Sunday 13 November 2022

Fighting Fake News with REAL,13/11/22, Plastic, Elactions, The Age, COP27, Victorian LNP Who Really are they?

 

 

COP 27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. United nations climate change conference. 7-18 November 2022 will be international climate summit. Flat vector modern banner.

Four reports and Greta Thunberg highlight the failure of 30 years of COP meetings to slow climate change. Our weekly environment report.

Use of fossil fuels and non-fossil fuels in 2050

The IEA report I summarised above includes the following figure (page 58). It shows the amount of energy (in Exajoules) provided by fossil and non-fossil energy sources from 2020-2050. The figure on the left shows the likely trajectories if all governments’ current policies are pursued. The figure on the right shows the trajectories that are needed to reach net zero emissions by 2050. Current policies will more than double non-fossil supplies by 2050, whereas the net zero course needs an almost four-fold increase. The big change though is in the supply of fossil energy. Current policies will produce only a marginal reduction in fossil fuel energy, but to achieve net zero emissions fossil energy must be reduced to approximately one-fifth of 2020 levels by 2050.

Source: Environment: COP meetings keep happening; emissions keep rising

New Coles initiative allows customers to dispose plastic bags directly into ocean 

  

 Matthew Guy.

In the Victorian election has become Dan vs Murdoch, Peter Costello and the LNP all lobbyists for the States real wannabe leaders money and power. While Victorians the 4.4 mill are left to do their own thing and will choose Dan. In the meantime the Greens and the S-Tealers will be the only ones to make some headway. Little Matthew Guy will be left eating their dust. I've cancelled my subscription to Costello's LNP's and Harvey Normans thin as a stamp flier haven't you?

 The Age delivered us as "must read" front page news and information yesterday a promo for Matthew Guy who we all know only too well isn't the heroic little Ukranian Zelensky they made him out to be. He's Ventnor realestate swindler, the Lobster Don whose ready to do anything for the real wanna be power holders of this State. Any losses Dan suffers won't be because of Matthew Guy's last Hurrah.Votes away from Dan won't be because of this puff piece by Chip Le Grand. Fortunately in a Democracy even the losers need to be recognized compromises made to get the job done when leading Victoria to become nations best and humane state once again.

As things stand, the opposition leader is driving the Liberals towards a brick wall. Whatever possessed him to take the wheel again?

‘He’s not gracious’: The Andrews phone call driving  Guy’s comeback

 

With Murdoch and Costello’s assistance they aren’t who they say they are

Among other deceptions, Deputy Leader of the Victorian Liberal Party David Southwick has been sprung using his staffers in promotional videos as “local constituents” who claim they’d back him, writes Megan Jane de Paulo.

It’s election time in Victoria and the corflutes have spontaneously sprouted to adorn the gardens and fences of constituents.

Curiously, Southwick’s corflute sign – unlike those of most Liberal Party candidates – doesn’t feature a Liberal Party logo (or even the word “Liberal” in an easily legible font). It’s almost, despite being Deputy Leader of the Victorian Liberal Party, as if Southwick’s embarrassed to be associated with it.

One could argue that he’s lurked around long enough for us to know who he is — but Dan Andrews is arguably more recognisable and he, helpfully, has Victorian Labor logos splashed all over his campaign bus.

Staged videos with fake constituents. Fake credentials. Fake ambulance. Fake Facebook accounts. Fake threats.

 

Source: Deceitful deputy Liberal leader leads public astray


Panels

 
A good starting point for Sharm el Sheikh

Will we do better at Sharm el-Sheikh than Glasgow? Australia’s feudal rental market; Trump does poorly; and Morrison takes the blame for Robodebt. Read on for the weekly roundup of links to articles, reports, podcasts, and other media on current political and economic issues in public policy.

Energy and climate change policy

We’ll do better at this Sharm el-Sheikh than we did at Glasgow, but that’s not a hard act to follow. Twiggy Forrest on the economics and politics of tackling climate change. Bringing electricity back to public hands – not many enthusiasts for privatisation. Treasury endorses Soviet-style central planning. If you want a Volvo you can choose any drive train you want, so long as it’s electric.

Other public policy

The Reserve Bank seeks to win friends and influence people. Gittins explains that inflation really is rather complicated. A guide to industry policy: stop thinking of “jobs, jobs, jobs”. Church and state in US and Australia. Australia’s feudal rental market. Universities’ most stringently-enforced rule: don’t fail anyone. Covid 19 – not killing so many but still a bloody nuisance. Australians are reluctant to change jobs.

Politics

The US election – let’s not rush to premature conclusions, but it looks as if Trump and the pollsters have done poorly. Seeing Morrison take the blame for Robodebt may satisfy our desire for Schadenfreude, but let’s not forget his myrmidons.

 

Weekly roundup: Trump does poorly, Morrison takes blame for Robodebt

 

Banks rake in $29 billion profit bonanza as rates on mortgages outpace rates on savings

Debt makes a profit

Banks rake in $29 billion profit bonanza as rates on mortgages outpace rates on savings

Banks rake in $29 billion profit bonanza as rates on mortgages outpace rates on savings


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