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  2. Mar 2023
    1. In Polen hat die Staatsfirma Orlen lange enormer Gewinne mit fossilen Brennstoffen aus Russland gemacht. Damit hat sie sich u.a. in die Regionalpresse eingekauft, um dort Propaganda für die rechtskonservative Regierung zu machen.

  3. Feb 2023
    1. Mit Total meldet ein weiterer Energiegigant Rekordgewinne. Sie gehen zu einem großen Teil auf den gestiegenen Gaspreis zurück. In erneuerbarer Energie. Total investiert nur einen kleinen Teil der Einnahmen in erneuerbare Energien. Wesentlich mehr Geld fließt in Dividenden und den Rückkauf von Aktien.

  4. Jan 2023
    1. nd BASF more than most, thanks to its 67% stake in Wintershall Dea, the oil and gas producer that it co-owns with the Russian company LetterOne”. It
    1. Das Interview der taz mit Olaf Scholz zeigt, dass für die Bundesregierung nach wie vor das weitere Wachstum der Wirtschaft Priorität vor dem Klimaschutz hat, und dass es dabei vor allem darum geht den Wirtschaftsstandort Deutschland so zu sichern, wie er jetzt gerade funktioniert. Einsparen von Energie hat dabei keine Priorität. Scholz spricht sich für eine Steigerung der Stromproduktion durch Erneuerbare aus und fordert 3-4 neue Windräder pro Tag.

    1. Libération publizert eine Serie mit investigativen Artikeln zur Korruption in Ölindustrie und Regierung der Republik Kongo. Der französische Ölkonzern Total (davor: Elf) und prominente Politiker sind in diesen Skandal eng verwickelt. Hunderte von Millionen Dollar flossen an die Briefkastenfirma Orion und über diese u.a. an den Langzeitpräsidenten Denis Sassou-Nguessou.

    1. Eine neue Studie zeigt, dass Exxon noch viel genauer über die Erhitzung alls Folge der Verwendung fossiler Breinnstoffe Bescheid wusste, als es bisher bekannt war. Die Studie könne u.a. Folgen für die Beweisführung in Prozessen gegen den Konzern haben.

      Studie: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063

  5. Dec 2022
  6. Nov 2022
    1. Die US-Regierung erlaubt Chevron, in zusätzliche Ölförderungen in Venezuela zu investieren. Die Entscheidung ist Teil einer auch geopolitsch motivierten beginnenden Umorientierung der amerikanischen Venezuela-Politik. Anfallende Lizenzgebühren müssen zur Tilgung von venezolanischen Regierungsschulden verwendet werden. Eine Aufhebung der bestehenden Sanktionen könnte auch zu Investitionen aus anderen Ländern in die venezolanische Fossilindustrie führen.

    1. Die europäischen Produzenten von Windturbinen Mädchen enorme Verluste. Die Hauptgründe sind Kostensteigerungen und logistische Probleme. Hinzu kommen Investitionen für neue, stärkere Modelle und chinesische Konkurrenz. Ein zusätzliches Risiko könnte die Förderung der US-Turbinen-Industrie durch die Biden-Administration darstellen. Die europäischen Produzenten erwarten mehr Unterstützung durch die Regierungen, um Kompetenzen in Europa zu halten.

    1. Vertreter:innen der EU-Staaten könnten sich nicht auf eine Preisobergrenze für russisches Rohöl einigen. Vorgeschlagen wurde die Grenze von den G7-Staaten. In Europa tritt am 5. Dezember ein Boykott russischer Öltanker in Kraft. Die Obergrenze ist aber für Lieferung an Drittländer mit Tankern und Versicherungsschutz aus Europa relevant.

    1. Der deutsche Finanzminister Lindner weil Übergewinne von fossilen Energieunternehmen nur mit dem von der EU geforderten Minimum besteuern. Die Abschöpfung bei Strom und damit bei erneuerbaren Energien ist wesentlich höher.

  7. Sep 2022
    1. Verfahren gegen Deutsche Autokonzerne miz Hintergrundinformationen zu anderen laufenden Verfahren, um Klimaschutz juristisch durchzusetzen.

  8. Aug 2022
    1. Diskussionen innerhalb der französischen Grünen könnten auf eine Neugründung hinauslaufen. Dabei spielt der Begriff einer ökologischen Klasse eine wichtige Rolle, der auf das Buch von Latour und Schulz zurückgehen dürfte. Eine Stellungnahme stellt Degrowth, die decroissance in den Mittelpunkt.

    1. She'll und BP geben allein im UK Hunderttausende für Greenwashing-Kampagnen aus. Zur Zeit sollten sie ihnen vor allem die Licence to Operate vor dem Hintergrund von Milliardengewinnen sichern, die sie den durch den Ukraine-Krieg gestiegenen Ölpreisen verdanken.

    2. “These ads are intended to create a clean warm glow about the companies concerned, giving them more social licence to operate,” said Doug Parr, chief scientist for Greenpeace UK

      Die Ausgaben sprechen dafür, dass diese Art von Kommunikation sehr wirksam ist. Auch das schafft eine fundamentale Assymetrie zwischen der Fossilindustrie und ihren Gegnern.

