#governments — Public Fediverse posts

#Mastodon for #governments? – Digital Ramblings

https://kence.org/2023/11/25/mastodon-for-governments/

It is hard to find a pic which sums up Brexity right wing sabotage of #Britain better than this.

Pointless vandalism of something benefiting the entire community and planet ... plus an attached sign begging for the plant to be given any clean, saved household water during morning or evening.

It still amazes me how so many #Brits avoid the real issue of how successive capitalistic, privilege-favouring #Governments exploit them ... by letting themselves be redirected (by those in on the exploitation) to resent anyone different.

It is a stain of stupidity on the British psyche milked and perpetuated by #Farage, #Badenoch, #Johnson, #Gove, #ReesMogg and all similar self-serving enablers, cronies, and unseen donors.

The formula:
Excessive privilege + establishment play 'outsider' and activate dark triad traits in the population ... to extract more from the wider population (while saying 'these are hard times'), joining any corrupt country-sabotaging scheme going, and ensuring psychopathic pro-fossil fuel narrative, corporate-fronted evasion of fair taxation, and genuine improvement of social and health services is avoided, unless for the gain of their dirty deals and donors. All with a thinly spread veneer of 'token' superficial improvements to *seem* non-sabotaging.

Hate-eroded far right 'brains' run to it every time. Lemmings off a cliff, betraying their country while waving the flags obsessively. Moronic.

Franziska Brantner, the Federal Chairwoman of the Green Party, has sharply criticized the federal government for lacking determination following the recent cabi... https://news.osna.fm/?p=61176 | #news #climate #criticizes #economic #governments

4 Desjardins: Some #provincial #governments may, however, be more constrained by their #fiscal realities. #cdnecon #tariffs #tradewar #Canada

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/23/far-right-is-steering-eu-response-on-migration; https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/18/far-right-grip-eu-centrist-coalition-afd-national-rally. "What we are witnessing is not simply the success of the #farright. It is a broader #cultural shift within the #European #political #mainstream... The convergence between #governments as politically different as those of #Denmark & #Italy suggests that positions once associated with the radical right have travelled well beyond it. Parts of the centre-left & centre-right have progressively abandoned a rights-based understanding of #migration."

Hello, fellow hackers,

I am a #whistleblower and have lost access to computing resources for the time being.

I have this code repository, almost ready. It forms the basis of a True Democracy. Basically, voters get to collectively make up the government’s budget. Government departments have to work within the budgets set by the people.

Could someone please clone, tweak, and deploy it to a public website?

This is a topical solution that will fix many issues we face today.

https://gitlab.com/purrperl/peoples-collaborative-budget

Thank you so much!

#hack #hacker #HackThePlanet #government #governments #democracy
#code #software #MutualAidRequest #perl #PerlHacker
#WebDeveloper #MAGA #democrat #republican #UsPol

@collective_truth @RichardJMurphy @aral

Read the pinned post on my profile.

There are a few institutions that work in collusion to run people’s lives, and form the basis of the #Matrix.

1. #Schools
2. #Churches
3. #Governments
4. #Corporations
5. #Media
6. #Banks

Once I became a #whistleblower against the system, in 2023, #WellsFargo #bank would not give me my own money. They still have not.

( Details: https://whistleblower.lovestoblog.com/ )

It’s time for the biblical prophecy to come true, and the money lenders to be kicked out.

Here’s how:
https://rant.li/ashwin/visions-for-a-new-web

AlohaCoin v2 redistributes wealth, and brings about #degrowth

With full bellies, people have the courage to break free of the Matrix, and #disobey leaders. Political, religious, military, corporate leaders etc.

Little incentive for #crime, #war, #violence.

Please boost and spread the message!

I've been saying for years that #SiliconValley operates as a massive #cult - but #PeterThiel (#Palentir) forgot the #1 rule of #cults: don't ever claim to be one.

But here we are faced with a #VentureCapital cult that wants to destroy #democracy, because they want all the power and money.

For how much #antigovernment rhetoric you get from these guys, they sure love colluding with #governments, #despots and #autocrats.

