Please no more - it makes me feel SICK - and there is no end to it

I sacked AGL as my energy provider two years ago. It would seem I made the right decision. If only Turnbull and his carbon fancier followers would do the same. Why are we propping up this scam? Is Turnbull et al making a small fortune out of trading carbon on the world exchange?

And how much will Andy Vesey get as a bonus because AGL made such a profit by screwing its customers and because of government subsidies. I'll be a few million no doubt.

I must admit to a morbid fascination with this insane rush to increase " renewables " into our base load energy supply. It will be an unmitigated disaster in time, as no amount of stupid windmills or solar panels can supply a reliable base load supply for this country.

Turnbull is a complete idiot when it comes to energy supply, climate change, and his love for renewables...but Labor is 100% worse.

AGL are in it for the money, and there is lots of it being splashed about, as these fools rush headlong into a monumental stuff up.

We need construction to start yesterday on several HELE Coal fired power stations. This is not going to happen of course, so get ready for a rough ride.

Liberal Party 🎉 is Now Finished ! Malcolm's Mission Acomplished ! Don't vote for United Nations Labor or Liberal Criminal Gangs . 👺👺👺

Now the Big Corporate media Push to Sell the NEG .🐞🐞🐞🕷🕸🐜🦗🦂🐍🦑🦑🦑🦑🦐🦑🦀🐙🦇🦇

So, does this now mean my electricity bill will go down now that all the sheep MP’s have followed Mr Trumble & voted for the NEG??

Yaaaay!!!

Breaking: It was so cold in Canberra last night that Turnbull was seen with hos hands in his own pockets.

Whether you vote or not, whilst we have a 2 party system and preferential voting you will never get rid of the bastards, they are like weeds you just can't kill.

There is no Liberal party 🎈 I There is No Oppostion You 😕We are the Resistance .👺👺👺

2 Old 2 RAR Digger,

Spot on !

I, now Know this was a "Set-Up" & is a price gougers paradise.
"Privatisation" a relatively new word coined by Governments
(both Liberal & Labor) & for another way for Governments to divest themselves of paid for (former assets) that always should have belonged to the Taxpayer, & which worked relatively well with somewhat affordable prices & able to be controlled also by Governments,... for over a Century, to then be handed over lock-stock & barrel to
"The Private Sector" !

Please Note the end result !

(& all done to you & arranged by "Politicians")

How could any person with two functioning brain cells ever believe the blatantly false propaganda fed to the world by Climate Fraud Carpetbaggers such as Turnbull, Labor and the Greens. It's preposterous that they ever got away with it!

The fact is, these bird shredding machines have a working lifespan of 12 to 15 years, not the 20 to 25 years suggested by the Climate Fraudsters.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/windpower/9770837/Wind-farm-turbines-wear-sooner-than-expected-says-study.html

Even at the optimistic 20 year rate, hundreds upon hundreds of these things are currently scheduled to be de-commissioned as they're way past their use-by date. It's simply not commercially viable to replace the worn-out component parts so they'll simply be disconnected from the grid and left to decay where they stand. Just like this ...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2010/02/wind_energys_ghosts_1.html

The landowners who were happy to take the money to have these machines blight our landscape didn't seem to notice that their contracts placed no requirement on the turbine owners to ever remove them, and no obligation to repatriate and restore the land. But then, how could they EVER remove the hundreds of tons of concrete poured into the ground as a counterweight to the turbines?

No, they'll be left to rot ... continuing to contaminate our natural environment long past their working life and into the foreseeable future.

The entire Climate Scam will be viewed by future historians as the greatest act of mass insanity in human history.

Michael

OT

You will have read on MSM about Turdballs "cordial speech"recently with regard to Chinese Students in Australia. MSM hailed it as a "break thru"

What they failed to mention was the following.

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/world/chinas-war-on-religion-academia-president-xi-jinping-moves-to-reassert-communist-party-dominance/news-story/5b6a71c240c3d6c094dbe8dbbfeb2521

China’s war on religion, academia: President Xi Jinping moves to reassert Communist Party dominance

Jamie Seidel, AP, News Corp Australia Network August 14, 2018 12:28pm

CHINA’s Communist Party doesn’t like difference. So it has set about eradicating any trace of it among its 1.38 billion population.

