New Catallaxy

  • Keeping the Peace in the State of NSW

    On Monday night, as is the case on every other night of every other week here in NSW, the police were charged with keeping the peace. But the peace was not kept despite law enforcement being aware of and in the presence of those who were intent on violently disturbing the state’s peace. A large…

  • Open Thread – Thurs 12 Oct 2023

  • 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…

  3. I know a few Pom’s, there’s no love lost with Russians. In fact I generally found they despise them. A…

  4. Temperatures in Palestine are increasing faster than the global average, and it is highly vulnerable to floods, heatwaves, droughts, and storms. But…

  5. I confess it’s been about 50 years since I read the trilogy, I should read it again. By contrast I’ve…

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