tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65640552024-03-07T00:23:32.399-08:00Moving targetsYou thought children were the only ones to change the goal posts on a whim? Try politicians on the subject of the environment and healthcare. Don't be tricked again into some " big immmediate imperative"; some fear , some fancy ,some half baked reaction. Join us in being ahead of the game - sponsored by Emperor's Academy. journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564055.post-29506925936573576132023-03-15T19:33:00.001-07:002023-03-15T19:33:11.548-07:00WE know the church has lost it way when it tries to be popular <p> Components of The Anglican Church want to change the way God followers talk about God so it fits in not with the context of whose talking about what then , but whose talking PC correctness now. <br /> Christ followers and the prophets of old have never been popular and the essence of spiritual truth peace and wholeness has never been obvious to the casual observer ; Those of us who know the deeper truths of following God know that God is not in your face or for sale ; we all still have questions but they are subsumed in a recognition that God is God and we need to trust God for some things. <br />This is quite logical if God is to be God and not the product of our own rationalizations.<br /><a href="https://markdurie.substack.com/p/divine-pronouns-let-god-decide/comments?utm_source=substack%2Csubstack&publication_id=1410246&post_id=108088058&utm_medium=email%2Cemail&isFreemail=true&comments=true" target="_blank">Mark Durie</a> does a great job of demolishing those who would presume to redefine our Creator's role and desire for all men and women ,too simple , too sexual and too much like human relationships. Fear and Love God above all things . </p>Little Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18149735103253911440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564055.post-34313473190338841272022-12-08T18:02:00.002-08:002022-12-14T21:57:03.372-08:00Why Agroecology is the new Agriculture <p><br /><br /><b>The present preoccupation of the Industrial West with getting the last drop out of the production process in Agriculture is wrong</b>. <br /><br />Who said this ? <br /><i>A group of professional scientists with a wide range of experience . Sure we may not always agree on much ( eg The how for example or all of the points below of mine ) but we agree on one thing ; (We had a 50 yr reunion of Melbourne University degree graduates a few weeks ago. </i><br /><br />The thing that still IS but not OUGHT to be is :<br /><br /><b>We agree THAT :<br />The present preoccupation of the Industrial West with getting the last drop out of the production process in Agriculture is wrong</b>. <br /><br />I won't give you all the reasons why because it would take far too long. <br />All YOU need to know is that for a much more sustainable world <br /> <br />There should be no more talk of <br /><br /></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>--How we need more kilograms per hectare to feed the world </li><li>--How we need to produce more kilograms per hectare for farmers to make a living. We can and should often pay them a little more to produce a little less. That's a matter of fine-tuning; something neither government's wannabes or the press are good at. </li><li>--Technical cures to the hunger problem when distribution, planning and proper pressure and payment is the issue for the modern era </li><li>--The need to just pay only the lowest price for food. ( a big ask ?) Pay a bit more and people get properly paid and when you can't afford it - you can't afford it. Eat something else ..that is cheaper. </li><li>--Trees are the ideal landscape when we live in the Savannah where there are sparse trees, a season for everything and most life is supported to live and die each year. </li><li>--Subsistence farming when natural recycling in ecosystems can be greatly assisted by engineering and transport and the suffering of living on the margins can be largely avoided.</li><li>--Careless use of the word toxic when every chemical has a lethal dose </li><li>--Widespread scarcity when there is widespread abundance. </li><li>--Widespread threats when there are usually only localized threats and agroecologists are good at anticipating and dealing with them. </li><li>--The growing need for government money when all farmers want is a fair price for their work. Just a little more than what the pure market might give them </li><li>--The inherent badness of profits and assets. Profit is, with land, the rare cash bit after costs are deducted and it's not much anywhere in Agriculture ( historically, the return to capital on farms all around the world is less than 5%) </li><li>--The growing need for government intervention when governments are known, unlike industry, for wasting money on missed targets. </li><li>--City-based fears about the risk of some environmental threat when farmers with that threat closely every day, and acroecologist's over a lifetime.</li><li>--No need for professional ecologists - thoroughly trained and experienced agroecologists when most people recognize the need for them to be on the ground; to protect and enhance the ecosystems of our sensitive world. </li><li>--"The ideal of only natural systems agriculture" when, in Australia those natural systems ( like ants, droughts, leaching and burning ) have degraded soils in ways that can often be reversed and by acceptable risk methods.</li><li>--Resilience by those who never test or allow testing and pressure on living systems</li><li>--How wonderful celebrations about new ways to make the paddock more productive in the short term ,when the long term sustainable use is what should be celebrated </li><li>--How Landcare and volunteering can substitute for the long-term training in physics and chemistry that our forefathers paid dearly for and which is really NECESSARY if young people are really to help quell the city's fears about risk taking with the NECESSARY environmental pressures </li><li>--Resilience and risk taking ..without accepting the agro-ecologists view of how it's done and who is to author it ( via for example the planning scheme)</li><li>--Just letting farmers do what they like, when they do take high risks, The city audience does need to be convinced that landowners and big businesses are accountable in a world which is risk-averse and fearful. Farmers need people who understand and can defend their actions when they are dealing with risk to vulnerable ecosystems that are owned by everybody.</li></ol><p></p><p>That is --the world needs more Agroecologists <br />That's another thing we agree upon, <br />There should be more of us ( including your children) and we should be out there to ensure that proper risk and resilience actions are taken with our earth, its biodiversity and its protection and wilding when necessary. </p>Little Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18149735103253911440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564055.post-54192221671677635392022-12-02T14:48:00.007-08:002024-01-15T14:42:46.269-08:00Always a new way to change the world -- <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3B-_0r7WeOJZWSU1VJ-OTk6xd1pSdt1m31nwPSA20fL5A5oMKHgOlbhHby5_Vr4kE-mCyNH0U25-wbFay0elRXFRMIAiJYjNSorOx3vSHtchwRW2vrPvcFj1wGr2bbkGcC5gABIghohU2A_RsKYUtHLEQ401ZHCKeo8NHgKOMs0PjiIqEIw/s935/geneticliteracyconfusion.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="555" data-original-width="935" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3B-_0r7WeOJZWSU1VJ-OTk6xd1pSdt1m31nwPSA20fL5A5oMKHgOlbhHby5_Vr4kE-mCyNH0U25-wbFay0elRXFRMIAiJYjNSorOx3vSHtchwRW2vrPvcFj1wGr2bbkGcC5gABIghohU2A_RsKYUtHLEQ401ZHCKeo8NHgKOMs0PjiIqEIw/s320/geneticliteracyconfusion.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> "That I invented" ,.How sad is this constant imposition of our own vanity on the unsolved problems of others . <br /><br />And that will fail , like all before , because <a href="http://misplacedconcreteness.blogspot.com">the science is incomplete </a><br />I am here quoting myself in response to yet another confused contribution to CO2 reduction and its shaky focus today in"soil regenerative agriculture", let alone management of human understanding and behavior . <br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p>This strange mismatch, if anything is an example of the many unprofitable new attempts to match science and philosophy and reflects the deeper truth that questions of world view are actually more critical in restoring balance on the ground than many people managers every realize. <br />Polys don't know what they are doing , but they will never admit it . Their daily torrents are products of a technological worship society who search the screen. They join with the popular but drug induced dose of being wasteful; just collector's of ingredients and authors of the resulting technicolor yawns ( aussie expression ) .</p><p>Each tried and tested recipe of faith has its own way of making life work easier, but <br /><br /><b>The no faith no value no patience try before properly tested values of our day</b> just leads to the values / technique mess we are now in where governments change values and techniques daily. <br /><br />AND we and our children pay for it . Lets get serious--- this is wrong . SKIING spending the kids inheritance ; giving them jobs in cleaning up the mess ( reactive ) <b>not precision careers in Science </b>. </p><p>Dumb post Christian politicians eager to straighten up what cannot be easily untwisted do not recognize that the human condition is the stumbling block to progress-- not science. "<br /><br /></p><p> This website is a new and welcome site .</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Little Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18149735103253911440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564055.post-14171632923282500712022-02-11T15:32:00.001-08:002022-02-11T15:34:47.952-08:00Liberal progressives are some of the most lazy and pathetic people <p> As Rowan Dean pointed out only yesterday on SKY NEWS, the lazy thinking well-heeled libs are really the most backward of any wannabes in their thinking and moral commitment ( the two go together?) It should be shocking!!!</p><p>The recent group of rebels ( over an issue they don't understand ) like the less smart Turnbull, lied to the the party by seeking to change the party from within with ideas that aren't the values and methods of the party.<br />They should resign B4 they will be seen to be the pathetic one eyed one issue people they are. <br /><br />Liberals, like all people we admire, are at their best when they don't lie to themselves; and at their very worst when they do. When they don't allow the ends in their meager and minor target minds to justify the means. <br /><br />These rich in name only types want to, after ripping off the world, pretend they can change it - such blatant hypocrisy. We pray these twits don't ruin the conservative parties future <br />And they do it in the name of causes and fears that don't stand up to scrutiny in any practical thinking group. eg that "religious" people aren't entitled to protection from discrimination .by letting themselves be worried by the idea of religion as poison ( Not something practical psyches accept) and copycat crap about decarbonizing and Net-zero, they show themselves even more incompetent than that short of short Shorten.<br /><br />The really troubling thing for most of us who want to support conservatives is <b>Morrisons </b>vulnerability to soft headed thinking. <br />One can only imagine that he still doesn't see the false shallow faith of most progressives and technique worshipers ( practical people don't wish things they design things ) .<br />WE know these people as shallow just as earlier leaders saw them as destined to remain incompetent because of their lives/minds being constrained by dilatancy - pretending to understand complex issues when they clearly don't. Spurred on by their heretical and doomed religion of " automatic progress".<br /><br />Sadly,it does seem to many people ( years of training by TV advertisers ?) that the worst thing one can be is a bit backward = slow to change. Its this stupidity that has led to an education system being fascination focused rather than competency focused - as Asians and our neglect of historical studies are demonstrating. <br /><br />I understand how young Libs want to be progressive about care of the earth issues BUT they mustn't fall for the left's common myth - that you can solve these things without intensive cooperative, boring STUDY . <br /><i><b>Naming the issue is NOTHING but they make it everything. </b></i><br />Watch Albo try to make most of fusion before the election . Morrison needs to get in first because the public are impatient for answers that work(which nuclear power does and is in his orbit ) <br /><br />Politics follows competency - it seldom leads it, as the group of increasingly airy airy types who dare to go where Hacker should fear to tread let themselves believe.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p>Little Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18149735103253911440noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564055.post-14762603514856972422022-01-12T22:12:00.012-08:002022-01-14T01:37:08.473-08:00We are about to see through The Emperors new clothes. <p>Been the best of times for Emperor's around the world for the last 2 years .<br />Never before ,in the history of the West, have so many been expected to front up to the world with their latest creations. And never before has it gone down so well . <br />.Never have these well dressed people been so popular. <br />Never has there been so much NEW clothes work generated around trying to stop COVID<br /><br />It couldn't of course last ,and few of us who have seen these games being played before simply can't believe its gone on for this long. The phrases they are now using were written in the book on Corona viruses over 50years ago . "Ever changing, as are the antigen requirements" . <br /><br />Strangely to those of us who actually have produced a result , there is still no talk of cost benefit - we hope that will come, but its not going to make the meddlers look good. so it may not happen . <br /><br />The Emperors and their advisors don't really know what they are doing (and have been doing) but it hasn't seemed to matter; each week a new problem and a new solution are required -Such is our addiction to a faith in automatic progress with change that the lack of a stable target is, sadly ) not of concern to most people .</p><p> .All we need to keep the crisis going is new clothes . </p><p>The truth would have outed earlier except for the media feeding frenzy and the public myth making that we can stop something that we have always" had to live with ". ( Finally today the Prime Minister used that very phrase -- about time).|<br />read about the disease in earlier posts .<br />The new old elements in this case are in order <br /></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>THE EVIL AGENT instead of being sold for what it is ( one of a KNOWN range of lung threats with ecologies to match ) the Premier of Victoria decides to call it A NEW and EVIL agent needing ELIMINATION - hence testing and tracing . His idea his twist. </li><li>ELIMINATION becomes the ANSWER </li><li>When Andrews ( leading the quick fiz) realized elimination of his evil agent was not going to happen, he QUICKFIXLY moved to NEW - he chose the only option he could see VACCINATION </li><li> But to be ahead of everyone else ( ie NEW ) he nominated MANDITORY VACCINATION even though vaccination of itself ,seemed reasonable. Mandatory did not, but it was NEW <br /></li><li>MANDITORY VACCINATION will presumably be seen in history as the name of Andrews answer naming train . It doesn't matter and it never matters whether it works or is a clear example of over reach. He has done it all before, as have others .<br /><b> The only thing that matters is to be the first, and Andrews is the leader in that expensive nonsense.This nonsense is only possible because of a high level of scientific illiteracy and argument from authority /agenda control acceptance across the population. </b><br />Interestingly RAT testing may mean a quicker end to the crisis, simply because the States will lose credibility, as their preoccupation with testing and tracing will be seen more clearly to be the reactive, overreach, irresponsible and unproductive approach it has been ..</li></ol><br /><br /><br /><i>Now that the panic is nearly over , only the laggard Emperors will state the obvious without realizing it/ . As they say " we have to live with it " <br /> Having done my job of asking questions and seen the mythmaking out of control , I still , as a prevention advisor think I must have been be mad in tis case , to have thought polys could moves fast enough to actually be ahead of the fixing game . The Feds haven't helped one bit. <br />There were times when my job of changing direction worked . but you have to have the Minister in the palm of your hand at that moment - and i should have realized that the times you get to nip the nonsense in the bud are not likely to last . I am a slow learner too in some areas - you can tell them , but they won't always listen and other advisors will get his attention. The majority of advisors move the minority out by sheer weight , it seems .The simple cultivate the simple . <br /><br />'We are going to have to live with it" Telling us something we suspected when it first started , <br />In a move which is calculated to give the leading ladies man the most points at this time , Mr Andrews keeps silent . </i><br /><br /> /<br /><p></p>journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564055.post-254883395079823852021-08-15T18:38:00.008-07:002021-08-15T20:59:45.920-07:00Some answers to questions would help - in the constant flood of new fixes <p> I have tried as a reasonable risk management expert to stay out of the incredible noisemaking and wild speculation by the born to worry warrior merchants over the last 18 months .I am not an antivaxxer but we need more clarity about the risks and where we are going with the latest "solutions ". </p> For 18months I have written to the so called experts each week in the hope of answers which would hopefully help me to support them . My questions were pretty basic questions ( see below) but like many statements that arise from the closeted boardroom of Victoria Ave they are not only not satisfying, the answers are incomplete: Romans 13 suggest public servants don't stop work until the questions are answered--esp when trying to keep order in a crisis. <br />I think due diligence and honesty on this would help calm the continuing panic and more importantly the mood of no cooperation. <br />.<br />Why no clear answers to some questions like Cost benefit and risk management ones ? Its also , as many of our leaders dont want to admit they don't know but that many wannabes do , just want to produce a statement a day . <br />Its possible that they in the city haven't got enough practical microbiologists to know what a real world biome looks like?? Do we get honest - "don't knows"? <br />They even ,against my advice , see other posts , use the precautionary principle and allow all sorts of unqualified staff to do the same,( Its a professional tool to be used only by the best --not a blanket do nothing tool) The PC clause justifies closure without reason, when reason would be expected to help with compliance . <br /><br />To use just one example . <b>the recent idea of a bubble</b> is shakier in concept than it ever was-- if its supposed to work . <br />Single people and the aged are ones most at risk, but somehow if they are not having sex with each other or they don't work for the government they create really big risks beyond that .Who drafts these endless redrafts? When the police committee finally got around to defining a bubble they make it only 2 people and only you and someone else .Its unworkable and doesn't allow people to show common sense in making risk management decisions of their own . <br />COVID is not the first time Premier Andrews, for example, has chosen coercion and fear therapy over education <br />Any way you know what I mean . unworkable and unfair and ultimately not weighing up the VARIUOS risks involved ( only deaths from COVID and even that we don't have that clear YET with comorbidities data ) . <br />Honest engagement and a full education ( deaths hospitalizations comorbidities across the world ) is still absent and needed. <br />While the attention seekers continue to assume control, the truth and half truth a answers to a growing list of questions , takes second place.<br /> Only recently i have confirmation from a key expert that the use of mutation and human creation by the media is probably very misleading .<br /> The rapid changes in the virus do not rely on genetic mutations (which are slow and via selection which we can control a bit ) but on poor RNA replication ( which we presumably cannot control.) <br />The expectation many of us had 18 mths ago, that we would be limited not to death and inoculation control ( which maybe largely comorbidity) but to ameliorates and treatment s still seems to be relevant - if hot widely accepted . <div><br /> These questions need answers please . <br />Whatever and however big the threat , honesty will help all of us move on.<div><br /></div></div>Little Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18149735103253911440noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564055.post-3039577536798642292021-08-02T17:09:00.004-07:002021-08-15T18:28:48.531-07:002021 The greatest crisis since hot air began <p> After 18mths of speculation by the media and politicians about the origin and possible impact of Coronaviruses , it seems to me ,now as it did 18 months ago that the <a href="http://ondewolf.blogspot.com">panic is unjustified </a> and attempts to control it are unreasonable .<br /><br /></p><p>The media get in a panic about many things very often and I as a risk assessor have my hands full trying to keep my balance about the few things i can claim some fully workable knowledge of <a href="http://designwithnature.blogspot.com">(eg Fire flood,landslide and water quality impacts </a>) .<br />In a strange paradox, governments have never seemed to the public more important and that certainly appeals to<a href="http://empireawards.blogspot.com"> "the leper colony "</a>( I don't agree with that projection but its truly how many Aussies see polys) . <br /><br />Ebola panic got out of hand not that long ago when its etiology was known and its control within reasonable general practice to be expected , What's going on ? Today is 3rd August 2021 Updated in part 16th August .<br />? <br /><br />Some 50 years ago in microbiology we were taught that coronaviruses were notoriously prone to change. By the time you were 60 you were expected to have antibodies to maybe 6 different variants . Higher comorbidities in 2020's are to be expected because so many more people are immunocompromised?</p><p>If what they say about Herd immunity in UK is widely accepted ( again whose been defining it (HI) over the last 18 months ) , it may mean a big rethink in Australia? <br />I am saying-- if we still don't know the structural changes in both the virus and the antibodies ( I don't know but no one has said we do ) , the whole value of vaccines can be questioned. <br /><br />This is the same issue the medical profession had with Coronaviruses 50 years ago . Again I am no expert . </p>Little Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18149735103253911440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564055.post-27271088783675541662021-06-21T18:22:00.002-07:002021-06-21T18:34:37.989-07:00How to pick an offer you should refuse <p> When it pretends to offer you more than you ever dreamed possible. <br /><br /> --Uses as bait completely reactionary items <br />---Does not add anything that isn't still currently drawing punters ( mirror of the above )<br />---Does not build on the past but relies on the new ( often not tested properly yet for sustainability ) <br />-- keeps its distance from agencies spawned by <a href="http://greenlabor.blogspot.com">quickfiz stupidity </a>( really smart)<br />And if still in doubt <br />--Hopes that the volume ( quantity of reasons . credentials ) will win over the content ( The sound sustainable way is a narrow road with specific targets -- has some age on it- <a href="http://quickfiz.blogspot.com">anathema to the quick fiz agent Volume gives apparent value to sales pitch <br /></a><br />Philip Adams is smart enough to not be specific . 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box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 25px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">Daughter Rory joins me in congratulating Mum on her gong.A Stolen Generation baby Patrice would achieve success as a model, journalist, author,broadcaster, organic farmer,climate activist and environmentalist. Plus a PhD in bio-energy. Arise Dr Patrice Newell AM</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></article></div></div></div></div></div></section></div></div>Little Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18149735103253911440noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564055.post-51016313557144724022021-04-12T03:37:00.004-07:002021-04-12T04:41:52.050-07:00How to spot a quick fiz -its still on the move .<p>Phenomena <br />1. The theory of cause changes <br />2. The imperative practices ( What we must do TODAY) change even more <br /><br />Its 12th April 2021 and the focus of the attention seekers is on the savior that vaccination is now meant to be , <br /><i>It never was B4 and there will be endless reviews of why the public fell for the idea that suddenly we invented a vaccine, but that another story . <br /><br />So far nothing new has come up in the covid story that wasn't predicted by those who have microbiological ad epidemiological training and experience . <br />In other words the attention seekers ( the quick fixers ) have ben exploring the territory 9( in expensive and sus investments ) while real experts are still in the same place they were at sta rt. <br /><br /><br /><b>Yes its true some of us would have saved you much of the angst that characterizes the last year. </b></i></p>Little Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18149735103253911440noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564055.post-83367707381474662082020-11-27T15:55:00.007-08:002020-12-02T01:22:22.326-08:002020 The greatest crisis since Hot Air began <p> Its now 28th Novemebr 2020 and concern about deaths from the latest strain of Coronavirus has assumed proportions of engagement with public never before seen in Australia or in the world. Concern about the virus has exceeded any concern ever seen for Climate change by an astronomical mile .<br /> Some States like Victoria have been in house lockdown for nearly six months with business family and community activities subject to police prosecutions. <br />The changing perceptions of the threat are not as great as the imperatives for control issued by State Premiers. If anything, the risk from infection is getting worse,not better according to" the Authorities " <br /><br />The target authorities have changed though. While those of us with emergency training expected the crisis to be managed by the Feds ( ie our island home and border ) and his CMO, the Prime Minister almost instantly handed the responsibility for risk management to the States .( six or seven chiefs) Its all kinda strange as few polys are known for managing anything very well, and yet even now instead of same old commonwealth CMO and educator, we see Premiers daily holding forth on what's needed. - <br />Many said this week the Victorian Premier Andrews has done best of all by adopting <b>the abundance of caution approach </b>, Others say whatever suits them to say, with the evidence from numbers of positive cases being the sole basis for revelation from the pulpit .<br /><br />The biggest area for target change is in what we should do to help control the disease and its spread , <br /><br />Learning sees to be limited and many of us thinking types are not sure why we don't seem to be told much . Perhaps I can't say we are not learning anything because no one up top has dared to mention stats on the <i>death rate deaths from covid deaths with covid , immunity levels , when and why to isolate ( to name a few question s) </i> <br />These are all things that would help improve cooperation from those who have studied disease. but have formed that all too familiar power denying group called " deniers " . The ABC regularly use the term deniers even though its probably best described as " we dont believe you know what you are doing people"</p><p><br />The first cases of isolation were botched , but we are not sure why as only case numbers alone are the only FACTS checked by the Sus scientism groups . Its possible isolation doesn't work either but no one in charge yet has said that . <br />Clearly it's not a good look to try and explain your actions when you don't seem to know what you are doing .<br /><b>"Just keep changing direction and testing" as any moving target manager/ innovator knows . </b> <br />Many of those clearly in the know say they don't know . like Nixon "I dp <i>not remember</i> ", in the West, means you can avoid responsibility . <br />The following list is not complete , <br /><br />FINALLY for now <br /><b>In March 2020 we were told masks and sanitizing surfaces would not work and yet apart for social distancing that is all we have now to thank for our wonderful success in controlling the threat. </b> <br />We are , no one has yet said, moving around in circles - yet we appear to be all waiting for the weather to change . Even the limelighters seem to want a rest from playing God or pretending some of us are as good as gods. . </p>Little Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18149735103253911440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564055.post-11562341598054695942020-02-03T14:37:00.005-08:002020-02-04T15:13:49.030-08:00Extensive OR Impressive - Why the worry cults will wear themselves out <br />
Extensive OR Impressive Fires - Catastrophic as the worried say . <br />
Here is why the worry cults will wear themselves out and why they are already wearing us thin<br />
with their ignorance and incompetence ; They can't even see what smoke means or how combustion equations work . Press?? don't bother - employ scientists or find some who know things.<br />
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Doing proper science is fine ( its what i am good at -esp on environment) the equation <br />
<b><br />The burning question </b><br />
CHn+O2=CO2 +H2O<br />
Smoke occurs when there is incomplete combustion and there has been lots of smoke this summer 19/20 , Does this gel with all the catastrophy talk ? No when the water generated by combustion is not removed the equation slows down and we get half burnt vegetation . Too much water NOT too little. Too little wind too much smoke MORE See<a href="http://forestsandfire.blogspot.com/"> HERE </a><br />
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What is not good ( and in epidemic proportions ) is people doing suspect linkages and claiming it is science. Such short circuit people worship science partly because they don't practice the real rigors of science; where one conclusion ends and still leads you to another question ; where not just one fact wins, but every equation in the chain has to work and work consistently to drive competent action . http://misplacedconcreteness.blogspot.com. We are not the clever country if we keep doing this .<br />
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You see we told them - the stupid States over 20 years ago; If they create an emergency department it will bog itself down in creating emergencies; and more importantly, it will treat ALL emergencies as needing them as chiefs to control them - a sort of clone of the modern poly who thinks he or she is a<a href="http://childrenincharge%2Cblogspot.com/"> parent to the people.</a> God save us from such hypocrisy and tyranny monoculture.<br />
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Fortunately the Victorian government took our advice and didn't create the National Safety Council . At least in those days, they thought protection ( always their main job )so they used the word Safety . Lost touch completely what we want governments to do . With the stupid name the states give them ---- there is no hope.<br />
Today with their blinkers on , and them driving at "high solving speed" to edges they never saw before, the reactionaries only ever see and feel a<a href="http://fanaticism1.blogspot.com/"> catastrophic thing coming</a><br />
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The press and the people rightly want to support the CFA , but a little knowledge is a dangerous thing and in high risk situations a distracting thing . 3 agencies competing means 3 methods and where best do those methods work . Regional solutions not CEO rubbish<br />
CFA cannot be expected to protect us from forest fires - its complete madness. The States are completely hopeless in managing the public estate ( hoping nothing will happen by doing nothing )<br />
And the net chatter on causes and solutions is often not helping but often better targeted thatn the mega nonsense makers . @otways news<br />
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<a href="http://fearmongers.blogspot.com/">Shut up and listen</a> ; speculation is for leaders on ground<br />
QandA on Monday was like Tony Jones's last program--- a feast of dumb distractions Thankfully Tony s helicopter solutions weren't mentioned . We don't want another panic move that costs the earth and leaves management thinking the only solutions<a href="http://politicaceleste.blogspot.com/"> are in the heavens</a>.<br />
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<b>The first conclusion of merit was put by Jim Molan and put because he is a good scientist in that he knows the limits of his knowledge.</b><br />
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First conclusion : <b>The fires were some of the most extensive .</b><br />
Next question<br />
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<li>Were they the worst fires seen so far? where and why ( wind fuel humidity .....what) </li>
<li>Were they really some of the worst in living memory ?</li>
<li>What would a fire expert say were critical needs for catastrophic fire and where were they met ?</li>
<li>Did the panic merchants do what they could to warn the government this season ( more this more that) <br /><b>The evidence is there somewhere . its not shreeded ?<br />Practical direct words were printed surely - this is a science in practice matter surely </b></li>
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<br />journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564055.post-74474279185966581332018-08-14T06:23:00.001-07:002021-08-17T01:52:44.367-07:00Religion is certainly dangerous One of the biggest dangers when you see the human problem in another is that you deny the problem in yourself . And religion is a problem, because it occupies space out side the merely rational.<br />
And many moderns want to say there is nothing beyond the rational , Lets agree with them ( for a moment ) and say any the irrationality is dangerous and a risk with your religion <br />
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When Western reactionaries say "they don't have a religion " and that they have" moved on " they risk denying what psychologists tell us is universal ; Our world view: our religion<br />
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so what exactly characterize no religion NR .(<i>This bit needs redrafting </i>).<br />
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1. <b>Promises something better </b>-and more stable and predictable than faith .<br />
So we are to believe that the new western progressive is onto something BETTER than the positive frames of love hope forgiveness and mercy that have enabled men and women to transend talk beyond their fellow creatures justifications for acting like brute animals.<br />
<b>2. Simple drivers </b><br />
Self control for the new age worshiper is not only not possible, but antithetical . There can be only one cause ; one driver called.desire called DNA.<br />
<b>3. Simply natural </b><br />
So we are expected to just quietly adopt the old dog eat dog limits of nature .<br />
<b>4. With drivers at the helm, the mind is not only irrelevant but part of the old threat that religion symbolizes - arguments beyond reason </b>The suspicion of mind contructs means NR 's limit mind contructs to mean what you want them to mean . No need for books and study . In a significant paradox the principal of simple drivers denies adherents the opportunity to use anything but simple coorelation logic. In practice this seems to mean your coorelations justify your actions . Anything beyond that is subject to cynical mind blocking mind contruct criticism."Lets not think about it any more "<br />
NR 's Happily laugh away anyone who develops a higher calling as lost in their own "mere mind construct ". <br />
<b>5 Deep Cynicism </b><br />
The new breed of cynics write books -"Whistling in the Dark" by ABC Cynics Incorporated. Paradoxically those who accuse others of " having a crutch "<a href="http://abcchurch.blogspot.com/">still need their very own crutch place . </a><br />
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Oh yes the media talks about " what motivates us" but only if Nature is the driver and ( not said ) its suits us at the time of interview to see ONLY ONE aspect of a driver . Unfortunately the benefits/reality of a really big world view that incorporates competing drivers (ie self control) is easily lost.<br />
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SO WHAT ?<br />
Our media is now filled with this new religion<b>- adoring the rational but living by cynicism</b> they have a frame of worship too; <br />
Is it not one of many now that is floating on the same froth of épistémological despair that most moderns are.<br />
<b><br />BOTH Trump and Teslas chief Musk are popular because the popular religion is technological Saviour worship </b>. See work of Jaques Ellul-- The Technological Society<br />
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To not deal with this in house faith and deny it, is not to deal with the disease. Watch the idols fall.<br />
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To remain in the car when the drivers of the car (and the passengers) are all rushing in the dark is plain mad faith.<br />
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14th August 2018<br />
<i>Malcolm Turnbull's mystery bag that will some how magically lower power prices when our leaders have only ever invested in high cost, impossibly compromised new sources is surely an example of a false faith of today . While Labor and the Greens don't want to say so, they ARE all in the same church singing the same choruses as Malcolm Turnbull and Friedenberg</i><br />
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<i>As an unbeliever has correctly said of this false hope : "you can't do the same thing and expect a better result when you haven't changed what you' re doing:" , <br />The majority religion of the moment is a false religion with a false faith and a vain hope .</i>Little Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18149735103253911440noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564055.post-5909510017435239682017-06-07T02:58:00.000-07:002017-06-18T18:45:57.997-07:00Polys should sometimes shut up and let experts speak - Why polys want to wear their own stupidity is beyond me, A desperation to have the feeling you are doing something seems to be a common reason .<br />
With wicked problems , better both ways , to let the studied speak<br />
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Yes we <u>the people are nervous about the risks of violence from terrorists</u><br />
<u> especially young Muslims., whose own old training books can be easily interpreted in many places to allow killing in the name of Allah . ... and when there are thousands of young immigrant Muslims who can't get work in our countries. </u> <b> <br />Why can't we say that . Why don't our press keep saying it ?</b><br />
Instead of saying the above and saying "keep calm " polys and their panic driven mates in the media want to prove they are tough when the nature of the quick fixes prove they are just reactionary;<br />
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Nothing shows they are our of touch than their grabbing for reactive methologies that will characterize their prophet-less view of protection; <br />
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<li>Monitoring the net . Never work too much flow and then you only have words. Thousands of potential bombers - thousands of monitors </li>
<li>Legislation --changing way parole works .</li>
<li>Speculative reasoning is what everyone does - people want action . With so much of this noise on the net its no wonder polys fall for quick fix talk - point is the chatterers wont get eaten alive like polys will if you waste time wandering around responses. <br /><br />Emergencies may require emergency actions . <br /><i>I am not sure what's best but polys sprucking their own solutions instead of those who are trained --shows them up as a bit desperate and dangerous . </i><br /><br /><b>The people may well accept and be comforted by <br /><br />--random bag checks and GPS monitoring . </b>The terrorists will clearly be more wary of turning up in foyers and in crowds if some of the many security guards are able to randomly examine bags. </li>
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---Little Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18149735103253911440noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564055.post-17553555839364268392016-09-29T16:20:00.000-07:002016-09-29T18:15:11.051-07:00The lights go out in South Australia SA is without power for days following extreme weather. Weatherall wishes like hell he really knew how to weather it all .<br />
Some want to blame the wind ,the lightning others the lack of alternative connections;( normaly prevents these disasters) All sorts of stuff. Not science just simple A+B =C stuff <br />All the most obvious connections are on the net , Up there and lit up like BIG items in the dark stores ready to go off if you dare to try and eat one. Guaranteed to give anyone who tries indigestion . Neither Victoria or South Australia were prepared for this as they hate coal and dare not even talk about it in polite company ----let alone arrange wires etc.listen to reports about real risks and real energy .<br />
Facebook is not only,, awash with solutions to the drama, its leading the charge . The experts are out there everywhere . Even polys have to defend everything they have ever done in the hunt to find the "person responsible" " long as its not me". I just opened my mouth and said something about the idiots in the ...........party and how predictable their behavior is . I did nothing ...Who me?<br />
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As usual with these media hunts. its more about point and game scoring than it is restoring food to the failed fridges and rehooking up the solar panels that conveniently don't work at such times . Wind neither <br />
<b>Noone is allowed to say it but the State is waiting for coal to come on line again .</b><br />
Predictably the accused find fault with the accuser setting up another round of chatter for the evening news ; running there own expensive wastebook on facebook . The gods of sport maybe busy this weekend but so the gods of justice . .<br />
The most "creative" ( perhaps not as it is so easy to find fault with your accuser) take is for believers to just say the latest disaster is due to CC."Take that you deniers" ( sorry but u are not allowed to be a sceptic -- that's so septic )<br />
