Open Thread – Weekend 22 June 2024


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Top Ender
Top Ender
June 22, 2024 12:04 am

Podium! Cheers from Tunisia!

Top Ender
Top Ender
June 22, 2024 12:05 am

A ‘Walter Mitty’ police chief Nick Adderley was caught on video boasting of being a ‘senior leader in the Royal Navy’, despite only ever serving at the lowest rank — as he is sacked for gross misconduct.

The officer, who was a guest speaker at a British Security Industry Association (BSIA) gathering in Manchester, lied about being a ‘senior leader’ within the Royal Navy when in reality, he served for two years and two months at the rank of Able-Seaman.

It comes as Mr Adderley has today been sacked for exaggerating his rank and length of service and lying about his naval achievements following a misconduct hearing in Northampton.

The former chief constable of Northamptonshire Police ‘built military naval legend that wasn’t true’ a misconduct hearing was told.

The panel heard how Mr Adderley wore a Falklands War medal despite being just 15 when the conflict happened. 

Now, footage obtained by MailOnline, clearly shows Mr Adderley exaggerating his rank within the Royal Navy. 

In a somewhat ironic remark, Mr Adderley told the audience at Bridgewater Hall: ‘I’m going to be totally honest with you. I have been in the police service now for 23 years, just coming up to 23 years and prior to that I was a senior leader within the Royal Navy…’

He has been dismissed without notice and placed on the police barred list.

More at the Daily Mail

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
June 22, 2024 12:11 am

To your health then, TE.
I was going to dedicate the thread to the glory of the Massey Ferguson 4200 series, but, you know. I’m pining for a rig which is juuust out of reach.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2024 12:11 am

That guy could be Mayor of Townsville, TE.
FMD.
How stupid does he think people are?
Thinking that no-one will know or do a bit of research.
And what would he gain from the bragging?

Chris
Chris
June 22, 2024 12:18 am

Evening all! Staying up way too late.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 22, 2024 12:38 am

Thinking that no-one will know or do a bit of research

As a former Lieutenant-General, Chief of Special Forces, reality TV contestant and Prime Minister of Australia, I find that remark offensive.

Top Ender
Top Ender
June 22, 2024 12:53 am

I reckon the military wannabees are victims of their own small deception which turns into something they can’t escape.

Some minor remark at a bar after too many consumed. “Yeah, I remember my time in Nam, when me and the boys from Special Ops were on that covert mission.”

And given a small circle of believers who buy them drinks they follow it up with a bit of quiet secondhand medal hunting. Before you can say “Albert Jacka VC” there they are at an Anzac Day march. Then they get asked to be the secretary of the RSL and the train is accelerating down the tracks…

KevinM
KevinM
June 22, 2024 3:13 am

Who would’ve thought the drug lords give in easily?

California Legalized Drugs. Cartels Took It Over

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
June 22, 2024 3:16 am

Trippy stuff. He’s one of the PRIDE with these cats.

The ultimate bodyguards.

——

The Lion Whisperer:

LION REUNION – Happy Encounter with Kevin Richardson | The Lion Whisperer

Kevin Richardson reunites with the lions after his surgery. How will they react?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bATQtKHf9JU

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
June 22, 2024 3:56 am

This place is effin huge.

Cash 2.0 Great Dane at Bass Pro Shops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxZmaCEj-fw

Tom
Tom
June 22, 2024 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
June 22, 2024 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
June 22, 2024 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
June 22, 2024 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
June 22, 2024 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
June 22, 2024 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
June 22, 2024 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
June 22, 2024 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
June 22, 2024 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
June 22, 2024 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
June 22, 2024 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
June 22, 2024 4:11 am
John H.
John H.
June 22, 2024 4:40 am

Perhaps this will help me understand some aspects of behavior that for decades left me puzzled.

New Study Suggests Universal Laws Govern Brain Structure From Mice to Men (scitechdaily.com)

Rian
Rian
June 22, 2024 4:46 am

One of the best from JL ever

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
June 22, 2024 5:49 am

Leak is quite correct – but the culprits also include the media, the enviro-loons, certain rich funders of left politics, and the climate catastrophists (who aren’t really looking for a solution to the non-problem, they just want to collapse the west).

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
June 22, 2024 5:57 am

Leak – brilliant. Again.

Megan
Megan
June 22, 2024 7:05 am

Thanks to rosie warning Catravellers about the pickpockets and scammers she encountered on her travels, we picked up five fraudulent transactions in our credit card overnight totalling just over $1000.

They were still at the pending stage so the bank cancelled the card immediately which does make the process a little easier than trying to get the money back once these online bandits have it in their grubby little mitts.

Some kind of online betting group, greedy enough to go for broke and try to empty the entire account in a ten minute time period.

We’re one credit card down, surely we won’t get the second one scammed in our last week? *crosses everything including eyes*.

Anyhoo, Sicily has once again played a blinder and we leave in the morning after a wonderful dinner at a place in Catania recommended by Stanley Tucci in his TV special. The staff were amazing, the food authentic and I chose a random rosè that did not disappoint. Onwards to another smaller island to our southeast where the locals drive on the left and where normal street conversations do not sound like a physical punch up is imminent.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 22, 2024 7:07 am

John H, any views on ashwagandha ?

Due to travel and some irregular hours, I’ve found my sleeping patterns to be out of whack recently.
I plan to start taking it of an evening this week to see if it settles things down.
Interested in your thoughts if you have any.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 22, 2024 7:14 am

The Libs nuclear policy has some big problems with it.

The good news is that they are in opposition so can’t implement it like NDIS & NBN were without at least some scrutiny & revisions.
Better to have no policy than disastrous ones like the two above.

The bad news is that if the Libs ever get into power (my view is that a Labor Green coalition will “win” the next election) it will become another policy made for rent seekers.
Just like all parts of the energy stack in Oz.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 22, 2024 7:19 am

The good news is that while Australia plays with its own poop, other jurisdictions are still innovating.

The Gates backed experiment in Wyoming is worth keeping an eye on.

https://apnews.com/article/bill-gates-nuclear-terrapower-wyoming-climate-change-electricity-23176f33200b22b9ede7f4ccf4f2ec3b

Over the next decade there will be half a dozen real world examples of what can be achieved.
Australia can play catch up then when others have done the real value capture.

JC
JC
June 22, 2024 7:24 am

Bern

Ordinarily I’d agree with you, but the problem with nuclear, at least in this country is that private investors would have granite for brains if they ever invested in building a nuke reactor. The political risk would be insurmountable, at least for the time from construction to a decade or so of operation. The left will be making threats and concocting frightening stories every day of the week.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
June 22, 2024 7:28 am

Brutal.

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steveinman

Before non-essential commentary there was Ultimate Insect Championships. Here’s the OG train wreck..
https://rumble.com/v28ardw-before-non-essential-commentary-there-was-ultimate-insect-championships.-he.html?e9s=rel_v1_b

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
June 22, 2024 7:37 am

Bern what are the problems with Nuclear. You’ve made no mention what you consider they are. Anything that involves the CMFEU is a hazard. More hazardous than nuclear. They are not builders but destroyers. Hand in hand with the Liars, both are criminal organisations.

Rosie
Rosie
June 22, 2024 7:39 am

Maybe some astute young people, those thinking about university options, or further studies, should look at how they can get in at the ground floor of an Australian nuclear future. There must be institutions in the English speaking world that provide these opportunities.
I’ve just made the suggestion to an engineer in the family.

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mem
mem
June 22, 2024 7:41 am

If Laura Tingle’s article is the best the ABC left can muster in response to Dutton’s pro nuclear energy proposal, then the left are on a hiding to nowhere. The emotive three-eyed-fish scare campaign has backfired so badly that journos such as Tingle are scrambling to mount an argument without plunging back into emotional fish gibberish. In the end she gives up and settles for a “more questions than answers approach”. Poor Laura, it’s just so hard to face the facts when they don’t suit the lefty narrative. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-22/unanswered-questions-over-energy-policy-cost-of-living/104008928

Gabor
Gabor
June 22, 2024 7:42 am

BoN,
is there a scientific reason why birds, particularly crows should not under any circumstances be fed bread?

Apparently it kills them, if not instantly but soon enough, .my dad got into an argument and had no come-back to refute the claim.
He has a couple of friendly, cheeky ones, they take mince or bread readily.

I know crows are carnivorous mostly, but what’s in bread that is so deadly to animals?

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 22, 2024 7:46 am

at least for the time from construction to a decade or so of operation.

Bet you a GYG burrito that by 2030 that construction time is reduced to 2-3 years.
Or at least that’s the US & Chinese time frame.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 22, 2024 7:53 am

Broelman at 4:03 might like to find out where the French get their electricity ( and the Germans via interconnectors). The Dutch still like their windmills.

