More Net Zero insanity. I had cause to look up the annual report of this company (A2 Milk Co) and…
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- From darkness to the promise of light
Putin made clear what needed to be accepted at a minimum to get negotiations going.
But who is leading the Euro ‘Lefties’ here? The US. Oh, but the US is lead by ‘the Lefty’ Biden.…
What’s the bet that the cows will all start dying or be sterile? Gates and Bezos want to kill all…
Just in case anyone still thinks that COP29 was anything other than a grievancefest and international platform for humbuggery: ‘Protect…
Yup.
‘The Nobel Prize has committed suicide’: Fmr. Harvard Physicist rips award for climate models: ‘Nobel Prize in Physics has become a joke, too’
GWGB. Always sad to see an institution disappear up its own rectum.
Brucie
Don’t ever make another comment with an appeal to authority again as Faulty 2 has also covered you in wet turd.
Nanowrigglers have eaten JC’s brain. I’m calling it.
Righto.
Will pop something into the Open Fred a little later on. It will be something of a potted history, but I will attempt to touch on what I think are the key factors in how WA’s system ended up in its present state.
Well done Gina.
Australia’s richest woman has slammed climate change ‘propaganda’ and the spending of taxpayers dollars on reducing carbon in a speech to students at her former private school.
Mining magnate Gina Rinehart pre-recorded a keynote address to students at Perth’s St Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls in honour of its 125th anniversary.
The billionaire worth $31billion didn’t hold back on her stance on climate change and urged the next generation to do their own research, ask questions and to always search for the facts.
Ref – Daily Mail
Have to wonder if Queensland government will ever commit to normal intercourse between the states.
qld cat of bag, Yvette D’ath on quarantine forever
Sweden, Denmark pause Moderna COVID-19 vaccine rollout for youth over possible side effect
Remember when Israel was the gold standard….then what happened.
Then Singapore was the gold standard…
Jimmy Dore is awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph-co5r_ylA
Not a good sign.
BoN, this is pure political suckery. My mail is kean hates Dom’s moral guts. Now that is a good sign.
Anyone watched Impeachment: American Crime Story, about Slick Willie(!) and Monica?
The Yanks seems to be producing reasonable stuff these days. Must have been the inspiration of The Sopranoes.
The Brits not so much. Suppose we might watch the finale of Call of Duty when it gets here. if Vigil is anything to go by their productions are disappearing down the Woke/Poorly Researched plughole.
Don’t ever make another comment with an appeal to authority again
Do be couth head prefect. The correct term is argumentum ad verecundiam.
The Railways Up On Cannis and The Subways Of Tazoo.
SF of course.
Colin Kapp – Unorthodox Engineers
I do like The Patterns of Chaos too, it’s a full novel. Lots of fun.
Bruce, it all started when he misunderstood the “get jabbed” directive
Boomers and wfh professionals are fleeing the cities like a rat plague driving prices upwards – everywhere that’s within spitting distance or has any sort of infrastructure is going well.
I reckon there’s an inflation aspect to it too, everything is going up not just houses, our food bill is climbing rapidly, so much money sloshing around from everything at the moment but only going into certain pockets.
If Gina’s got her chequebook handy she might like to bung The Spectator and Quadrant a lazy half million each a year. Rationale would be to spread their readership more widely.
I also note in Old School’s link, she: “…also slammed ‘crazy laws’ in the Northern Territory which prevent farm owners killing crocodiles and wild dogs to protect their livestock and land-clearing restrictions which have made some properties more vulnerable to bushfires.”
Indeed.
Go long on Ratsak.
Twiggy V Gina.
Twiggy always tells The Worst Australian Newspaper how big a sum of money he’s giving away. Gina (usually) does everything quietly.
Don’t be so bloody obtuse, Indolent, and the six people who agreed with your specious comment.
I was simply saying that if Cassie, who is vaxxed once at least as she has told us, were to say she was unvaxxed in order to get special privileges regarding not having to turn up at work, and if her work found out she was lying in order to get them, then her work could get mightily upset about that.
It merely shows, by examination of all of the silliness around who is and who isn’t vaxxed, that the whole thing is an untenable can of worms and is headed for the garbage bin.
You, of course, cannot believe that a double-vaxxed older woman with some medical background like me could actually support the right of others to be unvaxxed. Such a vindictive attitude towards me is par for the course for you. If you can hit at a person here who has said they have taken the vaxx, then they are fair game for abuse from you. Yet I am prepared to dance and puff away with my ‘forbidden’ unvaxxed neighbour during lockdown and not wish in any way to make her feel uncomfortable.
Pull your head in, with your poor shot from the hip. You missed.
Gina (usually) does everything quietly.
Well then, she’s a fool; to beat the left you have to use their methods; and being honest, pure and silent is not one of those methods.
Any suggestions for the colour of the crosses painted on the unvaxxenenated doors?
Couldn’t agree more with that sentiment, Top Ender. It would make up for the stranglehold that the Australia Council cabal of lefties has on taxpayer funds that they use to promote only woke Marxist-leaning magazines and some very unattractive artistic endeavours. Quadrant and the Speccie survive on subscriptions for the main part, and could always do with the opportunity to advertise and promote a wider readership, as well as to pay some proper levels of recompense for some more high-profile contributors; all grist to the mill of opposition to the way Australia is currently headed.
Gina, of course, does contribute to the IPA but how much is unknown. She tries to keep a low profile on her activities, in part I think because of the flack the left would give to anything she assists as having been ‘purchased’ by her and hence unworthy of public attention. They own the Australia Council lock stock and barrel, but owning taxpayer funds is what the left expects and excels at.
Shame, there, Scomo. Shame.
Well I’m convinced. Put me down for a bucketful.
