“THE next big drain on household budgets will be water, a report released today warns.
Water and sewerage expenses could double by 2040 — to around $2500 a year — according to findings by Infrastructure Australia.
And the shock to households could pressure governments to sell off water supply businesses — one of the few public utilities not to be privatised.
Ageing infrastructure is costing more to maintain with the extra expense being passed on, while climate change and growing populations will further strain supplies of clean water.
“If Australians want continued access to safe, reliable and affordable water in the future, we need to begin a staged approach to reforming the sector now — starting with a new national urban water reform plan,” Infrastructure Australia CEO, Philip Davies, said.”
We were staying in Middle Park last night and turned on the central heating. It was on again this morning. I daresay it will suddenly be 40C and we won’t know what’s hit us because Melbourne continues to live up to its 4 seasons in a day reputation.
Isn’t the Burnley Tunnel a complete drag these days? Yuk…smelly too with all those big trucks.
Thank you Joanne! expect moderation
Flep,
Why not throw away the PC gloves, and properly respond to this Attack on our 250 yr old republic. Sen Franken could draw map of all 50 US states in any order; (did that several times). All other participants in the US congress are but boughten PROSTITUTES, many with very stinky CU**S.
I are way to emotional on politics! 🙂 I prefer considered discussion on this previous.
To clarify; The mass of Earth, oceans, atmosphere have sensible heat (SH) average 2 J/(gm-Δk), but very little of that mass changes temperature (Δk) for storage of power as SH energy, oceans included.
OTOH in Earth’s atmosphere there remains an average of 2 x 10^19 gm of airborne H2O in various phases of H2O. This is nine days of global precipitation. Such cannot remain gaseous as most of Earth’s atmosphere is way to cold. Why does it remain airborne; moving from place to place, what is it doing? Please consider #7.2 above. What a magnificent Planet! 🙂
Increased mass density reduces both surface area, and cross sectional area. Both reduce ability to transfer power. More ‘stable’ in temperature YES! But what is ‘temperature’ 🙂
We can cover every inch of our bodies with black tatoos but are concerned that our butts may look too dark ………..? Thank goodness I’m too old to care how depraved the human race is becoming and besides I try to make a point of never looking at my own butt!
We must never forget to look in terlit (before flushing) to determine ratio of floaters to sinkers! How else to determine effect of atmospheric CO2? 🙂
In this republic each state is willing to trade some sovereignty for the consolidation of force needed to oppose the enemy of all. We agree to federal consolidation of trade rights among us. We in no way agree to total overthrow of States Rights by some self appointed FEDERALIZE or the masses. Hence the well considered Electoral College! 🙂
I would disparage the local garbage folk (momback). Until one dived into that and rescued neighbor childs ‘kiddy kat kitten (grinning). Now we would be much better off having that momback truly representing, both the wishes of child and all to perhaps replace this and if need be violently overthrown the rancid hideous, hideous, derilict thing called the US Congress! Way way time to be over politically correct! MAGA.
“extra unthreaded. Sometimes the weekend is too far away…” Oh dear! It’s the start of the slippery slide into “One more won’t hurt”, “I can stop anytime I want”.
Or is this a cunning plot to cripple the trolls? They don’t come on the W.E. Unthreaded because the free flowing dialogue doesn’t fit their prepared scripts. Actually they have been thin on the blog lately, have they realised that they’ve lost? Has someone cut off their subsidies?
Has the sheer ludicrousness of the Chinese virtue signalling by building an electric ship to transport coal to a power station made even them realise what the Chinese really think about Global Warming a.k.a. Climate Change a.k.a Weather Disruption ?
Questions, but can the trolls provide any answers? Does Harry Twin-Otter sniff AvGas?
Don’t know about the av gas but there definitely into something that’s shrinking their grey matter .
The leaf is not only a famous book writer but also an experienced farmer , well one that’s never farmed in winter anyway .
Yes we are free form poets void of any talent but have optimism in abundance.
Did you know the Tesla big battery can:
– Alter the magnetic field enough to create the illusion it actually matters.
– Create so much harmony that the Energiser and Duracell bunnies make enough electricity so S.A won’t have to burrow from other states.
– It emits a Musky smell that only attracts the rare Green Lemming.
– It has a higher discharge rate than a leper colony, but slightly lower than dual citizen politician in Aus.
– Its included with the toy Wind Farm…..kickbacks sold separately.
The last time Mr Twinotter paid a visit to this blog, he was behaving himself, still spouting “The Harry Twinotter Line,” to be sure, but doing so with a level of dignity and decorum which had been substantially absent on previous occasions. So I left him alone, and let all you lot enjoy him. 🙂 At least Mr. Twinotter, for all his bad manners, did not cross that line.
I notice that it is Prat of the Year Time on Pointman, and that our beloved Prime Minister is running second to some German housewife.
Get over there people and VOTE.
There is furore that this move will destabilize the Middle East.
That really would be a pity. It is remarkably stable and peaceful.
The Australian paid protesting left will be asking for O/T this week. Milo, Adani and now Jerusalem.
