From Bruce at 5:28 pm

“The PM also claimed the current problems were a failure of the former Coalition government in not putting enough of a grid together to transmit electricity and by not having a coherent energy policy.”

I’ve followed this fairly closely; I don’t believe anyone has suggested the current market failure is due to insufficient transmission capacity.

In fact, if there had been, NSW would have had blackouts yesterday evening.

So, we can safely conclude the deformed gnome is happy to stand up in the middle of a serious economic and social crisis and:

1) Display complete ignorance of what is going on around him; and

2) Play cheap retail politics instead of pointing to a solution.

A Solution: The Government has instructed the ACCC to investigate the causes of failure in the electricity market.

In support, a $1 million reward is offered for information leading to the conviction of individuals for breaching the Competition and Consumer Act 2010.

Say it loud, say it often and maybe the message will ultimately get through. Renewables are the PROBLEM, not the solution.

A n@k3d woman in a mental health crisis is pounding on a window.

Like this one you reckon?

Warning, dangling bits.

It would be a real shame if an irresponsible hacker got Maiden and Milligan’s WhatsApp messages.

Don’t they use some messaging service (can’t remember the name) that automatically deletes the messages after a fixed time specifically to avoid this as well as stymying court injunctions.

Nazis in Ukraine confirmed!

https://mobile.twitter.com/loogunda/status/1536413610632675329?cxt=HHwWgoCwnbyCuNIqAAAA

(The Great Russian Victory is progressing so well that the beleagured defenders have enough time and resources to pull the piss. AND do the Russian media’s job for them…)

#Feint-ingCouch

As an avid ABC listener I may be able to shed some light on this.

The transmission capacity wanting is that which links solar and wind to the grid.

The ABC’s problem here is:

1) Existing, grid-connected renewables have priority in the network over dispatchable generation and ‘run first’;

2) AEMO shows no network restrictions on Sunday night;

3) When ordered to run by AEMO, the gas generation backing the renewables was able to send out power into the distribution system, as as was power from Qld and Victoria.

4) Their ABC is repeating Albanese’s $58 billion “Rewire the Nation” strategy. Apparently expanding capacity to bring power from yet to be built renewables.

Not blaming you in the least.

Thought ya dun a runner,Rex.

Nah. I booked a holiday on AirBNB, and ended up at a DeAtH CaMp in Toowoomba.

I was most disappointed- No cattle train chauffer service, comfy beds and the food was very okay. And not even a single hint of gassy-ness from the in-hut showers.

So I wrote a nasty review on Trip Advisor and Howard Springs-ed from the place by leaping over the front gate. The Security Guard just rolled his eyes and made sure I got my invoice number.

Stay away from AirBNB, Cats- It’s too good to be true…

@ TE-

As I understand things, Kwinana Power Station and the other 2 or 3 sites providing baseload power in the State (including the privately run Worseley Alumina Refinery down near Bunbury) are triple fired- They can burn Coal, Oil and Natural Gas.

Presently, about the only coal haulage from Collie is to burn at Worseley- Everywhere else is on Gas.

But the Labour Party gave up on coal miners and non-Perthite blue-collar folks in WA long ago. The much publicisied and trumpeted plan to shut down all coal mining in WA and turn the Collie region towards ToUrIsM barely elicited a ripple. And Collie feels like a dying town, anyways. Nobody’s pulled the plug, yet.

(Collie coal is pretty shit, geologically speaking, anyways. The only private common-carrier railway system in WA deliberately imported NSW Newcastle coal for the exclusive use of its steam fleet from its foundation to dieselisation. The WAGR was ordered to use it, on the basis of preserving local industry…)

Home made brownies for dessert.

Mrs Bespoke spoils you, man. 🙂

Big fan of stewed rhubarb.

Oh, yes.
Drop a clove and a small crushed green cardamom in while you cook the rhubarb.

Serve with dollop cream and a sprinkle of smashed up toasted hazelnuts.

Of course it’s true that being the subject of Stalinist show trial would have a very bad affect on anyone.

Dot:

Cryptos are therefore no different to your AUD or USD.

…and that is a bloody valid point.
I’m busy liquidating my cash surplus apart from a bit of folding stuff. Das Winekellar is looking good, and so does the ethanol, in various different flavors.
Mmmm.
Ethanol.

Of course it’s true that being the subject of Stalinist show trial would have a very bad affect on anyone.

What did Trump say, miltonf?

Drbeen Medical Lectures

Dandelion Leaf Extract Reduces ACE2 and SARS-COV-2 Spike Binding | In-vitro Study

In this in-vitro study researchers from the University of Munich show that the Dandelion leaf extract has potent inhibitory effect on the SARS-COV-2 spike binding to ACE2.

Matrix:

Do lifts, in apartment highrise, have power backup?

no, not always.

some do and some dont

My idea of entertainment – 7 Greenies trapped in an inner city dogbox lift designed for 5.
…and with no coms.
*shriek!* “My mobile isn’t working!”
OMG OMG!

I don’t think we need to go cartoon-like binary so everyone is either a total hero or total villain.

Neither Blot nor Sheridan are villains. They’re just a bit dumb.

Speaking of dirty stinks getting undeserved awards……bLIAR-truly evil

From Milton’s link. Cheri. Pwhoar!

The grotesque behaviour surrounding the election is now in the dustbin. Memoryholed like the Jan 6ers rotting in prison.

certainly almost entirely the case here in Oz with our trash meja- may be not in the US. Whether or not the evil will be undone remains to be seen.

I seriously don’t watch TV- it’s a load of shit. I must admit it’s been a big disappointment to me that the internet hasn’t put these dinosaurs out of business.

Till Do Do Us Part

I loved that show. Could relate to it in so many ways.

I haven’t yet found anything from the Russian side that’s remotely funny.

That’s because the vatniks absolutely believe all of it that they’re told. And they aren’t able (or allowed) to see the behaviour of their own troops that prompts the sardonic Ukranian humour.

There can be no humour in zealotry- That means you’re thinking and picking holes in the Narrative.

Just like the way our various species of leftist over here think…

Stupidest Women in Australia, part 8 (the Hun):

A judge has sympathised with a former financial officer who defrauded the Mulwala Water Ski Club for $1.1m after she claimed she fell victim to two online dating scams.

Kaye Leanne Ferguson, 59, was sentenced to a three-year intensive corrections order in Albury District Court on Tuesday after earlier pleading guilty to three sequences of dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception.

How do you fork out over a million in someone else’s cash to internet people? Aha:

Ms Ferguson was first scammed by a man in June 2020. The court heard the man blackmailed her into transferring him $130,000 of her own funds, threatening to reveal explicit photos of her to her children if she didn’t.

$130K? Piss off. That could be anyone’s genitalia. And then, six months later:

Ms Ferguson later met a second man, William David Rodavan — an engineer from Melton living in Melbourne who travelled overseas frequently.

While on a phone call in November, Ms Ferguson heard a loud noise and Mr Rodavan hung up, calling back days later claiming he had been involved in an explosion that killed several of his employees.

Mr Rodavan told Ms Ferguson he needed money to pay the families of the people who died, resulting in Ms Ferguson transferring $225,000 of her own funds.

Having exhausted all personal funds, Ms Ferguson took the club’s money on 27 occasions.

$130K and a box shot says the two blokes are the same person.

A judge has sympathised with a former financial officer who defrauded the Mulwala Water Ski Club for $1.1m after she claimed she fell victim to two online dating scams

If she were man, she’d be underock and key, and a dry and awkward statement of facts and damning details would have been released to all Members of the Club amd probably reprinted in the local paper.

Theft is theft.

The moonlight tonight is bright as day, the bare frangipani casting crisp shadows cast on the lawn. Everything cold and pewter, all shades of grey. A small puddle left by the sprinklers looks like a mirror set in the front path.

Lots of casting going on there. No fish in the mirror-pool though. 🙂

very poetic Calli- seems to be dark here in western Melbourne

Bet that Pollie pay rise goes down well with all the people who last a job in the last two years, or have been struggling with inflation….

