The protesters, who appeared mostly middle-aged Bwahaha, I bet that one stings the shower-dodgers!
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The headline painting, The Morning, reminds me of the great scene in the 2005 adaptation of our Jane’s Pride &…
Excellent crop of toon theree today, Tom. They have such a lot to work on since the big win.
Bolt showed a clip of the Azerbajani President at the COP conference.Just delicious as he basically told them all they…
Spooner’s good. This made me LOL. Love the identity politics being thrown out of the window. Defenestrated.
Baby Yoda. Like I said.
I think it’s actually more about Moy and his activist doktor mates trying to reclimb the Ladder of Influence, which they started to involuntarily descend a year ago when people stopped regarding them as omnipotent medical gods with predictive powers, and realised they were just attention-seeking media whores.
Accompanied, of course, by their attendant nurses TikTokking their way through empty hospitals.
“winsays:
July 12, 2022 at 4:36 am
We lost our little girl last night .”
win…my condolences.
Remember, grief is the price we pay for love.
So sorry Win. You are not alone even if feels so. I’ve experienced the same and the loss can never be recovered only tempered by the joy of being with our loved ones in these dark times is all we hope for. Take care.
The NDIS, kicking goals in the NT (the Hun):
This is the problem when you let South Australians in. Guaranteed Keinnan Starr-Goodwin has a pony tail and a trash ‘tache.
The AMA make the CMFEU look like rank beginners. Neither are there for the benefit of their members.
Condolences Win.
Gateway Pundit has devastating doco leaks re Jan 6th and FBI involvement.
link
Sancho
Before any of the usual suspects arrives with the “opportunistic ambulance chaser” argument, the mother of one of the victims went to the police in 1988.
That is some long game she was playing if she was a compensation gold digger.
What did the police do at the time?
Why?
Immune period for COVID positive cases could be reduced from 12 weeks to 28 days
I’m inclined to sing the Barnaby song.
China details how Australia can improve relationship with Beijing as it blames Scott Morrison for bilateral breakdown
OCO
and they are able to ensure the ABC routinely runs propaganda pieces for mandating mask wearing, even though this is so far off the national agenda that even the ABC’s allies in the ALP slap it down over this. Something weird is happening at the ‘national broadcaster’.
Something weird has been happening at the ‘national broadcaster’ for many years, it is just becoming ever more obvious as time goes on.
Julius Caesar, hater of the French and cutlery advocate was born on this day 2122 years ago.
So very sorry, win. May there be much love and light for the days ahead.
Sorry to hear that, win.
My worst nightmare, and one of the few things I’m truly afraid of.
BWAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAH BWAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH
His influence is still powerful:
Putin should be called ‘ruler’ not ‘president’ – Kremlin loyalists want stunning change (11 Jul)
I suggest they switch back to using “Tsar”. It’s very
RomanRussian.See online:
Top End Trials & Tribulations
Stan Gibson ·
I’m watching Andrew Bolt on Sky News.
He’s interviewing a Victorian Mayor. Maybe he’s the Mayor of Melbourne. Not sure.
He wants melburnians to learn the language of the local Blackfellas. All for the usual lunatic fringe reasons.
He has set himself a target of 50 words a month and so proudly spoke two he’s.learned.
All good said Bolt but none of the locals identifying as indigenous can speak the language.
Who are you going to talk to???
Sorry to hear that Win, truely terrible news. Condolences.
Win, my condolences. A terrible loss to have to live through.
I’ve picked some up in travels:
“Hey bloke, you got a smoke? I’ll let you poke my sister!”
winsays:
July 12, 2022 at 4:36 am
We lost our little girl last night .
Condolences, win.
Aching sadness and sorrow for you and your family, win.
As the tears flow and comfort seems far away, here are words and music from a thousand of years of grief. They say best what I feel for you in my heart.
I wanted to uptick Lisa Benson’s cartoon and reported it instead. Dover, please ignore.
For the curious, that’s the dialect spoken around Katherine.
Australia ‘on track’ to generate half its electricity from renewable sources by 2025, report finds
Technical note: At the moment, wind and solar renewables are contributing ~6% of supply to the NEM.
At around $600/MWh.
Too cheap to meter.
“The AMA make the CMFEU look like rank beginners. “
I regard the AMA as a much more dangerous and sinister organisation than the CFMEU.
Oh dear.
How sad.
Nevermind.
Of course. Danegeld to Gaia.
Apparently she’s tucked up snugly in a variety of vaults in Switzerland.
Albo is going full druid today:
Albanese to reiterate climate commitments at Sydney Energy Forum (12 Jul)
Likely to be totally nutty with drowning koalas and whatnot. Ok not the koalas. However he’s going to have his work cut out to be crazier than the WEF kiddies:
World Economic Forum: Gas Prices Must Go Even Higher — to Save Democracy (11 Jul)
Pretty hard to beat this level of hypocrisy and irony, seeing they’re the ones who have been fascistly ramming windmills down our throats and telling us to stop heating our houses and having hot showers.
Prime Minister pitches to restore Australia’s climate reputation at Sydney Energy Forum ahead of Pacific Islands Forum
Technical note: aluminium, lithium, copper, cobalt and nickel are not Rare Earth elements.
