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Patrick Henningsen
21st Century Wire
September 15, 2011
The science known as "geo-engineering", or "terra-forming" sits right over on the extreme end of climate change activist agendas.
It's dangerous alright – meddling that unnecessarily interferes with the planet's delicate ecosystems, but climate zealots are still of the belief that it's these sort of quacky, geoengineering measures that will somehow "save the planet" from the 21st century's most hideous mythological enemy – man-made global warming.
Over the last 10 years, climatists have put forward some glorious, albeit shocking proposals to "fight global warming and climate change". Among their ideas includes a giant blanket to cover Greenland's glaciers in order to keep them from melting, giant umbrellas in space to shield us from the sun's rays, and of course, the bizarre invention of "cap and trade" and the failed carbon market.
Their latest idea is no less extraordinary, and is certainly up there with the wackiest of desperate Victorian inventions ever concocted.
Believe it or not, scientists and engineers plan to test their latest "geoengineering" idea in Norfolk, England next month by launching a helium-filled blimp, tethered by a 1 km long hose pipe which will spray mist into the air. By doing this, they are hoping to cool the climate with what they describe as a "simulated volcanic eruption".
According to a recent report in The Independent, "The project is one of the first geoengineering field trials in the world and could result in the deployment of a fleet of up to 20 giant balloons, each the size of Wembley Stadium, injecting millions of tonnes of sulphate particles at a height of 20km into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight back into space."
Engineer Hugh Hunt goes on to describe the invention, "This hose would be just like a garden hose, 20km long and we pump stuff up the pipe. The nice thing about it is that we can really have a knob, if you like, which we can control to adjust the rate at which we inject these particles."
To develop this particular "big green idea", the group from Bristol University have managed to con the government out of a cool $2.5 million in research grants from the public purse.
Their research is paid for by the government's own Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. As public funds for housing, education, and community support are currently being cut across the board, it is perhaps even more shocking that the governments in Europe and North America continue to throw their finite budgets at what amount to no more than quack-green Victorian science projects.
Members of this government-funded Stratospheric particle injection for climate engineering (Spice) project have also looked at using missiles, and giant "chimneys" in order to send thousands of tonnes of particles into the atmosphere. Amazing.
The year 2011 has without a doubt, been the worst year so far for the man-made global warming effort. Scandal after scandal, resignation after resignation, have successively shaken the climatist/warmist movements from the secure perch they enjoyed back in 2007.
Still though, the movement is pushing forward in a last ditch, propaganda Tet Offensive, through Al Gore's latest green media circus show entitled "24hrs of Reality", desperately trying to push the old, fatally flawed, and misleading tenets like the planet is heating up, and'the science is settled'. But above all, we are meant to believe that "every country is in agreement" that man-made CO2 is causing the earth's temperature to rise, threatening life as we know it. Yes, he still wants you to believe that it's a global consensus.
Aside from the dodgy science and the crooked academic practices, one of its main handicaps is that it just never made any economic sense.
The liberal utopian mantra of 'green jobs for everyone'- which was also Obama's famous campaign plank in 2008, aka the 'green economy', was nothing more than a political pipe dream designed to garner public support from those sympathetic to Al Gore's sermon of global doom at the time, much in the same way that his predecessor, George W. Bush, successfully created a similar mythology- 'the war on terror', in order to own public support of any and all policies related to security and military largess.
Rather sadly, Al Gore's fabled vision, the Green City on the Hill, is rightly buckling under the weight of its own blind, state subsidies and market realities. Only last week, after managing to claw a hefty half billion dollars out of the US Federal government in the form of guaranteed stimulus handouts, Obama and Biden's number one green pet, solar energy firm Solyndra, was put down for good, via Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
A bigger slap in the face one could not get.
Still, however, mainstream media gatekeepers continue their vain attempt to keep the popular modern mythology of anthropogenic global warming and its sister, climate change, as alive as possible. There is still an industry in the alarmist movement, and as long as states and institutions are still handing out billions of dollars per annum in research grants, then I'm afraid we will still have to see some of the wacky scenarios like Bristol University's 1km hose pipe cum-volcano… for some time to come.
Regardless, the reality curve has finally caught up to climatists. As science gradually makes its way back into line with reality and real world observation, it follows that many of the expensive, government-run climate bureaucracies erected since 2000 will also fall by the wayside as a result.
Soon, very soon, politicians will no longer be able to use scientists as scapegoats, as in "it's not our fault, they told us CO2 was heating up the planet".
When that time arrives, then the climate alarmist political agenda will have died a certain death. That time is nigh.
READ MORE CLIMATE NEWS AT: 21st Century Wire Climate Files


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NOTE: You can view Michael Roth's remarks to parents on Arrival Day here.
The Class of 2011 arrived on Tuesday this week, and a truckload of boxes containing our household possessions from California arrived the next day. Kari, Sophie and I are moving in and finding our way along with the frosh. Yesterday, as I made my way to the Freeman Athletic Center for a quick burst of exercise, a couple of students stopped their car to ask me for directions to Physical Plant. I had no idea. They asked, "Aren't you the new president?" They were kind enough not to comment on my inability to help them find their way.
That will change as we find our way together. There are plenty of people here who are expert at helping others and are willing to do so. This was very clear on Tuesday, as staff members at all levels, as well as upperclassmen, headed out to the dorms to carry boxes, refrigerators, stereos, etc., to help our new arrivals move in. I have never seen a better combination of efficiency and graciousness. The excitement of the students and the nervousness of their parents (and vice versa) were palpable, and I met plenty of folks for whom saying goodbye was more than a little difficult. The responsibility of a university like Wesleyan is enormous. We have accepted these wonderfully gifted young people, we have welcomed them, and now we must give them the tools for lifetime learning and help them create a dynamic, generous community.
I am very confident in our ability to do that because in the past weeks I have gotten to know many of the staff and faculty. The operations here are truly impressive, and if move-in day is any indication, we are on top of the major logistical issues. Moreover, there is a consistent desire to keep improving for the welfare of the students, and for the enhancement of Wesleyan. The faculty are returning from summers of research, of writing, of creating. I am impressed with the eagerness with which they face the school year. Some of the faculty here I have known for more than thirty years, and I have personally experienced their remarkable abilities in the classroom. Even these veterans are always looking for ways to improve their classes, to further enhance student learning. And the young faculty come to Wesleyan with more than just impressive credentials. They come with a passion to make a difference in the lives of their students. How fortunate I am to have them as colleagues!
In my opening remarks to parents in the chapel I pointed to a feature of the Wesleyan community that we all know well: our students are intense, creative and engaged. But I also emphasized that they are taught to become self-critical; to be experimental also means to find ways to evaluate whether what one is trying is worth trying. That's a difficult process, but it is essential in education and in life. Finally, I emphasized that our students learn that it is not enough to be intensely creative, and that it is not enough to be self-critical and experimental. We must also learn to deliver, to make something that others recognize as valuable, or as something that works. Our students are productive (often in surprising ways), and we set the highest standards for judging what they have produced.
