The Turtle House
John Fitzpatrick. About New China, the Koreas, Myanmar, Thailand, and also about Japanese and Chinese writers and poets. The main emphasis is on North Asia and the political tectonics of this very important, powerful, and many-peopled area.
Wednesday, 25 March 2026
A War on Iran
Regarding the War on Iran by the USA and little Israel.
Thursday, 12 March 2026
I do remember when Australia was a decent country, with good rule of law, compassion for the oppressed, and generally looking forward to a great and even a kind of independent and free future. It's getting very sad now. Kind of dark. ASIO, ASIS,ASD...they had a chance to act decently. They even sometimes did...but now...you may was well add IDF as a title for government decisions. Disgusting. The President of Israel had a private meeting with Australia's 'secret agents' when he dropped in. They didn't even try to arrest him, although his love for and involvement in and attachment to genocide is so damn clear.
Sad.
I do remember when Australia was a decent country, with good rule of law, compassion for the oppressed, and generally looking forward to a great and even a kind of independent and free future. It's getting very sad now. Kind of dark. ASIO, ASIS,ASD...they had a chance to act decently. They even sometimes did...but now...you may was well add IDF as a title for government decisions. Disgusting. The President of Israel had a private meeting with Australia's 'secret agents' when he dropped in. They didn't even try to arrest him, although his love for and involvement in and attachment to genocide is so damn clear.
Tuesday, 10 March 2026
Australia, its kind of sad
So, we are so far up the rectums/recta? of Donald Trump and Mr Netanyahu, that we welcome the President of Israel to my country, and seek to make laws to make Israel so very even more special.
I've voted Labor for eons now, but the Greens are beginning to look more intelligent and more humanly respectable.
Its getting near time that Ghislaine Maxwell is moved from the Happy Florida Gaol, for deeply held national security terrorist fears, and disappears, much like in a succinct Witness Protection Program, only to turn up in...Israel, or in Scotland, living a quiet, free, and undisturbed pleasant life. The decision will be by the guy who is replacing Pam Bondi as Attorney General...or perhaps it will be her last critically important decision? It's coming up...time is just about up for the big move.
Its getting near time that Ghislaine Maxwell is moved from the Happy Florida Gaol, for deeply held national security terrorist fears, and disappears, much like in a succinct Witness Protection Program, only to turn up in...Israel, or in Scotland, living a quiet, free, and undisturbed pleasant life.
The decision will be by the guy who is replacing Pam Bondi as Attorney General...or perhaps it will be her last critically important decision?It's coming up...time is just about up for the big move.
Thursday, 5 February 2026
My View of Australia after 72 years. It's appalling.
My View:
From my 72 years here, I think many Australians always wished to be British, or Irish, and now they simply wish to be Americans.I think this is just how we are, here, en masse.
Footloose on the edge of Asia, yet never really belonging to or in Asia.
Never belonging because we never wanted to belong to Asia, that's for sure. Also, because Asia never wanted us here, and that's for sure. They don't like us. We do not do fair trade. We seek to be bullies in the Pacific and Asia at the beck and call of our American owners.
Still, we are here and need to make some sense of the time.
We need to make friends in Asia by doing good trade and having generally meaningful relationships with many countries that America doesn't want us to, at all. Geopolitically, they need us in their pocket, very unaligned with anyone else.
What's wrong with Australia having an Alliance with China, India, Indonesia? That's an empowering group.
Would there be anything wrong with Australia kicking out all the American spies and high tech facilities in Pine Gap that do spy on Asia and include spying on us, our phones, our emails etc? Nothing at all. It is our country.
But what would happen?
The Americans would destroy us. We know that. Or so it seems.
Can we ever get back the land in Darwin we offered as a US Military Base? No, we cannot ever get that land back. That is not ours anymore. We cannot even make a decision on that.
I think that Australia could do well, and much better than at present, by steering a more independent course, making up our minds about things and actioning decisions rather than waiting for the USA to tell us who to be and what to think.
It is not a Call for Socialism, it is a Call for Australia to do something for itself and the short and long term real benefit of its own people rather than being an adaptive slave for its 'owners'.
That's my view.