klimagerechtigkeit
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@asanpin Done. Mixed feelings. To concentrate solely on FIMI does not sound wise. In the USA DIMI is at present the most urgent problem (Domestic Information Manipulation and Interference), which has already halted research necessary for informed citizens in a democracy, and IMI in general is dangerous, no matter its source.
In Finland, we don't usually speak about "democracies", because the actual distribution of political power is more important itself, and comes in degrees. Some NATO-countries, e.g, are not democratic, and some even oligarchic, or at least act like ones. There is no "West" or "the democratic world" but in some not so democratic ruler's and marketer's jargon. That jargon manifests itself maybe too much in the WFW-report. Some parts of it were educational, some clearly outdated, superficial, and/or unnecessarily fear-mongerous. The Alan Turing report is on quite another level with its delailed scenarios for influence in Ch. 5, https://www.turing.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2020-10/epistemic-security-report_final.pdf
With respect to the AI-danger there have been proposals for an IPCC-like body to steer and regulate at least something, https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01606-9, but guess which former "democracy" just dissociated itsef from even the original IPCC? And referring to, e.g, the dual-use problem, guess who frustrated at least part of the EU AI-Act, https://corporateeurope.org/en/2023/02/lobbying-ghost-machine
My advice for most everybody would be to stop using tools which use you, and maybe instead start to read real texts, preferably more than 10 pages long. Important things don't come easily, and the hustle we constantly feel, isn't ours.
I go back to my primary reading, thanks for the opportunity to think aloud, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/attention/
#cognitiveWarfare #information #ai #democracy #usa #ipcc #aiAct #propaganda #disinformation
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#PFAS are forever?
How the #ChemicalIndustry is fighting back against regulation
13.07.2023
"Corporate Europe Observatory uncovers the story of how the toxics industry is fighting back against the upcoming regulation of PFAS or 'forever chemicals', which are found in everything from frying pans to food packaging. Using access to documents requests and LobbyFacts data we show how chemical companies paint themselves as reasonable, concerned actors, whilst at the same time privately pushing hard for exemptions for their own PFAS products, and warning in dramatic terms of the economic fallout of banning them. Meanwhile the real catastrophe – the impacts on human health and the environment – as well as the costs of clean up, continue apace.
"The companies producing PFAS knew for decades about the toxicity of these chemicals, but they chose to do nothing about it. Recent academic analysis of previously secret documents from DuPont and 3M shows that companies knew PFAS were 'highly toxic when inhaled and moderately toxic when ingested' by 1970, 40 years before the public health community. The analysis further notes that the industry used several strategies also common to #tobacco, #pharma, and other industries to influence science and regulation, including 'suppressing unfavorable research and distorting public discourse'.
"According to documents analysed by the news show #Zembla, #DuPont knew 30 years ago that it was seriously contaminating the groundwater under the #Dordrecht plant in the #Netherlands and in the surrounding area with large quantities of toxic and carcinogenic PFAS. Sidenote In 2022 it was recommended not to eat vegetables or fruit coming from gardens within a one kilometre radius of this PFAS factory."
https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/pfas-are-forever
#ChemicalManufacturers #ChemicalIndustries #DowKnew #ZemblaKnew #DuPontKnew #ForeverChemicals
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The Commission is assessing whether #Mandelson's #Epstein contacts violated EU ethics rules 👏 Just a reminder that #Mandelson, as EU Trade Commissioner (2004–2008), operated an open-door policy for corporate #lobbyists & prioritised big business interests, as summarised in this cartoon from 2008 ⬇️
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Our new report shows Meta #lobbyists presented misleading claims to EU officials about the safety of Instagram for young women
These claims are contradicted by several recent independent studies as well as analyses of Meta’s own internal documents
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Check out ‘Addicted to the algorithm: how Big Tech lobbies to keep us hooked on social media’
Big Tech #lobbyists:
- enjoyed privileged access to EU decision-makers
- made false claims about online safety
- argued new rules harm EU 'simplification' agenda
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It's official: the promised #REACH revision, first mooted in the 2020 Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability, has been scrapped, according to Commissioner Roswall. Read our reaction here ⬇️
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It's official: the promised #REACH revision, first mooted in the 2020 Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability, has been scrapped, according to Commissioner Roswall. Read our reaction here ⬇️
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It's official: the promised #REACH revision, first mooted in the 2020 Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability, has been scrapped, according to Commissioner Roswall. Read our reaction here ⬇️
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16 different departments were lobbied, but which Commissioner and their cabinet was the most welcoming?
🇫🇷 Stéphane Séjourné (DG GROW, 131 meetings)
🇳🇱 Wopke Hoekstra (DG CLIMA, 60)🇪🇸 Teresa Ribera (DG COMP) co-coordinates the #CID with Séjourné + Hoekstra, but only had 20 meetings
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16 different departments were lobbied, but which Commissioner and their cabinet was the most welcoming? 🇫🇷 Stéphane Séjourné (DG GROW, 131 meetings) 🇳🇱 Wopke Hoekstra (DG CLIMA, 60) 🇪🇸 Teresa Ribera (DG COMP) co-coordinates the #CID with Séjourné + Hoekstra, but only had 20 meetings
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Clean Industrial Deal… or Dirty Industrial Deal? The so-called #CID may sound green — but it’s not clean and definitely not climate-friendly. Born out of heavy polluter lobbying, it weakens rules and funnels public money to big industry, while ignoring real climate solutions.
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😎 Good morning! If you miss it last week, here's a chance to catch up w/ our FAQs into the #DirtyIndustrialDeal, so-called Clean Industrial Deal. In part I we looked at the #CID within the broader competitivenes agenda of the EU. Part II, about to come, explains its impact on energy prices & gas.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oej3znv7xm6oofk4zq7hvghs/post/3lqcz36dfrs2o -
❌ #CID breaks with past ambitions on chemicals ❌ 🇪🇺 also scrapped crucial pesticide reduction ❌ New agri plans reflect agri-business wishes Huge lobby spend pays off for agri-chemicals Syngenta, BASF, Bayer, CEFIC Benefits & subsidies are being privatised; health costs are being collectivised!
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#CID deepens 🇪🇺 commitment to #FalseSolutions to the climate emergency like #H2, #CCS #CarbonRemovals & boosts #gas Keeps #BigEnergy in the driving seat with: ⚠️ industry-led alliances on hydrogen + raw materials ⚠️ industry forum on CCS ⚠️ industry-only advisory group on securing new gas