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.
Tuesday, 27 August 2013
Tuesday, 13 August 2013
The Terrible Fate of Jacon de Coeur, A Sad Limerick by John Fitzpatrick Copyright 2013
Jacon De Coeur
Gay Entrepreneur
Built Men's Spas Across the Nation
The Coroner Found
He Had Not Drowned
But Died of Exfoliation
Monday, 12 August 2013
Friday, 9 August 2013
Tony Abbott's Pink Bats KIll People and Burn Down 200 Homes in Australia
As an inconsistent reader of Australian Political News, this is what I got from Australian Political News today: Pink bats kill 4 people and set fire to 200 Australian Homes says Australia's Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, and he blames Kevin Rudd.
I live here in tropical Australia and we do get the occasional brown/black small bat herefor sure, and you have to be careful with them because of the rabies virus, but they are just basically cute little mammals after all...but for pink bats to have killed 4 people and burnt down so many hundred Australian homes, wow, this sounds like a big deal. I am happy there is Tony Abbott there to tell us about the important undercurrents of all these things that otherwise we would just dismiss as some idiot.
I live here in tropical Australia and we do get the occasional brown/black small bat herefor sure, and you have to be careful with them because of the rabies virus, but they are just basically cute little mammals after all...but for pink bats to have killed 4 people and burnt down so many hundred Australian homes, wow, this sounds like a big deal. I am happy there is Tony Abbott there to tell us about the important undercurrents of all these things that otherwise we would just dismiss as some idiot.
Monday, 5 August 2013
Dealing with Call Centres
I've worked out a good response to unwanted calls from Call Centres on the phone...
"You have reached the Australian Defence Signals Directorate. Please state your name, date of birth, and residential address clearly for National Voiceprint Attenuation.
This call is monitored, tracked and recorded for security purposes.
If you object to the Australian Defence Signals Directorate tracking and holding your personal details related to the call in progress, please press '1' and wait for redirection."
This call is monitored, tracked and recorded for security purposes.
If you object to the Australian Defence Signals Directorate tracking and holding your personal details related to the call in progress, please press '1' and wait for redirection."
It works. No one presses '1'.
Friday, 2 August 2013
Snowden granted asylum in Russia for One Year
Snowden leaves airport, granted asylum in Russia: lawyer
Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has left Moscow's airport after being granted asylum for one year in Russia, his lawyer says.Snowden, who leaked details on the National Security Agency's secretive PRISM data-logging spy program has been granted temporary asylum, lawyer Anatoly Kucherena told TV broadcaster Russia 24.
Mr Kucherena added that Snowden left the airport for an undisclosed secure location.
"His location is not being made public for security reasons since he is the most pursued man on the planet. He himself will decide where he will go," he said.
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