MELBOURNE REAL ESTATE: from what i can see, in melbourne, you can buy a nice 2 bedroom 1 bathroom rat house for only $2 million dollars...but who would want to do that? It is still a rat house, and no matter how busy you are making connections and interacting with folk and what is that other word for it..., that 'making important contact' word that eludes me...well, that word anyway...that word that blurs the line between being a human being and being an absolute self serving narcissist cunt...what is that word? ...hang on... ah, that's it...Networking...and all that, after you've eaten out at some Tibetan-Thai cafe, you still have to come home to a rat house...and a fucking tiny dirty noisy rat house at that. Melbourne real estate is not a price bubble, its a rat bubble.

To Ossify a Poem: Now, ossifying can only be done by the living poet themselves, when they take the poem, over the years of word changes etc, and set it for good. Then it has bones, then you can see if it stands up...and that's not up to you at all. That's up to it. by that time you have basically nothing to do with it. the ting with poems is that you write the poem and it is only from the poem that the poet emerges...if at all. we think that artists paint pictures, but it is the pictures that project the artist into a short reality....not the other way round at all.The artist is the projection, and they're usually terrible messy folk and don't last long, that's for sure...same with the good poets. It isnt a long or well paid gig at all, at all. that's the thing...the poem, the painting...it has to be equal to life, but not life...and this involves a certain payment...and it is in the payment that an artist can briefly emerge, but never for long.

none of us can be masters of the art we freely chose to be the servants of. we pass too fast to be involved in the great notions of the gods that bedevil us wit all the manifestations of love.

new job palliative care

New job in ​'​end of life​'​ care starts 24 April, in the Year of Our Lord, 2017...when I'll be putting on the tie...again. It will be a green tie.

​Teaching them doctors and nurses about the elegant and beautiful titrations of the opiates, and the associate gear...

​Til then the mental health work with the addictions and psychosis etc is pretty good,

and I'll keep doin it a bit of mental health, ​even ​later on,

just as a break from the actual serious and difficult work​ of palliative care​, to be sure​...

​​Mental Health Work: The Addictions...etc...​A day's paid holiday within every working week...

as for palliation, per se...of our terminal ills...

​"If you're going to do the job well, it's best to stay away from the fentanyl and oxycodones, to be sure

stick wit Mother Morphia, and the few other Ms... its a natural and organic ting, and we do need it from time to time. Opium has been with us for so long now that we have evolved to have inbuilt lung and brain receptors exactly for it...and for nothing else that comes close.

That's why the good Lord gave Opium to us, in her wisdom.

You don't want people to be seeing those fentanyl rabbits too often or go through those oxycodone horror hours at all. You just want the person to feel okay, and still drive a car home​ if they want to. We are only here for awhile, you know, and the exit should be made as comfortable as the entry, after all, if we have evolved at all...and I doubt that. Still, if midwifery matters, then so does palliation...and just as dearly....We don't have to be so primitive and vicious to the dying any more. The righteous utility of that time has passed and has passed us by."

Cyclone Debbie Wreaks Havoc/ Photo from my own satellite

Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer/ both great song and video

Other things...lots of policemen with guns in Melbourne this afternoon...news via WeChat. ...... And don't you think it is time we stopped using the term "American Intelligence?"

we get wise, if at all, by simple damage

life is good, life is bad, life is happy, life is sad, life is orderly, life's a mess. None of this will change. People will say you have to steel yourself for the task, or something bad will happen, but bad things happen anyway, as do good things, and there is no real rhyme or reason to it all at all. You know that just as well when you're 3 as when you're 63. I must note that while massage is very nice, it doesn't actually make life more meaningful than it is, and you don't get wisdom or clarity massaged into you...nor advised into you by well meaning folk in the health and psychology realms...nor do you get it in vitamins...or a combination of these tings.

we get wise, if at all, by simple damage

i notice the new head for Beyond Blue, the Australian National Anti-Depression organisation is the former PM Julia Gillard. Don't they realise that she caused the national depression?

Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash You Are My Sunshine

bob dylan & johnny cash - one too many mornings

I can imagine the Melbourne bike riding social set, sitting at cafes, discussing the Bok Choi/Coffee Grounds issue... "Well, I expect good Italian Arabica bean grounds would be excellent, if thoroughly dried, although I don't like the notion of using trash Robusta bean grounds at all, my god, my shaved legs look so damn sexy...I'm getting an erection over myself again, thank god for these excellent lycra padded pants....ooh maybe a bit too tight right now.."

I note Mr Trump tweeted everyone Irish a Happy St Patrick's day wish, and yet most of the world media complained about him spelling Phadraig incorrectly. Dear me, so do I, quite often. At least he bothered to try. At least he understood that the Irish do have their own language that has survived 800 years of fascist Sassenach invasion, pillage, and oppression. You wouldn't expect any such attempt by Australia's PM, The Right Honourable Malcolm Trembling Turnip.

Serious Gardening Question: Are coffee grounds good as a food supplement for Bok Choi and Spring Onions? I ask because it seems a shame to just throw the coffee grounds away, and we do produce a fair amount of coffee grounds each day.

Farewell Chuck! Thanks for Rock and Roll. Chuck Berry's Greatest Hits

Garden News: Well, both the Bok Choi and Spring Onion crop are growing in the garden, but really do need to put on some speed to get to be a good size before winter comes. Apparently the renewed brief 'summer' has confused plants around the place, and they are all resetting their atomic iPhone watches, and need some technical assistance. The Bok Choi has also been set upon by some kind of bok-choi eating moth, I think...and i don't mind that, being a fairly egalitarian character, sure, why not, but they should be a bit more modest in their various hungers. Eat a few leaves, fine, eat half, fine, but not the stems, please. The Spring Onions sprung up by now just lie there on the ground in a green stringy convoluted mess so I'm not sure what their problem is. Some failure to thrive...or they need a spring-onion hair stylist perhaps...or maybe this is some kind of rastafarian agrarian revolution.

North Asia Today

North Asia Today:

The US promises to defend Japan and islands claimed by Japan.

Russia prepares to send its military to Russian islands claimed by Japan.

The US demands that China stop militarising islands in the South China Sea.

China notes it will continue to do what it likes with its islands, and that not force on earth will stop this.

The US Secretary of State has talks in China regarding trade and to arrange an upcoming meeting between President Xie and President Trump.

The China Premier signs a 6 year trade/culture and close association law bill with the Phillipines President, and agrees to weapons sales.

The US moves THAAD missiles into South Korea.

China tells the US not to be silly, and not to do that.

The South Korean President is under investigation for corruption and is removed from office.

South Korea claims islands claimed by Japan.

Taiwan claims islands claimed by Japan.

The North Korean President has a game of golf.

TAL32...terrorism is acceptable when...Star Trek - The Next Generation. Banned Clip from 'The High Ground'

Star Trek - The Next Generation. Banned Clip from 'The High Ground'

One of the things we just don't get is that things change. It took until around 2012 for an Australian Prime Minister to note the existence of "The Asian century" in terms of importance, trade and development. The Asian century started about 40 years before. Still, it is a misnomer...it is not the 'asian century', it is the China Century, the first of probably about 5. Whilst tiny New Zealand went about 20 years ago in working out a very good trade policy with China, it took Australia more than 2 decades later to understand...and then we were forced, by China, to accept a poorer deal because we fucked around too long. We were so sure we would just be the USA's 'deputy for Asia' and so continued to treat Asia in our usual racist ways. Bad idea. The trouble with Bad Ideas is that they do take at least a few decades to fix....every bad idea...a few decades. It is not simply a matter of electing different people, it is a matter of recognising reality, and how far we are behind the present, let alone the future. If Australia can have a future, well, it will take an enormously long time for us to 'now' even get to the present of the real world. This is the problem with racism and traditionalism...it can't move, it can't adjust, it can't be real. It falls. you can't change that in 5 election cycles...you have to actually know what you are doing. the trouble with Australia is that no one expects or demands that its government knows what it is doing. Look at it....Malcolm Turnbull...my god, a fizzer of a human being...Bill Shorten, a runt bully best designed to beat the shit out of shop assistants in pie shops than lead anything...and that's the best we have. They are not the joke, we are. that's why we are going down.

