This is almost too funny.
Open Thread – Wed 22 Nov 2023
- Hydrocarbons are not dispensable
- Open Thread – Weekend 7 Sept 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 5 Sept 2024
- Report on Russia and Ukraine
- Open Thread – Mon 2 Sept 2024
All Bruce wanted to do was enjoy a little snow time and get his end wet. It is a tragedy.
A gift, most likely, to be returned unopened … duuuuh!
Tongue. Eeeew
A journey in numbers FOUR months away… TWENTY-THREE countries: Mauritius, South Africa, Namibia, Cape Verde, Las Palmas, Greece, Tunisia, Malta,…
It’s at 11.00 a.m. because that’s when soreness from the scissoring may have worn off, along with the amyl nitrite.
It would – apparently – be a very simple matter, and in the manner of which Xe Ellis has posted images of this address, to have her own address mapped and pinned.
Alongside posters declaring Ellis to be a fervent supporter of Denis Walter hosting Carols by Candlelight, that she in fact has multiple boyfriends including Bruce Lehrmann (destroying the lez cred), and that she was a member of the Young Liberals and the CWA.
See how long that lasts.
Didn’t Clementine Ford wear a T- Shirt proclaiming “Thunder Thighs for the Patriarchy?”
Interesting Kennedy fact for this 60th memorial day…
Jackie Kennedy wore her famous pink Chanel suit in Dallas at her husband’s request. It was his favourite. It was never washed and is now in the US National Archives in Maryland in its own temperature-controlled, permanently dark room. It cannot be seen by anybody until 2103 – at which time the Kennedy family will make a decision about extending or removing this restriction. Nobody knows what happened to the matching pillbox hat. It was most likely given to – or souvenired by – her personal secretary, Mary Gallagher (with her in Dallas), who was cagey about the subject in the years prior to her death last year.
Didn’t Clementine Ford wear a T- Shirt proclaiming “Thunder Thighs for the Patriarchy?”
Geez Zulu vomit inducing imagery there.
Suggested chants for Sunday:
‘Bel Ellis makes great scones, hey hey, ho ho’
‘Who ate all the bags of dicks’
‘Bel Ellis should jump the fence, jump the fence, jump the fence’
Famous people in history who weren’t circumcised:-
Al Capone
Adolph Hitler
Plastic Bertrand
Charles Manson
Typhoid Mary
Wayne Harmes
Myra Hindley
Andrew Demetriou
Famous people in history who were circumcised:-
Elvis Presley
Winston Churchill
Don Bradman
Albert Einstein
Ron Barassi
Pope John Paul II
Shane Warne
Phar Lap
You be the judge.
10,000 deaths can’t be explained. – 26.10.23
Senator Gerard Rennick
Maybe one day it will be displayed beside Monica’s unwashed blue dress.
And Brittany’s knickers.
Then or now?
The current bloomers could be used as an America’s Cup spinnaker.
“And how can they have been vetted so quickly?”
Yes. Really astounding that in six short weeks since October 7, Immigration officials have determined that these people present no risk to Australians. They’ve apparently phoned Hamas in charge of all Departments in Gaza, and been assured that these are all upstanding citizens. Hmm. Today we learned that 70% of Gazans strongly support the atrocities of Hamas in Israel. Even neighbouring muslim countries. don’t want a bar of them. Go figure.
By popular request and as an antidote to brinny’s thunderous thighs, a cute owl
Latins are very emotional people. The kid won’t forget it.
The “harve” seems to have a generous spirit.
Oh great. Thanks Cronkite.
That looks like the Brisbane Broncos’ squad after pre-season training.
SAM IS BACK! BOARD IS FIRED! We now know what ACTUALLY happened at OpenAI
TLDR: it was Helen “effective altruism” Toner who dunnit
Bel Ellis looks like Tintin.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
In early October, a conference titled ‘Let the Science Speak ‘ was held in Iceland. Speakers at the conference talked about covid injection harms & the WHO’s power grab. @sasha_latypova was one of the 6 speakers at the event.
6 weeks later, the Icelandic government announced that from next week covid injections would no longer be available in Iceland.
Bond’s cotton tail – “Passion killers.”
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
Farmers’ protests have multiplied in recent days throughout France by dumping manure & tires on gov properties to protest against the increase in costs, taxes and the growing difficulties they face.
Remember: no farmers – no food.
Junk it. You can buy 2 brand new cars for $50,000.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
”Assault & Battery”
Toronto man shocked after being told a new battery for his Electric Vehicle would cost him more than $50,000 after his 160,000 km warranty had run out.
That’s an inconvenient truth the Greens lobby in this country appear incapable of grasping.
Former Maryland Mayor and LGBTQ Activist Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison For Sharing Heinous Child Porn
Oregon’s overdose-related deaths skyrocket to 955 this year – up from 280 three years ago when state decriminalized hard drugs like heroin, meth and cocaine
Academia needs a re-birth. It’s absolutely rooted.
Anyway , “Sliante” to you hairy mob. Rodger, on this blog introduced me to Allen C Guelzo, as a historian of the American Civil War. Guelzo’s accounts of Gettysburg, his biography of Robert E. Lee, and his account of the Civil War, and it’s era – including the politics, religion, diplomacy, and technology – make damnfine reading, so I shall am retreating to my library, with a decanter of single malt.
Closing down now, OUT.
LOL
It’s a great American tradition offering thanksgiving dinner to the not so well across the country. Lots of food is donated. The natives are pissed though because the illegals get in first.
Dr Faustus 22/11 @ 6:09
Brilliant you need to write the story for Nescafé Adverts.
I’m a tolerant, easy-going, peace-loving kind of bloke. But after 7th October, as far as Hamas is concerned, I’m a mountain of skulls man.
Every member of Hamas, every supporter, even the gormless Palestine flag wavers, would improve the world by leaving it. We don’t need gullible idiots any more than we need murderous loonies.
I’m quite prepared to believe there are murderous Israelis, I’ve met one in the IDF. I’m quite prepared to believe that there are innocent Palestinians who have been treated brutally by Israeli settlers. But absolutely nothing could ever be an excuse for 7th October. And anyone who thinks otherwise is a moral imbecile who would leave the world a better place by dying quickly.
The IDF may well be full of propaganda, they may be telling lies, but I don’t care. I want to see them destroy Hamas to the last man or woman. I want to see the bastards crushed on a scale that will make every Muslim afraid to say a word against Israel.
Sure, it’s horrific and no good deed goes unpunished, but at the same time I can’t help thinking, there’s a certain amount of clarity here that’s just too obvious to ignore.
??RonEnglish?????????
@RonEng1ish
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Alan Henning – Reminder to non-Muslim Hamas fans going on aid trips. Alan was a taxi driver from Salford who took part in an aid convoy to Syria. Jihadis kidnapped him & cut his head off for being a non-believer.
MUST…. POST… THE… LINK…
Ddddddddd don’t do it!
“White Lines!” could be the Cat’s version of “Volvo!”
