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Noice.
Plus infinity KD. Vic Pol if want some support for their wage rise demand, from family there’s none ATM from…
I strongly suspect that if Israel was annihilated the Disrupt Wars people (probably Marxists) would dance on its grave.
Putin seemed more than happy with Lula winning in Brazil.
Stay as long as you like, Johnny Rotten.
Go away, Rotten.
Btw, “Tom”, are you censoring Bob Moran now?
I agree up to a point. But that’s probably because I liked his policies. Both Trump and Reagan were highly intelligent men, and worked hard to conceal it, in Reagan’s case with affability in Trump’s with disdain for the loony loser left.
Vicki says:
November 2, 2022 at 6:00 pm
One of the best indicators is the proliferation of the almost porn shows – like “Marriage at first sight” on televisions. Most of what we see on commercial television documents perfectly the moral and intellectual decline of western society.
Then you’ll be aghast at ‘Love Island’. I stumbled across it a couple of nights ago whilst channel surfing looking for something (anything!) to watch. Gave up in the end but saw a couple of minutes of this new show – sweet Lord!! The women were behaving like sluts on tour and the men were like circling sharks deciding which to attack and ‘sample’ first.
Ed October:
Tom:
Fact check: Confirmed.
Putin was equivocal.
He noted his good relationship with Bolsa and hoped that would continue under Lula [it won’t, since Lula is a corrupt scumbag].
He did shitcan Scott Morrison, though.
Knuckle Dragger
Definition:
A serious buffoon wearing a Lisa Simpson dress.
That’s because he’s still in charge of the Russian security state, as he aspired to do when he was at the KGB.
Putin’s Russia doesn’t “work” without central control — i.e., delivering stolen USD state billions to the oligopoly that Putin controls.
Putin is more of communist than Stalin ever was. He makes Xi look like an amateur.
Encountered third migratory bluetongue of the season yesterday. They come down the hill into my yard looking for mates, but all the houses downslope from me have dogs. My kookas don’t like them either – last week young son kooka nailed second migratory bluetongue so hard he was bleeding quite profusely from his right eye. He and the noisies were squawking like Karens, which is how I knew to come outside and see what the fuss was about.
So I grabbed bluey, who wasn’t happy about that until I stuck a lump of mince under his nose. Ooh, yum. He stopped squirming in my hand and ate the mince, then the second and third lumps. Which got me inside long enough to put shoes on one handed, and thence down the street to an area far away from dogs (a low cost housing area which seems to have a no pets policy), where after another lump of mince he was let go.
Thomas Sowell DESTROYS CLIMATE CHANGE ARGUMENT IN 3 MINUTES
Gabor says:
November 2, 2022 at 6:07 pm
Society needs to change? If you look at history, it’s an endless repeat of what went on before.
I am looking at it from a societal perspective. For example, it’s probably a good thing that we no longer burn witches at the stake. Ok, some exceptions might apply but generally it is a good thing we stopped doing it. Ditto the rack and keel-hauling.
Ed Casesays:
November 2, 2022 at 5:42 pm
Hey, Rotten
You’re a blow in
fuck off
Hey Head Case and a Suitable Case for Treatment. Blow Job yourself and you Fark Off to another World. You seem to live in your own World anyway. Such an ‘original comment’ that you have made. BTW, stick and stones and all that……………………..Bye……………………………
A Lisa Simpson dress?
I’d better be careful then. After all, you’re:
Pelosi Got Hammered
When a story comes out about a Pelosi getting hammered, a normal person assumes the news has something to do with a drunk speaker of the House named Nancy slurring through a staged press conference with her Pravda media friends. You do not expect to find out that an alleged commie Castro nudist with a fondness for psychedelics has managed to Mission: Impossible his way past tight security surrounding one of the speaker’s guarded homes in order to play handyman with her husband’s tools.
If there were ever an apt metaphor for how horrendous crime has become in the blue hellholes ruled over by pompous, pampered Democrat “elites,” surely a Black Lives Matter–supporting, gay love–loving hippie effortlessly traipsing into the local digs of another out-of-touch, loony leftist — whose wife happens to be third in line of presidential succession — surely takes the cake! If Nancy Pelosi can’t keep her drunk-driving husband safe from the carpentry fetishes of unwanted intruders, how can she keep normal law-abiding citizens safe from the narco-terrorists and sex-traffickers slipping past the southern border? Oh, right — unlike Paul Pelosi’s alleged attacker, the U.S. government has given the criminals at our borders permission to enter freely.
Needless to say, the whole Pelosi break-in is just too tantalizingly odd for ordinary Americans to dismiss as normal, run-of-the-mill, celebrity-inspired criminal craziness. In my neck of the woods, few home invaders could have made it onto the premises without heavily armed homeowners greeting the interlopers with a few well placed slugs to say, “Hello.” It boggles the mind to imagine that it is easier to sneak up on Nancy’s gilded husband in the middle of the night than it is to break into the humble abodes of “flyover country” folk, but that is the “official story,” and if there is anything Americans have learned during the Age of COVID and Climate Change Hysteria, the “official story” is the only story that will suffice.
Publicly available images of the Pelosi mansion show a ubiquity of security cameras surrounding its perimeter, so it strains credulity to suggest that the suspect’s movements and actions that night were difficult to pin down. Surely the fact that an alleged drug addict with a history of mental illness seemingly managed to penetrate Pelosi’s security so effortlessly begs for further official clarification, lest the unbridled temerity of America’s growing criminal class swell further. I mean, my word! If it is that easy for a commie Castro nudist to prance right in the back door of the home of one of America’s most powerful politicians, then no unarmed American can possibly be safe! Banning hammers in the United States would only ensure that ordinary, helpless Americans are forced to invite criminal hammer-holders into their homes during times of repair. No, for safety’s sake, the Pelosi intrusion proves why every American should be armed to the teeth. Only a commie malcontent brings a hammer and sickle to a gunfight!
that wong chap is a prick
A man traveling down a country road was forced to stop before a giant puddle covering the entire road. Looking to the side of the road, the man noticed a farmer leaning on a fence.
“Think it’s safe to cross?” the man asked. “I reckon so” replied the farmer.
The puddle immediately swallowed the car as the man drove in. In fact, it was so deep that he had to roll his window down to swim out of his car back to the surface.
As his head broke the surface the man said to the farmer “I thought you said I could safely drive through this puddle!”
“Well I never !” said the farmer, scratching his head. “It only come up chest-high on my ducks!”
You idiot, Googleory. I post everything that Bob Moran posts on his own website.
High Probability of Fraud and cheating in 1st Round of Brazilian Election, cites Benford’s Law.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
– Confucius
I do remember both episodes, indeed.
A carload of tourists ignored the signs at a lion park near Capetown a few years ago, got out of their car to take a few “Happy snaps” and finished up as lunch….their embassy got most upset when the South Africans refused to shoot the lions…
Remember, not that long ago, that social media craze of getting close to a wild animal and taking a snap. Close to a baboon, venomous snake, rhino, hippo, bear…..more than a few social media amateurs paid a very dear price.
