Revealed: #billionaires are ‘ultimate beneficiaries’ linked to €3bn of #EU #farming #subsidies | Farming | The Guardian
Well, who could be surprised by this revelation?
#subsidies
‘We moeten stoppen de overheid dom te houden’
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Mariana Mazzucato Hoe laat je bedrijven bijdragen aan maatschappelijke oplossingen? Niet door als overheid gemakkelijk geld uit te delen, zonder daar harde eisen aan te verbinden, zegt topeconoom Mariana Mazzucato. Maar dan moeten overheden wel beter toegerust worden „om alle bullshit eruit te zeven”.
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Mariana Mazzucato
Na drie kwartier op hoge snelheid praten zegt Mariana Mazzucato met klem: „Als we niet veranderen hoe de overheid werkt, zijn we screwed.”
Mazzucato is al jaren op een missie. De wereldberoemde econoom schreef boeken vol over de onderschatte rol van overheden bij het aanjagen van innovatie zoals internet en satellietplaatsbepaling (gps). Althans, de rol die overheden kúnnen spelen. In Mazzucato’s ogen doen ze dat nog veel te weinig en functioneren ze nu niet goed. Veel denkwerk wordt uitbesteed aan consultants en er wordt te makkelijk geld uitgedeeld aan bedrijven. De overheid wordt gezien als slechts een facilitator en reparateur van markten. Doodzonde, vindt de 55-jarige Mazzucato, want overheden kunnen veel meer. Ze kunnen markten vormen en sturen. (...)
Een van de grote vragen in Mazzucato’s werk speelt de laatste jaren steeds prominenter in de hoofden van politici: hoe laat je bedrijven bijdragen aan het oplossen van grote maatschappelijke problemen? Of het nu gaat om klimaatneutraal worden, strategisch onafhankelijk van het buitenland zijn, meer oorlogsmaterieel maken – regeringen hebben een groeiende behoefte om bedrijvigheid te sturen. Maar hoe doe je dat zonder belastinggeld weg te geven aan bedrijfseigenaren en aandeelhouders? Hoe voorkom je dat de overheid alleen de kosten voor bedrijven drukt, zonder dat de samenleving evenredig profiteert? Hoe kunnen politici de economie een kant op sturen die het welzijn van de samenleving verhoogt? En die bedrijven ook nog ruimte laat? (...)
Mazzucato is een pleitbezorger van industriepolitiek, maar níét zoals overheden die vaak praktiseren. Nu halen overheden vaak risico’s weg bij bedrijven. „Dat doodt elke ambitie.” Overheden zouden voor hun subsidies aan bedrijven veel meer moeten terugvragen; meer eisen, minder weggeven. „Goed voorbeeld: in ruil voor coronasteun stelde de Franse staat klimaateisen aan luchtvaartmaatschappij AirFrance.” En: „Je moet ervoor zorgen dat de overheid ook meedeelt in de beloning. Socialiseer niet alleen de risico’s, maar ook de opbrengst.” (...)
„De moderne industriepolitiek die ik bepleit, richt zich op uitdagingen: hoe wordt de bevolking gezonder? Hoe gaan we klimaatverandering tegen? Idealiter besluit een land na veel maatschappelijke discussie via verkiezingen welke problemen moeten worden aangepakt. Vervolgens formuleren regeringen missies: hoe kleden we ons klimaatneutraal, hoe eten we? Bedrijven die daar plannen voor hebben, dingen mee in aanbestedingen of naar subsidies.” (...)
„De gewoonte is helaas anders. Te vaak wordt geld gegeven aan sectoren in problemen. Maar dan blijven die hulp nodig hebben.” (...)
„[G]oede industriepolitiek draait niet om steun aan een specifiek bedrijf. Het draait om duidelijk maken waarom de landbouw moet veranderen, waarom we groen staal en groen cement nodig hebben. Als een bedrijf aantoont dat het moeilijk is zonder steun groen staal te maken omdat het risico en de onzekerheid te groot zijn, dan kan de overheid onder voorwaarden een lening verstrekken. Daarom hebben we meer wetenschappers nodig in de overheid. Zodat ze de bullshit eruit kunnen zeven.” (...)