I fully accept that a vaxxed person can support unvaxxed people. There are quite a few here who do. My issue is, and has always been, the utilisation of the government’s dangling carrot. If you get a jab because you believe it will protect you and improve you health that is entirely your prerogative. Using it to gain a benefit not available to others is another thing altogether and it just seems to me that this is what you are encouraging, knowingly or otherwise. I have no particular animus towards you, but your comment to Cassie just had that tinge of self-interest, as in you’ve had the jab, so make use of it.
Oh yes.
And I meant to say yesterday that “nanowrigglers” is on my extended list of Godwin’s Law terms.
Dog stealing GoPro is the best thing on the internet today.
https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1445828037505867779?s=20
Apologies if already posted.
Terry Pratchett’s Raising Steam, while not SF, is both an amusing take on the Railwaymania era in the UK, but somehow manages to also encapsulate what it is about railways, and steam locomotives in particular, that makes them so mesmerising to generations of men and women alike…
The Wagners aren’t silly people.
They would have signed the conacts for their quarantine facility outside Toowoomba unless they were guaranteed customers by the state government.
* wouldn’t have signed the contracts
Dramas that I am awaiting the next series on said to be this year:
The Last Kingdom
Succession (coming up next week)
Fauda
Someone asked upthread how Perrottet managed to get around the photios phaction in the NSW gliberal leadership contest. While not claiming to be a political insider, there is no need to overthink this.
It’s political self preservation, pure and simple. The coalition in NSW are toast and are heading for a Keneally/labore style 2011 electoral wipeout. Hence various others jumping ship as well.
Perrottet is seen as possibly the coalition’s last chance to try and salvage some figurative furniture next election. However, if he doesn’t get a (nano) wriggle on soon, the electorate’s Louisville Sluggers will be at the ready.
Regardless, I have a very low opinion of Perrottet. The man has delusions of adequacy, he’ll be hobbled by the “moderates” (i.e. greenfilth loons like keane) and is extremely unlikely to do anything that might scare the horses, so to speak. I note he’s already being attacked in the braindead lamestream meeja for “putting the public’s health at risk by opening up too soon”. He’s also far more of a polarising figure for collectivists than poor ol’ Braindead Beryl G, (who was basically greenfilth) meaning he’ll be constantly walking on eggshells so as not to be continually attacked by the meeja.
FFS, I hate the gliberals. They deserve to get absolutely slaughtered next election, regardless of whichever empty unspectacular and expedient imbecile happens to be leading them. They’ve implemented far too many inexcusable labore/greenfilth policies in NSW for me to ever forgive them. They all deserve to die in a fire, incinerated alongside some of their precious koalas (NaDT).
I followed up the Daily Mail article on Gina’s speech slamming climate change propaganda by going to her website.
I think I’m in love with her.
Some of her views include
* promoted a book called “The polar bear catastrophe that didn’t happen”,
* calling on governments to eliminate red and green tape,
* strong practical and moral support for our veterans,
* sponsorship of Australian swimmers
* telling LNP politicians to take a stand for their values, and sponsoring a book called “Australia Tomorrow” which is a conservative call to arms.
* sponsored Lord Monckton and Professor Ian Plimer to address the school girls
* big fan of Margaret Thatcher
Some of which I knew but to have it all in one place is a highly principled stand from Mrs Reinhardt.
Mater
Another option:
Male Democratic lawmaker proposes legislation to force men to have a vasectomy once they have had three kids or when they turn 40
Could/will be done in the name of the “planet’s health”.
I watched bits of it and no-one comes up roses.
What is surprising is that Monica was involved in the production somehow, and it kind of portrays her as a hopeless obsessively immature teenager.
I guess she was only 23-24 at the time.
We have also watched “Jinxed” which is a few years old, but topical because Robert Durst was just found guilty of a murder in California in 2000. A hearing for possible re-trial or sentencing is next week. I think Bob is going in the slot because it sounds like this judge isn’t buying his usual line of bullshit.
Also watched one episode of “Bad Sports” which deals with sporting scandals. The first one was on the fixing of college basketball matches back in the 1990’s. The guy at the centre of it wasn’t even winning big. He was a near certainty to be drafted to the NBA but threw it all away for $40k.
Holy snapping duckshit batman.
Caught the AIG (industry group) bloke on their ABCcess. apparently CBD occupancy rates are about 13%.
And the mong interviewing thought there would be a quick snap back to normal because mask mandates might be lifted.
They seem to believe business will emerge blinking into the sunlit uplands refreshed and ready to roll after its 2 year hibernation.
Thanks for the link BoN
Physicist Dr. Lubos Motl: “The climate modeling hasn’t led to any new yet reliable insights. In those 50 years, while the short-term weather models have made some progress, the long-term models have made virtually none and it is especially the case of the question about the magnitude of the influence of CO2 on the climate.
Twenty years ago I told a meeting of national farmer reps and CSIRO/BoM office bearers that long term weather models are at best misleading and at worst detrimental.
Pushing unaware farmers into making production decisions that have resulted in significant financial loss.
Nothing has changed since then.
A 50/50 guess is not a forecast.
Gina (usually) does everything quietly.
Well then, she’s a fool; to beat the left you have to use their methods; and being honest, pure and silent is not one of those methods.
However, operating below their threshold of detection and presenting an act that benefits you and yours (but makes their heads explode violently) as a fait accompli, is.
I tell you now that the Second Battle of Fallujah in 2007 is another classoc example.
The first attempt to clear out the bandit stronghold of Fallujah in 2004 was an utter disaster. The media were tipped off all about it beforehand, and the various ex-Baathist Sunni militiamen and their foreign backers in the city were even better propagandists than they were fighters. The US Army and Marine Corps were forced to retreat in (media-perceived and portrayed) disgrace, despite the tactical successes they had.