I mean, my word! If it is that easy for a commie Castro nudist to prance right in the back door of the home of one of America’s most powerful politicians, then no unarmed American can possibly be safe!
You’re just promoting the Biden Administration Narrative now, “old ozzie”.
The Times has branded vaccine damage and bereaved as ‘anti-vaxxers’ | Bev Turner
gbnews
On the upside, a too-rare opportunity for natural selection of humans was not wasted. Probabilistically, a good thing.
I can attest to that and a warrior who comes bearing wonderful baked goods as a bonus.
If I wasn’t, I certainly am now.
Speedy, with a little work on a calculator you can see what that actually means. A small EV contains around 53 kg of Li2CO3e, or 10 kg of lithium (Li2CO3 is 14/(14+60)x100= 19% Li by wt). Therefore 117,200 tonnes is only 2.2 million new EVs. Less for upper end Teslas etc with big batteries. And which assumes they’re all cars. Actually I suspect a lot of that lithium has gone into buses in China especially, which have much bigger batteries.
Total motor vehicle production in 2021 was about 79 million. So we’re talking 2.7% if all that lithium went into cars. And the lithium supply chain is already creaking so much that the price of lithium is now about two thirds of the price of silver. It’s going to go a lot higher I suspect.
Then it all crashes if China disconnects, since lithium is overwhelmingly refined in China – since spodumene processing is a very carbon intensive process with vast amounts of toxic residue. No one is building the refineries in the West to the capacity required. The process also fits the village industry model that the Chinese are so good at, like in ferronickel production.
Then on top of all of that the batteries last maybe ten years. So a whole extra industry has to be built to recover the contained lithium and cobalt from dead batteries. All of that will be in China too, since it can’t be done here or elsewhere in the West under the sorts of regulations in place. At the moment I don’t think there’s even a well-developed recycling process flowsheet that works, let alone the vast capacity that will be needed.
Of course as the lithium price rises the price signal will promote capital spend…in China. Not here though, too hard.
There were some who taught us that their Darwin Awards were truly deserved.
bugmen state is woke hellhole
Boambee John says:
November 2, 2022 at 2:49 pm
Big_Nambas
When you look at other countries a figure of 75% looks more like the truth. I don’t believe anything the government says about anything.
When the left were out of power, or did not have a stranglehold on it (think 1960s/1970s), this was one of their slogans. Now they have power, they want everyone to believe that everything is hunky-dory. Unfortunately, they lie habitually, and the lies are often plainly obvious, so now they have to overcome popular cynicism. And the reality of their actions does not help them.
How do you tell when a politician is lying? His lips are moving.
“IMO, western civilisation (as we knew it) is already dead and what passes for western civilisation today, is in terminal decline.””
Quite so, and you know what angers and upsets me the most? The left won because the right refused to fight.
its now a global precedent
I don’t respect these failures in the slightest.
The Left lost, the Fake Left, aka the Evil Right, won and keeps on winning.
You don’t think Albanese is a Leftist, do you?
Commenter on Unz Review says the south of Brazil is one of the world’s most desirable places to live:
We pay our respects to a violent, patriarchal , Stone Age culture….
Uh oh…they forgot “future”.
Racists.
Bruce of Newcastle says:
November 2, 2022 at 6:44 pm
Speedy, with a little work on a calculator you can see what that actually means. A small EV contains around 53 kg of Li2CO3e, or 10 kg of lithium (Li2CO3 is 14/(14+60)x100= 19% Li by wt). Therefore 117,200 tonnes is only 2.2 million new EVs.
Yeah, it seems to me that they were only referring to the 1st quarter of 2022 (although that isn’t clear) but your calcs for 2m EVs would be correct.
So, I went to the IEA website and they say 2m EVs sold in the first 1/4 of 2022. Made me laugh that the IEA separately noted that EVs were “not yet a global phenomenon. Sales in developing and emerging countries have been slow due to higher purchase costs and a lack of charging infrastructure availability.” Does that mean we are a developing country?
In any event I had a look at another site that said “Global passenger electric vehicle (EV) sales grew 61% YoY to reach 2.18 million units in Q2 2022, according to the latest research from Counterpoint’s Global Passenger Electric Vehicle Model Sales Tracker“.
So, that would bear out the quarterly sales. ie. 2m in Q1/2022 and 2.18m/Q2 2022. Circa 8 million for the year which, as you point out would be about 10% of total passenger vehicle sales globally.
Another site estimates EV sales of 10.6m for 2022. But whether it is 8m or 10m, it is a big number compared to previous years and the choice of available models will ramp up substantially over time which will encourage further sales.
Everybody outside govt and the green aficionados knows there are a host of issues charging all these cars but as I have said before, EVs are coming and under the global shift to net zero, are an unstoppable wave.
We are a devolving country.
Zipstersays:
November 2, 2022 at 6:22 pm
Observation, Wong has a really short fuse and doesn’t like scrutiny. I don’t know why the Coalition doesn’t go after this more. Also the Auditor General seems like a slimy piece of work, no surprises he hails from Keatings era.
No, only the Woke West is, and it will be the final nail in the coffin.
you pretty much can’t go wrong if you assume the opposite of what the government tells you is the truth
She’s also a proven incompetent.
Witness the debacle over not recognising Jerusalem & announcing it on a Jewish holy day.
I expect nothing more from disgusting, immoral, perverted gays.
Ed Casesays:
November 2, 2022 at 6:33 pm
I mean, my word! If it is that easy for a commie Castro nudist to prance right in the back door of the home of one of America’s most powerful politicians, then no unarmed American can possibly be safe!
You’re just promoting the Biden Administration Narrative now, “old ozzie”.
That was sarcasm, Richard Cranium, but perhaps it was a bit too subtle for you?
Speedy – That doesn’t fit the lithium production stats, which is about 100,000 tonnes of Li metal equivalent in 2021. Given a lot of the lithium is going into consumer products I suspect it’s actually a lot lower than 10 million (or someone is selling a lot of electric golf carts). Still creaking at the limit of the possible lithium supply-wise.
I looked up the amount of lithium per EV a couple weeks ago – it’s difficult to get a hard number. And I couldn’t be bothered working it out from first principles. But that 10 kg per EV appears, probably for battery packs around 60ish kWh.
The internet just told me that the NSW floods were part of a government scheme to procure lands for the elites by creating ‘weather events’, thus permanently removing people from the coveted acreage and throwing them a few coins as a ‘buyback plan’.
Those elites must really, really want those floodplains.
Thank you, Trusted Bloggers!
Rock Doctor
Also the Auditor General seems like a slimy piece of work, no surprises he hails from Keatings era.
