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Open Thread – Tues 1 March 2022
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Meme of the Day #18
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Is there anyone left you can trust?
I am thinking about taking the Novavax vaxxine. It is not mRNA and is supposedly a traditional vaccine, but I worry still. I am asking for any information any of you might have about Novavax and its risks.
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Yes to Santa, No to Renewable Energy
Awful events can be salutary. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is one of those. The Russians have to move to take territory. They need fuel. The Ukrainians have to keep the heating on otherwise they’ll get very cold. Just looked, at 7 pm here, it’s 0°C in Kyiv. It’s always struck me that despite incessant…
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Justin Trudeau World Historical Leader
I know, it’s all just ancient history by now. But for me, it is the old country, so that watching it all unfold is beyond incredible. And to understand all this more deeply, there is Jordan Peterson to help others make sense of what is going on: Dr. Jordan Peterson Tells Fellow Canadians They Have…
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Open Thread – Weekend 26 Feb 2022
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We have stepped into the political unknown
Fascism is the amalgam of the corporate state with totalitarian political structures. Communism pretended it was international. Fascism is socialism within a single country. We seem to live in our own version of that time in 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. I have tried to find something that matches my own views on what…
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Guest Post: Speedbox – The Putin Gambit – Part 2
Just a month ago I wrote “We may be witnessing one of the greatest geopolitical gambits in recent history. Or, we may wake up one morning in the coming days/weeks to news that Russia has invaded. Interesting times”. The situation has now expanded where President Putin of Russia has officially recognised the Donetsk and Luhansk…
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Canada revokes Emergency Act
It’s hard to work out the reason for the change since two-thirds of the population of the frozen north support the Emergencies Legislation, but that is only what the press reports. Who knows what the actual truth might be. The notion that conscience had anything to do with it is beyond farfetched. The possibility that…
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Defending liberal values