New Catallaxy

I recently stumbled upon an intriguing historical document (source and link at provided at the end of post) that I believe has a loose parallel with the social and economic situation we now find ourselves trapped within. It consists of notes for a lecture on Communist Interrogation Methods by Royal Australian Air Force Intelligence, and…

“Giant concerns like Mannesmann, Krupp, Thyssen, Flick, and IG-Farben, and leading banks such as the Deutsche Bank and the Dresdner Bank, were the major beneficiaries, while a variety of business consortia, corrupt party functionaries, and untold numbers of small commercial enterprises grabbed what they could. ‘Aryan’ pillars of the establishment like doctors and lawyers were…

For my own reasons, I don’t intend to get the Covid-19 vaccine – not that it’s any of your business. Before you start referring to me as an Anti-Vaxxer, perhaps you’d like to volunteer for some of the more exotic vaccines that I currently have running through my veins. Japanese Encephalitis and Anthrax immediately come…

C.L. has a great piece on PandaCons over at his place: In epidemiology, however, this sort of pro rata flimflam just won’t do. Unlike Australia, America is not an island continent with an oceanic moat; it doesn’t have nine governments but more than 50. Precisely because the United States isn’t largely unpopulated – New York City alone…

This flashed across my FB feed this morning. The kids have got it sussed. It only took Covid to get Dan to fund more adventurous skate parks. We can now fill the hospitals with kids who tried to do a rail slide on a precariously balanced block of concrete.

A growing fascism in Australia is becoming evident and alarming.  Based on the new health status controls of vaccine passports for Covid-19 – we can forget what the Prime Minister would prefer to call them, for these are government mandated identity and travel papers – Australia is dangerously close to authoritarian rule. From media reports…

I’ll point out the obvious, and you can make conclusions. The Orange line represents the average number of deaths for the five years 2015-2019. The Blue area represents the range of deaths for that same period. The Red line represents Deaths last year, running into this year, and the Blue line represents the daily new…

If it is for your own good … then you are locked DOWN. If it is for the greater good, well … then you are locked UP. Easy-peasy, right? If your mind is a fortress, then who keeps the key?

On Saturday, Vikki Campion’s piece, Let our PM be human, rightly attracted a lot of condemnation. My indignation and anger at reading Vikki’s piece has made me think about how inept and useless our state and federal Liberal governments are.  The always superb Professor James Allan has written very well over the years about how supine…