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I wish they would add sub-titles .. A lot of us have hearing probs and can’t follow so many of…
I wish they would add sub-titles .. A lot of us have hearing probs and can’t follow so many of…
Reality bites. Hun: Extending a deal that keeps Victoria’s dirtiest power station running to 2028 is likely to be considered…
Muslim group targeting Labor seats launches campaign in BroadmeadowsThe Muslim Votes Matter group is aiming to win over Victorian Labor…
Fair whack of publicity in the media over Brucie (of Knickerless fame) claiming “dole” whilst Channel 7 paid big bucks…
Oops, sorry. I should’ve checked, I’m always terrible with names.
This is truly shocking, but then it’s not surprising as the father appears to be bent that way too.
Can I make a recommendation? If anyone requires any legal work done, I strongly recommend Cronkite. Unfortunately, he’s decent to the core and even appears highly competent. I know, it’s really strange but I have to be honest.
His Depravity Beggars Belief
Well, I’m pretty broadminded.
What’s he done?
Cronkite will want to know if JC is for real or being sarcastic.
I’m not shocked any more as to the depravity of the left. It’s only a matter of degree. The race to the bottom was reached years ago. Now it’s a matter of keep digging now we’ve got the hang of this and nothing is ever going to happen to stop us.
Who does the “Welcome to Country?”
Ranga
It’s quite real. No kidding. Also, keep in mind how difficult it is for me to have made such a recommendation.
Just to summarise. I own an ETF on which the fund management imposed ESG , which sent me purple with rage.
Purple, JC, is most definitively NOT your colour.
Says he who is colour-blind! But I’m sure it doesn’t go with your much-storied tassled loafers.
Gerbil warming = more kidney stones.
Add that to the warmlist unless it’s on there.
FMD, it gets more absurd by the hour.
Ah, her lockdowns benefited Optus as people were using internet far more while working from home.
Trolling “White People Twitter” on Reddit recently.
See how long I can burn through years of earned karma points.
Absurd doesn’t begin to cut it.
On what basis can anyone predict the rate of kidney stones in 70 years? Let alone a “surge”.
They are havin’ us on, I reckons.
Dear god but you never want to verify that. If you can see something on the net, you’ve downloaded it, at least in a crude and temporary manner.
What if They’d Found Anthrax in the White House Instead of Cocaine?
One would have to concede that this is a fair question…
Catturd ™
@catturd2
LOL – dumb and dumber.
Seconded. How on God’s Green can anyone “gloss over” that crap? Forget politics.
Yes, I’m an innocent abroad…
Hundreds of German troops will arrive in Australia this week…
Please do not mention HMAS Sydney and the Kormoran!
Nick lands and it’s straight into the slums.
Indigo Traveller:
A deep dive into Mozambique’s Capital City
Inside Mozambique’s Capital City ($1.60 per month salary)
Mark from Melbourne
Jul 10, 2023 10:47 PM
a surge in kidney stone cases or nephrolithiasis over the next seven decades.
They must be, nobody can be that stupid.
Or can they?
People in hot climates have the same % or less of kidney stones as those of the Nordic nations.
There, this is my theory.
Just 13 per cent of voters think Anthony Albanese is doing enough to address cost-of-living pressures and only a quarter believe the economy is being managed well, according to secret industry polling.
The Australian has obtained results of a survey of more than 3000 people conducted by CT Group showing national security is the only issue a majority of Australians believe is being well handled by the Albanese government, with a net approval rating of 25 per cent.
The government’s worst numbers were on addressing the housing shortage, with a net disapproval rating of minus 58 per cent following a relentless campaign on the issue by the Greens.
The government also registered net negative ratings on the voice (-7 points), health (-10 points), immigration (-11 points) and regional healthcare (-25 points).
The Prime Minister’s personal standing has “declined steeply” by nine points since March, with his net approval rating at plus 6 per cent.
Oz
Senior ‘Yes’ advisor to the PM is demanding ‘reparations and land’ for Indigenous Australians as part of the Voice: ‘Every Aboriginal elder should be living rent-free’
Daily Mail
Meanwhile in Victoria Police:
Speaking of cynical opportunists rorting their way into a free ride via “self-identifying”, the police force is the clubhouse leader.
It has been revealed that at least 100 have ticked the “gender neutral” box in the force’s human relations questionnaire over the past year.
That rate is a long way higher than the general community rate. It doesn’t take a conspiracy theorist to join the dots: women receive $1200-a-year more for their non-uniform clothing allowance than men. Case solved.
It’s time for Sgt Rockjaw to say, “Sorry, boys. If you go to the Mens and stand up to splash your boots, you’re not getting the extra dough.”
Herald-Sun
Phrasing is just terrible.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
Morten Morland.
You do the Lord’s work, Tom.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Bob Gorrell.
Tom Stiglich.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks Tom. Ramirez displaying his Trump derangement syndrome yet again, to him everything would be hunky-dory if Republicans just got rid of him. He is now good enough to be employed by Fox News.
Thanks Tom – ‘toons alway appreciated.
Woke and greedy is a killer.
Just when you thought the Titan Imploder shitshow was over, and the depths* of stupidity reached by wannabe-Branson Stockton Rush (the Hun):
And:
And:
And:
Inspirational, some may say.
Rush may have hoped someone would make a movie from his adventures. That movie might be made, but it won’t be what he envisaged.
*Deliberate. Ha.
Someone’s doing very nicely. Don’t suppose anyone will have a closer look.
To summarise: 27.5 million ACCUs, worth $825 million at today’s spot market price, have been issued for projects where the tree cover has decreased, or the increase has been negligible.
And to qualify as an “increase”, the trend in tree cover only has to be an increase of 0.25 per cent per year, which is hardly going to save the planet.
ABC scolding Westmead for not transitioning children often enough, early enough.
Hobart lines up to smack private home owners who have the impunity to try and make a decent living from their rental properties.
Are they going to belt hotel and motel operators too?
naughty Mormons
anywhere I ever went is now a sacred site
We habitually watch morning news TV – which I detest but husband enjoys. The standard of interviews and reporting is appalling – even worse than print “journalism”. I am so sick of the lack of critical inquiry that I have taken to complaining directly to the station. We should all do this.
Piers Morgan to Roseanne Barr…
Morgan…”Let me ask you the most difficult question in the world at the moment, what is a woman?”
