Don't worry...just a picture of an Israeli view of a "Human Animal" Palestinian in Gaza. Nothing like us at all. I can't wait to see Israel's innovation and creativity when it comes to Eurovision time.

 

I am proud that Australia has voted supporting a UN sponsored bill regarding a Cease Fire in Palestine. Quite late, but, well, well done.

I think I've been booted out of a very mad right wing pro Israel chem trails covid conspiracy group awaiting a better Armageddon for Australian white folk. Kind of just like the Australian Liberal Party. VOICE NO - AUDIT YES. Well worth a look. Oh well, I did try to help unleash them from the tentacled rapture of the Great Satan. On we go!

 VOICE NO AUDIT YES

trippy and toxic middle east

So, that bizarre Middle Eastern First World State has increased the hourly frequency and the massive-ness of those giant bombings of a very densely packed starving small ricketty city full of third world 'human-animals' in refugee camps...

& are already 2 months into their 'war', as they call it, against that city/country whose existence that they don't recognise,

you know the one, the one with all the dead babies, children, woman, mothers, men, fathers and grandfathers, the ones with all those little legs and arms and heads blown off just lying around everywhere in the great foul stink of evil...

a pure, clear mathematical depopulating of trash by design, for the success and wealth of the Greater State against that amazing 'fierce enemy' that, well, has no army...yes, that one.

You know the one.

And all the great work of God's own very special people, so they say they are, about themselves.

That reality is that...in 2023... Kind of trippy, and a tad toxic, really. I don't think there's any antidote for that.

The only Christmas Card picture with any validity this year...Holy Bethlehem, Palestine, December 2023..."No, YOU back off!"

 

Silent Night, Holy Night

Silent Night, Holy Night

All is calm, all is bright

round young Palestinian

mother and child

holy infant so tender and mild...

sleep in white phosphorous peace dear

sleep in Israel's peace.

Silent Night, Holy Night

limbs are torn and flamed with blight

to kill the child

before the life

scream in white phosphorous peace, dear

scream in Israel's peace.

Silent Night, Holy Night

There's no one here

to see the light

Blown to pieces,

Burnt to death to appease the Right.

Holy Night with No claim worthwhile

the ruthless bombs, the shameless guile.

Silent Night, Holy Night

You stood your ground

and were blown to great height.

Your arms flew higher than you did

but you were just a child

who never shouted out the essential 'Heil!'

Silent Night.

You were the best of them

they had you on their file

the new creation

the perfect child

murdered by their sick and evil bile.

Upset re the Israeli Holocaust on Palestinians?Seven billion people, or all those with access simultaneously post a protest at 12.00 GMT on Saturday next. Post on TicTok Post on Instagram Post on Facebook Post on local power poles, fences, buildings, by drone, with fireworks. Post it notes, anything. Shout in the Streets, in fields, from mountain tops, in the oceans, in wooded glades, in shopping malls, Just do it Check clocks. 12.00 Greenwich Mean Time.

This current Australia disgusts me. Regarding the Israeli massacres in Gaza.

The War Feast Begins.

It appears the Israeli Army Navy and Air Heroes etc are carefully 'cherry picking' their 'sort of real' targets whilst they starve Palestinian people, the masses, to grey boney death in general.

"Well, it wouldn't be as much fun if we just blew them all up in a day, would it? Where is the joy in that?"

There's got to be some deeper technical, spine tinglingly strategic and pleasurable satisfaction every day, to make the deeper profound gratification last a long, long time. A really shoulder shivery Memorable Meal of the Ages.

Kind of like being a lip licking bizarre Israeli chef, I guess. What's next on the bloody cutting board of our absolute self-righteousness? What do our guests need to taste tonight?

They are so, so tired of old Palestinian pensioners and women on the grill, like sad prawns with tea towels on their heads. I believe we need new young blood. The blood of more Palestinian children. A swish and a swash and a stick of vanilla, a little bit of green pepper, and its transformed into a sweet yet piquant raspberry jus to pour on some creme anglaise for our French, American and English business partners, and our special Australian ones now, always first to the table. Enough to fill each one, and something for each, in a doggy bag, to take home, for their lucky pets.

"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters."

This Australia disgusts me.

Old John's Advice on Alcohol

John's Advice on Alcohol:

Well, Jack, you see, if you continue with your addiction to alcohol, and it is very real, as you know, you will, within this next year wake up sometimes, as you already have quite often, and wonder where you are, and it'll be kind of funny, sometimes. You'll roll in here or elsewhere for detox, and do that time. You'll feel better, after 4 days usually, as you have. Terrible headaches, maybe, or maybe no headaches at all. Some tracts of awful vomiting, or maybe none at all. You may even feel sometimes a great clarity for awhile. You might have some bruises and a sore lower back you never had before, or some strange cuts you don't remember ever happened.