Australia: “eager and ready” – you voted for this shite.
Time our ABC did some research before knocking out these, constant, sob stories! .. can’t get on the “rorters” with BAT FLU .. … you can’t get on the “rorters” with Cancer, which is a sight more serious! .. FFS!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-12/long-covid-limbo-disability-support/101170148
Sad news Win.
Condolences.
Win, such a terrible loss.
My heartfelt condolences.
Win, condolences.
Don’t get too excited about the drop box usage in Wisconsin being reduced to every specific locations.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/11/dissent-in-wi-ballot-drop-box-victory-highlights-much-bigger-issue-our-top-jurists-dont-care-about-election-integrity/
The bigger issue is the court confirmed that the Wisconsin Electoral Commission can make any decision it wants to in the future.
So ex the drop boxes, look for the system to be gamed/scammed again.
Terrible news win.
Awful news, win.
My condolences to you and family.
lol, Bruce.
That brought my smile back.
Win
I can’t imagine the pain. Sad to hear.
It also suggested Australia’s electricity networks would be capable of running on 100 per cent green energy for periods at a time by the middle of the decade.
The so-called “Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (AATSE)” seems to have a very narrow focus. Its members seem unable to comprehend the words “reliable, continuous power”, and the implications of gaps in supply to industry and hospitals, to pick two very obvious examples.
Not much wind power right now in SA, TAS, Vic, NSW and particularly Queensland. We’ve had about a 3 week wind drought here with just the odd better day.
I’d say investing in wind turbines in Qld is a dead loss.
Sad news, Win.
Sincere condolences on your loss.
CNN!! Has the worm turned?
The call, three days after the decision eliminating federal abortion rights, encapsulates the overwhelming sense of frustration among Democrats with Biden. It offers a new window into what many in the President’s party describe as a mismanagement permeating the White House.
Top Democrats complain the President isn’t acting with — or perhaps is even capable of — the urgency the moment demands.
“Rudderless, aimless and hopeless” is how one member of Congress described the White House.
Two dozen leading Democratic politicians and operatives, as well as several within the West Wing, tell CNN they feel this goes deeper than questions of ideology and posture. Instead, they say, it gets to questions of basic management.
Oh dear! .. seems “Timmy Alphabetsoup” wasn’t enuf! .. now we is about to be lectured by another one .. Apparently, getting knocked back for not using good manners is “wacist” .. LOL!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-12/racism-it-stops-with-me-race-discrimination-chin-tan/101225550
Mater’s Musing #52: Says it all really!
Not sure if this is fake news but an abortion activist is organising a ship to do abortions in international waters.
Not sure what the point is, just go to CA or NY.
But it seems like a stunt if not fake news.
Hopefully some Australians ‘see the dark’, the LNP ‘see the light’ and elbow Elbow out next election.
Salvatore:
I’ve offered to pay out our bet on inflation but he won’t reply to me.
It seems to be a common theme with him.
Mr Albanese will declare Australia “eager and ready” to move to a net zero world and extol Australia’s research and engineering capacity in clean energy technologies.
Does AnAl even know that the windmills and solar panels come from Chainerr, and how little Australian “research and engineering capacity” is actually involved?
Oh, no.
This doesn’t sound good.
Which is why the state government is pitching in tax payers’ money to build wind farms in tandem with Spanish company Acciona. Would love to see the details in the contract which enticed the latter to come on board.
Forget Knut, think Albo.
My condolences, win.
Please fill us in when you feel up to it.
Got contractors putting in retaining walls at home. In the minuses. They arrived at 6:30 and get straight into it. Yesterday there was 6 of them, everyone knew their jobs. What I noticed is all the blokes are over 40 bar one who is mid 20’s. No diversity here, pink hair or nose rings. The smallest bloke is the strongest. He’s
lifting 2 blocks at a time when the others only 1. They worked constantly all day. Strange, none of them swear. Can I see any politicians doing anything like this. No wonder this country is stuffed, paying drongo’s to do talk about doing things but doing nothing. If politicians had 10% of the get go these guys have it would be a much different place. I’m not saying these guys could run the country but the powers that be have already proved they can’t and never will. Just a narrow observation but I’m sure Cats see this from their own perspective all the time.
At least the CFMEU rank and file rebelled against the draconian mandates. With the rare exception, the AMA collective seemed to eagerly take up and shoulder arms with their syringes.
I’ve got infinitely more time for the fluoro clad Communists.
It’s a repeat of the 1970s Philadelphia Harvey Karman/ Kermit Gosnells Mother’s Day abortion bus stunt which left at least one woman sterile.
Not since the Magic Negro began to cool the planet have I felt so relieved. Thanks ALPBC. Thanks Albo.
We’ll be like a shag on a rock by the time he’s finished with us.
win, my deepest condolences.
Can’t imagine the pain you’re going through.
Roger its whats not in the contract I want to know. Holiday houses in Malaga?
You got the analogy wrong Roger. They are the shags on a rock. Shags eat 10x their own weight daily as they have no stomach. Exactly the same as our overlords except our overlords have no spine either.
