When peaceful protest is allowed to work, democracy works Melbourne’s mass protest against the visit of Israel President Isaac Herzog showed how large, diverse crowds can assemble peacefully when police exercise restraint and common sense. Sydney’s response points to a deeper failure of judgment about protest, power and democracy.

Melbourne and Sydney protests against the visit of Isaac Herzog showed how differently protest can unfold under different political decisions. Editor Catriona Jackson on power, protest, and democratic inconsistency. #PearlsAndIrritations #auspol #Democracy #ProtestRights

There's no better way of communicating the insane trajectory of humanity in the 21st century than cartoons and no-one did it better than Jon Kudelka. Rest in power Jon.

Here's his top ten.

1. Asteroid mitigation program

When peaceful protest is allowed to work, democracy works Melbourne’s mass protest against the visit of Israel President Isaac Herzog showed how large, diverse crowds can assemble peacefully when police exercise restraint and common sense. Sydney’s response ...

Melbourne’s protest was peaceful.
"Sydney’s response points to a deeper failure of judgment about protest, power and democracy."

Or it points to deliberate efforts by an anti-democratic premier to enact repressive laws on behalf of his Zionist sponsors. #nswpol
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Recent talk recorded with slides.

Available at: climateuncensored.com/a-velvet-or-...

The presentation builds on and expands my short contribution to last November’s National Emergency Briefing. climateuncensored.com/national-eme...

Duration: 50-minute talk followed by a 30-minute Q&A.

While oil extraction continues to increase, the most important component of a barrel of oil is getting harder to find.

Labor leadership defending decisions to limit democratic protest and invite the head of a foreign state committing genocide to Australia.
The police violence in Sydney was disgusting. What has happened to my party? Why are they defending genocide and police violence?

Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points

"...the models assume the future will behave like the past, despite the burning of fossil fuels pushing the climate system into uncharted territory." There's no way to estimate the unknowable. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The violent scenes that played out in central Sydney last night were deeply troubling, and entirely foreseeable.

We are Australians, first and foremost. Inviting a foreign head of state to Australia when the consequences for social cohesion are so obvious shows a serious failure of judgment.

#RealHeroes of #auspol!

We live with each other in very difficult living conditions.
Since 1972, we have known about the Limits to Growth.
Instead of learning to live with each other on a planet with finite resources, we have lived our fairy-tales of endless economic growth.
Now we experience the collapse of our delusions.

UN is waiting to see how much the US intends to pay of the nearly $4 billion it owes

We live with each other in very difficult living conditions.
Since 1972, we have known about the Limits to Growth.
Instead of learning to live with each other on a planet with finite resources, we have lived our fairy-tales of endless economic growth.
Now we experience the collapse of our delusions.

Read executive officer, Sarah Schwartz's opinion piece in the Financial Review today about why Herzog doesn't represent Australian Jewry and shouldn't have been invited in the first place: www.afr.com/policy/forei...

We live with each other in very difficult living conditions.
Since 1972, we have known about the Limits to Growth.
Instead of learning to live with each other on a planet with finite resources, we have lived our fairy-tales of endless economic growth.
Now we experience the collapse of our delusions.

Good to see an MP call it truthfully

Today’s Wide Boundary News features reflections on a new peak in crude oil production, the growth of non-dispatchable electricity, and a report recently released by the World Economic Forum assessing global risks.

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Antisemitism laws, double standards and Australia’s unfinished reckoning Proposals to legislate new antisemitism definitions raise hard questions about identity, equality before the law, and why Australia continues to avoid confronting its most entrenched forms of racism.

Moves to legislate new antisemitism definitions risk privileging one identity while ignoring deeper, more pervasive racism in Australia, particularly toward First Nations people, writes George Browning.
#PearlsAndIrritations #auspol #racism #humanrights

1/ Next week the Inquiry's focus turns to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the whole of the UK with its hearings for Module 10, Impact on Society.

Exactly. The #opposition are a side joke. It is the total unaccountabilityof our government that is now a major #THREAT to a #sustainable #future. Drifting with the grifters,supporting #genocide and in complete DENIAL about the real issues we face. #auspol

Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there any way out? Rising GDP continues to mean more carbon emissions and wider damage to the planet. Can the two be decoupled?

Worth a deep look!
Since 1972, we have known about the Limits to Growth.
But instead of taking care of life on our planet, we have gone on overconsumption binges of epic proportions.
Sorry kids, we had supposedly good times!
So, nothing but bad times for you!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"The destruction of nature has become the ultimate security threat of the 21st century"

Writing in EcoNews, Stop Ecocide International's Rodrigo Lledó explores the national security necessity of #EcocideLaw.

🔗 econews.global/de-amenaza-a...

#StopEcocide

What is going to replace our old habits?
www.un.org/en/beyondGDP...

Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief Exclusive: António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment The global economy must be radically transformed to stop it rewarding pollution and waste, UN secretary general António Guterres has warned. Speaking to the Guardian after the UN hosted a meeting of leading global economists, Guterres said humanity’s future required the urgent overhaul of the world’s “existing accounting systems” he said were driving the planet to the brink of disaster. Continue reading...

Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief

Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there any way out? Rising GDP continues to mean more carbon emissions and wider damage to the planet. Can the two be decoupled?

Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there any way out?

Some Jewish leaders value universal human rights.
The senior Jewish leaders you refer to seem to fail to understand that ALL human beings have innate human dignity that needs to be cherished and defended.

I can’t express how outrageous this whole thing is, but I’ve given it a go! #auspol

For shame @albomp.bsky.social @chrisminnsmp.bsky.social

Thanks to your support, our full-page ad is in today’s Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Over 1,000 Jews and thousands of allies have signed our open letter to say that Israeli President Isaac Herzog is not welcome here.

Help us spread the word!

The Jewish community speaks:

THIS CALL FOR SCRUTINY SHOULD BE HAPPENING IN ALL WESTERN COUNTRIES.

Oh, one dreams of being free of the Zionist lobbyist's interference in Australia.

They have ruthlessly white-anted our public media outlets, Universities, Arts Institutions, Libraries, Politics, Sporting Institutions etc

If Epstein is Trending, Why Isn’t +1.7°C? The news cycle has become a hall of mirrors: Epstein, Trumpism, war, outrage, retribution. A thousand scandals designed to keep us anxious, tribal, and tired. We have to hold multiple truths at once: ...

"This is the hard truth I want to land: climate does not care what’s trending. It’s not interested in Jeffrey Epstein, Gaza, or Greenland. There is no algorithmic mercy. Physics is physics, and it is getting more abrupt."
#climatecrisis #ElNino #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/we-are-...