But one time, when you wake up after your normal bender, you won't know where you are, and that'll be okay, true, and even funny, but, also, you wont know who you are, and that won't be okay, to you, at all. It will be scary, for awhile. Not knowing who you are may not ever go away, and so you will join the ranks of the respected and loved demented..who we do respect and love. That's what happens, naturally. A liver function test can show you everything is fine, and then one day, out of the blue, the liver, the way the liver works, the liver ...just dies and there is no useful function at all, and far too much of the brain naturally dies as well...and then, exponentially.

Your option, Jack, is what you do with this talk. It is a small journey. Very brief. Try hard... or simply embrace dementia. That's what comes next. If you're really up for dementia, you have no problem at all. Life of the party, Jack? Think about that now, if just for me, while you still can, whilst we all still care, for something may also happen to all of us and you cannot be alone.

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The Insanity of the 'Acceptable'. Australia, a Nation that cannot respect itself.

I keep getting messages come up about my comments on the Voice Yes/No Referendum Page, but I'm just not going there anymore to check them out. Nope. No way. Misery Guts folk from both sides just gutting themselves for nothing but misery. Its just a vote, you dopes. Think it out, think it through, that's what you do, then decide, and just... do that and ... that's that.

Its not like we had any vote or say in the rental of US nuclear power subs that don't exist, that are costing us $360 billion, subs we will never actually even have. We just love giving money to America for nothing. Oh please love us, suck, suck...I know, I know, that's just what we do...as vassals, as dopey primates to all that important real human stuff.

Nope, no more. Shut up John. Talk about an epic stupid country. Mutter mutter. We were first a stupid country when we allowed and even offered our land to be a nuclear test site for the UK, years ago. The first and only nation on earth to ask a foreign power to please blow up a shit poisonous horrible weapon on their own nation, and we'll look after the hole and all the poison...now, if that couldn't be made worse, we're legally agreeing that the US will drop off 'our' even more toxic horror war grade plutonium waste from the subs, and its a lot of waste, on us, on our country, and we'll just look after it for 50 thousand years, no problem. No wonder Jesus wept. Just so stupid...and a Vote? No way. We'll just welcome it up the arse of us, oh thank you so much...we'll find some sacred site to stack it on. That's who we are. Thats the kind of people we are.

Good night from here.

Australian Referendum

How do a people ever get to be seen as equal in an unequal and diverse 21st Century society?

Usually, they have to fight for that, and many have to die for that, and many have to kill for that.

They usually don't get there by a general copacetic consensus or a friendly meeting under the stars or next to a big rock in the desert far removed from power.

They get there through organisation, with a defined leadership structure, with inner social discipline, with various active 'cells' much like the mafia, the IRA, the ANC, the CCP, etc. Even if one wishes to do 'good' this is how you can. This is human culture across all cultures, across all the centuries. Why? Because it can work.

They don't wait around expecting everything will change simply because they are who they are, and everything will just come to them because it's 'right' or should be.

I don't think that ever happens.

Referendum: NO.

You have to fight for the right to party.

Dang, I've been banned from a facebook site for repeating the news I heard on Sky News!

Damn, my comments here have been Banned from the Voice Yes/No facebook page....for 5 days. I think it might have been the reference to the comment about the mushroom vegetable dehydrator, as a warning to other husbands, but don't blame me. I saw that on Sky News. I thought it was true, like everything else on Sky!

Referendumb, Australia

I've been making my contribution to the lively colourful discussion on the Referendum YES/NO facebook site, but I think I've annoyed far too many folk...so I'll have a rest. Its about pacing myself, and my invective, or it'll run out.

"I'm impressed by your hard-wired generational vitriolic hatred for Australian Aborigines. Good on you! At least you are giving the Chinese one day off."

Tomorrow Night's game between Ireland and Australia in the womens soccer world cup, I'd expect Australia will win 4-0/ 4-1.

Commonwealth Games

I think the best idea for the Commonwealth Games would be to have them each 4 years in the same country, a member of the Commonwealth, that is a developing Nation.

Each Commonwealth country could put in some money every 4 years to keep it afloat and to contribute to the development of the country, health services, education, agriculture, technology, and also help keep the Commonwealth kicking along, as it is a useful thing.

You could put limits on it, say, for a twenty year period, then it would go to another developing host Commonwealth Nation.

