Open Thread – Wed 22 June 2022


Naval Battle in the Gulf of Naples, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1560

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Nelson_Kidd-Players
June 22, 2022 12:01 am

Loving the art, Dover.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
June 22, 2022 12:13 am

From what I can work out Higgins did not formally raise her allegation until 2021 when the incident happened 2 years earlier. Her Project interview was therefore 2 years after the event ! Wilkinson has appeared in public with her multiple times since then and highly praised her each time (ie. Womens March in March 2021).

How she can be a prosecution witness defies belief and in my view seems inappropriate for prosecution to think she can be.

JC
JC
June 22, 2022 12:21 am

How she can be a prosecution witness defies belief and in my view seems inappropriate for prosecution to think she can be.

Why wouldn’t she be an “appropriate” witness? I don’t know much about the case, but just going with the information you provided about the dried up old prune’s history with Higgins, the prosos would likely be using the old bint to describe the events at the time and if to her she sounded credible.

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 22, 2022 12:46 am

JC

The economic bullshit artist now pontificates on da law…

Sure JC Bird…

No doubt your parents are proud of you.

Have you corrected your stupid brother lately?

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 22, 2022 12:51 am

from the previous open thread

Dover0Beach

I actually post this with cap in hand.

The foul Bird Flock that shit in your nest come over to the… yuk yuk furniture store and leave their anti Jew shit which is actually banned from the yuk yuk furniture store.

I give to to you the following last 4 ip addresses banned from the yuk yuk furniture store and all posting under guest name… Socialist Energy… yuk yuk

And if someone wants to have a go at me for doing this then bring it on you foul arz lickers…

49.179.5.161

49.195.21.25

123.51.19.178 (must have escaped from the North Melbourne mansion basement)

49.186.68.79

JC
JC
June 22, 2022 12:52 am

JC

The economic bullshit artist now pontificates on da law…

Just like other people are, you drunk dickface.
Your comment about money creation was laughable by the way. You’re a moron.

Sure JC Bird…

No doubt your parents are proud of you.

“Were”, not “are”. I bet yours would be really proud of you anonymously doxing people at Catallaxy instead of the used furniture store, you kunt. A chip off the old block I bet.

Have you corrected your stupid brother lately?

No, no need to correct my brother. How’s ‘tuth and Faulty going? : -)

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
June 22, 2022 12:54 am

JC,
As far as my knowledge of law goes Wilkinsons evidence would be only be admissible on the basis of an “early complaint”.

This normally relates to telling what happened soon after the event. A classic would be if she told the security guard next morning as she left the building. He could then back it up by describing her appearance when she said it.

If Wilkinson only told details 2 years later then my thought is it too long after the event. You have to wonder how many others she mentioned “rape” to prior to Wilkinson. From whenever known Wilkinson going to be a witness she should have no longer commented on Higgins at public events. Yet she has done so multiple times. No idea what Prosecution thinking and can’t see how Wilkinson can be a witness of anything. Even more so when there is a reason for her to be biased.

Defence Minister and a senior staffer were told something by her on the following Monday so that conversation very relevant.

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 22, 2022 12:58 am

Got ya dead Bird Shit JC.

There is no fucking way you bought a New York property.

JC
JC
June 22, 2022 12:58 am

And if someone wants to have a go at me for doing this then bring it on you foul arz lickers…

I will. You’re a complete kunt for doing what you are. You’re accusing these people of making antisemitic comments without any proof other than your own assertions, which leads people to believe that you’re just lying.
You’re just sore no one takes you seriously and basically you’re ignored. Hence the alcohol temper tantrums . You’re an angry drunk, NFA. You total loser.

JC
JC
June 22, 2022 12:59 am

NoFixedAddress says:
June 22, 2022 at 12:58 am

Got ya dead Bird Shit JC.

There is no fucking way you bought a New York property.

Okay. Now fuck off, you drunken dickhead.

JC
JC
June 22, 2022 1:00 am

JC,
As far as my knowledge of law goes Wilkinsons evidence would be only be admissible on the basis of an “early complaint”.

Okay Bourne, fair enough. I didn’t know that sort of thing was time stamped.

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 22, 2022 1:08 am

JC says:
June 22, 2022 at 12:58 am

And if someone wants to have a go at me for doing this then bring it on you foul arz lickers…

I will. You’re a complete kunt for doing what you are. You’re accusing these people of making antisemitic comments without any proof other than your own assertions

ROFL

Do you not understand you complete and utter Bird Shit Defender moron I used to AUDIT fuckwits like you.

JC
JC
June 22, 2022 1:13 am

Do you not understand you complete and utter Bird Shit Defender moron I used to AUDIT fuckwits like you.

Who cares?

It wouldn’t surprise me you were in a snitchy job seeing you don’t hesitate to snitch on others you claim were posting antisemitic comments at your stupid site. Prove they were making disgusting comments. Links now! Links now or fuck off.

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 22, 2022 1:18 am

And guess what fuckhead JC Bird I coincidentally identified a fucking thief at Flemington races.

Like you he shit himself when I recognized a bullshit artist.

JC
JC
June 22, 2022 1:21 am

And guess what fuckhead JC Bird I coincidentally identified a fucking thief at Flemington races.

Snitching appears to be a way of life for you, right?

You made claims people on the other end of those IP addresses made antisemitic comments. Shows the evidence, NFA.

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 22, 2022 1:28 am

Links now! Links now or fuck off.

JC

You do not understand how this internet/computer thingy works, do you?

That is why I think you are in fact and statement just a dead bird brain living in a jar pushing verbal shit against everyone you choose to condemn!

JC
JC
June 22, 2022 1:34 am

You do not understand how this internet/computer thingy works, do you?

Enough to know that posting IP addresses you claim made antisemitic comments, then diverting attention by suggesting I don’t understand technology thereby trying to avoid showing us the evidence or apologizing for lying again. So yea, we fully understand you’re a lying, drunken self aggrandizing kunt.

That is why I think you are in fact and statement just a dead bird brain living in a jar pushing verbal shit against everyone you choose to condemn!

Okay.

JC
JC
June 22, 2022 1:34 am

Links or fuck off NFA. You disgusting snitch.

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 22, 2022 1:35 am

JC

Go and have a cigarette and bullshit your wife.

How come the dead head bird flock keep accusing people for doxxing long before I got fed up with dead head shits like you.

JC
JC
June 22, 2022 1:41 am

So no evidence then. You made all that up. No surprise there you snitching dishonest piece of shit.

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 22, 2022 1:43 am

I am providing the links you dead bird fuck head.

there is only another 90 links to go.

are you and your poofta panzi mate bumping bellies in your evil fantasy world?

Hi Dan… Catholics R Us

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 22, 2022 1:48 am

JC

I am actually shocked at how fucking ignorant you are about computers and finance markets.

JC
JC
June 22, 2022 1:50 am

No you’re not, you dishonest worm.

You claim those IP addresses made antisemitic comments. There are no links.

Now, links or apologize.

JC
JC
June 22, 2022 1:52 am

JC

I am actually shocked at how fucking ignorant you are about computers and finance markets.

