Post No. 1,823 - Interesting Reading/Viewing and Posts from my Other Blogs / YouTube Channel

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This week I have made the following posts on my other blogs:

Political Musings of Kayleen:

• Military arrogance, elitism and stubbornness
  I am currently watching a TV series from around 2005 - "Into the West". . . . It’s obviously a mainstream media production, so it doesn’t get too graphic, but makes a reasonable attempt - so far - to include the problems, including the bigotry and the massacres. . . . And a lot of that is military stupidity - bigotry, blindness, and arrogant elitist stubbornness.
  And then, this morning, I read of the growing risk of civil war in Burma, and what was that caused by? Military stupidity
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• The seemingly “little” things matter
   . . . I’ve also done something I don't recall having done before, which is to consult with others on their experiences, insights and opinions, so this post is a bit of a joint effort.
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  As an example, secretaries thinking it is OK to use someone's e-signature on the say-so of a boss, not the person concerned (which is an act of fraud by the secretary), or to create an e-signature without the person's permission (which is potentially an act of fraud, deception, or identity theft - even in the workplace).
   . . .
  As one of my consultees pointed out, from small things bigger things (corruptions) grow.
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  In fact, work expectations - especially the intensity of work, not just the hours, is a threat to the attainment of OHS goals, as well as undermining anti-corruption (people under time pressure take "short cuts", so as those who once - in pre-PC days - impersonated my signature) goals.
  So, the little things matter - and don't conflate social conventions with legality or being ethical.
  Instead, care, communicate (remembering Zeno of Citium's admonishment that "We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say"), and, above all else, remember that what you do in your life contributes to the moral soup the world lives in.
• Learning from the past: the July crisis
  "The July Crisis" is the term for period between the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the commencement of World War One, when intense diplomatic activity was underway (and diplomatic activity continued during the war - see here). I recently came across the BBC series "37  Days" online (I had been looking for it for quite some time, and it has evidently been up for some years, so the time needed to find it was frustrating).
  As always with such documentaries (and series / films), once I'd viewed it, I started doing some quick online checking, and I found that the Wikipedia entry on the July Crisis has been very considerably improved.
  A few points I hadn't noted previously (and they may well have been there) include:
   · the Austro-Hungarian Empire had decided to go to war on the 24^th June - before the Archduke was assassinated;
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  Also, in my opinion:
  · Rasputin being in hospital meant he could not exert a restraining influence on the Russian Tsar, as he had allegedly done previously;
  · if the invasion of Serbia had happened quickly (within a week or two), it is quite possible that World War One would not have broken out then, but ...
  · so many nations / Empires / people were determined to have a war, terrible though that would likely have been (although the Austro-Hungarian Empire did not do so well it invaded Serbia ... ), it would almost certainly have occurred eventually ...
  · the list of coincidences . . .

If I make any YouTube posts, I will embed them below:

 

 

Interesting reading / viewing / sites this week:

• an excellent review of the streaming service series “The Irregulars” by John Beckett;
• interesting thoughts on the complaint of too much Wicca in books supposedly about witchcraft;
• “to those proselytising out of love: you aren’t”;
• “thieving witches: book piracy is theft”;
• “And it is okay to be a student. It is even more okay to be willing to learn. And it is the mostest okay to say, ‘I don’t know, but let’s go find out.’ ”. 

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