Param Berg

#australia #newcastlensw #risingtideaus #justtransition #taxcoalexports #nomorecoal #bigcoal #coalkills

Australia has already handed over $800 million of the estimated $368 billion cost of AUKUS.

“If this deal goes ahead…this will amount to the biggest international transfer of sovereign wealth in Australia’s history.”

- @ebonybennett.bsky.social on AUKUS at the #RevenueSummit25

#auspol

Three frames. Intro: “Humans are a funny lot. They make up rules, establish principles, then contort themselves to get around them. Frame 1: Fellow holding IPCC report. “Science says we must act NOW to save the planet!” Below, same fellow lying down legs crossed, writing asterisk on paper from off stage. “But business and politics mean we just put an asterisk in the legislation.” Frame 2: Same fellow, holding page with FOI, NACC ets, says, “A healthy democracy requires transparency and accountability….” Below, bent over backwards, “still, it might destabilise the nation if they knew what govt got up to.” Frame 3: fellow holding bible, “God says every life is sacred and we must not kill…” Below he strikes an awkward pose, “But God wants us to BOMB the CRAP out of those barbarians.”

Contortions.
My @smh cartoon.

Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#climateemergency #globalheating #heatwaves #climatechaos #climatecrisis

Climate chaos? It's murder! See today's Guardian

🚨 We won! Charges dismissed for the first People’s Blockade defendants! ⚖️

A major win for the climate movement and protest rights in NSW. And against Minns’ anti-protest laws.

Blockade 2025: Nov 27 – Dec 2 🌊

Sign to stop the coal ships:
🔗 risingtide.nationbuilder.com/stop_the_coal_ships

They Tell Us To Fear Muslims While The US Empire Terrorizes The World Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

They Tell Us To Fear Muslims While The US Empire Terrorizes The World

The empire we live under is everything we’re trained to fear. Our own rulers are the murderers. Our own rulers are the terrorists. Our own rulers are the tyrants. Our rulers are the problem.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/they-tell-...

Scrutiny grows over Trump competence – but can an unfit president be removed? Impeachment and 25th amendment offer routes for removal – but experts say the system is set up to protect the president

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

‘Rogue president’: growing number of US judges push back against Trump Pushback has come from judges appointed by Republicans and Democrats – and has slowed some extreme policies

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“We Survived the Night”: Julian Brave NoiseCat on Residential Schools & Recovering Native History To mark Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we sit down with the award-winning Indigenous writer, journalist and filmmaker Julian Brave NoiseCat, member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq’escen and a descendant of the L...

Julian Brave NoiseCat's groundbreaking new book "We Survived the Night" tells a family story of Indigenous erasure and resistance.

#Wesurvivedthenightbook #sugarcanemovie #julianbravenoisecat
#democracynow
An amazing interview on native american and canadian history. Made me so want to see his film and read his book.

#antifa #protestrights #humanrights #authoritarianism #tyranny

No to Authoritarianism: 7 Million Rally Across U.S. in Historic No Kings Day Protests An estimated 7 million people took part in No Kings rallies Saturday to protest President Trump’s authoritarian policies. Organizers say protests were held at about 2,600 sites across all 50 states in...

No to Authoritarianism: 7 Million Rally Across U.S. in Historic No Kings Day Protests

"Russ Vought is arguably the most important aide, adviser to President Donald Trump in the administration right now."

@propublica.org reporter @andykroll.bsky.social discusses his new report detailing how the Trump budget chief became a "shadow president."

House Speaker Mike Johnson's refusal to seat newly elected Democrat Adelita Grijalva is preventing a key vote on the release of the Epstein files.

For the Republican Party, "the protection of pedophiles is above the protection of the children of this country," says colleague @ramirez.house.gov.

With ICE and other federal agencies ramping up violence in Chicago as part of President Trump's immigration crackdown, Congressmember @ramirez.house.gov says residents are "under attack by our own federal government."

Should we treat environmental crime more like murder? Serial killers and violent criminals dominate the headlines. What if we covered ecocide and pollution in the same way?

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o... #ecocideinternational #ecocidecrime #extinction #environment #ecology #climateemergency #climatecrisis #climateaction #

#foiact #australia #freedomofinformation #robodebt #govtsecrecyaus #democracyaus

I’ve spent eight years trying to get people to take part in civil disobedience.

Only 300 have gone to prison in that time. It’s not enough. Real change needs 500, maybe 1,000, willing to act — and to do it together, in a single month.

That’s how policy shifts. That’s how history turns.

Breaking: Today is officially one of the biggest days of protest in American history.

Over 7 million Americans turned out to No Kings events to stand up against MAGA fascism.

⭕️ New: Israel’s Defense Minister outlined what he called the country’s “clear security policy” for Gaza. He said the army will remain deployed along the “yellow line,” controlling over 50% of Gaza’s territory, and “strictly enforce” its policy to “prevent approach or crossing… with orders to fire on any threat or gunfire directed at Israeli soldiers.” The policy also calls for: ➤ Permanent disarmament of Hamas and destruction of all weapons production sites ➤ Demilitarization of Gaza through tunnel demolition and removal of other infrastructure ➤ Strict Israeli control over all crossings and the Philadelphi Corridor to block “arms smuggling”

ישראל כ”ץ Israel Katz @Israel_katz Auto-translated from Hebrew by Grok Israel's security policy in Gaza is clear: The return of all the hostages who were killed, disarming Hamas of its weapons and all means of ammunition production, demilitarizing Gaza by destroying the terror tunnels and all terror infrastructure, strict supervision of the crossings and the Philadelphi Corridor to prevent the smuggling of means of combat, the IDF's deployment along the yellow line with over 50% of Gaza's territory - while marking the line and enforcing it strictly to prevent approaching and crossing, firing at any threat and firing at IDF soldiers.

⭕️New: Israel’s Defense Minister outlined what he called the country’s “clear security policy” for Gaza.

He said the army will remain deployed along the “yellow line,” controlling over 50% of Gaza’s territory, and “strictly enforce” its policy to “prevent approach or crossing… with orders to fire...

#australia #ausgasexports #statecapture #ausinstitute

They Said The Massacres Would Stop When The Hostages Were Released. They Haven't Stopped. Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

They Said The Massacres Would Stop When The Hostages Were Released. They Haven't Stopped.

On Friday Israel reportedly blew up a vehicle carrying a Palestinian family of eleven people, including seven children.

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/they-said-...

North to Alaska: America’s Climate Warning Guest article by Jay Inslee, former governor of Washington State

“To watch a glacier collapse is to feel the full weight of climate change.”

Former Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s new piece for Meidas+ is a breathtaking, and heartbreaking, firsthand look at Alaska’s vanishing world.

Israel Foreign Ministry Falsely Claims Palestinians Tore Apart A Beached Whale Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

Israel Foreign Ministry Falsely Claims Palestinians Tore Apart A Beached Whale

They falsely claimed the animal was a “whale” because “starving civilians eat a fish” does not make for good propaganda if you’re trying to frame them as loathsome barbarians.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-for...

Israel Tortured And Sexually Humiliated Greta Thunberg Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

Israel Tortured And Sexually Humiliated Greta Thunberg

Israel is so evil it’s actually hard to wrap your mind around it.

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-tor...