Would help a lot with Nation Building and all the connections between people.

Victoria cancelling the Commonwealth Games

I like the Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews. He makes good decisions, and if its a bad decision, he changes it.

The impact of the severe Covid lockdowns in Victoria = thousands, or tens of thousands, of people lived, people who would not have lived otherwise. Good decision. That's a good human government. It did a really, really hard thing.

Now, with him cancelling the Commonwealth Games in the State, well, that's very wise.

Very expensive and blowing out in costs as all things do, with the State, like the rest of Australia, proceeding into a world recession this year. Don't waste the billions of money on a sport games publicity show that will last 12 days. Save that money. We will need it. That's responsible government.

That's a good idea. That makes sense. Well decided, Mr Andrews. Stay the course.

Cluster Bombs for the Ukraine?

Wednesday, Washing Day, and the clothes are on the line, as ordained in the Holy Scripts of Yore and Elders.
I saw the common blackbird this morning, tooling about in the garden. So, good to see.

As I was hanging out the washing I thought about The Ukraine getting a lot of cluster bombs from the USA.

Now, Cluster Bombs are really awful things, hundreds of little bomblets, many of which go off, and many don't. Many just lie there for ten, 20 years waiting for a child to step on them, then Boom! No legs!...as still happens every day now in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, from the bad old days of American penetrative imperialism.

Cluster Bombs are a real Cluster Fuck that defines true hatred for an enemy, and their children, in a very real and abiding way. You can't just go and pick up the ones that don't go off. Why? Because then they go off!

Odd that the Ukrainian President, our Hero, will be dropping them on the Ukraine, itself, his own beloved countryside, and his very own loved peoples, but only where the Russian soldiers and the Ukrainian Folk who like Russia, who live there as the Majority. All those troublesome Eastern Provinces he's been trying to neutralise and effectively 'sterilise' for many years.

Kind of shows the true Mettle of the Man... who is beginning to make Mr Putin look like a bit of a humanitarian in comparison.

Dropping cluster bombs on your own people, even if those folk don't really like you, is not a good idea. That blood and shattered bone in the present and in the generations to come, doesn't come out in the wash. That's a real War Crime. That's a real and hateful Cunt Act.

2023 Womens World Cup Football, friendly game, Australia versus France

Womens World Cup, Friendly, France V Australia.

Result: Aus 1 Fra 0.

An interesting preliminary game, without much risk. Both teams do and can play very well, and true, it is good to see that the Aus finishing side, at 90 minutes, was competent.

The concern with Australia is that the strength is in the attack, with great strikers, and with a semi-okay defensive line, with Polkinghome being the linch-pin for the defence. Putting pressure on that defence, and somehow taking out Polkinghome would leave Aus quite vulnerable to an assertive, attacking opposition. They'd have to contain Kerr and the other 2 Aus strikers, for sure, which will always be a hell of a task.

Australia should do well. I expect an advance from Number 10 to about 6 for Aus after this competition. Will they win the world cup? Unlike the men's game, yes, they could. The US, the UK, Netherlands ...these are very serious teams and brilliant players. They are both very excellent and skilled athletes and very hungry driven and very talented individuals.

Melbourne Chinatown

So, the other night in Chinatown, due to my Mental Health Eyes...always assessing, even though now clouded in a nice way with soft glaucoma, keeping eye contact, always, I met a few really dodgy folk in alleys...and gave them cigarettes. One of them remembered me from work. I didn't remember her. Not much of a memory I guess.

They used to be in asylums. Streets are better.

I used to, in my former life, in end-stage palliative care, walk about noting who was about to die in the street, on trams, in offices, drinking cappucinos, eating healthy buns, getting off buses etc; You can pick em pretty easily, if you've had the right background training over the many years. There's no mystery. There's a real guaranteed trajectory there.

Don't worry, there's no conflict, never any conflict, people just don't want to know anyway. What good would that do? Just let it be, and stand clear and get out of the way of the paramedics.

I try not to do that anymore.

Its a drag.

Mental Health is much more fun.

Everyone is kinda still living for a little while.

It feels a lot better on a cold night.

War and Peace

War and Peace

Whatever side we are on, when it comes to Russia and the Ukraine, it really doesn't matter. The economics of the world are not permanently changed by the conflict, but rather all the economies related to Europe will suffer a lot, by the sanctions regarding Russian Oil and Gas, and I expect that will go on for the next decade...thus a deep world recession. Lots of crashing European governments, for sure. Look at France now.

But not any great or big war.

The only place a World War could happen would be in the Korean Peninsula...with North Korea the most expensive piece of land on earth. North Korea has the Position, Position, Position every real estate agent dreams of.

