Open Thread – Labour Day 2024


Sailors yarning, the midday rest, Henry Scott Tuke, late 19th/early 20th C.

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Steve trickler
Steve trickler
March 11, 2024 6:18 pm

Eyrie
Mar 11, 2024 6:13 PM
Some months ago Mrs Eyrie thought we should get a more modern refrigerator as the current one is 19 years old. We were told by two salespeople in different shops not to do it as the modern ones are lucky to last 6 years. So we didn’t.

Mine dates back to 1986. Still going.

Rosie
Rosie
March 11, 2024 6:20 pm

Suck it up proles, while you are at work during daylight hours your power is worthless.

Why you have to have a smart house that turns on washing machine and dishwasher in the middle of the day for you. And maybe pump up the appropriate heating/cooling to get the temperature right for the evening.

miltonf
miltonf
March 11, 2024 6:21 pm

Bucket hat makes all the difference. The Wings, wheels and Coffee car/air show at Bacchus Marsh aerodrome is a lot of fun too. Def needed my bucket hat there too. The UV down here in summer is savage.

Still got a Mitsubishi fridge in the garage bought in 2000 and still going strong.

miltonf
miltonf
March 11, 2024 6:22 pm

I like to turn the washing machine on when I feel like it.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 11, 2024 6:25 pm

Mrs Eyrie thought we should get a more modern refrigerator as the current one is 19 years old. We were told by two salespeople in different shops not to do it

I moved into my place 10 years ago, having finally extracted that poisonous viper now known as the ex Mrs KD in the manner of a tooth that had been subject to a failed root canal procedure.

On possession day, I turned up with the estate agent. Peering through the kitchen window, I noticed that the fridge – an older model, but not ancient – was still in the kitchen, having been left there by the previous owners.

After quickly establishing that the said fridge was now mine, I was pleased to discover that it was a cracker, and is still doing its bit to this day.

My fridge, the one I brought in, went out the back and became a repository for beer and meat. It stopped working (aside from the freezer) about four years back, and the fridge section now holds an assortment of tools, dog leads and engine oil containers.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
March 11, 2024 6:27 pm

miltonf

All good. Yea not giving up yet but as said days are numbered now, I know that. Wish I hadn’t shunned climbing that corporate tree now LOL.

Yeah na, wouldn’t have traded my experiences for quids and the places I’ve seen that sometimes few humans have done. Plus not being a company man had advantages, especially when the fit wasn’t right. You could cordially walk away and find something better.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
March 11, 2024 6:27 pm
Alamak!
March 11, 2024 6:29 pm

Private batteries installed and managed by AEMO. Yes they will and you won’t be allowed to isolate it from the grid.

Given the mob in power and the attitudes of the companies & investors its hard to see any libertarian solution being made available for consumers of ruinable power.

I’d guess batteries will be made mandatory at low, low rates of interest for all solar powered folks. Power will have its way on ‘green’ power and that network rebuild at a cost of Tns won’t be done if we don’t all throw into the port …

caveman
caveman
March 11, 2024 6:33 pm

Expendables 4 was ripped off at the Oscars.

miltonf
miltonf
March 11, 2024 6:35 pm

Management sux imho. You get cut off from the really interesting technical stuff which makes me want to keep going to work (need the money too of course).

Rosie
Rosie
March 11, 2024 6:41 pm

Don’t we all but what’s the point of having solar if you don’t use it to your advantage?

miltonf
miltonf
March 11, 2024 6:42 pm

If I ever have solar, I’d go off grid altogether- so I can control it

Bespoke
Bespoke
March 11, 2024 6:46 pm

Apparently doing stupid stuff in my younger days means I have to back of an 80yo with disc bulges to boot and numerous other degenerative conditions that will cause me arthritis.

I’m not as bad Rockdoctor. But do not miss hanging pipes or fishing out sump pumps.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 11, 2024 6:47 pm

Bruce of Newcastle
Mar 11, 2024 6:06 PM
ANALYSIS HOW WILL THE WAR END

The war will end when one or t’other side collapses.
Dunno which myself, could be either of them.

Read Geoffrey Blainey, The Causes of War.

Wars start when two side disagree about their relative power. They stop when one side accepts that it is the weaker.

Ukraine thought that with western backing, it had the advantage. Russia thought that it had the numbers and strength to win. At some point, one or the other will accept the new balance.

Johnny Rotten
March 11, 2024 6:48 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Mar 11, 2024 6:10 PM
Other slogans included “eyes on Gaza,” “free Gaza”

“Gaza is homeless”

https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=Paul+Gascoigne+Is+Now+Homeless&qpvt=paul+gascoigne+is+now+homeless&FORM=EWRE

JC
JC
March 11, 2024 6:49 pm

Jeez, reading some of Niall Feguson’s thoughts ( Google search Niall Ferguson News) is really depressing. More so about Europe than the US. Europe looks like it’s in the shitter and perhaps not coming out.

JC
JC
March 11, 2024 6:53 pm

Lol, He’s “chessing” as well as “mathing” now. Incredible brain. Puts large language models to shame.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 11, 2024 6:54 pm

Ukraine thought that with western backing, it had the advantage. Russia thought that it had the numbers and strength to win. At some point, one or the other will accept the new balance.

BJ – That’s what I said. The one who is wrong is the side who will collapse. I see signs of extreme strain on both sides.

Alamak!
March 11, 2024 6:57 pm

Ukraine thought that with western backing, it had the advantage. Russia thought that it had the numbers and strength to win. At some point, one or the other will accept the new balance.

Pyrrhic victories are available for multiple parties to share.

JC
JC
March 11, 2024 6:58 pm

Given the mob in power and the attitudes of the companies & investors its hard to see any libertarian solution being made available for consumers of ruinable power.

Fair dinkum, how on earth would you expect a libertarian solution to straddle the current abortion that’s been created over the past 20 years by both political parties? This is now a late term abortion without anesthetic.

There actually is a libertarian solution. The federal and state governments to remove themselves entirely from the energy markets and promise to do so forever. This would also include the removal of any sanctions against nuclear energy.

Johnny Rotten
March 11, 2024 6:58 pm

Boambee John
Mar 11, 2024 6:47 PM
Bruce of Newcastle
Mar 11, 2024 6:06 PM
ANALYSIS HOW WILL THE WAR END

The war will end when one or t’other side collapses.
Dunno which myself, could be either of them.

The UKR is no longer a functioning Nation. It is only being being kept going by Western aid. And that aid is running low. With Victoria Nuland, the NeoCon Warmonger, now gone then maybe things are coming to a head.

Hopefully, some sanity soon and an end to this with Russia likely able to dictate better terms than the UKR.

JC
JC
March 11, 2024 7:00 pm

The promise would have to be done in such a way that it would be impossible for any government to ever intervene again. Perhaps through over the moon massive penalties if they ever tried it on.

Alamak!
March 11, 2024 7:01 pm

There actually is a libertarian solution. The federal and state governments to remove themselves entirely from the energy markets and promise to do so forever. This would also include the removal of any sanctions against nuclear energy.

Energy Anarchy … might not suit everyone unless they’re named Max and driving V8 Interceptors.

Alamak!
March 11, 2024 7:04 pm

modest, practical means of transportation for the coming energy anarchy

John H.
John H.
March 11, 2024 7:10 pm

Bruce of Newcastle
Mar 11, 2024 6:54 PM
Ukraine thought that with western backing, it had the advantage. Russia thought that it had the numbers and strength to win. At some point, one or the other will accept the new balance.

BJ – That’s what I said. The one who is wrong is the side who will collapse. I see signs of extreme strain on both sides.

The only way Russia will fold is if the public demand it. They won’t do that because off to the gulag. Putin can’t afford to make any concessions, he has to claim victory. He started a war and didn’t expect it to cost so much. He should have known the military was riddled with corruption, under training, and deficient hardware. Analysts were writing about that long before the war. He either chose to ignore the warnings or expected a quick win.

Johnny Rotten
March 11, 2024 7:12 pm

A young woman phoned her dad in tears:

“When I was driving to work today, my car spluttered and died. I walked home to see if Tom could give me a lift but I found him in bed with the girl from across the road. What should I do?”

Her dad replied, “well, first I would check to see if there’s petrol in the tank, otherwise the carburetor might be blocked”.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 11, 2024 7:17 pm

Police remind the community that peaceful protest is part of healthy democracy, however criminal acts will not be tolerated.

It might be worth someone’s while, such as those on Sky at Night, to ask the Police Commissioner in point form what is actually covered by the right to peaceful protest.

> Blocking roadways

> Menacing people trying to enter a shop

> Disrupting events with no connection to whatever faecal matter they are protesting

> Damaging private property – or public property since the public pays for it

> Shouting down other people’s free speech

We should also get the distinction between protests with permits and those without.

Once the Commissioner commits themselves their questioner can trawl the law books, and next time a protest occurs which breaches the list they can be pilloried on TV.