First they moved on Tibet. Its ancient spirituality and unique identity has been suppressed for decades. Its remaining leadership has long since been co-opted by the Party.

China’s Christian community has also long been a source of embarrassment. The Bible has been banned. Crosses must not be displayed in public. Its leadership must be approved by the Communist Party. Its teachings must now conform to Party ideals.

But, for the moment, Beijing has another ancient community in its sights: the Uighurs. China invaded the East Turkestan Republic in 1949. It’s now named Xinjiang province, bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan.

To Beijing, it represents the nation’s largest reserve of coal and natural gas.
Now it’s not Chinese enough for the Communist Party.

It’s the primary focus of President Xi Jinping’s determination to “Sinicize” the entirety of China’s domain. “Chinese characteristics” must be incorporated into all activities, beliefs and traditions. Chief among them — unwavering loyalty to the Communists party.

And that’s not something that sits easily with China’s 200 million believers, of all faiths.

CHRISTIANITY ‘WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS’

In April, China’s religious affairs department published an article saying that churches must endorse the party’s leadership as part of “Sinicization.”
“Only Sinicized churches can obtain God’s love,” the article stated.
It’s part of Beijing’s “Principle for Promoting Chinese Christianity in China for the Next Five Years (2018-2022)” plan, which details how it will “Sinicize” Christianity within its borders.

Its censors immediately moved in. Bibles have been seized and banned. Digital versions can no longer be found online. Only an officially approved version from the government-sanctioned open church is available.

But Beijing’s crackdown goes far beyond that.

Images of Christ are being replaced with posters of President Xi. As with the Tibetans and Uighur’s before them, Christian children are no longer allowed to attend church.
“Through our thought reform, they’ve voluntarily done it,” Qi Yan, a member of the township party committee, told the AP by phone.

“The move is aimed at Christian families in poverty, and we educated them to believe in science and not in superstition, making them believe in the party.”

Pastor Jin Minri in Beijing, China, said that after he refused local authorities' request to install surveillance cameras inside his house church, police individually questioned hundreds of members of the 1500-person congregation. One Beijing pastor told AP otherwise: “A lot of our flock are terrified by the pressure that the government is putting on them,” he said. “It’s painful to think that in our own country’s capital, we must pay so dearly just to practice our faith.”

Hundreds of small and private churches have been shut down. Party enforcers have been making life uncomfortable for many of the remainder, a Chinese Christian communities complain. Many of China’s Christian communities have responded in a time-honoured fashion: they’re now worshipping together in secret.

Beijing sees Christianity as a Western threat, and its 67 million followers as infected by dangerous Western ideals.

President Xi stated in 2016: “We must resolutely guard against overseas infiltrations via religious means.”

And any community that places any entity above himself is not putting the Party first.
“Chinese leaders have always been suspicious of the political challenge or threat that Christianity poses to the Communist regimen,” Xi Lian, a scholar of Christianity in China at Duke University, told AP.

“Under Xi, this fear of Western infiltration has intensified and gained a prominence that we haven’t seen for a long time.”

RE-EDUCATING UIGHERS

There are 11 million Uighurs in Xinjiang. With one million in detention, and two million forced into re-education camps, Beijing’s crackdown would be something felt by every family.

They are not ethnic Chinese. They speak Turkic. Their culture was heavily influenced by the Mongols and Islamic caliphates.

They are an ethnic minority in China.

Islamic crescents and minarets have been torn down from mosques. They’ve been banned from naming their children “Muhammad”. Children are not allowed to enter mosques. They’re not allowed to fast during Ramadan. Men cannot wear long beards. Veils are banned in public.

The Uighur detainees are being re-educated. They are being forced to sing Communist Party songs, and recite its slogans. They must vow personal loyalty to President-for-life Xi Jinping.

They must attend lectures about the anti-social nature of Islam.

China reveals its militarised artificial islands

It wasn’t always so.

One of China’s most revered historical figures — explorer Admiral Zheng He — was Muslim. Though you wouldn’t know that from modern interpretations of his story. However, he is now being used to help justify Beijing’s claims to the South China Sea, and beyond.

Since September 11, 2001, when terrorists claiming to represent Muslim beliefs hijacked aircraft and crashed them into buildings in the United States, Beijing declared the existence of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) — “a major component of the terrorist network headed by Osama bin Laden”.

Its crackdown on the ethnic minority has been extreme.

Beijing’s state media, however, has become a little confused on which official Party line to adopt.

Yesterday it rejected UN human rights committee concerns, asserting that “arbitrary detention” or “re-education centres” do not exist.

But an editorial Communist-Party run Global Times appeared to contradict this assertion, stating its ‘security crackdown’ in Xinjiang was to “salvage” the region which was on “the verge of massive turmoil”.

“There is no doubt that the current peace and stability in Xinjiang is partly due to the high intensity of regulations,” it reads. “Police and security posts can be seen everywhere in Xinjiang.

“The security situation in Xinjiang has been turned around recently and terror threats spreading from there to other provinces of China are also being eliminated. Peaceful and stable life has been witnessed again in all of Xinjiang.”
Beijing’s actions “has avoided the fate of becoming ‘China’s Syria’ or China’s Libya,” it stated.

The Global Times was reinforcing its previous harsh stance on Uighur issues, where it endorsed the extensive use of surveillance technology in the region as well as the enforced relocation of hundreds of thousands of its population.

ENHANCED PATRIOTISM

Rilegous belief is not President Xi’s only concern. Critical-thought among China’s academics has also been deemed a problem.

Now, they’ve been told to “learn the proper kind of patriotism”.

The Communist Party’s propaganda arm recently announced a new effort to infuse a “patriotic striving spirit” among its universities and research institutes.
It’s all about “political guidance” and “ideological and political identification”.
The Communist Party’s People’s Daily news service declared it wanted to “make the vast numbers of intellectuals … more determinedly follow the party.”

President Xi must walk a tenuous tightrope.

He’s urgently pushed the need for greater creativity and faster research output in his bid to outstrip the rest of the world economically and technologically.

But educated minds do not always conform with Party lines.

A law professor in Beijing, Xu Zhangrun, is one such example. He recently dared to post to social media: “People throughout China — including the entire bureaucratic class — are feeling a sense of uncertainty, a mounting anxiety in relation both to the direction the country is taking as well as in regard to their personal security. These anxieties have generated something of a nationwide panic.”

He said China’s sudden return to strict ideological control, an international ‘closed-door policy’ the return to totalitarianism and President Xi’s unrestricted term in office had become a source of much anxiety.

“The amendments earlier this year shocked the world and caused a lot of concern among Chinese,” he wrote. “This amounts to a negation of the last 30 years of the reform and opening-up policy. It is feared that in one fell swoop, China will be cast back to the terrifying days of Mao.”

UIGHERS UNRESOLVED

China’s delegation told the UN yesterday that “there is no arbitrary detention … there are no such things as re-education centres.”It said authorities in Xinjiang have cracked down on “violent terrorist activities,” while convicted criminals are provided with skills to reintegrate themselves into society at “vocational education and employment training centres.”

Chinese delegate Hu Lianhe said through an interpreter: “there is no suppression of ethnic minorities or violations of their freedom of religious belief in the name of counter-terrorism.” But he also said “those who are deceived by religious extremism … shall be assisted through resettlement and education.”

Xinjiang has been enveloped in a suffocating blanket of security for years, especially since a deadly anti-government riot broke out in the regional capital of Urumqi in 2009. ‘

Gay McDougall, the committee vice-chairwoman who raised the issue of detentions last week, said she wasn’t convinced by China’s “flat denial”. She said China “didn’t quite deny” that re-education programs are taking place.

“You said that was false, the 1 million. Well, how many were there? Please tell me,” she said. “And what were the laws on which they were detained, the specific provisions?” There was no direct response to that, which addressed a broad range of issues that went well beyond the Uighurs.

But delegation leader Yu Jianhua said some panel members had treated “some of the unsubstantiated materials as credible information.” He contended that some of that information came from groups which “seek to split China” and have links to terrorist organisations.

On the Great Barrier Reef saga I was doing some researching before that last shift and when Turnbull's mate got the new position at Garvan his other mate got a government position in the Innovation game Bill Ferris AC was the outgoing director at Garvan Institute ..
Was the GBRF (or one of the other connections within the government) founded in 2004 when Turnbull was the Environment Minister and Australia was writing big cheques to the Clinton Foundation when all this crap first appeared??

Anyway back to Bill Ferris AC ... Investment banking history with a founding partner of CHAMP an equity firm..
http://www.champequity.com.au/our-people/w1/i1002113/

Cronyism a part of the Globalist/Philanthropist movements..
https://www.minister.industry.gov.au/ministers/pyne/media-releases/new-chair-innovation-australia-drive-change
17 November 2015

Australia’s first venture capitalist has been appointed Chair of Innovation Australia.

Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science Christopher Pyne congratulated Bill Ferris AC on his appointment to the independent body, which was established by the Government to enhance Australia’s innovation performance.

“Innovation is critical to economic development. Australia has strengths but also some challenges. That’s why the Government is developing an Innovation and Science Agenda to focus on this key driver of our economy,” Mr Pyne said.

“Mr Ferris is the right person to lead Innovation Australia in developing a more innovative culture. A former Chair of Austrade and for 12 years the Chair of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Bill is a highly respected veteran of venture capital and private equity in Australasia.”

“He has extensive experience in the venture capital field and founded Australia’s first venture capital firm in the 1970s. Bill has been a key adviser as we develop the Innovation and Science Agenda, and will continue to be so as we work to implement it.”

Mr Pyne said the Government had committed to making innovation a key element of its economic agenda and to creating an environment that provides clear pathways and incentives for Australia’s business to innovate.

The other CHAMP founder
https://www.hrw.org/about/people/joseph-skrzynski

Joseph Skrzynski
Co-Founder and Co-Chair, CHAMP Private Equity

Joe has had a dual career in business and the not-for-profit sector. He is the Co-Founder and Co-Chair of CHAMP Private Equity, the longest established private investment management firm in Australia with AUD$5 billion in institutional mandates, for control investments in Australia and Asia. He has served as President of the Industry Association and has been awarded, together with his Co-Founder, the Inaugural Life Time Achievement Awards by both the Australian and Asian Private Equity Associations. In the not-for-profit sector he has held Government appointments as Chair of the Sydney Opera House Trust, the National Capital Development Authority, the National Film School, the Special Broadcasting Service, and membership of The National Investment Council and Senate of the University of Sydney, where he graduated in Economics.

He is currently Chair of The Conversation Media Group, The Sky Foundation and is a director of Philanthropy Australia and The Observership Program and is on the Australian Committee for Human Rights Watch. He was awarded membership of the Order of Australia in 1993 and made an Officer in 2008 in recognition for services to the community and to the private equity industry. He is married with two daughters and lives in Sydney.

Zen is the other MOU signed by the Chairman that Dan the Man was peeved off about it is an energy and mining company that is from the UK.. and over the world with a name you may recognize Guptna .. it may be a different one than the drug company but they may be related..
https://www.zenenergy.com.au/team/sanjeev-gupta/
Sanjeev’s GFG Alliance, recently completed the acquisition of Australia’s leading integrated mining, recycling, steel manufacturing and steel distribution business, creating a new future for thousands of workers and their communities. The acquisition of the former Arrium businesses, which employ around 6,000 people, builds upon the GFG Alliance’s strong track record of acquisitions and turnarounds in the UK where it is now one of the country’s largest industrial employers with more than 5,000 staff in its Liberty House and SIMEC groups.

https://www.smh.com.au/business/british-indian-billionaire-buys-aussie-solar-company-zen-in-power-play-20170920-gyl8y5.html

So our taxes will go to these companies to deliver renewable energy to meet the Paris agreements..

https://www.zenenergy.com.au/blog/french-and-australian-leaders-witness-landmark-green-power-agreements-for-industry/
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and French President Emmanuel Macron today [2 May] witnessed the signing of landmark agreements between leading French and Australian businesses – NEOEN and GFG Alliance – designed to dramatically reduce energy costs to industry in Australia.

On the occasion of President Macron’s visit to Australia, leading French renewable energy producer, NEOEN, and British-Australian renewable energy enterprise, SIMEC ZEN Energy – part of Sanjeev Gupta’s global GFG Alliance – signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together to develop, operate and supply renewable energy at a far lower cost than has been achieved before.

As a first step, NEOEN CEO, Xavier Barbaro, and GFG Alliance Executive Chairman, Sanjeev Gupta, signed a 15-year power purchase agreement for SIMEC ZEN Energy to take most of the output from NEOEN’s Numurkah Solar Farm in northwest Victoria. This 100 MW renewable energy project is owned and developed by NEOEN and already supported by a 38 MW Green Certificate Purchase agreement by the Victorian Government. Through its repeated support and innovative approach to renewable energy, the Victorian Government has enabled this project which will deliver even more benefits to Victoria.

Apparently also in Germany and England these turbines are coming to the
end of their lives and have become a huge problem.

Someone else put those two together as well, I read about it, forgotten where.

Abbott and Turnbull didn't quite agree on the SBS position back in 2014..

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/malcolm-turnbull-rolled-by-tony-abbott-on-reappointment-of-sbs-head-joseph-skrzynski-20140317-34xxg.html
Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull lost an internal battle with Prime Minister Tony Abbott over whether businessman Joseph Skrzynski should be appointed to a second term as SBS chairman.

Fairfax Media understands Mr Turnbull lobbied strongly for the investment banker - whose five-year term expires next Wednesday - to remain in the position but was overruled by the Prime Minister's office.

In a statement released on Monday, Mr Turnbull praised Mr Skrzynski as an "outstanding chairman" and said that "SBS is a stronger organisation for his leadership".

Labor leapt upon Mr Skrzynski's departure to demand the Abbott government commit to retaining a merit-based process for ABC and SBS board appointments.

Loathe and despise treacherous Turnbull. Will never vote for him. Never. And can’t vote for Shorten. My precious vote will go to the donkey for the first time in my adult life. Sad

I'll just cast my usual 'informal' vote! I won't support a corrupt voting system.

They already have the one time Australian port of DARWONG ! 🦊🦊🦊

Well,for a start he isn't a Politician and is there-for not a"Professional Liar"

And when you vote"Donkey"THEY win,regardless.

2 Don,

Not much hope of that, from "The Price Gougers" & "The Profiteers" + there are quite a few other "Outfits" also in on the Band-Wagon too,......(probably all hooked on "The Subsidies").

"Very Clever" Planning ! from "Our" (so-called) "Political Elite" in Suits) !

& the Poor Old "Sheeple" shorn & fleeced yet again !

2 Nev,

"WEEDS" ! You bet .....&,
You forgot to mention the,(more)than quite a few of the rusted-on & pathetic brainless "Party Hacks" who lack even the very slightest clue or even a modicum of common-sense... & must surely have have an IQ of about 14 above a Rock !

I recently changed my electricity provider. I have now received a cold call from my previous provider offering a 25% discount. They, yes I was transferred several times, were not able to answer my question of, "Why have they been gouging me by 25% for the past 10 years or so."

There is no such thing as competitive pricing for an essential service provided by a monopoly. Price fixing oligopolies are no better.
They only way to reduce the retail price is to reduce demand or increase availability.

Time for the government to build an effective, efficient power station and set the price to recover costs. If they build this station at the old powerhouse museum site, it won't endanger any yellow skinned snatchgrabbers the greenies are worried about.
This new power station should have the same subsidy as all the other producers have enjoyed this century.
Zero.

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