Neocon Queen Of Darkness Calls For US To Bomb Russian Targets Within Russia

Fully rigged. Any old crime will do.

@TomFitton

Judge Merchan, a Democratic Party activist who as a sitting judge made illicit political donations to Joe BIden and other anti-Trump political groups, just took a key step to rig a verdict against Trump. From  
@Politico: “To find Trump guilty of felony-level falsification of business documents, the jury must unanimously find that Trump falsified the documents in order to commit or conceal a separate crime. But the jurors do not all have to agree on what that separate crime was, Justice Juan Merchan ruled.” It there a more lawless approach than allowing jurors to individually pick unspecified crimes over which to convict someone? #BananaRepublic

‘We were all duped’ | Report: Egypt changed terms of Gaza ceasefire deal

I’m wondering if the CSIRO economists factored maintenance and replacement costs into their calculations on nuclear v/ renewables?

Windmills, solar panels and batteries have comparatively short operating life-spans (c. 20 years with proper maintenance), whereas a new nuclear plant could function for up to 80 years, about four times as long as wind turbine “farms” or solar panel arrays, which have to be multiplied many times over across the land with battery storage to produce the electricity required and still require “firming”.

And what about sticking with coal? 😀

So who will head WEF next?

The short priced favourite (media-wize) is wokeness personified ..
TONY BLAIR ..

Marty and former Senator Reynolds look set to send some heads rolling down St Georges Tce. Nothing WA lawyers like more than serving it up to the wise men of the East. Suspect Brittany and the Liars are joined at the hip at this point. Dave’s folded.

Howard should be ashamed of himself. FIFY.
He has so much to be ashamed of.

We regularly travel the Great Western Hwy between Sydney across the NSW Blue Mtns. It continues to astonish us that, since the decision of the NSW govt to discontinue the plan to construct a tunnel to relieve the congestion and open up the West the focus has been on increasing lanes in bottle neck locations. Worse, the construction sites employs enormous numbers of workers and huge numbers of earthmoving vehicles that seemingly shift the dirt from one location to another. I am no engineer, but husband is, and he is aghast at the number of workers and machinery which will seemingly construct bottlenecks which will only exacerbate congestion.

BTW we see this multiplication of road workers on Council projects in our rural area as well. Husband reckons it is because of the plethora of regulations that generate underemployed workers.

We are doomed, says Hanrahan. But Hanrahan is frequently right.

Next he must prosecute all those who prosecuted the J6 people. He should be able to do that as it falls under federal law jurisdiction.

Wait, prosecute them in federal court in DC? ROFL

According to separate reports on the ABC web news Snowy 2 will cost $12 billion to finish and a nuclear plant will cost $8.5 billion. Any sane government would halt Snowy 2.00 now and put the remainder of the money into nuclear. At least nuclear would be generating power.

Maladroit Blight Trumble’s original costing was $2bn.

Meanwhile, their ABC reported this morning that tunnel borer Florence has broken again after hitting hard rock, having bored through just 150m of her 15km target after being stuck for 10 months in soft ground.

Who needs to build bollards any longer to protect pedestrians? Daily Telegraph:

The Brookvale Bus Depot is set to become the first in Sydney to fully support a full fleet of electric powered buses.

Work on the $21 million upgrade, to begin later this year, will include the installation of 16 charging bays.

Transport Minister Jo Haylen also confirmed that the first of 229 new battery electric buses will be joining the Brookvale fleet, operated on behalf of the state government by Keolis Downer Northern Beaches, from next year.

The upgrade is part of Stage 1 of the government’s $3 billion Zero Emission Buses (ZEB) Program, which aims to have about 1700 electric buses across Greater Sydney — in 11 depots — by 2028.

There are currently about 8000 diesel and gas-powered public buses across NSW, but the government wants to convert the state’s whole bus network to zero emission technology by 2047.

Charging bays at Brookvale will be made up of three plug-in chargers and 13 overhead “fast charging” pantographs, making it the first electric bus depot with pantograph charging in Australia.

Ms Haylen pointed out that the ZEB Program’s roll out, which was outlined in the government’s second Bus Taskforce Report, would be supported by the Australian bus manufacturing industry.

It was announced last year that bus builder Custom Denning, based at St Marys, would be providing “Element 2” battery electric buses to Keolis Downer Northern Beaches.

“We want to help create healthier, more liveable communities, which has a sustainable transport network that doesn’t emit harmful carbon emissions,” Ms Haylen said.

“Our aim is to achieve this while supporting local industry and operators, ensuring our zero emissions, hi-tech buses can be built locally – with Stage 1 of the ZEB Program expected to support around 1,400 jobs across the construction, bus assembly, supply chain and manufacturing industries.”

The independent state MP for Wakehurst, Michael Regan, who has been persistently lobbying for an improvement to local bus services, welcomed the depot’s electric upgrade.

“As a regular bus passenger myself, I can’t wait to see the northern beaches’ fleet go electric,” he said.

“Converting the Brookvale depot and its single-deck fleet to battery electric is the first step in the journey towards northern beaches’ buses going electric.

“I can’t wait to be boarding electric buses from next year, and eventually B-Lines as well.

“Having electric buses rolling across the beaches will be a powerful symbol of the sustainable future that awaits us, if we make the right decisions and investments.

“So goodbye noisy polluting buses of the past, hello quiet, clean and modern electric buses of the future.”

Keolis Downer CEO Julien Dehornoy said he was proud to be working with the government to deliver the first depot to be fully converted to electric.

“Electric buses will deliver a more sustainable transport option for the northern beaches’ communities and cements our commitment to support governments across Australia to accelerate the energy transition with large-scale deployments in public transport.” he said.

The depot upgrade announcement comes ahead of a “Warringah & Wakehurst Traffic and Transport Forum” to be hosted by Mr Regan and independent federal MP for Warringah Zali Staggall on Thursday.

It begins at 7pm at Manly Leagues Club, Brookvale and will feature a panel of experts, including NSW Roads Minister John Graham, discussing “traffic and transport challenges” in the wake of the cancellation of the Beaches Link road tunnel.

Could almost detect orgasmic ululations from Mr Reagan and Ms Haylen.
Will there be any charging options along the routes once they go flat?

Update: Giles currently shortest price to go under the Albo bus. Tip – keep an eye on Dreyfus as a roughie.

Merchan has sent the jury home for 4 days before closing arguments. This is unheard of. The jury will go home to the anti Trump cesspit and forget cohen is a lying turd. Normally the jury is engaged straight after closing arguments and closing arguments follow immediately the end of evidence. This is fuking unbelievable.

Mark Robinson in the Hun:

The Hawthorn racism peace talks are on the verge of collapse on the eve of the AFL’s grandest celebration of Indigenous football.

As Richmond and Essendon prepare for Dreamtime at the G on Saturday night, it can be revealed the Hawks racism scandal is destined to be heard in Federal Court, unless there’s a “significant shift” in mediation.

Despite two extensions in the conciliation talks between multiple Indigenous players and their families, the Hawks and their former coaches Alastair Clarkson, Chris Fagan and Jason Burt, the talks are at an impasse over several issues, including compensation.

It’s not one of his opinion pieces which is good because he is a buffoon.
Still maintain that no racism was ever, er, indulged in.

Major Shakeup at the World Economic Forum: ‘Global Elitism Is on Notice’

The focus groups and polling Roger. Must be many down twinkles. Herald Sun:

The Allan government has spectacularly backflipped on its controversial GP payroll tax.

After almost a year of refusing to budge on the tax, the government said on Wednesday it would be scrapped for all doctors who provide bulk-billing services from 2025.

Until then, exemptions will be available for any general practice business that has not already received advice and begun paying payroll tax on payments to their contractor GPs on this basis.