The @guardian made a big claim in its adverts... Image
@guardian But it turns out that Bill Gates has given the Guardian nearly $13,000,000.

mintpressnews.com/documents-show…
@guardian I pointed out the very obvious lie that the @guardian were telling to flog their rag to the @ASA_UK.

But they weren't interested.
@guardian @ASA_UK .@ASA_UK: "we did not take your complaint further because we considered that the Advertising Code had not been breached. While we noted your concerns, we did not think that most readers would interpret the claim in the way you suggest."
@guardian @ASA_UK .@ASA_UK: "When assessing the complaint, we considered the ownership model adopted by Guardian Media Group, including independence of financial and editorial interests alongside reader contributions, would be seen by most people to be consistent with the claim made in the ad."
@guardian @ASA_UK In other words, what the @ASA_UK meant to say was "we read the Guardian, and we love them, so we're not going to take any action against their clear breach of the rules."
I wonder how much they got from the other billionaires that "don't" back the Guardian... ImageImageImage
The last words from the @ASA_UK were: "We regret we are unable to correspond further in this matter".

So, porkie-pies are fine and dandy... The ASA, says so.
Text of my complaint. Image
Just as the @ASA_UK is not going to hold the @guardian to account, The Guardian is definitely not going to hold the powerful to account.

Because if it did, it would sink. It would exhaust its bank account.

The Guardian works FOR billionaires.
@ASA_UK @guardian If you liked that, you're going to LOVE this...

capitalresearch.org/article/enviro…

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20 Nov
Looks a bit hasty to me.

No doubt politics was hollowed out. But by being 'soft'? By people not having to do so much physical labour? By a sense of entitlement? I think the implications are somewhat ugly.
Deindustrialisation is a thing, though. And the political distaste for industry and for that matter, democracy, needs further exploration. I don't think the issue is one of 'culture', because that seems to imply that culture is the business of politics to engineer.
Too many politicians will tell you that 'materialism and self entitlement' is a problem. But that's not what people who face spiralling rents, stagnant wages, rising costs of living etc, will feel. It's only a consumer/ individual culture in the most superficial sense.
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20 Nov
You're in for a shock.

They don't want you to drive. At all. And they're not going to stop putting inconveniences and costs in your way. They're committed to it, and there's nothing to stop them and no sitting political alternative.
If they can extort money from you in the process, so much better for the local councils and the private equity firms that have bought all the bailiffs that service local authorities. The first thing they come for if you can't afford a fine/penalty charge... is your car.
Their policies might leave you immobile, unable to work, unable to afford basic things.

But your hardship is progress, according to their measurement. Another car off the road.

The world is now a better place.
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19 Nov
What Dr Doug calls 'hope' is in fact moral blackmail.

There is 'hope' only if you do as you're told.

So he's not against doomism.

Engagement is a two-way street, Doug. And the problem with your ideological framing has been pointed out to you for the duration of your activism.
Climate science failed to confront alarmism. It indulged and continues to indulge alarmism. And if it didn't ignore them completely, it framed anyone who was critical of alarmism as 'deniers'.

And that's why there are many children who believe they have no future.
The weaponisation of children's emotions for a political project is something that institutional science will ultimately be remembered for, as will its unwillingness to 'engage' with critics of the politicisation of science.
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Fearmongering is a way of compensating for loss of confidence in the means to judge truth. It looks like deference to objectivity, but it's an appeal to authority and a demand for obedience from ignorance. The fear is genuine, however, and its object is moral autonomy.
There is no such thing as a 'trusted, legitimate source', because so many institutions that we might once have turned to for such a thing have traded their independence for power.

Trust was the condition of medicine, but it was squandered.
I don't need the 'trusted sources' facts, because they're not trusted, and that is the basis of my decision not to have the vaccine.

I have seen so much bullshit from institutional science and medicine over the last 2 years that I doubt I will ever trust it again.
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15 Nov
Greens are weird and mad.

They exist because society failed to confront the ideology festering in the recesses of its increasingly undemocratic institutions.
They are going to get madder and weirder and more and more dangerous until society choses to confront environmentalism, or green ideology causes a deep political, social, and economic crisis.
What do I mean by crisis?

Listen to the protesters. They're demanding not just Net Zero, but actual zero by 2030.

There is no rational perspective being brought to UNFCCC negotiations, and even less to green ideology. It is, so to speak, a positive-feedback mechanism.
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This isn't a critique of policy that either understands environmentalism, draws away from its excesses, understands its rise, or proposes a meaningful energy policy. He'd be quite happy with NetZero if it hadn't created an opportunity for him.

breitbart.com/europe/2021/11…
Since he calls it 'net stupid'... "Hydrogen" is a stupid idea. As stupid as anything in Net Zero, which indeed it is a part of. SMRs are all well and good, but hardly answer the problem for the next decade or so.
"We will invest in brilliant shiny new world-class super-duper fab technology".

Cool. Like what?
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