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Yes and 30-year old relative plli-lovin’ relative has gone to home to uni but had a head start the vileness…
Great start to the week, Thancho..
Excellent
Throw some iceberg lettuce leaves Albo like you usually do that will make the Chinese stop.and listen to you .
I thought the chairman was just a figurehead. Still, why.costello would associate himself with that decaying outfit is beyond me. Maybe money.
I used to think that. Our Chairman was across everything going on for the company. We were only ever a relatively small ASX outfit. One of the other other directors was a former CEO of another listed company with asset values in the billions. Pretty no nonsense, well connected and forthright. And importantly MCG member who often did not make it up to Melbourne on a Friday night during footy season.
Interesting. Thanks Bear.
Nine chairman Peter Costello knocks over reporter from The Australian at Canberra Airport
By james madden
and sophie elsworth
Nine chairman Peter Costello has pushed a journalist to the ground at Canberra Airport, after the former federal treasurer refused to answer the reporter’s questions relating to the rolling harassment scandal at the under-siege media company.
Mr Costello was approached by The Australian’s Liam Mendes at the airport on Thursday afternoon, with the altercation taking place about one minute after the journalist introduced himself.
Video footage taken by Mendes shows the Nine chairman ignoring a series of questions, before he shoves the journalist out of the way.
Witness Mark O’Hare, who was at the airport, said he saw Mr Costello launch himself at Mendes.
“I just saw this guy attack … and then I saw him (Mendes) on the floor with his sh!t everywhere and then he (Costello) just went on his way, wandered off,” he said
Mr O’Hare, who was picking up his brother at the airport when the incident occurred, described Mr Costello as a “f..king big bloke, I didn’t realise how big he was.”
“He was flying through (at Mendes) like a sumo wrestler,” Mr O’Hare said.
Another male bystander witnessed the incident, saying: “Yeah, he like hit you … and I watched you fall over there,” the man said.
“I was just out having a smoke out the front.”
The man asked Mendes if he was OK and the reporter replied: “I’m just a little bit shaken up.”
The other man confirmed he saw the incident: “F..king oath we saw it.”
Prior to the physical confrontation, Mendes asked the Nine chairman why he hadn’t publicly expressed his support for Nine chief executive officer Mike Sneesby at any stage since The Australian revealed last month that the network’s ex news boss Darren Wick was the subject of a serious allegation of sexual harassment just prior to his resignation.
OMG what an over reaction
journo is a girl
Russell Broadbent with Professor Angus Dalgleish
The Tipping Point…
eSafety drops case against Elon Musk’s X over church stabbing videos | ABC News
Nine chairman Peter Costello refuses to answer questions, knocks journalist to the ground in Canberra Airport scuffle | Sky News Australia
Baddy vs baddy then.
The journo continually harassed and obstructed Costello.
Arrogant little prick.
I’ll buy Costello a beer next time I see him in a pub.
As a footballer at uni he was known to be willing to “go the knuckle.”.
eKaren gets her fluffy revenge slippers on:
Push to ban tech giants from ad cash, data (Paywallian today)
How dare he not kowtow to my awesomeness!
Given the German stabbing incident is out there she would look like even even bigger plonker to keep at it! But yes, no doubt vindictive over Elon not respecting her authoritah…
Elon likely to give her the same response he gave last time he was threatened.
GFY!
Labor perfectly personified. He’s been the Minister for two years and has done nothing.
Shorten claims Coalition did ‘bugger all’ in combatting NDIS rorting (Sky News mainpage headline, 6 Jun)
“It’s all the Coalition’s fault that I did nothing!”
Contemptible hypocrisy.
Costello lacked the ticker to challenge Little Johnny but finds the inner bully boy now – must be something he really cares about. What could that be?
Met with the interim Australian Energy Infrastructure Commissioner today.
It’s a safe bet he won’t be applying for the position full time. Poor bugger didn’t know what hit him.
I hope you mean literally.
Did he know much about Energy Infrastructure?
Moe detail please, Gez.
Look at these bludgers:
Backpackers demand right to squat in flood-affected Lismore houses – ABC News
And nobody saw the inherent problems with the government buying homes and properties that they had no reason to buy/own other than to please a few voters? Bailing voters out of real estate investment choices isn’t a function of govt.
Seriously, whose brilliant idea was this and by what right did the govt buy the properties? It certainly wasn’t an eminent domain issue.
It’s the circle of life in Australia.
Council releases less than ideal land to a developer who knows it’s prone to flooding.
Once in a decade it floods.
State government offers a buy-back program.
By then the council will have another release, which will have the same issues.
The Stasi is mystified why no one likes them.
Victorian public satisfaction and confidence in police falls to record lows (Sky News, 6 Jun)
Perhaps if you pepper spray some more nannas, and support and encourage another few thousand Hamas luvvin’ Nazis, the Victorian public will come over to your side?
COVID guidelines caused millions to suffer. Now Fauci admits ‘there was no science behind it.’
Captain Cook likened to Martin Bryant amid Bruny Island’s monumental debate
THEAUSTRALIAN
By MATTHEW DENHOLM
TASMANIA CORRESPONDENT
Having despatched a statue of a premier, Tasmanian authorities are contemplating banishing a Captain James Cook monument from Bruny Island, as one Aboriginal leader likened the explorer to Martin Bryant.
The Tasmanian Liberal government on Thursday was noncommittal about the future of the Cook monument at Adventure Bay, following public consultation favouring its permanent removal.
Unveiled in 1970, the stone monument was “temporarily” removed in January 2022, following concerns about its structural safety.
After multiple pleas for its reinstatement, the state Department of Natural Resources and Environment held a public consultation this year, reporting only one of 14 submissions favoured its return.
“Common themes from the public … viewed the location of Blackfellows Point, and its associated symbolism, as insensitive,” NRE said.
After a furore over the toppling of a statue of colonial-era premier William Crowther in Hobart last month, the government appears uncertain of its next move.
“The department is currently reviewing the feedback received throughout the consultation process and will work with those involved to find a pathway forward,” a government spokesman told The Australian.
Bruny Island Indigenous elder Rodney Dillon said he was open to the monument’s return, but only if accompanied by information detailing the horrendous consequences of colonisation for Aboriginal people.
“If you want to display it, don’t display him (Cook) as a hero – be truthful about history,” Mr Dillon told The Australian. “We don’t make a hero out of (Port Arthur massacre gunman) Martin Bryant, do we?
“If you’re going to reinstate it, put both sides of history up so we’re not invisible.”
While Cook reported friendly encounters with Aborigines in Adventure Bay during his 1777 visit, Mr Dillon said the British explorer stood for the “murder and plunder” later inflicted on his people.
According to written histories based on Cook’s journals, he spent from January 26 to January 30, 1777, at Adventure Bay, sourcing water and timber.
He detailed friendly encounters with groups of Aborigines, whom he gifted presents of iron tools, medals, beads and fishhooks, noting they were “received with some satisfaction”.
