Open Thread – Weekend 4 Jun 2022


Claude Monet, The Road in front of Saint-Simeon Farm in Winter, 1867

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Dot
Dot
June 6, 2022 6:36 am

As suspected.

https://www.franceinter.fr/monde/larry-romanoff-le-faux-nez-de-l-operation-de-desinformation-chinoise-sur-le-covid-19

Larry Romanoff is a Chinese false identity.

(Translate into English)

Gyro Cadiz
Gyro Cadiz
June 6, 2022 6:36 am

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?

Dot
Dot
June 6, 2022 6:41 am

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

Not at all.

If he disagrees with the Greens, the Liberal Party will cuck out and side with the ALP.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 6, 2022 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

Dot
Dot
June 6, 2022 6:48 am

Only a traitor would disobey their own government and a war hero.

lotocoti
lotocoti
June 6, 2022 6:57 am
Dot
Dot
June 6, 2022 6:59 am

Sounds like a cruisy diversity hire job.

No way. That’s just me being cynical.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 6, 2022 6:59 am

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.

Dot
Dot
June 6, 2022 7:09 am

N U C L E A R

P O W E R

Every other “solution” to lowering CO2 emissions is a joke, China and India don’t even care.

calli
calli
June 6, 2022 7:09 am

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.

132andBush
132andBush
June 6, 2022 7:12 am

bespoke says:
June 6, 2022 at 5:33 am

Looks likely evan more grapes will be left to rot next harvest due to shrinking market.

Spoke to a grower the other day and it appears a bit of this went on in the Riverina this season. Mostly driven by the wet weather at picking but no one was willing to spray fungicides to salvage what would then be virtually worthless downgrade.

Dot
Dot
June 6, 2022 7:12 am

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.

miltonf
miltonf
June 6, 2022 7:13 am

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’.

Just another reason that I couldn’t possibly vote lieboral last month. Sitting in a cinema being insulted at your expense.

Dot
Dot
June 6, 2022 7:14 am

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.

Dot
Dot
June 6, 2022 7:15 am

Just another reason that I couldn’t possibly vote lieboral last month. Sitting in a cinema being insulted at your expense.

My date couldn’t stop spilling milkshakes all over me. The usher saw my pack of Twisties and called me two things, Shirley, and a filthy bastard.

Dot
Dot
June 6, 2022 7:18 am

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.

132andBush
132andBush
June 6, 2022 7:19 am

lotocoti says:
June 6, 2022 at 6:57 am

Just the facts, ma’am.

Jeez, I thought that was a Babylon Bee headline.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 6, 2022 7:19 am

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

Cassie of Sydney
June 6, 2022 7:20 am

“Winston Smithsays:
June 6, 2022 at 1:13 am”

I share your anger.

calli
calli
June 6, 2022 7:21 am

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

JC
JC
June 6, 2022 7:23 am

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

Some purchase. They dumped him before the next election.

miltonf
miltonf
June 6, 2022 7:24 am

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?

Dot
Dot
June 6, 2022 7:25 am

It’s pretty simple Winston.

The Eloi have been conditioned not to say ill of the traditional owners under almost any circumstances. It is considered sinful to speak ill of them, even if an honest inquiries would make them objectively better off.

Dot
Dot
June 6, 2022 7:26 am

How as this allowed to happen?

People don’t want to be the bad guy.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 6, 2022 7:26 am

But you can trust them to save the planet.

A Great Mystery: Civil Servants Told ‘Woman’, ‘Female’ Cannot be Defined (5 Jun)

UK civil servants have been told that the terms “female” and “woman” simply cannot be defined, and that definitions given of “adult human female” for the latter can be “transphobic”.

According to devout adherents of transgenderism within the civil service, the permanent government which runs the country regardless of who controls parliament, the terms “female” and “woman” cannot be defined, with certain definitions of the latter word sometimes constituting “transphobic” slights.

Militants within Whitehall are also noted as claiming that gender is something that is “randomly” “assigned at birth”

We must listen to these people though since they’re Experts. They don’t seem very good at knowing what that thing is between their legs though.

miltonf
miltonf
June 6, 2022 7:31 am

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.

miltonf
miltonf
June 6, 2022 7:35 am

This whole infiltration of lesbianism into higher ejucashun seemed to be pretty much done and dusted 40 years ago. I remember walking into the coop bookshop at NSWIT after I left school and saw ‘the joy of lesbian sex’ for sale.

calli
calli
June 6, 2022 7:37 am

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.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 6, 2022 7:41 am

ABC rural radio in VIC will be upset that their favourite wet Gippsland National Darren Chester didn’t get a spot on Dutton’s team. Kicked out in fact.

GIPPSLAND MHR Darren Chester publicly cautioned his party against climate denial earlier this month, calling for “more boots and less suits” when it comes to climate action.

Well done Dutton.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
June 6, 2022 7:45 am

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.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
June 6, 2022 7:48 am

Gosh Calli I see you are personally responsible for the demise of Western Civilisation, imagine what you could have achieved if you were trying.

Dot
Dot
June 6, 2022 7:48 am

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.

JC
JC
June 6, 2022 7:51 am

Over blown, too much maker input trying to make a name for themselves.

Explain.

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.

Cassie of Sydney
June 6, 2022 7:51 am

“Phelps”

One of the key advisors behind Princess Allegra.

Cassie of Sydney
June 6, 2022 7:52 am

I do like Barossa Grenaches.

Dot
Dot
June 6, 2022 7:55 am

Italian wine is best.

Simpler wines, better wines.

JC
JC
June 6, 2022 7:57 am

We had seafood the other evening and mixed it with a French white. It was a Chardonnay, Pouilly Fuisse (2020) retailing at about 28 bucks a bottle. It was the best white I’ve had in a long while.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 6, 2022 7:58 am

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.

calli
calli
June 6, 2022 8:01 am

Kalleske Old Vine grenache, Cassie. A bit dear, as the guys say, but quaffable. Their Moppa Shiraz is good too. Buy at Dan Murphy’s when on special.

Big wines to go with roasts and cold nights.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 6, 2022 8:02 am

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.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
June 6, 2022 8:03 am

Looks likely evan more grapes will be left to rot next harvest due to shrinking market.
Despite good noises from my buyer, and seeing lotsa cellars in the surrounds having their forward releases drunk dry during the scamdemic lock-in, I’m being very careful what patches get serious input this winter.

Cassie of Sydney
June 6, 2022 8:07 am

“callisays:
June 6, 2022 at 8:01 am”

thanks….I’m a bit obsessed with grenache wines….they’re delicious.

shatterzzz
June 6, 2022 8:10 am

WALES .. bad sports award of the year! .. they knew , yes they knew! .. yet those dastardly Welsh folk couldn’t help but spike the “fairytale ending” that the PC world wanted! ….
Wales 1 Ukraine 0 .. Wales goes to Qatar .. Ukraine goes home/asylum whichever .. LOL!

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 6, 2022 8:11 am

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.

shatterzzz
June 6, 2022 8:12 am

Lest we forget .. June 6 1944 …..!
https://ibb.co/8dyhVk9

sfw
sfw
June 6, 2022 8:12 am

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.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
June 6, 2022 8:12 am

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.

I’m running the vineyard with zero sulphur, and getting feelers for sulphite-free winemaking to nudge some Tempranillo out.
Heaps of stuff is preservative for wine. Clarification, oak, tannin, pH. And CELLARING, which the average flatland coastal dogbox Aussie is simply not interested in, or set up for.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 6, 2022 8:16 am

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

lotocoti
lotocoti
June 6, 2022 8:17 am

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

He bought the cheapest party available.

calli
calli
June 6, 2022 8:19 am

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?

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
June 6, 2022 8:25 am

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.

An Iron Truth.
Especially relevant in context.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 6, 2022 8:26 am

Farmer Gezsays:

June 6, 2022 at 7:41 am

ABC rural radio in VIC will be upset that their favourite wet Gippsland National Darren Chester didn’t get a spot on Dutton’s team

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

lotocoti
lotocoti
June 6, 2022 8:27 am

Lest we forget .. June 6 1944 …..!

Hitting the silk probably wasn’t an option.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 6, 2022 8:29 am

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Saturday her connection to her “indigenous heritage” was awakened while protesting the Dakota Access pipeline with Native American tribes at Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

She really is a bizarre creature. She creates fantasies out of empty air and believes them so very ardently. Take for her example her ‘peril’ on 6 January. Then there is her vanity which leads her to realisations that everyone opposed to her actually just wants her.

Trace it all back the bar where she worked. No doubt then she saw herself as a moment waiting for its time and in the meantime would embark on rambling tirades to the customers. And they, for their part, while pretending to cock their ears to hear what she was saying were using the vantage point to look down her blouse. And that was not for the squeamish either – putting your ear that close to those hissing gnashers would be like taking a dare to see how close you could put your face to the flashing blades of a combine harvester. Then there would be the uncertainty as to whether or not they could shoot out from her jaws like Alien.

But it stoked the fantasy in AOC even more each time until it burned.

Right now she is doing the classic socialist thing promising everyone she sees as not having power that they can have whatever they want. It will be taken from the hated enemy and given to them. All they need do us support the revolution.

Then, when the revolution comes, the new regime keeps it all. They dole out morsels to great fanfare to make the impression that they are keeping their word, but nothing of actual value. Socialism is a single theory. There may be small variations between species of socialism but when implemented it must be a pure one of those. And all the complaints of native Americans, of tree-huggers, of Warmies, of Black-Power militants, and of those sad people who pay the price for listening to the latest fad that explain their problems as not being their fault (transgenderism at present), all of these diverse imperatives will be forgotten when the new regime declares there is only one single cause. And it is theirs.

And if AOC is stupid enough (and she is), vain enough (once again) and reckless enough (a trifecta!) she can expect to find herself up against a wall in pretty short order.

I can see her now, mouth plying its trade as tirelessly as ever, even after they have tied the blindfold on. Then the command to fire answered by a half-dozen single shots. Finally the People’s Commissar striding up to her with his sidearm which he empties frantically into her head – anything to shut that mouth up.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 6, 2022 8:29 am

I think they put that into whites for preserving.

Most wines have them.
As JC says, they play havoc with some people’s sinuses.
“Contains Sulphides”.
They should be bound to say how much.

shatterzzz
June 6, 2022 8:32 am

Jim Chalmers 1st week on th ejob .. LOL!
https://ibb.co/C2yQ4C7

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 6, 2022 8:36 am

I see we are running dangerously low on bolded letters this morning.

Cassie of Sydney
June 6, 2022 8:37 am

Dutton should have gotten rid of Birmingham as well.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 6, 2022 8:39 am

Sanctions On Russia Backfire On The West

Our sanctions against Russia ?? for its invasion of Ukraine ?? are hurting America ??. What’s the endgame?

The Mainstream Media Starts to Catch On

Max Blumenthal
@MaxBlumenthal

Biden’s arrogant anti-Russian sanctions have amounted to a price hike on working class Americans that have so far failed to weaken the Russian economy. His neocon policy accelerates the process of de-dollarization, diplomatic isolation & imperial decline.

tabletmag.com

Anti Russia Sanctions Have Backfired on America

The Guardian
@guardian

Russia is winning the economic war – and Putin is no closer to withdrawing troops | Larry Elliott
America has grossly underestimated the significance of Russia’s economy, and implementing anti Russia sanctions has backfired

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 6, 2022 8:39 am

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.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 6, 2022 8:49 am

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’.

I keep seeing posters from some charity or other showing a weary frightened woman, and the text saying that she cannot even find a safe home.

When I go out riding in my carriage, repeatedly raising my perfumed handkerchief to my nose baffle the fumes of sweat and shit as I go, I note that just about every homeless person I see is…a man. Maybe they don’t deserve homes because they have male privilege.

Or, more likely, the intention is to tell us she is homeless because she can’t go home. Abusive spouse! She is white, so obviously he is too. A-ha! The conundrum resolves itself!

Would the impact not register on seismographs around the world if they made a poster with a man saying he does not feel it is safe to go home. Some people would never have considered that such a thing is possible.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 6, 2022 8:50 am

Biden’s arrogant anti-Russian sanctions have amounted to a price hike on working class Americans that have so far failed to weaken the Russian economy.

In early March when we were in Siddy I was told by merchant wanker friend of our rellies that Biden’s Wussia swategy was bwilliant and would bring Wussia to it’s knees.
Don’t ask where Teal votes came from in that part of the world.

132andBush
132andBush
June 6, 2022 8:52 am

I think you mean sulfites not sulfides.

Doesn’t all wine naturally contain them?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 6, 2022 8:55 am

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

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

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
June 6, 2022 8:58 am

Casuals, contractors and gig workers set for ‘potentially massive’ changes under Labor

• Labor will make job security a key aim of laws and processes around work

• Gig workers may get expanded protections and “employee-like” conditions

• There is little detail about the proposals

One potentially massive change is that the gig economy will be no more.

Tough shit if the flexibility suits you.

Union preference.
Sally McManus smiles…

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
June 6, 2022 9:02 am

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

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 6, 2022 9:03 am

Sorry.
Wrong term.
Yes, some sulphites are present as a by-product of fermentation but I am talking about the added ones as a preservative.
Why would they put it on the label if they aren’t added?
The answer is it causes an allergic reaction in a small number of people and this is a warning to avoid it. But there are others who are affected to a lesser degree. Unpleasant but not severe.
My issue is them not quantifying it in mg per litre.
You don’t know if there is a tiny trace or it is totally loaded with the shit.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 6, 2022 9:05 am

Old School Conservativesays:

June 6, 2022 at 9:02 am

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

Egg white is used for filtration.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 6, 2022 9:09 am

Just goes to show that ex military are not necessarily the hope of the side.

Not sure why people give a free pass to someone merely because they are ex-military.
I have worked with a few over the journey, and let’s just say that “individual results may vary”.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 6, 2022 9:11 am

Reinventing Tanya: The one discordant note in Albanese’s reshuffle
Deborah Snow
By Deborah Snow
June 6, 2022 — 5.00am

There’s nothing like a ministerial reshuffle to expose what an unpredictable and unforgiving game of snakes and ladders politics can be. As a prime example, look no further than Tanya Plibersek.

For six years, the popular frontbencher had been laying the groundwork for the things she wanted to achieve in education, meeting stakeholders and working up ideas on how to get better returns on the $40 billion-plus the commonwealth will outlay on schools and higher education this year.

So it came as a shock to the sector and a surprise to many in the Labor movement when Prime Minister Anthony Albanese unveiled his ministerial line-up last Tuesday and announced Plibersek would be installed as minister for the environment and water (with a budget of about $1.8 billion).

Plibersek, according to several party sources, was blindsided by the move, although she was quick to announce to her 320,000 Twitter followers she was “delighted” with her new job and couldn’t “wait to get to work”.

But as one insider told the Herald and The Age: “I know she was really looking forward to being education minister. [Albanese] had [previously] given commitments in front of her and in front of other people at various events that she would be the education minister.”

Keen eyes noticed she’d also been stripped of the women’s portfolio, another of her responsibilities in opposition, which has been handed to finance minister and close Albanese ally Katy Gallagher. Jason Clare, one of the party’s stars during the election campaign, has emerged with the prize of education.

Was this a demotion for Plibersek? A number of those inside Labor – as well as the federal press gallery – are seeing it that way.

Consider a few facts for context. After Albanese, Plibersek is the second longest-serving federal parliamentarian in the 30-strong cabinet and outer ministry. (He first got elected in 1996, she in 1998). She served as deputy leader through six long years of opposition – one of the toughest jobs in politics. She’s been a trailblazer for women in the party and is consistently one of its best performing and most recognised frontbenchers. It might have been a more generous look, given this history, to have let her remain in the portfolio she was expecting to occupy.

Albanese will argue he had good reasons for the move. He can point to the fact that circumstances changed after the election when Labor frontbencher Terri Butler (who most recently held environment in opposition) lost her seat to the Greens in the Brisbane electorate of Griffith. He had a vacancy to fill – but there were others who could have filled it.

Asked by journalists to explain his thinking on the night he unveiled the reshuffle, Albanese said Plibersek had “a long-term interest in the environment”, that she had been “very happy” to take it up, that there were “major challenges” in it and that she would be “outstanding” in getting to grips with delivering the Murray Darling Basin plan (a fiendish challenge) and a range of other environmental reforms.

Albanese has left himself open to the impression that he is clipping the wings of a one-time potential leadership rival.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 6, 2022 9:13 am

Nice to see a cartoon of Justin Trudeau and his Dad. One to cut out and put on the fridge.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
June 6, 2022 9:17 am

Thanks Sancho.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 6, 2022 9:26 am

Egg white is used for filtration.

Technically the egg white is a flocculant which causes the fines to stick together in larger agglomerates. Then when you put it through the pressure filter the particles are filtered out rather than going through the filter cloth pores.

Flocculation and filtration are somewhat dark arts in both the metallurgical industry and the wine industry. What works for most things might not in some other cases. It can be a bit of trial and error, so the filter guys send round techs with a swag of different floc mixes to try out.

calli
calli
June 6, 2022 9:29 am

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.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 6, 2022 9:31 am

My impression is the wine industry is pretty stuck with using egg white because there’s a limit to what flooculants they can use – they have to be safe for consumption. In the metallurgical industry there are a lot of good synthetic flocs available, often based on medium chain polyacrylates. Can’t use those for wine though.

The flocculant also is good for settling out the fines, which otherwise would float forever due to brownian motion.

132andBush
132andBush
June 6, 2022 9:32 am

Sancho Panzer says:
June 6, 2022 at 9:03 am

I’m guessing there’s more of a need for them now that mechanical harvesting is so wide spread. Lots of extraneous items get included in the mix nowadays.

Wally and Bespoke would know more.

Bluey
Bluey
June 6, 2022 9:35 am

Mother Lodesays:
June 6, 2022 at 8:49 am
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’.

I keep seeing posters from some charity or other showing a weary frightened woman, and the text saying that she cannot even find a safe home.

When I go out riding in my carriage, repeatedly raising my perfumed handkerchief to my nose baffle the fumes of sweat and shit as I go, I note that just about every homeless person I see is…a man. Maybe they don’t deserve homes because they have male privilege.

Or, more likely, the intention is to tell us she is homeless because she can’t go home. Abusive spouse! She is white, so obviously he is too. A-ha! The conundrum resolves itself!

Would the impact not register on seismographs around the world if they made a poster with a man saying he does not feel it is safe to go home. Some people would never have considered that such a thing is possible.

One of the places the tv show the block renovated was formerly a mens shelter in st kilda. One of less than half a dozen in the state, compared to dozens of womens shelters. It was sold following a NIMBY campaign from a radio host who had the experience of encountering a homeless man near her home in st kilda, and got up in arms about being a woman and feeling unsafe.

Melbournites may be able to put things together. The shelter was not replaced, so any of the men using it were out in the street. But, hey, someone made a killing on some prime real estate.

Roger
Roger
June 6, 2022 9:38 am

The [Brisbane] Catholic Leader today:

CATHOLICS living in south east Queensland can look forward to a major shakeup of church activities with the Brisbane archdiocese committing to a seven year “ecological conversion” plan.

Brisbane’s Laudato Si Action Plan – one of the first documents of its kind – sets an agenda for Church agencies, schools, parishes and families to tackle climate change, reduce investment in fossil fuels, adopt sustainable lifestyles, and promote ecological education.

The plan appeals to South-East Queensland’s 750,00 Catholics to embrace the teachings laid out by Pope Francis in his 2015 encyclical letter Laudato Si’, On Care for Our Common Home.

“He (Pope Francis) presented a sobering picture of the many ecological and social challenges we face,” Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge said.

Indolent
Indolent
June 6, 2022 9:42 am
Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
June 6, 2022 9:42 am

Jab jab booster booster

The New South Wales (NSW) government recently shared the latest COVID-19 statistics, which revealed some troubling signals and what appeared to be errors in the summary report. The most populated of Australian states with approximately 8.1 million people, NSW is the southeastern state that includes Sydney, the nation’s capital and largest city. NSW Health keeps track of COVID-19 statistics. The agency’s recent “NSW COVID-19 Weekly Data Overview: Epidemiological week 21, ending May 28, 2022” reviewed some troubling data. 97 out of 98 deaths that occurred over the previous two weeks due to COVID-19 involved fully vaccinated persons. Moreover, those that have three doses appear most at risk for hospitalization admission, ICU transfer, and death. It was not supposed to work this way. The elderly are dying from Omicron, a milder pathogen. The New York Times recently acknowledged this fact as TrialSite reminds all that this has become a deadly pandemic for the elderly who are not only fully vaccinated but also boosted. An investigation into these numbers is warranted.

https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/covid-19-vaccines-failing-majority-of-deaths-in-nsw-in-boosted-persons-937701a5

Indolent
Indolent
June 6, 2022 9:46 am

New Study: Mask Mandates Associated With INCREASED Covid Death Rate

I don’t understand. Why would reducing your air supply, rebreathing your waste and getting your air through a dirty, germ infested cloth increase your risk of a bad outcome? A real mystery.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 6, 2022 9:48 am

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.