„De overheid moet meer capaciteit krijgen en meer empathie. Het probleem is dat ze mensen ziet als klanten in plaats van mensen met rechten. Ik verheerlijk de staat niet. De overheid moet ter verantwoording worden geroepen. Mijn punt is niet: geloof in de overheid. Mijn punt is: we hebben problemen die menselijk leed veroorzaken. Die worden niet opgelost door alleen de overheid of alleen bedrijven. Beide moeten ambitieus zijn, genoeg menskracht en kunde hebben, en samenwerken.” (...)
Tags: #nederlands #economie #bedrijfsleven #overheid #industriebeleid #industriepolitiek #innovatie #groei #belastingen #subsidies #aandeelhouders
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Kremlin using coal subsidies to force Russian passports on residents in occupied Kherson Oblast
Moscow-installed illegal occupation authorities in Kherson Oblast are offering coal subsidies for heating purposes, but only to those residents who became Russian citizens, the Ukrainian military's National Resistance Center reported.
As part of its forced passportization strategy, Russia creates special incentives oriented toward residents in occupied Ukrainian territory to adopt Russian passports. At the same time, those Ukrainians who refuse Russian citizenship are often threatened with deportation or being forcibly mobilized into the Russian military.
#RussiaInvadedUkraine #WarCrimes #heating #blackmail #coal #subsidies #HumanRights #Imperialism #passports #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine
How Doctors Create Customers
If you ever wondered why the learning of history is discouraged, or why Castalia History is so important, this anecdote from Chroniques de Genève by François Bonivard, finished in 1570 but not published until 1831, should suffice to explain it.
When the #bubonic #plague struck #Geneva in 1530, everything was ready. They even opened a whole #hospital for the plague victims. With #doctors, #paramedics and #nurses. The traders contributed, the magistrate gave grants every month. The patients always gave money, and if one of them died alone, all the goods went to the hospital.
But then a #disaster happened: the plague was dying out, while the #subsidies depended on the number of patients. There was no question of right and wrong for the Geneva hospital staff in 1530. If the plague produces money, then the plague is good. And then the doctors got organized.
At first, they just #poisoned #patients to raise the #mortality #statistics, but they quickly realized that the statistics didn’t have to be just about mortality, but about mortality from plague. So they began to cut the #boils from the bodies of the dead, dry them, grind them in a mortar and give them to other patients as #medicine. Then they started #dusting clothes, handkerchiefs and garters. But somehow the plague continued to abate. Apparently, the dried #buboes didn’t work well. #Doctors went into town and #spread bubonic powder on door handles at night, selecting those homes where they could then profit. As an eyewitness wrote on these events, “this remained hidden for some time, but the devil is more concerned with increasing the number of sins than with hiding them.”
In short, one of the doctors became so impudent and lazy that he decided not to wander the city at night, but simply threw a bundle of dust into the crowd during the day. The stench rose to the sky and one of the girls, who by a lucky chance had recently come out of that hospital, recognized what that smell was.
The doctor was tied up and placed in the good hands of competent “craftsmen.” They tried to get as much information from him as possible. However, the #execution lasted several days. The #ingenious #hypocrites were tied to poles on wagons and carried around the city. At each intersection the executioners used red-hot tongs to tear off pieces of meat. They were then taken to the public square, #beheaded and #quartered, and the pieces were taken to all the districts of Geneva.
The only exception was the hospital director’s son, who did not take part in the trial but blurted out that he knew how to make potions and how to prepare the powder without fear of contamination. He was simply beheaded “to prevent the spread of evil”.
Apparently the Geneva doctors didn’t initially understand that excess mortality statistics would give them away either.
