regenerative grazing
Dot, I instinctively mistrust any neologism as the work of an egghead trying to put one over the common man and their common wisdom…
Organics
Incels
Voice
Climate Change
Lockdowns
LGBTQIAP++
COVID
Rape culture
…sometimes for fun, I like to challenge people on the spot for a definition of what they’re saying, and/or an example. I mill about with a fair few soft-skinned public servants with embroidered chambray shirts, and none of them can define “regenerative farming”, even though the WA gov amongst others has re-aligning its grants program towards the nebulous utopia.

The cack-handed ranga houso midget cheat’s appearance with bat in hand was mercifully brief tonight.

Two runs from three balls. Small man syndrome evident on his way off the ground.

Brilliant.

Frank says: January 25, 2023 at 8:10 pm

If Canberra was moved to Alice Springs it might make a difference.

FedPlod wouldn’t stand for business vandalism, car torching, and violence in the streets for even five minutes if it happened in Canberra. NT First Minister said outside forces not needed, we’ve got a bit of a bad reactor leak, just give us some time to lock it down.

But courtesy of Mr Einstein, it’s all relative. Rounding up the usual suspects and bussing them into the centre of Civic would give the capital glitterati a master class in cultural enrichment. The Voice might seem like a reasonable concession once you’ve seen what they do with an Aboriginal Bus to Parliament!

As Snowden pointed out on twitter, having the docs is the crime.
Full stop.
That was the case against Reality Winner.
Meaning Obama’s troves & Trumps docs, in designated SCIF’s are fine.
Hillary, Biden, Pence have all broken the same law Winner was given a spicy sentence for.

Miranda Devine had a Pulitzer winning day today.

Possibly Winston Churchill during WW I, on the Western Front, commanding an infantry battalion?

…and at a time when the casualty rate amongst junior leaders was greater than 80% (IIRC).

Gimme a break.
At no time was Churchill closer than 40 miles from the Front.

One of the tricks the DOJ has up its sleeve is retroactively declaring a site a SCIF.
Hard to do with Pence & Biden now.

Another trick is classifying an unclassified document years after the fact.
Meaning the holder of the document is over a barrel because having the docs is the crime.

Some parts of the DOJ resemble the Gestapo.

Unless you can drive an accurate 250+ off the tee, you’re better off playing off the ladies.

Rough. 220 is good from me, 240 if I crunch one.

Ed Case writes:
At no time was Churchill closer than 40 miles from the Front.

Anyone able to prove differently?
Didn’t think so.

Interesting scenario.
If the document that Hunter used in the email that Miranda Devine wrote about today end up in the NY Post’s hands, what happens then?

It doesn’t prove that Hunter had it (although it’s clear that he did).
But if it’s a classified document, the NY Post is in the poo.

Then the DOJ would have to make a decision.
If it is classified, the DOJ can un-classify it & Hunter’s and Joe’s legal problems go away.
But it would remain a political problem.

Fun times ahead.

At no time was Churchill closer than 40 miles from the Front.
Anyone able to prove differently?
Didn’t think so.

Ten seconds later:

Churchill became Lt. Colonel commanding the 6th (Service) Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers (RSF), part of the 9th (Scottish) Division, in January 1916. The 6th was a Kitchener New Army unit sent to France in May 1915, and was recovering from the September 1915 Battle of Loos.

Churchill and the 6th RSF served in the trenches of Ploegsteert (“Plugstreet” as British tommies called it), part of the Belgian salient of Ypres, a city now known in Flemish as Ieper but fixed in tommy-talk as “Wipers.”

The Belgian salient of Ypres. Ploegsteert is 15km due south of Ypres, and bang on the 1915 front line.

A bit closer than 40 miles, paddle boy.

Canadian State health jab gaslighting, part gazillion: Stroke Season.
Go to 1h:35m in Viva’s last vlog:
https://rumble.com/v26x68o-steven-crowder-on-tim-pool-jeremy-mackenzie-trudeau-gaslighting-and-more-ta.html

An emergency care doctor saying BOTH that his colleagues have noticed more strokes than usual lately, AND that there has always been a “stroke season” four weeks after flu season.
Soooo an event that was normally expected was also noticeably unusual. Hoo boot that ehh?

Albo caught lying about Assange.

https://michaelwest.com.au/documents-show-no-sign-albanese-government-lobbied-the-us-to-bring-julian-assange-home/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2023-01-25&utm_campaign=Michael+West+Media+Weekly+Update

Probably misread question posed but Phil was elected after discharge like Hastie.