Finally we can jet off to international conferences without the stigma of being Australian. The Great Man would approve.
AFL club North Melbourne is expected today to sack David Noble, the senior coach it appointed just 18 months ago to rebuild the side.
President Dr Sonja Hood – just a North supporter who has no track record in footy management — and CEO Ben Amarfio are in the gun for their incompetence.
These people would no doubt be mortified to learn that in most instances these languages only survive because Christian missionaries learned them and developed lexicons for them with the goal of catechising the indigenous folk.
Elbow’s Elf Minister on 3AW beating up Kung Flu.
That slurping noise in the background is Nanny Neil Mitchell.
Where is m0nster?
Like a shag on a rock – to find one’s self in an isolated or exposed position.
With the rest of the world only giving lip service to renewables or back tracking from reliance on them, that’s exactly what we’ll be.
“I’ve got infinitely more time for the fluoro clad Communists.”
As have I.
Will Gillon McPolo-Pony put North Melbourne on the Spirit ofTasmania or leave it to his successor?
A couple of people I follow on twitter are sharing docs where the FBI/DOJ admits to having Confidential Human Sources (CHS) involved in the Jan 6th shenanigans.
I might record Tucker today because if there’s anything to it he’ll at least mention it.
Remember, is not the ‘vaccine’ that’s failing, its the vaccinees immune system itself. This has potentially dire consequences for every other illness normally kept in check by said system, including cancer, shingles, etc
Tom, there are a few sides having a worse year than expected – GWS, Essendon, Adelaide and Wet Coats for example.
But North seems like a true basket case on and off the field.
“Hey, white count! Gibbet fifty bucks for a carton! You stole our land!”
The Guardian reports that Elbow’s approval rating has fallen, lamenting that the honeymoon is over. Seems Australians don’t appreciate a galavanting PM.
Meme
https://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/.a/6a0177444b0c2e970d02a30d43d307200b-pi
They’re still at it.
Florida Man Among 3 People Gored During Running of the Bulls in Spain (11 Jul)
Armed Florida man on lawnmower leads police on chase (11 Jul)
Florida Woman Accused of Hiding Dead Mother in Freezer to Collect Disability Money (10 Jul)
It is crunch time on that front.
The Tassie government seems to be sticking to former Premier Gutwein’s line – no more cash without a fulltime team in Tassie.
So sending North south (oops) for a few non-event games to reap buckets of cash isn’t going to cut it.
Nothing short of full relocation will do.
Which is never popular.
Inscrutable celestial bastardry!
They are trying to eff us up by turning Morrison into a hero.
Nambas, what elevates that meme is that Elon (Dot) himself retweeted it.
Daily Mail.
So sorry about your terrible news Win.
win.
My condolences. I cannot fathom the grief.
Australia does not appear to have sent any representation to the recently held Ministerial Conference on Freedom of Religion and Belief, a Trump initiative from 2018 hosted this year by the UK government.
Certainly Wong wasn’t there and I can’t find any mention of it on DFAT’s site.
Featuring highly on the agenda was Chinese treatment of Christian and Muslim minorities.
Oh no vaxxies are all gonna die!
complete bullshit
Hence the puff piece by Riley on Seven on Sunday.
such as aluminium
https://ieefa.org/resources/ieefa-update-australias-aluminium-smelters-need-technology-retrofit-offer-demand-response
An awful rent seeking article with a couple of inconvenient truths sprinkled through it.
The Australian Energy Market Operator’s (AEMO) Integrated System Plan (ISP) – the roadmap for electricity generation – shows the NEM will be increasingly susceptible to unexpected shocks (reduced energy output from wind/solar, extreme weather, failure in grid interconnectors) with resulting variability in spot pricing, given the absence of a sensible energy policy which has impeded the grid modernisation.
Thermal power generation will continue to lose market share to VRE*
The AEMO has the authority to temporarily curtail power to smelters when energy generation is insufficient to meet demand. Without new demand-side response (DSR) capacity** and large-scale energy storage technologies in the grid, forced curtailments are more likely to occur with increasing proportions of VRE generation (and retiring baseload) in the energy mix.
In short, aluminium smelting in Australia is at a crossroads.
*The word “Because” is missing between those paragraphs
** “demand side response = SHUT IT DOWN!!!
There’s a back story here, Ranga.
Palaszczuk’s government has been in hot water recently over its contractual agreements with private enterprises. The word incompetent has been used, but the whiff of corruption is about too.
Exactly.
Musk is playing chess to their single-move ahead checkers.
Win,
sorrow for your loss.
Are you okay?
Re the collapse of Sri Lanka discussion last night, Paul Homewood has this today:
If you want to know how Sri Lanka’s president destroyed his country, read his COP26 speech (11 Jul)
The stuff in the speech about nitrogen is especially topical given the Dutch protests and Herr Trudy’s recent similar action. You have to think this is a real and actual push for an engineered famine, which they’ll of course then blame on climate change.
You have to think this is a real and actual push for an engineered famine, which they’ll of course then blame on climate change.
Yes I think you are right. It’s interesting how low rent crooks like Pelosi and Biden are fully on board too- as long as it’s money for them that’s all that matters.
