They did something similar in Spain; shining diesel powered search lights on the solar array.
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Don’t want an EV? You’re not alone, not that you’d know it listening to Labor We gave EVs a go,…
Meme of Elon considering buying MSNBC:
Wow that’s brilliant Winston
Still waiting to hear if https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kash_Patel#Post-government_career gets a guernsey in Trump’s cabinet. Wasn’t he touted not long ago as favourite…
The gruesome death of journalism, brought to you by The Hun:
On the subject of artists.
Artists draw
Socks are kept in a drawer
Normal transmission may now resume.
Prior to a training flight my flight instructor asked me to recite the emergency procedures for “mast bumping”. Even though I had thoroughly studied the manual and knew what caused it I was stumped as I couldn’t recall any remedial procedure for it.
Finally he let me off the hook saying “There isn’t one. If you get us into mast bumping the next step is me ripping the collective out of the deck and beating you to death with it on the way to the impact crater”.
Err, yessir.
KD, do yourself a favour and watch an Aussie movie called Van Diemen’s Land.
I think they made it about a decade ago.
Wolf Creek is a picnic compared to it.
English in all its glory:
Winter draws on.
Winter drawers on?
😀
Grammar is the difference between knowing you’re shit and knowing your shit.
Let’s eat, Grandma!
Let’s eat Grandma!
Oops
Thanks calli.
Should have said drawerbridge.
Lol. Does it have multiple compartments? Does it store stuff?
Or is it drawn up (or over) in case of emergency?
I think you’re safe with “draw”. Especially if it has been painted many…many times.
*idea*
Someone might be lurking underneath and looking at your knickers.
In that case, it’s definitely a “drawerbridge”.
Beware of unsavoury characters while travelling.
Mast Bumping.
I knew nothing about this, so I watched a US army video on the subject.
Another excellent reason to avoid helicopters.
A bicycle was thrown at us.
So we trampled a woman with our horses.
We are…..err…..police. We protect and serve. Minimum force.
We are just doing our jobs.
They no longer have a place in civil society. They are out of control dangerous gangs.
They, in conjunction with corrupt magistrates are the contemporary law.
People like Avi and Tommy are true heroes who operate in an incredibly dangerous environment.
It brings back memories of being idiot students playing at Moritorium demos to impress the hippy chicks and discovering to our horror that the cops realy wanted to hurt us.
If you think this is sustainable, you’re probably retarded.
House prices: What’s in store for 2022 and beyond
CHRIS BEDINGFIELD Quay Global Investors
Australian house prices climbed by 22.1% in 2021, thanks to record-low interest rates, healthy household balance sheets (really?) and perhaps a new desire to re-invest in the home as workers contemplate an extended ‘WFH’ environment. The value of homes has equally soared across the world, including New Zealand (+27.6%), the US (+19.1% to October), and even places like Turkey (+40.0% to October) [why I bet that is sustainable!?]. While it may be true that interest rates will rise in response to recent inflation data in 2021, we do not believe this will be enough to stop the gains in residential property. Find out why by clicking the link below.
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Because they will accommodate to keep this Frankenstein alive as soon as things go tits up.
They are perfectly safe.
Provided you have an over-abundance of faith.
If, and only if what sister r says is a problem, an option is to not engage with the problem, unless one is inclined to try out terms of abuse. Anyway, it’s all been done before, and the stylistics of abuse here are not a patch on that in Richard III.
Hey, after Mass I am off to Comet Pizza for one of their Spirit Cooking Supreme (sans anchovies – they are a little too Satanic for me.) They are having a deal where you get 3 medium pizzas cut into six slices each – 666.
Who’s in?
I always enjoyed the black humour of flight training.
One of my favourites:
In the event of an engine failure after takeoff at
night;
Switch on the landing light;
If what you see frightens you;
Switch it off.
Anyone own Lark Distillery shares?
Ice video ‘filmed in Geoff Bainbridge’s bedroom’
EXCLUSIVE
SHARRI MARKSON
INVESTIGATIONS EDITOR
ANGELICA SNOWDEN
JOURNALIST
The ice pipe video that multi-millionaire entrepreneur Geoff Bainbridge claims was taken six years ago as part of a sophisticated extortion racket was actually filmed in the bedroom of his Melbourne home in the past 18 months.
The revelation discredits Mr Bainbridge’s claim that the video depicting his methamphetamine use was filmed in a Southeast Asian country in 2015 after a night out with mystery people who went on to try to extort him.
His well-scripted story – provided to The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald and dutifully reported by media outlets The Guardian, The Australian Financial Review and Seven – documented a horror tale overseas that haunted him for years.
However, the new evidence uncovered by The Australian suggests clearly that his story is a total fabrication as he obviously recorded the drug-taking video in the inner-Melbourne house he bought in late 2020.
Mr Bainbridge quit as managing director of the publicly listed Lark Distillery over the video.
He bought the Middle Park home on July 20, 2020, for $3.465m and settled on it the following month, when he took out an NAB mortgage.
Online real estate photographs show the master bedroom, positioned at the front of the home, features a unique light-fitting, ornate ceiling decor, period shutters, a study nook in the corner of the bedroom, a fireplace and a distinctive bedhead.
All of these details can be seen very clearly in three full, unpublished videos recorded by Mr Bainbridge that were obtained by The Australian.
The unique light-fitting is identical to the real estate images online, along with the ceiling decor, the period shutters, the study nook, the bedhead and the fireplace.
In defending the outrageous drug footage, Mr Bainbridge made the case that it was historic and had led to seven years of misery from extortionists.
The Australian asked Mr Bainbridge and his lawyer why he claimed the video of him smoking a meth pipe had been filmed overseas when it was actually recorded at his Middle Park home in the past 18 months, and whether he still alleged the video was the subject of an extortion racket.
Mr Bainbridge replied: “No comment/no response. Just let her do what she is going to do.”
Mr Bainbridge, told The Age he had woken in an unfamiliar place in December 2015 to find two strange men showing him footage of him smoking ice from a glass pipe. “I was just horrified. You are like, what else happened? What else don’t I remember? How am I going to explain this to anyone?” he said.
“The reality for me is there is footage of me consuming class-A drugs in a foreign country. That has serious ramifications.”
He denied that he was an ice user.
Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning documents confirm the transfer of the Middle Park property into Mr Bainbridge’s name as the “sole proprietor” on August 14, 2020. ASIC documents also list several of Mr Bainbridge’s businesses as registered to this same Middle Park address.
An explicit video of Geoff Bainbridge has emerged showing him smoking from a glass pipe.
In his interview with The Age, conducted after The Australian sent him questions, Mr Bainbridge had said the video pre-dated his time at Lark Distillery.
He claimed to have made a series of 14 payments to two extortionists totalling nearly $9000.
The Age also reported the extortionists were so technically proficient they were able to alter the time stamp on the video to make it appear it had been filmed in 2021 instead of 2015.
Given Mr Bainbridge settled on the house in August 2020, it would indicate the video was taken in the past 18 months. The issue of the identical light-fitting was first unearthed by The Herald Sun.
Mr Bainbridge was appointed as managing director at Lark in October 2019 but resigned effective immediately from the company after The Australian asked him questions about the video.
The explicit videos were filmed by Mr Bainbridge. In one video, he films himself smoking a meth pipe in skimpy underwear while making sexually explicit comments.
In the video, Mr Bainbridge lights the meth pipe and says: “Let’s get f..king high together baby. I’d smoke meth and just blow it all over your c…, babe.”
He then inhales and blows into the phone before taking another two inhalations. He ends the video by saying: “I’m so high, I’m so f..king horny.”
He filmed two other extremely sexually explicit videos of himself masturbating, watching hardcore pornography and, in one of the videos, there is an ice pipe next to him on his bed.
In all the videos, Mr Bainbridge appears alone in his bedroom and verbally addresses an absent sexual partner, to whom it is understood he sent the videos.
Neighbours told The Australian Mr Bainbridge still lived at the same Middle Park address, and a package on his doorstep was addressed to him.
He is Lark’s fifth-largest shareholder, with a stake valued at $17m prior to revelations of the videos.
Mick helped his friend, Jack, off his horse.
Mick helped his friend Jack…
Keep it tidy, Lode.
I’ve had enough sweeping up to do. 😉
From the OZ:
BREAKING
AGL rejects Cannon-Brookes’ $8bn bid
AGL Energy has rejected Mike Cannon-Brookes’ push to accelerate the closure of coal-fired power stations and reshape the energy grid.
Trigger warning: Smug hippy imbecile
When it’s your turn to shine .. you SHINE .. lol!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1495333150867738633
The NSW Lib government needs to shut off all electricity to Greens voting electorates.
They won’t of course. The Left will go all out to win but nobody on the Right cares about winning. They just want to be nice. So we will get a collapse of civilisation.
thanks Rabz- they have made a complete shit show of power generation over the last 25 years. It says a lot a about our ‘dynamic private sector’ that the federal government is even considering building a gas fired power station in the Hunter. Sort f what state governments used to do.
One of the biggest problems for the Australian economy is domination by bean counters and lawyers along with contempt for engineering and trades.
It’s rather perturbing how the wealthy woke are trying to take over. Holmes a Court has funded a woman doctor Monique to knock off Josh . Her face is all over the suburb , on posters in gardens , on top of Facebook in fact in your face everywhere . Of course Climate Change is top of agenda, however I note she didn’t reply to my post on her Facebook challenging the name change and her lack of knowledge of climate change history .
Top Ender at 8:56.
That is classic Miss Marple hooks up with Hercule Poirot on the Orient Express to Midsomer!
The background is that the Oz had been working on the Bainbridge story for a while. When they approached him for a comment he went straight to Fewfacts with the bullshit story that the videos were faked years ago, he was being extorted by criminal gangs (who altered the timestamp on the videos to make them look more current) and the Mudrock press were part of the Big Conspiracy to destroy him.
Well, they are now, Geoff.
Min, it’s very much a continuation of what was described in Christopher Lasch’s 1995 book The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
Boomer women ruin every place they congregate.
Change my mind.
At the first visible sign of fire …
If you can’t see actual flames, it might get better.
Boomer men too surely
It’s rather perturbing how the wealthy woke are trying to take over. Holmes a Court has funded a woman doctor Monique to knock off Josh .
Wacky policy(s) may be a small price to pay for removing “Josh” from the trough .. at least, in the Reps, having weirdo ideas via a minor party, isn’t gonna have much effect .. LOL!
I always enjoyed the black humour of flight training.
All that theory of flight stuff is just a theory. Aeroplanes really fly by magic
What Jack’s horse do to warrant one behind the ear?
One suspects Josh has a big part to play after armageddon. Forget Son of Sam, think Son of Slo.
If a week ago you were “LRAD durr hurr nice one stupid conspiracy theorists” perhaps you’d do the world a favour and stfu forever more?
But I know, I know. Being 100% wrong doesn’t stop them. Is it malevolence or relentless stupidity. Hard to say.
20,000 at the MCG for the final T20. God knows how many of those Sri Lankan’s. The couldn’t give away the TV rights to BBL23.
Even for Cricket Australia that takes some doing.
If the engine catches fire during start, take steps to deal with it.
Large fast ones.
I’m of the firm belief that helicopters don’t fly, they just beat the air into submission.
No matter how often governments lie to people, most people still believe there is something sophisticated and clever about kowtowing to them.
I think you may impugn the private sector somewhat unjustifiably.
NEMMCO ran interstate power interconnect arrangements. It was a government body owned by the states. That was a clusterfist, so the Feds got involved and invented AEMO.
Clusterfist squared.
Private sector is of course not blameless, but they really only can chase the money according to the rules set by the dead hand of the State.
What really makes me wanna puke are these lefty pollimuppetts and germalists in the US who graduate summa cum laude in some bludge course.
Or the earth repels them.
Canada’s deputy PM Chrystia Freeland has announced that emergency financial powers that enable the government to freeze bank accounts will be made permanent.
Fyi, she’s also on the Board of Trustees of the WEF.
I’m generally not one for conspiracy theories, but there’s no shortage of material out there to work with.
Actually, the NSW Government should let him buy AGL. And the moment he pays for it, just nationalise it and then sell it to people who care about whether hospitals and houses can have the lights on. Give Cannon-Brookes fair and just compensation of forcing him to live in the desert with no electricity or food for the next 10 years.
Yeah, I agree.
Granny ussr Faulty is ruining this place.
Oh, and that applies to crypto currency accounts as well.
I’m not sure of the practicalities of that – others will know much more – but they’re going for it.
DespotDan is cursing his own lack of vision by comparison.
The Sea King came with a boat hull, outriggers, wheels and floats
because Sikorsky knew it would land, but not how.
Yeah, it doesn’t help when they turn out to be correct.
Yeah, but that’s not working out too well from what I hear.
Bitcoin Wallet Providers Reject Justin Trudeau’s #FreedomTruckers Fund Freeze Order
Even for Cricket Australia that takes some doing.
CA’s Richard Freudenstein, maintaining an unbroken record of Mahogany Row failure, screws another pooch.
A great opportunity for Sky News to step in and show that it is not a political censor like the ABC.
From The Australian‘s Media Diary:
The ABC is refusing to broadcast Clive Palmer’s appearance at the Australian Press Club in Canberra live on Tuesday.
Palmer was going to use the ABC’s live telecast of his speech as a national platform to launch the United Australia Party’s election campaign.
But Diary understands that a rare editorial decision was made at the highest levels of the ABC to not screen Palmer’s address live on the main channel or news channel.
The ABC telecasts the vast majority of Press Club addresses live. Last Wednesday it ran in full the speech at the club by clean energy investor and Climate 200 founder Simon Holmes a Court – titled “Independents and Climate: The Hope to End the Lost Decade”.
But when it came to the mining mogul and political disrupter, Aunty took a different view.
It appears the key reason is his view on Covid-19 vaccination. Aunty is understood to feel it would be irresponsible to propagate his jab stance on national television.
Clive Palmer has been one of the most vocal critics of vaccine mandates. Picture: Damian Shaw
Clive Palmer has been one of the most vocal critics of vaccine mandates. Picture: Damian Shaw
Instead, at the time that Palmer will be delivering his address, the Freeview program guide shows the ABC will be screening a repeat episode of All Creatures Great and Small.
Palmer has been one of the most vocal critics of vaccine mandates, picking fights with various premiers over the issue. Palmer said last year he and his family would not be vaccinated because he would “not give in to tyranny”.
In its spiel to promote Tuesday’s speech, the Press Club didn’t mention his views on Covid-19. “Mr Palmer’s projects and companies have been responsible for creating over 60,000 jobs in Australia over the last 10 years,” the promotion says.
Sky News is happy to broadcast the speech live. One Sky insider tells Diary: “Whatever you think of him, Clive Palmer is again trying to be a player, and that is newsworthy. We believe in letting our viewers make up their own minds.”
The ABC’s stance isn’t a total boycott. We’re told ABC reporters will attend the address to offer standard coverage.
After Diary revealed the decision on Sunday afternoon, the ABC clarified that the address would be aired, with a 90-minute delay, at 2pm on the news channel.
