I have a new hero ... @Ahona Guha 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 This book reached me on so many levels - truly useful for all trying to survive this system of Extreme capitalism with so many inflicting harm on others even if it does not always fit the definition of trauma ...

Treatment day for my love, and it's a shortened week which always strains those working in cancer care units (5 treatment days must be done in 4!)... And yet they always turn up working hard to be their best for the benefit of the patients... So much gratitude, respect and love for those who care 💞

"This is why every public hospital cancer service would be enriched by an embedded counsellor or psychologist"

As far as I could understand through his rambling incoherence, his lobbying for the Nobel prize hinges on just 1 more signature (who he threatens). I really don't know what will be worse - with the carrot still dangling at least he remains incentivised to give the appearance of caring about lives

People wondering how to lead in this fractured society, this is an important example. This man - who I know - is hurting and is vulnerable to far right voices over gender and trad roles. With compassion I help to see through his pain and understand what is really important. He put on 'like'

Through his first term I vacillated between favouring Whitlamesque breakthrough over Albo's chosen strategy of (timid) incrementalism. I've decided - last night I applied to become a member of the ALP for exactly the reasons discussed in this article. No more chirping from the sidelines - team 1st

Been saying that for a few years, including in my series of writing entitled "The Great Reset" of which below is an example, but things are getting critical now especially in the US macroedgo.com/2021/01/03/t...

Respect 💪💪🏻💪🏼💪🏽💪🏾💪🏿 ... Fighting structure, authority and political power - organisations/corporations - takes greater strength than many will ever know, but some just don't know how to take a backward step ... (Respect also to @Josh Bornstein )

Each passing day ... this US administration has been in how long?

Amy you are an (rare) authentic leader in our troubled society ... feel your pain about experience of violence - am sitting on a personal gun violence video (to save others from embarrassment) ... Experiment for all, search AI tool for how many people Hitler killed (Gemini's response below) ...

Gee, talk about cutting close ... the parallels with past writing and something I am presently writing are remarkable (though unsurprising given the topic) - except the addition of xenophobia to the misogyny in my writing ...

I have to admit to being shocked ... I thought the Wilsons (of the eponymous fund manager infamy) were better investors ... my put options from Feb 2020 returned 30x !!! I lost all respect for the Wilsons after the dividend imputation political campaign ...

This supports the role of stress (hormones) in disease progression (spread) of this one of the most serious forms of breast cancer ... www.news.com.au/lifestyle/he...

Yep, and politicians and their senior advisors/parliamentary secretaries ... and to the cries about talented people I say talented at what - extracting personal gain in our system of Extreme capitalism ... Another system - quarantine post political salary and super and link access to long term KPIs

I can get on board with this, BUT there is a related issue that must be addressed immediately ... right now in Brisbane there is such a premium on new houses that even 25-30 year old large, solid (brick) homes are being demolished to build new single family homes ...

"All employers are in the extraction business, not just those in the ‘resources’ industry. The resource all employers mine is their people  – specifically their ideas, energy and time – ‘just’ the most personal and precious of our resources which define us as human beings."

I had to wait for a time when nobody was home to watch this as it cuts too close for all of us ... noteworthy all considered stress and trauma causative in their cancer diagnosis ... relevant to the episode 2 weeks later on group actions (injury) ... main cause of Extreme capitalism - governments???

@jimchalmers.bsky.social bear this in mind when you sit with the Xcaps "'Toxic empathy' is a fiction to justify a mind made cynical and heart numbed ... Of the many weaknesses of modern western civilisation, inauthentic/insincere/fake empathy is truly profound."

This is clearly a shocking indictment of what are the impacts of working professionally in Extreme capitalism. Unfortunately many continue to trivialise these consequences, and see themselves as either immune to them or at least powerless to effect the necessary change macroedgo.com/2025/07/31/t...

During the last RL world cup I solidified my view that Nathan Cleary was over hyped and Jerome Luai underrated ... Luai outplayed Cleary throughout that tournament and he did the right thing striking out on his own this year ... the disparity continues into Origin selection tonight ... go Maroons!

"PME is issuing a blanket warning to US money managers, amid concerns America’s investment industry is caving in to pressure from the Trump administration to abandon basic principles of stewardship." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Dutch custodians of retirement funds clearly have a markedly different attitude to the largest custodians of Australians' retirement savings ... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hysteria again in the NRL about clamping down on head contact with sinbinning ... The problem is not actions to protect player welfare from repetitive head injury and concussion ... 1/4

Last year there were many score blowouts in the NRL - it was one of my main criticisms with the manic speed game it now is ... this year there are a lot of blowout first halves which don't really blowout in the second but don't tighten either 🤔 ... they're still boring coz the game is over !!!

