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.
Warren Brown.
Labor pollie blasts media for being PC?
The shock death of a mother and baby at the hands of her violent partner has plunged a community into mourning and a prompted a furious tirade from an MP.
Northern Territory Police confirmed the bodies of a 41-year-old man, 40-year-old woman and a baby were found at a property 25km north of Alice Springs about 2.45pm on Sunday.
It is understood the man shot his partner and baby before he turned the gun on himself, with police confirming a firearm was found at the location and that the family was known to territory authorities.
‘If this was a white woman and her child on the eastern sea board this would have been (national) front page news,’ Northern Territory Police Minister Kate Worden said on Thursday.
‘It wasn’t… So if it’s a race based issue, then let’s call it as it is.’
NT Police Minister Kate Worden (pictured) has demanded more be done to battle domestic violence in the Northern Territory
Daily Mail Australia covered the tragedy as news broke on Sunday night.
‘This is an Aboriginal family. They are Territorians. And they have been subject to domestic violence,’ Ms Worden continued.
More at the Daily Mail
Christian Adams.
Peter Brookes.
Dave Brown.
Michael Ramirez.
Lisa Benson.
Gary Varvel.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks, Tom.
Spend more time on what it is to be ‘conservative’ then.
I think you’ll find yourself a minority of one in the end.
Garrison is correct – it’s the USA that is riddled with cancer, and radical surgery will be necessary.
The amount of government intervention in us agriculture is mind blowing so I’ve been told
My Fil, grew up Catholic went to Catholic schools. He is classically liberal.
He takes care of his blind wife works part time, volunteers for meals on weals plus dose diy work for fellow elderly neighbours.
Also have a best friend that is Conservative but not interested religion who hase spent his retirement helping other’s.
Just two of many I am privileged to know
So Dover if it’s a choice between theorists/ internet activists and them.
It will be them.
The rottenness of US as has been revealed over the last 5 years is horrifying
Woops, Italy’s government has crashed again.
EU crisis as Italy parliament dissolves following outgoing Draghi’s double resignation (21 Jul)
Must’ve been painful for the right in the “unity government” which was run by the far-left: with mandatory vaccination with serious penalties, floods of country shoppers and nutso regulations. So no surprise they didn’t come to the party to keep the wretched beast alive.
Top Ender:
Perhaps if Kate Worden was to do her frigging job and stop making excuses for the violence by locking up the violent ones, and stop with all the woke bullshit, the frequency of these acts would drop.
Either that or we just walk away from the mess and let ’em rip. This violence is community violence and it takes the community to stop it.
That’s interesting Bespoke as my extended family is mostly lefty as all get out, thanks to indoctrination at school and Uni, always helping others but only if those concerned are willing to help themselves which I think actually makes them conservative. I know that sounds a contradiction but they subscribe to every left scam going but in practice their private lives are very conservative. Hope springs eternal.
Haha, what’s Spanish for digitus impudicus?
EU bust-up brews as Spain rebels against energy masterplan to scupper Putin (21 Jul)
The pipeline from Algeria goes through Spain, so she can cheerfully give the EC a finger-salute.
Mattei for Putin
Sun Tzu Art of War 2022 revised edition say : Never openly support the enemy of the country that controls your energy resources.
2017 revised edition say : Never allow your probable main enemy to be your main supplier of energy. That edition was the one with the foreward by well known military strategist Donald Trump.
Failed link from Telegam re Mattei wearing a Putin image and freaking out the globo homos.
1981 revised edition say:
How Europe Got Hooked on Russian Gas Despite Reagan’s Warnings
Technical note: supported by the majors in the upstream oil and gas industry; the second tier and minnows supported Reagan.
The arrogance of the EU/German stupidity-industrial complex would choke a brown dog.
And Peter Khalil jumps in.
I blame all of ewes stupid politicians.
Victoria, in fact, it’s a gas
Free market economics is a fine thing.
Colorado marijuana prices at record lows (21 Jul)
The fun bit is the governments who legalized it, taxed it and gave themselves a monopoly on sale. Then defunded the police. Whereupon they proceeded to actually lose money selling weed to people as everyone with a watering can suddenly developed green thumbs, as there was no way a grower was going to be prosecuted in the New Stoner Age.
I don’t know what your point is here, bespoke. In my comment above, I’m saying that the Liberals simply have forgotten how to appeal to conservative Labor voters and you’ve gone and interpreted this as me asking you to choose between “theorists/ internet activists and your FiL/best friend”? Strange.
If they went large on every such story, how long before dear Kate blasted the media for painting the local indigenous personnel in a bad light?
No, Mattei for Spain.
Maybe Bespoke your FIL ‘s capacity to be charitable rests on the bedrock of his Catholic upbringing.
Sorry for the intrusion this morning Tom!
Snork.
The Sal Grover “Birthing Parent” scandal is a fitting epitaph for the Morrison government. This shows how utterly useless, craven, spineless and cowardly the Liberals were in power under Morrison. When it came to the culture wars, they stood for nothing, they fought nothing, they gave into everything. So much for having a federal right of centre government. I believe Greg Hunt was just a imbecilic prop, who was always happy to agree and parrot everything that his progressive bureaucratic minders told him. Remember, this “Birthing Parent” nonsense was given the green light by a supposed Liberal government. It took a Labor minister yesterday to rightly put the kybosh on it. Now before anyone accuses me of being a shill for Bill Shorten, I’m not but at least he had the sense to quickly refute it and to speak up about it. If we still had a Liberal government, rather than deal with the ludicrous notion of “Birthing Parents”, most ministers would be trying to hide and scum like Rent Zimmerboy, Karma Sharma, Jason Foolinsky, Katie “I love Obama” Allan and Fiona “call the police on constituents” Martin would be screeching and screaming about how Sal Grover is a transphobe.
My God….good riddance to them, they are not missed.
This is correct.
The EU are the enemy of Europeans and this is the war they are waging.
But like here, many still believe their governments are not the enemy of the people they pretend to represent.
This is a war against the people by their own governments, controlled by globalists.
Many still speak as if national governments and their people are still one.
Says the Jabbed C…t.
JC.
Absolutely no self awareness.
ABC trumpeting the latest ‘social housing’.
Women living communally, no-one ever did that before.
it’s a thing ‘middle women’
I agree that the birthing parent box needed to be struck off entirely… but i’m not convonced that the timing isn’t perfect cover for what should have been the death knell for Victorian Labor (Quisling Guy notwithstanding).
I’d also guess that there’s plenty of nonbinary preferredpronouns samesexnonbirthingparent guff in many other forms, communication guidelines, discussion papers and woke antiwhite workshops. It’s looking way short of a proper purge at this stage.
That’s the whole point, isn’t it?
One Simple Graph Shows Why Biden’s ‘Climate Emergency’ Would Be Worse Than Useless
Democrat Susan Wild Wants to Reeducate Trump-Supporting Constituents
the constitution has been rooted
CNN director on the pivot to climate activism
meet the new fear, same as the old fear
I don’t know, my casual observation picking up grandchildren is child care is mostly pretty relaxed and slow pace.
child care strike
Wasn’t birthing parent on the forms at just three hospitals?
My daughter didn’t run into it in QLD in June.
Never contemplates for a second the elections are completely corrupted.
