Anthony Albanese’s government warns Australia that bad news is coming – and it’s going to impact YOUR wages and mortgage

I bet the ABCcess and SBS as well as the various discrimination/incrimination boards are battening down the hatches as we speak.

Has the fat turd turned into some sort of latter day neo-con?

How the HR Monster Destroyed the Workplace: The Woke Mission Creep of Human Resources Departments

That wasn’t good enough for Heathwood, who went on to ask why the Premier’s much-trumpeted $200m Wellcamp quarantine facility – now widely regarded in Queensland as a white elephant – was “sitting virtually empty” in the face of the housing crisis.

And:

“Well, I’m happy to talk to those people and happy to get the Housing Minister to talk to those people. Because it is available!”

Spotted on Gumtree:

‘Death Camps.
Backpacker style affordable accommodation. Toowoomba area. Bastard cold in winter. Meh in summer.
Mains gas available. Email klausworlddomination.wef.com for more details.’

Who invades… Russia?

Argies.
They need squirrels like an addict needs crack.
OTOH a single brigade would probably be sufficient for reconquering the Falklands again.

More seriously (although I was fairly serious – Argies are tragics in the worst way) we seem to be getting into a new age where nibbling bits off the neighbours is becoming un-unthinkable. Which means a serious need for more infantry and appropriate accoutrements. One doesn’t own a new acquisition until you have a bunch of teenage soldiers with rifles sitting on it. Nukes do not give you control of a place, they just irritate lots and lots of people who then stop buying your stuff and annoyingly refuse your oligarchs berthing rights for their yachts.

like a limping scarred cur edging toward its abusive master, powerless against instinct – into an interview where they will try to ingratiate themselves with the host and audience who will toy with him before humiliating him.

Why even engage with the press gallery and the rest of the legacy meja? The internet provides so many ways to bypass that collection of trash. Abbott shaking hands with Riley is the opposite of what should have happened.

Keating was always good at playing hardball with germalists- if they don’t give you good press cut them off. Think of the sycophantic muck that they used write about the undertaker- ‘brilliant’ , ‘would have the ability to earn two or three degrees’ etc etc

‘Reviled as a murderer’: Roberts-Smith closes case against Nine with fiery speech

I can’t wait for the Ben Roberts-Smith verdict. Journalists at the Fakefacts titles have deliberately targeted the left’s political enemies and hang the expense: company lawyers who used to read everything before it was published have been sidelined by lunatics on the Fakefacts editorial staff who have decided that satisfying their ideological blood lust is a price the company must pay.

This is expensive corporate insanity, but it’s what happens if management is forbidden from interfering in the staff’s ideological warfare, as Fakefacts has stipulated for around 20 years in the company’s “charter of editorial independence”.

I’m tipping that Fakefacts/Nein will go down with a legal bill of $1-5 million plus in damages plus expenses and I suspect I’m being conservative.

OK then.

A scorned Kevni with shrapnel wounds acquired in the Donbas white-anting furiously from the sidelines and spinning war stories of gallantry and tactical brilliance would spice things up a bit.

I read about it at least, if it was short.

I would read about it…

Git works too.

Yep. It made me think of John Wayne’s ‘Fill yer hands, you sonofabitch!’

Speaking of Fairfax, wasn’t Hilmer going to take over the internet with f2? What ever happened to that?

Sorry if this has been posted previously Chris Mitchell has a beauty in the Oz today:

From Sri Lanka to Abe, ABC missing in action
CHRIS MITCHELL

Demonstrators rest in a makeshift tent at a protest arena near Sri Lankan presidential office in Colombo at the weekend. Picture: Arun Sankar/AFP)
12:00AM JULY 18, 2022
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What sometimes looks like deliberate ABC bias can often be a mixture of lazy unprofessionalism – and even lazier group think.

How, for example, can new 7.30 host Sarah Ferguson, in only her second week in the job, have done a report on the fall of the Sri Lankan government of Gotabaya Rajapaksa without even a mention of his disastrous decision last year to ban chemical fertilisers and the subsequent devastation of food production in a nation of small farmers? Even The New York Times, the US media’s most activist climate change news outlet, has extensively covered the disastrous fertilizer decision, as have all the major UK papers.

As if to sharpen the point, only a minute after Ferguson’s Tuesday night interview with Sri Lankan opposition MP Harsha De Silva, Andrew Bolt on Sky News began a 5 minute 39 second segment discussing the profound consequences of a supposedly pro-environmental decision by Rajapaksa, announced to much fanfare last year at the Cop 26 climate summit in Glasgow.

No surprise that Bolt, a critic of environmental solutions backed by politicians with no clue about the complex problems their preferred solutions can involve, interviewed Queensland National Party senator Matt Canavan, a strong supporter of fossil fuels, about the dangers of environmental policies with unintended consequences.

‘No scientific evidence’ to defend Sri Lanka’s ban on chemical fertilisers
University of Peradeniya’s Professor Buddhi Marambe says “ill advice” given to Sri Lankan President Gotabaya… Rajapaksa was the reason for a nationwide ban on chemical fertilisers. Mr Rajapaksa made the decision in April 2021 to ban all chemical fertilisers in Sri Lanka, forcing farmers to use organic fertiliser. More
Regular viewers of Sky News and of the ABC will be unsurprised that Sky News focused almost exclusively on the environmental causes of Sri Lanka’s problems or that 7.30 completely ignored them. Yet several ABC reports online and in news programs since May have discussed the role of the country’s move to organics in its food crisis.

ABC showpiece current affairs programs often ignore problems with green solutions. They hardly ever mention reliability issues with wind and solar power here and barely discuss the need for firming renewables with pumped hydro and battery storage. Nor does the ABC, when reporting on batteries, mention they can only distribute power for a couple of hours. At the start of the year the ABC barely covered Europe’s energy crisis during a long midwinter wind drought that preceded Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

So what is the non-culture war truth of the Sri Lankan tragedy?

The Rajapaksa government had been mishandling the economy long before the fertilizer decision. Covid-19 and the collapse in tourism to Sri Lanka that followed hit the island nation hard. Its main sources of foreign exchange revenue were tourism and agricultural exports.

Both have come to a screeching halt and the country’s poorest farmers are feeling the pain most. Soaring global prices for the foodstuffs they can now not grow in sufficient quantity and the petrol and gas they must import last month forced Sri Lanka into talks – so far unsuccessful – for an International Monetary Fund bailout. That must now wait for a new constitutionally elected government in Colombo.

Many economists were sceptical at the time of Rajapaksa’s Cop 26 commitment, arguing the government was betting on organic farming because it could not afford to import fertilisers. The Wall Street Journal last week pointed out that even before the pandemic, Sri Lanka had been hit by “an accumulation of debt on infrastructure spending and sweeping tax cuts that drained government revenue”.

Rajapaksa – part of a family dynasty that has dominated the country for 20 years – refused advice he should default on the nation’s debt. Sri Lanka “increasingly took to international sovereign bonds to roll over existing debt at effectively commercial interest rates’’. As its position deteriorated credit ratings agencies “marked down the country’s sovereign-credit rating, cutting off its access to on-market borrowing”.

So the nation’s problems are not just about a poor environmental decision. Yet that decision has crippled food production and viewers should have expected Ferguson to ask her 7.30 guest about the issue. Keen readers can trace the deliberate origins of Rajapaksa’s “green agricultural revolution” to an election promise in 2019.

People line up for flower offering at Zojoji temple on the day of the funeral for former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe on July 12. Picture: Yuichi Yamazaki/Getty Images)
People line up for flower offering at Zojoji temple on the day of the funeral for former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe on July 12. Picture: Yuichi Yamazaki/Getty Images)
A piece in Nature magazine last October urged Sri Lanka to pursue food security and food sovereignty “by applying agro-ecological practices in agriculture” to combat “ongoing massive-scale agro-industrial approaches”. The ABC should investigate how that science went. Protests like those in Sri Lanka against green elites’ policies are becoming more common, even in Europe.

Ferguson’s appointment to replace Leigh Sales as host 7.30 was not universally welcomed. After Ferguson’s three-part June 2018 Four Corners “story of the century” about Russian collusion allegations against former US president Donald Trump, sceptical viewers would have marked her highly had she examined the environmental roots of Sri Lanka’s problems.

