Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph, Rembrandt, 1656
It’s not commonly known, but Teslas use Righteous Electrickery (RE), so all is balanced with Gaia. Namaste.
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I see scrolling down at his Cricinfo [age that Joe Burns made 108 not out for Italy vs. Romania. Forza…
https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/joe-burns-326632 Joe Burns is out of calculations as he is now representing Italy in cricket, the rotten Dago turncoat. Neil…
Only if he builds a new road to the house.
Yes, but that would be counter propagandical.
This is brilliant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu4mH3Hmw2o
What’s Going Wrong in Particle Physics? (This is why I lost faith in science.)
Sabine Hossenfelder
Why do particle physicists constantly make wrong predictions? In this video, I explain the history and status of the problem.
Particle physicists make climatologists look good!
Let’s havva look at the latest Labor assault on the right of Schools operated by various sects and religions to hire teachers of that religion or sect.
Which are the 2 sects that operate most of these Schools?
Roman Catholics and English Catholics.
How likely is it that there’s anyone working in the Roman Catholic system, whether as teacher, groundsman, cleaner, whatever … who isn’t a Roman Catholic?
A million to one?
So, it’s an attack on Anglican Education by the Australian Labor Party.
Mother Lode:
“Knock knock”
“Good morning citizen are you using the second and third bathroom in your house?”
“Of course not. I’m the only one living here at the moment.”
“Then you won’t mind sharing them with a family of fifteen refugees?”
“Of course I’ll mind, Constable. Now piss off.”
“OK, you’re under arrest for refusing to be nice and sharing.”
Episode #953 of:
Labor were great in the Good Ol’ Days
Featuring Dot and a cast of Dopes.
Sorta stands to reason I suppose.
The Maltese language is some sort of hangover version of ancient Arabic, or something. Apparently.
Konstantin Kisin | This House Believes Woke Culture Has Gone Too Far – 7/8 | Oxford Union
There is some hope. My local medical centre has removed the text of Krudd’s apology to the “stolen generation” they used to display, and they’ve also removed the rather grovelling acknowledgement that you are “Proud to acknowledge that you are standing on Balladong Land.” Baby steps….
Time for a reboot, Ed.
Sabine is brilliant
If, for nothing else, making Germans sound humorous.
Her talking about the German use of the ‘schwa’ sound (the most common vowel sound in English) cracks me up.
And yes, to Germans it is a legitimate word.
Salvatore:
I’ve a feeling the coppers are on a hiding to nowhere over this. The heavy handed media effort may just wake up a few people who realise these bastards are serious about screwing over the populace.
A returned Coalition government will legislate to ban offshore coal, gas, mineral and petroleum production in NSW waters…
NSW Treasurer and Minister for Energy Matt Kean said –
Is he a deep cover agent or are the LNP simply just insipid?
Never. Vote. For. Major. Parties. Including. The Greens.
I thought the most common vowel sound in English was the “ugh” which a great many of the written vowels get contracted to when spoken. It has a phonetic symbol that looks like an upside down heart and is universally referred to as bum by those in the trade.
Could sorta understand the terrorist going crook at Waltzing Matilda with his lover being put in the tucker bag.
But the Man From Ironbark!?
Sydney Gay Boxing Championships from KD way up fred.
So much to work with….
“Save The Date”.
Hahaha – this’ll be fun!
CL earlier
Cat sea dogs, why is it so difficult to re-float this beauty?
Not much of a sea dog, CL. But once they sink, the wooden ones aren’t much good. A couple of old wooden Sydney ferries sunk at their moorings and were broken up by a grab dredge. The saddest recent one was the old (steel) Manly Ferry, Barrogoola. 100 years old sank at it’s berth. Raised in pieces and scrapped. Heartbreaking. I hope that doesn’t happen to the wooden fishing boat but it is not hopeful.
The ref…
No tickling testes
No head jobs
When I call break , stop kissing.
The biggest scandals will be where pugilists have stuffed handbags into their gloves to make them more thuggish and less ‘Queen of Marquisbury’.
The boxers…
Ah bugger.
Some time ago, someone on this blog recommended Helen Rappaport’s book “The Race to Save the Romanov’s” about the plots and plans to save the last Tsar of Russia, and his family, from the horrible fate that overtook them.
Seems any plans of rescue faced complications – Nicholas refused to leave any of the family servants behind to face the consequences of any rescue, and he and his wife refused to leave Russia. Good reading.
that’s really good – a perfect example of too many experts in the field (particle physics) trying to justify their existence and ongoing funding of silly, and very expensive, experiments.
PS
Mike McCulloch’s Quantised Inertia (QI) theory actually solves the problems in astrophysics regarding galaxy rotation. Empirically, it works better than MOND and is less complicated.
“Some time ago, someone on this blog recommended Helen Rappaport’s book “The Race to Save the Romanov’s” about the plots and plans to save the last Tsar of Russia, and his family, from the horrible fate that overtook them.”
That was probably me Zulu.
“Seems any plans of rescue faced complications – Nicholas refused to leave any of the family servants behind to face the consequences of any rescue, and he and his wife refused to leave Russia. Good reading.”
It’s a sad story. Nicholas, Alexandra, their children and their servants butchered in a cellar.
Nicholas, a hopeless autocrat but a fundamentally decent man.
Thank you, Cassie, the book was interesting, to say the least!
Oooooh!
Trooble at mill!
Don’t know if anyone got the ‘Queen of Marquisbury’ joke for the gay boxers.
He exhibited weakness at the most inopportune time. You don’t demonstrate weakness if you’re the Russian leader and want to live.
Always found it interesting that Nicholas “The Bloody” and the Romanov’s were seen as reactionary tyrants, but compared to what followed them, they were Mother Theresa…
Few, if any will make that connection – the great majority will swallow the hype about ‘high powered weapons’, ‘1000 rounds of ammunition’, ‘bench for modifying guns’ etc etc etc.
Try explaining the vagaries of different calibres and platforms just for target shooting to the average mug – not a chance.
Judging by ‘piss christ’ etc, I would think he has a rock solid defence if he claims it was merely modern performance art which the critic mis-understood!
Who in their right mind thought it was a good idea to install Chinese made electronic equipment of any sort anywhere near military locations?
Mongstralia! We’re all retarded now!
Half the country has no idea what a “turbo” is & believes it to be some sort of magic multiplier of energy, a simple modification able to be done with a spanner, that turns any vehicle into an Indy 500 “drag racer” or an Evel Knievel style-rocket bike.
There’s no hope of them realising the cops & McClown are misleading them, or outright lying, about firearms.