Ah, yes, the period when the Audit Office signed a long-term contract to lease John Curtin House form the ALP. The contract included a price escalation that could, with gross understatement, be described as over-generous. Put it another way, had any other department signed such a lease, the Audit Office would have come down on them like not one ton, but several tons of bricks.
The embarrassment to Labor became such that they sold John Curtin House. The political embarrassment went away, but the cost to the taxpayer didn’t. I wonder if ANAO is still there, and what any lease re-negotiated at the end of the initial term looked like?
from the ALP …
What happens when an unstoppable wave meets an impenetrable wall of physical laws? 😀
It’s the same as renewable energy. When it hits the limit of the possible the wave will die. It’s already near the limit and we’re a long way from the net zero stupidity.
I have said many times that if they want to be serious they should go into centralized methanol synthesis, since methanol can be used in nearly standard ICE vehicles, and the logistics and supply distribution infrastructure is all there already. Vastly more sensible than EVs. And that’s even if you believe in global warming, which in the data isn’t happening. Certainly not today, its been cold here at the Cafe.
What is going to happen is the personal vehicle industry will become like Cuba, with oodles of extremely old second hand ICE cars. That is because no pollie will dare ban existing ICE cars – a ban of new ICE cars is just on the edge of political possibility but banning used ones: nope, not a chance. As a consequence they will also maintain the petrol and diesel supplies, because they will dare not monkey with that sector. The only thing that can change this equation is pure totalitarian fascism, and if that happens no one will be driving EVs anyway, since we’ll be East Venezuela.
Just to emphasise.
We are going to build subs, ships and other military hardware to protect us from China. We might even help Taiwan if needed.
All the while whilst destroying our home grown energy sources and cheap energy and replacing them with windmills and solar panels from our most likely future enemy.
Makes perfect sense. Or at least it seems to for our leaders.
Dillo, your cryptic clewes and the answers are very sweet.
my missus often has 3 of those crosswords on the go at any one time
😀
Yes, well…that’s all very good, but let’s just wait until the netball Diamonds have their say, shall we?
LOL. You are forgetting the mandating by the Overlords of a poisonous, experimental medical procedure.
They laugh at your dare to ban ICE’s.
Thanks BJ, I actually remember that sordid episode. Wow what a tangled web we weave.
We just got a “minor flood level”* warning here.
But seeing as how water has never come anywhere near this place since 1850, I won’t be falling for that one.
…
* Minor flood = no flood at all = happens every 10-15 years and floods a few low lying culverts.
But no doubt the orange people from BigTown will be here shortly in their orange overalls and with lots of orange detour signs and orange traffic cones.
And sandwiches.
And oranges.
You must live in a capital city.
A truck driver would amuse himself by running over lawyers.
Whenever he saw a lawyer walking down the side of the road he would swerve to hit him, enjoy the load, satisfying *THUMP* and then swerve back onto the road.
One day, as the truck driver was driving along he saw a priest hitchhiking. He thought he would do a good turn and pulled the truck over.
He asked the priest “Where are you going, Father?” “I’m going to the church 5 miles down the road” replied the priest. “No problem, Father! I’ll give you a lift. Climb in the truck”.
The happy priest climbed into the passenger seat and the truck driver continued down the road.
Suddenly the truck driver saw a lawyer walking down the road and instinctively he swerved to hit him. But then he remembered there was a priest in the truck with him, so at the last minute he swerved back away, narrowly missing the lawyer. However even though he was certain he missed the lawyer, he still heard a loud *THUD*.
Not understanding where the noise came from, he glanced in his mirrors and when he didn’t see anything, he turned to the priest and said “I’m sorry Father. I almost hit that lawyer”. “That’s okay” replied the priest. “I got him with the door!”
Stolen.
Stolen stolen stolen.
‘But I don’t want to go among mad people,’ said Alice. ‘Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the cat. ‘We’re all mad here.’
– Lewis Carroll
You’re very welcome.
U’K. Telegraph.
I hadn’t seen this one from Moran before.
He really doesn’t seem to like certain indivegetables.
Assuming that’s Morristeen in between satan and grater.
Speaking of reptilian residents, about a month ago I was vacuuming the bedroom (inadequately the COS would no doubt declare) when a tail that was obviously a brown snake flicked from under the bed. We have a lot of brown snakes and green tree residents.
When the heart returned towards something approaching 200bpm I grabbed our neighbour and armed with a long gutter broom handle poked tentatively under the bed.
Eventually a juvenile Sleepy emerged, and like a scolded puppy slowly crept out of the sliding door to the pool area.
We believe that he probably came in through the garage because we rarely close the connecting door.
My neighbour demanded something like half the Hunter Valley vintage for him to stay quiet.
Observation, Wong has a really short fuse and doesn’t like scrutiny.
She’s popular with women and Flamers.
I don’t know why the Coalition doesn’t go after this more.
The Coalition Senate Leadership is Women and Flamers.
Which probably goes towards explaining why mined lithium is ~$78/kg.
There are a number of vested interests who are making their own interpretations and it is difficult to get reliable EV sales figures. China muddies the waters a bit due to their large sales. Separately, Statista reckon global lithium mine production will grow from 552,000mt in 2022 to 1,466,000mt by 2030.
If my maths is correct, it seems that Li2CO3 production needs to hit ~800,000t by 2038 as 80 million new EVs (assuming no ICE cars) per annum x minimum 10kg per vehicle = 800,000,000kgs (or 800,000 tonnes of Li2CO3). I have no idea how much mined lithium it takes to make 800k tonnes of Li2CO3 but I imagine it’s a bloody lot. And that’s just for the cars, every year.
But, in any case and as I told you once before, they will eventually come for your ICE Mazda – make no mistake, they will make you pay for being a recalcitrant!!
Not the Miata (with apologies to Ted Bullpitt).
Bruce of Newcastle says:
November 2, 2022 at 7:41 pm
no pollie will dare ban existing ICE cars – a ban of new ICE cars is just on the edge of political possibility but banning used ones: nope, not a chance.
I agree they won’t ban second hand ICE vehicles. But new ICE sales will be gone, gonski, nada, nope, finished.
They’ll get the Mazda by making it sooooo expensive to run, register, insure that you will be ‘forced’ to retire it. And most people will do so because they won’t have the resources to withstand the pressure, the media, the social scorn…….does this sound familiar to our recent experiences with some so-called disease?
Speedbox
Do your calculations include replacement batteries, currently roughly every five to seven years? That would increase the demand significantly.
For the lions….
Speedbox – I suspect it will be something like leaded petrol cars after unleaded was mandated. Certainly you will have trouble getting a Euro ICE in a couple of decades time. Better start to appreciate those US ones.
I think enough of them are smart enough to realise it is an incredibly stupid plan.
Nuclear and liquid fuel generation from atmospheric gases and vapour would actually be more “environmentally friendly”, but no one cares about practicality, it’s all about virtue signalling.
