by cameron | Mar 18, 2009 | climate change, Podcast
This episode was recorded LIVE on Tuesday March 17, 2009. We have an audience following in a chat room on the G’Day World uStream page and my guests include:
Ian Kath – The Polyamorist
Nick Beaugeard – The Climate Change Skeptic
and
Kate Edwards – The Polyamory Skeptic
by cameron | Mar 18, 2009 | climate change, Uncategorized
George Monbiot’s article today says that climate scientists around the world are mostly in agreement that it’s too late. We’ve squandered any opportunity we might have had in the last decade to mitigate climate change by curbing our CO2 emissions. And last night on G’Day World Live I was *still* debating with Nick Beaugeard about whether or not climate change was caused by humans. The recording of that show, which also features Ian Kath and Kate Edwards discussing polyamory, will be up shortly this morning.
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Quietly in public, loudly in private, climate scientists everywhere
are saying the same thing: it’s over. The years in which more than 2C
of global warming could have been prevented have passed, the
opportunities squandered by denial and delay. On current trajectories
we’ll be lucky to get away with 4C. Mitigation (limiting greenhouse gas
pollution) has failed; now we must adapt to what nature sends our way.
If we can.
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by cameron | Mar 17, 2009 | Uncategorized, Wikileaks
The Australian Government is officially fascist. They have officially stepped way, WAY over the line. There is no way they can justify blacklisting the Wikileaks site on the basis of “protecting the children from pornographers”. This is straight-up abuse of power, as Asher Moses points out in his article on the SMH:
Last week, Reporters Without Borders, in its regular report on enemies of internet freedom, placed Australia on its “watch list” of countries imposing anti-democratic internet restrictions that could open the way for abuses of power and control of information.
I wonder if ACMA considers it illegal to post TinyURLs to banned sites?
I wonder if its illegal to stick up posters on walls with the urls of banned sites?
I wonder if its illegal to stand in the street and speak the name of a banned url out loud?
I wonder if it’s illegal to even think the url of a banned site?
Read more below:
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The Australian communications regulator says it will fine people
who hyperlink to sites on its blacklist, which has been further
expanded to include several pages on the anonymous whistleblower
site Wikileaks.
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Wikileaks was added to the blacklist for publishing a leaked
document containing Denmark’s list of banned websites.
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by cameron | Mar 12, 2009 | Atheism, capitalism, Christianity, free will, geopolitics, israel
I did my first (well, first in a long, long time) GDay World Live show on uStream tonight and it was a lot of fun! Thanks to everyone who joined in. I talked for an hour and forty minutes! WTF!?
I talked about:
Free Will
Why Christianity Is Dangerous
Why Capitalism Is Broken
The Israel – Palestine Conflict
You can watch the whole thing below or download it in FLV format.
http://www.ustream.tv/flash/video/1243094
by cameron | Mar 10, 2009 | Christianity, Cuba, Podcast
They are all featured in today’s show!
On today’s show I just have another little heart-to-heart chat with anyone out there who is still listening. Among other things, I talk about:
The State of TPN’s finances
The threat of marketing spam on Twitter
Obama’s plan for Cuba
Sean Penn’s interviews with Chavez and Raul Castro
Obama’s encourage of stem cell research
Some talk about my book Debunking Christianity For Dummies and why it’s important to debate Christians in public
My review of CS Lewis’ book ‘Mere Christianity‘
by cameron | Feb 19, 2009 | activism, climate change, environment, Podcast
My guest today is Mara Bun, CEO of Green Cross Australia. According to their site:
Green Cross Australia is a new national NGO that works on the frontline of climate change: the human dimension. We anticipate and resolve conflicts over natural resources that put our environment at risk, and we foster sustainable partnerships between business, government and the community. We prepare communities for environmental impacts in Australia and overseas. This ranges from the impact of fires, floods and environmental disasters on Australian cities to the mass displacement of populations due to rising sea levels.
Pretty topical, with the floods in QLD and the fires in VIC. Mara talks about her background (which is an interesting story) and the vision of Green Cross.
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