It butts onto South Korea, China, and Russia....is close to Japan...and between those combined economies rests the world economy itself...and North Korea does have massive natural wealth and huge totally untapped natural resources, and it has enormous military power, and it has a very disciplined and highly tech-educated, and obedient, population.

In any conflict by the USA, the first army to arrive in PyongYang would be China's Red Army, then Russia's Army, then the American Army, and what a great stand-off between the Powers that would be! But it won't happen. North Korea is far too important to all the world.

Its a war none of them could win, except China, really. Yet it is the only place on earth that a conflict that fundamentally involved all of us, everywhere, could possibly happen. It is the one Geo-Political 'moving tectonic plate' in our whole world.

I know North Korea is the worst Government on Earth, and then comes our friends, Saudi Arabia, for sure, and the Middle East, well, its not what it used to be in terms of being greatly important anymore, but North Korea has got it all... but...as long as the status quo remains the status quo, we are all saved from a World War by the continuity of the bizarre Kim regime, in a way. That regime, unfortunately for the North Korean folk, has all the hallmarks of lasting a very, very long time, indeed. Longer than any of us alive will be alive.

Still, peace is, indeed, peace...and we have it now...so don't worry so much, especially about China. China does not make war. We and our friends make war. China has learned how not to. We haven't.

That China knows how to do well and not make war is not a failing of theirs, its a triumph of the human spirit and brilliant planning over a horrible history of ours.

Cold Winter Now

Awhile back, Mrs Fitz bought me a Kathmandu puffer-type jacket, and one for herself, from her Airport Shop.

They are really good things. I'm noticing, coming home, its about 11.30pm now, and its about 5 degrees C and I'm really comfy. Not cold, not hot. Just had a walk around the cold courtyard, and impressed upon it some more ideas of what to do with it, and came inside. Bloody cold inside the house too, still no need to turn on the heater.

We don't want to use the big gas heater in the roof much, although its good, and very fast, until we see how the bills are going.

Got a nasty shock last month. The gas bill went from $50/month to $280/month and we don't want that to happen again. Damn you, Zelensky, you and your cohort of n'er do wells and certifiable rapscallions, spending all my future pension. Ah well, after that I guess the USA will be spending all my pension on not giving us the nuclear submarines we paid for. You can trust the Americans in that way. They never pay their debts.

It's about an hour and 15 minute drive from work to home at night. Mostly all freeways, but still slow, as someone is usually fixing up some part of it around the clock.

I stopped at McDonalds on the way home and got us some warming food-like stuff to eat when she gets home soon from work and we have our enjoyable late night long yack about life, the universe, and everything. Some nice wine is left too.

Work was good. I love not being in charge. I can manage to look after 8 folk and not be so concerned about the other 14 or so. After all, my stoic stellar career in nursing is well and truly over and now this is just rewarding part time stuff that pays okay, especially on weekends, and I'm okay at it still, and still learning, and I like the company I work for, and the folk I work with, and that's a pretty rare gift at any time.

Work was good. Interesting how group dynamics can change so quickly with the absence of just one person and the addition of another. Amazing. From cohesion and compassion to down right horribility. From no problems to all problems. I guess the whole world could be like that. And, of course, there's always Protestant Christians, always deceitful, and up to no good, as we know, and as we were warned about in that holy precious Catholic primary school of the one true faith.

I work with a lot of Chinese and Indian and Sri Lankan and Irish nurses, and that's great. I feel at home.

Then, an extra benefit at the end of the day, I get to come home and study the garden.

Yes, I'll need to raid the consultant's garden again for some more nasturtium plants, and then put them in the birdbath here and let them soak for a day or two, then put down 4 more bags of earth in the side yard, and then plant them out all the way to the end of the yard where Phil, the statue, our Gardening Angel, will look after them through the cold winter.

Spring could well be very interesting.

Gardens are great. they teach you to plan the future, but not too much, and without great certainty, because the world is like that, and, indeed, so are we.

I recall looking after a soldier who eventually went off and killed himself. Jumped out of a high tower on the Coast. He said 'well, we rolled into the town, in .......... in Afghanistan, and we were all hootched up on crack, and then some raghead kid fired an RPG that got caught in the steel wire, and didn't go off, it just fizzed there, and it really spooked us all, and we were so fuckin twitchy, so, we all got out of the truck, and just killed everyone in the town. We used so much ordnance that we ran out.' 'Later, the Army psychologist said that we did a good job. He did suggest that in future we try not to use all the RPGs and ammunition we had, as it was in short supply, but... we did a good job. We should be proud. We did the job. We did a good job. I don't know if we did a good job.'

