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It’s a race to the bottom to win contracts. Therefore construction has turned into a cashflow business, profits be damned. As long as money coming in is bigger than money going out, nobody gives a shit, even if some projects are going under.
The Brandons are probably getting a kick back from OPEC somehow to enact policies that raise oil prices.
Who else produces fertiliser?
China
Until they barred exports last year.
And you know what, I’m actually sick of this bullshit about petrol prices. I can’t stand the idea that some Russian kunt can determine if I pay 80 bucks or $130 plus at the pump. Fuck that, I’ve just decided that I will be going EV for at least one car. No towel head or Russian turd is going to dictate the cost of my energy consumption for just one car. Fuck’em all.
I produce fertilizer. In copious qtys. $100/kg.
Thank you.
A man who knows his fertilizers.
Worked on a bid to OCP a couple of years ago for a monster fertilizer plant in Morocco.
Yuuuuge.
The French-English to and fro was tedious.
Fertilizer is gas. That’s why fertilizer prices (ie. N, not P) have skyrocketed in the last year or so. Gas is sucked up for electricity generation to stop renewbulls crashing the grid. And thank the Greens for locking the gate everywhere in the West, like for the poor Cuadrilla guys. So must have ebil gas but must not produce ebil gas, leading today’s dumb situation.
Likewise the AdBlue shortage, since that’s urea made from ammonia which is made from natural gas. Because the gas price is high it wasn’t worthwhile to manufacture urea anymore, so no AdBlue. Of course there’s no reason why you actually need AdBlue to run a truck, that’s just green ideology. It’s nicely indicative of greenery eating itself.
Mole
Morocco is a big producer of fertilizer I believe.
We know this.
Let it dry.
Shut up Brucie, not all phosphate is gas intense. Go to bed. You should have been in bed 7 hours ago.
Why let it blow away in the wind, when I can enjoy watching you morons slip and slide through it.
Bruce
Can’t I just design a truck with (better) catalytic converters? Why do I need urea to catalyse unburnt diesel & carbon particulates? My second car has a DPF – why can’t that work for trucks?
whoops
meant to say: not all fertilizer is gas intensive.
Winston Smithsays:
February 24, 2022 at 9:28 pm
Rosie:
You don’t think French resistance fighters had any moral grounds to take up arms against the German invaders?
Then don a uniform like the rules say, rosie and don’t hide behind your civvie mates.
What’s morally right and what’s within the rules are two different things.
The rules no doubt permitted the Germans to kill civilian-clothed Resistance fighters.
But having invaded and occupied another country, after having created the war by its previous actions (Poland), they could hardly claim the moral high ground against French citizens resisting them by any means possible.
This statement makes no business sense.
Companies like ProBuild have zero capital equipment.
Therefore positive cash = profit at the end of every project.
That plan doesn’t work unless someone was giving them project advances … ho, ho, fucking ho.
Big is a relative term. I lived near a chicken shit baron in Rheola (country Victoria) in 2013, if you needed a semi load then Jungle was your man. There was money in it apparently.
and JC’s into oil
… there’s the lube
There’s a proposal to build a plant producing fertilizer in the Pilbarra of Western Australia. The local indigenous are complaining that the pollution from the plant will destroy their sacred cave paintings, and thus destroy their traditional song lines..
P fertilizers derive from phosphate rock and aren’t much affected by gas prices.
N fertilizers come from gas, as I described. N fertilizers have skyrocketed in price because of the dumb EU and the imbecile in the WH.
K fertilizers are basically derived from potash, which is mined. Saskatchewan is one of the biggest produers. It isn’t affected much by the gas price.
Morocco I believe produces P fertilizer mainly. Canada has vast potash deposits. Neither are important to the N fertilizer situation.
I think Qatar makes a lot of ammonia and urea., since they are a huge gas producer. They’re the typical major producer. Other places like Singapore make a lot of ammonia too I believe.
Farming Cats can correct me.
Oops, the blockquote is my words. Dunno how that happened.
crazy fucking Dutch Auction
it’s all last-man-standing except they forgot they had to pay the bills along the way
Franksays:
February 24, 2022 at 9:59 pm
Who else produces fertilizer in big quantities.
Big is a relative term. I lived near a chicken shit baron in Rheola (country Victoria) in 2013, if you needed a semi load then Jungle was your man. There was money in it apparently.
One of my student jobs very many years ago was cleaning out the chook pens of a commercial egg farmer. $1 per hour plus being fed (very well I should note). I was still blowing chook shit out of my nose and coughing it up days later.
Their fathers faced the same dilemma in Belgium in 1914….
I bought the shit at the beginning of the year. I said I was at the time. It’s important not mention trades in a harry hindsight way. I bought the crap and now looking to offload crude futures and make my way into oil minors in the US. This segment could explode shirt term. Overall though I’m really bearish for oil because I think consumers will get sick of the political volatility.
make sure it’s a tax deduction
I actually heard some moron caller to 3AW yesterday saying that “construction contracts aren’t permitted to have escalation for materials”.
To be fair, Tom Elliot pulled that one up.
The caller has either been sucked into fixed price contracts himself by this bullshit, or he is trying to cover ProBuild’s failures.
Who the fuck believes this shit?
You can put rise and fall in a contract for anything you think is a risk – steel, copper, labour, foreign exchange rates, whatever.
Timothy Nielson:
You will notice I did not claim Germany possessed the high moral ground.
Dot – I defer to Cat truckers on that. But I’ve had direct experience that stuff like urea is a very good reagent for consuming NOx out of exhaust gas. I always thought that was what the AdBlue was mainly for, but I haven’t read up on it.
Matrix
Paying 80 bucks for a full tank if borders on just okay. Personally think it ought to be 50 bucks. I’ll be fucked if I’m going to give Putin a portion of the $130 plus I will be paying next time.
This is going to become a business strategy for the Russian kunt. Cause havoc and that will cause the price of oil to go up. Fuck the corrupt piece of shit.
EXPOSED: Who’s REALLY Running the Biden Administration | Glenn TV | Ep 171
Um,
Part of one of my old jobs was constructing such schedules for BOOT and public asset managers etc.
Fuck that, I’ve just decided that I will be going EV for at least one car. No towel head or Russian turd is going to dictate the cost of my energy consumption for just one car. Fuck’em all.
I can’t tell if you’re being serious head prefect; but bear in mind while you’re right about the bears and the towelheads with petrol, electricity won’t be there to replace it courtesy of the filth. When rub and tug wins there will be no electricity in this shit-hole.
I am serious, Cronkers. I don’t want to be at the mercy of these fucking arseholes anymore.
Created and written by Julian Fellowes.
I forgot to mention that I’ve worked at two sites with ammonia plants, and did work on several other ammonia projects: engineering, project economics. Some on nitric acid also. I’ve worked at two operations with superphosphate plants, and done lots of supporting work around them, especially on acid plants. And was peripherally involved in one large potash project. But I’m not a farmer who actually uses the stuff. I just make it.
Two Lawfare Prosecutors Leading Trump Inquiry in New York City Quit, Manhattan DA Doubts There Is a Case
February 23, 2022 | Sundance | 151 Comments
Sometimes things just fall on the side of the righteous. The premise of the silly Manhattan case against Donald Trump was that he inflated the value of his real estate holdings in the city. The DA was trying to make some kind of fraud case over it, but it always seemed ridiculous.
Consider the scenario, they are ultimately debating and trying to legally criminalize the subjective value of a physical asset. Imagine the timing of such a case right now when the value of property is so high.
You tell a grand jury that Trump inflated the value, and then someone just asks what it’s worth, and the answer is, “well, right now, it’s worth a lot more than he claimed then,” and the silliness of the case gets worse. I digress…
Splodey heads are happening today, because the two prosecutors in the case have quit, and the Manhattan district attorney says he doubts there’s any case here… and the salty tears of the far-left are crying, “curse you villain!”
(New York) – The two prosecutors leading the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation into former President Donald J. Trump and his business practices abruptly resigned on Wednesday amid a monthlong pause in their presentation of evidence to a grand jury, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The stunning development comes not long after the high-stakes inquiry appeared to be gaining momentum and throws its future into serious doubt.
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https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/23/two-lawfare-prosecutors-leading-trump-inquiry-in-new-york-city-quit-manhattan-da-doubts-there-is-a-case/
LOL
No more free stay at home holidays for diversity hires.
https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/Documents/certain-critical-worker-exemption.pdf#toc-eligible-critical-workers
Critical worker exemption from the Public Health (COVID-19 Self-Isolation) Order (No 4) 2021 (No 5)
LOL, exempted:
journalism
You making excuses for the nazis Winston?
It seems to me your argument is people are not allowed to fight an invader unless they can don a uniform.
I don’t agree and I don’t think the allies did either considering how much support they provided to the French.
resistance.
Incidentally I’m pretty sure the specific incident to which I’m referring the young men were in the uniform of the FFI but that didn’t prevent their summary execution.
OK.
So Vlad has a right to defend Wussia by attacking Ukraine, because they were contemplating joining NATO.
And we agree that he is emboldened to do this because Western Europe and the US are militarily and politically weak.
So, Vlad has to invade a neighbouring sovereign country to pre-emptively defend against an attack from an emasculated NATO alliance?
Yeah, nah, fuck off.
He has designs on rebuilding the USSR.
You know, that thing which was dismantled by the last true conservative President, Ronnie Reagan.
Brucie. you rotated dials. Stop the bullshit. If you were as good as you always make out, you’d be living in Mosman or the eastern burbs instead of Oldcastle and not driving a 150 year old Camray. Cut the crap.
From what I can see it’s got to be getting very close JC.
Average US petrol price tonight is $3.52 per gallon – up $0.89 from a year ago, and for no reason other than Biden sucking up to the greenies. People I’ve talked to are pissed off big time and it isn’t just due to the fuel prices. Stock market is in freefall. Inflation is really starting to hit hard.
Biden and the Dem’s approval ratings are sinking like a rock. The Dems whose seats are up for election in Nov are shittin kittens and are putting serious heat on the administration. 28 Dem Congressmen have announced they aren’t going to defend their seats. Rats leaving a sinking ship.
The Rep CPAC convention kicks off in about 3 hours. One of the special guest speakers is no other than Tulsi Gabbard if that gives you a sense of how things are going.
What’s the argument. The turd has stated this without any ambiguity.
Yep.
Couldn’t believe someone actually believed that.
Zat, really? Wow, FMD.
Oh, no.
Vlad is the Great Defender of the Christian Faith.
Pure as the driven Moscow snow.
Also, when he takes his shirt off, sucks his guts in and sits on a pony, some of us get a stiffy.
Not me.
drove to Adelaide on a tank and had a few hundred K’s left over
drove back to Melb on a tank and had a couple of hundred K’s left over
the diesel was purring like a jet engine … 110 kmh
saw one Tesla
the elec recharge station at Kieth was empty when we stopped for a sausage roll and a coffee
both there and back
I got the impression Winston that you are claiming those German atrocities where the direct consequence of resistance actions.
In effect that the French resistance should have not acted against the Germans, because Geneva Convention even though the Germans themselves didn’t abide by the Geneva Convention.
Hey, does anyone want to move to Vlad’s macho Wussia?
Matrix
That’s great. Really, I happy that you’re content. However I’m never going to drive interstate nor much further than 150 ks at a time.
I am serious, Cronkers. I don’t want to be at the mercy of these fucking arseholes anymore.
yeah but the fuckers who make up our political establishment here are doing their best to make electricity expensive and unreliable- that’s where the push for electric cars has never made sense to me unless it’s for nomenklatura only. We should be looking for more oil here and build new refineries. My gf used to talk about Newnes shale oil and how you could even fill up there.
He sure is. At $1.4 billion, the meek shall inherit the earth.
Hey, does anyone want to move to Vlad’s macho Wussia?
better than being screemed at by transsexuals in Ottawa
Yeah, but he got out of the dollar months ago and the ruble is about to hit all time lows.
Are there any electric cars apart from Teslas that aren’t totally gay?
This may surprise, but I was being a tad sarcastic.
Vlad is just placating the Orthodox sector for convenience.
He would crush any genuine religious opposition in a heartbeat.
The fact that he crushes Muslim opposition in satellite states doesn’t make him a friend of Christianity.
He is just killing the biggest religious threat first.
Take a number, Jesus guys.
Here’s the Russian opposition “leader” who the humble man of God tried to poison and when that failed the piece of shit had him jailed.
buy a tricycle.
and
Since whenever, Russian rulers like to surround the place with friendly or occupied states.
The idea is that with any invasion the battles will not be fought on Russian soil. No more Stalingrads.
and
Goodnight all.
Brm Brm
Frank, I’m eyeing this off and thinking about pulling the trigger.
Same here milton. I got an estimate on installing a charging station at my home last week – ouch. Between that and watching electricity bills soar I’m not too comfortable buying what to me is still an experimental car.
Heh. And our overlords are as pure as the driven snow.
It goes like this.
You arrive in Wussia as a Western ex-pat.
You glow like a Maccas neon sign as a target.
Within a week a Wussian blob knocks on your door offering security for USD200 per month.
You complain to the cops.
The say they can do it for USD 150.
Good luck.
As shitholes go, it is up there.
I don’t trust our like our rulers.
I still distrust and dislike an ex KGB dude even more.
Zat, you probably don’t in the US, if that’s where you are for now. I have phase 3 available in my home as it was built in the past 15 years. The Mercedes charging station/ panel thing is 2k.
Who has Morrison ordered to be murdered? How about Trump?
It’s a roach hotel with the Russian kunt.
I’m sick of our sneaky, smirking POS overlords, I’d give Vlad a go.
Sure batteries are getting better and my Ryobi tools are excellent- no farting around with 2 stroke mix but batteries still degrade with each charge-discharge
Just sad.
Thems the breaks Milt. 🙂
Razey
You’re not allowed to give this dude a go. He was nearly poisoned and now jailed.
Within a week a Wussian blob knocks on your door offering security for USD200 per month.
You complain to the cops.
The say they can do it for USD 150.
Good luck.
As shitholes go, it is up there.
yes I see your point- funny thing is I was asked in 2013 if I was interested in working there and I said no.
They are not.
But I am not swapping any of them for that murderous fucker Putin any time soon.
White Lies, Black Ops & Red China: Insider Exposes Pandemic Money Trails | Glenn TV | Ep 173
It’s been obvious the CIA was balls deep in wuhan. The telltale sign was that nobody has been charged with anything. nor been told to walk. not Fauci not Daszak. nobody. Given they were working with china on its bioweapon program, the obvious conclusion is that they were working for the CIA.
So, you’re moving from Japan to Wussia now?
maaate … looks like a Mazda
go for the Alfa Romeo
I can live with that. 🙂
looks like a Mazda
Looks like a Honda. Unless that Simone bird is eight foot and two hundred kilos, that shot of her tucked into the tailgate betrays the fact that Merc’s electric “SUV” is barely a hatchback.
Dan Andrews kills 800 and gets a free pass?
Very good interview on Youtube by Megyn Kelly with Dr Ladapo Surgeon General of Florida. Covers masks for kids, boosters, danger of repeated boosters, monoclonal antibodies, hydroxy and Ivermectin. Mentions the recent Malaysian IVM research. IVM safer than Ibuprofen and wrong to say dangerous. Says he is friends with Dr Jay B who was one of the Great Barrington Declaration Dr’s. Said he thinks he has had Covid although never tested positive to it. Not a Fauci fan.
I remember reading somewhere that Florida was one of the few states that basically followed the thoughts of Barrington/ Dr Jay.
Megyn knows the subject and her own family’s experience interesting. Her kids have had Covid and unvaxxed. She is triple vaxxed but anti kids getting vax.
Starts around 52 min mark.
Vaccine vs. Natural Immunity, and Parents Fighting Back, with Dr. Joseph Ladapo and Brian Echevarria
I love my Mazda
but it needs a 3.0td
2.2td doesnt cut it
Audi?
DON’T fucking vote for Andrews then and pull the lever for someone else. You can’t vote for the other guy in Russia though , because Putin had him jailed under false pretext. I bet you still can’t see the difference.
Fair enough, that Mercedes seems pretty nice. The cheap little ones I see around usually leave a lot to be desired. The Maybachs are electric now too I think, styled on a fifties era wooden speedboat which is nice.
Just to be clear Razor, these “sneaky, smirking POS overlords”.
Are they in Japan or Australia?
I am struggling to keep up.
You are country-hopping like Ronnie Biggs.
I do not love Dan Andrews at all.
In fact I fucking detest the man.
