Politics In Business
The New York Times : Yellow or Blue? In Hong Kong, Businesses Choose Political Sides on the 19th January contains this quote ...
Families and businesses have cleaved, sometimes forcefully, between those who believe Beijing must be compelled to carry out promised reforms and those who worry that the democracy crusade is destroying Hong Kong’s reputation as a stable financial capital.
I thought of the UK and the US ... and made two modifications
For The USA
Families and businesses have cleaved, sometimes forcefully, between those who believe Washington must be compelled to carry out promised reforms and those who worry that the democracy crusade is destroying The USA's reputation as a stable financial capital.
For The UK
Families and businesses have cleaved, sometimes forcefully, between those who believe London must be compelled to carry out promised reforms and those who worry that the democracy crusade is destroying The UK's reputation as a stable financial capital.
Just updated my BizCatalyst360 index
I have a few more in the wings that will be released soon.
The Republican Party’s delusional crusade against the whistleblower makes no sense.
I 100 percent disagree the point is to get their rabble up into a fury - direct threats and likely attacks at the individual to scare off anybody else standing up against tyranny.
Fear Is the Democracy Killer, Not Hackers
…. not just democracy
If I told you that this week’s newsletter references; Chris Rainier, Joe Boyd, Facial Recognition, Coronavirus, Lost Knowledge, Pink Floyd, Uri Geller, Iran, Mandalas, Clearview, and ‘The Windmills Of Your Mind' … would you know what it was about?
Grammarly uses three metrics
- PRODUCTIVITY (How many words)
- MASTERY (Accuracy of Spelling/Grammar)
- VOCABULARY (How many different words)
As P and V increase the probability of M declining grows.
Are there more or different measures they could be using?
Should they?
Self Imposed Rules
The image will be
- square
- recorded purely for this challenge
- simple
Well that’s just great. Thankyou - I mean it’s not urgent or anything.….
People: Sylvester
“They come for three months - they stay for four years - and I welcome that. That’s how we learn. They see us up close and personal and we see them. A lot of countries that they come from have very different governments, with different rules. We get to learn about each without the filter of what they are told. I wouldn’t say that when they leave we fully understand each other’s cultures, but we are surely better off than we would have been if we hadn't.”
“We bring people in from all over the world, staff and customers. So, why would we treat anyone differently? Them, Us, Staff, Customers, Family … each one of us is part of another’s world. And I mean all of us.”
“I don’t know much about those large companies you hear about in the news. You could fit our entire community into one of their office blocks. They have their ways. We have ours. So we’re different. Except we’re not. None of us are. They just haven’t worked that out yet.”
“Turns out, we have more in common with ‘foreigners’ - like you” (he smiles and points his finger at me) “than some of the people from our own country. Turns out that the ones that are just here to 'party' are the odd ones out. That’s why we came up with the 'Silly Bugger' rule.”
“It goes like this. When you come here, you can work and you can party. But that’s on your time. If you play 'silly bugger', there is no second chance. You are out on the next boat. That’s how we build and strengthen our community. Everybody is welcome until they make themselves unwelcome.”
“Maybe that’s something else those big companies could learn from us. If they did, we wouldn’t charge. That’s another thing - we don’t charge to learn - learning makes us all better.”
“There is no harm in our criticizing foreigners, if only we would also criticize ourselves. In other words, the world might need even less of its new charity, if it had a little more of the old humility.”
G.K. Chesterton
Thinking Allowed
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Edmund Burke 200 years ago:
”The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
”The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”
”Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
.. and many more.
Will we just accept our loss of privacy, or has the techlash already begun?
I don’t know - will we?
Posting anti-vaccine propaganda on social media could become criminal offence says Law Commissioner
So if I post to Facebook they will allow it … but from the UK’s perspective I am a criminal … so Facebook will allow criminal posts.
Sounds about right.
Good to know - I mean this administration have always been straight forward, direct, honest haven’t they?
‘No reason for Americans to panic’: White House seeks to calm fears over coronavirus
Depressing - and hard to disagree with any of it.
Trump’s impeachment trial: the perils of outrageous immunity.
