Beyond their grasp! Damn this spell check!

I have several questions for the Lived Experience Panel.

Who’s the bloke on the left lotocoti?

And the notion that downticks can’t be weaponised against “people we don’t like” is ludicrous. And…if we’re going to have a record of who ticks what, you might as well take the trouble to do a real, one word comment like “yes”.

I frequent another blog that has not only up/down tix but also allows you to identify the ticker .. never seems to cause much angst .. there is also a “block” button to stop individuals reading/replying to your comments if your upset ……..

Albo has the next four days to declare 14/10 as the date.

Decisions, decisions! .. his referendum ‘from the heart” or a tete-to-tete wiv a senile oldie? …
I’m guessin’ the tete-to-tete .. if there’s one thing Luigi savours over all else (including Jodie but, maybe, not Thai r & ts .. LOL!) it’s his “freebie” OS jaunts ……
Course he could surprise & do both .. jet orf & leave the VOICE in the capable hands of his faithful off-sider .. the gucci gnome …………!

if *you’re upset
downticking your prose, Shatterzzzzzz

BLOCKED …… LOL!

grotte du renne

JUST US – The Rising Tide of Civil Unrest

“I have said that the reason they indicted Trump’s valet as a co-defendant in the Mar-a-Lago, was to pull the standard “extortion” where he is to perjure himself for the government or face 120 years in prison. This is how they win Conspiracy Cases. Federal Judge Jed. S. Rakoff wrote a book on the extortion process – WHY THE INNOCENT PLEAD GUILTY AND THE GUILTY GO FREE.

They cannot win a conspiracy case without extorting someone to testify against their target. That was the problem they had in my case, there were no co-defendants. Both Trump’s case and the state of allegations against the Biden family from whistleblowers illustrate how the Rule of Law in the United States no longer exists. This is the final straw behind the collapse of the United States. The allegations against Assistant U.S. Attorney for Delaware Lesley Wolf claims that she warned Hunter Biden’s attorneys about potential scrutiny on a storage unit the first son used. For the prosecutor to call and warn Hunter’s lawyers where the IRS wanted to look for the smoking gun is just unimaginable. This has become a shit show and whatever integrity the United States once had in support of life, liberty, and happiness being the beacon of freedom to the world no longer exists.

Then we have this Special Prosecutor using a pro-government grand jury in Washington to indict Trump when the case would have to be brought in Florida under the venue requirement of the Sixth Amendment, which is a constructive amendment of the Constitution. The King would indict you in London, then transport you back to London for a trial because the American colonists would have delivered a fair verdict. This is why the Sixth Amendment clearly states:

Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

This is precisely where this Special Prosecutor is going. Indicting Trump in Washington where the grand jury will be more likely than not government employees and Democrats, but the venue clause requires Trump to be charged where the crime took place and that is Florida. Smith is doing the EXACT same thing that the King of England did for which we had a Revolution.

They did not prosecute Richard Nixon and they did not prosecute Bill Clinton when they also had him on perjury charges. Hillary’s private servers with classified documents were set up so her emails would not be accessible under the Freedom of Information Act had they gone through the State Department, which was obstruction of justice. Nobody was ever charged because it would have resulted in civil unrest since the country would be divided. This time, they just do not care. It seems as though they KNOW this will cause civil unrest and they want that to unfold so they can justify even more crazy actions of locking us down again.

30 years ago, Washington was always corrupt. The difference was they at least tried to hide it. Today, they no longer care what you think because they will rig the election and you are no longer needed. The corruption is just open and they are laughing at us all the time as we are a gaggle of fools.

The one thing many people are noticing is that tensions are rising. People are frustrated. Some are stabbing people in shopping malls all of a sudden and others get killed over a parking spot. The COVID lockdown has unhinged many and society is becoming more hostile year by year. This is also a precursor to the rising civil unrest we see coming.”