Finally, and you will hear me say this often, I said that our students should discover what they love to do at Wesleyan, and then they should get a little better at it. I am confident that this will happen with the guidance of their teachers, and with the help of the staff and their fellow students.
I look forward to reporting to you a few times a month on what I am learning as I do what I love here at Wesleyan (and perhaps get a little better at it). And I look forward to reading your comments (though I won't be able to respond to them individually) from your perspective on the Wesleyan community.
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October 31, 2013
The Other Election :: The At Large Race Filled with Personality
Kilian Melloy READ TIME: 3 MIN.
With the first non-Menino mayoral race in decades, it's no surprise that the under-resourced local media and over-bombarded citizenry has not paid much attention to the the district and city-wide Boston city council races. (With one exception: the wildly smart and hard-working David Bernstein profiled all the candidates at bostonmagazine.com)
There are many contested races and new faces running for office.
In a regular Menino-for-mayor-year, the race for the citywide At Large seats would be making headlines. Along with incumbents Stephen Murphy (stephenjmurphy.com) and Ayanna Pressley (ayannapressley.com), former incumbent Michael Flaherty (michaelflaherty.com), voters have the opportunity to consider candidates running for the first time.
Jack Kelly
Jack Kelly, a former neighborhood coordinator for Mayor Menino, know first hand about the devastating effects addiction. Kelly spent time as a homeless heroin addict and was arrested several times. His is a passionate advocate for treatment and public safety. Kelly also has articulated his ideas to connect newcomers and traditional Bostonians.
Michelle Wu
Michelle Wu's background tells the story of many Bostonians. Her immigrant parents faced many obstacles in America. Wu attended Harvard, got a great job, but then had to quit to take care of her younger sisters while her mother battled mental illness. Wu's experience working for City Hall in the permitting arena, combined with her life challenges, has resulted in a candidate committed to streamlining government.
Jeff Ross
Long time activist Jeff Ross is also a representative of the Second Suffolk Senate District on the Democratic State Committee. Openly gay, ross is an immigration attorney and human rights advocate. Ross has worked tirelessly to raise awareness around the discriminatory St. Patrick's Day Parade and the rights and issues of transgender individuals. Ross has been subject of an attack website, jeffrossbostonlawyer.com, which details a significant number of financial and business issues. The charges of financial mismanagement were of such length that Bay Windows and South End News asked Jeff Ross to provide a statement:"Sadly, when individuals stand up to run for public office, we open ourselves up to the risk that others will try to tear us down. In today's climate people do this in a particularly nasty manner. I hope that a respected publication such as the South End News and Boston's politically savvy citizenry will recognize lies, distortion, and a sad attempt at a smear campaign.
I have been forthright during my campaign that I am running for Boston City Council in order to lift up individuals and families who need it most. I care about creating a city where access to opportunity is the top priority - that's why I've written in guest opinion columns in this very paper advancing CORI reform, aimed at breaking down racial barriers and stigmas around sexual violence, and raising awareness about our community's exclusion from the St. Patrick's Day Parade.
My commitment to these causes is not based on the simple progressive values that I hold, but also on my own past struggles to overcome bullying, adversity, financial hardship and a difficult divorce. I want to work on a better future for all of Boston's residents and especially for our future-our children."
Annissa Essaibi-George
Public school teacher, community activist, small business owner are a few of the adjectives to describe Annissa . She entered the At Large race to forward her commitment to public service and work toward better public education.
Martin Keogh
Martin ran six city-wide campaigns for former councillor Peggy Davis-Mullin. He's a criminal defense lawyer. The Hyde Park native see public safety and education as the most important issue facing the Boston.
Kilian Melloy serves as EDGE Media Network's Associate Arts Editor and Staff Contributor. His professional memberships include the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, and the Boston Theater Critics Association's Elliot Norton Awards Committee.


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Thailand has officially reopened its border on November 1, 2021, to welcome tourists back after the covid-19 situation has alleviated. The reopening plan allows both domestic tourists and international tourists to experience a new style of tourism under the SHA Standard or Amazing Thailand Safety & Health Administration. The SHA Standard has been further improved to SHA Plus and SHA Extra Plus; both of which have become a new standard of service for new normal tourism, safer and better in terms of quality.
In order to spread income to tourism communities and continuously encourage tourism, Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has joined hands with the Tourism Council of Thailand, tourism associations, and Advanced Info Service Public Company Limited to launch a campaign named "Experience Amazing New Chapters", aiming at international tourists and expat group.
TAT has cooperated with SHA Plus-certified and SHA Extra Plus-certified establishments in the 10 pilot provinces (Phuket, Krabi, Phang-nga, Ko Samui, Chiang Mai, Chonburi, Phetchaburi, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Buriram, and Bangkok) to launch various packages and special deals for international tourists and expats to use through the website: www.tourismthailand.org/experienceamazing. Moreover, there is an interesting activity to participate in and get a chance to win prizes. Everyone who gets a special deal from the website will get a chance to win luxurious accommodation packages from establishments all over Thailand, worth more than 100,000 baht.
Experience Amazing New Chapters will be officially available for international tourists and expats to get special deals starting from Today to August 2022.
For more information, visit www.tourismthailand.org/experienceamazing
Some example of special deals on the website:
Devasom Khao Lak Beach Resort & Villas, Phang-nga
– Seaside Grand Deluxe Room special price only 5,400 baht/night from normal price of 8,553 baht/night
RatiLanna Riverside Spa Resort, Chiang Mai
– Deluxe Riverside Room special price only 3,000 baht/room/night from normal price of 13,000 baht/room/night, including breakfast
– Executive Suite Room special price only 6,000 baht/room/night from normal price of 20,000 baht/room/night, including breakfast
Kan Eang@pier, Phuket
– 10% discount on food (all-day dining)
SPA Cenvaree, Centara Grand Mirage Beach Resort Pattaya, Chonburi
– Aromatherapy massage 60 minutes special price only 1,199 baht from normal price of 2,354 baht
Day Tour Royal Phuket Cruise Program
– Day Tour Royal Phuket Cruise Program special price only 1,290 baht/person from normal price of 2,300 baht/person (for 30 persons)


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Letter of Eusebius of Coesarea to the people of his Diocese1 .
