New Catallaxy

  • Guest Post: Speedbox – Postcard from Kislovodsk Redux

    Mrs Speedbox is back in Kislovodsk, Russia.  I wasn’t able to travel due to work commitments and on this trip she will catch up with her numerous friends and the remaining relatives in the city.  Our youngest Miss Speedbox has accompanied her on this occasion.  In my phone/video calls with Mrs Speedbox, I have been…

  • Black is White, Freedom is Slavery, 2+2=5

    Newspeak rules in reportage of climate and energy issues in the mainstream media.         In 1984 George Orwell introduced the concept of a new way of speaking to consolidate the grip of totalitarian regimes by thought control as well as brute force and intimidation. He spelled out the design and purpose of ‘newspeak’ in an appendix…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 22 Oct 2022

  • Weekend Reading #9

    John Daniel Davidson picks over the corpse that is conservatism in The Federalist and wonders about what might be fruitfully revived in its stead. Henry George at The Critic argues that the issue if euthanasia is the logical terminus, figuratively and literally, of liberalism. At IM-1776, DC Miller and eugyppius discuss the fortunes of globalism…

  • Your lying eyes

    In a desperate attempt to convince their idiotic readership that the fetus in early pregnancy is just a clump of tissue, the Guardian has published an article involving a series of images, provided by a pro-abortion group, of “pregnancy tissue” in a petri dish. They do this while also dating the ’tissue’ therein from the…

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #41

    Revisionist Westerns During the 1960s at the height of the Vietnam War, a new sub-genre within the Western genre was starting to take hold i.e. the Revisionist Western. What was now becoming increasingly mainstream within Westerns was a new view that subverted the old myths, romances and traditions that had stood the genre for so…

  • Wokeism, Soft Power and the Globalist American Empire

    This is a very good short video that outlines Darren Beattie’s argument that Wokeism is the official ideology of the GAE, which it uses at home and abroad against its enemies. To the extent that it is a successful instrument in the projection of power, the success of Wokeism is inevitably tied to the success…

  • Open Thread – Tues 18 Oct 2022

  • Mater’s Musings #61: Still? Really? Seriously?

  • Meme of the Day #61

  1. Water bombers could not be deployed because there was a drone flying in the area…

  2. Eyrie https://theculturetrip.com/europe/russia/articles/an-introduction-to-the-buryat-people I think  some  men from this Russian ethnic group , who are soldiers and so wear Russian military uniforms, are…

  3. Champion Lakes fire lit by schoolboys playing with deodorant can and lighterBy Daile CrossUpdated November 26, 2024 — 2.26pmfirst published…

  4. So? All that’s showing is that there are some people who don’t like the government, but twits are claiming it…

  5.  egotistic gnostic spirituality of post-modernism. What does ‘gnostic’ actually mean in current usage? I only ever see it used as…

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