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Joseph K Bennett

3 years

I wrote a piece for @openDemocracy . It’s about political and economic power, how the fossil fuel industry sustains its position, and how the renewables industry is missing several tricks in fighting back

It’s time for the renewables industry to get dirty

The industry must step up and beat fossil fuels at their own game. Here’s the plan

www.opendemocracy.net

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@sheikyerbouti_ How could you conceivably get this far into a relationship with this little trust. Having a baby is awesome! It’s also terrifying! Didn’t they lean on each other during the pregnancy?? How are they like this

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@SonnyEclipse3 @CaseyHo I’m obviously a food nerd because I’m looking at this and wondering how they can fit all the kitchen elements for those three menus in there.

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@SzMarsupial Oh that’s awesome. There really are clergy who walk the walk

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@neiltaffy @TheTabellion I always wanted to live in a graphic glitch

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@DanMoffTarkin @destroyed4com4t @kittynouveau @TenderBeefsteak Imagine not thinking Dolly Parton has serious pull in the entertainment world Like, that not occurring to you, as an entertainer

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@as_ochpochmak @zei_squirrel That’s the point here isn’t it

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@Christo19455060 @Lord_Sugar It’s losing it’s heritage status because of soulless property developments, to benefit landowning trumpets like you, in the docks areas. Not because of working class people having fun, which Liverpool has always benefited from and created world class culture out of

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@bindelj Is this you, having lunch with Jennifer Lahl of the Heritage Foundation Julie Why were you doing that

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@ioweegian @DougOfBorg @Tina_Marie_CE @ktbass89 @SamuelAAdams Yes exactly. People aren’t f*cking playthings. This bullshit just comes from a decades-long culture of employers being told they’re special little John Galts and encouraging petty losers to act like mall Napoleons

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@SocialistLew “A lot”? Yes this is how money claims are worked out

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@SarahWarsamaXxx @eatongreen Doesn’t make you look very good does it @eatongreen

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@whatsJo @ted_pen I like the new wave of porn bots because at least they’ve stopped liking my tweets

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@pschofie79 We went on our honeymoon to China and took a lesson in the Chengdu school of Chinese cookery, it was awesome, the lady was utterly scathing about our knife skills

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@phil_so_silly I recall Stalin being interviewed and saying he supported the ideals (in terms) but yeah it’s interesting US propaganda can’t even admit equality and common ownership were the real aims (let along good) and def not that they were imperfectly achieved

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@BostonDynamics Does anyone at Boston Dynamics think that they *aren’t* making a weapon to police third world farmers in climate droughts and heatwaves / a superhuman strike-breaker? Because, you are Sorry to break it to you

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@BertW86 @allymayn Facebook radicalisation is, to our parents’ generation, what getting ripped off by door to door scams were to theirs. My grandfather got taken in twice by that sort of thing, because he couldn’t fathom a man from the same valley as him would look him in the eye and lie.

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@VictoriaCoren @jimmycarr Most awful people are personable to people they socialise with and see as peers and equals Victoria, this is not news, or exculpating What sort of a reveal is this? Did you think people expected him to be a nasty in private to the Coren family? Is this a revelation? Why say it?

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@marcusjdl He does genuinely seem to not be fundamentally wicked

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@1Ellingham @bob_bangalore Do you really think this is why food banks have grown by about 5,000% since Gordon Brown left office, because mums aren’t sewing their own kids’ clothes?

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@amphitryoniades @StigAbell @TimesRadio Yet the whole of Fleet Street fell over itself to mock and belittle his correct take and correct predictions. No wonder people hate journalists

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@drmistercody It’s the aesthetic of modern fascism

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Appalling that wind turbines cannot simply be composted, like oil platforms and nuclear fuel can

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One of the drawbacks of #renewables is the difficulty of recycling. For wind power, the blades are particularly controversial. #UnreportedEurope

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@MickGuinn @sentientist The assumptions you’d need to make to get to her conclusion make me feel a bit ill

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@joolsd Pretty much anything other than a plush rabbit’s head

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@SzMarsupial I’m always impressed by religious people who actually do the helping the poor and shunned thing. It’s a shame so many churches seem to be (mostly) exercises in sanctimony, literally the thing most attacked by actual Jesus I mean it’s right there, all through the New Testament

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@C0rpsePimp It’s like if Die Antwoord were Russian. And not mired in unpleasant allegations of grooming and false imprisonment

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@louisafloftus How do you fucking see that photo and side with the robocar?

