Great to see Stephen Long chasing the financial structure run by Indian overseas investors .I hope he uncovers the truth and the implications for our government in dealing with Adani . I fear there is too little focus on the former and too much on the latter . A short look not a long look is not a good look - but normal
We baby boomers need to face the fact that we have been ignoring the dangers beyond our shores and focusing too much on the unconvincing and unjustified attacks/debilitating cynicism on our own system .The Libs are not the worst disease affecting the country.
We gave money to the poor , often ignoring the fact that we can't really help countries whose own rich exploit them . We are not real wise about real politics - esp when we wander off telling others "How "to do things .
If we are going to do more than be good samaritans with individuals ( our historical and limited territory) we must not ignore the evil which corrupts and can corrupt even our own eco system.
As Susan Neiman has pointed out we lack wisdom in this area and in particular the post Christian reactionaries lack wisdom about evil .
The only way you can tackle real politic is to understand it and understand it in our own system. Most important of all - understanding it as it happens close to home .
Only by being complete political and jericho road realists can we hope to really keep Australia great .
Do we not also have to decide whether our cynicism. ignorance and fear of evil is preventing us believing we can be great again . Self loathing is not just the other blokes problem
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Ignorance and Arrogance on Environment
Nothing will help modern Australian governments more than finding a way to get OBJECTIVE advice about soil water land and biodiversity questions . Neither farmers nor armchair experts and Green activists can be trusted on this .
Our world, its wars , its food and its security in investment are dependant on getting this right The mess of constant fighting about who knows what could go on for centuries .
There is a way forward cultivate local specific objective environment advice and ditch the empires and those who build them . A better democratic project for the 21st century I cannot think of .
Recent letter of mine to the papers .
Common advice to new Councillors is to "take expert advice seriously" . This is good advice ,but it is definitely not the best advice. The best advice is to take on " much advice " as is written on the floor of the Victorian Parliament .
The people in the big smoke don't know everything and one person can't be trusted to know all there is to know on the public good subjects in question.Sorry people, but those of you who live in cities are especially ignorant and arrogant on the subject of environmental risk --if only your leaders would admit it.
Which of your former Councillors briefed themselves widely on the environmental risk questions which often plague their terms of office . I know having written to many many Shires on the subject of environmental risk for over thirty years, just how little that happens. The waste extends up to the golden thread weavers in Spring street who once thought they could make water .
Many post Kennett Councils have made the very bad and expensive habit of taking and seeking little advice, and from outsiders to the local area. They pay monkeys, and not with peanuts.
Our world, its wars , its food and its security in investment are dependant on getting this right The mess of constant fighting about who knows what could go on for centuries .
There is a way forward cultivate local specific objective environment advice and ditch the empires and those who build them . A better democratic project for the 21st century I cannot think of .
Recent letter of mine to the papers .
Common advice to new Councillors is to "take expert advice seriously" . This is good advice ,but it is definitely not the best advice. The best advice is to take on " much advice " as is written on the floor of the Victorian Parliament .
The people in the big smoke don't know everything and one person can't be trusted to know all there is to know on the public good subjects in question.Sorry people, but those of you who live in cities are especially ignorant and arrogant on the subject of environmental risk --if only your leaders would admit it.
Many post Kennett Councils have made the very bad and expensive habit of taking and seeking little advice, and from outsiders to the local area. They pay monkeys, and not with peanuts.
Please Councillors, don't be a bunch of smart arses ( alecs) who think the only good advice comes from above.
.Democrats used to all believe in wisdom from the ground up. I wish all new Councillors well in keeping a better balance that truly respects local sources of wisdom.
Sunday, September 25, 2016
Do we really need Emergency services hierarchies
The answer is No . We need leaders but not empires . Many emergencies services can be run by devolved services within existing more local organisations .The shires, hospitals police CFA and forest and land and water management groups .
The fact is that emergencies don't occur every day and they are varied in their extent severity and focus. Permanent agencies are only necessary where both planning and recurrence demand it Dedicated agencies will get lost between drinks if they don't deal with issues ( often much smaller scale and not called disasters) at very high return periods
Risk is not an unknown in the country, but it is to many city centrics , However well trained, city centric managers are , they cannot have enough experience to properly manage the range of them unless they have worked long term at a local level . .
Much environmental risk management is best managed by people who work with related everyday issues ( soils ,water rivers forests shires The UFF - CFA dispute is only the tip of an iceberg of increasing empire building and sus performance within the emergency services industry ,
Craig Lapsley and his staff have too much authority and too little responsibility . Yes govt may need agencies to show and show coordination,- but it should build, as required, from the boots up.
Anyone who knows how the modern emergency services organisation compete with each other and their members will not be surprised that we are not always getting good cost benefit from many of the new ones .
EXAMPLE September 25th September 2016 Forbes floods
"Flood waters hide deep holes and there is risk a car could overturn if a driver attempted to drive through.""
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CONCLUSION
Emergency agencies are making the most of the risks, but are not responding to them in a cost effective manner .
If the locals area reticent about their statement Ministers must take it seriously . A high number of disobedients may mean the agency is outta touch with real world risk management The longer this goes on , the more the system will be corrupted
Don;t expect the public or the media to pick a sound way through the rhetoric. Cultivating respect for leaders depends on onground credibility , consistent words and ideas like return period
FIRES
see another time
The fact is that emergencies don't occur every day and they are varied in their extent severity and focus. Permanent agencies are only necessary where both planning and recurrence demand it Dedicated agencies will get lost between drinks if they don't deal with issues ( often much smaller scale and not called disasters) at very high return periods
Risk is not an unknown in the country, but it is to many city centrics , However well trained, city centric managers are , they cannot have enough experience to properly manage the range of them unless they have worked long term at a local level . .
Much environmental risk management is best managed by people who work with related everyday issues ( soils ,water rivers forests shires The UFF - CFA dispute is only the tip of an iceberg of increasing empire building and sus performance within the emergency services industry ,
Craig Lapsley and his staff have too much authority and too little responsibility . Yes govt may need agencies to show and show coordination,- but it should build, as required, from the boots up.
Anyone who knows how the modern emergency services organisation compete with each other and their members will not be surprised that we are not always getting good cost benefit from many of the new ones .
EXAMPLE September 25th September 2016 Forbes floods
'" all sorts of dialogue is being offered up about situations where so-called managers are out of their depth."
Incompetent comment in Italics
Competent responses in Normal
Competent responses in Normal
"Flood waters hide deep holes and there is risk a car could overturn if a driver attempted to drive through.""
In designing creek crossings I would consider it poor design if a 1 in 100 year flood eroded the roadway pavement . Ie any holes are Councils or Vicroads fault in most cases . Even gravel roads should have safe crossing edges ,flood level markers and water over road signs Public authorities should close the particular road and avoid broad blanket access .
It is not difficult to prevent the tunneling problem but there would frankly be plenty of low flow crossings that should be on the agenda for work
"Could get more water in next few days" The whole role of EM is to anticipate each situation as it likely to arises not use realtime situation or unknowns as broad fear factors
" this is a different flood from the last one " Em should not talk like public do about risk , They should speak to anticipated risk directly by saying This is a 1 in 10 i in 100 etc . Each flood behaves differently but the stream manager should be able to plan and design responses on the basis of proper risk assessment calls ( return period - likely rain ,
The geomorphology is known and an Em who talks vaguely about breakouts and changes in flows has NOT been studying them in the many quiet times between floods .
