There is a simple truth in sociology. In the absence of clear direction, a society will not know how to behave. Absent clear norms, its fabric will tear; without leadership—absent the “social good” will be. The role of societal leadership therefore falls to government.
Almost eight years after Vladimir Putin’s Russian Federation invaded Ukraine, annexed its Crimean Peninsula and shot down Malaysian Airlines MH17 over Ukraine’s Donetsk region, he’s apparently at it again.
Tagged: Crimea, Energy Future Holdings, NATO, Russia, Ukraine, Warren Buffet
If you are reading this, two things are true. You are alive and oh, you have the Internet. Such a wretched thing. On this, the cusp of three twos and a nought but in a different order, I wish us to rejoice in the myriad things for which we should be optimistic.
Tagged: Australia, Close Contact, Covid-19, National Cabinet, Omicron, Testing
The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month has come and gone a second time this Covid-19 pandemic. Yet, vaccines against it are now miraculously in arms.
Tagged: Lest We Forget, Remembrance
On March 4, 1801, Thomas Jefferson gave his first inaugural address as president of the United States of America. He was the third person to hold the office.
Tagged: Australia, First Inaugural, Geopolitics, Jefferson, Scott Morrison
It started with an atypical Facebook rant I read whose rhetoric soon took a turn for the weird. Expressing anger at the Victorian government, its policy of lockdowns and its impact on the young it said, “They’ve lived their lives,” referring to those aged in their seventies and beyond. “Death is at their doorstep,” open-up and let others live.
Picture a Pinocchio emoji following the above question, and this is what I received earlier today from an actual friend on a Facebook update I’ve been posting for the past 18 months on the Covid-19 pandemic. It made me smile but knowing my friend, he also wanted me to think because he sought a serious answer.
As August 2021 comes to an end and with it another Southern Hemisphere pandemic winter, Australia has been in a global Covid-19 health crisis for 18 months.
Tagged: Covid-19, Delta, Living With Covid, Lockdown, New South Wales, Victoria
If war is politics by other means, politics is the art of death to keep power. Nothing better explains the world’s response to Covid-19, July 2021.
Tagged: AstraZeneca, Berejiklian, Covid-19, Israel, Lockdown, Nanjing, Pfizer
When you do business in the free world, you accept a truth. You’re in a competition to attract the time and money of others, and you agree that both are scarce. You accept that what you manufacture or sell, others can too. You welcome that the time and money you ask for has myriad other places to go.
Tagged: Business, Capitalism, Covid-19, Crisis, Demand, Diversification, Economics, Government, Supply
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