“It’s what he represents that is the problem – the destruction and the lie of terra nullius,” Mr Dillon said. “I’m not against other people having their history and culture as long it’s truthful. I want to respect their history but I want ours respected, too.”
Returning the monument with additional Indigenous storytelling is a compromise that has support from some defenders of colonial monuments.
“I don’t see the issue in having a double plaque from both (Indigenous and European) perspectives,” said amateur historian and author Scott Seymour.
However, he said 14 submissions was “hardly broad consultation”. Further, official assurances the Crowther statue’s removal from Hobart’s Franklin Square would not “open the floodgates” appeared hollow. “It seems that is going to be the flow-on effect,” Mr Seymour said.
The department is yet to respond to questions about the detail of the process to determine the monument’s fate, what work if any had been undertaken to determine if it could be safely returned, and at what cost.
Victoria has seen a number of Cook monuments vandalised and removed in protest at what some perceive as their celebration of colonialism.
The Oz
Indigenous elder Rodney Dillon
Extremely amazingly indigenous! If he was any less indigenous someone might mistake him for a, um, better not go there.
Nah, better not.
They are still real though – just that great grandma went with sealers to the islands.
Noongahs I went to school with in the left end of Australia were some instances the same colour as me, but their families and experience unquestionably were aboriginal.
“Indigenous” elder Rodney Dillon.
Careful, Bruce. Monty will be demanding PhD credentials for daring to question racial pedigree.
Heh, I have total immunity due to my tiny microsmidgen of Afro-Caribbean heritage. I’m in good odour with my Jamaican relos!
What are the qualifications to become an ‘elder’. Sounds as authentic as the 1976 smoking ceremony. More Marxist than Aboriginal.
“horrendous consequences”, like permanent housing, regular food, clean water and medical care.
I’ve never met a single Aborigine who would return to the lifestyle of the hunter gatherer.
All I’ll say is masked guys running up and cutting down a statue in the dark of night could come back to bite the left.
Their heroes when the original statue is replaced (as we all know that’s where this is going don’t we) may suffer the same fate.
The Greens the ‘most destructive political force’ in Australia
Victor Davis Hanson
“People are outraged at this miscarriage of justice” | Victor Davis Hanson
Dreyfus post politics career leaked.
Its a case of the beta site going live too early.
Considering Costello opened the car door into the pylon, odds on he was full of ink.
Well, that’s not quite true, he did hold a much heralded “review” of the NDIS which as expected, cost many many millions and achieved absolutely nothing. Then there’s the matter of his taking on a mistress, who just so happens to be the CEO of a registered NDIS provider that hoovers millions of NDIS funds per year.
BTW, no prizes for who’ll be accompanying the flabby sh*tsack on his comfy new sinecure in the “City of Light”. Hint – it won’t be the ex GG’s daughter.
Regarding the Costello contretemps, anyone believe his explanation that the j’ismist “just so happened to fall backwards over an advertising board”?
As for the two “witnesses”, they’re no doubt collectivist dirtbags.
P.S. I’ve always hated Costello’s guts. He’s an expedient spineless insufferably smug born to rule failure – hence his current role as chair of neinfax.
If there’s one thing that pisses me off (OK, there’s more than one) it’s smugness, and Costello is “smug” personified.
Watch the video again, Rabz. The journo was aggressively putting himself in front of, and in the path of, a man who was refusing to answer his questions.
It’s one of the ‘foot in the door’ techniques that journos use to piss off someone they want a reaction from, and it worked. Just not quite the way he wanted it to, the whimpering sook.
Costello – who I personally loathe – refused to play the idiots game and the “I’m from the Australian – you can’t do this to meee!” journo got walked over.
Interview aggressively and get aggressively rebuffed.
Something really foul about the shorten. The posh private skool, the clean event and chikita mushrooms betrayals. A truly repulsive little man.
A Uni unionist.
In other groundbreaking news, water is wet, the sky is blue and the pope is a marxist.
Howard and Costello only look good because of what came after them. I’m beginning to dislike Howard because of his spiteful comments about Trump.
For bonus points: Explain why the Chinese sample return mission currently in lunar orbit will wait 14 days before beginning its journey back to Earth.
My guess, without looking at calendars, is it’s an important date in Chinese history? Chairman 11s birthday perhaps? The entry of Chinese forces into Peking during the war?
The ladies busy belting the sugar and spice out of each other in the 2nd State of Origin. Only took 10 minutes for the first penalty for hair pulling. A lot of tempting plaits.
Here in Ncl! The highway sign on my way to the shopping centre this morning said beware long queues because Ladies Origin! I was amused.
OTOH the stadium is apparently a sell out, 33,000. Which is excellent work. It’s pissing down here at the Cafe so maybe Novocastrians, being as they are by nature Novocastrians, like mud-wrestling ladies.
Rabz- you’ve hinted at this before- who is Shorten bonking?
…and why?
Blacks aren’t racist:
Watch: Analyst Says Caitlin Clark Is Hated by WNBA Players Because She Isn’t a ‘Black Lesbian’ (westernjournal.com)
And:
Watch: ESPN Host Rages Over ‘Race’ Culture Around Caitlin Clark – ‘She’s White in a Sport of Black People!’ (westernjournal.com)
Met with the interim Australian Energy Infrastructure Commissioner
Well, jolly good and have at him, Gez, but nonetheless
Shut it down.
Fire them all.
We can condone violence towards j’ismists. Vermin.
Vermin they are and I have no time for Costello. So baddies vs baddies.
I was on the same flight as Costello this afternoon, saw him up in the first row as we boarded but being in the cheap seats missed the drama at the other end.
Hello?
*tap tap tap*
Is this thing on?
Must be a lot of posts awaiting moderation
“Journalists who work for Nine approach people in this manner every day, and you attacked me just then”.
Nice comeback Mr Mendes. Nine Media, its publishing and broadcasting wings, have a long and tawdry history of invading people’s privacy and spaces for a ‘story’, not to mention destroying people’s careers…just ask Craig McLachlan and Ben Roberts-Smith.
Rabz, watched CBGB last night, SBS on Demand. Movie about the beginning of Punk. Alan Rickman starring and at his best. Loved it.
Thanks Ranga, I’ll check it out.
FMD, the Flannery’s in Sydney right now.
The Information is running a detailed story on how Oracle has been renting out Nvidia’s chips to a range of Chinese companies which directly contravenes the current US sanctions.
It will make the jump to the mainstream financial media shortly.
Apology to Tom, too good not to link this…
Johannes Leak
And the show has begun! Coverage of the launch of Elon’s ginormous rocket has just gone live (which is why I’m up later that normal).
Here’s the link:
https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-4
I want to adopt Johannes! He can be an honorary Calli-child, for he has the same guts tempered with a sense of humour as my three horrors.
As related to Mr Science’s Alinskying of BoN. This should be a Liberty Quote.