1. What was transacted concerning ecclesiastical faith at the Great Council assembled at Nicaea, you have probably learned, Beloved, from other sources, rumour being wont to precede the accurate account of what is doing. But lest in such reports the circumstances of the case have been misrepresented, we have been obliged to transmit to you, first, the formula of faith presented by ourselves, and next, the second, which [the Fathers] put forth with some additions to our words. Our ownpaper, then, which was read in the presence of our most pious2 Emperor, and declared to be good and unexceptionable, ran thus:-
2. "As we have received from the Bishops who preceded us, and in our first catechisings, and when we received the Holy Layer, and as we have learned from the divine Scriptures, and as we believed and taught in the presbytery, and in the Episcopate itself, so believing also at the time present, we report to you our faith, and it is this3 :"-3. "We believe in One God, the Father Almighty, the Maker of all things visible and invisible. And in One Lord Jesus Christ, the Word of God, God from God, Light from Light, Life from Life, Son Only-begotten, first-born of every creature, before all the ages, begotten from the Father, by Whom also all things were made; Who for our salvation was made flesh, and lived among men, and suffered, and rose again the third day, and ascended to the Father, and will come again in glory to judge the quick and dead. And we believe also in One Holy Ghost:"
"Believing each of these to be and to exist, the Father truly Father, and the Son truly Son, and the Holy Ghost truly Holy Ghost, as also our Lord, sending forth His disciples for the preaching, said, "Go teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost4 ." Concerning Whom we confidently affirm that so we hold, and so we think, and so we have held aforetime, and we maintain this faith unto the death, anathematizing every godless heresy. That this we have ever thought from our heart and soul, from the time we recollect ourselves, and now think and say in truth, before God Almighty and our Lord Jesus Christ do we witness, being able by proofs to shew and to convince you, that, even in times past, such has been our belief and preaching."
4. On this faith being publicly put forth by us, no room for contradiction appeared; but our most pious Emperor, before any one else, testified that it comprised most orthodox statements. He confessed moreover that such were his own sentiments, and he advised all present to agree to it, and to subscribe its articles and to assent to them, with the insertion of the single word, One-in-essence, which moreover he interpreted as not in the sense of the affections of bodies, nor as if the Son subsisted from the Father in the way of division, or any severance; for that the immaterial, and intellectual, and incorporeal nature could not be the subject of any corporeal affection, but that it became us to conceive of such things in a divine and ineffable manner. And such were the theological remarks of our most wise and most religious Emperor; but they, with a view5 to the addition of One in essence, drew up the following formula:-
The Faith dictated in the Council.
"We believe in One God, the Father Almighty, Maker of all things visible and invisible:"-
"And in One Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, begotten of the Father, Only-begotten, that is, from the essence of the Father; God from God, Light from Light, Very God from Very God, begotten not made, One in essence with the Father, by Whom all things were made, both things in heaven and things in earth; Who for us men and for our salvation came down and was made flesh, was made man, suffered, and rose again the third day, ascended into heaven, and cometh to judge quick and dead."
"And in the Holy Ghost."
"And those who say, `Once He was not,' and `Before His generation He was not,' and `He came to be from nothing,' or those who pretend that the Son of God is `Of other subsistence or essence6 ,' or `created' or `alterable,' or `mutable,' the Catholic Church anathematizes."
5. On their dictating this formula, we did not let it pass without inquiry in what sense they introduced "of the essence of the Father," and "one in essence with the Father." Accordingly questions and explanations took place, and the meaning of the words underwent the scrutiny of reason. And they professed, that the phrase "of the essence" was indicative of the Son's being indeed from the Father, yet without being as if a part of Him. And with this understanding we thought good to assent to the sense of such religious doctrine, teaching, as it did, that the Son was from the Father, not however a part of His essence7 . On this account we assented to the sense ourselves, without declining even the term "One in essence," peace being the object which we set before us, and stedfastness in the orthodox view.
6. In the same way we also admitted "begotten, not made;" since the Council alleged that "made" was an appellative common to the other creatures which came to be through the Son, to whom the Son had no likeness. Wherefore, say they, He was not a work resembling the things which through Him came to be8 , but was of an essence which is too high for the level of any work; and which the Divine oracles teach to have been generated from the Father9 , the mode of generation being inscrutable and incalculable to every originated nature.
7. And so too on examination there are grounds for saying that the Son is "one in essence" with the Father; not in the way of bodies, nor like mortal beings, for He is not such by division of essence, or by severance no nor by any affection, or alteration, or changing of the Father's essence and power10 (since from all such the unoriginate nature of the Father is alien), but because "one in essence with the Father" suggests that the Son of God bears no resemblance to the originated creatures, but that to His Father alone Who begat Him is He in every way assimilated, and that He is not of any other subsistence and essence, but from the Father11 . To which term also, thus interpreted, it appeared well to assent; since we were aware that even among the ancients, some learned and illustrious Bishops and writers12 have used the term "one in essence," in their theological teaching concerning the Father and Son.
8. So much then be said concerning the faith which was published; to which all of us assented, not without inquiry, but according to the specified senses, mentioned before the most religious Emperor himself, and justified by thee forementioned considerations. And as to the anathematism published by them at the end of the Faith, it did not pain us, because it forbade to use words not in Scripture, from which almost all the confusion and disorder of the Church have come. Since then no divinely inspired Scripture has used the phrases, "out of nothing," and "once He was not," and the rest which follow, there appeared no ground for using or teaching them; to which also we assented as a good decision, since it had not been our custom hitherto to use these terms.
9. Moreover to anathematize "Before His generation He was not," did not seem preposterous, in that it is confessed by all, that the Son of God was before the generation according to the flesh13 .
10. Nay, our most religious Emperor did at the time prove, in a speech, that He was in being even according to His divine generation which is before all ages, since even before He was generated in energy, He was in virtue14 with the Father ingenerately, the Father being always Father, as King always, and Saviour always, being all things in virtue, and being always in the same respects and in the same way.
11. This we have been forced to transmit to you, Beloved, as making clear to you the deliberation of our inquiry and assent, and how reasonably we resisted even to the last minute as long as we were offended at statements which differed from our own, but received without contention what no longer pained us, as soon as, on a candid examination of the sense of the words, they appeared to us to coincide with what we ourselves have professed in the faith which we have already published.


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This was the site for ABC Wednesday for Rounds 9-20. It was a fun project. It is now located at http://abcwednesday.com Go there and participate.
Tuesday 27 January 2015
C is for Cooking!
This is our kitchen where most Saturdays I COOK something special for my hubby and myself.
I also cook the basics - using the lovely eggs we get from our CHICKENS!
I am launching a new COOKERY feature - on Facebook.
If you aren't a friend send me a friend invite and state ABC Wednesday - you can see my CURRENT videos and leave a COMMENT! (Denise E. Nesbitt)
You Tube awaits.
Happy ABC Wednesday, you lovely CHARACTERS!
Wednesday 21 January 2015
To make it more complicated when you want to comment you first land on a Google+ page. From there you have to do researches to find the Google+ Blogger's Blog.