Okay. I’m not shocked you’re a drunken worm proud of being a snitch.

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 22, 2022 2:00 am

jc is da bird

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 22, 2022 2:08 am

jc

unlike you who bird shits upon everyone?

you are a fucking joke.

tell me again oh great one, which university did you attend to learn your magnificent pile of bird shit information?

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 22, 2022 2:16 am

jc loves ponzi and bird

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 22, 2022 2:22 am

JC will, exactly like GMB, be happy to take your money to spend it better than you.

Gabor
Gabor
June 22, 2022 2:39 am

Sanctions anyone?

Gazprom halved the gas delivered to Austria.
Now the Austrians are reopening coal mines, good news for some, bad news for others.
The same is happening in Germany.
Red faced greeny energy minister had to announce the sad news.

What goes around comes around, you only have to wait.

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 22, 2022 3:33 am

JC Bird

Stop eating bugs as it has scrambled your brains.

God only knows how many insects infest your head.

Probably legions.

PS JC Bird … I didn’t get the WA private investigators ticket even though I paid the fees but I did get the WA real estate agents certification.

What have you ever done you useless pile of bird shit?

Canada Completes Construction of Manufacturing Facility to Make Food from Bugs
June 20, 2022 | Sundance

Tom
Tom
June 22, 2022 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
June 22, 2022 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
June 22, 2022 4:02 am
Dot
Dot
June 22, 2022 4:03 am

Do you not understand you complete and utter Bird Shit Defender moron I used to AUDIT fuckwits like you.

This is incomprehensible drivel.

Audit? What like a Scientologist?

“Sundance” mentioned for no reason? Is this USSR?

Tom
Tom
June 22, 2022 4:03 am
Dot
Dot
June 22, 2022 4:04 am

I didn’t get the WA private investigators ticket even though I paid the fees but I did get the WA real estate agents certification.

Um, who cares? That’s nice for you, I suppose???

?

Ed Case
Ed Case
June 22, 2022 4:05 am

From what I can work out Higgins did not formally raise her allegation until 2021 when the incident happened 2 years earlier.

Working things out isn’t your strong suit then, is it?
She went to the cops on March 22 2019, 3 days later.

Tom
Tom
June 22, 2022 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
June 22, 2022 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
June 22, 2022 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
June 22, 2022 4:08 am
Ed Case
Ed Case
June 22, 2022 4:09 am

Lisa Wilkiinson seems determined that this Case isn’t going to Trial.
Whether that’s through innate stupidity or there are sinister forces being brought to bear, it’s hard to say.
She’d hafta be the oldest women still on TV by a long way, wouldn’t she?

Tom
Tom
June 22, 2022 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
June 22, 2022 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
June 22, 2022 4:12 am
Tom
Tom
June 22, 2022 4:13 am
Tom
Tom
June 22, 2022 4:14 am
Ed Case
Ed Case
June 22, 2022 4:15 am

Adam Bandt’s picture was in the centre of page 1 in yesterday’s The Australian.
Anyway, below the fold he has the same face as St. George Floyd.
How about that?

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 22, 2022 5:04 am

There is not enough coverage of how much damage AMEO is is causing every part of the renewal stack.
The business model for all renewables is to be able to sell energy into the grid at elevated prices.
They are first cab off rank when it comes to supply.
Now prices are capped their business models are caput.
I’ve only seen coverage of two renewable businesses going to the wall over the past week.
By my count there are now five more intermediaries who are only still operating because their banks haven’t pulled the pin (one of them their debt is trading at 5c on the dollar meaning they are gone).

Ed Case
Ed Case
June 22, 2022 5:09 am

Lumumba’s gold tooth returned to his family.
Yeah, it’s The Guardian, by the BBC version was more sickening.
Basically, the murderers of Lumumba are unreconstructed [have a squiz at what they’re doing in Ukraine at the moment], but they’ve claimed his legacy anyway and now we’re the baddies for letting it happen.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 22, 2022 5:20 am

The Grayzone reports on Pfizer holding a yacht party for the failed Colombian presidential candidate.

https://thegrayzone.com/2022/06/19/pfizer-miami-yacht-colombia-presidential-rodolfo-hernandez/

bespoke
bespoke
June 22, 2022 5:39 am

Tractors

rosie
rosie
June 22, 2022 5:51 am
bespoke
bespoke
June 22, 2022 5:54 am

‘mental health workers for everyone!’

Admission of gilt, rosie.

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 22, 2022 5:55 am

The Bird Flock is pretty much now revealed out of their nest:-

Dot is the final point, to something he’s been studying for 30 years which is probably something already worked out;
JC is Just Crap at everything;
LL was the louche Lounge Lizard who turned into,
PP being Pitiful Patty/Poofta Panzi.

All 4 manifest as scathing attackers of anyone.

All 4 have never done an honest day’s work in their collectivist socialist taxing bird nest.

All 4 are shit scared of the thought of ZERO TAXATION.

All 4 are sanctimonious phonies directing the narrative for their master.

rosie
rosie
June 22, 2022 5:57 am

I cannot understand how prices being paid for electricity could surge to $15,000. Renewable energy is free, right?

rosie
rosie
June 22, 2022 6:00 am

Has someone taken over from a previous ranter who’s stock in trade was accusing #everyoneIdon’tlike of being an agent of Satan?

rosie
rosie
June 22, 2022 6:01 am

It’s gilt alright Bespoke.

bespoke
bespoke
June 22, 2022 6:03 am

They will be fresh out uni with no life experience or have done a certificate in counseling payed for by centerlink with a troubled past.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
June 22, 2022 6:05 am

Wow from your twitter feed Dover they aren’t trying to even be subtle anymore. Victoria stinks of corruption well worse than anything I can recall in my lifetime. They are literally now sandbagging the institutions that are meant to be the checks and balances of this sort of behaviour with apparatchiks.

https://twitter.com/michaelobrienmp/status/1539063294073311232

Aaand as usual not even one journalist even interested.

rosie
rosie
June 22, 2022 6:05 am

Higgins met with AFP in April 2019 but asked officers not to pursue an investigation.
One can only speculate why that was

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
June 22, 2022 6:09 am

Furniture shop must have been slow last night. NFA change your name to NoFuckenIdea

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2022 6:14 am

All 4 are sanctimonious phonies directing the narrative for their master.

Possibly.
But we are not making regular kiddy-fiddler trips to South East Asia, so that is something in our favour.

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 22, 2022 6:16 am

Gee GreyRanga

Whom do you learn from?

I’ll put you in the anti Jewish nest as well.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2022 6:18 am

mental health workers for everyone!’

I am happy to lend mine to NFI.

bespoke
bespoke
June 22, 2022 6:20 am

You have a mental health worker, Sancho?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2022 6:21 am

Have you deleted all of Bird/”Socialism Energy’s” work over at the Furniture Store NFI?
If so, what are you on about?
If not, what are you on about?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2022 6:22 am

bespokesays:

June 22, 2022 at 6:20 am

You have a mental health worker, Sancho?

An imaginary one.
Which I will lend to NFI to go with all his other imaginary characters.

