Just another serve of dog botherer renewables stew and bro genocide...

 

Charlie Lewis did a great list for Crikey containing essential links for herpetology students under the header No-one, not even you, is safe from News Corp’s woke list (sorry, likely paywall), which introduced A new, updated, expanded and still probably non-exhaustive list of subjects afflicted by the woke mind virus according to Australia's biggest news company.

Sadly the pond can't do the links - the pond refuses to link to reptile publications - but just a few names should give a hint of the pleasures of woke fears: 

The Young Liberals; Chat GPT; Female Popes and Black Nazis; The NSW government’s “Diversity and Inclusion” team sending 20,000 public servants a two-page “Days of Significance” calendar; 2024 VCE English texts; Qantas.; Australia but also not?; The Australian Cricket team; The Australian Open’s new seating rules; The Australian Cricket team AND the Australian Open; Relentlessly and ruinously arguing that up is down, female is male, diversity is unity, justice is evil, and peace is war; The “campaign” to “abolish” boys only schools; Woolworths, Woolworths, Woolworths, Woolworths, Woolworths, Woolworths, Woolworths, Woolworths, Woolworths, Woolworths, Woolworths, Woolworths, Woolworths, Woolworths, Woolworths, Woolworths; Gingerbread people (see also: Woolworths); Australia’s medical ethics guidelines; The Danish Royals; Education degrees; Anthony Albanese, the teal independents and the Greens; Anthony Albanese again; Mainstream schools; The Australian Defence Force; The Australian Defence Force but even more so; PwC; Capitalism; Fried chicken restaurant hiring policies; Victorian Labor; US corporate boardrooms. US military recruitment; That new Grease show; Hollywood writers; Rewriting old operas; The European Union; New Zealand tertiary institutions; Comedy; Climate protests; Billionaires; Corporations; An Indigenous Voice to Parliament; Corporations again; Easter Time buns; Stanford University; The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority; The Oscars; Optus; All media in Australia not owned by News Corp; The $3 million cap on concessionally taxed balances; Nicola Sturgeon and Jacinda Ardern; Penny Wong; The ABC on employees taking money from gambling companies; Gender-neutral God...

The pond had to stop there, knowing that She would be mortified not to have made the list, and noting that there were 20+ more, including but not limited to Scooby-Doo, millennials, The Wiggles, and the goal of cancelling the legacy of Western Civilisation, and not least all this climate and identity madness.

It's a tremendous piece of work, while over at the Graudian the invaluable venerable Meade was adding Daily Telegraph leaves out the fine print. (no paywall).

It's a reminder - as if any keen herpetology student needed a reminder - that what is on offer is a form of monomania, obsessive compulsive behaviour if you will ...

Once the hive mind gets a bee in the bonnet, to mix the metaphors, there's no letting up, and the buzzing that emanates from the hive can intimidate the unwary, but not the expert bee keeper.

The pond is humble in the presence of these herpetology masters, but must do what it can to contribute and so to this weekend's offerings, and sure enough the monomania is there at the top of the digital page ...

Migration, the ABC and the craven Craven, but down below there's a hint that occasionally reptiles are able to change. 

For once Dame Slap has left the Lehrmann matter to Stephen Rice. Who knows why? Could it be that her shameful behaviour has produced some dim awareness? Unlikely, but a possibility?

Down below familiar topics returned ...

  

There was Bernard Lane pottering about in standard reptile transphobic way, and garrulous Gemma offering a come to Jesus moment. 

The oscillating fan rabbiting on about fixed terms is just an excuse for another foray into "political malaise" and an can be easily explained. The reptiles recently had a slightly different bee in the bonnet featuring the onion muncher and the lying rodent ...

For a bad government, an election can't come soon enough? 

For once he knows what he's talking about, but at what cost? Petulant Peta at Sky and him turning up in the lizard Oz like a bad penny on a regular basis ...

Not to worry, as usual the pond will save the Polonial prattle for the Sunday meditation (the ABC and Ted) because the pond must start the weekend with the dog botherer ...

Why does the pond stick with the dog botherer? 

Some might think the lad has gone through some kind of transformation., what with the urgent need to get the world to net zero. 

Back in the day, Clive Hamilton noted the contents of a single 12-13th 2017 weekend edition of the lizard Oz...(footnotes at source)

...The IPA has promoted every prominent contrarian in Australia and brought a stream of prominent deniers from abroad. Its staff turned out scores of opinion pieces criticising climate science and carbon reduction policies and became the main source for ‘the alternative viewpoint’ for journalists and radio producers. The IPA was the first organisation to begin the crusade against wind farms, including astroturfing (setting up fake citizens groups) and promoting quacks speaking about wind turbine syndrome. The IPA’s executive director John Roskam would later brag about the IPA’s role. According to some, he ‘has done more to fuel doubt about climate change than almost anyone in Australia’.

