Early this morning the reptiles at the lizard Oz didn't even bother pretending a cursory interest in the unfolding GOP comedy which portends a distastrous couple of years ...
Instead this was the line-up on the far right hand side of the digital edition ...
Extreme weather events to get worse? No shit Sherlock, where's Lloydie of the Amazon when he's needed? Will the Major return on Monday to put this climate catastrophist in her place?
And what about Petey boy still blathering on about fertility? Is there a Freudian in the house?
And there's Dame Slap back to form, blathering on about the voice ... and immediately earning another red card from the pond ... only matched by the red card the pond handed out to the craven Craven, tucked away out of sight but discovered by the pond when it went hunting ... doing a ying to Dame Slap's yang (or vice versa) ...
Red cars all round, and that's how the pond ended up with this tired old import ...
The pond can't say that it's happy. How many times can the pond talk of the Talibanisation of the United States, and not end up sounding like Dame Slap rabbiting on about the voice?
How many times can the pond remind the loons in the Murdochian ecosystem that they've encouraged the pro-Putinistas at Faux Noise and in the GOP?
But here we are, and a bare seven days into the new year and already the pond is feeling tired ...
Their conclusion? It's their conclusion?
Oh come on, on a daily basis the Murdochians contrive to explain how the West has become morally soft and politically disconnected and women's rights and the rights of minorities sure signs that everyone wants to turn trans ... and the whole world will be rooned ...
And yet here we are, celebrating Hitler Youth yet again ...
You have to go to church to learn you're not number one and you're not alone? Presumably Russians are consoling themselves in the same way, at least if you take this
immortal Rowe in hand ...
Perhaps Henninger can head off to church in Russia, and discover he's not alone. Why he might even find Tuckyo Carlson preaching in a nearby pew ...
Meanwhile, the pond can hear some calling out that it can't be that bad, but it is, it is ... just look at the rest of the feeble rabble below the reptile fold in the comments section ...
Apart from the """ types and the lizard Oz editorialist doing the hard yards, there's only the oscillating fan and Gemma ... doing the usual reptile rant about the energy debacle and never mind that dreadful climate catastrophist Angelica Snowden warning that extreme weather events might get worse ... and yet here we are ...
The only upside the pond could see? There was no stock shot of a power station or windmills or solar panels ... just an invocation of tulips ... and we're now a long way from that dreadful catastrophist talk of extreme weather events likely "to get worse" ...
So it's on with the urgent need to nuke the country to solve a problem that doesn't exist in many reptile minds ... because climate science to the reptiles is roughly akin to tulips to the Dutch ... a form of wanton mass hysteria ... (the sort of argument you want to deploy when you don't want to mention mass hysteria about a sighting of Christ in a toasted cheese sandwich) ...
Ah well, you take your profits and your prophets were you find them, and back in November 2021 Sam was a gas man ...
Part of the problem facing the Federal Government comes down to the complex requirements of such a transition, Mr Berridge said, noting that most studies point to a need for natural gas as a source of dispatchable energy for the next decade or two at least.
“That is the reality. The problem is that a lot of people don’t accept that reality,” he said.
“They’re happy to wait for new technologies which don’t exist yet to magically pop into existence and enable a transition to 100% renewable power straight away. Because there’s a lot of people screaming for it, politically it makes sensible carbon policy challenging.”
Ah reality, and accepting reality and so on and so forth, and luckily there's absolutely no sign that extreme weather events will get worse, and so we can sail on ... and as for ...
"Sensible carbon policy"?!
In the pond's world, when ever it hears talk like that it reaches either for a Glock or the Bjorn-again one or Lloydie of the Amazon or the dog botherer or Major Mitchell ... and yet here we are ... standing by to nuke the country ...
Oh not the fucking voice again, and kicking the tyres as a form of climate science.
And as for "Every sensible person wants the cleanest, greenest most sustainable energy mix possible?"
Somebody tell the pond it's dreaming ...
Oh go on, pull the other one, wait until the pond dobs you in to the dog botherer Gemma, then you'll be in deep doo dah ...
Meanwhile, the pond is reminded of the sort of action Gemma's idle rhetoric produced ... with an indication of just how the United States is going to deal with climate change in the next few years ...
Danny Henny: "...the liberal democratic values that won two world wars and helped the West to rise to economic and cultural dominance." Yeah, sure, those Western armies marched all the way across Europe to Moscow, defeating those Western Germans all along the way. Nobody but us wonderful Westies - but then how did Russia get to take over eastern Europe ?
ReplyDeleteAnd wow, as soon as it was 'over', we Westies went back to try to re-establish the colonial slavery that had given us such economic and cultural "dominance". Except a few of our old colonies didn't go for it: the south Asian 'Indians' and the Vietnamese just for a couple.
Danny Henny again: "But perhaps the moment is right to revive Benedict's argument for religion's proper role in rganising a coherent, self confident society, or nation." Yeah, right on; the 'Catholic Religion' was paramount in establishing and maintaining "a coherent, self-confident society, or nation" in Italy, and Germany and Spain in the early 20thC wasn't it.
ReplyDeleteCan anybody point out anywhere else religion did a job ? Like maybe throughout South America - how the Catholic religion shaped the "coherent self-confident" society-nations of Brazil, Argentina and Chile just for some examples. And is still doing it in lots of other places.
Did somebody say that the likes of Ratzinger are only remembered because they are mostly forgotten ?
Oh Gemma: "...the breathtaking disintegration of the crypto exchange FTX. The world was so quick to embrace the feel-good juju peddled by this baby-faced wunderkind..." The world ? The world is 8 billion people, if "the world" had leapt in, FTX would have had many $trillions to play with, not just a few miserable $billions. The FTX thing was just an almost completely vanishingly small 'tulip mania' in actuality.
ReplyDeleteThey just can't help themselves, the reptiles, can they. They have to leap into 'the vibe' of the thing with no concern for accuracy or honesty in any way at all.
Ratz was of course even more shifty than an outhouse rat.
ReplyDeleteThe book featured describes all of the very-stinky details. But I disagree with his call to renew the monstrous institution.
www.matthew.fox.org/recent-work/recent-books/the-popes-war
The very grating "great" John Paul II was of course even worse. His dark actions and legacy are described in the book by David Yallop titled The Power and the Glory Inside the Dark Heart of John Paul II's Vatican
ReplyDeleteWell, half of Ms Ton-yee-nee's contribution has nothing to do with the other. Investment bubbles happen because some - who believe themselves to be the 'smarties' - are quite ready to take up the investment in the expectation that there will be others, coming in after them, who will be prepared to continue to bid up the price. The 'smarties' are also able to convince themselves that they will know precisely when to sell out and pocket their gains. It is no more complicated than that, although Ms Ton seems to have confused her brain with some or other piece of pop-psychology.
ReplyDeleteNothing in the gas business in Australia indicates that our problems are down to a lot of local punters generating a bubble. Yes, a lot of overseas consolidated investment groups are wringing resource rent out of the resource, with the implicit approval of recent federal governments. Did I see the value of our exports nudging $100 billion in the last day or three? A value from which those recent federal governments have mulcted a mighty c. 1% in return to our nation, compared with about 30 times that rate for similar quantities of gas exported from Qatar. A putative $30 billion in return to us could have been really useful in balancing cost of power generation in Australia for the next decade, but let's not trouble Ms Ton - or whoever compiles content of the Flagship these days.
"...in the expectation that there will be others, coming in after them, who will be prepared to continue to bid up the price." Yair, I think it's called a Ponzi Scheme, yes ?
DeleteOh - I thought Australian property market GB.
DeleteIt's ironic that Dipsy refers to the "vibe" because that's basically all she has to go on. If you follow Joe's link below or this one that references the same historian
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-tulip-fever-180964915/
you find it's all vibe and no fact.
"All the outlandish stories of economic ruin, of an innocent sailor thrown in prison for eating a tulip bulb, of chimney sweeps wading into the market in hopes of striking it rich—those come from propaganda pamphlets published by Dutch Calvinists worried that the tulip-propelled consumerism boom would lead to societal decay."
I'd seen this one before but it's a common occurrence when reading Rupert's scribblers to think "this looks a bit too convenient, I might just check" and you are rarely surprised by the result.
Befuddled - you have made a convenient place for me to observe that one difference between the Australian housing market and the Dutch tulip market is that the Dutch government of the time did not continue to insert incentives into the national economy for citizens to invest in tulips. The 'Wiki' tells us that the Dutch parliament probably quashed the worst of the 'mania' by changing the form of forward contracts.
DeleteWe, of course, have seen several versions of the party that claims to believe in 'free markets', when in government, interfere in the market for that human fundamental - a place to sleep at night, out of the rain - in a way that deliberately skews trade in that 'fundamental', in favour of the wealthy.
The Dutch invented much of the mechanism of modern commerce through the time of its Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, and the tulip speculations occurred during that time.
Wiki: "The United East India Company (Dutch: Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the VOC) was a chartered company established on the 20th March 1602 by the States General of the Netherlands amalgamating existing companies into the first joint-stock company in the world, granting it a 21-year monopoly to carry out trade activities in Asia." Yeah, I guess that does just about establish "modern commerce".
DeleteFor a nation/society that is now almost moribund, the Dutch did a lot to establish the modern world - for example, taking Formosa away from the indigenes and basically giving it to the imported Chinese coolies thus originating our 'war with China' is another example.
And much of the world will soon have to exist behind their local Dutch 'dikes'.
But more than the Australian property market, Bef, there is the simple intractable fact that the price of everything rises every year. It's called inflation, so I'm told, but it's why companies and organisations which may once have had revenues of $millions per annum now have revenues of $billions per annum so that they can pay the likes of Marius Kloppers $10,000,000+ per year.
Whaddya reckon that's done to house prices ?
I’m starting to get the impression that the Murdoch media simply lifted a book-length tribute to Benny the Rat from some crazed devotee and are just serving it up one instalment at a time under the names of a variety of Reptiles.
ReplyDeleteWe have a new Pope! What? Oh sorry, we have a new Reptile-in-Chief.
ReplyDeleteBut there are caveats. Of course there are.
Not satisfied with keeping the Major aboard, the new editor will get to publish one ex-editor, while being overseen by another ex-editor.
Couldn't make it up? Forget it Jake. It's Holt St.
https://twitter.com/MikeCarlton01/status/1611477213458870277?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
They don't keep up, do they: Tulipmania: An Overblown Crisis?.
ReplyDeleteOn The Voice, imagine Dame Slap in the 1890s on the proposed constitution: "This s92, 'Trade between the States shall be absolutely free'. So I can buy a steam engine from Melbourne and I won't have to pay freight? The High Court will be tied up for decades on this!" etc, etc (Actually the High Court was tied up for decades but it didn't matter much.)
Sam Berrige "most studies point to a need for natural gas as a source of dispatchable energy for the next decade or two at least.".
ReplyDelete“That’s asking the wrong question”, says Holliday."
Ah, the reptiles and market fuundies. As they are both cold blooded and need the coolaid and "profits and your prophets" (DP) to think, they are of course at least 7 years behind, and making the case for being 17 to 27 years behind.
Here is Steve Holliday, CEO of National Grid in 2015:
" What is the future of baseload generation in such a system? “That’s asking the wrong question”, says Holliday. “The idea of baseload power is already outdated. I think you should look at this the other way around. From a consumer’s point of view, baseload is what I am producing myself. The solar on my rooftop, my heat pump – that’s the baseload. Those are the electrons that are free at the margin. The point is: this is an industry that was based on meeting demand. An extraordinary amount of capital was tied up for an unusual set of circumstances: to ensure supply at any moment. This is now turned on its head. The future will be much more driven by availability of supply: by demand side response and management which will enable the market to balance price of supply and of demand. It’s how we balance these things that will determine the future shape of our business.”
"So could the likes of Shell, BP and Total move into electricity? “If you want to be an energy company ten years from now, it’s hard not to think about that.”
http://energypost.eu/interview-steve-holliday-ceo-national-grid-idea-large-power-stations-baseload-power-outdated/
Shhh! Don't mention zee vor!
Delete"MoneyTalks: Perennial’s Sam Berridge says these three energy stocks are where the action is"
“And that’s become quite important post the Russian invasion of Ukraine because the US doesn’t have any enrichment facilities of its own anymore, and the US nuclear fleet gets 28% of its enriched uranium from Russia.
“So, if Russia decides to cut that off, the US is in a spot of bother.
“All of a sudden, there’s a big rush on and the Department of Energy has thrown some money at this and thrown their weight and support behind this to develop in situ uranium enrichment in the US, and certainly that speaks to Silex and their intellectual property.”
https://stockhead.com.au/experts/moneytalks-perennials-sam-berridge-says-these-three-energy-stocks-are-where-the-action-is/