Vikki Campion:

On the other side of the world, billionaires have parked their private jets to see their friends in Baku, Azerbaijan, for COP29, and are pondering where their next junket will be.

Next year will be carnivalesque at Belem, Brazil. If it’s up to our government and one Aussie premier hosting a piss-up for them in Azerbaijan next Wednesday, the 2026 holiday for COP31 is right here, on the taxpayer’s dollar.

Since we signed up for net zero 2050 in Glasgow at COP26, hasn’t life only improved on Average St, Australia? Hasn’t beaming environmental radiance made paying for a roof over your head, refrigeration and a full stomach so much easier?

No, the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties only hurts those gullible countries that take it seriously, like us. The climate privilege of the West now includes a demand for $1.8 trillion a year to be paid to developing countries such as China.

The result here is tent cities, that big hole that used to be manufacturing, our banks acting as new-age chapels of carbon chastity, refusing to finance small business involved in coal, millions of hectares of prime agricultural land industrialised for wind and solar that will never be as productive again, more expensive groceries, all for the attempt to change the weather via 0.04 of 1 per cent of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

The result overseas, where they are not as gullible as us, is a world where the biggest emitting countries keep pledging and emitting more, where Russia emits more than the whole of NATO, and where nearly 60 per cent of the world’s emissions come from countries with no intention of reducing emissions, especially since the US pulls out of Paris after seeing the light on this grifting Olympics that even over-exploited former child activist Greta Thunberg calls “greenwashing”.

COP, or Conference of the Parties, should stand for “Cost of the Party”, because that’s what the Australian taxpayers struggling with their power bill will have to pick up if this Adelaide host bid is accepted.

I’m not against billionaires taking their private jets to Adelaide for COP31 as long as they are willing to jump on a chopper and get chauffeured to see the reality of their decision-making around Australia.

Take a bus to our new address-less homes under canvas, whose tenants go north, not for the surf but the warmth that they cannot afford under a roof thanks to ridiculous policies put forward by the COP.

Take a bus to the mountain towns where the pensioners will suffer winter without wood-fired heaters thanks to COP policies urging them to be banned.

Come and meet the farmers who feed you, whose places have no buffer from pollutants of their new subsidised neighbours’ foreign-owned solar and wind.

In interviews spruiking his bid for Adelaide COP31 this week, South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas heralded “global co-ordination … to advance decarbonisation is critical to our natural world and how we pass it on to our kids”.

If you believe that, why don’t you underwrite the decommissioning and rehabilitation of the land under which the wind and solar factories sit?

No government, federal or state, has put their money where its mouth is on returning the land to its “natural state to pass on to our kids”.

Participation in COPs is restricted to approved delegates, accredited media members and admitted observer organisations, i.e., not you.

The question is, how many billionaires can be lured to the graces of Adelaide Convention Centre?

This is not a sledge on South Australia but on who it is trying to attract.

The COP greasers will only show up for the five-star experience.

That’s why the Nairobi COP could attract only 6000 attendees but Bali, a year later, the prestige holiday hub of five-star hotels and butler service, attracted 11,000.

When worrying about carbon, it’s better to do it on the beach with a cocktail and a masseur.

Put it in Dubai, and the attendance soars to more than 83,000; apparently, if you haven’t been shopping in Dubai wrapping diamonds in your carbon concerns, you just haven’t sacrificed enough for the environment.

The highest attendance was Copenhagen, Paris and Dubai – and what do they have in common? Shopping.

COP19 in Warsaw struggled to get the numbers, maybe because, as Encyclopedia Britannica describes: “Warsaw is notable among Europe’s capital cities not for its size, its age, or its beauty but for its indestructibility”.

Why couldn’t the so-called environmentalists fall in love with that?

Already, the South Australian taxpayer is subsiding billionaires at Baku, where more than 65,000 delegates have registered to attend the COP29 climate summit, “hosting a unique networking reception” next Friday. Don’t you love these euphemistic terms for a piss-up?

Adelaide may hardly be famous for shopping, but it does have wine and luxury estates.

The feasibility study has been quiet on how much of the conference will be offsite, away from the Convention Centre and deep in the Barossa Valley, Clare Valley, Coonawarra, and Adelaide Hills.

Fly the COP circus here. Get them on the Penfolds Grange.

It will expose to Australians first-hand the gaping divide between the jetsetting billionaire grifting class whooping it up on the national credit card and those caught in the housing and cost-of-living debt cycle who cannot afford to go anywhere.

Can hardly wait.
Loathsome people.

 Totally pointless visit except $24 for parking lighter and my Medicare card hoovered …..

Really hurts to have your Medicare card cleaned out, hey?
Two things.
Firstly, most post-op follow up is a “waste of time” … unless you are the one with an infection or complications.
Secondly, I have a completely different perspective on doctors running late. A couple of times now I have received an urgent call to get into the surgery to talk about unexpected test results. In other words, I queue jumped. Now when they are running late I just think “Some poor bastard has been hauled in to receive bad news. Glad it’s not me.”
For all the failings of the medical system, I still think that, if you really must get sick, this is one of the best countries in the world to do it.

Lambie & Paytone have both come out and said, “NO” to Luigi’s misinfo bill so only one more Senate “NAY” out of the independents needed to kill it ..

How The Government Invades Your Neighbourhood

From: “Cash, Michaelia (Senator)” <[email protected]> 

Date: 15/11/24

To: Chris

Subject: RE: New website contact from Chris

Thank you for your email.

I want to reaffirm that the Coalition is strongly opposing Labor’s planned censorship laws.

In my opinion, how dare Mr Albanese attack Australians’ right to free speech. Mr Albanese MUST be stopped before it is too late. 

Let me assure you that it was the Labor members in the House, including Mr Albanese, who voted for this bill. The Coalition members did NOT. The Coalition firmly believes that this Bill represents an attack on the free speech of Australians.

Senator Cash is hoping that Chris and other concerned Australians have forgotten that it was the Morrison government, in which she was a senior minister, that pushed us onto this path in March of 2022.

I’d like a forthright mea culpa and a resolution not to do so again before I even begin to consider this as anything other than an attempt to create a point of difference before the upcoming election.

H B Bear
 November 16, 2024 9:47 am

Mr Gai Brodtmann has another “Oh Jebus” moment on the road to Damascus. 

I think he has a show on Skah on Tuesday putting Net Zero under the logic microscope.