Continuing the pond's visit to ancient tabloid wonders - placeholders while the pond visits the deep south - the pond thought that Akker Dakker could hold the fort.
Sure, it's old, stale beer, but back in the day, Akker Dakker - dubbed the fat owl of the remove by the politically incorrect, anti-woke pond - was once a regular, celebrated guest at the pond.
He even had his own evocative artwork ...
Ah memories. Smug and arrogant, as he was, is and will be ...
Even better, Akker Dakker only manages short two minute bursts (the pond understands this is typical of Australian men and scribblers for the Daily Terror), so the pond could indulge in a number of trips down memory lane ...
First up, Akker Dakker reveals his inner war monger ...
The header: Piers Akerman: Trump’s peace deal nothing of the sort as Iran is given free rein to prepare for next conflict; America ended two world wars with unconditional surrender – but the US-Iran deal has taken just 107 days to hand Tehran $425bn and dominion over a vital global waterway, writes Piers Akerman.
The caption for the AV distraction at the start, so that punters could save themselves the trouble of reading on ... Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney believes significant pressure from the private sector about the war’s impact on the global economy made US President Donald Trump cut a deal with Iran. “Trump did make a comment about how he didn't want to drive the world into a recession or depression,” Mr Mulvaney told Sky News host James Morrow. “I think it was about the captains of American and Western industry coming to him and saying that the world is going to end economically unless you end this war.”
Mick? Now there's a memory as ancient as Akker Dakker ...
The Strait of Hormuz has reopened, oil revenues are flowing to Iran, plus it’s been handed $425bn.
America has been humiliated; Israel, its only substantial ally in the Middle East, remains at risk.
In defending the US surrender, American Vice President JD Vance made the absurd claim that “if you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all ended with some kind of negotiation”.
Nonsense. In World War II, Japan surrendered unconditionally on September 2, 1945, barely a fortnight after Emperor Hirohito broadcast Japan’s acceptance of the Allies’ terms of surrender.
On August 15, 1945, the Melbourne Herald ran two small boxed paragraphs under the headline Nearly Six Years of War.
Who knows what's happened to the MOU negotiations as Akker Dakker took the couch lover at his word and reverted to WWII (what, no memories of signing treaties and MOU's at Versailles?)
Just to confirm the historical flourish, and the read's remarkable irrelevance, the Daily Terrorist slipped in a snap...Supreme Allied Commander General Douglas MacArthur signs the formal Japanese surrender documents on September 3, 1945, in a ceremony to mark the end of World War II aboard the battleship USS Missouri docked in Tokyo Bay.
Akker Dakker kept on reliving the glory days ...
Germany was crushed by Russian forces from the east and Allied forces from the south and west. Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki finished Japan.
The US capitulated to Iran after just 107 days of war.
As if to rub it in, the reptiles provided a snap of mad King Donald trying to match Dugout Doug ...US President Donald Trump signs a deal with Iran to end the Middle East war before France's President Emmanuel Macron inside Chateau de Versailles on June 17. Picture: @Scavino47/AFP
It wouldn't do for any reptile to have a bash at the Islamics, with Akker Dakker apparently forgetting that Germany in the 1930s was allegedly an Xian nation, while good old Italy managed to contain both a pope and Mussolini, but never mind, it's all the fault of the Islamics ...
Dictator Adolf Hitler ignored it. On June 22, 1940, he accepted France’s surrender in the same railway carriage Germany had surrendered to France on November 11, 1918.
Support for Hitler’s insane Third Reich came from the Islamic world.
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, lived in luxury in Berlin from late 1941 until 1945.
He had fled to Germany to seek refuge and collaborate with the Nazi leadership.
He was provided with a generous stipend and made regular radio broadcasts to the Middle East, urging Muslims to revolt against the Allies.
Trump has lashed out at those critical of his deal, saying on his social media: “These fools, who think I haven’t been tough enough on Iran, when the Stock Market Just Hit A RECORD HIGH, and Oil prices are ‘tumbling’ down, are either jealous, bad people, or stupid.”
No, his critics are just more attuned to reality. The unconditional surrender by Germany and Japan saw both nations effectively demilitarised, then get assistance to rebuild their economies. US troops stationed in both nations stabilised them.
One down, another to go ...
Next up was a fairly standard bit of Labor bashing, what you might call lizard Oz lite ... as Akker Dakker took a hearty swipe at those pesky, difficult uppity furriners who are ruining everything ...
The header: Piers Akerman: Lucky Country to Stagnant Continent as Labor’s immigration accelerates decay; The prosperity Australians enjoyed when Sydney hosted the Olympics has “evaporated” as youth crime, gang warfare and Labor’s immigration policies tear at the nation’s fabric, writes Piers Akerman. (The reptiles like to get into the heads of their thugby league-addled hive mind who they're actually reading).