Happens all the time, that’s why the devil you know ….
The WA government says the discovery of a significant amount of high-calibre rifles, firearms and ammunition in a secret bunker under a home in suburban Perth underscores the government’s push to “re-write” the state’s firearms act.
Australia is governed by f’cking arseholes and policed by f’cking c’nts.
Prove me wrong!
I suppose the Brock Energy Polariser is just a bolt-on too?
Am about to take a €15 one and half hour cruise of the Valletta harbours and creeks from Silema.
It’s a really beautiful day, actually quite hot and why not?
Took me this long to get sim sorted.
Lesson, don’t buy from a reseller, go straight to Melita shop, €10 for 8gb, even if it’s no good in Spain it’ll do for this week.
First two days working with the Indonesians.
Sadly they make my CCP brothers look mildly retarded!
They’re funny to, good sense of humour. One old dude cleaning something underneath the no smoking sign, while smoking. Kicked his arse, but in a way that got them all laughing, him included.
Agriculture minister Murray Watt says the live sheep export industry has lost its social licence.
Things in Australia that have actually lost their social license:
The Government
The Bureaucracy
The Police
I suppose the Brock Energy Polariser is just a bolt-on too?
It’s a strap on actually.
Lathe of the week, watchmaking awaits!
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/ballina/other-tools-diy/lathe-watch-makers-lorch-geneva-pattern/1308458758
So it works?
Something different, pantograph of the week!
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/165938480904?hash=item26a2b44708:g:zZ0AAOSwlGRj62c6&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoFzY9BPMPh35sWltYJUUAlxirFS5hinzI4I%2FabpeX4pSEugQou%2FjpleuYZJiEQZ4ev1hKUy7ZWE66MDrn3OYU4PWv1B5J7%2BM2ObfZlmNbB6R96vRTR9C7eHUXY2kPVnfkgNRgdTX%2BwlJicgOPHj4s7RmAwakJe5JLzD8rQXsJgQL%2B6NuwSrxe2CdLF8VXS2oqiHjR4UOIgbH3%2BKZR%2FrO5To%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR_qkxYHKYQ
It’s a strap on actually.
So it works?
HB, I was going to ask rosie to be my valentine, but she seems to have gone off boating or something, so I guess that leaves just you and me!
The clip is up on Gateway Pundit and elsewhere.
Surely if it was a normal diagnosis should be no reason to hide it.
If however it was the vaccine then can’t say so as what would the reaction of other NFL players and public be.
Damar Hamlin Refuses to Disclose the Official Reason Doctors Gave Him for His Heart Stopping: “That’s Something I Want to Stay Away From”
Meanwhile Avi featured in Joe Rogan interview with Matt Taibbi.
Damar Hamlin Refuses to Disclose the Official Reason Doctors Gave Him for His Heart Stopping: “That’s Something I Want to Stay Away From”
Keep Mouth Shut sponsored by Pfizer?!
Cheap if you consider the potential for Pfizer to be nuked from orbit.
Sure but no Polariser.
Sure but no Polariser.
Done! HB’s my Valentine!!
Neat little boat ride with views of the many fortresses etc you can only see from the sea.
A few snippets of history, no tedious personal opinions, the Jersey and the Illustrious got a mention, and a few other of HMS in passing.
Sliema is the only part with a modern harbour front, mostly high rise apartments and hotels with only one or two buildings from the olden days, but back from ‘The Point’ the streets maintain their historic character, some doer uppers, but not many, and lots of building activity on the go.
I heard a German lady on the little cruise say it was her fifty fourth visit to Malta, if the winter weather is generally as nice as it was today, I’m not surprised.
Illustrious at Valletta
a little article about the clean up of the harbour though some wrecks remain and are visitiable by keen divers.
rosiesays:
February 15, 2023 at 2:49 am
Neat little boat ride with views of the many fortresses etc you can only see from the sea.
Star Forts.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Christian Adams.
Morten Morland.
Matt Pritchett.
Patrick Blower.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Tom Stiglich.
Tom Stiglich #2.
Al Goodwyn.
just to be a little pedantic, there is one star fort, the rest are not, which was mentioned on the tour. I’m hoping to get there this week.
I apologise; the Conversation says there is a difference between predicting and forecasting earthquakes.
In addition, wholesale gas prices have fallen below pre-Ukraine war levels, while the EU unemployment rate remains at an all-time low of 6.1% by the end of 2022.
James Clapper says he never called the Hunter laptop Russian disinformation.
No? What about the other 50 “former intelligence” identities?
The US is stuffed because there are too many bad actors in too many places.
Then there’s the MSNBC guest advancing the notion that Fox News viewers are involved in a cult and need deprogramming.
Excellent Brock Energy Polariser references overnight.
More about those 51 former intelligence liars here:
American Thinker
Kristin Chenoweth has been going into random Target stores in the US & signing copies of her book that she sees on the shelves.
It’s either a fantastic marketing ploy or a really sweet thing to do.
Kristin Chenoweth, if I had any idea of who she is what she has written, I may have been interested. Google tells me that she had something to do with a musical called Glinda. I have no interest in the stage, much less on watching grown men and women put on creepy costumes and then sing and dance.
Rosie – may not be your thing, but there’s a half decent aviation museum at Ta Qali, a former RAF base more or less in the middle of Malta. Highlight for me was a Meteor in the livery of 500 County of Kent squadron – which ‘won’ a summer camp posting there as the best auxiliary squadron. Unfortunately for my old man doing his national service, it got cut short due to the Suez imbroglio.
Anyway, they have a website and might be worth a visit.
Spooner nails it.
https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/00c8cc2ce040c2ce896add9ccf213f60?width=1024
Kristen Chenoweth is quite funny.
Yeah…nah.
But Knight does.
Council rates in Tenterfield NSW and other regional local government areas in the state are set to rise by more than 100% over two years.
Albanese’s clueless Local Government Minister suggests services might have to be reduced.
In case anyone was wondering, the code which makes ChatGPT woke can be found here.
I had to look up star forts, then realised I had seen quite a few in my travels. Michelangelo designed one for Florence, and there’s one in Rome adjacent to the Tiber. There’s even one at Tilbury!
Mooched around the webs a bit too long and the rabbit-holes appeared. Like domes, and vehicles with four wheels, and span tables…some things just work. I imagine bastion forts did too when the weapon range was a cannon ball. Or earlier, an arrow.
Viewed from the air, they’re quite magnificent. You can see clearly how the design functioned, with secondary and tertiary fall-back positions. Maybe it’s the “star” label that leads to weirdness.