Ben Roberts Smith: pride goeth before the Fall. You have fallen, dear Ben. Pour yourself an icy beer into the prosthetic limb and have a deep sigh. Why you? Well...there's a reason for that. There's stuff you should do, and there's stuff you should not. I know its a drag, but that's true. Sure, we should never have gone to war in Iraq or Afghanistan, they were evil errors of governance, but, still, there on the ground, once you're there and you wanted to be there, you just don't cut loose, you have to make sense of it in a way that doesn't involve killing innocent muslim folk and poor families who actually have to live there. There's a lesson in that for you. It's a life lesson. Learn it.

Koreas

 I find it very interesting that even though North and South Korea are very different, there are fascinating things about both that are linked.

Although the South is a very advanced high technology first world nation, the personal goals of people seem to involve the central significance of wealth, prestige, status, and family, all equally. That's quite a frontier secular world.

One would think that in such a modern and secular state, that there wouldn't be much time for religion or mysticism, but, indeed, there is a great depth of 'the spiritual' within the society.

The North, of course, is a bit more obvious in crowning the Supreme Leader as a mystical shaman-like persona.

In this way we can see the ties that bind North and South together. In family, and in the mystic.

This is my step daughter, Tianshu, from sound-recording goats in Kathmandu in 2018, to completing her studies at RMIT Melbourne Australia, in 2019, and today, working in Shanghai, 2023 Well done, young lady.

 

I find my blog interesting. I get between 5 and 50 readers a day and its all much the same as Facebook stuff. The Blog's main issues involve Australia, a bit, and the remarkable importance of North Asia, something that I only seem to see as important, and pivotal for the whole real World. North Asia is where the future is happening, not in the USA or in Europe nor the Middle East. The importance of anything happening anywhere really only comes into focus when you consider it in relation to the remarkable thing that North Asia is. If Israel disappears from a map? Doesn't matter. If Russia obliterates Ukraine? Doesn't matter. But, North Asia, the great tectonic broken plate...everything matters. The 2 Koreas becoming one, the 2 Chinas becoming one, the proximity of Japan, Russia, the perpetual USA Nuclear Death Armada, wow, this is the real business of the real world, and the real present and future of it, and all that happens there really matters to us, and to everyone. Its the only place a world war could happen, and , well, I guess, it might, but no one wants that. Everyone, except maybe the USA, is very scared of that happening. I think the job of the world is to help the USA mature a bit, and for it to value peace and prosperity. If we can do that, well, the future is basically all good. Sure, the Koreas will be re-united. Sure, China will take back Taiwan in 2049, we know that. its really about how we manage that.

I find my blog interesting. I get between 5 and 50 readers a day and its all much the same as Facebook stuff.
The Blog's main issues involve Australia, a bit, and the remarkable importance of North Asia, something that I only seem to see as important, and pivotal for the whole real World.
North Asia is where the future is happening, not in the USA or in Europe nor the Middle East.
The importance of anything happening anywhere really only comes into focus when you consider it in relation to the remarkable thing that North Asia is.
If Israel disappears from a map? Doesn't matter. If Russia obliterates Ukraine? Doesn't matter.
But, North Asia, the great tectonic broken plate...everything matters. The 2 Koreas becoming one, the 2 Chinas becoming one, the proximity of Japan, Russia, the perpetual USA Nuclear Death Armada, wow, this is the real business of the real world, and the real present and future of it, and all that happens there really matters to us, and to everyone.
Its the only place a world war could happen, and , well, I guess, it might, but no one wants that. Everyone, except maybe the USA, is very scared of that happening.
I think the job of the world is to help the USA mature a bit, and for it to value peace and prosperity. If we can do that, well, the future is basically all good.
Sure, the Koreas will be re-united. Sure, China will take back Taiwan in 2049, we know that. its really about how we manage that.

This blog is just about me, John, 69, Australian, writing about things that interest me about the country I live in, and the nearby world of Asia.

Recognition and Reconciliation:Indigenous Times: Have we started on the Reconciliation bit yet? I recall this old matronly type country woman from around Berrima country who was a hundred years old and could clearly recall going out with her Dad and brothers and learning how to shoot Aborigines down by the river, then roll their bodies into the river to get rid of them. It was kind of normal for her, as a child, and being an outside-type true Aussie girl, she got pretty damn good at it too, and at horse riding and the like. As she grew into womanhood, she kept up the practice and improved her aim, and well taught her kids the various skills of shooting, and knowing where they were hiding. She went on and outlived her best friends, her husbands, and all her enemies, and died in her bed in my hospital, painlessly, surrounded by great community love, and enjoying a morphine and midazolam drip between the dry sherries. Funny old world, ain't it? No, as for Karma, no, get real, it just doesn't happen. It's not a human truth at all.

Australian Referendum/ Indigenous Recognition: John Arthur Fitzpatrick 57 m · Shared with Your friends The Division Bell It was sad to hear Noel Pearson describe a life long colleague of his as someone scared and pissing his pants simply because he disagreed with Noel. Noel's capacity to be a bit of a sanctimonius prick is obvious. One got the opinion that this was all a bit of a political power-play with Noel deluding himself into thinking that the referendum had already taken place and that he, somehow, beyond anyone else, had won it. Noel didn't say he thought Stan Grant was pissing his pants when just a bit of the race blowtorch was applied to his belly by riff-raff regarding his somewhat dopey, somewhat weak as piss statements about the recent bizarro Sassenach Coronation. Where was the pipe-bomb? Where was the Continuity in the Struggle? Now, Stan has always been a bit dodgy when it comes to reporting the news. Anything about China in his reporting is usually horribly skewed towards the evil of the Communist Party of China, rather than about trying to actually report any factual news. He has been toe-ing the Morrison line about hate-for-China for years now, simply because he knew Australians are racist and would like what he said. The chooks have come home to roost, Stan. As for the Question we are to answer in the referendum, yes or no, well, still, to me, there are 2 questions in it, and these odd recent convolutions are no way to garner a positive clear and simple outcome. If you believe that the Australian population has the searing intelligence to take apart the Question and realise that no one will be disadvantaged, and it'll all be a great thing, well, then, you're even more moronic than they are. There will always be riff-raff here in Australia, about 10% as the base, but that number easily jumps to 25%++ when anything difficult is up for discussion...and when the economy is failing...about another 20%. And with one major political party out of 2 against the Yes vote... how many percent is that? A fair few, I reckon. Then, of course, are the Hopelessly Woke folk who will cancel the whole thing and not vote at all. That's called being actively 'subversive'. You just have to be a lot smarter than Noel or Stan to move forward with what was a basically good idea, fair recognition ...but now, ohhh, I can't see it passing muster now. Too much flaming diesel on the BBQ now. At first I thought the referendum was a bad idea, then changed my mind to it being a good idea, and, now, well, its a good idea but cant win due to how it is being handled by indigenous groups and equally by the riff-raff. It is more a Division Bell than a Vote. There could well be an unpleasant 'righteous backlash' by the riff raff either way. People are getting very sick of the referendum already. It has lost simplicity. Whatever trust Australians had seems to be failing now.

Ukraine and Russia

News from China re Russia and Ukraine.

The Russians have noted that have no intention of stopping the war until the government of Ukraine changes, and they expect that to happen in July, 2024.

As Zelensky can't be negotiated with, they'll negotiate with his successor, and that new aspiring government.

There's a lot of untapped gas and oil in the Eastern Provinces, heaps that hasn't been able to be extracted due to the long time war-status that goes back at least ten, 15 years.

A joint venture would be best to make those fields profitable for both Russia and Ukraine...perhaps with a Chinese Oil & Gas Company, Sinopec...the biggest oil company on earth, managing the show, a 3 way split, with most shares going equally to Russia and Ukraine, but China will need to be there, managing, and being well compensated, for the sake of general fairness, as both Russia and Ukraine will never trust each other, and both for good reason. They need a permanent profitable mediator.

Apart from that, Russia will keep the Crimea and the Eastern Provinces, and hand back the Southern seaports for the huge Ukrainian world grain trade.

Everyone makes a profit.

Peace is better.

Ukraine wont join the EU or NATO. Too corrupted already. They're not wanted, and for very good reasons.

The grand cache of weapons Ukraine keeps acquiring will be well desired in many unstable African states. Another very profitable export.

Australia: The Voice Referendum:The Referendum Approaches: As I said, I'm really not sure what The Voice is or means. There's people who make up The Voice, I get that. Who elected them? What do they do? How much do they get paid? Where do they live? How long are they in these positions? Do they get the same superannuation provisions as politicians? Are they politicians? How often do they meet up? Where do they meet up? Normal things you can ask about anyone, yet no answers.

Things Behind The Sun

Melton, Victoria...Local Culture...Dress to Impress. What can you say? It's Culture, its Diversity...its Cheap Wet Pussies at Bar Prices...it's Right Up There...Its Australia in 2023. My god, how we have grown as a Culture, as a Symbol for the World of Diversity, as a People. Time to put on my long black coat and trilby hat, and go nuts... to celebrate the Death of Christ at Easter

 

Here's the True Story of my Casio G Shock Watch. I expect some folk from Melton will be derisive and negative, as is expected, as they don't get out so much, but it is a true story. My wife and daughter and I flew down from Cairns to Melbourne 7 years ago to check out RMIT as daughter wished to do a 3 year degree in Advanced Sound Engineering and Digital Journalism, or something like that. I'd pretty well retired from work, being old. (So, she said YES to the course of studies and we tabulated that it would cost us, as she is a foreign student designation, around $40,000 each year for 3 years..and it did. So, we sold up the Cairns unit and all moved here, and rented, paid for her education, and she went to RMIT and did really well, and I went back to work to help pay for her future.) Her education actually shifted us from the Middle Class in Cairns to the Working Class in Melbourne...less pay, longer hours, everything far more expensive. Our Cairns 3 bedroom apartment with pool and lift and tropical gardens and gated etc, when sold, would buy a small one bedroom unit here. That's Melbourne. Anyway, when we flew down to check out RMIT and Melbourne, I bought a Casio G Shock Watch at Melbourne Airport for about $230. With it I got a 30 page instruction book, and thought, well, I'll just absorb all that. Well, I didn't absorb all that at all. It became an issue when the clocks changed for Day Light Saving and, for the life of me, and studying all the info, I couldn't do it. I took it to 3 watch repairers in Melbourne, and they couldn't change the time back one hour. This is true. In frustration, after finding it after I'd thrown it into the bin, I packed the watch in a small box and posted it to Mr Casio in Japan (Yes, there is a real Mr Casio) with a note saying..."Please, Mr Casio, keep this watch, I don't want it back. I don't want any money. I'd just like you to remember that it's important to design a watch, in future, that makes it easy to adjust the time on the watch, for your future business. I like the watch but I don't want it back." That was that. So, unexpectedly, for me, Mr Casio sent the watch to his Casio Excellence Team in Kyoto and they set the watch on the time it should be for MELBOURNE at that time of year, and then they sent it back to me by secure registered post. Nice people. It came back with a new glass watch face as this had been scratched. I still have it, and twice a year I'm frustrated that no one can change the time on it (except the Kyoto experts). I no longer try watch repairers or experts in Melbourne. Bunch of idiots, I reckon, much like me. I work in mental health in the area of psychology and addiction, and, one time, when interviewing a very dysphoric young man plunging into deep addled drug induced psychosis, I asked "Hey, can you change the time on a Casio watch?" Well, he replied "Yes, I can. Its easy" and he did! Unfortunately we couldn't keep him in the clinic under any health order for very long, so he went home, better than he came in, and my watch-fixer was, alas, lost to me. Eventually, I bought another simpler watch, an analogue Citizen Divers Watch that's quite simple, to use when the Casio can't be adjusted to suit the changes of time. So, that's the real story about my Casio watch, and, as the time changed happened just a few days ago, it is now, once again, this time, keeping the right time again. I love it! Anyway, as it all turned out, with her good RMIT credentials (one of the three Australian Universities that China reckons is actually any good), daughter is a managing executive now of an advertising company in Shanghai, and is zooming off to Scotland soon to do taste testing of Malt Whiskeys to advertise on her Shanghai based TV show. I love her. I'm actually still working with the drug addled and psychotic folk here, at 69, and so there is some angst to the whole story, but, over all, life has been a good story, and, overall the Casio is a good watch to keep.

Australia: Well, we are investing $380 million billion in American submarines, and we'll get one or two with a flag on it, in thirty years time, but they'll stay in the American fleet, controlled by the US Admiralty, so we have to know we'll agree with them about everything in 30 years time, about ....yes...everything. We are getting these weaponised submarines to wage war on China, our best and biggest trading partner. What? Who would do that? We gave $500 million to The Ukraine, the most corrupt and despised country in Europe. 30%, we know, gets eventually to the military war effort, the rest is subsumed by the Ukraine corrupt government and elite, and the weapons/goods sent to bizarre military regimes in Africa 70% of our gift. Poof! Thanks Australia! We have immense homelessness and poor treatment for old folks, a dodgy economy based upon coal, and are falling behind the First World Nations in every way, and we have a very dodgy future...and yet we are so proud to just throw the positive future away. No wonder the Australian Jesus wept! Remember the Dodgy Brothers Car Sales Consultants? They're still in control, and doin' dodgy deals with our money, & our kids futures.