Roger
Roger
June 22, 2024 7:55 am

How China and its allies are winning the new cold war
Greg Sheridan The Australian June 22, 2024
The world is now split into two hostile, competing camps. One is led by the US and its allies, chief among them Australia, but also Britain, Japan, the NATO nations and the US’s other allies in Asia. The other is led by China with its most powerful allies, Russia, Iran and North Korea, and a string of lesser allies still capable of causing a lot of trouble – Venezuela, Cuba, Cambodia, Pakistan, Laos and others.
Three developments starkly illus­trate this new reality.
Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, for the first time in 24 years, visited North Korea. Kim Jong-un welcomed him with open arms, two dictators with a shared dream – weapons, survival, local enemies and a chance to smash the US and its allies.
Putin and Kim signed a pact promising each would come to the other’s military aid if it were attacked. This is a thickening of an already substantial alliance. The recent G7 summit condemned Beijing’s provision of materials to Russia that help it fight the war.
North Korea’s support for Moscow is more direct. North Korea is mostly a ramshackle state, but it’s very good at a few core military things. It sends millions of artillery shells to Russia in exchange for money and other military technology. Iran sends Russia tens of thousands of military drones. Russia makes enormous money selling its resources to China. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Russia couldn’t sustain war in Ukraine without Chinese help.
Military doves who want to limit defence spending often claim that this axis of authoritarians isn’t really made up of military allies. But they co-operate in military and security affairs in many ways more effectively than democracies typically do. They enjoy the dictator’s one advantage – single-mindedness.
The second development was Chinese Premier Li Qiang’s visit to Australia. Can any Chinese leader ever have made so fatuous a visit anywhere?
“Panda diplomacy” dominated, as though the Communist Party of China is nothing but a big, cuddly, cute bear, wanting only to dole out riches to Australia by lifting illeg­al trade sanctions it imposed contrary to its obligations under its free trade agreement with Australia, and under a sublimely absurd agreement that the two nations are “comprehensive strategic partners”.
Li was matched in gushing fatuousness by Anthony Albanese, who consistently displays stage fright whenever he finds himself in the simultaneous presence of senior Chinese and a TV camera.
But Li’s visit was bookended by two intrusions of reality. Before Li’s visit, Foreign Minister Penny Wong pointed out that Australia was in permanent strategic competition with Beijing in the South Pacific.
And as Li left, though conveniently after he had taken to the air, Australia joined the US, The Philippines and others in condemning Chinese aggression in Philippine waters, which Beijing claims for its own, that resulted in serious injury to one Filipino.
The visit aimed to recast China’s popular image, but reality kept interrupting.
The third instructive development was Peter Dutton proposing a nuclear power industry in Australia. In the context of the new cold war, this should be an obvious move. Nuclear power solves a long-term problem, producing permanently reliable near zero-emissions power. But it also transforms Australia, vastly strengthening our industrial potential and scientific capacity. Not just Australia but the democratic alliance would be strengthened by Australian nuclear energy.
However, the politics will probably prove insuperable. The Opposition Leader deserves credit for the commitment. But here’s the thing: the Coalition was in government for 10 years. There was overwhelming support for nuclear energy across the two governing parties. But, as with defence, nothing happened.
The Dutton initiative glumly fits the broader dynamics of the new cold war. Someone in each free society will propose effective policies, but overwhelmingly they won’t be adopted.
Australia is invited to participate in two fantasies. The first is that China and its allies, while disagreeable, won’t ultimately break the system. They are reasonable. We can negotiate an outcome. We must always de-escalate and establish good process, like Li’s visit to Australia.
The second, interlocking fantasy is that Australia and its allies, chiefly of course the US, are well prepared and would prevail in any conflict.
Both fantasies are entirely false. They lead to perhaps fatal complacency, not only in Australia but also in the US, Britain, France and in many of the allied democracies.
Just for a second, come on an excursion into ancient history. Ancient Rome was the most powerful imperial state the world had ever known. For centuries, its fall was unthinkable. Yet fall it did.
There had been other highly sophisticated states in the ancient world – the city-states of ancient Greece, the empire of Alexander the Great, the Persian Empire. Yet after a period of internal division, ineffective governance and military atrophy, Rome fell not to a civilisational peer but to the barbarians, who lacked Rome’s sophistication but had plenty of martial spirit.
The US and its allies, obviously, aren’t ancient Rome. And the strategic contest is not remotely decided. Each authoritarian regime faces serious internal troubles.
Xi Jinping’s reimposition of Stalinist ideology has slowed Chinese economic growth and cut off much of China from international thought and creativity. China is growing old before it grows rich. There’s every reason to think that Xi, like Putin, is not given frank and fearless advice and may therefore misjudge reality. There has been something approaching internal disarray in the Chinese government, with senior ministers peremptorily sacked, the majority of the leadership of the rocket force, which commands nuclear weapons, cashiered.
Russia has suffered enormous military and human loss because of the long campaign in Ukraine. Many of its most talented people have fled overseas. It’s a war economy now.
Iran’s government, as far as any outsider can tell, is despised by a large portion of its own population. North Korea is a ramshackle state in every way except militarily. It possesses nuclear weapons and has mastered missile technology.
There’s a pattern here. None of these states is pleasant for most folks to live in, especially if you have an unhealthy proclivity for thinking independently. But they all concentrate on one thing that they do pretty well: building the power to fight.
But there’s something more basic than that. All the authoritarians recognise they are in a conflict, a cold war, with Washington and its allies. They shape all aspects of national policy to serve this conflict. Whereas the public in most democracies – unless like Poland or eastern European states they physically border Russia – are only intermittently aware of this. Their national leaderships on the whole prefer a quieter life. So they will occasionally deliver a rousing speech, and many are willing rhetorically to denounce Russia regularly, but they don’t accept the systemic alliance-wide challenge. And they’re deeply reluctant to call out China.
The legendary US analyst Walter Russell Mead captured the contrast recently when he wrote that all the major authoritarian adversaries now look not to calm crises outside their own regions but to exacerbate them as a way of hurting the US.
Thus, Mead argues, Beijing once would have supported US efforts to protect shipping in the Red Sea and stop the attacks of the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen.
Not any more. Now, argues Mead: “China’s interest in hastening the decline of American power trumps its interest in Middle East stability.”
Similarly, he argues, even 15 years ago Moscow would have worked with Washington to prevent a nuclear breakout in Iran and a nuclear build-up in North Korea. Not now.
“What unites the revisionists,” Mead writes, “is their sense that America, overstretched and internally divided, is ready to be rolled.” So the revisionist authoritarian powers now work to make every regional crisis worse, so that troubles for the US and its allies just keep growing.
One day, they hope, the US or the international system it created will break and, in the entropy that follows, the revisionist authoritarians will each feast in its own region. Mead thinks Washington needs to relearn how to cause trouble for its adversaries. It will do that for Russia. But the Biden administration is chronically wedded to appeasement and detente with Iran, even as the mullahs race towards a nuclear weapon and sponsor conflict and terrorism all through the Middle East.
Matt Pottinger was one of the most impressive national security figures to cycle through the administration of Donald Trump. He resigned from the administration after the January 6 riots. Like Mead, he thinks the Biden administration must become much more aggressive in imposing costs on the authoritarian leaders, especially the Chinese.
He accuses the Biden administration of having a “silo policy”, treating each authoritarian separately without ever linking their actions. Because the administration doesn’t want to use the language of cold war, it pretends there is much less of a systemic struggle under way than really there is.
While the Biden administration started off strongly on China policy, it has now been seduced by a temporary thaw with the Chinese leadership at the declaratory level, while Beijing’s aggressive actions don’t change. Joe Biden has weakened policies in exchange for mere meetings.
Pottinger argues: “The Biden administration offers up managing competition as a goal, but that is not a goal; it is a method, and a counter-productive one at that.
“Washington is allowing the aim of its China policy to become process: meetings which should be instruments through which the United States advances its interests become core objectives in and of themselves.”
In dealing with authoritarian leaders, US President Joe Biden ‘has weakened policies in exchange for mere meetings’. Picture: AFP
This, by the way, is also a perfect description of Albanese government policy towards China, and its mania for “stabilisation” in the relationship. This approach virtually cedes total control to Beijing over whether the democratic nation, be it the superpower, the US, or the middle power, Australia, is “succeeding” in its foreign policy.
It also drains China policy of substance. Thus we have a new military communications agreement with Beijing that the Albanese government hails as a historic success. In the same week, Chinese forces attack Philippine vessels in the South China Sea. None of the incidents in which Beijing’s military has put the lives of Australian service personnel at risk came about because of bad communications. They were deliberate Chinese decisions following deliberate Chinese strategy.
Yet go back beyond strategy and there is a deeper failure, an antecedent failure, in capability.
Elbridge Colby, regarded, with Pottinger, as the other highly influential China thinker in the Trump administration, was a formative influence on the 2018 National Defence Strategy, which attempted to reorient US defence policy towards meeting the China threat. He is likely to be influential if there is another Trump administration and says honestly that no one knows what Xi will do. But, Colby says, Beijing is taking every step to equip itself to fight a major war against the US.
All the authoritarians have built, or are building, wartime economies. Almost all the democracies are half asleep. And it shows. Even now after years of Russian war in Ukraine, Iran closer than ever to nuclear weapons and Beijing massively increasing its nuclear and conventional militaries, embarking on relentless grey-zone attacks on adversaries in cyber, political interference, information warfare and much else, the democracies slumber.
The US Congressional Budget Office produces a swag of figures that show what a macro-mess the US government is. The US budget deficit is now $US2 trillion ($3 trillion), about 7 per cent of GDP. Yet the US economy is allegedly booming, with low unemployment. Next year the CBO thinks interest payments will hit $US1 trillion, more than the defence budget.
The US is hardly alone. France confronts its parliamentary election with a budget deficit of 5.5 per cent of GDP and national debt at 110 per cent of GDP. Britain has national debt of more than 100 per cent of GDP, Japan 250 per cent.
US defence spending is static. The Biden administration’s priorities are at times unfathomable. Biden, like Trump, appointed a land warfare army general as defence secretary, whereas the China military challenge is maritime, missiles, satellites and drones.
The US spends about 3 per cent of GDP on defence. This is manifestly inadequate and way down compared with Cold War spending. Some analysts believe the US could be central to three simultaneous crises – Europe, Middle East, Asia. That would be a way for its opponents to overwhelm it. US allies would be capable of offering only limited support.
All Western governments are caught with ageing populations, growing health costs and an insatiable appetite for transfer payments. The Biden administration’s proposed defence budget bizarrely requested a cut in the production rate of nuclear-powered Virginia-class submarines from two a year to one. Yet nuclear subs are an area of decisive US advantage.
Congress acted against that cut. The US Senate has just authorised another $US25bn for defence. But America can’t win a cold war on the basis that a Republican congress will fix the anaemic military spending of a Democrat president.
Democracies are in disarray. The Albanese government, after two years in office, spends a pitiful 2.03 per cent of GDP on defence, no increase at all. Yet it’s already spending money on far distant AUKUS subs and almost equally far distant Hunter frigates. To accommodate that spending it has cannibalised or destroyed other critical defence capabilities.
Australia is now a less capable defence power than when the Albanese government took office, and nothing will even begin to reverse that for at least the next six or seven years.
Britain, after 14 years of conservative government, spends a substantially smaller proportion of its GDP – 2.28 per cent – on defence than it did in 2010 – 2.48 per cent – when David Cameron came to office, in vastly more benign strategic circumstances. It now has its smallest army since Napoleonic times, while other government spending has run wildly out of control. It’s about to elect a Labour government by a massive landslide, with a party far to the left of its leadership, which will recognise a Palestinian state and enthusiastically embrace every bit of UN international-speak and woke weirdness going.
More NATO allies now spend the minimum 2 per cent of GDP on defence. But no serious democracy, in today’s strategic environment, could think 2 per cent remotely adequate. Most US allies, including Australia, freeload off Washington, and the US is getting sick of this.
If there’s a contest where one side knows exactly what it’s doing, and the other side is distracted and doesn’t really want to compete, it’s not that hard to predict the winner. Democracies must reverse that deadly dynamic.

