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And from the The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (First Folio title: The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar), often abbreviated as Julius Caesar, a history play and tragedy by William Shakespeare first performed in 1599, in which Brutus joins a conspiracy led by Cassius to assassinate Julius Caesar, to prevent him from becoming a tyrant, per courtesy of this X punter @abardseyeview4u..
@abardseyeview4u – while billions are fixated on microeconomy shopping, survival & stuff we do the macro ok – what Paul Joseph Keating called the Big Picture, OK?
“And drive away the vulgar from the streets. So do you too, where you perceive them thick. These growing feathers plucked from Caesar’s wing Will make him fly an ordinary pitch, Who else would soar above the view of men And keep us all in servile fearfulness.”
This is what you see turning on a Microsoft device today: my alma mater Flinders University of SA proudly announced in March they’d turned an entire multi-storey building in Adelaide over to this barbaric geopolitical filth
We have indeed turned the tables – no New Testament Bible story this, it’s the Road to Serfdom NOT for Friedrich Hayek’s ‘Amtrak Joes,’ the pious polite parsimonious middle-income folk behind their desks and counters, but for every one of at least 7 billion so-called ‘semi-skilled’ human beings – the Gates Bannon Harvard University ascendancy.
May the fictive God of infinite androgynous internet wisdom stored in vast sheds draining rivers and fresh water aquifers help you all to corner it, pin it down and destroy it before it does you.
Trust me, I’m an economist whose brain does not whirr – or make tinkling cluncking noises.
JOHN BLUNDELL
Energy Health the Manmade Global Heating Apocalypse 2032 Quantum Relational Non-linear 2 to 5 set Logic the new Neurolinguistics the Mental Overhaul of Neo-classicism in 25 thousand Universities Philosophy of Science
EXHIBIT 1, Your Honot: The offending Eckz Poast Not the North American Lady, damn
Julie Inman Grant is Australia’s eSafety Commissioner. In this role, Julie leads the world’s first government regulatory agency committed to keeping its citizens safer online.
Julie has extensive experience in the non-profit and government sectors and spent two decades working in senior public policy and safety roles in the tech industry at Microsoft, Twitter and Adobe.
The Commissioner’s career began in Washington DC, working in the US Congress and the non-profit sector before taking on a role at Microsoft. Julie’s experience at Microsoft spanned 17 years, serving as one of the company’s first and longest-standing government relations professionals, ultimately in the role of Global Director for Safety and Privacy Policy and Outreach. At Twitter, she set up and drove the company’s policy, safety and philanthropy programs across Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia.
As Commissioner, Julie plays an important global role as Chair of the Child Dignity Alliance’s Technical Working Group and as a Board Member of the WePROTECT Global Alliance. The Commissioner also serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Coalition for Digital SafetyExternal link and on their XR Ecosystem Governance Steering Committee on Building and Defining the Metaverse. Under her leadership, eSafety has joined forces with the White House Gender Policy Council and Government of Denmark on the Global PartnershipExternal link for Action on Gender-Based Harassment and Abuse.
In 2021, Julie oversaw significant increases in the eSafety office’s budget, increased staffing levels and launched the global Safety by Design initiative. As Commissioner, she has led work to stand up novel and world-first regulatory regimes under the new Online Safety Act 2021, with implementation of a sweeping new set of reforms beginning on 23 January 2022. Commissioner Inman Grant was reappointed for a further 5-year term by the Australian Government in January 2022.
The Commissioner was recently named one of Australia’s most influential women by the Australian Financial Review and a leading Australian in Foreign Affairs by the Sydney Morning Herald. In 2020, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Apolitical appointed the Commissioner as one of the #Agile50, the world’s most influential leaders revolutionising government.
The Global Human Project Runs into Stormy Weather, gulp
Ms Pocock is a Greens Party senator for the state of South Australia since the federal election of 21 May 2022.
PwC chief executive Kevin Burrowes says it is time to draw a line under the damaging tax leaks scandal that has plagued the big-four firm, while conceding the task of restoring its tattered reputation will take years.
After a horror period in which PwC was blackballed from lucrative federal government contracts, forced to hive off its 100-partner public sector consulting business for $1 and lost another 200-odd partners, Mr Burrowes said he was confident “enough progress” had been made to begin rebuilding.
“We feel we’re in a good position now to start to turn to a new chapter, look to the future and drive the firm with a new strategy,” he said.
Chief executive Kevin Burrowes says “it’s probably going to take us a couple of years, if not longer” to overhaul PwC. Alex Ellinghausen
“But for the 30-year veteran – parachuted in last year to lead the embattled partnership – risks abound in his aspiration to move on from revelations in The Australian Financial Review that PwC staff used confidential information to help clients sidestep tax laws the firm was helping to make.
“PwC still faces a hostile federal parliament – with all its powers to compel and hold witnesses in contempt, as well as a media megaphone in overdrive – that believes reform efforts to date amount to little more than “superficial commitments to change”.”
WHOOPSIE EVERYONE GEA has been busted not by @X really but by the number-crunching losers of #auspol Canberra Power – yes they call election strategising and criminal time-wasting that.
Mind the polycrisis.