One of the things we just don't get is that things change.
It took until around 2012 for an Australian Prime Minister to note the existence of "The Asian century" in terms of importance, trade and development. The Asian century started about 40 years before. Still, it is a misnomer...it is not the 'asian century', it is the China Century, the first of probably about 5.
Whilst tiny New Zealand went about 20 years ago in working out a very good trade policy with China, it took Australia more than 2 decades later to understand...and then we were forced, by China, to accept a poorer deal because we fucked around too long. We were so sure we would just be the USA's 'deputy for Asia' and so continued to treat Asia in our usual racist ways. Bad idea.
The trouble with Bad Ideas is that they do take at least a few decades to fix....every bad idea...a few decades. It is not simply a matter of electing different people, it is a matter of recognising reality, and how far we are behind the present, let alone the future. If Australia can have a future, well, it will take an enormously long time for us to 'now' even get to the present of the real world. This is the problem with racism and traditionalism...it can't move, it can't adjust, it can't be real. It falls. you can't change that in 5 election cycles...you have to actually know what you are doing. the trouble with Australia is that no one expects or demands that its government knows what it is doing. Look at it....Malcolm Turnbull...my god, a fizzer of a human being...Bill Shorten, a runt bully best designed to beat the shit out of shop assistants in pie shops than lead anything...and that's the best we have. They are not the joke, we are. that's why we are going down...because we've done everything we possibly can to go down.

In the hard earned yards of being a family, and there's been a worthy few that I have been a part of and beholding to in all ways of kinship, I like the idea of having a cat or dog because its a good thing, knowing and loving human folk as we do, to have some companion that isn't actually human. It's just part of my Culture as a Western kind of dude to have an animal or two around. They are your 'pets' for sure, but they are also your teachers of the Nature of Existence and Being. Dogs and cats have been our worthy Companions, as worthy and as meaningful as we are, for thousands of years. We have done extremely well together as a clan. A dog or cat can help a young person to know what it means, practically, to have some kind of child-thing around, so as to learn how to take care of them. This helps us all. This would certainly be useful to us old folk, to have children who somehow had experience in looking after something as the need arises. Now, my preference would be to have both a young girl dog like Prancing Holly, and a young boy cat like Cosmo...in the photos you can see how well they would get along. Now, that's family. That's actually a good Irish family.

CHINA and The Spiritual Dimension

The Spiritual Dimension.

China, 1957:

A child was asked: "Do you believe in God?"

Answer: "I believe in China."

China, 2017:

A child was asked: "Do you believe in God?"

Answer: "I believe in myself."

Mental Health De-briefing, Wang-Fitzpatrick style... John: "Well i looked after a bunch of seriously mentally upset patients overnight and they had all gone through terrible violent traumas, some traumas a long time ago, and some recent...and the big concern was that they would kill themselves or... someone else..." Response from Han step-daughter "They should try going to a good primary school in China for a few days...even a kindergarten, if they want to go on and on about rape and violence and all that. Or just send them to our neighbours in North Korea. They build strong people." John: "Well...now that's interesting..." Step-daughter: "The only reason you are so strong and sane is because you married a Han-Manchurian woman." John: "Well, yes, there is that...but, at the same time..." Step-daughter: "If you know who you are, then how can anything or anyone stop you? Why is the West so fxxxd up? Life is hard and unjust. This is why it means something. You don't start life as strong and beautiful, no one does. Life makes you strong and beautiful, because you make life strong and beautiful." Ah, China, the Collective Wisdom rather than the Individualist Consuming Need...I wish her well. I think she will do quite well here at 25 and bright as a button.

Happy Saint Patrick's day. An Irish Parable.The Parable of the Self Harmer from the Book of John in his letter from the Antipodes.

The Parable of the Self Harmer from the Book of John in his letter from the Antipodes.

