Extreme Unction, Nicolas Poussin, 1646
At this time, it doesn’t really matter. Simply knowing that he was awesomely on the correct side is enough.
Open Thread – Tue 14 March 2023
- Open Thread – Thurs 23 Jan 2025
- Open Thread – Mon 20 Jan 2025
- Open Thread – Weekend 18 Jan 2025
- Guest Post: Mem – The Ratchet Effect of Power-Price Increases
- Will the wind warriors become social outcasts?
I think people will tire of Executive Orders in a few days. Orange Hitler might want to re-brand them. How…
It would be an erection in both senses of the word.
No-one makes fun of Diagnosis Murder and gets away with it. No-one.
Agree with BoN. We went through all of this nonsense too. Ended up paying a cleaner who is a treasure.…
HMAS Shampoo
HMAS Duck Bum
HMAS Carbon Tax
HMAS Altona
HMAS Widows and Orphans
HMAS Awura
HMAS Musselman
HMAS Slipper
HMAS Slapper
Keating ranting and raving on Sky News. Funny to watch.
Lots of “ya know” because he can’t articulate followed by a pause as he tries to remember – then responds to a prompt from the interviewer.
Winding up french clocks and simmering in bile has lead to senility.
Dr F
Non-clown Australia would already have a full-cycle nuclear industry – complete with complex reactor disposal facilities.
Remind leftards that RFX Connor, Minister for Minerals and Energy in the Whitless government, wanted to develop the full nuclear fuel cycle in Australia. Mining, processing, building reactors and fuel rods, re-processing of spent fuel, disposal of waste. The younger ones won’t believe a word you say.
Feds’ Foreign-Corruption Double Standard: They Protected Bidens Even as They Bore Down on Trumpworld
By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations – March 15, 2023
At the same time that Department of Justice officials were using spying and corruption statutes to aggressively pursue Donald Trump’s allies based on what turned out to ?be rumor and innuendo, they declined to use those same laws to investigate evidence of wrongdoing involving Biden family members and one of ?their corrupt Chinese business partners, DOJ documents and federal court records reveal.
In 2016-2017, the evidence shows, the FBI raided the offices and intercepted the communications of Chi Ping “Patrick” Ho, ?a Chinese national agents suspected of espionage even as he was negotiating business deals with former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter and brother James.
DOJ later used information obtained from the searches and wiretaps – which included conversations with the current President’s son and brother – to convict Ho of bribery and money laundering, as part of a separate corruption case involving United Nations officials. But it declined to tap into its trove of evidence – including “over 100,000 emails” – to explore the connections between Ho and the Bidens, who received millions of dollars from Ho and a Chinese intelligence front and discussed sharing office space.
At Ho’s 2018 trial, prosecutors? hid Hunter’s connection to Ho, redacting his name from court exhibits (see sidebar) while describing Ho as “the person who flies around the world paying bribes to advance the interest of the oil company [CEFC? China Energy],” according to hearing transcripts.
A federal database shows the Bidens failed to register as foreign agents while engaged in activities on behalf of CEFC, a state-owned entity? suspected of being a front for Chinese intelligence.? Federal anti-spying laws require anyone acting as a lobbyist for a foreign power to register with ?the Justice Department under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
The DOJ did not prosecute either Biden family? member for potential violations of FARA for representing the interests of the Chinese.
This stands in stark contrast to the DOJ’s ?aggressive pursuit of alleged FARA violations involvingno fewer than six Trump campaign officials. In August of 2016, shortly after receiving a tip that a low-level Trump campaign volunteer, George Papadopoulos, had allegedly been told that the Russians might have dirt on Hillary Clinton, the bureau opened FARA investigations into Papadopoulos and three other Trump associates with no clear ties to Papadopoulos: national security adviser Michael Flynn; campaign manager Paul Manafort; and campaign adviser Carter Page. The FBI subsequently investigated Manafort’s deputy Rick Gates; and Trump’s Mideast adviser Walid Phares under the same statute.
As RCI has previously reported, the FBI used FARA as the basis for a wide-ranging probe that included tailing them, staking out their homes, digging through their trash, and using confidential sources to secretly record them. Only one of the six was convicted for FARA-related violations, and none was charged with any espionage or conspiracy crimes involving Russia.
“It’s 100% a double standard, and it’s absolutely corrupt to the core,” former assistant FBI director Chris Swecker told RCI. “And meanwhile, [current ?FBI Director] Chris Wray fiddles.”
Other veterans of the bureau say the Obama and Biden administrations have politicized and weaponized FARA.
“Starting in 2016, the Obama-Biden administration used FARA and the criminal justice system as tools to attack and eliminate the opposition,” said ?27-year FBI veteran Michael Biasello, adding that many of the same officials are “back in charge and making sure those tools won’t be turned on?themselves.”
An FBI spokeswoman said the agency had no comment on why it did not apply the foreign lobbying law equally. The Justice Department did not return requests for comment.
Ho and Hunter:
A Lucrative Relationship
Robert Sewellsays:
March 15, 2023 at 12:39 pm
Black Ball:
It’s much more expensive than renewable energy firmed up with batteries and pumped hydro. We just don’t need it in this country. It’s very expensive and it will put up power prices.
And this is why I think the country is stuffed.
Lies, wrapped in stupidity, encased in political and economic armour that would stop a ten ton projectile travelling at 99% of the speed of light.
To a degree, Conroy is correct. We have plenty of coal and gas. But if they are out, and we want reliable, continuous electricity, nuclear is the only remaining answer.
“And on remakes – it’s sad watching good solid old tales remodelled into imbecility .”
With the exception of “The Italian Job”, which was very well done. Not the same story (original was theft at end, remake was theft at start), so maybe doesn’t count as a remake, more like a sequel. Either way, better than most such attempts.
The Prime Minister wants to recruit seven of the country’s most important sports codes, including the National Rugby League, to co-ordinate support for the Indigenous voice to parliament in the lead-up to this year’s referendum. If he succeeds, Australian sport risks being poisoned, because the matter will force a collision between a great pastime and identity politics.
Oz
Well that’s alright then ! .. wasted an RC to get to this point .. kill a few, put several hundred thousand thru hell but express sadness & regret ….POLITICS 101 ..
I’m guessin’ he ain’t considering donating his pension to a fund to aid those who suffered …..
Personally, I was thinkin’ a gaol cell for several years to “reflect” might be a better option …..
Former prime minister Scott Morrison has apologised for the damage caused by the unlawful robodebt scheme.
While expressing his regret – Mr Morrison stopped short of labelling the scheme immoral.
“It’s totally regrettable and it’s a very sad thing that has occurred,” Mr Morrison said.
The Biden Justice Department Stands Accused of Hiding This Evidence of Biden-China Corruption
Above, Gal Luft, who says he was detained in Cyprus “on a politically motivated extradition request” in a bid to “bury me to protect Joe, Jim, and Hunter Biden.”
By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations
March 15, 2023
The Justice Department is not disclosing to the public or Congress links between President Biden’s son Hunter and brother James and a corrupt Chinese government agent who doled out millions of dollars in bribes. It has scrubbed the connections from court documents and is suggesting it doesn’t have evidence clearly in its possession.
In addition, the department appears to be trying to silence another disreputable partner from coming forward to tell what he knows about the Bidens’ Chinese connection.
In 2016, FBI counterespionage agents began collecting voluminous evidence against Chinese national Chi Ping “Patrick” Ho, who was suspected of paying off officials and their families around the world in exchange for oil rights for a China-based energy conglomerate he represented which has ties to Chinese military intelligence.
From emails, text messages, phone calls, bank records, and other evidence gathered from wiretaps and searches of Ho’s offices in D.C. and New York, investigators discovered that Hunter Biden and his uncle James were targets of Ho and CEFC China Energy, which had struck up a business partnership with the Bidens. The deal, sealed in 2017, netted the Bidens almost $6 million for unspecified work, at least $1 million of which was paid directly by Ho.
DOJ prosecutors were able to indict and convict Ho in 2018 under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for his role in a bribery scheme aimed at former United Nations and African officials. Though the evidence also potentially implicated the Bidens, who failed to register as foreign agents of CEFC, prosecutors did not pursue charges against them.
