Just 57 #companies linked to 80% of #GreenhouseGas #emissions since #2016 | #GreenhouseGasEmissions | The Guardian
#Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #Corporations
#companies
https://www.commondreams.org/news/weapons-used-by-israel
Meet the #Companies #Profiting From #Israel's #War on #Gaza
JESSICA CORBETT
Dec 20, 2023
..."The webpage notes that the list is based on reporting, social media, and other open sources, and "focuses on weapons used by Israel because all Palestinian militant groups are already sanctioned and receive no support from Western governments or corporations."
For example, Boeing, the world's fifth-largest weapon manufacturer, makes F-15 fighter jets and Apache AH-64 attack helicopters used by the Israeli forces, as well as "multiple types of unguided small diameter bombs (SDBs) and Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) kits" that have been used "extensively" during the war, including in a bombing of Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp.
After decades of Israeli occupation forces using Caterpillar's armored D9 bulldozers to "demolish Palestinian homes and civilian infrastructure in the occupied West Bank and to enforce the blockade of the Gaza Strip," the machines "have been crucial in the Israeli military's ground invasion" of the enclave, according to AFSC.
... the list isn't limited to U.S. firms, also calling out the world's seventh-largest weapon manufacturer, the U.K.'s BAE Systems, and Israel's largest weapon manufacturer, Elbit Systems, "one of the primary suppliers of weapons and surveillance systems to the Israeli military."
Other companies on the list include weapons giants such as General Dynamics, General Electric, L3Harris Technologies, Leonardo, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and RTX—formerly Raytheon—as well as vehicle companies AM General, Ford, Oshkosh, Toyota, and drone manufacturers AeroVironment, Skydio, and XTEND.
The list also targets U.S.-based Colt's Manufacturing Company, which makes firearms including the M16, and Emtan Karmiel, an Israeli firm that "delivered some 12,000 rifles" to the country's forces within a week of October 7. It also includes Israel Aerospace Industries, a state-owned manufacturer that "makes multiple weapons systems specifically for the Israeli military."
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Other Israeli firms listed include Plasan, which makes the SandCat light armored vehicle, and MDT Armor, which is owned by the Israeli company Shladot and makes the David Urban Light Armored Vehicle used by the military for patrols and reconnaissance.
The other foreign firms on the list are ThyssenKrupp, the German company that built four warships for Israel, and Nordic Ammunition Company, which makes the M141 Bunker Defeat Munition, a shoulder-fired "bunker-buster" rocket."...
It was going to be another #sunny day here...
HEAVY chemtrailing going on.
Looks like a #barium rich kind of #chemtrailing today, given the bright glare.
Anyone know where to go to #lookup who's doing the #chemtrails, and what type, when? Got a #map?
Do we have to ask each #geoengineering #company separately? Do the #cloudseeding #companies even #divulge that?
Maybe if I bought stocks? Or hired them myself and inquired if already doing?
I lost track of how many companies offer such "service", over a decade before even discovering it was more than just evergreen avionics (promoted in the early noughties).
Various #financial " #news " outlets do puff-pieces on the cloudseeding corporations, advertising stocks in them, and then you can find "news" pieces from "disinformation specialists" presenting the idea of chemtrailing as " #ConspiracyTheory " peddled by " #ConspiracyTheorists "... like there's one narrative for the rich investor class, and another divisive agnogenerative narrative for "the little people". Some day, people will look up.
Swift Current starts work on 800MW solar PV project in Illinois
US solar developer Swift Current Energy has started construction on its 800MWdc ‘Double Black Diamond’ solar PV project in central Illinois.
https://www.pv-tech.org/swift-current-starts-work-on-800mw-solar-pv-project-in-illinois/
#nextracker, #building, #mccarthy, #first, #illinois, #chicago, #companies, #news, #solar
A Train Carrying Coal has Derailed in Nebraska
https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1628073534122770432
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/02/21/nebraska-train-derailment-union-pacific-train-coal/11313432002/
These #companies have #cut thousands of #jobs while raking in #billions, and #lobbying for #deregulation. There's no conspiracy, other than deadly #corporate #greed.
