A new Twitter post by Secretary of State Tony Blinken reads as follows: 'We will never hesitate to use force when American lives and vital interests are at stake, but we will do so only when the objectives are clear and achievable, consistent with .
Thursday, 11 March 2021, 10:07 am
Yesterday,
the government finally released a four part timetable
setting out which groups will get vaccinated with the
Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and in what sequence …And yes, it
did look very much like the four part plan that Australia
announced in January. Since yesterday there has been
quibbling about which social groups should be prioritised,
and what the logistical problems will be in delivering the
necessary two doses of the Pfizer vaccine, given that it
needs to be stored in super cold conditions, and with a
three week interval between the shots.
Fine, but
there’s a weird time lag involved here. Like most of the
“That's certainly our goal and our intention.” This was the non-committal answer given by White House Press Secretary, Jen Psaki, when, on February 12, she was asked by a reporter whether the new Joe Biden Administration intends to shut down the notorious .
A couple of days
ago, the musician Grimes sold some animations
she made with her brother Mac on a website called Nifty
Gateway. Some were one-offs, while others were limited
editions of a few hundred – and all were snapped
up in about 20 minutes, with total takings of more than
US$6 million.
Despite the steep price tag, anybody
can watch or (with a simple right-click) save a copy of the
videos, which show a cherub ascending over Mars,
Earth,
and imaginary
landscapes. Rather than a copy of the files themselves,
the eager buyers received a special kind of tradable
certificate called a “non-fungible token” or NFT. But
A sequence of three major offshore
earthquakes, including a magnitude
8.1 quake near the Kermadec Islands, triggered tsunami warnings
and evacuations along the east coast of New Zealand on
the morning of March 5.
By early afternoon, the
National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) lifted
the evacuation order but stressed that people should stay
off beaches and the shore.
All three earthquakes
happened along the Tonga
Kermadec subduction zone, where the Pacific tectonic
plate dives under and then sinks beneath the Australian
plate.
This subduction zone is the longest and
deepest such system on Earth. It spans from just north of
the East Cape, some 2600km to the north-east in an almost