Mustard on a good steak, of course try this … Nagi’s salsa verde had it tonight and it was awesome…
Open Thread – Mon 16 Dec 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 16 Dec 2024
- All for a few lousy seats
- Open Thread – Weekend 14 Dec 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 12 Dec 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 9 Dec 2024
Which is why I left the classroom and kids I loved teaching for life away from the unionists, brown-nosers and…
Green Team needing 34 from last 2 overs. Lloyd Pope, playing for the Blue Team, went for 31 off the…
She and Sharri Markson both said on X it wasn’t anything to do with her pro-Israel rant. And she’s not…
Back after a couple of decent steaks and a cheap and cheerful bottle of wine. Mustard on a good steak,…
Number 1 with a bullet.
Number 2
Huh.
The time-zone difference is one’s friend.. if one wants to post on The Cat around midnight.
Just returned from a gander around Udine’s Church of St Francis, a de-beatified early Roman church dating back to the mid 1200s and initially part of a Franciscan monastery where Odoric of Pordenone (later beatified) obtained his orders, before his trip to China.
Through various decisions made by the Venetian Senate, parts of the monastery became a hospital until the 1920s, the rest became a history mudeum, then a Tribunal (Palazzo di Giustizia), which it still is today. The church was badly damaged by WW2 bombardments, then restored into a site for temporary exhibitions.
Remnants of Giotto-style frescoes dating from the 14th and 15th Cs have been preserved and can be appreciated still. Most of the writings accompanying the monastic scenes have been lost, but the message of constant struggle for life and ever-present death is obvious.
The current exhibition is given the neo-marxist BS name: “Transformations”, instead of the simpler and just as accurate “Change”. It shows short films and photographs from Early 20th C Trieste, during the late Habsburg period, into full-blown Italian Fascism and up to early WW2. The thing that struck me is the visible pride in the prevailing culture, be it through clothing, behaviour, types of activity undertaken, celebrations and even funerals. This pride was reflected in the architecture of the time, a sharp contrast to the brutalist garbage that followed it and which is now a proxy of the West’s decline.
Udine is no exception. For such a small “provincial” city, it contains massive, classically beautiful buildings and churches that rival much larger and more famous European cities. This is now strongly contrasted by its newer (1940s and later), seriously plain and ugly residential and commercial builds.
Anyone walking around Sydney would appreciate this, just seeing the enlarged street scenes from the NSW Archives plastered around current CBD building sites.
Make no mistake, our civilization is now ensconced in a decaying phase. Technology is no substitute for the loss of true beauty.
Johannes Leak.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Christian Adams. Brilliant.
Matt Pritchett.
A.F. Branco. More here.
Tom Stiglich.
Gary Varvel.
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
Albanese takes time out to announce convicted Bali Nine drug traffickers are now free in Australia – Michael Smith News
another ‘up yours’ to ordinary working people from the aristocratic anal regime.
Jeepers. News is just in that eleven people and counting have been killed on the island of Myotte in the Comoros group, where we were less than a week ago. The island has apparently been devastated, right in the eye of the cyclone Chido, termed Category 4, that our Captain was running at full speed to escape from. Told you he was really flogging the ship to get away. He told us he was pushing the turbines hard, but didn’t mention ‘cyclone’, though he obviously knew it was developing. We made it, for even the Seychelles has been hit by it, where we were before these four sea days up the Arabian Sea and by the Gulf of Aden. We sailed by there just three days ago. That was lucky, very lucky, says Hairy, looking at the weather map GPS. We did just dodge a bullet.
Those poor people on Myotte will now have a lot of reconstruction. I hope France can send in assistance. And in the Seychelles there is also considerable damage.
I wonder if this applies to OZ in the opposite direction?
Only heard of a few like TE who made the move.
Jolliffe.
SH.T TOWN POWER RANKINGS 15/12/24
1. Brisbane, QLD – Government lab manages to lose over 300 live samples of deadly viruses
2. Port Pirie, SA – Dozens of birds and flying foxes found dead with lead poisoning
3. Perth, WA – Riot squad called in after feral junior schoolies assault tourists and cops on Rottnest Island
4. Townsville, QLD – Grub drives backpackers to remote dirt road before robbing them at knifepoint
5. Gold Coast, QLD – Woman swallowed by footpath after underground explosion; Queensland Health worker could lose job after twisting colleague’s nipple and trying to grab his dick
6. Sydney, NSW – Drongo rescued after getting tongue stuck to public ice sculpture; woman crashes husband’s Mercedes while trying to ram husband’s mistress in husband’s other Mercedes
7. Bermagui, NSW – Drunk gronk breaks into police station to try to steal guns
8. Albany, WA – Serial public wanker bailed again after 3rd offence this year; gronk fined for false 000 calls and threat to blow up cop shop
9. Cairns, QLD – Ute gets bogged after skidding on front lawn before female passenger pulls down pants and has a piss
10. Launceston, TAS – Council considers desexing herpes-riddled park monkeys due to rampant inbreeding
Can you read this measurement?
It’s a huge caliper(s).
“Organising the return of the Nine should never have been a focus for Albanese, that man is a dope, a fool, he’s not very bright.”
All true, but the Trot is something much more, he’s a nasty liar.
Next will be Australia thanks to Sleazy and Pong. Traitorous creatures,
Israel Closes Embassy in Dublin Due to ‘Extreme Anti-Israel Policy of Irish Government’
BTW, nice painting (yet again) Dover
“The days where Australia could rely on windfalls to fund policy and deliver strong budget outcomes are over…”
Er…thanks, Captain Obvious, some of us are old enough to remember Bob Hawke’s “clever country” speech of 1988. Whatever one thinks of Hawke, it was a sounder plan for generating prosperity over the long term than Howard’s population ponzi scheme.
Now we’re stuck with Chalmers’s “Steady as she sinks” approach.
Famous Iowa pollster doesn’t like accountability.
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1868288073622036939
Something I learned & relied on during my career is that if you hear someone say “there is no evidence I did <insert allegation here>”, I tune out and stop engaging as soon as possible.
A simple “I didn’t do it” and here’s evidence to the contrary would suffice.
As Baris has said over the past month, all Selzer has to do is release her raw data.
Which would show the over/under sampling.
And the weightings she applied to her samples.
What’s been released to date is not the raw data.
And unlike Baris & Trafalgar she’s not protecting any IP.
Intelligence of a chook.
Climate 200-backed Teal MP Zali Steggall claims base load power is ‘antiquated’, lashes out at Coalition’s nuclear energy plan (Sky News, 15 Dec)
Maybe lady you should have a close look at the ten day blackout at Broken Hill, which occurred despite massive amounts of available renewables and a 100 MWh battery. Despite all that the local grid could not be kept going – due to insufficient base load generation.
Blame Barack: Obama’s lost mystique marks the end of a political era
His personal opinion, but not exactly reassuring.
They are now admitting (after weeks of denying what was in front of our eyes) that these things are real.
@KoryYeshua?
CEO of Drone manufacturing company that has government contracts, gives interesting take on what’s happening in NJ.
Famous Iowa pollster doesn’t like accountability.
Famous Catallaxy commentator doesn’t like accountability. He’s mysteriously disappeared. Who can forget those immortal words he wrote just prior to the November 5 election that…..
Harris will win Iowa
And in other immortal words, uttered mid-year just before the Demonrats decapitated Biden, he wrote that…..
Biden can govern
Gotta laugh.
Oh and further to this absent commentator, I recall how he has spent a lot of time here smearing Deeming, Keen and others as “Nazis’ after that Melbourne rally back in 2023. Now that a federal court judge has found that Moira Deeming is not a Nazi, perhaps this commentator could retract his words? I mean, he’s spewed many words here where he’s stated how Deeming, Keen and other men and women such as myself are Nazis, all because we believe cocks in frocks don’t belong in women’s spaces.
Ahh…..but I remember, this clown commentator is not one for much self-reflection and introspection. I’m not sure he’s one to respect the courts, I don’t recall him ever retracting any of his words even after the highest court in the land found George Pell not guilty. In fact I remember how, after that crushing verdict back in April 2020, the clown doubled down.
Albanese takes time out to announce convicted Bali Nine drug traffickers are now free in Australia – Michael Smith News
And in NSW news .. Public Service supremo, Mikey Coutts-Trotter announces “jerbs for the boyz” ..
“Can’t have like-minded fellows doing it tuff so I’ve set ’em up wiv cushy numbers”
@RealHickory
Listen to this former FBI agent dismissed for criticizing their handling of J6 cases, where due process rights of defendants were being violated. They knew what they were doing to people was wrong, and they didn’t care. All FBI agents responsible should be held accountable!
1 in 20 Canadian deaths were from medically-assisted suicide in 2023: report
@TONYxTWO
“So they can’t shoot down unregistered drones, but they can kiII a man’s squirrel and kiII a raccoon in his own home without due process?!”
SPOT ON
@OcrazioCornPop
FLASHBACK: MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, the “Obamacare Architect,” openly talked about how he relied on dumb American voters to get ObamaCare passed.