It is not difficult to prevent the tunneling problem but there would frankly be plenty of low flow crossings that should be on the agenda for work
"Could get more water in next few days" The whole role of EM is to anticipate each situation as it likely to arises not use realtime situation or unknowns as broad fear factors
" this is a different flood from the last one " Em should not talk like public do about risk , They should speak to anticipated risk directly by saying This is a 1 in 10 i in 100 etc . Each flood behaves differently but the stream manager should be able to plan and design responses on the basis of proper risk assessment calls ( return period - likely rain ,
The geomorphology is known and an Em who talks vaguely about breakouts and changes in flows has NOT been studying them in the many quiet times between floods .
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CONCLUSION
Emergency agencies are making the most of the risks, but are not responding to them in a cost effective manner .
If the locals area reticent about their statement Ministers must take it seriously . A high number of disobedients may mean the agency is outta touch with real world risk management The longer this goes on , the more the system will be corrupted
Don;t expect the public or the media to pick a sound way through the rhetoric. Cultivating respect for leaders depends on onground credibility , consistent words and ideas like return period
FIRES
see another time
Monday, June 27, 2016
Projection
Takes one to know one is a great test -well applied . People accuse others of things they know lots about . Tanya wants us to believe her maths is better than the incumbents when it was her party that was the one rejected at last election for mismanagement of Tax .
"According to my figures " we did OK
More here
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"According to my figures " we did OK
More here
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Friday, May 27, 2016
One Wonderful Wednesday
I talk a lot ( please be patient and listen this time) but this Wednesday I saw the most powerful standing in silence I have ever seen. Hours of it --It was beautiful - to be treasured forever .
I love the system of governance we have inherited. Seldom have I loved it as much as I did on Wednesday when I stood with 3 groups outside Parliament (Victoria)
eh -Its hard to love it at moment with all the noise and superficiality ( 4wks to election)
The very founders of our Colony put gold in the roof and green wisdom on the floor , We hopefully will continue to do the same.
Study it and show yourself truly following their reliable wisdom that's fixed on the floor .IiTs beauty is more than skin deep - reliable resilient. A place of noise yes but a place where the framework for peace and rest has been set .
To be continued shortly
I love the system of governance we have inherited. Seldom have I loved it as much as I did on Wednesday when I stood with 3 groups outside Parliament (Victoria)
eh -Its hard to love it at moment with all the noise and superficiality ( 4wks to election)
The very founders of our Colony put gold in the roof and green wisdom on the floor , We hopefully will continue to do the same.
Study it and show yourself truly following their reliable wisdom that's fixed on the floor .IiTs beauty is more than skin deep - reliable resilient. A place of noise yes but a place where the framework for peace and rest has been set .
To be continued shortly
Monday, May 02, 2016
Can any good come out of ABCTV ?
Clearly yes . Tonights more interesting QANDA program probably has nothing to do with formula but more to do with a lack of one -the old one (stacked) .
Few polys , real diversity and few interruptions and directions by Jones always helps.
The great question and statements by the young voter in dark suit were not adequately addressed, This is an area where SABC have little credibility - with young people . ABCTV followup of him would make more sense than next week's worry or whatevers new campaign
The young blokes concern that BB adults are out of touch was demonstrated, if not discussed.
All hands to him and others like him .
The Libs need to worry as Pru seemed least exposed to the realities on the street.
Few polys , real diversity and few interruptions and directions by Jones always helps.
The great question and statements by the young voter in dark suit were not adequately addressed, This is an area where SABC have little credibility - with young people . ABCTV followup of him would make more sense than next week's worry or whatevers new campaign
The young blokes concern that BB adults are out of touch was demonstrated, if not discussed.
All hands to him and others like him .
The Libs need to worry as Pru seemed least exposed to the realities on the street.
Monday, April 18, 2016
Wading through the murk
The mystery of Q and A (ABCTV) is why the directors think pollies know things -- too many at the ABC clearly know nothing and clearly don' t know where to go to find more than projection and prejudice built entertainment .They swim too low in the stream .
The real leaders whom they should have on , swim above the murk , Get them on like SBS do!
Those who commit only to the middle get told what to think --eh Malcolm. they wander around in the murk and , say what they are supposed to say.
Radical anti --Christians can't have it all ways . Infact to get rid of Christianity you have to get rid of a lot of stuff . Not just ideas and values about ( equity and autonomy ) but every persons value, equality and autonomy before God and the theory of just punishment and responsibilities to others Exodus 20. You have to get of all the laws that have built up over centuries or just hope they work in written formal alone like the Pharisees once did . That or hope lawyers get loved to death like gods .
The reactionaries have been beavering away at it for years but cause they have nothing to replace it they will end up with nothing - just a few laws they hope will hold water - for them .
You can't say as they have said that its all mind construct without undermining your own mind and its games .
....we start our week really weak with the lame old ABC.
Comedy expansion --what a laugh - They know what they need but not how to get there -more taxpayers money wasted in chasing the mere name ONLY ..
If only the ABC stuck to its job -reporting , we would hear more entertaining news more princes in disguise, more surprises
The monday night game at the coliseum is often to see somebody sacrificed ,That person or group maybe in the panel but maybe not . You can rest assured if they are in the panel, they will be alone . Appearances of course may disguise the old predictable game they play to win.
Not that the irresponsible directors get it all their own way - the child can sometimes intervene.
QandA loses lots of it appeal if its just same old same old ; projecting guilt and shame onto someone else -- same old reactionary framework for the ever changing trans everything generation , The amount of blood required to get the same hit increases. The paradox of life severely constrained by reaction to the well established never seen .
This overly predictable reworking of the predictable was another waste of time last night .Jane Caro should have been taken off her banging on pedestal of the pedestrian years ago .
Wise members of the panel had to spend OUR time correcting her about how money was actually spent in public schools .Previous to that we have night after night of spin and stupidity .
The popularity of the simple is however completely understandable .
As for real dialogue and conversation - you couldn't cut a slice of fun out of that overly controlled format.and next week - just an anorher illusion of their own making . ho hum never get to the gist mam .
The real leaders whom they should have on , swim above the murk , Get them on like SBS do!
Those who commit only to the middle get told what to think --eh Malcolm. they wander around in the murk and , say what they are supposed to say.
Radical anti --Christians can't have it all ways . Infact to get rid of Christianity you have to get rid of a lot of stuff . Not just ideas and values about ( equity and autonomy ) but every persons value, equality and autonomy before God and the theory of just punishment and responsibilities to others Exodus 20. You have to get of all the laws that have built up over centuries or just hope they work in written formal alone like the Pharisees once did . That or hope lawyers get loved to death like gods .
The reactionaries have been beavering away at it for years but cause they have nothing to replace it they will end up with nothing - just a few laws they hope will hold water - for them .
You can't say as they have said that its all mind construct without undermining your own mind and its games .
....we start our week really weak with the lame old ABC.
Comedy expansion --what a laugh - They know what they need but not how to get there -more taxpayers money wasted in chasing the mere name ONLY ..
If only the ABC stuck to its job -reporting , we would hear more entertaining news more princes in disguise, more surprises
The monday night game at the coliseum is often to see somebody sacrificed ,That person or group maybe in the panel but maybe not . You can rest assured if they are in the panel, they will be alone . Appearances of course may disguise the old predictable game they play to win.
Not that the irresponsible directors get it all their own way - the child can sometimes intervene.
QandA loses lots of it appeal if its just same old same old ; projecting guilt and shame onto someone else -- same old reactionary framework for the ever changing trans everything generation , The amount of blood required to get the same hit increases. The paradox of life severely constrained by reaction to the well established never seen .
This overly predictable reworking of the predictable was another waste of time last night .Jane Caro should have been taken off her banging on pedestal of the pedestrian years ago .
Wise members of the panel had to spend OUR time correcting her about how money was actually spent in public schools .Previous to that we have night after night of spin and stupidity .