Counting going on for days…spare me.
Compulsory preferential idiocy…
But even though he knows nothing about the true will of the people, gullibility being his forte, the jabbed JC …(probably believes they voted for Biden in the US), ….he wishes them hardship he knows he’ll probably be able to deal with because mumma and pappa set him up in their business.
A fucking creep of mammoth proportions.
Late stages of a declining empire….
Oh and thoughts and prayers for Brandon – already on Remdesivir I hope!
I notice that even the Greenfilth Fleas (those normally happy to ride on the Liars party’s arse via upper house/senate seats used to ram through their radical social agenda with Liars government support) have had a gutful of Fuhrer Andrews. Crikey’s Bernard Keane:
Paxlovid.
And just like that….the ABC is interested in antivirals for the elderly.
How the “Vaccine” Affects the Body, What Corporate Media Will Never Tell You
The thing about our kindly leftie family members is pretty much universal. They are kind and thoughtful and give of themselves. Many are involved in organisations that do make a difference to the lives of those in need. And of course they are loveable – they are family after all.
Everyone who isn’t a sociopath is charming and kindly given the right circumstances. It’s when the leftie/woke ideology is put to the test that the true character emerges, and perhaps in a way these ideologies rot away the innate kindliness from the inside so that all that remains is a superficial shell.
I have watched this happen many…many times. It happened during the SSM debate, and more recently the Covid “crisis”. The things written to and about non-compliant family members made the hair stand on end. It changes your perception – how can it not? My loyalty and love for these people has not changed, because family. But I tend to give them a wide berth when the conversation turns.
lotocotisays:
July 22, 2022 at 8:31 am
Snork.
President Trump is amazing – love his final para
“Joe, I wish you a speedy recovery, even though you are taking America in the wrong direction. No one wants Kamala!”
Covid Injections contain Potassium Chloride which is Contraindicated for Cardiac Disorders
Every time I see Brandon I imagine Tiberius.
Good grief – do we get Caligula next?
They are absolutely determined to ramp up this war.
Air Force general says U.S. and allies ARE considering sending an array of fighter jets to Ukraine and give pilots accelerated training to ramp up Western involvement against Russia
Rosie a religious upbringing does not confer a life of goodness. Observation of those around us and how we and others are treated has far more input. Children know what hypocrisy is by others actions before they know it is a word. If we don’t treat others as we expect to be treated ourselves don’t be surprised by the reaction.
Birthing parent is just a woeful replacement for the word mother.
I suppose non birthing parent would have replaced the word father.
Would children then be taught to call their parents nonbirthing and birthing?
No.
In reality birthing parents with beards insist that their children call them daddy to make sure the next generation is even more screwed up than they are.
Rita panahi also putting the boots into birthing parent. Paywalled at herald sun.
Still winning people over to The Cause, I see.
Now, good……..getting there……why do they cave?
a) Just gutless
b) Infiltrated by globalists.
This idea that the Australian Greens is a ferocious political beast that the Liberal party must cower to is so fucking stupid you’d have to be a moron to believe it.
They know there is more votes in opposing them.
There are more votes in Dams, power stations and jobs.
Always has been, always will be.
But they have allowed none of this to occur for decades.
Your votes mean nothing.
You mean nothing.
You are an annoyance that needs to be destroyed while they take your personal wealth.
If you think the Libs are just spineless, you are gullible and part of the problem.
You and I are just the shit that needs to be kept silent, kept in the dark, while they get paid off to destroy the joint.
They get paid off or knocked off.
It may be that any mania or fixation, regardless of political affiliation, has the potential to bring out the very worst in people.
Caligula would be good Calli as long as the demise is the same for the Thief in Chief.
Different planes are just like different cars.
Once you’ve figured out the intermittent wipers and the radio, you’re good to go.
Right?
Warthogs for Ukraine.
rosiesays:
July 22, 2022 at 8:39 am
ABC trumpeting the latest ‘social housing’.
Women living communally, no-one ever did that before.
it’s a thing ‘middle women’
And as a group of mostly lesbian women, Ms Chenery said most of them did not have children to look after them as they aged.
“Some of us don’t have family and need to think about how we’re going to thrive as an older person,” she said.
She said COVID-19 lockdowns showed a lot of people that living away from their community was mentally damaging.
Census data from 2021, released in June, revealed 15 per cent of those who live alone have a mental health condition such as anxiety or depression.
In comparison, only 8 per cent of people living with family and 7 per cent of those who live in a household with two or more families have a mental health condition.
Actually a good concept – as someone lucky enough to live with my wife, youngest daughter, son-in-law, grandkids 7/8/9 – 5/8/10 years and neurotic 15 month female beagle (and hopefully no snake) under one roof, it is a great idea
Each of the 29 households has their own small apartment, with bedrooms, bathrooms, small kitchens and living spaces.
Shared spaces for the development include a kitchen and dining area — where residents will cook and share communal meals — laundry, guest rooms, outdoor spaces, music room and workshop.
With the number of adults around the place, there is usually someone to look after kids Kobe and Austin, meaning the family can save on childcare costs.
“There were five or six adults with the two kids the other day, and they did some painting and then colouring,” Ms Sanders said.
CCP is worried for the Growing Storm: 1M home buyers stop paying mortgages for unfinished properties
China Insights
The waves of people halting payments on mortgages for unfinished buildings have spread to 25 provinces in China. As of July 16th, the number of developments that have been issued a “notice of being forced to stop mortgage payments by all homeowners” has expanded to 25 provinces and 286 residential projects across China.
The China Banking Regulatory Commission responded by working with the construction sector and the Communist Party’s central bank to support local governments in their efforts to “ensure the delivery of buildings, people’s livelihood, and stability”. On the same day, more than ten banks, including six major banks, a number of joint-stock banks, and city merchant banks issued announcements, all saying that the risk of unfinished buildings was “controllable.”
How’s that gerbil worming going for you????????????
Spending programmes and the Emissions Trading Scheme together cost around £300, while green levies – mostly subsidies to renewables – are adding another £350.
Renewable energy also imposes a range of indirect costs as businesses pass on their costs to consumers, which may add up to another £600. Finally, there is a significant cost due to the constraints put on fossil fuel extraction in the UK.
Together, these figures add up to more than £2000 per household, a figure that will rise sharply as Net Zero plans moves to more problematic sectors of the economy.
https://www.netzerowatch.com/content/uploads/2022/07/NetZero-Costsheet.pdf?mc_cid=d2c2c1e5cf&mc_eid=30fe4a4429
Ranga I wasn’t suggesting lip service would create goodness but a Catholic upbringing ought to instill virtues such as charity so that even a rejected Catholic faith could still underpin how you treat others as an adult.
I see Warren Brown, at least, hasn’t forgotten Elbow’s cheaper electricity promise, unlike the Canberra press gallery &, apparently, Albanese himself.
Meanwhile, Greg Combet was on ABC RN this morning saying certainty of supply must trump ideology via a compacity mechanism imposed upon generators (already on AEMO’s drawing board, I believe). However, this will do nothing to address the cost of electricity.
ABC RN then cut to a renewables spruiker who said this would only delay the inevitable exit of coal from the game. Helpfully, they didn’t ask him how ruinables would guarantee reliability of supply.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
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How is the Orban government undemocratic?
He was elected democratically, with a parliamentary majority. No one in Hungary claims the election was rigged in any way.
Could it be, Mr. Verhofstadt, that a country is “democratic” only when it does what you and your paymasters want?
The simple answer is yes. Just like in America when Pelosi, Clinton etc. constantly talk about “their” democracy being undermined whenever anyone disagrees with them.
Old Ozzie
My point was men and women, generally separately, have successfully lived in community for centuries.
Some people call them convents and monasteries.
Multi generational households are also as old as humanity.
If you are convinced you are saving humanity/the planet, those who demur are bad people.
Coal is dead, long live coal.
LONDON, July 21 (Reuters) – Global coal-fired electricity generators are producing more power than ever before in response to booming electricity demand and the surging price of gas.
The world’s coal-fired generators produced a record 10,244 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2021 surpassing the previous record of 10,098 TWh set in 2018 (“Statistical review of world energy”, BP, July 2022).
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/global-2021-coal-fired-electricity-generation-surges-record-high-2022-07-21/?mc_cid=aa4c7b8ac5&mc_eid=30fe4a4429
Corruption concerns involving Ukraine are revived as the war with Russia drags on
July 20, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s dismissal of senior officials is casting an inconvenient light on an issue that the Biden administration has largely ignored since the outbreak of war with Russia: Ukraine’s history of rampant corruption and shaky governance.
As it presses ahead with providing tens of billions of dollars in military, economic and direct financial support aid to Ukraine and encourages its allies to do the same, the Biden administration is now once again grappling with longstanding worries about Ukraine’s suitability as a recipient of massive infusions of American aid.
But Zelenskyy’s weekend firings of his top prosecutor, intelligence chief and other senior officials have resurfaced those concerns and may have inadvertently given fresh attention to allegations of high-level corruption in Kyiv made by one outspoken U.S. lawmaker.
It’s a delicate issue for the Biden administration. With billions in aid flowing to Ukraine, the White House continues to make the case for supporting Zelenskyy’s government to an American public increasingly focused on domestic issues like high gas prices and inflation. High-profile supporters of Ukraine in both parties also want to avoid a backlash that could make it more difficult to pass future aid packages.
Still, in October and then again in December 2021, as the U.S. and others were warning of the increasing potential for a Russian invasion, the Biden administration was calling out Zelenskyy’s government for inaction on corruption that had little or nothing to do with Russia.
“The EU and the US are greatly disappointed by unexplained and unjustifiable delays in the selection of the Head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Office, a crucial body in the fight against high-level corruption,” the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv said on Oct. 9.
The administration and high-profile lawmakers have avoided public criticism of Ukraine since Russia invaded in February. The U.S. has ramped up the weapons and intelligence it’s providing to Ukraine despite early concerns about Russia’s penetration of the Ukrainian government and existing concerns about corruption.
A Ukrainian-born congresswoman who came to prominence early in the war recently broke that unofficial silence.
But in recent weeks, Spartz has accused Zelenskyy of “playing politics” and alleged his top aide Andriy Yermak had sabotaged Ukraine’s defense against Russia.
She’s also repeatedly called on Ukraine to name the anti-corruption prosecutor, blaming Yermak for the delay.
What’s a compacity mechanism?
I’m pleased to see guarantee of supply trumps ideology for some on the left.
Though I’m pretty sure teals (and Monty) are prepared to forgo supply in this climate emergency.
Really?
Can you think of any examples?
Gonzalo Lira with 3 guests, 2 with a military background and 1 historian.
Roundtable #3: Armchair Warlord, HistoryLegends, The New Atlas
And some reject Catholic teaching but still claim to be virtuous.
The very worst kind.
Do unto others, hey Frau Nazi-pass?
Wittgenstein
@backtolife_2023
The UN-Forum Partnership was signed in a meeting between UN Secretary-General António Guterres and World Economic Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab to accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
I don’t subscribe to your religion and feel no obligation to follow the commandments of st ruth.
Adverse events in 5 to 11 year olds
Dr. John Campbell
Roger touched on one – The Planet “Savers”
Covid – “To vaxx or not to vaxx” is another
Russia – Ukraine
Everyone appears to have clear, well defined views on them. Meanwhile…here I am, as usual.
It’s complicated.
I looked up Dr John Campbell.
He’s a phd, not a medical doctor, isn’t he?
Agreed Rosie, the keyword being “ought”.
It’s so absolutely shocking to think that fear can make people so incredibly stupid, Indolent.
First the gullibility to believe the media, get sucked in, and now having to admit they were wrong.
Well, that’s never going to happen.
People will fight to the death before admitting fault.
Especially if their gullibility and absolute ignorant stupidity in taking injections from those wishing them dead means admitting what the consequences of their actions have been.
Those at war with us and our minds MUST have people denying truth.
Once that happens, those populations are lost.
Conclusions based on lies are inevitably wrong.
And no jabbed moron is going to admit what they have done to themselves and their nation by getting jabbed.
It will never happen for most.
The flow on consequences of this stubborn human trait will be catastrophic if they won’t accept they were done over.
I have a clear view on the war in the Ukraine.
End it now.
Vaccines Are Destroying People’s Immunity Through ‘Immune Imprinting’: Dr. Robert Malone | Teaser
So, get ready for a ‘rebound’ announcement in 5,4,3,2,1
And here we have a perfect example of straw clutching by the jabbed ,…unsurprisingly, and such an obvious example of my last comment, only too ready to take the advice of the TGA, who are headed by somebody who has as much medical expertise as Humphrey Bear.
too late, right?
He is a longtime nurse educator, presumably with a higher degree. I have been watching him for 2 years and he is generally very good with the science, albeit a bit too ready to toe the government line and promote soft lefty ‘safety’ ideas without any regard to the competing forces of liberty, free will, the economy etc…
I’d take Humphrey Bear’s medical advice over yours and all every single one of the trusted internet doctors combined.
Well…yes. That is clear enough.
How?
You feel no obligation to follow any religious dictate, this is well known.
But you may be somewhat confused.
“Do unto others” has nothing to do with me.
Who said it, Notaclue?
Do you think he might be upset with you ignoring it and then claiming a mere Queenslander said it?
Yes, Campbell has a phd, as I mentioned.
I’ve never watched a single one of his videos, nor do I plan to.
That’s obvious.
A capacity mechanism puts a value on capacity…in a nutshell, paying coal fired generators to stay open to ensure a reliable supply until such time as ruinables can consistently meet demand. That is, until the twelfth of never.
rosiesays:
July 22, 2022 at 9:12 am
Old Ozzie
My point was men and women, generally separately, have successfully lived in community for centuries.
Some people call them convents and monasteries.
Multi generational households are also as old as humanity.
rosie,
apologies, I was not criticising, having grown up in a female single household, as my father died when I was 14 months old, I know the loneliness of a single female and feel empathy for the lesbian women, or any single female who has not married, as they approach old age
The joy of children in a household is something wonderful.
