Sheesh, you hand pick flunkeys for the Supreme Court and they perform a minor act of defiance, you hand pick a central banker as a lackey and he presides over an interest rate rise. What's the point of being a king?
It's a bit like that prize doofus Ed Sheeran picking a supporter of rights for Palestinians as a supporting act, and then being startled when he actually says what he believes.
Luckily none of that sort of heretical behaviour ever ruffles the thick reptile hides roaming the lizard Oz.
But you have to admire them for their relentless invention.
When it comes to mounting jihads, the reptiles are true devotees of Murdochian tabloid art.
As always on a Thursday the pond relies on the intermittent archive to do the hard yards ...never mind the bad gateways, be pleased it works in a steampunk way ...
Indigenous elder’s plea: Take kids from bad parents, this isn’t another Stolen Generation
Doris Eaton says Aboriginal people must start ‘getting tough’ on irresponsible parents or a generation of children will be lost.
By Ros Thomas and Paul Garvey
Missing PM: Voice campaign leaders push Albanese to end ‘national void’ in Indigenous policy
Former Yes campaign leaders have urged an end to timidness in Indigenous policy.
By Rosie Lewis and Elizabeth Pike
You might think that this is admirable, but this is the mob that ferociously campaigned against the Voice, and now they're giving voice, but only in a way that serves ulterior reptile motives ...
Three years after promising to implement the Uluru Statement in full, the Prime Minister stands accused of abandoning First Nations children.
By Geoff Chambers
Just to say it again: some might think this jihad worthy - attention to the Indigenous community - but the breathtakingly obvious real intent is shown by the photo accompany Geoff chambering his standard round ... the eternally glum, downcast Albo, a variation on comical Albo.
What could be even more insulting? Why a play on the Voice, a form of triumphant gloating ...
The reptiles know how this works ... an endless supply of water will wear down the hardest rocks.
Over on the far right the reptiles maintained the rage ...
It’s abundantly clear we need a peak body in WA to advocate for Aboriginal child and family safety.
By Hannah McGlade
Contributor
In a way it was a relief. In with the new jihad meant a temporary pause on the old ...
Contributors to the Australian Daily Zionist News worked overtime at a fearsome rate ... and again it might seem driven by noble impulse, but the real intent - nothing to be said about ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank - shines through by way of relentless absence ...
Murky fears and terrors infested the hive mind ...
Five people, including three teens, have been charged over major terrorism plots since Bondi – yet details remain hidden from the Australian public.
By Ben Packham and James Dowling
Why the scare quotes around 'major'? These were a couple of the 'major' threats...
• A 13-year-old NSW boy arrested in April for allegedly making a document connected with terrorism and possessing violent extremist material;
Guilty as charged muh lud.
Each day the pond accesses the lizard Oz extremist material online, and then disseminates it to fragile minds.
Then there was the relentless harking back ...
How Bondi attack sparked drive for child trauma unit
Bondi shooting doctors prompt new NSW trauma institute to prepare for future disasters
Doctors who treated Bondi terror victims have prompted the NSW government to establish a $500,000 paediatric trauma institute to prepare for future mass casualty events.
By Lachlan Leeming
‘Everyone was devastated. Absolutely everyone
The fight for Bondi's youngest victim: doctor's speak for the first time
Inside Sydney Children’s Hospital on the night of the Bondi terror attack — medicos speak for the first time about the fight for Matilda.
By Elizabeth Colman
Dressed as worthy, but don't ever expect a similar story about the plight of children in Gaza.
Over on the far right the echo machine continued apace ...
A royal omission: healthcare is still waiting for its antisemitism reckoning
The Royal Commission has been too caught up in the impacts of antisemitism, instead of its perpetrators.
By Jacqueline Rakov
The real intent and purpose of the coverage?
That was left to a Pom blow in.
No coverage of the ethnic cleansing going down in Gaza, just a mocking of those who might care.
You pay $200 for a ticket to see your favourite UK crooner. Next thing a smug Yank rapper is lecturing you about war. When do we get a break from the ‘Gazaholics’?
By Brendan O'Neill
The pond wondered if it should enable and pander to O'Neill, an intensely dislikable blow in, and decided that a teaser trailer was more than enough, and in the form of a screen cap so that his execrable ranting wouldn't be available to the AI that keeps looting the pond. Go loot the reptiles ...
All of Sheeran's supporting acts had more guts than him, but at least that provided the pond with a chance to feature the immortal Rowe ...
Why is it that there's always more wit and meaning in a 'toon than in torrents of reptile verbiage?
After all that winnowing, early in the morning the pond was left with just Jack the Insider at the top of the page ...
From Anthony Albanese’s podcast blunders to Pauline Hanson’s ‘primitives’ outrage, Australia’s leaders are stretching single-day missteps into fortnight-long crises.
