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Just further to those two skanks who donned Nazi Pallie attire whilst working at the Black Star Pastry shop at Chadstone, Melbourne, It was a deliberate act by two indoctrinated Jew haters to intimidate and scare Jews and non-Jews alike. They were subsequently sacked and are now screeching ‘victim’, of course. Those young skanks are not Asian which is unusual because most of their stores are operated by Asians. Anyway, today I collected a cake from Black Star here in Sydney’s CBD and I can assure you that they have a strict uniform policy. Everyone working behind the counter wears a uniform with “Black Star” on it, no Nazi insignia to be seen. I have frequented Black Star for quite a few years and the outlet near Town Hall is made up of mainly young Asian kids (the founder is Oz/Asian).
I don’t know whether Black Star now have franchises, my gut feeling is they don’t. After this debacle they would be well advised to stick to hardworking nice young Asian kids who don’t want to make racist and political statements.
They do have a small amount of franchises in Sydney and Melbourne. I researched them when this blew up. Reviews were pretty good too.
Owned by a Hotel mob who are owned by a Chinese national. I’d guess he is one of those Chinese who are very strict.
These 2 bints causing all the drama need to just walk away and leave it alone before they make themselves unemployable in hospitality. Any employer would be seeing potential trouble after searching them. Even sympathetic employers would be sensing troublemakers the longer they make a fuss.
Fatboy:
The Clean Energy Alliance and the Center of the American Experience cherry-picked data to trick Minnesotans into believing that wind energy is expensive, unreliable, and environmentally unhelpful. In reality, wind energy is the cheapest form of energy in the upper Midwest, it is being reliably integrated in the region and across the U.S., and it is a significant contributor to carbon emissions avoidance. In short, wind is a good deal for Minnesotans.
The amount of energy required to operate an industrialized civilization is enormous, and the potential growth rate is huge.
We are the largest exporter of coal and now the number two exporter of gas. Meanwhile, our domestic supply is becoming precarious due to gas shortages and the closure of coal plants. We prefer to let others burn the gas and coal, which is beyond stupid. If renew balls are so cheap, then why are power bills going up in places following the renew ball religion?
The near and far future require masses of energy, not less, and also not standing still.
Renewballs are unreliable, require exorbitantly expensive backup storage, and are very labor-intensive, which is the opposite of where we want to go.
You’re so dumb.
JC, if you are refusing to invest in green tech then you are missing out on one of the few remaining growth sectors. Your loss.
Like investing in the NDIS looting schemes, the renewables sector only profitable because of the corrupt misapplication of regulation and taxpayer funds.
Hmm if I’ve read the Cat correctly, for over a decade now, I’d say JC knows a hell of a lot more about investing than the Tard does.
is that investment advice from the shoe-shine boy?
Growth in subsidies is all that keeps ruinables going.
You’re so dumb. But, but, but. Butthead.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/06/bowen-labor-say-all-these-people-are-wrong-and-so-are-labor-themselves-with-the-aukus-nuclear-submar.html
Seems there was a past Prime Minister who thought nuclear power would be an advantage for Australia.
Silly me, I’ve forgotten his name….Oh, yes, Bob Hawke.
On Sunrise today, Albo said “Hawke had been taken out of context”
Seriously.
Then there was RFX Connor under Coff Whitless, who was planning for the full nuclear fuel cycle in Australia.
And, so he said, wanted to use the notorious Khemlani loans to build a national gas pipeline network.
Much more fun than smashing Monty flat a dozen times was the Cafe victory of the day. The Cafe resident crested pigeon accepted food from my hand for the first time evah! I didn’t think that would be possible. But once she took the first morsel of bread she then did it again a dozen times. Winter is fun, it sharpens the appetite remarkably.
Crested pigeons are so dumb that they make wood ducks look intelligent. To get a wild one to do this after a whole decade of trying makes my day.
On the other hand I doubt I could ever get Monty to accept bread from my hand so I guess that means he’s less intelligent than a crested pigeon. He certainly acts like that anyway. Even plovers aren’t as thick as Monty.
Hahaha
ahem, they’re technically known as ‘party pigeons’
… because they always wear their party-hats
The overwhelming renewable excess cost John Hinderaker points to is ‘overbuilding and curtailment’ – ie inefficient deployment of capital due to the fact that wind/solar farms send out power for only 25% of the day, and then pretty much all at the same time.
This is the issue currently killing the Bowen Plan and presently being blamed on “policy uncertainty”.
Renewables entrepreneurs may be grifters and tax hoovers, but they are not stupid and innumerate. Nor are their sources of capital. If they don’t have clear sight on an uncompetitive ‘market’ providing excess returns they aren’t going to invest.
The idea that capital is attracted to compete down returns and provide cheap energy for ‘social’ reasons is the sort of fantasy that could only survive in the sheltered workshops of Canbra.
Yes, solar makes sense at a limited level when it fits the daily peak. Beyond that peaking load it becomes a massive liability, unless there’s storage. But storage raises the overall capital cost by a factor of five or more, so it becomes hilariously uneconomic.
Natural gas supplies under threat here in Vicco? I must turn up the central heating. Just like a run on a bank, the rational response is to go early and go hard, and get your share before some other bastard burns it.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-19/teenager-charged-over-post-allegedly-ranking-female-students/103995980
Meanwhile a teenage girl in Melb committed suicide after being bullied by a group of girls at her school.
This story only rated a few small article in The Hun and certainly no statement of outrage from Tsarina Jacinta.
Mean girls slip past the woke guardians.
Vicki, I had this idea in 2020 and I still think it’s a likely scenario of what happened. Western governments knew China was involved so they thought the worst, that the virus was a biological weapon. They thought the best thing to do would be a worldwide lockdown to starve the virus of contagion and thus eliminate it. The story of flattening the curve was just a cover.
For the first time ever top health officials had real taste of power and they were not going to let go even when there was proof that the pandemic wasn’t as deadly as feared. The Diamond Princess and Ruby Princess experiences showed the world that only the sick and the very old were vulnerable but by then the medical dictators were in full charge and here we are.
I’m similarly not convinced that the covidiocy was pre-planned in detail and executed flawlessly. If the purpose was population reduction, the scheme largely failed, as the greatest damage was arguably incurred in the social and economic disruption.
If it wasn’t pre-planned, how were the “vaccines” able to be injected so quickly?
The plan was to make lots of money, by stampeding the sheeple.
As the flu, ….., sorry Covid, took hold, the political dross leading the country and the unelected bureaucrats took advantage and seized powers which they have no right to seize.
They politicised the Police forces to hold these powers.
The medical “professionals” all took the opportunity to make a quick $40 per jab, but I am sure, they all followed the regulations stated in the Nuremberg Convention and advised every victim, that the “vaccine” was experimental, not for General use, (Emergency use only), and not mandated.
If you can’t trust a doctor, ………
As to success in population reduction, we still don’t know. Excess deaths are up and have been for years. How long will that continue?
As regards intent, as far as I’m concerned putting a general in charge of running a programme originating in the Pentagon well and truly answers that question for me.
Did you hear about the Chinese Environment Movement who have berated Xi for building nuclear and coal fired power stations?
No?
That’s because they either don’t say anything, or only get to say it once, briefly.
The Chinese know that affordable and reliable energy, and plenty of it, equals not just keeping the lights on and keeping people happy and warm, but more importantly it enables manufacturing, which on a scale such as that which China has built, leads to world dominance.
In Australia we are condemned by left-green politics to being easy targets.
Market clearly signalling it approves a Starmer government in UK.
The MSM certainly does, which includes the FT.
If the MSM says something, do the opposite. It’s a rule to live by.
They are quoting Vanguard, Bruce. That is ‘the market’ signalling its approval.
Vanguard. That’s all you need to know.
Try searching with ‘woke’.
Precisely. You didn’t get ‘woke’ shoved in your face because peripheral institutions were promoting it, but because large investment management firms were.
Here’s hoping Starmer turns out to be a true Socialist.
He’s certainly got the class chip on his shoulder.
Let’s see what the market does then.
It’s not the “market”. That’s the FT, a communist rag, quoting Vanguard, which is basically an index outfit that doesn’t give a rats about direction as much as directional players.
It’s ironic how unfunded tax cuts cause a “crisis”, while deficit spending is crisis free.
OK, it seems that people are quibbling about my use of the market here. Sub investment fund manager with 7.7T in global assets signals that Starmer government is fine.
It’s only ironic if you think the system isn’t rigged.
They have never recovered from that lunatic Gordon Brown who was running a budget deficit of 7 per cent of GDP in 2005 (the height of the boom) and flannelling on about the deficit correcting itself over the economic cycle.
And, yet, 70 years ago (almost to the very day) since Obninsk went online, Liebor still think nuclear will create three-eyed fish.
Seriously?
Three eyed koalas.
The left has been trying to meme, it’s fun!
Bruce of Newcastle
June 20, 2024 3:32 pm
RD – Here you go.
The True Cost of Wind and Solar | Power Line (3 Apr)
W&S only look cheaper on a LCOE basis because LCOE only looks at the initial construction cost and the money earnt over the life of the source.
LCOE does not include the following:
1 Direct subsidies which Alan Moran has shown in Australia are over $16 billion PA. Fossils get NO direct subsidies only tax deductions
2 W&S issue Large Scale Energy Certificates for every MWh they are producing which the coal power stations HAVE to BUY. These are about $2 billion PA
3 W&S require back-up because they only work for about 30-35% of the time. This could be batteries, gas or coal.
4 W&S require a new grid, poles and wires and equipment such as condensers which change their power from DC to AC and smooth it to the correct grid frequency of 40Hz. Before it became green the CSIRO estimated this expense at $1 trillion
yep
it isn’t what’s included so much what’s excluded
LCOE is a crock but I’ve witnessed a room full of engineers get on board with the idea
50 Hz I think.
Correct.
Shortest day coming up tomorrow and the real start of winter. I don’t mind a sunny winter, but boy I despise gloomy days.
Does anyone know why we start the seasons on the 1st of the month instead of following the solstices and equinox? It’s really peculiar.
In southern Victoria, we still haven’t returned to the bottom of the cycle when we get white frosts as we did in the 1960s. That will happen in the next decade when the Malthusians will attempt to revive the global cooling hysteria of the 1970s.
Government technical institutions like CSIRO and BOM have demonstrated that whichever bandwagon they’re on depends on how much government money they’re getting.
Global warming hysteria is mostly about the money — not the “science”. Government scientific institutions will wage a propaganda war on whichever governments don’t guarantee them the funds to which they’re accustomed.
They’re called meteorological seasons, JC, because they make the recording and comparison of weather stats easier for the BOM.
But the solstices and equinoxes don’t indicate meteorological changes? I once read that it had to do with the timely movement of sailing ships arriving and leaving Australia for the mother country.
They do but not necessarily the most significant ones in our antipodean context. We’ve long since had our first frost in this neck of the woods, for example.
Well, today in politics and the media has been a day of gibbon screeching about Dutton’s nuclear winter.
What I find telling about the (ahem) ‘debate’ and the public expert mass debaters is that nobody has turned to the IAEA, which provides a helpful ‘How To’ guide for nations considering nuclear energy.
The IAEA’s suggested 10 to 15 years of preparatory work prior to a “knowledgeable decision” and subsequent bidding process doesn’t seem to sit that comfortably with nuclear electrons flowing by 2035 or 2037.
Someone may eventually notice.
Maybe because the clock started ticking some time ago when Lucas heights was established.
Otoh, I think it’s nearly 20 years since Dr Zwitkowski’s fairly comprehensive report, which was shelved by Howard for political reasons.
Noos said it got to 15 degrees in my neck of the woods. General consensus around town it struggled to get to 10. Who to believe?
Admittedly there’s probably more to this story, but my God, have we in WA really sunk this far?
