DOCUMENT IS DEDICATED to the memory of my old man who passed away in 1986¹ when I was State Coordinator for Seniors Week.. You have probably noticed that we do Irony around here as well as Gags and Heavy Shit. There follows a pic of my dad’s 400 year male-line ancestor he as an orphan babe rendered virtually homeless at age 2 1/2 was so emotionally swept up by.. Recquiescat in Pace.

Or in other words it’s good to remember the old people: *THIS DOCUMENT is dedicated to the memory of a rambunctious life, the 14 year-old from O’Neil St Springbank now Panorama who blew his eye out while fishing for a feed with railway detonators (the yarn was it was gelignite but wouldn’t that have been fairly piss-poor gelignite?) in a Sturt Creek rockhole (well no, it must have been gelignite) that used to be up near the Lynton Rlwy Stn Thomas Reginald Pole Blundell who passed away as his first-born was State Co-ordinator for Seniors Week 1986: ironies we do ironies as well as gags proudly patriarchic descendant of the ancient English cardinal pictured below

Essay..

Hello, how are you, a-wha-hoo-hwaaa/ D0-wopp-dooie-dyuw-whopp and the money and job security are fantastic.

[..base funding to the ABC of: $1,061.7 million in 2022-23, $1,083.7 million in 2023-24 and $1,101.3 million in 2024-25. As provision for this funding has already been included in the forward estimates, it has no net budget impact… these June ’23 numbers]

– I published more recent Google Alphabet nuimbers on this journal’s big-sister organ @greeneconomyact (no grinding monkeys or 1960 Olivettis, that’s here) yesterday.

Branding’s such a try-on but once readers (or viewers) get it big-time as you as the Creative have gone and been and done and navigated and craftily negotiated your way right over @TheAtlantic’s Canadian rich people’s chatter-columnist Malcolm Gladwell’s 979 metre-high tipping point waterfall somewhere in Venezuela!

Now imagine you’re nicely refreshed, after a week’s work, of a Saturday morning, listening to a radio station or some podcast

Imagine, however, an SMS app text msg you could not send to anyone at a Contact Us number on any webpage belonging to, say, a billion-dollar per annum spectacularly responsive broadcasting organisation. Do you recall when the term INTERACTIVE emerged as prime branding for commercial talkback radio stations, say in 1997. This was probably, or at least notionally – and academically neoclassical notions, euphemisms, false equivalences and seriously bad metaphors are are all we are allowed to communicate with in Biden’s, Putin’s, Sunak’s, Trudeau’s, Bolsonaro’s (so make a note), Xi Jinping’s & Bilbo Baggins’ – the Australian dude’s – neoliberal universe, right? – and now with the rise and rise of e-comms provider fascist propaganda and USSR-style censorship – what’s next is 1930s show-trials – you knew that) the greatest early Internet era porky of them all – and the competition amongst those solecisms is truly gruesome – like bodily torture – Christ have Mercy for its now millions of real victims and all of our love, personal attention and the transcendent mental power of revenge also figuratively sent to Muslim Kashmiris this morning 24/12/2023 – for any serious scholar of cultural linguistics and neurolinguistics – ever listening to the voices of selected groups of affluent Australian people including woke/ bespoke/ is-it-a-joke? identity politics lobbies supposedly of the ideological left though all of them from the Red Cross Salvos and RFDS through to WWF Greenpeace and the ACF are run as procedurally hidebound closed shops and actual antagonists of free, open and participatory public engagement – exactly on the Them & Us angry exclusive tribal mental dualist binary lines of the political parties operating in state and federal legislative chambers (parliaments) building or rather amassing the crude and violating power, obscene prestige and preposterous wealth of their obedient if not bovine members to the exclusion of all other interests including monstrously, those of women, teenagers and children as entire statistical classes of human person became exactly as ecosystems local regional quadrispheric and global in that they do not merit inclusion¹, being statiscally too complex and derivative algorythms derived from derivative algorhyms too haptic, erratic, sectional and unreliable – and the only way out for the deracinated postmodern social computing nutter, oh, expert, is to render all his (typically his/ What is Patriarchy/ What is Pederasty) the Harvard, MIT, Chicago, @PwC @McKinsey @EYnews @KPMG @MSFTMechanics @Apple @GoogleAI @CambridgeEcon global neoliberal human deskilling orgy, enjoying favour, largesse and lavish tax deductibility: the now beleaguered, broken and wildly thrashing about if not completely out-of-control Australian post World War II USA military alliance’s busted political class…

Sure these people in Adelaide South Australia have a text & phone number that I could have called had I made the requisite note, but what am I, a fan of this lot or an internationally-read journalist with vastly bigger 🐠 🐟 🎣 to fry?

So it’s Good Morning – we’re always polite and formal in Adelaide well we better class of well-to-do white persons are – veteran Australian Broadcasting Corporation Rural “Division” 1960 Norman Bourlag toxic synthetic chemicals in food & fibre production scalliwag John Lamb!

“You say banànas but I’d say banánas, neither of which behgins to explain the assault upon all life on earth and upon the geophysical integrity and stability of the material troposphere by excessive solar radiation ☢️

“And there’s an interconnection there with chemical nitrogen as you say – air is zany stuff containing zippy zingy waves rays & sunbeams⚡️⚡️ ⚡️as well as chemical gas particles 🌩⛈🌤🌧☁️, right?

“As an aside that is not so much an aside as an urgent message to the entire human race & species – to get into total tropospheric ecology for “surviving” – or some gravely diminished muddling along or “sustainable” agriculture purposes you probably haven’t heard that 7-10 km up (I think it is) our upper level Ozone protection from direct solar ☢️ has AGAIN been damaged, this time by smoke from Canada.. which is ALSO blackening the terrestrial albedo – this is what Global Heating scholars call cryosphere (white ice and snow that fabulously refelect millions – it may be billions, the METRICS here are not my special area of study although the global current systems certainly are – of kilowatts of energy right across NE Canada 🍁and onward eastward.. Gulp.

“People will ‘pshaw’ that it was a cool mild summer, so what are these awful @Greens coming out with now!? Mischievous bastards – or as the leader of once-was Her Majesty’s Loyal South Australin Opposition Mr David Spiers so sagely suggested ten days (November) ago they’re lucky this is not Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: they could get their heads chopped off, he said. Passers by were naturally agog and quickened their pace a little – so as not to attract police attention. The bloke, Spiers, is, like nearly all of the leading lights of the broadcasting corporation since 1932 a Pom. Goodness me.

Great scientific discovery – indeed the world’s best – of (very) late 2023 – earth is the product of paleolthic chemistry, molecular biology and wave-particle physics but you can’t be there, OK? ..https://global.oup.com/academic/product/gaia-9780198784883?cc=us

Acute readers – and I truly joyfully celebrate with you all our healing learning and growing compassionate intelligent grip on reality troth sentient, inert and thermodynamic together with a dramatically renewed and expanded awareness of historical method or historical lines of HUMAN enquiry – will only glean in the following THE ACTUAL YEAR of Gaia’s presentation to us all.

“Published in 1979, Gaia offered a radically new hypothesis: the Earth, Lovelock argued, is a living entity. Together, the planet and all its separate living organisms form a single self-regulating body, sustaining life and helping it evolve through time. Lovelock sees humans as no more special than other elements of the planet, railing against the once widely-held belief that the good of mankind is the only thing that matters.” (@Routledge – kindly see hyperlinks below²)

You’d wonder and well you might how any clustering of human society urban, rural, remote or heroic – Example Primo Gaza City · مدينة غزة ; Gaza Strip · قطاع غزة ; European Gaza Hospital · مستشفى غزة الأ…could not only ignore but utterly waste and burn 45 years – a precious two human generations – for Ayn Rand – Alan Greenspan – Milton Friedman fascist polemics and its motive driver namely Machiavellian raison-d’etat colonial gross accumulation.

“This packer’s best-quality Washington Navel oranges have hard tight skins presently: Jumaluk Fruit Packers, wholesaler in Waikerie SA..”

– So as you and I well know, ABC “Rural” dude, 2 factors ALWAYS go to 3 & all that adds up to 5 in the real world 🌞🌱🐇😀. That’s #science – publicists & charlatans say a lot about it, pay lip-service to it by uttering the word three or four times daily in June 2023 but frankly don’t give a flying f… for our diligent highly professional practice of it – which in my opinion is a TRULY MONSTROUS crime against humanity.

“Stay well old bloke – and absolutely terminate your participation in that 20th century proudly South Australian evil project to search out, destroy and kill the authentic organic, biodynamic and regenerative primary producers of this country – what’s left of the bastard now.