I swear all our officialdom has the same attitude – get by and collect your money. In this cause they kowtow to the aggressive and violent lawbreakers at the expense of the peaceful and tolerant law abiding.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 11, 2024 7:20 pm

The UKR is no longer a functioning Nation.

JR – Here’s what happened this week. Zelensky booted Zaluzhny, then appointed him to be Ambassador to the UK.

Which he has meekly accepted.

Now there’s a lot in this, since Zaluzhny is highly regarded. I think the good general has plans. Before long Zelensky will have to accept an election: he will be under pressure from both within and internationally. In that election Gen. Zaluzhny will stand as a candidate. And I think he will win.

All of this presupposes Ukraine is sufficiently in the game for an election to take place, which I think will be the case. I am not seeing any signs of impending collapse. Indeed the extreme effort the RGS took to deliver Putin’s victory in Avdiivika before the election actually weakens the Russians quite a lot. They committed a serious amount of their best remaining forces and suffered significant air losses in providing the required close air support.

But the underlying message is that Zaluzhny knows the game is on, and there’s no reason for him to not play it, which would not be the case if Ukraine was tottering.

chrisl
chrisl
March 11, 2024 7:20 pm

Ironic that the coffee shops and cafes have to close on Labour Day because the labour is too expensive

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 11, 2024 7:26 pm

FREE GAZA!!

WITHE EVERY PURCHASE OVER FIFTY DOLLARS FROM YOUR LOCAL SUPERMARKET!!!

Problem is they are giving them away because no one wants one. The Egyptians have been pretty clear on this.

Noisy, smelly, treacherous, and providing absolutely no benefit.

Like selling stuff with BONUS DISEASES.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 11, 2024 7:31 pm

The only way Russia will fold is if the public demand it.

The other way is if the nation disintegrates. Which is unlikely but not impossible. Putin could die also, that’d offer an exit opportunity.

Ukraine could likewise collapse. There’s obviously great deal of strain, especially about conscription and sufficient warm bodies for the trenches. And the lack of ammo too.

Russia also has a warm body problem. The scams they have been running to seduce poor Indians, Nepalese and Cubans means the losses the Russians have suffered are a lot higher than some of my esteemed Cat colleagues think. They wouldn’t be incurring the wrath of those governments unless the situation was extreme. I can add that the peacekeeping force the Russians had in Nagorno Karabakh were all from the strategic missile force – button pushers in uniforms. That strongly suggested the Russians had run out of anyone else. The Azeris shot five of them dead and the rest scarpered.

Roger
Roger
March 11, 2024 7:32 pm

Police remind the community that peaceful protest is part of healthy democracy, however criminal acts will not be tolerated.

Context?

NSW plod?

cohenite
March 11, 2024 7:33 pm
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 11, 2024 7:37 pm

having finally extracted that poisonous viper now known as the ex Mrs KD in the manner of a tooth that had been subject to a failed root canal procedure.

I didn’t know we were married to the same woman!

miltonf
miltonf
March 11, 2024 7:40 pm

I saw that filthy creature too Cohenite. Never actually put out a fire. Has a BA of course. Universities have a lot to answer for. BIRM.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 11, 2024 7:41 pm

Fascist Pit Bull’: FDNY Commissioner Blasted for Planning to Track Down Firefighters Who Booed NY Attorney General Letitia James

There really is a manifest tendency for these awful overly political officials to be women.

To be thoroughly honest, the only surprise is that she is not black.

John H.
John H.
March 11, 2024 7:42 pm

Bruce of Newcastle
Mar 11, 2024 7:31 PM
The only way Russia will fold is if the public demand it.

The other way is if the nation disintegrates. Which is unlikely but not impossible. Putin could die also, that’d offer an exit opportunity.

Ukraine could likewise collapse. There’s obviously great deal of strain, especially about conscription and sufficient warm bodies for the trenches. And the lack of ammo too.

Russia also has a warm body problem. The scams they have been running to seduce poor Indians, Nepalese and Cubans means the losses the Russians have suffered are a lot higher than some of my esteemed Cat colleagues think. They wouldn’t be incurring the wrath of those governments unless the situation was extreme. I can add that the peacekeeping force the Russians had in Nagorno Karabakh were all from the strategic missile force – button pushers in uniforms. That strongly suggested the Russians had run out of anyone else. The Azeris shot five of them dead and the rest scarpered.

It depends what we mean by a Russia win. I don’t understand why anyone will be pleased with Russia winning a war that results in so much death and destruction. It is the invader, not Ukraine. Your comments point to a longer term problem for Russia. The war has raised concerns about military hardware that will reduce sales in an increasingly competitive environment. Russia is already at least 20 years behind the west in military technology and will fall further behind. The use of foreign nationals will upset many governments, and recent publications support your idea of huge Russian losses.

miltonf
miltonf
March 11, 2024 7:42 pm

Upon graduation from Whittier College in California with a BA in Political Science and International Relations, she moved to New York City and lived in all five boroughs, managing and campaign consulting for non-profits, community-based organizations and unions. She earned a Master of Public Administration degree from Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs. Kavanagh completed the Executive Leaders Program at the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business’ Summer Institute

Zafiro
Zafiro
March 11, 2024 7:46 pm

Why are left wing women always so ugly?

Jealousy of good looking women that morphs into vindictiveness against God and greater society. Misanthropy usually results aswell.

Rosie
Rosie
March 11, 2024 7:49 pm

Spent yesterday walking up and down the hills of Sliema including out to ‘The Point’ on the peninsula the largess shopping mall in Malta and as boring as any other shopping mall.
It appears to have been built around the old battery, hidden under a walkway, and some sort of barracks, of which only the facade remains, walk around a blind corner you are standing over the waves crashing on to rocks.
So far as I could see there is only one tree in all of Sliema outside of a few citrus in the very few high walled private gardens.
Down on the strand there is a tiny bit of land with some grass and a couple of straggly shrubs where there is a protest sign regarding the proposal to to put a petrol station there, the only public garden in all of Sliema!
On top of the mall complex is a soccer ground for the locals, lots of boys in football kit around.
The perimeter of the harbour and peninsula is lined with tall buildings, hotels and apartments with a couple of big retailers, like Zara. Up the hills it’s mostly traditional residential, two storey with the brightly painted covered balconies, too many in a state of decay, bizarre with Malta’s housing shortage.
The abandoned shoe store with dusty shoes in the windows is still there. The retailer nearest me, the indefatigable Fiona runs at least four shop fronts, see something in one of the windows, anything from household goods, shoes, clothing, all sorts, to religious statues she’ll open up and get them for you.

Beertruk
March 11, 2024 7:53 pm

Look at the fuking head on this thing:

Why are left wing women always so ugly?

Guessing full on ‘lesbiantard.’

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 11, 2024 8:00 pm

Russia is already at least 20 years behind the west in military technology and will fall further behind.

Actually John I think it’s the other way ’round.

The Z War has been an absolute hothouse for drone development. Russia and Ukraine are now so far beyond anyone else that I suspect the West is going to get a rude shock.

We’re seeing some of this in the Red Sea, since the drone tech is percolating to iran and thence to the Houthis. Western navies aren’t quite outclassed, but they are outgunned. By a bunch of fractious peasants.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 11, 2024 8:04 pm

Why are left wing women always so ugly?

Lefty thinking allows the delegitimisation of feminine beauty as a form of masculine oppression.

Just think of how liberating it must feel to be able to wipe away, as if with a giant sponge, all those years of struggling with weight, with ill-favoured physiognomy, and with insuperable societal awkwardness.

Leftism will always be a refuge for the physically, mentally, and spiritually ugly.

Alamak!
March 11, 2024 8:06 pm

Rosie
Mar 11, 2024 7:49 PM
Spent yesterday walking up and down the hills of Sliema including out to ‘The Point’ on the peninsula the largess shopping mall in Malta and as boring as any other shopping mall.

Enjoying the series, thanks Rosie.

👍

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 11, 2024 8:14 pm

Fibre Optic cable guided drones that go out to 10Km, immune to ECM are new. The Russians have them. This could probably be extended to shorter range ATGM with first person view to improve accuracy.
Amazing how much time and effort the human race goes to to invent better ways of killing each other.

miltonf
miltonf
March 11, 2024 8:19 pm

Me too Rosie

Roger
Roger
March 11, 2024 8:30 pm

Chalmers offering a sop to cost of living concerns by axing 500 tariffs that Frydenberg was too lazy to attend to.

Two cheers for that, but if that’s all he has up his sleeve he’s exposed as another mediocrity like his predecessor.

I’m beginning to think that Australia’s gene pool, when fed through our education system, is not capable of producing politicians of the calibre required to make the decisions necessary to avoid an Argentina like decline, or worse.

Our luck has run out.