As a Catholic had a great education by Marist Brothers and 5 of my mates went into the priesthood – the only remaining one still a priest, baptised my youngest grandson 5 years ago, and have visited many convents and monasteries and seen their way of communal life (never got on with the Nuns)
Funnily enough, we last stayed in a Working Monastery (https://www.monasterystays.com/) at the northern end of the cinque terre in 2017, we were glassed off from the working part of the Monastery but could watch the Brothers going about their daily prayers and hear them singing, and for my wife and my Irish Ex-Chairman’s wife who were with us, have a church attached was a bonus
Are you suggesting that you are now God’s appointed representative st ruth?
That doesn’t surprise me but
like I said I don’t ascribe to your religion.
Climate czar John Kerry accused of hypocrisy over private jet emissions
“rosiesays:
July 22, 2022 at 8:47 am
Wasn’t birthing parent on the forms at just three hospitals?
My daughter didn’t run into it in QLD in June.”
Yes…….but even one hospital is one too many and the fact that it was being trialled shows just how inept the Morrison government was.
I feel sorry for them too old Ozzie.
It was really the ABC trumpeting this fantastic new concept that I was having a go at.
Morrison as I think you mentioned was just hurtling us off the precipice in slomo tion.
Vandana Shiva: “THIS Is Bill Gates’s Farming Agenda”
Russell Brand
Anti-Gay Telescope Tyranny!
As we know, the sum total of human scientific endeavor must be judged by the question: Is it good for the gays?
You think: that just has to be the Babylon Bee, right? Nope — it’s part of the Microsoft News network, same as MSNBC. From the story:
Homophobic Telescope Reveals First Hi-Res Images of Deep Space
NASA has shared the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) first high-resolution images of deep space, including some galaxies pictured 13 billion years ago—not long after the Big Bang. But despite this remarkable achievement for science, the JWST continues to stand as a bitter reminder of our country’s willingness to tolerate and even memorialize queerphobia.
The JWST first came under controversy last year when it came to light that its namesake, James Webb, oversaw the Lavender Scare during his tenure as NASA’s second administrator. The Lavender Scare was a McCarthy-era moral panic in which suspected queer employees were exposed and purged from government positions.
what it shows is the bugmen of the public service are a law unto themselves
Not for the convinced.
I’d just throw little spanners in their works and leave it at that.
Eventually the cognitive dissonance builds up to a point that demands resolution.
Yes, that was a point I made yesterday evening.
Ministers don’t sign off on the content of forms.
Here Are the Senior Biden Officials Entangled in Durham’s Criminal Russiagate Probe
By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations
July 21, 2022
Several individuals connected to a 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign plot to cast Donald Trump as a covert Kremlin collaborator are working in high-level jobs within the Biden administration – including at least two senior Biden appointees cited by Special Counsel John Durham in his “active (and) ongoing” criminal investigation of the scheme, according to recently filed court documents.
Jake Sullivan, who now serves as Biden’s national security adviser, and Caroline Krass, a top lawyer at the Pentagon, were involved in efforts in 2016 and 2017 to advance the Clinton campaign’s false claims about Trump through the media and the federal government, documents show. Other evidence shows that two other Biden officials – senior State Department official Dafna Rand and Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler – also are entangled in the so-called Russiagate scandal.
It’s not known whether these Biden appointees have been interviewed by Durham’s investigators. But as the probe widens, some government ethics watchdogs anticipate that Biden’s presidency could be pulled into the scandal, which saw the FBI abuse its surveillance powers to spy on a Trump campaign adviser based on Clinton opposition research.
Republican sources say that the roles played in Russiagate by Krass, Sullivan, Rand, and Gensler may be among the first to draw attention in hearings. Although the full range of their efforts has not been made public,
here’s what is known so far.
From Westprint Maps
It was one small shirt for a man, one giant leap backward for womankind.
That’s why I ask lots of questions. To which I genuinely don’t have an answer. If they’re seen as spanners so be it.
The answer, is there is one, is always interesting.
After many years of you twisting things and lying to get yourself out of the shit you always drop yourself in by being you, do you think this crap still works?
Or could you ever contemplate how you make people cringe with shit like this?
The polite ones who just prefer to recoil in horror at your emotional idiocies (blurted out with zero self awareness) without comment?
What am I saying?
Look who I’m asking.
Mak Siccarsays:
July 22, 2022 at 9:50 am
From Westprint Maps
Phyllis Diller may be gone but her legacy lives on. Here are some of her one-liners.
Mak – the Winner
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age. As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
Meanwhile, Time magazine last week ran an online poll of words that should be retired from the English language. The winner — by an enormous margin — was “feminist.” That’s fitting. With this sort of behavior in mind, it’s no surprise that so many people feel that feminism has passed its sell-by date.
Indeed it is. Mainstream Australia is not allowed to comment on such cases in anyway (unless to blame themselves) when the perpetrator is an Aborigine or they are a product of those buzzing middens called ‘Remote Communities’.
And the reasons for that lie with the activists and spivs in the Aboriginal industry (black and white – although the whites pretend to be black) who do so at the great cost to ordinary Aborigines and in the service of their own agenda.
But we can’t talk about that either.
Both true statements.
But scumboi politicians are quite happy to score 10¢ wins by reacting to the media reaction to the bugman-wokeness.
Hi Bill…
Questions are good.
Even if you don’t have the answer, it can prompt them to explore their presuppositions, such as “the science is settled”, and engage in critical thinking.
Some dead white guy came up with this method.
(Again, as I said yesterday)…it proves one thing, at least:
Shorten has learned from 2019 that you can’t afford to piss off the normies. At the end of the day, they still outnumber the noisy minorities.
Fun fact: in my own ‘Bob Brown’ moment, as a junior ED doc, I once treated a patient who gave his occupation as ‘Humphrey B Bear’ and his next of kin as ‘Patsy Biscoe’… and BOTH were true!
‘It’s Easier to Fool People Than to Convince Them That They Have Been Fooled’: Mark Twain
Yes, Campbell has a phd, as I mentioned.
I’ve never watched a single one of his videos, nor do I plan to.
Showing off how proud you are of your deliberate ignorance. Not a good look.
I don’t know. Women can wield a pipette as good as a bloke and that’s why we say the inseminating pipette parent, so why not birthing parent?
Wow.
I fear its the opposite, eventually the cognitive dissonance builds up to the point where the mistake is ‘too big to fail’ …. then, the only solution IS failure, not epiphany.
Abbott for all his failings would probably still be PM now is it wasn’t for the Trumble and his fellow rats.
I’m pretty sure I’m not a “jabbed moron”, any more than the unjabbed have some sort of claim on superior intelligence.
But there it is. The human trait of which you speak is to assume that people who think differently are less intelligent, less informed, weaker in some way.
iirc, Matt Taylor’s shirt was made for him by a female friend. He wore it give her business some publicity. Hope she did well out of the feminist screeching.
a dozen phone calls between the cell phone of Ray Epps and the office of Speaker Pelosi in the week before #January6th
Despite all the evidence, Sky News (Daytime crew) is once again not just crossing to the corrupt and unconstitutional committe, but rooting for it in every summary they offer of that day’s events.
Very wise, rosie. Campbell gives you facts and numbers and invites the viewer to think carefully.
You wouldn’t like it.
Campbell has worked in hospitals as a nurse and has written textbooks about, and educated, in nursing. His videos are very good, and bend over backwards to be fair-minded. He very likely has the same level of medical knowledge as a good GP. I hardly ever watch his videos anymore but if he’s raising questions about anything its likely because he finds the evidence comes from a credible source and he finds the argument at least somewhat convincing.
