New Catallaxy

  • Live from Melbourne

    From The Age: Pepper balls and stinger grenades: The weapons police are using against demonstrators. Police also now have access to drones to monitor gatherings and a mobile riot truck to record confrontations and identify offenders to be arrested later. Ashton told me at the time the weapons were for “major incidents of public disorder, demonstrations…

  • Mater’s Musings #29: Compare the Pair

    20 August 2020 Reporter: “Is there a complexity to verifying the actual cause of death?” Professor Brett Sutton (Victorian Chief Health Officer): “Not necessarily. So, for deaths from coronavirus, anyone who’s a confirmed case who dies is classified amongst coronavirus deaths. So it doesn’t have to be definitively from coronavirus, and in some instances, you…

  • Jab-a-jab-jab. Are fetuses in the firing line?

    This is from the Australian Government’s “COVID-19 vaccination decision guide for people [men get preggers too, don’t you know] who are pregnant, breastfeeding or planning pregnancy,” dated 19 August 2021. Of the key points, this is central: “Real-world evidence has shown that Comirnaty [Pfizer] is safe for those who are pregnant and breastfeeding.” The “real-world…

  • Monica Smit

    I had never heard of Monica until now, but have just received this in an email. If you aren’t aware of Monica Smit yet, you may want to be. Monica started Reignite Democracy Australia (RDA) last year as an individual going live on Facebook. RDA has gone from strength to strength in leaps and bounds…

  • Guest Post: Peter West -It’s a Vaccine, Jim, But Not As We Know It

    Who knew the term “non-sterilising vaccine” six months ago? If you did not, you are in plentiful company. Maybe the woke young, who know everything, knew about it, but for oldies like me, a vaccine was a vaccine was a vaccine. It protected you from the thing you were vaccinated against, and because you

  • Guest Post: Cassie of Sydney -The destruction of Christian Porter and Monstrous Women

    On Sunday 19 September 2021, after enduring a seven month pile on of vicious, ludicrous, and unhinged smears, fabrications and outright lies, Christian Porter has resigned from the ministry. His political destruction is complete. Thanks to an out of control far-left feral ABC, a cacophony of vile far-left feral progressives, many of them women, the…

  • Open Thread – Mon 20 Sept 2021

  • Data, Information and Intelligence

    “Data is raw, individual, and unarguable facts. Information is the combination of data into a form that can answer an everyday question.  Intelligence is the combination of information into a form that tells a story and informs decisions.” How the ABC (and the Governments) choose to present the “information”: The “Intelligence” which (should) come from it:

  • Respect My Authoritah!

  • Ivermectin pro and con

    With the emphasis on the word “con” in all its various meanings: New restrictions on prescribing ivermectin for COVID-19. Dated September 10, 2021. Today, the TGA, acting on the advice of the Advisory Committee for Medicines Scheduling, has placed new restrictions on the prescribing of oral ivermectin. General practitioners are now only able to prescribe…

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