Almark 22/11 @ 6:40
You get a C for your romance story. Hang around Dr Faustus and you too can write Nescafé adverts.
Who is Helen Toner? Meet the 30-something Australian OpenAI board member who voted out Sam Altman
Watching that Turkey chase the bloke on the motorbike …. gold!
—-
Steve Inman:
Mostly Peaceful Turkey
That’s all clear now, Zip. The bint almost destroyed the company and we still don’t know the eventual fallout.
Beaugy @10.28pm
100,000 thumbs up from me and a similar number from the co-tenant at Villa Megan.
Plus a bonus round of applause..
Megan
Nov 22, 2023 11:37 PM
Agree Megan, problem is, they won’t go near enough.
JC, what’s your view of the Trumpet’s real wealth?
More or less than 10 BILL? James Packer league?
Is the family business making money – because it sure is spending a lot on politics and tangential melodramas.
Biggest loser, supreme court edition.
Missed the circumcision reference at the start of the thread
Barbaric practice
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/72p56QyGmgY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLcXvgv4FYI
CL
I believe that his political career has severely damaged his net wealth, and current estimates of between $2.5 and $3 billion seem more accurate. His great idea was to create a brand name under which in people would use their money to develop projects. He’d earn significant compensation for putting up his name only and no capital. The Trump brand name has been removed from buildings like the one near us on Third Avenue in the upper 60s. In fact, I think Trump Tower is the only one that remains.
If you properly assigned a capital value to the brand name, his estimate of having a net worth of about $10 billion prior to 2016 wasn’t all that off.
Trump Palace on Third Ave and 69th. Name was all over it. Gone.
Went to a Jewish New Year there on close to the top floor in the 90s. It was incredible view wise.
All the Youtubers promoting “True Blue Migration Services” must be tearing their hair out.
not the version we hear most on the radio
better
Steve Miller – Fly Like An Eagle
LOL
Keith lived there with his mother and a cat.
At least we are in the clear with the “Climate Change Refugees”. With Global warming and stuff, it’s a bit stupid to send them all to one the hottest places on the planet.
Somewhere that snows would be the logical POA arrival for the poor bastards. Like Davos or New York.
Oil down almost 4%. Next chatter, we’re heading for recession.
This should help guide the inflation rate still lower and towards target.
I’ll hold off on feeling sorry for him for now. 🙂
Seriously, though, the sacrifices he’s made are unprecedented.
I still laugh at Ann Coulter’s ruthless destruction of Olbermann:
I still remember that. It’s epic.
The Bee.
It’s actually true.
‘We Cannot Be Associated With Elon Musk,’ Says Tim Cook While Shaking Hands With Brutal Chinese Dictator
This has to be bullshit, surely?
https://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/Asia/Trillion-Dollar-Bailout-What-Xi-Really-Wants-From-Biden.html
JC
Nov 23, 2023 2:09 AM
I’m sure it is, a trillion $ for China is a drop in the bucket.
Didn’t we hear of a massive investment in US assets, shares and $ by China just recently?
They may be in trouble and I think they are, but begging?
Could they not liquidate those assets?
PS, Not an economist
If there’s a kernel of truth to this, and there could be, it may developed this way. China’s economy is pretty rooted and the real estate market is teetering. Xi may have suggested to Hiden that the best course of action would be for the US to lend China directly in order for China not to cause displacement in the bond market because selling US$1 trillion dollars in securities could be problematic. I’m just guessing though and have nothing to go on. If this talk occurred, China could be in serious economic trouble and Xi is panicked. Senior ministers are dropping like flies there at present.
John Spooner.
John Spooner #2.
Mark Knight.
David Pope.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Gary Varvel.
Gary Varvel #2.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Al Goodwyn #2.
Chip Bok.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks all for the kind thoughts since Tuesday morning.
The truth is I’m a lucky bugger who just happened to find a surgeon who’s a wizard with cardio-vascular keyhole stuff.
And modern general anaesthetics are wondrous — a complete absence of consciousness for four hours before you spring out of it like an unshot duck.
Mission completed in less than 36 hours including being fussed over and prodded by doctors and nurses for non-existent signs of post-op trouble. Excluding last week’s intense hour-long echocardiogram (just to be sure) by a room full of specialists and machines that go PING!
Meanwhile, Calli on Tuesday night:
God speed, Calli.
I missed that yesterday was the Trans Day of Remembrance.
Trans Day of Remembrance: Debunking the Annual Lie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npb6zFPT5RQ
Palestinians Try to Rewrite WWI History
Thanks Tom and here’s to Good Health.
feelthebern
Nov 23, 2023 4:19 AM
I missed that yesterday was the Trans Day of Remembrance.
Yesterday was also the Anniversary of the murder of JFK.
Glad to see you made it off the table Tom.
Today in “no evidence of election fraud” we have an insightful article called Campain Kabuki.
The USA is finished without another bloody revolution.
GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE!
https://twitter.com/PeterSchiff/status/1726963407729901779
Peter Schiff
@PeterSchiff
Today I won my defamation case against Nine, The Age, Nick McKenzie, Charlotte Grieve and Joel Tozer.
Justice Jackman of the Federal Court of Australia entered judgment in the sum of $550,000 against each of them in my favour, which is in excess of the statutory cap for damages for defamation.
This victory is a mark of the appalling conduct I suffered at the hands of these publishers. I’m grateful to the Federal Court of Australia for its efficiency and expertise which has led to this result.
I was in the fortunate position of having the means to hold these powerful media entities and their “journalists” to account, but in order to get to this point I had to win seven judgments over two years, in which the Court agreed I had been seriously defamed and there were no arguable defences.
The respondents’ unreasonable resistance at every step of this litigation and loss of these seven judgments caused unnecessary delays and costs and aggravated my harm. The Court described the respondents’ litigation conduct as ‘egregious’ and ‘disarming’. The Court also ordered Nine and The Age pay my costs on an indemnity basis for the past 23 months of unnecessary litigation.
I will continue to work to expose this injustice and to hold the media to account for their extremely damaging and irresponsible falsehoods. Today’s victory is just the first legal step in my journey. It’s not the end of the process, just the beginning.
It was completely irresponsible to publicise any investigation in the pre-charge stage. There is good reason authorities don’t announce investigations into suspects until charges are laid. No charges have ever been laid against me or my bank, but I have to live with the extreme damage caused by these “journalists” irresponsible decision to prematurely publish an investigation which concluded without charges. Worse still, they decided to broadcast that I was guilty of offences for which I have never been charged.
It is disgraceful that the “journalists” decided to do so when their own investigation and discussions with staff and customers revealed the bank had extremely strict compliance.
I am grateful to the unrelenting determination and professionalism of my team of lawyers, Sue Chrysanthou SC and Nicholas Olson and Nathan Buck of Kennedys which helped me achieve this outcome.
@Ageinvestigates
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Great to hear all is good, Tom. I was amazed by my dude too. Yours wasn’t named Jonathon H by chance?
Did you have that laksa JC?