Speedy – Add a nought. Li2CO3 is currently 572,500 yuan/tonne. At 7.2786 to the USD and Aussie at 0.6428 that means (572500/7.2786)/0.6428x(74/14)/1000 = AU$646.78/kg of lithium (in the form of Li2CO3).
As I said it’s about two thirds the price of silver, which right now is US$19.71/oz, or USD633.76/kg.
What’s my interest in dying for a Taiwanese or Japanese bae?
Along with the English speaking west, they went along with the insanity of the PRC and WHO.
Yes we’re better than China, but dying for a a dying empire and a democratic client state that turns coat to fascism if the wrong people can be excluded from elections and the right people can show that they’re good persons is really, really pointless to me.
However
Make no mistake, China not only thinks they can win a nuclear war, but literally conquer America and impose their will, wokies and ardent 2A’ers would get swept off the face of the earth by a van mounted machine gun.
Actually listen to the rhetoric of the Chinese high command. It’s vicious, grandiose and grossly dystopian. Yes it is a change from what was openly said for decades after losing divisions of men sacrificed in Korea (“China is only interested in self defence, sovereignty and internal dissent…”).
The conclusion is that deterrence and careful words are important. Walk quietly and carry a big stick. Those who keep their spears sheathed shall inherit the earth.
Note – this requires you to actually have spears.
Dot
You think there will be war?
It’ll go that way until either the distribution network melts, or there’s insufficient generation to charge them, and it’ll be shown for what it is…misguided. After that, the way ahead will depend on peoples desire to have workable independent transportation. I suspect people value that part of life, so the stupid plan will fall over due to social pressure. Most people are so scientifically illiterate that they can’t see the problems coming, but they’ll sure feel them when they arrive.
Don’t be a first mover in purchasing an EV. Wait until the stupidity bears out, much like the vaccination for the so-called disease.
One might argue that it’ll be too late by then, as production will have switched to EVs. Well…I don’t suspect the a decade ago Germany predicted that they’d be reinvigorating coal generators in 2022, but here we are.
C. S. Lewis
no. no I think you are wrong. they are mostly idiots with no real life experience
And it’s 10 kg of lithium per (small) EV, not 10 kg of Li2CO3. So multiply your numbers by six.
I am in the mining business. I’ve a reasonable idea of what is out there. Not. Enough.
This stupid move to EVs is going to crash big time. Ditto renewables. Or we end up as South Norkistan, which is the most likely outcome.
There’s a tiny chance someone will crack aluminium batteries. That is the only thing that could conceivably work, since Al is 28 g/mol vs Li at 7 g/mol but Al is trivalent and very abundant. So it is 28 g of Al = 21 g of Li chemically speaking. Not too bad. But aluminium chemistry is very tough, and the advances I’ve seen so far are not within cooee of anything workable.
Zippy
It is possible for Australia in the cities, but not elsewhere and not on a global scale.
Bruce of Newcastle says:
November 2, 2022 at 8:41 pm
Oops. Maths has neve been my strongest suit. 🙂
Boambee John says:
November 2, 2022 at 8:29 pm
Nope. So yes, another shitload of Li2CO3.
H B Bear says:
November 2, 2022 at 8:32 pm
Certainly you will have trouble getting a Euro ICE in a couple of decades time.
Less than that Bear. In 2035 new ICE passenger car sales are banned in the EU. That is legislated and for the avoidance of doubt for car manufacturers, EU emission standards are escalating. EU7 in 2026/7 is very harsh. Goodness knows what they will be by 2030/31.
Tom Holland on the Myth of Liberal Neutrality
John Anderson
In between comments I’ve been reading Inferno by Schlichter, his latest. His’s not a bad future extrapolation either. In the last ten pages he’s managed to overtly include Mad Max, Lucifer’s Hammer, Python’s Holy Grail and Apocalypse Now. Glorious! That’s also a pretty good extrapolation of where we are headed if pollies don’t find collective brains. All for nothing too, since global warming isn’t happening.
Uncle Fester, you once told us you had “retired”!
Secondly, “Not Enough” is a very silly, simplistic explanation. The price signal determines supply, which means that price drives the availability of a commodity – not someone living in Newcastle posting on a blog that there isn’t “enough”. Lithium is one of the most common commodities around and commercial discovery/supply will be a function of price.
As far as EU mandated standards goes, GO VLAD, GO! If the EU winds up as a pockmarked, blackened landscape inhabited by roving cannibal gangs, I DON’T CARE.
Just wow! The renaissance man has spoken. Renaissance man or perhaps Lord Haw Haw.
You must live in a capital city.
It’s fucking incredible that someone here would say he doesn’t really care if 530 million people died off because of war and starvation. Presumably this would be his own broad ethnic group – not this matters much.
Mental health is indicated at optimum here by some.
Lenin loved cats.
“The Road”
OK I give up. Innocuous post about Spodumenes and Lepidolites (Lithium Ores) and it is bounced…
The site has been doing some vewy screwey things lately… 🙁
What is happening, though, is the government cancelling new dams and using the money to once again enter the water market and buy up water for the “environment”.
The ideology underpinning these actions is “less people on the planet”, don’t be deluded that it’s anything but.
Perhaps I shouldn’t have sold all my ASX:GLN shares are $2.
*at
The price signal determines supply, which means that price drives the availability of a commodity – not someone living in Newcastle posting on a blog that there isn’t “enough”. Lithium is one of the most common commodities around and commercial discovery/supply will be a function of price.
The IEA says the world could face lithium shortages by 2025. And Credit Suisse says lithium demand could treble between 2020 and 2025, meaning “supply would be stretched”. Campaign group Transport and Environment says there is only enough lithium to produce up to 14 million EVs in 2023, Reuters reports.
Says Law doesn’t apply to rare Earths. Lithium is widespread but always in small concentrations. Another point is that lithium is important for other things from computers, phones, a range of electrical medical equipment and anti-depressants. Using it for EV batteries is a waste.
Water for the ‘vironment is stupid. It’s dense, but why take it to the level you have, though, when it’s most likely these idiots think there’s plenty of water. There’s also a desal plant that makes us relatively immune to running out of water in droughts.
the best and brightest generally do not go into politics.
As has been observed the right lost because they don’t fight, at least not where it counts. The left fight and play dirty and aim to control everything upstream of politics, it’s all about the utopian communist vision by any means. fabians in particular share the same method as islam, that is death by a thousand cuts.
50 years of little cuts and here we are, every institution is infested by wokeshits. The largest companies in the world are woke.
the public service sole job seems to be enforce rules and regulations and provide virtually no service to anyone. look at the press releases by tga or asic, its just a stream of endless fines and prosecutions. most of these depts basically just manage a database and spend all their time as enforcers of rules and regulations. I have made numerous complaints to asic, they go nowhere. the latest tga press release they fined a company selling vitamins $13k for saying unapproved things about a product.
the bugmen state is out of control, it is a de-facto police force in every sense of the word, unelected bugmen enforcing rules mostly of their own making with the full power of the state. it is also totally corrupt and partisan.
search the tga approved therapies register for covid and the ONLY thing that comes up are mRNA injectables. corrupt as shit.
