Tag: Regulation

Climate Change

Put a price on pollution or we’ll keep cooking the planet

Is this a call to commoditise carbon pollution? Isn’t it the “regulated” free market that created the fucking problem in the first place? So this is really a call for “more regulation”? So why the illusion that it’s still a free market? Oh, I see  to hide the need for a major change when major change is what’s needed more than ever and on a global and not just local scale.

Placing a value on the environment through formal well-regulated markets is a better way to effect climate action and change the behaviours destroying our planet, writes Mike Berwick.

Source: Put a price on pollution or we’ll keep cooking the planet

Informed Comment

America used to regulate business. Now government subsidises it | Robert Reich | The Guardian

America used to regulate business. Now government subsidises it | Robert Reich | The Guardian

I argued that the government was already engaged in a hidden industrial policy, disguised, for example, as grants to the aerospace and telecom industries by the Department of Defense and to the pharmaceutical industry by the National Institutes of Health. It would be far better to do industrial policy in the open, so that the public could assess what it was paying for and what it was getting in return.

Opponents, which included just about every Republican, were indignant at the very idea that government ought to be “intruding” on their blessed free market.

America used to regulate business. Now government subsidises it | Robert Reich | The Guardian
Truth in Humor, Truth not found in media, Uncategorized

‘Not in my backyard’: Sale of tacos under-regulated in the U.S.

‘Not in my backyard’: Sale of tacos under-regulated in the U.S.

‘Not in my backyard’: Sale of tacos under-regulated in the U.S.

Wow, we really dodged a bullet there!

Well, we put paid to that. We didn’t just restrict the sale of this merchandise. We went right ahead and banned at least 12 French cheeses that were deemed a brazen threat to our general community. In particular, a threat to the safety of our children. Children are precious right?  

Because when things are really dangerous, then sensibly you restrict and regulate it okay?

These cheeses that undermine the very fabric of society, with their delicate harmony of aroma and finely developed bacterial sensibilities, such as Roquefort, Bleu de Gax, Mimolette, Morbier, Camembert de Normandie and Brie de Meaux will no longer be permitted to put our children in grave physical danger as has been consistently proven over many a past decade.

Murdoch Media

How Sky News gets away with pushing conspiracy theories
alan jones miranda devine sky news

How Murdoch regulates Murdoch Sky News is broadcast on Foxtel, the pay TV platform majority owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. As a broadcaster Foxtel must obey a code of practice which is developed by subscription television industry body the Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association (ASTRA). ASTRA might sound like an umbrella group for a wider industry. In reality it appears to be little more than a front for Foxtel and Murdoch interests.

How Sky News gets away with pushing conspiracy theories
Coal, Uncategorized

New Acland coalmine caught drilling illegally at 27 sites – and fined just $3,152 | Environment | The Guardian

A sign at the entrance to the New Acland coalmine

via New Acland coalmine caught drilling illegally at 27 sites – and fined just $3,152 | Environment | The Guardian

Corporate Crime

VW lost the plot. But that’s the danger when business lacks social moorings | Will Hutton | Comment is free | The Guardian

VW’s existential crisis has revealed the weaknesses inherent in western economies. Change must now happen

Source: VW lost the plot. But that’s the danger when business lacks social moorings | Will Hutton | Comment is free | The Guardian

Australian Economy Deregulation

Obama and Pay Day Loans: How do we regulate poverty lending?

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