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 22, 2022 6:23 am

But we are not making regular kiddy-fiddler trips to South East Asia, so that is something in our favour.

Panzi

The drugs have worn off and your back to your frothing at the Just Crap mouth again,

A bit of Dot will fix that problem for ewes birds.

rosie
rosie
June 22, 2022 6:26 am
rosie
rosie
June 22, 2022 6:27 am
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2022 6:30 am

I am Bird and proud of it!
There.
I said it.

rosie
rosie
June 22, 2022 6:31 am

I see the trial date has indeed been vacated.

“The Bureau of Meteorology has announced an end to the 2021-22 La Niña in the tropical Pacific, though it could return later in 2022”
As though the BoM has control over these things.
the Guardian, about everything

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 22, 2022 6:34 am

I didn’t get the WA private investigators ticket even though I paid the fees

This is possibly the funniest thing posted all year.

‘I have always aspired to reach a standard in life where I can sit in a car at night and record blokes playing away games, so his missus can use it for the Family Court.

‘Ah paid mah cash but no ticket.’

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2022 6:37 am

Someone has got into mummy’s medicine cabinet and got into the Metoclopramide.
And the Furosemide as well it looks like.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 22, 2022 6:44 am

‘Outing’ people as other people appears to be in fashion, so:

NFA is the egg_roomba!

The REAL EVIDENCES I put before the Supreme Internet Court are:

The ability to seize on some minute detail that’s wrong anyway;
Building that hill into a Mount Everest-sized jabberwocky of ever-more-compounded wrongness upon wrongness; and then
Going on an all-night (or three-day) bender ‘exposing’ said wrongness using the combined benefits of warm rose and various pills.

Somebody ask NFA if he likes mining trucks.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2022 6:44 am

I didn’t get the WA private investigators ticket even though I paid the fees

Being a highly skilled (but not licenced) PI resulted in this…

And guess what fuckhead JC Bird I coincidentally identified a fucking thief at Flemington races.

We call them “bookies” here in North Melbourne.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2022 6:46 am

NFA.
Do you like mining trucks?
They can be yellow, but they don’t have to be.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 22, 2022 6:47 am

JC, hitting the centre of the seen mass at 12.58:

You’re just sore no one takes you seriously and basically you’re ignored. Hence the alcohol temper tantrums . You’re an angry drunk, NFA. You total loser.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 22, 2022 6:49 am

I coincidentally identified a fucking thief at Flemington races

Funniest post #2.

‘Look everyone! Over here, on the beach! I found some sand!’

Lurx
June 22, 2022 6:51 am

Its time to pull the pin on this site.
its nought now but a group of children posting their personal shit fights

put a block on these dunderheads before they destroy the place

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2022 6:53 am

Lurxsays:

June 22, 2022 at 6:51 am

Its time to pull the pin on this site.

Off you go then.
Enjoy the wide open expanses of the innernet.
Don’t let the door etc etc.

Lurx
June 22, 2022 6:54 am

Very apt quote this morning….

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
— Augustine

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2022 6:56 am

Augustine?
Very gay.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 22, 2022 6:58 am

put a block on these dunderheads before they destroy the place

More demands of the homeowner by a passing bicyclist, distressed at the colour of the letterbox.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
June 22, 2022 6:58 am

Dover is it ok for me to change my name to GreyRangaBird since I’m now on NFI’s list. I’ve always wanted to be on a list. What benefits does one get from being on said list? Do we get an ID card so we can differentiate between us lister’s and you lot. I think I could get used to this. Is it like being an A Lister? Time will tell. Now I don’t want to have just anyone on the list, exclusivity is what it’s all about, so I’m told. How long are we on the list before we have NFI?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 22, 2022 7:00 am

Its time to pull the pin on this site.

NFA – there’s a membership application for The Shop in your pigeon hole.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2022 7:06 am

I identify as Sancho Panzer-Bird.
Or is that Sancho Bird-Panzer?

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
June 22, 2022 7:11 am

Meanwhile at CNN: President Joe Biden accomplished a great feat today by going all of his waking hours and not falling down. Our panel up next to discuss how Biden is back.

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 22, 2022 7:12 am

The Kriminal Kourt Kopper toddles out to feed the birds, straight in the mouth… LOL

You couldn’t get a PI license…

Knuckle Dragger says:
June 22, 2022 at 6:34 am

I didn’t get the WA private investigators ticket even though I paid the fees

This is possibly the funniest thing posted all year.

‘I have always aspired to reach a standard in life where I can sit in a car at night and record blokes playing away games, so his missus can use it for the Family Court.

‘Ah paid mah cash but no ticket.’

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 22, 2022 7:16 am

You couldn’t get a PI license…

Coincidentally, neither can you. And:

*licence*

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2022 7:19 am

Fair Shake.
I think it is President Joe Birden.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 22, 2022 7:19 am

Tell you what though.

The first thing I’d do if I ever climbed that mountain and got my Magnum P.I. ticket would be to ‘investigate’ people who lived overseas and dreamt up ways to scam the indig out of Federal funding, and who got beaten to the punch by other scams, and then wailed about it on the internet.

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 22, 2022 7:23 am

Knuckle Dragger says:
June 22, 2022 at 7:16 am

You couldn’t get a PI license…

Coincidentally, neither can you. And:

*licence*

And:
Victoria

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 22, 2022 7:28 am

The only thing better than an NFA all-nighter is discovering that David Warner was stumped overnight.

For 99. Brilliant.

NB: David Warner is Bird.

132andBush
132andBush
June 22, 2022 7:30 am

In news just in.

Link

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 22, 2022 7:31 am

FB.
My wife nearly died from bleeding after tonsillectomy and needed a blood transfusion.
Some surgeons are really shit.

Goanna
Goanna
June 22, 2022 7:33 am

From Jo Nova.

“In Poland, energy prices are so expensive that three weeks ago the government told people to go and collect wood from forests to keep their homes warm. Last week they the government said it would pay a large part of the cost of buying three tons of coal for each household. It’s that bad.”

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 22, 2022 7:37 am

Kute to see the Kriminal Kopper in hugs with the Panzi Pooftar.

The North Melbourne basement with ball gags must be fun times.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2022 7:37 am

The only thing better than an NFA all-nighter is discovering that David Warner was stumped overnight.

Umpire Dicky Bird presiding?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2022 7:40 am

PS.
Thanks to Tom Bird for the cartoons.
Even if Dot Bird and Ed Bird posted smack bang in the middle of the ‘toons.

calli
calli
June 22, 2022 7:41 am

The business model for all renewables is to be able to sell energy into the grid at elevated prices.

I would add “heavily subsidised” into that too.

Has anyone here crunched the figures on subsidies for fossil fuels as opposed to renewables? I head some talking head yesterday (in my seemingly endless wait in the hospital waiting area) mention something about subsidies for coal but didn’t quite catch it.

It would be interesting to have a comparison if this is true.

calli
calli
June 22, 2022 7:42 am

heard

dopey
dopey
June 22, 2022 7:45 am

Spooner cartoon. Facial expression captures the despicable character of Bandt the best I have ever seen.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 22, 2022 7:49 am

It’s that bad.

