There had to come a time when the pond went to the lizard Oz well, and walked away still parched with thirst.
Not even doing a Bear Grylls could have ended the sense of bodily and mental dehydration ...
Not a single reptile jihad held any appeal this Thursday, and so the intermittent archive was forced into overtime.
The contrived "ticking clock" routine was still top of the "news", ensuring that the pond would have not the slightest interest when the alleged investigation came to light.
There's only so many ticking clock movie memes any possum should have to reference.
Immediately below came more news of fallout from the Lehrmann matter, though you'll never see his name mentioned in reptile headlines...
Defeat of MeToo mob: $1.5m payout for Higgins’ boss Fiona Brown
Fiona Brown gets $1.48m payout but no apology for false rape claims
The former Liberal staffer has settled her commonwealth claim for $1.48m, almost $1m less than Brittany Higgins received, saying she feels ‘vindicated’.
By Janet Albrechtsen and Stephen Rice
The deliberate, glib, cheap, provocative framing of the yarn as a defeat for the "MeToo mob", typical of Dame Slap and a boiling Rice, was more than enough to ensure the pond walked on by ...
Add to that talk of "false rape claims", and you might be left with the sense that the original claim of rape had been dismissed, rather than that it involved another stage in endless feuds about cover ups.
And just below that came another reptile panic ...
Australia’s national debt tops $1 trillion for the first time in history
The historic milestone comes as interest costs are forecast to consume an increasing share of government revenue by decade’s end.
By Matthew Cranston
The only fun thing about the canny Cranson's panic attack was the snap of Jimbo looking diabolical and demonic at the start of the yarn ...
Down below that came the indefatigable Chambers - is there another reptile who contributes more to reptile panic attacks at the top of the digital page ma?- offering another assault and bout of hysteria...
Drowning in zeroes: Debt bomb explodes for trillion-dollar man Jim Chalmers
The Treasurer once called a trillion-dollar debt bill a national disgrace – now he owns one.
Over on the extreme far right there was the usual transphobia ...
A national health regulator designed to protect patients from ideology has itself become an instrument of it.
By Gary Geelhoed
Personally saving that to the intermittent archive wasn't so much a chore as relief at not having to touch the muck by reaching for the archive barge pole.
Things that the pond might have been interested in kept being ghosted.
The reptiles still opted out of any commentary on the wretchedly flawed gambling legislation, leaving the pond to contemplate Wilcox ...
The Australian Daily Zionist naturally ignored stories of Israel's ongoing disgrace in Gaza, the butchery and the cover ups, with Jack leading the way ...
Pushing to extend timelines and subpoena high-profile activists risks turning a serious inquiry into an influencer circus.
By Jack the Insider
Jack the Insider
Columnist
Again the pond had to be first to save the piece, to its eternal shame. Would anyone extend the same courtesy to an empty plastic bottle?
Down below, in the "news" section, came ...
Labor elders demand royal commission probe union antisemitism
Labor stalwarts have called on the Bondi royal commission to extend its deadline and probe antisemitism allegations within their own party and the union movement.
By James Dowling and Elizabeth Pike
Guess who featured at the bottom of that yarn? Jennie George, apparently as a way of suggesting she's not got a monocultural mania about renewables...
You had to scroll way down the lizard Oz page, or head off to the Graudian to read Israel admits its soldiers fired at car in which Hind Rajab was killed
Or in another place to check out ...No criminal probe over Israeli strike that killed Australian Zomi Frankcom
There's no end to the cover ups or the ethnic cleansing.
And apart from a yarn about Kyrgios taking to the coke and mad king Donald taking to Kim Jong-un - hasn't there ever been a repressive dictator he hasn't loved? - and air traffic controllers taking to overtime, there was only petulant Peta exhibiting her usual pique and taking to Keogh ...
Our Diggers deserve better than Keogh
Veterans’ Affairs Minister has faced calls to resign after allegedly complaining about a missed appointment during a long-delayed meeting.
Again it was left to the pond to save it to the intermittent archive and again the pond did it grudgingly. Why fill up the overloaded archive with useless petulant crap?
