Because of various compliance workshops, I ended up here at the HRC Positive Duty My question is: If I have…
Open Thread – Wed 25 Oct 2023
Yep now we are going to have an increase in the fire levy . Have to support all the Tesla…
Strokes of their oversized egos.
After locking everyone up with no answer in sight, they needed an escape route. Hence the miraculous vaccines.
ANU’s Professor Peter Collignon in the Oz … “One of the things that this side effect induced back in 2021,…
Feels like this is the first rainy day Sydney has had this month.
Unhinged rants are certainly in the eye of beholders.
Given the demographics of Jordan I suspect she doesn’t want to be Marie Antoinette.
If my detective friend’s views are representative – and I suspect they are – there is deep dissatisfaction with Palaszczuk and Commissioner Katarina Carroll in the ranks.
He predicts that the new recruiting strategy will set the QPS back decades.
They’re certainly not taking in the best and brightest.
Taken a leaf from Eva Ceaucescu. No point going down with the boat when the shooting starts.
The GOP just chose a left-wing weirdo BLM Republican as Speaker…
https://twitter.com/AuronMacintyre/status/1717303412948156649
I wonder what is the need driving them to say that?
You may be proud of being a Gunggari but unless I somehow esteem them it means nothing to me.
A proud Scotsman, I get. A proud (US) Southerner, too. Even a proud member of the Rotary Club member. I can identify what history and traits they are identifying with. Plus not everything is worthy of pride. A proud wife beater? A proud miata driver?
Gunggari? No idea what that represents, but I will bet there is a confused intermingling of victimhood, welfare, and entitllement.
His voting record is solidly conservative.
And Marxist identity politics
Just looking at bios of Allen and Bailey makes me realise what garbage most of our political class is. In a democracy there should be no such thing as a political class anyway.
How about a proud Australian.
As someone here said recently – if you haven’t been fully initiated, you have no right to claim the ‘proud’ moniker.
Lots of GOP congressmen are “solidly conservative” in obscurity before becoming Mitt Romneys in the spotlight. Kicking things off with a racial homily doesn’t bode well.
Congressman Mike Johnson: 7 Core Principles of Conservatism
CL – Trump supported him and so did the TEA Party. He’s also apparently an evangelical Christian and Schiff doesn’t like him, which is a pretty good endorsement.
We’ll see how he goes, after that other Mike-hey-I’m-a-Christian proved so disappointing. Fruit inspection will be quite intense I suspect.
Not exactly; I stated that if someone wasn’t initiated they shouldn’t call themselves a “proud (insert clan) man or woman, because according to aboriginal lore those two terms (yes, it is a binary gender worldview!) have a particular definition associated with rituals which the claimants most likely haven’t undergone.
It’s akin to stolen valour.
Listen to the effing portly prevaricating Portuguese popinjay, the socialist excrement risen to the top of the UN, portraying himself as a victim of misrepresentation now that he has been called on to resign over his repulsive moral bankruptcy when it comes to Israel and Hamarse
Superb description Tintarella di Luna. (Polite golf clap)
He’ll certainly have Democrat & RINO heads exploding.
We’ll see how he goes, it’s a big step up, but it’s a good beginning.
The UN is like a global version of Canbra. Parasitic and destructive.
I hope Israel remembers this man, long after the last Palestinians are dead and gone.
I recall some pubes in Canbra seem to owe loyalty to the UN and not the Australian taxpayer. Often called Cathy.
Based on their policies, you have to accept that this is exactly what they wanted.
The Toxic Brew That Is Going To Create Endless Chaos In The Streets Of America
What % I wonder.
I can trace my background on both sides to England as far back as records go. Can I say as a proud Englishman? LOL. Ridiculous. You are Australian or you aren’t. This identity sh*t needs to stop. We have voted, we dont want it. If Liberal stand up to it, then they will be in power for the next 2 decades.
US antisemitic incidents up about 400% since Israel-Hamas war began, report says
Antisemitic DC man laughs at Jewish mom, child — blocks their path with SUV
They want a world war.
Biden says US is willing to fight China on behalf of the Philippines following ship collision near disputed island
Here’s hoping.
Neocons Fear Speaker Mike Johnson Could Bring An End To Ukraine War Cash
Apparently the CFMEU has a new barrow to push, and is excitedly protesting in Sydney.
They hate rocks. Especially rocks sold by “foreign multinational corporations”.
Got a bad dose of RDS have we Mr Noonan?
Razey Johnson is right!
How the Democrats betrayed the Jews
This figure doesn’t look good if you’re heading into a war with Iran.
Most of those describing themselves as a “Proud crackatinny man” would have had one Aboriginal grandparent.
thanks BlackBall the beginning of the day the adjective larder is laden quickly spent thereafter as are the synapses. Thanks heavens for very early mornings – the best part of the day.
Not quite, we had some heavy rain earlier in the month for a couple of days. That said, I’ve had to take to watering the lawn the last couple of evenings to stop it carking it.
Funny how all these luminaries are suddenly realizing what we Cats have been saying is right.
Brace for 1970s-style blackouts: ex-AGL boss (Terror, 26 Oct, paywalled)
Maybe he could have a word in the shell-like of his green as grass successor.
Due to gerbil broiling, obviously …
“a proud Gunggari person” is approaching the same credibility level as “aspiring rapper”.
We all know what’s going on.
Labore – back to the seventies, in just about every aspect. get ready for albansleazey, teats peanuthead, burqa, wendy pong, etc, to start getting around in safari suits.
Vengeance of Gaia means you’re all gunna frey!
It’s not the hospitals that have a priority need.
Perhaps.
Environmentally sustainable terror tunnels take the biscuit, tho’.
I’m not sure I’m ready for kd wrong in a crochet bikini with muff spilling out the sides.
Pay that one, Top Ender.
Who will the gangreens blame, when (in the near future) the grid does collapse?
Private schools! Way to go … but wait. Murder most foul.
News
Top Ender
Oct 26, 2023 9:56 AM
OldOzzie, your link doesn’t work….
TE – Which One?
Defund the UN.
FRY FRY you’re all gunna fry!
Blackouts during a cold winter should shirley put an end to the overheating scare mongering.
Ol’ Scott feels the ground trembling underneath him:
Woolworths chairman Scott Perkins has defended the retailer’s donation of $1.55m to supporting the Yes campaign in the voice referendum, saying the money was handed to organisations that helped to educate the population about the referendum and to understand the proposition.
Speaking to shareholders at the Woolworths annual general meeting Mr Perkins said Woolworths also supported reconciliation with First Nations people, but did not direct staff which way to vote at the referendum.
“We have always seen reconciliation as an important element of a wider commitment to be an inclusive organisation consistent with our purpose of creating better experiences together for a better tomorrow,” Mr Perkins said.
“However, we were very clear with our team that each individual should vote on the referendum as they saw fit.”
He said the $1.55m donation to aspects of the Yes campaign was done so with the support of management and the board.
“In the lead up to the referendum, the group donated $1.55m across various groups supporting the proposition for educational purposes to help people understand the proposition and the referendum process.
“These donations will be declared to the AEC in due course, the investment was led by management with the consultation and support from the board. As Australia’s largest employer, and as the largest employer of first nations peoples with a unique presence in remote and regional communities we have the opportunity we have the opportunity in the ordinary course of our business to have a positive impact on these communities.
“We believe it’s the right thing to do for our team, as well as the Australian communities we serve, our business and you our shareholders.”
Vic Libs update. I note Pesutto got his man to represent the SFLs at the Mulgrave bi-election caused by the Dictator saying cheerio! and running off into the night with his silver.
My thoughts:
-Mulgrave is a corrupted electorate. >50% do not have English as a first language. Many Not even in top 3. Most do not know what elections are about. Labor has had a strangle hold on these multi-cult communities (Indian, Chinese, Greek, Italian..). Labor dominate the social media bandwidth. Labor already have their gal and the flyers are in mailboxes already.
-I do not hold hope of any non-Labor person getting a fair run at voting.
– Meanwhile in SFL land..A local chap I know threw his hat in the ring. Strong local following. I said I would reluctantly help if he got past the first hurdle and said he was mad. As expected he didn’t get past pre-selection.
