18 year old Greta Thunberg nailed shamed and revealeled Scott Morrison , his Plan, and slogan “The Australian Way” with her simple rebuttal ” Bla Bla Bla ”
The Paris Agreement doesn’t even mention coal, oil or gas, which is why a movement has been launched for a Fossil Fuel Non-proliferation treaty, modeled on the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Much of the energy and direction in the climate justice movement is coming from young people around the world. Greta Thunberg, the 18-year-old Swede who sparked the global Fridays for Future student strike movement, slammed the decades-old climate negotiations at a “Pre-COP” in Milan last month: “Build back better, blah, blah, blah. Green economy, blah, blah, blah. Net zero by 2050, blah, blah, blah….This is all we hear from our so-called leaders: words that sound great but so far have led to no action. Our hopes and dreams drown in their empty words and promises.” These global youth leaders, including Brianna Fruean from Samoa and Vanessa Nakate of Uganda, bring personal, frontline experiences with the climate emergency and a deep commitment to intersectional organizing and global justice to their work. “It’s now up to people,” Asad Rehman concluded. “People power is the only solution that’s left.”
At COP26, It’s People Power vs. Fossil Fuel Dinosaurs | The Smirking Chimp
For all the benefits wrought by the information revolution, social media has become a tool of dictators. Its profit-driven, surveillance-based business model favours those with deep pockets and deadly motives. In the first of two articles, cybersecurity expert and human rights activist Manal al-Sharif suggests way to invent the digital world for the better.
Social media: time to turn around the weapons – Michael West Media
It’s always about the money and Jones at 80 no longer warranted the cost.
Culture has little or nothing to do with Sky before or after dark, they are paid influencers and are selling a product. Selling a product boosted by overseas financing as they are failing to impress here. Murdoch has Americanised Australian politics. The staff they employ tend to be on their last legs, they represent the past, and certainly not the future. Like Jones Andrew Bolt has seen better days but never because he was a talent rather than a loyal corporate leech a tic too frightened to try out anywhere else he fed off the Murdochian teat. When he did try independence he failed. As we saw when he dragged his poor son Dom into The Andrew Bolt self-produced podcast that lasted 5 episodes.
When News Corp unveiled plans for Piers Morgan to headline an international prime time talk show we flippantly said “Move over Andrew Bolt, Alan Jones and Peta Credlin – there is a new conservative loudmouth in town”. Sadly, for one of these Australian conservative loudmouths at least, our prediction appears to have come true.
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