New Catallaxy

  • Israel’s Tet Moment?

    Shortly after midnight on January 30-31, 1968, during celebrations of the Lunar New Year (Tet) , NVA and Viet Cong (VC or NLF) forces launched the Tet Offensive in South Vietnam. The intel.gov site(*) includes pages on declassified Tet documents, and a 50th anniversary retrospective on the Offensive. According to the latter, 70-80,000 troops in…

  • Open Thread – Mon 9 Oct 2023

  • Rabz’ Radio Show Rocktober 2023 – Protest Songs

    The big problem with protest songs, Cats, is if they refer too explicitly to a cause du jour, they will date. Badly. See just about every Midnight Oil song, ever – with the possible exception of Wedding Cake Island, given it’s an instrumental. That’s why the best protest songs are not obviously hitched to a…

  • Me and My Aboriginal Cousins, Sharing Race and Ancestry

    The marvels of modern technology allow us to restart a TV program which is already well underway. So it was on Wednesday that I rewound Bolt, so to speak. Bolt bled into Kenny. Swap channels? I kept watching for a bit, wondering what specious arguments du soir he’d come up. He didn’t disappoint. So far…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 7 Oct 2023

  • Guest Post – The Drowning Voice

    The Beer Whisperer My first ever referendum was as a bright-eyed and bushy tailed young man, albeit naive. Yet I was sufficiently trained in scepticism by my father to quickly see the distortions from both sides. I consequently read the actual constitutional change, and made up my own mind that it was a trojan horse…

  • Surviving the power tipping point

    Watch the RE crash dummies hitting the wall! SOUTH AUSTRALIA, GERMANY, BRITAIN, CALIFORNIA, TEXAS In summary, the major strategies appear to be importing power and deindustrializing. The first move will only last while other places have got conventional power to spare and the second is not likely to be popular. More details in preparation, but…

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #86

    It’s going to be a bumpy night. Born on April 5th, 1908 and died on October 6th, 1989, Ruth Elizabeth “Bette” Davis was one of the greatest, if not the greatest actress from Hollywood’s Golden Era in a career spanning more than 50 years and 100 acting credits. She was noted for playing unsympathetic, sardonic…

  • Exit from net zero

    Time to start planning We need a plan before a government comes to power with a mandate to exit, only to find that they have to make it up during the first year of office. More commentators are talking about an orderly exit from coal, instead of the insane stampede prescribed by most Australian governments…

  • Heads up for investors

    And others From the Beer Whisperer. Greg Canavan on the exit from net zero for investors. The smart money is shifting to fossil fuels, anticipating the collapse of the net zero ponzi scheme. Hear about it in the first few minutes of the video. Serious investors will need to listen to the end to get…

  1. RNA drugs to treat cancers have been around for a while and apparently can give hope to the hopeless. It…

  2. Thanks for posting the Janet A/Rice article Tinta @07:13am. It highlights the ineptness of the Office Of Public Prosecutions in…

  3. “Musk to build microfactories for mRNA producer” Sounds like the New World Order is taking shape, you will be forever…

  5. Iran now set to replace their hereditary monarchy with a new hereditary monarchy. Iran is in deep shiite.

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