Just take a look at what Councils are dabbling in these days and the titles of positions held by seat warmers. I reckon I could go through the personnel files and sack half of them.
No doubt that will happen – the people to go will be the ones who repair the roads and clear the scuppers.
Boambee Johnsays:
February 14, 2023 at 8:42 pm
Ed Casesays:
February 14, 2023 at 8:37 pm
This could be describing the coalition.
Not really.
Rachelle Miller is a looker, why did she get $576,000?
You keep hinting that you know the answer, don’t be coy, tell us.
Richard Cranium
I’m beginning to think that you are a lot less well-informed than you pretend to be. Tell us the reason, or disappear.
Reflecting on the fort at Tillbury…not much use against the Luftwaffe. Weapons and strategies had moved on.
And now we have ICBMs and Attack Balloons.
Speaking of council rates, I see the NSW office of state extortion has “revalued” the land the cottage sits on. Unsurprisingly, it’s been massively increased in value (by around $200,000). This will cause my council rates to increase by an absurd amount.
This happens every three years, the last time they did it, my rates went up by $75 a quarter thanks to the “revaluation”. It’s dated as of 1 July 2022, so I won’t be able to argue the real value of the land has plummeted over the last nine months.
Thieving mongrel bastards.
If councils want in on the immigration issue, I say lets give it to them.
They can allow immigrants, but those immigrants must live within the boundaries of the council area.
Watch the immigration numbers fall change markedly as the NIMBYs react.
BTW, the “revaluation” is referred to in my council rate notice as “land tax” for those ignorant idiots previously arguing that there was no such thing, prior to Parrothead’s and the ugly bald greenfilth queen‘s* fantastic “new idea” to offer suckers buying property a land tax option instead of being slugged upfront for theft duty.
I simply cannot articulate in mere words what I would like to see done to the stupid stinking evil hypocritical quisling parasites infesting all levels of government across this wide brown land. Nowadays I often think that HOP Time™ would be too merciful for them.
*Trigger warning: Repulsive greenfilth imbecile
Here is our latest scare.
Malta Shmalta. Queensland has its own star fort – Fort Lytton – at the mouth of the Brisbane River.
Built in 1880 to keep filthy furriners out in accordance with the ’Queensland is for Queenslanders’ doctrine. It worked a treat, because they never came – and today it’s not a tourist destination.
Regarding the article about the ‘latest scare’ (Marburg).
They state
Only nine cases have been recorded over the past ten years, with seven resulting in death. Experts say getting enough data to test a vaccine is a challenge because of how rare cases are
I presume they have *top men* working on addressing this by increasing transmissibility? … perhaps in Wuhan?
When we visited as school children we were told it was to guard against the Russian navy.
The Great Game.
A while back the council in Warwick QLD (Southern Downs) got rid of the specialist gardeners who looked after the roses (among other things).
Bit of a shot in the foot as the place bills itself as ‘the Rose City.’
Hot tip: the state’s official rose garden is up the highway in Toowoomba.
Good grief, Duk. I expect lunatics are playing around with it even as I type.
Trust The Science.
This one will also kill you, just in case Marburg won’t!
If you can keep public space roses looking beautiful and healthy in Queensland, then you are on my “to keep” list. Get rid of the inclusion and diversity drones.
With Mancozeb. Lots of Mancozeb.
Flyingduk,
they also stated that Marburg has a 90% kill rate. LOL
Schools are still being closed in NSW over COVID for deep cleaning and so on.
Three years later. After everyone has been vaccinated or had COVID, or are clearly immune.
It was always just a cold.
https://www.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/stay-safe/advice-for-parents-students
Speaking of staggering stupidity, the insane petty vindictiveness of these loathsome hypocrites on full display again:
PUSH FOR COAL, GAS BAN
Greenfilth’s red line sparks new climate war
Albansleazey’s signature climate policy is on the brink of collapse as the greenfilth prepare to kill labore’s safeguard mechanism.
From the Oz.
Ah, the good ol’ greenfilth. About the only activities they don’t want to ban are sodomy and the mass consumption of psychotropic substances.
And because we are always being told that bad things come in three’s, those who have not been stabbed will get Diabetes! True story. 😀
Monkey pox redux.
As soon as the anal lesions on the kids were found, the MSM dropped it like a hot dildo.
Their desperation grows increasingly strident and pathetic.
Barry,
the scum that are trying to control us through fear wouldn’t have cared about children with Monkey Pox.
I believe they dropped it when news of Dogs catching it from their owners went worldwide.
Many, many thank yous to the Flannery abusers.
20ml overnight. That will see us clear for a while.
A sense of relief is a buzz that can’t be matched by even the very best single malt.
We know the military part is true, even here in Australia, and they haven’t exactly been reticent about their population intentions so there’s no harm in listening to something that until recently would seem to have been on the outer edge of credibility. I wish it still were.
Katherine Watt – Worldwide, US Military-Led Medical Martial Law Operation to KILL Off Humans EXPOSED!!!
Catturd ™
@catturd2
Still crickets from the climate cult nuts over a real problem.
Imagine that.
From Dot’s link:
Hang on just a moment…
Didn’t I just see the Parrothead government trumpeting the installation of air conditioners in classrooms? How does this weigh against the terrible risk of Covid19 transmission and the need for good ventilation (read…open a window you mongs!)?
The health department really needs to have a talk to the education department. But that might mean turning the spigot on OPM, starting with eliminating the “covid response” drone positions in each department.
Emerald Robinson
@EmeraldRobinson
How long will our federal judges humiliate themselves by allowing the FBI/DOJ to keep American citizens in prison forever for loitering and trespassing charges?
Melissa
@MelissaLMRogers
OHIO Woman finds all her chickens dead 10 miles from East Palestine, Ohio
Health Concerns Grow as More Toxic Chemicals Revealed on Derailed Ohio Train than First Made Public
Even Grigory M thinks Ed Case is a moron.
Report details how a handful of Corporations are taking control of the World’s Food Supply
Montifa’s absence explained.
I actually think the traditional anti vaxxers go for the natty lifestyle, no sugar, no processed food, carnivore etc. That is a lot less likely to get diabetes.
A bit hard to get diabetes if you literally do not eat carbohydrates other than Kale (haha, yuck!) or broccoli, everything else is red meat or eggs/butter.
No wonder they hate him.
Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán vows to stay on the ‘side of peace’ as Ukraine calls for more weapons
Dear God what absolutely tragic preventable deaths Well I wonder what this millennial’s punishment will be? What was it about women killing their children?