In the first clip, he discusses “the stupidity of the American voter.”
In the second, that “Americans were too stupid to understand” one of the ACA’s tax increases.
In the third, he describes the law’s “exploitation of the lack of understanding of the American voter.”
Now you know why the American Healthcare system is broken.
@DefiyantlyFree
We spent $3 billion on 32 mail trucks. $32 million per mail truck. What the hell is his administration doing?
@RadioGenoa
British man writes on social media that he doesn’t want to see Palestine flags in his neighborhood and British police raid his house at 4 am to arrest him.
Nice catch Cassie.
Monty loves to pretend he’s an independent thinker when he just regurgitates dem and get up etc talking points.
It wasn’t just propaganda, it was outright coercion.
Dr. Simon Goddek
@goddeketal
@LangmanVince
This is the least surprising headline I’ve read on X in years
Indolent
December 16, 2024 7:18 am
Thanks for your links, but I was sucked in again to watch this one.
That guy was talking for a very long time and said only 3 things of mild interest that he could have said in a couple of minutes.
Waste of time. Sorry mate.
Re Steggles and baseload power, to say that she has the:
“Intelligence of a chook.”
is an insult to chooks, which understand clearly the necessities of life.
No baseload power equals no 24 hour a day hospitals, water supply and sewerage, and much more.
Calling her an imbecile is an insult to imbeciles everywhere.
Why the drones? Gateway pundit is as usual on the case, and came up with this interesting quote from a 1950s document. Bear in mind that so much of what the string pullers behind Biden Harris have done for four years can only be explained by a determined weakening and disintegration of American society.
“… creation of a morbid national psychology in which skillful hostile propaganda could induce hysterical behavior and harmful distrust of duly constituted authority”.
The Great Big Drone Psyop – Who Is Running the UAV Invasion, and Why? | The Gateway Pundit | by Paul Serran
The Great Big Drone Psyop – Who Is Running the UAV Invasion, and Why?
Steggles is stupid and nasty.
Christie: Without Federal Information ‘Drone Vigilantes’ Are Going to ‘Start Taking them Down’
Ashli Babbitt Shooter Protected by Pelosi? A Deep Dive into Michael Byrd’s Checkered Past
Branco!
A morwit. Half moron.
Today’s Tele:
WONG TURNS BAD SITUATION WORSE
JAMES CAMPBELL
16 Dec 2024
You have to hand it to the foreign affairs minister. In the current climate, it really takes some effort to make relations between Australia’s Jewish community and the government even worse.
By “current climate”, of course, I mean the explosion of public Jew hatred that culminated in last week’s torching of the Adass Israel Synagogue.
Which brings me to Penny Wong’s speech last week in which she managed to insult Israel in a talk named after Bob Hawke, a passionate Zionist.
It shouldn’t need explaining that lumping Israel in with China and Russia as states that need to abide by international law was not just offensive, it was dangerous.
Senior members of the Jewish community have tried for years to understand what motivates Wong. Is she a simple-minded left-wing ideologue or can she be?brought to understand the complexities of the region in which the Jewish state dwells?
In retrospect, it’s amazing it took so long for them to reach a fixed conclusion about her.
The first sign things were going pear-shaped came when Wong announced she was reversing the Morrison government’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Yet it’s hard to pinpoint exactly when disappointment at Wong’s attitude to the Jewish state turned into the belief she is its implacable enemy.
Possibly it was her over-the-top and hypocritical reaction to the killing of Zomi Frankcom and?other aid workers in April. The targeting of her aid convoy was a terrible mistake that was acknowledged almost immediately by the Israelis who within days had dismissed the officers responsible.
There was no need for us to appoint a special adviser, nor was there any need to repeatedly refer to the deaths as an “outrage” and “outrageous”.
It was hypocritical because when it comes to investigating alleged war crimes, we don’t exactly move like lightning.
The slow but relentless reversing of Australia’s long-held positions at the UN has simply confirmed to the leadership of Australia’s Jewish community that Wong is their foe.
“When we walk in the room, I?think she just sees us as the apologists of genocide – it’s as simple as that,” is how one influential member of the community describes her view about the foreign affairs minister.
That’s quite an achievement.
Trump Should Bring a Constitutional Gun to the Senate / Swamp Knife Fight
I don’t know if this one has already been posted but…yikes!
‘Could have killed my baby:’ Explosive thrown at rabbi pushing stroller in Melbourne (15 Dec)
How long before these antisemites start using firearms instead of fireworks?
“Even Richard Dawkins, the hardest-hearted of atheists, has admitted that the songs, sights and sounds of this time of year move him deeply”
Terrible that we are not hearing any beautiful Christmas Carols in public spaces such as shopping malls. Best they can come up with is Santa Claus is Coming to Town or Jingle Bells. The woke brigade have succeeded in sidelining the religious aspect of Christmas.
Do yourself a favour and listen to Josh Groban sing ‘O Holy Night’
MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, the “Obamacare Architect,” openly talked about how he relied on dumb American voters to get ObamaCare passed.
Charming. Architect of fraud and deception. If I was him I’d go into hiding.
All they do is lie.
@IanJaeger29
Adam Kinzinger says on CNN that all the videos he’s seen of drones above New Jersey are “airplanes.”
Heroin trafficker news:
These muppets are holed up just south of D-Town for the moment, before their departure to parts unknown.
What Elbow has studiously avoided so far, is the provision of any details as to what Indonesia received in return for this.
Because nothing – nothing – is free.
EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY, UNITED STATES, June 2, 2023/“EINPresswire.com/ — An agreement to create a test and evaluation corridor for the development of Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) and automated Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) technologies was recently signed by officials representing U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), Air Mobility Command (AMC), the National Aerospace Research & Technology Park (NARTP), and the Atlantic County Economic Alliance (ACEA).
“This agreement is a significant accomplishment and will demonstrate the NARTP’s ability to facilitate aviation research,” said NARTP Board Chairman Mark Loeben, a retired Air Force major general and current American Airlines captain. “USTRANSCOM and AMC are major players in aviation. Their interest in working with the NARTP helps to advance both the development of the NARTP and the emerging aviation industry in New Jersey’s Atlantic County.”
Under the terms of the Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA), the parties will cooperatively develop a prototype dual-use U.S. East Coast test and evaluation corridor for the demonstration, development, and evaluation of military, commercial, academic, and Federal Government UAS and AAM technologies with future application to strategic airlift capabilities of the U.S. Air Force.”
NARTP SIGNS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT WITH USTRANSCOM, USAF AIR MOBILITY COMMAND, AND ACEA
@GuntherEagleman
Treason.
Well yes Mr Dragger, exactly what were the conditions agreed on that allowed these traffickers to return here?
And sorry to be brusque kind reader but is there any dick that Albo won’t suck to hold onto power?
Hahaha
Mar a Lago is now
Milley Wanted Garland to Target Americans?!
Last part of Bolta’s commentary in today’s Tele:
WOKE IS ON THE WANE AS FLAGS WEAR OUT WELCOME
ANDREW BOLT
16 Dec 2024
Take the Victorian government’s ban on Melbourne’s Australia Day parade. “January 26 means different things to different people,” a spokesman wittered.
But so what if some activists claim to be distraught by the day? Why should this government trash our national day and our nation just for?them?
Yes, it’s trashing our nation, too, and here’s the test. If it’s so upset to hold Australia Day on January 26, the anniversary of the landing of the first white convict settlers, then let Labor name the alternative date that would have it celebrate this great nation under just one flag.
It never does. But let me suggest one. If Labor can’t celebrate on January 26, then switch Australia Day to the only other day that makes sense: October 14.
That’s the anniversary of the day Australians voted against the Voice and being divided by race. The day we voted to go on together as one people, united and equal.
Isn’t that worth celebrating? More than that, isn’t that something we badly need to?
As with the braindead lamestream meeja, one cannot hate “modern architecture” enough.
Meanwhile, UK business owners & citizens are turning to private police forces to patrol their high streets & neighbourhoods.
Incidentally, that special adviser, Mark Binskin, having travelled to Israel and obtained access to unedited video and other evidence, concluded in his report that the IDF had not deliberately or knowingly targeted the aid workers.
Wong simply disregarded his conclusion. It didn’t fit the narrative she was pushing.
I look at the release of the Bali nine as a similar action to the release of criminally inclined illegal immigrants. More evidence of their hatred and contempt for Australia. They despise the people who keep them in the style to which they are accustomed.
Why the PM is being criticised about Bali Nine return
Drug advocates have blasted Mr Albanese for dedicating resources to the return of the five men, who by the PM’s own description committed a “serious” crime in their attempt to smuggle 8kg of heroin to Australia from Indonesia.
Clare Armstrong
Anthony Albanese has given five families a Christmas they will never forget – the return of their beloved sons to Australia after almost two decades behind bars in Indonesia on drug smuggling charges.