Germans are getting excitable again.

Scholz panic as Germany poised to trigger national emergency over energy crisis ‘in DAYS’ (21 Jun)

German State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK), Patrick Graichen reported warned the energy industry to “assume” that supplies would reach emergency levels as early as this weekend.

Die Welt said that the criteria to trigger an “alarm level” was “serious reduction of gas flows” or the “prolonged technical failure of important infrastructures”. It said that the criteria appear to have been met.

After this “alarm level” an emergency level is declared and the gas market would be suspended.
The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) would then takes over the supply of individual industries and customer groups according to relevance and need in its role as “federal load distributor”.

And when they get excitable the first thing they like to do is put on their jackboots.

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 22, 2022 7:53 am

@calli

what the scum Birds attribute as subsidies to the natural energy producers is normal taxation deductions.

Cassie of Sydney
June 22, 2022 7:56 am

Re. Bandt, my main concern isn’t that he’s in parliament. The nature of democracy is that it has occasionally vomited up evil people, look at Hitler. No, what concerns me is that young men and women are voting, at every election in ever increasing numbers, for this contemptible and very nasty piece of shit and his comrades, just like people voted for Hitler.

We should be worried…and once again this signals an abysmal failure of right of centre politics, over the last few decades, to deal with propaganda in schools and to counter progressive nonsense. There is nothing “green” about Bandt and his comrades, their politics is blood red and given the opportunity if they were in charge, blood would flow in the streets.

Winston Smith
June 22, 2022 7:56 am

John Sheldrick et al:

So how is it females can join the infantry, when their much less capable physique in battle would get them seriously maimed?

The Israeli Army doesn’t seem to have a problem with female soldiers. Maybe they have a better physique than you might think.

I don’t have a dog in this fight, but does anyone have any faith in government – of any colour – statistics any more?

Winston Smith
June 22, 2022 7:59 am

Mother Load:

The accused might well have a case for a civil suit against Wilkinson considering she had defamed him very publicly (and she can’t feign ignorance) and, more to the point, the extension of time and added stress that accompanies it.

You make a damn fine point.
I hope this opportunity for a good kick in the nuts of the “Me too” movement doesn’t go astray. In fact, if he does decide to go hard, then I’m willing to donate $100 to his fund.

will
will
June 22, 2022 8:00 am

‘I have always aspired to reach a standard in life where I can sit in a car at night and record blokes playing away games, so his missus can use it for the Family Court.

Lionel Murphy ended that racket

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 22, 2022 8:06 am

The quality of word salad has really deteriorated lately. This place resembles a Hume truckstop carpark after a dodgy cheese sausage.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 22, 2022 8:07 am

The biggest subsidy (market distortion) renewables receive is that they are front of the queue when prices spike.

Winston Smith
June 22, 2022 8:07 am

JC:

SMR company NuScale pivots from development to delivery.

Yee Haaaa!
I’ll have three, thanks!

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 22, 2022 8:07 am

heard

Amber Heard?

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 22, 2022 8:09 am

Is everyone from The Furniture Store foul mouthed (or versed in the catalogue of their competitors in Ikea e.g. ‘Kokksmökur’*)?

They all seem so very splenetic.

*Hat tip to whoever came up with that one.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 22, 2022 8:10 am

Chairman Dan has really got Victoriastan humming. One more term and Cain/Kirner will be really worried. Very progressive.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 22, 2022 8:11 am

The Grayzone reports on Pfizer holding a yacht party for the failed Colombian presidential candidate.

Perhaps the successful candidate might offer a traditional helicopter party to senior Pfizer people to thank them for having interests in their interest.

calli
calli
June 22, 2022 8:14 am

No, what concerns me is that young men and women are voting, at every election in ever increasing numbers, for this contemptible and very nasty piece of shit and his comrades, just like people voted for Hitler.

Cassie, the intense flow of propaganda through our schools and universities and TAFEs have a strong whiff of the 30’s recruitment of the young.

They just can’t help themselves.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
June 22, 2022 8:23 am

The biggest subsidy (market distortion) renewables receive is that they are front of the queue when prices spike.

Correct.

Being intermittent and ‘run first’ – they displace low-cost coal baseload (there is only so much spinning reserve) and force massively expensive quick-start gas into the market. Which they then feast on.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 22, 2022 8:31 am

ROFLMAO

Just read at Jo Nova’s that Snowy Hydro is limited in the amount of electricity it can generate in our time of need. It turns out that the rain “that would never fall, and if it did it would not fill the dams” has filled Blowering (the upper part of the current pumped hydro scheme) is so full that it can’t take enough to allow much additional output, while the watercourses downstream are so full that simple hydro generation must be limited to avoid flooding.

The best laid plans of mice, men, managers, arts and law graduates, and environmental wankers have “gang agley”. The “smartest people in the room” really need the assistance of some engineers with actual knowledge of power generation.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 22, 2022 8:32 am

I have some confusion over what a witness is in Wilkinsons case.

Did she view the events (any part)?
Was she told directly after the event?
Was she told as part of her ‘journalistic” investigation?

If the bar for evidence is low enough that telling stories to a journo is considered evidence then we may as well do away with courts.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 22, 2022 8:33 am

Perhaps the successful candidate might offer a traditional helicopter party to senior Pfizer people to thank them

Distinctly possible.

Ron DeSantis Laments ‘Disastrous’ Election of ‘Marxist Narcoterrorist’ President in Colombia (21 Jun)

But only after Colombians eat their zoo animals too.

Winston Smith
June 22, 2022 8:34 am

Australian Debt Clock.
Total government debt is $1.53 trillion – the last numbers are going up faster than can be displayed.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
June 22, 2022 8:35 am

Ed Case,
As Rosie pointed out Higgins then asked AFP to not proceed with the case. The reasons for that will obviously be raised at trial. For whatever reason nearly two years later decided to go public and contacted Wilkinson. I may be wrong but wasn’t there talk she was expecting a promotion but that did not eventuate ? Since the cops already aware of the incident and she must have given a version of events then in no way is it possible for Wilkinson to be considered a witness to the actual incident based on Higgins telling her about it nearly two years later.

We won’t know what Wilkinson evidence is until it happens but her appearance is highly unusual.

“Working things out isn’t your strong suit then, is it?
She went to the cops on March 22 2019, 3 days later”

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 22, 2022 8:36 am

A booby trap will be sprung on Albo by September when the temporary cut in fuel excise expires.
The Ponds Institute on the ABC bemoaning the fate of the ALP amid rising fuel costs but helpfully stating that there’s a light on the hill because we need to dissuade the use of fossil fuels for da planet or some shit.
Indulgences must be paid.

Winston Smith
June 22, 2022 8:39 am

Sancho Panzer:

We call them “bookies” here in North Melbourne.

The armadillo will respond shortly to this slur on his good name, sir!

Winston Smith
June 22, 2022 8:40 am

Augustine?
Wasn’t he a flamer?

Roger
Roger
June 22, 2022 8:43 am

The Ponds Institute on the ABC bemoaning the fate of the ALP amid rising fuel costs but helpfully stating that there’s a light on the hill because we need to dissuade the use of fossil fuels for da planet or some shit.

