New Catallaxy

The Melbourne Syndrome is now officially the world’s worst.  From The Age: Melbourne lockdown becomes world’s longest as state records 1377 new local COVID-19 cases, four death.  Not to mention that Victoria’s Premier is the world’s most incompetent leader. And the first of the pictures The Age chose to run, proudly it seems to me,…

We eulogise our felons such as Captain Thunderbolt as gentleman bushrangers — they gave back a small portion of the money they stole from poor victims, expecting thanks, and absurdly they got it all the way to big brass statues on

I would just like to emphasise that I am bringing this article to your attention even though it has nothing to do with any current political leader I am familiar with whatsoever, absolutely nothing at all: The Psychopathic CEO. From the article: A psychopath is different from a psychotic in that the latter is a…

Solzhenitsyn: “The question was posed much more narrowly. It was not why were we jailed? Nor why did those who remained free tolerate this lawlessness? Everyone knows that they didn’t realize what was going on, that they simply believed (the party) that if whole peoples are banished in the space of twenty-four hours, those peoples…

Meanwhile, let me draw your attention to this: A Modest Proposal Re Covid by David Archibald. Amongst other things, he writes this: The problem with covid vaccines is that even if you vaccinate 100%, you will still have an epidemic because they are not efficient enough to prevent it. And we are just a few mutations…

“The statements by politicians that those who are not vaccinated are a threat to public health and should be “locked out of society” and denied the ability to work are not measures to protect public health. They are not about public health and not justified because they do not address the actual risk of COVID.…

Australia’s Corporations Rebel Against Government’s Draconian COVID Lockdowns is from Zero Hedge in the US reporting on a story published by the Financial Times in London. It may be in the local press, but I haven’t come across it here. Still, an important story, you would think. In the letter – which was reported on…

This was on the letters page at The Australian today: The Grief of Parents. It is a lament from someone who can find almost no sympathy from anyone who could actually do something. We live in the saddest of times when this is the only avenue for someone to get this message out more widely. The…