You go into "About" on the Google+ page and when you are lucky the Blogger Blog's link is mentioned unfortunately not always. So as a non Google+ member I can't comment and I don't want to be a member.
And then it gets complicated when the Blogger has up to 7 or sometimes 9 blogs ! Which one is the right one ?
When you have time you open the first one only to realize that the blog had never been used. The next one dated from 2006, then followed by others from other years and long forgotten. If you are lucky you find the right Blog where the meme is posted. You feel like Sherlock Holmes after a busy day.
Here are two examples :
Step 1
Step 2
Now tell me on which one do I have to comment ????
Wouldn't it be easier to give the right link to the right Blog in the beginning and also mention it on the Google+ thing ?
suggested by Gattina
Sunday 11 January 2015
A is for ABC Wednesday - AGAIN!
AMAZING! I don't believe that the initial ADMIRAL of this ADVENTURE, Denise Nesbitt, would have ASSUMED that ABC Wednesday would be still going seven and a half years later!
For ALL you newbies, we have a set of rules, but this is the gist of it:
*Each week, there is an APPOINTED letter. This week is A, next week is B, etc.
*You AUTHOR a blog post; it could be an ARTICLE, some ART, ALMOST ANYTHING. The post should include a link to ABC Wednesday's URL ADDRESS, as well as clear ARTICULATION how it meets that week's topic (A is for APPLE, et al.) Feel free to ACCESS the current ACCOUTERMENT on your blog.
*You enter the specific link to your blog post in that Linky ACCESSORY. For instance, my post this week will be http://www.rogerogreen.com/2015/01/13/a-is-for-apostrophes/- A is for Apostrophe. If I just enter my main page URL - http://www.rogerogreen.com - it'll be harder for visitors to find the specific post, now and especially in the future.
*At least one ASSOCIATE from the ABC Wednesday team, and ASSUREDLY other people, will visit your post and leave comments.
*Try and ACCESS at least 5 other participants either before or after your listing, or randomly, or people you like, or people you don't know. Comment on their posts. It's ARITHMETIC: the more sites you do visit, the more comments you will probably get.
*We retain the right to ABROGATE overly commercial links, or folks who don't ACKNOWLEDGE ABC Wednesday. We really ABHOR doing that; we ALWAYS feel AWFUL about doing it. But we want to be fair to those who do ABIDE by the rules.
If you have any questions about this, ACCESS me at RogerOGreen (at) Gmail (dot) com.
Sunday 4 January 2015
Z for Zachariah
His wife was the Righteous Elizabeth, it was thought that she was unable to bear children.
One day when Zachariah was in the temple an angel of the Lord appeared before him
and told him that his aged wife would bear a son who "will be great in the sight of the
Lord (Luke 1 : 15) and will go before him in the spirit and power of Elias" (Luke 1:17).
The prophet doubted that this prediction would come true and for his weakness of faith
he was punished by becoming mute.


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Afternoon Tea Mantou Sliders & Evening Posh Nosh @ The Gastro Project
September 30, 2015
The Gastro Project has recently introduced two intriguing promotions: An Afternoon Tea menu that features creative sliders constructed with mantou buns & fun fillings, as well as Posh Nosh three-course dinnertime sets that change every fortnight, carefully crafted by the restaurant's new chef Yuz with an attention to complex details.
The Afternoon Tea selection is available six days a week, Tuesdays through Sundays, 2:30pm-5:30pm. It's a reasonably priced affair - RM16.90++ for two mantous & complimentary serving of coffee or tea - sufficient for a satisfactory snack.
Cute creations - customers can choose from a diverse & distinctive selection of four savoury mantous and two sweet ones, all thickly stuffed, many showcasing a strong sense of contemporary, cross-border trendiness: Steamed mantou with fried chicken, red radish slaw & sriracha aioli; steamed mantou with lamb kofta, tzatziki sauce & fried mint; grilled mantou with beef patty, tomato salsa & fried quail egg; fried mantou with tempura fish, shaved cucumber & Oriental chilli sauce; fried mantou with custard, strawberries & a side of sweet condensed milk; & fried mantou with vanilla ice cream & shaved chocolate.
Seguing into the evening, The Gastro Project's new Posh Nosh menu runs Thursdays through Sundays from 7pm, offering the outlet's interesting interpretations of gourmet fare. For the first two weeks of October, the well-executed set starts with crisp wild mushroom arancini with garlic puree & truffle oil, followed by a fish lover's main course of pan-fried barramundi with tomato salsa & coriander mariniere sauce, concluding with a luscious panna cotta with fresh Thai basil & coconut cream.
The Posh Nosh menu costs RM98 nett - October's final two weeks will feature a perky starter of chilled tomato consomme with herbs & olive oil, a meaty main of Black Angus sirloin with charred onion, leek etuvee & wild mushroom jus, & a textured dessert of caramelised banana with chocolate crumbs, toffee sauce & vanilla ice cream. Thanks to TGP for having us here.
The Gastro Project
25 Jalan 17/56, Section 17, Petaling Jaya. Open Tues-Sun, 11am-12am. Tel: 03-7931-6465
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The Mighty, Intense Awakening Orchestra Sound the Alarm in Gowanus
by delarue, New York Music Daily
Composer/conductor Kyle Saulnier's twenty-piece Awakening Orchestra blend art-rock and classical music into their mighty big band jazz sound. They sound like no other group around: as the name implies, while they have the standard brass, reeds and rhythm section that you'd find in just about any other large jazz ensemble, Saulnier's hefty arrangements drift toward the classical side. As a plus, a strong political awareness factors into his music. Economies of scale being what they are – they're supported by the Midwest Composers Forum and its recording arm, Innova Records, one of the very few labels that still matter – the group rarely plays live. That's why their upcoming show on July 14 at 7:30 PM at Shapeshifter Lab – where they'll be continuing Saulnier's ongoing 2016 election year-themed suite, a work in progress – is the place to be if powerful, enveloping sounds are your thing. As a bonus, eclectically tuneful pianist Fabian Almazan – who has a thing for Shostakovich – plays with his Rhizome ensemble afterward. Cover is $10.
The Awakening Orchestra's most recent, 2014 debut release, Volume 1: This Is Not the Answer (streaming at Spotify) opens with Saulnier's vampy, pulsing prelude and muted fanfare of sorts. From there they remind how aptly suited Radiohead songs are to mammoth orchestral interpretaiion, with a mighty version of Myxomatosis that uses the entire sonic spectrum, from towering heights to whispery lows; with a wispily mosterioso tenor sax solo from Samuel Ryder in the middle.
The epic The Words, They Fail to Come builds around the theme from the Samuel Barber Violin Concerto, an even mightier, dynamically shifting epic featuring a vividly uneasy, epic solo from baritone saxophonist Michael Gutauskas, handing off to trombonist Michael Buscarino, who finally slam-dunks it. Then the band thunders through an Olympic stadium-sized reinvention of the old jazz standard Alone Together, lit up by Michael McAllister's searing guitar and Felipe Salles' surrealistic tenor sax.
