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She is not silly – knows it will be used to erase many inconvenient groups from the public space. Christians,…
Malcolm Turnbull wore a pantsuit too.
Thx Gaybar ???
Agreed. she wants a confrontation with a “Nazi” she just needs too look in the mirror
Everyone sleeping.
Not really, even before writing was invented it was dispersed, just took a while longer and reached a smaller audience.
Lucky them.
Turd …
Forth
Another thing I didn’t know.
(and the list grows daily)
hello bird men/ladies
Can’t sleep and having an easy day tomorrow, not taking any dilly pills, came across euro soccer on my feed, just as effective.
shatterzz, when you watch it, do have the sound on?
I find the inane commentary most off putting.
Boring you to death with trivia tonight, excuse and scroll.
US Solar Power Company Collapses Leaving Homeowners in the Dark
In the Nevada desert, in the summer. Ouch.
Reality strikes when govt subsidy cash runs out.
The game I tired to watch is the Germany – Hungary, the germans should pay rent on the Hungarian side of the pitch.
Nothing to do with the coach, the huns are just not good enough.
Whatever happens later, it thankfully put me to sleep.
Night all
Oh Tommy Tommy, Tommy Tommy Tommy Robinson!
Great show from Ezra Levant.
—
Rebel News HQ:
Tommy Robinson Is In Canada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J4heTKevwo
Sitting here in south of France watching grandchildren play using electricity provided by Nuclear Power.
Not a windmill in sight on the hills surrounding us, with an incredible number of Raptors free to soar in the sky.
Great future ahead for them but what will it be like for us when we return to FNQ.
John Spooner.
Peter Broelman.
David Pope.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Chip Bok.
Bob Gorrell.
Gary Varvel.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Proof will be in the pudding:
How best to achieve this new strategy?
Just spitballing but maybe Mr Williams, just actually work to the charter and be impartial, don’t cheerlead for the Trot In Chief?
Start but getting rid of all the ‘talent’ right now. There’s some taxpayer cash saved.
Always someone else who foots the bill for any Left wet dream.
Reorganised the channels on the teev yesterday, too many duplicates. The list for the ALPGBC was amazing. Radio stations as well. I guarantee each channel and station has a production team. A veritable home for slow mutleys.
My new love interest arrived yesterday.
A Honda, 3,000 psi Log Splitter.
Be still my beating heart!
I think most people have figured out that wind and solar will never cut the power mustard, no matter how much arable land is destroyed and how many towns have a Giant Battery.
I’d prefer lots of coal making lots of heat but nuclear is a great wedge by Dutton.
It’s a climate emergency!
It doesn’t matter how disorganised, wilfully blind, incompetent, deliberately undermining of the government senior members of the IDF may have been.
Hamas are still responsible for 7 October
The followers of Islam are still responsible for their genocidal intentions.
A thread on the fear of Catholics in the US.
https://x.com/scarletnight27/status/1803192255383232558?t=K7GdNUfD2yX9NHmldccfOw&s=19
I think most people have figured out that wind and solar will never cut the power mustard, no matter how much arable land is destroyed and how many towns have a Giant Battery.
Not amongst the ex-public serpents and lefties cheer leaders I’m travelling through Sicily with
Much admiration for the despicable bird choppers on every mountain and the fully electric buses chugging through Catania and Palermo.
It’s the climate salvation cheer squad on steroids. The SP and I look bemused at these well educated* dummies and their gross ignorance of chemistry and physics.
* three in arts, one in botany who should know better but built a career on the Great Clinate Change Bogey Man
Am also somewhat tired of listening to regurgitated nonsense from the Age, SBS, the Guradian and the Almighty ABCess. No amount of inquiry can shift a closed mind.
Am obliterating myself on Limoncello and Campari. Not together, that would be nasty.
Hezbos threaten Cyprus
https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/06/19/hezbollah-leader-threatens-cyprus/
More evidence of genocide
https://x.com/Aizenberg55/status/1803047754047918584?t=DEN4VodwMPDDeMqxrKXUwg&s=19
Apparently another Douglas Murray smackdown.
https://x.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1802946270408966509?t=j0d7J0PbBuA4uWMo52aqHQ&s=19
James Morrow on twitter wondering how Australia’s paltry 26 million inhabitants could hold sway over the world’s climate.
“well educated* dummies” are the exception to the rule.
I shudder at the thought of daily rubbing shoulders with over educated idiots.
m0nty
June 19, 2024 8:33 pm
I’ll repeat my first sentence for your comprehension.
“The only reason this discussion has to be had is because your lot of gullible, ideological, grifting nut jobs have been in control of everything for way too long. Way too long.”
I am referring to BOTH colours on the political spectrum, the malignancy of the green (communist) ideology has seeped well into the LNP along with all the corruption.
The West needs Trump (or someone) to put a stop to this madness.
Anyway, it’s good to know you’re accumulating some properties, probably doing better than this humble Kulak who started with zip.
In fact you’ll probably be in front of me in line for the wall come the glorious revolution.
Their ABCs ” national campfire” burns money and produces only thick clouds of smug.
No, they haven’t.
Conservatives are fighting not just the numbers in parliament, they are up against the majority of the MSM who reflexively try to take them down while giving a soft ride to green-left pollies and policies.
This means they have to ardently present policies which go around the media and speak directly to Australian voters.
The BBC gave a substantial opening boost in NewsHour to a new report by a UN Israel hater, purporting to have examined the war crimes of both Israel and Hamas. It is further evidence that the UN is no longer a force for good (as if we needed it) and the report itself is a farrago of hearsay evidence that would go nowhere in a court of law.
Gary Varvel! Harsh but accurate. Obama and his crew are the string pullers; thanks Tom.
The ABC should get less funding, not more, until it rediscovers its proper role.
Apparently another Douglas Murray smackdown.
I’ve watched the debate. Douglas and Natasha won hands down. It is so sweet watching Murray expose and demolish the Jew hating Jew, Gideon Levy (who still chooses to live in Israel, funny isn’t it, how he’s yet to move to Ramallah or Rafah) and the Jew hating, Qatari mouthpiece, wolf in sheep’s clothing, and all round rape, murder and kidnapping of Jews apologist, Mehdi Hassan.
Further to Jew hating and rape, murder and kidnapping apologists, I see that yesterday the blog was defecated by one. It was nice to see him smacked down.
By the way, the IRC is still yet to visit one hostage in Gaza. Please, please, please, never give one cent, one penny or one dime to this disreputable Jew hating organisation.
Rand Paul Reads Out Secret Communications Of Fauci’s Team About COVID-19’s Origins
forbes
And this morning in woke world, the uber woke Pitt-Rivers Museum in Oxford will not display an African Igbo mask because apparently, in Ibgo culture, women are forbidden from looking at it.
LOL. Does that ban apply to cocks in frocks? After all, those cocks in frocks are male! Or what about females who identify as male, as they now insist they are male, surely then they can view the mask?
OMG, woke world is truly weird world!
ABC Chairman “The devastation isn’t just about revenues and audiences. It has involved an assault on the moral resources that hold our society together. Including on the qualities good media organisations offer: objectivity and truth, without which democracy becomes impossible to sustain.”
I have no words ..
Maybe one, Delusion
The ABC should get less funding, not more, until it rediscovers its proper role.
No, there is no ‘proper role’ for their ABC, rather the whole organisation should be ‘properly’ disbanded.
The higher the energy bill the more the scales will fall, I’m looking at Europeans to lead the way.