Reinstating the excise at the full rate will send a price signal to motorists to drive less.

Ideology trumps humanity.

She could barely contain her glee at the thought.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 22, 2022 8:46 am

rosiesays:
June 22, 2022 at 6:31 am
I see the trial date has indeed been vacated.

“The Bureau of Meteorology has announced an end to the 2021-22 La Niña in the tropical Pacific, though it could return later in 2022”
As though the BoM has control over these things.

The MSM have been treating any person or organisation involved in the Gerbil Worming scam as (tinpot) gods for years, the BoM is simply taking the treatment to heart. “Whom the gods would destroy ….”

Rafiki
Rafiki
June 22, 2022 8:46 am

This may or may not be of interest.
1. The Crown may be calling Wilkinson at the request of the defence. The defence can then cross-examine her by leading questions (such as ‘this is what Higgins said to you is it not?’).
2.The point might be to reveal that what Higgins told her was inconsistent with what she said when she complained to Reynolds and others.
3. The judge might order that there never be a trial. This might be suitable to Higgins, inasmuch as her story will never be tested. OTOH, I suppose she might sue Luhrmann for assault in a judge alone trial, and the civil standard of proof applies (although still high given the allegations). If there’s no trial, Luhrmann should be compensated, but I can’t see a means to do so. Maybe an ex gratia payment from the government.
4. Wilkinson should be pursued for contempt of court, and the only effective punishment would be jail-time.

Roger
Roger
June 22, 2022 8:51 am

Augustine? Wasn’t he a flamer?

He was inflamed with passion for his mistress.

His autobiography is one the classics of literature.

Famous, among other things, for the line, “O Lord, give me chastity and continence…but not yet.”

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 22, 2022 8:51 am

I wouldn’t spend much time on Groogs advice on evidence.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
June 22, 2022 8:51 am

Thancho you must be from Adelaide with a hyphenated name.

The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
June 22, 2022 8:52 am

“The Bureau of Meteorology has announced an end to the 2021-22 La Niña in the tropical Pacific, though it could return later in 2022”

We can tell by the sunshine.

flyingduk
flyingduk
June 22, 2022 8:55 am

‘mental health workers for everyone!’

Another great example of one government action creating another problem creating another government action creating another problem…

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly
I don’t know why she swallowed a fly – Perhaps she’ll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a spider
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her!

She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don’t know why she swallowed a fly – Perhaps she’ll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a bird;
How absurd to swallow a bird!

She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her!
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don’t know why she swallowed a fly – Perhaps she’ll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a cat;
Fancy that! She swallowed a cat!

She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her!
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don’t know why she swallowed a fly – Perhaps she’ll die!
There was an old lady that swallowed a dog;
What a hog, to swallow a dog!

She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her!

She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don’t know why she swallowed a fly – Perhaps she’ll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a goat;
She just opened her throat and swallowed a goat!

She swallowed the goat to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her!
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don’t know why she swallowed a fly – Perhaps she’ll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a cow;
I don’t know how she swallowed a cow!

She swallowed the cow to catch the goat,
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her!
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don’t know why she swallowed a fly – Perhaps she’s dead
There was an old lady who swallowed a horse;

…She’s dead, of course!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 22, 2022 8:56 am

22nd June, 1941. Operation Barbarossa – the Nazi invasion of Soviet Russia.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 22, 2022 8:56 am

Winston Smithsays:
June 22, 2022 at 7:59 am
Mother Load:

The accused might well have a case for a civil suit against Wilkinson considering she had defamed him very publicly (and she can’t feign ignorance) and, more to the point, the extension of time and added stress that accompanies it.

You make a damn fine point.
I hope this opportunity for a good kick in the nuts of the “Me too” movement doesn’t go astray. In fact, if he does decide to go hard, then I’m willing to donate $100 to his fund.

I suspect that he will wait until after his trial, then, win or lose, he will hit her for civil damages, either to his reputation if acquitted, or for prejudice to his chance of a fair trial if found guilty.

Poirate Pete will need to get a couple more “blockbusters/door stops” under way, as a precautionary move.

flyingduk
flyingduk
June 22, 2022 8:57 am

Covid-19 vaccination BNT162b2 temporarily impairs semen concentration and total motile count among semen donors, Andrology, 17 June 2022

As temporary as inflation one hopes…

Tom
Tom
June 22, 2022 8:58 am

Wilkinson should be pursued for contempt of court, and the only effective punishment would be jail-time.

Yes.

Being a highly-paid media harlot dispensing a social justice to the masses from a pulpit of the unelected shouldn’t exempt you from the consequences of your actions.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 22, 2022 9:00 am

Calli and Cassie

Cassie, the intense flow of propaganda through our schools and universities and TAFEs have a strong whiff of the 30’s recruitment of the young.

Look at m0nty-fa[scist] and his perpetual “tomorrow belongs to me” attitude.

Historically ignorant, and full of overweening arrogance sums them up.

Roger
Roger
June 22, 2022 9:02 am

‘mental health workers for everyone!’

QLD just got on the bandwagon via a levy -essentailly a payroll tax – on large businesses.

Prof. McGorry said what a good idea it is because mental health suffered so much in “the pandemic.”

That is, the entirely unecessary fear mongering and lockdowns recommended by his profession and politicians who abnegated their responsibility to govern for the common good.

Eyrie
Eyrie
June 22, 2022 9:05 am

With the current energy crisis etc, an interesting discussion on “societal design margins on Instapundit.
https://instapundit.com/526961/
Comments are very good also including links to Kipling’s “The Gods of the Copybook Headings”.
Kipling as a perspicacious observer of the human condition.
This book looks interesting too but I’m not paying $65 for a Kindle edition.
https://www.amazon.com.au/Collapse-Complex-Societies-Studies-Archaeology-ebook/dp/B001AOZ3PM?crid=3LF2QSXJHC5YR&keywords=tainter+collapse+of+complex+societies&qid=1655816804&s=books&sprefix=tainter+col,stripbooks,133&sr=1-1&linkCode=sl1&tag=insta0c-20&linkId=4f2aaedcf908a00d6971eca4c9092e09&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl

Ken
Ken
June 22, 2022 9:07 am

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/young-people-dying-in-their-sleep

The evidence is mounting and it is compelling. The vaccines are causing too many ‘sudden adult deaths’, ‘died in sleep’, ‘healthy young adults/teens dying’. This is a major tragedy and nobody in mainstream media or mainstream health are interested in investigating.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 22, 2022 9:07 am

I suspect that he will wait until after his trial, then, win or lose, he will hit her for civil damages, either to his reputation if acquitted, or for prejudice to his chance of a fair trial if found guilty.

I hope he soaks the miserable frightbat for gazillions in damages.

shatterzzz
June 22, 2022 9:10 am

Wilkinson should be pursued for contempt of court, and the only effective punishment would be jail-time.

Won’t happen! .. but what might be more enjoyable will be her time in the witness box .. given that all, known, acounts to date, specifically, exclude anyone other than the defendant and accuser being in the room at the time and the, alleged, victim having no recollection(s) of anything either!

calli
calli
June 22, 2022 9:11 am

Latest news from the Soviet Passport Office of Australiastan.

At 5am this morning, the queue outside the closed doors was 40 long. The New Broom was number 40. By the time the doors opened (an hour early) at 7:30, the queue stretched well into the hundreds.

A person went down the queue informing people that unless they were travelling within the next two weeks or had submitted their applications over six weeks ago – nick off.

Grandson’s passport is being held up for no particular reason except that it’s his first one. Travelling to Fiji for a family holiday in three week’s time. How to cut it fine.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 22, 2022 9:17 am

Now is the time for all good Englishmen, and true, to come to the aid of their country!

Sperm shortage forces women to look abroad
Eleanor Hayward, Health Correspondent
Wednesday June 22 2022, 12.01am BST, The Times

A nationwide shortage of sperm donors is driving British women to rogue online sperm banks and foreign donors, a report says today.

Three quarters of donated sperm used in the UK is now shipped in from overseas, often after being purchased online from poorly regulated clinics.

The report by the fertility charity Progress Educational Trust (PET) said the shortage was putting women at risk of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and increasing the likelihood of their children having genetic conditions. It is calling for a recruitment drive to get men in England to donate sperm to the NHS, urging those aged 18-45 with no health problems to sign up.

Sperm donation is regulated by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) and all donors are screened for heritable medical conditions. Under UK law donors cannot be paid, receiving £35 in expenses, and they cannot remain anonymous. Children get the right to find out their father’s identity on their 18th birthday.

Women can obtain donor sperm from a licensed fertility clinic either on the NHS or by paying privately, but long waiting lists because of England’s chronic sperm shortage mean many look abroad instead. Private clinics can import from overseas sperm banks which offer online profiles of donors, showing characteristics including eye colour, race and hair colour.

Top Ender
Top Ender
June 22, 2022 9:19 am

A petition for members of the veteran community to sign, to get the GG to hold him accountable for his actions on the flag:

https://vsf.org.au/adambandt

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
June 22, 2022 9:20 am

I loved that song duk when I was a kid listening to radio requests early on Sunday morning.

shatterzzz
June 22, 2022 9:21 am

Higgins then asked AFP to not proceed with the case.

bit of ignorance on my part .. but how does a complainant get to decide on whether the law should run its course? .. shirley, once an official statement is given the “system” must grind into action .. regardless!
Bit like reporting a burglary but then saying, “don’t bother following it up I was gonna throw the stuff out anyway” ..
So why report something you don’t want anything done about, anyway? ..

Winston Smith
June 22, 2022 9:23 am

Boambee John:
From the comments at the Jo Nova site:

Challenge to the Warmies: Create a town that is 100% fully off grid – off grid electricity generation via solar and wind, all electric vehicles, no external power, off grid water, off grid sewerage and off grid rubbish disposal. Completely self contained. Complying 100% with your ‘renewable’ and ‘sustainable’ criteria. Implement it and let’s have it running with plenty of publicity – let’s see how it goes. Show us how it’s done.

Most excellent trolling.

shatterzzz
June 22, 2022 9:24 am

At 5am this morning, the queue outside the closed doors was 40 long. The New Broom was number 40. By the time the doors opened (an hour early) at 7:30, the queue stretched well into the hundreds.

CentreLink won’t be ‘appy! .. they doesn’t like competition .. LOL!

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 22, 2022 9:24 am

shatterzzz

So why report something you don’t want anything done about, anyway? ..

Planning for future possibilities? #MeToo was a big deal at the time.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
June 22, 2022 9:26 am

Interesting points Rafiki.

Never before has a rape “victim” given so many interviews and made so much public comment prior to actual trial. Plus been hailed as a role model for doing so.

I like the idea of Wilkinson appearing for the defence to cross examine as seems more logical.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 22, 2022 9:26 am

Winston Smithsays:
June 22, 2022 at 9:23 am
Boambee John:
From the comments at the Jo Nova site:

Challenge to the Warmies: Create a town that is 100% fully off grid – off grid electricity generation via solar and wind, all electric vehicles, no external power, off grid water, off grid sewerage and off grid rubbish disposal. Completely self contained. Complying 100% with your ‘renewable’ and ‘sustainable’ criteria. Implement it and let’s have it running with plenty of publicity – let’s see how it goes. Show us how it’s done.

Most excellent trolling.

I haven’t even been able to get either m0nty-fa (here) or Homer (at CL’s) to take up a “solar challenge” at the personal level, much less get a group to do so. They are big on talk, small on any action that might affect them personally. Sacrifice is for others!

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 22, 2022 9:26 am

The reason I’ve been raising the business models of these renewable projects/businesses is that Aussie banks have been lending to them hand over fist.
It’s thimble in the bucket of all bank lending but some/a lot will have to be written off at some stage.
Contrary to the media releases from AEMO, most serious players view the current situation continuing until the end of July.
Time will tell.
But if this is what happens in the middle of winter, you’d increase the expectations of this happening in the middle of summer.
This is an entire industry that has to re-base themselves.
That’s code for go into administration, re-cap & go again with not a lot of debt (it’s been written off) & a bunch of new shareholders.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 22, 2022 9:28 am

A petition for members of the veteran community to sign, to get the GG to hold him accountable for his actions on the flag:

Done!

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 22, 2022 9:29 am

Does anyone know a high profile, former political chap who invested a fuck ton in renewables?
I can only imagine the lobbying that’s currently going on to “save the industry”.

PS, if the markets re-open tomorrow, everything I have posted re this is moot.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
June 22, 2022 9:33 am

Top Endersays:
June 22, 2022 at 9:19 am
A petition for members of the veteran community to sign, to get the GG to hold him accountable for his actions on the flag:

Bum Bandit gets a free pass by the left. Can you imagine the feigned indignance if the aboriginal banner was treated in the same way by a slightly conservative Peter Dutton.

shatterzzz
June 22, 2022 9:34 am

Who’d a thunk it! .. according to this tale of woe you can have $millions in financial assets but because of circumstances accessing CENTRELINK benefits is no problem!
As far as I’m aware ANY finacial assets are means tested whether you can get at them or not ..
Based on this tale all you need to do is put all your money into term deposits and then claim CENTRELINK “welfare” cos you can’t access your principal .. LOL!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10937445/Broke-heiress-blocked-accessing-12MILLION-fortune.html

Winston Smith
June 22, 2022 9:35 am

ZK2A:
GROFAZ – “Größter Feldherr Aller Zeiten” – “The Greatest War Leader of All Time”.
He should have ‘Saved Game’ yesterday.
Fail.

lotocoti
lotocoti
June 22, 2022 9:37 am

22nd June, 1941. Operation Barbarossa – the Nazi invasion of Soviet Russia.

Chermany marks the anniversary by declaring the two way nature of sanctions
“is an attack on us.”