Blair – father was a law lecturer who did some
Time in Adelaide. Blair is one of those twerps from an above average income earning family who turned on his society with immigration, dilution of English populations and trashing north England industrial belt while living it up in London. The most punch in you face moment was the eu vote based on countries population.
Blair told Merkel he would support this.
Blair showing his real world socialism Knew Merkels Chermany would control the European having the largest European population.
Blair did a deal with the Polish twins who rioted against this motion saying if it was for Ww2 their population would have been 60 million.
Checking out the group photo, Blair grinning like a Cheshire Cat in the front row laughing at Merkel on the inside. Merkel eyes are ending on the side at Blair and the shape of her mouth says it all.
After railing against his society he accepts a knighthood and now this.
All socialists are hypocrites who want to be famous at any cost.
BTW I can’t stand mekel after what she did to my mothers country if birth.

I see The Communard is in transports of delight that the Anal-rimar ‘government’ is returning to the ALP’s anti-semitic roots.

Who could possibly see that coming?

Reading the comments, I see a lot of people here are on the side of the Ukrainians, not much of a problem as such, we all have our reasons and biases, but some forget that there are always two sides to every story.

Remember the old excuse?
‘He started it by hitting back’, applies perfectly in this conflict, one still can question the severity of the action.

Update: trainer Chris Waller says it’s “unlikely” Nature Strip will run again on Saturday at Royal Ascot. The gelding will return to Australia to race again in the spring and Waller says he has achieved the purpose of his trip — an easy win today in the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes.

Just to emphasise how far ahead of the world Australia is, the King’s Stand Stakes is one of the world’s most prestigious races, but the prizemoney is a puny $A873,355, compared with $25.5 million for the 1200-metre Everest at Randwick, which Nature Strip won last year.

With today’s victory, Nature Strip has earned more than £10 million (GBP) globally.

Bad luck, Gabor. McDonald went too hard too early on Tasman Bay in the Wolferton Stakes, leading then fading to finish midfield.

Some early morning reading, from The Breaking Up: Australia’s history since 1788
(Bit of a text wall, I wonder if it will post…)
IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME.
By Roslyn Ross
Why are Aboriginal remote communities such cesspits of dysfunction? It cannot be blamed on a lack of money, attention or time invested in solving their problems.
So, what is going wrong? Why are the vast majority of Australians with Aboriginal ancestry doing fine and those in these communities are living such lives of such misery and violence that it is criminally negligent to allow it to continue? What are we getting so very wrong?
The claim is that the experience of colonisation has caused these problems when the reality is, all humans are descended from the colonised and most do fine. Which suggests, looking around, that it is the lack of assimilation which is the cause of the dysfunction. We know that, because the vast majority of those with Aboriginal ancestry are fully assimilated into the modern world and have been for generations. They are doing as well, if not sometimes better than the average and have the same sorts of outcomes as other Australians. This is why it is so wrong to talk about ‘indigenous’ Australians as some sort of entity or whole.
The minority who are in dysfunctional lifestyles are those still trapped in primitive tribal cultures and who have been welfare-dependent for generations. With no cultural appreciation for education, demonstrated by the fact parents do not ensure their children attend school, they are also largely uneducated and illiterate which means that welfare-dependency is their destiny as written. Why would parents fail to understand the importance of education, of literacy and numeracy? Because they do not think as you think, even when functional, which often they are not and dysfunctional people are poorly equipped to think clearly about anything.
Humans function best when they take responsibility for themselves and learn to be independent and self-sufficient. This creates strength of character, resilience and flexibility as any sensible parent knows for their child and the same applies to any human system.
Welfare is invaluable and humane in short-term situations but it is destructive long-term and never an effective answer to problems. I saw this living in four African countries, and indeed, some enlightened locals in the countries where I lived, Angola, Zambia, South Africa and Malawi, were also aware of the well-meaning but terribly destructive impact of aid. Too much help and people become dependent and childlike. The most paranoid saw it as a foreign plot. It wasn’t and it isn’t, a plot to disempower, but never underestimate the destructive power of good intentions. As the maxim has it – no good deed goes unpunished, or, in every gift there is a curse.
Nothing changes unless the culture changes and cultures can only effect constructive change from within. Yes, there are outside influences, but the motivation for change must come from the culture, because anything imposed from the outside will just be more ‘icing’ on a mouldy ‘cake.’ If the culture in which people live does not change for the better then they will not change for the better and the causes of the problems will not change and the original dysfunction will continue and manifest into new forms.
Some one trillion in aid, US dollars, has been poured into Africa in the past 50 years and the average person is worse off than they were half a century ago. Aid does not work, at least beyond immediate crisis situations, and even then, as I saw, those in power often collect the aid the West sends in times of crisis and sell it on to other countries, with none of it going to help their needy. In their world, their needs come first because that is how people think and that is how their world works. That is also a major problem in Aboriginal communities.
Ongoing Aid encourages and entrenches a mendicant attitude and brews even worse corruption. It weaves itself into the foundational culture and changes nothing for the better. If the aid manifested as planned it could help, but such plans mostly fail because they do not take into account, human nature.
Most great, noble and revolutionary plans fail or go awry, like religion and communism, because they do not take into account human nature. And even the successes have sharp unexpected edges. Provide something useful to the women in tribal societies and it’s a good chance the men will take it for their own use. Why would the donors think that something useful would remain in the hands of women who are inferior in the society and under male control? But think it they do, because when they ask their questions, everyone smiles, including the men, and says Yes!
What is meant to happen and what actually happens are frequently two very different things. As an example, most would agree that ready access to water is critical and that women in Africa having to walk kilometres to get water and carry it home in buckets, is a major problem which should be addressed. And it was, with campaigns to construct wells and pumps, or to provide pumps to wells, in each village. A noble, admirable idea. So, what happened?
Local chiefs would either take charge of the well and dictate who could use it, or remove parts for construction and maintenance of their own personal well. And, when equipment broke down, who was going to pay to fix the well? Indeed, who had been taught the skills to fix the well? The Mzungus (whites) with the money of course. And that is why Africa is littered with broken water pumps. No-one thought it through. But it certainly seemed like a good idea at the time. I have since read there are now charities which seek to help locals repair the pumps.
Another great idea was providing mosquito nets for people. This happened when I was living in Malawi, for more than five years, a tiny country along the edge of a huge lake. The nets were provided and what happened? Well, ever resourceful the locals thought they would make great fishing nets. Who cares about mosquitoes? They had always lived with them. And that is what they did. Except those innovative Mzungus had provided mosquito nets drenched in poison to, well, kill the mozzies and so, using them as fishing nets soon had the fish in the lake dying. Not only were the locals now without mozzie nets to possibly offset malaria, they were without food on which they relied to survive. No-one thought it through, but it seemed like an excellent idea at the time.
The same problems exist with Aboriginal communities for the same sorts of reasons. These places are riven by familial, tribal and traditional divisions. They do not and cannot agree on anything most of the time, except when someone comes along and wants to give them something when the answer is a communal yes and where no-one, giver or receiver, thinks it through. Well, thinks it through carefully and strategically enough. Lots of thinking but much of it in the realms of assumption if not fantasy.
Aid is most often based on what people on the outside think others should be, do or have, without those making decisions actually understanding who the people they want to help actually are, how their world works and the social and cultural dynamics which will influence any help provided. If they have any sense of the alien culture with which they are dealing it is usually a romanticised, invented fantasy of culture rather than the real thing. They mean well. Yes, they do, but in idealism and ignorance they also do great harm and waste a great deal of money.
I have a family member who worked as a social worker in Aboriginal communities in Alice Springs and Darwin, who said a major problem is that if you ask people in these communities a question they will usually say Yes. It is the same in Africa. Partly it is because in many of these cultures, yes, is the polite answer and also the goal is to please the powerful and rich person in front of you who wants to give you things. Why would anyone say no to a gift?
So, houses are built for those in Aboriginal communities without taking into account that if someone dies in a house, in such primitive tribal communities, no-one can sleep in that house anymore. Aboriginal cultures in 1788 were highly superstitious, as indeed were all humans at stone-age levels of existence, and these superstitions have endured in those communities which are the least assimilated into the modern world. Leaving a simple Wurlie now inhabited by the ghost of someone dead, and whipping up a new one with a few branches and bark, is a very different matter to replacing a community of abandoned houses. Whose fault is it that the houses are now deemed uninhabitable because of superstitition?
As another example of what can go wrong when you paste the modern world onto an old one: stoves are provided in kitchens. Without taking into account that the normal cooking practices are to throw an animal onto the fire and so, they do the same thing with the cooker, turning on all the hobs, putting the animal on top, and very soon it is so full of animal fats and juices it no longer works. Those using the cooker have, seemingly, no idea this will destroy it and certainly no idea how to fix it, if indeed they could embrace such a concept of repair in a world where ‘ask and it shall be given’ is how things work. Another broken piece of modern equipment littering the land as water pumps do in Africa. And for the same reasons, no-one thought it through. But they did mean well, and everyone agreed it was a good idea at the time.
I also have family members who have been actively involved in negotiating with Aboriginal communities and the same factors are in play. Yes, is a good answer if it pleases the person in front of you and is likely to be of benefit, but saying Yes requires that it accords with the dictates of whoever runs your family and tribal group, regardless of what the needs of the community or what your personal view might be.
When mining companies want to build useful structures in a community, like a school and health centre, they will have to deal with individual ‘needs’ and wants which will be about money and Toyotas. The power-brokers in the community are out for themselves and the mining companies are out for the community, at least in terms of these consultations, and foolishly believe they are negotiating with people who care about the community when they only care about themselves. And yes, no doubt there can be exceptions but they too are imprisoned by the system.
Generally, the outcome for the Aboriginal community will be a school or a health centre, not both, and the rest in money and cars. Without such concessions no agreement can ever be reached and no mine will ever be built. The school and health centre would of course meet the needs of everyone in the community and the money and cars will meet the needs of a few in the community – the most powerful. Remote areas of Australia are littered with trashed Toyotas. They are our ‘water pump’ equivalent. Perhaps a charity can be set up to teach the locals to repair and restore them. What does it matter when there will be another car gifted? What does it matter when only today is relevant?
I know that sounds harsh, but, in such cultures the only thought is for today and what tomorrow or next week may bring is irrelevant. Thinking ahead, is, or was, a European/Western approach to life and is no doubt a reflection of more developed societies. They are more developed because they began to think ahead, to plan strategically, to embrace and manage change; to be aware of outcomes.
This is why the local Aboriginal community for the Argyle Diamond Mine in the Kimberley region of WA, despite forty years of substantial royalties in the many millions, achieved very little, if anything beyond some heady personal gains. And when the mine closed recently, were bemoaning the loss of such monies and the penury it would bring. They had forty years to put millions to good use and they did not. Why? Because they did not and do not think in such a way and their tribal structures and systems do not allow such thinking.
The dangerous assumption made by those looking to help, is that they are dealing with people who think as they do. That is the thing about cultures, they are different and they are certainly not equal. Never assume the person to whom you are talking thinks as you do, let alone understands how you think or even cares.
