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  Super-rich get ‘double dividend’ from causes and costs of climate crisis "The world’s wealthiest people are not just profiting from the polluting causes of climate breakdown, they are also increasingly cashing in on the catastrophic consequences, according to a study by Oxfam. The global equality organisation has found that the richest 0.1% of the world’s population are heavily invested in disaster preparedness, recovery and reconstruction – a market that is projected to grow from $70bn t...

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  $10,000 fine for killing over 700 native and endangered protected animals.. $14.28 each.. Other life is 'cheap' when you're a Human.. "The white-walled room packed with magpies, galahs and sulphur-crested cockatoos, foxes and possums is eerily quiet. As a video pans across shelves filled with these and many other species, there is no flapping or squawking or hissing; the animals are frozen and silent. They are among the more than 700 native animals that were found illegally ta...

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  In allowing coal expansion in the Hunter, Chris Minns is pouring fuel on the climate fire. His decision will come back to hurt us all "As someone who lost their home in the black summer bushfires, I was buoyed by the high court finding in favour of a small community group in the Hunter Valley earlier this month. Led by two retired science teachers, Wendy Wales and Tony Lonergan, the Denman Aberdeen Muswellbrook Scone Healthy Environment Group took on a massive coal corporation and won. As...

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  Minns accused of bypassing high court ruling with laws to allow NSW mine to increase coal production by 32% "The Minns government says it will introduce special legislation to allow a mine in the New South Wales Hunter Valley that was the subject of high court proceedings to increase its coal production by 32% per year. The premier, Chris Minns, said the bill would authorise MACH Energy to increase the annual coal output at its Mount Pleasant coalmine by 4m tonnes to 16.5MT per year until...

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  IPCC is under pressure to delay publication of key global climate report "Scientists are coming under pressure from some petro-states and major developing countries to delay publication of a key global report on the climate, despite pleas from vulnerable countries worried that postponement could spell disaster for them. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the UN-convened body of the world’s leading climate scientists, is meeting this week in Addis Ababa to discuss its seventh a...

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  Minns government’s only meeting before reopening gas exploration was with fossil fuel lobby "The peak body for the oil and gas industry was the only stakeholder the New South Wales government met with before a decision to reopen gas exploration approvals for the first time in more than a decade, documents released under freedom of information laws suggest. In April, the NSW minister for natural resources, Courtney Houssos, announced the government would open applications for gas explorati...

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  Ice Atrocities: "Children are being detained in record numbers, sometimes alone and where lawyers and family cannot find them." "The image of immigration officers arresting five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos – in a blue bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack – in January sparked outrage across the country. Celebrities from Ms Rachel to Madonna called for the closure of the Dilley immigration processing center, the Texas immigrant camp that held Ramos and many children like him. Lawyers...

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  Approval of biggest coal project in NSW planning commission’s history described as ‘infamous betrayal’ "The New South Wales independent planner has approved the biggest coalmine project to ever go before it, allowing mining to continue until 2045 at a Hunter Valley project described by climate groups as a “carbon bomb”. On Wednesday, the commission said the greenhouse gas emissions from the mine, near Singleton, would “contribute to climate change impacts on the people, economy and enviro...

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  "Agreement to transition away from fossil fuels ‘not open for renegotiation’, Pacific leader tells pre-Cop" I bet Mr 'Fossil-Fuels' Albanese wasn't happy with that.. "Speaking at a “saultalaga” – an exchange of views around a meeting table – at the end of a three-hour visit, a string of leaders argued the world must stand behind a 2023 agreement, made at a UN summit in Dubai, to transition away from fossil fuels. More recently it has faced wavering support, with push...

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  "Mixed start for pre-Cop as just two non-Pacific leaders accept Australian invitation to climate summit" "The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has declared it is “important that Pacific voices are heard” [while granting huge fossil fuel projects in NSW] after landing in Fiji on Monday to attend his first UN climate summit since becoming prime minister more than four years ago." What an absolute sham of a politician Albo is. #LaborHasToGO https://www.theguardia...

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  "Switzerland has lost almost one-fifth of its ice in just five years, research has found, in a dramatic reshaping of the Alpine country whose big white glaciers have been reduced to moonlike rock deserts, scientists say." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/01/switzerland-glacier-loss-fossil-fuel-pollution-europe #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #FossilFuels #Environment #News #Activism #HumanRights #AnimalRights #PlanetaryRights

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  ‘The toll is huge’: El Niño-driven wildfires overwhelm Indonesia’s orangutan population "The mother’s hands were peeling from walking on the torched ground. Her eight-month-old baby, which clung to her side, was dehydrated and thin. The pair, named Mama Abu and Abu (“ash” in Indonesian), were found in an oil palm subsidiary estate, rescuers say. The orangutan pair were saved last month from wildfires that are devouring Indonesia’s forests and peatland, unleashing thick smog, and destroyin...

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  Rigged Election: Israel bans Arab parties from election - Who they are, why it matters "Israel’s Central Elections Committee has voted to bar the country’s two main Arab-majority political lists from next month’s parliamentary election, potentially leaving Palestinian citizens of Israel without their principal representatives in the Israeli parliament, the Knesset." https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/26/israel-bans-arab-parties-from-election-who-they-are-why-it-matters #BoycottIs...

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  "We've obtained the largest ever set of leaked documents from inside BHP. These files revealed the mining giant was LOCKING IN fossil fuel use while telling the public it was committed to going green.." ABC Four Corners exposé: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nomqV_tHlA #BHP #Greenwashing #Corruption #Environment #ClimateChange #Australia #HumanRights #Activism #News

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  Undermining the UN is not a new US policy "In the mid-1980s, the Reagan administration accused the UN of being a third-world, anti-US forum. To compel the organisation to better serve its interests and under the guise of the ubiquitous need for reform, which all secretaries-general fell for, the US started to withhold a share of its assessed contribution, which accounted for a quarter of the regular budget and a third of the peacekeeping budget back then. By 1987, the US relaxed its payme...

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  Apparently the israeli delegation walked out when Turkish president began mentioning israel's various and numerous crimes against humanity, the israeli delegates should have been FORCED to sit there and listen, like they forced flotilla members to watch propaganda films before releasing them.. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/22/erdogan-slams-israels-genocidal-mindset-in-blistering-un-address #BoycottIsrael #CrimesAgainstHumanity #TerroristRegime #News #HumanRights #Activism #Palestin...

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  "A United Nations human rights expert has concluded that US attacks on suspected drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean violate international law and may amount to crimes against humanity. In a report published on Monday, Ben Saul, the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism, said the US has struck 68 vessels in international waters between September 2025 and August this year, killing at least 223 people. The findings came two days after the...

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  Spot On: Paul Keating says Aukus locking Australia into a US war against China, which it would ‘certainly lose’ "..Paul Keating has said the submarine deal is locking Australia in to any future US conflict with China – “a war America would certainly lose” – and making Australia a target for retribution. The former prime minister seized on comments reported out of Washington this week from Republican congressman Michael McCaul – a China hawk and co-chair of the Congressional Friends of Aus...

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  "The United States has refused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas a visa to attend next week’s UN General Assembly in New York" in attempts to further silence Palestinian voices, while DT and the republicans try to sell israel 40,000 1-tonne bombs.. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/9/17/iran-war-live-trump-says-us-nearing-end-of-war-claims-tehran-direct-talks?update=4957707 #WarMongering #DTRegime #GenocideEnabling #News #USPol #HumanRights #Activism #CrimesAgainstHumani...

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  Key House Democrat refuses to clear DT’s $2.8bn arms sale to Israel “The DT Regime has not provided sufficient assurances that these weapons will be used by the Netanyahu government [terrorist state] in accordance with US law and with appropriate protections for civilians,” he said. “I therefore will not clear this sale at this time.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/16/us-arms-sale-israel-gregory-meeks #DTRegime #WarMongering #CrimesAgainstHumanity #News #USPol #HumanRights #Acti...

