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Offering counselling in the face of a crisis is about as effective offering a chocolate bar when you house is on fire. https://www.afr.com/policy/health-and-education/are-you-mentally-ill-or-just-very-unhappy-20220210-p59vhh PJW reporting contrived racial diversity on TV being noticed on reddithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl5GJQE4lCk Quite a good piece on the gas cartel at MB this week: https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2022/02/betrayed-and-abused-rex-patrick-is-aussie-gas-roadkill/ No surprise the inflation in the USA is … Read more

As Sweden gets rid of restrictions, others double down. A nice summary of covid restrictions in various places: https://www.northstarmeetingsgroup.com/coronavirus-countries-cities-reopening-COVID-19-new-cases Looks like the Wall St ESG crew are not as powerful as I thought:https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/oil-nears-100-barrel-us-drillers-get-busy-costly-shale-basins-2022-02-08/ If shale oils comes back online in numbers it will keep a lid on oil price hikes, thus limiting inflation. We can … Read more

So Australian Unions sent me an email the other day saying that wages rise only because of union involvment not labour shortages. It linked to this: So I replied: Jim Stanford points out: “Wages are not the automatic outcome of supply and demand forces.”  That may be true, but deliberately ignoring supply and demand in … Read more

According to the New Daily “Voters in coal and gas heartlands are ready to cash in on a clean energy future”. Reading on “the coal and gas heartlands of New South Wales and Queensland” is what they’re talking about. I.e. including Sydney and Brisbane. Click bait propaganda again. https://thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2022/02/03/voters-want-clean-energy-future/ I’m all for free electricity from … Read more

For the first time in ages a certain website has opened their weekend links to non members. I completely forgot to look here or there until this evening (Saturday). Hope you are having a good weekend, a few links, hurriedly put together below. Most Austrians are aholes and wusses: When inflation gets high, apply numberwang! … Read more

OK, so in response to Stewie’s concerns about the spike protein and my own, I did some reading. Here’s what I found. First, the spike protein can do damage on its own. SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Induces Degradation of Junctional Proteins That Maintain Endothelial Barrier Integrityhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcvm.2021.687783/full SARS-CoV-2 spike protein alone may cause lung damagehttps://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-04-sars-cov-spike-protein-lung.html Spike Proteins … Read more

Since it looks as if I’m going to be forced to take the jab, I’ve been doing some reading about mRNA vaccines and came across this paper, published in March. https://molecular-cancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12943-021-01339-1 It’s quite long and I can’t claim to understand all of it. I’ve clipped the section on safety below and noted in particular a … Read more

I’m with the MB commenter formerly known as Gunnamatta: the best way forward for us is to campaign to reduce the liberal and labor parties’ primary votes down. Their mutual connivance around property and migration has gone on so long and is now so deeply embedded it is now no longer unreasonable to suggest that … Read more