@smitjo
Privatiation of Public assets and services is #StateTheft and #StateCapture historically proven to be disastrous for society in every documented case and beneficial only to the #Rich
@smitjo
Privatiation of Public assets and services is #StateTheft and #StateCapture historically proven to be disastrous for society in every documented case and beneficial only to the #Rich
There's nothing new per se here, but it's nonetheless a saddening read, gaaaaah.
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topic/2025/04/05/coalition-climate-vandals
I've long liked Tim, albeit sometimes his incurable optimism irritates me. In his article he rightfully excoriates the Liebs & Nuts, but IMO he is far too lenient on Lab, whose current term has deeply disappointed & frustrated those of us who want climate, environment, & biodiversity prioritised.
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Sydney Morning Herald - Latest News
‘More frequent, intense’: PM puts climate front and centre for election
Gaaaah, we know all this, you dweeb. We've known it for decades. We also know that you keep funding fossilfools via undeserved obscene tax breaks, & doing their work by approving new fossilfool projects & expansions, plus demonising protesters instead of the actual climate criminals. You simply have NO credibility in this space, dear PM.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-04/seadragon-offshore-wind-farm-application-rejected/104909234
Yep, yep, all good, we don't want no pesky clean green renewable energy, pfffft.
In unrelated news, a few days ago yet another fossilfool exploratory licence was granted in Bass Strait. Gotta look after them donors, ahem, owners.
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The Dictatorship of the Engineer:
The right claims to loathe technocracy—but it has empowered Elon Musk to remake the government.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/trump-musk-doge-engineers/681580/
"Elon Musk is dismantling the civil service and fulfilling an old dream... a yearning for a savior... This is a fantasy of submission...
even as the right purports to loathe #technocracy, it has empowered an engineer to radically remake the #American state"
“…details vary by context, but poli scientist Elizabeth David-Barrett lays out 3 general mechanisms of #StateCapture. They now sound familiar:shaping the rules of the game thru #law & #policy; #influencing admin decisions by capturing the #budget, appts, govt #contracts & #regulatory decisions;& #disabling checks on #power by #dismantling #accountability structures like the #judiciary, law enforcement & prosecution, & audit institutions like #IGs & #media.”
DOGE Employees Ordered to Stop Using Slack While Agency Transitions to a Records System Not Subject to FOIA
https://www.404media.co/doge-employees-ordered-to-stop-using-slack-while-agency-transitions-to-a-records-system-not-subject-to-foia/
"The messages indicate that, under Elon Musk’s leadership, #DOGE is actively taking steps to make sure its communications & records are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act, a records transparency #law commonly used by #journalists & lawyers to hold #government accountable."
"As historian Nicole Hemmer posted on social media: “This is the kind of action we need to make the constitutional crisis visible. Saying no instead of complying makes headlines because it creates conflict—and conflict drives coverage. Even if Musk gets into the classified systems, this pushes his crime spree onto the front pages.”"
https://www.headsupnews.org/p/civil-society-is-coming-to-the-rescue
Not 'run-of-the-mill' corruption: Musk said to be taking a page from his nation's playbook https://www.rawstory.com/not-run-of-the-mill-corruption-musk-is-taking-a-page-from-his-home-country-s-playbook/
Here is the continuation of the thread about Elon Musk's takeover of the US government.
The beginning of the thread is at:
https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/113934284003400421
"Who exactly is running the federal government?
...
the actual answer is #Musk
...
#StateCapture occurs when wealthy private interests influence a #government to such a degree that they can freely direct #policy decisions & public funds for their own benefit"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/opinion/elon-musk-donald-trump-government.html
#sideration #casse #administrations #coupdetat #statecapture
Elon #Musk et son «Département de l’efficacité gouvernementale» se livrent à une opération de #casse sans précédent
https://www.liberation.fr/international/amerique/a-washington-elon-musk-et-son-doge-se-livrent-a-une-casse-sans-precedent-20250204_ELNBN5VGCNCFTGFJMCMH372QOM/?redirected=1
Is there an organisation that measures how much the European central government is 'in the pocket' of #bigtech?
I'm a HUGE fan of the #DMA but I just saw an interview with #yanisvaroufakis where he said that #statecapture in the centre if government is a big problem.
And, Jenny, whilst we do so, will it be in parallel with continuing to support fossilfools via approving more fracking & coal, more land clearing & native forest destruction, more Adani climate crimes?
Hmmmm, Jenny? Shall we ask Tanya? Oh no, silly me, it matters not what she thinks, coz renown Tory Fighter Elbow will just overrule.
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As i read more & more articles like https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/dec/25/extreme-heat-and-bushfire-risk-across-australias-south-east-on-christmas-and-boxing-days-as-grampians-blaze-rages, I reflect on my immense good fortune to have chosen to be born & exist in a country governed by sane sensible decent peeps who fully grasp that the most logical policy response to the escalating climate crisis is to frack more gas & dig more coal, & further who also know the most logical political response is to demonise other pollies who preposterously support climate- & eco-first policies, plus vilify all public protesters, who are QED devilspawn.
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My Hashtag Dump [as part of my latest Instance-hop]
LAST EDITED 23/4/25
#AUR
#AboutConfig
#AdvancedWebInterface
#AnnaMadrigal
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#Arch
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#ArchLinux
#Archie
#Archies
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#fsckALLreligion
#FsckChristoFascists
#FsckRWNJs
#FsckThePatriarchy
#FuckAroundAndFindOut
#Gaia
#GilmoreGirls
#GlitchSoc
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#GnuCash
#Grammar
#Greens
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#Lesbian
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#Logic
#MastoAdmin
#Matildas
#MichaelWestMedia
#MicroOS
#MicroOSDesktop
#Misanthropy
#Misdirection
#Misogyny
#MontyPython
#MontyPythonsFlyingCircus
#MostlyHarmless
#MrsMadrigal
#Narnia
#NationStates
#Nihilism
#NoGooMe
#Nonsense
#OhGreatProphetZarquon
#openSUSE
#Overshoot
#Penguinistas
#Phanpy
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#PulseBrowser
#QEMU
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#RedFireAnts
#RenewableEnergy
#RightToProtest
#RippingYarns
#searX
#Semantics
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#SocialPhobia
#StateCapture
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#UserJS
#VM
#VPN
#VerticalTabs
#VirtManager
#Wayland
#WeAreSelfishCruelBastards
#WeAreTotallyFscked
#Whimsy
#WindowRules
#Xfce
#YellowCrazyAnts
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@tag-weareselfishcruelbastards
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@tag-whimsy
ALEC Maps Out Right-Wing Legislative Agenda for 2025 in Washington D.C.
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2024/12/04/alec-maps-out-right-wing-legislative-agenda-for-2025-in-dc
* state politicians, lobbyists, right-wing operatives
* further push
fossil fuels use
climate denial
state election codes
purveyors of misinformation
privatize education
extremist agendae
#ALEC #StatePolicyNetwork #SPN #ModelActs #ModelLegislation
#StatePreemption #StateCapture
#Trump2 #Project2025 #fascism
#Christofascism #transgenocide
#billionaires #capitalism #libertarianism #privatization