#PeterThiel's Anti-Human Plan Is Pure Evil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onphky37vik

#News #ClimateCrisis #Uk Only?
All the #World should be asking #Governments the same question.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/14/green-groups-urge-andy-burnham-to-break-silence-on-climate-crisis

“It seems like #American #firms do not just want #Canadians as customers; they want #businesses, #governments, and individuals to be totally reliant on the American #technology #stack, without any other options for #cloud services, #paymentsystems, #AI models and more.”

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3mt2an3b6t225

"...Western countries, our governments are directly complicit and, many times, profiting from Israel’s genocide.

Whatever you do, please don’t judge the entirety of something by the actions of a few and please try and keep things – namely Internet etiquette and genocide – in perspective and ask yourselves what you would do if you were in their shoes."

- #QUOTE @aral
Post: https://mastodon.social/@aral@mastodon.ar.al/117092273556764874

#complicit #governments #genocide
#war #AralBalkan #Israel vs. #Palestine

“Two trends are unfolding in parallel around the world. Public anxiety about #artificialintelligence is growing while communities’ satisfactions in how they #participate in civic activities and contribute to government policy and programs is declining.
Pathways to resolve this tension might be where we least expect them: #governments finding ways to use these technologies to #listenbetter and enable communities to participate more meaningfully.
This paper examines how artificial intelligence and digital platforms are changing what is possible and suggests that a key opportunity is to build #publicsector capability to deliver meaningful #engagement.”

https://australiandemocraticresilience.substack.com/p/e0474853-dc87-4569-bf93-bd11d078459a

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chat-control-the-415-who-failed-you/

It would appear that #privacy may well belong to the highest #BigTech or #BigBusiness bidder rather than the people who voted the #politicians in. When will #Governments start to listen to the people that know rather than the people that profit?

🚀🤖 #Governments gambling on AI's #future while struggling with 1990s web tech—because nothing screams cutting-edge like "Please enable JavaScript!" 😜💾
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/08/05/governments-are-making-a-dangerous-bet-on-the-ai-boom #AI #WebTech #JavaScript #Innovation #HackerNews #ngated

Governments are making a dangerous bet on the AI boom

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/08/05/governments-are-making-a-dangerous-bet-on-the-ai-boom

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192160

#HackerNews #AI #boom #Governments #Technology #Risk #Regulation

“The #technology industry, #AIresearchers and #governments alike are grappling with how to understand and mitigate the new dangers unlocked by increasingly powerful #AI tools, with some calling for increased oversight.”

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:v47nnrjt6wuve56ywmdylxo6/post/3msds2o2jtc2n

#Governments in the #EU will have a hard time explaining away why they still suck up to the #FossilFuelIndustry and weirdo #fascist #billionaires when all of us are directly impacted by the devastating impact of the #heatwaves suffocating #Europe right now that could have been prevented decades ago, and yet radical steps are still not taken today to address the issue.

#truthout #damnright

@Kade1 we vote them in, collectively. I'm disinclined to blame just #governments.

Why #governments keep failing
#ClimateCrisis #neoliberalism
“Too much of our economics in particular assumes today's systems are inevitable. Markets are treated as the answer to every problem, even though we know they are not.
Growth is always the unquestioned objective, although it is glaringly obvious that the limits of #growth are very real on a #finite planet.”
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/07/29/why-governments-keep-failing/#gsc.tab=0

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/29/wildfires-rage-world-climate-action-scientists-fossil-fuels. "Even as more than 35,000 #wildfires rage across the surface of our world, & as we continue to rewind our planet’s #climate so it resembles hotter episodes from its distant past, #governments & #trading blocs are very deliberately turning away from #ClimateAction."

We need to talk about #metadata and the free-market ideology behind how it's treated.

Some people say, "metadata isn't real data." In reality, it's often more revealing. It maps relationships, movements, habits, interests and communities. That's why both #governments and the #dotcons are so eager to collect it.

If you think none of this matters because we're "just individuals in a marketplace" rather than members of a society, you've already absorbed the logic of the #deathcult.

The first step to changing course is naming the poison.

#OMN #4opens #openweb #Privacy

https://www.europesays.com/ie/597181/ Government’s $60m handout for Fletcher Building’s NZ cement production is a quick fix, but not a good one – Kate MacNamara #60m #because #building #Buildings #Business #but #cant #cement #cheque #compete #cutting #Economy #Éire #field #fix #fletcher #for #Golden #good #Government #governments #handout #IE #imports #Ireland #is #kate #level #macnamara #million #Not #nz #one #owned #Playing #production #quick #subsidiary #theres #wholly #with

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/20/canada-air-quality-warnings-us-wildfire-smoke-trump-tariffs. It seems that #airpollution has now become a mere #political football, & neither the #US nor the #Canadian #governments care tuppence about #Climatechange & its #consequences, @GeraldKutney.

Lot of talk about #AI profitability. Massive amounts of money going in. Businesses using it and not making money. Etc etc. Doesn't matter. #Governments want it. #Surveillance technology depends on it. Doesn't matter if it's wrong now and then. Mostly right will be good enough. Get used to it.

@collective_truth RE: "Perhaps we never had proper control and were working in sub-territories & small bubbles of what is still overall #authoritarian #hierarchical work for #governments / prefectures" 👈🏻 Oooh, is there a reason why you left organisations out of the mess they have created themselves in the first place?

I don't know many democratic orgs. that have survived from over the course of the last 30 years I've been in this industry 😢. Have you?

.cc @NebulaTide @mariafarrell

@NebulaTide @elsua54 @mariafarrell Maybe we never had control from the beginning?

Being slaves of some sort may be natural (like a child needing to follow)...

Perhaps we never had proper control and were working in sub-territories & small bubbles of what is still overall #authoritarian #hierarchical work for #governments / prefectures.

i.e. The #fascistic or army style divisions used to reap / take more than give people something as #reasoned control and #care.

(Said in a positive tone).

RE: https://mastodon.nz/@dayvblack/116818810472357241

'... #rightwing #governments in the #UK and around the world that have focused on #cost-cutting and running down the #public sphere in favour of private provision have neglected and in some cases destroyed #community #amenities, and communities with them. Shared spaces, Mazzucato makes clear in her book, are at the heart of any idea of the common good. “It’s investing in those collective structures,” she says.

Arsenal FC also run children’s football teams and training sessions around north London, an example of the common good in action. “My kids all used to play [at nearby pitches] there on Friday nights, and I used to almost cry when I’d go there. You just see hundreds of kids and their parents, lots of them from the local estates, and I used to think, imagine if this was normal, imagine if this was everywhere, people had a place to go,” she says. “It’s not that it would solve #crime, but I literally would bet that if you made a kind of Marshall plan #investment in soccer pitches, public #libraries, public pools, and made it beautiful, you would see #health benefits and lower crime and a lower #cost to the state. We shouldn’t just do it because it’s good for people – which is the reason to do it – but it also costs you less, ultimately.”'

“In keeping with the #neoliberal approach that has dominated #economic #policymaking for the past half-century, #governments have generally been expected to intervene only after #markets fail. But when it comes to #AI, a wait-and-see approach could prove catastrophic.”

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3mqrtuylt522w

Starmer resigns: Which European country has highest turnover of leaders?

With resignation of #Starmer, #UK is to have its 7th PM in 10 years

A far cry from a country once touted for its ability to produce stable and long-lasting #governments compared to other #European nations, due to its first-past-the-post voting system, the principle of #parliamentary #sovereignty and its evolutionary tradition of governance.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/06/29/starmer-resigns-which-european-country-has-the-highest-turnover-of-leaders

#ProportionalRepresentation #Voting #FPTP #VotingReform

in #monopoly #capitalism = modern day #feudalism not #education or #intelligence earns most #money, no whoever owns #assets everyone else is dependant on = #exploitation = will ultimately lead to less #innovation + destruction of #mankind,, #rich vs #poor #inequality growing rapidly = #collapse of #society thank you

= no matter how #smart #people or #government are or act: will lose game to whoever prints #money and buys + owns the #assets (#bank, #centralbank)

the #solution: every Dollar or Euro or Pesos invested in your own #INDEPENDENCE from the #financesystem is well invested. #water, #food, #energy, DO IT NOW!

#taxdodgers like #apple #google #amazon + those that enable it #corrupt #governments #politicians that do nothing #jpmorgan + #centralbanks #bank #banks that do not finance #innovation #usa #china #germany #india #australia #france
#uk #luxembourg #switzerland #caymanislands #panama #gurnsey #cityoflondon will play this #game to the bitter #fascist end and beyond

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/wednesday-february-4-2026/

The year is 2027. Email is #unreliable; little gets past #Gmail filters without a contract to receive your #email. #Governments don't stop it because (a) they have a contract, and (b) they don't understand how email works. Or worked.

#Tech companies finally realize that #SS7 is #insecure. Phone calls and texts can't be #trusted. Machine-learning-generated ("AI") audio and video means video and voice calls are doubly cursed - too many #FAANG executives have had embarrassing public #failures, falling #victim to the corporate equivalent of the grandparent #scam.

Few people use #TOTP, because the tech #companies don't promote it, they each call it something else and make it work differently, and they all want you to use their "app" rather than the standard 3-line script that can generate the correct code given a key and the current timestamp. The technically-minded try to educate their relatives and friends as part of the free-tech-support assumption, but no one cares.

#Account #recovery now involves waiting at home to sign for an envelope delivered by the lowest-cost (and therefore bribe-able) courier to the #registered home address of the account. Millions each year lose their email, #photos, videos, "purchased" digital #content, password vaults, etc because they've moved since they set up the account, or they have a P.O. box and companies don't believe those #exist.

The #internet is a vast digital #wasteland - wait, a saviour onstage: "Walled Garden-Net!".

Burn it.

Te #USdollar is becoming a #debased #currency, fraught by debauchery of successive #GOP #governments & #tRumped by te most #corrupt & #despotic #POTUS47.🤦‍♂️

#Dollar struggles to recover from dovish Powell gut punch
"Powell's Jackson Hole message cleared te #market's #lowbar for dovishness.. Te dollar has been under additional pressure in recent weeks as #US President Donald Trump's attacks on Powell & other Fed #policymakers raised concerns abt #centralbank #independence"🧐
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/dollar-struggles-recover-dovish-powell-gut-punch-2025-08-25/

As #ExtremeHeat Bakes US, 160+ #Global Groups Demand 'Real' #ClimateAction

Reject #FalseSolutions, such as #NaturalGas, #MegaDams, #geoengineering, #bioenergy, forest offsets, #CarbonTrading schemes, #NuclearEnergy, biodiversity credits, and #CarbonCapture and storage.

Jessica Corbett
Jun 23, 2025

Excerpt: " 'While #governments and #corporations push us deeper into #ClimateChaos, movements around the world are rising,' she noted. 'From every corner of the Earth, women leaders are coming together with solutions and strategies to defend our planet and our communities. We call on governments and financial institutions to heed their voices and ensure effective and equitable policies—from Bonn to Belém and beyond. We must rise boldly, because climate change is not waiting for politics. Our movements are not bending. We are not breaking. We are defining and building a healthy and just future for all.'

"The new call to action points out that 'last year, the world breached this threshold with global average temperatures exceeding 1.5ºC above preindustrial levels. This alarming milestone is not yet a permanent breach of the Paris agreement guardrail, which refers to long-term warming, although scientists predict that 2024 will be the first of a 20-year period reaching 1.5ºC warming.'

" 'Although the pathway is drastically narrowing, the International Energy Agency affirms that the goal of the Paris agreement is still attainable,' the publication continues. 'Scientists assert that limiting global warming to 1.5ºC will require significant and urgent action from governments and financial institutions.'

"Specifically, the coalition outlined 10 broad actions for governments and financial institutions, beginning with urging both the public and private sectors to end fossil fuel expansion and extraction, and to 'reject false solutions, such as natural gas, mega-dams, geoengineering, bioenergy, forest offsets, carbon trading schemes, nuclear energy, biodiversity credits, and carbon capture and storage.'

"The collective also called for accelerating a just transition, promoting women's leadership and gender equity, protecting the rights of #IndigenousPeoples, safeguarding #forests and #biodiversity, preserving oceans and freshwater, advancing #FoodSecurity and #sovereignty, implementing the #RightsOfNature, providing robust climate finance, and cutting off financial institutions' support for 'harmful projects and redirecting resources into climate solutions.' "

Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/climate-solutions

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Klimatkris #WaterIsLife #Heatwaves #NoNukes #CorporateColonialism #CapitalismKills #ClimateSolutions #Greenwashing

As #ExtremeHeat Bakes US, 160+ #Global Groups Demand 'Real' #ClimateAction

Reject #FalseSolutions, such as #NaturalGas, #MegaDams, #geoengineering, #bioenergy, forest offsets, #CarbonTrading schemes, #NuclearEnergy, biodiversity credits, and #CarbonCapture and storage.

Jessica Corbett
Jun 23, 2025

Excerpt: " 'While #governments and #corporations push us deeper into #ClimateChaos, movements around the world are rising,' she noted. 'From every corner of the Earth, women leaders are coming together with solutions and strategies to defend our planet and our communities. We call on governments and financial institutions to heed their voices and ensure effective and equitable policies—from Bonn to Belém and beyond. We must rise boldly, because climate change is not waiting for politics. Our movements are not bending. We are not breaking. We are defining and building a healthy and just future for all.'

"The new call to action points out that 'last year, the world breached this threshold with global average temperatures exceeding 1.5ºC above preindustrial levels. This alarming milestone is not yet a permanent breach of the Paris agreement guardrail, which refers to long-term warming, although scientists predict that 2024 will be the first of a 20-year period reaching 1.5ºC warming.'

" 'Although the pathway is drastically narrowing, the International Energy Agency affirms that the goal of the Paris agreement is still attainable,' the publication continues. 'Scientists assert that limiting global warming to 1.5ºC will require significant and urgent action from governments and financial institutions.'

"Specifically, the coalition outlined 10 broad actions for governments and financial institutions, beginning with urging both the public and private sectors to end fossil fuel expansion and extraction, and to 'reject false solutions, such as natural gas, mega-dams, geoengineering, bioenergy, forest offsets, carbon trading schemes, nuclear energy, biodiversity credits, and carbon capture and storage.'

"The collective also called for accelerating a just transition, promoting women's leadership and gender equity, protecting the rights of #IndigenousPeoples, safeguarding #forests and #biodiversity, preserving oceans and freshwater, advancing #FoodSecurity and #sovereignty, implementing the #RightsOfNature, providing robust climate finance, and cutting off financial institutions' support for 'harmful projects and redirecting resources into climate solutions.' "

Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/climate-solutions

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Klimatkris #WaterIsLife #Heatwaves #NoNukes #CorporateColonialism #CapitalismKills #ClimateSolutions #Greenwashing

As #ExtremeHeat Bakes US, 160+ #Global Groups Demand 'Real' #ClimateAction

Reject #FalseSolutions, such as #NaturalGas, #MegaDams, #geoengineering, #bioenergy, forest offsets, #CarbonTrading schemes, #NuclearEnergy, biodiversity credits, and #CarbonCapture and storage.

Jessica Corbett
Jun 23, 2025

Excerpt: " 'While #governments and #corporations push us deeper into #ClimateChaos, movements around the world are rising,' she noted. 'From every corner of the Earth, women leaders are coming together with solutions and strategies to defend our planet and our communities. We call on governments and financial institutions to heed their voices and ensure effective and equitable policies—from Bonn to Belém and beyond. We must rise boldly, because climate change is not waiting for politics. Our movements are not bending. We are not breaking. We are defining and building a healthy and just future for all.'

"The new call to action points out that 'last year, the world breached this threshold with global average temperatures exceeding 1.5ºC above preindustrial levels. This alarming milestone is not yet a permanent breach of the Paris agreement guardrail, which refers to long-term warming, although scientists predict that 2024 will be the first of a 20-year period reaching 1.5ºC warming.'

" 'Although the pathway is drastically narrowing, the International Energy Agency affirms that the goal of the Paris agreement is still attainable,' the publication continues. 'Scientists assert that limiting global warming to 1.5ºC will require significant and urgent action from governments and financial institutions.'

"Specifically, the coalition outlined 10 broad actions for governments and financial institutions, beginning with urging both the public and private sectors to end fossil fuel expansion and extraction, and to 'reject false solutions, such as natural gas, mega-dams, geoengineering, bioenergy, forest offsets, carbon trading schemes, nuclear energy, biodiversity credits, and carbon capture and storage.'

