Gough Whitlam once warned that Australia was 'paying to be exploited' for its mineral resources.

Now the Albanese government is allowing the fossil fuel industry to do it all over again as taxpayers fund climate-wrecking gas exploration

crikey.com.au/2024/05/09/lab…

RIP Helen Hill, of Timor.
timor-leste.gov.tl/?p=37604&lang=…

It’s hard to imagine a tweet which could capture more perfectly the current state of the US political system

this is completely right. Labor voters would incandescent with righteous climate rage if Morrison had done this

'For fossil fuel companies it’s now the perfect rort in every way: they have their mapping done for free, so they can extract gas on which they pay minimal tax, while their political operatives in govt pass laws to prevent climate protests & use police as a militia for polluters'

Hey look, it's another judge hearing a Chamber of Commerce case trying to kick out Biden rules (in this case the noncompete ban) that has hundreds of thousands of dollars of stock in companies with a direct interest in the case!
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'The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.'

Markets aren’t as efficient as they’re supposed to be.Indeed our electricity market often requires solar farms to be switched off in the middle of the day while our governments invent new ways to subsidise gas & coal-fired power stations to keep operating

thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2024/0…

“The person who was hit was arrested and handcuffed to the bed while in the hospital.” this place is demonic idk what else to say to any of this

Remembering the glory and scary days of Hong Kong’s old Kai Tak Airport.

Moves afoot in Europe:
'Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo is attempting to advance a joint action with several other European countries to impose economic sanctions on Israel, due to the ongoing war in Gaza and Israel's threat to launch a military operation in Rafah.

'De…

'The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon wholesale massacre, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.'
- Marx, 'The Civil War in France'

This is very sad. Vale Helen Hill.

She had a chapter in the first book I edited. Was a very fine, thoughtful, caring person.

A new rating scale will allow Western governments to more clearly express which meaningless platitude they are using about the situation in Gaza today. theshovel.com.au/2024/05/07/new…

Unbelievable
theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Interesting & important Q: how does an organisation that has objectively lost all credibility continue to have credibility with users?

At least with the ratings agencies, it could be explained by their quasi-monopoly power. But how could that be the case here? Is it size?

Banned from Europe because he treated dying patients in Gaza, & lived to talk about how children were maimed, killed, and then denied basic medication and healthcare by Israel. That's his crime. Got to love how European leaders and conventions go on about 'freedom of expression'.

How university managers have changed from reproducers of values to CEOs of sausage factories.

And how this explains the reversal in their attitudes on police vs students.

A bit of a reminder about why those in colleges/universities are protesting

What's really important is that we condemn property damage at Columbia University.