Yes, but most of us aren’t in a position where we can take on mass delusion at the societal level in toto. That’s an uncommon calling.
Most of us only deal with individuals in our circle of family, friends and work.
Winston Smithsays:
July 22, 2022 at 2:24 am
https://americanlookout.com/new-york-citys-democrat-mayor-eric-adams-complains-about-influx-of-migrants-straining-resources-video/
Have you noticed that a lot of Democrats are saying this now that the problem is affecting them?
Someone on the old site said it brilliantly – can’t remember who (sorry) and I may not have the words exactly right:
Margaret Thatcher famously said that the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money. Similarly, the problem with open borders lunacy is that you eventually run out of other people’s neighbourhoods.
Maccas and Checkpoint Charlie – Symbolic?
Jordan Peterson is one I can think of…others?
Yes. The fabric was readily available from quilting stores, if I recall the manufacturer was Alexander Henry. They also had a lot of ones with hunky firemen, carpenters and the like, so it was hardly “sexist”.
Now the range in all its forms has been dropped. They were fun because you could make very…erm…attractive ironing board covers from it. 🙂
Hahahahahaha!
Lizzie, 5.49 p.m. yesterday:
WHAT?
You mean prior to the advancement of relevant medical technology, people were dropping dead of heart attacks? In their 60s? 50s? 40s?
Is this why life expectancy is higher now? Because, pre-stents, people died all the time of heart attacks?
Big if true.
Yes. Yes, indeedy yes they will.
Destroying our songlines. Third tribes didn’t sing, they chanted, same as Pacific Islanders did until the missionaries arrived. Using the word songlines is to make it sound like music. Gifting music to their space program and ocean-going trade.
He very likely may Dover but people seem to present him as an authoritive medical doctor when he isn’t.
His wiki says he worked as a nurse educator.
And as I said watching long winded videos on this and that bores me to tears, I prefer reading.
I made my decision regarding my health, quite some time ago and am very happy to to live with it 🙂
I think most people have already well and truly made their vaccination decisions so the endless squawking is also getting very tedious.
I expect most vaccine predictions to go the way of those made by climateers.
RBA is blindly lifting rates ‘like an inflation nutter’
Martin Place is tying itself up in intellectual knots trying to rationalise a rate hiking cycle based on rubbery forecasts.
The great Aussie housing crash is accelerating, and it is being driven by the fastest and largest interest rate shock households have faced in modern history. Sydney house prices have plunged almost 5 per cent since their peak only months ago, according to CoreLogic. Home values in Melbourne are not far behind.
The value of residential property in Australia’s two largest capital cities is declining rapidly, exceeding one percentage point per month, which signals double-digit losses over the next year (consistent with this column’s forecasts). There is further evidence that the Brisbane market is rolling over. Adelaide and Perth prices also look to be grinding to a halt.
If you draw a line through May 2022, when the Reserve Bank of Australia first lifted rates, you can observe a striking structural break in property prices – there was an almost immediate, and dramatic, impact on the value of bricks and mortar. After promising not to raise rates until 2024, Martin Place broke the back of the market with its decision in May and the threat of much more to come. It has not disappointed: in August the RBA will deliver an unprecedented third, back-to-back 50 basis point rate rise (and possibly more).
Yet if you read The Australian Financial Review’s John Kehoe account, or listen to the RBA, you would be forgiven for thinking there is nothing to see here. The RBA has allegedly “slapped down the pessimists who are concerned that its super-sized interest rate rises will crush the housing market and the economy”. Let me assure you, the RBA ain’t slapped down nuthin.
And I deliver this message in a Connor McGregor-like lexicon.
Hammered households
I would have rephrased that as the droves of unwitting borrowers who were dudded by the RBA’s public commitment to not increase rates until 2024 (at the earliest) are on notice that their mortgage repayments will more than double in the next year or two, thanks to what will shortly be at least 175 basis points worth of interest rate increases in just three months.
In 2020 and 2021, the RBA relentlessly advised families and businesses to borrow as much as possible on the basis of a commitment not to raise rates for years, only to first renege on that promise in 2022 and then embark on a crazy-aggressive tightening cycle that is destroying the value of their most valuable asset (and much more).
The RBA counters it never “promised” not to raise rates. It certainly “committed” not to increase them and made that a promise by explicitly fixing the interest rate on the 2024 government bond at the same 0.1 per cent level as its overnight cash rate. And it spent billions defending the promise—until it suddenly did not in October 2021.
RBA errors
The discombobulation characterising the RBA is manifest everywhere. There was the error in the RBA’s statement after its last board meeting when the central bank incorrectly alleged it was removing cash rate cuts it had put in place following the pandemic – even though the cash rate was already above its pre-pandemic level of 0.75 per cent.
Today’s 1.35 per cent cash rate is above its June 2019 level (nine months before the pandemic). Yet Bullock maintains the RBA is only unwinding stimulus it had put in place after the pandemic.
Asked about this topic again during the week, Bullock responded: “We’re at, as I’ve said, extraordinarily low interest rates, and we’ve got to get it up to some sort of concept of what you might call the ‘neutral interest rate’, which means it’s neither expansionary nor contractionary.”
How can the RBA not know where the neutral rate is, but in the same breath express confidence that it is a “fair bit higher” than 1.35 per cent?
The RBA seems to have lost sight of the impact of the quantum of debt in the economy. While interest repayments as a share of disposable household incomes might appear low, principal repayments are at their highest levels ever. And borrowers pay both.
You cannot examine one in isolation from the other. We therefore care about total debt servicing costs. Based on CBA’s data, the current cash rate puts total household debt repayments as a share of incomes at levels that are higher than normal. This probably explains why many banks, including CBA and Westpac, believe that the RBA’s “neutral” cash rate could be as low as circa 1.5 per cent.
Unsurprisingly, mole, you seem to completely misunderstand the nature of my business.
1) I am not an operator of fantasy games, I merely provide auxiliary content for those who play them.
2) I report primarily on non-gambling fantasy game variants.
3) if the govt cracked down on fantasy gambling like Draftstars it would actually help my business, because it would boost Supercoach and AFL Fantasy, which are my core markets.
Do you get it now?
Won’t have to worry about fighting Knuckles we’re all going to be dead in 8 to how ever many ken said.
Aaaaahaha, this is too good.
Oh lol drbg what a zinger.
Facts and figures about what?
Covid and covid vaccines?
I couldn’t care less.
I would have though my travelling to plague infested Europe last December made that abundantly clear.
But you keep watching those videos, if it helps.
rosie says:
July 22, 2022 at 9:24 am
I looked up Dr John Campbell.
He’s a phd, not a medical doctor, isn’t he?
He has long experience in clinical and hospital nursing as well as nurse education where he obtained his Phd. He is no goose when it comes to matters medical. He, in a very matter of fact manner, sets out the evidence on which his videos are based. Pretty well all his videos are scientifically referenced.
You would do well to give him some of your time.
Yep the eight months count down are the only numbers I care about.
Tick tock.