After 4 Blackwater guys were murdered and strung up on the main overbridge in the town in early 2007, the decision was made to go again. Except that this time, nothing was telegraphed and the media carefully kept in the dark until the Army and Marine taskforces were at their jumping-off points.
It took several months of hard street fighting to clear the city, amidst all the usual howler-monkeyism of leftists and media pundits in America and worldwide. But between careful Narrative control, firepower, smart tactics and sheer guts by Soldier and Marine alike, Fallujah was pacified.
Never, ever assume that a Western military (or any Western non-Leftist entity, for that matter) cannot win a battle, campaign or war. If they can bypass or greaseweasel their way out of the shackles their Enemies Within (including their own leaders) inflict on them, the other side is fair game…
Found a link…
https://www.propertycouncil.com.au/Web/News/Articles/News_listing/Web/Content/Media_Release/VIC/2021/Melbourne_CBD_in_crisis_as_office_occupancy_continues_to_plummet.aspx
10 AUG 2021PROPERTY COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA
Melbourne’s office occupancy has plunged to its lowest level since the end of last year’s 112-day lockdown as the CBD continues to languish.
The Property Council survey showed office occupancy in Melbourne’s CBD fell to just 12 per cent in July, down from 26 per cent in June and the lowest level since October last year, in more bad news for retail, hospitality, and other businesses reliant on the presence of office workers.
Apart from Sydney, where office occupancy dropped to six per cent in July as the city endures a protracted lockdown, Melbourne’s occupancy levels have remained behind the rest of Australia’s capital cities since COVID started.
So whats the prescription??
“We need to focus on solutions that attract Victorians back to the city through transport incentives, proper long-term planning, meaningful investment, a world-class program of sporting, arts and other cultural events and a strategic return of the education sector.
Population PONZI!!!!, money for the yartz, money for the AFL!!!
Nothing about a bat eared mongs carcass swinging in a gibbet surrounded by the heads of all his government/advisors & CHOs on pikes as you enter the CBD.
Well there’s an easy solution to both this and the rental squeeze, with bonus gentrification of inner cities thrown in-
Git yon homeless into the multistoreys.
Mole, as at end of September quarter, Sydney CBD vacancy rates were a tad over 9% (so I’m not sure what the chap is looking at).
But 9% would be the highest vacancy rates we’ve seen in Sydney since the early 90’s.
According to CoreLogic.
strong practical and moral support for our veterans,
Well known contributor to the SAS Resources Fund, amongst other veterans’ groups.
Arrant nonsense. Cassie’s had one jab that she mentioned here. She may have had both, I don’t know, I haven’t enquired. I was thinking of the bravery that woud be required for her to say she was unjabbed when she was jabbed and of the repercussions that any employer could make from that if any employee decided to go out in sympathy with the unjabbed or simply take a holiday by saying they too were unjabbed.
If I was in Cassie’s shoes (she has great shoes btw!) I would say my best option would be to ask my employer to provide legal reasons as to why I should discuss my medical records with them or anyone else. But that may not be how she sees it, and I am not in the business of telling other people what to do about the jab conundrum that our politicians in their boundless wisdom have placed us,particularly those whose livelihood is put at risk by non-compliance.
You apparently are.
So are they saying because people aren’t in the office, they’re not paying rent?
I can assure you, I am still paying rent even though I am only going in 2-3 days a week.
The CoreLogic data is based on leased office space.
Doesn’t mention jobs, I note.
These people really are stupid.
How DARE you Rosie, Normal? Really?
Love is Love, in whatever form.
Yeah, that would be silly.
Once you make a statement to an employer and it is proven to be bullshit, the gloves are off.
This goes for falsifying relevant parts of your CV and not disclosing criminal convictions if asked and if they are relevant to the job.
I haven’t read everything here on the subject, but it strikes me that rickw is taking the right approach. Asking lots of questions but not overplaying his hand until he has to.
I know it might give people here some satisfaction to egg others on to grand gestures, but career suicide is not a spectator sport as far as I am concerned.
Lol
Sanchez is right, brucie. Nannowrigglers is now a Godwin.
Never go full nannowriggler, especially with wet turd running down your face. It just doesn’t look cool.
The best thing about “Raising Steam” (becoming ‘pinksteam’), was the reminder of just how many men sacrifice their lives to obey God, even when they don’t know that’s what they’re doing.
There’s the ‘progressives’ and then there’s those who make the advancements that makes this possible –
“Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth” [Gen 1:26–28]
Callie/Cassie:
“We” aren’t.
Our political class is.
“We” haven’t even been asked, and when it’s obvious that we don’t like the policy, they refuse to discuss it.
Lewinsky has come out as someone who was ‘groomed’ and a poor little female overwhelmed by a man in power. Very ‘me too’. So I expect she would be happy to be portrayed as young and ditzy as possible.
It depends.
It might be a build only contract, so they wouldn’t care if it was mothballed.
Or, if they are the operator, it could be “take or pay”.
PalaceChook was so keen to sign up to embarrass ScoMo, the Wagners could have slipped anything into the contract.
The other Cat has completely failed. A miserable hospice of a place where Grigory goes to die with his socks. Time to put it out of its misery.
Really, I don’t care if someone is vaxxed or not. Moreover, I don’t care as I’m offered a little more protection than the holdouts.
I do however object to state mandates and threats to livelihoods and freedoms.
If you don’t want the vax and not get abused, shop around as there are docs or even nurses that will write you up as a vaxxee.
My Greek morning coffee dispenserer has done that and found a doc who signed him up. I’m sure a lot of the shit is going on. Fuck stare mandates and don’t feel guilty for a second if you skirted the law. Fuck’em.
Because I don’t use Facepalm I cannot provide a link it came on Mrs D’s feed…
Malcolm Roberts has an interesting theory as to why, in Qld, for the emergency workers its get jabbed or don’t let the doorknob hit you on your arse on the way out, especially if ambos and nurses and other health care workers are going to be needed if the couf gets into Qld …
Anyway, the theory is, what better way to reduce headcount, especially of older(ie more expensive) staff (anecdotally most resistant) with redundancies?
