@lizglab.bsky.social
@lizglab.bsky.social
MBA. Interests: MMT, ecological economics, corruption, democracy, inequality. Western Bulldogs. Co-founder of Voices of Kooyong. Currently https://www.debleonard4monash.com.au/ Bunurong land. Ex classical concert pianist.
Did you know that IBM, under CEO Thomas J. Watson, knowingly supplied the Nazi regime with data-processing technology that helped identify, track, and deport millions of Holocaust victims, all while pursuing profits throughout most of the Holocaust?
November 30, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Did you know that IBM, under CEO Thomas J. Watson, knowingly supplied the Nazi regime with data-processing technology that helped identify, track, and deport millions of Holocaust victims, all while pursuing profits throughout most of the Holocaust?
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Why does poverty still exist in one of the richest countries on earth? In this video, I explain how antisocial neoliberal economics deliberately creates poverty.
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Why do we still have poverty in UK?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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November 30, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Why does poverty still exist in one of the richest countries on earth? In this video, I explain how antisocial neoliberal economics deliberately creates poverty.
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Questions to ask a lcritic of MMT www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
Questions to ask a left-wing critic of MMT
Some on the Marxist left of politics, including those of that persuasion who have now entered the Greens in England and Wales with the clear aim of pushing it in a Marxist, class warfare-based directi...
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November 30, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Questions to ask a lcritic of MMT www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
Last Dec a bunch of friends got together for our yearly Xmas lunch. We each put in $20, sent a nice total to... No cards no gifts no having to be hypocritically delighted on receiving something we didn’t need
A bigger fix probably impossible. Western orgy of useless spending embedded in our culture
A bigger fix probably impossible. Western orgy of useless spending embedded in our culture
The obscenity of Christmas, and how to fix it
Last December a bunch of friends got together for our yearly Christmas lunch. This time we each put in $20 and sent a nice total to the Fred Hollows Foundation. And we felt good. No [...]
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November 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Last Dec a bunch of friends got together for our yearly Xmas lunch. We each put in $20, sent a nice total to... No cards no gifts no having to be hypocritically delighted on receiving something we didn’t need
A bigger fix probably impossible. Western orgy of useless spending embedded in our culture
A bigger fix probably impossible. Western orgy of useless spending embedded in our culture
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MMT matters because it reveals power – and gives us back the right to choose www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
MMT matters because it reveals power – and gives us back the right to choose
I think modern monetary theory (MMT) matters. That is not because it is perfect, because no theory is. Instead, it is because it explains something that almost no one in mainstream economics has ever ...
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November 30, 2025 at 8:30 AM
MMT matters because it reveals power – and gives us back the right to choose www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
I wonder how many other MPs are acting in this abusive, undemocratic manner?
Tim Wilson’s latest tactic for dealing with older Goldstein constituents who write to him with legitimate grievances?
He ignores every issue they raise… and instead replies by cataloguing their past activism.
Tim Wilson’s latest tactic for dealing with older Goldstein constituents who write to him with legitimate grievances?
He ignores every issue they raise… and instead replies by cataloguing their past activism.
Sue Barrett-Onward We Press #integrity #climate on X: "DEMOCRACY WATCH AU ALERT: Tim Wilson’s latest tactic for dealing with older Goldstein constituents who write to him with legitimate grievances? He ignores every issue they raise… and instead replies by cataloguing their past activism. An older resident friend of mine wrote to" / X
DEMOCRACY WATCH AU ALERT: Tim Wilson’s latest tactic for dealing with older Goldstein constituents who write to him with legitimate grievances? He ignores every issue they raise… and instead replies by cataloguing their past activism. An older resident friend of mine wrote to
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November 30, 2025 at 7:56 AM
I wonder how many other MPs are acting in this abusive, undemocratic manner?
Tim Wilson’s latest tactic for dealing with older Goldstein constituents who write to him with legitimate grievances?
He ignores every issue they raise… and instead replies by cataloguing their past activism.
Tim Wilson’s latest tactic for dealing with older Goldstein constituents who write to him with legitimate grievances?
He ignores every issue they raise… and instead replies by cataloguing their past activism.
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How the government convinced us it cares about the bush (spoiler: it doesn’t).
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The Greens’ Genuine Wins, And The Corporate Capture Revealed
Part 2: How Australia’s Government Convinced Us It Cares About The Bush (Spoiler: It Doesn’t) One step forward and a giant leap backward. Real concessions on forests meet systemic failure on climate. ...
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November 30, 2025 at 12:08 AM
How the government convinced us it cares about the bush (spoiler: it doesn’t).
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This genocide would not be possible if not for the support, funding and diplomatic cover of the United States and other Western nations.
It is American imperialism writ large on a small piece of land.
It is American imperialism writ large on a small piece of land.
November 30, 2025 at 3:23 AM
This genocide would not be possible if not for the support, funding and diplomatic cover of the United States and other Western nations.
It is American imperialism writ large on a small piece of land.
It is American imperialism writ large on a small piece of land.
No. It's not 'device hoarding'.
It's called being smart, responsible and aware that we live on a finite planet.
Articles like this are encouraging even more planned obsolescence.
It's called being smart, responsible and aware that we live on a finite planet.
Articles like this are encouraging even more planned obsolescence.
November 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM
No. It's not 'device hoarding'.
It's called being smart, responsible and aware that we live on a finite planet.
Articles like this are encouraging even more planned obsolescence.
It's called being smart, responsible and aware that we live on a finite planet.
Articles like this are encouraging even more planned obsolescence.