It’s their people that are dying from energy poverty.
William’s speech was terrifying.
“The market has failed, only OUR truth must prevail”!
Just another smug trougher, but probably more dangerous than his predecessors because of his agressive promotion of his marxist ideology. Albanese chose well.
Fascinating how Labor appointees are promoted as being reasoned, moderate and rational until they take up their post and reveal their true totalitarian motivations. Unelected ABC will direct the Nation’s media.
If you read through, the terror security staff were removed.
https://x.com/UKLFI/status/1803376333784768519?t=XLpifNuCdu-v_deTLOj5_A&s=19
I might have to visit this restaurant.
https://x.com/karenievers/status/1803358756471804301?t=Y6vxMTLsbkFQEasDXHn0qw&s=19
Last night I caught up with some Cats (here’s looking at you Lizzie, Hairy, Rabz and Rafe) and we sat down to hear the always engaging larrikin Fred Pawle talk to the genius larrikin Johannes Leak.
I reckon Bill is smiling in heaven.
It’s always nice to be in a room with like-minded people. It’s always good to have a laugh.
Dropped this on the earlier thread, by accident, but I deserve a wider audience .. LOL!
Bloody hell .. went for my, usual, morning toddle (4kms not bad for 76 yrs old) at 5 this morning (usually go about 6 but woke early ..) and thought it was a bit chill-ish .. turns out it is down to 2C here in Fairfield NSW .. FFS!
tempted to roll down the sleeves but ya gotta draw the line somewhere ..
shatterzz,
minus 2 here in the Southern Tablelands.
It was the first “softball bat frost”, of the season.
Normally, I can crack the ice on the duck and goose baths with my walking stick. As it becomes colder, the ice becomes thicker and I need a better persuader for the ice. 😀
anyone still fly boeing?
the australian bureaucracy must be hollowed out by at least 80%
If you read through, the terror security staff were removed.
No different to wearing SS uniforms and Nazi insignia.
Jew hatred, now out in the open, they don’t even try and hide their hatred.
We live in disgraceful times.
ABC funding proposal includes a loudspeaker in every home, turned on and off at management’s discretion only.
How else will they improve their ratings for RN?
From Kim Williams’s babblespeak.
An assault led by Their ABC, and for which he wants lots moar Munni.
Rabz it.
A cold winter in Australia.
More evidence of climate change.
Actually heard a lady yesterday, in her early seventies say it reminded her of her school days.
Which are now known as ‘briquette days’.
And this dismantling of anti Israel propaganda.
https://x.com/Aizenberg55/status/1803425372006129889?t=IuTelb-0yvd2700wiFeLOg&s=19
Gray knows Monty
https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1803272880207307123?t=09FUc0UvuZT1Bj012SxW5g&s=19
Even Kamala get something right.
https://x.com/VerminusM/status/1802852435997647177?t=–4AseKKlHpyYuedI-p6zg&s=19
A clip of Douglas Murray at the debate
https://x.com/AvivaKlompas/status/1803157927257088092?t=zlFmcQIrKH9VojO8zZj6IA&s=19
It’s absolutely pointless using the reply function on an old thread or the previous page, bad enough on the current page.
No-one will read them.
The reply function is a pita even on the current page.
I hope the southern Kats and kittens survive the polar blast today.
I may have have mentioned that I am now on Insulin. Like a good little patient, I get get my script filled in my way home from hospital. Excellent – no. I have needles and I have vials of insulin, but the idiot chemist, who asked if I had ever been on it before, “no” and doesn’t give me the delivery pen, so absolutely useless to me. I spent yesterday hunting down a chemist who actually had the delivery pen in stock.
Excellent – no. I discovered that my long lasting insulin requires a different pen. That is my task today. ( Insert many many swear words)
Whilst normally quite reasonable and patient with fools, I was a school teacher, I am at the point where I am in “tear their arms off and beat them round the head with soggy bits” mode when dealing with pharmacist , the young lasses working the counters are exempt because they are not the professionals.
Peter Dutton’s nuclear plans get an early thumbs up in rural electorates
[Unlinkable OZ]
Let the nuancing begin:
To paraphrase a great philosopher: We have plans; if you don’t like them, we have other plans.
?
Whether nuclear at dead power stations is the shot, or not, this ‘next election’ public debate plop is why Australia can’t have nice things without selling the country.
If “our” ABC need more funding then make it interesting … Take any increase from the 251s $40billion a year .. we, the mug, taxpayer scan then sit back and eat popcorn to watch the fireworx .. if we are gonna cough up we may as well do it laffin’ .. LOL!
Nope, not threatening freedom or democracy, just revealing the ABC’s lies. ESafety commissioner to the rescue!
Says the man who disappeared from view when Ms. Tingle called us racists.
Modi just snubbed the CCP by communicating directly and warmly with Taiwan’s president, promising closer ties in the future.
China’s foreign ministry is going nuts.
Kim Williams, ABC Chairman, fully assimilated into the collective.
No wonder La Tingle had no concerns about calling Australians racist.
He’s her poodle ..
How can you fix anything when you don’t even know who are your audiences? It’s not just the dregs that are watching and listening now, it’s all taxpayers since we have been forced to fund the ABC. When you have realised that then come back to us.
Here is a fact……
David Crisafooli does not deserve to become premier later this year.
Glad to see you’re getting better Diogenes. I can by the anger at having to deal with educated idiots, in your case chemists. If you were not feeling better you’d curl up sucking your thumb. Not all chemists are idiots. I’ve had two recently provide excellent advice. The first one, an Indian, asked me about side effects from an over the counter medicine. I’ve stopped taking it even though my GP knew I was taking it never mentioned the side effects. I feel better generally without it. The other was a young guy still with trainer wheels. I’d had a head cold that went from my head to throat to upper chest and back again several times. He gave me a nasal spray that I should have been using in conjunction with the cold and flu tablets. My usual chemist tried palming me off with a range of wallet lightening products. When you used to be able to get pseudoephedrine it knocked colds on the head in a couple of days.
@RealJamesWoods
Coming soon…
ABC QLD radio doing a vox pop in the South Burnett town of Nanango couldn’t find anyone to speak against using the present Tarong coal plant site (scheduled to close in 2036) for nuclear. Best they could do was a lady yet to make her mind up.
Nanango is the LNP’s avowedly anti-nuclear energy spokesperson Deb Frecklington’s home base.
Chuckle.
This is supposedly a wellness check!
nuking from orbit is the only safe solution.
@KarluskaP
John Solomon Reports- this is HUGE- Drip Drip Flood
I haven’t asked for a while.
Is everyone still happy about the IDF engaging in Gaza?
All going swimmingly, ….., is it? Hey, that is great.
I guess Hamas must have been “eliminated”, because now they are going to send the IDF into Lebanon.
The attack plans have been “approved”, according to Zero Hedge.
Airstrikes have started.
Israeli Foreign Minister Katz said “Israel was very close to the moment when we will decide to change the rules of the game against Hezbollah and Lebanon.”
His memory clearly doesn’t go as far back as 2006.
I said on about the 10th Oct 2023: “It is NOT in Israel’s best interest to enter Gaza”.
If Israel launches large scale attacks against Lebanon, it will be CATASTROPHIC for Israel.
Israel has never been weaker, compared to its neighbours. Hezbollah is much stronger now than 2006. Not to mention Iran, who will act, as opposed to the Hamas affair, about which they have zero investment or control.
They have already provided examples of their targeting capacity.
There appears to be no upper limit, to the number of Israeli’s that the PM, Bibi Pfizer, is willing to sacrifice, to keep his sorry arse out of gaol.
Because of people not taking CHO advice seriously and Grampian Nasties exchanging fashion tips?
Apparently not:
Forget shivering Cosplay Nazis and Far Right Extremists making their own health decisions, the Digital World has disrupted the ABC – and thus our freedom and democracy.
Faced with that, nobody will be able to blame Mr Williams when he can’t save the ship without more trays of munni.
@EmeraldRobinson
@FiveTimesAugust
“We Didn’t Know” says @Morning_Joe. So you ostracized, segregated and shamed others based on what? Broke up families, got people fired? Let family die alone in hospitals? Prevented in-person funerals because..?
Oh, you just… didn’t know
And he’s still lying about asymptomatic spread.
If nuclear power is so on the nose with federal & state gummints why not try the, obvious, solution ..? Upgrade all the existing power stations .. FFS!
After all, they operate on … COAL .. cos if there is one resource we have oodles of it’s … COAL …… FFS!
Diogenes,
sorry about your troubles.
You should have told them you were a junkie on the NDIS. A complete array of needles would have been sent to your house by Taxi or Uber within the hour.
Stay strong, and keep us updated.
Finally found the Debate “Is Anti Zionism Anti Semitism.” On page 3 of the search results.
Sound is barely OK, no subtitles. Picture quality is poor at 360p.
Douglas Murray is his usual witty and incisive best.
Mehdi Hassan is a propagandist only used to speaking before supporting audiences and it shows.Natasha Hausdorff – I haven’t heard her speak before, but a credible and polished performance. Made several very pointed remarks that got audience applause.Gideon Levy – I had a bit of trouble working out if that was the bloke who spoke. He essentially said “I’m a Jew, how can I hate myself, all Jews are bad. Look at my history of being a Nazi victim, All Jews are bad.”The motion was carried.
Excellent result – the pair who spoke against the motion appeared a little angry and surprised at the result. That’s what happens when you get your information from the media. I think they believed they had a good chance at winning.
@billybinion
This is what a federal judge said at this 75-year-old woman’s sentencing after her husband asked for mercy based on her poor health. It doesn’t matter how you feel about abortion. I struggle to understand how anyone can think this is acceptable.
Some interesting poll numbers in the UK today.
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK surges to new record high in poll overtaking Tories (Express, 19 Jun)
Plus Farage himself looks likely to win the seat he’s standing in, which had a 72% Tory vote in 2019.
Poll Predicts Historic Victory Sending Nigel Farage to UK Parliament in July Election (Breitbart, 19 Jun)
The swing against the Tories according to Ipsos could be 55%, with the Tories down to 17% in that poll. Chunky!
Russia Rescues Hundreds of Adrenochrome Victims Destined for Washington D.C.
DrF I’d like to see the Liars re-elected simply on the basis of collapsing the State. Followed by the other states. Australians have to learn the hard way. Incompetence, idiotology and graft have to be the focus of voters. How far are we away from the cliff, hard to tell. I didn’t think I’d ever see this happen in Australia. 45 years ago stepping off the plane in Sydney I was surprised to find in the space of a few weeks how savvy the locals were politically. It didn’t matter which party they supported they didn’t like graft or stupidity and called it as they saw it. Now they support it due to lazy thinking and reliance on government to do their thinking for them.
Because all the Biden glitches are nothing but misinformation and lies.
Report: Biden Campaign Creates Special Task Force to Mitigate ‘Cheap Fake’ Videos
Odd, isn’t it, that it’s always men.
Furious residents erupt at NYC town hall meeting over crime outside gargantuan migrant shelter that houses 3,000 men
Boeing And Airbus Both Used FAKE Chinese Titanium In Their Aircraft
tofu dregs metals
Is Mortality Data Being Suppressed or Disguised?
Malcolm Roberts
I asked questions about suppressed or disguised data. It’s been well established that the modelling during COVID was not done well – potentially to support the government program regardless what the data was actually showing.
There are numerous methods through which excess mortality can be hidden. We simply cannot trust the government data when it stands in such stark contrast to the widespread experiences of everyday Australians.
A study of excess mortality in Queensland in 2021 offered warning signals. There was a huge spike in deaths immediately after the COVID injection rollout began, even before the virus itself arrived in Queensland. Similar patterns was seen in Western Australia and other parts of Australia. This spike then came back to near normal levels once the “vaccine” rollout slowed down.
It is not acceptable that instead of seeking to understand the reasons behind these findings, our health authorities are looking for ways to discredit this data.
Hawley Goes Scorched Earth On Doctor For ‘Propaganda Effort’ Against Lab Leak Theory
Dr. John Campbell’s presentation to the Australian Medical Professionals’ Society
Evidence based communication
Dear Warministas,
In my time this, is easily the coldest June in Melbourne.
Plants don’t lie.
The J-school kiddies writing the radio news scripts don’t realise they’re doing satire:
On the 9am AIR (Australian Independent Radio) news:
As I keep saying, the problem isn’t the radio/TV station or the news outlet: Australian journalism schools ALL produce the same group-thinking activist zombies who wouldn’t know the public interest if it jumped up and bit them.
In the exact words of the thankfully-retiring midget cheat Warner, sitting in the lunch room at Lord’s when Jonny Bairstow sat down across from him and asked ‘Are you blokes happy with that?’, apropos of his legitimate stumping dismissal when he walked out of his crease:
‘Very’.
Laura Jayes: why do we need nuclear? Aren’t renewables and batteries better?
(I wish reporters wouldn’t imagine that they are science-literate, particularly regarding energy)
First week of a Dutton government.
The Communications Minister calls Kim Williams.
“Kim, mate, you were spot on in your Redmond Barry address; news media is now too fragmented to justify spending billions indefinitely for a national broadcaster with a rapidly decreasing audience. We’re defunding the ABC. Tell Laura we’ll entertain serious offers from the staff co-op in the unlikely even they’ll be able to raise the capital. No….sorry, Kim, I don’t have time for a chat about it. I’ve got to call SBS.”
I know…I’m dreaming.
From my morning consumption of media, it’s quite clear that Australia is blessed with a huge, previously hidden, supply journalists who are hardcore energy market experts, all with noocular power as their specialist subjects.
It seems that, just as Chernobyl and Fukushima are the ‘go to’ safety design prototypes for any Australian nuclear installation, Vogtle 3&4 and Hinkley C are the preferred economic models for the nuclear disasteratii.
I’m seeing sensible policy debate about to drown in a tsunami of misinformation and stupidity.
[For wonks: the actual back stories of Vogtle and Hinkley give fascinating insight into government incompetence and bastardry and Contract Risk Transfer 101. My particular favourite, the awful mess that is Hinkley C, is a legacy of nine years of EU anti-protectionist lawfare.]
EMT and Gordon Corrigan’s monumental work on the Second World War.
“Despite the fact that they did not win the war from the air, Arthur Harris and the men of Bomber Command were in many ways the heroes of the British war effort. With only 7% of all British military manpower, Bomber Command suffered 24% of all British military deaths, and they got precious little thanks for it. Embarrassed by criticism of civilian deaths, the British Government pulled the carpet from under Harris and his men. There was a Burma Star and an African Star, an Atlantic Star and a Pacific Star, but there was no Bomber Offensive Star, and alone amongst the Commanders in Chief, Harris was not elevated to the peerage after the war.It was a disgraceful way to treat brave men. (Page 452.)
Re – posted, from the old thread.