Lizzie try ‘hit and run’ on Netflix if you haven’t already.
feelthebernsays:
October 7, 2021 at 4:39 pm
The link again here from PROPERTY COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA
They are pretty well saying the occupancy rate is single digits.
https://www.propertycouncil.com.au/Web/News/Articles/News_listing/Web/Content/Media_Release/VIC/2021/Melbourne_CBD_in_crisis_as_office_occupancy_continues_to_plummet.aspx
Vic
Jul-21: 7%
Melbourne
Jul-21: 12%
Adelaide
Jul-21: 15%
All the rest well over 50%
Fisk
Welcome back. You’re on foreign soil .. as in WA?
“thefrollickingmole says:
October 7, 2021 at 4:34 pm
Holy snapping duckshit batman.
Caught the AIG (industry group) bloke on their ABCcess. apparently CBD occupancy rates are about 13%.
And the mong interviewing thought there would be a quick snap back to normal because mask mandates might be lifted.
They seem to believe business will emerge blinking into the sunlit uplands refreshed and ready to roll after its 2 year hibernation.”
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And yet, just like Dan’s China with all it’s ‘Ghost Cities’, Setka & Co. have special privilege to keep making huge whacks of cash by building more & more buildings that no one can afford to occupy.
Old School Conservativesays:
October 7, 2021 at 4:31 pm
I followed up the Daily Mail article on Gina’s speech slamming climate change propaganda by going to her website.
I think I’m in love with her.
She was a looker when she was young; in a tom-boy sort of way. Gina has to buy a media outlet. I was disappointed when she gave up on 10. She could get a controlling interest in nein for about $2 billion.
Publican so desperate for staff he’s offering a $1000 incentive
WTF Cronkite?
When was the last time you had your eyes checked?
Indeed, but that they’re racing to have 500 beds available by 31 December suggests they are expecting customers.
The Fat Man’s re-badged Loaded Dogma 2.0 flamed out as well about a month ago. Though if Steve of Brisbane (Hi Steevee! Still lurking? 😀 ) and Homer Paxton are the only regular traffic-generators on your blog, and they are vibe-checking you because you’re not being Leftwit enough for their preference, your prognosis is poor…
Old School , are you impotent and I’m trying to be serious?
That sounds so cynical and disingenuous, it can’t NOT be a Governmental policy…
Half a century ago our Qld rural community relied on Lennox Walker, and before him, Indigo Jones.
Indeed, but that they’re racing to have 500 beds available by 31 December suggests they are expecting customers.
They might not be.
It could be a multi year service agreement similar to the de-sal plant in Sydney.
Sounds like a double-negative there, JC.
Wanna rephrase?
watch this space.
they’re not designed to be occupied this way but that wont stop ’em
And yet, just like Dan’s China with all it’s ‘Ghost Cities’, Setka & Co. have special privilege to keep making huge whacks of cash by building more & more buildings that no one can afford to occupy.
A failed Chicom Ponzi scheme as predicted by the great Constantine.
It failed when Bird ran riot for three-four weeks totally unchecked.
A few are clinging grimly to the wreckage but at maybe 50-60 comments a day (a third of them Google-socks) it is hardly the “bustling marketplace of ideas”.
Half a century ago our Qld rural community relied on Lennox Walker, and before him, Indigo Jones.
And mostly wrong as well.
Well said, Pancho. I was simply exploring what the consequences might be for any action an employee might decide to take when being asked, as Cassie was, to turn up on Monday only if fully vaxxed.
Hairy and I once restrained our lawyer son from telling his female boss exactly what he thought of her. He is now eternally grateful for our parental talking through of the issues with him. Thankfully, the woman in question is now gone anyway. You do not take other people’s career issues lightly and encourage behaviour that on reflection they may not otherwise have engaged in.
You’d be very lucky to be a QLD Health nurse and be offered a redundancy these days.
They’re so short of staff they were bringing nurses in from NZ and Ireland before the borders were closed.
But JC, it isn’t the law.
One day (soon, I hope,) the excrement is going to hit the fan.
is’t was supposed to be isn’t.
And it sounds great, really great. Freeing yokes, lifting burdens, relieving the oppressed, resonating greatness of spirit in a way that would cheer the UN Secretary General.
Until clause 13:
And with those weasel words, it joins the ironclad money back guarantee of the Great Wall Genuine Rolex Copy (Guangzhou) Corporation
I have been mainlining CAD.
Sheesh!
As expected, a federal judge has ruled against Texas abortion law.
But the abortion industry would have raised millions by taking their always going to fail strategy to SCOTUS.
It’s all theatre.
SCOTUS refused to hear the Indianapolis students vaccine case where there was a genuine case to hear. SCOTUS was ok to hear the Texas abortion case where the abortion industry purposely ran a case that was always going to fail.
John Roberts is a cuck.
should read without redundancies
when the couf driven demand didn’t appear what do you think might happen ?
From Covid Live.
At over 95% single dosed, how do you get the second dose increase only slightly higher than first dose uptake?
I suspect these statistics aren’t all that solid.
Swan Hill 1st dose >95% +5.2
2nd dose 58.0% +5.8
Yes; its more aspirational than binding, however.
Relevant ministers can sign off on quite a lot of dubious legislation provided they’re satisfied that human rights have been considered in the drafting process or the legislation is addressing exceptional circumstances, i.e. a public health emergency!
They’re so short of staff they were bringing nurses in from NZ and Ireland before the borders were closed.
Lot of nurses brought in from the Philippines & Colombia & Thailand over the past 18 months too.
lol, nah
They still wouldn’t be at the recommended nurse:patient ratios, especially after having just seen off c. 20% of their staff who refused mandatory vaccination.
Surprised Nein programming let The Angry Silence slip through.
The WorkSafe Investigation Con Job in Victoria
Discernable
17 minutes ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tctrEldlgE
I’m waaaay behind.
Woolfesays:
October 6, 2021 at 12:36 pm – Allison Young; that was magnificent.
Old blokesays:
October 6, 2021 at 12:42 pm
– spot on; without the facts, consent is not informed.
Cassie of Sydneysays:
October 6, 2021 at 12:43 pm
thumbs up to you!
A family source suggests that nursing’s great problem is retention.
A significant number of graduates don’t stick it out once they discover what it’s really like.
And then you have those who leave full time nursing to start families.
TaliDan’s Schizolamic State has another glorious victory.
Doubled NSW in active cases.
Inflation, I’ve observed price increases in my business operating costs over the last 6 months, I do our shopping and grocery prices have gone up but this arvo I bought the normal loaf of bread we get, just a Tip Top standard loaf, gone up from $3.30 last week to $4.20 in a few days. It’s only going to get worse.
Next I look like losing maybe 50% to 60% of my turnover, I contract to several large companies and the local council, water company and schools. Today I got two emails from some of them demanding that I provide evidence of vaccination or no work. I’m expecting similar from the other big customers. Looks like I’ll be down fewer smaller private customers who won’t care or bother about the vax crap. I don’t think Morrison will be helping me out financially.
What was looking to be a comfortable retirement in a couple of years will be a pension if I’m lucky as I was looking to sell the business, it’ll be worth virtually nothing after this.
The DashCat is doing well, now that Adam has booted Bird. MH and Steve Trickler hold the fort with informative and entertaining posts, and several DoverCats comment there from time to time.
Grigs has (almost) his entire smelly sock drawer in attendance, but they are relatively subdued and easy to ignore.
Well done, Adam.
And then you have the ROADs (retired on active duty) who have decided they don’t like working shift anymore and wrangle their way into desk jobs or special clinics that are only open during “office hours”.
At least 20 years ago I tackled the CEO of the then Mater Kids (if you are stupid enough to put your photo on posters in lifts don’t be surprised when parents accost you) about the lack of nurses. He replied he was employing more nurses than ever, but at least 25% were not available to work on wards, but rather they were in offices. He noted that the DoN now had 4Assistant DoNs, one of whom did nothing but monitor that nurses were completing training, he had several seconded to the “new” Mater project, others worked in the roster office, the ethics office etc etc
In Look At Them Laughing news:
Australia on ‘home stretch’ in COVID-19 recovery, Morrison says
Sure, buddy.
Geriatric Mayfly used to live blog this sort of thing .
ibac livestream next week, on 30 minute delay
In Gorging at the Trough news:
Queensland Premier announces herself as Minister for the 2032 Olympics
Welcome as dog vomit on the carpet, Deputy Premier Steven Miles will be the Minister Assisting the Premier on Olympics Infrastructure.
The deeper tragedy is that the Palacechook is still likely to be Premier in 2032.
First attempt at an exemption rebuffed.
Try different doctor next week.
The only condition WA health will accept for exemption is a history of anaphylaxis.
Nothing else.
The Doc is question is extremely AHPRA adverse and would move heaven and earth to avoid ever having anything to do with them.
cohenite
Gina has to buy a media outlet. I was disappointed when she gave up on 10. She could get a controlling interest in nein for about $2 billion.
As well as Nein, she needs to buy one of the supermarket checkout line magazines. Keep some of the trash, but in each edition, have two or three stories with a conservative lean. Start to educate those who never watch Their ABC, nor listen to talkback radio.
sfwsays:
October 7, 2021 at 5:28 pm
Company has some heavy truck/trailer gear on order.
They were told there was a 20% price increase due to steel costs rising.
A million here, a million there and you are starting to talk real money.
Australia will always be a magnet for nurses from emerging markets.
They train ’em up & as soon as they can leave, Australia will scoop ’em up.
There’s a really cool start up in SE Asia that is taking the power from the intermediaries & immigration agents and give more to the nurses (& other professionals that developed nations scoop up from emerging markets).
The days of the big banks & big miners getting 30 slaves (I mean 457 visa punters) at a time on the cheap are coming to an end.
Tourism Victoria wasn’t happy with Harder Faster.
Higher Faster, they can work with.
Okay. It’s almost wine o’clock.
For cat lovers.
From the Gateway Pundit.
Dot, at 1.8c does that get you onto the Rich List?
Gina, former tom-boy charmer, is up at WUWT:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/10/06/aussie-mining-billionaire-gina-rinehart-warns-school-kids-about-climate-propaganda/
Also from the Gateway Pundit:
AND you’ll be happy!
Faustus, it looks like Queensland is in for a long haul of ALP troughers, just as NSW had to put up with for 16 years.
Only to find that the Libs weren’t much better when the red clown show was finally ejected and the blue one installed. When this lot goes, it will be remembered for Grange, greyhounds and gulags.
It’s amazing how little you can live on when you can’t go out, entertain, shop or go on holidays.
Calli,
Haven’t you discovered the wonderful world of on-line shopping yet?
Kirralie Smith’s daughter.
Cohenite:
I wonder if the Europeans buy as many Petajoules of oil off the Arabs – who are obviously fed up with the continual wars – as the buy of Russia
The European experiment of France and Germany is in a VERY uncomfortable position atm regards energy.
And the funny part about it?
They did it to themselves.
Geriatric Mayfly is greatly missed, as is Nick and… yes, IT.
On nursing, my wife was a nurse but suffered a non work related injury 8 years ago, told that she would never be able to work again, dropped her registration as it is expensive and she wouldn’t have been able to do the required hours,(fair enough), Anyway after many doctors and specialists, I found a neurologist who sounded like he had experience in her symptoms, I asked the local doctor for a referral, he was reluctant but gave me one as all the specialists he had sent us to were worse than useless. Finally got an appointment, he did a full assessment and said that he knew what it was and was amazed that we hadn’t had a diagnoses earlier. This was seven years after her injury, he organised some specialist therapy, this involved developing different neural pathways for movement, similar to what they do for some stroke victims. Anyway she isn’t perfect but can walk unaided and feels good enough to return to work a couple of days a week.
So to get reregistered, first almost no reregistration courses in Australia, after many months Latrobe offered one in the middle of this year, cost $10,000 , all online. Paid the money, she completed and passed the course, only had to do a three week practical, now she’s told that unless she vaxxes no practical, so the entire course and money is down the drain.
I can’t express how much I hate these bastards.
My major expenses are cigars and ebooks. Being an antisocial bastard saves lots of money.
I have, John!
I’ve also discovered the wonderful world of AustraliaPost non-delivery.
And it’s extended all the way to my favourite shops in the USA!
I know he wasn’t, but I like to think IT was Sinc in unleashed mode.
Great cohenite! Thank you
I’m amused that JC can’t spell “nano”, which suggests he doesn’t know what it means.
Sorry, JC, but you did leave me the opening.
Nano is 1/1000th of micro.
I have a name for Lizzie’s on-line dance class.
The Nanna Wrigglers.
*runs*
This is terrible, sfw.
Good, competent people being crushed: seems to be the objective of our governments.
Best wishes.
Yes the fucking is.
Fellas, Gals..
Here’s what I’m been buying over the past couple of weeks. Buy fucking energy stocks preferably junior oil. If my hunch is right, exploration & development has been shit awful over the past couple of years. Folks have been believing in the EV story would cutting off oil usage. That’s just going to happen in the short term. Even if EVs do eventually take off that’s a 20 to 30 year story and there’s time for oil to hit over 100 bucks a barrel in 22 with every fucker under the sun looking to exploit oil fields particularly here and in the US.
Just buy energy stocks- even the majors. I think the secondary names are a fucking moon shot. If my hunch is right, I’ll be writing opinion at the cat from my new home on Cuomo. 🙂 Just kidding.
(Oil) WTI futures is 76.75 as we speak. Domestic, Henry Hub gas US$5.69. There are the beginnings of an energy shortage. It won’t last, but we have to see a spike in prices for a market signal.
Rosie:
Yep, don’t overdo the bedrest, but.
One of the more tragic incidents in my career was a young bloke who caught a cold and went to bed for several days. His wife had just come home with newborn twins and was too tired to notice him getting worse.
When he got to us, his chest XRays showed 90% complete consolidation of his lungs. He died in RNS a week later from multiple organ failure.
A couple of one km walks a day would have loosened up his chest enough to have saved him.
Or even a drive on a bumpy road…
Hmm … that’s prolly gonna work in my favour.
I aim to misbehave a little before it comes to that though
Brucie, there’s nothing worse than a sore loser. Acccept it and move on. In your case, go to bed as it’s way past your bed time.
I would’ve thought you’d thank me for that tailor made/ bespoke response to the Faulty 2 link, but nothing. Such an ingrate. Now go. To bed! Now!
santos Woodside?
sfw.
1 & 1/3 years after completing my Paramedic degree AHPRA contacted me about registration (after spending a year and a 3rd asking me to defer as they were busy).
Provided well over the training hours (around 3000) under our site Drs supervision.
They came back Monday with approved- but need to do mandatory 1600 training hours.
Because my Dr wasnt registered as my supervisor on the paperwork they hadnt provided me for 1& 1/3 years. Because they wanted to defer my application. Because they were busy.
Oh and the grandfathering period expires at the end of this year…
We are in discussions.
Many…many…discussions.
Mother Lode:
That sounds nasty.
Can I get insurance to cover that?
Delta
It’s becoming that in sunny Victoria. By the 15th anyone working at a workplace with others will have to vax or be out of a job. I’m pretty sure that’s how it is.
That gives her 11 years to have the operation.
All athletes will be tranny by then,
You read it here first.
Good article about another geriatricdeadshit- Kerry filth
” Our MEDIA is in the grip of mass hysteria.”
No; our media is in the grip of selling mass hysteria.
callisays:
October 6, 2021 at 1:53 pm
Great comment. Calli, like you, early on I was optimistic about the vaccines.
Though he hasn’t lost his shine, the Trump factor in the vaccine rollout, if there was one, was overblown by Trump himself. Dr David Martin showed that the vaccines had already been patented before the China Pestilence became a ‘thang.’ Trump, I think, was “done like a dinner” by Fauci.
Brucie, there’s nothing worse than a sore loser.
I agree… 😀
I just saw an edited version of the “interview” from this morning between Stefanovic and Perrottet on Nine on Credlin. What a disgrace that was. Religious bigotry through and through. Perrottet should have called it out. Remember Cassie’s Dad’s advice – attack!
On Stefanovic, he looks like a puffed up bull frog with badly dyed hair.
You’re quick JC.
Democrats Exploit California Oil Spill to Call for Offshore Oil Drilling Ban (6 Oct)
Oil Extends Losses As White House Considers Releasing Emergency Reserves, Ban Exports (6 Oct)
Don’t you love the Dems. They can believe, and do, two completely opposite things at the same time.
Coal equities might be a good bet too. Some yummy BHP-style dividends could be on offer.
Calm down JC.
I am long BPT, OSH and CAD.
I am so long in CAD she calls me Chunky Lover51.
..
WHC, BPT, ORG, WPL, NHC.
thefrollickingmole – you poor bastard, the entire medical profession seems to have gone mad, compliance and political correctness overides outcomes. Just store up the hate, you may get to unload it one day.
My little fossils portfolio, which has been thousands down as I add to it this year, is now coming good.
thefrollickingmolesays:
October 7, 2021 at 5:40 pm
mole, please let us know how it goes; I and the other half will be interested.
Based Gina!
Gina Rinehart slammed by scientists after speech on climate change to exclusive Perth private school St Hilda’s heavily edited
The Demons are totally insane. They’re going to cause an energy shortage.
Cool. Awesome. Extremely silly. She has a fine voice too!
A millon views and 3000 comments in 5 days is serious.
She’s going to be a very rich cat lady.
Let me walk my previous comment back a little. I said we were heading into an energy short world in 2022. On second thoughts, we’re actually there now or just walked in through the front gate.
Gasp!
End of days!
Love it, Calli. That’s exactly what we are.
Although the evening class now joined in are a different mob.
Many are under 45 and most won’t be too impressed to be nannas yet (tho’ some are).
My daughter came to a class as a one-off with me when she was thirty.
She found it quite tough and was amazed at some of my friends’ stamina.
Not mine though, even back then. I’m hoping I’ve improved but the evidence is … I was going to say ‘slim’ but that’s not exactly the word that I should be using right now with Covid Kilos on. 🙂
Chaos is coming.
Not sure if this has been posted but it is Adam D’s Covid nightmare from the other Cat.
Read it and weep for the un caring beasts we have all become.
I think you’re correct JC. The enviros have been preventing development of oil, gas and coal prospects by lawfare for a long time. Now we’ve hit the wall. I haven’t looked at the gas drilling off Ncl for several months but the opposition has been insane, especially when gas is needed to make renewables work. Now we have a ginormous spike in gas prices, 40% overnight in the EU. The stuff is essential to keep the lights on these days, because of the same enviros who are opposing it. Sheesh.
NSW CHO warned Premier Perrottet about the risks that come with his apparently dramatic changes. The Health Advise. Twitter. Chris O’Keeffe.
I cannot believe…. Let me repeat it again, I cannot believe US domestic natural gas is US$5.50 a BTU. This is mind boggling. If Trump were prez, he’d be going nuts if this was happening on his watch. He’d allow drilling on White House grounds to help get prices down. 🙂 However, this shit wouldn’t have happened with him as prez.
I was at the cadio this afternoon for a stress test. Don’t worry folks, I’m sure you’re apprehensive. but my pumper is in magnificent shape and he even gave me approval for a couple of cigs a day, but not to overdo it. Great guy.
We were talking about covid. He’s a phd microbiologist by training and he thinks the bug came out of the lab – although most likely by accident. We then talked about how easy he thinks it is to manufacture an virus that should scare the shit out of people. Like me, he’s worried about this because there are very smart + malevolent people around the world.
I know, the first direction people head when thinking about the likelihood of someone creating a nasty bug would be places like… China, Iran or some shithole in the Mideast. But expand this horizon a little. I’m actually thinking the US as a huge possibility. Say Trump was reelected in 24. Is there anyone that doesn’t think Demon lab rats associated with the Demon universities wouldn’t produce another virus just to fuck his 4 years?
You are welcome to join in at our place if you are in Sydney, Calli.
9.30am sharp though (it’s in real time) so’s you don’t miss the warm up.
We can roll the rug back further to accommodate another one online. 🙂
I know, right? How is this even possible….?
Brucie..
The Mideast and other producers are NOT going to come out and increase production by any massive amount. They will lag so the price hikes up.
Thanks Lizzie. Geographic impossibility.
Judging by the abundance of caution up here, it would be the No No Wrigglers.
TFM:
I’m shocked!
Bloody peasant. You are forever dead to me.
May you rot in Hell for your travesty of a comment!
*snif*
Bastard.
JC – Couple days ago it was just shy of $6.50. Each morning I check such things on the WSJ markets page, which is excellent and not paywalled.
https://www.wsj.com/market-data
(Hit the commodities tab for gas futures.)
I have to say it again; this is NOT new.
Every bit of this Govt/Business/Societal aka Fascist, picking & choosing of who wins big & business & who gets crushed in life (currently done under the cover of the Covid LIE), has always gone on.
It’s just that those who were allowed to succeed, were taught, and believed that the ‘losers’ ‘brought it on themselves’.
Now, sadly too many industrious people are discovering just how easily their best laid plans, hard work, sacrifice & commitment can all be for nought, through no fault of their own.
J
Brucie, is Henry Hub there as I couldn’t see it?
John H:
Fair enough, JH.
I’m a little frustrated that people are dismissing mass in modern warfare. When one realises that Xi sees himself as a modern Mao, and that he is turning China back to Mao Thought, the concepts of mass warfare come to mind.
So, could a Carrier Battle Group withstand an attack from multiple axes by 1,000 fighter bombers loaded with, say, 4000 missiles? I think not, and this is why the US should never allow a fleet within Chinese air cover zones.
Let’s face it- the political establishment across the west is trying to bring about economic collapse. Destroying cheap reliable energy sources, destroying small/medium businesses, trashing public finances.
Think about Australia- all productive past times- mining, manufacturing and agriculture are under attack. As someone pointed out here this morning, China wants our farms and minerals but not the people.
BTW, what ‘vaccines’ are they using in ChiComLand?
I bet his cousin is a divorce lawyer
Tomorrow is the final day for the work crew to submit their vax status. Initial indications are that we can probably operate for a couple of weeks provided the number isn’t going to exceed our estimate.
I have said that I’m working from home from the 15th, having crammed into these two weeks all my necessary field checks.
Who knows what they’ve got in store for me! 🙂
Muddysays:
October 7, 2021 at 6:07 pm
Kirralie Smith’s daughter.
Wow, that is a looker. Don’t tell head prefect, she’ll be wasted on him.
In other news uranium stocks are going through the roof.