The caption for the AV offering, thoughtfully provided for those who don't want to read on: The funeral service for slain Sydney gangster Lorenzi Lemalu has been hit by a hail of bullets. No injuries have been reported.
This is a variant on Dame Groan's routine "we'll all be rooned" shriek to the heavens, and Akker Dakker carried out his task in style ...
Australia is on edge of the abyss. Internationally, we just don’t rate as an admired nation any longer. This is the not the Lucky Country, it is the Stagnant Continent.
Confidence has tanked, businesses, large and small, are collapsing. The aspirations of young people have been trashed by Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ budget.
The prosperity we enjoyed when Sydney hosted the Olympic Games just 26 years ago has evaporated and, with it, our way of life.
To see the future, look no further than the dystopian condition of Victoria after decades of the same extreme hard Left Green/Labor ideology that drives Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s socialist government.
Yes, our way of life has disappeared into a void, and it's possible that it's all the fault of those from the deep south ... should the pond have taken weapons to keep this chilling world of Mad Max clones at bay? Victoria Premier Jacinta Allan’s highly politicised public service is all-but dysfunctional. Picture: Jason Edwards
Oh dear, the pond will be meeting up with one of those highly politicised public servants, and regrets not having packed garlic, holy water, a silver bullet and a stake ...
The situation is incredibly dire ...
The civil structure is on its knees. Melbourne is dangerous. Defecation on public streets is not uncommon, and criminal acts are ignored. Even the worst recidivists are granted bail. Last year, Victorian Police arrested 1223 children a combined 6997 times, with minors committing 57.6 per cent of carjackings in Victoria and 52.6 per cent of home invasions.
To reinforce Akker Dakker's point, the reptiles flung in a snap which made the lizard Oz graphics department look lackadaisical ...More than 32,000 cars were stolen in Victoria last year, the most since 2001. Picture: Victoria Police
Hang on, hang on, did the reptiles get that snap from Victoria's highly politicised, all-but dysfunctional public service? How on earth did they get their act together enough to supply a snap which is remarkably meaningless?
Never mind, Akker Dakker was in his Laura Norder mode...
Magistrate Gail Hubble achieved some notoriety a year ago when she ordered the immediate release of a teenager who had accumulated more than 400 charges over 663 days.
At the time, the 15-year-old, a refugee visa-holder, had already spent 419 days in pre-sentence detention. In 2024, he admitted guilt to six aggravated burglaries, 14 car thefts, four robberies, three shop break-ins, along with multiple offences including dangerous driving, trespass, and handling stolen goods.
Despite having absconded 23 times in the preceding six months, he remains under the supervision of child protection services in a residential care setting.
There came final, conclusive visual proof of chaos in the land, though sadly it involved a shift from those southern wretches to the streets of Sydney ... Police and forensics on the scene after a man died and four others went to hospital following a shooting in Sydney last month. Picture: Gaye Gerard/NewsWire
Akker Dakker was too canny to fall for the Minns Liberal-lite routines, and went into outright hysteria mode for his climax ...
The modern toolkit consists of high-powered automatic and semi-automatic firearms, military-grade explosives, tracked “kill cars”, routinely firebombed to destroy DNA, and sophisticated counter-surveillance tracking devices.
Talk about Mad Max. Child's play in the Akker Dakker universe.
Two down, and only one to go ...
Akker Dakker also knows how to cheer on the Hansonites.
It's not just the lizards of Oz that love her willingness to peddle their policies, it's the entire bunch of Murdochians ...
The header: Piers Akerman: Strong case for Hanson – and the case against Albanese, Chalmers, Bowen, Wong and O’Neil; Australians will fight back against the class warfare Labor is waging – they want their nation back, writes Piers Akerman.
The caption for the AV distraction, a rousing celebration of Hansonism (still no rebrand for Sky Noise?): One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson discusses One Nation’s surge among working class Australians. “The Labor Party hasn’t been loyal to them; they haven’t supported them; they’ve made their life harder,” Ms Hanson told Sky News host Steve Price. “Our job is to ensure that we give people out there a quality of life, a standard of living, and to look after their best interests. “Our governments have failed the people.”
How the reptiles love the redhead, how could Akker Dakker fail to succumb to her charms?
The Albanese government’s socialist policies created legitimate grievances but people have been ignored, or worse, sneered at by the Left and self-anointed university -educated elites in Teal electorates.
Pauline Hanson has been around for 30 years. She hasn’t changed her politics – the nation has.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese learnt nothing when the Voice to Parliament he championed was smashed by voters 60-40.
Despite this humiliating defeat, versions of the divisive policy have been introduced in Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and are being examined in NSW.
Oh dear, while it's good that the Voice lives on in the minds of the Terrorists, surely there's a typographical error.
No way would the lizards of Oz contemplate it being capitalised. It's "the voice" in lizard Oz land, and the pond was startled to see the Terrorists make such a basic error...