Australia must transform its carbon-intensive resource economy in a world moving towards net zero by 2050. But the lesson of the crisis is that the decades-long transition to cleaner energy cannot be achieved simply by flicking the off switch on fossil fuels. Labor now needs to come up with a plan for an orderly transition that matches its commitment to reducing Australia’s carbon emissions with maintaining energy reliability and affordability.

The first principle is that old sources of energy cannot be closed down until adequate and price-competitive replacement supply is up and running. That is ironically underlined by a Labor government elected on the promise of stronger action on climate change now heeding calls to get coal-fired plants firing to help reduce soaring energy prices, as revealed by AFR Weekend on Saturday.

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.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 6, 2022 9:54 am

Indolentsays:
June 6, 2022 at 9:44 am
UPDATE: Investigation Reopened into Mysterious Death Of Clinton Advisor Linked To Jeffrey Epstein – Was Found HANGING FROM TREE WITH SHOTGUN BLAST TO CHEST

Not suicide, then.

I don’t know – according to Shirraly Clinton and Bill Baby of Arkansas, he jumped off the tree and shot himself in the chest before reaching the end of the rope

rickw
rickw
June 6, 2022 9:56 am

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.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 6, 2022 9:57 am

Same nonsense as usual for King island. Wind energy is like a banshee on steroids and SFA solar and the always reliable Diesel generator is AGAIN saving the day.

The clueless battery AGAIN is adding ZIP to their grid.

The King Island Renewable Energy Integration Project (KIREIP) provides a glimpse of what’s achievable in renewable energy.

Real time energy dashboard

You’re seeing in real time the dashboard for our King Island renewable energy solution. It is based on contributions from wind and solar and the enabling technologies that improve system security and reliability, such as battery, dynamic resister, flywheel and demand side management.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
June 6, 2022 9:59 am

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.

P
P
June 6, 2022 10:02 am

CATHOLICS living in south east Queensland can look forward to a major shakeup of church activities with the Brisbane archdiocese committing to a seven year “ecological conversion” plan.

Today in The Catholic Weekly, Philippa Martyr writes:

Social network analysis shows that a bad bishop can extend his legacy for decades through his bad appointments. But a good bishop can do the same.

We need to be seeking out the good ones as soon as possible if we’re ever to rescue the Church in Australia from its current rapid decline.

Roger
Roger
June 6, 2022 10:07 am

calli:

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”.

eugyppius yesterday:

“A substantial portion of the West – including major EU countries like Germany, Italy and perhaps even France – will continue to impose seasonal restrictions on public life indefinitely, perhaps for many years.

In all of these places, there have developed pro-containment political constituencies, consisting perhaps of 15–20% of the population, for whom Corona suppression will remain an ideological fixation for the rest of their lives. Opportunist politicians will always be attempted to appeal to these lunatic factions for political support, and thus we will live with this Sword of Damocles over our heads for a very long time.”

Roger
Roger
June 6, 2022 10:10 am

What Verrender fails to understand is…

I once heard him say that tax cuts for business are a handout from government.

There’s a lot of things Ian doesn’t understand.

I suppose that’s why he’s employed at the ABC.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
June 6, 2022 10:15 am

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.

132andBush
132andBush
June 6, 2022 10:15 am

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.

Dr F,
I hope every correspondence with these imbeciles has been recorded and backed up in hard and soft copy.
I get the feeling that when the shit hits the fan there will be blame shifting attempts the likes of which we have never seen.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 6, 2022 10:17 am

We still see people walking the streets with their masks on, or sitting in their cars by themselves.

It is strange to reflect that there are people so easily cajoled and coerced into such obedience that they do not even need rules. The strange thing is that a few years ago I had no idea that doing my shopping, riding a train, or sitting in a restaurant, that I was surrounded by so many zombies.

Many of them seemed so normal.

Roger
Roger
June 6, 2022 10:18 am

Social network analysis shows that a bad bishop can extend his legacy for decades through his bad appointments.

Not to mention a bad pope.

JC
JC
June 6, 2022 10:21 am

Another person associated with the Clinton’s is found suspiciously deadsky.

https://radaronline.com/p/bill-clinton-jeffrey-epstein-death-advisor-investigation-reopened/

MatrixTransform
June 6, 2022 10:26 am

People don’t want to be the bad guy.

too late
there’s a posse

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 6, 2022 10:33 am

If you must join a baying mob a posse is a good choice.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
June 6, 2022 10:34 am

I get the feeling that when the shit hits the fan there will be blame shifting attempts the likes of which we have never seen.

123B: Not when. The first gobbets are already flying – and the smarter apparatchiks can see the full flush on its way.

Hence the current chit chat about ‘windfall profits’ – while rummaging nervously for coal and ignoring the elephant in the room.

The Elephant: very far from causing power prices to fall, the renewables industry is feasting on windfall profits arising from the withdrawal of neglected coal-fired generation – while simultaneously forcing up gas prices by inefficiently burning expensive gas to stop the east coast grid from collapsing.

Not many people know that.
But they soon will.

(And, yes, 20 years of industry discussions/workshops/conferences with all levels of government and government agencies have been carefully documented.)

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 6, 2022 10:40 am

… while simultaneously forcing up gas prices by inefficiently burning expensive gas to stop the east coast grid from collapsing.

Open cycle gas turbines ( basically jet engines) send a lot of heat straight up the chimney. Great for certain applications but limited.

132andBush
132andBush
June 6, 2022 10:46 am

Not many people know that.
But they soon will.

Yes
I was made aware about two years ago.

It’s a continuing indictment on our media that this hasn’t been exposed.

Eyrie
Eyrie
June 6, 2022 10:46 am

dover, please. Eye bleach warning next time.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 6, 2022 10:47 am

Politics of energy hits a perfect storm

This week’s emergency meeting of federal and state energy ministers will be big on the rhetoric of co-operation but short on practical answers for soaring energy prices and inadequate supplies.

Jennifer Hewett Columnist

It’s hardly the start Chris Bowen wanted in his new role as climate change and energy minister. But it’s the reality of an energy market facing a far more difficult policy climate than the campaign rhetoric of either Labor or the Coalition.

These energy contradictions have been a long time building, even if surging power prices have only recently turned them into a new cost of living crisis for Australian consumers. Nor are they about to be solved by the general enthusiasm in the community or among Australian corporates for the transition to renewables. The emergency meeting of state and federal energy ministers this week will do little more than solemnly agree the market is a mess with no short-term fix feasible but long-term plans are a definite must.

Blaming the former federal government for nine years of delay in establishing a “robust” framework is logical so soon after the election. It only offers temporary protection. For all those manufacturing businesses having to adapt to costs well beyond any business plan or households horrified by escalating power bills, high prices have already become Bowen’s problem to manage.

Not that he’s alone. Many economies are struggling with price spikes amid an urgent search for reliable supplies of oil and gas and, yes, coal to supplement growth in renewables. The energy revolution is accelerating but so is the casualty list.

Bowen is happy to concede the Coalition can’t be blamed for contributing factors such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine or floods and bad weather affecting coal mines or the number of ageing coal-fired power stations being offline for repairs, both planned and unplanned. Even the early burst of winter weather in southern Australia is exaggerating the impact.

But he insists Australia is far less resilient than it should have been in its ability to respond to “the perfect storm” of such pressures.

That’s all true. But there are plenty of culprits beyond Canberra, including state governments, regulatory gridlock, apprehensive investors and the potency of the argument in some quarters that the current generation of renewables, storage and batteries could efficiently manage gaps in supply this decade.

The result is the Coalition’s promotion of a “gas-led recovery” has been exposed as a sham – but so too have all those arguments that gas should have no role as a crucial interim fuel in power generation and supply for energy-intensive manufacturing.

The confusion over this has created some made-in-Australia policy debacles, including a reluctance by larger energy companies to invest in “dispatchable” power in the absence of government guarantees, incentives or longer-term contracts.

Right now the political price to be paid can only go up – directly in line with power bills.

That requires co-operation of fractious state governments and bureaucracies, of course. In advance of Wednesday’s meeting, Bowen is already praising an improvement under federal Labor. Relations between the NSW liberal Energy Minister and Treasurer Matt Kean, and former federal Energy Minister Angus Taylor were notoriously difficult, for example.

But it is also governments in NSW and Victoria that have stymied any new gas developments in their states for years as they prioritised investment in renewables.

The idea of a “capacity” market where generators are paid to have power available when needed – think gas and coal – is still contentious, for example. Even companies like Origin don’t believe coal should attract such financial incentives – having announced plans to close Australia’s largest coal mine in 2025, seven years ahead of schedule.

Large-scale batteries and better storage and transmission are clearly part of the future answer (Hmmm see King Island Renewable Energy Integration Project (KIREIP) Real time energy dashboard) – with investment planned or under construction as technology improves. But right now the political price to be paid can only go up – directly in line with power bills.

Dot
Dot
June 6, 2022 10:47 am

Great analysis and Rant, DrF.

Delta A
Delta A
June 6, 2022 10:50 am

For JC: “Just stunning”.

Unfair, Dover!

I expected a stunning mansion in Italy or France. Instead we get the archetypical brick s**t house.

MatrixTransform
June 6, 2022 10:53 am

Real time energy dashboard

fuck me … all I can see is the flywheel and resistor fighting it out

has anybody asked why the diesel gen is still running?
best not, youse wont like the answer

500kW from diesel and then rejecting it at the resistor ??

the system used to be 100% diesel … now its only 25%

maybe they use the resistors to heat their bathwater

rickw
rickw
June 6, 2022 10:55 am

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”

This shit ain’t over yet. Worksafe in Victoria working quietly on making ongoing mandatory vaccination a workplace health and safety issue. Dickhead Dan’s reign of terror projected forward forever.

Dot
Dot
June 6, 2022 10:56 am

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

Haha

Let’s see how long this lasts.

rickw
rickw
June 6, 2022 10:58 am

And, yes, 20 years of industry discussions/workshops/conferences with all levels of government and government agencies have been carefully documented.

Didn’t this mess pretty much start when government suddenly got interested in energy? Proven ability to wreck anything, it took them 20 years but they got there in the end.

Roger
Roger
June 6, 2022 10:59 am

But it is also governments in NSW and Victoria that have stymied any new gas developments in their states for years as they prioritised investment in renewables.

It’s a pity the QLD-NSW interconnector can’t be turned off.

That might focus some minds.

m0nty
m0nty
June 6, 2022 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.

JC
JC
June 6, 2022 11:01 am

She’s beautiful, Dover.

Just beautiful.

P
P
June 6, 2022 11:03 am

Pope Francis added fuel to rumors about the future of his pontificate

Those rumors gained steam last week when Francis announced a consistory to create 21 new cardinals scheduled for Aug. 27. Sixteen of those cardinals are under age 80 and eligible to vote in a conclave to elect Francis’ successor.

Once they are added to the ranks of princes of the church, Francis will have stacked the College of Cardinals with 83 of the 132 voting-age cardinals. While there is no guarantee how the cardinals might vote, the chances that they will tap a successor who shares Francis’ pastoral priorities become ever greater.

Eyrie
Eyrie
June 6, 2022 11:04 am

Lena is fortunate that whaling has been banned.

Eyrie
Eyrie
June 6, 2022 11:06 am

hang on I’m getting word in my earpiece… oh.
They are the voices in your head, not the earpiece, you loon.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 6, 2022 11:06 am

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

Eyrie
Eyrie
June 6, 2022 11:08 am

It’s a pity the QLD-NSW interconnector can’t be turned off.

Of course it can. Just need small amounts of C4 in the right places.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 6, 2022 11:12 am

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

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 6, 2022 11:12 am

She’s beautiful, Dover.

Just beautiful.

I would even say…palatial.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 6, 2022 11:14 am

I’m guessing there’s more of a need for them now that mechanical harvesting is so wide spread. Lots of extraneous items get included in the mix nowadays.

Wally and Bespoke would know more.

Yeah, it would be good to know how that all works.
My gut feel is that Shiraz is the worst. Maybe they add more to Shiraz as it might be expected to have a long cellaring time.

lotocoti
lotocoti
June 6, 2022 11:15 am

Just stunning.

Just stunning what?
Rogue elephants, the Red Army?

132andBush
132andBush
June 6, 2022 11:16 am

That’s it Monty.
Keep laffing.

johanna
johanna
June 6, 2022 11:17 am

We still see people walking the streets with their masks on, or sitting in their cars by themselves.

It is strange to reflect that there are people so easily cajoled and coerced into such obedience that they do not even need rules.

Having spoken to a few of these people, my take is that they are simply scared. There is a percentage of the population who could broadly be described as hypochondriacs, who live in constant fear for their health. Every health scare sends them scurrying off to their GP or ‘alternative’ provider, quivering with terror and sure that this time they are a goner.

The kabuki of mask wearing, social distancing, hand sanitising and all that stuff gives them temporary comfort, like rituals do for obsessive-compulsives. But the fear never really goes away, it just manifests in different forms at different times.

Obnoxious as they may be, they are really to be pitied. They are constantly miserable and afraid.

P
P
June 6, 2022 11:21 am

Minjee Lee

Just a kid from Perth.

132andBush
132andBush
June 6, 2022 11:23 am

No sulphites in gin.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
June 6, 2022 11:23 am

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

m0nty
m0nty
June 6, 2022 11:40 am

That’s it Monty.
Keep laffing.

Thanks, I shall! 😀

Top Ender
Top Ender
June 6, 2022 11:54 am

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.

According to data from the Institute for Public Affairs, 53 per cent of Australians agreed with the statement “Australia should build nuclear power plants to supply electricity and reduce emissions”.

By contrast, just 23 per cent of those surveyed disagreed with the statement, while 24 per cent said they neither agreed nor disagreed.

They also found that support for the nuclear option was surprisingly bipartisan.

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

Dot
Dot
June 6, 2022 11:56 am

N U C L E A R

P O W E R

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
June 6, 2022 11:58 am

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

Nor single malt whisky!

cohenite
June 6, 2022 12:01 pm

Hey head prefect, you posted a little while ago Attlasian’s latest annual report showing, again no profit. Now Attlasian’s share price has dived decreasing the fucktard who run’s it, net value based on the shares. Since Attlasian has never made a profit and sometimes loses over $250million PA am I correct in assuming the reason Attlasian doesn’t make a profit are the drawings cannon-brookes and his partner make each year to fund their hobbies of ruining Australia’s energy system. I mean Attlasian has a turnover of about $3billion PA but it’s worth before the share plummet of about $120 billion based on that turnover and no profit ever was weird. WTF is happening and is the market waking up to fucking cannon-brookes?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 6, 2022 12:01 pm

OldOzziesays:

June 6, 2022 at 10:38 am

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

Summarised by his Twitter post

I don’t think Epstein’s core business was investment banking and advisory.
I reckon it was blackmail.
His “client” list, as it is quaintly referred to, is a list of people he ensnared with video of them with “young ladies”.
The overly generous “fees” paid for investment advice were simply laundered blackmail money which gave Epstein plausible deniability if his source of wealth was ever questioned.
Epstein had two types of “clients”.
A. Those he cultivated for prestige and influence (Prince Andrew, Clinton); and
B. His blackmail targets.
The A’s were used to attract the B’s but, fortunately for him, some of the A’s voluntarily and enthusiastically migrated to column B.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
June 6, 2022 12:09 pm

Had to mke a dash to Sydney to pick-up family. Canberra flight cancelled, too windy. In my vicinity I’m the only anglo not wearing a mask, all the rest are Asian.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 6, 2022 12:10 pm

am I correct in assuming the reason Attlasian doesn’t make a profit are the drawings cannon-brookes and his partner make each year to fund their hobbies of ruining Australia’s energy system.

No.
Profit is before dividends/drawings.
Unless they are paying themselves monster salaries from above the net profit line.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 6, 2022 12:10 pm

Sorry.
I meant to answer that as JC.

cohenite
June 6, 2022 12:16 pm

I meant to answer that as JC.

That’s alright. I regard you pair as the same guy with 2 heads.

Profit is before dividends/drawings.

Sure, that’s net profit. Or net loss. The point I’m stumbling around is that Attlasian has never made a profit in it’s 20 years because of cannon-brookes drawing. I’m just curious as to how this brat had an estimated worth of $25 billion, second only to Gina based on a non-profit corp and could afford to splash out a few billion to fuck up Origin and it’s sale of Eraring.

Roger
Roger
June 6, 2022 12:25 pm

Victoria police fails to hit its own 1% Indigenous employment target

Too busy hitting citizens?

m0nty
m0nty
June 6, 2022 12:27 pm

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.

cohenite
June 6, 2022 12:29 pm

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.

At least they have a few members supporting it. Name one liar or filth supporting it. And in anticipation of your failure, get fucked.

Diogenes
Diogenes
June 6, 2022 12:31 pm

WTF is happening and is the market waking up to fucking cannon-brookes?

It’s just sells shit products. There is a big security flaw …
https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/03/atlassian_confluence_critical_flaw_attacked/?td=rt-3a

Dot
Dot
June 6, 2022 12:32 pm

Actually monty Howard went into the 2007 election wanting to build 20-30 nuke power stations, but he was soon to lose his seat and government.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 6, 2022 12:33 pm

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.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 6, 2022 12:37 pm

a startling 44 per cent of Greens voters also in favour of exploring the idea [of nuclear power].

ROFLMAO, m0nty-fa is even out of step with the Slime!

dopey
dopey
June 6, 2022 12:37 pm

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

m0nty
m0nty
June 6, 2022 12:46 pm

Plenty of lefties would be in favour of nukes if they made business sense. Which they most certainly do not.

Dutton is doing everything he can to ensure he remains in Opposition for the foreseeable future.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 6, 2022 12:55 pm

Labor ‘committed’ to live sheep export phase-out: Watt
Jess Malcolm
JESS MALCOLM

Agriculture Minister Murray Watt is remaining firm on Labor’s plans to phase out live sheep exports, arguing Australia has a huge opportunity to expand its onshore meat processing.

Labor remains committed to ending the live sheep export industry, with Anthony Albanese on Friday saying the government would consult with sheep farmers before committing to a timeline.

Speaking to Sky News on Monday, Senator Watt said there was no evidence that the animal welfare issues could be addressed.

“We were very clear about the commitment and we’re not going to back away from that, but we will implement it in consultation with the industry,” Senator Watt said.

“There are increasingly consumers and buyers overseas who are looking for different ways of sourcing their meat and we think there’s a massive opportunity for processed meat that we want to explore.”

Senator Watt also argued the former government’s pledges to build major dams including Hells Gate would only go ahead if they passed environmental and business assessments.

shatterzzz
June 6, 2022 1:00 pm

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

problem with reading golf results these days is the media is more focussed on the “money” aspect than the, actual, golfing side ..!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 6, 2022 1:00 pm

Attlasian has never made a profit in it’s 20 years because of cannon-brookes drawing. I’m just curious as to how this brat had an estimated worth of $25 billion, 

OK.
A yuuuge chunk of that $25 billion is based on his shareholding in Atlassian, which some might say is overcooked based on the (non existent) earnings track record.
I think he also sold out some shares as well. They definitely would have sold shares into the IPO which probably netted them $250 meg each.

duncanm
duncanm
June 6, 2022 1:04 pm

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.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 6, 2022 1:06 pm

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.

Take away the subsidies, and make solar and wind guarantee supply 24/7/365, and they would not make business sense.

shatterzzz
June 6, 2022 1:07 pm

We still see people walking the streets with their masks on, or sitting in their cars by themselves.

No shortage of mask wearing around Fairfield, NSW tho mainly confined to the SE Asians the rest of us seem to have gone back to pre 2020, facial, days .. LOL!

m0nty
m0nty
June 6, 2022 1:11 pm

duncanm, are you saying you sent your kid to school with COVID?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 6, 2022 1:12 pm

Diogenes at 12:31.
That is a good get.
From the article:-

Atlassian suggests that while customers wait for the fix to land, they “should work with their security team to consider the best course of action.” The Australian software house’s “options to consider” are:

.1 Restricting Confluence Server and Data Center instances from the internet.
.2 Disabling Confluence Server and Data Center instances.

The first option is probably easier for most users to implement, though could cause significant disruption for remote workers unless there’s some kind of VPN solution in place. The second will definitely cause significant internal disruption.

FMD.
A collaboration software where the bug fix is remove internet access?
Which “could cause significant disruption for remote workers”?
Remember, Farquar got into a shit-fight with Musk over remote working last week and got his arse handed to him. All the while they are selling software which can’t work securely from distributed locations.

duncanm
duncanm
June 6, 2022 1:13 pm

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.”

JC
JC
June 6, 2022 1:17 pm

Lol. Atlassian and the wonderkids.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 6, 2022 1:19 pm

mUnty wallows into the energy debate. Might be a long day folks.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 6, 2022 1:23 pm

Diogenes.
It is no surprise to me that Atlassian left security behind in their loosey-goosey world of ultra collaboration.
Collaboration.
The new corporate Utopia.
About three years ago I was working for a global Engineering and PM firm and they introduced “collaborative project management” underpinned by “valuing inputs from all”.
Sounds great, huh?
Except PMs were going to be measured by how quickly they responded to suggestions.
So an Accounts Payable woodchuck from Peru could ask the PM of a major project in Australia about reducing the project carbon footprint by using some half-arsed idea they saw on the web, and the PM had to respond.
Because respeck.
Most senior PMs refused to attach their bonuses to it and it fell over after about three months.

Dot
Dot
June 6, 2022 1:26 pm

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…

Roger
Roger
June 6, 2022 1:26 pm

“There are increasingly consumers and buyers overseas who are looking for different ways of sourcing their meat and we think there’s a massive opportunity for processed meat that we want to explore.”

Life long Labor lawyer and public servant thinks he knows better than people with skin in the game.

Midwit.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 6, 2022 1:27 pm

JCsays:

June 6, 2022 at 1:17 pm

Lol. Atlassian and the wonderkids.

That link of Diogenes at 12:31 is a zinger.
FMD.
Lecturing Musk about work-from-home and accusing him of being stuck in the 1950’s, when they are selling software which can’t guarantee basic security and the solution is to turn off the internet.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
June 6, 2022 1:33 pm

M0nty is right. Nuclear makes no sense when we have lots of coal.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 6, 2022 1:34 pm

and we think there’s a massive opportunity for processed meat that we want to explore.”

The high cost of processing in Australia was one of the reasons for the rise of the live trade in Australia in the first place – four to five times of that cost overseas – the antics of the fiercely militant meat workers Union was another. Try pulling up, at your local abattoir, with a load of “fat lambs, in the peak of condition” booked in to be slaughtered, only to be told “Sorry, mate, the wukkas are out again.”

duncanm
duncanm
June 6, 2022 1:35 pm

m0ntysays:
June 6, 2022 at 1:11 pm
duncanm, are you saying you sent your kid to school with COVID?

no. A much greater crime, she’s HOME ALONE!

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 6, 2022 1:38 pm

Midwit

That’s very generous.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 6, 2022 1:41 pm

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.”

My daughter is home from uni with covid and is going along quite well but feeling a bit shitty with a cough.
The rest of us have had the coof so we’re not worried she’s roaming the house. We’ve got lots of test kits and give them a burl to use them up. No reinfections so far and the daughter is now testing negative.
The gov will never know any of us have had the terrible plague.

Dot
Dot
June 6, 2022 1:44 pm

M0nty is right. Nuclear makes no sense when we have lots of coal.

All that matters really is scale, except for renewables which don’t work. Coal shale and tar sands trended towards historical oil prices at scale.

Nuclear has the greatest capacity for scale. The abundance of coal is outweighed by the abundance of thorium and energy density over the longer term.

…and no we shouldn’t pick winners. Look how great Victoria is phasing out gas where Falls Creek is already in the ski season now. 🙂

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 6, 2022 1:45 pm

I only registered my positive RAT with the Gummint to keep them off my back over boosters (at least for three months).

Dot
Dot
June 6, 2022 1:45 pm

I don’t get what Atlassian does that can’t be done on MS Office.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 6, 2022 1:50 pm

Dotsays:

June 6, 2022 at 1:45 pm

I don’t get what Atlassian does that can’t be done on MS Office

It is a great mystery to me too.
Maybe that’s why their selling prices are in the toilet.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
June 6, 2022 1:55 pm

DrBeauGan says:
June 6, 2022 at 1:33 pm

M0nty is right. Nuclear makes no sense when we have lots of coal.

Monty is never right about anything!

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
June 6, 2022 1:57 pm

I wasn’t entirely serious, dot. The main argument for nuclear as I see it is to drag Australia (kicking and screaming, of course) into the twentieth century.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 6, 2022 2:05 pm

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.”

Potential response:

‘Look, I took her to the doctor. The good news is that being a stupid bitch isn’t hereditary, so she’ll be fine.’

shatterzzz
June 6, 2022 2:08 pm

Not my work, off another blog but worth the share .. LOL!

This is more like what the Aboriginal Welcome to Country should read if they want to be factual.

The Aboriginal community would like to recognise the
Traditional Taxpayers of Australia, Past, Present and Future, whom fund
Centrelink, along with the Billions of dollars they hand over Annually, so they
can, in turn kick the Taxpayers in the Nuts for that White Privileged. We will continue
to promote our Racist ways by flying our Racist Flag that represents only the
Aboriginal population and protest against the Australian National Flag,
Australia day, the National Anthem and other events that represent a United
Australia. This is our Pledge to Australia….

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 6, 2022 2:20 pm

Not my work, off another blog but worth the share .. LOL!

Pay that one!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 6, 2022 2:53 pm

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.”

And why did the ex form that view?
Could I have five dollar on the late night text to Mum, please?
Along the lines of “Dad is trying to make me go to school but I am really sick (reels off list of recently googled symptoms). I am really, really sick. Can’t you doooo something? …. Pleeeaaase!”

Speedbox
June 6, 2022 3:04 pm

Farmer Gez says:
June 6, 2022 at 1:41 pm
My daughter is home from uni with covid and is going along quite well but feeling a bit shitty with a cough. The rest of us have had the coof…… The gov will never know any of us have had the terrible plague.

100% ditto. Both of my girls had the coof two weeks ago. Both tested positive using those RAT tests. Both felt a bit unwell for a few days – one had a mild cough whilst the other had almost nothing but still felt ‘unwell’. Coof probably brought into the house 3-4 weeks ago by their brother although to be fair, it’s everywhere, especially schools/Uni.

In any event we had no intention of alerting the Govt and I will wager we are no different to many thousands of others. The ‘official’ coof numbers would be wrong by a factor of ….. (God knows).

m0nty
m0nty
June 6, 2022 3:07 pm

All that matters really is scale

I can see why you never made it in economics, Dot.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 6, 2022 3:09 pm

Speedbox and Gez.
The “experts” trying desparately to re-start masks and lockDans are spinning their wheels.
Nearly everyone has had exposure to Omicron and it isn’t scaring anybody.
Well, it isn’t scaring enough to make a difference at least. And some of those making doom and gloom noises don’t really believe it deep down either. They have just been so heavily invested in it for two years it is hard to back away.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 6, 2022 3:11 pm

I just had my first crack at Wordle.
I could get hooked.

JC
JC
June 6, 2022 3:22 pm

Cronkite

am I correct in assuming the reason Attlasian doesn’t make a profit are the drawings cannon-brookes and his partner make each year to fund their hobbies of ruining Australia’s energy system.

No, the losses being made by Atlassian are actually losses as a result of the company being unable make a profit in its business lines….. for 20 fucking years!

