I just caught the introduction to the @trthaber bulletin. It’s almost comic with it’s young elegant black-slacks/ jet-black hair/bright pink top with no exposed elbows lady, a big passenger ✈️ dominating the colourful set behind her.. We then turn to the most devastating video reports of #Ukraine you wil see on any television news.
And then we get down to it: #Putin shakes hands with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. What’s next, a report from Afghanistan of the Taliban keeping women and girls in their rightful place?
My point is that we all know so much of what is wrong with paid journalism. Billions of us are in fact suffering depersonalising loss and distress which are only fuelled by the demeaning engineered ethno-tribal #showbiz misrepresentation, dumbing and objectifying all, which is the monstrously delusional stock-in-trade of the global news machine. As I said at the outset here we all know the downside of corrupted journalism many of us so well it truly makes us sick.
So our challenge has to be to ask and answer the question What is effective, contributory, humanised, socially and politically functional journalism?
And here is a starting point, at least one that struck me before I set out to write this article half an hour ago: decent conduct in the public domain, material which grows out of a personal and lifelong commitment to research disciplines and practice..
You know where that goes is to a life of learning and personal emotional growth? Joie de vivre indeed. AND, wait for it: I am/ you are quite possibly Australian: tjukkurpa{1}, If we are lucky & ‘blessed’ enough to know and experience it. In what is in fact the real – not the socially constructed 1970 undergraduate #Functionalist woke/ bespoke/ tribalised identity politics/ virtual relations #Sociology nether-world – there are no talking heads, scripts, slogans, or urgings of contempt, hatred, self-hatred, violation, rape or murderous dismemberment.
Maybe more later… 🥸🙄😳🤓
– No #Econometrics, #marketing demographics, cohorts, sectors, silos or misrepresentations of #economic reality whatever, no Musk, Bezos, Gates, Branson, Rand Paul, Desantis, Gregory Wayne Abbott, John Wayne Olsen, Malcolm Gladwell, #ClimateCentral, #NewYorker, #LATimes, F Scott Fitzgerald, Friedrich Hayek, Alan Greenspan, John Blundell (GB), Milton Friedman or any Billy the Goose anywhere, just authentic relationship & respect for life in its multifarious forms… a work ever in process – for grown-ups leastwise: WE owe nothing to the unselfconscious delights & struggles of youth-culture immediate or ultra short-term gratification of desires a laa the commercial monetarist-greed consumer culture of addictive gustatory/ ingestive/ penetrative pleasure and parallel dementing short-term memory #extinction “Alzheimers” pandemic in all English- Japanese- & European language-speaking language countries except to ensure by every honest genuine effort that children & teenagers may experience the chi, or life-force, that opposes the evils of the twentieth century ruling class political economy.
You mean to say you’ve not seen this particular ECONOMIC truth bomb?
Well really, it was produced at the exact point it became clear to the world that Alok Sharma’s & the appalling John Kerry’s Climate Change Conference, #COP26 had collapsed in turmoil, with #oil-#economy $100US bills wafting down to the conference-floor & grown men behaving like oinkers – 7th November 2021.
Isn’t it strange we’ve not seen it till the next Easter?
Dear people! – You don’t think it strange at all and you know damned-well how this egregious transparent malicious act of censorship was orchestrated and by whom.
– it’s AGH.
No, it’s NOT #climatechange – that is an #adaptation & #resilience slogan straight out of #riyadh, #wallstreet, #elonmusktwitter and the frankly lost demi-science of #Nature- the egregious soon to be fully Friedmanised #genocide/ ecocidal #freedom #arena – with desiccating big trees, thousands of #sky #rockets, disappearing ice caps and warming oceans. It’s AGH – man-made global heating.
It’s the 2032 #shutdown (#worst #casestudy #scenario via #fossilfuels #burners #businessasusual) by negatively* cascading feedback-loop semi- & approaching-exponential (or high r-number) modelling (2003, my own: #community #economist #publications #worldwide, Ceduna South Australia, John
*term not used as it is in 20th century #ecology (see for example George Monbiot on the burgeoning sequelae of #yellowstone #wolves – for a more sobering wolf report look to Ellesmere Island eg) but clearly as the metaphorical downward #spiral. Read multiplying plant & animal extinctions throughout the #foodchain 😕🥲.