Retro Tech Noir
@RetroTechNoir
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BREAKING: Freedom of Information Act requests show a dozen phone calls between the cell phone of Ray Epps and the office of Speaker Pelosi in the week before #January6th
Fancy that. Imagine what would happen with an honest MSM.
In nine days it will be another tick of the clock to 8 – 38 months.
Live your lives, people.
Whilst my thoughts are of no interest to you, let me explain why I scroll past you Every. Single. Time.
Once upon a time I enjoyed your focus on the Constitution and your warnings about the power grab by all levels of government.
Now you just deliver ad hom attacks on people whose views differ to you.
No direct attacks on the powerful oligarchs in Australia. No fact checking or detailed analysis of the fools who are implementing social disarray in our country. No concrete arguments in favour of small government and the overthrow of our tyrannical overlords. No point by point takedown of Health Officers’ and Premiers’ lies.
Just generic abuse of the decision makers and an unhealthy quantity of foul words directed at posters with similar mindsets to your own.
You remind me of WolfmanOz’s film clip of General Custer abusing his own men because they were losing the battle of Little Big Horn. You are both delusional.
If you turned to fact-based abuse of the idiots ruining our wonderful land I’d have more respect. But whilst you keep slinging mud and foul words at foot soldiers in your own army, I’ll keep scrolling.
My thoughts are of no interest to you Struth but like John Hurt in Alien, I had to get it off my chest.
I’m not interested in vaccine scaremongering
or endless interpretation of covid stats
or trusted internet bloggers wringing out the last drops.
I got vaxxed in 2021.
I’m confident I made the right decision based on hospitalisation and death statistics back when it was delta.
If I’ve had covid, I didn’t notice.
Why traditional conservatism is fucked:
Bolt and Hastie:
We’ve been laughing at the Left’s distress but Liberal MP Andrew Hastie is right to warn: Donald Trump’s win has devastated the Left but is also a warning to conservatives. He’s not our kind of guy.
Hastie is exactly right to note that Trump is actually a populist – not a conviction politician. He is very likely to sell out what conservatives value, and in his person does not represent any conservative ideals.
I went past the bat crud testing site this morning on the way to the shops. Now has an electric sign at the turnoff saying Free Covid & Flu Tests Here.
Flu tests? When did they become a thing?
The gaslighting continues.
The AFR View
Victoria: the export gas guzzling state
It’s rich to expect the gas export market to bail out state governments that have sanctimoniously, and unscientifically, refused to develop their own ample onshore reserves.
Right now Victoria relies heavily on gas being sent south by Queensland’s export LNG producers after the Australian Energy Market Regulator requested them to do so under the voluntary Gas Supply Guarantee.
Victorian Energy Minister Lily D’Ambrosio says she asked AEMO to step in, and take other actions too. Victoria will no longer sell spot market gas to other states (contracted gas is not affected).
Most of the gas is not Victoria’s in the first place. It might be processed there, but most of it comes from Commonwealth waters offshore. Yet Victoria is still importing electricity from other states that is generated by burning their gas.
Ms D’Ambrosio says that the real intent is to fill up the Iona gas storage facility, which can’t fall too low without the national gas system being destabilised.
She says Victoria has plenty of gas; Commonwealth gas, that is. But it’s also handy not to have the lights go out when there is an election coming.
It is also true that suppliers were buying relatively cheap Victorian gas under the state’s remaining $40 price cap for use elsewhere.
But all of this only goes to show the absurdities and distortions that result from intervention after intervention. A state stops the supply of gas which it really isn’t its own, but freely buys electricity off others.
Ms D’Ambrosio’s astonishing analysis of all this claims “the root of the problem” is that 70 per cent of Australian gas is exported, and that markets “should work in favour of the customer”.
That’s the same export market that allowed the Queensland gas industry to be developed in the first place, ensuring gas is available to help out state governments that have sanctimoniously, and unscientifically, refused to develop their own ample onshore reserves.
America’s woke Army is facing a recruiting nightmare
“Suppose they gave a war and no one came.”
As Jeff Groom writes in Spectator World, the Army has waged a culture war, and it’s a quagmire: “Imagine you are an eighteen-year-old, white, Christian male in Georgia with a family history of military service. As you progressed through your teen years, you watched Confederate statues being torn down and military bases being renamed, endless media and elitist demonization of your culture as racist and deplorable and backwards, and military and civilian leadership that thinks diversity and inclusion (i.e. fewer white men) is best thing since sliced bread. Would you volunteer? Identity politics works both ways.”
Traditional masculinity is something today’s woke military seems hostile to, but it’s always been the driving force in encouraging people to enlist. A volunteer army needs volunteers, and why exactly would a traditional white male want to volunteer anymore? Note that combat soldiers disproportionately come from the South and face the greatest degree of demonization.
But while the “Get woke, go broke” explanation has a lot of power in all kinds of settings — just ask Disney and Netflix — there’s more going on here.
The worst part is this: The military leadership has broken faith with the troops. We don’t hear much about the debacle in Afghanistan that took place not even a year ago — since it makes a Democratic administration look bad, it’s not a fit subject for conversation in polite society — but people haven’t forgotten.
Biden and congressional Democrats will likely face the ugly choice of letting the military flounder due to lack of troops or returning to the draft. Neither approach looks like a winner. Incompetence and contempt for the troops have a price, and the bill is coming due.
The use of “songlines” is probably also an attempt to align Australian native groups with the idea of “ley lines”, a rather silly idea of supernatural lines that connect significant sites in Europe – see here.
It’s just another in the plethora of ascribing more to ancient groups around the world than they actually had – the “myth of the noble savage” again.
The best thing that ever happened to the human world IMHO was the understanding and invention of various items using electricity. Followed closely by the sewage system. Anyone who wants to do without these is quite welcome. Of course the real narrative is “give me money and power” and shutup.
Here’s Your New Bike Lane. Oh, Did You Want It to Go Somewhere?
Cities install miles of bike lanes. Connecting them into a sensible network proves harder. ‘It just sort of ends.’
TFG campaigns as a populist, but he governed like a conservative. He made stump speeches pushing populist positions on health care, abortion and gun control, but when the quiet men had a quiet word with him in a back room, he wised up and quickly followed their lead as President.
He’s probably the perfect conservative leader, actually: lie all the time about unpopular conservative positions, then betray those who got sucked in believing his bulldust.
The Victorian state government won’t build dams because the Thomson isn’t full (last I looked it was over 90%)
Won’t allow gas and oil exploration.
Wants to turn off household gas to prop up failing electricity supply.
Blew up Yallourn power station, presumably to stop anyone in the future start it up again.
Refused to allow a new gas terminal to be build.
Has a nonsensical plan involving off shore wind generation which of course will have zero impact on ocean Gaia.
But whatever, it’s all the fault of big gas.
One Civilian With a Gun at an Indiana Mall Offered Better Protection Than 376 Cops in Uvalde
Taking personal responsibility turns out to be a better idea than putting faith in the state.
The same day Texas legislators released a devastating report on indecision and failure among hundreds of police officers during the school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, a single armed man ended an attack at Greenwood Park Mall in Greenwood, Indiana. It’s impossible to avoid comparing the two incidents. Once again, taking responsibility for yourself and assisting others turns out to be a better idea than putting faith in the state.
The latest considers evidence in a study of over quarter of a million children which shows that the vaccine produces worse side effects than getting the WuFlu. Fairly relevant to the issue of whether or not to vaccinate your descendants. But by all means stay ignorant. If you kill them off by choosing to remain ignorant, I shall just think of it as evolution in action. A sort of second order Darwin award.
Meme,
Tucker Carlson: Be Wary Of Candidates Who Care What The New York Times Thinks
Tucker Carlson spoke at the Family Leadership Summit ’22 in Iowa. Carlson speech focused on the importance of vetting leaders for the Republican Party and presidential ticket:
“You need to be really wary of candidates who care about what the New York Times think. You really, really, do now and I mean that. And if you say that to a Republican, voters are like ‘of courses the New York Times is communist. I don’t even read it.’ Really? Because your leaders do, and they really care, they really, really care. Now how do you know that? They’ll never admit it. And I’m sure many will come on the stage in the subsequent months and they’ll attack the New York Times and whatever. But they don’t mean it. And I know they don’t mean it because I watch them very carefully when things go sideways.
That’s how you know who someone is. When things get out of control unexpectedly. Mike Tyson, who I don’t normally quote in public settings, the ear biting boxer, did say one brilliant thing that has never left me. He said it about boxing but it applies to life. He said ‘everybody got a plan, until you get hit in the face.’ And that is true. Everybody got a plan, till I get hit in the face. And that’s when you find out who the men are.
You don’t know anything about what actually happened. One thing I can tell you after 31 years in this business is you don’t know right away the details of any news event period. Your just don’t know, they’re unknowable actually. And that’s why anyone who draws instant quick and dirty lessons from some dramatic piece of videotape is either an idiot or trying to manipulate you. Usually the latter. But the second something like that happens. I pay very close attention to how people react.
Said by the same Hastie who sold out BRS on the basis of rumour and a dream.
I’m sure Bolt reminded him of that!
There’s been talk on lack of self-awareness today. Here’s some more (the Hun):
Another one. Throw it on the pile.
That would depend on the definitions of harassed and threatened, but……
He engineered Dobbs. LOL.
Karma – Total chaos strikes iconic Byron Bay music festival Splendour in the Grass as a massive rain bomb hits and FLOODS the campsite – leaving soaked revellers furious: ‘It’s survival of the fittest’
Welcome to Climate!
The Cafe noisies have discovered knees.
I found this out a few days ago when I sat on the stairs and four of them immediately landed. The above photo is a quick and dirty snap since ancient camera then went *ack* and expired with a flat battery. I should get a new one.
The use of “songlines” is probably also an attempt to align Australian native groups with the idea of “ley lines”, a rather silly idea of supernatural lines that connect significant sites in Europe
Whilst there many rubbish theories about Aboriginal life dreamed up by contemporaries, the “songlines” are not one of them.
As I understand it, songlines are actually what the name suggests. Since they had limited daytime means of navigation across tribal hunting grounds, they identified natural landmarks &, over time, linked these places in songs that they learned by heart. These songs were taught to the young men, often at initiation ceremonies, so that the subsequent generations could know where to find the habitant of different animals, and sources of yams etc etc.
It was very simple and very practical.
GreyRangasays:
July 22, 2022 at 8:55 am
Rosie a religious upbringing does not confer a life of goodness.
Wasn’t Stalin a trainee priest at one stage?
Karma
From the Comments
– I thought that type would enjoy the extra layer of grunge.
– Yep. The organisers should have organised the weather. I’m outraged. Lol. Kids today.
– Remember a few years ago when everyone on the East coast was screaming that it was too dry and Australia was burning and we were all gonna die?!? Good times.
– Will some “organisation” please cut the cottonwool off these sinkers. We older people own cool, you young folks can only rent it. Get on with your lives and stop glueing yourselfs to the bitumen. Fn minority idiot’s.
– Shocking. Not. It’s winter…
– 1st world problems, oooo the camping ground we knew was soaked and flooded is soaked and flooded. Get a room or go home…
– Sally Turn Your Taps on McManus said just roll in the mud
– Quick Tim it never rains Flannery is on his way – His reputation is muddier than the mosh pit
and finally well summed
– Is that fark wit AirBusAlbo showing up
It was very simple and very practical.
When you never bothered to get around to inventing writing or maps in the 60,000 years they claim to have been here.
Situation normal for me.
On vaccination of my “descendants”, I have zero say in the matter. The grandchildren have parents who are fully functioning adults. They make the decisions for their children, not me.
As far as I know, only the eldest has been vaxxed at his own request. Reading between the lines, I think it was peer pressure which is very important to 12 year olds. He will be receiving no boosters.
The amount of busybodying into other people’s lives is astounding. Like the dobbing nightmare, it has been encouraged by our government at all levels. It needs to stop.
Four more people are rushed to hospital after burning COALS inside their home as the price of electricity soars
-Household rushed to hospital after sustaining carbon monoxide poisoning
– Emergency services called to Bedford Park home in Adelaide on Friday morning
– Four people were all feeling faint and taken to Flinders Medical Centre
– They had been attempting to warm their home with a charcoal burner
– Meanwhile family of six taken to Westmead Hospital with monoxide poisoning
– Paramedics were called to Merrylands home in Sydney on Tuesday morning
– They arrived to find entire family sick after warming home with charcoal BBQ
– Najem Nawaseri said he found his 13-year-old son vomiting before calling 000
Old School Conservativesays:
July 22, 2022 at 11:03 am
Excellent post, OSC. My thoughts exactly.
Covid-19 + Influenza + RSV DriveThru Testing
4 Tests in one
callisays:
July 22, 2022 at 11:48 am
Live your lives, people.
Situation normal for me.
Agreed – to each his own – my family has finally given up on me being unvaxxed, and still the healthiest of our lot
Planet Saver?
I’m more of a Party Saver. Blessed be Saint Rodney.
As living survivors of Woodstock would advise, always check the weather forecast before setting off to an outdoor music festival.
ABCcess putting the english language in a gimp mask and abusing it more than marcus for this headline.
Former carbon pricing mastermind Greg Combet backs proposed fix for Australia’s energy crisis
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-22/former-climate-minister-combet-backs-proposed-energy-fix/101242512
The former federal minister who oversaw the introduction of a carbon price in Australia has backed calls for an insurance-like policy to help fix the crisis plaguing the nation’s biggest power grid.
No words on what mr Combet is doing now, Im sure its not relevant.
Since leaving parliament, Combet has worked as a consultant to unions, governments and business and as a company director. Combet works primarily with industry superannuation funds and in December 2018 became chair of Industry Super Australia and Chair of IFM Investors, a global asset management business owned by the industry superannuation funds.
In 2020, in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, Combet was appointed to “provide strategic and policy advice” for the Liberal Morrison Government.[19]
FMD uniparty anyone??
Also unimedia..
Combet is separated from his second wife and in 2012 began a relationship with ABC-TV newsreader Juanita Phillips.
Rogersays:
July 22, 2022 at 9:37 am
What’s a compacity mechanism?
A capacity mechanism puts a value on capacity…in a nutshell, paying coal fired generators to stay open to ensure a reliable supply until such time as ruinables can consistently meet demand. That is, until the twelfth of never.
Start by ending the subsidy they pay to ruinables whenever coal comes to the rescue.
