There's a new twist on an ancient and venerable jihad that's been carried on for years by the reptiles, with two new jihadists beavering away ...
Come on down Matthew and Sarah with your EXCLUSIVE and your incredibly witty header ...
It went up last night, and was still standing proud and tall early in the morning, so it's obviously an EXCLUSIVE very dear to the jihadists' hearts ...
There’s Misinformation. Disinformation. And then there is Chrisinformation.
Chris Bowen can’t or won’t explain his claim about the scale of Australia’s renewables rollout, as a conservationist accuses him of misrepresenting a group that has mapped it.
By Matthew Denholm and Sarah Ison
The archived header offered a little more information, but still had the incredibly witty wordplay, down there with the pond's appalling Tamworth taste, Chrisinformation: Climate Minister accused of misrepresenting climate group.
In a way traditional to jihadists, this "news" story was taken up on the extreme far right, though only Mattie boy was credited with the opinion piece ...
Top of the world Mattie boy, your ma would be proud ...
The biggest threat to the renewables rollout? Nuclear? Fossil fuels? Or Chris Bowen and a government in denial?
By Matthew Denholm
Rural and Regional Correspondent
So much modesty, as if the reptiles posed no threat to the renewables rollout, with their devotion to that Egyptian river, De Nile ...
Well, the pond is always up for meeting a new renewables reptile jihadist, though sadly that meant consigning petulant Peta to the archive cornfield ...
Andrew Hastie’s resignation from the opposition frontbench opens up a struggle for the soul of the Liberal Party. At a deeper level, though, it’s really a struggle for the soul of Australia.
By Peta Credlin
Columnist
This was a great sacrifice to the pond.
While the pond understands that the mere sight of petulant Peta will send correspondents into an eye-plucking-out frenzy, and immediately flounce out of the room, this is another important sign in the pond's hopes for its big plunge on the staying power of the lettuce.
The rats are in the Sky Noise down under tent, and are ratting away ... and the feuding rats have now taken central hive mind stage.
The pond threw another fiver behind the noble leafy green vegetable - well qualified to lead the Liberal party - but sacrifices have to be made. Maybe a late arvo outing for really intrepid herpetologists ...
Also sacrificed was Joe, lesser member of the Kelly gang ...
The US congress is alarmed by Beijing’s ‘grey zone’ tactics and intimidation of Australia, in stark contrast with Labor’s decision to downplay the Chinese navy’s live fire exercises earlier this year,
By Joe Kelly
Washington correspondent
The archived header explained a little more ... China’s Tasman Sea manoeuvres alarm US, but Australia keeps calm and carries on
Joe was taking up the theme enunciated in the excited EXCLUSIVE that was at the top of the page, as Morrison of Cronulla returned from recently dashed hopes of a rapture ...
‘Terrible cost for the world’: Taiwan must not fall, warns Morrison
Scott Morrison has warned abandoning Taiwan would be ‘appeasement’, urging Western nations to boost military spending while Donald Trump’s presence deters Chinese invasion.
by Ben Packham and Joe Kelly
The pond has no idea what ancient Troy was smoking, and it was easy to see why he'd been dropped out of the reptile contest for attention...
Gore Vidal would have turned 100 this month and his writings about America have a contemporary relevance.
By Troy Bramston
Senior Writer
Really ancient Troy?
The pond reckons that even feisty Myra Breckinridge would have trouble coping with the current clown monarch that rules those disunited states, and the cavortings of his Justice, War and Health department minions ...
Never mind, the pond tries to be inclusive, even if that means only a mention of ancient Troy's listing in the dubious archive cornfield.
Now back to the new old jihad, with the new old reptile jihadist, Mattie boy himself ...
The header: ‘Listen to renewables concerns and you might learn something, Chris Bowen’, The biggest threat to the renewables rollout? Nuclear? Fossil fuels? Or Chris Bowen and a government in denial?
The caption for the snap which represented a huge sacrifice for the reptiles - no coal, terrifying Satanic solar panels or wicked whale-killing windmills in sight: Robbins Island, off the northwest coast of Tasmania, is a globally significant wetlands and home to migratory birds - and soon to host 100 wind turbines. Picture: Rob Blakers
Strangely the reptiles clocked it as only a two minute read, and the angle felt ominously familiar.
One of the weirdest tricks in the reptiles latest jihad has been for the reptiles to pose as devoted conservationists and concerned environmentalists.
The planet might be going to hell in a handbasket, but what about warbling about the sulphur crested warbler?
And it is not aided by Chris Bowen’s belligerence and play-the-man, shoot-the-messenger approach.
These are not just my observations; they are shared by some conservationists and Greens, who can see the decarbonisation push losing its social licence because of a lack of planning and safeguards.
Rainforest Reserves Australia has done what the government should have done years ago: map the rollout of wind, solar and other energy projects nationally.
The RRA work – praised by the likes of former Greens leader Christine Milne – reveals the scale of the rollout thus far, in terms of existing and proposed projects.
At this point the reptiles flung in a sound distraction ...
The upside? A screen cap removes any temptation to listen, as Denholm droned on ...
It appears about five of the projects RRA have mapped have been withdrawn.
This is five of 843 proposed new projects; hardly a major flaw, while RRA argues that wind farms are often withdrawn and later resubmitted in amended form.
Bowen has sought to attack and undermine the RRA by playing the nuclear card and making claims – that he has been unable or unwilling to substantiate – that the true footprint is only 12 per cent of the area indicated in the mapping.
The pond knows that the reptiles are really into recycling, because the pond has seen this outing by Frank before, The scale of solar: proposed panel coverage across Greater Sydney. Animation by Frank Ling.
Talk about a simple-minded scare tactic, with the sole point of the gif an enlarging of the terror ...
Dennie returned for a brief moment ...
A read through the EPBC portal will tell you that projects are being approved despite an acknowledgment by the federal government that they will have a “significant” impact on threatened species and vegetation types.
Then the reptiles interrupted with a timeline, arguably an even worse phenomenon than a PowerPoint presentation ...
The patent inadequacy and leap of faith involved in some of these “strict conditions” of approval is the reason conservationists, such as Steven Nowakowski and Milne, are opposing some projects.
It may explain why the outgoing Wilderness Society campaigns director, Amelia Young, has warned that the renewables rollout “threatens nature in many of the same extractive and colonial ways that the industrial revolution did”.
And it certainly explains why groups such as the Australian Conservation Foundation and WWF are pushing for the rollout to be focused on degraded land, with biodiversity hotspots declared no-go zones.
After making queries to Bowen’s office, The Australian was contacted by the Clean Energy Corporation.
After discussing withdrawn projects with the CEC, The Australian received a comment on the very same from Bowen’s office.
Coincidence? Maybe. Either that, or there’s a very close relationship between the two.
Oh come on Dennie call it like it is, it's a vast national conspiracy, no doubt part of a vast international conspiracy devised by rootless cosmopolitans to invent a new religion in the guise of climate change, so that cult followers might be led to imagine that there's some kind of threat to the planet. As if any respectable scientist or Oz reptile would go along with that kind of nonsense ...
And so to the bonus, and the floodwaters in quarries whisperer arrived just in the nick of time to give Juliar a real fright ...
The header: At least Gillard was being honest when she announced a carbon tax, If transitioning to the green economy were cheap, there would be no need to impose a punitive tax on carbon.
The caption: Loading coal at Wiggins Island Coal Export Terminal, in the Port of Gladstone in Queensland. Picture: Mara Pattison-Sowden
That's more like it. You see how it's done Mattie boy?
A good opening snap of clean, pure, virginal, dinkum Oz coal, enough to make any member of the hive mind water up and shed a few tears. The pond accepts that terrifying snaps of Satanic solar panels and whale-killing windmills have their place, but nothing can beat innocent dinkum Oz coal ...
The pond has no idea why the Caterist delayed his return until Thursday, but as he's intent on brooding about the past, perhaps the reptiles thought the quarry whisperer's astonishing insights were timeless ...
“Good evening,” she began. “I want to talk to you tonight about why the government is putting a price on carbon and what this means for you.” Gillard tried to persuade voters that the $23 a tonne levy would be offset by tax cuts and welfare payments. The public didn’t buy it. Anthony Albanese experienced the anger first-hand at a protest outside his Sydney office when a woman grabbed him by the tie and called him “gutless” and “a maggot”.
Understandably, Albanese chose not to reveal his hand on national television when he announced his carbon tax last month. Instead, it was buried under a mountain of jargon in Technical Appendix C of Treasury’s net-zero modelling.
Really? The reptiles are so forlorn that they have to drag a moth-eared Juliar out of the cupboard, put her in a chaff bag, and ritually toss her into the sea yet again?
Haven't these routines got a tired aged and stale? Apparently not, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard delivers a speech during the Carbon Expo Australasia in Melbourne in 2011. Picture: AFP
It's a bit like harping about Hillary Clinton when there's a new monarch in town, and even more pitiful is the need to drag the onion muncher back from his narcissistic sense of self-importance ...
In its 2011 modelling, the Treasury acknowledged the impact the carbon tax would have on prices, predicting a one-off 0.7 per cent increase in inflation and a 10 per cent rise in electricity bills. This time, however, Treasury wants us to believe there will be no adverse economic impact. It forecasts an $81bn boost to the economy by 2050 under its utopian export upside plan. Happy days.
Gillard, to her credit, could have walked a similar semantic tightrope by insisting her carbon pricing mechanism was not a levy. As she admitted to Neil Mitchell on 3AW, it was “effectively a tax” that would be passed on to consumers, which was why she would cut income tax and adjust welfare payments to compensate for this.
So old, so ancient, so deeply weird, but yet only one step removed from Ming the Merciless worship, as the reptiles showed off smirking villains ... Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Minister for Climate and Energy Chris Bowen hold a press conference in Brisbane on low carbon liquid fuels at the Ampol Lytton Refinery last month. Picture: NewsWire
That was the last visual distraction that the reptiles offered the flood waters whisperer, and the rest was a rant the pond didn't have the heart to interrupt ...
We shouldn’t hold our breath waiting for Albanese and Chris Bowen to confess their guilty little secret. They are hardly likely to admit that Treasury’s “abatement incentive” is a sin tax operating on the same principle as the tobacco levy. It matters little whether it takes the form of a credit price, a compliance cost or a capital subsidy; the result is the same: emitting carbon becomes more expensive.
The industry pays first and collects the money from consumers later. Power generators, refiners, miners, cement and steel producers, and transport operators face new costs that flow through the value chain, including higher prices for electricity and fuel, increased freight costs, and higher materials and construction costs.
If transitioning to the green economy were cheap, there would be no need to impose a punitive tax on carbon. Companies that didn’t latch on to the more affordable cost of production would be driven out of business by those that did. The government could relax and wait for it to happen.
Oh the pond will interrupt just once, and will follow the noble reptile tradition of recycling, a very important hive mind environmental initiative.
Speaking of cheap, how are your insurance costs going?
And so to the rest of the rant, not interrupted so corespondents can enjoy the sight of the quarries whisperer on a steroids-fuelled roll ...
Treasury’s rosy economic forecasts in its cost assessment of Labor’s accelerated emissions reduction forecast are baffling. By what logic does locking an expensive dead weight on businesses encourage our economy to grow? By what mechanism does increasing the cost of doing business make anyone better off?
Yet Treasury tells us with a straight face that economic growth will be higher from 2030 under the export upside scenario It projects the Australian economy will be $2.2 trillion bigger by 2050, compared with 2025, the equivalent of $36,000 per capita.
It does so by assuming that net zero is not a choice. Sadly, we can no longer rely on Treasury for the frank and fearless advice it offered under serious public servants such as the late John Stone. Post-truth thinking has infected government, manipulating spreadsheets to tell the Prime Minister what he wants to hear.
Incredibly, Labor appears to be getting away with it. In 2011, the carbon tax announcement was followed by a disastrous fall in Gillard’s support, with Labor recording its lowest primary vote in Newspoll’s history: 27 per cent. Abbott’s Coalition went ahead by 58 per cent to 42 per cent on a two-party-preferred basis.
Despite pumping the carbon tax with steroids for last month’s 2035 target announcement, the fortunes are reversed. Sussan Ley’s opposition is at its lowest ebb – 27 per cent – while Albanese has matched Abbott’s lead in 2PP.
The Coalition has to get its act together, and fast. First, it must loosen itself from the straitjacket of net zero by returning to its earlier position, focusing on technology rather than taxes.
Those in the party squeamish about being accused of climate denial should rest easy. While Australians broadly want to do the right thing, they won’t tolerate a government that sacrifices jobs for the sake of moral purity. They take a dim view of leaders who prioritise posturing at international climate forums over delivering affordable, reliable power.
A tax doesn’t stop being a tax when Treasury tries to conceal it as an incentive and the Productivity Commission calls it a “target-consistent carbon values”. Ley should take courage, safe in the knowledge that candour is always the best strategy and truth is the only policy that works.
What's deeply weird about all this, all the ranting about Juliar and the onion muncher and a carbon tax and all that jazz?
Well there are other things going down. Yet again the reptiles have dodged King Donald and his Comey-killing ways, but they've also missed out on local matters.
Over in that other place, there was an entirely different crisis ...
That would have made for a smooth segue to the infallible Pope of the day ...
Yet the reptiles were so intent on cutting off their renewables nose to spite their coal-loving face that there was nary a sign of it in the hive mind early this morning.
The pond knows because it scanned right down the page, and there was no mention at all ...
That's the trouble when you become a fluff-gathering, navel-gazing obsessive buried deep in a hive mind...
And is it just a further layer of irony that the scientists noted by the reptiles have come up with a break-through which might just help tackle climate change?
A few decades back I gradually worked my way through a massive collection of Gore Vidal’s essays, titled if I remember correctly, “United States”. Pretty entertaining stuff, covering a wide range of topics if he was still around I think he’d take some grim satisfaction at having predicted the development of his homeland’s current state, as it allowed itself to fall further and further behind other countries, embracing religion and populism at the expense of such fields as education, IT and science, and became increasingly insular. I doubt if he would have welcomed praise from the Murdoch media, given its role in encouraging those developments.
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DeleteGore Vidal: I wish the word terrorist would be erased from our language. All meaning has been pumped out of it by our rulers and their media, who wish to demonize everyone or -thing they dislike starting with Us The People. Certainly under the name of fighting terrorism we are conducting wars with everyone on Earth, shifting feverishly from old loyal employees like Noriega and Saddam Hussein to new servants to be abandoned in due course. We are treacherous friends. Meanwhile, thanks to all this maneuvering, more and more of our freedoms are being erased.
So you would be comfortable using the word fascism to describe the direction we are heading in now?
No, most uncomfortable. After all, the original fascist Mussolini could never explain just what fascism was in his native Italy. Let’s say arbitrary, dictatorial government that says any law may be ignored if the leadership dislikes it in the interest of fighting terrorism, which is… whatever the controlled media tells us that morning. Although the 9/11 bombings released all sorts of fascistic measures, as I listed in my “President Jonah” piece, the detonating trigger was not 9/11 but Oklahoma City. When the federal building was struck, the Clinton administration came up with an anti-terrorist Bill of Wrongs which is still at the heart of the USA Patriot Act and other curtailments of our liberties. And it is also clear that there is no terrorist army supported by an evil empire out there. Angry Muslims who have nothing to lose will always do some suicide bombing, to blow up our buildings and so forth, but with decent intelligence and a moderately competent government we can anticipate them and thwart them.
If I had been in charge of things at the time of 9/11, I would have called the police. You don’t declare war on an innocent – two innocent countries – Afghanistan and Iraq that had nothing to do with September 11th. A bunch of crazy religious zealots from Saudi Arabia did it all, and I would go to Interpol. I’d say, “Arrest these guys” — out of religious frenzy, they’ve just blown up a part of New York, a part of Washington. Arrest them, try them, do whatever you like with them, but get them.
Unfortunately we were waiting for an excuse to attack Iraq and Afghanistan, and establish American bases up and down the Middle East, for all sorts of nefarious purposes, starting, dare I say?, with oil.
And so on ...
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/this-place-is-broken-the-gore-vidal-interview-part-ii/
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