Relax, Norwegians, you're in good company: Canada, Greenland, Denmark, the sh*thole countries of Africa, Mexico, most of Europe and hapless, done down Ukraine ...and that's just for starters.
And while mired in the excrement of state Russian TV, this opening to a yarn struck a chord with the pond:
There’s this old joke about a guy’s first day in hell. He’s being given the orientation: Here’s where we keep the pitchforks. Here’s where we make the printers. Then the time comes to pick his eternal punishment. The first room is fire and brimstone, eternal agony. “That’s not for me,” the man says. The second is full of people being eaten by animals. “Pass,” he says. In the third room, he finds people sipping coffee while waist deep in excrement. “I think I can handle that,” he says. The door closes behind him as a demon yells, “Coffee break’s over! Back on your heads!”
But the pond thinks it's just as good an introduction to the daily inversion the pond experiences in the land of the lizard Oz reptiles...
For years now, the pond has done a running joke about Dame Groan living in the land of Said Hanrahan ...
And so around the chorus ran "It's keepin' dry, no doubt." "We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan, "Before the year is out.
Knock the pond down with a feather, the reptiles ran with the gag and stuck it in the header...with the Groaner taking us on yet one more road to roon (she has so many roads)...
Think? The pond should think?
Luckily this road to roon only ran to two more gobbets ...
So much fuss about something not going to happen?
But that's what happens when you travel the road to roon ...and are likely to bump into all sorts of odd bedfellows or fellow travellers, including Walshie, because strangely the road to roon always leads back to some golden age ...
Speaking of the road to roon ...
Unfortunately the intermittent archive was having one of its hissy fits, so the pond was unable to find (or save) this featured yarn in the archive...
Bosses answer Jim Chalmers’ calls to nominate where he should cut By Matthew Cranston and Thomas Henry
The canny Cranston and his mate assembled some grand suggestions, but the pond liked this one the best ...
Graham Bradley, the former president of the Business Council of Australia and former chairman of EnergyAustralia, HSBC, Stockland and GrainCorp, had a long list of spending cut ideas for Dr Chalmers. “The government needs to reseize federal departments by eliminating duplication with state government agencies in areas such as planning, education, environmental approvals and licensing generally,” Mr Bradley said. “The government needs to have the courage to impose means tests on many welfare payments, including NDIS (and) child care subsidies. “It needs to reduce or eliminate federal subsidies for renewable energy projects even if this slows the energy transition and requires further life extension of coal generators. Unrealistic federal time targets are driving up costs.
Well played Gra Gra, another excuse for a toon while on the road to roon...
With the archive (briefly?) on the blink, the pond thought it might indulge Geoff chambering his round in just a couple of gobbets ... what with him being in condescending Dame Groan mode ...
The pond sometimes wonders what rags like The Daily Beast will do if they run out of mad king fodder - currently King Donald and his comical minions are an inexhaustible trove of treasures - but just as pressing is the question, what would the reptiles of lizard Oz do for kicks if they didn't have Jimbo to kick around?
Go on, Geoff, send him a condescending memo ... and make sure the graphics department helps out with a kinda blue snap of a man caught in a grimace ...
The hive mind preaching self-awareness?
The comedy never ends.
Now drum roll maestro, wheel in the immortal Rowe to set the tone for this issue of the Australian Daily Zionist News ...
Hat tip to that portrait on the shelf...
The immortal Rowe rarely misses a trick. Per Haaretz, sorry no archive listing ...
Australian billionaire James Packer reportedly paid Netanyahu's lawyer's firm $50,000 a month for two years. Saying the payments were unrelated to the trial, Packer denied the claim, saying the firm represents him in 'personal and business affairs'
Australian billionaire James Packer paid at least $1.25 million – 1.78 million Australian dollars or 3.85 million shekels – to the law firm of Amit Hadad, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's attorney, the Australian newspaper The Age reported Monday.
The investigation, published on the eve of Israel's election, uncovered a trail of monthly bank transfers of $50,000 over the past two years, from a bank account controlled by Packer's company to the account of the law firm representing Netanyahu.
