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“Hey, let’s switch our taping day to Saturday, no big news ever happens on a Sunday afternoon” — some idiots.
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“Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see? A parasitic member of the bourgeoisie!” John Oliver
Cultural Revolution!
20.06.2024 18:26 — 👍 748 🔁 83 💬 16 📌 3
jellyfish
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Billionaire technocrats are circling around the next pristine space to exploit and ruin for profit.
They claim lofty goals - saving climate, ending poverty - while arrogantly disregarding science +taking advantage of small, already plundered nations in the global south to secure mining rights
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and now, this
20.06.2024 15:20 — 👍 129 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Development never seen before: CEO of the company with bulldozers accuses the scientific community of being against the progress and salvation of mankind
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DEEP-SEA MINING + Paris Olympics Protests + Red Lobster II
watch FULL episode HERE ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkVQ...
(Ronald Reagan recommends VPN)
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Thank you @LastWeekTonight for this excellent episode about #DeepSeaMining. From science to #DeepSea species, from governance to financial questions - everything you need to know about this controversial industry is here
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DEEP-SEA MINING
watch HERE ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW7C...
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John Oliver argues The Law of the Sea should finally be ratified, and The International Seabed Authority must be purged of people who are beholden to mining interests.
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"I know I talk a lot about the bad stuff Ronald Reagan did. So to balance that out, I do want to mention something positive he did for the planet. In 2004, and this is true, he died."
168 countries have ratified The Law of the Sea, but in America it's long been reviled by the likes of Ronald Reagan and notorious anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly, who deployed “a classic tactic of fear-mongering about global socialism, shit-talking the UN and shoehorning Cuba in for good measure”
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Nauru
Nauru has been plundered for its abundant phosphate, the mining of which was so destructive, Nauru has been called the most environmentally ravaged nation on Earth.
The next vultures turned the impoverished island into a money-laundering haven & Australia remade it into its own detention center.
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Barron's offer to the islands is abysmal: 0.5% of the estimated value of the mined material. He's ruthlessly exploiting the fact that economic development opportunities there are scarce. And that is because throughout history, these nations have been repeatedly abused by outsiders for profit.
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More than 80% of the world's oceans remain unexplored and unmapped
If deep-see mining could be this risky, what rules are in place to mitigate it? Alarmingly, in most of the ocean, NONE
Barron's Metal Company is taking advantage of provisions set to protect small developing nations & making deals with tiny islands like Tonga and Nauru to “sponsor” the mining.
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The Metal Company commissioned research, which - lo and behold - concluded the damage would be minimal. Meanwhile, vastly more research it didn't commission says the opposite.
One long study simulated nodule extraction, and even 26 years later the ecosystem failed to return to its previous state.
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The mineral nodules are home to an immense variety of species, so removing them could do grave harm. The extracting process itself is so intrusive, it could irreversibly disturb the whole ecosystem.
Or you can listen to a mining company CEO who calls the ocean floor "a desert".
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deep-sea harvester
We live in a world where billionaires with messiah complex dream up grandiose schemes that are self-serving and absurd & those who've been elected to represent the people not only fold and clear path for them, but funnel public money to them, even as the media celebrates them.
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CNN > Australian billionaire is offering to build a secure gate system on the Israel-Gaza border
What's up with Australian mining tycoons? Here's another one, playing hero in Gaza, dreaming of solving hunger with his technocratic fantasy - presenting starvation as a problem of logistics, as opposed to intent.
There's no technological solution to ecocide, no technological solution to genocide
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Barron is zeroing in on one of the few remaining environments on Earth that is still close to pristine, and extracting these nodules can cause irreparable harm. So maybe we should not just stand back and watch some rich megalomaniac throw open the door to commercial scale plunder.
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“Gerard Barron - CEO of The Metals Company, which leads the deep-sea mining charge - allegedly hired a marketing firm to portray him as an Australian Elon Musk, whom he considers a once-in-a-generation genius. That gives you some hints of where this story is about to go.”
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mineral nodules
The ocean floor is full of deposits of critical minerals that can be used to manufacture things like batteries for electric cars. And deep-sea mining companies are now scrambling to get their hands on what they love to describe as “a battery in a rock”.
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“It is beyond time that we stopped treating the deep ocean as something to exploit, and start treating it for what it really is – a mind-blowingly vast, virtually unknown world within our world, filled with beauty and wonder.”
watch 🌊 DEEP-SEA MINING
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW7C...
jellyfish
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Billionaire technocrats are circling around the next pristine space to exploit and ruin for profit.
They claim lofty goals - saving climate, ending poverty - while arrogantly disregarding science +taking advantage of small, already plundered nations in the global south to secure mining rights
🧵
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John Oliver on LAST WEEK TONIGHT: "I know I talk a lot on this show about the bad stuff Ronald Reagan did. So to balance that out, I do want to mention something positive he did. In 2004, and this is true... he died."
holy SHIT John Oliver
10.06.2024 04:40 — 👍 4472 🔁 1022 💬 67 📌 62
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INDIA just went through tumultuous elections, and the results are in.
Narendra Modi is set to be India's prime minister for a third time, but will need the support of other parties in his coalition – meaning there is now a viable opposition to his increasingly nationalist and authoritarian rule
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and now, some cryptobro wisdom . . .
13.06.2024 18:20 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
previous episodes - also censored in India – available here 🔽
INDIAN ELECTIONS (2014 – the very first episode!)
▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJAc...
MODI (2020)
▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVIX...
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INDIAN ELECTIONS – full episode
[ Notorious critic of rampant crime Bill Maher recommends VPN. Incredible. ]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDJW...
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INDIAN ELECTIONS
How Narendra Modi has impacted India so far, and what he might do next
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTwa...
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Despite the promises of self-stylized free speech savior Elon Musk, twitter has become significantly MORE compliant with government orders for censorship and surveillance.
Musk has systematically removed posts critical of the government and banned accounts of critical journalists in India.
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JioCinema blocked the episode, but numerous clips as well as the full video was trending in India for the whole day, on WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook and Insta
Naturally, the censorship had the opposite of the intended effect 🔥
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in 2020 LWT episode on Modi was blocked in India by Disney
in 2024 LWT episode on Modi was blocked in India by JioCinema
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REUTERS > Israel's Netanyahu gets invitation to address US Congress
US government would never elevate and publicly admire any head of state that veers too close to socialism, but eagerly extends invitations to representatives of proto-fascist or full on fascist ethno-states to speak in Congress.
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