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Open Thread – Tuesday 14 September 2021
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If I remember the longest sub-sea power cable in the world is in Norway, at about 600k.
The amount of power lost in this venture below suggest this is a cash-cow to make money from government before it conveniently fails in five years or so.
What say Cats with better physics than me?
Indonesia greenlights $30bn Aussie plan to power Singapore
GEOFF CHAMBERS
Indonesia has approved the route of Sun Cable’s Australia-Asia PowerLink through its territorial waters, allowing one of the world’s largest solar farms in the Northern Territory to provide up to 15 per cent of Singapore’s electricity needs from 2028.
In a major coup for the $30bn Australian project, which is backed by Scott Morrison, Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan on Thursday announced he had recommended the route of the transmission cables through Indonesian waters.
The Indonesian government has also approved the subsea survey permit and welcomed Sun Cable’s investment in the country, which will support local jobs and manufacturing during construction and operation.
The Sun Cable project at Elliott, which is estimated to deliver carbon emissions abatement of around 8.6 million tonnes per year, will help power Darwin and Singapore. It includes the world’s largest battery and a 4200km undersea high voltage direct current cable system from Darwin to Singapore, the longest in the world.
During his visit to Singapore in June, Mr Morrison directly raised the Sun Cable project with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, which he said could “see homes powered here … from solar panels in Australia”.
The project, backed by billionaire investors Mike Cannon-Brookes and Andrew Forrest, is expected to be promoted by Australia ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in November to illustrate the importance of ASEAN partnerships in reducing emissions in the Indo-Pacific region. The Australian understands similar projects in Northern Australia connecting with other nations in the region are likely in coming years.
Trade Minister Dan Tehan will head to Jakarta next Tuesday to discuss advancement of the Indonesian manufacturing sector.
The Sun Cable decision comes after the Prime Minister last week announced Australia would build a fleet of nuclear submarines. Mr Morrison spoke with Indonesian President Joko Widodo this week to assure him Australia would maintain its obligations under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and that the AUKUS military pact would support stability in the Indo-Pacific.
The AAPowerLink, expected to reduce Singapore’s emissions by 6 million tonnes per year and help the country meet its 2030 targets, was a prominent addition in Australia’s infrastructure priority list released in February.
The project will support more than $8bn of direct investment and generate up to $2bn in exports per year, creating more than 1500 jobs during construction, 350 operational jobs and 12,000 indirect jobs. It will start supplying energy to Darwin in 2026 and Singapore from 2027.
Sun Cable chief executive David Griffin said “we want this world-leading project to create a step-change in the Indo-Pacific’s capability to achieve net zero ambitions and economic growth sustained by renewable energy”.
Sun Cable will work with Indonesian authorities during and following construction of the AAPowerLink. They have already engaged Indonesian firms during the planning, engineering and survey phase and would help the country develop its own battery manufacturing industry.
Sun Cable will also base its maritime repair and maintenance base in Indonesia, featuring one of the world’s largest cable laying vessels.
Mr Cannon-Brookes, the Atlassian co-founder and chief executive, said Australia could become a “renewable energy superpower”.
“We can and should tap into our solar resources that could power the world five times over,” Mr Cannon-Brookes said.
Mr Forrest said decarbonising the planet was “a challenge all people and all nations must rise to”.
“But it is action, not words that are required. I commend Minister Luhut’s leadership, strong action towards this goal,” he said.
Australia’s Ambassador to Indonesia, Penny Williams, praised the Indonesian government for its support and said “Australia believes in a technology-driven approach to combating climate change”.
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Top Ender says:
September 23, 2021 at 6:34 pm
Absolute psychopathic criminals.
When do Australian Tax Serfs get a say in these frothing at the mouth farkwits.
How often does the Bass Straight Link break down.
No wonder we need Nuclear Submarines all of a sudden!
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I commented in another place, as they say in Parliament, to the effect that the whole thing is a boondoggle of montrous proportions.
It’s truly frightening how gullible and ignorant politicians are. No doubt they will throw bucketloads of our money at it before it fizzles out.
