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So far, the Great Multi-lingual Healthcare Crisis has passed by without any damage to life, or to limbs.
Language use often excites people’s passions and regularly results in very misleading interpretations, so this seems a good time to air out several issues.
For a body that offered so much promise, the Australian National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has failed to impress. Instead of restoring trust in the public service and politics, the Commission has shown a lack of appetite to pursue its broader remit, preferring a stymying caution.
In a measure that should have garnered bold headlines, the Biden administration has announced the deployment of some 100 US soldiers to Israel who will be responsible for operating the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system.
Carlos Kleiber's performance (a word at once too small and too big for Kleiber) is an expression of not only his joy, but also an ineffable bliss flowing through him, giving literal meaning to the phrase “music of the spheres.”
The nuclear option is now available to governments that should never have had them. The Persian bomb is probably imminent, and it is incumbent on the murderous fantasists in Israel and the United States to chew over that fact.