The pond just wanted to start with that story - the full story is at Fairfax here - just to show it's aware of the real world, and real disasters affecting many, many young people ...
The rorting in the sector is astonishing and unconscionable ...
But the pond doesn't deal in the real world, the pond deals in the paranoid, phobic, delusional world of the hate mongering, foaming and frenzied reptile commentariat ...
And this weekend shows what it's like when the murmuration of starlings swirls in unison ...
Now this isn't for the faint-hearted, this mega pond edition of fear and loathing ... and the pond, to help keep it short and not being into victim porn, has deleted images of those recent victims of Islamic terror who have suffered mightily, without being used in the various kinds of verbal jihads as some justification for extremism...
Nor has the pond bothered much with editorial comment. Being a jumbo pack of hate, the reptiles' words can speak for themselves.
Armchair warriors, verbal jihadists, all the usual comments apply, as we take the reptiles in the order listed by the holy Terror ...
Actually Roger Rogerson, and in the good old days, the Victorian police, went in with as much lethal force as they could muster. Some might yearn for the sort of police shootings and killings that litter the American landscape, but the pond is happy that local police value life and see one of their main aims as protecting it.
They botched Martin Place, they admitted it themselves in a moment of reflection. They should have taken the shot (the pond prescribes more Mark Wahlberg movies), but can we keep it to situations where a loon has a weapon and offers deadly force against a hostage, and similar life-threatening situations where threat and counter-threat must be taken into account? With better behind the scenes advice?
But a calm, measured, rational approach isn't of any interest to Akker Dakker. As with all featured in this day's festival of hate, they want blood, lots of blood ...
Uh huh, but that was there, and this is here. We should take lessons, but not lessons in hysteria, yet somehow talk of a reasoned approach is treated as sinister evidence of corruption. Is that weird or what?
If the Terror jihadists had their way, there'd be fighting in the streets, Christian v Islamic, while they watched from their Surry Hills bunker and sold heaps of tree killers thanks to the fuss ... so the more radicalised and alienated they can make Islamics feel, the better the business model ...
And that's where the fat owl of the remove gets truly appalling. To link Abedi with Monis in the one sentence is like linking the fat owl and fascist in the one sentence ...
Oh wait, that linking seems to work quite well...
Speaking of fascists, as the swear jar keeps swelling, the Devine has already featured once this day in the pond, but there's no reason not to give her more air time.
Ugliness is an essential part of the Terrorist, and so the pond, business model ...
Indeed, indeed. At some point no doubt the Devine's family landed on these fair shores, and that brought a Devine verbal terrorist with them. Didn't the original Frank come from New Zealand, where they put not just pineapple but tinned spaghetti on pizzas?
Shocking, a genuine incitement to violence, but the pond promised little by way of editorial content and we're not yet half way through the journey, so on we plod ...
It's as good an imitation of hate speech as any ... it would have been so much more honest if the Devine had admitted to Islamophobia, as opposed to refugee phobia ...
The pond could go on about Australian terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan, the pond could even confess to a certain phobia about Catholic fundamentalists of the Devine kind, loathsome and poisonous toads who would make Christ wilt on the cross with their venom, but time is pressing ...
And there it is, naked and unashamed, bigoted Islamophobia ...but at least it allows the pond cheerfully to suggest that the country would be a much better place if fundamentalist Catholics fucked off to Rome and left Australia with a bit less fear and despicable unChristian loathing ...
And so to the third in the fear and loathing trifecta ... gun-happy Peta the Petulant ...
By chance, the google revealed the nature of the petulant parrot's inspiration for this week's piece ...
What a predictable parrot, still squawking the same tune as her one-time owner ...
As for shoot to kill, as already noted, Roger Rogerson, and the Victorian coppers in gang war days, absolutely knew how to shoot to kill ...
Anybody interested can Greg Hunt the Walsh street shootings (no southern walri were involved or injured), and Terry Goldsworthy on the use of lethal force at The Conversation in 2014 here ... and Animal Kingdom's not a bad movie ...
It's obvious enough, but anyone wanting the official line can google this story at the lizard Oz ...
Well yes, in extreme circumstances, they can shoot to kill, but thank the long absent lord there's not that many gung ho crazies firing off guns at blacks as they're wont to do in the USA ...
But time is pressing and Peta wants her fantasy of gun slingers shooting it out in the streets ... naturally it's all the fault of that wimp Malware, who wouldn't have the first clue about how to eat an onion or how to demonise Islamics and make sure that crazed fundamentalists are used to tar everyone ... in much the same way as all Catholic priests should be mentioned as likely pedophiles, even the one in the extended pond family who wouldn't hurt a fly and is in a loving relationship ...
By this point, the pond feels a bit the same about fundamentalist Terrorist jihadists scribbling furiously for the rag.
At some point, their screeching will be replaced by the screeching of another, and another and another, the only variation being that another might resort to squawking or howling at the moon ...
But time is pressing, so it's back to the fear and the paranoia ...
Of course what the hard liners want is the sort of police state that will match the perverse cruelty of fundamentalist Islamics ... cf the photo below of the ideal Peta police officer, a variation on the kind of militarisation of the police force that took place long ago in the United States, and now has reached a seemingly irreversible extreme ...
Well actually when anyone, such as the Devine, seeks to do a Donald, and exclude Islamics, it doesn't smack of Islamophobia.
It is Islamophobia, and collectively this unholy trinity are completely phobic ... (at least the pond spreads its phobias amongst all the religions ...)
