If you're 🇦🇺, or want to learn how global oil corps (& #AtlasNetwork) shape (inter)national political conditions thru disinfo, lobbying, infiltration of institutions to avoid tax & block democratic govts from preventing planetary heating, & want to support gutsy indi journos: IT'S TIME TO GET SLICK! - ThreadSky

jeremywalker.bsky.social • 3 days ago

If you're 🇦🇺, or want to learn how global oil corps (& #AtlasNetwork) shape (inter)national political conditions thru disinfo, lobbying, infiltration of institutions to avoid tax & block democratic govts from preventing planetary heating, & want to support gutsy indi journos:

IT'S TIME TO GET SLICK!

Reposted from Royce Kurmelovs

Slick's up for an award at the 2025 NSW Literary Awards and there is a People's Choice category. If any of you out there want to support my work, or just want to make an oil executive sad, consider throwing me a vote. Takes two secs and cut off is 7 May: form.typeform.com/to/iRmKIe8U?...

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rlb-21.bsky.social•3 days ago

Similar to the toxic relationship with big coal?

jeremywalker.bsky.social•3 days ago

Of course! It's same polluting beast. Giant oil & gas corps have also owned coal, chemicals & uranium subsidiaries, or own shares or join joint ventures. A current IPA board director (thus responsible for IPA's anti-Voice, pro-nukes, & anti RE content) ran Shell Coal & Chemicals Aust. for decades.

rlb-21.bsky.social•3 days ago

And they have succeeded in buying government favours everywhere - whether capitalist or communist or simple dictatorship. Money always talks.

jeremywalker.bsky.social•3 days ago

@roycerk2.bsky.social's brilliant book cites new smoking-gun primary docs to show #AtlasNetwork's Centre of Independent Studies was est. in 1976 as an anti-Whitlam corporate propaganda org by Atlas founder Antony Fisher & Santos co-founder John Bonython.

Text: Paul Kelly's (1994) End of Certainty_

rlb-21.bsky.social•3 days ago

I love the cartoon. It certainly is still relevant. Maybe if democracies weren't so corrupted by big money, people would be less willing to dump them for autocracies.

jeremywalker.bsky.social•3 days ago

PLEASE READ: its fossil money pushing both the corruption of govt, and demanding corrupt illiberal autocracies, that favour THEM, not us.

Eg. Tony Abbott working to export Viktor Orban's corrupt & repressive model of govt,which bans wind and solar to Aust.

https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/mcs/article/view/8813

jeremywalker.bsky.social•3 days ago

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/go-forth-and-multiply-abbott-calls-for-more-babies-less-migration-at-hungarian-summit/tbvcqf6vg

rlb-21.bsky.social•3 days ago

Certainly, the fossil fuel industry has used its money to push policies that favour them, but there's also the banking industry, the tech industry, the defense industry....

jeremywalker.bsky.social•3 days ago

All of which profit from Big Fossil, have huge energy use. What's the main aim of US military in MENA since Nth African, Gulf & Iranian oil states nationalised & kicked out US/UK oil majors in the 1970s?

CIS board= global fossil finance & consulting.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180213114957/https:/www.cis.org.au/about/board-of-directors/

rlb-21.bsky.social•3 days ago

I gather that, like me, you are very pleased to see the rebuke of the LNC in the election. Dutton's push for nuclear was, in my mind, a way to preserve coal for Gina Rinehart and the coal lobby for an extra 10-12 years waiting while they fiddled with trying to build nuclear power plants.

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