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A new draft bill in South Africa proposes that courts award whistleblowers a percentage of penalties imposed on convicted employers – but no up-front incentives are on offer

#StateCapture #Whistleblowing

@BDliveSA @Corruption_SA @OUTASA

https://www.businessday.co.za/news/2026-04-09-courts-may-award-whistleblowers-a-reward-in-new-draft-bill/

Courts may award whistleblowers a reward in new draft bill

The bill aims to strengthen legislative protection for whistleblowers

Business Day

Droppie [infosec] 🐨

2d ago

this is genuinely exciting!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/07/iran-war-oil-phase-out-fossil-fuels

dare i even hope? me, an archly cynical depressed misanthropist who usually finds she's correct re the endless shitfuckery of this species, could even i dare to hope here?

ofc i'm sure that elbow's owners will instruct him to give it the thumbs down.

#ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance #auspol #WhyTheFuckIsLabor

A new economic superpower could spark a global retreat from fossil fuels

Eighty-five countries have sought a roadmap to phasing out fossil fuels. A conference this month offers hope they could unite

The Guardian

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Droppie [infosec] 🐨

Mar 31

@abc_bot oh really? would they be the same types of cockies who spent decades supporting liebs & nuts as they railed against climate science & climate action? hmmmmm?

#AusPol #WhyTheFuckIsLabor #HahahahaLiebs #NatsAreNuts #GreensYEAH #VoteGreens #VoteProgIndies #PHONkedinthehead #ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance

Droppie [infosec] 🐨

Mar 26

yeah but think about the whales, n dolphins, n fish, n plankton, n seagulls, n albatross, albatross, get 'em while they're hot, albatross!

oh yeah, n the fossilfools' balance sheets...

https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/116297658754617652

Unofficial ABC News Bot (@[email protected])

Offshore wind power to save billions of dollars and kilometres of powerlines https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-27/offshort-wind-report-transmission-powerlines-victoria/106463540 #RenewableEnergy #EnergyResearch #EnergyMarkets #EnergyPolicy #WindEnergy

Chinwag Social

Droppie [infosec] 🐨

Mar 22

https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/116274490583353266 yeah well, that might well be, but he is still a Shoppie, & he still demonises legitimate vital public protests against the absolute shitfuckery of govts & companies hand in hand to destroy climate + biodiversity, so fuck him!

#sapol #AusPol #WhyTheFuckIsLabor #HahahahaLiebs #NatsAreNuts #GreensYEAH #VoteGreens #VoteProgIndies #PHONkedinthehead #ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance

Unofficial ABC News Bot (@[email protected])

Few leaders in Australia are as firmly entrenched in power than Peter Malinauskas https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-23/peter-malinauskas-place-in-labor/106484008 #StateandTerritoryGovernment #StateandTerritoryElections #ALP

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RaymondPierreL3 Mar 18

“Resisting the Rule of the RIch - Protecting Freedom from Billionaire Power” That is the title of the Oxfam.org report. It’s a long read (I’m only partially through it myself) but a worthwhile read.

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/from-starlink-to-the-state-when-platform-monopolies-become-political-power

#TechBros #EatTheRich #TaxTheRich #PoliticsAndPower
#Monopoly #Oligachy #Fascism #WealthTransfer #StateCapture

RaymondPierreL3 Mar 18

I don’t think many of the tooters I see on my feed need convincing that our biggest threat (after a certain certifiable case in charge of a big, bigger than you’ve ever seen, country) lies in the privatisation of #infrastructure crucial to #NationalSecurity. But just in case, I’m tooting this article to make that very point, again. We cannot be warned enough…

”If critical digital infrastructure markets are structurally producing unavoidable private monopolies, what does that mean for economic power, political influence and democratic control more broadly? Starlink may be a particularly visible case, but it is part of a much wider pattern now emerging across the digital economy.”

#TechBros #Nepo #Monopolies #OutSourcing #StateCapture
#LEO #Communications

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RaymondPierreL3 Mar 18

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I would’ve thought that the Justice system, the third pillar of democratic govt, was too critical to ‘outsource’ and definately not a branch of government that ought to have any of its functions #Privatised and milked for ‘#Profits’ . It’s bad enough that the legal profession is privatised leading to wealth being a determinent in the quality of legal representation one is afforded in Court and hence better legal outcomes for those represented, but Court functions #outsourced to #PrivateEnterprises should never occur. All Court processes ought to remain fully under govt funding and appropriate publicly-owned services IMO.

This case is an yet example of #StateTheft and #StateCapture brought to you by the ‘debunked’ #NeoLiberal order. The #Grifters are getting into all aspect of our democracy in order to feather their own nest and enslave the rest of us a la #Fascist #America and its #tRumpAdministration.

#AusPol

Droppie Mar 15

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/voters-are-angry-one-nation-s-support-is-real-rising-and-no-longer-surprising-20260315-p5oal2.html?ref=rss

imo a voter's intention to vote PHON in straya, MAGA in merka, Farage in pommyland, et al, is an acute IQ & morality test. such voters fail. abysmally. 🤬🖕

#AusPol #WhyTheFuckIsLabor #HahahahaLiebs #NatsAreNuts #GreensYEAH #VoteGreens #VoteProgIndies #PHONkedinthehead #ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance

Voters are angry. One Nation’s support is real, rising and no longer surprising

Crunched by high inflation and spiralling petrol prices, the electorate is in a bad mood and it’s starting to take it out on the government, not just the opposition.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Droppie Mar 15

articles like this just annoy & irritate me

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/climate-change-binary-frozen-weather

imo scientists need to stop being terrified of loudly publicly stating the bleedin' obvious, viz:

it ain't everyone who is one of these stupid boiling frogs. it is explicitly, specifically, that cohort of fools blinded by their RWNJ politics, &/or their idiotic skyfairy delusions. otoh, we sane moral peeps who do not succumb to such toxic fantasies, know full fucken well the severe crisis our forebears created & which contemporary humans continue to accelerate. we despair, & rage.

#ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance #FuckRWNJs #fuckALLreligion

Why we fail to notice climate change

People quickly normalize extreme weather. Simple visuals highlighting abrupt change could help climate change break through our mental blind spots.

Science News