Western Australia is hopelessly captured by the fossil fuel industry. They control a large chunk of the news media, and they (along with other mining interests) bankroll government. We have to find ways to combat our conversation into a petro-state.

Link to ABC news story:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-10/mark-mcgowan-phone-call-epa-emissions-targets-tom-hatton/102800212?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

#StateCapture #auspol #ClimateEmergency #Climate #WesternAustralia #markmcgowan

❗️In the first 90 days of the Special Military Operation YouTube terminated more than 900 channels linked to Russia and more than 18 000 linked to China.

SOURCE: Australian Senate report on Foreign Interference through Social Media. This is state-sponsored suppression of media. #auspol #stateCapture

It's amazing how cheap state capture actually is.

https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/08/09/woodside-political-donations-global-warming-climate-change/?utm_campaign=weekender&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter

#auspol #statecapture #woodside #climatechange

Excellent piece by @timdunlop on pervasive #statecapture by fossil fuel interests slowing the energy transition: https://tdunlop.substack.com/p/labor-will-destroy-the-planet-in

“Governments […] are choosing to protect fossil fuel industries—and the few jobs left in those sectors—and to hope that somehow the sky doesn’t fall in while we ever-so slowly transition to renewables in way that is acceptable to capital.”

Article is focused on #Australia but the situation is familiar the world over.

#ClimateChange #AusPol

As someone "working" in the climate activism space, it's incredibly frustrating seeing fossil gas companies talking about supplying clean energy. When they are supplying gas, which is literally a greenhouse gas. That would be predictable propaganda if I didn't constantly find that my politicians repeat it in their speeches.

Take a look at this speech from earlier this year by Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King

https://www.minister.industry.gov.au/.../speech-powering...

Was it written by a Gas industry spokesperson? is Minister King one?

It isn't any better at the State Level. With the recent actions by Disrupt Burrup Hub, we have seen Premier Cook display a shocking lack of understanding about how the Gas industry is driving climate change and what climate activists are actually asking for.
Didn't anyone find it strange that they both just casually called Meg O'Neil to express sympathies? They have sympathies with Meg because they are effectively colleagues, they have a personal relationship they move in the same circles. Did they personally call the people of the Fitzroy River Basin to personally give their sympathies when climate change-fuelled rains washed their houses away?

#ClimateChange #ClimateAction #StateCapture #gobeyondgas #westernaustralia #WALabor #labor

#Fossilfuel companies have the #political #power to #enforce #dependency on their products through #regulatory means through #StateCapture and through #subsidies, so policies around #energy #sufficiency and #demandreductions were kept out of the #IPCC reports to foster an ideology of #economicprogress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1HvU98fRYA

#Deceptive #fraudulent #practices #RICO #ClimateCrisis

So about that ‘safeguard mechanism’

“Whitehaven Coal's underground mine in northern NSW is polluting the atmosphere with more than three times the direct greenhouse gas emissions it forecast it would emit when it received environmental approval in 2015.”

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-05/coalmine-carbon-emissions-estimates-adani-whitehaven-grosvenor/102253064

#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #auspol #statecapture

#Auspol
#StateCapture
What the Actual! This is unbelievable. Are we all ready to become another state of the US?

https://michaelwest.com.au/us-navy-to-commission-new-warship-in-australia/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2023-05-24&utm_campaign=Today+s+news+from+Michael+West+Media

#StateCapture
#auspol
The blatant conflict of interests of those filling boards for Infrastructure Australia. They aint there for the people. This is terrifying.
From Elizabeth Watson-Brown of the Australian Greens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd8t4Y81Yzw

So yeah, this is #StateCapture by the fossil fuel industry. They have legislation and police action designed to protect them, while activists looking to protect the medium and long term interests of human and other life on the planet are criminalised and bullied.

If the history of this time even gets to be written, it won't look kindly on those repressing climate protest.

Captured by vested interests? - Confronting state capture
“Collectively we are driving Earth and civilisation towards #collapse. Human activities have exceeded #PlanetaryBoundaries. We are changing the climate, losing #biodiversity, degrading land, contaminating freshwater, and damaging the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles upon which we all depend.”

