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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>November </b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>30, 2023</b></i></font>
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[ journalists .. see COP directly ]<br>
<b>Connecting to COP28</b><br>
An online portal for citizen observers of the 28th Conference of the
Parties<br>
2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference<br>
30 November - 12 December 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UA<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://sites.google.com/pdx.edu/connecting-to-cop28/home?authuser=0">https://sites.google.com/pdx.edu/connecting-to-cop28/home?authuser=0</a><br>
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<i>[ media ownership -- trying to own the means of perception -
video inte ]</i><br>
<b>Oligarchy, Media and Markets | Peter Jukes</b><br>
Planet: Critical<br>
Oct 5, 2023 #climatecrisis #politicalcrisis #economiccrisis<br>
Oligarchy has infiltrated media—but the elite invited them in.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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🔴 Byline Times: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bylinetimes.com/">https://bylinetimes.com/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRn9U89eL5c">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRn9U89eL5c</a><br>
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<i>[ Thoughtful economics]</i><br>
<b>Our Global Economy Won't Survive | Sandy TrustPlanet: Critical</b><br>
Nov 29, 2023 #politicalcrisis #ecocrisis #financialcrisis<br>
What maniac would suggest a hothouse earth would be economically
positive?<br>
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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. <br>
<p>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. </p>
<p>🔴 The Emperor's New Climate Scenarios:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://actuaries.org.uk/media/qeydewmk/the-emperor-s-new-climate-scenarios.pdf">https://actuaries.org.uk/media/qeydewmk/the-emperor-s-new-climate-scenarios.pdf</a></p>
<p> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVRO218ivW0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVRO218ivW0</a></p>
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<i>[ Activism report from WE WILL BEAR WITNESS ]</i><br>
<b>Not Guilty<br>
Jury Acquits Women Who Broke Windows of Fossil Giant HSBC</b><br>
NOV 29, 2023<br>
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. <br>
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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.<br>
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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. <br>
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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.<br>
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Is this scenario of violent institutions running everything -
inevitable?<br>
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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. <br>
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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.<br>
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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...<br>
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Eleanor Bujak, a 30 year-old community organizer based in Hull, said
in her closing arguments: <br>
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“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.<br>
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.”<br>
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. <br>
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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?<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/wewillbearwitness/p/not-guilty">https://open.substack.com/pub/wewillbearwitness/p/not-guilty</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <font size="+2"><i><b>November 30, 1999 </b></i></font>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> November 30, 1999: Exxon and Mobil
complete their merger.<br>
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href="http://money.cnn.com/1999/11/30/deals/exxonmobil/">http://money.cnn.com/1999/11/30/deals/exxonmobil/</a><br>
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