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Guest Post: Wally Dali goes to the Archibalds, 2022
Of course, I’m nowhere near actually going to see the paintings in the flesh at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, even if the Chief Protector of Natives would let me depart Western Australia, which he won’t. To access it, here, I had to first check an automatically generated box to declare that I…
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Rabz’ Radio Show May 2022: the Sixties
The Sixties has a rightful claim as the period in time that produced the most memorable contemporary music in human history. So many genres came to prominence, including: · Jazz · Folk · R&B · Soul · Rock · Psychedelia John F Kennedy – elected 1960, assassinated 1963. During those years, a seismic cultural wave across the Anglosphere was brewing. Motown…
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Open Thread – Weekend 7 May 2022
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LeakGate Round-up
Firstly, a reminder of what is at stake: Here is the Politico article breaking the story. Here is the actual draft judgement by Justice Alito. Malcom Kyeyune discusses the aborting of norms involved in the leak of this SCOTUS judgement. Shaun Fleetwood suggests that this move to bully and harass the justices of the SCOTUS…
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Why is the MSM ignoring this paper?
Abstract: To examine the possible non-specific effects (NSEs) of the novel COVID-19 vaccines, we reviewed the randomised control trials (RCTs) of mRNA and adenovirus-vector COVID-19 vaccines reporting overall mortality, including COVID-19 deaths, accident deaths, cardiovascular deaths and other non-COVID-19 deaths. For overall mortality, with 74,193 participants and 61 deaths (mRNA:31; placebo:30), the relative risk (RR)…
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Weekday Reading #21
The Rise of the Professionals, George Hoare, Compact Our Interview with Jacques Baud, The Postil Why is Canada euthanising the poor?, Yuan Yi Zhu, Spectator UK The Renaissance of the Classical School, James Hankins, First Things
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Meme of the Day #40
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Open Thread – Tues 3 May 2022
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Reality must yield
We had ‘health experts’ these last two years for COVID, now we have ‘military experts’ for Ukraine. Sky News UK had this fella telling us the Russians had ‘stalled’ just south of Izyum: Compare this with info over the last few days that Russians had been both strengthening their position around Izyum (in the figure…
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Guest Post: Speedbox – Postcard from Kislovodsk
Mrs. Speedbox has been in Russia for the past week following news that her mother had suddenly passed away (heart attack). As Cats will appreciate, organising overseas flights at very short notice in stressful situations can be trying, but the nice people at Emirates had her on a flight (in a good ‘private’ seat) in…