This Point in Time
When it came down to it.
"You're not going to like this one little bit."
All of these messages, the detritus from failed Psyop programs, the haunting, haunt yourself, it became impossible to trust his own instincts.
Events, dear boy, events, let the passage of time tell its own story.
He clung to life, he soared above it all. They were gathering up their weapons. Not disembodied wings, not this time, something more lethal, flying high over them all.
These time channels were extremely complex; in a sense, and then again, not so much.
Stay true.
And the old saying, stand straight, stand tall, and look the world right in the eye.
Australia was a country bound by, immersed in, he couldn't think of the term, cooked in hypocrisy. It required a dumbing down of the population for the apparatchiks to get away with it.
And how they thought they could get away with it, with many a super brain on the planet focused on the case, he had no idea.
Hypocrisy will out. All cause mortality will out. When you see the advertisement on public broadcasting channels, or the government funded and manipulated private media, "Safe and Effective", does anyone still believe?
We were mired in deceit. Everyone was compromised. Everyone had been dirtied by this deceit; now out in the open. They were so brazen, they hadn't even bothered to hide their tracks.
They were so arrogant, and arrogance, of course, had brought down many a scam or scammer, was already proving their undoing.
Events, dear boy. Well, there was Ukraine; a heavily convenient war, with the daily wave of propaganda from the "legacy" or "mainstream" media promoting angst in the population, disturbance, look the other way; and the telling prophets of the past, how do you think they knew what the future held?
They were looking for a direct link; this military operation. They thought they had found it. All war is deception.
But what, or where, he found himself in was deceit, front, central, sideways; a story that didn't make sense, a history which even now reverberated through into the present. It was a horrifying thing; it made them all blanche, the scale of it all, the millions of dead and damaged, the absolute, utter hypocrisy of those who had perpetuated this crime against their own people.
He was bewildered, in a sense; what Naomi Wolf called mirroring. Because we see in others what we see in ourselves. It becomes beyond imagination to face this horror, to commit this crime against their fellow humans, to use all the many resources at their disposal to perpetrate a lie. Perpetrate, perpetuate, it did not matter, they did it to their own.
Their utter contempt for their fellow humans; that's what did him in.
Truthfulness, compassion, forbearance, the ruling elites held none of these qualities, and regarded the populace with such staggering contempt it would, in the end, be their undoing.
You cannot have rulers, royal houses, aristocrats, without a slave class, or in modern day terms, a working class.
It was not up to these people who lived and died.
"Evidence based policy" had come to mean exactly the opposite.
Bringing it all back to the terrible lie at the centre of it all: We're from the government and we're here to help you.
The damage, the human part of him still shook its head at the gravity, the scale of it all. That they were prepared to kill so many for what they saw as an overriding good.
They had decided there were too many humans on earth. You might as well say there are too many trees.
Humanity was by no means the end of evolution; barely the beginning. You weren't going to kill off every farm animal because they emitted carbon dioxide on a trumped up charge. You weren't going to kill off all these humans embedded in place; many little more sophisticated than the animals they tended.
It wasn't up to you. It wasn't up to them.
Captive audience. You should squirm in embarrassment; that your conscience had been so small, your ruthless ambition so hard and so large, your careless consideration of the fates, the gods, the universal nature, truly, you should squirm in embarrassment.
Show humility. Take time. Glory in the day and the creation.
We will show you, step by step. Take time. Take your time. These entities beyond time.
Preserve our messengers. Preserve your humility. Take time; this point in time, glory in the present, the infinite, glorious present. And be kind. To yourselves, to your fellow humans, to this truly beautiful planet.
Be kind. Be patient. Take time, for it is the greatest gift you will ever receive.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
SKY
Australia has killed off reliable power, replaced it with unreliable power and is now wondering why we’re steeped in an energy crisis, says Sky News host Chris Kenny.
“The Prime Minister’s answer is to spend tens of billions of dollars more on transmission lines,” Mr Kenny said.
“Honestly, that is the triumph of hope over experience, isn’t it. He reckons more of the same will fix the problem that it created.
“Once we were the lucky country, then we were the clever country, now we have chosen to abandon our luck and our cleverness.
“Nothing is quite so reliable in this space as policy idiocy.”
THE NEW DAILY
Former British prime minister Harold Macmillan is credited with the phrase “events dear boy, events” as being the single greatest determinant factor for any political leader.
And the events that could determine the fate of the new Albanese government are already confronting it.
We have the perfect storm of rising interest rates and exploding energy and transport costs.
Australians, particularly the so-called middle class, have become used to seeing their wealth increase thanks to the value of their homes rising exponentially.
But this property boom has been fuelled by record household debt used to pay off million-dollar mortgages.
Families so highly leveraged now face the prospect of rising interest payments at the same time as their gas and electricity bills soar and petrol prices threaten to break fresh record highs.
“No government can survive the middle class feeling poorer” is the view of one newly marginalised Liberal MP.
A Labor insider consoles himself with the fact that these price shocks are happening in the first weeks of the Albanese tenure, meaning there is time for events to improve before the next election.
We shall see.
For now though, as one of Australia’s most eminent former public servants Dennis Richardson told RN Breakfast: Albanese and his senior colleagues are off to a flying start.
Like all new governments, they come to the task without the baggage and the barnacles of the past ten years.
They also came to government not by appealing to Australians’ darker angels, playing off fears and prejudices that have fuelled the culture wars for the best part of two decades.
