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#StateCapture

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RaymondPierreL3

@IndyMediaAus
Of all the #StateCapture schemes in operation today, handing over to private firms control over public money used for unemployment benefits ranks amongst the most egregious alongside health services.

The idea that it is socially, morally or even ethically valid to make a profit from the most vulnerable members of a society (the sick and the unemployed)mis the antithesis of what it means to be human. The pox on all profiteers. Renationalise Health and Social Services or let not-for-profit organisations take over. This #Grifting has got to be stopped.

#AusPol#Labor#SocialServices
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

[thread] Model acts, bills, legislation
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#ModelActs #ModelLegislation #StateCapture

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #GOP #Christofascism #SCOTUS #antiLGBTQ #AmericanReich #AmericanGulag #transgenocide

React or do nothing and suffer the consequences. #AmeriKKKA

🇨🇦 #Trumpism
🇮🇱 #genocide

🏳️‍⚧️ #TransLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter #TransRights
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MastodonVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (@persagen@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image [thread] Model acts, bills, legislation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_act * drafted & disseminated for enactment in U.S. state legislatures * push far-right, libertarian, anti-LGBT ideologies * democratic backsliding [thread] ALEC: American Legislative Exchange Council https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113596007587922764 https://persagen.org "model acts" OR "model bills" OR "model legislation" "model acts" AND alec "model acts" AND "cicero institute" "model acts" AND "heartland institute" "model acts" AND "heritage foundation"
Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​

Fuckheads do fuckheady shit. 😡🖕 🤢🤮

nature.com/articles/d41586-025

Outrage over Trump team’s climate report spurs researchers to fight back
Report authors welcome ‘serious’ scientific rebuttals to report that some say misrepresents decades of climate science.

www.nature.comOutrage over Trump team’s climate report spurs researchers to fight backReport authors welcome ‘serious’ scientific rebuttals to report that some say misrepresents decades of climate science.
#USPol#TuckFrump#FuckRWNJs
RaymondPierreL3

Will these rorts never end? How much longer are we going to transfer wealth to the #ExtractiveIndustries in their efforts to dig up Australia and line the pockets of Corporates and the #MiningMagnates ?

“The ruling opened the door for other local governments to scrutinise miscellaneous license holders, a move which the mining sector said could cost it $55 million a year.”

The WA govt is yet again caving in to #MiningSector demands. There’s no end to the #Grifting here. No end to the #ProfitScrounging.

#StateCapture #AusPol #WAPol

Read more:

abc.net.au/news/2025-08-04/wa-

ABC News · Move to exempt miners from paying rates on miscellaneous licenses 'concerning'By Chloe Henville
Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​

social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/11 Sorry not sorry, but no, this is bullshit. ULE wood heater claims are akin to the bullshit fossilfool lies of "clean coal", "CC&S", & "natural gas being a clean replacement for coal". Arguing about shades of grey is disingenuous, when the black & white clear answer is that we MUST STOP putting more carbon into Gaia's lungs. She's already mighty pissed-off at us!

Chinwag SocialUnofficial ABC News Bot (@abc_bot@chinwag.org)NZ has ultra-low emission wood heaters. Why doesn't Australia? https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-07-31/uleb-wood-heaters-emit-less-pollution-smoke-particulate/105544358 #ScienceandTechnology #EnvironmentalImpact #AirPollution #PublicHealth #Asthma
#ClimateCrisis#NonLinear#TippingPoints
Droppie

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/27/the-attack-on-australias-net-zero-target-is-reckless-and-gutless-voters-expect-more-than-intergenerational-bastardry

...even here in Goldstein, where the demographic is older than the national average, polling still consistently showed climate in the top three concerns of constituents.
And yet, these execrable arseholes still chose to dump the excellent Zoe for The Odious Slimeball 😡🖕 🤢🤮

#AusPol #WhyIsLabor #HahahahaLiebs #NatsAreNuts #GreensYEAH #ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance
The Guardian · The attack on Australia’s net zero target is reckless and gutless. Voters expect more than ‘intergenerational bastardry’By Zoe Daniel
RaymondPierreL3

Look no further than ‘partial’ #privatisation and #corporatisation of public assets for this bloody mess. The sort of mess #StateCapture has historically left us all with. Everybody pays more for failing servives. Yes, there’s no hint of ‘enlightenment’ from out foolish polies entranced by the Janus-faced #neoliberal pundits. It’s a well worn path to inequitable wealth redistribution to the top.

<Quoting from Wikepedia> In 2008, the State Government passed the Water and Sewerage Corporations Act 2008 [4] as a result of a report from the taskforce. The Act transferred council-owned water and sewage assets to three new entities: Southern Water, Ben Lomond Water and Cradle Mountain Water. A fourth entity, Onstream, provided shared services to the corporations, including payroll, billing and procurement. The state's government and the 29 Local Government councils of Tasmania became joint owners of the corporations, with Onstream being jointly owned by the three corporations. These changes took place in July 2009. <end quote>

rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/114905

RSSFeed MediaABC Feeds (@abcfeeds@rssfeed.media)Tasmanian water bills could rise by almost 40pc over four years By Hayden Smith Tasmanians are facing a nearly 40 per cent hike in their water bills over four years in what is being dubbed a "major blow" to those already struggling with the cost of living. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-24/taswater-proposes-almost-40pc-price-hike/105566588 #CostofLiving #WaterSupply #StateandTerritoryGovernment #HaydenSmith
#TasWater#AusPol
RaymondPierreL3

abc.net.au/news/2025-07-21/act

It’s nothing short of criminal to have upended the traditional governing models of Universities in a quest to subsume every enterprise to the buffoonery of corporatism and debunked neoliberal economic fantasy.

Tertiary sector bean counters ought to have remained adjunct to academic leadership as facilitators of educational excellence.

Household budget imperatives have no place in the education system nor in govt charged with nurturing all of their charges. Anything deviating from this responsibility is a failure of their ‘duty of care’.

ABC News · Former Australian National University chancellor slams 'gobsmacking' proposed university cutsBy Peter Lusted
#TertiaryInstitutions#EducationFunding#AusPol
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