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Lake Eyre: Exactly how many people claim to be part of these groups/ tribes/ clans wanting to restrict fellow citizens…
Not personally, but a relative did maybe 35 years ago now. Presumably your problem is deterioration (crumbling) of the vertebrae,…
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They even skite about media partisanship.
Those jackboots in the face are coming thick and fast and unashamed.
Interesting to watch the language change in the current energy crisis. It is no longer a “shortage” but a “gap”. Whatever – the lights are going to go out and I’m freezing.
The sunlight uplands are just around the corner. Tomorrow.
Clear as a bell and just as true.
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@risemelbourne
Netherlands Boom – Dutch Politician Simone Kerseboom drops some WHO Pandemic Treaty Truth Bombs
The Australian people soon became the battered wife after the KRudd honeymoon. Get ready for déjà vu.
But there is no question that if you are admitted to a western hospital with a COVID-19 diagnosis, your risk of death during that hospitalization has been amazingly high.
In my opinion, many of those hospital deaths were avoidable – many were iatrogenic (due to medical error). Iatrogenic disease is the result of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures undertaken on a patient. Again and again I hear academics, physicians, hospitalists and relatives of patients speak of the horrors of hospital-based treatment of COVID-19, of the unnecessary isolation of the patients, of the horrible and inhumane treatment which patients are receiving, of the toxicity of the FDA-approved and Fauci-promoted drug Remdesivir (globally nicknamed by nurses and orderlies “run, death is near”), and of the contribution of bad intubation and ventilation practices to those outcomes.
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/early-covid-treatment-works-yet-more?s=r
Just like the RBA: wall-to-wall Keynesian lovers of big government who don’t understand the first thing about modern economics, how to actually make stuff and Say’s Law.
Mind the gap!
Australian Governments Stupidity noted Overseas
1000s Of Sydney Homes Plunged Into Darkness As Aussie ‘Price Cap’ Policy Sparks Energy Shortage
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/1000s-sydney-homes-plunged-darkness-aussie-price-cap-policy-sparks-energy-shortage
Customers to pick up tab for generator compensation
Households and businesses will be hit with higher power bills to help compensate energy regulators paying millions of dollars to generators who are forced to boost supply in the market to help avoid potential blackouts in Queensland and NSW.
With cumulative price thresholds reached on the east coast, the Australian Energy Market Operator has intervened to direct some generators to put more supply into the market at loss-making prices.
If a generator is tapped by AEMO to increase their output, they are automatically compensated through a complex formula under the National Electricity Rules.
Given the energy shortfalls in key east coast energy markets, especially Queensland and NSW, the generators will eventually be paid millions of dollars in compensation by AEMO which will then get passed onto consumers in the form of higher power prices via their retailers.
“Ultimately, customers will pay for it in the end,” said the Grattan Institute’s energy program director Tony Wood.
According to the National Electricity Rules, generators who are directed to meet a potential shortfall in a region, are paid a 90th percentile of the average spot price over the past 12 months and that is paid automatically within 20 days. AEMO will recover those costs from retailers through their participant fees.
Conversely, if a generator is operating at a loss under the $300 a megawatt hour price cap imposed by the Cumulative Price Threshold, it is also eligible to apply for compensation through the Australian Energy Market Commission (AMEC).
After a lengthy process, if the claim is approved, the compensation will be paid from AEMO to generators and AEMO will recover costs from the retailers. Retailers will then pass these costs onto their customers.
The AMEC, which sets the market rules, said the cumulative price cap was supposed to be a “risk mitigation measure” for consumers to stop the very high prices flowing through the market.
Market data showed generators withdrew capacity from the NEM after $300/MWh prices were imposed in both Queensland and then subsequently in NSW because it would be more worth their while to be directed by AEMO to generate.
Industry sources said while generators can be compensated for lost costs under the compensation scheme in the Cumulative Price Threshold regulations, it was more profitable for them to instead be compensated by AEMO under a direction to generate.
This forced Australian Energy Regulator chairwoman Clare Savage on Tuesday to write to energy generators to remind them of their obligations, saying some generators were withdrawing available capacity to get a better compensation deal.
“The AER expects market participants to undertake their operations so as to ensure they are not causing or significantly contributing to the circumstances causing a direction to be issued,” she said.
“The AER will continue to closely monitor and review rebids to withdraw capacity from the market.”
But Josh Stabler, managing director of energy adviser Energy Edge, said there was no clarity on the exact rules that would apply for compensation at this stage.
He said a representative from the AEMC speaking on a briefing call on the situation on Monday indicated that different rules might be used to resolve the current situation.
“The costs associated with the compensation will be passed through to customers, not AEMO,” he said.
“Theoretically, this should be lower than a higher price for the entire market rather than just high prices for the high-cost generators. But it is likely to get very messy.”
Mr Stabler said that now the Cumulative Price Threshold had been exceeded and the market is capped in the four mainland states, it was more likely that the cap would be extended past the end of the week.
“Generators are being dispatched at market outcomes below their fuel cost, so they are incentivised to extract their capacity, or bid unavailable, to avoid being dispatched,” he said.
“This results in higher shadow prices which is included in the calculation of the CPT, and therefore, extending its duration.”
Dylan McConnell, research fellow at the Climate & Energy College at the University of Melbourne, said that in both Queensland and NSW, market data showed several plants that had been forecast to be available to produce power were withdrawn from the market once the $300/MWh limit was set. That included about 2 gigawatts of capacity withdrawn in Queensland on Sunday evening.
“It definitely seems like some generators are gaming the compensation regime,” Dr McConnell said.
“The unintentional consequence is the various forecasts of load-shedding and lack of reserves across the system.”
To my cynical mind, a shortage is a failure to meet demand, whereas a gap can be covered over by reducing demand to meet supply.
.. but not at home by the majority of the population.
The toilet training issue is sheeted back to parental laziness and neglect and the “comfort” of disposable nappies over terry towelling.
Disposable nappies are a huge factor in toilet training failures.
TVs are a huge factor in language skills, moreso ipads and things now, some of that gibberish the lkids are speaking is probably bits of other languages they have clicked on in their youtube journeys.
I recall being appalled by some of the “poopy ha-ha” stuff aimed at kids with a rellies daughter, lots of spiderman and peppa pig pooing and making silly noises.
Attractive stuff to an unsupervised kid, and thanks to youtubes “oh you liked that, heres a never ending stream of the same stuff” algorithms they can spend whole days on the stuff.
No substitute for mum and dad, as you say.
Doom, DOOM, DOOOOOOM!!!!
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/15/sea-level-rise-in-england-will-force-200000-to-abandon-homes-data-shows
Sea levels around the English coast are forecast to be about 35cm higher by 2050. Added to this, foreshores are being eroded, which leads to higher waves, especially when there are storms.
The estimate of nearly 200,000 homes and businesses at risk of abandonment comes from researchers at the Tyndall Centre, in the University of East Anglia, published in the peer-review journal Oceans and Coastal Management.
They also are shameless enough to conflate costal erosion (an ongoing and constant process) with sea level rises…
not sure if people have noticed, but Venezuela went through a similar crisis.. selling their abundant energy overseas while local pricing rules kept it out of the reach of the locals.
Mill was onto something.
I noticed no-one is calling it a “clusterfuck”.
Strange.
MiltonF:
It has put them out of commercial viability – the only thing between bankruptcy and the media is the subsidisation by the bureaucracy of the air time.
Next time you happen to tune in, watch how much is propaganda paid for by the taxpayer.
The idea used to be that the pubic serpents would be much smarter than the majority of the population, and also smarter than the politicians. And so the pubic serpents would be slaving away doing the heavy thinking and taking care of the rest of us.
What went wrong with that?
Just reading this week’s Speccie, nostalgic for England in some ways, the demographics are such that the writing is always of sparklingly high quality in its sources of amusement, while Australian commentary can often seem rather parochial, lacking as it does a certain British blunt fopishness.
Cripes, that sounds like contagious snobbery, like some sort of travellers’ viral curse. But it has to be said: the British, especially the English, are a different species to us Colonials.
I like the Speccie a lot as it is good to keep up with the commentary and reviews on the UK as well as with the Australian content. Just backread five issues that arrived while we were away, particularly to catch up on the commentary around the Oz election. Also compelling reading is Jeremy Clarke’s Real Life, his wry cancer ‘journey’ (such a cliche as he makes plain) as he dispassionately presents his blackening toenails. Taki, not always in top form lately, is very good today. He’s all in favour of Private Clubs to avoid the Hoi Polloi invading his peaceful spaces. I have to say that I approve of the desire although not the mode, having that Groucho Marx feeling about joining any private club that deigns to extend an invitation to me.
Cat friends can fill us in with a post-mortem election meet-up soon.
James Delingpole in this week’s Speccie reviews the Ricky Gervaise Netflix show I briefly commented on the other day. I wrongly called it NaturalNature, whereas it is actually titled SuperNature. Delingpole cans Gervaise as ‘an achingly conventional millennial’ who neglects to tackle today’s issues while being quite funny about the shiboliths of decades long gone, and new ones that are already crumbling (such as transgenderism). I mentioned that Gervaise omitted any critique of climate change, and Delingpole goes to town on Gervaise’s other glaring sin of omission – no attack at all on the rise, management, and fall of Covid fascism and its lingering aftermath. Hence, says Delingpole, Gervaise is something of a fake maverick, though an admittedly funny one who can deliver a good show with plenty of plum lines, all done, may I add, with Gervaise’s undoubted aplomb.
Britain does produce what I call these woke within the tent types. Piers Morgan is similar.
that’s a good question I’ve pondered quite a bit.
I think the pubic serpents have suffered like many large organisations – overrun with financial, management and to a lesser extent, science-types. The practical people who get shit done (like engineers and others) have become such a small voice that insanity (‘the feels’) has prevailed.
Roger at 9:49.
They are certainly putting it on consumers to go stone age.
But I took “gap” to mean timing.
You know, just to tide us over until solar panels work in the dark and wind turbines spin in the doldrums.
Poppycock! … it that were true it would cause inflation …. oh, wait …
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.
Watched some TV news last night. It is actually entertaining with the sound off while you guess what is being said.
Davey Boy:
Excellent stuff. Damn fine bit of writing and thinking.
Weekdays @ 10am: the daily Tucker Carlson update on American politics.
It occurs to me that the greatest unwritten story in American politics is the unseen co-ordination and distribution of the Democratic Party’s daily talking points methodically parroted by everyone from the hosts of late night TV comedy shows (that aren’t funny) to the puppet president himself.
It’s an awesomely awful pantomime from zombies who desperately want us to believe it’s unscripted and spontaneous.
Sorry, kids. No Nobel Prize for you if you break the story of the century.
An oxymoron to be sure.
Never forget ClimateGate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_controversy
Brought to you by “researchers” at East Anglia.
I’ll never forget the email from “researcher” Phil Jones who asks a fellow researcher in an email to “hide the decline” and “use a statistical trick to flatten the curve” (as he couldn’t make warming look scary enough).
Sancho Panzer at 10:11 – yep, that was what they want you to think. More time, more windmills,more transmission lines will close the “gap”.
Its curious, Britain will have a 30+ cm rise in about 25 years.
Yet ours is predicting a range…
https://www.news.com.au/national/updated-mapping-shows-aussie-beaches-and-homes-at-risk-from-sea-level-rise/news-story/61a789cef41ce7d1f0642027f17dfff9#:~:text=NGIS%20Australia%20executive%20director%20Nathan,storm%20surges%2C%E2%80%9D%20he%20said.
NGIS Australia executive director Nathan Eaton said the organisation wanted to communicate how the IPCC’s latest projections would impact Australian coastal communities. “By 2050, sea level change of 15cm to 30cm will be unavoidable. This means that coastal flooding will become worse during storm surges,” he said.
Hmm my post disappeared!
Minimum wage up by over 5%…
Then there was the one where he was saying he didn’t know how to do regression line in Excel, and no one else at CRU did either. It was amusing how inexpert they actually were at data processing.
Phil Stumped at Calculating A Trend (Climate Audit, 2011)
I’ll never forget the email from “researcher” Phil Jones who asks a fellow researcher in an email to “hide the decline” and “use a statistical trick to flatten the curve” (as he couldn’t make warming look scary enough).
Funny how the emails proved there guys were a bunch of total frauds and that has gone into the forgettory?
Minimum wage up by over 5%…
During 2021, ScoMo could have called for a mini wages accord of 3% per year for 3 years.
Coulda.
Woulda.
Shoulda.
The actual data is maybe 5-10cm. Five if you go on the tide gauges, ten if you go from the satellite data (which seems overcooked to me). Closer to nil on the Australian east coast because the land is still rising a bit from residual plate tectonics.
I’m puzzled by all this alarmism about sea level rise due to the temperature above the crust.
When you have even a cursory glance at plate tectonics, it’s clear that the crust “floats” on a super-heated and sometimes unstable mantle. The rise and fall of continents, their sideways movement and the depths of oceans is reliant on this.
Not taking into account island building on reefs.
Any thoughts on this, or do I have the bull by the tail as usual?
Lol. Bruce got there first.
Bern, under Slomo, minimum wage actually went up $52 a week (during his 3 years as PM).
Eyrie and Bruce – the ClimateGate scandal was the last straw for me. It’s the year I finally became a conservative (despite their attempts to hush it up with an “independent” inquiry)
Has there been much or indeed any, MSM attention to the very high non-voting numbers from the election?
If it gets a lot of attention, it will put the government under pressure to do something about it. Surely it wouldn’t be practical or economical to prosecute more than one and a half million people.
Only a tiny proportion of the usual non-voting population is ever prosecuted anyway.
Also, widespread attention to the fact that so many didn’t vote and weren’t punished would just encourage even more non-voting in the future.
If the majority of the non-voters were conservatives it would be advisable for Elbow to encourage them, rather than punish them.
Will the labor government and its media allies try to undermine the “compulsory” aspect of our voting systems to further their own aims?
Oh noes.
Another self inflicted crisis on the Euro horizon.
Who’da thunk outsourcing evil planet killing production, to look good,
to a country you launch sanctions against, to look good,
doesn’t actually look good, outcomes-wise.
Elephant in the room.
2 New York Court of Appeals Judges Rule an Elephant has Human Rights (14 Jun)
You are a wicked person if you don’t let an elephant live in a house.
Can someone put together a list of the organisations and regulations governing the electricity system (it is clearly a lie to call it a “market”) in Australia.
In one post above, we had the Australian Energy Regulator, the Australian Energy Market Operator, the Australian Energy Market Commission, the National Electricity Rules, the Cumulative Price Threshold, and the Australian Energy Operator.
There also is the LRET. What else is there?
re: The Times article on toilet training etc.
It would be interesting to see the cultural breakdown of those stories.
And no, I don’t think it’s an “ignorant migrant issue”.
Lots of items for sale on gumtree now seem to have “moving overseas” as the reason for selling.
Tempting to ping them and find out which places they reckon aren’t a third world shit hole. Options seem to be pretty limited.
Winston
Next time you happen to tune in, watch how much is propaganda paid for by the taxpayer.
It is the same for the “freebie” regional papers. I did a quick count on the local one a few weeks ago. Ignoring the two pages of (useless) TV programs for the coming week, around seven of the 30 remaining pages were taken up with paid advertising from various levels of government, before the commercial advertising was counted.
They won’t bite the hand that feeds them.
Dr BG
What went wrong with that?
Too many Yartz, Gender Studies and Sociology graduates unemployable elsewhere than universities and the government teat?
Talking about plate tectonics …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=uLahVJNnoZ4
3D printer news.
Australian Police Arrest Man for 3D Printed 15-Round Firearm (14 Jun)
Unsurprising that it’s WA that’s bringing the hammer down on a kid printing a firearm. I wonder when 3D printers will be banned? Must be on the cards.
In one post above, we had the Australian Energy Regulator, the Australian Energy Market Operator, the Australian Energy Market Commission, the National Electricity Rules, the Cumulative Price Threshold, and the Australian Energy Operator.
What a fine collection of grandly named parasite organisations!
Fair Work Commission decides on 5.2% minimum wage rise, vs inflation of 5.1%.
What a silly question.
This is a good read from PowerLine
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/06/six-major-problems-with-green-transition.php
Honestly, does it matter when we look to be rapidly heading that way ourselves? At least somewhere like Thailand you can get seen at a hospital if you’ve got money instead of the whole system collapsing like what seems to be happening here.
I’m old enough to remember when Mothercare* and Home Ec. classes were compulsory for girls in grade eight, just as wood work, metal work and Tech. drawing were for boys.
Did the Poms ever do that, or did they rely upon osmosis?
*And those Spirax A3 books.
I want to see WA plod prove this assertion. If he used plakky I would not want to be in the same room when it goes bang
Fair Work Donkeys have raised pay. This raises minimum pay at my place by about $1.60 per hour.
Fair Work Commission decides on 5.2% minimum wage rise, vs inflation of 5.1%.
Give it 3 months and we’ll be hearing about the 5% + and rising unemployment.
What’s wrong with Australia exhibit xxxx
Clare commenced her career in the public service – initially in the UK and then at the Federal Department of the Treasury. It was during her time at Treasury that her passion for the energy sector was ignited.
Clare has a Bachelor of Commerce (Economics) and a Bachelor of Arts (Politics and History) from The University of Melbourne.
More dilettantes with bludge ‘degrees’.
Eyrie says: June 15, 2022 at 11:26 am
Yep, businesses unable to raise their prices & still maintain margin, will have to sack one in every twenty staff.
I’ve had to do that before. It isn’t nice. It has to be done.
It was during her time at Treasury that her passion for the energy sector was ignited.
‘passion’- the most overused word in HR world
I think Elly Melly put it beautifully on twitter:
“Climate change is making weather more unreliable and unstable so we’re investing in energy alternates that rely more on weather?”
The minimum wage case increase is a disgrace and by far the largest increase in over a decade. What hopelessly partisan and incompetent dunderheads.
The decision will now inevitably fuel a wage price spiral and lead to an increase in unemployment.
None of which could have been predicted/sarc off …
Diogenessays:
June 15, 2022 at 11:25 am
They note that the gun could fire 15 rounds.
I want to see WA plod prove this assertion. If he used plakky I would not want to be in the same room when it goes bang
The effectiveness of a plastic spring in lifting consecutively 15 rounds from the magazine into the firing mechanism must be doubtful, particularly after the magazine has been loaded for some time.
$1.60 increase seems small but if you have 100 employees working 8 hour days over a year, that’s 460K per year!
Not sure if you lot have been engaging with the actual economy lately, but unemployment is not a problem at all. Most business are gagging for workers, there are staff shortages everywhere.
When McDonalds are running a scheme where you can get a job after a five-minute interview, things in the labour market are a bit tight.
Decent dingle on the Monash freeway today as reported by news.com.au.
3 cars (one with trailer) plus a truck up the bum.
Can’t put on workers if you can’t afford to pay them.
And you can only afford to pay them if you a) have sufficient margin and can absorb the rise, or b) if you raise prices.
Either way, expect businesses to close or the unemployed remaining unemployed or prices to rise.
So Monty fancies himself as an economist…..LOL.
Businesses that want to find a way will find a way.
Energy & fuel prices are a far bigger concern.
Helped by Labor governments banning willing workers for not being vaccinated? Or the insane regulations, woke mania and fear of being metooed?
What Happens When The Workforce No Longer Wants To Work? (15 Jun)
I’m not sure if this comment should be on Peter’s thread on Christianity and socialism – but here goes:
We have well and truly entered an age in which Christianity no longer seems to have an appeal to current generations. It is tempting to believe that Nietzsche’s belief that self realisation does not have to be obtained through religion has become the more attractive option for most.
Those who still go through the motions of Church attendance most often adopt crazy beliefs in “relativism” that misrepresent the actual precepts of Christianity.
The transcendant principles of the teaching of Jesus get lost in this muddled interpretation.
We need a Second Coming.
They did way back when.
I doubt woodwork and Home Eck have been taught in UK schools for 20+ years.
I seem to remember they were rissoled from the Nation Curriculum under Blair, because gender-assuming and not consistent with Cool Brittania.
I’ve become very sceptical of candidates getting the Trump endorsement doing better because of the Trump endorsement.
My developing view is that in most cases (Dr Oz was one of the few exceptions) is Trump waits to see if one of the “America First” candidates get into a close to unlosable situation & then he jumps in.
For example, in South Carolina, the incumbent – Rice – was being smoked in the polls by the challenger – Fry.
Then Trump backs him.
It’s not so brave to back a winner that in front by the length of Flemington straight.
Police in Western Australia arrested an 18-year-old for allegedly building a 15-round firearm out of plastic using a 3D printer.
CNN points to its Australian affiliate Nine News, which indicates the man allegedly made the firearm over the course of two days, using materials that cost $28.
I want to see the police commissioner put 15 rounds through that plastic firearm before the kid is convicted.
lets see the spastic mong actually do it instead of making such a fantastic and unbelievable claim.
They note that the gun could fire 15 rounds.
Where did the kid get the 9 mm rounds?
Wokeworths in full virtue signalling mode?
Nearly enough for the punters to hand over to AGL and Origin to keep the lights on.
Double it.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/14/a-very-high-number-reserve-bank-of-australia-governor-expects-inflation-to-hit-7-by-end-of-year
The Reserve Bank governor, Philip Lowe, has warned Australians to be prepared for higher interest rates, saying inflation will likely reach 7% by the end of the year and it must be brought under control.
In his first public appearance since the RBA raised the cash rate by a larger than expected 50 basis points at last week’s board meeting, Lowe said on Tuesday night he was predicting inflation to rise to 7%. That compares with current inflation of 5.1%.
“By the end of the year, I expect inflation to get to 7%,” Lowe said in a rare television interview on ABC’s 7.30.
Probably spend $10k on getting it functional like last time there was something they pushed so publicly.
m0nty-fa
When McDonalds are running a scheme where you can get a job after a five-minute interview, things in the labour market are a bit tight.
When can we expect AnAl to put a time limit on unemployment benefits, and review the criteria for the Disability Pension?
Shirley you would support such action, to improve the productivity of Australians? Or are you gagging for a resumption of the population Ponzi?
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The Reserve Bank governor, Philip Lowe, has warned Australians to be prepared for higher interest rates, saying inflation will likely reach 7% by the end of the year and it must be brought under control.
Things Lowe has gotten wrong.
Yield curve control. Said the RBA would defend rates at 0.1%. Hedge funds blew that up after 2 attempts.
Rates on hold until 2024 – he said that up until late 2021.
No signs on inflation concerns in Australia – that was up until 3 months ago – now 7% inflation fears.
This is why confidence in the RBA has diminished.
Even more so since Debelle left.
We were promised violence after Supreme Court leak. They weren’t kidding
Once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. Three is a trend. More than a dozen is a coordinated campaign whose message is: You are next.
Mak Siccarsays:
June 15, 2022 at 12:01 pm
I’ve just trawled through the 196 items on Woolworth’s page that will have a price freeze and 90 + percent junk I would never purchase!
Guess which American Ethnic Group?
Brawl breaks out at DC HalfSmoke restaurant
It used to be that Central Banks would jaw-jaw down expected inflation numbers, since inflation expectations tend to become inflation fact. Inflation expectations even used to be surveyed.
By nominating 7%, he’s just put a floor under the number. He shouldn’t be in the business of making predictions, he should be keeping them close to his chest and let the rate settings do the talking.
Just another self promoter without a clue or an appreciation of history.
No doubt there’s an element of marketing to this, but WW will be absorbing the price increases so there is a cost to them. Virtue signaling, otoh, entails no cost to the signaller.
Lowe didn’t do shit in March 2020 until Australian banks started tapping the Fed Reserve.
Only then did the RBA pull the trigger on a range of measures.
Then it was late 2020 before they actioned a whole comprehensive suite of tools.
OldOzziesays:
June 15, 2022 at 12:23 pm
We were promised violence after Supreme Court leak. They weren’t kidding
Once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. Three is a trend. More than a dozen is a coordinated campaign whose message is: You are next.
These 27 Democrats voted against protections for Supreme Court justices
The Supreme Court Police Parity Act passed the Senate on a 100-0 vote last month
The House passed a bill Tuesday to increase security for Supreme Court justices’ immediate families, with 27 Democrats voting against, less than a week after a man was arrested for allegedly plotting to kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
I am so over the RBA & Lowe.
One of the only things that gets my blood pressure pumping.
Time for a cup of tea & a lie down.
Victoria may be going for blackouts tonight, says the Herald-Sun.
Time to get down to your Bunnings for one of these babies, which of course runs on PETROL!
81 Million Votes! DNC Forced to Move Kamala Harris Fundraiser to Fall because “They Couldn’t Sell Enough Tickets”
From the Comments
If they spread a rumor Trump will attend, the facility will sell out regardless of capacity….
Wokeworths in full virtue signalling mode?
The standard ploy is to put the prices up a few days before the “everyday low price” sticker .. LOL!
Short of a quantum leap in battery storage I don’t see how this gap can ever be closed whilst federal and state governments pursue their net zero agendas. And we’re probably three years away from a Labor-Greens government which will see the end of the extraction of fossil fuels in accordance with Greens policy. As the Greens promise, “We’ll have the power to push the next Government further and faster on the climate crisis.”
Guess which American Ethnic Group?
Brawl breaks out at DC HalfSmoke restaurant
From the Comments
Was everyone else as surprised as I was when you clicked on the story and saw that the group wasn’t Amish?
From the Herald-Sun link above:
Victoria’s ENERGY MIX
Black coal — 39 per cent nationally — 0 per cent in Victoria. The dominant energy source in Queensland and NSW that has been hit hard by recent outages. Not used in Victoria.
Brown coal — 16 per cent nationally — 58 per cent in Victoria. Victoria relies on the Yallourn and Loy Yang A and B coal-fired power stations in the Latrobe Valley. A major unit at Loy Yang A is out of action until late September.
Wind — 18 per cent nationally — 28 per cent in Victoria. Growing strongly as an energy source in Victoria but cannot provide crucial dispatchable generation.
Gas — 13 per cent nationally — 6 per cent in Victoria Considered a key transition fuel as coal-fired stations retire and more renewables come online. Victoria’s moratorium on gas exploration and development added to supply headaches.
Hydro — 11 per cent nationally — 6 per cent in Victoria. Snowy 2.0 is the country’s biggest storage project and will boost hydro resources, but it may not come online until 2028 after blowouts and delays.
Solar — 3 per cent nationally — 1 per cent in Victoria. Australia is a world leader in rooftop solar, with more than three million systems installed covering about one in three homes.
The Bobbsey Twin’s stock (Atlassian) was $202 last Thursday ( they must have been doing cartwheels), today it’s 167. 17% down.
You go girls
Bern
Lowe is afraid of his own shadow. He shouldn’t be in that position.
Atlassian.
What can it do you can’t do in MS Office?
kitten corner: pfizer dolls
just as wood work, metal work and Tech. drawing were for boys.
Did the Poms ever do that
I did all three (with little enthusiasm*) at Grammar School back in County Durham late50s/early 60s ..
When you finished year 2 (High) we had the choice of those 3 or sciences (chemistry, biology & physics)..
Believe it or not file: .. at my school Latin was a compulsory like English, history & geography .. LOL!
* wasn’t until I became a single Dad that I realised how good I was at working with my hands around the house .. should have paid a lot more attention way back when .. LOL!
What a nerve bern expecting the RBA to interrupt lunch to actually do some work that a 10 y.o. could understand.
Eyrie says: June 15, 2022 at 12:01 pm
Quite so.
Had a couple of coppers standing around the station workshop one day (as you do) conversation turned to guns & illegal guns (this was before the Port Arthur false flag operation)
Of course cops know far more about illegal & modified guns than does a simple station hand.
Yahs, what them coppers didn’t know weren’t worth printing, yahs.
Amongst other things they stated that making an illegal firearm was really difficult, only for experts. blah blah blah.
I pointed to the station scrap metal pile & said “I can make a shotgun from that in under 15 minutes”
Much contumelious snorting ensued from the blueshirts.
So with the aid of the vice, an angle grinder (de facto cutting wheel) welder, using a total of 6 pieces of metal, I put together (in under 10 minutes) a shotgun while talking to them, they didn’t realise I was even doing it.
Under controlled conditions I fired one 12-gauge round. That shut ’em up & they didn’t say much after that – especially as they were able to grasp this design’s superior functionality as a booby trap.
While they were absorbing this & deciding if they could arrest me, in about 30 seconds I dismantled the “firearm” to the point it was again scrap metal.
They weren’t smiling when they departed, 2 x grim faces.
It really is that easy to make a working firearm.
Ammo, not so easy to procure.
What can it do you can’t do in MS Office?
It plugs into fulfilment for a pretty diverse range of industries that apparently gets decent reviews.
But a lot of start ups are now able to do the same thing for a fraction of the price.
People like Monty thought that Latinos were a Democratic lock.
JC says: June 15, 2022 at 12:51 pm
Except there were Four Bobbsey twins.
In a likely indicator of the red tsunami to break in November Republican Mayra Flores wins US House seat in deep blue south Texas apparently the first time in 150 + years
Bonza airline unveils flight attendant uniforms with groundbreaking non-gendered dress code
Australia’s new low-cost airline Bonza is giving its flight attendants the freedom to mix and match uniform items as they please, regardless of gender, in an Australian airline first.
The carrier has debuted a ‘wear it your way’ range, with non-traditional uniform options including white sneakers, crew-neck T-shirts and tailored shorts.
“We won’t dictate what lipstick to wear – or whether you have to wear lipstick at all,” said Carly Povey, chief commercial officer at Bonza.
As part of the inclusive policy, the airline additionally won’t ask crew to cover up tattoos, or require female staff to wear a skirt.
“If you’re non-binary, pregnant, work in the office or onboard, we have options for you,” said Povey.
Trafalgar predicted that Flores race.
BBBB But they identify as Amish.
The Bobbsey Twin’s stock (Atlassian) was $202 last Thursday ( they must have been doing cartwheels), today it’s 167. 17% down.
I’m guessin’ they’ve cashed in enuf not to be rejoicing at Woolies “frozen” prices extravaganza .. LOL!
Good lord.
Ru Pauls drag race just did mission impossible.
An embalming job on a mummy.
https://youtu.be/e5w7tHrek0M
Dot, this little arse hair (get a load of the spindly little beta fuck) was indirectly boasting about having a family office and recently was bignoting that anyone Musk fired he would hire.
Nearly all his money is tied up in the shitty stock. Just get a load of the little prick.
Without knowing more about parental backgrounds it’s hard to generalise about the problem in the UK, not all cultures toilet train, let alone use nappies though they might have started to do so after arriving in the UK. And these articles don’t seem to discuss potential causes of lack of school preparedness.
In my playground lurking I never see toddlers and above drinking from baby bottles. Sippy cups are king.
dover0beach says: June 15, 2022 at 12:59 pm
Tucker Carlson’s opening story today was US citizens of Mexican ancestry, moving to Mexico to live, due to the crime in California – Mexico is actually a safer place to live.
It looks like every race that Trafalgar was in the field on, they predicted.
I wonder how they got Pennsylvania, Arizona & Georgia so wrong in 2020?
@sarc
m0nty says: June 15, 2022 at 11:41 am
Please explain then, why there is even one person on the dole.
‘It’s interesting to look at the audience and not see any black people there’: Sir Lenny Henry questions lack of diversity at Glastonbury and says he is ‘always surprised’ to see so few black and Asian faces in festival crowds
Be like that clown Bono, Lenny. Remember when he was causing babies to die in Africa by slow clapping, until someone told him to stop? Just don’t look.
Daily Mail – comments are not kind
Wage-price spiral here we go.
Roger, I’m not so sure Woolworths will be swallowing a price increase. I’ve seen some of the rubbish suppliers will sign up to so that they get on the Colesworths’ teet.
Are you privy to something to the contrary?
Spectator UK writer says:
FLAT WHITE
The Dark Ages for Australian energy
Alexandra Marshall
When the sun finally sets on the West, the English-speaking peoples will find out that they are as fragile and expendable as the starving third-world children used by aid organisation to pick pockets.
Modernity is held together by cheap energy, not the rainbow-padding nonsense of progressive politics that does little but catch fire on the frayed wires of civilisation, much like Rudd’s notorious pink batts.
Yesterday, millions of Australian homes on the east coast were told to switch off non-essential appliances after blackouts began and extended short-falls loomed. Energy suppliers cautioned the affluent Teal-heartland of Sydney’s Northern Beaches that they were at risk of losing power as temperatures plunged. Suggestions such as ‘consider how many rooms need to be heated’ were made, presumably targeted to the mansion-dwelling community who voted to put ‘Climate Change’ above energy security.
Green-tinged Queensland suffered a similar problem, with the situation so concerning that the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) put in place a $300-per-megawatt-hour price cap.
As a result, everyone is turning to gas suppliers in a panic, demanding that gas companies ‘find gas’ and offer it at ‘low prices’ – or else? This would be after the government went out of its way to deny the gas industry in favour of their preferred ‘renewables’ mates. The gas industry is unsurprisingly reluctant to help out, considering they require $500-per-megawatt-hour to profit.
As a side note, the climatecouncil.org.au insists, ‘Output of oil and gas in developed nations needs to be cut by 74 per cent by 2030, with a complete phase-out by 2034.’ That is going to be tricky with renewables leaning on gas to cover the giant voids in output. Basically, if you’re still breathing, somewhat warm, and well-fed – you’re probably a burden to the climate goal.
Back in the real world, if governments and energy suppliers are begging people to turn off their toasters, it’s a good thing the Australian population ignored Labor’s demands to switch to electric vehicles or we’d be waking up to streets littered with expensive, useless cars.
The price cap has created its own problem, with the Australian Energy Regulator issuing a letter to power generators instructing them to ‘bid capacity into the market’ regardless of the cap as blackouts threaten across the country. The existence of price caps causes energy providers to withhold supply to protect revenue – which is why socialist-style intervention on market prices rarely works. The government gives ‘stuff away for free’ but businesses can’t do that or there will be nothing for tomorrow.
According to an article in The Australian, AER chair Clare Savage had this to say:
‘Recently the AER has observed that following the application of administered pricing in the NEM, generators are withdrawing available capacity from the market. This behaviour may be motivated by generators seeking to avoid the administered pricing compensation process in favour of the AEMO directions compensation process. As you know, market participants must not, by any act or omission, whether intentionally or recklessly, cause or significantly contribute to the circumstances causing a direction to be issued, without reasonable cause.’
New Energy Minister Chris Bowen has done a lot of theatrical waving of his hands, pretending that there’s ‘nothing to see here’ as the country faces an energy crisis.
‘The operator tells them there is no need to be concerned about blackouts in the immediate future,’ Bowen said, giving a speech that should never have to be made in a responsible, first-world nation. ‘Nobody should turn off any power usage that they need, that they are using for their comfort or their safety. Nobody should do that.’
When the energy grid was truly competitive, Australia had reliable, cheap, and plentiful energy. The interference of government has had disastrous consequences, with public money being tossed at ‘renewables’ to make them look more ‘profitable’ when in reality, they are propped up by taxes. Productive energy sources have been punished by severe restrictions on access, expansion, and investment. Banks have gone so far as to consider denying loans in the fossil fuel sector to keep green-themed shareholders happy.
The same people who did their best to demonise and dismantle the fossil fuel grid are now complaining about the shutdown of coal-fired plants. Well kids, this is a glimpse of the future promised by Labor, the Greens, Teals, and Liberal moderates.
There is a solution to both ‘climate woes’ and energy security in the form of nuclear energy – a technology for which Australia is uniquely placed to benefit. Labor has given a definitive ‘no’ on nuclear, almost certainly because they felt their green investment portfolio shudder in terror. The introduction of nuclear to the Australian grid erases the need for solar, wind, and battery storage – destroying profits for the ‘green economy’.
At the same time as federal Labor has been out – quite literally – begging coal-fired plants to increase their operation to stave off disaster, Western Australia Labor Premier Mark McGowan has promised to close all state-owned coal-fired plants by 2030 and gift renewables barons $4 billion in public money. He complains that the ‘glut of excess power’ produced by them is costing money – so one is left to wonder why McGowan’s idea of saving $3 billion over ten years involves spending $4 billion.
‘We’re standing at a point where to continue business as usual would lead to around $3 billion of losses by the end of the decade. Those losses either have to be covered by taxpayers or would lead to dramatically higher power bills for West Australians – while still continuing to emit higher levels of carbon emissions. Either way, it’s simply not sustainable in the long term.’
Why not just close the power stations and let the renewables sector expand on its own? Or is it not profitable without a drip attacked to the state coffers…?
No, don’t bother looking for the Liberal Party. It was former-Liberal Leader Zak Kirkup’s idea in the first place. The great news is that Western Australia doesn’t have an extension cord long enough to cross the desert, so McGowan will have nowhere to hide when it all goes horribly wrong.
All this is taking place while bored billionaires purchase coal-fired power stations for fun and shut them down unnecessarily.
The result of closing power plants is a sudden and drastic reliance on gas – of which there isn’t an infinite amount to go around. Shortages are being flagged, even if resources are expanded. Gas was meant to prop renewables up for decades, but the determination for ‘climate action right-now’ is resulting in the ridiculous culling of gas reserves which will, in turn, limit the lifespan of the renewables industry.
This is all complete madness when a few strategically placed nuclear plants could permanently solve the energy crisis with next-to-no emissions. For those who say, ‘oh nuclear is expensive!’ weren’t they telling us that ‘no expense is too much to save the world from extinction?’ We’re not told the total green price tag, but subsidies for renewables alone were set at $11.6 billion in 2021.
The answer is sitting in front of Australia, but governments, the energy industry, and mining companies have no interest in pursuing nuclear until they have dug up and sold every last dollar from other resources that are set to be devalued when the ‘Nuclear Age’ arrives.
Energy supply doesn’t care much for virtue-signalling politics or the ambitions of career politicians. It is a world of engineering absolutes, brick walls, and fail points. Reliable, stable power is essential to sustain the lives of millions of people where even short-lived blackouts pose a serious threat.
Hippy colonies can get away with a few cold nights or a failed market garden by collapsing around a campfire for a bit of weed-induced ‘Kumbaya’ followed by a sneaky trip to the local shops. When the same thing happens to a city, panic takes hold. Investors pull out. Businesses close. The elderly freeze to death.
Covid was not an emergency. Sustained blackouts and a ruined power grid is an emergency.
Any government that chooses to play politics with energy is reckless to the point of criminal. Finally (and just for fun) what happens if Australia finally gets its 100 per cent magnificent wind and solar grid backed up by battery power during the night when there’s no wind?
Uh, blackouts…
Alexandra Marshall is an independent writer. If you would like to support her work, shout her a coffee over at donor-box.
ROFL.
Albanese’s early inroads in foreign diplomacy are a promising sign for our national security (Sky News, 15 Jun)
Stephen Loosley, SkyNews.com.au Contributor and Strategic Policy Analyst
When such piles of pilable stuff are piled as high as this by a Labor luvvie you just have to roll around on the floor laughing. You may need a shower afterwards though.
Top Endersays:
June 15, 2022 at 12:51 pm
From the Herald-Sun link above:
Victoria’s ENERGY MIX
The figures provided in the report for wind and solar are averaged out and do not reflect the reality that at night there is no solar and that when there is no wind which happens frequently Victorians are reliant on brown coal and gas and energy being imported from coal power in NSW or Qld and hydro via the Tassie cable link. The more turbines that are installed the greater the risk when they fluctuate or drop out.
My daughter has gone private this time. Choose Your Own obstetrician.
Public hospital would have already sent her home.
Quiet, private room, lactation advise, regular observations and a chance to get a rest before facing the toddler at home.
Anyone contemplating having a baby is well advised to stump up for private cover.
That’s just a little drama queening. It’s fakenews but fine peddling it. People moving to Mexico are doing so because they can arbitrage a less expensive life in California Baja and the weather is basically the similar as the perfect weather in San Diego.
I suspect that if you’re not in the Cartel and don’t annoy the Cartel, it’s also relatively safe in Baja too.
Top Endersays:
June 15, 2022 at 1:04 pm
‘It’s interesting to look at the audience and not see any black people there’: Sir Lenny Henry questions lack of diversity at Glastonbury and says he is ‘always surprised’ to see so few black and Asian faces in festival crowds
Be like that clown Bono, Lenny. Remember when he was causing babies to die in Africa by slow clapping, until someone told him to stop? Just don’t look.
From the Daily Mail Article
He cited statistics showing that the number of BAME people working in the British television industry had fallen by a staggering 30.9% between 2006 and 2012.
‘I also love increased monitoring, as that’s how I can tell you the stats and figures that reveal that since my last speech in 2008, despite all those mentoring and training programmes, despite these easy to roll-out solutions, the fact is the situation has deteriorated, badly,’ Sir Lenny said.
‘Between 2006 and 2012, the number of BAME’s working in the UK TV industry has declined by 30.9%. Creative Skillset conducted a census that shows quite clearly that Black, Asian and minority ethnic representation in the creative industries in 2012 was just 5.4% – its lowest point since they started taking the census.
‘That’s an appalling percentage – more so because the majority of our industry is still based in and around London, right here, where there’s a BAME population of 40%.’
Daily Mail – comments are not kind
Ethnic Make Up UK 2022
Ethnic groups in the UK
Ethnic Group Population Percentage
White 55,010,359 87.1%
Asian or Asian British 4,373,339 6.9%
Black or Black British 1,904,684 3.0%
Mixed / Multiple ethnic groups 1,250,229 2.0%
Uncle Fester:
I’m guessing Titus prevents you from explaining the reasons why you believe the Liar’s foreign policy at this point in time is terrible. We’ll just live with the assertion and accept it as gospel.
Yea, you’re right again Driller. Twins come in four.
Fixed it for you Cassie.
Next time you happen to tune in, watch how much is propaganda paid for by the taxpayer.
It is the same for the “freebie” regional papers.
There used to be 2 local papers in Fairfield, NSW .. one went, fully, onl;ine about 6 months ago but the other still has a print copy .. about 85% of the content is Fairfield Council related or Council advertising .. rarely more than 2 pages involve local “news” anymore and the rest is commercial advertising, mainly, real estate …….
How does Luntz still have a job?
Oh…that’s right.
Australian banks no longer cash exchange foreign currency (US Dollars). Jeez, they’re fucking useless.
Fair Work Dunderheads: “Hold my beer …”
JC says: June 15, 2022 at 1:26 pm
This is correct.
Australian banks no longer cash exchange foreign currency (US Dollars).
Time to head to a filthy kiosk to get your pants pulled down.
Lotocoti:
I wonder if the losses they make in lost sales will cover the profits they made outsourcing production?
I wonder if the Sales people will return the bonuses they made from this stuff up?
So many questions.
So many chooks returning to the coop.
So much mirth, laughter & bonhomie.
BAME? isn’t that a character out of a batman movie….
Drills, you should become the FNQ Snopes. Marry a hooker and you’d be exactly just like Mr. Snopes.
How would you know they are exchange FX cash for cash. I mean you’re not eggactly living a area considered to be a tourist magnet.
In the old thread, silver coins were mentioned as a fairly safe investment. This makes some sense to me, but for the premiums. For example, silver kangaroos carry a $6/oz premium over the spot price, and that is the lowest I have seen in Australia. Seems like the spot price would have to increase considerably before you could even get your money back, let alone profit.
Bern
Since about 7 years ago, when both my cards were turned down in the US because I didn’t notify the banks and the card provider that I was overseas, I’d never consider going unless I have a reasonable amount of cash on me. I converted Aussie at the airport and was shocked how much TravelX took from me in commish. I came home with a load of US Dollars and went to the bank today. My bank was closed and have no idea why. I went to another bank and was told they don’t exchange anymore. I haven’t been to a branch since covid. There’s nothing left in the branches except the step guides on the floor to ensure you’re appropriately distanced and one turkey behind a counter. That’s it.
Hugh
Why is silver a great investment? It’s don’t terribly in the last decade. It hit over 50 bucks in 2011 ish and US 21 bucks now.
At least somewhere like Thailand you can get seen at a hospital if you’ve got money instead of the whole system collapsing like what seems to be happening here.
Missus is from there and she can absolutely confirm that even if you’re a dirt poor Aussie, you’re much better being in Thailand.
Her recent experience in Australia required queuing outside in 6’C weather for more than an hour while sick.
What a fucking shithole.
I remember a trip to Sydney a million years ago when as a youngster I walked into the lobby of a bank & saw a fellow shining shoes.
People pay to have their shoes shined I says?
Couldn’t believe me peepers.
Been thinking about getting a generator for home, can anyone tell me how many kva I need to run a house? This site has a wide range but the pricing seems all over the shop. A while ago someone said to get one that runs on gas but there’s few available and I’d have to use bottled gas so either diesel or petrol are the options.
https://www.revolutionindustrial.com.au/promo/revo-end-of-financial-year-sale-2022/power-generators-eofy-2022?utm_source=Revolution+Industrial&utm_campaign=ed8eed71b5-2022-06-15-revo-vip-weekly-update&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9eb41d297f-ed8eed71b5-358744562&mc_cid=ed8eed71b5
sfw, buying a generator now is like buying BTC at 60k.
Or buying a house in Sydney in Dec 2021.
Wait for some of the heat to come out of the market.
JC, by fairly safe, I meant it has some intrinsic value. I doubt anyone is likely to make their fortune by investing in it.
I think the last shoe shine guy in Sydney was in the Strand arcade.
No idea if he’s still there.
Or if there are others around the traps.
There used to be one under Gateway at the Quay.
No idea if that’s still going.
on ya knees and open ya mouth albo, ya can do it
JC, couldn’t you pre load your Qantas club card with cash and use it as a debit card?
I think they had a multi currency account linked to it.
I can’t remember how it all works anymore.
Barrysays:
June 15, 2022 at 1:04 pm
Wage-price spiral here we go.
Hold on a minute, until Monty denies it could happen we cant be sure it will.
Bern
I didn’t know that even existed. Thanks
I don’t recall seeing the Paul Pelosi DUI charges being dropped in the media .. must have missed it!
https://ibb.co/0p7NYsw
A few things from these primaries & elections in the US.
Regardless of how she has to re-contest the seat in Nov, Flores winning in Texas is big.
Baris is intimating that primaries in Nevada are being fixed.
And more important than who’s winning, the turnout numbers for these primaries are shitting all over the turnouts for the primaries ahead of the 2018 midterms.
Luntz got nothing right.
Trafalgar got everything right.
And there is bugger all msm/legacy/corporate media coverage (apart from Mace beating a Trump backed challenger).
AEMO publishes ‘Declaration of Market Suspension’
From a Courier Mail article about latest research done on UK health workers
“Researchers found that regardless of previous infections, immunity against Omicron waned a few weeks after third Covid jab”.
Not mentioned in the article but Oz experts would no doubt take above news as confirmation we need to take a 4th jab to boost the exact same 3rd jab that wanes after a few weeks.
Old Ozzie:
Guess which American Ethnic Group?
Nah.
I’m clueless.
Gimme a clue, bro.
I see PM Horseface from NZ sees no problem with the choggies in the Pacific. Brought and paid for. What about the PLA given free rein to conduct military action to protect choggie interests overseas. Time to move Knuckles, thats Darwin gone unless we can get the ADF matching handbags.
JC, I’m not sure if its still the case.
I thought a platinum with diamonds member like yourself would have been offered it.
Electricity from wind turbines. How is that working out?
Lotsa extra super cheap power?
Old Ozzie:
I don’t know about you, but I’m still wondering how he managed to get that nice little arsenal from California to Maryland. It being 4597 Km, ‘n all. Did he fly?
No. NO!
The New Last Holdout will forever, ah, hold out. I’ve been prepping for years for this, tripping over surplus bog rolls (and canned chocky eclairs) wherever I go.
Not once have I seen one of – you know, those people – make hearty Aussie tucker like a schnitzel or mixed grill. Time to stand, fight and if necessary fall in defence of Something Something.
Working out very nicely, thank you.
Currently making up 24% of power supplied to the NEM. Being sold to mug punters in NSW at $266/MWh.
Too cheap to meter.
We need more, much, much more…
Anyone concerned about central wage fixation would take little comfort from mUnty appearing with his pom poms. Expect to see Albo on tonight’s news applauding the decision. Ghost of The Great Man rises.
I am not an expert on electricity markets, but I am told that the AEMO suspending the market will mean no blackouts. Which is nice.
The real Latinos are, not those white Latinos.
Apparently.
SFW, depends what you want your gennie to run. Had some experience of it in the 2002 bushfires, when Navy gave us one between every two houses at the shore base HMAS Creswell/RAN College in Jervis Bay. Was rather painful “educating” kids, and some brain-dead adults, into what they could plug in and couldn’t – stopping teenage girls from using hairdryers for example. After a bit we got one gennie each.