ALPBC – we know what you need to know.
And Mr. 32% can only achieve this – and whatever else he has up his sleeve -with the parliamentary support of the New Democratic Party, centre-left social democrats who belong to the international group Progressive Alliance.
As does the ALP and the NZ Labour Party.
PS: Delaying the Palmer press club broadcast is an old propaganda trick as it gives the ABC’s zombie panel an hour and a half to prepare its response before the Fat Bastard hits the airwaves so he will be immediately hit with an avalanche of negative talking points — as if anyone watching the ABC will be voting for anyone but the Greens this year.
For the record
I told no lies about a ‘seriously injured old lady’.
I questioned the false three people dead narrative, and I questioned the ‘trampled’ by a police horse narrative.
The slightest bit of googling would have got you the footage of the woman being trampled by police horses from 5 different angles in under 10 seconds.
Why the questioning? Get off your arse and do some research. If you come up with nothing that corroborates a story, then sure, question it, otherwise stop irritating the fuck out of everyone through your laziness.
If Police are trampling disabled elderly women with horses, it’s sheer luck she wasn’t killed or seriously injured. If Police shove an elderly woman and she smashes the back of her head on the pavement, it’s sheer luck she wasn’t killed or seriously injured.
The fucking police don’t get a free pass just because the managed not to kill anyone by sheer luck.
T20 “cricket” reminds me of the episode when Homer designs a car.
When people say about another sport “ … it’s like basketball” that is rarely a good thing.
When the helicopter hits the ground, the accident is only just beginning.
I gather Fauxahontas’ truthiness may not be all that truthy.
The spectator has an article on lesbian relationships.
It won’t let me publish this comment:
“In my view, same-sex couples were only invited to the marriage malarkey because it was a failing institution, with divorce rates rising among heterosexual couples. Marriage was marketed to same-sex couples as a way of ensuring that we were tamed out of our semi-feral existence of ‘living over the brush’ and having too much fun and freedom.”
Crap. An (ex) gay friend told me when I queried why there was such a concerted effort in the gay community to be married when under the legal amendments defacto relationships, which included same sex relationships, gay relationships had all the legal equivalence of marriage. He, in a moment of bitter transparency, said it was revenge: all the years of persecution meant gays wanted to own the institution of marriage as a symbol of what had excluded and persecuted them in the past.
Things have moved on since then with the gender grotesqueries in sports with men competing against women and in libraries reading to young children while dressed as dildo encrusted flamingos.
I personally don’t know why gays did not invent a new name for their relationships; I suggested to my (ex) gay friend such terms as a ‘dazzle’ or a ‘brilliance’. He wasn’t amused.
Marriage, as between a man and a woman, is not a “failing institution”. This is despite the left’s best efforts to undermine it. Marriage remains as a reference point, along with the family unit, for the values of Western democracy. The efforts to vitiate marriage are part of the march through the institutions.
Finally the author has not referred to the fact that the rate of domestic violence is very high in lesbian relationships:
https://wentworthreport.com/2017/01/08/rate-of-domestic-violence-highest-in-lesbian-relationships/
Just to clarify with Bitcoin….
All Bitcoin is on the blockchain and always has been. What people hold is their private key that allows them to access and transfer it.
The Canadian government has no idea how it works if they are asking companies to freeze crypto accounts. That’s why they are all saying NO.
Just tried to access Trump’s Truth Social website. Result:
Error 1020 Ray ID: 6e0b729ccad95a67 • 2022-02-20 23:17:19 UTC
Access denied
What happened?
This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks.
No idea what it means. Is this normal?
One suspects Josh has a big part to play after armageddon. Forget Son of Sam, think Son of Slo.
One knows Josh has has played a big part of the Armageddon.
He should go the way of SloMo
“Mr Palmer’s projects and companies have been responsible for creating over 60,000 jobs in Australia over the last 10 years,”
And thats just his legal department…
Still whats the bet the 90 minute delay is so they can censor bits they dont like.
Marriage remains as a reference point, along with the family unit, for the values of Western democracy. The efforts to vitiate marriage are part of the march through the institutions.
Does Marriage Matter? Luxury Beliefs at the UN
I suspect that there is a degree of evolution at play – the power companies have found a more accommodating niche. And not just power companies.
Since the government has swelled to such a size that it hangs forever over us like a great fat spider, and blots out the sky, innovation and investment has become riskier.
Think of the old think about designing a better mouse trap.
You get a stench of hippies (that is the collective noun) who think mice are more important than humans but who have realised that message won’t work so they concoct models showing all mousetraps will kill your children, and the newer machinery of muricide would hunt your children down and slaughter them in their beds.
The geniuses in the MSM, who have absolutely no idea about mice or mousetraps would urgently pick up the cause – because they will think they now know a bit more than other people and will want to showcase their superiority. They will cosy up to the experts so they can continue to play mousetrap oracle in the public sphere.
The government panics – as always. They announce that they will look into matters and then solemnly announce that we need to phase out mousetraps, especially as the experts have worked out (well, they have models that show) that mousetraps actually increase the number of mice.
Then some snake oil salesman who has familiarised himself with the hoax that has been knit will talk to the government about an alternative, sustainable way to get rid of mice. It will only take billions of dollars for research. After this gets into swing it will be implementation schemes. Great swathes of land fenced off de-mousing farms with nameplate capacities of thousands of dead mice although there will be at best maybe one of two dead mice, looking suspiciously like they have been gnawed on by feral cats. Naturally the the clamour will arise, and the government will deliver: We need more farms.
Elsewhere the government will have established rebates and subsidies for businesses taking the mouse problem seriously, and the original company that was threatened by the new style mousetrap will be very quick to latch onto the government teat. See, private enterprise is risky. Government subsidies are not. Customers are circumspect with their money. Government is unimaginably spendthrift with other people’s. Businesses adapt to live off government largesse, accepting sums of money for not making mousetraps.
And the original guy? With the new design? Who invented it, tested it, had the first samples made, who borrowed against his house to set up a modest production line? Suddenly there are no orders, his nascent business folds, and he disappears under a mountain of debt without anyone paying the least attention.
And Australia starts buying its mousetraps from China.
Weirder and Weirder
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/20/queensland-man-charged-with-after-allegedly-sawing-off-another-mans-leg
“Police also believe there was an arrangement between the two people for the amputation of the leg.
Welcome home, Voyager: inside Melbourne’s new world-class residence
“We can say this was not an unprovoked attack.”
Police allege the men drove together to the park before 4am on Saturday and sat under a tree.
They said about 20 minutes later the 36-year-old allegedly cut off the older man’s leg below the knee using what is believed to be a battery-powered saw, helped him return to the car and then departed on foot.
The Canadian government has no idea how it works if they are asking companies to freeze crypto accounts. That’s why they are all saying NO.
They don’t need access to your crypto key.
They just need access to you. Lock you up and throw away their key.
Actually, I think those will be the bits that they will broadcast. They’ll cut out anything that might sway a typical lefty ABC viewer, lest the viewer be enticed over to the fat side.
I’ve been waiting and seeing re crypto currencies- I though one problem with Bitcoin was that they were regulated by US authorities. Correct me if I’m wrong.
Presumably this means they will not show him saying anything but instead they will paraphrase with what he really meant to say, and then tell us that he is wrong or dishonest.
It really is astounding that the drones at the ABC are so untalented that they do not confront or engage with the people they would smear. Overseas lefties will venture into the lions den – then edit to change it. But they at least look their foe in the eye.
Our ABC does its hit pieces from safespaces.
Figures says:
February 21, 2022 at 9:17 am
I’d be happy if anyone buying “green” energy only has supply while it is being produced. It’s the sun goes down, a cloud moves in or the wind dies then start disabling “green” account holders via smart metres until the consumption matches the output. How can they claim to be green if they’re depending on other sources in the quiet times?
Proof the politics attracts psychopaths
AGL Energy rejects $8bn takeover bid from Mike Cannon-Brookes, Canada’s Brookfield
Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes – whose fortune is estimated at $30bn – has emerged as a major figure in renewable energy circles.
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AGL Energy has rejected technology billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes’ audacious push to accelerate the closure of major coal-fired power stations, with an $8bn bid for the company with Canadian asset manager Brookfield.
The offer promises to get AGL out of coal in just a decade under a plan which would reshape the national energy grid and accelerate the uptake of renewable energy technologies.
AGL Energy on Monday morning rejected the bid, saying it materially undervalues the company.
“The proposal does not offer an adequate premium for a change of control and is not in the best interests of AGL Energy shareholders,” AGL chairman Peter Botten said.
“Under the unsolicited proposal the board believes AGL Energy shareholders would be forgoing the opportunity to realise potential future value via AGL Energy’s proposed demerger as both proposed organisations pursue decisive action on decarbonisation.”
The $7.50 a share bid was only pitched at a 4.7 per cent premium to AGL’s closing share price on Friday.
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AGL’s board convened an emergency meeting on Sunday afternoon ahead of the formal response.
The bid was structured as a cash proposal with an option for shareholders to take shares in the Brookfield consortium’s firm used for the deal, up to a 20 per cent ownership cap.
AGL said the unsolicited proposal “provided limited other information regarding the structure of the acquiring vehicle and the scrip alternative.”
The power giant’s board said it remains committed to progressing the proposed demerger of AGL Energy to establish two separately listed businesses, AGL Australia and Accel Energy, and considers the proposed demerger will deliver better value for shareholders.
“In the absence of a proposal that provides appropriate value to AGL Energy shareholders on a control basis, the board continues to believe the demerger maximises value for shareholders and is in the best interests of shareholders,” AGL said in a statement.
The bid by Mr Cannon-Brookes the co-founder of technology giant Atlassian, would rid AGL of its unwanted tag as Australia’s biggest polluter and vastly boost its green credentials with future investment focused on renewable generation.
Shareholders in the 180-year-old electricity company had been due to vote in June on a plan to split it into two companies, a green retailer named AGL Australia seeking to be fully carbon neutral by 2040, and a coal-dominated generator, Accel Energy, targeting net-zero emissions by 2047.
But sources said Mr Cannon-Brookes and Brookfield would keep AGL as one business, although they face a series of hurdles to get a deal over the line.
Under the takeover offer, the net-zero goal would be accelerated by 12 years to 2035, sources said.
The bidders’ promise to quit coal even more quickly than AGL’s own recently fast-tracked timeline may win plaudits from green investors.
However, it would cause a fresh problem for Victoria and NSW, where AGL runs massive coal plants, and also the Morrison government, already grappling with the increasingly disorderly exit of ageing coal-fired generators throughout the power grid.
The stunning move on AGL by one of Australia’s most high profile investors caps a whirlwind year of deals for the nation’s energy industry amid a broader global supply squeeze and pressure from investors for businesses to combat climate change.
Woodside Petroleum and BHP Petroleum are tying up a $40bn merger, Santos swallowed Oil Search in a $21bn deal and a raft of global companies like Shell and Iberdrola are looking to build big businesses in Australia, piling pressure on AGL, Origin Energy and EnergyAustralia.
Grattan Institute energy analyst Tony Wood said any takeover deal might produce extra volatility in the electricity market and stoke fears the rapid withdrawal of coal could hike household power bills.
“If you’re looking to bring coal closures even further forward from where we are today, it throws a lot more uncertainty into a market that’s already uncertain. New generation will undoubtedly get built, but it does signal you will likely see more volatility along the way,” Mr Wood said.
The swifter-than-expected exit of coal from Australia’s power grid is forcing the nation’s biggest electricity companies to redraw their investments this decade, with Origin Energy the latest to move after speeding up the closure of the country’s biggest coal plant, Eraring, to 2023 – seven years earlier than planned.
AGL itself on February 10 conceded it might accelerate closure dates for two of Australia’s biggest coal plants, again depending on market conditions, underlining the speed of cheap renewables undercutting coal and raising fears of a bumpy transition as the fossil fuel exits the grid.
To meet its climate goals, AGL has only just laid out a plan to close the doors of the Bayswater coal plant in NSW’s Hunter Valley by 2033, two years earlier than forecast, while Victoria’s Loy Yang A facility faces the axe by 2045, from its expected retirement in 2048.
The two facilities account for nearly 10 per cent of Australia’s emissions, and Mr Cannon-Brookes and Brookfield have outlined a vision for heavier investment in renewable energy generation to offset the loss of the fossil fuel from the grid.
The $7.50 bid, worth $8bn including debt, is a modest 5 per cent fillip on AGL’s last closing share price and is expected to be rejected by the company’s board as undervaluing the company – even though it’s an attractive 20 per cent premium to its 30-day average traded price. Competition issues may also prove a major hurdle. Brookfield, which has previously bought private hospital operator Healthscope and freight firm Asciano, just led a consortium that paid $10.2bn to take control of Victorian electricity grid owner AusNet Services.
Buying AGL and tapping into AusNet for billions of dollars of transmission investment needed to transport surging investment in renewables would be an attractive package for Brookfield, but may fall foul of the competition regulator.
Investment bank Macquarie is advising AGL, while Jarden and Citi are on hand for Brookfield.
AGL declined to comment while Brookfield and Mr Cannon-Brookes’ family investment -vehicle, Grok Ventures, were unavailable for comment, although the billionaire sent out a message on Twitter.
Mr Cannon-Brookes, valued at $30bn by The List – Australia’s Richest 250, is the co-founder of tech giant Atlassian but has also emerged as a major figure in ¬climate and renewable energy circles.
A Twitter bet the tech titan made with Tesla boss Elon Musk in 2017 helped spark the world’s biggest battery in South Australia.
Grok Ventures has backed a raft of firms, including solar fintech Brighte, carbon firm Soil Quest, renewable firm Drift and the $30bn solar power export project Sun Cable, in partnership with fellow billionaire Andrew Forrest.
He and his wife Annie have also committed $1.5bn of their fortune to climate change philanthropy and called on corporate Australia to do the same.
The takeover move revealed on Sunday “is potentially game changing for the Australian electricity transition”, WWF Australia’s energy transition manager Nicky Ison said on Twitter.
Coal, which provides up to 70 per cent of current electricity capacity, could be entirely shut as early as 2040 under a system plan by the Australian Energy Market Operator, which runs the power grid.
That is up to a decade earlier than current scheduled retirement dates outlined by their owners, and AGL boss Graeme Hunt has said significant investment would be needed to replace the lost capacity, which had been factored into its broader demerger plan set to take place in the June quarter.
AGL’s planned coal offshoot, Accel Energy, plans to develop Loy Yang, Bayswater and Torrens Island into major energy hubs spanning hydrogen through batteries.
It’s also in talks with partners to establish a fund called the Energy Transition Investment Partnership, aimed at supporting Accel in funding low-carbon developments with a 2700 megawatt pipeline of projects included in the scheme.
Accel would manage the fund known as ETIP in addition to handling development, output marketing, construction, asset and dispatch functions.
Bayswater produces enough power for 2 million Australian households and combined with AGL’s Liddell station, set to close next summer, supplies 35 per cent of NSW power.
CB is a bearded kunt.
Areff – I wouldn’t be surprised if a horde of DDoSing lefties are attacking it, and all their plausibly denying alphabet agency mates. Legality is for the little people.
May also be geoblocked since Nunes was saying they’re starting only with US users.
How can they claim to be green if they’re depending on other sources in the quiet times?
that’s exactly right- it’s nothing more than indulgences for the very wealthy to make them think they are free to hector the lower orders.
Re the ABC not broadcasting Palmer, is this what Scomo paid them the billions for? The uniparty will do all it can to crush any opposition except opposition from the left of them.
I though one problem with Bitcoin was that they were regulated by US authorities.
I wouldn’t call it regulated.
But I wouldn’t call it with out any regulation.
Along the lines of The Departed after Leo beats up that chappy in the bar.
Would Aldi continue to proclaim their use of green power if their stores randomly go dark as the wind gets too weak (or too strong) as it blows over the Adelaide Hills?
Maybe they could play for “premium green” so that they’re the last to be switched off.
From the 50 second mark.
If crypto walked into a bar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yicP7ZEEz1k
In which case the next step from the Canadian government would be to prevent dissident citizens from purchasing anything in Canada with a crypto currency. And probably request overseas companies to also comply. If present trends continue we’d lilkely see intergovernment cooperation to facilitate this. After all, we’re talking about dangerous terrorists here.
More Ottawa Photoshop.
h/t Rosie
The more they go after crypto & the more they fail, the more attractive crypto becomes.
But crypto getting through Canada’s efforts is one thing.
Could it get through a full assault by the DOJ & NSA in the US?
Considering how all the ecosystems in Silicon Valley are invested in crypto & they are the biggest donors to the DNC, I just can’t see a US led crackdown happening.
Time will tell.
In my view, it’s been ‘soft’ totalitarianism for decades in the west- cultural marxist speech codes etc (ask Geoffrey Blainey). It was only a matter of time until the ‘soft’ became sharp and hard.
Rogersays:
February 21, 2022 at 9:47 am
Canada’s deputy PM Chrystia Freeland has announced that emergency financial powers that enable the government to freeze bank accounts will be made permanent.
Fyi, she’s also on the Board of Trustees of the WEF.
I’m generally not one for conspiracy theories, but there’s no shortage of material out there to work with.
My comment on something similar you posted on the Kanada thread:
The banking freeze can only occur with collaboration between authoritarian/dictatorial government and business corporations – pretty much the definition of fascism
The IRS seized billions in crypto currencies last year.
Seem to me that government internvention in crypto currencies is not only technically feasible, it is already happening.
More Ottawa Photoshop
That’s a lot of photoshop!
For gardeners in Perth – February total rain to date 0.8mm, total evaporation 222mm. Gardening in Perth is just trying to ensure stuff doesn’t die in summer. The rest is tinkering around the edges.
It certainly is an unholy alliance on the left.
I note liberal US talk show host Bill Maher has made the Trudeau-Hitler comparison, quyoting Trudeau’s words that the unvaccinated are “taking up space”.
Seems he’s had an “Are we the baddies?” moment.
Roger, I don’t know how you can actually seize it.
If only there was a professor at a university who was in deep on this.
Another death in the Madoff family.
It’s like their entire blood line is going to be deleted.
I think they might legally demand that brokers & exchanges hand it over, bern.
With government, where there’s a will and a majority, there’s a way.
The Canadian Liberals just aren’t smart enough to have figured out how yet.
Another day without the Ukranian invasion predicted by Warmonger Biden. If he can push it out a bit more, he’ll be able to declare that he saved Ukraine in his State of the Union Address.
From thesaker.is (propaganda warning)
Sorry about the “congregating” and “ruining”.
I’ll try harder next time.
I found this the other day, but I was too scared to use it!
I think your comments here are excellent Calli
Considering Biden is a devout Catholic (sigh, don’t trigger crusty granny), I hope he says something along the lines of:
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God”.
Next stop, Stockholm !
Biden was planning on imposing even stricter reporting requirements on brokers but the legislation was part of the Build Back Better Act. I’d have to do some digging to find out what’s happening with that particular legislation now but presumably it’s still on the Democrat agenda.
“miltonfsays:
February 21, 2022 at 10:58 am
In my view, it’s been ‘soft’ totalitarianism for decades in the west- cultural marxist speech codes etc (ask Geoffrey Blainey). It was only a matter of time until the ‘soft’ became sharp and hard.”
Correct….the signs have been there for decades and Blainey one was of the first…….he was hounded out of Melbourne University.
Awwww, shucks, milton.
Most of the time I’m just an innocent bystander. The fireworks displays are second to none. And most illuminating.
Rowe’s cartoon (sic) praises that bearded prick hyphen brookes. The cognitive dissonance of the left in believing renewables will supply the grid is fucking amazing, the only thing exceptional about them.
Not at our place!
We use the typical Aussie- type invent of : bucket of water, string threaded through empty plastic bottle and lid & tied at either end to bucket handles. Coat bottle with peanut butter.
Result? Up to 18 mice every night per bucket at the height of the mouse plague.
Much more humane (yes, don’t laugh!) than poison pellets – drowning better than bleeding internally.
What we need is a fossil fuels generated dry day Friday every week. No coal, gas, or diesel fuel generated electricity for 24 hours every week.
Only Gaia haters could reject an immediate 14% reduction in carbon emissions from electricity generation.
The rank and file seem depressed and have been making for the exit in numbers.
“Morale Is Low” – House Democrats Retirement Surge To 30-Year High (21 Feb)
Sounds like the US population isn’t quite so hooked on lefty cult doctrine as the Dems thought. Also sounds like the internal polls are so dire they can’t see how to steal the mid terms and get away with it. Although maybe Fuehrer Trudy is pilot testing what Biden et al hope to do before November.
Not this Chrystia Freeland?
Say it isn’t so.
Well, unfair as it is, there is a degree of karma here.
I seem to remember Fat Cloive between 2013 – 2016 cosying up to Snowcone on Q&A, making soothing noises about how very important the ABC was and how very committed he was to defending it against the “rabid dog wing of the LNP”.
Fat Cloive now discovering he was a useful idiot who is no longer useful.
Rex mentioned the Bell47. Now there is a machine I really do miss.
Even with the Bell47, the stabilizers attached to the head can collapse down in an accident, smash through the cockpit with the blades still turning. At the pilot and passenger head level, serious head injuries occur. Which will ruin your day. Pretty much fatally.
Calli said @11.20 a.m.,
Calli when all this rubbish began and we were forced to wear face nappies (though only when I chose too and certainly NOT at home, in the car or open air) I bought half a dozen black washable ones and had them printed by a friend.
They include the the very one you shared along with;
“I’m allergic to stupidity I break out in SARCASM”
“I am not arguing, I’m explaining why I am right”.
“Another day completely RUINED by ADULT responsibility”
” ZERO Fox Given” (you have to imagine a FOX head imposed upon the O in fox thereby changing the O to an U)
I only ever wear them if I have to go to town and some uppity little dill in the shopping centre carries on, it gives them sh..s. Strangely all the ladies at the post office wet themselves laughing, and the pompous dicks called security people get very strident in their abuse. Must say the ladies at Aldi always laugh too particularly the FOX one.
“Sancho Panzersays:
February 21, 2022 at 11:51 am
sfwsays:
February 21, 2022 at 10:47 am
Re the ABC not broadcasting Palmer, is this what Scomo paid them the billions for?
Well, unfair as it is, there is a degree of karma here.
I seem to remember Fat Cloive between 2013 – 2016 cosying up to Snowcone on Q&A, making soothing noises about how very important the ABC was and how very committed he was to defending it against the “rabid dog wing of the LNP”.
Fat Cloive now discovering he was a useful idiot who is no longer useful.”
Indeed, from 2013 to 2016 but particularly when Abbott was PM, Fatty Clive spent that whole time fellating their ABC, they just lurved him and he just lurved them, anything to embarrass and ridicule Tony Abbott. I distinctly recall Fatty Clive being given a prominent seat next to Mark Scott at the ABC’s table at the mid winter ball in 2015.
Karma Fatty Clive karma.
Babasays:
February 21, 2022 at 11:41 am
What we need is a fossil fuels generated dry day Friday every week. No coal, gas, or diesel fuel generated electricity for 24 hours every week.
Contract ruinables generators to deliver at least 50% of installed ruinable capacity on a continuous basis. Penalise failure to deliver (sort of a reverse RET). Allow them to make their own “firming” measures, which will inevitably involve something other than wind, solar and batteries.
There will be a rush to buy fossil plants, not to close them down, but to use as back up. Eventually, it will dawn on the fools that it is actually cheaper just to run the fossil plants.
Macron announces a Biden Putin summit.
Zatarasays:
February 21, 2022 at 11:48 am
Canada’s deputy PM Chrystia Freeland has announced that emergency financial powers that enable the government to freeze bank accounts will be made permanent.
Not this Chrystia Freeland?
Say it isn’t so.
I understand that she holds a high position in the WEF. No conflict of interest there!
Yep, the very one.
If, as Sancho says, Clive once lauded the ABC, the fact that the ABC now shuns Clive is an indication not of Karma in relation to Clive but of treachery on the part of the ABC.
Biden : That motherfucking frog, tryin’ to muscle in on my Nobel prize.
Train strike in Sydney today? Great argument for driverless trains.
Not treachery against Clive. No-one, especially not Clive, ever believed they liked him for anything more than the opportunity to stick a finger in Tony Abbott’s eye.
What we need is a fossil fuels generated dry day Friday every week. No coal, gas, or diesel fuel generated electricity for 24 hours every week.
You’ll get a 4 day business week and considerably less than 14 % reduction in emissions as working hours are increased on those 4 days.
200 million stimulus package for hospitality and tourism in Melbourne announced by TaliDan junta.
We’ve destroyed your businesses and now we’re going to spend your money to make us look caring and electable.
Babasays:
February 21, 2022 at 11:41 am
What we need is a fossil fuels generated dry day Friday every week. No coal, gas, or diesel fuel generated electricity for 24 hours every week.
Only Gaia haters could reject an immediate 14% reduction in carbon emissions from electricity generation.
Can we make it Tuesday so that the pubs can keep the kegs cold for Friday night?
Farmer Gezsays:
February 21, 2022 at 12:15 pm
200 million stimulus package for hospitality and tourism in Melbourne announced by TaliDan junta.
There used to be 188,000 people working in the CBD. Supposing they spent on average even $10 a day each on coffee or a sandwich, about 22 weeks of normal work would generate $200 million from that alone, even if not a single tourist set foot in the place.
But sure, Dan, smash the whole CBD economy for close to 2 years and then hit taxpayers with a $200 million bandaid bill.
Contract ruinables generators to deliver at least 50% of installed ruinable capacity on a continuous basis. Penalise failure to deliver (sort of a reverse RET). Allow them to make their own “firming” measures, which will inevitably involve something other than wind, solar and batteries.
At present they get to sell all they produce and other suppliers must reduce their supply to compensate.
Instead of the coal and gas people selling into the wholesale market when allowed, just make the guarantee to buy to renewable generators only what they will guarantee to supply 24/7/365 with heavy penalties for non delivery. The coal and gas guys will bend them over the table to contract to supply the power the renewable scammers are forced to buy from them. Should pretty much make the “economics” of renewable supply totally transparent.
I just watched a show on Stanflix “Inventing Anna”, about a 20-something fraudster in NYC, Anna Sorokin/Anna Delvey.
Ultimately she only rips off $300k (probably more than that from people too embarrassed to admit it).
She was looking at getting a motzer in loans to set up a “philanthropic arts project” in a grand old Park Ave building, but couldn’t get the funding finalised, although she got close and did score a temporary overdraft. Her scam was claiming to be a German heiress whose trust fund was about to mature. Most of the stuff was ripping off hotels and high end stores and getting her “friends” to put their credit cards out “temporarily” when her foreign cards had “glitches” (glitch = maxxed out).
But here is the question.
NYC is the setting for a lot of rip-offs. It seems that there is a peculiar gullibility when the scam has a cloak of “philanthropy” around it.
Madoff was big into the Yartz, which I think gave him some protection from close scrutiny.
Lots of pollies and prominent people loved the ABC, it isn’t till the ABC turns on them that they realise what it is.
Calling Palmer fat etc is rather childish, I guess it’s the local version of ‘Orange man bad’, just a symptom of CDS. Anytime you want to attack the policies is fine by me, but at school we were always taught to play the ball, not the man.
Going out on a limb, but I reckon MacGill is a police informant.
The maaaaaates’ income stream not quite up to par?
Just watch. Not a cent will go to real people who suffered. Not one.
Just watch. Not a cent will go to real people who suffered. Not one.
If anyone still watches PM Live, they can report if that former AFL player who has a bar gets any of it.
7 News. Winter Olympics. ‘Finnish skier suffered frozen penis in
cross-country event.’ Mens event I presume.
ABCCess AM this morning (after the welcome to country routine, yes that is every morning on AM) had CB on getting a fundament lube and service by the lady spokesthing.
Lots of questions with the one about prices being allowed to float through on a cloud of good intentions and moonbeams.
Missing
” Mr CB, without subsidies and the active crippling of conventional power how economic is your whole renew-balls scam”?
Sorry the bad news is that we had to amputate your head, but the good news is that we have a special on prosthetic heads this week.
The most evil, cunning yet stupid dictator in Viktoristan’s history.
I went and had a wander on the weekend. Superficially it looks like people were back, but if you look it’s definitely not. Little things like the grass in green spaces was past due for a cut, cafes and restaurants were not even half full. Southbank had a heap of promotional tents and similar set up with staff to run them, but were empty. A large, formerly bustling place when I was last in there, didn’t even have half the tables set up. Noticed quite a few places with much reduced hours of operation too, one cafe only had hours listed for 10-4 Wednesdays to Friday. That’s not going to pay the bills in the CBD.
The bright spots for me were the shrine of remembrance didn’t have tourists clambering all over it making a mockery, and the botanic gardens were full of families.
What if the man is shaped like a ball?
And it is a bit rich to call “play the ball” when Fat Cloive – sorry, but he is really fat and it is a convenient way of distinguishing him from all the other Cloives – when Fat Cloive did nothing but play the man against Abbott.
And politics is more than published policies. It is also about character. And Fat Cloive failed that test last time around. As for policies, I am still trying to find the bit in his 2013 manifesto where he promised to give Al Gore a hand-job.
He’s going about it the wrong way if he is.
Apparently.
Seriously?
What tribe/mob lays claim to a wavelength?
Justin Truedope Invoked “Emergencies Act” and Fundamentally Changed His Nation Forever So He Could Charge Freedom Convoy Protesters With “Mischief”
So why did Fat Cloive allow himself to be used like that, Chris?
And don’t say it was a platform to get impordant policy messages out.
Because he didn’t.
He spent his entire cumulative 16 hours on the Snowcone Show settling old scores, attacking Abbott for being too conservative and transparently advancing plans that would drop cash into Fat Cloive’s coffers.
Last night Sancho Panzer threatened to bring the weight of the State down on Dover if Dover did not remove a comment by ssr.
The dumb, crass and insulting statement has been removed but Sancho’s copy and paste of it remains.