There are a lot of misguided stupid people around, but to engineer a deliberate famine? Fester needs to change his medication.
Which is why the state government is pitching in tax payers’ money to build wind farms in tandem with Spanish company Acciona. Would love to see the details in the contract which enticed the latter to come on board.
Roger,
the Spanish companies are an excellent choice.
They were able to make the Solar Farms produce power 24 hours a day, remember.
Until someone spilled about the diesel-powered Klieg lights trained onto the panels at night. LOL!
Interesting dynamics since AEMO effectively is using the aluminium smelters as a load leveling operation, a bit like a very very big battery. If they lose that capacity then the grid will probably fall over. Certainly regular brown outs would have to be instituted, which effectively is what they’re doing now: brown-outing the smelters whenever they’re short of supply.
So they can’t afford to let the smelters go bankrupt but the smelters can’t afford this insane on-off capricious supply interruption. At very least they aren’t going to be doing full maintenance since their capital equipment isn’t being operated at capacity so there’s no adequate ROI for the maintenance projects.
An with the red-green Albo government I can’t see them stumping up subsidies for “big business”. Certainly not the sizable amounts needed.
Anyone care to speculate on my hypothetical?
If the US started producing Trump era amounts of energy tomorrow, what happens geopolitically?
Welcome to the renewables future where lights are dimmer, there’s no hot water at schools and public swimming pools are closed, but town halls are open so people can survive the night.
https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/join-these-dots-renewables-make-half-germanys-power-and-energy-crisis-means-public-halls-are-warm-up-spaces/
You have to think this is a real and actual push for an engineered famine, which they’ll of course then blame on climate change.
And still there are those who think this is just incompetence.
A food famine, an energy famine etc etc.
That would make Stalin look like an amateur.
Meanwhile, this fellow is cowering on a naval vessel while protesters occupy his mansion and enjoy his swimming pool.
I want the AUD as weak as possible.
I have a private equity transaction settling next week & the FX is being completed the day the funds hit the trust account.
Down baby down.
winsays:
July 12, 2022 at 4:36 am
Oh win, that’s terrible news.
My heart aches for you.
Mater says:
July 12, 2022 at 8:03 am
“Hey bloke, you got a smoke? I’ll let you poke my sister!”
For the curious, that’s the dialect spoken around Katherine
Actually it’s more like “you can puck me mister but don’t soot inside”.
Tony Heller is onto the Sri Lanka situation today as well.
“going green meant going hungry” (11 Jul)
There’s a WEF linkage to this, which he trims from the 2018 document shown in the video, but is apparent in a companion blog post.
Alex Berenson has been tweeting how two punters who published work on the declining birth rate story have been banned.
My view is that the data will continue to present itself over the next 12 months that will make either make the first movers on this look silly or 110% correct.
I’m in no hurry to draw any conclusions.
But it concerns me that yet again, twitter is out there banning stuff that doesn’t fit their narrative.
By their actions they are publishers, not a carriage service.
Wealthy Cohen family attempts to create multicultural ‘Noah’s Ark’ by settling 70 refugee families in small French town, but residents are fighting back
So the Holodomor never happened either?
we are in the era of democratic fascism
The Tassie government…
The Weekend Oz carried an article about new “Liberal” premier Jeremy Rockliff. Amongst various other woke causes, he of course supports “The Voice”.
excellent article.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/government-by-vampire-zombie-squid
Having the honeymoon finish before Parliament has resumed is positively Bidenesque. It’s going to be a long 3 years.
we are in the era of democratic fascism
Just vote harder.
Which is to say that even if that was the plan – which I don’t believe for a minute – they don’t have the capacity for evil to carry it through.
What we are seeing is green fanaticism, its corporate backers and political facilitators overreaching and exposing the weaknesses inherent in their agenda.
I think Elbow would prefer Whitlamesque.
The Guardian reports that Elbow’s approval rating has fallen, lamenting that the honeymoon is over.
It used to be that an unpopular PM became less unpopular the more often they traveled.
SloMo ended this.
DocDuk, they keep using “Covid” as some sort of monolithic descriptor.
Are the new infections from the mutation they have recovered from, or a new mutation? I understand the principle of OAS, but if the new mutation defies both acquired immunity via infection and recovery, or at a stretch a measure of coverage by vaxx, could this be some sort of “gain of function” feature built into the virus itself?
That is terrible news, win. My condolences.
On Kiwis being allowed to vote in Oz:
The Prime Minister announced that he would be asking a Parliamentary Committee on elections to look into and consider allowing New Zealanders who live and work in Australia to vote in our elections.
That’s right, Albanese wants to let non-citizens vote.
Albanese might call it a re-setting of their relationship, but many Australians see it as a betrayal.
For many decades, Australia has valued citizenship as the required commitment to unlock voting rights – something which is especially important with such a large percentage of temporary visa holders making up the population. Those who wish to have a say in the Australian political system must first permanently pledge their allegiance to Australia. Paying tax has never been a qualification, given many individuals, guests, and companies pay tax without holding voting rights.
