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Dr Jeremy Walker
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Researching the history & global #AtlasNetwork infrastructure of organised climate disinformation & policy obstruction.

C-SERC, University of Technology Sydney (#auspol).

#ToitūTeTiriti‬ #VoiceTreatyTruth

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Dr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 20d
The Australian Senate Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate & Energy has published my 75pp submission on the history of fossil capital's systemic global disinformation war via the #AtlasNetwork thinktanks against climate science, policy & clean energy.
www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor...
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lucyham.bsky.social
A piece from Progressive International focused on the embeddedness of Maria Machado, Nobel Prize winner 🙄, in the #AtlasNetwork.
See what Atlas partners have been doing to Venezuela after Chavez challenged Exxon & its profits, and the neoliberal consensus.

progressive.international/wire/2025-12...
PROGRESSIVE INTERNATIONAL POLITICS Atlas Network: Disinformation as a Weapon of Neoliberalism The organization, founded in 1981, has 589 think tanks in 103 countries that finance the hatred and hoaxes of the extreme right. The objective: to protect the privileges of capital owners. Chávez's government sought not only to reduce the profits of an Atlas patron but to challenge the neoliberal consensus itself. For the destabilization operation, the network relied on Cedice, a Venezuelan think tank listed in the ranks of the Atlas Network. Well watered with U.S. funding through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), Cedice led initiatives of all kinds in opposition to Chávez, and even Rocío Guijarro, its president, signed the decree with which the coup d'état of April 2002 was intended to be consolidated. The name of María Corina Machado appears among those attending the swearing-in of the governing board on April 12, 2002, as a result of the coup. She attended as a member of Cedice, but she would soon begin to stand out on her own. In July of that same year, she founded the civil organization Súmate, whose anti-Chávez activities received US backing from its beginning, again via NED. A document from the agency itself shows that Súmate received at least $53,400 directly from the NED in 2003. From that moment on, Machado has been an important figure within the enormous network of Atlas Network. Her name appears in virtually every disinformation campaign aimed at destabilizing Venezuela's political situation, and Atlas, in turn, has fervently promoted her in its events and publications. The connection is explicit and undeniable: in 2014, Machado publicly thanked Atlas Network for its "support and inspiration." More recently, on October 10, 2025, Atlas Network's official account on X celebrated her Nobel Peace Prize win, highlighting its "long professional relationship with Machado, who delivered a speech at the organization's annual Freedom Dinner in 2009."
February 10, 2026 at 5:31 AM
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roycerk2.bsky.social
Can I just say, I'm really loving Ghost. It is such a good platform. Anyone still using Substack should consider moving across. It is pay to play, and it's a different way of working, but the functionality is great and it's so much nicer to use.
February 10, 2026 at 7:06 AM
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openpolicy.bsky.social
Would be great if Transparency International NZ’s chair, Anne Tolley, had published a video like this to accompany their media release on the CPI results.

As @mattnippert.bsky.social writes, the Anti-Corruption Taskforce’s report shows corruption here is real.

www.nzherald.co.nz/business/cor...
February 10, 2026 at 8:14 AM
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davidshoebridge.bsky.social
Antisemitism Envoy admits she 'wasn't focused on' unequal protections in 'hate laws' seeking to protect only one religion. The bias isn't a bug it's a feature.
February 10, 2026 at 7:40 AM
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australiainstitute.org.au
Part one of @Ketanjoshi.co’s new two-part series unpacking the collapsing core case for gas is now live on The Point.

Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/46FVDlL
February 9, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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svetovid.bsky.social
Cartoon: David Rowe
#auspol
February 10, 2026 at 6:38 AM
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bernardchickey.bsky.social
FYI I’ve opened this up for full public reading, listening & sharing after requests from paying subscribers. Their support allows me to do this kind of public interest journalism on Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate & poverty in public. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/why-not-sp...
Why not spend $2.7b on solar & batteries instead?
Govt to pay up to $180m/year or $2.7b over 15 years to lease LNG re-gasification plant, paid for by $15-$30 'levy' per household per year. That $2.7b would build four Benmore Dams worth of electricity
thekaka.substack.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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knitnannassyd.bsky.social
knittingnannas.org/2026/02/09/v...
Vale Heather Goodall
Nannas gathered on Thursday 5 February for the funeral of our dear friend and fellow Knitting Nanna Heather Goodall.
knittingnannas.org
February 9, 2026 at 5:34 AM
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fionakatauskas.bsky.social
Here's a threat of Kudelka Gold
Someone walking in the desert past Uluru and a big sign saying "Here is an No-Effort Zero-Risk Opportunity to be on the Right side of History" person says "no"
February 9, 2026 at 3:54 AM
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a4xrbj1.bsky.social
BYD sold 5,001 vehicles in Australia in January, a staggering 641% increase year-over-year, while Tesla managed just 501, leaving the American automaker in 24th place as Chinese brands continue their takeover of the Australian EV market.