John Blundell

Economist, Sociologist, Neurolinguistics and NEW New Genuine Quantum Logic Post Ancient Maths scholar, Philosopher of Science

Blundell Orchards 1986¹ – 1999

²so now reduced (though dialectically expanded to the grinding, grating, globally enervating yet conveniently inaudible to the biddable neuroplastic ever willing for a fight, a fuck, a feed or possibly putting a Brave Face on ignominious defeat and resorting to flight Homeric Supply Side consumer with a pumped credit or debit card dancing to the literally inconceivable incomprehensible countless terabyes – petabytes? – frankly demented Gyro Gearloose George Jetson Information Economy entrepreneurs’ tune as colourful swirly things these jerks say represent forecast weather

³ Critical Thinking & Study Skills Study Skills Environmental Studies Human Geography Critical Theory Critical Thinking Literary/Critical Theory Critical Theory General Psychology Psychological Science Behavioral Sciences Education Environment and Sustainability Geography Continental Philosophy Philosophy Humanities Literature Language & Literature Political Theory Politics & International Relations

Where can you find spectacularly honest barbs like ‘flunkies’ in the Bill Gates and Akshata Murthy era? And as the greatest journalists in history have not screamed at us or delivered anodyne deadpan reports with nasal Walter Cronkite accents (perhaps shedding an “Oh look he’s not completely wooden, mechanical or robotic” tear, or choking up, just a little, in such a manly fashion, upon the death of John Fitzgerald Kennedy¹ – oh look, the guy’s got a hard exterior and cuts it with the best the American Century can serve up at him but “obviously” if not “absolutely” has a heart of gold) but delivered swingeing/ excoriating lines exquisitely laying out (for the ever-thoughtful, fascinated and above all other humanised relational transactional considerations engaged – if not charmed like a fan-boy or -girl – reader) the psychological and cultural apotropaic ideational sequence² Fence ..Security Barrier ..Wall. Or to be reminded of good old Harris Tottle’s advices on public-spirited explication and effective teaching or leading forward – no, not how to play a crowd/ win friends & influence people/ feed ‘lambs’ or kill fatted calves for good old Uncle Jesus (every time he sneezes we all come down with a lethal novel upper respiratory tract infection, such were the toimes, aaarrgh) finding out the existing means of persuasion.

Yes I keep going back to my Robert Fisk. A word of suggestion dear reader here: if you’ve not already, get https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_War_for_Civilisation. If like me you read chunks of it when it was first published, then you might want to get the book out again. To briefly jump from the micro-content to the macro “WTF-is-human-civilisation-supposed-to-be-about” processual, reflective intelligent grown-up demands placed on all thoughtful people by acts of genocide by fascist governments please get some Robert Fisk.. deceased 12/10/2020 St Vincents Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.

I am delighted to reproduce this 2007 piece for The Independent because it represents a blunt yet high-order professionally crafted acerbic fearless journalism that has obviously died in the arse all over the world this century and was in my opinion rarely if ever seen in Australia after World War II at all..

And if it was written as for example with some of Wilfred Burchett’s epochal work, it was never widely read anyway because the dead hand of sycophantic Amerophile Marshall Plan & Lend Lease authoritarianism pumped up by Christian fundamentalist frenzy and fear of ‘World Government.’ – whatever the hell that may have meant to Hugh Morgan, the Anglican Archdiocese of Sydney and the Wool Board – in the style now raised to a Harvard programmed learning & dislearning art form by the vast electronics communications and accountancy firms and finance houses with their Manichaean economic AND social policy strangleholds on five continents got it siloed off, marginalised and censored.

The Independent 23rd June 2007..

Robert Fisk

“I supppose that astonishment is not the word for it. Stupefaction comes to mind. I simply could not believe my ears in Beiruit when a phone call told me that Lord Blair of Kut-al-Amara was going to create ‘Palestine.’ I checked the date. No, it was not 1 April – but I remain overwhelmed that this vain, deceitful man, this proven liar, a trumped-up lawyer who has the blood of thousands of Arab men, women and children on his hands, is really contemplating being ‘our’ Middle East envoy.

“Can this really be true? I had always assumed that Balfour, Sykes and Picot were the epitome of Middle East hubris. But Blair? That this ex-prime minister, this man who took his country into the sands of Iraq, should actually believe that he had a role in the region – he whose own ridiculous envoy, Lord Levy, made so many secret trips there to no avail – is now going to sully his hands (and, I fear, our lives) in the world’s last colonial war, is simply overwhelming.

“Of, course, he’ll be in touch with Mahmoud Abbas, will talk endlessly about ‘moderates;’ and we’ll have to listen to him pontificating about morality, how he’s absolutely and completely confident that he’s doing the right thing (and this, remember, is the same man who postponed a ceasefire in Lebanon last year in order to share George Bush’s forlorn hope of an Israeli victory over Hizballah) in bringing peace to the Middle East…

“Not once – ever – has he apologised. Not once has he said he was sorry for what he did in our name. Yet Blair actually believes – in what must be a record acty of self-indulgence for a man who cooked up thje fake evidence of Iraq’s ‘weapons of mass destruction’ – that he can do good in the middle East. For here is a man who is totally discredited in the region – a politician who has signally failed in everything he ever tried to do in the Middle East – now believing that he is the right man to lead the Quartet to patch up ‘Palestine.’ In the hunt for quislings to do our bidding – ie. accept even less of Mandate Palestine than Arafat would stomach – I suppose Blair has his uses. His unique blend of ruthlessness and dishonesty will no doubt go down quite well with our local Arab dictators.

“And I have a suspicion – always assuming this extraordinary story is not untrue – tha Blair will be able to tour around Damascus, even Tehran, in his hunt for ‘peace,’ thus paving the way for an American exit strategy in Iraq. But ‘Palestine?’ The Palestinians held elections – real, copper-bottomed ones, the democratic variety – and Hamas won. But Blair will presumably not be able to talk to Hamas. He’ll need to talk only to Abbas’s flunkies, to negotiate with an administration described so accurately this week by my old colleague Rami Khoury as ‘a government without imagination.’

“The Americans are talking – and here I am quoting the State Department spokesman, Sean McCormack – about an envoy who can work ‘with the Palestinians in the Palestinian system’ to develop institutions for a ‘well-governed state.’ Oh yes, I can see how that would appeal to Lord Blair. He likes well-governed states, lots of ‘terror laws,’ plenty of security – though I’m still a bit puzzled about what the ‘Palestinian system’ is meant to be. It was James Wolfensohn who was originally ‘our’ Middle East envoy, a former World Bank president who left in frustration because he could neither reconstruct gaza nor work with a ‘peace process’ that was being eroded with every new Jewish settlemnet and every Qassam rocket fired into Israel. Does Blair think he can do better? What honied words will we hear?

“I bet he doesn’t mention the Israeli wall which is taking so much extra land from the Palestinians. It will be a ‘security barrier’ or a ‘fence’ (like the famous Berlin ‘fence’ which was actually called a ‘security barrier’ by those generous East German Vopo cops at the time). There will be appeals for restraint on all sides, endless calls for ‘moderation,’ none at all for justice. And IOsrael likes Lord Blair. Indeed, Blair’s slippery use of language is likely to appeal to Ehud Olmert, whose government continues to take Arab land as he awaits a Palestinian with whom he can ‘negotiate,’ Mahmoud abbas now having the prestige of a rabbit after his forces were crushed in Gaza. Which of ‘Palestine’s’ two prime ministers will Blair talk to? Why, the one with a collar and tie, of course, who works for Mr Abbas, who will demand more ‘security,’ tougher laws, less democracy.

“Once, our favourite trouble-shooter was James Baker – who worked for George W.’s father until the israelis got tired of him – and before that we had a whole list of UN secretary generals who visited the region, frowned and warned of serious consequences if peace did not come soon. I recall another man with Blair’s pomposity, a certain Kurt Waldheim, who – no longer the UN’s boss – actually believed he could be an ‘envoy’ for peace in thye Middle East, despite his wartime career as an intelligence officer for the Wehrmacht’s Army Group ‘E.’ His visits – especially to the late King Hussein – came to nothing, of course. But Waldheim’s ability to draw a curtain over his wartime past does have one thing in common with Blair. For Waldheim steadfastly, pointedly, repeatedly, refused to acknowledge – ever – that he had done anything wrong. Now who does that remind you of?”

John Blundell.. Philosophy of Science, Economy, Human History South Australia 🇦🇺 🦘

Gaza – Translation and Meaning in All English Arabic Terms Dictionary ; Gaza City · مدينة غزة ; Gaza Strip · قطاع غزة ; European Gaza Hospital · مستشفى غزة الأ…

¹ ..and for many decades on a generation of now old people acculturated by movie & television screen dementedly – or at least like socially, culturally and ecologically unhinged mathematics enthusiasts – chatter about where they were geo-located at a certain time on 22/11/1963, was it?