Last day off tomorrow. I feel I should go out there, into the Melton Community, to voluntarily help the sick and the lame. Crikey, there's a lot of lame out there.

I expect the next five years will roll out much like this: The war for Ukraine will continue for 2 more years until the US President is replaced by a US Republican President. Then the USA will pull the plug on Ukraine and start business again with Mr Putin. Until then, energy prices will skyrocket and most western Nations will go into Recession, especially the UK and Germany and France. It will be a deep recession. Governments will collapse. Australia will enter recession in about September this year, jobs will be lost and the country will stagger along for about 4 years after that, unable to really fund pensions or health or education at all, but, we will fund American submarines, without actually getting any. China will not invade anyone, but will just take their real place as an important world power that, unlike our American and UK friends, doesn't actually make war on anyone. Why? Because they don't mean anyone any harm, and are way smarter than all that. Its just about trade. China will continue to trade well. No one will be able to interfere with that. That's a good thing.

Well, I do tend to like Labor Governments as they do bring with them social progress and rights and good long term improvements overall for Australians whereas the Conservative Governments don't do that at all. That's not what they do. But this AUKUS abortion of giving the USA 360$ billion to put a few Australian flags on US submarines in their fleet, is just that. An abortion of an idea. Throwing away a fortune and our sovereignty. A big fortune, not a little bit, but a big, giant fortune... It's just so big and so bad for all of us. We could well have made good use of that $360 billion dollars and without having to establish essential nuclear waste sites in our country. I'm sure that'll go down well. Its such a bad idea and on such a grand scale, it's really... its just... I can't speak... the rank stupidity... and a Labor Government. My God, where was the thinking? Human Reason...where was that? World Class Idiots.

Ukraine and Human Reason

Remember Human Reason?
I think the best response to Russia invading Ukraine would have been not to supply Ukraine with weapons but to suggest to the Ukraine that they pay their gas bill to Russia. 20 years of extremely cheap, by any standards, OIL and GAS is a hell of a lot NOT to pay for.
Would have saved a lot of misery for everyone.
Just being reasonable.

Melbourne Botanical Gardens

The Melbourne Botanical Gardens are astoundingly beautiful.

They were designed by some German Count quite awhile ago, & yes, that's 'Count'...(Thank you).

And he did a damn good job with the layout and the pathways and all the remarkable plants. It's huge. It's a paradise. It's like God like.

I used to think that the world's great jungles should be organised like very good golf courses, with beautiful access and easy walking, and maybe a club and a ball, and along the perimeters would be wonderland nature. But I think I'd prefer Wild Nature to be more like a well organised German Botanical Garden.

I wished to take some cutting shears and a Coles bag with me, but respect and personal integrity got in the way and stymied my predatory carnal-like plant acquisition ambitions.

We walked around for a few hours and had something to eat. Then sat in the traffic for a couple of hours on the way home, talking about how well the Chinese MG (Morris Garages) car brand has done here in recent years.

MG, & 'Haval' (Great Wall Motors: 'Havana') have actually done well and are now selling like KIAs and Hyundais used to. Good quality. Not expensive. They found their shining path. they found the right... recipe.

After a bright coolish Summertime day afoot in Melbourne, it was obviously cold and bleak and raining when we got home, and I rushed out to compare the Melbourne Botanical Gardens with our backyard.

True, the Botanical Gardens are still somewhat bigger...and involve no bright red concrete, but I think the Botanical Gardens could still learn a bit from our succinct Zen-Roman Wang-Fitzpatrick Design paradigms and synchronous yet non-repeating rhythmicities... or, um ...what do you call those things? Mum used to call them 'recipes'...Facebook and Amazon and GPS and Robodebt etc are totally dependent on them...ah, I forgot what they're called. Very important things, anyway.

Ah! That's it! Algorithm! Mum's algorithm for Baked Lamb with roast potatoes, peas, even beans sometimes...or a sponge cake...etc. A recipe! Well done, ageing brain, and Well Done, Mum!!

Anyway, back to work for the next 3 days so a bit of a flirtation with reality ahead, I guess... or just a different recipe for the days.

Not a good thing to happen

I bought some security light/video device from an Australian owned company in Townsville way back in November last year. It cost $100.

Didn't arrive. I enquired in December...well, there's been some delay...oh, well, yeah, okay.

I've tried to contact them since but there's been no reply at all.

As its now the end of January and someone nicked my bicycle from a spot under which the security light was supposed to be...I bought another very similar device from another company. Maybe not Australian owned, but who cares, when the Oz doesn't deliver or even acknowledge the issue?

The Name of the Townsville Based Company that can't supply or reply is: