When will the climate change madness end? Surely only with the complete shedding of Western techno-industrial civilisation.  The case in point, banning the humble sausage, one of life’s remaining joys, to be cruelly snatched from us by  … by … the climate change police!
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/08/08/wurst-idea-ever-germany-to-tax-sausages-to-fight-climate-change/

“German legislators have proposed raising the sales tax on meat from seven percent to 19 percent to fight climate change and improve animal welfare. Research has shown that greenhouse gas emissions from livestock account for a higher percentage of total global emissions than the world’s 1.2 billion automobiles, a fact underscored by some German Greens who are pushing for higher meat taxes. A United Nations report from 2012 found that the earth’s cattle population generates more carbon dioxide than automobiles, planes, and all other forms of transport combined. Moreover, the cow pies they deposit and the wind they break produce a third of the world’s methane emissions, considered 20 times more detrimental to the environment. According to Germany’s Federal Statistics Office, slaughterhouses in Germany killed 29.4 million pigs, cows, sheep, goats and horses during the first six months of 2019. During this period, Germany produced 3.9 million tons of meat, led by pork, the primary ingredient in German sausages. “I favor abolishing the VAT reduction for meat and using it (the increased revenues) instead for more animal welfare,” said Greens agriculture spokesman, Friedrich Ostendorff. The idea of raising meat taxes would be to reduce livestock numbers — as well as their gaseous output — by discouraging people from eating meat.”

     With the lack of Masculinity produced by our matriarchal society, it is good to read something with some testosterone in its lines, like this one, from the usually liberal Quora, but a good one:
  https://www.quora.com/If-a-gunman-is-about-to-open-fire-and-you-re-in-the-crowd-should-you-run-or-duck-and-would-fighting-back-be-advisable

Robert Whaley, former Strategic & Tactical Planning Mgr Info Systems (1978-2002)

     Here is yet another example of the Left going mad:
  https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/08/08/msnbc-guest-elie-mystal-i-want-pitchforks-and-torches-outside-trump-donors-house-in-the-hamptons/

“Thursday on MSNBC’s “All In,” network regular and Above the Law executive editor Elie Mystal called for aggressive protesting outside of the home of Stephen Ross, the owner of SoulCycle and the Miami Dolphins, for holding a fundraiser for President Donald Trump. Mystal said acknowledged the Hamptons were “very nice,” but indicated it didn’t have to be. “People of color are already targets under this administration,” he said. “I have no problem with shining the light back on the donors who fund this kind of racialized hate. I mean, I go further. I want pitchforks and torches outside this man’s house in the Hamptons.” “I’ve been to the Hamptons, it’s very nice,” Mystal continued. “There’s no reason it has to be. There’s no reason he should be able to have a nice little party. There’s no reason why people shouldn’t be able to be outside of his house and making their voices peacefully understood.”

     With the elites having exciting times smashing the deplorables, Trump supporters, and anyone they have with the meme: you are a mass murder if you oppose anything we support, in any shape or form, there is the inconvenient truth of Chicago, which is like a mini Sweden:
  http://newobserveronline.com/chicago-nonwhite-crime-disaster-shuts-down-hospital-after-mass-murder-weekend/

“One of Chicago’s major hospitals was forced to temporarily shut its doors to new patients last weekend after being overrun by wounded victims following a record-breaking non-white gun crime spree which saw over 59 shootings and seven fatalities. According to local reports, Chicago’s Mount Sinai Hospital temporarily stopped accepting patients Sunday morning because they were at capacity following a series of shootings. Chicago Police Public Information Officer Anthony Guglielmi told media that that officers responded to several multi-victim shooting incidents on the “west side of Chicago stemming from gang conflict.” The west side of Chicago has been completely overrun by masses of black, Hispanic and Puerto Rican gangs, who engage in a bustling criminal lifestyle including drugs, prostitution, theft and so on. The extent of the non-white violence is apparent from an audio recording released by Chicago police, which gives an idea of the ferocity of the gun battles in which the non-white gangs engage: it literally sounds like a war zone.”

To The Australian         As a graduate of the University of Melbourne, I am outraged that Duncan Maskell, the present vice-chancellor, has wrongfully dishonoured the achievements of the university since its foundation ("Lessons of Garma shape the future", 14/8). His claim that the university's "history pales into insignificance compared with the thousands of years of history and culture" of Aboriginals, put forward without any substantiating evidence, is sentimental and populist rhetoric. The university has a distinguished history of achievement by its scholars since its foundation, including discoveries of worldwide importance. Moreover, its history extends back through the European university tradition to the learning centres of the ancient world, Egyptian, Greek and Roman. I doubt that the Stone Age hunter-and-gatherer culture of the Aboriginals achieved anything remotely comparable in its long occupation of this continent. Maskell shows no awareness of the powerful case that has been brought against Aboriginal constitutional recognition by a number of our leading intellectuals. Has he read Keith Windschuttle's books, for instance?
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

     This was way before my time, but our founding father Eric Butler in a tremendous little leaflet, The Truth about the Chinese Communists “Agrarian Reformers” or Moscow Agents? first published c.1956, is just as relevant to today as when it first hit the streets of once was what Anglo-Australia. Butler said:

“If the Communist conspiracy against Western Civilization is successful — and there is a grave danger that it may — victory will have been accomplished not primarily by force of arms, but by a propaganda campaign which was designed to undermine potential victims' beliefs in fundamental principles upon which their way of life has been erected. As has been demonstrated time and time again, the real Communist menace is the manner in which conspiratorial methods have been used to influence and pervert the policies of all Western Governments and organizations. Even more menacing is the manner in which large numbers of influential members of the community, particularly those in the position to influence public opinion, are used unconsciously to disseminate propaganda which suits the Communists' purposes.”

     With all we hear in the media is about how sex differences are a social construction, for a breath of air, consider some basic physiology, neatly summarised here, which is good once I got past a few bits of course language that nowadays seems to fill blogs:
  https://notpoliticallycorrect.me/2019/08/02/men-are-stronger-than-women/

“Men have about 61 percent more muscle mass than women (which is attributed to higher levels of testosterone); most of the muscle mass difference is allocated to the upper body—men have about 75 percent more arm muscle mass than women which accounts for 90 percent greater upper body strength in men. Men also have about 50 percent more muscle mass than women, while this higher percentage of muscle mass is then related to men’s 65 percent greater lower body strength (see references in Lassek and Gaulin, 2009: 322). Men have around 24 pounds of skeletal muscle mass compared to women, though in this study, women were about 40 percent weaker in the upper body and 33 percent weaker in the lower body (Janssen et al, 2000). Miller et al (1993) found that women had a 45 percent smaller cross-section area in the brachii, 45 in the elbow flexion, 30 percent in the vastus lateralis, and 25 percent smaller CSA in the knee extensors, as I wrote in Muscular Strength by Gender and Race, where I concluded:

     As senile and as bad as Trump is, Joe Biden is right off the planet, basically charging into open borders immigration:
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/08/09/biden-flood-of-immigration/

“Former Vice President and leading 2020 Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden is vowing to greatly increase the number of legal immigrants admitted to the United States every year. In a speech to the Asian and Latino Coalition PAC, Biden promised to increase the level of legal immigration to the country beyond the roughly 1.2 million legal immigrants that are admitted every year, booming the foreign-born population to an unprecedented 45 million — a 108-year record high. Specifically, Biden said the U.S. can “in a heartbeat” import another two million immigrants today.

     I did not know this before, but YouTube has some fanatically fantastic legal material which is highly entertaining, especially on these cold wet winter days. Especially good is Legal Eagle, with a highly articulate lawyer, who deals with legal issues such as what would happen if millions of Americans stormed Area 51, the place of supposed alien technology. The answer is that the Deep State would respond with violence, maybe not killing tens of thousands, but they could if necessary. Legally, if people were aggressive the Deeper’s thugs could kill every one of the million.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1v-HM7Q9PE

     Just as a hypothetical, if most of the US population turned up, practically impossible but still a legal theoretical debating point, what then? In principle, to defend “America” the system could kill most Americans. I imagine that they would replace the entire nation with migrants from South America and Asia overnight, instead of, over a few years as is being done now. Does that sound wrong to you? Just consider the Epstein saga, discussed on these pages elsewhere to see what the Deep State is capable of.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXtI-8dq7B0&list=PLUvQ_mNbE83XujugJUpexqpw6jtNpjOV6

     A little while back someone, and it could be me, memory fails me with work overload, covered the story of the Hollywood movie The Hunting, that was set to be released. Its pathetic story was that a group of elites got to hunt down and kill Trump supporters, and this was explicit. Then there were the two shooting sprees, one from the Right and the other from the Left, and the new class decided that they needed to capitalise on the opportunity of portraying all people right to Trump as killers, and this too was stated explicitly. Anyway, now Hollywood has got cold feet about its “beautiful” movie:
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/08/10/universal-cancels-the-hunt-where-liberals-kill-deplorables-for-sport/

“Universal has cancelled the release of the film The Hunt, reportedly featuring liberal elites hunting and killing “deplorables” for sport. The decision comes after the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, and President Donald Trump calling “liberal Hollywood” racist and full of violence. “While Universal Pictures had already paused the marketing campaign for The Hunt, after thoughtful consideration, the studio has decided to cancel our plans to release the film,” the studio said in a statement. “We stand by our filmmakers and will continue to distribute films in partnership with bold and visionary creators, like those associated with this satirical social thriller, but we understand that now is not the right time to release this film.” The shelved film kicked off a firestorm last week after ESPN announced its decision to pull TV ads for The Hunt, a decision the network made in the wake of the deadly mass shootings in Texas, and Ohio that left more than 30 people dead and dozens more injured.”

