[✔️] November 30, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | COP28 info, Disinfo perception, Thoughtful economics, smash window innocence, 1999 Exxon+Mobil

[Richard Pauli]

/*November *//*30, 2023*/

[ journalists .. see COP directly ]
*Connecting to COP28*
An online portal for citizen observers of the 28th Conference of the Parties
2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference
30 November - 12 December 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UA
https://sites.google.com/pdx.edu/connecting-to-cop28/home?authuser=0



/[ media ownership -- trying to own the means of perception - video inte ]/
*Oligarchy, Media and Markets | Peter Jukes*
Planet: Critical
Oct 5, 2023  #climatecrisis #politicalcrisis #economiccrisis
Oligarchy has infiltrated media—but the elite invited them in.

Keeping up with the revolving door between media, politics, intelligence 
and corporations would make anyone queasy. There is an elite class of 
people with access to power, wealth and influence, and they trade that 
power, wealth and influence between them to keep it in the family. The 
press would like us to think they’re the independent watchdog above it 
all. It’s the greatest story they’ve ever spun.

Peter Jukes is the cofounder and executive editor of Byline Times, the 
British media outlet created to expose corruption in media and write the 
stories the establishment won’t. In this episode, he explains how 
oligarchy took over the markets after 2008, the reality of the press 
ecosystem, how it’s unravelling, and how to create a forum for ideology.

🔴 Byline Times: https://bylinetimes.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRn9U89eL5c



/[ Thoughtful economics]/
*Our Global Economy Won't Survive | Sandy TrustPlanet: Critical*
Nov 29, 2023  #politicalcrisis #ecocrisis #financialcrisis
What maniac would suggest a hothouse earth would be economically positive?

The financial services—and their incorrect models is costing us time to 
implement effective policies to mitigate climate change as much as 
possible. This is the warning from a report published by the Institute 
of Actuaries. The Emperor’s New Climate Scenario’s warns that the world 
of finance is massively underestimating the destruction climate change 
will cause on our economy after 1.5 degrees of warming.

Sandy Trust, actuary and lead author, joins me to explain how such 
thinking got baked into the financial services by way of one man’s dodgy 
calculations, how to better interpret climate modelling, and the 
difference between risk assessment and scientific assessment. This is a 
truly fascinating conversation with Sandy expertly guiding us through 
technical terms to reveal a stark image: The people in charge are 
totally unaware of what’s coming.

🔴 The Emperor's New Climate Scenarios: 
https://actuaries.org.uk/media/qeydewmk/the-emperor-s-new-climate-scenarios.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVRO218ivW0



/[ Activism report from  WE WILL BEAR WITNESS ]/
*Not Guilty
Jury Acquits Women Who Broke Windows of Fossil Giant HSBC*
NOV 29, 2023
As war spreads and fossil toxins kill everything from bacteria to 
clouds…. Peace between nations and peaceful relations with the Earth - 
are threatened now as big money runs everything.  We don’t need a hero.  
We need something we always had, Democracy.

The common sense of people talking, arguing, dancing and coming to 
agreements - the democratic ideal is diluted into advertising slogans. 
Corporate power has pulled  individuals apart, our conversations reduced 
to shrieking pixels and traffic jams.  We have to re-invent loving 
families and neighborhoods, where we make decisions about how to proceed 
as friends who don’t have to weaponize their talk.

Corporations march through society like towering monsters.  Maybe the 
Pentagon is the world’s biggest institution, or the oil industry and 
their fossil banks which make so much money in this time of war.  The 
nation states and corporations blend into each other in shifting 
coalitions.  Their whole thing is based on extraction and the burning of 
fossil fuel.  This makes war much more likely, and the Earth, humans and 
other living things - have become part of the extraction.

These mega-institutions act like they have won their battle against the 
Earth and those among us who keep trying to make democracy real, those 
pesky environmentalists.  Now we have fossil toxins and bullets flying 
everywhere, spreading from country to country, from forests to teenage 
dances, from coral reefs to hospitals to the ancient glaciers.  Nothing 
is worse for people and the Earth than war.

Is this scenario of violent institutions running everything - inevitable?

Once in a while something happens where we see daylight, the power of 
individuals and communities suddenly returns.  Such a thing happened in 
London, when a couple years ago 9 women walked up to the headquarters of 
one of the principle climate criminals, the HSBC bank, and being careful 
not hurt anyone - they smashed the windows of the front of the company 
skyscraper.

HSBC immediately claimed that the damage would cost a half million 
pounds sterling.  The government threw the book at the women, limiting 
their movement, etc.  But now, after a six week trial, the jury has 
found these women Not Guilty!  Their straightforward case was a 
“Necessity Defense”. The women demonstrated that a small amount of 
property damage compares dramatically with the worldwide violence of 
HSBC’s fossil fuel emissions.  The women argued that their simple 
demonstration is a necessary moral lesson in a political world where 
people cannot defend themselves against suffering and early death.

The jury acted as an island of actual democracy.  The jurors asked for 
materials to help them understand the fine print in the Paris Climate 
Agreement.  They studied the toxins being financed by the bank.  They 
started things off with an open mind, and built the details into a big 
picture.  They put what was before them to the “common sense test.” 
After listening to the women passionately defend humanity and the planet 
Earth, the jury took only 2 hours of deliberation to set them free...
- -
Eleanor Bujak, a 30 year-old community organizer based in Hull, said in 
her closing arguments:

“There is evidence, plenty of evidence, that ‘consent’ exists within the 
very systems and structures we are trying to change. Of course it does. 
Because everyone, including the shareholders of banks, need a livable 
planet. When these are the stakes, of course I believed they would 
consent to a sum of damage that, when put into context, equates to less 
than a penny of an average person’s salary.
I believe in people doing the right thing. In a world in which buildings 
and corporations can’t feel pain, they can’t bleed or mourn. But people 
can. A world where it shouldn’t just be up to a handful of rich and 
powerful people to decide the future, it should be up to all of us.”
By caving in the front of the the office building of a fossil fuel 
giant, these women have forced honest language into the foreground. The 
kinds of thoughts that we have printed above - are startling in their 
simplicity, their creative nonviolence.  We wonder, as we read, how we 
could go so long ignoring our best selves.

Watching this trial unfold, we watched the women bypass the barristers 
and formalities passed down from the powerful.  The women chose to 
represent themselves and go directly to straight talk with their fellow 
citizens.  They asked, “Do we want this violence of the money-makers to 
rule us any longer? …or will we take care of one another?
https://open.substack.com/pub/wewillbearwitness/p/not-guilty



/[The news archive -  ]/
/*November 30, 1999 */
November 30, 1999: Exxon and Mobil complete their merger.
http://money.cnn.com/1999/11/30/deals/exxonmobil/




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