A little later, this also popped up on the extreme far right ...
Australia is poised to sign major WHO pandemic agreements – but a new study warns the financial case underpinning them is built on smoke and mirrors.
By David Bell and Ramesh Thakur
... because who can remember a single pandemic in recent times creating any sort of world chaos?
On the bright side, that allowed the pond to do a segue into the infallible Pope, because who doesn't love a pandemic?
The lizard Oz editorialist also failed the pond, what with yet another bout of transphobia and another contribution to the Australian Daily Zionist News.
The only piece to appeal to the pond?
Happily that pointed the pond to a WSJ piece, though in classic lizard Oz style, it didn't feature a link, what with the rag always keen to keep punters inside the hive mind.
Never mind, it was easily found, and it happened to be in the archive ...
Bibliocide—attacks on the written word—was a tactic of Nazi Germany, the Khmer Rouge and ISIS.
By Emily Hamilton
By way of contrast with the lizard Oz, the WSJ is a Murdoch rag which still attempts the odd bit of journalism ... and this will serve as a teaser trailer ...
And so on, and that was the pond's listicle or litany of all that unwary punters might encounter at the top of the lizard Oz, whether as "news" or in the commentary section, this dismal early Thursday.
Perhaps if Our Henry returns with a bout of Thucydides on the morrow the pond will manage to perk up and pay attention, but right at the moment, the lizard Oz is unreadable, its jihads overly familiar and utterly tiresome.
Almost anything newsworthy and/or interesting is happening elsewhere ...unless you happen to be interested in the doings of footy boofheads ...
Tawdry details revealed of exotic performers being hired for lap dances at a hotel, as five Sydney Swans stars were rubbed out for the season and detectives move to speak to those involved.
By Damon Johnston, Jay Clark and Lachlan McKirdy
The lizard Oz artwork managed to hit just the right note of silhouette titillation and boof ...
Say what? The reptiles are now borrowing their yarns from the HUN?
Could the rag sink any lower?
Best to turn to the immortal Rowe for a wrap-up 'toon ...
And how does it go in Vlad the sociopathic invader's Russia?
WHO said, on the 18 May 2025...
ReplyDelete"Pandemics happen, but a proven natural one of major impact on life expectancy has not happened since pre-antibiotic era Spanish flu over a 100 years ago."? DP notes, correctly "because who can remember a single pandemic in recent times creating any sort of world chaos?"
Hint: 'the extreme far right ...
WHO’s high-price pandemic plan
... – but a new study warns the financial case underpinning them is built on smoke and mirrors.
By David Bell and Ramesh Thakur
NOT Newscorpse!
And DEFINITELY NOT the bat brain and thickly thakur at the (not) spectator! Chadwick, any cheek?
The "WHO’s high-price pandemic plan" was found down the back of the couch by... some shitaed editor at the australian, just waiting to stab pandemic preparedness sense in the heart...
"FLAT WHITE
We can do better than the WHO
Countries should be in control of their health
David Bell and Ramesh Thakur
18 May 2025
...
"Increasingly dependent on ‘specified’ funding from national and private interests heavily invested in profitable biotech fixes rather than the underlying drivers of good health, WHO looks more and more like other public-private partnerships that channel taxpayer money to the priorities of private industry. Pandemics happen, but a proven natural one of major impact on life expectancy has not happened since pre-antibiotic era Spanish flu over a 100 years ago.
...
https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/05/we-can-do-better-than-the-who/
!!! Bat brain and thickly thakur then STAB CAPITALISM IN THE HEART!... "Countries and populations should be back in control, and those seeking profit from illness should have no role in decision-making."
SOCIALISTS!!!. Inside out is ok if you kicking an-other.
Try...
Int J Environ Res Public Health
. 2025 Nov 30;22(12):1807. doi: 10.3390/ijerph22121807
"Global Health Governance and the WHO Pandemic Agreement: A Scoping Review of Challenges and Analysis of Reforms
Kadria Ali Abdel-Motaal 1, Wafa Abu El Kheir-Mataria 1, Sungsoo Chun 1,*
Editor: Gabriel Gulis1
...