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
June 22, 2022 9:39 am

Winston Smith says:
June 22, 2022 at 9:23 am
Boambee John:
From the comments at the Jo Nova site:

Challenge to the Warmies: Create a town that is 100% fully off grid – off grid electricity generation via solar and wind, all electric vehicles, no external power, off grid water, off grid sewerage and off grid rubbish disposal. Completely self contained. Complying 100% with your ‘renewable’ and ‘sustainable’ criteria. Implement it and let’s have it running with plenty of publicity – let’s see how it goes. Show us how it’s done.
Most excellent trolling.

And, to create the town itself, use materials exhumed and manufactured only by ‘renewable’ energy, and transported to site only by EV, erected using only electric tools, machines and cranes etc etc ….

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 22, 2022 9:39 am

I have some confusion over what a witness is in Wilkinsons case.

The only thing I can think of is Wilkinson testifying that the entire time she was involved with Brit that her story remained unchanged and that she was consistently emotionally distraught. I fear that Lisa’s researching skills will be as underdeveloped as her husband’s.

Perhaps we can get testimony like:

Wilkinson: These are the facts of what she said.

Defence Counsel: Do you have any facts that support those claims.

Wilkinson: It is a fact that she claimed it.

calli
calli
June 22, 2022 9:46 am

I haven’t even been able to get either m0nty-fa (here) or Homer (at CL’s) to take up a “solar challenge” at the personal level,

The Beloved did some research on panels and had 20 high-end ones installed on the east-west axis of the roof. Runs the pool equipment including the heater, house air-con and appliances in the daytime. No storage – the batteries are simply not cost effective. In the daytime, we are basically even on input output.

We have the panels cleaned annually. Many people think they can just put them up and not maintain them and so they lose efficiency.

That is all the “renewables” can achieve at present. And all they’re likely to achieve for the average punter. Only an idiot would think they could supply water, treat sewage and heat/cool the house at night, plus all the other drains on power.

Roger
Roger
June 22, 2022 9:48 am

Only an idiot would think they could supply water, treat sewage and heat/cool the house at night, plus all the other drains on power.

Let me introduce you to Chris Bowen.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 22, 2022 9:49 am

The rules of evidence might see some difference between the stories presented to the court and The Project.

calli
calli
June 22, 2022 9:50 am

That’s code for go into administration, re-cap & go again with not a lot of debt (it’s been written off) & a bunch of new shareholders.

No different to Dodgy Bros Builders then.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
June 22, 2022 9:51 am

Mak Siccarsays:
June 22, 2022 at 9:39 am
Winston Smith says:
June 22, 2022 at 9:23 am
Boambee John:
From the comments at the Jo Nova site:

Challenge to the Warmies: Create a town that is 100% fully off grid – off grid electricity generation via solar and wind, all electric vehicles, no external power, off grid water, off grid sewerage and off grid rubbish disposal. Completely self contained. Complying 100% with your ‘renewable’ and ‘sustainable’ criteria. Implement it and let’s have it running with plenty of publicity – let’s see how it goes. Show us how it’s done.
Most excellent trolling.

And, to create the town itself, use materials exhumed and manufactured only by ‘renewable’ energy, and transported to site only by EV, erected using only electric tools, machines and cranes etc etc ….

I said a similar thing to a green candidate at the last election. Live the life you demand of others and see what happens. Scurries away.

Winston Smith
June 22, 2022 9:53 am

Roger:

Prof. McGorry said what a good idea it is because mental health suffered so much in “the pandemic.”
That is, the entirely unecessary fear mongering and lockdowns recommended by his profession and politicians who abnegated their responsibility to govern for the common good.

The parasites keep gorging themselves despite knowing it will kill the host.

Roger
Roger
June 22, 2022 9:57 am

The parasites keep gorging themselves despite knowing it will kill the host.

I don’t think they’re that economically literate, Winston.

Like unionists who bleed a business dry with their demands and are surpised when it goes belly up.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 22, 2022 9:59 am

Can you imagine the feigned indignance if the aboriginal banner was treated in the same way by a slightly conservative Peter Dutton.

You would hear the outraged howls on the Moon!

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 22, 2022 10:02 am

Energy Australia’s parent company announced yesterday that AEMO’s actions has cost the $A200mill from writing down hedging contracts to zero as they can not be effectively priced.
I’m sure there’s smoke & mirrors involved.
And no one should be crying over the losses one of the big 3 incur.
But imagine if you’re a genuine renewable business, your cash flow is 10-20mill a year.
You’re done.
No-one’s providing you credit.
Then the 100mill a year businesses…then on & then on.
I really don’t think AEMO or the government thought this through.
Too many decision makers thought that 44min episodes of the West Wing was a blue print on how to manage/regulate/bully industry.

Roger
Roger
June 22, 2022 10:12 am

I really don’t think AEMO or the government thought this through.

QLD’s Energy Minister has already mooted that future renewables projects in the state will have to be “publicly owned”, i.e. funded by the tax payer.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
June 22, 2022 10:14 am

Michael Smith news has a good breakdown on costs of Sydney Harbour Bridge flag.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
June 22, 2022 10:19 am

Turtle on Sky News now gibbering about ruinables.

Has a mate Daniel Westerman CEO of AEMO trying to explain what his mob does.

Journalists Arts graduates (majoring in gender studies) can’t ask why ruinables can’t deliver.

Turtle made a stunning statement – we need more generation of electricity

No wonder we fucking drink!

Rabz
June 22, 2022 10:19 am

A booby trap will be sprung on Albo by September when the temporary cut in fuel excise expires.

An inadvertently brilliant piece of politics by the gliberals. Given that by September fuel will likely be significantly more expensive than it was before the excise cut, the screeching of outraged motorists will be audible in space.

The inevitable blowback against labore may see the excise cut extended, with jug ears presumably introducing more and higher taxes in his October mini-budget to compensate. Either way, labore will wear the ordure.

Winston Smith
June 22, 2022 10:19 am

Calli:

That is all the “renewables” can achieve at present. And all they’re likely to achieve for the average punter. Only an idiot would think they could supply water, treat sewage and heat/cool the house at night, plus all the other drains on power.

Mine deliver power all night.
I use the Italian Mafia Model – run a genset powering a bank of fifteen 400w floodlights on them when the sun goes down. The AEMO asked some odd questions about my setup, but went away happy.
I’m expecting complaints from Marvin the Martian about the reflected light, but.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
June 22, 2022 10:20 am

Calli my mate is off grid. He uses lead acid batteries that he got mostly free. He tested each one, cleaned them up and used a pulse charger to de-sulphate the ones that needed it. Roughly matched them by how well they started different vehicles. He has a cut-out so they can’t discharge below 12 volts not that it’s a problem as they are charged by an alternator run by the creek at the back of his house. Realistically it cost him peanuts, just time. Last time I was there the snow laying thick on the ground house too hot with floor to ceiling double glazing and a log burner heating a 400 ltr water tank that’s feed to in-slab poly piping.

Rafiki
Rafiki
June 22, 2022 10:22 am

Mother Lode

Yes, maybe that is the aim of the Crown. Note though that the scope for the admission of, and the weight to be attached to prior consistent statements is more limited than evidence of a prior inconsistent statement.