This is a real headline.
Homophobic Telescope Reveals First Hi-Res Images of Deep Space (14 Jul, via Instapundit)
The qwerty hating instrument is the new Webb space telescope, which is about to get a new neighbour courtesy of Elon Musk.
Where’s Elbow?
A lot of VCs giving evidence at Jan 6 Stalinist Show Trial. That’s short for via coactus, which might translate loosely as “say what we want you to say or you’re cactus”.
Songs as mnemonic aids, sure. Teach tasks to toddlers, lessons to schoolkids, stories to pub punters.
“Songlines” as present-day man magically invoking the landscape into existence? Bit of a stretch. IIRC Chatwin imported the idea from a sect in southern India. It’s folly to try to make it fit over 350 scattered, warring tribes.
Mind you, “Welcome To Country, the nu flag and every oldie an honourific Auntie or Uncle all don’t fit over 350 tribes, but they’re here to stay now.
I see 219 Kleptocrats have voted against a Republican motion to stop the US sending its strategic fuel reserve to China.
They really hate America/ns.
Anthropologists had documented indigenous songlines years before Chatwin, whose book came out in the mid-1980s, iirc.
This is sooo true. Worse still are the Karens (of all genders) who assume the right to chastise strangers on their medical choices.
I cannot recall another time when people were so judgemental.
m0ntysays:
July 22, 2022 at 10:51 am
a dozen phone calls between the cell phone of Ray Epps and the office of Speaker Pelosi in the week before #January6th
Hahahahahaha!
A very nervous laugh from m0nty-fa!
m0ntysays:
July 22, 2022 at 10:58 am
House Republicans @HouseGOP
This is all heresy.
Aaaaahaha, this is too good.
Followed by some wishful thinking.
I laughed out loud at today’s opener from Tucker Carlson Tonight on the anti-news being presented as fact from Washington DC. The real news from Biden catching Kung Flu is about the unforeseen toxicity of Covid vaccines that the medical establishment has been intimidated into supporting (reinforced in Australia by high-rotation government advertising that’s destroying our faith in doctors).
Take a Guess at the Ethnicity of the Brawlers
Massive brawl among families breaks out at Disney World, hospitalizing 1
They’ve left out monkeypox.
It’s the next big one.
Inside Provincetown’s ‘Herculean’ effort to save the summer from monkeypox (21 Jul)
The comments are awesome.
Climate Alarmist Explains Policy Targeting Farmers to end all Beef, Pork and Chicken from Human Diet (2 min vid)
July 21, 2022 | Sundance
I often wonder about the mental health of these people.
That Boom SST mentioned the other day now looks like a scale model of the final Boeing 2707 SST project from 1970.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/booms-overture-supersonic-airliner-gains-northrop-grumman-as-military-partner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_2707
Pinched from instapundit, but too good not to share.
Subtle as a Brick Through a Window, U.S. Media Starts Reshaping Corrupt Ukraine Narrative
July 21, 2022 – Sundance
From the CTH perspective, if we accept the scale of the approaching U.S. economic pain that is clearly visible on the horizon, this narrative shift from the Associated Press and NPR, about a balancing act for U.S. policy and a corrupt Ukraine government, seems very predictable.
The average U.S. worker, and the middle class in general, is in trouble. The visible reference of bailing out the people of Ukraine to the tune of $60+ billion is legislative salt in an open economic wound caused by Biden policy. A shift is needed.
Pivoting away from Ukraine to focus on financial subsidies for Americans requires using a particular arm-distancing toward Zelenskyy from the politicians. Look, corruption.
Here we go:
Needs more sources… but..
10-Year-Old Rape Victim’s Mom Is in Domestic Relationship With Child’s Alleged Illegal Alien Rapist
“Start by…”
telling them:
1) they have to supply FCAS just like thermal power stations (they can contract someone else to supply it if they prefer);
2) when they bid, they MUST supply or pay a fine equivalent to what they would have earned had they actually generated (they can contract someone else as backup if they prefer);
3) they only win bids the same way everyone else does – by being the cheapest, no more “me first!”
4) they no longer have a captive market for “renewable energy certificates” that their competitors have to buy from them – just be a generator like everyone else;
5) all the waste products including at end of life decommissioning are their responsibility, same as thermal plants;
6) the cost of transmission lines (or upgrades to existing lines) from a suitable nearby location on the grid to the actual generator is paid for up front by the generator, same as thermal plants.
Of course, if you do that, then there will be no more “large scale” renewables projects, period. Which tells you all you need to know about renewables being “cheaper”, doesn’t it?
Signs of things to come. When you are on a modest income and have a family to feed and keep warm the increasing electricity prices will of necessity put pressure on to find alternative heating. People from the sub continent and middle east are used to burners but not the air tight housing of Australia. No ventilation leads to the carbon monoxide build up.
lol Tucker is funny!!…
“Now that Biden has covid he will lose his sense of smell which means he won’t need to smell young girls’ hair anymore 😛
No, you’re a jabbed moron.
FACT.
You took an injection that was untested, has killed and injured millions already, (in only it’s first year), given to you by people who have openly declared they wish to reduce the world’s population by 3/4’s and for a disease YOU WERE TOLD would not kill 99.98% of us and even told you could be asymptomatic.
Have no doubt.
You are a moron, whatever you wish to believe.
You did this for fear of sniffles or because you believe you were “forced” or pressured into taking it.
It’s like chosing the hangman’s noose to avoid being called names.
You are so fucking stupid you need to be told……….obviously.
And that is leaving aside civic duty adults have in disobeying tyrannical, unconstitutional government.
I’m not talking about principles or lack thereof here, like your duty to your fellow countrymen.
Just about the utter insanity of injecting yourself with this shit
We are just talking about pure moronic idiocy.
You became an idiot the day you succumbed to the propaganda, and have been defending your right to be an idiot ever since.
Like Notafan, she was annoying and ignorant before the coup, but we all remember how she lost the plot totally to all the propaganda and bought it all, hook, line and sinker.
She couldn’t be reached.
Off with the fairies.
Lord knows some of us tried….and you were witness to it all.
To all the reasons not to get jabbed…which are all coming true.
And you still got jabbed.
But even with those FACTS presented, you’ll prefer to see me and those bringing you the thousands of reports of the disaster these jabs are, as the arseholes.
When you idiots can finally admit that in a moment of weakness, you made a very , very , very stupid decision, the time you have left can be spent being who you were before you failed….and you did fail…so admit it , grow up, and get to who you were before back.
Get clear and logical thinking back.
While in denial and trying to excuse what you have done as nothing, and delude yourself, how can you be the person you once were?
It’s impossible.
It can’t be done while in denial, just like lefties, you’ll die in a ditch to defend the indefensible, and twist reality to live with your delusional self.
I have nothing against you.
But without being true to yourself, and really moving on, by admitting the reality of the situation, you are still and will always be, a moron.
A dishonest one at that.
From OldOzzie’s link at 11:18 am:
Who remembers the 1980s Navy recruitment ad that lauded their servicemen’s value with the rousing song: The Pride of the Fleet is You? What a difference today, when young recruits are berated for their ‘toxic masculinity’, their privilege and the colour of their skin.
Why would anyone subject themselves to this?