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.
Thursday, 27 October 2016
Comparing ongoing Trump Clinton in terms of who owns what media:
Comparing ongoing news coverage of Trump/Clinton:
ABC AUSTRALIA & SBS: Very Pro Clinton.
CNN: Very Pro Clinton.
NBC ABC US: Pro Clinton.
Fox: very Pro Trump.
NHK Japan: Equal.
CCTV CHINA: Equal, and in some depth.
Russia TV: Neither.
Al Jazeera: Pro Clinton.
Comparing international western media (ie. Journalists) re current bombings of Mosul and Aleppo:
Bombing Mosul is good, bombing Aleppo is bad.
Wikileaks:
CNN, NBC, ABC, ABC Australia, : Wikileaks is a bad thing.
Fox: Wikileaks isn't a bad thing.
So after judicial talks, number crunching, and strategic plans, I can confirm we are moving the Wang-Fitzpatrick Family Consortium from Cairns to Melbourne city, Victoria; with all of it done and dusted, and with us there being active Melbournian city folk by 1 February 2017. I still will take the Nissan Navara...the Honda will go by train and the Nissan will be driven. Now the details ...place, work etc can be worked out... This week is the first holiday I've had for 40 years when I haven't been trying to write or finish off books or find other jobs etc so it has been a great personal respite and I have had the opportunity to catch up with a lot of Star Trek shows. Series One is the best. So this will be Our Last Wet Season in Cairns. To me, that is a very good thing. None of us have ever lived in Melbourne so it will be interesting for all of us in the same and yet still varying ways. Jaiyo!
I recall being interviewed on radio when I was announcing a million dollar palliative care funding increase enabling the setting up of Gordonvale Hospital and the radio journalist asked "And so just how long have dying people been persecuted until this announcement?" and my response was "What? Go fuck yourself, you retard. This is a really good thing, a real achievement, and, as a faceless bureaucrat, I did it! What the fuck have you ever done?" Never got to air...but the place went ahead in leaps and bounds. From what I hear, it's still doing damn good work.
Never much of a media doyen, myself.
Wednesday, 26 October 2016
Having a great holiday on my favourite spot on my favourite lounge in this favourite home...basically doing nothing, and loving it. Which is your favourite of the 4 Alien films...Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection? My favourite is Aliens with Sigourney Weaver at her most intense, and with James Cameron as Directoor, and with the guy who plays Corporal Hicks. He's Great and is a good male counterpoint to Sigourneys great timeless self-empowered female character creation of Ripley.
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