Yep; he has a gigantic ego. People say Trump has too; but Trump’s ego is entirely directed outwards. Palmer has…
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I suspect it might be ‘Numbers’.
Here’s something interesting on CaravanGate. The Opposition Leader also asked why Mr Albanese was refusing to reveal when he was…
That video made me nauseaus and scared. I hate being scared.
Husband just watching an old movie recounting the story of the women who delivered Spitfires in the last war. It…
When it comes to propaganda the wind farm subsidy miners are A+.
Check out how they make these monstrosities nearly blend in with the scenery on their home page photo.
https://goldenplainswindfarm.com.au/about-golden-plains-wind-farm/#:~:text=The%20Golden%20Plains%20Wind%20Farm,power%20more%20than%20765%2C000%20homes.
228 more turbines! FFS.
While the majority of debate has centred on waste materials from nuclear sites, Senator Watt on Monday offered a far more devastating alternative as he appeared to suggest Australian communities could be at risk of a major nuclear disaster. …
Pressed on how similar disasters could occur, given Australia has a stable geological profile and no risk of tsunamis, the Senator pushed back, appearing to suggest the Fukushima disaster, which was caused by a magnitude nine earthquake, could be repeated in some part of the country.
“I mean, there have still been earthquakes in Australia over the years,” he argued.
Oh dear, someone want to explain to this clown with his jowls flabbering everywhere that intraplate earthquakes are different to an interplate earthquake and are excessively rare.
They also need to be near an old geological structure of some kind, say like a old fault. Yes they can get strong like Newcastle 1989 but they are certainly not megathrust earthquakes and can be engineered against. Japan on a tectonic boundary has been doing it for decades.
The Brittany Blob rolls on. Our old friend Mordy Bromberg, at the ALRC this time, steps into the limelight.
132andbush grey dead tree in the foreground, grey clouds, grey Blowen propellers, almost invisible. Know a bloke that wanted to build his house on a ridgeline. Council goes no no no no. Builds it below the ridgeline. Two years later windmills all along the ridgeline.
Yep.
The only time when it would be advantageous from a marketing standpoint to take a photo of a landscape on a gloomy day.
Mind you, it is the WD we’re talking about 🙂
not a day goes past without some bint demonstrating how universal suffrage was a mistake
Assange is a tw*t. And no, I’m not implying “twit”.
The primary reason he gave why couldn’t go to Sweden to a face sexual assault inquiry- which is how his extended smelly strop kicked off- was that U.S. agents would board his plane, off a hypersonic dirigible, and rendition him out of the escape hatch, handcuffed and in a parachute, to a waiting u-boat where the mind control truth injection would be personally applied by both George Bush Sr and George Bush Jr.
The telemovie, Australian Of The Century gong and Ecuadorian Embassy Bed-In For Peace were just laying it on.
Yes Assange is a gumby.
But the most interesting and eye-opening thing about this whole endless episode was the absolutely incandescent attacks upon him by the Left and the deep state.
I think our Julian was the very first to have unveiled the veiled shadow state and their black-hearted evil. Which is now all-prevailing everywhere.
Fair call.
It’s very difficult to sort the Assange story out. On one hand, he is personally a jerk, a narcissist, someone best kept well away.
OTOH, he infuriated a lot of the people that it could be a badge of honour for.
I just don’t now.
What do others think?
Sharri giving Assange a very strong serve for his criminal actions. Don’t know what else she said because Hairy’s scrolled over it. Assange is a ‘w@nker’, he explains.
Hairy’s put it back on. Sharri says Assange is supported by libertarians (gosh). He’s a dark twisted and disturbed individual, she says. Phew she don’t like him much. Hairy thinks Assange is a grub. I tend to think his oddness is due to living in sanctuary conditions. It would drive anyone crazy.
Now Bronwyn Bishop is like me re his treatment, she doesn’t trust US justice.
Celebration by the left is the problem, but I agree with Keith Pitt saying enough is enough for Assange for any Australian citizen.
Would Eastern Australia be in this electrical quandary if they had built the hydro power dams they didn’t build over the last 50 years?
Coal power stations are the answer.
CO2 is a wonderful gas of life.
There is no residual heat up in the atmosphere cos it is bloody cold at night.
you will never get a completely windless and sunless day all across continental Australia
Monty running a power cord across the nullarbour now?
Bold
Visionary
Much wow.
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WA SWIS has its own issues. One size does not fit all.
No, there will not be a requirement for three days’ worth of energy to be stored. The NEM exists, you will never get a completely windless and sunless day all across continental Australia. You idiots.
This is why the left is so dangerous: they have a veneer of knowledge over a swamp of ego which makes their virtue signalling so pustulent, puissant and destructive. Uniformity of climate conditions over vast distances is well known and is described as teleconnections. There are many papers about it; here’s one:
(99+) Climate change, teleconnection patterns, and regional processes forcing marine populations in the Pacific | Franklin Schwing – Academia.edu
Teleconnections not only describe climate but mass psychology too. All lefties for instance have no dicks but compensatory enormous egos.
And every one has the same original thoughts.
Picked up from the daily lefturd talking points.
Greg Lynn sounds like a nasty piece of work…from The Daily Telegraph….
What the jury wasn’t told: Tragic ex-wife ‘lived in terror’
Greg Lynn’s first wife lived in fear of her ex-husband’s constant death threats and abuse, with her sudden death to be referred to the coroner in a bid for a fresh inquest.
After Greg Lynn’s conviction over the murder of Carol Clay, the death of his first wife Lisa is expected to be referred to the State Coroner in a bid for a fresh inquest as an earlier probe heard she “lived in terror” from her ex-husband’s constant death threats and abuse.
The Herald Sun understands missing persons detectives intend to refer a new brief of evidence to the coroner over Ms Lynn’s 1999 death after her body was found in the foetal position in the front yard of the couple’s Mount Macedon home.
She died on October 26 of combined drug and alcohol toxicity – despite being a teetotaller – while family photo albums were found scattered on the loungeroom floor and her two sons, aged three and one, slept in their bedrooms.
It is believed an assessment has been made that there is insufficient evidence to charge the ex-pilot over his first wife’s death, despite questions emerging about his alibi that night.
But the possibility of new family violence charges being laid remains open.
In the six months before her death, Ms Lynn, 34, alleged her then ex-husband was “assaulting, harassing, threatening or intimidating” her.
Ms Lynn’s body was found in the foetal position in the front yard of the Mount Macedon home she had shared with her ex-husband.
During this time, Mr Lynn broke into his ex-wife’s home and stealing their car.
In August 1999, just two months before she died, Ms Lynn was prescribed antidepressants, with an autopsy finding “high levels” of the medications in her system along with a blood alcohol of 0.21.
MPS investigators who reinvestigated the circumstances of Ms Lynn’s death are understood to have found new information not uncovered in the first inquiry.
Those who knew Lisa Lynn had strong doubts about whether she would take her own life well before her pilot husband was charged with murdering Russell Hill and Carol Clay.
In a statement to the Coroner’s Court, which probed Lisa Lynn’s death in 2000, her father said his daughter told him “that Greg had been making very serious death threats against her and that these continued through to her death”.
An earlier probe into Ms Lynn’s death heard she ‘lived in terror’ of her ex-husband.
“I know from speaking to Lisa that she was not prepared to press charges against Greg for fear of repercussions,” he told the Coroner.
“She took his threats very seriously. She was absolutely petrified and lived in terror.”
Police investigating the disappearances of the missing campers had made notes for their interview with Mr Lynn after his arrest, which included a plan to ask him about “threats made to Lisa”.
They also intended to question Mr Lynn’s current wife Melanie about “Lisa’s death and knowledge of relationship”.
In a separate statement to the Coroner’s Court, Lisa Lynn’s mother said “as far as I’m concerned, Greg is responsible for my daughter’s death by mental torture inflicted by him”.
“I know that she was living in absolute fear of Greg.”
The pair said their daughter kept a diary from the day Mr Lynn left their marriage that detailed “the abusive phone calls and death threats and verbal abuse to their children made by Greg”.
The dead woman’s mother – who made repeated trips from her Tasmanian hometown to help care for her grandchildren – said Mr Lynn would subject Lisa to “physical and mental abuse on a regular basis”, described his behaviour as “bizarre” and said he had a “warped mind”.
She spoke of seeing Mr Lynn lose his temper, “yell and throw things at (Lisa) and push her around”.
Ms Lynn’s mother said Mr Lynn had a temper and had killed ‘animals and (the) neighbour’s pet’. Picture: Supplied
“I felt very uncomfortable when these events occurred because I was not inclined to interfere and Lisa would plead with me not to interfere. Lisa would say to me that if I got involved in any verbal disagreement with Greg, it would make things worse for her when I went home.”
She detailed how Mr Lynn had killed “animals and (the) neighbour’s pet”, had “refused to feed” their two sons, and “exploded into a fit of uncontrollable rage” when he “verbally attacked” a man at the bar of the Macedon Hotel when the man spoke to Ms Lynn.
One person who knew the Lynns told the Herald Sun of how a pig once strayed onto the couple’s Mount Macedon property and Greg bludgeoned it to death with a spade.
The incident was made even worse by being witnessed by their boarder, a female co-worker from the airline industry.
“He took to it with a spade. The boarder said, ‘I’m off’. He’s obviously got issues, or a temper,” the source who knew the Lynns at the time said.
Greg Lynn stood trial for murder over the deaths of Carol Clay and Russell Hill.
A former colleague described Lisa as a quiet, beautiful woman with a lovely nature.
“She was the kind of person you’d like to be yourself, not conceited or vain, but she could have been,” the colleague said.
“She didn’t see herself as beautiful or glamorous or a fabulous cook or any of those things.”
Though they would see each other sporadically because of the nature of airline work, the colleague said it was always a pleasure when they reacquainted.
“You might not see someone for six months then there’s a burst of catching up. Whenever you’d see Lisa, you always felt so lucky to spend time with her,” the colleague said.
“She was such a soft, gentle, Christian-type of person … not in any happy clapper manner but a real turn-the-other-cheek person.”
Prosecutors in Greg Lynn’s double murder trial tried to introduce his ex-wife’s death and aspects of their relationship as evidence to the jury but it was ruled inadmissable.
When she found out a neighbour could not afford a microwave oven, she bought one and placed it on the front step with no note attached.
“She didn’t want the credit. That was Lisa,” the colleague said.
The relationship was volatile with Greg treating Lisa appallingly.
“She adored him. She gave so much. She changed her whole life for him,” the colleague said.
“She didn’t deserve to end up with someone who didn’t value her. He wasn’t super-handsome or charming. He was just there.
“I couldn’t see what brought them together. He wasn’t interested in her friends. I thought, ‘What does she see in him’?”
Prosecutors in Greg Lynn’s double murder trial tried to introduce his ex-wife’s 1999 death and aspects of their relationship as evidence to the jury, suggesting it was “relevant” to his character.
They considered calling Lisa’s parents and her doctor, who she’d made a report to about “violence”, as witnesses in the trial, and getting the dead woman’s journal that made detailed accounts of the abuse she suffered.
But the evidence was ruled inadmissable and the jury never heard about Lisa Lynn.
This aspect of the Rules of Evidence is particularly troubling to non lawyers.
I’m cool with it. I read Richard Webster’s submission on Similar Fact Evidence.
I also reckon The Australian is in Recovered Memory territory with their digital Falcon with ‘body wrapped in sheet’ reconstruction. 2000 people across Australia suddenly recall the night in question yer Honour!
Certainly comes under scrutiny in a lot of sexual assault cases. Possibly on borrowed time threre.
Just the sort you want flying your plane
Hydroelectric dams are hated by Gaia, they emit ebil methane.
Everyone knows that.