Also, if Wilkinson gives this evidence for the Crown, she will face cross-examination as to whether she kept notes of her conversations (and if so, where are they), the circumstances of her contact with Higgins, her and her husband’s pecuniary interest in the conviction of Luhrmann.

If the trial ever gets going, it will be an entertainment.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
June 22, 2022 10:22 am

a bank of fifteen 400w floodlights on them when the sun goes down.

How much a Key for the tomato leaves?

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
June 22, 2022 10:24 am

I suspect that he will wait until after his trial, then, win or lose, he will hit her for civil damages, either to his reputation if acquitted, or for prejudice to his chance of a fair trial if found guilty.

If he’s found guilty his chances are pretty slim.

Firstly, it’s not clear he’d even be allowed to bring such an action. There are rules of litigation to prevent matters being re-litigated over and over again outside the available appeals process for the original decision. They’re designed to stop a never ending series of actions where someone who’s lost a case brings actions against everyone in sight who was involved in the loss, then when those actions fail brings more suits against everyone involved in those actions, then when those suits fail, sues everyone involved in those suits, etc., etc., ad infinitum. Those rules may well stop him from basing an action on the basis of asserting that the conviction was wrong.

In any case, if he’s convicted he either:
(a) doesn’t appeal directly against the conviction (in which case he’d lose any subsequent action against Wilkinson on the basis that he failed to take available mitigating action and is therefore responsible for his own fate);
(b) appeals and loses (in which case he’d lose any subsequent action against Wilkinson on the basis that the appeal court had decided that, even taking into account Wilkinson’s antics, the conviction wasn’t unsound as a matter of law); or
(c ) appeals and wins – if he wins he may be able to establish some damages, e.g. at least his costs of having to run the appeal, but he still faces one big hurdle. Even if an appeal court stated outright that the conviction had to be overturned because Wilkinson’s performances raised a real risk of a prejudiced verdict, he’d still actually have to prove in his subsequent action that (on the balance of probabilities) he’d have been acquitted at trial had Wilkinson STFU. How’s he going to prove that short of getting the trial jurors to say “I voted to convict but if I hadn’t been aware of Wilkinson’s grandstanding I would have voted to acquit”? It’s not going to happen.

Winston Smith
June 22, 2022 10:24 am

The problem is the Brahmin Class has become too big to be sustained by the Wukkas. All the fat in our society has gone to supporting the unproductive scammers, schemers and sterile drones who infest and clog the productive.
That’s the problem right there.

John Sheldrick
June 22, 2022 10:25 am

A booby trap will be sprung on Albo by September when the temporary cut in fuel excise expires.

An inadvertently brilliant piece of politics by the gliberals. Given that by September fuel will likely be significantly more expensive than it was before the excise cut, the screeching of outraged motorists will be audible in space.

The inevitable blowback against labore may see the excise cut extended, with jug ears presumably introducing more and higher taxes in his October mini-budget to compensate. Either way, labore will wear the ordure.

Martin Armstrong of Armstrong Economics is expecting a barrel of oil to be over US$200 during 2023 sometime. Yikes………………………..

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
June 22, 2022 10:25 am

Rogersays:
June 22, 2022 at 10:12 am
I really don’t think AEMO or the government thought this through.

QLD’s Energy Minister has already mooted that future renewables projects in the state will have to be “publicly owned”, i.e. funded by the tax payer.

They can buy the ones that go broke for a knocked down price.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
June 22, 2022 10:27 am

Energy Australia’s parent company announced yesterday that AEMO’s actions has cost the $A200mill from writing down hedging contracts to zero as they can not be effectively priced.
I’m sure there’s smoke & mirrors involved.

Ambit claim for compensation.

AEMO has blinked: suspension of the NEM will be lifted at 4:00am Thursday.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2022 10:29 am

NFA having a drunken sook in the early hours …

I give to to you the following last 4 ip addresses banned from the yuk yuk furniture store and all posting under guest name… Socialist Energy… yuk yuk

Just checked.
Socialist Energy’s posts are still up 10 hours later.
I smell amateur trolling.
Very amateur.
“Dover. Get rid of anyone I deem to be Bird after a 750ml of Bombay Sapphire.”

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 22, 2022 10:32 am

AEMO has blinked: suspension of the NEM will be lifted at 4:00am Thursday.

If this happens, the renewables industry has a stay of execution.
If price spikes continue, renewables continue to be able to make major bank.

areff
areff
June 22, 2022 10:37 am

the circumstances of her contact with Higgins

That would home in on the role played by her swain, Sharaz, in lobbying all the leftoid news organisations to go big on the case.

How did this ex-journo do that?

By producing quite lavish press kits, including pics of Ms Higgins with Morrison that were cropped and ready for publication, thus pinning another ‘women’s issue’ on the Coalition being the overall game plan.

And just for good measure, Sharaz supplied those kits to his contacts on condition of anonymity.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 22, 2022 10:41 am

People really need to see that the Greens are doe-eyed altruists with the best of intentions.

They are coming after you. After everything you like, after your family, after your future.

I remember hearing a Greenie acquaintance decrying all the evil that has been done in the name of ‘family’. I think she was frustrated (in Gillain Triggs fashion) that there were some things that would help the administration of a large state that the persistence of the family unit thwarted. But I think that at the point she was saying it she was overlooking due to ubiquity just how much the family benefits people within and without it, nurturing and shaping generations going back to even before the first villages and towns.

She would have been thinking of families like the Borgias, or the calculated pairing of monarchs – where they cease being families and instead become political dynasties.

Being a Green, the only thing she could see was the family as a manifestation of politics. Like looking at a card along its edge and not seeing the face value that makes up the game.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
June 22, 2022 10:43 am

On Bandt/Thorpe:

Try as I might, I can’t get outraged at them about their flag performances. The box they came in was clearly marked ‘Deadshits’.

On the other hand, I’m rather disappointed in the retards that voted for them. Much more of a worry.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 22, 2022 10:46 am

Rafiki says:
June 22, 2022 at 10:22 am

Yeah. I wrote my comment before I scrolled up and read yours – yours was far more comprehensive and to the point than mine.

Winston Smith
June 22, 2022 10:49 am

Grey Ranga:

How much a Key for the tomato leaves?

I don’t think you’re taking me seriously.
*snif*
*sob*
**reaches for Kleenex**

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 22, 2022 10:50 am

Yes the Brittany media pack may make interesting reading. But maybe too much like a visit to a sausage factory. Some things are better left alone.

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
June 22, 2022 10:51 am

ABCcess was interviewing Melino(?) and he was frothing about all the new jerbs him and the bat eared Mong we’re creating by sticking kiddie kommisars in schools and the thousands of extra teachers they would need when they “ extend education” by a year.

I’m pretty sure doubting glorious leaders “ the message” will be a sign of mental illness needing correction.

shatterzzz
June 22, 2022 10:52 am

Who’d a thunk it! ..
Apparently, if your a “maaate” ya gotta be “equipped” to go to gaol .. FFS!
https://ibb.co/mRRTLZK

pete of perth
pete of perth
June 22, 2022 10:56 am

Grey skies in Perth + no wind. Not much electron song-lines happening at the moment.

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