The ABC has never corrected the record on that Four Corners blooper, which relied heavily on Barack Obama’s former national security chief James Clapper. Viewers did not know Clapper – a year before speaking with Ferguson – had told a secret hearing of Congress that he had seen no evidence of Trump collusion.

Like other ABC failures this was a case of unconscious bias. Four Corners assumed the US media pack was right about Trump, just as 7.30 never thought to ask about the role of environmentalism in Rajapaksa’s fall. ABC journalists don’t bump in to people who might support Republicans or talk about problems with green pieties. Their biases reflect a lack of political diversity.

Radio National provided two examples of the phenomenon on July 9 and July 10. In 10 segments of Julian Morrow’s Sunday Extra and five of Geraldine Doogue’s Saturday Extra there was no item on the assassination that Friday of former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe. Doogue was on holiday.

ABC insiders blame staff shortages for the oversights. Not good enough. Abe was a close friend of this country and of several of its former prime ministers. His grandfather, Nobusuke Kishe, was the Japanese PM who in 1957 signed a trade pact that has proved the defining trade relationship of post-war Australia. The story made the front of all the main newspapers last Saturday and led websites and TV news bulletins the night before.

One internal ABC critic said this was more than just poor journalism. This critic said the ABC had virtually ignored the death in late 2006 of free market economist Milton Friedman despite running many tributes from left wing economists only six months earlier when John Kenneth Galbraith died. The critic said the ABC virtually ignored the death of Singapore’s founding father Lee Kwan Yew in 2015 but eulogised Cuban dictator Fidel Castro when he died in 2016. The critic asked what this column imagined RN would do if something happened to Jacinda Ardern and to reflect on the importance of Abe versus Ardern.

Another ABC staffer defended the RN programs, suggesting the oversight reflected reticence of younger journalists to pivot quickly from stories that had been planned. Of course that pivot is exactly what all the newspapers and TV channels did a day earlier.

Both RN programs opted for a foreign story they just could not resist: the fall of Boris Johnson. For the ABC, Johnson is a figure almost as sinister as Trump or Scott Morrison.

Yet both RN programs regularly carry live interviews and could have accommodated Abe coverage if anyone had thought the assassination of the former PM of a major ally in a country with no history of gun crime was a good story. Apparently it occurred to no one.

Sex on Fire, featuring the Alpenhorn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzGkoqmfcuM

Hi Swimmer! Long time no sea.

In the meritocracy, no-one gives a stuff if you have a mullet.

And if you must have one, make sure it’s a beauty.

He wins.

I wonder if he’s tested the beer holding capacity yet.

I wonder if he’s tested the beer holding capacity yet.

Calli, Cam Smith reckons he was too rooted to get legless last night. But, like the near-year-long Melbourne Cup tour, he promises to let people outside of friends and family enjoy a beer out of the cup.

Cam Smith is a reminder of what Australian used to be like before it was taken over by the dregs.

the guff about stiff upper lip is just that.

Watching m0nty-fa LARPing as a latter day neo-con Churchill would be laughable, if it were not so tragic.

m0nty-fa, words of advice, producing modern munitions, in quantity, is rather more technically and industrially difficult than running a fantasy football website. Stay in your lane.

Sex on Fire, featuring the Alpenhorn.

Sounds like bones being played with by monkeys.
Interesting similarity.
Could an alpenhorn turn into a spaceship?
Saw the movie at the cinema fifty years ago. Mindblowing.

Eyrie:

R-36M2 ‘Voevoda’ (SS-18 Mod 5/6)
The Mod 5 and Mod 6 (‘Voevoda’) entered into service in 1988, and only the Mod 6 remains operational as of 2016. The Mod 5 contained a single re-entry vehicle with an 8 MT warhead and an accuracy of 500 m CEP, with a range is 16,000 km.
The Mod 6 has 10 MIRV, with each warhead having a 500-750 kT yield and an accuracy of 500 m CEP. The range is 11,000 km. It uses two tiers on its instrument section to house its 10 MIRVs. 11 The Mod 5 and Mod 6 both received improved protection against nuclear warhead effects, improved decoys and penetration aids, increased MIRV coverage, and a rapid re-targeting capability. 12

I think the Mod 5 with the 8Mt single warhead would do just fine in creating Lake Canbra.

