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Paradigm Shift (4ZZZ FM 102.1) Fridays @ Noon: Paradigm Shift
‘Soldier, we love you’
Welcome to the Paradigm Shift on FM 102.1 4ZZZ Fridays at noon. We challenge the assumptions of our current society, to resist oppression … November 27, 2020 Following on from allegations of war crimes by Australian troops in Afghanistan Ian Interviews: Senator Jordan Steele-Young, Greens Spokesperson for Peace, Disarmament and Veterans’ Affairs; and, Former diplomat, […]
The road that was murdered
Remember how a few years ago, with support from both Labor and the LNP, Brisbane City Council forced dozens of people out of their homes and acquired their land to facilitate the unnecessary and ill-advised widening of Lytton Rd in East Brisbane? Well today, BCC is voting on a motion to sell the remnant land […]
Big boys rules in Afghanistan
“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change” – Giuseppe Di Lampedusa, The Leopard We talk about the Brereton report (released yesterday) into war crimes committed by Australian SAS troops in Afghanistan. We interview academic John Blaxland about the report and Mark Davis, lawyer for prosecuted SAS whistleblower David […]
The American Dream
Paradigm Shift 4ZZZ fm 102.1 Fridays at Noon – November 13, 2020 This week’s Paradigm Shift features a 1965 speech by James Baldwin at the Oxford University Union where he presages the current racial crisis in the US . He accurately predicts the election of a African American President (Obama) almost down to the year […]
Lowering Expectations
Paradigm Shift November 6, 2020 “Lowering expectations of Democracy“ 1. What are our expectations of democracy?2. Qld’s Democracy sausage by Dr John Jiggens3. What now Labor governs? PlaylistAndy Paine – History’s Greatest losersMargaret Roadknight – Girls in our townPeter Hunt – Red RockPeter Hunt – WindowJumping Fences – Yo Vengo a ofrecer mi corazon […]
The union movement tied in with a Labour bureaucracy and the loss of the elections.
The one problem there is is no working class involv(ed) to break away from Union bureaucracy and the Australian Labour Party.
This is going to be a catastrophe.
Whose mine goes ahead?
I think my union (CFMEU) made a major blunder because when (there was) was split over ‘Stop Adani’, a lot of the mining sector support(ed) maintaining jobs in regional Australia and in Far North Queensland. This pressured the Labor Party to make a decision to give the go ahead for the (Adani) mine despite massive resistance on the streets.
The big problem (with the environment movement) was that we needed to get unions onside to realize the mine is not going to be in their interests.
Coal is a dead industry.
As China transitions to renewables (the same with the European Union) there will be no market for Australian coal because when the mine is not (economically) feasible.
Damage will be done … horrific environmental impacts for very short term gain.
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