Coles and Woolies being very hit and miss with the Australia Day merch in the north this year. Hmmmm…

Can Ed- Mong top the whiiiite suuuub with a foray into Churchill history?

https://www.scottishmilitarydisasters.com/index.php/titles-sp-26803/66-churchill-in-the-trenches

Why yes. Yes he can

Ed Casesays:
January 25, 2023 at 9:18 pm
Possibly Winston Churchill during WW I, on the Western Front, commanding an infantry battalion?

Gimme a break.
At no time was Churchill closer than 40 miles from the Front.

Prove it.

From mole’s link:

Once the battalion went into the trenches, Churchill was a frequent visitor to the frontline positions. He visited the sentries three times a day, often in the middle of the night, and went out into no-man’s land on almost 40 patrols. These excursions were not always popular with the men who had to accompany Churchill. One compared him to a baby elephant. “He used to shout in a loud gruff voice ‘You go this way, I’ll go this’ or ‘Come here I’ve found a gap in the wire, come here at once’’’, recalled Lieut. Edward Hakewill-Smith.

40 patrols. 40 miles away. Easy mistake to make.

Or not.

Ed Casesays:
January 25, 2023 at 10:27 pm
And Sudan.

Yeah.
Against the Dervishes, who were unarmed compared to the British.

Which is why General Gordon was so successful at Khartoum.

Oh, wait, …

Nearly 40 patrols, eh?

But he never got shot at, did he?
Do you know why?
Because the Germans were 40 miles away.
No wonder the men were pissed off.

But he never got shot at, did he?

Of course not, that’s why he has a “getting shot at” quote attributed to him…..

Because the Germans were 40 miles away.

You. Do. Not. Conduct. Fighting. Patrols. In. No-Man’s-Land. With. The Enemy. 40. Miles. Away.

Seriously, you have a lower level of understanding of these things than mUnter. A bold statement I know, but nevertheless.

That’s what the Anzacs reckoned, anyway.

He served with a Scottish battalion, you giant flog.

Ed October is, without question, the Bruce Pascoe of blog posters.

Australian property owners have been urged to start paying a weekly ‘rent’ tax to indigenous groups based on their ancestral claim to the land.

Presumably you can send the invoices for the billions they pump out of the economy?

You wouldn’t reckon that one small packet of “Bhuja Mix” could almost kill you.

Gimme a break.
At no time was Churchill closer than 40 miles from the Front.

Boer war included?

The extremely large calibre revolvers developed at the time made much of their dervish stopping power. Apparently quite a few found out they were under gunned the hard way,

Webley 455 eh 😉

Speedbox:
Your answer deserves an answer in reply –

The long-term problem for any future Ukrainian government is ‘how’ do they protect what’s left. A shattered economy, severe population decline, loss of industry, arable land etc.

The severe population in decline has been brought about by government policy. Ukraine will recover if the breeding population is allowed to recover. Stop taxing them to buggery for Socialist goals. Hungary? is on the right track – tax relief for families without the bullshit tennis lessons, brunch with the girls, etc.

Import people? Sure, but you’ll need millions of them and over time this will eventually dilute the ‘native’ Ukrainian DNA.

I suggest you change ‘Culture’ for ‘DNA’. Cultures change, they always do but they change at their own pace. Do-gooders ramming change down a cultures throat only gets peoples backs up. Look at how the west is bristling over the influx of blacks from strange cultures. It isn’t their colour that’s pissing us off, it’s their violent culture they brought with them.

It’s all very well for someone to suggest that Ukraine could become the world’s next ‘melting pot’ of races but this would be deeply troubling to Ukrainians. It is not difficult to see why Zelensky sees the conflict with Russia as existential for Ukraine – and in some respects he’s correct.

The melting pot is a Furphy – it was always an excuse for the Left to dilute and change our society into an image that doesn’t exist outside their febrile and childish imaginations.

I wonder, with the benefit of hindsight, whether he quietly regrets not taking a different, but still independent, trajectory after 2014. Maybe the deal laid out by Russia prior to Russian troops crossing the border. Or allowing Boris to strong arm him to reject the peace deal offered in April.

I bet Zelensky is regretting those nukes go to Russia, and I also bet he’s scabbing around the old nuclear dumps looking for enough material to make a dirty bomb. I strongly suspect that looking at past Soviet practises, there’s a fair bit to find.

In any case the dream of EU/USA supplied tanks and artillery rolling across Ukrainian fields driving Russia back to its borders and then reclaiming the Crimea in the greatest tank assault since WW2 supported by vast numbers of troops triumphantly marching into Sevastopol…… are just that. A dream.

Yes, that’s a dream, the problem is that Russia has nearly always been threatened from the west, and they have a trigger reflex for any incursions on their borders – even if they’re their neighbours borders.
The Russians are probably looking with glee the chance to add some Leopards to the collections of Panthers, Tigers, and other assorted cats in their museum.

Old School Conservative says:
January 25, 2023 at 11:53 pm

Any comment on Steve Smith’s extraordinary feats recently?
101 off 56 balls vs Adelaide Strikers
125 not out off 66 balls vs Sydney Thunder
66 off 33 balls vs Hobart Hurricanes.

A great Australian cricketer who is steadily washing away the taint of the ball tampering scandal.
Good for him.

I don’t think how it works in cricket.
In civvie life, a once only offender can redeem himself depending on the crime, but still not trusted completely.

In cricket, that foul stench always hangs around you.
It’s just not cricket. I suppose the more forgiving types see it differently.

I’m stunned by the Australian Of The Year selection. And no, not stunned in a “stunning and brave” way… it’s just appalling that they seem to be working their way through a list of woke, as opposed to recognising achievement or picking someone who might dedicate themselves to the task of getting a Mexican Wave going in the national psyche.
Morrisson was embarrasing, even before he got a gong for the embarrassing inclusivity guff.. Batty was sacred, but creepy for minimising her ex husband’s mental illness, and pivoting on shallow misandry… and not a good speaker by a long shot. Goodes was, and is, a flog, but now he’s a flog with a multimillion dollar company which sources and distributes military materiel with gold-plated “indigenous” requirements written in to policy. Tame was a nasty mistake. Allcott did bugger all- they should have known by his woeful attempts on-camera doing ABC stuff as an ABC staffer- read, diversity hire- sheesh his presentation game made his tennis game look effortless.
And now… we’ve got a “look at moi, I’m perfect JUST THE WAY I AM” chummy mummy. Here’s hoping that she’s too busy with her eyes on the prize, writing books and doing selfie thoughts vids on her morning beach walk to her 400 000 twitter followers, telling them what they want to hear- it’s absolutely ok to keep on doing exactly what you’re doing, if you can’t get a root or see your own belly button or need a new knee at age 50 there’s nothing wrong with you, it’s actually the fault of the dating app industry or the magazine industry or the medical industry or the big supermarkets.
“What if, instead of spending precious time and energy at war with their bodies, our young people were free to become the leaders, big thinkers and game changers the world needs more of right now?”
Yep, like a Pixar magic princess, youse young people all need to just become leaders. And Game Changers. And you’ll get what you want, because you’re young and you’re entitled to it and you’ll lead and the game will change… just like Rhonda Byrne’s “The Secret”, but with, you know, breakfast smoothie hacks.
It’s Tik Tok THOT Trotskyism… with mütter dressed as lamb.
Like I was trying to say, here’s hoping she won’t do much AOTY stuff because she’s flat-out raking in cash from the very “body image industry” she’s pretending to fight against.
Can’t help feeling that the AOTY list reads like a succession of declarations saying “Australia’s been doing THIS wrong all along, but now THIS person is going to show us the light and the way.”

Logging in at 3 in the morning, and seeing Churchill defended for his WWI record so well – just makes my Australia Day.

Happy Australia Day to all Cats and Kittehs. It is still the evening of the 25th here in Bamburgh, the place Bernard Cornwall called Bebbanburgh and where he located Uhtred (my hero!) of his ‘The Last Kingdom’ novels, which also became a recent long-running TV series. The area around Bamburgh is still remote and rural, with vistas of rolling downs looking very pretty beside the North Sea, which for once looked blue and friendly. It has been a beautiful winter’s day here on the drive down from Scotland’s highlands Pitlochry and its baronial Cinderella’s Castle and its roomy accommodation. Only later, here in Bamburgh, as we walked around the town of Seahouses, where we are staying, did it turn ugly with waves spraying over the waterfront walls. We needed at 5pm to be well rugged up for our walk in the dusk after a day when it seemed that a British January was not all bad weather.

We’ve been here years ago, prior to Cornwell’s successes in reimagining this site, and toured the castle, for I was just starting researching some Arthurian references to this site and Holy Island nearby (in the legends of Urien of Rhegedd in particular), plus the Farne Islands where St. Cuthbert endured saintly privations that enhanced his reputation with locals and the Christianising Bernician Kings. Against this short day, we are now holed up in another pub room, small but comfortable, in a tourist pub overlooking the enclosed fishing harbour. They serve meals and it is all very gung ho for things fishing and also for things Grace Darling doing her daring rescue as the lighthouse keeper’s daughter on the Farne Islands.

