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What did India’s 2019 pandemic plan say? Some hints

I’ve not been able to locate India’s original 2019 pandemic plan – the current version (No. 3) is a piece of garbage (copy on my server). But there WAS a 2019 plan (source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdnd2... – around 50 minutes). We also know this paper exists: The 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic: A review of the […]

Update on my father’s health – 1

I’m currently in a strange situation: I’m flat out – I’m spending around 15 hours a day in trying to support the management of my father’s advanced cancer. And yet I have lots of people (both family and others) writing to me, seeking an update. I can’t respond individually. Therefore, I’m going to post updates […]

Human rights in Australia – some notes

I had discussed the problem of human rights in Australia here. Of course, my book and my ICC complaint have extensive discussion on the issue + this. Here’s some more information. This is a placeholder post, to inform public policy. Here’s a good article: https://www.smh.com.au/national/covid... EXTRACT More than half of respondents to our poll (58 […]

Gabriel Moens on Civil Disobedience – and comments by Augusto Zimmerman

Augusto Zimmerman wrote an article on 24 February 2021 in the Epoch Times, “On Civil Disobedience and Covid Measures”. Zimmerman wrote this on 8 February 2021: ==QUOTE== Professor Moens reminds us in Chapter 2 (‘On Civil Disobedience’, 1980) that there are instances of governmental arbitrariness which can be remedied only by means of civil disobedience. […]

Further notes on civil disobedience

I had raised some basic issues here a few days ago. I found a few minutes to undertake some background research. Here are some findings. Above all, civil disobedience is entirely different to ordinary disobedience/ protest. The idea of civil disobedience has a long history including the work of Gandhi which preceded Henry David Thoreau’s […]

The IPCC’s six report is as worthless as its fifth. Ask questions, don’t accept the word of this corrupt organisation.

I haven’t had time to review it yet (too many other things on my plate) but will do so when I find the time. As usual, IPCC is spouting a LOAD of rubbish. See my FB comments today – first, second. See this. IPCC-scientists themselves are beginning to doubt whether their models can be trusted […]

Now accepting personal donations via Paypal

Dear all, things are now at a stage when I’d be happy to receive donations to support my ongoing work. I have twice in my life cut short my career mid-stream to fight for principles. The first was my resignation in January 2001 from India’s senior civil service (IAS) in protest against the corruption of […]

A public choice analysis of the lockdowns and how we can stop such terrorist policies

One of the most plausible analyses of reality is undertaken by public choice theory. I spoke yesterday with Geoffrey Brennan of ANU, who has been a public choice analyst and philosopher for many decades; one of the best in the world. I asked him whether he had come across anything in economics that would explain […]

Is Australia ready for civil disobedience against public health terrorism?

As far as I know, there’s never been mass-scale civil disobedience in Australia. There’s no role model like Gandhi or Mandela to lead the people to protest bad laws. One of the reasons for not having had any major civil disobedience in Australia in the past is obvious: this country has been exceptionally well-managed and […]

Catallaxy Files has retired. A link to some of my Catallaxy posts on archive.org

Australia’s premier libertarian blog Catallaxy Files, created by Sinclair Davidson, has called it a day after serving Australia’s classical liberals and libertarians for a very long time (I only came across it around 5-10 years ago, I think). As usual, costs become an issue and libertarians tend not to have the money to fight for […]