SpaceX’s show so far is pure eye candy. Ridiculously good. The two ladies are eye candy also…
Just back from the Plaza Mayor and Cathedral…siesta for the Beloved’s aching feet. We will attack the Prado later.
Unlike last time, we will cheat – taxis both ways. For we are now old and wicked, also the Beloved knows the taxi is cheaper than the tempting shops on the Gran Via.
The cathedral is exceptional. Very austere compared to other Spanish churches. It reminded me a little of San Giovanni in Laterano – all pale marble, minimalist colours. Something special.
Rafe has just emailed an alert:
https://ipa.org.au/public-events
Briswegians look to be in for an awesome evening.
Various Cats are attending the event with these two in Sydney.
Would like to go to the Bris Vegas turnout but I don’t think my standard of dress would be up to scratch.
15 minutes to launch!
5 minutes to launch…
Biden disgraced himself by making a political speech in front of one hundred year old veterans at Normandy.
The juiced up lunatic talked about Ukraine as if it was a direct comparison with WW2.
Five out of seven Germans were killed by Russians.
The navel gazing old prick never mentioned the French civilians that were inadvertently killed on that day – Macron was present.
is scientific publication a discipline or a racket?
Malcolm Roberts bringing to attention our outrageous total support for a BINDING treaty which would effectively transfer control of Australia to the puppet masters in Geneva at their pleasure. Paul Kelly commenced his response with “It was one of the proudest moments in my life”.
I repeat for the umpteenth time. We are controlled by traitors.
Minister Butler Remains a Puppet for WHO
At what stage do we rise up and let these treasonous bastards know they have to ask us first before they start/continue to give away our nation to that Marxist UN mob?
Elon’s rocket has been amazing. Not perfect. That is even more amazing. On launch only 31 of the 32 engines worked. I could see it! One on the outer edge was sulking. That didn’t matter, they coped. The second stage then separated successfully, and the booster returned to Earth.
Nailed that! Despite only 11 of 12 engines relighting. The booster got within metres of the sea surface before they pulled the plug. That they can adjust on the fly for engines not working is absolutely gobsmacking.
The top stage is in orbit and coasting(!) until re-entry in about 15 minutes.
God speed John Glenn (or whatever they’ve named this critter).
“Residents were neglected and left to starve” Bereaved Family KC tells The Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry
Enraged am I. Why did no one speak up effectively?
It will get down to 18 degrees tomorrow morning in D-Town, and 16 on Saturday.
Winter is coming.
This event was so much fun. A funny part was the female police officer who issued the first noise ticket, came back later after shift and went for a ride in one of the cars. That can be found on the 6 hour stream.
Respect to her.
Here is a 30 minute version.
We DESTROYED Westen Champlins House! Aussies Invade!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2BEHle3g30
Live feed from stage 2 has just restarted. Wish I could recognize geography better from 160 km altitude.
I hope the re-entry works, I really do.
Thanks for the Starship link BoN.
Spectacular viewing and a successful re-entry!
Give that man an Olympics gymnastics gold medal. Aced the landing!
The second stage landed nearly perfectly, although while on entry it was fun to watch a landing flap melt live on camera. Molten bits flying off. Cracked the camera lens. Some tweaks of materials of construction seem to be needed.
That was sub-zero cool. And Starlink maintained video even through the plasma phase, which is remarkable.
New OT will open at noon.
GreyRanga
June 6, 2024 9:16 pm
Excellent recommendation on the SBS CBGB doco/program.
Question for the resident science expert M0nty, does the battery get lighter as I use the power up? Even at the atomic level?
(Others are welcome in case he runs out of sciency puff)
Surprised there hasn’t been quality memes or gifs from the Biff Costello incident.
Best one I have seen so far is a TikTok with Costello’s head poorly cut & paste onto Drederick Tatum from the Simpsons.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
A.F. Branco.
Henry Payne.
Henry Payne #2.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks Tom.
A very good batch to finish the week.
There’s a Commonwealth Games enquiry?
Will it be up to Oz to cover that as Victorian media dare not question the legacy of Chairman Dan?
Haha liked the anal weathervane. Thanks Tom.
Could this be true?
Read it in a magazine, that there are more than 100 k unsold EVs in Germany alone.
Whats’ going on, overproduction or buyer resistance?
And the Chinese are building factories for both batteries, and EV cars all over Europe.
Do they know something the Germans don’t, or are they intent to beat the crap out of the market on price?
Sell a million of them for $1,000 each, and the major western manufacturers will go bankrupt. It will take out a good part of the turnover market for several years, and place a strain on the grid that will damage our industrial base even further.
Consider that 20 cars equals the cost of 10 APCs or 2 Tanks, it’s got to be cheaper than going to war.
And the Chinese get $1 Billion in foreign currency.
We keep forgetting how communist economies don’t have a price signal.
Back from the Prado.
I have witnessed (again) The Triumph of Death, The Garden of Earthly Delights, and Dover’s own Agnus Dei. Van der Weyden’s “Descent from the Cross” is just breathtaking in its beauty.
The gallery is also interesting as it documents the decline of the Hapsburgs into a physical dead end.
Madrid has been hot as a furnace…we stayed at the gallery until 7:30 (three hours viewing time) and pulled the pin. A glance up told the story – an approaching thunderstorm. You could smell it as the first wave vaporised in the hot air. Just made it to a restaurant and down she came.
Being wise Aussies, we chose a table inside the establishment. 🙂
Another beautiful Prado painting that Dover might like to use during Holy Week is Simonet’s “Flevit Super Illam”.
The reproduction doesn’t do it justice. The great Passover moon glows above Jerusalem.
I think the gate is the Lion’s Gate and the valley is the Kidron. If so, I have walked down from there and into the city. The artist’s depiction is sublime.
Sorry, I had to edit my comment. It was the Lion’s Gate. The Beautiful Gate is yet to be located.
The Golden Gate was bricked up by the Snackbars. Apparently they imagined that the Almighty could be kept out by some bricks and mortar.
And that’s all you need to know about the shallowness of that particular faith.
“Ali Baba and the 40 thieves”: Emirati-Palestinian shouting match blew up Blinken meeting
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/06/uae-palestinian-fight-blinken-meeting
Would be funny if it wasn’t so tragic.
As I wrote last night, Costello heads a media organisation that regularly invades the privacy and personal space of ordinary Australians. The destruction done to the likes of Ben Roberts-Smith, Craig McLachlan and more recently, Alan Jones, leaves me with little to no sympathy for Costello.
Further to Nine Newspapers, just where were Nine’s ‘independent always’ journalists on the sexual shenanigans at Nine broadcasting? Kate McChlamydia, she who destroyed the career of Craig McLachlan, showed a curious uninterest in pursuing that story. Wonder why?
I notice that Canada is already entering the stagflation trap that some economists have warned that the west is headed for. They have reduced inflation (2.7%?) but unemployment has soared to over 6%.
