About LAOS: The land mass is much smaller than England (thus excluding Scotland and Wales). It is a small, poor, landlocked nation. The capital city, Vientiane, has about 750,000 people who are basically terrified to go into their own small towns and forests. The population is 6.6 million. The population density is 29 Laotians per square kilometre. The US dropped 240 million cluster bombs on Laos (American estimate). Yes, 240 million cluster bombs. 80 million unexploded US bombs still exist in Laos, in towns, fields, and forests. Yes, 80 million large and quite vicious unexploded US bombs. 90% of the country, due to rough terrain, poisoned water and unexploded ordnance is not arable. The US President has pledged (although not given) $90US million to Laos to 'help them' clear the bombs, as a moral thing, as long as Laos forms and maintains a trade partnership with the US that excludes their neighbour, China...who has never bombed them. So that's about a bit over a dollar per large unexploded bomb. 'Here, Jimbo, here's ten bucks...go explode ten of 'em...just run about...and look after yourself. We're on your side. We care about you.' I can imagine the gratitude of the Laotians. Some may try to smile but unfortunately the Agent Orange and other chemical weapons deep in their genetics now means the kids, and their kids, need a hell of a lot of facial surgery to even wince. (See Operation Smile- Laos).That's after the USA prevented any form of medical or financial aid to the destroyed country for 20 years as a punishment on Laos for being geographically situated next to Vietnam. It is such a poor country following America's bombing that it couldn't afford to build an airport or roads in the capital Vientiane. The Dutch and the Japanese built them for them out of pure kindness. President Obama landed his big impressive planes at that airport yesterday, and pledged his amazing heart-felt offer.... Thanks America! Go Fuck Yourself! Vientiane is a lovely city, a war wracked old French Colonial Outpost. They make very good baguettes and very good Lao thick coffee. They also make many thousands of genetically stuffed new babies every year, thanks to America. Laos has become a bit of a tourist spot for Western international youth, having full moon parties, getting stoned and eating hamburgers in the villages where the Laotians themselves can only afford to eat rats.

APPLE TAX: What? Apple has to pay Tax? They make all their products cheap as shit in China...with overworked Chinese girls and guys throwing themselves out of high windows every day or two because of the vicious pressure to deliver everything cheap as shit...the mark-up on the product is unbelievable, the profit unbelievable, the regular updates kill the product, the after sales service is crap...and people expect them to pay Tax? To contribute to world society? Hey, come on, these are Americans...they are Special.

Watching the Closing ceremony of the 2016 Olympics...then the display by Japan for the Tokyo 2020 Games, brilliant technology...my Chinese wife asks 'Yuhan, why does the Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, rise up from the big green garbage bin in the middle of that Japanese flag?'

More from North Korea soon.

There are many things in the world that are far, far much better than they ever were, for sure, especially the way China has driven down human poverty by 20 million people each and every hard year for 20 years now......that means, in real terms, 400 more million people more who are actually doing quite well now...that's astounding! Christianity and Capitalism and Democracy have never ever ever done anything like that in the history of the world...have never improved the common lot of us, but China has done that exactly in 20 simple years. The world is actually getting better, poverty is being eradicated at a faster rate than ever. Is this why we see China as our enemy?

Census Night, Australia, 2016

The Census....Well, I tried eagerly to do it at 8pm, and to do it online as requested...because its much cheaper to have it on line than have actual humans (who you have to pay) having to sort through papers...and couldn't get through. 

That's that for me. Once is enough. I'm happy to do it next time...if they ever work out how to work it out with 'modern technology'.

In Australia we have heard of modern technology...but we just can't have it.

Until then, you don't know me. That's hardly a crime. Australia doesn't know me, I don't know Australia. Same as any day.

I'm sorry but I don't really give a rat's arse that I'm an Australian, nor would I if I was a Syrian. It doesn't matter.

This Australian Census has nothing to do with me or with us.

Olympics: The problem with the young Horton (?) swimmer of Australia's complaints about Sun Yang...I note that China Media (and thats a lot of media) within China is describing Australia as "Great Britain's Continuing Off Shore Prison & Detention Centre so what can you expect from them? These are still not fully evolved people, Australians are their own Nauru. They don't know who they are, as a people, they don't know what they are talking about. They are not professional. They aren't very evolved. We understand this. They sell coal...that's all they know. They are bad sportsmen. They don't know how to be or to do things with other people in the real world. They are happiest with only themselves, alone and isolated...white and weak and scared. They are very poor sportsman and have no notion of respect for themselves or anyone else." Well said, China. We shouldn't fuck with China out of blunt youthful arrogance and ignorance. They fuck back.