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30 facts you NEED to know:
Your Covid Cribsheet
《Here are key facts and sources about the alleged “pandemic”, that will help you get a grasp on what has happened to the world since January 2020, and help you enlighten any of your friends who might be still trapped in the New Normal fog 》
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Top Ender says:
September 23, 2021 at 6:34 pm
If I remember the longest sub-sea power cable in the world is in Norway, at about 600k.
The amount of power lost in this venture below suggest this is a cash-cow to make money from government before it conveniently fails in five years or so.
What say Cats with better physics than me?
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^The distance to Singapore in a straight line is 4,370 kilometers, so add about a thousand to that from the point of logistics of laying marine cable. Adding to that the weather window to lay cable would have to halt in cyclone season.
looking at it from a further logistical standpoint account has to be taken for the current flow from the Torres Strait & Sunda Strait that can have, not unusualy, current flows of 9 to 13 knots. Compounding this is depths in northern Australia aren’t that deep presenting a challenge for cable integrity but acute drop off to depths around 5000 metres in blue waters further north in the island groups that were formed from volcanic activity (many moons ago obviously)
As far as transmission goes it is well known that there is a voltage drop over distance and to achieve greater distance requires not only a greater amperage but the power has to be at a constant cycle (ie 50Hz out of the wind or solar farm), so there needs to be some capacity to control intermittent cycling of the current flow, a sparky would have a greater insight than i do in this regard.
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Donald Trump sues NY Times, his niece for uncovered tax documents
《 Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Tuesday against his niece Mary Trump and the New York Times stemming from explosive news articles about the former president’s taxes and finances.
Trump is seeking no less than $100 million in damages, accusing Mary of breaking a non-disclosure agreement by leaking his personal tax documents to the Times. 》
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Top Ender says:
September 23, 2021 at 6:34 pm
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To Add to my earlier comments on the logistics of laying cable, i have all the charts to work out a pathway for a cable to be run that distance.
I’ll do a plot and try to work out the time frame to lay cable using previous data from similar operations.
I will factor in time delay and or vessel replenishment at sea as i am very familiar with the sea conditions in SE Asia and especially Pacific Rim.
Give me a week or so and i can send at least a base line for the logistics for doing this.
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Could some one post Dovers flash cat link please. I have lost it. Thanks.
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http://www.newvaxxaly.com.au
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《What say Cats with better physics than me?》
Bugger the physics, the devil would be in the contract. Something along the lines of ‘every day we don’t receive X-Mwh you pay us $X^8’.
Total liability for the Australian taxpayer
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What say Cats with better physics than me?
Nothing Green ever works.
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It is also theft from treasury. Think of government grant moochers, except on a gigantic scale.
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《Think of government grant moochers, except on a gigantic scale.》
Exactly. If it was such a good idea, buy land in Malaysia and sell Singapore sunshine
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“win says:
September 23, 2021 at 7:47 pm
Could some one post Dovers flash cat link please. I have lost it. Thanks.”
Open Thread – Mon 20 Sept 2021 – New Catallaxy
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Tucker dragged up some video of biden before he became senile saying he wanted unrelenting mass immigration to change the racial stock of the US away from white Europeans.
Just following on from my post the other day about medieval methods of torture and execution I now think this would be best for biden, who is nothing if not a rat:
Rat torture
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How I Woke Up
Dr Sam Bailey:
Even as a doctor I was oblivious to how corrupt the medical industry had become with billions of dollars pouring into Big Pharma from pandemics. The fear driven narrative from government and media ……….
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Australia would be better off being the worlds best grower of carbon-free dope and selling that. At the least we wouldn’t give a shit about owning nothing.
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How deep is the scam when even scientists and medical professionals are either part of it, or prefer to stay ignorant and run with whatever is the narrative handed to them?
Dr Sam Bailey:
The Truth About Virus Isolation
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Cormann betraying Australia; what a surprise, another conservative sell out.
Thanks for nothing, Mathias | The Spectator Australia
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Kaysee, Dr Shiva has some good educational systems about biology and vaccination
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“win says:
September 23, 2021 at 7:47 pm
Could some one post Dovers flash cat link please. I have lost it. Thanks.”
Here ‘t is – https://newcatallaxy.blog/
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Kary Mullis who invented the PCR test died in 2019.
PCR-1
PCR-2
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Thanks Carpe.
I put a comment under the article in the NT News (it’s also in other News Ltd papers):
My understanding of the physics here is that there will be considerable voltage drop over such a distance. The longest subsea cable in the world seems to be about 600 kilometres in Norway. Is this cable capable of transmitting power without such loss as to make it unviable?
The electricity also would have to be DC as there is too much loss in AC sent over such a distance. Then there would need to be conversion – and further reduction – in changing over to AC in Singapore.
Can we see the figures for all of this?
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Dr Sam Bailey:
The PCR Hustle
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Ragu, yes, there is a great deal of info out there.
The reason I like Dr Sam Bailey is because she is a GP and has a very pleasant way of explaining the subject matter.
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Cormann betraying Australia; what a surprise, another conservative sell out.
What deals did he make in order to get that comfy seat?
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Morrison says International travel will return by Christmas.
Anybody want to place odds on that happening???
International travel will return by Christmas, the federal government says, as vaccination rates steam towards 80% targets (msn.com)
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Craig Kelly MP
@CraigKellyMP
I was wondering why we were seeing lots of Vic Police ‘BearCats’.
Then I found out they were intended for ‘sieges or apprehension of armed offenders’. So they were NOT meant for ‘sieges or apprehension’ of UNARMED, PEACEFUL protesters.
Vic Police taking liberties with our Liberty
https://twitter.com/CraigKellyMP/status/1440991463232262152/photo/1
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Nah, they were purchased to keep regular Aussies in line.
Only now are we hearing the truth from our politicians: “New World Order”.
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Psays:
September 23, 2021 at 7:28 pm
Call Me Ishmael (The Remnant Responds to Francis’ Latest Attack on Faithful Catholics)
This month, the Vatican announced it would require vaccine passports for anyone wishing to visit the city-state at the heart of Rome. (https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/249038/vatican-requires-vaccine-pass-for-visitors-employees)
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“Rome has reverted to her old ways, preferring the tribute of the world and the slavery of money and influence to the work of Christ going out to bring good news to those living in darkness.
The Church has been turned into an East German bureaucracy. The name of Rome is no longer welcome, but political conformity.
The pope is antichrist. Think about it, ask yourself whether what I say is true. “Get behind Me, Satan!” has become, “How may I be of service, Dark Prince?”
Is it hyperbole? Francis dictates that all who pass through the colonnades of St. Peter’s be marked with the beast and boast of it with vaccine paperwork. The connection between Francis’ vaccine mandates (to say nothing of Biden’s) and the globalists over whom Francis presides is undeniable.
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Dr Sam Bailey:
The Truth About Virus Isolation
Cheers that was 15 minutes well spent. (despite the NZ accent)
How deep is the scam?
It is all pervasive.
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Neil, with respect, STFU about Morrison.
Scummo hasn’t said anything worth a pinch of shit for 3 years.
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“The electricity also would have to be DC as there is too much loss in AC sent over such a distance. Then there would need to be conversion – and further reduction – in changing over to AC in Singapore.”
Other way round: solar produces DC which cannot be transported over long distances and would have to be converted to AC, at great expense, for the trip.
In any event the Sun solar cable plan is nuts:
Sun Cable | The World’s Largest Solar Energy Infrastructure Project
Australia fast tracks approval process for $16 billion solar power export project | Reuters
Cannon-brookes and his partner are putting in $10 million each of the $16 billion; the rest is coming from the government and assorted suckers.
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Cohenite @ 8:05pm
Rats -perfect for Chairman Dan from Danistan
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Craig Kelly MP
@CraigKellyMP
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The numerous public examples recorded of Vic Police brutality now require an urgent independent judicial inquiry. In a democracy there’s no excuse for the repeated application of excessive force & sustained, unsafe use of pepper spray where person presents no threat to Vic Police.
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There will not be one Uniparty MP, state or federal, that will agree with Craig.
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” […]
I used to totally support the cops, even to the point of turning a little bit of a blind eye if they cut corners to nail a “crook”.
Now?
[…] I will only give them information on anything if there is a direct benefit for me and mine.”
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Cops – ‘All you have to do is let us know who’s breaking Covid rules, bad mouthing the Govt or Police, and it will go very well for you and yours.’
