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Guest Post: Wally Dali – Archibalds 2023
We are approaching a point of Cultural Totality in the West. Soon, instant match media and the forces of promotion and censorship which leverage it will present the watching proles with an ever-present circus where approved musicians are granted exhibition space for visual art, endorsed politicians have their DJ setlists available for download on streaming…
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Open Thread – Weekend 20 May 2023
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Roundup Autumn 1990
In the Centre for Independent Studies quarterly Policy magazine. EXTRACTS DE Soto. Only about 5 per cent of Peruvians belong to labour unions and more than 60 per cent are operating as entrepreneurs in the informal or black ecoqomy. Informal operators do not regard themselves as either the private or the public sector because they…
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Guest Post: Muddy – Who Wrote That?
The premise of this post is simple: Match a numbered comment below with the Cat you consider made that comment. i.e. 21. I am superior to youse all! Muddy. Or just: 21. Muddy. I will reveal the authors, along with the exact date and time the comment was made. The numbers are not rankings, but…
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The first Roundup
From CIS Policy quarterly in Winter 1989
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Open Thread – Tues 16 May 2023
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Rafe’s Roundup 15 May
Drop in and see what the usual suspects are up to CIS The Energy Realists The Conservative Vagabond Jo Nova The Monarachists Quadrant on line The Free Press IPA Climate and energy program The Sydney Institute Mannkal Menzies Research Centre Taxpayers Alexandra Marshall Advance Australia Australian Inst for Progress Bettina Arndt REMEMBERING JOHN HYDE. His…
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God Save The King
Until last evening, I hadn’t seen The King’s Speech with Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth and company. Usually watch some shoot-‘em up over a red wine or three. Good movie. I enjoyed it. Whether the dialogue between the King and Lionel Logue is remotely close to the truth I doubt, but the substance of the plotline…
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Open Thread – Weekend 13 May 2023
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The Censorship Industrial Complex
An important post by Jo Nova on the Censorship Industrial Complex, an echo of the Military Industrial Complex that grew up after WW2 and an advanced form of the Climate Industrial Complex that spread fake news and started to get serious about censoring dissident voices. A COUPLE OF OTHER THINGS To simplify the message that…