Saturday 27 March 2021

COVID-19 Is Different Now

The coronavirus is changing. So is the disease it causes.




Canada to Change Law

That bars immigrants with disabilities and illnesses.



New Zealand Central Bank

Bucks global spend-trend, will ‘manage’ soaring home prices.



The People the Suburbs Were Built for Are Gone

A new book documents the ‘retrofitting’ of obsolete suburban malls, box stores, office parks, parking lots, motels, and more.



America at the End of Empire

Is civilizational decline reversible?



Am I My Connectome?

Each human brain possesses a unique, intricate pattern of 86 billion neurons. If science can map it, immortality beckons.



Prince Harry is Here to Help

The Duke of Sussex has got a job flogging expensive pseudo-therapy to corporate droids the world over.



Friday 26 March 2021

Delays Plague ’Inconsistent and Incomplete‘ $188B Infrastructure Program

Funds were not being spent as quickly as planned’ and ‘objectives might not be met’ after the full 12-year life of the program.



Rex Murphy: How to Turn Turnip Brains into Learned Adults, and Other Tips About University

A note to campus authorities: When students ‘demand’ the right to determine who should be allowed to teach them, the correct response is laughter.



Scamocracy

 Also in America.



After $500M of Double CERB Payments Made

 Investigation needed into fraud.







Las Vegas Crowns Biological Male

Winner of beauty pageant. 



American Exodus

Don’t wait for the oligarchy to let you in. Just walk away.



Auditor General Says Canada’s Public Health Agency was Not Prepared for COVID-19 Pandemic

Coordination across the country was an issue in the pandemic response.



School Forces Boys to Apologize to Girls for ‘Rapes Committed by Their Gender‘

‘He said that he was made to stand up and basically apologize... it wasn’t explained properly to the male students what they were doing or why they were doing it.’ 



Understand That Some People Love the Pandemic

It has its advantages.



New Zealand Hospitals in Crisis

 After ‘biggest January, February on record.’



China on the Rise: Never Forget the Horror of Chinese Totalitarianism

That way we’ll remain aware of the dangers posed by the CCP’s creation of another Red Emperor.



The Unfit President

Very sad





The Apocalyptic New Campus Novel

In Christine Smallwood’s story of scholarly precarity, what the academy wastes above all is human potential.