John Blundell
Human & Ecological Health, Micro-Communal-Global Neurolinguistics, 2 to 5 Set Quantum Mathematics, Comprehensive Non-coercive Economic Reform, Philosophy of Science, #EducationForAll, FUTURES
Those men particularly, but certainly not only, ‘in the third box,’ only capable of primary-schooler, mechanical or constructivist ideation due to earlier trauma or developmental delay, incapable of conceptual, macro-scaled critical analysis..
Science is in trouble on every continent affected by corporation-, investor-, financier-, grey-market (derivatives, cryptocurrency, neighborhood level ‘vice,’ drugs and crime)-, and black market (gangsters, drug importation, captive workers, trafficking, child exploitation, military/ regime death camps) -DRIVEN INFLATION with everyone who is angry about wasted public funds and lavishly publicly subsidised and Internal Revenue or national Taxation Office exempted, rebated and rewarded projects that do nothing for economies but nominally deploy tens of thousands of people on commonly tedious, repetitive, regimented if not INANE tasks (more suited to the fast and clever young) – in essentially counting living things, or in the case illustrated below, poisoned moribund things, and uploading terabytes of frankly junk data of no service to the human project but only to the billionaire cabal whereby it persists with an aspirationally ENDLESS FISCAL GROWTH AND ENRICHMENT TRIUMPHALIST IRRELEVANT SCIENCE1 VENTURE FOR ITS ACOLYTES AND SUCK-HOLES in its nefarious business of erasing economy, languages, LIVING culture – or faith and society – for the fun and profit of itself while all around it millions are fraught, injured and killed by ‘want, squalor, disease,’ and my final two of William Beveridge’s 1942 socio-economic catastrophes, idleness and ignorance – these being the unmistakable PRIMARILY-INTENDED SOCIALLY ENGINEERED OUTCOMES of what we ALL glibly and erroneously call artificial intelligence – the genocidal assault by ideologically fascist, ‘totalist,’ ‘Aryan,’ unregulated and dysregulated neoliberal regimes against ALL non Anglo Celtic peoples, all non Christian and non Judaic religious practitioners or adherents – or just those like BILLIONS of us WHO ONCE TOOK SOLACE IN ANCIENT SCRIPTURE, OBSERVATION OR CEREMONY – ALL traditional and First Nations peoples, AND, as we come full circle back to the global economic crisis: SYSTEMATIC ATTACK ON THE INCOME, HOUSING and FOOD SECURITY of ALL MIDDLE-INCOME WORKING householders – manifestly and obviously to any skilled and capable economic planner INTENDED to reach right into the UPPER MIDDLE INCOME households and smash their savings each year ahead..
“Here, we present a AI-based model for predicting chemical toxicity. The model uses transformers to capture toxicity-specific features directly from the chemical structures and deep neural networks to predict effect concentrations. The model showed high predictive performance for all tested organism groups—algae, aquatic invertebrates and fish—and has, in comparison to commonly used QSAR methods, a larger applicability domain and a considerably lower error. When the model was trained on data with multiple effect concentrations (EC50/EC10), the performance was further improved. We conclude that deep learning and transformers have the potential to markedly advance computational prediction of chemical toxicity.”
Energy Neurolinguistics Quantum Relations Health Philosophy of Science Australia🦘🇦🇺
1 I do not include rockets and satellite telemetry in this discussion – by expenditure alone let alone pollution and the generation of millions more tonnes of carbon and other disastrous global heating gases, it steals from the wretched of the Earth (Frantz Fanon 1961 French Algeria specifically) AND EVERY YOUNG FAMILY OTHER THAN THE CHILDREN OF THE RICH – who will inevitably as the world stands this day pay a lethal personal price in any case.
Sarcasm Alert ..this conceivably yet another New Word Order/ Mission Accomplished document to be used as an educational tool for as-yet undecided United States of America and other voters.. In this case it would appear that the company Colossal will be able to complement George Walker Bush’s 2004 saving of the site of the Garden of Eden – the junction of the Tigris and Euprates rivers – with the help of the genocidal Basra assault led by an Australian – for his, Blackwater’s, Haliburton’s et cetera’s children, their children’s children and their children’s children’s children and assist with the loading of a pair of these creatures – or at least a companionable couple in modern-era identity politics terms – and notwithstanding climatic reslience questions activists claim may affect animals from Far East Russia in southern Iraq – so it’s been hot, OK, we get you – onto any ark that hoves into view should the need arise.
“Colossal’s landmark de-extinction project will be the resurrection of the Woolly Mammoth – or more specifically a cold-resistant elephant with all of the core biological traits of the Woolly Mammoth. It will walk like a Woolly Mammoth, look like one, sound like one, but most importantly it will be able to inhabit the same ecosystem previously abandoned by the Mammoth’s extinction.
“AND THIS CORE VALUE CANNOT BE OVERSTATED:
“THE WOOLLY MAMMOTH IS A VITAL DEFENDER OF THE EARTH.”
Readers really should also examine the other offerings of the now equally compartmentally atomised deracinated @NewScientist magazine to get at least some intelligent reckoning of what ecocide-by-default #Science under barking-mad money-tree neoliberal and neofascist governments is about. Its topics today are functionally drivel – which would of course be manageable in the micro, at the level of an individual editor or a board of management personned by Bill Nyes, Sheldon Coopers, Elon Musks, Gyro Gearlooses and perhaps a gaggle of Trumpite podcasters snorting white powder in one back corner and intense United Auto Workers (Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Workers of America & sthn Ontario) in the other, just snorting, perhaps, or at least being indignant in a powerfully impressive fashion – although delighted by Joe Biden’s generous support for the continued mass production of oil & gas driven trucks & autos into the late 2040s.
2) So yes, aNew Scientist magazine1A article follows..
The world just experienced the hottest February on record
“February was the ninth month in a row to set a global heat record, with global average temperatures 1.77°C above the pre-industrial average for the month ..by James Dinneen 7 March 2024
Chile experienced a severe wildfire earlier this yearZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy
“The planet just experienced the hottest February on record, with global average temperature rising 1.77°C above the pre-industrial average for the month, according to a bulletin from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). That makes it the ninth month in a row to set a monthly heat record.
“As remarkable as this might appear, it is not really surprising as the continuous warming of the climate system inevitably leads to new temperature extremes,” said Carlo Buontempo at C3S in a statement.
“Europe saw particularly anomalous heat in February, with average temperatures rising 3.3°C above the monthly average for 1991 to 2020. High temperatures and dry weather also drove fires in North and South America, including the deadliest wildfire in Chile’s history, and conditions were unusually warm across much of the rest of the world’s land masses.
“The ocean heat was even more extreme, with average global sea surface temperature in February edging out August 2023 for the hottest month at sea on record. The average sea surface temperature of 21.09°C recorded on a single day at the end of February was the hottest daily record, and sea ice in both the Arctic and Antarctic was below average.
“Richard Allan at the University of Reading in the UK says the record heat both on land and in the oceans is primarily due to rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, combined with the warming influence of the El Niño climate pattern in the Pacific Ocean. A reduction of reflective aerosols thanks to lower air pollution also contributed to the heat in some places, he says.
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“El Niño, which emerged in June 2023 and helped make last year the hottest on record, is set to weaken and possibly give way to a cooler La Niña by the middle of this year, according to the latest projection by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. But that might not bring immediate respite. Historically, the year following El Niño’s emergence bears the brunt of its heating effects.”
My appreciation to Nature and New Scientist, as you’ll ALL no doubt accept that if information particularly concerning confirmation bias, Dunning-Kruger Effect celebrity-, demagogue-, podcaster- & grifter Vanity-projects, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Egomania, 3rd Century CE Persian Manicheanism, False Equivalence, seemingly interminable Fallacies of Excluded Middles, erroneous belief in the broad, solopsist ratiocination in isolation of more than two or three others, grunting, Oxford Union debating postures, adoption of the Sid James 1960s Carry On film series Laugh,1 denial of the actual weather, tree-biting psycho-affective disorders categories 1 through 27, and – beginning innocently enough with Freudian parapraxes (minor dissequentia, mental crossovers, blanks, jumbles and occasional seniors’ moments) – racing along to that ever socially-awkward Megalomania, chronic repeat (acute) short-term recall-fail AND THEN to weakening peripheral field vision, bodily imbalance, uncoordination, echolalia, palilalia & echopraxia, and sadly on to slurring, discursive solecism laced with and and strung together by variously colorful, turgid and utterly bereft-of-intelligible meaning #ChatGPT or other regenerative cyborg intelligence Doing Words – transitive, intransitive, what the, nouns mostly Capitalised because let’s face it who can feel personally safe in a community or ecosystem of indefinite objects.. of adjectives phrases, clauses and slogans trawled from the A through F grade literature of the Engish speaking people’s since the Venerable Bede and Geoffrey Chaucere at wildly unsustainable expenditure of #energy and mind-blowing literal desertification of millions of hectares of land per fresh water used to stop the vast sheds full of jibbering, speech fail, long sleep, immobility and loss of consciousness, which is, er.. and helping our readers to discover and expose it is not free to all, and openly discussed in private and public spaces, not just to or by our helplessly angrily panicked and dangerously confused global political class operatives, then human society is for the dump by 2032.
We must immediately wind back hard on the burning of fossil fuels and abandon all derivatives market trading for the rich and the corporations designed expressly to excuse the burning of carbonaceous fuels including uranium past the point of global economy collapse, geopolitical chaos, the complete replacement of civil society by gangsterism, unsurviveable ambient heat over week-long periods, repeat ecosystem flooding and eutrophication, vast food crop failure, starvation and slaughters.
Carl Sagan & Anne Druyan
John Blundell
The newNeurolinguistics, 2-5 Set Quantum Relations Logic, Energy & EWEs, Human Health, Philosophy of Science Australia
1 Sarcasm Alert.. Woolly Mammoth and Australian Thylacine or “Tasmanian Devil,’ restoration projects are of course a perfect if heroic fit with the 2004 Basra genocide thus saving the Garden of Eden at the junction of the Tigris & Euprates rivers for George Walker Bush, his children, his children’s children and his children’s children’s children, for Haliburton, Blackwater PMC (Xe Services 2009, Academi 2011), Goldman Sachs, Blackrock and the great American people because with two of each cloned animal there wiil at least be two companionable androgynous or homosexual couples of them able to board a large ark should one be seen to be hoving into view, no? Oh. K-e-v-i-n, I suppose you think that’s Funny! Sorry Mother – stress at work. Bullshit.
2 ‘Pseudoscience’ was a term presented to humanity (I believe – it does not matter ‘who the flying-fish’ first deployed it in undergraduate neoclassical debate, a PhD thesis or an article in The Atlantic for bored idle sexually-agitated affluent worried well: historicism and archivism are now the deadest of public and budget money-burning dead letters and in the presentation of meticulously ordered Harvard Programmed learnings in the deracinated neoliberal post World War II economic sans childhood sans household sans neighbourhood sans geo-community sans region sans country sans ‘planet’ and patently sans environment – Christ help us & الله أكبر – an abomination indeed before God and Mother Nature) in The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, a 1995 book by the astrophysicist Carl Sagan and co-authored by Ann Druyan – his wife. Please catch this interview with her1A if you can.. at least hear Ms Druyan’s morally and emotionally uplifting baseline economic (Blundell, Australia 1995) transactional milieu C2 of the ever sanguine and often joyful collaborative adult couple andhousehold C3 – immediate neighbourhood C4 integration (intergenerational familial) for a mental grasp and common social understanding of the vitality of which we must all thank Australian Englishwoman popular sociology writer and educator Germaine Greer 1970s. Until this, Australian and other literate teenagers were convinced that #Science or medical authorities had proven the old were not only cognitively impaired but socially, politically, economically and ecologically stupid or stupored to boot. – And catastrophically, 50 – 60 years on under rampant neoliberal and gangster Social Darwinist governments, a horrific 90% of all teens think that the only purposes of human life are to feed, fuck, fight, flee if threatened (that is afraid) and flummox (lie, prevaricate, make speeches or rude or silly noises like an ABC comedian, cheat, steal, make stuff up and, would you not know it, dear gentle reader, in the very terms of this essay, bamboozle.
Sagan states that when new ideas are offered for consideration, they should be tested by means of skeptical thinking and should stand up to rigorous questioning.
Themes
Sagan explains that science is not just a body of knowledge, but is a way of thinking. Sagan shows how scientific thinking is both imaginative and disciplined, bringing humans to an understanding of how the universe is, rather than how they wish to perceive it. He says that science works much better than any other system because it has a “built-in error-correcting machine”.[2]: 27 Superstition and pseudoscience get in the way of the ability of many laypersons to appreciate the beauty and benefits of science. Skeptical thinking allows people to construct, understand, reason, and recognize valid and invalid arguments. Wherever possible, there must be independent validation of the concepts whose truth should be proved. He states that reason and logic would succeed once the truth were known. Conclusions emerge from premises, and the acceptability of the premises should not be discounted or accepted because of bias.
Sure, man, what is this large lan(d)-guage models dumbing-down, epidemiological, climatological, post-viral neurodegenerative, middle-income household budgeting, eutrophication of waterways & wetlands, million-hectare farmland fail mycorrhizae, looming food shortages, and mass extinctions of insects, animals, birds, fish, micro marine organisms jeopardy thing?
OK, let me first carefully explain to you that a thing or an object is not an event – say a fire, a flood, a superstorm, a drought or failure of seasonal rains that can halve or quarter a rural area’s subsoil moisture or city’s underground water supplies in only six or seven years with lack of seasonal or annual rainfall and the demands put upon that natural water resource by broad-hectare environmentally toxic chemical agriculture and ever-growing city populations or, say, an epidemic or pandemic (‘everywhere’) of life-threatening disease. Second it now catastrophically appears that the whole of consumer society, with it’s now blindingly obvious penchant for consuming itself legs or tails first like that mediaeval beast you may have seen pictured, from the days of European feudal society regulated only by the fear struck into human hearts by imminent termination of your life, Oliver Cromwell style genocidal slaughter – which of course took ‘care’ of everybody in your community, even your entire region – and the morality fables or cautionary tales of the church.
Genuine upskilling to satisfy the the needs, demands, exigencies and future security of young people everywhere in regions existentially threatened, in the five challenging terms0 of Beveridge 19421 – if we recall that no-one lives with, or may ever be legitimated let alone lionised in, a so-called ‘History’ of ideas, debates or ludicrous pointless public opinion ‘wars’ but by what they do in any given society to act upon and ameliorate if not overturn existential threats to itheir fellows – work that is impossible of achievement or successful completion without personal, interpersonal and community level empowerment and freedom from vilification, assault, violation or killing on account of gender, ethnicity or lifestyle OR a manifestly delusional 3rd Cntry CE Persian division of society into workers & capitalists.’
Up the resolution – Biden should have gone 2 @Specsavers, spouting as he was last night WP EA FER Time utter neoclassical academicideologically liberal nonsense about the (electoral) power of American women to rebuke even reverse ‘the Republicans” – and every evangelical apostolic apocalytic fool in his own party who’s sat by & allowed or even spoken up for what they tragically called ‘God’s Work’ since January 2021, that is to say over three years – on the trashing of women’s reproductive rights and the turning over of their bodies to the control of the global billionaires’ plutocracy, menta grubby old men like himself essentially, in how many states was that again??
How Britain in its toughest days set out to design a successful society2 for itself
The Social Insurance and Allied Services Report of 1942 – two years before Robert Menzies chose to deliver via the Tory Pom Australian Broadcasting Commission Boyer Lectures his plan to win the electoral support of lower income Australians by waging reverse class warfare against people who worked with their hands – to counter a Proletariat – what the hell is that, people spat? Domestically-comfortable White Australians knew, sagely, that the poor would always be with them if they maintained or invented rules which gave them permission to exploit women, the homeless and kids, to systematically suborn them for their fun and profit, frankly – lately, notably in the second half of calendar 2021 introducing economic policy in active partnership with financiers and accountants and fairly clearly on the direct recommendations of the International Monetary Fund to render up to 8 million Australians housing-insecure and thousands more actually homeless. Any talk against this rich old people’s scam or indeed at all contrary to – or even questioning – the country’s runaway norms and fashionable tropes of accelerating family collapse, social mayhem, 11 year-old girls allowing grown men to ‘play’ with them to get some income, ‘fun’ killings and ‘rampant’ epidemic mental illness was clearly seditious trouble-making and, crime-of-invented social crimes, disorderly2 – to be subjected to tough love and acts of rape and brutality within the elastic racist misogynist infantophobic “bounds of permissibility..”3 and public shaming by moral philosophers of the calibre of the Reverend Tim Costello, Clive Palmer, Adam Giles, Larry Anthony and Senators Antic and Birmingham from Adelaide.
Non-nonsense, non- deracinated, non-Make-stuff-up & get people to pay ‘through the nose’ for it and absolutely non ‘AI’, creative writing moves aside gangsters and autocrats and I believe grows intelligent nations. Bring it on. Send me ideas not money ok. Or as I wrote some time ago in the early days of Community Economist at a moment of personal calamity, ‘Not draving, waoning:’ just an amusing way of appealing to public actors to in my father Tom’s words Cut the Cackle – and also signposting the emergence of our truly extraordinary and epoch-marking transactional neurolinguistics twenty years on – to forever eradicate the Hernan Cortes Romance Era Strong Man demagogic and pedagogic performative display ethic – Trumpism.
“William Beveridge (1879-1963) was a social economist who in November 1942 published a report titled, ‘Social Insurance and Allied Services’ that would provide the blueprint for social policy in post-war Britain. Beveridge had been drawn to the idea of remedying social inequality while working for the Toynbee Hall charitable organisation in East London. He saw that philanthropy was simply not sufficient in such circumstances and a coherent government plan would be the only sufficent action. By the outbreak of war, Beveridge found himself working in Whitehall where he was commissioned to lead an inquiry into social services. His vision was to battle against what he called the five giants; idleness, ignorance, disease, squalor and want. His ‘cradle to the grave’ social programme that amongst other proposals called for a free national health service alienated some politicians but it struck a chord with the public and this would influence Clement Atlee’s Labour Government to implement these ideas.
“The Inter-Departmental Committee on Social Insurance and Allied Services, chaired by the economist Sir William Beveridge, was appointed by the coalition government in 1941 to undertake a survey of Britain’s social services. The committee’s report was presented to parliament in November 1942, and proposed a new type of welfare state to banish “want”, provide social insurance “from cradle to grave”, and ensure that the type of social deprivation seen during the pre-Second World War economic depression could not happen again. One of the key assumptions of the Report (‘Assumption B’) was that in the new society there would be a comprehensive national health service available to all. The Beveridge Report received widespread support, and it is seen as the foundation document for the welfare state created by the Labour government of 1945-1951 ..University of Warwick1
“William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge, (born March 5, 1879, Rangpur, India—died March 16, 1963, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England), economist who helped shape Britain’s post-World War II welfare state policies and institutions through his Social Insurance and Allied Services (1942), also known as the Beveridge Report.
Beveridge, the son of a British civil servant in India, was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. More than any other single figure, he brought the welfare state to Britain. His lifelong interest in the causes and cures of unemployment began in 1903 with his appointment as subwarden of Toynbee Hall, a London settlement house. At one of her famous strategic dinner parties, British socialist Beatrice Webb introduced her young protégé, Beveridge, to Winston Churchill. Churchill then invited Beveridge to serve as an adviser to the Board.
“Beveridge continued to serve in government, next as director of Labour Exchanges (1909–16) and later as permanent secretary of the Ministry of Food (1919). He directed the London School of Economics and Political Science from 1919 until 1937, when he was elected master of University College, Oxford. He was knighted in 1919 and was created a baron in 1946 “In Unemployment: A Problem of Industry (1909), Beveridge argued that unemployment was in large measure caused by the organization of industry. His revised views, set forth in Full Employment in a Free Society (1944), were strongly influenced by Keynesianeconomics. Beveridge’s most notable achievement came during World War II, when, at the invitation of the government, he helped work out the blueprints of the new British welfare state. His written works include Insurance for All (1924), British Food Control (1928), Planning Under Socialism (1936), Pillars of Security (1948), Power and Influence (1953), and A Defence of Free Learning (1959).”
..those vanity-project numptie-dumpties in their headbanger BELLE-EPOQUE neoclassical academic Noah’s fu,,,,, Ark mentally-structured Eroica Symphony Neverland have destroyed everything we ever knew, valued or cherished.
What a fine mess (they) got us into (that) time.