It was, verily, some time back that Iain took up the holy rebel cause against the fascist monolithic Gillette Razor Blade Company.
For a while Schick seemed okay, but it was never a good razor, not good enough. Blood was spilled. And as for Baron Bic, he should have been executed as the true Nazi he was. Experimental surgery.
Iain spent a lot of time combing the 7-11 shelves all over Palestine, and the Olde and New Worlds, as a Testament, and for awhile found comfort in Wilkinson Sword...then it became knownst to him that Wilkinson had soldeth his own sword to Gillette and was thereafter subsumed into that unholy Evil succubus monopoly.
As a symbol of Eternal Resistance, Iain located his grand-father's Cut Throat Razor (whilst the meaning of the name was still somewhat unclear to him) and began a daily ritual of slashing his face to pieces with it and fixing pieces of toilet paper to his whole face, as in a cohesive wrap.
Iain is still out there, somewhere between Melbourne and Jerusalem, bleeding, and yet very clean shaven. You will knowest him when you see-eth him.
There be a lesson within this parable. The first cut is not necessarily the deepest.

I like the word 'disgruntled'. The way the word sounds is exactly the way it feels.

after yesterday's gruelling job interview rehashing old clinical events i tend to think that maybe my occasional profound social phobia may not in fact be due to an old PTSD witnessed trauma event when 9 but rather due to all the stuff that happened over that working lifetime caring for others. The social phobia has always pretty well related to not wanting to go to work...ah! understandable. A little insight, wow, after all these years. Whilst acknowledging the traumas one goes through when young is important, the ones that come later on can be pretty awful too. Cool. Insight. Anyway, off to a night shift soon. Damn. Maturity does not arise because of the years, it arises because of the damage.

Noting the head of a very very big private hospital empire in Australia has been cordially invited to come along and talk to the Federal Government about concerns regarding over-charging, but the fellow says he can't attend as he is busy.

New Conference, Federal (Liberal) Energy Minister announcing an Energy Policy in Adelaide without telling the South Australian Premier (Labor) about it...so the SA Premier turned up, and the two of them stood there next two each other noting that the other was a total failure, whilst sharing the same microphone. Most interesting thing that has happened in Australian Politics since 1975. Both in immaculate suits, both with a nodding head of support behind each of them as they basically ripped into each other, in gentlemanly ways...then following the fiasco, each, in their immaculate suits got into their limousines and drove away. Real Politics. Not happy families.

I think the best thing to do with the news is to enjoy it as the entertainment it is designed to be...but you don't have to go about believing in fiction just because fiction says its true. the thing is simply that you've got to work this stuff out for yourself. There is no guide and there is no reported truth, per se...start there, and go about the world. You will do well this way.. Be true.

The News? The Not-Fake News?Question it. Hardly any of it stands up to any scrutiny.Maybe the weather, but the rest is far more unreliable than even that. Always has been.

I think the general notion is this ...something is very wrong (and it is...90% of the world's common wealth was stolen in 2008...so everyone else is poorer and will remain poorer for at least another ten years) so we must blame someone, preferably someone who has a different belief and/or looks different...thus Muslims. (Before them it was Chinese, and will be again)..."I have enough problems working out my job, my wife/husband and kids, for fucks sake, just give me someone I can blame without having to think..." Thus Islam, thus, soon, China. We are so Smart. the trouble with blame and hatred is that it costs us a lot more as time goes by. We pay out a lot for simply not being willing to think...and that makes us poorer still.

I think the general notion is this ...something is very wrong (and it is...90% of the world's common wealth was stolen in 2008...so everyone else is poorer and will remain poorer for at least another ten years) so we must blame someone, preferably someone who has a different belief and/or looks different...thus Muslims. (Before them it was Chinese, and will be again)..."I have enough problems working out my job, my wife/husband and kids, for fucks sake, just give me someone I can blame without having to think..." Thus Islam, thus, soon, China. We are so Smart. the trouble with blame and hatred is that it costs us a lot more as time goes by. We pay out a lot for simply not being willing to think...and that makes us poorer still.

Daughter asked what is Shock Doctrine? I replied it is some neo-liberal wank, an emotion of the self important, prescribed onto others... it is best if you just kill these people. It is best for all. It is best for the collective.

FRINGE DWELLERS: The great problem with us fringe-dwellers is that we never belong. The great thing about us fringe dwellers is that we never belong.

I was watching Mr Leonard Cohen in his last interview, talking about life and luck, and praising Mr Dylan for having a deeper well of ideas. I agree. As Mr Cohen noted, well, to give the Nobel Prize for Literature to Bob Dylan, this is just like acknowledging that Mt Everest is the highest mountain, because it is.

Frank Sinatra - My Way (1969)

In general I note a rise of the power of advertising for its own value even in the most personal aspects of our mysterious lives. You see this in the response to the Cancers...he/she fought a strong battle against the Cancers etc... What is that battle? Something, evolutionary, has gone naturally wrong with the gene and the body...is this a battle? We live a long time now. Who are we fighting, except our own human nature? I believe some of the cancers protect us from the more nasty ones. Is this unlike the War on Drugs or the War on Terror, really? If oncology had actually worked, we would well know by now. Quite some years ago Japanese scientific inventiveness moved away from curing the cancers to creating a natural Blue Rose and they are still working on that, because the task is easier...and the results far more profitable and realistic.

As for cancers,
I have a few, but then again, too few to mention...

Dogs and cats and birds don't seem to have much trouble in barking, purring or squawking about life in general. I don't see why we need to censor the various songs and noises of humans.

Nazism, Anti-Arab Rhetoric, Anti-Semitism, Zionism, Anti-Islam, Apartheid, etc...You can't stop a bad idea by repressing it...you beat a bad idea by proposing and living a better one. Nothing is inappropriate.

I notice the pressure on Facebook to remove offending Nazi imagery, but I think it is best to have the truth out there. I know Facebook is only a For Profit set up and so there may be reasons for it to exclude this or that to appease its advertisers, but really, Nazism is as alive and well as it always has been, as are the other faults in Humanity, per se. I would suggest they just let it be. You can't hate something if no one tells you about it. There can be very good reasons for some of our hatreds and we don't learn more by knowing less about ourselves.

The most amazing thing I found in my Faceless Bureaucratic years in Queensland Health was a Brisbane based Government set-up called SNAG, and, later, SNAFU. It was a big building with about 80 AO7/8 public servants whose job was to receive, stall, and delay the implementation of Federal Funds for urgent health services until the funds were properly allocated to appropriate political causes of most need to the State government at the time. These folk saw themselves as very good public servants. Ah, the good old days...I guess that has all changed now?

I knew a health bureaucrat in Brisbane in 2002 who made some comment that was unacceptable to the group and so no one included him in meetings for 2 years. For 2 years he had nothing to do, and because of the stress, he went on paid Stress Leave for 2 years. True. AO8/ $130k a year. Poor devil...and all for 'speaking out'.Tsk tsk.

Bureaucrap & Bureaucrasia:I want to use the word 'bureaucrasia' more often, because I invented it. I also invented 'bureaucrap'. I want to see these words in dictionaries as time goes by. So please use them: Bureaucrap: The Information Supplied from Government Agencies". Bureaucrasia: "The mental illness that feeds the notion that decisions need to be made by sub-committees before issues are discussed by normal people." Please use these new words as often as you can. You can, if you wish, note me as the Source. as I did invent them. Thank you.

My view of what happened with Malaysian Flight 370 is that it was brought down by laser-rocket fire in the South China Sea by US forces gathered there, and still there, and was due to human error. This is the most contested, viewed and studied area of just about the whole world and the US Navy and Air Force is there in Bulk to continually ping and test and find faults in China's Air and Sea defences, all the time. That's just what they do there, all the time. It is understandable that human error caused the incident...but it was a human error that the US could not take responsibility for. I believe the Chinese know this...thus the ongoing military build up of the islands off China to secure both sea and air travel for the future. If the US could do that by accident, what could they do on purpose? Mind you, for the grieving families, this reality probably isn't acceptable...thus the manufacture of something impossible is better for them? After all, most of the passengers were 'Only Chinese'.

The Media and ADD One of the most remarkable examples of the 'established world media' having Attention Deficit Disorder involves the missing flight MH370...remember that? In the most highly radar-ed and studied and militarily high-tech rich area on Earth...the big plane just...vanished and, the Malaysian Government announced that it went the other way, totally, for no reason, to the only place in the world oceans where no one was looking at the time. The information came straight from the Malaysian PM's office. Within a month Obama landed in Malaysia and gave Malaysia a really good trade and military package that no one was expecting. Then the Saudi Royal Family gave the Malaysian Prime Minister a 'personal gift' of $800 million...just because they liked him. I wonder how often they do that? Anyway, all this information came out yet not one media company investigated this rare phenomenon or joined any of the dots. ADD?

2008-2018 "A Field Day/Decade" for Chinese Capitalism

It was about 2003 when the Chinese Standing Committee got wind of the approaching 2008 Global Financial Crisis and put significant effort into seeking to isolate China from the imbroglio, and in most ways the plans succeeded; thus China didn’t go through the Crisis to any extent near what the Western World did.

In the general scheme of things, in the mid 2000s, it was expected that the Chinese economy would overtake that of Japan and the US by about 2030. Everyone basically agreed that this would happen, but due to the withdrawal of so much real money from the Western economies in 2008 and beyond, then China simply rose much faster, and have been doing well, hell for leather, ever since.

A ‘Field Day’ or ‘Field Decade’ for Chinese capitalism in all its myriad forms. So much money was coming in that President Xie was confident enough to put into place the One Belt One Road Initiative, reshaping the world of Trade, using the ancient Silk Road Trade Routes to Europe, plus a Maritime Trade Route to India and Africa, and thus to secure good trade capacities and potentials for the next 50 years at least. The development of the OBOR initiative has been an amazing exponential phenomenon that does a lot of good for all the countries en route from China to Europe and does secure trade-ways for China-Russia-Europe very effectively.

Whilst also developing Defence Systems within the South China Sea for China’s trading access and egress, the OBOR initiative means that China is not deeply dependent upon sea-trade thus attempts by the USA in particular, and its Allies, like Japan and Australia, on threatening the sea routes doesn’t matter as much to China now. The countries that would be negatively affected by a shutdown of the South China Sea routes of trade would be China, for sure, but equally, and probably more so…The USA and Australia and Japan in particular.

Fake News and the Media's Attention Deficit Disorder

It is not so much that the News is Fake it is rather that News Providers have what amounts to an Attention Deficit Disorder.

Because of this Disorder, based upon a rapid profit-based 24 hour news cycle, Real News dies off in about 8 hours rather than being investigated and understood.

In retrospect, when looking at the turbulence of the years since 2008, for example, one can note the rationale for what was called The Arab Spring…uprisings across the Arab World. At the time it was envisioned as a struggle towards democracy and freedom but in fact it was a response to the poor getting poorer and there being less money/food in the system following the 2008 Global Financial Crisis.

This same cause for world problems continues today. The 2008 Financial Crash was a far more crippling systemic event than has been touted. These huge financial ‘adjustments’ have always taken at least 20-25 years to go through and now in 2017 we are only half way, if that. The fact that no one was brought to trial or to any justice over the crisis is indicative of just how far away from reality our systems of governance and justice are from being useful to us.

‘Talking up the economy’ world-wide, rather than blaming, gaoling or executing the profiteers, has been the plan. The plan can’t work of course because a hell of a lot of the money has been taken out…and none of it returned.

In the Arab States it was called The Arab Spring and in Western Nations it is called the Rise of Populism, thus Brexit, Trump, the serious changes about to happen in Netherlands, Germany and France this year, a shift to the mad right of Nationalistic politics, all aimed at blaming a group of people for the woes of the whole population. When you look into the issues, it isn’t really about Islam, it is just about people, in general, being poorer than they were before 2008.

Rather than any Leader pointing out this fact, and preparing a population for the long hard times ahead, through good social government, redistribution of resources, and attendance to detail, people are still talking-up the economy, beating that same dead horse, and blaming a section of humanity for all their woes.

A great example of this was when the kind-of-socialist Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, decided to place a reasonable tax on mining companies that would have netted enough funds to balance the country’s budget and make education, health, pensions, etc easy to fund for the next 20 years…he was quickly voted out and basically seen as a pariah by his own party, the opposing party and, indeed, by the people of Australia. Rudd was a problematic being, for sure, in many ways, but he was right. Now the Mining Industry has slumped back down, the basically un-taxed profits have gone elsewhere, and Australia now hates Arabs too.