Which juicy news item do I start with first? Tossing a coin, or a vaccination syringe, first up,  Oxford University scientists trialled a TB vaccine on humans that did not pass an animal test model using monkeys: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/oxford-university-scientists-trial-tb-vaccine-babies-monkeys-did-not-work-a7928911.html.
Wait, that should read, hundreds of babies:

“The worrying results from a tuberculosis vaccine trial on monkeys before they tested the treatment on hundreds of babies were ignored by scientists at Oxford University, a former principal research fellow at the institution has claimed.

to THE AUSTRALIAN
     Alan Baker has touched on the most essential aspect of the marriage debate (8/9): ‘the importance of children being raised, wherever possible, by their biological mother and father.’ Every Australian who has had the good fortune to be so raised should think carefully about how a ‘yes’ vote might militate against this. It might also facilitate future legal action on the grounds of ‘discrimination’ against anyone expressing this view. Would that really be in the interests of society and the nation?
NJ, Belgrave, Vic

to THE AGE
     Your editorial (‘The survey’s on, so vote “yes” for justice’, 8/9) fails to consider the other parties whose interests are at stake in this plebiscite. Foremost among them are children. I am so grateful that I was raised in a family with a father and a mother, and I urge all Australians who have enjoyed similar good fortune to ask themselves whether they would really be happy to have been brought up instead by two men or two women?
As for Bill Shorten’s promise that the ALP, if elected to government, will ignore any ‘no’ victory, that suggests a bullying and fanatical attitude and tramples on democratic principle.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic

     Have you ever wondered what the philosophical, if that is the right word, genesis of the antifa comes from? Sure, communist ideology is a sound bet, but one also notices strands of nihilist DNA and anarchism as well. Yet, maybe we oldies are reading too much into this, as a recent article indicates:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/sep/09/no-fascist-usa-how-hardcore-punk-fuels-the-antifa-movement

     According to Mark Bray, author of The Antifa Handbook:
https://www.amazon.com/Antifa-Antifascist-Handbook-Mark-Bray/dp/1612197035

     Although nationalist types are saying that the Mayweather vs McGregor fight was a form of racial punishment, cold sober analysis reveals nothing of the sort. I have gone over the fight taking hours to view the appalling show of what was once the manly art. Since the time of Ali, boxing has been rapidly going downhill. Sure, athletes are full of steroids and there have been strong punchers like Tyson, but the skill level cannot match the older generation.

     Since Ali’s rope-a-dope strategy, boxers have kept their guards down, so TV viewers can see their faces, but they usually get smacked in the head when they punch. You see this all the time in boxing matches. It is embedded in popular culture in the Rocky boxing movies, where Stallone just takes punches to the head like an Italian sponge. Defence is non-existent. McGregor was simply terrible. Mayweather was only a little better.

     The media always think racially (collectivistically) whenever an ethnic does well or something clever: this is a positive case for multiculturalism and multiracialism. Nevertheless, when bad things are done, the chattering class are usually silent, or rattle the mantra “racist, racist, racist…” like a machine gun, and never address the issue. There is never any contrary evidence to their case, which indicates that it is not scientific, but mostly BS.

     Hence, what is to be made of the thousands of UK children who have been physically and sexually abused by Muslim gangs? This has been going on for many years, and the stories are straight out of a barbarian war zone:
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/08/23/6000-child-abuse-allegations-muslim-grooming-gang-hotspot-sandwell/

     “Education Boom Changing the Face of Cities’ Centres,” The Australian, August 28, 2017, p. 6, tells us something which those of us outside of the green leafy suburbs are well aware of: that new buildings are going up, rapidly to house Asian students, who are all going to stay to become Australia’s professional class. Just take a Captain Cook at the faces in medical school at most universities.

     Here, read it cut from: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/international-students/education-boom-changing-the-face-of-cities-centres/news-story/4f1554c1687aacc99382a085895980bf:

to THE AUSTRALIAN
     Steve Kessell’s blanket claim that ‘Buddhism has no god’ (29/8) is simplistic, even misleading. For example, the doctrine of nirvana does not refer to a final nothingness (as in nihilism) but a final separation from all the things of this world. That still leaves room for the mysterious divine One, an ultimate reality more immediately obvious in sacred traditions such as Christianity and Islam. The spirituality of Buddhism has been well addressed by Frithjof Schuon (‘The Buddha is renunciation, peace, mercy and mystery.’) and the Buddhist scholar Marco Pallis in his essay ‘Is there room for ‘grace’ in Buddhism?’