But I am not trading him for Vlad the Invader.
The problem with moving to Russia is that you might like to be on The Team, but the Russians won’t let you be on The Team.
As mentioned, you’ll stick out like dogs’ balls, and attract the attention of every one of the multiple Russki security organisations. Then it’ll be time for a chat with them.
‘Yeah nah, I like Putin, he’s fuckin’ gold mate. That’s why I’m here. Fair enough?’
‘Nyet.’
In the unlikely event they decide you’re harmless and let you out – you’ll be down your wallet, your keys and your kidneys inside a fortnight courtesy of the spivs and standover men who make the best we have in this country look and sound like Liberace.
Robert Gottliebsen in the Oz
We’re gonna need a bigger room for this elephant.
Indeed.
KD.
Are you suggesting that self-styled Aussie hard men might be re-calibrated on the Wussian scale to somewhere around the Pooftah Pansie level?
KD.
A mate just returned from three years in ‘nam.
His take?
“No matter how free and easy and fun it all appears, particularly in tourist spots, always keep your guard up. You are living in a Communist country.”
This election is pretty slim pickings by the looks of it, choices are a human blancmange versus a snivelling sex pest. How did we get here.
Sancho P quoted this:
Longer term the gravy train which enabled developers led by the industry superannuation funds and Cbus to make a fortune developing properties is coming to an end.
China virus stemmed the immigration Ponzi scheme – hear sounds of chickens coming home to roost.
John Wick was one of their rejects.
Think about that.
Oh I dunno. If Oz wants to get involved in Ukraine, I’d slightly prefer to go in on the side of the Russians. I don’t like Putin, but I’ve got some respect for his competence, I can’t say that for the so called leaders of the West.
Vox Day
@voxday
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Eat meat. Live longer.
Come on, does it really surprise you to learn that the mainstream food narrative for the last 50 years was false all along?
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-02-meat-eating-human-life-worldwide.html
PR lesson for former Lark Distillery CEO and glass barbie enthusiast Geoff Bainbridge.
If you want to accuse a major newspaper of being in league with blackmailers to peddle a faked a video to extort you, make sure you are squeaky clean.
Firstly, make sure the video can’t be conclusively traced to Melbourne and dated 2021 when you claim it was taken in Singapore in 2015.
Predictably, the Oz is now publishing one article per day pulling the wings off Mr Bainbridge.
And it looks like a target rich environment for the them.
Yes Siltstone.
The market for shitty 32 sq mtr dogbox bedsits has dried up.
This is no bad thing.
PrisonPlanet
@PrisonPlanet
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One Democratic congressman has suggested that authorities should “impound” the vehicles of Freedom Convoy protesters and then give them away to businesses that are compliant with the government mandates.
https://summit.news/2022/02/23/dem-rep-suggests-stealing-trucks-of-mandate-protesters-and-giving-them-away-to-compliant-businesses/
A Communist country, where the trishaw drivers – in Hanoi, of all places – quoted the fare in U.S. Dollars – they weren’t interested in Dong, and the bribe to have your son exempted from conscription was also quoted in “Long Green?”
Example cited by my Vietman mate.
Got burgled.
Local cops were very helpful.
He offered up his surveillance camera footage.
Nek minnit, helpfulness dissipated, and more senior VietPlod were telling him how hard it all was and, “Oh, can we double check your visa?”
re adblue ,
European regulations required that diesel trucks stop polluting with unburnt fuel known as particulates.
The designers got around this by running the motors lean which stops the particulates and cleans up the exhaust.
However the downside is the motor now produces lots of NOX (nitrous oxides) which apparently cause acid rain or something .
So the smart engineers came up with a fix for that. The exhaust stream has some adblu (a solution of urea in water) added to it before it is sent through a catalytic convertor. In the cat convertor the adblu reacts with the NOX to form Nitrogen and water vapour.
The bureaucrats realised that some people would run the system without using the adblu, so they mandated (lovely word that bureaucrats orgasm over) that the manufacturers program the engine management systems to derate the engine if the adblu system is played with.
From memory the catalyst is zircon or something similar and is totally different to the cats in petrol cars.
Common problems are the adblu injector caking up with crystalised urea, split hoses and holes in the exhaust all causing the system to fail. DAF use two NOX sensors just to really fuck you over and used to be prone to derating all the time. Emulators can be bought to bluff the system but you get what yo
u pay for and cheap ones are virtually useless. Reprogramming can be done if you have the correct software to talk to the ECU. As you would expect each manufacturer has their own proprietory software system
DPF systems capture the particulates in fine screens that the exhaust stream has to flow through. When the Engine management system decides enough time has elapsed it dumps a small volume of raw fuel into the DPF and ignites it to burn the stuff off.
NSW fire had some early Isuzu models where the exhaust points down and consequently the grass around the truck would catch fire.
Already producing, Zulu.
There was a mob called Salt Lake Potash, who were just about to start producing potash sulfate salts from the brine lakes at Leonora, but crashed out at the last hurdle by running out of money last October. Just as they were ironing out the last kinks in their manufacturing processes about to commence production.
The company is in receivership, but the plant has been built (so far as I know), so we might yet see it resurface in somebody else’s hands before long. And probably sooner rather than later.
@ Bill-
Thanks for that.
I know that Cummins have been really eager to push their big prime movers into freight rail ops, chasing the big markets in the US (and, ultimately worldwide) for Tier 4+ locos as the regulatory screws tighten.
Problem being, their Tier 5-level emissions reduction figures demanded AdBlue. And this is an extra consumable that would add cost and weight and chew up unavailable space (particularly in nations with less generous loading gauges- Europe and Australia spring readily to mind), so the big railroads said ‘no.’ That, and their high-speed motors have tended to prove mostly better suited to railcars and passenger ops.
CAT, EMD and GE have persisted with lean-burning medium speed diesel prime movers, and continue to hold the lion’s share of the market.
Bill Mitchell
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WE CAUGHT THEM!
It has just been discovered that genetic material patented by Moderna is in the virus’s spike protein! It is this place in the spike which makes Covid so infectious!
So the vaccine manufacturer’s DNA sequence is part of Covid? They say there is a one-in-three-trillion chance that could have occurred naturally.
NOW WE KNOW. Covid was invented in a lab to unleash the deadly mRNA vaccine upon the world!
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Fresh lab leak fears as study finds genetic code in Covid’s spike protein linked to Moderna patent
Fresh suspicion that Covid may have been tinkered with in a lab emerged today after scientists found genetic material owned by Moderna in the virus’s spike protein. They identified a tiny snippet of…
https://yvn.news/fresh-lab-leak-fears-as-study-finds-genetic-code-in-covids-spike-protein-linked-to-moderna-patent/
yvn.news
Moscow stock market fell pretty heavily this morning before they managed to shut it down.
Now reopened but down 32%
Sberbank state-owned Russian banking and financial services company down 48%
Gazprom down 39%… someone doesn’t think that pipeline is safe it seems.
You’re right JC, she could pull my trigger anytime. HiHo Silver! Other than that just another overpriced Merc. I passed on a 1973 450slc for $23k silly me, it was beautiful. I really only like old cars.
The Germans shot French civilians in the Franco Prussian War.
The Germans shot Belgium and French Civilians in World War 1. And Nurse Carell. And lots of Africans.
It seems they may have form for it leading up to World War 2.
Catturd ™
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You mean, Pete Buttigieg going on maternity leave for 3 months didn’t scare the hell out of Putin and make him think twice about invading Ukraine?
This is a doable fix-up…
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Warren Brown.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Christian Adams.
Steve Bright.
Matt Pritchett.
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok.
Steve Kelley.
Al Goodwyn.
Matt Margolis.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks Tom. Garrison a bit weird today. Most of the rest predictable and not very imaginative, but the Kelly was good.
Strong words from Boris Johnson in the House of Commons re sanctions on Russia and Belarus
– Banned Aeroflot from the UK
– Export controls on Russia and Belarus of all dual use items
– Possibly cut Russia out of the Swift banking system
– Ban Russian companies from raising funds in UK
– Asset freezes on all Russian arms manufacturers
– Going after corrupt Russian oligarch assets in UK
– Squeeze Russia from the international economy
Calling for increases in NATO funding/capability
perspective from someone with family in Kharkov and Donetsk
James Morrow suggesting Biden restart Keystone, Germany should end the green dream and Australia should go nuclear.
Ending dependence on Russian energy might have an impact.
On the other hand the Ukrainian government might be the badder baddies
Hundreds of Russians protest Ukraine invasion despite warning they’ll be ‘held liable’
Public opinion in Russia will be an interesting factor.
Yeah, clown world has been with us for some time!
Thanks as always, Tom, for ‘toon world. Nothing much to laugh about today although Mark Knight raised a smile.
Puttin’ poetry in motion
Rosie, there is no earthly reason to think the brandons and their green scum allies wouldn’t rejoice at higher prices for oil and gas. They don’t think like us!
Rex, last night you mentioned Salt Lake Potash.
The commonly held view is that the administration call was driven by one key creditor.
Their expectation that the two other largest creditors (Australian government & the German government) would just walk, leaving them to have a clear run at the asset for chump change.
But their problem now is they are going to be given a run for their money because it seems everyone is now wise to their strategy.
All told, it’s about a $A500mill debt & equity wipe out.
The new owner is going to make serious bank on the asset over the next decade.
Okay.
ProBuild also plays developer.
They bought a 6 storey block of brick units on the cnr of Margaret and Albert about 14 years ago, booted the tenants, demolished the building at great expense because full of asbestos, it’s sat vacant with a ProBuild sign on the fence since 2010.
Just the Council Rates alone woulda cost them a pretty penny.
Biden is a vindictive swampy.
It shouldn’t come as any surprise.
He’s been that way all his public life.
I have to hand it to the LDP.
Over the last couple of years they really have lifted their game regarding engagement.
I donated to Lewkovitz’s campaign yesterday.
I then get the email saying thank you & if I reply with anything, Daniel will personally see it.
So I email back with a few things.
Last night I get an email that addresses each point.
I have no doubt it was a staffer that replied, not the candidate (either that or AI is out of control).
And it wasn’t a huge donation either.
Anyway, hopefully the LDP get above the AEC quota so they get my taxpayer funding.
What Dover was mocking, the prevalence of the same story elsewhere points to its confection for me.
“AUSSIES WORRIED ABOUT SURROGATE MUMS IN UKRAINE”
“IRISH MAMMIES WORRIED ABOUT UKRAINIAN SURROGATES”
The content is nowhere near as telling.
Grigory giving business advice.
You may as well ask your hens about scuba diving.
From the Richard Hanania substack column yesterday.
This is why, when I oppose American intervention in Ukraine, I’m not going to preface it by saying how bad Putin is, at least until those in favor of being involved have to answer for Iraq, Syria, Libya, and the other disasters that have characterized American foreign policy over the last several decades.
Good point.
Why should I have to preface everything with “Putin is a monster”.
A few billionaires in Kiev tried to play Europe off against Russia almost a decade ago.
Not to join NATO.
But for money.
And then Russia gave them more.
Deal done, contract with the devil entered into.
Here is the link to the substack column.
https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/why-a-multipolar-world-will-be-more?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozMzA2NTMsInBvc3RfaWQiOjQ5MjQzNjY4LCJfIjoiZUd1S0giLCJpYXQiOjE2NDU3MzIxNjMsImV4cCI6MTY0NTczNTc2MywiaXNzIjoicHViLTk4MTAyIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.E2ihLxU5tafKltht9Pd0XXYLxVhhu8avOEQsX4S376Y&utm_source=url
Dilbert
Groundhog Day.
What’s different to May 2019?
Venus, goddess of love, and Mars, god of war, side by side in the eastern sky ahead of the sun. And looked down on by a crescent moon. I daresay it’s deeply symbolic of something or other. Or maybe it’s just that Mars is the opposite side of the solar system at the moment.
Meanwhile over at Tim Blair:
Jane Caro is having a tilt at the senate.
Caro waiting to be rescued by the ‘Patriarchy’ and also hopefully indicative of her run to the senate.
Time to unleash Michelle Obama and the #istandwithUkraine woke offensive.
Looks like Caro reckons she’ll meet the AEC quote for the tax payer dosh.
Is dopey Rob Oakeshott going to go around again this election?
Check out all the Woke Cultists’ reactions to the Ukraine invasion
Amazing. These people truly have no grasp on reality.
I suspect that, despite the strong words from our normally feeble and idiotic leaders in the west, Bumbling Blob Johnson, Scumbag Morrison, The Rotting Corpse, Miniscule Macron (who got his backside smacked by Putin), Justine Turdeau et al, they’re not only thanking Putin for Ukraine, they’re loving it. It’s given them a perfect distraction from their own political woes and incompetence (and they’re all masters at political incompetence) and it’s given them a perfect opportunity to stand up and wave a stick at Putin. I find them all Pythonesque.
Last night I watched our own Scumbag Morrison, who everyday reminds me more and more of Billy Bunter, give a press conference and he was rambling on about “freedom”…..and I roared with laughter. Such inane tripe from a feeble moron who hasn’t said one word, not one word, about the various abuses committed against Australian citizens over the last two years and particularly against Victorian citizens. But his favourite word now is “freedom”…and I’m supposed to buy that? I suspect many of us aren’t buying this new found love for freedom from the aforementioned feeble fools. And let me make this clear, I’m not laughing at what is going on in Ukraine although anyone was a modicum of knowledge of the history of Ukraine would know it’s complicated. And I’m not laughing because I like Putin. I don’t. Putin is a thug but I tell who I dislike more and that is that utterly corrupt, venal, sleazy, sniffing, rotting corpse currently occupying the WH. America is being trashed by the rotting corpse and the Democrat party. The west is being trashed. Putin isn’t a hypocrite, he doesn’t pretend to be a democrat. Here in the west we are being surrounded by, governed by, lectured by a cohort of elitist and smug hypocrites, be it our political leaders, our judiciary, our MSM and so on. They pretend to respect democracy and the voter but the truth is they hate us. It’s easy to mouth the word “freedom”. We might believe we’re morally better than Russia but we aren’t. As C.L. said so perfectly in his blog piece, we no longer live in the west of our grandparents after World War II, or 1970 or even 1990. The west has completely destroyed its soul. I suspect we’ve all known this for a long time…it’s just that Covid has laid it bare.
I’m working from home today so I won’t have access to the Bloomberg terminal to watch European gas hubs.
When I log in remotely it kills the NBN.
“Good point.
Why should I have to preface everything with “Putin is a monster”.
A few billionaires in Kiev tried to play Europe off against Russia almost a decade ago.
Not to join NATO.
But for money.
And then Russia gave them more.
Deal done, contract with the devil entered into.”
Well said Bern, exactly how feel.
I find them all Pythonesque.
Hear, hear.
Haha, schadenfreude for the green Euroweenies.
EV Charging Prices In Munich Expected To Rise As Much As 81% (24 Feb)
Nice to see Pierre being repeated on large audience sites. I’ve been following his blog daily from the week he started it, although I haven’t commented there for a while.
Those numbers are in Euro cents of course, so we’re talking over a buck Aussie per kWh. A Tesla model 3 gets about 20 kWh/100 km, vs a similar ICE car at about 7 L/100 km. Therefore at EUR AUD of 1.56 that means 0.69 x 1.56 x 20 / 7 = A$3.07/L equivalent. Still, not too ridiculous, as premium was $2/L the other day at the servo I go to. On the other hand that fast charger kWh price doesn’t include road pricing, whereas petrol does in the form of excise. So I suspect the only way is up, especially in gas-challenged Euroland.
Less than a week ago, it was Macron the peacemaker.
A peace summit he brokered…uh-oh…he didn’t.
And the media has already moved on from that.
Wars are generally destructive of ppl and property, so I rather disapprove of them. But they do have one good aspect, they have a really shattering effect on those who, in peaceful times, choose to live in a loony fantasy of their own creation.
King David thought so, thousands of years ago.
Believing or not, it’s still beautiful. Tolkien was keen on the immutable loveliness of the stars too. I daresay you would be if you were stuck in the Flemish mud with horror all around.
I stand with Vlad.
It had always been predicted that Russia would save the world from itself.
I’ve got 2 pathfinders, 1 petrol, 1 diesel. I have a bypass for the particulate filter sensor. It uses about 8% less fuel.
“Wars are generally destructive of ppl and property, so I rather disapprove of them. But they do have one good aspect, they have a really shattering effect on those who, in peaceful times, choose to live in a loony fantasy of their own creation.”
Once up0n a time I would have agreed with you but “those”, that is our smug, progressive elites have fallen so far down a rabbit hole of progressive lunacy that they are irredeemable.
Jeeezee…its Flanneling like buggery here in Toowoomba.
I reckon what finally decided Putin to strike was the presence of vp Kamala. He took one look at her rambling idiocy and concluded the US had morons in charge.
I’m grateful for the commentary here. The whole Russia/Ukraine thing is doing my head in.
Exactly who exactly is the “baddie”? Or is it baddies vs baddies? If the MSM says it’s Putin, then I have to look harder, such is my trust in their high pitched warbling.
Like all things in the former soviet, it’s complicated. As for living in Russia – no thanks. I saw enough when I visited, even though I was being duchessed around.
All of these things should happen, regardless of current European events. Because we have lived in the most peaceful period in human history, people have been running countries on Hail Marys in the hope that the current state of affairs will continue indefinitely, and nobody will ever be nasty ever again.
Exhibit A – Australia has something called a strategic fuel reserve that is neither strategic, nor a reserve – because it’s on the other side of the Pacific fucking Ocean. It works on the premise that commercial sea lanes will be forever uninterrupted. It’s bullshit.
At the first hint of serious drama, everybody goes ‘This is unprecedented’, and imposes a range of pissweak sanctions that will have no impact whatsoever on whether Kyiv gets overrun, or whether there’s a belligerent Russia sharing a border with Poland. Again.
The West, and western Europe in particular have failed to prepare accordingly as Russia emerged from the broken USSR. All they did was sit and watch, becoming more interested in vanity projects like renewable energy and increasing the tranny vote while the US did all the heavy lifting in terms of deterrent provision. That’s why they collectively shit themselves when 45 told them to start pulling their weight or they could go it alone.
Nuggets like the six Ps –
– exist for a reason. Note to world leaders – you won’t need to give Churchillian speeches if you’d done your fucking jobs instead of spending all your time pandering to ‘broad churches’ and the goat cheese demographic.
Everything is okay. There will be no War. Sean is there!
No argument from me. Indeed, the more we find out about the universe, the more astonishing and mind-blowingly beautiful it appears.
I wonder how the war looks for the backers of the Kiev regime from a yacht off Monaco?
Hopefully they get good reception.
Have you considered not giving a damn? I find it works for global warming, covid hysteria, and so far it’s worked for the situation in Ukraine. In fact it worked during my childhood with the threat of nuclear annihilation first, and various other bogeymen since.
No, we are not. Russia exist on a ‘Our intent is X. We do not like Y.’ On that level, nobody can accuse them of being sneaky.
Conversely, we live in a Byzantine spiders’ web of words uttered by our ‘leaders’ aimed at ensuring that nobody gets anything done and no progress in any meaningful field of endeavour occurs, because the greater goal of nobody being slightly offended is achieved.
The punters in western Ukraine are like the uber eats drivers in Sydney for the last two years.
The Kiev billionaires, safe in western Europe or the US are like the laptop lefties, calling for more intervention.
Zoltan Kovacs
@zoltanspox
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Hungary’s National Security Cabinet: Hungary will provide protection for Ukrainian refugees – refugees will be able to submit their asylum claim even after they entered Hungary’s territory. The applicable legislation will be published in tomorrow’s Hungarian Gazette.
And further to lunatic progressives and rabbit holes, we have progressives in this country who are now refusing to support Senator Claire Chandler’s perfectly reasonable legislation to protect biological women’s sport…..to prevent a biological male from completing against a biological woman. So these progressives, instead of acknowledging reality, gaslight the conversation by shouting, screaming and screeching that it’s all a “far-right”…..”far-right” conspiracy to “persecute” trans children. Dickless Grease on Panahi two nights ago was mouthing this when Rita was trying to have a sane discussion about it.
This is a classic example of just how far the west has lost the plot, it can’t survive with this nonsense…..and you know what, nor should it survive.
Oh and by the way, what the fuck is a “trans child”…..it’s bullshit.
they could hardly claim the moral high ground against French citizens resisting them by any means possible.
Easy way to fix this. Everyone over 16 does some military training, keeps semi auto or better rifle, ammo and uniform at home. The more nerdish get to fly small armed military drones when required. Those who wish to fight the invaders, put on uniforms and have at it. More ammo available at neighbourhood depot.
Might give an invader pause before taking you on.
Haha, the Germans vetoed kicking the Russians off SWIFT.
This is why the US market rallied.
As soon as that news broke, it rallied big time.
As long the the Russian gas keeps transiting Ukraine problem free.
And the Russian banks still have access to SWIFT.
Nothing else matters.
As long as you don’t get a bomb dropped on your head if you live there.
Very funny. Dow closes up on the day. Hedge funds and punters were so short. They had time to cover for most of the day though.
Sean is there!
Reminds of the line in a comedy show…
‘ oh don’t tell me about Haiti and hard times, I once flew there in a 3 hour plane ride sitting next to Sean Penn. Nobody should have to endure that kind of hell!’
“7m
Hungary’s National Security Cabinet: Hungary will provide protection for Ukrainian refugees – refugees will be able to submit their asylum claim even after they entered Hungary’s territory. The applicable legislation will be published in tomorrow’s Hungarian Gazette.”
This is the same Hungarian government that western elites and MSM have been smearing as “far-right”, “far-right, “far-right” for the last five to six years. Smearing Orban as an ant-Semite (he’s not, the Hungarian Jewish community is the only Jewish community in Europe that’s growing), smearing Orban as a despot despite regular elections, smearing Orban and his government as being anti-LGBTQARSE…he’s against the indoctrination of children…but that’s a thought crime now)…and on and on it goes.
You gotta laugh…coz if you don’t laugh you’ll cry.
Everyone was “WTF is the market rallying”.
You can plot the turn from being 800 odd points down to exactly when the Germans vetoed it.
It makes any threats of sanctions meaningless.
JC, it was the Germans vetoing kicking the Russians off SWIFT.
Ukraine has now worked this out…
A Well-Regulated Militia… Ukraine Gives Guns to Citizens ‘To Defend Our Country’ (24 Feb)
Zelensky might be a tiny bit late in his call, I think, to do so on the day of the invasion. Perhaps a bit earlier would’ve been a good idea. On the other hand an armed population may not be quite what a government of an unstable country wants. Hard also to get the guy behind the blade of grass with the rifle to pay his taxes.
Bern
Why is that a reason ?
I have always found detachment difficult, but it’s easier as I get older. Always championed the “underdog”, until the discovery that it too had teeth. The Ukraine thing is as opaque to me as any of the weird and wonderful internecine conflicts over the past fifty years.
Probably why I haven’t commented at all on it. The confected outrage pouring from the news services and feeble politicians might be the give-away. It has definitely taken the focus off covid, and may allow the cockroaches to scurry away from their self created mess.
Oh and by the way, what the fuck is a “trans child”…..it’s bullshit.
A problem fabricated by the meja
Who is dickless grease btw? or maybe I don’t want to know. Giving up TV was one of the best things I ever did.
Over the last 60 years, TV has been a malign force in our society.
JC
This is going to become a business strategy for the Russian kunt. Cause havoc and that will cause the price of oil to go up. Fuck the corrupt piece of shit.
If Hiden Biden (or whoever is pulling his strings) was in the least bit serious, then all the actions taken in January 2021 to reduce US hydrocarbon extraction by Executive Orders would now be reversed. Increase US output, screw down the price of oil and gas, and leave Putin bankrupt.
Credit where it’s due.
Stan Grant rises above the simplistic stereotypes offered up by Australian politicians and journalists to provide some in-depth analysis of Putin and why the West doesn’t comprehend him and his ilk.
Bern
The problem for the Russians is that you don’t want any payment going through the American system as they could embargo the funds.
In the 90s our bank made a payment on behalf of a Serbian party . The payer’s name was pretty clear. The fed and then the US treasury froze the funds. They would have been frozen like forever and carried a big fine.
Nicholas Reece.
Cassie and Tinta do strine better than any Cockney.
If Germany is going to veto something as inconsequential like that, it sends a clear message there will be nothing meaningful happening.
With no Kraut support, what possibly could happen.
Apart from lip service.
JC
Re fert prices; As soon as you start bonding N to P or just producing N alone, you need gas.
Crops need N just as much as P and in greater quantities.
The most efficient and cost effective way of supplying both is by using blended fertilisers at sowing.
The cost of these blended ferts has nearly doubled in two years and we keep being told it’s the cost of production as a primary reason.
Re EVs; I hope enough people buy the stupid things and literally melt the grid down. When people are dying, after the country has been without power for a couple of weeks and struggling to “Black start” the grid, that the light will go on for a lot of people.
Look, this is laudable but it’s dubious.
Even if every one of these punters had had some basic previous military training, they’ll be operating as individuals or small groups at best. They’ll pick off a few – think Northern Ireland – but the differences are that Ukraine itself – as opposed to its eastern provinces – is not Northern Ireland, and that if Russia is serious they either blow the building housing these fighters apart or move past them, leaving second second-wave troops to burn them out.
It’s an accepted part of warfare. Invading armies plan for this. Been happening for centuries.
As I wrote earlier, Eyrie, over the last 30 years liberal democracies have become rotten to the core and lost all moral authority.
The Washington Times accidentally goes
Babylon Bee.
A shame really.
There was a certain truthiness to Lurch perfectly reflecting
the Brandon administration.
Gez
Stop whining. I know it’s a professional trait for farmers but you’re going to have some great years even though a few input coats will rise.
Whining doesn’t make you guys look good. :-!
Costs
Lurching into action!
John Kerry fears Russia-Ukraine war will distract from climate change (24 Feb)
“Rogersays:
February 25, 2022 at 8:32 am
Credit where it’s due.
Stan Grant rises above the simplistic stereotypes offered up by Australian politicians and journalists to provide some in-depth analysis of Putin and why the West doesn’t comprehend him and his ilk.”
Yep…it’s a very good piece by Stan Grant.
I once read somewhere about Putin’s absolute contempt for weak Russian leaders in history, such as Yeltsin, Gorbachev, Tsar Nicholas II and so on, rulers/leaders who Putin sees as having damaged Russia.
Putin really is a tsar.
rosiesays:
February 24, 2022 at 10:30 pm
I got the impression Winston that you are claiming those German atrocities where the direct consequence of resistance actions.
In effect that the French resistance should have not acted against the Germans, because Geneva Convention even though the Germans themselves didn’t abide by the Geneva Convention.
You are tying yourself in knots, trying to convince everyone that the Nazis were evil. WE all agree, but that is a different point.
The French resistance knew the risks, and were prepared to take them. So also did SOE personnel parachuted into France to help them. (Check up on the fate of Violette Szabo as a simple example.)
The Germans were selective (random even) in abiding by the Geneva Convention. They generally respected it with uniformed western forces, but also shot British and Canadian soldiers captured in uniform. They basically ignored it in Eastern Europe, Russia and parts of the Balkans.
Not a good day to be out with the Woomba Miata Helldrivers on slicks.
I think Lotocoti gets a snap for that. 😀
JC
Who has Morrison ordered to be murdered? How about Trump?
Arkancide, anyone?