#gothenburg #nebraska #coal #train #derailment #union-pacific
American Capitalism’s growing Dysfunction is what makes it so Vulnerable to Revolt
https://rainershea.substack.com/p/american-capitalisms-growing-dysfunction
The aging of the country’s #infrastructure as funds go to #waging-endless-wars, the #selling-of-utilities to #predatory #companies, the #dismantling of #social-services, the #deregulation and #consolidation of the #banks, the #exacerbation-of-inflation by a #proxy-war; they’ve all rendered the #people without the #resources to be able to absorb #emergencies.
#american #capitalism #dysfunction #vulnerable #revolt #profit #ohio #health #safety #labor #corporate #crime #chemicals #train #crash #derailment #fema #era #contaminated #water #pollution #us #environmental #catastrophe
A third of #companies linked to #deforestation have no policy to end it | Deforestation | The Guardian
#Environment #Ecology #Conservation #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis
A developing evil: the malignant historical force behind the #Great #Reset
The so-called Great Reset is nothing but the extension and violent #acceleration of a longstanding process.
It is the increase of centralising power, the tightening of control, the growth of “the #economy ”, the ever-closer convergence of #power and #money.
Continuous #industrial #development has been the background to all our lives, but it is not necessarily something of which we are always conscious.
The first thing I observed was that there was always local opposition to any proposed development on a greenfield area – the bigger the project, the greater the opposition.
Several methods were used to ensure that development triumphed over the wishes of the local people.
The first was for local politicians and officials to denigrate opponents of the scheme in question, in which ever way seemed most appropriate.
If the #opponents were local people living close to the proposed development, they were selfish individuals termed NIMBYs – Not In My Back Yard.
If people from further away were involved, who could not be accused of having a purely personal interest, they were dubbed “outside agitators” or “rent-a-mob troublemakers”.
In this way, no #dissent could ever be seen as legitimate.
I also came across a degree of #corruption, of course, of very close connections between local officials and the property development businesses whose projects they authorised.
But behind these levels of #propaganda and corruption was something else, something even more important: the “need” for development was written into the bureaucratic planning structures devised by central government, with which local authorities had to comply.
The overall process of development itself was sacrosanct and officially ensured.
All the language and arguments in favour of development therefore served not so much to convince people that it was necessary, as to cloak the reality that it would in any case be imposed on them against their will by central power.
A narrative is always needed to dress up development and sell it to the public.
This idea of “underdevelopment” is, he concludes, “a manipulative trick to involve people in struggles for getting what the powerful want to impose on them”
Those pushing this #agenda are happy to cynically exploit the naivety of those who fall for the lie and enthusiastically jump aboard the bandwagon of “helping” those who have not yet been turned into what Otto Ulrich calls “a mechanical cog in a great production apparatus dominated by the world market”.
In #Europe, a key #institution promoting development is The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, founded sixty years ago
The “First UN Development Decade” between 1960 and 1970, which claimed to identify a problem with “underdeveloped” people, again insisted that its aim was to improve the quality of their lives
In 1970 it launched an International Development Strategy and an associated UN resolution announced a unified approach to development and planning, “which would fully integrate the economic and social components in the formulation of policies and programmes”.
In 1986 the #UN went even further when it published its Declaration on the Right to Development.
Although this text clearly identified the aim of establishing what it called “a new international economic order”, it hid this agenda behind the absurd statement that “the right to development is an inalienable human right”.
“States have the duty to co-operate with each other in ensuring development and eliminating obstacles to development”.
