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, 6 May 2026
Life's Mysteries Bringing in my washing from the line, I noticed for the first time, that all my clothes: shirts pants socks underwear - were black. I wondered just how and why and, indeed when, life had turned me into a Ninja.There was little time to wonder as the sound of a star-knife swished past my head, and a thud as it embedded itself in the wooden fence behind me. I crouched low, muttered "Ha!" under my breath, and then I leapt up, of a sudden, high up into the tree, unsheathed a katana, and twitched a bit, yet in pure silence, my eyes darting about, looking for Tombei, The Mist. I was immediately the Samurai, Shintaro, in Melton South, and life was dangerous. I would now have to bathe naked in hot public baths, and then gird my loins in a roll of white cotton cloth that bunched up a bit too much. "Ha!"
Tuesday, 5 May 2026
I've just been online discussing issues with an APHRA robot about re-registering as a registered nurse for the coming year, in Australia. They don't have human people there any more. I've understood a lot of quite bizarre people over a 40 year career, but not this quirky robot turd. I just want to give him my money. "Hello, I'm me, here are my details, here is my money." Nope. Can't do that. Who the F are these cretins? No, no way, I'm not going to learn a 4 page instruction list with quite a few words and expressions I would need to research, about how to give them my money. The money is here, waiting to be given. Understand? Having worked in the realm of end of life pain amelioration, and then in psychopathy, for many decades now, let's just put some pressure on. Make it easy for me, baby. This is my last year at the coal face of it all. Do something for me.
I've just been online discussing issues with an APHRA robot about re-registering as a registered nurse for the coming year, in Australia. They don't have human people there any more. I've understood a lot of quite bizarre people over a 40 year career, but not this quirky robot turd. I just want to give him my money. "Hello, I'm me, here are my details, here is my money." Nope. Can't do that. Who the F are these cretins? No, no way, I'm not going to learn a 4 page instruction list with quite a few words and expressions I would need to research, about how to give them my money. The money is here, waiting to be given. Understand? Having worked in the realm of end of life pain amelioration, and then in psychopathy, for many decades now, let's just put some pressure on. Make it easy for me, baby. This is my last year at the coal face of it all. Do something for me.
Nursing Australia: What The F? this is the reply I received asking for a simpler way to pay my annual registration fee.
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I am sorry that you are experiencing issues logging into your Ahpra Portal. Renewal applications for Nurses and Midwives are now online only. Like many Australian organisations, our processes have transitioned in recent years to online services.
In order to get you access to your portal I have reset your password from our end, and I would ask you please follow the steps below.
You will receive a separate email with the subject "your new practitioner portal password." Simply click on the link in the email, and you will be re-directed to the Ahpra Portal Login page.
It will then prompt you to set up Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) first, prior to requesting a change of password. Please see Setting up MFA for a guide on installing and preparing to use your MFA app.
Once you have followed the password reset link, click on "Set up Multi-Factor Authentication" and follow these steps:
- You will be shown the QR code to set up Multi Factor Authentication
- Please open your authenticator app, select add code and scan the QR code to the app. Ensure you have scanned from inside the application, not from your camera.
- If you are only using a mobile phone to log in, please click the option that you do not have a QR code underneath the QR code on the link you have followed
- After this, copy the 30 digit string of characters that appears
- In your authenticator app, you will need to press the option to add a setup/security key
- You will paste this 30 digit code in the app, and this will allow you to generate a 6 digit verification code, this code lasts for 30 seconds and will then refresh to make another code.
- When it is successfully added, a 6-digit verification code will appear, this code lasts for 30 seconds and will then refresh to make another code.
- Enter the unique code from the app, into the designated 'enter code' box on the Ahpra page and press 'connect.' You must ensure you enter the code and press connect before the current code expires.
- Your phones time and date are correctly set and synchronized to ensure accurate code generation
- Your authenticator app is updated to the latest version
- You have a stable internet connection
- Push notifications are enabled within the app
- Restart your device to resolve temporary glitches
- Clear the cache of the authenticator app in the device settings
- Remove your Ahpra portal account from the authenticator app and re-add to the account
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Sunday, 3 May 2026
Home from work. A good shift this evening. Nice people. Not God's Chosen People, who are out wholesale killing children again, all night in Gaza...but just decent beings to work with, to do some minor good with, way over here. Then I come home, watch TV, have some coffee, and maybe a biscuit. I don't have to align myself with the horrible child-murderers to do that. I must tell you that I am not happy with God's Chosen People at all. That's what they call themselves. I have other names for them. Nice to be home.
they kill the flame
Friday, 1 May 2026
We of the sensible open non-woke Left do like to think that the USA has met its end as a rogue entity, as a powerful empire, and I think it has, in terms of it being unable and unwilling to pay its debts etc. It is in serious irrevocable decline. The USA will never pay its debts. You can be sure of that. Its own nation, and its peoples, are divided, irrevocably. All it does now is hate. This is all it can do in this late stage. Still, they remain, superficially, a very powerful entity and they will not go quietly...at all. Of all the Empires that have faded away, I think the USA will be the most destructive force the world has ever seen, as it fades away. This wont do anyone on earth any good at all, and I think this is going to almost destroy many of us. Empires never, ever, hand over real power by choice, and never behave as good human governments in that decline. Best to stand as clear as best you can. There will be an awful violent mess. As Leonard Chen said "We will not like what happens after America" but we are at the gate of that now, and they have no way back.
We of the sensible open non-woke Left do like to think that the USA has met its end as a rogue entity, as a powerful empire, and I think it has, in terms of it being unable and unwilling to pay its debts etc. It is in serious irrevocable decline. The USA will never pay its debts. You can be sure of that. Its own nation, and its peoples, are divided, irrevocably. All it does now is hate. This is all it can do in this late stage.