On the same day the investigation was published, Hadad filed a motion on behalf of Netanyahu's defense team requesting that Packer and two of his employees be allowed to testify from abroad, with their testimony broadcast by video link to the judges in Israel.
According to the investigation, the first monthly payment was made on September 23, 2024, from a Citibank account belonging to Packer's legal firm to an account held by Hadad, Roth, Shenhar at Mizrahi Tefahot Bank. A source familiar with the details reportedly said the payments urgently needed to be investigated to determine whether Netanyahu had received an undisclosed benefit from Packer.
acker insisted that the bank transfers to Netanyahu's lawyers were payments for work carried out on his behalf, including "deal finding" in Israel, where he has business interests, and that they were unrelated to Netanyahu's trial.
The Australian newspaper also reported that a Netanyahu spokesperson asked for comment replied: "I couldn't give a monkey's about your questions. We are very busy. We have an election on right now."
Packer did not deny making the monthly payments but declined to comment. Hadad also declined to comment.
Packer's representatives responded that the law firm represents him in his "personal and business affairs." "Any claim that I paid even a single cent toward the legal defense of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is false. Anyone who claims otherwise risks being sued."
Packer was expected to testify as a key prosecution witness in Netanyahu's corruption trial in Case 1000, in which he and businessman Arnon Milchan are alleged to have provided Netanyahu and his wife with gifts and other benefits worth hundreds of thousands of shekels.
But the pond digresses. On with business, because it was the bromancer's turn this day to set the pace for the Australian Daily Zionist News ...
Splendid stuff, and as usual, that provided the pond with an excuse to head off to Haaretz to answer as to what Israel is for. The mall!
As Long as the Mall Stays Open, Israelis Can Live With War Crimes Israel's liberal public wants to continue with its comfortable routines and consumerist lifestyle. Maybe sanctions that disrupt their vacations, binge-watching and shopping outings will force it to face reality? Ofra Rodner
The pond would usually provide a link in the archive but this will have to do ...
Meanwhile, the bromancer was lathering himself into his usual frenzy ...
Stop right there.
The pond could overlook the spineless attempts at a little both siderism designed to downplay the current ethnic cleansing and genocide going down in Gaza and the West Bank, but the pond couldn't stand by while the bromancer tried to cleanse the Catholic church ...
At best the Catholic church for centuries had a deeply ambivalent relationship to Jews, as exhaustively laid out in the wiki Catholic Church and Judaism
For many centuries the church was the prime source of anti-Semitism and bigotry, and when the church got around to denouncing it in the strongest terms, what they were doing was denouncing their own wretched history.
Just a sample:
A few years later, within the responding Counter-Reformation, the Catholic Church begun a process of self-definition in the face of the various heterodoxies and heresies and in this context also reopened the question on the status of the Jews. While Jews would be still tolerated, the justification was now the expectation that they soon converted and thus initiate the Second Coming of Christ. In 1553, following the Bragadin-Giustiniani dispute, the Inquisition confiscated the Talmud and burned it first in Rome, then in many other Italian cities in 1553, as it perceived the Talmud as a hindrance to Jewish conversion. Two years later, Cardinal Caraffa, a Grand inquisitor and hardliner against heretics, dissidents and Jews, became pope and ended the more tolerant policies of his predecessors. In 1555, he issued the bull Cum nimis absurdum, in which he ordered the construction of the Roman Ghetto and imposed restrictions on the Jews, such as prohibiting them to engage in most professions outside of moneylending, owning real estate and limit them to one synagogue per city. Pius V went a step further and expelled the Jews from all cities of the Papal States except for Rome and Anconca.In 1593 Pope Clement VIII expelled the Jews from the Papal States with the bull Caeca et Obdurata. At the same time, the new Tridentine Catechism, result of the Council of Trent, acknowledged that the Jews had historically crucified Jesus...