-Pesutto’s man is now in. I believe he will stay on the porch. Its the contest you have when you don’t want to have a contest. I kinda get that. Why waste the ammo.
However Pesutto has to go along with their current policies on treaty, net zero. There are rumours of a move against him, but I have heard this before. SFLs remain true to form. Until then I will spend my membership fees of things of value like beer.
I was thinking Dunstanesque pink shorts.
(Apparently the government of SA has preserved them as an arty-fact.)
Hooray for Pallywood.
OO, the one linking to OldOzzie “Bendigo RSL defaces the Remembrance Poppy. Lest We Forget”
Koala ears.
HUGE WIN – Mike Johnson Becomes Speaker of the House
October 25, 2023 – Sundance
Louisiana Republican Mike Johnson won the vote and has become Speaker of the House of Representatives. This is a huge shift in momentum for the MAGA base, for common sense pragmatic voters, and for the overall direction of our national body politic.
Speaker Johnson delivered a humble, gracious and fantastic speech after the vote. WATCH:
President Trump Delivers Brief Remarks on New House Speaker Mike Johnson
October 25, 2023 – Sundance
During a recess from the ridiculous Lawfare drama in New York City today, President Trump delivered brief remarks on Representative Mike Johnson becoming the new Speaker of the House. Mike Johnson was on President Trump’s impeachment defense team. WATCH:
Mike Johnson is a big upgrade from Kevin McCarthy. Johnson has a solid and stable disposition, is very grounded toward finding optimal solutions and was /is a strong ally and defender of President Trump and the MAGA movement. Johnson arrived with the Trump ’16 wave, and he has earned the space to see if he can deliver great outcomes.
When compared to the alternatives, Speaker Johnson is a big step in the right direction. Matt Gaetz delivered an exceptional outcome, albeit likely with a little divine luck for the assist.
There’s no accounting for taste. Pop some Ben Ean in the fridge.
Consumers for demanding too much. They need to use less.
Top Ender
Oct 26, 2023 11:29 AM
OO, the one linking to OldOzzie “Bendigo RSL defaces the Remembrance Poppy. Lest We Forget”
TE,
here – https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/10/bendigo-rsl-defaces-the-remembrance-poppy-lest-we-forget.html
Aunty Gucci Burney for Governor General?
OK -Re Photo at Link – is Coat Lamb Skin or Possum?
The DailyMail reports today that Therapeutic Albanese has sounded out dumping the discredited underwhelming Linda Burney into the role of Governor General.
He has to get rid of her from the Aboriginal Affairs Ministry after her appalling performance in the Voice debate.
“The role would make Ms Burney, 66, the first ever Aboriginal Australian to become the head of state”
It’s always about the symbolism.
Nothing like a blackout for getting the ol’ carbons down.
Just out of curiosity, I how many Woolworth supermarkets are there in outback communities.
It was always Blue Nun in our household.
Albo still trying to secure his place under The Tree of Knowledge. Back to the drawing board.
Mother Lode
Oct 26, 2023 11:34 AM
Who will the gangreens blame, when (in the near future) the grid does collapse?
Consumers for demanding too much. They need to use less.
You Forgot Business
New data centres mean surging power needs
The rush is on build new data centres, but their massive energy requirements are adding to strain on the power grid.
Jennifer Hewett – Columnist
The hypergrowth of cloud computing and artificial intelligence means the need for data centres is surging.
This week’s well-choreographed announcement in Washington that Microsoft is ramping up the number of large data centres it operates in Australia is just one aspect of that global rush.
Far less obvious is the massive additional demand data centres impose on Australia’s creaking electricity system and its water supply – particularly sensitive as the prospect of prolonged drought again beckons.
It’s true that advances in technology mean the new Microsoft data centres will no longer need the same extraordinary amounts of water pumped in each day that were key to keeping older data facilities cool enough. That has typically been anywhere from 200,000 litres to 400,000 litres daily, many times more than the water in an average backyard pool.
Instead, more efficient closed-loop water reticulation and cooling systems in these new data centres will limit the need for extra water supplies to whatever is required to establish initial operations rather than having to be replaced every 24 hours.
Yet no data centre can ever afford to risk a power outage and, so far, there’s no technology or reliable supply fix to guarantee this 24/7.
This means multiple levels of backup are required within each facility, including at least two sources of electricity coming from the grid, large-scale batteries and two diesel generators as the last line of defence.
Now the advent of generative AI, which was publicly pioneered by the stunning release of ChatGPT a year ago, is further transforming the complex dynamics of matching power supplies with demand for data.
Big data centres that had required 10 megawatts, perhaps up to 20 megawatts, of electricity to send and receive data on their hundreds of servers and routers can no longer keep up with what is needed to meet that soaring demand.
This will require more like preparing for 100 MW to 300 MW of electricity to be available in each large facility – and only ever escalating.
It means an urgent push in many countries to build ever-more, ever-larger data centres with their physical infrastructure of land, buildings, water and energy. AustralianSuper, for example, has just invested $2.5 billion for a minority stake in Vantage Data Centres, a major developer in Europe and the US.
In Australia, Microsoft certainly isn’t the only major international tech player building or leasing more data centres. Amazon Web Services announced in April it would invest over $13 billion in new data centres here to fuel its cloud computing business over the next five years. Google has opened “cloud regions” with leased data centres in Sydney and Melbourne.
Then add in the remarkable growth of existing, well-regarded domestic operators such as NEXTDC and CDC Data Centres, founded in Canberra in 2007.
But modern commitments to steadily reduce carbon emissions and increase the use of renewables also make managing energy needs even more complicated for all these data centres.
Microsoft, for example, is pledged to be carbon-negative globally by 2030. In other countries, its energy emissions reduction policies include investing in renewables such as pumped hydro as well as solar power and investigating the potential use of small modular nuclear reactors.
In Australia, Microsoft’s carbon offsets have been largely limited to investments in solar power.
But the Australian grid’s increasing bottlenecks has translated into higher power costs combined with reduced reliability, leading to the system’s regulators sometimes asking data centres at peak times to reduce their electricity use in favour of diesel generators.
That’s another reason Microsoft preferred to rely on data centres in India and the US to process most of the Australian public’s increasing need for data, in the form of streaming content or other personal uses created by generative AI.
It tended to save the higher-security, higher-speed, higher-capacity resources from the 20 Australian data centres it owns or leases to meet the stricter requirements of Australian governments and corporates.
But under the deal announced this week, Microsoft will also increasingly expand the public’s connections to data centres based in Australia as well as beefing up capacity and security for governments and corporates.
That is on the assumption the country’s power supply, including renewables, also steadily increases to match the dramatic growth of computing capacity of Microsoft’s domestic data centres – up by 250 per cent within two years.
Microsoft data centres in Australia will increase to 29, including another three being built in Sydney, three in Melbourne and expansion across Canberra and other locations.
Several are already under construction, with the first to be completed early next year. The need to quietly secure land and construction timetables well before Microsoft’s intentions became public meant this process began more than a year ago – along with discussions with the federal government.
Australia is already a strong market for Microsoft and its Azure cloud platform. It is nearer to parity with rival Amazon Web Services than it is globally, despite the 28 per cent jump in Azure’s cloud business as part of Microsoft’s quarterly results this week.
But Seattle’s willingness to make a $5 billion investment was also encouraged by AUKUS undertakings to facilitate exchanges of advanced security, defence and information technology between the US and Australia. As well as expanding cloud computing and AI investment, Microsoft is collaborating with the Australian Signals Directorate on a “cyber shield” to improve protection against cyberattacks. It is also investing in more digital skills training for hundreds of thousands of Australians, including a new partnership with TAFE NSW.
This demonstrates some of the challenges to come in the fast-changing digital world of data. Now to secure the affordable, reliable, renewable power for it all.
Her upbringing was so white she didn’t even meet her aboriginal family until she was 29.
Interesting to see how the IDF handles them. I’m split between running some big pipes into the Mediterranean and pumping in sea water vs flooding them with natural gas and air then getting a sacrificial robot to light a match.
It’s all about the narrative. Truth and accuracy are irrelevant.
Speaking of journalism skools, how old is bacon now? 120?
I saw that posted on X yesterday. Par for the course. The problem with moving public sector work to the regions is that it changes the character of those regions too. Same dynamic is playing out in red states (Arizona, Texas, and the like) in US that attract industries that are filled with Dem voting demo.
Pushing 80. A perfesser too. Private skool educated like so many hard leftists.
OO, the one linking to OldOzzie “Bendigo RSL defaces the Remembrance Poppy. Lest We Forget”
Bendigo RSL to go the way of Aussie Netball. Go Woke, Go…
What say you pay “your team” what they’re entitled to?
The failure to do so seems to be a recurring issue for Woolworths.
A pity the $1.66m wasn’t put to improving your pay systems.
When’s he going to send them some Bushmasters?
Australian govt to give extra $15 million in humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza amid deepening Israel-Hamas conflict (Sky News, 26 Oct)
Funny how Labor hasn’t given any aid to Israel. It’s a mystery.
….. Broke, like Cricket Australia is headed !
Biden requests Israel pause to allow negotiations for hostage releases and delivery of humanitarian aid. Biden is using both Israeli hostages and Palestinisn civilians as hostages to keep Hamas safe from Israel’s fury as a cover for US weakness. Will someone please MAGA.
That’s putting the oppression into colonial oppression.
Yes…by which time she was a qualified teacher employed by NSW Ed. & about to hop on the indigenous bureaucracy gravy train courtesy a better paid gig designing an indigenous curriculum (if memory serves). Hence the desire to reconnect with that side of her family.
She’s been dining out and buying Prada on the basis of her “aboriginality” ever since.
Thousands of Israelis are internally displaced persons at present. Businesses have shut down without pay to employees. Schools have closed or are giving part time online lessons. Shops are closed. Everyone has chidren, parents, friends, neighbours drafted into front lines disrupting all families and normal daily functions. No news reports this, while plastering photos of displaced Palestinians on headlines.
Shirley, the problem is Karbin. Carbon is the thing pencils and diamonds are made from.
“Pop some Ben Ean in the fridge.”
You’re showing your age. The last time I saw Ben Ean was at my first wedding, 60 odd years ago
Eventbrite, the online ticketting platform has banned a women in women’s sport organisation but hosts events for supporters of Hamas.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/eventbrite-prohibits-riley-gaines-event-promotion-but-allows-pro-hamas-listings
Blue Nun survives, even in 0.5% LA form.
my 5:00 pm cooler today will be a fluffy duck, hand-mixed.
Roger
Oct 26, 2023 12:09 PM
That’s putting the oppression into colonial oppression.
Yes…by which time she was a qualified teacher employed by NSW Ed. & about to hop on the indigenous bureaucracy gravy train courtesy a better paid gig designing an indigenous curriculum (if memory serves). Hence the desire to reconnect with that side of her family.
Roger
I had heard NSW Teachers below the HSC 50 Mark were admitted into teaching
But Linda Burney is as Thick as a Brick (Bricks please accept apologies for the analogy) – based on her performance as Aboriginal Affairs Minister for the Voice – Could not string two words together, let alone a coherant sentance.
How in the Hell could that Incompetent Person, Teach?
Did anyone else see the way our press treated the Israeli ambassador at the NPC?
I felt ashamed, although he acquitted himself well.
As a former paratrooper, he’s undoubtedly no stranger to pressure.
I do not remember blackouts in the 70s.
I reckon that is gaslighting.
Indicative of the smouldering rubbish heap that is Canbra.
Morsie
Oct 26, 2023 12:21 PM
I do not remember blackouts in the 70s.
I reckon that is gaslighting.
Definitely in the 50s in Cremorne Sydney – we had Kero Hurricane Lamps with Wicks & Candles – used frequently
Blair’s Law.
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency, says widely published editorial (Phys.org, 25 Oct)
by British Medical Journal
All this over something which isn’t happening.
Cold Norwegian Water Douses ‘Climate Change’ (15 Oct)
Linda Burney for GG. Melbourne Cup presentation would be awesome. Step aside John Kerr.
The problem with moving public sector work to the regions is that it changes the character of those regions too.
Hence Bendigo foisting Jacinta Allen and Lisa Chesters into public life.
Linda Burney is not well. She’s also lost her husband to cancer and more recently a son, I believe, to premature death. Someone close to her should suggest it’s time to quietly leave public life. She’s not up to being G-G.
Linda Burney for GG. Melbourne Cup presentation would be awesome. Step aside John Kerr.
It’s a big job and given our new pronoun world I’d like to see the responsibilities split between birney and turdball. 2 GGs!
HRH Prince Phillip served on destroyers in both the North Sea and Pacific, but prior to that was Mentioned in Despatches whilst serving on HMS Valiant, during the Battle of (Cape) Matapan. This battle was a big deal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX5UNcFUNN4
This interview goes for about 48 mins, but is worth a watch.
The interviewer is a bit of a prat and is seemingly trying to get HRH to “slip up”, however his class and humour shine through.
The highlight for me is:
“We didn’t have councillor’s on board ship asking you, every time the guns fired, I say, ……, are you alright? We just got on with it.”
They don’t “owe loyalty” to the UN, they choose to give it. As do many politicians and commentators.
Sleazy and whatshername cuddling up to Dementia Joe and his Dr all frocked up.
He’s hit his peak. NO is a distant memory.
Inflation, living costs, etc,etc…….
No worries. I have pictures of me.
I am sure someone else will have beaten me to the punch, but wasn’t Errol medically unfit for service?
Tried to join up, failed the medical. Not good for his dashing leading man status.
Palliwood is pathetic.
In the ‘rescue ‘ I posted in the early hours they had made a little boy crawl in under a collapsed building then pretended to rescue him by calling him out, only his back had concrete dust on it and he had a big grin on his face as he came out.
Another mass shooting in the US. The bastard is white so reporting will have legs.
America strikes again – UPDATE: Breaking: At Least 22 Dead, 50 to 60 Injured in Active Shooter Attack in Lewiston, Maine
What happened to Mr hamas fighter, injured by a hamas misfire or just play acting in a spare hospital bed?
Ah, that explains it –I am doing Nonna-duty at the moment in the Vaucluse area and DIL said that a police helicopter woke her in the early hours hovering around the Gap area for at least an hour — hmmmm
Unless there’s an inconvenient manifesto.
More so the Western media who foolishly buy into it.
A harsher judgement is reserved for those who become complicit in the lying.
Evil, perhaps?
Netzarim Junction and the Birth of Fake News
Tragic – but it was six years ago…
Elon Musk: “We Are Sleepwalking Our Way Into World War Three,” “Putting Civilization Itself At Risk”
Elon Musk commented on the risk of “World War Three” during a Twitter Space on Monday with David Sacks and Vivek Ramaswamy, saying: “We should try to avoid that if at all possible.”
“There are tragedies on an individual level, tragedies on a community level, and then there’s civilizational risk. We just need to make sure that we’re not putting civilization itself at stake, which is World War Three,” Musk said.
“There is a strong argument that these things are actually unavoidable and the tides of history will sweep us in that direction whether we like it or not. But we should try to avoid that if at all possible.”
You can listen to the full broadcast below this selected transcript:
ELON MUSK: With this weaponization of the dollar, I think we’ve overplayed our hand. Weaponizing the dollar with sanctions. You’re now seeing a lot of countries de-dollar their transactions because we’ve sort of forced it. This goes beyond Russia, China, and Iran because countries like Brazil or India still want to transact with Russia and they can’t do it with dollars, so we’ve forced them to de-dollarize their transactions, thus weakening the strength of the dollar in the world.
So, these actions are strategically foolish. Like I said, we should stand back and ask what is the most important thing. The most important thing is avoiding World War Three because we may never recover from World War Three. And I think we currently have the risk of World War Three increasing rapidly. I think if relations are re-normalized with Russia, the probability of World War Three is dramatically lower.
We’re not fighting small fry here, the potential is not a small fry battle, it is a massive battle where the industrial capacity is of comparable size to the Western alliance.
DAVID SACKS: Or greater, at this point China has more manufacturing capacity than the United States.
ELON MUSK:
That is correct. It’s roughly on par, let’s just say one could debate whether it is bigger, but the point is we don’t have an overwhelming advantage on industrial might and the foundation of war is economics.
This should be obvious to everyone but it is often lost at this point, the foundation of war is economic power. Especially industrial output.
How many tanks, guns, and drones can you make relative to the other side? That’s what it comes down to. And it may be the case, if not now, in the future it probably will be, that a Russia-China-Iran alliance can outproduce the Western alliance.
Let’s just say, that in order for there to be a global conflict, a World War Three, you have to have two superpower alliances where one can not easily defeat the other one.
And that is the case.
And that I think is a massive shift in thinking that most people do not understand.
Most people on this call perhaps do understand but most do not. I think we want to try to avoid that. I hope it is not something that the tides of history are simply going to sweep us in that direction because there is a strong argument that these things are actually unavoidable and the tides of history will sweep us in that direction whether we like it or not. But we should try to avoid that if at all possible.
Unfortunately, our policy has been forcing Russia and Iran to ally with China, it’s been forcing them. What choice have we given them?
Russia has the raw materials, and China has the industrial capacity. It’s frankly, a perfect match from a war standpoint. So I think we need to stop doing that. It’s unwise, and I think it will lead to an immense risk to civilization.
I want to emphasize there’s a civilizational risk — there are tragedies on an individual level, tragedies on a community level, and then there’s civilizational risk. We just need to make sure that we’re not putting civilization itself at stake, which is World War Three.
I think we are sleepwalking our way into World War Three, sleepwalking our way into World War Three with one foolish decision after another. Really, people should be deeply self-reflective. If they make their predictions have not come true. They should consider whether perhaps their predictions might not come true either.
What is the track record here? It’s not good.
She’d fit right in on the front bench.
That may have been the story the studio eventually had to adopt, via their PR dept.
Given the relish with which he’d wade into pub brawls, even when outnumbered, “coward” is a word that may not ever have been applied to him.
….. until it came time to put on a khaki suit & get onto the 2-way rifle range.
Agree Boambee John – Canbra pubes owe their loyalty to us and choose to give it to the UN.
If a democracy doesn’t have term limits for politicians, the rise of a “political class” is inevitable.
Johnson elected speaker for remainder of 118th Congress
House finally reopens for business as fourth GOP speaker candidate claims the prize
Johnson, a fourth-term lawmaker representing his hometown of Shreveport and a big chunk of western Louisiana, has been a vocal advocate for marquee GOP issues from his time as a constitutional lawyer arguing for state abortion restrictions to his public defenses of former President Donald Trump.
A member of the Judiciary and Armed Services panels, Johnson doesn’t shy away from topics popular on the right that set him at odds with Democrats. He pushed back as Judiciary Democrats in 2022 addressed a leaked Supreme Court opinion that preceded the overturning of Roe v. Wade. He used his Armed Services perch to push an amendment opposing COVID-19 vaccine requirements in the military.
The two wings of the House GOP coalesced around Johnson. He’s less of a lightning rod for centrists than a former speaker-designate, his ally House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, while maintaining valuable street cred on the right, including support from Trump.
Johnson, a constitutional lawyer, was among a select group of Republicans who served as Trump’s defense team of sorts during his first impeachment, an idea that Johnson had first pitched. It meant playing a vocal role in the media in support of Trump.
Johnson played another key role defending the former president as Trump allies and GOP lawmakers worked to undermine the results of the 2020 election that Trump lost to President Joe Biden.
Johnson led an amicus brief with 125 fellow House members supporting a lawsuit to throw out election results in swing states that voted for Biden; the Supreme Court rejected the effort.
Johnson later objected to certifying the 2020 election results in key states just after the Jan. 6 insurrection, alongside many of his Republican colleagues.
When a reporter asked Johnson about his role during his Tuesday news conference, Republicans drowned out the end of the question, shouting “Shut up!” Johnson didn’t answer.
Trump himself posted on his social media platform Wednesday that he wouldn’t make an endorsement in the speaker’s race at this stage, but his “strong suggestion” was to vote for Johnson.
Democrats took aim at Johnson’s role defending Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results during floor speeches Wednesday.
“House Democrats believe that when members of this body voted to reject the results of the 2020 election, they forfeited their ability to lead this chamber,” House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar of California said.
Nonetheless, Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., a vocal critic of Trump and his allies’ efforts, said Wednesday he planned to vote for Johnson.
From my observations a parent never really recovers from losing an adult child because it so disrupts the natural order.
I do. They were quite frequent for a while, as well.
I don’t suppose we could prevent them from marrying within the political class, thus giving rise to a political caste?
Not scrolled back far, but it has to do with murder of a female teacher at StAndrews Cathedral school. A male employee of the school is missing.
Burney has severe brain damage and I make that observation as a statement of fact, not a gratuitous insult.
That’s why she can barely string a sentence together and is generally as incoherent as Geriatric Joe.
Fetterlump Syndrome. It’s a no-brainer.
I reckon any blackouts in Victoria in the 70s were due to industrial action not lack of power.
Certainly remember blackouts in Sydney in the mid 70s. They would reduce voltage to dim.your lights then load shed you. Unions playing silly buggers iirc.
Quite possibly to embarrass the Askin – Lewis governments.
Showing my age though I was still at school 🙂
Yes ties in with what my DIL said this morning
Ditto in QLD re blackouts.
Ridiculous. You are Australian or you aren’t. This identity sh*t needs to stop.
No chance of it stopping now that the media, wholeheartedly, inserts it into every 251 story they run ..
Anthony Albanese’s Voice failure was the most spectacular political own goal of the century, and one that ‘exposed serious flaws in his character’
The Voice referendum debacle should teach the Prime Minister that he needs to act less like the Member for Grayndler and more like a national leader who works for all Australians, writes Nick Cater.
A week after the referendum, the world still spins in its orbit, despite the calamities we were told to expect if we foolishly voted No.
There have been no confirmed sightings of “the colonial ghost of dispossession” or “the ghost of White Australia policy”, that a Fairfax columnist warned a No vote would awaken.
Australia’s national reputation has sustained no further damage to that inflicted by the Wallabies performance in the World Cup.
There was no sign of egg on the Opposition Leader’s face this week, despite the prediction by ABC’s Laura Tingle and many others that a No vote would harm Peter Dutton.
Instead, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has sustained almost all of the damage after scoring the most spectacular political own goal of this century.
The national result of 61 per cent against to 39 per cent in favour is catastrophic enough for a Prime Minister who hoped the Voice to Parliament would be his signature first-term reform.
Yet it understates the political damage to Labor since support for the Voice was concentrated in seats the Coalition is unlikely to win.
The Yes vote prevailed in only one Liberal seat, Bradfield on Sydney’s North Shore, held by Paul Fletcher by a margin of less than 3 per cent.
On the other hand, the referendum was defeated in 60 out of the 78 seats held by Labor on an average margin of 18 per cent.
It will be interesting to see the reception the Prime Minister gets if he campaigns in Labor-held NSW seats of Hunter or Paterson for example, seats where Labor’s grip has been slipping for a decade or more and where 70 per cent voted No.
Dutton, however, was out of step only with the metropolitan elite, among people who wouldn’t vote Liberal if their Teslas were on fire.
The attempt to paint Dutton as a wrecker has an obvious flaw.
The six out of ten voters who voted no will see him as the saviour of common sense on this issue, whatever they think of the Coalition’s stance on other policies.
The referendum allowed Dutton to play to his strengths and demonstrate he is a politician of conviction.
At the same time, it has exposed serious flaws in Albanese’s character that he must repair if he wants to remain a leader.
A decade before he won government, Albanese boasted: ”I like fighting Tories. That’s what I do.”
Halfway through his first term, we have learned that scrapping with his political opponents is not a hobby but his full-time occupation.
He treated the Voice as just another political contest when the history of referendums tells us that it is the recipe for failure.
Referendums are won by capturing the centre ground, even if that means flattering political opponents and joining hands with people you despise for the national good.
Those skills are outside his repertoire.
The referendum campaign confirmed the nagging feeling that Albanese is not across details.
Worse still, he appears proud of it.
His confession to 3AW’s Neil Mitchell that he hadn’t read 26 pages of supporting documents attached to the Uluru Statement from the Heart was sloppy.
Following that admission with the words “Why would I?” makes him seem smug, supercilious and cocky.
Hubris is an occupational hazard to which almost every prime minister succumbs eventually.
Albanese, like his Labor predecessor Kevin Rudd, sits in a particular category of nation leaders who were infected by hubris before they entered office.
Rudd’s exaggerated sense of his greatness was more understandable.
Comments Not Kind
Annastacia Palaszczuk insists she’s the only person who can steer Labor to victory for a fourth time and vows to stay on until late 2028 if Labor wins.
[unlinkable OZ]
Oh dear.
YouGov poll shows Annastacia Palaszczuk no longer Queensland’s preferred Premier
Oh deary dear:
Technical note: Fentiman is probably marginally less unelectable than Miles. Both climbed the greasy pole as union hacks.
See also the symbiotic relationship between the denizens of the Ozzie Labore Pardee and various creatures “employed” by the ALPBC.
So very prevalent in the US, Canada and here. Mark Steyn described Shrillary (when she was “running” for president) as a candidate entirely devoid of merit.
How is the creature “married” to Obama any different? Yet, unlike Shrillary, that creature may very possibly be the next US president. With the added benefit of gifting Obama his fourth term.
An obscenity that must not be allowed to happen.
That ones a keeper.
Correct, Milt.
Despiciable Labor PM Albosleezy, Labor MPs, Greens, Some TEALS & Clover Moore supporting Hamas Palestinian Terrorists
Albanese condemned Israeli ‘occupation’ in resurfaced clip
‘True colours’: Anthony Albanese’s past appearances at pro-Palestine rallies laid bare in resurfaced protest video
Archive footage has resurfaced of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese passionately condemning Israel’s “occupation” of Palestine while attending a protest.
Resurfaced news footage has revealed Anthony Albanese’s past appearances at pro-Palestine rallies earlier in his parliamentary career.
Sky News Australia host Sharri Markson revealed the clip on Wednesday evening while covering the Prime Minister’s state visit to the United States to visit President Joe Biden.
“Albanese has over his entire Parliamentary career spoken out against Israel and in support of Palestinians,” she said before cutting to the resurfaced footage.
In the grainy video, Mr Albanese can be seen protesting against Israel’s “occupation” of Palestine in Sydney’s Martin Place next to a sign reading “Stop the Israeli Slaughter: Free Palestine now”.
Mr Albanese also uses a microphone to condemn the Israeli military.
“The response of Israel has been to meet children throwing rocks with helicopters, with tanks and with missiles,” the future Prime Minister said in the resurfaced clip.
The resurfaced clip comes just one day after French President Emmanuel Macron visited Israel and called for an international coalition of forces to fight Hamas.
Mr Albanese was asked about the French President’s commitment to Israel during a press conference on Wednesday but refused to back France’s call for a coalition of forces to fight the terrorist organisation.
“Our priority has been getting people in Israel but also in Gaza – who want to leave and are Australian citizens – out. We’ve also continued to emphasise the importance of humanitarian support for people in Gaza,” he told reporters.
“I continue to emphasise that Australia’s position is for the protection of innocent lives, we mourn as a nation every innocent life which has been lost in the conflict, whether it be Israeli or Palestinian.”
Markson questioned why Mr Albanese would not “join the fight” against Hamas even though Australia “proudly” joined allies against ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
“The only difference as far as I can see it is that the Hamas victims are Israelis,” she said.
“We’re now seeing Albanese show his true colours. He could only stay on message for so long.”
Sharri Markson 4 mim 05 secs superb on Loser Albosleezy
Comments Definitely Not Kind to Labor PM Albosleezy
Insights from Quadrant
The article can be read here.
https://wng.org/opinions/a-vote-against-a-failing-status-quo-1698144704
Labor Palestine Lover Wong announces an extra $15M taxpayer gift for Gaza’s ‘Trusted partners & emerging needs’
Australia will provide an additional $15 million in humanitarian assistance for…the conflict in Gaza, the West Bank and across the region.
This funding will be delivered through trusted partners to help address immediate and emerging needs
Hamas holding 54 Thai hostages
More than half of the estimated 220 Israeli hostages captured by Hamas are also citizens of other countries, Israeli officials announced on Wednesday.
At least 138 of the of the hostages had foreign passports, including 12 Americans, 12 Germans, 15 Argentinians, and six from both France and Russia, according to Reuters.
Many of those people are believed to have dual nationality with Israel, except 54 Thais, five Nepalese, and single hostages from China, Sri Lanka, and two from both Tanzania and the Philippines.
Thailand is one of Israel’s largest sources for foreign laborers — about 30,000 are employed in the country’s agricultural sector. At least 24 Thais have been confirmed killed in Hamas’ October 7 surprise attack on Israel, while 21 remain unaccounted for.
Foreign victims identified as dead or missing in Hamas’ massacre totalled 328 people from 40 different countries, Israel said.
Besides Thailand, foreign nations that experienced high death tolls included the United States with at least 34 dead and five still missing, Ukraine with 25 dead and two still missing, France with 23 dead and one missing, and 23 Russians dead and four missing.
One Australian citizen, 66-year-old Galit Carbone, was killed.
Mass shooting in Maine atm.
Australia’s Greatest Idiot – Surpassiing KDrudd which is pretty hard
How Australia’s ‘First Dog’ Toto has been joining Anthony Albanese on his VIP flights – as the pooch’s jet-setting lifestyle comes under the spotlight
Mr Albanese adores his white cavoodle, Toto
The travel habits of Anthony Albanese’s beloved dog Toto have come under scrutiny as it’s revealed she has likely been travelling on VIP flights with the Prime Minister.
Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie grilled Air Force Chief Robert Chipman at an intense Senate hearing on Wednesday about Toto’s travels.
‘Could you provide a list of all flights since the 21st of May 2022 on which animals – and specifically an animal called Toto – have been permitted on-board special purpose aircraft?’ she asked.
Mr Chipman confirmed that a pet had been known to travel on the special purpose aircraft primarily used by the Prime Minister for official duties.
Is PM AirBusAlbo ever in Australia doing work for Australians?
The real, vicious Albanese at an anti-Israel rally
Before the laminated teeth and the Prime Ministerial make-over, Anthony Albanese was a far left Jew hating street urchin.
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Interesting I was passed this clip of Albo in parliament saying the financiers behind “The Voice” are Jewish Billionaires..
Discernment the 3rd force is in the light..love and light xx
https://www.tiktok.com/@australiaforfreedom1/video/7293644531231231239?is_from_webapp=1
Isn’t the role of “Governor General” – the King’s/Queens representative in Australia – the ultimate in colonial symbolism?
https://www.tiktok.com/@australiaforfreedom1/video/7293644531231231239?is_from_webapp=1
Watch Anne Aly’s face…
PETER HITCHENS: The UN boss should know there’s no historical wrong which can be used to justify or excuse the Hamas atrocities
When someone urges you to see an evil deed in context, he is generally making excuses for it. – Interesting – To Which People could we apply this Statement in Australia?
What would you think if someone said that Myra Hindley’s and Ian Brady’s crimes ‘did not happen in a vacuum’?
I would think I was in the presence of an apologist for evil and expect a repellent lecture about the two killers’ unhappy lives, or some such bilge. Mind you, few things do actually happen completely out of the blue, including unwise and offensive remarks by international bureaucrats.
So let us also note that the shocking words of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres — that the October 7 Hamas massacre did not happen in a vacuum — also have a context. And that context is the abiding, profound anti-Israel bias of the UN itself.
In Israel, the UN is generally seen as an enemy and the evidence suggests that the UN feels much the same way about the Jewish state.
Nick Cater was doing so well up to then…
mizaris
Oct 26, 2023 1:50 PM
https://www.tiktok.com/@australiaforfreedom1/video/7293644531231231239?is_from_webapp=1
Watch Anne Aly’s face…
mizaris,
Heh, I will probably give Allbosleezy a pass here, as he seems to be reading from someone else’s statement
“I do not remember blackouts in the 70s.”
Nor do I.
Wow – I hadn’t bothered to dig that deep into the voting data. That figure alone should be sufficient to see albansleazey ignominiously punted.
So why is he still in the big high chair?
The UN is our enemy here in Oz.
Like I said Triggs is in Geneva now and I very much doubt that she is working to further our interests.
Looks like he jumped off The Gap.
The result of 14/10 certainly gives me heart regarding the common sense of the majority of the electorate. Also their imperviousness to outright lies and cloying emotional blackmail.
WASHINGTON SECRETS
GOP voters: Cancel the 2024 debates
by Paul Bedard, Washington Secrets Columnist
With former President Donald Trump consistently leading the 2024 nominating process, most Republican voters are in agreement that the party should cancel the debates and move on with targeting President Joe Biden.
On the heels of several calls to end the Trump-less debates, a new survey found that a majority in the party also want to go in that direction.
The latest Rasmussen Reports poll said that 52% of Republicans want the shouting fests canceled. Among all likely voters, 40% want them stopped.
The decision is likely influenced by Trump’s decision to boycott the debates so far because he leads the field by 30 points or more.
Trump ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told Secrets this week, “I think you can see he’s winning the primary so handily that the primary, in many people’s minds, is over. No, there’s no alternative. And I think the American people see it that way.”
The debates so far have not greatly influenced or changed the GOP 2024 lineup in national or state polls. In the latest series of national polls, Trump is leading with 49% or better.
The Best Tequilas of 2023 (So Far)
In an oversaturated marketplace, these agave expressions truly stand out
Albo makes the claim that the response of the Israelis to children throwing rocks, is tanks, helicopter gunships and missiles…A real opposition would tear his heart out over those remarks……
Good question:
https://twitter.com/SincDavidson/status/1717325382255624459
Sadly, this tragedy will be the catalyst for a massive, Australia-wide banning of firearms ownership — starting with WA.
EDITORIALS
Hamas is the worst enemy of the Palestinian people
by Washington Examiner
“How many more killings is enough for you?” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) shouted at a reporter questioning her call for Israel to cease firing on Hamas targets in Gaza. “Is it a thousand more? Two thousand more? Three thousand? How many more Palestinians would make you happy if they died?”
The right answer is zero.
Ideally, Hamas would surrender today and no more civilians would have to die.
It’s been said before, but the logic seems to escape defenders of Hamas.
If Hamas laid down its weapons today, there would be no more violence. If Israel laid down its weapons today, there would be no more Israel.
It is Hamas alone that chose to endanger Gazan and Israeli civilians.
From his air-conditioned luxury hotel in Doha, Qatar, Hamas chairman Khaled Mashal admitted it on television last week.
“This kind of attack Hamas carried out is not a regular operation. It is more like a declaration of war,” Rasha Nabil of Al Arabiya told Mashal.
“So some people ask what [was] expected would be the Israeli reaction,” she continued. “We are watching the great human tragedy that is unfolding in the Gaza Strip. The people of Gaza woke up to this … the people of Gaza were not consulted about this.”
After explaining that a surprise attack of this magnitude had to be kept secret for strategic reasons, Mashal then explained that sacrifices from civilians were expected. “Dear sister, nations are not easily liberated,” Mashal responded.
“The Russians sacrificed 30 million people in World War II in order to liberate it from Hitler’s attack,” Mashal continued. “The Vietnamese sacrificed 3.5 million people until they defeated the Americans. Afghanistan sacrificed millions of martyrs to defeat the USSR and then the United States. The Algerian people sacrificed 6 million martyrs over 130 years. … No nation is liberated without sacrifices.”
Millions. – That’s how many Palestinian lives Hamas is willing to sacrifice to achieve its goal.
What happens if it does?
Does the killing of innocent civilians stop then?
Of course not. If Hamas ever prevailed over the Israel Defense Force, there would be more civilian slaughter.
There are more than 7 million Jews in Israel and everyone knows Hamas would not rest until they were all dead or gone.
There are hundreds of ways Hamas could minimize civilian deaths in Gaza.
It could let Gazans leave instead of bombing their convoys going south.
It could stop stealing international humanitarian aid sent for civilians. It could stop shooting rockets from schools and hospitals.
It could, after being elected back in 2007 (after which, of course, it has not allowed any more elections), not have destroyed the Gaza Strip, which was handed over to Palestinians intact and functioning two years earlier.
It could have dropped its commitment to destroy Israel and murder Jews, thus avoiding an Israeli blockade made necessary for security reasons, and allowed its people to thrive.
It did not do so and has no intention of doing so. It is the enemy of the people it tyrannizes.
Hamas will never try to govern responsibly.
It is trying to maximize the deaths of its own citizens, not just of Israelis.
That is why Israel cannot stop fighting until Hamas is defeated.
The best thing for Palestinians would be for Israel to achieve complete victory over Hamas as swiftly as possible.
Woolworths chairman Scott Perkins has defended the retailer’s donation of $1.55m to supporting the Yes campaign
Another gay wasting shareholder’s money.
Let’s go Aldi!
Nah. Not buying this hot take at all.
The ‘Palestinian people’ fully support Hamas.
If Palestinian men want to forge a better way, prove it.
Great interview.
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Avi:
Voices from the battlefield: IDF soldiers open up about the reality of war against Hamas
History says to Elbow….
“Smash ‘im!”
Nor I. It’s a turd coated with sparkles…but not nearly enough to disguise its true nature.
MIRANDA DEVINE
Disgraceful Karine Jean-Pierre’s words are just callous amid Hamas violence
Karine Jean-Pierre is a disgrace.
“We have not seen any credible threats,” she muttered when asked if the administration was concerned about rising antisemitism after the Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel.
Then the White House press secretary launched into a callous soliloquy about how it’s actually Muslims and Arab Americans who “have endured a disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks . .
“President Biden understands that many of our Muslim, Arab, Arab American and Palestinian American loved ones and neighbors are worried about the hate being directed at their communities.”
The next day, realizing her comments had gone viral for all the wrong reasons, she claimed she “misheard” the question.
In denial
Too late. We saw her instinct, as with her fellow travelers, to downplay Hamas’ depraved slaughter of more than 1,400 innocent Israeli civilians, and to deny the immediate anti-Jewish mania that engulfed campuses and town squares, in the United States and abroad.
Chants of “Gas the Jews” fill the air. Swastikas are painted on a beloved Manhattan Jewish deli.
Protesters wave the Hamas flag in Minnesota. Posters of the hostages held in Gaza are ripped down with an oddly defiant fervor. Take that, little kidnapped baby.
An old genocidal hatred has been unleashed on the world, under the benign gaze of the likes of Jean-Pierre.
The nation’s most prestigious news outlets joined in, under the guise of dispassionate professionalism, to manufacture a moral equivalence between the Israeli military and the Hamas psychopaths.
Even knowing exactly what Hamas had done, news outlets like The New York Times suspended their journalistic judgment, as they always do when it suits them, and trusted Hamas’ lies about a hospital parking lot fire started by its own allegedly misfired missile.
The Times placed a misleading image on the front page of a random bombed-out building miles from the hospital over a headline that credulously repeated the fake news that hundreds of hospitalized Palestinians had been killed by an Israeli missile.
The newspaper’s backtracking days after the fact is meaningless. It “relied too heavily” on Hamas propaganda. No kidding. The damage is done.
Cynical assessment
The newly minted “wartime president,” in his preening Oval Office speech after the attack, reserved his emotion and personalization for his gratuitous themes of Islamophobia and Russia’s actions in Ukraine. When talking about Israel and antisemitism (only twinned with Islamophobia) he was dispassionate and numerical, cautioning Israel’s government’s “not to be blinded by rage.”
Biden also cynically tried to equate Russia with Hamas, which again downplays the depravity of the mass slaughter in Israel that targeted civilians with psychopathic torture of children, the rapes, the grotesque and painful deaths, the burning alive, the desecration of corpses, the glee.
This is the guy who keeps telling us that he was driven to run for president by his revulsion for what he falsely claimed was Donald Trump’s support of antisemitism in Charlottesville. Like his press secretary, Biden loves to jabber about antisemitism, but only when it can be wielded as a weapon against blameless Republicans.
Well, here it is, the ultimate antisemitism, the real deal, not an innocent OK sign by an army recruit, not a dishonestly parsed Trump quote.
And the administration (And The Australian LaBor Party, Greens etc) is out to lunch, its moral compass awry, unable clearly to distinguish between evil and innocence.
Denial of the horrors of Oct. 7 has been so widespread and socially acceptable around the world that the Israel Defense Forces reluctantly were forced this week to show a horrendous snuff video to foreign journalists.
Even just reading the journalists’ dispassionate accounts of footage gathered from Hamas terrorists’ GoPros, victims’ cellphones and kibbutz security cameras should haunt your dreams.
Making excuses
There is no moral equivalence between evil and a military forced to defend Israel against a genocidal neighbor.
Anybody who tries to claim moral equivalence is making excuses for Hamas. Anyone who makes excuses for Hamas is a monster.
So, no, we don’t buy Jean-Pierre’s claim that she misheard the question.
She heard it all right, and she answered it exactly the way her president and his incompetent circle have approached this crisis from the start.
Blackouts in Sydney in the 60’s, Liddell was cranked up in ‘71 to boost supply to eleventy. White Bay was still going until ‘84, even Pyrmont was going to the early nineties.
We had oodles of electricity back then.
The lesbian cupie doll. America has become a grotesque parody of itself.
All the Hamas sympathizers can eff off. Sick off it! They say you shouldn’t hit females. That mole … I’ll censor myself. Bitch!
Rebel News HQ:
Over a thousand rally to celebrate Hamas at Celebration Square in Mississauga
“Pop some Ben Ean in the fridge.”
“Blue Nun”, Coolabah”, “Cold Duck”?
And, for the really adventurous: “Brandivino”. or “Bond’s Seven”?
One thing Hamas is consistent about is that there is no ‘Two State’ solution. It’s River to Sea, Free Palestine – nothing else.
While Hamas exists functionally and controls Gaza, any call for a ceasefire leading to a Two State solution is kicking the can down the road.
Antonio Guterres:
OK Genius; now explain how that is achieved realistically without first eliminating Hamas.
“Pop some Ben Ean in the fridge.”
A struggle as legopener.
Cold Duck was the go 🙂
May have been dependant on where you lived. There certainly were rolling blackouts. We lived in Winston Hills and at certain times you could guarantee a blackout every 2nd or 3rd night. Oddly enough my girlfriend who lived in Concord West only seemed to get them once a week or so.
All those young men and women, of military age – why aren’t they on the next plane, home, to fight for Palestinian freedom?
There were two electricity suppliers as I recall. The Sydney County Council and Prospect County Council. One supplied the inner suburbs, the other the west.
It may be that the latter was starved of supply.
Burney has severe brain damage and I make that observation as a statement of fact, not a gratuitous insult.
That’s why she can barely string a sentence together and is generally as incoherent as Geriatric Joe.
Fetterlump Syndrome.
I’m stealing that!
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Oct 26, 2023 2:44 PM
Over a thousand rally to celebrate Hamas at Celebration Square in Mississauga
All those young men and women, of military age – why aren’t they on the next plane, home, to fight for Palestinian freedom?
Boot them out. Scum!
The Palestinians have rejected five attempts at a “Two State” solution since the late 1930’s. What makes anyone think they are interested in such a solution now?
calli
Oct 26, 2023 2:46 PM
There were two electricity suppliers as I recall. The Sydney County Council and Prospect County Council. One supplied the inner suburbs, the other the west.
It may be that the latter was starved of supply.
calli,
3 electicity suppliers – add Mackellar County Council
Anthony Albanese MP – speech on the retirement of former Treasurer, Joe Hockey MP, noting Hockey’s family heritage in Bethlehem, Palestine
November 9, 2015
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why?
are you punishing us
PS Mackellar County Council Gas as well
The Mackellar County Council (MCC) was a state–owned enterprise of the Government of New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1951, it was an electricity and gas supplier and retailer which primarily supplied the Northern Beaches area of Sydney, New South Wales, being jointly managed and operated by Manly Municipal Council and Warringah Shire Council.
“Pop some Ben Ean in the fridge.”
Summer Wine? Porphyry Pearl?
Ok perhaps I am being a bit harsh – 1st photo late 60s, early 70s?
Sarah Jessica Parker: ‘Men my age are never asked about ageing’
Revealed: The real reason Toyota has been slow to introduce electric cars
Toyota says it wasn’t first with hybrid technology but now is the world leader – and will do the same with electric vehicles – as it repeats its pledge to support the “silent majority” of new-car buyers who rely on petrol or diesel power.
A top executive for Toyota Australia has given the deepest insight yet into why the Japanese giant – the world’s biggest automaker by volume – has been slow to join the electric-car race.
Toyota is poised to make up lost ground with a record ramp-up of electric vehicles by the end of this decade.
The company announced at this week’s Tokyo Motor Show it will soon switch from manufacturing 40,000 electric cars a year to 3.5 million per annum by 2030.
However, responding to ongoing criticism Toyota has been slow to embrace electric cars, the sales and marketing boss for Toyota Australia, Sean Hanley, doubled down on Toyota’s position and offered the company’s most detailed explanation to date.
“When you look at history, Toyota is doing exactly what it’s done for the past 80 years,” Mr Hanley told Australian media at the Tokyo Motor Show.
“It’s not about being first to market always.
It’s about providing different solutions that are needed by different buyers in diverse regions around the world. Australia being one of those unique regions … where the car is used for multiple purposes in a very diverse geographic landscape.
“We are a brand that stays firm to a long term plan (and) we run our own race, constantly developing and redeveloping and refining our plans.
“History indicates that this is the recipe for our success as a brand. Look at the last 22 years in the Australian market, what we achieved with hybrids even though we actually weren’t first with hybrid on the Australian market.”
When asked if it was unreasonable for Toyota to argue the majority of new-car buyers still need vehicles with long driving range, Mr Hanley said:
“When you look at the landscape, look at the mining industry, look at the agriculture industry, look at what we fondly know and respectfully know as our Grey Nomad population – and you look at the lifestyle and leisure that Australians enjoy – we would say that’s a huge market (customer base).
“Have a look at LandCruiser sales. Have a look at HiLux sales, have look at Prado sales, (and) all of the SUVs. I’m telling you now, there’s a big range of people, the silent majority of Australians who aren’t necessarily speaking, who require these vehicles.”
Mr Hanley said while electric cars will continue to grow in popularity in Australia and overseas, they were still not suitable for everyone.
“Whilst electrification is accelerating – there’s no doubt about that – there is still a huge market of people that do need their 700 or 800 (kilometre) driving range, who do want to tow 3.5-tonnes, and don’t want to have the fear of whether they’re going to get home or not, because there’s not a (recharging) station or a car capable that’s affordable for them.”
A real houso wouldn’t be seen dead with a white cavoodle. They own staffy crosses they got when the partner left.
“It Rubs The Lotion On Its Skin Or Else It Gets The Hose Again!”
B. Bill.
Silence of the Lambs.
There was also a St George county council.
Barossa Pearl for me.
There’ll Always Be an England?
Since October 7, prospects are looking worse than ever.
Except in Britain.
Yes, Britain, the country of Magna Carta, the country with the Mother of Parliaments, the country that taught us how to think about freedom.
And the country, alas, where politicians, police, judiciary, and prison officials worked together in the most unscrupulous fashion to try to destroy Tommy Robinson, a man who did done more than anyone else to publicize the evil of Muslim rape gangs.
The country that banned from its shores serious authors like Robert Spencer for writing candidly about Islam even as it gave safe haven to imams who called for the murder of infidels.
The country that has harassed, arrested, and even imprisoned ordinary citizens – hundreds or even thousands of them, reportedly – for stating plain and simple facts about Islam on social media.
The country whose MPs, after the jihadist murder of one of their own, David Amess, in 2021, were quick to pretend that the problem wasn’t Islam but social media.
From Britain’s chronic coddling of Islam, you’d think that it hadn’t had its share of terrorist atrocities, from the London bombings of July 7, 2005, which claimed 56 lives, to the Manchester Arena bombing of May 22, 2017, in which 22 people died.
You’d think, moreover, that Britain hadn’t also been the site of all those Muslim gang
rapes of young infidel women, whose number has been in the thousands – probably tens of thousands.
And yet, poking around online since October 7, one fears increasingly that Britain will be the first to go. It’s not just that the pro-Hamas demonstrations in London on the last couple of weekends were so large – so, after all, were those in Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, and elsewhere.
No, what’s really been dismaying is the behavior of the British police.
Yes, we already knew that they’ve been brainwashed for years, turned from noble servants of the law and public order – protecting innocent citizens and capturing criminals – into Orwellian enforcers of the twisted postmodern ideology that divides human beings into members of victim groups and oppressors.
They’ll give a pass to Muslim rapists, but this month they arrested actor Laurence Fox for complaining about surveillance cameras and in August seven cops dragged a 16-year-old autistic girl out of her home in Leeds for saying that one of them looked like her lesbian grandmother. (She was guilty, you see, of a “homophobic public order offense.”)
It’s all been pretty disturbing.
But it’s gotten worse since October 7. On Saturday the 21st, 100,000 people took part in a pro-Hamas rally in central London, but only ten were arrested, most of whom were let go. One video of the rally showed a protester climbing scaffolding outside a building, reportedly to set off flares – an action that was illegal on more than one count – while, according to the Telegraph, “at least six police officers looked on from the ground.” When the protester climbed down, the cops greeted him amiably and returned to him the Palestinian flag he had apparently handed to them for safekeeping during his little adventure.
Another video showed a crowd calling for “jihad” in response to a rant by a member of the terrorist group Hizb ut-Tahrir; when citizens complained about police inaction in this matter, the Metropolitan Police replied with a social-media post claiming that although the public may associate the word “jihad” with terrorism, the police “have specialist counter- terrorism officers” who know better.
In the year 2023, what could be more obvious evidence of top police officials’ contempt for the ordinary Brit’s intelligence?
In yet another video, while Hamas supporters waved Palestinian and Hamas flags in the background, police officers could be seen threatening a pair of Brits who’d dared to show up with an English flag – the implication being that it, not those appalling flags in the background, might be construed as a symbol of prejudice.
In no Western European country – except maybe Germany? – are people who displaythe country’s own flag so vilified.
For years, imams in Britain have gotten away with a brand of violent rhetoric that might land their continental counterparts in hot water. Even in the wake of October 7, this hasn’t changed.
I need a break from doom and gloom. With that said, the West is being ruined.
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“Blue Nun”, Coolabah”, “Cold Duck”, Ben Ean, Barossa Pearl, Summer Wine, Porphyry Pearl, Cask Win?, Mateus Rose
What a trip down memory lane – consumed all of those on starting drinking in 1966 at 21 after Temperance Pledge Age 15-21 Years (Got me through Engineering Sydney Uni & St John’s College 1962-1965 intact)
Prior to 15 – Mcwilliams Sherry & Port from my Mum
What did people put candles in before Mateus Rose?
Haven’t been to Britain since the late 90s and don’t really want to go back. Glad my forebears emigrated.
Has anyone seen or have access to this piece in the Oz?
The reason I ask is that I now have the four 2023 bills for gas and electrickery and the results are slightly surprising, to say the least. From 2022 to 2023, my annual electrickery bill went up 10.24% and my gas bill went down by 0.26%.
For me the most obscene increases were home and car insurance.
H B Bear
Oct 26, 2023 3:25 PM
What did people put candles in before Mateus Rose?
Zia Pina’s at the Rocks use tafferta covered Chianti Bottles to put candles into (scroll down to Gallery on link – 1st photo on right)
From The Oz. Don’t know much about the actual evidence in this case but if named is going to be a massive story and front page every paper here.
“The identity of a high-profile Toowoomba man charged with rape could be revealed on Thursday afternoon, as his lawyers warn he is at “catastrophic” risk of suicide if named”.
Too old or too young?
Macron says France has terrorist “specialists” who stand ready to assist Israel in whatever role Israel sees fit.
What is Australia doing?
So why is he still in the big high chair?
Frequent flyer points and state dinners. The end. A flog until the end of his miserable tenure.
As pointed out by Mr Dragger early this morning, Albanese has indeed nailed his colours to the mast. It’s why he has not met Netanyahu and why he is unfit for office.
Macron says France has terrorist “specialists” who stand ready to assist Israel in whatever role Israel sees fit.
What is Australia doing?
Sending submarines. It’s why Albo went to DC.
Might be going to do a Trumble and refuse to go.
Supposedly grown men behaving like spoilt brats. Disgusting people.
A real houso wouldn’t be seen dead with a white cavoodle.
If it doesn’t bite it ain’t “houso’ ……..
Sydney County Council. One of my uncles worked every day of his working life with them.
33 years he worked in the QVB on George Street, then in the groovy new headquarters until his retirement.
Commuted by train to & from his suburb to Town Hall station, every day of his working life. Read the paper & smoked a pipe on the train. He may have gotten away with this right until the end, as the last of the brown rattler carriages were still being used when he retired.
Smoking the pipe in the office likely would have had to stop before he retired though.
Forget Global Warming – Have just turned Gas Central Heating on
Had 1st annual service on Braemar Eco TH13 Central Heating Unit since purchase in 2013 – has been running fine – Control Unit On/Off Button gone but just use Up/Down Temp Button to turn On/Off – Good little unit
Dceided to get it serviced at the same time as now doing Annual Service on New Raypak Gas Spa Heater – New one has built in sacrifical anode – the Guy doing the service has been with Artarmon HWS for 27 years & he did dismantle of Old and Installation of new Raypak – at the same time of installation replaced Scarifical Anode on the Oldest Gas Hot Water System Rheem Optima which is nearly 40 years old, he said to leave 2nd Rheem Stellar Gas Hot water System for a couple of years before Sacrifical Anode replacement
It is good to have tradespeople you have confidence in – now Good Local Electrician, Good Local Plumber and Artarmon HWS for Gas work
Have seen amount of dirt, in under a year, blown out of heat exchanger on Gas Spa Heater, ordered online on Monday after service on
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Morsie
Oct 26, 2023 1:07 PM
I reckon any blackouts in Victoria in the 70s were due to industrial action not lack of power.
This was absolutely the case. I was working in industry at the time and have a distinct memory of it. The restrictions went for weeks and were so bad the company I was working for spent a lot of money installing a large diesel gen set. The gen set got a lot of use for the next few years as I recall. Millions of workers were stood down.
Domestic use was an hour on/hour off so the freezers wouldn’t thaw. Commercial and industrial use was banned on pain of disconnection if you were caught.
More info at https://prov.vic.gov.au/explore-collection/provenance-journal/provenance-2013/point-view
Those restrictions were limited because the generation infrastructure was still in place and power could be restored quickly once the disputes ended. This will not be the case now because the restrictions will be the result of infrastructure being destroyed. There are a lot more high rise buildings with lifts now than there were in the 1970s to say nothing of EVs, which should lead to exciting times. We’re on the road to deeper third word-dom.
I don’t know about other states in the 1970s but the coming shortages will affect everyone on the east coast grid. I do remember that similar strikes in Qld ended quickly when Premier Jo Bjelke-Petersen published the names of striking unionists in the newspapers. Alas we already know the names of the modern culprits.
Yes Joh and SEQEB
That was in the 1980s
Unions bitching over the harder working blokes being able to start their own contracting business & (horror) make more money by.. (horror) working harder.
The contracting teams were expected to spend the day working, instead of spending the day boiling the billy & bitching.
The union couldn’t stand the thought of it.
Whilst we are galloping down memory lane…
Black Tower, Passion Pop & Fruity Lexia (Mrs D to be drank that), saxonvale Riesling, ( saxonvale winery was a popular stop on the way back to Sydney from Singleton, and “you make us smile Dr Lindeman”.