² YES, it’s my little pride & joy in neurolinguistics & quantum (interrelational 3-5 set series) maths trom way back in 1999 sequentia, everyon’e key now to not only explaining Self Other & world about them but of course also the only effective or even sensible schema and methodology for short-term recall dysfunction diagnosis, management and healing in fact since the days prior to TWENTIETH Century leucotomy (for Christ’s sake), lobotomy and Electro-convulsive Therapy, 15th Century European phrenology and the days of when-the-fuck-ever ancient Egyptians chiselling out neat carpenter’s squares^2A of human skull

^2A ever the grandiose study of mechanomporphic symmetrical operations, even recognising constructionism as a mere phase in human intellectual evolution, as we did in the Michel Foucault period 25 – 35 years ago, yet nary a moment’s reflection on Sir Isaac Newton’s perturbations, Sigmund Freud’s parapraxes or Adam Smith’s, and Milton Friedman’s, belated thoughts about rampant free-marketism and the ideology of neoliberalism 200 years after him – no doubt cribbed, he and @Harvard’s Michael Porter being @BBC Talks or @Google Technology Engineering & Design-style ‘look-at-me’ commercial-for-profit publicists of the late 19th Century English and East Coast USA neoclassical Fact & Value studies conducted along historical lines ilk

..this is a bunch of notes really. At this truly awful moment in post-feudal heraldic geopolitical history when we have plagues of diseases old & new, food insecurity/ starvation, a global engineered literary AND scientific deskilling DUMBDOWN and the monumental assault not any longer on low income people (they’re all broke mostly displaced) but now with the aid of fancy apps and artificial “intelligence” troll-botting the middle class – except of course for its upper echelons for they are the people who OWN the so-called Information Economy, who make & break governments, the new untouchables and frankly halfwitted virtual knuckle-dragging ahistoric influencers or performing artists (you what? Seriously??) AND AN ECOLOGICAL COLLAPSE THAT NO NEWSPAPER OR TV NEWS EDITOR EVEN GRASPS for Christ’s loving sake.

..who even in his or her or their right minds even wants to know about geopolitics – or is able to dutifully watch, zombie-like (are the poor sods?) this Greed Lust Laziness Ambition & Manly Thrusting Sinophobe Islamophobe geopolitics shit anyway? Who can watch it? Or the speech of B Netanyahu, his zombie-warriors and mesamphetamine or cocaine-inflamed copywriters??

THE OLD MANDATES,, Under the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, Britain and France, the principal victors of the First World War, received mandates from the league of Nations to govern most of the Levant. The British were given Palestine, Transjordan and Iraq; the French received Syria (and initially, northern Iraq). The French government tore off the south-west corner of Syria and created the state of ‘Greater Lebanon’. Robert Fisk lived in Beirut from 1976,^[25] remaining throughout the Lebanese Civil War. He was one of the first Western journalists to report on the Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon,^[26] as well as the Hama Massacre in Syria.^[27] His book on the Lebanese conflict, Pity the Nation, was published in 1990.

Please also see the second part of this essay: Robert Fisk: From Beirut to Damascus, published by the Euro-Gulf Information Centre

1. Robert Fisk writing for The Independent, 5th March 2005..

“I’m sure this applies to the old Afghan Airlines jets when they were flying under the Taliban. Back in 1997, I was on my way to Afghanistan – to see Osama bin Laden, no less – and could only find a flight to Jalalabad from the old Trucial state of Sharjah, a home for pariah aircraft like the old Boeing 727 that was waiting for me on the runway. On boarding, however, I found that only the first row of seats remained in place. The rest of the aircraft was taken up by large wooden boxes containing ‘mechanical imports,’ according to the crew, each heavy crate chained to the floor of the plane. Even more trouble was the forward lavatory. For only minutes after takeoff, the door opened of its own accord and a dark tide of sewage slowly washed over our shoes and then surged down the cabin. I didn’t feel like an in-flight meal. I was sitting next to two Afghans, the second of whom – vastly bearded to abide by the Taliban’s tonsorial rules – was dressed only in jeans and an open-necked shirt and who kept glaring at me while squeezing and resqueezing a large and very dirty oil rag in his left hand. Over Kandahar, we flew into heavy turbulence, the plane bucking about, the chains clanking as the wooden boxes tried to move across the cabin, the tide of sewage revisiting us from the forward lavatory. It was at this point that the purserarrived at my seat. ‘Mr Fisk, you are our only passenger and you have no need to worry about safety,’ he said. ‘You see, you have the honour to be sitting’ – and here he pointed at the bearded hostile figure at my left – ‘next to our senior flight engineer.’ “

[A dubaious tale indeed – imagine sitting next to an industrious @IPCC_CH researcher in December 2023! Anway that was fun so here’s one more from the same ‘Independent’ article..]

“It began when I endured a crash landing at Tehran airport just after the Islamic revolution. The front wheel failed to emerge from its pod before landing – for aerobuffs, it was a Boeing 737, but Iran was now under @UN sanctions – and the plane came down with the biggest bang i have ever heard in my life. No lives were lost. But almost immediately afterwards, the fuselage filled with thick clouds of blue smoke, which – I realised after a few seconds – was every terrified passenger lighting cigarettes at the same moment. I returned to Beiruit with the worst case of flying fear in the history of the world.

“Fortunately, I knew every pilot then working for Lebanon’s Middle East Airlines – they were flying the mighty old 707s in those civil war days – and one of them immediately told me to turn up next morning for a series of Boeing test flights out of Beiruit airport in stormy weather. He sat me down behind his pilot seat on the flight deck, poured me a huge glass of champagne, strappped earphones onto my head and took off into the kind of turbulence seen only in the movie The Day After Tomorrow. He flew the empty airliner over the desolate, frothing Mediterranean, turned around, landed on runway 1 – 18, took off again into the storm, landed and went on and on – each takeoff accompanied by another glass of champagne – until, after 14 take-offs and landings, I was giggling like a baby. I never lost my fear of flying – but I no longer believed I would die every time I boarded a plane.

“Deep down, of course, like almost everyone I know, I don’t believe in powered flight. I simply do not accept that it is natural to tie oneself to a seat in in a metal tube and hurl oneself into the sky at 500 miles per hour for seven hours, with or without a gin and tonic. And I have come to realise that I employ my old friend, the suspension of disbelief.”

[And here the lesson seems to be the ubiquitous post WWI and particularly II American alpha male big noisy machines BF Skinner CIA operation.. er, Operant Conditioning behaviour modification procedure commonly called ‘If you’ve got them by the balls their hearts & minds soon follow’ no but hang on it’s obviously the flipside in this instance ‘Give them pleasure and they’re yours for a song.’ STUDENTS may like to work up an exciting #ChatGPT report feeding in the big binary Pleasure-pain (war-peace, black-white, donkeys-elephants, love-hate et cetera AND 20th century United States of America Foreign Policy. You may include red, yellow and brown people in the read-out, OK? I feel better now.]

2. Robert Fisk: From Beirut to Damascus by Romy Haber

Robert Fisk (71), a veteran Middle East reporter and author, died on 30 October 2020 in Dublin after a suspected stroke. Fisk was considered an expert on the troubled and dangerous region of the Middle East. He was famous, notably, for his work on Lebanon’s wars encapsulated in his famous book Pity the Nation (1990) and interviews with Al Qaeda’s Osama bin Laden. His works served the anti-war movements and he won accolades for his fierce critic of US foreign affairs in the Middle East. For many in the media sector a journalist-hero has been lost. However, many in the Middle East remember him differently.   

Fisk, having been brought in by Edward Said’s Orientalism had, similarly, the tendency to elevate pan-Arabist and pan-Islamist concerns above those of the Middle East’s many minority communities. His book, Pity the Nation — much praised by Western journalists — especially in the pre-internet era, does not impress Lebanese readers. It stands accused of whitewashing the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO), while taking a tougher stand on Lebanese Maronites:

​‘The Maronites brought the war down on their own heads. The first event of the civil war was a massacre of Palestinians by a group of phalangists trying to win power.’

This statement shifts the blame to Maronites, who did not want their country to turn into a playground for foreign militias and guerrilla warfare and who were tired of being harassed at checkpoints by Palestinian militiamen in their own country. A few hours before the massacre Fisk was referring to, the PLO tried to kill Christian leader, Pierre Gemayel, but failed and instead they killed two civilians and two Kataeb members.

​Fisk’s historical accounting was often accompanied by derogatory remarks and he had no problem calling an ethno-religious group ‘stupid’ or even justify their killing. In one remark, Fisk said ‘Is it any wonder that the Hezbollah headbangers now want to kill them all?’ In reference to the Maronite Christian minority in Lebanon. Defending and downplaying the killing of a minority (Maronite in this case) by a terrorist organisation is never ethical, even if it was meant to be sarcastic.