John Blundell
Energy Health Public Health New Quantum Mathematics Neurolinguistic Neuroscience Economic Reform Philosophy of Science Australia
A dead suburban beach some molluscs no seagrass for 300 metres out
0 ..in the absurd young children’s story-telling terms of ecologically and intellectually deracinated (ignorant or unaware) 20th century newspapers and 1790s revolutionary European pamphleteers Giants
1 ‘The Beveridge Report’ Modern Records Centre University Library University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom Email: archives@warwick.ac.uk with many thanks and in celebration of your historical discipline, truly inconceivable in my deeply troubled and confused country where a ludicrous majority, perhaps even 75% of quarter-million dollar a year salaried politicians think welfare, public health & social security are addressed by giving the aspirational middle class young financial & tax ‘carrots’ to buy a house, and later another one, and later.. and the rest of it consists in being firm with refugees and lazy people for they are deserving and Our Lord, they go, stopped to help a grubby Palestinian, they go, and they go and we all wish to that or any passing Christ they would, indeed go, and fast
2 Society – 1995 concentric circles economic theory notional & mathematical (by geographical surface area (range) of the domain) C7nation, nation-state, Country
3 ..a literary credit to Sydney author Zeynab Gamieldien 2023 at this moment
4 While I am an extraordinary writer-educator i do hope no readers expect me to explainorderliness in the neuro-cognitively challenged, indeed deranged socially, historically & ecologically alienated minds of all the world’s grandees, pooh-bahs, Indian billionaires, celebrity scientists, ‘stars’ of stage & podcast or the self-aggrandising begin-middle-end kiddie story-tellers cum mishandled chalk screeching on a blackboard tabula rasa child-as-minituarised-adult condescending and patronising to the point of inflicting emotional abuse if not psychological torture rhetorically-flourishing talking heads of mass media – all of them, hello – out there about the non-existent symmetrical ‘universe.’ – Go watch a new-era Brian Cox video or read any of some 5 thousand 280 character messages that appear on my @greeneconomyact formerly 2012 – 21 @wired_we. It’s what i do. I’m a McLuhan, Laing Schumacher Fromm Buber Bohr student who took a lot of encouragement from Yitzhak Rabin before the friends of the US Central Intelligence Agency or FBI (Australia’s AFP) thought differently and hired Yigal Amir to get rid of him, such assassinations running contrary to Rumpole’s ‘golden thread through British justice:’ the presumption of guilt, the Assange Principle. See also the Blundell, Duggan, Boyle, Witness K, McBride, a thousand people across Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan territory, Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan sthn & nthn, and many others on every continent (quite likely including Antarctica) perhaps many many more – for George Walker Bush’s democracy – Silkwood and i have suspected after close reading now for 4 or 5 years in the light of this earth’s ‘plague’ of rampant profligate and ecologically devastating directly as well as by default adolescent moronic rich kids’ Chemistry Set un-thought through nonscience the Professor Carl Sagan Principle – going to the ‘rotten’ core of that phenomenon 99% of journalists are terrified to air – scientism, techno-triumphalism and the post 1961 DD Eisenhower Militarist- Industrialist- Scientist- FINANCIER macroeconomic complex
Genuine upskilling to satisfy the the needs, demands, exigencies and future security of young people everywhere in regions existentially threatened, in the five challenging terms idleness, ignorance, disease, squalor and want now echoing and reverberating in a billion helplessly confused frankly dazed political-class minds – Yes, Veronica, there is an environment and you”re living in it dear so come why not loosen your clothing a little? – Beveridge 19421,2,3,4 – if we recall that no-one lives, with, mentally dwells in or may ever be legitimated let alone lionised in, a so-called History of Ideas, Debates or ludicrous even experientially pointless public opinion ‘Wars,’ but (lives by) what he, she or ‘they’ do in any given society to act upon and ameliorate if not overturn the array of existential threats to its (micro, citizen, resident) members via a mature, vital operational understanding of the life of human society-in-environs expressly, practically, technically and ever-so elephant-in-the-room obviously economically in the two other domains that ideological neoliberal satanic psychopathic- and head-banging Abrahamic religious fundamentalist and genocidal ecocidal totalitarian-propaganda suppresses, oppresses and destroys, the meso scaled geographical community and macro scale tropospheric WORLD5.
.. being a hopefully definitive essay powerfully pitted against 1948 triumphalist (Hey, we survived6) post WWII Oxford Union adolescent upper middle class white-skin debating club historicist fabulists’ both-sidesist nonsense of liberalismon HOW personal, interpersonal and community level empowerment and freedom from vilification, assault, violation or killing on account of your gender, ethnicity or lifestyle would help..
What Happened to Liberalism? Becca Rothfeld speaks with Samuel Moyn about his book Liberalism Against Itself and why liberalism is in crisis.
Becca Rothfeld: The first question I wanted to ask is how to improve liberalism. Despite some misreadings of Liberalism Against Itself as illiberal, it’s very much not an anti-liberal book. It’s a book that’s disappointed with the direction that postwar liberalism has taken, but it’s also cautiously optimistic about the liberal tradition’s ability to redeem itself. Tallying up your objections to Cold War liberalism in the book, I noticed that it was possible to construct a better ideal of postwar liberalism by imagining a sort of mirror image of the failed liberalism you describe. Could you say a little bit about the positive conception of liberalism glinting in the background of the book?
Samuel Moyn: This book is a series of portraits of liberals in the middle of the twentieth century, and I take a pretty deflationary view of the politics that they wrought. I claim that they introduced a rupture in the history of liberalism. I do imply that they’ve left us, at least in part, in our current situation, intellectually and even practically. I don’t know if I would agree that I’m optimistic about liberalism: I would say that there are resources from the past to draw on before Cold War liberalism that could be used to argue for a new liberalism. But I certainly think that we need to give tough love to liberals, not just for their abuse of their own tradition, but also because they seem recurrently incapable of confronting some nagging criticisms of their platform. You’re right that I do suggest (albeit indirectly) some laudatory features of liberalism before it became transmogrified through the Cold War liberals. I’ll mention a few. The first half of the book is about what liberalism was before Cold War liberals abandoned its core motivation—human emancipation. I start out with a chapter on the Enlightenment that defines the epoch through its promotion of emancipation from the ruins of authority and tradition. But a much bigger component of Liberalism Against Itself is the contrast I draw between the self-perfectionism of the Enlightenment and the tolerationism that surged through the careers of more recent liberals like John Rawls. In the beginning, liberals were total perfectionists. They offered a novel, controversial ideal of the highest life, one premised on personal fulfillment through creativity. That’s because the early liberal thinkers were also romantics, were deeply connected to the Romantic movement in literature and philosophy. Another component of early liberalism that should be resuscitated is an ethos of progress. Liberals before the middle of the twentieth century were connected to a sense that history was a forum to achieve emancipation and to construct interesting lives. Agency doesn’t just materialize—the conditions for it must be built. To the early liberals, those conditions aren’t going to appear overnight. There were a lot of reasons in the middle of the twentieth century to give up on progress—certainly the notion of inevitable progress. What I worry about is an overcorrection: that Cold War liberals lost any sense of an uplifting, radiant future to offer through policy, both locally and globally. A truly emancipatory vision for liberalism would involve reversing some of the damage of that pessimistic thinking.
the perspective of these lectures is left Hegelian. It’s not specifically about the welfare state, which I don’t see as—and I don’t think left Hegelians should think of as—the end of history. That being said, you’re right that American liberals are nostalgic for the New Deal or the welfare state that they understand that they didn’t get, and then idealise Denmark or Sweden. There’s no nostalgia for that in these lectures, except insofar as it shows that there were alternative liberalisms. And there’s absolutely no suggestion that we just surgically extract liberalism before the Cold War came and graft it on to our present. But we should rehabilitate some of its impulses and return to some of its thinkers as ways of extricating ourselves from the Cold War syndrome. The significance of the left Hegelian tradition is about a kind of emancipatory statism through the institutionalisation of a free community of equals who are creative agents. That’s what I think liberalism ought to be trying to bring about, which is not at all bureaucratic or technocratic. There’s a very interesting distinction that some have used, like Svetlana Boym, about different forms of nostalgia. The point is not to luxuriate about what came before, but instead to treat the past as a critical resource for getting what we’ve never had. That’s the kind of spirit of these lectures, and I really want to avoid any complacent nostalgia, where the idea is just to go back. The welfare state was eugenic in Sweden and some other countries, and deeply exclusionary everywhere, especially along lines of gender, but also (where it mattered) race. And so, the New Deal was an incredibly compromised project all the way down. It is not a credible starting point, but we do have to have a theory of emancipation through the state and history. The nineteenth century is a better resource for that approach than our politics, call it liberal or socialist or liberal-socialist, than anything we’ve seen in the last few decades.
Oh my giddy aunt – DERACINATED ACADEMIC CHATTER & PhD word, glyph & number castles in the sky may only compound upon themselves and degenerate into drivel and sloganising – definitional postmodernism AND post-structuralism are on display here in one 7 word schpiel, a Brain Teaser of the Australians Waleed Aly & Scott Thompson’s arcane esoteric and frankly nonsensical parlour conversation genre this – my auntie Grace’s 1890’s indeed..
So i did have a great aunt by education and upper middle class socialisation straight out of the Suffragist Movement, the Bloomsbury Set haute couture & haute bourgeois ambience or say La Belle Époque 1871-1914 corresponding with the ending of the Franco-Prussian War (1871) and the beginning of World War I (1914) who made one of Australia’s if not Australia’s first ‘co-educational’ (an epistemologically whiffy and phenomenologically crackers good old Dame Enid Lyons, Dame Edna Everage, Macca the Quacker on Sundaze ‘n John Winston Howard euphemism for inclusive of young women and young men, Young People!) secondary school principals, GA Sanders, Unley HS, Adelaide, birthline unknown to me and of no interest either.
As more people know now, Mr Blundell does history not ancestry.
..those vanity-project numptie-dumpties in their headbanger BELLE-EPOQUE neoclassical academic Noah’s fu..ing Ark mentally-structured Eroica Symphony Neverland have destroyed everything we ever knew, valued or cherished.
What a fine mess (they) got us into (that) time.