    1. erweil fährt die BASF-Tochter Wintershall Dea durch die Förderung von Öl in Westsibirien im Verbund mit dem russischen Staatskonzern Gazprom Millionengewinne ein, wie einem Betrag des TV-Magazins „Monitor“ von vergangener Woche zu entnehmen war.
  9. Jul 2022
    1. Die Wagner-Privatarmee sorgt dafür, dass mehr Migranten aus Libyen nach Italien kommen und damit die Wahlchancen der Rechten vergrößern.. Der Artikel geht aber auch auf die Öl-Interessen in Libyen ein, wo sich die Bürgerkriegs Parteien zum ersten Mal annähern und die Produktion steigern.

  10. Feb 2022
    1. Others because they want privacy

      AIUI, your account's contribution graph and feed are still public, not private, without a way to opt out—just like on GitHub.

  11. Jan 2022
  12. Nov 2021
  13. Jul 2021
    1. we have discovered a game-changing way of structuring cyberspaces: the Social Web, where content orbits the author like planets orbit a star

      I've also articulated this point, but in a negative context. This piece speaks of actor-indexed content in a positive light. I maintain that actor-indexed content is on the whole negative. It's a direct and indirect cause of the familiar social media ills and has wide-reaching privacy implications, which is bad in and of itself, but especially so when you realize that this in turn leads to a chilling effect where people simply opt not to play because it's the only remedy.

      We'd do well socially to abandon the "game-changing" practice of indexing based on actor and return to topic-based indexing, which better matches the physical world.

  14. Mar 2021
    1. This tendency is known as the “actor-observer effect”. What this means is that people often attribute their own behavior to situational causes, while observers attribute the actor's behavior to the personality or disposition of the actor. For example, an actor's common reason to be late is due to the situational reason, traffic. Observers’ lack of contextual knowledge about the traffic, i.e. common ground, leads to them attributing the lateness due to ignorance or laziness on the actor's part. This tendency towards dispositional attribution is especially magnified when the stakes are higher and the situation is more complex. When observers are relatively calm, the tendency towards dispositional attribution is less strong.[25]

      [[actor-observer effect]]

  15. Feb 2021
  16. parsejournal.com parsejournal.com
    1. ost-humanist perspective that foregrounds the apparatuses within which possibilities for action and judgement take shape, and confront visitors with the complex ways in which they are part of these systems and networks. How to be a responsible node in an Actor-Network?
  17. Dec 2020
    1. Ziad Tarik, 24
    2. Fawzia Ibrahim
    3. elderly woman "whose hands were tied up and she was lying in the dust."
    4. There was an old black soldier we called 'al-Haji' who argued with the other Americans if they weren't respecting our rights."
    5. "Twenty or so of us would start shouting, 'Get us out! Let us go!
    6. Kuwaiti translators
    7. Baathists
    8. The Baghdad spokeswoman for the ICRC

      anonymous

    9. responsible under international law for inspecting wartime prison camps,

      responsible for oversight

    10. International Committee of the Red Cross
    11. unjustly held Iraqis

      actor/moral

    12. Iraq's chief U.S. administrator, L. Paul Bremer
    13. Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, the U.S. Army commander

      speaks positively on behalf of US Army

    14. Amnesty International
    15. Associated Press
    16. Americans
    17. influential neighbor

      suggests connection with the US troops

  18. Jun 2020
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  21. Dec 2018
  22. Oct 2018
    1. The Finance Minister said as per the second statement of Hollande, Dassault and Reliance selected themselves as partners. “This contradicts his first questionable statement which the French Government and Dassault have denied. The facts contradict the same. His second statement in Montreal, Canada to AFP (news agency) makes the veracity of his first statement even more questionable.”

      the indian express rafale; N

    2. Dassault Aviation itself has suggested that they have entered into multiple contracts with several public sector and private sector companies with regard to the offset contracts and the decision is entirely theirs.

      the indian express rafale; N

    3. The French Government and M/s Dassault Aviation have categorically denied the correctness of the former President’s first statement. The French Government has stated that the decision with regard to the offset contracts of Dassault Aviation are taken by the company and not the Government.

      the indian express rafale; N

    4. “the former French President’s first statement rhymes with Rahul Gandhi’s prediction”. “A controversy is sought to be created on the basis of a statement made by the former French President Hollande, that the Reliance Defence ‘partnership’ with Dassault Aviation was entered (into) at the suggestion of the Indian Government. In a subsequent statement the former President has sought to suggest that Reliance Defence emerged on the scene after the agreement with the Indian Government was entered into. He has, in a subsequent statement, said that he is ‘not aware’ if Government ever lobbied for Reliance Defence and that ‘the partners chose themselves’. Truth cannot have two versions.”

      the indian express rafale; N

    5. Jaitley also asserted that the fighter jet deal would not be scrapped. “Koi prashna nahin uthta. Ye fauj ki avashaktya hai. Ye desh main aana chahiye, aur ye aayega (There is no question of scrapping the deal. These fighters are needed by the defence forces. They should come and they will come),”

      the indian express rafale; N

    6. Reliance Defence was chosen as the offset partner in the deal by Rafale makers Dassault Aviation because the Indian government had proposed its name

      the indian express rafale; N

  23. Apr 2018
  24. Sep 2016
    1. A network perspective not only lays bare the various stakeholders with a vested social, economic, and political interest in what happens within schools and colleges, but also the ways agency for what happens within classrooms at my institution extends beyond the students and educators charged with constructing learning.