‘…suppose Robert Fisk had written the truth about the Islamic militancy? which is now at work in Lebanon: would he have been able to reside comfortably in the Iranian capital? Suppose he had, over the years, writing the truth about the Syrian occupation: would he have been able to claim that special expertise which attaches – he hastens to inform us – to those who can travel freely ‘North of Baalbek’ (i.e. into the zone occupied for the past ten years by Syria)? Or suppose he had written the truth about the Palestinians, whose lawless cohorts roamed the countryside of Lebanon, tormenting Shi’ite and Christian alike, and driving thousands from their homes, long before the Israeli invasion: would he have been able to enjoy the comfort, along with so many other Western correspondents, of a West Beirut hotel owned by Palestinians?’

What Fisk called ‘getting close to the truth’ usually meant getting close to authoritarian regimes and their intelligence services. However, whitewashing the Syrian government’s massacres in Darayya, Eastern Ghouta, Douma and Khan Sheikhoun was the match to the powder keg and he denied some of the most heinous war crimes of the 21st century.

​Of course, speaking ill of the dead is not the right path. Fisk made some very important contributions to unpacking some of the more pressing issues that grip the Middle East. He worked hard and acted as a source of inspiration for many people in the region—not least the Palestinians. So, despite the controversies, Fisk was an influential correspondent and it is a shame that his track-record is speckled and his legacy is tainted. While it is better to remember people for their positive achievements, since journalists write the first draft of history, it is history itself that judges them and on this Fisk’s work needs to be understood.

Romy Haber, undated

John BLUNDELL

Economy, Human Health, 2-5 set Maths, the new Neurolinguistics, Philosophy of Science

South Australia 14th December 2023

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My Introduction..

I have found to my mild alarm¹ as a neurolinguistics scholar and indeed as any ana-ngu yet to grasp and relish a second cup of black coffee this morning in Sthn Australia that shalom is an acronym. So now i understand the nitty-gritty oh how it’s come to pass that i as a highly professsional journalist went from being a subscriber to both @Guardian and @GuardianAus five years ago to a dismissive non-reader for weeks on end in 2023. As a student I picked up a copy of.. TPoL and never read it beyond page 20 or nipped to its final chapter either, in which I am informed by Barnes & Noble (a defunct 20th century bookshop chain that no longer offers friendship only stuff) Wolff provides here an examination of four concepts central to liberal political concerns: Liberty, Tolerance, Loyalty, and Power. We need, Wolff states, an ideal of society more exalted than the mere acceptance of opposed interests and diverse customs. We need, moreover, a new philosophy of community, and in his last chapter Wolff undertakes to outline the first steps toward such a philosophy.. damn, I missed that..

And on second thoughts am inordinately if not ‘over-the-moon’ glad I did.

Anyway, scholars, a greeting – in Arabic salām (سَلاَم), Maltese sliem, Hebrew Shalom ( שָׁלוֹם‎), Ge’ez sälam (ሰላም), Syriac šlama (pronounced Shlama, or Shlomo in the Western Syriac …¹

John

Your Chunk of Historic Text:

“But even Professor Bain, friend and biographer of Mill, commented incredulously, ‘he leads us to suppose that the relations of men and women betweeen themselves may work upon a purely voluntary principle.’

“23 years after Mill’s death, Frederic Harrison, the distinguished positivist, in an appreciation of Mill in The Nineteenth Century (September 1896), appeared to find difficulty in restraining himself on this painful subject: ‘The subjection of women is a mere historical sophism in itself. The remedy proposed to cure it is rank moral and social anarchy.’

“- The prolonged and frequently bitter struggle finally overcame all resistance; and the main aims were attained. The right of women to compete with men in virtually every form of employment not exclusively dependent on physical strength is no longer a matter of serious controversy. Nor is there need to speculate what might be achieved by women given equality of opportunity in education. the facts are there for all to see. Mill’s book has dated by the very success of his arguments. This part of the book, trite though it may now seem, remains an eloquent testimony to the climate of opinion ion which Mill was required to argue. That he in no wise exaggerated the power and prejudice of contemporary masculinity is evidenced by the anonymous Blackwood’s reviewer:

“Mill was obviously touching a hypersensitive nerve. Why was this? At one level, the explanation is obvious enough. Much of Mill’s argument demonstrates the potential equality of women with men in vocational and professional terms in order to open the gates of employment to them on the same terms as men. This side of the case led directly in the political field to the whole suffragette campaign. The prolonged and frequently bitter struggle finally overcame all resistance; and the main aims were attained. The right of women to compete with men in virtually every form of employment not exclusively dependent on physical strength is no longer a metter of serious controversy.. Nor is there need to speculate what might be achieved by women given equality of opportunity in education.The facts are there for all to see. Mill’s book has dated by the very success of his arguments. This part of the book, trite though it may now seem, remains an eloquent testimony to the climate of opinion in which Mill was required to argue. That he in no wise exaggerated the power and prejudice of contemporary masculinity is evidenced by the anonymous Blackwood’s reviewer:

“In the world, as we and all mankind that has preceded us have known it, women under no conceivable circumstances can have the law on their side but by the permission of men’; therefore they seem to us to act wisely by owning the natural law of subordination, and submitting to ‘subjection’ as a Bible word… ( Blackwood’s Magazine July-Dec 1869)

“Mill’s choice of title was deliberate and went to the heart of his subject. He was not just discoursing upon the ancient theme of the attributes of the sexual category. He did not believe that the blanket label of sex was used to conceal and stifle at birth the richness and diversity of human creativity. But he was also challenging at the deepest level the very notion of ‘woman,’ in her social and personal roles. Frederic Harrison was right, when he noted:

“The Subjection of Women, however, is not a simple sermon against male arrogance. It is a systematic effort to recast the whole form of our domestic, social, and political life, and, as such, it must be judged.

“The Blackwood’s reviewer clearly thought he had disposed of the matter by observing: ‘He exactly corresponds to the lunatic who has proved logically that all th e rest of the world was insane. It is nothing to him that mankind from the beginning has seen the matter in another light.’

“The reviewer was right in grasping the extreme radicalism of Mill’s position. Doubtless there is also a strong prima facie case of error where a man claims to be the only member of the regiment who is in step; although, if the rule were infallible, no advance in human knowledge or ethical understanding would ever have been possible. Mill had in fact made a profound and revolutionary discovery at the heart of our society. The force of the resistance he touched off only confirms this. But the implications of what Mill had grasped went deeper than even he realised.

“The insight was weakened by its polemical force. To make an impression on such a stolid wall of prejudice, it was necessary to evoke strong emotions. It became a dearly cherished Magna Charta which young girls kept under their pillows for years to come in many parts of the world. But the polemic gets in the way of the vision. The institution of contemporary marriage, which is his real subject, he dissects admirably up to a point. But beyond that point he cannot go because of his emotional commitment, the parti pris [prejudice] of a modern Galahad taking up the cudgels on behalf of an outraged class of people, viz. one half of the human species. No doubt social therapy required a militant attempt to break through the armoury of male arrogance. But the temptation is to overlook the complicity of the other sex; and thus to fail to see that the real problem is a cultural one in which both sexes are corrupted in different but equally crippling ways.

“The book’s strength lies in its awareness that the quality of the marital relationship has effects which ramify into every aspect of the life of society. The thesis is that the the existing marital relationship is one of subordination of the female to the male; that such a relationship is morally indefensible; that this moral defect is the fons et origo of all the moral deficiencies of the greater society; and that until it is remedied and put on a basis of completee equality, it will be vain to look for any appreciable measure of human advancement in other spheres. ‘We have had the morality of submission, and the morality of chivalry andgenerosity; the time is now come for the morality of justice.’ Existing sexual relations are an anachronistic survival in a society whose needs are no longer met. The consequences of this relationship are then traced for the male, the female and the children of the union.

“The portrait of the male in particular is exceptionally well done, wholly convincing, and the unflattering verisimilitude of the portrait so near to the bone that few male readers could have failed to recognise something of themselves. This itself would explain some of the hostility the book aroused. Mill drew fron life; the portrait is of the bourgeois Victorian male. The lot of women delivererd over to that large number of men who are ‘little higher than brutes’ is a conjecture that evokes in him a scarcely represssed shudder. This aspect of the question, touching on unplumbed depths of human misery, strikes him as so appalling as to require no further argument. He proceeds to dissect the more subtle effects of bourgeois marriage upon the males of the society in which he himself was nurtured. Here he could speak from first-hand knowledge.