     It is not that ‘a kind and caring spiritual practice does not necessarily need a god’, but that it does not need any particular contingent and limited image or conception of the divine One. By contrast, the danger of the current surge of atheism in the West is that it threatens to cut off humanity altogether from the ultimate source of truth and right guidance. That road leads to tyranny, corruption, horrors.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic

to THE AGE
     The welfare of Australians is threatened by intolerant authoritarianism from left-wing agitators and corporate shysters. This can be seen in the defacing of a statue of Captain Cook, in uninvited graffiti in public spaces, in corporations adopting partisan positions in controversies and thus treating non-like-minded employees unfairly, and in professional bodies in law and medicine doing the same - to say nothing of some churches or church groups.
     Why should this be? It seems that people find the taking up of causes to give meaning to their own lives - this is medicine for the illnesses of boredom and personal frustration. Having become too attached to their causes, they then experience any contradiction as a source of aggression against themselves and become ruthless in trying to obliterate it.
     Only a renewed awareness within society of the truth of sacred tradition and the value of sanctified ethical codes can provide a solution to this political evil.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic

     A supermarket in Germany has made a statement about “racism,” by removing all foreign groceries from its shelves:
http://metro.co.uk/2017/08/23/supermarket-removes-all-foreign-groceries-from-shelves-to-make-point-about-racism-6872026/
See, there is nothing left, and you all would starve!  Keep up the experiment for a year, just to show how ideologically pure you are.

     Nevertheless, contrary to this, I think that the message delivered is exactly the opposite. It shows how foreign domination amounts to a form of economic imperialism, which is “racism,” to use that meaningless, catch-all word. Perform the same circus trick in an African country and you get the same result. Do these chatterers want to label oppressed Africans as “racists”? Surely not. Hence, refuted, QED.
On the meaning of “tu quoque” (“you also”): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

     The latest street violence in America, at the Berkeley conservative Patriot Prayer Group Protest Against Marxism in America, clearly showed that it is the Left who are the ones seeking a violent overthrow of society, or maybe they just want to destroy for destruction’s sake? There were no so-called “racists” and/or Alt Right at the rally at all, but still the antifa went mad. Here are photos of them having their usual temper tantrums:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4828672/Masked-antifa-swarm-Berkeley-rally-assaulting-several.html.

     The organiser of the rally is apparently transgender and politically correct, except for being against Marxism:
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/08/25/whos-behind-the-mysterious-rally-in-berkeley-this-sunday/
http://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/08/24/anti-marxist-rally-organizer-says-white-supremacists-violence-not-welcome-berkeley/

     Italy has done its fair, or unfair share, of passing migrants onto the once Nordic Northern Europe, especially Germany:
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/829232/Italian-Government-asylum-seekers-200-000-EU-visas-Schengen-scheme-travel
Now, Italy is set to let 200,000 migrants head to the UK. But, Italy has been allowing the migrant flow for some time:
https://www.thelocal.it/20160429/germany-joins-austria-to-press-italy-on-migrant-influx
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2015/06/the-invasion-of-italy/, reporting on Italy’s decriminalising illegal immigration, and with its policies of encouraging illegals,  helping to fuel the immigration crisis.

     Italy, though, will face demographic extinction problems of its own, as a study, “How Immigration is Changing Italian Demographics,” http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/07/20/report-immigration-crisis-causing-unprecedented-shift-in-italys-demographics/ shows:

     We are told that race does not exist, unless you are White, which does not exist, being a social construct, unless you protest, and then you are a “White supremacist’:
http://takimag.com/article/where_are_all_the_white_supremacists_jim_goad/print#axzz4r69or9WT
Why, Jared Taylor over at American Renaissance, holds that East Asians are superior to Whites (based on a few IQ studies, which we have refuted at this site), as Goad puts it, which makes the magazine a bit useless (it should be defending East Asians and letting inferiors like his kind meet their fate). But, Jared, for all of his infinite qualifications and moderation of his site, gets treated by the System, just like the radicals he desperately tries to differentiate himself from, as a “white supremacist”! Gasp! As Jim Goad would say, in his journalistic street lingo, “that plain sucks.” Yeah, it sure does, Jared.

     Back to reality, turning to the real news site, The New York Times, there is this article: “Even With Affirmative Action, Blacks and Hispanics Are More Underrepresented at Top Colleges Than 35 Years Ago”: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/24/us/affirmative-action.html  Here is the basics of this:

     Socialist film maker Michael Moore has said that he is looking forward to the day when Whites are a minority in America: https://www.fastcompany.com/40459122/michael-moore-says-trump-is-on-track-to-win-again-in-2020. He seems to think, if that is the word, that when Whites are a minority in America, the Democrats will be eternally in power and will establish a socialist paradise, or something along those lines.

