Oeuvre, genre, milieu – critical thought on the individual, societal & ecological condition from a 1996 Green Economist newsletter out of the sole-proprietor business Blundell Orchards, headquartered at Lindner Avenue Ashton South Australia..

So I beg of you all to please try to understand the nature, function and nefarious purpose of Oil Economy financiers’ and “alpha” (biggest risk & biggest returns..) investors’ PROPAGANDA to totally snowblind and bamboozle the working men and women of this world – not politicians, not gangsters, not @Instagram narcissists or money-grubbing #influencers, NOT near-completely deskilled programmed-by-rich-reward, free-real- estate and rides-in-big✈️✈️s @Harvard/ BF Skinner mid 20th 🥕&🪄operant conditioning US Information Service & Central Exploding-cigars Intelligence Agency losers, but ordinary people – the one’s who like worker-bees make the whole global circus economically possible.

That’s us, yeah? Not a professional Talking Head or self-obsessed podcaster amongst us and we’ve got the numbers.. no societal parasites or sundry political class performing baboons or career meme- & tweet-writers us: not one of.

There follows but one of an array of hard public policy stories I could only load onto my screen by copying the thing.. clearly to the Cabal soft, social, manipulable, non mainstream, non economic trashable activist-bait. subjective, affective, opinion-driven and experiential, so-o-o-o not STEMMIE and I mean, they mean, they ASK YOU, dear reader: what mischieve-ious sloppy “Socials”-style delinquent flamboyant discursive Chaser Boys scientobabble is this, they go, they just go, @JoanBloggs/ MFR Rest in peace Sept ‘22..

The following article represents in the micro a danger nobody properly understands or is prepared to mention for fear of attack by Elon Musk¹ and other Public Square tits, cookers and patently bad neofascist electoral-autocracy actors: whither goest humanity?

– If life-on-earth, human society and the troposphere were/ was an earnest conversation, a soft Non-economic (!) social issue, a tv chat show, or a retail politics bidding war for white-skinned upper middle class HG Wells Ernest Hemingway Orson Welles social parasites, flaneurs and roues from somewhere in first half of the 20th century, a psychotically (reality-unlinked) excessively artificially compartmentalised wildly orgiastically riotously over-codified neofascist 1939-45 Nazi or 1970 Stasi style record-keeping archives-trawling relentlessly chomping on B-movies, embarrassing soap-opera and frankly creepy turgid undergraduate comedy to make the existential angst go away who – not that, for goodness’ sake – had figured out depersonalising marshalling regimenting everyone not “Elect of God”⁴ but primarily primary kids to make the best they can of growing up in various performative public presentation social mileux in constant fear of correction by powerful and violent adults there would you’d most certainly agree be “issues.”

‘Straight Talking on COVID’.. Bonjour, you can read it here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1671446951680954369.html… Enjoy 🙂

‘Straight talking’ on COVID?

31 May 2023

“COVID-19 case numbers have been on the rise since March, and the number of positive tests reported in Australia increased by 19.7 per cent in the week from 16 May. And Dr Brendan Crabb, professional director and CEO of Melbourne’s Burnet Institute, expressed concern about the slowing pace of research and development for the tools and interventions required to meet the ongoing challenge”

“Burnet Institute Director and CEO Professor Brendan Crabb AC has renewed his call for ‘straight talking’ from Australia’s political, health and scientific leadership as the nation confronts a looming fifth wave of COVID-19…

“And he’s expressed concern about the slowing pace of research and development for the tools and interventions required to meet the ongoing challenge.

“COVID-19 case numbers have been on the rise since March, and the number of positive tests reported in Australia increased by 19.7 per cent in the week from 16 May.

“COVID is the third leading cause of death in Australia, but it’s also driving a significant increase in cardiovascular deaths, which is the number one cause, so an extraordinary impact, ” Professor Crabb told the Australian National University’s Democracy Sausage podcast.

“To avoid the spread of infection … we need straight talking and honesty – there’s a need to be frank, even if it is, ‘look, here’s the scale of the problem’. 

“We could also acknowledge … to community members that you do need to know the extent of the issue so here’s what you can do about it, and we’ll work with you as best we can, given that context. 

“That would be vastly better than a misinformation campaign by ignorance, by ignoring it.”

“Professor Crabb nominated the well-established pillars of clean air, the use of effective masks, ongoing testing and vaccination as the most effective means to reduce transmission.

“It’s almost impossible to get tested now, especially with a PCR based test, and you can’t protect those around you if you don’t know you’re positive,” Professor Crabb said.

“And vaccines are still crucially important. 

“The reason we have 20,000 deaths a year and not 200,000 deaths a year is because of the power of those the vaccines – they’re incredibly effective, even as the virus continues to evolve.”

“In the absence of effective public health interventions, Professor Crabb said there’s a need to step up the pace of research and development.

“We’ve gone into slow mode, research, slow mode,” he said. 

“We need tools that are next generation, so a vaccine you take once that protects you forever, like measles; a vaccine that you perhaps spray up your nose rather than gets injected. 

“Drugs that are much better, a more effective range of drugs, drugs for long COVID, this is all going to happen if we go at the pace we’re at, but it’ll happen in five to 10 years. 

“We need warp speed now because we are still in a really desperate and needy situation given no one is willing to take any public health interventions effectively globally.

“Ignoring it is at the heart of all of these problems, and if we were were to face it with some straight-talking honesty, we’d be halfway there.”

“Click here to listen to the full podcast, Democracy Sausage: Does Australia need a new COVID-19 Strategy? hosted by Professor Mark Kenny, ANU Australian Studies Institute, and including Professor Chris Wallace, School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra.”

“Burnet Institute (Australia) is located on the traditional land of the Boon Wurrung people and we offer our respects to their Elders past and present. We recognise and respect the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of this land.“

The foregoing was a short essay re-presenting in full a Burnet Institute article I could not upload, with my attendant fears about the manipulation and blocking of public information in areas not considered favourable to neoliberal donor-, lobbyist- and advertiser-influenced government by the frenetic & fevered use of machine learning, trolling and website junking algorythms including #ChatGPT4²– in the maliciously false name of quicker access to more information as celebrated in socially and educationally worthless anodyne information technology commentary along the utilitarian lines of ‘How does it work’ and ‘How can we learn to use it.’

Whoopsie, you post 1509 Romance Era ex British-, Dutch, Belgian, German et-set-era totalit-Aryan mock-tribal misogyne environment-hating f…ing🐕🐕🐕🐕s at Alphabet-Google (& @Wikipedia? – uh-oh I’m about to burn my subscription with you – and I’ll not be the only one): it’s the National Socialist Party, most often referred to as the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP),

Appreciate what is going down on liberal democracy itself, worldwide and you’ll no longer be puzzled – or even bewildered as billions are – by the breathtaking ignorance, arrogance, frankly psychotic belligerence and hubris on full public display by ‘robotic,’ wooden tin-eared talents like Albanese and Dutton, Sunak and Starmer, Biden and Who-the-Fu..-ever..

So What’s Going Down in Old Hjalmar’s Broken-down World Then?

This danger nobody properly understands or is prepared to mention for fear of attack by frankly misanthropic and dementing tits. cookers and political dilettantes on 24 Hour troll-bot activated Alert from Rekjavik Iceland to Santiago Chile..

Please people, please journalists of the non Jimmy Olsen (the peace jah-stice and the Ah-merry-can way of life thing 1970 circa) non Cornflakes packet cut-out-your-certificate qualified type, some discussion of the macro effects. The consumer-eye view of new toys and their tech-specs on a socio-economic AND political issue as significant, pervasive and insidious as machine-generated educational, literary and technical text is so foolish as to be disordered if not neurocognitively dire. It is a danger to society by its undergraduate or Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Triple J Radio style disingenuous analysis and consequently fatuous conversations and news reports.

If you’d say to me the major party apparatchiks, podcasters, jet-setters, meme-writers and tweet-crafters don’t believe in misogyne The Big Bang Theory tribal identity sub-culture garbage or the pseudoscience heroically identified in public by Carl Sagan in his and Ann Druyan’s 1995 ‘The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark,’ then on the valid double-blind, triple-blind evidence I have gathered as an ex social sciences McLuhanite scholar and educator for FIFTY-FOUR years it is proven that these people are play-acting at being kuckle dragging bottom sniffing social darwinists to schmooze their political owners. Not good. Nice country you’ve got here – is it for sale? Nah, sorry mate, gone.

I will no longer even listen to news bulletins making references like ‘scientists say’ or ‘an expert advised..’ Phoney, broken, beyond diseducational psychopathology. Dame Clara Butt, Phillip Adams, pastor Margaret Court, spunky hunky Israel Folau, Brendan Nelson, and all those archivists where are you? No. Don’t worry about it. Could you just, say.. never mind.

I am..

18 years public servant in family support services, integrated health services, community development and government enquiries secretary, in the early 1990’s sole proprietor of the largest vertically-integrated genuine-organic production ‘fresh & dry’ foods business in the Southern Hemisphere, Australian mafia-busted candidate for State political office and for the 31 years since an independent journalist.

I worked for Ngeringa Vineyards at Mount Barker South Australia (market garden organic produce and value-adding) from 10 April 2018 to 20 March 2023 when I was sacked and no reason was given. My only clue is that my ex supervisor had said a fews weeks earlier that he “did not like the way (I) talk to people” This man, an Australian & NZ organic/ biodynamic grower ‘legend,’ 36, suffered an MI not unrelated to Pfizer vaccine SARSCoV2 myocarditis³, has had to move on.

Australians all let us rejoice, for we are full of it.

Loyal to the company, did my job, kicked in the head, what a silly tit I am..

Rejoin the @CPSUnion (..we are people working in the C’wealth public sector, ACT & NT Govt, @CSIRO, @ABCaustralia, telecommunications service-providers and (the doddering, twitching mouth-frothing array of @TwitterAU-hating radio & television) broadcasters. Autho by M. Donnelly, CPSU National Secretary, Sydney?

Nah.

Try the @MEAA, @pen_int, @PENamerican @ScottMorrisonMP, @billshortenmp, @PeterGreste and say, @NickMcKim, @DavidShoebridge or any of the helplessly hopelessy polarised numpties of post #Coldwar polemical fragmentary siloed and psychotically over-codified, gibberisched, formulaic neoclassical academic Soft Social versus Hard Big Boys’ #Economic theory⁶.. Yay and Yeehah inflation & unemployment, duck curves, hockey-sticks and the NINE MILLION DOLLAR @KPMG contract for the sole purpose of #greenwashing the general public and getting the political heat off Bill Gates/ Tony Abbott 2014 COAL burners and exporters immediately prior to the Committee of Parties⁵ @IPCC_CH Glasgow conference 31/10 -12/11/2021 at the Scottish Event Campus?

Are you feeling well or what? – The answer is quadruple Nah: nobody under the age of 25 in Australia even knows what any of that dinosaur’s and old rich people’s political-class garbage is for.

..but the PhD’s, the Merde-Ockers, the ‘chuteless @SkyNewsBreak jumpers all three major political parties in Australia – most EGREGIOUSLY the party of federal political power and authority – keep telling you this is THE economy stupored. Darn right.

“Shut Up, Kevin!’/ Ooawhh Sorry, Mum/ “I said shut up!” [gloomph] – Blundell ngayagu 2004 Thevenard Rd Chihduna – Ceduna Wihrangu/ the 253-year Cap’n Cook colonial era Far West Frontier of SA

I’m missing the $150 a week (my savings are static) but my studies and public education work have stepped up with some excellent economic overhaul and reform material nowadays ‘gobbled up’ by thousands of readers and indirectly-linked people..

John Blundell

South Australia 22/6/2023

¹ USA advertising industry guy still in the throes of trying to turn the world’s best and effectively in terms of distribution by news category or subset and public technical, professional and general interest-area reach only reliable news and current affairs medium into a marketplace and talking shop for deracinated – society? Margaret Thatcher said there wasn’t one and she like Angela Merkel was a sighin’-test – ecology? what even is that, an oowh wet juicy hippie #ClimateScam thing? – environment? 1) something to do with world government and Satan raved about by podcasters you would’nt want to meet in a dark alley? 2) Al Gore, John Kerry and @AOC @GretaThunberg razed in quiz shows – and, er, Canada atm 3) @NASA cartoon stuff for schoolkids and discyused on egghead tv panel shows for bored, affluent (at least cashed up or crypto’d in the short term) b-o-r-i-n-g Donald J Trump ‘Art of the Deal’ people?

² I am not suggesting that the problems touched on in this essay are particularly or only due to the #ChatGPT ‘artificial intelligence’ chatbot developed by OpenAI (market valuation US$29 billion with 100m users by January 2023 @Wikipedia) and at least 5 other LLMs (large language models including Bing chat (it’s actually OpenAI’s GPT-4) triumphantly launched in Australia only May 22nd (see Wired, ZDNET for discussion). Examining the whole field in its functional micro compartments and in its macro inextricably interwined quantum-dynamic structure as future STEAM academic and technical enquiry will flatly and non-negotiably be statutorilly required to do, we take a holistic read because all users including those who like myself will not knowingly use Bing/ Edge for searches are not tangling with chatbot literary and technical textual & audio-visual meat-mincers alone but well know we are negotiating (no, not ‘navigating,’ please!)(Lego-world and Alan Greenspan’s 1955 Manhattan Island Objectivists)(eeyaaaghh) the array of user Curb, Control Censor & Crash algorythmic electro-mechanisms that apps like @TwittterSupport have developed over the years.

⁴ meaning the member of a household with a total net income of less than $110k AUD per year Open

⁵ Kids don’t allow political class “left-wing progressive” (you what? publications like @guardian) to persuade you that the intergovernmental panel of peer-reviewing or basically random if not haptic freelance/ ‘play us a catchy tune and we may choose to take YOUR product off the phantasmagorical supply-side-only #ClimateChange (there is no actual Twitter hashtag available here because the topic has been found to be too controversial and divisive for people in neurocognitive decline whose lives are passing them by as in a blur at present, the poor darlings, and the government has a bounden duty to help these folk cope mentally or at least steer them towards grosssly unskilled counsellors with the general knowledge of cookers and Catholic Right or other #ToryCorruption jer.offs who will ask them sh.. about How they feel, and say Then what happened, and Oawhh a lot) researchers’ Global Supermarket shelf or even renew your charmingly pointless deracinated no-connect-with-immanent-realities-just-vast-new-masses-of-energy-burning data so cleverly greenwashed & packaged for the voters, and especially you deskilled manipulable children, what!, as knowledge neoabsurdist studies and extravagant field project $100m-plus grants, to persuade you that a CoP is a cop, or worse, that the NACC is a knack for the Kerry Stokes’es, ex Major General Linda Reynolds’es, et alia, of this comprehensively battered, lost and cracking-as-we-write & read-country

⁶ The Market is the Market: you not only cant argue with the market but in the post John Kenneth Glbraith unhinged no-government dysregulated neoliberal Wealth of Nations-built-on-slavery, human trafficking and extractive industry now exponentially accelerating after some 290 years of a reasonably – and of course in the terms of both the haute-couture literary- and the post “Enlightenment’ neoclassical academic technoindustrial -elites comfortable upper middle class cum 1729 Birmingham Northern England model – on say 1,000-year historical time scales or periods the destruction of both both the human and the ecological ‘milieux’ or grounds of being – doing, becoming