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

Renewables are the PROBLEM, not the solution.

People need only cast their minds back a few years before the windmills and solar farms.

Electricity was cheap and plentiful. Coal and gas, baby!

So, what changes have been made that accompanied the rising prices and declining reliability? If renewables really are cheaper and more reliable, how does their inclusion cause higher prices and deteriorating supply?

Cryptos are therefore no different to your AUD or USD.

I disagree especially with respect to the USD which is a Currency that has never been cancelled. It remains the World’s Reserve Currency. The USD is also rising against most other currencies with both International Capital flows into the USA and the prospect of the US Federal Reserve to rapidly increase the US Cash Rate (Short Term Interest Rate) over the course of 2022 and maybe beyond.

The AUD is in a different space though.

The Crypto currency Market is a Giant Ponzi Scheme.

All In my humble Opinion by the way.

https://spectator.com.au/2022/06/sudden-adult-death-syndrome-baffles-doctors/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=UNFI%20%2020220614%20%20SG&utm_content=UNFI%20%2020220614%20%20SG+CID_833d6b642b15ee6243c1b541de3662f5&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Australia&utm_term=Young%20and%20healthy%20adults%20are%20dying%20at%20an%20alarmingly%20high%20rate%20%20but%20no%20one%20knows%20why

Dr F at 6:41

“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.”

Are these the same “gold plated poles and wires” Gillard referred to ten years ago?
This is a distraction.
They can’t blame solar or wind.
They can’t say coal is the answer.
Aha!
It’s the transmission and distribution systems!

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

Sunlit uplands just around the corner.

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

Roger, there is a shitfight going on in Danistan at the moment.
AusNet want to build a transmission line from Stawell in the west to Sydenham in the suburbs for that very purpose.
Farmers have a legit beef because it is going to put a crimp in water-jet spray irrigation under the line.
But the rest of it is a totally hilarious perfect storm of competing SJW issues.
Environmentalists want to underground it. But that will plough up indigenous sites and destroy wildlife habitat (and cost buckets more).
The Greenies who love 160 metre wind turbines are up in arms about 85 metre transmission towers.
Everyone wants to hook it up but lots of Nimby stuff going on.

Bolta and sheridan going full on Trumpophobic, saying his staff testimony against him about insurrection day will doom him. Bolt is infuriating; on some things he is courageous and insightful but on others, particularly Trump he might as well be a demorat he is so stupid. I really think he is so prissy he objects to Trump simply because Trump is crude. After all bolt objected to Milo saying fuck.

The covid baby boom gathers pace.
I’m very happy to say.
🙂

Big fan of stewed rhubarb. Stewed any fruit really.

Blot still wants dinner party invitations.

You get the feeling he was hung out to dry by Newscorpse, who would do it again given the chance I suspect. I wouldn’t be sticking my head in the noose for them either. Qualification – I haven’t watched/read him for years and don’t rate him much.

It’s impossible to exaggerate about the evil, spite, malice, ignorance and incompetence of the meja. Know nothings who set themselves up as experts on everything.

Well said!

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s pay packet will total $564k.

I wonder if Albo will mention that he grew up in public housing?

I disagree especially with respect to the USD which is a Currency that has never been cancelled. It remains the World’s Reserve Currency.

Accounts get cancelled. Crypto doesn’t.

As Martin Armstrong explains, Governments can cancel and ban Crypto’s should they wish to do so.

The USD is also rising against most other currencies with both International Capital flows into the USA and the prospect of the US Federal Reserve to rapidly increase the US Cash Rate (Short Term Interest Rate) over the course of 2022 and maybe beyond.

It was being given away. If BTC goes to zero, the only currency you need are 9 mm, as dollars will be worthless too unless they are gold or silver.

I very much doubt that the USD will ever be worthless. Gold bugs think otherwise though.

Anyway, I’m with Martin Armstrong with all of this. He has a very good Blog called –

armstrongeconomics.com

Well worth following should you be interested.

132andBushsays:

June 14, 2022 at 9:50 pm

Just got home.
All the street lights in our little town are dimmed.

Take the RayBan Aviators off.

Where does that quote come from, ZK2A?

Just heard it years ago, as one of the classy alternatives to “Fvck you, Jack, I’m all right.’

Just reading the Oz.
It looks like Prince “I don’t sweat” Andrew will remain the fulltime ferret wrangler at Balmoral for the foreseeable future.

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.

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

Indeed, an excellent read, and makes the point that Starkey does with the west, not everybody thinks the same, even similar cultures like US/UK, and we have to stop assuming they do.

The Australian has an article on the lefts drive to ‘clean up’ politics in Canberra. Yet in another article left strategists proudly boast how they played the man and went after Scomo to win office.
So the left will clean up politics until the next time they run into an obstacle. …so until 9am then.

Jaysus.

We’ve got about 50 per cent of the children in reception and nursery who are not toilet-trained. We have to employ care workers just to change nappies. We’ve got children who are still drinking from bottles with teats when they start school.

No doubt all the fault of those Tory scum in Westminster
for not taking charge of all parenting responsibilities.

feelthebern says:
June 14, 2022 at 3:04 pm
JC, are they wearing masks?

No, it was L.A. and you don’t have to wear masks.

vr

I’d bet the dirtbag is still be paid.

H B Bearsays:

June 15, 2022 at 8:27 am

Well said Alan.

The Parrot’s fingerprints are all over the gas shortage

Yes.
Screamed “Lock The Gate!” for ten years and now it’s all “Oh shit! No gas!”