Open Thread – Tues 17 Jan 2023


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Black Ball
Black Ball
January 18, 2023 10:11 pm

Abbott cannot play a part Cassie.
He had his time in which he revealed himself as Labor Lite

Black Ball
Black Ball
January 18, 2023 10:12 pm

And page turn

Cassie of Sydney
January 18, 2023 10:13 pm

“Abbott cannot play a part Cassie.
He had his time in which he revealed himself as Labor Lite”

Correct. No to Tony Abbott.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 18, 2023 10:16 pm

Tony Abbott had his chance and he squibbed it

This.

rosie
rosie
January 18, 2023 10:18 pm

Italy was in drought a while back, possibly not now though. The Tiber is flooded, the walking paths alongside the river, now a swirling brown torrent are no longer visible.
I debated bringing a rain coat after only a single use last year.
Just as well.
I’ve tried a wind3 sim this time. Started working with zero issues. Now to get my kosher kebab and find shelter

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

feelthebern says: January 18, 2023 at 10:01 pm
What’s Avi doing at Davos?

So far he’s got the “International Managing Editor” of CNBC (a “news” channel) offering to “punch him out” for asking him why CNBC is there as a contributor rather than as reporters.

One would think this to be a simple question eliciting a simple answer, rather than a “I’ll deck you for asking that”
Apparently not.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 18, 2023 10:20 pm

Last nite we took a walk thru the actual Ice Hotel where you can stay. It had rooms that were heavily themed with ice sculptures and elaborate bedheads. Every room was different and some slept six in a row. For swingers? muses Hairy. For families, I suggest more realistically. In point of fact the rooms were unoccupied and all on display, but some people do stay there. They have a demountable facilities area off one of the corridors. There is also a small auditorium with reindeer skin covered ice benches and a restaurant as found also in Snowman’s World yesterday. There was a function starting there was we roamed about. Everyone was in full outdoor coats, some wearing gloves. We were glad to get back to our tour’s meal in a proper restaurant with a roaring fire in the middle roasting the salmon for our meal on huge vertical grills. Yummy. We then retired to our glass igloos.

The Ice Hotel melts every Spring and rebuilt every winter.

Real Deal
Real Deal
January 18, 2023 10:22 pm

Wasn’t Simon Hunt the guy who performed as Pantsdown at a Homebake musical festival in the late 90s. Even the young progressive audience booed and pelted him with food. He claimed homophobia. Maybe he was just rubbish.

cohenite
January 18, 2023 10:23 pm

So, the japs won the war according to crotchless. Anyone who watched Shintaro knew that.

P
P
January 18, 2023 10:24 pm

I was a big Tony Abbott fan. One of his first attacks was to old age pensioners and the next to Medicare. He lost me then. There was no need to strike first at the lowest earners and those most in need.
I still like him. Just a big disappointment as PM though.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
January 18, 2023 10:26 pm

Perfidious Albino says:
January 18, 2023 at 8:13 pm
Attended the AO this afternoon (miserable weather), they are handing out free Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander flags (take your pick) at the public information booths and via roaming helpers. The push is on……

……..everywhere.
“The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust’s land always was, always will be, Aboriginal Land.

Real Deal
Real Deal
January 18, 2023 10:29 pm

Trouble is, Abbott would be vastly superior to whatever woke pick Photios and his cronies decide.

Robert Sewell
January 18, 2023 10:33 pm

Cassie of Sydney:

I think I should be advising the Liberals, but they wouldn’t listen to me. I’m too sensible.

One piece of advice for the Liberals, Cassie – “Shit or get off the pot.”

Top Ender
Top Ender
January 18, 2023 10:46 pm

Courier-Mail:

…gunman firing at police in the southwest Queensland town of Tara as multiple emergency units take cover and residents evacuate.

rickw
rickw
January 18, 2023 10:48 pm

“New rule from the police just in last week. You can’t handle any firearm anymore unless you have a licence for it.”

How and why do cock smocking Australian Police get to make law?

Robert Sewell
January 18, 2023 10:48 pm

The Frollicking Moll:
One thing about the voice that alarms me is the prospect of Federal laws being knocked back, but the individual states being able to bring them in by themselves using the voice as a sort of justification for their actions.
“Yes we know the voice failed to get the required numbers of votes to pass the Referendum, but 50.5% of Australians thought it a jolly good thing and so we’re going to just pass Laws. And anyone who objects is a Racist bastard.”
We’ve seen how State laws/regulations are able to essentially bypass Federal laws in terms of compensation to compulsorily acquire land and property via environmental regs.
The voice is meant to unlock the powers of acquisition, the States will kick the doors in.
(Yes, I know it could be put much better, and more accurately, but have a go anyway.)

Robert Sewell
January 18, 2023 10:59 pm

Digger:

I am not suggesting that Trump admit he was wrong with anything…. Far from it. I am suggesting that as more people die suddenly and he keeps talking about his vaccine development initiatives and funding of the mRNA versions someone is going to eventually put two and two together and ask for the communications between his White House, Big Pharma and Fauci from early 2020 and that may not be good for his future, politically.

Ok, that’s fair enough.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
January 18, 2023 11:05 pm

seen several e-bikes (mainly elderly SE Asians)

Here on the glorious northern beaches the current craze is 2 or 3 young girls (15-ish) crammed onto one electric bike, travelling at a great rate of knots, brown faces shrieking with delight, long hair flying in the wind and bare feet lifted just inches from the ground.
Roads, footpaths, pedestrian crossings, grass verges – all are fair game for the young thrill seekers.
I drove alongside a single (footpath) rider today – we were both doing 45kph.

I used to be appalled at such gross irresponsibility, but now think great! Young people taking risks and defying government rules can only be good for Australia. Independent minded, totally oblivious of the stench of ‘elf and safety strictures, managing risk with aplomb, and generally not causing harm to others while building fantastic memories of their own.

What’s not to like?

m0nty
m0nty
January 18, 2023 11:06 pm

Did I make myself unemployable? By refusing experimental treatment I didn’t “make” anything happen, the Australian Government did.

Employment? Am I employable in Australia? Yes, as long as I don’t mention that I was terminated for refusing to take the vaccine. Taking such a stand is unthinkable to Australia’s fascist population, in their eyes it’s a portent of something more sinister. Not the case with Americans and Brits, in fact the reaction is the opposite.

It’s your fault, rick. You have nobody to blame but yourself.

I’m not going to sugar coat it or give you an out. You’re a grown man. You buggered it up. If you were acting like a grown man, you would admit that rather than chucking a tanty.

(And yes I’m employed, currently working in the Maldives.)

Ah right. South East Asia, where so many of Australia’s old men go when they can’t hack it here any more and want to wallow in self-pity.

m0nty
m0nty
January 18, 2023 11:08 pm

Although I suppose the Maldives aren’t particularly eastern. 🙂

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 18, 2023 11:08 pm

Daily Mail.

Two cops shot at and a gunman is on the run near the small town where police were ambushed by paranoid conspiracy theorists – as a terrified local reveals they saw ‘a bullet go straight past me’

Police hunting gunman after multiple shots fired
Exclusion zone declare in Queensland town of Tara
Town was home base for cops gunned down last year 

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Hat tip to Top Ender,
Below is the article referenced above by Top Ender.

Western Downs police units called to Tara as shots fired
An active shooter situation is unfolding with a gunman firing at police in the southwest Queensland town of Tara as multiple emergency units take cover and residents evacuate.