The argument of ‘reciprocation’ because ‘New Zealand does it’ is not an argument based on merit. Copying foolish policy spreads foolishness to other nations.
While those who support the policy have said that not supporting it would be ‘authoritarian’ and ‘against democracy’ making the point that these people live and work in Australia so they should be given the right to vote here, many understand that this is not how the system works.
The simple fact is, if you want to vote in Australia, you should be a citizen of the country. Albanese has no right to meddle in the democratic system that put him in office and gave him power.
Much like individuals who voted for Joe Biden, I’m sure at least some people who voted for Anthony Albanese would be having buyer’s regret. He is a man attempting to change the rules of the game before he has put the work in to govern.
While Albanese jets off again, this time to Fiji, we are all left wondering – if this is what has happened in just a month and a half of the Albanese government, how much worse will it get in the remainder of its three-year tenure?
Joel Agius – The Spectator
‘It’s being completely overlooked by the mainstream media but it will get to a point where this cannot be ignored.’
Neil Oliver and Dan Wootton discuss the Sri Lanka riots and the protests taking place across the world.
Albo clearly has no idea what being the PM involves.
After spending the first few weeks globetrotting, the paperwork on his desk must rival Mt Fuji. And this is not just busywork – the transitional stuff alone would be at least a week’s work.
Either he does his job as the top decision maker, or he delegates it to who knows who, with predictable results. Someone will get up in Question Time and ask something starting with ‘Is the Prime Minister aware …’ and he won’t be. What’s more, he will then be required to either defend the indefensible, or admit that he is not doing his job.
Staying on top of things is the hardest part of a PM’s job, although it is out of the public eye. I’m not getting a good feeling about Albo’s ability to do that.
The only honeymoon for anal was with the meja which goes on ofcourse. The tired old campus marxists didn’t exactly win.
He’s spending political credit he hasn’t yet earned.
Labor to a fault.
How can we be on course if they claim we need a significant change of trajectory.
Needless to say – all these new windfarms and solar farms will mean a lot of money for the engineering profession – the industry that I am in.
Funny how people think a new ‘Report’ is some sort of holy writ of such authority that transgression against its recommendations it to invite catastrophe. Rather than a marketing tool for an industry or a propaganda piece for power hungry activists.
There may be any number of nuggets of wisdom in the report – but you cannot ascertain them to be so merely because they are in a report. It would be like listening to our public ‘experts’.
Point of etiquette – since when was the practice, for Aussies in civilian clothing, to do the “hand over the heart” thing, while someone in uniform salutes?
The next best thing to being overseas is hosting an international conference. Better really as you go home at the end of the day.
Anyone seen the ratings for Shit Happens and Albo’s soft soap session? Better than Channel 10s newBreakfast program?
AnAl will bring a teleprompter into parliament for question time
Price a short term call option, Bern.
Netherlands Partnered with WEF to Subvert Global Food Ahead of Farm Bans | Crossroads
We saw that on the campaign trail with a “gotcha” that would be common knowledge for anybody with more than a passing interest in current affairs. Hopefully he will be a reverse Whitlam and lose office without doing anything.
It’s the same as people who look at their boss running a successful company and think, “I can do that.”.
It’s a lot harder than it looks. And a lot more time and energy consuming. The boss who makes it look “easy” is doing a whole lot of work behind the scenes.
Possibly after Obama’s infamous er, salute.
Salvatore:
It’s the unusual property of Generation Woke that they believe any organisation fortunate enough to employ them becomes their property and they have the right – and duty – to steer it in the direction they feel is necessary.
It’s the Princess Principle taken to an extreme by both (or all) of the sexes.
Roger the incompetence is the feature to enable the corruption. Incompetence reminds me of a town I used to drive through. When it was built in the 1800’s the main street was very wide to allow horse and cart to stop at the shopping. The street was about 2km long. They marked out boundaries and started building houses and shops spaced out along the road. The shops were built at either end by competing interests. As the infill happened they noticed that each had marked the boundaries from left to right from each end, hence the dogleg in the middle of town. That’s incompetence.
We should hope for Elbow to be spectacularly bad.
That should make him a one term PM & give Dutton a chance to prove himself.
If he is merely as bad as the average PM, he’ll likely be forming his next government with the Greens.
BoN
This engineered famine in the Netherlands.
Do you really think the world will starve without bunches of tulips and ornamental plants?
If the Dutch mainly exported food, I’d be concerned but their highest value agricultural exports are fresh flowers and live plants which kind of nullify the deliberate famine theory.
Narrative? What narrative? The ABC’s Covid crusade continues, and the public’s new crime crystallises further – ‘complacency’.
Yesterday:
Health experts say COVID-19 complacency has restricted freedoms of the immunocompromised and elderly
Today:
Calls for West Australians to get fourth COVID-19 jab amid fears of ‘complacency’ and winter surge
Notice the “calls” and “fears” always emanate from the same rotation of shitheads – peak industry body chiefs, Ph.D-wielding campus parasites, mentally unstable mask-clad Karens.
I might start keeping a list of the ABC’s Covid missive containing its daily iterations. Gonna be a long list.
Win, if the sincere condolences and prayers of Cats are any guide, you will get through this tough time.