Saulnier's original, Protest rises from horror atmospherics, through an insistent, powerful pulse, to a glittering Mulholland Drive noctural interlude and then a frantic coda where all hell breaks loose. The first cd ends with a bulky chamber-jazz arrangement of You Still Believe in Me, by Wilson and Asher, whoever they are.
The second disc opens with the Brahms Intermezzo Op. 118 No. 2, which Saulnier has arranged very cleverly to seem as if it's a prototype for Angelo Badalamenti's Twin Peaks theme. It's not, but Saulner gets props for having the ears and ambiiton to connect the dots as far as they go, and them some. The orchestra follows with Saulnier's four-part suite, This Is Not The Answer, opening as a suspenseful tone poem and then rising to a circular exchange of sheets of sound over the rhythm section, Rob Mosher's warily bubbling and then hazy soprano sax at the center as the backdrop descends into the murky, creepy depths. A sardonically swinging march beat and Middle Eastern allusions from David DeJesus' alto sax offer equal parts relevance and menace.
Then the group completely flips the script with a balmy nocturnal theme lit up by Nadje Noordhuis' deep-sky flugelhorn. From there the band shifts into the final section, The Hypocrite and the Hope (an assessment of the Obama administration?), an enervatedly bustling neo-70s Morricone-ish crime jazz theme and variations, with funhouse-mirror James Shipp vibraphone and some psychedelically unhinged McAllister shredding, As cinematic, electric crime themes go, it ranks with Bob Belden as well as with the aforementioned Italian guys.
Saulnier has the orchestra follow with a lush take of Murderer, the dancing twin trumpets of Noordhuis and Philip Dizack contrasting with its looming atmospherics. Kevin Fruiterman sings the album's final cut, Hi-Lili, Hi Lo, reinventing a cheesy early 50s Dinah Shore hit as Alan Parsons Project orchestral pop. Considering how much new material the band will be unveiling, it's uncertain if they'll be playing any of this live, but if so, that will be a plus.


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Released From the Law, Bound to Christ
1Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? 2For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him. 3So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.
4So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. 5For when we were in the realm of the flesh,a the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. 6But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
The Law and Sin
7What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."b 8But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead. 9Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. 10I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. 11For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death. 12So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.
13Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.c For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
21So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22For in my inner being I delight in God's law; 23but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in my sinful natured a slave to the law of sin.
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Before COVID-19, shaking hands was a common way to greet people. Usually, we didn't even think about it.
Shaking hands is engrained deep into our culture. It's been around for thousands of years, stemming back to the days of the ancient Hebrews. Later, the ancient Romans and ancient Greeks shook hands to sign on official deals.
The extension of the hand was seen as extension of an olive branch.
"Some people believe the actual grasping of the hands and the up and down motion of the handshake was that, if there was a weapon in someone's sleeves, it would be lodged out or you would hear it clank," said Maralee McKee, an etiquette expert and founder of the The Etiquette School of America.
Fast forward to today, it might feel a little jarring if someone tries to extend their hand to us.
McKee expects most people to be okay with shaking hands when it's safe to do so, but we should expect some people to be hesitant.
A recent Harris poll for Fast Company found 54% of people would be happy to never shake someone's hand again. In those instances, it is up to the person who does not want to shake hands to let it be known.
"Actually, put your hands behind your back, something that would usually be very rude, but go ahead and put your hands behind your back. In other words, 'I'm not going to be extending it.' But let your kindness come through via a smile on your face, making eye contact. A nod of the head is always a polite thing to do."
Another option is to simply let people know you won't be shaking hands. There are also alternative greetings we can use now and in the future.
"Take your hand and put it here over your shoulder. And just do a slight bow of the head. That way it gives you and the other person something to do with your hands," said McKee.
At the end of the day, we should always remember that everyone has different levels of comfort. Both comfort and etiquette are likely to change as the pandemic situation changes.


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For music-only systems we recommend our sealed subs. We have sealed subs in various sizes and finishes. Where high output at 20 Hz is not needed, our sealed subs will match the output of their vented equivalents. In addition, greater extension is possible. Combined with room gain, in-room extension to 14 Hz or even lower is possible.
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Oh, the diva has gone and done it this time!
Diana Ross pissed off a crowd of 40,000 at the 2008 Air Jamaica Jazz & Blues Festival on Saturday, where Miss Thing, 63, was booed and heckled by Jamaicans attending the festival in Montego Bay -- after organizers told them that "to honor Miss Ross' wishes, she will not be shown on the monitors." That news was greeted with widespread hissing. Oh no she didn't!
Patrons in the stadium-sized arena were unable to see the diva onstage, so they called for organizers to put her performance up on the big screen. "It was at the eleventh hour that her manager said she wouldn't allow us to IMAG (In Vivo Imaging) her performance," said a concert promoter, "and, if any cameras were present, she would not go on stage."
Hisses turned to full-out boos when Ross started her set with Supremes hits -- and the crowd beyond the first section couldn't see her -- and the booing continued throughout her set.
Festival spokesperson Carlette DeLeon issued a statement Sunday blaming Ross for upsetting the Jamaica crowd, saying, "The much anticipated performance of Diana Ross on Saturday proved somewhat disappointing to many patrons who expected a very interactive set. Miss Ross' request to have a restricted display of her performance however, inconvenienced patrons who were left feeling distanced from the stage and her performance."
Attendees paid from $80 to $307 to watch Ross -- who was reportedly paid $300,000 for the gig -- perform the hour-long set with fellow headliners Mary Mary, Billy Ocean and KoKo Taylor.


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Seoul, Korea – 12/02/2024 – (SeaPRwire) – Recently, Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) announced that THE SELECTS showroom, which supports emerging Korean fashion designers, will be held during New York Fashion Week (NYFW) from February 13th to 16th at "500 West 22nd Street" in New York's Chelsea district. South Korea's cultural industry has gained global acclaim, particularly for its emphasis on K-pop and dramas. Building on this success, Korean fashion is now establishing its presence on the international stage.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism of South Korea, in collaboration with the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA), presents seasonal women's fashion showrooms in New York and Paris, reinforcing its status as the global epicenter of Korean fashion culture. The current season highlights nine brands for their innovative designs and growth potential.
Featured brands include:
- BMUET(TE): Showcasing rebellious and kitschy aesthetics.
- CAHIERS: An elegant and sophisticated brand offering high-quality women's clothing.
- DOUCAN: A practical brand blending graphics with couture dresses.
- EN OR: A popular contemporary brand reflecting modern design and trends.
- JULY COLUMN: A label boasting high quality and sophisticated aesthetics.