Research Confirms the Stereotype: Liberals Confuse Emotion With Rationality
EXCLUSIVE: Jim Biden admitted he was hired to negotiate with Saudis over a secret $140million deal ‘because of his position and relationship’ to his VP brother Joe -who would be ‘instrumental to the deal,’ bombshell affidavit claims
I was told that Fort Denison in Sydney Harbour was built as a defence against Russians. I found out later that, apparently, the original event spurring concerns about security was two American warships entering the harbour at night and sailing around Pinchgut Island – the island the fort was to be built on.
They started works because of the Americans and finished because of the Russians.
It’s on the list for the Helldrivers AGM.
Did Biden Use $400,000 Missiles to Shoot Down Weather Balloons?
It’s been days since President Joe Biden directed the Pentagon to shootdown a number of “objects” he claims were a threat to U.S. airspace and commercial aircraft. There are no photos of the “objects,” which White House officials say cannot be classified as balloons, and still no recovered debris after they were reportedly taken out by F-16 pilots using $400,000 missiles.
As officials drag their feet on providing details about what exactly the objects were, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre won’t say whether Biden scrambled fighter jets to shoot down benign and routine weather balloons.
This is what’s really going on here: The Biden administration royally screwed up by allowing the Chinese spy balloon into the U.S. after watching it approach. Americans noticed right before Blinken’s trip to China and then government allowed it to traverse the whole country with surveillance equipment. Now, after creating a lack of deterrence nightmare, they’re in damage control mode — shooting down ‘objects’ while refusing to identify what they are.
BIDEN ECONOMY: Inflation Up 6.4% – Higher than Expected – “Household Budgets…Stressed, Strained and Broken”
Ronny Jackson
@RonnyJacksonTX
The FBI arrested and RAIDED Christian pro-life activists. They did NOTHING when pro-life pregnancy centers were BOMBED. Now they’re labeling practicing Catholics as extremists. This White House has gone to WAR with Christianity!!
I have been attempting to learn more about Matt Keane and to understand how he exercises such unchecked power in what should be an environment hostile his lunatic repression.
Sure, he is a Photios cypher but it is extraordinary that amongst a whole party room there is not one dissenting voice even when the clowns know for certain that Keane will destroy their careers and the Party.
The rise of dictators is always incomprehensible in hindsight.
On a positive note, he has removed the SFL as a political force. That can only be good.
The team of groundspersons who look after New Farm Park should be on any halfway decent “to keep” list for keeping the public roses as beautiful and healthy as possible.
They tell me it’s a struggle to keep northern hemisphere varieties in good shape in sub-tropical Brisbane – but this year, with the Terrible Heat in abeyance, they’ve been quite lovely.
[An interesting factoid: people admire, but generally don’t pick the flowers. Self-regulated community good behaviour is possible.]
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
Translation: “I spoke with Hungarian extremists about USAID’s support for regime change initiative to support American interests, & American capital, and how we can work together to overthrow Victor Orban and secure a repressive regime that will destroy the Hungarian people.”
NO! They need to be picked to encourage more blooms!
Looks like there’s been another one.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
Ohio, South Carolina, and now Texas—this is no coincidence, this is deliberate sabotage.
There are two questions that need answers:
—Who carried out these terrorist attack.
—Will they be memory-holed, or will they be blamed on some foreign enemy.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
Balloons and UFO’s are being used to distract you from:
—Ohio chemical train derailment.
—Catastrophic military losses in Ukraine.
—Seymour Hersh article confirming the US destroyed Nord Stream pipeline.
—Epstein client list to be released.
Is this distraction working on you?
I see they’re blaming Trump for the train derailment. Naturally. I suppose he decided to blow the thing up too.
It’s an interesting news story. The Beloved still watches FTA news services and hadn’t seen a thing on it until I told him about it. It’s an interesting form of gaslighting – did it really happen or is it a confection? The silence here is deafening. This is the only story on the ABCD, back on the 5th. There may have been subsequent ones but my search-fu isn’t yielding any from Aunty.
Nine News has picked up the story via CNN. Perhaps it became too big to ignore. The Guardian is saying that the train exploded, presumably of its own accord, then there was a “controlled burn”.
Looks like everyone concerned is ducking for cover.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
Check out this ‘vaccine scene’ clip from the 2020 Utopia series.
Predictive programming?
Clown World.
Tinta
The court was told Conley then phoned the father of one of the girls, who advised her to call triple-0.
The father of one of the girls. That sentence itself tells a sad story.
That reminds me…I need to dead head the roses.
My rain gauge shows 22 mls for yesterday, it poured quite hard for a couple of hours, but BOM’s map say only 0.2 mls for my area in the last 24 hours.
On the other hand, last week the radar showed a dark red storm passing over my suburb yet all we got was a few drops. Let’s say I have very little confidence in their equipment.
Trump hasn’t been President for two years, Joe Biden was VP for the preceding eight years before Trump was President.
I can’t see anyone actually lapping this up. “The Federal Government needs to spend more money”.
Hmm. Trump didn’t cut the budget in a meaningful way and oversaw very loose monetary policy.
They won’t quit until they have more public debt than Japan or the PIIGS. End of the Republic stuff. Not just the end of the republic, if they could keep it. Possible permanent border changes, never to be reunited.
It really would be that serious. How for example will Japan ever pay back their debt?
263 % of GDP!
Imagine a 6% sovereign bond rate. You’d be paying almost 16% of GDP just on servicing the bond rollover.
Crippling, absolutely crippling.
Only about 36% of our population works full time private sector jobs that actually funds the public purse.
The bit on Ukrainian language is particularly interesting.
Unsustainable.
Far Right?
Let me count the ways.
Something tells me I’d better dig deep and buy a thermal imaging rifle scope before too long…
In Trusted Twit news:
There have been over 54,500 derailments in the US since 1990 when the Department of Transportation started to keep national statistics. That’s 1704 annual derailments – or 4 or 5 each day.
Sabotage in plain sight.
Never mentioned in the media.
Government turning a blind eye.
Hmmm?
If “Ukraine isn’t real” then why were they able to enlist so easily, repel a quick Russian invasion of numerically superior forces and inflict heavy casualties against Russia, now for almost a year?
I have Yul Brynner’s Taras Bulba on DVD, will have to watch it sometime this week. All I remember is that Tony Curtis did not fare well.
That Christiansen tweet is interesting Dover- hidden in the wedge of colour is healthcare costs, going from what looks like less than 15% of total household expenditure, to over 1/3.
