News about the (trainwreck-on-the-way) new AnAl RiMar “government” is only available via the internet’s unpaywalled media from where I am. And the connection’s a bit dodgy on occasion.

What’s the gut feel about how dependent Anal will be on the greens and other nutbars?

There’s something terribly familiar about this:

The Anglo-Saxons have set foot on our soil. France is becoming a battlefield. Frenchmen, do not attempt to commit any action which might bring terrible reprisals. Obey the orders of the government.

—Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, 6 June 1944

Rosie, I have fond memories of old hotels just like that. Blast from the past. Thanks.

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“Lives are being lost while people in the women’s safety sector dither about irrelevant issues,” she said.

For a start, they could stop playing those anti domestic violence ads on TV where everyone is white and middle class and the normal socialisation of young white boy children is ‘problematised’. It would help public acknowledgement of the real problem if they showed the lived reality in an aboriginal settlement. Then something might get done, some evil entitled men imprisoned, and some spurious ‘indigenous culture’ changed.

Show the problem and own the problem in order to change the problem.

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Which brings me to ‘climate change’. The strong belief that it is ‘real’ and ‘an emergency’ needs to be tackled at source, with some rebuttal of the insane commentary that exists about it re for example near-extinct polar bears , sinking Pacific islands, a disappearing Barrier Reef and big black clouds of ‘carbon’. The belief that levels of CO2 cause any sort of global warming is still a hypothesis lacking empirical grounding, with suggestions that such a hypothesis is useless because it stems from flawed predictive modelling (which doesn’t back predict well either). Empirical evidence needs to be examined and presented. Evidence which shows that over-hyped catastrophism stems from widespread temperature measurement medelling creating false impressions of warming. The poles are doing OK, no great melts there, the modelling of atmospheric circulation is very fractal, and taking a ‘world’ temperature is a ridiculous stab in the dark. Most of all, 97% of qualified climatic scientists don’t back the ‘climate emergency’ at all, and many are dubious about the whole thing.

Let the people know this. Ask the teachers and journalists some pentrating questions about their own knowledge. What exactly backs their own certainty of belief? Most haven’t a clue.

Destroy that mythology. Remind them of the ‘certainties’ about Covid that came from false models.

Ask them if the penury and lack of decent electricity for home comfort and good jobs is worth it.

It’s a long time since An Inconvenient Truth had any seeming validity. But tell that to an innumerate and scientifically-illiterate teacher or a journalist and hear them shriek. They believe it all, still.

Winston, if I have done or said anything to upset or hurt you, I am truly sorry. I don’t know what prompted your comment.

You ask what I have done to protect my grandchildren. Probably the only practical thing that any grandparent can do – raise caring, intelligent, resilient and resourceful children of their own to be their parents. And to ensure that family harmony continues to thrive regardless of whether I’m there or not – it’s too easy for a parent to assume the job of broker. I’m no puffed up matriarch.

Enough about me. I’m a nobody. Maybe our society needs more nobodies doing their little bit rather than a heap of big noters wanting to be somebodies.

No.

We need more people writing how racist Australia is, how they need more grant money and why they’re hard done by.

Every town that boomed in the 1800s started exactly like this.

Australian wines need to be better.

We have the best produce on the world but waste it.

Wine critics are worthless too.

They like crap. A good wine is liked by all. If you have an off taste or smell, it isn’t a bouquet, you have a dud.

A disturbing number view price movements – especially price hikes as inflation when it may not be. They view price stability as heavenly, when it may not be if the expected response will be a monetary tightening or loosening.

This is exactly correct. The short term target needs to be flexible or non existent. The medium to long term matters.

Price stability isn’t the real goal, imitating the neutrality of money as only possible on a free market is the better objective.

Knuckle Dragger says:
June 6, 2022 at 6:44 am
There’s something terribly familiar about this:

The Anglo-Saxons have set foot on our soil. France is becoming a battlefield. Frenchmen, do not attempt to commit any action which might bring terrible reprisals. Obey the orders of the government.
—Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, 6 June 1944

“Keeping apart keeps us together.”

Dan Andrews 2021

It appears to me that Turnbull wanted the Liberal Party, so he bought it.

Re those disgusting tax payer funded anti family ads- pretty much a result of higher ejucashun being taken over by lesbians. Arts at Sydney Uni- I remember seeing lezzo symbols carved into the wall of the fine old Blacket building. How as this allowed to happen?

How as this allowed to happen?

People don’t want to be the bad guy.

Bruce thanks for your reply to my post re the Ukraine yesterday- was on the road for most of yesterday so didn’t get a chance to respond.

Speaking of Experts, last night I noted Phelps and McIntyre back on the box and up on their hind legs calling for reintroduction of masks and lockdowns in the wake of “Covid deaths”.

Like the Miserable Ghost, these women just can’t keep their bony, claw like hands off the levers of power.

Dot you are right about Aussie wines. Over blown, too much maker input trying to make a name for themselves. They’ve got caught up in every varietal combination instead of letting the wine talk for itself. The best thing they could do is go to ALDI to try the cheap wines. There buyer has a good palate. Most of these wines could be brought for €1-3 in Europe.

I have a friend who was a terrible student, bit a very good winemaker. He worked in Canada and France as a grape grower and winemaker.

He said basically we have good wine, but it should sell for about half to a third of the price it actually sells for. A good bottle of Pinot Noir here or from the Shaky Isles might be $60-$80, in France it would sell for $20-$40.

Italian wine is best.

Simpler wines, better wines.

Winston, overnight:

Is this what you want?

Who are you asking this question of?

You can talk about pronouns or you can talk about survival.
You have a choice – fight or fucking die.
I’m over you simplistic idiots – educated beyond your intellectual capacity – you are the enemy, and that’s what you always wanted, isn’t it?

Good morning, Riccardo.

What the Hell is wrong with you people that you aren’t enraged by this?

Who says ‘we’ aren’t? The Australian public has been consistently ‘enraged’ by this for decades, so much so that 15 years ago the Federal Government virtually took over the NT. If anything, people could be forgiven for having ‘enragement fatigue’.

Fuck you Christians and your supercilious “I am morally superior to you”.

Way to present a reasoned argument and get people on side. Insult their faith. Good one.

you can be on the front lines resisting

A bit more Last Holdout terminology. Great.

I watched an Aboriginal women and her child die because she had ‘agency’ about her decision to pull cones and drink rum until RFDS were able to sedate her and evacuate her to Brukken ‘ill

You watched someone die from the consequences of their own actions. You are apparently the first person ever to be in that position. Well done.

You have grandies, Callie. What have you done to protect them?

If I was in the habit of speaking for others, which I am most certainly not, I would advance an opinion that this statement is fucking insulting – regardless of whatever it is you said you’d been guzzling prior to typing that.

How do you deal a 10 year old Aboriginal girl knocking on your door, at midnight, offering to sleep with you and ” whatever you want” just so she doesn’t have to put up with multiple ‘uncles’ having their way with her? How the hell can you look into a child ‘s eyes and tell her that she is safe?

You can’t fix it. What you do is create enough of a dent in it to satisfy yourself. Telling average punters around the rest of the country that it’s all their fault, from your position way up on that cross is (in my view) not recommended.

Jesus. (and I’m not a Christian,) how badly badly have you stuffed up that we have ended up at
this place?

As I was saying.

I can’t do this any more.

Thank Christ for that. This is yet more proof that a skinful of piss does not create new personalities. It merely enhances existing personality traits.

Just buy frog and Italian wines (preferably Chianti) as you won’t go wrong. There is too much sulfide in Australian wines, which is the problem with the weather. It’s too warm to avoid that crap and it really plays with my system.

I think they put that into whites for preserving.

Sulphites (Preservative 220)

Until a wine has finished fermenting, the process only really involves grapes, juice, and maybe the seeds and stems. The other main additive, from picking right through is sulphur dioxide, a common food-grade preservative that has been used for centuries. Most finished wines will have some amount of sulphur in them, with Australian standards setting maximum limits at 250 milligrams per litre for dry wine. It acts as an antiseptic and antioxidant. It is generally suitable for consumption unless you have an allergy and it can affect people with asthma.