Any evidence on whether it was full or empty?
Not that I can find, Chris. I suspect unfired … although I did have a friend back in the 90s who was charged by police for having a cabinet display of fired brass
You suspect she may be related to the shotgun licensee. In which case everything not quite as innocent as it might appear. Most of us go through life without finding shotgun shells in the driveway.
You can be perfectly innocent, yet breaking the WA Firearms Act. Eg, shell falls on driveway from tradie’s ute, perfectly innocent mum picks it up to keep it away from children.
However, I agree with Lysander’s wondering why the Plod were looking in her pockets. Likely scenarios are easily imagined.
More importantly I’d want to know why police were searching her jacket pocket in the first place… there must be more to this story…
“Suddenly there were three cop cars in the driveway … “
m0nty
June 20, 2024 10:20 am
My point still stands.
Teal voters are, by and large, people educated way beyond their levels of intelligence.
Once reality bites a bit harder we’ll see who among the Teal voters are really green and who are just being trendy.
The Teals will go the same way the (WA) “Liberals for Forests” went.
They’re basically Green scum posting as independents.
Yeah I dunno Bush II, I think betting on mass blackouts to wake up the sheeple is a bit of a losing proposition, electorally. It’s the sort of mantra Cats recite as a matter of faith, but it never happens.
Warnings grow of blackout risks in summers ahead as NSW looks at extending Eraring coal plant (ABC, 21 May)
I thought you read the holy ABC Monty?
How quickly they forget the South Australian black out and black start.
Manageable for a small state with a large neighbour, more interesting for a larger one. mUntyfa had better pray that Melbourne never suffers such an outage.
That’s credentialed beyond their levels of intelligence, not educated.
You need to watch this clip to the end. I gasped!
It is not the ending you would expect. 😀
https://x.com/AMAZlNGNATURE/status/1802350957591720249
Well done that man
I think even 10 years ago that may have been true. However we now have the new concept of what Yuval Noah Harari calls the “useless class”. This group will grow exponentially over the next 10 years.
Mr Hariri should invest in a mirror.
Yes I know who he is, he amongst other things a climate fairy believer.
Use them to colonise Mars.
I’m in Boonandara at this very moment and I don’t think it’s as much the establishment people have leaned green as a huge change in demographics as flats, one and two bedroom, are being built in in their hundreds adding to the existing 1960s blocks that are everywhere.
JC mentioned this during the election iirc.
Same thing happened in Ryan (QLD). It is green at the federal, state and local council as well.
My neighbour next door got himself a young dog – part Kelpie, part something else – which is now probably 7 months old, but he seems to spend little time with it (the fence between us is like a pool fence; far from ideal, but it’s a long story), and it sleeps in a hole in the ground in the yard. It receives only occasional exercise (from what I can see, when I’m home).
The dog is lean, but I don’t think malnourished, and I’ve never witnessed the bloke physically mistreating it, but I feel sorry for the little bugger, because he’s desperate for affection and guidance. I don’t think there’s grounds yet for making a formal complaint to someone (which I’d like to avoid – I have enough anxiety elsewhere in my life), but it’s a bit distressing to see.
(I am wary of making assumptions and overlaying my own values on another, but … I dunno).
Report it sooner rather than later, it can be rehomed and trained. Our local Ranger ( Council paid) is really good in these situations, fair but firm with owners. Hope yours is too.
In my experience of young dogs, what they want is company: other dogs or people. They put up with everything as long as they have constant company. I see it all the time. People leave their young dogs on their own and eventually the dogs grow nuts, barking, constantly nervous, snappy.
That’s my concern: That the dog will develop bad habits that become ingrained. I wish I wasn’t so empathetic!
We dog lovers all are.
Breaks my heart what some bastards do to animals.
If the poor animal doesn’t have shelter in that yard from sun and rain and somewhere reasonable to sleep then there is a case for maltreatment in my view. Isolation is also cruel. Speak directly to the neighbour about your concerns and if something isn’t done for the dog I’d contact the RSPCA and ask them to do a welfare check, just as you’d do for a human in possible distress. Maybe they can give some clues to the owner about caring for the needs of an animal in his care. Bugger the neighbour if he gets angry and twigs it was you who complained. I’m angry about the poor dog, and you have every right to be angry too.
Thanks, Lizzie. That’s what I’ve been trying to weigh. There is no dog kennel, but there is an undercover patio, and there is shade in the yard. Perhaps he had a blanket and chewed it up, I don’t know. He’s at that age where he eats the furniture. Though I don’t know the bloke, he doesn’t appear to be someone who accepts advice. I’ve spoken to him previously about the dog barking all night, and his response was cursory, but the barking has improved slightly.
It’s a tough one. My own dog lived outside for the first six years of her life, but she had a kennel (Insulated with multiple old towels – the interior was often warmer in winter than my own abode!).
If I didn’t live next door, and was financially healthier, I’d dognap the young fella and give him a better home.
Ask the neighbour if he’d like to sell the dog.
Or, dig a bit of a hole under your side of the fence and let nature and a few pats and bikkies take its course.
Tempting, Bob. I reckon the dog would prefer me too, if only I could afford to feed it. Tonight is the third night in a row his owner is away. Though someone dashed in briefly to feed it, he’s had no attention except from me through the fence in the last 2 1/2 days.
I did speak with the neighbour on the other side, who will surely tell this bloke of my concerns, so I’ll see what happens.
Thanks for the advice, folks. I’ll make enquiries at the local council tomorrow I think.
Take an interest. Ask the man if you can take it for walkies and treat it. Give him a few subtle hints re appropriate treatment.
You can escalate if he is just useless with animals.
Then don’t do it. If the dog is not visibly mistreated, you don’t have a case.
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Despite m0nster busily searching for “authoritative sources” to bash Dutton and noocular power (Zali Steggalls? Really?), there is one question he might care to answer.
Who has been setting the agenda over the last 48 hours?
Dutton or Luigi the Unbelievable?
This is shaping as Da Voice 2.0 for Luigi.
Despite the MSM and vested corporate interests bleating loud and long, Joe Average with a $1,000 power bill sees it differently.
Comments at Teh Paywallian (not a representative sample) along the same lines. Lucky Luigi likes fighting Tories. Mr32% needs a boost.
It was Albo setting the agenda for The Voice. He lost, bigly, because it is easier to wreck than it is to build.
You lot set the rules. Now live by them.
Of course you are squealing about it, because the rules are never meant for you, are they? They are only meant to bind others.
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
The Voice judges by the colour of their skin not the content of their character. Colossians 3:11, of which I am certain Pr King knew very well indeed, also fits.
But please go on being a racist Monty if you want. It’s still a free country, sort of.
You can feel the butt hurt through the screen. From favourable polling to 60:40. Without Green preferences the Liars would never be in government.
When he gets all “you lot” you know the Tesla is out of charge.
Evening peak and wholesale electrickery is back over $500 per MWh, as it was at 7:30 am when I looked this morning.
Renewables are producing a tad over 800 MW out of a total of about 32000 MW, so one fortieth of the total. Presumably ALP hamsters are producing the other 39 fortieths, since with 37% renewables production (cf Monty) there’s no way that it could be by unhallowed energy sources. That would be a crime against Gaia!
https://aemo.com.au/aemo/apps/visualisations/elec-nem-summary-tiles.html
Maybe someone could ask Bowen about this?
Hey m0nster!
The 1980’s called.
They want their noocular scare campaign back.
If you don’t know, vote no.
We know, you don’t.
We vote yes. You are not a scientist or engineer so you are ignorant.
Unlike you, Bruce, I know my limitations. You think you know better than Fauci and the CSIRO. You are a retired aficionado of pebbles. Nothing more.
I know better than the CSIRO because I’ve frigging dealt with them for three frigging decades. They are utterly useless. We did get them once to do a job for us because they had nice kit, but we had to scope the project so closely and anally that it was not actually worth the effort. They are imbeciles with PhDs. About 20 years ago I was on good terms with a few of them, they meant well. Since then in my personal experience they no longer mean well, they are frigging climate Nazis. Green grifters. The whole organization should be bulldozed.
As for Fauci, you obviously haven’t been keeping up with the news.
No you don’t, your limitations are infinite.
You must vote No every time, since you know fvck all.
The other string to Midnight Oil’s bow.
Why is it that 100% of anti-nuclear activists can’t pronounce “nuclear” and instead pronounce it “nooculear”? Did Chris Bowen complete his secondary education at a kindergarten for special needs kids?
Jo Valentine, Dee Margetz and Christabel Chamerette concur.
The Gumnut Twins are back.
m0nty
June 20, 2024 6:27 pm
Reply to Sancho Panzer
The trouble is people do know.
They know that noocular is safe as houses.
And there is a dawning realisation that renewballs is a pocket-liner for the likes of Turnbull.
The AEMO website that tracks and reports on the NEM electricity grid covering 5 states on the eastern market is down for maintenance tonight (doesn’t say how long). How inconvenient, as we are about to hit the shortest day in winter and this is when the grid really gets stretched. I usually check in at this time of day to see how the grid is doing. Based on the weather conditions I’d say that about now it is registering zero (zip, nil, nothing) solar power and about 7% wind across the five states. The rest of supply is being drawn from coal power from Qld and NSW, brown coal power from Vic, and hydro power from NSW and Tassie with SA the so-called renewables state churning up a lot of gas and maybe some liquid nasty fuel such as kerosene. If the wind is blowing that’s a bonus in SA but the problem is that you can’t fully predict it. Hence volatility of supply affecting prices and stability. Hopefully the AEMO site will be up again shortly. They have flagged changes to the format to “help interpretation”. My guess is that it will be changed to stop people like me accessing actual data that exposes the renewables debacle.
When I looked both Queensland and SA had their liquid fuel generators going to feed demand in Vic and NSW which both had spot prices in the $700s. No wonder they had to take their site down for maintenance.
i see NEMwatch have also commercialized
no real visibility now unless you give them money
NEMwatch and the other visualizers just draw from the AEMO spreadsheet which refreshes every 5 minutes. I had a look at it once, it is very detailed with lots of yummy data. But if AEMO’s system is down then it won’t be live data.
The summary tiles page I linked just upthread is down, so I suspect the big csv file is also unavailable.
Your Guess would be 100% Correct .
And there is a dawning realisation that renewballs is a pocket-liner for the likes of Turnbull.
What the hell was Howard thinking by inflicting that horrid little man on us? BIRM
What the hell was young Robert Menzies thinking in the 1940s when he decided to call his creation the Liberal Party of Australia?
I think he did explain that in Afternoon Light but I don’t have my copy anymore.
Sparty, in his latest newsletter email, made the following point, which I believe has much validity:
“I can assure punters that it [nuclear energy] will be the most expensive form of power in Australia and an economy destroyer to boot. Just as the Labor government has suggested.
Not that it should be the most expensive but because it will be the most expensive.
This is because the people who would build the nuclear electricity generators will ensure it is more expensive. Those who build it/them will all be members of the CFMEU.”
mUntyfa’s maaaaaates.
Hairy and I bought ourselves a new bed and mattress today, braving Sydney traffic to enter the vast morass of furniture shopping complexes that exist in Sydney’s Alexandria. They are all having eofy sales, with echoing acres of empty shops and excellent deals suggesting that many people have decided to sleep on the old mattress and bed for another year before plunging in to upgrade. This seems like recession territory to me. Even Sportscraft clothing (my fave) at Rose Bay have big 70% off signs on their windows. Things must be getting tough if it is happening even there.