John Blundell
Energy Health Public Health New Quantum Mathematics Neurolinguistic Neuroscience Economic Reform Philosophy of Science Australia
5 NOW, all economic theorists will note the C1 (micro-scale) well functioning adult, the C5 (meso-scale) geocommunity notionaly over10 square kilometres of largely fertile land and the C10 (macro and Σ (sum of all things: there are none else in the real economy) troposphere as per ‘Concentric Circles Economics,’ scholar John Blundell, fruitgrower, wholesaler, food manufacturer and retailer whose businesses Blundell Orchards and Organically Grown were smashed by the neofascist Friedmanite state of South Australia, October 1995 (all documents, business documents and other contents of my office and home in the Adelaide Hills were stolen so no record so ask me a couple of pertinent questions as I am sure you all will now that your own lives depend on learning how ‘stuff’ really works in this broken chemically dissolving Ayn Rand Edward Bernays Joseph Stalin Alan Greenspan world (C9 is terrrestrial and oceanic, OK) of theirs
“The Haldane principle seems widely accepted in many parts of the world, but not so much in Australia. It holds that decisions about what to spend research funds on should be made by researchers, rather than politicians.
“It’s a simple principle, really. While the government might determine the rules of the game, it leaves the selection of contestants to those in the know. The sports minister doesn’t pick the Olympic beach volleyball team, for example. The tourism minister doesn’t pick the beach.
“But the distinction seemed lost on shadow science minister Paul Fletcher, who resorted to a well-worn tactic – mockery – when explaining why former education minister Stuart Robert had seen fit to kibosh a paltry 1 per cent of the grants presented for his signature.
“So that Australians can draw their own conclusions, let me just mention the titles of three of the projects which were rejected,” Fletcher told parliament on Tuesday. “‘Spectacles, dress and second-wave feminism in the Philippines’ – that was the first. ‘Queer Tokyo: a cultural history’ was the second. ‘Beauty and ugliness as persuasive tools in changing China’s gender norms’ – that was the third.”
“It’s the pub test argument. Salt of the earth Aussies, who – unlike those ivory tower types, have an MA in common sense – recognise value when they see it. The pub test is often deployed against research proposals in the humanities, less so in STEM. What would your average Aussie Joe, halfway through his third schooner of Kosciuszko Pale Ale, make of a project titled “Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Zirconium Oxide-Crystalline Cerium(IV)Hydrogen Phosphate/ Polybenzimidazole, Polyaniline, Polyindole, Polycarbazole, Nanocomposites”?
“The specific worry is that the treatment of ARC schemes’ funding rules – as legislative instruments subject to disallowance motions – opens the door to new types of intervention and delay, as opposition and cross-benchers haggle, filibuster and road-test speculative clauses banning any project containing the word “queer”.
“There are two reasons not to worry too much about this. One is that all known instances of meddling so far have come from the government, not the opposition or cross-benchers. The other is that the funding guidelines apply as soon as they’re registered – not after the time frame for disallowance motions has run its course – so there’s little risk of added delays.
“The bigger risk is that the opposition reverses these reforms after it finds its way back into government. It surely has principles, but Haldane isn’t one of them.
I could write that if like me you are a person who is utterly riven personally and emotionally by the egregious and frankly monstrous career-ending failure of 21st century science to even TELL the general public what global heating, ecosystem death, pandemics and looming human food shortages are – to even acknowledge the polycrisis but to downplay and lampoon it with the late Prof Carl Sagan’s oil and finance industries’ bamboozle about evolutionary priorities, 3rd century Rome, dinosaurs & ice-cores and in general terabytes on terabytes of historical tosh that can tell us NOTHING even about our own living extant selves let alone any future – AND to be publicly derided in absurd reductionist Piagetian concrete operations (or arrested mental development primary-schooler) terms as being – yourself – though you may well be a world leader in the new operational or cultural branch of neuroscience called neurolinguistics (1), AND the completely innovative integral health, energy, heating & ecology studies, AND the radically overhauled Philosophy of Science fully incorporating religious, cultural, economic and political theory – as ‘anti-science…’
..you would, esteemed reader, just re-print the thing. breathtakingly crackers or was it in Hausfather’s terms gobsmackingly bananas as it may be to give future research funding decisions to either politiciansORTwentieth Century scientists, respecting not harrying hectoring or bullying.. for once as a dogged teacher and explainer leaving the mental task of appraisal-on-the-merits-of-a-presentation entirely in the hands, hearts and heads of your readers..
..ZH was talking heat pumping out of the North Atlantic Ocean 5 – 6 months ago. I include a link here which will help anyone understand a little better what it is the authentic not wildly overpaid Mickey Mouse scientists are doing with theirtime and yourmoney, team:
1. no direct connection with the STRUCTURALIST MIT Noam Chomsky psycholinguistics of the early 1980s but exclusively addressed to human consciousness and NOT AT ALL to 1930s Social Darwinism or vile BF Skinner coercive, manipulative or punitive Behaviour Modification
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‘I gotta say, that’s far and away the most incoherent post I’ve read on Twitter. I can understand why you don’t have the courage to sign your own words. w.’
‘The literate-numerate-articulate-eco-aware of this earth are all learning fast how the other 0.001% live, no?’
Go to Battle Fatiguein Skating Under Thin Ice, WordPress by Willis Esenbach 12 Nov 2023
We clean this filth out – equally the existential apocalypses of Global Heating and Permanent Warfare – or lose the lot by 2032.1
John Blundell
Economy, Health, Philosophy of Science
City of Mount Barker South Australia, electorates of Kavel State and Mayo Federal
1 Blundell 2003, published only by faxed newsletter to representatives of all political parties active in the federal parliament except the ideological fascist environment-hating Far Right, and to all high-circulation newspaper networks due to my straitened circumstances trying to saty alive in a remote gangster-town 800km from Adelaide
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