2 min read
January 18, 2023 – 9:54PM
A gunman has fired multiple shots at police in the centre of a regional Queensland town near where two officers were gunned down in an ambush five weeks ago.
Specialist officers were racing to Tara late on Wednesday night to track the gunman who fired shots which hit a civilian car.
It’s understood officers came under fire while responding to an incident near Smallacombe St about 3.30pm on Wednesday when they heard gunfire, however they could not determine where it was being aimed.
Specialist police, PolAir and multiple crews were continuing to respond to the ongoing incident into the night
It is understood police came under fire a number of times between just 5pm and 5.25pm.
Police officers and paramedics ducked behind vehicles and ushered residents away from the area in the moments afterwards.
As a result, an emergency declaration was made about 5.30pm, shutting down a number of streets in the Western Downs town.
Paramedics and nearby residents jumped into an ambulance and reversed down the street to escape gunfire when the exclusion zone was expanded.
Between 5.30 -7.05pm about 10 nearby residents on Day St and nearby streets were evacuated from their homes by police.
Less than 50m away from the gunfire, a resident who had just come into town to fuel up her car heard the sound of gunshots.
The woman, who asked not to be named, said herself and four other people had locked themselves in the business as shots began to ring out.
The woman said she could see police cars, an ambulance and another car at the intersection of Day and Fry streets.
As people ran from the street into the cafe seeking shelter, a plan was put in motion to lockdown, shut off the fuel access and pray.
“We can hear gunshots,” the woman said.
“Let him in, let that man in,” she said to fellow staff members as a man sought refuge from the unfolding incident.
Another man currently locked down in the cafe said it was scary, considering the horrific gunfight that took place near the township only a month ago.

“There’s a lot of s–t going down,” he said.
The shocking incident played out about 45kms from Wieambilla, where two officers from Tara, Constables Rachel McCrow and Matthew Arnold were brutally murdered, along with neighbour Alan Dare, by Nathaniel, Gareth and Stacey Train.
During the December 12 shootings, four police officers arrived at the Trains’ Wieambilla home about 4.30pm Monday to make routine inquiries about a missing person before they were ambushed by the crazed gunmen.
The Train’s were shot dead in an operation led by specialist officers from SERT following a shoot out in the hours after they brutally executed the Constables and Mr Dare.
State MP for Warrego Ann Leahy said it would be a “sleepless night” for the residents of Tara who were already reeling from the tragedy five weeks earlier.
“The community is trying to come back together and recover from what happened before Christmas and this is just really traumatic for them,” she said.
“This is not Australia, this is not Western Downs, this is not Tara – this is something you would see overseas.
“This is not what you would expect to see happening and unfolding in a community on the Western Downs.
“People are fearful and they don’t want to see this happen on a regular basis.”
“Everyone is just shocked and worried,” a Tara resident said.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
January 18, 2023 11:13 pm

It’s your fault, rick. You have nobody to blame but yourself.

errrr……what about apportioning blame to governments, CHOs, company directors, HR Karens, the media, blogs which refused to allow publication of opposing views, big pharma for pushing the “rules” followed by business……I could go on but that’s enough of a smackdown for one night.

rickw
rickw
January 18, 2023 11:14 pm

I’m not going to sugar coat it or give you an out. You’re a grown man. You buggered it up. If you were acting like a grown man, you would admit that rather than chucking a tanty.

You’re a f’cking fascist c’nt.

You absolutely believe that Australian Government has a right to deprive me of employment because I refused to take experimental medication?

m0nty
m0nty
January 18, 2023 11:17 pm

Yes Rick. If you don’t want to be a part of society, then get out. Which you have, I see.

Robert Sewell
January 18, 2023 11:18 pm

Calli:
I just looked up that painting – rather malevolent, isn’t it? Or does it just need a bit of restoration to brighten up the colours?

Zipster
Zipster
January 18, 2023 11:20 pm

Ah right. South East Asia, where so many of Australia’s old men go when they can’t hack it here any more and want to wallow in self-pity.

You have just raked yourself in the forehead again smutley, Maldives is not S.East.Asia. Maybe your last trip to soy6 messed you up a bit?

rickw
rickw
January 18, 2023 11:23 pm

Ah right. South East Asia, where so many of Australia’s old men go when they can’t hack it here any more and want to wallow in self-pity.

The Maldives is in the middle of the Indian Ocean you imbecile.

I’m not wallowing in self-pity you idiotic turd. If I’m doing any wallowing, it’s mourning the loss of freedom, liberty and decency in Australia.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 18, 2023 11:25 pm

I’m not wallowing in self-pity you idiotic turd. If I’m doing any wallowing, it’s mourning the loss of freedom, liberty and decency in Australia.

Hear, hear!!!

MatrixTransform
January 18, 2023 11:32 pm

He bought a second element which runs from 40 volts or so and connected it to about 3 x 200 watt second hand solar panels.

5 kWh is enough to lift 200 litres of water by 20°C

Dot
Dot
January 18, 2023 11:36 pm

Ah right. South East Asia, where so many of Australia’s old men go when they can’t hack it here any more and want to wallow in self-pity.

You’ll never be an old man monty.

rickw
rickw
January 18, 2023 11:45 pm

For the record, I actually love the job here, it brings together almost all my skills and experience into one activity.

The main part is commissioning the Jet Fuel system. But there’s some really rewarding side aspects. I’m mentoring one of the young Chinese blokes in running a proper Work Control System so we don’t kill anyone. He’s doing a bang up job, trying really hard.

The Indians and Bangladeshi’s love working with me because I respect their hard work and I always take the team to teach them how to do the job properly. They also know that I’m looking after their safety in a way that the Chinese supervisors can’t and won’t.

I get along great with my two Chinese offsiders, we have plenty of laughs, we’re in touch on WeChat and I’m sure we’ll remain in contact long after the projects done.

Honestly, the Melbourne Airport job was getting pretty mundane, I had put things back where they should have been, we’d gone up one level in the audit ratings after being stuck under previous management for nearly a decade at the level below. Plus I’d commissioned and integrated the new Jet tanks without a hitch. Plus managed to keep the ship right during COVID, plus helped set a scene where the unvaxxed were able to return to work as soon as the immoral laws ended.

rosie
rosie
January 18, 2023 11:45 pm

Oops.
My vision of Anna getting her dinner through the window as a frail bent little old lady was shattered this morning.
Older yes, but not that old, and very glamorous.
Glad she couldn’t read my mind.

Dot
Dot
January 18, 2023 11:45 pm

Yes Rick. If you don’t want to be a part of society, then get out. Which you have, I see.

Good to see munter has now declared the former head of the AMA & Member for Wentworth, with no criminal record or scandal, ought to “get out” of society – rather than be respected for a career as a doctor and a term in our national Parliament.

Munter’s not having a go at parents refusing to vaccinate their children AT ALL with proven vaccines. He’s dying in a ditch over mRNA vaccines, his corpulence of gut and size 48 pant seat bridging the ravine with his edema filled cankles kicking furiously before he works up a sweat and swings wildly into hypoglycaemia and dreams of rivers and lakes bursting their banks with jam donuts.

rosie
rosie
January 18, 2023 11:47 pm

Glad you landed on your feet Rickw.
I think Calli predicted you would move on to better things.

rickw
rickw
January 18, 2023 11:51 pm

What I’m looking at right now!

https://imgur.com/gallery/cFjs4rJ

Tekweni
Tekweni
January 18, 2023 11:56 pm

It’s quite likely that I wouldn’t be writing this if the N bombs hadn’t ended the war. My father, a Spitfire pilot, was going to convert to Mustangs to fly in the Pacific Theatre. He had 6 weeks as a German POW after being shot down and really did not want to repeat the experience over Japan. My father in law was on a fleet carrier supporting convoys from Australia. The day after war ended a Jap submarine surfaced right next to his carrier. Both could have been casualties had the bombs not being dropped. They both had no issues about loss of life. My father had been into a concentration camp outside Munich and my father in law saw released soldier who had been in Japanese prison camps. My father having seeing the concentration camp commented to me once that Germany should have been nuked after the war. No woke anti Japs being nuked in our families. Nothing like first hand accounts of what both the Germans and Japs did to people cure wokeism.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 19, 2023 12:05 am

Nothing like first hand accounts of what both the Germans and Japs did to people cure wokeism.

