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Random Note — The Poltical Climate

The POLITICAL climate Climate Change has never been about changing the climate as such. It’s been about a hard to disprove, vague and nebulous metaphor, embodied in a campaign with the explicit goal of changing the political climate. It been all about power and...

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Random Note — Weird 

It’s straight out of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.  Rule 13… 𝐏𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭, 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐳𝐞 𝐢𝐭, 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐢𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐢𝐭.”

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Random Note — Words Are Weapons

The term pathological liar is a brutal set of words, and I’ve never heard it attributed or applied to any individual politician other than Donald Trump. It’s obviously designed to damage and to further convey the impression and frame the individual that “he’s not one...

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Random Note — The Issue Is Never The Issue

It was 1960’s activist and author of Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky who said, “𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧” When we start to view climate change through this prism, everything else comes into finer focus and makes sense. Now,...

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Random Note — The Courtesy Bus and The Sharing Economy

An analogy to understand the concept of The Sharing Economy is your typical suburban courtesy bus. When we see at your local RSL, bowlo or shopping cemntre, the term “courtesy bus” which picks you up and drops you off, we all know and understand what it’s all about....

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