But pumped-storage dams are loved by Gaia, they are halal!
Not sure how that works.
Pumped hydro is a relatively closed system to exploit time of day price arbitrage. Australian geography and climate isn’t favourable for hydro, exacerbated by Green tape and Tasmanian GPs.
Swing and a miss Bear!
One has to understand greens’ versions of haram and halal.
Greenness is in the eye of the beholder. I expect Matt Kean will provide evidence of this over the coming months.
Um… Bear. Not Pumped hydro – just normal hydro electric power.
You are right Cassie, long odds against your wife dying in suspicious circumstances then being involved in a double ‘accidental’ deaths.
Seinfeld at Rod Laver.
Priceless response to a heckler.
He had it all worked out.
https://x.com/TSchwarzbard/status/1804885265569214539?t=OupuKl5bBNr8NHG7vyfHWw&s=19
Seinfeld at Rod Laver.
Priceless response to a heckler.
Seinfeld is much smarter than the heckler. That isn’t difficult when the heckler is an antisemitic nutter
A lot of talk about how shit the Australian Sky journalists (sic) are. I tend to agree. By comparison Fox America journalists, Gutfeld, Judge Janine, Watters and a lot of others are outstanding. Their analysis of the psychology, tactics and total destructiveness of the left is outstanding. The Five, Watters and Gutfeld should be compulsory viewing.
Watch them at all possible times. Have begun recruiting for 11 am Friday in the downstairs bar……. five takers so far ………………..
Missing a dance class on Friday so I can see it live, my first chance to dance since anaesthesic on Monday.
The “week-long wind drought”:
So a “wind drought” means 50% of normal output, does it? And wind supply is less than 15% of the NEM and less than 10% of aggregate supply when rooftop solar PV is included.
So-called “wind droughts” are piddling amounts in the wider scheme of things.
Monty, the link was from a perfectly holy-to-gaia site. Take it up with them.
Or Andy Pittman, who has been doing climate howler monkey impressions for the last twenty years.
You are very welcome to put a bag over your head, ihat does not concern me, but it will not change reality, which will still bite you on your arse.
But your plan is to use more of the same. Your vision turns the “piddling amount” into a major shortfall on the NEM. That’s why so much storage would be needed. Are you keeping up with your own plan?
He doesn’t even understand his own plan.
He doesn’t understand that he doesn’t understand his own plan.
mUnty does maths. Same installed capacity, half the output. More windmills, more transmission or both?
oh snap!
Would that be the solar that suffers from a “sun drought” for somewhere between eight and twelve hours every night, all day on cloudy days, and intermittently on other days?
so lemme get this straight, the Capacity Factor for wind power in any suitable location is about 30%
and his “wind is always blowing somewhere” diversity calculation produces an NEM-wide contribution for the year of 13.1 %
I think he just naively proved that wind must be about 2x over-built to even approach being useful
I am here laughing at the idea of a bloke that failed Econ 101 trying to interpret any of this
I never considered before that mUntard could be right
using Faith Based Engineering principles the future might conceivably be windier
could maybe get to 14% … 15% … sky’s the limit
If mUnty’s crystal ball is dodgy he can always switch to Tarot
naming it now … I’m calling it Tarot-ism
The description of the muslims to whom Sydney university is kowtowing reminded me of walking up the main drag in Nimes one Friday afternoon.
Two or three muslim men in their beards and nightgowns, glaring, silent, walking slowly, like islamic police making sure all the men were on the way to mosque and the women appropriately dressed.
No-one greeted them, but the atmosphere seemed tense.
That was my impression, anyhow.
I wonder whether muslims on campus are kept in line by hibz ut-tahrir types.
I remember Ms magpie pulling her head in after getting told off by them on twitter, years ago.
Nimes, interesting. I love the place but it is dodgy. I was driving down one of the laneways near the Circus when I found myself blocked by a whole swarm of North African primitives.
They were having a great laugh about my obvious distress and prevented my movement for quite a long time.
I had a pistol in my courier case. I didn’t get it out but I thought about it. I was worried.
“So-called “wind droughts” are piddling amounts in the wider scheme of things.”
Yeah that week when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow and you get load shed for a week will be a piddly incident for everyone.
As long as you’ve saved the planet from the climate Boogie man though.
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The point is that wind can randomly halve from week to week. If you are relying on wind to power the grid , where is the extra power going to come from ?
Unicorn farts?
Cow farts!
Cow farts have been taken off the table.
Cronkite
Have you heard of this dude? He has an interesting thread on fraud at the IPCC
https://x.com/NikolovScience/status/1804197585143447870
I haven’t but what he says is right. Estimates of TSI, albedo and the whole kit and caboodle is just that: estimates. If they’re out by just a few % the whole conclusion is rubbish; like AGW.
Nice one!
Vicki, I was of a similar opinion early on but once Obama pardoned Bradley Manning, who actually stole the documents and gave them to Wikileaks, and even had the military pay for his sex change operation I changed my mind. If you forgive one conspirator you must forgive the other. I suppose Assange made the cardinal mistake of not going transgender.
Disagree Crossie. Obama pardoned a thief and a traitor. Says it all.
I am more concerned that as an Australian citizen he was charged under US law. In the wash up, I am glad he is free after years in hiding and sanctuary, punishment enough.
The nuclear strategy by Dutton is very clever indeed.
The labour brainstrust know that they can’t meet their ridiculous targets to reduce emissions.
The solar, wind and transmission lines can’t be built fast enough .
The coal fired power stations are scheduled to be closed and no replacements being built .
As the power bills increase and blackouts get worse , Mr Dutton has a solution
Nuclear
So now on past history, the Labor left when left with nowhere to go, will resort to smearing, abuse and nasty tricks to pick off the Liberals and Dutton himself. No one will be safe, not even family.
I think the time is right to bring it to the fore
when you stand together all the idiotic brain farts that the leftard are trying to float:
it all starts to look pretty idiotic to Joe Average
I think many people are ready to hear how mental the ‘left’ has become
they’ve worked it
and I think thy’re gagging for normal, sober and measured
time to talk about it
This woman is mentally ill. This is not normal behaviour.
JC, link doesn’t work.
Yes Herr Colonel, I literally said that battery tech is immature. I have said that consistently. It also does not enjoy economies of scale yet. The example of solar PV is instructive.
It is certainly a lot further down the track on both of those scores than SMR. So far there are such things as small reactors, and modular designs, but there are zero small modular reactors built in meatspace.
Modularity implies an organised production line, with a diverse ecology of suppliers committed to standardised specifications for machinery and parts. No such thing exists for SMRs.
Rolls Royce may get around to building out a modularised supply chain for its proprietary designs if it fools the Australian public into funding it. As it is, SMRs are as illusory as Geelong’s chances of winning this year’s premiership.
China has fooled the Australian government into funding it’s solar cell and wind vane industries.
You support that, and you will also support Australia funding the Chinese battery industry.
It’s not immature, dumdum, it’s impossible. It does not make any sense.
I’ve never met someone as impervious to reality, physics, chemistry, engineering and economics as you Monty, in my multiple decades of work in those fields.
You have not being paying attention Monty. Yes there are. They are Chinese. And they work.
I like what you are doing Monty because every time we here cluebat you we also cluebat Bowen and Albo.
smutley doesn’t own a gimp suit for no reason
As linked below, Bruce, home batteries will start making economic sense next year.
One or two small reactors is not evidence of them being modular. As said above, it’s only modular if its parts can be manufactured quickly, cheaply and at scale. So far, it’s all just test runs and prototypes. Decades off actual modularity in the field.
You never tire of being wrong, do you?
mUntyfa again displaying why he is the unchallenged blog wrongologist.
Would that be the solar that suffers from a “sun drought” for somewhere between eight and twelve hours every night, all day on cloudy days, and intermittently on other days?
Match that with a two or three day wind drought, what then? Batteries that don’t currently exist, and might not in the future?
Idiot.
I’ll bite …
how do you know?
can you hint at a technical reason it can substantially progress?
Nuclear batteries, they have been used in space programs for decades. And they don’t need recharging.
Oops, sorry, did I accidentally say nuclear? My bad.
Because solar panels reduced in price, that means a totally different technology using different minerals will also reduce in price. So it’s fine to base our entire energy strategy on this happening, so shut up.
China using slave labour probably assists with competitive pricing.
fine !! … that’s what mUnty said
I don’t know vast amounts about batteries
but did you know that 20 years ago I used to work at the bleeding edge of solar tech?
and you know what’s happened to solar efficiency advancement since then …. ?
er, nothing
we used to run triple junction solar cells to destruction in solar concentrator dishes for fun
one day my mate waved an envelope with triples in it that were sent over from the US
I said, what’s that mate?
he said, its a million dollars worth of triples
i said, what are gonna do with them?
he said, like der… destroy them of course !
German CDC documents show politics drove COVID response, not science
Slowly – the truth is coming out that the lockdowns and abuse of the citizenry was political abuse, not health.
This is not going away as the governments thought.
Elon Musk liked my reply to his tweet! My only tweet!
I swoon!
I said “How come I, a new user with a single tweet. have a dozen followers? The bots are baaack!”
Bloody Hell, the DUMB is strong these days.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13565365/Blakeview-adelaide-housemates-burning-home-crucial-error-winter-firepit.html
Not a patch on Monty.
As I was writing this post, I did wonder if muntsac were related to these morons. 😀
Disband the CDC: No WHO Trojan Horse in Australia!
Let’s all recall that CDC employees donate 99.95% to the Democrats.
Payman defies Labor in support of Palestine state
Sarah Ison
Western Australian senator Fatima Payman has crossed the floor to vote with the Greens on an urgency motion to recognise Palestine.
She now sits beside ACT independent.
The Senate had begun to debate the motion to recognise Palestine.
Both Labor and the Coalition have moved amendments to the Greens’ original motion to immediately recognise Palestine.
The Greens voted against amendments to the motion.
Greens senators and independent senator Lidia Thorpe all yelled out during the debate about Australia’s complicity with “genocide”.
Greens Senator David Shoebridge accused the chamber of gagging debate.
Labor’s amendment to the Greens motion, which calls for Palestine to be recognised, but only “as part of a peace process in support of a two state solution and a just and enduring peace”, has been voted against by both the Coalition, the Greens and independents including Jacqui Lambie, Lidia Thorpe, Ralph Babet and Malcolm Roberts.
Mr Pocock is the only member of the crossbench voting with the government.
Doesn’t this mean expulsion from the Labor Party? All is not well in the bouncy castle!
Zippster
June 25, 2024 4:11 pm
not a day goes past without some bint demonstrating how universal suffrage was a mistake
Oh, go chew on your own testicles.
Apparently, this never-heard of eejit cancels out Pauline. She is the founder of the party, errr – a woman.
Don’t try that stuff around here, pal.
The Kittehs may look fluffy and cute, but we are neither stupid or clawless.
Johanna – You are an honorary TomCat. At least with me, and I’m the cat who got all the birdies.
Johanna is a Tiger Kitteh, she has earned her stripes and her point is valid. Women are women, not needing to be honorary men.
We are also good thinkers. Some women are not though, just like some dumb men.
Quality knows no sex.
Senator Payman said crossing the floor was the “most difficult decision I have had to make” since winning a surprise third Senate seat for Labor in WA at the 2022 election.
“Although each step I took across the Senate floor felt like a mile, I know I did not walk the steps by myself,” she said.
“I walked with the West Australians, who stopped me in the streets and told me not to give up. I walked with the rank-and-file Labor Party members, who told me we must do more.
“I worked with the core values of the Labor Party: equality, justice, fairness and advocacy for the voiceless and the oppressed.
“I walked with my Muslim brothers and sisters who told me they have felt unheard for far too long. And I walked with the people of Palestine.
