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@promich.bsky.social
Canadian Swede. Multilateral Civil Servant. Information systems, tech ethics, data science, design research, multimodal mobility, social democracy, climate mitigation, just energy transitions, socio-techno-economic theory enthusiast. Opinions mine.
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The state of nature and #Climate: Where do we stand? Our Director Johan Rockström has been at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik this month, delivering an update on #PlanetaryBoundariesScience & what policymakers should know about #GlobalWarming. 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co5e...
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Israeli soldiers takingnover Palestinian homes in the West Bank after forcing their residents out, and then doing this www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
The BC election results are the culmination of half a century of too-little-too-late reactive urban non-planning, which allowed land-speculators & flippers to suburbanise the Fraser and Okanagan valleys into socially isolated, car-centric, culturally underserved, white-supremacist shitholes. #bcpoli
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So here we have far-right militia attacking protestors and when the protestors defend themselves, the police charges them... Montpellier. These images are crazy and show where France is at regarding its fascist turn.
Les militants fascistes ont attaqués des manifestants rue de la Loge sous les yeux de la police, quand les manifestants ont répliqués, la police a chargé pour les protéger et les miliciens ont frappés les gens à terre ! #Montpellier #24octobre #ViolencesPolicieres @info.gouv.fr
As premier of BC, Eby could suspend their business license today to prevent this tech from being used in the mass slaughter of innocent children and civilians by the genicidal regime. That he instead chooses the coward’s path of silence speaks volumes. #bcpoli
NEW: A Canadian company newly acquired by Israeli arms dealer Elbit Systems has received nearly $1 million in federal grants through the Department of National Defence's "IDEAS" program. www.readthemaple.com/israeli-arms...
The BC office of the RCMP could also choose to enforce the Anti-Terrorism Act and detain the company executives and seize all company assets. www.justice.gc.ca/eng/cj-jp/ns...
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It should be illegal for Israel’s top arms producer to purchase a Canadian company. Elbit Systems is complicit in the genocide of Palestinians. Cancel the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement, enact sanctions and a two-way arms embargo now. www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/ar...
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NEW: A Canadian company newly acquired by Israeli arms dealer Elbit Systems has received nearly $1 million in federal grants through the Department of National Defence's "IDEAS" program. www.readthemaple.com/israeli-arms...
Canadians can only dream of having a corporate news media as pro-science as this. These basic questions are simply never asked in Canada. The level of journalistic self-censorship and extinctionist extremist narrative parroting In Canada is globally unmatched. #cdnpoli #bcpoli
On going ahead with Jackdaw "@zackpolanski.bsky.social.. says this is a betrayal of all of our futures.. do you really think this is the right thing to do?" Miatta Fahnbulleh: "Well look I do.. we have seen that climate change is here.. heat waves, wild fires, drought.. its a pragmatic decision"
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Conservatives propose additional health care privatization in full platform: patients to receive a voucher for a private surgery if waits exceed the benchmark Why not reduce surgical waits in the first place rather than pay 2-3x premium for privatized surgeries? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #bcpoli
Two years ago, the BCNDP ran for re-election with what I assumed would stand as the worst, most hopeless, visionless, economically illiterate campaign in progressive Canadian history – truly an incompetent, incoherent mess for the ages. In 2026, I stand corrected. #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks. Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. https://wapo.st/4yt6dHY
What a lost opportunity. The BCGreens transit plans are weak, vague, unambitious and will do nothing to diminish the daily normalised violence of driver supremacy in BC, nor shift anyone away from forced car dependency. More studies? Shameful and ignorant. #bcpoli bcgreens.ca/wp-content/u...
There isn’t even a timeline for completing the UBC skytrain! So the BCGreens are just recycling the BCNDP’s vague promise from 2 years ago and decades before that. How can all political campaign strategists be THIS incompetent? All they had to do was create a distinction through tiny bit of ambition
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Two months ago Morocco used over 70,000 desperate people to storm Ceuta, triggering a massive humanitarian emergency, and sent warships into Spanish waters yet has received zero sanction by the European Union. www.reuters.com/world/africa...
As if Freedland wasn’t bad enough. The entire staff of the guardian going pro-genocide was not on my scorecard. FFS. Worst timeline ever. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Yeesh. 👀 (Bloomberg) - The most likely long-term outcome of the AI boom will be massive capital destruction in the US, with market share going to cheaper open-source Chinese models, according to Jefferies Financial Group Inc. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
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3 out of 10 Canada Pension Plan board members also serve on boards of oil and gas companies, which Chief Public Affairs Officer Michel Leduc says is “not a conflict of interest.” Last year it made at least $6 billion in new fossil fuel investments and dropped its net zero target.
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The winner of Nobel peace prize doing what the Government of the United Kingdom will not do: calling Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide.
"The last thing I did is the report on Gaza naming what is happening there as genocide. One of the main reactions to that report [was] paying tribute to me for my courage.. why would you need courage to speak the truth?" Navi Pillay upon winning the 2026 Nobel peace prize
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Replying to @samuelhayat.bsky.social
On me demande les sources. 1949 pour le 1er octobre 2026, source ministère. Pour la série, je l'avais collectée pour verifier que le pic d'arrestations des GJ le 8 décembre 2018 (1750 interpells) dépassait la plus grosse journée de mai-juin 68. C'était le record, et il n'a pas été dépassé en 2023.
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Recommended reading: "Renewables are just being added on top of fossil fuels." Wrong comparison. Demand grew 75% since 2005 regardless. Without wind and solar, power sector CO2 in 2025 would have been 28% higher. Excellent analysis by @zekehausfather.com www.theclimatebrink.com/p/what-if-th...
Eby: "We're gonna stand up to the oil & gas companies." How? By gifting them more handouts? Eby couldn't stand up to banker daddy when he demoted BC to a sub-tier province & imposed another pipeline on BC territory on behalf of treason weasel Smith. #bcpoli #VoteBCGreens www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The average Carney bootlicker is now far to the right of the average USian on a host of pressing issues. Let that sink in. #cdnpoli
Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.
Funny how predictably the ‘Zionism is friendly and diverse’ crowd ignores Muslim-hate, never talks about about the kids still being killed everyday in Palestine by Zionists, and how quickly they pivot to the liberal horseshoe theory of the “far-left being as bad as the far-right.” 🤔 Racist fuckwits.
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There's something deeply wrong with white men. If you don't see it, or reflexively seek to defend them, you're part of the problem. #bcpoli thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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Eby’s strategy seems to riding on the fear-based, low info worship of banker daddy, despite Carney demoting BC to a de facto subtier province in his exinctionist axis with racist treason weasel Danielle Smith. It’s not a good strategy. BCians aren’t quite that dumb or cowardly.