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  • Guest Post: Speedbox – Populate or Perish

    Newscorp.com.au recently posted a story about the declining population of Russia.  Whilst fundamentally true, I thought I would take a deeper look. Immediately prior to the fall of the USSR in 1991, Russia’s population was 148.3m people with a fertility rate of 1.77.  Considering everything the Russian people had been through in the preceding years,…

  • Why are we taking medical advice from Daniel Andrews and Anthony Fauci?

    From a comments thread at Instapundit. Of course you wouldn’t want to doubt the vaccines. Correlation is NOT causation, but it is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for causation. If the vaccines work, then high vaccination rates MUST be correlated w/ lower death rates ABSENT a confounding variable. Of course, the mere fact that confounding…

  • The True North Strong and Free

    Seldom think of the old Dominion as the centre of international revolutionary action, but there you are. This is amazing, from Gone, Baby, Gone?, which is about the Canadian Prime Minister running away in the face of the truckers’ convention on the streets of Ottawa. This morning, I tested positive for COVID-19. I’m feeling fine –…

  • Open Thread – Mon 31 Jan 2022

  • Australian media blockades the truth

    As I write this there’s a convoy of trucks that are effectively blockading Ottawa, Canada. It has been brewing for a week now and has been pretty hard to miss but then, I don’t take any of my news from local news sources. On Friday I worked with my business partner who is a very…

  • Environmental Issues with Construction of RE Facilities

    Briefing Note 22.1 February 2022 Background Serious environmental issues arise at ten stages of RE production, from mining raw materials to the disposal of turbines, batteries and solar panels at the end of their working lives. Critical issues at the phase of construction RE facilities, including the poles and wires required to carry the power…

  • “A tiny minority with unacceptable views”

    There is some resistance growing to the insanities associated with Covid across the world, with the Canadian truck convoys leading the pack. It’s not even that they are anti-vaxxine as such, just anti being forced to take the vaxxines and then each of the mandated “boosters” to participate in normal life, like going to the…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 29 Jan 2022

  • Guest Post: Speedbox – A Disturbing Trend

    Over the past few years the trend to hold ‘candlelight vigils’ for child victims of crimes or accidents seems to have accelerated.  Within hours of the admittedly terrible event, the media announce that a vigil will be held at the local school, footpath, bush setting or other nearby/relevant location to where the event occurred. At…

  • It’s all about unifying the community

    At the beginning of November, and after former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian had announced previously that on 1 December unvaccinated residents of NSW would be able to re-join the social fabric of the State, the new Premier, Dominic Perrottet, reneged, saying that the date would be changed to 15 December. In doing so, Perrottet explained…