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Indulgent, vain and profligate, the all-female venture into space on the self-piloted New Shepard (NS-31) operated by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin was space capitalism and celebrity shallowness on full show, masquerading as profound, moving and useful.
Washington and Beijing have been unofficially competing with each other for decades to influence Bangkok's diplomacy, politics, economy, and military through financial aid, investment, tourism, education, ancestorial ties, and other ways.
Ian Powell responds to the claim of New Zealand health minister Simeon Brown that it doesn’t matter to patients whether their funded operation is in a public or private hospital.
The Defence Capability Plan (DCP) is a 25 page document filled with back-of-the-envelope costings meant to justify a gigantic $12b spending spree
The fragrance analysts and perfumeries will be delighted to know that a head of state is so enamoured with a specific product. Those wishing to make a fuss about workplace attitudes and dispositions will also add, and have added, their worthless observations.
True abundance is wholly an inward phenomenon. And while one can physically live without it, as the vast majority of Americans have for decades, if not our entire history as a colonising and westward expanding nation, one cannot inwardly survive much less thrive without this indefinable abundance.
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