That’s how it starts.
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Zuby joins Tucker Carlson.
Australia gets discussed at 2 minute mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBO5DdwKdTo
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John Elliott brown bread.
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1:50s to be precise ⬆️
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Business Insider headline:
Israel’s vaccine pass will expire 6 months after the 2nd dose, meaning people will need booster shots to keep going to restaurants and bars
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Thanks for that mh, Zuby’s good value.
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Bill gates interviewed about his links with epstein. Gates is a seriously weird creep:
Bill Gates Does Interview About Epstein Relationship & It Goes Horrible – YouTube
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Craig Kelly saying very sensible things there addressing the very worrisome current issues. No need to talk about abolishing states and such philosophical ideas.
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Zipstersays:
September 23, 2021 at 9:58 pm
rukshan interview
Australia Declines Into A Biomedical Police State – Ingraham Angle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krhqoD4aETw
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Bill gates interviewed about his links with epstein. Gates is a seriously weird creep:
Cited as a reason for divorce by his missus.
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Craig Kelly saying very sensible things there addressing the very worrisome current issues. No need to talk about abolishing states and such philosophical ideas.
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UAP needs to have core election promises.
Abolishing the states should not be one of them seeing as they don’t have anyone currently serving that was elected as UAP.
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John Elliott brown bread.
The pigs arse guy?
What is going on with this place? Try to post a comment and get the red screen. Formatting doesn’t matter. Doesn’t matter if logged-in or not. Sometimes a pithy comment goes right through, but usually not.
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The pigs arse guy?
Yes.
Having no drama posting. Showing on screen straight up also.
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So the last true liberal in Victoria is dead.
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I wonder if CH9 will speak up?
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Leak
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The Medium Is The Message
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3oEj6RUtPM
Sep 23, 2021
Lotuseaters Dot Com
Non Linear
20 hours ago
Fuck, it’s like listening to the old Sargon again, I love it
Hans Gullickson
18 hours ago
He should do more of these. Maybe he doesn’t realize, no one can lay these down like he does. He has real skill.
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Top Ender
Put your naval officer hat back on and imagine what it would take to attempt to protect/defend that incredibly vulnerable monstrosity.
Anybody with a decent fishing boat, a couple hundred feet of line, a grappling hook and a few kilos of TNT could take a hugely expensive to repair chunk out of it at will. Like the metal scroungers who strip and defile WWII shipwrecks and never seem to get caught for instance.
Not to mention an actual hostile country.
It would be a massive strategic liability and an unneeded distraction to already stretched forces and budgets.
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Yes Ragu. With Elliott’s passing, who of the big end of town have been open about voting Liberal? Or hosted fundraisers? Can’t think of any. Readers can assist with my memory lapses if desired.
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And one more thing from the Hun before retiring to bed.
‘The left wing mayor of the French town of Rouen plans to remove the statue of Napoleon Bonaparte from outside the town hall and replace it with one of a modern feminist to promote diversity.
Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, who was elected last year, wants to take down the bronze effigy of the emperor, which has been a landmark since 1865, and replace it with one of Gisele Halimi, a French-Tunisian feminist lawyer who died last year.
“I do not see why the most visible and symbolic public spaces, like the town hall, should be reserved for men” he tweeted. Due to the controversial legacy of the early 19th century conquerer, he is sparsely commemorated by statues or streets.’
Didn’t Mark Steyn opine in a book that the demographic of Europe, particularly England and France, be such that it would be Middle East dominated? Or those of the religion of pieces?
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Lame pics.
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Mark A
If I had to bet I’d say that pic with the women and the bay behind them was the town of Neum in the Dubrovnik region of Bosnia Herzgovina.
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Zatara says:
September 24, 2021 at 2:29 am
If I had to bet I’d say that pic with the women and the bay behind them was the town of Neum in the Dubrovnik region of Bosnia Herzgovina.
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You are probably right, I lost the reference to the picture.
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srr 8.37pm. Thank You, I love both cats and the ” race of men ” who pass by each day.
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srr 8.37pm. Thank You, I love both cats and the ” race of men ” who pass by each day.
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MSM and Governments wet dream.
A superspreader event.
Man infected with Covid confirmed to have attended Melbourne tradie protest
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Senior bureaucrats and politicians want to go on holiday. The travel industry is at breaking point, Australia is a laughing stock.
I’m plumping for yes International travel will resume, New South Wales first.
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Zatara, the defence of an undersea cable is so fraught I think most defence planners would write it off as a has-been in any conflict – you are quite right.
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College athlete delivers warning from hospital bed after developing myocarditis following vaccine
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Avi Yemini
@OzraeliAvi
EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE This is the moment a counter-terror squad confronted UNARMED construction workers marching Melbourne’s streets to protest the world’s longest and harshest lockdown. Please RT for the world to see how far Australia has fallen.
https://twitter.com/OzraeliAvi/status/1441143208583462929?s=20
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John Elliott brown bread.
The pigs arse guy?
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Elliott never did say that. As he clarified a few months ago – it was not a phrase that he ever used. It’s attribution to him was an invention of the Rubbery Figures satirical cartoon series.
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Cossack
SYDNEY: Military occupies 590 rooms at Marriott Hotel for $600/night! OUTRAGEOUS! WTF!? Appeasement?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvbgUetfY-M
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DeSantis on treatments, vaccinations, and infection of the vaccinated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYMLMcHQxU8
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AUSTRALIA IS A “BIOMEDICAL POLICE STATE”: RUKSHAN TALKS TO US FOX NEWS
https://www.bitchute.com/video/tDe7eHspXAiv/
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Ashes Tour over:
England are preparing for mass withdrawals from the Ashes tour if players are told on Friday that they will be confined to hotels under strict bubble conditions, after their concerns shifted from family quarantine rules.
Most players are coming around to the fact their families will receive no special treatment or reduction in quarantine rules from the Australian government. They will be given priority for exemption visas and be allowed to travel, but hopes that they would then be given dispensation from strict 14-day hotel quarantine are fading.
If players are confined to hotels and not allowed to live a normal life in Australia then the ECB is preparing for mass pullouts…
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/cricket/england-players-poised-for-mass-ashes-withdrawals-20210924-p58ue5.html
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COMMENTARY
Compassion for police can’t extend to giving them unchecked powers
By lifting a ban on live reporting from the air over Melbourne, the Federal Court has offered a much-needed check to Victoria’s heavy-handed pandemic response.
By EDITORIAL
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Top Ender says:
September 24, 2021 at 7:19 am
Zatara, the defence of an undersea cable is so fraught I think most defence planners would write it off as a has-been in any conflict – you are quite right.
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Good Morning TE
This has really piqued my curiosity from merely the maritime logistics perspective and I’m looking at charts for potential pathways from Darwin to Singapore.
I’ve chatted with some of the other guys at work and we would like to give a breakdown of getting from point A to point B. We have decided on breaking it into a few main discussion points.
Potential submarine paths with 3 possible routes identified and potential weather conditions
Vessel capabilities to lay cable in high traffic maritime pathways, this includes getting cable ashore through the island systems around Singapore
Cable vessel logistics for supply and crew rotation
Cable laying in island/archipelago areas and current flow effect
Undersea conditions from shallow water to abyssal plains and the effect on cable condition
Conditions to maintain or repair submarine cable
If you think there is any additional points for discussion, I would be interested to hear them.
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Thanks for the lame pics Mark A
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Australia-Asia Power Link – All you need to know.
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Latest from Avi; this will set back walloper community relations 20 years:
https://www.rebelnews.com/police_deploy_counter-terror_squad_on_construction_workers_in_melbourne?utm_campaign=ay_riotpol_9_23_21&utm_medium=email&utm_source=therebel
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Hi Carpe.
Back in my intel days we would wargame scenarios for this sort of thing…from both an enemy’s POV and a defence situation.
It would be interesting to factor in a missile strike on either end of the cable, wrecking whatever means it has for going into the sea/emerging from it. There would also be lower-level scenarios such as damaging the electricity supply (irony!) which would power the buildings at either end, and whatever was used machinery-wise.
Sub-surface would be swimmer attack; intelligent mine attack, and of course the simple low level disruptive activities such as merely dragging a grapnel/anchor across at right angles from wherever the cable is perceived to be.
Hope this helps.
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Articles of futility filed against biden:
Articles Of Impeachment Filed Against Biden, GOP Reps Cite Democrat Violating Separation of Powers – Choice Clips (whatfinger.com)
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Grigory M says:
September 24, 2021 at 11:18 am
Australia-Asia Power Link – All you need to know.
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The cable path they put up is similar to one we have mapped, but it is only giving a precis of possible bottom profile within a narrow path. And no relevant deepwater data on bottom condition.
Interesting, but is little more than a PR fluff piece
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Great work, Carpe and friends – look forward to the results!
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mh, Steve Harmison gave Australian cricket a clip yesterday. Since the fauxdemic, Australia have played zero tests away from home. Sayeth Harmison:
‘So for Cricket Australia and the Australian government to say we are going to lose $200m and we are desperate for England to come, well, they did not come to the rugby league World Cup (which was postponed I believe?) in England. They have not played a test away from home.’
Poms have played 12 Tests abroad. India 11, Pakistan 11, West Indies 8 and Sri Lanka 8. And of course our cricketers abandoned South Africa earlier this year and had players pull out of limited overs tours of Bangladesh and the West Indies. I wonder how many of our flogs are in India now for the Premier League. I would expect a hasty rewriting of da rulz.
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Will the sub sae cable result in more electricity heading overseas like our gas costing more here than the exported goods. I’d blow up the cable myself.
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I liked in Avi’s post the israeli girls saying we’ve got balls, which is more than I can say for 90% of Australian men.
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sticks&stones
@youkneeeek
People say our freedoms have not been taken away? Yet they sit at home CAN NOT visit friends CAN NOT see dying relatives CAN NOT travel freely out side CAN NOT travel 2another state CAN NOT travel overseas CAN NOT work CAN NOT decide what goes in their body And so on. Freedom??
8:26 AM · Sep 24, 2021
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Top Ender says:
September 24, 2021 at 11:33 am
Hi Carpe.
Back in my intel days we would wargame scenarios for this sort of thing…from both an enemy’s POV and a defence situation.
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Looking at the path that Grigory M link suggests is north through Savu Sea through the island groups at East and West Nusa Tenggara island groups into the Flores then Java seas, it follows a path north through the Bangka and Belitung island groups coming into Singapore from the eastern approach in the South China Sea.
The majority pathway is in shallow water, from a maritime perspective, with close proximity to 4 island groups.
This cable could be destroyed or disrupted quite easily west of Timor, Anywhere in the Savu Sea, Java sea or 1000 km out from Singapore starting at Belitung Island.
Not really defensible with so many points of disruption
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Australia-Asia Power Link – All you need to know.
That site states the solar array will be 12,000 hectares. That is 120 million square metres, or 120 square kilometres. If the size of a solar panel is 1 square metre, that requires 120 million solar panels. To be up and running by 2028, well that works out at manufacture and installation of about 20 million solar panels each year.
Right.
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https://youtu.be/JQuyWUdnDNA
Joe Rogan with Patrick Bet-David on covid (what else?) and nicki minge
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@Top Ender and Carpe Jugulum
Thank you very much for looking at this.
I had a wicked thought, given the size of the mythical solar array, to lodge a stolen sunshine claim!
Sun rights Now.
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Sirocco think of all the hi-tech jobs keeping them clean. Those ones doing it will have a bright future.
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Some bloke gets it. From the Hun business section:
‘Investment house Washington H Soul Pattinson remains bullish on coal, despite the rise in activist shareholders demanding greener credentials.
Chief executive Todd Barlow also said the company is not tied to making “emotional” investment decisions, highlighting its agreement to sell its 19.3 percent stake in Australian Pharmaceutical Industries to Wesfarmers, ending its 150 year history with pharmacies.
“We see coal as having a future,” Mr Barlow said. “It’s an industry that happens to be a pretty large industry in Australia and responsible for one of our largest exports.”
“Coal is the largest source of electricity generation in the world, and in Asia it’s actually a bigger and more important part of our energy mix.”
Soul Patts’ share price surged almost 6 percent on Thursday after its full-year regular profit soared 93 percent to $328.1m in the year. Its investment in mineral New Hope contributed $61m to net profit, up 45 percent.
Soul Patts will pay a final dividend of 36c per share, fully franked.’
Now those last few lines go straight over my head, except that if you make sound business decisions based in reality and not to what a baying mob want, you will be rewarded. I wonder if Twiggy has noticed?
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And get a load of this. Solomon Lew.
‘Billionaire retailer Solomon Lew has warned that customers will stop visiting the nation’s leading shopping malls unless there is certainty around vaccinations and temperature checks.
The businessman, whose Premier Investments owns a portfolio of retail chains such as Smiggle, Portmans and Just Jeans, warned shopping malls had an “absolute responsibility” to ensure the safety of shoppers and store staff, and this would require health checks at the doors and a requirement that anyone entering be vaccinated.
(Now hold your laughter) “I’m not sure if I would go sit in a food court…without knowing everybody there (is checked) so that I’m in a safe place,” he said.
Premier Investments on Thursday unveiled a 97.3 percent jump in full-year net profit to $271.8m, at a time when pandemic (sic) lockdowns and shuttered stores caused havoc in the retail sector.’
It’s a fair kick in the balls for the bloke trying to run his business without hassle yet Lew’s group can make millions still. Can’t tell me it’s all through internet sales.
As for Lew in a food court, file under things that will never happen.
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Advances in vegan food technology –pepperoni sausages.
Can be recycled apparently.
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Hope he does it in SCommunist’ presence.
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‘Billionaire retailer Solomon Lew has warned that customers will stop visiting the nation’s leading shopping malls
I stopped visiting them many years ago.
Just a psychopathic piece of shit doing his part to sell the agenda.
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Couple of excellent articles from Politicom.
Channel 9, along with the Murdoch press, is leading the charge on vaccinations, and Costello’s Future Fund is also heavily invested in big pharma.
According to the Informed Medical Option Party (IMOP): “If you have been watching Channel 9 on TV, you would have seen their latest ‘get the shot’ promo that uses celebrities to convince Australian’s to ‘Get Vaccinated’ in order to ‘return to normal’.
Well…
Did you know that the chairman of Nine Entertainment is former Coalition treasurer Peter Costello, who is also chairman on the Board of Guardians of the Future Fund, an Australian government investment fund with over $2b worth of shares in pharmaceutical and vaccine manufacturers ie CSL, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis and Merck.
Since June 2019, the Future Fund’s investment in pharmaceutical and vaccine manufacturers has increased fromabout $1.7b to $2.5b (as at June 2020) during the coronavirus containment measures.
And
“… A seven-day lockdown was imposed on the Tweed and Byron shires at 5:00pm on Tuesday after the Kingscliff Beach Hotel was listed as a close contact venue for a period of five hours on Sunday evening.
“Queensland reintroduced strict border restrictions at 1am on Wednesday in response to the northern NSW lockdowns.
“The ABC understands the venue was the location for an unofficial crew get-together after final filming on the ITV Studios Australia production.
“Police allege the woman was in breach of the conditions of her exemption to travel by visiting several businesses and venues in the Byron Bay and Kingscliff areas, and that she failed to check in using the QR codes.”
But here is the money shot: “The crew member is fully vaccinated and was wearing PPE while at work.”
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I have been trying to find out the answer to this question:
Of the 1043 positive Covid cases reported in NSW today
(a) how many were fully vaccinated?
(b) how many were partially vaccinated?
(c) how many had been previously infected with the virus?
None of that detail is provided in the daily release of the figures. One would think that that data would be relevant to the campaign to get 70-80% of the adult population vaccinated.
I rang Brad Hazzard’s office but the phone rang out. The Health Dept switchboard gave me an email address to make the enquiry but would not or could not give me a contact in the Department who could provide the answer. I have yet to see a journalist ask those questions.
With over 60% of the population of NSW now vaccinated, if a negligable number of positive cases were vaccinated, this would point to the success of the strategy and thus be in the interests of the government to spruke it from the rooftops. However, in order to get it you just about need a mining rig.
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In world’s longest lockdown news:
Brett Sutton considers everyone against mandatory vaccination to be irrational wack-jobs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd8JFggEJjM
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