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£4bn in UK public pensions funding North Sea oil giants drilling new wells Public sector workers in the UK are inadvertently funding companies drilling new oil wells in the North Sea

Public sector workers in the UK are inadvertently funding companies drilling new oil wells in the North Sea to the tune of more than £4bn.

www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023...

Crunch moment for Sunak as supreme court decides on legality of Rwanda policy If court decides against government on Wednesday, dozens of Tory MPs are likely to demand exit from European convention on human rights

Crunch moment for Sunak as supreme court decides on legality of #Rwanda policy.

If court decides against government on Wednesday, dozens of Tory MPs are likely to demand exit from European convention on human rights.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...

Rough sleepers have tents destroyed in London crackdown Camden Council pledges 'urgent investigation' after its contractors are filmed throwing belongings into a bin lorry

Rough sleepers have tents destroyed by enforcement officers in London.

Camden Council pledges 'urgent investigation' after its contractors are filmed throwing belongings into a bin lorry.

www.opendemocracy.net/en/rough-sle...

The Carbon Capture Sector's Community-Involvement Rhetoric Doesn't Match Reality Local groups opposing carbon capture and storage projects claim the industry is ignoring community engagement and consent.

"Project developers are forging ahead, eager to capitalize on billions of dollars in government subsidies supporting #CCS deployment, despite the technology’s poor track record of underperforming and the significant regulatory gaps around CO2 pipelines."

www.desmog.com/2023/11/06/g...

New Study Finds Overwhelming Evidence of Harms From Fracking A review of the scientific literature reveals enormous public health, environmental, and climate damage from fracking. Authors say that "no rules or regulations can make these practices safe."

New Study Finds Overwhelming Evidence of Harms From Fracking.

A review of the scientific literature reveals enormous public health, environmental, and climate damage from fracking.

www.desmog.com/2023/11/10/s...

Shell sues Greenpeace for $2.1m in damages over fossil fuel protest in North Sea Energy firm’s lawsuit seeks indefinite block on protesters targeting its infrastructure

#Shell sues #Greenpeace for $2.1m in damages over fossil fuel protest in North Sea.

Energy firm’s lawsuit seeks indefinite block on protesters targeting its infrastructure.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Lloyd’s of London insurers dominate underwriting of fossil fuel projects, study shows Annual ‘scorecard’ of major firms insuring oil, gas and coal projects puts household names Allianz, Axa, AIG and Aegis in Top 10

Insurers operating in the Lloyd’s of London market are the world’s biggest underwriters of #fossilfuel projects, research has found.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

MEMO: Leonard Leo’s Federalist Society: A Hub for Corruption, Money, and Extremism As Federalist Society members prepare to gather in Washington, DC this weekend, it’s important to recognize this conference is not an exploration of conservative legal perspectives — it’s an opp...

Leonard Leo’s Federalist Society: A Hub for Corruption, Money, and Extremism . #KochNetwork

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Bannon’s “War Room” is the media home of Project 2025 and Trump’s retribution plans

Bannon’s “War Room” is the media home of #Project2025 and Trump’s retribution plans.

Bannon’s show is a staging ground for Trump’s plans to gut the civil service and normalize deploying the military against civilians. #KochNetwork #HeritageFoundation

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Private Banks Are Trapping Their Customers, and They Want to Keep It That Way A new federal rule would make it easier for consumers to shop around at different banks to look for better interest rates. Financial institutions are fighting the agency behind it tooth and nail.

"Those fighting against the CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) include twenty-six attorneys general in mostly Republican-led states; the billionaire #KochNetwork’s Americans for Prosperity.."

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The World’s Broken Food System Costs $12.7 Trillion a Year The hidden costs of the global food system are equivalent to 10 percent of global GDP, according to new analysis from the United Nations.

According to a report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the total hidden costs of the world’s food system add up to $12.7 trillion dollars—roughly 10 percent of global GDP.

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‘Insanity’: petrostates planning huge expansion of fossil fuels, says UN report Plans by nations including Saudi Arabia, the US and UAE would blow climate targets and ‘throw humanity’s future into question’

The world’s #fossilfuel producers are planning expansions that would blow the planet’s carbon budget twice over, a UN report has found. Experts called the plans “insanity” which “throw humanity’s future into question”.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

US chemical industry likely spent $110m trying to thwart PFAS legislation, study finds Analysis of federal lobbying documents by Food and Water Watch finds industry targeted dozens of pieces of legislation

The US chemical industry likely spent over $110m during the last two election cycles deploying lobbyists to kill dozens of pieces of PFAS legislation and slow administrative regulation around “forever chemicals.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...

Burned Out: Documents Reveal The Gas Industry’s Use Of Tobacco Tactics Over Gas Stove Emissions In the 1970s, Dr. Bernard Goldstein, a young professor at the New York University School of Medicine, researched the health impacts of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) produced by gas stoves. In a series of stu...

The gas industry funded its own scientific studies using the same laboratories, consultants, and statisticians as Big Tobacco; and that it was advised by the same public relations firm that masterminded the tobacco strategy.

www.desmog.com/2023/11/07/g...

That is what these groups do, unfortunately - Moms for Liberty being an example. Stir them up with ideas about parenting, education, etc and all the time they're (politically and financially) tied to the Kochs.

US Sanctions Ryuk Ransomware’s Russian Money Launderer Woman is accused of assisting Russian oligarchs and ransomware affiliates with schemes to evade sanctions.

The US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Ekaterina Zhdanova on Nov. 3 for moving and laundering virtual currency in the interest of Russian elites legally barred from accessing western financial markets.

www.darkreading.com/attacks-brea...