T2DM is an inflammatory disorder largely caused by excessive consumption of inflammatory foods, particularly carbohydrates and seed oils. Given that the *very point* of ‘vaxxinating’ you is to stimulate your immune system (which mediates inflammation), it is more likely that said vaxxes increase your risk, not the other way around.
It has been said that the genius of Anglicanism was forging the workable and tolerable compromises necessary for a national church body to hold together.
Alas, Archbishop Welby is no Cranmer.
As the C of E hurtles towards terminal decline it faces the possibility of being excommunicated by its vibrant African daughter churches, where the majority of the world’s Anglicans can now be found.
Church of England Crack-Up: Anglicans in Britain have crossed a rainbow Rubicon
And some high powered rifles, 1000 rounds of ammunition, a bunker, an underground shooting range, a bench for modifying guns (aka cleaning) … oh, and a council permit
Faustus, there was a program on TV not so long ago following goods trains in Australia. A few derailments – seems it happens with monotonous regularity, with or without some form of sabotage.
The network in the States is huge so I don’t doubt those figures for a moment. What has me wondering about this one in Ohio is why so much toxic material is hitched to a single train and whether they should have load limits. Perhaps they already do.
The mechanism regarding simple sugars (and starch to a lesser extent) and T2D by overwhelming insulin regulation makes sense. My reference is Jason Fung. His book Obesity Code is very well referenced.
As far as I know, the difference between butter/olive oil/tallow and canola oil/sunflower oil being causal to T2D is not explained at all.
What free fatty acids or triglycerides, or omega fatty acids do seed oils have in excess or in the “wrong” ratios that butter, olive oil, tallow have or not have? Why does it matter?
What Ukraine is is a difficult question. Less a nation more a geographic area, certainly, historically. They didn’t enlist easily, they conscripted. They didn’t repel a numerical superior force as they outnumbered the Russians from the beginning. And they’ve consistently suffered more casualties than the Russians, and considerably more early on.
I knew a Russian lady in Brisbane who was friends with Yul Brynner & his sister in Harbin.
Like them she was a singer, but they were exceptionally talented, she recalled.
The only people who struggle with this question are followers of Putin and Dugin.
“Daily Mail.” So quick to demand respect.
Rediscovering Singapore’s war history through Fort Connaught
February 12, 2023
Fort Connaught was demolished the day before the fall of Singapore
on Feb 15, 1942, to prevent the weapon from getting into the hands of the Japanese Army.
rosie says:
February 15, 2023 at 2:49 am
Neat little boat ride with views of the many fortresses etc you can only see from the sea.
rosie,
when you were going in and out of the little harbours did you see the Super Yachts?
What got me was the Huge Super Yachts shrink wrapped in plastic.
https://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2020-07-19/newspaper-lifestyleculture/The-Malta-superyachts-refit-maintenance-industry-6736225260
When you are being dragged under by a drowning man a swift kick to the nuts is often a good idea.
Seems like a real country; a real government, willing to die for their independence (otherwise they’d surrender) and with better planning and more success than Russia.
Putin has created a national mythos for them.
What is Ukraine?
The former province we are failing to reconquer. With their own autocephalous Orthodox and Catholic churches. With recognition and support globally.
I don’t recall Captain Cook collecting my bins.
I can only take this view seriously if he leads by example
no its not, ukraine is russia’s and washington’s whorehouse
I know WordPress (or whatever it is) won’t accept Greek text, so, in the best translation I can find…
“Those in positions of power do what their power permits, while the weak have no choice but to accept it.”
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, The Siege of Melos.
This new world disorder is dawning upon us like a blood red sun.
The Daily Mail headline:
‘Bird flu may mutate to kill more than 50% of humans as result of unprecedented outbreak sweeping mammals, experts fear’
The ‘experts’, naturally, are from the WHO.
‘may’ and ‘experts’.
Yeah righto.
Dr Faustus says:
February 15, 2023 at 9:37 am
In Trusted Twit news:
Looks like there’s been another one.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
Ohio, South Carolina, and now Texas—this is no coincidence, this is deliberate sabotage.
There have been over 54,500 derailments in the US since 1990 when the Department of Transportation started to keep national statistics. That’s 1704 annual derailments – or 4 or 5 each day.
Sabotage in plain sight.
Never mentioned in the media.
Government turning a blind eye.
Hmmm?
Dr Faustus,
with respect to East Palestine derailment – Don’t think so – more likely
Video shows sparks and flames 20 miles before train derailment in East Palestine
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Stunning video is raising questions for people in East Palestine.
The video, which captured the train rolling 20 miles before the site where it derailed, is raising questions about when the crew knew there was a problem.
The video, obtained by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, was taken by a security camera at an equipment plant in Salem, Ohio. What appears to be sparks and flames can be seen on the video underneath one of the train cars as it passes the plant. The National Transportation Safety Board referenced the video at a news conference earlier this week.
“We have obtained two videos which show preliminary indications of mechanical issues on one of the rail car axles,” said Michael Graham, a member of the NTSB.
That second video came from a processing plant in Salem a mile down the track. In front of that plant is a hot box detector, which scans the temperature of the axles as a train passes and sounds an alert if they are overheated.
“The crew did receive an alarm from a wayside detector shortly before the derailment indicating a mechanical issue,” Graham said. “Then an emergency brake application initiated.”
The NTBS says there was an alert, but it is not known if it came from the hot box detector in Salem or the next one down the track 20 miles away in East Palestine.
And if the alert wasn’t triggered when the train passed Salem, why not? On Friday, KDKA-TV spoke with a retired Norfolk Southern engineer who lives in Avonmore.
“Generally speaking, after the length of the train has passed over the detector, it will tell you there are no problems found,” Scott Wilcox said.
The NTSB has obtained the train’s data recorder and audio recordings. Those are being analyzed at an NTSB lab in Washington, D.C. The agency is also checking whether all the detectors were working properly.
It’s expected to release its preliminary findings within 30 days.
Captain Cook started the thing about separating out organic garbage, glass/plastics, paper, and garden refuse.
Very divisive.
‘Waleed Aly may become PM, experts fear’
‘Experts fear David Warner may get his own statue’
I thought Shinto, the principal religion in Japan, espoused respect for elders.
Looked it up – I’m wrong. It’s respect for ancestors*, including a festival.
Seems Narita has tapped in to something – to gain respect, the elderly have to die.
* there’s another tenet too – subjugation of the self for the group
Elon Musk: We’re Curbing Starlink’s Use in Ukraine to Prevent WWIII
Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly calls on Musk to ‘restore the full functionality’ of SpaceX’s Starlink system in Ukraine, where it’s being used to launch drone strikes.