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feelthebern
feelthebern
June 22, 2024 8:04 am

The Zambrero quesadilla with the beef and their secret sauce is a tasty meal.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 22, 2024 8:10 am

I see Leak has Albo holding a sign with a tardigrade on it.

I would grade Albo as a tard.

132andBush
132andBush
June 22, 2024 8:11 am

I reckon the military wannabees are victims of their own small deception which turns into something they can’t escape.

True first order thinkers.

MatrixTransform
June 22, 2024 8:11 am

Apparently it kills them, if not instantly but soon enough

?
an old wives tale, Gabor

In naarm (Melbourne), the crows are very clever and have learned drop food on the road between traffic-light changes.

There’s almost always lookout-crows checking for danger and you can hear them sometimes when a Tesla is coming

they say, “Caar…Caar” and the other birds get off the road straight away

truth is, its burritos … burritos will kill a crow

completely unaware of the danger to themselves
a crow will get that discarded burrito out of the bin
take off the tin foil
pick out the coriander
then boom

ex-crow just like that

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
June 22, 2024 8:13 am

MT:

Catering to the discerning slop-eater appears to be a winning strategy.

Unfortunately, the rest of them have gone via the mass lowest common denominator, which is where the market seems to be, and when the market tighten, the accountants will push the kitchen in that direction.
It all depends who is dominant in the organisation – the cooks or the accountants.
Boeing is the industry example of what happens when the accountants dominate the company, not the engineers.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 22, 2024 8:17 am

With reference to the mattress discussion.
Back in 2022 when my dear old dog was on the way out, the mattress took some incontinence hits.
The day she died I bought a Koala mattress (delivered 24 hours later) as a stop gap for just under a grand delivered.
More importantly they took away the old, soiled one for free.
Two plus years later this Koala mattress is still going fine.

Not sure if they still do that 24 hour delivery, but it’s a great sales tactic.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
June 22, 2024 8:18 am

Their ABC explains:

Polar outbreak and snow ahead this week with Sydney and Melbourne on track for coldest start to winter in decades

Parts of south-east Australia have recorded their coldest start to winter in decades, and another polar air mass will arrive during the coming week, promising to bring strong winds, showers, small hail and alpine snow.

And this cold air mass is about to bring freezing conditions through most of southern and central Australia.

In the meantime, a cold and showery weekend is already underway across southern Western Australia and the New South Wales coast, while frost has returned to the south-east inland after an icy week that brought subzero temperatures as far north as central Queensland.

So, the Big Question:
Was the BOM’s warm winter prediction wrong?

The short answer is no, because for most of Australia it hasn’t been particularly cold, however, unfortunately for BOM, the one region where temperatures have been consistently cold just happens to include most of NSW and Victoria, our most highly populated states.

The perception of a cold start to winter is also perhaps the result of a handful of extremely cold days and nights during the past week, along with the recent trend of very warm winters.

Trust the models. Believe the models.

Don’t believe your lyin’ thermometer…

Rosie
Rosie
June 22, 2024 8:24 am

I remember when everyone had woolen dressing gowns and slippers for frosty mornings and had long coats, hats and scarves for outside

Though to be fair not many had gas ducted heating at home to keep them warm in the 60s and 70s.

We’ll be that way again soon.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 22, 2024 8:28 am

If Laura Tingle’s article is the best the ABC left can muster in response to Dutton’s pro nuclear energy proposal, then the left are on a hiding to nowhere.

It is the hallmark of ABC j’ism that there is no facility to comment back.

They are aware in the same way someone in a horror movie becomes aware of some evil entity in a shadow and tries to avoid eye-contact and instead nonchalantly walk away hoping that will not provoke it. The information that would be in a comments section would be that evil, fatal creature.

Does this really work?

Only in the movies.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 22, 2024 8:28 am

The inmates have taken over the insane asylum:

Robert Winnett Won’t Join Washington Post as Editor (Newsmax, 21 Jun)

Winnett is from the UK Telegraph and Bezos was bringing him in to right the ship and stem the huge losses – about $77 million last year alone.

The woke kiddie journos then started screeching at the idea of a smelly righty in their holy temple. Now it looks like they’ve won.

Bezos better sell out while he still can.

John Nolte had an amusing article on the mess earlier this week:

Nolte: NYT, WaPo Team Up to Destroy Incoming WaPo Editor (17 Jun)

Diogenes
Diogenes
June 22, 2024 8:34 am

Feeding birds bread is not recommended because;

Bread lacks essential nutrients that birds need for proper growth, energy, and overall health.

It can lead to malnutrition due to its low protein and vitamin content.

Moldy bread can infect or kill birds.

Relying on bread as their main food source can weaken their immune system and make them more susceptible to diseases.

Bread swells in their stomach, making them feel full without providing necessary nutrients

https://utopia.org/guide/why-bread-is-bad-for-birds-and-better-foods-to-feed-them/

eric hinton
eric hinton
June 22, 2024 8:35 am

John H.

June 22, 2024 4:40 am

Perhaps this will help me understand some aspects of behavior that for decades left me puzzled.

I thought Per Bak might crack a mention in the bibliography, but no.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2024 8:35 am

If you want some short sharp factoids on noocular power, I have started following the US Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy on the Soshuls.

Rosie
Rosie
June 22, 2024 8:35 am

The downside of buying a mattress online is not getting to test it out first. Sure they have 100 day return policy, but if you don’t feel comfortable about doing that you are stuck with it.
Family member has a Sleeping Duck that is way too firm for them and has put up with uncomfortable nights for far too long.
After I paid for my recent purchase the salesman said typically people buy a firm ‘mattress in a box’, send it back for a medium mattress in a box, send that back and go to a store.
Having said that one of my airbnb’s (Marseilles)had an ‘Emma’ brand which was fantastic.
Much better than the solid horsehair in Turin which was like sleeping on a flat rock.

Rosie
Rosie
June 22, 2024 8:41 am
Indolent
Indolent
June 22, 2024 8:48 am

I wish someone would launch Bill Gates!

Bill Gates Launches ‘Maggot Milk’ to Feed General Public

132andBush
132andBush
June 22, 2024 8:52 am

The short answer is no, because for most of Australia it hasn’t been particularly cold, however, unfortunately for BOM, the one region where temperatures have been consistently cold just happens to include most of NSW and Victoria, our most highly populated states.

Note the clever use of language. They use “hasn’t been particularly cold” when they could have used “average”. And what thought immediately pops in your head? “Oh it’s been a bit warm for winter”

When in fact it’s been average, aka “cold”.

Things are about to get “particularly cold”.

These people disgust me.

Roger
Roger
June 22, 2024 8:54 am

We’ll be that way again soon.

Possibly sooner than you expect in Victoria.

Indolent
Indolent
June 22, 2024 8:55 am

@MakisMD

BREAKING NEWS: Our LANCET CENSORED Paper is now peer reviewed and available online!

“A Systematic REVIEW of Autopsy findings in deaths after COVID-19 vaccination”

“325 autopsy cases”

“We found that 73.9% of deaths were directly due to or significantly contributed to by COVID-19 vaccination.”

Our data suggest a high likelihood of a causal link between COVID-19 vaccination and death.

This is a victory of SCIENCE over CENSORSHIP!!

Incredible perseverence by first author Nicolas Hulscher who didn’t give up after LANCET pulled our paper within 24 hours after 100,000s of downloads for no legitimate reason.

Big pharma put the squeeze on @TheLancet but has failed to stop us.

Our paper was delayed by one year, and those actions of CENSORSHIP and CANCELLATION led to many deaths that could have been prevented.

This paper could be a game changer.

Thank you to my co-authors @P_McCulloughMD @DrTrozzi @DrAmerling @HGessling, @DrHarveyRisch, Dr.Alexander, Dr.Hodkinson

Muddy
Muddy
June 22, 2024 8:56 am

In Afghanistan and Iraq, we used military force to achieve political and diplomatic aims, while Israel is using military force to achieve military aims. What a shockingly sensible notion.

From What America Can Learn From Israel on the Battlefield. The above-linked piece is ten days old, but I found it interesting in several respects, not the least of which is a better understanding of Israel’s tactical pattern in Gaza. Also that it is a premature use of energy and effort to be planning ‘the day after’ instead of knowing what ‘today’ looks like.

H/T to KevinM, whose initial link to the cartels in California took me to the piece above.

