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What’s wrong with a bit of competition – “survival of the fittest”?
Quite.
Just me being cautious and applying the Burge principle, which has never been known to fail.
As for “winning”, sites come and go, commenters wax and wane. Freedom should win, but it’s a tough gig.
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Interesting side-effects COVID is having in the IT job market:
* Wages and hourly rates are going up for the first time since the early 2000’s.
* Employees are leaving fixed term (1 yr) contracts, for permanent contracts elsewhere.
* Noticeably increased recruitment activity on LinkedIn, increased number of phone calls regarding new opportunities.
* There is a growing emphasis on training up current employees, instead of trying to hire people with the proverbial 12 yrs experience in working with a product that’s been around for only 5 yrs.
Rates are up, productivity is up, and working conditions are improving as candidates are being poached away improving their situation.
If my eyes are not deceiving me, the local IT job market is *finally* coming out of recession/depression type hiring practices that have dominated for at least 6 years.
COVID finally restricted immigration in ways that neither the Coalition, nor Labor would. And we may be on our way of experiencing a boom as a consequence.
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‘Owner/operator of millennia-old multinational global marxist cabal’ is one of the employment categories, right?
KD, hopefully. Otherwise “disabled aboriginal tranny lezzo moozley unemployed taxi driver” will have to suffice.
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‘When the Germans ended World War I with a reasonable offer, Churchill subjected the Germans to a starvation blockade.’
As he should have, because the Krauts were and are one-dimensional lebensraum-searching boxheads. It was immensely gratifying for me to see images of Chermans butchering dead horses in the street in the 1920s. Reaping what they sowed.
Very obviously, they didn’t go far enough and crush the country into several hundred pointless local councils, and therefore unable to poke their noses into world affairs ever again.
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Frostie, thoughts?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priest_Barracks_of_Dachau_Concentration_Camp
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Australian woman Sinead Diver ran 10th in the Marathon.
By Australian, I mean Irish from County Mayo.
She spoke to the camera in a lovely Irish lilt.
Forty four years of age with two kids.
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Thank you Jo.
It seems that, like democracy, WordPress is the worst of blogging platforms, except for all the others.
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Hah! Blockquote fail. That first line was egg’s.
Buttons…where are all those handy buttons?
I have a jar full if you want them AdamD. 😀
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Lancet article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(21)00069-0/fulltext?s=09
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‘unemployed taxi driver’
Bloody hell Rabz. That’s the Mount Everest of disabilities.
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Democratic Arizona state Sen. Tony Navarrete was arrested in Phoenix on Thursday after police were notified of allegations that the politician was engaging in sexual conduct with a male child:
Jewish Deplorable
@TrumpJew2
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Pictures from AZ State Senator Tony Navarrete’s Instagram
He was just arrested for child molestation
https://twitter.com/TrumpJew2/status/1423525678369198081?s=20
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Just a question to keep for future reference, with all these new blogs, has the question of money come up yet. That will be an interesting one to watch for a variety of reasons.
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John of Mel & Mater,
best wishes that all is well with Mrs J & Mrs M.
BBS
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“COVID finally restricted immigration in ways that neither the Coalition, nor Labor would.”
Great news! More evidence (as if any is needed) that turbocharged immigration drives down wage growth, just as the RBA has admitted. No wonder Scummo is so keen to get borders opened and his immigration hordes pouring in again.
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So true, Ruprecht.
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What’s wrong with a bit of competition – “survival of the fittest”?
“Quite.”
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Seems the chatty types like m0ntifa’s for the instant gratification of instant comments and sans walls of inflammatory text from Birdie.
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From Rosie’s link:
Several countries and tour operators, including many cruise lines, don’t recognize the Covishield version of AstraZeneca, which is made in India. Others are not accepting travellers who received different types of vaccines for their first and second shots.
The efficiency of “the science” seems to be debatable, at the very least.
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Professor Higgins says:
August 7, 2021 at 7:52 am
Rocinante.
Can you please provide the name of the Act and the relevant section?
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No, Professor Higgins, for two reasons. First, it’s not as simple as that. The grubbymint didn’t just pass an act that says “We;re gonna steal all your savings”. The necessary changes were made by legislation, regulation, and in some cases, simple edict. Those parts requiring legislative oversight were dealt with in May and August, 2018.