And with my brothers I rape my sisters. Then I force her to be a suicide bomber to redeem the family honor.
She has one job, and it’s not to “walk with the people of Palestine.”
just because … fossil fuel co2 emissions hit record high
The report you have linked to has some interesting graphs. I am just back from the dentists so will delay my analysis. Perhaps you could give it a go first?
Julian Assange is not a journalist. He is an anarchist computer hacker who used his knowledge of html code to endanger the lives of Western espionage agents.
The fact that he got a gong from the Australian journalists union tells you everything you need to know about Australian journalists – not Julian Assange.
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The Nazi senator has joined the Nazi party.
I can’t stop laughing. She’s found her natural home. Jew haters always like the company of other Jew haters. Nazis always like the company of other Nazis.
I hope WA Labor crucifies her.
First Labor pollie in thirty years to cross the floor…
Liars never forget.
She’s going to find herself WAY out of her depth in the machinations of the Labor Party.
Michael Smith reposting Martin Armstrong.
LONG COVID by Vaccination Status | Review of Lancet Medical Journal publication
Tom,
when Assange first hit the headlines due to his flooding the world with classified information, amongst the many articles written about him, was an in depth piece of his parents association with Anne Hamilton-Byrne.
Assange was actually raised alongside the stolen orphans who, as we all know, had their hair cut and bleached in a very similar fashion to the kids in “Village of the Damned”, and were touted as being Hamilton-Byrne’s biological children.
Assange was not experimented on with Psychotropic drugs like the other kids as, his parents were only so far into the practices of “The Family”.
Not long after I had read the article, I tried to find it so I could link to it for others to read it. GONE, totally. Wiped clean. Disappeared into the ether.
Interesting. Pogs, in the early 90s I knew, through a flatmate, Julian’s stepmother and his half-brother.
Cassie,
it was an extremely interesting piece. I believe it gave tremendous insight into Assange’s personality/character.
I am old enough to remember “The Family”.
Some of the children eventually met their real parents.
Hamilton-Byrne had a lot of contacts via Doctors, Solicitors etc, which is why she was able to literally buy all the children.
She was a particularly malevolent person.
Hello Sportsbet,
Yes.
$1000 on Geelong to win the GF please.
So far there are such things as small reactors, and modular designs, but there are zero small modular reactors built in meatspace.
I’m beginning to think you really are a cretin dickless. There are small SMRs in every nuclear powered vessel. The current S6G plant reactor is about 30 ft round by 40ft tall. The 220 MW S8G reactor compartment for the Ohio submarines is 42 feet (13 m) in diameter, 55 feet (17 m) long. Westinghouse is even building reactors for trucks:
Westinghouse eVinci: The Pint-Sized Mini Reactor Designed to Kick Diesel to the Curb – autoevolution
Hell, I can see the time very shortly where we’ll be able to put a small nuke between the ears of lefties.
The thing about fossils and nuclear is that they are NOT weather dependent. No weather dependent energy source can power a modern society. Dickless twerps like you who for entirely personal vanity reasons want to inflict this bullshit on the rest of us genuinely believe you won’t be affected like the rest of us. That’s called cognitive dissonance. And it won’t keep you warm or safe when the lights go out.
Mmyes cohenite, and what would the reason be that nobody is talking about adapting military reactor designs for commercial use?
Extra safety requirements that are needed on a warship (subject to battle damage) increase the cost to a degree unnecessary in a civilian application?
Next question, you’re not a deep thinker, are you?
The correct answer is the exact opposite of what you just said, BJ. You utter flowerwit.
No wonder I talk to you so rarely. You have shit for brains.
You might not talk to me often, but it is good to see that you read my comments.
Actually, they are made are about you, not directed to you, but feel free to carry on.
PS, don’t forget to link to the evidence that military reactors are built to a lesser standard. Other readers might be interested.
Mentally ill link didn’t work.
It’s here.
This payman kunt should be sent back to Afghanistan.
I thought Bill Gates’ company is breaking ground somewhere in a western state as a first. I thought I read about it, but could be wrong (though rarely if ever)
Bill Gates not pulling on a jumper for the Cats.
I really don’t know what that means.
It refers to mUntyfa’s comparison of building nuclear reactors with Geelong’s chances of making the Grand Final.
Even at The Australian:
has been voted against by both the Coalition, the Greens and independents including Jacqui Lambie, Lidia Thorpe, Ralph Babet and Malcolm Roberts.
The word ‘both’ has a new meaning.
One of my favourite piss-me-offs
The party machine is one thing, but here’s another…
She probably has quite a bit of support among Labor’s rank and file & not just in WA.
And I do mean quite a bit.
Particularly in the ALP branches of western Sydney
Chickens coming home to roost.
Over to you, Elbow.
They will do ZILCH! Khunts are too busy persecuting farmers and law-abiding firearms owners to give a sh1t!!
Not sure it’s an SMR though.
More here:
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/TerraPower-breaks-ground-for-Natrium-plant
Liddell isn’t small, but it will be missed.
In today’s sad news
https://x.com/TheMossadIL/status/1805302786168603115?t=AGDIQhTJYkg5LK7CwehY2g&s=19
Hilarious!
Oh we heard them loud and clear on 9th October 2023 and every weekend since then. Every city centre of every Australian capital city is awash with Payman’s brothers and sisters demanding the death of Israel. No can do, the era of pogroms must not be allowed to return.
Israel Haniyeh wearing the Islamic mullet, Western above the waist, jihad below.
https://x.com/IsraelWarRoom/status/1805502039981490537?t=BdAFwlroBOyr6UGvNQ6g1A&s=19
Here’s a clip of a nice pair of Boobies. 😀
https://x.com/buitengebieden/status/1804944896869999033
gannet!!
I mean dammit! … stooged again!
The Lad from Luton went to Canada at the invitation of Rebel News.
The Lad from Luton has now been arrested in Canada at the behest of Turdeau’s government.
How could anyone have expected anything less? Trudeau is merely treating him as he treats Canadian citizens.
I never agreed with people who insisted that Justin is Fidel’s son but it is becoming harder and harder not to change my mind. To be frank though if Pierre were alive today he would have done exactly the same as his son, deep down he was as communist as his hero in Cuba.
m0nster.
Can you explain what you mean by “economies of scale” as it applies to batteries?
Sancho: just imagine the economic benefits of whatever it is you mean by “modular” in SMRs, and apply it to batteries. It is not a difficult concept.
Why do I suspect that “economies of scale” is the only phrase that mUntyfa remembers from Economics 1?
If millions of EVs, lotza fixed “big batteries” and millions of small batteries in tools and electronic devices do not give economies of scale, what number will?
Canada has degenerated into a rather evil place. Never would have thought it.
Having relatives in Canada and visited there often I can say two things: Canadians are even more laid back than we are and it may be some time before they turn on their oppressors.
The other thing is that they have an inferiority complex in relation to Americans and tend to react reflexively against whatever the US does which is very short-sighted. In other words, they behave to the US as NZ behaves towards us.
SadIQ Khan, Islamist, Jew hater and current mayor of London, has banned the Union Jack. But rest assured readers, you can sleep well tonight readers, the Palestinian flag and the ISIS flag have not been banned
Londoners, or rather ex-Londoners, have enabled this. Instead of voting against Khan they escaped to the country and ceded their capital city to illegal immigrants. However, there are a lot of people who cannot escape to the country and are now at the mercy of the new majority Muslim residents.
I support Taiwanese independence
The PRC has been making that same basic threat since 1949.
I support Taiwanese independence.
Chinese Communists are the greatest mass murderers in human history.
Distraught parents of Jewish girl, 12, who was gang-raped by teens ‘because of her religion’ in Paris say the attack was an ‘imitation’ of the horrors carried out by Hamas on October 7
Daily Mail. Bring back the guillotine.
Comedian: back in the day when The Flintstones were being made and marketed, a company spokesman was rumoured to have reported that the people of Afghanistan do not like the Flintstones, but the people of Abu Dhabi Do.
Batteries will never be worthwhile “at scale” in this country, because of line losses – if you have a big, centralised battery, you have line losses twice. Locating them at the consumer is really the only option that works and we really aren’t going to get a much better outcome than what we have now. We might discover a new storage method, but that will undoubtedly use specialist materials/manufacturing techniques, meaning the costs of home batteries can’t fall much lower.
Batteries are also very vulnerable to EMP.
Non-nuclear EMP weapons have been in several national arsenals for years now.
Cassie of Sydney
June 25, 2024 4:28 pm
A bullying narcissist with anger management issues. Lawyers lauding the decision as “thoughtful” when, in fact, the jury had fallen for a carefully concocted self defence tale (at least on the death of Hill). Fortunately his fantastic tale of Clay being killed by a ricochet from an accidental firearms discharge was a bridge too far. His concerted and systematic destruction of evidence was also telling.
Most Melbourne outlets got out in front of suppression orders the minute the verdicts came down with the pre-prepared “what the jury wasn’t told” angle on the death of his first wife.
The Five, Watters and Gutfeld should be compulsory viewing.
Agree, we watch the five as often as possible.
However, it raises the question of why bother having a tiresome lefty on the panel? Jessica Tarlov was awful, and Richard the motor mouth isn’t much better. Harold Ford Jnr. tries to sugar coat his utterances, but he is also a lefty of no great value to the show.
These token lefties might serve a small purpose in illustrating how crap they and their ilk are, but is that enough? They can’t mount a valid argument so they always have to fall back on dissembling. The end result is that they are time wasters either in having to listen to them or in having to hear the other panelists taken them down.
They are a waste of space and time.
Ditto for Joe Hildebrand on Sky.
You are right, they are useless, but they allow Watters, Gutfeld, the Judge and the various little blond ladies to rip them new arses. On balance I think it is a good design: allow a token leftie to mouth leftie shit and then have the rest destroy them.
Gotta keep your enemies close.
I reckon Hildebrand adds value. He brings a, slighty sensible, Labor view. Plus he can be humorous. Dump Steve Conroy, he’s far worse.
Actual expert analysis of the turning point for the economic case for home batteries in Australia. Tesla Powerwalls are lagging on payback metrics despite being the most popular brand, but some of the lesser-known brands are finally going to make the sums add up, starting next year.
Nukes are completely unnecessary.
… any time soon, right?
Aaaany daaaay noooow!
The might (or might not) be necessary for domestic use, but they have no useful applications in supporting a modern industrial economy.
How many batteries would be essential to support the operations of a single major hospital? How many such hospitals are there in Australia? What other major users are there that you ignore as a matter of habit?
Wind, solar and batteries cannot reliably provide the continuous supply that they need.
Try to widen your mind, to consider requirements beyond your selfish domestic interests.
FMD, I used to have some time for matt canavan but he just came out and supported this POS payman’s right to cross the floor and vote with the filth. We support such personal rights intones the idiot; sure you do which is why your party is piss weak and has bastards like matt kean and turdball wreaking havoc. it’s all part of little johnnie’s broad church. Fukwit.
Tip for Matt. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt…
I will agressively oppose Dutton’s nuclear policy for as long as he intends the power industry to be a Government function.
C’ommon man!
After getting roped in Victoriastan good luck getting foreign capital into Australia for generation assets.
Hint: if government doesn’t build it no one will. Best bet – move it on when it’s up and running, although even that is full of regulatory risk.
Nukes are completely unnecessary.
No, dickless lefties are you piece of shit.
Rosie
June 25, 2024 4:44 pm
Mmmyes.
The most laughable part of his story was that Carol Clay was accidentally killed by a ricochet off the mirror of the car from an accidental discharge of his weapon.
He needed this strange coincidence for his story because, if more than one bullet was discovered, it points to the gun being fired more than once and kind of blows up his story. This is why he returned and burnt everything to a crisp and raked over the scene.
The Jurdge also tried to have mudder charges tossed early on, but this was overturned on appeal and charges reinstated. He has also applied an incredibly tight standard of admissibility to scrub all manner of evidence pointing to Lynn being a psychopathic control freak.
I’m convinced now, household wall batteries ARE going to power the nation.
I wonder if off gridders like Richard Di Natale have given up their diesel generators as back up yet.
Miltonf
June 25, 2024 6:41 pm
From Kathy Jackson’s shed?
Great moments in j’ism.
Actual expert analysis of the turning point for the economic case for home batteries in Australia.
The “Net Incentive” here has gone up (2022-2025) because power prices have increased.
This means your conclusion that “Nukes are completely unnecessary.” is coming from an alternative where power prices are much higher, and poor people just have to shiver in the dark in the early hours of the morning after their battery runs out.
Oops, lost quote marks on first paragraph.
Mmyes cohenite, and what would the reason be that nobody is talking about adapting military reactor designs for commercial use?
You’re such a fukwit:
Floating ‘mini-nukes’ could power countries by 2025, says startup | Nuclear power | The Guardian
The ships are fitted with one or more small nuclear reactors, which can generate electricity and transmit the power to the mainland. The first ship of this kind began supplying heat and electricity to the Russian port of Pevek on the East Siberian Sea in December 2019.
Troels Schönfeldt, the chief executive of Seaborg, said the company’s 100-megawatt compact molten salt reactor would take two years to build and would generate electricity that would be cheaper than coal-fired power.
Ah yes cohenite, those will be real handy for all of Australia’s ice-locked fjords.
You clown.
Fallen flat on your face again? What is the relevance of fjords? The power is supplied independent of the surroundings.
Is it time for you to put the kiddies to bed? Distracted?
WTF have fjords got to do with it? Put the bottle down.
Reposted for excellence:
Here’s the kicker:
There’s blue collars for that. Or not.
Right mUnter?
Finally …
They’re going to dunk him in Sydney Harbour like I suggested?
m0nty
June 25, 2024 8:04 pm
Expert analysis?
A completely useless body of tax hoovering ideologues headed by an uberwoke feminist who among other things, “became (in 2022) one of Australia’s inaugural ambassadors for the global Energy Equality Initiative, supporting the urgent task of improving female representation in the energy sector.”
TOP MEN!
I now know what ‘soshul coheshun’ means…..apologies all, it’s just taken me eight and a half months….
‘Soshul coheshun’ allows for the screaming, shouting and screeching of ‘gas the Jews’, ‘kill the Jews’ and ‘where’s the Jews’. There’ll be no charges, no arrests
‘Soshul coheshun’ allows for the weekly Palestinian Jew hate festivals where you will hear screams, shouts and screeches of ‘from the river to the sea’….translation is “genocide the Jews in Israel’. There’ll be no charges, no arrests.
‘Soshul coheshun’ means you’re allowed to drive through Jewish suburbs on the Sabbath to intimidate and threaten Jewish residents. There’ll be no charges, no arrests.
‘Soshul coheshun’ means harassing Jews outside Melbourne City Council. There’ll be no charges, no arrests.
‘Soshul coheshun’ means doxxing Jewish artists. There’ll be no charges, no arrests.
‘Soshul coheshun’ means preaching ‘kill the Jews’ at a Friday sermon in Lakemba. There’ll be no charges, no arrests.
‘Soshul coheshun’ means vandalising Jewish owned products, labelling them ‘Zionist’ products. There’ll be no charges, no arrests.
‘Soshul coheshun’ means ‘protesting’ for ‘Palestine’, as what happened in Melbourne’s CBD last weekend, when leftist and Muslim protesters swarmed the CBD and held up offensive banners and posters with Nazi style imagery, where they replaced the swastika with the Star of David, very vivid of Nazi Germany…..and of course there were ‘no charges, no arrests’.
I could go on, it never ends. But tell me one thing, just who are the ‘real Nazis’ here?
It also means one group can cross the floor without sanction in the Labor party.
Gotta look after the Western Suburbs vote.
Some very gratifying news just in.
The Strayan T20 crickit team has been eliminated from the World Cup.
Much grumbling about swarthies engaging in unsportsmanlike conduct in the match between Bongladesh and Afghanistan. Straya needed the Bangers to win, but the Terrorists got up, aided by Messrs Duckworth and Lewis and some creative time-wasting as the rain rolled in.
Why is this gratifying?
Well, it is the end of the road for the Cheating Midget Houso Ranga.
I do hope he displays his usual lack of self awareness and has a sook about the Terrorists being cheats.
the lesser-known brands are finally going to make the sums add up, starting next year.
Nukes are completely unnecessary.
Care to name some of the lesser known brands, Monty? Got some contact details? And are you doing a three for two deal, for your own domestic residence plus the two investment properties? Do tell us the details.
Do your own research. Compare the market, simples!
housewife
No details means he just made it up.
You’ve been watching Energiser Bunny videos on YouTube again m0nster?
It will not happen otherwise.
It’s a cost of capital exercise – over a 60 year economic life, unimaginable to non-government owners.
Government can throw capital in at ~5% – no tax.
PrivateNuke will require 15%-20%.
The cost of the energy coming out under PrivateNuke will be about 4x to 6x the cost under government ownership.
Sounds like pinko commie talk.
Critical rationalism.
It is only pinko commie talk when Labour makes a decision. At least it demonstrates that some conservatives aren’t always obsessed about small government and privatization.
The below is from Kiwiblog, tomorrow when I get some time I’ll track down the source. All I’ll say is the observed rise funnily enough corresponds with the figures I learned in 2nd year Atmospheric Chemistry when we covered this subject before it was totally politicised in Uni’s. Why overstate the temp rises unless there is another agenda?
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2024/06/guest_post_climate_policy_or_another_agenda.html
Dennis Shanahan
Labor is usually tough in dealing with rats in the rank, but don’t expect that for Fatima Payman
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Fatima Payman. Picture: NewsWire/Martin Ollman
There is a century-old Labor tradition of dealing with rats in the ranks, those Labor MPs who have taken the party’s support, promotion and parliamentary payment, and then disloyally turned against the ALP.
That traditional payment is expulsion, ostracisation, the public pillory and condemnation through the ages.
Fatima Payman, a 29-year-old Muslim, female senator from Western Australia, now stands in the ranks of the rats and awaits her sentence.
Payman crossed the floor of the Senate and voted against her Labor colleagues and with the Greens that Anthony Albanese has excoriated in recent weeks as he condemned the Greens’ sympathy for pro-Palestinian violent demonstrations.
Payman has fuelled tribal anger within the ALP, made the Prime Minister look weak on his emotional parliamentary attacks over pro-Palestinian, again divided the ALP’s message on the Middle East and distracted from the government’s priorities.?
But don’t hold your breath for the “loosing” of the Labor dogs of war against the two-year senator, there will be excuses made and exceptions given.
When Queensland Labor senator Mal Colston turned rat against the ALP in 1996 – in return for the cheesy job of vice-president of the Senate – and later carried the sale of Telstra for the Howard government, the vitriol was unrelenting.
Colston was termed the “king rat”, ostracised and pursued at every turn. He was an easy target for Labor wrath: he was old, male, fat, greedy and without friends.
Now, consider Payman: young, female, Muslim, with friends and supporting Palestine, not seeking payment or promotion.
It’s the same crime but don’t expect the same punishment.
Rebel News HQ:
TOMMY ROBINSON HAS BEEN RELEASED!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8kT93hNKus
It’s a little late to become concerned about sticky Government fingers tipping the scales of energy policy one way or the other.
Oh my wordy lordy indeedy yes.
A bit of a ‘fake cramp’ for a fielder, juuuust as the rain starts falling, and delaying any opportunity for the Bangers to get ahead of the DLS system before it started pissing down.
If rumours are true, this pantomime was kicked off by the Afghan coach – a former English batsman named Jonathan Trott who was mentally destroyed and retired from playing after being subject to a barrage of accurate chin music from Mitchell Johnson during an Ashes tour of Straya.
Revenge from beyond the grave, so to speak.
I’m comfortable with this.
Not sure why, probably tiredness + Mel Bracewell, but I’m just now watching Qld Ch10.
Australian Zoo is presently running ads with 100% Steve Irwin, mastered in.
Looks like the anti-PHON ‘Robbie Irwin’ legal letter has backfired bigly and the manbuns are struggling to recover.
I’ve been AWOL for a couple of months… not that you’d notice as I lurk far more than I comment.
Anyway, SWMBO and I agree that we are now officially living in a country and western song.
Mum died in late March. Sad, but expected, and whoever (Bruce?) suggested Hosea as the OT reading really got it spot on.
4 weeks later, my sister with MS let that “nice man from the bank” have her install some software on her computer, gave him passwords and 2FA codes and the money she’d put aside for her two granddaughters’ secondary education was gone. Well over $100k. Gonski. No recourse.
After having two Mac expert friends clean out her computer and make sure things were up to snuff, I travelled down for the day to her home in Mt Eliza and changed everything from email addresses to passwords to whatever else. And changed the way her bank accounts are setup up.
I travelled home feeling I’d done good….
To discover that SWMBO had left our back door (which is on a small but well-travelled lane) wide open and, yes, we’d been robbed. Clever buggers… they’d pinched a spare car key and SWMBO’s iPad, and used “find my Phone” to wander over and see if the car key matched a car in the vicinity. It did.
It was quite amusing. I rang her to tell her to get home to see what of hers had been taken (some handbags – I had NO idea how expensive handbags are! – and a bit of jewellery, but not her “good stuff”) and she told me she’d be home ASAP. Rang me back 90 seconds later to tell me she’d have to get an Uber, because her can was gone!
Three days later SWMBO’s father died. He was 91 so I guess it wasn’t unexpected, but it was a huge surprise. He was pretty much fighting fit. Did his weekly physio, went down to afternoon tea and didn’t appear for dinner. Hit everyone for six.
Oh, and we had booked a Ghan trip from Darwin to Adelaide starting 4 days after that. Whilst I understand that there’s no refund in that situation, you might have though a token 30% credit voucher for a future journey would have been a nice touch… we even supplied a death certificate. But no.
Luckily, we no longer have a dog, or he’d be long gone!
None of which has much to do with anything, but you have to see the black humour. Good to see that this place hasn’t changed much in my absence.
Good Lord.
Good Lord Mark from Melbourne — NO-ONE deserves all of that !!!
Pardon my ignorance but what does SWMBO stand for?
She Who Must Be Obeyed
She Who Must Be Obeyed (Rumple of the bailey reference).
AKA my wife of 43 years… and dating for coming up 51!
Holy crap, John.
That’d knock anyone around.
Geez, buy a lotto ticket and see if things even out a bit.
Or at least buy the sprig of luck Heather next time an old crone knocks on the door instead of horse whipping her.
the worlds gone to shit but, chin up mate
Must have walked on a Chinaman’s grave, Mark.
That’s beyond even being funny. WAAAAY beyond. Sorry to hear that, Mark.
That’s a lot of bad luck. Sorry to hear. You must have been impersonating Clay Davis now and then.
Cripes Mark,
I wish I could shout you a stiff drink.
The trick.
This analysis assumes the customer still pays the fixed daily supply charge but avoids all variable peak wholesale and network costs.
Naturally.
Mark from Melbourne
June 25, 2024 9:24 pm
…
But apart from that, everything is fine, right?
Rippingly well, Sancho!
West Australian senator Fatima Payman will likely avoid expulsion or suspension from the parliamentary Labor Party after defiantly crossing the floor and voting with the Greens against the government’s position on Palestine.
Despite Labor MPs telling The Australian they believed the 28-year-old senator needed to be kicked out or suspended, a government spokeswoman said there was no “mandated sanction”.
Labor MPs said they were hoping Anthony Albanese would call a snap caucus meeting on Wednesday to decide her fate, but a senior party source said the Prime Minister was unlikely to instigate a move to punish her.
Albanese wimps a major issue…
Albo is SUCH A WIMP !
Won’t say I told you … but I told you!
She gets away with it because Muslim. That shows us how the future dealings will go – watch the bastards flood in now.
And just like that decades of unquestioned adherence to the unbreakable rule of comradely party loyalty became meaningless. What a lank squid Albo is.
Dr F at 9:23.
I strongly believe the litigation advice came from someone connected with Tourism Queensssland, who had engaged Young Master Irwin to spruik for Mr Miles.
They thought there would be some mileage for Miles in bashing Pauline.
Turns out, there was nothing in it for Miles, and a fair bit of panel-beating required for Young Master Irwin’s happy-go-lucky Aussie image.
I have no doubt a sensible family lawyer would have advised him to trouser the tourism cash and let the government flunky doing the eggin’ on also do the litigatin’ if they so desire.
KD …
Well, I’m not entirely comfortable.
To close this circle we need the Lying Cheating Houso Ranga to openly accuse the Afghan Hounds of cheating.
At which point, the Terrorists don SBW masks and passing scraps of yellow sandpaper around amongst themselves.
As the USA puts more petrol on the Ukrainian fire. Some advice from the past.(Kissinger and Shultz, 2008)
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/06/sydney-uni-promo-video-features-muslim-in-keffiyeh-and-necklace-showing-destruction-of-israel.html
SHUT IT DOWN!!!
FIRE THEM ALL!!!
They need to be using Bush Barbie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4emVOBUK1fo
https://qalerts.app/?q=%231195
H/T Burning Bright.
Convergence.
Mileage varies in the truth community regarding Julian Assange, and whether or not he’s been acting on behalf of patriots in a clandestine manner, or if he simply got tangled up in a self-serving web that resulted in him being caught between an ancient criminal cabal and the most intricate MIL INT operation ever devised.
Here’s the thing: Assange’s intent doesn’t matter. All that matters is what he knows. More so, what the Narrative CLAIMS he knows.
Whatever Assange knows re: Seth Rich, the Clinton Foundation, the DNC and MUCH, much more, patriots already know. Guess what? Patriots also know the 2020 election was stolen, that Covid was a hoax and that Vladimir Putin is NOT going to nuke anyone.
All of which is comforting, but secondary to the War of Stories, in which core truths are being translated and then delivered to the American people through Mind-Movers and cyphers, also known as characters.
For long-time Anons, it’s feeling VERY 2017 lately.
How’s Hillary?
The UK poll tracking suggests that the Tory slump in voting intentions in favour of Reform has slowed.
Broadly this is pointing to a Labour supermajority, a Tory rump behind the LibDems, and Reform with an ineffectual presence in Parliament.
The latest Tory scandal now working through the UK media may shift the dial.
Some interesting gadgets. I like the automatic kitchen.
Around the 3 minute mark.
Little film recommendation for a strange, violent Kiwi offering
Dead lands.
Hint of ” the Northman” and a smidge of Apocolipto and very merciless.
https://www.google.com/search?q=dead+lands&oq=dead+lands&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTINCAEQLhiRAhiABBiKBTIHCAIQLhiABDINCAMQABiRAhiABBiKBTIGCAQQRRg9MgYIBRBFGD0yBggGEEUYPDIHCAcQLhiABDIHCAgQABiABDIHCAkQABiABDIHCAoQLhiABDIHCAsQABiABDIHCAwQABiABDIHCA0QABiABDIHCA4QABiABNIBCDM3OTBqMGo3qAIZsAIB&client=ms-android-tcl-rvo2b&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=vclbx
@MikeBenzCyber
western democracy is getting arrested by eight undercover officers in the audience as you give a speech criticizing immigration policy
Fatboy,
Sanchez asked you earlier to explain what you meant by the comment referring to economies of scale in potential new battery technology. You, big fat lesbian, economies of scale has nothing to do with the operation. And as for production, you would be seeing scaling now for existing batteries. You’re such an idiot.
You are far too kind to the idiot.
Take a look at unit costs for home batteries across the last five, ten, twenty years. There have already been massive drops in production costs. This trend will continue like it did for solar PV.
While it is not right to say home battery technology is mature, it’s about to pass from the Matt-Gaetz-wants-your-number phase into maturity very soon.
Germany going nuts again.This time it took them a little longer.
Germany is being punished not only for the war, she is being punished for rejecting Socialism.
Postcard from Tunis
Here in Tunisia using credit cards is difficult. The taxis all use cash only. Uber is 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 year ago. Westpac reimbursed. A lot of places are cash, and they have a law you cannot take dinar out of the country, so it’s a bit of a calculation as to how much to exchange in the knowledge you need to spend it all before flying out.
This is very much a country of contrasts. Much of Tunis is Third World: lots of rubbish on the street; poorly surfaced pavements; smells; stray cats. But then you turn a corner and there are clean streets of modern shops, houses and banks. Cannot drink the water, so discarded bottles everywhere. Quite a security presence on the streets. Several times we saw light armed vehicles, and there were plenty of army sentries around.
We went to see the ruins of Carthage, about 20kms from the city centre, and there was a decent multi-lane highway to it. The ruins were very extensive, maybe eight k’s across. The Carthaginians, basically a sort of melded Jewish/Arab/Berber mix, had the ruling empire of the Mediterranean from around 900BC, but the nascent Roman Empire took them on and beat them.
Travelled further south. In the main Tunis railway station where what looked like six plain-clothes police had some people contained in a side-room. After some yelling over 20 minutes the perps emerged handcuffed in pairs – all much darker Africans than the locals. Looked like illegal immigration being contained.
The train system seemed to work ok, but a big rush to get in and even in first class, everyone did not get a seat. Think the train went faster than ours in Australia.
The countryside is very much grassed and generally flat, but with some gentle hills. In some places it looks like the areas around Parkes, NSW. Very dry. No stock to be seen. Lots of olive trees and some grapes. In some areas the prickly pear is used as a fence. Big sheds – presume they may be poultry. Lots of hay being transported south by truck. Nearer the towns sadly you see more rubbish everywhere, and the blue plastic bags everyone uses from the shops have been blown by the wind to end up all around.
Not sure about Tunis at all…now going south to Sousse and beyond…
Very envious of seeing ruins of Carthage. Have never managed to get there.
One of the easiest things to do in Tunis, without the need for a trek further south or inwards.
Must put Tunis and Carthage on the list now, TE. Thanks for the report. Gives us a pretty good idea of what to expect. If you can’t take cash out and over got too much left then head to a jewellery shop. Mrs. TE won’t object to a new ring or even a necklace. You can probably top up the leftovers with a credit card in such a shop too. Win-win.
how that came out like that I don’t know. If you have got too much left over, that’s what it should be.
Good rant from the Rev:
Glastonbury baby, left wing hypocrite rant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqkzRfCK9oM
John Spooner.
Peter Broelman.
Russia-Ukraine war: At least 5 dead after missile fragments scatter over beachgoers in Crimea | CNN
If a single cluster bomb hit a beach there would have been many more than 4 dead so it looks more like fragments.
Brett Lethbridge.
Patrick Blower.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Chip Bok.
Tom Stiglich.
Henry Payne.
The News website, usually filled with bikini click bait, has really jumped the shark today and leads with something worthy of Raw Story, MSNBC or CNN. They say that if Trump wins in November he will “blow up the world economy”.
It might be more accurate to say that President Placeholder, Obama’s Third Term, has brought the USA to its knees. In the next few years unless there is extreme corrective action the indebtedness of the USA will blow that nation up and rewrite the world pecking order and economy.
“blow up the world economy” – did they forget their part in cheerleading our elites locking people in their own homes, shuttering businesses and causing massive inflation?
Never looked at News.com.au, never need to again.
Sorry to read of your woes MarkofMelbourne.
It’s hard to lose parents, no matter how old they might be.
The avoidables that would rankle for me.
Tunisia sounds delightful TE.
I would like to visit Carthage but only if Tunis were avoidable.
Part of net zero is electric cars.
Sounds like the powers that be have though of all of this for decades.
https://x.com/WhosFibbing/status/1804989287555060080?t=YmrFwYWbXo7Utnu3-PdcNA&s=19
Its good to see some real (anec)data for once on this issue.
I’ve been banging on about this to who’ever will listen for ages – if you want to go all electric vehicle, you have to essentially *double* the current electricity generation capacity, plus all the distribution network that goes along with that.
Residential homes and suburbs are just not wired for that sort of power draw.
If only elbow had Monty Whispering in his ear.
https://www.aph.gov.au/News_and_Events/Watch_Read_Listen/ParlView/video/2572778?startTime=16045
Your word for the day, Cats: academentia
RTWT at The Critic for an insight into the alternative reality of academe.
Do contemporary academics represent the end stage of Western culture or are they an alien fifth column intent on subverting it?
Both.
The roots of academentia are not in Western culture.
It’s like a parasite.
Academentia is a religion. To remove oneself from it you have to first of all remove yourself from its foundation – a deistic concept called Patriarchy from which stems all evil in the world. This is closely aligned to patriarchy’s ‘natural kingdom’, which is called Racist Colonial Capitalism. Sadly, even those, like this author, who see through Academentia’s anti-civilisational output, still tend to have these defining deistic theologies as part of their mental apparatus. Learning to live with the natural fact that men and women differ and have a biologically-founded complementarity in social life is the first step towards attaining freedom from the Academentia which pervades our culture. Only then is the Capitalist Kingdom of Patriarchy thoroughly shaken. The humanistic vision of normal men and women behaving as social actors in diverse cultures, transacting in markets, then offers a far more realistic foundation on which to base any complex analysis of what is actually going on in the world.
I am now halfway through a Christmas present tome I had expressed interest in reading: Philippa Gregory’s book titled “Normal Women”. It is an in-depth read, a gallop through female contributions to economic life and female political engagement of various everyday sorts, as shown in historical documentation in the West from the Early Middle Ages to the present day. Although clearly a ‘feminist’ with vague Academentia notions about ‘gender’ as a construct occasionally hinted when women are shown to buck traditional systems, Gregory’s humanistic historical approach wins out. She tends to present an absolute bucket of data for each era, a taken-for-granted reality organised only under loose rubrics, such as ‘slavery’, ‘sexual life’, ‘home life’ and ‘women in Guilds’ etc. This means there is minimal telling you what to think of the data, which is refreshing.
Her material shows, as we might expect, that normal women of many different statuses took on various roles over the centuries, often against male opposition and often due to economic necessity. Gregory shows that although seemingly hidden from history, women were there, making it. Just as were many unsung men too, I might add, as Gregory rather tends to ignore or dismiss that women also benefitted from some of the domestic life to which biology largely consigned them in the pre-modern era. Still, an engaging read.
These memes, which pop up regularly on X just show the weaken of muslim logic.
It’s a choice.
i can’t abide seeing little girls in hijab.
it implies the sight of their hair might inflame the lust of some muslim male.
https://x.com/BriannaWu/status/1805564231749714393?t=9KyEVqioe5mxV5ZEbmTRRg&s=19
Doing the bidding of his masters, the ALP branches of western Sydney.
Paywalled but those who can have a read.
Unicorns and pigs sighted over Monty’s house.
https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/drought-hits-wind-power-despite-investment-billions-20240623-p5jo0e
Chris
June 25, 2024 7:41 pm
I support Taiwanese independence.
Chinese Communists are the greatest mass murderers in human history.
I think you will find, that Fauci, the CDC, Trump and all the other world leaders who pushed the Cyclon-B jab, (thanks Scummo), might take that laurel.
Wow, Fatima is not in the Senate for WA she’s there for a minority group. Well done ALP for nominating her and LNP for directing preferences her way.
As for her fathers values, spare me. Another on who leaves his family for 4 years while he country shops. Great guy.
Walking talking Marxist identity politics
mUntyfa seems to be taking the traditional approach of failed economists to the whole “BigBattery” issue. It goes as follows:
“First, let us assume a breakthrough in battery technology such that the new, exciting, Imaginarium-ion battery the size of a 12 volt car battery can provide electricity to a house for a full week, and recharges in five minutes ….”
There are a few other minor steps, but in short, we are saved! mUntyfa be praised!
It’s a very long article (pasted a few paras) probably paywalled but Monty assured us it’s a piddling problem and everyone knows Monty knows best.
You just can’t have gas.
“Billions of dollars of investment in wind farms over several years have been unable to prevent a “drought” in wind power generation this quarter that has surprised the market and contributed to a squeeze on east-coast gas supplies inflating wholesale prices.
Electricity generation from wind farms in the National Electricity Market since April 1 is roughly flat compared with the same quarter in 2021, despite about 2500 megawatts of wind capacity having been added since then, according to an analysis by electricity market watcher Global-ROAM.
Energy policy advisers have previously warned about the risk of a “renewables drought” in winter months, a situation described by the German word dunkelflaute. Meaning “dark doldrums”, it refers to a prolonged period when both solar and wind power generation are subdued.
Since 2020, wind power capacity has increased by about half, or almost 4000 megawatts, but total production of electricity from wind this June quarter may only be up about 15 per cent, the analysis finds. In fact, June quarter wind generation in the NEM may be the lowest since 2017, it said.
The numbers highlight the natural volatility in generation from renewable energy sources that can have increasingly large impacts on power grids as round-the-clock baseload coal generators close. Energy executives point to the need for investment across different clean energy technologies and regions, and for improved transmission.On average, onshore wind power capacity cost more than $2 million per megawatt over 2021-24, according to CSIRO data, pointing to an investment cost of more than $5 billion for 2500 megawatts of capacity, or more than $8 billion for 4000 megawatts.
In its alert last week on the gas supply situation on the east coast, AEMO cited “unusually low” wind power generation levels, reduced gas production at ExxonMobil’s Longford plant in Victoria, and cold weather. The situation drove up wholesale prices for gas, alarming industrial buyers.
‘Respite’ on gas prices
Gas prices have since retreated from the highs of around $28 per gigajoule seen late last week, but were still elevated on Monday at about $19 a gigajoule in Sydney and more than $17 a gigajoule in Melbourne. That compares with prices averaging around $12 to $12.50 per gigajoule earlier this year, industry sources said.
“Storage is still being drawn, so by the end of the month this may leave us with only two weeks’ worth of gas at the recent very high draw-down rates,” MST Marquee energy analyst Saul Kavonic said, referring to withdrawal rates of around 400 terajoules a day at the east coast’s main gas storage plant, the Iona plant near Port Campbell in Victoria.
“There will be very little buffer left in case Longford gas supply or coal power generation [units] trip again.”
In all, wind power generation in the June quarter might be as much as 3 million megawatt-hours short of what might have been expected for April-June, Global-ROAM’s Paul McArdle said, describing the picture as both “frightening” but also unsurprising on some grounds.
He said that while lulls in the wind resource due to persistent high-pressure weather systems were a factor, other issues also came into play, including potentially poor plant availability and the possible “spilling” or curtailment of wind generation for economic reasons or grid constraints. Mr McArdle also pointed to natural instances of “wind droughts” occurring roughly five years apart.
The Australian market is most affected by low wind power rather than solar, leading some experts to decline to apply dunkelflaute to present conditions.The risk of dunkelflaute is typically used as an argument for retaining gas power generation that can produce electricity on demand within an increasingly renewables-reliant power system, and for installing more storage. The NEM’s last “wind drought” was in 2017, Global-ROAM said.”
https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/drought-hits-wind-power-despite-investment-billions-20240623-p5jo0e
Simple fact is that renewables are not reliables and no amount of money thrown at them will change that.
Disney Director Sohrab Makker: ‘No Non-White, Non-Jewish’ Hires, Calls CEO ‘Corrupt’
O’Keefe Media Group
Walt Disney Television’s Director of Production/Finance, Sohrab “Dave” Makker reveals Disney won’t hire anyone “who’s not white or not Jewish” for C-Suite roles, confirming discriminatory hiring practices detailed in OMG’s ‘The Disney Tapes: Part 1.’
Makker, who tracks diversity in annual reports, reveals that the reports “tell us the diverse cast of members that are in there,” and that he has witnessed “the number count go up.”
Makker says Disney prioritizes LGBTQ stories for children, stating, “We insert diversity when it’s not really organic to the story,” admitting shows have “flopped” because “the audience didn’t connect” to forced diversity.
He calls Disney CEO Bob Iger “corrupt,” saying, “He just wants to stay in power.” He proceeds to criticize Elon Musk, calling him a “narcissist” driven by attention, yet agrees with Musk’s call for Iger’s firing.
Whilst I am glad the Julian Assange soap opera is finally coming to an end, I agree with many that Assange is NOT a hero and he most certainly is NOT a journalist.
But what is journalism in 2024? Sadly, journalism has become a highly debased and partisan occupation, where journalism is now ‘activism’, particularly activism for the progressive left. Public trust and respect for journalism is at an all time low.
Perhaps if journalism and journalists had stuck to their knitting over the last two decades, reported facts and tried to engage in objective analysis and commentary instead of partisan activism, then the likes of Julian Assange and Wikileaks would never have been accorded heroic status.
Julian Assange is NO hero.
I cannot believe that this man is being treated like a hero by many prominent Australians. As someone said today – this guy is a classic narcissist who is incapable of analysing the accusations concerning his release of military data. If my memory serves me right I believe that that data included names of protagonists eg names of translators et al. – which put people in danger who should have remained protected.
I am a determined protector of freedom of speech – but this does not extend to release of military data that assists the enemy in an active war zone.
Nice sentiment, Cassie, but that would require journalists to respect their readers and 90% of journalists don’t. They think their readers are too stupid to vote and need to be told what to think.
That’s the main reason public trust in journalism is next to zero. Most journalists despise their readers.
Funnily enough that was not the case when reporters learned their craft on the job. The change came when courses were established at university level and graduates were told they are journalists, no longer reporters who mainly asked the five questions – who, what, where, when and why – in order to report accurately on events. Journalists erroneously imagine that we want to know what they think rather than learn facts of a matter.
So much for the orderly transition.
Shot across the bows of the Labour Party in the UK.
Vauxhall owner threatens to close UK car factories as 2,600 jobs on the line (25 Jun)
Nice wedgie for Starmer. Politically he can’t possibly relax the forced EV adoption rules, and the punters are getting even more hostile towards EVs. Sales numbers have been cratering, except for fleet buyers and they’re pretty tepid too.
I suppose all Labour can do is subsidize the plants to stay open, which probably is why Ms Davino has chosen to fess all this now, just before the election. Is this called greenmail or blackmail? Asking for a Labour pollie.
Not the time to be ‘expelling people for having particular views’ on Palestine: Deputy PMBy Josefine GankoDeputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has re-asserted that Labor Senator Fatima Payman will not be expelled from the party after crossing the floor to vote with the Greens on recognising Palestinian statehood.
“She won’t be [expelled],” Marles told Nine’s Today, which is against the strong precedent in the Labor caucus to vote with the party or face expulsion.
“The point to make here is, you know, since the events of October 7 and the tragedy that we have seen play out in the Middle East, what we’ve also seen is social cohesion in this country come under enormous pressure. And all of us need to be doing everything we can to try and bring people together,” Marles said.
“Now is not the time to be going around expelling people for having particular views on this issue. And we’re not going to be doing that.”
Marles continued that Payman still espouses Labor values, and wants to continue serving under the party:
Oh yes, diversity is our strength. Watch as another effette Labor minister shows the wukkas how a Geelong grammar old boy can unite radical Islam and Jews.
While still having time to spend three and a half million on joyrides.
Note Westerman spruiking for investors.
Westerman is a cardboard cut out slick willy for the renewable investment lobby.
He won’t be at AEMO forever…cultivating future options.
AEMO is a believer. Are their numbers any good?
Elon Musk Responds to Disney Caught Discriminating Against White Men
The Rubin Report
JC
June 25, 2024 11:14 pm
Fatboy,
Steady on.
He barely made it out of O-week in his brief and not so illustrious economics career.
But yes, in operation it is simply additive with zero volume benefits, and in production they are well down the curve, with sfa incremental benefits to be had.
Did I mention three-eyed fish?
Small calibre shot compared to the UK’s second largest union not backing Labour because their accelerated decarbonisation program will see upwards of 30 000 jobs go from North Sea oil.
unless regional communities back the acceleration of renewable energy and construction of 10,000km of transmission lines
Yep, if everyone outside of the southern coastal drive-thru coffee belt could just bend over to ease the insertion of these lovely unicorn horns, that’d be greeeat, gaia thanks you, ta
Yep, it’s all our fault – not theirs – that the stupid bloody plan designed by ideologues with sod all experience beyond student activism, is going tits up.
Rita Panahi:
Now on Paul Murray last night, video emerged of the cretin’s cretin bemoaning in 2003 the payrise given to the then Governor General which clocked in at $50k.
Which is a fair amount of largesse given of course. But how can Albo fly off the handle in 2003, and now give more of your dosh away, $200k payrise and say it’s all hunky dory?
His media managers might have their work cut out for them in the next day or so to have Albo slur his sorry arse out of this pickle.
Panahi making the point made here – Liars deliver outcomes for da bruvvas and maaates. Remember that old chestnut, “What’s the difference between the Lieborals and the Liars?” “About three years.”
“The report makes little mention of nuclear, with AEMO insisting it cannot include the Coalition’s preferred policy into its thinking as it is illegal under federal law”.
What a lame duck of an excuse is this? If that was so then there would have been no debate or costings on the nuclear subs. Does anyone here know the legal status of AEMO taking this stance?
Its not an unreasonable line to take; planning on changes in law is usually likely to be pointless, but perhaps strategic. A lawyer would consider that it is illegal to make a contract or run a business plan that deliberately breaks the law.
But the real reason would be that they are not there to help the Opposition.
So Labor crunched the numbers on expelling the ex-‘fugee bint and went ‘oh crap”..
Great job spacktards of the uniparties for importing ethnic/religious voting blocks in high enough numbers that you are beholden to them.
Mmm…yes; it’s just policy she seems to have an issue with.
John Howard isn’t returning calls.
Looks like they’re lying by omission.
The real capacity of a wind farm is about 30% of its headline capacity. Now it may be that AFR forgot to mention that, or that CSIRO is using the actual capacity not the headline one, but typically that isn’t the case. And my spidey sense is itching.
Which suggests for average capacity of 2,500 MW you’d be paying about $17 billion not $5 billion. For that we could buy an EPR2 advanced pressurized water reactor with a life of 60 years. And since the wind turbines are only good for 20 years we could then buy two more EPR2s over the 60 year period, coming to not 2,500 but 5,000 MW.
So on that basis it turns out that nuclear is half the price of the cheapest wind farm technology, needs no backup and is always on…
the method to malthusian madness
this is not climate science, it’s horror fiction
Another hostage confirmed to have been killed on 7 October
https://x.com/StandWithUs/status/1805282389658087784?t=cb7gWJAxHwZXn1WZ3wDpyA&s=19
Awesome, making electricity so expensive that people turn to pre-electricity ways of keeping warm, leading to pre-electricity hazards and deaths.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-25/westminster-couple-in-critical-condition-after-burning-charcoal/104020956
Running the nuclear numbers.
Oh noes, they might have to turn off uselessables because nuclear is too efficient.
https://x.com/ChrisMartzWX/status/1805282797726449947?t=n1a9w_0i6b_wtAGUzo_bKQ&s=19
mUntyfa failed Economics 1, the numbers quoted in that article are faaar too big for his tiny mind to comprehend, even if that tiny mind was not completely closed.
The senate has long been a greenhouse of perfidy.
WA does not have a great record when it comes to the lower Senate spots as is often pointed out here. Gumnut twins anyone?
Christobel & …?
Best left forgotten.
A greenhouse…brilliant !
Unrepresentative swill.
Every once in a while Keating made an apt comment.
AEMO’s ISP assumes the weather for the next thirty years.
This has to be the pinnacle of the consulting economist’s craft.
At our first meeting with AEMO managers we were told the wind would be blowing enough somewhere to keep the grid ticking along if they overbuilt the system everywhere across the country.
Needless to say the assembled farmers weren’t impressed with this and openly laughed at the absurdity of the statement. Only Monty types could swallow the bullshit coming from the mouths of these experts.
A laughable fiction. As you say mUnty level thinking.
Even an Economics 1 failure should be able to understand the stupidity of a deliberate plan to overbuild ruinable generators in the vague hope that some, somewhere, will be producing some output.
Thousands of American Climate Corps Workers Will Deploy This Month
Straight out of the Communist Manifesto – mobilise the masses in make work/make believe government jobs.
John Anderson tells it like it is. Without reliable power (aka nuclear, since coal is off the menu) we are headed for complete de-industrialisation and here comes the barista economy.
We’ll, at least with all the Yartz and Sociology graduates coming from the universities, there shouldn’t be a shortage of over-qualified baristas.
We had a barista economy in 2019,
They wiped it out in 2020 for political power.
There will be no coffee bars either, they use too much electricity.
Blair’s Law in action.
Horror moment protester wades into Rishi Sunak’s lake to ‘take a s***’ and make a point (25 Jun)
So “Youth Demand” has members aged up to 52, is against river pollution, are antisemites, and to protest all this they pollute a lake. Oh.
A video captured the gut-wrenching moment
Another kiddie reporter to the fore .. LOL!
Prunes. Or more fibre.
Did they find the old guy’s Subaru?
He should be out making tea and coffee for Get Up not taking a dump in a pond.
how symbolic, everything the left touches turns to sh!t
Bruce O’Nuke, you’re looking for “Logic”. It doesn’t exist in these peoples minds or lexicon.
But what is journalism in 2024?
Yes, it’s partisan activism as Cassie said. This entails them being promulgators of misinformation/disinformation.
The barista economy is already on its knees, in part due to electrickery prices, with coffee shops now operating on very thin and unsustainable margins one rent rise away from closing.
The future is the bedpan economy.
Look on the good side, all the Yartz and Sociology graduates coming from the universities to be baristas will still be able to be re-trained as bedpan operators, though it might take a bit longer.
I’m sure he mean’t to say .. “terrorist attacks are abhorrent and have consequences” .. BUT ..!
“The point to make here is, you know, since the events of October 7 and the tragedy that we have seen play out in the Middle East, what we’ve also seen is social cohesion in this country come under enormous pressure. And all of us need to be doing everything we can to try and bring people together,” Marles said.
Great post Rosie.
I’m passing it along to our groups. We hosted a nuclear energy forum in our town last year to inform the community of the alternative to renewables.
Ahead of the curve and adaptable but then again, we’re farmers.
Yep – its important as, even in farming areas, you have the dissidents. In our case, we have a few very vocal “greenie” hobby farmers on small blocks in the region. They tend to dominate the local Facebook website. Last week I posted a restrained, amiable ( I can be!) call for locals to do independent research on nuclear energy which is readily available on the internet. As I said at the time – there was an eerie silence after that from the greenies.
Information is disinfectant to the scum they promote.
The electrons don’t give a shit about their origin. People who think otherwise are idiots. Nuclear is the most efficient way to liberate them.
“Free The Electrons Now!”
Why should rural Australia have to bear the burden of supplying electricity to urban Australia? Rural Australia already bears the burden of supplying their food.
Wind generators on every urban headland and ridgeline. Solar panels in every public park, sports stadium and golf course. The users will be sheltered from harmful UV rays as they play under the solar panel roofs.
One factor never mentioned is the diminishing marginal returns on wind sites themselves ie all the good ones are taken. Less wind resources, longer transmission lines to the grid. Keep an eye on nameplate capacity v actual wind energy delivered. GW v GWh expressed as a percentage for the benefit of mUnty.
mem
June 26, 2024 8:21 am
“The report makes little mention of nuclear, with AEMO insisting it cannot include the Coalition’s preferred policy into its thinking as it is illegal under federal law”.
What a lame duck of an excuse is this? If that was so then there would have been no debate or costings on the nuclear subs. Does anyone here know the legal status of AEMO taking this stance?
Unless the enabling legislation specifically bars it (which is highly unlikely) – no. It’s a policy decision, based on the spurious pretence that they shouldn’t be talking about or evaluating ‘illegal’ things.
Well, the sensible interpretation is that they shouldn’t be considering policy which explicitly favours, say, meth labs or grow houses. Criminal stuff.
But what they are deliberately doing is conflating crime with political decisions. It’s not a crime to build a nuclear plant, it’s just legislatively prohibited for political reasons. They have presumed that this will be the case for the forseeable future, which is patently and blatantly taking sides in electoral matters way beyond their remit.
If the Coalition winns the election, AEMO is on the long list of outfits that need to be purged. Please, someone assure us that such a list, with detailed plans, exists!
It’s hard to top the Kraut rape judgment but in Australia we’re doing our best:
From Kirralie Smith:
I am still facing three court cases for referring to two different males as male. One guy is appealing the apprehension of violence order that was denied after a full hearing in a NSW court. He is also accusing me of vilification for speaking the truth. As is another male soccer player. I have never been violent, threatened violence or incited others to be violent.
The Flying Bats continue to humiliate their female opponents in the North West Sydney Premier League women’s soccer competition.
With five males on their team it is no wonder they remain undefeated and have a huge lead over every other team.
The good news is two female teams have forfeited both their games against the Flying Bats so far.
The bad news is the league, supported by Football NSW, continues to put the girls in this humiliating position instead of advocating for women’s sport.
Four nurses from the UK have spoken up about their humiliating and disappointing experience of being forced to share a change room with a male who says he is female. The link to the blog is below.
How can you trust a health care system that so readily rejects science and biology in favour of protecting a few male’s feelings? Feelings that are not even based in reality
All this talk about wind and solar and batteries.
All for a “solution” to a non problem, which, if the FMIC had been doing it’s job, would’ve been quite evident to everyone 15 years ago.
@catturd2
They’ve circled back to Monkeypox again
Report: New Evidence Reveals IDF Had Detailed Prior Knowledge of Hamas Plan to Raid Israel
Haha, checked letter box. Glossy flyer in it says STOP NUCLEAR IN THE HUNTER. Looked at the authorization – yep its from the Federal Labor MP. Quick work.
I haven’t seen the ALP this excited since the Vietnam War. Dutton must be getting traction, or they wouldn’t be going completely over the top like this.
We’ve had to endure Muntypox for years, I don’t know what they are complaining about.
The left always target the kids. Look at this bitch:
Children need ‘liberation’ from parents, scholar argues | The College Fix
This photo of the freak tells the story:
(19) Lorna Finlayson (@LJFinlayson) / X
Batteries are also very vulnerable to EMP.
Zatara, what happens? High electric fields causing shorting between anode and cathode? The inverters will be vulnerable also.
Damn near everything electrical is vulnerable to EMP, unless it was designed to work in a EMP environment like most military stuff. One of the reasons some of it is so expensive.
And the thing is that you don’t need a nuke to generate one – The Carrington Event is a grim warning.
Someone here mentioned the possibility of creating an EMP Event by explosive non nuclear weapons. I’ve heard of it but not read anything about it.
Most of your household stuff will fry in the event.
Hard to think Assange isn’t anything more than Albo caving to the US in search of some good news. KRudd front and centre raises suspicions.
neither are radicals
This will make the news:
(19) Oli London on X: “Newly elected South African MP Andile Mngxitama openly calls for the genocide of white South Africans. “We will k*ll the white man’s children, we will k*ll their woman, we will k*ll anything that we find in our way.” H/T @twatterbaas https://t.co/q74CxBgCB7” / X
Yet our government rejects claims for asylum by white South Africans . Our government and immigration bureaucracy are gagging for a white genocide in South Africa.
The old Afrikaaner dream of retreating into the former Cape Colony, and setting up a “For Whites Only” homeland doesn’t look so distasteful now, does it?
It looks quite rational to me – the same as the Jews and Israel.
Rosie at 7:45.
Thanks for that.
The very question I was asking the other day. It used to be very easy to look up the status of the Iona gas reservoir on the web.
Now not so much.
The AFR article seems to confirm my suspicions that the underground storage is being exhausted very early in winter.
The polling was pro-nuclear before the announcement.
True to form, Dutton is following the trend, not leading it.
Having said that, the NIMBY attitude is obviously something Labor can exploit.
Like the Voice. He got there in the end. This might be as good as you ever get from the Lieborals.
Indeed, Dutton might be following the trend, but AnAl and Blackout Bowen are swimming against the tide
Ramirez on target this morning ..
Mentioned the, unnecessary, involvement of “personages of colour” in the post Russian Revolution mini series .. GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW yesterday but other than that having finished the show .. it is very enjoyable and worth watching .. nothing heavy but well written & acted plus an unusual story line keeps you entertained .. 9/10
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8230448/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_a%2520gentleman
Rosie
June 26, 2024 8:37 am
Yeah … but three-eyed fish.
Indeed.
Forecasting in the energy sector is an inexact mix of science, technology, and economics – the takeaway is you know what will happen with a fair degree of certainty, but not so much for when.
And, in my experience of presenting some of the industry issues, the slack provided by the flex built into ‘when’ has allowed politicians and the Top Men running Energy Alphabet World to kick the can down the road: “Look at these farking technical anoraks predicting system collapse; they can’t be precise about Doomsday – no worthwhile modelling skills, why should we believe anything they say”.
For some years now, I have wondered whether there would be a sharp point of realisation that the Australian canoe has gone over the waterfall; a parliamentary term perhaps, a year – even a specific date when the scales fell away.
It looks very much like 2024.
The cool summers in Sydney have helped. The split systems keep walking out of Harvey Norman ready for the heat.
Suddenly, in the smoke haze of the 21st century, Mr Potato Head appears in the wake of a failed referendum to develop an election strategy to bring down another prime minister on energy policy.
And, as Australia is the scam capital of the world, there is never a shortage of scams like renewable energy to bring down an incompetent prime minister like Luigi the Incredible.
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Had my PET scan for Cancer yesterday .. very easy going .. didn’t even have to take my clothes even watch off,just loosen the belt, forgot had loose change in the pocket .. an hour wait to let whatever they inject you with take effect then 20 minutes in the machine and that was that .. over & dun ..
Tomorrow the oncologist & an explanation on radiology tho if the scan doesn’t show a spread it’ll come out with the prostate .. Urologist next Tuesday and then should know all .. bad or worse ..!
Still feeling fan-bloody-tastic so finding it hard to feel any downside .. yet ..!
All the best – Mme Zulu is waiting on the results of her latest scan.
Been there and had the scan. As you say very easy going.
I chose to keep the prostate and have radiation, 8 weeks of it along with hormone treatment. 4 years later and all clear.
Prostate removal carries a small risk of the knife wielder nicking the nerves to the bladder. Wearing nappies and dribbling piss was not something I was looking forward to. Taking the prostate out(if cancer is still localised) should remove any chance of a recurrence. Your choice what to do but remember urologists are surgeons and will usually try and sway you their way, mine was very hissy about my decision to get radiation.
Urologist sayz my prostate is too far gone so clean-out the better option and the kidneys have been overdone coping …
Hairy chose radiation with seeds – called Brachytherapy.
If your cancer and pelvic structure is suitable for it, it gives excellent results. He asked a surgeon in Tasmania where we were located for a while about it and the surgeon kindly referred him to those he considered best in Australia for it, in Sydney. Not the info he received from the high-flying Sydney surgeon with a top reputation and big Da Vinci machine to pay for: surgery, surgery, surgery, he intoned. Do your research, but also take good advice. This cancer can be fought off, but it can also kill you if not taken seriously. If it is at all advanced and surgery is possible, then a combination of both surgery and radiation might be best.
Gilas might come in and give a view here too, he knows a lot more than me or others here, who know our own situations and may not be objective about that of others. Prostate Support Groups may help, and there is also a very good website http://www.inspire.com – scroll to p for prostate cancer.
Bungonia Bee
June 26, 2024 8:43 am
But, but … Energy Superpower!
Sun cable!
Exporting Sunshine!
And also, three-eyed fish.
Armed teens try to hold up sneaker store… watch the moment they get instant karma
Daily Mail.
For example, we don’t know when the next coal plant might unexpectedly go offline. I know that’s not what you were referring to but…
Meanwhile, seems nobody got my John Howard reference earlier…too cryptic?
A reminder: he is responsible for our nuclear power ban.
Average demand broadly follows GDP but it can be years between new levels of peak demand. Transformers and other elements of the grid can fail at any time. Not a job for BAs or j’ismists.
Ha! One of our Barista Engineers will fix it in a jiffy – and put a smiley face on it as well.
Meanwhile, seems nobody got my John Howard reference earlier…too cryptic?
A reminder: he is responsible for our nuclear power ban.
Yep, another one of the little shit’s many, many sins.
Howard also gave us the renewable energy feed in tariff. Intrigues me how the Commonwealth even had the power to do this. Hilmer and NCP I suspect.
Rosie @ 8:37 am
Doing God’s work, Rosie posts to the single critical number that defines the issue:
An average capacity factor of 92.7%.
The CSIRO GenCost report, the ‘point of truth’ for Team Handsome Boy and Big Renewables, uses an average CF of 53% in modelling nuclear economics.
I’m pretty sure you can’t turn down a nuke station to run at 53% of nameplate (a steam turbine thing). So the assumption is that Australia’s nuke fleet would be broken down, or turned off, for more than 50% of the time.
But this is the Science, as done by Respected Scientists, so there can be no questions that it is right.
There will be a lot of that. That’s why you never see the models or their assumptions.
Maybe they are using the Collins Class subs as a proxy.
Running reactors at reduced capacity is not a problem. More maintenance required and not as efficient. GreyRanga is not a respected scientist.
GreyRanga is not a respected scientist.
Nonetheless correct.
Typically, nuke/turbine units are designed and operated to load follow down to ~50%. Exactly as you say, with efficiency and maintenance penalties.
My issue is more with the CSIRO assumed fleet average being close to the low end of the operating envelope. This appears to implicitly assume that nuclear generating units spend a lot of time not sending out.
TRUTH.
Truth matters. Lies matter too.
The leftist mentality is that unless we pretend that their lies are true, we are evil.
Its opposition to nuclear.
Its pandering to Arab self-deceptions that maintain their smug supremacist self-belief.
Its pretending that mental illness is a wholesome ‘alternative identity’.
Its pretending its ‘inclusive’ to foster grooming children for sexual deviance.
Its putting down excellence by hard-working, deserving people because journalism has easier-to-publish stories about excellence if they are women or differently tinted skin.
Its such a long time since they pretended that making jobs for people by running a business was exploitation; now leftists in power take money from big business to deprive their workers of legislated rights.
Is what a leftist says true?
Is a centrist pandering to leftist fashionable lies? If so, remember that even if they come for you last, they come for you when there is no-one left to speak up.
Three eyed fish news.
Climate “Communicators” Discover the Best Way to Persuade Voters is to Lie to Them (25 Jun)
It’s actually rather interesting: all the stuff the climate bedwetters have been screeching about are a complete turn-off for the punters. Good luck selling your message greenie people, the proles have wised up.
Miltonf
June 26, 2024 10:05 am
Mmmyes.
The bait.
Hence my response to Homes-a-Court’s attempt to whip up a frenzy the other day … “Inflexible noocular will force you to turn off your solar!”
What, no more juicy feed-in tariffs?
I was talking to a bloke the other day who had just installed solar. He estimates his feed-in will be $200 per annum.
A cup of coffee a week.
Pablo Instant at that.
Most people are now electing to go solar purely for their own use, not for the paltry feed-in. Unless they are zealots, batteries can’t be justified.
Oh dear. Everyone’s favourite ABC scribbler/ dribbler has attempted humour again:
The Coalition could have sat back and waited to watch the vaping ban unfurl, but instead, they’ve chosen option two: INHALE
Of course, if the Coalition had “sat back and waited” until the dust had settled before deciding how they would respond, Crabb would have criticised them for not taking a firm policy stance earlier, being weathervanes etc.
If you aren’t Labor or the Greens, you can’t win at the politically-neutral-as-mandated-by-its-charter national broadcaster.
Are you saying that Assange wasn’t at risk of being deported to the US at the time?
I thought the US might welsh on the plea deal and arrest him in Saipan. But kudos to Kevin Rudd – he accompanied Assange the whole way so that the DoJ wouldn’t risk an international incident.
Kevni using a rare opportunity to put himself in the spotlight.
He would have accompanied Pol Pot to sanctuary, given the chance.
thanks chatgpt for protecting us from unwoke ideas
Greens literally stink.
World Economic Forum: ‘Scientists are urging us to wash our clothes less to help the planet’ – Washing causes ‘70% of CO2 emissions’ of cotton t-shirt (25 Jun)
If I see someone with purple hair who is wearing jeans I’m going to be giving it a wide berth.
Do we need any more proof that the West is losing its collective intelligence?
Washing clothes in a machine shortens their life, and (apart from knickers) the notion that anything worn once needs to be washed has no basis except for a cultural one.
It’s a bit like the famous ‘rinse and repeat’ admonition on shampoo bottles, which was probably the most brilliant marketing ploy of the C20th.
Dr F at 10:08.
Look, I don’t mind a bit of a parameter tweak from time to time, but that would embarass even an inveterate bullshitter like me.
And isn’t the Great Criticism of Noocular that it is inflexible? Except when Luigi the Unbelievable’s advisors get the butcher’s paper out it seems.
No future in consulting then. If you are having trouble sleeping put in a non recommended scenario.
Comparison Renewable Energy Nuclear Energy
Description Wind Turbines PV Solar Panels Nuclear Reactors
Weather depend Yes Yes No
Capacity Factor 35% 25% 95%
Land Area per MW 54.5 acres 7.25 acres 0.05 acres
Environmental destruction -Australia’s unique flora, fauna and marine life
Extreme High Nil
Compromising food production
High Extreme Nil
Waste disposal costs Extreme Extreme Allowed in cost
Waste disposal process No No Yes
Waste at end of life Extreme Extreme Low
Visual Impact © High High Low
Noise Impact © Extreme Low Low
Wildlife Impact © Extreme High Low
Plant economic life ©20 years 25 years 60 years
Reliability generation Intermittent Intermittent Reliable
Capex / MWh $46.45 $74.07 $16.54
MWh of Energy Produced for operational life of 924 MW plant
41,778,219 18,088,387 441,398,880
Load follow capability No No Yes
Provid frequency control No No Yes
Provides system inertia No No Yes
Black start capability No No Yes
Direct process heat industry No No Yes
Plant operational life 25 years 30 years >60 years
Land Area per TWh 7,203 hectares 1,295 hectares 2.4 hectares
Major material requir t/TWh
5,976 tonnes 2,516 tonnes 1,190 tonnes
Critical minerals required t/TWh ©
130 tonnes 124 tonnes 12 tonnes
Materials – concrete t/TWh ©
4,446 tonnes 1,216 tonnes 1,058 tonnes
Materials – steel t/TWh ©
1,447 tonnes 938 tonnes 134 tonnes
Cost of storage $/kw ©
$1,629 battery per k $1,629 battery per kw $0
Lifecycle emissions g/Kwh ©
11 48 12
Additional transmission ©
Required Required No
Storage required ©
Typical 4 hours battery Typical 4 hours battery None
Life waste included in cost ©
no no Yes
Fuel cost $/GJ ©
Free Free 50 cents
Construction time years ©
18 months 18 months 6 years
© SMR Technology Pty Ltd 2022
Petition update · RENEWABLE ENERGY v NUCLEAR ENERGY SEE WHY NUCLEAR ENERGY WINS ON EVERY POINT BUT MAY NEVER HAPPEN · Change.org · Change.org
Petition update · RENEWABLE ENERGY v NUCLEAR ENERGY SEE WHY NUCLEAR ENERGY WINS ON EVERY POINT BUT MAY NEVER HAPPEN · Change.org · Change.org
Comparison Renewable Energy Nuclear Energy
Description Wind Turbines PV Solar Panels Nuclear Reactors
Weather depend Yes Yes No
Capacity Factor 35% 25% 95%
Land Area per MW 54.5 acres 7.25 acres 0.05 acres
Environmental destruction -Australia’s unique flora, fauna and marine life
Extreme High Nil
Compromising food production
High Extreme Nil
Waste disposal costs Extreme Extreme Allowed in cost
Waste disposal process No No Yes
Waste at end of life Extreme Extreme Low
Visual Impact © High High Low
Noise Impact © Extreme Low Low
Wildlife Impact © Extreme High Low
Plant economic life ©20 years 25 years 60 years
Reliability generation Intermittent Intermittent Reliable
Capex / MWh $46.45 $74.07 $16.54
MWh of Energy Produced for operational life of 924 MW plant
41,778,219 18,088,387 441,398,880
Load follow capability No No Yes
Provid frequency control No No Yes
Provides system inertia No No Yes
Black start capability No No Yes
Direct process heat industry No No Yes
Plant operational life 25 years 30 years >60 years
Land Area per TWh 7,203 hectares 1,295 hectares 2.4 hectares
Major material requir t/TWh
5,976 tonnes 2,516 tonnes 1,190 tonnes
Critical minerals required t/TWh ©
130 tonnes 124 tonnes 12 tonnes
Materials – concrete t/TWh ©
4,446 tonnes 1,216 tonnes 1,058 tonnes
Materials – steel t/TWh ©
1,447 tonnes 938 tonnes 134 tonnes
Cost of storage $/kw ©
$1,629 battery per k $1,629 battery per kw $0
Lifecycle emissions g/Kwh ©
11 48 12
Additional transmission ©
Required Required No
Storage required ©
Typical 4 hours battery Typical 4 hours battery None
Life waste included in cost ©
no no Yes
Fuel cost $/GJ ©
Free Free 50 cents
Construction time years ©
18 months 18 months 6 years
© SMR Technology Pty Ltd 2022
Sorry guys for the repeat
I thought you were just rubbing mUntyfa’s nose in the comparison.
This will be fun. Lay in popcorn ready for the epic disaster.
Qantas to boost regional fleet as it explores electric (Paywallian)
Flying dildos with wings! Quaintarse may have ditched the Irishman but his woke smell still obviously lingers.
Investigating electricity and battery power for commercial aviation won’t take long.
Please strap in Joyce and Bowen for the test flight!