Thursday, November 12, 2026

Another dismal Thursday, with only the echo Chambers, the mad King and the lizard Oz editorialists as distractions ...

 

With sandpapergate preoccupying the reptiles this morning at the top of the "news"section - losers and cricket, who cares? - the pond had to move further down the page to discover the usual reptile jihads ...

OP31
Albanese, Bowen demand climate action as Paris goal perishes
Anthony Albanese delivered his maiden speech at a COP summit, followed by his energy minister Chris Bowen who warned of a cost of living crisis spreading around the globe.
By Perry Williams in Antalya

FREE FALL
No recovery in sight as housing collapse deepens
Housing collapse deepens as first-home buyers and investors flee falling marke
New ABS figures reveal home loans have collapsed 26 per cent this year, with a leading financier warning Australia faces its worst housing downturn in history.
By Thomas Henry and Matthew Cranston

EXCLUSIVE
PM says no to religion-free terror law
Anthony Albanese will stare down a push by a security watchdog to scrap religion as a motive for terrorism in federal law.
By Ben Packham, Elizabeth Pike and Geoff Chambers

That sent the echo Chambers right off ...

COMMENTARY by GEOF CHAMBERS
The 12 steps woke Labor took to break national security trust
It is time to remove wokeness and political bias from national security decisions, give our agencies the resources they need and change laws to lock-up terrorists, hate preachers and spies.

The pond regrets that in Chambering a round, this Geoff evoked "woke" from the get go, which immediately triggered a pond contractual requirement ...




With the contractual obligations honoured, the pond could move on...



Ah, the real aim of the echo Chambers - not so thinly veiled Islamophobia, with graphs to boot...




That word "woke" kept returning like a recurrent nightmare ...



The pond is well over the real aim of the echo Chambers - rampant Islamophobia - but will take up the issue of the woeful Segal.

Michael Bradley wrote an extended piece for Crikey back on 15th July 2026...

Jillian Segal’s circular logic on ‘modern-day antisemitism’ (possible paywall)
The antisemitism envoy’s appearance before the royal commission proved she remains — like all of us — confused as to what she believes constitutes antisemitic reporting by the public broadcasters. 

...I was keen to fully understand her case against the public broadcasters.
Segal maintains that the ABC needs an oversight committee imposed on it. She wanted it to include Jewish community members, but under questioning by the commissioner, she retreated to an insistence that the appointed members must have an understanding of “modern-day antisemitism”.
Segal repeated this term throughout her testimony, so I was intrigued as to what she thinks it is. A clue was her statement that “racism doesn’t pick up the important different aspects of antisemitism” and therefore “having an anti-racism policy doesn’t help with modern-day antisemitism”.

Oh heck, might as well go the full hog, there being no reptiles of distinction or interest to hand this Thursday ...




And that brought Bradley back to that wretched definition...



Throw in Jeff Sparrow, also at Crikey...

Jillian Segal’s report is a Trumpian plan to curtail free speech
The new report by Anthony Albanese’s special envoy to combat antisemitism is as conspiratorial as it is a genuine threat to anyone expressing criticism of the state of Israel.

The pond has drunk at this well before, so inter alia ...




In that weird world, this cartoon might even count as antisemitic ...



The pond had to eventually get to the reptiles over on the extreme far right, with petulant Peta briefly top of the digital world ma ... and beyond the predictable... blathering about the failures of the Albo government in a way that only the architect of one of the worst governments in Australian history might manage ...

The PM is running down his goodwill account with voters
The Albanese government has over-promised and under-delivered. Voters are losing trust in an out-of-touch PM.
By Peta Credlin
Columnist

The pond never pays attention to this sort of jihad ... it's there in the archive for those who want it ...

Jack was doing a repeat of something the pond noted yesterday, with the headline pinning the blame on the Beeb, as if other UK media outlets hadn't been in on that game:

How the UK entertainment industry embraced Russell Brand’s predatory persona
Russell Brand, the BBC’s own remorseless predator, was protected by the industry
Russell Brand’s sentencing lays bare how television executives shielded a predator to keep the ratings machine turning.
By Jack the Insider
Columnist

Somehow Jack managed to evade the intermittent archive, but nothing he said added to what had already been said, so (spoiler alert), the pond just sampled the closer...



Bizarrely the reptiles always somehow manage to find space for Chairman Xi propaganda, which is odd given the way their many correspondents thirst for a war with China by Xmas ...

Ambassador: Closer China ties are a boost to Australia in region
APEC a plus for more co-operation with Beijing
China and Australia are important economies in the Asia-Pacific, and Beijing’s representative in Canberra says they are natural partners with complementary economic strengths.
By Liu Jinsong

The pond supposes that this is easier than looking at the failing, flailing world of mad King Donald and his minions ...



That reptile winnowing left just one guest reptile standing, with that Horsey predicting the topic.

The pond was immediately suspicious because of the use of "Anglosphere", a curious term at best, often down there with "woke" or "western civilisation" in reptile speak...




The "Anglosphere" hive mind wasn't happy, with the few who'd bothered to comment deeply concerned about the "woke left wing agenda" ...




When the pond checked back, a lizard Oz editorial berating "Bowen's power play" had replaced this blather on the extreme far right of the digital page, but the pond pressed on ...




Oh dear, what a tragic, pitiful attempt to sell the notion of the "Anglosphere", but on the other hand, should the pond be celebrating? Does this mean the end of News Corporation, the complete failure of Faux Noise?

They're still doing it ... dissembling, downplaying, distracting and coddling ...

Fox News’ Hannity Tries to Downplay GOP’s Midterms Disaster: ‘Kind of More Normal Than Not’

...he predicted that Trump would ultimately be vindicated, arguing that voters would have a more favorable view of his presidency by the next election.

Does the author have the first clue about the rag he's scribbling for?

Apparently not ...




Sorry Mr Easson this is the sort of stuff the hive mind wants to read ...




That's more like it, isn't it Mr Easson? A full throated assault on renewables, and a deep yearning for a return to the days of sweet, innocent, virginal, exceptionally clean Oz coal ...




If only you'd understood the hive mind and the lizard Oz devotion to jihads.

And why didn't you mention Benji in your outing Mr Easson? 

Was it deliberate that you left it to the lizard Oz editorialist to take care of everything?




And with that cunning ploy to save Benji done, it was time for the immortal Rowe of the day ...




The pond is devoted to art, though Kimmel was possibly right in saying that the portrait looked more like him than the mad King ...





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