     The Leftoid gun banner typically argues that where there is some shooting with deaths and injuries, that the gun and the person is at fault, but mainly the guns. No guns, no shooting; simple. Just forget about illegal guns, seen most dramatically in gun-controlled places like Mexico and Chicago. But, what about murders with hammers and other blunt melee weapons and tools?
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/08/11/fbi-more-people-killed-hammers-clubs-rifles-kind/

“The most recent FBI crime stats show that more people were killed in 2017 with hammers and clubs than were killed with rifles of any kind. Breitbart News reported the most recent numbers–those for 2017–on September 26, 2018. Those figures showed that 467 people were killed with “blunt objects (hammers, clubs, etc.),” while 403 were killed with rifles. And it must be noted that the category of “rifles” used by the FBI includes bolt action, pump action, single shot, and semi-automatic, as well as those the left describes as “assault weapons.” This means only a percentage of the 403 deaths attributed to “rifles” would have been carried out with an “assault weapon.” So, the gap between the number of persons beaten to death with hammers and clubs verses those killed with “assault weapons” would be even greater than the gap between those who died in a hammer/club attack versus those who died being shot with “rifles” of any kind. Breitbart News also reported that the 2017 crime figures showed 1,591 people were killed with “knives or cutting instruments” while 403 were killed with “rifles.” This means nearly four times as many people were stabbed to death as were killed with any kind of rifle. (The gap between the number stabbed to death and the number of persons explicitly killed with an “assault weapon” would be even greater.) Yet Democrats are pushing an “assault weapons” ban and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) says legislation for such a ban will be “front and center” when the Senate reconvenes.”

     I once read a book by David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery (1991), which I found in deconstructed state at a garage sale:
  https://altexploit.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/david-bloor-knowledge-and-social-imagery-university-of-chicago-press-1991.pdf

     This was an early work in the strong program of the sociology of knowledge arguing for a social constructionist view of mathematics. Well, that book seems mild by the wild west standards of today:
  https://www.thecollegefix.com/math-prof-who-argues-against-truths-and-knowledge-to-host-carleton-college-convocation/
  https://www.thecollegefix.com/professor-proposes-mathematx-to-fix-pro-human-bias-in-math/

     Good old Zerohedge.com, has just the right blend of economic doom and unrelenting apocalypse to keep my interest. Its coverage of the build up to World War III, is highly informative, even, entertaining. In a nut shell there are there major developments that could kick the can over the line. These are the Middle East, China and North Korea.
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-31/we-just-witnessed-3-major-developments-could-easily-lead-global-war

     Israel and Iran are already at war, with Israel attacking Iranian military targets within Syria. These were Iran-run bases, attacked by F-35 jets. Iran could retaliate by hitting targets within Israel which will set off the long-awaited Middle East War. Israel could use nuclear weapons if it was felt that there was an existential threat created. So would I if I had them and my flat was under attack, although the paradox is that I would go down in the bang. That would be interesting.

     Correspondent Viv Forbes makes valuable contributions to On Target but some of his remarks in On Target Vol 55 No 32 deserve a comment.

     Viv might have a miner’s approach to these matters, where any useful mineral should be dug up and used or exported to generate jobs or wealth etc.  His claim that solid hydro-carbon resources cannot be used without disturbing other resources such as soils, vegetation and stored water is a valid one but he then complained about destructive laws that give priority to coal seam gas, water and arable land resources.  Farmers could be relocated; forests can be replanted and top soils can be set aside, Viv said.

To The Australian        Labor senator Pat Dodson is the latest Aboriginal leader to damage his cause ("Leaders fear loss of 'Anglo imprint'", 10-11/8). Insulting us by claiming erroneously that "Australia has very little to celebrate in its own right" apart from democracy is amazingly foolish. Has Dodson forgotten the heroism of the early explorers, the industry of the pioneers, the Anzac spirit and the proud record of our men and women at war, the dedicated leadership that led to Federation, the planting of churches across the continent, the works of our artists from Elioth Gruner and Norman Lindsay to Wlliam Dargie and John Brack, our literary tradition that runs from Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson to Patrick White and Martin Boyd? He is misleading to complain about "the Anglo-Celtic imprint on this nation". Australia really is an Anglo-Celtic nation. As for his feigned blindness to the reasons for Australians' fear of Aboriginal constitutional recognition, it is as reprehensible as his claim that there has been a longstanding failure of magnanimity towards Aboriginals. The reverse is the truth.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

