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  1. Jan Vlug @[email protected] ·

    "... study has found banned #pesticides in tea, rice and spices... exceeding the legal #EU limits."

    "The findings have led... to a renewed debate about the so-called #BoomerangEffect in which chemicals produced in Europe come back into the country via imported goods."

    "For now, the chemicals in question are still flowing in both directions: out of Europe in ships and tankers, and back into European homes in tea, rice and spice jars"

    dutchbrief.com/p/banned-pestic

    #poison #food #Netherlands

    #pesticides #eu #boomerangeffect #poison #food #netherlands
  2. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
    CW: Long thread/9

    These overseas partners target the klept in the places they go to play and spend, spoiling their fun - and if they succeed in getting corrupt leaders censured abroad, then in-country activists can leverage that bad press to fight the klept at home.

    To fight this "#BoomerangEffect," TUSNs seek to burnish corrupt officials' reputations abroad, getting their names on humanitarian prizes, beloved sports teams, cultural institutions and great universities.

    9/

    #boomerangeffect
  3. Christopher Hudson @[email protected] ·

    New developments in the #BoomerangEffect

    “Facial recognition is helping Putin curb dissent with the aid of U.S. tech”
    Lena Masri, #Reuters
    reuters.com/investigates/speci

    #boomerangeffect #reuters