Any discussion of adaptive responses to the rapidly unfolding global weather systems, food production, waterways & fisheries management failure that is not firmly premised on a radical reduction in fossil fuels burning not by 2030 but virtually immediately is nothing but a sop to big contractors, global accounting firms and truly #corrupt governments & financiers – yet another multibillion dollar onslaught of Business as Usual.
– Which in my studied opinion (since 2003 in fact when as a progressive economist & pioneer of organic regenerative agriculture I was living in virtual exile in my own land, at Thevenard Far-West South Australia), having upset both the Australian Labor Party and the Liberal Party of Australia in a by-election in May 1992 (with the very same greeneconomyaction.com programs readers honour me by reading about right here) will only reduce one critical indicator by 2030, namely the life expectancy on newborn humans to 45-50 years.
Mr Albanese’s which is to say the public relations firm RepuTech’s 43% reduction in carbon dioxide to atmosphere from #electricity⚡️⚡️production over EIGHT years and even then reliant on bogus credits and nonexistent offsets quantifying vegetation non-clearing (!) and the planting of tiny trees that will not emit more oxygen than they draw in for 8-20 years – if they survive the global disasters of plunging aquifer & sub-soil moisture levels AND disappearing winter rains in temperate regions (around the world) – is literally riot-provoking too, except in Australia, as most countries, the quieter older or more disabled battlers in this time of the.. #COVID are more frightened than ever now & don’t hit the streets is literally riot-provoking too, except the quiet & older or more disabled battlers are more frightened than ever now & don’t hit the streets… Secondary students are cowed & literally harrassed & bullied by authorities, while young singles, couples & parents of all ages who don’t feast off property & investments are in increasing financial hardship and unable to enjoy any time or freedom to protest – on pain of sacking or humiliation by religious or civil society cranks and “cookers” or political madmen.
We are looking at revolutionary & near immediate change of technology – notably to electrify everything as @GriffithSaul, @mcannonbrookes & am sure all renewable energy researchers and #ESG investors would now aver.. and grow more distressed by the day with old economy capital owners who refuse to allow future human and all-species ecological #health.
John Blundell
I’d choose not include the Catholic Church “Holy See” on a list of “legitimate countries..”Its very status as an observer-state, though advocating for no regions or communities within its borders, unlike its fellow Palestine, subverts the superordinate representative-democracy purposes of any viable economy. This church is a global corporation exempt from tax and neither answerable to nor legitimated by any sovereign population. Its claims to represent all humans are flatly contradicted by its history of conquest oppression and the ongoing relegation of female human beings to lives of subordination by men and most obscenely blind insistence on excessive births, which are imposing a stress on the the eutrophying, putrefying, increasingly toxified and polluted global environment in practical day-to-day survival and human health terms to as significant a degree as dangerous as the continuing and even increasing catastrophic pumping of 50 trillion tonnes and more of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and the raft of “greenhouse gases” generated in industrial chemical manufacturing into the earth’s atmosphere.
Concentric-circles Economy (1995, Australia).. the 5 real geographical domains contained by real community (a notional 100squ km), right down to the individual adult thru couple C2 thru household C3 thru neighbourhood C4 to 10squ km + the 4 from regional (say 1000 squ km -10000 squ km) to quadrispheric/ “national”/ C7 to hemispheric/ C8 to terrestrial, polar, oceanic #world C9 – a #food- and #FossilFuels-Kilometres model for economic restructuring.
The energy crisis has been blown out of the water or at least of the ice and snow as the complete man-made trashing of reliable seasonal 10,000 year-old global weather systems takes on its most terrifying presentations in entire recorded human history – 40°C above normal eastern #antarctica #temperatures.
