I’m not surprised you weren’t impressed John.
Open Thread – Wed 20 Dec 2023
- Madame Cackle and her media mates
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- Open Thread – Thurs 25 July 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 22 July 2024
- All the drivel fit to print
Everything you needed to know about the the “Truppenfahrrad” Troop Bicycle!
GreyRanga July 27, 2024 9:41 am Reply to Indolent No essential service should be in private hands. We let stinking…
So, the Obamas have endorsed Kamala. I would imagine she dropped down on her knees in gratitude – not through…
Correction – “Avaturd”
Yes.
Marty Armstrong’s local rep was using it too freely as an insult, coupled with “off”.
May have been noted on these pages but I see Albo has racked up some impressive numbers. Not in any way helpful to Australia as a whole, but still I dips me Akubra lid to the prick. Excerpt from the Hun:
You ever get the feeling Australia is being had by those dickweeds occupying the plush green seats of Canberra?
About time.
DEI under siege: Why more businesses are being accused of ‘reverse discrimination’
I hold Goose Morristeen personally responsible for the current labore sh*tshow we’re being forced to tolerate, just as I hold Dumb Parrothead responsible for the unfolding Ho-chi Minns disaster.
You would have thought that the subterranean new lows plumbed by the Rudd/Gillard clownshow couldn’t have been easily exceeded, yet Turnbuckle, Morristeen and now Albansleazey have all effortlessly done so.
This is the worst federal government in my lifetime by a country mile and they’re barely halfway through their first (and hopefully only) term.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – our political system is irreparably damaged. There is barely a single government, federal, state or local that now enacts policy that benefits Australians.
Were I to list for example, all the incredibly bad, stupid and destructive policies of this Albansleazey goat rodeo, it would be so lengthy as to warrant a guest post.
If people are interested in such a post, let me know. The concept of opportunity cost can be covered in it as well. I’m about to go on holidays, so it could be a worthwhile (if both infuriating and depressing) little assignment.
Jack Poso
@JackPosobiec
Let’s list the ways he’s a dictator:
Locking up political opposition?
Banning opposition online?
Investigating churches with secret police?
Wars?
Family enrichment corruption?
Btw I’m not talking about Biden, I’m talking about Volodymyr Zelensky
All Colorado justices who voted to remove Trump from the ballot went to elite East Coast schools
BB – I hadn’t read your comment before posting the one above.
Yep, they’re all unrepentantly on the take, trough snouting like there’s no tomorrow and corrupt as fork.
Rabz
Go for it, but it might require not only a separate post, but an entirely new blog!
Jesse Kelly
@JesseKellyDC
The communists are prepping the ground for what’s to come. They’re calling Trump a dictator so they don’t look as bad when they send him to prison. They’re calling you a “domestic terrorist” so they can arrest you during the FBI crackdown after they do.
All this is coming.
Thomas Sowell Quotes
@ThomasSowell
It was Thomas Edison who brought us electricity, not the Sierra Club. It was the Wright brothers who got us off the ground, not the Federal Aviation Administration. It was Henry Ford who ended the isolation of millions of Americans by making the automobile affordable, not Ralph Nader.
Those who have helped the poor the most have not been those who have gone around loudly expressing “compassion” for the poor, but those who found ways to make industry more productive and distribution more efficient, so that the poor of today can afford things that the affluent of yesterday could only dream about.
Neal the Seal was a solid 7 but since he blubbered up he’s a 4.
On the Goldie he’s a 2.
calli – Danby is an ex-politician who now regularly appears on Sky of an evening denouncing the anti-Semitic idiocy of the labore pardee.
Just one little problem – he was a labore pardee member when a politician (Melbourne Ports) and he hasn’t been out of politics that long.
He’s a fraudulent hypocrite.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: “Maybe We Should Take Biden Off The Ballot For Allowing 8 Million People To Cross The Border”
Electric scooter company Bird files for bankruptcy
I rate Brumble a 4.
Prepping for ‘Disease X’: Gates-Backed Group Funds Needle-Free mRNA Vaccine ‘Wafer’ Technology.
Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
The actual end of democracy.
Raffle meat trays?
What does Salvatore think about it?
Rabz
Dec 21, 2023 8:58 AM
Rabz, thats a goer from me.
I am sure that Zulu and Top Ender will be with the affirmative.
I was shocked by so many people coming out as antisemites, people I thought were moderate and smart. I now wonder what other horrid views they hold.
Rabz
Dec 21, 2023 9:12 AM
There are Jews in office in the Party. Greypus, Danby?
calli – Danby is an ex-politician who now regularly appears on Sky of an evening denouncing the anti-Semitic idiocy of the labore pardee.
Yes, many years ago I followed politics and I was wondering about him, don’t know how effective he was as a local member, but in the federal scene he was practically invisible until the year he retired.
He felt free or ‘freer’ to offer an opinion?
I’m guessing.
Might not call him a hypocrite, just a loyal left wing party member.
Given up on politics some time ago now, bad for your blood pressure for one thing and naught I can do about anything anyway.
Thanks Rabz. I didn’t know he was retired. Dreyfus certainly isn’t.
Hiding behind the “I’m a Jew but not a Zionist” figleaf just won’t wash. They are practically the same thing, at least in the minds of their cruel enemies.
Just remember how many “peaceniks” and “Israel adjacents” were murdered, tortured or kidnapped on Oct 7.
It reminded me of those who had fought and beed decorated in WWI imagining that it gave them some sort of immunity from what was to come. These are types who don’t differentiate, don’t discriminate.
Danby’s successor Josh Burns is Jewish.
He was highly critical of Albanese’s ceasefire call.