Now Laura has Tim Buckley “Climate Energy Finance Director” on to tell us all that noocleer ain’t good.
Unsurprisingly, the ABC found their expert to whine about nuclear power:
Nuclear won’t make power bills cheaper, energy analyst says, as Coalition claims scrutinised
Actually, I’m surprised it took them this long. Anyhoo, some basic bitch analysis occurred:
What would lower power bills is abandoning the entire zero carbon boondoggle and go back to coal fired power generation, but that is off the table. So the question is which policy will result in the smallest increase in power bills, not which policy will lower them.
Well, the start of the century is less than 25 years ago and it probably takes 15 years to bring a plant online including planning and design phases. So this isn’t a very illuminating factoid (assuming it is true). If we wanted to do this seriously and we want to use developed countries as our standard, we would look at periods when nuclear power station construction was in its heyday and try to replicate those conditions.
Also, there are going to be enormous cost and time blowouts building a reliable renewables-powered grid (if such a thing is possible). We still haven’t switched off many of the coal-fired stations that provide stability to the network. When we do, then let’s talk about costs and time blowouts.
Well, why does Ontario have low poles and wires costs compared to us? Because we need to build a grid capable of managing the the massive spikes and collapses in power output that are inherent in diurnal solar and transient wind. A steady baseload source means you don’t need to construct a grid capable of absorbing such wild fluctuations.
Anyway, it seems the good doctor’s only concern is that the coalition claimed nuclear power wouldn’t be cheaper. Okay, fine. Let’s say it won’t be cheaper. What it will be is reliable. That cannot be said about wind and solar. I want a reliable source of power. If we build a grid that provides unreliable power, the cost will be enormous and will dwarf any savings from the allegedly lower sticker price of implementation of this unreliable model.
Check China’s Nuclear Power station build program.
Democracy, German-style.
Germany Moves Closer To AfD Ban, Green Claims Party Is “Security Risk For People & Democracy” (19 Jun)
How dare the voters vote for the wrong party!
Ask him about what happened to prices when Finland opened their latest reactor last year!
Everything is coming in in over time and budget, whether it is a new council park, a new stadium, road or railway.
Zippster: You are an oracle of the highest order & must be given an office & clerical staff to promulgate this truth to every household & workplace in the nation, daily.
Who wrote this?
The Air Crew Europe Star, furthermore, in the order of precedence came before the Africa Star.
For those who already had a chestful of service stars, there was the Bomber Command Clasp.
Roger
June 20, 2024 8:32 am
Channel Nein did a little better in the Latrobe Valley yesterday.
A small group of elderly Greens (some looked like they may have been refugees from the Australian Democrats) waving hastily constructed placards declaring their avowed opposition to “Noocular Power”.
The vox-pop was equally enlightening … “It’s dangerous” … “I don’t like the idea” … etc.
And when I say “small group” I am talking 10-12, but it didn’t stop the reporterette declaring victory:-
“There you have it. The people of Latrobe Valley do not want Noocular Power plants on their doorstep”.
Not wanting to be a Debbie Downer here, but under the Pom first past the post system, Reform = Springtime for Labour and Winter for the Conservatives.
As an example: pretending the YouGov poll represents a typical seat and assuming all the vote flowing to Reform comes from the Torries, the Reform candidate on 19% will come a distant second to the Labour candidate on 35%.
Whereas previously Labour and the Conservatives were line ball on 35:34.
So, expect a Torrie wipeout with no redeeming features.
Chernobyl. Decaying infrastructure run by disengaged and poorly trained staff.
Fukushima. Poor site scoping risk assessment.
None of the sites suggested by Dutton is remotely at risk of a tsunami, and Australia is the most geographically stable place on earth for operation of reactors and storage of waste. Fun fact for the Techno-illiterates … Australia is the only continent on the planet with zero active volcanoes.
Scrutinised, eh?
I don’t suppose they asked him to show his workings?
Factoring in progressively lower construction costs once the first installation is built and the savings on poles and wires because the grid will be less dispersed than with renewables? And what about the longevity of nuclear plants as opposed to the relatively short lifespan of renewables infrastructure?
I’ve no difficulty with scepticism about such a large undertaking, but let’s see some evidence and not merely hear opinions voiced.
Faustus, the poll said 24% for Reform, not 19%. Which if true was estimated to give Reform 50 seats.
If there is a swing on Reform could be the second largest party behind Labour. And Labour only had 35% themselves.
Dr F at 10:30.
The first past the post system is problematic when you split the “conservative” vote, but maybe this is the sort of “burning down the house” which is required.
Probably too late, but Farage could maybe drag the Conservatives back to somewhere in sight of where Thatcher was by agreeing to a form of Coalition (with a few hard core non-negotiables like Immigration).
Agree for a tactical withdrawal from selected seats on both sides.
It seems a whacky idea, but as PJ Keating once said “In the great race of life always back Self Interest. At least you know it’s trying”.
Faced with oblivion and the end of the gravy train career, the Conservatives might jump at it.
Sancho – not in a million years. The Turnbull/Kean wing of the Conservative Party will never allow the great Trumpian unwashed take over the reins.
The CDU trying to ban AfD (see upthread) is exactly the same equation. I expect the establishment parties in Britain will attempt to do likewise to the Reform Party.
Who wrote this?
The Air Crew Europe Star, furthermore, in the order of precedence came before the Africa Star.
Thanks for sorting that one, Sal.
An inconvenient fact, oddly ignored by AEMO/CSIRO, and missed completely by the media children.
Doctor Chalmers informed us yesterday that Australia is facing a $225 billion bill for the rollout of renewables infrastructure out to 2050. Run through a Snowy2.0.xlsx real-world-estimates model, that becomes $0.5 to $1.5 trillion (today’s dollars) spend without raising an assumption sweat.
Now that renewables have moved beyond an opportunistic panic subsidy grab, nobody with any experience of project management is game to commit to stump up that sort of money.
Which is the realisation now rattling through the offices of Canbra in the presently dawning ‘Oh, Shit! Moment’.
The COVID “vaccine” had no benefit. Zero. Zip. Nada.
On one hand, Nigel Farage is everything wrong with British politics, an opportunistic grifter with no morals or principles, and his Reform Party has no grassroots structure at all.
On the other hand, he could legitimately claim a lot of credit for destroying the Tories.
Tough choice.
For a landmark report on the origins of SARS 2 – this is a report on the US Senate’s official inquiry and relevant testimonies.
It is conclusive re the role of US virological research scientists – namely Peter Daznak’s Eco Health Alliance in funding viral gain-of-function research in the Wuhan lab. The turning point in this research was the insertion of the furin cleavage site in the genomic sequence – the stabilising human mutation called DG14G. It is truly an amazing story that is gaining light of day finally in the public domain, though it has been known in scientific circles and social media sites for some time. I suspect that although no one will be gaoled, there will be quiet changes of personnel in many labs. Will it stop similar disguised research, however? Doubtful.
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/origins-of-covid-a-historic-senate?
That would buy ten nuclear power plants easy. Even if built by the CFMEU.
I note that in the UK the peak bodies representing Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus have each issued “manifestos” making demands of political parties for special treatment for the voting blocs they purport to represent.
We’re not far from that here at least in western Sydney.
This neo-sectarianism is the terminus ad quem of multiculturalism and, perhaps, of democracy as we have known it.
“Is everyone still happy about the IDF engaging in Gaza?”
No.
I think they are sacrificing far too many fine young Israeli men to minimise the civilian casualties Hamas so desperately wants.
