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July 22, 2024 at 2:31 AM
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Cultural Revolution!
June 20, 2024 at 6:26 PM
Cultural Revolution!
and now, this
June 20, 2024 at 3:20 PM
and now, this
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DEEP-SEA MINING + Paris Olympics Protests + Red Lobster II
watch FULL episode HERE ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkVQ...
(Ronald Reagan recommends VPN)
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DEEP-SEA MINING + Paris Olympics Protests + Red Lobster II
watch FULL episode HERE ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkVQ...
(Ronald Reagan recommends VPN)
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June 20, 2024 at 3:18 PM
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DEEP-SEA MINING + Paris Olympics Protests + Red Lobster II
watch FULL episode HERE ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkVQ...
(Ronald Reagan recommends VPN)
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DEEP-SEA MINING + Paris Olympics Protests + Red Lobster II
watch FULL episode HERE ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkVQ...
(Ronald Reagan recommends VPN)
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June 20, 2024 at 3:15 PM
John Oliver argues The Law of the Sea should finally be ratified, and The International Seabed Authority must be purged of people who are beholden to mining interests.
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June 20, 2024 at 3:12 PM
John Oliver argues The Law of the Sea should finally be ratified, and The International Seabed Authority must be purged of people who are beholden to mining interests.
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168 countries have ratified The Law of the Sea, but in America it's long been reviled by the likes of Ronald Reagan and notorious anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly, who deployed “a classic tactic of fear-mongering about global socialism, shit-talking the UN and shoehorning Cuba in for good measure”
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June 20, 2024 at 3:10 PM
168 countries have ratified The Law of the Sea, but in America it's long been reviled by the likes of Ronald Reagan and notorious anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly, who deployed “a classic tactic of fear-mongering about global socialism, shit-talking the UN and shoehorning Cuba in for good measure”
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Nauru has been plundered for its abundant phosphate, the mining of which was so destructive, Nauru has been called the most environmentally ravaged nation on Earth.
The next vultures turned the impoverished island into a money-laundering haven & Australia remade it into its own detention center.
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The next vultures turned the impoverished island into a money-laundering haven & Australia remade it into its own detention center.
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June 20, 2024 at 2:58 PM
Nauru has been plundered for its abundant phosphate, the mining of which was so destructive, Nauru has been called the most environmentally ravaged nation on Earth.
The next vultures turned the impoverished island into a money-laundering haven & Australia remade it into its own detention center.
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The next vultures turned the impoverished island into a money-laundering haven & Australia remade it into its own detention center.
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Barron's offer to the islands is abysmal: 0.5% of the estimated value of the mined material. He's ruthlessly exploiting the fact that economic development opportunities there are scarce. And that is because throughout history, these nations have been repeatedly abused by outsiders for profit.
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June 20, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Barron's offer to the islands is abysmal: 0.5% of the estimated value of the mined material. He's ruthlessly exploiting the fact that economic development opportunities there are scarce. And that is because throughout history, these nations have been repeatedly abused by outsiders for profit.
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If deep-see mining could be this risky, what rules are in place to mitigate it? Alarmingly, in most of the ocean, NONE
Barron's Metal Company is taking advantage of provisions set to protect small developing nations & making deals with tiny islands like Tonga and Nauru to “sponsor” the mining.
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Barron's Metal Company is taking advantage of provisions set to protect small developing nations & making deals with tiny islands like Tonga and Nauru to “sponsor” the mining.
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June 20, 2024 at 2:51 PM
If deep-see mining could be this risky, what rules are in place to mitigate it? Alarmingly, in most of the ocean, NONE
Barron's Metal Company is taking advantage of provisions set to protect small developing nations & making deals with tiny islands like Tonga and Nauru to “sponsor” the mining.
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Barron's Metal Company is taking advantage of provisions set to protect small developing nations & making deals with tiny islands like Tonga and Nauru to “sponsor” the mining.
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The Metal Company commissioned research, which - lo and behold - concluded the damage would be minimal. Meanwhile, vastly more research it didn't commission says the opposite.
One long study simulated nodule extraction, and even 26 years later the ecosystem failed to return to its previous state.
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One long study simulated nodule extraction, and even 26 years later the ecosystem failed to return to its previous state.
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June 20, 2024 at 2:42 PM
The Metal Company commissioned research, which - lo and behold - concluded the damage would be minimal. Meanwhile, vastly more research it didn't commission says the opposite.
One long study simulated nodule extraction, and even 26 years later the ecosystem failed to return to its previous state.
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One long study simulated nodule extraction, and even 26 years later the ecosystem failed to return to its previous state.
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The mineral nodules are home to an immense variety of species, so removing them could do grave harm. The extracting process itself is so intrusive, it could irreversibly disturb the whole ecosystem.
Or you can listen to a mining company CEO who calls the ocean floor "a desert".
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Or you can listen to a mining company CEO who calls the ocean floor "a desert".
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June 20, 2024 at 2:30 PM
The mineral nodules are home to an immense variety of species, so removing them could do grave harm. The extracting process itself is so intrusive, it could irreversibly disturb the whole ecosystem.
Or you can listen to a mining company CEO who calls the ocean floor "a desert".
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Or you can listen to a mining company CEO who calls the ocean floor "a desert".
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We live in a world where billionaires with messiah complex dream up grandiose schemes that are self-serving and absurd & those who've been elected to represent the people not only fold and clear path for them, but funnel public money to them, even as the media celebrates them.
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June 20, 2024 at 2:28 PM
We live in a world where billionaires with messiah complex dream up grandiose schemes that are self-serving and absurd & those who've been elected to represent the people not only fold and clear path for them, but funnel public money to them, even as the media celebrates them.
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What's up with Australian mining tycoons? Here's another one, playing hero in Gaza, dreaming of solving hunger with his technocratic fantasy - presenting starvation as a problem of logistics, as opposed to intent.
There's no technological solution to ecocide, no technological solution to genocide
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There's no technological solution to ecocide, no technological solution to genocide
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June 20, 2024 at 2:26 PM
What's up with Australian mining tycoons? Here's another one, playing hero in Gaza, dreaming of solving hunger with his technocratic fantasy - presenting starvation as a problem of logistics, as opposed to intent.
There's no technological solution to ecocide, no technological solution to genocide
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There's no technological solution to ecocide, no technological solution to genocide
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Barron is zeroing in on one of the few remaining environments on Earth that is still close to pristine, and extracting these nodules can cause irreparable harm. So maybe we should not just stand back and watch some rich megalomaniac throw open the door to commercial scale plunder.
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June 20, 2024 at 2:19 PM
Barron is zeroing in on one of the few remaining environments on Earth that is still close to pristine, and extracting these nodules can cause irreparable harm. So maybe we should not just stand back and watch some rich megalomaniac throw open the door to commercial scale plunder.
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“Gerard Barron - CEO of The Metals Company, which leads the deep-sea mining charge - allegedly hired a marketing firm to portray him as an Australian Elon Musk, whom he considers a once-in-a-generation genius. That gives you some hints of where this story is about to go.”
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June 20, 2024 at 2:17 PM
“Gerard Barron - CEO of The Metals Company, which leads the deep-sea mining charge - allegedly hired a marketing firm to portray him as an Australian Elon Musk, whom he considers a once-in-a-generation genius. That gives you some hints of where this story is about to go.”
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The ocean floor is full of deposits of critical minerals that can be used to manufacture things like batteries for electric cars. And deep-sea mining companies are now scrambling to get their hands on what they love to describe as “a battery in a rock”.
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June 20, 2024 at 2:13 PM
The ocean floor is full of deposits of critical minerals that can be used to manufacture things like batteries for electric cars. And deep-sea mining companies are now scrambling to get their hands on what they love to describe as “a battery in a rock”.
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Billionaire technocrats are circling around the next pristine space to exploit and ruin for profit.
They claim lofty goals - saving climate, ending poverty - while arrogantly disregarding science +taking advantage of small, already plundered nations in the global south to secure mining rights
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Billionaire technocrats are circling around the next pristine space to exploit and ruin for profit.
They claim lofty goals - saving climate, ending poverty - while arrogantly disregarding science +taking advantage of small, already plundered nations in the global south to secure mining rights
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June 20, 2024 at 2:08 PM
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Billionaire technocrats are circling around the next pristine space to exploit and ruin for profit.
They claim lofty goals - saving climate, ending poverty - while arrogantly disregarding science +taking advantage of small, already plundered nations in the global south to secure mining rights
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Billionaire technocrats are circling around the next pristine space to exploit and ruin for profit.
They claim lofty goals - saving climate, ending poverty - while arrogantly disregarding science +taking advantage of small, already plundered nations in the global south to secure mining rights
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and now, some cryptobro wisdom . . .
June 13, 2024 at 6:20 PM
and now, some cryptobro wisdom . . .
Despite the promises of self-stylized free speech savior Elon Musk, twitter has become significantly MORE compliant with government orders for censorship and surveillance.
Musk has systematically removed posts critical of the government and banned accounts of critical journalists in India.
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Musk has systematically removed posts critical of the government and banned accounts of critical journalists in India.
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June 13, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Despite the promises of self-stylized free speech savior Elon Musk, twitter has become significantly MORE compliant with government orders for censorship and surveillance.
Musk has systematically removed posts critical of the government and banned accounts of critical journalists in India.
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Musk has systematically removed posts critical of the government and banned accounts of critical journalists in India.
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Naturally, the censorship had the opposite of the intended effect 🔥
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June 13, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Naturally, the censorship had the opposite of the intended effect 🔥
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in 2020 LWT episode on Modi was blocked in India by Disney
in 2024 LWT episode on Modi was blocked in India by JioCinema
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in 2024 LWT episode on Modi was blocked in India by JioCinema
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June 13, 2024 at 5:55 PM
in 2020 LWT episode on Modi was blocked in India by Disney
in 2024 LWT episode on Modi was blocked in India by JioCinema
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in 2024 LWT episode on Modi was blocked in India by JioCinema
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US government would never elevate and publicly admire any head of state that veers too close to socialism, but eagerly extends invitations to representatives of proto-fascist or full on fascist ethno-states to speak in Congress.
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June 13, 2024 at 5:53 PM
US government would never elevate and publicly admire any head of state that veers too close to socialism, but eagerly extends invitations to representatives of proto-fascist or full on fascist ethno-states to speak in Congress.
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John Oliver slams the world leaders for uncritically fawning over Modi and welcoming him like a superstar: “That is some weapons grade ass-kissing”
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June 13, 2024 at 5:48 PM
John Oliver slams the world leaders for uncritically fawning over Modi and welcoming him like a superstar: “That is some weapons grade ass-kissing”
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Anti-Muslim hate speech and violence is on the rise. Police feel comfortable publicly kicking Muslims praying by the side of the road. A police officer killed three Muslims on a train, praising Modi while standing over their bodies.
This is not a bug of Modi's leadership, it's a feature.
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This is not a bug of Modi's leadership, it's a feature.
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June 13, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Anti-Muslim hate speech and violence is on the rise. Police feel comfortable publicly kicking Muslims praying by the side of the road. A police officer killed three Muslims on a train, praising Modi while standing over their bodies.
This is not a bug of Modi's leadership, it's a feature.
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This is not a bug of Modi's leadership, it's a feature.
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