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  Dozens of aircraft lost, hundreds of buildings destroyed or damaged, short on munitions, facing “bottlenecks” in supply chains, 18 US military personnel dead, 417 US military personnel wounded, millions upon millions of dollars wasted: US losses to Iran retaliation revealed in Pentagon Report The verified accumulating losses DT is pouring into his illegal war on Iran greatly-contradicts DT's own statements of the war going well. https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/9/15/dozens-of-aircra...

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  "Russian oligarch close to Putin paid for part of Donald Trump Jr’s lavish wedding" What a surprise... were the rest 'shekel' by any chance?.. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/14/russian-oligarch-trump-jr-wedding #BoycottRussia #BoycottIsrael #BoycottAmerica #NoKings #Corruption #USPol #News #DTRegime

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  ‘Supersizing before our eyes’: UN warns of record El Niño approaching "Event is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis" "The El Niño is likely to be the largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into an atmosphere where temperatures are already rising rapidly due to global heating. The combination means 2027 is set to “blow apart” the record and be the hottest year ever recorded." But, f...

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  "Possums in the roof, koalas in bed: study shows how animals resort to Australian homes after habitat loss" Well where else are they going to go after humans have destroyed their environments? Just like Humans will; we'll be invading worms homes by having to move underground (for the brief time we have left as a species) when the fossil fuel CEOs have finished turning the surface of Earth into an oven nothing can survive on (which it's well on its way to becoming right now)....

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  "John Malkovich has cancelled a planned trip to Israel next year to appear on stage after a PR firm hired by the show attributed quotes to the actor that the company had written. A press release circulated on 5 September quoted Malkovich as saying he was “thrilled to return to Israel” and looked “forward to meeting the warm Israeli audience once again, to whom I feel a strong closeness and solidarity”. The actor, 72, was alerted to the quotes after reading them in the Hollywood Reporter,...

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  South Park changes name to 'South America' in response to narcissistic DT changes "..“Inspired by the bravery and patriotism of Apple and Google, we are changing the name of South Park to SOUTH AMERICA,” creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker said in a statement. “We especially want to thank our parent company Paramount – a Skydance Capitulation.” The show’s parent company, Paramount Skydance, owned by DT ally David Ellison, is poised to become one of the biggest media conglomerates i...

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  Energy Australia sued for Green-washing.. Woodside using offsets to get around environmental laws without reducing emissions.. BHP keep polluting using offsets to get around environmental laws.. NSW government jerry-rigs 'Koala park' plan by attaching shady offsets scheme for polluters.. and more nuggets of corrupt Labor backroom dealings in this episode of.. Honest Government Ads https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IW1J2_masg #LaborFail #EnvironmentalTerrorism #Corruption #Environment #...

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  Many people can't seem to grasp that when you alter one thing in a global ecosystem, it affects other things in that same ecosystem, causing more and more damage.. "Big increases in wildfires and heatwaves supercharged by the climate crisis are hindering improvements to air quality around the world, UN experts have said. Regions that had recorded a fall in pollution emitted by cars and industrial sites are facing new threats to air quality because of exposure to smoke from wildfires,...

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  Labor has approved a whopping 37 toxic fossil fuel climate-wrecking projects! And again Wong refuses to answer the questions.. "Last week, the Albanese Government approved another fossil fuel project. An extension to a coal mine in Queensland. On the very same day, the UN issued its first prediction that the world will not be able to constrain global warming to 1.5 degrees. Yet the Minister can't answer a simple question about the number of new coal and gas projects that have been a...

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  How can someone claim to have "made a deal" for the oil after having literally Invaded the country, Illegally Abducted its president, and Stolen its oil reserves? 🤔 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/29/trump-announces-biggest-oil-deal-in-world-history-with-venezuela #DTRegime #Corruption #Lawlessness #News #USPol #NoKings #Fascism #ClimateChange #Environment