     Moore’s position is deluded on many levels, as the better argument is that civil war will occur, and is already occurring. Moore’s worldview does not permit taking in facts, such as the largely unreported war between Blacks and Hispanics in many US suburbs. But, I don’t want to discuss ethno-race issues here.

     I have nothing against transgender people – some of my best friends are transgender. It means having blue hair, doesn’t it? There are lots of such ladies in the nursing home I visit, where I get to talk to them, and eat their scrap sandwiches, or is that sandwich scraps? Or, just scraps? I hope that I have got my facts right and are not making a fool of myself. But, then, using comas with precision, how would that be even possible?

     Well, some transgender folk in America have hearts that are not filled with the warmth and love for all humanity that I have:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rleFAS_B04 
    Consider transgender reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner, who, I was utterly amazed to learn, supports President Donald Trump. See, she is a good person, and all those internet jokes are just sick. Anyway, she said that Trump was “very much behind the LGBT community.” Truly amazing.

     As my research and writing focus is on feminism and related issues, I read neo-masculinity sites like Matt Forney and Roosh v.  There are some very good articles, some bad ones, but most, well, it’s just another day on the internet. On the more “intellectual” sites we sometimes find articles on the “women problem,’ with this example from Émile Durand: https://www.counter-currents.com/2017/07/faustian-civilization-and-the-new-patriarchy/

     The message is that women need to give white men a break from the female version of the cultural wars so that the process of civilisation-building can go on. Otherwise, well, things will fall apart.

     Reflecting on the LGBTI – have I forgotten any letters – Kevin Donnelly says: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/opinion/wear-it-purple-day-and-other-culturalleft-moves-sending-us-puce/news-story/7c3252539f51320173ef3ab78aa38718

“Given the re-emergence of the Safe Schools program, a NSW primary school putting on a Stolen Generations play where children dress as nuns and victimise Aboriginal children, and the Australian Education Union’s campaign to promote the LGBTI Wear it Purple Day, there’s no doubt that the cultural left now dominates our education system.

     Here is a good article about feminism’s anti-biology ideology, that sex/gender differences don’t exist, except for those which feminism finds politically useful to admit: http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/.

     On a practical level, here in Australia we have women having to complete only FOUR pushups as a component of their physical for the Australian army, as part of a campaign to double the number of female troops. This is clear discrimination, and an open admission that females have, in general less upper-body strength than males. The same madness of physical dumbing down is occurring in the fire brigade, where the need to carry people from burning buildings could endanger lives: 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4807090/Women-fitness-test-four-push-ups-Australian-Army.html
http://www.smh.com.au/national/sparks-fly-over-fire-brigades-attempts-to-recruit-more-women-20100312-q48f.html

     North Korea has fired a missile over Japan, and as you can imagine the usually polite Japanese are pretty upset about this. “We are normally polite, but we think that the North Koreans are very rude firing their ICBM waste over our side of the fence,” the Japanese Prime Minister, Bruce Lee, said. Or, words to that effect. And that may not be his name. It could be Malcolm Shinzo Abe Turnbull. Whatever –  I know their frustrations, having flung missiles of rubbish over my long-suffering neighbour’s fence: “Uncle Len, I am normally polite, but I find it very rude of you  to fire your waste over our side of the fence,” my neighbour said, before ringing the police, after throwing a rock at me, which hit me on the head. It did not hurt. (Why?)

     Well, the “police” are set to come, with “Asian war”: The Australian, august 30, 2017, p. 1. Yippeeeeee! Whatever has taken you New World Order guys so long to get to the next great killing? Not having experienced the salty, sweet taste of mass blood money for so long must be hard when you are a globalist vampire. (Don’t worry, I am not getting political, I saw someone use this metaphor on an internet site and just thought that I would hurl it into the pot for extra nutrients.)

to THE AUSTRALIAN
     The marriage debate is getting ugly, as Bill Shorten and others predicted it would, but the ugliness seems to be largely coming from fanatical ‘yes’ advocates. Vilification of defenders of traditional marriage appears to be widespread and intense (‘Pastors threatened after false claim’, 31/8) and corporate and professional bodies are misusing their status to the detriment of dissenting members (‘Law dean demands retreat on Yes vote’, 31/8).
     The unattractive nature of ‘Mardi Gras’ marches in recent years was a forewarning of this sort of behaviour. One is reminded of ancient advice about keeping evil genies bottled up and not opening Pandora’s boxes. The biblical saying ‘by their fruit shall ye know them’ is also relevant. If the plebiscite goes ahead, let us hope there will be sufficient Australians who see that ‘same sex marriage’ is a bridge too far.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic