Meanwhile, over at the Graudian, in a real time comparison, the obvious headlines were being made, in the UK edition ...
... and it was the same in the Oz edition ...
Why can't the reptiles manage to be a national paper, with an international awareness of current events? It was the graphics department that was the canary in the coal mine and now the relentless cost-cutting has turned the rag into a shadow of its former far right self ...
The situation was no better down below ...
How on earth is it possible to pay attention to the lizard Oz editorialist blathering on about a "fine balance" ...
...when over at WaPo there's news of the balance in action ...
And what about Gym Jordan? What news of him in the lizard Oz? The coup leader failed to pull off a coup this day, but there's always hope ...
In a profound sulk, the pond headed off to the Speccie mob, and discovered that Dame Groan was still moonlighting.
Just a day after she'd drawn astonished, admiring cries from her devoted cult following on the pond, there she was as bold as brass, and better still, the old biddy was doing Lloydie of the Amazon's job ...
Since his return Lloydie of the Amazon has been conspicuous mainly by his absence. He was last sighted on 5th October warning about billions being wasted on a climate fund, but here we are, some 13 days later, and not a peep in the meantime ...
Luckily Dame Groan was to hand for a dinkum groaning ... with the old biddy reminding Lloydie of the Amazon of his abject failure ...
Splendid stuff, and sure it's a little reheated and four days old because the pond doesn't usually rush off to the Speccie mob at the drop of a hat, nor at the tripling of insurance for living in a bushfire zone ...
In the old days, this sort of stuff would have been meat and potatoes for the lizard Oz ... but to be sure, to be sure, it seems we must now rely on the Speccie mob to be sure ...
It used to be the lizard Oz clamouring for inaction. Usually the Bjorn-again one would have featured, offering distracting thoughts and suggestions, but the pond has a deep suspicion that the lizard Oz didn't pick up on his latest piece ... though he could be found in a minor Scottish rag a few days ago ...
Even the WSJ was up to the task ...
How the pond yearns for talk of rent-seekers ...
The pond was sad that this was the final gobbet, but the Groaner ended with a resounding flourish ... what with real world realities her speciality ...
Meanwhile, on another planet ...
And so on and so forth, but the great thing about the Speccie mob is the way that their logarithms work.
Realising that the pond is a sucker for a good groaning, they suggested that if the pond had read the Groaner, then it would love a dose of Moorice ... and it's true, the pond hasn't had a serve of Moorice in ages ...
Once he stalked the pages of the lizard Oz generating a climate of fear. Now he stalks the Speccie mob ...
Climate of fear ... Cultural Marxism ... (remember to cap the "C", and if pressed, you can always talk of Kultural Marxism) ...a lovely snap of lovely coral from the stock shot library ... and Moorice himself in full flight. What's not to like. Sure it's as old and mouldy as a lizard Oz digital edition, but what a great way to distract from grim news ...
Once upon a time this used to be standard reptile stuff ... you know, conflating and confusing the work of scientists with ancient witchcraft, while blathering on about high priests ... so carry on Moorice, remind the rag of its glory days ...
You see. "The globalists" are driving the agenda ...
Is Moorice aware of the company he keeps and its meaning?
Cue a wiki note because the pond is too lazy to do field research, much like Moorice is clueless about actual science ...
...Globalist has been used as a pejorative in right-wing and far-right politics, and in various conspiracy theories. During the election and presidency of United States president Donald Trump, he and members of his administration used the term globalist on multiple occasions. The administration was accused by some of using the term as an antisemitic dog whistle, to associate their critics with a Jewish conspiracy.
Followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory refer to what they term "the Cabal" as a secret worldwide elite organisation who wish to undermine democracy and freedom, and implement their own globalist agendas.
Hungary's prime minister Viktor Orbán has used antisemitic tropes in accusations against globalists, espousing a conspiracy theory of a world network controlled by Hungarian-American philanthropist George Soros.
Not exactly the best moment to be anti-semitic and confuse and conflate climate science with Zionism, Benji, the state of Israel and Jews going about their daily lives ... but that's Moorice for you ... conspiracies everywhere, and the BOM deep into the conspiracy ...
Splendid stuff. Once upon a time, the pond could rely on the reptiles at the lizard Oz to reference George and speak of Orwellian warnings, and then the pond could
link to Orwell on the use of language ...
Pretentious diction. Words like phenomenon, element, individual (as noun), objective, categorical, effective, virtual, basic, primary, promote, constitute, exhibit, exploit, utilize, eliminate, liquidate, are used to dress up simple statements and give an air of scientific impartiality to biassed judgements. Adjectives like epoch-making, epic, historic, unforgettable, triumphant, age-old, inevitable, inexorable, veritable, are used to dignify the sordid processes of international politics, while writing that aims at glorifying war usually takes on an archaic colour, its characteristic words being: realm, throne, chariot, mailed fist, trident, sword, shield, buckler, banner, jackboot, clarion. Foreign words and expressions such as cul de sac, ancien régime, deus ex machina, mutatis mutandis, status quo, Gleichschaltung, Weltanschauung, are used to give an air of culture and elegance. Except for the useful abbreviations i.e., e.g., and etc., there is no real need for any of the hundreds of foreign phrases now current in English. Bad writers, and especially scientific, political and sociological writers, are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones, and unnecessary words like expedite, ameliorate, predict, extraneous, deracinated, clandestine, sub-aqueous and hundreds of others constantly gain ground from their Anglo-Saxon opposite numbers. The jargon peculiar to Marxist writing (hyena, hangman, cannibal, petty bourgeois, these gentry, lackey, flunkey, mad dog, White Guard, etc.) consists largely of words translated from Russian, German, or French; but the normal way of coining a new word is to use a Latin or Greek root with the appropriate affix and, where necessary, the -ize formation. It is often easier to make up words of this kind (deregionalize, impermissible, extramarital, non-fragmentatory and so forth) than to think up the English words that will cover one’s meaning. The result, in general, is an increase in slovenliness and vagueness.
Not to mention drivel of the Cultural Marxism, deadly sin, ancient witchcraft, Big Brother, high priests, existential threat, globalist, doomsday scenario, Mother Nature, curve ball kind ...
Moorice is the sort of cliché city media pile on that now seems to be missing at the lizard Oz ... so it was with a sense of dread that the pond realised there was just one more gobbet to go, full of dire imprecations and desperate warnings about global activists ... and witchcraft ...
What a splendid ending from the doddering old dotard, doing his own impression of Helen Lovejoy thinking about the children ...
And now to be fair, after noting the Groaning and Moorice, the pond went back to the lizard Oz to see if they'd actually caught up with some news ...
Nope, the only difference was now the Cameron Stewart lead was being labelled as having run "34 minutes" ago.
Sure, it's only a trivial misrepresentation - okay it's a blatant lie - but it shows just how far the lizard Oz has fallen ... so that 34 minutes on, everything is still the same ossified offering...
Would the pond rather have a half-baked serve of groaning and Moorice hysteria? Why not? The alternative is stale reptile gloating, or news too grim to bear ... with IDF denials already thick in the air, hostages still held, and a mess of casualties and innocents suffering ... and the lizard Oz no better than a provincial rag with ostrich head in sand ...
What's this? Just before the pond hitting the print button, the reptiles took note, allegedly an hour ago?
Live an hour ago? Sorry, the pond was doing some live blogging, and that news was nowhere to be seen at the top of the digital edition ...
The rag is only "live" in the sense of watching a dead corpse walking ... and so to end with the immortal Rowe of the day ...
“Corporate heads must roll!” proclaims Dame Slap - possibly seeking an upgrade to Lewis Carroll Queen status. Lovely to see the
ReplyDeleteDame huffing and puffing in the style of the (probably apocryphal) small regional Irish newspaper proclaiming “We warn the Czar!”
Loved the reference, and the pond was moved to do some research and came across this by Paul Chadwick ...
Deletehttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/28/local-newspaper-tsar-of-russia-19th-century
A few columns ago I cited a story often told among journalists, for fun and to caution against self-importance, usually in vain. Variously attributed to small newspapers in remote locations at some time in the 19th century, an editorial discussing Russian foreign policy is said to have thundered: “We warn the Tsar!”
The source is sometimes said to have been a newspaper in Tasmania, the Mercury, and sometimes a paper in Nelson, New Zealand. In the column I said the story might be apocryphal. As often happens, readers and researchers mobilised, so here is an update.
One suggested source was the Skibbereen Eagle, in West Cork, Ireland, which proclaimed in a leader published in September 1898 that the paper would “keep its eye on the Emperor of Russia, and all such despotic enemies – whether at home or abroad – of human progression, and man’s natural rights, which undoubtedly include a nation’s claim to self-government”.
Fame attached and endured, so much so that the paper that absorbed the Eagle, the Southern Star, could confidently publish in 1946 a cartoon of Ireland’s then taoiseach, Éamon de Valera, in one-to-one talks with the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who murmurs through pipe smoke: “Between ourselves, Dev, Russia has never quite forgotten that article in the Skibbereen Eagle.”
Without denying the Eagle’s vision and influence, another source can be proposed. On 30 March 1882, under the headline “The Emperor of Russia Warned”, Melbourne Punch attributed to the “Croajingergoalong Gazette” these words: “For the last time our duty as public journalists calls on us to warn the present Emperor, the Czar of all the Russias, against the course he is deliberately pursuing, ie in endeavouring to destroy the peace of Europe. In all human probability, that despotic monarch will never see these lines which we now pen, but our duty, as public journalists, demands that we should write them. The pen, a great writer has wisely said, is mightier than the sword, and we feel that the humble nib which we now grasp outweighs the present Emperor’s blade, although he may never know it.”
I was tempted to speculate that Dame Groan was earning a few extra pennies by recycling old Oz columns for the Speccie - that offering looked rather familiar. Then I realised that of course it seemed familiar, and that the Dame really only has a limited range of regular groans, and that whinging about the futility of renewable energy is high on the rotation list - perhaps just behind “too many damn reffos coming in”. She can probably cut and paste this stuff in her sleep by now - and may well do so. Productivity is booming!
ReplyDeleteIn another life, time could be spent counting and dividing up the Groans into renewables, reffos and Reserve bank riff raff, just to see which keyboard shortcut came out first ...
DeleteProf. Sloan exemplifies exactly the problem with the Australian’s intelligensia. She commits the fallacy of presenting a false premise. So it is her argument that is logically fallacious. The scientists and those accepting that the climate change is occurring (yep, even the school kids at primary level are ahead of Judith Sloan!) are not saying, directly or implicitly, that what Australia does will be the only influence upon the climate or that it will have a major impact. What they are saying is that we need to push the peanut forward and if Australia sets an example, like good parents set an example for their children, this not only has some small direct benefits, but others may follow the example. Heck, wouldn’t it be great if Australia rose to be a leader rather than just a follower? But the deniers appear not to believe in progress, co-operation and team work.
ReplyDeleteNot only to set an example, Anony, but also hopefully play a significant role in developing and utilising the 'renewable' technology. And also to help out the Pacific islanders as much as we can.
DeleteRe Newman on China working on climate change:
ReplyDelete“Unbeknownst to most Americans, China has accomplished something truly remarkable on clean energy and transportation over the last decade, deploying both on a staggering scale. According to one assessment, “China today generates enough power from clean sources to power Germany six times over, up from two times a decade ago.” And in just a few years, its clean energy generation will equal total U.S. electricity consumption. While China does remain far too reliant on coal-fired power plants, that hasn’t hindered the explosion of its renewable energy sector.
On a recent visit to Beijing, my first since the pandemic, I saw an electric vehicle landscape completely transformed. The city taxi fleet had gone almost entirely electric, and zero-emission vehicles of myriad brands (mostly Chinese) were everywhere. As of last year, Chinese drivers had purchased a cumulative total of 13.8 million electric vehicles, with sales in 2022 accounting for 29% of all auto sales in China.
This is well ahead of the United States, where electric vehicles made up a mere 8% of sales in 2022. California has done much better, with electric vehicles making up 24.3% of cars sold in the first half of this year. But we could still learn from China on this front, especially given Newsom’s goal of phasing out sales of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035.”
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-10-12/california-china-climate-change-gavin-newsom-trip-electric-vehicle-pollution-clean-energy
"The pond can sense that its time with the lizard Oz is drawing to a close. " All good things, DP ? But then the reptiles are way up their own anuses now, aren't they. Just a couple from today:
ReplyDelete"Legacy of Voice defeat will last a generation" from Noodles Ned.
"Corporate heads must roll over reckless voice advocacy" from Planet Janet, and
"From red centre to centre stage: Jacinta's rise to voice of her people" from somebody apparently named Liam Mendes. Oh yeah, "she may one day live in The Lodge", sent there apparently by the 70% of Indigenes who voted YES.
Yeah, the Flagship is way down and out now. It would be good to just pick and choose from a range of daily publications, but that would take more time, effort and stolidity than any rational person could muster. So just maybe do a periodic switch ?
Thanks for that headlines summary GB, which made the pond feel so deeply tired and full of a sense of futile fatigue. The pond didn't have the heart or the strength or the wherewithal to summon up the energy to hand out or explain all the reasons for all the red cards, but that Liam Mendes should be suspended for the season.
DeleteHere's what the pond should have done, head off to his LinkedIn to see what a young reptile gun on the Chairman Emeritus make can boast about ...
https://au.linkedin.com/in/liammendes
Liam is a crime, investigations, natural disaster and major breaking news reporter at The Australian. He also takes portrait and news photographs.
In 2022 he was News Corp Australia's Young Journalist of the Year and was awarded a Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism.
Liam previously worked as a freelance producer at Channel 7's flagship investigative news program Spotlight and has written for outlets including the Daily Telegraph, News.com.au and the NZ Herald.
Experience
Journalist
The Australian
Jul 2021 - Present 2 years 4 months
Foxtel Group
Producer - Who Murdered Marea documentary
Foxtel Group
Feb 2023 - May 20234 months
Freelance
2 years 2 months
Journalist
Jun 2020 - Jul 2021 1 year 2 months
News Photographer and Videographer
Jun 2019 - Jul 2021 2 years 2 months
Seven Network
Freelance Producer at 7NEWS Spotlight
Seven Network
Jan 2020 - Jul 2021 1 year 7 months
Researcher
What Really Happened In Wuhan
Mar 2021 - Jun 2021 4 months
Freelance
Photographer
Feb 2014 - Jun 2019 5 years 5 months
Happy little gadabout, isn't he. Any bets on how long he'll last with the Murdocrat reptiles ?
DeleteFurther to the supposed journalism of Liam Mendes - I subdued my pride, and asked My Source for copy of his contribution to the Flagship for this day. On the front page of the tree killer version is a picture of Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s parents, with their pet snake, under heading ‘Jacinta’s rise to voice of her people’ (sic.) I concede that headings are not necessarily the work of Mendes.
DeleteThe entire item seems to have come from ‘side ranging’ interview with parents ‘Dave’ and ‘Bess’. They express their pride in their daughter in several ways - as one hopes parents would - but offer little that might explain what is now claimed to be her political influence.
Inside we are offered photographs of baby Jacinta with half-brother, who died of leukaemia when she was aged 4. Her parents state that that event was a ‘pivotal moment in making Senator Price the woman she is today.’ There is very little detail of the intervening almost 4 decades. One other photograph shows Jacinta standing beside the honour board of her primary school in Alice Springs, where her name had just been inscribed as outstanding student for 1992, and where she is entered as ‘Jacinta Price’. Perhaps there was not space for the ‘Nampijinpa’, which, we have been told at other times, was how she was always known.
That is about it. Touch of parental pride, attempt at mawkish emotionalism, and no real detail of how Jacinta rose, nor of who are ‘her’ people. Looking at the c.v. that Dorothy has provided ('researcher' for Sharri?) - one might guess that Mendes, even when red ‘Exclusive’, is cheap.
Oh, yes - My Source did give me a going-over for asking for something off the Flagship, but, given what Dorothy is still prepared to do for the rest of us - it is little enough in return.
Of course, the recent flurry of “Jacinta is headed for bigger and better things!” beat-ups fail to address the minor details -ie, the practical issues associated with how the hell she’d actually advance up the ranks. At present, she’s a Senator -wrong house to become PM. She’s a Territory representative - little power base. She’s a LNP representative- neither fish nor fowl, though she sits with the Nats, which is no road to the top. Plus, to state the obvious, she has a gender and ethnicity that are not really conducive to advancement in the conservative side of politics.But surely her raw political talent and intelligence will sweep all before her? Obvious response - what skills and nous? To date, her political expertise has consisted of claiming that there’s really no such thing as Indigenous concerns- an interesting way of managing the Indigenous Affairs portfolio. Her competence in other portfolios? Her leadership skills? 🤷 . But hey, all she has to do is deal with these trifles and retain Reptile support - and win a Federal election -and she’ll be the next Menzies!
DeleteMoorice is such a long missed joy. So we get "As the world's largest emitter [ie China] and building two coal-fired power stations a week..." But he doesn't say whether that's completing two stations per week, or just starting two stations per week, or indeed just getting some kind of bureaucratic permission to begin planning for two stations per week: that's all just "starting" for Moorice.
ReplyDeleteBut those frightful Cultural Marxists at the ABC reckon it's just "approvals":
China's new coal plant approvals surge in 2022, highest since 2015, new research shows
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-03/china-s-new-coal-plant-approvals-surge-in-2022/102048480
But actually, a much smaller number actually get built: "Over the year, 50GW of coal power capacity went into construction across the country, up by more than half compared to the previous year, the report said."
And anyway, it's good for Australia: "China suffered a wave of blackouts in September 2021 as a result of coal supply shortages, cutting off thousands of homes and factories.
Last month, Australia sent a shipment of 72,000 tonnes coal to China, a first since sanctions on Australian exports were imposed."
And maybe we will all have to say that: "We're so sorry for what we've bequeathed you."
We can assume that Moorice continues to lose money steadily on his 'ADH tv'. You can dip into it with little risk of being interrupted by commercials, which suggests that he is not seeing much income from that (and the marketing section of most manufacturers/distributors would have a hard time massaging the viewer numbers to justify paying for time on any of the ADH programs).
ReplyDeleteWe can also doubt that Jones is contributing any funds towards his own, er - exposure. He has long been known for keeping his personal purse-strings tight. Many charitable bodies have found that having 'good ole Jonesy' turn up to auction those mounted jerseys, signed by all the team, whose entire function is to be cycled around charity auctions - anyway, too many such worthy organisations have found that they had to outlay more in travel costs than they netted on the night. Limos and charter flights, because the great one does not actually mix with the sad little people of Struggle Street.
I cannot imagine it improving, when the Cater is considered a significant 'personality' for ADH. Even its amusement value is lost when I find that I cannot ascribe a 'you know quotient' to interviewees. I have just watched one named 'Leilani', who was running 3, 4 and more 'y'knows' per sentence, and they were not otherwise long sentences. No, I can't recall what point she was trying to make - seems she assumed that, well - I already knew.
But, if it is costing Moorice actual money - it is serving some purpose.
And I thought that ADHtv was Alan Jones. Oh well, doesn't really make any difference, does it.
DeleteI've been saving this up for a mention of Bjorn: Have some economists severely underestimated the financial hit from climate change? Recent evidence suggests yes
ReplyDeleteJust a passing comment from the redoubtable George Monbiot:
ReplyDelete"We owe it to humanity to see the rules of war are observed – no matter how tough a test the Israel-Hamas conflict proves".
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/18/rules-of-war-israel-hamas-crimes-violence
Personally, I think there should be only one, single "rule of war": there shall be no war.
Then there might someday not be such claims as this:
"Hospital blast ‘done by other team’, says Biden, after Israel claims it has proof of failed rocket launch within Gaza".
That Biden chap'll believe just about anything, won't he.