New Catallaxy

Author: Steve Kates

  • Is the Chinese surveillance state the template for digital identification?

    The media organisations and media people we think we can count on to protect us from government intrusion into our lives, and to inform us when there are threats to our privacy, are invisible on the vast expansion of the Federal Government’s Digital Identification system. I have googled and put through DuckDuckGo a query on…

  • How is this not the single most discussed issue in Australia today?

    News of this has just been sent to me although it must have been around for a while since this is PHASE 3: the Government is trying to introduce Digital Identity Legislation that will give each of us an Identification Number through which anything that anyone from that time forward thinks it is relevant for…

  • A communist takeover of the United States

    If you would like to understand what is taking place in the United States, these two virtually adjacent stories at Lucianne.com will provide you with most of what you need to know. First this: SNAP (food stamps) benefits have largestincrease in history WTRF-TV [Wheeling, WV], by John Lynch Original Article   Washington—The Biden administration has approved a…

  • What it means to be conservative

    Let me draw your attention to an article of mine from the October issue of Quadrant that has now been put up online: Conservative Thought in the Time of Covid. The reason I wrote the article, and it is the first of two on the subject, was to point out that conservatism has a positive agenda, and is…

  • The more we are vaxxed the more cases there are

    Other than demonstrating once again what a complete liar he is, never mind how grossly incompetent, why would this be: Daniel Andrews baulks at releasing Covid-19 lockdown advice? The Andrews government is refusing to say whether it will comply with orders from Victoria’s privacy watchdog to release documents detailing the basis for the state’s lockdown…

  • Remote contract tracing of all vaccinated humans worldwide

    This is a patent application seeking to patent Methods and systems of prioritizing treatments, vaccination, testing and/or activities while protecting the privacy of individuals. This is how it was described in the note that was sent to me with this now approved patent application: This Pfizer patent application was approved August 31st, 2021, and is…

  • “Citing new modelling”

    Five million Melburnians will be freed from a months-long lockdown this week after the Victorian government accelerated the easing of restrictions, citing new modelling which has drastically cut projections for hospitalisations. This was the lead para in the front page story in The Oz today: Melbourne lockdown: Vaccine surge delivers freedom for five million people. New…

  • The socialist takeover of the American economy

    What we are getting is an economy that will be increasingly shaped and driven by government decisions rather than by business decisions. The size of the public sector will increase relative to the private sector, but that is the very aim of what is being done. Taxes replace business revenue as the means to finance these…

  • Opportunity cost

    I received a letter from an old friend who asked: I have a friend who is a writer and artist. One of his current projects is a novel. At one point he needs to explain opportunity cost. It recalled for me that you wrote a book for kids explaining the fundamental principles of economics. Would…

  • The dangers of “vaccine-induced disease”

    This is a fascinating article, long but very well written and worth your time: The data is in, and we are now worse off than before the experimental shots. But this bit near the start is the most extraordinary. He is discussing a report that came out in 2018, before the rest of us had heard…