Harlequin Decline
March 11, 2024 8:33 pm

Speaking of Eyes on Gaza did you know that ‘Eyeless in Gaza’ can refer to one of the following?

A quote from one of Milton’s works or

A novel by Aldous Huxley or

A 1980’s UK band

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 11, 2024 8:36 pm

Fibre Optic cable guided drones that go out to 10Km, immune to ECM are new

I saw the story about them, awful devices.
I would have thought something like the Israeli Merkava trophy system would be effective against drones, but it seems not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmvx430HJlo

Roger
Roger
March 11, 2024 8:39 pm

Speaking of Eyes on Gaza did you know that ‘Eyeless in Gaza’ can refer to one of the following?

You neglected to mention the Holy Bible, from which all the other references derive.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
March 11, 2024 8:39 pm

Another QF72 moment? Boeing can’t take a trick at the moment.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13181787/auckland-latam-la800.html

Bespoke
Bespoke
March 11, 2024 8:40 pm

Commentators have noted that CHIPS and Science Act money has been sluggish. What they haven’t noticed is that it’s because the CHIPS Act is so loaded with DEI pork that it can’t move.

Johnny Rotten
March 11, 2024 8:42 pm

Bruce of Newcastle
Mar 11, 2024 7:20 PM
The UKR is no longer a functioning Nation.

JR – Here’s what happened this week. Zelensky booted Zaluzhny, then appointed him to be Ambassador to the UK.

Which he has meekly accepted.

Sorry Bruce, this is all being done with Other People’s Money. The West’s including the stupid Australian Government.

Just like Albo here and the Socialists. All done with other people’s money.

Z already already has his bolt hole in Florida ready and waiting. That UKR 2023 Spring Offensive seems to be taking a heck of a long time. It is now Spring 2024. And where is that Offensive now?

Game over very soon.

JC
JC
March 11, 2024 8:44 pm

I haven’t even seen Indians, Nepalese and Cubans in small numbers.

You’re on the battlefield, Dover?

miltonf
miltonf
March 11, 2024 8:46 pm

A novel by Aldous Huxley

miltonf
miltonf
March 11, 2024 8:48 pm

Our luck has run out.

it was never just luck- it was hard work, skill and vision none of which Horne had. ‘A cheeky little lout’ my Mum called him.

Bespoke
Bespoke
March 11, 2024 8:49 pm

Embedded internet reporter, lol!

Rosie
Rosie
March 11, 2024 8:51 pm

Samson, eyes gouged out and taken into slavery in Gaza.
No wonder Gazans gouged out the eyes of so many of the dead hostages.

Winston Smith
March 11, 2024 8:51 pm

Mother Lode:

I swear all our officialdom has the same attitude – get by and collect your money. In this cause they kowtow to the aggressive and violent lawbreakers at the expense of the peaceful and tolerant law abiding.

This is the point I’ve made repeatedly with the”Sheep, Sheepdog, and the Wolf.
What happens when the sheepdog decides it wants a quiet life and colludes with the wolf to prey on the sheep?
It still gets paid.
This realisation is now almost totally across the board with most of our institutions – not interested in doing the job they were hired for, only want a quiet life.
It leaves the sheep with only one option.

miltonf
miltonf
March 11, 2024 8:54 pm

A remember some garbage Horne wrote in the Sydney Morning Vomit c1983- ‘let’s have an arts led recovery’ fmd.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 11, 2024 8:55 pm

I haven’t even seen Indians, Nepalese and Cubans in small numbers.

I linked it for you yesterday Dover. Thousands from the look of it. The Indian and Nepalese governments aren’t happy. Even the Cuban government isn’t happy, which I thought somewhat surprising.

Johnny Rotten
March 11, 2024 8:55 pm

chrisl
Mar 11, 2024 7:20 PM
Ironic that the coffee shops and cafes have to close on Labour Day because the labour is too expensive

That is just so Ironic. And actually, moronic. Welcome to the new Australia.

m0nty
m0nty
March 11, 2024 8:57 pm

There actually is a libertarian solution. The federal and state governments to remove themselves entirely from the energy markets and promise to do so forever. This would also include the removal of any sanctions against nuclear energy.

If Albo removed the nuke sanctions tomorrow, there would be no serious attempt to build a nuke power station in Australia.

All such attempts in the US have failed recently. Australia would be no different.

The economics of the situation are so simple that even morons like you lot should be able to comprehend them.

JC
JC
March 11, 2024 8:59 pm

If Albo removed the nuke sanctions tomorrow, there would be no serious attempt to build a nuke power station in Australia.

All such attempts in the US have failed recently. Australia would be no different.

The economics of the situation are so simple that even morons like you lot should be able to comprehend them.

Well, if they removed the prohibition, and it’s too expensive, then what is the point of the sanctions as they wouldn’t be built. You idiot.

cohenite
March 11, 2024 9:02 pm

If Albo removed the nuke sanctions tomorrow, there would be no serious attempt to build a nuke power station in Australia.

You’re such a fuking moron dickless. It’s not just the nuke sanctions its the 10+billion in subsidies given to ruinables plus the grid preference given to the stupid things. Now go and put the milko’s kiddies to bed.

JC
JC
March 11, 2024 9:02 pm

Also, you’re way behind, Archimedes. Factory built modular, nuclear power plants are pretty much on their way, Fatboy.

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 11, 2024 9:03 pm

Winston,
I’m trying to remember a long ago Pohl and Kornbluth novel along the sheep/wolves lines.
BoN?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 11, 2024 9:03 pm

I have Eyeless in Gaza on the shelf.

Johnny Rotten
March 11, 2024 9:03 pm

What happens when the sheepdog decides it wants a quiet life and colludes with the wolf to prey on the sheep?
It still gets paid.

That reminds me about eggs and bacon for breakfast –

Both the chicken and the pig look on at a family eating breakfast. The chicken comments how a chicken’s eggs allows it to participate (or involve) itself to help others. The pig then comments on the bacon/ham; pigs aren’t just “participating” or “involved”—they’re totally committed!

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 11, 2024 9:06 pm

Ah yes, “Wolfbane”.

m0nty
m0nty
March 11, 2024 9:12 pm

Factory built modular, nuclear power plants are pretty much on their way

So’s Christmas. And it will take a lot more Christmases before we see an actual real operational factory producing SMRs.

m0nty
m0nty
March 11, 2024 9:17 pm

The nuke debate is pretty much this:

Idiots: We want you to stop moving to renewables and focus all your efforts on an ephemeral technology that only exists on paper, with a long history of cost overruns, that will only arrive in 15 years at the very earliest, with no track record in this country, plus it could kill millions of people without warning if we don’t get it perfectly right 100% of the time, plus it is the biggest security risk you have ever seen.

Normies: No.

Johnny Rotten
March 11, 2024 9:17 pm

The economics of the situation are so simple that even morons like you lot should be able to comprehend them.

Well, MontyPox Virus, the Perfesser of Economics 000 (Net Zero), please tell that to all the other G20 Countries that have built or are building Nuclear Power Stations and that they are so wrong. They would just love to hear your words of wisdom.

Over to you now Tosser (Wanker). BTW. Are you right or left handed?

Harlequin Decline
March 11, 2024 9:18 pm

Roger
Mar 11, 2024 8:39 PM

Even though I didn’t pay much attention during Religious Instruction I was aware of the Samson story and sequence of events.

However I don’t recall the phrase being quoted as such.

Is that wording actually in the Bible somewhere?

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 11, 2024 9:20 pm

Bruce of N and Alamak!

The Russians and Ukrainians are still at the stage of working out their relative strengths. If there is an enforced ceasefire now, then the situation will end up like the Korean Peninsula, dragging on at a low level for decades.

In 1902 the Boers accepted that they had been defeated and accepted British terms. In early 1918, Russia accepted that it had been defeated and accepted Brest-Litovsk (described by Lenin as “This treaty that Russia, grinding its teeth, is forced to accept.”). In late 1918, Germany accepted defeat, and signed up to Versailles in 1919. In 1943, Italy saw reality, and change sides. In 1945 Germany and Japan accepted defeat, and surrendered unconditionally.

Russia and Ukraine have a way to go yet, but forcing a ceasefire with the basic issue unresolved just extends the pain into the future, as a slow bleed.

The same applies to Israel versus Hamarse and the Hizbies. Finish Hamarse off now, and the Hizbies might sea reality. Force a ceasefire, and the pain extends to infinity.

Johnny Rotten
March 11, 2024 9:23 pm

Well, MontyPox Virus, the Perfesser of Economics 000 (Net Zero), please tell that to all the other G20 Countries that have built or are building Nuclear Power Stations and that they are so wrong. They would just love to hear your words of wisdom.

And, I forgot to add that Egypt and Uganda are both building Nuclear Power Plants (with help of course). And, that Australia already has one built at Lucas Heights in a Sydney Suburb. Oh dear and shock horror. Never been an accident since the year dot.