Monty has Farage Derangement Syndrome.
Have Bex and a nice lie down, there’s a good fellow.
It will always be cheaper than the renewables electricity, even if you gold-plate the cooling towers.
Whilst on such things…
Senate Passes Major Pro-Nuclear Bill, Sends To Biden’s Desk (19 Jun)
Someone should ask Bowen about this. Maybe Monty could, since he’s a journalist.
m0nty
June 20, 2024 11:07 am
Reply to Sancho Panzer
California sits on about 400, of far greater potential than anything in Australia, and they manage construction standards to cope.
We have the most geographically stable environment on the planet. The occasional 3 – 4 shake would barely cause a “mind mah tea!” in the control room, or shake a few of your belly rolls.
I smell fear.
Exactly my point.
The UK Commons has 650 members.
The only positive I can see is the massive majority is going to neuter the insane factions within Labour.
Bruce of Newk, you would think our parliamentarians would be lining up for a fact-finding tour to Finland. Not even throwing in a Santa sleigh ride with reindeer is enough to tempt them to visit there.
Re the Lib proposal of the nuclear substations:
Personally, we are extremely enthusiastic. One of the proposed sites is the current Piper facility on the NSW Central Tablelands. If this went ahead it would cancel out the installation of the current proposal for vast swathes of solar panels planned for the “Orana” farming area & also potential approval of massive amounts of wind turbines on the slopes.
One of the Cats – it could have been Farmer Gez – warned me some time ago about the proposals for our area. It wasn’t until we saw a map of the proposed sites at the IPS Energy Forum in Sydney recently that we really understood the horror of it all.
We really must get the Coalition elected to stop this insanity.
BTW the installation of a nuclear facility (there are all the requirements there) would allow a complementary continuation of the coal industry in the area – & perhaps a gradual phasing out of these operations as they become redundant. The developing tourist facilities and attractions in the amazing “Gardens of Stone” National Park and in the relatively unexplored Wollemi promise to fill any loss of jobs.
Soccer is killing the planet.
Climate Alarmists Fretting Over European Cup 2024, Summer Festival Emissions (19 Jun)
Which directs us to Labor’s real problem with nuclear power. Very few jerbs for the boys.
Almost all employees on coal fired power stations are blue collar union members. Similarly wind and solar farms.
Almost all employees on nuclear power stations are scientists and engineers.
Why renewables are a hard sell in the bush.
German company RWE is proposing a wind project at Campbell’ Bridge NW of Stawell. It’s magnificent dual purpose country with good soils and rainfall.
RWE is a major coal miner and steel producer in Germany that in 2018 was the number one CO2 emitter in the EU.
Tell me again Bowen that this is about the climate and not just a huge subsidised investment scheme for the big players and funds.
Eating fish and chips is saving the planet, but not enough. We need to eat more fish and chips.
Green aviation targets driving cooking oil fraud at ‘mass scale’ (19 Jun)
I’m amused that used chip fat is now known as “green aviation fuel”.
Dylan McConnell is not exactly an independent energy analyst and fails to disclose that fact, neither does the ABC by the looks but that’s normal:
https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=E8qBor0AAAAJ&hl=en
Oh well, going to be more of his ilk squealing and massaging data to protect their gravy train before long.
Good news, Cats! Matthew Guy has come out in support of Dutton’s nuke plan.
So good old Potato Head has the support of one state Lib leader. Well, former state Lib leader. In a state where the Libs may never win office again. But hey, it’s something!
Dim Chalmers just crapped in the lefturds’ bed.
Screeching “Noocular is expensive” is now open to the questions “Compared to what? A $225 billion ‘investment’ in renewables that will have to be repeated every 20 years? Not having reliable electricity at all?”
Only stupid lefturds like Dim Chalmers and mUntyfa could possibly think that we can manage without either or both of lower emissions coal generation (available now) or nuclear starting in under ten years time.
There is a role for renewables, in isolated sites backed up by diesel generators. Sort of like many EV charging stations.
Vicki, don’t count on those to be available to the public. There will be many ersatz aborigines who will soon claim that these are holy of holies and must be locked away from colonisers and only available to the select of the 251 nations.
This might help
Anyone able to post the article by Robert Gottliebsen in the Oz Online?
Deals with dams and the climate hysteria infecting BoM and CSIRO.
Furthermore, in the order of precedence, the Air Crew Europe Star also comes well before the Burma Star.
Tough choice.
The UK Conservatives deserve ‘net zero seats’ and it’s looking like that might happen. Sweet, very sweet. But at least people now have a choice in Reform and Farage. Farage speaks for middle and working England. If nothing more, he’s enlivened a dull campaign. Will Reform do well? Well, that’s hard in a ‘first past the post’ system however I reckon Farage will win in Clacton, the constituency he’s running in, located in Essex.
Anyway, what’s it you Nazi. UK Labour will win in two weeks, in a landslide, but not because anyone wants Labour and Der Sturmer. But once they win we’ll see the true colours of the Der Sturmer government, and blasphemy laws will be introduced, and so, instead of the Church of England being the ‘official’ religion, it’ll be Islam. But unlike in 1997 there is no hankering for a Labour government. Besides, just like the Slug from Grayndler, you’re a Corbynista (like Sturmer was), not surprising really, Jew haters always like other Jew haters.
Meanwhile, Jews will leave the UK, and slowly but surely the UK will become ‘Judenfrei’, which no doubt will make you and your comrades happy.
Judith Sloan of the Institute for Private Enterprise, last August: Dan Andrews resurrecting the SEC is Hitler
Judith Sloan of the Institute for Private Enterprise, today: Peter Dutton promising a 100% government-owned nuclear industry is the “sensible thing to do”.
What a shameless hack.
Yikes.
Noocular fallout incoming!
Sold my shares this morning.
It’s all in iodine now.
robert gottliebsen Hold tight: storms gathering over our precious water
These days, most weather discussion revolves around climate change, which can obscure significant conventional weather events that look to be heading Australia’s way.
Right now, some of America’s top weather analysts along with those who operate in Australia independent of the Bureau of Meteorology are sending out alerts to their clients about a possible large Australian rain pattern developing.
It is a weather pattern that we have seen many times over the last century. The emphasis of the warning is on the word “alert” and not on “forecast”.
But the alert has a particular relevance communities around the dams that have previously exacerbated floods such as Sydney’s Warragamba, Brisbane’s Wivenhoe and other dams scattered around eastern Australia – possibly as far south as Lake Eppalock in Victoria, which, if there is a spill, can flood the town of Rochester.
If the system the experts are tracking continues to follow its historic pattern, then there will be heavy rain in eastern Australia around the end of the year and/or the beginning of 2025.
The managers of the above dams and similar water storages don’t need to make decisions now, but must follow the weather pattern. Last year, US weather people noticed a body of deep cold water proceeding easterly across the Pacific towards the US. On many (but not all) occasions in the past, similar water streams have hit the America’s coast and rolled over to become a stream of cold water much closer to the surface, heading west across the Pacific towards Australia.
Americans fear this water movement pattern because it very often creates increased hurricanes in the US.
Of course, it doesn’t always happen that way but, to date, this particular water movement is looking like a hurricane causing classic. The stream of surface cold water is now headed towards Australia and has passed Honolulu.
Again, with the US style alert caveats, if the stream of water comes close to northern Australia it will force warmer water into the Papua New Guinea/Indonesian area. When that happens, it usually creates very heavy rainfall. It is possible that the rain will stay in PNG and Indonesia, but normally it extends across northern Australia and spreads south through Brisbane and Sydney into northern Victoria.
If such a pattern developed, southern Victoria and South Australia would be unlikely to get heavy rain. The clients of US and Australian commercial weather analysts are now receiving regular updates, with the constant qualification that the pattern could change.
No one, and particularly our Bureau of Meteorology, is prepared to issue the kind of forecast put out by the Australian BOM last September which stated:
“Unusually low rainfall is at least twice as likely for parts of southern and northeastern Australia, with the chance of unusually low rainfall increasing to 3 times as likely for southeastern WA and parts of southern Victoria.”
Then came 19 chilling words for farmers: “Unusually low rainfall equates to the driest 20 per cent of October to December periods from 1981 to 2018.”
Apart from getting it totally wrong (there was heavy rain) the weather bureau did not update with sufficient clarity and regularity that the systems they had previously followed evolved into a different direction to the way they had expected, Farmers sold stock at low prices.
And of course that could happen with the current weather system.
I was first alerted to this developing water system late last year when it was very speculative, but since then the system has performed exactly the way similar eastern Australian rain creating systems have developed over the last 100 years. So it’s time to issue an alert.
The management of our big dams are always reluctant to let water go in advance of major rain falls because they fear the rain might not arrive, and they will be short of water.
And so in 2016 there were calls for the Warragamba Dam to release water. The dam managers resisted the pressure and the rain system went in a different direction. In the years that followed there was a severe drought which would have been far worse had the dam levels been lowered.
In 2022, Brisbane’s Wivenhoe started the wet season only 56 per cent full. The large rainfall later caused a spill, but it wouldn’t have been conceivable to reduce water when it was only 56 per cent full.
The bottom line is that there are likely to be some difficult decisions for the water bodies that control the dams, but it will be much easier to make those decisions if they are following the cold-water pattern.
The long term issue is that weather issues in the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO have often been entwined with climate change agendas. The Americans are more skilled in separating those agendas from concentration on the nature of a particular weather system and how they have performed in the past. It doesn’t mean their conclusions will be right, or climate change based forecasting wrong, but at least they’re a basis of precedent.
Thanks ZK2A.
Monty, you are one ignorant puppy.
The “new” SEC performs no function as it owns no generation or transmission assets.
It remained on the books as a moth balled entity until Andrews decided to use the title as an election stunt. The only current purpose of the SEC is as a bucket of money for renewable investors to apply for a nice taxpayer subsidy grant.
Feel free to provide alternative “facts” Monty.
Random thought: How long until ‘Your body belongs to The State. You are permitted to reside in it for a designated period?’
Florence Turnbull
Could be made more useful, should she ever complete the Snowy Mountains Folly task.
Drive it underground, to Sydney, then drive it underground to Melbourne.
High speed rail tunnel
Just a thought
Wasting time saying what a dufus Monty is ranks somewhere below saying how nutty the policies of the Biden regime are. In both cases the objective of the policies espoused by the left are purely destructive of national interests. In the USA the leftists game is to detonate the USA from within, with some help from 12 million illegals.
I’m not entirely convinced that dopy Australian leftists aim that high, but they are on the same track. Don’t waste your time pointing out the flaws in their thinking, just be aware that bringing down capitalism is the project and that it is being pursued on many fronts.
PETER VAN ONSELEN: Deformed pets, three-eyed fish and even Lara Bingle in a bikini: Anthony Albanese’s anti-nuclear power campaign is an insult to Aussie voters
Daily Mail. Your tax dollars at work.
Chalmers and Albo are panicking amazingly today. They’re going full Dutton Derangement Syndrome and absolutely nuclear about his nuclear policy.
These are Sky News stories that have been posted just this morning. Too many to link, but go to their webpage if you want to read them.
‘Stick to the facts’: Dutton fires back at criticism of his landmark nuclear proposal
‘Farcical’: Albanese blasts Dutton and the Coalition’s nuclear plan
PM: Peter Dutton a ‘lion outside and a pussycat in front of Premier Li’
‘An announcement without any substance’: PM hits out at Opposition’s nuclear plan
Nuclear debate highlights ‘core issue’ of high energy prices
Coalition’s nuclear plan met with ‘grave reservations’
Labor ‘signed up to safety’ of nuclear technology with submarines: Peter Dutton
Nuclear will help ‘revitalise’ some ‘wilting’ towns: Peter Dutton
Australia has been a nuclear country since 1958: Peter Dutton
Labor’s ‘unreliable energy’ led to ‘three-fold increase’ in manufacturing firms closing
Coalition’s nuclear policy announcement has set up an ‘energy election’
Wow oh wow. I haven’t seen so much political excitement since Kerr booted Gough! The final one is fun because the aroma I’m getting is the punters are (a) not especially against nuclear (b) are ok with the on-coal-plant-sites model and (c) like the big swinging balls Dutton has just revealed. His come back against Malinauskas’ hypocrisy is nearly perfect, since Malinauskas agreed to an entire nuclear fuel industry for the subs.
What it also smells like to me is that Labor have just received some internal polling numbers on this issue that they really really do not like. Like the ones a few weeks ago on SMRs. When that happens they tend to explode with ad hominems all over the place…just like they are doing today.
Just a random thought.
But assuming Putin the shirtless is sourcing his artillery shells from home/China (I assume) and the Norks and apparently not suffering too much from shortages, while the Kiev/USA/EU seem to be having real trouble getting production up to parity (after a year) just what was the “west” counting on.
A formal slap of the glove to the face and an agreement to meet on the field in a decade?
I cant imagine the standard of Australian stocks.
I think somebody linked to below Substack article by Steve Kirsch already. However Kirsch gives concerning details about deaths in a US aged care after jab rollout. He was tipped off by a staff member. Deaths increased significantly after jabbing.
The COVID “vaccine” had no benefit. Zero. Zip. Nada.
Here’s official US government data, all in plain sight, so you can decide for yourself. If the vaccine reduced the risk of death, this data is simply impossible to explain.
So what do I hear on 4BC news today? Health Department concerned about low jab uptake in aged care and getting staff to go to aged homes to encourage keeping updated with jabs. So how many times does a resident have to say no or are they coerced by threats of isolation etc ? Anybody got a relative in a home and what is happening to them ?
In her most provocative book yet, Dr. Naomi Wolf shows how these forces—from Big Tech and Big Pharma to the CCP and our oligarchical elites—seized upon two years of COVID-19 panic in sinister new ways, to not only undermine our Republic but to fundamentally reorient human relations.
I like and admire Naomi Wolf and much of her work – particularly her brave early stance against the mRNA vaccines when many were going along with the narrative.
However, I am still “out to lunch” on her theories (shared by many others) that the sinister forces of “Big” entities (Govt & Pharma & other major industries/corporations) were consciously carrying out plans to seriously affect human civilisation eg population reduction through Covid and/or the vaccines).
Call me naive, but I generally first suspect the frailties of mankind – the propensity to succumb to fear, survival instincts in the masses & the corresponding over reaction of the dominating institutions.
Of course, I don’t for one minute think that bureaucracies and polls alike will not exploit positions of power when such opportunities arise. And while political opportunists like to dismiss our fears as “conspiracy theories” – some of the more outlandish theories encourage this response.
However, at the end of the day, I might be wrong and we plebs are in great danger in the current era when Big Business and Big Pharma have common aims.
I’d rather have a nuclear power plant in my backyard than the proposed “small” offshore wind farm off the south-west coast of WA.
Well, when I say small I mean it’s only 7600 sq km. Nothing, really …
Tough job, but someone has to do it.
Collecting sex-crazed zombie cicadas on speed: Scientists track a bug-controlling super-sized fungus (Phys.org, 19 Jun)
I for one welcome our new super-sized fungus infected amphetamine-addicted sex-crazed zombie cicada overlords.
Who had “cicadapox linked to mardi gras week” on their bingo card?
hahahaha,
I saw the Labor ad for the one-eyed dog, if we go ahead with Nuclear.
It’s a mega enlarged photo of a bed bug. That pic has been around for decades. snork!
Surfing news.
Surfing injects almost $3 billion into the Australian economy each year, research shows (Phys.org, 19 Jun)
Great to see ANU researching important topics with our taxpayers’ money. Meanwhile for any aspiring surfers who want to make history:
Researchers find wave activity on Titan may be strong enough to erode the coastlines of lakes and seas (Phys.org, 19 Jun)
There you go, you could be the first to surf the ethane seas of Titan. Might need a very light surfboard. And a spacesuit also.
Interesting thread from an engineer:
Meanwhile, Jews will leave the UK, and slowly but surely the UK will become ‘Judenfrei’, which no doubt will make you and your comrades happy.
Very unlikely, the one element missing from all these “horror” stories is where it is happening .. and it ain’t happening in the one place you’d expect it to be .. GATESHEAD, Co. Durham, the town I was born in & grew up in .. As a kid in the 1950s/1960s Gateshead had the largest, area, Jewish population in the UK .. 27 000 out of 86 000 .. They had their own schools & a university .. The one thing missing was trouble .. tho there was little inter-action outside of shopping there and was no problems .. The Jews were a majority in 3 suburbs out of 10 .. My grandparents (Dad’s side) lived in a street with 90% Jewish occupancy and had a Jewish landlord for 25 years ..
No idea what the proportional occupancy is nowadayz but the schools, university & shops are still there and one my last visit (2016) the same 3 suburbs didn’t seem much changed .. Lotz more ethnicity around now (there was NONE as a kid) but wherever the ethnics are living but it hasn’t, really, impacted into the Jewish areas …
Mind, it is TOON-land and apart from “fitba” & “broon ale” very little intrudes into the Geordie way of life .. LOL!
Oh! .. and it is & alwayz has been staunch Labour-land ……..!
Wolf is wrong about the population reduction strategy. That has been happening for decades and there is no clear answer for that. Corporations and governments prefer a growing population.
She is right about the dangers of corporate-government power. Last night I chanced upon a documentary on SBS On demand, The New Corporation, which is an updated version of The Corporation that was published long ago. The historical quirk is that The Corporation very much echoed left concerns about the dangers of corporate power while The New Corporation tends to echo more the concerns of the right but only in relation to Big Pharma and social media. Big Food is much more serious threat.
The right used to argue that private enterprise, small government, and all but eliminating the public service was the best way forward. That represents a foolish faith in human behavior, as if some magical hand and the higher quality of humans in private enterprise will lead us to the promised land. It is just as naive as the left believing government will solve everything. Where does that leave us? FIIK.
Miltonf, yes I live in canbra. No longer by choice but family. I openly admit it was a mistake to come here but a job offer doing interesting things not employed by government. Be grateful, wife taken on to get a project back on track thats building dragons. Her term for the stories people tell about the project. Everyone does whatever they feel like. She’s been told they’re scared of her for holding them to account. They didn’t want her coz she’s not one of them. Tell me which POS did you send to canbra. They just about come from everywhere else. Otherwise get effed.
To give you an idea of the size of individual wind projects on farmland.
Most are 25,000 hectares which equates to a 16×16 km block.
You could build most of Dutton’s nukes in one project area.
Renewables waste valuable land. The inefficiency of the wind and solar speaks for itself.
p.s. just about every job I’ve had is doing what other people are employed to do but for whatever reason can’t or won’t do. This includes the private sector or government.
Here’s one for the “techies” .. if you know what a”mouse jiggler’ is/does and want one but haven’t gotten around to buying a physical one .. here is a link to a “freebie” jiggler program …..
https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/mickey_1.html
Speaking of nuclear waste which energy source is the safest:
What are the safest and cleanest sources of energy? – Our World in Data
So just like Labor announcing NDIS, NBN, Resource Supertax, Net Zero by 2030, Building the Education Revolution, Ceiling Insulation, subsidised solar, Khemlani Loans, their share of Virginia-class shared subs, WA gun laws, WA Aboriginal Heritage Act, live sheep shipping ban, and just about every major project Labor ever had a hand in whether real or just an announcement.
The corrupt sell-off of public assets under corrupt Labor governments did less harm than the clown shows of major projects in recent years.
m0nty
June 20, 2024 1:16 pm
Interesting thread from an engineer:
Engineer my arse; like you he/she/it has no dick dickless. China has already built some new reactors like which Billy gates is building: they’re molten salt or helium cooled and don’t need water. So fuk off.
Labor’s ‘unreliable energy’ led to ‘three-fold increase’ in manufacturing firms closing
Speaking of which, a gas supply shortage has resulted in a price spike and a crisis warning to the market from AEMO.
Victorian gas was yesterday sitting at 142% above Albo’s $12Gj “price cap.” That will flow through to this month’s electricity bill.
But the worst-case scenario is a coal plant going off-line before spring with no gas reserves to back up its generating capacity.
The government is apparently distracted by Dutton’s nuclear nightmare.
How amazing! Who’d ever thunk this might happen, except for us recalcitrant knuckledragging Cats for only the last decade.
Emergency gas meeting as supplies tighten (Paywallian, 1 hour ago)
Hey Monty, get in here and explain to us how your holy-to-Gaia renewables will keep the lights on without gas back up.
The ABC has a problem here. All of the actual factors that make Australia different in terms of nuclear power are actually in favour of it: geologically stable, access to fuel, etc. The only thing the GenCost report could hang its hat on was lack of “expertise”, which is kind of a circular argument, but anyway…
If it is the case that Australia does not have expertise, then it follows that whoever the ABC drags in can not be an expert.
By the way, the next Prime Minister of the UK, Sir Keir Sturmer, was Director of Public Prosecutions in 2007 and 2008 when UK police carried out investigations into Jimmy Savile whilst he was still alive. Sturmer declined to prosecute.
However, just a few years later, Sturmer, always a greasy opportunist, did join in the lynching of well known conservatives politicians and celebrities, choosing to ‘believe’ the fantasist Carl Beech’s fabrications (whose fantastic fantasies were only ever directed against conservatives…odd that). Sturmer, a supposed lawyer, barrister, member of parliament, who’d once been Director of Public Prosecutions) decided to join in and trash that quaint old fashioned principle that is the presumption of innocence
As former Conservative MP, Harvey Proctor (himself a gay man), whose life was ruined by Beech, the media and many in UK Labour, says..
Starmer’s job as DPP was to uphold the law. Instead he overturned the basic principle of innocence until proven guilty. Starmer has questions to answer and apologies to make. To reiterate and assert what I said in Lord Ashcroft’s book, Red Knight, Sir Keir Starmer is not fit to be Prime Minister. He is not fit to be a Leader of the Opposition; he should not grace the benches of the House of Commons.
Whist the decent men and women of the UK don’t deserve what’s coming, the Tories most certainly deserve electoral Armageddon.
via Rosie. June 20, 2024 8:02 am
One slight problem with Murray’s hypothetical challenge to Hasan. Even if Hamas returned the hostages tomorrow the war would not be over. Israel’s stated goal was the elimination of Hamas.
Otherwise an excellent retort from Murray.
Naomi Wolf could ponder her own decision to have just two children before pronouncing about population control.
You are right John, it’s been happening for decades, some people call it ‘The Pill’.
I see Dim Chalmers claims to have to have been shown going to nukyulah will not reduce the price of electricity.
I will wager that one of the assumptions in the underlying calculations is that we at the same time remain wedded to ruinables, and thus the mushrooming cost of ruinables is implicitly (because explicitly would lay their shenanigans bare) being heaped upon nuke.
i Gather Dutton is also talking about nuclear infrastructure being kept as government assets. I wonder if part of this is to sidestep the inevitable campaigns by left wing astroturfers to frighten financial institutions off providing capital to private ventures. Like they have been doing to stop investment in coal and gas. Labor and the unions will be desperate as nuclear would render their ruinable investments near useless the moment someone realises we can just use nuclear 24/7 far more cheaply than also maintaining the ruinable garbage.
Smashed avo strikes back.
Summer fruit injuries are real. Here’s how to prevent and treat avocado hand, watermelon wounds and lime burns. (19 Jun, via Instapundit)
There you go Cats, it’s official. Knowledge is power. That will let you save yourselves from horrific attacks by avocados, watermelons and daylight-enraged citrus fruits.
Japan Granted Asylum to Just 303 People Last Year, Rejecting 98% of Applicants.
Even with a declining population issue Japan understands what polluting their culture with masses of country shoppers would mean. If only the west had paid more attention to their example.
Oh, and keeping newk as a government asset has the additional benefit as far as selling the Australian people on it: How long has the left harped on about the injustice of the old state owned energy assets being privatised.
A nonsense, of course. While it is true that public assets were sold it was to help pay for public debt racked up in Joe Public’s name, and until the AGW and ruinable scams were inflicted upon us the privatised power was going fine.
So, Dutton could play upon Labor’s cherished claim that power should be government owned.
Litres per MW/h cooling.
Coal fired – 2,910
Nuclear – 3,160
Not much in it despite Monty’s quoted expert claiming water as a big issue.
Next to the sea is best as you can run a once through cooling system.
Has anyone seen the piece about Antoinette Lavosh putting herself forward for Paul Barry’s spot at Media Watch?
It’s so absurd, The ALPBC may actually do it.
Anything for clicks, eh Lavosh?
With Nooclear being so evil, Muntard obviously doesn’t have/use/care for:
Smoke detectors (in his basement), never uses diagnostic imaging (Xrays, SPECTs, dentistry etc.), radiotherapy, doesn’t eat food (irradiation), drink water (where isotopes regularly used to trace pollutants), does care for carbon dating, doesn’t care for new developments in physics through particle accelerators, nor discoveries beyond in space rovers that use nuke power, sterilisation of equipment; both medical and industrial, preservation of artefacts via gamma radiation, medical tracer techniques, use of isotopes to detect atmospheric pollution, sterilisation of male pests (could come in handy Munt), emergency exit signs, watch dials and luminscent paint, CT scans, scientific research in universities, brachytherapy for (his ass) cancer patients, blood irradiators, quality control in paper mills, cosmic radiation detection in aeroplanes, irradiated surgical gloves, food packaging materials, forensic analysis, cancer research, soil erosion research, DNA analysis, analysis of ancient climates, space weather monitoring…
So Munted, let’s hope you never need a doctor, dentist, water, food, paper, climate studies, degree in anything, science or breathing (last one preferable).
So, Australia is not the only one then:
Philippines accuses Chinese coast guard of boarding and ramming its navy vessels in South China Sea
Philippines accuses Chinese coast guard of boarding and ramming its navy vessels in South China Sea – ABC News
Yes, seriously, this is a headline from one of our major news outlets:
https://www.watoday.com.au/world/north-america/trump-belittles-biden-so-much-that-just-staying-awake-could-win-the-debate-20240620-p5jnaa.html
Seriously????
It ought be remembered that this is not just like any 303 of our motley intake – it should be thought of as the top 303.
But even that does not quite capture it as those applying to Japan would be applying to a country which does not just hand out goodies for lucky winners, whereas we are just a great drain that people swirl around and fall into more from our gravity than their energy.
Japan’s top 303 would be a better calibre (303. Calibre. Geddit?) than ours.
From the Courier Mail. He has 869 cars and 363 motor bikes. Seems the locals were not in favour. I am not a car enthusiast myself but you would think a tourist attraction like that would be welcome in most places particularly when he was paying for it, on his own land and no doubt would promote it.
“Clive Palmer withdraws car museum proposal for Yaroomba car museum resort
Clive Palmer has withdrawn his application for a hugely controversial, enormous, luxury car museum, labelled an “eyesore” by Sunshine Coast locals”.
So what does he do with the cars ?
Bruce got a link to the source of that LCOE table from yesterday?
I am about to engage with a troll on another forum.
Some links on how they rarely meet capacity and total carbon footprints of said farms would be nice as well.
RD – Here you go.
The True Cost of Wind and Solar | Power Line (3 Apr)
The data comes from this article which Hinderaker links:
How to destroy the myth of cheap wind and solar (3 Apr)
There’s a link in the latter to a PDF of their study. I haven’t looked into their assumptions, but the graph I posted is consistent with other studies I’ve seen.
Comment, from the Oz, on the nuclear power issue.
Mike
3 minutes ago
Even South Africa, now a third world country, started its nuclear initiative in 1976 and has had reliable nuclear power for over 35 years – and we lily livered Australians still hiding under a rock.
I ordered a (madder silk) tie and a (wool silk) pocket square from the US on Tuesday.
They are being sent by FedEx.
Already they have gone from the warehouse Minneapolis to Honolulu.
The expected date of delivery is Monday, 24 June.
That is what FedEx predicts. Poor, naive fools.
They will likely get to Mascot tomorrow, then to be passed into the achingly slow machinations of Aussie Post. Although Mascot is scarce 10km from here and Sydney not entirely without Aussie Post facilities, I expect the package to be sent from Mascot to that whirling black hole facility in Victoria where time dilation racks up days before the package ventures back north to Sydney. I expect an extra week.
FedEx may have the world at their fingertips, but they do not know Australia.
An extract from Mother Lode’s 3:10 p.m. post re immigration:
We are certainly keen on the hobby of do-it-yourself disembowelment.
“Israel’s stated goal was the elimination of Hamas.”
RenderingHamas much less able to wage war would be the realistic option.
Destroy its physical infrastructure most importantly its smuggling tunnels.
A comprehensive demolition of the source of Bruce’s favourite LCOE graph.
Just finished reading Brendan Nelson’s autobiography covering the period from childhood, as a practicing GP, as president of the AMA, to federal politics, minister for Health then Defence and leader of the Liberal party in opposition, to ambassador to the EU, director of the Australian War Memorial and then to CEO of Boeing Australia.
Of Life And Of Leadership.
While not viewed though the critical eye of an outsider, he impresses me as a man of honesty and integrity with principles adhered to although leaning slightly left on issues regarding health matters and also aborigines.
Until reading it I didn’t appreciate how much he had achieved in his life.
He sussed out the character of Turnbull early in his political career and, while he didn’t exactly call him an arrogant, narcissistic, back stabbing Cnut – Cats and Kittehs reading between the lines will know that’s exactly what he was saying.
Thoroughly recommended reading.
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