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Indolent
Indolent
June 22, 2024 8:58 am
Roger
Roger
June 22, 2024 8:59 am

the entire stock-market is now comprised of Tesla, Nvidia and Guzman y Gomez

My daughter took me to GyG once.

The burrito was mostly rice and beans.

That’s probably quite authentic, but in Western fast food terms it’s a triumph of marketing over substance, a McDonalds for hipsters.

Indolent
Indolent
June 22, 2024 9:02 am
Indolent
Indolent
June 22, 2024 9:04 am
Boambee John
Boambee John
June 22, 2024 9:04 am

mUntyfa babbles on about no company wanting to build nuclear power stations, while ignoring the vast structure of sovereign risk constructed by the left in recent decades.

Time to turn the sovereign risk structure around. Sue companies levelling vast areas for solar and wind farms and transmission lines under the same environmental laws they have put in place. Sue “activists” under the race discrimination laws they use.

Equal application of the law, leftards will never stop until their laws burn them.

Roger
Roger
June 22, 2024 9:04 am

The short answer is no, because for most of Australia it hasn’t been particularly cold…

Colder than average in these parts, despite the BOM’s best efforts to convince us otherwise by consistently overestimating the temps in their forecasts.

Gabor
Gabor
June 22, 2024 9:10 am

mem
June 22, 2024 8:42 am

My guess is the gluten. Birds with crops can eat bread containing gluten because they pre-digest it in their crops before it goes into their digestive system.

I don’t know, but chooks are birds with crops and we have a chap who picks up left over bread to feed his free range birds with stale bread and they are striving.
So are the two cheeky crows my dad feeds.

Look I just don’t know, there are definitely carnivorous birds like eagles and hawks and others but they wouldn’t be approaching humans so we can’t tell.

Titus Groates
Titus Groates
June 22, 2024 9:11 am

along with the recent trend of very warm winters.

What trend? I would admit winter last year was reasonably mild. But the five winters preceding were freezing in Sydney. And this winter is bitterly cold.

Rosie
Rosie
June 22, 2024 9:13 am

Maggot milk seems to be some South African mob called Gourmet Grubb which makes icecream.
Don’t know what the company has to do with Bill Gates who apparently also engineered the baby milk shortage in the US a few years ago to sell his soy baby milk products.
I like his nukes so he can hang around as long as he likes.

Indolent
Indolent
June 22, 2024 9:14 am

@seanmdav

In 6-3 decision issued today, the Supreme Court ruled that 1) a jury must be unanimous in its findings on criminal convictions, and 2) sentencing enhancements cannot be arbitrarily implemented by judicial fiat.

The ruling and the rhetoric in the opinion have obvious implications for both the illegal Bragg witch trial against Trump in New York City and the bogus J6 1512(c) charges and sentencing enhancements that corrupt federal judges have announced they will implement if the Supreme Court nukes 1512(c).

Indolent
Indolent
June 22, 2024 9:16 am
Indolent
Indolent
June 22, 2024 9:19 am
Bourne1879
Bourne1879
June 22, 2024 9:19 am

The false claims by chief constable of Northamptonshire Police posted at start of thread one of the weirdest such cases heard of. If you have reached Chief Constable you have done pretty well in your career. Why feel the need to make up a senior Navy officer back story which is easy to check ?

Rosie
Rosie
June 22, 2024 9:20 am

The fake famine narrative.
Interesting that the US is so despised and food so plentiful that people were tiktokking themselves binning airdropped US food aid.
https://x.com/israel_advocacy/status/1804080687516889576?t=wLwEPgJwtg7dRVvdUJBqPA&s=19

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2024 9:21 am

Rosie
 June 22, 2024 8:41 am

This one Sancho?

https://x.com/GovNuclear?t=5gwXDAL_3jJQ0ajJX4VgiA&s=09

Looks like it, yes.
Their Facebook page has lots of succinct little snippets about noocular power which will be very helpful when it comes to letting the air out of renewballs pontificators.

Rosie
Rosie
June 22, 2024 9:23 am

Why countries should avoid taking Palestinian ‘refugees’
https://x.com/afalkhatib/status/1804023477030293905?t=ZjGDnsrggxrClTzCD4lRtQ&s=19

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
June 22, 2024 9:26 am

Feelthebern:

The good news is that they are in opposition so can’t implement it like NDIS & NBN were without at least some scrutiny & revisions.

Better to have no policy than disastrous ones like the two above.

You’re forgetting that the NDIS and the NBN were purely ideological projects.
The aim of the NDIS wasn’t to assist the poor and maimed, and the NBN wasn’t about communication. Both were designed to aid the grifters who flocked to them like flies to fresh shit, and to provide Fabian money pits to pour the wealth of generations into for no net benefit to the community at large.
Once we wake up to what Labor is doing, they’d only get 5% of the total vote. Until then, be prepared to pay crippling taxes for services that the market could provide at minimal cost.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
June 22, 2024 9:27 am

From everything I have read Farage is right. The US kept pushing since 2014. Daily Mail article.
Nigel Farage faces fury as he claims the West ‘provoked’ Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

But not to worry as it is the Ukrainians who are paying the price with their blood.

Not a fan of Putin or Zelensky.

Chris
Chris
June 22, 2024 9:42 am

Crushed and disappointed that bread doesn’t kill crows.
Shooting them has disappointing results, at least in the city.
May have to try Lucijet or 240VAC.

Roger
Roger
June 22, 2024 9:47 am

You’re forgetting that the NDIS and the NBN were purely ideological projects.

The principal goal of any political policy is to get the politician announcing it elected or re-elected.

Its impact in the real world is an afterthought and if any of it is positive it’s likely accidental.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
June 22, 2024 9:59 am

Rosie
 June 22, 2024 7:39 am

Maybe some astute young people, those thinking about university options, or further studies, should look at how they can get in at the ground floor of an Australian nuclear future. There must be institutions in the English speaking world that provide these opportunities.

I’ve just made the suggestion to an engineer in the family.

It’s a bit of a gamble, rosie, but only if you want to live in Australia.
A nuclear engineer is employable in most major nations.
In Australia – and I’ve mentioned this multiple times – we have a reputation for ideological interference in engineering decisions.

Sovereign Risk is a real factor in investing in Australia and the Union Blackmail practice of inviting in foreign companies then when the mine or factory is making money, the wage and working conditions blackmail commences + the perks of keeping the Unions on side.
And if you don’t believe me, ask yourself where the iron and steel foundries and motor vehicle industries have gone, and where the aluminium industry is going.

Hugh
Hugh
June 22, 2024 10:12 am

Thanks to Roger and Cohenite for their recommendations of Don Quixote and Wuthering Heights, respectively. Both works are solidly within the storytelling style I like. I thought the main story of Don Quixote was a bit silly and some of the discourses between the protagonist and his squire were slightly tedious, but the inset stories and the tasteful classical references were very good. I found Wuthering Heights somewhat girly but overall excellent.

MatrixTransform
June 22, 2024 10:14 am

designed to aid the grifters

as is the energy ‘market’

LCOE is a rubbish metric that is designed to hide the truth which, is that coal energy is cheap and that nuclear is cheaper

the reason the grifters dont want nuclear is because it will collapse the price per MWh across the board

read somewhere the other day that a new nuclear plant came online in Finland and it instantly slashed the wholesale $

here is a similar article

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
June 22, 2024 10:33 am

Found this just before it scrolled off their front page.
From https://www.skynews.com.au/business/energy/shadow-energy-minister-ted-obrien-admits-coalition-needs-to-build-more-renewables-infrastructure-amid-nuclear-announcement/news-story/4180e156afb0d09f498306982f82411d

The Coalition will continue investing in large-scale renewables alongside its nuclear approach as it looks to hit net-zero emissions by 2050, shadow energy minister Ted O’Brien has said.

Nuclear was supposed to be a mutually exclusive alternative to renewables to avoid their costs and unreliability!

“We need more renewables, more gas and as coal exits the system, we’re going to have to introduce zero emissions nuclear energy,” Mr O’Brien said.

Pressed on if the Coalition would need to construct more large-scale renewables, the shadow minister confirmed the nuclear-bound party would.

“We will absolutely still need to be building some of the industrial scale renewables,” he said.

“We’ll also be needing more rooftop solar, but there’s no doubt, when it comes to the industrial scale renewables, one of the benefits of having zero emissions nuclear in the mix is you need far fewer of them.

Which political party will eliminate coal power, support rooftop solar, and spend billions of dollars on large scale renewables? If you guessed The Uniparty you’re correct. The agenda is the same no matter who you vote for.

Coalition have lost the plot. (Or if you really want to be conspiratorial, they’re part of it.)

MatrixTransform
June 22, 2024 10:41 am

Energy prices receded after turbulent times

hmmm … May 2023 something happened …a nuclear incident in Finland maybe?

Indolent
Indolent
June 22, 2024 10:43 am

This has been discussed here at various times.
Do Viruses Exist?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 22, 2024 10:44 am

From everything I have read Farage is right. 

This one amused me.

Nigel Farage forced to set record straight on calling King Charles a ‘stupid, eco-loony’ (21 Jun)

Nigel Farage has been forced to set the record straight after previously referring to King Charles as a “stupid, eco-loony”.

The leader of Reform UK wriggled as he is challenged over his comments during an interview for BBC Panorama, which has aired today.

The BBC obviously thought Farage correctly describing Charles as a “stupid eco-loony” was a marvelous gotcha. Typical echo chamber stuff since pretty much anyone on the right (other than Turnbullites, who anyway aren’t righties) would totally agree that Charles is, in fact, a stupid eco-loony.

Miltonf
Miltonf
June 22, 2024 10:54 am

The Queen was an inspiring lady with class. The King is a waste of space. I, like many here in Oz I suspect, only tolerate him because the so called republicans are really odious elitists (even more so than the current crop of Windsors).

vr
vr
June 22, 2024 10:58 am

Sovereign Risk is a real factor in investing in Australia and the Union Blackmail practice of inviting in foreign companies then when the mine or factory is making money, the wage and working conditions blackmail commences + the perks of keeping the Unions on side. And if you don’t believe me, ask yourself where the iron and steel foundries and motor vehicle industries have gone, and where the aluminium industry is going.

This is a good point. The hiking of royalties by state governments is another example. It is hard to quantify sovereign risk — usually use sovereign ratings or credit spreads (yield difference between Australian and US treasury bonds). There is no time-varying measure. Some have tried to use earnings conference calls and the like but they don’t work as well.

JC
JC
June 22, 2024 11:00 am

That is a substantial problem and not sensible if true.

The US lost those wars because they pulled out? The US military easily overthrew both governments, if you can call them that, and was unsuccessful in turning them towards peaceful democratic rule. Nation-building was a failure because they’re barbaric, uncivilized turds happy to live under tyranny. The Americans should have realized from the beginning they weren’t dealing with Germans or Japanese.
 

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m0nty
m0nty
June 22, 2024 11:18 am

The Coalition will continue investing in large-scale renewables alongside its nuclear approach as it looks to hit net-zero emissions by 2050, shadow energy minister Ted O’Brien has said.

I see your problem there Berka: Ted O’Brien. What a galoot that man is. He makes Bowen look like Keating.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
June 22, 2024 11:18 am

Via https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/australian-media-bosses-come-together-at-joint-select-committee-to-demand-govt-take-action-against-social-media-giants/news-story/0a3099a2100624ce9e36aea2efe1e617

[News Corp Australia Executive Chairman Michael Miller] said social media has become a “toxic force in our society – with online scams and blackmail, cyberbullying, and trolling, deepfakes and political interference”.

“It is also serving up a diet of damaging untruths, while threatening the democratic process by restricting Australians’ access to genuine news and information,” he said.

What track record do the legacy media companies have on the topics of climate, covid, and nuclear power? They can carry messages of any sort just like social media.

The present government appears comfortable using new social media to run a fear campaign about nuclear power just this week with more on the way.
Everybody is in a scramble to be your Adern-style “single source of truth”.

cohenite
June 22, 2024 11:19 am

Why the West is stuffed:

In 2020 President Trump won more votes than any sitting president in US history.
Trump increased his vote totals by 12 million votes in 2020 over his initial win in 2016.
Biden won the fewest number of counties in the 2020 election by any alleged “winner” in history – winning only 16% of all US counties.
In this same election, President Trump improved in EVERY major category.

** President Trump won more Hispanic votes.

** President Trump won more female votes.

** Trump won more black votes.

** President Trump won more gay votes.

** President Trump won more immigrant votes.

But somehow, Democrat Joe Biden, who did not campaign and could barely string together two coherent sentences, supposedly won 81 million votes!?!
We know Democrats used several means to score illegal votes in several states in the 2020 election.
We witnessed them counting ballots behind closed doors, bringing in endless piles of surprise ballots days after the election, locking Republicans out of the counting rooms, pulling boxes of ballots out from under tables when all the observers were sent home, driving in vanloads of ballots in the early hours of the morning after Joe Biden fell far behind, stuffing stacks of ballots into unsupervised ballot drop boxes.

Dirty FOX News Polling Is at It Again – Shamelessly Setting the Table for Another Potential Joe Biden Steal | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

This time around they have the same tricks plus some extra ones:

Imposing a Permanent Gag Order on Trump | Frontpage Mag

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 22, 2024 11:22 am

BlackRock’s CEO goes off the reservation.

Larry Fink at WEF destroys net zero due to AI power demands: ‘The world is going to be short power. And to power these data companies you cannot have just this intermittent power like wind & solar. You need dispatchable power’ (21 Jun)

That’s fun since the Fink has been in the forefront of all sorts of ESG arm-twisting of the corporations they invest in.

It’s interesting with the rapid rise of the AI bubble that we’re seeing the elites at last recognizing that renewables don’t work. They certainly don’t work for data centres which need always-on electricity. So perhaps this new lefty AI fad will turn out to be the death of the climate scam. That’d be wonderfully ironic.

m0nty
m0nty
June 22, 2024 11:27 am
Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 22, 2024 11:30 am

Nice opinion from the stands Monty.
I’ve had meetings with Bowen and O’Brien.
O’Brien is a retail politician, Bowen is a deluded egotist.

Rosie
Rosie
June 22, 2024 11:31 am

“That is a substantial problem and not sensible if true”.
No, because the reality is the enemy is islam of which hamas is just another manifestation of jihadism.
You can’t ‘fight’ islam you can only destroy its military if a foreign country or if they are citizens in your own country impose strict conditions on mosques imans etc.
I was reading something yesterday that Tajikistan is pushing back against islam, banning hijabs, the celebration of Eid, forbidding children being given islamic names etc.
Gazans are muslims, the majority support hamas and their pleas to the international community are mostly for the sake of ‘the river to the sea’.

Rosie
Rosie
June 22, 2024 11:34 am

I don’t see how you can argue every time a hamas leader is killed another will take his place without agreeing that what we see is jihadism, pure and simple.
They go to mosque every Friday to get the gee up.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 22, 2024 11:50 am

Angelina

10 hours ago
Israel invaded Egypt first 50 years ago, the war started by Israel then.

The depths of ignorance, from the comments on the Oz website.

MatrixTransform
June 22, 2024 12:18 pm

pro nuclear ??

pro_nuclear
cohenite
June 22, 2024 12:19 pm

Don’t worry, Rasmussen came out today with a Trump +9 poll to even out the averages, LOL.

The polls were just part of the larger problem which is out and out cheating, media bullshit and lawfare against Trump.

Now go and look after the milko’s kiddies.

Makka
Makka
June 22, 2024 12:19 pm

Why so surprised? The US can’t even protect it’s borders. Too busy with Pride to protect;

Map shows Chinese-owned farmland next to 19 US military bases in ‘alarming’ threat to national security: experts

https://nypost.com/2024/06/20/us-news/chinese-owned-farmland-next-to-19-us-military-bases/

Makka
Makka
June 22, 2024 12:25 pm

Sorry, but I haven’t found the counterjihad narrative convincing for a few years now

Then try on the counter-Islam narrative instead. That’s chock full of stabby raping murdering ideologues for live examples, ruining everything we value. For centuries.

It appears Israel has had a gutsful of these Iranian proxies- it’s now come to Jesus time for them. About time.

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Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 22, 2024 12:31 pm

I love watching social evolution in action. Getting humans to do things makes herding cats look easy.

Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” (21 Jun, via Instapundit)

Workers stayed remote even when told they could no longer be promoted. …

Business Insider claims it has seen internal Dell tracking data that reveals nearly 50 percent of the workforce opted to accept the consequences of staying remote, undermining Dell’s plan to restore its in-office culture.

Probably undermining DEI companies like Dell is the obvious conclusion that every normal white male employee in the company will have come to. They will never be promoted anyway, since they are not black, female or qwerty. So why bother chasing promotion? Much easier to do the work from home in trackies and ugg boots and give management a middle finger.

vr
vr
June 22, 2024 12:32 pm

Why is ABC Radio spending money on advertising on social media?

Black Ball
Black Ball
June 22, 2024 12:38 pm

Speaking of the NDIS, Hun,

From lingerie retail empires and chicken burger franchises to selling wheelchairs, mobility scooters and providing disability carers for those on the NDIS. This is where the smart money is, according to billionaires and millionaires looking for their next payday.

Private equity companies from Australia, the US and Europe are spending hundreds of millions of dollars buying up NDIS providers and services.

Many are currently operating at a loss as they are fattened up in preparation for sale.

But the $42 billion a year scheme which supports 650,000 Aussies can be very lucrative, with one public fund that also invests in the NDIS reporting more than 12 per cent in gains over the past 12 months.

The flood of cash into the NDIS has raised concerns among experts and workers that money supposed to pay for the care of some of Australia’s most vulnerable will instead end up in the pockets of already wealthy investors.

Among those chasing the NDIS boom is Brett Blundy, the billionaire Aussie retailer, who was behind multiple successful enterprises such as Sanity, a CD and DVD chain, and Bras N Things, which he sold for around $500m in 2018, lingerie group Honey Birdette and jeweller Lovisa.

He has lived in multiple countries including a four-level penthouse in Singapore’s Sengkang Square, with a rooftop infinity pool and a private gated home in the Bahamas, and now gives his address as a penthouse in a fashionable quarter of Monte Carlo in Monaco.

His 74m megayacht Cloud 9, which has been listed for sale, is worth an estimated $250m. It’s not known whether it has sold.

Mr Blundy is a shareholder in NDIS provider Independent Living Specialists, which sells disability aids including a $170 shower stool, alongside US private equity fund Riverside Company, which has more than $20bn in investments.

Fund documents show that other investors in ILS include Queensland state fund QIC and South Australian public sector super funds, as well as a host of rich Americans and other private equity groups.

Another wealthy investor in the sector is the multi-millionaire former chief executive of popular chicken burger franchise Oporto, Craig Tozer. He is now with Liverpool Partners, a Sydney-based private equity firm run by banker Jonathan Lim and former Seven Group executive Brad Lancken.

Liverpool and other private equity funds own health, aged care and disability service provider Zenitas.

Company documents show that other shareholders in Zenitas include two other private equity firms, Australia’s Adamantem and Swiss group Unigestion.

United Workers Union President Jo Schofield, said the NDIS should be solely serving the needs of participants, not the interests of billionaires looking for a pay-off.

“It’s also galling for workers that they are being stretched to their limits to provide support – understaffed, facing difficult environments – and yet some businesses seem to try to use the NDIS as an ATM,” Ms Schofield said.

She added that prices under the NDIS should be the same as main street pricing, and many of its concerns could be addressed by a mandatory registration scheme so that all providers are accountable and transparent.

Jason Ward, principal analyst at the Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research, said the NDIS was “not supposed to be a welfare program for wealthy investors but intended to provide much needed services to the community”.

“The extractive private equity model has left a trail of disaster around the world when it comes to public spending on social services,” Mr Ward said.

Associate Professor of Public Governance at the University of Melbourne, Helen Dickinson, said it was not surprising to see private equity investing in the NDIS because it was a privatised market by the government’s design.

“If private investors take the time to understand what’s important to people then who are we to say they are less entitled to turn a profit, like all organisations are allowed to do,” Assoc Prof Dickinson said.

Brett Blundy’s company BBRC and Liverpool Partners didn’t respond to requests for comment and Riverside Company declined to comment.

I’m sure Tits Shorten is onto it, post haste.

Makka
Makka
June 22, 2024 12:40 pm

db,
The proxies, jihadists etc are all toxic anti- western Jew and Christian hating moslem psychos. Hell bent on conquest to impose their tyranny The only sensible western response to that is to keep them all out and reduce their numbers within. Europe is waking up to this only now.

You meanwhile can carry on splitting hairs among the myriad factions of these scum , on the useless mission to find the not so bad turds within the God-awful sewer of Islam.

Crossie
Crossie
June 22, 2024 12:46 pm

Was the BOM’s warm winter prediction wrong?

The short answer is no, because for most of Australia it hasn’t been particularly cold, however, unfortunately for BOM, the one region where temperatures have been consistently cold just happens to include most of NSW and Victoria, our most highly populated states.

I don’t remember BOM making regional prediction, they used a blanket statement. The other thing is, why would you not make a separate forecast for heavily populated areas when that is where the effect will be heaviest?

I have had the same thermometer on my verandah for over 40 years so when it shows either higher or lower temperatures than those forecast or reported I trust my thermometer. Last time it was so cold was in the late 70s which tracked with low sunspot activity during those years. I expect the same is true now yet this is hidden from us.

Cassie of Sydney
June 22, 2024 12:47 pm

Andy Ngo has uploaded this today, a very telling insight into Dublin in June 2024, the ‘migrants’ and the sinister Western NGO grifters who encourage these migrants.

All young males (no women or children to be seen) from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh, All Muslim. This is a catastrophe for Europe. And one of the so called migrants tells the American born (son of Vietnamese parents who were true refugees) Andy Ngo to ‘go back to China….oh yes, Islam and racism…..LOL….racism is inherent in Islam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CYvkazDkyU

Ireland 2024

By the way, in France this week a twelve year old Jewish girl was raped by adherents of the religion of pieces. But of course you won’t read about that in the SMH, the Age or The Malchurian Guardian. Rape is also an inherent tenet of Islam.

Oh come on
Oh come on
June 22, 2024 12:51 pm

Why going cashless has turned Sweden from one of the safest countries into a high-crime nation

Riiiiiight. It was going cashless that turned Sweden from a safe country into a high crime nation. Yeah, that’s what it was. Nothing else changed in Swedish society over the last, oh I don’t know, 20 years or so, did it.

Look, if people believe that going cashless will result in higher crime and oppose it on that basis, I’m fine with that fiction if it works. However, I’d rather make the case against cashless on an accurate basis. A cashless economy means the state can far more effortlessly disable its troublesome subjects. That is the danger.

Zippster
Zippster
June 22, 2024 12:51 pm
Oh come on
Oh come on
June 22, 2024 12:55 pm

Seems like every second Australian Boomer is currently holidaying in Europe. Both of my oldies are. Half of the board here is.

Rabz
June 22, 2024 12:55 pm

Excellent Leak today. A pair of nookular fuelled knuckleheads dialling the hysteria up to eleventy.

Just on the whole nookular debate, I consider it unnecessary. We have enough coal to last hundreds of years and the simplest option would be to completely refurbish existing coal fired stations and build some new ones toot sweet (not to mention ripping all ruinables out of the grid and ceasing any new ruinable carpetbagger money pits).

Carbon emissions are a furphy, as gerbil worming is utter bullsh*t. Dr Mutton is starting from a false premise. As for building for the bloody things (nookular reactors), do you want the CFMEU involved in their construction? It would take forever and they’d inevitably be sabotaged (unless drop in SMRs do actually become viable).

Someone somewhere in politics needs to come out and say it. This country needs cheap reliable energy sources, or its goodbye living standards, goodbye jerbs, goodbye exports and hello existing on your knees in a third world shithole at the mercy of preposterous tyrants.

I cannot articulate in mere words how furious I am about this deliberate destruction of this country by some of the most useless incompetent evil and corrupt imbeciles to have existed in human history.

Absolutely bloody disgraceful.

Rabz
June 22, 2024 12:58 pm

A cashless economy means the state can far more effortlessly disable its troublesome subjects. That is the danger

As recently demonstrated by that vile loathsome fop Turdeaux.

Min
Min
June 22, 2024 1:01 pm

Friend just back from Italy had case stolen with computer inside plus medications retired surgeon not important picked up drugs in chemist without prescription He had Find my app so case traced to an address however apartment block as no number of apartment police una Le to knock on all doors Ge was able to wipe everything off it and register it as stolen

Oh come on
Oh come on
June 22, 2024 1:01 pm

Nigel Farage has been forced to set the record straight after previously referring to King Charles as a “stupid, eco-loony”.

They made him say it again? Seems a bit discourteous now the stupid eco-loony is the sovereign.

Oh come on
Oh come on
June 22, 2024 1:06 pm

At my daughter’s school, an email was sent out to all of the families informing us that an Apple AirTag had been dropped off at Lost and Found.

Whoever owns that evidently doesn’t understand the concept.

JC
JC
June 22, 2024 1:13 pm

A cashless economy means the state can far more effortlessly disable its troublesome subjects. That is the danger

People are opting for card use and that’s their choice. I think only about 13% of transaction sare in cash these days. Perhaps COVID lockdowns hastened this.

I think the only way people can be protected from de-banking attempts is to introduce watertight legislation outlawing banks from ever de-banking someone.

JC
JC
June 22, 2024 1:17 pm

Oh come on

June 22, 2024 12:55 pm

Seems like every second Australian Boomer is currently holidaying in Europe. Both of my oldies are. Half of the board here is.

I saw a couple of signs on the side of the road in Majorca saying, ” Tourists Go Home”. The one I saw in Portugal was more descriptive. “Tourists Fck Off”.

JC
JC
June 22, 2024 1:24 pm

but I don’t believe that the Iranians or the Yemenis, for instance, are ‘hell bent on conquest to impose their tyranny’. I find that rhetoric as absurd as the ‘democracies v authoritarians’ rubbish.

The Iranian attempt to build a nuke bomb is just a harmless Year 12 science experiment is it, and its not to dominate neighborhood etc? The mullahs are just misunderstood peaceniks who aren’t threatening Death to Israel etc as part of the daily call to prayer.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2024 1:33 pm

JC
 June 22, 2024 1:13 pm

A cashless economy means the state can far more effortlessly disable its troublesome subjects. That is the danger

People are opting for card use and that’s their choice. I think only about 13% of transaction sare in cash these days. Perhaps COVID lockdowns hastened this.

That was our story. We always used cards for big transactions but cash for weekly incidental expenses. Went to card during Covid and found that, for a couple, it is easier to track where you are than cash. Does your spouse have $200 left in cash? $100? Zilch?

I think the only way people can be protected from de-banking attempts is to introduce watertight legislation outlawing banks from ever de-banking someone.

It would be great if Farage held the balance of power and went after the banks who tried that on with him.

JC
JC
June 22, 2024 1:40 pm

Sanchez

Lindsay Fox’s Armaguard operation is essentially going broke because of the collapse in the use of cash. You’ve likely read about that too. It may be that the move toward card use is a deliberate attempt by the state to curtail cash, but it’s also a choice. I’ve had the same 500 bucks of so in my wallet for the past 6 months. I just went overseas and back and only drew cash once in Portugal totaling 100 Euros.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
June 22, 2024 1:41 pm

JC @ 01:13pm…..

People are opting for card use and that’s their choice. I think only about 13% of transaction are in cash these days. Perhaps COVID lockdowns hastened this.

Trotted into the local newsagent to collect a minuscule Lotto amount. A sign on the counter advising that card transactions will incur a 10 cent fee because of administrative costs. As the year 10 lass tried to work out my change because I bought another ticket. Card would have been simpler for her.

At the local swill bar they charge 9 cents for a transaction card use.

Fcuk ’em. I go to the ATM and use a card that doesn’t attract a $2.50 fee and get cash.

Administrative costs- my arse!

JC
JC
June 22, 2024 1:46 pm

Barking Toad

June 22, 2024 1:41 pm

It’s actually a big incentive for banks to have people use cards because of merchant fees from which they’re making decent money. It’s actually a twofer for the banks. Holding cash, for the banks, is a pain in the backside causing all sorts of additional costs. On the other hand they charge merchant fees per transaction. It’s a no brainer to them. Get people to use cards and greatly reduce the use of cash.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 22, 2024 1:50 pm

Not great.

As few as 50 hostages held by Hamas are still alive, US officials estimate
https://nypost.com/2024/06/20/world-news/as-few-as-50-hostages-held-by-hamas-are-still-alive-new-estimate/

cohenite
June 22, 2024 1:53 pm

All you need to know about islam:

Deradicalisation of militant Muslims not a viable option (unsw.edu.au)

How Islam progressively takes over countries | God Reports

The fact that islam has within it warring sects does not mitigate the fact that islam’s primary goal is to conquer. If islam encompassed the whole world there would still be violence because one of the qualities of islam which makes it so hard to deal with is that it has no central authority. The different sects may temporarily unite against the Jews/West but they will fight each other when the Jews/West are no more.

For me one of the most interesting questions is whether islam attracts those humans who are psychopathically violent or whether it converts normal people into psychopaths. I’d like to believe the former but professor’s Kessler’s essay on deradicalisation (above link; it’s short; read it; he’s the World’s leading expert on islam)) and the % of muslims who support terrorism and Jihad and the polls amongst the pallis offer support for the latter.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
June 22, 2024 1:56 pm

It’s actually a big incentive for banks to have people use cards because of merchant fees from which they’re making decent money. 

I don’t have a problem with that – except when the merchant charges me to make it easier for them and the banks ffs! Cash is still King!

Vicki
Vicki
June 22, 2024 1:57 pm

From lingerie retail empires and chicken burger franchises to selling wheelchairs, mobility scooters and providing disability carers for those on the NDIS. This is where the smart money is, according to billionaires and millionaires looking for their next payday.

For those who bother to think – the NDIS get-rich-quick scheme reveals with immense clarity the collapse of morality under the opportunities and lure of “fast money” today. And it is not just certain ethnic groups, as some think, who prosper most. The West has lost its way.

JC
JC
June 22, 2024 2:01 pm

Cash is still King!

It’s more of a prince than a king these days.

I just saw a beggar on a NY street telling people he had an Eftpos machine, or whatever they call them over there. That’s resourceful to say the least.

JC
JC
June 22, 2024 2:09 pm

H B Bear

June 22, 2024 2:03 pm

Reply to  Chris

Banks have not really needed a bricks and mortar presence for years. Models were already being used for credit decisions in the mid 80s. Supermarkets will be next,

If you aren’t a tradie doing cash deals, cash is becoming really hard to handle and quite costly compared to cards. Supermarkets have every incentive to stop cash use as it really reduces costs significantly. I could imagine the day where supermarkets have a reverse ATM that someone else will operate on premises.

John H.
John H.
June 22, 2024 2:12 pm

feelthebern

 June 22, 2024 7:07 am

John H, any views on ashwagandha ?

Due to travel and some irregular hours, I’ve found my sleeping patterns to be out of whack recently.

I plan to start taking it of an evening this week to see if it settles things down.

Interested in your thoughts if you have any.

Haven’t tried it, don’t know much about it. I’ve tried Panax Ginseng in the past with good results. Notable T boost. The problem with these compounds is where they are grown and produced. Heavy metal contamination has occurred. Rare reports of liver toxicity. I wouldn’t take it to stabilize a sleep cycle disruption because those are usually self-limiting.

Bruce in WA
June 22, 2024 2:14 pm

For Bob the Boozer (upthread) re air rifle licence.

If you’re in WA Bob you require a full-on firearms licence, with approved storage etc. You will also have to supply NEED and REASON for ownership and under the forthcoming legislation have to pass a medical and psych evaluation.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 22, 2024 2:18 pm

Remember how scriptwriters went on strike because they were totally worth it…??

Yeah, nah.

https://x.com/i/status/1804151501251543324

The dumbest thing you will see, until monty arrives again.

JC
JC
June 22, 2024 2:18 pm

AI is exhausting the power grid. Tech firms are seeking a miracle solution.

As power needs of AI push emissions up and put big tech in a bind, companies put their faith in elusive — some say improbable — technologies.

More here:

It’s kinda ironic. As a profession, IT’ers would have to be the biggest proponents of the gerbil warming scare and now they’re possibly causing big shortages.

John H.
John H.
June 22, 2024 2:25 pm

KevinM

 June 22, 2024 3:13 am

Who would’ve thought the drug lords give in easily?

California Legalized Drugs. Cartels Took It Over

Interesting vid on the cartels.

Mexican Cartels Are Worse Than You Think (youtube.com)

JC
JC
June 22, 2024 2:37 pm

Having nukes won’t change that calculation.

Really.

billie
billie
June 22, 2024 2:55 pm

Boeing: Our Number 1 Priority Is Diversity

And surprise, our 2 chief priorities are Diversity and Surprise ..

And Fear, our 3 main priorities are Diversity, Surprise and Fear

And ..

I’ll see myself out shall I ..?

*Does anyone believe this kind of BS marketing from Boeing?

cohenite
June 22, 2024 2:56 pm

Professor Ole Humlum’s state of the climate report 2023:

The State of the Climate in 2023 (thegwpf.org)

Summary:

Ten facts about the year 2023

1. Air temperatures in 2023 were the highest on record (since 1850/1880/1979, according to the particular data series). Recent warming is not symmetrical, but is mainly seen in the Northern Hemisphere (Figures 1 and 13).

2. Arctic air temperatures have increased during the satellite era (since 1979), but Antarctic temperatures remain essentially stable (Figure 14).

3. Since 2004, globally, the upper 1900m of the oceans has seen net warming of about 0.037°C. The greatest warming (of about 0.2°C) is in the uppermost 100m, and mainly in regions near the Equator, where the greatest amount of solar radiation is received (Figure 28).

4. Since 2004, the northern oceans (55–65°N) have, on average, experienced a marked cooling down to 1400m depth, and slight warming below that (Figure 29). Over the same period, the southern oceans (55–65°S) have, on average, seen some warming at most depths (above 1900m), but mainly near the surface.

5. Sea level globally is increasing at about 3.4mm per year or more according to satellites, but only at 1–2mm per year according to coastal tide gauges (Figures 39 and 41). Local and regional sea-level changes usually deviate significantly from such global averages.

6. Global sea-ice extent remains well below the average for the satellite era (since 1979). Since 2018, however, it has remained quasi-stable, perhaps even exhibiting a small increase (Figure 43).

7. Global snow cover has remained essentially stable throughout the satellite era (Figure 47), although with important regional and seasonal variations.

8. Global precipitation varies from more than 3000mm per year in humid regions to almost nothing in deserts. Global average precipitation exhibits variations from one year to the next, and from decade to decade, but since 1901 there has been no clear overall trend (Figure 57).

9. Storms and hurricanes display variable frequency over time, but without any clear global trend towards higher or lower values (Figure 51).

10. Observations confirm the continuing long-term variability of average meteorological and oceanographic conditions, but do not support the notion of an ongoing climate crisis.

Vicki
Vicki
June 22, 2024 3:00 pm

Those interested in more information on the future role of nuclear energy in Oz – see the work of Prof. Stephen Wilson (Adjunct Prof at Uni of Qld)leading author of a report on nuclear in Australia from 2030s – “Going Fission – Australia’s Nuclear Technology Discussion”

https://goingfission.podbean.com/e/episode-13-prof-stephen-wilson/

Another with expertise in Australia – Assoc. Prof Tony Irwin (Nuclear for Oz), Dr. Marlotto (President of Australia Nuclear Assocn)

Makka
Makka
June 22, 2024 3:03 pm

but I don’t believe that the Iranians or the Yemenis, for instance, are ‘hell bent on conquest to impose their tyranny’. I find that rhetoric as absurd as the ‘democracies v authoritarians’

Then you are dreaming. As JC said, Iran’s determination to nuke up isn’t to make friends. The Yemeni’s want to impose all manner of restrictions on global trade. There are many forms of tyranny.

If this is the basis of your argument then it is an absurd foundation, given what you already know of 1500 years of Islamic violence, conquest and tyranny.

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Makka
Makka
June 22, 2024 3:14 pm

Yes, really. Pakistan getting nukes didn’t mean it would come to dominate the region, and it hasn’t.

Pakistan’s nuclear capability was a result of balancing the scales with India’s nuclear capability. India keeps Pakistan’s moslem ambitions in check for now.

Cassie of Sydney
June 22, 2024 3:14 pm

As few as 50 hostages held by Hamas are still alive, US officials estimate

Everyday I now wear my hostage dog tag around my neck, along with my Magen David. From now until I expire this earth, the Magen David will be worn around my neck, and I will wear the hostage dog tag until every hostage kidnapped on October 7 2023 is returned to Israel, dead or alive.

Pogria
Pogria
June 22, 2024 3:29 pm

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Makka
Makka
June 22, 2024 3:34 pm

dover,

There is no good, none whatsoever, in Islam. In all of Islam. Your attempts to explain away the threats Islam poses especially with nukes in hand are ridiculous. Your rationale seems to be; leave them alone and they will play nice. A fantasy.

bons
bons
June 22, 2024 4:02 pm

If you are seeking an excuse to overindulge the single malt, take a look at the latest Podcast of the Lotus Eaters.

The subject is Starmer’s (a fully owned subsidiery of Blair Inc) plans to complete the destruction of British democracy.

It may sound like conspiracy theories, but he actually has little to do to complete Blair’s program. Parliament is already subordinate to Blair’s fake Supreme Court; the stacked Lords can already wreck any legislation, Blair’s independent Bank of England controls UK fiscal policy and action and was responsible for the conspiracy against Truss; Ofcom and the corrupted police already control speech; the financial services authorities can already prevent people from accessing their assets; Blair’s devolution has instituted dysfunctional dictatorships in Wales and Scotland.

All that is required from Starmer is to unleash Millibrand to cement moslem and Indian supremacy; further legislation to make all Parliamentary legislation subject to Supreme Court oversight; destruction of primary industries and complete submission to Global Corp.

None of the above addreses the probability of direct action against opponents – the Tommy Robinson strategy.

It fascinates me that for most of my life the Left ranted about their fantasy international banking conspiracies (usually Jewish), but when the conspiracy came to fruition it was curated by the Left and in the case of the UK, the always treasonous upper class.

JC
JC
June 22, 2024 4:08 pm

And the Yemenis have already stated their objective with the current Red Sea operation which has nothing to do with global trade per se.

Really? Except the tootsies decide on the who enters that sea corridor.

It was also pretty distasteful when Trump killed that Iranian “diplomat” in Lebanon who was only there on a peace mission. Shuttle diplomacy Iranian style.

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cohenite
June 22, 2024 4:14 pm

Tyrus on Gutfeld, 21 June 2024, states there will not be a debate between Trump and the corpse. He says CNN will spend the week with a drugged biden conditioning him to answer the questions asked during the debate. Trump will be cut off, insulted and lied about. Tyrus says Trump should just state his position in his first 2 minutes, call them all liars and walk out.

Miltonf
Miltonf
June 22, 2024 4:22 pm

The West really has moved into the ancien regime stage with a corrupt, decaying corpse as its titular head.

Miltonf
Miltonf
June 22, 2024 4:26 pm

Our titular head aka the King is certainly a symptom of the same malaise. Speaking of which how’s the Mostyn going? Has she tidied herself up yet or is the slaggy scrag look part of her schtick?

johanna
johanna
June 22, 2024 4:37 pm

Crossie said:

I don’t remember BOM making regional prediction, they used a blanket statement. The other thing is, why would you not make a separate forecast for heavily populated areas when that is where the effect will be heaviest?

Yup, that article was goalpost-shifting and obfuscating to the nth.

At least it indicated some signs of embarrassment at their failures. Real fanatics never even acknowledge that there is anything to justify.

Elsewhere at TheirABC was a story and a map of Australia showing that some areas have had more than usual rainfall, some about average, and some less. Of course, the focus was on the dry areas, ‘climate change’ yada yada.

Seems to me to be a remarkably calm (in weather terms) picture. Perhaps the alarmists could point us to times when everywhere on this vast continent had perfect weather.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
June 22, 2024 4:41 pm

This winter has been cold. I have definite proof of this.
I just gave Elsie a quick scratch – she’s after wet food – Ha! no chance, because she’s put on a bit of a gut. Her fur has thickened substantially, and my hands are covered in shed fur.
O.F.F.S. Cat fur all over the keyboard.

KevinM
KevinM
June 22, 2024 5:08 pm

Let’s hope so.

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Pogria
Pogria
June 22, 2024 5:23 pm

A woman’s sportswear company endorsed by former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines has been banned from TikTok because the company defends women’s sports.

China and US working in tandem to destroy Women’s Sport.

https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2024/06/20/womens-sportswear-co-backed-by-riley-gaines-banned-from-tiktok-for-defending-womens-sports/

KevinM
KevinM
June 22, 2024 5:29 pm

I don’t know about you but I find it awe inspiring to see an engine so big that the engineers have a platform to walk around it.

Given freedom from gov. humans can do marvelous things.
Long may we live and create.

There are many comments on the thread on an other platform from people who actually sailed on ships with these engines and hardly any negative one.
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The Marine Buff 
 ·
Doxford engines have a storied history, starting from the shipbuilding roots of William Doxford & Sons in the mid-19th century. The company, established in Sunderland, England, initially built wooden ships before transitioning to iron and steel shipbuilding. By the late 19th century, Doxford began constructing marine engines, first producing steam engines and later pioneering diesel engine technology.

In 1914, Doxford developed its first opposed-piston engine, a significant innovation that set the stage for its future success. These engines featured a unique design with two pistons operating in a single cylinder, moving in opposite directions.

This design offered several advantages, including improved efficiency and reduced mechanical stress.
The first single-cylinder opposed-piston engine was tested successfully, leading to the production of multi-cylinder versions that powered many ships over the decades.

Doxford engines gained a reputation for their robustness and efficiency, becoming widely used in both commercial and naval vessels. The company continued to innovate, and by the mid-20th century, Doxford engines were synonymous with reliable marine propulsion.

They were built not only in the UK but also under license in various shipyards worldwide, including in the United States.

However, the rise of more advanced diesel technologies and changing economic conditions led to a decline in the use of Doxford engines. The last Doxford marine engine was built in 1980, marking the end of an era.

Despite this, the legacy of Doxford engines lives on, remembered for their contribution to marine engineering and their impact on the shipbuilding industry.

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MatrixTransform
June 22, 2024 5:32 pm

Hmm, I wonder why this drops now?

BRICS

…and now the Japanese are dumping treasuries

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Cassie of Sydney
June 22, 2024 5:32 pm

Sydney University, under the weasel Mark Scott, has surrendered and submitted to leftist and Islamist Nazis.

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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 22, 2024 5:34 pm

22nd June – 83 years since the commencement of Operation Barbarossa – the Nazi invasion of Soviet Russia – and the Wehrmacht took over half a million horses with them..

132andBush
132andBush
June 22, 2024 5:52 pm

Perhaps the alarmists could point us to times when everywhere on this vast continent had perfect weather.

I’ve said for ages now that the perception promulgated by the CC fanatics in the cities of Australia has been one of inland Australia (excluding named deserts) being covered in some form of temperate forest, always green, which is in danger of being turned to a hellish desert moonscape.
Planet raping farmers running roughshod over Gaia’s garden, wherever they can get a foothold between the strip mines of the multi nationals.

People who are ignorant and don’t travel even in their own country are sucked in by this.

It’s why the greens have their power base in the “concrete jungle”.

cohenite
June 22, 2024 5:58 pm
Steve trickler
Steve trickler
June 22, 2024 6:03 pm

Classics.

—-

Superwogs1:

The Servo Guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qti52FCZv7A

132andBush
132andBush
June 22, 2024 6:09 pm

A LOT of gas being burnt right now to keep the lights on and the electric blankets ticking over.

Reserves continue to reduce.

Zippster
Zippster
June 22, 2024 6:15 pm
DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
June 22, 2024 6:17 pm

This winter has been cold. I have definite proof of this.

I have a new favourite poem:

There’s much to be said
For staying in bed.

Rabz
June 22, 2024 6:19 pm

For those who bother to think – the NDIS get-rich-quick scheme reveals with immense clarity the collapse of morality under the opportunities and lure of “fast money” today. And it is not just certain ethnic groups, as some think, who prosper most. The West has lost its way.

The National Disability Insurance Scam – presided over by this sleazey corrupt braindead rapist … 😡

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 22, 2024 6:22 pm

Ok Canberra Cats, which one of you lost a wheel doing burnouts in a Ford Falcon last night whilst wearing a banana costume?

ACT Police search for man ‘wearing banana costume’ after male was struck by loose wheel from car allegedly doing burnouts (Sky News, 22 Jun)

Miltonf
Miltonf
June 22, 2024 6:23 pm

Hard to imagine anyone less appealing than the Shorten career pollimuppett.

Rabz
June 22, 2024 6:28 pm

Gerbil Worming happening with a vengeance in Sydneystan, Cats – leavened with many, many flannerees! 😕

Gabor
Gabor
June 22, 2024 6:34 pm

cohenite
June 22, 2024 5:58 pm

Islam at work again:

Mob Lynches Tourist in Pakistan for ‘Blasphemy’ (breitbart.com)

The ugly side of islam, but is there a nice one?

You can’t put it down to general human cruelty, we thankfully are not like that.
Some yes.

Rabz
June 22, 2024 6:37 pm

Everythang within this epic turned out to be wrong, wrong wrong …

But do we love it any less?

Hell no! 🙂

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 22, 2024 6:41 pm

For elections junkies there’s a by-election in NSW today, very safe Nat seat.

I wouldn’t bother mentioning it except for a certain dramatic announcement this week…

It’ll be interesting to see if there’s a swing. Not seeing anything yet, but only a few booths have been counted.

Northern Tablelands State By-Election 22-JUN-2024 (Electoral Commission NSW)

2024 Northern Tablelands state by-election (wiki)

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 22, 2024 7:10 pm

Here you go Rabz. In honour of Donald Sutherland a nice bit of Aussie from the soundtrack.

The Divinyls – I Ain’t Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore (1992)

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
June 22, 2024 7:10 pm

Do you know how to grow Veg? Shoot a rabbit/deer/goat?
Understand what foods store well without refrigeration (hint: tinned and dried)?
Start learning.

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thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 22, 2024 7:23 pm

You know whats fun, in a cynical, laugh because they are mongs way?

Seeing baby teals posting how wonderful renewedballs are then clicking on the NEM widget..

https://aemo.com.au/en/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/data-nem/data-dashboard-nem

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 22, 2024 7:26 pm

FWIW, had lunch with Mme Zulu, today, in one of our favourite eateries – first time we’ve been there in over a year.

Top Ender
Top Ender
June 22, 2024 7:31 pm

 I just went overseas and back and only drew cash once in Portugal totaling 100 Euros.

Here in Tunisia using cards is difficult. The taxis all use cash only. Uber unknown but Bolt – a sort of equivalent – is available, but still the drivers – usually taxis – only take cash. At least Bolt gives you a set price. The taxis drivers try to run with the meter off and give you a probable price triple to Bolt.

Used a card in a few places successfully, but very wary of letting it out of my hand since we got about 20 fraudulent transactions from a few year back. Westpac paid for them all.

A present in a second-class train carriage going south. Paid for 1st but all seats taken. Mrs TE and our travelling friend are lording it up there while I am in broken seat territory.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 22, 2024 7:55 pm

Not a music video. I was curious how the Fallout series has been going on Amazon Prime. Very well it looks like. Which is excellent because it isn’t woke.

Fallout’s Walton Goggins Unpacks His Transformation into The Ghoul (18 Jun)

Sitting for 2 and a half hours and getting multiple chunks of rubber stuck to your face before every day’s shoot cannot be fun. But watching this done is mesmerising, which is what this video is about.

Rosie
Rosie
June 22, 2024 8:35 pm

I’m using cash a lot more because I’m sick of being stung sneaky 1.5% processing fees.

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