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Barbarians in smart suits and uniforms
Impact of lockdown on babies This is a disturbing account of the way babies were denied normal human contacts during lockdown. Of course they were not the only ones, it is just another chapter in the ghastly story. Civilisation has a thin crust that normally restrains tendencies to barbarism until it gives way in times…
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Open Thread – Weekend 11 Feb 2023
The Shipwreck on Northern sea, Ivan Aivazovski, 1875
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Saving the planet with solar panels?
You have got to be joking. INCREDIBLY ENERGY INTENSIVE TECHNOLOGY How do we make things?
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Weekend Reading #12
Over at Ius & Iustitium, Anon, an attorney with federal and state executive experience, discusses the Iron Law of Tolerance as a zero-sum game. To wit, whatever is to be tolerated by law, the converse will be prosecuted. At The Federalist, Katy Faust discusses the good and rights of the children in the circumstance of…
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Looney Tunes
Spy balloons over Barbados in 2016! Not quite a Chinese Spy Balloon (hereafter CSB), but a very good illustration of the principles involved in this kind of spying. It’s a product of the Google Loon project, development of which commenced in 2011 as a cheap alternative to satellites to provide worldwide internet connectivity by using…
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A Summary of Hersh’s ‘How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline’
Overnight, Seymour Hersh published How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline. Here are the key points. The explosives were allegedly planted months earlier, during a mid-summer NATO exercise: Last June, the Navy divers, operating under the cover of a widely publicized mid-summer NATO exercise known as BALTOPS 22, planted the remotely triggered explosives that, three…
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Gigi Foster fires up
A powerful conversation with a hero of the resistance to Covid insanity. At the end of the day, power is with the people’ — Gigi Foster and Rinat Strahlhofer take viewers to Australia for a look at pandemic policies and their impacts. They explore concepts related to the building of a parallel society and consider…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #57
A love caught in the fire of revolution A couple of weeks ago on the Weekend Open Thread there was a some discussion in regards to David Lean’s film Doctor Zhivago. I had briefly touched upon the movie on my post on David Lean a few couple of months ago but given the interest in…
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Energy News
Wind and solar, brown scum The picture below shows unreliable energy as a thin, dirty brown scum on top of all the other cleaner and cheaper energy sources. A comprehensive account of the failure of the Energiewende, the so-called green energy dream, not new, just a very good piece for people who want a single…
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Targa rallying and the death of Peter Brock
Targa rallying is a unique form of motorsport where purpose-built rally cars compete on (normally public) bitumen roads that have been closed for competition. Starting at 30-second intervals, the cars race against the clock with the winner being the fastest car over all the special (closed road) competition stages. A typical Targa event will usually…