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 ...
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
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
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 ...
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...
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...
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.
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”.
And that brought Bradley back to that wretched definition...
Throw in Jeff Sparrow, also at Crikey...
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 ...
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 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:
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
DP, unfortunately I don't agree with... "Bizarrely"
ReplyDelete"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 ..."
Odd? Liu Jinsong is everything Newscopse is supposed to be against! But a hammer is a hammer, to hit others, until it hits you.
Suggested word to replace Bizarrely with,
"whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism"
~ Frank Wilhoit, below.
Liu Jinsong's revealed preferences;
"Chinese media published pictures of Liu, who was wearing a Mao suit in the style of the May Fourth Movement and had the national emblem pinned to his chest, speaking, while Kanai listened with his head down.[7]
"On 24 August 2026, Liu was appointed as Chinese Ambassador to Australia.[8][9]
...
"In 2010, he became Deputy Director of the Research Bureau of the Taiwan Affairs Office.[1][2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Jinsong
Taiwan Affairs Office - Functions...
"These include: preparing for negotiations and agreements; direct mail, transport and trade links; propaganda and political influence work related to Taiwan; controlling and censoring media and public relations; handling major incidents;[15]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Affairs_Office
Like S Miller not being described as a White Nationalist, the flagshit can't being itself to describe Liu Jinsong as having censored news, is TOTALLY against free speech, and promotes and condones violence against a democracy.
Frank Wilhoit..."...All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.
So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.
Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism.
No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get:
The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.
— Frank Wilhoit, 03.22.18 at 12:09 am
https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/#comment-729288
The Flagshit would, will and does use any tool, even Chinese ambassadors who have polar opposite ontologies to 'western values'.
Won't the Bro, Henry etc push back. No. As their values also extend to lying to protect falsehoods.
Shame.
"With sandpapergate preoccupying the reptiles this morning"
ReplyDeleteNewscopse sign on tools...
1) Koolaid
2) Sandpaper to sharpen the arc of reality towards, as Annony above quotes;
"whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism".
"OP31 (sic)
ReplyDelete"Albanese, Bowen demand climate action as Paris goal perishes"
They didn't mention Darwin. I'm amazed (lie) the reptiles aren't mentioning new immigrants not to come or they'll be cooked. In...
Why I'm not moving to Darwana** soon...
"Darwin
- Darwin averages just 3.1 days of 35°C or higher during November.
- But the NT capital has just had a run of 7 days of 35°C or higher, with another five on the forecast from this Tuesday, November 10 – potentially a 12-day streak.
- If Darwin reaches 35°C over 12 consecutive days, that would be the city's longest November run with maximums of 35°C or higher since 1929.
- Minimums have also been warm by local standards. Nine of the 10 mornings so far this November have exceeded the average monthly low of 25.3°C, with minimums around 27°C or 28°C likely over the next seven days.
https://www.weatherzone.com/au/news/why-northern-australia-is-enduring-a-longrunning-heatwave/1891649
NOT Movin' to Darwana soon
Gonna be a Air Cond tycoon (yes I am)
NOT Movin' to Darwana soon
Gonna be a aircond flykune
NOT Movin' to Darwana soon
(Yippy-Ty-O-Ty-Ay)
NOT Movin' to Darwana soon
(Yippy-Ty-O-Ty-Ay)
Thanks Frank.
"one of Zappa's most famous and renowned compositions. It features Tina Turner and the Ikettes's backing vocals throughout the entire track"
"Tina was so pleased that she was able to sing this that she went into the next studio where Ike [Turner] was working and dragged him into the studio to hear the result of her labor. He listened to the tape and he goes, ‘What is this shit?’ and walked out".[2]"
FZ: "This was put together with my own money and my own time and it's been offered to television networks and to syndication and it has been steadfastly rejected by the American television industry. It has been shown in primetime in France and Switzerland, with marvelous results."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana_(Frank_Zappa_song)
God!
ReplyDelete"117mm in 75 minutes: Record rainfall hits Israel, causing floods and power outages"
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/435791
No mention of - in Israel - Gaza.
Have to go here to hear...
Delete"Gaza storm kills five and leaves 70,000 displaced people’s tents flooded"
https://www.euronews.com/2026/11/09/storm-killed-five-in-gaza-as-sandstone-slab-collapsed-onto-tents
'Cheap politics and wokeness' qualifies as considered writing now? Well, they overused 'latte sippers', 'identity politics' and 'virtue signallers', so must grope around for other cue words so the diminishing readership knows how to react. Presumably 'cheap politics' comes cheaper than 'identity politics', while the yet-to-be ordained 'expensive politics' is whatever follows the kind of fundraising that continues in the Land of the Free, Home of the Brave.
ReplyDeleteChadwick, "must grope around for other cue words' might be Chris Mitchell's mantra.
DeleteAnd expensive politics won't be ordained, as that would be signalling the king costs... too much.
As for inflationary expensive politics, can't get better than...
"Elon Musk’s nearly half a billion dollars in midterms spending was a flop"
Nick Robins-Early
The tech billionaire set spending record as he poured $446m into campaigns for failed Republican candidates
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/nov/04/elon-musk-midterm-spending-analysis
Couldn't have happened to a nicer bloke. But the opportunity cost!
"It costs approximately $0.43 per meal to provide food for someone facing starvation, which translates to about $1.29 per person per day for three meals.
concern.org.uk
With his $446m, Musk could have saved...
343,076,923 HUMANS...
from starvation.
I confess to some confusion as to where Elon's 'half a billion dollars' came from and where it went to. After all, he can't just go down to his local bank branch and withdraw half a billion in cash, can he.
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