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The UK car industry is attempting to weaken European efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from new cars, Unearthed can reveal. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) – which represents UK-based manufacturers – responded to a European Commission consultation arguing that it should slow down the rate at which companies are required to reduce CO2 emissions levels and opposing targets for electric cars. US oil major, Exxon Mobil, also wrote to the Commission stating that promoting the market uptake of electric vehicles is “unimportant”. The Commission is set to publish proposals on Wednesday to set new limits on carbon dioxide emissions from cars for the period after 2020 – as part of efforts to tackle climate change. Drafts circulating last week reportedly set a 25-35% emissions reduction target for 2030, with an interim target in 2025. These ambitions have apparently been watered down since then in response to fierce lobbying

Με φτώχεια ή κοινωνικό αποκλεισμό απειλείται ένας στους πέντε ανθρώπους στη Γερμανία σύμφωνα με ανακοίνωση της Ομοσπονδιακής Στατιστικής Υπηρεσίας. Το αντίστοιχο μέγεθος για το προηγούμενο έτος να βρίσκεται στο 19,7&, ενώ η χώρα βρίσκεται κάτω από τον μέσο όρο στα ποσοστά φτώχειας της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης, που είναι το 23,5%. Σύμφωνα με ανακοίνωση της Ομοσπονδιακής Στατιστικής Υπηρεσίας και με στοιχεία της επίσημης έρευνας που διενεργήθηκε σε ολόκληρη την ΕΕ (Eu-Silc), από το φάσμα της φτώχειας απειλείται το 16,5% των ανθρώπων που ζουν στην Γερμανία, ποσοστό το οποίο αντιστοιχεί σε 13,4 εκατομμύρια ανθρώπους, ενώ το 3,7% του πληθυσμού αντιμετωπίζει σημαντική υστέρηση σε υλικά αγαθά. Αυτό μεταξύ άλλων σημαίνει ότι δεν μπορεί να καλυφθεί το ενοίκιο ή να ζεσταθεί επαρκώς η κατοικία ή ότι το άτομο δεν μπορεί να χρηματοδοτήσει μια εβδομάδα διακοπών. Σε ό,τι αφορά τη φτώχεια, στην έρευνα ορίζεται στο 60% του μέσου εισοδήματος του συνολικού πληθυσμού. https:

The U.S. government may pretend to respect a “rules-based” global order, but the only rule Washington seems to follow is “might makes right” — and the CIA has long served as a chief instigator and enforcer. by Nicolas J.S. Davies Part 5 - The Three Scapegoats In Trump’s speech to the U.N. General Assembly, he named North Korea, Iran and Venezuela as his prime targets for destabilization, economic warfare and, ultimately, the overthrow of their governments, whether by coup d’etat or the mass destruction of their civilian population and infrastructure. But Trump’s choice of scapegoats for America’s failures was obviously not based on a rational reassessment of foreign policy priorities by the new administration. It was only a tired rehashing of the CIA’s unfinished business with two-thirds of Bush’s “axis of evil” and Bush White House official Elliott Abrams’ failed 2002 coup in Caracas, now laced with explicit and illegal threats of aggression. How Trump and the

globinfo freexchange The armed forces in Germany are examining the theoretical scenario of other EU members leaving the Union on Brexit standards, according to info-war.gr , based on a report by Spiegel. This is the one of six scenarios, which, according to German army officials, could cause a geopolitical imbalance for the next years up to 2040. These six scenarios will determine the German military budget and which specific weapons Germany will buy the next years. Two scenarios refer to the probability of returning to some form of "state capitalism" and the termination of globalization. The revelation shows that the elites are deeply concerned that they cannot control things completely according to their planning, especially after Brexit. It is obvious that the German political and economic establishment has more reasons to worry about such scenarios because the current architecture of the EU offers significant advantages for it to domina

Two years after the worst environmental tragedy in Brazil’s, residents continue to recover from the devastating impacts caused by the Samarco dam disaster, which destroyed entire towns and villages, releasing 50 million cubic meters of iron-mining waste and toxic sludge along the Doce River. During the immediate aftermath, thousands of residents from rural communities such as Bento Rodrigues and Paracatu de Baixo were forced to flee from their homes and relocated to temporary housing structures in nearby city centers. However, most of these families have yet to receive any sort of legal compensation for the avoidable damages caused by the Samarco iron ore mine spill. “ I imagined a very different future, ” said Júlio César Salgado, a displaced resident from the community of Bento Rodrigues. Currently, there an estimated 300 families in Bento Rodrigues and Paracatu that remain exposed to degrading living conditions. “ My entire life has been comp