Republican congressional leaders investigating Biden influence-peddling say the DOJ is actively covering up the illicit connection. Here’s how:
Failing to Turn Over
Surveillance Evidence
Despite Senate Judiciary Committee requests, DOJ refuses to turn over Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act materials the FBI used to spy on Ho in 2016 and 2017. DOJ claims the FISA information may not even exist.
But the FISA applications and material do exist — according to a sworn acknowledgement by former U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman, who prosecuted the Ho case.
The Justice Department allegedly has suppressed leads provided investigators years ago on the Bidens related to CEFC by a former CEFC consultant close to both Ho and Hunter Biden.
DOJ is seeking the extradition of the tipster Gal Luft, a former senior adviser to CEFC China Energy who was arrested last month in Cyprus for charges tied to the illegal export of arms to China.
However, Luft maintains he’s “never been an arms dealer” and that the real reason the Biden administration wants to bring him into custody is to silence him from cooperation with congressional investigations into Hunter’s business dealings with CEFC and other Chinese entities.
Luft said he met with FBI and DOJ investigators in 2019 and gave them incriminating information on Hunter, but they did not pursue the leads he gave them. His lawyers recently told DOJ he plans to submit a letter to Congress detailing statements he made in that interview.
“DOJ is trying to bury me to protect Joe, Jim & Hunter Biden,” Luft claimed in a Feb. 18 tweet. He threatened to “name names” of department officials whom he says are trying to cover for the Bidens.
It was also in 2019 that the FBI was given a copy of Hunter Biden’s laptop hard drive by a Delaware computer repairman several months after the younger Biden abandoned the device there. The laptop contains numerous documents featuring Ho, CEFC Energy Fund and its U.S.-based subsidiary, the China Energy Fund Committee, which Ho ran from D.C. FBI whistleblowers have told Congress that their supervisors in Washington suppressed the laptop evidence and even claimed, falsely, it was Russian “disinformation.”
Withholding Other Non-Laptop Evidence
REVEALED: Only ONE member of failed SVB’s board had a career in investment banking – and the rest were Obama, Clinton mega-donors who ‘grieved’ when Trump won including one who went to Shinto shrine ‘to pray’
. Tom King, 63, was the only member of the Silicon Valley Bank board who had experience in investment banking
. The others were major Obama and Clinton mega-donors, including one who cried when Trump won in 2016
. The board is now being investigated for its failure to act ahead of the bank’s collapse, as some argue it was too focused on being woke
BJ.
Your comment about RoboDebt kind of got me thinking.
Obviously it was a cock-up of massive proportions. Simplistically, the main problem seemed to be mismatching “social security periods” (fortnights or months) and “taxable income periods” (financial years), and using some pretty dumb analysts to design the code (no doubt at $500/hr, and $2,000 for partners).
It seems that they could have triangulated PAYG tax remittances, SGC contributions, social security benefits and job codes on the personal tax return to come up with targets for audit/enquiry.
Not to raise an automatic debt.
The Prime Minister wants to recruit seven of the country’s most important sports codes, including the National Rugby League, to co-ordinate support for the Indigenous voice to parliament in the lead-up to this year’s referendum. If he succeeds, Australian sport risks being poisoned, because the matter will force a collision between a great pastime and identity politics.
Wise man, Luigi! .. I can just see full page/screen adverts of Latrine (the) Goodes smilin’ face imploring a YES vote being thoroughly appealing to the, undecided, vote-herd …….!
Open letter to CPSO head Nancy Whitmore to stop COVID misinformation
Why bother having a family at all?
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-64959611
Just have some kids, give them to the government and consume, work until you die to pay off public debt incurred to pay for your kids childcare – who don’t talk to you.
Their ABC finds An Expert in love with Doctor Chalmers:
Jim Chalmers has announced changes to superannuation tax concessions. Could capital gains tax be next?
Why, yes. Yes, it could be.
Via quarterly, mark to market taxation:
Simple.
Although it will permanently change the value of capital assets.
And cause interesting liquidity problems.
And provide another income stream to advisers, accountants, and bureaucrats.
Go on. You know you want to.
Those submarines and Voices won’t just fund themselves you know.
Huge bill shock with electricity prices set to surge by a staggering 31% in one Australian state – and you won’t believe the NSW Energy Minister’s “Green” Kean Liberal’s gibberish in response
. Electricity prices set to soar in NSW, Qld, SA
. NSW energy minister “Green” Kean Liberal issues bizarre statement
. Power shortages forecast as coal plants shut
Despite this NSW Energy Minister “Green” Matt Kean Liberal insisted on Tuesday night that the Coalition government was ‘putting downward pressure’ on electricity bills by ‘firming’ new renewable power infrastructure in a baffling media release.
For the hardest hit areas of NSW, households could see their energy bill increase by up to $463 while small businesses will see their bills rise by up to $858.
This comes despite a promise by Mr Kean to reduce energy prices by $130 for households and $430 for businesses this year.
Mr Kean on Tuesday announced a tender process would begin next month for ‘firming infrastructure’ to keep the lights on in NSW – in a statement loaded with jargon and technical discussion of an electricity price ‘roadmap’.
Firming infrastructure means putting back-up sources in place to keep power supplied to the grid when intermittent renewable energy, such as wind and solar, lapses due to weather conditions.
Gas generators fuelled by renewable hydrogen or biogas are the planned alternative source of power generation in NSW but they will not come online until 2025.
With the state preparing to shutter two of its biggest coal plants – Liddell in the Hunter Valley this month and Eraring on the Central Coast by 2025 – the energy market operator has warned of power shortages.
AEMO CEO Daniel Westerman said reliability gaps will begin to emerge in all mainland states and steadily worsen up until 2027.
However, Mr Kean insists his government has a comprehensive strategy to ensure households and businesses across NSW have access to reliable and affordable electricity.
‘In the short term we are delivering $250 off families’ energy bills if they shop around for a better deal,’ Mr Kean said in his statement. Has “Green” Kean Liberal ever heard of BillHero
‘In the long-term we are transforming our grid with our Roadmap, which will drive in at least 12 gigawatts of new renewable generation and two gigawatts of storage as our coal generators come offline.’
Mr Kean said the project will generate 380 megawatts of power on demand, which is a small fraction of what the state needs with the loss of Liddell and Eraring.
The closure of Eraring, Australia’s largest fossil fuel power plant, will be seven years earlier than previously planned after a surprise decision by owner Origin.
The intended green energy replacements have both announced serious delays.
A gas plant being built in the town of Kurri Kurri is a year behind schedule.
Meanwhile there have been major questions over the $6billion Snowy 2.0 hydrogen/hydro project that is intended to act as a major power back-up to renewables.
Originally announced by the Malcolm Turnbull-led Coalition Government in 2017, it was supposed to have been finished in 2021 but this has been pushed out to December 2027.
Received electricity bill this am. Exactly 22% increase on this time last year.
Can I make up an unlawful scheme too?
Can I create code to automatically create fraudulent debts by reckless means?
Until government lives under the same rules as the governed, it will be out of control.
Sancho Panzersays:
March 15, 2023 at 1:16 pm
BJ. Your comment about RoboDebt kind of got me thinking.
That’s pretty close to the nuts & bolts of it .. advisors/program writers just got too clever, took shortcuts to make it easier and didn’t see/care about the consequences .. if you look at averaging, logically, being on the dole for 9 months and working the other 3 months would thru averaging the 12 month period put you in debt .. the odds are you’d earn as much/more in those three months than the previous 9 months ..
What is really worrying is that none of these 6 figure salary public serpents saw it …….. and the political leadership equates to party hacks on ridiculous salaries without much expertise or interest in the workings of their depts. let the public serpents run things unchallenged ………!
Personally, I was thinkin’ a gaol cell for several years to “reflect” might be a better option …..
Pretty much the whole of Australian politics and the entirety of the bureaucracy needs this.
A Great Reset.
Sancho Panzersays:
March 15, 2023 at 1:16 pm
BJ.
Your comment about RoboDebt kind of got me thinking.
Obviously it was a cock-up of massive proportions. Simplistically, the main problem seemed to be mismatching “social security periods” (fortnights or months) and “taxable income periods” (financial years), and using some pretty dumb analysts to design the code (no doubt at $500/hr, and $2,000 for partners).
It seems that they could have triangulated PAYG tax remittances, SGC contributions, social security benefits and job codes on the personal tax return to come up with targets for audit/enquiry.
Not to raise an automatic debt.
Re your final para, I suspect that, in theory, the necessary data could have been provided to an AI system. However, the security and privacy implications are such that I don’t think that it should be.
Targeted audits/enquiries are the way to go, triggered by an AI referral. They could provide lots of work for lawyers and accountants made redundant by AI systems.
Keating’s arrogance and bile is beautiful to watch.
He’s like the crazy loony uncle.
Received electricity bill this am. Exactly 22% increase on this time last year.
What % increase and how many blackouts are required to wake up Australia?
Dot
Until government lives under the same rules as the governed, it will be out of control.
Now, that’s a Constitutional amendment I could get behind and push hard.
He’s like the crazy loony uncle.
Just remember it’s you turn to sit next to him this Christmas!
What % increase and how many blackouts are required to wake up Australia?
problem is we (vote-herd) have no say in any gummint decisions .. all we get is a load of waffle/promises leading up to an election and the following day everything changes to suit the “elected” knowin g they have 4 years full-on troughin’ before the next lot of BS promises ……. basically, the system is f***ed! .. there is no trigger for accountability when politicians ignore/reverse or just make it up once in office and on the public dime ..!
It irritates me no end that there were no blackouts in summer several years ago, last 2 summers have been mild as far as I’m concerned (and I dislike the heat), but before that we wobbled through the year not quite getting a major blackout. Also, I wish the South Australian storm recently where the pylons fell
had been more long-lasting. WE NEED A DECENT BLACKOUT NOW !!
Being in an over 50s village we buy our power from the park owners, we are on a fixed price until the beginning of 2025(!) at a ridiculous 10.x cents/kWh for peak and 5.x cents/kWh off peak.
Because of the solar panels, our bill for January was $4.96 – yes 4 cents shy of $5.
Not a single blush in him:
Not hyperbowl or exaggeration: this is exactly how government energy policy is developed and implemented in Australia – because that is exactly what we are seeing here, in its unfiltered ugliness.
In other areas, some ministerial minion would be out and about to smooth over the cockups, explaining that the Minister ‘misspoke’. But he didn’t misspeak – the whole show is in thrall to Unicornism.
One c-word after another on show here.
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Aussie Cossack:
The Australian Senate is infested with pro-Ukrainian foreign influence. Senators are pushing for more Australian involvement in war against Russia. Liberal, Labor, Nationals & Greens all blindly support more weapons, money and troops for Zelensky. There is no opposition in tr senate, no discussion, no debate, no scrutiny and no questioning the decisions to send Australia to war.
Who voted for this??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFqlHOcbqJw
Great rant from the Rev. I largely agree.
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Reverend Simon Sideways:
I would ban music and film promoting gratuitous violence, dumb kids fall for it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3HlCvT-5hc
How many boards of Chinese banks does the old fool sit on?
It’s remarkable. Not pay a small amount of tax (without any intent) and you can get hauled before ACIC.
A Director of Public Prosecutions can know about a complainant committing perjury in her giving of statements and he can clam up, play victim and cry out how hard done by his lot in life is.
Keating at the press club today.
I think the even the journos are just about finished with this piece of shit after an hour of abuse and dissembling about his Chinese connections.
Healesville is a nice town. So clean after a week in the Melbourne CBD squaller. Visited the 4 pillars distillery.
Sort of like the overwhelming majority of people that catch covid and just get over it. Someone should tell the papers about that one.
Of course Big Sport will comply enthusiastically.
They won’t even see the problem in being co-opted thus by government.
Soft fascism is our new polity.
As noted above, that matches my Shannons bill increase near perfe tly, again indicating a real world inflation rate of 22%.
Against that, note the official interest rate of 3.6% and muse how much more ‘upside risk’ to go.
it’s not that many years ago that Eddy’s boy, Arfur (Sinodinos) fronted an enquiry into some rip-off or other (another enquiry that went nowhere .. as they all do!) and stated that when he ran Sydney Water for the Obeids he couldn’t remember what he got paid the $A500K a year to do! ..”
Sinodinos may have his faults but I think it’s a stretch to call him “Eddy’s boy”. Oh and ICAC made no adverse findings against Sinodinos.
Given the amount of seamen subs have in them I’m surprised someone hasn’t made a (frankly quite tasteless) joke about calling the first one the HMAS Christopher Pyne.
I don’t want to be the first.
An 80-year old man was having his annual check-up and the doctor asked him how he was feeling.
“I’ve never been better!” he boasted. “I’ve got an eighteen year old bride who’s pregnant and having my child! What do you think about that?”
The doctor considered this for a moment, then said “Let me tell you a story. I knew a guy who was an avid hunter. He never missed a season. But one day, he went out in a bit of a hurry, and he accidentally grabbed his umbrella instead of his gun”. The doctor continued “So he was in the woods, and suddenly a grizzly bear appeared in front of him! He raised up his umbrella, pointed it at the bear and squeezed the handle. And do you know what happened?” the doctor queried.
Dumbfounded, the old man replied “No”. The doctor continued “The bear dropped dead in front of him!” “That’s impossible!” exclaimed the old man. “Someone else must have shot that bear”.
“That’s kind of what I’m getting at” replied the doctor.
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
– William Shakespeare
Where to Go?
“A lot of people have been asking where to go, what bank is safe, and what’s next? This is by no means over. The fiscal mismanagement is off the charts and we have a major clash with the Marxist views of the Democrats who always want to punish the rich and then ask them for funding. Only in the Democratic Party can you have a $ 10,000-a-plate fundraiser and preach how evil inequality is and that the rich must be held accountable.
Those who keep calling for a gold standard are clueless. To have a return to balanced budgets means that the Democrats will have to completely reform. They DO NOT know how to govern without class warfare. Politics has deeply divided the United States to the point that the only reasonable solution will be to separate between the blue v red. As Lincon said, a house divided cannot stand. That is becoming so obvious that there will come a day soon when that will be the case. There are over 30 civilizations that have come before us. Every single one has collapsed. We are merely waiting for our 15 minutes in the spotlight.
We must understand that things are far worse outside the United States geopolitically thanks to the Neocons who have done nothing but connive endless wars. They are ruthless evil people who have no problem sacrificing your family for their political aspirations. Short term, as they create World War III, the dollar will be the strongest currency as capital always flees from a conflict. We really need to IMPEACH Biden, because he is a dangerous puppet who reads whatever the Neocons write on the cue cards. Then we really need to launch an investigation of these Neocons who have usurped US foreign policy for decades and are never held accountable.
Now, many people have asked what is a small bank. They are typically local regional banks. The problem is if they just make decisions based on the talking heads on TV, then they will face tremendous problems ahead. To be diverse, for now into 2024, you may want to look at US T-bills 30-day to the 90-day max. Not every bank is in trouble. You should ask if they publish their portfolio. The big risk is that money was basically free, and they were investing that long-term. But as rates have risen, they have suffered losses as long-term has declined in liquidity thanks to Ukraine.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/understanding-cycles/where-to-go-3/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Following the nuke sub announcement yesterday a former PM got a phonecall:
Xi: Herro, is that Pauw
PK: Ah yes hello Xi, how are my KPIs going? Calling about my bonus no doubt, as there’s some cracking piggeries I’d like to acquire before we outlaw meat sales in the next few years. Of course, that won’t be for everyone SCOFF SCOFF SCOFF
Xi: I um vewy unhappy wif your fwend Arbonees and da nucrear arrouncement. You huv to make call to our frend in press offrices to condem US expansorism.
PM: Well I couldn’t do that comrade, it’d make me mate, the PM, look bad. We’re from the same party of workers, united, we’ll never be defeated.
Xi: Do it now or I will seng a pack of murtated pangorins up your backsize.
PM: Ok well, if you insist boss. I’ll do it now.
Xi: Do it now, or I do you srowly.
PM: Hey that’s my li-
Xi: DO RIT!
He has found the only person who is a worse President than him. Reporting on it can only invite favourable comparisons.
It is the only reason Carter has held on so long.
Farmer Gezsays:
March 15, 2023 at 2:19 pm
Keating at the press club today.
I think the even the journos are just about finished with this piece of shit after an hour of abuse and dissembling about his Chinese connections.
I watched the whole programme and he was either recalcitrant or part of a parallel Universe. Didn’t answer any questions he didn’t like and just ridiculed the person asking the question. Laura Tingle was kind of patient with him but must have been pulling her hair out. At least he has one or two redeeming features. He doesn’t like the Left of the ALP and Tennis Elbow and Wenny Pong in particular.
CathNews 15 March 2023 provides two links.
One link to the CRA article and another to The Catholic Weekly, March 12.
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What’s a Default Offer?
Since 1 July 2019, new regulations have replaced the old Standing Offers with Default Offers across most of the National Energy Network.
There are two kinds of Default Offers:
The Default Market Offer (DMO) is set by the AER for Residential and SME single and single + controlled load tariffs in NSW, SA and South East QLD
In Victoria, the Essential Services Commission sets the Victorian Default Offer (VDO) for single-rate and controlled-load tariffs in Victoria only
Although calculated and defined in different ways, both DMO and VDO set a cap on the price that a customer will pay if they have not entered into a Market Offer with their retailer. They also set the benchmark against which any discounts offered in Market Offers must be expressed.
Here’s more information about Default Offers from Savings as a Service:
QLD, NSW, TAS & SA Default Offer increases
The price increases put forward today by the AER in its draft DMO decision for 2023-24 look grim for energy consumers, with controlled-load households in the NSW Endeavour electricity distribution zone hit hardest with a 23.7% price increase.
State Distribution Zone Resi no CL Resi with CL SME no CL
NSW Ausgrid +22.2% +21.5% +14.7%
Endeavour +20.9% +23.7% +19.9%
Essential +22.1% +21.4% +17.5%
QLD Energex +19.8% +19.5% +19.4%
SA SAPN +21.8% +21.3% +25.4%
VIC Default Offer price increases
The draft VDO update also released today has even worse news for Victorian energy consumers:
The average annual bill for domestic customers on the Victorian Default Offer would be 31.1 per cent higher … [and] … the average annual bill for small business customers on the Victorian Default Offer would be 33.2 per cent higher.
Oi. Steady on old chap.
They won’t even see the problem in being co-opted thus by government.
Long since co-opted. Notice how quickly the CEOs of all the codes reported to Canberra on the next flights when the Slapper needed a backdrop of sombre sporting faces as she announced ‘the darkest day in Australia sports’. That turned out to be nothing of the sort and ended up requiring the Bombers’ bastardisation so that there would be at least one scalp to hang on the Lodge pole?
In sport, you need to know where the grants and new stadia are coming from.
shatterzzz
basically, the system is f***ed! .. there is no trigger for accountability when politicians ignore/reverse or just make it up once in office and on the public dime ..!
There was a time when the MSM would have made an effort to bring all of them to some form of account. (Including the Liars – who could forget Whitless’s cranky “The Age shall not query them” made about a story criticising him.) No more, now all woke and never a word of criticism of “their” side.
Even when Lieborals are criticised, they never resign form Parliament, just slide onto the backbench and keep on troughing (hello Scummo).
Franksays:
March 15, 2023 at 2:39 pm
Person recovers from cold within days, call the papers!!
Sort of like the overwhelming majority of people that catch covid and just get over it. Someone should tell the papers about that one.
But m0nty=fa is ailing, and has a (What was it? Ten percent?) chance of departing this world if he gets it.
REAKING: Russian Su-27’s Finally Down American Drone Near Crimea
SITREP 3/14/23
Simplicius The Thinker
9 hr ago
Firstly, some breaking news:
“Several times before the collision, the Su-27s dumped fuel on and flew in front of the MQ-9 in a reckless, environmentally unsound and unprofessional manner,” the US military complained, accusing the Russians of “a lack of competence.”
Enironmentally unsound? Quick, someone call Greta!
Must US be reminded, as I wrote about in this article:
Simplicius’s Operations Center
The Changing Face Of War – Future of the Russian SMO
In the end, this is an important escalatory ‘red line’ step by Russian command. They are demonstrating the limits of their patience to the US. However, the MQ-9 which was downed is not the primary threat by a long shot—the far more powerful RQ-4 Global Hawk which also does the rounds in that area has much more powerful instruments/sensors for scanning and providing target data on Crimea and the outlying region.
However the MQ-9 does have a AN/APY-8 Lynx II SAR radar suite which can do similar things but with far shorter range due to the fact that it has a lower operational flight ceiling (25k feet) of the RQ-4 (65k+), as well as endurance, which allows the RQ-4 to scan a much farther distance with more powerful SAR and electro-optical sensors.
SAR, or synthetic aperture radar, is basically a type of radar meant for the ground. It creates a composite ‘map’ of the terrain by bouncing the signal off the ground, through clouds or adverse weather, and can pick out ground targets for utilization by other strike assets like missiles, etc., which can now be sent to those ground targets. However it has a range limit based on its field of view and distance to horizon. At 50,000 ft. (the Reaper’s full flight ceiling), the radar horizon should be north of 600km. However it’s more normal ‘operational altitude’ is listed at a mere 25,000ft, which would give it an ability to see about this far:
However, it should be noted, the cost of the MQ-9 Reaper is somewhere north of $100,000,000 for the full package—which is nearly triple the cost of the Su-27 which brought it down….—so it is a serious loss.
Edit/Updates:
The plot thickens. Flight tracking specialists FlightRadar24 state they could not track this particular MQ-9 Reaper, which means it wasn’t using an active transponder.
That means it was likely involved in a much darker, more critical ongoing mission than the ‘usual routine’ ISTAR stuff done daily. This is likely the reason Russian command downed this bird. Even the more powerful RQ-4’s typically fly with transponders on and can be seen doing their standard tracks on various sites like FR24.
This does add great intrigue to the scenario, that means US was attempting something with this Reaper.
132andBushsays:
March 15, 2023 at 3:00 pm
Given the amount of seamen subs have in them I’m surprised someone hasn’t made a (frankly quite tasteless) joke about calling the first one the HMAS Christopher Pyne.
I don’t want to be the first.
Bronwyn Bishop, as Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, refused an invitation for a trip to sea in a sub. Her reason was that she did not want to give the media reptiles to opportunity to write a headline stating that she had “Gone down on a cylinder full of seamen.”.
So, Walter Sofronoff KC and his senior is joined by Mark Tedeschi KC, David Edwardson KC, and Tim Game SC.
Add in juniors, and someone representing Shane Rattenbury and we’re starting to look at $100,000+per diem just for the main performers.
All on the public dime.
HMAS Pisswreck.
THE INTEL DROP
2nd Kinzhal Attack Hits NATO’s Western Command Center 80 meters Underground, 40 Killed
By Cossack Colonel YURI KOMINYENKO
IN western Ukraine a Russian Forces Kinzhal struck a bunker extending to 80 metres deep. The RF believes this bunker near Lvov was a NATO strategic command point used to control anti-aircraft systems. It’s still early days but the RF assumes there were up to 300 personnel in the bunker, 40 of which were high ranking foreign specialists, hence we can expect 40 body bags heading west in due course. Unconfirmed in the Nikolaevsk region the RF destroyed four senior militants, and a number of officers and planners.
As NATO fly’s its spy planes along the Moldavian/Transnistrian (Priednestrovie) border collecting data for the Ukrainians, their troops are positioning themselves to invade Transnistria in Moldova’s breakaway region. A significant build-up of Ukrainian personnel and equipment including setting up of artillery positions and an “unprecedented” increase of drone flights over the region indicate the preparation for an invasion of the sovereign territory that was declared independent in the early 1990s. Half of Transnistria’s 500,000 residents have Russian citizenship.
Transnistria has a predominantly Russian-speaking population and the primary purpose of some 1100 Russian peacekeepers stationed there is to monitor the 1992 ceasefire. This force is now being reinforced with RF military elites. Any action by Ukraine or its US, NATO member states that pose a threat to Russian peacekeepers or nationals in Transnistria will be seen as an attack on Russia, stated the country’s Foreign Ministry. The village of Kolbasna has an enormous X-soviet ammunitions warehouse that the Ukros are desperate to acquire. One of the goals of the RF is to establish a land corridor to Transnistria. The Ukrainian forces/Azov battalion pretext for the invasion will be a fake invasion by Russian troops in Priednestrovie. Currently the RF is jamming all communications in the region.
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The other interesting missile/rocketry news is that Russia reportedly fired upwards of 6 or more Kinzhal hypersonic missiles during its landmark strikes last week. Here’s a video of AFU spokesman Yuriy Ignat attesting to this fact.