Cite you the example of the Dutch women, in the internment camps, in what is now Indonesia. Anyone who was married, and had children, was of no interest to the Japanese. The Dutch teenage girls, with the blonde hair, and blue eyes, went through HELL!

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 19, 2023 12:07 am

Remind us Monty.
How many kg did you lose to reduce your own covid risk?

And a real “society” man dragging your kids along to have their nostrils reamed because they dared sniffs in your Lardy presence.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 19, 2023 12:08 am

Liberal’s Senate push for Abbott to return

Former Victorian Liberal president and powerbroker Michael Kroger has called for the return of Tony Abbott to parliament through the new NSW senate vacancy.

Kroger must be Pyning (sorry about that) for the good old days of Howard v Peacock. The most useful thing Kroger could do is go for a walk on the ice (and be some time).

Arky
January 19, 2023 12:21 am

Yes Rick, it’s all your fault fascist scum gave you the dilemma of bodily autonomy or livelihood.

Arky
January 19, 2023 12:32 am

/sarcasm.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Maldives ain’t exactly a fleshpot & cheap beer haven of free-n-easy lifestyle rules for washed-up caucasian blokes. It is the opposite.

It is a hard-core Muslim halal lifetsyle.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
January 19, 2023 12:41 am

Sitting in the Chennai airport.
Tried to get the East India Company up and running again but was greeted with little interest – there aren’t any Nawabs left to strike a deal. I had to settle for a mango ice cream on the beach.

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
January 19, 2023 12:47 am

Back when I was a little tacker we had a neighbour who I only remember as “Mr Thomas”. He had been a prisoner of war in Thailand.

Mr Thomas didn’t seem to have a job, just used to walk the streets dressed in a hat, suit and tie and occasionally visit us for a meal or a chat with my Dad.

I vividly remember one lunch time him putting a sandwich from the table into his suit pocket even though there were plenty on the table. When I mentioned this to my Dad he told me about the treatment of POW’s by the Japanese and why Mr Thomas was hiding food in his pockets.

Fifty years ago, a still vivid memory of that poor chap and incredible sympathy for what he endured in the service of our country.

No wonder I have little or no sympathy that the Americans dropped two A Bombs on the Japanese in 1945.

slackster
slackster
January 19, 2023 12:49 am

Oof
Helicopter incident kills Ukraine’s interior ministry leadership
The three main figures in Ukraine’s interior ministry have been killed in a helicopter crash beside a nursery in an eastern suburb of the capital Kyiv.
Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky, 42, died alongside his first deputy minister and state secretary.

slackster
slackster
January 19, 2023 12:51 am
GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 19, 2023 2:31 am

One thing I know, munty will never be a man. Immature fat freak hiding in the basement playing fantasy fooba. What a tosser.

Tom
Tom
January 19, 2023 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
January 19, 2023 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
January 19, 2023 4:07 am

David Rowe. FMD.

Tom
Tom
January 19, 2023 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
January 19, 2023 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
January 19, 2023 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
January 19, 2023 4:12 am
Tom
Tom
January 19, 2023 4:14 am
Tom
Tom
January 19, 2023 4:15 am
Tom
Tom
January 19, 2023 4:16 am
Tom
Tom
January 19, 2023 4:18 am
bespoke
bespoke
January 19, 2023 5:07 am
Miltonf
Miltonf
January 19, 2023 5:07 am

One thing I know, munty will never be a man. Immature fat freak hiding in the basement playing fantasy fooba. What a tosser.

Dependent on real men doing real jobs but doesn’t want to understand this. One of the many parasites spawned by modern society.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
January 19, 2023 5:10 am

Thanks Tom.

Meanwhile in the Hun some kiddie who reckons it’s a journalist regurgitates the non-event slap around as between “two of Australia’s most influential men….”. Michael Clarke and Karl Stefanovic.

FMD – it must have failed plasticine in kindergarten.

Miltonf
Miltonf
January 19, 2023 5:21 am

Seeing the NSW Lieboral pardy played a big part in removing Abbott from the HoR (I suspect)- I very much doubt that they will appoint him to the Senate. Anyway, as stated above, his time has passed. Not that all the all the rats and cockroaches that undermined him were entirely his fault.

rickw
rickw
January 19, 2023 5:24 am

Thanks Tom!

rickw
rickw
January 19, 2023 5:28 am

The surf isn’t bad down there either, Rickw.

Can’t surf, but going wind surfing on Friday (can), never managed to master kite surfing while in PNG, but might restart that program!

bespoke
bespoke
January 19, 2023 5:39 am

Cassie of Sydneysays:
January 18, 2023 at 7:05 pm

Am I allowed to ask where the Department of Family and Community Services is? What do these government departments do? I don’t think a child should be allowed to crawl all over a filthy footpath whilst the mother begs. The child should be removed and fostered or even better, adopted. Or am I being too old fashioned? Australia 2022, not the country it was.

Alternatively you could ask the mum if knows of many government and volunteer services in the area and assist her in seeking them out.

rickw
rickw
January 19, 2023 5:47 am

people that locked themselves in at home during 2020, and they are directed against people that continued to work through the first and second lockdowns when the fear was at its height

I drove up to the farm every weekend. Just me and the front line operators on site every day.

rickw
rickw
January 19, 2023 5:52 am

Bar fix. Just talking to two LAMES on a defuel for a Bomardier that’s got a gauging and fuel transfer problem. Was scheduled for tomorrow, and we accidentally bumped into the LAMES involved, sorted.

calli
calli
January 19, 2023 6:06 am

It’s a good result, Rickw. Keep going and put it behind you. You are a better, stronger man having gone through it all.

Re-writing the story of your life is always hard in my experience. It’s already there, you just have to discover it. You were an inspiration to me in the last couple of years, along with a couple of others.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 19, 2023 6:11 am

Horrible story regarding the state not giving a shit about rape victims.

https://www.propublica.org/article/baltimore-police-dna-anthony-brown-cold-justice?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=river

The Baltimore County Police Department also has a long history of destroying rape case evidence. The department used to discard rape kits as early as a year after the exam, citing limited and costly storage space, though officials never put a dollar figure on such storage (a rape kit is the size of a legal envelope, and researchers have found that not testing kits is far more expensive and harmful to public safety). The state legislature mandated a 20-year retention of rape kits in 2017.

Why not keep them forever?
The marginal cost would be negligible.
Illustrates how the state prioritises the wrong stuff.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 19, 2023 6:35 am

A no doubt muscat-enhanced mUnter overnight:

‘If you don’t want to be a part of society, then get out’

This little nugget overlooks that nobody voted for vax mandates. Quite a few people, however, were strongly in favour of being governed by unaccountable king-like figures.

rickw has done what he’s done for his own reasons. However, I will say that he has enacted democracy perfectly. He didn’t like it, so he left.

The mUnters of this country have yet to realise that the people who indirectly feed and clothe him aren’t quite in the numbers they once were.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 19, 2023 6:41 am

How many people were on the Ukrainian chopper that went down?
Was it one of them big ones?

Robert Sewell
January 19, 2023 6:43 am

Feelthebern:

Horrible story regarding the state not giving a shit about rape victims.

Worth everyone having a read – disgraceful and criminal behaviour by powerful elements in society.

“I am starting to question whether the Baltimore County police, who have jurisdiction over this DNA evidence, is the right place to be deciding whether or not these cases actually get investigated,” Laura Neuman, a survivor whose attacker has shown up 11 times so far in the hospital slide cases, said in a recent WBAL radio show discussing clergy abuse.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 19, 2023 6:46 am

Perfumed long-term hair product ambassador Michael Clarke appears to have got himself shitfaced at a restaurant before being belted by his current missus who believed he’d been knocking off his ex.

Excellent if true.

The bloke who had his career ended by Clarke after putting the chicken on him after a Test, when Clarke wanted to piss off early to his then-squeeze rather than sing the team song – Simon Katich – should have played 100 Tests. Clarke saw to it that he didn’t.

Katich famously said later that the hardest part of the whole experience for him was that ‘it took me a month to get the fake tan off my hand’.

Bravo, Mr Katich. Bravo.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 19, 2023 6:47 am

Haha, Twiggy now want’s to build EV batteries. In Pommyland. Just as a similar project collapses this week.

Electric vehicle boost as major new UK battery plant hailed as ‘only the start’ (18 Jan)

The UK’s ambitions to lead the way on electric vehicles has recieved a major new boost after an Australian firm announced that it will build an advanced battery plant in Oxfordshire later this year. … The new plant, announced by billionaire Andrew Forrest, founder of Australian iron ore giant Fortescue, will create electric batteries for heavy goods vehicle. However, he added in the future his firm will also look into making batteries for cars, motorbikes and “even trains”.

It comes as a major relief for the UK’s electric vehicle industry after Britishvolt, which is looking to built the UK’s first gigafactory, is set to enter administration. A total of 206 people have lost their jobs, in a major blow to the country’s EV rollout as the plant in Blyth, Northumberland was viewed as a key component of the UK’s drive to phase out petrol and diesel cars.

He hasn’t worked it out yet that with the current British malaise and sky high electricity prices there’s absolutely no way such an investment is ever going to be economic.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 19, 2023 6:55 am

Berlin Won’t Allow Exports of German Tanks to Ukraine Unless U.S. Sends Own Tanks

Germany won’t allow allies to ship German-made tanks to Ukraine to help its defense against Russia or send its own systems unless the U.S. agrees to send American main battle tanks, senior German officials said.

Germany: You go first.

rickw
rickw
January 19, 2023 7:08 am

Maldives ain’t exactly a fleshpot & cheap beer haven of free-n-easy lifestyle rules for washed-up caucasian blokes. It is the opposite.

It is a hard-core Muslim halal lifetsyle.

I get woken up 5:30am each day by morning prayer pa from mosque 2 blocks away.

Robert Sewell
January 19, 2023 7:09 am

Bruce O’Newk:

He hasn’t worked it out yet that with the current British malaise and sky high electricity prices there’s absolutely no way such an investment is ever going to be economic.

But I bet he’s worked out where the subsidies are paid.

Black Ball
Black Ball
January 19, 2023 7:15 am

Victoriastan employers giving workers the opportunity to have the day off Australia Day. Gawd Almighty

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 19, 2023 7:16 am

Katich famously said later that the hardest part of the whole experience for him was that ‘it took me a month to get the fake tan off my hand’.

LOL. The Lara Bingle of cricketers.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 19, 2023 7:16 am

US 10 year bond yield at 3.37%.
Kind of crazy how the 10 year is so much more reactive than the short end.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 19, 2023 7:19 am

But I bet he’s [Twiggy]worked out where the subsidies are paid.

Twiggy has always been happy to let people blow smoke up his arse. Especially if they’re paying.

Black Ball
Black Ball
January 19, 2023 7:20 am

Dragger I look at the dead tree version of the Hun and it sez Karl Stefanovic was involved. How on Zeus’s butthole (HT Stanley Godspeed The Rock) did he get involved?

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 19, 2023 7:23 am

Karl Stefanovic v Michael Clarke. Talk about man bags at 10 paces. I hope they didn’t spill their rosé.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 19, 2023 7:29 am

Pop goes the ATM.

500 ATMs Blown-Up By Migrant Gangs In Germany In 2022, Setting New Record (18 Jan)

Organized criminal gangs active in the Netherlands and France, mostly made up of Moroccan migrants, are blowing up ATMs in Germany at a record pace in highly professional robbery operations. In 2022, government statistics indicate that they blew up 500 such machines, with statistically more than one machine being blown up every day.

A report from Die Welt details how powerful explosions have badly damaged buildings and led to residents being evacuated from their homes. Videos of explosions in buildings, supermarkets, and other public spaces routinely run on German news the next morning.

In one court trial for a gang member police managed to arrest, a judge from Hesse described “war-like damage” in German inner cities during sentencing.

Oxyacetylene. There was a spate of that in Australia for a while, but I haven’t seen much in the news about such heists recently, so maybe the country shoppers here instead go in for less exothermic things like rorting NDIS and child care.

I wonder what will happen when the hydrogen economy gets going?

Diogenes
Diogenes
January 19, 2023 7:33 am

Oxyacetylene. There was a spate of that in Australia for a while, but I haven’t seen much in the news about such heists

They fitted gas detectors on Aussie ATMs

Zipster
Zipster
January 19, 2023 7:46 am

Nothing like first hand accounts of what both the Germans and Japs did to people cure wokeism.

considering how quickly the elites are pushing us towards WW3, the woke will make excellent cannon fodder.

Zipster
Zipster
January 19, 2023 7:47 am
Zipster
Zipster
January 19, 2023 7:51 am
GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 19, 2023 7:52 am

Need a pretty big cannon to fit munty in. Ha!

Johnny Rotten
January 19, 2023 7:57 am

Duk, not for nothing, he’s posting screeds of Armstrong that are so terrible – so bad- that even a novice at economics etc would realize and it would suggest Woddenhead may have worked at Rolls Royce Aero, but more likely as the janitor.

LOL you Jerkoff Cretin. Qualified as a Mechanical Engineer at Rolls Royce. Done lots of other stuff here in Convict’s Paradise. Always good to rev you up a notch or two along with Mrs Stencho Pantyhose and Dotty Dot. Long may it continue. You are just like Elbow and the gap between your right ear and left ear keeps getting wider………………………..

lotocoti
lotocoti
January 19, 2023 7:58 am

Saving you.
George Alexopoulos.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 19, 2023 8:01 am

Cassie

Unusually, I disagree with you re Tony Abbott.

The lieborals are in such a pathetic state that they need someone to take the fight to the enemy. Abbott can do that. He is also likely to perform well at Senate committees, holding the feet of ministers and bureaucrats to the fire.

As a senator, he can’t become PM, but he could ably support a PM with balls (who doesn’t have to be a man).

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 19, 2023 8:01 am

Haha!

Report: Man’s Hummer Electric Vehicle Takes Five Days to Charge at Home (17 Jan)

A Hummer EV (electric vehicle) reportedly takes days to charge when plugged into a standard wall outlet, a YouTuber claims. … When he approached the driver’s side and opened the door, he said, “Let’s see what the truck says about how long it will take to charge.”

“Time to complete charge Friday at 8:30 a.m.,” the man said while pointing at the screen on the dash, adding, “Range increase is one mile per hour.”

On the other hand anyone who buys an electric Hummer is also going to use a fast charger, either installed at home or a commercial outlet. Still it’s fun to see just how long it takes to charge a 212.7 kWh battery pack from a wall socket.

Robert Sewell
January 19, 2023 8:07 am

Black Ball:

Victoriastan employers giving workers the opportunity to have the day off Australia Day. Gawd Almighty

Dans actions only make sense if you see them as breaking the backs of the Kulaks, and increasing the power of the unions. Watch for the disruption of the electrical grid to prove ‘market failure’ and the need to buy up all the generators he can possibly get – and at a price that will make some ‘maaates’ very happy. The Utilities will then be filled with Union wukkas at sky high rates, and all of them Unionised.
The only unhappy people will be the middle classes who will be funding this. The Unemployed will just suffer like they normally do and will get a bone thrown their way every so often to keep them onside.
We’ve seen this movie before. It never ends well. Not for us anyway.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 19, 2023 8:08 am

It’s your fault, rick. You have nobody to blame but yourself.

I’m not going to sugar coat it or give you an out. You’re a grown man. You buggered it up. If you were acting like a grown man, you would admit that rather than chucking a tanty.

Let’s rephrase that.

It’s your fault, m0nty=fa. You have nobody to blame but yourself.

I’m not going to sugar coat it or give you an out. You’re a grown man. You buggered it up. You hid in a basement for years, took multiple shots of a vaccine of dubious effectiveness, with dangers to someone with already impaired health. If you were acting like a grown man, you would admit that rather than diverting attention to others.

There, that’s closer to reality.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 19, 2023 8:10 am

Boambee John says:at 8:01

Unusually, I disagree with you re Tony Abbott.

The lieborals are in such a pathetic state that they need someone to take the fight to the enemy. Abbott can do that. He is also likely to perform well at Senate committees, holding the feet of ministers and bureaucrats to the fire.

We’ve been here before. Remind me how that worked out.

Indolent
Indolent
January 19, 2023 8:14 am
H B Bear
H B Bear
January 19, 2023 8:17 am

I hesitate to use “we” when describing the Lieborals.

Abbott was a superhero of Opposition (I don’t really believe that, my view was R-G-R was off the scale bad) who crumbled when confronted with the Kyrptonite of government.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 19, 2023 8:20 am

rickwsays:
January 18, 2023 at 11:14 pm

You’re a f’cking fascist c’nt.

You absolutely believe that Australian Government has a right to deprive me of employment because I refused to take experimental medication?

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m0ntysays:
January 18, 2023 at 11:17 pm
Yes Rick. If you don’t want to be a part of society, then get out. Which you have, I see.

m0nty=fa no longer even tries to hide his inner fascist. “You vill obey, or you vill be exiled from society.”

Have you been issued your Hugo Boss uniform yet, m0nty=fa?

Megan
Megan
January 19, 2023 8:21 am

Yes Rick. If you don’t want to be a part of society, then get out. Which you have, I see.

Real shame you don’t get out, you vicious and disgusting excuse for a human being.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
January 19, 2023 8:22 am

Seeing the NSW Lieboral pardy played a big part in removing Abbott from the HoR (I suspect)- I very much doubt that they will appoint him to the Senate. Anyway, as stated above, his time has passed. Not that all the all the rats and cockroaches that undermined him were entirely his fault.

I do not know who, if anyone, could have prevailed over the enemies outside and inside the Liberal party. You have Labor which is a loose confederation of egos lusting for power bound by faceless control from above, the vanguard of the glorious revolution Greens, the conniving mercenary Libs, and a press corps that sees government as an agency to enact the medias wishes.

A person who overcomes this must defeat them by striking them on their respective cleavage planes. It would take a person who could find breaches within labor and open them up publicly, who can strip away the warm fuzzy disguise of the greens and expose them for the anti-humanist revolutionaries they are, energise Liberal members enough to break the control of un elected powerbrokers, and call out the hypocrisy and ignorance of MSM as it happens.

Trump used Twitter to get around the MSM and now ‘fake news’ is a widely acknowledged phenomenon and the major networks reputations are in tatters. But how long would he have lasted if the RINOs had been able to frighten the minnows in the party to, together, kick him out of office?

shatterzzz
January 19, 2023 8:22 am

The hilarious thing about comments like this is that they are typically made by people that locked themselves in at home during 2020, and they are directed against people that continued to work through the first and second lockdowns when the fear was at its height. The chutzpah is incredible.

Living in Fairfield/Blacktown areas where lockdowns were “localized” I, at, 74, used to cycle the 40kms (return) journey to my youngest daughter’s place several time s a week for a cup of tea & chat (she was working from home) .. she was “frightened” to drive to my place to visit because plod was not only stopping vehicles for travel checks outside their LGAs but checking number plates off traffic cameras for “rule breakers” ..
NEVER FORGET, NEVER FORGIVE …….!

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 19, 2023 8:23 am

Abbott, like KRudd and Gillard, is yesterday’s man. Like them, he should just go away. Those battles have been fought. Time to find someone new, although I would agree they are unlikely to be found in the existing Lieboral party room.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 19, 2023 8:23 am

rickwsays:
January 18, 2023 at 11:23 pm

I’m not wallowing in self-pity you idiotic turd. If I’m doing any wallowing, it’s mourning the loss of freedom, liberty and decency in Australia.

Losses to which fascists like m0nty=fa contributed significantly.

Johnny Rotten
January 19, 2023 8:24 am

More reference for Jerkoff Cretin, Mrs Stencho Panty hose, Dotty Dot and others in the club.

The Davos Sex Trade

From Armstrong Economics –

“Besides the Swiss government sending in 5,000 troops to guard Schwab, the other professional trade that besieges Davos are the prostitutes. In fact, they strongly advise that women should NOT attend Davos UNESCORTED because they will be taken to be a member of the guild.

The 2016 Democratic National Convention was a presidential nominating convention, held at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from July 25 to 28, 2016. To my shock, besides the usual army of prostitutes that attend political conventions, a member of our staff who is gay at the time said all the gay boys were also making big bucks for the Democrats at these conventions also like the other side of the street.

When I was in NYC, one of the lawyers on a Terrorist case said that they all use high-class prostitutes who also have the skill set to be a paralegal. The court pays for these “paralegals” with tax payer’s money and they then engage in the game of legal espionage sleeping with the enemy for inside information.

As I have said before, if a woman wears a black-leather mini-shirt and stiletto heels, you better be well informed that is the typical uniform for a professional member of the guild. This is the real world even in DC. Perhaps you can check history, but in 1983 there was the Congressional Page Sex Scandal was a political scandal involving members of the United States House of Representatives having homosexual relations with their pages.

Then often in the States, you will hear a prostitute referred to as a “hooker” which dates back to the Civil War. The girls that followed the troops under General Joseph Hooker were so numerous that they simply became known as “Hookers.” Ah, such an honor to have an entire professional trade named after you. That’s better than a bronze statue for pigeons to defecate on.”

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/conspiracy/the-davos-sex-trade/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

Black Ball
Black Ball
January 19, 2023 8:24 am

Monty slagging the people who pay his Centrelink. Right on.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 19, 2023 8:24 am

Dotsays:
January 18, 2023 at 11:36 pm
Ah right. South East Asia, where so many of Australia’s old men go when they can’t hack it here any more and want to wallow in self-pity.

You’ll never be an old man monty.

m0nty=fa will never be a man.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 19, 2023 8:26 am

Abbott at least preferred fighting Liars to Lieborals and was happy to get into the trenches. Alas, you cannot really do that as PM.

Indolent
Indolent
January 19, 2023 8:27 am
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 19, 2023 8:27 am

Just so you know – none of the evil elitist snobs at the WEF really believe in climate change.

Actually I think they do believe in the climate fairy. But they also believe they are so important and essential to saving the world that they have to use private jets and hobnob for the Cause. It’s a hubris thing coupled with rationalization. Same as the Soviet nomenklatura thought they deserved luxury so they could have the time to fight for the revolution. All such elites have a streak of hypocritical egotism a mile wide.

Miltonf
Miltonf
January 19, 2023 8:28 am

What a poisonous mediocrity the Marxist troll is. Certainly gives a full on display of the spite, evil and moral bankruptcy of the modern left.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 19, 2023 8:28 am

Time for Cut and Paste to be renamed Cut and Paste and Scroll.

Indolent
Indolent
January 19, 2023 8:29 am

Yes, obviously machines are more programmable and controllable than, messy, recalcitrant people.

WEF Declares ‘Humans Are a Plague’ and ‘AI Is the Cure’

Indolent
Indolent
January 19, 2023 8:31 am
132andBush
132andBush
January 19, 2023 8:31 am

It’s your fault, rick. You have nobody to blame but yourself.

I’m not going to sugar coat it or give you an out. You’re a grown man. You buggered it up. If you were acting like a grown man, you would admit that rather than chucking a tanty.

He’s not trolling this time. He really believes this.
It’s also a view held by a surprising number of people.

Monty,
Explain your obvious obesity and what must be the deleterious effect it has on your “medical condition”.

It’s your fault, monty. You have nobody to blame but yourself.

Robert Sewell
January 19, 2023 8:32 am

Indolent:
You thought you could blame a group of people for a pandemic, fire them, ban them from restaurants and other areas, and then they’d just be quiet when they turned out to be right?
Damn straight, Indolent.
Not forgetting, and not shutting up.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
January 19, 2023 8:34 am

Yes Rick. If you don’t want to be a part of society, then get out. Which you have, I see.

Seriously? Monty is the arbiter of how people qualify to be part of society?

So long as we maintain a devotion to the idea that our society should stand for freedom, then people who have no intention of making other people’s choices and ask that they be allowed to make their own (such as Rickw) must be society, while those who advocate greater control over individual choices (and the nationalisation of the means of donut production) are the outsiders.

If these latter keep tipping out the former they will one day discover that their utopia is surrounded by a vibrant free society while their own domain is as grey, drab, and lifeless as a soviet style residential block.

And they will astonished, shaking their heads wondering how it happened – they just got rid of the inconvenient people. Shouldn’t this people’s collective be wonderful?

Indolent
Indolent
January 19, 2023 8:36 am
Black Ball
Black Ball
January 19, 2023 8:36 am

Neil Mitchell informs me that the next Governor of Victoria might well be Sally Capp. After saying Linda Dessau has done an ‘excellent’ job. Word? (HT Dave Chappelle)

alwaysright
alwaysright
January 19, 2023 8:39 am

Cold southerly wind, 14C, heater is ON.
Where is my summer?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 19, 2023 8:39 am

Black Ballsays:

January 19, 2023 at 7:20 am

Dragger I look at the dead tree version of the Hun and it sez Karl Stefanovic was involved. How on Zeus’s butthole (HT Stanley Godspeed The Rock) did he get involved?

Clarke’s girlfriend (probably former girlfriend) and Mrs Carl 2.0 are sisters.

Johnny Rotten
January 19, 2023 8:40 am

More Davos rubbish……………………

Al Gore claimed:

“We’re still putting 162 million tons [of greenhouse gas pollution into the atmosphere] every single day, and the accumulated amount is now trapping as much extra heat as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every single day on the Earth.

That’s what’s boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers, and the rain bombs, and sucking the moisture out of the land and creating the droughts, and melting the ice and raising the sea level, and causing these waves of climate refugees, predicted to reach one billion in this century.”

This bloke is off his trolley……………………..

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
January 19, 2023 8:40 am

EV charging in Aus. If the vehicle has a 210kw battery and you are charging from home from normal domestic power point. Thats around 7kw per hour (called a trickle charge for obvious reasobs). 210 / 7 = 30 hours to charge. The dashboard should give the driver all the stats on how fast it is charging and how long it will take to charge.
…whereas filling a 60lr fuel tank is done is 3mins. Thats the future!

Indolent
Indolent
January 19, 2023 8:43 am

Patrick Phillips MD
@DrP_MD

I’m gay and I would also refuse to wear a pride jersey.

It’s now a symbol for an authoritarian Marxist political victim ideology. It has no place in sports.

Treat everybody equally and get back to the game!

This follows the storm over Philadelphia Flyers player Ivan Provorov refusing to wear a rainbow jersey for warm ups during “Pride Night” due to his Russian Orthodox faith.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
January 19, 2023 8:46 am

m0nty=fa will never be a man.

He will instead try to undermine what manhood is: Courage, stoicism, endurance, protector, provider, etc.

If he can get all those detached from the word ‘man’ and leave only the word ‘penis’*, then he hope he will be able to feel as much a man as any. He will be able to take to his chair (more by gravity pulling the chair up than gravity pulling his butt down) wearing a leather jacket and a ‘Born To Be Wild’ T-shirt, sunglasses, and hefty boots, and feel like he is now allowed.

* Qualitatively, not quantitatively. Simply having one regardless of how diminutive it is.

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 19, 2023 8:47 am

Monty,
Explain your obvious obesity and what must be the deleterious effect it has on your “medical condition”.
It’s your fault, monty. You have nobody to blame but yourself.

Correct. What he puts down his pie hole is all his fault.

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 19, 2023 8:50 am

If the vehicle has a 210kw battery and you are charging from home from normal domestic power point. Thats around 7kw per hour (called a trickle charge for obvious reasons)
A normal domestic power point provides 10 amps at 240 volts which is 2.4 kilowatts.
It is going to take the best part of 90 hours to fully charge.

Roger
Roger
January 19, 2023 8:51 am

In ‘go woke go broke’ news:

TV ratings for TA’s Australian Open are reportedly “abysmal”.

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 19, 2023 8:52 am

TV ratings for TA’s Australian Open are reportedly “abysmal”.
Excellent.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 19, 2023 8:54 am

H B Bearsays:
January 19, 2023 at 8:10 am
Boambee John says:at 8:01

Unusually, I disagree with you re Tony Abbott.

The lieborals are in such a pathetic state that they need someone to take the fight to the enemy. Abbott can do that. He is also likely to perform well at Senate committees, holding the feet of ministers and bureaucrats to the fire.

We’ve been here before. Remind me how that worked out.

Labor lost hugely. Abbott was a failure as PM.

Note that I excluded him from becoming PM in the future. The bit about Labor losing is the key.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 19, 2023 8:55 am

HBB

Abbott successfully destroyed KRudd, then Gilliard, then KRudd again.

Give him a chop at AnAl, then Plibbers. As a senator, he could destroy them also.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 19, 2023 8:57 am

Journalists are now crying on air bc Provorov wouldn’t wear a Pride jersey

Seems to be the next edition of gaslighting.

Tears on TV: the living hell and horror of delivering a 40C forecast (19 Jan)

It’s been years since there’s been a 40 C day at the Cafe. Indeed there’ve been so few 30 C days that another 140 year record was broken last week.

Sydney smashes 140-year-old weather record as city fails to see a day hotter than 30C in almost a YEAR – so when is it going to get warm again? (12 Jan)

That’s a good question. I wonder where all the terrifying tear-causing global warming has gone?

Robert Sewell
January 19, 2023 8:59 am

Bruce O’Newk:

Actually I think they do believe in the climate fairy. But they also believe they are so important and essential to saving the world that they have to use private jets and hobnob for the Cause. It’s a hubris thing coupled with rationalization. Same as the Soviet nomenklatura thought they deserved luxury so they could have the time to fight for the revolution. All such elites have a streak of hypocritical egotism a mile wide.

Reminds me of the starving villagers who approached the Party Representative during the Cambodian Revolution:
“Why is it that you have food, the best house in the village, and your family is well clothed?”
“My needs are taken care of so I can devote my entire life to you and your needs.”
Yep. Same mindset, different country. But the piles of skulls will look hauntingly familiar.

Roger
Roger
January 19, 2023 9:01 am

Organized criminal gangs active in the Netherlands and France, mostly made up of Moroccan migrants, are blowing up ATMs in Germany at a record pace…

“Migrants”, eh?

If a stranger enters your house through an unlocked door and starts rummaging through your possessions is he a “guest”?

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 19, 2023 9:01 am

H B Bearsays:
January 19, 2023 at 8:26 am
Abbott at least preferred fighting Liars to Lieborals and was happy to get into the trenches. Alas, you cannot really do that as PM.

You can as a senator. Horses for courses.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 19, 2023 9:05 am

Abbott successfully destroyed KRudd, then Gilliard, then KRudd again.