So just another Liar on the road to Damascus having thrown off the shackles of preselection?
Was he? Must have missed that.
A highly publicised resignation from the party would have had greater impact.
Typo in Spooner’s cartoon.
I guess the AI proofreader can’t read hand written text.
If people are interested in such a post, let me know. The concept of opportunity cost can be covered in it as well. I’m about to go on holidays, so it could be a worthwhile (if both infuriating and depressing) little assignment.
Yes please. I’ll have two of those.
Rabz Johnson is right. Always.
Is Hairy aware of what Yemen has defeated over the last decade? Hezbollah also hasn’t ‘pulled its head-in’, it’s just operating at a tempo of its own choosing. Also, what installations would have Trump struck? The antiship missiles and drones are being fired from mobile platforms and the US simply had no resources in theatre to even attempt this strike having already situated a CSG in the East Med and Gulf.
But no preselection for the next election.
Priorities.
Get ready for your new digital ID.
(It makes things easier for Skynet to recognize you.)
Great letter Vicki. I particularly liked the wham at the end.
What happens to Toto when Elbow takes him overseas . ?Do quarantine regulations apply to him?
No need for that, 3 wheely bins of meat?
Al he needs is a decent size freezer and he is set for a year, or less depending on family numbers.
Provided he is smart.
Over the long term…probably not.
He seems a principled chap for a Labor Party member.
Better to have him there as the ALP’s conscience on this issue.
Nope.
But they should apply to the wong chap.
Dover
The Gulf is part of the “theatre”, and I suspect that aircraft operating from the CSG are well within range of Yemen.
CSG there …
If people are interested in such a post, let me know.
Go for it!
Christmas ham for a year? I’m sick of it by New Years.
Pistol and Boo are presumably unavailable for comment.
What happens to Toto when Elbow takes him overseas . ?
That Wong chap isn’t allowed to dog-sit. Them & It would have the spit turning.
The Guardian – ‘Steven Miles’s flood response key to Labor election hopes’
Miles to Queenslanders – ‘We need to talk about climate change.’
LOL.
Mind you, the Beetrooter would still be available.
It’s cope. The only ‘evidence’ you return is the USD as a safe haven which entirely relies on its continuing status as a reserve currency.
But they are the factory of the world right now. Amazing that being the leading producer is no ‘big freaking deal’.
LOL. Your diplomatic approach is “You must do whatever the US says or we will bomb you, OK?”
I haven’t made any.
alwaysright
Dec 21, 2023 9:42 AM
If people are interested in such a post, let me know. The concept of opportunity cost can be covered in it as well. I’m about to go on holidays, so it could be a worthwhile (if both infuriating and depressing) little assignment.
Yes please. I’ll have two of those.
Rabz Johnson is right. Always.
Could someone email me (via DB) about meeting of cats?
I highly recommend giving this guy a follow. You won’t agree with everything he says but he isn’t a troll and he often provides links and discussion to and about interesting articles.
“He’s a fraudulent hypocrite”
No, Michael Danby is sincere. The Labor party he joined no longer exists, and he knows it. Well actually, a Labor party does continue to exist but it is now called “One Nation”. I’d be very surprised if Michael Danby, in the privacy of a ballot box, continues to vote for the ALP.
Dreyfus is a grub.
As predicted, serial race-baiting professional victim Antoinette Lattouf plays the legal-action card
Ex schoolteacher to run the NT. A great day for believers in stereotypes.
You’d be wrong.
It’s an improvement from an ex Holiday Swimming Teacher, Humphrey
You are being very unfair – to grubs.
CHRISTMAS IN A TIME OF WAR
by George Weigel
12 . 20 . 23
The electric scooter company Bird, once valued at $2.5 billion by investors …
brainiacs
SBS has reluctantly issued an apology to Mundine at the insistance of the Ombudsthing who no doubt went through endless contortions in an attempt to avoid attributing any wrongdoing to ‘STAR’ Neralda Jacobs.
Which implies that in the intervening period before the directive to apologise was issued, SBS management approved of her complete loss of control, abuse and bias. Even The Project would have blushed at her behaviour. I have certainly not seen its equal.
Pushing the boundaries of acceptable behaviour by SBS and ABC will become increasingly common until budgetary penalties are introduced and the protective clauses in their charters are removed.
For now, it is just the cause of a bit of a giggle at the Fuk Australia Staff Cafeteria. I retain by behief that SBS is a far more insidious risk to Australia’s democracy than are the ABC boofheads.
Apparently they didn’t get the memo.
On the subject of military high-level brass, which someone mentioned on an earlier thread, it is not just the numbers of Star level officers that is the problem. Each of them will have a group of staff, ranging from drivers up to senior non-stars as office minders and paper shufflers, who will sit on top of a promotion pyramid starting at Lieutenant level, all requiring career management and a range of postings to be “developed”.
IIRC, back in the 1990s, the number of Lieutenants needed by the Army at the base of the pyramid was such that many were posted to combat and logistics units as supernumaries, to give them duties to carry out. Not an optimal start to a career!
Not at all.
It would be demoralising.
Especially when the political reason we’re not sending a ship is because of a strategic shift in focus to the Indo-Pacific due to…China.
It nevertheless still means China’s industrial sector is substantially larger than the US which is all it needs to do.
Consciences need to have arms and legs.
Without those appendages, they are just words.
Ramaswamy Threatens To Boycott Colorado Primary, Turley Rages, And Luntz Warns Of ‘Backfiring’ Lawfare Against Trump
From the Comments
– The only thing less desirable than a Harvard Diploma these days is a Colorado License Plate!
