Is there any reason whatsoever for ACMA to exist?
Not being a regular watcher of the ABC, the pond only stumbled across the Media Watch report on the latest ACMA folly on YouTube. (Here on the ABC site).
It might seem like the program is offering a home town defence of a Four Corners show about the decidedly incompetent - and inclined to militarism - Australian War Memorial.
But consider this. The program aired back in March 2005 and the ACMA ruling only surfaced in September 2006. WTF? Talk about a warm lettuce leaf slapping delivered way after the event.
Not that the pond saw the original, but even if it had, only fragments would remain lodged in the noggin by the time ACMA rose from its swamp to pick a safe target (while the Murdochians gaily romp in the swamp).
As for the components of the ruling aired on Media Watch, they were pathetic and risible, an indication that, whoever wrote them (a cuddle of cardigan wearers?), not one of them had the first clue about journalism or the making of a TV program.
The pond is no defender of 4 Corners, and rarely watches it. The tragically inept Mahmood Fazal affair diminished the show, and its latest attempt at Chinese EV bashing held no appeal.
It was the "Chinese" in the story that alerted the pond to the way that the ABC frequently recycles talking points that appear in the lizard Oz and other tabloid publications. The focus on "Chinese" revived the lizard Oz's age-old fear of a war with China by Xmas, and when hooked up with the ABC's general fear of EV, it becomes rabid.
All EV makers harvest data, and if Comrade Xi can plan his invasion of Australia by utilising the data from the pond tooling around the mighty 'Gong in a Geely EX5, he's welcome.
Tesla is a typical example. Back in the day Uncle Leon's mob got caught out bigly:
Some of the recordings caught Tesla customers, opens new tab in embarrassing situations. One ex-employee described a video of a man approaching a vehicle completely naked.
Also shared: crashes and road-rage incidents. One crash video in 2021 showed a Tesla driving at high speed in a residential area hitting a child riding a bike, according to another ex-employee. The child flew in one direction, the bike in another. The video spread around a Tesla office in San Mateo, California, via private one-on-one chats, “like wildfire,” the ex-employee said.
Other images were more mundane, such as pictures of dogs and funny road signs that employees made into memes by embellishing them with amusing captions or commentary, before posting them in private group chats. While some postings were only shared between two employees, others could be seen by scores of them, according to several ex-employees. (Much more at Reuters here).
Back in the day, a pond gas guzzling Merc work car collected an unseemly amount of data, stored for mechanics to observe here, and for the car to send back home.
The pond is perfectly happy for a general story about privacy and data in all kinds of vehicles, including EVs. BYD, for example, is inclined to be cowboy (or girl), and if a little prodding forces some changes, what the heck. But the ABC's relentless bashing of EVs makes it a branch office of the lizard Oz.
While letting off steam, could the pond also ask correspondents not to send links to Catholic publications, not that the stories can't be amusing.
Sure it's fun to know that some tykes are into drag: Swiss diocese defends drag show as ‘kickoff’ for new format
As reported earlier this week by the Catholic Herald, a Catholic chaplaincy in the Diocese of St. Gallen is hosting a drag show on September 18, designed to “combine the art form of drag with social, spiritual, and cultural issues.” It will feature two male drag performers and an interview with the men conducted by an employee of the diocese as part of the “deep drag” format, which joins drag with conversation.
But to get the full story you have to give up your email address to create a free account, and the be endlessly pestered by the tyke Herald.
Besides, for years, the pond mocked the Pellists for doing 'deep drag' via their attraction to a splendid array of 'deep frocks', while giving other cross dressers a hard time.
And the pond must now confess that's all by way of a filibuster, because again this day the pond is on house moving duties, so the coverage of the lizard Oz must be limited to screen caps.
First up might not even be seen by some as commentary, because it arose from the risible lizard Oz energy "summit", but simply because the climate science denying reptiles presented it with a straight face as "news" doesn't make it so.
Dan "the man" Tehan was at it again, and how the reptiles loved it ...
So the notion of nuking the country to save the planet gets another run around the park.
Could there possibly be a lizard Oz story about renewables that didn't feature Satan's little helper, leering like a diabolical figure? The question is purely rhetorical ...
He refused to commit? What a prize loon he is ...and as for the lizard Oz's role in this farrago of nonsense, who could disagree?
On with other matters, and again the pond reluctantly must cut short coverage, not helped by the reptiles currently spoofing of the intermittent archive.
