Achieving meaningful lives within planetary boundaries?

"Renewables are already much cheaper than fossil fuels. Alas, fossil fuels are up to three times as profitable. Thus capital forces governments to link electricity prices to the price of the most expensive liquified natural gas, not of cheap solar energy. Similarly, building and maintaining motorways is many times more lucrative for private contractors, car manufacturers and oil companies than a modern network of superfast, safe public railways. So capitalists continue to push our governments to subsidise fossil fuels and road building, even while the world burns."

"...Capital uses every tool at its disposal – debt, sanctions, coups and even outright military invasion to keep southern economies subordinate."
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We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps, Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2026/feb/12/capitalist-model-climate-growth-capitalism-species-humanity
#FossilFuels #biodiversity #Roads #MobilityDesign #motorways #climate #DeliberativeDemocracy #DemocraticBacksliding #autogolpe #SelfCoup #governance
Image: Houses and landscapes destroyed for every wider roads to provide a conveyor belt for combustion vehicles, Coffs Harbour

《state capture》Now that's a term everyone should start using.

#StateCapture #Coup #SelfCoup #US #America #Friday #KingOfAmerica #Autocracy #Tyranny #DemocracyIsDead #DirtyPoliticians #Dictatorship #Corruption #Capitalism #Tesla #Greed

https://theconversation.com/is-elon-musk-taking-over-the-us-government-heres-how-state-capture-works-and-why-we-should-be-concerned-249471

That Trump is a Russian asset can no longer be disputed. He's putting all out on the table.

‘Officially surrendered’: Trump admin. slammed over report Russian defense planning nixed

"An exclusive report Friday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered U.S. Cyber Command to abandon planning against Russian aggression panicked policy experts and political observers.
..."

https://www.rawstory.com/hegseth-2671242469/

#Trump #russianAsset #UnitedStates #America #sold #politics #coup #selfCoup

I learned a new word today, which happens to be of Spanish origin. “Autogolpe”.

“A self-coup, also called an autocoup (from Spanish autogolpe) or coup from the top, is a form of coup d'état in which a political leader, having come to power through legal means, stays in power illegally through the actions of themselves or their supporters.[1] The leader may dissolve or render powerless the national legislature and unlawfully assume extraordinary powers. Other measures may include annulling the constitution, suspending civil courts, and having the head of government assume dictatorial powers.[2][3]”

I heard it on Jake Broe’s YouTube channel in the context of Trump firing the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and the 3 Judge Advocate Generals (Army, Navy, Air Force).

This is being described as an autogolpe, a self-coup.

The list attached on wiki is of attempted self-coups… Trump/USA is in their twice. As for successful ones, the most prominent is Napoleon Bonaparte.

#usa #selfcoup #uspoli #coup #autogolpe #autocoup

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-coup#:~:text=A%20self%2Dcoup%2C%20also%20called,of%20themselves%20or%20their%20supporters.

RANT: THIS IS A COUP - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c0cCDbDAvT8

#selfcoup #selfcoupdetat

So, a sitting president of a major democratic republic tries an auto-coup / self-coup. In response, the elected legislature shuts him down, and within 11 days has impeached him and removed him from office, preventing him from ever being a threat to the country's safety, security, or democracy again.

If only some other democracies' politicians actually took their oath to their constitution seriously enough to take action like that. Sorry, "democracies".

https://www.politico.eu/article/south-korea-parliament-removes-president-yoon-suk-yeol/

#Constitution #coup #autocoup #selfcoup #election #politician #integrity

South #Korea's Yoon Suk Yeol makes himself on this list of autogolpes.

#Trump will appear on this list very soon. Unlike the courageous Koreans, Americans will let him because they think God anoints Trump. 🤮

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-coup

#selfcoup
#EndOfDemocracy

THIS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qTWMqTYCZ0

And FYI should SCOTUS insist, indict them and charge them as accomplices after the fact. Nothing says they can't write their opinion from behind bars with their lifetime appointment. They are not above the law either.

#SCOTUS #Immunity #SelfCoup #Trump #OfficialActs