LOL. Awe. Next page I read of Inferno:
Doesn’t say whether Juggsy was a nutty Canadian though. I wish what he writes would stop coming true! Except for the hammer fight he has nailed this months ago. Did the same with Wildfire, which really creeped me out.
East Pakistan (Bangladesh) taking it up to the IT blokes in the crikkit.
India made 185. The Bangers are rolling at 10 an over – 0/60 after six. India are starting to get the shits on with said Bangers, and each other because it’s not going as expected.
Come on, you flood-prone Banga povos. Go you fucking good thing.
Ohhhh fuck off with the rain.
Actually, send ‘er down Hughie. The Bangers are 17 runs up on DLS.
Gently smearing with bold praise.
Who gives a shit what the IEA says. Price determines availability for commodities, not the IEA, the AEI, the CDC, HBO Direct, Uncle Fester is Newcastle nor a divorce lawyer.
Just remember the JC law of slow moving problems. They get solved. It’s the fast moving black swan events we need to be worried about.
Around 2010 or so, I read that 5% of the world had been explored for oil&gas. We then ended up with lots of oil because of technical innovation .. ie fracking. While technological advance can’t be pinpointed, the price signal is an incredible motivator.
Also, the price of iron ore is falling. How does factor into the price of a car in 2025 when China’s demand would’ve collapsed. There are about 26 parts to an electric motor. At scale those things could eventually be produced for a couple of bucks. How does factor into the costs of an EV?
My point is don’t just focus on one thing – lithium – and pull up your skirt in a panic. It’s unseemly.
in Newcastle.
Where is America Headed? | Dennis Prager
John Anderson
Can you link to the Credit Suisse report as I’d like to see it. Or tell me the name of the report as I have access to their research website. It’s not that I don’t believe you, but with a divorce lawyer it’s always trust but verify. Also, I wouldn’t put it past those fuckers to be spruiking lithium stocks.
You don’t really understand the context of Says law. Please remain silent on this matter, cronkers.
Sure the price can go up and we can get more lithium but there will be a long lead time.
Also, the embedded carbon pollution will exceed fossil fuel/traditional ICE cars and will be far more than nuclear powered atmospheric gas to liquid fuel catalytic conversion would be.
What we need is a manganese revolution in batteries, the Rand to shoot up, the AUD to fall and Ramaphosa to subsidise the hell out of Saffer mining.
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Dot
If the price goes to prohibitive levels then EV cars will not be made by the car makers because consumers won’t be able to afford them. Either the lithium will become available at an economic price or there’s no cars.
There’s no panic over this.
None of this matters.
The only thing I want to see is the camel-herders post a modest total against Alintastralia. I then want to see the sandpaper cheats implode trying to chase the total in ten overs and get knocked over a couple short.
Climate change, my dear Watson
I can design you a manganese battery Dot, if you want. Couple patents floating around in that space with my name on them. The chemistry could be adapted for a battery I think. Manganese is already used in non-rechargeable batteries – we had a battery-grade MnO2 plant here in Ncl on Kooragang island for many years, but it eventually couldn’t compete with the usual suspects and closed. I got a tour of it once.
Unfortunately the energy density would be similar to the vanadium flow batteries, maybe a bit better since I think I could get a two-electron energy transfer (vanadium is single electron, as is iron). Flow batteries are enormous white elephants, or in the case of manganese either purple or dark green ones depending on the oxidation state. Pretty colours.
If we’re going to fucking “karenize” ourselves to death over the price of lithium then why has the largest lithium producer flatlined at US$93 bucks a share and hasn’t lifted back past its all time highs of US113 a share?
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. Symbol (SQM)
The lithium ETF hit a high of US$92 a share in 2021 and it’s now trading at 68.30 a share.
symbol LIT
If there’s going to be a dire shortage then why are SQM and LIT (ETF) not bursting through their all time highs and heading to the moon?
You know why? It’s because I sense there are a bunch of lithium Karens on the site. That’s why.
Don’t be a lithium Karen.
I’m speaking more to irrigated agriculture, JC.
There’s enough water flowing around the eastern states right now to guarantee at least two years of full irrigation production of food and fibre, the majority of which would be exported. I’m probably being conservative with that figure.
New dams could be built and/or existing ones enlarged but this is not allowed anymore. The government would rather see even more water flow out to sea, which will mean less agricultural output.
Ergo, less ability to feed more people.
Well, yes. Obviously.
But as I can’t see that tonight, I would like to see the Bangas get up – with or without DLS.
I reckon it’s a superb tactical move. The Bangs must have realised the rain was coming, and went whacko in the hopes of a) not losing a wicket, and b) getting to the position they’re in now.
I bet it’s not only just Uncle Fester’s name on the patent but a host of people.
the very least the right need to do:
eradicate the sources of funding for the left
go after the billionaires that fund the lunacy
force universities to abandon leftism
reform the entire education system
punish big tech and big pharma
reform the administrative state
marxism must be criminalised
on a global stage the ccp must be destroyed
Bush
Does the desal plant water route to where you are and/or other rural areas?
I never followed it here in Victoria after the plant was built, but I recall they said desal plant water would eventually be made available to the entire state through pipes. Not done?
One of the problems for MnO2 battery material was a thing called cryptomelane. That’d be a great crossword word, very few would get it. The Ncl battery plant avoided it by doing a jarosite precipitation step – potassium jarosite is extremely insoluble so all the K would be removed from solution. Elegant chemistry. The Jarosite Process was a major metallurgical advance in the seventies.
Fester
Most the the people here haven’t done advanced science, so speaking in jargon without explanation is just simply wanking in public.
Lithium price rises, CAD sells off Nevada assets, Yule, Mallina and Pardoo mines start, investors cheer!
???
JC
The Sugarloaf Pipeline literally stole water from the Murray Darling basin then Tony Burke proposed that agriculture water use be severely cut!
What a pisstake.
Dot
If lithium supply was as dire as some lithium Karens here are suggesting, SQM would be through 200 bucks and so would LIT. Call me sceptical.
Lithium is dead.
The next big thing in batteries is luciferase.
And I am in on the ground floor.
Tony Burka is a fucking moron? Who knew?
I tweeted him back about a decade ago calling him Tony Burka and he blocked me.
The DHS Leaks Superscandal
Styxhexenhammer666
Fantastic!
Soaring power production from households and businesses with rooftop solar panels has sent records tumbling across Australia as output from fossil fuels falls to all-time lows.
JC,
No, desal water is only for the cities.
From memory the Wonthaggi abomination can only deliver 25-30% of Melbournes water needs/yr and it would have to be running flat out with no breakdowns to do that.