“No doubt there are families which exemplify the ideal to which the institution is supposed to conform. But such families, working by the light of sympathy and self-forgetfulness, are rare exceptions. Much oftener the pattern of family life stems from the fact that the husband is the linchpin of the institution³.”

The Last Bit:

..just a note about economy: in live economics or the study of transactions from individual out to geo-community in the micro we refer to adult individuals and social formations couple household, neighbourhoods and communities organisations and their trading in this context, and not to neoclassical authorities, institutions, halls of government, corridors of rhetorical power, our central premise being, after VG Childe 1951, that oekomene is household, repository, situation and context of the fundamental careful parsimony and Household Management – now irreversibly irreparably exploded or imploded scarce material and human resources of David Ricardo’s 1840 nether-world of upper middle class liesuring, pleasuring and spouting gibberisch to declare it to be art, science or diplomacy – of literally domestic affairs, which in turn may never be no more than a poor metaphor for regional, national, quadrispheric, hemispheric or international affairs and relations.

JOHN BLUNDELL nlgstx, qntm logic, economy, human health & philosophy of 21C #Science

Australia

So try locking me up again NOW Mr Police Commisssioner

¹ .. ‘dismay’s way too strong a word as the acronymisation of science, culture and society has been yea-close to top-dead-centre in MY economic sociology for 54 years

² Arabic: As-salāmu ʻalaykum (السلام عليكم) is used to greet others and is an Arabic equivalent of ‘hello’. The appropriate response to such a greeting is “and uponyou be peace” (wa-ʻalaykum as-salām).

³ ..the body of this essay being extracts from The Subjection of Women, 1869, in RV Sampson, Equality and Power, 1965 Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, Sampson also the author of Progress in the Age of Reason, the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day Harvard UP 1956 ,, I now add for the predilactation or whatever it was in the world of Lady Ottoline Morells, Oprah Winfreys, Jerry Springers, Rhett Butlers, Judge Judys, Doctor Phils, Barbara Streisands, James Stewarts, Doris Days, Diana Dors’es (born Diana Mary Fluck; 23 October 1931 – 4 May 1984), Hattie Jacques’es, Norma Jean Bakers, Neil Diamonds or indeed any or all of the post 1871 LBE Euro-american haute-bourgeois shitfuckery a note about Mill’s chick: “In marriage the claims Mill unconsciously made for himself were in marked contrast to the unquestioned subservience he demanded of his wife. Although we do not know a great deal about Harriet Burrows, her lot as Mrs Mill could not have ben very different from the role so brilliantly portrayed by Robert Graves of Mary Powell as ‘wife to Mr Milton.’ She is tempered. The most serious criticism Francis Place permitted himself to make was that she was ‘not a little vain of her person, and would be thought to be still a girl.’ Mrs Grote’s contemptuous reference in a letter to Lady Amberley tells us more about Mrs Grote and incidentally James Mill than it does about Mrs Mill. ‘He married a stupid woman – a housemaid of a woman & left off caring for her & treated her as his squ..“ ..Jesus f…ing wept is this script for the 2024 Shaun Micallef show? By’ee.

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“Near-term climate prediction is one of the Grand Challenges of the World Climate Research Program (14). There have also been other significant efforts in this domain, for instance, with the subseasonal to seasonal (S2S) prediction project (15, 16). But, in many cases, numerical modeling still does, and also might continue to, leave vulnerable societies with insufficient warning time ahead of climate phenomena.”

Josef Ludescher josef.ludescher@pik-potsdam.de, Maria Martin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1443-0891 josef.ludescher@pik-potsdam.de, NiklasBoers https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1239-9034, +9, and Hans JoachimSchellnhuberAuthors Info & Affiliations

Edited by Michael E. Mann, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, and approved October 6, 2021 (received for review February 27, 2020)

November 15, 2021

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“Network theory, as emerging from complex systems science, can provide critical predictive power for mitigating the global warming crisis and other societal challenges. Here we discuss the main differences of this approach to classical numerical modeling and highlight several cases where the network approach substantially improved the prediction of high-impact phenomena: 1) El Niño events, 2) droughts in the central Amazon, 3) extreme rainfall in the eastern Central Andes, 4) the Indian summer monsoon, and 5) extreme stratospheric polar vortex states that influence the occurrence of wintertime cold spells in northern Eurasia. In this perspective, we argue that network-based approaches can gainfully complement numerical modeling.

“If societies are able to anticipate disruptive events, they can take measures to save thousands of lives and to avoid billions of economic costs (1–5). A most evident, globally disruptive event is certainly the current COVID-19 pandemic. Even though it seems impossible to accurately predict the emergence of such a virus itself, the pandemic bears several characteristics that are also shared by other disruptions: The general risk of something like this happening was known before, but economic and societal preparations to limit harmful impacts are strongly dependent on a credible, science-based warning, preferably with significant time before the event or at least before its full unfolding (the spreading, in the case of a virus) and with specifications of foreseeable impacts. Such a warning is not always possible, but there are promising new avenues. Here, we describe our perspective on this research challenge from the point of view of network theory and its usefulness for better understanding and for forecasting specific climate phenomena.

“Relevant climate phenomena that have the potential to produce major disruptions in societies are, for instance, the El Niño phenomenon, the Indian summer monsoon, and extreme weather patterns like persistent heat waves, cold spells, or rainstorms as associated with stalling planetary Rossby waves (6). For instance, a popular saying in India—that the “true finance minister” is the monsoon—is based on the fact that water resources are vital for India, where the rural economy accounts for about 45% of GDP (7). El Niño occurrences are well known for their global impacts on weather patterns and therefore societies. Floods and heatwaves, especially concurring with droughts, directly affect humans and nature, and can wreak havoc in agriculture. Beyond the climate system, highly challenging events of a disruptive nature are large-magnitude earthquakes, outbreaks of epidemics, and, on the individual level, physiological disasters like heart attacks. These phenomena often emerge with little precursory signal or no warning time at all, making effective adaptation challenging, if not impossible. The pertinent lack of predictive power, however, is not surprising, since most of those high-impact events are generated by complex systems composed of many nonlinearly interacting entities.

“In the case of weather and climate, forecasting relies predominantly on numerical models (8). Starting with Richardson (9) in the 1920s, it has been a long way to the first successful prediction (10) in 1950 and, eventually, to the highly sophisticated general circulation and Earth system models of today (11). These simulators rely on initial conditions (especially for weather forecasts, i.e., the prediction of atmospheric dynamics for up to 2 wk) and boundary conditions (which are more relevant for seasonal and longer-ranging forecasts, involving slower climate components like the oceans) and deliver very good forecasts for a broad range of physical quantities. However, their predictive power for certain climate phenomena beyond the weather timescale can be rather limited: The dependence on precise initial and boundary conditions and the necessity to simplify, inherent to any modeling approach, as well as the chaotic nature of the system under study will hit hard limits to further improvement (12, 13).

“Despite multiple efforts toward seamless prediction, a gap remains in prediction skill between the subseasonal weather forecast and seasonal and longer climate predictions. Near-term climate prediction is one of the Grand Challenges of the World Climate Research Program (14). There have also been other significant efforts in this domain, for instance, with the subseasonal to seasonal (S2S) prediction project (15, 16). But, in many cases, numerical modeling still does, and also might continue to, leave vulnerable societies with insufficient warning time ahead of climate phenomena, within as well as outside of the above mentioned gap: There are types of climate phenomena that still notoriously elude reliable long-term forecasting through numerical modeling. For five specific climate phenomena examples discussed below, network theory has led to (in some cases) considerably earlier forecasts compared to state-of-the-art operational forecasts (SI Appendix, Table S1).

Here we argue that the predictability limitations of existing operational forecasts are partly due to the basic intention of numerical models: the goal of faithfully mirroring the local nature of direct interactions in the physical world. However, the models are not perfect mimicries of nature. Processes, for example, turbulence, are not resolved at all or only at a possibly insufficient resolution, and tuned parametrizations have to be employed (17). In particular, teleconnections present in observational data may be not well represented or even absent within numerical models. Thus, identifying and then analyzing the evolution of teleconnections with time can provide an additional avenue to predicting large-scale climate phenomena. The beginnings of this promising avenue can be traced back to Sir Gilbert Walker (18) in the early 20th century, when he first noticed teleconnections, and has now gained a new and much broader perspective through the advent of complex network analyses.