It is said that #Bonivard’s work is not well-regarded by historians. I have no doubt that is the case. But that does not mean that it does not provide a faithful and true account of the events it relates. What historians believe to be credible is often a very false and unreliable metric. The abhorrent behavior of the sixteenth-century Geneva doctors is much easier to believe in the immediate aftermath of the #Covid #pandemic and the #mass #vaxxassinations of their twenty-first-century counterparts.
And it’s interesting to see how the hospital bureaucrats were in on the murderous Geneva scheme too.
Germany, Intel Agree Subsidies for Chip Plant Worth €10 Billion.
#Germany and #Intel Corp. sealed an agreement for the US company to receive #subsidies worth €10 billion ($10.9 billion) for a semiconductor manufacturing facility in the eastern part of the country, according to people familiar with the deal.
Intel initially agreed to build the facility in the city of #Magdeburg with €6.8 billion in #government #aid but postponed the start of construction at the plant because of economic headwinds.
The enhanced package now agreed will include both traditional aid in the form of financial subsidies as well as price caps on energy, according to the people.
Intel said the site is expected to create 7,000 construction jobs during the initial construction phase, as well as around 3,000 permanent high-tech jobs and tens of thousands of additional positions “across the industry ecosystem.”
Under Gelsinger, Intel has embarked on a huge expansion program aimed at recapturing its previous dominance of the industry and diversifying manufacturing hubs for critical components, currently concentrated in East Asia.
#Capitalism #Handouts #Economy #Politics #EU #Europe
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-19/germany-intel-agree-subsidies-for-chip-plant-worth-10-billion#xj4y7vzkg
well, if these two are managed opposition shills buying trust, they're succesfully making a fairly large purchase here with me and those #healthy #rants.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/8ifPYY72bR6a/
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Big #polluters given almost €100bn in free carbon permits by #EU | #CarbonTax | The Guardian
The EU is culpable for prolonging its dependence on polluting industries though various #subsidies.
#Environment #Politics #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #FossilFuels
Global fossil fuel #subsidies almost doubled in #2021, analysis finds | #FossilFuels | The Guardian
Environmental vandals (including loads of politicians) glibly ignore the huge subsidies #oil and #gas companies have enjoyed for decades while complaining about subsidies for #renewables.
RenewEconomy: Santos windfall: Australia is swimming in subsidised gas and we’re giving it away.
Santos on Wednesday reported an underlying profit for the first half of 2022 of $US1,267 million, a massive increase of 300%.
Much of this is war profiteering and selling gas that was destined for the domestic market in direct contravention of the undertakings given when they built their export plants. Santos categorically stated its project would not affect the domestic market because it would not buy gas out of the domestic market.
But that is exactly what it has done. Santos bought large volumes of gas out of the domestic market in the first half of 2022, forcing domestic prices above export prices in the last six months.
These actions have generated super profits, gouged from domestic gas consumer and forcing up domestic electricity prices to unaffordable levels. Santos has broken its approval conditions and IEEFA calls on the government to cancel their export licence.
Spreading the good word from WeMove.eu:
Hi,
In a few days, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are going to vote on the European recovery plan. They are considering keeping fossil fuels out of it.
But lobbyists of fossil fuel industries are freaking out. They have upped their pressure on MEPs to get this money back and protect their outdated economic model which is destroying the planet.
I just told them to stand up for us in locking fossil fuel companies out of this recovery plan.
Send a tweet to MEPs to free us from fossil fuels: https://act.wemove.eu/campaigns/recovery?action=tweet
Send an email to MEPs to ban fossil fuel subsidies: https://act.wemove.eu/campaigns/recovery?action=mail
MEPs will decide in a few days how to vote, so it’s crucial that we contact them NOW. If we make this a huge issue on social media and in their inboxes, they’ll see that citizens are watching their votes closely.
Send a tweet to MEPs to ban fossil fuel subsidies in the recovery plan:
https://act.wemove.eu/campaigns/recovery?action=tweet
Send an email to MEPs to free us from fossil fuels:
https://act.wemove.eu/campaigns/recovery?action=mail