Still, they remain, superficially, a very powerful entity and they will not go quietly...at all. Of all the Empires that have faded away, I think the USA will be the most destructive force the world has ever seen, as it fades away.This wont do anyone on earth any good at all, and I think this is going to almost destroy many of us.
Empires never, ever, hand over real power by choice, and never behave as good human governments in that decline.
Best to stand as clear as best you can.
There will be an awful violent mess.
As Leonard Chen said "We will not like what happens after America" but we are at the gate of that now, and they have no way back.
Thursday, 30 April 2026
Feeling Low
Feeling.
A bit flat today.Tired of the general ticker-tape rigmarole of the human years I guess.
To be expected from time to time, especially as you grow up into the great oldness, as us fortunate ones do.
No need for medicines or cheering up.
I see the Americans remain as stupefyingly adolescent as always.
The UK is awful now too.
Far too many weak decisions, choosing poverty for themselves. Not so bright. Gutless. Racist to the core.
Not much hope in either of those.
I'm hoping the World Cup may lift my spirits a tad.
Sad that most of it is in the USA. They are not great planners for something so big. Not great planners for anything. Hasn't even happened yet and yet the Americans are looking for someone to blame.
It's just what they do with the vapid intelligence they have at their disposal.
They will fuck up the World Cup. So will Israel. That's all they can do now. That's their wont.
Still, the World Cup isn't about the USA or Israel at all. That's just the pitch.
I'm sure there will be some good games played. Probably in Mexico and Canada.
The World Game will be played, and hopefully without too much graft, murder, theft, egomania, psychopathy and chicanery.
Still, no need for medicines or cheering up.
The world rolls on, way past even the vague memory of these low cunts.
Wednesday, 22 April 2026
Interesting. The term "From the River to the Sea" is a brand name of an Israeli company that grows and sells beautiful oranges. Has been for decades. It employs Palestinian labor at well below normal wages. Almost slave like. "From the River to the Sea" was also a term often used freely by Benjamin Netanyahu in his odd rants regarding the creation of a Greater Israel. I guess all that was just fine.
Thursday, 9 April 2026
Wasn't killing Jesus enough?
A lovely night in the Western Suburbs of Victoria, Australia. The two bins are out for the morning collection, the porch light has been turned off. All are at home here. Quiet now. Peace reigns.
Israel is just about the only evil state on earth, and by pure choice. That's the amazing thing. Their Choice. Nothing has changed in that way. Those 'human animals'...and by Choice, rather than any human need. They Disgust me.Nice night outside. Clear skies. Knowing what we deeply know. On we go.
When you look at it unemotionally, there is no way that a country of 92 million souls, like Iran, could possibly stop the USA's well-beyond-massive war machine from totally destroying it. Ending it totally. No way. No way in heaven nor on earth. There is no way that Iran could win in that kind of multi-million body human horror bloodbath. But then, ahem, then, the President of the USA is really Mr Donald Trump and his Secretary of War is Mr Pete Hegseth, and their best friend is Mr Bibi Netanyahu...and so you have to look at it a bit more carefully, especially as the USA's President is without a strategy and 'working by his gut'. No doubt, yes, he has a big gut, but...so do I, and I wouldn't ever do what he has done by that same measure of turbulent fat.
When you look at it unemotionally, there is no way that a country of 92 million souls, like Iran, could possibly stop the USA's well-beyond-massive war machine from totally destroying it. Ending it totally. No way. No way in heaven nor on earth. There is no way that Iran could win in that kind of multi-million body human horror bloodbath.
When you look at it unemotionally, there is no way that a country of 92 million souls, like Iran, could possibly stop the USA's well-beyond-massive war machine from totally destroying it. Ending it totally. No way. No way in heaven nor on earth. There is no way that Iran could win in that kind of multi-million body human horror bloodbath. But then, ahem, then, the President of the USA is really Mr Donald Trump and his Secretary of War is Mr Pete Hegseth, and their best friend is Mr Bibi Netanyahu...and so you have to look at it a bit more carefully, especially as the USA's President is without a strategy and 'working by his gut'. No doubt, yes, he has a big gut, but...so do I, and I wouldn't ever do what he has done by that same measure of turbulent fat.
When you look at it unemotionally, there is no way that a country of 92 million souls, like Iran, could possibly stop the USA's well-beyond-massive war machine from totally destroying it. Ending it totally. No way. No way in heaven nor on earth. There is no way that Iran could win in that kind of multi-million body human horror bloodbath.
Monday, 6 April 2026
I grew up in an era in Australia when everything Arabs did was evil, and everything that Israel did was great. I read all those Leon Uris books about righteousness and kibbutzes etc. That time ended, naturally, decades ago. That notion couldn't survive reality, though Israel did try, and still does try, to push themselves to being the only ones who matter time and time again. But that is absurd. Israel, as the Sole Violent and Selfish Predator in the Middle East, well, its well past time that the old fantasy ended. It is a small nation, or dot, that isn't productive without massive annual US funding, whether at peace or in battle. It can't compete with any neighbour. Its warlike philosophy and bizarre religion is as baseless as all others, and more so, and it does not matter at all. We all grew up whilst Israel was leisurely playing by the pool and blackmailing everyone, and cheating everyone, on earth every day. Let it be the tiny vicious paranoid enclave it is. A dot. No one wants it to be something else. No one wants it to grow. No one who matters. It is a cancer on us all.
that's right.
Wednesday, 25 March 2026
A War on Iran
Regarding the War on Iran by the USA and little Israel.
