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oneonesit
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All this beautiful rain - & going into Summer. Dams here in Sydney full again for another year , beautiful green pastures so the crops will be good , animals will be happy, all the rivers will be flushed again , no bush fires , etc - just doesn't get any better surely
Now you watch the usual suspects winge about it
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Tlazolteotl
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Not really. The beautiful green crops are underwater and ruined.
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Tlazolteotl
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Although my beautiful green crop of lawn grass is going great and will be 3 feet high before it gets dry enough for me to mow it.
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oneonesit
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See - never happy
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Tlazolteotl
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I am never happy about the f***&$ lawn. I wish it would disappear. Grass is for cows.
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oneonesit
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Funny you say that Tlazz. I've just recently started importing artificial grass in 40 ft containers. The market for it is is really taking off here in Sydney.
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Tlazolteotl
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Passing Through
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Concrete is easy to maintain.
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Floods here. Bridges under. Water over roads. Hope people are moving their stock to high ground.
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animals before people.
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Hello Sunshine
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Chinese plan to cause Australia ‘economic pain’ from trade bans backfiresChina has swallowed its words in what is embarrassing for the communist nation but a clear win for Australia.Communist China’s plan to bring Australia’s economy to its knees through economic boycotts has backfired after the nation had to wind back some of its policies as its energy crisis worsened. Since September, the Asian superpower has been struggling to cope with a power crisis leading to rolling blackouts and factories shutting down across the country. Some of the outages were so severe that Chinese citizens had to live without traffic lights and phone reception in some areas. But even though more than two-thirds of China’s electricity comes from coal-fired plants, the nation refused to buy any Australian coal. Last year, China imposed a number of bans on Australian products including iron ore, wine, beef, barley and even lobsters to create “economic pain” after Prime Minister Scott Morrison called for an investigations into the origins of Covid-19. The coal ban was imposed last November, wiping $1 billion off our economy. But in China’s latest customs report, it revealed that last month it imported 2.78 million tonnes of Australian coal in what could be a relaxation of its ban and a major backflip on its part.https://www.news.com.au/finance/markets/world-markets/chinese-plan-to-cause-australia-economic-pain-from-trade-bans-backfires/news-story/8d57642a517ed808c1ace717438f856e |
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TIGER
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People keep believing this climate change rubbish
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EAD
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They couldn't even build their Dams in the right Place. |
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Hello Sunshine
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COP hypocrisy is all a bit rich
Boris Johnson told the Glasgow climate conference that the world was at “one minute to midnight” on the climate “doomsday clock” and I fear he might be right. How else to explain the hysterical, illogical and shameless behaviour we see around us? The supranational, anti-intellectual and hyper-emotional posturing of the COP 26 crowd would confound even Aldous Huxley or George Orwell. This is a cowardly new world, three score years beyond 1984. Johnson, ever dishevelled, populist and jocular, told world leaders (and thousands of earnest hangers-on) that we are one crowded minute away from “a destination that will end human life as we know it”. On the margins of the conference, he joked with an interviewer about personal sacrifices to lower his carbon footprint, noting that since moving to Number 10 Downing Street he had “totally abolished commuting” because effectively he lives above the shop – although he baulked at giving up eating beef.How very droll, especially when the reality is that the inevitable consequence of drastic global climate action will be to slow the emergence of developing countries out of poverty and malnutrition. The indulgence of Glasgow, with its private jets, movie stars, Italian suits and bottled water sparkling with little bubbles of CO2, has all the hallmarks of the fall of empire – which, I guess, is why China and Russia like to urge it on from afar. The divide between the ruling elite and the people they claim to represent is stark. Millionaires and billionaires who never see a power bill, let alone fret over how to pay one, and who have no worries about reliable work, paying a mortgage or being able to educate their children, lecture others about the need to live with less or, at the very least, accept some pain during a “transition”. For the wealthy and woke, “transition” means the period during which government subsidies and targets convert their speculative renewables investments and projects into foolproof, and profitable, mainstays of the energy system. For the people who missed out on the business-class seats or private flights to Glasgow, “transition” means high prices, more taxes, unemployment, and looking for work in non-existent manufacturing plants or resources industries. READ MORE:Death tolls tell different tale to headlines’ climate of fear|Coalition’s pathway to re-election narrows|China’s risky path to riches To comprehend the irrational approach you only have to listen to Australian politicians and business leaders declare that their dramatic conversion to the net-zero cause has been prompted by the capital markets which are driving investment decisions and policy direction across the Western world. These would be the same capital markets that – again in cahoots with government interventions – gave us the global financial crisis. There is a distinct similarity in these episodes. Both, ostensibly, have been driven by altruistic aims – providing cheap mortgages and producing low-emissions energy – but in each case the policy measures, stimulus and subsidies have bolstered the wealth of asset holders (the rich) and increased the pain and imposed new barriers to prosperity for humble wage earners, farmers and small business people.Yet, in Western countries, the left cheers. The green left is now motivated almost exclusively by symbolic and emotional causes rather than economic and practical progress for the masses. They preach moral superiority rather than family advancement. Which is why a man like Mike Cannon-Brookes, owner of the most expensive house in Australia and one of the nation’s richest people – a capitalist extraordinaire – can become a hero of the woke green left. His salvation is that he advocates for and invests in green energy, runs his farm on renewable electricity installations, and barracks for dramatic climate action. Never mind that working families could never afford the money or the risk of going off-grid with the energy indulgences of the rich on their various properties and farms – like BoJo joking about walking downstairs to work, the real pain is always someone else’s burden. When Johnson claimed in Glasgow that we are “raising the temperature of the earth with a speed and abruptness that is entirely man-made” it proved that gendered language is acceptable if it is pejorative against males, and misrepresentation of science is acceptable so long as it exaggerates the climate threat and underplays the non-human variables. One of the constantly changing assessments in the IPCC reports is the proportion of observable temperature changes that are anthropogenic rather than stemming from other factors (short answer, they do not know). Outside the Glasgow conference centre, Greta Thunberg – the teenage activist who personifies the protest movement the political leaders seek to mollify – was accurate when she again derided their negotiations and pledges as mere “blah, blah, blah”. She led a chant to “shove” their climate “crisis” up their fundamentals – and the fact she mocks the global leadership for what she perceives as their lack of action, rather than their reckless promises of action, does not detract from the precision of her jibes. Glasgow was literally a circus. China, the world’s largest emitter, snubbed the event, eschewed the 2050 target, and put its hand out for a trillion dollars in funding – I guess it would be asking too much if Beijing’s future clean-energy programs had to detract from its aggressive expansion of defence hardware and militarisation of outer space. Hollywood stars, business tycoons and world leaders flew in on private jets and warned we would all need to live with less. Malcolm Turnbull praised the platitudes from Russia and China despite their junking of the 2050 goal; but criticised a nation that has cut emissions by 20 per cent and signed on for net zero by 2050 – the same nation he used to lead and whose 2030 target he set. The hype of global media in the lead-up to the conference has crashed into a dull and predictable reality. On the ABC this week they ran a complaint about the gender balance of the COP26 crowd – there was so little to flesh out their endemic alarmism. Photos sent from the conference centre showed me a space for “Co-creative reflection and dialogue” where the sessions included “Inner and Outer Ecology Meditation” and “Why are we not talking about our clothes?” Let me prove them wrong and declare that I am wearing blue jeans and a check shirt – all cotton, I think. The conference’s host nation offered the idiot son of its head of state as a keynote speaker, and Prince Charles urged world leaders to put themselves on a “warlike footing” because “time has quite literally run out” and, in some weird climate-induced distortion of democratic atmospherics, his opinion was considered relevant. “Here we need a vast military-style campaign to marshal the strength of the global private sector, with trillions at its disposal,” said our future king, proving once more that his greatest contribution to climate action might be the destruction of a monarchy that has the carbon footprint of a small nation. Yet in the middle of all this absurdity, our Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, felt the need to go and dip his lid to Prince Charles. “Now we’ve committed to net zero by 2050, Australia’s done that here at COP26,” enthused the PM. “And we’re working very closely with our Pacific family, Prime Minister Bainimarama and the whole team, which I know you have a great affection for.” Quite so, dear fellow – it seemed a humiliating attempt to appeal to the prejudices of our likely next head of state. We are left to wonder whether it would have occurred to either of these men that the royal family has more palaces than Australia has coal-fired power stations and therefore a carbon footprint that might outstrip some Pacific nations.This is the sideshow that distracts our political, business, academic and media leaders from the issues confronting mainstream people. It has little relevance to most, beyond posturing – except when it increases their electricity bills, cuts their power, or kills their jobs. Meanwhile in Virginia, USA, a Republican gubernatorial candidate, Glenn Youngkin, claimed a stunning victory in a state that gave Joe Biden a 10-point victory a year ago. Sure, Donald Trump decried the international climate action carry-on and dumped Paris, while Joe Biden had the US rejoin the UN climate process. But climate policies were a mere backdrop to the real campaign debate, where Youngkin focused on economic liberation, strong law and order, and an education system committed to basic skills, free of woke distractions. There are lessons in this for Morrison six months out from an election.https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/cop-hypocrisy-is-all-a-bit-rich/news-story/438cc0f6da71473061341734b072e452 |
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oneonesit
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I'm waiting for one of those Global Warming Experts to officially announce that temperatures for the month of November here in Sydney are the highest or second highest on record. And that its extremely dry as well - so much so the dams may actually become empty
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Passing Through
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La Nina extremes the same thing that has ripped up Kentucky and surrounds this week.
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This one 74 dead and 122 still unaccounted for. Pretty bad.
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We used to blame/ fear "the gods" for natural disasters etc. We used to carry on with all sorts of strange rituals, give sacrifices and public communal offerings, and do all sorts of peculiar things to show we were living a virtuous life, and while doing those things we used to feel a secret sense of superiority to those who didn't do those things.
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jujuno
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were you once an Aztec in a former life, Stayer?
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Desert War, Rain Lover, Latin Knight, Hay List, Mustard...my turf heroes...
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stayer
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No, that's Tlaz.
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jujuno
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Are you Shirley MacLaine?
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Desert War, Rain Lover, Latin Knight, Hay List, Mustard...my turf heroes...
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stayer
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Who?
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jujuno
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She claims she's been re-incarnated several times...
Your post sounded like one of hers... |
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stayer
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Was she Judy Garland's mother? Rings a bell. Kooky redhead?
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horlicks
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No. She was Warren Beatty's brother. She had a relationship with Andrew Peacock at one stage
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jujuno
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Warren Beatty's sister, you mean.
Otherwise, Andy Peacock was batting for the other side. |
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jujuno
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She also banged Frank Sinatra among others...
and that was just in this lifetime. Heaven knows how many in the other lives...
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stayer
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Yes of course I meant sister. Comment from Shirley re Peacock "I thought as long as he’s the Minister for Foreign Affairs, I might as well give him one he’ll never forget.”
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jujuno
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It was almost certainly hot in that bedroom.
They made a good-looking couple, but it would never have led to matrimony. Shirley instigated a fake marriage, early on, with an American guy who was based in Tokyo. It gave her a cover to have affairs with just about every actor she worked with. A good actress in her prime. She improved with age. |
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