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"The confluence of existential catastrophes we face with a resurgence of evil not seen in 100 years leaves us at a historical inflection point. But I think we sometimes miss a key structural problem that has gotten us here..."

#EnoughIsEnough

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Aug 19
#THREAD comprising extended extracts from @lhfang's 2017 article 'Here's how Atlas Network, a libertarian American think tank, is remaking Latin American politics' - featuring Tufton St's most influential think tank, the climate crisis downplaying IEA...

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The Atlas model of think tanks focuses less on developing genuinely new policy proposals, & more on establishing political organizations that carry the credibility of academic institutions, making them an effective organ for winning hearts and minds.
Free-market ideas — such as slashing taxes on the wealthy; whittling down the public sector and placing it under the control of private operators; and liberalized trade rules and restrictions on labour unions — have always struggled with a perception problem.
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Aug 19
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So today's bullshit anti-science, anti-reality "news" that is getting all the usual climate deniers worked up, is from an organisation called CLINTEL, who claim that "There Is No Climate Emergency" - a line they've been pushing since at least 2019. Image
This #THREAD is mainly taken from respected source of climate change information, @DeSmog, which has many awards, including one from The Canadian Public Relations Society for demonstrating "The highest ethical & professional standards while performing outstanding work".
The Climate Intelligence Foundation #CLINTEL is a Netherlands-based climate science denial group founded in 2019 by retired professor of geophysics Guus Berkhout, a Dutch engineer who has worked for the oil and gas industry, & journalist Marcel Crok.
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Aug 19
Why are there are 160,000 care worker vacancies in Britain's almost exclusively privatised profit-driven care homes? Anything do with treating employees like shit, paying them fuck-all on crap contracts, or treating EU workers as second class citizens post-Brexit?
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Hardly any voters know that after forty years of neoliberal policies encouraging privatisation & outsourcing, social services for community & long-stay care in the UK are among the most privatised & fragmented in the western world – even more so than in the US.
Local authorities in England commission most of their care services from private providers, of which in 2021, there were 14,800 registered organisations providing care across 25,800 locations.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Aug 19
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We're back here are we? The tax-avoiding non-dom billionaire-owned Telegraph isn't a newspaper - it's a divisive #propaganda outlet, which has since 1945 supported the Tories & attempted to shape public opinion in whichever direction most benefits its tax-avoiding owner. Image
The Telegraph has endorsed the Tories at every UK GE since 1945.

The personal links between the paper's owners & editors & the Tory leadership, along with the paper's right-wing stance & influence over Conservative activists, means it is commonly referred to as the

#Torygraph.
Even when Conservative support was shown to have slumped in the opinion polls and @UKLabour gained the ascendant, the newspaper remained loyal to the @Conservatives.

The tax-avoiding billionaire Barclay brothers purchased the Telegraph Group for around £665m in late June 2004.
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GDP is the principal way the world defines & measures progress.

This urgently has to change if the world is to make meaningful progress on the multiple threats posed by climate change, energy costs, insecure employment & widening #inequality.

theconversation.com/beyond-gdp-cha…
In measuring the monetary value of economic activity, GDP incorporates many of the “bads” that detract from our quality of life: eg war, pollution, crime & natural disasters can all have a positive impact on GDP, yet they cannot be construed as components of economic success.
Significant aspects of our lives are missing from GDP, eg: societal inequality; contributions from unpaid work; the labour of those who care for the young & the elderly at home or in the community; the depletion of natural resources; & the value of data & many digital services.
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this research discusses Jordan Peterson's misreadings & misrepresentation of ‘postmodernism’, analyse the non-verbal aspects of his performance & his affective strategies, & apply relevance theory & 'the guru effect' to examine his rhetorical strategies.

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In order to understand why Peterson appeals to so many today, researchers analysed his public image, rhetoric, & the strategies he uses to inspire trust in his audience. What makes the Peterson 'hype', is not attributable to one single factor.
Factors include a context of epistemic uncertainty & polarisation; a public of disenfranchised young men in need of a father figure; Peterson’s media literacy & visibility in online culture, aided by algorithms; & vague obscure writings that lend the author the aura of the guru.
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