- MAISON NICA: A creative brand harmonizing traditional techniques with modern design.
- MMAM: A globally popular brand representing deconstructionism in South Korean fashion.
- SEOKWOON YOON: An innovative brand showcasing the South Korean avant-garde of the new era.
- VEGAN TIGER: A sustainable fashion brand presenting street sensibilities and diverse vegan materials.
The reason why Korean fashion is consistently preferred in New York attributes to factors, such as swift production and delivery, impeccable quality, and effective communication with the global market. The power of Korean fashion lies in its delicate designs and robust sewing quality. This contributes to their sustained popularity in global fashion hubs like New York.
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I am surprised this book has not received more attention. This was another of the books I bought during the summer at the closing-down sale of England's Lane books that I have referred to in various previous postings. A reminder of the rightful place that local independent bookstores should be playing but no longer can in this age of e-books (yes, I do own a Kindle) and online shopping. We are being fed content through our electronic networks, and perhaps we are forgetting how to seek out nice things in the physical world. But that is a topic for another posting.
When the global financial crisis began in 2008, we all started to (re-??) learn some fundamental truths, most of which were of the nature of "not everything can keep going up forever". In the Impoverishment of Nations, author Leigh Skene introduces us to some further fundamental truths, which are also fairly obvious, but which still don't seem to be grasped by many policy-makers. This is what can give this book wide appeal. To the layman it can provide a roadmap of where our economies are likely to head over the next few years, and we can draw our own conclusions about what that might mean for us personally.
There is also, I believe, much to digest in this book for the professional investor, since if some of Skene's global macro predictions are true, then one could use them to construct an international investment portfolio.
Take for example, Skene's Fifth Basic Truth (he has 10, which appear in a nice
one-page list at the end): We can't borrow our way out of debt. Blindingly obvious if you put it like that, and yet, governments (or their Central Banks) are engaging in what is referred to as Quantitative Easing (QE). Basically, this involves a Central Bank printing money which it then uses to purchase financial assets (typically government bonds) from banks. QE is supposed to stimulate economic activity because it increases the excess reserves of banks, so that they can lend this cash out to individuals and companies (particularly small companies). The problem is that this won't work according to Skene. That is because there is too much private debt already in the economy. The man in the street already has a mortgage and other loans and credit card debt. Hence, a polite "Thanks, but no thanks," to the offer of additional credit. The chart below which I have hand-copied from Skene's book illustrates this quite nicely. And if you want to follow up on what has happened in the last three years (more of the same, basically), then take a look at the latest NY Fed Household Debt and Credit Report Q2 2012.
I digress. Back to the book. Where are the upcoming battlegrounds for natural resources ? Well, some interesting perspectives from Skene. First, the world will not run out of oil. Reserves from tar sands and shale gas will provide our energy needs for decades if not centuries to come. That said, this doesn't mean energy prices fall. Indeed, quite the opposite, geo-political forces are the prime driver of energy prices and are pushing them upwards. Developed-world consumers will adjust by consuming less energy, and hence will have lower living standards. My own view, for what its worth, is that the newly accessible shale gas and tar sands reserves and fracking etc will constitute an in-built stabiliser on the oil price, both upwards and downwards. It is hard to see $200
per barrel without a concomitant large infrastructure investment in new types of extraction. Likewise, you wouldn't think that much of this new investment would be sanctioned (unless by a government with deep pockets) at $50/barrel-oil. Sounds like a collar on the oil price to me.
Skene thinks, and I sort of agree, that the elephant in the room is Water. Which is a little bit of a mixed metaphor. May I quote from the book, because I can't express this any better:
"The world's population has doubled since 1950, but global demand for water is doubling every 21 years. Only 2.5% of the world's water is fit for human consumption, and two-thirds of that is locked away in icecaps and glaciers. Unlike other commodities, no new water reserves will suddenly be discovered, there is no substitute for water and just about everything and everyone relies on it....Big reserves of fresh potable water lie in underground aquifers that provide more than half of the water in America, up to 80% in Europe and Russia and 25% worldwide. They contain 30 times more water than all the world's lakes, and hundreds of times more than all the world's reservoirs...[T]he vast aquifers took millions of years to form and replace themselves extremely slowly...Depletion of global groundwater supplies by an estimated 4% annually...One in ten of the world's major rivers fail to reach the sea for part of the year, including the Colorado, Yellow, Indus and Ganges...Agriculture uses 70% of the world's water."
A couple of slightly negative comments. First, the author then gets all Malthusian on us. He starts by referring to Malthus, and saying that in 1798 Malthus predicted that population growth would outstrip food growth, but didn't factor in the arrival of the industrial revolution. But then Skene falls into the same trap of suggesting that Malthus'prediction will now come to pass as the world's population grows to 9 billion.
But who is to say that we are not in the midst of a second, or third or whatever, industrial revolution already ? And anyway population is according to data cited by the author, predicted to peak at 9 – 9.5 billion by 2070. Or maybe we will eat less meat, which is the largest consumer of water. Self correcting mechanisms again ? Second, I wish this item had been included in the list of Ten Basic Truths, as it is an extremely important issue.
The essence of the book is that advanced developed nations have a long period of adjustment to go through which will likely lead to lower living standards after six decades of rising ones. Having borrowed largely for consumption over the last century or so, rather than investing savings into productive assets (Basic Truth 8), advanced nations now find that they cannot borrow more, either at a personal or a national level.
These fiscal burdens will only increase as populations get older in advanced
countries. The number of people of working age available to support each pensioner is dwindling, so either the shoulders of each worker will have to support more burden, or pensioners will need to receive less state assistance. Interestingly, China has a similar problem, whereas India remains in fairly good shape for the rest of the century (see my reproduced chart below).
I would broadly agree with the above analysis, with two exceptions. Advanced economies have one huge "balance-sheet" item which is mostly ignored by economists' appraisals. That is the Rule of Law. Western legal systems have evolved over many centuries to the point where comprehensive property and legal rights exist with confidence. They are far from perfect (as this previous blog post of mine illustrates), but they do provide a basic foundation for widespread economic and social activity. This gives these countries safe-haven status and will make them a favoured FDI destination.
Which brings me on to why I think this book is of practical relevance. If (as I do) you agree broadly with the conclusions, then it can also inform an appropriate investment thesis. There are many possible investment conclusions one can draw. Here are mine:
1. We are no longer in a period where financial engineering and in particular leveraged finance are the primary source of investment returns. Where bonds are low yielding and equities are volatile, don't be afraid of unlevered equity-only investments in high-quality projects. Be happy with a yield of 4-6%. You always have an option to raise debt in the future to leverage your returns. So what counts as a "high quality project"? Depends on many factors including time horizon and liquidity preference, but an example could be commercial real estate with high quality long-term tenants such as governments or highly rated corporates.