Bern
I can’t eat spicy food. I’ve love to, but spicy stuff kills me . I’m overdosing on Jewish ham (as they call it here). Smoked salmon bagels. There’s a place near us that specializes in various types and styles of smoked salmon and lox.
Incomparable. Called Sables.
Try it next time you’re here.
Larry Summers joining OpenAI’s board is off-putting.
Not George Shultz/Theranos off putting.
But still off putting.
I’m toying with the idea of getting an airbnb in NY for a month next year.
And going through every nook and cranny in the place.
Thinking April or September.
April could be on the chilly side. Sept can be perfect weather.
Amazon is paying the NFL $US100mill to stream one game on Black Friday.
Their view is that football is so big that it will further add to people not physically going to the mall.
Not predatory at all.
It’s like the Sherman Act doesn’t exist.
LOL
They buy Friday’s game to keep people indoors so they sell more.
Hahahahahaha. That’s actually creative thinking.
I’ve never been to a football game in the US.
If I make it September, I can experience that.
So Glad all went well with your procedure. The progress in cardiology is simply miraculous, doctors should heal the sick and not wade into the political arena, better to cure, not destroy.
Err that’s for Tom.
Do you reckon Trump would pardon this guy if re-elected or would it be like kryptonite?
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=407154
No, I don’t think he’d touch that one, but boy was Chauvin done in hard. It’s basically the equivalent of a lynching
David Farrar has a piece up on Judges vs Parliament. Given the revolving door legal system (I wont benefit it by calling it a Justice system) in Queensland and elsewhere it seems Kiwi pollies are made of sterner stuff than ours:
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2023/11/parliament_vs_judges.html#comments
Noted that the NZ Nationals are being lead by the nose by ACT/NZ First on this one so one wonders why PHON isn’t pushing a similar barrow, I think it would be very popular in the Qld Regions or even some suburbs of Melbourne suffering from African crime.
Only ever watched a game, well half a game of NFL. Bored to tears.
Gee whiz:
BoM forecasting received a huge serve from Gary Edwards AAM investment head.
He pointed out that beef prices are at a record high in the US and the patently wrong super El Niño doomsaying by BoM had led to a sell off of cattle and deflated prices for no good reason in Australia.
The Bureau needs a complete clean out of the climate ideologues.
Thanks Rockdoctor about the court system in NZ. They have the benefit of only having one house of parliament. I liked the comments, very Catlike with a smattering of mutleys. It is past time the legal system in Australia is cleaned up. Uniform laws and penalties. No room for “interpretation ” from the woke judiciary.
In today’s Tele:
GINA’S CHRISTMAS WISH
EXCLUSIVE – JAMES MORROW – NATIONAL AFFAIRS EDITOR
23 Nov 2023
Australia’s richest person has called on the federal government to give the nation a “Christmas bonus” in the form of a petrol excise tax cut to deal with spiralling costs, as “woke agendas” threaten Aussie living standards.
“Every few dollars counts for people in tough times,” Mrs Rinehart told The Daily Telegraph. “With the stroke of a pen, the government could deliver minor short-term relief to millions by cutting the petrol tax for households.
“It could happen from the first of December and then, if you must, put it back to usual after Christmas – the longer after Christmas, the better.
“It’s an easy way to help families and the elderly for Christmas and the school holidays.
“No one is asking for a hand-out, we just need the government to take less money from Australians.”
Last March, the Morrison government halved the excise tax on fuel from what was then 44.2c to 22.1c per litre for six months as part of a suite of pre-election cost-of-living relief measures.
That relief was credited with keeping fuel price increases to a minimum at a time when global oil
prices were spiking as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Although crude oil prices have come off earlier highs, a number of factors including a weak Australian dollar have meant motorists continue to suffer pain at the pump.
As of Wednesday, the seven-day average price of E10 fuel sat at $1.96 per litre, including what is now the full fuel excise tax of about 50c per litre.
“With high inflation and rising interest rates, all I keep hearing is that people in the bush and the cities need costs cut now more than ever,” Mrs Rinehart said. “I have long spoken out about Australians being overtaxed and overcharged by government, which has its roots in excessive government spending.”
Mrs Rinehart, who has led Hancock Prospecting since 1992, also said governments needed to cut red tape to encourage business investment and stop pushing “woke agendas” that were holding the country back.
“We teach children far more about cutting emissions and woke agendas than we do about mining that powers Australia’s economy and enables those Australians employed in the industry to have some of the highest wages in the world,” she said. “The resources industry contributes more corporate tax than all other industries combined.
“It’s mining taxes that pay for our government teachers, police and nurses, non-voluntary firefighters and emergency services.
“Something has to give if we want to maintain our envied living standards.
“It’s time for economic sense and common sense.”
I particularly liked the bit about if judges cannot bring themselves to uphold the law they should resign.
Albo will not see Christmas as PM. All involved in this decision must follow. Hun:
Sub optimal. A whistleblower speaks:
Add this to the amount of Palis the Wong Chap is bringing in and Ray Charles can see major issues about to surface. But reassuring words from the Minister:
Well I feel safe. Thanks Clare! But if course her hands are tied.
Well it was up to you Ms O’Neill. You had information on their histories, on their crimes yet you did phuck all.
Say what? Paterson ‘welcomes Labor’s openness’? Good Lord.
Could almost take to the bank that someone will not see Christmas because one of these ex detainees will have had their hand in it.
But of course Dutton is just playing politics according to the Handsome Boy. FMD
Chauvin was convicted in a state court so Trump couldn’t pardon him if he wanted to.
However, Chauvin is also still radioactive, which is why SCOTUS won’t touch the case yet.
Was supposed to be getting 10 days of rain starting Tuesday just gone Gez. Haven’t had a drop. Top Men.
Zat
A president can’t pardon state based crimes? Has to be federal?
You’d expect that the Egyptian gummint’s threat to use force to stop Gaza entry into Egypt might give Labor a clue as to the popularity of Gaza “refugees “..
One fascinating aspect of this is the massive improvement in immigration technique ..
When the ISIS “brides” wanted to return to Oz from Kurdish refugee camps that wasn’t on the cards because dept staff security couldn’t be assured .. but .. according to “the chap” all Gaza “refugees” have been fully vetted even tho it’s a full-on war zone ….
Has Luigi acquired the diplomatic version of “Iron Dome” and forgotten to tell us?
I’ve noticed how my mother has been quite subdued over the last few days. Despite my stepfather, despite her leg and mobility problems, Mum has always put on a happy face, she’s quite stoic. Anyway, my sister has just rung me this morning, and she told me that one of Mum’s good friends, who’s extremely wealthy and lives the highlife, apparently told my mother last week that they could not be friends anymore because Mum voted NO to da Voice.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, tells you everything you need to know about the inner-city, very hypocritical, progressive Labor/Green voting scum.
I should add that this woman, as far as I know, has never lifted a finger to help our indigenous fellow Australians but as we all know voting YES is the progressive version of waving a magic wand, it makes them feel good yet meanwhile, in remote communities, indigenous girls and women continue to be raped, bashed, beaten, bludgeoned and murdered, and my Mother’s virtuous ex-friend can sleep well in her inner-city mansion knowing that she did her progressive duty, and voted YES.
