The pond was startled to see not one note from a correspondent yesterday, and struggled with the intermittent archive today, but hey nonny no, when the going gets tough for herpetology students, the tough get going.
The pond did wonder if the elephant in the room of the Nepal valley tragedy would make an appearance in the lizard Oz's Monday regulars.
That elephant did make an appearance in The Graudian, making some basic points in Sunil Acharya's Nepal-Tibet flood: this is the cost of not acting in the face of the climate crisis
The first task must be to stop making the crisis worse. The countries that benefited most from decades of fossil fuel-driven growth have a particular responsibility to cut emissions rapidly. They also have far greater resources to do so.
But the reptiles are as devoted to climate science denialism as One Nation is ...and so the reptile coverage transferred all hope to an impotent god, ‘Only God can save us, maybe no one can’: Nepal’s death toll rises as hopes fade. (While the links were still working for the pond, who knows if they'll keep on working).
In fine reptile form, Amanda Hodge's coverage made not one mention of a key contribution to the disaster.
Subsidiary coverage in the form of Fears for Townsville woman on ‘lifetime’ trip as search for 42 Australians continues also studiously avoided any hint of any possible causes.
The pond read the rolling allegedly "Live" reptile coverage so others didn't have to embark on a futile search. Nary a mention ...
Instead the more than One Nation curious lizard Oz continued to pump up the volume for Gina's pampered pet, with Geoff leading the way...
Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has reclaimed its mantle as Australia’s most popular party, as Anthony Albanese sounds the alarm on ‘dangerous’ right-wing politics.
By Geoff Chambers
The closest Chambers came to noting One Nation's devotion to climate science denialism, coal and gas came via the "coal" in coalition ...
In his usual way, the indefatigable Geoff backed up with a second shot ...
Home truths on a nation divided by house price changes
As Anthony Albanese defends his property tax crackdown, Newspoll reveals the scale of generational division over whether house prices should increase, stay the same or fall.
Wisely Geoff avoided any mention of the reptiles devotion to coal, and instead blamed it all on Labor ...
That's enough to catch the drift ...
Labor’s fiscal furphies have turned into campaign of industrial-scale deception
You don’t get to escape the reality of a productivity and inflation crisis by howling back at the truth-tellers.
By Simon Benston
The pond only noted simplistic Simon as a chance to point out the extreme visual tedium involved in these propaganda exercises ...
That exact lead snap was also recycled from a piece by the canny Cranston ...
A hidden tax buried in Labor’s capital gains rules has exposed $372bn in superannuation assets to higher levies, with one of Australia’s biggest funds demanding an urgent rethink.
By Matthew Cranston
The mediocrity, the lack of imagination, the incessant repetition might work for the hive mind ...
... but not for the pond, though the promotion of Pauline has been a boon to cartoonists of the immortal Rowe kind ...
Meanwhile, The Australian Daily Zionist News went about its business, even as reports of settler violence in the West Bank continued to surge, not to mention a successful Israeli bombing of Gaza which managed to take out a three year old child.
Benji attempted to limit the violence to "a handful of rioters" but the government of Israel is complicit in the ethnic cleansing campaign.
Extreme Zionist Major Mitchell was away from the golf course to do his usual business ...
The federal government’s reaction to Israel’s decision to not prosecute soldiers over an Australian aid worker’s death has exposed a break from decades of Labor foreign policy tradition.
By Chris Mitchell
Columnist
The Major offered crocodile tears and the notion it was all a terrible mistake ...
Another familiar name turned up ...
Writers overreach. I have done it myself and no doubt will again. But there is overreach, and then there is Richard Flanagan.
By Nick Dyrenfurth
Contributor
Nick explained to Flanagan that it was all a Soviet plot.
Enough already.
Flanagan is worth a listen, or if missed, worth a transcript read - Nick with his reductionism and wandering in ancient times to avoid the present not so much ...
The new McCarthyism: Gaza and Australia – Richard Flanagan
It's a long read, but this amused the pond, what with it relating to herpetological studies ... ...
...Australians were, last time I looked, still allowed to say stupid and offensive things if they are within the law. We wouldn’t have the Murdoch press if it were otherwise. Tony Abbott, for example, has said more than his fair share of stupid and offensive things from far loftier platforms than an obscure website, including when as prime minister he said of the Sri Lankan government’s murderous behaviour at the time of the Sri Lankan civil war, ‘‘We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.”...Difficult things like rape, torture and massacring tens of thousands of civilians. Yet last year our ex-prime minister published a history of Australia with Harper Collins. I hear no calls for Tony Abbott’s book to be pulped, and nor would I call for such a thing, nor the gutting of a major publisher.
The pond can only stomach so much lizard Oz Daily Zionist News in one day ...
Rather than promote these reptiles - they're in the intermittent archive for masochists - the pond decided to turn to Haaretz again for a geography lesson on the art of ethnic cleansing ...
What Is E1? The West Bank Area Behind Israel's Most Explosive Settlement Plan
It's touching how there are still some who hope for a Palestinian state, and even imagine one exists, but that bird flew its coop long ago. Instead there's been insidious creep ...
And credit where credit is due, Benji himself has been at the heart of moves to kill off any notion of a Palestinian state:
Flanagan didn't mention apartheid in his talk, but it's there for all to see in the notion of one highway for me, and the low road for thee ...
And after all that, the pond was just left with the flood water whispering Caterist and any hope that he'd devote attention to the causes of the Nepal flood were quickly dashed ...
Instead his outing began with an indecent appropriation of Aboriginal art, an uncredited, offensive and wretched offering ...
The pond was so enraged by the Caterist, and by the notion that with the Voice quenched, the Caterist was the right sort of voice, that it reduced the humbug to screen caps ...
And speaking of lakes ...
Strictly for masochists, and at an hour's length, best viewed on an appropriate device while sitting on the toilet ...
"The pond was startled to see not one note from a correspondent yesterday...".
ReplyDeleteBut, butt, DP, Sunday is the day of rest ... or at least it was until people started to take on Sunday as their day of shopping and eating out and so on. So even many cafes and restaurants are fully open for business on Sundays and have switched to taking Monday as the day to close and have their weekly day off.
But rest assured we'd all have dived in if we hadn't thought that you'd covered all the noteworthy bits as usual.