BinChicken

BinChicken, 1 day ago to auspol

With the Coalition’s nuclear fantasy demolished by CSIRO, Labor must get cracking on renewables
https://reneweconomy.com.au/with-the-coalitions-nuclear-fantasy-demolished-by-csiro-labor-must-get-cracking-on-renewables/

Peter Dutton has realised nobody is falling for his hype about Small Nuclear Reactors, so he's pivoted to large scale nuclear reactors.

The CSIRO has conclusively shown nuclear power is a dead-end technology — not fit for purpose in Australia — we need to accelerate our work with renewable energy such as wind and solar, and build more battery storage.

#AusPol #CSIRO #Renewables #RenewableEnergy #Nuclear #SMR

BinChicken, 1 day ago to australia

Archaeologists Unearth the Oldest Aboriginal Pottery in Australia
https://news-artnet-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/news.artnet.com/art-world/oldest-aboriginal-pottery-australia-2467880/amp-page?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQGsAEggAID
The find refutes long-held beliefs that the Aboriginals did not make pottery

According to the study, “The apparent absence of pottery in Australia, as noted by early and more recent European observers… both reflected and was used to support, racist social evolutionary hierarchies characterizing Aboriginal societies as lacking cultural complexity.”

In an area just 90 x 90 cm, archaeologists found 82 pottery shards that are 2,950 to 1,815 years old.

#Indigenous #Aboriginal #Australia #Archaeology #History #Ceramics #Pottery

BinChicken, 5 days ago to iran

'No sign of life' at Iran President Ebrahim Raisi helicopter crash site
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-20/iran-president-ebrahim-raisi-helicopter-crash-no-sign-of-life/103869052

It appears that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian are deceased as the result of a helicopter crash.

A Turkish drone has located the burned wreckage near the border with Azerbaijan. Thermal cameras could not detect the warmth of living people. The weather in that locale is a cold and foggy blizzard. Another source noted the a search team at an altitude of approximately 7,000 feet.

My conclusion is that no pilot in their right mind would fly in that combination of low altitude + mountainous terrain + awful weather + little or no visibility. Maybe it was too hard to say "No" to the President of Iran?

#Iran #EbrahimRaisi #AirCrash

BinChicken, 8 days ago to auspol

Vincent Namatjira is in the news again because Gina Rinehart is a truly awful person.

I think his painting is a pretty good likeness. It's recognisable to the point of being iconic. It captures her disdain for Black people perfectly, just as his painting of Tony Abbott captured the fake smile and witless eyes of our former Prime Minister.

I want to congratulate the ABC journalist who appears to have found the reference photo used by the artist, Vincent Namatjira, and put the photo side-by-side with the painting.

Compare them.

Before you say "This painting is not a good likeness" or "The artist is trying to make her look ugly", look at both images.
Now, look at the shit Gina Rinehart has done to the land with her resource extraction while making herself one of the richest people in the world with an estimated wealth of $30 billion.

And, look at Gina Rinehart's refusal to separate herself from her father's appallingly racist words.

Here's a sample:

"Nothing should be sacred from mining whether it’s your ground, my ground, the Blackfella's ground or anybody else’s. So the question of Aboriginal land rights and things of this nature shouldn’t exist."

And:

"[Aboriginal people] that have been assimilated into, you know, earning good living or earning wages amongst the civilised areas, those that have been accepted into society and they have accepted society and can handle society, I’d leave them well alone.
The ones that are no good to themselves and can’t accept things, the half-castes - and this is where most of the trouble comes - I would dope the water up so that they were sterile and would breed themselves out in future and that would solve the problem."

#Auspol #GinaRinehart #VincentNamatjira #TonyAbbott #ArchibaldPrize

Collection of 21 portraits painted by Indigenous artist, Vincent Namatjira.
Portrait by Vincent Namatjira of former Prime Minister of Australia, Tony Abbott.

BinChicken, 10 days ago to auspol

New Carbon ‘Capture & Storage’ Method Revealed
https://theshovel.com.au/2024/05/14/new-fossil-fuel-capture-storage-method-revealed/

A solid explanation by @theshovel about the science and politics of Carbon Capture.

#AusPol #CCS #CCUS #Carbon #CarbonCapture #CarbonCaptureAndStorage #FossilFuel

BinChicken, 14 days ago to auspol

Australia to ban controversial live sheep exports by sea from May 2028
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/australia-ban-controversial-live-sheep-exports-by-sea-may-2028-2024-05-11/

Why is the Australian government being gutless wonders and waiting until 2028? Scared of doing what a majority of Australian people have been demanding for more than 10 a decade and want a chance to backflip before the next election?

