With the following words, the United States of America today decided that women had no right to full control over their bodies and well-being: Held: The (US) Constitution does not confer a right to abortion. It did not place any limitations on men.
Little did I know that when I wrote in 2015 about a leadership spill in the Australian Coalition government led by Liberal Party prime minister Tony Abbott, I’d be gazing at the underpinnings of a federal election coming in six days’ time.
I defy anyone who’s listened to Pink Floyd’s song “Wish You Were Here” to deny that at some point they’ve hummed, slowly rocked, or sung along to a lyric or two.
Tagged: Covid-19, Fishbowl, Integrity, Journalism, Media, Pink Floyd, Propaganda, Wish You Were Here
A Jewish joke from the 1970s Soviet Union, has a teacher asking a child, “Who is your mother?” The child says, “My mother is Russia.” “And who is your father?” “My father is President Brezhnev.” “And what do you want to be when you grow up?” “I want to be an orphan.”
Tagged: Geopolitics, Magnitky, Putin, Russia, Ukraine
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
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.
Ugly protests have once again broken out in Jerusalem between Palestinians and Israeli security forces. Unguided high-explosive rockets are flying across the Gazan border into Israel with indiscriminate concern while Israeli F-16s, F-15s and Apache helicopters are striking back in Gaza with precision guided munitions. All deadly.
Tagged: Gaza, Hamas, Iran, Islamic Jihad, Islamic Revolutionary Guard, Israel, Pasdaran, War
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