During my time in Africa, there would be people, including fairly well-educated individuals, who would do the silliest things, often involving theft, where it was guaranteed, they would be found out, but which they did all the same because they could not or would not think past the moment. And they held superstitious beliefs which they were certain would protect them.
There was a case in Malawi when two workers on a mining site decided to steal a television set from one of the Dongas. They had bought themselves some ‘magic dust’ which would make them invisible. One presumes they had enough to liberally sprinkle on the television set as well. But they must have bought a dud batch because as they walked up to the gates, intending to exit when they opened, the guards challenged them and asked why they were carrying a television set out of the camp. The expressions on their faces would have been priceless.
That, however, is how different mindsets can be in cultures which have not assimilated into the modern world. How could anyone believe such a thing, you might ask? Good question, but they do and such ways of thinking are also a part of Aboriginal tribal cultures and their reality is ignored at everyone’s peril and that is one major reason why these communities are worse today than they have ever been, despite all that help.
When René Descartes wrote: Cogito, Ergo, Sum – I think therefore I am, it was to make a case that our capacity to think was proof that we existed. That may well be the case, but it is worth remembering that a more useful maxim is – What I think creates what I am and cultures create how and how much people can think. All thinking is not equal.
Tribal communities are rarely self-reflective because that did not help them when they were nomadic hunter-gatherers. They learned to do what they were told by whoever ran the tribe, usually an old man, the chief, in Africa, and in Australian Aboriginal societies, a number of old men. Their word was law and anyone who challenged it was dead. And if death was not the outcome, the community/tribe would often wreak punishment in the form of banishment from the group, which, meant death anyway.
And today, where these tribal societies continue to exist, the chief, or ‘head man’ or Elder or whatever name you want to give the boss, will dictate what can be done. Anyone who goes against that will not last. For instance, in an African village if someone wants to plant something different in their garden, they risk the wrath not just of the chief but of the other villagers. The tribal mentality, a backward mentality once expressed by all humans at less developed levels, is that ‘everyone is in the pot’ and those who try to ‘climb out’ must be pulled back into the pot.
Modern minds interpret this as ‘community co-operation.’ It is not, it is tribal dictatorship and community control. No doubt this attitude originated in hunter-gatherer societies where it was necessary to come together in order to survive. People worked together in order to eat and to eat was to survive. Without this primal and primitive need, and beyond the dictates of the chief, what was there to bring people together?
There remains a primal instinct that the group must remain together for survival, even when there is no evidence, in the current reality, that is the case. Old habits die hard. Individualism must be countered at any cost. This of course does not apply to wealth or power for those in a position to take and hold wealth and power. Might is right in such cultures.
Into the equation came the missionaries and the colonists who brought aid, in essence, a form of wealth. ‘Sit-down money’ the acute aborigines originally called it and sit-down money it was and it is. When someone provides you with food, shelter, support, then all you have to think about is how much of it you can get for yourself. There is no longer any need to work together, to function as a community. Why work when it is handed to you on a platter?
The world frays at the edges and begins to tear inwards to a centre which cannot and does not hold. In Aboriginal communities as in Africa the same attitudes are all too commonly at work – self first and foremost, immediate family second, extended family a possible third and everyone else can go to hell. I had well educated and successful men describe this reality to me in both Angola and Malawi when I lived there. That is why African countries are pretty much basket-cases, including South Africa, which once handed over to African tribal entities, began gurgling down the plughole of corruption.
That is why Aboriginal communities are the disasters that they are – because the same dynamics are at work. People think differently which is why cultures are different. Turn a tribal hunter-gatherer society into a mendicant society and you get dysfunctional humans and cultures which cannot function in any world; the one which no longer exists and can no longer exist but which they pretend still exists, or the one they need to join, but are encouraged not to join beyond the material and mechanical which is gifted – the modern world. How could anyone remain functional caught between two such worlds?
And yes, of course there are exceptions because there are always a few rebels in every society, but they are a minority and there are not enough of them to bring about the necessary changes. Aid has created a mentality where people see themselves, indeed are told they are, entitled victims. Holding out hands in order to receive what you are told is your ‘right’ and due, is easier than using those same hands to work hard to change yourself and your world.
Working to end the mendicant mentality must come from the outside with a slow easing of the flow of aid and support for these communities which are destroying people, particularly children, in ways which should never be allowed. History reveals that Aid has not worked and that welfare, beyond short-term, does more harm than good.
If it seems like a good idea, it probably isn’t. At least not without very careful consideration and prolonged and informed thinking it through.

John Spooner.

Warren Brown.

Patrick Blower.

Morten Morland.

A.F. Branco.

Tom Stiglich.

Gary Varvel.

Davey Boy says:
June 15, 2022 at 3:07 am

A very good read.

I know that sounds harsh, but, in such cultures the only thought is for today and what tomorrow or next week may bring is irrelevant.

Unfortunately, that’s the way the politicians, come do-gooders think as well.

I have no side in this fratricidal conflict. I wish they’d stop, but I can’t see it happening anytime soon.

Me too BoN.

I know some here detest or at least ridicule ‘Wog-ball’ but this match England – Hungary was a gem.

Just a hint, it’s a game of strategy not unlike chess and there is no “close enough is good enough” give ’em a point.

Hungary-England 4:0

Stefanovic the Younger informs me this morning that monkeypox is to be renamed after 30 apparent scientists wrote to somebody saying that the current name is offensive and racist.

I full agree with this sentiment.

From now on, it should be named poofterpox.

Lift ya game, KD.

Just watched Chris Waller trained Nature Strip leave the field behind in the Royal Ascot 1000 sprint.
One Pommy race caller on video called the horse Nature Stripe the whole way. We have the best callers and that’s not in dispute.

Nature Strip is a traitor and a shallow cocksmoker.

Got his Nazi pass, which made my life immeasurably worse.

Stiglich is clever this morning.

Warren Brown points out the problem of too much Magic Dust.

Media reporting an exclusion zone near Ipswich due to a truck accident that was carrying dangerous chemicals.
Sure it was.
Clearly a cover story for bussing people to the camps.

Further Liberal Party/Australian Government Stupidity

NSW government knocked back Origin offer to sell Eraring power plant

The NSW government considered a pitch to buy the loss-making Eraring Power Station in secret talks with Origin Energy last year. But the deal fell apart amid government concerns that underwriting a plan to keep the coal-fired power station open longer could “crowd out” other investments in energy.

By that time, the government would use revenues from the plant’s output – estimated to be about $240 million a year – to offset costs, for a total cost of $71 million in fiscal 2026 and $56 million in 2027.

Another anecdote of life in the people’s republic of victoria.

A friend of mine did a shutdown job in the north of Melbourne over the weekend, where a bloke had a red hot go at severing his arm with an angle grinder. They do first aid and call 000.

No ambulance available. Call a taxi.

They chuck him in the back of a car and drive to the nearest hospital, which they can’t actually drive to the emergency department because vehicles are backed up onto the arterial road nearby. So old mate missing big chunks of his arm has to walk from there into emergency and cause a scene to get any attention.

The health system isn’t failing. It’s failed. What’s happening now is just the disintegration happening in real time.

“I’ve warned until I’m blue in the face that without coal fire power we are cactus, it is that simple”.

I can’t get that Magic Dust metaphor out of my mind. It’s a winner.

The Great and the Good and the Smarmy thought they could create sufficient energy from renewables by using Magic Dust and sneak it by the Laws of Thermodynamics at the gate. And make muchos $$$ in the process.

Caught!

A questions for economics Cats. Sorry if this sounds silly, but it’s something I never see discussed, only government spending, not printing per se.

If printing money creates inflation, then shouldn’t taking money out of circulation reduce it? I’m aware that this creates its own issues, but we know interest rates are a blunt instrument.

The Beer whisperersays:
June 15, 2022 at 8:22 am
A questions for economics Cats. Sorry if this sounds silly, but it’s something I never see discussed, only government spending, not printing per se.

If printing money creates inflation, then shouldn’t taking money out of circulation reduce it? I’m aware that this creates its own issues, but we know interest rates are a blunt instrument.

Try this.

http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarterlybulletin/2014/qb14q1prereleasemoneycreation.pdf

What’s you mechanism for taking cash out of circulation, BW?

What’s you mechanism for taking cash out of circulation, BW?

Banks routinely return old notes for replacement. You would simply replace it with an appropriate ledger compensation.

Ugh, link broken, Bluey. Got another one?

The Parrot’s fingerprints are all over the gas shortage.

Shut the Gate with your frozen fingers and keep it shut with your stiff corpse.

Or open it and stay warm.