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"The multi-billionaire #rightwing #climatechange skeptic is back in the #Canadian Rockies with a new company to resurrect old plans to develop an open pit metallurgical #coal mine. It starts with new requests for drilling deep exploratory wells at Grassy Mountain in the headwaters of the Oldman River." https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/09/20/Australia-Coal-Miners-Gina-Rinehart-Target-Alberta-Rockies-Again/

#abpoli #cdnpoli #WaterisLife #ClimateBreakdown #Australia #mining #CorporateGreed

@Huntn00

There are various breeds of sheep - merino is one I beleive

None of them volunteer for anything and I am not up on research into their emotional state.....or whether such animals have fantasies

@Huntn00

I don't think sheep get to vote.... humankind is not perfectable - no surprise that. Planning on the basis that it is seems to me an error that will always result in disappointment

Rupert Murdoch, whose sheer force of will allowed him to build a media empire that influenced the course of national politics in the U.S., U.K. and Australia, will step down as the titular head of the companies he controls, Fox Corp. and News Corp. — a move that could raise new questions about the fates of both assets.
#AureFreePress #News

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/rupert-murdoch-steps-down-fox-131303259.html

House GOP rejects Rules bill to begin debate on Pentagon Spending. (Again)

Given the chaos.

No chaos is too easy a description.

Given the anarchy.

Not that either.

Given the bullshit that passes for responsible leadership

That’s it.

Why are we even allowing the House of Representatives to even pretend to conduct business?

#Politics #USPol

In my next book, out next month, Magazine, I catalog Murdoch's internet failures. 2/

Chancellor Scholz warned against "pseudo-solutions" when seeking peace in Ukraine at the UN General Assembly.

"We must steer clear of any pseudo-solutions where ‘peace’ is merely a word. Peace without freedom is oppression."

https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-en/news/federal-chancellor-at-united-nations-2224422

Zwischenbilanz bei #Mastodon: läuft gut!

@NDR kommt inzw. auf 10,2k Follows, die @tagesschau auf 38,8k - Start war im Mai.

Gutes Wachstum. Besseres Klima als auf X, eher Auenland als Mordor. Mehr Interaktionen pro Post, Conversion/Klicks in Relation 4x so gut.

Join Mastodon! 🙂

@dennishorn @gavinkarlmeier

Scientists find earliest known wooden structure dating back nearly half a million years which, for a bonus fact, means it pre-dates Homo Sapiens
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/20/africa/oldest-wooden-structure-zambia-scn/index.html?ICID=ref_fark

Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg0818

These findings lead to a “hybrid hypothesis” that reconciles current linguistic and ancient DNA evidence from both the eastern Fertile Crescent and the steppe.

Evidence suggests #Russia deliberately targeting journalists in #Ukraine -- a war crime. https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/09/evidence-suggests-russia-has-been-deliberately-targeting-journalists-in-ukraine-a-war-crime/

@Huntn00

Well we got #Murdoch poison imposed on our politics in the UK first..... I doubt we would have left the EU or suffered the worst right wing stupidity in history without his malign influence

He & his ilk enabled all the far Right populism that has sickened multiple countries in Europe

I think it no exaggeration to say our collective politics now is worse & more dangerous than it has been since the 1930s.... and it is largely down to the rise of the egocentric right he represents

From #murdoch resignation letter:

""Self-serving bureaucracies are seeking to silence those who would question their provenance and purpose. Elites have open contempt for those who are not members of their rarefied class"

What the fuch does the tax avoiding billionaire think he is, if not "elite" ?

Bullshit #populism of the sort that has poisoned our polity.....

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/business-66881282

This is so wonderful. Every state should be implementing programs like this. https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/09/14/universal-free-school-meals-keeping-massachusetts-students-more-awake-during-class/ #FreeSchoolMeals #FeedTheChildren

Kevin McCarthy Has (Once Again) Lost Control: With the radical right calling the shots, the government is likely to shut down. McCarthy seems powerless to do anything.

https://newrepublic.com/article/175607/kevin-mccarthy-once-again-lost-control

#KevinMcCarthyControl #RadicalRight #GovernmentShutdown #PowerlessMcCarthy #LostControl #ShutDownLikely #Politics #News

from Ron Filipkowski

Update: We've fixed Michelle Pitcher's interactive map of #Texas prisons, showing which ones have air conditioning, and where inmates are being left to cook in the #summer heat. https://www.texasobserver.org/prison-heat-air-conditioning-texas-summer/

#prison #CriminalJustice #HumanRights #HearWave #ClimateChange #environment #news

What experts *say* about controlling AI is what they *think* about controlling workers and citizens.

The idea that human-equivalent AI should be treated equivalently to humans, which seems tautological, is almost never brought up.

That's because they don't think humans are human-equivalent and deserving of rights, either.

Fox panel is desperate to put a happy face on fallout from Dobbs.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/09/fox-panel-desperate-put-happy-face-fallout?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=79447

#mentalillness #mentalhealth