2. Infrastructure projects, particularly in the food and water sectors. But pick countries where the off-taker is likely to pay up for duration of the project. For example renewable energy projects in southern Europe came a cropper, because many relied on government subsidies for the duration of the project, and these subsidies were pulled when deficits needed to be cut. So, a good test would be "does the government or other off-taker really need the relevant infrastructure to be operational for its whole life ?". Less important in advanced countries, where contracts tend by and large to be honoured.
3. And this leads us nicely to geographical considerations. Falling living standards in advanced economies does not translate into "don't invest there". Remember that big asset: the Rule of Law. And following Skene's thesis, with banks pulling out of corporate lending, the opportunities for cash investors could be interesting. SMEs, perhaps listed on the smaller stock markets, may have a high amount of leverage on the books, find it hard to access primary equity capital, but have fundamentally strong operational cashflows. The opportunity for a cash buyer would be to take the company private, take the debt of the books and hopefully increase the efficiency and scale of the business with expansion capital. Exit by re-floating. Many such opportunities abound, particularly in Europe. Private Equity investing will mean what it used to, ie, taking over companies and managing or operating them better.
4. In terms of emerging economies, BRICs have been in and out of vogue over the past ten years. Continuing with the theme of fiscal strength driving economic strength, I would be looking at countries which growing populations from an already large based, strong fiscal positions and are capable of being a "self-sustained eco-system", and some semblance of an industrial base. Within advanced economies, Australia looks interesting. The Gulf countries, (including, in the future, Iraq) are natural-resource backed economies with existing infrastructure and very little need to access international debt markets. There are some other examples in Africa, Latin America and Central Europe. A good starting point is the projected Debt/GDP ratios, which can be
found here.
I shall be developing these themes in future posts, but I would be very happy to engage in discussion, either via the comments section here, via email in private or through the various social media, Twitter and LinkedIn.
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As I am familiar with the New Zealand census, I was looking through the British census for variables to look at. One of the reported categories is "social class" which just made me go wut?
The problem for Corbyn now is that he lacked authenticity on Brexit. He has been a long term critic of the EU, campaigned half-heartedly for the Remain camp and then came out immediately after the poll demanding that Britain invoke article 50 immediately. No wonder some in his own party are speculating that he voted Leave.
Of course, many in the Labour caucus never supported him to start with, but Brexit has given them the opportunity to do something about it. Saying there is "some constituency" that doesn't support him is a massive understatement. At the last count I think over 40 of his MPs resigned from shadow cabinet/spokesperson roles. I think we can confidently call this a failure on his part to convince the caucus that he is the right man for the job. What the party members will make of it is another matter.
Nick Russell, in reply to
As I am familiar with the New Zealand census, I was looking through the British census for variables to look at. One of the reported categories is "social class" which just made me go wut?
Because we don't have social class in NZ?
At least they admit it in Britain... -
Jeremy Andrew, in reply to
Because we don't have social class in NZ? At least they admit it in Britain...
Because everyone knows their place well enough to be trusted to self-report it?
I don't deny we (an often nebulous) social class in NZ. But it is not a reporting category in primary statistics about every region of the country.
Adam H, in reply to
If I come across a bit pro-Corbyn it's really meant to be more of a "look if you wanted anti-establishment there was an alternative"...
He could have quite easily played that up. I suspect he was trying not to appear out of kilter with the main messaging from the Stay camp.
My experience of UK education is that while it was (at the time) functional, it was also a process designed to perpetuate social division and produce an ignorant and unthinking populace.
My year was the first to enjoy comprehensive education, but at least in the south-east, state schools were mostly populated by the lower middle and working classes (joined by those in the middle classes who had parents too idealistic, cheap, or both to send their kids to private school). The middle classes attended a range of schools, ranging from famous public schools down to those whose main function was to keep the more retarded offspring of the gentry out of trouble until they became army officers (boys) or married an army officer (girls).
Despite being nominally comprehensive, a sifting process operated at every stage - pupils were assessed and streamed by ability (and of course pre-selected by social class) at 14 (GCE or GCSE exams, now rebranded as separate papers), 16 (staying of for A levels) and then at university.
The selective university system is the final filtering process in the UK. University courses are ranked by UCAS points, with Oxbridge at the top and places like Luton at the bottom. Unless you are either brilliant or well coached (e.g. went to public school) you won't get to fuck pigs at Oxbridge and will wind up somewhere down the list - and the list very accurately mirrors social class.
So basically, everyone outside a tiny minority (who run the country and write the media) gets failed by the education system. Add to that they way the system rewards conformity (because docile kids allow a school to get good results in the various league tables) and prioritises cramming for exams, it's pretty unsurprising you've got a population of disgruntled failures.
Kumara Republic, in reply to
Because we don't have social class in NZ?
At least they admit it in Britain...NZ does have a class system, but not in the formalised British sense. What we have in NZ is more like the informal Nouveau Riche-driven class structures of America and other former New World colonies. And while Britain still retains the old class structures, the Nouveau Riche has made inroads into it. And strangely enough:
Today, one of the few things US politicians on the right and the left agree on is social mobility in their country has calcified. It is actually lower than in Britain, as the New York Times noted last year.
From my own experiences, it's too easy to slip a few rungs on the ladder if you hail from an affluent family but have a disability and/or mental illness. It speaks true of some of my friends too. It's also made me realise that the Nouveau Riche thing is deep down an exercise in cherry-picking, dumb luck and survivorship bias.
Rich of Observationz, in reply to
The UK would analyse its census categories by occupation using the NRS system:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NRS_social_grade. This reflects one aspect of social class but not the caste-like system that pervades England - e.g. a working class FX trader would be in AB, while a posh gardener would be in C2D.NZ collects the same information, it just presents it differently http://www.stats.govt.nz/datavisualisation/treemap/occupation.html. You could extract the NRS information from summary/meshblock data and I'm sure people do, but not Stats I don't think...
Are you suggesting that Shearer has the same consistent record of principles that Corbyn has?
Shearer was happy to be associated with the Third Way and Blair.
Corbyn is a career politician- Shearer is certainly not that.
I think Shearer would be horrified to hear himself described as like Corbyn.
I tend to think of authenticity in NZ as Clark, Goff, McCully and English. Long serving politicians who represent their communities and are pretty much what it says on the box.
Ian Dalziel, in reply to
At least they admit it in Britain…
... and enquire as to whether one knows one's place!
Saying there is "some constituency" that doesn't support him is a massive understatement. At the last count I think over 40 of his MPs resigned from shadow cabinet/spokesperson roles.
One gets the impression that many of these new 'Labour' MPs don't have a hell of a lot to do with their constituents or local party members. Blair created a lot of wannabes...
Rich Lock, in reply to
Corbyn is a career politician
Your definition of this being...?
NoFace, in reply to
Career politician is meant to be disparaging, usually. Although it shouldn't be in all cases.