In 1990 the United Nations Development Programme published its first Human Development Report, defending the inalienable right of all human beings to be developed.
then ten years later, in 2000, it launched its Millennium Development Goals, based on the International Development Goals drawn up at Chateau de la Muette by the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee
Private-public partnerships were very much encouraged. Goal 8 was “to develop a global partnership for development”, which could mean “cooperation with #pharmaceutical #companies” or making available the “benefits of new technologies” by working with Big Tech
It has also long been interested in so-called “rural development”, aiming to “increase #production and raise #productivity” by means of what it calls a “transition from traditional isolation”. The #World #Bank would like to enable the “transfer of people out of low productivity #agriculture into more rewarding pursuits”.
It is not for nothing that the World Bank/IFC use the #slogan “Creating #Markets, Creating #> Opportunities” (21). For all the do-good language, the bottom line is that investment, like development, is really about making money and accumulating power.
The World Bank has been peddling the #greenwashing scam of so-called “sustainable development” for quite a while now.
In reality, the “sustainable” development they are promoting is every bit of an oxymoron as “equitable” development, being just another aspect of the camouflage with which its proponents hide the reality of their insidious agenda from public view.
*As Esteva writes, “Sustainable development has been explicitly conceived as a strategy for sustaining ‘development’, not for supporting the flourishing and enduring of an infinitely diverse natural and social life”. *
But because they don’t want this profoundly undemocratic situation to be visible, they also construct the propaganda layer which aims, like the propaganda about the need for local “development”, to conceal the true nature of the process.
Because the development mafia depicts itself as representing “good”, all those who go against its agenda must necessarily be “bad” – reactionary, right-wing, conspiracy theorists.
###The process which calls itself “development” in fact equates to nothing other than #destruction, in every context.
As Sachs writes: “Suspicion grows that development was a misconceived enterprise from the beginning. Indeed, it is not the failure of development which has to be feared, but its success. What would a completely developed world look like?” (28)
It would simply be a dead world.
read on: https://winteroak.org.uk/2022/08/02/a-developing-evil-the-malignant-historical-force-behind-the-great-reset/
Hydron start-up to develop autonomous fuel cell trucks
A TuSimple driverless trucking software co-founder is launching a new venture to develop autonomous fuel cell trucks running on zero-emission hydrogen.
http://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/autonomous-fuel-cell-trucks-h2/8553085/
#cell, #fuel, #autonomous, #hydrogen, #transportation, #companies, #news
Hyperion to build $297 million fuel cell manufacturing hub in Ohio
Hyperion Companies Inc has announced that it intends to invest over $297 million into the construction of a next-gen fuel cell manufacturing facility in Columbus, Ohio.
http://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/fuel-cell-manufacturing-hyperion/8551307/
#states, #united, #cell, #news, #hydrogen, #fuel, #companies
This #Generation continues to #Surprise and #Inspire: City University Student Union (CSU) Passes Motion Favouring BDS
Friends of #Palestine said: “The Friends of Palestine society is proud to announce that the #motion calling for #Boycott, #Divestment and #Sanctions ( #BDS ) has been passed during the #Students Members’ Meeting (AGM). We are indebted to our #allies who attended, #voted and championed our motion. Today is a #victory for the #Palestinian cause and for the BDS #movement."
“Now that the #BDS movement is included in the ‘#DecoloniseCity’ campaign, the Friends of Palestine society will work with the #University and the #Union to initiate an #investigation into its involvement with #companies complicit in #Israel’s #illegal actions within #internationallaw."
#AntiZionism #Activism #HigherEd #KulturKampf #SapereAude #Arya #Aryanism #Heroes #Youth
I'm hearing phrases like, "fix de Internet".
But "the Internet" is like "the cloud", it doesn't exist per se, as a real, material, particular entity.
As "the cloud" is in fact "some company's computers", "the Internet" is in fact mostly "the biggest companies that shape and control the infrastructure under the WWW from the last user to the first server/service".
So, "fix the Internet" is in fact, "fix capitalism".