Oh wait, I remember, she did recently go on the Ghan, first class (of course), with her partner. That’s probably as far as she’s ever gotten to a remote indigenous community, she must have waved at them from her first class train window, saying to the indigenous lining the tracks, “I did but see you passing by”.
Exactly. He can pardon any person convicted for or accused of federal crimes (except impeachment) but he can’t pardon persons convicted for or accused of violating state or local laws.
It’s really instructive the way Crickey describes Toner as if she was some sort of amazing intellect.
“Top 2%”. “Highest uni entrance score”
Now don’t get me wrong, that’s an achievement. But it’s not that hard. 2% of the students in Sydney only is still hundreds of students. Every. Single. Year. It’s even more interesting when you consider that there are 1% measures and more, which were not mentioned.
It’s instructive because it shows up the mentality of people who think they are also smart. They are the “mean girl” types (male and female) who quite earnestly believe that straight B’s with the occasional A is some sort of amazing intellectual achievement.
They are as dumb as dogpoo but operate as if they have some soft of valuable insight, and exactly the people who don’t understand that “effective altruism” is just another way of saying “because I told you so”.
According to the ABC news, Hamas “captured” Israelis during the terror raid.
You take hostages, you don’t “capture” them. They weren’t escapees on the run.
Bowen throwing more of your money at foreign multi nationals to reach his 2030 target.
Absolutely guaranteeing profitability for projects. He’s not releasing the details of costs or target pricing so he gets the best bids.
“Sharpen your pencil” he says to companies.
Bidding for tickets to the free banquet.
We have to get rid of these socialist idiots very very quickly.
Even our pets are getting tech savvy. Start the day with a laugh.
Buitengebieden
@buitengebieden
Cat pushed the camera over to show its human that the dog was chewing on the remote..
Loco
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Suggests Funding Schools in Ukraine is a Matter of National Security
Catturd ™
@catturd2
Has big Karen meltdown blaming high gas prices on ………. wait for it ….. wait for it ………… the religious right.
Totally brainwashed by CNN and the Left.
Sassy Ass Cindy
@CindyKendrick11
In a nutshell!!
Catturd ™
@catturd2
Must be election season.
Jesse Kelly
@JesseKellyDC
REMINDER: As concerns about terrorism now take over the news cycle, the FBI’s “Joint Terrorism Task Force” just spent 3 months staking out the home of a January 6th guy who had offered to turn himself in.
1,000 boats said set to leave Turkey for Gaza waters in new ‘Freedom Flotilla’
The duk approves of this message.
is it pandemic season again already?
Don’t bother explaining the science, just use religious and military leaders to get people vaccinated President of the European Research Council says
Absolutely guaranteeing profitability for projects.
Why a perfect example of the invisible hand of the market, in our market based solutions, doing the sort of thing Ann Rand would have approved of after reading that Adam Smith book…
Bowen is a flog. A flog without self awareness to realise he’s a flog. Can you imagine the quality of 21 year old ” advisors” he’s surrounded himself with?
Here’s Israeli journalist Caroline Glick on how bad a deal any hostage swap really is.
Monty’s lot
The Bureau needs a complete clean out of the climate ideologues.
Yep. Then clean out the CSIRO.
Good to hear the circumcision went well Tom.
Children are not, and from the beginning have not, been at risk of Covid. They are, however, at risk of cupidity and total disregard for human life.
Excess Deaths among Children continue to rise in the Thousands across Europe following EMAs Emergency Use Authorisation of the Covid-19 Vaccine for Kids
Haha, economic gravity has exerted itself again.
North German Green Hydrogen Project Halted Due To Lack Of Economy…”Major Economic Risks” (22 Nov)
Any one with a calculator could work that out, seeing that it takes 350 kWh of electricity to make 1 GJ of green hydrogen. The current natural gas price is about $3/GJ on the US market so to break even just on the power requirements that electricity would have to cost less than one cent per kWh. And add in all the other costs and even at an electricity price of zero it would still be uneconomic.
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s libertarian President-elect Javier Milei is sticking by his plans for economic “shock” therapy to fix the country’s myriad crises from triple-digit inflation to rising poverty and a dearth of foreign currency reserves.
In an interview late on Tuesday, Milei said that his government, which will take office on Dec. 10, would have to make deep spending cuts, something he pledged in the campaign as part of a “chainsaw” plan to trim state spending.
“There’s no money. There’s no money,” Milei told local outlet Neura Media. “If we don’t make a fiscal adjustment, we’re headed for hyperinflation. We’ll have hyperinflation and we are going to have 95% poverty and 70% or 80% homeless.”
Argentina, South America’s second largest economy, is battling against inflation at 143% and net central bank reserves estimated at negative $10 billion. Over two-fifths of the population is in poverty and a recession in looming.
Milei beat Peronist Economy Minister Sergio Massa in a run-off election on Sunday, a rebuke from voters to the center-left government that many blame for stoking the crisis with high spending, which supports millions but has proved unsustainable.
Self-described anarcho-capitalist Milei, who has sharply divided opinion in Argentina and beyond with plans to dollarize the economy and shut the central bank, said he would limit the size of the state and have a fiscal balance by the end of 2024.
“I will make a shock adjustment and I will put the economy in a fiscal balance. As I pledged not to raise taxes, this means I will do so by cutting spending,” he said. He added that this could mean very tough months ahead for the country.
“A fiscal balance is non-negotiable. The fiscal balance is not under debate. I will sack the minister who spends too much.”
Tony Abbott leads calls for Albanese government to detail how Palestine visa security checks were conducted
The government is coming under pressure to explain the process around granting more than 800 Palestinians visas, as one former prime minister questions the veracity of the supposed security checks.
The Albanese government has come under renewed scrutiny over its handling of the country’s borders, with questions raised over the security checks undertaken before more than 800 Palestinians were granted visas.
:Labor Foreign Minister Penny Wong confirmed earlier reports on Wednesday that 860 temporary visas were granted to Palestinians as well as 1,793 to Israeli nationals.
The reports from the ABC were immediately followed by questions from the Opposition as to the security parameters around the visas.
Shadow immigration minister Dan Tehan called for “proper transparency” from the Albanese government and details around whether security checks were undertaken before the visas were granted.
While the Foreign Minister insisted all visas were “subject to appropriate security checks”, the government’s processes have been called into question.
Former prime minister Tony Abbott said without any Australian government personnel on the ground, the proper security processes were unlikely to have occurred.
The government has successfully evacuated 127 Australians from the warzone including all consular staff.
“Who did these security checks? How extensive and how thorough were they, particularly given the polling that we’ve seen suggesting that something like 70 per cent of the population of Gaza believe that the October 7th atrocities were entirely justified?” Mr Abbott told Sky News Australia’s Peta Credlin.
“We don’t want to be importing trouble into our country and I just hope that the government has been a lot clearer and a lot more thorough about this than it has been on quite a few other things just in the last few weeks.”