I mean Attlasian has a turnover of about $3billion PA but it’s worth before the share plummet of about $120 billion based on that turnover and no profit ever was weird. WTF is happening and is the market waking up to fucking cannon-brookes?

Don’t forget that there’s been a reckoning in the tech sector recently. However, when there is a sector fall like we’ve just experienced, people begin becoming skeptical and they should about this two-bit stock that hasn’t turned a profit in its life. The market cap isn’t $120 billion, but the way. It’s now about $48 billion.

To me, this stock’s valuation looks like its all done with smoke and mirrors. I think only 5% of the stock is floating and the rest is owned by those two gooses mostly. This is therefore a very tiny float.

Think of it like this, Cronkers. The supposed net worth of these two imbeciles is based on 5% of the stock (float) thereby theoretically dictating what the rest of the stock (95% untraded) is valued.
This supposes that if they let go of the rest of the stock count, the stock price wouldn’t fall and the market cap would remain the same? Bullshit!

I tried to short it a while ago and inquired about borrowing the stock. It’s next to impossible getting hold of the stock, which makes me even more sceptical about those two fucks. In my mind, Maggot-Brookes and his little weasel partner aren’t worth anywhere near that kind of money. The valuation is primed on about 5% of the stock trading and even then it’s tightly held. I reckon the market cap ought to be a fraction of what it is now. There’s some real bullshit going on there.

At the current market cap and last year’s sales it’s trading on a roughly $48 billion/$2 billion = 24 price to sales multiple on the stock that hasn’t made a zack in 20 years. I’m not sure anyone should take a punt at 2 times sales.

Sanchez has been posting some decent comments about it all.

The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
June 6, 2022 3:24 pm

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.

Take away the subsidies, and make solar and wind guarantee supply 24/7/365, and they would not make business sense.

The only business they like is one where the competition is dead or otherwise excluded. Even Marx’s appeal to the wukkas was in spite of them, which means the entire charade was intended to globalise his grift, presumably because they whole duty thing monarchs have is too bothersome for a grifter like him so needs made up reasons to grift en masse.

Speedbox
June 6, 2022 3:27 pm

Sancho Panzer says:
June 6, 2022 at 3:09 pm

For some of them Sancho, I suspect they enjoyed their ‘time in the sun’ a little too much. Being asked by Govt and the media for your opinion and being referred to as ‘an expert’ would be intoxicating for many. Forming assorted ‘working groups’ with like-minded colleagues in far off lands, late night phone calls discussing data……all very important stuff. Then the thrill of releasing, or commenting upon, the latest dire forecast adds gravitas to your position in the community.

Now, nothing. Even the ABC has only very limited use for the expert’s opinion and the Govt are largely disinterested.

Like the addict craving another hit, the coof experts are a lonely and pathetic sight.

The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
June 6, 2022 3:28 pm

I tried to short it a while ago and inquired about borrowing the stock. It’s next to impossible getting hold of the stock, which makes me even more sceptical about those two fucks. In my mind, Maggot-Brookes and his little weasel partner aren’t worth anywhere near that kind of money. The valuation is primed on about 5% of the stock trading and even then it’s tightly held. I reckon the market cap ought to be a fraction of what it is now. There’s some real bullshit going on there.

Speaking of grift, wow. That’s some grade A world class grift right there. It’s such brilliant grifting I’m actually impressed.

Vicki
Vicki
June 6, 2022 3:29 pm

A suggestion for those, particularly the unvaccinated, who feel angry and alone after the past two years of the abuse of their rights – there are some start up organisations which provide venues for like minded people to “chew the fat” & talk about the future.

A friend alerted us to one such organisation for “Freedom Friendlies” in the northern suburbs of Sydney, & when husband and I returned to Sydney on the weekend, we attended an afternoon social that had been organised by such a group.

There would have been about 80 people of various ages there. Everyone bought a plate for afternoon tea and wine was available at the venue. We knew 3 couples already (all unvaccinated & one a well known pharma researcher who has written against the vaccines in Australia), so it was a little easier to integrate. I am a bit of an “outlier”, and at first I thought they were all a bit “alternate”. But after a few spoke about the recent election – some having bravely stood on an “anti Covid vax” platform – I took a different view. All were very well informed and passionate about the disaster that had befallen personal freedom.

My point is – these groups are valuable not simply as an emotional “salve” for our wounds – but as a potential base for resistance in the future. There is already discussion of securing sympathetic GPs and so on. Who nows what other difficulties of supply may befall us in the future. Such contacts would be invaluable.

duncanm
duncanm
June 6, 2022 3:30 pm

Knuckle Dragger says:
June 6, 2022 at 2:05 pm

Potential response:

‘Look, I took her to the doctor. The good news is that being a stupid bitch isn’t hereditary, so she’ll be fine.’

perfect – but I might tone it down a little. Maybe “.. paranoid hysteric ..”

meh – not worth using up one of my remaining fucks to give.

Vicki
Vicki
June 6, 2022 3:35 pm

In any event we had no intention of alerting the Govt and I will wager we are no different to many thousands of others. The ‘official’ coof numbers would be wrong by a factor of ….. (God knows).

It’s funny, an acquaintance inquired (in an autocratic way) if we (being unvaccinated) had notified the government when my husband contracted his mild case of Covid. I replied that, since he was tested at a regional hospital & we were then sent copious amounts of directions after he proved positive, it was hardly necessary, was it?

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
June 6, 2022 3:47 pm
Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
June 6, 2022 3:56 pm

Plenty of lefties would be in favour of nukes if they made business sense. Which they most certainly do not.

Currently there are about 50 nuclear stations/reactor units under construction, or on firm order. Another 300 allegedly on the drawing board.

Most are in China, but also plenty in market economies where a business case is usually required: Korea, US, UK, France – and a whole bunch in India (business case optional).

M0nty is 97.3% correct however: there is no way on God’s sweet Earth that Australia would be able to make ‘business sense’ out of a greenfield nuke program.

1) Any large-scale engineering project costs about 1.5x in Australia what it would do elsewhere.

2) Add in government involvement on all three levels and you start adding billions to the construction cost.

3) Add in the courtroom drama and years of lawfare.

4) Add in the cost of multiple layers of Australian/State nuclear regulators.

5) Add in the fuel/waste/NPT complexities (note: in a sensible world, Australia should already own the nuclear fuel cycle and be making a fortune).

6) Add in the political uncertainty over the 25 years of arguing the toss – and then try to find a sponsor with the patience to go the distance.

Consider all the above, then look at it again through the political prism – and feel your bowels loosen. 100% political career wasteland.

You canna defy the Laws of Shitness, Cap’n.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 6, 2022 4:02 pm

Gruinaid, holding the telescope to its blind eye…as usual.

Nigeria: gunmen kill dozens in ‘satanic’ attack on Catholic church
At least 50 people killed and dozens more injured in assault during Sunday mass in Ondo state

The identity and motive of the attackers was not immediately clear.

Chap shoots up a school: .5 seconds to roll out the “white supremacy/incel/gun culture” motifs.
Christians targeted in place where Christians are regularly targeted by a known group… “its a mysterious mystery of mysteriousness”,,…

They are vile filth.

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