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*They Sold Our Power Grid for Quick Cash. Now WE'RE Paying*

/Punter's Politics, 197k subscribers, 18,635 views 12 Feb 2026/ <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnj8z3NLoPA>

"Origin Energy secured up to $450 million in potential taxpayer support
while simultaneously posting a massive $2 billion profit. How
privatisation of NSW energy infrastructure leaves local workers and
taxpayers holding the bag."

~~~~ ~~~~

Scamming the population directly from those lovely corporate lobbyists controlled party rooms straight to private corporate board rooms and
then to the stuffing to the brim of some private Cayman Islands tax
haven bank accounts.

This is what happens when ideologically driven privatisation of
essential and previously publicly owned services and infrastructure building/mnaging sectors are fully transmogrified into robber baron
capitalist profiteering rackets.

So stop wondering about why pricing for the consumers are shooting up
towards the sky causing your all time favourite corporate scumbag
suspects busily licking their grubby fingers with glee as they keep on counting those incoming billions in profits.
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On Sat, 14 Feb 2026 01:15:29 +0100, The Newsgroup Devil
<Devil@Hell.biz> wrote:

*They Sold Our Power Grid for Quick Cash. Now WE'RE Paying*

/Punter's Politics, 197k subscribers, 18,635 views 12 Feb 2026/ ><https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnj8z3NLoPA>

"Origin Energy secured up to $450 million in potential taxpayer support >while simultaneously posting a massive $2 billion profit. How
privatisation of NSW energy infrastructure leaves local workers and >taxpayers holding the bag."

Taxpayers in Vic have been screwed already. Evidently the NSW
consumers think privatization will reduce costs where in reality it's
all just another tax. User pays! When the Govt sells the utility,
it gets paid heaps....that's the point; but who ultimately pay this
purchase price? Guess!
Since the governments are all but broke, we can expect all this to
continue indefinitely, with the Police and Army next in line!
Readers might view the wonderful perspicuous Robocop movies to see
where it all ends. It all ends in tears!
Weep
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Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> wrote

Taxpayers in Vic have been screwed already. Evidently the NSW
consumers think privatization will reduce costs where in reality it's
all just another tax. User pays! When the Govt sells the utility,
it gets paid heaps....that's the point; but who ultimately pay this
purchase price? Guess!

That's mindless bullshit with all of Telecom, ComBank etc

Since the governments are all but broke,

More mindless bullshit

we can expect all this to continue indefinitely,

How odd that it hasnt happened with Aust Post or Medicare

with the Police and Army next in line!

You are completely off with the fucking fairys, as always
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From Newsgroup: aus.politics

On Sat, 14 Feb 2026 13:20:24 +1100, "Rod Speed"
<rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:

Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> wrote

Taxpayers in Vic have been screwed already. Evidently the NSW
consumers think privatization will reduce costs where in reality it's
all just another tax. User pays! When the Govt sells the utility,
it gets paid heaps....that's the point; but who ultimately pay this
purchase price? Guess!

That's mindless bullshit with all of Telecom, ComBank etc

It is not bullshit, mindless or otherwise. Can't you see that the
Government sold to the people the things they owned already? Like
the old Brooklyn Bridge scam. Govt instrumentalities are the peoples'
by any common sense. The notorious Telecom and Commonwealth Bank
stag-fest reaped billions for the fucking underwriters and their
cronies. Does privatization reduce costs? Do tell!

Since the governments are all but broke,

More mindless bullshit

No It is solid-gold diamond-studded truth, because if you factor in
the national debt the Govt is criminally broke.

we can expect all this to continue indefinitely,

How odd that it hasnt happened with Aust Post or Medicare

The Internet saved Aust Post, and Medicare hangs on by its
fingernails.

with the Police and Army next in line!

You are completely off with the fucking fairys, as always

No I'm not; it's you with your head in the sand!

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From Newsgroup: aus.politics

Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> wrote

Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote

Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> wrote

Taxpayers in Vic have been screwed already. Evidently the NSW
consumers think privatization will reduce costs where in reality it's
all just another tax. User pays! When the Govt sells the utility,
it gets paid heaps....that's the point; but who ultimately pay this
purchase price? Guess!

That's mindless bullshit with all of Telecom, ComBank etc

It is not bullshit, mindless or otherwise.

Its completely mindless bullshit

Can't you see that the
Government sold to the people the things they owned already?

My comment was about that last shit of yours

Like the old Brooklyn Bridge scam.

Nothing even remotely like that

Govt instrumentalities are the peoples' by any common sense.

It never made any sense to have a govt telecoms
monopoly or to have a govt bank either

The notorious Telecom and Commonwealth Bank
stag-fest reaped billions for the fucking underwriters and their
cronies. Does privatization reduce costs? Do tell!

It clearly did reduce the cost of a perfect modile
servide to just $10 s month with free calls to any
landline or mobile in the country. We never had
anything even remotely like that with the govt
monopoly

Same with the ComBank, we never had anything
even remotely like free transfers when it was govt
owned

Since the governments are all but broke,

More mindless bullshit

No It is solid-gold diamond-studded truth, because if you factor in
the national debt the Govt is criminally broke.

That's not broke any more than a house mortgage is

we can expect all this to continue indefinitely,

How odd that it hasnt happened with Aust Post or Medicare

The Internet saved Aust Post,

More of your mindless bullshit

and Medicare hangs on by its fingernails.

More of your mindless bullshit

with the Police and Army next in line!

You are completely off with the fucking fairys, as always

No I'm not;

Neither will ever happen
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On 14/02/2026 1:20 pm, Rod Speed wrote:

Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> wrote

Taxpayers in Vic have been screwed already.a Evidently the NSW
consumers think privatization will reduce costs where in reality it's
all just another tax.aa User pays!aa When the Govt sells the utility,
it gets paid heaps....that's the point; but who ultimately pay this
purchase price?a Guess!

That's mindless bullshit with all of Telecom, ComBank etc

Since the governments are all but broke,

More mindless bullshit

we can expect all this toa continue indefinitely,

How odd that it hasnt happened with Aust Post or Medicare

Have you forgotten how, when it was sold off, Medicare became MediBank
Private .... and the NEW, IMPROVED, Government owned Medibank came into existence??

with the Police and Army next in line!

Police are State Based .... or are you thinking of the Federal Police??

You are completely off with the fucking fairys, as always

Not this time!! .... And I thought it was Petzl that was "completely off
with the fucking fairys, as always"??
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On 14/02/2026 11:15 am, The Newsgroup Devil wrote:

*They Sold Our Power Grid for Quick Cash. Now WE'RE Paying*

/Punter's Politics, 197k subscribers, 18,635 views-a 12 Feb 2026/ <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnj8z3NLoPA>

"Origin Energy secured up to $450 million in potential taxpayer support while simultaneously posting a massive $2 billion profit. How
privatisation of NSW energy infrastructure-a leaves local workers and taxpayers holding the bag."

Meanwhile, they pay me $0.01 per Kilowatt hour that my Panels export
into the system .... and then sell that power to whomever needs it at
$0.40 per kilowatt hour.
--
Daniel70
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From Newsgroup: aus.politics

Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote

Rod Speed wrote

Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> wrote

Taxpayers in Vic have been screwed already. Evidently the NSW
consumers think privatization will reduce costs where in reality it's
all just another tax. User pays! When the Govt sells the utility,
it gets paid heaps....that's the point; but who ultimately pay this
purchase price? Guess!

That's mindless bullshit with all of Telecom, ComBank etc

Since the governments are all but broke,

More mindless bullshit

we can expect all this to continue indefinitely,

How odd that it hasnt happened with Aust Post or Medicare

Have you forgotten how, when it was sold off, Medicare became MediBank Private .... and the NEW, IMPROVED, Government owned Medibank came into existence??

Nope, I was talking about what is currently a govt operation

with the Police and Army next in line!

Police are State Based .... or are you thinking of the Federal Police??

Nope

You are completely off with the fucking fairys, as always

Not this time!! ....

Yes, neither will be sold off

And I thought it was Petzl that was "completelyoff with the fucking fairys, as always"??

They both are quite a bit of the time
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Daniel70

Rod Speed

That's mindless bullshit with all of Telecom, ComBank etc

Rod has spoken like the typical rusted on hard capitalist maniac he
truly is.

Of course, those governments of the day were looking for quick cash
without ever understanding nor caring about long term implications for
the country as a whole. Now billions and billions disappear into the
private investors pockets instead of remaining in the treasury and
financing much needed social and public services and even some necessary infrastructure improvements.

The facts is, we would all be better off if both of these services
stayed in public hands.
And that would also have given the government easy means to indirectly
hold the private sector in check by creating true competition for them
both in the telecommunication and in the financial sector.
Sadly now all that is left from government's ability to hold these
sectors in check is some gentle finger wagging when private corporation misbehave and unscrupulously screw the over the consumers as well as the
tax man.

How odd that it hasnt happened with Aust Post or Medicare

Have you forgotten how, when it was sold off, Medicare became MediBank Private .... and the NEW, IMPROVED, Government owned Medibank came into existence??

Yesss, that was just one of the many "fuck you all lower class wage
slaves" dirty deeds of the Lie-berals.
Has anyone already forgotten how the Lying Rodent's regime was trying to
force everyone towards an US style private health insurance/healthcare provider sector.
After all hard capitalists hate universally accessible affordable
healthcare. The Lie-beral never wanted any of that, and when Whitlam
made serious efforts towards setting it up for us properly they were absolutely furious about it. Hard right dogma has always dictated:
*If you can't afford it then just die!*
*Long live profiteering off the sick.*

Police are State Based .... or are you thinking of the Federal Police??

We do have armies of private security contractors already in that sector.
Just look at the US dystopia to see what all that can and does lead too.

You are completely off with the fucking fairys, as always

Yes. That's a typical one liner from Alzheimer Rod, whenever he
disagrees with someone. Instead of arguing his case he simply goes full
on ad hom.

Let us never forget who Rod really is: A raging extreme hard capitalist
ego maniac sociopath with serious anger management deficit issues.
He is just marginally better than or village idiot Petz.

Not this time!! .... And I thought it was Petzl that was "completely off with the fucking fairys, as always"??

Just because Rod understands how crazy Petz really is it does not mean
at all that ideologically both of them aren't on the same side of
extreme rightwing politics.
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Daniel70

|urd||g

*They Sold Our Power Grid for Quick Cash. Now WE'RE Paying*

/Punter's Politics, 197k subscribers, 18,635 views-a 12 Feb 2026/
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnj8z3NLoPA>

"Origin Energy secured up to $450 million in potential taxpayer
support while simultaneously posting a massive $2 billion profit. How
privatisation of NSW energy infrastructure-a leaves local workers and
taxpayers holding the bag."

Meanwhile, they pay me $0.01 per Kilowatt hour that my Panels export
into the system .... and then sell that power to whomever needs it at
$0.40 per kilowatt hour.

AGL is hardly any better!

Hey!
That is exactly how late stage, fully unchecked, neo-liberal, free marketeering corporate capitalism supped to work ... for the sole
benefit of their upper management, their share holders and financiers,
that is.
For their wage slave employees and their consumers they only offer a
"take it or leave it and then get fucked" option! And the same fully
arrogant attitude they also offer up to any sort of attempt at public oversight.
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On 15/02/2026 8:32 am, The Newsgroup Devil wrote:

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Daniel70

|urd||g

*They Sold Our Power Grid for Quick Cash. Now WE'RE Paying*

/Punter's Politics, 197k subscribers, 18,635 views-a 12 Feb 2026/
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnj8z3NLoPA>

"Origin Energy secured up to $450 million in potential taxpayer
support while simultaneously posting a massive $2 billion profit. How
privatisation of NSW energy infrastructure-a leaves local workers and
taxpayers holding the bag."

Meanwhile, they pay me $0.01 per Kilowatt hour that my Panels export
into the system .... and then sell that power to whomever needs it at
$0.40 per kilowatt hour.

AGL is hardly any better!

Hey!
That is exactly how late stage, fully unchecked, neo-liberal, free marketeering corporate capitalism supped to work ... for the sole
benefit of their upper management, their share holders and financiers,
that is.

"share holders" .... so that includes ME!!
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Daniel70

|urd||g

Daniel70

|urd||g

*They Sold Our Power Grid for Quick Cash. Now WE'RE Paying*

/Punter's Politics, 197k subscribers, 18,635 views-a 12 Feb 2026/
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnj8z3NLoPA>

"Origin Energy secured up to $450 million in potential taxpayer
support while simultaneously posting a massive $2 billion profit.
How privatisation of NSW energy infrastructure-a leaves local workers >>>> and taxpayers holding the bag."

Meanwhile, they pay me $0.01 per Kilowatt hour that my Panels export
into the system .... and then sell that power to whomever needs it at
$0.40 per kilowatt hour.

AGL is hardly any better!

Hey!
That is exactly how late stage, fully unchecked, neo-liberal, free
marketeering corporate capitalism supped to work ... for the sole
benefit of their upper management, their share holders and financiers,
that is.

"share holders" .... so that includes ME!!

By share holders I meant those who actually counted.
The measly few shares you actually hold may mean for you, small time
investor an important income stream, but beyond that you have fuck all
of an influence on how the company actually operates, behaves towards
its customers, uses/abuses the environment, maintains its assets, the
kind of ethical/unethical business deals it makes, nor most
significantly the dividends you get. You are a tiny-tiny plankton in a
huge ocean of mega financier sharks as far as they are concerned.
Of course, you are free to sell your shares any time but that is just
about it.

You have no more control over Origin energy as I have over IAG (ex-NRMA)
or the Commonwealth Bank.
All we can do is to claw back a minute fraction of the moneys we have
been ripped off by these huge corporate monsters.
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From Newsgroup: aus.politics

On Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:34:10 +1100, "Rod Speed"
<rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:

Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> wrote

Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote

Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> wrote

Taxpayers in Vic have been screwed already. Evidently the NSW
consumers think privatization will reduce costs where in reality it's
all just another tax. User pays! When the Govt sells the utility,
it gets paid heaps....that's the point; but who ultimately pay this
purchase price? Guess!

That's mindless bullshit with all of Telecom, ComBank etc

It is not bullshit, mindless or otherwise.

Its completely mindless bullshit

Can't you see that the
Government sold to the people the things they owned already?

You are EVADING the point.

Like the old Brooklyn Bridge scam.

Nothing even remotely like that

Govt instrumentalities are the peoples' by any common sense.

It never made any sense to have a govt telecoms
monopoly or to have a govt bank either

Are you insane? Given the size of the country and all the states, a
monopoly was the only way to go. Ever heard of the ongoiung Optus
disaster? If the Govt had kept the CommonwBank it could have had some
control ovet the other banks,.

The notorious Telecom and Commonwealth Bank
stag-fest reaped billions for the fucking underwriters and their
cronies. Does privatization reduce costs? Do tell!

It clearly did reduce the cost of a perfect modile
servide to just $10 s month with free calls to any
landline or mobile in the country. We never had
anything even remotely like that with the govt
monopoly

Gee who cares about those "Opium of the People" iGizmos & iGadgets?
Even now world-wide Govts are trying to reign them in because of their addictive properties. I do have one, only to access banks & Govt
services.

Same with the ComBank, we never had anything
even remotely like free transfers when it was govt
owned

You should be a good boy and SAVE your money!

Since the governments are all but broke,

More mindless bullshit

No It is solid-gold diamond-studded truth, because if you factor in
the national debt the Govt is criminally broke.

That's not broke any more than a house mortgage is

That's no answer. The Govt at least should set an example.

we can expect all this to continue indefinitely,

How odd that it hasnt happened with Aust Post or Medicare

The Internet saved Aust Post,

More of your mindless bullshit

and Medicare hangs on by its fingernails.

More of your mindless bullshit

with the Police and Army next in line!

You are completely off with the fucking fairys, as always

No I'm not;

Neither will ever happen

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From Newsgroup: aus.politics

On Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:57:11 +1100, Daniel70
<daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

On 14/02/2026 1:20 pm, Rod Speed wrote:

Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> wrote

Taxpayers in Vic have been screwed already.a Evidently the NSW
consumers think privatization will reduce costs where in reality it's
all just another tax.aa User pays!aa When the Govt sells the utility,
it gets paid heaps....that's the point; but who ultimately pay this
purchase price?a Guess!

That's mindless bullshit with all of Telecom, ComBank etc

Since the governments are all but broke,

More mindless bullshit

we can expect all this toa continue indefinitely,

How odd that it hasnt happened with Aust Post or Medicare

Have you forgotten how, when it was sold off, Medicare became MediBank >Private .... and the NEW, IMPROVED, Government owned Medibank came into >existence??

I wonder how much the conversion cost. The bureau of meteorology is redesigning their web page at a cost too great to bear.

with the Police and Army next in line!

Ronald woulf flog everything off.

Police are State Based .... or are you thinking of the Federal Police??

You are completely off with the fucking fairys, as always

Not this time!! .... And I thought it was Petzl that was "completely off >with the fucking fairys, as always"??

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On Sat, 14 Feb 2026 20:03:25 +1100, Daniel70
<daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

On 14/02/2026 11:15 am, The Newsgroup Devil wrote:

*They Sold Our Power Grid for Quick Cash. Now WE'RE Paying*

/Punter's Politics, 197k subscribers, 18,635 viewsa 12 Feb 2026/
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnj8z3NLoPA>

"Origin Energy secured up to $450 million in potential taxpayer support
while simultaneously posting a massive $2 billion profit. How
privatisation of NSW energy infrastructurea leaves local workers and
taxpayers holding the bag."

Meanwhile, they pay me $0.01 per Kilowatt hour that my Panels export
into the system .... and then sell that power to whomever needs it at
$0.40 per kilowatt hour.

I'm waiting for practical and cheap battery storage before I go solar.
I heard a rumour there's a photo-voltaic paint available to paint the
whole house and roof; no panels required.
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Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> wrote

Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote

Rod Speed wrote

Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> wrote

Taxpayers in Vic have been screwed already. Evidently the NSW
consumers think privatization will reduce costs where in reality it's
all just another tax. User pays! When the Govt sells the utility,
it gets paid heaps....that's the point; but who ultimately pay this
purchase price? Guess!

That's mindless bullshit with all of Telecom, ComBank etc

Since the governments are all but broke,

More mindless bullshit

we can expect all this to continue indefinitely,

How odd that it hasnt happened with Aust Post or Medicare

Have you forgotten how, when it was sold off, Medicare became MediBank
Private .... and the NEW, IMPROVED, Government owned Medibank came into
existence??

I wonder how much the conversion cost.

The bureau of meteorology is redesigningtheir web page at a cost too
great to bear.

And Westpac fucked up MUCH more spectularly
and expensively when they tried to redesign all
their banking operation back in the 1990s

Shit happens

with the Police and Army next in line!