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/civil-unrest/just-us-the-rising-tide-of-civil-unrest/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

Who’s the bloke on the left

The fountainhead of knowledge and experience
as a woman in the British Army.
Presumably.

Calli, I’ve mentioned here before what I believe is the rationale for these stories, which is to bolster claims of sovereignty in international law.

Isn’t that the reason for all the “First Nations” malarkey?

Joe for $ale –

https://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/.a/6a0177444b0c2e970d02c1b25c89be200d-pi

Isn’t that the reason for all the “First Nations” malarkey?

A notion imported wholesale from Canadian indigenous activism, a different context where it may have had some basis in fact.

Funny thing with banks is that money is not just a reward for operations like in any business, but also their inventory.

Car companies buy raw materials, build cars, sell cars, and make money.

For banks profit is also increasing inventory.

A notion imported wholesale from Canadian indigenous activism, a different context where it may have had some basis in fact.

Mme Zulu and I visited Canada in 2005. Out tour guide was not a happy man – he had referred to “Indians” and not “First Nations”, and someone had lodged a complaint with the tour company…..

Persian Princess:

Good news, folks.

There are clear signs that the Peter Dutton-led Coalition will be giving the electorate a clear choice at the ballot box on a range of consequential issues.

That’s quite the departure from the folly of his predecessor, Scott Morrison, who morphed from a coal-wielding conservative into a small L Liberal in the latter part of his prime ministership where he spent profusely, failed to fight the culture wars and signed the country up to net zero lunacy.

Dutton has taken a principled stand against the race-based referendum and is expected to launch an energy policy rooted in facts and logic.

A “coal to nuclear” transition is reportedly at the heart of the energy policy the Coalition will take to the next election.

What a spectacular departure that would be from the current self-harming madness that sees Australia – the world’s biggest exporter of coal and the country blessed with the world’s largest reserves of uranium – paying exorbitant amounts for energy by transitioning to expensive, unreliable renewables.

The sort of madness that sees a state rich in gas reserves ban gas connections in all new homes from January 1 next year, as the Victorian government announced late last month.

A move so impressively stupid that it was immediately rejected by the Labor governments of NSW, Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland.

Australian households and businesses should be enjoying some of the cheapest energy prices in the world, but thanks to the climate catastrophist-led policies of successive federal and state governments across the country, prices are soaring and plunging many into energy poverty.
If you give Australians a choice the majority will opt for lower prices and greater reliability over lower emissions.

That has consistently been the experience, including at the great “climate change election” of 2019.

And, yet the Liberals went to the last election pledging net zero and thereby removing the cost argument in an election where cost of living was the top issue.

Opposition leader Dutton appears intent on reversing course and giving Australians a clear choice at the polls.

For some time now he has been speaking about the merits of nuclear energy, and last month he disputed the activist research of the CSIRO.

“If nuclear power is so prohibitively expensive, why are more than 50 countries investing in it, including those with smaller economies than Australia … conveniently, the energy minister (Chris Bowen) is reluctant to mention the costs of storage and transmission when he talks about renewables being cheaper,” he said.

Dutton also pointed out that Australia could be using small modular reactors within a decade.

After all, why have nuclear subs, and the associated expertise and industry, under the AUKUS deal but deprive your people of the benefits of cheap, clean and reliable nuclear energy as enjoyed by many first world nations including Sweden, Finland, France and South Korea.

The Coalition’s embrace of nuclear power will no doubt enrage the activist class and give birth to an avalanche of catastrophist scaremongering from the Labor Party and its propaganda arms at the ABC, Guardian, Nine papers et al, but it’ll give the Australian people the opportunity to decide whether they want to use some of the uranium we are blessed with domestically or just continue to export it so people overseas can have cheap, reliable power.

Shadow energy and climate change spokesman Ted O’Brien told The Australian this week: “The Coalition is learning lessons from Labor’s misjudged attempts to steamroll over regional communities in their rush to roll out renewables and transmission lines.”

