New Catallaxy

  • Open Thread – Weekend 21 Aug 2021

  • Trump discusses Afghanistan

    This was Donald Trump speaking to Sean Hannity on August 18. Only 6772 views, it says, which is an example of just how powerful and deceitful the media in America now are. Part of the text. This is the greatest embarrassment in the history of our country….  Biden put us in this position. He should…

  • Naughty, naughty Victoria

    This really is over the top. Who is he to get angry? What is he getting angry about? Does he get angry if people catch a cold? From The Herald-Sun: ANGRY DAN WARNS RULES MAY TIGHTEN.  Mr Andrews said the spike in Victoria’s cases was “a very significant challenge, making today a bad day. “I…

  • “Virtue has a veil, vice a mask”

    In 2003, it was ‘profiteering’ and playing on peoples “fears and anxieties” to sell surgical masks under the pretence that they provided “effective” protection against the SARS virus. Individuals and businesses faced fines of $22,000 and $110,000 respectively In 2021, individuals and businesses face fines for NOT wearing or carrying around those very same (dubiously…

  • Roll up your sleeves and ask no questions

    Hopes of the side, Matt Canavan and NSW Liberal MP Tanya Davies were interviewed by Andrew Bolt this week. Abandon hope. Canavan expressed some mealy-mouthed qualification about enforced vaccinations. Davies was completely hopeless, keen to establish her pro-vaccination credentials, her objection to no jab, no work, was focussed on the deficient supply of vaccine available…

  • Guest Post: Vicki Campion on Priority Confusion

    Climate change, benevolent sexism, lockdowns for areas without a trace of Covid-19 – this perpetual war of distraction plagues us whilst the US Embassy in Kabul tweeted a Pride flag, as the Taliban wearing little more than sandals and AK47’s in the scorching sun, readied to attack.The role of the Australian Infantry is to seek…

  • Policy outpaced by events

    As the days and weeks pass, we are learning that the road maps offered by the PM and premiers, particularly, the sign posts of our deliverance from house arrest, do not comport with reality. Zerohedge reports that the most recent study of vaccine efficacy re delta variant is significantly reduced compared with alpha and degrades…

  • “Those who take Covid ‘vaccines’ … have a HIGHER risk of severe disease or even death”

    What is one to make of this: mRNA Tech Inventor Dr. Robert Malone: Easier for Delta to Kill ‘Vaccinated’ than Jab-Free People. If this is true, why the urgency for vaxxination? Those who take the Covid-19 “vaccines” are MORE susceptible to the Delta Variant and have a HIGHER risk of severe disease or even death. This…

  • Not Mandatory. Mandatory. Not Mandatory.

    A guest post by Arky From around the web: September: When Prime Minister Scott Morrison told 3AW a vaccine would be “as mandatory as you can possibly make it” there was an immediate backlash from some groups. Mr Morrison even went so far as to suggest the grounds by which exemptions should be granted. “There…

  • Time we faced the future

    The following is a guest post by Cassie of Sydney Hi Cats, A few months ago in Sydney, just before the second great lockdown, I attended a panel hosted by the Menzies Research Centre.  One of the panel’s subjects was “free speech” and one of the panelists was Stephen Chavura who currently lectures in history…

  1. The existence of Trump will give many right wing leaders around the world a spine they wouldn’t otherwise have.

  4. I was in hospital a few months ago, and one of my nurses was muslim. At one point she recited…

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