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‘More frequent, intense’: PM puts climate front and centre for election

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/more-frequent-intense-pm-puts-climate-front-and-centre-for-election-20250307-p5lhqx.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed

Gaaaah, we know all this, you dweeb. We've known it for decades. We also know that you keep funding fossilfools via undeserved obscene tax breaks, & doing their work by approving new fossilfool projects & expansions, plus demonising protesters instead of the actual climate criminals. You simply have NO credibility in this space, dear PM.

#AusPol #Greens #VoteGreens #ProgIndies #WeAreTotallyFscked #WeAreSelfishCruelBastards #Misanthropy #FsckOffDutton! #ShitParty1 #ShitParty2 #ComeOnTanya! #WhyIsLabor #NatsAreNuts #NoNukes #racism #FuckRacists #TuckFrump #ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance

"Now that Trump has captured the intelligence services, the Justice Department, and the FBI, the military is the last piece he needs to establish the foundations for authoritarian control of the U.S. government." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/cq-brown-and-friday-night-massacre/681803/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub #USMilitary #StateCapture

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“…details vary by context, but poli scientist Elizabeth David-Barrett lays out 3 general mechanisms of #StateCapture. They now sound familiar:shaping the rules of the game thru #law & #policy; #influencing admin decisions by capturing the #budget, appts, govt #contracts & #regulatory decisions;& #disabling checks on #power by #dismantling #accountability structures like the #judiciary, law enforcement & prosecution, & audit institutions like #IGs & #media.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/opinion/elon-musk-donald-trump-government.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uk4.7kNE.lNjRD0c-drn1&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Not 'run-of-the-mill' corruption: Musk said to be taking a page from his nation's playbook https://www.rawstory.com/not-run-of-the-mill-corruption-musk-is-taking-a-page-from-his-home-country-s-playbook/

Here is the continuation of the thread about Elon Musk's takeover of the US government.

The beginning of the thread is at:
https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/113934284003400421

"Who exactly is running the federal government?
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the actual answer is #Musk
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#StateCapture occurs when wealthy private interests influence a #government to such a degree that they can freely direct #policy decisions & public funds for their own benefit"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/opinion/elon-musk-donald-trump-government.html

#auspol #politics #australia #fossilfuels #statecapture how to end it?

“voters need to turn on major party incumbents and replace them with community independents, establishing an even bigger crossbench, eliminating the possibility of majority governments and turning far more seats into marginals that the major parties will have to work hard to hold.” #election

https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/01/15/western-australia-fossil-fuel-politics-capture/

Is there an organisation that measures how much the European central government is 'in the pocket' of #bigtech?

I'm a HUGE fan of the #DMA but I just saw an interview with #yanisvaroufakis where he said that #statecapture in the centre if government is a big problem.

This video snippet has been doing the rounds in the past 24 hrs.

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c4gwg2neg16o

As with almost everything else re the misreporting of this latest event, i'm just incensed at the media irresponsibility... & also have bugger-all sympathy for victims, when they keep mischaracterising infernos like this as "like nothing we've seen in the past 50 years". Fsck me dead, resorting to distant historical comparisons is now obsolete, coz this is the #ClimateCrisis in action. When the hell are humans going to wake up to this new reality... that our species created?

As i read more & more articles like https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/dec/25/extreme-heat-and-bushfire-risk-across-australias-south-east-on-christmas-and-boxing-days-as-grampians-blaze-rages, I reflect on my immense good fortune to have chosen to be born & exist in a country governed by sane sensible decent peeps who fully grasp that the most logical policy response to the escalating climate crisis is to frack more gas & dig more coal, & further who also know the most logical political response is to demonise other pollies who preposterously support climate- & eco-first policies, plus vilify all public protesters, who are QED devilspawn.

#AusPol #Greens #VoteGreens #ProgIndies #WeAreTotallyFscked #WeAreSelfishCruelBastards #Misanthropy #FsckOffDutton! #ShitParty1 #ShitParty2 #ComeOnTanya! #WhyIsLabor #NatsAreNuts #NoNukes #ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance