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George Monbiot Tuesday, April 15, 2025 - 04:03 Source

It’s a cast-iron relationship: the more unequal a society becomes, the better the far right does. Here’s why.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian  13th April 2025

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WixxyLeaks Wednesday, April 9, 2025 - 08:09 Source

Has Labor done a dodgy deal with the Liberals in Macnamara, or is it just another a case of another Tory in Labor clothing?

“Fighting Tories. That’s what I do.”

Famous words of current Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

A dozen or so years later and that heartfelt statement seems a distant memory.

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George Monbiot Monday, April 7, 2025 - 20:31 Source

It’s not disruption that’s being prosecuted in this country. It’s dissent.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 3rd April 2025

The faces are different, but it’s the same authoritarianism. Keir Starmer’s team might not look or sound like Donald Trump’s, but its policies on protest and dissent are chillingly similar. So is the reason: coordinated global lobbying by the rich and powerful, fronted by rightwing junktanks.

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George Monbiot Wednesday, April 2, 2025 - 15:54 Source

It has two main strategies, and you can see them both at work, right here, right now.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian  28th March 2025

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George Monbiot Wednesday, April 2, 2025 - 15:44 Source

You can’t do it differently until you imagine it differently.

By George Monbiot, adapted from a BlueSky thread, 2nd April 2025

One of capitalism’s greatest successes is to shut down our imaginations. With the help of its favoured tools – neoliberalism and fascism – it persuades us that “there is no alternative”. Our first task is to re-ignite our moral imaginations and name our alternatives.

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Digitopoly Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - 13:18 Source

Epiphany plays an outsized role in the reductionist two-step model of invention. Step one is when an idea pops into an inventor’s head, and step two is when the invention spreads in an economy over time.

This model is misleading in numerous ways that would take a book to enumerate. Today’s column focuses on step two, aiming to one piece. How and why do businesses embed the invention in products and services while the invention spreads?

Cataloging the factors that help businesses embed inventions can yield valuable lessons. Today, we focus on knowledge spillovers, eliminating bottlenecks, and inventing ways to invent.

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Digitopoly Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - 00:33 Source

A prototype is a product or service’s early sample, model, or release. It is built to test a concept or process and serves as a tangible representation of an idea. Some prototypes are primarily commercial, while others are scientific.

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Prosper Australia Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 21:12 Source

Prosper Australia urges the government to embrace real reform that ensures prosperity is shared by all.

The post 2025 Budget betrays locked-out generation, kicks reform further down the road first appeared on Prosper Australia.

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George Monbiot Monday, March 24, 2025 - 02:19 Source

For the first time, the government is consulting on a Land Use Framework for England. It’s an important step, but there’s a long way to go.

By George Monbiot. This is my response to the government’s Land Use Consultation, sent on 23rd March 2025.

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George Monbiot Monday, March 24, 2025 - 01:54 Source

As deliberately-contaminated sewage sludge is spread on farmland, it feels as if humanity is on a suicide mission.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian  21st March 2025

If humanity has an epitaph, it might read something like this: “Knackered by the things we missed.” It is true that several existential threats are widely known and widely discussed. But some of the greatest dangers we face appear on almost no one’s radar.

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George Monbiot Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 22:07 Source

We face a potential global food crisis, and no one is secure until everyone is secure.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 16th March 2025

I hate to sound like a prepper, but I feel bound to confess that over the past month I’ve been stockpiling food. I think, if you can, you should do the same.

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Prosper Australia Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 14:41 Source

Value capture is an equitable and efficient funding mechanism to support the development of high speed rail. It ensures that those who benefit the most from high speed rail contribute to its cost.

The post Wilful Acts of Bastardry first appeared on Prosper Australia.

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Prosper Australia Thursday, March 13, 2025 - 14:55 Source

Prosper Australia was proud to join with Per Capita and a host of other organisations across the community sector in presenting the 2025 Community Tax Summit. Held in the richly historic Trades Hall, the Community Tax Summit was a two-day conference that brought together researchers, advocates, people with lived experience, and economists to examine how […]

The post Community Tax Summit brings together voices for reform first appeared on Prosper Australia.

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George Monbiot Friday, March 7, 2025 - 18:54 Source

Could Trump and Musk be seeking to end our time on Earth?

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 5th March 2025

In thinking about the war being waged against life on Earth by Donald Trump, Elon Musk and their minions, I keep bumping into a horrible suspicion. Could it be that this is not just about delivering the world to oligarchs and corporations – not just about wringing as much profit from living systems as they can? Could it be that they want to see the destruction of the habitable planet?

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