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It is a small thing bikes that apparently have been pushed over.
PIC: Never a dull moment, Darlinghurst NSW
And then… the local corner store no longer stocks newspapers. The local shopping centre loos are now not longer available on weekends. The green bins are rarely picked up on their due date?
Or what about the story I am told of the man who stood up in the bus the other day and started to behave loudly and erratically. But I don't need to hear stories second hand. On a quick bus trip to Ultimo yesterday I experienced similar "disconnection" from three different people.
A five year old and a one year old get killed in a senseless tragic pedestrian car accident.
The Mother was holding onto the pram. A person can only imagine her unimaginable grief.
A heartbreaking, tear inducing story.
In isolation these things do happen but there are too many of these canaries falling off their perches of late. Is an increasing pattern of distracted/disconnection starting to emerge?
I happened to find myself in the cross fire coming home from an Oxford Street venue a few Saturday's past at the precise time when Police conducted a drug raid at the Universal Sydney (The Oxford Hotel). The surrounding streets had police randomly stopping people to check bags. It caused runctions through the gay community. Looks like our freedoms are being marched backwards. And there may well be reason for that?
While I don't see it as my place to judge it is noticeable that the things we have taken for granted are starting to be taken away in larger compass.
At the best of times I have little patience with any public service bureaucracy.
And their complexity and opaqueness just becomes ever more frustrating.
It is not service for the public. What is being practised is self protective service for the staff. Gradually I’m seeing the emergence of those becoming adept at playing out a sort of obscuring work practice. A thickening wall of Machiavellian speak. Private enterprise sort of does the same with an equally numbing result by manufacturing professional self profiteers. They fill their cup till it runs over…and it’s still not enough for them and never will be.
Such is the case currently before a Senate Committee where KPMG Executives are being exposed for their crooked greed.
Both the public service and private enterprise are becoming weighed down by their own dysfunctional cultures.
And hey talk about greed I know of someone who has seventeen investment properties. Yep. I'll repeat... More is never enough to the really thirsty. And what about the through the roof costs for home rental. The investor/owners want oh so desperately to maintain their lifestyle entitlement only to make underclass enemies of those struggling not only to pay their rent but ever increasing costs for food and bills. Greed. Greed. Greed. The other extreme of course are those who don't try at all (or can't).
Let me be blunt here. We will not find our inner happiness by having more of everything or even maintaining the stuff and lifestyle we have become accustomed to. Put simply the increasingly unhappy will project their unhappiness onto you no matter in what form it comes. Robberies, murders, violence, mutiny, scammers, suicide, tragic accidents you name it. Unhappiness comes in a Pandora's Box of ways.
Another canary topical recently is that of radio personality Kyle Sandilands who can have a quote... “loss” by only getting a $A12m payout as opposed to $A85m by his suing his radio employer after challenging his contract termination.
To continue Jackie O who was Kyle’s former on air partner follows up with her court case seeking $A82m from the same employer challenging her contract termination.
I mean hang on a minute this whole thing began because these two had a working relationship breakdown on air. Have I missed something here? Didn't the problem begin with them?
They couldn’t get on together (or she'd had enough of him) and their employer ARM ends up footing a huge settlement??? It appears they know how to play the game?
A great example for others to follow, ya' reckon?
Apparently there’s a lot of people who want to listen to what Kyle & Jackie have to say? Interesting.
Have extreme capitalist values flipped our world into the surreal?
Ms. O continues with her court case coming up soon.
This is a canary in the coal mine for pointing Capitalism towards a redundancy payout (and there are those who will claim it too).
And then there's the canaries in the coal mine at a world level, the big picture. What’s the fascination with the Donald that we are so force fed on him incessantly. I mean why?
Shouldn’t the focus be on us cleaning up our own backyards not on him?
But I suppose looking at it in a way we should be thanking Donald Trump for the broom he is putting through this intransigent world we have created. Of course his way of bringing about change is and will create immeasurable pain for us all. That's what arrogance does. It creates and magnifies a negative result ultimately. Looks like the Strait of Hormuz may potentially be the tinder box for a further big impact on all of our lives worldwide. The focus here doesn't seem to want to go away presently. Why would it? We have here diametrically opposed philosophies. East meeting West at loggerheads over a universal requirement - oil. That is a dependancy that needs accelerated phasing out anyway. And that’s exactly what will happen here because of this impasse.
If we’re not going to take the responsibility for evolving our world in a mindset and heart-set of greater shared responsibility into something more equitable, fair and humane then the self righteous will let the show begin. Expect fireworks.
Here’s another big bright canary on the world stage. And that is the tipping point where one man can amass a trillion dollars. This is not obscene it is evil when there is so much need in our world. Pity Elon Musk couldn't be encouraged to spend some billions of dollars on R&D for exploration of our inner space as he does fuelling his passion for outer space exploration. I mean what do you think you are going to find out there Elon, stars? The stars can be found in our inner space without wasting a cent. If human beings were encouraged to explore our own inner space and dig for our core we may just discover a happier world with far less conflict. We wouldn't need to gaze longingly into the wild blue yonder for our inspiration.
I'm not a religious or even a spiritual person but that statement about "the kingdom of heaven being within" has a ring of truth about it to my sensibilities. Problem is with human beings is finding that "connection". Humans are programmed even deeper than our DNA to seek 'heaven'. It's just that we've got so many shallow 'intellectual' ideas about where that heaven is to be found. I reckon it's based in ourselves. That's my experience anyway. When I feel good I feel it on the inside not a metre left, right, in front of or behind me.
What sort of decimation and on what scale does it take for us humans to focus and to find our place in the scheme of things?
Socrates said it "Know thyself". Most do not.
Sheesh talk about being asleep.
No matter whether people’s politics are conservative, socialist or populist we should prepare for change. We are ALL, all of us, in for big lessons in life.
And too it seems that Pauline Hanson is heading towards becoming our Trump moment?
A red haired canary. No point blaming the leaders as we so often do when things go pear shaped. We put them there in the first place with the fantasy idea that they will solve our problems for us rather than us facing ourselves. Real leaders should be educating us to understand this. It is true that is a tall and challenging ask for them.
Humanity is starting to go into meltdown.
The canaries in the coal mine are giving us late warning presently.
A new standard needs to be raised. - Neville Williams
Celebrate life!
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From: Neville WilliamsSubject: PAINFUL TRUTHDate: 20 June 2026 at 11:30:27 am AESTTo: Letters Editor THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
Dear Editor,PAINFUL TRUTHIt is not so much a problem that Britain is now with its seventh Prime Minister in 10 years (“Return to sanity or will the UK just get sillier?" Saturday Telegraph 20 June) it comes down to a population that either won’t or can’t accept the need to change. We humans have programmed ourselves to go for the jugular of leaders when things start to sour.It doesn’t matter whether that is in Britain or America, Australia or any other place on the planet. Sooner or later the penny has to drop that it is up to us to make our own better quality of life. By the way that doesn’t need to be economically based either. That’s another programming error that needs a fix in our human thinking.We have a lot of homework to do but will do anything or blame anyone else including our leaders rather than face a simple truth in our lives.While I can understand the support for Hanson who shows empathy and commitment she won’t change the world. Only we can do that by changing ourselves. We are the leader of our own lives. That is the bottom line.Or do we just get sillier?Kind regards,Neville Williams
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