"The WHO Pandemic Agreement introduces important institutional and financing measures, but persistent gaps remain in enforcement, technology transfer, and inclusive implementation. Strengthening these domains is crucial to achieving equitable and resilient preparedness. By systematically linking evidence from the pandemic preparedness literature to Treaty provisions, this study offers a novel analytical framework for assessing how global health treaties respond to research-identified challenges.
...
"4.2.4. Feedback Loop Layer
The feedback layer reflects the capacity of governance systems to learn from failure and adapt in real time. Rather than relying on reactive adjustments, effective feedback mechanisms should be embedded within institutional and legal frameworks to support anticipatory action and timely course correction. Yet the literature reveals a persistent failure to institutionalize such reflexivity.
...
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12732687/
On the frayed edges of the fringes - the 'shock horror' of Harry and Meghan (had to check the spelling of the latter) crossing the waters. Aaaand - the sneaky rats have had the kiddiwinks listed for 'good' schools for some time. For a time that, it seems, none of those who charge money as 'royal watchers' have had any inkling that that might happen. For a time in which not one of their 'sources deep inside the Palace' have passed on illuminating idle gossip. For a time when none of the too many 'watchers' filled in the hours between chats with Rita on 'Sky Noise' with checking their contacts who just happen to be governors of likely schools, because - ya never know.
ReplyDeleteBut it is still easy, for the established 'royal watcher' to cast shade on that scheming woman, to give the Hyacinth Buckets who read the rags, a shiver.
One for the quiver DP... "cast shade on that scheming woman, to give the Hyacinth Buckets who read the rags, a shiver." ~ Chadders
ReplyDelete"NSW Supreme Court criticises IHRA definition as 'detached from reality'
Justice Fagan says Zionism 'open to criticism' in decision on graffiti case
Laura Banks and Antoun Issa
Aug 18, 2026
...
"The pro-Israel lobby, spearheaded by antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal, is pushing for the integration of the IHRA definition across all government levels, the media and education.
The Albanese government acquiesced to the lobby’s demands following the Bondi massacre, and has been steadily rolling it out across the public service while funding Segal’s initiatives to embed the IHRA definition within education.
IHRA ‘detached from reality’
The NSW Supreme Court decision is the latest setback to the lobby’s attempts to stifle criticism of Israel, amid widespread disapproval in Australia of Israel over its ongoing genocide in Gaza, its violence in the West Bank, invasion of southern Lebanon and attack on Iran.
Fagan said the IHRA formulation did not reflect the established Australian meaning of antisemitism and described it as an attempt to “repurpose” the term to encompass both hatred of Jews and criticism of Israel.
He said the definition could not realistically be attributed to the ordinary, reasonably informed Australian, adding that “the IHRA proposal is detached from the reality of the common usage and understanding of antisemitism in this country”.
Citing a Pew Research poll in June, Fagan said that “it would be preposterous to suggest that 79% of Australians are antisemitic because they disapprove of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians”.
He said the IHRA formulation “appears to be an attempt to repurpose the term ‘antisemitism’” as an amalgamated concept encompassing hatred towards Jews and criticism of Israel.
Zionism ‘open to criticism’
Fagan was equally forthcoming with attempts to conflate anti-Zionism with antisemitism.
“As an ideology of Jewish nationalism, Zionism is open to political discussion and criticism, notably on grounds concerning the rights of the Palestinians,” the judgement read.
This appears at odds with Segal’s antisemitism plan, which
...
https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/nsw-supreme-court-criticises-ihra
We bought AUKUS. Jillan Segal is free. And you know that free menas, we are the dupes, Albo being the biggest and most cynical dupe...
"Jillian Segal and husband funding far-right group “Advance”
July 12, 2025
...
"Jewish Council of Australia executive officer Dr Max Kaiser said the document” reads more like a blueprint for silencing dissent rather than a strategy to build inclusion”.
“Segal seems fixated on driving a pro-Israel narrative and repressing legitimate criticism of Israel’s genocide in Gaza,” he said.