A common refrain from non Corbyn Labour members to the new Corbyn era members is "how many leaflets did you deliver?" and from what little I've seen in London, there is some truth to that. Whilst noting I've met some hard working Momentum people helping Remain/StrongerIn.
It seems to be that within the Labour membership there is a strong difference of opinion about what it takes to win elections. It isn't just about having a new leader who wants to bring Labour back to a more socialist path. It is about how elections are fought on the ground
Rich Lock, in reply to
Career politician is meant to be disparaging, usually. Although it shouldn't be in all cases.
If it's intended to mean something like: 'puts self-advancement ahead of other considerations, including those of his/her electorate and the greater good, and is fully willing to compromise own principles to do so', then it's a rather odd thing to say about a person who was first elected as an MP in 1982, who has held the same seat since, and who had, until the leadership election last year, never been in a cabinet position.
A common refrain from non Corbyn Labour members to the new Corbyn era members is "how many leaflets did you deliver?".
Well, I'm sure that made them feel very welcome within the warm embrace of the people's party.
Indeed. But the point is, Labour is all about getting out the vote. That's what it is good at. It needs loads of active members to do that. Obviously there is a lot more to a party and indeed needs to be to reach all the other people/voters. However in London's case, one reason why the party is doing ok is that all of those middle class members that don't really get the rest of England/UK actually go out and get the vote out, for months before the actual election.
My Labour friends have been solidly working, 2-5 times a week for the last 6 months or so on getting their voters ready for the mayoral, assembly and various other local elections. They're the ones who are increasingly angry at Corbyn as they don't' see his conviction or beliefs actually delivering them new voters. Nor his supporters helping them get out their current voters. These people resent being lectured by Corbyn supporters who in some occasions (see Gipsy Hill council by election) even campaign against the Labour candidate, let alone not voting for them.
We will one day view neo-liberal dogma as a fantasy invented by social scientists masquerading as mathematicians. Marx was an economist, and it is another bunch who have invented their own nonsense. This is at the root of our problems, because it fundamentally fails to consider us as a social species. It is an ideology that assumes everyone is a sociopath (which is why it tends to be sociopaths who float to the top of it).
Actually, neo-liberal dogma is based on the assumption that the individual acts in their own self interest and is a rational decision maker. However, I think that what has happened in the UK by leaving the EU is actually a victory against neo-liberal dogma. I suggest that you read Matt Ellis 'The Left should celebrate Brexit: UK just kicked Neoliberalism in the nuts' to understand the reality.
Caleb D'Anvers, in reply to
I fear that we have been insufficiently careful to distinguish "neoliberal global establishment" from "amoral robber barons who will use outright fascists as shock troops if it furthers their interests." Murdoch, who, along with Richard Desmond, is as responsible for this result as anyone, has now come out saying how pleased he is with Brexit.
This is our Waldo Moment. (It's no mistake that Waldo himself is a bluish purple: an animated Farage.) We may be about to discover that there are plenty worse political arrangements than neoliberalism. My fear is that, in five or ten years' time, we'll find ourselves looking back on the pre-June 23 world with the bitter pang of nostalgia and regret.
Adam H, in reply to
I think Shearer would be horrified to hear himself described as like Corbyn.
It was more that I was trying to point out we see these situations where there is a clear distinction: I would pick a humanitarian worker over a currency trader any day, simply because of the innate lack of morality necessary to function in the financial markets.
We were faced with that choice and it seemed to me that Shearer was hounded for somehow not being 'corporate' enough. I think we've had the neo-lib doctrine pushed so long it means people have come to believe it is somehow a fundamental truth rather than a socio-economic doctrine.
I think the Third Way was a response to that: Blair and New Labour tried to occupy Thatcherite ground. It was a sign of defeat. And if there's a good side to what we've seen in the UK is that people seem to feel Blair duped them (even thought it was what they wanted).
Adam H, in reply to
My dirty secret is that I would probably have voted Brexit for that very reason. But I don't think the majority of the 52% did. I suspect it was much more basic than that: a sense of manipulation perhaps.
Adam H, in reply to
I fear that we have been insufficiently careful to distinguish "neoliberal global establishment" from "amoral robber barons who will use outright fascists as shock troops if it furthers their interests."
I like your phrase. I guess I've become cynical. The 'best' ones seem to be very good at manipulating and skirting the balancing mechanisms. Most of the rest are "just following orders". There are some pockets of genuine loveliness, but I notice they tend to be older and on a good financial footing before they let their morals resurface.
It is a systemic problem - what good arises from a system that focuses decisions on individual rationality without the moderating balance of a crowd?
So a currency trader can make a decision that has massive leverage (we've seen banks taken down, and Soros famously broke what was formerly the worlds 4th biggest economy). Single men (yes, so far it's basically been men).
I think this is the fundamental flaw in the neo-lib agenda. It uses the mathematical equivalent of homeopathy to justify focusing these decisions down to a point that our social system struggles to cope with - it ignores the social imperatives.
It's like the branding around 'realism' - people kinda rolling their eyes and while proudly saying they are realists. To me, what they are saying is "I don't understand how people feel so I've going to pretend they are machines"
Russell Brown, in reply to
I suggest that you read Matt Ellis 'The Left should celebrate Brexit: UK just kicked Neoliberalism in the nuts' to understand the reality.
Hmmm. There's a lot of stating of self-evidence here:
Extant political expressions of racist views are in no small part due to the economic hardship and falling living standards inflicted on Europeans by the neoliberal agenda and the resulting GFC. What to speak of the military adventurism that is a key facet of the EU's role within the Western power structure, and its creation of a global refugee crisis following more than a decade of military intervention in the Middle East.
There can be no mistaking the fact that the EU itself and its undemocratic policies and actions are largely to blame for the contemporary rise of racism on the continent. That is the depressing irony of majority leftwing opposition to the UK's decision to leave the European Union. The unsavoury elements of the Brexit campaign are largely caused by the results of EU membership.
... its embrace of austerity economics in service to financiers and rent-seekers, and its embrace of Russian/Chinese isolationism in service to US hegemony and neoconservative warmongering.
The EU aligns with an orthodoxy, but the idea that this orthodoxy will magically reform itself when the EU is destroyed seems quite fanciful. It seems at least as likely things will be worse.
Russell Brown, in reply to
I think this is the fundamental flaw in the neo-lib agenda. It uses the mathematical equivalent of homeopathy to justify focusing these decisions down to a point that our social system struggles to cope with – it ignores the social imperatives.
It's like the branding around 'realism' – people kinda rolling their eyes and while proudly saying they are realists. To me, what they are saying is "I don't understand how people feel so I've going to pretend they are machines"
Good explanation. People mostly use "neoliberalism" as an all-purpose boogeyman, so it's nice to see the problem actually described.
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