Did he or was he just there while R-G-R imploded? Views may vary.

Robert Sewell
January 19, 2023 9:08 am

Isn’t it surprising what sticks it’s head out of the slime when it thinks the coast is clear?
Monty, you haven’t won yet, so it is probably a bit premature for you to be putting on the victory shirt.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 19, 2023 9:09 am

You can as a senator. Horses for courses.

True. Would the Leader of the Opposition really want a former PM in the Senate? Possibly not.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 19, 2023 9:10 am

Thats around 7kw per hour

Fair Shake, a basic 10 A x 240 V socket gets you 2.4 kW not 7 kW. Ok the story was about a 120 V American wall socket but that would run at 20 A not 10 or you couldn’t boil a jug with it. Yes it was a YT stunt but it gets the message across to low information people who don’t understand electricity and power.

I didn’t look at the YT, and 5 days for 200 odd kWh seems slow, but if it was done in winter the electronics may do the charge at slower rate to protect the battery. Below about 20 C lithium metal plating can occur, which is bad for the battery and can eventually cause a short.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 19, 2023 9:14 am

Oh and the other thing is places like California are already limiting EV home charging to avoid overloading the grid during peak periods. If the software takes that into account, which would be logical, that would increase the overall charging time.

Vicki
Vicki
January 19, 2023 9:16 am

From Substack of Dr. Phillip Altman:

These last 3 years have been challenging for all of us to say the least. As fate would have it, the knowledge I gained in my lifelong career, working both within and for Big Pharma, provided me with incredibly valuable information in relation to drug development and drug regulatory affairs which I felt compelled to share with friends and family. It is sad to say that due to media censorship and the effective globalist agenda, many of my friends simply did not want to hear what I had to say. They were like drowning people in a turbulent sea being thrown here and there and seemingly paralysed with fear. I tried throwing them a lifeline but they did not even attempt to pick it up and they drifted further and further away to their own fate.

My words were received by others with much gratitude and appreciation. I made many new friends . My Substack has only been up a few days yet it has attracted an avalanche of subscribers which makes me think all my efforts are paying off.

Who would have thought that I would be busy doing international video and Expert Witness reports to both the Federal Court in Australia and the High Court in New Zealand? Who would have thought I’d be speaking to hundreds of people at a time after years of retirement on the dangers of these Experimental Emergency Medical Countermeasures (EEMCs, previously called COVID “vaccines”)? Not I.

We have all learned much about the human condition as it is called. Some of it is chilling and dark. We now know there are many people who prefer to let people risk death or serious injury rather than stand up and sound the alarm….people who care more about their career or their next research grant from Big Pharma or some shady foundation rather than about people’s lives.

But on the other side there are people of principle – people of substance with whom I am proud to stand. We all must do our part in any way we are capable.

I promise to use all my energies to spread the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Help me to do this by recommending my Substack to anyone who could benefit.

We must win this fight but even more importantly, we cannot allow this to happen again.

Johnny Rotten
January 19, 2023 9:18 am

If a stranger enters your house through an unlocked door and starts rummaging through your possessions is he a “guest”?

Yes and as a guest, if you live in Texas, you can show the ‘guest’ how your gun works………………

Dot
Dot
January 19, 2023 9:19 am

Why not keep them forever?
The marginal cost would be negligible.
Illustrates how the state prioritises the wrong stuff.

Bern

You’re not being cynical enough.

That could exonerate people as well.

Vicki
Vicki
January 19, 2023 9:22 am

Sydney smashes 140-year-old weather record as city fails to see a day hotter than 30C in almost a YEAR – so when is it going to get warm again? (12 Jan)

Those who are aware of the proposition that we may be, in fact, entering a Solar Minimum period are smiling quietly. The irony is that the latter would have a far worse effect on life on the planet than a warming period.

132andBush
132andBush
January 19, 2023 9:23 am

Re the cold weather.
Worth noting that Riverina cotton growers are again expecting another low production year with the cooler than average summer. Rice as well.
Cotton growing expanded massively into the Riverina from the mid 2000’s and I hope it continues.
This was, however, a period when the PDO was in its positive phase, it’s now negative and I think conditions will be a lot less favourable from now on. ie: less heat overall.

Zipster
Zipster
January 19, 2023 9:23 am
Shy Ted
Shy Ted
January 19, 2023 9:27 am

It is a hard-core Muslim halal lifetsyle.

That’d put a bit of a dampener on Hoggins recent holiday.

Dot
Dot
January 19, 2023 9:28 am

monty must have forgotten last night that in NSW, most of the COVID rules were made by regulation whilst Parliament was not sitting.

Regulation (delegated legislation) made without tabling it before the Upper House.

I don’t remember voting in that referendum!

But hey, get out of society!

Vicki
Vicki
January 19, 2023 9:29 am

That’s what’s boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers, and the rain bombs, and sucking the moisture out of the land and creating the droughts, and melting the ice and raising the sea level, and causing these waves of climate refugees, predicted to reach one billion in this century.”

This bloke is off his trolley……………………..

The problem is that these saboteurs of our civilisation have discovered that hyperbole (or Julia Gillard’s “hyperbowl”) actually works with some 30% of the population (and possibly up to 60%).

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
January 19, 2023 9:34 am

dover0beach says:
January 19, 2023 at 9:06 am

It’s just after 9am in Melbourne and it’s 16C. Windchill makes it feel like 11C.

Sydney Now
UPDATED 9:00AM AEDT
18.7
FEELS LIKE – 14.5°C
WEATHER STATION – Sydney – Observatory Hill

Welcome to Global Warming

I was going to add Melbourne Maximum Temperature for 1968 when my wife and I moved to Melbourne
beginning of Feb 1968 when 13 days in Feb 68 over 30C, 9 Days above 35C using BOM Melbourne Weather Station 086071 which closed at end of Jamuary 2015

Surprise, Surprise- BOM site no longer seems to be working can’t have the Australian Taxpayers Peasants finding out real Temperatures and accessing our Data

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/index.shtml for station 086071

Now comes up with either Bureau Home – Server Error – The request generated a server error

Or No response comes back, just sits there spinning

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Your Taxpayer Money at work for a Lying Australian Governemnt Department BOM

Roger
Roger
January 19, 2023 9:34 am

The Commonwealth will soon start accepting grant applications to fund the installation of 400 community batteries which will store excess power from domestic and business solar panels. For an administrative fee local residents can sign on to the scheme and receive the benefit of lower electricity bills.

Interesting detail:

Entities which are not compliant with the Workplace Gender Equality Act (2012) are ineligible to apply for the grants.

Conveniently, such entities are named and shamed on the Workplace Gender Equality Agency website.

Where does this end?

Vicki
Vicki
January 19, 2023 9:37 am

Your Taxpayer Money at work for a Lying Australian Governemnt Department BOM

BOM is a joke amongst many in the farming community.

We actually use a Norwegian weather site – YR – & it is far more reliable than BOM. Go figure.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 19, 2023 9:40 am

Austal the little Aussie shipbuilder that could is still getting wins.

Why the Navy is getting fast new medical ships (17 Jan, via Instapundit)

The US Navy is adding more medical vessels to its fleet, to better meet the needs of the force across theaters. The next produced Expeditionary Fast Transports, a vessel type already in production, will be built with modifications to serve as medical ships when needed.

The Navy has three of the EPF-template medical transports under contract, with funding secured for three EMS ambulance ships to follow, according to shipbuilder Austal USA.

Shallow draft, fast and with a stable platform, it appears to make sense to me although I’ve not much experience with naval vessels. There was a lot of issues with the Littoral Combat Vessel program but it seemed more with the other design and less with the Austal one – although the module approach I don’t think ever worked for either design.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
January 19, 2023 9:41 am

Vicki,
If I am trying to educate somebody about the Vax the three people I suggest they look into are :
Phillip Altman Oz
Peter MCullough USA
Aseem Malhotra UK

Obviously there are many others but have to start somewhere.