NoteChoice7719 made a comment on the article that is a valuable insight, so I'm going to copy it here:

The OP posted some links from what they claimed were “independent” groups opposed to the live export ban. In reality doing a bit of digging just one of these group’s boards is stacked with industry heavyweights who profit from the trade:

• Pastoral Company CEO
• Director of a sheep export company
• Managing Director of a livestock company
• Cattle company director
• Beef cattle farmer
• Livestock Company CEO

There is going to be a huge astroturfing operation about this, expect all these so called ‘farmers’ to appear on breakfast TV crying about how Labor is ‘destroying lives in the bush’, be aware they are not genuine.

#AusPol #AnimalRights #EndLiveExports

BinChicken, 14 days ago to Eurovision

I'm a huge fan of the Eurovision Song Contest, but this year I'm boycotting Eurovision.

Eurovision has always been political. Its purpose is political by seeking to unite Europe with the power of love of music over the power of hate and war.

In previous years, I celebrated the overt shows of support for Ukraine, LGBTQIA people, and other oppressed people.

But this year, the organisers of the Eurovision Song Contest have chosen ignore calls for BDS and allowed Israel to enter, and they have chosen to ban other participants from showing even support of the people of Palestine.

If you think the Eurovision Song Contest has chosen an appalling stance on this issue, you're not alone. The Israel singer was booed off stage, and there have been a record number of protests against Eurovision inside the auditorium, outside this year's venue in Malmö, and in many participating countries around the world.

#EurovisionSongContest #Eurovision #Eurovision2024 #BoycottEurovision #BoycottEurovision2024 #BDS #FreePalestine #Palestine #Genocide #Gaza #Israel #Rafah

BinChicken, 14 days ago to auspol

Australia votes 'yes' at United Nations as Palestinian push for full membership gathers momentum
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-11/australia-votes-yes-at-un-for-more-palestinian-rights/103833838

This is notable because previously Australian politicians have been cowards and abstained from recognising Palestine as a country — for years, they merely talked-up the possibility of a two-state solution between Israel and mumble at some undefined time in the distant future.

It's also worth noting that Israel is so hellbent on continuing to commit genocide against Palestinian people that Gilad Erdan, Israel's Ambassador to the UN, shredded a copy of the UN Charter. He's so keen to deny Palestinian people human rights that he unilaterally symbolically destroyed human rights for everyone in the world.

#AusPol #UN #UnitedNations #HumanRIghts #Palestine #Genocide #Gaza #Israel #Netanyahu #Rafah #FreePalestine

BinChicken, 18 days ago to Palestine

Macklemore has released a song, "Hind's Hall", in support of the people of Palestine and the student protests around the world against the genocide in Gaza being conducted by Benjamin Netanyahu's government.

Macklemore is putting his money where is mouth is, and donating all earnings from the song to Palestinian relief.

Link to "Hind's Hall" on :birdsite: https://twitter.com/macklemore/status/1787616471738368099

More info:
https://hiphopdx.com/news/macklemore-donate-earnings-new-song-palestinian-relief-college-protests

#Macklemore #HindsHall #Palestine #Genocide #Gaza #Israel #Netanyahu

BinChicken, 21 days ago to WFH

Bosses demanding a return to the office should stop and listen to women
https://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace/bosses-demanding-a-return-to-the-office-should-stop-and-listen-to-women-20240502-p5fofm.html

The craze by inflexible managers for forcing workers back into the office has to stop. It's made worse when they demand 100% office time and 0% work from home, or doing a bait-and-switch by offering work from home but then changing the deal. It's bad for everyone, but especially bad for women who have additional pressure on them for family and health reasons (in addition to the usual workplace sexism).
Listen to women.

#WorkFromHome #WFH

BinChicken, 1 month ago to ai

Ever since Bruce Ruxton died in 2011, Australians have struggled to find a way to make ANZAC Day cringeworthy, manipulatively sentimental, insensitive, attention-grabbing, disrespectful, inauthentically mythologised, and downright embarrassing.

At last, we have all that and more — thanks to the Queensland government's Virtual Veterans AI guide to World War I. Hurrah to the Queensland Government and the brave techbros at TalkVia AI who merged the horrors of war and the horrors of an "AI" LLM chatbot.
slow clap

#AI #LLM #ChatBot #VirtualVeterans #AusPol #QldPol #ANZACDay #ANZAC #Queensland #BruceRuxton #TalkViaAI

BinChicken, 1 month ago to Hydrogen

Hydrogen in gas networks doubles dangerous leaks from home appliances
https://reneweconomy.com.au/hydrogen-in-gas-networks-doubles-dangerous-leaks-from-home-appliances/

Pro-hydrogen tech bros will have a sook over this article, but reality has a way of asserting itself against their inane arguments. They're a sad bunch who like to think they're doing something good for the environment but they're in denial and cannot accept they've been sucked-in by greenwashing of the fossil fuel lobby who're trying to prolong the use of methane.

#Hydrogen #Greenwashing #Renewables #FossilGas #NaturalGas #Environment #ElectrifyEverything

BinChicken, 1 month ago to auspol

Details of defence deal with Israel kept under wraps to protect Australia's 'reputation'
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-09/australia-israel-defence-deal-secret-to-protect-reputation/103683308

Anthony Albanese has damned himself on several counts:

• Albo turned his back on Australian Zomi Frankcom and with six other humanitarian workers who were murdered by Israel in Gaza.
• Albo is failing to take a principled stand against the genocide Israel is committing in Palestine.
• Albo has shown he's more afraid of false accusations of antisemitism (in the style of the mud slung at Jeremy Corbyn) than he is of doing the right thing.
• Albo is beholden to Military–industrial complex, and doesn't want to hurt the export of Australian arms to Israel.
• Albo knows Australian arms exports are being used under Benjamin Netanyahu's orders to commit crimes against humanity, and he's not doing anything to halt our involvement.
• Anthony Albanese is complicit in the war crimes of Israel, and he's been referred to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for it, yet he's continuing to show a lack of regard for the ICC.

#AusPol #AnthonyAlbanese #Albo #WarCrimes #Genocide #Palestine #Gaza #FreePalestine #ZomiFrankcom #Israel #BenjaminNetanyahu #Netanyahu

BinChicken, 1 month ago to auspol

How the botched hire of a top cop's media chief unexpectedly collided with Bruce Lehrmann's defamation case
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-06/bruce-lehrmann-defamation-karen-webb-steve-jackson-auerbach/103673780

tl;dr: corruption and nepotism they tried to sweep under the carpet as "jobs for the boys".

#AusPol #BruceLehrmann

BinChicken, 1 month ago to auspol

Government Grants Bruce Lehrmann Licence for Coal Mine He Accidentally Discovered While Digging Own Grave
https://theshovel.com.au/2023/11/27/tanya-plibersek-grants-bruce-lehrmann-licence-for-coal-mine/

Another absolute banger of an article from @theshovel

#BruceLehrmann #Auspol

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 1 month ago to auscovid19

Omicron linked to more long COVID-19 cases: study

"Epidemiologist Mulu Woldegiorgis said the findings show the Omicron variant puts patients at greater risk of developing long COVID than previously thought."

#Omicron #longCOVID @auscovid19

Source: https://thewest.com.au/news/coronavirus/omicron-linked-to-more-long-covid-19-cases-study-c-14116384

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BinChicken, 2 months ago to melbourne

Channel 9 are a pack of fucking idiots. While reporting on an aviation incident where a person died, they engaged in reckless behaviour against aviation regulations that could have caused their own incident.

This morning, a man fell from a hot air balloon and died in a northern suburb of Melbourne.
It's a tragedy.
It's under investigation by experts.
It's the responsibility of the pilot in charge to enforce passenger safety processes, so it's natural to wonder how the catastrophe happened.
Beyond that, we should not speculate on what happened.

Approximately an hour after the balloon landed, the Channel 9 helicopter arrived at the balloon's landing zone, and circled there for over an hour. For most of this time, they were at an altitude of just over 1000 feet. That's the legal minimum altitude over unpopulated ground for General Aviation. Over populated ground, the legal minimum altitude is 2000 feet. The helicopter pilot then departed the area and flew north-west to land at the airport. But, for that leg of the trip, they flew at a dangerously low altitude over heavily populated suburbs of Brunswick and Coburg.

Channel 9 has a video on their website with a reporter in the street in Preston. They interviewed a neighbour who said he heard sirens. The rest of their video is shot with a long lens and shows an SES tent from a long distance. There's about 10 seconds of aerial video of a balloon gondola packing-up in Yarra Bend Park. That's all they got but they're milking it hard for the drama and clicks. Stupid ghouls.

This is absolutely pissweak reporting, like something from "Frontline".

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/preston-street-shut-after-hot-air-balloon-incident-20240318-p5fd54.html

#Melbourne #GeneralAviation #Ballooning #HotAirBalloon #YarraBendPark #Channel9

BinChicken, 2 months ago to auspol

Peter Dutton wonders when batteries will be “discovered”, and if wind turbines are sentient
https://reneweconomy.com.au/peter-dutton-wonders-when-batteries-will-be-discovered-and-if-wind-turbines-are-sentient/

Peter the Malignant Potato is talking shit again. He's rolling out the stale, old arguments against renewable energy. There's nothing new here in his message.
But his delivery has changed. I think he's had some analysts telling him his personal performance on the Dunkley bye-election was a flop, and nobody is believing his hype about Small Nuclear Reactors.

As a result, Dutton has started to mix-in some folksy humour, common misconceptions held by Boomers, conspiracy shibboleths, and some preposterously wrong assertions. It takes time for opposing viewpoints to critique his garbage, but he's already moved on to his next point quickly.

It's a subtle but dangerous shift. Dutton has adopted a media strategy used by Steve Bannon, MAGA nutjobs, and QAnon conspiracy theorists: flooding the zone with shit.

#AusPol #Dutton #Renewables #RenewableEnergy #NuclerPower #Wind #Solar #SmallNuclearReactors #SMRs #SteveBannon #MAGA #QAnon

BinChicken, 2 months ago to auspol

Vote counting is underway for the federal Dunkley by-election in Melbourne's south-east
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-02/victorian-dunkley-by-election-polls-close/103532902

It's going to be interesting to see if Jodie Belyea can hold the seat for the Labor Party. Albo and Julia Gillard put in a showing on the local scene to help their candidate.

Liberal Party candidate, Nathan Conroy, has experience as mayor of the City of Frankston, so his profile may help him. Peter Dutton was absent from the campaign yesterday, and I think it's because his own party told him to piss-off because he's toxic.

#Dunkley #DunkleyByElection #DunkleyVotes #AusPol

BinChicken, 2 months ago to random

Event: Yashica Dutt's Coming Out as Dalit with Mona Eltahawy Thrilled to announce that I’ll be in conversation with Yashica Dutt, internationally acclaimed Dalit journalist and among the most recognized global voices on caste, to discuss identity, India's caste system, and the newest edition of Dutt's book, Coming Out As Dalit: A Memoir of Surviving India’s Caste System

BinChicken, 3 months ago to auspol

Barnaby Joyce says late-night lie down 'a big mistake', blames mixing medication with alcohol
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-12/joyce-defends-late-night-lie-down/103454390

Barnaby Joyce's story is beyond belief. He's a knob, a liar, and frequently drunk on the job. I understand that getting legless (figuratively, and it seems literally for some of us) is a popular Australian part-time. But, to spin a yarn about interaction with medication is a bit of a stretch.
Ask yourself why Barnaby Joyce — not an inexperienced drinker — was drinking heavily if he was on medication he knew had side-effects with alcohol. And ask yourself why he was in the carpark when he was filmed falling-down drunk. I think it's more plausible that Barnaby Joyce intended to drive home while under the influence.

#AusPol #BarnabyJoyce

BinChicken, 3 months ago to auspol

Farmers Divided Over Bullshit Journalism

Any time you read a headline that begins "Farmers Divided" and then posits a hot take in the form of "both sides", you can be sure the article is going to scrape the bottom of the barrel.
Seems that everyone is doing it now. Even the ABC has been resorting to this Murdoch style clickbait garbage an awful lot lately.
Why do they do this? I think it's using public sympathy for farmers as a shield to push a conservative agenda. The issues usually involve opposition to progressive policies such as environmental preservation, electricity grid upgrades, wind turbines, and solar power.

#AusPol #ThisIsNotJournalism

BinChicken, 3 months ago to auspol

Allan Fels's ACTU initiated price gouging report calls for government to act against exploitative practices of big business
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-07/allan-fels-price-gouging-report-cost-of-living-crisis/103431866

Allan Fels, former chair of the ACCC, has confirmed that big business is engaging in rampant price gouging. He'll issue a report with 35 key recommendations to the government.

How do I think this will play-out?

• Workers and typical household consumers will continue to suffer from price-gouging and its effects on inflation.
• Banks, supermarkets, aviation, and energy companies will continue to exploit their staff and customers.
• Prime Minister Albanese will be a wet blanket, make a token gesture to implement some of the recommended changes, and at the same time give a multi-billion dollar handout to big companies to help them cope with the changes.
• Malignant Potato in Chief and Leader of the Opposition, Peter Dutton, will smirk and bluster on behalf of his rich kleptocrat mates.
• The Greens will take credit for positive proposed changes wile also threatening to burn-down Parliament House because Albo's changes are only a small step in the right direction and not 100% perfectly aligned with Green's policy.
• The Murdoch Media will portray Albo as corrupt sellout to China, ineffective, and a dolphin-hugging commie.

#AusPol #Inflation #GreedFlation #ACCC #PriceGouging #AllanFels #Competition #Monopoly #Duopoly #AusLaw