RE: https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-7869-9d5e-9128-4b7976112262

For some popular articles The Guardian now fades them out and insists you must open an account to continue reading, so they can generate 'random identifiers based on your email address for advertising and marketing'. Tragic.
#TheGuardian #enshittification

Tragic news about the extension to 2070 for the gas processing plant at amazing Murujuga/Burrup Peninsula.

I went there about 11 years ago researching a novel called Atomic Sea, set in the Murujuga and Walmadan (north of Broome) regions.

At the time there was a sliver of hope that Murujuga might be protected in the future. Now I'm sick with rage at the lazy vandalism of this hypocritical government.

In 2018, god-give-me-strength, I wrote how I felt about Murujuga, at https://seabooks.net/atomicsea.php

"Since 'Redbill' I've had a special affection for Broome and north-west Australia and, like most people who don't have shares in multinational gas corporations, I've been appalled at the multi-decades-long desperation of successive Western Australian governments to turn one of the most beautiful regions in the world into an industrial barrens.

Every time it seemed the threat to Walmadan/James Price Point had been defeated, it would return like the undead. Finally (oh please, let it be finally) after massive community resistance the latest gas-plant company realised they were on a hiding to nothing and withdrew for 'economic reasons.'

Anyway, it was very little skin off their collective noses. They already had their gargantuan money-spinning eyesore at Murujuga, didn't they?

That's the Burrup Peninsula to those who don't much care that it sits on perhaps the oldest memorial to human civilisation in the world. ('Memorial', of course, because Mr Burrup's mates killed off most of the people who were living there.)

The scarlet rocks of Murujuga once boasted the earliest representation of a human face known to exist on this planet, but someone who didn't much care about that crushed it for roadfill.

The landscape of Murujuga is a barely-comprehended resource of universal human importance, and the future will damn today's blinkered governments for their malign negligence."

Love a nice pattern.

#Tesla market cap crashed because of Musks's Twitter antics in 2022 and only recovered after he hooked onto Trump like a tapeworm. Reached peak of $1400B in Dec '24.

Now crashed to HALF that, $718B, and almost back to ... when #Musk bought Twitter.

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and
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