Okay, the pond won't be silent. The pond doesn't want a future Australia where petulant Peta, the hater Akker Dakker and the vitriolic Devine are the norm. That way lies madness. Each day the pond cheers or at least sighs with relief that the onion muncher and petulant Peta were tossed from power, and now mouth hate speech from the sidelines where they belong ...
And now for a pond cruel twist. The pond will understand if some have long wilted and left the scene of the verbal hate crimes, but as this is a jumbo survey of hate speech, the pond couldn't resist smuggling in Dame Slap, giving a good belting to Islamics a few days ago ...
There's nothing new to note here, so on the pond must go ... because there's the Donald to praise and the ABC to berate ...
Oh they're so angry, they're abandoning their work and racing off to enlist and to head off to Afghanistan right here, right now...
Sorry, the pond was just a little exhausted and nodded off into a restless dreaming, where angry Murdochians shouted at the world and the sky ...
Actually Christ muttered platitudes, though they were original enough at the time, and turned the other cheek, and encouraged civilised behaviour between people, but then the pond keeps making the mistake of thinking Murdochian reptiles are readers of Christ's words, when in fact the angry demagoguery and hate speech of sundry fascists is much more to their liking ...
And in all this did any of the reptiles - just one - mention the way that the Donald had recently flung $110 billion by way of an arms deal at Saudi Arabia, home of Wahhabism, the intellectual (and often financial) underpinning of the fundamentalist Islamic organisations beavering away around the world ...?
Did anybody mention the enormous stupidity involved? The sort of stupidity that's led even American conservatives to wonder about the sanity of their foreign policy?
Of course not. For that you have to turn to a Pope cartoon, which is why the pond always reverts here for more papal insights ...
"...the pond couldn't resist smuggling in Dame Slap"
ReplyDeleteThanks for that, I have an answer for my question: Dame Slap has no idea what to do about anything, but oh boy, being self-righteously angry is just great. Everybody should do it on every day of their lives.
PS: In case too many people take Krauss literally, it isn't fridges responsible for all those non-terrorism deaths, it's actually unstable thin screen TVs and vending machines.
Hi Dorothy,
ReplyDeleteThe reptiles are out in force again attempting to link refugees with terrorism.
Fair enough let us look at at a certain 'refugee'.
Ramadan Abedi once was a security operative for the Gaddafi regime but evidently became disillusioned and fled Libya. He became involved in the early nineties with the fledgling Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG).
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/28/salman-abedi-manchester-arena-bomber-radicalisation
Gaddafi was on the nose with the West in the mid 90's and the British security service MI6 decided to use the LIFG in an attempt to assassinate the Libyan leader.
The 'attempt' was a disaster and Ramadan Abedi was extracted by MI6 and relocated to Manchester where he and other dissident Libyans formed a close linked network.
By the mid 2000's Gaddafi was suddenly a reformed character for the West as he had evidently given up on his nuclear program (a program that had made no actual progress for over twenty years). Ramadan and the rest of the LIFG were now not of any particular interest for MI6 but that would soon change. Ramadan Abedi had by this stage married and sired a number of children.
The Arab Spring caught the Western Security Services by surprise and suddenly decisions had to be made as who to support. Old style dictatorships or new radical groups? Suddenly Ramadan Abedi and the LIFG were again important players in the thinking of Western Intelligence services.
Ramadan Abedi and his LIFG colleagues returned to Libya with the tacit approval of the British security services. In doing so he left his teenage sons to come of age alone. How they would grow up and what would influence them would later be viewed through the prism of what was occurring in the chaos of Libya.
So why is Libya in a state of chaos? There are many reasons but certainly the interference of West has been a major factor.
When Ramadan's son Salman started to espouse fanatical viewpoints many of his friends and members of his Mosque in Manchester contacted authorities worried by his radicalism.
Why the security services ignored these warnings is not known but the possibility that Salman's father Ramadan was considered an Intelligence Asset may have led to them being ignored or overlooked.
So where lays the blame for a 22 year old second generation North African Muslim blowing himself up in a crowd of young concert goers and their parents?
An overly tolerant refugee program or a cynical Western Foreign Policy that allows secret squirrels to play around with 'operatives' that may or may not have the best interests of western countries at heart?
DiddyWrote
I think assigning 'blame' - in a moral or psychological sense - is always difficult in such cases, DW, and we can never get testimony from the person concerned as to their interpretation. At least not if they're 'successful'.
DeleteBut assigning 'blame' in a legal sense is surely easier: it is clearly assignable to those who ignored the warnings given by people who knew Ramadan that he had 'turned'.
Of course that won't - and didn't - stop the reptiles from pursuing their favourite catchcry of "the Muslims must speak up and oppose jihad".
One of the greatest rorts of the taxpayer has been the abysmal private free for all that is the RTO system. I posted on Fairfax outlining a few points but it has yet to be published. I have no idea why but then maybe they are a private RTO for all I know.I don't read New Corp so really only know what they are up to via my visits here. Have they reported this rort, jumped up and down with outrage or is their existence for nonsensical cultural wars.
ReplyDeleteTo add to the RTO's issues the AASN network is also a farce. The 5 year contract that was handed out to the present providers was an insult to the combined needs of industry's be they the association bodies, trade Unions and anybody else with a vested interest in VET training in this country. The AASN providers spend most of their time trying to force tax payer funded loans on apprentices and trainees. I know this as I witnessed it for 3 years. I spent my time trying to talk apprentices out of loans that they did not need. The network itself rarely bother to follow up the apprentices and trainees with the regular contact they were supposed to make to see as to their well being in their career. I have nothing but contempt for that federal government decision.