Dot, where are you these daze?

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 11, 2024 9:23 pm

m0nty
Mar 11, 2024 9:12 PM
Factory built modular, nuclear power plants are pretty much on their way

So’s Christmas. And it will take a lot more Christmases before we see an actual real operational factory producing SMRs.

Or perhaps only a couple of state or nationwide blackouts.

Have you installed solar cells and a battery in your house and your rental slums? Bought a Tesla? If not, stock up on spam, baked beans and tinned or dried vegetables.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 11, 2024 9:25 pm

mUnturd

We want you to stop moving to renewables and focus all your efforts on an ephemeral technology that only exists on paper

And in multiple nuclear-powered warships and some research stations in the Antarctic.

m0nty
m0nty
March 11, 2024 9:30 pm

If the Liberals actually believed in nukes, they would have made one single move to start building them in its last decade in office.

They did not.

They know the whole debate is all just a distraction, a con job for Dutton to escape scrutiny. Do you?

JC
JC
March 11, 2024 9:33 pm

Fatboy, you’re not in parliament. You’re on a blog, so stop peddling bullshit.

If nuclear is too “explensive” there’s no point in having sanctions.

JC
JC
March 11, 2024 9:34 pm

If they were there in numbers they’d be in photos or vids on Telegram, and then Twitter. Hardly anything happens that isn’t recorded.

They don’t have to be there in overwhelming numbers.
How do you tell from a fat eastern Russian compared to say a Nork?

cohenite
March 11, 2024 9:35 pm

Dickless’s argument against nukes is the lnp didn’t do it so it’s not possible. Of course a lot of the lnp are dickless too. Every nuclear powered warship in the world has an SMR on it. China’s just built their Linglong SMR. It took 2 years. The new SMRs are IFR technology which means much less waste and much greater efficiency.

JC
JC
March 11, 2024 9:39 pm

m0nty
Mar 11, 2024 9:30 PM

If the Liberals actually believed in nukes, they would have made one single move to start building them in its last decade in office.

They did not.

They know the whole debate is all just a distraction, a con job for Dutton to escape scrutiny. Do you?

Who’s defending past Lib policy here, Fatboy?

In any event, the Liars party have legislated for zero by 2030 or 35. I can’t recall which. That’s a major change in policy that wasn’t there under the Libs.

m0nty
m0nty
March 11, 2024 9:40 pm

If you think the nuke reactors they have in warships are cost effective enough to compete with solar PV for domestic supply, you are just plain ignorant and should stop talking about the subject.

JC
JC
March 11, 2024 9:42 pm

m0nty
Mar 11, 2024 9:40 PM

If you think the nuke reactors they have in warships are cost effective enough to compete with solar PV for domestic supply, you are just plain ignorant and should stop talking about the subject.

So left the restriction then. No biggie,right?

m0nty
m0nty
March 11, 2024 9:44 pm

To be clear: I am making fun of the near-zero track record and lack of existence of SMRs, yes, but “oh but they will be awesome when they exist, honest” is not an effective comeback.

Because even if that were true, nukes are so far behind solar on price that is ridiculous to even consider them in a market-based economy.

m0nty
m0nty
March 11, 2024 9:45 pm

So left the restriction then. No biggie,right?

Right. So why didn’t the Libs do it? They had a decade.

Muddy
Muddy
March 11, 2024 9:46 pm

We Snuck Into a CIA Base In The Aussie Outback

YouTubers allegedly sneaking into the Pine Gap facility. (I only watched the intro, which was ‘Hush-hush, secret CIA spy base…’ as though no-one had ever been aware of it before today. They also featured an image of comns structures, and spoke in the same tone, but I think (maybe, possibly) that what was featured was part of the over-the-horizon radar network, which again, is neither recent, nor the existence of it secret).

Yawn.
(Australia is too small a minnow in military and economic strength, and too strategically-located to avoid such security partnerships with the U.S. Our navy, for example, is not much larger than the Kiwi one, which consists of a tinny and a crab pot).

Gabor
Gabor
March 11, 2024 9:48 pm

m0nty
Mar 11, 2024 9:40 PM

If you think the nuke reactors they have in warships are cost effective enough to compete with solar PV for domestic supply, you are just plain ignorant and should stop talking about the subject.

Would you expand on this?
Or “please explain”

You are ignoring a lot of facts, I don’t even want to mention China or India building hundreds of coal fired power plants and nukes, all well known.

But Europeans are running and building nukes and are not terrified of it except in places being run by Greens.
We don’t need nukes, coal will do nicely and if the renewables can compete at 24/365 reliability and price all the better.
Have at it.

JC
JC
March 11, 2024 9:52 pm

m0nty
Mar 11, 2024 9:45 PM

So left the restriction then. No biggie,right?

Right. So why didn’t the Libs do it? They had a decade.

Dunno. It’s more imperative now seeing we’re walking into a liar’s party legislated net zero environment. If it’s too expensive there’s no reason to have the restriction. Unless I’m mistaken, the Liars party are in government now, aren’t they?

JC
JC
March 11, 2024 9:54 pm

Orange oaf commenting on the Oscars in real time. This dude is hilarious.

Has there EVER been a WORSE HOST than Jimmy Kimmel at The Oscars. His opening was that of a less than average person trying too hard to be something which he is not, and never can be. Get rid of Kimmel and perhaps replace him with another washed up, but cheap, ABC “talent,” George Slopanopoulos. He would make everybody on stage look bigger, stronger, and more glamorous. Also a really bad politically correct show tonight, and for years – Disjointed, boring, and very unfair. Why don’t they just give the Oscars to those that deserve them. Maybe that way their audience and TV ratings will come back from the depths. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Donald Trump Truth Social 08:39 PM EST 3/10/24

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
March 11, 2024 10:01 pm

Everywhere in the world country people are pushing back on land hungry grossly inefficient renewables.
Monty, you know sweet FA about the the ISP and should, in your quaint socialist way, be against the cabal of crony capitalism that rewards billionaire miners and punishes farmers and rural communities.
Needing to use vast quantities of our best agricultural land to produce electricity should make any normie question the plan and those who devised it.
Wake up sunshine.

m0nty
m0nty
March 11, 2024 10:04 pm

If it’s too expensive there’s no reason to have the restriction. Unless I’m mistaken, the Liars party are in government now, aren’t they?

The Libs had a decade to drop the ban. They didn’t, because they knew it would be massively unpopular.

They would love for Labor to take the electoral hit on their behalf, but a driver’s dog could see through that wheeze. You’ve got Chris Bowen, of all people, running rings around Dutton, cracking one-liners one after the other. Why on earth would they stop now?

Basically, the Libs have been running on cons and grifts for so long, they’ve got nothing else, and no one with a brain is fooled any more.

m0nty
m0nty
March 11, 2024 10:10 pm

Gez, that’s a funny line considering the farmers and miners have been at each other’s throats for decades over land use. Now suddenly you’re on their side? Pull the other one.

Mines have to be where the minerals are, regardless of the quality of topsoil above, which is why there has been so much squealing about mines destroying farmland.

Solar input is the same everywhere on the planet, so their farms don’t have to be built on arable land.

JC
JC
March 11, 2024 10:14 pm

Fatboy

The liars say it’s too expensive. If so, there is no reason to restrict it, no matter what the libs failed to do.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
March 11, 2024 10:16 pm

But they are precisely that – the REZ are mandated on the best land.
Ask yourself why?

m0nty
m0nty
March 11, 2024 10:17 pm

These stark differences are echoed in the most recent Levelized Cost of Energy Analysis by Lazard, a leading financial advisory and asset management firm. Their findings suggest that the cost per kilowatt (KW) for utility-scale solar is less than $1,000, while the comparable cost per KW for nuclear power is between $6,500 and $12,250. At present estimates, the Vogtle nuclear plant will cost about $10,300 per KW, near the top of Lazard’s range. This means nuclear power is nearly 10 times more expensive to build than utility-scale solar on a cost per KW basis.

For Gabor. Not to mention a similar CSIRO study where the multiple was something like six times, IIRC.

If you come back with “oh but SMR will be different” then shush until we see SMR factories existing outside of a napkin.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
March 11, 2024 10:19 pm

Victoria REZ
-Western district
-Wimmera
– Goulburn Valley
-West Gippsland
-NE Victoria (King valley)
Who does that?

m0nty
m0nty
March 11, 2024 10:19 pm

The liars say it’s too expensive. If so, there is no reason to restrict it, no matter what the libs failed to do.

If the Libs want to drop it, let them win government and drop it. Until then, Labor will continue making fun of them.

132andBush
132andBush
March 11, 2024 10:27 pm

Solar input is the same everywhere on the planet, so their farms don’t have to be built on arable land.

Really?
Monty is a flat earther.