Vicki, stagflation includes both high inflation and high unemployment – see Oz during the whitlam disaster for example.
Exactly as predicted.
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1798004404270047505?t=enSm0b6Www-DBuyrUz0P_w&s=19
I’m enjoying your travels Calli.
I can walk those streets again in my mind.
Even recall my chat with the Korean lady photographer outside the Prado.
Not envying you the heat though.
Nine is a putrid decaying abomination. Not something you would call respectable.
The Costello non-event getting yuuugely yuuge airtime. It’s got shades of that US clip a few years back when the heroic reporter was standing almost sideways in a breeze pretending to be mid-hurricane when two other blokes unhurriedly stroll past behind him.
The ‘incident’ itself and the following idiocy are truly in the best traditions of Frontline.
I wouldn’t have a copy of the Aged or Sydney Morning Vomit in my house let alone have any association with them.
One can hardly blame someone for decking a reporter – they are so often out to get you, and rude, duplicitous, conniving leftist pricks. I recall that one who Tony Abbott resisted punching out.
Mark Riley
A example of sh*t not happening, unfortunately.
There is no justification for using violence or intimidation against a journalist however significant the temptation, just like there is no justification for using violence or intimidation against one’s political opponents.
The conservative journalist Andy Ngo knows all about being physically assaulted. In 2019, when he was covering an Antifa protest in Portland Oregon, he was set upon, beaten on the head, and then had a ‘milkshake’ thrown over him, except that particular milkshake didn’t just contain milk and chocolate, it contained a chemical which resulted in Ngo suffering a brain bleed and he was hospitalised for weeks.
All Costello had to do was walk ahead and ignore the annoying journalist.
Sorry, but there is no excuse for ‘decking’ anyone.
Cassie, looking at the footage, Costello didn’t “deck” the journo. He appears from the footage to push the bloke with his chest & shoulder when he got in his way. We have all seen how the press make it very difficult for their targets to make their way. Costello seems to be carrying a bag in one hand & his coat in another, so it was not possible for him to “deck” anyone – at least that’s what appears from the camera man’s footage.
I didn’t say Costello decked the journo, I was responding to the earlier comment about “decking”. I’ve seen the footage of what Costello did, he used his chest and shoulder to push the journalist. Costello should have just walked ahead, ignored the journalist and gotten into his car.
Decking Greens however is a social good and an obligation for all who treasure freedom. They are ‘non persons’ so normal rules do not apply.
Cranky, you don’t get a brain bleed from chemicals in a milkshake. His injury would have been from blunt force trauma, i.e. that he got punched in the head in the assault.
As always, Nazi, wrong again. But I note how you don’t condemn the violence, you like the violence. What is it about Nazis and violence?
Oh and by the way, did you punch yourself in the mirror this morning?
Tony Abbott had the moral fibre not to ‘deck’ Mark Riley.
By the way, back in 2017, Tony Abbott was ‘decked’, or more precisely ‘headbutted’ whilst he walked along a Hobart street. The perpetrator was a a lowlife called Astro Labe. Astroboy’s reason for headbutting Abbott? Because he saw Abbott and he ‘felt like it’, the same reason the Essex skank gave for milkshaking Farage a few days ago.
Part of having strength of character is to ignore the words of rabble, be they journalists or whatever.
Is this the society we want to live in, where you go around decking journalists and others you don’t like? No thank you.
Cassie,
we ARE living in a society like that.
When both cheeks have been slapped countless times, it’s time to let our cheeks return to normal.
What Pogria said.
These pricks do this aggressive/violent stuff because the law lets them get away with it.
There are no journalists any more, just as there is no comedy. These are categories which have been hollowed out by a changing world, but are useful to malcontents because of historical respectability.
There’s a counter-argument to your ‘respect journalists’ piece Cassie. In the spirit of robust debate, as Kev Rudd might have said. Not saying I’m totally ‘anti-journalist’. Just thought some rhetorical balance was needed. Best wishes, keep up the good work.
Agree generally, Bruce. But I do believe Paul Kelly, Henry Ergas & a few others at The Oz are great commentators.
Tim Blair at the Tele and The Mocker at the Oz are bloody good, Vicki.
Something from the Al Muderis case.
5% of all surgeries in private hospitals in Oz are foreigners.
The vast majority being hip & knee replacements.
Most from Asia.
Seems like medical tourism is booming.
Hip & knees, Oz.
Hair transplants & teeth, Turkey.
Dicks chopped off, Thailand.
Bern, I have a retarded right knee and a shitload of arthritis in the left knee courtesy of the Army and rugby. So I am seeing the specialist at the end of the month about getting both of them done, as ‘self medication’ just does not work anymore.
Ps: I have put it off for as long as I could.
Best of luck.
Hope you get a good surgeon.
Not one of the whiney bitches who gave expert evidence in the Al Muderis case.
But are they paying the going rate or are they claiming it on Medicare?
They’d have to be paying to get it dun “private” to order cos Medicare you’d be on the waiting list .. Plus, of course, poor folk don’t have medical procedured OS …….
Incidentally I have never forgiven Costello from spitting the dummy after Howard didn’t anoint him. Costello could have saved us the blight of the ‘three amigos”, Gillard & Rudd. I think he would have been an outstanding PM.
Nah, that’s on JWH.
And his Mrs Bucket wife who didn’t want to give up the Lodge.
Well, I think he lacks social skills and has a personality problem. Maybe a touch of the aspie. Good as an adviser, but lacks warmth and emotional depth. Hence the revulsion many feel towards him. I don’t think he means it, it’s just beyond his ability to respond convincingly.
Persistent grin and nervous giggle is actually how autistics present when they are uncomfortable /freaking out. Few seem to understand this. I’ve worked in the field.
Any politician who shows those qualities is lying through their teeth. It’s an act. Don’t get sucked in.
Meanwhile, in the UK, the crocodiles of appeasement target a labour slag who’s failed the ‘slamic purity test.
Everyday someone annoys me, and so I should be able to shove, punch, push and deck that person.
Except I don’t….and I can’t…..and actually, I wouldn’t want to.
Well you’re a lady Cassie. I was in a group of sharpies in my youth. Earned respect as a brawler, all 6 feet of me. No one got hurt in those days. I can’t figure all the one-punch deaths now. I learned to take a punch. Times change I guess.
Funny thing I noticed – when you deck a bully, the nice ladies all cheer, ‘Good for you! He deserved that!’ The good old days?
Duk, considering you were on the receiving end of the ACT plod, in your opinion, should Costello expect a knock on the door ?
Havnt seen any posts from Duk lately.
I posted a reply to Cassie – but it doesn’t seem to have come up. The footage I noted re the Costello incident was that Costello had a bag in one hand and a coat in another. I did not note that he “decked” the journo. Rather, he seemed to have pushed his way past the guy, who fell backwards,
Last night Sky described that the reporter was walking backwards and ran himself into an advertising stand and fell. It did look as though Costello did not let the reporter change track!
