I notice the pressure on Facebook to remove offending Nazi imagery, but I think it is best to have the truth out there. I know Facebook is only a For Profit set up and so there may be reasons for it to exclude this or that to appease its advertisers, but really, Nazism is as alive and well as it always has been, as are the other faults in Humanity, per se. I would suggest they just let it be. You can't hate something if no one tells you about it. There can be very good reasons for some of our hatreds and we don't learn more by knowing less about ourselves.

The most amazing thing I found in my Faceless Bureaucratic years in Queensland Health was a Brisbane based Government set-up called SNAG, and, later, SNAFU. It was a big building with about 80 AO7/8 public servants whose job was to receive, stall, and delay the implementation of Federal Funds for urgent health services until the funds were properly allocated to appropriate political causes of most need to the State government at the time. These folk saw themselves as very good public servants. Ah, the good old days...I guess that has all changed now?

I knew a health bureaucrat in Brisbane in 2002 who made some comment that was unacceptable to the group and so no one included him in meetings for 2 years. For 2 years he had nothing to do, and because of the stress, he went on paid Stress Leave for 2 years. True. AO8/ $130k a year. Poor devil...and all for 'speaking out'.Tsk tsk.

Bureaucrap & Bureaucrasia:I want to use the word 'bureaucrasia' more often, because I invented it. I also invented 'bureaucrap'. I want to see these words in dictionaries as time goes by. So please use them: Bureaucrap: The Information Supplied from Government Agencies". Bureaucrasia: "The mental illness that feeds the notion that decisions need to be made by sub-committees before issues are discussed by normal people." Please use these new words as often as you can. You can, if you wish, note me as the Source. as I did invent them. Thank you.

My view of what happened with Malaysian Flight 370 is that it was brought down by laser-rocket fire in the South China Sea by US forces gathered there, and still there, and was due to human error. This is the most contested, viewed and studied area of just about the whole world and the US Navy and Air Force is there in Bulk to continually ping and test and find faults in China's Air and Sea defences, all the time. That's just what they do there, all the time. It is understandable that human error caused the incident...but it was a human error that the US could not take responsibility for. I believe the Chinese know this...thus the ongoing military build up of the islands off China to secure both sea and air travel for the future. If the US could do that by accident, what could they do on purpose? Mind you, for the grieving families, this reality probably isn't acceptable...thus the manufacture of something impossible is better for them? After all, most of the passengers were 'Only Chinese'.

The Media and ADD One of the most remarkable examples of the 'established world media' having Attention Deficit Disorder involves the missing flight MH370...remember that? In the most highly radar-ed and studied and militarily high-tech rich area on Earth...the big plane just...vanished and, the Malaysian Government announced that it went the other way, totally, for no reason, to the only place in the world oceans where no one was looking at the time. The information came straight from the Malaysian PM's office. Within a month Obama landed in Malaysia and gave Malaysia a really good trade and military package that no one was expecting. Then the Saudi Royal Family gave the Malaysian Prime Minister a 'personal gift' of $800 million...just because they liked him. I wonder how often they do that? Anyway, all this information came out yet not one media company investigated this rare phenomenon or joined any of the dots. ADD?

2008-2018 "A Field Day/Decade" for Chinese Capitalism

It was about 2003 when the Chinese Standing Committee got wind of the approaching 2008 Global Financial Crisis and put significant effort into seeking to isolate China from the imbroglio, and in most ways the plans succeeded; thus China didn’t go through the Crisis to any extent near what the Western World did.

In the general scheme of things, in the mid 2000s, it was expected that the Chinese economy would overtake that of Japan and the US by about 2030. Everyone basically agreed that this would happen, but due to the withdrawal of so much real money from the Western economies in 2008 and beyond, then China simply rose much faster, and have been doing well, hell for leather, ever since.

A ‘Field Day’ or ‘Field Decade’ for Chinese capitalism in all its myriad forms. So much money was coming in that President Xie was confident enough to put into place the One Belt One Road Initiative, reshaping the world of Trade, using the ancient Silk Road Trade Routes to Europe, plus a Maritime Trade Route to India and Africa, and thus to secure good trade capacities and potentials for the next 50 years at least. The development of the OBOR initiative has been an amazing exponential phenomenon that does a lot of good for all the countries en route from China to Europe and does secure trade-ways for China-Russia-Europe very effectively.

Whilst also developing Defence Systems within the South China Sea for China’s trading access and egress, the OBOR initiative means that China is not deeply dependent upon sea-trade thus attempts by the USA in particular, and its Allies, like Japan and Australia, on threatening the sea routes doesn’t matter as much to China now. The countries that would be negatively affected by a shutdown of the South China Sea routes of trade would be China, for sure, but equally, and probably more so…The USA and Australia and Japan in particular.