To cover the full scope of the changes I suggest the following –
A couple of months ago Senator Malcolm Roberts introduced a private members bill attempting to clarify the bank bail in position as a result of the changes. This was rejected out of hand by the combined vote of Liberal, Labor, and Nationals. Nonetheless Senator Roberts is quite happy to supply info on it. Email him.
Martin North is an Australian economist who heads up a group called Digital Finance Analytics – DFA. He has a YouTube channel – “Walk The World”. The subject has been covered at length there. Of special interest are some videos done on the subject with a spokesman from the Citizens Party. Watch them.
Second, I don’t do hours of unpaid, voluntary research for the latest sock puppet of the leader of the group Cassie once labelled “The Gang Of Four”.
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Just a question to keep for future reference, with all these new blogs, has the question of money come up yet. That will be an interesting one to watch for a variety of reasons.
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Seems like Adam doesn’t have the begging bowl out – far from it.
Divide and conquer, old boy?
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Farmer Gez says:
August 7, 2021 at 9:58 am
great effort.
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Rocinante, doesn’t the gov’t have legislation to confiscate gold if they so wish. I’ve only ever taken possession of gold, never a certificate as its only worth the paper its printed on. The bastards may knock on my door one day. Have it if you can find it. Ahh the 80’s made more money, paid less tax. Life was good.
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‘See the Kingdom of Wessex for example.’
What? And have misery-guts stories from Mercian and Kentish earldormen going around for centuries?
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I’ll sponsor a blockquote button.
*rattles jar*
As for the 🦚, that’s what the scroll function is for. And the Not Easily Offended armour plating.
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KD, on the hollow threats you may be correct. I have never given proper personal details since it became compulsory, never had any blowback either. See how I go this time.
HD, ditto for Geo’s. Since the overseas conduit has been turned off and the rise in coal priced we have appreciated our take home to near boom levels again. Whether is sustains is the next question when they open the flood gates to sub continentals who will work for peanuts again.
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If the question of money does come up, look how well it’s worked for Bolt’s and Blair’s blogs.
Haven’t bothered with either for years. It’s the (cue spooky muzak …) Fake Canaanite in me.
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Modest donations are a great idea. I hope Adam D floats the idea in some way when he gets more substantiated with the whole thing.
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I don’t think anyone is getting the begging bowl out. We should be past that by now.
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Why be so uncharitable when you have no idea what was going on behind the scenes? I was waiting to see whether the Cat would transition to another longtime fellow Cat but that fell through for various reasons. I put up New Cat (used because it had come up over the weekend and it grew on me) Mon or Tues because the OT on Adam’s site was becoming a shit show and people were bellowing. I’ve always thought of the Cat as a forum, not as a personal site. It might broadly indicate the prejudices of the admin but the discussion is largely determined by the commenters.
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Sigh.
‘The necessary changes were made by legislation,’
Then they will be recorded in any database of current legislation – ie, Acts of Parliament. There’s no grey area.
‘regulation,’
Then they will be in the subordinate Regulations sitting alongside the Acts. Again, there is no grey area.
‘and in some cases, simple edict.’
Which cases? And – no. You walked into trouble the last time you tried this because you couldn’t differentiate between a Bill and an Act.
‘He has a YouTube channel – “Walk The World”. The subject has been covered at length there. Of special interest are some videos done on the subject with a spokesman from the Citizens Party’
Professionally produced and edited, no doubt. The Australian Citizens’ Party is the latest iteration of the Citizens’ Electoral Council of Australia. This is their form guide:
‘By 1989, the CEC leadership was under the influence of the Lyndon LaRouche movement. By 1992, the CEC identified itself as the Australian branch of the broad international LaRouche movement. National Secretary Craig Isherwood moved the headquarters from rural Queensland to a Melbourne suburb, with direct communications links to LaRouche’s US headquarters established.
‘In 1996, then-Liberal Party MP Ken Aldred, was disendorsed by the Liberal Party after using parliamentary privilege to make allegations of involvement in espionage and drug trafficking against a prominent Jewish lawyer and a senior foreign affairs official, using documents that were later found to be forged, supplied to him by the CEC.’
Make of that what you will.
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Yes, I am.
Is the request for sources a faux pas on my part?
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jo says:
August 7, 2021 at 10:14 am
jo,
Who said anything about the grubbymint seizing gold?