Ronald woulf flog everything off.

Who the fuck is Ronald

Police are State Based .... or are you thinking of the Federal Police??

You are completely off with the fucking fairys, as always

Not this time!! .... And I thought it was Petzl that was "completely off
with the fucking fairys, as always"??

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Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> wrote

Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote

The Newsgroup Devil wrote

*They Sold Our Power Grid for Quick Cash. Now WE'RE Paying*

/Punter's Politics, 197k subscribers, 18,635 views 12 Feb 2026/
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnj8z3NLoPA>

"Origin Energy secured up to $450 million in potential taxpayer support
while simultaneously posting a massive $2 billion profit. How
privatisation of NSW energy infrastructure leaves local workers and
taxpayers holding the bag."

Meanwhile, they pay me $0.01 per Kilowatt hour that my Panels export
into the system .... and then sell that power to whomever needs it at
$0.40 per kilowatt hour.

I'm waiting for practical and cheap battery storage before I go solar.

No such animal and Snowy 2.0 works much better and lasts MUCH longer

I heard a rumour there's a photo-voltaic paint available to paint the
whole house and roof; no panels required.

Just another silly little greeny drug crazed fantasy
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Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> wrote

Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote

Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> wrote

Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote

Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> wrote

Taxpayers in Vic have been screwed already. Evidently the NSW
consumers think privatization will reduce costs where in reality it's >>>>> all just another tax. User pays! When the Govt sells the utility, >>>>> it gets paid heaps....that's the point; but who ultimately pay this
purchase price? Guess!

That's mindless bullshit with all of Telecom, ComBank etc

It is not bullshit, mindless or otherwise.

Its completely mindless bullshit

Can't you see that the
Government sold to the people the things they owned already?

You are EVADING the point.

The only point point you ever had was your pointy little head

Like the old Brooklyn Bridge scam.

Nothing even remotely like that

Govt instrumentalities are the peoples' by any common sense.

It never made any sense to have a govt telecoms
monopoly or to have a govt bank either

Are you insane?

You clearly are

Given the size of the country and all the states,a monopoly was the
only way to go.

How odd that it works vastly better and MUCH more
cheaply for consumers now with no monopoly

Ever heard of the ongoiung Optus disaster?

There is no such thing and it is my mobile carrier

If the Govt had kept the CommonwBank it could have had some
control ovet the other banks,.

How odd that that never happened before it was privatised

The notorious Telecom and Commonwealth Bank
stag-fest reaped billions for the fucking underwriters and their
cronies. Does privatization reduce costs? Do tell!

It clearly did reduce the cost of a perfect modile
service to just $10 s month with free calls to any
landline or mobile in the country. We never had
anything even remotely like that with the govt
monopoly

Gee who cares about those "Opium of the People" iGizmos & iGadgets?

Anyone who uses the phone service

Even now world-wide Govts are trying to reignthem in because of their addictive properties.

Bullshit they are with basic phone services like calls and texts

I do have one, only to access banks & Govt services.

More fool you

Same with the ComBank, we never had anything
even remotely like free transfers when it was govt
owned

You should be a good boy and SAVE your money!

You can't buy your first house that way

And anyone with even half a clue pays their bills that way

Since the governments are all but broke,

More mindless bullshit

No It is solid-gold diamond-studded truth, because if you factor in
the national debt the Govt is criminally broke.

That's not broke any more than a house mortgage is

That's no answer.

Of course its an answer

The Govt at least should set an example.

More of your mindless bullshit

we can expect all this to continue indefinitely,

How odd that it hasnt happened with Aust Post or Medicare

The Internet saved Aust Post,

More of your mindless bullshit

and Medicare hangs on by its fingernails.

More of your mindless bullshit

with the Police and Army next in line!

You are completely off with the fucking fairys, as always

No I'm not;

Neither will ever happen

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On 16/02/2026 11:26 am, Peter Jason wrote:

On Sat, 14 Feb 2026 20:03:25 +1100, Daniel70
<daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

On 14/02/2026 11:15 am, The Newsgroup Devil wrote:

*They Sold Our Power Grid for Quick Cash. Now WE'RE Paying*

/Punter's Politics, 197k subscribers, 18,635 views-a 12 Feb 2026/
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnj8z3NLoPA>

"Origin Energy secured up to $450 million in potential taxpayer support
while simultaneously posting a massive $2 billion profit. How
privatisation of NSW energy infrastructure-a leaves local workers and
taxpayers holding the bag."

Meanwhile, they pay me $0.01 per Kilowatt hour that my Panels export
into the system .... and then sell that power to whomever needs it at
$0.40 per kilowatt hour.

I'm waiting for practical and cheap battery storage before I go solar.

Various companies are taking over farmland to plant thousands of Solar
Panels and Solar Batteries so that THEY can flog THAT power to the
population .... and pay you a pittance for any power you fed into the
system .... which they then flog to the population at a much higher cost
than what they pay you..
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:53:50 +1100, Daniel70
<daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

On 16/02/2026 11:26 am, Peter Jason wrote:

On Sat, 14 Feb 2026 20:03:25 +1100, Daniel70
<daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

On 14/02/2026 11:15 am, The Newsgroup Devil wrote:

*They Sold Our Power Grid for Quick Cash. Now WE'RE Paying*

/Punter's Politics, 197k subscribers, 18,635 viewsa 12 Feb 2026/
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnj8z3NLoPA>

"Origin Energy secured up to $450 million in potential taxpayer support >>>> while simultaneously posting a massive $2 billion profit. How
privatisation of NSW energy infrastructurea leaves local workers and
taxpayers holding the bag."

Meanwhile, they pay me $0.01 per Kilowatt hour that my Panels export
into the system .... and then sell that power to whomever needs it at
$0.40 per kilowatt hour.

I'm waiting for practical and cheap battery storage before I go solar.

Various companies are taking over farmland to plant thousands of Solar >Panels and Solar Batteries so that THEY can flog THAT power to the >population .... and pay you a pittance for any power you fed into the
system .... which they then flog to the population at a much higher cost >than what they pay you..

Seems never mentioned the transmission lines, the substations, that
need to be tacked onto Solar Power sites nor who pays and authorizes
this, at least they now use battery storage after 2020.

Also not mentioning redundacies/life expectancy of these pricey solar boondoggles
--
Petzl
An evil enemy will from within,
burn his own nation to then rule over the ashes.
Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu
(author of The Art of War), 5th century BC.
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Daniel70 >> Daniel70>>> |urd||g>>>> *They Sold Our Power Grid for Quick Cash. Now

WE'RE Paying*>>>> /Punter's Politics, 197k subscribers, 18,635 views-a 12
Feb 2026/>>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnj8z3NLoPA>>>>>>>>>
"Origin Energy secured up to $450 million in potential taxpayer
support>>>> while simultaneously posting a massive $2 billion profit.

privatisation of NSW energy infrastructure-a leaves local workers and>>>> taxpayers holding the bag.">>>>>>> Meanwhile, they pay me $0.01

per Kilowatt hour that my Panels export>>> into the system .... and then
sell that power to whomever needs it at>>> $0.40 per kilowatt hour.

Seems never mentioned the transmission lines, the substations, ...

...as well as those the input costs of
mining/drilling/extracting/transporting all of that fossil fuel you and
ilk are so absolutely addicted to, eh Petz dear?
Also never mentioned are the ongoing cost of diseases causing pollution, environmental destruction and the negative effect on the climate these
create. And of course, the silence is absolutely deafening in your
favourite Murdoch media outlets as well as in those cyber sewers you particularly feel at home when it comes to mentioning that continuing
use of such aging fossil fuels burning plants must cost a fortune let
alone the building of new ones.

Also not mentioning redundacies/life expectancy of these pricey solar boondoggles

YAWN! Nothing could be more pricey than sticking with an outdated,
horribly polluting and environmentally destructive technology.
And do not even let me get stated on the oxymoron nature of that carbon capture conjob you and ilk are pushing absolutely hard.

But hey, naturally, we could build instead a lovely Chernobyl grade
nuclear power plant right in the middle of your Shitboxville residential
park, right next to your park bench home.
Look at the upside: that glowing feeling that comes with constantly
being irradiated with doses greater than 250000 uSi/day will surely make
you feel quite warm and cosy even in the middle of a midwinter Southerly change coming through. No more shivering under those soiled and crumpled sheets of the Daily Telegraph (AKA Daily Terror) you use as blanket.
And even your GoonBag juice might turn beautifully fluorescent in the
process.

<https://emmausyr11nuclearphysics.weebly.com/measuring-radiation-dose.html>

:-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:37:07 +1100, "Rod Speed"
<rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:

Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> wrote

Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote

Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> wrote

Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote

Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> wrote

Taxpayers in Vic have been screwed already. Evidently the NSW
consumers think privatization will reduce costs where in reality it's >>>>>> all just another tax. User pays! When the Govt sells the utility, >>>>>> it gets paid heaps....that's the point; but who ultimately pay this >>>>>> purchase price? Guess!

That's mindless bullshit with all of Telecom, ComBank etc

It is not bullshit, mindless or otherwise.

Its completely mindless bullshit

Can't you see that the
Government sold to the people the things they owned already?

You are EVADING the point.

The only point point you ever had was your pointy little head

You are red-herringing. Shame.

Like the old Brooklyn Bridge scam.

Nothing even remotely like that

Yes it is. The people owned it and scammers sold it anyway.