Okay, thanks
The manganese chemistry stuff was fun. We pitched it to a certain operation, which I won’t name. They were miffed since they’d developed their own tech over many years, which was really elegant chemistry but quite clunky and expensive. So they weren’t happy with us. But we got some funds and tested it and it worked fine in the lab. Ironically the temp lab tech who did the testwork then got a job at that site as a process metallurgist – she’s a good chemist, an immigrant from the Philippines, so it was a worthy outcome.
The other use for the tech is in the nickel industry. That worked also in the lab, and would piss off the Canadians since it massively simplifies the process they use (I’ve been around the Ft Saskatchewan operation). I don’t mind pissing off Canadians. Third application is for zinc refineries. That worked in the lab as well, but we didn’t do a patent application for that one.
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A high-up dude at a major mining house told me once the firm would apply for numerous patents and his name is on some these, because even though he didn’t do any research, he led the process. If your name is on a patent as part of a group of people – especially working for a major corporation, it really means shit unless you know specifically what the person did towards attaining the patent.
Courtesy of my son, whose internet roamings should perhaps have has me a bit worried, a link to Paul Pelosi’s hammer.
Ffs
Crap typing…sigh…
I’ll try again:
Thomas Sowell on the retarded global warming scam.
Interesting. If only there was a political party heading to an election that could speak to this part of the electorate.
Battery tech.
Luciferase batteries are fine, until the resultant nanowires start short-circuiting.
That’s when you need wolfsbane and eye of newt, and that’s where the cash is.
I heard a funny podcast today. The dude reckoned that at least in the history of the English language, it’s likely “underpants” and “hammer” are two words that have never been seen together in a paragraph much less a sentence. .
I suspect a lot of the very same demographic would be dismayed by the net zero rubbish the Libs are pushing, since they can read science – which is why they avoided or tried to avoid the useless and dangerous mRNA vaccinations.
Well once the nation crashes into a green mess maybe the Libs and Nats will come to their senses.
I’m not holding out much hope though.
what could possibly go wrong
You must live in a capital city.
Hypothetical obviously, but how about this as a scenario of how it will be done.
Lets say that the Australian govt follow the EU and to a slightly lesser extent, the USA and announces in 2026 that new ICE sales will be banned effective 1 January 2035. They note the diminishing demand for ICE cars, global shift to EVs or other alternative renewable fuels, achieving net zero by 2050…… yada yada yada.
As 2035 approaches, new ICE car production has largely collapsed because of pending global legislation, sales falling and draconian emission requirements. So, on 1 January 2035, new ICE car sales are banned in Australia.
On 31 December 2034, you say “bugger that” and go and buy one of the last new ICE cars in the country. Yay!!
Over the next couple of years you note your annual registration contains an ‘environmental levy’. Within a couple of years your annual registration fee has doubled. Then, your insurer tells you that they cannot insure for damage to your ICE, only total loss plus damage to another vehicle. Premium doubled, take it or leave it. The levy and premiums continue to increase yearly.
Your local garage tells you that spare parts are not as readily available – even routine parts like air/oil/fuel filters take a week to source and by the way, there is a govt mandated environmental disposal levy on the old ones. (Today, manufacturers are only required by law to keep spare parts for 10 years after the vehicle was manufactured meaning that from 31 December 2044, OEM parts will be very difficult to source).
Then there’s the petrol. All the fuel companies were originally supplying at a reasonable price as there were initially many ICE cars still on the roads but that is no longer their core business and the number of ICE vehicles continues to diminish. Petrol also now contains an environmental levy per litre. Come in spinner!!
Finally, in 2040 increasing prices for rego and insurance force you to give up but your 5 year old ICE car is effectively worthless, except maybe to a collector. After all, who else would want to buy a car that costs a small fortune to register, insure, fuel and do routine maintenance every year.
Meanwhile, roof top solar panel installation passes 75% of domestic dwellings …..next gen hydrogen powered cars are being offered as an alternative to EVs……. hydrogen powered heavy vehicles are common place…….
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I know there is a number of problems with this scenario (it is only hypothetical) and EVs have plenty of other issues including the infrastructure to charge them, and replacement battery cost/disposal etc. We all know that, but we also know that governments around the world have committed to net zero by 2050. No nation can achieve net zero with ICE petrol cars on their roads so the transition must be in force from about 2035 otherwise the national fleet can’t be replaced in time.
rosiesays:
November 2, 2022 at 10:26 pm
What would be fanbloodytastic is TheirGreensALPBC running solely and wholly on ruinables 24hrs a day 365 days a year.
Twitter is actually incredible.
Dickhead, Stephen King ( the fiction author) posted that if twitter was going to charge 20 bucks a month to “blue tick” twitter contributors he was hightailing it out of there.
Musk oil responded… “How about 8 bucks then”?
The highest earning author in history with a net worth of around US$500 million was whining about forking over 20 bucks and the richest man in the world tried to negotiate down to 8 bucks a month. Freaking hilarious.
KD – Luciferase is actually used as a visual method of determining gene expression. It’s a standard methodology. Makes cells glow green with phosphorescence as a way to confirm if an accompanying DNA modification has been successful.
So I suggest caution re this particular conspiracy theory. Detecting faint green light of a certain tightly specific wavelength is quite feasible. I very much doubt it though, particularly in practical lumen radiance levels that I’d expect from that – probably undetectably faint. But it happens to be possible biochemistry-wise.
A question I’ve never asked here is this: what would happen if the mRNA vaccine manufacturers quietly included some reverse transcriptase enzyme as well as the mRNA in the microsomes? Cats who know biochemistry will know what I’m referring to.
Evil, mentally damaged little bint who appears to have a very unhappy life.
Soaring power production from households and businesses with rooftop solar panels has sent records tumbling across Australia as output from fossil fuels falls to all-time lows.
Complete and utter BS. SA got all its power from solar for 49 seconds on October 17. Where installed capacity is 3 times peak demand. Fucking insane. I hate EVs because ultimately they are contradictory to the point of being stupid. The only way EVs can have even a modicum of reliability is with a grid powered by fossils or nuclear.
Why EVs are shit.
even with a truck-load of free solar irradiance
and forget wind … its effectively solar energy anyway
… the global renewable energy scam is the world’s largest proposed perpetual motion machine
… evah!
Zippy, I was a bit underwhelmed by Anderson interviewing Tom Holland. Holland wimped out on Islam and safely lumps it in with Christianity as a myth. Couldn’t finish Dominion. He’s a historian and mostly they see religion as politics and the church as Labor party factions at war in dresses.
Havana has eighty year old Chevys on their streets.
Quite a large demographic will forget to pay rego, and the number of fake number plates circulating will mysteriously increase.
No one will bother paying insurance. I suspect fewer and fewer are doing so now, it increasingly isn’t worth it. And as law breaks down, so does financial culpability (baseball bats to the kneecaps are cheap though).