Who said anything about gold certificates?
I wrote about the grubbymint seizing MONEY – deposits, in bank savings accounts.
I suggested people open a particular trading bank account, not buy gold certificates.
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‘But that would have required an end to banker-hegemony and downward mobility of the oligarchy.’
Birdstein, you really need to get out from under this non-achievement complex of yours.
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The Editor
The Cairns Post
It’s been over six weeks since the highly-infectious Delta-variant QH covid ward staffer flew to Townsville. No Delta outbreak occurred.
It’s been over two weeks since the highly-infectious Delta-variant traveller returned to Mareeba. No Delta outbreak occurred.
Covid has been periodically detected in local sewage plants. For it to be detectable in torrents of wastewater it must be widespread in the community. But no outbreaks have occurred.
These are trying times for science fans, logic enthusiasts and readers of history. We have been gaslighted by politicians, academics and administrators on an unprecedented scale.
That relatively tiny minority have tried to convince us of things that just aren’t true: CO2 does not control baseline surface temperatures; renewables cannot replace reliable coal-fired electricity generators; and, covid is not highly infectious and very deadly.
Try as they might to control these narratives they could not control access to raw data now available to everyone with average research skills. We know these three narratives are fake because we have the data to prove it.
If you want your old life back you need to tell your local state and federal reps that you’ll put them last at the next election if they fail to stand against these three fake and extremely-damaging narratives.
(208 words)
Peter Campion
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I can’t decide:
New national anthem #1
Operation: Mindcrime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAI2QOBMlTA
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“Is the request for sources a faux pas on my part?”
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Not at all….being on the Cat is a work in progress…you laugh and you learn.
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Guys, were not interested in the PFJ.
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Dover, as they say ‘charity begins at home’. Strange you didn’t call the site New Dover or something like that. I think we know why.
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It’s been an interesting few days, Dover. You are another Cat that I trust. Trouble is the ones who are able all have jobs, and people like me have time but zero expertise.
I’m just glad that someone was able to get a platform going so quickly. Maybe Adam can put some time into it now it’s the weekend.
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National anthem # 2
Faith no More – Stripsearch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_U6165DVeM
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Guys, we are not interested in the PFJ.
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JC says:
August 7, 2021 at 1:46 am
cohenite says:
August 6, 2021 at 10:48 pm
So head prefect and a few other losers have sucked up to the fat little turd; what louses.
Stop lying, Cronkite. That’s the furthest thing from my mind. I’ve seen you take some cheap shots before, but this one is one of your worst.
Here it comes; you go on dates with the fat little turd and after that you want people to think he hasn’t got you by the Benny Hills. Time to man up head prefect and to announce, here, publicly for all time, or at least until Adam gets the shits and packs the whole thing up, that you will be true to this site and won’t be tempted by commie harlots like fatso
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it’s like the Chemist Warehouse of pharmacies
the Bunnings of hardware stores
a metaphor in itself for the vaccine rollout
wholesale opinion at bargain prices.
if you can find an opinion for a lower IQ, they’ll beat it by 10%
all choice … but limited options.
enjoy yr bugs … YUM!
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Rocinante.
So there is no 2018 Banking Act?
Am I right in saying that the confiscation of deposits is merely a fear held by some which resulted in a Senator making an impossible request – that is, seeking clarification of legislation which is not on the books?
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11th commandment. Thou shalt not peace off the AdoomDlord. He’s doing an excellent job and it’s greatly appreciated in Shy Ted land. The trolls can be scrolled past and not engaged with so asking AdoomDlord to ban people on top of what he is currently doing. While I haven’t bothered with Discord I think this blog is winning by a mile.
Anyway, it’s time to hone those skills for rounding up the poliarticians, journos and talking heads. https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z2b8E6wllmk/YQqQ5ZAqFkI/AAAAAAAA7bw/4sX79Rix3ewZOG37hn5dFDIvsgO6D0n-QCLcBGAsYHQ/s430/daily_gifdump_3612_03.gif
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I’m baffled by the vitriol aimed at people running Catallaxy offshoots other than the one you are currently favouring.
As there was no attempt made at an organised transition, various people did the best they could in the short time that remained.
Those sitting on the sidelines sniping can go screw themselves.
Thanks Monty, Dover, Nilk, Adam, Dot and others who attempted to keep the blog going and Cat regulars in touch through the demise of the original.