Back to the bromancer, pinning the blame on the Islamics and trotting out the Nazi card... while skipping over the roles of the church, the Crusaders, the Inquisition, the pogroms and the like (as outlined in The Times of Israel, too long to quote here)
Actually the leaders of the current government of Israel have managed all the demonisation of Israel by themselves, wanton cruelty, and a level of vengeful destruction that has seen Gaza virtually obliterated, a kind of collective punishment that has led to many charges of war crimes ... and for what? So that mall life can carry on ...
Was it just a casual coincidence that writer Ofra Rodner referenced binge-watching in the land of the lotos eaters?
Possibly not, because the bromancer's solution was a little binge watching ...
And so the wanton cruelty, the immensely destructive collective punishment and the war crimes continue.
Speaking of war crimes, there's another criminal still out and about ...
Take it away Jamelle Bouie ... (though the pond humbly proposes it's not just Republicans who should have to answer for the mad king and the ketamine-fuelled Uncle Leon) ...
The usual suspects - Lloydie of the Amazon leading the way - were involved, together with a couple of ring ins of dubious credibility and weird credentials.
There's no need to repeat Readfearn's debunking, but the pond did like the closing flourish ...
...Lloyd wrote that the audit report had been sent to the bureau “on behalf of Mr Berger” by the independent Tasmanian MP Andrew Wilkie, who received a letter back from the bureau explaining its investigations, and saying accusations of fraudulent or deliberate data manipulation had “no basis in fact”. Wilkie told Temperature Check he wasn’t asked by The Australian to comment and “felt uncomfortable” the article might have been interpreted as him having doubts about the bureau’s integrity or its climate data. “I found The Australian’s coverage of the matter to be quite feverish, and red meat to its audience, which flooded one article with about 1,000 comments,” he said. He had “no reason to reconsider my trust in the bureau,” he said. Attacks on the bureau’s temperature records have been orchestrated by climate science deniers for more than 15 years. Previous episodes have been described by scientists as “harassment”. One former bureau boss described the source of previous attacks as a “fever swamp” of climate science denial that had wasted scientists’ time. On each occasion, The Australian newspaper, rather than the scientific literature, was the journal of choice for sceptics to make claims of a conspiracy within the bureau. In the meantime, the climate isn’t paying attention.
Global heating will reach at least 1.8C under even the most optimistic future, well beyond the Paris agreement goal of 1.5C, according to a UN report that warns every fraction of temperature rise intensifies destructive extreme weather, glacier melt, ecosystem loss, and island and coastal city submersion. The report by the Nairobi-based UN Environment Programme confirmed overshooting the 1.5C goal inscribed in the landmark Paris agreement of 2015 was now “unavoidable” and, despite some progress in addressing the human-caused climate crisis driven by burning fossil fuels, likely in the next few years. It said: “There are no good outcomes above 1.5C”. Heating of up to 3C above preindustrial levels could lead to glaciers losing more than a quarter of their mass by 2100, raising sea levels by up to 13cm. Global food production could decline by up to 14% by 2050 if there are not effective strategies to adapt...
And so on, and fun times guaranteed for all, and while the pond said it wouldn't look back, these zealots are as bad as the mad mullahs of Iran (actually at least the mad mullahs acknowledge climate change is real, while doing little useful about it.)
The reptiles love to talk about climate cultists, religious climate zealots and so on, but it's all projection, since none of them are scientists, and they must rely on others to deliver the required bunkum.
Should this active conspiring in the destruction of the planet be celebrated?
Probably not: as any good Xian white nationalist would know, it's way past time to invoke Revelation 11:18: "The time has come to destroy those who destroy the earth!" (GNT version)
The pond wondered if the destroyers might return for a return bout of destruction, but this day there were fresh jihads to follow...with talk of Malware's folly featuring blather about the "administrative elite", which presumably doesn't mean the "Liberal leet".
The pond did a double take at the name of the author ...
This mountain of a man tackling a mountainous problem briefly sounded like an Old Testament prophet lashing at the heathens ...
...Of course a minister, or prime minister, of the mind I am encouraging would have asked these questions before committing large chunks of taxpayers’ money. It is too late to dream of lemonade from these rotting lemons. But mindlessly flogging a dead horse does not make the best of a bad lot. The sunlight must be allowed in to begin to disinfect these weeping sores. Australians seem to be fed up with the governing elite scrounging from the people’s pockets to fund their failing grand-plan vanities. Those who don’t sniff this breeze and set their sails accordingly will get the comeuppance that is long overdue. Bruce Mountain is director of the Victoria Energy Policy Centre.
The pond confesses that the VEPC had passed it by, but for the curious ...it's actually a bunch of Victorian academic boffins, at a centre set up with Victorian government money... almost, you might think, fellow travellers with governing leets...
Also out and about was the Major, himself a member of the reptile leets, revealing his usual taste for Islamophobia ...
Why do these reptile media leets always blather about Australian media leets?
If the pond could banish just one word from the admittedly limited reptile hive mind vocabulary, "elite" would be it, both because of its monstrous stupidity and its hypocrisy ...
The Major blathered on in his usual Zionist way about Marxists and Greta and the left and Macron, and then went all "Western civilisation", as the reptile hordes are wont to do.
This one's a bit of a gob stopper, reliably rabid ...
It turns out that the hysterical Major is prone to the Great Replacement Theory, an odd place for a Zionist to land ..
The “great replacement theory,” whose origins date back to the late 19th century, argues that Jews and some Western elites are conspiring to replace white Americans and Europeans with people of non-European descent, particularly Asians and Africans. The conspiracy evolved from a series of false ideas that, over time, stoked the fears of white people: In 1892, British-Australian author and politician Charles Pearson warned that white people would “wake to find ourselves elbowed and hustled, and perhaps even thrust aside by people whom we looked down.” The massive influx of immigrants into Europe at the time fostered some of these fears and resulted in “white extinction anxiety.” In the U.S., it resulted in policies targeting immigration in the late 19th and early 20th century. In France, journalist Édouard Drumont, leader of an antisemitic movement, wrote articles in the late 19th century imagining how Jews would destroy French culture. In 1909, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, an Italian poet and supporter of Benito Mussolini, argued that war and fascism were the only cure for the world. Fascism, then and now, worked to ensure white dominance. This was followed by the eugenics movement, an erroneous and racist theory that supported forced sterilization of Black people, the mentally ill and other marginalized groups, who were all deemed “unfit.” The 1978 book entitled “The Turner Diaries,” a fictional futuristic account of the overthrow of the United States government, further contributed to white nationalist ideas. Collectively, these gave rise to a global movement that attracted a wide range of white supremacist, xenophobic and anti-immigration conspiracy theories. These theories were formally codified in the work of Frenchman Renaud Camus, first in his 2010 book “L'Abécédaire de l'in-nocence” and elaborated in his 2011 book “Le Grand Remplacement.”
Cue the Major, at one with Petey boy, and the notion of breeding like rabbits to avoid the grate replacement...
The long absent lord help anyone who feels the need to "Ask The Australian" and its version of AI nonsense, unless they're interested in climate science denialism or furriner hysteria.
On the other hand, that snap of Petey boy, grinning like a prize loon, says everything that needs to be said...and always provides a lift to the pond's day ...
Luckily the immortal Rowe was to hand to celebrate for the Major ...
Or should the pond have been welcoming the return of Wilcox, with talk of the great erasure being proposed by Zionists of a Major kind?
Meanwhile, the Caterist was out and about, and frankly the pond didn't have on its bingo card the notion that the flood waters whisperer would use the movie 9 to 5 as an inspiration... In Australia, childcare has drifted from choice to control
It was such a curiosity that the pond decided to give the quarry whisperer a go, despite having personally saved the piece to the intermittent archive so that all could enjoy it at their leisure ...
On the other hand, no need to get too enthusiastic. Screen caps would do...
But surely it did get simple again, what with the Caterist simpering over 9 to 5, which the pond vaguely recalls was a Jane Fonda-inspired (not Hanoi Jane!) entertainment of a modest kind?