But the warm fuzzy glow the Prime Minister might be feeling from what is unquestionably an impressive diplomatic coup, is unlikely to dramatically shift perceptions of his leadership back home.
Drug advocates have already criticised the Mr Albanese for dedicating resources to the return of the five men, who by the PM’s own description committed a “serious” crime in their attempt to smuggle 8kg of heroin to Australia from Indonesia.
But it is a complex situation and there are also many Australians with the flipside view who believe almost two decades in prison for a crime that would have carried a far lesser sentence in their own country was sufficient punishment.
Either way the release of the men will not be front of mind among voters when they are sent to the ballot box some time in the new year.
When it comes to elections in Australia, international achievements almost never rate consideration, though perhaps in the case of Mr Albanese his Bali Nine negotiations at least are a demonstration of his ability to “walk” the diplomatic walk after all that talking time spent overseas this term.
But in the cold hard reality of domestic politics, it’s difficult not to picture this feel good boost souring as soon as a member of the Coalition responds to the issue with a question about the PM’s “priorities” and highlights the fact the extradition came at the expense of taxpayers.
This will likely appeal to many voters who consider any moment the government is not dedicated to tackling cost of living as a moment wasted.
The few thanks Mr Albanese will receive though will be deeply meant by those closest to the case.
Herald-Sun with 409 comments, none in support; one example:
Gregory
9 minutes ago
Albo was desperate for a positive headline from a failing Prime Ministership so the best he can offer is to bring home five proven criminals. However he continues to fail at the things that matter, he cannot protect innocent lives of law-abiding citizens being persecuted because of their faith. He cannot reduce the cost-of-living crisis driven by government spending on an unsustainable drive to renewables and smokescreen measures designed to hide the real impact. Let’s have a MAGA campaign and Make Albo Go Away. Please!
Via Instapundit:
https://www.science.org/content/article/amid-cuts-basic-research-new-zealand-scraps-all-support-social-sciences
Love this bit: Other researchers fear the cuts will disproportionately slash research by New Zealand’s Indigenous M?ori scientists.
Even Winston Peters knows that Maori are not indigenous to NZ. They arrived and ate the previous inhabitants.
Interesting. Some excerpts.
They’re Trying to Smell Something on the Ground
I hope he succeeds.
Anti-Voice campaigner to contest Bradfield preselection (Tele, paywalled)
It’d be a double win if he can keep the Teals out too.
The Australian’s former editor-in-chief Chris Mitchell opens up on Australia’s hippie electricity grid:
Australia’s energy transition plan is a sham
The world spent $US2 trillion on new renewable energy infrastructure this year yet carbon dioxide emissions rose, fossil fuel use increased and the hollowing out of Europe’s industrial base accelerated.
If that sounds crazy, Australia’s renewable power system builders have effectively admitted we will rely beyond 2050 on potentially being able to burn enough gas to power 15 million homes a day when the weather knocks out renewables.
Nuclear power will take a long time to build, but it may be the only carbon-free way to achieve permanent stability in the electricity network.
This is the sham of our energy transition: politicians, journalists and many in the power industry don’t even admit that our renewables future will depend on gas.
Journalists will smash Coalition nuclear costings, as the ABC did on Friday morning ahead of the formal costings release later that day, but the same journalists will remain incurious about the total system cost of Labor’s plan.
Events in Australia, and in the US, in California and Texas, make it clear that severely adverse weather conditions for renewables can’t be offset by batteries alone because of frequency issues in the system.
Renewables-obsessed Germany has shed 8.4 per cent of industrial production during the past 18 months. European output is down 5 per cent and exports are down 3.8 per cent.
China, while experiencing a domestic slowdown, has lifted output 6 per cent and exports 15 per cent between quarter one 2023 and quarter two 2024.
Despite rolling out hundreds of new renewables projects, China increased total emissions of CO2 in the past 12 months by an estimated 0.2 per cent and now accounts for 32 per cent of global emissions. Its power grid remains 80 per cent coal-dependent.
China’s car exports are booming while European car companies are closing factories to relocate to the US and China.
Yet Europe did manage to cut total emissions by 8 per cent last year and is on course for another cut this year.
That may please its Greens activists, but EU politicians are worried about social cohesion and the effects on Europe’s workers of the industrial downturn. In Germany the right wing Alternative for Germany party is polling 18 per cent, behind only the conservative CDU (Christian Democrats).
Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party Coalition government collapsed last month and faces a wipe-out at the general election in February.
Everything in the climate action space is now up for grabs as president-elect Donald Trump declares “drill baby, drill”.
Yet even before Trump’s inauguration, UK-based website Carbon Brief expects total US CO2 emissions across all sectors to be up 2 per cent in 2024. The US this year produced record amounts of oil and gas despite President Joe Biden’s $1 trillion green spending under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
The US was for the seventh consecutive year the world’s top producer of crude oil, at 13.1 million barrels a day.
It is the world’s number one gas producer at 1.35 trillion cubic metres, more than double that of number two producer Russia at 586 billion cubic metres, and dwarfing Australia’s output of 150 billion cubic metres (seventh in the world). This is Biden’s green energy transition.
Yet Australian politicians, led by Energy Minister Chris Bowen and former Liberal NSW treasurer Matt Kean, now chair of Labor’s Climate Change Authority, still plan to cut all coal-fired power generation here and keep insisting wind and solar are the cheapest forms of power.
Our country has had hints of how a continent-sized grid built on renewables could go wrong – the collapse of the South Australian power system on September 28, 2016, and the failure of renewables to kick in to save the local system in Broken Hill, NSW, in October.
Chris Uhlmann, still at the ABC at the time, received a lot of abuse for writing the facts about electricity grid stability in the wake of the South Australian debacle.
As this column reported on June 30, quoting electrical engineering posts on Climate Etc, the blog of climate scientist Judith Curry, the science of grid stability is about spinning machines that stabilise the alternating current system. These do not always sit well with renewables feed-ins.
Menzies Research Centre senior fellow Nick Cater got a guernsey on Climate Etc on December 5 in a piece by Russ Schussler, former head of system planning for the Georgia Transmission Company. Cater had previously written about the Broken Hill shutdown and the difficulty of synchronising storage batteries with the grid.
Large blackouts in recent years in California and Texas after extreme weather events highlight the same issue but on a much larger scale, pointing to serious problems with the science of electricity distribution. This is nothing to do with denying climate change, as Guardian Australia insists when presented with such reporting.
Now even the Australian Energy Market Operator has admitted our electricity transition will have to rely on gas for decades. On November 12, Uhlmann quoted Australian Energy Market Operator CEO Daniel Westerman saying “gas would be essential to ensure the reliability of the eastern grid to 2050 and beyond”.
Given likely gas shortages in Australia without a domestic gas reservation policy, Westerman admitted there may be times when there is too little gas during periods of low solar and wind output to keep gas-fired power stations running.
The politics of this have not yet hit home in Canberra: because of engineering difficulties, Australia may never reach a time when it does not need fossil fuel back-up of renewables.
Adi Paterson, former CEO of ANSTO (the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation), says there is too much politics in power system discussions and not enough engineering expertise.
“The Australian east coast power grid is the single biggest machine in the southern hemisphere. The grid is the precision timing signal for hundreds of industries across the country. This links not just to manufacturing but to things like landing aircraft safely and even to pumping sewage,” Dr Paterson says.
“People who use the grid to do precision manufacturing are starting to get the rattles. In fact, South Australia has lost 4000 precision manufacturing engineering jobs but no one will talk about it. Those jobs have gone to the west coast of the US.
“Data centres also depend on precision timing systems in the grid. All sorts of things are wobbling as the grid becomes less stable.”
This is an inevitable function of using inverters to introduce power from wind and solar into the synchronous grid stabilised by spinning turbines.
Dr Paterson believes neither AEMO nor the CSIRO understand the engineering challenges and are yet to consider weather events such as east coast blocking lows that could affect wind and sun for up to 10 days at a time.
He points to the latest GenCost report’s admission that the CSIRO had underestimated the life span of nuclear plants and their average operating capacity, but against all logic had found correcting both had no positive effect on the economics of nuclear.
Dr Paterson points out Gencost “does not actually measure the cost of power at the meter but the cost of generation to the fence. One of its fatal flaws is not measuring the cost of the big new grid needed to make renewables work.”
Interestingly, in considering the wider economic effects of renewables, France – 70 per cent-dependent on nuclear power – is not facing the same industrial downturn as Germany.
Paging a Mr Adam Goodes! Will Mr Adam Goodes come to the courtesy phone please?
Storm erupts over popular cricket commentator’s ‘slur’ (16 Dec)
Most valuable primate? I wonder where that came from? Definitely an on-air brain explosion.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers is going to get his Reserve Bank rate cut whatever it takes so he’s going to sack-and-stack the RBA board with Labor maaaates (Paywallian):
Mmmyes.
The expression often bandied around in the Northen and Western suburbs of Melbourne was “Youse can’t prove nuffink!”.
The mean snobbery of the north shore has metastasised into something very destructive
Labor MP condemns Islamophobic graffiti attack
Noah Yim
Education Minister Jason Clare says anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are both a “parasite that eats away” at Australian society, following a graffiti attack in the western Sydney suburb of Chester Hill.
The graffiti over the weekend reportedly read, ‘f..k Islam’ and ‘cancel Islam’.
Mr Clare, who represents the Muslim-heavy western Sydney seat of Blaxland, said “whether it’s anti-Semitism on the streets of Sydney or Islamophobia, both are just as bad as one another”.
This comes after multiple arson attacks on cars and property in Jewish-heavy suburbs in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
Mr Clare slammed the “brain-dead morons writing things on walls on the streets of Sydney”.
“We need to call it out and talk about why we’re the best country in the world and why we need to do everything we can at the moment to keep our country together,” he told ABC TV.
He called on other states to follow NSW’s lead and introduce legislation limiting protests outside places of worship.
Albanese leads tributes at 10-year Lindt cafe siege anniversary
Anthony Albanese, NSW Premier Chris Minns, Governor-General Sam Mostyn and Sydney lord mayor Clover Moore have appeared at Martin Place to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the Lindt cafe siege.
They were accompanied by the parents of Katrina Dawson, who was one of two killed during the incident.
The Prime Minister said the event “traumatised this city”.
“We pause to remember those who’ve lost their lives, Katrina and Tori,” he said.
“For those who were injured and all those who were traumatised by this catastrophic event, it is a time to remember them and to pay our respects.
“It’s also a time to pay our respects to the first responders who responded so quickly and so bravely and who remain, as we know, deeply, deeply affected by the events during something that we didn’t expect to see here in this great city of Sydney.
“It is a time for us to remember them and to thank them for what they did during that period.”
Yes, and had New South Wales coppers admitted that the job was beyond them, and called in Two Commando, Man Monis would have been counting the bullet holes in his useless carcass, and two hostages would have survived..
Why did canbra allow someone like monis into Australia in the first place. Which pubes signed off on this?
Not sure I got it right.
As I see it, even if the renewables supply more power to the grid than spinning base power, they have a hard time pulling that much inertia out of phase.
But if you are using batteries to supply base power, then the sun and wind generators, provided they supply more than the batteries, could, in theory, override the base frequency and phase supplied by the batteries and make it synchronise with them.
So far so good, but they don’t supply steady power as had been demonstrated many times, so the system could become unstable oscillating between the different source of power.
Am I dreaming here or is it a possible scenario?
In response to multiple drone sightings Biden to announce emergency aid to Ukraine
And Albanese expected to announce emergency aid to Gaza.
This is as true as the drone info
They didn’t lift a finger to help him.
Judicial Watch FOIA Bombshell: How the Biden State Dept. Let YouTuber Gonzalo Lira Die in Ukrainian Prison
So, how long will it be, before the first of the “Bali 5” sell their stories?
“Years of Hell in an Indonesian jail?”
It’s going to get tough for Trump. Romney is already making noises about no pardons for the Jan 6ers. And this:
Judges defy Donald Trump by revoking retirements, blocking him from naming replacements – Washington Times
As in Australia the veil has lifted from the judiciary and a lot of the over paid cock suckers are just left wing activists.
According to the Hun,TimPallas the Victorian Treasurer is going to resign effective immediately.His job is done apparently,he has run out of things to destroy.
Yes, and had New South Wales coppers admitted that the job was beyond them, and called in Two Commando, Man Monis would have been counting the bullet holes in his useless carcass, and two hostages would have survived..
Correct. It’s never mentioned that the idiot wallopers were the ones who shot Katrina Dawson. They went in only after the muslim prick shot Tori Johnson and opened fire with FULL METAL JACKET ammo which went straight through the muslim scumbag, ricocheted and killed Katrina and incidentally wounded 2 of the idiot wallopers. At the beginning of the seige the wallopers introduced Operation Hammerhead and put large resources into tracking down any islamaphobic reactions to the bastard monis. During press coverage of the siege one of the head wallopers declared terrorists had rights too. The snipers were prevented from taking a clear shot and the wallopers rescued NOT ONE of the hostages who all escaped under their own steam.
The cops in this shit hole could not save themselves let alone protect the citizenry.
The more I see of J.D. Vance, the more I like him.
JD Vance on Russian attempts to interfere with the election #shorts
Israel drops ‘earthquake bomb’: Colossal explosion ‘so big it registered on the Richter scale’ hits Syrian coast as air strikes target weapons depots after fall of Assad regime
Daily Mail.
How many times do you mob have to be told?
Don’t fook with Israel?
He absolutely conned all of them.
Remember the phrase “self styled cleric”?
He basically engaged in Muesli cleric cosplay which made pollies and bureaucrats to shit-scared to do anything about him.
That got him citizenship and the rest is history.
So, how long will it be, before the first of the “Bali 5” sell their stories?
Don’t we have laws to stop criminals, supposedly, benefiting financially from their past crimes ..?
Sure they enacted these laws against Shappelle & Hicks …..
Lone wolf.
Mental health.
Not representative of a peaceful people.
#I’llridewithyou
While indulging in a bit of ex wife offing. Apart from the fact that the evil turd should never have been allowed into the country in the first place, he should been in bloody gaol at the very least.
Just another reason to hate canbra.
So the latest conspiracy theory is there has a radiation spike in NJ, hence the reason for the drones (tracking down gamma rays) given some device has arrived in the US from an adversary:
https://substack.com/home/post/p-153171027?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Ten years ago I would 100% have never bought this garbage. Also, probably, today. Well, I don’t buy 99% of it!
https://www.energy.gov/em/articles/radiation-detecting-drone-soars-over-portsmouth-collaborative-testing
Straya all gone for 445.
Decent total. No doubt the plan will be to bowl the call centre takers out twice without needing to bat again themselves, which means they’ll need to roll them for 244 or less and enforce the follow-on.
Who knew the snails and frogs legs gobblers would be that much smarter than bratwurst and sauerkraut eaters?
By the way, I am happy to dine on all of the above delicacies.
Aaaaand India now 1/4.
Young Jaiswal – soft dismissal to Starc. Again.
He basically engaged in Muesli cleric cosplay
Might be worth mentioning we accepted Muslim Brotherhood clerics from Saudi Arabia – based on the fact they were too radical for the Saudis.
After all what would the Saudis know about extremist people?
Because we are clever like that
Wow, I wasn’t expecting this from Romney.
India 2/6. Sharpish catch in the cordon from Marsh, off Starc.
It is extremely common for a top-order collapse to occur after the other team has put together a strong total.
Worrying
Rocky Gully Burglary / Stolen Firearms
Albany Detectives are seeking information regarding a burglary at a rural property in Rocky Gully, between Manjimup and Mount Barker, which occurred sometime between Monday 2 December 2024 and Friday 6 December 2024. During the burglary, 20 firearms were stolen, made up of a mix of longarm firearms (rifles and shotguns) and handguns
I don’t even like thinking about that dreadful day 10 years ago here in Sydney. I was locked down in a Sydney CBD office. When finally able to leave, I walked with a friend to Bondi Junction. There’s a lot more I could say about the events in the cafe but I won’t.
However here this….
From very early on it was clear that the NSW Police’s handling of the ‘siege’ was an effing disaster. Actually it was a joke and so what happened? Two innocent, productive, sensational and fabulous Australian, one a young man and the other a young woman, died due to the grotesque incompetence of the NSW police hierarchy who were too buy being PC and woke (before woke was a word).
As that hideous day dragged on, everything got worse, and upon arriving home, exhausted after walking, I remember turning on Sky and watching the melodrama play out. It was obscene and as every minute passed it became even more obscene. Even I knew that the longer the siege went on the more it played into the hands the terrorist inside.
I recall how Sky had on Chris Kenny, who’d narrowly missed being in the cafe by a few seconds and a putrid skank aka mean girl aka nobody’s girl…or it should be….aka “Eddy’s girl’. I recall the skank coming on and offensively spruiking this lie of….
‘I’ll ride with you’
So whilst men and women were being held hostage in a cafe in Martin Place, the left, led by their ABC, the SMH, and the skank and her cohorts were busy parroting an obscene lie about so called ‘Islamophobia’.
I remember how Chris Kenny verbally smacked the skank down.
Here is Kenny a year later writing about that awful day in the Oz….
Even as the Martin Place siege was unfolding, many downplayed or censored the Islamist element and rejected the terrorism descriptor, but the ensuing 12 months have confirmed the discomforting reality of the domestic threat.
For me, this episode was particularly chilling, I walked out of the Lindt cafe just a minute or so before the terrorist pulled his gun, passing within a metre of where he was sitting.
When the glass sliding doors were flicked off behind me, they became the random drafting gates between lucky bystanders and innocent terror victims.
This is the brutality of terror we know but seldom experience, I have seen first-hand the horrific aftermath of bombings in Bali and Jakarta, and had been to places like Baghdad and Kabul under heavy-security and burdened by ominous intelligence assessments, yet it was in the heart of Sydney on a busy Monday morning that my closest brush with terror occurred.
There was a terrible moment when this dawned. After a rush of police sirens, a woman relaying events and police drawing guns and clearing the street, I looked back at the cafe and saw a man pressed against the window, his hands in the air.
Soon a black Islamic flag was displayed and Australians knew what they were witnessing.
Many in the political/media class were in denial, the ABC published a profile of the gunman, Man Haron Monis, without mentioning the words Islam or Muslim, and mentioning terrorism only in a quote from his lawyer denying any links.
Within hours, the bizarre gesture of an “I’ll ride with you” hashtag had cropped up on social media, with people speaking out against a possible Islamophobic backlash in the wake of the siege.
Innocent Australians were still being held at the barrel of a gun (and we now know two of them, Tori Johnson and Katrina Dawson, would not survive) yet social media was concerned not for them but for an imaginary backlash.
That reaction did not occur, just as it didn’t occur after 9/11, Bali or Jakarta, we are better than that, and the alleged minor incident that triggered the hashtag was later revealed as a concoction.
Some news reports and commentary refused to mention Islamism or terrorism, and focused instead on possible mental health issues, as if all terrorists are well-adjusted.
The policing that day gives us a clue to what has transpired since, we now call it two tier policing. It was a crystal ball into the policing of the last fourteen months. I have zero faith the NSW Police will ever protect Australian Jews from being murdered by Muslims. However the rot started, not with the Lindt Cafe siege 10 years ago, but with so called Cronulla ‘riots’ almost twenty years ago. And we were given another taste of two tier selective politicised policing back in 2012 when Muslims took over the Sydney CBD and held up placards with the following words….
‘Behead those who insult the prophet’.
Nothing was done, the NSW Police were too busy trying to be nice.
Oh and here is another nauseating fact, the rodent Man Monis should never have been walking the streets, in fact he should never have been in this country but thanks to our woeful legal system, he was out and about, hatching his next job.
We have dhimmi policing in this country but that’s because we’re now a dhimmi country.
I just got a call from sister sister – she got a box of chocolates from a mob in Leura called Josophans Chocolates, and she has tried a few out.
Best chocolates she claims she’s ever had. So if you want to give an Aussie small business a bit of a hand, give these a try.
Lindt Cafe, my mate said similar to Zulu and Cohenite about the choice of weapons. Should have used MP5’s with 9mm instead of Modular carbines of 5.56mm variety.
He trained a few of the 2 Cdo boys later on at the Infantry School who were on TAG east at that time. Rumours of the mock ups and rehearsals apparently true. Apparently the Police were the problem and Premier who refused the Feds help on jurisdictional ground. This still hasn’t been rectified from what I’m told. Tac Assault Groups despite the legislation passed after still need the nod from the state.
As for the breach, mate said he’s seen far better from IET’s. They stalled in what he calls a fatal funnel and just were firing indiscriminately at the same time as lobbing distraction grenades.
I recall Philipino cops royally botching a bus siege years back. NSW cops certainly gave the a run for their money that day.
3/22. Kohli gorn for 3.
Great viewing, except for the rain now.
Rocky Gully Burglary / Stolen Firearms
That’s what you get for having a Firearms registry. It is a breach of security that somebody else even knows you are armed.
So did a crook working for WAPig sell the data or was it a crooked cop?
Piling on (justifiably), but:
Associates of mine have opined on exactly the same thing.
One mentioned that the allure of breaching and storming a stronghold, and without having done that in those specific circumstances before, and combined with the prospect of who had the best stories to tell later (‘How I Shot The Bad Guy’) led to the following shitfest.
You’ve got a point Eyrie, but you’re overthinking this one.
If you say “yeah I’ve got a Sig, seven up the stock” loud enough to be overheard at the Rocky Gully Tavern on a Saturday arvo, you’ll catch the ear of more than a few itinerants. Shearing, forestry, trucking, dr*g runners.
The marination process for the Oz lettuce leaf of justice really worked overtime on this one .. Ezra Mam felt the full force of not only being ‘special” (251) but also a Bronco’s thugby player ….. what a BLOODY joke .. two victim’s cars wrecked, 3 victims end up in hospital (one a 4 years old girl with a broken hip) .. He’s addled with drugs & driving without a licence or insurance .. FFS!
Wouldn’t you luv to be a 251 thugby player when you get it wrong ………!
“?He was fined $850 and disqualified from driving for at least six months”.
Cronkite earlier…
What was also telling was the press release the night before the cock-up. Plod announced they would give a briefing at 6:00 am. So they had made a judgement that the nut-job just wanted a bit of attention and, having had his 15 minutes of fame, would most likely surrender peacefully in time for the 8:30 update on Breakfast TeeVee.
We never found out who made that judgement and whether they considered the obvious possibility that a sleep-deprived nutter might lose it in the middle of the night.
Two separate pieces appearing in the NT News today. One:
Another, possibly more relevant reason why thriving in the desert isn’t possible appears in the second piece:
Mystery solved.
Interestingly, in considering the wider economic effects of renewables, France – 70 per cent-dependent on nuclear power – is not facing the same industrial downturn as Germany.
Unless we give Labor and the Greens the boot at the next election and vote in Dutton’s mob, warts and all, Australia will end up in an even more ruinous economic position than Germany.
The going rate to kiss the ring of the king at MAGA Lago, if you’ve been like a really bad billionaire, appears to be US$1 million.
hmmmmm Tragic, but it doesn’t sound right.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14196251/10-year-old-boy-dead-car-boot-mooroopna.html
Recycling no longer a benefit to the environment.
Recycling no longer a benefit to the environment.
Bunch of NIMBYs
Having enthusiastically adhered to the “Steak & eggs diet” since Digger recommended it on here some weeks ago.
It really works! I’ve put on Four (4) kilogrammes.
I see there was a wreath laying ceremony at Martin Place today to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the siege. In attendance were Katrina Dawson’s parents along with the following gruesome side show alley of political whores and opportunists….
Pretty Boy Minns
The Jew hating Slushing Trot from Grayndler
The hideous and utterly ugly far-left Governor General who is only in her role because she’s a mate of the Slushing Trot
The NSW Governor, perhaps the only one there with any decency…..
and….
The walking corpse aka the appalling Jew hating Clover Moore, Lord Mayor of Sydney.
All of the above carried wreaths. I am quite rattled that Moore was there. Back in 2015 and 2016, before the official inquiry came out, Moore decried and diminished any terrorism. In 2015 she said….
Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore has drawn outrage for claiming the Lindt cafe siege was not an act of terrorism, on the anniversary of Islamist-inspired gunman Man Haron Monis’s 17-hour standoff in which two hostages died.
“It wasn’t a terrorist event,” Ms Moore said yesterday. “This was a one-off, isolated event by a mentally ill man with a violent background who shouldn’t have been out on bail.”
The morning after the siege ended, I arrived at work and I remember my boss saying that our whole department was going to walk down to Martin Place and lay some flowers. You see, he’d decided. So, I said ‘nup, I won’t go, I don’t engage in such vacuous and meaningless exercises’. He could not understand why I would not do it. I was furious and distraught at what had happened, furious at the actions by the NSW police, or that should be…..furious at the inaction by the NSW police.
Oh mama! I don’t need to be a man to want a dream basement like this.
want, want, want. sigh…
https://x.com/Pismo_B/status/1860580960376619087?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1860580960376619087%7Ctwgr%5E7c6257ac60765e921541efc68fe372817342a68c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F
Anti-semitism: irrational and reprehensible.
Islamophobia: rational and understandable.
Daylight saving time.
People are tarded. Really they are.
Trump sparks a debate on eliminating daylight saving: good I think. But then I realise the idiots talking about it are in favour of making it year round.
Midday is when the sun is at its zenith. that IS 12 o’clock.
This effing around with setting the clock forward is just a minority of early morning types wanting to fascistically impose their preferred habits on the rest of us.
Listen, cockhead, if you want to get up early that’s fine, do it. If you want to open your business at seven in the morning instead of eight, do it. But why the hell do you have to impose your desires on everyone else? If, IF others want to follow your lead, they will. You don’t have to deny nature, common sense, the motion of the planet and the actual order of the universe in order to get up an hour earlier. Just do it.
Imagine explaining time to children in the future if these morons get their way: “12 oclock is midday, which used to be when the sun is highest in the sky, until we all decided to get up earlier so actually one o’clock is really midday, but not really because 12 is still the middle of the work day, but not the middle of the day as far as the time between sun up and sun down, so we can all see the beautiful sunrises, but be really tired and sleepy and ready for bed soon after the sun sets”.
Now imagine your average 94 IQ primary chick teacher giving that lesson, complete with their ideas about “more hours of sunlight”.
What these people actually want is earlier opening hours, and they know that others don’t want that, so all this f*cking about with clocks is their way of getting what they want without making it seem like it. Which is ordering every other human being to open an hour early.
Just f*ck off.
Of course, the real tragedy is that they’ll get their way. Because when the decision is made most of us will be sleeping in and miss the meeting.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
December 16, 2024 5:24 am
Yes. Everywhere you go in Italy has something wonderful to show you from past ages, where people took their time to create beautiful things, pushed on by strong religious feeling.
Yes, even buildings serving utilitarian functions, such as primary schools were built with a concept of beauty in mind. One just has to look at their Palladian-style hewn-stone window frames, window sills, or even the building corners.
But nothing like this has been built in the last 80-100 years, that’s about 25% of the time it took for the Roman Empire to completely disintegrate. So we have some way to go, yet.
Also, thank you for the kind words.
From the end of WW2 to 2005 the “normal” rate of Net migration was around 80,000 people per year.
However, from 2005 to the Covid era, both Labor and Liberal kicked this up to averaging around 235,000.
And for 2023/24 Albanese boasts that he’s “reduced” net migration (to 446,000 for the year) .
Abanese reminds me of an old dog who licks his balls and then climbs up on your lap and licks your face.
Gilas
Contemporary public structures can be amazing too.
We had the big Christmas Spectacular on board last night and although cruise ship singing and dancing shows are not his thing, and mostly not mine either, I persuaded him to attend to get into the coming Christmas spirit. And it was another occasion to deck the ladies with diamonds, pearls and other glitter.
All the old Christmas ‘general’ songs of the 40’s and 50’s were sung and danced well (some very good tap dancing), and plenty of santa’s sleigh with galloping reindeers in snowy European village backdrop. Interestingly, there was one religious song too – ‘o holy night’ – which we were pleased to see included, as it had some sense of reverence for the Christ-child’s birth. The show was introduced as a Christian ‘Christmas’ show, but one open to all who wished to celebrate a general institutionalised ‘season of goodwill’. The ‘magic’ of Christmas is still a spiritual experience for many people, and in that sense I think Christmas still has tremendous cultural and socio-religious meaning. It’s emphasis on a Holy Family and hence on the families that we all come from has tremendous emotional resonance for believers and unbelievers alike. Keeping it true to its religious origins is increasingly important, in my view, in this fractured world.
Anyone bored while waiting for it to stop raining at the Gabba can always check out the Pommy vs Kiwi Test.
Kiwis are putting the Poms to the sword and running them over with a steamroller. Just now brought up the 600 lead. The tailenders are having fun hitting sixes.
Might be a tad hard to get even with 2 days plus remaining.
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/england-in-new-zealand-2024-25-1428550/new-zealand-vs-england-3rd-test-1428556/live-cricket-score
Sky News: “King Charles furious over Prince Andrew’s Chinese spy staffer”.
Oh really?
How should the rest of us feel about Charle’s previous close relationship with the late and unlamented Jimmy Saville?
Look, we all know how these things work now. Your brother is a clown. You are a clown. The news reports we are now seeing are your staff briefing close and trusted media whores to manage the story.
Even previously staunch monarchists such as me want change.
The right must do something about the monarchy.
Here in Australia we have to accept that the clown show will continue to drag the monarchy down, and with it all the last vestiges of the traditional culture still atttached to it.
Make a strong immediate move, cut it away and propose an American style Republic with strong first and second amendments, the separation of powers, state rights and limited Federal government.
Civilian death count in Gaza: exaggerated bullshit.
Number of civilians killed in Gaza ‘inflated to vilify Israel’
Daytime Sky keep running their traditional anti-nuclear, anti-coal, anti-coalition, pro-Teals, lukewarm even on gas.
Basically anti-reality.
It sounds like your dispute is with the location of Greenwich.
Kiwis all out, leaving the Poms 658 to win.
Easy peasy.
Best way to lose weight.
Adopt a diet that is easy to follow and has simply rules.
eg
1.Cut out all cheese and full milk products except at special occasions. Light milk only.
2.No fizzy drinks including beer.
3. Keep away from chocolates, sweets, ice-cream and things preserved in syrup as well as all deep fried products. Steaming and grilling is best.
4.Keep away from take-aways except steamed dumplings, rice paper rolls and similar. No cheese burgers or cheesy pizzas.
5.You can eat 2 slices of whole meal (NON wheat) bread (eg Khorasan, Spelt, Rye) a day with non dairy spread. Tip for bread.(Healthy Bake brand is good as is high protein, low sugar and low fat and no milk) and very nice to eat and toast.
6.Eat fish, chicken and lots of green leafy vegie, carrots etc and grill red meats when can.
7.Keep meat portions to around/below 250gm for female and 300gm male. Ideally red meat only twice a week.
8. You will start losing weight by the end of the first month and thereafter more until stabilize. You will also be healthier. This diet is also good for those suffering acne and skin problems such as psoriasis. And teenagers that have piled on too much weight.
Just in case this has not already been already discussed.
Before reading about the Australian Swamp, have a stiff drink and several thereafter. ‘Tis a long read. Both barrels – very well done Robert.
The message from the Boyle fiasco is clear: don’t tell the truth
The NT News reports, with no comments allowed, ‘cos it’d be too much work to filter out the swearwords:
December 16, 4am: Five boys are in custody after an alleged crime spree involving stolen booze, a car jacked at knifepoint, and a supermarket ram raid.
NT Police Northern Watch Commander Sean Patterson alleged the youths stole alcohol from the Frontier Hotel Cellarbrations bottleshop in Darwin City at 9.40pm on Sunday.
They allegedly threw bottles at the shop worker and unsuccessfully tried to steal a worker’s car before running away from the scene.
The group then entered The Gardens, and allegedly stole a car off a man by threatening him with a knife.
Mr Patterson said the car was used to commit several property offences around the greater Darwin area, including a ram raid at the Hibiscus Tavern in Leanyer.
Just after 3am police started chasing the car, successfully using tyre spikes to bring it to a stop in Coconut Grove about an hour later.
The boys, aged 14, 14, 15, 16 and 17, allegedly rammed two police cars during the chase, causing minor damage.
Strike Force Trident is investigating the alleged crime spree, and all five of the boys remain in custody.
The Phat Phuc copper who killed the old lady is suing for Unfair Dismissal.
Of course he is. The turd needs a serious “reality check”, from fellow coppers, if there are any decent ones left.
Having been seriously abused and threatened by members of our brethren whilst travelling and spending money in Northern Oz (N.T. and northern W.A.), I’m of the view that I won’t travel up there ever again and they can keep their sh!t holes to themselves.
I am really over it.
Cute owls.
https://youtu.be/PYOSKYWg-5E?si=1jhsj2lHD_IRqcHR
Go fund me, for the two month old baby, who was injured in Alice Springs, has just topped $52,000.
Nah. America is a shithole of a country in which politics is everything. Republics are for losers. America has succeeed despite its political system. It is now dying because of its political system.
The first Amendment doesn’t really work that well. Look at the way the courts have read down the simple phrasin of the First Amendement to allow governments to do just about anything. All that you have to prove to get around the first amendment is that there is a compelling government reason to do so.
The problem with a written constitution that deals with political rights is that it cannot reform the people. a constitution only works if it springs from the people organically and the people themselves remain vitrtuous and culturally united.
No constitution in the world is ever going to keep corrupt politicians and bureaucrats from ruining things, particularly in a society where people reap huge rewardsfor narcissism and degenracy.
(27) The Out of Africa Theory is Completely Debunked! – YouTube
Arky December 16, 2024 4:14 pm
?They will want to be bloody strong amendments, Arky.
Unless there’s Castle Doctrine, Stand Your Ground Rights, as well as Concealed Carry Unabridged Rights, as well as others, I’m sticking with the Monarchy.
?Not because I like the Monarchy, but when you look at the collapse of civil rights in GB, I wouldn’t give any government any more power than it has – and I want to see it have a damn sight less.
I tolerate the Windsors (just) nothing more. I’m a Republican but I’m not confident any tinkering with our constitution would render an improvement.
Seems to me whether in a constitutional monarchy or a US style Republic, democracy can be perverted and power usurped by traitors.
I’m becoming a little sceptical of these ‘collosal explosions’ that record a 3 or more on the Richter scale, and produce a large mushroom cloud.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/great-replacement-nigerian-member-uk-parliament-conservative-party/
Christmas is not pagan.
https://x.com/catholicpat/status/1868278548617740689?t=cjFAP8G-z_NhJqYvpBEEBQ&s=19
Another one of Cronkite’s cute owls, but hates Trump.
Reading JD Vance’s autobiography and more particularly looking at him talk on Youtube about his conversion to Catholicism is particularly interesting in the light of that Speccie piece on Christmas and H Ali’s conversion. Vance, in a personal revelation, decided to return to his original Christian faith and away from his secular humanist adulthood once he had children. He chose Catholicism specifically because of its sticking to those very ancient traditions of Christian family life and that church’s long heritage.
Hairy and I are both baptised (and he’s also confirmed) lapsed Anglicans who love to experience still the beautiful old Church of England liturgies and the glory of the King James bible.
We are so looking forward to having ticketed entrance to the Nine Lessons and Carols Ceremony of song and biblical lessons in Kings College Chapel at Cambridge University on Christmas Eve. It was created to commemorate the sacrifices of the First World War and to console the bereaved with hope at Christmas. Old and new carols are featured and the readings inbetween each are so well read.
My sister is in her dying days and I shall be thinking of her then, as I do a lot of the time right now. We saw her before we left on this trip and hope she can survive until we return on 18th January. We’ll speak to her at Christmas too. She is very much looking forward to seeing her great-grandchildren again at Christmas after our big family get-together a few months ago when the severity of her illness became apparent.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
John Adams
It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas
Was at a local shopping centre this afternoon. Same Christmas decs for the last 15 years and looking a little tired but hey they still look OK and whose got splash out money these days. 3 entrances to a square with a supermarket taking up all of the fourth side of the covered square. The other 3 sides are assorted small businesses. We ordered coffee at the cafe and took a table outside. Next in line was an older man with a 3 year old in the ubiquitous princess frock. Our coffees came and so did theirs. The princess had a baby chino in a demitasse cup.
An elf on a Segway comes in waving and saying hello and assorted Christmas greetings. A couple of singers in a corner singing songs I’d never heard.
The princess takes her demitasse back to the cafe, presumable grandfather hadn’t finished his coffee. 3 schoolboys enter the square just as a woman aged about 40 comes out of the supermarket and the bottom falls out of her shopping bag. People move in to help pick up groceries but they’re too slow, beaten by the 3 boys who pick up all the groceries in their arms and take them to her car for her.
The singers sing on…
Making someone feel better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW6usQVz6Cs
This is nothing more than the importation of a foreign army to force the subjugation of Britain into an Islamic nation.
The enemy isn’t at the gates, they’re in the lounge room, raiding the refrigerator, and chatting up your 10 year old daughter.
So the question to the British is “Where do you see yourself next year?”
Midday is when the sun is at its zenith. that IS 12 o’clock.
Hmm … analemma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPeUoWj9lpc
Cost of living, energy, antisemitism
Release the Bali 5 , a Christmas story.
In 1999 I voted for Malturd’s republic. I recall being quite upset when it was soundly and roundly defeated.
I can safely say that I will now never vote for any republic model, no matter how ‘conservative’ the model. I’m no monarchist although I do have a soft spot for the history, the pomp and the pageantry of various European monarchies.
Those countries with monarchies, particularly in the middle east, are more more stable than those countries without a monarch.
I would venture to say that I am now repulsed by the very idea of a republic. The US system is a one off, and we’ve seen how corrupted and debased it has become over the last twenty years.
The left have politicised and weaponised everything and any republic in this country would quickly turn into a mouthpiece for some rabid and obnoxious activist appointed to the role. In fact there’s already one in the role of GG, appointed by her buddy, the Jew hating Freddy Krueger from Grayndler. I can’t remember her name and I don’t want to remember her name, I find her utterly offensive and repulsive on every level, she’s repulsive to look at, she’s repulsive to listen to and she’s repulsive to read about. Any new Liberal government, assuming they possessed any balls (and I don’t and won’t hold my breath for that) would terminate her immediately.
But I digress. The benefits of the monarchy, particularly in the UK, were no better illustrated than back in August when Prince Charles visited Southport.
In the immediate aftermath of the mass murder in Southport, and just to remind people here that the ‘alleged’ perpetrator isn’t some nice Welsh Christian choirboy who once sang in a chapel, the newly elected and very rancid adulterer PM of the UK (someone who, when he headed the DPP decided NOT to prosecute Saville despite a tonne of evidence) thought he could turn up at Southport and ‘score’ some nice pics of him laying a wreath. This hideous zombie creep was chased away by the shocked and grieving working class residents of the town. They can smell a fake. It’s all captured on film. Starmer did a runner.
A few weeks later, after the town of Southport had time to settle, inasmuch as any town could settle down after an Islamist had slashed to death three little girls and injured many others at a Taylor Swift party, King Charles visited Southport to comfort the grieving families and town folk. The difference between Sturmer’s creepy appearance and King Charles was like chalk and cheese. The Sturmer appearance was all about……himself, it was a cheap photo op and when he couldn’t handle some heckling, he ran off. King Charles’ appearance was all about the traumatised residents of Southport, and they warmly welcomed him….because he wasn’t there for the politics.
I don’t think the Windsors are perfect but I’ll take them any day over the Sturmers, the grub from Grayndler, that hideous gin alley GG and all the rest of the scum that now infect our political class.
The Sturmer appearance was all about……himself, it was a cheap photo op and when he couldn’t handle some heckling, he ran off.
Like Anal and the Allan abomination at Ripponlea. What a shameful episode that was.
Ripponlea is named after a wonderful old house there which I’ve visited.
The Bali 9.
Oh hang on, two were ventilated for trying to bring 8kg of heroin into Indonesia. Bali 7.
Then one died of stomach cancer. Bali 6.
Then the only chick (allegedly) in the bunch got her sentence commuted.
The Bali 5. A very mediocre Christmas to all.
Senator Rennick.
The head of the climate change authority also works for a renewables investment firm
Former US House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich: ” The Bidens are the Delaware version of the Sopranos”.
Gingrich adds that the Biden crime family, on its way out the door, is trying to make life as difficult as possible for incoming Trump administration by allocating more billions to extend America’s war with Russia via its Ukraine surrogate.
American politics in 2024 is about driving out the corrupt establishment and restoring value for money for American taxpayers.
Trump’s corruption-busting agenda is the greatest story in world journalism for the past century, but 99% of “journalists” aren’t interested because they’re on the side of the corruptocrats.
Trump’s corruption-busting agenda is the greatest story in world journalism for the past century, but 99% of “journalists” aren’t interested because they’re on the side of the corruptocrats.
They’re paid to be.
They’re paid to be.
That’s why only the partisan or gullible pay any attention to the MSM these days.
Another cute owl.
If we don’t move on a Republic while voter sentiment shows common sense, such as shown by the referendum on the Voice, the left will pick it’s time.
And bung through an abomination.
At the least, a centre right Republican effort must begin the task of working through a decent model and not be blind sided, disrupted and taken by surprise by the next Republican push, should it come from the far left we could be in real trouble.
Even monarchists should want a good model should it come to pass.
And the good model is the US model.
As for the breach, mate said he’s seen far better from IET’s. They stalled in what he calls a fatal funnel and just were firing indiscriminately at the same time as lobbing distraction grenades.
Didn’t help when NSWplod breach team dropped a flash-bang at their own feet.
D’oh!
One of the quickest stories to be shot down post siege was NSWplod identified many suspicious devices around the CBD.
So they just couldn’t turn Monis into red goo in case he had a dead man’s switch.
And they were concerned that bitch Monis may have also had one.
Total horseshit & considering how quickly NSWplod dropped it even they knew they couldn’t get away with it.
I just got a call from sister sister – she got a box of chocolates from a mob in Leura called Josophans Chocolates, and she has tried a few out.
They are absolutely delicious – thanks for the reminder.
Shocking, no shit, Sherlock, news:-
But the MSM never report those numbers as “disputed” or even “claimed”.
They are simply reported as absolute, irrefutable fact.
ABC usually says “according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.” Still, the 40K killed, 92K injured does seem conservative for a population of 2.5M living within an area of that size.
“I thought one of the officers was rather dishy – all that braid and so well-shaven.. “
Ok, here’s a trivial pursuit question for the more mature members, which includes myself and Lizzie B, plus H.
In which movie did the officer at the dining table tell the passengers, in answer to their question whether he was married: no, but I have a mistress. The sea.
The usual namby pamby efforts at replicating the original cute owls. Here is the genuine thing: a cute owl™ in her natural environment:
Trying to buy some Christmas lollies today. All made in China, a quick perusal of the confectionary isle turned up same with non Christmas items.
Then some peanuts, all have minuscule Australian content. No idea of origin just overseas. Yup pass as well.
We are sourcing Christmas lunch from a butcher this year, Colesworths selection was poor and the same price.
Aldi Christmas ham was tough too, tried Colesworths & IGA to disappointment in last few years. Whatever happened to even half decent mid range produce, FFS not as if we want top range stuff. The mid range stuff is now budget quality.
Full Metal Jacket.
KD.
It’s shrinkflation.
Like chip packets.
Luigi is on to it.
Mmmyes.
They had ample access to hostages who had escaped to establish that he had no such device.
dover0beach
December 16, 2024 9:28 pm
So, the Pally Ministry of Truth numbers sound, well, truthy to you?
Based on … ?
Given the IDF has gone to incredible lengths, including placing their own at greater risk, to avoid civilian casualties.
Any of the bush lawyers on this blog help out?
Regarding the Bali 5 – Scott Rush’s father contacted the AFP, to inform them that his son was on his way to Bali to commit a crime.
Did the rozzers have the right to prevent him leaving Australia, under those circumstances?
I got the best birds. The best owls, all natural, just really… really super, believe me
Oops.
Someone has some splaining to do.
Rear trailer on a triple. Another Primr Mover was under it and had it gone in 20 minutes.
“Still, the 40K killed, 92K injured does seem conservative for a population of 2.5M living within an area of that size.”
So, nor a genocide?
These were last night, with shallow midsummer full moon- family of four
Are the Years of Madness Ending?
@GuntherEagleman
How many of these legacy media lies did you fall for…?
This is not something you expect to see from a 27 year old.
@TaraBull808
Scary moment tonight, I hope Alex Bruesewitz is okay
Apparently he’s O.K.
Trump adviser Alex Bruesewitz collapses on stage during speech at New York Young Republican Club gala
Respected Alice Springs elder Benedict Stevens ‘beat partner with Aboriginal tool’
A respected Alice Springs traditional owner and director of a community organisation tasked with stamping out domestic and youth violence in the crime-ravaged outback city beat his long-term partner in an alcohol-fuelled assault earlier this year.
Lhere Artepe Aboriginal Corporation chair and Tangentyere Council director Benedict Stevens was handed a six-month suspended sentence in June after pleading guilty to aggravated assault following a violent incident in which he struck his partner in the head with a traditional Aboriginal foraging tool and left a large gash.
Northern Territory Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro met with Mr Stevens as part of a trip to Alice Springs last week following a huge escalation in violent crime that saw a baby left with a fractured skull after an alleged home invasion and a woman allegedly raped in her sleep.
The Australian understands in the week leading up to pleading guilty, Mr Stevens performed a Welcome to Country for the televised Melbourne v Fremantle AFL game in Alice Springs.
Mr Stevens told The Australian he had changed since the assault, and had learned he “shouldn’t be setting a bad example to the rest of the town”.
“I said to myself as well: ‘What the hell are you doing, Mr Stevens? You’re the TO (traditional owner) of this town, of Alice Springs. Why setting a bad example to them? You should be leading the way, showing respect to women’,” he said.
The Australian has obtained a statement of alleged facts that shows police believed Mr Stevens on April 19 was drinking at a suburban home in Alice Springs with his partner, his partner’s daughter and other family members.
He left the property in the afternoon but returned about 10.30pm. He walked into the house and retrieved a stick. While the statement of alleged facts does not specify the type of stick, The Australian understands it was a black and pink digging stick, traditionally used by Aboriginal women to dig roots, grubs and small animals.
“The defendant approached the victim and swung the wooden stick once at the victim, hitting (her) to the left eyebrow,” the statement reads. “As a result of the assault, the victim suffered a large laceration about 6cm in length and about 5cm wide.”
The daughter then grabbed the digging stick and pushed Mr Stevens away.
Police arrived at the house at 11.30pm and placed Mr Stevens under arrest for aggravated assault. Mr Stevens was issued a domestic violence order, while his partner was taken to Alice Springs hospital.
The federal government committed $2m to a “Women’s Voices” campaign at Tangentyere Council last year, and has committed $1.25m in the past two years alone for family and domestic violence support.
Mr Stevens is one of 14 directors at the Tangentyere Council, where he has been involved in domestic violence diversion programs.
Asked whether it was appropriate for him to be counselling other men on domestic violence, he said: “Yep.”
“Just letting them know you shouldn’t be doing this,” he said.
Mr Stevens said he was “getting away from alcohol” in light of the incident.
“If you’re drinking alcohol, alcohol caused that problem. It’s all about alcohol … if you stay out of it, you’ll have a good life,” he said. “You’ll love being with your partner. It’s all about that alcohol, that’s all.”
In the wake of the assault, Mr Stevens volunteered to stand down as the Alice Springs Hospital’s Aboriginal Liaison Officer, he said. He maintains what happened was “an accident”.
Mr Stevens was present at the meeting with Ms Finocchiaro and the Lhere Artepe Aboriginal Corporation last Thursday, but several sources close to the Chief Minister said she was unaware of his violent history.
Sources familiar with the meeting said there were “high level” talks about the issues in Alice Springs, but no discussions about funding or commitments were made by either of the parties.
Multiple members of the Alice Springs Indigenous community slammed Mr Stevens for remaining on the Lhere Artepe board despite the incident, and have said it was an “open secret in the black community”.
“Why is somebody with serious domestic violence convictions sitting at the top of the food chain when you’ve got the (police) commissioner and Chief Minister talking about domestic violence in the town?” one person said.
Another said: “The Territory can’t have DV offenders as leaders, we’re a laughing stock.”
NT police last Thursday called in extra officers to conduct an around-the-clock patrol of Alice Springs, after a two-month-old baby was flown to an Adelaide hospital following an alleged violent home invasion in which the infant was left with a brain bleed and a fractured skull.
Police Commissioner Michael Murphy last week said there had been a huge escalation in crime – including sexual assault, abduction and theft – since December 3.
This masthead revealed this included a woman who was allegedly raped by a stranger in her own bed, and a 57-year-old man who was threatened by a gang of teenagers with a tomahawk until he handed over a bottle of whisky.
A spokesperson for Ms Finocchiaro would not confirm or deny whether the Chief Minister knew of Mr Stevens’ history, but said she met “with several members of Lhere Artepe while in Alice Springs”.
“The meeting, led by Kirsty Bloomfield, was a proactive meeting where Lhere Artepe shared some solutions that could provide practical outcomes for the people of Alice Springs,” the spokesperson said.
Ms Finocchiaro was initially booked to stay for two nights in Alice Springs, but she cut her trip short and left after one.
NT Opposition Leader Selena Uibo on Monday accused the government of failing to adequately prepare for a “predictable” crime spike.
“It is extremely concerning that there was a shocking spate of violent crime in Katherine over the weekend, with reports of only one police unit in a town of 10,000 people to respond. This simply isn’t good enough,” Ms Uibo said.
“The Chief Minister needs to come out and tell Territorians what police resourcing is in place; not just for Alice Springs, but for Tennant Creek, Katherine, Darwin and everywhere in between over this period.”
Seen downtown , earlier.
A police car, displaying Christmas tinsel, and a Santa in his sleigh, on the bonnet.
“Right ho, dickhead, get out of the car. Keep your hands in plain sight, and move slowly. You are under arrest.
Oh, Merry Christmas from Western Australian Police Force….”
And:
Then:
There you have it. Everything’s an accident. Everything is someone else’s fault.
Keep the cash coming, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAJECcfNQMk
Good doco on lernorder in Alice Springs.
We’ve joined with another Australian couple to see if we can set up a relief fund for Myotte and Nosy B to which passengers who enjoyed hospitality only last week from these two devastated islands can contribute to a friendship-to-friendship fund for those whose have lost loved ones or property to this sudden cyclone that we were so lucky to escape.
Sky News is now reporting this story and Macron’s response re Myotte, which is notionally a French Department still.
Ketone Bodies Clear Damaged Proteins in the Brain – Neuroscience News
The ketone in the study is available as a supplement. Get away from carbs, learn to fast because maintaining a ketogenic diet is very difficult for some people.
A critical issue here is type 3 diabetes, where the brain develops insulin resistance. That is probably a gradual issue across different regions of the brain. The loss of glucose utilization is a huge blow for human brains because most of the time our brains are primarily relying on sugar. Energy loss is a major issue in aging brains. Ketones can help address that.
The numbers sound plausible to me. Given the claimed pop. prior to late 2023, the size of the area, and the damage to the built area and infrastructure, around 5% casualties doesn’t sound fantastical.
Needs the Cultural Awareness filter, for some reason the cheer squad is asleep at the wheel all of a sudden-
A respected Mparntwe/Alice Springs Elder and Apmereke artweye, proud Arrernte and Gurrwa-Yanyuwa man Benedict Stevens, beat his long-term partner with a traditional First Nations atneme (or digging stick) in an alcohol-fuelled assault earlier this year.
That’s better.
I thought I read that Type 3 diabetes was that brought on by removal or severe physical damage to the pancreas?
Dover, are you using square feet or meters to calculate the plausibility quotient.
I agree, there’s no way, no motivation at all, for Paliwood exaggerating those numbers.
Johannes Leak.
Brett Lethbridge classic.
Michael Ramirez.
Tom Stiglich.
Ben Garrison.
TOWNSVILLE SHINES
Congratulations to Townsville on being voted Australia’s Sh/t Town of the Year for 2024!
This is Towntown’s third brown crown, following triumphs in 2021 and ‘22. Along with wins for Logan (2019, 2020) and Toowoomba (2023), the result means the Sunshine State has now sh.t out the past six straight winners.
Here are the final standings:
Townsville, QLD: 32.1%
Alice Springs, NT: 28.3%
Mount Druitt, NSW: 12.2%
Port Pirie, SA: 10.6%
Capital Hill, ACT: 5%
Bridgewater, TAS: 4.7%
Geelong, VIC: 4.6%
Broome, WA: 2.5%
Commiserations to all the sh/t towns that weren’t quite sh/t enough to take it out in 2024. Better luck next year!