The popularity of the simple is however completely understandable .
As for real dialogue and conversation - you couldn't cut a slice of fun out of that overly controlled format.and next week - just an anorher illusion of their own making . ho hum never get to the gist mam .
Monday, March 14, 2016
Its all about TRUMP
No it can't be all about Donald TRUMP . It must ALSO be about the people .
Until we look at ourselves we won't really understand why the face of stupidity stares right back at us , The hypocrisy
The presumption that government should ACT when we don't.
The government should KNOW what its doing when we don't
Most importantly of all for this moment
The government should act tough when we have been weak
Despite this weak moment in history and perception ( That its all determined )
WE have the power
we are the ricest people in history and can make it work
Are we not decieved? if so by whom?
We abandon the freedom and call for personal responsibility for the security of tyranny
Who is voting for him ?
Are young people voting for him because the only thing they are interested in is entertainment , After all isn't that the sort of thing we taught them at home and at school?
Until we look at ourselves we won't really understand why the face of stupidity stares right back at us , The hypocrisy
The presumption that government should ACT when we don't.
The government should KNOW what its doing when we don't
Most importantly of all for this moment
The government should act tough when we have been weak
Despite this weak moment in history and perception ( That its all determined )
WE have the power
we are the ricest people in history and can make it work
Are we not decieved? if so by whom?
We abandon the freedom and call for personal responsibility for the security of tyranny
Who is voting for him ?
Are young people voting for him because the only thing they are interested in is entertainment , After all isn't that the sort of thing we taught them at home and at school?
Monday, June 08, 2015
Damaged or Destroyed ?
Waleed Aly on The Project last night tried to nail the Environment Minister Greg Hunt with a "really big problem the government needed to something about ". If there is something environmentally wrong, according to the wannabes , its gotta be with our reef- something obvious colorful and precious makes a popular if misguided target . The truth is , Some ( most?) think not enough because the really substantial problems are more subtle than that . More subtle than the color of coral and more long lasting than colloids in a salt solution --
The serious thing is they all got it wrong; everyone in that story is barking up the wrong tree as we say in this country .
The public are too easily influenced by the superficial and polys often only follow. Waleed failed to make the case while Greg failed too to do anything but react - his science, technology and political response was all over the place .his advisors will be part of his problem
If we fail to find the target , as American foreign policy and Dick Smith testifies this week( on population - another superficial fear) , all the money in the world won't do what we all want it to do - that is to help fix the damage and the destruction .
The consensus issue amongst us is that we are not looking after the world and its people .This focus is absolutely on target and good on The Project for seeking to deliver this great quest differently . We want so much to do so ( many at least ) ---that's really good.
Its HOW the next generation do it that will make all the difference. But No , we are not doing it .We haven't got a vision of HOW to do it .
If young are going to make any better impact than my generation ( who failed ) they are going to have to think smarter and reject some of the simple nonsense pushed by my generation .
Some common myths and mistaken ideas still common
If you are a young person reading this
That said , all hands to you young people . The environment is a great place to work because it is so resilient . This means that when we fail to protect the environment sometimes it helps itself. Its our sister not our mother , Working with people is harder work too, but you sort of have to - if we are going to make a dent in the ongoing real and thoroughly unacceptable damage problems .The killing fields ---
Colloids will not kill the reef ( my work is with soil, water and plants) but panic will waste another opportunity to do something well and truly satisfying.---and it the right place and time .
I wish you well in your quest
The serious thing is they all got it wrong; everyone in that story is barking up the wrong tree as we say in this country .
The public are too easily influenced by the superficial and polys often only follow. Waleed failed to make the case while Greg failed too to do anything but react - his science, technology and political response was all over the place .his advisors will be part of his problem
If we fail to find the target , as American foreign policy and Dick Smith testifies this week( on population - another superficial fear) , all the money in the world won't do what we all want it to do - that is to help fix the damage and the destruction .
The consensus issue amongst us is that we are not looking after the world and its people .This focus is absolutely on target and good on The Project for seeking to deliver this great quest differently . We want so much to do so ( many at least ) ---that's really good.
Its HOW the next generation do it that will make all the difference. But No , we are not doing it .We haven't got a vision of HOW to do it .
If young are going to make any better impact than my generation ( who failed ) they are going to have to think smarter and reject some of the simple nonsense pushed by my generation .
Some common myths and mistaken ideas still common
- That if the problem is going to be fixed it will be have to be the government that does it . Governments can be crass and incompetent and just waste our taxes .
- That big business is the bad bloke
- That its the other blokes problem . The coal industry , The dredgers , the powerful
Young people have already shown us the way on choice in the supermarket -very positive pay more for eggs , don't buy bottled water unless you are going to die from the local ( Planet ArK) - That the environment is like us -needs cushions and grants . As if it like too many of us, full of excuses and hard done by stories . The reality is that the environment shows great resilience ( half the stories on permanent destruction in the news are rubbish )and we can and should work with it.
- We as , Carl Jung says , are the basket case , The problem is primarily with man .
If you are a young person reading this
- Don't make the same mistakes as your parents on this
- Don't be superficial
- Don't project the problem onto others- get involved somewhere near you
- Study the problems in detail. Do your physiology, chemistry and physics, even if you redo it .
- Don't assume the problem is just technological -- this is still a very common mistake
- Assume there is a spiritual and emotional dimension ( see S .Neiman on religious and political ambitions) - we struggle to deal with our damaged vision and ambitions as Carl Jung has said and Homer Simpson shows
That said , all hands to you young people . The environment is a great place to work because it is so resilient . This means that when we fail to protect the environment sometimes it helps itself. Its our sister not our mother , Working with people is harder work too, but you sort of have to - if we are going to make a dent in the ongoing real and thoroughly unacceptable damage problems .The killing fields ---
Colloids will not kill the reef ( my work is with soil, water and plants) but panic will waste another opportunity to do something well and truly satisfying.---and it the right place and time .
I wish you well in your quest
Sunday, May 24, 2015
Confusing ourselves
I like it when Arts grads like Art , but I would, if I was Mark Scott, insist they limit their appreciation to some Good Art that's gone before. If ABC reactionaries don't grow up soon they will have forgotten that despite the inadequate of the past , there was some good succinct stuff that we learnt from our parents , and they theirs.
This shallow excuse of "evolving progress" is not demonstatable and its annoying because most of us know better; we know better than to have faith in mere mechanism . Its a god assumption - Ok if that god is that capable . Clearly its leadng the left into a false hope in the power of government and the higher taxes to do that
For a biologist like me, its altogether too much; Claiming evolution territory that noone really owns it doesn't even get past amino acids and adaption and its not faultless or visionary .
We don't see enough good old Art as it is /was ( meddle with Chesteron last week) on ABC which brings me to my second point .
That I wish ABC journos would stop trying to do science .They inevitably confuse correlation with causation . They only seem to have time for One "why" or "howasat" question ---- all they have time for before they "move on ". No wonder our kids and people aren't learning .
One question is, let me tell you , never enough for a thinking person, let alone a scientist . Sure journos can comment in their own right on" chances of this and chances of that " like Chris Uhlmann does ad infinitum -- but please ---not while reporting .
Suddenly whats happening in Ireland is important - of course;;;I see ;; they voted on gay marriage.To be really up with it, we suddenly do what the Irish do - its a bit irish isn't it ? Like Al Gore and investing in carbon stocks Or Greens and Green Labor ( Carbines and co in Victoria ) call for making water some years ago
If they rememeber , George Orwell suggests that game chasing is a perfect recipe for missing the scoop. Maybe they don't remember their science of good journalism -surely they don't believe this new counter cultural doctrine --"the latest innovations is best -- its evolving ???" Good science builds on work of others ..........dummies. Clearly its another example of confusing your own noted item of coorelation and calling it casuation--- wow .