I don’t think ssr’s remark was any worse that probably 50 other comments a day here with it’s twisted logic, crass generalisation and personal insult.
Threats to bring down the Law for such a comment to not belong here.
And good morning to you, you beautiful, talented, intelligent woman.
Nice to see you start your day being your charming self.
Can’t go letting down your adoring audience that hangs on your every word … or is that Sancho’s words (hard to keep up with which of you speaks for which), or the countless other sources you borrow, tweak and sell as your own, but I digress …
We can’t have your audience miss out on you starting the day by making it perfectly clear that amongst the popular regulars at the cat, it is now the height of fashion to prove your superiority in intelligence, compassion & class over those you so bitterly hate, with the mocking declaration that they must be victims of incest & paedophilia, cos you know, ‘they’re all just good for nothing ruined “slag heaps” after that’.
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Cassie of Sydney says:
February 21, 2022 at 6:15 am
I see the resident slag heap has been defecating here overnight, clearly her sole talent. She uses this site has her personal toilet and she is making it unreadable.
She needs help…but who’d touch her? Oh and speaking of touching slag heap, tell us what your daddy once did to you?
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Yes, I suppose quoting back the vile words & bald faced lies of you and the rest of your mates who think it so funny to make the continuing trade in child rape your regular joke of the day, does stink the place up a bit, but hey if you don’t like it, you could always stop being so hideous.
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Yet another comparison between Trudeau and Ceau?escu — and from a Romanian no less
Captain loves waltzing his helicopter, great graceful turns floating along low level. Exhilarating.
Best in the Bell47 we currently have, passable in a Robbie.
callisays:
February 21, 2022 at 12:43 pm
(after the welcome to country routine, yes that is every morning on AM)
Seriously?
Yup I thought it might be a one off but 3rd time now.
Best name for Resident Hiden Ive seen all week.
President Snoozevelt
The Canon-Brookes ABC fellation.
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/adelaide/programs/am/billionaire-bid-for-agl-and-early-shutdown-of-coal-power/13763160
Eyrie
make the guarantee to buy to renewable generators only what they will guarantee to supply 24/7/365 with heavy penalties for non delivery. The coal and gas guys will bend them over the table to contract to supply the power the renewable scammers are forced to buy from them. Should pretty much make the “economics” of renewable supply totally transparent.
Pretty much the same effect as my proposal, but mine would force the ruinable “greenies” to also operate fossil fuel plants to meet the target, humiliating them in front of the doctors’ wives demographic. An unsubtle punishment, but one that would focus their minds away from ruinable stupidity.
In Scotchland they’re paid not to produce.
He sure is.
I think the only person MacGill has informed on is Stuart Charles Glyndwr MacGill himself.
Yes … “Glyndwyr”.
Sounds awfully like a chap who fancies himself as a hot-shot bar owner but doesn’t have the readies to buy into a lease so is trying to “persuade” people out of theirs.
Imagine having that fat pansy trying the Chris Flannery act out on you?
What a joke.
Inventing Anna is on Netflix too. Worth watching.
Initially you think how could anyone be that stupid to be taken in by her, but the show dramatises it well enough so you can see how.
dopeysays:
February 21, 2022 at 12:35 pm
7 News. Winter Olympics. ‘Finnish skier suffered frozen penis in
cross-country event.’ Mens event I presume.
How Dare You assume her gender!
The slag heap is up and defecating. Doesn’t take long.
I ask again, what did your daddy do to you when young. Have you ever sought help? It’s clearly scarred you.
“He spent his entire cumulative 16 hours on the Snowcone Show settling old scores, attacking Abbott for being too conservative and transparently advancing plans that would drop cash into Fat Cloive’s coffers.”
Which is why I don’t trust Fat Clive.
The reason I think MacGill is because the plod don’t wait 6 months to charge someone unless there is interference being run.
It worked, probably along with a number of reports from blog readers (I know of at least five).
So there is that.
When a psychopath declares war, no tactic is off the table.
Mrs Faulty has been banned from a number of sites for the same sort of behaviour, and it wouldn’t be difficult to amp up the heat for that to happen here.
Oh, and it is often worth checking on the background of the blog host before launching into an “All Catholics are …” rant.
Once again, BirdNanna. What are these jokes, and where are they?
You seriously remind me of None. ‘Only I, as a woman and mother, can speak with authority on children’s welfare’, she’d say.
Do you have any views on Emily Ratajkowski?
She’s 30 years old you know.
Do you have any views on Emily Ratajkowski?
Needs fattening up.
She would enjoy the Macca 40 nuggets pack.
There should be reciprocal recognition. Whenever an indigenous activist is on screen there should be a “Welcome to the Technological Wonders of Western Civilisation”.
It is telling that the Gen Y “investigative journalist” can’t quite believe anyone could be that evil and narcissistic, so goes on a crusade to Germany to find the source of the problem.
The classic “blame the problem, not the person” mantra.
Of course, the journalist does want to blame someone. Anna’s father. It is far more palatable to lay the blame at the feet of an old-school patriarchal Russian boomer (she is Russian by birth) than a millennial “arts philanthropist”.
Ranzer, on MacGill the hard man:
Ahahaha. There’d be a bit of ‘do you know who I am?’ going on I reckon.
I found that story interesting because afterwards Magilla Fatzilla got an AVO handed to him, but the bloke he was with got blistered for breaching an AVO, which means said bloke’s had adverse interactions with the ‘victim’ before.
These interactions may or may not have included the line:
‘Don’t make me bring the pudgy former leg-spinner and wine aficionado from Glebe into this! Because I will, so help me God if you don’t play ball!’
The other line in “Inventing Anna” which she learns to exploit is “I am a foreign woman in Trump’s America”.
Fuck.
Like a cross swathed in garlic to a vampire.
Everyone backs off when she throws that one out there.
Magilla Fatzilla
LOL, yes he does look a tad on the doughy side of things from the pic in the Oz.
I’m just sayin’ – if you can get abducted and thrown in a car boot by a 5 foot 4 reed-thin gentleman of Asian extraction, you’re not really ticking the boxes as a standover man.
I see SRR is still going full Nuff for the 4th straight day.
We are just about completely in Bird territory now for style, if not actual content…
Looking a MacGill’s girth, I’m surprised he could fit in the car boot.
Maybe they had to tie a red rag on one of his feet when they couldn’t close it.
“I see SRR is still going full Nuff for the 4th straight day.”
You’re being too polite RA……..you need to go back to calling her Mrs Faulty.
OH&S weight limits?
I got a prolapsed disc from lifting overweight bodies into the boot of the car.
I heard they had to load nine railway sleepers across the bonnet as a counterweight.
Imagine having that fat pansy trying the Chris Flannery act out on you?
Take away Vinnie and substitute MacGill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y9zfEuzK7Q
That bloke was the ‘target/victim’s’ ex-fiance.
Maybe he and the ex ran the bar together but he had reasons not to put his name to the licence application.
They split up, he wants his split and she says “What do you mean ‘split’, Kimosabe?”
As for how we arrive at Standover Stuart, the Malbec Mauler, getting involved, I have no plausible theory on that.
Who would?
No ‘bern.
They were still pissing themselves laughing at the thought of Rosè Ruffian “putting the frighteners” on someone.
I’ll bet he even watched old videos of Vinnie Jones and Denis Waterman to learn the lingo.
You’re delirious.
You’ve obviously spent the whole weekend rolling around in your Westpac money-bin.
Looking a MacGill’s girth, I’m surprised he could fit in the car boot.
Maybe they had to tie a red rag on one of his feet when they couldn’t close it.
Little known fact.