In capitalism there is much wealth to be made from caring FOR people But nothing to be made from caring ABOUT people ... As capitalism became increasingly Extreme, this disparity became stark. 1/2

Stubbornness absent emotional intelligence is an insurmountable handicap. Mistaking it for a virtue is the greatest failing of Trump like Putin and other megalomaniacs. Along with the extreme valuation gap, this is why I am allocating capital to China and not the US (Berkshire Hathaway excepted).

I think we just saw the whites (and reds) of Trump's eyes ... I wouldn't call that market imposed discipline ...

When I wrote this I did not envisage a far right President setting the system alight in a bonfire ... It is clear that Trump aims for a Great Reset of his own, but all he is proving is that Extreme capitalism at extremis is failed and Xcaps are the greatest saboteurs of authentic capitalism ...

Worth a repost given what is happening in global markets ...

Globalisation has never been the 'problem' - the problem has been Extreme capitalism where the benefits accrued to the wealthy while the workers in developed countries were hurt from losing their ability to earn income and workers in poor countries did not see enduring relief from precarity ...

The sad reality I'm learning with cancer is that even while hoping and praying for good news, we know happiness is never truly possible because many have and will not receive that good news ... personal relief is really what we hope and pray desperately for ...

In greater detail where things went wrong ... And where to begin to get us back on track ... macroedgo.com/2023/06/23/r...

Don’t travel to the US.

"2025: A challenging year" macroedgo.com/2025/03/10/2...

AI-generated Image by ChatGPT and edited by myself (because it would not do as I requested - read on to see how sensitive the software can be to depicting satire directed at right-wing ideology) ...

Thought I would give a personal recount of my experience of Cyclone Winifred now almost 40 years ago ...

I spent Cyclone Winifred in Mourilyan - in the centre of the arrow... My family abandoned our old sugarcane cutters barracks home and rode it out in a new brick house of friends, watching roofing iron ripped off, hurtling by... Don't be complacent - this is serious... www.jcu.edu.au/__data/asset...

This is one of my lasting memories of Cyclone Winifred which went through Innisfail in 1986 when I was in Year 12, and we missed about a week of school ... Winifred had mean maximum gusts of 126 km/h with gusts to 150 ... at present Alfred sustained winds at centre of 100 km/h with gusts to 140 ...

Hitler & Trump were products of their time and environment. Hitlerism was borne of enforced austerity from the Treaty of Versailles leading to poverty, shame and resentment. The increasingly Extreme capitalism that successive American generations endorsed did the same and led the way to Trumpism ...

Yep, seen that in action by a great leader mistreated and damaged in the former type of workplace, then carry that pain over when transitioning to a (slightly) better workplace and lead change by doing the latter ... that's key - learn and ensure you work towards better so everyone benefits ...

Summary output from ChatGPT for "Please compare and contrast the political progression of Hitler up to June 1934, so immediately prior to the "night of the long knives", with that of Donald Trump being sure to discuss Trump's actions around the attack on the capitol on 6th of January 2021."

As an ex-NQer I have some experience with cyclones ... Cyclone tracking can be erratic, but remember this ... in the southern hemisphere the wind at the base of a cyclone goes clockwise, & on an east-facing coastline the region south of the eye (i.e. Brisbane) is blasted with wind off the ocean ...

Extremely well said - a MUST read !

"Australia’s key ally has gone rogue – and Trump has us expertly wedged. We need a Plan B." Read my new op-ed in The Guardian here: (www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...)

Rather than dial back on the gambling ads or the kickbacks to fix its integrity nightmare, the AFL is now demanding it receive the private info of every punter so it can track who they are. We need to break the toxic nexus between gambling and sport. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Good article saying as much ... balanced, but saying "statistic[s] mask[ed] the deepening chasm for a while" is like saying the forest masked the worsening health of the trees - economists have been confused for 4 years, but if you can see the failings of Extreme capitalism, it's been obvious ...

It's a good day to work in the yard ... for me the NRL season starts next weekend ... And the sad reality is that I'm not sure how long I will continue to follow rugby league - the touch footballification, manic speed game for commercialism is not enjoyable to watch for me ... #NotMyGameAnymore

In that disastrous meeting in the oval office the American anti-leaders expressed offence at Zelensky's clothing ... it reminded me of Elliot Roosevelt's recalling Churchill bringing out his military suit when Stalin arrived in Tehran In '43 ... machismo ... Zelensky offended their masculinity ...