– Due to the rising cost of ammunition, no warning shots will be provided.
– This a LONG PATTERN of abuse against him since the day he took office, nothing appears off limits including unconstitutional maneuvers like this.
How can any sane person believe that they didn’t also cheat against him in the last election?
Seriously
Hmmm, on walk this morning I can’t recall seeing any purple Beam bikes or scooters. Which is odd going into the school hols.
Saw plenty of Birds, but not the ones with batteries. 😀
Doubt Danby would even get preselection for Melbourne Ports today. Another Liar seat that once it falls to the Greens will never be regained.
As far as I could tell, she was a fill in presenter for someone on a WEB, and they cancelled the last two days of her stint.
No doubt a contract/casual position, so the “taking leagal advice” is pure posturing.
Bizarre theory on why women are getting dumped
A wild relationship theory is going viral with women sharing why they believe their partners have left them – and it’s got many ladies worried.
Buying your boyfriend a pair of shoes to cover up his trotters for Christmas could be the catalyst for him walking out on you.
This theory, of course, is entirely unverified and an old wives’ tale that has been around for decades. But it has now become a popular idea to discuss on TikTok.
She said she believed you shouldn’t gift your partner a pair of shoes because it meant you were destined to break up.
Angela claimed that the superstition was born because, in Chinese, the word “shoe” sounds similar to the word “evil”, so can be seen as bad luck.
Angela then warned people not to buy anyone you want to keep in your life a pair of shoes during the holiday season.
She did, however, point out that if you want someone to walk out of your life …. well, some foot coverings could be the perfect option.
No longer an unwatched newsreader in Perf, an unwatched POC on our tab.
It is cope, but not from my side.
I never mentioned anything to do with reserve currency nor reserve status as it has nothing to do with anpplying exchange rates to measure relative GDP. I mentioned exchange rates because at least the US Dollar has a value determined by market process and therefore offers a more realistic view. PPP is interesting but it can also be way out depending on weightings. It’s broadly okay when PPP is outside of a 20% band. That’s coping, right?
Low end manufacturing mostly and their factories basically operate at breakeven which means in the long term they’re dead because they don’t make enough profits to replace capital equipment.
Really? Mind reading much?
I haven’t made any.
Then you’ll be happy to hear that their ratings hover around 4% on a good day.
Quite a few programs are in the 0.X% range.
Their Worldwatch multilingual news channel routinely posts an audience of 0.0.
What is the rationale for SBS?
Glad to see the Telegraph editorial nail it. We are currently being run by the opinions of Marrickville Council (in Albanese’s green-left electorate). The whole of Australia’s current foreign policy can be found in this Council’s frequent support of Hamas. And they are, of course, proudly non-nuclear. So one local council now shapes our nation’s defense policy.
What a vile weakling Albanese is running protection for his own skin. Some of us always knew he was a mouse trying to roar, but now everyone knows.
Rabz, do it, I furkan derya.
Seriously, I’d love to see the litany of incompetence posted here.
Media and FENZ now saying EV wasn’t responsible for the fire. Witness’ phone video proves otherwise. 7 mins
OldOzzie, can we have an XY plot of the Hot scores vs success of the shoe gift prediction of being dumped?
With a pocket protector and a whiteboard this could be bigger than the Hot/Crazy Matrix.
Yes please Rabz.
From the standpoint of a purely television spectacle, Jacobs and SBS blew it.
Intervening with “How dare you … national treasure” and muting Mundine’s microphone truncated what could have been one of the epic TV stoushes, replayed for years to come.
Something to put Normie Rowe and Won Casey in the shade.
Most TV hosts love it when public figures drop the mask and go for it.
From the people who think rhino horn gives you a better boner. Bat eaters.
Words are never “just words”, calli.
They do things.
Congrats on getting a letter published in today’s Oz, Vicki. Well done to demonstrate there is a popular uprising against Albo’s failures to speak up for the safety of Jewish citizens here. Every bit of editorialising opinion counts.
Danby goes back to when the ALP had some strong supporters of Israel. Bob Hawke, Barry Cohen and others now forgotten. Hawke would have stood up the vile chants of the pali mob, unlike our present leader.
I have a couple of Egyptian colleagues who I have befriended.
One of these friends (before Oct 7) told me that for the Exodus, the Jews borrowed gold jewelry from their neighbours on the excuse of going to a wedding.
One showed me video of his little daughters at their school singing a song about Palestine.
I pulled up this.
The phrase in my head for two months has been ‘A dog with rabies must be put down without mercy.’ Please God let me be more diplomatic.
Laying flat news.
America Had ‘Quiet Quitting.’ In China, Young People Are ‘Letting It Rot.’ (20 Dec)
Yep, and it’s a tell that there’s stuff going on under the surface which isn’t good for the Party. The CCP is trying to pump up the real estate sector and issued an edict yesterday that companies should borrow money from banks to pay out extra dividends to their shareholders, which is extremely irresponsible and very bad corporate practice. It does however point to big biiig problems in the Chinese economy.
China’s Securities Regulator Warns Companies To Increase Dividends & Buybacks… Or Else (19 Dec)
Big tree, big hearts, big blessings
Western Sydney and Sydney talkback radio hold a strange sway on Australian plolitics when seen from the other side of the desert. Federal elections are usually won or lost in Queensland. But that is a topic for another day.
In an internet connected world with 24/7 streaming from anywhere in the world, the original premise of providing New Strayans with news and culture from the Homeland is totally redundant.
Nails it.
No, it would be stretching or beyond the operational range of their aircraft. It ‘s beyond 1000km from the Gulf to the Read Sea Coast.
Heartbreaking, so hard at Christmas, a time for all children.
Could someone email me (via DB) about meeting of cats?
Sure, are you in Sydney?
I would have a LTR with Jana Hocking but unless I’m infertile we’re not getting married and it would go nowhere after a few years.
She’s angry about something.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/real-life/article-12862223/Jana-Hocking-reveals-incels-slimy-tactics-against-vulnerable-women.html
If he looked like Brad Pitt, what would be different?
Watching the barrister for CH10 spruiking before Justice Lee.
An actor relishing being centre stage.
The regular two-handed adjustment of the gown, the fluffing of the bib, the waving of the glasses that don’t need to be worn.
He’s loving being on TV.
Take it up with Sam. He did qualify his statement with
.
Quite so.
They cause other people to “do things”.
Just ask Iago.
A fun typo, HB. Conveys the sense of plodding along. Wot most of them do.
But not as demoralising as characterising this as a break between the US and Aus.
Best are criminal trials involving plotting by the less educated. The learned friends jump at the chance to swear in court like a little boy reading an avant garde play at his Montessori School, the SMS or iMessage reads:
“We will burn your house down c**t…”
So the barrister sez:
We will BURN your house down, C**T!
Zafiro
Dec 21, 2023 10:41 AM
Wow!
That is such a clear case if deflecting as you can get.
They are simply shameless.
Haha, do I believe the government or my lying eyes? It’s obvious.
Scratch one expensive house and car.
From the “West Australian” Closing arguments in THAT defamation case.
Speaking of western Sydney…
Reports that Arab leaders will be urging their communities to vote Green at the next election.
The late nght “tits and bums” shows?
Their rationale disappeared years ago, with the arrival of satellite TV. Notice that they are now broadcasting a higher proportion of “non-ethnic” movies, in a probably vain attempt to boost viewer numbers. Vain because they are generally nor recent releases.
I wonder what the viewer numbers are for NITV?
Words are magic spells. People think words can change meanings; so in the least they change perception. An example: Tonnee Yabbot is a Miss Ogee Nist because the “official” dictionary changed the definition. I’m a woman because I demand to be called Mz Dickenballz.
You don’t have to go all ATL Carver & Meme magic on the matter but consider occultists use “spells” and being literate and knowing word composition (in order) is spelling.
There’s also the matter of “dark” ages education revolving around learning languages through prayers. It’s how Old English is taught somewhat now.
Less than 1%.
Another Mental Health triumph:
“
Which is the same as refusing to take the case.”
Not exactly – because they have agreed to take it and there is no resolution as yet, the existing ruling is stayed (ie, Trump stays on the ballot). After that election is completed, it is moot and they don’t have to rule on the merits.
If they refuse to hear it, then the stay on existing ruling is lifted and Trump is off the ballot.
Big difference – the former is kicking the can down the road, the latter is essentially a ruling by default.
I just think that based on previous cases, they would prefer to kick the can down the road, which makes everyone unhappy, rather than refuse to hear it which makes one side unhappy, or take it ASAP, and then their ruling makes one side or the other unhappy. Since they can’t win the approbation of both sides with a ruling, they’ll delay and not make a ruling, just say “oh, sorry – too late now, dismissed”. They have a history of doing this – they only want to make case law when they are forced to, and because of the time limit, they don’t have to.
In Should Be Beaten With Sticks news:
Joint media release: GenCost confirms renewables remain the cheapest form of energy, as the cost of nuclear reactors skyrocket
The 2023 draft GenCost Report tells a slightly more nuanced story:
One nearly honest thing shown in the GenCost report is that electricity generated by hydrogen combustion is eye wateringly uneconomical as peaking fuel: around $600/MWh vs $250/MWh for gas. Even with almost free electrolysers.
Obviously Snotbubble didn’t get the memo on that:
$2 billion renewable hydrogen program reaches a milestone
Australia. In the best of hands.
Oops, a rant is born.
Hmmm, 1000 kms is roughly 500 nm. A nuclear-powered carrier can do well over 30 knots. In 16 hours it could be off Aden, but it doesn’t need to get that close. The aircraft can strike from at least 6 hours out.
They can do much more than that.
“I (n.) take thee (n.) to be my wedded wife…”
“I sentence you to…”
“I bequeath my estate to…”
“I forgive your sins…”
My driving listening (my only radio time) alternates between Smooth FM and WS FM.
Smooth is pretty bland pop music with little talkback (they deliberately keep it that way) but WS has a lot of leftist opinion in its popular breakfast show called Jonsey and Amanda (Keller). Both stations use Fauxfax News. Keller is a pretend Westie, married to an ABC producer, and she lives in Coogee (though the station is essentially a Western and suburban Sydney wukkas and wukkas’ wives one). I only listen to WS for a touch of 80’s and 90’s rock-n-roll outside of breakfast hours as I can’t tolerate the leftism of this far too politically influential show. The leftism is put out as ‘normal’ and unexceptional thinking of the ‘everybody knows … ‘ sort.
“It’s a case of limited publication at the end of the day to people who would reasonably identify Mr Lehrmann,” he says.
“The vast overwhelming majority of viewers would have no idea that the identity of (the person Ms Higgins was accusing) was Mr Lehrmann.”
I get that.
But the people whose adverse opinion would do him actual damage (as opposed to my private contempt of no consequence) would know exactly who he was.
Sure, sure. The US thought it could retard semiconductor development in China through sanctions and now it looks like they’ve got to manufacturing 5nm chips anyway and will soon get 3nm chips.
When I read your words I’m reading your mind.
Which one?
They have plenty. They have done more than you already expected and yet you prefer to continuing coping rather than revising your expectations.