“Here we suggest that the evolving interactions (manifesting, e.g., via correlations) between different and often rather distant locations can provide new insights and serve as predictors for a large variety of climate phenomena. The philosophy behind this approach is that, even in a simple system, composed, for instance, of two coupled nonlinear oscillators, one will observe aleatoric behavior providing very limited information when measuring the motion of each oscillator individually. However, when evaluating the coupling between them, for example, via synchronization [as already detected in the 17th century by Christiaan Huygens (19)], one will obtain new and valuable information about the system (20). Analogously, while one might not necessarily extract useful information from measurements of single locations on the globe, the links, for example, the interactions between the sites and their evolution in time, can provide, as in the examples below, critical novel information for forecasting.”//

My thanks to @wired4weldWordPress – that my old, 2014 to 2021, moniker for this now extraordinary global leadership blog greeneconomyaction.com – for enabling us to take an old document November 15 2021 and put it out fully referenced, indexed and ‘identifiered’ for readers’ own study purposes.

As a serious scholar and not a goggle-eyed consumer of the memes, tat and bog-splurt of narcissist narrative from populists, demagogues, schoolboys (nothing against them: I once was one), shills, grifters, the sub-optimally socially (non fiscal non sugar-high non oxytocin-² soaked transactional relationship-builder) intelligent and above all (or in the vertical dimension below-all as sentient ADULT life-forms go) the raging undiagnosed and untreated sociopath “influencers” (many evidently psychopathic BUT ALL OVERWHELMINGLY TEDIOUS & IRKSOME to the well-loved and self-respecting teenager or adult) in a neurocogitive state of arrested at the pre-formal operations,¹ or the pre Critical Thinking, psycho-emotional development stage of all of our precious lives catastrophically been persuaded, even, convinced in their hundreds of millions around the world that we want their putrid self-obsessive scrafed-up junk information to flood into our day-to-day internet working apps – mine’s of course @X – you knew that – when NOT ONE OF THESE PEOPLE LET ALONE THE NON-PERSON TROLLBOTS OF COURSE ever reads our careful and indeed loving replies or pleas for sanity, let alone human dignity and decency – and lately I’ve had to burn TWENTY MINUTES a day on this toxic sludge – most of it pro “green” – oh yarda yarda see mean ‘n nasty John’s flying fist – oh you missed it.

If any of us is seriously preening ourselves about membership of the publishing industry – any branch, form or format – at this moment in the history of the human race, then he. she and indeed they if there’s more than one of them are set to have their faces collide with any number of fists, at the head of the queue of lively bidders and punters their own teenaged or adult kids.

I’ll leave you with the Michael Mann’s³ weather forecasting stuff. Mother. Be Prepared, quoth 1st Baronet Lord Baden Powell and his sister Agnes in 1910. What the f… is wrong with you people laughing at me?

John Blundell

Instantaneously Conjucted R & LCHS Neurolinguistics, 2-5 Set Quantum Relations Logic, Integral Sociology Political Theory, Weather-systems, Atmospheric-science after Robert Boyle, Sucessfully Growing Stuff, Philosophy of Science, Human Futures

¹ Menu – Piaget’s theory of cognitive development is a comprehensive theory about the nature and development of human intelligence. It was originated by the Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget (1896–1980). The theory deals with the nature of knowledge itself and how humans gradually come to acquire, construct, and use it.^[1] Piaget’s theory is [catastrophically only] known as a developmental stage theory [amongst the allopath medical grandees, chieftains, godfathers and their plaything inherently corrupt politicians of the entire United States of America commercial-for-gross-profit medical collapsing world but I’ve set myself a goal to totally fix this by mid 2024].

Look and learn – in your environs. You’re not what you eat – there’s a nutrition-hungry digestive system that takes care there but you are (or rather were) what you shit out. And oh, your doing and pompous dignified obedient being are so NOT it. There’s becoming, right? Like the 12 second 100 metres, miracle goals, oh shut up, Kevin.. These gags just keep coming. I have to stop now. Clunck.

Psychology » Child Psychology

Piaget’s Theory And Stages Of Cognitive Development

By

Saul Mcleod, PhD

Updated on

November 5, 2023

Reviewed by

Olivia Guy-Evans, MSc

On This Page:

• Stages of Development
• Piaget’s Theory
• Applications to Education
• Applications to Parenting
• Critical Evaluation

Key Takeaways

• Jean Piaget is famous for his theories regarding changes in cognitive development that occur as we move from infancy to adulthood.
• Cognitive development results from the interplay between innate capabilities (nature) and environmental influences (nurture).
• Children progress through four distinct stages, each representing varying cognitive abilities and world comprehension: the sensorimotor stage (birth to 2 years), the preoperational stage (2 to 7 years), the concrete operational stage (7 to 11 years), and the formal operational stage (11 years and beyond).
• A child’s cognitive development is not just about acquiring knowledge, the child has to develop or construct a mental model of the world, which is referred to as a schema.
• Piaget emphasized the role of active exploration and interaction with the environment in shaping cognitive development, highlighting the importance of assimilation and accommodation in constructing mental schemas.

² the socio-sexual emotional fulfilment and empowerment-in-the-other adult or teen enzyme, a beauty that one

³ Dr. Michael Mann is Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania

The below from November 10 I have not as yet published as the content – touching on the chalk-screeching-on-blackboard, aluminium-electrolysis-metal-amalgam-dental-fillings narcissist-careerist – hey look at me/ look at me/ l.. – politically-, historically-, economically, LARGELY ecologically-ignorant and certainly energy-, geophysics- atmospheric science- and Weather Systems-ignorant influencers, professors of “social computing” (sic) and @TikTok @X @Meta @Instagram ET-SET-ERA airtime-thieves WHO JIBBER ON ABOUT the ENSO and NEVER ANSWER THEIR READERS’ QUESTIONS, ENGAGE, OR BUILD RELATIONSHIP AT ALL and are clearly HOSTILE to liberal democratic process, opposed to voices other than their own being heard from any Lyndon Larouche citizen-initiated furball or Public Square presentation, display, meme or Show & Tell – is turgid: vacuous, sycophantic. dull, boring & psycho-culturally bereft.

To my mind, as apparently the only serious McLuhanite scholar left on Earth, public presentations that have nothing to say about human purposes, process, context and culture – about just what it is we might DO after we’ve sounded off (and now with the Social Universe Psychosis semi-robotised and therefore in full horrific bloom EVEN GOTTEN PAID for our blurtings and squirtings) are toxic.

The foregoing was not a rhetorical statement. Be warned in time, people, and take immediate corrective action because the lives health, and happiness of all depend on your (as my) recommendations NOT your protestations or horrors like the Israel Defence Forces, Mossad and Shin Bet (‘the General Security Service’; Arabic: جهاز الأمن العام, romanized: jihāz al’amn al`ami), better known by the acronym Shabak (Hebrew: שב״כ; IPA: [ʃaˈbak]) MANAGEMENT of Hamas.

 · قطاع غزة

For comprehensive clarity – that way we all thrive if we can – here’s the Nov 10 input I’ve held back till now..

BREAKING NEWS: Prominent climate activist, with large following, removed from this platform without – it would seem – any explanation. Zoe Cohen is missing. Please help bring her back.

She has, if I recall, a folllowing of some 30,000 people, reflective of her tireless efforts as a peaceful protestor to bring the perils of climate change and the need for urgent action to the attention of more people.

I am honoured that Zoe is speaking on our panel for the next PTRC Fireside Chat I am chairing on 16 November which addresses climate action. When I posted on Monday about this event and went to tag Zoe, I couldn’t find her. She had vanished from LinkedIn. How could this be?

I have since been in touch with Zoe and learnt the following.

When she tried to use LinkedIn on Sunday, she couldn’t get access and got a page saying “Your account has been temporarily restricted as a precaution” and asking for her to verify who she was by uploading ID.

She was cautious of this in case of some sort of scam so did a bit of research before reluctantly uploading an image of her passport, hoping this would unlock her account. But actually all that happened was that she received an email from LinkedIn Customer Support saying the following:

“We’ve deemed the activity in your account in violation of the LinkedIn User Agreement and Professional Community Policies. Your appeal has been denied and your account has been restricted permanently.”

Zoe is currently in a DM conversation with LinkedIn via Twitter. She has asked if others might be happy to post about this “as I have no voice or presence on there now”.

I follow(ed) Zoe – I find/found her posts informative, thought provoking and vitally important in relation to climate literacy and news about climate change developments and climate action efforts. I do not recall anything in her many posts and shares that I would have classed as problematic and warranting being permanently silenced. I find this development extremely alarming, raising questions about freedom of speech in a fragile era for humanity when populism and suppression seem to have become real threats.

If you support Zoe can you please share this to signal your concern that she has gone missing. If you have any direct experience of account suspension and how to constructively resolve any misunderstandings in relation to this important professional platform please share this in comments below. If you are uncomfortable sharing anything publicly, please direct message me and I will pass information on to Zoe.

From Glenn Lyons with our thanks, for the many of us long term Zoe Cohen readers.

Yarda yarda, young people.