Roger Ebert gave the film 3 stars out of 4 and called it "pleasant entertainment, and I liked it, despite its uneven qualities and a plot that's almost too preposterous for the material." Ebert singled out Dolly Parton as "a natural-born movie star" who "contains so much energy, so much life and unstudied natural exuberance that watching her do anything in this movie is a pleasure."Vincent Canby of The New York Times was less enthusiastic, writing, "It's clearly a movie that began as someone's bright idea, which then went into production before anyone had time to give it a well-defined personality." Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film 2.5 stars out of 4 and wrote, "The most pleasant surprise is the appearance of Dolly Parton, who with this one film establishes herself as a thoroughly engaging movie star. The biggest disappointment is that this Jane Fonda comedy about a trio of secretaries out to get their boss doesn't have more bite ... Instead of getting darker and darker, 'Nine to Five' gets lighter and lighter until it loses most of the energy it established so well early on." Variety stated, "Although it can probably be argued that Patricia Resnick and director Colin Higgins' script at times borders on the inane, the bottom line is that this picture is a lot of fun." Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film "appears to be an audience pleaser that never misses an intended laugh. However, it strays so far from reality for so long that it threatens to become mired in overly complicated silliness and to lose sight of the serious satirical points it wants to make. Happily, it does pull together for a finish that's as strong as it is funny." Gary Arnold of The Washington Post thought the film "runs a merely weak comic premise into the ground with coarse, laborious execution". He thought that Dolly Parton was the film's "only reassuring aspect", as she seemed "an instantly likable natural on the movie screen, too".[19] David Ansen of Newsweek called the film "a disappointment ... It's not wild or dark enough to qualify as a truly disturbing farce and it's too fanciful and silly to succeed as realistic satire. Politically and esthetically, it's harmless—a mildly amusing romp that tends to get swallowed up by its own overly intricate plot." Ronald Reagan wrote in his presidential diary that he and his wife Nancy watched the film on Valentine's Day 1981. He wrote, "Funny—but one scene made me mad. A truly funny scene if the 3 gals had played getting drunk but no they had to get stoned on pot. It was an endorsement of Pot smoking for any young person who sees the picture." (links at source)
Good old Ronnie Raygun, but hey nonny no, on we go ...
As for the Caterist's blanket dismissal of that blanket assertion, don't expect details of test results, and extensive discussion thereof, expect only a certain kind of quarry whispering blankness ... or even worse, expect a tedious trudge with the Tudge ...
If trudging with Tudge is the solution, the pond couldn't work out the question ...but did note a certain irony, with the Caterist strident about politicians interfering in family, while pushing the notion that the trudging Tudge could righteously interfere .
The pond also noted that once again Petey boy was front and centre ... we must breed like rabbits to save the very fabric of society!!
The Great Replacement Theory lives on in the hive mind!
As for the right of women to work?
Get thee to a trad wife lifestyle, and begin your breeding program ...
That weekend infallible Pope seemed like a decent punctuation point, what with "Rage Corp" providing a generous sewer load of crapulence.
The pond decided it could skip the reptiles being wildly excited by its latest Newspoll, which featured at the top of the digital page ma ...
It'll be what it will be ...and so the pond also skipped several other reptiles slobbering and slavering over the result ...
But the reptiles also made a big splash for simpleton Simon ...
The pond never has much time for simplistic Simon, but decided to give him a go, only to bitterly rue the result of this form of lazy, indulgent adventurism ...
That was a lot of general blather, and simplistic Simon continued on that way ...
This was all very well, but very contingent, and yet Simon had promised an earth-shattering prophesy. Would it come in the last gobbet?
Say what?
"It may be" the most consequential for decades?
He's willing to bet his house on the way that the future of both federal leaders "may be" decided by the end of next month?
Such bold predictions, such an incredible prophet, such an astonishing seer, but may be the pond wasted its time, may be this is a wretched reptile pretending to be prophetic, scribbling with as much assurance as the pond deciding that this may be the time it can pick a Melbourne cup winner ...
And so to wrap up proceedings with another immortal Rowe, which may or may not be relevant to the lizard Oz's AI ...
By golly that Drysdale painting could be found in almost every Tamworth home once upon a time, with the Hill End outing having its own wiki ...
And now for an AV distraction ... with the world's humanitarians now rejoicing at the company they're forced to keep ...
The pond always tries for inclusivity and diversity, but a second attempt to wade through "Ned" was just too onerous.
Spoiler alert, if you managed to make it to the bitter end, you discovered another reptile attempting to distance himself from his American kissing cousins ...
...“The consequences of failing to do a deal should not be understated. Realistically, it will be at least five, more likely 10 years, before Europe opens the door to Australia again. In the meantime, competitor exporters in Canada, New Zealand, India and Mercosur (South America) will exploit their advantage. “The sticking point is the deal’s current concessions in relation to labour standards and climate change. On one reading, these provisions reflect our existing obligations under adopted ILO rules and the Paris Agreement – the latter signed by Tony Abbott, ratified by Malcolm Turnbull and written into our own free-trade agreement with Britain by Scott Morrison. “On another reading, they are a problematic intrusion into a future government’s ability to regulate industrial relations and decarbonisation. It is these provisions which will be highly scrutinised by the Coalition through JSCOT to ensure future governments can make and change policies in the nation’s economic interest.” The Greens have trailed their coat on the deal. Their trade spokeswomen, Sarah Hanson-Young, has said the deal could help workers and the environment. “I have had constructive talks with Minister Farrell and will continue to engage constructively,” she said. If the Greens decide the climate and environmental provisions are meaningful, they might be tempted, but that would be a leap. One Nation’s Barnaby Joyce has been circumspect, saying the Nationals have been too fast to oppose the deal and has suggested its benefits need to be assessed. One question: is Gina Rinehart a likely winner from the FTA? Finally, there should be no mood in this country for the childish anti-European prejudices of JD Vance when many European nations are increasing their defence budgets. Urgent responses are under way in a number of Eastern European nations against tangible threats from Russia – responses far more serious than anything Australia is doing. The idea we don’t need closer institutional economic and strategic co-operation with individual European nations as well as the EU is absurd.
The reptiles might like to pretend they had nothing to do with Faux Noise's gift to the world ... but Faux Noise is still trying to herd the faithful MAGA to vote for the GOP, so the mad King can carry on in his patented, verging on the demented, definitely unhinged way ...
And so to an equally onerous burden, Polonius prattling on about the Haines tragedy.
Back in April 2022 the reptiles toed the Josh line ...
New analysis shows crossbench MPs Helen Haines, Zali Steggall and Rebekha Sharkie have voted with Labor on two out of every three divisions in the 46th parliament, with the Morrison government using the data to warn Australians against supporting “fake independents”. Ms Haines voted with Labor 67.92 per cent of the time, Ms Sharkie 64.64 per cent and Ms Steggall 66.04 per cent, according to research from the Parliamentary Library. All three independents hold former Coalition seats – Indi in rural Victoria by 1.39 per cent, Warringah on Sydney’s northern beaches by 7.2 per cent and Mayo in the Adelaide Hills by 5.1 per cent respectively... ...Mr Frydenberg on Wednesday called out the failure of independent candidates to nominate who they would support in a minority government despite campaigning for transparency and accountability in politics. “Independents are fake independents,” the Treasurer said. “They are being run and organised and are acting as a political party. Their strings are being pulled elsewhere by Climate 200. They’re running on a Labor Party platform.”
Of course the reptiles would argue it was just vigorous discourse, a healthy but polite disagreement, as they went about the business of demonising independents as Labor party stooges, daring to back "the Palestinian agenda", or faux greenies, rabid climate science believers, and some kind of dangerous radicalisation of the body politic.
Naturally they've now seized on the behaviour of a clearly sick puppy to make political capital from a tragic assault on an MP, and naturally Polonius seized the chance to slip in his own politicising of the matter.
Yesterday the pond noted the absurdity of the lizard Oz headline offered to Polonius...
Alleged attack? No, the attack was real, but it could be alleged that the vicious assault was done by a deeply disturbed loon.
The pond did appreciate the sentiment in the header for the splash ...
Say that again? Let’s not politicise this attack until we know all the facts
Keep it in mind for the rest of this post.
Could Polonius stick to that promise?
Of course he couldn't. What followed was a performative both-siderist tract, followed by a politicising of the attack ...
If Calwell's attempted assassination by Peter Kocan wasn't political, then much the same could be said about the current matter, allowing the caveat, until we know all the facts
But in typical style, Polonius broke into full politicisation, regardless of the facts ...
Did everyone notice?
The most significant acts of political violence in modern Australia's history have been instigated by the extreme left.
To rephrase, the memory hole as far as right wing journalists explains how the Polonial memory hole swallowed Captain Francis de Groot, and all the other far right ratbags who've briefly taken centre stage over the years.
And in the next gobbet Polonius whittered on in the same way ...
Australia remains a relatively peaceful place. Yet there is reason to be concerned about the developing axis between religiously motivated radical Islam and the secular radical left. So far this combination has been restricted in Australia. But recent developments in France and some other Western European nations demonstrate the potential problem. This is not the first time the radical left has been a danger to freedom in Australia.
Remember the injunction? Let’s not politicise this attack until we know all the facts ...
Forget it Jake, it's Sydney Institute syndrome ...
So glad to see: Let’s not politicise this attack until we know all the facts
Now let's drag 'Nam into it ...
Stop right there. There was a link attached, and it led here ...
Well yes, the Murdochians have long made anger, fear, hate, division, and loathing their business model, but expecting them to admit it is a bit like expecting navel gazing would produce some kind of introspection.
Imagining it's all the work of social media is to miss the way that social media finds its sources in the mainstream media - in much the same way as the ABC seems to find many of its stories and attitudes revealed to it by the lizard Oz.
But the pond digresses ...the real point is this ...
The demonstrations in the second half of the 1960s and the early 1970s against the Australian commitment to the Vietnam War were frequently violent. For example, it was all but impossible for members of the Coalition government to enter some university campuses at the time. And there were violent street demonstrations aimed at police.
Who wouldn't take to the streets to protest this complacent drivel?
And there's the real rub.
Polonius was always a war hawk and a war monger, a man who believed that the Vietnam War was worth fighting and dying for (just not him, it's much better to wage the war in print than be a mug punter rustic conscripted to head off to the front lines).
In April 2015, on the fiftieth anniversary of prime minister Robert Menzies’s decision to commit Australian combat forces to South Vietnam, political commentator and columnist Gerard Henderson wrote that it was a “correct decision taken in the interests of Australia.” He argued that the 521 Australian soldiers who died there “did not die in vain” because that ten-year war gave Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand time to equip themselves to handle the communist victory in Vietnam in 1975 much more effectively than would have been possible in 1965. This is a big call, particularly given the fact that, of the 521 Australians who died, 185 were conscripts; surely this must be of some moral relevance to any judgement about the outcome. And it is impossible to judge the “correctness” of the Vietnam war without considering those who came back injured and damaged, unable to lead a functioning life again.
Off to fight in a mindless, meaningless war, all because your marble came up, and Ming the Merciless and Polonius deemed it so and fitting. Moral relevance? Not a reptile concept ...
The Vietnam war is perhaps the best example of extreme far right violence inflicted on hapless conscripted boys in the last hundred years, not that we're the only ones featuring lap dogs of war ...
And then things went completely down hill, because all the reptiles were busy politicising the Haines assault, with the Ughmann joining the conga line ...
Remember that refrain? Let’s not politicise this attack until we know all the facts
The reptiles, accustomed to fear, hate mongering and incessant jihads about grievances, simply couldn't follow that simple injunction ...
Day after day, the reptiles respond to any dissident or disrespectful minority or pesky furriner in a fast, disrespectful and intolerant way, yet none are so blind as those that refuse to gaze at their own navels ...
Now it's beyond time to invoke that mystical entity, "The West"...
Yet more of the attitudes embedded in the Australian Daily Zionist News, but who or what is "The West"?
That obsession with bums is deeply weird, for a party always ready to indulge in homophobia, but perhaps that's the new version of "The West".
Now it's time to do a a mini history of political violence, so that ultimately "the left", marching through the institutions, can be labelled the worst offenders (why did all the reptiles leave out the Battle of Broken Hill and the Battle of Brisbane?)
Now for a little both siderism, but please remember the ultimate aim of the mission, of point of the jihad, the relentless politicising of the attack ...
Time now to pin the blame on the left-wing donkey, apparently a strategy approved by all who live inside the lizard Oz hive mind ...
Ah, the old conga line, a favourite routine when it comes to verbal violence, and yet when the pond looks around, much of the current violence in the world seems to have a far right dictatorial hue ...
But apparently it's the left the pond should fear, not the whole pack of rabid reptiles ...
Mobilise?
When the reptiles give up their climate science denialism, their relentless scapegoating of TG folk, furriners and the like, and their daily litany of online rage - the only saving grace the paywall that means you have to pay to be radicalised - then the pond will take seriously this sort of sanctimonious and righteous bleating...
The first step?
Perhaps we should nationalise the Murdochian press ... or face more decades of a circular firing squad, as each day they all line up to announce that, one way or another, they've had a gutful ...
Speaking of having a gutful, the pond always strives to be comprehensive, which means at least noting the dog botherer, also sublimely unaware of the ostensible Polonial mission ... let’s not politicise this attack until we know all the facts
Did anyone think the dog botherer could follow that call?
A more interesting question is what happens when a hate and fear monger accuses others of hate mongering? What happens when anyone suggests civility?
Here no civility, no politeness, no thoughtfulness or graciousness, just the snarling and the exposed gnashing teeth of a slavering hound, down there with that Baskervilles beast ...
At this point, the pond broke.
It was the sight of Sharri, full disrespect, that did the pond's head in.
When the reptiles pause to consider the female Teals and independents, it's only so that their dirt unit can lump them together as a disgrace, a pox on the country.
...A new website, called Teals Revealed, which has been authorised by the Liberal Party, claims that a communications company employed by several independent candidates has “deep links to the Labor Party and GetUp”...
...The attack website also attempts to tie independent crossbenchers to the Greens based on shared voting patterns in Parliament.
It mirrors the attack line trotted out by Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and conservative lobbyist group Advance in recent months.
“Australians certainly can’t afford three years of a Labor minority government, one in which the green Teals or the extreme Greens hold the balance of power,” Dutton said at a Liberal Party state conference earlier in the month...
...The Australian reported that the website will be backed up by advertising on social media, traditional media and letter drops...
...The Liberal Party – among other dubious accusations levelled at independents – claimed that their success would unleash chaos upon the Australian Parliament.
Now butter wouldn't melt in their Teal and indie bashing mouths?
It was too much, and the pond decided that a top and tailing of the dog botherer would be more than enough.
Genuine masochists could suffer the full experience via the intermittent archive link above.
Truly there was nothing new to see ... because, don't ya kno, it's all the fault of the left, and yet weirdly, the reptiles decided to slip in an example of "Juliar, ditch the witch", with the dog botherer defending the mad monk, because whipping out a chaff bag and dropping Gillard far out to sea is just normal political discourse in the hive mind.
It's beyond the valley of the insufferable, as the dog botherer ended in full "litany of grievances" mode ...
We're so far from Let’s not politicise this attack until we know all the facts that we're deep in another country, a hive mind where any connection to reality is tenuous, but where jihadists and crusaders will use any event to reinforce their world view, will use an assault to conduct assaults on their enemies, to wage wars, jihads and crusades...
Never mind the tragedy, seize the chance to turn it into a baseball bat to bludgeon anyone with a slightly different view of the universe ...
Speaking of world views, why not a riff on The Simpsons, kompleat with a different kind of Krusty Klown ...
Yet another reminder of what News Corp has given unto the world ... though to be fair, it's not just Faux Noise ...
And now to conclude with a summary of the past week of madness ...