But “decision-makers and influencers are captured by #VestedInterests.”

“Confronting #StateCapture involves reversing several undemocratic practices. Of particular concern is the funding of political parties by corporate interests as well as the revolving-door jobs between government and #CorporateInterests.”
https://theconversation.com/saving-humanity-heres-a-radical-approach-to-building-a-sustainable-and-just-society-205566

https://australiandemocracy.org.au/
Working together for a stronger #democracy

#EcologicalEconomicsTransition #SystemicChange #LifeSupportSystem #Biosphere #EnvironmentalDestruction #SocialJustice #Climate #RapidClimateMitigation #CitizenAction

„There is much we could do. Good people have far more legal power and political space than we had in the early 1990s. It’s time to stop posturing and prevaricating; there is a bigger threat than all our differences. We need to set to fixing it. Our lives depend on it.“

#SouthAfrica #StateCapture #Crime

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-04-11-murders-most-foul-south-africa-needs-a-citizens-accord-for-peace/

„Don't be fooled, many benefit from a dysfunctional society

When I was studying in the US, one of my favourite professors used to remind us regularly there is no such thing as a broken system. Whether it is an economic, political social or public sector system, what appears broken to you and me is in fact working perfectly for somebody who has a vested interest in maintaining a dysfunctional status quo.“

#SouthAfrica #StateCapture

https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/opinion-and-analysis/opinion/2023-04-09-dont-be-fooled-many-benefit-from-a-dysfunctional-society/

#schoolstrike4climate in Perth (Boorloo), Western Australia. This state is subject to #statecapture by the gas industry, including #chevron and a local conglomerate called #woodsideenergy. These kids are up against it, but they are the best organisers out.

#ClimateEmergency

#schoolstrike4climate in Perth (Boorloo), Western Australia. This state is subject to #statecapture by the gas industry, including #chevron and a local conglomerate called #woodsideenergy. These kids are up against it, but they are the best organisers out.

#ClimateEmergency

Intelligence reports obtained by Daily Maverick link two senior members of President Cyril #Ramaphosa’s Cabinet to four criminal cartels operating inside #Eskom. Although we cannot yet reveal the name of the Cabinet ministers for legal reasons, we can divulge that the intelligence links the cartels to the sabotage of Eskom’s power stations and to a programme of political destabilisation.

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-02-27-introducing-the-four-crime-cartels-that-have-brought-eskom-and-south-africa-to-their-knees/

#SouthAfrica #LoadShedding #DailyMaverick #StateCapture

#AndreDeRuyter has exposed South African government corruption & the effect it’s having on citizens & businesses. #Eskom #StateCapture #Justice #COP26 https://www.GPTrending.com/#/?date=2023-02-23&topic=Eskom

In an email sent to Optimum's Business Rescue Practitioners on 23 December, which News24 has seen, Peter van den Steen said: "After receiving the death threats directly, firstly at me only and then a few days later including my family, I have decided that I will be removing myself as Curator Bonis in January." Van den Steen on Tuesday confirmed to News24 that he had not yet resigned, but intended to do so by the end of January.

#SouthAfrica #News #StateCapture

https://www.news24.com/fin24/companies/exclusive-optimum-curator-to-step-down-over-death-threats-20230111

RT @ChristineMilne@twitter.com

These secrets must be revealed. John Howard and Alexander Downer together with Woodside cannot be protected by ongoing secrecy. The Australian and global communities must know just how deeply entrenched #StateCapture was in Australia. @anticorruption@twitter.com #auspol https://twitter.com/mrrexpatrick/status/1609293349701439489

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ChristineMilne/status/1609381409218768899

The Nationals #LittleProud stuffed up the “voice to parliament” siding with racist & mining companies.

(1x) one more stuff up like that
you –know-who is waiting in the wings. #retailPolitician

#LNPCorruptionParty #StateCapture #auspol #ClientState #democracyforsale #voteYes