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, 21 September 2016
McGyver: What we are going to do today is to use a Samsung 7 Edge phone as bomb rather than just as an electronic triggering device for a bomb...the great money saving thing is that you don't need Semtec or a pressure cooker. Whatever you do don't leave it in a nice suitcase in New York or someone will pinch it. A city of thieves.
Monday, 19 September 2016
the only thing worse for Australia than a Trump victory would be a Clinton victory. Not much of a choice. Total dependency has its real price. That's why some countries, our neighbours, grow stronger in the real world than we can ever be. Indonesia, unaligned, 350 million souls, grows rich and strong as we grow poor dependent upon America. Why are we dependent upon the USA? Race. That is all we understand, as Australians.The real world has gone past that for many many decades. Why? We chose the illusion rather than the reality of life. It is what Australia does best.
some clown with throat cancer from HillsongChurch (the biggest Christian Church in Australia) is currently sprouting his talk...oh for god's sake, rest your throat, you poor bastard. i will give you money if you just stop talking. its really really spooky. you are sick, you idiot.you have 4 years at most. stop preaching. people don't need preachers, people need god. you are not god. go home.
Back to watching world TV News.... CNN, very biased pro Clinton, and Fox, very biased pro Trump. Watching the ABC Australian News and SBS and the Australian Government and Opposition, very biased pro Clinton. Watching China TV: just good analysis, watching Al Jazeera, pro Clinton. Watching BBC: pro Clinton, watching Russian TV pro Trump. The American election will be won by whoever can garner the support of white American disenfranchised dissatisfied depressed out of work men and get them to the polls...and they DO watch Fox...and they haven't ever voted before. Its a shoe-in. Mr Murdoch backed the winner again.
anyway, no big deal, the Middle East...if peace was most useful to the real world, it would have happened there years ago. No one likes the arabs, no one likes the jews. They are the same people anyway. The only reason war persists is that this area isn't important anymore to the real world and real politiks. The only reason that war doesn't happen around North Korea is because North Asia is actually really really important for all of us. In terms of war and peace and the future of the species, it is only North Asia that can mean anything at all. The Middle East doesn't have the weapons, the numbers, in terms of human density, the hatreds, the remarkable mineral and human wealth,the productivity dividends, or the real potential for humans as a species any more. The Middle East had their brief time being Something to worry about. Who cares if Israel or Palestine don't exist? Who cares if America and the UK destroy Iraq or Syria? It can't matter. A big war in the Middle east is do-able, a war in Europe is do-able, a war in South East Asia is do-able, a big war within America is do-able...a big war in Australia is do-able...but a big war in North Asia cannot be ever allowed to happen...that would be true human insanity. We are not as insane as we think. North Asia is our Real Human Common Future...and that is why War is avoided there at all cost...and it always will be. North Korea can continue to be the world's third worst human government (ISIS, SAUDI, DPRK), the Russians, the Chinese and the Americans can tool about with all their fancy weapons as much as they wish...but a war there would kill us all and no -one will ever allow that to happen. As for Palestine and as for Israel...they will both thankfully pass into history as they should...with little harm done to the positive good human collective at all.
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