@peterhkemp.bsky.social
Former private pilot, retired auto electrician, lawyer, solar install mngr Pro Ukraine & EU, HR, INRE/POLS. Scathing: anti-RE/Teals/CC, War Criminal Putin, Vatniks, LNP, Murdoch Sewerage, Maga/DT, Gas Industry, John Howard. Have PowerWall~15kW solar.
The likelihood of a major party creating an anti corruption body that would hold the major parties to account was always zero.
Ready to elect a crossbench and a minority government yet?
#AusPol
If this isn't abuse and fraud, I don't know what is.
We have no government right now.
This is what happens when you don't have a government.
(you get abused)
At least GWB did some 'plannification'.
Fair to say they might as well roll up the NACC.
What a disgrace.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
You gotta congratulate US for working so efficiently! It took them 20 years to replace Taliban with Taliban and 9 days to replace Khamenei with Khamene!
However it can't be as bad as the 2022 Ukrainian war caused spikes because we have advanced with the RE revolution?
RE has eaten coal's lunch in the middle of the day and grid scale batteries (helped by household batteries) are presently eating a lot of gas' dinner after dark.
Let’s extinct the duopoly in 2028.
When will enough be enough?
COVID
NACC
Climate change
Domestic violence
Whistleblowers
Poverty, jobseeker
Genocide
AUKUS
Transparency & accountability
First Nations
Gambling
Aged care/NDIS
Media/ Murdoch
Basically board members for billionaires
#Auspol
Boots on the ground means lots of fatalities.
500,000 service men and women in Vietnam couldn't win against North Vietnam with a fraction of the population of Iran.
Labor doesn't want to upset Trump over Iran, Gaza or Aukus so the policy is called #Trump&AukusKeeper 🤪
Yep, same in Vietnam, Gulf War2 and Afghanistan where the USA was shown the middle finger but still hasn't learnt from those defeats.
"Blessed be the LORD my strength which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight"
Yes, the VC body counts were always a work of fiction, exaggerations all the way up the hierachy. And also claims of how they'd retaken VC held areas...
Robert Mason 'Chickenhawk' - "But somebody forgot to tell Charlie we'd taken it, what was that dumb fuck doing? He was back there, shooting at us"
Trump "we're crushing the enemy in an overwhelming display of technical skill and military force"
Deja vu the Saigon Follies - the press conferences where the US military told reporters they were always winning in Vietnam, in reality always believing their own propaganda.
Great read and no paywall.
"Horizontal escalation" -Iran is expanding the war into political dimensions that alters the US calculus. Air power alone does not win as seen in Vietnam, US there never lost a battle but lost the war, horizontal escalation-Tet-demonstrated to US public they could not win
Prediction: If oil stays above $100/bbl for more than a month EV sales will markedly increase here.
But boots on the ground is being considered, that will surely fix all the problems, like it did in Vietnam. 🤪
Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.
Markets are *very* unhappy about developments in Iran.
"Trump seems to believe that he, like his fantasy America, exists on a different plane, utterly untouchable by the swirl of global events. The devastating consequences of his actions are not just someone else’s fault. They are someone else’s problem, too.
That illusion cannot survive...."
Leavitt refuses to rule out the draft.
Boots on the ground will be imo the gravest mistake. USA by itself cannot win an asymmetrical war against Iran with 90 milllion people, it'll make Vietnam look like a picnic.
www.tag24.com/news/politic...
With Bernardi I guess anything is possible. Like his crazed Parliamentary inquiry where his starting point was an allegation Halal certifiers funded terrorism.
Like Hanson he's as thick as two short planks with crazy malevolence and belligerence. He's like Babet in many ways
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There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
"Even among men lacking all distinction he [Major Hegseth] inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was."
Hat tip Joseph Heller.
Kind of half expecting anti-RE fanatic Corey Bernardi, (now emboldened with a ON mojo) to try to make a linkage between bestiality and batteries? Maybe even PV panel output decline in time and SSM? 😂😂
My prediction this crazy Iran war of Trump's will drive up EV sales, house batteries and PV systems
"Who controls the past controls the future" George Orwell.
Fox News shows old footage of Trump without a cap at the ceremony of incoming deceased soldiers from the Gulf.
This was not an honest mistake, this was Fox deliberately trying to erase the history of Trump disrespectfully wearing a cap.
I'm having trouble dealing with my angry feelings of late.
Being powerless to do anything about the shtfckry happening in our world today is very damaging to the psyche.
Western governments are out of control and not listening to the people.
The Fourth Reich marches on.
Yep, it's a winner but it's a question of standardisation and developing new rules, all a bit confusing atm.
*Correction grid batteries with PV have eaten coals lunch...
Yep, I think with increasing world LNG prices our Oz electricity will be a bit dearer but not as bad 2022 when the Ukraine war started because atm, grid batteries have eaten coal's lunch and are well into eating gas' dinner. And the PV panels and a battery at home is the antidote.
Here's the result of Bernardi's Parliamentary enquiry into Halal certification, his attempt to smear Muslims again with a linkage to alleged terrorism was a dismal failure, it only demonstrated his hatred of Muslims, unsurprisingly.
newmatilda.com/2015/12/03/c...