A battery?
The normal concept of a battery is something which stores power and returns it to the grid.
Do smelters do that?
Appreciate your reply, but will understand if Titus forbids it.
Either way they’re unfit to govern, a sentiment that the polling is again reflecting after Palaszczuk’s brief covid boost.
If Elbow follows through on his climate manifesto Australians are going to be hit very hard on the hip pocket nerve, which if Barnaby and his mates have any brains at all committing to scaling back renewable nonsense see a romp in.
Slowmo did the cynical thing waffling about 2050, to delay this until the science caught up.
Shades of Kevni. Mind you, his honeymoon lasted a good 18 months or so. But when it was over….man,was it over.
Elbow couldn’t give a stuff.
a) the APS votes 90%+ Liars-Filth and will protect him.
b) the news media business, which votes 90%+ Liars-Filth, couldn’t give a stuff about holding the powerful to account, except when the LNP is in power.
In fact, just as Elbow’s honeymoon ends, the news media has started fawning suck jobs on Elbow and his girlfriend (the one who moved in after his wife booted him).
Australia is become more and more like the USA, where the Deep State and the news media protect the ruling class.
My family are bemused to hear me repeat the saying I first saw here:
Albo and Labor are like prison sex. You know it’s going to be bad, you just don’t know how bad.
(And no, Flyingduk, I don’t mean in solitary)
calli at 10:26 – true but the Left don’t really look beyond attaining power. That is how they end up with Biden or Pony Girl. The Lieborals, for all their faults, are a little better. You suspect that is why Bishop remained Deputy Leader while being leap frogged by a variety of people for the top job.
You see it in business where the founder is often (but not always) not the best person to run a business beyond a certain point.
Rosie:
China must start behaving like a responsible neighbour – not the bogan trash it is.
If China were a family in your neighbourhood, they’d be the drug dealing, car stealing, burglarising, stand over merchants, pieces of shit that damn near every village seems to produce.
Sheeit are any of the Government in the country atm? Not hearing much from the Government on Sri Lanka either. Potential there for waves of illegal immigrants given current unrest or even protected evacuation of Australian passport holders if the situation deteriorates. May be stable now but that could very quickly change.
As for the UN & NGO’s that drive this insane stuff. They are active throughout all of south east Asia, usually driven by mainland Euro’s and same with dumb policies. Anyone remember the Glycophospate ban in Thailand (Short lived), they have tried similar policies of locking up farmland in Cambodia that are just ignored and UNHCR prolonged the refugee crisis in East Timor in 2008 by feeding people in camps long after the violence had been controlled. Funny how the same people seem to be sparse on the ground in more unstable regions I have been into.
Win hope you are coping well. Loss of a close one is never good, remember the good times.
Er…not that sort of shag, osc.
😀
“Either he does his job as the top decision maker, or he delegates it to who knows who, with predictable results. Someone will get up in Question Time and ask something starting with ‘Is the Prime Minister aware …’ and he won’t be. What’s more, he will then be required to either defend the indefensible, or admit that he is not doing his job.”
Agree Johanna although I suspect Labor aim to do two things….
1. Curtail the media asking tough questions; and
2. Curtail Question Time.
Australia is become more and more like the USA, where the Deep State and the news media protect the ruling class.
+1000
2. Curtail Question Time.
Don’t need to.
The SFL will do nothing, will ask nothing (of consequence).
“In fact, just as Elbow’s honeymoon ends, the news media has started fawning suck jobs on Elbow and his girlfriend (the one who moved in after his wife booted him).”
I’ve noticed that.
The membership of AATSE is essentially a galaxy of academics and public experts. I’ve managed to spend 40+ years working as an engineer/scientist without ever coming into contact with the organisation.
You get a sense of their detachment from practical reality when they suggest that Australia could be intermittently 100% renewables, with coal backup.
I reckon the Australian deep state has long been with us and is actually far more competent than its US counterpart, as evidenced by the fact that few here know it exists.
I’m recording Tucker but if any Cats are watching can they post if he mentions the DOJ/FBI admission regarding having people involved with Jan 6th?
If he doesn’t I won’t bother watching the replay.
Hard to see how or why that “Albo at Home” special was green lighted. I assume they simply thought people would be watching Wimbledon anyway.
Australia ‘on track’ to generate half its electricity from renewable sources by 2025, report finds
This is the exact same crap they were coming out with leading up to the last great leap forward towards renewballs that ended with the great SA blackout. Wildly ambitious targets, claims of pots of gold at the end of the renewballs rainbow, an insistence that ‘we have the technology’ to dump reliable energy sources; it’s all there.
Stock up on blankets and jumpers, Victorians.
fortunately, the internet does not forget.
Notice all the outward looking policy ‘vision’.. rather than dealing with any of the issues at home.
Lathe of the week! DSG 13X42 in Sydney:
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/dee-why/other-tools-diy/lathe-dean-smith-grace-13×42-the-rolls-royce-of-lathes/1298105464
Albanese is the accidental PM, gifted to us by a hopeless, lacklustre, spineless, craven and quisling Scott Morrison and his motley team of Liberals. The icing on the cake was their spineless capitulation on “net zero emissions”….there was no turning back after that.