The 860 visas have been handed out since the start of the conflict on October 7 when Hamas terrorists broke through to Israel and killed more than 1,200 people.
The attack, which included the taking of approximately 240 hostages, triggered an all-out air and land assault by the IDF which has so far led to the deaths of about 13,000 people.
Israel’s land invasion of Gaza has severely halted evacuation efforts with only a small number of the 860 people given Australian visas being able to escape.
Former Liberal MP and Australian Ambassador to Israel Dave Sharma said “genuine” Gazans fleeing conflict should of course be provided with “safe harbour”.
However, he too questioned the government’s security provisions.
“If there’s genuine people genuinely fleeing conflict who don’t have any ties to Hamas, they don’t have any antipathies towards Australia or Australian citizens, of course we should be giving them refuge and safe harbour,” Mr Sharma told Sky News Australia’s Sharri Markson.
“But I think the government needs to be upfront with us about exactly the sort of criteria they’re putting on this, exactly the sort of visa they’re issuing.
And is the intent for these people once they’re here in Australia to be granted permanent protection status?
“I mean, this is what the government should be telling us, but at the moment none of their ministers are visible on this issue.”
Speaking to Sharri on Wednesday, veteran broadcaster Steve Price said he had “no confidence at all” in the government’s security checks.
“Federal Labor has a habit of bungling national security… There is no way that since October 7th you could do proper checks on these people,” Price said.
“And Australia always seems very quick to rush to provide this security for people without checking properly.”
He also raised concerns over the influence of Hamas in Gaza and the possible further spread of anti-Semitism in Australia.
“I think most people in Australia would be very nervous about that.
And it comes at a time, as you say, where we’ve just released into the public a bunch of people who should still be in detention, child molesters, murderers, people who have been alleged of being terrorists themselves,” he said.
“Why do we keep doing this charade?”
The government’s national security credentials have been repeatedly questioned following the High Court’s release of the 94 hardened criminals and former asylum seekers from indefinite detention
A week after the decision and with the Prime Minister out of the country for the APEC Summit in San Francisco, the government finally acted on legislation to toughen up conditions around those released.
The laws were heavily criticised as being weak by the Coalition before the government negotiated with Opposition Leader Peter Dutton to pass six amendments to the bill.
With Labor’s security track record under focus, the latest visa decision has reignited concerns.
In her editorial on Wednesday, the Sky News host said Australians can be “forgiven for questioning their (the government’s) security processes” given the recent decision.
“This government is weak on national security,” she said.
He’s still taking it in. Daily Telegraph:
Now I don’t begrudge the leprechaun his paypacket. Or any other CEO of a listed company. But surely if you resign or get the sack, then any further payment should cease?
Raking in. FFS
I’ve had two machinery dealers drop in, in the last week. Neither of them were very bright- I might have entertained one of them in particular, if he could only ignore the urge to sell me some odd liability out of the back of the yard, and instead listen to what I was actually after- but, it’s a bit of a sign of the pressure on the books.
Albanese would do alright to announce another $50-100k instant write-off for the fin year.
Vivek Ramaswamy: Car Bomb ‘Serves as a Wake-Up Call’
Now they’re saying no explosives found.
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BREAKING: Reuters is reporting that initial U.S. Customs and Border Protection assessment suggests incident at US-Canada border crossing caused by reckless driver whose actions resulted in a crash and fire
Take a look at the pictures. There most certainly was an explosion. I actually saw it somewhere. I don’t know whether it was an electric car.
Albanese government blasted by Sharri Markson over ‘extremely worrying’ decision to grant visas to 860 Palestinians – Who Aren’t Australian Citizens
Sharri Markson has unleashed on the Albanese government over its “extremely worrying” decision to issue visas to more than 800 Palestinians, questioning Labor’s security process in the wake of increased anti-Semitism around Australia.
Sky News host Sharri Markson has torn into the decision to provide more than 800 Palestinians who have links to Australia with visas, arguing the Albanese government has “lost its mind”.
According to a report from the ABC, the cohort has been issued with visitor visas which would allow them to remain in the country for between three and 12 months.
Despite the 860 visas having been granted between October 7 and November 20, the ABC claims the majority of the group remain trapped in Gaza.
The Opposition immediately raised concerns over the visas, demanding the government provide more detail and explain the security process.
“It would be very good if we understood what visas are being granted and what security checks are being undertaken as part of the granting of these visas,” shadow immigration minister Dan Tehan told Sky News Australia on Thursday.
Within the hour, Foreign Minister Penny Wong held a press conference to confirm those who had been granted visas were “subject to appropriate security checks”.
However, Sharri unleashed on the government over the decision, questioning its national security credentials in the wake of the release of more than 90 hardened criminals following the High Court’s decision that indefinite detention of asylum seekers was illegal.
In her editorial on Wednesday, the Sky News host said Australians can be “forgiven for questioning their (the government’s) security processes” given the recent decision.
“This government is weak on national security,” she said.
“Those granted visas might be innocent Palestinians – but what security checks are being done to make sure they don’t have links to Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad or other terror groups?
“The visas have already been granted – the security process cannot have been that vigorous. The Albanese Government has lost its mind.”
In the wake of the outbreak of conflict in Gaza, there has been a severe uptick in anti-Semitism, with the Executive Council of Australian Jewry revealing the number of anti-Semitic incidents had increased to their highest level since they began keeping track.
Sharri said the government needed to ensure the intake of Palestinians from Gaza did not add to the ongoing anti-Semitism in Australia.
“This is outrageous. Is Home Affairs trawling through their social media, their phone messages, their internet use to make sure some of them don’t have terror allegiances?” she asked
“This is extremely worrying – we have every right to be concerned and I have no faith, at all, that our government – under the hapless (Home Affairs Minister) Clare O’Neil and (Immigration Minister) Andrew Giles – will be making sure some terrorist sympathisers and anti-Semites aren’t being flown right into our peaceful cities.”
Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday after reports first emerged about the visas, Senator Wong explained there was “a lot of demand” from those in the region to secure passage to Australia in order to escape the conflict.
“Over the same period, I think between the 7th of October and a couple of days ago, we had 1793 visas issued to Israeli citizens (as well as those from Palestine),” she said.
The government’s national security credentials have been repeatedly questioned following the High Court’s release of the 94 criminals.
A week after the decision and with the Prime Minister out of the country for the APEC Summit in San Francisco, the government finally acted on legislation to toughen up conditions around those released.
The laws were heavily criticised as being weak by the Coalition before the government negotiated with Opposition Leader Peter Dutton to pass six amendments to the bill.
With Labor’s security track record under focus, the latest visa decision has reignited concerns.
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What percentage of those “immigration officials” are of Middle Eastern heritage?
Due to prisoner swap: Terrorist will return to live next door to her victim
“There’s no money. There’s no money,”
Waiting for Knuckle Dragger 🙂
Dutch election: Anti-Islam populist Wilders set for victory – exit poll
“There’s no money. There’s no money,”
Whoever puts the Argie prez into the Chopper scene gets a prize.
This is what technology is meant for.
Internet memes & gifs.
From now on, the Argie prez will be referred to as Neville Bartos.
Or Neville F*cking Bartos as his friends call him.
Glick is talking tough and wants to put the fire power heat on where the whole impetus for annihilating Isreal is coming from: Iran, and Qatar. She believes that the US could have put pressure on Qatar to release 240 hostages in this deal and that they woud have been released ‘immediately’ if the US had seriously threatened to take its air facilities from Qatar to a more friendly Muslim state. The US investment in such facilities in Qatar is extreme, she says.
Well, that clears up something for me. When we landed recently in Doha, and had to get out on the tarmac a long way from the terminal we could see in the near distance, where we were bused in, it seemed strange; plenty of airbridges were free and available. That terminal itself is modern and huge and very busy, but that’s not all. Hours later we were bused from there to get on our Dreamliner flight to Thailand, in an airport bus trip which took us many kilometers around the massively expanding Doha airport, with major building going on at numerous sites. What could all of this be about? I kept wondering. In the middle of this godforsaken desert? , it can’t be just for tourism and there’s nothing else economic in Doha, I was idly reflecting. Answer now, muchos munny, a lot of it American.
This doesn’t make sense to me. Even if China really was in dire straits, and we’ve heard taklk of such on and off for months, I doubt even Americans would put up with such a bailout! Although, after Ukraine, who knows.
Trillion Dollar Bailout: What Xi Really Wants From Biden
Great news Tom – love the daily toons.
This is green energy that may actually work, within limitations of course.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Energy/Panasonic-taps-ultrathin-solar-cell-layer-for-power-generating-windows
Dutch anti-EU far-right populist Geert Wilders
Basically Hitler then.
Both of Spooner’s toons today were very good, one international on the hostage swap and one local on the hobby horse climate fiasco.
Glad you are back in the saddle, Tom, bringing in the cavalry of satire daily. That’s about all that keeps my spirits up lately, that we can have a laugh at insanity.
Love the dry irony, Black Ball.
You are one of the absolute gems commenting here.
It follows, for, if he realised he is a flog, he would no longer be a flog.
Or a lesser flog?
Boambee John
Nov 23, 2023 9:07 AM
Immigration officials have determined that these people present no risk to Australians.
Along with all the others that have let in.
“Safe and Effective.” “Trust me, I am from the Guv’ment and I am here to help you”.
“We have a Plan” – Tennis Elbow at the last Feral Guv’ment Erection.
Naaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh.
From The Oz…
NSW Council for Civil Liberties president Lydia Shelly said the right to protest – “even if considered disruptive or inconvenient” – had to be “protected”.
Hmmm, odd isn’t it? I have zero recollection of Ms Shelly, or the spurious organisation she represents, speaking up at any time during 2020 and 2021 about the right to protest. I fail to recall her saying…”the right to protest, even if considered disruptive or inconvenient, had to be “protected”, or perhaps my memory is fading, quite possible but nah I don’t think so. Because you see, in the eyes of Ms Shelly and her comrades, the right to protest IS ideological hence her and her organisation’s failure, at any time in 2020 and 2021, to speak up for and to protect the rights of Australian men and women to protest lockdowns and anti-vaccine mandates. Instead there was silence from the organisations supposedly committed to “civil liberties”.
Could it be that Ms Shelly is a hypocrite? The left are shameless in their hypocrisy, and for too long we’ve allowed them to get away with it.
Tom, I’m glad things went well for you. I’m sure I’m not the only one who missed you yesterday. Thanks for the toons.
Indolent:
How about:
But I’m sure a poetic Newcat can do better.
Albo’s Palis fail the pub test. Will this be the straw?
How though? We already have problems with rooftop solar producing surges of power during the day. Solar is a parasite on the whole system – it reduces the profitability of baseload plants because it reduces the amount of power they can sell in the middle of the day. And yet we need those baseload plants to be profitable and operating so they can produce power when the sun isn’t shining. Solar is garbage tech.
Has she said before about six weeks ago that Nazis had “the right to protest” (which is what the pro-Paly, pro-Hamas protesters essentially are)?
In any case, I thought the left was opposed to “hate speech.”
One thing that seems to have been forgotten or swept under the carpet is that Hamas is a proscribed terrorist organisation in this and many other countries.
Anybody watch yesterday’s Brittany fest? Any good? Watching Drumgold get skewered was a good as a day at the Coliseum.
Unfortunately for the Netherlands, Wilders needs to get 50% + 1, or he is toast.
He has, (according to the polls), 28% of the vote.
The second and third parties both have 27%, according to the polls and neither is likely to form a govt with him.
They will however, form a govt with each other.
Very similar to what happened in Poland a couple of months ago.
IDF in the terror tunnels under the Shifa hospital.
Shows a tour of the tunnels with kitchens, toilets, rooms, elevators:
..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19hkCAmxAG8
We should abolish depreciation and move to a cashflow system with carry forward loses.
“The visas have already been granted – the security process cannot have been that vigorous. The Albanese Government has lost its mind.”
Wong’s press conference gives us an insight into the Government’s mind loss:
So, it’s a numbers game to satisfy Labor’s political optics.
Leave aside the “vigorous” security vetting process, how do just the basics work in the locked down situation of Gaza?
The fact that Australia’s consular presence in Gaza is serviced out of the Australian Embassy in Tel Aviv raises the interesting question of how the lucky (but trapped) Gazans even lodged their applications.
On-line?
By mail?
In person?
Via some third party? If so, who and how?
And how did the locked in and presumably thoroughly displaced Gazans meet and evidence the extensive entry requirements – not the least providing assurance that they will return home after the visa expires.
Or did DFAT just send in a bag of pre-approved visas along with the humanitarian aid?
The people looking out after our interests are not Top Shelf.
Argentinian bureaucracy:
‘Mate. I heard you want to give me some money.’
Milei, aka Neville Bartos:
‘There’s no cash here. Here, there’s no cash alright? Cash, no. Robbo?’
‘No cash.’
“Are you a member of Hamas?”
“No.”
“Ok . Welcome to Australia. Next !”
Bowen is a flog.
A flog who thinks he’s not a flog.
From which follows he is a greater flog than an unaware flog would be.
Winston Smith
Nov 23, 2023 10:05 AM
Indolent:
How about:
From the sea to the river,
Hamas will be chopped liver.
But I’m sure a poetic Newcat can do better.
How about –
You are a Poet and don’t know it.
The Brittany trial 2.0 was interesting in that, in addition to trying to get his end away, Bruce was looking to get a bit of submarine action for WA. Neither was successful (to date).
I live in over 50s village, run by a mob you might have seen a few months ago on ACA or the breakfast programs touting $0 or very low power bills. Until last month my highest was less than $5, no not a typo five dollars, and usually between 3 & 4.
6 weeks ago, both our village (180 x 6.6kw + 12 3.3kw hoses worth of panels), and another had to turn all our export to the grid off as it was causing massive network instability locally. Because of limitations on the inverters our power sourced from the grid has quadrupled.
Unfortunately BOM got it right for winter/spring in Central and North Queensland this year, it has been crop killing dry.
But before the ABC propaganda handle spins at supersonic speed declaring BOM’S genius, it is worth noting that they have forecast the same for the past five seasons, three of which were the best in decades and one of which was average.
The problem for rural producers is that effectively there is not a reliable met service.
Many of us are paying consultants and seeking advice from organisations like Elders who are generally moderate and analytical.
Local producers groups bring knowledge to the discussions that BOM could never match and no doubt dismiss as nanna tales.
It’s always a blow when people you thought you knew well take off the mask and reveal exactly who they are.
Your mum will grieve the loss in direct proportion to how close they were, and that’s really hard at this stage of life. It’s trite I know, but people like this woman have no understanding of what friendship really means and your mum will eventually realise this reality.
In the meantime, give her an extra hug from me. (A total stranger, not weird at all. Lol!)
More genuine idiocy from our political caste.
Apologies if this has been posted already.
Yes you do, Gez. The people they captured became hostages. Plain meaning of capture is ‘take possession of’, or at its simplest, ‘taken’.
One of the reasons Israel knew the complex was there is because they watched hamas manufacture the concrete roof arches for years, (all over Gaza) it’s why they can date the tunnels to within the last 15 years, long after Israel evacuated Gaza.
I like that they preferred western style toilets to islamic squats.
They even got the elevators right.
Sad news that the release of hostages is delayed til Friday.
arky has posted the shifa tunnel exposé, here it is on extwitter with the usual suspects claiming, LOL, it is of Israeli manufacture.
Lying gape mouthed liars
Bespoke, which arm of Defence did you serve with?
Where were you deployed again? Anywhere at all dangerous?
Now, you have served, ……, right?
You sound really gung ho!
Or, did you have the same affliction that stopped Trump and Biden serving in Vietnam?
Do you war stories start with:
“I was at a toga party at Caeser’s Palace, when this chap tugged on my toga, ……”
Your parents must be proud.
John Powell nailed the soundtrack.
The Bourne Supremacy 2004 Extras – Scoring with John Powell
Don’t forget, Jews first, all other infidels next, which includes Muslims who willingly consort with Jews.
Hamas just gave us a graphic reminder.
Muslim immigration should be stopped and banned.
They are mentally deranged cult members.
I very much doubt that the ‘river to the sea’ mob are “in Christ Jesus”, Peta Credlin.
Pauls’ words were directed to faithful Christians, not worldlings.
Nothing personal, but I have visceral dislike of calling one’s wife, husband, gf, bf a “partner”. It’s not a business, it’s not a partnership, it’s not a relationship between equals. We have absorbed so much wokeness without realising it, it is quite tragic.
Next time someone introduces their spouse or bf/fg as a “partner” ask them business they and their partner are in or exactly how are they equals, do they produce equal incomes?
Maaates.
Mary Delahunty new ASFA CEO (Pawallian business headline)
ABC princess royal appointed CEO of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia. Well knock me down with a feather. The union Left’s control of the superannuation system is now complete.
Get your money out while you can, before they spend it all on maaaates parties and green boondoggles.
Blatantly obvious, really.
*Dutch*
I had a pali taxi driver for 45 min the other day. Interesting ride.
The guy has 2 wives and 8 kids. A degree in civil engineering from US university. Hates jews. Deeply religious, was able to preach islam for the entire ride. Been in the west for 17 years.
These migrants never assimilate.
What you wrote last night.
Unfortunately, you can’t have that. Islam is a Death Cult. It won’t or can’t change. You have more chance of Jim Jones coming back to life along with his followers and becoming Anglicans than Islam self correcting and apologising for the last 1400 years of slaughter, rape and violence it has visited on every other religion it has come into contact with.
The point is you can’t have what you want. What will you settle for that is achievable?
Zip through to 18:00 for a bit of footage smuggled out from the DFAT crack ” are you a terrorist” visa interrogations.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6ubdrw
Not for the faint of heart!
Apropos of nothing, a reminder:
RAAF operating hours are 0800-1600, Monday to Friday, public holidays off, lunch from 1130-1330. Four-star minimum accommodation when travelling, pursuant to the EBA.
Free medical and dental, cosmetic leave available on request.
Labor Blackout Bowen dramatically expands green energy support
Jacob Greber, Mark Ludlow and Samantha Hutchinson
The Labor Albanese government will supercharge its struggling 82 per cent clean energy goal by dramatically expanding its underwriting of green generation and storage, effectively replacing the Renewable Energy Target favoured by some wind and solar proponents.
In a major overhaul triggered by growing fears of grid instability as coal and gas exits the system, Climate Change and Labor Energy Minister Blackout Chris Bowen will present state and territory counterparts with an expanded “Capacity Investment Scheme” at a meeting on Friday.
The shake-up, which specifically excludes support for gas projects, aims to accelerate investment in wind, solar and batteries by giving proponents certainty over their revenues.
In an effort to unlock regulatory bottlenecks, it also contains incentives for states and territories who streamline approval processes by dangling a greater share of six-monthly “capacity auctions”.
The federal government will not reveal the predicted total cost of underwriting 32GW of new energy projects, but it will be “on budget” and has been approved by the expenditure review committee.
The total generation capacity of the National Electricity Market is now about 65GW.
Labor Blackout Bowen said the expansion of the Capacity Investment Scheme would more than double renewables across the nation, adding 32 gigawatts of capacity, on top of 28 gigawatts of clean energy already in the National Electricity Market.
He said the changes would underwrite “new renewable generation and storage, providing certainty for renewable investors and cheaper, cleaner energy for households and businesses. It also recoups money for taxpayers when revenues are high”.
Labor Blackout Bowen, who is off to annual UN talks in Dubai next month, will use the expanded scheme to bolster Australia’s climate credentials, amid growing warnings the Labor government will fall short of its election commitment for 82 per cent renewables by the end of the decade.
RET too costly
The government’s decision to expand the Capacity Investment Scheme will disappoint some clean energy advocates who wanted to expand the RET, which offers potentially higher returns for project proponents, but which pushes more costs onto households and businesses.
It is understood the government’s view is such support for developers is unwarranted because there is no longer a market failure in the renewable generation roll-out.
Energy and climate policy expert Frank Jotzo said extending the RET or setting a new target such as 82 per cent by 2030 might be popular but would impose “unnecessary costs on energy users” and lacks flexibility.
“A system of underwriting revenues through contracts is superior,” Professor Jotzo said.
Under the RE, originally 20 per cent by 2020, the most costly renewables projects set the market price, providing subsidies to generators regardless of whether they need a subsidy.
“Many wind and solar plants will be paid over the odds, and electricity users will pay,” he said.
Using auctions to set underwriting and maximum price terms “will tend to provide the best deals available at that time, in that place”.
“The subsidy element is the minimum needed for each individual project, and will often be low or non-existent. Underwriting and contracts-for-difference deals are a stabiliser both for electricity generator revenue and for consumer prices: subsidies are high when electricity market prices are low, and low when market prices are high.
The benefit of the “contract for difference scheme”, already in operation in the ACT, is it does not place an immediate burden on household power bills but ensure future spikes in prices is shielded from consumers.
Successful projects from the auction will be offered Capacity Investment Scheme contracts where there will be a revenue floor and ceiling agreed with the federal government.
If the revenue earned by a project exceeds the net revenue ceiling, the owner pays the Commonwealth an agreed percentage of revenue.
If revenue falls below a set amount, the Commonwealth would pay the proponent a certain amount.
Big batteries for NSW
The targeted projects will be clean energy and storage with natural gas excluded.
States could choose to use gas peaking plants to firm up their grid, but they will not be financed by the Commonwealth.
It comes as the Commonwealth and the NSW government announced it had secured over 1 gigawatt of new dispatchable energy projects under the existing Capacity Investment Scheme for a total cost of $1.8 billion.
The six successful projects include three big batteries and three separate virtual power plants was over-subscribed.
Grattan Institute energy program director Tony Wood said contract-for-difference was probably the best option for reaching renewable targets, but there would be a financial exposure for taxpayers.
“Unlike some other schemes which are paid for by consumers or participants, this will be paid for by government,” he said.
“You would think there would have to be an off-ramp at some stage. You can’t see the government signing off on a blank cheque.”
Mr Wood said under the Capacity Investment Scheme, states could choose gas projects but they would have to pay for it themselves.
The new federal program helping NSW produce an additional 1 gigawatt of energy, enough to power 430,000 households, by December 2025 will cut the amount of time the Labor Minns government has to pay Origin Energy to keep the Eraring power station, but will still leave the state facing a reliability gap in 2025-26.
As NSW and federal policymakers scramble to fill the gap in supply or a reliability gap forecast for 2025 left behind by the closure of older generation coal-fired power stations, Labor blackout Bowen said the new partnership, which includes batteries, would go some way to helping the state keep the lights on over summer.
“4GW of dispatchable power left the grid over the past decade with only 1GW to replace it – announcements like today’s are the result of governments … delivering a cleaner cheaper grid for NSW,” he said.
Labor Blackout Bowen joined Labor NSW Energy Minister Penny Sharpe to announce six successful bidders will deliver an additional 1075 megawatts of capacity under the first phase of the federal government’s Capital Investment Scheme.
The projects from the tender are equal to about 8 per cent of the 2022-23 NSW summer peak demand, according to Mr Bowen and Ms Sharpe, who said that each project will be able to be called up at short notice to power up to 430,000 homes for up to two hours.
The projects come as NSW grapples with the impact of the closure of AGL’s Liddell power station which shut in April, and triggered a spike in prices and fears about a potential shortfall.
AEMO has now warned of a potential reliability gap in 2025-2026 spurred on largely by the planned closure of Origin Energy’s Eraring power station from mid-2025.
Generating 1075MW, the suite of projects supported by the latest announcement will generate enough power to equal about half of the Eraring power station’s output.
On such things Australian Super is blocking takeover of Origin Energy by a mob called Brookfield.
Origin Energy set to delay vote on Brookfield’s $10.6 billion bid -source (23 Nov)
So they’re blocking the takeover because they want Origin to commit suicide by going all-in on unicorn farts. That illustrates exactly the problem I mentioned: the union-controlled superannuation system is going to penurise ordinary retirees because of imaginary global warming.
Extwitter have been showing a clip of a jihabi who’s baby was getting a life saving transplant from a young idf soldier who was killed a week or so ago.
That’s nice she said and in the next breath hoping her baby boy might grow up to be a shahid.
There is nothing, nothing Israel or anyone else can do to change this death cult.
LOL. Sorry, we don’t do wars outside of public service hours.
How does he support them on a taxi driver’s earnings?
(That’s rhetorical, of course; we do.)
It’s Only Australian Taxpayer Money!
$12b for 300,000 free TAFE places to ease labour shortages: PM
Labor Anthony Albanese says 300,000 fee-free TAFE places will be provided to Australians next year as the government endeavours to support businesses hindered by labour shortages.
Speaking at Meadowbank TAFE in Sydney, the prime minister said the federal government would spend $12 billion to help pay for the 300,000 places, of which 147,000 places would be allocated to NSW.
“What we’re doing is matching up the fee-free TAFE courses with the skills that Australia needs,” Albanese said.
He said the policy would “drive down the cost of living”, “provide support where it’s needed” and put “downward pressure on inflation”.
Skills Minister Brendan O’Connor said there would be “cost-of-living pressures relieved because of this government policy”.
“Ultimately, it is about supplying the skills to workers, to business, and to our economy.”
Taxi driver with 2 wives and 8 children.
Thanks Australian taxpayers!
Oh my. What would we have done without the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship?
I’m fed up with allegedly straight-talking conservatives and rightists declaring some variation of, ‘well, we’ve really reached the turning point now…’
When the day is done and you want to run; cope-aine.
We reached – and walked past – that fork in the road years ago.
1969: Pope Paul VI warns the West that its drift to sterility would result in cultural catastrophe. They laughed.
Throughout the 1970s and 80s: Bob Santamaria warned that outsourcing manufacturing would leave us up shit creek with only a plastic Chinese paddle. They laughed.
1980s and 90s: Pope John Paul II warned that the West’s abandonment of objective truth and natural law would end Civilisation as we knew it. They laughed.
And when I say “they” laughed, I don’t just mean leftists – or even preponderantly leftists. Republicans, Tories and Liberals were laughing too.
Shatterzzz:
In the 2021 census, the locality of Biloela had a population of 5,692 people.
So we settle ten thousand there.
In a week, they’ll all be in Brisbane or Sydney, and on the welfare rolls.
And if they stay in Biloela, they will take over the council and there will be a construction boom of Mosques – complete with underground tunnels, storerooms and ‘light industry’ factories making… stuff.
Blackout Bowen doing a pretty good impression of living through the Whitlam government for those who were too young to remember the first time.
I forgot to add Benedict XVI’s final warning: that moral relativism would turn our societies into dictatorships wherein brazen lies were tyrannically enforced.
Sound familiar?
another video of the shifa tunnel network so far, this time you can see some bricked up entrances.
A good result Tom. Now for plenty of Jamie Kah winners.
what Qatar was claiming on 10 November about shifa.
Where’s Monty the shifty scoffer?
Rehearsing his hamas lines for the next round of you lotting?
Good luck with that.
Israelis and Palestinians must start to listen to each other (Oz, 22 Nov, unpaywalled) – DANIEL FINKELSTEIN
Islam has not been listening for 1400 years and nothing you or anyone can do will get them to listen. It’s inherent in the Koran. The focus on defeating Hamas is a naive aim since you could kill every single Hamas member on the planet and another group identical to Hamas would immediately spring up overnight, since it is a grass-roots phenomenon.
So stop with the ‘we must listen to each other’ silliness. You can only quarantine the disease – build a wall around it, and let no one from the other side enter your side of it.