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“Make of that what you will.”
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Quite so, it isn’t hard.
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“m0nty says:
August 7, 2021 at 10:22 am
I don’t think anyone is getting the begging bowl out. We should be past that by now.”
Go away monty.
Virtually everyone agreed to chip in, and I still get people offering me money (which I have refused).
New Catallaxy Files would have been the URL used if I got this going first.
DB, C.L. would have been in charge and I would have asked Mark A and Adam to administrate.
Having little sub blogs is good. We should run it like a network.
“The Catallaxy Network”
Catallaxy becomes a hydra. Unslayable.
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They need to know about Alberta, and they need to know we know about Alberta.
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I sent the Alberta interview off to Alan Jones, Mark Latham and Malcolm Roberts (whose speech to parliament on Tuesday was a real gem, worthy of wide distribution itself).
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FGR, your most colossal fail is that after repeated requests you still haven’t offered even a hint of a reason why the Jews were “prisoners”. Come on, tell us.
“All you have are photos of people who are starving.”
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False – in the sentence after the next you had to admit I’ve got more. And that’s only the person I spoke to, let alone all the other eyewitness accounts.
Well known British celebrities Denis Norden, Eric Sykes and Michael Bentine were among the many hundreds of British service personnel who attested to exactly what I’ve said.
They didn’t have the skull caps stuck to their heads. Your man, by his own admission said they were dead or almost dead. So you have no evidence for exclusive ethnicity.
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He said the vast preponderance of the living and the dead were Jewish. “Dead or almost dead” doesn’t stop the “almost dead” from identifying themselves and the deceased. It’s you who’ve got no evidence. Come on – give me evidence that they weren’t overwhelmingly Jewish – using EXACTLY THE SAME standard of proof that you demand for the Holocaust.
Which also begs the question of who was there before the allied war crimes lead to all the food disappearing.
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If any food was “disappearing” from the camps it was clearly the Germans who did it. You’ve got zero evidence that was any such thing as food “disappearing” anywhere else. See above. Come on, prove that there was a food shortage anywhere in Germany (other than in the camps) using EXACTLY THE SAME standards of proof that you demand for the Holocaust.
So you’ve got nothing. Particularly as the same type of photos are available for confederate prisoners. No evidence, no argument.
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Whatever else may be said about the civil war, the “prisoners” there were enemy combatants. There’s at least a rational explanation therefore why they were “prisoners” and why, when it became clear that the prisoners were in danger of starving in the prison, the confederates didn’t just open the gate and let them go.
Explain why the Jews were “prisoners”. Then explain why, when it became apparent that the Jews were in danger of starving, the Germans didn’t just open the gates and let them have at least a chance of fending for themselves.
Dog ate your homework. Starvation of prisoners will always be almost standard every time some inbred troglodyte decides that war against civilian targets is a good thing.
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Well, now you’re admitting that the Jews were “prisoners” who were starved to death. All you’ve got to do now is explain why they were “prisoners” and why, when it became apparent that they were in danger of starving, the Germans didn’t open the gates to let them have a chance of fending for themselves, and you’ll be within a few trillion light years of having a superficially plausible thesis – which you can then have the task of proving using EXACTLY THE SAME standards that you demand for the Holocaust.
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I don’t understand economics – but I am getting the impression that the state is well on the way to (mis)appropriating private property by way of denying rental income from property investors – especially evident in the Melbourne cbd where certain welfare recipients are being placed into units run by ‘hotels’ which provide no returns to investors while the ‘hotels’ themselves are remunerated by government subsidiaries.
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Thanks Mark and Tom; this one is a standout today:
https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/biden_cuomo-spider-768×561.jpg
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Shy Ted:
Damn straight.
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go for 7th Day Adventist
you may need a ‘moral objection’ from religious conviction at a later day
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So Professor Higgins is the inflated ego formerly known as Leigh Lowe.
Who is ikamatua?
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I’ll be writing to them if they send me a fine, to ask for their evidence disproving the religion.
My son at the last census proclaimed himself indigenous and an adherent of the Church of the Rainbow Servant.
I had a stern word with him later, noting that his ‘indigeneity’ meant more tax dollars would be poured into the Aboriginal Grievance Industry.
So if you’re filling the census form with silliness be careful your answers, as they might be underwriting a cause of which you disapprove.