      Useful approach (reminiscent of ANT), especially if paired with a community-based approach.

  25. Jun 2016
    1. It’s a human/machine partnership that works as follows.

      Sounds like there’s been a bit of a move towards partnership, recently. But much discourse on automation is about the complete exclusion of human intervention.

  26. Feb 2016
    1. “Children are digging in the ash from the burned plastics,” Puckett said. “They’re breathing in the fumes. Sometimes it happens indoors when they cook the circuit boards – children are breathing all this in.”

      Claim.

      Jim Puckett and BAN are actors in the controversy.

    2. The EPA-led electronics task force has also worked to provide more information on e-waste and assist developing countries that handle U.S. exports.

      Claim.

      EPA and Purchia is an actor in the controversy.

    3. Consumers can make sure their electronic waste is handled properly by bringing old devices to a recycling facility certified under the e-Stewards program. E-Stewards is voluntary, and certifies that facilities are in full compliance with the Basel Convention.

      Claim.

      e-Stewards is an actor in the controversy.

    4. Another Toxics Link study found that take-back policies are not always reliable in India, however. Of 50 brands studied, only seven received a “good” rating based on how easily consumers could find information and drop off old equipment. The remainder ranked from “fair” to “bad.”

      Claim.

      Source for claim: Toxics Link Study.

    5. Legislation with bipartisan support currently in the House and Senate could put in place the same basic policies the EU follows, making the export of hazardous and electronic waste illegal.

      Claim.

      What legislation is being referred to?

      US House and Senate are actors in the controversy.

    6. “All those come at a cost, so the question is whether communities that are asking for that service are willing to pay those costs for those benefits.”

      Claim.

    7. “I think the benefits are that we would have absolute certainty over the environmental impacts and the labor standards that are being enforced, and what’s being done with the material,”

      Claim.

    8. Handling e-waste domestically would mean higher labor costs and tighter regulations on how devices are handled, and extracting valuable materials would cost more than they are actually worth. The price difference would necessitate fees to cover costs, O’Brien said.

      Claim.

      Jeremy O'Brien and the Solid Waste Association of North America are actors in the controversy.

    9. E-waste still makes it out of the EU illegally, but those doing it can be prosecuted, unlike in America, Puckett said. To legally ship from the EU, Puckett said equipment must first be tested and proven functional.

      Claim.

      Jim Puckett is an actor in the controversy.

    10. A recent study from Toxics Link

      Actor.

      Toxics Link and their report [How and where has the report circulated?]

    11. They try to repair and recycle the equipment when possible, but many pieces are irreparable.

      Claim.

    12. In Ghana, Puckett said he has seen mostly orphans – anywhere from 12 to 20 years old – working in a slum, burning discarded electronics and releasing toxic fumes into the air.

      Claim.

    13. The EPA, one of the lead agencies on the Interagency Task Force on Electronics Stewardship established by the Obama administration, recognizes the potential benefits of e-recycling and encourages the practice over allowing electronic junk to pile up in landfills.

      Claim.

      EPA and Interagency Task Force on Electronics Stewardship are actors.

    14. The developed world has in the past exported an estimated 23 percent of its electronic waste to seven developing countries, according to a study published in June by the journal Environmental Science and Technology.

      Claim.

      The authors of the study are actors in the controversy.

      Source is: Breivik, Knut, James Michael Armitage, Frank Wania, and Kevin C Jones. “Tracking the Global Generation and Exports of E-Waste. Do Existing Estimates Add Up?” Environmental Science & Technology, June 26, 2014. doi:10.1021/es5021313.

  27. Jul 2015
    1. cf. actor-network theory

      Actor Network Theory is a powerful framework under which we can understand complex socio-technical assemblages. To justify using it through an extreme reductionist interpretation that "critical theory = absolutism" doesn't seem to do it justice.

  28. Oct 2013
    1. Such is the practice of actors who do not pronounce exactly as we speak in common conversation, for such pronunciation would be devoid of art; nor do they depart far from nature, as by such a fault imitation would be destroyed; but they exalt the simplicity of familiar discourse with a certain scenic grace.
    1. The actor will also be required to teach how a narrative should be delivered, with what authority persuasion should be enforced, with what force anger may show itself, and what tone of voice is adapted to excite pity

      Acting seems to come from practice and the use of emotion from practice as well. Contrasts with Cicero, emotion is not felt but portrayed

    2. SOME TIME is also to be devoted to the actor, but only so far as the future orator requires the art of delivery,