Govt instrumentalities are the peoples' by any common sense.

It never made any sense to have a govt telecoms
monopoly or to have a govt bank either

You're not answering the point.

Are you insane?

You clearly are

you are, and un-clearly too.

Given the size of the country and all the states,a monopoly was the
only way to go.

How odd that it works vastly better and MUCH more
cheaply for consumers now with no monopoly

Compared to what? We can't re-run history.

Ever heard of the ongoiung Optus disaster?

There is no such thing and it is my mobile carrier

Then you've been duped. Telstra is much better. Optus is NOTORIOUS
for trashing OOO calls. Check this out and be mortified and contrite,
then rush to Telstra.

If the Govt had kept the CommonwBank it could have had some
control ovet the other banks,.

How odd that that never happened before it was privatised

They were different times.

The notorious Telecom and Commonwealth Bank
stag-fest reaped billions for the fucking underwriters and their
cronies. Does privatization reduce costs? Do tell!

It clearly did reduce the cost of a perfect modile
service to just $10 s month with free calls to any
landline or mobile in the country. We never had
anything even remotely like that with the govt
monopoly

Christ, you are SO naive; they're getting kickbacks from the
marketeers, touts and like swill.

Gee who cares about those "Opium of the People" iGizmos & iGadgets?

Anyone who uses the phone service

Even now world-wide Govts are trying to reignthem in because of their
addictive properties.

Bullshit they are with basic phone services like calls and texts

There are too many "calls" and texts are free, like plagues, wars,
droughts and forest fires. And with tiny eye-strain letters.

I do have one, only to access banks & Govt services.

More fool you

No. I also have a landline.

Same with the ComBank, we never had anything
even remotely like free transfers when it was govt
owned

You should be a good boy and SAVE your money!

You can't buy your first house that way

Saving worked for me; when there were paper notes I'd iron them into space-saving bricks then hoard them.

And anyone with even half a clue pays their bills that way

Since the governments are all but broke,

More mindless bullshit

No It is solid-gold diamond-studded truth, because if you factor in
the national debt the Govt is criminally broke.

That's not broke any more than a house mortgage is

Rubbish.

That's no answer.

Of course its an answer

The Govt at least should set an example.

More of your mindless bullshit

we can expect all this to continue indefinitely,

How odd that it hasnt happened with Aust Post or Medicare

The Internet saved Aust Post,

More of your mindless bullshit

and Medicare hangs on by its fingernails.

More of your mindless bullshit

with the Police and Army next in line!

You are completely off with the fucking fairys, as always

No I'm not;

Neither will ever happen

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On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:43:08 +1100, "Rod Speed"
<rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:

Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> wrote

Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote

Rod Speed wrote

Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> wrote

Taxpayers in Vic have been screwed already. Evidently the NSW
consumers think privatization will reduce costs where in reality it's >>>>> all just another tax. User pays! When the Govt sells the utility, >>>>> it gets paid heaps....that's the point; but who ultimately pay this
purchase price? Guess!

That's mindless bullshit with all of Telecom, ComBank etc

Since the governments are all but broke,

More mindless bullshit

we can expect all this to continue indefinitely,

How odd that it hasnt happened with Aust Post or Medicare

Have you forgotten how, when it was sold off, Medicare became MediBank
Private .... and the NEW, IMPROVED, Government owned Medibank came into
existence??

I wonder how much the conversion cost.

The bureau of meteorology is redesigningtheir web page at a cost too
great to bear.

And Westpac fucked up MUCH more spectularly
and expensively when they tried to redesign all
their banking operation back in the 1990s

Shit happens

with the Police and Army next in line!

Ronald woulf flog everything off.

Who the fuck is Ronald

Ewe are. Better run back to your therapist.

Police are State Based .... or are you thinking of the Federal Police??

You are completely off with the fucking fairys, as always

Not this time!! .... And I thought it was Petzl that was "completely off >>> with the fucking fairys, as always"??

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On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:53:50 +1100, Daniel70
<daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

On 16/02/2026 11:26 am, Peter Jason wrote:

On Sat, 14 Feb 2026 20:03:25 +1100, Daniel70
<daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

On 14/02/2026 11:15 am, The Newsgroup Devil wrote:

*They Sold Our Power Grid for Quick Cash. Now WE'RE Paying*

/Punter's Politics, 197k subscribers, 18,635 viewsa 12 Feb 2026/
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnj8z3NLoPA>

"Origin Energy secured up to $450 million in potential taxpayer support >>>> while simultaneously posting a massive $2 billion profit. How
privatisation of NSW energy infrastructurea leaves local workers and
taxpayers holding the bag."

Meanwhile, they pay me $0.01 per Kilowatt hour that my Panels export
into the system .... and then sell that power to whomever needs it at
$0.40 per kilowatt hour.

