by Jim Ball | Jul 20, 2021 | Blog, Equity, Random Notes
Interesting to hear the term ‘equity’ casually being tossed around these days, not so much in Australia, yet, but definitely in America which means, it will wash up here eventually. The idea is to encourage and fool people into thinking that it’s simply another word... by Jim Ball | Jul 20, 2021 | Blog, Random Notes, Wikipedia
If knowledge is power, what happens if the knowledge and facts acquired is deliberately skewed, curated, deceptive or just plain wrong? Wikipedia is one of the proverbial “4 Horsemen of the ‘Big Tech’ Apocalypse” (along with Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and Apple) and... by Jim Ball | Jul 20, 2021 | Blog, Coronavirus, Covid, Misinformation - Disinformation, Random Notes
The White House is now working with social media about covid and what is disinformation or misinformation and flagging what is to be taken down This is ‘the camel’s nose under the tent’. This is nothing less than a road test for other unrelated edicts leading... by Jim Ball | Jul 16, 2021 | Afghanistan, Blog, Random Notes, War
‘You might have all the watches, but we have the time’ — attributed to the Taliban. Alexander The Great had a go, Genghis Khan tried, various Persian and Sikh Empires also tried and failed as did the British, the Soviet Union and most recently the Americans. . If... by Jim Ball | Jul 13, 2021 | Blog, Climate, Climate, Random Notes
It’s one thing to talk about the Australian cricket team as a team of Lenin’s useful idiots for taking a knee but there’s a much more stark example of the useful idiot class and that is the hysterical members of the ‘climate cult’ class. As more and more people are... by Jim Ball | Jul 13, 2021 | Blog, Random Notes
Interesting to hear this term ‘equity’ casually being tossed around these days, not so much in Australia, yet, but definitely in America which means, it will wash up here eventually. The idea is to encourage and to fool people into thinking that equity is simply...