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*mh says:
August 7, 2021 at 9:43 am
‘ The notice explains that if you don’t complete the Census, you can be prosecuted and fined up to $222 a day.’
And
‘However, it’s important to know that it’s an offence to provide false or misleading statements or information. The penalty is a fine of up to $2,220.’*
It’s a freedom smorgasbord.
Mmmmm. You can almost smell the uniparty palm grease used to loosen the convicts’ shackles in Potemkin villages across Australia.
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If opening a GoldPass account and then using the app it pays to look carefully at the fee structure:
“cooltaj5
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27/07/2021
Antiquated and frustrating
At this point, I am so dissatisfied, I can barely find the enthusiasm to write a review that adequately describes how painful this experience has been.
This app is going to be many young people’s first experience with hidden fees. It would actually be cheaper for me to walk into the mint, buy some gold using a debit card and sell it there when I’m ready. If you have any intention of collecting your gold, please remember, you pay a fee to buy the unallocated gold, you pay a fee to sell the unallocated gold and you pay a fee to for mintage and collection of your gold (none of these charged in store). If you just want to trade within the app, you still pay a buy and sell fee and the gold prices are only slightly cheaper than buying and selling physical bullion at the mint (which has no buy and sell fee, the app is more expensive overall still). Oh and they make you send them a bank statement before you can withdraw your funds from the app. If this app was not government owned, you would think it is a scam trying to prevent you from realising you can never withdraw your money.”
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Knuckle Dragger says:
August 7, 2021 at 10:25 am
Knuckles, why are you, LL, Nota and Nick so opposed to the concept of people finding out stuff for themselves and simply being pointed towards where they can do just that?
The four of you spent weeks trying to prevent people from simply watching a video on the so-called “pandemic”, and so being allowed to make up their own minds?
Why can’t readers be allowed to do the same thing in this case? DFA is an excellent source of up to date economic info. Why can’t readers watch the videos there on the subject? Why can’t readers email Senator Roberts and get the full background story of bank bail ins?
Why are you four so opposed to people finding out for themselves?
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So many blogs to Hall Monitor.
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You don’t understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, because of those crafty bankers.
Bird’s Lament
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Religion?
I’m a Daoist-Confucian-rationalist flavoured Christian (Orthodox leaning Catholic) Discordian JW-CS-SDA curious.
Chaos is a ladder.
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GoldPass actually seems okay.
What is better that has the same level of credibility?
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“Who is ikamatua?
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That’s pretty obvious….who was one of the most sour commentators at old Cat?
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Lancet article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(21)00069-0/fulltext?s=09
I saw this on Malone’s twitter site earlier today.
Isn’t it fantastic? It blows their stupid stats on efficacy right out of the water. Unfortunately, it won’t reach the average punter – even if they could grasp its significance.
I wonder if all the tame “epidemiologists” who appear with annoying regularity on morning TV actually keep up with this data?
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I’m baffled by the vitriol aimed at people running Catallaxy offshoots other than the one you are currently favouring.
As there was no attempt made at an organised transition, various people did the best they could in the short time that remained.
Those sitting on the sidelines sniping can go screw themselves.
Thanks Monty, Dover, Nilk, Adam, Dot and others who attempted to keep the blog going and Cat regulars in touch through the demise of the original.
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I’m guessing that’s you Arky.
Same thing happened with the furniture store.
Nothing but abuse.
The more sites the merrier, I say, and that’s what competition is all about.
But also good if one gets closed.
It’s the reason the furniture shop was set up by NFA.
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” What we know about the German leadership before 1914 is that they liked and respected the British Empire. That they always wanted to be friends and allies with the British Empire. ”
Bullshit. Read anything written by any serious historian, since the opening of Imperial Germany’s archives in the mid 1960’s. Fritz Fischer, Gary Sheffield and Daniel Allen Butler are the three most authoritative on the subject.
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That was Arky’s idea, yes, with syndication to knit them together.
Network sounds a bit un-Cat-like though. Leftist activist groups are networks.
The word Catallaxy itself denotes many individual economies in a market, in this case being the marketplace of ideas. Referring to it as merely The Catallaxy would be linguistically appropriate.
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Those sitting on the sidelines sniping can go screw themselves.
Thanks Monty, Dover, Nilk, Adam, Dot and others who attempted to keep the blog going and Cat regulars in touch through the demise of the original.
No one has a problem with any of the cat offshoots except munty’s because he is a fat communist shit. The issue with munty’s site is that because he is a fat communist shit he will pull the plug on it at the most inconvenient time.
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As there was no attempt made at an organised transition, various people did the best they could in the short time that remained.
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A discord and that other thing no one wants to go to, sure, they were genuine, valid attempts in good faith. I’m talking about the blogs established after Adam D put his hand up. that have similar names. Call them something else.
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Best analysis evah of the Zapruder fillum.
Max Holland – The Zapruder Film Reconsidered
Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
The Warren Commission coined the phrase “conspiracy theory” for the possibility of multiple shooters in the timing of the number of shots.
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‘That’s pretty obvious….who was one of the most sour commentators at old Cat?’
Cassie, you need to narrow it down way further than that.
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“The word Catallaxy itself denotes many individual economies in a market”
7/10. You’re trying.
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“Don’t Surrender to the Pandemic Control Freaks
They’ll never be satisfied in a world of balanced risks.”
https://reason.com/2021/08/06/ignore-pandemic-panic-and-return-to-normal-life/
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‘Why can’t readers email Senator Roberts and get the full background story of bank bail ins?’
Faulty, I’m not telling people to do – or not do – anything. I’ve never encouraged people not to search for information or email anyone.
Everyone – email Roberts and ask the question*. There. Happy?
I fully encourage people to go and do their research, where they will find there is no such thing as the 2018 Banking Act. They will also find that what I pointed out earlier in respect of Bills, Acts (and non-existent ‘edicts’) is accurate.
‘The four of you spent weeks trying to prevent people from simply watching a video’
Again, I did no such thing. All I did was take the piss out of the ‘professionally produced and edited’ line, as though that made the content any more credible.
If anything, it may have encouraged more people to watch it – although I doubt I have that level of influence.
*Form letter format preferred.
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Don’t know if this Tucker C summary has been posted or not but it’s a must:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9alsxM8SOM&t=550s&ab_channel=FoxNews
Private property and the authority of the Supreme Court in the US have been abolished.
And that is not a baroque exaggeration.
America is now finished.
The 2nd Amendement proved to be not only totally and utterly irrelevant but, IMO, actually lulled the right into a privatistic, lazy, festishised sense of phony security.
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rocinante.
Two points.
Firstly, I believe any legal distinction between “trading” and “savings” accounts has not existed for some decades.
Secondly, you probably should resist the urge to publish recommendations for bank accounts or other financial instruments. It might get AdamD into hot water for publishing financial advice without the necessary licences. Re-wording along the lines of “I have an xxxx account” or “I understand YYY bank has an xxxx account” would avoid this.
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‘Knuckles it is thought by some that you need natural selection of a sort that you have two surviving children out of five is needed, just to stop the accumulation of mutations.’
Birdberg – you are aware this is why you don’t have a steady job, right?
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*” What we know about the German leadership before 1914 is that they liked and respected the British Empire. That they always wanted to be friends and allies with the British Empire. ”*
Because they were shit scared of the Imperial Navy (the best, biggest) and Colonial Armies (virtually unlimited manpower).
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”Anyone care to recommend a good brand of baked beans?”
Anything but SPC.
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Call them something else.
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MYOB
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‘Why can’t readers email Senator Roberts and get the full background story of bank bail ins?’
I’m not actually opposed to these anymore, in an outright manner.
Depositors should not be sacred cows. That’s part of the problem.
If you want a banker you can trust, buy a safe.
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“Cassie, you need to narrow it down way further than that.”
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LOL…he hates Libertarians.
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Liberty Ships:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qDxqBvK3NA
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“Gab says:
August 7, 2021 at 10:58 am
”Anyone care to recommend a good brand of baked beans?”
Anything but SPC.”
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I buy Heinz.
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I thought there was already an Amendment III challenge to the stupid *CDC rent moratorium*?
from Tim *The Beanie* Pool:
Biden Sued For Violating THIRD Amendment With Illegal Eviction Moratorium According To New Filing. Joe Biden’s illegal actions have triggered outrage among mom and pop landlords as Democrats defend the violation of a supreme court order.
Mainstream news outlets are defending the Democrat President’s violation of people’s rights but a new amicus briefing argues the action violates the third amendment.
By mandating that landlords not evict soldiers under penalty of fines and imprisonment the constitutional law group says the moratorium must be vacated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHG4MiWV4zk
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‘It might get AdamD into hot water for publishing financial advice without the necessary licences. Re-wording along the lines of “I have an xxxx account” or “I understand YYY bank has an xxxx account” would avoid this.’
Leigh Lowe, that’s Adam’s concern.
Set up your own site, then you can have as many rules and regulations as you like.
You’re worse than Grigs.
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“Thats easy. So they could work in factory jobs to supply the materiel for the Germans to defend themselves. Thats why, while there was plenty of food, they were well fed, and thats why it was so important to stop the typhus outbreak. You need people healthy and well-fed for factory work. Thats why they had such good facilities and a social life. You don’t want people depressed and unhappy when you need to get things done.”
That is absolute zero Kelvin as an explanation of why they were “prisoners”. If their life was so good why did they have to be made “prisoners”?
And as for “while there was plenty of food”, once again you’ve failed to provide even a scintilla of evidence, using EXACTLY THE SAME standards that you demand for the Holocaust, that there was ever a food shortage anywhere in Germany except in the camps.
And I see you’ve evaded the question of why, when it became apparent that they were in danger of starving, the Germans didn’t just open the gates.
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Knuckle Dragger.
You made mention of Linden LaRouche andthe Citizen’s Electoral Council earlier.
What was the context of that comment?
(I did some research into the CEC a couple of years ago. Boy, oh boy, did it attract some weapons grade bozos!)
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The 2nd Amendement proved to be not only totally and utterly irrelevant but, IMO, actually lulled the right into a privatistic, lazy, festishised sense of phony security.
It will work. You won’t ever see Americans dragged out of their homes and disappeared with a fight. It has already contributed to the USA surviving far longer in more or less the same situation than any other State in history, by a significant margin.
Australia is only a little over 100 years old and it is already on deaths door.
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Avi’s report on recent Melbourne lockdown protest
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Genesius Times has some good headlines.
https://genesiustimes.com/
Not far behind the Bee.
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“The Catallaxy Network”
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Absolutely. You can wander wherever you want, but it’s all on the on the one (or four) seamless sites. If one closes down, the ship doesn’t sink.
I still think it has a lot of merit. If you want to avoid mOnster and being moderated by him, that’s all good. You can simply comment on one of the other Cats posts (Dover, Adam, Dot or Nilk).
The reason I like it is that it’s all in the one spot (or 4 seperate collaborative spots in fact).
Sort out the “Open Thread” and then it’s workable. You simply can’t have 4 open threads all running at once. Maybe one or two moderators taking it in turn on rotation, along with a “guest moderator” every so often.
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Prof H,
The CEC adopted the LaRouche ethos and made themselves a sub-branch of the original US ‘movement’.
The CEC rebranded themselves as the Citizens’ Party, which should have been more properly named the Sovereign Citizens’ Party.
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Professor Higgins says:
August 7, 2021 at 10:55 am
“rocinante.
Two points.
Firstly, I believe any legal distinction between “trading” and “savings” accounts has not existed for some decades.”
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LL, who said anything about a legal distinction? If or when bank bail ins occur they will be from savings accounts, not trading accounts, for political reasons, not legislative ones.
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“Secondly, you probably should resist the urge to publish recommendations for bank accounts or other financial instruments. It might get AdamD into hot water for publishing financial advice without the necessary licences.”
LL, there is no inherent, specific, financial advice contained in my statement. This is just a rerun of the sane faux scare tactics you and your grubby mates used repeatedly on the old Cat.
What’s next – rerun of – “I only meant to say . . .”
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“C.L. says:
August 7, 2021 at 10:55 am”
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Nice to see you C.L.
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Lol. Preaching to the proles?
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Cassie, I agree. Life is too short to NOT eat Heinz Baked Beans.
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A lot of the death penalties in the pot WW2 war crimes trials were reserved for the guards and camp personnel who were involved in the selections for gassing.
Many trials, in many jurisdictions over the years, entire archives of evidence.
These individuals were especially hated and culpable.
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Five deaths from Covid NSW
Four in 80+
One man in his 60’s
For all the Delta drama, the stats on age and death don’t change much.
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To outdoor pursuits!
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