Elon Musk this weekend defended SpaceX’s decision to curtail Ukraine’s use of the Starlink satellite internet system to launch drone strikes against Russia, citing the threat of “escalation.”
“Starlink is the communication backbone of Ukraine, especially at the front lines, where almost all other Internet connectivity has been destroyed,” Musk wrote. “But we will not enable escalation of conflict that may lead to WW3.”
Days earlier, SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell confirmed the company had taken steps to limit the Ukrainian military’s ability to use Starlink to pilot unmanned drones on the frontlines of the war. “It was never intended to be weaponized,” Shotwell said of Starlink’s battlefield uses. “On the other hand, they are trying to fight for their country.”
Still, the decision isn’t sitting well with everyone. On Twitter, former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly called on Musk to lift the restrictions on Ukraine’s use of Starlink. “Please restore the full functionality of your Starlink satellites. Defense from a genocidal invasion is not an offensive capability. It’s survival. Innocent lives will be lost,” Kelly tweeted on Friday.
Musk responded: “You’re smart enough not to swallow media and other propaganda bs.”
In a separate tweet, Musk added: “SpaceX commercial terminals, like other commercial products, are meant for private use, not military, but we have not exercised our right to turn them off. We’re trying hard to do the right thing, where the ‘right thing’ is an extremely difficult moral question.”
The ethics over weaponizing Starlink occurs when both the US and European allies have spent millions to bring the satellite internet system to Ukraine. At least one government official in Ukraine has also publicly urged SpaceX to lift the restrictions.
Russia, on the other hand, has made veiled threats to attack Starlink, citing its use in Ukraine. One Russian company even claims to have made technology capable of detecting and hunting down Starlink dishes on the battlefield.
“Starlink is the communication backbone of Ukraine, especially at the front lines, where almost all other Internet connectivity has been destroyed,” Musk wrote. “But we will not enable escalation of conflict that may lead to WW3.”
Didn’t think much of this bloke until recently. But I am rapidly revising my assessment.
No, he’s a psychopath. He’s not popular at all with the Japanese and he’s backpedaling from his comments.
Unsurprisingly you’ve got straight to the point.
The US rail system is hugely used and inconsistently operated/supervised: fertile ground for cockup over conspiracy.
Except for the bent-out-of-shape and swivel-eyed who have the hmmm superpowers to see the handiwork of Dr Evil through mundane stuff like load limits ignored, poor track maintenance, inappropriate speed limits, driver error, and so on.
And Gonzalo Lira is way over on the fruity end of the spectrum.
we are looking at buying a self sufficient emergency property in NZ, any suggestions?
Chelsea Handler Makes ‘Comedy’ Skit About the Life of a Childless Woman but It Reeks of Sadness
For some reason, the left loves a good rousing round of glorifying childlessness and living a life of pure self-absorption. Interestingly, the older a woman on the left gets, the more outward she is about her love of not having any children.
Chelsea Handler, who I’m told is a comedian, decided to put out a short skit about her childless life of wonder and ease. The 47-year-old leftist paired up with The Daily Show to show off how she wakes up lazily in the morning, gets high and masturbates (she even flashes her vibrator for good measure), then sleeps for several more hours. This is before she puts on good-looking and expensive clothes before her video dives into silliness such as flying to Paris for a croissant, teleporting back home, then having sex with random men.
The entire skit is supposed to be a knock on women who have kids.
Handler, like many women who chose childlessness for selfish pursuits, is probably getting dosed with pictures of her friends and family having moments with their children. She’s consistently hearing about how having children makes life far more fulfilling and it’s not actually sitting well with her.
The one thing she does have is a lack of stress and an abundance of free time that every mom wishes they had. While every parent fantasizes about having both of those things, the vast majority wouldn’t trade their child in for it by a long shot.
It’s an understanding that parents have that makes Handler’s “joke” fall short and actually come off kind of sad. During the skit, Handler brags about the “weightlessness of my existence,” a phrase that, while true, is actually pitiable. She has no permanence in her life, including her love life which seems to involve emotionless physical contact and a vibrating machine. By the time she becomes too old for any of that, her weightless existence will become the heaviest thing she has to bear as her loveless life of selfish decisions results in no one being there for her that truly has any attachment.
She’ll sit in a room alone wishing someone would come through the door and no one will except attendants and assistants who are only there because they’re paid to be.
Meanwhile, the mom she mocked for not having her life will be surrounded by her children and grandchildren. She’ll make them little snacks to eat and they’ll draw her pictures with crayons that she’ll put on the fridge. Her home will be as full as her heart. She won’t envy Handler at all. In fact, she probably won’t even think about her, and in the event that she does, it will probably be with pity.
This life that feminism has told women for decades is full of fulfillment and wonder is an absolute lie, and Handler’s joke is actually a joke, just not the way she thinks it is. Handler chose to make herself the full center of her universe, and in the end, she only have herself.
I think Musk maybe regretting letting Starlink being used for any military purpose in Ukraine. All that he achieved so far is getting lots more people getting killed. A military comms system called StarShield is under development but the US might not want to give that to anyone who might have it fall into Russian hands.
I’m sorry OldOzzie.
I’ll stop using sarcasm to fail to make a point.
The two aren’t mutually exclusive, Dot. I’ve already labeled him insane – difficult for me to do but if the label fits, wear it.
It’s the sowing of ideas and doubt that fit in with other elements of a society. I won’t invoke Godwin’s Law but there have been precedents.
As you point out, the Japanese may be far too sensible to go down that particular rabbit hole. But they do have a problem.
And some high powered rifles, 1000 rounds of ammunition, a bunker, an underground shooting range, a bench for modifying guns (aka cleaning) … oh, and a council permit
When Mr. Plod arrives to inspect the gun cabinet (as he is about to do at our farm) where does one put all this stuff, Duk?
‘who have the hmmm superpowers to see the handiwork of Dr Evil through mundane stuff like load limits ignored, poor track maintenance, inappropriate speed limits, driver error, and so on.’
Haha haha haha yep.
It wasn’t long ago that Great Predictions were being made that Klaus and The Gang were blowing up food distribution points all over the US as part of a dastardly global Plan to stop food getting to the punters – who would then be forced to Eat The Bugs.
You can hear the cogs grinding inside the bonces of these muppets:
‘Could it be? Could it?
‘Could this finally provide the validation I’ve needed for so long? Why, yes. Yes it could.
‘Hey everyone! It’s Happening!’
Faustus! We need a sarcasm typeface. Comic sans for preference, and I’d welcome Kunstler Script for elegant wit.
Incidentally, and in the same vein (which is free of self-replicating metal wires), it is 2 to 32 months until everyone who has received any of the vaxxes – regardless of circumstance – is dead, those who survive will wish they were dead, and the unvaxxed will be cattle-carred to the Toowoomba Facility where the gas pipes await.
The St.Ruth/Bosi thought process. Infallible. Except for:
‘Well what else would you have concluded.’
– St.Ruth, 2022
Best to abandon sarcasm on the net. Too late for that.
Dr Faustus says:
February 15, 2023 at 10:33 am
Sabotage in plain sight.
Never mentioned in the media.
Government turning a blind eye.
Hmmm?
Dr Faustus,
with respect to East Palestine derailment – Don’t think so – more likely
I’m sorry OldOzzie.
I’ll stop using sarcasm to fail to make a point.
S’Ok – My wife says I have Zero Antenna for Sarcasm – Pure Dead Duck
Is that some New Wave German Electronica?
Vicki, search for videos where Musk talks one on one with people. I’ll give you a couple of names Tim Dodd, Sandy Munro.
He comes across as a good bloke but driven and determined to be useful. Could have retired before 30 with more money than he could spend but decided to risk it all. He’s a combination of da Vinci, Brunel and others including fictional characters like D.D. Harriman. The human race is lucky to have him.
The reported train derailment and resultant chemical fire was actually a mini-nuke. Analysis of the colours involved proves it.
The best thing about these chemicals in Ohio is many of them have already vapourised or already reacted and done the damage they can. They had low boiling points and the area was evacuated fairly quickly.
Oh. Looks like the MSM did cover it. From back on 5 February 2023.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/04/blaze-from-50-car-train-derailment-in-ohio-keeps-burning
There are “reports” of wild critters dying. There are less verifiable reports of people’s pets dying, sadly. From the same sources that are declaring “a total MSM blackout!”.
I think we should all be asking ourselves what role the Knights Templar played in all this.
The puppet master: A new report exposes how George Soros’ propaganda machine has corrupted the media
The Budapest-born billionaire has constructed an incredible global network of influence
A new report from the US-based Newsbusters has exposed a vast web of media and activist organizations, funded with millions of dollars, annually, by the billionaire George Soros. The outlet bills itself as “an online rapid-response vehicle for documenting, exposing, and neutralizing liberal bias in the media.”
The extensive global influence of the Hungarian tycoon is well-known, and Soros himself has admitted it on countless occasions – including boasts about his efforts in Ukraine. Soros openly declared his role in promoting the 2014 US-orchestrated Maidan coup in Kiev, stating at the time: “I set up a foundation in Ukraine before Ukraine became independent of Russia [sic]. The foundation has been functioning ever since. And it played an important part in events now.”
In a lengthy interview with the New York Times in October of 2019, Soros explained: “The arc of history doesn’t follow its own course [and] needs to be bent,” and he was “engaged in trying to bend it in the right direction.”
The Newsbuster report identifies the hundreds of media, humanitarian, and social justice organizations that Soros funds annually and asserts that his donations allow him to “wield massive power over information in international politics,” and “mold public opinion on practically every continent and in many languages.”
Who gets the money?
Newsbusters lists Project Syndicate as the biggest propaganda platform funded by the Hungarian. It styles itself as “the world’s opinion page” and has a “global audience” that includes “prominent politicians, policymakers, scholars, business leaders, and civic activists from six continents” and “over 140 heads of state.” From 2016 – 2020, he funneled at least $1.5 million to the outlet. It actively promoted abortion, criticism of Israel and pushed for global climate lockdowns during this period.
The Poynter Institute is also at the top of this list, which Newsbusters condemns as “a global Soros-backed Ministry of Truth.” It received $492,000 during the same period. This money was used to finance Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network, which brings together 100 so-called “fact-checkers”.
The network includes the controversial PolitiFact, and actively works with major social media platforms to boost their operations, while censoring alternative voices and opinions.
Newsbusters argues that these initiatives in reality serve only to restrict opinions on issues like abortion, transgenderism, and COVID-19. The reports also points out that there is significant academic research to suggest fact-checking does not stop the spread of false information online, raising questions about why so many organizations and wealthy individuals pump huge amounts of money into such entities in the first place.
Soros’ latest project
In 2020, Project Syndicate published an op-ed from economist Marianna Mazzucato. She argued that if Earth’s population were not prepared to accept a “green economic transformation” truly revolutionary in scope, with huge consequences for human rights and citizens’ daily lives, then the world should trial “climate lockdowns”, a completely new and untested concept in science, to counter global warming. Government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic were said to show they were possible.
Yes Dot. That ABCD piece I linked to was dated the 5th as well.
My focus was on FTA, not electronic media. And I never claimed a total media blackout, just a possibility of selective reporting.
And I did enjoy the Twitter “it was Trump wot dun it”.
I have read the ultimate in right wing slacktivism is to sabotage fake meats by carelessly not returning them to the fridge.
I would never do that. I don’t encourage you to do that. It’s illegal and you shouldn’t do it.
I am considering the morality of spoiling foods with bug flour in them though.
That won’t be necessary I feel. There will likely be a rise in allergies and the crap may be banned before we are given a choice.
Your best option is to avoid processed foods. There is no fake meat or bug flour in fresh cuts of beef, fish or vegetables.
That would be FDA here. The Nine story dated today came via CNN.
Ma’am, if I ever confuse you with Gonzalo Lira or Stew Peters, please slap me!
I look very alluring in a Sombrero and fake moustache.
Mistakes happen.
Ma’am?
‘Musk is running rings around you’: NBN grilled over Starlink threat
Lucas Baird – Reporter
“Elon Musk is running rings around you”, senators have warned NBN Co in a late-night estimates hearing after the government-owned company said satellite customers had declined by 10,000 users in the last year as the threat of low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite rivals like Starlink grows larger.
These services, which include the Amazon-backed Kuiper and others, pose a growing threat to the NBN in regional areas, where they can often provide quicker speeds than the national networks Skymuster satellite system. NBN Co recognised the “increasing competition” in a pricing paper late last year.
NBN Co chief development officer Gavin Williams told senate estimates on Tuesday night the company lost 10,000 users had disconnected from Skymuster in the last year as people pursued alternatives like LEO operators, which shocked Coalition senator Holly Hughes.
“I am absolutely shocked you have only lost 10,000 people because the services don’t even compare,” Senator Hughes said.
Mr Williams said the cost was often more substantial than the Skymuster service, and that it had increased the amount of uncapped traffic it will allow on the satellite system.
NBN chief executive Stephen Rue denied that Skymuster would eventually become obsolete. “Skymuster continues to provide many real benefits to people in regional Australia, and we continue to develop products,” he said.
Mr Rue and Mr Williams said the services will be enhanced through a $480 million investment by the former Coalition government to upgrade its fixed wireless and satellite offerings in regional areas.
The reason LEO operators like Starlink can provide faster speeds than NBN’s Skymuster service is because the constellations are at a lower orbit – signals simply have less distance to travel.
Coalition Senator Sarah Henderson, whose questions were at one point interrupted due to a poor connection, candidly warned the NBN Co executives that “Elon Musk is running rings around you”.
“There are so many farmers in regional areas that are struggling with Skymuster … for many people living in regional communities, Elon Musk is running rings around you,” she said.
“What are you going to do about it?“
Mr Williams said, when Skymuster was established, NBN Co had sought out “bleeding edge” technology. He said there was a “range of things” NBN Co does to get every advantage it can from the Skymuster satellite, and that the company would continue to expand its fixed wireless offering in rural areas.
Mr Rue said it would make a “big difference”.
“That will allow people to move off a sky muster service onto a fixed wireless service and free up bandwidth there,” the CEO said. “Long-term, clearly we need to think about ways to think about ways to service those communities.“
NBN Co did not face any questions about it writing off the recovery of $31.5 billion in regulatory costs last year, or the ongoing wholesale pricing talks with the competition watchdog and retail telcos like Telstra, Optus and TPG.
Probably a Dumb Question – “Why would not NBN apply to become a Starlink Distributor for Australia”
Curiously, shinto means new sword.
Koto is old sword, and shinshinto, literally new new sword,
honours the old ways of koto.
A cultural movement which became inextricably linked with the Satsuma Rebellion
and later, the resurgence of bushido.
And we all know how that ended.
Deo volente, I’ll be visiting the south island in November. I’ll scope it out 😀
But my first thought would be the Coromandel Peninsular on the north island.
Lol. Energy Australia has applied such secret rate increases to our power bill that we have to obtain a secret access code to know what they are.
Because it’s a secret.
The world has gone completely insane.
And of course “Something Went Wrong” message comes up. For the THIRD time. Sure has.
Same, particulary due to the SA “big battery” thing, which is next to useless.
He’s a work in progress, but he’s surprised me a number of times.
Power prices likely to be up 20pc even with government fixes
Mark Ludlow – Queensland bureau chief
Households and business will probably still be slugged with electricity price increases of up to 20 per cent next financial year, despite the federal government’s price caps on coal and gas.
While Australian Energy Regulator chairwoman Clare Savage on Monday night told budget estimates the government intervention would mitigate price increases, energy experts said there would be double-digit rises from July 1.
Grattan Institute energy program director Tony Wood said federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers has called on companies to pass on the fall in wholesale power prices to consumers, but the reality was more nuanced.
“It’s more of a case to make sure companies don’t pass on too much of the price increases,” Mr Wood told The Australian Financial Review.
“I think you are going to see price increases of 20 per cent – even with the impact of the government intervention – but it will vary between states.”
Dylan McConnell, a senior research associate at UNSW, said while electricity prices increases may not be as bad as previously thought, it was hardly a big “win” for consumers.
“They are less worse than they could have been, but it’s hard to say that’s good news for customers,” Dr McConnell said.
“Forward prices have come down a lot – something like 40 or 50 per cent – but they are still up compared to what they were this time last year.”
Rising power prices have become a major political headache for the Albanese government after both major parties vowed in last year’s election campaign they would reduce power prices.
The ruse was up when the AER released its default market offer days after the May election which showed power prices increases of up to 18 per cent in NSW and 12 per cent in Queensland this financial year.
The anxiety over power prices was exacerbated when the federal budget in October forecast electricity increases of 36 per cent in 2023-24.
But the Albanese government said its energy market intervention had contributed to a 50 per cent fall in wholesale power prices which would flow through to lower retail prices.
Treasury has estimated that electricity prices nationally will rise by 23 per cent in 2023-24, 13 per cent lower than originally forecast. It also estimated the gas price cap will reduce pressure on gas prices, increasing by only 16 per cent next financial year.
State treasurers are also sweating on the details of the $3 billion energy price relief package which will allow respective states to offer rebates to take further pressure off power bills.
Mr Wood said the addition of one-off rebates could help reduce some consumer’s power prices actually falling from July 1, but it would depend on how they were applied.
“But whether the rebate is bigger than the increase we just don’t know,” he said.
The AER said it would announce next year’s default market offer in mid-March, only two months before Dr Chalmers hands down his second budget.
The default market offer, or standing offer, is effectively a safety net for electricity customers who haven’t shopped around for a better deal with energy retailers. It applies in south-east Queensland, NSW and South Australia.
Market offers are usually well-below the default market offer, but a big jump in wholesale power prices, driven by the war in Ukraine, has brought them a lot closer to together.
Opposition energy spokesman Ted O’Brien said Labor’s message on power price rises being lower than what they would have been did not cut it with households.
“This is cold comfort to Australians who are already struggling to pay the highest electricity bills in Australian history,” Mr O’Brien said.
“Labor is boasting about blunting a knife that will still cut deep into family budgets. This is not what they were saying this time last year when they promised to reduce household energy bills by $275.”
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson took to social media to bag Labor’s messaging on power prices.
“Only Labor could try to spin a 23 per cent increase in power prices as a ‘win’,” Senator Hanson tweeted.
Oh. I’ll let you in on the BIG SECRET.
Going up from .33/kwh to .37 (incl. GST).
I hear the black helicopt…..
‘Dumb prince and his stupid wife’: South Park takes aim at Harry and Meghan in episode entitled ‘The Worldwide Privacy Tour’
. Infamous cartoon South Park takes aim at Prince Harry and Meghan this week
. The episode is titled The Worldwide Privacy Tour and airs on Wednesday
. It comes just after Harry wrapped up the press tour for his memoir Spare
It looks as though Prince Harry and Meghan are in the crosshairs of South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone judging by a teaser clip for this week’s episode of the long-running Comedy Central show.
According to the description for episode two of season 26, titled The Worldwide Privacy Tour, ‘The prince of Canada and his wife try to find privacy and seclusion in a small mountain town.’
In the teaser clip, Kyle can be seen telling his friends: ‘It seriously is driving me crazy. I’m sick of hearing about them but I can’t get away from them! They’re everywhere. In my f*****g face.’
His best friend Stan replies: ‘Look, Kyle, we just kind of don’t care about some dumb prince and his stupid wife.’