See comment about Havana. Weird how those cars keep going. It’s a mystery.
Now that is an issue. Black markets would immediately start up. And I suspect the government would collapse if they tried it. As I said upthread the only way you can make such a thing happen is to go full totalitarian, and if you do that you’re now in Nork-style economy, where the peasants learn to eat grass and like it. Which then means EVs are basically Zils, until a revolution comes. Then the Zil drivers get to ride in tumbrils instead.
Retired blokes with to much time on their hands:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Xmydm-Cms
A guide from NZ’s security services details dozens of indicators that a friend or family member could be planning a terror attack.
New Zealand security services launch initiative to help public identify warning signs of violent extremism
Our secret service is launching an initiative to help us identify people who may have been radicalised.
The guide, titled ‘Kia mataara ki ng? tohu – Know the signs, a guide for identifying signs of violent extremism’, details dozens of indicators that a friend or family member could be planning a terror attack.
Our secret service is launching an initiative to help us identify people who may have been radicalised.
The guide, titled ‘Kia mataara ki ng? tohu – Know the signs, a guide for identifying signs of violent extremism‘, details dozens of indicators that a friend or family member could be planning a terror attack.
…
Because New Zealand doesn’t want to see attacks similar to that suffered by Nancy Pelosi’s husband.
Bruce of Newcastle says:
November 2, 2022 at 11:10 pm
Ah yes, but do Australians have the same revolutionary and defiant capacity to withstand the green zeal as the Cubans (with Russian support) did over American pressure? If the last couple of years are any guide, I very much doubt that most people will do so.
And don’t forget, this green thing permeates every govt dept and almost every business on the planet.
(you can’t be seriously suggesting that people will, en mass, drive their unregistered and uninsured vehicles about.)
By the way, maintaining an 80 year old Chevy is a hell of a lot easier than a new modern car.
No. But we do have the capability to be a North Korea in the Southern Hemisphere (see: Victoria).
Kind of defeats the purpose though.
My point is you cannot defy economic gravity and the natural laws of science. It doesn’t work. If you try it you just end up a miserable basket case like Norkistan, Venezuela or Zimbabwe. Either the people revolt against the silly unenforceable laws or the whole system collapses. Or both.
yes. would be interesting to see what the rest of the interview is about
there’s a faction that believe people are a cancer on the planet
Retrofitting will be your friend Speedy. All those electronics can be dispensed with, assuming the ingenuity of a Cuban mechanic, some cabling and a few drilled holes and knobs on your dashboard. May need a few ye old fashioned carburetors and stuff, but I have a lot of faith in the ability of mechanics to get things running without OEM parts, if they have to. I defer to your understanding of cars though, I’ve never been interested in them except as a comfortable critter I can drive around in (with occasional use as an aircraft carrier – several noisy miners today).
One of the issues will be the importation of Chinese ICE cars. The government will be disinclined to piss off the Chinese for obvious reasons, and predictably we will see shiploads of Chinese used cars appear on our docks with 50 km on their clocks, one owner low mileage.
The number of Havals and Saics are multiplying already. That again means EVs are priced out of competition. And if the government restricts such vehicles a certain Mr Xi won’t be happy.
Anyway, “Sliante” to all you mob.
Mme Zulu is on the mend. She is demanding a new lounge suite. I wanted to know what was wrong with the old one.
“It may have escaped your attention, but we have had it for thirty five years.”
I crawled back under my rock.
We all agree on the problems. I just don’t see the government, any government, backing down. All are captured by the Left/greens. They will just throw more and more of our money at it.
Look at what’s happening even now….. how many billions of dollars….. and this is just the start.
Funny you mention that. Chinese EV manufacturing is going very strongly and Mrs Speedbox has been gathering some prices for me on Chinese EVs being sold in Russia.
It came about as she commented a few days ago about the number of Chinese cars on Russian roads these days. Noticeable increase. Not really surprising I suppose but there are some very interesting EVs (and ICE) cars from China now mixing with Russian cars. One from China is a rip off of the Porsche Cayenne. Very luxurious with incredible 0-100 time. Something like 3.9 seconds!
I’ve started writing a guest post.
Norkistan or tumbrils. Their choice. I don’t give a flying frig about their stupidity, if they really want to turn us into North Korea they are able to do so. But not with democracy in operation and the voters will not let their cars be taken away. And if the authorities try…the same will happen as has been happening in the tobacco sector – rule of law will shrivel and respect for the police will vanish. Once that happens you cannot maintain a democracy, it will be a totalitarian state, a revolution or an anarchy. A state cannot maintain enough police and security personnel if the population are hostile, unless totalitarian repression is used. Whereupon you are now exactly in the situation I said. It’s futile, stupid and evil.
They’ve read Napoleon closely, and are happy to make hay while the sun is shining. They also want to win, which is why they’ve been financially supporting green groups for a very long time.
Keep in mind the EV sector in China is about pollution control not CO2. The population density and the microclimate is such in many cities that smog has been extremely bad. So the authorities have been moving all SOx and NOx producing sources outside city limits. That includes the electric bus system, which in China is vast. It makes sense for them, and it might also do for places like Delhi, it does not for us.
One of the things against us is we’re an island. Which as I said earlier won’t prevent China from landing “used cars” on our shores. It’ll slow it down though.
But if you think of Europe – their 2035 ICE bans are inane. Totally unenforceable. What will happen is cheap Chinese ICE cars will land in Bulgaria and suchlike, then they will migrate all over the EU. The EC will not be able to stop this. As a consequence all European car manufacturers will die, or move to China. Then get taken over by the Chinese. As a result the EU will still be 90-95% ICE cars but will have no remaining car industry. Well it’s their loss. Not my problem.
…..the voters will not let their cars be taken away….
They won’t be – just replaced.
Time will tell I suppose but I stand by my comments that the decisions have already been made.
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Time to relax – I’m sure this subject will come up again. 🙂
A small example that proves this point: my 20 y-o granddaughter claims “debating you is just like talking to a brick wall”.
Simply because I won’t give in to her Greta Thunberg talking points and I argue climate facts gleaned from Ian Plimer’s work.
She, like many others, was brainwashed at school and by the MSM.
Still, as a great philosopher once said, Never give up; never surrender.
Bibi, Bibi, Bibi.
Old School Conservativesays:
November 3, 2022 at 12:28 am
Three Centuries Of Greta’s Family Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kjeTslIX3A&t
You have forgotten the heavy, visible hand of Big Government who will probably ban the sale of new ICE vehicles, ban the use of second hand ICE vehicles, tax petrol out of reach, mandate the use of electric cars, subsidise EV manufacture, and “nudge” the population into accepting the high price of EVs.
Courier Mail has another Covid scare article up. Dr Griffin, one of the biggest Vax pushers in the country, has his views apparently outweigh that of the CHO Qld. They ran a similar article only a few days ago and in that one also CM sided with Griffin’s view.