By Jack the Insider
Jack performed a typical reptile ploy - comparing the ranga warrior to Albo in the matter of apologies, leading him to eventually arrive at the punchline: Hastie sounds quite prime ministerial, doesn’t he?
Poor old beefy boofhead from down Goulburn way.
Somebody who woke at the same time as the pond might squawk that the pond missed one story ...
Bombshell claims Charles raged at Diana’s brother in funeral clash
Nearly 30 years after the world wept for Princess Diana, her brother has revealed the words King Charles allegedly said when no one was watching.
By Jacquelin Magnay
Explosive? More dangerous extremist material?
Relax, it's just a book promo in disguise ...
“Prince Charles continued his stream of anger, without me interrupting. Then he stopped,” writes Earl Spencer.
“I assumed the pause signalled an effort to bring himself under control, but then he unleashed down the phone what I have always taken to be his pent-up contempt for Diana, and his horror that the world was so bowled over by her death. “Rest assured,” he hissed, “we’ll forget her soon enough!”
Earl Spencer had discussed the issue on the 20th anniversary of Diana’s death in 2017, telling the BBC it was a “very bizarre and cruel thing” for Diana’s sons to walk behind her coffin.
He told officials of his objection, but said: “Eventually I was lied to and told they (William and Harry) wanted to do it, which of course they didn’t, but I didn’t realise that.” He said the experience was harrowing and horrifying.
In the funeral eulogy Earl Spencer promised to protect William and Harry from the royal system, and said that their “blood family” would protect them.
The launch of the book on September 22 will reignite tensions between the Royal Family and the Spencers, which have simmered for decades. Harry in particular is close to Earl Spencer, while William’s relationship has been more private.
How the pond yearned to be back with a marinating Hydeing ...
First, let’s deal with King Charles’s missive to “relevant senior stakeholders across government, the military and Lord Lieutenancies”. Ugh. Not to be too aesthetically sensitive, but I think we can all live without the sovereign being reduced to the ghastly language of “relevant senior stakeholders”. What next? Seeking “buy-in” for ribbon-cutting events and referring to posies as “high levels of audience engagement”? It does all rather reinforce the idea that the Windsors’ cringe-makingly self-styled “the firm” really is some dreary mid-range company with a wan Meet Our Team page on its website, in which Prince William – carefully photographed without a tie – explains that he “enjoys long walks with the dog and is a passionate Aston Villa supporter”.
And so on, and the pond was mortified and wept that it should be forced into noting the activities of the royals and the not so royals ...
Meanwhile, in alternative reality world?
Sorry, for that you must go elsewhere ...
If Netanyahu Isn't a Far-right Fanatic, Why Does He Behave Like One?
Attacks on Palestinians or their property are now happening at a rate over four times higher than in 2021, according to the UN. The U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has been referring to the Israeli perpetrators as terrorists. Occasional ersatz investigation of these incidents won't change those positions, and none of this is helping Netanyahu ahead of the elections.
His relationship with the Trump administration was already tense due to the regional geopolitics, and no dazzling presidential visit or boost seems to be in the works now. So why isn't Netanyahu doing something, at the very least cracking down seriously on settler violence? The popular wisdom is that Netanyahu is beholden to his extremist and expansionist coalition partners. In this view, Netanyahu himself has no real ideological commitment to all this fanaticism and would have been pragmatic if it served him politically – or he could still be in the future.
But now more than ever, there are no more reasons left to believe this weird impression. For those of us who aren't privy to Netanyahu's inner thoughts, we now have a great opportunity for an ideological X-ray. Israel is at the cusp of elections. If Netanyahu desperately needed to keep his fanatical right-wing coalition partners satisfied for the last four years because he was out of political options – no coalition threat to topple the government matters now.
So how are we to explain any number of recent Netanyahu activities that look purely like coalition-expedient pandering to far-right ideologies of Israeli society?
And so on, and you won't find the likes of O'Neill or any other reptile in the hive mind contemplating such awkward matters ...
At this point correspondents might protest at the pond's refusal to engage with the lizard Oz's offerings this day.
No petulant Peta?
She was MIA at time of writing, and anyway the pond always sends her to the cornfield.
That's the way it goes on a dismal reptile Thursday ...
If you ventured inside the fold you might land on this tragic form of boosterism ...
With almost 100,000 Iranian-Australians and a broken diplomatic relationship with Tehran, the Coalition has taken an unprecedented step.
By Reza Arab and Saeed Ghasseminejad
The pond would rather point to another place ...
Kylie Moore-Gilbert
Political scientist and writer
As an informed observer of Iranian politics, I was interested to learn that the Coalition this month invited Pahlavi to visit Australia. While Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Ted O’Brien wisely emphasised that it’s “not for Australia to determine who should lead Iran or what form its future government should take,” some of his colleagues were less diplomatic.
Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg gave an interview proclaiming that the Islamic Republic won’t be removed from power “unless we engage seriously with an alternative, and the alternative that we have as a transitional figure is the crown prince”. The Coalition, he added, considers “meeting with the crown prince is one of the most important foreign policy objectives that we have”. That sounds like a tacit endorsement to me.
Pahlavi’s father, Mohammad Reza Shah, was installed to the throne by the US and Britain in 1953 to protect their oil interests after the nationalisation of the country’s oil industry. The Shah was overthrown by the Iranian revolution in 1979, which led to the installation of Iran’s current, hardline regime. His son seemingly also hopes to gain power via a foreign military intervention which has caused ordinary Iranians immense deprivation and suffering.
Liberal MP Julian Leeser then drew an extraordinary parallel between Pahlavi and anti-Apartheid campaigners Desmond Tutu and Winnie Mandela and East Timorese independence leaders Xanana Gusmão and José Ramos-Horta. Pahlavi by his own admission has never held a salaried job and has spent his life trying to wind back the 1979 revolution from his multi-million dollar mansion in Maryland. He hasn’t set foot in Iran for almost 50 years.
Reza Pahlavi is to Desmond Tutu what Prince Harry is to clearing landmines in Africa. Admirable in attracting attention to a worthy cause, no doubt. However, Iranians arguably owe far more to those leaders inside the country who have paid a heavy price for their activism yet lack the dynastical wealth and international profile enjoyed by the son of the former Shah. Leaders which Pahlavi’s inner circle has worked assiduously to discredit.
Detailed investigations published by The Atlantic (and later, Reuters) revealed that Pahlavi’s senior advisers view “crushing the opposition … as important as fighting the regime” and that they “routinely threaten and insult anyone who is not entirely loyal to the man they see as a future king”. Targets include prominent opposition figures like Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, Nasrin Sotoudeh, Hossein Ronaghi and Toomaj Salehi, all of whom have spent considerable time in prison and have shown immense bravery in standing up to the Islamic Republic while refusing to flee into exile.
Reza Pahlavi does certainly enjoy a large following in the diaspora, bolstered by sophisticated and coordinated online campaigns. While much of this is genuine, some of it has been manufactured. In 2025 the Haaretz newspaper exposed an “Israeli Influence Operation Aiming to Install Reza Pahlavi as Shah of Iran,” while BBC Monitoring identified a pattern of “inauthentic online accounts that have helped shape a wider impression of grassroots backing”.
The Netanyahu government has been unashamedly pushing Pahlavi as leader-in-waiting, particularly after a heavily publicised visit to Israel in 2023. Intriguingly, the US administration has withheld its backing, with Trump rebuffing multiple overtures and expressing doubts over the strength of Pahlavi’s support inside Iran. This comes in spite of his supporters’ efforts to explicitly align Pahlavi’s movement with MAGA, including rebranding as “MIGA” (Make Iran Great Again) and enthusiastically cheering on the current US war on Iran.
Pahlavi’s support for airstrikes on his homeland following January’s massacre of unarmed protesters, many of whom took to the streets in response to Pahlavi’s urging, has raised questions about his fitness to lead.
There are also concerns about the democratic transition plan Reza Pahlavi has presented. In it, he grants himself almost two years of near-absolute authority where he alone will appoint a transitional government and serve as commander-in-chief of Iran’s armed forces. Many fear that Pahlavi, like Iranian Revolution leader Ayatollah Khomeini before him, might promise pluralism and consultation only to consolidate power under himself. Such moves are, after all, something of a family tradition.
And so on, and see the original for links ...The Atlantic is particularly worth a read ...
MAGA-style tactics and hardball advisers have raised Reza Pahlavi’s profile and divided his potential followers.
By Robert F. Worth (*intermittent archive link)
Mein Gott was also a presence inside the fold ...
Australia’s property market crisis forcing parents to house adult kids
The ‘bank of mum and dad’ has shifted from guaranteeing mortgages to housing adult children full-time, as Australia’s deepening housing crisis shows no sign of easing.
By Robert Gottliebsen
Business Columnist
But the pond lost all heart the moment it spotted the AI/stock shot slop at the start of the piece ...
It's Thursday.
The pond would like to fold its tent and steal into the night, but perforce must face the day, with only the infallible Pope to hand for some light relief ...
That's what passes for light relief?
On second thoughts, it's another gloomy Thursday ... and way past time for AI to destroy the world so that the bots and the logarithms can start again.
So much Ruski money, so much corruption, and never mind the cornball start ...
>>an endless supply of water will wear down the hardest rocks.>>
ReplyDeleteAn endless stream of Reptile urine doubtless has a similar effect.