"The collective also called for accelerating a just transition, promoting women's leadership and gender equity, protecting the rights of #IndigenousPeoples, safeguarding #forests and #biodiversity, preserving oceans and freshwater, advancing #FoodSecurity and #sovereignty, implementing the #RightsOfNature, providing robust climate finance, and cutting off financial institutions' support for 'harmful projects and redirecting resources into climate solutions.' "

Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/climate-solutions

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Klimatkris #WaterIsLife #Heatwaves #NoNukes #CorporateColonialism #CapitalismKills #ClimateSolutions #Greenwashing

As #ExtremeHeat Bakes US, 160+ #Global Groups Demand 'Real' #ClimateAction

Reject #FalseSolutions, such as #NaturalGas, #MegaDams, #geoengineering, #bioenergy, forest offsets, #CarbonTrading schemes, #NuclearEnergy, biodiversity credits, and #CarbonCapture and storage.

Jessica Corbett
Jun 23, 2025

Excerpt: " 'While #governments and #corporations push us deeper into #ClimateChaos, movements around the world are rising,' she noted. 'From every corner of the Earth, women leaders are coming together with solutions and strategies to defend our planet and our communities. We call on governments and financial institutions to heed their voices and ensure effective and equitable policies—from Bonn to Belém and beyond. We must rise boldly, because climate change is not waiting for politics. Our movements are not bending. We are not breaking. We are defining and building a healthy and just future for all.'

"The new call to action points out that 'last year, the world breached this threshold with global average temperatures exceeding 1.5ºC above preindustrial levels. This alarming milestone is not yet a permanent breach of the Paris agreement guardrail, which refers to long-term warming, although scientists predict that 2024 will be the first of a 20-year period reaching 1.5ºC warming.'

" 'Although the pathway is drastically narrowing, the International Energy Agency affirms that the goal of the Paris agreement is still attainable,' the publication continues. 'Scientists assert that limiting global warming to 1.5ºC will require significant and urgent action from governments and financial institutions.'

"Specifically, the coalition outlined 10 broad actions for governments and financial institutions, beginning with urging both the public and private sectors to end fossil fuel expansion and extraction, and to 'reject false solutions, such as natural gas, mega-dams, geoengineering, bioenergy, forest offsets, carbon trading schemes, nuclear energy, biodiversity credits, and carbon capture and storage.'

"The collective also called for accelerating a just transition, promoting women's leadership and gender equity, protecting the rights of #IndigenousPeoples, safeguarding #forests and #biodiversity, preserving oceans and freshwater, advancing #FoodSecurity and #sovereignty, implementing the #RightsOfNature, providing robust climate finance, and cutting off financial institutions' support for 'harmful projects and redirecting resources into climate solutions.' "

Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/climate-solutions

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Klimatkris #WaterIsLife #Heatwaves #NoNukes #CorporateColonialism #CapitalismKills #ClimateSolutions #Greenwashing

As #ExtremeHeat Bakes US, 160+ #Global Groups Demand 'Real' #ClimateAction

Reject #FalseSolutions, such as #NaturalGas, #MegaDams, #geoengineering, #bioenergy, forest offsets, #CarbonTrading schemes, #NuclearEnergy, biodiversity credits, and #CarbonCapture and storage.

Jessica Corbett
Jun 23, 2025

Excerpt: " 'While #governments and #corporations push us deeper into #ClimateChaos, movements around the world are rising,' she noted. 'From every corner of the Earth, women leaders are coming together with solutions and strategies to defend our planet and our communities. We call on governments and financial institutions to heed their voices and ensure effective and equitable policies—from Bonn to Belém and beyond. We must rise boldly, because climate change is not waiting for politics. Our movements are not bending. We are not breaking. We are defining and building a healthy and just future for all.'

"The new call to action points out that 'last year, the world breached this threshold with global average temperatures exceeding 1.5ºC above preindustrial levels. This alarming milestone is not yet a permanent breach of the Paris agreement guardrail, which refers to long-term warming, although scientists predict that 2024 will be the first of a 20-year period reaching 1.5ºC warming.'

" 'Although the pathway is drastically narrowing, the International Energy Agency affirms that the goal of the Paris agreement is still attainable,' the publication continues. 'Scientists assert that limiting global warming to 1.5ºC will require significant and urgent action from governments and financial institutions.'

