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
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
That first Anzac Day in 1915, Australians fought alongside New Zealanders and the British across a peninsula called Gallipoli thrust at the heart of the Ottoman Empire in World War 1. It was a good strategy with a sound purpose. But political incompetence turned it into a disaster.
They’ll be packing 85,000 spectators at the Melbourne Cricket Ground this coming Sunday, Anzac Day, for a game of Australian Rules Football.
Tagged: AstraZeneca, Australia, Covid-19, Covidshield, India, Oxygen, Pfizer, Vaccines
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