..everyone else is either asleep or feverishly enthused about upper middle class or bored lonely low income people’s chatter – @GretaThunberg blah – about repressive censorship versus the new thing in their symmetrically-arrayed infinitely orderly 1950s Randian Italian ruling class renaissance adventurer heroic explorer-scientist maiden-deflowerer billionaire Warrior Prince (randy, yeah: threesomes with Alan Greenspan and Nat Branden – strange to tell, he was a pop psychologist) “world,” the Manhattan Object Relations Psychiatry Misinformation Industrial Complex..

John Blundell

History, Economy, Sociology, Human Health, Neurolinguistics, 2-5 Set Quantum Mathematics, Philosophy of Science

16th December 2023

Idea! Let’s massively expand the storage of literature and science data that we’ve already exponentially expanded every year, notionally since the year 2001 – the maths and statistics of this are utterly irrelevant to intelligent human enquiry – and deliver Alpha Growth – because all the banks, central banks, global investment, accountancy & finance houses the international fiscal monetary & financial authorities slaver, drool and disporting themselves into spontaneous public masturbatory display so relish and revel in it.

🤔 🌱 Are Sustainable Data Centers the Future of Tech? 🌍💻

Sustainable data centers are facilities designed and operated with a focus on minimizing their environmental impact while maximizing energy efficiency and resource conservation. These data centers employ various eco-friendly practices and technologies to reduce their carbon footprint, conserve energy, and promote environmental sustainability. Here are some key aspects of sustainable data centers:

💻 Energy Efficiency: Sustainable data centers prioritize energy-efficient technologies and practices. This includes using energy-efficient servers and IT equipment, implementing advanced cooling systems, and optimizing the layout of servers to improve airflow and reduce energy consumption.

⚡️ Renewable Energy Sources: Sustainable data centers often rely on renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, or hydroelectric power to meet their energy needs. By using clean energy, these facilities significantly reduce their reliance on fossil fuels and decrease greenhouse gas emissions.

🌱 Cooling Systems: Cooling is a major component of a data center’s energy consumption. Sustainable data centers employ advanced cooling techniques, like hot aisle/cold aisle containment, and may use outside air or water-based cooling systems to minimize energy usage for temperature regulation.

♻️ Waste Management: Sustainable data centers focus on reducing, reusing, and recycling waste materials, including electronic waste (e-waste). They implement responsible e-waste disposal practices and may refurbish or recycle old IT equipment to minimize environmental impact.

🌱 Data Center Design: The physical design of sustainable data centers emphasizes energy efficiency. This can include the use of energy-efficient building materials, strategic placement to utilize natural light, and the integration of green spaces or living roofs to promote natural insulation.

💻 Monitoring and Optimization: Sustainable data centers use sophisticated monitoring systems to track energy usage, temperature levels, and other variables. This data is analyzed to identify inefficiencies and optimize operations, ensuring that resources are used efficiently.

My readership is my future life, health and happiness in a fractured neoliberal state where successive governments, in the terms of now utterly ludicrous 1950s political-party Bosses v Workers + Workers v Bosses foundational beliefs or ‘Narratives’ are literally generating new waves of trauma and suicide, essentially on behalf of Christian fundamentalist craziness about the unworthiness of low income people.

Then quite suddenly two to three billion users of personal computers and computer phones have turned around and are emotionally distressed if not shattered to find their @GoogleAI searches now generate story-telling dualist blather that is radically disconnected from environment, society, culture, knowledge and their own life experience, with the “science” 50% reductionist Ayn Rand/ Alan Greenspan/ Nathaniel Branden 1950s Manhattan triumphalist junk.

John Blundell

Economics, Regenerative Permanent Ecological Food & Fibre Production, Land Waterway & Ocean Management, Human Health, Neurolinguistics and Philosophy of Science

Australia – what’s left of the thing after seventeen months of rabid neoliberal ‘administration.’

“>>Erin Roberts on @LinkedIn
‘If you’re so convinced that adaptation is a nefarious plot,’ this man wrote of me..
His sarcasm and political class hubris appear to know few bounds. I think I’ve been mansplained.. it’s rather amusing but as we expect when defensiveness turns to condescending advices and rubbishing NOT AT ALL FUNNY
Tell me how the global initiator of the authentic and permanent Green Economics after GH Brundtland’s work and the rising public awareness of human health vis à vis active non toxic chemical non methane fertiliser responsible environmental management in the 1980s could conceivably team up with neofascists?
‘Further, I lost everything and very nearly got wasted because my political and electoral inputs caused both of Australia’s major party groupings – NOW À PROPOS RECOGNISED BY THE POLITICAL LEFT WORLDWIDE AS IDEOLOGICALLY NEOFASCIST – to attack and defraud me. I spent 14 years in virtual exile in my own land. By my own reckoning I’ve only fully recovered from plainly Post Traumatic Shock Disorder grief and loss of confidence in the last 5 years (the fraud occurred 1995-9).’

Re RK anyone talking about adaptation & resilience in 2023 w/o flatly demanding the immediate an extensive wind-back of fossil fuel burning is indeed a fraud.

Africa, the greenwash elites and junketeers, the world’s new Billion-dollar Apple, Microsoft, Google & Stephen John Bannon chatterati propound, exclaim and publish❗️

Any thoughts on Eskom – a Bill Gates early 20-teens enthusiasm?

John BLUNDELL

Energy

Human Health

Ex 1999 Rigorous Human Discourse 5 factor macro Quantum Ma-thematics

2018 -23 micro or individual adult cognitive peak- functioning Neurolinguistics

Philosophy of Science

Australia – what’s left of the thing after seventeen more months of rabid neoliberal ‘administration.’

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“…The reality is that even boosted by momentum and tipping points, we still need to keep pulling policy levers to eliminate fossil fuels from our energy systems.”

Thanks for posting this Ketan Joshi the world is in your debt as a diligent energy, Global Heating & Atmospheric Science educator.¹

But what I have to say here at this historic moment is not a quibble or a pleasantry in a world whose enitire newsmedia remain captive to the delusional Oil Economy publicists,’ Tik Tockers, organised crime operatives’ and full-blown narcissist-sociopath-shills’ deceit of tamely-named seasonal/ Jolly Tourism Megabucks/ Birthdays Christmases & Easter/ throw in Duwali and Ramadan… et set ERA “Climate Change:” it is crucial we absolutely stop using this absurd Malcolm Gladwell term ‘tipping point.’

He was essentially an upper middle class largely white-skinned (20th century Episcopalian or Church of England Church) euphemistic Caucasian – our magnanimous though squeamish if not not completely phoney social inclusion term for those rather grubby Slavic people ok?) audience social chit-chat columnist at The Atlantic, the term borrowed from nature to dscr what happens when you suddenly get a lot more likes and little love-hearts on your definitionally asocial opinionista communications media account – where the world’s “influencers” never even read the responses or pleas for sanity their pronouncements bring forth from us, their damn fool audience and source of enrichment.

So the literate-articulate nether-world – that hateful ruling caste F Scott Fitzgerald/ HG Wells/ Bertrand Russel/ Ernest Hemingway/ Milton Friedman/ Mike Johnson narcissistic personal-display represented world, their fictive fancifiul Pythagorean symmetyrical universe AND their symmetrical Centre-circle 8 ‘price-of-money’ derivatives-markets’ gross-accumulators’ vis a vis immiseration ‘glow-ball’ economy, embraced yet more, and more, psychotically misleading MECHANISTIC or grossly incongruous anthropocentric breakfast-television terms, for example “boiling seas” – the Secretary General of the @UN – who this week regales the sentient middle-class and rich white people’s world with the fantastical if not completely psychotic children’s story-telling line of exploding hot c… that Antarctica is a ‘Sleeping Giant’ – which turns out to have come from Petteri Taalas, Secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organisation (on “April Fools'” Day 2022)¹ (2) inveterate socialist-conversationist whatever fella George Monbiot’s tittering or frittering, was it, yesterday, or (3) generally & generically, terms derived from nature and/ or lived experience, and equally psychotic: meaning denying reality AND re-engineering nature mentally as contrarian, post-fact, alternative fact,¹ postmodern or post-truth frogs’ droppings.^2,3

My usage as a global heating educator from Day One has been ‘excessive solar radiation’ – XS🌞

..this MACRO XS🌞was coupled with the MICRO Severe & Extreme Unseasonal Weather-events

Turned to utter trash first by corrupt 20th century politicians⁴ and now for at least 7 years Large Language Model public relations manipulation that would make 1950s Manhattan madmen Edward Bernays and Alan Greenspan shake their heads in dismay.