Tony, from 1 Kings 11:32
but he will have one tribe, for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel.
“1 The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, saith the Lord, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the Lord, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the Lord of hosts their God.
6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
7 The Lord also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.
8 In that day shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them.
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.”
(Zechariah 12:1-9)
CLINE Eric H, Jerusalem Beseiged, from Ancient Canaan to Modern Israel.
The University of Michigan Press, 2005, SBN-13: 978-0472031207 &
ISBN-10: 0472031201
He just locked in the Jewish vote for his next election.
Few other electors would care enough to change their votes against him on this.
Those that disagree don’t vote for him anyway.
It has little to do with moving the Embassy to Jerusalem.
It has a lot to do with Trump: a) Not being, “The First Female President”; b) Not being a Democrat; c) Not being afraid to do what he sees as being the best for America; d) Not ignoring State Department advice; e) Considering America’s political and commercial interests in the region; f) Not being Hilary Clinton; g) Being a male; h) Not being married to a previous president; i) Not being under investigation; j) Still not being a Democrat; k) Not being “a girl”; and l) Having a better comb-over than any previous President.
But I shouldn’t joke. This is an Australian blog, and Australia has it’s own political problems …
Two story’s on the ABC about the Great Barrier Reef, one is about the Reef will die completely in 15 years unless we stop emitting Co2 and the other is this gem about installing massive fans on the Reef to ward off bleaching .
When they’ve done saving the coral from bleaching they can go into business saving lantana from frost-burn.
On second thoughts, it’s been hard to show tourists any bleached coral lately and indignation levels are sinking. Maybe they need a contraption to bleach coral in the main tourism areas. Unless the ABC can come up with a good CGI solution our Green Betters will have to break out the Domestos.
When they’ve done saving the coral from bleaching they can go into business saving lantana from frost-burn.
On second thoughts, it’s been hard to show tourists any bleached coral lately and indignation levels are sinking. Maybe they need a contraption to bleach coral in the main tourism areas. Unless the ABC can come up with a good CGI solution our Green Betters will have to break out the Domestos.
Posting the same comment twice, does add a certain touch of emphasis. But then I wonder if this is one of those, “spot the difference” puzzles, where you have to find where the comma is missing or has morphed into a semicolon …
The marriage laws in Australia were changed in a very big way today, purely from a legal perspective can someone explain to me how our constitutional laws can be changed without an official plebiscite or referendum as I thought was the case?
I’ve tried to find the reasoning of allowing parliament to go to a vote on this bill besides a national survey that didn’t mean anything.
It has always been assumed that marriage was the domain of people who could potentially have their own children,raising them in a family, ie a man and a woman.
Hence it was never put in a constitution.
The interesting bit will be where we go from here.
I’ve tried to find the reasoning of allowing parliament to go to a vote on this bill besides a national survey that didn’t mean anything.
Yous-all upside-down folk gots similar problems to us in the USA ‘rotsa ruck’! We in the USA are 300,000,000 well armed! Not nice at all but the combined well disciplined US armed forces will only be manning the Beer Pretzel concession. Well perhaps inspecting “she” that wishes to do biddness! 🙂
This is OT, however since governments are burning fossil fuels to drive fans to cool coral,its time to move to the practicalities of government, rather than bread and circuses.
The Banking Royal Commission.
Despite moves to make payment instantaneous we need to have this actually happen.
When I pay a staff member after the hour of 5pm on a Friday, she may not be paid in her own account until Monday, on a long weekend, Tuesday.
The money, however ,is not in MY account, the bank[s]have it and presumably loan it out to someone else.
This is despite the NBN super highway,the computer and the four pillars that support us all.
There needs to be a Royal Commission into the operation of super funds once the life savings are fully withdrawable after 65 years of age.
My fund will not allow me the full statement of deposit in last financial year, despite the fact I am working, in accumulation and have saved the money well in excess of the amount withdrawn.
The reason given is that I made a withdrawal between the two deposits made in the last financial year.
The result is that I am not able to receive a tax deduction of about $5000, money that cannot be retrieved, despite the apparent intention of the tax act to allow a deduction.
Has anyone had this experience.
Quoted in last weekend’s Australian. David Murray said “A Royal Commission would bring a different focus on misconduct, starting with complaints and exploring whether there were problems with contracts or the law’.
The problem here is that the Senate rejects an inquiry into super,so rejects a Royal Commission into finance,
the only way of looking at the whole problem, based on the lived history of respondents.
Help. Here in Godzone (New Zealand for those unfamiliar with this expression, some kiwis really do have an inflated opinion) it appears we have diverted from quiet sensible detente to climate stupidity super sized thanks to our accidentally elected tooth fairy. Help. Apologies to all you sensible rational thinking souls out there for what you are about to receive courtesy of Taxcinda, saviour of the socialist youth. Al Gore loves her, she has breathed fresh dollars into his bank account. Fear not though, one term government if ever you saw one. Just hope the damage is minimal….
Don’t blame me. I voted to retain the tried and true “first past the post” voting system, and not for some stitched together coalition of the losing parties in any election. I am not sure what to call it. But it ain’t Democracy.
Still, the bright point for me, is that the farrago to follow, will forever stand as Winston Peters’ epitaph.
You are so right Rereke. Truth is though the most pertinent observation in the entire ‘fiasco’ (Italian mid 19th century for humiliating failure) is the ‘farrago'( Italian for confusion) that the dopey inhabitants of Godzone (No Italian derivation shadapayourface) fell face first into this fuckupello (just invented new Italian expletive) because as smart as we are with the best education money can buy we are sheep. Whats Italian for sheep…
I have this theory Rereke about New Zealand politics that goes like this (tell me what you think). New Zealand elections are determined by SEX. Winston Peters is a sex object to a sizeable cohort of small town pink rinse frusteratii (Italian for old ladies who don’t get enough) but not by policy because God knows what the aforementioned Brill cream slippy merchant actually stands for, not that Jacinda actually cares. Winston is a sex object in an uncomfortable granny keeps it to herself kind of way. My kids don’t get it but they kind of like Jacinda but in a safer way than Al Gore seems to do.She’s cool and wants to save the PLANET man!! Apologies to all those who don’t get these nuances of local arse end of the world politics.
Friday: Too tired. Saturday: Too drunk, Sunday too far away. This is a shearer’s lament.
On the ABC Country Hour, [Many, many years ago] the announcer gave the news “That there had been a car accident, two people where injured, a dog was injured and a shearer was also injured. It told this to a shearer’s wife who thought it was hilarious. She told her husband the joke. She then had to explain the joke to him. He then got the joke.
Many cockies also need the joke explained.
Two stories on endangered parrots over at the ABC , the one on TV just now was about the superb parrot and how climate change was affecting their numbers because the old gum trees they use for nesting are apparently disappearing, presumably because of all that warming that’s going on ?
From that source they refer to this: “emails about Professor and IPCC coordinating lead author Jonathan Overpeck’s work at the University for the environmentalist pressure group Union of Concerned Scientists, and emails to and from Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia, home to ClimateGate”
Appellate Judge Joseph Howard, writing for the unanimous court, said …… the emails from Malcolm Hughes, who is still with the UA, and Jonathan Overpeck, who left earlier this year, are public records.
Craig Richardson, president of E & E, said the request relates to so-called “hockey stick” research….
“It’s the foundational argument for really this whole climate change industry and their focus,” he said.
“They showed there were a lot of games being played with the data,” Richardson said.
He said that getting all the emails, including from the two scientists, will reveal “an unvarnished view of how the process works … and how climate scientists on the other side of this have been shut out.”
It could get interesting when the emails are released.
During a dull Parliament House dinner, Chloe Shorten leaned over to chat with Governor General Cosgrove “I bought Bill a parrot for his birthday. That bird is so smart, Bill has already taught him to say over two hundred words!” “Very impressive,” said Cosgrove, “but, you do realize he just speaks the words. He doesn’t really understand what they all mean.” “Oh, I know”, replied Chloe, “but neither does the parrot.”
A lady goes to her parish priest one day and tells him, “Father, I have a problem. I have two female parrots but they only know how to say one thing.” “What do they say?” the priest inquired. “They say, ‘Hi, we’re prostitutes. Do you want to have some fun?'” the woman said embarrassingly. “That’s obscene!” the priest exclaimed, “I can see why you are embarrassed.” He thought a minute and then said, “You know, I may have a solution to this problem. I have two male parrots whom I have taught to pray and read the Bible. Bring your two parrots over to my house and we will put them in the cage with Francis and Job. My parrots can teach your parrots to praise and worship. I’m sure your parrots will stop saying that…that phrase in no time.” “Thank you,” the lady responded, “this may very well be the solution.” The next day, she brought her female parrots to the priest’s house. As he ushered her in, she saw his two male parrots were inside their cage, holding their rosary beads and praying. Impressed, she walked over and placed her parrots in with them. After just a couple of seconds, the female parrots exclaimed out in unison, “Hi, we’re prostitutes. Do you want to have some fun?” There was a stunned silence. Finally, one male parrot looked over at the other male parrot and said, “Put the beads away, Francis, our prayers have been answered!”
Minds me of a story they tell about Willy Feeley when he was a young fella. Willy was bashful, awful bashful. Well, one day he takes a heifer over to Graves’ bull. Ever’body was out but Elsie Graves, and Elsie wasn’t bashful at all. Willy, he stood there turnin’ red an’ he couldn’t even talk. Elsie says, ‘I know what you come for; the bull’s out in back a the barn.’ Well, they took the heifer out there an’ Willy an’ Elsie sat on the fence to watch. Purty soon Willy got feelin’ purty fly. Elsie looks over an’ says, like she don’t know, ‘What’s a matter, Willy?’ Willy’s so randy, he can’t hardly set still. ‘By God,’ he says, ‘by God, I wisht I was a-doin’ that!’ Elsie says, ‘Why not, WIlly? It’s your heifer
That’s a variation on one my husband was told years ago.