To The Age        Kristy Campion seems oblivious to the fact that much of the ideology of the Right is based on realism and truth-telling ("What drives right-wing extremists?", 10/8). For example, democracy (as Plato noted) is not always in practice of admirable nature, while egalitarianism is unjust to high achievers and bad for society generally. Moreover, whites are entitled to feel fear that their collective identity and lifestyle is at risk. Nor are right-wing activists wrong to distrust corporations and to resent media censorship and no-platforming tactics used against them. Where the real weakness of their ideology lies is in its disdain for the sacred, its tendency towards authoritarianism and, most of all, its resort to violence. In that sense, deradicalisation is a reasonable response by society, but it must be accompanied by other kinds of social and political reform too.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave 

     This all happened before the El Paso shooting, but may still be relevant, as Antifa are tooling up, ready for a siege, and all of the good times that flow from that:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-08-01-antifa-anarchists-gear-up-for-militancy-training-siege-of-el-paso.html

“According to information circulating online, Antifa-aligned anarchists and activists are calling for a 10-day “siege” of El Paso, Texas, on the U.S.-Mexico border to conduct “militancy training” in preparation for “direct action” against — someone. Perhaps even Border Patrol or Customs and Border Protection personnel currently patrolling the border and staffing detention facilities filled with illegal aliens. At least, if the artwork accompanying a flyer announcing the event is any indication. As indy journalist Andy Ngo, who was recently criminally assaulted by Antifa supporters and members during a protest in Portland, Ore., posted on Twitter, the flyers feature images of ICE and Border Patrol agents being shot and killed with bows and arrows, as well as Molotov cocktails, while anarchists firebomb a border wall separating the U.S. and Mexico in order to allow illegals to stream in. “Antifa is leading a ‘Border Resistance’ militancy training tour that will converge on a 10-day siege in El Paso, TX. The promotional image shows border enforcement officers being killed & government property fired bombed. Organizers asking for ‘white comrades’ to pay for others,” Ngo wrote.”

     The breakdown of Western civilisation is going according to the grand plan:

“A City of Westminster Clean Streets sign posted to Twitter reads, “This area is being monitored for street fouling. Anyone urinating or defecating may be subject to arrest.” “Welcome to London. Do not sh** in the street,” tweeted Old Holborn. Public defecation used to be more of a problem in non-European countries, but it seems to have made its way here now. The sight of feces in the streets is becoming a major problem in liberal utopias like San Francisco, and it seems it’s London’s turn for a taste of that brand of progressivism.”

     To serve and protect. Yes, that is fine. But should the police offer prizes for officers handing out the most fines? Could this have a possible impact upon justice, with people who are innocent, or close to the thin blue line of the law, being wrongly booked to get the numbers?
  https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/law-order/review-launched-after-sa-police-officer-offered-gift-card-for-most-fines-handed-out/news-story/5288cc4cc9c59a67acdb0c200f75de18?utm_source=The%20Advertiser&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial

“SA Police has launched a formal review into the actions of a senior member of the force who offered a gift card as a prize for whichever officer handed out the most fines and cautions during a road safety blitz. Police revealed the incident occurred ahead of a traffic campaign that runs from Monday until Friday. “A SAPOL manager recently directed an email to some staff offering an incentive to the police officer who made the greatest contribution to road safety by way of Traffic Infringement Notice Expiations or Cautions issued as a part of the current traffic operation ‘Operation Fatal Distraction’,” it said in a statement. “The incentive offered was a gift card purchased by the manager from their own funds. Such a practice is not SAPOL policy and is not permitted. “The email instruction has been recalled and SAPOL staff have been advised that the advice in the email is not to be actioned and is contrary to SAPOL’s policy and practices.”

     The ever-relevant and hard-hitting, Andrew Bolt is spot on with this one, as usual:
  https://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/governorgeneral-has-no-right-to-play-this-race-politics/news-story/66309edf5ba168f7ac17d2b109e16250

“I’ve been out of the country just two days. Did I miss the memo to tear up the important convention that our (unelected) Governor-General keep out of politics?: Governor-General David Hurley says Australia must move quickly to secure constitutional recognition of Australia’s first peoples through a referendum. Stay in your lane, GG. It is not your role to play politics. You are the constituional umpire, not a player. It is certainly not your role to take a partisan stand on such a very divisive political issue, and risk trashing your ability to perform your key function - as the ultimate impartial umpire in the event of a constitutional crisis. (By the way, I suspect you'll find most Australians are against you on constitutional recognition.) Will the Prime Minister have the will to advise the Governor-General to keep his nose out of this?”