But Mabo, a legal decision re settled land tenure by local indigines in the Torres Strait islands was then misinterpreted to extend to continental Australia.

I don’t buy that completely, it is the type of tenure that mattered.

Don’t forget a year later we had the NTA after some states wanted to limit land rights to an extent.

Gove predated Mabo, whilst Mabo has problems, there is some merit in land rights.

The NTA is riddled with problems.

1. Settle all claims ASAP.
2. Remove the communist framework of NT.

Everyone wins.

Just watched some of the debates on who is to be the new British PM — the set reminded me of the one used for The Weakest Link

Anthony Albanese’s government warns Australia that bad news is coming – and it’s going to impact YOUR wages and mortgage
It may be news for Elbow and Jim, but most Australians have been dealing with a cost of living crisis for six months now.

Not to mention the Victorian vax mandate employment crisis 6 months before that…

mUnter, dabbling in the economics of military logistics again:

It’s been a while since the Blitz, but I reckon the Brits remember a thing or two about bunkering down for a long war

Do you mean:

1. Losing a third of their fighting manpower and half their equipment in Europe; then
2. Living in rubble while they ran out of fighter pilots; then
3. Rationing food and other day-to-day items and having to turn their lights out at night; and
4. Having to send their children away to the countryside, away from military and/or manufacturing targets; then
5. After four years, only having a crack after other countries supplied 75% of the manpower and materiel required to do so; then
6. Remaining reliant on those other countries for food and industry for fifteen years after the war ended, and for security over 80 years later?

‘Bunkering down’ like that?

the Los Angeles Times has discovered that they could “contaminate groundwater with toxic heavy metals such as lead, selenium and cadmium.”

I know of someone who’s first step when this mess started was to establish a small company specialising in solar panel safe disposal, at exorbitant prices.

Solar Panels are the new asbestos.

It’s been a while since the Blitz, but I reckon the Brits remember a thing or two about bunkering down for a long war

For the record my grandad told my granny that he was a night watchman during the Blitz.
He had to because of the Official Secrets Act.
What he was really doing was working on nukes. He was a chemical engineer.
My granny never knew.
Mum and I have pieced the story together.

If they hadnt had such an abysmal performance in the winter war with Finland …

Rubbish.
The Finns were on the brink of collapse after only 100 days and sued for peace.
They ended up settling for what the Soviet Union had demanded in 1939 anyway, and
it cost them 40,000 men that they couldn’t afford to lose.

the Los Angeles Times has discovered that they could “contaminate groundwater with toxic heavy metals such as lead, selenium and cadmium.”

Golly, that’s terrible. I think I have a piece of pure cadmium and a vial of pure selenium powder in my loungeroom. I don’t bother keeping lead, our company produced several hundred thousand tonnes of it a year. Also I cast hundreds of lead sinkers for my dad when I was a kid. I like lead metallurgy, he likes fishing.

The selenium is from a selenium refinery which operated for some years in Marrickville in Sydney. The cadmium is from some electrolytic runs in our lab in Ncl. I’m almost certainly going to die horribly.

Should be hunkering down, surely.

I doubt if any of our VCs was an angel-in-waiting.

That’s a silly statement.
Regardless of the outcome of the Trial, Roberts-Smith has shown himself to be a First Class arsehole.
If any other Aussie VC winner matched that, i’d be surprised.

Vicki

I doubt if any of our VCs was an angel-in-waiting.

Albert Jacka, the first Australian awarded a VC in WW I, latere received an MC for an action during which he was cut off by a German counter-attack. He had to break past the advancing Germans to reach the Australian lines, but had several German prisoners with him.

Reasoning that if he released the Germans, then they would grab their discarded weapons and shoot him, he shot them first, then broke past the advancing German counter-attack and returned to the Australian lines.

The MC was for other actions that day, not for shooting the prisoners.

Ed.

Arseholes win wars.