But with most gennies – say delivering 2000w average load – you could run:
all together:
a large frige/freezer
a TV
3/4 small standing lights
a laptop charger
a phone charger
plus ONE of
a kettle
a microwave
a washing machine
an electric stove element…but see below
We had gas cookers at the time, but if you wanted to run a portable leccie stove – you can’t run an installed one in most houses, as they are main wired – maybe one element at a time on medium to high.
Most modern gennies have a meter showing how close they are to maximum – eg: 1850 out of 2000 watts, and they have a surge capacity – maybe 2500 before they trip out. Of course, it’s usually parked around the back of the house to get the noise away.
The above figures are pretty general. Some friges pull a lot and some don’t. Also depends how you run them…eg: if some moron has stood there letting all the cold air out while wondering what to eat they have to use a lot of power getting the air cold again quickly. Chest freezers are quite a good idea as they don’t let the cold air fall out as friges do. Microwaves range in wattage from 500w up to 1200 IIRR.
Hope this helps. (Don’t forget to buy extension leads.)
I’ve just gotten back from a walk and ran into someone I know who is also a very well known media figure. We chatting for a while about the election, Morrison, Labor and so on. We then got onto Porter, Pell, Higgins, Tudge and Laming and how Morrison handled each case. This person said that Laming, who apparently was on Sky the other day and said the same thing, received no help from Morrison and that Morrison refused to stand by him and effectively abandoned him. I think this was Morrison’s shtick. He refused to stand by Porter, he refused to stand by Tudge, he refused to stand by Laming. What a disgrace.
Morrison is not missed.
just as wood work, metal work and Tech. drawing were for boys.
Did the Poms ever do that
Gordon Bennett ! Wot’ a “Plonker” comment to make. The GB and in particular England was the start of the great Industrial Revolution. We did all three (and French which I hated) in Technical School along, with Physics, Chemistry, Ordinary Mathematics and Applied Mathematics in the mid to late late 1960s.
What the fark were you doing while the Brits built Concorde and Nuclear Submarines? SFA I suspect. Probably a Cubby House or two with Barbie in it………………………..
Yep, females never referred to themselves as ‘the girls’ before trans became a thing. Only people without a historical sense think this could be true.
I am not an expert on electricity markets, but I am told that the AEMO suspending the market will mean no blackouts. Which is nice.
Well, you don’t quite have that right as usual. However, having no Blackouts is usually very nice.
Currently making up 24% of power supplied to the NEM. Being sold to mug punters in NSW at $266/MW
Price per MWH nuclear power.
You know, if ruinables are “too cheap to meter” then nuclear is half to a 5th the cost of too cheap to meter.
https://www.powermag.com/u-s-nuclear-industry-shaved-generating-costs-by-7-6-compared-to-2018/
The U.S. nuclear power fleet last year achieved its lowest recorded average total generating costs in two decades—$30.42/MWh—though it ran at a record-high 93.4% average capacity factor. Total generating costs were 7.6% lower last year compared to the prior year, and have fallen nearly 32% since 2012.
Read the numbers and be afraid, taxpayers:
NDIS: used or abused?
Graham Pinn / The Spectator
It is one of life’s sad realities that, as soon as there is an attempt to improve the population’s welfare, unscrupulous individuals take advantage of the best of intentions.
Our welfare system could be said to discourage work and self-reliance, it also tests the ability to pay for it.
Over the years, we have seen solo parent support encourage more pregnancies for financial gain, without financial input from fathers. The unemployment benefit was established as temporary support for those out of work, for some it has become a permanent and sometimes multi-generational way of life; while jobs in agriculture and hospitality are unfilled, we have an unemployment rate which, although temporarily improved, is high by OECD comparison.
Accident Compensation is another scheme that has become blighted by ‘permanent invalids’, who seem capable of mowing the lawn whilst incapable of work. The cost of aged care continues to rise, whilst their children expect the government to pay the bills – and complain when they consider care to be substandard. Welfare demands are still higher in the Aboriginal population, with average benefits at $40,000 per capita, compared with $20,000 for non-Aboriginals.
The cost of these good intentions has risen rapidly, from $160 billion in 2017, to currently $200 billion, with an increasing proportion funded by the federal government.
The latest addition to the welfare bill is the NDIS, a scheme introduced by the Gillard government designed to support those under 65 with significant, permanent disability.
The scheme was initially trialled in 2013, in Tasmania for young adults, in South Australia for children, in Victoria for general groups, and in New South Wales for older adults. It was formally launched in July 2016 and, by year’s end, covered 30,000. West Australia joined in 2020.
The initial cost was estimated at $4 billion for the year 2016-17, with funding provided by an increase of half a per cent in the Medicare levy. It was planned to cover Musculoskeletal conditions, cancer, visual and hearing impairment, and neurological conditions such as stroke, Parkinson’s disease, and spinal cord injury.
In August 2017 mental health disorders, including anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, and autism, became eligible; by November that year, the number of enrolments had increased to 120,000.
At the completion of enrolment, it was estimated that 400,000 would be supported at a cost of $14 billion. By 2019-20, the first full year of operation, the cost had ballooned to $22 billion (1.1 per cent of GDP). By June 2021 there were 463,000 claimants, now 480,000, with an average individual cost increasing to $71,000.
Forward estimates now suggest a spiralling increase to $42 billion by 2024-25 (1.5 per cent of GDP), and $46 by the following year; future figures up to $60 billion have been suggested, with as many as 860,000 supported. The government is rightly concerned as to why this has occurred, and what can be done to control costs.
One aspect of the increase is the increasing inclusion of behavioural disorders, once considered the result of bad parenting, now reclassified into the psychiatric domain as new conditions are invented. Autism is a clear-cut diagnosis, autism spectrum diagnosis in Australia increased from 30,000 cases in 2003, to 60,000 by 2009 and 120,000 by 2012; as diagnostic boundaries expand, the latest estimate is 230,000 cases (approximately 1 per cent of the population), with around half being children.
The same increase has been noted in other countries: in Canada, it expanded from 4 per 10,000 in 2003, to 20 per 10,000 and by 2020 to 1 per cent (100 per 10,000). In the UK, the incidence was 5 per 10,000 in 1990, now increased to 1 per cent of children and 2 per cent of the general population. The estimated incidence in India remains low at 3 per 10,000 (0.03 per cent), and worldwide 60 per 10,000 (0.6 per cent). A recent Japanese study suggests this increase in incidence may be a consequence of exposing children to excess screen time at a young age; the study also revealed that 90 per cent of 1-year-olds were exposed to between 1 and 4 hours daily. The WHO has advised total bans on use in the very young.
Projections are the total number here will continue to rise, to 1.5 per cent, 350,000 cases, as diagnostic criteria are refined and milder degrees are included. With no specific test the diagnosis is subjective and, as milder degrees are added, the autism spectrum becomes a major cost. The proportion claiming NDIS support because of mental or behavioural problems has progressively increased, reaching 66,000 by the end of 2021 and predicted 90,000 by 2030; other, new psychological disorders have the potential to add further to the numbers.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCDC) is now estimated at 3 per cent of the Australian population, around 500,000; attention deficit disorder (ADHD) is now found in 5 per cent, and Asperger’s syndrome has now been reclassified as part of the autism spectrum. The latest behavioural problems to add to the diagnostic alphabet are oppositional defiance disorder (ODD) and conduct disorder (CD).
It seems that bad behaviour, as well as being a problem in the classroom, is becoming a cost to the taxpayer and a source of income for some parents and psychologists.
The latest conditions are not, as yet, included in the NDIS list, but parents of children with ADHD are being encouraged to explore the additional diagnosis of the autism spectrum to qualify for payment. As of June 2019, one-third of those funded by NDIS for psychological disorders had autism spectrum as their primary diagnosis; evidence is accumulating that the explosion in numbers is due to young children having excess screen time exposure, instead of parental input. Care now involves psychology, counselling, and even art and music therapy.
Since the Covid pandemic disability diagnoses have soared with up to one in five now eligible for assistance. Claims relate to ‘social-emotional’ disability (7 per cent), cognitive disability conditions (12 per cent), and physical disability (3 per cent). Since the start of the pandemic, an extra 43,000 children have been added, a 12 per cent increase; the increase in ‘lockdown’ Victoria was even more pronounced at 17 per cent.
Another explanation for the cost blowout is the increasing severity of disability classification, with individual payments increasing by an average 12.5 per cent annually.
After an increase of 23 per cent in 2 years, the federal government has become concerned about spiralling costs: attempts to rein in costs have reduced per capita spending from $71,200 in 2020 to $68,500 in 2021.
The states, (who had historically been responsible for the disabled) had initially been responsible for 50 per cent; their contribution had been limited to a 4 per cent annual increase, meaning the federal proportion is rising to 60 per cent of the total.
Following a revue this year, it wanted to introduce an independent assessment of both diagnosis and severity of both current and future eligibility. This review and subsequent planned legislation, has inevitably produced an outcry from the welfare lobby groups, as well as the left of politics who are always happy to spend other people’s money. A simple (but unlikely) solution would be to revert to the original premise and exclude psychiatric disorders.
Welfare and disability advocates demand yet more support for the NDIS, and even suggest it saves money! Currently, the Australian government spends around 40 per cent of GDP gross domestic product, with around half that amount spent on welfare. The leaders in welfare are the Swedes at around 25 per cent, now overtaken by the French who spend 30 per cent of their GDP on welfare. Not only has the proportion spent on welfare increased, but the total spending is now increasingly supported by borrowing and accumulated debt; this has increased from about 40 per cent of GDP to nearly 100 per cent since the Covid lockdowns.
Future projections of NDIS costs are heading toward $60 billion, with a new Labor government the problem remains the same- how to pay for it. They need to grasp the nettle and assess the worth of this and other welfare schemes – ultimately, we must accept what we can afford, rather than what we want.
His last pleas for clemency were summarily dismissed and they heartlessly released him so he had to go back to the befuddled wrist-rubbing talking-to-plants tottering lush.
It was a bit scary in the jail the first night. This big bloke called Gangsta-Jay said he was going to make him his bitch, but after 5 minutes of talk he had his arm around Paul’s shoulder and, with cheeks scalded by tears he could hardly hold back, G-J was assuring him that everything was going to be alright.
make hearty Aussie tucker like a schnitzel
Err. That is not Aussie tucker. It is from another country and I will let you Google it to find out where. If you are so inclined that is.
Cassie of Sydney says: June 15, 2022 at 2:43 pm
The signs were there for all to see.
When in 2019 then Senator Fraser Anning spun on a sixpence & instinctively jabbed a bloke who’d hit him in the back of the head, Morrison declared that full legal consequences should be faced by….. Senator Anning.
I’m still
Currently making up 24% of power supplied to the NEM. Being sold to mug punters in NSW at $266/MW
How do you know what price it’s being sold at if AEMO suspended spot pricing at 2pm?
Considering spot pricing is kaput for the foreseeable future it means the business model of every battery farm in eastern Australia is kaput.
Hang on.
Haven’t we been assured the technology is going ahead in leaps and bounds!?
I mean look how far an EV will get you these days!
In the mid-90s in Melbourne there were three or four flaaaaaaaming trannies who used to congregate at a tram stop in North Melbourne (I think it was Errol Street, on the end closest to the markets).
Some of the day’s hilarity would be to cruise up along the tram tracks, come to a stop next to that crew, lean out the window and go ‘G’day you blokes. What’s going on?’ or similar, and to drive off accompanied by the trannies’ screeching and our own hearty laughter.
Simpler times. Better times.
Maybe they could work pride into the name.
To make people feel good about their niche interests.
Knuckles the ADF should employ you to give the inscrutable drycleaners a free poorly cooked smallgood as they get off the troop ships. Mind you it may be better quality than they are used to. The other thing, you can dress up as a cock in a frock, I love you long time sailor. Do away with them back home. See, I’m an idea’s man, got plenty more where those two came from.
Yes. Yes it is JS.
However, there is a lurker lurking who will be discombobulated because I used that line specifically to annoy him.
Ranga.
It is well known that bat-munchers love being given the kransky. Hot but raw.
The mini-riot in the DC restaurant is readily dismissed as a ‘black’ thing. But it is not really a ‘black’ thing as much as a ‘Democrat demographic of especial focus’ thing.
A demographic which has been been told over and over like the foetuses in the conditioning rooms of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World in a mild but insistent voice that they are victims, that they are rightly entitled to whatever they can get by any means, that violence is a quick answer, that other people are there to be used, that laws don’t apply, that self-control is a sort of denial, that education is pointless etc.
Well there are white folks here who think not so differently. I am thinking of the creation of the multi-generational welfare dependent, expecting everything be given them, hostile to productive people who keep their cut of their own wages to live a nicer life, drifting in and out of consciousness on drugs, always willing to go along with crime, dishevelled, slovenly, out of shape, improvident, and hedonistic. Our generous welfare would seem to be a big difference between them and the inner-urban ghettos in the US.
How do you know what price it’s being sold at if AEMO suspended spot pricing at 2pm?
AEMO is still publishing a 5-minute dispatch price. The generators are not bidding that price – and will argue the toss about how much they should be compensated for being paid that lowly amount.
It will presumably be a shitfight for the ages. Hard to see how renewables, hydro, and coal are going to be able to argue ‘out of pocket’.
One of the funniest programs on FTA TV is Highway Patrol when the cops stop some dero in his unregistered Commodore on the way home from the pub, pissed while his missus carries on f’ing and blinding off camera how unfair it is.
sfw:
I’ve bought a couple off Able Sales.
Both 7Kva, diesel. Both around the $1.2k range, but since then prices have increased substantially. Look at doubling.
Diesel because fuel stores better for longer.
Get one with a sound shroud – you don’t need to advertise your electron goodness to those who may be jealous of your investment.
Speak to a sparky before you decide the size and power leads. Some have 15 amp/ some 30/amp. Get one to install a transfer switch – either manual or automatic. Auto means if you are away, the unit turns on by itself and your freezers don’t defrost.
Remember that you will pay through the nose for a supply and install jobbie. The sparky will get you one that fits his profit margin – not yours.
Think about how you are going to store and transfer fuel. A 20l jerry can takes an average of 40 seconds to decant into a fuel tank and if your back is no longer 21 years old, it gets annoying.
sfw Able Sales Link.
Lawyers will be licking their lips and thinking about upgrading the holiday house.
I’d laugh if it wasn’t so serious. Supposedly Belgian brewers are running out of bottles, the glass was sourced from Russia as it’s too expensive to make it in Europe. The suggestion of moving to cans made from aluminum is a no go, as it also comes from Russia.
I’d say Melbourne hipsters will not be crying into their beers, but I think they go IPA’s rather than Belgians.
Exactly the reason why we recently bought a 1,000 litre tank for diesel. We are lucky to have the space on the farm & the company that delivers to large rural operations near us is, thankfully, willing to deliver to us at the same time.
Belgian beer in cans? The very thought is repugnant to human civilisation.
IPA? Woefully overrated. Apparently brewers like it because it is quicker and easier to make – and therefore cheaper. Put some kooky label on it, send it off, and the first guy that buys it tells his mates about his ‘discovery’ and they drink it almost like they discovered a cache of Margaux they landed in France in WW2.
Then they start seeing it more in shops – but by then it is time for the next kooky label and the next discovery, thus the whole endless, soul-crushing, cycle plays out again.
Yesterday I mentioned AnAL only moved the Cabinet meeting to QLD so he could meet the Biloela mob .. I meant it as a joke .. FFS!
Must make ’em feel real “dinki di, true blue” an audience wiv AnAL! .. wonder how many “real” Oz voters have the PM to drop in for a chat cos he’s passing thru ? ..
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-15/nadesalingam-family-meet-pm-after-return-to-biloela/101154338
sfw,
I’ve just placed an order for one of these
Electrician son can wire up the house with a three position switch and a pure sine wave inverter and 32 amp outlet on the generator.
Anticipating being the “first off, last on” in our location so not going to buggerise around.
I’m more worried about summer blackouts to be truthful and need to run air con and multiple fridges.
Personally, if I were an energy lawyer, I’d be looking at Caribbean islands big enough to land a Bombardier Global.
It’s about time gender equality came to the Predator universe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOWUxl6swO4
More Cowbell!
Mother Lode:
The ant and the grasshopper – Aesops Fables.
Simple and true.