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Barry Tucker

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Canoeing, camping, carpentry, a pacifist. Carpentry website: https://t.co/5amjZEGIW9 Respect for Nature now my "religion".

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Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social · Sep 8

Corporate governance of USA (& elsewhere) began with Lewis Powell's 1971 memo to US Chamber of Commerce, regarded as a blueprint.

Read a Greenpeace analysis of blueprint & what's happened since:
www.greenpeace.org/usa/greenpea...

The New Corporation is an update:
www.bing.com/videos/river...

Greenpeace Analyzes the Lewis Powell Memo: Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy - Greenpeace - Greenpeace

Forty years ago, not only was Greenpeace formed, but a then-obscure corporate lawyer (later appointed by President Nixon to the Supreme Court) drafted a memorandum for the U.S. Chamber of…

www.greenpeace.org

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Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social · 20h

The lust for power is so great in some people they are prepared to go to war to retain it.

They care nothing for the lives that will be lost.

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Steve Son of Wil @whippersteve.bsky.social · 1d

No sense of justice, totally void of morality, infected with vengeful hatred, and self-centered evil, this narcissistic, corrupt, and abominable monster thinks that he deserves a prize that represents the opposite of everything that he embodies.

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Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social · 20h

Me too. It's hard to believe fictional Hollywood & fantasy Disneyland hv merged & come to town in the form of the Trump Administration.

It will end somewhere, somehow, & then a years long clean up campaign will begin.

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Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social · 21h

Trump must have his own reasons for championing a form of democracy in Venezuela.

He's not exactly in the habit of doing someone a favour (unless there's something in it for him).

I wonder what those reasons could be.

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Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social · 21h

There hv bn times since 2010 elevation of Tony Abbott that I've felt like giving up on Humanity.

There hs bn some fightback (not only on SM) & retaliation from the forces of misery that are now more determined to maintain a rather shitty status quo.

Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social · 21h

The statement was the Nobel Committee's work, not mine. I merely paraphrased.

The latest information was not available to me at the time I posted.

Hv to say I'm shocked by what appears to be Nobel Committee's oversight.

Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social · 21h

I nominate Donald Trump for an award for Best Demonstration of the Peter Principle.

Trouble with focus on Trump is we might overlook what else is going on. Mea culpa.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_p...

Peter principle - Wikipedia

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Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social · 21h

Yes, given that so many awards are dubious (according to you) I can see why you're not impressed.

More backgrounding on María Corina Machado indicates her campaign was not always peaceful & Venezuela still has a rather dubious democracy.

Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social · 21h

No wonder #Albo was so keen to diminish Senator Pocock in an informal presser yesty.

Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social · 21h

You shd be asking abt the 6 persons named in the Royal Commission's report, recommended for investigation by the NACC.

Investigation may be followed by recommendation for prosecution.

Practically the whole nation wants to know who they are & what is being done about them.

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Ebony Bennett @ebonybennett.bsky.social · 1d

This could have been Australia, but thanks to John Howard, Tony Abbott, Scott Morrison, the Minerals Council and the BCA, we wasted nearly 20 years subsidising gas and coal instead. What a waste.

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

China ≠ just coal plants and solar exports. The deeper shift: electrifying everything it can. Strategic, because China relies on imported fossil fuels. Coal is still king in the power mix—for now. But the balance is changing year by year.

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you everyone

❤️ 🙏🏽 ❤️

#Gunnawah

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Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social · 21h

Who would be on your short list?

Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social · 21h

"There are 338 candidates nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025, of which 244 are individuals and 94 are organizations. This is a significant increase from last year."

www.nobelpeaceprize.org/press/press-...

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Silly Sally 💙💙💙 @caturday62.bsky.social · 1d

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Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social · 21h

Venezuela is a dubious democracy & Maria Corina Machado is in hiding, in fear for her life.

Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social · 22h

Maybe the committee preferred Maria Machado to Donald Trump.

Who else was short-listed for this year's prize?

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MColvinMcKenzie @mcolvinmckenzie.bsky.social · 22h

@logicallyjc.bsky.social read this

Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 22h

It gets worse ...

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Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social · 22h

Those are the bad bits. Can you think of any good bits?

Why wd such an evil man (apparently) be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize.

Poss clue: Like Australian gongs, you can't get one if a group of people don't nominate you. Best chance, short list of nominees.

Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social · 22h

Neither does Trump. Maybe the Nobel Committee flipped a coin.

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Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social · 22h

Why didn't Kissinger deserve it?

My recollection is he brought a lot of negotiators together to end numerous conflicts.

Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social · 22h

By the time the Nobel Committee gets around to making sense of Donald Trump & evaluating his claim for a Nobel Peace Prize he will hv done his Humpty Trumpty act & fallen off his perch.

One group awarded a prize this week had to wait 40 years for their work to be recognised.

Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social · 22h

You should write to the Nobel committee & give them a good telling off Nina.

All of the 'elite' hv devalued themselves over the years, imo.

No better example than #Robodebt. Never forgive LNP for Robodebt.

Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social · 22h

Man with 34 felony convictions urges his acolytes to get after certain [imagined] 'criminals'.

*We've got to get these people,* he reckons. *It's embarrassing!*

Legal acolyte with no prosecuting experience agrees to prosecute.

Sure is "embarrassing".

Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social · 22h

Well, Maria wasn't awarded the prize for allying with Trump.

I'm sure the Nobel committee took all the relevant criteria into account. They pride themselves on this.

Have you read the conditions for being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize?