scomo...

Warren is a right-wing cartoonist working for the Murdoch media. He is sensitive enough to recognise the issue of the moment, but in his inimitable biased way he will "forget" the main character that has plagued the Aussie news recently... So in a moment of comic rectification Gus has added the missing personage who actually should figure far more prominently than the other politicians in Warren's cartoon of the Saturday Telegraph of the 6th of November 2021...

Yes, we know that Macron, Malcolm and Kevin have a bit of a ticket on themselves... But the bigger ego of all is that of ScoMo who lies, porkies and tells big fibs, like a seasoned piece of wood called Pinocchio.

dirty

Mining the Planet to Death

 

The Dirty Truth About Clean Technologies

 

The poor South is being exploited so that the rich North can transition to environmental sustainability. Entire swaths of land are being destroyed to secure the resources needed to produce wind turbines and solar cells. Are there alternatives?

 

childcare

NSW Treasurer Matt Kean has singled out women as being critical to the state’s economic recovery, flagging a big spending program to expand childcare so more women can work.

In his first interview with the Herald since becoming Treasurer, Mr Kean said increasing female workforce participation was the first in his four-pronged agenda to fire up productivity, along with climate change action, investments in science and technology and improving housing affordability.

 

“For us to succeed as a state we need to make sure that we have as many of our best and brightest people participating fully in our economy,” Mr Kean said. “That’s why we need to increase the participation rate for women in our workforce.”

flyback

The look on Scott Morrison’s face said it all when he emerged from the grey vastness of his government jet and prepared to descend the stairs to home turf. Tense, anxious, taut.

The Prime Minister was alert for danger as he scanned the tarmac below and saw the waiting photographers. After a horror week on the international stage, he wore the frown of a man who expects no relief from days of damage.

Morrison got home safely on Thursday morning but will not be in any hurry to reboard the plane. The KC-30 modified RAAF Airbus that took him to Rome and Glasgow over the past week will go back to its duties as a tanker transport. With an election ahead and a diplomatic disaster behind, Morrison is done with global summits for now.

 democracy

Right now, in the West, this power is coming into the hands of progressives, who will use it to stamp out racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and the rest. They will be able to detect the existence of these things before people can act on them. The technology is already there; it just hasn’t been implemented. Yet.

The Age of Antichrist is not about Ozzy Osbourne and pale Goths. It’s about nebbishy Lin Jinyue, the head of Human Resources at major companies, and Silicon Valley. And it is here. They are going to use their power to establish a reign of virtue. There will be no room for non-compliant Christians in it (or non-complying anyone else). We were warned 2,000 years ago. We are warned once again by Paul Kingsnorth, whether he knows it or not.

 

 bullets

The following article is from 2015...

The gray lump that’s labeled 1 is the bullet. Typically, these contain a lead core that’s enveloped in a harder metallic case. Bullets poke out from the top of a shell (2), which also houses gunpowder (3) or a similar substance.

Now, look at the shell’s bottom. Down there, you’ll find both a rim (4) and a primer (5). When the gun’s trigger is pulled, a firing pin strikes the primer, causing the powder to ignite. As it burns, it rapidly releases gasses that build up with enough force to launch the bullet out of the cartridge and through the gun barrel.

economics

WASHINGTON — At an impromptu news conference this week, Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, lamented the “shell games” and “budget gimmicks” he said his party was using to artificially reduce the $1.85 trillion price tag of the spending bill moving through Congress, saying the real cost was probably double that amount.

“This is a recipe for economic crisis,” Mr. Manchin warned, suggesting that he would not support a bill without understanding its potential impact on the economy.

DT...

When Scott Morrison fronted the travelling media at a stopover in Dubai on his way home, he looked drained. Here was a man in need of a steaming hot bath, and a big political reset.

 

Interruption from Gus here: No Ms Grattan, what Scott Saucisson needs is a few kicks up the arse and a boot out the door... Anything else is cajoling. Anyway Ms Grattan continues:

 

He's presumably had the opportunity for the former; he and his advisers will be mulling over the latter for a long while yet. It's not an easy assignment, especially when it involves issues of integrity.

spoof...Cancelling Terry Gilliam because some theatre staff don’t like his opinions is pathetic

 

Gilliam was set to stage the musical ‘Into The Woods’ next year, but the production has now been shelved, after staff at London’s Old Vic objected to his views on trans issues and the #MeToo movement.

It might be the funniest movie scene of all time, but it’d never get past the cultural thought police these days. No way.

morrison is deceitful...

Scott Morrison is crap.

 

gasoline

US President Joe Biden told reporters at a Wednesday speaking event that the passage of his hefty spending bill could've “maybe” helped elect Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia gubernatorial race.

liar

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said he will "treat all former Prime Ministers with respect" following an extraordinary broadside from predecessor Malcolm Turnbull in which he was called a liar.

 

The PM is currently in Dubai en-route to Australia after attending the COP26 summit in Glasgow where the French delegation claimed Mr Morrison lied to them about Australia's plans to scrap a $90 billion submarine deal.

 

When asked about Mr Turnbull's comment, Mr Morrison refused to be drawn into a tit-for-tat commentary.

 

belching

The Biden administration’s global initiative to cut methane emissions by 30 per cent by the end of the decade will affect Australian industry despite Prime Minister Scott Morrison refusing to sign on to the pledge, investor groups and analysts say.

But they caution the initiative – endorsed by more than 100 other countries – will wash through the Australian economy inefficiently, meaning industry will be forced to act, but less consistently and productively than might have been possible via a nationally adopted approach.

Australia is the world’s fifth-largest methane emitter not to sign up to the agreement, according to 2020 data from Climate Watch. The rebel pack is led by major fossil fuel and agriculture economies China, Russia, India and Iran.

saucisson...

Effective leadership on climate change is in short supply. Are our leaders too stupid or too cynical to respond to the world’s greatest problem?

 

One of the more remarkable aspects of the debate about climate change is that something like 99 per cent of recognised climate scientists agree on the basic drivers and likely consequences of unmitigated global warming. While this is an unambiguous vindication of the scientific method, perhaps, there are still lots of people who genuinely believe that climate change is either not happening, isn’t caused by humans even if it is, or that there’s not much we can do about it anyway.

ECB

DER SPIEGEL: Mr. Marsh, Christine Lagarde became president of the European Central Bank on Nov. 1, 2019. How would you rate her first two years in office?

David Marsh: I would give her a medium grade. On the one hand, she has pacified the most important body, the long-divided ECB Governing Council. On the other hand, under her direction – mainly because of the COVID-19 crisis, for which she naturally bears no responsibility – the ECB's dependence on euro-area governments has increased. She doesn’t have any deep fundamental principles when it comes to monetary policy.