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The Chaser @chaser.com.au · 4h

"First it was too complicated, then it was too straining, but now I will finally speak up about it." chaser.com.au/general-news...

Guy who ignored Gaza ‘for mental health reasons’ celebrates ceasefire with Instagram story

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@lizglab.bsky.social @lizglab.bsky.social · 2h

An example of a government that actually governs.

Not like in Australia, where they just leave it up to 'the market', where big business rakes in grotesque profits.

UN-Habitat @un-habitat.bsky.social · 2d

Beijing 🇨🇳 went from toxic smog to cleaner skies: PM2.5 fell 60% (2013–22), life expectancy rose +4.6 yrs.

🚲🚆 EVs, coal-to-gas, afforestation & strict transport rules drove this change. Whilst still above WHO limits, it is proof that rapid urban clean-up is possible.

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t know who first coined the saying that an Israeli ceasefire means “you cease and we fire,” but it proves reliably accurate time after time.

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@lizglab.bsky.social @lizglab.bsky.social · 9h

Hypocrisy personified!

Albanese complaining in 2019.

Now he is making FOI even harder for us to access.
youtube.com/shorts/jlXes...

PM Anthony Albanese on FOI law abuses by government in 2019

YouTube video by Kangaroo Court of Australia

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Peter Relph ᴀᴜ @peterrelph.bsky.social · 10h

The rest of the world watches America sinking, self-flagellating into a bottomless bog of its own careful design

thinks "what can be learn from that?"

"No, I don't think we can improve on that, let's do it too"

#politics

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 14h

Least surprising news story of the year

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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@lizglab.bsky.social @lizglab.bsky.social · 12h

Of 99 laureates since 1969, 35 affiliated with the University of Chicago.
Over last 50 years, economic theories have become more mathematical & abstract.

Instead of constructing theories based on empirical facts, mainstream economists abandon the real world & prove things about imaginary worlds.

The ‘Nobel Prize’ in economics — a critical perspective

from Lars Syll Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the 2025 ‘Nobel Prize’ in economics for their work on how innovation and the forces of creative destruction can drive economic growth…

rwer.wordpress.com

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@lizglab.bsky.social @lizglab.bsky.social · 12h

And it's only mid November.

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@lizglab.bsky.social @lizglab.bsky.social · 1d

The covert flights are continuing — with another flight from Sydney to Israel late last week.

More info….
www.instagram.com/p/DPxY8xdErx...

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@lizglab.bsky.social @lizglab.bsky.social · 1d

Most economics departments in universities don't seem to have noticed that we live on a finite planet!

Replace infinite growth with ecological economics.

Doughnut economics is one framework that can be used.
The place to study in Australia is modernmoneylab.org.au/courses/?fbc...

Global Donut Days 2025 | DEAL

Join us 14-17 October to celebrate and inspire local action and global connection with Doughnut Economics

doughnuteconomics.org

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Rum Court Rules @courtrum.bsky.social · 1d

Just another #COP_OUT

Canberrans against coal and gas @cbrvscoalandgas.bsky.social · 3d

Oil, gas, and coal are responsible for 75% of greenhouse gas emissions and 90% of CO2 emissions. UNEP assesses that countries are on track to expand fossil fuel production to levels that would result in 110% more emissions than what might keep us within 1.5C

thebulletin.org/2023/12/at-c...

At COP28, Vanuatu and Tuvalu lead the call for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty to address climate crisis

If global leaders can’t agree on a course of action to phase out fossil fuels, countries should do so independently by signing on to a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.

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Gavin Miller @glmiller.bsky.social · 1d

JQ: 'Australia needs a new strategic vision.' 😂: will never happen as long as duopoly/cartel parties hoodwink the country.

theconversation.com/if-governmen...