Your World Uncensored Daryl VandenBerg

The world is set to face a food shortage and crisis due to the compounding effects of a war and a pandemic. Meanwhile, several major governments are pushing for fertilizer emissions reductions to tackle climate change. Critics have called the move insane claiming it will ultimately reduce farmers' yields. Lawmakers in the Netherlands are even looking at buying up the land of the farmers that can't meet emissions reduction targets set out by the European Union.  This episode explores the pollution and emissions issues with synthetic fertilizers, and also their necessity in growing the world's food.  

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Dr. and Professor Anne Poelina is Chair of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council, and is working to protect the Fitzroy River from large-scale development. Big agricultural businesses are looking to create a 'food bowl' in the Kimberley Region of West Australia and want to extract massive quantities of water from the Fitzroy River to do so. I talk to Poelina about the concerns Indigenous traditional owners have with industry potentially taking hundreds of gigalitres a year from one of the last strongholds for the endangered saw fish. We  eventually dig into how the hunger for development and economic growth needs to be balanced with Indigenous knowledge and up-to-date, peer-reviewed science. 

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During this episode, we speak to Richard Lue, a Chinese immigrant who lives in Perth, Australia. Lue has been active in pro-democracy and anti-Chinese Communist Party demonstrations and protests. We talk about intimidation from the Chinese government, Hong Kong losing democracy, and the lack of democratic freedoms in mainland China. 

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In this episode of Your World Uncensored, we discuss the plight of international workers during a pandemic with Anu Kaloti, President of the Migrant Workers Association of New Zealand.She says many who have built a life in New Zealand and aren't yet residents are now locked out of the country, with many now isolated from family until the country reopens. We also talk about how migrant workers are now facing further exploitation in the workforce during economic uncertainty, immigration concerns, and those stuck with one employer on a working visa. 

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During this episode, author of Cyberactivism and Citizen Journalism in Egypt: Digital Dissidence and Political Change and Advocacy Director with the Committee to Protect Journalists, Dr. Courtney Radsch, explains some of the threats facing journalism. With espionage and computer hacking charges levied against Wiki Leaks founder Julian Assange, we talk about the precedence his case might set for journalism, whistleblowers and the function of democracy. We also touch on the power of US espionage laws internationally, journalists facing impunity and arrest, and the future of local journalism in the digital age. 

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Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is facing 175 years in prison in the US for his part in exposing alleged US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.In this episode, we're going to look at the state of freedom of the press in the west. We'll look at how stories about police raids and surveillance in Canada and Australia play a part in the state of press freedoms. 

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