89 — Do they know it‘s Cringemas? (feat. Lyndal Rowlands)
Sep 15, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 89
Episode description
We're joined by climate journalist Lyndal Rowlands to discuss New Corp's two-week admission that climate change exists. Then we dig into reality show The Activist, and the weird people behind it.
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- The Drilled Podcast.
- Not Good Enough Episode 77: Care of Duty: Modern Lawfare
- News Corp have said they’ll “champion net zero emissions” (for two weeks).
- This follows a senate inquiry into the Sky News Covid falsities that led to their channel being suspended from Youtube.
- News Corp is responsible for some of the worst climate misinfo in the world.
- The package will be led by Joe Hildebrand.
- But don’t worry, regular commentators like Andrew Bolt won’t be “muzzled”.
- Net zero isn’t the same as real zero.
- Greta Thunberg calls for real zero.
- Santos is just a friend to coffee shops.
- In reality show The Activist, Usher and Nick Jonas’s wife will judge contestants on how good they make solving the world’s problems sound.
- The show is produced in partnership with advocacy group Global Citizen, which was founded by Hugh Evans, the “Melbourne man with A-listers on speed dial”.
- Global Citizen specializes in running benefit concerts, to dubious effect.
- Australia is finally supporting the TRIPs waiver for COVID vaccines.
- The Gates foundation has long opposed any kind of weakening of intellectual property restrictions for vaccines.
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