5-6 thousand kilometres due north of that calamity the slow moving east Australian floods (plural, repetitive) from moist warm air in low pressure weather systems that are now taking 5-8 days to move off the coast in an easterly direction with the earth’s rotation. One of the apparent reasons is the slowing of cooling currents northward from the Antarctic coast towards the equator due to the heating of ocean water in conjunction with the shift of “Roaring Forties” weather from the south-west northwards due to the so call SAM or ‘Antarctic Oscillation’ – exactly parallel with the slowing Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation & larger amplitude Jetstream cold air storms like Hurricanes Katrina & Sandy. Antarctica, ever renowned until now for dry air and heavy winter overcast & cloud aerosols…
No comment offered here on any uneconomic project designed to draw public attention away from frankly maniacal vast continuing discharges of carbon dioxide and methane to air – a crime against humanity that has already trashed weather systems that were stable, reliable & safe for life on earth for 10,000 years. Beyond #greenwashing to schmooze & confuse consumers of retail consumer goods for the further enrichment of billionaire-oligarchs such industrial activity shows absolute contempt for #esg and its custodians the United Nations & all the rapidly swelling numbers of capable responsible financiers. At the rotten heart of this ecocidal & incrementally genocidal enterprise is that it is NOT recycling but the proposed pumping of billions of oil-economy old-century trading profits into an all-new carbon-profligate project dependent for its supply of pipelined gases generated by the combustion of #fossilfuels
It is exactly as if the advertising & promotions department of the Gigantic Bomb Corporation has announced that billion-dollar #research results new-in have proved conclusively that Man-made #global #heating was a Greens Party hoax AND that #globalhealth has never been better – their jury is in & it’s all systems go, right??
The urgency of issues arising from the accelerating collapse of ten thousand years of reliable weather-systems demands immediate constructive contributions and input, not publication curlicues or syntactical niceties.
ALL so-called environmental journalism and “climate” retail politics become Foucaultian post-fact nonsenses so siloed & compartmentalised away from ecological reality as to instantly evaporate from any grounded human historical record.
Evanescence & #Microsoft worldwide tourism promotions for rich people become substance in a virtual world, all stories incongenial to the gross accumulation of material and pecuniary wealth quickly fading from view.
These finished published products become absurd documentaries engineered for popular consumption or to keep little children quiet, produced amidst the drumbeats of war as another trillion tonnes of ice, glacier and #albedo liquify, impossible of return and restoration for as long as 400 years, inimical to anthropology, human religions, cultural studies, intelligent non-functionalist, non-ad agency, non-consumer survey, non-focus group, non-romance/ crime/ adventure kiddie narrative sociology & of course all those creatures great & small and “#foreign #races” your #Renaissance public relations and advertising man has a noblesse-oblige duty to
#sciences capture, conquer and suborn to the greater good of pre-1789 European Civilisation.
I passionately hope people discover the importance and immediate value of discarding all the conventions, shibboleths, pomposity and truly bloody-minded lies of Twentieth Century balanced, “values-neutral” & opinionless journalism, monumental fraud against humanity that in my own honest and trenchant opinion it is..
THIS is the proverbial big picture of life on earth – far, far greater levels of awareness about how writers come across to audiences, a steely grip of both macroeconomic AND the macro-ecological realities and readiness at a moment’s notice to acknowledge the ideological antecedents of the human or inhumane psychotic (world denying) values base from which all of our textual & audio-visual product springs – or rather surges & spews on an insanely crowded stage of entirely artificially constructed & confected “values-free,” dispassionate, objective, evidence-anchored, even-handed, impartial “observers” or “#experts” we should all check with before believing in phenomena like #Covid_19, billionaire greed, the Julian calendar or truly #apocalytic man-made #FossilFuels burning carbon-gas induced #global #heating..
And of the course the first thing the global Big 4 accounting firms, Wall St and City of London #EXPERTS & imperious grandly-titled #STEM-ie #FACTS #checkers will do is check with Madison Ave., the likes of Cambridge Analytica 2016, Breitbart, Hunter Biden (you name it – any big money movers), Burston Marsela, Sir Lynton Crosby (who like Andrew Robb began his career as director of the Liberal Party of Australia in Adelaide SA) whereupon at least 75% of professional #journalists paid well because of their obvious union bargaining power in a monetary value- & human values-fractured almost entirely dysfunctional (except for enriching the rich) global consumption, extraction & combustion #economy and liking their money very much will promptly, obediently & increasingly pathetically obey advice to use equivocal or even nonsense terminology like #ClimateChange – or just to be a tiny bit excitable, salacious or provocative keywords like #ClimateCrisis or #ClimateEmergency – believe their audiences are endlessly gullible fools – a clear socio-cultural outcome of #Pentacostal & in fact all #evangelical (crowd-rousing) wealth ministry doctrines. If they don’t hold with this socially-engineered misanthropy their news tycoons and sociopaths like the-world-of-purely-#econometric-values-and-NO-others Koch Brothers will quietly (or noisily in a whackjob podcasters’ celebrity subculture peopled by princes of some medieval realm, #Instagram money-grubbers & second- or third-rate entertainers nobody over 45 with a reasonable liberal education or much self-respect has ever heard of) give the (authentic & decent) journalists the Royal Order of the Boot. It is, as simultaneously tragic & repulsive figure Chris Lorax in Shaun Micallef’s TV show reliably chimes in, “just a bit of fun.”