The fact that the Liberals lost government to Albanese shows just how incompetent and bad they were. Beginning in September 2013, they slowly but surely destroyed the Liberal Party. In September 2015 they kicked Liberal voters in the guts. I have long thought that it would have been better if Shorten had won the 2016 election, instead we had to endure another six years of the Liberals waving their hands about, not knowing if they were Arthur or Martha, always wanting to be please those who wouldn’t vote for them in a hissy fit…..be it on energy policy, education, free speech and so on. And then Covid and the disaster that was and is the “National Cabinet”. But you know what, this is the story of right of centre governments across the West, it’s the same story of betrayal, cowardice and capitulation.
Australia is become more and more like the USA, where the Deep State and the news media protect the ruling class.
Yes but remember how the meja kept liddle filth’s butler at the lodge a secret.
OCO, have to agree. What I don’t understand is the Liars are such dumb shits, rat cunning but dumb. Photios is a SFL scumbag but only the face of deep state like people. The greens are the dumbist of the dumb. Who are the ones with the smarts. I’ve experienced some great manipulators but they’re not that smart. I’ve also been privileged to know some exceptionally smart people but none of them are manipulators or am I too dumb to see?
I reckon the Australian deep state has long been with us and is actually far more competent than its US counterpart, as evidenced by the fact that few here know it exists.
I definitely think they’re more competent. There’s very few bumps on the road on to the complete subjugation of the Australian People. There might be the odd glitch put it gets sorted pretty quickly. eg. In Tassie there was a deal done between State Libs and SSAA to unwind the 1996 Gun Laws, as soon as this was leaked the whole thing was dead within two weeks.
Morrison WAS Jim Hacker PM as any close reader of Yes Minister would appreciate. The candidate to make sure the other guy didn’t win.
Best of Tom’s Toons:
A good body language analysis of that skank, Hutchinson’s testimony (sic) before the Jan 6 bullshit.
In other news: Trudeau wants to enact fertilizer policies similar to those causing rebellion among Dutch farmers
And of course rub and tug is in the queue, along with the new zealandistan squirrel, to do the same.
Pretty much sums it up Cassie- I could never vote Lieboral again after the 2015 putsch and subsequent events. I was waiting for Abbott to be invited back into the government after the removal of Trumble but it never happened- so a second eff you to former supporters.
who needs rice and diesel when you got “knowledge-based economy”?
UN is stuffed full of later day marxists who stripped of economic marxism look indistinguishable from pure fascists. WEF is there to ensure that mega corps own everything in this brave new utopia and rent it to you at centrally fixed prices, including food. The ultimate “circular” economy.
Netherlands has been earmarked as the capital of this brave new utopia, and farms must make way for the vast legions of the unelected global “public servant” class domiciles.
Actually I was sorry too that Trumble crawled over the line in 2016- his tantrum was funny though.
I wonder if david, walruses over the cliff, attenborough, will say as he said about Trump and suggest this bastard should be shot for the good of the planet:
George Soros: Republicans are ‘domestic enemies’ who must be ‘thrown out of office’
GreyRanga at 11:16 – you have to look at the backgrounds and party structure. The Liars and the unions are inseparable. Much of their power is purely numbers driven that comes to a head at national conference and preselection. Lieboral factions are similar but throw in fundraising for direct union support. Rat cunning will triumph intelligence and ability every time.
GreyRanga
I’m not saying these guys could run the country but the powers that be have already proved they can’t and never will. Just a narrow observation but I’m sure Cats see this from their own perspective all the time.
I could select a better Cabinet from the local Mens’ Shed, and have some left over.
Rick that is some buy. First full-time job I had, there was a 24 x 84 DSG in the toolroom. Why would someone be getting rid of it?
cohenite, there must be hundreds of hours of Attenborough propaganda available to TV stations at cheap rates. Not a day goes by when there isn’t one of his breathy, unscientific Trojan Horses for CAGW, not to mention how humans are destroying the planet generally.
Dickie was a good actor and producer, but never became as fabulously wealthy as his shyster brother.
Families, eh.
The Australian is running a story via a “news flash” that “Ukraine has one million troops ready for fightback to recapture south”-(The Australian, 12 July 2022)
Well, that will be the comeback of the millennium if it happens. However, there continues to be a narrative circulating that Zelensky’s forces can withstand the determination of Putin to end a decade of fighting over the Donbass.
Tonight the
has two guest speakers who can speak with some authority on Ukraine, if anyone here is interested :
UKRAINE TODAY – AS SEEN FROM AUSTRALIA, with:
ANDREW L URBAN, Journalist and author of
& PETER SHMIGEL , Writer & former political advisor with a background in Ukrainian affairs and has just returned from Ukraine after working there for two months
Contact the Sydney Institute for details.
An odd choice given that it’s one of the most politically fragmented and therefore potentially unmanageable democracies in the West.
but first he must strip the farmers of guns, for their own good of course
Very little fuel available to unconnected citizens in Sri Lanka at the moment. It will be fascinating to see who has the “pull” to get fuel for people smuggler boats in due course. I’m sure they will come and be welcomed by our Union overlords.
