I came across a term this morning in a Record article about Israel and Gaza. Instead of co-opted a Palestinian group referred to another armed group as a tool of the Israeli military. Tools unfortunately do not always do the intended job and in incompetent hands can actually backfire. Various "tools" that Lanxess currently use would include Luis, Allan Deal, Hadley, Susan, Tiffany, Sandy and Nathan. There are many others . Lanxess's influence, both positive and negative, extends far and wide. They can for example get an ambitious citizen appointed to the National Advisory Panel of the Chemical Industry Association of Canada (CIAC). In the opposite direction they can put pressure on media outlets, perhaps newspapers in particular, "suggesting" that they would prefer to read and hear less about a certain individual; much less to be exact.
They can also advise municipal councils that appointing certain individuals to a volunteer environmental committee could backfire in that they the corporate body responsible for the environmental catastrophe won't attend if certain specific individuals are appointed that do not meet with their approval. Hence the naive among us might believe that certain respected citizens are appointed due to their merits when in fact it is the exact opposite. They are appointed precisely because they are malleable enough to bend when told to do so or else.
Immediate responses to critical media pieces are guaranteed. Look at today's Record. The Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) have already responded to last Friday's condemnation by Luisa D'Amato with a puff piece response today. I fully expect that Lanxess will soon have something in both the Woolwich Observer and the K-W Record extolling the virtues of corporations on the leading edge of enhancing human adaptive techniques to chemically enhanced air, water and food. Or some such other rot and nonsense.
Using municipal influence via legal (or not ?) corporate bribes for recreational improvements etc. to guarantee appointments to authority positions such as Chair of environmental committees. Most knowledgeable people understand that any and all municipal committees will never be independent fully much less partially. They toe the company line or else they are gone! Having a Chair biased in favour of a serious polluter is always helpful to that polluter. An honest environmental committee such as CPAC from November 2010 to August 2015 terrified Uniroyal/Chemtura as they asked difficult questions and also provided very difficult comments and statements of fact contrary to long held Uniroyal/Chemtura ideology and propaganda.
So all in all friendly legislation, minimal fines, zero jail time etc. just isn't good enough for these swine. They want it all including positive public relations and if they have to lie, cheat, manipulate and deceive well that's O.K. it's all for a good cause. Similar to the justice system it's all about "just us".
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