O’Brien points out going nuclear would “avoid the environmental damage of thousands of kilometres of transmission lines connecting new wind and solar projects …”

Far from seeing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s promised $275 energy bill reduction by 2025, Australians will see prices continue to soar as we close coal-fired power stations.

This year, electricity tariffs jumped by about 25 per cent across most states. While 25 per cent was an average increase, some consumers have seen their bills double.

We are an energy-rich nation that has deliberately burdened our citizenry with high energy costs, plunging an increasing number of households into energy poverty.

If Dutton can hold his nerve and deliver a nuclear policy, he will go a long way to securing government in 2025.

Yes if Dutton were to succeed, he will need a united backbench that will embrace nuclear power. Is Lucas Heights only for medicinal purposes or does it contribute power to the grid?

There is no chance of rational debate on nuclear energy in Australia.
None.

Electricity rationing and an angry electorate might focus political minds.

Surveys repeatedly show considerable – and in some instances majority – support for it.

IRONIC: Here’s the Ben Shapiro Video That Fascist, Google-Owned YouTube Just Demonetized

Dwarves standing on the shoulders of pygmies standing in holes.
Top men.

LOL. I love it. Meanwhile, in a parallel Universe –

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_giants

Moment seven officers drag ‘autistic’ girl, 16, kicking and screaming from Leeds home for committing a ‘hate crime’ after she told female cop ‘you look like my lesbian nana’

Family ditches electric truck on drive from Winnipeg to Chicago after charging troubles

More front than Myer.

She is desperate.

And it is perhaps beginning to dawn on her that Da Sistah-hood has very little interest in her. They had enormous interest in bringing down the Morrison government and banging on about some toxic culture, but Brittany’s case does not help anymore as interest in Morro is fading and the Sofronoff report has revealed how compromised the legal case was, and the white knight Drumkopf has resigned before he could be fired.

Returning to the topic du jour..…

Looks like it was the Beef Wellington in the dining room with the mushroom duxelles.

The Germans did that to themselves and it’s been coming for quite some time.

They’re presently destroying their manufacturing base to make sure of it.

They’re approaching peak Selbsthass.

I noticed the degradation of German during the trip the in 2019. It was such a difference from the previous visits. The cities were dirtier, particularly Berlin which had a homeless encampment in a park only metres from Brandenburg Gate and the old Reichstag which is now a museum. The park itself no longer looked tended and was turning into overgrown bush. Even the autobahns were turning into potholed roads a la Victoria.

In contrast Poland’s roads were new, beautiful and with beautiful landscaping alongside. This continued throughout the drive through the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. Hungary in particular had expressways being built in all directions.

Western Europe seems to have entered the old age dementia phase of their lifespan while Eastern Europe are now the responsible adults.

If the Australian government doesn’t subscribe to Net Zero the US & EU would impose punitive sanctions on our economy and tariffs on our exports.
I believe that’s why Morrison capitulated at Glasgow.
That’s the political reality until the EU & US waver in their commitment to it.

This is why I have seen enough of Europe and hope they crash and burn economically. Nothing else will bring them to their senses. I don’t think there will be a Muslim takeover of Europe if that happens, the illegals are there for what they can get out of European taxpayers and when payments stop they will go elsewhere.

Even resource rich nations like Australia can’t isolate themselves from international politics;mutatis mutandis, consider what the “international community” did to South Africa.

I still wonder exactly what threats were made clear to Scomo.

Did he kowtow to protect Australia from “international community” attack, or was he promised personal destruction?
Did Scomo condemn us to Year Zero purely to try and preserve his own power and prestige?

The stupid pronouncements and policy decisions about gas stoves has convinced me that we live in a Matrix style of existence. It’s not a global village or even an internet village, it’s all one giant computer simulation. A member of the new aristocracy proclaims gas stoves evil and suddenly governments everywhere do the same. In the past there would be years of discussions and to and fro but now it is instant, no discussions allowed. Look at transgenderism, same method.

China seems to have firewalled themselves from this virus and most of Africa and Asia are just ignoring it.

Sorry, I should also have added that Dutton has to make people jealous of the countries with nukes.

Indolent
Aug 11, 2023 10:03 AM
Fauci Lied; 120k+ Children Died: Secret CDC Report confirms Hundreds of Thousands of Youngsters ‘Died Suddenly’ in the USA following roll-out of COVID-19 Vaccines

Fauci lied under oath to the US Congress. Enuf’ said. In the Slammer you go you crook.

Mother Lode
Aug 11, 2023 10:45 AM
Sorry, I should also have added that Dutton has to make people jealous of the countries with nukes.

Appeal to the snobs in the crowd who idolise everything French. Something like the French know a good product when they see it. Moreover, they have never had a reactor accident even with nuclear energy being almost the majority power supply in France. Furthermore, they sell this electricity to Germany who are devolving into Middle Ages.

I still wonder exactly what threats were made clear to Scomo.

Tariffs and sanctions the impact of which he couldn’t wear domestically, oaf.

Firefly (not to be confused with Mayfly).

Military flying, at all times, can be dangerous.

Quite so.
But no need to make it more dangerous than absolutely necessary to prepare for the real deal.
If an F/A-18 ploughs through a flock of geese at 50 ft practicing “sneak up on the Hun” tactics, or a special forces helo prangs conducting “lights out” ops at night, well, that is part of the deal.
Practicing double assymetric engine failure and hydraulic failure at 5,000′ in a 707?
Perhaps not.
And thanks for the reminder on altitudes.
I knew they were low, but couldn’t remember the exact numbers.
5,000′ might sound high, but it is nothing when you get into a spin, particularly if you have to restore hydraulics before you get full rudder authority.
If you want to practice recovery at 5,000′, start at 20,000′ with the target to recover by 15,500′. If you fail, no-one dies.

The Face Of The Movement is losing her mask.

She’ll also be losing her bank balance if she keeps up the public commentary.

Still, she’ll have that job in Geneva to fall back on.

I know people will argue that we should not need to go nuclear with all our coal and gas. Perhaps the Libs (the two or three with brain cells) have discerned that slaying the AGW myth will be harder than slaying the naughty nukes one.

The AGW scam still has multiple international organisations such as the UN and their plethora of panels, as well as all the policies and departments in Australia. And the fact that so many people are too scared to consider it might not be real. Nuclear provides a solution.

At the same time nuclear has not been much in discussion, really. We have departments of climate change, but not departments of no-nukes. People will be more available to considering because they are not so committed to ‘No’.

The Chicken Littles have not been preparing their models of deaths by nuclear power plant.

And, in the final instance, there is much to be said for:

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

BREAKING: Early onset dementia is being caused by the COVID vaccine (~25X increase)

Terry McCrann:

Those petrol prices spiking up to around $2.40 a litre are actually telling us something pretty simple but also rather profound. People want petrol. And gas. And coal. Because they, well, work.

That’s to say real, actual – like about seven billion – people; and not idiot, spineless politicians, business so-called leaders, climate catastrophists and other mixed assorted loons, who broadly grew up believing ‘Chicken Little’ was a generational prophetic truth-teller. Why are petrol prices going up?

Because Russia and OPEC have barely tweaked their combined output; but given the unrelenting demand for oil – have you driven an EV lately? No? Neither have I – oil prices have surged above $US80 ($127) a barrel.

It doesn’t help that we’ve basically closed down almost all our domestic refining; leaving us hostage to foreign supply lines and any games played with refining and global commodity trading.

Something similar has happened to the gas price on the international market. Indeed, in Europe prices surged as much as 40 per cent. Somewhat bizarrely, because of threatened strikes at Chevron and Woodside gas export plants in WA. Gee, wouldn’t it be nice if our European customers got to experience some of the shortages and price hikes that our inept politicians have foisted on us. Oh, I forgot. Of course, they already have. In very cold spades.

Coal prices are a lot lower than they were a year ago, but they are still at substantial, very profitable levels. If we were to believe all the exaggerated claims about the tidal wave of ‘free’ renewables sweeping the globe; heck, you should be struggling to give coal away gratis.

The bottom-line reality, the truth, is that despite the tens of trillions of dollars – yes, tens, of, yes, trillions – that have been thrown away on useless wind and solar in collectively soft-headed developed countries, coal, gas and oil still add to over 80 per cent of energy usage globally, according to the International Energy Agency. OK. So those tens of trillions have managed to lift the wind and solar share to closing on 20 per cent? Well, short answer, no. And emphatically no.

Again, according to the IEA, nuclear provides around 5 per cent of global energy, and old-fashioned hydro – the original renewable, but now a very dirty word in fashionable Dark Green circles – a further 3 per cent. We’ve basically prohibited both – apart that is, from Malcolm Turnbull’s mad, bad and utterly insane Snowy Two hydro, that’s chewing up $20bn, and rising, and indeed may never actually be finished – along with coal and gas.

The next biggest chunk in the global energy mix is the very dubious – on both economic and environmental grounds – biofuels, at about 8 per cent. That’s bio-diesel, bio-ethanol and such like. Wind and solar: just 4 per cent. That’s all the payback for the tens of trillions of wasted dollars. And even that over-states their real contribution and their cost. Because you have to keep a second, real, power station running for when…..well, you know the rhyme. The $2.40 petrol price is just another step along the way to the future being forced on us, while three billion Chinese and Indians laugh all the way to their fossil-fuelled future.

Yahoo News Australia:

‘NSW locks Indigenous elders out of sacred forest: ‘Just wrong”

‘The logging operation was described by an Indigenous woman as “a spiritual war against us First Nations people”.’

Seems the NSW government forestry authority consulted with the local aboriginal community in accordance with state laws but is now facing protests by dissenters.

I suspect if the reporter dug a little deeper he’d find the protesters are neo-Marxist Greens; but then he’s probably one of those himself.

‘NSW locks Indigenous elders out of sacred forest: ‘Just wrong”

I’ll bet good money they all live in “white fella’s” houses in town – not in traditional shelters in their “sacred” forest!

The cmfeu and allied unions should be chaffing at the bit for nukes, pay will undoubtedly dwarf big build tunnels 320 to 350k pay packets.
Personally I would import the US or European teams on short term visas, but that won’t happen.

It doesn’t help that we’ve basically closed down almost all our domestic refining; leaving us hostage to foreign supply lines and any games played with refining and global commodity trading.

And our Strategic Oil Reserve is located in……….the USA. And it isn’t 6 months of supply of Oil BUT around 6 minutes. Australia, the ‘Cleva’ Country. Welcome to Country.

Roger, you said that Germany’s problems were self-induced by adopting a Net Zero policy or the like, but you’re brushing off Australia’s obsequiousness re Net Zero as simply a prudent policy to avoid international sanctions. You can’t have it both ways.

I’m not personally “brushing off” anything, I’m making an observation about what I see as the political realities. I’d be perfectly happy with cheap coal fired electricity which Queensland can supply in abundance.

In regard to Germany, the cause of their problems is self-evident. The tragedy of it for those employed in their industrial sector is that, unlike us, they still have a manufacturing base to destroy.

Farmer Gez
Aug 11, 2023 11:17 AM
You’ve got to hand it to Bowen and Albo with their mad cap renewable plans. They’ve revived nuclear energy as a viable alternative to lights out after supper.
Would you rather have half a dozen nuclear sites taking up a few hundred hectares of land, using existing networks, or would you like millions of hectares of land covered in renewables and power lines?
Call a friend if you like.

Nuclear energy is definitely cheaper than any renewables and is not produced by China meaning we save money and deprive CCP of riches. So many upsides which is why it will be hard to convince our Canberra masters to change course.