Kaiser said that was consistent with Segal’s “past statements erroneously linking antisemitic attacks with Palestinian solidarity protests”.
...
https://theklaxon.com.au/jillian-segal-and-husband-funding-far-right-group-advance/
Ecitsuj.
ReplyDeleteTrump's Laywer, Sullivan & Cromwell,
Profit per equity partner $6.7 million (2025)[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullivan_%26_Cromwell
"US judge drops bribery and fraud case against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani
11 August 2026
...
"The request came after Adani hired a new legal team led by Robert J Giuffra Jr, co-chair of the US law firm Sullivan & Cromwell and a personal lawyer to President Donald Trump. Giuffra had reportedly met Justice Department officials earlier this year to raise concerns about the case.
Judge Garaufis initially resisted the government's request. In June, he said its explanation for abandoning the prosecution was insufficient and ordered officials to provide more information.
He also questioned whether Adani's pledge to invest $10bn (£7.5bn) in the US and create 15,000 jobs had played a role in the decision.
Adani had announced the investment in November 2024, in a post congratulating Donald Trumpon his election victory. There were later reports that Adani's lawyers had raised the investment during discussions with the Justice Department about the case.
Adani's lawyers said the investment was never offered in exchange for dropping the charges.
Judge Garaufis ultimately concluded that it had not influenced the Justice Department's decision.
But he said the public could draw its own conclusions about how such discussions might affect perceptions of equal justice and the rule of law.
The judge also found that McCotter's decision appeared to have been made without meaningful input from the prosecutors who brought the case or investigators at the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission.
"The irregularities in the decision to dismiss the indictment are concerning," Garaufis wrote.
The charges against Adani were dismissed with prejudice, meaning they cannot be brought again.
...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyqxknpp26o
Hi Dorothy,
ReplyDeleteAs it is always generally Groundhog Day with the reptiles, I’ve decided to be a bit repetitive myself. Last year I pointed out;
“In the late 80’s Trump incurred the biggest business losses of any single taxpayer in American history. Whilst this was happening his ghostwriter at the time noted that he seemed oblivious and spent most of his time looking at fabric swatches. Evidently none of the sycophants he surrounded himself with felt any need to warn him of what was about to occur.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-the-billiondollar-loser-his-ghostwriter-recalls-the-king-midas-years-090000640.html
Fast forward to 2025, the fabric assessor is now president of the most powerful country in history. There are wars in Europe and the Middle East and major economic challenges (which in most part have been caused by the orange one).
What is Trump doing most of the day?
Putting up extra tall flag poles and building a ball room at the White House whilst gilding the Oval Office with so much bling it wouldn’t look out of place in nineteenth century french bordello.
Now his attention is fixated on building some kind of triumphal arch.
He bankrupted all his companies back in 1990 whilst staring at little squares of cloth. Now he is a doddery old man obsessing over frippery.”
Now here we are in 2026 and Trump has caused a disastrous war with Iran, which was so ill-advised and badly thought through, the entire American Fleet is cowering (and starving) in the Indian Ocean (not the Persian Gulf) as they don’t have enough defensive missiles (probably due to the much vaunted AI) to protect themselves from cheap Iranian drones.
Now the so called master of “The Art of Deal” has shown that the US military is weaker than expected, US diplomacy appeases its enemies and humiliates its allies and has dragged the entire world economy into a quagmire.
Unable to fix any of the problems that he himself has created what does Trump do?
Revert to type.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/19/trump-white-house-renovations
Any chance that Trump is laser focused on solving the problem of the Straits of Hormuz is summed up in his own words;
“I’m very good at flagpoles.”
And yet, DW, at least 1/3rd of the people who respond to polls in America reckon he's the greatest President the USA has ever had.
DeleteAnd a truly great businessman to boot. But that one's a bit more reasonable because even after all the ruin he has rained onto his own businesses he always finds some other people to foot the bills. And he is a multi (and increasing) billionaire.
Just gives us all a fine understanding of the human race doesn't it.