Let’s say America hit the Houthis. As if sea launched airpower can’t take out insurgents shooting at shipping.
They wouldn’t even see it coming necessarily. At best they might hear something briefly.
Super Hornet F/A-18 E/F:
Service ceiling: 52,300 ft (15,940 m)
Night missions, J Stars from Diego Garcia and FLIR.
Do the Houthis have top level Russian radar?
The Americans might even keep it on the down low.
We need to get into the long international queue for these now.
Prices will rise before they fall for these.
And we need to start building our new big nuclear plant on an old coal site now too. This simply in order to keep our economy supplied to scale. If I had my way I’d built major new coal and gas plants too.
Oh, and for good measure, build more dams. while I’m thinking about population growth projections.
Judge : both witnesses are bull shit artists
“What is the rationale for SBS”? Tits and bum.
Why did they withdraw the malice claim ?
Is the threshold too high ?
Reedy a great witness ?
Many many lols.
We do have to think about doing this, and soonest. Currently what would be normal responsive military activity to damaging threats over shipping is being stymied by blatant political weakness.
Weak, weak, weak.
Were they the ones saying Snowy 2.0 would cost only $2 billion to firm all that wonderfully cheap wind and solar electricty. You know, the project which is now expected to cost $25 billion. Or did they estimate the $1-2 billion for the 1000 km HVAC line from there to Sydney and Melbourne which will now cost $10 billion?
Asking for a former project financial analysis estimator.
(Btw CSIRO are all in on the climate scam. I wouldn’t trust a single thing they say.)
It’s a little more than that, Dr F.
Those in the inner circle (which numbers in the hundreds BTW) now have the tools (e.g. Twitter) to publicise the name.
Ten knew that.
Why was there talk of Lehrmann being ruined and never getting a job again if they didn’t intend to ensure his name got out?
Lawyer : when BL lied it’s because he’s the devil
But when BH lied it’s because she’s Joan of Arc
Yes this is channel 10s lawyer.
Bit of a problem when you are relying on truth in a “He said, she said” case.
Judge : both witnesses are bull shit artists
They can’t be.
They are both Top… men… Providing the sort of advice that has enabled Australia to be like it is.
Exemplars of our betters.
The cream of asparagus who, before this were working their way to preselection and glory.
Lee seemed surprised at that, which tells you something.
Given the way the evidence has unfolded that could be a tactical error.
I guess even the best of us has Captain Obvious moments.
Agree with Cassie and others, Michael Danby was unusually sensible, had bipartisan respect and a degree of party political latitude in his time – a time where Labor cared about the Jewish vote. I have no doubt he would be genuinely appalled by the current state of affairs.
I hope the 2025 election is fought with how-to-votes containing big maps of the land area that is to be devastated by Bowen’s current ruinable plans. With big red numbers showing how many houses will be supplied for how long by what areas of land, also slamming the costs of continually renewing this infrastructure from overseas sources presumed always friendly to us.
‘China is kaput’ is a veritable industry in the West. Every month or quarter some outlet either publishes a ‘China is over’ or a ‘China, It’s happening’ article. Completely schizo stuff.
Yes. But only one of them has been charged and acquitted (by default) of a serious crime.
The other has whisked away with 2.4million of our money.
I am in favour of revising their expectations.
Weakness is not a viable policy.
So now you’re telling me it has to move closer than the Gulf to be in theatre which is what I said.
It doesn’t matter. There are more targets now.
Mole at 11:29.
I am on the board for a little local enterprise here and we had our final meeting for the year yesterday followed by a Christmas lunch at a local establishment. The twelve people on the board and executive come from really diverse backgrounds and when the conversation turned to Lehrrman v Ten and Others there were various views expressed, but there was consensus on one point … incredulity at the incompetent narcissists we have informing policy in Canbra.
Wonderful thing about aircraft carriers is that they move, so there is no need to launch from the Persian Gulf or the Med. But if they wanted to there are plenty of tankers available to do so. The range would be similar to coalition airstrikes launched from Qatar and UAE into Iraq during the Gulf Wars.
Or, if USAF assets are prefered they can launch from Djibouti, from which one can spit and hit Yemen.
And there are plenty of TLAM shooters within range.
Malice would be the easiest line item to reconcile. Slam dunk, in fact.
Big mistake backing off.
If Team Bruce are getting the fourth quarter yips and suddenly want to settle, they should negotiate a bit smarter than this.
“Electricity consumption? How about oil&gas?”
The big difference between the US and China WRT these is that the US has the resources to completely satisfy its own domestic demand for both, where China does not. Same with coal, although China is much closer with coal than with oil or gas.
As to why the US is not using its own resources, the usual answer is “green tape”, but I’m not so sure. Could also be crony capitalism or a strategic view of consuming resources from overseas first and saving domestic ones for when everyone else runs out. Or some combination of all three (that seems most likely to me).
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Dec 21, 2023 11:21 AM
Despite GE, Rolls Royce, Hitachi etc. thinking differently, Top Men at CSIRO and AEMO know that SMR’s will never be economic. Never. Ever. So, no further discussion will be entered into.
We need to get into the long international queue for these now.
Prices will rise before they fall for these.
And we need to start building our new big nuclear plant on an old coal site now too.
This simply in order to keep our economy supplied to scale. If I had my way I’d built major new coal and gas plants too.
Oh, and for good measure, build more dams. while I’m thinking about population growth projections.
Lizzie,
Australia under Labor/Greens/TEALS/Liberals are too stupid
AGL Initiates Construction of Grid-Scale Battery at Former Liddell Coal-Fired Power Plant Site
20-Dec-2023 3:30 PM – Journalist: Xiang Hong
AGL Energy has received approval for the development of a 500-megawatt energy storage facility on the grounds of the former Liddell coal-fired power plant.
The final investment decision was announced on Tuesday, marking a significant step for the energy company in its transition towards renewable energy solutions in the Hunter region of New South Wales.
The grid-scale battery, designed with a two-hour duration, is set to be a crucial component in AGL’s plan to achieve an interim target of installing approximately five gigawatts of new renewable energy and firming capacity by the year 2030.
The Liddell battery project, with an estimated total construction cost of $750 million, will be financed through AGL’s balance sheet.
AGL’s Chief Executive Officer, Damien Nicks, highlighted the critical role of the Liddell battery in the firm’s strategy to reduce carbon emissions, especially given AGL’s goal to shut down its final coal-powered facility by 2035.
According to Nicks, the conclusive investment decision for the Liddell battery initiative is a notable step forward in AGL’s journey towards decarbonization and the transformation of its energy portfolio.”
The Liddell battery project is scheduled for completion in 2026 and will join AGL’s growing fleet of battery assets, which already includes the 250MW Torrens Island battery in South Australia and the upcoming 50MW Broken Hill battery.
The addition of the Liddell battery is strategically important for New South Wales, contributing to the stability of the electricity grid and supporting the state government’s ambitious emissions reduction target of 70% by 2035, especially as coal-fired power stations are gradually retired.
To facilitate this groundbreaking project, AGL secured a $35 million grant from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (Arena).
Additionally, a long-term energy service agreement has been established with the New South Wales government, underscoring the collaborative efforts between the private and public sectors in advancing sustainable energy solutions.
The Liddell battery’s two-hour duration is a crucial factor in enhancing the grid’s reliability and supporting the integration of renewable energy sources.
It aligns with broader industry goals of transitioning towards cleaner and more sustainable energy alternatives.
AGL’s commitment to renewable energy projects reflects the evolving landscape of the energy sector, where a traditional coal-focused company is actively investing in and deploying cutting-edge technologies to meet environmental goals.
As AGL continues to diversify its energy portfolio, the Liddell battery stands as a testament to the company’s dedication to driving the transition towards a more sustainable and resilient energy future in Australia.
Postscript to my 11:38.
One of the ladies at the lunch runs her own PR/Advertising consultancy with offices in all capitals except Perf and Hobart.
Her observation was that, even if she was silly enough to employ them in the first place, neither Britnah nor Brucie would last until morning tea in her business.
Objective observers agree with Justice Lee. They are both shifty.
China is kaput Dover, the demographics are brutal. The place will be a gigantic nursing home in about a decade.
Which leads to the question whether Xi will use it or lose it?
Given the disaster of the “special military operation” it seems likely that any action by China against Taiwan will be an own-goal of biblical proportions. It might even collapse China.
On the other hand dictators are never short on the ego side of things, so I wouldn’t be surprised if Xi convinces himself that he’s the next Alexander the Great. Seems to go with the species.
Oh God. John H has already intimated that the Saudis have the largest CAS outside the US and yet they didn’t manage to defeat them. Nothing short of sending troops in will be even close to sufficient.
Love it.
Asparagus: strange looking things that pop out of the dirt at random intervals and don’t add much to most meals.
No.
The malice angle was dropped early on.
There seemed to be confusion between the ABC matter (settled) and these two actions (against Ten and Toad).
It is telling that Collins has quickly gone to a mitigation of damages discussion.
If you want Nazis, vote for the real thing, rather than a bunch of fascist weaklings?
Lee J “I don’t read between the lines … “.
He he. No bbq invite for you.
Local politicians slam state govt over ‘rushed’ Penrith Beach as images emerge of car park reportedly damaged by rainfall
Penrith’s ‘Pondi’ beach has come under fresh scrutiny after a local councillor shared photos of severe damage reportedly caused to the attraction’s car park just a day after opening.
Penrith Beach has copped fresh criticism in its very first week from local politicians after Western Sydney residents left feeling underwhelmed from their first visit.
The highly-anticipated summer attraction opened on Tuesday in time for the start of school holidays however it struggled to flatter, despite the NSW government’s description of a “sun-kissed shore, where the sand meets crystal clear waters, offering a refreshing escape from the heat”.
On Wednesday afternoon after a rainy day across Sydney, local councillor Glenn Gardiner posted images to Facebook of significant damage to the car park at the beach which he suggested was caused by the wet weather.
The images showed parts of a road with massive holes and cracks, leaving it inaccessible as a result.
“Be careful at the Penrith Beach Car park,” Councillor Gardiner said.
“Just 30mm of rain on the day after it opened and the car park is washing away.
“This is beyond words, does the State Government know it rains in the west too?”
Melissa McIntosh, a Liberal member and MP for Lindsay, shared the images and stated her community deserved better.
“Everyone wanted it to be amazing for our community. Sadly, funds have been cut, things have been rushed, and everyone is laughing about Pondi. We deserve better,” she said on Facebook.
From the Comments
– Labor again went for the media splash and as usual it has turned to custard. They had a plan but could not execute!
– Since when do people have to “book” a car park? The world has gone mad.
– What a mess, but I’m starting to get used to messes in this country, can’t we do something properly anymore, a serious problem now, from the Snowy 2.0 to this beach and many other half baked ideas, sorry to say but the Left has a lot to answer for.
– As I commented yesterday, if Handsome boy had not blown $500 million this year, a wave machine and a quality car park could have been installed. Its a win win !
Justice Lee discussing evidence…
“I don’t read between the lines”
Cop that Pirate’s Missus!
That’s great, I guess. However, let’s go back to your initial argument that the Chinese economy is larger. I’m humble enough to admit I’m wrong, if indeed I am, though it would be the first time ever.
1. Explain why you believe PPP is a better model to determine the relative size of economies than exchange rates.
2. Drill down into the PPP model applied by the Commie Times writer and explain the weightings determining whether PPP is accurate or at least has a better grounding than exchange rates.
I explained last evening that total electricity consumption cannot be just looked at on its own and that you need to look at other factors such as the energy consumption mix. Also, because of the population disparity, it would be better to use per capita consumption.
Why have you ignored all this and appear to be going with the “coping” model alone?
When you’re reading into words what they don’t mean, that’s mind reading. The cope thing is a good example.
All of them.
Attacking commercial shipping isn’t a difficult thing to do. Piracy has been around for ages. The towel heads have been doing this for hundreds of years and, in fact, caused the birth of the US Navy. If you mean that I haven’t been eagerly reading various Twitter pages on this subject, that’s true. That’s because I view it more as a minor irritation than anything else. If it’s really bad, the workaround will be going around the Cape, which will add 8 days to a voyage. Depending on the size of the ship, larger vessels could even reduce the time to less because of the cargo/vessel size ratio. It’s not the end of the world.
I’ve actually been relying on your comments for a summary of what’s happening and all I’ve said is that those idiots are cruising for a severe bruising, which is something I believe will happen in due course.
Take away the leftard luvvies, and under a third of indigs follow it.
Everyone assuming SC will overturn the Colorado decision.
I reckon there is a strong possibility that they will not take the case.
Trump has few friends on that court, maybe Alito and Thomas but none else.
I hope I am wrong
‘Reckless’ renewables push slammed as ‘national self-harm’ on grand scale
15 hours ago
Sky News host Chris Kenny has slammed Australia’s “reckless” renewables push as “national self-harm” on a grand scale.
Energy giant AGL has announced approvals for a mega battery to be installed at the site of the old Liddell coal-fired power station in NSW’s Hunter Valley.
The battery will cost $750 million and supply 500 megawatts for a maximum of 2 hours.
“It is not the cheap or affordable option, and it is not the reliable option,” Mr Kenny said.
“It is consumers who will always wear the brunt of this, we will face the electricity shortages and we’ll get hit by the price increases and it is all getting worse.”
Battle over green energy projects in regional Australia could get ‘very ugly’
The development of green energy projects in regional Australia could become one of the biggest and most divisive issues next year, according to Sky News contributor Steve Price.
A string of major green electricity deals were struck in New South Wales, with a consortium awarded the contract to deliver an expanded Central-West Orana renewable energy zone, according to The Australian.
Mr Price expected the issue to receive more attention from the media next year as politicians “desperately” push to meet emissions targets.
“The battle over food-producing real estate and the largely foreign-backed green energy projects is going to get very ugly,” he said.
“It is in fact very ugly already in many parts of regional Australia, it is just that for city folk it’s out of sight out of mind.”
The Saudi “military” only operates in air-conditioning. Surely you’re not using the Saudis here as the gold standard in military prowess. That war was like a Dumb and Dumber routine. Just stop it with the “Saudis”.
Political advisers are not, as you might imagine, bookish swots (or policy wonks as some like to describe themselves) who work away on their particular special Mastermind subject in the background, waiting for the Minister to lob a request in their in-tray.
They all see themselves as junior politicians-in-waiting and the problem is that there is about twenty wannabes for every vacancy.
I’ll bet if you asked any of these advisers in Reynolds office for their thoughts on particular aspects of Defence policy after being there for two years, you wouldn’t be able to fill the back of a beer coaster.
And none of what they said would be policy analysis. It would be all PR talking points aimed at wedging the opposing party.
Chock full of vitamins K & B.
Eat up!
Bwah ha ha ha.
Did he say that?
Would it be too much to ask that he mentions Dolly and Cleo?
Wonder who the slightly dusky sheila is sitting a cuppla rows behind the CH10 mouthpiece?
Glasses on the head, frocked up in an overcoat wearing gloves despite sitting in an air conditioned room probably set at 22C.
Feminazi?
Analysis of the figures shows Mr Albanese travelled 371.7 hours domestically and 346.4 internationally on special purpose military flights costing a total of $3,915,886 as of June 2023.
And his contribution to Net Zero is -10000000000000000000000000000……………….To negative infinity and beyond.
YES is the word but NO is the answer. LOL
The whole area is a single “theatre”, under a single command.
You are getting close to angels on the heads of pins stuff.
10 lawyer rewriting history, suggesting that Higgins would have had to give evidence under oath and testimony and that that means she wouldn’t have persisted with the complaint lightly. She avoided doing all that for as long as possible, which in my opinion suggests she didn’t expect to have to do that at all.
Asparagus: strange looking things that pop out of the dirt at random intervals and don’t add much to most meals.
Takes 3 years to grow so eat your GREENS. Adam Bandit should be the first eaten by a Great White.
Was a lot cheaper when the Church was doing this in the Middle Ages.
A rep’s staff- and travel and board- should be funded out of the rep’s salary package. A bit of loading for remote reps, but no favours for ministers, premiers or debutantes.
Budgeted in advance, not funded post facto.
Because it’s not, we’ve got Brinny, Bruce, Airbus Albo, and 900+ for Team Dan Andrews.
Well hey I’m talking about interdiction.
Truth be told, I’m partial to lightly cooked asparagus pieces and peas tossed through buttered pasta.
The Houthis don’t have to be destroyed on the ground. Only their missiles (which are somewhat more difficult to conceal that a man with an AK-47) need to be found and destroyed, and the re-supply from Iran interdicted. (You don’t think that the Houthis have a missile factory, do you? If that is their source of supply, even better.)
Dover, take note 🙂
Woops – no gloves
But she’s jiggling her leg as if she’s busting for a piss
Many veges got a bad name through overcooking by mums & boarding school cooks.
Take Brussels sprouts, for instance…
3AW report …
“Despite attacks on the credibility of both witnesses the judge found that Lerhman was fundamentally dishonest.”
A bit fast and loose with the judge’s words (which I didn’t hear directly)?
I don’t get this ‘ not anti – Israel, just anti – Zionist ‘ thing. Zionism achieved its goal in 1948, a Jewish homeland in Palestine – the State of Israel. So what does just anti – Zionist mean.
Take Brussels sprouts, for instance…
Great with Pineapple.
Complete bullshit.
Just chucking this in here…
No way is a man who dresses in matching white with his girlfriend at the airport and then matching black on arrival abroad is heterosexual.
The French do it right. Uniform pieces, no overcooking and generous butter with moderate seasoning.
The channel 10 lawyer made the fundamentally dishonest comment.
Just get a load of these useless morons. Speed boats loaded up with IQ imbeciles wielding AK47s vs sophisticate naval craft.
Who wins? I don’t know.
The channel 10 lawyer is doing his job.
It’s a master class in gas lighting.
Exactly.
Neither Bruce nor Brittany ever contributed to a white paper.
They were junior political hacks.
The biggest lifts since the Saturn V:
Keith Urban dons chunky footwear as wife Nicole Kidman towers over him at Expats screening in Sydney.
If only this was shown in terms of PPP.
Bruce of Newcastle
Dec 21, 2023 11:43 AM
‘China is kaput’ is a veritable industry in the West.
China is kaput Dover, the demographics are brutal. The place will be a gigantic nursing home in about a decade.
BON,
China is shipping its aged care/health problem to OZ – just look around when in Hospital Outpatients
Surprised he hasn’t fully transitioned yet. It’s close though.
Latest:
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Wonder who the slightly dusky sheila is sitting a cuppla rows behind the CH10 mouthpiece?
Glasses on the head, frocked up in an overcoat wearing gloves despite sitting in an air conditioned room probably set at 22C.
Feminazi?
I was wondering the same thing. Why the overcoat?
Despite GE, Rolls Royce, Hitachi etc. thinking differently, Top Men at CSIRO and AEMO know that SMR’s will never be economic. Never. Ever. So, no further discussion will be entered into.
You forgot Toshiba. They even have a mini SMR that can go into the basement of a building. Maybe the Feral Guv’ment could get one in Canberra. If it ever did leak radiation, we could save billions on Parliamentary Pensions and benefits. LOL
https://www.global.toshiba/ww/products-solutions/nuclearenergy/research/safety-reactor.html
Did you catch the subtitles?
Pi55 off d*ckheads. A couple of well aimed missiles should see off their “navy”.
If you want to keep track of which of your local councillors etc. to send cranky letters to, the list for Palestine here is a petition currently circulating.
Ch 10’s lawyers are basically ceding that there was no rape and that Higgins is a compulsive liar but Lehrmann wanted a root behind his girlfriend’s back and therefore Ch 10 was absolutely right to concoct an obviously wrong story about rape and an even more obviously wrong story about a government cover up.
It’s pretty disturbing. Their lawyers are arguing that Lehrmann has no right to choose the way to defend himself. He was supposed to defend himself in a manner that would have made it easier for Higgins and Ch 10.
Qantas isn’t the worst then after a strong performance by Virgin.
Bloody hell.
Tinnies and 20 ft pleasurecraft.
One F/A-18E/F could lay waste to a few hundred of these per sortie.
The air con in the federal court building might not be keeping up with the outside changes.
I’ve attended a mediation there.
Day one was too warm.
Day two was too cold.
Same room and there wasn’t an independent temp control.
Those rooms are a few floors above where the courts are.
I’m assuming this the federal court building on Macquarie street.
Much maligned – and delicious halved and fried with chopped smoked bacon.
The Land Rover of brassica.
China is shipping its aged care/health problem to OZ – just look around when in Hospital Outpatients
Prease bring over your Family members. All welcome. China town awaits. Special Visa but no American Express. And prease vote LayBore/GREEN.
Re the positions of Malaysia & China re Israel:
Yep, the world is dividing into very clear blocs. Perhaps more than in the recent past. The effect on trade as well as domestic politics as economies are increasingly affected in 2024 & beyond …..,,…..
Dr Collins can’t even get the last 5 PMs right in his hypothetical.
They were Rudd, Abbott, Turnbull, Morrison, Albanese.
Gillard doesn’t feature.
Daily Mail.
Still trying to work out why Ch 10 are here at all ( the trial specifically, at all more generally). Tom’s theory may be right.
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JC, their F-15s have a/c. If they were ineffective what substantive difference is a US operated equivalent going to make? You’re just handwaving now.
C.L. are you saying Britnee has a strapon?
Chris
Dec 21, 2023 10:46 AM
I have a couple of Egyptian colleagues who I have befriended.
One of these friends (before Oct 7) told me that for the Exodus, the Jews borrowed gold jewelry from their neighbours on the excuse of going to a wedding.
The Bible says that GOD made the Egyptians favourably disposed to the Israelites and that they were to ask them for items of jewellery. No mention of a wedding.
They probably thought like the Palis’ that they would get it all back when the army slaughtered the Jews. (My opinion, not in the Bible).