The emergence of the “teal” independents in six of the Liberals’ blue-ribbon seats is hailed as the surest sign that we are now in a new era where voters’ loyalty to a party brand no longer overrides more fundamental concerns over the survival of the human race on a warming planet, the denial of equality to women and the gender diverse, or integrity and accountability in government.
Urban voters, long derided as “woke” chardonnay-sipping or latte-drinking dreamers, were no longer prepared to be held to ransom by the vested interests of the hardline conservatives who have dominated the Coalition in recent years.
ABC
The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has taken the extraordinary step of suspending the spot market for wholesale electricity across the country.
Key points:
The electricity sector has been dealing with soaring costs
It forced AEMO to cap prices and compel generators to offer their services
Now the spot market for wholesale electricity has been suspended to try and ensure reliability
The electricity sector has been dealing with soaring costs, forcing AEMO to cap prices and compel generators to offer their services.
AEMO has now suspended the spot market entirely across the National Electricity Market — which includes Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, NSW and the ACT — saying it is impossible to ensure reliable electricity supply under the current circumstances.
It's the first time the market has been suspended nationally and it will be reviewed daily in each state.
AEMO chief executive Daniel Westerman says suspending the market will simplify operations of the electricity market.
"We are seeing very challenging times," Mr Westerman said.
Issues behind energy crisis
"It was impossible to operate the system under current conditions while ensuring reliable, secure supply of electricity to Australian homes and businesses.
"Right now we see the market is not able to deal with all the factors thrown at it. Frankly, those factors are quite extreme, ranging from generators that are both planned and unplanned outages, very high demand. [There are] a confluence of factors at hand."
He said the suspension created a more simple process to keep track of energy generators.
"We are creating a simple process where AEMO has true visibility of which generators are available and when in advance, rather than relying on last minute interventions," Mr Westerman said.
He said NSW residents should try and conserve energy where it is safe to do so on Wednesday night.
"Despite this, conditions remain tight in the coming days, in particular in New South Wales, where we would urge consumers to conserve energy where it is safe to do so."
THE GUARDIAN
Australia’s main wholesale electricity market has been suspended by regulators in the latest sign that the crisis threatening the stability of energy supplies is deepening.
The Australian Energy Market Operator (Aemo) took the drastic step of suspending the entire national electricity market for the first time in its history on Wednesday.
“Aemo has determined that it is necessary to suspend the spot market in all regions [of the NEM] because it has become impossible to operate” the market within the rules, the regulator said. The NEM covers all of Australia except for the Northern Territory and Western Australia.
In the hours prior to the suspension, Aemo had issued a flurry of lack of reserve alerts at the level 3 warning for all the mainland states within the market.
“Prior to suspending the market today, Aemo had issued over 5,000MW of directions and that is roughly 20% of demand,” Aemo’s chief executive, Daniel Westerman, said in Adelaide.
On Wednesday evening, the NSW energy minister, Matt Kean, told Sydney residents to reduce usage between 5.30pm and 8pm to reduce the risk of blackouts.
The latest Aemo forecasts for potential shortfalls in supply cited 8.30pm as a period of concern and flagged a possible intervention to order more generation as late as an hour earlier.
THE SPECTATOR
When the sun finally sets on the West, the English-speaking peoples will find out that they are as fragile and expendable as the starving third-world children used by aid organisation to pick pockets.
Modernity is held together by cheap energy, not the rainbow-padding nonsense of progressive politics that does little but catch fire on the frayed wires of civilisation, much like Rudd’s notorious pink batts.
Yesterday, millions of Australian homes on the east coast were told to switch off non-essential appliances after blackouts began and extended short-falls loomed. Energy suppliers cautioned the affluent Teal-heartland of Sydney’s Northern Beaches that they were at risk of losing power as temperatures plunged. Suggestions such as ‘consider how many rooms need to be heated’ were made, presumably targeted to the mansion-dwelling community who voted to put ‘Climate Change’ above energy security.
Green-tinged Queensland suffered a similar problem, with the situation so concerning that the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) put in place a $300-per-megawatt-hour price cap.
As a result, everyone is turning to gas suppliers in a panic, demanding that gas companies ‘find gas’ and offer it at ‘low prices’ – or else? This would be after the government went out of its way to deny the gas industry in favour of their preferred ‘renewables’ mates. The gas industry is unsurprisingly reluctant to help out, considering they require $500-per-megawatt-hour to profit.
As a side note, the climatecouncil.org.au insists, ‘Output of oil and gas in developed nations needs to be cut by 74 per cent by 2030, with a complete phase-out by 2034.’ That is going to be tricky with renewables leaning on gas to cover the giant voids in output. Basically, if you’re still breathing, somewhat warm, and well-fed – you’re probably a burden to the climate goal.
Back in the real world, if governments and energy suppliers are begging people to turn off their toasters, it’s a good thing the Australian population ignored Labor’s demands to switch to electric vehicles or we’d be waking up to streets littered with expensive, useless cars.
When the energy grid was truly competitive, Australia had reliable, cheap, and plentiful energy. The interference of government has had disastrous consequences, with public money being tossed at ‘renewables’ to make them look more ‘profitable’ when in reality, they are propped up by taxes. Productive energy sources have been punished by severe restrictions on access, expansion, and investment. Banks have gone so far as to consider denying loans in the fossil fuel sector to keep green-themed shareholders happy.
We’re not told the total green price tag, but subsidies for renewables alone were set at $11.6 billion in 2022.