I'm waiting for practical and cheap battery storage before I go solar.

Various companies are taking over farmland to plant thousands of Solar >Panels and Solar Batteries so that THEY can flog THAT power to the >population .... and pay you a pittance for any power you fed into the
system .... which they then flog to the population at a much higher cost >than what they pay you..

It usually pays to enter new tech much later than other people. Let
others be guinea pigs.
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Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> wrote

Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote

Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> wrote

Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote

Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> wrote

Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote

Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> wrote

Taxpayers in Vic have been screwed already. Evidently the NSW
consumers think privatization will reduce costs where in reality >>>>>>> it's
all just another tax. User pays! When the Govt sells the
utility,
it gets paid heaps....that's the point; but who ultimately pay this >>>>>>> purchase price? Guess!

That's mindless bullshit with all of Telecom, ComBank etc

It is not bullshit, mindless or otherwise.

Its completely mindless bullshit

Can't you see that the
Government sold to the people the things they owned already?

You are EVADING the point.

The only point point you ever had was your pointy little head

You are red-herringing. Shame.

You are pathetic, as always

Like the old Brooklyn Bridge scam.

Nothing even remotely like that

Yes it is. The people owned it and scammers sold it anyway.

The difference is that it was the govt's to sell, fuckwit

Govt instrumentalities are the peoples' by any common sense.

It never made any sense to have a govt telecoms
monopoly or to have a govt bank either

You're not answering the point.

The only point point you ever had was your pointy little head

Are you insane?

You clearly are

you are, and un-clearly too.

You are pathetic, as always

Given the size of the country and all the states,a monopoly was the
only way to go.

How odd that it works vastly better and MUCH more
cheaply for consumers now with no monopoly

Compared to what?

Compared with that we had to pay for a service
with Telecom and for phone calls, stupid

We can't re-run history.

We can certainly see what we used to have to
pay when we still had the Telecom monopoly
and how long it took to get a new service,

Years in fact for plenty

Ever heard of the ongoiung Optus disaster?

There is no such thing and it is my mobile carrier

Then you've been duped.

Nope, never had a problem with Optus

Telstra is much better.

Bullshit it is and service has failed
with them MUCH more often

Optus is NOTORIOUS for trashing OOO calls.

Only happened the once

Check this out

Dont need to, I know what happened

and be mortified and contrite, then rush to Telstra.

Not that stupid

If the Govt had kept the CommonwBank it could have had some
control ovet the other banks,.

How odd that that never happened before it was privatised

They were different times.

Bullshit it was

The notorious Telecom and Commonwealth Bank
stag-fest reaped billions for the fucking underwriters and their
cronies. Does privatization reduce costs? Do tell!

It clearly did reduce the cost of a perfect modile
service to just $10 s month with free calls to any
landline or mobile in the country. We never had
anything even remotely like that with the govt
monopoly

Christ, you are SO naive; they're getting kickbacksfrom the
marketeers, touts and like swill.

Even siilier and more ignorant than you usually
manage and that's saying something

Gee who cares about those "Opium of the People" iGizmos & iGadgets?

Anyone who uses the phone service

Even now world-wide Govts are trying to reign
them in because of their addictive properties.

Bullshit they are with basic phone services like calls and texts

There are too many "calls"

I only get the ones I want to get on my mobile

and texts are free, like plagues,wars, droughts and forest fires.

And with tiny eye-strain letters.

Just because you have wanked yourself completely
fucking blind,,,

You were warned, you wouldnt listen...

I do have one, only to access banks & Govt services.

More fool you

No. I also have a landline.

So do I and mine is completely free, line rent wise, unlike you

Same with the ComBank, we never had anything
even remotely like free transfers when it was govt
owned

You should be a good boy and SAVE your money!

You can't buy your first house that way

Saving worked for me;

Bullshit it did with your first house and business

when there were paper notes I'd iron theminto space-saving bricks then hoard them.

And then you got jailed for being a drug runner

And anyone with even half a clue pays their bills that way

Since the governments are all but broke,

More mindless bullshit

No It is solid-gold diamond-studded truth, because if you factor in
the national debt the Govt is criminally broke.

That's not broke any more than a house mortgage is

Rubbish.

Fact actually

That's no answer.

Of course its an answer

The Govt at least should set an example.

More of your mindless bullshit

we can expect all this to continue indefinitely,

How odd that it hasnt happened with Aust Post or Medicare

The Internet saved Aust Post,

More of your mindless bullshit

and Medicare hangs on by its fingernails.

More of your mindless bullshit

with the Police and Army next in line!

You are completely off with the fucking fairys, as always

No I'm not;

Neither will ever happen

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