Expressed by disgust and asked for how long CM is going to keep supporting the narrative despite a huge amount of info showing the Vax is not right for everybody. Not expecting comment to be approved but might make a moderator think. Even mentioned the News com au poll from last week.
If anybody has a CM subscription make sure you comment on the article.
“Only 35% of more than 45,000 vaccinated said they would make the same decision again”
Winston, my firstborn son was falsely accused by his schizophrenic partner of hitting both her and his little child because she was very scared she would lose custody of the child in the forthcoming custody case. He became quite suicidal about it, deeply distressed, and alone at the time in Perth till I flew back over to support him and then later to help with the two year old. I was present during the ‘hitting her’ episode and it was exactly the opposite – she went for him in with terrible schizoid ferocity, he was sitting on a bed and merely raised his arms to fend off her blows. And he was a total softy with the child. In the end after months of anguish it was all sorted, from her locked ward (by that time) she admitted making things up (egged on by feminazis in a women’s refuge who refused to recognise her mental illness), and he got full custody of the child with the right to halt any access visits if she appeared off her meds. Numerous episodes of that have been ongoing, but the grandson has now turned out to be a lad to be proud of. She is still a part of our extended family.
Cassie has a great sense of humour.
For entertaining warriors, see Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Leg gone, but not to worry, it’s only a flesh wound.
Lizzie, in case you missed this one:
If you are stuck with Pensacola I recommend staying on Pensacola Beach. ‘Flounders’ is great for lunch or dinner.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Andy Davey.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
Gary Varvel.
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
What a totally bizarre belief system.
The USSR was guilty of all of the above.
If the USSR was capitalist, you’re just taking the piss.
As part of their ministry, the church decided to run a daily soup kitchen. Not surprisingly, the free food was very popular with the homeless people in the area. However, this gift did come with a small catch – first you had to listen to a sermon.
Every day the rows of pews would be filled with derelicts, bums, and plenty of people down on their luck. One afternoon, the minister decided it was time again to lecture on the evils of alcohol.
In order to get their attention, the minister began the service by putting up two glasses. One he filled with water. The other he filled with gin.
Then he pulled out a worm and dropped it in the water. The worm swam happily around in the glass of water until the minister pulled it back out. As the worm wriggled in his fingers, the minister proclaimed with certainty that the worm loved the water and that the water was safe for the worm.
Then the minister dropped the worm in the gin. Almost instantly the worm died and its ravaged body began to disappear in the toxic element.
The minister let out a satisfied cry of delight “Do you see what evils this alcohol has done!? What does this experiment prove?”
An old drunk in the back of the room spoke up “Reverend, it proves that if you drink alcohol, you’ll never get worms! Can we eat now?”
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Biden Has to Go – Danger to the Entire World
From Armstrong Economics –
“Biden again says his son died in Iraq when he died of brain cancer in the hospital. He blames inflation on Putin and Ukraine, then just tell Zelensky to negotiate peace and end inflation. This guy is incompetent to be president. He is putting the entire world at risk for this is the guy that can launch nukes and order our boys into Ukraine to fight inflation with missiles, guns, and body bags? He should not be there!”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/biden-has-to-go-danger-to-the-entire-world/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Curious.
Given that his handlers have to know how bad the polls are against them and that their chances of success at the ballot box next week are slim at best, one has to wonder exactly what they are trying to accomplish by speaking on those topics.
It’s probably safe to say it isn’t good for the country.
Sending any goods to the Solomon Islands is just money thrown in the bin.
You need to provide a service.
An ongoing service.
Bob Hawke understood this running the Shanghai Shuttle bring CCP bigwigs & their families to Australia for medical treatment.
If Australia wants to do anything meaningful, the kids of certain Solomon’s bigwigs should already be attending the schools of their choice on the taxpayer tab.
Turdberger is horror movie material.
Nope, haven’t forgotten any of that. If the price of a good is out of reach for folks then it’s out of reach.
Some of the Lithium Nancys were implying the price of an average car will resemble the cost of a Rolls Royce. Really?
Maybe people will eventually vote for a government that gives them the freedom to choose ICE or EV, reliable fossil fuel electricity, that kind of thing.
Rosie, it’s true these mandates are disgusting, but ultimately reality will win out.
it’s okay! the experts at renew economy think wind solar droughts will only see Australia have regular supply interruptions of a hour, tops.
Eurozone Inflation Reaches New High – Recession Incoming
From Armstrong Economics –
“Inflation in the Eurozone hit a new record in October, according to Eurostat who reported a 10.7% rise. That marks an increase from September’s 9.9% posting and an all-time high since Eurostat began compiling Eurozone data in 1997. The European Central Bank (ECB) attempted to curb inflations with another 75 bps hike last week. The ECB knows that inflation is here to stay. They recently changed their annual inflation target for next year to 5.8% compared to the 3.6% they were predicting three months ago. They can’t release the actual figures without causing a panic.
Economic growth “slowed significantly in the third quarter of the year and we expect a further weakening in the remainder of this year and beginning of next year,” ECB head Christine Lagarde warned. Inflation is hitting some countries harder than others. Estonia (22.4%), Latvia (21.8%), and Lithuania (22%) all experienced nearly double the average inflation rate this October.
The downturn will not be equal across the Eurozone. The managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, is warning that half of the 19 countries in the bloc will fall into a recession. “Europe is affected more severely by the increase of energy prices. The heat on European economies is such that we actually expect half of the countries in the eurozone to experience at least two quarters of negative growth. In other words, a recession,” she said, without naming the countries,” Georgieva warned. She further stated that the IMF’s pre-pandemic projections compared to current projections differ by a loss of half a trillion euros.
“I am not going to sugar-coat it: 2023 will be tougher than 2022. Next winter for Europe may be even harsher than this winter,” she declared. “Why? Because European policymakers acted very swiftly to fill gas storage. If conditions remain as they are with Russia not providing gas to Europe, how is this gas storage going to be filled next year?”
Another question comes to light – can Europe remain untied amid a serious recession? The ECB will use the same strategy in an attempt to fix the broken system for the entirety of the Eurozone instead of looking at each individual economy. Let’s not forget that deeply indebted countries will only face higher costs that they likely will not be able to repay. The ECB dug its grave in 2014, and they do not have the tools to handle the current crisis. It is easy for Europe to appear as a united front when there is peace and prosperity. The real test will come when everything crashes down, and fairness goes out the window.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/europes-current-economy/eurozone-inflation-reaches-new-high-recession-incoming/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
I wonder how many of those experiencing ‘vaccine regret’ in Australia do so because omicron is the only variant they’ve seen in action, and for most it’s turned out to be a fizzer?
As for it being a sufficiently big enough issue to rally behind a political party.
Clive says, been there, done that.
New research suggests booster dose of Novavax NVX-CoV2373 vaccine is effective against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants
That last link contains luciferase.