We were assisted in our testing out of comfort levels by a very helpful young Chinese woman, the only sales assistant on duty. I had to stand and wave across some acreage to get her attention at first but once she saw us she was on the case, paying far more attention to our chiropractic needs than any expensive doctor ever has. Lie down here next to me Hairy and turn over a couple of times, I say as she stands by expectantly, mental notepad at the ready. Reluctantly, he complies, as she watches. Nope, I say, this one’s no good, as when Hairy turns she’s noted that the whole mattress shudders on its many conjoined springs and I bounce around too. Our attendant, leading us through a forest of beds, then suggests another less bouncy brand, which has independent springs on each side. She then ensures with a tape measure and deep technical knowledge of sheeting that the the extra comfort padding is not going to make the mattress a too-squeezy companion for our fitted sheets. She’d clearly deserved the two Highly Commended employee certificates she had up on her cubicle wall.
As she’s filing in our paperwork, we have a lively discussion about Hong Kong where she was reared, Shanghai where she started work, and her parents who worked so hard, looked so old now from all the work, and who had saved to send her to university (and residency) in Australia. I don’t know what she studied but clearly the residency was the main reason for doing it. She has made a life’s work out of mattresses and bedding and is the sort of immigrant this country needs. No shirkers. Saving hard and as nice as pie to spend some time with.
What the hell was Howard thinking by inflicting that horrid little man on us?
What the hell was that horrid little man Howard thinking by inflicting that horrid little man Turnbull on us. FIFY.
too true
He’s really revealed his true self over last decade or so.
The msm is flogging the bullshit that the videos showing biden acting like he has the mind of a cockroach are fake. I watched some of the kunts of the left sprouting this through their slime lips and wondered which on them is the ugliest, the benchmark as it were. My potential candidates for the ugliest are:
1 Joy Reid
2 Maxine Waters
3 Pelosi
Pelosi.
Alcoholic, manipulative, soul dead.
reminds me of my MiL. Some of her greatest thrills was creating division among groups of people, hopefully pushed away from the Pearly Gates and sent downstairs where people like her end up.
I visited the Little Reef that Could today
It lives!
Tourists were paying huge money to fly over it , snorkel next to it and submarine under it.
Despite 10 bleachings in 8 years and unprecedented sea level rise it is the same area as Vic and TAS combined
I love what’s happening at the Washington Post. WaPo is the most dishonest newspaper in the US, and that’s saying something because it’s beating the NYTimes on that score.
Because it’s losing so much money, Jeff Bezos installed a former WSJ editor, causing the old one to leave. He’s started firing some of the useless pinheads, and the newsroom is throwing tantrums.
The New York Post reports
The pinheads were trying to push back, and the new chief basically told them the paper was losing tons of money and people were simply not reading the rag. “There’s no way to sugar coast this”, he told them at the meeting.
Over the past day or so, it’s been reported that the new guy is going to create a third newsroom. In reality, my hunch is that it’s not a third newsroom, but the only one, and he’ll fire those clowns in the legacy departments once the new one is up and running.
Over to you Tom 🙂
What Nine need to do to Fauxfacts but they couldn’t afford it.
The new editor’s remarks sound like “Shape up or I scuttle the ship.”
Hopefully they may start ‘proofing’ each others articles to ‘sensitivity test’ them in a new way, to help each other spot their leftie language and affiliations and weed it out somewhat before they press submit. Maybe they’ll even start to discuss some new agenda-setting in what they chose to write about also. Amazing what a little economic uncertainty can do for inspirations.
US Nuke Testing to Resume as a Counter to China?
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m0nty
June 20, 2024 4:17 pm
Probably one of the most amazing comments posted this year.
mUnty channeling Twiggy. I wonder if Twiggy passed Econs 101?
The best thing about “x” is seeing people confirm they are complete mongs, when they all rush in to support a mong-meister treading on their own dick.
Tell me you know nothing about power generation with out saying “I literally know less than nothing about power generation”.
https://x.com/GrogsGamut/status/1803586560052559931
Every journalist who writes or says “baseload power” needs to explain why we should want power plants that are not able to be easily turned off and so are run all the time even when we don’t even need the electricity?
Greg Jericho and the legendary Evcricket? That brings back so many fond memories! Ok not, they are Monty clones, but making them look like the fools they are was fine sport at the time.
Pure j’ism right there.
Greg Jericho is such a partisan idiot.
He pretends that he’s an economist, but does absolutely ZERO analysis on any numbers which fly his political direction.
The other he was banging on about male midwives earning more per annum than their female counterparts, without even bothering to find out why.
Then he pretends than the fact they work 40 hrs on average vs. 32 per week (pointed out by someone else) has nothing to do with it.
Lizzie I brought a Makin Mattress recently, best mattress ever.
Albany Hwy. Trundled past them Monday visiting the old ‘hood.
Ours was King Koil, made in Australia by a fifth-generation Australian family firm (so they say), four thousand bucks list price reduced to two thousand. We think it is a pretty good mattress and an excellent deal. We heard all the tech detail about its spring structure from our Chinese lady with whom we were quickly on first name terms. I think she was missing her parents back in China, as they came over to visit her recently but had to go back. She seemed to enjoy talking with and helping us two old codgers who were lost in the wilderness of need and choice without a trained daughter nearby to help us. She also helped us with the purchase of a bed, which she ensured was going to be at the ‘right’ height, given our mattress choice, and where the mattress would not be so deeply embedded (as it were) that it would be difficult for us to lift it to change the sheets.
Have we reached Peak Renewballs?
My broker is warning me – well, all private clients really – to “consider modulating high exposures to renewballs due to potential sovereign risk” (or words to that effect).
I don’t hold any, except a stranded legacy holding in AGL if that counts.
I think he thought it was a cheap shot at Dutton, but I took it as sound advice.
I dunno, but I’ve been making hay out of my coal shares for quite some number of years 😉
m0nty
June 20, 2024 6:26 pm
Reply to 132andBush
It’ll happen.
Gas pinch already starting.
Serious question. Do you know why there is a looming gas shortage?
And have the common courtesy to address my correct name.
Yeah righto Knackers.
LoL … shoe-shine boy knows how things really work
The Nazi has no decency.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 20, 2024 6:56 pm
Is it too late?
If you have got a really bad back, and you can afford it, Hästens beds are the answer.
Like sleeping on a cloud but, as I say, horrendously expensive.
I think ours was $30k a while ago.
Holy moly! I think I will leave my wife the second-best bed.
LOL, Chris.
Neither of us has a ‘bad back’, but I do have a sore coccyx and want something cloudlike for a while. Affordability is not an issue (that’s Hairy for you) but we don’t need to spend $30K (my take on the world). We did try some of the Sealy high-range mattresses at about 6K but they were the bouncy ones. We only want to bounce in bed when we chose to do so.
Given our rate of travels, we are used to beds of many types, so we don’t have any fetishes about what we ‘must’ have. Just something soft till it’s fixed, I say, rubbing my rear end in sorrow to great sympathy from our sweet Chinese custodian of the sale.
The only currency newspapers have is credibility. No newspaer can survive a readership desertion when it (correctly) decides the paper is bullshittng them.
Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post as a government lobbying organisation to help Amazon. He has no idea of what the function of journalism is so he can’t fix Wapost’s credibility problem.
Therefore, Wapost is going down the toilet.
The current WaPo fun is epic!
It’s like watching an especially good disaster movie with a large bucket of fresh popcorn handy. I have no idea what Bezos will do, but his newspaper has gone completely off-its-tree feral.
Exxxcelllent!
Yeah Liz, Sanchez is correct. If you didn’t buy a Hastens (Danish) mattress you may as well be sleeping on a concrete floor.
lol, JC. I have slept on a few harsh airport floors in my time, so I do know what I am missing if I chose not to do so. Danish bedding can be what my friend once termed Nazi bedding, as found in her new boyfriend’s abode and as we have found in hotels in Denmark and Norway – they give you two separate pallets (quite hard) to sleep on, with separate Doonas as well. Like twin beds pushed together. Actually, I wouldn’t trust the Scandinavians or the Germans with my spine; they over-invest in these things, just as the Germans do with the horrible ‘platform’ toilets. You vill put your poopy on zis platform and you vill sleep wit der spine straight, heil.
And don’t get me started on beds in parts of China and Asia where it is like sleeping on Laminex, a covering of hard non-removable plastic over the thin futon underneath it. Oriental torture.
Or on sauna-sleeping in overheated British hotels on foam beds covered by what Calli once correctly termed ‘atomic’ doonas.
Well, concrete floor is stretching it but, man, they are next level.
m0nty
June 20, 2024 7:54 pm
Reply to 132andBush
Monty,
Man up.
He can’t, he doesn’t have any knackers.
Yep. He certainly sounds like it.
Careful now M0nty, might be time to back away or change your tune rather than continuing this bantam-weight leftie talking points sparring with a real man. I’ve met Bushie and he is one large and solid piece of farming maleness. He’s no slouch in the brain department either. Personally, I’d want him on my side, and I’m glad he is.
The real question is the reverse.
How can a modern society function effectively with generation capacity which can’t deliver power on demand.
Isn’t that precisely the principle behind pumped hydro? That is, using spare capacity to pump water uphill?
Exactly. On the energy issue they can be hoist on their own petard on every criticism they make about nuclear energy.
I hope the opposition goes to town on them come election time.
My potential candidates for the ugliest are:
1 Joy Reid
2 Maxine Waters
3 Pelosi
Don’t forget the Behar slag. Who said there’s no such thing as a witch?
I like him already, she doesn’t have to sell me on him.
Joy Behar Mocked Hard After Claiming Trump Will Cancel ‘The View’ if Elected (19 Jun)
What did Arnie say? Your terms, lady, are acceptable.
for sure 🙂
Fonda, Clinton, Streisand…the list goes on and on
How To Write A Gender Theory Paper – TFF Episode 66
Wow, the price of a Hastens mattress begins at $32K.
reminds me of a fairy-tale … The Princess and the Pea
Mine is a standard 6 inch Queen size mattress with a topper of a 6 inch memory foam.
Excellent stuff, no back problems now even if I used to get a sore back from lugging awkward people around in 33 years of nursing – mind you, taking care of your spine becomes second nature.
correct
… all the way to top of the pyramid
the dumbest brain fart in australian political history
June 20, 2024 9:17 pm
Years ago a friend spent a good amount on a freaking mattress and we couldn’t understand until he explained his reasoning.
You spend a third of your life on that freaking thing, which makes it one of the most important spends you can ever make.
I think the Australian mattress market tends to be a bit shonky, there are endless ‘sales’ 50% off, 60% off, super king for the single price! and yet the retailers are clearly making a profit on the ‘discounted’ prices.
I read an article about hästens, top of the range is $700,000 and you can customise to one million.
Putin of course has one.
I agree though, got to have a good mattress.
Only a bit?
Okay I was underaggerating
Peter Khalil’s office in Wills. Wrong type of Egyptian.
https://x.com/DrewPavlou/status/1803638552561066443?t=Q9B7JhVwk0ruASnPEVGK9Q&s=19
A non nutty lefty view on the economics of nuclear energy.
https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1803681147303633263?t=Rc8a043AtdX87EIt_mmRGg&s=19
What would he know? mUntyfa has far better advisors.
//Sarc//, in case I needed to say it.
Rita Panahi:
Bring it on Mr Dutton.
Read today :A woman graduated with a masters in education from Stanford university. Ordinarily, this isn’t a newsworthy story, except for she’s 105 years old and took her 80 years.
Here’s the spritely gal
Role model. Never give up.
This was a viewer’s comment on a brief YouTube dedication to Cpl. Brian Budd V.C. (Posthumous: Afghanistan – U.K. 3 Para).
Without detracting from Cpl. Budd’s courage, the comment is equally applicable to the now-entrenched efforts to selectively erase historical individuals and events in the West.
A non nutty lefty view on the economics of nuclear energy.
Showing what a thoroughly dishonest shower m0nty and his mates are.
As if we didn’t know.
… like a semi-conscious princess
Confession.
We didn’t buy the expensive Sporty European Mattress.