What I hate ( cause it misleads listeners ) is the adjectives added to news reports. It not hard to tell which person "the reporter "doesn't like .
Eg the report on the brumbies in the high country cull tonight . "Politically that will never fly " Well neither would Jack sparrows dogs if it wasn't for Barnabys common sense attack on the Politically Correct . Behind , not outfront and prophetic Now we have to bludgeon Barnaby - unwatchable ABC
All it takes for evil to prosper is for the media to solve the worlds problems in a moment - their moment of fame or frame . Trade of beef to Indonesia another eg Population control amongst people on boats ( today)
Stop making fools of yourselves and do your jobs properly. Be truly part of the respectful of other professions in the clever country. How about you actually ring up someone OTHER than your favourites!!
Our children need real jobs so they can use their science training .Not you and the Greens and now Labors leader pretending to know things they don't. ( that he could solve the rfeuge crisis if only TONY would listen )
This shallow excuse of "evolving progress" is not demonstatable and its annoying because most of us know better; we know better than to have faith in mere mechanism . Its a god assumption - Ok if that god is that capable . Clearly its leadng the left into a false hope in the power of government and the higher taxes to do that
For a biologist like me, its altogether too much; Claiming evolution territory that noone really owns it doesn't even get past amino acids and adaption and its not faultless or visionary .
We don't see enough good old Art as it is /was ( meddle with Chesteron last week) on ABC which brings me to my second point .
That I wish ABC journos would stop trying to do science .They inevitably confuse correlation with causation . They only seem to have time for One "why" or "howasat" question ---- all they have time for before they "move on ". No wonder our kids and people aren't learning .
One question is, let me tell you , never enough for a thinking person, let alone a scientist . Sure journos can comment in their own right on" chances of this and chances of that " like Chris Uhlmann does ad infinitum -- but please ---not while reporting .
Suddenly whats happening in Ireland is important - of course;;;I see ;; they voted on gay marriage.To be really up with it, we suddenly do what the Irish do - its a bit irish isn't it ? Like Al Gore and investing in carbon stocks Or Greens and Green Labor ( Carbines and co in Victoria ) call for making water some years ago
If they rememeber , George Orwell suggests that game chasing is a perfect recipe for missing the scoop. Maybe they don't remember their science of good journalism -surely they don't believe this new counter cultural doctrine --"the latest innovations is best -- its evolving ???" Good science builds on work of others ..........dummies. Clearly its another example of confusing your own noted item of coorelation and calling it casuation--- wow .
What I hate ( cause it misleads listeners ) is the adjectives added to news reports. It not hard to tell which person "the reporter "doesn't like .
Eg the report on the brumbies in the high country cull tonight . "Politically that will never fly " Well neither would Jack sparrows dogs if it wasn't for Barnabys common sense attack on the Politically Correct . Behind , not outfront and prophetic Now we have to bludgeon Barnaby - unwatchable ABC
All it takes for evil to prosper is for the media to solve the worlds problems in a moment - their moment of fame or frame . Trade of beef to Indonesia another eg Population control amongst people on boats ( today)
Stop making fools of yourselves and do your jobs properly. Be truly part of the respectful of other professions in the clever country. How about you actually ring up someone OTHER than your favourites!!
Our children need real jobs so they can use their science training .Not you and the Greens and now Labors leader pretending to know things they don't. ( that he could solve the rfeuge crisis if only TONY would listen )
Sunday, April 26, 2015
Seriuosly stupid thinking
Is to assume Polys know what they are doing. Get that..
If you read no further ,,,, you won't waste any of your normal thinking time.
If you read no further ,,,, you won't waste any of your normal thinking time.
Careless talk on the subject of POLLUTION The faith is ---the market ( thats" the tram" and "the pricing" words)
he trusts the technology of markets ( like so many) . The problem is multifaceted
-if C02 is not the problem decades of rhetoric are wasted
-even if the way to deal with it is also completely obscured by faith ( as if breathing( stoma) , farting can be controlled by " the market ")
What the people want is not science but something really simple !
he trusts the technology of markets ( like so many) . The problem is multifaceted
-if C02 is not the problem decades of rhetoric are wasted
-even if the way to deal with it is also completely obscured by faith ( as if breathing( stoma) , farting can be controlled by " the market ")
What the people want is not science but something really simple !
If we are going to tell the truth here we need to be careful quoting any poly of any kind . Stick to science and not the technology for eg of how to reduce emmissions.
Technically C02 is NOT a pollutant .It is usually recycled being one of the most durable and safe and relaible associaites of living systems . It can be considered for example as a fertilizer . Double the conc of C02 in atmos and you double the rate of photosynthesis . [ C02] concentration is a rate limiting equation for most photosynthesis on the planet.
Technically C02 is NOT a pollutant .It is usually recycled being one of the most durable and safe and relaible associaites of living systems . It can be considered for example as a fertilizer . Double the conc of C02 in atmos and you double the rate of photosynthesis . [ C02] concentration is a rate limiting equation for most photosynthesis on the planet.
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Gluttony &Envy but who cares ? Sins are not serious anymore
That's what we hear from the TV --"The church wrong to frighten us with talk of sin" .The TV tries to say "Everything will work out fine really in the end" There no cliffs, only flat landscape to drive fast through when your God is a PhD . PhD Progressive hopeless Determinism -let me call it.
Hamlet saw this flat unweeded garden - why can't we ?
Her Seven deadly sins were like her picture of reality - an outside glance that's positive ....whatever is in the woods behind the trees, doesn't matter ; we have sunshine and grass on this landscape with comfortable chairs ,books and unreality. Dull and Flat up close but maybe curved on the horizon ?
On the book club ,to its all smiles, its late ,we only have 1/2 an hour and its fiction/fantasy after all . Not hard to see why determinists enjoy escape even more than we do -- the world according to them has been fixed in concrete formulae for eons --it will do what evolution means it to do and that 's that .
Mind over matter is useless chatter , so lets play with words and some more constructs, Reality is ..just steps and blocks , even if we talk the blocks (components of reality ) on the show ----- we know its only Lego and we are only doing child's play. Suits us.... its that time of night and maybe we in that mood ?
As Chesterton said , rather a philosophy that deals with the evil inside and finds something good there than one that is bright and positive on the outside --but never deals with the rottenness beyond skin deep. Trouble with breaking the surface is you maybe breaking bad; you don't know how deep you are going to go;-maybe one step too far ( now there is real fear territory) Maybe there are cliffs and no comeback ?
ABC Book club photos show them all smiling as they talk about and dismiss guilt and ineffectively try to explain it away - as children do. Guests too come unread and unaware of the soft floor and soft centred sweets when talking of sin.( The apple after all was sweet ) Lets dismiss what we don't like ; No such thing as temptation or restraint let alone good intent mixed with evil action. appetite rules so gluttony must be at least half positive Lets dismiss what can't be pushed into a simple equation 1+1=1. No tension when we are being pulled and drawn through history.
The phenomenon of superficial featured in all the episodes I saw = not getting to the gist of why a good God would make life better and easier by naming bad choices . Even kids today now talk more than her crew about it - call them" the breakout generation" and lets hope they get beyond the superficial.
Take Gluttony which is not about how much but about taking seriously our role as members of community ( the ecological view ). We are designed in the image of God to make things and to share them . Its not bad to have excess (Who wants the stupid stoicism and simplemath of marx when you are offeredand given the abundant life) Its just not good to keep the excess for yourself . Equations even tell us that . God is concerned if he's made you wealthy, how you use it . Equally God created the world not like some endless chocolate factory but with limits . We are are here to share and enjoy sharing like microbes and other " lower life ;' do . Scarcity and Abundance are normal parts of the cycle . Enough is not a threat- its our God given opportunity,
God made the world good- his rule for the stewards who have dominion is to share . He gives us ENOUGH - not all we want , but enough . Wise occupants of the planet know this and poor people know it best ( why is that ?) Why don't rich people get it and why do they seem not to have enough . Has someone deceived them , or have they deceived themselves about what they really need .
If Jennifer and her colleagues ever dig deep enough they will find that to really identify and hate sin is a positive thing cause its the real waste factor of life .
Practical example - we are in denial about what we and others really need ..
IF ABCTV had dug deep over the last decades, it might realise that its science programs on "need" ( Landline Quantum, Innovation news in Ag) are quite ill focused / distracted. The problem with food is NOT a science one ( higher production as the myth ) but a sharing one . All this concentration on getting more kg/ hectare has pushed the earth too far in the wrong direction - those hectares and that sin ( over the edge , what,s good turns bad; what threatens resilience limits ) .
Wrong prognosis of poverty traps has lead to even less wisdom in action - real waste. My generation have failed to progress the science of poverty. REAL progress is about the RIGHT direction . Real productivity is good; real waste is evil =sin . But we are not to know that via ABCTV . Hear about it here
Are we to to believe them when they assume that the best problem solving occurs when everyone goes off in their own chosen direction ? Whitehead saw this nonsense coming
"The church frightened us with talk of SIN " true .PhD's focus on the fear and miss the point of warning .
In denial it has to be that everything will work out fine. . It always does as their predictable god is named PhD Progressive if hopeless Determinism itself .(but also featureless and cruel to individuals ) The only trouble with this clear cause and effect religion is that it leaves us mere mortals and individuals out of the picture; so , maybe even atheists need a mind construct of their own to cope-- maybe they have to invent some power over evil of their own?-- books and fantasies ? .
Maybe too its just easier to just keep on ignoring the effects of sin, guilt ,anger hurt ,waste and robbery ( how did Seven deadly sins come up anyway?)
Maybe if we just keep acting on what we feel and spend the rest of our lives justifying why we let our hormones rule our heads. If that's progress and moving on ( Tony Jones favourite phrase 2 date ) I'm outta here.
PS On moving on. When something appears in the rear view mirror that we don't like , like the flashing red and blue ,it doesn't always help to speed up. It pays to slow down reflect and maybe even take a different route Good on it when government ministers stick to the real guns and are not tempted by fantasy, fatalism. and fast fixers
Hamlet saw this flat unweeded garden - why can't we ?
Our Jennifer Byrne ( ABCbookclub )has enough knowledge of the old civilization sustaining faith to know that we can and have over millennia now gone where angels fear to tread, She has not enough knowledge of the substance of sin to avoid falling through the cracks that angels and devils still know about .
Lots of light footed observers like her have their eye on " New ideas and so called science " and their feet firmly in publicly funded studios.
Science doesn't always help us decide when mind over matter matters . Infact, the greatest advocates this century of PhD were tyrants . Angels , evil and devils still exist - kids know it ( games dress and in house talk) even if their parents are in denial about it -esp in own household where it matters
Presumably her regular colleagues couldn't cope with her fearless foray into real fear territory , but then, she never got there anyway . Playing around the edges on the The Book Club ABCLots of light footed observers like her have their eye on " New ideas and so called science " and their feet firmly in publicly funded studios.
Science doesn't always help us decide when mind over matter matters . Infact, the greatest advocates this century of PhD were tyrants . Angels , evil and devils still exist - kids know it ( games dress and in house talk) even if their parents are in denial about it -esp in own household where it matters
Her Seven deadly sins were like her picture of reality - an outside glance that's positive ....whatever is in the woods behind the trees, doesn't matter ; we have sunshine and grass on this landscape with comfortable chairs ,books and unreality. Dull and Flat up close but maybe curved on the horizon ?
On the book club ,to its all smiles, its late ,we only have 1/2 an hour and its fiction/fantasy after all . Not hard to see why determinists enjoy escape even more than we do -- the world according to them has been fixed in concrete formulae for eons --it will do what evolution means it to do and that 's that .
Mind over matter is useless chatter , so lets play with words and some more constructs, Reality is ..just steps and blocks , even if we talk the blocks (components of reality ) on the show ----- we know its only Lego and we are only doing child's play. Suits us.... its that time of night and maybe we in that mood ?
As Chesterton said , rather a philosophy that deals with the evil inside and finds something good there than one that is bright and positive on the outside --but never deals with the rottenness beyond skin deep. Trouble with breaking the surface is you maybe breaking bad; you don't know how deep you are going to go;-maybe one step too far ( now there is real fear territory) Maybe there are cliffs and no comeback ?
ABC Book club photos show them all smiling as they talk about and dismiss guilt and ineffectively try to explain it away - as children do. Guests too come unread and unaware of the soft floor and soft centred sweets when talking of sin.( The apple after all was sweet ) Lets dismiss what we don't like ; No such thing as temptation or restraint let alone good intent mixed with evil action. appetite rules so gluttony must be at least half positive Lets dismiss what can't be pushed into a simple equation 1+1=1. No tension when we are being pulled and drawn through history.
The phenomenon of superficial featured in all the episodes I saw = not getting to the gist of why a good God would make life better and easier by naming bad choices . Even kids today now talk more than her crew about it - call them" the breakout generation" and lets hope they get beyond the superficial.
Take Gluttony which is not about how much but about taking seriously our role as members of community ( the ecological view ). We are designed in the image of God to make things and to share them . Its not bad to have excess (Who wants the stupid stoicism and simplemath of marx when you are offeredand given the abundant life) Its just not good to keep the excess for yourself . Equations even tell us that . God is concerned if he's made you wealthy, how you use it . Equally God created the world not like some endless chocolate factory but with limits . We are are here to share and enjoy sharing like microbes and other " lower life ;' do . Scarcity and Abundance are normal parts of the cycle . Enough is not a threat- its our God given opportunity,
God made the world good- his rule for the stewards who have dominion is to share . He gives us ENOUGH - not all we want , but enough . Wise occupants of the planet know this and poor people know it best ( why is that ?) Why don't rich people get it and why do they seem not to have enough . Has someone deceived them , or have they deceived themselves about what they really need .
If Jennifer and her colleagues ever dig deep enough they will find that to really identify and hate sin is a positive thing cause its the real waste factor of life .
Practical example - we are in denial about what we and others really need ..
IF ABCTV had dug deep over the last decades, it might realise that its science programs on "need" ( Landline Quantum, Innovation news in Ag) are quite ill focused / distracted. The problem with food is NOT a science one ( higher production as the myth ) but a sharing one . All this concentration on getting more kg/ hectare has pushed the earth too far in the wrong direction - those hectares and that sin ( over the edge , what,s good turns bad; what threatens resilience limits ) .
Wrong prognosis of poverty traps has lead to even less wisdom in action - real waste. My generation have failed to progress the science of poverty. REAL progress is about the RIGHT direction . Real productivity is good; real waste is evil =sin . But we are not to know that via ABCTV . Hear about it here
Are we to to believe them when they assume that the best problem solving occurs when everyone goes off in their own chosen direction ? Whitehead saw this nonsense coming
"The church frightened us with talk of SIN " true .PhD's focus on the fear and miss the point of warning .
Maybe too its just easier to just keep on ignoring the effects of sin, guilt ,anger hurt ,waste and robbery ( how did Seven deadly sins come up anyway?)
Maybe if we just keep acting on what we feel and spend the rest of our lives justifying why we let our hormones rule our heads. If that's progress and moving on ( Tony Jones favourite phrase 2 date ) I'm outta here.
PS On moving on. When something appears in the rear view mirror that we don't like , like the flashing red and blue ,it doesn't always help to speed up. It pays to slow down reflect and maybe even take a different route Good on it when government ministers stick to the real guns and are not tempted by fantasy, fatalism. and fast fixers
Monday, May 26, 2014
Haven't you sold it all yet ?
One day our parliament will realise the consequence of not believing in its role as owner and gatekeeper will be that its off the main highway . Sounded like a good idea at the time .
Not only have we have sold the Telecom lines to some rich capitalist, but somehow that new philosophy of ownership means that that capitalist purchased the right to employ his servants to ring us over tea time to join the chorus of business quacks to tell us how some new fear should envelop us .
Tonight I had a call from a servant determined to give me some free light bulbs-
"I don't care how many globes you give me mate" - I don't want to support the Govt. to try and persuade me it knows what's good for me .
Worse, business sure knows how to drum up business - get us worried about something.
I thought we put the Libs in to stop this presumption and give us back our freedom to be good , our freedom to learn ( so we didn't fear ) and our freedom to put our own choice of globes in .
Not only have we have sold the Telecom lines to some rich capitalist, but somehow that new philosophy of ownership means that that capitalist purchased the right to employ his servants to ring us over tea time to join the chorus of business quacks to tell us how some new fear should envelop us .
Tonight I had a call from a servant determined to give me some free light bulbs-
"I don't care how many globes you give me mate" - I don't want to support the Govt. to try and persuade me it knows what's good for me .
Worse, business sure knows how to drum up business - get us worried about something.
I thought we put the Libs in to stop this presumption and give us back our freedom to be good , our freedom to learn ( so we didn't fear ) and our freedom to put our own choice of globes in .
Monday, April 28, 2014
Edge or Centre politics
Most politicians are easily confused. ( partly because even good ones have lots to think about ) When they talk the value of diversity( Proverbs 11:14) but don't practice it ( like now) best ,I feel, to refer to someone who observes one of their key church doctrines ( well at least Capitalism) with some objectivity. Lester Thurow .
Thurow is his imaginative work on the Future of Capitalism makes some very telling points about the cost of not using older trained people into old age . It costs a fortune to educate one person and yet the way the government follows the quick fixers ( pges 286 etc of his book) to take over , its no wonder Joe Hockey has finally realised they need to very positively encourage SOME people to stay in the workforce ( esp desperately lean public service in some areas like environment) till they are 70's --typically the liberal dummies think they can motivate us with mere money!
Not that reading Hockey an dthe others know what they are missing now it gone . maybe its just that 4/5 of people are looking to the pension and SKIING through the later years and te realization that like Labour they have no effective long term savings policy
tI was forced out at 56 with at least 20 of my best years to my first love -- service of the public good. They like the PPublic service "of now, hardly know the fun of saving a dollar before you make a dollar . All they know about is handing out our dollars . All the fun jobs are gone when all you see all day is accountants studying 2 columns ( and out of context)
Letter to the editor
If Vic Libs want a sure way to win the November election they should ditch the monitoring disease that insults the initiative and sense of responsibility of our talented and trained citizens . The disease and its cause "misanthropy" were so well named by ( Brendan O Neill on ABC's Q&A last week . Whether its the fisherman at Apollo Bay or the teacher trying to teach, the distrust and monitor madness is killing initiative and common sense.
So why is this now , the most unproductive exercise in the country , still being pushed by polys of all kinds. We know they don't trust us, but does this glass half empty downer have something to do with they fact that they don't know very much , and a pile of stats is better than what they have to go on otherwise .
Either way, we deserve better treatment so we aren't spending our lives trying to show we are competent to those who are not- to those who think accountability is about filling out forms.
Thurow is his imaginative work on the Future of Capitalism makes some very telling points about the cost of not using older trained people into old age . It costs a fortune to educate one person and yet the way the government follows the quick fixers ( pges 286 etc of his book) to take over , its no wonder Joe Hockey has finally realised they need to very positively encourage SOME people to stay in the workforce ( esp desperately lean public service in some areas like environment) till they are 70's --typically the liberal dummies think they can motivate us with mere money!
Not that reading Hockey an dthe others know what they are missing now it gone . maybe its just that 4/5 of people are looking to the pension and SKIING through the later years and te realization that like Labour they have no effective long term savings policy
tI was forced out at 56 with at least 20 of my best years to my first love -- service of the public good. They like the PPublic service "of now, hardly know the fun of saving a dollar before you make a dollar . All they know about is handing out our dollars . All the fun jobs are gone when all you see all day is accountants studying 2 columns ( and out of context)
Letter to the editor
If Vic Libs want a sure way to win the November election they should ditch the monitoring disease that insults the initiative and sense of responsibility of our talented and trained citizens . The disease and its cause "misanthropy" were so well named by ( Brendan O Neill on ABC's Q&A last week . Whether its the fisherman at Apollo Bay or the teacher trying to teach, the distrust and monitor madness is killing initiative and common sense.
So why is this now , the most unproductive exercise in the country , still being pushed by polys of all kinds. We know they don't trust us, but does this glass half empty downer have something to do with they fact that they don't know very much , and a pile of stats is better than what they have to go on otherwise .
Either way, we deserve better treatment so we aren't spending our lives trying to show we are competent to those who are not- to those who think accountability is about filling out forms.
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Most polys don't deserve the job - they don't ask enough questions
It has always been the role of Western governments to anticipate risks for the sake of its people . Thats one way they have helped BUILD and lead highly productive ( in both the short and long term ) countries with sound health and environment policies.
We think the Greens are bad for losing faith in our history of effectiveness in this ( which means losing faith in our training and governing methods) -You don't believe me tell me HOW they would run " the education revolution " and see if you would vote for their suggestions ! Naturally the ABC Big Ideas hasn't tested the water on this , even though its suddenly realised recently that its "dangerous new ideas"( not highly inflated concepts of Big ideas ?) that are really critical in the history of sustainable change .
But the Liberals are just as bad . Having caught the same disease of self abnegation about themsleves ( not admitted of course) parliament and the people, they have been hellbent on demolishing the systems of learning training and disciplining as well.Some CEO , by definition, is supposed to know hat he's doing . Like some quiet revolution, many Libs, if they ever thought about what they say they believe in, would be happy with no government.They are the dummies who gave us excessive faith in CEO's - a top down "we know what we are doing "CEO culture .
You want an example - take The idea of improving water supply
specifically Take the way both sets of ignoramuses have let Coca Cola Advertisers and Pure water manufacturers steal our children's right to a panic free future with OUR rain. We now pay really big for NO apparent or known RISK factors.
All you need to make money out of the consumer and keep your party in the media spotlight these days is to create a bit of fear .The wannabes aren't wise enough to know either way - nothing new there.
What's new about this pathetic lot of wannabes is that they no longer care that they are "ill advised" And so then where "the public health benefit system" when the public needs em? ---when the vulnerable audience to " authority " need a good cooling off over media induced panic and a little bit of common sense talk about real risk levels. .
Democracy dies ,not with a bomb, but with wimps (afraid to ask questions and challenge the popular myth)
We think the Greens are bad for losing faith in our history of effectiveness in this ( which means losing faith in our training and governing methods) -You don't believe me tell me HOW they would run " the education revolution " and see if you would vote for their suggestions ! Naturally the ABC Big Ideas hasn't tested the water on this , even though its suddenly realised recently that its "dangerous new ideas"( not highly inflated concepts of Big ideas ?) that are really critical in the history of sustainable change .
But the Liberals are just as bad . Having caught the same disease of self abnegation about themsleves ( not admitted of course) parliament and the people, they have been hellbent on demolishing the systems of learning training and disciplining as well.Some CEO , by definition, is supposed to know hat he's doing . Like some quiet revolution, many Libs, if they ever thought about what they say they believe in, would be happy with no government.They are the dummies who gave us excessive faith in CEO's - a top down "we know what we are doing "CEO culture .
You want an example - take The idea of improving water supply
specifically Take the way both sets of ignoramuses have let Coca Cola Advertisers and Pure water manufacturers steal our children's right to a panic free future with OUR rain. We now pay really big for NO apparent or known RISK factors.
All you need to make money out of the consumer and keep your party in the media spotlight these days is to create a bit of fear .The wannabes aren't wise enough to know either way - nothing new there.
What's new about this pathetic lot of wannabes is that they no longer care that they are "ill advised" And so then where "the public health benefit system" when the public needs em? ---when the vulnerable audience to " authority " need a good cooling off over media induced panic and a little bit of common sense talk about real risk levels. .
Democracy dies ,not with a bomb, but with wimps (afraid to ask questions and challenge the popular myth)
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Leaders need all the help they can get
And can be at their worst when they don't know so . When they don't listen to someone who says yes Minister BUT . or .
You may not have ever been close enough to see how stupidity "is reasoned " but let me tell you one common way i have seen many times .
Why did our forefathers encourage us to pray for our leaders? Leaders need all the help they can get and they at least knew that .
You may not have ever been close enough to see how stupidity "is reasoned " but let me tell you one common way i have seen many times .
- A leader who thinks he can improve on the actual process of governance can get him into big trouble .( Reflect on Churchill s'quote ) By paying consultants instead of consulting the people ( Proverbs 11:14 -written on the floor of parliament) leaders can get a false sense of security .
- Never assume that a popular solution will work because ours and their calling is to consider oikonomic matters very carefully .http://ecomia.blogspot.com .
Why did our forefathers encourage us to pray for our leaders? Leaders need all the help they can get and they at least knew that .
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Microfinancing is fine but its finite in focus
The model for 99% of the economy might not be workable for 1% at one end -The really productive and really risky bit .
Microfinancing will not address primary production poverty on its own .The role of government is critical there . The conversation in the home of blunt instruments could almost be irrelevant not exist when so many are living off margins of 10% or larger . With returns to capital of less than 2% rural land producers need solid ownership ,capital , inheritance and ..land use laws ( focus more on capital security rather than income security)
Economic policy which does not look at a capital security as well as income security is cheap , blinkered and nasty.
"Microfinancing is a great thing to rebadge finance to help development happen ,but the best of the West means government also get involved both to avoid cannibalization ,leverage and constitutional security for the benefit of the family the new bank is focused on helping . eg savings and loan in the US - no one noticed that real productivity on the ground was no longer the focus .
Government is also needed to avoid new banks going to industry sectors that pay well consistently and avoiding those who need both long term support but long term capital security in ownership and laws which limit their high exposure to risk.
New banks always needed to focus on real productivity but
Rural.land producers need MORE more than handouts and loans at rates of say 5% that any secondary industry can easily cope with .
Focusing on farmers will send new banks broke . All industry is not the same and for the first time in history only the citizens and benefactors of the modern industrial estate think that one model of success and sustainability can work
Short term gain in support can clearly lead to long term pain in productivity.
Silly stupid sectors call for more money for areas of need ONLY . Screw our most productive sector any more and it will shrink like it is now.
Microfinancing will not address primary production poverty on its own .The role of government is critical there . The conversation in the home of blunt instruments could almost be irrelevant not exist when so many are living off margins of 10% or larger . With returns to capital of less than 2% rural land producers need solid ownership ,capital , inheritance and ..land use laws ( focus more on capital security rather than income security)
Economic policy which does not look at a capital security as well as income security is cheap , blinkered and nasty.
"Microfinancing is a great thing to rebadge finance to help development happen ,but the best of the West means government also get involved both to avoid cannibalization ,leverage and constitutional security for the benefit of the family the new bank is focused on helping . eg savings and loan in the US - no one noticed that real productivity on the ground was no longer the focus .
Government is also needed to avoid new banks going to industry sectors that pay well consistently and avoiding those who need both long term support but long term capital security in ownership and laws which limit their high exposure to risk.
New banks always needed to focus on real productivity but
Rural.land producers need MORE more than handouts and loans at rates of say 5% that any secondary industry can easily cope with .
Focusing on farmers will send new banks broke . All industry is not the same and for the first time in history only the citizens and benefactors of the modern industrial estate think that one model of success and sustainability can work
Short term gain in support can clearly lead to long term pain in productivity.
Silly stupid sectors call for more money for areas of need ONLY . Screw our most productive sector any more and it will shrink like it is now.
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Sustainable or screw you jack economics ?
Trickle down doesn't always work. Blaming rich people prevents a focus on the real reasons it doesn't work. I propose a reform that might help better target the confusion.
The trickle down squash effect.
You heard it first on blogger 20th July 2012 ( Note its not meant to address urban and non rural realities )
The idea being that competition policy has its limits - quite natural limits . While it can work up top in retail and construction (where margins are more predictable and products more durable) at the top, ---the uncertainties at the bottom put far too much pressure on the land and those who work the land .
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The people who feed us are often very poor and the way to reduce this huge destabilizing thing is for the 90% of people who live in cities to "not screw " the environment and those who seek to care for it . Screwing the system is acceptable in some industries but not clearly in agriculture,where margins are seldom predictable and often negative. The supply and demand curves provide succour only for speculators !( please note that in gambling only the fastest, most focused and most well heeled can be expected to win ; the hangers on and the trickle down addicts are their own worst enemies )
All industry is not the same and its not sensible to assume the people will benefit by screwing the lot ;governments love affair with market economics and the easy and quick dollar is a big problem here in australia .http://govtisnotbusiness.blogspot.com .
Sound life and economic activity builds on diversity, not uniformity. Sharing not screwing the system .
We producers are, like the Afgans, under pressure to all end up growing opium and fuel for the rich if the quick fix market gurus keep having their way
Monday, June 25, 2012
The Age woes
The Age's problems are not about its independence ( hasn't shown much in some areas now for a long time ) but about the ability of the profession to put all sides ( diversity ) Where is the Age 's own version of ABolt ? There are a few dissidents within the fold , I must agree, but that's not the point .
The views are not meant to be inside the paper's minds, but outside them.
Any good journo can put the sides forward . THE Age just hasn't told the other half of some critical local story for decades . Like ABCTV , many of us have grown up with relying on the AGE and the ABC for informed comment on the issues of the day .Maybe the Age has been too close to the railway and not close enough to the stations?
However , in the last ten years I have dropped my subscription to the Age and now get the Australian ( Brandis's sound point on the difference on qanda) The Age in my area of work is not only highly predictable and too simple , but just does not respond to requests to put the other side of the story - THE AGE has not been publishing half the story for decades- say in Fyffe's territory
2005 the limits of the vilification laws ; the pedantry and poor focus of using VCAT to run trials , 2007 the unquestioning acceptance of the god assumption with making water instead of conserving and recycling water ; 2008 the wonthaggi white elephant ; 2009 the inevatble disaster of allowing the people to think themselves safe in the sacred forest ; 2010 the lack of pointed comment of the government at white washed royal commission findings; 2011 the inevitable loss of power by Labor who were unwarned and overly comfortable in their ignorance.
Brandis was only half right last night on Qand A. The future is a bit about quality, but it's more about diversity. What the Internet lacks in quality it more than makes up for in diversity and genuine disputability.
