Stand for Truth or Face the Reckoning
Time’s ticking – stand up and be counted, or brace yourself for the reckoning you deserve. It is time to reclaim your profession, your integrity, and your country. Your patients are waiting.
Reproduced with permission
Restaurant Realities
Don’t read too much into the daily media reporting of restaurant closures. It would be happening anyway.
Council Continues to NZ Women
The Midwifery Council continues to ignore biology and insult mothers.
You Cannot Stop People From Asking Questions
What Dame Anne is engaging in is what the philosopher Harry Frankfurt calls ‘bullshit’. This is where intellectuals and policy makers, who have no good answers to valid questions from regular people, essentially resort to using jargon to sidestep the matter.
Mark Carney Becomes PM of Canada
My former economics MPhil and DPhil classmate for many hard years.
Yes, You Can Protect Liberty and Security at the Same Time
The key is to understand how the market works.
The Wailings of a Broken Class
The intelligentsia really feels like they’re in mortal danger. It’s lovely to see.
White House Snubs Climate Talks
Trump officials at the US Army Corps of Engineers, for example, have identified over 600 energy and other infrastructure projects to be fast-tracked under Trump’s day-one declaration of a National Energy Emergency.
Just Get Rid of Them
Governments will always wind up corrupt. The more power in the hands of government, the more incentive is given to power-hungry psychopaths and narcissists to gain control of that power.
Trump’s Ukraine Policy Changes the World Order
As always, only history itself can answer whether Trump ends up on the right or wrong side of history.
Returning Hipkins as PM Is Unthinkable
The man waged war on Auckland, turned us into prisoners, caused stagnation and will tax your family home.
It Is a Public Service Defence Strategy
Either you get a reconstituted service which is stripped back to its necessary bones without the bureaucratic bloat, or you do away altogether with any department that can’t actually prove its worth. Brutal but necessary.
Birx Came Directly From USAID
Whatever their motives, the goal seems very clear: Get as many countries as possible to lock down for as long as possible, at least until vaccines become available. Birx+cabal had to create enough panic to make it happen.