On the other hand, the reptiles stayed true to the edict of always running a funny looking snap of Albo ...Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his government’s socialist policies have created legitimate grievances. Picture: Dan Peled/NewsWire
Akker Dakker was outraged in his usual way...
District Court Judge Jane Culver said the officer should have known he was creating an obstacle which posed a real risk of collision with the bike.
And then came a snap of Pauline surrounded by flags, designed to relieve Akker Dakker's tension ... One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has been around for 30 years. She hasn’t changed her politics – the nation has. Picture: NewsWire/John Gass
Hah, as if even a snap of Pauline could soften Akker Dakker' fury ...
The unfortunate officer has avoided jail but was sentenced to 500 hours community service.
A death of any Australian is painful to family and community, but this offender died trying to escape the law.
Race should not enter the equation just as police officers can’t be expected to second guess the actions of criminals fleeing from justice.
This is just one example of the many incidents contributing to the anger evident across the nation with the actions of the Left and the sluggish response of the traditional conservative parties.
Hang 'em all, the long, the short and the tall, and will someone finally get around to casting Akker Dakker as the lead in a remake of Dirty Harry?
As this has been a trip down memory lane for the pond - already out of date, because this very Sunday there will be a new Akker Dakker - for a closing cartoon, the pond needed something timeless, something that evoked the classics ...
Why not James Latham's Reimagining Seurat’s “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”
"The header: Piers Akerman:"
ReplyDeleteWhy the name before the headline?
Readers have amnesia, and dementia?
Piers is needy?
Now there’s a blast from the past - the Bunter of the Reptiles himself, as arrogant, abusive and obnoxious as ever. Neither his targets nor his approach appears to have changed a bit - I almost expected him to start referencing the Heiner Affair again; I wonder if he revived that supposed “scandal” during Rudy’s time as Ambassador to the US? I suppose old Reptiles don’t fade away - they just regurgitate old grievances at ever shorter length (with the exception of Ned, who grows ever-wordier as he ages). BTW; I was under the impression that the Great War actually ended with an Armistice rather than an unconditional surrender, but the Fat Owl was never really that concerned with truth or accuracy.
ReplyDeleteFew things better epitomise Rupert's sense of ethics than the protection he authorised for Akker after Piers tired to make typewriter throwing an Olympic demonstration sport. Although, unlike the established throwing events in the Olympics - his version came with a target. And who did Rupert, and the rest of his, um, 'management' group side with? The long-serving female journalist, with the commonly-known hearing affliction? Oh Doc, ya slay me.
ReplyDeleteThat all helps put into perspective, mention now of drug cartels destroying our national identity, as if there had been no trade in drugs in our land of Girtby until those couple of decades back. Well, a trade that even senior reptile editors would tell you that they were completely unaware of.before this century. -why else would a relict reptile raise such matters?
No organised crime or gang warfare back then either Chad. What an unsullied monocultural paradise this land was in those distant days!
DeleteNews. Science publishing is a play thing, being enshitified while we sleep.
ReplyDeleteNews. "Rupert Murdoch’s media empire made a joke of the idea that news coverage should be apolitical and unbiased or that it should cover actual news."
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"Something Bad Just Happened
"The quiet layoff you might not notice
Maggie Fox
Jun 23, 2026
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"SciAm, as it’s fondly referred to, was owned by Springer Nature, a publishing giant that owns scientific journals including Nature.
They just sold it to the conglomerate that publishes Discover, among other titles. The new owners promptly fired the unionized employees, including some of the best science writers and editors in the business.
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"Journalism is in a bad place. Few people who value good journalism would argue against that. The Washington Post has been torn apart; CBS is destroyed and it looks like CNN is about to be; private equity groups have bought up and sucked dry or outright killed local newspapers; local radio news has been dead for decades. Rupert Murdoch’s media empire made a joke of the idea that news coverage should be apolitical and unbiased or that it should cover actual news.
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"So dumping the very people who make it readable and relevant seems deliberate.
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The Writer’s Guild of America-East thinks so, too.
“We have reason to believe that the sale was motivated by fear within Springer Nature that our attempts to doggedly report on the crisis facing science in America today would lead to repercussions from the Trump Administration. On multiple occasions the company has sought to quash or tone down political or sensitive stories that were journalistically sound,” the Guild said in a statement released Tuesday.
Staff at Scientific American had joined the Guild in April.
https://maggiefox.substack.com/p/something-bad-just-happened
"Getting Murdoched is a fascinating study of the Murdoch media’s bullying tactics
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"Andrew Dodd and Matthew Ricketson have not written another biography of Murdoch, but rather a forensic account of how the Murdoch empire bullies, intimidates and destroys individual citizens and governments. Both writers, now professors of journalism, have worked across the media, including for Murdoch’s local flagship, The Australian.
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https://theconversation.com/getting-murdoched-is-a-fascinating-study-of-the-murdoch-medias-bullying-tactics-285138