Barr, “A woman is me, somebody whose breasts hang down to her stomach, and who has a prolapsed uteris from giving birth to five ungrateful little bastards who’ve never had to work for a thing in their god damned lives. That’s what a woman is”.
I think Barr has said it best.
As an aside, the “woman” at the London tranny pervert march on the weekend, the same one who called for people to bash women such as myself, is an adult human male, aka all round pervert, who spent decades in prison for attempted murder.
Piers Morgan to Roseanne Barr…
Morgan…”Let me ask you the most difficult question in the world at the moment, what is a woman?”
Barr, “A woman is me, somebody whose breasts hang down to her stomach, and who has a prolapsed uteris from giving birth to five ungrateful little bastards who’ve never had to work for a thing in their god damned lives. That’s what a woman is”.
I think Barr has said it best.
As an aside, the “woman” at the London tranny pervert march on the weekend, the same one who called for people to bash women such as myself, is an adult human male, aka all round pervert, who spent decades in prison for attempted murder.
Apologies for posting the comment twice.
It’s a bit long, but that’s gotta be a liberty quote from the land of woke.
Just magnificent.
This is the worst part of Twitter I have ever found.
https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/
Full of groomers.
I used not to like Rosanne but I do now. She gets it and is brave enough to say so. Good on her.
The eruption that has been threatening has started SW of Reykjavik. So far it’s bigger than the two previous eruptions in the area in 2021 and 2022, but doesn’t otherwise look to be too threatening. No sign that airport closures are being called for example.
RUV the Icelandic public broadcaster put a webcam on top of a small hill a couple days ago, and the volcano has erupted almost underneath it. Which was slightly unlucky since the camera is too close to see the whole fracture. Still has a reasonable view. The webcam is included in the following story:
Eruption begins (11 Jul)
A lot more fumes from this one, which are hanging over the area and visibility is poor. The other webcams looking in the direction SW from Reykjavik and NE from Grindavik are pretty much snookered by the fumes and/or fog.
Have you ever wondered why the sky is full of chemtrails?
Didn’t know yesterday was WGAF Day.
No, I haven’t.
Apartment-Hunting New Yorkers Share Photos That Show What It’s Really Like Living There
Andrew Tate
@Cobratate
Eat the bugs peasants.
another pregnancy related issue trannies need never worry about, unless they want to pretend their beer bellies are the exact same thing.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
Biden’s rotten DOJ is actually fighting against free speech.
Hang on, this can’t be. Only a few days ago, Turd Case assured us that Christians are not being persecuted.
Mike Davis ??
@mrddmia
A king has to treat an American president like an escaped nursing-home patient.
Biden is an embarrassment.
To himself.
And to the rest of America.
Damaged Solar Panels from Hail Storm Will Likely End Up in Landfill Because Recycling Isn’t Possible
It has been revealed that at least 100 have ticked the “gender neutral” box in the force’s human relations questionnaire over the past year.
That rate is a long way higher than the general community rate.
Top Ender, you’ve been in the field for a long time- I’ve observed that many people with “gender dysphoria” go into the military, with various reasons running from “the workload will drown out the voices in my head” to “I’ll have the weirdness beaten out of me” to the newfangled “Uncle Sam will pay for the surgery while I’m on leave at full salary”.
Have I got that right? What are the actual numbers, or what were the numbers before the US Army and mincing David Morrisson types paved the way in gold for the trannies?
“Hang on, this can’t be. Only a few days ago, Turd Case assured us that Christians are not being persecuted.”
And a few weeks ago the pervert apologist appeared here and wrote that “Christians are not being persecuted”.
And some even live in these hovels.
Ya know, I like Ramirez’ drawing style, but his TDS has lately been flaring up.
Is he trying to suggest that Trump – the front runner for the Republican Presidential candidate among voters who choose Presidents rather than the party establishment who do not – is a threat to the Republican party?
To the establishment, yes. But considering their trach record that is not a bad thing.
He works for the Las Vegas Review Journal (there is a mouthful). Are they never-Trumpers? Or is he doing the equivalent of a Rowe, who devotes so much time providing illustrations for the socialist narrative to businesses people?
Can someone fact me.
I think I read that total receipts for Taylor Swift’s concerts across exceeds $1 billion. Could that be true?
lotocoti
Jul 11, 2023 8:01 AM
Didn’t know yesterday was WGAF Day.
Maybe this is what happens when coppers are not allowed to unload a bit of truncheoning on the odd vagrant to get things off their chest. We never see the Indian Constables parking the rattan and delivering a calm lecture about asseptable pronouns, do we?
Alwayz fascinated with no matter what the problem gummints have no trouble spending ‘our” money on ‘solutions” .. Having read this story on Ho Chi Minns latest appointment of a NSW RENTAL COMMISSIONER, no doubt on a umteen hundreds of thousand dollars salary plus the coupla dozen (being generous here) staff I didn’t come across any indication of how she will rein in the high rentals market .. lotza cheerful waffle mentioned but nothing concrete that will have any affect on anything .. we is gummint & we is here to help! .. gotta luv it! .. LOL!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-11/nsw-rental-commissioner-trina-jones-western-sydney-pain/102582564
For volcano watchers – live from Iceland.
https://livefromiceland.is/
Oh, I get it now.
It is estimated the seven shows will earn the singer $35m on top of the expected $700m for her US concerts
dover0beach
Jul 10, 2023 12:11 PM
Things are as they right now in order to work out the problem slowing down the site, which I think we have over the weekend. Once we make the necessary upgrades, we’ll look at the theme, changes the number of comments per page, etc.
Thank you for the reply and your consideration.
Yes.
Yes I have.
Do you have an explanation?
Funny Angry Karen mentions Iceland. My kid’s flight was cancelled outta Frankfurt today, but she managed to get on Icelandic Air. I spoke to her a few hours ago while she was waiting for the connecting flight from Reykjavik to NY.
Flight cancellations are becoming a serious issue these days. I was cancelled last year and left to my own devices in LA. I had to get a flight from LA to SF and then NYC. I never received a refund from American. They’re total scumbags. I think even Qantas is trying to avoid refunds too. Airlines are literally stealing money as they hope delays on the phone, wait time to get the money etc. will cause people to walk. Despicable behavior. And they’re all doing it too.
From a rough count it looks like about a million bucks worth of silver in those panels. Possibly two or three times that since the old rule of thumb was one oz of silver per panel.
That could be an opportunity for someone: since they have to be collected up and transported they might as well be taken to a gold mine. Then all that would be needed is to strip off and sell the aluminium, then shove the panels into the the crushing and grinding plant. The silver would be extracted along with gold in the normal run of mill gold ore, and the pulverized glass and silicon would end up as sand in the tailings dam. Which is pretty much the same as putting them in landfill directly.
It would need to be tested so that the silicon doesn’t cause any unexpected problems, but during grinding it should readily oxidize to SiO2, which is inert.
Rosie @ 7:07
Alan Kohler wondering why anything associated with carbon offsets appears to be a gigantic scam.
And look at him getting worried about “The hottest days in history” graph.
A graph which has as it’s baseline 1979-2021.
If he is so gullible as to fall for that cherry pick then what use is his opinion on anything?
Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.
– Benjamin Franklin
Head Case, Montypox Virus, Tennis Elbow, Blackout Bowen, etc, etc, etc……………………….
If there is such a thing as social license, surely this behaviour forfeits it?
The music industry gets price discrimination.
From Ticketek
A Reserve – $379.90*
B Reserve – $309.90*
C Reserve – $239.90*
D Reserve – $199.90*
E Reserve – $159.90*
F Reserve – $119.90*
G Reserve – $79.90*
800,000 tickets sold. No breakdown of how many of each. Let’s say 160 mn AUD of revenue at a minimum.
Australia is 1/15th as large as the US – factor in the FX rate and > 1 bn USD looks like a reasonable ballpark figure.
Good for her. I hope she finds a nice man to calm her hysteria and give her many children. She’d have to have other people write her songs again though.
Shannon Deery on the Lawyer X crapola:
I used to work with a guy who went nutso every time he saw a chemtrail. Nothing particularly wrong when on his meds apart from conspiracy theories but not of the variety have proved true lately.
Seems the hyphenated British women’s rights campaigner has changed her mind and will sue Pesutto after all.
Then all that would be needed is to strip off and sell the aluminium,
There’s about $2 worth of Ali on a Solar Panel, Bruce.
It’s bonded on and it ain’t comin’ off easy.
then shove the panels into the the crushing and grinding plant. The silver would be extracted along with gold in the normal run of mill gold ore,
Labor intensive, Bruce.
$10 worth of Labor to win $3 worth of metal per panel doesn’t stack up.
The government and judicial system in danistan are a criminal organisation.
The AFR View
What is Labor’s 2030 back-up energy plan?
The government needs to set aside the potential political embarrassment of admitting its climate targets may be unreachable and order a robust assessment of where the troubled energy transition is at.
As The Australian Financial Review reported on Monday, the consensus among energy experts is that Australia’s very challenging clean energy transition is in trouble and that it may be impossible to reach Labor’s ambitious 43 per cent emission reductions and 82 per cent renewable energy targets by 2030.
Amid global decarbonisation bottlenecks that the pandemic supply chain disruptions and ongoing skilled labour shortages intensified, there may be too much to do, and too little time to do it.
A huge number of wind and solar projects, thousands of kilometres of new electricity transmission lines, and reliable firming generation and storage will need to be completed by the end of the decade if coal-fired power plants are to be switched off as planned, while making sure the lights stay on.
Amid the great uncertainty, the Albanese government can’t just double down on its commitment to reaching the climate targets it took to the 2022 election.
It needs to set aside the potential political embarrassment of admitting they may be unreachable, and order a robust and transparent assessment of where the troubled transition is at.
Energy-intensive manufacturing sector leaders are now calling for a frank look into the future to inform whatever back-up plan is called for to avoid the grid going dark.
Labor fumbled the National Electricity Market’s capacity mechanism due to Labor state governments’ highly ideological opposition, including to the fast-start gas plants that the energy boffins warn are vital to back up intermittent renewables.
Ironically, climate activists misnamed the NEM’s capacity mechanism “coalkeeper”. Yet by excluding gas, amid a transition that is not happening fast enough, the nation’s ageing and increasingly breakdown-prone coal plants may have to stay in the system for longer.
With their private owners understandably reluctant to invest in upgrades and maintenance to extend the life of assets scheduled to shut, some kind of public support – a real coalkeeper – may eventually be required to guarantee Australia’s energy security. That would be politically unpalatable for Labor, but is reality that needs to be faced.
Same trick BoM uses: they start their graph in 1910 right at the bottom of the cycle, and 1979 is right at the bottom of the next cycle, which we’re now at the top of.
AMO index
It’ll be fun when the cycle flips back to the down phase, as guys like Kohler start doing journalistic gymnastics to try and explain the cooling.
I finally looked up what all the fuss, at the Cat, about chemtrails is about.
Where’s the Qanon’er caravan salesguy from WA to see what he’s thinkling. Anyone seen him? Forgot his nameplate here.
With the trend of local Aboriginals becoming accepted as traditional landowners, they are becoming legally accountable as landowners when things like floods and fires occur on their land?
Alan Kohler was on weekend ABC telly with an animated infographic timeline saying that if only nasty Menzies’ Conservative Australia had implemented the New Deal which lovely FDR had in the Progressive US, then we’d have low interest thirty year fixed term mortgages.
Really.
They bloke is a Lizard Person.
They even had him framed hovering over his laptop in a cafe, like he’d just caught the deep dive thread from Reddit.
Wow.
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She is the new Queen of the London School of Economics. I’m so proud of Our Taylor.
No.
But I do have a theory.
Also these patents.
And a radar.
What an insane fugger. The New Deal prolonged the Great Depression. Farmers literally killed their own livestock out of spite or rationally (avoiding punitive taxes) in response to policies.
That’s not a sign of prosperity.
You can say that again.
Kohler of course had many more hashtags in his shpiel, including Fannie, Freddie and Ginnie- but no mention of subprime, jingle mail, money printing, development strangleholds or immigration.
It was TikTok level stuff for ADHD tweenagers.
Technically speaking, all jet contrails are “chem trails” as there is a mass of hot water vapour and trace amounts of transition and rare earth metal oxides being released at low temperatures and low pressures.
I have said it over and over again but we know this interacts with climate as the earths’ albedo changed when planes were grounded after 9/11.
Nefarious things were done in the past (Operation Sea Spray) but to conclude all commercial flights are “in” on a programme to drug us all is lacking in proof. It would require more people than exist on earth to hide such a conspiracy.
Please stop.
Ed – that’s all got to be done anyway. So there’s only a net cost. The landfill fees can be a couple hundred bucks per tonne; that dosh is available to go to removing the metal supports and frame. If it goes to a gold mine the resulting tailings disposal doesn’t cost anything since the capital equipment, labour and infrastructure are already there and paid for. Some metal is always acceptable since the ore will have rockbolts and whatnot mixed in with it, that has to be screened out. The only extra costs are the crushing, grinding and the chemicals. A tonne of solar panels might contain 2 kg of silver, which would make it equivalent to the richest bonanza grade silver ore on the planet. Well worth transporting to a gold mine, of which there’re probably a fair number not too far west of there.
A group of the local indigenous lodged a claim over Crown land “Floods, fires, vermin control, that’s all whitefella’s problem.”
Ms Judd is the worst kind of rotting gamete pond scum.
What a disgusting shill.
Her behaviour at the High Court (arguing against her own prosecutor’s trial probanda) and running interference for a mafia gang moll makes her an unserious person, worthy only of mockery and embarrassment.
Put simply the next government in Victoria needs to put the previous government on trial.
…and no I am not kidding.
The British barber who “misspoke” about Alex Carey not paying for a haircut has begged Australians to stop giving his business bad ratings on Google.
If you ask me, the real scandal here is that he was charging $57.00 (cash only) for a short back and sides!
And all this publicity will no doubt attract the attention of the taxman.
Well played, sir.
Breaking: Gold Coast Suns (AFL) coach Stuart Dew has been sacked.
I’m sure she’s doing this to alleviate the rental crises sweeping the nation, Daily Telegraph:
Looks like filthy capitalism to me.
I’d like to see the time when Faruqi first submitted the plans to do this to the studies and reports to the approval. Then contrast to old mate who wants to do the same on the outskirts of Melbourne, or any other capital city around Australia. I have a hunch the result would be markedly different.
President Trump Crushing Ron DeSantis in Latest Florida Poll – Trump Leads in Miami-Dade 70% to 11% for DeSantis
July 10, 2023 – Sundance
People are starting to realize why the people who control Ron DeSantis could not launch their 2024 election bid from Florida.
Despite Ron DeSantis being a Florida native and current governor, President Trump is leading him 50% to 30% in state-wide polling. Regionally and within the demographics of the poll, things look even worse. [Article Here] Casey will not be happy.
Speaking of which – I am a little underwhelmed by Tay Ray’s high end marketing.
She should have had a few more tiers.
At least two more at 2500 and 5000 AUD a piece.
LOL…
Can the alt right stop it with this stupid narrative that anyone they disagree with is “controlled”.
I mean FFS, who controls the Pritzkers, Daytons and Pelosis/Newsoms?
Themselves. They’re the top of the food chain in the DNC.
“Put simply the next government in Victoria needs to put the previous government on trial.
…and no I am not kidding.”
That’ll probably won’t be until at least 2123. A hundred years is a long time to wait for the next non-Labor government.
Is Kohler’s son doing business commentary on 9 news in the evenings? There’s a Kohler on there each night.
Serial abuser and serial killer Vladimir Putin throws another one of his girlfriends out of a window.
28 year old bank vice President yeah right. She just looked like a model as well.
ML he already did.
From the Hun.
I’d agree with you Dot except sometimes news stories come along which make you go hmmm. Like this one:
Republicans Slip Massive Foreign Worker Expansion into DHS Funding Bill (10 Jul)
Classic elite RINO mendacity and pandering to Wall Streeters who all back the Dems anyway.
The thing that has been clear to the ordinary Republican voters is that Trump has declared war on the GOP elites, but DeSantis has cozied up to them. I think DeSantis might have to do that to get campaign funding, but none the less the Republican voters want the McConnells and the RNC suits sent packing.
As noted yesterday, I have attended every session of the Sydney International Piano Competition (SIPCA) at the Con, starting last Thursday.
Break day today, between Rounds.
To avoid word-walls, I’ll make a few posts on this…
Part 1.
32 incredibly brilliant, young pianists, (the youngest just 18 yrs old) mostly from Russia and Far-East Asia. Most were previous winners, or were multiple prize-winners, from prior competitions.
A 20, and a 30-minutes recital in the Preliminary Round, which was a total of 16 concerts, lasting up to 100 minutes each, starting late morning and finishing around 11pm, and with only short breaks between the different sessions.
The chosen repertoire was left to the competitor, but all had to play an Australian work composed since January 2000.
Reasons given: to encourage local piano composition and to popularise music that, when commissioned for past SIPCAs, was never played again.
Most of these were in the serial-atonal compositional style ie. no key or time signatures, all notes had the same value, therefore dissonance is the result.
As one can imagine, these were unpleasant to the ear, had no discernible melody, beauty or structure, a perfect representation of Communism applied to music.
As an added bonus, they were technically seriously difficult!
And, unless one had studied and played the piece, one wouldn’t know if wrong notes were played.
And such compositions were never played again? I wonder why..
When mentioning this to all the people I spoke to, who I surmised were most probably lefties, they were surprisingly forthcoming with strong criticism of this aspect of the Comp.
Fortunately, there were some young Australian composers who were able to produce pleasant new music, all unknown outside of musical academia: Mark Isaacs, Gina Ismene Chitty and Aristea Mellos should take a bow.
What’s Putin got to do with it? The girl’s boyfriend was (apparently) with her at the time of the incident.
“Serial abuser and serial killer Vladimir Putin throws another one of his girlfriends out of a window.”
Seriously Dot.
Go you fat bastard, go hard…
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jul/10/clive-palmers-second-case-against-australia-is-413bn-claim-it-broke-trade-deal
Clive Palmer’s Zeph Investment’s second case against Australia is a $41.3bn claim that it breached the Asean free trade agreement in relation to coal exploration permits, it has emerged.
The Attorney General’s Department has revealed that since the May budget, when Guardian Australia first reported on the claim, Palmer’s company has formally launched the second investor-state dispute against the commonwealth.
The department said it would “vigorously” defend the second case, labelling the $41.3bn damages claim “unsubstantiated”.
In the first claim, Singapore-based Zeph Investments is seeking $296bn for an alleged breach of the Asean free trade deal over Western Australia’s extraordinary law to prevent Palmer from seeking compensation over his massive Pilbara iron ore project.
Tha was crap law, passed by crap people to retrospectively make an act of bastardry legal.
Did anybody imagine that they would accept responsibility for anything when they don’t even care about their own children? Cargo cult in its purest form.
Not quite true, there is a great river of money flowing out of state government and statutory authorities for Aboriginal land and water management ‘knowledge’.
Yahoo finance has an article about puny tax refunds as the penny drops for many about the quiet axing of the low to middle income tax offset.
Ed – that’s all got to be done anyway. So there’s only a net cost. The landfill fees can be a couple hundred bucks per tonne; that dosh is available to go to removing the metal supports and frame.
Bruce – there ain’t no way to get the Aluminium frame off the glass panel other than an Angle Grinder, it takes an hour to get $2 of Aluminium.
Panels weigh 17 kg, that’s 60 to a Tonne.
Commercial dumping fees are under $100/Tonne.
There are tips everywhere.
Where’s the nearest Gold Mine?
can’t be pleased any of the time
The Blob begins to quiver
James Howard Kunstler
Clusterf@ck Nation
Mon, 10 Jul
“…the Permanent State lacks the courage to take hard decisions – to say to Moscow, ‘Let us put this unfortunate episode (Ukraine) behind us. Dig out those draft treaties you wrote in December 2021, and let’s see how we can work together, to restore some functionality again to Europe’.”
— Alastair Crooke
When you deny what is self-evident, you are at war with reality, and that never ends well. This is the ultimate disposition of our country’s years-long misadventure in maximum dishonesty. The American administrative Blob has not just lied about everything it does, but used the government machinery at hand to destroy everything it touches in a terminal-hysterical effort to cover up its misdeeds — including especially its crimes against its own people.
Get this: there is no way that Ukraine can avoid defeat in its US-provoked struggle with Russia. Russia has every advantage. It is next door to Ukraine. It has robust arms production capacity. The terrain of the war is its own historic “borderland,” which it has controlled since the 18th century, except for the past thirty years when Ukraine functioned as Grift Central for US military contractors and their political enablers.
Despite massive arms assistance from the US and grudging contributions from the NATO contingent in Europe, there is almost nothing left of the Ukrainian military in troops, equipment, and munitions. Ukraine will return eventually to demilitarized “borderland” status.
What are NATO’s alternatives now? It can try to return to negotiation. Russia has no reason to trust that process, given how the Minsk 1 and 2 accords worked out (NATO and the US willfully and dishonestly voided them). The US and NATO could send their own troops into Ukraine, but that would be suicide, considering the alliance’s arms and munitions drawdown and America’s feminized army.
The US could go a little further and provoke a nuclear exchange (suicide by other means) — and given the level of terminal-hysterical insanity in the US Blob, that’s not out of the question.
One likely, reality-based alternative is to stand by and let Russia complete its Special Military Operation to pacify and neutralize Ukraine. The prevailing theory is that this would be the end of America’s world dominance militarily, and effectively the end of NATO, but also the end financially for the US, as the non-West abandons the dollar. In that scenario, the BRICs dump their trillions in US bond holdings, sending all that putative “money” back to America, stoking a king-hell inflation, effectively bankrupting us.
It would be the final fruit of the disastrous “Joe Biden” regime imposed on us via election fraud by the Blob: the US reduced in a few short years to a broke, socially disordered, marginalized power susceptible to its own political breakup — not a tantalizing outcome, but perhaps better than turning the planet Earth into a smoldering ashtray.
That outcome would force our country to turn inward and face its own stupendous failures of honor, decency, and integrity. It would be the end of the Blob’s hegemony inside the USA.
The question is whether the Blob sets America’s house on fire in the attempt to save itself and escape a legal accounting for its crimes.
One kindling stack already burning is the pile-up of jive prosecutions aimed at Mr. Trump. You know that the attempt to kick him off the game-board using Special Counsel Jack Smith may easily lead to severe civil disorder, and possibly a counter-coup, a US first!
The current Mar-a-Lago “Doc Box” case is as much a complete fabrication as were RussiaGate and Impeachment Number One — Mr. Trump’s telephone inquiry to Ukraine about the Biden family grifting operations there, now firmly documented to be true.
An upright judge would summarily dismiss the Mar-a-Lago case and slam sanctions on the US attorneys involved, including disbarment and criminal investigation for mounting a maliciously fraudulent prosecution. AG Merrick Garland and his deputy, Lisa Monaco, obviously would have some ‘splainin’ to do, possibly before juries.
A long list of public figures populating the Blob await a reckoning:
Hillary and Bill Clinton and their retainers, Barack Obama and retinue, John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, Christopher Wray (plus Rosenstein, Strzok, McCabe, Carlin, Ohr, Mueller, Weissmann, Horowitz, Atkinson, Ciaramella, Vindman), Rep. Adam Schiff, Senator Mark Warner, William Barr, Avril Haines, Marie Yovanovitch, William Burns, James Boasberg, Marc Elias, Michael Bromwich, David Laufman, Alejandro Mayorkas, Xavier Baccerra, Anthony Fauci, Rochelle Walensky, Francis Collins, Lloyd Austin. Mark Milley, Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Ron Klain, Nancy Pelosi, Liz Cheney…
the list goes way on, but there’s a start.
Fabbo news.
My day is complete.
Pepsi Kohler and Coker Kohler.
Same, but different.
Yes, I think that is the son of the ABC God Oracle.
PS, the QAnon poster here was Custard.
Do try to keep up.
You are sooo off the pace.
Seems the hyphenated British SexPerv has changed her mind and will sue Pesutto after all.
Fixed.
The Indian Ocean has a gravity hole where sea levels are about 300 feet lower than nearby areas:
https://www.businessinsider.com/scientists-crack-mystery-of-huge-gravity-hole-in-the-indian-ocean-2023-6
Okay, Cats, guess what HRH KCIII said to the guard!
Go!
My guess: “For God’s sake don’t encourage him!”
Read this and note the area of agricultural land they earmark for onshore wind.
You need to then add solar and transmission.
PS Take your blood pressure tablets first.
https://www.energy.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0029/580619/Offshore-Wind-Policy-Directions-Paper.pdf
I’m wondering why trees aren’t growing in Bourke.
what is this water rule word salad?
Ed – Hire an industrial jaw crusher or similar crushing equipment, and front end loader, and you’ve just crushed up ten thousand hail damaged solar panels in a week. Add a screen on the end and the crumpled aluminium frames screen out. Put the twisted aluminium and steel in one pile, the crushed glass and panels in a second pile. Load them into trucks with the front end loader. Take the metal to a scrappie. Take the pile of crushed silicon, glass and silver to the gold mine. Job done. Mining companies do this sort of thing all the time, it’s routine hiring semi-mobile plant and equipment like that to run a pile of stuff through it.
You have to take the dead panels off the frames but you have to do that anyway if you’re going to landfill them. Paid for by the insurance, since they’ll want to install new panels on the frames. So once you have the pile of dead panels it’s easy.
I don’t think I could just politely refuse it. I’d politely say no thank you, there is no way I want to make the aboriginal situation worse. I’m voting No. Then I’d politely walk away.
We have to let these people know what they are doing.
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
– Benjamin Franklin
in short, paid for doing nothing at all.
You do whatever you want Lizzie.
My sister doesn’t have to engage with the Yessies.
I don’t plan to either.
Okay, Cats, guess what HRH KCIII said to the guard!
Go!
My guess: “For God’s sake don’t encourage him!”
As I am late for my gin and tonic you are going back to that Welsh Coal Mine for good !!
Vicki, I’d just read the Salvatore Babones’ article in Quadrant when I logged on here and saw you’d been so impressed with it too.
It skewers lies, damned lies and statistics so very well as misinformation, disinformation and malinformation. Especially malinformation, which can only be ‘values checked’. The dis and mis can of course be ‘fact checked’ according to feelz at the time.
Love this send-up he offers, taken from real life Australian Instit of Crim stats:
From my experience, the moderators on The Australian will all be ready-trained to apply for great new positions in the coming Disinfo, Misinfo and Malinfo game, leaving space on the Oz for a whole new generation of journo school recruits to come in and delete any comments even vaguely non-left. It will definitely be a growth industry for leftoids of all types and genders.
I always have. Using my best assessment of matters.
Too late to change now. 🙂
If I’m accosted I will say I won’t vote for apartheid. The kiddie activists probably won’t know what apartheid is though. My impression is they don’t get a lot of real history in schools these days.
A gravity hole?
Or, as we might otherwise refer to it, a “hole”.
How do you “politely walk away”?
Is that something they teach at Swiss finishing schools?
The working class can kiss my arze….
Not criticising you or your sister, btw, Rosie.
I honour fierce loyalty to one’s own and also the right to do as you alone decide.
“I’ve seen apartheid in one country, I won’t vote for it in Australia.”
Central banks move gold back home after freeze on Russian assets
Sovereign investors, concerned about the precedent of sanctions, prefer the physical metal to derivatives or ETFs
A growing number of countries are bringing their physical gold reserves back home to avoid Russian-style sanctions on their foreign assets, while increasing their purchases of the precious metal as a hedge against high levels of inflation.
Central banks globally made record purchases of gold in 2022 and into the first quarter of this year, as they hunted for safe havens from high inflation and volatile bond prices, according to a survey of sovereign investors by asset manager Invesco. China and Turkey together accounted for almost one-fifth of these purchases.
Concerned by the decision by the US and others to freeze Russian assets, central banks opted to buy physical gold rather than derivatives or exchange traded funds that track the metal’s price.
They also preferred to hold it in their own country as global tensions increased. Invesco’s survey found that 68 per cent of central banks held part of their gold reserves domestically, up from 50 per cent in 2020. In five years, that figure is expected to rise to 74 per cent, the survey showed.
“Up until this year, central banks were willing to buy or sell gold through ETFs and gold swaps,” said Invesco’s head of official institutions Rod Ringrow.
“This year it’s been much more physical gold and the desire to hold gold in country rather than overseas with other central banks?.?.?.?it’s part of the reaction to the freezing of the Bank of Russia’s reserves,” he said.
Just after Moscow began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the EU, US and other G7 countries announced that they would impose sanctions on Russia’s central bank and prevent it from accessing some $300bn in reserves held abroad. The EU is now considering the legal implications of diverting the interest from these holdings to Ukraine.
According to the survey of 57 central banks and 85 sovereign wealth funds managing some $21tn in assets, many sovereign investors were “concerned” by the precedent set by the confiscation of Russian assets, with 96 per cent saying further investment in gold was driven by its status as a safe haven.
“We increased the exposure eight to 10 years ago and had it held in London, using it for swaps and to enhance yields,” one central banker from a western country told Invesco. “But we’ve now transferred our gold reserves back to our own country to keep it safe — its role now is to be a safe-haven asset.”
Global demand for gold hit an 11-year high of 4,741 tonnes in 2022, up from 3,678 tonnes in 2020, driven by central bank purchases and heightened retail investor interest, according to research from the World Gold Council. But while physical gold was in demand, gold ETFs suffered combined outflows of almost 300 tonnes in 2021 and 2022.
Other countries that have made significant gold purchases include Singapore, India and central banks in the Middle East.
The record central bank buying of gold in 2022 contributed to a powerful rally in bullion prices, although prices have fallen back to $1,923 per troy ounce in recent weeks due to the prospect of higher US interest rates for longer. Rate rises dim the appeal of the non-yielding asset compared with other investments.
Net purchases of gold by central banks are expected to soften this year after Turkey turned into a larger seller. The central bank has had to supply gold to satisfy demand from domestic consumers as they bought bullion to protect their savings from a lira that has been trading at historic lows around the election in May.
In a sign of the move to repatriate gold, holdings at the Bank of England, one of the main storage hubs for official financial institutions globally, have slipped 12 per cent from their 2021 peak to 164mn troy ounces at the start of June.
The attraction of holding gold in large liquid hubs such as London has also been reduced by the fact that hedging by gold miners peaked at the turn of the millennium and has since fallen. That has limited the ability for central banks to earn a yield by swapping out bullion stored overseas.
The Water Rule basically limits commercial forestry to areas of 600mm or more rainfall.
It’s there to protect other landholders from having plantations dry out the catchment and directly impact on water availability.
BB
Contrast also the screeches of outrage when a native/”Old Growth” forest might be sustainably logged at a slow rotational rate with the silence when thousands of hectares of native/”Old Growth” forest are clear felled to construct solar and wind factories (plus the access roads etc).
What $110 million buys you:
Sydney man Chau Van Kham freed from Vietnam prison and returned to Australia
That dumb surfer kid in Aceh drove a way better deal than DFAT.
Ed- not for toxic materials they aren’t. We had to dispose of some lead containing soil in the nineties from a site in California, it was about US$150 per tonne then. Much much higher now. I was being optimistic in saying a couple hundred bucks, might be more like a thousand these days.
We used to send toxic materials to the Castlereagh toxic waste landfill at a fierce and painful cost. That facility has closed and I don’t know what NSW now does with hazardous waste, but whatever it is it won’t be cheap.
You want to go to a country like Vietnam and stage anti-government campaigns? Cool, you do you, but…you’re on your own.
Well, you should be.
Don’t have a lot of time for this kind of activist – predictably gets themselves locked up and then their network in Australia agitates for the Oz taxpayer to bribe them out of prison.
Same, same at sea.
When I go down to Coastal Town I see lots of “Big Oil Don’t Surf” bumper stickers, protesting seismic testing in the Great Australian Bight (1,500 – 2,000 kilometres away).
Since a proposal for a monster offshore windfarm was put up a few weeks ago, the “Save The Whales” mob have gone very quiet.
PS.
Coastal Town is right on the migratory path for Southern Right whales, and the occasional Humpback.
And there will not be even the mildest squeak from the environmentalists who are usually outraged at the suggestion that a single tree might fall or a single whale be inconvenienced.
Speaking of the voice, there is a gossip item in the age reporting that Setka’s Vic-TAS CFMEU won’t reflexively follow other commie unions and will not take a position, leaving it up to their members. Good on them.
Strange. It turns out that moisturising skin suits is not an adequate knowledge base to discuss industrial and chemical processes.
But Turd Case grinds on, demonstrating his inability to learn new skills.
Don’t forget, the Yes campaign wants everyone to bear in mind the terrifying consequence of voting No – it’ll be the end of the Welcome To Country. Spread the word. If anyone was on the fence before, they won’t be after hearing this.
Get the solar panels to Peshawar and you’re laughing all the way to the bank.
Has the UK given Venezuela its gold reserves back yet?
The sight of their own members rioting outside their HQ during COVID might have actually focused a few minds?
Reading Sydney Jary’s book “18 Platoon.”
All his time in combat, he only ever saw a bayonet used for it’s intended purpose once. The rest of the time, it made an admirable tin – opener.
Ed- not for toxic materials they aren’t.
Bruce – while dead solar panels are non recyclable, Waste Management doesn’t consider them toxic.
Tip fees [commercial] under $100/tonne.
Ed – you obviously didn’t look at the link.
Here’s what the link says:
Now that is technically incorrect since lead and cadmium aren’t carcinogenic. They are just chemically toxic, since both interfere with calcium channels in nerves and in bones. But sufficient to say they are widely regarded as toxic waste, and if some waste management authority doesn’t it is only due to politics not science.
Turd Case has again had a fail with his Google-fu. Solar panels are considered toxic waste.
You have to take the dead panels off the frames but you have to do that anyway if you’re going to landfill them. Paid for by the insurance, since they’ll want to install new panels on the frames. So once you have the pile of dead panels it’s easy.
Bruce – there’s about $2.50 worth of Aluminium on a Solar Panel frame.
The glass is bonded to the frame.
An angle grinder is the only way to get that frame off, and you’ve still got to grind the glass off the metal if you want any money for it.
Basically, you know nothing abouit scrap metal, and it’s clear that you’ve never tried to remove the Ali frame from a Solar Panel.
But, keep going anyway.
I wonder what else you’re bullshitting about?
They are a very effective psychological waepon.
Waaaay back (around the 1970s’1980s), a Canadian province had a problem with a prison riot they could not suppress. Military assistance was sought and granted.
While the officer commanding the force was preparing his orders, the RSM informed him that “Sufficient chromed bayonets have been found for your men, sir”.
Early the next morning, the soldiers formed up outside the prison. As the sun rose above the horizon, the commander ordered them to fix bayonets, and then to port arms. At the sight of the sun glinting off a long row of chromed bayonets, the rioting prisoners opened the jail doors and filed out with their hands in the air.
Apparently.
… a fail with his Google-fu. Solar panels are considered toxic waste.
Hi, Skidmark.
Rather than consult Google, why not try:
Knowing what you’re talking about
Solar Panels are inert.
They’re priced as general waste and end up in landfill.
Voted early in the Fadden by election. Approached by long scrawny semi bearded male in a Green T shirt. He looked quite upset when I told him that I’d have to take leave of my senses to vote Green. The elderly LNP person standing next to him grinned from ear to ear as I accepted a how to vote card from him instead. I make my own choices but Labor is last and Greens second last. I do hate preferential voting !!!
I was quoted that example, on a promotion course, way back when. The first three rounds in each magazine were blank, the rest were live. Not a shot was fired, blank or live, and some of Canada’s most violent criminals were captured, hands in the air, and begging for mercy…
Beginning to detect a theme here…
Fresh from reports of VIC building inspectors conducting “virtual” inspections, The Age now reports that VIC plumbing inspectors are signing off on roof work after viewing it from the ground.
Good. I don’t think it hurts to show them our opinion. They get little enough of it from elsewhere.
Same goes for the Yes crowd. I let them know.
Apparently the propellers on the windmills are also rather toxic and hard to dispose of.
And then there’s all that lube oil that they use, and also throw off onto the whales.
Ed – no they aren’t. I might have studied a tad of chemistry from time to time, including a smidgen of cadmium and lead chemistry (I have a nice piece of lab produced electrolytic cadmium on my shelf, it’s quite pretty, and we produced hundreds of tonnes of it per year in two of the smelters I worked at, plus my PhD is in lead chemistry, isn’t that just amazingly amazing or what?)
If they are that is a political decision, not a scientific one. I suspect the elites don’t want it widely known that solar panels are made of icky stuff. That would be classic green hypocrisy, if they let PV panels be dumped with general rubbish. If you try putting a car battery or some dead mercury-containing twisty bulbs into the bin the powers that be will descend onto you like an asteroid.
The problem with political decisions like that is a later government could come along and say “What, you’ve been dumping cadmium waste in with general rubbish? Here’s an eight figure fine, and oh by the way please pick up your toxic garbage and do the right thing with it, or we’ll send your CEO to Long Bay.”
Arguing that black is white over and over is not a way to persuade anyone Ed. It doesn’t work, no matter how many words you type.
Quite a bit of NO signage appearing around Fairfield ..
authorized by Fair Australia which is lead by Jacinta Price ……
Yeah, I reckon as that rubbish bin flew over Setka’s head as he was hiding behind his goons on the steps of the CFMEU offices, I reckon he had a bit of an epiphany … “I might just stick to pay and conditions from now on.’
Hello…
China’s economy at serious risk of deflation. Inflation at 0% in June.
Golly, telling a metallurgist he knows nothing about metals? Good one Ed. I’ve been working with metals and metal chemistry for fifty years. Even as a kid we used to convert old car batteries into lead sinkers for our dad to use for fishing.
What you don’t have any experience of is industrial scale materials processing. Separating an aluminium frame from ten thousand dead solar panels is easy, if you have experience with process design, materials and metallurgy. I’m sure several other Cats who work in the industry could also, probably even better than me.
Iirc, Setka & the CFMMEU defended free speech during the Israel Folau affair when the Liberal Party wouldn’t.
I do love a good pissing match. Maybe Elon and Ed could get together for a similar challenge?
‘Zuck Is a Cuck:’ Elon Musk Challenges Mark Zuckerberg to a ‘Dick Measuring Contest’ as Slapfight over ‘Threads’ Rages On (10 Jul)
Um, Elon, you do realize an android can have as long an appendage he wants? He just unscrews the short one and attaches a longer replacement.
BoN – beautiful work slapping down lunatic, factually incorrect opinions of NutCase.
I usually just scroll past his BS posts but have to go back and read the ones you’ve excoriated.
It’s a bonus hole.
Bruce of Newcastle
Jul 11, 2023 1:07 PM
Why bother with the idiot?
Wiki only gets you so far and that’s what he is relying on.
Best is just tell him every now and then to PO.
I can’t even come at that.
Regime change begins at home!
Shit’s getting out of hand:
Medvedev threatens to attack nuclear facilities in Ukraine and Europe, following unconfirmed reports of attempted missile strike on Russian nuclear plant
https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/07/09/medvedev-threatens-to-attack-nuclear-facilities-in-ukraine-and-europe-following-unconfirmed-reports-of-attempted-missile-strike-on-russian-nuclear-plant
Bank of England boss fessed yesterday that inflation was mainly due to energy costs. Which as we know have been inflated by green policies.
Bank of England chief claims inflation is about to fall ‘markedly’ in major speech (10 Jul)
The problem with this of course is that the UK is all in on net zero so energy prices may not fall like he thinks they will.
China of course doesn’t bother with stupid green electricity, not seriously, so lower coal and oil prices recently will’ve fed right into deflation. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but the demographic decline is starting to appear also.
Suuuuuure Turd Case, whatever you say. All those scientific reports are just rubbish (like your opinions).
Lol TheirABC Pat K is back on twitter…. how many days did that last???
Is PK (as “she” likes to be known) a trannie?
Mandible a bit of a giveaway?
Or …
(b) Seeing that inflation is the scourge of the West, Glorious Revolutionary Statistics Bureau confirms that Dear Leader has managed to slay the inflation dragon.
A bit like Kim Jong Il’s first round of golf … five aces.
No shit, Sherlock?
The CCP probably can’t believe their luck, the West is committing economic suicide which the CCP can show their populations as what not to do if you want to be rich. To be outflanked on economy by communists is one hell of a trick.
Translation:-
“We’ve jacked food and energy up to the max last year, and I am selling as good news that we might not jack them up this year because the Green Energy gougers are happy … for now.
I will avoid any discussion of the inevitable recession which will be brought on by record energy cost inputs into every corner of the economy.”
Fresh from reports of VIC building inspectors conducting “virtual” inspections, The Age now reports that VIC plumbing inspectors are signing off on roof work after viewing it from the ground.
And when the crap hits the fan (or bubbles up from the ground in this case) there will be squeals of “more inspectors/more regulation” when the real culprit is existing standards and regulation only being paid lip service to.
Much like the greenfell towers fire in the UK, the cladding was illegal already, and should have been picked up IF normal inspections had been done by council.
Along with the apparently hundreds of other clad projects mysteriously unchecked.
More laws with nil enforcement = people contemptuous of laws in general.
Much like the vaping being made triple illegal in Australia (seriously, 3 tranches of laws) shows stupidity, not seriousness.
But as long s it grows the regulatory state blob, and creates conditions for the 6 figure “thinking” class to “fix” its all grist for the GDP…
Well at least things are still being built in Dandrewstan.
In WA, we need the indigens’ authority to do so
Walking away politely is handing a victory to these self appointed betters.
Bailing people up in the street is a classic passive agressive tactic.
They rely on your sense of order and politesse to permit them to aggressively intrude upon you in the absolute belief that their upper class demeanor and the public situation of their aggression will force you to be submissive.
They are in effect arrogant rich bitches giving instructions to we lesser mortals.
Only an agressive, direct response which draws the focus onto them is appropriate to destroy their sense of righteousness.
The aim is to destroy the family dinner as she expresses her trauma to hubby when he returns from the Practice.
This was a tactic used extensively by ‘born agains’ who would launch into their speil in any environment confident that their interlocutors would show respect for their beliefs.
Saying no thank you is also ‘letting them know’.
Lysander
In WA, we need the indigens’ authority to do so
Well to their credit not a single multi story dwelling collapse in 20,000 years shows they have much to teach us…
The spectacle of the two indigenous, bickering over who was supposed to be doing the “Smoking ” ceremony, at the opening of the new freeway, should cost the “Voice” a few thousand votes…
I don’t let ‘born agains’ get very far either.
Usually it’s enough to say you are a practising Catholic.
They want people to start arguing with them so they can trot out their proof texts, whatever religion they’re trying to convert you to.
So…. what happens on referendum day as far as staffers handing out HTV cards? Will it be party people or will there be anyone at all allowed?
And thanks for the water rule information Farmer Gez.
No surprise Big Zero Bowen is prepared to sacrifice food production in favour of his Carbon God.
Well, not in all quarters.
Small domestic jobs can expect black letter interpretation of the regs.
Large unionised and volume builder sites … not so much.
Cue Vladimir Titsoff in 3 … 2 … 1
Not on the same scale as saying ‘piss off you stupid, ignorant idiots.’ Which is slightly more forceful and entirely warranted. If they are going to insult me and intrude on my privacy, I’m going to respond in kind.
Well, that’s interesting:
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/raytheon-forced-to-rehire-retired-stinger-engineers
Raytheon recalling a whole bunch of retired missile engineers in the US..