2018.12.11 Roadkill Momma

Drugs, and money. But there's nothin, I'm gonna do about it. - Ammonia


Show Notes


Quote

"You asked for it, you've got it Drug suspects have no rights at all Property seized and sold before trial Labor camps-on American soil?!? Neo-Nazi bootboys That the cops never seem to arrest Prowl neighborhoods with baseball bats Why now? Why do they get so much press...?"

Jello Biafra & D.O.A., Full Metal Jackoff. 1989.

RIP

The world as we know it

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-11/emissions-credits-kyoto-target-paris-2030-climate-council/10606406

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/05/brutal-news-global-carbon-emissions-jump-to-all-time-high-in-2018

"Australia, the US, Brazil, Russia and Canada" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/31/five-countries-hold-70-of-worlds-last-wildernesses-map-reveals

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07183-6

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/30/australias-east-coast-named-as-deforestation-front-in-wwf-living-planet-report

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-11/health-experts-warn-walgetts-water-too-high-in-salt/10599186

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/may/22/recycling-in-australia-is-dead-in-the-water-three-companies-tackling-our-plastic-addiction

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-09/the-developer-the-whistleblower-and-the-minister-toondah-harbour/10487806

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/11/adani-met-with-environment-department-40-times-in-six-months

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/11/legitimate-zoo-obscure-german-group-endangered-parrots-actp

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-04/eungella-rainforest-future-questioned-by-expert/10578802

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-07/pollution-claimed-1.24-million-lives-in-india-in-2017/10595948

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-12-06/greenland-ice-sheet-melting-accelerating/10581980

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/06/global-warming-extinction-report-the-great-dying

A graph https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07586-5

The actual state of our emissions https://screenshots.firefox.com/cyOEwIkXJu1RltSB/datawrapper.dwcdn.net

But on a brighter note https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/dec/10/tread-softly-because-you-tread-on-23bn-tonnes-of-micro-organisms

Roger https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-10/roger-the-ripped-kangaroo-dies/10599312

F.U.

https://alp.fail/

Stacks

https://www.axios.com/screen-time-nih-study-childhood-development-64779bad-663a-4d8b-94d9-f95dc5959740.html

"In extreme cases, researchers also said that some brain scans of 9- and 10-year-olds who spend more than seven hours a day using electronic devices show a thinning of the brain's cortex,"

Things

Something/someone extremely hopeful https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/12/04/we-have-not-come-here-beg-world-leaders-care-15-year-old-greta-thunberg-tells-cop24

For the Colonel https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/dec/10/first-two-f-35a-jets-to-arrive-in-australia-amid-warning-on-cost

John Howard https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/dec/11/john-howard-says-scott-morrison-can-still-win-election

For the Professor https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-10/tiny-nation-of-niue-wants-to-sue-giant-swedish-foundation/10585120

For the Doc https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-08/mallee-emu-wren-breeding-out-of-sa-extinction/10593932

Games (specifically excluding Chess)

Copa Libertadores https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/46500504 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/08/copa-libertadores-boca-river-argentinian-politics


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