Truth and Reconciliation for Gaia!
If you were looking to subvert a country with a globalist agenda you’d surely look for a smoothly functioning two-party democracy with a high level of policy agreement between the major parties.
The junta in Washington has been busy ‘engineering’ a fuel shortage- why not food? In fact, one leads to the other.
Sorry Sancho, I’ve been out walking since the sun came out briefly at last. So far we’re running about 5 times over the rain average for July and not halfway yet.
I did say “a bit” like a big battery since one of the jobs of the big SA battery is load leveling. Yes a battery releases power when it is in discharge phase, whereas the smelters don’t. But they do the load leveling job very well since they soak up extra power when demand is low and don’t when the retail demand is high. Which is substantial: Tomago has capacity to run at about 1000 MW and Portland about 600 MW. The SA big battery is about 100 MWh capacity so it can add 100 MW for an hour whereas Portland and Tomago together can free up 1600 MW all day if necessary, and don’t need to be charged up.
If Elbow wants to be a one termer the surest way would be to lose control of the borders.
I could select a better Cabinet from the local lockup, the morning after a Saturday night brawl in the local pub.
win @4.36am
Terrible, terrible news which I have only just discovered through earlier posts.
Win – your grief is felt by all on this blog, I am sure.
if you look at the maps and plans, you’ll see that the netherlands will in effect cease to exist as an independent state.
tristatecity.nl
the plan is to erase european nation states
Roger
An odd choice given that it’s one of the most politically fragmented and therefore potentially unmanageable democracies in the West.
What are these “democracies” of which you speak? Are they in the WEF Grand Plan?
132andbush:
I did try to work out what would the result be, but there are too many intangibles:
How would the current O’Biden/Harris administration react?
How would Europe react?
In both cases, the governments are in direct conflict of the needs of their citizens. Would they just decide to find another excuse to force their agenda on us?
Can you see the price of fuel going back to $1/litre? The government here is getting fat on the taxes, so there’s no way they would allow it.
I decided it would be like trying to pull apart a cake into its constituent ingredients.
I’m old enough to remember when the Greens went all feral about the mutton bird industry. Now they want to mash them with wind turbines.
Even Bob Brown opposes bird-killing Bass Strait wind farms, at least ones near him.
At a time when nationalism is on the rise in Europe.
Boats are potentially all that the Lieborals have left. Thanks Josh.
Prime Minister Armin Laschet: “North Rhine-Westphalia wants more Europe. That is why it is particularly important to us to further intensify relations with our closest European neighbors. North Rhine-Westphalia and the Benelux countries together form a unique European economic, cultural and living area in which more than 45 million people live on an area of ??100,000 square kilometers and in which a gross domestic product of almost 1.8 trillion euros is generated every year becomes. We want to strengthen this, pool our skills and make closer cooperation even more successful. The political declaration that we are signing today with the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg is of great importance to us. Cross-border cooperation is a response to the specific needs of local people and a powerful signal against populism and nationalism, a counter-proposal to ‘My country first’. Right now we want to strengthen the feeling of togetherness in our common region and in this way make Europe tangible in everyday life and show its concrete benefits.”
the plan is to erase european nation states
One half of Belgium hates the other half, then there are the other groups involved. Good luck with this brain fart.
Don’t we have a mutton bird expert here?
Even AEMO says offshore wind is not economically feasible with current costs.
Who’s advising Lily D’Ambrosio?
EU should ‘undermine national homogeneity’ says UN migration chiefthese people are very dangerous, powerful and evil
Cassie, agree with most of your assessment however the ‘kick in the guts’ was initially delivered by Abbott, when he asked us to “Take one for the team” on 18c. That was the beginning of the end. He crapped on his base and the consequences still endure.
Feelthebern:
I was in the hospital this morning and got the chance to speak to one of the girls about pregnancies.
She said Barcaldine tended to move in 3 year cycles and that this year was going to be a high birth rate point. Said the amount of pregnancies was phenomenal. Prolly due to the lockdown – wink.
About famine not being serious because flowers are the main export in value terms from the Netherlands: life is pretty mean without flowers. I searched for daffodils a couple of years ago at vic market but was told, or told off, that flowers were not essential goods. The same when it came to looking for the sacramental life. Churches were shut since unlike supermarkets they were not essential. So the people starved. Flowers, the Sacraments, and so on: man does not live on bread alone.
The Anti-Woke Girondist’s Lament:
Patrick Deneen’s review of Murray’s The War on the West is fire. I’d recommend Deneen’s Why Liberalism Has Failed.
Jamie Kah is back in the saddle tomorrow at Sandown in Melbourne’s outer eastern suburbs, after a month’s holiday in Europe, during which she made it known on social media that she’s rooting fellow jockey Ben Melham.
Kah, who won last year’s Melbourne metropolitan jockeys premiership, had until them been engaged to marry her business partner, ex-jockey and trainer Clayton Douglas, with whom she runs a farm and training business in outer suburban Mornington.
Being a genius in the saddle doesn’t stop you leading a chaotic personal life. Or maybe it causes it.