JC, re your vagrant, around 17 years ago, someone dear to me had problems and ended up in John Cade House at RMH, while I was visiting her I was approached by a rather attractive woman, beautifully dressed in business attire, she had a clipboard, in her mid 30’s I reckon. She began to discuss the place and wanted my feedback, she then started telling me how many pollies she’d written to and how they were concerned and were coming to see the place. I was impressed with here attitude and intelligence, then the staff came over and took her away for a rest. She was a patient there, very sad for anyone to be in that place but it can happen when life gets too hard.

The South China Sea is a pretty big area.
Can the defence chappies release roughly where the Australia plane was when the Chinese engaged?

Yes Shatterzzz. I visited Omaha Beach a few years ago, and its memorial.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.

Words from another battlefield.

I wonder what those men would make of the people for whom they so bravely fought and perished?

He also booted Alex Hawke demoted Stuart Robert.
A good start.

Just goes to show that ex military are not necessarily the hope of the side.
One less happy clapper as well.

To the wine aficionados here – why do many wines contain egg?

Thanks Sancho.

Flocculation and filtration are somewhat dark arts in both the metallurgical industry and the wine industry.

And cement ponds. Fortunately they don’t add chlorine to wine, though some of the rougher ones taste as though they have.

The AFR View

Labor needs a realistic net zero transition plan

The lesson of the energy crisis is that the decades-long transition to cleaner energy cannot be achieved simply by flicking the off switch on fossil fuels.

Climate change and energy minister Chris Bowen is correct about the climate wars leaving Australia ill-prepared for the full-blown energy crisis that has landed in the lap of the new Labor government. There are now no quick fixes for the perfect storm of global and domestic events that has produced a gas shortage and sharply higher electricity prices.

During the election, Labor claimed that its “Powering the nation” plan would create jobs, cut power prices, reduce emissions, and boost renewable energy. Yet it did not release the modelling that purported to show that spending $20 billion on new transmission lines connecting wind and solar generation to the grid would reduce household electricity bills by $275 a year.

A practical transition plan needs to be technology-neutral and not repeat the mistake of demonising any particular energy source.

To enhance the operation of Australia’s private carbon trading market, Labor has promised to expand the emissions reduction “safeguard mechanism” to bigger carbon emitters. But it has provided no detail of how this will be squared with ensuring emissions-intensive trade-exposed industries “will not face greater constraint than their competitors” which would send carbon-intensive jobs offshore. And what is Labor’s position on carbon capture and storage to abate fossil fuel emissions, which the 2017 energy security review by former chief scientist Alan Finkel said was essential to Australia’s net zero hopes?

Rather than increasing the sovereign risk of a commodity-exporting economy, more gas exploration and development is needed so that Australia can help the global transition to a lower-carbon world. A practical transition plan needs to be technology-neutral and not repeat the mistake of demonising any particular energy source. As such, it should be open to the role zero-emissions small scale nuclear generators might play in a low-carbon economy.

Standing on that beach, and looking up onto the high ground, it’s a miracle anyone got off alive.

The only reason anyone got off the beach would seem to be that the psychological impact on the German Machine Gunners became to great to bear, they simply packed up and left.

Their ABC’s Ian Verrender asks an important question:

What should the new government do about a gas crisis that has been 15 years in the making?

• Windfall taxes, obviously.
• Price controls, well yes.
• Fiat export control – yes, yes please.

• Stop burning gas to prop up renewables? Not so much.

What Verrender fails to understand is that CSG production is not like conventional gas production.

Without getting into reservoir engineering 101, CSG production requires huge numbers of low-productivity wells – each of which requires constant dewatering and careful control to allow the gas to flow.

Each individual well addresses a very small amount of gas reserves contained in the immediately surrounding coal – so maintaining or adding to production requires constant capital investment in new wells.

The result is a gas supply that is fairly inflexible. You can’t easily adjust production – and operating costs and ongoing capital investment are very large compared to conventional gas.

Not best suited to a market dominated by quick start gas generation, where demand goes up and down like a whore’s drawers.

Verrender also scoffs loudly at concerns about Sovereign Risk. Sadly for Ian, when you are relying on some stupid fucker to stand behind gas production with big capital and operating skills, you better take that risk seriously.

Given that CSG makes up 85% of the gas reserves and 75% of production in eastern Australia, these are not just dull, fusty technical details, important only to lesser folk.

Verrender knows fuck all about any of this; but none of it is secret mens’ business – and over the years, governments and agencies have been thoroughly briefed on the issues.

Yet another story of policy-induced market failure.

My understanding of egg whites in vino is, it’s the complex particle nature of the protein which causes particles in solution to bind to it, and then descend to the bottom for racking off. Isinglass is another powerful protein, from a fish. Food allergen advice is the reason why the egg products/fish products are noted on the labels.
Sulphur, sulphide, shulphite. I stick to sulphite, because it’s the ongoing reactive qualities of the SO2 which make it such a powerful ongoing preservative. And it’s cheap.
Wanky wineries will make much of the self-serving confession “we only use minimal sulphur in the winemaking process”.
In the vineyard, it’s basically a dessicant for all sorts of wogs, and a disrupter of the common Erisyphales mildew. Ongoing use stuffs up the biome a bit, and will lead to the emergence of sulphur-tolerant varieties.
I’ve moved away from it in the vineyard because it stirs up my asthma. Oh, and it corrodes machinery- and vineyard infrastructure- like a bitch.
Any associated increase in the birds and bugs is only anecdotal…. so far.

Elon Musk Wonders Why DOJ Hasn’t Leaked Epstein Client List – And Media Doesn’t Care

Summarised by his Twitter post

Only thing more remarkable than DOJ not leaking the list is that no one in the media cares. Doesn’t that seem odd?

Great analysis and Rant, DrF.

It’s already ski season and Vicco is phasing out gas power in homes.

Haha

Let’s see how long this lasts.

Websites don’t run very well without electricity M0nty.
Can you do fantasy sports using smoke signals?

Guardian headline.
Seriously?
Victoria police fails to hit its own 1% Indigenous employment target

Minjee Lee

Just a kid from Perth.

We have been following womens golf a lot lately, Lydia Koh and Minjee Lee are very watchable!

All that’s now needed is a government – federal or state or territory – courageous enough to proceed:

Australians are increasingly willing to embrace nuclear power as a means to provide reliable power while cutting carbon emissions as the country stares down the barrel of an energy crisis brought on by a gas supply crunch, outages at coal fired power stations, and a rushed race to embrace renewables.

While 70 per cent of those who identified themselves as Coalition voters said they would support a push for nuclear power, 52 per cent of Labor voters agreed with a startling 44 per cent of Greens voters also in favour of exploring the idea.

Daily Tele

132andBush says:
June 6, 2022 at 11:23 am
No sulphites in gin.

Nor single malt whisky!

You can tell that the LNP give zero shytes about nukes, because the only time they support it is when they are at the start of a long stint in opposition.

m0ntysays:
June 6, 2022 at 11:00 am
I see Prime Minister Dutton is implementing a strong pro-nuclear policy for his government according to the Fin with solid intellectual support from the IPA, you lot will be ecstatic that nukes are finally happening in this country, hang on I’m getting word in my earpiece… oh.

Hmmm. m0nty-fa displays a mixture of hate (anyone different to him), envy (someone else might have the answer) and fear (the answer might destroy years of propaganda against any power source other than solar and wind). He must be a lefty.

Minjie Lee ‘made history’ apparently. Well she made a lot of putts at least.

Reasons she’s ‘ex’ number 23

Daughter has a sore throat and then returns a positive RAT (she’s living with me atm).
me: “She’s got covid”
ex: “Shit.”
ex: “Are you registering it on the app or will I?”
me: “What for?”
ex: “Because you’re supposed to register it.”
…

next morning..
ex: “Are you at home with her today?”
me: “No. She’s ok. Just feeling a little off”
ex: “I think it’s a bit worse than that.”
…

… – is where I stopped responding in each case. No need to put up with this sort of nonsense any more.

She went on to claim that the flag leaves her feeling “very unsafe”

Good man, that Mr Grimes

Darren Grimes, a British activist, said: “OUR flag represents OUR values, OUR institutions, OUR democracy, OUR way of life and OUR United Kingdom. Those values are sod all like those of Nazi Germany and anyone who says otherwise has a pathological loathing of their own nation and ought to seek immediate help.”

m0ntysays:
June 6, 2022 at 12:46 pm
Plenty of lefties would be in favour of nukes if they made business sense. Which they most certainly do not.

Stop lying.

Is this why Hawke embraced nuke, as did Harold Wilson, Truman…Carter, Clinton…