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@RespectfulMemes This is a great idea for safety actually

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@AScribbledEagle @sentientist Exactly the same as the already existing highly wealthy, which is none at all

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@Otto_English Every word of that is true. Why do you hate free speech, actually don’t tell us, we know

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@GlamourMagUK @pritipatel Please stop indulging this line uncritically. She’s unpopular because she’s a hard right monster. The argument is 100% munira mirza too

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@Farbauti__ @KaelanRamos @bebopnetflix Film, a famously difficult medium in which to control images

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@btmlineman @Victor_M_Short @andraydomise @_BarringtonII No, capitalism means society is controlled by and in the interests of the owners of capital Do you know the phrase “human capital” It is not incompatible with slavery one little bit Others more expert than me on this are also schooling you here

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@HUMBLEBILL @livlost980 @JewishChron It says you’re a convicted paedophile

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@christapeterso Big fashion for white colonists to move there directly as soon as they lost their apartheid states in Africa

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@LukeMonroe1 @1littleBIGMOUTH Before you can object to being run over by a car, you need an MBA in automotive industry, and to be able to mill your own engine parts with a hand lathe

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@leolaughhhhhh @guccisofa They are not going to come for salt and pepper chips and survive

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@irlisrAlliance Oh no. Not SOLIDARITY

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@israel_advocacy Group of early middle aged bovver boys hassling someone’s grandad frankly

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@GlamourMagUK @pritipatel “Oh they don’t like me because I’m a BAME woman and I don’t stay at home meekly and vote Labour” Er no, it’s her long career writing apologia for structural racism and being a vicious hard right operative, the same. This from a party who say they don’t do identity politics

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@EyalLampert @OwenJones84 You should stop being extremely weird about your sexual views about a country

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@IrkthePurists This, and “being in goal”, the idea of which seemed to be to make an unpopular kid with no athletic coordination take the blame for losing if that happened

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@israel_advocacy Dunno guys, what do you think this is proving

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@maxim_k @christapeterso There’s “coming back” and then there’s clearing villages at gunpoint and putting them all on buses to Gaza. So you can live where they were. Isn’t there

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@CassidHouse @ThoughtSlime Yes it’s much more him saying “I’m an old guy now and I came up in the 90s when it was considered less problematic to be offensive for the sake of it. I sometimes struggle a bit to adapt but I don’t actually mind” His comedy is pretty good natured and rly not hateful at all

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@KarenPollock100 @GarySpedding Which one is your favourite genocide Karen

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@BKTrending @ValaAfshar Isn’t that weird? Because I don’t think my country has much use for a robot funk dancer. It would be very interested in an automated way to smash seven bells out of climate protestors though, without making its paid police squads sad or need sick pay

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@meifumaudo @eff_hey What on earth was in the diet

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@kathrynfiona @bustle Lmao my wife knows where I am because I tell her, why would I need an ankle monitor

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@DanMoffTarkin @destroyed4com4t @kittynouveau @TenderBeefsteak You’ve got to wonder what goes through these guys’ minds before they self-immolate like this. What did he think would *happen*?

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@PhilJamesson @shaun_vids I’m very here for it I mean there are millions of stories like this

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@karenglasercopy @JakeWSimons @JewishChron When you were typing this, and indeed living this experience, did you at any point pause and think, does this very kind and tender person have a point here? Like: do you think the universe might be telling you something

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@blewglass Are these European farmers because what they actually do is import grain from Africa and Brazil, throw it at cows in empty fields then pay abattoirs to process it for sale. Every scrap of labour is done in other countries by people with no meaningful choice

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@ComplexPop Genius! Visual Christ metaphors in a totally portentous and ham-fisted way that also isn’t rooted in anything to do with the character, in canon or this film. Why not, it worked so well with Snyder’s Superman amirite

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@goodfriendraf @moleculesofyou They keep proposing to bring it in in Canada for people with chronic but treatable illnesses, who can’t afford the medicine to treat them

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@TradNorm @sentientist I can’t even count the number of serious problems I’ve seen solved by people who sailed through Oxbridge into roles at Bain, Blackrock, Vitol and various opaque political consultancies Which is evidently why there are so few problems left

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@RedIsDead @sannewman Oh hell yes, not the actual fruit pickers

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@stew_rachel Mmmm it’s quite the mystery, do you think it might be connected to this

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@Eli_Edwards Cuba apparently have revolution-sustaining spy groups on every block, whereas I am proud to live in a civilised country where that function is outsourced to a wholly complaint private press

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@mormo_music @greenTetra_ @iris_IGB Nobody said inherently, but the thread in the op is full of libertarians claiming it is axiomatically NOT fascist, which is plainly ahistorical Connected oligarchs get assets, removed from democratic control, and owe the ruling party big. That is a v well worn pattern in fascism