The Australian

The campaign of denial would have been much less effective without the backing of the Murdoch press and especially the Australian newspaper. For two decades, and particularly from 2002 when Chris Mitchell took over as editor-in-chief, the broadsheet has campaigned relentlessly to debunk climate science and discredit climate scientists.

The Australian frames climate change as a manifestation of the wider culture war, characterising climate scientists as leftists with a political agenda. It has published hundreds of stories and opinion pieces aimed at undermining the credibility of climate science, attacking renewable energy and railing against any policy that would reduce Australia’s emissions.

Many of the Australian’s readers have had their understanding corrupted by this campaign. Many senior business people and policymakers are convinced that there are serious doubts about the main propositions of climate science, as I found at the Climate Change Authority when some members arrived asking if we would listen to ‘the other side’ of the argument.

The falsities and distortions spread by the Australian are so numerous it’s impossible to detail them short of a very fat book. For some years a blog titled The Australian’s War on Science kept track, but the author Tim Lambert ran out of steam in early 2013. The journalist Graham Readfearn has periodically exposed the distortions committed by his former employer News Ltd.

Robert Manne devoted part of his 2011 Quarterly Essay, ‘Bad News: Murdoch’s Australian and the Shaping of the Nation’, to the newspaper’s war on science and its unique fondness for character assassination. The paper has described those calling for action on the scientific warnings ‘greenhouse hysterics’, ‘prophets of doom’, ‘deep-green Luddites, ‘the hessian-bag brigade, ‘zealots’ and much more. The opinion pages were turned over to every denialist you can think of, from the cleverer ones such as Bjorn Lomborg to the lunatics such as Lord Monckton.

The drumbeat of anti-science and hatred of renewable energy continue. Picking, randomly, the Saturday edition of 12 August last we find the paper’s stable of right-wing commentators in full flight.

• Chris Kenny rages against renewables as ‘all pain for indiscernible gain’ and insists that Prime Minister Turnbull must take a new, rational direction
• Judith Sloan writes that we should (like Trump) withdraw from the Paris Agreement, ditch the renewable energy target and build coal-fired power plants. What she calls ‘sneaky modellers’ got away with ‘laughable predictions’ that pulled the wool over Tony Abbott’s eyes when he decided to keep the emission reduction target
• Henry Ergas argues, if that’s the right word, we must forget about cutting Australia’s emissions and simply buy emission credits from overseas. If we don’t then the ALP’s energy policy will cause the ‘collapse’ of our energy system
• Even Stephen Romei, the paper’s book review editor, writes in a review of Al Gore’s new film that he doesn’t know what’s right or wrong about climate science. Maybe he’s equally non-committal about the truth or otherwise of the benefits of vaccination or whether smoking causes cancer.

The dominant news issue in that edition of the paper was same sex marriage.

Ah, good old SSM, and some might think that the dog botherer has undergone a transformation, and had his come to Jesus moment about climate science denialism, but underneath it all there's the same raging against renewables as seen in 2017 ...

It's just a variant wedge whereby potatoes can unite around a common cause ...

That's what this apparently new form of drivel is about ... window dressing for fear and loathing of renewables ...

You see? Talk of alarmists and renewables zealots while apparently pretending to believe that there's some kind of climate science issue requiring the nuking of the country ...

Is it wise to end up in a Python sketch? There was Grattan yesterday: Like Peter Dutton, John Gorton once had a nuclear plan. It didn’t end well

Dutton, under pressure to release policy, says the opposition will put out its nuclear energy blueprint before the budget.

It seems an odd choice as the year’s first big policy hit – nuclear power isn’t dominating kitchen table discussions around the country. Leaving that aside, the release will be a major test for Dutton, in handling both the economics and the politics of the ensuing debate.

He starts with most energy experts ranged against him. He’s obviously not himself an expert, so being convincing when he has to get into the fine detail won’t be easy. Public attitudes towards nuclear may have softened, but if he flounders in defending the economic case, he’ll have lost the argument even before the politics kick in.

One aspect of the evolution of the opposition’s nuclear policy that raises an eyebrow is how it has so quickly transitioned from concentrating on small modular reactors – which spokesman Ted O'Brien spruiked enthusiastically but most experts dismissed as impractical – to being centred on conventional reactors. It might have been a sensible move, but it makes you wonder whether the policy crafters were on top of the complexities to start with.

Or sticking with The Conversation, there was this: Dutton wants a ‘mature debate’ about nuclear power. By the time we’ve had one, new plants will be too late to replace coal

In that piece Quigginomics looked at the way that the reptiles go about their business ...

So why would Australians support nuclear?

It is worth looking at the claim that Australians support nuclear power. This was the question the Newspoll asked:

There is a proposal to build several small modular nuclear reactors around Australia to produce zero-emissions energy on the sites of existing coal-fired power stations once they are retired. Do you approve or disapprove of this proposal?

This question assumes two things. First, that small modular reactors exist. Second, that someone is proposing to build and operate them, presumably expecting they can do so at a cost low enough to compete with alternative energy sources.

Unfortunately, neither is true. Nuclear-generated power costs up to ten times as much as solar and wind energy. A more accurate phrasing of the question would be:

There is a proposal to keep coal-fired power stations operating until the development of small modular reactors which might, in the future, supply zero-emissions energy. Do you approve or disapprove of this proposal?

It seems unlikely such a proposal would gain majority support.

So what we're left with is an epic form of distraction, and a unique dog botherer ability to blather ... (the pond almost said "very unique" to maintain the dog bothering style) ...

In short, it's the same tune ...

But it's a great opportunity for cartoonists ...

You see how weird it gets? Here is a devoted climate science denialist, a decades long practitioner of the sport, suddenly blathering about facts and science, and deploring ideology and sanctimony, in the most sanctimonious and pious way imaginable ...

But it's great for cartoonists ...

Why the sudden urgency to get the planet to net zero emissions for a climate science fraud and hoax offered up by greenie cultists devoted to what the dog botherer has called a religion? It's the last wedge to hand, the very last delaying tactic, the putting off on lay by until 2050 or so, but it's great for cartoonists ...

And so to the bromancer, what with nattering "Ned" surprisingly invisible this weekend ...

For once the bro is actually dealing with foreign affairs. Was it this note in Crikey that set him back on his old course?

And so to the ongoing genocide in Gaza ...

Of course what you won't get from the bro is any hint of the genocide unfolding. For that you have to look  elsewhere ...

The bro is a strategy player, as befits the Reichsmarschall of the lizard Oz ...

You won't find the reptiles interrupting with snaps of the ruin ...

None of that ... just snaps of suits ...

The bro is a strategist ...

Meanwhile, over at Haaretz ...

The bro eventually gets around to that, but first of all wants to assign blame...

Actually when two tribes of barking mad fundamentalists get together to wreak havoc, there's more than enough assigning of significant moral responsibility to go around. 

What's remarkable is the way the reptiles refuse to assign any blame to the current barking mad fundamentalists running Israel, and turning Gaza to rubble while busily acquiring the West Bank, on the operating notion of from the river to the sea ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the notion of Palestinian statehood in a news conference on Thursday, claiming it “would endanger the state of Israel.” But he also invoked geographical language that has become a point of bitter contention as Israel’s continued military bombardment of Gaza continues in response to the Hamas attack of Oct. 7, saying that “in the future, the state of Israel has to control the entire area from the river to the sea,” according to an English translation of the speech from Israeli news channel i24News.

According to another translation, Netanyahu said that Israel “must have security control over the entire territory west of the Jordan River” — which effectively means the same thing. (here)

None of this troubles the bro ...

Classic bro, and how foolish of the pond not to realise it. As usual, it's all about him and his desire to wander down his memory lane ... before embarking on yet another contradiction. 

Israel isn't going in to Rafah in one par, "Netanyahu talked a lot about going into Rafah, but the Israelis seem to have made few preparations to actually do so", and then almost immediately afterwards, "almost certainly, Israel will mount significant operations in Rafah eventually."

And so the carnage and the genocide will continue ...

It's an unlikely plan? Why then it's grist for the mill for our very own Reichsmarschall ... and by this point the pond was thinking a treatise on Swifties and Billy Joel might just be the thing ... if not a stroll down to the bro's heyday with the Xian Brothers ...

For years Israel thought apartheid and a ghetto/gulag and paying off Hamas would suffice. Now there's a genocide going down, which will take generations to erase ...

And the best the bro can offer is "sporadic terror capabilities"?

Foolish pond, and how wrong to mock the bro on his real speciality ... Swifties ...

A lot more to save? Like the thousands that will be killed when the offensive on Raffah is launched and the genocide continues apace?

There's a humanitarian disaster going down but you wouldn't have the first clue about any of it if you relied on the bro for your information ...

Apparently the news of the genocide has even reached the halls of government here, as if that would make a difference to the body bag count ...