Our B-i-L (in his 80’s and loaded) went through a phase of buying mattresses and ditching them when they didn’t restore his youthful vertebrae alignment.
This was one of them.
We paid the shipping.
Not sure I’d pay the 30 large but it is very, very good
Knowing it is a $30k purchase would make living with a 2nd hand mattress a bit easier. I’ve traded down to a King Single, although my feather doona was thrown out while I was in a coma. I suspect the relevant persons were waiting for the opportunity.
JC
June 20, 2024 10:13 pm
Has she signed up for the PhD?
Dunno, but it would have to be fast tracked.
US Nuke Testing to Resume as a Counter to China?
Zipster:
One of the issues here is how many nukes would it take to bring China down.
One.
Let me expand. China has a huge population – 1.4? Billion. It is having trouble feeding them. The Chinese Communist Party remains in power due to a couple of promises
Raising the living standard of the people, and,Feeding the people.If someone – anyone were to launch a nuke – it doesn’t have to be bigger than the standard 400Kt, from the middle of the ocean, and hit the 3 Gorgeous Dams, the resulting floods downstream would wipe out a good third of the Chinese crop.
The need to destroy the major population centers isn’t there – in fact it would be counter productive. A dead peasant doesn’t need food. The civil strife would pull China apart as the starving 1.4 Billion fought for the diminished food stocks.
In the past, China could use the A and B province solution to deal with famine. If Province A was remiss in paying its taxes or had a reputation for being troublesome, the government would send in the troops to confiscate all the food. Province A is no longer and Province B has undying loyalty to authority.
The Chinese population now has more mobility, and the transport system would help the hordes even if the trains and trucks stopped.
The issue would now be a civil war in a country possessing 300+ nukes and the means to deliver them – and the will to do so.
The 3 Gorgeous Dams are a tripwire for the human race.
Who would benefit from the chaos?
I can think of one…
Stock up on iodine!
Kim Jong Betty is on the warpath again.
You haven’t responded to my post.
Of course not. Is the truce over?
Why kill Tim?
To give Will a chance…..”Fire at Will !”.
I feel for the mattress purchasers. In many ways its tougher than buying a car.
Mattresses are something I fancy myself as knowing a bit about, though perhaps I’m just fooling myself that I have some expertise.
When I buy them, I buy about 160 at a time, usually with the bed & all.
Last lot I bought were about $2500 inclusive of freight.
meh … apparently, you can buy a whole new spine for about $32K
Bed-bugs included?
I love how Stevo can drop Cash’s leash amongst all those kids and know nothing bad is going to happen.
I went for a walk the other day and made eye contact with a dog and it snapped. Thankfully the owner had him on a leash.
It scared the sh*t out of me.
—-
Woof Bark Growl:
Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the Americana at Brand in Glendale, California 8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERBBae1-5KM
True or false?
Who knows, but I wouldn’t put it past the Dems, power at any price is the name of the game.
Surely some of them would have surfaced already if it was tru?
I wouldn’t put it past the Democrats, many of whom are looking down the barrel of treason charges if they lose, but.
Johannes Leak.
Not Leak.
Peter Broelman.
SDS here.
*Spud Derangement Syndrome. Walkley winning material.
Peter Broelman #2.
Brett Lethbridge.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Tina Norton.
Tom
Johannes Leak.link has the same pic as Brett Lethbridge!
Can’t be right, not even his style.
Thanks Tom. But the Leak toon was wrong.
We all have to go, he had a good innings.
Actor Donald Sutherland dead at 88
My fave Sutherland role:
Oddball.
Stop with the negative waves Moriarty.
Salvos opened a new op-shop in Hoxton Park yesterday .. soooo being a professional op-shopper off I went .. Picked up several books (as usual) .. Two WW2 standouts ..
THE VOLUNTEER by Jack Fairweather .. the true story of the bloke who broke INTO Auschwitz .. always thought this was a myth made up to suit a movie/TV series but, apparently, a true story .. A Pole, Witold Pilicki, broke into Auschwitz in 1940 and was in there until 1943 gathering info on how it functioned … only to have the allies dismiss his report as fevered imagination ……
THE FINAL SOLUTION : The Fate of the Jews 1933-49 by David Cesarani ..
1 000 pages and small font .. makes it longer than KL: History of the Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann at 800 p ….. which took me 3 weeks to read …!
And for those who prefer “out-house” study periods ( a group that, thankfully, doesn’t include me) there was H/Cs from Bathhouse Barry, Mikey, Sparkles and 3 copies of Lisa available .. Tho Harry wasn’t SPARE …. LOL!
The Daily Chart: The Baby-Makers
From the comments:
Could it be that the concept of the citizen as someone who has to be supported is finally meeting its logical conclusion and the citizen is now being seen as the asset to society it really is?
Countries who aren’t at war for their survival, or feel threatened to be, forget why high birth rates were encouraged.
From The Gateway Pundit:
They’re like the scene from Fantasia with the Sorcerers Apprentice who is flooding the place and Mickey hasn’t a clue how to deal with it.
From the Gateway Pundit:
I assume the shareholders are OK with this statement from the White Man Senior VP? Or should they sack him because of the policy?
Help. Last night at 10:13pm BB posted a copy of an article by Rita Panahi. Can someone here tell me where it was published. I wish to refer to it and need proper reference.
Herald Sun Melbourne.
The ABC compared to the BBC World Service is a dopey kid playing in a backyard sandpit. The Beeb has global reach and styles itself as “the world’s radio station”. It has plenty of good programs, but also has some fairly dodgy ones, with another about to be launched.
”Whose Truth” will kick off with an examination of “conspiracy theories about covid vaccines”. No prizes for guessing what the line will be, despite the avalanche of info on this topic recently.
It’s noticeable that the media outlets most concerned with “democracy” are the very ones supporting the Biden regime, whose reputation on democracy is rather threadbare. They are also the ones propagating masses of disinformation and misinformation while decrying the “extreme right” for allegedly doing that sort of thing.
“Their Truth”, which is not the same as the truth.
Help. Last night at 10:13pm BB posted a copy of an article by Rita Panahi. Can someone here tell me where it was published. I wish to refer to it and need proper reference.
Here you go Mem:
Herald Sun
Rita Panahi: Peter Dutton’s energy policy could derail the “clean energy” subsidy gravy train
Many thanks. I love the Cats!
Husband loves breakfast TV. So while I catch up on emails & o/nite Catallaxy, he flicks through channels (another annoying thing!). But my attention was caught just now by an ABC ( yes, he even flicks onto them) report on the explosion of food distribution in Oz to the hungry. It is extraordinary. It is run by a charity & distributes fruit & veg ( & I guess other staples) to families & individuals. It is under such pressure that the girl reporter started to cry!
My point is – the damn government should be questioned about this & why they persist in bringing hundreds of thousands of immigrants into the country when we clearly can’t feed many of our own.
The immigrants from lower socioeconomic groups are running a scam – every cabbage they get given saves them money to send home to the tribe.
The charities know bloody well what’s going on – they meet each other in the driveways of the recipients.
It seems to me that citizenship is under attack across Western countries due to identity politics/neo-tribalism. Israel – if it can be classified as a Western country – would be the outlier here.
Roger, The citizen of value can still be milked. In fact they can be milked harder than a State Dependent citizen.
Michael Ware was interesting back when he was a war correspondent in Iraq. Now that Sky has elevated him to an almost daily commentary on US Politics, I’m finding him rather less interesting. Just another TDS sufferer, and nowhere near as good as James Morrow.
BTW my previous post re the food distribution pressures clearly illustrates the extraordinary increase in the cost of living in the last few years.
Can you imagine the meetings?
Mong 1: We need to put 2 hydroelectric sites out to tender
mong 2: Any bidders?
Mong1: Yeah a heap of companies with extensive backgrounds in managing these projects on time and on budget.
…
Mong2: What about a failed ex-PM whos turdfingered approach has seen his signature “Florence” machine bogged for months at a time, will finish years past its expected date, and multiples of its original budget??
https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/turnbull-wins-tender-to-develop-hydroelectricity-in-nsw-20240225-p5f7nk
Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has won the right to develop hydroelectricity schemes on two water reservoirs owned by the NSW government in the Hunter Valley.
Mr Turnbull’s private company, Upper Hunter Hydro, will on Monday be selected by WaterNSW as the winner of a competitive tender to access the Glenbawn and Glennies Creek dams and study their suitability for pumped hydro.
Words fail me.
It’s good to be a maaaaaate.
Of Labor.
Ha, hah. Think Turnbull and his mates might regret this. This is big money. Blatant cronyism or worse. And now to be exposed for all to see!
He’s kean.
If you don’t think the USA is all but finished, consider how many commentariat members are saying the election is going to be close.
Yep, they’re setting up the vote cheat.
Thank God I’m long retired cos I have no idea how the employment sector operates anymore ..! How does someone get sacked over a “private” conversation outside the workplace during lunchbreak ..? The only, obvious, factor here seems to be the complainer is a 251 .. FFS!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13545229/Bryce-got-stood-job-uttering-eyebrow-raising-phrase-workmate-dinner-says-just-word-hes-seen-TV-ruled-that.html
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-20/lithium-ion-batteries-10000-fires-australia-waste-management/104002912 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-20/lithium-ion-batteries-10000-fires-australia-waste-management/104002912?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=messages
Bruce of N’s brother is in this business, IRC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7UY4ioP4VQ
Shatterzz I can’t read those sort of books. Not coz I don’t want to know but because I do know and like the Jews “never again” yet here we are. Are we going to have to kill the leftist scum allied with the muzzies who are having no problem doing the same to us? I’ve already decided, that was from a small boy being brought up by a weak father and narcissistic racist mother who thought only the left government would look after you from cradle to grave and it was everyone else’s fault for her poor choices. On the plus side I was brought up to be responsible for my own actions. I learnt hypocrisy before I knew what the word meant. I’ve never turned the other cheek, do it once and the arseholes will walk all over. The meek will inherit is a load of tosh. If you don’t stand up for whats right you get whatever comes your way and if you’re going to go down make sure the bastards hurt. Remember the Russians were more scared of the people behind them than the Germans in front. The old saying of die on your feet is better than living on your knees. I’ve had enough.
Excellent screed Ranga.
I have always believed the greatest sin/crime, is Hypocrisy. Once you go down that road, every other shitty act becomes as easy to enact, as literal water off a duck’s back.
True
That wasn’t a screed Pogria, the amount I deleted was a screed.
My youngest daughter when she was 19 did what a lot of kids did back then .. took a group bus tour thru Europe .. One of the places they visited was Auschwitz .. she’d never beenmuch ofa reader, other than at school, but when she came home she was off to the library and got into the “camps” books .. Now 10 years later she still picks them up at op shops and whatever I have she’s reads .. For someone for whom WW2 was just some dates she’d picked up at school she is now a walking encyclopedia on the “camps” .. all because of a that one day visit to Auschwitz ……
Skitch ’em mate!
I am trying to see how to make them more scared of the plebs…
Chris I’ve taken to calling it out in public. Sure these are nobodies but it draws attention of others and I’ve noticed “they don’t like it up em’ “, in the words of Corporal Jones. Using the lefts tactics is a sight to behold. They squirm. We shouldn’t feel embarrassed, they do it for the cause. We do it coz its right.
“My point is – the damn government should be questioned about this & why they persist in bringing hundreds of thousands of immigrants into the country when we clearly can’t feed many of our own.”
Or it might be changing demographics, people who can afford to buy their own food but have no shame.
I’d be interested to know the circumstances of those seeking assistance.
Is it lots of recent non refugee immigrants or people on student visas?
I’m cynical because
In Canada an Indian immigrant on 93k pa boasted on social media he he got nearly all his food from food banks, he was encouraging his compatriots to do the same(he got doxxed and sacked).
My daughter volunteered occasionally at a food kitchen in Melbourne lots of clients were backpackers, another place people from another well off Asian immigrant demographic sent their elderly parents to get free breakfasts.
Then there was the refugee family asked to stop getting assistance from a well known charity but only after their third trip home to the country they had been granted asylum from.
still there are probably more families feeling the pinch with rising food energy bills and mortgages.
I’d be interested to know the circumstances of those seeking assistance
Apparently despite the sloganing you can ‘eat’ coal.
There will always be the scammers but they weren’t there first, it was the genuinely needy who came to food kitchens. The scammers simply joined the queue that was already there. The question we must ask is why a supposedly rich country like ours suddenly plunged so many of its people into poverty.
Who knows, Rosie? Modern life is becoming inscrutable in its inconsistencies & subterfuge.
Coupla years ago, Fairfield Council, to encourage folk to get BAT FLU jabbed, offered free food hampers to folk who took the needle and produced CL health care cards .. the distribution place, the local library next door to me had several hundred top-of-the-range 4wds lined up and had to shut down, after an hour, cos they blocked the main thorough fare outside for 2 kms …… LOL!
Growing up in the 50’s and 60’s I only knew of two poor families. One rented a dump, father was a pisshead and I assumed that was why there was no money for the family. The other lived in a run down house on a large block. Father filled in a huge depression in the block, which turned out to be two blocks. He charged a local contractor to fill the hole cheaper than dumping it. Built a new house on it, moved in, knocked the other house down and built another and sold it. Poor, no, astute yes. Things not as they appear. I try not to be judgemental as I’ve been proved wrong on many occasions but not on character.
Vicki, a huge percentage of these migrants have the money to price citizens out of the housing market. This has led to the rise in interest rates and so many families having to choose to eat or pay mortgage and keep the house. Why aren’t churches and charities raising these issues? Where is ACOSS? Their rep used to be on TV at every opportunity, nothing these days. Very curious. My guess is they don’t want to embarrass their favourite government.
Crossie:
Yep they’ll pop up like toadstools as soon as a Conservative government gets in.
Is that “toadstools” or “toad’s tools”?
Sky News Daytime continues to trash itself by having airhead Teals on to talk about anything, but really, energy??
Vicki
No doubt food supply will be helped by Tanya “Cleopatra of the Murray Darling” gifting 3% of irrigators water entitlements to the Indigenous.
Johannes Leak
The lettuce leaf is back!
Vicki my daughter lives in a townhouse complex. One of her neighbours drives for Oz Harvest. He makes his first delivery to his own house, never buys food.
Back in the 1990s my ex wife was, heavily, involved with the Salvos .. we never paid electricity bills and were alwayz getting food parcel deliveries ..all courtesy of the Salvos ..
It’s all about who you know ……..!
At least he does some work for the food.
How flawed are our gummint systems .. The other day the Renumerations Board upped the wages of politicians despite inflation and whatever else hammering the economy .. I was under the impression that this Board is part of the Public Service and appointed thru PS guidelines .. but it can’t be cos PS aren’t allowed/supposed to hold 2nd “jerbs” ..
The chairman of the Renumerations mob also sits on the board of Woolworths … so who appoints these folk and what “authority” does the RB come under ..?
Members appointed by pollies, IIRC, the Remuneration Tribunal comes under an Act of Parliament.
Completely “independent” of course, but they know who appointed them. //Sarc//
Speaking of which, I note Albanese’s government is looking to funnel more migrants into regional areas by abolishing preferred occupation lists and the requirement of a job offer.
Apparently we need more Uber drivers out here.
Good opportunities on offer .. more CentreLink offices & staff galore .. language ain’t a barrier cos most “frontline” CL staff don’t speak English anywayz .. LOL!
Maybe provide alternative options Crisafulli rather than pull Labor’s dick. Courier Mail:
Er Mr Crisafulli, have you been keeping an eye on Florence in the Snowy Mountains? Pumped hydro is simply not viable.
And have you indeed canvassed the ideas of your state colleagues? You could well be surprised with that.
Either get on board or get out of the way.
The QLD LNP allowed a free vote & Crisafulli declined to campaign against it. I wouldn’t bother trying to get a correction from the Courier-Mail.
Crisafulli will accomplish the impossible, he will lose the unlosable election.
It’s certainly not beyond the realm of possibility.
Pitt claims that he will be rolled at the July conference. My understanding is that that is impossible under LNP Presidium rules.
Just get the feeling that Crisafulli isn’t serious. All the polls suggest that Miles and his fellow band of cockfaces are going to be flushed. Still have to work hard however.
BB if your name was Chrisafooli you wouldn’t be serious either. Ha! I reckon he was made leader, just like the Palacechook was, not expected to win and nobody else wanted to be the loser.
My point is – the damn government should be questioned about this & why they persist in bringing hundreds of thousands of immigrants into the country when we clearly can’t feed many of our own.
Fair point .. BUT .. who would, actually, do the questioning ..? This wasn’t listed on Labor’s election platform, the opposition is .. useless .. and the majority of the media (print/TV/radio) luvs all things Luigi .. so who is left with enuf “listen to me” to be heard ..?
The vote-herd don’t count except for a coupla weeks before any election when the “freebies” are rolled out, to be, mostly, forgotten the day after but serve their purpose on the day ……
Reality is .. once in we (vote-herd) end up inundated with decisions we were/aren’t consulted about and no “power” to change anything .. election after election ……..
BoN can’t see Luigi without it being Leak’s vision of him. That cartoon depicted the Liars to a tee. Yesterday’s news was brilliant, whether the MSM intended it to be or not but the frenzied attack on Dutton was a sight to behold. I’m sure I could smell the poo. They were shiiting themselves. The fear in their eyes. Is this the first point of difference in the Uniparty? Going by the number coming out against Dutton the polling must be a lot worse than they’re letting on. Stupid faced Blowen hasn’t had his usual stupid grin on, now its the serious stupid look. How I hope the idiots that vote for this rabble hurt till their collective arses bleed.
Of course Bowen is panicking, the “stick to the plan” mantra is telling.
Nice spray. Fear is in the air.
And panic.
Wife noticed last night that none of the nuclear naysayers can pronounce nuclear. Not one.
He’s adopted a small target strategy.
Easy to do when you don’t appear to have any policy convictions anyway.
While I am a state of outrage – my other beef, as many Cats know – is the dishonesty involved in solar sale to the grid that is emerging,
We have a 10kw solar system (52 panels) at the farm & sell excess energy to the grid. When payments started plunging husband began to record our usage. Not surprisingly he discovered huge discrepancies – eg a sudden rise in usage when we were in fact in Sydney. Many calls to our provider suddenly saw a reversal of these weird discrepancies but we suspect there may be a return to the trend. Two different entities are involved -one “reads” the meter remotely, the other (our retail provider) charges us or sends us money.
For a while we suspected that the entity which reads the usage was actually “averaging”, rather than calculate both usage & sale of energy. This may be the case, but I expect we will need the Ombudsman to decide & adjudicate the legality of what is occurring. But the fact is, that unlike most consumers, we can actually monitor & precisely record our usage,
We live in the Wild West in so many ways,
Stick it to them Vicki.
Are there different types of “smart” meters ..? .. the one I have has no visible parts just resembles a large USB and is wire connected into the mains box .. they took the dialled meter away when they fitted the “smart” and there is nothing to read off …..
Then again, I’ve never, over the past 3 years, noticed any real difference in my bill figures apart from the $ per whatever always going up ……!
There is a button on the smart metre that you need to press. When you do that there will be code numbers to further access readings. You can go on the internet and find out how to read your particular meter. BTW husband tells me all of this – I am technically deficient!
A good tip someone gave me for dealing with energy companies, banks, telcos etc. if you’re getting nowhere, just drop the word ‘ombudsman’ into the correspondence, even if it’s only a chatbot, and they’ll jump to attention quick smart.
Absolutely right! A year or so ago we thought we would ring around to see what other energy providers were offering. What a mistake! One of them went ahead and transferred our account from our existing provider without any sort of agreement from us!!!!
Worse, they wouldn’t respond to requests to transfer it back …so….off to the Ombudsman. Suddenly, account was back with our old provider!!!
My apologies for buggering up the ‘toons earlier and many thanks to BoN for providing the correct like for Johannes Leak.
The Webly is in the library Tom.
Damn! I wish I could do irony.
Do you get it by eating kale?
Tom thank you for your dedicated service to humanity. Its practically ‘week in pictures’ every day for us at the Cat!
‘Never daunted’: Donald Sutherland dead aged 88
Donald Sutherland, an actor with cross-generational appeal who starred in hits including the M*A*S*H and the Hunger Games movie franchise, has died, his son said Thursday. He was 88.
Kiefer Sutherland, an actor and star of the TV show “24,” announced the death in a social-media post, saying, “He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more than that. A life well lived.”
The Canadian actor had a career that spanned seven decades. His big break came in the 1967 film “The Dirty Dozen,” where he played one of a dozen convicted murderers sent to assassinate German officers during World War II.
He was nominated for a Golden Globe for his role in “M*A*S*H” as Hawkeye Pierce, a surgeon in the Korean War.
Other films include “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” and “Animal House,” both in 1978, and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” in 1992.
To younger audiences, he was known for his turn as the antagonist President Snow in the “Hunger Games” franchise from 2012 to 2015.’
And Kelly’s Heroes. 🙂
Who could forget “Oddball” in “Kelly’s Heroes?
Keir Starmer has announced he’ll remove tax breaks from “independent schools” and apply 20% VAT to fees.
Christian schools are the target, but will Muslim and Hindu colleges be caught up in the changes too? Peak bodies representing both groups have issued election manifestos calling for more government support for their schools.
Don’t do a Shorten and scare the horses.
RIP Oddball from Kelly’s Heroes.
I bought my last mattress from a very interesting manufacturer located just down the road (in QLD terms).
He only manufactures bespoke units for top floor top hotels and upmarket tourist developments etc. He also does medical and, disgustingly, an increasing number of NDIS scams.
He will do individual orders and provides a try before you buy service for a couple of weeks, and yep, he has had scammers disappear with the trial mattress.
He is a funny fella. He has a range that he quiety refers to as the ‘house guest range”. “Don’t make them too comfortable or they might stay”.
I amazes me that an individual manufacturer can thrive in these times. I guess quality works.
If you order, you get a tour of the factory which is fascinating.
CONSPIRACY NO MORE: Explosive Undercover Footage Reveals Biden’s State Department Official Admitting ‘Great Replacement Theory’ is REAL — Admits Deliberately Importing Criminals
made to measure climate hobgoblins
more exploration of the manipulation of perception
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israeli-military-says-hamas-cant-be-destroyed-escalating-feud-with-netanyahu-c72f549e
The IDF are saying the quiet bit out loud.
The fact that this (obvious) remark is leaked to the WSJ by the IDF, shows that there are huge problems in Camelot on the Mount.
Legendary actor Donald Sutherland dead at 88, son Kiefer pays tribute: ‘A life well lived’
‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This’: Rand Paul Calls Out Scientist’s Correspondence With Fauci
How on earth did Mike “duelling banjos” Burgess get another five year appointment as head of the staggeringly incompetent utterly useless world class joke of a farce that is ASIO?
Oh that’s right – his tireless pursuit of (imaginary) garage nayzees and other “far right” extremists (i.e. normal people), as opposed to actual real moozley nayzees and various other anti-Semitic imbeciles that are creating havoc across the country in scenes reminiscent of 1930s Germany. Not to mention of course that he’s an albansleazey gubment lickspittle.
Absolutely bloody disgraceful.
Spiteful mediocrity and malicious incompetence is the Canbra way.
Yes, I’m sure they’re working hard on it.
Ex-CDC Director: “We Will Have a Bird Flu Pandemic… Just a Matter of Time”
@RickyDoggin
Give her a listen
Christafuli has always been more Labor than LNP .He has to be a plant.
Secret Pentagon Anti-Vax Campaign Discredited Chinese COVID Vaccine
Well this guy thinks Hamas can be eradicated.
Son of Hamas co-founder: ‘We can remove Hamas, cut the head, and let the tail die’ (20 Jun)
He might know a bit about such things.
‘Cutting the head off the snake’ is not a universal, one-size-fits-all strategy. It very much depends on the structure of the snake, and a variety of other factors. I don’t think it’s impossible to destroy h@m@s (depending on your definition of ‘destroy’), but it won’t be a quick fix.
Well, we shall see.
Its been about 250 days. I will put my money on a mutiny by the IDF before they “eradicate” Hamas.
As for an attack on Lebanon/Hezbollah, that is suicide for Israel.
Hamas has nothing bigger than RPG’s and the IDF are, ……., having difficulties.
Hezbollah is much better equipped and trained.
The Yanks have landed 30,000 troops in Jordan.
Whether this is to try and hold the flank, (Golan Heights), for Israel, or to try and support US troops illegally in Syria or Iraq, we don’t know.
US troops in both countries are in big trouble and should have been withdrawn months ago.
If the excrement hits the rotating disc, they are dead meat.
The USS Gerald Ford, (Carrier), is reportedly, steaming toward the “Israeli Coast”.
I doubt that very much.
If it is, it will become a fish reef, very quickly, should the IDF attempt to advance on Lebanon. The 24th is evidently the date for the attack.
We shall await events.
I hope saner heads prevail, but as in Ukraine, lunatics, who simply do not care about casualties, are in charge, or, at least making the decisions.
@catturd2
“Selective recession”
LOL – that means you’re in a depression while the elites and politicians are getting rich.
Another reason to go back.
https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/italy-ancient-roman-beach-herculaneum.html
Herculaneum is often overlooked by those who flock to a Pompeii. Yet it allows access to amazing sights – such as intimate viewing of ancient timber and pipes in houses. A different experience, in many ways, to Pompei.
I love them both.
Herculean can’t be reached by the tour bus crowd though.
@mazemoore
Yes, doesn’t she look like the typical heart attack victim.
Tragedy as beauty influencer Farah El Kadhi dies aged 36 after ‘heart attack on a yacht’ during holiday in Malta
Was cocaine involved, I wonder?
Doctors are reporting on a growing trend of people in their 30s having the hearts of an unhealthy 70 year old and linking it with cocaine use.
Too much coke uncovers a lot of incipient cardiac problems, Indolent.
Yet another front opens in the ABC’s war on Christianity:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-21/catholic-church-leases-manly-fairy-bower/103952550
All they need now is a poor downtrodden multi-million Aire resident of Fairy Bower who is a part-indigenous trannie.
Language warning.
@iluminatibot
REMINDER – Everyone who has built a cheap or free energy device has been killed.
Apparently there’s a lot of money in tacos.
Who knew?
Speaking of Mexican cuisine, there’s a push on to shame avocado lovers into making their indulgence an occasional treat rather than regular fare.
The fruit has a higher “carbon footprint” than most and also requires huge amounts of water.
Activists want to make growing the fruit “more sustainable”, which, when translated, means only the rich will be able to afford to eat them.
Happily, we have one in the orchard which produced upwards of 100 fruit last season without getting much attention.
Good on G&G. One of the nice things is the spread of such fast food restaurants. Oporto being another one. It makes life a lot more fun.
Not really a fan of fast food, Bruce.
But I was dragged into GyG by my daughter once. Can’t say I was overly impressed; I can do a better taco!
I can only assume that these places are popular with people who either don’t know how to cook or can’t be bothered.
My local shopping centre has four dueling burger joints, five if you count KFC. We are bogan central. If I buy lunch though I usually get sushi from a Japanese sushi shop, so at least there’s some nicer stuff.
Chipotle in the US is better.
I think we are due an avocado glut after a $5ea price spike a few years ago. Guacamole on ever appears on the menu when they hit 3 for $5.
Ballarat needs more goat herders.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-21/ballarat-real-state-consumer-affairs-victoria-investigation/103990220
Exclusive: Joe Biden adviser had contact with Burisma during height of corruption probe, emails show
Number of commenters, in the piece on Donald Sutherland, who have to have it pointed out that, yes, “MASH” was set in the Korean War, but it was a satire on the Vietnam War…
Have been laid low the last couple of days with an awful cold. Can’t work in my usual space due to danger of passing on my virus to vulnerable people.
So resting up at home. I don’t watch much tele these days but have watch two old movies.
First one was a western, “The Big Country” from 1959. Starring Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, Jean Simmons, Carol Baker and Chuck Conners.
I am not a big western fan, but this was a great story. Sort of a Hatfields vs McCoys battle for water and pasture.
Very long, but greatly entertaining. Burl Ives got a deserved Best Supporting Actor Oscar. Great cast, though I thought Gregory Peck was miscast.
He always played thoughtful, well considered wise men, like Atticus Finch. In this movie he seemed a little stiff and wooden. The fight scene between him and Chuck Heston was unintentionally hilarious.
But great movie and wonderful cinematography and scenery.
The other movie was on SBS movies, The Final Countdown from 1980.
The USS Nimitz goes through a timewarp and finds itself near Pearl Harbour the day before December 7th, 1941.
Do you fight the Japs and change history with a bunch of F-14 Tomcats against Mitsubishi Zeros and Betty Bombers?
Of course you fight! But of course circumstances prevail as well as budget restraints for the movie.
Full of logical holes but highly entertaining. Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, the lovely Katherine Ross, James Farrentino, Ron O’Neal and Charles Durning (a genuine WW2 hero).
The real stars were the Nimitz and the Tomcats. Some of the aerial footage is astounding. No CGI just real aircraft.
Both fillums highly recommended.
‘Three-eyed fish’ comments not helpful, nuclear experts dispel safety fears
[Unlinkable OZ]
Hard to imagine any sentient politician who didn’t expect a stock-in-trade tsunami of boogaloo and three eyed fish.
Properly done, the Nuclear Policy would have come with a well-designed information package on safety; ranging from colouring-in pages for journalists, through expert opinion, statistical data, to statistical comparisons with other generation sources – and including easy to read summaries showing why Chernobyl and Fukushima are not representative (or even relevant) to current safety standards.
And another one pulling the wings off the excruciating GenCost bullshit.
Btw keep an eye out for our old mate Alan Finkel, he’s out and about today.
Former Aussie Chief Scientist Demands Governments Go Full Fascist on Renewable Energy Approvals (20 Jun)
Usual partisan rubbish.
Indeed.
Pulled away from their specialty, Chief Scientists are not all they are cracked up to be.
ANSTO, which might just know a bit about nuclear energy seems less than convinced by the CSIRO crap in GenCost.
Could Phil Coorey stay within the lines?
These stories are so annoying.
This bloke has a special arrangement on Magnetic island, what will the second third fourth fifth EV owner to arrive do?
and so what if you had a good run this time, the more electric cars on the road the more you’ll be waiting for a charger and please what is the difference between an entry price EV and an entry price ice car?
And then there’s the ever increasing price of electricity.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/tesla-owner-reveals-true-cost-of-epic-3000km-road-trip-082135452.html
What’s more revealing:
So – let’s remove the artificial 50c/litre fuel tax, and the trip would be $10 vs. $12 per 100km.
bons my mate does a lot of work for individuals with lots of money building one offs to suit. Usually there are off the shelf alternatives but don’t look right or poorly designed. Gets work by word of mouth. Does quite a bit of restoration work. He’s known all over for some of his work. Others try and fail to copy him. I can skite and say I’ve done some woodwork for him where the client said they’d never imagine it would look so good. All I did was finish what was an engineering masterpiece. I may have missed my calling. I have an ability with the aesthetic, something I didn’t understand when I was young even though it was there. I need another lifetime to do the things I should have done.
It’s a big club, GreyRanga.
‘Yet another front opens in the ABC’s war on Christianity:’
The framing of that story as dispossession of aboriginal people. Millions and millions of hectares used for hunting and gathering spoken about like it’s a Scottish crofter booted out by a greedy Laird.
The Catholic Church got land in the then boonies and the ABC sulks because 170 years later it’s prime real estate.
Give it a rest.
Why is that even ‘newsworthy’?
What’s the value of the land under ABC HQ Ultimo?
Is the ABC “paying the rent” on their premises across capital and regional cities?
They went full retard. Never go full retard!
Nuclear scare campaign slammed after Labor hits back at Coalition’s energy policy with three-eyed fish and wastelands (Sky News, 20 Jun)
Streisanding to infinity and beyond!
Not to mention three eyed nookular fuelled koalas*.
*Note the imbecile pushing this puerile idiocy – another labore pardee “economist” blessed with a brain the size of a peanut.
It reminds me of the anti noocular propaganda when I was in highschool. Remember MAUM?
So, smarter than mUntyfa?
I saw the clip of the admission on X.
The guy suggested that they kept doing it because there is money in appealing to niche audiences. The fact they are losing so much more from normies would seem to be lost on them. And the results are in. Disney has produced just one flop after another, culminating (to date) in The Acolyte. Even then I suspect they are already striving to outdo even that.
I hear that their one great hope is Deadpool & Wolverine, which features two unabashedly straight, white, male characters. (Actually, I do not know that they are straight. All I know is that they have not been retconned into one of those changeling QWERTY’s so beloved by Disney.) But that will only be one movie and will not be able to offset the absolute disaster of the rest of the year.
One of the people I watch on YouTube is Overlord DVD. He seems to have contacts in Disney who let him in on what is happening there which he reports as unverified (since he himself cannot verify it) but builds up scenarios based on what he hears which are often borne out be later events. According to him according to his sources there has been frenzied activity at this latest debacle suggesting the board is finally getting sick of the flops.
In 2012 Disney bought the rights to Star Wars from George Lucas and LucasFilm is a Disney company now, misruled by the egregious Kathleen Kennedy. Anyway, it would seem that they have still not recouped anywhere near the money they paid.
Interesting if DeSantis acts on O’Keefe’s undercover effort. Disney is not in great odour in Florida.
You’re assuming the plan is to actually build the things, Doc.
Never take a politician’s utterances at face value.
beauty influencer Farah El Kadhi
Another Dubai porta potty bites the dust.
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I see Sunak is threatening loss of driver’s license, difficulty in obtaining finance, and the like, for those that decline National Service. The strangest election campaign in decades.
Instead of a stick, why not offer the young a carrot?
Starmter is going to be an inflection point for the whole of Western democracy. Like all Leftists he has no understanding of limits.
Will he push the Brits too far?. I think he will. Moslem supremacist violence, politicised police and the eventual realisation by the ruling class that racist marxism will swallow them as well as the little people should elicit a response.
My Kent based daughter claims that the farmers are finally beginning to organise. She half believes that Starmer will drive her out of business. The corporate eco thugs are already circling.
Apparently, an increasingly popular meme is photos of Kent families on the Downs watching the Battle of Britain with a range of captions discussing wasted sacrifice.
Our no longer close Remainder friends, whose kids all work in Dubai think it is wonderful. Back into the EU with no referendum – wonderful for the kids’ careers.
What a joy it will be see the Millibrand authoritarian anarchists back on the scene!
Another small parcel sent to local friends in PNG has ‘gone missing.’ Previously it was the postal service (including trying to extort an extra ‘fee’ to the addressee at Lae), this time it seems the package (containing only four items of clothing) was thieved by customs in Moresby. It’s challenging trying to support anyone there, because postage costs more than the contents, and about 50% of the time the parcels are stolen. Minimising the value and description of the contents on the customs form doesn’t seem to have worked. Again. *Sigh* (First world problems!).
I sent a letter with a few photos to a friend in Harare.
Two of the photos were stuck together around a $50 AUD note.
In online conversation later, I met the guy who installed x-ray machines in the post office for Customs there. Customs? 100% used for stealing from the mail.
They used to slit the foil on Cadbury’s Dairy Milk and slide in $USD just to enter the country. Not through the mail.
A new historical Australian wartime film for Top Ender to review.
https://youtu.be/X7fe0xFBpeM
After the original “Emu War” of 1932, the army sent one of the Campion farmers an account for the ammunition they had expended. He replied with an account for “quarters and victualing of His Majesties Armed Forces” – coincidentally, the same amount as the ammunition expended.
Oh, and to the smartasze, who asked if the soldiers would receive a campaign medal – he was told that any honors would go to the emus.
This reminds me of the Yahoo Serious films.
BBC did the usual, held a debate last night and somehow forgot to invite the second highest polling party leader.
BBC Question Time fans issue same complaint as Nigel Farage’s absence sparks fury (20 Jun)
There are just so many parasitic organizations deserving of bulldozers that infest our nations these days.
Things going as expected in France..
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/20/jews-questioning-their-future-in-france-amid-fears-about-rise-in-extremism
Many Jewish people are “questioning [their] future in France”, a community leader has said, after a 12-year-old girl was allegedly raped in a suspected antisemitic attack and fears deepen about the rise of extremism before a parliamentary election this month.
“The climate is very, very difficult for Jews,” Yonathan Arfi, the president of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (Crif), said on Thursday. “People are very, very worried about the future,” he said. “People are, I would say, questioning the future in France.”
On Tuesday evening, two 13-year-old boys were charged with the rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl in a Paris suburb. They were also charged with issuing death threats as well as antisemitic insults and violence.
The suspects beat the girl and forced her to have sex “while uttering death threats and antisemitic remarks”, one police source told Agence France-Presse.
“boys”, “Boys” of a certain group by any chance??
Test
Albo cracking the shits because some Michael reporter asked him about the three eyed memes surrounding Dutton’s nuclear proposal?
BB, this was bound to happen as lefties always assume a) they can ram any old sh*t down normies’ throats without objection; and b) normies are too stupid to be allowed to vote.
So, after they go on to lose an election on an important issue, they’re mystified.
Lefties are crap at politics because they loathe democracy.
Dr Faustus
June 21, 2024 9:11 am
m0nster’s lot haven’t got much to go on.
They know that any serious attempt to knock noocular power over on genuine safety grounds will fall flat.
So all they’ve got is tired old Simpson’s memes from the ’90’s.
Low energy.
Sad.
Crisafulli anti nuclear stance not going down well on 4BC or in Courier Mail comments. Comments in Courier Mail indicate One Nation will benefit at state election.
Lisa Wilkinson taking expensive risk ‘going back for her hat’
By stephen rice
Another battle looms for Lisa Wilkinson in her bid to overturn adverse findings against her by Justice Michael Lee in Bruce Lehrmann’s failed defamation case: who will pay for her latest legal foray?
The television presenter’s estranged employer, Network Ten, is already playing hardball on reimbursing the $1.8m in legal fees she racked up in defending the mammoth case with separate legal representation led by top defamation silk Sue Chrysanthou SC.
In April, following a trial believed to have cost at least $10m, Justice Lee found that, on the balance of probabilities Mr Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins in Parliament House in 2019.
However, he also found that Ten and Wilkinson had failed in their defence of qualified privilege – that is, that they had failed to act fairly and reasonably in the preparation and aftermath of the story.
Now Wilkinson is seeking to overturn Justice Lee’s finding that her conduct in the Higgins story was improper and unjustifiable, claiming he made more than 50 errors in his judgment.
In a notice of contention filed with the Federal Court on Wednesday, Wilkinson claims Justice Lee made multiple errors both in his findings about her conduct and about the rape of Ms Higgins by Mr Lehrmann.
However, it is far from clear that Ten will be willing to fund the new case, with Ms Chrysanthou revealed last month to have billed Wilkinson $8000 for each full day in court, along with $800 an hour for preparation, conferences, advices and travelling time.
Solicitors from Gillis Delaney Lawyers also charged Wilkinson amounts running into hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Some defamation lawyers queried the wisdom of Wilkinson’s latest move, wondering whether – as Justice Lee observed of Mr Lehrmann – having won a substantial part of her case, Wilkinson might be making the mistake of “going back for her hat”.
The presenter risks the Full Court of the Federal Court upholding Justice Lee’s finding that she failed in her duty as a journalist to act fairly and reasonably.
do it! do it!
Wise words.
Based on the Coalition’s policy document, I have no expectation that any real thinking has gone out as far as building anything.
What I was imagining however was that, having led off with nuclear engineering as an election issue, Team Dutton would have thought to address the screamingly obvious political points.
My concern is that if Dutton gets this wrong and can’t manage the Vibe, any sensible adult debate on nuclear energy in Australia will (yet again) be pushed out anther 15-20 years – and into the weeds and abandoned car bodies of a dystopian renewable energy future.
This article at Courier Mail online had its comments closed after only 6 approved since it went up at midnight :
Dozens of Queensland place names set to be changed by state government
Dozens of Queensland place names deemed offensive – mainly to First Nations people – are to be changed by the State Government.
Stephen Hagan? Wasn’t he the petal who complained because he was the only person asked to pre – pay for his petrol, and the service station manager replied that his was the race most likely to drive off, without paying?
This bloke, I think, was the fella who campaigned (on taxpayer’s money, no doubt: How else do you survive as a professional ‘activist?’) about a footy stand somewhere in the vicinity of Toowoomba (or Ipswich?) named the ‘N***r Brown Stand.’
This bloke was the one who wanted “C@@n Chese” named..
‘N***r Brown Stand.’
Correct. It was at Athletic Park here in Toowoomba.
Named after Edwin ‘Nigger’ Brown, a rugby league player.
Also spent about eight years as a ‘professional student at USQ peddling his crap.
Hagan also bitched about Coon cheese until it was changed.
I can see stupidity coming some time soon. Eg on the Castlereagh Hwy there is a creek crossing called Blackman’s Creek. Now this was named after explorer James Blackman, But sure as eggs the mob will claim a slur in the name.
I suspect that the community mood will surface in the defacing of these signs.
We are not in Canada or the US, theres no such thing as First Nations in ‘Stralia, barely out of the stone age with sticks and rocks do not a nation make
I just got an email from Ozfarmers to do a shop for some glass jars – the jars were $97, the shipping $62. Looked up the address – Canada? Say what?
But they knew my address, CC details, and, I suspect my hat size.
Never heard of them, but they claim I signed up to their store in January and so authorised them to send me specials.
Now that may be the case, but why ‘Ozfarmers’ purporting to be an Australian company?
No wonder scams are so successful – our private information is open to every dodgy Nigerian Prince.
Pauline’s latest is pretty good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iDk4m1R3Jo
A (lengthy) response to Old Lefty and Rosie’s posts re Christianity and Australian indigenes:
Where the does the munni that is showered (recklessly, without evaluation of outcomes/investment) on indig causes – and which they constantly demand more of – come from? Would it have been produced by the unimproved land pre-settlement, or does it arise due to taxes on the improvements/value that has been added to that land, including the development of businesses that employ people and create opportunities for more than a highly structured elite to potentially benefit from their labour, intellectual property, and risk?
Like the reconstruction of indigenous culture which I have previously commented upon as being almost entirely enabled by non-indigenous Australians, the application of non-indigenous concepts such as individual land ownership has enabled new generations of indig life to be reconstructed.
Again, without non-indigenous Australians, their culture and belief systems, there would be no vestige of pre-settlement Australia remaining. WE allow YOU to identify as something that your ancestors largely rejected and discarded. Your identity was NOT stolen from you by mythical boogeymen of a colour that doesn’t exist in humanity, it evolved as your ancestors accepted the opportunities that were offered from those who had developed alternative technologies and belief systems.
To reject and erase those of your ancestors who chose to initially straddle two remarkably different worlds (an unenviable task), is to spit on their memory, and their attempts to provide better opportunities for those who came after them.
No-one pretends that mistakes were not made, misunderstandings not experienced, and that, as happens in populations, some individuals were less motivated by compassion than others. To witness, however, the lavish, unencumbered oceans of material and moral support your reconstructed (NOT a derogatory term, by the way) identity receives from those who see you as almost mirror images of themselves, should be enough – to any reasonable, healthy-minded person – to dispel the vile slurs that have redefined the footprints of those who built the luxury you now enjoy.
Geez, this morning I read this in The Oz…
Leaders call for police action after pro-Palestinian vandals attack Trades Hall
Crikey, golly gosh, stop the presses!
On Monday night 9 October 2023, in an infamous episode that now stains the very soil of this country, frothing, hysterical and unhinged leftist and Muslim scum (that included a Plibersek staffer and a son of a sitting NSW Labor minister) gathered at Sydney Town Hall (witnessed by me) and were later escorted down to the Sydney Opera House by NSWaffen Police where they screeched, screamed and shouted….
F*ck the Jews
Gas the Jews (oh yes they did)
and perhaps the most sinister…
Where’s the Jews
NSWaffen stood by and did nothing whilst the above incitement was screeched, flares were set off and Israeli flags burnt.
No one has been charged from that night, the only person dragged away from Town Hall was a Jew trying to unfurl an Israeli flag. In the courtyard of St Andrew’s cathedral, the Reverend Mark Leach, himself halachically Jewish, also tried to unfurl an Israeli flag and for his crime he was chased by Muslims, finally seeking refuge on Bathurst Street.
Meanwhile this Jew had made a quick exit because she felt threatened, that’s how potent the unhinged hatred was that hideous night. And then I got home to learn that the NSWaffen Police had declared Sydney’s CBD ‘Judenfrei’, and I remember feeling chills cover my whole body, I started shaking and I screamed.
Meanwhile, since that night, the mighty NSWaffen have ‘swooped’ down on supposed neo-Nazis at a train station in North Sydney and the mighty NSWaffen have been busy rounding up rioters from the Wakeley Church stabbing in April.
In November 2023, on the back of a blood blood libel that would have made the Tsarist secret police proud, leftist and Muslim scum initiated an attempted pogrom on Melbourne’s Jews in the suburb of Caulfield, a suburb where lots of Jews happen to live, the scum congregated outside a synagogue, on the holy Sabbath, with the result that Jews had to be evacuated.. Victoria Police did almost nothing, and the Victorian government remained mute, the left in general muttered mealy-mouthed platitudes about ‘soshul coheshun’, always referring to Jew hatred in the same breath as Islamophobia, but we all know that they are NOT the same
That night in November, hearing about what was happening in Caulfield, I felt those chills again, and I remember wondering if I had woken up and found myself living in Kiev in 1905 or Safed in 1929.
The following night, NSWaffen provided a personal escort for a convoy of Nazi scum to drive through Jewish areas of Sydney. The leader of that convoy was a convicted terrorist.
Since then, every Sunday, there have been Jew hate fests in Sydney and Melbourne CBDs, the participants screaming a call for genocide, a genocide of Jews.
It goes on, Israeli survivors of October 7 harassed at a Melbourne hotel, when the Nazi leftist and Muslim scum stormed the hotel. Victoria Police stood by and did nothing. In February Jews were assaulted outside a Melbourne council meeting. Victorian Police stood by and did nothing, preferring to drag away the Jew.
Jewish businesses are vandalised, Jews are doxxed and harassed online. Jews are harassed at Australian universities, Scopus school was daubed with ‘Jew die” graffiti, graffiti is regularly sprayed in Jewish suburbs….a Jewish MP’s electoral office vandalised.
Last night I attended a concert at the Jewish Museum. To get in, you go through security which is exactly like the security at an airport.
But back to Trades Hall. I remember the silence, the excuses, and the paltry words from scum on the left, including the slob who comments here, that same slob who has spent years here screeching ‘Nazi” at those whose opinions he doesn’t like yet when real Nazis appear he says nothing…and why would he? He agrees with them.
And so this morning, reading in the The Oz that union leader Luke Hilakari is now urging Victoria Police to treat the pro-Palestinian attacks on and Trades Hall more seriously, branding the vandals “cowards” and “morons”.
Well..hang on, aren’t they just ‘letting off steam’? Please excuse my cynical laughter. You see Mr Hilakari, the time for serious action was back on 9 October 2023. But that ship has now sailed and that old adage applies perfectly here….
You reap what you sow.
There are consequences to excuse making, to silence, to appeasement, to siding with evil and one of those consequences is that one day they will come for you too, as they did in the early hours of Thursday morning at Trades Hall, Melbourne.
Can you imagine the shrieking if a Chicken truck perchance happened to run into the Lakemba mosque. It would be the worst attack on muzziedom even if no one was hurt. In the good news stakes, 125 were killed in religious fervour at the hadj. I have no compassion for monsters.
“he also found that Ten and Wilkinson had failed in their defence of qualified privilege – that is, that they had failed to act fairly and reasonably in the preparation and aftermath of the story.”
If Lehrmann is successful in his appeal, ten and Wilkinson could be up for damages, bigly.
I think I prefer that ‘all of them lose’.
What a total schemozzle, and most likely root cause is that two idiots failed to ensure they left the scene of some mutual naughtiness involving substance abuse.
Escuse?
Science has known since the 1950’s that toxic wastes from noocular power stations are going to release Godzilla.
Interesting story for China-watching Cats.
Is the Chinese Military Crumbling Under Xi? It Seems Like It… (19 Jun)
The anything-goes mentality is pretty strong in China, seeing that baby milk companies were using toxic melamine to fake protein levels in their product. A lot of babies died, and that led to the raid by expatriate Chinese on Australian supermarket shelves for baby powder. So it would not be out of character for missile force officers to sell the fuel out of their own missiles to make a buck.
Surely not. Wouldn’t they sell the fuel out of someone else’s missiles, to reduce the likelihood of accountability?
Valid point – a bit like the French and Italian Resistance in WW2 where attacks on the Axis Forces happened outside collaborators towns so the revenge attacks would fall on their enemies, or in Afghanistan where villages would swear blind “Not Taliban! Not Taliban! But the tribe on the other side of the hill are!” And would then chortle with laughter as the hopeless Allied forces would attack the tribe that had been at loggerheads with the former village for 400 years.
My favourite Donald Sutherland film is “Ordinary People“.
I must rewatch the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie.
Admittedly Ms Gellar in the TV series was a better Buffy than Ms Swanson, but Donald Sutherland was the quintessential mentor character.
If you want to know what brought that on, it was this nice write up at News.com.au.
Hunger Games, Dirty Dozen star Donald Sutherland dead at 88 (21 Jun)
Seconded. He was a trouper.
Hear, hear!
Re water in the Chinese missiles
I doubt there is much of a black market for hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide.
Except to other missile batteries… competitive sideways procurement is a thing in military history.
Those knock off Red Sea Silkworms don’t fuel themselves.
I suspect it might have been ‘paperwork done, payment made, product not delivered’ type corruption.
My favourite Donald Sutherland film is the very creepy horror film…..Don’t Look Now.
And with the incomperable Julie Christie.
As an a example of how old and stupid I have become – I recently allowed a local Greenie/ Indig culture fanatic on to our property to see the Bora Ring & other egs of indigenous presence. I know, I know – stunningly stupid. But she pleaded to see them. And promptly photographed them! She wants the local mob in town to be able to visit but that is really verboten, & I won’t relent. It is now in the hands of Providence.
It really was brain fade on steroids.
Destroy them before they come back, and deny their existence. Get the grader out and landscape the area so that it doesn’t resemble anything she may have included so she can triangulate the position from in the photos.
Because before you know it, they’ll be back with not only a lawyer, but a guvvie official and you’ll lose the lot.
I suggest anyone else with aboriginal artifacts on their property do the same.
This reminds me of what happened in the Northern rivers area with Koala habitats – when the authorities started with their ‘habitat’ saving, several farmers went through their properties and shot every koala they found. It was that or losing substantial amounts of their properties to ‘reserves’.
Vicki, you have two choices here – destroy the evidence or lose your farm so inner city Greenies can have a warm and fuzzy moment.
Bob – it is not that easy for them. The local mob had a crack at preventing a coal mine in the area based on evidence of prior indigenous habitation. But the court decided against the claim – arguing that they had to prove continuous habitation by indigenous occupation. They could not, of course, do that & the action failed.
But I am prohibiting their access for viewing based on my desire for an easy life!
How the bloody hell did she know about it?
Brain fade on steroids doesn’t come close.
You are in for a world of hurt now.
Klute is my favourite Miss Daniels my name is Klute. John Klute.
The local businessman, who has had repeated appearances in Court, and repeated adjournments, for upsetting the mythical Rainbow Serpent, had had his case adjourned, yet again..we are supposed to take this malarkey, seriously?
Doesn’t look like Albo’s hysterically over-the-top scare campaign is going to work.
Support for renewables plummets while nuclear energy’s popularity increases in positive polling sign for Coalition (Sky News, 21 Jun)
Modest numbers but they’re in the face of massive MSM support for renewables and equally massive negative press about nuclear energy. This poll and others like it may be what has gotten Albo and Chalmers so panicked.
Proving yet again that all that is required for Conservative success is a modicum of LEADERSHIP.
Think of the candle suppliers!
Da Voice showed MSM and Big Business support ain’t worth a hill of beans. No wonder Luigi hesa panicking.
And Crisafulli’s small target strategy is not working either.
Pauline Hanson claims Queensland Opposition Leader David Crisafulli has ‘dug his own grave’ by opposing nuclear power (20 Jun)
This right after the Robert Irwin flounce went viral. I think the Qld LNP should be doing an emergency spill.
I think all our politicians seem to need application of a spill kit.
Lamp-posts might be going a bit far; but if wasted money and wasted oxygen were treated like they deserve, I think the lamp-post would get strange new respect.
This Crisafulli character sounds like Queensland’s version of Victoria’s John Prosciutto, the leader you have when you’re not having a leader. Fortunately — or unfortunately — Crisafulli will probably still win because the alternative is worse. With any luck, there’ll be a leadership spill a year or so out from the following state election.
Australia, due to multiple bad faith politicians needs a recall mechanism that when activated, will only allow project spending to happen when it has gone before the people in a referendum.
This Two Party System isn’t working. Neither are living up to their promises.
Swanson was the prima Buffy, tho Gellar had better writers.
She was also a decent Diana Palmer cursed by a woeful fillum.
But the Babe-Off stakes can be decided by only one factor- Kristy has aged very very nicely, where Sarah Michelle has had something of a screen siren slump.
Especially if they should turn up with kippas in tow and cutting stones in hand, intent on some cultural reenactment.
Someone told me that monty had three eyes – all brown.
Reminds me of the Torres Strait Islander flag. Isn’t it obvious?
A pal worked on Campbell’s anti bikie task force. They reported to Crisafulli who was known to be hard arse, demanding and gungho.
What has happened to him?
MSM
Don’t Look Now and Oddball in Kelly’s Heroes. Two ends of the spectrum.
couldn’t contact a particular building manager during the week
2 days later he finally rang back and apologized,
sorry, been swamped with meetings. we had a fire on monday
I asked what happened …
apparently somebody bought their electric scooter to work
and it decided to self combust
Must be a Pride Month thing.
this is fantastic … A double dutch like you’ve never seen before
That was great!
Like many people, I had to go for the smelling salts when I saw that Guzman y Gomez listed on the ASX yesterday and finished the day with a market cap of $3 billion.
That’s $3,000,000,000.
What return would I want on my investment?
Let’s say I am looking for a fairly modest 7.5%.
Guzman y Gomez have 200 stores, so if I crudely allocate invested capital equally to each one, that is an investment of $15 million per store.
If I want my modest 7.5% return, that means each store has to return $1.125m per annum.
I don’t see it.
Of course, they are talking growth, as all good spruikers of sharemarket floats do.
Just looking at my records of retail floats and there are many, many entries in the “Collapsed in a Heap” column, and very few in the “To the Moon and Back Exponential Growth” column.
Three billion tacos, yum! On the other hand it’ll totally blow away our Paris climate budget, all that extra methane.
The WA Museum just sent me a survey about my recent museum experience. Had a box to make a comment!
After that it had pages of boxes as whether I dientify as oogabooga, buuugerer, refugerer, or/and genderer, or four categooories of arts suuuppooorter.
Might have had a little win with my ex-copper mates impending date with the coroners court.
I looked for WA polices policies, they are not available unless you physically attend the state library, and are allowed to read a redacted CD version.
(shades of hitchhikers guide to the galaxy)
I thought id email the Police union to see if they could assist, informing them of the chap I was seeking to assist, and how he was looking at attending the hearing unrepresented.
I then received a text from my mate, in less than an hour they had rung him seeking to clear up the “misunderstanding” and it appears he will now be represented after all.
In that request I did drop my JP number as a little prompt..
Top work.
Well done Frollicking one!
Bravo!
noice
bons
June 21, 2024 12:21 pm
Not such a mystery.
He is out of the same mould as John Prosciutto. A noisy bully with underlings and the weak, but totally sycophantic with those who out-rank him or he perceives as having some power.
Ask your pal this … Did he ever publicly stand up to his bosses and, when he was being “gung ho” did he ask for his underlings to deliver “gung ho type recommendations” to him before he went all gung ho-ish.
EXCLUSIVEAdam Bandt sends an email fundraising off the death of his dog – and it has to be seen to be believed: ‘Give now!’
Daily Mail.
Aren’t pets a waste of scarce resources?
I thought pets were supposed to be killing the planet?
I think the dog committed harikari when it found out who arsebandt was as any self respecting dog would.
Shame it wasn’t the dog fundraising over him.
Any Cats had a similar experience? A mate emailed me this regarding his electrickery provider:
Further enquiries revealed another example of their wonderful customer service:
As for the latter, I could only observe, “Gee, who’da thunk it?”.
Has the provider breached the law – “silence is acceptance” and all that?
What they’re doing is illegal. I would suggest reporting them immediately to the ACCC — and informing them of that fact. I just hope the ACCC is still enforcing the law now that it’s being run by the niece of communist Whitlam government minister Moss Cass.
I hope the power company concerned isn’t part of a climate-related government protection racket.
Thanks, Tom.
It sure as shit sounds like it.
The other alternative is to contact the Ombudsman, As I posted earlier, the latter resolved a problem we had when one provider acquired our account without our agreement.
“It’s always nice to be in a room with like-minded people.”
It is, however I tend to agree with these two commentators statements too:
Dan Bongino:”I don’t want to be the smartest person in the room – that’s boring. I want to be the dumbest person in the room – that way I can learn more”
Tucker Carlson: “If there are 100 people in the room, and 99 have the same opinion and the other 1 is different, I want to talk to the one – not because he’s right (he’s probably not), but because he may have insights the other 99 don’t, and that might change everything.”
Especially if ts Vlad the Impaler.
Luigi hands out visas willy nilly every other day of the week but suddenly doesn’t know how to solve a domestic shortage in nuclear engineering.
It’s just too hard?
Methinks he’s objecting on grounds other than difficulty.
If he can get enough nuclear engineers for CFMEU subs in Adelaide he can get enough nuclear engineers for power stations.
Can’t be bothered going back to read all the nested comments, has mUntyfa yet posted his detailed rebuttal of the comments on nuclear power generation by the ex-ANSTO man? (See link by Rosie at 2158 yesterday.)
Shirley, a j’ismist must know more that a nuclear physicist?