"Specifically, the coalition outlined 10 broad actions for governments and financial institutions, beginning with urging both the public and private sectors to end fossil fuel expansion and extraction, and to 'reject false solutions, such as natural gas, mega-dams, geoengineering, bioenergy, forest offsets, carbon trading schemes, nuclear energy, biodiversity credits, and carbon capture and storage.'

"The collective also called for accelerating a just transition, promoting women's leadership and gender equity, protecting the rights of #IndigenousPeoples, safeguarding #forests and #biodiversity, preserving oceans and freshwater, advancing #FoodSecurity and #sovereignty, implementing the #RightsOfNature, providing robust climate finance, and cutting off financial institutions' support for 'harmful projects and redirecting resources into climate solutions.' "

Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/climate-solutions

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Klimatkris #WaterIsLife #Heatwaves #NoNukes #CorporateColonialism #CapitalismKills #ClimateSolutions #Greenwashing

The #NSW Chief Justice has spoken out against the reversal by successive #governments of the presumption of innocence through harsh bail #laws.

https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/harsh-bail-laws-undermine-the-presumption-of-innocence-says-nsw-chief-justice/

https://t.me/AntifascistSolidarity/56229

#australia #nswpol #nswgov #newsouthwales #classwar #ausgov #auspol #tasgov #taspol #politas #humanrights #auslaw #law #acab #AllCopsAreBastards

According to a recent @NaturePortfolio article:

'Advising #governments about #science is essential but difficult. A great #scientist doesn’t necessarily make an effective science #adviser — but practice can help to bridge the gap'

https://nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03910-4 #Science4Policy

#Lawsuits Have Become the Weapon of Choice Against #Activists

Legal intimidation suits known as “#SLAPPs” are becoming the norm for private #corporations and #governments trying to silence those who speak out on matters of public interest.

by Katie Redford
July 17, 2023

“On May 31, #Atlanta #SWAT teams with riot gear and battering rams broke down #MarlonKautz’s door. Police dragged Kautz and two colleagues to jail in their pajamas, charging them with #MoneyLaundering and charity fraud.

“Kautz, Adele MacLean, and Savannah Patterson, are volunteer board members of the #NetworkForStrongCommunities Inc., which was incorporated in 2020. Through it, they are able to raise funds for the #AtlantaSolidarityFund (#ASF). Since 2016, the fund has bailed out people arrested in #Georgia while exercising their First Amendment right to protest and helped them find legal help.

“Recently, the ASF has supported Atlanta activists who have been protesting a new $90 million police training center known as '#CopCity,' arguing that it will rob Atlanta of a #VitalGreenLung and increase inequality in surrounding neighborhoods. The state of Georgia, on the other hand, has charged dozens with 'domestic terrorism' for participating in largely peaceful protests.

“Georgia authorities claim that the money laundering charge is based on evidence of a fund transfer to another organization, but they haven’t shared any other details about their allegations. Magistrate Judge Altman, who presided over the bail hearing, described the state’s evidence as 'unimpressive,' reinforcing the defendants’ claims that the arrests are politically, not legally, motivated.

“Shortly after the arrest, Governor Brian Kemp announced that the state would go after everyone involved, and Attorney General Chris Carr tweeted that the funders of the bail and legal defense fund were next. As an executive director at a climate philanthropy who made charitable donations to the ASF for legal defense, I had to wonder: Was my door going to be battered down next?

“Some of the accused may have trespassed or destroyed property, but to charge protesters with 'domestic terrorism' and a legal defense fund with money laundering is a cynical political act that bears no relation to the misdemeanors alleged. Any American committed to democracy should be interested in making sure these charges lose in both the court of law and the court of public opinion.

“These charges seek to silence and stop opposition to an unpopular development project. They also telegraph a message to others in the state and nationwide: We will not tolerate lawful protest in Georgia. This strategy is known as strategic litigation against public participation (SLAPP), which is an intimidation lawsuit, typically used by private corporations against those who speak out on matters of public interest. Various state governments are increasingly deploying this tactic, too.