Language a well cared-for 7 year-old child can grasp? No, there’s now $3-400 billion a year in obfuscation, minimisation and propaganda expressly engineered by the cabal to radically mentally disconnect from nature and each other, to dumb-down and to de-skill the entire human population for business profit. – It was You-can’t-argue-with-the-market John Kenneth Galbraith said repeatedly in 1993 not ‘Let it rip.’

Hello Mum – the crims, notably my own two daughters, didn’t even tell me for a year this woman had died – why did you and my little brother defraud me of $0.5 million and nearly get me killed? Some vanity project that one. – And it saw my beloved wife dead at 52. Wah-ra.

And no, no, you greenie fool, the “reptilian” brain STEM numpties cried, intent on taking the whole of humanity to the Bugs Bunny cartoon collision rendering the represented 🐇’s body flat – or about 5cm thick before he, ever resilient,and adaptational; bounced back & got on with the show.

Some show.

John Blundell

Authentic Economic Ecology ‘Green economy’/ ‘Concentric-circles’ Economics 1995 –

Integral Functionalist Structuralist Sociology & Political Theory 1974 –

Energy, Weather-systems, Atmospheric Science 1991 –

The all-new 21st Century anti Mechanomorphics anti Phrenology anti Heath Robinson Machine anti Bogus Science Neurolinguistics, Five-set Logic,⁵ Philosophy of Science

Australia

¹ With thanks/ https://lnkd.in/gHrr5Pmd / Ketan Joshi 24th Oct 2023

² inspired by an image all working-class and middle-class men, women, teenagers, primary-schoolers and little kids in front of tele-vision screens had seared into their imagination-memories in the early 20-teens, the collapse of the Patagonia ice cliffs – oh 👀 a tipping-point? Lego-tiles?? What the actual f… ever!!

³ “..It came from a lab, and not, say, “a pangolin kissing a turtle” or a group of feisty bats in a market. “I think we owe a great debt of gratitude to #Science,” he explained.. – Jon Stewart 15th June 2021

⁴ ..how might you have felt as an economic reformer since the theoretical underpinning of CCEc as a sharply differentiated 9 level functional geo-locational model from individual adult out to World in 1995 when an exuberant prime minister in your own damned country seized upon your term Direct Action (replacement of FF burning for industrial, commercial neighbourhood and household energy production) and proclaimed it as the Australian version of the Bill Gates 1729 Northern England Stephenson’s Rocket industrial revolution which morphed to Scott John Morrison’s infamous Let Them Eat Coal display in the National Palace of Fools HALF A DECADE LATER?

⁵ Authentic non-Julius Sumner-Miller non Bill Nye the Science Guy non Robyn Williams non Australian Broadcasting Corporation non Dr Sheldon Cooper non Micky Mouse non Donald Duck non Australian Chief Scientist’s Office non https://csiro.us non Australian Academy of Science 2 – 5 Set/ 1 – 4 cjr Quantum Relations Logic

..but so do the broad mass of the people who have had it to the back teeth with frankly feeble-minded politicians of all advertising and public relation agency brands dementedly and psychotically increasingly out of touch with each other of their societal-parasite chambers and board-rooms politburo, global finance, investment & organised crime cabal fellows, the entire rest of humanity and every non-human¹ living creature or organism on Earth lying and dissembling.

It is my privilege, to be empowered and enabled – my late 1990’s United Nations Capacity-building efforts have powerfully borne ‘fruit,‘ which is ironic because all I want politically is my orchards these evil men and women – cops, the Australian Taxation Office and fruitloop hateful twentith century politicians, stole and trashed, back – to re-print and publish Louise Eliot’s words on The Voice referendum – because its larger than 280 letters, numbers & conjunctors – I’ll take any opportunity to advertise my computer-science wares and Glyph is a 20th C dumbarse objectifying term which DOES NOT FIT with the authentic quantum logic of the ideational human mind – people would tend to overlook the back – call that Bottom – end of this apt succinct realpolitik¹ – I’d call it that, searching as ever for terms that persuade and inspire, not ‘lead forth’ by the nose, or promise reward or grief, adults as vehemently fiercely even violently against the Post World War II ‘Rand-span’ Object Relations psychiatry, consumer-society vomit we spray on our kids and at each other 24/7/52 as I am – document.

Louise Elliot

@LouiseElliotM

The reasons the VOICE failed so badly are many and varied…. but they shouldn’t come as a surprise. – The concept itself was fundamentally flawed. It created two groups of people in our Constitution. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who have a vote AND a Constitutionally enshrined ‘advisory group’, then everyone else who only had a vote. Australia is a very egalitarian society, and the proposal conflicted with that. – The argument that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are a minority didn’t stack up – we have lots of minority groups and lots of people of all backgrounds who desperately need help too. – The PM’s words were misleading from the start. It wasn’t only “recognition”, it was much more than that. And it wasn’t “modest”. – Most people didn’t believe it would fix things, or even notably improve outcomes for indiginious communities. Even the PM said it “might” make a difference for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people – hardly confidence inducing! The likelihood of it delivering great results would have to have been very high to warrant forgoing our ‘everyone is equal’ outlook. – The banks, airlines, and sporting codes coming on board did not go down well….. people want their banks, airlines and sporting codes to focus on shareholder return, service, and winning games. Not lecturing and virtue signalling. People were being pressured by employers who had adopted a ‘Yes’ position, and no one likes being told what to do. – The timing was completely wrong. A cost of living crisis and we’re blowing $500 million on a referendum??? People are homeless, kids aren’t eating, people are waiting years for surgeries and prices in the supermarket have doubled. – The campaign’s biggest advocates were massive liabilities. The likes of Thomas Mayo with his “pay the rent” and “punishing politicians” and Marcia Langford with the ‘racism’ and ‘stupidity’ claims. And Noel Pearson’s attacks on Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Nyunggai Warren Mundine AO only pushed more voters towards Jacinta and Warren. – It was cashed up with public and shareholder money. The swathes of Yes promo material only further highlighted how cashed up the campaign was. The location of signs on homes correlated to the inner CBD elite, and it was obvious. People don’t like feeling that they’re being bought. – Many Aboriginal people and groups didn’t want the proposal, and that was obvious. This included the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre and the Circular Head Aboriginal Corporation. – The Yes side turned the debate into “yes” if you’re a good person, and “no” means you’re a bad, racist, stupid, ignorant person. For obvious reasons, calling people from an ivory tower doesn’t bring people closer. – In the end, the argument for the Voice was that it was the “right thing” to do. Again, passing moral judgment. People were too afraid to be honest and voice uncertainty. There was no discussion as people would be attacked. The campaign also relied on a mantra that it “doesn’t impact me” so what’s the problem? Most Australians think beyond themselves and believe in fairness and equality as principles…. as the numbers show.

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And now the question,,

What will we do with all the good vibe and political goodwill generated by the enthusiasti #Yes2023 campaigners? @Fazdaddy1 October 17th writes:

Democracy endures

“Where are all the great ideas that Voice wanted to implement. Can’t we still get some of it going. Unless it was just about the Power of the constitution”

Tired but happy, me. – Progress is ours. – Next these political class public relations industry headbangers will be slagging us as meliorists, incrementalists and reformists, or at least the ideological dupes and Paper Tigers of those wicked English yoeman farmers who so upset the dude in the Reading Room at the British Musuem. This will be awesome. Party? Am I throwing a party?? Too right!

I’ve not edited this document today – except to add the photo and caption.

I DO however accept that the humble glyph is not dumbarsed and yes, as a mathematical logic and new neuroscience scholar-deviser could have been much less bad tempered and shirty about a non-object that has to spend it’s whole life as a linguistic factotum in the shadow of self-aggrandised @TEDtalks dorks, tits, podcasters, demagogues, coercive Power Over relations depressives and excruciating child actors..

Stick with WC Fields – if any of you are so foolish as to teach children “the word” or the add-an-l world is either their stage or their upper middle income tourist playground then may your God help you to snap out of it fast before they those CHILDREN & TEENAGERS condemn you.

John Blundell

South Australia 23rd October 2023

¹ ..and NON CYBER TROLL I must in my rather dazed and Future-schlocked state add – this Sam Altman & Geoffrey Hinton @Harvard programmed Interweb of Fings global deracination des-killing de-skilling learning mega-scam is ever challenging especially as 90% of the adult public seriously reckons it’s all about robots taking over or not taking over their jobs – endless headbanger gags there. Remind me to ask Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens. Joke, that.

^{2 .}Students of the new hybridised functionalist-structuralist sociology in peace studies – call it Gramscian if you like – sure his relations or descendants would be very happy with that call – can see the difference between realpolitik and raison d’etat as to negotiate, secure, protect, but exclude “foreigners” vis a vis to humiliate, coerce, overwhelm & ethno-culturally, and religiously eradicate formerly sovereign peoples