Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.
The focus this time: America went right where the rest went wrong.
First, a little advertisement from New Zealand:
Carrying on…
The regulators can’t let their own parliament let the people know what’s going on.
“Just when you thought Australia’s steamrolling toward censorship couldn’t get any worse, the heads of Australian government departments want new limits on how members of parliament share recordings of officials testifying at public parliamentary hearings.
“A new attempt to this end was made last week by the Secretaries Board, made up of the heads of Australia’s government departments. The board is currently chaired by Steven Kennedy, secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, which advises the prime minister and coordinates policy across the government.
“The proposal was contained in a submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Parliamentary Standards.
“The board is unhappy that politicians are using excerpts of the footage from these hearings, often to criticize the officials, and sometimes to ridicule them, by editing the clips and adding captions to highlight certain parts of the testimony.”
Free speech is apparently a weapon of war, according to a former Prime Minister.
Nothing says “a right to government healthcare” like a nurse deciding you’re too racist to be treated.
“The United Kingdom’s Royal College of Nursing has updated its guidance to allow medical professionals to refuse to treat patients perceived as racist, a response to violent riots that have occurred in the country over the last two weeks.
“The riots were spurred by a late-July knife attack that killed three young girls at a dance party. The attacker was a teenage boy whose parents are Rwandan immigrants.
“‘These scenes around the country are nothing short of despicable racism — they have no place in our society,’ the Royal College of Nursing general secretary and chief executive Nicola Ranger said in a press release. ‘As an anti-racist organisation, the [Royal College of Nursing] will take a lead part in tackling this hatred.’
“The Royal College of Nursing is a professional body and trade union for medical staff with over 500,000 members — including nurses, midwives, assistant practitioners, and students — across 12 countries and regions. The updated guidance recognizes ‘discriminatory behaviour, including racism’ as a situation that ‘may justify’ withdrawing care or refusing to treat a patient.”
TTFN.