Women like Grace captured the public’s imagination in 1836 for her daring feat rescuing shipwrecked steamer passengers. Indeed, her tale soon became greatly enhanced, turning her into the Maid of the Farne Islands. Rather like Flora MacDonald on Skye with Bonnie Prince Charlie. Grace was honoured as a heroine.

Today, we honour as heroines women who don’t ever appear to have done very much, as in the choice for Australia Day just announced. There is not much inspiration in saying stay fat and feel happy. We all eat too much, and me in particular, after feasting in Polynesia, the Panama, the Southern United States, and now England and, especially, Scotland. I had haggis, sausage, egg and beans as well as my whiskey porridge for brekkie this morning, Makkas chips and a chicken wrap for lunch, and now a pub meal threatens. Woe. I had to go up a size in my clothes shopping yesterday. Our Australian of the Year, whoever she is, because I’ve never heard of her, can go hang. I’m dieting when we return.

A lament for my country. A broken down husk that has seen better times. We appear to have been taken over by spivs and halfwits.

No, I don’t want your sympathy, the fugitives say
That the streets aren’t for dreaming now
Manslaughter dragnets and the ghosts that sell memories
They want a piece of the action anyhow go
Waltzing Mathilda, Waltzing Mathilda
You’ll go Waltzing Mathilda with me

The dawn is breaking, the birds are stirring. Perhaps it isn’t “good night” after all. Not yet anyway.

Ahh..the penny has dropped regarding the Ukraine reconstruction notes.
Larry Fink gave a speech at Davos saying Ukraine will need $750bill to rebuild.

I’ve been reading the Jan/Feb edition of Quadrant in odd waking hours of upsidedownness due to travel. Last nite I read the three who wrote on ‘How Woke Ideology is Suffocating the World’. N. S. Lyons argues that ‘the woke revolution is far from over’ and asks us to get real about how things are going from bad to worse. He is terrifying with evidence on the ‘wokeness’ of yoof (which is why I am certain that sixteen and seventeen year olds should definitely not vote). 61% have positive views of socialism. He also points to the ‘unrelenting edifice’ of wokeness across all societal institutions. He argues for a ‘parallel polis’ of non-woke media and institutions, underground if necessary, as happened in the old Soviet era. John O’Sullivan concentrates on US foreign policy and its ‘bafflegab’. Worryingly, the ‘values’ of such gabbing on gender and ‘diversity’ are attached to US foreign policy and funding, working financially against any democracy that defies the woke. The trio of articles ends with Christopher Akehurst being utterly depressing with ‘No signs of light in the West’. Akehurt thinks we may as well give up and take our only pleasure at being the last civilisational generation, watching our world disintegrate around us, for our civilisation ‘is not being handed on’. Rome is collapsing and we watch the barbarians at the gate. This is not a passing phase, something that will soon move on, he says, this is a geopolitical upheaval and I fear he is right.

Well, I did finally manage to get back to sleep, consoling myself that I am making the most of the time that is left to me before the axe of tourism credits comes down to create further chaos and separate people of different nations from meeting each other. I will also fly the flag for oppositions of minor sorts as well as major ones – which was the message of Amor Towel’s important novel ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’. Opposition never completely dies. There are subtle ways of making one’s protest and feelings known, of maintaining a certain standard to pass on, to recover at some future time. Gatherings of the quietly like-minded can add focus to inchoate distress, for a start.

Woke city councils can be a lot of fun.

Massive Food Waste: City Council Goes Vegan, But Nobody Wants to Eat it (25 Jan)

“The Cambridge council phased out meat and dairy products at public events last year and switched to vegan food in an effort, they say, to fight climate change and was lauded for the policy at the time.

“There was extremely low uptake of plant-based food options: under 10 per cent of people tried these options whilst the vegetarian options and meat/dairy options were all eaten,” the report said and added, “The low uptake of the plant-based options resulted in an insufficient amount of food available at the event that people wanted to eat.”

They ate all the real food and didn’t touch Gaia’s holy nosh, even though it was free. Funny how that works.

Interesting travelogues Lizzie – keep posting.

I use two simple descriptions to argue with those who advocate for socialism – where government controls everything – and communism – where government owns and controls everything. From there it’s simple enough to point to some examples of government incompetence, and to ask “is this what you want?”

Then again, another one is “why are you arguing for the mass killers of the 20th century: Hitler, Stalin and Mao?”

The establishment really seem to want WWIII. May be that will be the old thief’s legacy along with a lawless, degenerate USA.

