Thinking about the move to Melbourne, it is unwise to sell the Nissan Navara, I have no interest in buying or selling anything any more, I have no interest in selling or buying any car anymore...and it is a grand vehicle...so drive it down the 3000km.... 5 days drive. 2 Drivers. Good for Mrs Fitz to see some of the endless landscape of the East Coast/inland of the ancient Australian country. The vehicle could certainly do it easily by coast or inland...and fast.

You see the reports regarding Mosul that ISIS is using human shields and suicide bombers to fight back against the US Forces, but really, wars are not won or lost because of this peripheral phenomenon...it is simply that ISIS can fight...and the US Forces find this very very scary indeed. Invading a nation, the US finds that some of their own may get hurt...and that somehow this is News. I hear the US military advisers have been provided with Samsung 7 Edge phones in case things go wrong.

70 years of atrocious failed American Military Intelligence, horrific wars, bad outcomes, horrible results. Now Clinton wants a No Fly Zone in Syria. No Fly Zone = War against the Syrian and Russian Governments. What a stupid person. 

He was someone who, in his whole life, never had a life-style, content and puzzled enough just to have a life. He had 7 billion followers.

Modern Western Journalism: The Last of the Great World Religions to fail to deal with reality for ideological=profit reasons.

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.