The Carbon Capture Sector's Community-Involvement Rhetoric Doesn't Match Reality Local groups opposing carbon capture and storage projects claim the industry is ignoring community engagement and consent.

"Project developers are forging ahead, eager to capitalize on billions of dollars in government subsidies supporting CCS deployment, despite the technology’s poor track record of underperforming and the significant regulatory gaps around CO2 pipelines."

www.desmog.com/2023/11/06/g...

The Alliance of Responsible Citizenship conference: the most depressing show on Earth When will the right give us a break from cringing public displays of their existential crisis?

Alliance for Responsible Citizenship.

Paul Marshall, Jordan Peterson, Christopher Chandler, Philippa Stroud, Alan McCormick, all #Legatum, all #KochNetwork

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There’s trouble in store for post-Brexit Britain Thanks to higher costs, increased red tape and supply chain damage, we must get used to living in a country with empty shelves

The UK is a messier, more complicated market to supply than many in Europe – it is overseas from lots of its suppliers and therefore it is at the end of the supply chain. But that has always been the case, and it all worked perfectly well before #Brexit.

www.theneweuropean.co.uk/theres-troub...

Washington Post reports Trump plan to deploy military against political opponents if he returns to t... Under the rubric of “Project 2025,” Trump aides are drawing up plans for authoritarian rule and the legal persecution of their enemies.

"Much of the planning for the campaign of military violence, repression and persecution has been outsourced to a group of ultra-right figures dubbed “#Project2025,” originally set up by the Heritage Foundation." #KochNetwork

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Trump and allies plot revenge, Justice Department control in a second term Advisers have also discussed deploying the military to quell potential unrest on Inauguration Day. Critics have called the ideas under consideration dangerous and unconstitutional.

"The law, last updated in 1871, authorizes the president to deploy the military for domestic law enforcement." #Project2025 #KochNetwork #HeritageFoundation

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

A world ripe for free zones From diversification to levelling up, more countries are embracing the benefits of FTZs

A world ripe for #freezones

Adrianople Group, an advisory firm focused on #SEZs, has identified 4921 active zones spread across more than 90 countries. Around 750 of those are still under construction.

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Westminster's Twitter addiction: what would it take to kill off X? Westminster loves to moan about the social media platform formerly known as Twitter even as it becomes ever less useful to politicians and journalists alike. What would it take to finally kill off X a...

Wrote a piece for The House magazine on Westminster's addiction to 'X', and whether Elon Musk's platform is still fit for purpose.

With special thanks to @benansell.bsky.social and @stephenkb.bsky.social for their insights on what it would take to loosen X's grip on Westminster.

Why we should be worried about the GB News-funded alt-right conference in London This latest curious meeting of right-wing minds in a sold out inaugural conference at the world’s busiest concert venue, shows how much this form of cultural nationalism, which emphases the preserva...

Why we should be worried about the GB News-funded alt-right conference in London.

Paul Marshall, Jordan Peterson, Christopher Chandler, Alan McCormick, Philippa Stroud, all #Legatum Institute/Foundation, all ties to #KochNetwork

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Koch Industries Forced to Pay $1.2 Million for its Latest Lies - EXPOSEDbyCMD On September 13, 2023, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) fined Georgia-Pacific, a subsidiary of Koch Industries, $1.2 million for abandoning a natural gas pipeline without notifying fede...

According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, #Koch is the largest funder of climate denialism, spending $162 million between 1997 and 2020 on groups and individuals willing to spread disinformation about the causes of the climate crisis. #KochNetwork

www.exposedbycmd.org/2023/10/25/k...

Climate Science Denial Rife at Launch of Jordan Peterson’s ARC Project Canadian climate science denier Jordan Peterson’s new right-wing project launched this week with claims that carbon emissions have “declined” and that the climate crisis is a “secular religion...

Canadian climate science denier Jordan Peterson’s new right-wing project launched this week with claims that carbon emissions have “declined” and that the climate crisis is a “secular religion”. #ARC #Legatum #KochNetwork

www.desmog.com/2023/11/03/c...

Time to Tackle ‘Dark Money’ in Politics – As Voters Demand Transparency Over Britain’s Opaqu... We know very little about the funding for many of the UK's leading think tanks – but a new report sheds some light

Institute of Economic Affairs, Policy Exchange, Adam Smith Institute, Global Warming Policy Foundation (Net Zero Watch), Sarah Scaife Foundation - all ties to the #KochNetwork #DarkMoney

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Austria to work with UK on Rwanda-style plan for asylum seekers Suella Braverman signs ‘migration and security agreement’ with Austrian counterpart in move to work more closely together

Austria to work with UK on #Rwanda-style plan for asylum seekers.

Suella Braverman signs ‘migration and security agreement’ with Austrian counterpart in move to work more closely together.

www.theguardian.com/world/2023/n...

How our financial system is bankrolling extinction and what governments need to do to restore nature... As Governments are preparing their plans on how to implement the commitments they have made in the historic Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, we urge them to adopt regulations of the fin...

Commitments to tackle the climate and biodiversity crises are being undermined on a daily basis by a finance system that serves polluters and the funding of industries and projects that accelerate environmental degradation and species extinction.

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France facing multiple foreign interference threats, warns report China, Russia and Turkey are all mentioned as active meddlers in French politics and society in assessment that draws a line between free and authoritarian global blocs.

Foreign interference in France has become a "protean, omnipresent and lasting" threat, ranging from espionage to the use of cyberspace or information manipulation operations, with Russia and China as the main players.

www.euronews.com/next/2023/11...