Gladys Berejiklian dons a designer ensemble after resigning as premier
With a flick of her bobbed brunette hair, Berejiklian made her way into the building decked out in a designer ensemble.
She was seen toting a $3,000 Louis Vuitton Cluny MM mongram handbag and stepped out in a pair of $860 Ferragamo Mirabel wedge pumps.
Berejiklian also wore a black knee-length shift dress, which she paired with a cropped black, grey and white tartan blazer.
I notice both BloJo and the old thief that polluting the White House are using the WEF ‘build back better’ slogan- has our own treacherous leader utter those words too?
Read it and weep for the un caring beasts we have all become.
Come cattle wagon time, they won’t hesitate to shove you in. “Just doing my job, family to feed, mortgage to pay…..”
I notice both BloJo and the old thief that polluting the White House are using the WEF ‘build back better’ slogan- has our own treacherous leader utter those words too?
Blojo is the biggest disappointment of any leader for 50 years; biden has always been a corrupt, lying, stupid, arrogant sexual predator but blojo had some good form. I reckon what happened to him is what happened to hazza; they got fucked by a leftie woman; in every way.
Calli, did you mean to write Nanna Jigglers?
“Dan Andrews UnMasked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfVcsHNI9Z4
Oct 7, 2021
Real Rukshan
Video has emerged of a maskless Dan Andrews walking through a carpark in Melbourne today. “
I find that disturbing. There’s no noun.
Build WHAT back better?
Heh.
Bloke I met at work today mentioned he’d read a bit Heinlein. Reckoned it was shit.
Any thoughts?
*bit OF Heinlein*.
DashCat.
30 comments since 9.00 a.m.. 300+ for FlashCat.
Some good comments and commenters there, but they’re suffocated by imbeciles and or socks of imbeciles.
Bloke I met at work today mentioned he’d read a bit Heinlein. Reckoned it was shit.
When Heinlein was good he was very good; when he was bad he was shit. Your mate probably read the shit bits.
You know. The Thing.
Video has emerged of a maskless Dan Andrews walking through a carpark in Melbourne today. “
“Book ‘em Danno”
JC – WSJ is quoting NG00. I don’t know how it differs from NGX21 and other contracts, but they seem to track each other closely. Which makes sense since NG goes by pipelines not ships.
Arguably the most telling forward indicator from a US perspective.
Heinlein in Dimension is worth reading:
http://www.panshin.com/critics/Dimension/hdcontents.html
H hated it and refused to talk to the author.
I think I mentioned here once I did my Masters (Qualifying) on Heinlein’s later fiction. His stuff after Time Enough for Love is pretty bad. Good SF concepts marred by simplistic characterisations and an obsession with sex. I had to come up with a few original concepts, and one – not very individual – was the Heinlein Individual, a sort of superman (or woman) who is H distilled. They are good at the things that matter: fighting, navigation (through life as well as geography, surviving etc….
Rather annoying actually, as was H himself in his later years, apparantly.
Okay.
Winston – I suspect the USN could sink the entire Chinese navy in an afternoon if it wanted to. They sank half of Iran’s fleet , and only refrained from sinking the other half because the Iranians rolled over to have their tummy tickled. That was in 1988. Since then the USS Mason in 2016 was attacked by a dozen or so Chinese anti-ship missiles without effect. Quality has its own quality too, sometimes.
Hi Cats
Well this looks very shiny!
Great work DB
John of Melbourne:
I can think of several reasons that plan will go tits up when the girls hear about it.
1. All babies will have to have the father identified.
2. There is no 2.
The screaming will be heard on the Moon.
Commiserations.
I’ve not read anything later than Glory Road and Stranger in a Strange Land (once only, unlike TMIAHM many times). By that time it was clear he was going feral, and sadly unreadable.
Yea, that’s very true, but one thing really stuck in my ahead after reading it a few months ago. I can’t recall the exact numbers but China can now roll out attack drones for around $US2 million apiece. The US pays around US$30 million apiece. That’s a very worrying differential and you hope the quality trumps the countless low cost Chinese version.
Farmer Gezsays:
October 7, 2021 at 7:58 pm
That was sufficient evidence to get Tony Abbott & Barnaby Joyce booked.
On the plus side Heinlein destroyed the Soviet Union, with help from Niven and Pournelle. True story.
Forgive me, but the idiocy at the moment is off the charts And the threats these people are levelling are disgusting.
That should be law anyway.
NYC Save Australia, how and why?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-ERSLiAU-I
JC – Yes. The Chinese showed off their Loyal Wingman tech in the recent air show, whereas Boeing’s plant in Toowoomba is only just getting started.
On the other hand I suspect their navy is not up to AEGIS level. But, and TE is the expert on this, their large sub fleet is probably extremely dangerous.
Gina Rinehart says look at the sun’s orbit. Apparently it takes 230 million years. Does she mean rotation, solar activity?
Maybe they are talking about a collective back of the proles. It will need to be better to, you know, “own nothing and be happy”. As for the missing article, well, they are from Davos, English is not their first language.
I shouldn’t be too judgmental though, because neither it is mine.
This.
Solar Update September, 2021 (22 Sep)
And this.
The One Oscillation That Rules Them All (5 Oct)
I think Gina keeps her eye on these blogs, from what I’ve seen of her comments in the past.
DA is also a West Australian and an occasional Cat btw.
I think he and Gina may have had conversations.
JC:
See my comment above.
The Arabs are now in a position to really fuck Europe over for their intransigence over the Abraham Peace Accords.
Europe is having a natural gas crisis due to Russia not supplying enough, and the Middle East is in a bloody good position to turn the screws tighter on them.
I’m pretty sure this vasectomy law will only be applied to a certain group of citizens (citizens being the first key word). The second key word I’m not going to mention, but it’s the group where it’s much easier to identify the father.