I think there's a need to call things by their real name, if the desire is to fix or achieve something positive for society (mostly, the working class).
What do you think?
#internet #fixtheinternet #www #politics #business #companies #capitalism #cloud #web #debate #discussion #workingclass #bourgeoisie #classwarfare #news
#FossilFuel #companies paying top #law firms millions to ‘dodge responsibility’ | #Environment | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/09/fossil-fuel-companies-law-firms
Big Pharma ~ Time to End Their Greed
https://www.dailyposter.com/follow-the-pharma-money/
#BernieSanders: "The #pharmaceutical #industry has spent more than $4.5 billion on #lobbying and #campaign #contributions over the past 20 years. That's why we pay the #highest #prices on #earth for #prescription #drugs. #Enough-is-enough. Democrats must have the courage to defeat their #greed. The #business #model of the pharmaceutical industry is #fraud. Their greed is literally #killing #Americans. It is absurd that we have people in this country who every day must choose between being able to afford the #medicines they need to stay alive and being able to afford their groceries. It is no exaggeration to say the greed of the pharmaceutical industry is killing people.They have spent billions buying #politicians & several of their #executives became #billionaires during the #pandemic. Their days of calling the shots in #DC must come to an end."
"For years, the story has gone like this: the pharmaceutical industry spends billions lobbying #Congress to do nothing to #lower prescription drug prices, they get their way. 97% of #Democrats, 80% of #Independents and 61% of #Republicans want #Medicare to negotiate with the #pharma #companies to lower prescription drug prices. Our opponents are not only dead wrong on this #policy, they are also way out of touch with what the American people are demanding. Let me ask you a question. Are you satisfied with a #system that allows the pharmaceutical industry to charge you $98 for the same vial of #insulin that the #Canadian people get for about $12? Maybe I am a little bit of a radical, but I happen to think that in the richest country on the face of the #planet, people should not have to be cutting their pills in half or rationing their insulin." Time to end their greed.
#bigpharma #follow-the-money #KurtSchrader-Ore #ScottPeters-Calif #KathleenRice-NY #health #money #favors #quotes
Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIXhnWUmMvw
In this #documentary, #Zuboff reveals how the biggest #tech #companies deal with our data and reveals a #merciless form of #capitalism in which no #natural #resources, but the #citizen itself, serves as a #raw #material. How can citizens regain #control of their #data?
#shoshanazuboff #vpro #surveillance #digital #economy #residual #behavorial #internet #algorithms #privacy #security #unprecedented #resist #gdpr #democracy #society
#FreeAssangeNow!
" #Guantanamo is used for #laundering #people to an #off-shore #haven which doesn't follow the #rule-of-law. Similarly #Iraq, #Afghanistan and #Columbia are used to #wash #money out of the #US #tax #base and back."
#JohnPilger: #Arms #companies?
#Assange: Arms companies. Yeah.
#julianassange #freespeech #freepress #truth #journalismisnotacrime #freejulianassange #warcrimes #endless #war #medialies #waryoudontsee #dropthecharges #noextradition #weareallassange
https://twitter.com/BelgraveRaine/status/1428668373924147200
#Oil firms made ‘false claims’ on blue #hydrogen costs, says ex-lobby boss | #HydrogenPower | The Guardian
So-called #BlueHydrogen is another scam that #FossilFuel #companies are promoting to carry on effectively as normal. H2 could potentially be extracted (more) sustainably but the infrastructure isn't there yet.
The Insecurity Industry ~ The greatest danger to national security has become the companies that claim to protect it
https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/ns-oh-god-how-is-this-legal
'This will be the #future: a #world of #people too busy #playing with their #phones to even notice that someone else #controls them.'
#edwardsnowden #edsnowden #snowden #insecurity #industry #danger #national #security #companies #computer #spyware #code #technology #ios #intrusive #software #hacking #pegasus #project #nso #group #capitalism #smartphones #legal #tracking #device
