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Category: Important Public Statement
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Change from the western Anglo-American world
You know that the western Anglo-American world is changing when this is the message from Oral Roberts University, the major site of the culture-history war since the 1970s. The change, though, has to be actualised, demonstrated, in our personal and organisational lives. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1329784185073442
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Weeping Tears of Joy and Sadness: Calling Local Politicians to Accountability
Watching the video of Boundary Road Rail Level Crossing Flythrough October 2022, I wept. Jesus Wept (John 11:35). It is weeping of joy and sadness. Joy because, finally, a beautiful solution has been reached in the Boundary Road Rail Level Crossing Flythrough. Sadness because my parents passed in their 90s in recent…
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Opportunities for Intelligent Social Events in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
HB Report on the Film and Dinner Discussion 23 September 2024 The Humanists Brisbane Meet-Up has been growing through its new 2024 Film and Dinner Discussion program. Already there has been five events to date, and many more to come. We stopped going to the pub and started going to the Regal…
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The Power Elite and American Wealth on Tuesday 5 November 2024
“Who, after all, runs America? No one runs it altogether, but in so far as any group does, the power elite.” C. Wright Mills (1959). The Sociological Imagination, Oxford University Press. p. 31. Mills’ The Power Elite thesis (1956) has sustain the length of time to the present. I have said it…
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The Choice to Think is Human Until It is Not
A colleague of mine posted about an investigation for code programming designed for the machine to produce original research questions. It is mind-bogglingly that the question “Why” is not understood more strongly in society, particularly among policy decision-makers. Why “models can go a step further and autonomously generate novel research ideas”? …
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The Language of Human “Snakes”: Why Some Humans are Intense Liars and Why the Uneducated Believe Them?
“The American media totally ignored this stuff until Donald Trump and I started talking about cat memes. If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.” [spoken by J.D. Vance] When the CNN host, Dana…
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Propaganda: Compare The APSC Commissioner’s Directions (Not Propaganda) and The APSC Press Statement (Propaganda)
Following the Final Report by the Australian Public Service Commissioner on the Robodebt Centralised Code of Conduct Inquiry, The Commissioner set forth a statement and directions, with an apology. Dr Gordon de Brouwer stated, “I apologise as Public Service Commissioner to those affected by the Scheme and to the Australian public for the part played…
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Why every aspect of Propaganda needs to be Challenged, including click bait?
Jacob N. Shapiro and Sean Norton on September 10, 2024, wrote an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, with the headline, “Why Scholars Should Stop Studying ‘Misinformation’.” Their article was not propaganda per se, but the headline was ‘click bait’, and for what was a worthy article to read; nevertheless, the headline assertion was…
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The Role of the Intellectual in the Australian Economy
Dear friends, https://www.academia.edu/123734421/The_Role_of_the_Intellectual_in_the_Australian_Economy The Role of the Intellectual in the Australian Economy In 2002 Raewyn Connell and Julian Wood produced an article in the Journal of Sociology called, “Globalization and scientific labour: patterns in a life-history study of intellectual workers in the periphery.” The theme of my article is a critical question of…
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“What usefulness or validity does the model still have?” ‘Pragmatic Thinkers’ are Not as Smart as They Think
“But if the abstraction in the model is insufficient to describe at least the important and relevant aspects of reality, then what usefulness or validity does the model still have?” I always wonder when a person speaks disparagingly about abstraction on their meaning and what each thinks is being expressed, what they…