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“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…
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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…
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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…
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Guest Post: Speedbox – The Putin Gambit
Gambit (?æm·b?t): noun; a clever action in a game or other situation that is intended to achieve an advantage and usually involves taking a risk. For the past several weeks, in particular, the Ukrainians, the EU, the USA among others have been speculating and commenting on the Russian troop build-up on the eastern border of…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #6
The Gunfight One of the stables of the Western genre is the showdown/gunfight, often between the main protagonists. The fate of those involved is settled within a split second as to who was fastest on the draw. Of course, the reality in the old West was that it was nothing really like this. Often gunfights…
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The price mechanism is the single most important element of the market economy
Broken supply-chains are the story of the moment but what I find truly remarkable is that virtually no one any longer understands that it is the price system, and the price system alone that allows the supply-chain to operate. I have discussed this before. This is virtually no longer part of the economics curriculum but…
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Dr. John Campbell discusses immunology with Prof. Robert Clancy
If you have a spare hour today and I hope you do, the video below is highly recommended viewing.
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Flyingduk discusses Novavax over at South Australia in Focus
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Early morning coffee and Peter O’Brien’s book on the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government. Malcolm Fraser is repeatedly described as…