The pond has decided that today would be a good start to contemptuously ignoring Dame Slap (though sadly the pond will also have to contemptuously ignore dictator Xi's latest legislative coup for Hong Kong).
The reptiles have a penchant for black bashing and Dame Slap, perched in the digital edition's top far right position, much favoured and desired, was at it again ...
The pond doesn't like promoting the reptiles in black bashing mode and was hoping that Rachel's splendid EXCLUSIVE would have stayed a a little longer at the top of the page, but the reptiles' hopes for a culture war over the suffering Xians apparently took precedence...
A pity it dropped off the charts because the pond was looking for an excuse to link to Bill McGuire in the Graudian scribbling 46C summer days and ‘supercell’ storms are Britain’s future – and now is our last chance to prepare.
There was also an NBC story about the Louisiana town of Cameron being blown away ...
Amidst a discussion of the implications of climate change, the report also had a table, and having been trained on ABC finance reports, the pond is a sucker for graphs and tables and suchlike ...
If the pond couldn't focus on the destruction of the planet, and couldn't give a fig or a toss about Xian suffering, then how about the genocidal destruction of Gaza?
Sure enough there was "Ned" and his natter lurking beneath the fold ...
The pond didn't like it, but the alternatives left much to be desired and could be contemptuously ignored ... so that the pond could focus its full contempt on the supremely contemptible "Ned" ...
Speaking of risk of death, the pond sees that the genocide is proceeding smoothly, with updates on the slaughter available
here ...
Funny how reptiles of the "Ned" kind never manage to mention stories like this. It's a long report, but this sample sets the tone ...
At this point, the reptiles began to roll out the usual set of large distracting snaps, including one to remind "Ned" of his real boss ... a potent lobby that the reptiles persistently pander to ...
"Ned" knew his duty and pandered away ...
As for that real estate opportunity? It sounded great ...
...Kushner also said he thinks Israel should move civilians from Gaza to the Negev desert in southern Israel.
He said that if he were in charge of Israel his number one priority would be getting civilians out of the southern city of Rafah, and that “with diplomacy” it could be possible to get them into Egypt.
“But in addition to that, I would just bulldoze something in the Negev, I would try to move people in there,” he said. “I think that’s a better option, so you can go in and finish the job.”
He reiterated the point a little later, saying: “I do think right now opening up the Negev, creating a secure area there, moving the civilians out, and then going in and finishing the job would be the right move.”
The suggestion drew a startled response from Masoud. “Is that something that they’re talking about in Israel?” Masoud asked. “I mean, that’s the first I’ve really heard of somebody, aside from President Sisi [Egypt’s leader], suggesting that Gazans trying to flee the fighting could take refuge in the Negev. Are people in Israel seriously talking about that possibility?”
“I don’t know,” Kushner replied, shrugging his shoulders.
“That would be something you’d try to work on?” Masoud asked.
“I’m sitting in Miami Beach right now,” Kushner said. “And I’m looking at the situation and I’m thinking: what would I do if I was there?”
Asked by Masoud about fears on the part of Arabs in the region that the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, would not allow Palestinians who flee Gaza to return, Kushner paused and then said: “Maybe.”
He went on to say: “I am not sure there is much left of Gaza at this point. If you think about even the construct, Gaza was not really a historical precedent [sic]. It was the result of a war. You had tribes in different places and then Gaza became a thing. Egypt used to run it and then over time different governments came in.”
Responding to a question about whether the Palestinians should have their own state, Kushner described the proposal as “a super bad idea” that “would essentially be rewarding an act of terror”.
The pond has no idea why "Ned" and the reptiles ignore this sort of splendid thinking.
After all, once the genocide's complete, you do have to think of business opportunities ... and apartment blocks by the sea would titillate any Sydney developer ...
Regrettably "Ned" missed his chance, and instead droned on ...
In all this, you'd barely know that war crimes are being committed on a daily basis, and when you deploy collective punishment and collective displacement and mass starvation as a tactic, you're a war criminal, and if you happen to defend and support such behaviour, you're no better than a war criminal.
So as a break from war criminal "Ned", what further news?
Meanwhile, war criminal "Ned" sailed on ...
Kids are dying, people are dying, there's a genocide going down, and "the argument is understandable"?
Okay, fair cop, the pond set itself up. If the pond had any sense it would have contemptuously ignored the contemptible "Ned" ...
Instead the pond will offer a bonus, because one of the reptile tactics in softening up the punters is a relentless harping on energy prices ...
Indeed, indeed, but luckily as noted by the pond's correspondents, there will be no need for any new infrastructure in relation to SMRs, which will - per Rachel's splendid EXCLUSIVE - be located in all the right places ...the pond is expecting its backyard model no later than 2050, and by then the whining neighbours will have moved on ... (so will the pond, but that's another story).
As for renewables, the reptiles can boast that they've done their level best at FUD fear mongering ...
Okay, okay, fair cop, the pond only ran with the lizard Oz editorial bonus so it could segue to the immortal Rowe of the day for a closer ...
As usual, the bright hope for the future is in the detail ...
Should probably have linked this yesterday when the Bro was rambling on about Australians being “socialised into the absolute importance of the US alliance”
ReplyDeletehttps://essentialreport.com.au/
“ People are more likely to think Australia should be an independent middle power with influence in the Asia-Pacific region, than primarily an ally of the US (38% to 20%)”
Good to know that the grey old men and bitter twisted harpies of the lizard Oz are statistically the outliers.
In other good news
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/19/red-alert-last-year-was-hottest-year-ever-by-wide-margin-says-un-report
The Murdochracy is not a news organisation it is right wing extremist that make statements without evidence to promote the conservative brand of politics in Australia if continued will set Australia on the path to be a satellite of America with all its warmongering history that have the desire to control the world not for the average American but for the power hungry elite.
ReplyDeleteAs for Ned he is asserting that UNWRA is controlled by HAMAS without giving any evidence that is part of Netanyahu government propaganda to take over Palestine land.
"[Mr Bowen] says prices have moderated in wholesale markets partly in response to government subsidies that are costing taxpayers billions of dollars a year." So that's fair enough isn't it ? Taxpayers' taxes returned to taxpayers via subsidies to reduce their electricity bills.
ReplyDeleteCourse we could have had that all the way along if we hadn't done Thatcherist wave of privatisation back so many years ago.
If the infristructure is in public hands it should not be there for profit it should be a public service but we the public voted for this privatisation and perhaps led into this by the likes of the Murdoch and his henchmen who propagandised that public debt is bad.
DeleteWell I certainly didn't vote for a wave of Thatcherist privatisation, Anony, that was all Keating/Hawke's idea then picked up by Killer Kennett who sold off the SECV.
DeleteBut hey, when has it ever mattered to politicians whether we've voted for something or not ? Remember, they're all Burkeists who will never surrender their judgement to our desires.
We read of Ned's acceptance that he is prepared to allow large numbers of children to starve , right now, while he waits for - reports. I think a few of us might still give him some benefit of doubt that he does this just for the money, or the combination of money and name on supposedly 'national' paper. But that leaves his only justification of the, er 'reasoning' shown in this column, this day, that it reflects his personal ethical and moral settings. Not a great fall back position.
ReplyDeleteIn radiating reptile tunnels, I recall that Blot visited that general area a few days back. Being Blot, no doubt he would not settle for IDF PR in Jerusalem, but donned bullet resistant vest (and paid close attention to the caution that they are not called bullet 'proof', for good reason) and ventured right into the heart of the Israeli lesson to Gaza. Perhaps that is all to appear in a Sky documentary - since returning, as far as I can determine, he has not offered his viewers here the definitive briefing on what is happening there, or why.
Oh c'mon Chad, starving large numbers of men, women, children and babies to the death is the British Way - just ask any Indian (or sundry other Asians) about that. And of course Noodles Neddy is very 'British' to the core.
DeleteAs for the Blot, well, of course he would never reveal the secrets of those he is loyal to (or vice versa, if there are any).
Obliterated agencies tell no memory-holed tales:
Delete"We maintain, update and preserve Palestine refugees' records. More than 17 million documents, including birth certificates, property deeds and registration documents, some of them dating back to pre-1948 Palestine, have been scanned and preserved. A new, Agency-wide Refugee Registration Information System helps determine Palestine refugees’ eligibility for UNRWA services and allows them to submit important amendments and changes to their records."
https://www.unrwa.org/what-we-do/relief-social-services
https://www.unrwa.org/family-registration-ecard
https://librarianswithpalestine.org/gaza-report-2024/
Kim Beazley said: “Antonio Gramsci once said the correct position for a social democrat like myself was pessimism of the intellect but optimism of the will."
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to be optimistic after reading The American Empire in (Ultimate?) Crisis:The Decline and Fall of It All? By Alfred McCoy at https://tomdispatch.com/the-american-empire-in-ultimate-crisis
"Empires don’t just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until they suddenly begin to disintegrate. So it was with the British, French, and Soviet empires; so it now is with imperial America."
And in its turn will be of the Chinese for at least the second time. But being Chinese, maybe they'll get up again for another time. As very few have ever done before - maybe just the Romans who kinda came back as the City-State Renaissance Italians. But certainly not the British, nor any of their 'successors'. The Germans kinda tried, but WWII put an end to that.
DeleteI think it all goes by the name of The Inevitable Ignorant Stupidity of Homo Sapiens Sapiens.
So, here's Noodles Neddy: "The Albanese government and Foreign Minister Penny Wong have gambled with their integrity and accountability by reinstating Australia's funding of [UNRWA], an organisation heavily discredited in terms of its relations with Hamas."
ReplyDeleteRight, so take note of that and it is a clear description of how the reptiles - and a goodly set of MAGA-like wingnuts - believe that they are the only real people in the world. Has Wong's (and Albo's) doings really "discredited" them in my eyes, or in the eyes of a great many people who co-inhabit this realm ? Not as far as I'm concerned, but then that doesn't matter to Neddy (or Blot et al) because to him I don't really exist. Do you ?
Well, ok:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.eschatonblog.com/2024/03/oh-no-orange-man.html
Now I certainly wouldn't go hoovering up MAGAMan's properties; just think what he'd do to you in that 'first day' after he gets elected.
Here we go:
ReplyDeleteGaza conflict: Washington’s patience is wearing thin over the lack of leadership from both Israel and Palestine
https://theconversation.com/gaza-conflict-washingtons-patience-is-wearing-thin-over-the-lack-of-leadership-from-both-israel-and-palestine-225915
I dunno, but I kinda reckon that there's a lot of Gazans whose lives are wearing very thin from a total lack of food.
Where to start with the US and its blindness to how Israel have committed war crimes over many years against Palestinians with the support of the US.
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