N. S. Lyons argues that ‘the woke revolution is far from over’ and asks us to get real about how things are going from bad to worse. He is terrifying with evidence on the ‘wokeness’ of yoof (which is why I am certain that sixteen and seventeen year olds should definitely not vote). 61% have positive views of socialism. He also points to the ‘unrelenting edifice’ of wokeness across all societal institutions.
Quite so. Conclusion: there’s no “softly, softly, catchee monkey” law abiding way to cure the entrenched leftism/marxism at every level, particularly in the USA. This is why Thatcher thought Pinochet a hero rather than a villain. But in the end Chile has reverted to a leftist government.

How to run amok – even though you’re a bloke – in a woman’s prison in Scotland:

Step 1: commit a crime
Step 2: get binned into a male prison
Step 3: claim you’re female
Step 4: get transferred

And have a look at some of those who’ve done it.

Scotland, what have you become?

Scotland, what have you become?

I’m sure as sh*t glad my ancestors emigrated. I can’t express how much contempt I have for modern Scotland.

Scotland, what have you become?

Men in kilts transition to men in skirts.

Seriously though, the profile of most appears to be sex offences, including rape. Are they now lesbians with penises?

The Scots will blame England for losing their identity if what I observed there is any indication. They think they know what they are, but it’s all about historical derring-do and football and anger about their natural resources being used by the entire UK and not for them alone. They want their independence but the best they can come up with is Sturgeon. As many have opined the best cleared out long ago.

Fantasy world will soon hit reality. Inflation, lack of energy to power their lifestyle, cost of living , a real Utopia . There will be more unpleasantness to darken their world . How will they survive without social media , huddled in their rooms in the many blackouts . Believe Britain like this already.

Today we reflect on the progression of a country – nay, continent – that went from Stone Age To First World, complete with tripled life expectancies and the ability to sustain all those who cannot or will not support themselves, in just 235 years.

Outstanding. Just outstanding.

The undeniable fact that it has – or had – the potential to be five times better than it already is were it not for our dunderhead ruling classes, is for today at least, an aside.

All the nurses they have had on can’t be lying and good on Club Grubbery for highlighting their stories when mainstream media not.

Graham Hood and John Larter should have been joint Australians of the year, not miss Bumfitt.

“There was extremely low uptake of plant-based food options: under 10 per cent of people tried these options whilst the vegetarian options and meat/dairy options were all eaten,” the report said and added, “The low uptake of the plant-based options resulted in an insufficient amount of food available at the event that people wanted to eat.”

Which is why the ‘optionality’ will be eliminated soon…..

Action for Alice reports:

72 yr old females home invaded. Midnight. Mum’s home invaded in Gillen . 4 th time in 2 weeks. 3rd time this week. She is okay . Her Rav 4 ( black ) stolen .

Where is Albo?

Ed Case: At no time was Churchill closer than 40 miles from the Front.

Britannica: In November 1915 Churchill resigned from the government and returned to soldiering, seeing active service in France as lieutenant colonel of the 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers.

Old School Conservative:
Who to believe? It’s a tough question.

Ummm, Old School Conservative:
Lieutenant Colonels aren’t Junior Officers, as quite a few clowns claimed upthread, and they don’t spend their evenings leading patrols into No Man’s Land
or getting Trenchfoot in a ditch in Belgium.
40.Miles.From.The.Front.

Ed Casesays:
January 25, 2023 at 10:46 pm
Which is why General Gordon was so successful at Khartoum.

Oh, wait, …
Churchill was with Gordon at Khartoum when he was 11 years old?
SpongeBob:
Just no.

Richard Cranium

We all know that you have severe intellectual limitations, but this has plumbed depths worse that your usual.

The reference to Gordon at Khartoum was to the Dervishes, and your inane reference to their weapons. Clearly this comment, blunt as it was, was also far too subtle for your limited intelligence.

Go play on the freeway, it will give the police something to do.

Verity Firth gets an Australia Day honour for being a one term state politician.
The bar is getting lower.

US Defense Unprepared for a China Fight: Report | China In Focus
00:50 U.S. Defense Unprepared for a China Fight: Report
01:47 War Game Simulates Chinese Invasion of Taiwan
04:27 China CDC: 12,000 More COVID-19 Deaths? Reports from Residents Cast Doubt
06:04 Death of Elderly in Rural China: Local Residents
07:23 SOS Video from Secretly Detained Beijing Protesters
08:50 Wuhan Residents Pay Tribute to COVID-19 Victims
10:29 Foreign Control: a Threat to Water Resources?
12:22 Chinese Battery Giant to Help Bolivia Develop Lithium
15:22 South Africa, China, Russia Joint Drills

Something for the Indigenous of Alice Srings