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@ABridgen You mean that club that’s part of the party that you’re in

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@sheikyerbouti_ They really are running according to an internal logic which must be about recruiting, over and above them getting their “goals” which in the read world I assumed included stable fathering relationships, but apparently not

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@MetroRadioNews That has LANDOWNER written all over it

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@InlimboV @itvnews I’m sure reading Austin will help shake him out of his trad misogynist sexual politics

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@aprilguev @edburmila

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@LBC What does this even mean

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@Yeah_ThatBloke @AScribbledEagle @Mc_Heckin_Duff Who was the woman who wrote a 20+ tweet thread about how, subtly, he intended to single out Epstein because he meant to make a quiet threat, set a marker that Jews would be treated differently under him; & he knew other antisemites would notice, & hoped you would too, and so on

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@Aliteraryshadow @extremelysquid @failnaut Let’s go to it woke style, libta er.. libawesomes!

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@GansoDeDefensa

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@jalexanderb @zei_squirrel “Let’s allow entrepreneurs into this system and streamline it for greater added value!!”

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@OdoyleCharlotte @StuffedFantod There aren’t real national interests anymore - there’s the interest of oligarchs, who collaborate with each other, and there’s the interests of everyone else. It’s no surprise that Russian billionaires can work with the GOP - all capitalists will arrange your death for profit.

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@AaronBastani I don’t think people understand the incredible forbearance they demand of Palestinians. I would be signing up in blood after this. It’s broken my mind today

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@InbarCohen13 Sorry to hear you lost another baby killer

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@MPFed Hi Met Police, can you confirm what if anything is illegal about sharing footage of officers “dealing with incidents” please?

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@FeyeraBender I really felt like the major adults in my life functioned mostly to police me and set limits, not so much provide examples. I guess there must have been some rubbing off

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@Black24Payne @OrangeCoSheriff @OCFireRescue They also broke their car in half, apparently

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@paulderokha The issue here is some philosophers were genuinely one in multi generational intellects who worked like devils their entire lives to reach their conclusions. How are you going to work out surplus value in the shower. Dialectics. Materialism

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@guardianworld Didn’t your senior staff unite in the claim that retweeting an interview where someone said this, was the vilest antisemitism

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@richardbranson @Benioff @oceanunite @thebteamhq You own an airline.

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@Jags24Asare No example can be harsh enough when these libertarian perverts take power

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@Ramble_Jack @sporadicalia Always amazed me that longbows were regarded as a huge innovation when regular bows had been around since the Neolithic

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@EmmaBurnell_ Nobody’s saying it’s her “fault”, unless you’d like to provide receipts? The reason people are mentioning her is because her silence is hypocritical, for reasons that should be obvious to any fair observer.

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@EoinHiggins_ Who organised this? It couldn’t be more scornful of working people jfc

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@emilyhewertson That is a totally inappropriate comparison Colonial capitalism is going to kill us all

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@gamergate2077 Being against aeroplanes (correct position but not because of chemtrails)

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@EFDavies “Collaboration” is quite a word to describe joining the SS

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@davidwebbshow @JackPosobiec “Let me help you crop out the parts of the picture that contextualise communists as opposing NAZI GERMANY”

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@MrPostsGood She’s got an ‘olony

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@SamFacto Ship Song, Nick Cave Jolene Fast Car, Tracey Chapman 😭 Sir Psycho Sexy, RHCP City of Angels, Distillers What’s love got to do with it Sitting’ on the dock of the bay, Otis Redding

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@MaryHeglar You mean

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@hkatewilliams I think it’s more the absolutely soaring current-worst-in-world infection numbers, but thanks for the fascinating take

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@SurrealALincoln @SonnyEclipse3 @CaseyHo Hahahahaha yes of course And the salsa tube

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@sheikyerbouti_ I’ve seen the guys who “lead” this idiocy talking to each other and it very much comes over that they don’t like women, not even sexually or physically somehow

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@marykbligee @zei_squirrel

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@ExileGrimm @Gimply32 Well it works for them consistently with US presidents, why wouldn’t the rest of the human world be like that

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@BBCWorld Did that look like clashes to you, because it was a cavalry charge by riot police, on a funeral, in fact

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@Kalpvriksha_ggn @IAM_RShariff @IndianTechGuide How is this inter community racism working for you

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@MrAndyNgo Why aren’t you wearing the same clothes, or in the same room, in any of these photos

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@quendergeer God above these are CORRECT AND BASED REACTIONS

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@aedison Sounds like an unreasonable encroachment on the freedom of drivers (sometimes I think I’m the only person in the country who indicates at roundabouts)

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