Stuff like ‘#emergency’ or ‘#crisis,’ segues nicely to the outrageous cock of #resilience & manly/ Buffy vampire-slayer #adaptation. – And on and on this death-machine goes with stoccato ratt-a-tatt-tatt beginning-middle-&-rousing rhetorical end stories lasting 75 to say 180 seconds which are all over & done within 12 hours and if still hanging around 24 hours later, like pesky floods or depressing bushfires for re-doing with
1) a new angle, new faces and ever highly marketable manic google-eyed sermoniacal messages of compassion, hope and love OK?
2) National Geographic/ Economic-geography 101 1970-style @nature yarns about stellar objects, archeology, the pyramids, Incan girl murder by the state, or filler-pieces about the heatwave in Antarctica – or Lytton, Verkhoyansk, or Fort McMurray 2016 which equivocate disgracefully & mindlessly about the contributory causes or flat-out deny, repudiate or censor #Facts – as in Trudeau’s Canada!
3) crazy-arsed oil-economy puff-pieces, thin throwaway pamphlet-, video- or glossy booklet- style promotions like 1980s #business #plans designed to tickle loan finance out of the rich old cognitively-impaired people on bank boards – or in senior positions for goodness’ sake on #ccs (Carbon Capture & Storage), #geoengineering and the global carbon offsets & monetised derivative trading fraud (see #McKinsey&co for example – the Morrison Australian government spent $9 million on their report to take it to the COP26 Glasgow meeting 31/10 -7/11/2021, to humiliate and demean the entire Australian people in the eyes of the world. Zinger.
4) ever more comic book & masculinist penetrative noisy television cartoons made to keep the kiddies quiet (irony? no, more like #domestic #violence)( as we have advised in this journal Australia has a mental-illness & public-acts-expressing-hatred-&-self-hatred bomb no-one apparently knows how to defuse and that we idiotically allow useless psychiatrists to haplessly fuel with psychotropic drugs bereft of real human relationship & post-trauma psychotherapy, group work, fitness & educational recreation programs) to symbolically, literally, patriotically belt out a billion-dollar ‘both-sidesist”/ oh goody a #debate/ balanced reporting/ equal-time for narcissists, sociopaths a-n-d perhaps some other down-home or Mom’s Basement folk so long as the optics are wonky, or the light poor, so they look like donkeys or dills to our bored viewers
5) w-h-o-o-p-s I just accidentally zipped-out the 180+ words in this section: time to knock off for now
This vital discussion as ideological neoliberalism and utter contempt for both humanity and its now terminally (that is to say in significant part irreversibly for at least 350 years) damaged environs must urgently be taken up worldwide with United Nations supervision. In the entire written history of the human race, say 80,000 years there has never been a moment like this, nor the 120,000 years since alligators swam in the Arctic Sea (James Lovelock, A Rough Ride to the Future, May 2014)
It is essentially Friedmanite bogus freedom (penis-waving & arbitrary acts of violation as the tantrumming 4 year-old in a supermarket) wildly and bizarrely transcending post-#Renaissance #neoclassical #Enlightenment #equality and everyone else’s #FreedomToSpeakHonestly on behalf of fake Jean-Jacques Rousseau mock-heroics that is destroying the living once-reliable world about us and as this evil neoliberal oil-economy objective is realised smashing civil society – trying to erase insurrections-against-the-state from #historical record, for example.
In Australia #anarchist #libertarian “cooker” (psycho-emotionally ‘cooked’ – with mental faculties ‘stewed’) agitator halfwits, dickheads & thugs in public life are engaged in coercive conduct and the knowing deliberate incitement of hatred, even violence.
LOVELOCK ON CLIMATE CHANGE
“My main reason for not relaxing into contented retirement is that like most of you I am deeply concerned about the probability of massively harmful climate change and the need to do something about it now.” – Conjectures of an Independent Scientist, a talk at the Geological Society of London, 5th May 2011.
Will write again soon.. Memory of Marshall McLuhan circa 1970
Dedication Flinders University of South Australia School of Social Science 1968-9, Dean Ken Hancock
Billionaire-🙈🙊🙉🐒s with Olivettis 