The plan fell apart after they were pulled over by the mermaids*
*They have scales, and they F*ck you.
Are you saying the kidnapping might have been … you know … consensual?
Anyone who doubts the agenda of the WEF is gullible.
https://twitter.com/wef/status/813869325635424256
Sweet Jesus.
Not sure if this has been posted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5efyUt5YDU0
This woman is a lunatic and a menace.
She needs help.
They’re laughing at us!
and
I’m absolutely positive he’ll follow those conditions to the last letter! /sarc
Sancho says,
“It worked, probably along with a number of reports from blog readers (I know of at least five).
So there is that.
When a psychopath declares war, no tactic is off the table.
Mrs Faulty has been banned from a number of sites for the same sort of behaviour, and it wouldn’t be difficult to amp up the heat for that to happen here.
Oh, and it is often worth checking on the background of the blog host before launching into an “All Catholics are …” rant”.
LOL.
Sancho brandishes his pitchfork and attempts to rally the mob.
You want to silence Mrs. Faulty by threatening to go full Faulty?
Seriously??
What tribe/mob lays claim to a wavelength?
None! Before the white invasion the indigenous tribes had a continent wide agreement as to how frequencies would be used in a sharing and inclusive manner.
I’m sure Professor Pascoe could confirm this.
Dover, you have to do something about the anti Semite stuff that’s infecting this place.
He is the Achilles heel of the UAP. At some point he is going to start throwing his weight around on some personal grievance or scheme of his.
I hope Craig Kelly has the nous to be ready for this – to trigger an expulsion if and when necessary, courting donors who might be needed when Clive closes his cheque book, and an eye on anything else Clive, in a fit of petulance, might do. They should keep a register of how much of what is in his name.
Clive left and dumped on the Libs when he thought he was not getting his ‘props’, created a Frankenstein party by stitching together different body parts and running some money through it (and we are still haunted by Lambie), and now this one.
Even now I think he is trying to disguise himself as an Aussie Trump – the billionaire businessman who will turn everything on its head. But it is just a disguise. He may as well grab a club, wrap a lion pelt around himself, and claim to be Hercules.
If they have a plan to cut Fat Bastard off I would feel a lot better.
Fat lamb prices continue to fluctuate badly as companies struggle to keep processing lines staffed due Covid isolation policy.
Planning from day to day is a nightmare as unprocessed stock build up in the system.
Conversely the demand from the US is sky high but we can’t get enough lamb processed and farmers are copping poorer prices as a result.
Only government can kill the golden goose and claim it’s doing you a favour.
Magiller suffers from a rare condition known as FLC syndrome*.
During his time as an alleged cricketer, he was constantly planting stories with j’ism mates about how hard done by he was to be passed over for that chap from Victoria.
(I’m looking at you, Jim Maxwell).
The only minor flaw in the narrative was the bloke from Victoria was roughly 3.6 times better the Gwyneth MacGill.
Since he left crickit he has been on the lookout for jobs which involve getting up late, swanning around and drinking free piss.
Hence the failed “Magiller Uncorked” wahn show on the Lifestyle Channel. The main subjects being fahn wahns and how fabulously knowledgeable Gwyneth MacGill was about said fahn wahns.
Then it seems a series of “Restaurant/Bar Manager” roles, which no doubt wouldn’t involve moving kegs, polishing glasses, pulling a beer tap handle, or any other actual exertion.
* = Fat Lazy C***
I think the only person MacGill has informed on is Stuart Charles Glyndwr MacGill himself.
Yes … “Glyndwr”.
Not having the o & e in Glyndower is a bit pretentious.
Who does he think he is…a Welsh prince?
Dot wants people to believe that calling out liars by quoting their own lies, in full & in context, is “bigotry”.
Dot is a lawyer.
It might be a bit hard to suck her ladycock now by way of riposte…
“Clive left and dumped on the Libs when he thought he was not getting his ‘props’, created a Frankenstein party by stitching together different body parts and running some money through it (and we are still haunted by Lambie), and now this one.”
A perfect summary ML.
Lode.
I agree.
Fat Cloive is almost certain to want to pull the strings, pull the rug, pull … something.
That is what bothers me too.
He is almost certain to try the very same corrupt misuse of access and influence that he currently rails against with the LNP/ALP – Greens.
His doting parents did anyway.
Lots of us have weird and wonderful “family” names. Always an awkward moment when the curious ask, “What does the … stand for?”.
Fortunately we grow out of the horror and become remarkably fond of them, often bestowing them on our kids.
You still don’t get it ussr, you shrivelled old crone.
I picked up your precise words about Catholics and re-pasted them with the words “Eastern European” substituted for “Catholic”.
So, if you find them bigoted, it might be time for a trip to the Hall of Mirrors (cruel and unusual punishment in your case, I know).
But they are your words.
Is daddy Eastern European?
What did he do?
Did he tell you “all daddies do this”?
I don’t care about the Clive things that you bring up, he’s the chairman and a big donor but not the leader. The party itself is the biggest political party in Australia by a long way.
The LDP is great, I’m a former member, however they are small, not running many candidates, underfunded and low energy, I would be happy if they get the balance of power in the senate, but it’s unlikely. The UAP is the best bet for change. Hang shit on it all you want but if you don’t support it or the LDP you are on the side of evil. If you say you won’t vote at all rather than vote UAP or LDP then you are supporting the Uniparty through your inaction.
There’s no easy way out of the current mess but hanging shit on Clive and the UAP is not going to get us out of it, it may give you a warm glow inside but that’s all you will get, unless you want a uniparty that will only make things worse.
Lizzie, hurry up and get back here. SRR needs a rest from Cool and the gang.
In all of that gigantic wordwall, there was not one mention of where these jokes are.
Re Cloive. I’m in agreement with sfw.
The LDP undercover agents can take a rest.
Prince.
Spelt and pronounced “ponce”.
His initials are “SCG” which he insisted on using in full on the scorecard.
I kid you not.
One of his Sydney boosters once suggested he be selected for a Test at the SCG because … symbolism.
Written and authorised by Leigh Lowe for the Liberal Party of Australia, Victoria Division.
Maybe he is having some trouble with the people who owain the rights to the name.
Maybe he angered them and they consider he is owain them an apology.
I would vote for a trans sexual one legged chihuahua if it was a candidate. Anything is better than the current cockwombles* infesting parliament.
* = uniparty/ commies
“The LDP is great, I’m a former member, however they are small, not running many candidates, underfunded and low energy, I would be happy if they get the balance of power in the senate, but it’s unlikely. The UAP is the best bet for change. Hang shit on it all you want but if you don’t support it or the LDP you are on the side of evil. If you say you won’t vote at all rather than vote UAP or LDP then you are supporting the Uniparty through your inaction.”
I’m a member of the LDP…..yes they’re small but I don’t find them “low energy”. I’ll be voting LDP here in Wentworth, they have a great candidate and whilst he won’t win, he’s getting some traction. . I’ll also be voting LDP in the senate…and I hope that the LDP get some people up in NSW, Victoria and QLD.
I understand the attraction to Palmer’s party….but I won’t apologise for being very wary of Palmer. I don’t trust him. Palmer will expect payment and I doubt very much whether he’s learnt anything since 2016. I really like Craig Kelly and I hope he hangs onto his heat….but it’s unlikely and it is probably unlikely (though not impossible) that the UAP won’t win any lower house seats. Having said that I completely understand why people are drawn to the UAP….because we’re now living a country beset with political dislocation and upheaval and where our supposed right of centre parties, the Liberals and the Nationals, have just trashed us, their traditional voters. Those two parties will reap what they sow and it will be sweet, very sweet.
Babababa Bundy!
How goes it?
Agreed.