New Catallaxy

  • Open Thread – Tues 14 Feb 2023

    Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph, Rembrandt, 1656

  • Looking at RE through the wrong end of the telescope

    Parallel universes and the revised energy story. According to the official narrative we are accelerating the move from dirty fossil power to clean and green power from sun and wind. That is the story in the developed nations of the west. In the other universe described by Mark Mills, we have gone as far as…

  • Meme of the Day #65

    h/t: Jung

  • Barbarians in smart suits and uniforms

    Impact of lockdown on babies This is a disturbing account of the way babies were denied normal human contacts during lockdown. Of course they were not the only ones, it is just another chapter in the ghastly story. Civilisation has a thin crust that normally restrains tendencies to barbarism until it gives way in times…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 11 Feb 2023

    The Shipwreck on Northern sea, Ivan Aivazovski, 1875

  • Saving the planet with solar panels?

    You have got to be joking. INCREDIBLY ENERGY INTENSIVE TECHNOLOGY How do we make things?

  • Weekend Reading #12

    Over at Ius & Iustitium, Anon, an attorney with federal and state executive experience, discusses the Iron Law of Tolerance as a zero-sum game. To wit, whatever is to be tolerated by law, the converse will be prosecuted. At The Federalist, Katy Faust discusses the good and rights of the children in the circumstance of…

  • Looney Tunes

    Spy balloons over Barbados in 2016! Not quite a Chinese Spy Balloon (hereafter CSB), but a very good illustration of the principles involved in this kind of spying. It’s a product of the Google Loon project, development of which commenced in 2011 as a cheap alternative to satellites to provide worldwide internet connectivity by using…

  • A Summary of Hersh’s ‘How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline’

    Overnight, Seymour Hersh published How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline. Here are the key points. The explosives were allegedly planted months earlier, during a mid-summer NATO exercise: Last June, the Navy divers, operating under the cover of a widely publicized mid-summer NATO exercise known as BALTOPS 22, planted the remotely triggered explosives that, three…

  • Gigi Foster fires up

    A powerful conversation with a hero of the resistance to Covid insanity. At the end of the day, power is with the people’ — Gigi Foster and Rinat Strahlhofer take viewers to Australia for a look at pandemic policies and their impacts. They explore concepts related to the building of a parallel society and consider…

  1. calli the things scum do are fairly predictable and not really surprising. The things I’ve witnessed so called nice people…

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