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Amazon, Meta, and OpenAI wield tremendous influence over our politics, but does this mean we are entering an era of technofeudalism?
In a wide-ranging discussion, Evgeny Morozov and Cedric Durand ask how we ought to understand contemporary capitalism.
In a wide-ranging discussion, Evgeny Morozov and Cedric Durand ask how we ought to understand contemporary capitalism.
How Big Tech Became Part of the State
Amazon, Meta, and OpenAI wield tremendous influence over our politics, but does this mean we are entering an era of technofeudalism? In a wide-ranging discussion, Evgeny Morozov and Cedric Durand ask how we ought to understand contemporary capitalism.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Amazon, Meta, and OpenAI wield tremendous influence over our politics, but does this mean we are entering an era of technofeudalism?
In a wide-ranging discussion, Evgeny Morozov and Cedric Durand ask how we ought to understand contemporary capitalism.
In a wide-ranging discussion, Evgeny Morozov and Cedric Durand ask how we ought to understand contemporary capitalism.
Is it better to teach children to swim, or just tell them not to enter deep water?
And social media?
The Finns have been fostering reslience in their young people for years by teaching media literacy; to help them navigate the inevitable fake news, misinformation and disinformation.
And social media?
The Finns have been fostering reslience in their young people for years by teaching media literacy; to help them navigate the inevitable fake news, misinformation and disinformation.
November 29, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Is it better to teach children to swim, or just tell them not to enter deep water?
And social media?
The Finns have been fostering reslience in their young people for years by teaching media literacy; to help them navigate the inevitable fake news, misinformation and disinformation.
And social media?
The Finns have been fostering reslience in their young people for years by teaching media literacy; to help them navigate the inevitable fake news, misinformation and disinformation.
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"Learn the difference by crashing an economy (for educational purposes)"
There are real constraints: workers, factories, energy, time.
And there are fake constraints: "but where will the money come from?"
Learn the difference by crashing an economy (for educational purposes).
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And there are fake constraints: "but where will the money come from?"
Learn the difference by crashing an economy (for educational purposes).
keystroke.mmtaction.uk
#MMT
November 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"Learn the difference by crashing an economy (for educational purposes)"
Many have been puzzled by the prime minister’s decision to grant a state funeral to a man accused of decades of corruption and who was the subject of multiple investigations.
Few understand that Albanese owes his leadership in part to Richardson’s deal-making and his cultivation of Marles.
Few understand that Albanese owes his leadership in part to Richardson’s deal-making and his cultivation of Marles.
The Richo pact: How Graham put Albanese in charge
Behind the glowing tributes to Graham Richardson is a factional deal that the controversial former minister helped broker to make Anthony Albanese leader.
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November 29, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Many have been puzzled by the prime minister’s decision to grant a state funeral to a man accused of decades of corruption and who was the subject of multiple investigations.
Few understand that Albanese owes his leadership in part to Richardson’s deal-making and his cultivation of Marles.
Few understand that Albanese owes his leadership in part to Richardson’s deal-making and his cultivation of Marles.
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“A silent, interlocking system of control has taken root across the globe, undermining democracy, perpetuating inequality, and jeopardising our planet’s future.”
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The Unholy Trinity: How Censorship, the Arms Trade, and Dynastic Wealth Threaten Our Future
The Architecture of Control A silent, interlocking system of control has taken root across the globe, undermining democracy, perpetuating inequality, and jeopardising our planet’s future. This system ...
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November 29, 2025 at 2:23 AM
“A silent, interlocking system of control has taken root across the globe, undermining democracy, perpetuating inequality, and jeopardising our planet’s future.”
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Unfortunately, few are aware of the untold harm most universities are perpetrating.
"Miserable Pedagogies" emphasise the ways in which mainstream university education is part of the meta-crisis — through a continuation of the same tendencies in Western thinking that helped create the Anthropocene
"Miserable Pedagogies" emphasise the ways in which mainstream university education is part of the meta-crisis — through a continuation of the same tendencies in Western thinking that helped create the Anthropocene
From Miserable Pedagogies to Anthropocene Intelligence for Universities in the Meta-Crisis | Australian Journal of Environmental Education | Cambridge Core
From Miserable Pedagogies to Anthropocene Intelligence for Universities in the Meta-Crisis
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November 29, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Unfortunately, few are aware of the untold harm most universities are perpetrating.
"Miserable Pedagogies" emphasise the ways in which mainstream university education is part of the meta-crisis — through a continuation of the same tendencies in Western thinking that helped create the Anthropocene
"Miserable Pedagogies" emphasise the ways in which mainstream university education is part of the meta-crisis — through a continuation of the same tendencies in Western thinking that helped create the Anthropocene
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There is literally footage of the IDF executing these two Palestinian men in the West Bank, after they surrendered.
There's no "appear" about it.
There's no "appear" about it.
November 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
There is literally footage of the IDF executing these two Palestinian men in the West Bank, after they surrendered.
There's no "appear" about it.
There's no "appear" about it.
Researching her film The Story of Stuff, Annie Leonard discovered that of the materials flowing through the consumer economy, only 1% remain in use six months after sale.
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Films For Action
There’s nothing they need, nothing they don’t own already, nothing they even want. So you buy them a solar-powered waving queen; a belly button brush; a silver-plated ice cream tub holder; a...
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November 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Researching her film The Story of Stuff, Annie Leonard discovered that of the materials flowing through the consumer economy, only 1% remain in use six months after sale.
www.facebook.com/filmsforacti...
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