The pond certainly didn't want to discuss the working class with rabid bigot Dame Slap, but as time was short, there was no choice ...
Dame Slap is more than Pauline curious, Dame Slap is right on board ...if she happened to be in Germany at the moment, her bleating about white working class boys would entirely suit the AfD.
It's also not particularly original ...
Joanna Williams! Spiked!
But enough already, there's two more gobbets of bleating to go, and if you guessed that Tamworth's eternal shame will turn up, you get a gold star ...
And if you guessed that Pauline herself would certainly appear in pictorial form, perhaps you've been infected by the lizard Oz hive mind virus.
The way it's framed in this kind of tribute is to make the tribute sound a little back-handed: "At least One Nation has started a debate here."
It's a way of being devoted to the One Nation agenda of bigotry and fear, while purporting to be a little distant.
Fling in a "crude" and an "unsubtle", but then go all in ... she's really right, you know, as any MAGA cap-donning Dame would know ...
And so to the bonus, and this is day old, but in its day it was given a big splash ...
He’s respected in particular in the Gulf. They know that he takes them seriously, partly because he’s a businessman, but also I think because, intuitively, President Trump understands that in the Middle East, there is no way of getting respect other than through strength. So he does have real leverage, not only with respect to Israel, but also with respect to the Arabs. And I think in particular, the Qataris have been crucial here. Qatar has sheltered the leadership of Hamas, played a distinctly ambiguous role, it must be said, over the last two years. But without Qatar, it wouldn’t have been possible to get Hamas to sign this deal.
One has to acknowledge that one of the distinguishing features of Trump’s presidency is that he brings strength and a kind of business sense to every negotiation that he enters into. It’s got a lot harder for his critics and haters to say that’s not real after what we’ve just seen.
How much of this should be taken as insight?
I don’t rule this out. I think ultimately the Ukrainians are inflicting meaningful damage on Russia’s energy infrastructure and that will take its toll if it is sustained. On the other hand, Russia is inflicting real damage on Ukrainian cities with nightly air raids, and the drone war on both sides is constantly scaling up. I think Putin still thinks he can win this. I think he still believes he can grind out one of those Russian victories that relies on manpower and readiness to take casualties. That’s why he’s not particularly serious about negotiation. But there comes a point when we can make the costs to him too high for him to continue. And that’s the key, I think, to what President Trump has to do in the remainder of this year and into next year. Real pressure needs to be applied before we get to the spring and summer of next year, because I worry a lot about the manpower imbalance. Russia is recruiting fresh reserves for its infantry. Ukraine is not. A war like this can’t be fought exclusively by drones. You do need infantry and that’s where I think Ukraine is most vulnerable.
He's up and down and all over the place like a yo-yo walking the dog ...
...We’ve seen a big change in his tone towards President Putin, particularly since the fiasco of the Alaska summit. Let’s hope we hear more of that. I don’t think Tomahawks are the key here. I think the key is President Putin understanding that he has blown it, that he is now somebody who’s standing in the White House has been really reduced and that the Trump administration no longer sees him as somebody they need to conciliate. I think if that message is conveyed—”you had your chance and you blew it”—then he’s going have to think very hard about what he does next year.
Back to the current outing ...
And at that point he began to lather himself up into a fever ... and there were a full four gobbets to go ...
Threading through it all was a profoundly depressive form of defeatism, something Vlad the Sociopath's advisers might hand to him as being suitable for mention on Russian state media ...
A flagging economy, circling rivals and unpalatable peace proposals are putting President Zelensky under enormous pressure. Winter is full of foreboding
Friday September 18 2026 ...
The pond doesn't have a clue why the local reptiles ignored the Banksy angle, perhaps because it was completely out of tune with depressive Niall's report.
More to the point, it appeared on the same day in Bari's old mob, a fitting place for the blather that Niall offered.
You need to hand over an email to go there, so perhaps the reptiles of Oz were hoping no one noticed the sort of company they keep ...
That reminds the pond. How's Bari herself going?
Ousted ‘60 Minutes’ Producer Rips Bari Weiss Over Ratings Flop
Bari Weiss’ overhaul of 60 Minutes sees season premiere hit 25-year ratings low
Great. Maybe karma is a thing ...
Let a couple of Russian oligarchs off the hook.
Ah, the perfidious French ...
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