Some very articulate Sri Lankan’s describing how government fucked them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEh0GBB-bh0

Bruce O’Newk:
Tube Alloys – now there’s a blast from the past.
It just released a lot of memories of the early days of the project…

It is on record that Andrew Hastie, who served in Afghanistan, regarded BRS as an unyieldingly tough superior officer.

It appears that most of Hastie’s opinion of BRS was formed as a result of BRS’s “reputation” (i.e. gossip and second hand stories) and a dream that Hastie had.

Mr Hastie also told the court he had “dreams” about Mr Roberts-Smith in which they had killed an Australian troop and “covered it up”.

The MP said he believed the dream was a metaphor for a “deep truth” about “what we had done to ourselves” in Afghanistan. (The West Australian, today)

Hastie had my admiration for his success in becoming an SAS soldier, his family life, and apparently conservative values. In taking rumour and innuendo to court, he lost my support.
(Not that support is important to him of course. Just another event confirming my distrust of the SFLs.)

Just checked a few of the other national online rags. No mention of this (the NT News):

POLICE have found a firearm near the bodies of a baby and two adults at a Central Australian outstation.

Northern Territory Police confirmed the bodies of a 41-year-old man, a 40-year-old woman and an infant were located at a house in the small community north of Alice Springs on Sunday.

“Police located a firearm at the scene and we are treating this as a domestic violence incident,” said Acting Commander Mark Grieve.

Word is that a bloke with a truly shit history of domestic violence shot his missus and infant child, before shooting himself – thus saving endless amounts of taxpayer cash.

I have no idea why a domestic violence double murder and suicide wasn’t mentioned further afield.

Commander Grieve said the Community Resilience and Engagement Command team, including the Aboriginal Liaison Officers, were providing integral community engagement and support to those involved.

Oh. Oh, right.

rickw:

Only the foundry and the refinery to go!

What the Hell are you up to now?
Going into business against BHP?

What the Hell are you up to now?
Going into business against BHP?

Na, just self sufficiency!

Salvatore:

J.C. Fester, it’s not like we haven’t seen where your deductive reasoning leads to quite often . At your “level” of deductive ability, your grandpa could end up being Churchill or Roosevelt.Bill Clinton even. Go to bed.

What a stupid comment.

You expect any better from the vicious little shit?

rickw Could you rip some 150 mm Oregon with that new-dangled gadget of yours ?

Tube Alloys – now there’s a blast from the past.
It just released a lot of memories of the early days of the project…

Winston – My grandad and Oliphant were mates at Birmingham.

See if you can spot him in the photo… 😀

Says “Birmingham University Senior Training Corps, Royal Engineer Section, Clitheroe 1942.”

(Btw my PC background graphic is various moons.)

The selenium is from a selenium refinery which operated for some years in Marrickville in Sydney.

Don’t some shampoos contain selenium?

Selenium sulfide.

The (elemental) selenium refinery was the effort of Lakshman Jayaweera, a fine guy. He took an old process developed by the Russians and applied it to a selenium residue produced by the Cockle Creek zinc smelter. He put the residue through that process in a shed in Marrickville, producing highly purified Se for sale to the international market. Awesome guy: for a long time he had an ASX company called Hydromet. He and I are the same under the skin, only he’s braver and crazier.

One day I got a phone call from Lakshman. He says “I’ve just bought 20,000 tonnes of residue containing 20% lead, how do I get the lead out of it?”

I says: “dunno”. (A conversation about very anal metallurgy then ensued.)

I still don’t know what he did with his pile of lead residue, but I figure he worked out some sort of money-making idea. That was his way.

They’ve obviously forgotten 3 million cranky Russian soldiers, and over a thousand bombers dropping shit on them every day, haven’t they?
“We’re Facing The Biggest Crisis The Country Has Ever Had”: President Of German Employers’ Association Warns Of Historic Crisis Over Russian Gas Cut”
And you did it to yourselves, you stupid, stupid, people.

Ed- Mong considers losses of 5-1 in men and massively more in material and finally signing a treaty to gain 10% of the country you wanted to take over a victory.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War

Napoleon eat your heart out.