I tell them to look at Oz web page Totality of Evidence under the resources category. Plus check out some of the docos.

Also recommend Club Grubbery for interviews with Dr’s, Nurses, lawyers etc.

Roger
Roger
January 19, 2023 9:42 am

We actually use a Norwegian weather site – YR – & it is far more reliable than BOM. Go figure.

Mmm…I’ll see how they go for my neck of the woods compared with BOM.

Jorge
Jorge
January 19, 2023 9:43 am

Jonathan Raban, travel writer, died on Tuesday. His father was part of the force landing at Anzio and is the subject of Father and Son due out in a few months.

Hope this link works: War is noise
Jonathan Raban on the Anzio landings

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
January 19, 2023 9:45 am

Question for Cassie if around.

Dr Phelps came up in conversation yesterday. At the time her partner was first injured was she still practicing as a Dr in a clinic and offering vaccines ?

Shy Ted
Shy Ted
January 19, 2023 9:46 am

And the right wing, gun-toting, conspiracy theorist, nut jobs in Tara are

The boys — aged 14, 15 and two 16 year olds — were located at the house on Day Street and taken into custody. Police said a 14-year-old has been given a caution, and has been dealt with under the provisions of the Youth Justice Act.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
January 19, 2023 9:46 am

JANUARY 18, 2023

How Prince Harry Became the Most Annoying Man in America

Imagine if complaining about your family was your only marketable skill?

It is not hard to have some sympathy for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who have defected from a cloistered, oxidizing institution — populated by racists and freaks — in pursuit of the bucolic early-40s dream of moving to Los Angeles and adopting a dog. The reign of Queen Elizabeth II was the sole remaining connective tissue the British Monarchy had to any semblance of aureate national mythology, and her death seems like the perfect juncture to pack up Buckingham Palace and redistribute the royal assets throughout a country that is currently in the midst of stark material decline. Harry and Meghan were ahead of the game. For that, and that alone, they deserve credit.

It began two years ago, when the ex-Royals sat for a legitimately explicatory interview with Oprah, where they detailed some of the finer grotesqueries of the Monarchy. (Like, for instance, the implication that the kingdom was concerned that his future son may not carry the same pallid skin tone of the imperial bloodline.) Compassion for the erstwhile Prince and Duchess reached an all-time high in the aftermath, as everyone on both sides of the Atlantic relished in the long-awaited desecration of the British aristocracy.

Slowly but surely, it dawned on the rest of the population that the primary characters of the most captivating celebrity storyline in the world might not be particularly interesting or intelligent people. Case in point: In Allison P. Davis’s masterful profile of Markle last summer, we learn, in a remarkably tone-deaf declaration, that one of the key tenets of the Duchess’s existential recreation is to get back on Instagram.

The Prince took this much, much further when he released a stinging tell-all titled Spare earlier this month, in which he reduces all of his provocative critiques of the Crown into a series of tawdry blind items. Where do you even start?

And who could forget the pièce de résistance: Harry had frostbite on his penis at his brother’s wedding. The more these disclosures make the news, the more it becomes apparent that Prince Harry has correctly identified that gossiping about his family is his only marketable skill. If he truly wanted to leave the dynasty and live the life of a private citizen, he’d probably be bartending somewhere in Los Feliz.

I don’t think this is entirely Harry’s fault. He is, at his core, a product of his circumstances. Young men born into outrageous wealth generally have a skewed, solipsistic perspective that their menial grievances ought to be etched into the tablets of history

It seems inevitable that someday soon Prince Harry is going to run out of things to complain about.

Perhaps he has another book in him — the dreaded Spare II — where he digs out a few lingering muddled resentments that slipped his mind, like a drunk dad on the twelfth minute of his wedding speech. But then, mercifully, the well will finally be depleted.

The only thing I ask is that they both try to live the gimmick. The first step towards the normalcy they desire is the renunciation of their titles, because ordinary citizens don’t ask the poor Starbucks employees of Brentwood to write “Duchess of Sussex” on their cappuccino cups.

If Prince Harry wants to be more like us, he needs a last name. Welcome to hell, buddy! You’re about to have a whole lot more to whine about.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 19, 2023 9:47 am

Canada performing more organ transplants from MAID donors than any country in the world

The harvest is good this year Comrade. And the Canadian stock is so much better than Uighur.

Roger
Roger
January 19, 2023 9:50 am

Police said a 14-year-old has been given a caution, and has been dealt with under the provisions of the Youth Justice Act.

Now, there could be misreporting involved, but my understandng is a firearm was discharged in the direction of a (non-police) vehicle.

What would the outcome have been if it were a police vehicle?

areff
areff
January 19, 2023 9:51 am

Neil Mitchell is in good form today, Black Ball. Also slipping in snide digs at Pell, in whose lynching he was a prime participant.

Mitchell, smug and always with a finger in the wind (‘Get vaxed, don’t be like those idiot tinfoil protesters’), prompted a check on ABC 774. No luck there either: a “debate” about the Voice featuring two ardent indigene Yes supporters.

Zipster
Zipster
January 19, 2023 9:55 am

the matrix is malfunctioning
Paul Joseph Watson

Vicki
Vicki
January 19, 2023 9:55 am

For those who are interested in the evidence for the large fibrous clots being seen by US embalmers, the following is a detailed examination by a well informed medico and others. This is important, because the doco that has been recently produced did contain errors that affects the real credibility of this phenomenon.

https://open.substack.com/pub/amidwesterndoctor/p/do-the-mysterious-fibrous-clots-really?r=j2j4d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
January 19, 2023 10:01 am

If a stranger enters your house through an unlocked door and starts rummaging through your possessions is he a “guest”?

Well we know you have a duty of care, and a responsibility to make sure your home is a safe intrusion and robbing environment. I seem to remember the case of an intruder who hurt themselves going on to sue the homeowner.

Miltonf
Miltonf
January 19, 2023 10:03 am

Mitchell is a great reason never to retire. That smug voice like a cold clammy hand of death on you.

rosie
rosie
January 19, 2023 10:03 am

I’d love Abbott to return, for many reasons.
Incidentally, he was the only politician that spoke out against covid restrictions, early and consistently.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
January 19, 2023 10:03 am

Am in a rush but can somebody post this article from ABC. Winter is coming !

ATAGI is considering a fifth COVID-19 vaccine dose, but how many boosters should I already have and who is eligible?

Vicki
Vicki
January 19, 2023 10:04 am

Vicki,
If I am trying to educate somebody about the Vax the three people I suggest they look into are :
Phillip Altman Oz
Peter MCullough USA
Aseem Malhotra UK

Yea, Bourne!!! Perfect condensed section.

Phillip, of course, is a friend & I trust his expertise and unique experience totally. He is emotional at times about the evidence because he is so shocked at the significance of it, and the extent of the failure of the normal systems to prevent medical injury.

Re the wonderful, courageous McCullough – I recall playing an interview with him for my husband mid 2021 so that he could hear for himself the enormity of it. And Aseem? Well, instead of clinging to his former beliefs, he has opted for the truth after losing his father. This has been at great cost to his career and reputation.

These men are heroes.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 19, 2023 10:05 am

H B Bearsays:
January 19, 2023 at 9:05 am
Abbott successfully destroyed KRudd, then Gilliard, then KRudd again.

Did he or was he just there while R-G-R imploded? Views may vary.

Even if he was only the straw that broke the camel’s back, he contributed noticeably.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 19, 2023 10:07 am

HBB

PS, would Turdballs have had the same effect?

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 19, 2023 10:08 am

Turdballs would have been propping R-G-R up.

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