The lady had a parrot called Samantha, who everlastingly parroted ‘I’m a good time girl, I like a good time, I’m a good time girl’. She asked her vicar for help as he had two parrots called Elijah and Jeremiah. Samantha was put into the cage with the vicar’s two and immediately she went into her ‘I’m a good time girl….’ routine. Elijah nudged Jeremiah and said ‘I think our prayers are answered!’.
Another from a source in South Yarra but capable of variation, depending on where you are living at the time:
Two Poodles from South Yarra met a Toorak Mutt in Fawkner Park. ‘I’m Mimi’ said the first, ‘spelt MI MI’. ‘I’m Fifi’ said the second, ‘spelt FI FI’. ‘I’m Fido’ said the mutt, ‘spelt PHIDEAUX’.
We told the first one to some Cypriot friends while on a visit to Cyprus and enjoying a mezze with them. We have a small amount of Greek and they had not much more English but somehow we managed to convey the joke. 🙂
A series of little tasty Cypriot dishes (similar all around the Mediterranean). They are like appetisers but enough of them and you have definitely had a good meal! The Arabs have a similar one and always good. A mixture of hors d’oevre and mini main course dishes really.
But the Whyalla proposal was never a 1GW project ?…
It was ..
200MW solar
100 MWh battery storage
600 MWh pumped hydro storage (120 MW power)
100 MW of Demand Management
So really only 40 MW (equivalent) of new generation capacity !….on a good day.
With a possibility of a further 480 MW (120 MW equivalent) in other locations ,…..sometime in the future …..depending on many other factors.!
Geothermal flux from submarine volcanoes maybe a major driver of climate change, ocean overturning and other cyclic phenomenon, not to mention the possible source of the missing heat.
Is Melbourne Water Hydro an intermittent renewable elctricity source?
Hydro is usually considered the only renewable power source which actually works. So more Hydro is Good!
But what if Melbourne Water (which has installed a number of Hydro Power stations to take advantage of water transfers between Reservoirs) makes its small transfers at inappropriate times. Does that make our power supply situation better or worse?
Lot of huff and puff on ABC radio about Esso Mobil not paying their fare share of company tax , which might be true I don’t know but is there anyone one out there that doesn’t try and minimise their tax burden ?
The multinationals are getting away with theft, but lets not worry about that, what do you think of this?
‘Mr Geng said Mr Turnbull’s remarks were prejudiced against China and had poisoned the atmosphere of China-Australia relations.
“We are astounded by the relevant remarks of the Australian leader. Such remarks simply cater to the irresponsible reports by some Australian media that are without principle and full of bias against China,” Mr Geng said at a regularly scheduled briefing.’
Joanne: The US internet is currently being bombed by the run away deep state! Please let me park this for a while.
“the the first news was about FISC Judge Contreras being “recused” from General Flynn’s case/sentencing — by whom was not noted. Currently it is reported that the Judge “recused” himself.
My point being that IF,the “official” story got changed from the Judge being recused to the Judge recusing himself then it opens a whole ‘nuther can of worm’!
So we have the whole illegal FCIA court being Strazoked by Peter and how many others? How can congress form a court independent of the judiciary branch of the government; SCOTUS as per the constitution Article III. It appears that the whole stinky congress of the USA need be recused for the next 50 years! START Today not next November.
So is Summer
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We had our central heating on this morning….global warming welcome….pity its a myth…. 🙂
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In 1788 the First Fleet saw summer snow on Tasmania’s high country, not unusual during the LIA.
This shouldn’t be happening now.
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“THE next big drain on household budgets will be water, a report released today warns.
Water and sewerage expenses could double by 2040 — to around $2500 a year — according to findings by Infrastructure Australia.
And the shock to households could pressure governments to sell off water supply businesses — one of the few public utilities not to be privatised.
Ageing infrastructure is costing more to maintain with the extra expense being passed on, while climate change and growing populations will further strain supplies of clean water.
“If Australians want continued access to safe, reliable and affordable water in the future, we need to begin a staged approach to reforming the sector now — starting with a new national urban water reform plan,” Infrastructure Australia CEO, Philip Davies, said.”
News.com
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‘…..urban water reform plan…..’
Presumably that means recycling sewage, which would be politically correct but massively unpopular with the electorate.
In 2040 they could bring the desalination plants out of mothballs.
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Desal plants.
Distribution uses an awful lot of pumping power.
All green costs, but they don’t say that.
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We were staying in Middle Park last night and turned on the central heating. It was on again this morning. I daresay it will suddenly be 40C and we won’t know what’s hit us because Melbourne continues to live up to its 4 seasons in a day reputation.
Isn’t the Burnley Tunnel a complete drag these days? Yuk…smelly too with all those big trucks.
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Thank you Joanne! expect moderation
Flep,
Why not throw away the PC gloves, and properly respond to this Attack on our 250 yr old republic. Sen Franken could draw map of all 50 US states in any order; (did that several times). All other participants in the US congress are but boughten PROSTITUTES, many with very stinky CU**S.
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Please don’t hold back Will..LOL 🙂
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I are way to emotional on politics! 🙂 I prefer considered discussion on this previous.
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Is the oceans ability to retain heat better or more stable because of its increased density?
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Increased mass density reduces both surface area, and cross sectional area. Both reduce ability to transfer power. More ‘stable’ in temperature YES! But what is ‘temperature’ 🙂
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All of us have\are ASSHO**S! Some wipe! Wives have two assho**s, including that of ‘husband’! Pity the children. 🙂
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Will J
Around that area
“Demand for anal bleaching soars by 23% as women follow in the footsteps of celebrities ”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2017/12/we-need-a-famin-18.html#comments
And the comments!!!
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We must never forget to look in terlit (before flushing) to determine ratio of floaters to sinkers! How else to determine effect of atmospheric CO2? 🙂
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You don’t try measuring the fizz, then?
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Selfies.
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In this republic each state is willing to trade some sovereignty for the consolidation of force needed to oppose the enemy of all. We agree to federal consolidation of trade rights among us. We in no way agree to total overthrow of States Rights by some self appointed FEDERALIZE or the masses. Hence the well considered Electoral College! 🙂
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I would disparage the local garbage folk (momback). Until one dived into that and rescued neighbor childs ‘kiddy kat kitten (grinning). Now we would be much better off having that momback truly representing, both the wishes of child and all to perhaps replace this and if need be violently overthrown the rancid hideous, hideous, derilict thing called the US Congress! Way way time to be over politically correct! MAGA.
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yonniestone December 7, 2017 at 2:09 pm
Has that Anal bleaching got to you? Be Tough!
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I think this: https://www.chicksonright.com/2017/12/06/child-abuse-plain-simple/ epitomises how low society has sunk (it’s not what you might think).
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“extra unthreaded. Sometimes the weekend is too far away…” Oh dear! It’s the start of the slippery slide into “One more won’t hurt”, “I can stop anytime I want”.
Or is this a cunning plot to cripple the trolls? They don’t come on the W.E. Unthreaded because the free flowing dialogue doesn’t fit their prepared scripts. Actually they have been thin on the blog lately, have they realised that they’ve lost? Has someone cut off their subsidies?
Has the sheer ludicrousness of the Chinese virtue signalling by building an electric ship to transport coal to a power station made even them realise what the Chinese really think about Global Warming a.k.a. Climate Change a.k.a Weather Disruption ?
Questions, but can the trolls provide any answers? Does Harry Twin-Otter sniff AvGas?
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Subsidies? Did someone mention subsidies: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/12/05/delingpole-winning-grant-applications-for-climate-change-down-40-percent/.
As James mentions, maybe they are out there serving the community.
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Don’t know about the av gas but there definitely into something that’s shrinking their grey matter .
The leaf is not only a famous book writer but also an experienced farmer , well one that’s never farmed in winter anyway .
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Yes we are free form poets void of any talent but have optimism in abundance.
Did you know the Tesla big battery can:
– Alter the magnetic field enough to create the illusion it actually matters.
– Create so much harmony that the Energiser and Duracell bunnies make enough electricity so S.A won’t have to burrow from other states.
– It emits a Musky smell that only attracts the rare Green Lemming.
– It has a higher discharge rate than a leper colony, but slightly lower than dual citizen politician in Aus.
– Its included with the toy Wind Farm…..kickbacks sold separately.
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Our Trolls don’t spend much time on un-threaded. They feel more at home on unhinged.
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Twotter sniffs diesel engine starter (ethel ether) same as used by dentist to remove your bad toof!
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Anthony Watts has scored a coup, against a persistent troll. Another troll according to this news item is facing charges in Montreal. The Mounties get their men. 🙂
The last time Mr Twinotter paid a visit to this blog, he was behaving himself, still spouting “The Harry Twinotter Line,” to be sure, but doing so with a level of dignity and decorum which had been substantially absent on previous occasions. So I left him alone, and let all you lot enjoy him. 🙂 At least Mr. Twinotter, for all his bad manners, did not cross that line.
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Sorry, wrong tense: is facing should be faced … it was a few years ago, after all.
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I notice that it is Prat of the Year Time on Pointman, and that our beloved Prime Minister is running second to some German housewife.
Get over there people and VOTE.
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A tie really!
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I’m surprised Teresa May is not there to make it a trifecta.
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No ties, but two skirts 🙂
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Perhaps some German housewife would make a much better Prime Minister. Yous’ upside down folk seem insistent on having some sort of Prat! 🙂
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Yes, we have a choice of prats. And then there is Bill Shorten.
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Noticed the whining about Trump moving the embassy to Jerusalem but most are quiet on Obama’s view on the same subject .
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There is furore that this move will destabilize the Middle East.
That really would be a pity. It is remarkably stable and peaceful.
The Australian paid protesting left will be asking for O/T this week. Milo, Adani and now Jerusalem.
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Ten thousand years of peace and tranquility destroyed by TRRRR-UMP.
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After years of pandering to te$$orists and walking on eggshells an actual decision made by an actual president appears as confrontational.
But hey Obama did identity politics so much better than Trump.
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Obam….who?
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Forgive me father, I have sinned! 🙁
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This decision by President Trump got eight minutes of the main half hour ABC News bulletin last night, not one second of it positive.
Say, remember back to April 6th when Russia did the same thing, recognising Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel.
Not one second of news on that though.
Link to article
Tony.
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In May, the Czech Parliament voted and recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
(Source Lubos Motl’s blog, The Reference Frame).
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Tony, from 1 Kings 11:32
but he will have one tribe, for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel.
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Yes…and it comes with a sober warning too :
“1 The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, saith the Lord, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the Lord, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the Lord of hosts their God.
6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
7 The Lord also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.
8 In that day shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them.
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.”
(Zechariah 12:1-9)
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hmm, none of that was in my book about Jerusalem:
CLINE Eric H, Jerusalem Beseiged, from Ancient Canaan to Modern Israel.
The University of Michigan Press, 2005, SBN-13: 978-0472031207 &
ISBN-10: 0472031201
Very interesting read.
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Of course they didn’t Tony. It’s Trump they are gunning for as they did with Tony Abbott. The media stink.
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Good decision.
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Captain’s pick.
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He just locked in the Jewish vote for his next election.
Few other electors would care enough to change their votes against him on this.
Those that disagree don’t vote for him anyway.
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Bush, Clinton and Obama all said they’d do the same thing, except they never did. Trump talks the talk and walks the walk.
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It has little to do with moving the Embassy to Jerusalem.
It has a lot to do with Trump: a) Not being, “The First Female President”; b) Not being a Democrat; c) Not being afraid to do what he sees as being the best for America; d) Not ignoring State Department advice; e) Considering America’s political and commercial interests in the region; f) Not being Hilary Clinton; g) Being a male; h) Not being married to a previous president; i) Not being under investigation; j) Still not being a Democrat; k) Not being “a girl”; and l) Having a better comb-over than any previous President.
But I shouldn’t joke. This is an Australian blog, and Australia has it’s own political problems …
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And New Zealand’s are just beginning … 🙁
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Trump is everything they didn’t want.
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Two story’s on the ABC about the Great Barrier Reef, one is about the Reef will die completely in 15 years unless we stop emitting Co2 and the other is this gem about installing massive fans on the Reef to ward off bleaching .
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-07/reef-fans-to-be-deployed-to-protect-coral-from-bleaching/9234710
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Elvis Presley had a lot of fans.
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Well it gets hot in Memphis and he did pack on a few pounds…..
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Correction…….
Elvis Presley HAS a lot of fans 😉
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Except that the hip movements are getting a little jerky … tempus fugit
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When they’ve done saving the coral from bleaching they can go into business saving lantana from frost-burn.
On second thoughts, it’s been hard to show tourists any bleached coral lately and indignation levels are sinking. Maybe they need a contraption to bleach coral in the main tourism areas. Unless the ABC can come up with a good CGI solution our Green Betters will have to break out the Domestos.
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When they’ve done saving the coral from bleaching they can go into business saving lantana from frost-burn.
On second thoughts, it’s been hard to show tourists any bleached coral lately and indignation levels are sinking. Maybe they need a contraption to bleach coral in the main tourism areas. Unless the ABC can come up with a good CGI solution our Green Betters will have to break out the Domestos.
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I never cease to marval at the inventive stupidity of the green Left….
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Posting the same comment twice, does add a certain touch of emphasis. But then I wonder if this is one of those, “spot the difference” puzzles, where you have to find where the comma is missing or has morphed into a semicolon …
Slow news day …
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The marriage laws in Australia were changed in a very big way today, purely from a legal perspective can someone explain to me how our constitutional laws can be changed without an official plebiscite or referendum as I thought was the case?
I’ve tried to find the reasoning of allowing parliament to go to a vote on this bill besides a national survey that didn’t mean anything.
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It has always been assumed that marriage was the domain of people who could potentially have their own children,raising them in a family, ie a man and a woman.
Hence it was never put in a constitution.
The interesting bit will be where we go from here.
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Try this
http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2017/12/the-postal-survey-asked-about-same-sex-marriage-youll-be-amazed-at-how-much-further-the-bill-goes.html
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I’m not surprised but I am disgusted by the deviousness of it.
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Yous-all upside-down folk gots similar problems to us in the USA ‘rotsa ruck’! We in the USA are 300,000,000 well armed! Not nice at all but the combined well disciplined US armed forces will only be manning the Beer Pretzel concession. Well perhaps inspecting “she” that wishes to do biddness! 🙂
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When you come down to it, the civil laws surrounding traditional marriage are no more than a prescription for the ownership of chattels.
Same sex marriages also needed a formal partnership agreement regarding ownership of property.
This law (from the little I have read), seems to combine the two concepts.
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This is OT, however since governments are burning fossil fuels to drive fans to cool coral,its time to move to the practicalities of government, rather than bread and circuses.
The Banking Royal Commission.
Despite moves to make payment instantaneous we need to have this actually happen.
When I pay a staff member after the hour of 5pm on a Friday, she may not be paid in her own account until Monday, on a long weekend, Tuesday.
The money, however ,is not in MY account, the bank[s]have it and presumably loan it out to someone else.
This is despite the NBN super highway,the computer and the four pillars that support us all.
There needs to be a Royal Commission into the operation of super funds once the life savings are fully withdrawable after 65 years of age.
My fund will not allow me the full statement of deposit in last financial year, despite the fact I am working, in accumulation and have saved the money well in excess of the amount withdrawn.
The reason given is that I made a withdrawal between the two deposits made in the last financial year.
The result is that I am not able to receive a tax deduction of about $5000, money that cannot be retrieved, despite the apparent intention of the tax act to allow a deduction.
Has anyone had this experience.
Quoted in last weekend’s Australian. David Murray said “A Royal Commission would bring a different focus on misconduct, starting with complaints and exploring whether there were problems with contracts or the law’.
The problem here is that the Senate rejects an inquiry into super,so rejects a Royal Commission into finance,
the only way of looking at the whole problem, based on the lived history of respondents.
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Help. Here in Godzone (New Zealand for those unfamiliar with this expression, some kiwis really do have an inflated opinion) it appears we have diverted from quiet sensible detente to climate stupidity super sized thanks to our accidentally elected tooth fairy. Help. Apologies to all you sensible rational thinking souls out there for what you are about to receive courtesy of Taxcinda, saviour of the socialist youth. Al Gore loves her, she has breathed fresh dollars into his bank account. Fear not though, one term government if ever you saw one. Just hope the damage is minimal….
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Don’t blame me. I voted to retain the tried and true “first past the post” voting system, and not for some stitched together coalition of the losing parties in any election. I am not sure what to call it. But it ain’t Democracy.
Still, the bright point for me, is that the farrago to follow, will forever stand as Winston Peters’ epitaph.
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You are so right Rereke. Truth is though the most pertinent observation in the entire ‘fiasco’ (Italian mid 19th century for humiliating failure) is the ‘farrago'( Italian for confusion) that the dopey inhabitants of Godzone (No Italian derivation shadapayourface) fell face first into this fuckupello (just invented new Italian expletive) because as smart as we are with the best education money can buy we are sheep. Whats Italian for sheep…
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I have this theory Rereke about New Zealand politics that goes like this (tell me what you think). New Zealand elections are determined by SEX. Winston Peters is a sex object to a sizeable cohort of small town pink rinse frusteratii (Italian for old ladies who don’t get enough) but not by policy because God knows what the aforementioned Brill cream slippy merchant actually stands for, not that Jacinda actually cares. Winston is a sex object in an uncomfortable granny keeps it to herself kind of way. My kids don’t get it but they kind of like Jacinda but in a safer way than Al Gore seems to do.She’s cool and wants to save the PLANET man!! Apologies to all those who don’t get these nuances of local arse end of the world politics.
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‘….accidentally elected tooth fairy.’
Brilliant.
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Hi, Jo,
Love your work, thank you.
You probably already have this, but in case not:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/12/06/tidalgate-climate-alarmists-caught-faking-sea-level-rise/
[Thanks for the tip Michael 🙂 – Jo]
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Thanks for trying to ameliorate the dire situation. 😉
We’ve long known of Sunday Too Far Away
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Yes, I find Sunday is to far away every Monday morning….
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Friday: Too tired. Saturday: Too drunk, Sunday too far away. This is a shearer’s lament.
On the ABC Country Hour, [Many, many years ago] the announcer gave the news “That there had been a car accident, two people where injured, a dog was injured and a shearer was also injured. It told this to a shearer’s wife who thought it was hilarious. She told her husband the joke. She then had to explain the joke to him. He then got the joke.
Many cockies also need the joke explained.
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Two stories on endangered parrots over at the ABC , the one on TV just now was about the superb parrot and how climate change was affecting their numbers because the old gum trees they use for nesting are apparently disappearing, presumably because of all that warming that’s going on ?
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“endangered parrots over at the ABC”
I had no idea they were endangered. There seems to be so many of them.
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Not around here…lots of different types.
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But as the ABC live in Cloud Cuckoo Land I guess they have gone cuckoo.
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UAH Latest Global Temperature
http://www.drroyspencer.com/latest-global-temperatures/
November was down by about 0.25C from the previous month. A large fall.
However it is still a long way about the base line. The UAH temperature has been above the base line since mid 2012.
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Meanwhile in the USA:
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2017/12/07/arizona-supreme-court-orders-release-of-climategate-related-emails/
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University of Arizona – Release of Climategate Emails.
That is good news and a very long time coming.
Who at the University of Arizona was involved in the scandal. No one on comes to mind at present.
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From that source they refer to this: “emails about Professor and IPCC coordinating lead author Jonathan Overpeck’s work at the University for the environmentalist pressure group Union of Concerned Scientists, and emails to and from Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia, home to ClimateGate”
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Another report here:
http://tucson.com/news/local/ua-ordered-to-surrender-emails-to-group-that-calls-global/article_8983347d-faff-51b3-9748-f1a83737b637.html
It could get interesting when the emails are released.
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Quebec
Eco-extremists claim they vandalized home, damaged cars of Quebec oil CEO in rare targeting of executive
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Terence Corcoran: Canadian finds polar bears are doing fine — and gets climate-mauled
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Speaking of parrots, here’s a joke:
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Speaking of jokes, here’s a parrot:
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The parish priest is Willy
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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That’s a variation on one my husband was told years ago.
The lady had a parrot called Samantha, who everlastingly parroted ‘I’m a good time girl, I like a good time, I’m a good time girl’. She asked her vicar for help as he had two parrots called Elijah and Jeremiah. Samantha was put into the cage with the vicar’s two and immediately she went into her ‘I’m a good time girl….’ routine. Elijah nudged Jeremiah and said ‘I think our prayers are answered!’.
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Another from a source in South Yarra but capable of variation, depending on where you are living at the time:
Two Poodles from South Yarra met a Toorak Mutt in Fawkner Park. ‘I’m Mimi’ said the first, ‘spelt MI MI’. ‘I’m Fifi’ said the second, ‘spelt FI FI’. ‘I’m Fido’ said the mutt, ‘spelt PHIDEAUX’.
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We told the first one to some Cypriot friends while on a visit to Cyprus and enjoying a mezze with them. We have a small amount of Greek and they had not much more English but somehow we managed to convey the joke. 🙂
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What is a Mezze?
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A series of little tasty Cypriot dishes (similar all around the Mediterranean). They are like appetisers but enough of them and you have definitely had a good meal! The Arabs have a similar one and always good. A mixture of hors d’oevre and mini main course dishes really.
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The California bushfires have sparked a debate, this from last year before the present conflagration.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/11/the-great-eucalyptus-debate/509069/
There is a feeling that all the fires were purposely or inadvertently caused by humans, this must be of great concern for the authorities.
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The “art” of exaggeration as practiced by our friends over on RE.com..
http://reneweconomy.com.au/zen-energy-gets-retail-licence-launch-base-load-renewable-product-37821/
But the Whyalla proposal was never a 1GW project ?…
It was ..
200MW solar
100 MWh battery storage
600 MWh pumped hydro storage (120 MW power)
100 MW of Demand Management
So really only 40 MW (equivalent) of new generation capacity !….on a good day.
With a possibility of a further 480 MW (120 MW equivalent) in other locations ,…..sometime in the future …..depending on many other factors.!
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Geothermal flux from submarine volcanoes maybe a major driver of climate change, ocean overturning and other cyclic phenomenon, not to mention the possible source of the missing heat.
https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/the-correlation-of-seismic-activity-and-recent-global-warming-2157-7617-1000345.php?aid=72728
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Is Melbourne Water Hydro an intermittent renewable elctricity source?
Hydro is usually considered the only renewable power source which actually works. So more Hydro is Good!
But what if Melbourne Water (which has installed a number of Hydro Power stations to take advantage of water transfers between Reservoirs) makes its small transfers at inappropriate times. Does that make our power supply situation better or worse?
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Map of Melbourne Water Hydro Stations
https://www.melbournewater.com.au/sites/default/files/hydro-electric-powerstations-map.pdf
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Lot of huff and puff on ABC radio about Esso Mobil not paying their fare share of company tax , which might be true I don’t know but is there anyone one out there that doesn’t try and minimise their tax burden ?
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The multinationals are getting away with theft, but lets not worry about that, what do you think of this?
‘Mr Geng said Mr Turnbull’s remarks were prejudiced against China and had poisoned the atmosphere of China-Australia relations.
“We are astounded by the relevant remarks of the Australian leader. Such remarks simply cater to the irresponsible reports by some Australian media that are without principle and full of bias against China,” Mr Geng said at a regularly scheduled briefing.’
ABC
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The Guardian’s US front page this morning contains one reasoned, and one hysterical, article about climate change.
The rational one is
Why are ferocious wildfires plaguing southern California?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/08/wildfires-southern-california-forcing-120000-to-flee
which contains the unwonted claim that
The exact role of climate change upon 2017 wildfires in California is still the subject of some discussion among scientists.
The other is
‘Soul-crushing’ video of starving polar bear exposes climate crisis, experts say
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/08/starving-polar-bear-arctic-climate-change-video
Back to normal.
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Joanne: The US internet is currently being bombed by the run away deep state! Please let me park this for a while.
“the the first news was about FISC Judge Contreras being “recused” from General Flynn’s case/sentencing — by whom was not noted. Currently it is reported that the Judge “recused” himself.
My point being that IF,the “official” story got changed from the Judge being recused to the Judge recusing himself then it opens a whole ‘nuther can of worm’!
So we have the whole illegal FCIA court being Strazoked by Peter and how many others? How can congress form a court independent of the judiciary branch of the government; SCOTUS as per the constitution Article III. It appears that the whole stinky congress of the USA need be recused for the next 50 years! START Today not next November.
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