No surprise there.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
March 11, 2024 10:29 pm

The renewable industry means more mines.
The coal will still be dug up and sold but also mineral sands mines are planned on farmland as well to supply the panels and batteries.
Bowen says we have huge untapped resources in renewable energy. It is tapped, and you see it when you go into the food section of the supermarket.
There should never be a contest between food production and renewables but that’s what is in the plan.
Electricity is an input not a product.

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
March 11, 2024 10:30 pm

Mines have to be where the minerals are, regardless of the quality of topsoil above, which is why there has been so much squealing about mines destroying farmland.

Frogshit.
Mines take up a miniscule amout of land compared to the propellors on sticks and shiny glass panels.

m0nty
m0nty
March 11, 2024 10:33 pm

But they are precisely that – the REZ are mandated on the best land.

No they are not, Gez. The “best land” is relevant for wind, not really as much for solar unless you count proximity to existing infrastructure.

The main issue with the REZ system seems to be providers wanting to site their plants way out in Woop Woop. Almost literally, I mean they want farms at Broken Hill which is not the most arable pasture in the world.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
March 11, 2024 10:33 pm

There’s a big solar farm planned on the rich volcanic soils of Colbinabbin. Great tomato growing country and just about anything else.
The renewable industry is in a gold rush phase with little of any government oversight apart from approving any project they can grab enough land to be viable.

Gabor
Gabor
March 11, 2024 10:35 pm

m0nty
Mar 11, 2024 10:17 PM

This means nuclear power is nearly 10 times more expensive to build than utility-scale solar on a cost per KW basis.

Quote this on the 24/365 base reliability, once you include the inevitable storage battery costs you will find it’s unaffordable not to say impractical until by some miracle battery technology will improve.
Many studies prove this.
Until then why not use what we have?

I am not against renewables and BTW I was talking about full scale nuclear power plants
as being operated now and had been for decades, not some portables on the drawing board. They may come I’m sure, eventually.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 11, 2024 10:37 pm

How about this.

A pudgy city ranga living off the largesse of others, and with hands so soft they’d be pierced by cos lettuce is explaining to career farmers, and miners for that matter, what’s what about which land is suitable for which purpose.

Amazing scenes, here on the Cat.

cohenite
March 11, 2024 10:37 pm

If you think the nuke reactors they have in warships are cost effective enough to compete with solar PV for domestic supply, you are just plain ignorant and should stop talking about the subject.

I would have said you were piss taking dickless but then you refer to levelised costing. LC is bullshit. It ignores subsidies, backup, unreliability, the extra infrastructure of ruinables, the synchronous condensers, the extra gridand transmission, the ruining of farmland; the fact ruinables just don’t work because they’re weather dependent. You’re such a fuking moron.

Head prefect you eat with this dickhead. You owe me a meal as punishment.

132andBush
132andBush
March 11, 2024 10:37 pm

Have a read of this, Monty.

Just so you can be clear on at least one thing.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
March 11, 2024 10:37 pm

Too wrong for words Monty.
Transmission costs rule out far flung land.
Go to the AEMO sight and look at the REZ areas and the transmission plan.
Get back to me when you learn something.

m0nty
m0nty
March 11, 2024 10:41 pm

Gabor, I implore the Libs not to take a policy of building nuclear facilities all over Australia to the next election. It would be highly damaging to Labor’s prospects if the Libs announced plans for radiation-spewing monstrosities in every marginal electorate.

132andBush
132andBush
March 11, 2024 10:41 pm

There’s a big solar farm planned on the rich volcanic soils of Colbinabbin. Great tomato growing country and just about anything else.
The renewable industry is in a gold rush phase with little of any government oversight apart from approving any project they can grab enough land to be viable.

Being opposed in court by many locals the last I heard.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 11, 2024 10:41 pm

Any, “Sliante” to you lot. I have received a clean bill of health, for a medical problem which was causing me some apprehension, si I’m having a couple of single malts in celebration, and reading “Sharpe’s Waterloo.”

An interesting problem, in etiquette. A society belle – the Duchess of Richmond is giving a ball. One of the guests wishes to bring his current love interest – a lady who is married to someone else….who will also be there…in the days of dueling…

caveman
caveman
March 11, 2024 10:42 pm

NRL give Roosters Spencer Leniu 8 weeks calling another of his clan a “monkey” ,in the real world who really gives a shite but alas its the real world.. But is 8 weeks enuff, should he have been rubbed out for life ? Should he undergo a Laryngectomy as he could do this again. Is Leniu the real face of racism? What does Adam Goodes think?
I remember a show called Monkey and the dude was a Chinese kungfu demon.
You could have got better value by maybe dangerously high tackling the guy and whilst he is on the ground saying how did like that ya monkey. That’s more 8 weeks worth.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
March 11, 2024 10:50 pm

I spoke to a farmer who’s next door to the solar farm. It’ll be angled right at his house at a certain time of the day.
They do not give a stuff about people. The corporates are in a feeding frenzy with the full approval of government and regulators.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 11, 2024 10:50 pm

The Tele:

Sex Crimes Squad detectives are hunting a man wanted on an outstanding warrant, accused of removing his ankle monitor.

River Jordan, also known as Daniel Dowdy, is wanted by police on an outstanding arrest warrant relating to the alleged destruction and removal of his ankle monitor.

‘River Jordan’. I wonder what his special interests may be.

Aside from goats, obviously.

m0nty
m0nty
March 11, 2024 10:51 pm

What is your problem with a farmer putting up solar panels, anyway? It’s their land. If they make more money that way, obviously the land wasn’t profitable enough.

You lot are painfully ignorant of basic economics, or are just talking through your wallets. You want subsidies to continue for all your pet projects, but not for new ones that offend your ideology.

cohenite
March 11, 2024 10:53 pm

They’ve arrested Tommy Robinson again. And the piano player who was assaulted by the chunks and then threatened by some female copper has disappeared:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aloDLcBMsNM

Rosie
Rosie
March 11, 2024 10:53 pm

It’s an obvious problem if it affects neighbours.
Presumably Monty would be delighted to have solar panels aimed at his home.

132andBush
132andBush
March 11, 2024 10:54 pm

You want subsidies to continue for all your pet projects,

Name one.

m0nty
m0nty
March 11, 2024 10:56 pm

If you are trying to say farming and fossil fuels aren’t subsidised, I will laugh even harder at you.

132andBush
132andBush
March 11, 2024 10:58 pm

You lot are painfully ignorant of basic economics,

Nepotism and crony capitalism are both hallmarks of the communist system so it’s no wonder you are all barred up over this crap.

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 11, 2024 11:00 pm

‘They have no idea what we’re facing’: Alice crime scourge escalating

Despite last year’s intense focus violence is still on the rise, and few locals expect anything to change. CCTV does little to deter the gangs in search of cars to steal – including mine.

By LIAM MENDES

It’s 4am in Alice Springs and a gang of young men in a stolen ute is attempting burnouts in the middle of town.

Two of the occupants are hanging out of the rear windows with scarfs wrapped around their faces, one armed with a baseball bat.

The young driver isn’t having much luck pulling off a burnout but that doesn’t stop him careening wildly through roundabouts and across pavements.

When they notice The Australian taking photographs, they start making gang signs and set off firecrackers.

The police station is just one block away but the cops are nowhere to be seen.

The Australian has reported before on children as young as 10 driving stolen cars through town. But these aren’t kids and there’s an air of menace about them.

The baseball bat is a sign of an unwelcome but increasing trend in crime in the Territory. In the past five years, offences against the person have jumped by 37 per cent; property offences by 53 per cent.

Police have been particular targets of the violence, says NT Police Association president Nathan Finn, with an upsurge in offenders deliberately ramming police cars with stolen vehicles.

“This type of violent, reckless, dangerous offending is escalating, and our members want to know what is being done to ensure their safety,” Mr Finn said.

Yet in the past 10 years, he says, only 20 more police have been employed.

“The NT government has absolutely no idea what our members face day in, day out, and the senior police executive can only operate with the finite resources it has,” Mr Finn said.

Even judges and prosecutors have become victims.

One judge has been the target of multiple burglaries; recently, a local Crown prosecutor packed up and left town after being robbed in daylight on the street near her office.

Houses are attacked with golf clubs, assaults are carried out on joggers. Shopping malls have been left ghostlike. Store owners lock their doors even when they’re open.

Little more than a year ago, a national spotlight was placed on the town amid fly-in visits from Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton, but the intense focus was vanishingly brief and the town is again awash in grog.

No one is surprised to hear that Mr Albanese, Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney and Opposition Leader Mr Dutton, are all visiting again – and few expect anything to change.

Locals will continue to live in a state of constant hypervigilance.

Many homes are equipped with CCTV and motion-activated lights, but that does little to deter the gangs in search of cars to steal – including mine.

During several months reporting from Alice Springs over the past year, this reporter has sometimes stayed with baker Darren Clark – a fierce advocate for his town since violence and crime exploded following the lapse in intervention-era grog bans.

Last week, I was asleep, along with the other people in Clark’s house, when a group of boys discovered the back door hadn’t properly locked. The boys knew what they were looking for, ignoring my camera equipment and homing in on the car keys.

My rented Nissan X-Trail was gone; so too Clark’s Toyota.

“There’s so many of these young gangs now,” Clark says. “They’re not scared of a camera being on. If they don’t leave a print, they can’t be identified by their faces. They know they can’t be charged.”

For the past few years, Clark has been living in daily fear of burglary and violence. “I’d rather they steal my car, instead of waking up to the kids in my room, which has been happening more and more,” he said.

“The amount of stories I’ve heard where people have had machetes held to their throats and (their keys) being demanded, I’ve always left mine out on the bench in plain sight. You’re always on high alert, when we hear a noise or the dog barks or growls.

“You’re always on edge.”

The tragedy is that it is not only the victims of crime in grave danger. Late last week, local Aboriginal families were plunged into mourning after an 18-year-old youth died when the stolen Toyota HiLux he was riding in rolled and crushed him. It was stolen from a caravan park on the outskirts of town, driven through a boom gate and taken for a joy ride.

On Saturday Detective Senior Sergeant Brendan Lindner said eight youths fled the scene, leaving their friend to die on the footpath. “They showed a callous disregard for their critically injured friend and fled the scene, abandoning the 18-year old who was lying on the road in significant pain and unable to move while against the vehicle, which was billowing smoke following the crash,” Mr Lindner said.

The young man who died was facing two counts of driving and using a vehicle without consent, and had been before the courts on four separate occasions. He was also the father of two-month-old.

A war between families who want “payback” against the driver and those who fled the vehicle has begun. Over the weekend the victim’s family moved out of town.

Oz

132andBush
132andBush
March 11, 2024 11:00 pm

You want subsidies to continue for all your pet projects

Name one.

Rosie
Rosie
March 11, 2024 11:01 pm

I’m at the Tarxien Temples, Hagar Qim’s poor cousin.
Lacks majestic sea views and bus parking.
Were discovered by farmers in the early 20th century who complained to local educated person about their plows scrapping dressed stones, now in the middle of a suburb.
The unusual statues from here, same for Hagar Qim are in the archaeological museum in Valletta.
If you are pressed for time Tarxien is very easy to get to, with lots more bus choices and a very easy 350 metre walk down a side street.
I was going to go to the three cities on the 13 bus, but the grumpy old man at Sliema insisted I catch a different bus and change at Valletta, so I did.
No dobbing please.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 11, 2024 11:02 pm

A war between families who want “payback” against the driver and those who fled the vehicle has begun. Over the weekend the victim’s family moved out of town

Aaaand here we go again.

Perhaps more solar panels would help.

cohenite
March 11, 2024 11:02 pm

Laugh all you want dickless; the cackling of the left is a rallying cry for the normies.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 11, 2024 11:05 pm

What is your problem with a farmer putting up solar panels, anyway? It’s their land

You deluded, insular squealy freeloader.

You really do have no idea what the issues are.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 11, 2024 11:07 pm

Man wrongly accused of killing former Rebels boss awarded $250k in damages
Angie RaphaelNCA NewsWire
March 11, 2024 4:17PM

An innocent man wrongly identified online as the assassin who murdered senior bikie Nick Martin has been awarded $250,000 in damages for the defamatory accusation.

The former Rebels boss was shot by a sniper while sitting with his family at Perth Motorplex in Kwinana in December 2020.

The hitman was a former soldier who was charged with murder about three months later and eventually sentenced to 20 years in prison.

His identity remains suppressed.

But David Siglin posted the innocent man’s name and three photos of him on Facebook, claiming he had been arrested for the crime.

“The question is whether it is thought that (the man) has performed a public service, assuming, of course, that he is guilty as charged?” the post read.

“If he did, in fact, ping notorious bikie boss Nick Martin, the question is: Why did he do it? Was he suddenly moved to magnanimously clean up our community, or was he contracted to act as he did?

“If he was contracted, then by whom and for what reason?

“His lawyer, David Manera, did not give a commanding performance on the steps of court. He will need to lift his game considerably.”

Several people replied to the post, telling Siglin he had named the wrong person and it could put the man and his family in danger.

But Siglin initially refused to remove the post, saying there was “nothing stupid about outing a person who has been charged” — until two days later when a detective contacted him.

The innocent man learnt about the post from a friend while at dinner, then deleted his social media accounts.

WA District Court Judge Wendy Gillan said the man was angry that he had been dragged into something he had nothing to do with.

“He was very concerned for his own security, from the risk of retribution by outlaw motorcycle gangs, but was also concerned about the security of his family and friends who may be caught in the crossfire,” she said.

Judge Gillan noted the man left his home, sold his belongings and withdrew from his usual life.

“It caused him considerable hurt, fear and anxiety. I find that the emotional impact on the plaintiff was severe for more than a year,” she said.

The judge also found the imputations were very serious.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 11, 2024 11:10 pm

A war between families who want “payback” against the driver and those who fled the vehicle has begun. Over the weekend the victim’s family moved out of town.

A Voice/Treaty/Truth telling will solve all these problems, surely?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 11, 2024 11:11 pm

Nobody in Alice Springs got a packet of cable ties?

Salvatore, Iron Publican
March 11, 2024 11:39 pm

From the wikipedia page of the former Aussie Rules player who’s now claiming that many of the game’s leading lights were racist toward him when he was playing. He seems nice;

In 1974, Krakouer, at the age of 16, was convicted of rape in Albany Court; despite maintaining the sex was consensual..
He was convicted in the same court of driving causing death in 1976.
In 1985, Krakouer was convicted of 26 counts of sexual penetration of a minor, assault, abduction and unlawful imprisonment.
Despite being very well paid during his career, Krakouer was a problem gambler and frittered away all of his money.
Consequently, Krakouer turned to crime to get by. In 1996, Krakouer was convicted and imprisoned for 16 years for his part in a drug-trafficking scheme transporting amphetamines from Melbourne to Perth. Having served nine years of his sentence, he was released on work release in August 2004. He has also had restraining orders held against him due to his violent behaviour.

Uh huh.

John H.
John H.
March 11, 2024 11:42 pm

dover0beach
Mar 11, 2024 11:09 PM
Nomos Events?
@NomosEvents
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3h
>No aircraft
>No crew
>Limited munitions
>Not seaworthy enough even for exercises
>Towed back to Scotland for remedial work
>Sets on fire.

A fitting flagship for managerial Britian. A floating tub of ritual humiliation. The culmination of what millions of British men died for.

Cursed.

All of Britain is cursed. That’s very sad. At least the British carriers are still floating. The Kuznetsov is probably finished which is militarily irrelevant because it keeps breaking down and is too old. They plan sea trials this year. We know that is happening by looking for the huge plume of smoke because of the ridiculous fuel it uses.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 11, 2024 11:50 pm

1974, Krakouer, at the age of 16, was convicted of rape

Yep.

Krakouer was convicted of 26 counts of sexual penetration of a minor

Yep.

He has also had restraining orders held against him due to his violent behaviour

And yep.

Guess what flavour his victims were?

MatrixTransform
March 11, 2024 11:56 pm

You lot are painfully ignorant of basic economics

so stfu kulak … he said with a mouthful of silicon chips

MatrixTransform
March 11, 2024 11:57 pm

A Voice/Treaty/Truth telling will solve all these problems, surely?

is it battery or solar powered?

Salvatore, Iron Publican
March 12, 2024 12:16 am

Guess what flavour his victims were?

Being as he’s not a racist, one presumes his victims were of same-same flavour as he.

Black Ball
Black Ball
March 12, 2024 3:51 am

Who the experts are remain unmentioned. Will only post the opening paragraph, Hun:

Australian taxpayers will not be slugged with an extra levy to fund the nation’s aged care, but Labor will consider expert calls for the elderly to co-fund more of their own supports – either at home or in a residential facility – if they can afford to.

I thought this is what superannuation was for. And those who have exhausted theirs I wouldn’t think are on the yellow brick road.
Are death taxes still a thing?

Tom
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Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
March 12, 2024 4:24 am

All paintings of royal persons to be banned because they do not represent reality and have been manipulated.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
March 12, 2024 4:54 am

I hear that people are leaving the New Montellaxy blog and going to CL’s.

KevinM
KevinM
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Bungonia Bee
Mar 12, 2024 4:54 AM

I hear that people are leaving the New Montellaxy blog and going to CL’s.

What is the New Montellaxy blog?

I visit this one and CL’s blog. basically the same people comment on both.
Nothing wrong with that, different topics.

Occasionally I check in the lollypop blog, but it’s a waste of time I’m sorry to say, such promise and let down after.

Still trying to work out the ‘dick..d’ definition, seems like anything the dominant blog member doesn’t approve of.

Hugh
Hugh
March 12, 2024 5:36 am

Harlequin Decline
Mar 11, 2024 9:18 PM

Is that wording actually in the Bible somewhere?

No, but the reference is clear enough:

“But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.”
Judges 16:21

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
March 12, 2024 5:37 am

Another kidney stone coming down the pipe.
Not a great night. A two endone and still uncomfortable.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
March 12, 2024 5:42 am

Monty’s parade of ignorance last night was a new low for the selfish socialist.
I wonder if he does anything for the community that’s selfless.

MatrixTransform
March 12, 2024 5:53 am

… anything for the community that’s selfless

but his commentary is a grace

sweet and nourishing like honey collected and condensed from the bees buzzing in his head

now get back on the tractor kulak

Bespoke
Bespoke
March 12, 2024 6:04 am

Kidney stones, Gez.

Condolences.

Bespoke
Bespoke
March 12, 2024 6:08 am

So if liberal Jews/Israelis seeking peace and actively volunteering to help Palestinian children giving their perspective is so objectionable to these people that they would quit the publication for publishing an article from them, then why would I believe they view any Jews as human beings worthy of consideration?

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
March 12, 2024 6:09 am

Thanks Bespoke.
I passed one on the left a few weeks ago and another was spotted on a scan on the right last week.
Always at night. Must be the position.
I need to change a few things in the diet and drink a lot more. Farming is a sweaty job.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
March 12, 2024 6:14 am

Just as the fakest movie (Barbie) gets accolades and has earned $1.4b, we have a huge fuss by the mostly left media, anti-monarchists and Kate Haters over an amendment or two to a photo of her family.
Women amend their faces all the time, particularly before having a photo session – it’s called makeup. Get over it you cheap and nasty scum.

KevinM
KevinM
March 12, 2024 6:16 am

Farmer Gez
Mar 12, 2024 6:09 AM

Always at night. Must be the position.
I need to change a few things in the diet and drink a lot more. Farming is a sweaty job.

Never had it thanks God, but heard saying that the one advantage of drinking lots of beer is that your kidneys function well.

All the best dealing with it.

shatterzzz
March 12, 2024 6:38 am

This is a pix of a genuine receipt from a DARWIN beachside cafe, last Sunday .. FFS!
https://ibb.co/L8Jhbcz

Winston Smith
March 12, 2024 6:59 am

Black Ball

Mar 12, 2024 3:51 AM
Are death taxes still a thing?

Not yet, BB.
But I’m sure a budget emergency will turn up that makes it fair and equitable – for the government. (That emergency will already be here as we are in a

per capita

recession)

Winston Smith
March 12, 2024 7:02 am

Farmer Gez

Mar 12, 2024 5:42 AM
Monty’s parade of ignorance last night was a new low for the selfish socialist.
I wonder if he does anything for the community that’s selfless.

Apparently he looks after the Milko’s kids, but I’m sure that’s just a nasty rumour.

Johnny Rotten
March 12, 2024 7:06 am

Farmer Gez
Mar 12, 2024 6:09 AM

Always at night. Must be the position.
I need to change a few things in the diet and drink a lot more. Farming is a sweaty job.

Apparently, drinking Apple Cider Vinegar helps to gradually dissolve kidney stones and prevent the stones from forming –

https://www.healthline.com/health/kidney-health/acv-for-kidney-stones#_noHeaderPrefixedContent

johanna
johanna
March 12, 2024 7:17 am

Excellent article at Taki’s about the effect of distant wars on British political life here:

The public squares in towns and cities across the U.K. have become vicarious cockpits for an intractable inter-Semitic conflict raging 2,500 miles away. Centuries-old Parliamentary procedure has been mangled for fear of angering the partisans of one side of that conflict mustering with supposed menaces outside the Palace of Westminster. By-elections in desiccated postindustrial Lancashire ghost towns are won or lost on the issue of distant Gaza. And prodigal amounts of arms and money continue to belch out of the U.K. toward the east as the government assures and reassures the citizenry that the moral and military underwriting of a semipermanent meat-grinding war in Ukraine remains somehow vital to the British national interest.

The explanations for this weird outsourcing of Britain’s collective emotional life overseas are diverse but codependent: a Muslim population, swollen in the past 25 years by unprecedented high tides of immigration. A radicalized left still buzzing with the background radiation of the Jeremy Corbyn era. Generation Z with its Instagram-addled understanding of the world as slogan and spectacle. And a fortifying dose of what Walter Benjamin called bureaucratic romanticism: the tendency of the liberal middle classes to indulge a taste for revolutionary violence from afar, a rare excuse in these days of moral relativism for guilt-free ethical clarity, transposed to an agreeably abstract context where the boundaries between good and evil seem to be clearly delineated and a side can be picked and cheered on well out of sight or earshot of the actual fighting and, indeed, the actual issues.

and

Then again, and in an odd way, this is not so much a refurbishing of the national character as a reversion to the old imperial angst over a global patrimony on which the sun never set. A.J.P. Taylor once called the stalwarts of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament the “last imperialists” for their gross overestimation of Britain’s relevance to Cold War realities. So too the British left continues to find moral satisfaction by basking in the negative afterglow of empire, as if this weary little Atlantic island and its opinions were still the epicenter of seismic events. The results are often unintentionally—and inevitably—hilarious. It’s doubtful, for example, that Chorley in Lancashire is of any great moment to Israeli military policy, yet the weighty deliberations of its borough council were recently thrown into turmoil by an impromptu motion to demand a ceasefire in Gaza. This is virtue signaling at its most earnest and simultaneously its most absurd, a Morse code of overwrought dots and maudlin dashes that identify the signaler unequivocally as One of the Good Ones, a card-carrying conscript of the Current Thing. We see the same naivete, tedious but touching, in the Ukrainian flags that enliven the heraldry of countless social media profiles: I might be irrelevant, I might be clueless, but I care.

Compare this level of analysis with the drivel being served up by the MSM. The internet has certainly showed us just how mediocre (at best) the ‘analysts’ employed by the MSM are, including those at allegedly top drawer outfits that don’t cater to mass audiences.

At TheirABC, the term ‘analysis’ is misused to the point of illiteracy. Crap like ‘why the Coalition has a problem with women’ and one I saw recently about how the best way to help with the cost of living is more welfare, are described as ‘analysis.’ They are nothing of the sort. They are cheap propaganda.

Look at the article cited above – full of historical, literary and cultural references, well written, and obviously the fruit of a lot of thought and work by the author.

‘Why the Coalition has a Problem with Women’ number 473 – pah! 🙁

Johnny Rotten
March 12, 2024 7:17 am

Now, they are looking at building these off shore Wind Towers in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park slap bang in the path of migrating whales –

https://www.offshorewind.biz/2023/05/17/orchid-energy-unveils-10-gw-offshore-wind-plans-in-queensland/

Another Blackout Bowen “initiative”. Hopefully, Tanya Plebersuck, the Federal Environment Minister puts a stop to this madness if it ever gets the Corporate go ahead.

Comment from MontyPox Virus in due course please………………………..

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
March 12, 2024 7:17 am

This guy has form and will end up dead on the side of a rice paddy soon after abusing the wrong person:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13182819/Aussie-motorcycle-rider-goes-ballistic-Thailand-hit-car.html

Name looks Kiwi though, Ratukore Jones Aganon.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
March 12, 2024 7:17 am

Lemon juice according to the urologist.

KevinM
KevinM
March 12, 2024 7:18 am

shatterzzz
Mar 12, 2024 6:38 AM

This is a pix of a genuine receipt from a DARWIN beachside cafe, last Sunday .. FFS!

This is a true tale, my BIL offered a $2 tip to a waiter in Cairns and it was refused with a smirk and a remark. “if it’s all you can afford, you best keep it”.

Never been there but it must be a posh place.
Correct me if I’m wrong.

cohenite
March 12, 2024 7:20 am

Opinion: I’m a climate scientist. If you knew what I know, you’d be terrified too
Opinion by Bill McGuire

FMD.

Great toons this morning. Like every other section of the community there are those cartoonists with TDS and those who have functioning brains.

Rosie
Rosie
March 12, 2024 7:39 am
Boambee John
Boambee John
March 12, 2024 7:40 am

m0nty
Mar 11, 2024 9:40 PM
If you think the nuke reactors they have in warships are cost effective enough to compete with solar PV for domestic supply, you are just plain ignorant and should stop talking about the subject.

Note that mUnturd focuses only on “domestic (ie, household) supply”. He clearly sees no need for electricity to power industry, hospitals, schools, traffic management and the myriad of other essential services that use electricity in a modern economy.

He is just plain ignorant, and should stop talking about the subject.

Does he have solar panels on the roof of his home, and a household battery? Does he drive a Tesla? Or is he just another leftard hypocrite, completely ignorant of reality?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 12, 2024 7:40 am

He’s getting worse.

Prince William makes statement at Earthshot Prize event after Princess Kate photo row (11 Mar)

Prince William issued an urgent warning in central London tonight, saying now is the “critical decade” to try and set the planet on a “healthier” path to deal with the climate crisis.

It’s been a critical decade every decade for the last fifty years and nothing has happened. His dad has said this stuff endlessly, like in 2009 when he said 100 months to save the world from “irretrievable climate and ecosystem collapse, and all that goes with it.” I suppose that means the world did irretrievably collapse in 2017 on expiration of the 100 months and we’re just imagining that we’re still alive and healthy.

Well I suspect the crisis ain’t going to be the climate, it’s going to be the monarchy. Quite soon too.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 12, 2024 7:46 am

Solar input is the same everywhere on the planet, so their farms don’t have to be built on arable land.

mUnturd hasn’t heard of indigenous lands, national parks, glaciers in high latitudes.

mUnturd is an idiot.

John H.
John H.
March 12, 2024 7:49 am

‘Mixed feelings’: Hiroshima grapples with ‘Oppenheimer’ Oscars success

“Is this really a movie that people in Hiroshima can bear to watch?” said Kyoko Heya, president of the Japanese city’s international film festival, on Monday after the blockbuster won seven Academy Awards including best picture.

How do Australians, Koreans, and Chinese feel knowing how you raped our women until they died, that Japan conducted biological experiments on the Chinese and used Chinese for bayonet practice? That you were not signatories to the Geneva convention, or how about the Batan death march, the treatment of POWs. Yet you still carry on about a couple bombs when the alternative was millions dead and your entire culture obliterated. We even allowed you to keep your emperor. Be grateful you asswipes.

Why doesn’t anyone call them out on this hypocrisy!?

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 12, 2024 7:52 am

radiation-spewing monstrosities in every marginal electorate.

mUnturd failed Economics 1. If that basic level is beyond his mental capacity, it is no wonder that he has no ability at all to comprehend electricity generation, and particularly nuclear reactors.

“radiation-spewing”? LOL, what a fvckwit.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 12, 2024 7:54 am

Farmer Gez
Mar 11, 2024 10:50 PM
I spoke to a farmer who’s next door to the solar farm. It’ll be angled right at his house at a certain time of the day.
They do not give a stuff about people. The corporates are in a feeding frenzy with the full approval of government and regulators.

And so-called, self-designated, “leftists” like mUnturd are fully on side with corporate greed.

The Great Reversal indeed.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 12, 2024 7:56 am

This is a pix of a genuine receipt from a DARWIN beachside cafe, last Sunday .. FFS!

If that is in fact a genuine receipt, from a ‘beachside cafe’ (of which there are only two or three), last Sunday – at the nadir of the tourist season, stinking hot and sweat 24/7 at the tail end of the Wet, but just before the monsoon we’re in now – then that cafe won’t survive till the Dry five or six weeks from now.

The $7 Sunday surcharge looks like a bit of a giveaway though.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 12, 2024 7:59 am

Pretty much as we thought.

£286 billion nuclear submarine deal that’s one of Britain’s biggest on brink of collapse (11 Mar)

The £286 billion nuclear submarine deal under one of Britain’s biggest security pacts appears to be teetering on the brink of collapse, raising serious concerns about Australian, British and US defence plans.

The deal has faced scrutiny from defence experts, leading to warnings that it might not come to fruition.

Hugh White, an emeritus professor of strategic studies at the Australian National University and a former defence adviser, expressed scepticism about the effectiveness of the plan.

In an interview with ABC RN’s Global Roaming, Professor White said: “I think the chance of the plan unfolding effectively is extremely low.

Allan Behm, the director of the international and security affairs program at the Australia Institute, echoed doubts about the feasibility of the deal.

If Labor’s go to guys the Ponds Institute and Hugh White are opining on this I take it to mean Labor isn’t serious about it either. Which fits with Bowen’s sneering at nuclear power: that is another window into the thought processes of the ALP. Dumping on nuclear power while supposedly wanting to build a ginormous nuclear engineering industry in Adelaide was always rather incongruous. The antinuke thing is religious doctrine they all grew up with, so nuclear submarines would be anathema to them. But Marles can’t get out of it without an excuse, or he’ll be crucified for leaving Australia undefended. I wonder if the Ponds Institute could make some money by offering Chinese language courses?

Crossie
Crossie
March 12, 2024 8:02 am

Bruce of Newcastle
Mar 12, 2024 7:40 AM
He’s getting worse.

Prince William makes statement at Earthshot Prize event after Princess Kate photo row (11 Mar)

I am astounded by Princess Kates admission that she doctored the photo. Were the Waleses becoming jealous of Meghan and Harry’s shenanigans and wanted some of that action?

Tom
Tom
March 12, 2024 8:06 am

Like every other section of the community there are those cartoonists with TDS and those who have functioning brains.

Quite so, Cohenite. I was delighted to learn this week that Queensland’s Brett Lethbridge doesn’t have Trump Derangement.

I want to pay tribute to the Orange man, who has a godlike ability to expose his enemies as jibbering troglodites who can’t hear what he’s saying because they’re foaming with rage about his popularity with normal people.

Crossie
Crossie
March 12, 2024 8:09 am

How do Australians, Koreans, and Chinese feel knowing how you raped our women until they died, that Japan conducted biological experiments on the Chinese and used Chinese for bayonet practice? That you were not signatories to the Geneva convention, or how about the Batan death march, the treatment of POWs. Yet you still carry on about a couple bombs when the alternative was millions dead and your entire culture obliterated. We even allowed you to keep your emperor. Be grateful you asswipes.

Well said. As for why nobody is calling them out for their hypocrisy, Japanese cars that are far better than any other Asian outputs.

johanna
johanna
March 12, 2024 8:11 am

Here is an article which illustrates everything that is wrong with the way young people who are clearly on the way to a crash landing are failed – but not for the reasons they posit:

Fifteen-year-old Kailab, as the court heard his family wanted him known, was one of five young people travelling in a stolen car when it crashed near Manton Dam in July 2022.

The teenager was not driving at the time and his body was found 35 metres from the car.

Kailab was a few weeks shy of his 16th birthday when he was killed and his death is subject to a mandatory coronial inquest, as he was in the care of the Department of Territory Families at the time.

Kailab was a much-loved child, nephew and grandson to his immediate and extended family,” Counsel Assisting the Coroner Helena Blundell said.

His family say he was so likeable, even when he was being naughty … and they know his behaviour was not always positive or safe.”

The teenager was an up-and-coming hip hop musician, who released music under the name “Palmo Stingah”, and the coroner heard he was “full of potential”.

His family loved him so much that he had 35 different placements from the age of five, including some with extended family, in his 16 years of life.

Later in the article, it is mentioned that his carers were sometimes worried about their personal safety – i.e. he was violent.

Kailab’s needs were described as “complex”, after diagnoses of attachment disorder, complex trauma, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD).

Hang on, didn’t they say that he was a rising hip-hop star and ‘full of potential’? Sounds more like a trainwreck to me, if the diagnoses are accurate. And that’s a big ‘if.’

What makes me so angry is that, while none of us know what he was really like, everyone is lying through their teeth about his lousy life.

35 placements in 11 years, yet his family loved him. No, they didn’t. Not enough to take responsibility for looking after him properly. He was five years old when he was removed from his presumably pisswreck/druggie parent or parents. Don’t tell me that a five year old can’t be rescued.

Then, all that cant about his ‘potential’ as a ‘rising hip hop star’, yet he was diagnosed with enough problems to put him in an institution. So, which is it? They are all lying to cover their arses.

It is this conspiracy of dishonesty that results in kids like him ending up dead, in gaol, or both. Nobody is willing to take responsibility for them, so they just career down the inevitable path to disaster.

It’s unforgiveable.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
March 12, 2024 8:20 am

Rufus T Firefly
Rufus T Firefly
March 12, 2024 8:21 am

“Idiots: We want you to stop moving to renewables and focus all your efforts on an ephemeral technology that only exists on paper, with a long history of cost overruns,”

Right, ……, so if you could please list the countries that have successfully “transitioned” to renewables, that are of course not only more efficient, but much less expensive, I would be most grateful M.

Oddly, (I know I could be an outlier), my power bills reflect higher cost to me, the more “cheaper” renewables are added to the system.
Now, why would that be?

Let’s look at case studies in, ….., Europe, for example.
How are the krauts going with their “transitioning”?
How are the Poms going?

Oh ……., but wait, I didn’t factor in the utter genius of Bowen and the foresight, honesty and intellect of our PM.
Clearly, where every other country has failed, we will succeed, ……., gotcha!

“Gott mit uns!”

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
March 12, 2024 8:22 am

Published nearly ten years ago – nothing’s changed – the bureaucrats continue to cover their arses from way-back-when and continuing

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