Soon after, however, very interesting reports began to appear:
Now this is all uncorroborated of course, but if you put the actual known and confirmed pieces together, it does paint an intriguing picture:
We know Kinzhal in the past has been only rarely used against very sensitive and heavily reinforced (underground) targets. Here’s a Reuters article from early in the war which reports Russia’s first-time use of the missile against an underground weapons depot. Here was one of the pieces of footage released at the time:
Whatever it was, hit the building at an incredible rate of speed.
We have the full confirmation from an AFU spokesman that half a dozen Kinzhals were in fact used.
So putting the pieces together, we can deduce it was likely against something sensitive, the NATO command center story begins to have at least some plausibility.
The Brittany saga will pay off a few South Coast holiday getaway homes.
Just got to get a place at the trough … er … panel.
Censoring Social Media to Prevent Bank Runs
“They censored social media to prevent the public from learning the truth about COVID, vaccines, and accompanying mandates. They censored social media to prevent the public from learning about Hunter Biden’s laptop before his dad could be installed at the POTUS. They censored anyone who questioned the election or Biden’s crime family and deliberately leaked Republican voter information. The extreme censorship on social media by biased fact-checkers expanded beyond the US. So it comes as no surprise that the government would like to censor “misinformation” that could lead to a bank run.
The people within the system know when a bank is failing, as we saw with SVB’s recent collapse. Senator Mark Kelly (D-Arizona) asked the Federal Reserve, Treasury Department, and Federal Deposit and Insurance Corp (FDIC) if it would be possible to censor information that could lead to future bank runs. Kelly is denying the claims despite people on both sides confirming his question.
The government implements bots on social media to support its agenda. Elon Musk exposed Twitter prior to the takeover. Twitter admitted when filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that around 5% of its 300 million users are in fact fake accounts. Once Musk began to crack down on fake accounts, members of the Democratic Party saw sharp declines in followers.
Twitter quietly began to crack down on bots in April 2022, and some of the most followed accounts saw a significant drop in followers. Former President Obama once held the record for being the most followed man on Twitter with 131.7 million followers. After the algorithm changed, Obama lost 300,000 followers instantly. Pop singer Katy Perry, the third-most-followed account and an outspoken Democrat, lost 200,000 of her 108.8 million followers. Half of President Joe Biden’s 22.2 million followers are fake accounts. Based on the 2020 US Presidential Election, Biden should be the most popular president in history after securing more votes than any other president. “My strong intuitive sense is that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization. I don’t care about the economics at all,” Musk said in April of 2022.
So Kelly’s proposal is not merely a method to avoid bank runs. This is infringing on our Constitutional right to the freedom of speech to control the masses via media. Let us not forget that nearly all social media platforms heavily lean left and support the same message.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/censorship/censoring-social-media-to-prevent-bank-runs/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Yeah that “Intel Drop” page totally doesn’t look like Russian propaganda either guys.
“Ukro-Nazis”
Yeah, let’s forget these guys exist and fight for Russia or its proxies:
Sabotage Assault Reconnaissance Group (DShRG) “Rusich”
Russian National Unity (2000)
Russian Imperial Movement
More Russian bullshit:
Russias MoD update: In total, 387 airplanes, 210 helicopters, 3228 unmanned aerial vehicles, 405 air defence missile systems, 8011 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1044 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 4205 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 8494 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation.
Since when did Ukraine have 8011 tanks?
The Intel Drop smells of Russian BS, now also going hard on the antisemitism Russia is using to propagandise against Ukraine:
https://www.theinteldrop.org/2023/02/28/strange-bedfellows-the-nazi-israel-nuclear-partnership-q-classified/
Deutsche Verteidigungs Dienst
Christopher Story, longtime associate of my good friend, Lee Wanta, was an agent of Britain’s secret services, something not included in his official biography but true none the less. Story, a respected lecturer on global currency issues and intelligence, told of an organization formed during the late 1920s, formed of a coalition between the Bush family in the US, then part of the Harriman/RothMANS banking cartel of New York/City of London, and the “Hitler Project”, so aptly written about by Webster Tarpley in his Unauthorized Biography of George H.W. Bush.
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According to Story, this group which controlled the Federal Reserve in the United States and the majority of the world’s central banks served an agenda of world conquest, both overt and covert. Story cited Hitler as a “puppet” of the organization that would later be called the DVD. British Prime Minister Edward Heath was a DVD operative as was Prime Minister Tony Blair and a significant number of high ranking British politicians.
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Cool story bro, needs more tunnels and adenochrome.
More Russian bullshit:
Russias MoD update: In total, 387 airplanes, 210 helicopters, 3228 unmanned aerial vehicles, 405 air defence missile systems, 8011 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1044 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 4205 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 8494 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation.
Source or Sauce?
That figure is very low -ball for Ukrainian losses so the Germans are flattering them and they still get no respect.
An interesting alternative. Was there any ethnic cleansing in Crimea following 2014? I’m sure I would have heard about it.
“He has found the only person who is a worse President than him. Reporting on it can only invite favourable comparisons.”
I’ve been reading an excellent book called “The Fall of Heaven” about the collapse of the Pahlavi dynasty and the end of Imperial Iran. It’s a sympathetic look at the Shah, his years in power, his family, and his legacy. Whilst there was corruption and human rights violations under the Shah, many stories were embellished by the clerics, particularly by Khomeini and his followers, to foment the uprising and revolution. And any corruption and human rights violations that occurred under the Shah was nothing compared to what followed under the mullahs. The Shah certainly made mistakes but his reforms helped lift Iran and Iranians out of poverty, women were given the vote and many other achievements. But two things have resonated with me about the Shah’s fall, one was the deliberate US indifference and frequent malfeasance under the inept Carter presidency and particularly his ambassador to Iran at the time. Simply put, the US under Carter stabbed the Shah in the back. We all know how weak American leadership in the world is dangerous but the legacy of such weakness lasts decades, Iran is still controlled by the clerics and is a pariah. The second thing I’ve taken from the book is how millions of Iranians, from all classes of society, benefited from the Shah’s reforms in the 1960s, particularly in education. In the 1970s, thousands of young Iranians were given the opportunity to attend university and it corrupted them. Young men and women were radicalised at university, not just those from poor families but also those from the middle class and the wealthy. These students and graduates, many who were socialists, Marxists and so on entered into an unholy alliance with Khomeini and the clerics. They were sure that once the revolution happened, they’d be able to put the clerics back in their box. How did that turn out? It didn’t go to plan.
Perhaps it’s a stretch to compare the radicalised Iranian youth of the 1970s to our own radicalised young but I can’t help feeling a similarity. Perhaps I’m too pessimistic.
The book is a sad story, given what the family endured in exile, when the Shah was dying and they roamed the world looking for sanctuary and treatment. The family never really recovered and two of the Shah’s children later committed suicide.
Rita Panahi:
We are living in bizarre times. On the one hand we have endless messaging around the rights of women and female empowerment and yet women in Melbourne will need police protection when they gather this Saturday for a “Let Women Speak” event in the CBD.
We hear plenty about respecting women’s boundaries but we have people in positions of power, including health chief Dr Brendan Murphy, who cannot readily define what a woman is.
And, we have a trans activist movement in this country that holds disproportionate power and wields it regularly.
It should shame the state government that right now a sexual predator, guilty of multiple rapes, is housed in Victoria’s largest female prison despite the objections of many of the terrified inmates whose pleas have been ignored by authorities.
And sadly their cries for help have also been ignored by the loudest feminists in the country.
The modern feminist movement is at a crossroads and has split in two with the bulk of “the sisterhood” siding with radical trans activists, while the remainder fight to protect women’s only spaces such as locker rooms, shelters and prisons and women’s sport from biological males who identify as women
This Saturday that clash will be evident on the steps of parliament as women gathering to talk about their rights being infringed upon are expected to be met with hundreds of trans activists, including many identifying as feminists, determined to intimidate the women into silence.
No doubt they will be successful in scaring many women away.
I attended the Sydney event, headlined by Kellie-Jay Keen, on the weekend for Sky News and heard women of all ages and backgrounds telling their stories.
They needed protection from lines of police including the mounted branch.
Throughout the rally hundreds of trans activists seeking to disrupt the women screamed into megaphones, chanted about Nazis and generally carried on like a pack of enraged clowns.
It’s frankly incredible and more than a little depressing that in 2023 women in Australia who hold very much mainstream views about gender cannot meet in a public place in broad daylight without police protection.
It’s time Australian women woke up to what is happening to their rights in the name of diversity and inclusion.
Another unserious diversity hire like the chick who (still?) runs Optus. I am sick and tired of the “brilliant” young women who have been promoted way beyond their competence.
“I attended the Sydney event, headlined by Kellie-Jay Keen, on the weekend for Sky News and heard women of all ages and backgrounds telling their stories.
They needed protection from lines of police including the mounted branch.
Throughout the rally hundreds of trans activists seeking to disrupt the women screamed into megaphones, chanted about Nazis and generally carried on like a pack of enraged clowns.”
Yep, I was there.
DeSantis senses the political wind in the Republicans.
Remind leftards that RFX Connor, Minister for Minerals and Energy in the Whitless government, wanted to develop the full nuclear fuel cycle in Australia. Mining, processing, building reactors and fuel rods, re-processing of spent fuel, disposal of waste.
Why?
Rex Connor was insane at the time, even his close friends said so.
“Kurri Kurri power plant in the Hunter Valley will completely rely on natural gas when it first starts up and will not be able to use green hydrogen because it is not available.”
Hydrogen won’t be available for a long time, much less ‘green’ hydrogen, whatever that is. Hydrogen as others have noted here is difficult to store and transport, I think the losses alone run to around 1% per day. Then you have the fact that it’s very reactive and attacks a lot of metals etc, the maintenance costs would be very high. Throw in a huge range of flammability, 4 to 74% in air, you don’t need much of a leak to get a big bang followed by fire. Very dangerous stuff. I doubt that it will ever be a commercial success.
The revolutionary spirit of RFX Connor is alive and well in the 21st century neo-communist ALP of Elbow (a.k.a. Luigi the Unbelievable) and his low-IQ treasurer Jim Chalmers.
Whatever it takes.
rickw:
We’re nowhere near the point of grid crash, Rick.
First Liddell has to close. There will be power shortages “blackouts” and people will put up with it because there will be no point in complaining. The citizenry will pull together for the sake of the country, as they do in times of crisis.
It will take a fair while for them to figure out the crisis has been made by the politicians and the money boys – all of who will have gensets and taxpayer funded fuel.
You don’t really think they’re going to go without, do you?
Then the answer to your question will be 1 blackout that lasts for more than a week.
After that point, the system is irrecoverable except by incremental stages that will take months.
…and there will be no power to run the machines that send out the bills. So there’s that.
Will be interesting to see how The Greens and The Teals sell Albanese’s Nuclear Waste Industry wheeze to their voters?
Not insane nut case. At the time visionary. He was able to what passes for energy today. Behold the munty and head case power company. Effing useless.
Ed – you’re a bit like Rex, then.
Stopped clock and all that.
No such thing as “green hydrogen”. Using energy to produce hydrogen used to produce electricity is nothing short of a unicorn fart.
Yeah, we’ll send our best and brightest over to Kazakhstan to study cutting edge Nuclear Waste Disposal.
Or we could just copy Japan and dump it into the Pacific Ocean.
Meanwhile, Joe Shitpants just bailed out a Nuclear Power Company in Arizona, apparently the Economics don’t stack up.
Recently I attended via zoom my super fund’s AGM. I was pleased that a significant amount was still invested in coal and gas fired power generation and in resources. When questioned why more was not invested in renewables and diversity projects the finance officer had to explain the energy reality and returns on our investments. I felt much better afterwards that there was at least someone looking after the funds money.
The only green hydrogen is thus far not feasible. Nuclear fusion.
Lockheed Martin and boffins in the UK are getting close.
Aggressive, impotent & frustrated stupidity.
At the time visionary. He was able to what passes for energy today.
Yeah, Cletus.
Tell us about Tirath Khemlani and that $500 Million Loan from Saddam Hussein again?
The ALP Fluffers are out in force this arvey.
Is it Pension Day?
Ed Casesays:
March 15, 2023 at 4:29 pm
Remind leftards that RFX Connor, Minister for Minerals and Energy in the Whitless government, wanted to develop the full nuclear fuel cycle in Australia. Mining, processing, building reactors and fuel rods, re-processing of spent fuel, disposal of waste.
Why?
Rex Connor was insane at the time, even his close friends said so.
You are too much of a Dick ‘Ed to get my point.
don’t forget the dissembling “its all the previous government’s fault, because they didn’t invest enough in renewables/transmission infrastructure/grid stability/etc”
That’ll hold off the pitchforks for a good election cycle or so.
So, what’s your point?
Take seriously the counsels of The Insane?
Richard Cranium
Meanwhile, Joe Shitpants just bailed out a Nuclear Power Company in Arizona, apparently the Economics don’t stack up.
The electricity that isn’t delivered is both the cheapest (no electricity bill) and the most expensive (no power equals loss of everything in the fridge, no light except torches and gas lanterns, etc).
The economics of not having reliable, continuous, electricity most certainly don’t stack up, but you are too stupid to understand that.
And solar, wind, pumped hydro, and batteries cannot, with current technology, deliver reliable continuous, electricity.
Ed Casesays:
March 15, 2023 at 4:59 pm
So, what’s your point?
Take seriously the counsels of The Insane?
Definitely not, we’re ignoring your “counsels”.
No, he’s just an old C##@
All this AI stuff has got the Grigbot malfunctioning. Mother should turn him off and on.
Give him a Brogan adjustment, he he, he he.
Paul Keating is a shill for the Chinese Communist Party government.
He says he was paid only $5000 p.a. by one of the CPA-controlled Chinese state banks.
Rubbish.
If Peter Hartcher, of the SMH (who Keating defamed today), is a real journalist, he will go to work on finding out and writing up the true extent of what Keating has been remunerated in the past 30 years by the Chinese government and its wholly-owned and controlled businesses.
Keating is lying his head off.
It is true that they hold disproportionate power, but it is not their power. It is the power possessed by the state and given to them by politicians.
A Twitter mob or reams of newspaper columns exert little power until harpoon politicians who actually have power – the power to direct human effort without the humans so directed having to share the sentiment – a paycheck will do.
Where would the panic merchants have been fiddling with our lives and livelihoods without a ready police force ready to threaten people with violence (and more than threaten, it must be said) and the hulking mill of bureaucracy that can grind a person down to nothingness.
Without them kicking in your doors, stalking you in the streets and alarming strangers in shops and restaurants with impunity or molesting your electronic soul (raiding your bank accounts and forcing you to sport badges on your phone declaring you to be a righteous person) they would have been rutted.
If a politician had the male accoutrement of testicles said to their screeching banshees who look like a cross between 1960’s divas and circus clowns “We have an understanding of what a woman is, but we in government don’t own it. The public do. You have to convince them that a woman can have a dick, and if you can’t then there’s an end of the matter.”
Ah, but did you see what I did there? I spoke of a politician with convictions.
Had laser surgery this morning. About a minute into the main gig heard surgeon’s voice raise, “we have lost charge on the laser”. As a result had to have eye continuously flushed during the hiatus of replacing battery. Outcome, extreme pain for several hours and probably more to come as built up fluid drains. Also had to get nurse to home to replace dressings as soaked. Moral of story is don’t be first cab off rank for surgery. Thought, aren’t we lucky we have reliable energy. Now off for a pain killer and a gnt. These last two items may become obligatory in Bowen’s new energy world.
He’s got a point, though.
Lotta people who voted Labor or preferenced Labor didn’t vote for a Nuclear Waste Industry.
Pig Iron Bob?
How about Plutonium Waste Albo?
Hawkey paved the way, but it’s bipartisan policy. See Darwin Ports.
Richard Carnium
How about Plutonium Waste Albo?
Nah, just do the fashionable thing. Recycle it into nuclear weapons. How could they object? Recycling is the new leftard religion.
Might be Scotty Morrison’s Deal.
Say you’ll give us Nuclear Subs in 25 yeas time and we’ll take all your Submarine Nuclear Waste off your hands.
5 years time:
US Navy will be rocking up to Perth towing a barge with the [Toxic for 29,000 years] remains of 3 Mile Island as cargo.
Voted Labor?
BOHICA!
HMAS Harold Holt. It’s down there somewhere. Be very careful.
HMAS We Still Love You Paris
HMAS Juliar’s Missing File
HMAS Not a Ghost Turnbull
HMAS Abbott’s Lost Courage
HMAS We’ll Change Everything
HMAS Higgins Big Score
HMAS Labor’s Nasty Ladies
5 years time:
US Navy will be rocking up to Perth towing a barge with the [Toxic for 29,000 years] remains of 3 Mile Island as cargo.
Just whack the high grade waste into the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR)s which the enlightened rub and tug government will build lickety split.
Ed, you really are blathering. Stop it.
One of Kevin Rudd’s useful idiots, former advisor Andrew Charlton, now the federal member for Parramatta, was on Sharri Markson’s Sky News show tonight supporting Chinese Communist Party shill Paul Keating, saying that Australia is now having to adjust to a “multi-polar world”.
Did you see what he did there?
Charlton thinks China is about to take over from the US as the world’s largest economy.
Markson is getting quite an education dealing with dissembling political radicals like Charlton (who claims to be from the ALP right faction to allay popular fear about his agenda).
A reminder that the ALP right sees itself as introducing communism only slightly slower than the Greenfilth.
Black Conservative Patriot:
Tucker Carlson reveals to a friend the main video evidence he wanted to show on Fox News and why he didn’t.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObXjMLzS7TQ
Michael Smith News has the full text of Paul Keating whinge.
Has a few zingers but quickly gets as boring as the bitter old bloke himself.
This is what listening to Gustav Mahler does to you.
Talk of hydrogen above. Yesterday I spotted a Toyota Mirai in Melbourne. A hydrogen fuel cell vehicle no less. I didn’t realise that they were selling them here. No idea where they refuel.
It’s not the blathering. It’s the lathering. The ointments and pastes lovingly kneaded in to keep flesh supple, elastic, and ‘life-like’. But you must be able to wipe off other fluids without compromising the daily routine.
It is a labour of very intense, personal, widely misunderstood love.
A sum like that would be nuisance money to a multimillionaire pig farm investor.
Embarrassing if discovered because:
a) financial payment, and
b) the low esteem in which the recipient was held by his client.
Does not compute.
Crossie,
Which fund? Mine is sadly all in on ESG.
Altona, or Canbraa.
Most of the Liars are paid up Fabians.
Driving around emitting large clouds of smug?
When my son was at university, he was a member of the liberal-conservative club. He reckoned that the liars on the right and left hated each other more than the Libs. I recall he reckoned that Liar right got on with his group quite well.
Malcolm Roberts:
Former terrorist Tedros Ghebreyesus will not fire 83 WHO staff engaged in abuse including rape and forced abortions, with one victim 13, claiming rape and forced abortion do not violate WHO’s policies because the victims were not receiving WHO aid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wpSTVoDgjM
HMAS Gingerella
Old man, mournfully wanking into a sock. Unbeknown to him the circus has moved on.
Might give it a pass.
Really tough girl.
Any woman would be stupid to get in the ring with him.
These blokes have been absolutely brilliant. They got so many out of their homes and access to food and health care.
**********
Sparks and Blokes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA8TTjbeiyY&t
No comments on Newsom….hold that thought, a clip for him coming up. I’ll give it a day.
Really tough girl.
Any woman would be stupid to get in the ring with him.
That’s Gabi Garcia head prefect; apparently she is a real woman and not a trannie.
The only means by which Australia can transition to nuclear power is if the union super funds can be convinced that it will provide a more bountiful trough than Bowen’s current scam.
I don’t know how you become a Fabian or join a club called The Fabians? Does anyone have experience on this I would love to know.
Ordinarily, I would assert that Gabi Whoever is a dead set dude. However, she hits like a girl so the jury’s out.
She is a real woman that pigged out on the male hormones, apparently.
Before and After.
H B Bearsays:
March 15, 2023 at 5:21 pm
All this AI stuff has got the Grigbot malfunctioning. Mother should turn him off
and on.Maybe a bolt protruding from either side of her throat might help to soften the facial features.
Keating may or may not be in the pay of the CCP but I think he’s right for the wrong reasons. If we were to merely buy the required number of Virginias OK but then tacking on the build them here? Bat guano insane.
“Tall Man”, the biggest dude the CCP has on site turned up this morning. Lifted old motor out by ourselves, but he reckons he twinged his knee, so got a swarm of Bangla’s to help lift the new one in. Just finished aligning it, some dumb luck, finished the vertical. Started on horizontal, found it almost spot on so left it.
Ordinarily, I would assert that Gabi Whoever is a dead set dude. However, she hits like a girl so the jury’s out.
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She is a real woman that pigged out on the male hormones, apparently.
Before and After.
Forget the male hormones. The lady is on the growth hormones big time; just look at the jutting jaw and the frigging deltoids and lats. The lady is 6’2″ and 220lbs. She’s almost as big as me and I only take liquorice injections.
Anyway since the usual pansies are flipping out about the lady by way of contrast a cute owl. No jutting jaw there.
A Toyota wut?
I used to wonder who would run out of product brand-names first.
Big Auto or Big Pharma.
But after the Qashqai, the Tiida and now the Mirai, my money is firmly on the Auto boys.
mem says:
March 15, 2023 at 7:22 pm
H B Bearsays:
March 15, 2023 at 6:37 pm
Most of the Liars are paid up Fabians.
Same as the masons, invitation only and that, after approval by the top guys.
Keating is such a lying limp prick.
He had the gall to say Modi had muslims walled up in Kashmir as the smarmy cockroach attempted to run a Chinese squirrel up the Uyghur tree.
Millions upon millions of muslims walk the streets and lead normal lives in mainly Hindu India.
The only means by which Australia can transition to nuclear power is if the union super funds can be convinced that it will provide a more bountiful trough than Bowen’s current scam.
I get what you’re trying to say, but it’s wrong.
The Union Funds are all very small, have large fees, don’t make much money.
The Industry Funds are the big ones.
Yeah, there are Union Drones on the Boards, but they’re matched in number by Industry Representatives who are unlikely to throw money at an Industry with a 25 year build time.
That said, the Queensland Investment Corporation [a Future Fund for Qld Public Servants], has many Billion$$ invested in the U.S. Nuclear Power Industry.
Ah yes, Indigenous leader Mervyn Eades
He’s just grifted elsewhere
The elevated tone of Keating’s invective is best attributed to the fact that Albanese didn’t return his calls.
Imagine a former Labor PM being snubbed by Elbow.
Hang in there, mem. It will pass.
Kenny was superb in eviscerating the pompous old poofta keating and that tingle slag; and also good about ruinables tonight. What a pity he has such a blind spot about the fu.king voice.
Anybody know anything about the Qld Qovax study onto long Covid and Vax.
Craig Kelly on Twitter suggesting the study being interfered with in some way by Qld Health due to unfavorable results.
What % increase and how many blackouts are required to wake up Australia?
Spacechook has shown me ads from the WA government telling “us” to not use air cons/power as much around the time of the solar eclipse (20th next month) or the elektrickery will go off.
Nothing to do with crippling and shutting down the Collie power station and coal mines.
Dear me, The Undertaker has certainly undertaken open warfare on what is laughably called the Albanese government – Greg Sheridan appeared on Credlin and seem in somewhat high dudgeon that Keating was treating Richard Marles and Penny Wong in contemptuous terms — on that point it is right and fitting for Paul Keating to do so.
Albanese has got to back Wong regardless, since she’s an icon.
I’d say Albanese has got to return home, not get Covid anymore, and start acting like he GsAF, or else the Party will hafta turn to PeanutHead.
Richard Cranium
The Industry Funds are the big ones.
Yeah, there are Union Drones on the Boards, but they’re matched in number by Industry Representatives who are unlikely to throw money at an Industry with a 25 year build time.
Can you provide us with an estimate of how long it will take to construct sufficient solar and wind generators, and adequate firming arrangements, be they batteries or something else, to provide reliable and cointinuous electricity supply to support a modern civilisation. Then add in the cost of the necessary new transmission lines to connect all of these generators to their markets?
And toss in a rough financial cost also.
And a note about the expected service lives of all of the above, so we can judge wen the entire process has to start again.
I enjoyed to the hilt Keating’s skewering of the press gallery.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
Shutting up military leadership for telling the truth inevitably leads politicians into starting wars of choice that cannot be won—or which will lead to national ruin.
Our culture cannot stand the truth—and hates any truth-teller.
Watching pugilism on Focks from Liverpool.
No chicks. No blokes dressed as chicks.
No cute owls either.
PJW made some good points about sartorial splendour, still it takes a lot of time and effort to dress as for Ascot Races every day and perhaps skimped a little on how expensive clothes used to be and how infrequently they might have been changed and washed.
What surprises me most is failure to dress appropriately for occasions, watching those European documentaries, jeans to funerals, going to the trial of your murdered daughter in street clothes and a parka.
My mother only ever had one dress (no jeans or tshirts etc) at a time growing up and said at one point she so sick of wearing the same thing every day she ripped her current dress. Later she thought how difficult it must have been for her mother to buy fabric and make her another.
I’ve been wukkin’ today.
Trooble at mill?
HMAS Hyperbowl
HMAS Madgwick
HMAS Whiteboard
HMAS Mal Colston
HMAS Orkopoulous
HMAS Obeid
HMAS Nifty Nev
HMAS Supply Blocked
HMAS Working Class Toff
HMAS Handbag Hitsquad
You lying shithead.
Welcome to your own Country –
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=1bd437fe82&attid=0.0.1&permmsgid=msg-f:1760410790009948831&th=186e3c49554eca9f&view=att&disp=safe
HMAS Ed October.
But only if it’s white.
I’ve been thinking about that PJW piece today rosie.
Took extra care with my outfit for Aldi shopping. Felt good, but no smart hat. That was a bridge too far. 😀
When I was in Malta there was a shoe store around the corner that had obviously been closed a long time, the shoes in the window were thick with dust and the prices too low.
I just walked past a haberdashery, everything still on the shelves behind the counter, a hanging display of zippers, rolls of fabric etc but the steel grill has been locked so long a pigeon has died and disintegrated in the doorway.
I don’t understand the economics of not clearing things out and re-leasing the premises.
Maybe the owners had the freehold and just abandoned when they got too old to keep opening
It looks like the little trams are running truncated routes, if I get a chance I should catch one.
Your Internet speed is
25 Mbps
Latency Unloaded 25 ms
Loaded 52 ms
Upload Speed 4.5 Mbps
The internet seems a bit slow today – are these numbers OK?
HMAS Bleating Keating
Captain Borodin would have been awfully disappointed, had he lobbed up in Sydney Harbour three years ago.
Alan Jones slumming at some Gosford FM outfit. The comments are not favourable and when I went on there to politely tell the lefties sprouting hatred for Jones to piss off my comments got scrubbed.
https://coastcommunitynews.com.au/central-coast/news/2023/03/alan-jones-to-join-local-radio-station/#comment-8854
We can’t call any of them HMAS Sam Neil since he’s a Kiwi.
Luigi will certainly have a problem saving both remaining Mean Girls.
Robert Sewell says:
March 15, 2023 at 8:59 pm
No expert here, checked mine it’s 20 download and 12 up, which is unusual 4 to 6 would be more likely for upload, but I am running a VPN, maybe that is the cause?
The net is not slow for me, but the Cat loads very slowly.
JC at 6:51
There can be no doubt that some members of the Liar right wing are more free market (not labour) than some Lieboral “moderates”. The Left/Right label is not much use beyond the barest shorthand.
cohenite says:
March 15, 2023 at 9:09 pm
Posted this, awaiting moderation.
He is not on all day, have you thought about that, or does your hatred of everything different to your ideology blinds you??
Incidentally, you can join the Fabians as a foot soldier, for about $30 a year less for pensioners, but not the decision-making elites, the inner circle is invitation only.
Posted this, awaiting moderation.
My comments just disappeared, no moderation. And on the posted program Jones doesn’t appear anywhere. What a waste.
Don’t worry, locals are starting to support AJ.
Finished the last of the 3 day SES manage casualties and vehicle extraction course.
Excellent trainers as well.
But a bit on the warm side today.
Surprising how small a space you need to get a person out of a wreck.
Hilarious, I got censored as well making token support of AJ.
Hilarious, I got censored as well making token support of AJ.
The question is, apart from the dim little outfit being run by John Singleton, why would Jones be wasting his time at this leftie kindergarten?
Cocaine Bear. Retro eighties splat vaudeville presented in a family friendly format which jars with the subject material. The odd chuckle.
another union official goes klepto
A prominent ?South Australian figure has been captured on CCTV taking a handbag and jumper. Leah York, ?the Australian Education Union state branch secretary, can be seen picking up a $280 handbag and walking out of the door with it in CCTV footage released by the store.
York’s team said she meant to pay for the bag, and she did so after the footage was posted to the store’s social media.
Leah York has been accused of taking a $280 handbag from an Adelaide store.
But three minutes before the bag was taken, she could be seen adding a jumper to the bag, which is still visible on CCTV under the handbag when she leaves the shop.
The Education Union said in a statement it was concerned by the videos and would hold an urgent meeting on Thursday night to discuss its response.
York, who reportedly earns more than $200,000 a year, told 9News she had taken leave for health reasons and resigned from her position on the board of Funds South Australia.
why do so many union officials pinch stuff? Is it part and parcel of leftist ideology?
correct
Yes. What’s yours is mine, what’s mine stays that way!
I saw some very nice new high end apartments, only three floors, not far from the river at Belém, in the square beside them was a tsunami warning sign.
Not sure that would be my dream home location.
Goldbugs will be happy campers this week.
Spot price has jumped A$162 per ounce in two weeks to $2890.
Jumped on a 28 tram going up to Estrela, the down ones are jam packed, don’t know how that works.
Hopped off two stops past the Basilica, there is a nice square, found a cafe that serves local food, you can order a dose or a half dose.
It’s the sort of place frail old ladies come to get takeaways and elderly people eat lunch on their own, so I fit right in.
I ordered ‘what that lady is having’ and orange juice (in Spanish because it’s near enough).
Whatever I have ordered includes cabbage.
It’s good for you.
Also black pudding and what looks suspiciously like tripe.
Keating and Waffleworth on the 7:30 Report. Still need KRuddy, the Slapper and SloMo for a full house. Has there ever been such a depressing parade of PMs in history?
Was a fabulous treat seeing Keating on the box. Bile and Fantasy mixed in equal portions … such a nice change from sleazy Albanese who always seems to be telling lies even when he is (sometimes) not. The only thing better would be having the Kitching abusers & Tennis Elbow on a stage with crazy Keating. Would pay $$$$ to see that.
Do not try this at home with a standard record player and your cherished vinyl collection.
Don’t!
**********
Mix Master Mike, Drumming:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkH6itxRgig
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
David Rowe.
Christian Adams.
Dave Brown.
Peter Brookes.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Steve Kelley.
Al Goodwyn.
Lisa Benson.
Thanks Tom
Thanks Tom. The David Rowe Keating Mine is a ‘blast’………………..
Thank you Tom. Where is Johannes Leak?
“ While US banks fail and the world teeters on the brink of WW III, the criminal Biden Regime is embarking on a series of regime change “color revolutions” around the world, seeking to destablize conservative governments and install Washington-controlled puppets to do their bidding.”
Again it’s Israel that they are targeting.
Gateway Pundit
… why do so many union officials pinch stuff? Is it part and parcel of leftist ideology?
They get used to accepting slings of various types and the lines between what’s acceptable and what’s not become blurred.
H/T JR, Rowe was excellent. Thanks Tom. That’s the first time I’ve looked at Rowe in over a year.
““ While US banks fail and the world teeters on the brink of WW III, the criminal Biden Regime is embarking on a series of regime change “color revolutions” around the world, seeking to destablize conservative governments and install Washington-controlled puppets to do their bidding.”
Again it’s Israel that they are targeting.”
Yep, Israel + Hungary + Georgia. Obama and Biden’s warmongering whore, Samantha Power, has lately been conducting a tour of duty, so as to foment protest.
The Sniffer and his regime, the most corrupt, venal, dishonest, and untrustworthy US administration in history.
Cassie of Sydney says:
March 16, 2023 at 6:43 am
I hope this time they are trying it on, on the wrong countries.
Hate say it, but the biggest impact so far seems to be in Israel, In Hungary recently they had hardly a 1000 demonstrators according to some news on Twitter.
Georgia (Grúzia) to distinguish, I don’t know if anyone apart from the PM is in favour? They actually had counter protests.