“SLAPPs don’t usually win in court, but that’s not what they’re intended to do. Instead, they set out to threaten activists and drain the financial resources of social movements. They often unfold as years-long wars of attrition, where corporations and governments with disproportionately large resources grind down the financial, emotional, and legal capacities of activists. The threat of such a suit—typically brought against individuals or groups that confront powerful people or institutions—discourages free speech and association, chilling democracy itself.

“As a lawyer on the front lines of climate justice activism, I witnessed firsthand how a SLAPP was used to weaponize the law against free speech and association. During the mass protests by Indigenous water protectors and environmentalists campaigning against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, SLAPPs were used widely.

“As #StandingRock became a global cause célèbre, the pipeline’s owners brought a $900 million #racketeering case against individuals and #NGOs like #BankTrack and #Greenpeace, alleging a vast global conspiracy to damage the company’s reputation and bottom line through fraud and #defamation.

“A federal court ultimately dismissed the lawsuit. But despite its eventual failure in court, the SLAPP tactic served its intended purpose: intimidation. #KrystalTwoBulls, one of the Standing Rock organizers that my organization represented, said that being sued tangled her up, practically and emotionally, in a legal battle that diverted her attention, taking her away from her work on the climate crisis and #Indigenous #LandRights.

“She began to #censor herself; she withdrew from her community and the movement, fearing that conspiracy allegations might extend to anyone she touched. And that, of course, is the point of these suits: to send out the message to either shut up or suffer the consequences.

“The case against #Kautz in #Atlanta similarly seeks to spark fear in activists and donors against supporting #FirstAmendment rights and legal defense. There is reason to believe that prosecutors may also be preparing #RICO charges against anti–Cop City activists, another dangerous use of the legal system to quell #grassroots movements.

“Since Standing Rock, over 20 states have passed '#CriticalInfrastructure' laws, which dramatically increase civil and criminal penalties related to protests at or near #FossilFuel projects. #DomesticTerrorism laws like that in Georgia have a similar intention: to weaponize the legal system against critics and stifle #DissentingVoices.

“I have no doubt that the majority of the domestic terrorism charges around Cop City will fail. But in the process, a political point will have been made, at the expense of the constitutional right to free speech. People protesting to protect the #environment and #climate will have been publicly accused of being harmful to America’s security, and they will have been forced to defend themselves—likely at exorbitant cost—against a 30-year jail sentence. Other potential activists will surely remember these charges when they consider whether it’s worth it to attend a concert, sit-in, or protest.

"The best strategy for stopping SLAPP suits in their tracks, whether they emanate from the private sector or are used by the state, is to keep speaking out, to support defamed activists, and to make the litigants pay a price. About 30 states have introduced legislation that protects against SLAPPs. And last year, #Jami Raskin introduced the #SLAPPProtectionAct of 2022 to #Congress. It must be reintroduced.

“My organization, #EquationCampaign, created a fund to provide lawyers and legal support for people who face this kind of legal retaliation for their environmental and climate work. I’m astonished at the wide range of people who need our help: from #farmers and ranchers to #journalists and #IndigenousActivists. All of them are on the receiving end of David vs. Goliath legal tactics that have long served powerful interests with near-endless resources.

“Absent federal protections, we all must be vigilant in the face of the egregious proliferation of #antiprotest laws and lawsuits.

“#Democracy and the future of this #planet require people to speak up. The law should serve—not silence—those of us who do."

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/slapp-legal-intimidation-activists/

#ForestDefenders #DefendTheForest #StopCopCity #DirectAction #Fascism #RICO #CriminalizingDissent #WaterProtectors #EnvironmentalActivists #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #SilencingDissent #CorporateColonialism #EcoActivists #Censorship #HumanRightsViolations #Article20 #RightToProtest #SlowMarch #BigOilAndGas #EnvironmentalRacism #NoDAPL #DakotaAccess #StandingWithStandingRock

From the press release on the White Paper on Singapore's response to COVID-19:

"The TraceTogether (TT) programme faced slow adoption initially, and suffered a setback with the disclosure that TT data could be used for criminal investigations following earlier reassurances that the data would only be used for contact tracing."

https://www.pmo.gov.sg/Newsroom/Release-on-White-Paper-on-Singapore-response-to-COVID-19

#Singapore #WhitePaper #Governments #COVID19 #TraceTogether #Privacy #ContactTracing

@harishpillay

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