rant of the day about Australia

"we will decide who comes here and by what method they come." John Howard.

What an idiot! Human displacement is an ongoing human problem, everywhere. It's called migration...there are costs and benefits and the benefits outweigh the costs, except in Australia; and there is no solution except treating people as humans. When we get to the stage of human evolution as a sophisticated self respecting species, where borders are unnecessary, it won't matter. Until then, it can't matter. Nauru is far more expensive to us than is incorporation of fellow humans. That's not rocket science, it's common sense.

"the people coming here are not criminals. The criminals are the people smugglers...they should rot in hell or burn in prison". Kevin Rudd.

The same people smugglers, for the same reasons, enabled the escape and survival of Jewish society in WW2, you backsliding cowardly idiot.

Julia Gillard handing over Australian owned Darwin land to the US Military to own forever and for no payment at all.

Where, on earth, has anyone handed over sovereign land for a military base to the US and ever had the choice of ever getting it back, ever, in modern history, no matter what the people or government ever choose to do? When on earth has a nation decided to insult and degrade the importance of its trade with its major trading partner, China, our future, thus having to settle for a Free Trade deal that is worse than what NZ got by being honest?

it's never happened.

As for Australia committing its valiant troops to fighting Iraqis fighting Iraqis at over $2000 million a year in direct costs to Australians......rather than investing in Australia and Australians, well, that's just insane.

Can these really bad ideas be grown out of? No. We are stuck with them, with each of them, for many decades each...and we choose diminish ourselves because of them. We are an endangered species by our own atrocious decisions that always demonise our peers to elevate our own delusions, as a people...a little people, a scared people, growing smaller every day

well, that's my rants for today

Thanks

John.

Understanding China

I guess the challenge for us, in Australia, is to try to comprehend a massive civilization beyond our understanding that has had 19 bordering nations with very fluid borders, for 5000 years and remains very intact and rocketing forward with workable peaceful deals with every border nation to the benefit of all. Brand new high speed trade-rail links between, Beijing and every border nation's capital city. All paid for by China. For trade, for peace.

We don't have any border nations so our understanding of the complexity required for dealing with countries like Indonesia or New Guinea etc is very very primitive in comparison with Chinese cultural survival methodology. Thus Tony Abbott, thus Bill Shorten. Elected by popular choice and yet Primitive, in a way we understand.

The other massive difference is that most of us here in Australia are not indigenous whereas all Chinese in all the Provinces of China are indigenous to China. We can never get our head around that. It is beyond our experience of life on earth here...but it's so fascinating to watch the future happening.

I've liked China since I was 16 and read Chinese poets. When a first year nursing student at Cessnock District Hospital in 1983, it was me who received delivery of 100 copies of Mao's Little Red Book straight from the Chinese Embassy to my room at the Nurses Home. In the beginning was the Little Red Book, and verily, it was well distributed.

As my talk on the high speed rail between Beijing and Shen Yang, with a retired Colonel of the PLA, when I told him I was trying to learn Thai language, he advised, in earnest..."Don't worry about the language of Thailand. Learn the language of the Chinese people. Thailand is a border town of China, and a factory. China is Asia. Later on, that night, in the Karaoke Bar, he sang "For all the problems of myself, and my country, I would still beg from the Gods another hundred years of life in China."

Three days later in Liaoning, I recall being punched quite ineffectively in the street by a very Old Red Guard retiree who remembered what Australia did to hurt China and Korea in the Korean War. I doubt they'll be any need to build any Anzac Memorials there. They are a bright bunch and they remember quite clearly.

Generator construction for new hydro plants begins The generators for hydroelectric plants along North Korea’s Chongchon River are under construction in the latest stage of the electricity project scheduled for completion by end-2015.

"The law is an accumulation of tireless attempts to block a man’s desire to change life into an instant of poetry. Certainly it would not be right to let everybody exchange his life for a line of poetry written in a splash of blood. But the mass of men, lacking valor, pass away their lives without ever feeling the least touch of such a desire. The law, therefore, of its very nature is aimed at a tiny minority of mankind. The extraordinary purity of a handful of men, the passionate devotion that knows nothing of the world’s standards … the law is a system that tries to degrade them to ‘evil,’ on the same level as robbery and crimes of passion." MISHIMA

Belarus confirms interest in dialogue with DPRK (Xinhua) Belarus Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei confirmed Monday his country's interest in developing dialogue with the DPRK especially in trade and economic sectors. More Defectors Turn Away from S.Korea (The Chosun Ilbo) A growing number of North Korean defectors return to their repressive home country or move to China as they find it difficult to adjust to life in the capitalist South.

There are many very large populations of Koreans, from North and South, who fled into China during the American War in Korea and these communities remain very strong healthy and significant within North East China/Liaoning/Dalian and to Shen Yang.

Economist proposes developmental dictatorship for North Korea A prominent right-leaning economist has proposed that North Korea retain its authoritarian regime and that its economic reform be supported in order to minimize the costs of unification. Visit NK News for more Russian energy giant looks into N. Korean electricity project Russian electricity giant TEK Monsenergo will carry out a feasibility study on supplying North Korea’s Rason region with power, according to a press release from RAO Energy Systems.

The first issue seems to dovetail with the advice Lee Kwan Yu gave to China 2 decades ago....first reform your economy. Do NOT reform your politics for at least 20 years thereafter.

North Korea, Russia designate 2015 as a 'Friendship Year' North Korean and Russia have declared 2015 a “Friendship Year,” according to a report from the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on March 11. Visit NK News for more No oil yet in 2015, but North Korea imports more gasoline China’s apparent cessation of crude oil deliveries to North Korea extended into 2015, according to customs data from January. Visit NK News for more