The light in the mind seems to be missing in all this blame game speculation<br />
This is of course very predictable when you open up <a href="http://govtisnotbusiness.blogspot.com/">government to the market </a>( incl Greenlabor) the speculators get in get a job -- and you don't know which ones to trust. -es when they can't be seen for dust when they cut the cloth to fit some smaller than required brief . Poor old Tim Flammery has to defend everything .<br />
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Little Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18149735103253911440noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564055.post-25539198750000137492016-06-22T17:01:00.001-07:002016-07-18T18:14:40.224-07:00Climate Change - Is it the great moral challenge of our time ?There are then 3 key aspects to this question . There is<br />
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<li> <b>Global warming</b> ,( only the Anthro bit) ( <b>Science</b>) GW AGW </li>
<li><b>What we do about it </b>and ( <b>Technology</b> )(<b> Politics</b> )<i> Assuming we can There is to date no agreement about what we can do to change the risk ---as stated the options are CCA1 CCA2 -20 </i></li>
<li><b>We Must</b> do ( Moral) ( Politics ) Many like Kevin Rudd , The Greens and Labor say we MUST do something about it .CCAI -20 Leaving aside the reality that we don't know what these advocates really means on the ground-- for the moment .The advocates talk about " strong action " and imply a tax of some sort on somebody - not exactly <a href="http://misplacedconcreteness.blogspot.com/">concrete actions</a> .<i>Who would have thought the reactionaries would ever use a moral argument but they are. ( see Susan Neiman for anyone who wants to argue that CCA1 is set solutions from science) </i></li>
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<b>Conclusion 1 : Noone can go anywhere with this because we haven't got past 1st base . </b><br />
<b>Conclusion 2 Does the issue have Moral Status ? Clearly only for some . For many of us No </b><br />
According to traditional western thinking<b> CC can't be a moral challenge </b>because men are free under God to act until such time as they know they are doing "the wrong thing" . Many of us have no such knowledge. If your are not sure about whether you are sinning, you have have no obligation to act . Moreover you should not force the issue as many are doing . Knowledge is not information so it can't be equated for the purposes of political argument. Freedom of belief and speech are connected .<br /><br />If you are living in fear maybe your need to relook at your faith.The only way our society can really adopt cultural change is if you can get confession . Coercion on the basis of your more complete knowledge could rightly be considered tyranny. <br />
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<li style="font-style: italic;"><i><i>Assuming we can 't do anything about GW , or that we don't need to , is not discussed properly See the basic physics and geological argument below that GW throughout Geological history that says GW puts more moisture into the atmosphere which means more clouds and wetter world , We know for example that the many and frequent cold periods in Geological History are Dry periods . There are radiation and other physics . The common use of montorung and modeling is akin to meddling with statistics. </i></i></li>
<li><i><i>All the main evidence ( sea levels arctic ice etc and now coral bleaching ( see posts below) A litany of correlations that go nowhere near causation . The latest coral bleaching change was stated by profs within the ocean science as something that will recover by itself . The discussion of resilience by advocates of CCA is enough to take me ignore them . </i></i></li>
<li><i style="font-style: italic;"><i>The move from Global warming to CC </i></i><i>No scientist I know wants to accept the nonsense target that is the change to the catchall crap phrase "change" . Its in the nature of both weather and the climate to change . CC was clearly was substituted for GW and AGW about 10 years ago because the case for acting against AGW alone was not clear , </i></li>
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Advocates of CCA and CCA1 completely lost me when they changed channels from
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Advocates must regroup and answer thinking peoples doubts in ALL three areas before they will again get the attention of thinking practical scientists. <o:p></o:p><br />
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Little Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18149735103253911440noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564055.post-42933033081732658162016-03-30T16:00:00.000-07:002016-03-30T16:02:59.210-07:00Reviving interest in History and Culture -- a popular new courseUNSW have made headlines by pointing the finger at good old James Cook, Nothing appeals to more people than having a good go at someone - esp someone who appears goody two shoes or in the case of British legends- goody two shoes culture --who cares about the facts <br />
The popularity of such nonnews and part pictures parading shows how widespread meanness is - the glass half empty brigade is well and truly alive in Universities, making them more than half dead <br />
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Not only has the paper appeared to have discovered something ( which it hasn't and therefore doesn't qualify for news ) but its got away with that grand political ambition of presuming to state the need for cultural change . A very clever <u>University on the surface. </u><br />
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<li>Getting away with your version of the story in media and parliament<br /><br /><b>get in early a very popular course </b></li>
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<o:p></o:p>journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564055.post-4531919118877867372015-11-18T17:52:00.004-08:002015-11-18T18:05:08.236-08:00Tyrants or Tyranny?: The real issues in the Desert The French are going to bomb the hell out something this week as a result of serious terror driven killing there. The West is prone to calling the problem that of a tyrant when it is really more about tyranny and the tyranny of the place and space .http://iscast.org.au/scarcity-and-abundance<br />
<br />Anger is a good response to anger ( West no longer seems to know this ) IF it targets the real reason for it . The knife and the bullets are incidental, not formative .<br /><br />Both sides are therefore shooting from the hip .Its a domestic no sane man would get involved in - except if he listened after sunset. .<br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Agree with Greg Sherridan in the Australian about our immature ideas of "political reform" : - we have a unreasonable quick fix approach to the deep problems of a struggling desert economy/ methods that work We in the West are as irrational as anyone by promoting " practical action " which involves coercion using the overly simple technique of one vote one value, ( just as one example ) <br />The frustration of the people in that area is deeply seated in the land and how they want to use it .They have to have hope and therefore some alternative idealism / way forward.These are not things easily offered, but <a href="http://productionecologists.blogspot.com/">objective resilience experts</a> can help Better targeted investment is best - schools scholarship and migration maybe? </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Understanding is the best way of resolving conflict , The ageing West doesn't even understand its own angst ( egwhy its own kids are vulnerable to idealism)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;">Did noone there se that all the y<b>oung people pictured in The Archibald Prize have no faces </b>. Till we have faces ---- identity problems abound in both the East and West </span></span>journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564055.post-32054048852977089762015-10-12T14:29:00.004-07:002015-10-12T14:52:46.168-07:00Trust politicians to know what needs doing. You have to be joking It has to be said despite all the ridicule of Climate change deniers that the case for stopping the use of coal and other fossil fuels is at best unproven -- the big push has got lots of money to keep it hot but the substance and solutions have been cold all along. <br />
Sound students of science and politics have known all along that talk is cheap on solutions to complex problems -- that doesn't stop stupid politicians opening their mouths and naming nothing that works - and damaging more than they help.<br />
More importantly the half baked effort and shoring up up of unsubstantiated methods is extremely costly and distracting as pointed out by the Cornwall Alliance . <br />
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It follows that policies to fight global warming fight a non-problem. They waste trillions of dollars needed instead to help the world’s poor meet much more urgent needs. In developed countries they slow, stop, or reverse economic growth, destroy jobs, and raise energy costs, harming everyone—especially the poor and elderly. And, by depriving developing nations of the abundant, affordable, reliable energy they need to rise and stay out of poverty, they would condemn them to more generations of poverty, disease, suffering, and death.</div>
Little Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18149735103253911440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564055.post-68811524350591875232015-08-16T18:15:00.000-07:002015-08-16T18:25:15.009-07:00Someone will commit suicide if we don't give them what they want This was the import of Penny Wong's reason why we should ALL vote for SSM ASAP . If you<a href="http://childrenincharge.blogspot.com/"> give children what they want </a>they can in later life commit suicide .Typical green labor to talk coorelation as causation and do things the sub science way -- so much for the future of<a href="http://greenlabor.blogspot.com/"> Green Labor</a> . Just giving people what they want is half the problem in Australia . Who needs leaders like these?journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564055.post-70958714155998283082014-10-27T05:24:00.000-07:002014-10-27T05:26:23.594-07:00Ebola - something for the worry warriors to keep the news service going ?Ebol is not a virus like another . Sure its dangerous --and there are high risks of infection in countries where its spreading at the moment . But we should leave it to experts ; not vent our spleens when it appears our leaders don't care , as the Representative aristocracy of the left insisted on QandA tonight .<br />
This group know you can believe in both ; you can be all things to all men ; have your cake and eat it . Talk tough but allow everyone to do what they think is right .But you have to stop people talking about " whats needful" because that could take too long and even threatening to your fix . <br />
If you have the right people in your democracy you will be proved right . Worry brothers when one Rowan ,or even one expert appears because it may expose the panel as a bunch of incompetent but well aligned chatterers who are linked up for the point of sychofancy.<br />
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Like the young people who want to stop people dying in Syria at the moment , going to the site of dying and high risk to help , may not help . You can be just a nuisance ,Your airfare alone could shelter 1000's of refugees in a neighboring country or 1000 chats on heigene by a locally trained nurse . <br />
The disease is not as easily spread as the media make out . Katherine mentioned millions - seems very unlikely. We won't just wait and do nothing we will listen and see ifbthere is anything we can or others more suitbly placed, can do<br />
As was powerfully put Labor still don't get it ---- Their love affair with Greenlabor . <br />
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"We are never short of good intentions, we are just short of implementors" ( Woolworth chairman ) Little Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18149735103253911440noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564055.post-80239799787085173322014-10-08T22:48:00.000-07:002014-10-08T23:15:58.192-07:00Religious people are prone to reject Science Brian Hoskings won't be welcome in Australia once they realize Brian Hoskings is going to operate like a scientist . What the CC movement want is a token professor of note , scientist or maybe a book with 99% of scientists signing a document that only Christine Milne has the gall to write. All they could find recently is an economist who has suspect qualifications in his home territory . Just writing a short statement about CC to include AGW , C02 and carbon economy would test the intellect of any High Priest -- not going to happen because they would have tried ( conference after conference but not one dominated by scientists general) .<br />
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Brian Hoskings won't be welcome in Australia, because like most scientists, he makes the subject of problems risks and problems sound too complex to solve.<br />
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Paradoxically most of us earth scientists are still interested in the science,, and even the technology ( but less so in my case) . I wonder how many others are in either (although the common attachment to a toy by a boy is a bit terrifying) . <br />---We also know we all be extremely taxed by implementing any changes to change how our people use energy -- if we want action . <br />---We also know as mature practical people that government probably should NOT ever be trusted with a tax to experiment with solutions.( young ones naturally might differ and they deserve a job with better specs that Parties EVER would design for them ) I am convinced we would nearly all draw the line with giving ANY government more money to make us behave better. Anyone want to disagree ? <br />
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And whats the faith of the fearful based on .... really ? let me suggest "Fear of scarcity",,,not Co2 or carbon but Oil . Well that's interesting --if true .They don't know much about E10 or algae to say that . They don't know much about history ecology , <a href="http://www.iscast.org/Modra_J_2010-10_Scarcity_or_Abundance">targeting human behavior </a>( the real worry ??) and sustainable agroecosystems ( surely a good place for Australia to spend more money !) Can't win war if you don't shoot straight and have everyone clear about the target . Huge problem for believers !<br />
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If going to win a productivity argument with thinking people, all religions must state their principal concerns about evil; . where it is and what its name is need to be nailed to the door . Otherwise it won't last ....... and never ever on fear alone . journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564055.post-29278854231141228222014-09-16T16:17:00.003-07:002014-09-16T16:57:25.509-07:00Worry warriors want yet another Watchdog Today its our Coast ......save time and read how on the links here ------their quickfixes won't work <br />
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They worry themselves silly ----And silly the ABC is,,, to not know and not weed such simple scaremongering out<br />
The worry warriors are so out of touch that even when they have a reason to be concerned, their solutions wouldn't pass the coarsest of filters of common sense. <br />
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It happened in the last 24 hrs in reports around the <b>Climate council and their concerns about the Coast .</b> If the ABC employed a few more scientists they would NOT make fools of themselves by reporting such rubbish .Their level of credibility among st people who know wouldn't be so low.<br />
In a week when Utopia has been provided the best reality therapy ever , some dumb woman appears on 774 saying "We need a new <b>Integrated planning authority" </b>( you mean like they have in Utopia) --- to deal with what ?<br />
<b>Rising sea levels</b> . And she was serious<br />
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You see , even if the sea level is rising , you don't turn on the first fix button that comes into your panic stricken head .An old button but a highly polished button : <br />
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But then you must realize why the common sense filter is not operating . <a href="http://abcchurch.blogspot.com/">ABCchurch</a> is in full swing the spokesman is only doing what decades of ignorant advisers have been doing ; saying that " Sure -government is always the solution " ; <br />
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Its Gospel in the church of Saved by Change Alone receiving the highest honor yet again from the ageing and ineffective fanatical Fabians still on the drip feed in Labor and media. "Government is always the solution- it has been the one and only Savior for all of them who can't fund their passions elsewhere"<br />
Lateline runs the same Worry brigade item on the basis of " new research " ( Adjective "new"should be a reason to bin it but the worshipful brigade see it as symbol of the Gospel )<br />
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<b>Here is a little secret for you</b> --since you have read this far <br />
For us professionals; there is a phenomena that occurs when some one who doesn't know what they are talking about does --- they PANIC.( we observe it among you occassionally ) Feeling threatened, the person tries to swing focus on to the audience when he/she senses they have stopped listening .The person projects or tries to<b> project his own problem</b> onto the audience ie" He not the stupid one "-- the reality ; "they are the stupid ones "-- "that's why we don't reason with them-"- we the powerful ( information agents ) panic them . Such was the scene on Lateline last night<br />
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Other clues to such crap<br />
1. keep adding more nice stuff that's true to try and whiten the overall picture ( But time is short so )go to 2<br />
2. You project your own subconscious disrespect for your own ignorance onto the audience and low and behold <br />
3.<b> You treat them like they are unthinking idiots</b> ----who need to be told or worse need to be scared into submission . This was the atmosphere of the Climate council reporting last night on Lateline and for years now . Its a wonder anybody watches the ABC news service. Take a good look in the mirror<br />
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<b>as another aside <br />The careless revolution in wrecking</b> has killed off. in last 40years , the building of sound science environmental education in our country . The media and the Polys stupid ignorant and constant name changing for new integrated planning authorities on the environment . Beware you ignorant polys and media message manipulators - your war on everything has broken the fine china of the precious petals and one day you will have to account for it .Little Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18149735103253911440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564055.post-18086860385099766102014-06-02T06:10:00.005-07:002014-06-02T06:12:51.159-07:00Let's be positive and put a smile on disasters to come In a move which would make their parents turn in their graves . many modern progressives are preaching hell fire and brimstone .... on the environment ,<br />
While<a href="http://abcchurch.blogspot.com/"> high priests</a> insist this is right, the parishioners are nervous .<a href="http://abcchurch.blogpot.com/"> ABCchurch </a> is not a very comfortable place to be ,<br />
Today we finally here that we won't run out of water and that radiation is a reality ,( its invisible)taken a while to bring the doctrine of the invisible into progressive church . The religious rationalists seem to worship science but as Elull said decades ago they really worship technology (not infact science and not even talked about "pure science") . Thoreau observed that war rather than than reason ruled in reality. <br />
Which makes you wonder why so many non scientists think a panel of polys (ABCTV Q&A) is likely to show respect for scientists. journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564055.post-5037874411893537362013-07-27T16:42:00.001-07:002013-07-27T16:42:09.430-07:00Your not funny Kevin Atkins on Insights highlights the fickle nature of many in the electorate . Kids quite like "something that moves "<br />
<b>Doesn't change the fact that the drug culture in politics is killing the country</b> and is only possible because we let these shallow birdbath birds keep splashing.<br />
Rudd accusses others of slogans-his slogans are just better dressed<br />
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The dumbest thing the ABC are doing is letting Rudd get air with all his new offers - just as they did with Julia and the faceless men . <br /><br />
When is the ABC going to do a report on "what hasn't worked under Labor " fat chance -- maybe SBS will .<br /> The ABC dress up Catalyst and Dr Karl but science like politics is not about glamor - anything but<br />
The ABC wonder why climate change support is dwindling but science like politics is not about glamor - <a href="http://cuttingedgeconservation.blogspot.com.au/2009/09/biosequestration-has-natural-limits.html">anything but </a>journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564055.post-13170674619636099052013-03-13T15:36:00.002-07:002013-03-18T19:06:03.932-07:00Modelling democracy and resisting hypocrisy <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjawoPEt5f6YfZtz1I-s7Yzb_60XuU2jqlpfw86cvjs_vcafxWcpnS6zuUrrYRJ5NvdXZhRqVrlWF5TttuLEHgvDSDQ8pgUkgjEebUH9WKE999E4JVLfT7Gl1K9LB5xDHjHe3wNew/s1600/WHITE-SMOKE-VATICAN-348x516.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjawoPEt5f6YfZtz1I-s7Yzb_60XuU2jqlpfw86cvjs_vcafxWcpnS6zuUrrYRJ5NvdXZhRqVrlWF5TttuLEHgvDSDQ8pgUkgjEebUH9WKE999E4JVLfT7Gl1K9LB5xDHjHe3wNew/s320/WHITE-SMOKE-VATICAN-348x516.jpg" width="215" /></a>Political popery groups , those who get away with removing Premiers before their time ( Terry Mills today in the NT and Ted Baillieu last week in Victoria ) , like leaders who leave before their time ,willingly saying <i>"to spend more time with the family"</i> ,show how poorly our people often understand the responsibilities of office. Powerful people often forget that they owe their power to us and their office and commitment is often up to us to change. Now it seems to me , the people have forgotten where we come from and why we have the procedures we do. The talk about democracy is tokenistic and the stuff of hypocrisy. Democracy dies , as its always done , not because of war or rebellion but because we have lost sight of the fact that it is basically a good thing . We don't want good things , esp old good things . we want something better because we beleive in progress . We believe in the new.<br />
We used to offer people in power a responsibility and we expect them to stay there for the time elected . We know noone is perfect so when Sh... happens we exepect tthe incumbent to clean it up . <i>"Its your room Son , clean it up" . We have all allocated tasks to do . Its not all about you.... hero" </i>God help us: not <a href="http://thiselection.blogspot.com/">another election </a>or spit the dummy , throw in the towel, tantrum driven change f<a href="http://childrenincharge.blogspot.com/">rom the children </a>( paradoxically not to spend quality working time with the family !). Clearly there are men behind the scenes who are undermining our democracy and doing it underhandedly ( by not identifying themselves personally) Faceless men . What weakies !What wooses !<br />
The excuse making that often goes around changing heads is often shallow pathetic rubbish that symbolizes the image driven imperatives of the faceless men who try to run the country .And its not just Labor's problem. Iron fist Kennett may not be sitting in the chair, but those who are, may be just wearing kid gloves.hard on the inside .<br />
Much more serious than this shallow game in the parties is the FACT that permanent public servants are becoming less and less . <br />
Our ABC hasn't even noticed the disease and hasn't set to work to find out its ramifications ( not until today anyway). Noone is yet aware that Australia is slipping away from a culture of independent reliable predictable advice ( another reason our political leaders can't last - they are supported by courtiers cloned in their own image ) .<br />
Now this week too they want to control what people say about them. ( ( 1 week to decide on new media laws )<br />
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We could learn a lot from the traditions of the faith that kept democracy working . I'm not just talking about the superficiality of humility. Pope Francis is elected this day to permanent office with every sense that he will stay and give up lots to sustain the wa. The white smoke has flowed , but the black smoke from the ever changing fads of the old reactionaries continues. <br />
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Before you get really smart and think this not real, think sustainability and about its fruit -- a method that works . When Jesus used the words below he was reminding the audience of something they knew( but they/ we too have lost sight of?) . That good governance goes back a long way before all the varieties of mad popery in the past and present to a workable democracy pattern amongst the wanderers in the desert . Ditch the dummies who only see the clothes and investment . The point is not where it came from , but that <a href="http://thinkhebrew.blogspot.com/">it works </a>- unlike the short term games of the faceless men . <br />
Matthew 20 ;25 |<br />
" <i>You know that the rulers of the <a href="http://thinkhebrew.blogspot.com/">Gentiles</a> lord it over them and <a href="http://bureaubrats.blogspot.com/">their great ones exercise authority over them</a> BUT it shall not be so amongst you " </i>These are the forgotten words of history that have determined the best in our history .<br />
I am not a Catholic but i am most certainly a Christian.journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com2