Neither the Age nor the Age currently make room for the latter . They MUST NOW do so -------to survive let alone retain relevance !
Diversity is more important than quality just like Voltaire might have said to Brandis and Tim . "Don't hang it on him for HOW he said it , hang it on him for any lack of truth in what he said ."
Until both polys and wannabes recognise their job is to take and put " much advice ", thus correct , reform and refine they will continue to be both out of touch and out the door; Irrelevant and out of touch - many like them about !
There is a God and He doesn't live in houses and institutions made by man.
Do we want THE AGE to survive? you bet we do . But not as a vehicle for insiders views . We want THE AGE to reform itself - keep the backbone, but ditch the predictable pitches/ pitchers.
Friday, June 08, 2012
Warm water taxes
Australia's current Labor government and their advisers are desperate. They have "Change" on their minds and Change it will be . The only problem is that the things they have tried to help change , evolutionary (philo) and otherwise are not working and getting less and less effective ( media campaigns)in the convincing stakes - the supposedly natural process needs some anthro po morphic help- BUT which has the better reputation for winning ?Which would you choose,(human or the hidden mechanism ?) or would you be looking for another?
The people are no longer accepting the ABC and particular parties as God like in all this . About time because they ,if they stopped watching the sermons for a while , and returned to thinking for themselves they would realise they never really trusted the political agencies before. The scared alliance of ABC/Left though on Q&A is a tough beast because it uses the general respect we have for the ABC to lever "the cause barrow" of those who would never,unlike SBS, allow the debate to be run by mere scientists ( whom they say they respect, but don't if they don't agree with them )
The most telling aspect of their grand scheme running out of ammo is their now almost total reliance on cost incentives to motivate . We would have told them years ago that such things are wrong both culturally and morally because they hide the blame for poor choices in the household budget -its a simple and as stupid as that . By the way, how high does the price of pain have to go, to work-to be effective ?
We are already paying more to buy God given water that we pay to process it with poo in it .Vic water plans this week.
Somehow we as a family are responsible ( not the govt ) for wasting resources and WE must pay . While of course there is some truth in that resoeurce rent taxes can be justified ( eg on fuel) the effectiveness of taxing the poor differentially is that the poor feel it and the rich and wasteful DO NOT . For a labor government to run this crap highlights a low point in its history. We are not supposed to notice these taxes OR waste in bureau they will create.
All parties must regain a higher view of man if they are to motivate us all in ways that worked before . Without such a World View, we are headed for more dictation and crass autocracy .
During the Kennett led decline ,education became the focus, but this denies the denial risks we health professionals always see lurking - something that some parties now make a big thing of . Like doctors we can't say our clients can be trusted to be objective about their health or their eco resources health; Its about objectivity and sound foundations.
If you look closely you will see that the educational focus of government has declined and both Labor and green policy are NOW very coercive.As health professionals our clients do not need to be told all about blood pressure as much as they just need to be told what to STOP doing !The new boys are are learning the lesson that you must not rely on the media - they can be more fickle than the public
The current governments crass reliance on warm water taxes (Copyright EA 9th June 2012)and cost driven pressure points is in itself unsustainable; how much does a packet of cigaretes have to cost before people stop smoking ?) .
It now costs more to buy water than to treat the wastewater( vic) Governments are, like media, now desperate to find ways to motivate people .Objective Care ( even coercive care) is the most effective because its sees the hard choices with benefits at the end ( what study and science does ) and it is proactive and preventative to boot . These matters basic to professional health care are being lost to our collective wisdom on the subject of env, if not to human health care.
Not that conservatives know any better ( and maybe care less about scarcity and sharing and waste???) This is blatantly obvious in the Victorian Government ,who with Kennett and Walsh thought they had solved alll the green problems last time around . As dumb modern apologists for industry , some Liberals have put all their eggs in one basket; like so many they think corporate responsibility ( sack the CEO )will create heaven when a really credible way of encouraging personal responsibility and sound training of public servants has to be there; only PR will create the best of all systems of democracy that have been tried . In their hypocritical criticisms of public servants they have trashed professionalism and sound science within it , created an unsustainable and ignorant management class, Class acts have walked off the job and they think performance testing will work .Talk about upsetting the teachers for no good reason !Business in not govt
Many operatives in environment are not qualified to make tough scientific decisions so the job ahead for the States is enormous .
Is the incompetence of the States big enough to cause their own downfall ? In showing so little respect for building science in environment our pollies have left holes big enough for big machinery to drive straight through . Libs need to stop wrecking their home and rebuild it with the bricks their forefathers used .
The people are no longer accepting the ABC and particular parties as God like in all this . About time because they ,if they stopped watching the sermons for a while , and returned to thinking for themselves they would realise they never really trusted the political agencies before. The scared alliance of ABC/Left though on Q&A is a tough beast because it uses the general respect we have for the ABC to lever "the cause barrow" of those who would never,unlike SBS, allow the debate to be run by mere scientists ( whom they say they respect, but don't if they don't agree with them )
The most telling aspect of their grand scheme running out of ammo is their now almost total reliance on cost incentives to motivate . We would have told them years ago that such things are wrong both culturally and morally because they hide the blame for poor choices in the household budget -its a simple and as stupid as that . By the way, how high does the price of pain have to go, to work-to be effective ?
We are already paying more to buy God given water that we pay to process it with poo in it .Vic water plans this week.
Somehow we as a family are responsible ( not the govt ) for wasting resources and WE must pay . While of course there is some truth in that resoeurce rent taxes can be justified ( eg on fuel) the effectiveness of taxing the poor differentially is that the poor feel it and the rich and wasteful DO NOT . For a labor government to run this crap highlights a low point in its history. We are not supposed to notice these taxes OR waste in bureau they will create.
All parties must regain a higher view of man if they are to motivate us all in ways that worked before . Without such a World View, we are headed for more dictation and crass autocracy .
During the Kennett led decline ,education became the focus, but this denies the denial risks we health professionals always see lurking - something that some parties now make a big thing of . Like doctors we can't say our clients can be trusted to be objective about their health or their eco resources health; Its about objectivity and sound foundations.
If you look closely you will see that the educational focus of government has declined and both Labor and green policy are NOW very coercive.As health professionals our clients do not need to be told all about blood pressure as much as they just need to be told what to STOP doing !The new boys are are learning the lesson that you must not rely on the media - they can be more fickle than the public
It now costs more to buy water than to treat the wastewater( vic) Governments are, like media, now desperate to find ways to motivate people .Objective Care ( even coercive care) is the most effective because its sees the hard choices with benefits at the end ( what study and science does ) and it is proactive and preventative to boot . These matters basic to professional health care are being lost to our collective wisdom on the subject of env, if not to human health care.
Not that conservatives know any better ( and maybe care less about scarcity and sharing and waste???) This is blatantly obvious in the Victorian Government ,who with Kennett and Walsh thought they had solved alll the green problems last time around . As dumb modern apologists for industry , some Liberals have put all their eggs in one basket; like so many they think corporate responsibility ( sack the CEO )will create heaven when a really credible way of encouraging personal responsibility and sound training of public servants has to be there; only PR will create the best of all systems of democracy that have been tried . In their hypocritical criticisms of public servants they have trashed professionalism and sound science within it , created an unsustainable and ignorant management class, Class acts have walked off the job and they think performance testing will work .Talk about upsetting the teachers for no good reason !Business in not govt
Many operatives in environment are not qualified to make tough scientific decisions so the job ahead for the States is enormous .
Is the incompetence of the States big enough to cause their own downfall ? In showing so little respect for building science in environment our pollies have left holes big enough for big machinery to drive straight through . Libs need to stop wrecking their home and rebuild it with the bricks their forefathers used .
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