When I met Peter Costello years ago,I found him warm, open and welcoming. His ‘smug’ label came from not wanting to display his very crooked teeth when smiling, I think they are now fixed.
But I liked him.
Sorry, Cassie. Didn’t see your earlier comment – or the fact that my comment re decking did appear as an answer.
Too early in the morning for me!
The Paywallian leads Friday’s paper with its bullshit story about Nine chairman Peter Costello “assaulting” one of its prima donna reporters at Canberra airport.
Because it knows Paywallian readers will instinctively side with Costello against the J-school trash tackling him, the story is not open for reader comments.
PS: none of the J-school trash working for the Paywallian has ever voted for the LNP, so Costello is a tribal enemy and today’s little pantomime fives management a chance to indulge its staff’s childish fantasies about tackling Nazis in the manner of Mark Riley’s confrontation with Tony Abbott.
The Paywallian was running a series on the sudden departure of Channel Nien News and Current Affairs director Darren Wick under a cloud. I’m sure Cuddly would not have been happy about it.
Starting to wonder why when i watch videos out of Gaza why there are so many buildings still standing and way too many well fed, clothed and healthy looking Gazans .. The media keeps telling me that Gaza is flattened and folks are starving .. yet so many videos showing a fairly normal lifestyle backgrounding the “Israel bad” backdrop story …. FFS!
Satellite imagery shows the reality. Bombing is very targeted – as you would expect from the Israelis. There s no doubt that many civilians have been killed due to the despicable habit of Pallies in using civilian buildings as command structures. And yes, footage shows well looking civilians, donkeys, vehicle obviously with fuel, and marketplace activity. But not in Al Jazeera footage which mirrors the story that want to portray.
Shatterzzz:
They’re Arabs – These people lie.
Dr Michael Mosely missing disappeared on Greek island of Symi.
Home care packages .. wow! .. I’m currently, “assisted” by NSW Home Nursing which involves a 10 minute visit once a month to change a “dressing” .. no problems there but part of the “dressing” is lucky to last 2 weeks so every time I’ve asked for extra cos it’s something I can change without help .. Each time I’m told, “Sorry, short supply no extra” ..
Anywayz, got fed up and EBay-ed the bloody “thing” .. $20 for 20 pieces post free from China .. FFS! ..
So bought a pack, arrived 2 weeks later, and now have plenty of spares .. yet NSW Health can’t manage to supply the damn things cos “short supply” .. yet the bought ones are identical ..
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-07/older-australians-home-care-packages/103948334
Didn’t old Astro Labe spend some time in the can for decking Tones?
Yes, he did:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-09/astro-labe-headbutt-tony-abbott-sentenced-to-jail/9632694
He should have been jailed for the sideburns!
I don’t think either Labor or the Greens (or the Teals who are a mix of both) are acting in the nation’s interests, particularly the Greens. Journalists who routinely boost or soft-question them are assisting in the eventual gutting of Australia.
Why should I be concerned about them at all?
Indolent posted the Malcolm Roberts clip about Hunt and CHO Kelly and WHO last night.
Always remember it was Kelly who stood next to Hunt and basically said invermectin was a horse dewormer. Then you had Hunt in January 2021 saying on Insiders world engaged in largest medical experiment.
Unfortunately Kelly and his like will keep going with the mantra the more jabs the better and ignore the fact people are no longer interested in their BS.
The Silent Insurrection: General Milley’s Hand on January 6
That election was obviously stolen too.
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs BUSTED Taking $400,000 in Apparent Bribe For State Contracts
Hamas Has Exposed a Sickness in Western Society
It has indeed. It’s a Marxist insanity in league with Islamic barbarism.
Take the picture of the four Israeli women, and put it within ANY other context, and the world would just about universally condemn it.
But because the perpetrators are Muslim, it is accepted and even encouraged by some.
Wow,
Below article up online at Herald Sun and Courier Mail.
Covid vaccines may have caused rise in excess deaths since pandemic: studyThe “adverse effects” of Covid-19 vaccines have been linked to an increase in worldwide deaths, according to a new study. Read the report.
Meanwhile TGA will be saying nothing to see here carry on jabbing.
There have been many reports on excess deaths right across the world, including Australia. The authorities attempt to explain these as due to missed treatments of chronic conditions etc etc. but the figures are too consistent and excessive to explain in this way. In addition deaths are consistent with the effects of known vaccine effects viz cardiac and cancers.
Those who have followed the work of the dissident medicos and virologists know that the truth will emerge in spite of the desperate attempts of governments and the medical bureaucracy to conceal it.
BTW there are wonderful doctors in Oz working on vaccine injuries and also long term effects of this awful gain-of- function engineered virus. One of the most amazing is Emeritus Professor Bob Clancy, whose clinic in Newcastle is having success in treating such patients.
Paging Doctor Monty.
The hamarse supporters on X have their daily attempts
to draw comparisons with WWII bombing campaigns.
They’re not very good at it.
Have they given back the hostages? No? Keep going then.
WSJ: Hamas Rejects Ceasefire If Required to Disarm
Glass it till they see sense, same with Ukraine.
This demon of a woman still has the hide to even speak in public.
Deborah Birx issues new ‘science’ mandate: Test every cow and dairy worker in the nation once a week for ‘Bird Flu’
Fani Willis Blew It: Trump Georgia Case Officially on Hold
COVID vaccines responsible for rise in excess deaths, study reveals
@catturd2
Says the dictator who arrests his political opponents.
@gatewaypundit
I hope the computers were offered counseling … LOL!
?Northumbria Police officer who stalked ex and abused police computers is sacked
That Starship flight was awesome.
Not only worked pretty well but the thing about complex systems is not how well they work when everything is perfect but how well they work when the inevitable failures are present.
On that ground they just learned that the booster works with one engine out on liftoff but one engine on the 13 that are used for the initial braking burn can be out and still bring altitude and velocity to zero at the same time.
Then the ship making it through re-entry with bits burning off one control surface and still remain under control and successfully doing the flip and landing burn is simply outstanding. Go SpaceX, go Elon!
Select all squares with fire hydrants…
“It’s Mind-Boggling”: Los Angeles Hit With Surge Of Fire Hydrant Thefts (7 Jun)
That particular Captcha may have to be retired.
Lisa Benson wins –
News Corp web page at bottom also has a Frank Chung article about the excess deaths. Most commented article.
The quiet, but constant sounds of “Are you listening?” emanating from the peasants may just be breaking through the “Cone of Ignorance” that the media continues to employ.
Millions of Dollars Flow from Coal Company to Union to the Labor Party
The Acolyte Episode 1 – A Stunning And Brave Disaster
The IGA and Woollies supermarkets in my town on the southwest Victorian coast have run out of berry fruit — no strawberries, raspberries or blueberries.
Can one of the Cat’s farmers up north tell me what’s going on with the Australian winter berry harvest?
Cooler than usual weather delaying harvest, Tom.
So the el Nino forecast was crap “science”?
They are too expensive due to harvest problems.
From the Paywallion yesterday arvo:
The Mocker: Laura Tingle, ABC journalists revel in anti-Australia pile-on
The Mocker
16:38
6 Jun 2024
There was an auction in my street last weekend, and I felt it was my civic duty to attend. Normally I would go anyway, because the sun was out, and I enjoy having a sticky beak as well as a chat with the neighbours. But there would be no socialising this time, for I was in full anti-racist mode and ready to kick the bejesus out of anyone I deemed intolerant.
Admittedly I do not normally associate auctions with racist gatherings. But as ABC 7.30 chief political correspondent Laura Tingle recently warned, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has changed that for the worse by pledging in his budget reply speech to address the housing crisis through cutting permanent migration by 25 per cent over a two-year period.
His comments, Tingle told the Sydney Writers Festival last week, left her “sitting there with this terrible chill running through me”. Having segued from journalist to soothsayer, she expanded on this disturbing portent.
“I had this sudden flash of people turning up to try to rent a property or at an auction, and they look a bit different … and he has given a licence for them to be abused where people feel they are missing out,” she said. “We’re a racist country, let’s face it. We always have been and it’s very depressing and a terrible prospect for the next election.”
This is an appalling situation, yet the white saviour inside me was thrilled at the prospect of being seen to rescue the wretched. Maybe I could come up with a catchy hashtag on social media to let minorities know I would stand alongside them so they could bid without fear of retribution. #IllRealtorWithYou, perhaps?
I decided my strategy on the day. If I were lucky enough to chance upon a person of colour at the auction, I would immediately make myself known to them as an ally in the fight against white supremacy. All I intended asking in return was that they pose in a selfie with me which I would use to tell the world of my good deed.
But when I arrived, I was bewildered to discover there were minorities aplenty there. Moreover, none of them looked even remotely perturbed. The auction went ahead without incident, and the property was sold to an Asian bidder.
How could this be? For a moment I thought Tingle must have been bunging it on. But suddenly I felt this terrible chill running through me. You see, at every auction I have been to in my street, I run into a certain neighbour, RG, an India-born Australian. This time, however, he was absent, and there could be only one reason. Undoubtedly, the poor man was terrified that white bidders would beat him senseless if he ventured anywhere near the property. Are you happy now, Peter Dutton?
The best one could say of Tingle’s premonition is writers festivals have a tenuous relationship with reality and that she performed accordingly. The only person at risk of abuse at an Australian auction is the bloke turning up to one in Western Sydney while wearing a yarmulke.
As for her comments about Australia being a racist country, Tingle subsequently defended her remarks in an official ABC statement.
“I wasn’t saying every Australian is a racist,” she said.
Of course not. For example, Tingle would never consider herself to be racist. She would also have exempted her fellow panellists: Bridget Brennan (ABC), Amy Remeikis (Guardian Australia), Niki Savva (Nine newspapers), and host as well as ABC alumnus Barrie Cassidy. Likewise, her adoring audience would be deemed racist-free. So too would the entire ABC and everyone who loves the national broadcaster. And no doubt Tingle would exempt the 39.94 per cent of Australians who voted Yes in the Indigenous voice to parliament referendum.
As for where the racists can be found, that is straightforward. They feature heavily among the dreadful and ill-bred types who roll their eyes whenever the likes of Tingle lament the ignorance and prejudice of the masses.
Her insinuation that Dutton was fuelling racism earned Tingle a public reprimand from ABC News Director Justin Stevens, who said her comments “lacked the context, balance and supporting information of her work for the ABC”.
Predictably, there soon followed a caterwaul of indignation, including that from Race Discrimination Commissioner Giridharan Sivaraman. Writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, he demanded ABC chair Kim Williams and managing-director David Anderson “back” Tingle. “Why does our society have an aversion to talking about racism,” he asked.
For Sivaraman, the bigots are under the bed. We only talk about “overt racism,” he wrote. “We ignore the massive iceberg that lies underneath, the systemic and structural elements.” He wants to impose a “National Anti-Racism Framework” on “governments, business and civil society” which would “set benchmarks, with specific targets for different sectors”. As Editor-at-Large Paul Kelly observed, his approach mirrors that of critical race theory, the race grifters’ creed.
But like most commissarial windbags, Sivaraman is reticent when it comes to condemning the hateful rhetoric of the left. Take for example the genocidal pro-Palestinian slogan ‘from the river to the sea’. Asked last week at Senate estimates by Liberal senator Sarah Henderson whether he agreed with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese that the chant had no place in Australia, Sivaraman equivocated.
“We would have to look at the context of when it was made, how it was made and who it was made to, and without the context, I wouldn’t want to give a view on its implications under the Race Discrimination Act,” he said.
Context? Let me give you a hint, Giridharan Sivaraman. It is a call to arms by ideologues to wipe out a certain thing forever from a substantial portion of the Middle East. Is the target of their hatred (a) pink fairy armadillos (b) marauding polar bears, or (c) the state of Israel, along with every single Jewish man, woman and child? To paraphrase you, why do you have an aversion to talking about this form of racism?
Sivaraman further tried to weasel out of answering Henderson’s question by claiming doing so “could very well prejudice” the conciliation process overseen by the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC).
How convenient. Contrast that with what Sivaraman said just over two months ago. Interviewed by the Herald following his appointment, he superciliously dismissed the idea that white people could be subjected to racism.
“The notion of anti-white racism is based on a fundamental misunderstanding about racism,” he insisted. It “completely moves us away from the actual problems of structural and other forms of racism in this country”.
In effect that pronouncement extends blanket immunity, as far as the public perception of AHRC’s conciliation process goes, to anyone who discriminates against white people. What was that about you not wanting to prejudice the handling of complaints, Giridharan Sivaraman?
As for Tingle’s clarification regarding what she said during her appearance at the Sydney Writers Festival, she was clearly miffed when she explained in her official statement that her actions had “created the opportunity for yet another anti-ABC pile-on”.
This was “not helpful to me or to the ABC,” she said. “Or to the national debate.”
In that same statement, Tingle defended her claim that Australia has always been a racist country. It was made “in the context of a discussion about the political prospects ahead,” she said. “But we clearly have an issue with racism.”
Now contrast that with Tingle’s response last year regarding claims that the National Press Club had intentionally disadvantaged Shadow Indigenous Australians Minister Jacinta Nampijinpa Price in relegating her to a smaller room for her address during the voice campaign.
In denying the claims, Tingle said that any suggestion the timing or staging of the address was “in any way driven by racism or disrespect,” was “highly offensive to the club, and to me as its president”.
I do not suggest these allegations are true. Yet they are revealing in one respect. Tingle reacted strongly and defensively in denying accusations of racism against herself and her colleagues. Fair enough. Yet in her recent throwaway remark, she disparages this entire country, and by extension its citizens, by claiming it is inherently racist.
Complain all you will of a vendetta against the national broadcaster, Laura Tingle. But if there is one thing that ABC journalists and presenters revel in, it is an anti-Australia pile-on.
THE MOCKER
The Mocker amuses himself by calling out poseurs, sneering social commentators, and po-faced officials. He is deeply suspicious of those who seek increased regulation of speech and behaviour.
Bruce of Newcastle
June 6, 2024 7:07 pm
I wonder if the bank that puts out the top 100 or so professions and their trustworthiness/respect from the community have put one out the last 3 years?
Harlequin Decline, interesting snippet about CBGB, Blondie were paid $25 a night to play. Six months later they headlined at a big concert for bands, paid $8k, a few months later half a $mill record contract.
Re Costello and the “decking”.
Can’t wait to see the airport camera footage.
It will never come to light.
I reckon the smartest thing the RBA could do right now is keep Michelle Bullock away from microphones. They haven’t learned the lesson of Lowe.
Dover, there is a post of mine waiting for approval. It is by The Mocker at the Paywallion about La Tingle
Dunno why it went to moderation.
Cheers
Regards
Beertruk
We are truly living in bizarro world. Hunter’s defence to the gun purchase charge of non declaration of being a drug addict is that he was so addicted to and influenced by crack at the time of the purchase of the gun that he could not form an intention to deceive by non declaration of his addiction on the form.
Hunter Biden Identified as Non-Crackhead When He Bought Gun | Frontpage Mag
He’ll get off.
I hoped otherwise, but wouldn’t hold my breath waiting! Lay-down misère.
…and it will be yet another nail in the coffin of patience in a long suffering people.
“How does one go bankrupt? Slowly at first, then all of a sudden.”
“How does one enter a civil war? Slowly at first, then all of a sudden.”
And those who continually pissed on the people, thinking that they would do nothing, are still surprised every time they get thrown into the tumbrils, or propped against a wall like that Ceausescu chappy and his missus. They never learn.
Matt Taibbi has put out a few notes this morning.
He used the term “off-narrative” with reference to the US government and its surrogates destroying people.
Its a great term.
Meet The Tesla That Won’t Die: 430,000 Miles On One Battery! Episode 1 | 4K
i hope the owner saved up
because with the imminent battery failure, his car has about zero resale value
Gas powered taxis in Victoria clock more than a million k’s on 1 engine with a much cheaper vehicle.
Cassie of Sydney
June 6, 2024 9:16 pm
It sounds like a variation on John Safran going through Ray Martin’s rubbish bin, with a similar reaction.
That must be one of the Top 5 bits of Australian television along with the Normie Rowe punch up and Packer pulling the Doug Mulray naughty video show.
Fartin’ got a touch tetchy iirc. Geez I’m.sick and tired of these meja fukwits.
Why the BBC (echoed by the ABC) is greatly exercised about the rise of “fascism” in Europe:
Douglas Murray made a similar point on a YouTube link Indolent posted. It was a Hoover Institute video if you want to Google it.
Got it, thanks. I’m not really one for watching talking heads (with a couple of exceptions like Milton Friedman or Thomas Sowell) but I see they provide a transcript which I’ll read.
Yes, same here, short synopsis is my fare, there is not enough time in the day for us who are still employed to watch videos.
Likely miss out, but who knows?
Ditto some of us who’ve left the workforce, Gabor.
But I appreciate there are some for whom video is an effective learning tool.
Different horses…
I too don’t watch youtubes of people talking . Must investigate these transcripts you speak of.
Bottom the page for Hoover, Chris.
Always fun when woke is put to the punters in a poll.
‘Choose your own gender’ bill rejected by 83pc of voters (Tele, paywalled)
I’m assuming it’s a poll since I’m not a subscriber. I doubt it will stop the fascist ALP from ramming it through though. They are fighting for democracy!
Further to BoN post @10:29am…….
Almost 83 per cent of NSW residents are opposed to plans to enable people to “change” their sex by simply filling out forms, a survey has found.
New laws are being proposed in state parliament by independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich to allow “self-ID” of sex for official government forms, junking the current requirement for individuals to undergo medical treatment to change sex.
Mr Greenwich’s proposals, which are strongly opposed by a coalition of church groups, also attempt to liberalise prostitution, allowing it to be practised near schools and churches, allow for overseas commercial surrogacy, and make it easier for children to access puberty blockers without their parent’s consent.
However, a survey of 13,258 NSW citizens, conducted by a parliamentary inquiry into the impact of the Equality Legislation Amendment (LGBTIQA) Bill 2023, found the overwhelming majority rejected the changes.
A whopping 85 per cent of the those who took part in the online survey rejected the bill altogether, with 13 per cent supporting it and another 0.89 per cent supporting it with amendments. Plans to allow 16-year-olds to consent to medical treatments without their parent’s permission were rejected by 82 per cent.
“It (the bill) is plagued with problems and has been overwhelmingly rejected by NSW citizens,” Women’s Forum Australia chief executive Rachael Wong said.
“The bill’s dystopian reforms are not what ‘equality’ looks like, especially not for women and children.”
There’s more in the article but that’s the guts of it. How do idiots like Greenwich get elected?
It’s called redundancy.
Musk isn’t Boeing.
I’m at a loss as to what is fundamentally wrong with citizens of any sovereign rejecting mass immigration from countries which are culturally inconsistent with their values.
Fascist
Lol. Well, small smirk anyway.
And more in the Tele about the wonderful taxpayer funded NDIS. At least this skank got slotted. Services provided in Western Sydney – people of no appearance wouldn’t be involved much?
An occupational therapist who made half a million dollars from a “sophisticated” fraud scheme against the National Disability Insurance Agency has been given a six year jail sentence.
Rehana Memon rorted the system with the help of a small number of participants and their representatives, who were also colluding to misrepresent the value of the services provided through allegedly falsifying reports and overcharging for services using NDIS funds.
The therapist, in her 40s and based in Western Sydney, was found guilty of 22 counts of obtaining financial advantage by deception.
She was sentenced to six years in prison, with a non-parole period of four years.
A previous court hearing revealed that Memon was a single mum of two, and had received in total $8m from the NDIS for her services.
John Dardo, integrity chief at the National Disability Insurance Agency, which runs the $42 billion scheme, revealed at senates estimates this week that NDIS participants, unrelated to Memon’s case, were being taken by providers to ATMs and withdrawing cash to spend on drugs including heroin and ice, alcohol, prostitutes, holidays and new cars.
He said that more than $2 billion a year was being rorted from the system, which supports 640,000 people with a disability.
He said that more than $2 billion a year was being rorted from the system, which supports 640,000 people with a disability.
FARRRRK!!!
640k out of a population of 26 and a bit million…Jesus wept…
But…we all knew that rorting it was going to happen big time.
Beertruk:
That was the intention by The Gizzard all along. It was designed to add a further burden of the Taxpayer. It had nothing to do with sick people.
And how many of those 640 000 are severely impacted for life as the scheme was supposed to be ..? the original version was never about autism, ADHD and such as well as folk who could get about unaided it was about folk who needed 24/7 care & attention ………
That’s because you’re not consumed by cultural self-hatred.
The potential numbers out of Africa are mind blowing.
I remember an interview with Gareth Evans decades ago wherein he postulated that Australia’s whiteness was a problem to be overcome in the future.
Simples. We all “identify” as indigenous. Problem fixed.
Read the study.
Excess mortality across countries in the Western World since the COVID-19 pandemic: ‘Our World in Data’ estimates of January 2020 to December 2022 (bmj.com)
The study make a comparison with other historical examples of excess deaths that happen during recessions. I wish it had done that.
Why draw conclusions when the authors refused to do so?
Two days ago I sent this to some friends and one replied that he is seeing a surprising number of young people with POTS and fatigue.
Result of study on the USA. That’s weird.
Fortunately…
Not Going Well: Boeing Starliner’s Thrusters Failed On ISS Docking Approach (7 Jun)
It’s stuck sitting 200 m from the docking port. The fun thing is both Elon’s and Boeing’s capsules were ordered by NASA about a decade ago iirc. The Boeing one cost twice as much and has exactly one manned flight so far – this one. Elon’s capsule is so reliable that of the dozen or so flights it’s had four have been space tourism flights.
With the rise in the Right in Europe, the question for the future of civilisation will be whether that Right cherishes Thatcher and Reagan more than they cherish Pinochet and Franco.
A racing incident in MotoGP parlance.
Does that mean jailed now? Usual usage I hear seems to imply a well-deserved burial.
They have now docked onto the ISS at least.
Seriously, Is Boeing Starliner Cursed? (6 Jun)
Cross fingers for the re-entry and landing. God speed guys. Elon makes it look easy, but the difficulty of space travel is never to be underestimated.
Interesting piece by John Mikkelson at Quadrant Online about the energy demands of AI on top of demands from EV charging in the context of Blackout and Eachway “powering” to disaster by relying on ruinables.
He comments;
The fact that climate always changes, and that it’s mainly driven by natural cyclical forces beyond our control, is overlooked by political leaders pushing the green dream of “renewable energy” drawn from the unreliable intermittent sources of solar and wind power.
I’d replace “mainly” with “overwhelmingly”
“I’d replace “mainly” with “overwhelmingly”” [WRT natural affects on climate]
The below is adjustments to temperature vs atmospheric CO2 concentration – are you surprised that temperature tracks CO2 level afte rseeing this?
That’s why it’s important to look at lesser-known datasets. The Northern Hemisphere snow line hasn’t budged for a quarter century. Which fits the unadjusted USHCN temperature dataset.
In other words: it’s fraud.
Vicki
June 7, 2024 7:41 am
I disagree.
The fact that he couldn’t stand up to JW and Hyacinth Howard and challenge means he didn’t have the balls for the job.
New OT up.
Another symptom of Sicktoria. After the tyranny inflicted on Victorians by Vikplod during covid, a reasonably sane population would have hated them deeply since 20/21. But only now some 3 years later does it become an issue.
the system, which supports 640,000 people with a disability
…and a million people with a Cert IV in Applied Hand-Patting.
Closer to 2million .. it takes 3 for effective patting (shiftwork lol) ….
a reasonably sane population would have hated them deeply since 20/21. But only now some 3 years later does it become an issue.
I’m guessing like the rest of Oz the Libs are sooo ineffective what does it matter returning failure ..
Methinx, elections nowadayz are won on “freebies” .. He/she who offers the best/most getz the nod ..
Grundiard story: Growing sponsorship row leaves UK summer arts festivals in turmoil.
You can guess. “The campaign by Fossil Free Books (FFB), an activist collective of more than 800 authors and publishing workers, has focused on billions of pounds of investments that the Edinburgh-based firm holds in companies linked to the fossil fuel industry and to Israel” So a number of festivals will no longer accept their money. I guess that is next here. What’s a “publishing worker”?
such a pity if the festivals shrink and disappear !
An interesting one to watch:
Swiss renewable energy battle moves to the ballots (TechXplore, 6 Jun)
The elites in Bern and Zurich vs the proles everywhere else…get out popcorn! Rarely do the poor put-upon voters get asked about such things, so like Brexit the chance of a nice surprise is real.
Driving back to Sydney & we have not seen so much traffic heading west! What is happening? Is Sydney evacuating?
They are off to celebrate the King’s Birthday on Monday.
Stopped for coffee on way back & read freebie SMH on table. Actually, an old bloke heard me say there was no Oz – so he handed me the SmH on his table. We were in the Blue Mtns – & they are all lefties up there.
Anyway, there was a story about the rumour that Shorten is to be appointed Ambassador to France. Really annoying as he wrecked the joint with the NDIS & now escapes retribution.
I love the term that I heard for the first time on Sky last night to describe Bowen’s unachievable power fantasies:
“Hippie Power”.
saw in a comments thread in the Oz the other day opposition to. Ike’s as “throwback to the seventies bombs beards campaigns.
Shorten to France eh? Albanese disappearing a potential rival, or putting him on ice for when Gillard’s NDIS explodes?
The Foreign Affairs commos in the embassy will love him.
Is this Hippie Power – going back to the old Mon OT, refusing to comment on the new Royal Birthday OT?
the rumour that Shorten is to be appointed Ambassador to France
What have the Frogs done to deserve that?
Maybe Bill could get the Barracuda nuclear sub detail going again. They’d get here before any other of the three proposals…
Interesting:
A domestic violence survivor who pulled herself out of homelessness by building a tiny home on a friend’s property faces being kicked out on the street by council red tape.
Teena Keys, from Geelong, south-west of Melbourne, was left homeless after losing her business during the pandemic and fleeing an abusive relationship.
In a damning indictment of Australia’s deepening housing crisis, she was rejected from more than 60 rentals and was forced to spend three years couch surfing and sleeping in her car while trying to rebuild her housekeeping business.
But her fortunes turned around in December last year when she built a tiny off-grid home on a friend’s 100-acre property in the rural Victorian town of Anakie.
Then again she could have just brought in a caravan.
Readers don’t like Councils and so on:
Do you think the council should relax the red tape on tiny houses to help solve the housing crisis?
Yes 93%
No 7%
Daily Mail
Tiny homes appear quite welcome in NSW, providing they conform to sullage rules etc. There are a lot of them appearing on farms in our valley as holiday accomodation. A handy source of income for many people.
BTW maybe reconsideration if accomodation is meant to be permanent. However, this could also be accommodated with reasonable limits to number of people accommodated. I would also expect that Councils would want to limit the number of permanently occupied dwellings. Even so, there are many farms in our vicinity with cottages for their farm workers.
Hmmm – link did not work:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13503863/Geelong-woman-faces-kicked-tiny-home-council-red-tape.html
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