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flying high and lows...The dramatic spread of coronavirus around the world has travellers cancelling flights, airlines grounding planes and cutting routes, but is this just panic? Not according to Nobel Prize winner Professor Peter Doherty, whose research is mainly in the area of defence against viruses.
lest we forget till the next war...A number of states have moved to cancel some Anzac Day services and ban the public from attending others in an attempt to thwart the spread of coronavirus.
saving the planet by teleconferencing...Silicon Valley saved by the coronavirus?
we're so prepared you would not believe it...US President Donald Trump has tested negative for the coronavirus, the White House physician has said.
western civilisation is a chickenhawk soup with dollars added...Once during a post-seminar conversation with a grad school classmate, I expressed my frustration at the hermeneutic of suspicion that defines academia today. “You can’t just deconstruct everything,” I said.
the "epicentre" of the pandemic...Two of the EU's biggest states, France and Spain, have followed Italy in announcing emergency restrictions to combat the spread of coronavirus.
maximising social distance....(LONDON) — Tech giant Apple is closing its stores outside of China for two weeks and will only sell online as part of efforts to fight the global viral pandemic. “In our workplaces and communities, we must do all we can to prevent the spread of COVID-19,” CEO Tim Cook tweeted Saturday. “Apple will be temporarily closing all stores outside of Greater China until March 27 and committing $15M to help with worldwide recovery.”
some controversies, fake news or targeted double-cross...
the art of looking in control...."The genesis of this economic shock," Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said on Thursday, "was outside of our control, but our response is not."
the US military policy has never changed....
once upon a time, under labor, the stimulus was for flat screen TVs...The Federal Government has announced a $17.6 billion economic stimulus package in a bid to keep Australians in jobs as the economy takes a hit from the spread of coronavirus.
and don’t forget to wash your hands!...Pray for me, my friends, because I have the flu. No, not the Chinese Bat Flu, or Pangolin Flu, or Covid-19, or Coronavirus, or whatever it’s called now … just the regular, annoying Winter flu that goes around Berlin every year during flu season.
From CJ Hopkins
wars on an endless loop (tautological but profitable of course) ...19 years of "war without end" President George W. Bush decided to radically transform the Pentagon’s missions, as Colonel Ralph Peters explained in the Army magazine Parameters on September 13, 2001. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld appointed Admiral Arthur Cebrowski to train future officers. Cebrowski spent three years touring military universities so that today all general officers have taken his courses. His thoughts were popularized for the general public by his deputy, Thomas Barnett.
the prohibitive maths: hard to say no to imperfect joe...Andrew Yang endorsed Joe Biden for president live on CNN Tuesday night during the network’s primary election night broadcast.
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