#BYD #Tesla

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BYD outsells Tesla 10-to-1 in Australia as Chinese EVs dominate January sales
BYD sold 5,001 vehicles in Australia in January, a staggering 641% increase year-over-year, while Tesla managed just 501, leaving the...
electrek.co
February 9, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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russelnorman.bsky.social
The Govt claims to be pro-market yet: $200m subsidy for oil exploration; Uncapped subsidies to decommission old oil fields; $1billion subsidy for LNG imports; Fonterra faces zero price for emissions under ETS. There is a pattern here. They are using the state to support and subsidise pollution.
February 9, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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robertarnol.bsky.social
This is what I expect from a politician, fighting for future generations rather than fighting for fossil fuel profits.
Good onya Nick, my shout next time I see you.
February 10, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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peterheadcbe.bsky.social
More than half of the world’s new electric cars are now plugging into Chinese sockets instead of lining up at gas stations. By 2024, it is estimated that China’s EV sales were growing about 40% year on year, even as some Western markets stumbled.

www.ecoticias.com/en/china-sol...
China sold 11 million electric vehicles in one year, leaving less room for the oil it used to buy from Venezuela
But there is a basic question lurking behind the headlines. Who will actually need that oil in the years ahead? For years, China has been one of Venezuela’s
www.ecoticias.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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kentparkskeet.bsky.social
This article, on the federal government Department of Home Affairs site, is titled “About social cohesion”.

It won’t open properly.

My guess is it is currently being edited.

#AusPol
www.homeaffairs.gov.au
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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russelnorman.bsky.social
As is now plain to see the fossil fuel industry controls the NZ Luxon Govt. Not only is Luxon taxing us to pay for an LNG import facility, he is opening the door to taxpayers paying the decommissioning costs of old oil fields. This is the story of how they did it: www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
How oil companies made you pay $300m to clean up their oil field mess (and how they are trying to do it again) - Greenpeace Aotearoa
How oil companies made you pay $300m to clean up their oil field mess (and how they are trying to do it again)
www.greenpeace.org
February 9, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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apauld.bsky.social
“donations from fossil fuel companies should be banned…The decisions that flow from these donations are monstrous. They serve no interest but profit. They will destroy the world through disease and famine and natural disasters.”
#auspol #AtlasNetwork

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22528/...
The case for banning fossil fuel donations
In the grand scheme of things, it’s not much money. This is part of what makes it so sad. The country’s politicians have sold out the climate for little more than a rounding error on projects that wil...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
February 8, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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huiasue.bsky.social
Before government was captured, govts would step in to manage fake news & disinformation that divides and harms a country.
Not anymore, under the guise of the great "free speech" scam, foreign govts & bad operators have free sway now #nzpol #AtlasNetwork #MediaCapture
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
How fake NZ news pages are swamping Facebook with AI slop
Analysis - "Fake NZ news" pages are bombarding social media with misleading slop, including using AI to animate photos of a teenage landslide victim.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 9, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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fishman1167.bsky.social
RIP Jon
... SO I SAID TO THE PM "THE GAS INDUSTRy WILL HAVE VENGEANCE!" AND HE SAID "WORSE THAN ACTIVEL4 BRINGING ABOUT THE CLIMATE APOCALYPSE?* AND TO BE FAIR, HE HAD A POINT
February 9, 2026 at 8:58 AM
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chanda.blacksky.app
This is a really big, terrifying deal 🧪
doctorvive.bsky.social Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 13h
Fearing that educated judges might rule on climate cases, Republican Attorneys General successfully bullied the The Federal Judicial Center (the education & research arm of the federal court system) into removing a chapter summarizing climate science from their scientific judicial reference manual.
In a letter Friday to West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey, the Federal Judicial Center said it had "omitted" the climate science chapter from its latest Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. The removal marks a significant victory for Republican efforts to thwart a raft of climate lawsuits that the fossil fuel industry has warned could cost it billions of dollars. On Friday, the Republican Attorneys General Association congratulated its members on X, writing that the "Federal Judicial Center has announced they are removing ridiculous WOKE climate science from judicial manuals."
February 9, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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jeremywalker.bsky.social
What's changed? Its the same fossil fuel owner's party it ever was. Except now we'll have a super coalition of LNP/PHON and bigger deluge of AI slopaganda with perhaps more explicitly racist themes. That'll bring the mug punters back to the coal party, for sure.
February 9, 2026 at 4:17 AM
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cunexttuesday.wtf
What will we eat when it gets too hot to grow food?

#AusPol
#AusClimate

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
Farmers face $1 million loss after heatwave cooks fruit on the vine
Growers in WA's Gascoyne food bowl have lost an estimated $1 million of fruit, with another heatwave on the way.
www.abc.net.au
January 30, 2026 at 7:28 AM
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michaelmazengarb.bsky.social
I say this as someone who was there, it was pretty clear that the Herzog protest was proceeding peacefully and NSW Police were largely responsible for inflaming conflict with protesters. Initially by the poor way they restricted movement around Town Hall, and then by things like this…
davidshoebridge.bsky.social Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 23h
Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.
February 9, 2026 at 10:21 AM
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allouryesterdays.bsky.social
Barbat would often do two essays per Newsletter. Here we have him taking a look at economics.

The article "the cost of halting the CO2 buildup" will make painful reading. The conversation has not moved about forward very much.

We are not, en masse, the sharpest species.

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CO2 Newsletter Vol. 1. no 3 page 7 The cost of halting the CO2 buildup
February 9, 2026 at 10:54 AM
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allouryesterdays.bsky.social
Between 1979 and 1982 American geologist William Barbat produced 18 issues of the "CO2 Newsletter". 8 pages packed with news, excerpts from recent reports and analysis. Accurate, prescient, heart-breaking.

The third is now released.
pdf and text via here - allouryesterdays.info/2026/02/08/c...

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CO2 Newsletter Vol. 1. no 3 cover
February 9, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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strangerous.bsky.social
David Shoebridge blasts NACC Commr Paul Brereton for yet another conflict of interest investigation after he rejected damning findings against him on Robodebt

Says it’s time govt tap him on the shoulder to say “You’re not helping integrity, you’re not helping the NACC”💥 #auspol
February 9, 2026 at 7:49 AM