my niece Sarah, who is working in Shanghai, has a blog and I would suggest to facebook folk that it is well worth visiting. It provides insights into the great phenomenon of the Peoples Republic of People.https://wenshali.com/

https://wenshali.com/

when we lived in Thailand during the last big rebellion, around 2012, the radio stations had competitions where you paid 20baht to send a sms regarding which side you thought would win the inner city skirmishes each day, and you could win good prizes, too, sometimes a new toyota corolla...i always bet on the government snipers. maybe we should organise that kind of thing for US versus North Korea? I bet...1000baht ($25US) that there will be no war...this week...from today til midnight 23rd april. Any takers?

Noting that Mr President Trump thinks that Mr President Kim Jong Un is a 'bad guy'. I think most of us get the fact that Mr Un isn't a nice man. Even born to the role, and Un wasn't, the capacity for anyone to get to the top of the shamanistic military DPRK by the age of 30 is a remarkable and ambitious achievement. That he has consolidated support and control is a remarkable achievement, and this has to be the work of a not nice man. I think we know that. The Kim family have been the leaders of the North for decades now and US Military Intelligence hasn't been able to affect that one bit. He is quite secure...a bad man, yes, but not mad at all...he is far more secure than Mr Trump. True, the Kim family have physical health problems that seem to get a lot worse in their late 50s and 60s and I think Mr Un is much like that too...still, with 30 years, most likely, to rule before that happens, he has a brighter future than the American President.

The trouble with enjoying and postulating absurdist humour as I do is that people don't think I'm serious, but when it comes to my own nation, my own people, my own family, and the fucking awful disgusting fuck-knuckle dragging neanderthal primitive anally English self-destructive flag of racial hate that flies over this place, I am very fucking serious indeed. The current Australian flag, the flag of the English, over us, is a fucking disgrace to every Australian, black, white or yellow, or red, and to any decent person, and it makes us weak as a people, and it always has.

I still think 1: the road sign warning of kangaroos ahead, and 2: the silver fern of New Zealand are the best true and only flags of Australia and New Zealand as real places with real people who have real homes in the Antipodes. neither flag is a flag that beseeches its youth to go to the other side of the world and die for someone else, or demands its people follow the orders of others, but rather to believe in yourself, do well, get strong, be secure, and love your own families, and love where and who you are, and have a great future in the real world.

Today's English word: Antipodes.antipodes anˈtɪpədiːz noun 1. Australia and New Zealand (used by inhabitants of the northern hemisphere). "there were plants from the Antipodes, including eucalyptuses and acacias" 2. the direct opposite of something.

After the slicing of Korea into two by the USSR and the USA, the unhappiness of this divided one people continues. The problem of Korea is a problem between 2 Korean brothers and 2 Korean cities, Seoul and Pyongyang, and it is only these 2 brothers, these two cities, who can resolve the issue, and if left to their own devices, they would solve it, although it wouldn't be pretty, it would be resolved fairly quickly. It won't be resolved by provocations by the foreign USA..and certainly not with the assistance of Japan who are the most despised people by both the Korean brothers for very good reason. Actually, the Japanese involvement in the US effort to destabilise the North may well be the one thing, the one sprite, that unites North and South against Japan...and the USA. Too much harm was done by Japan to both North and South Korea for there ever to be a reconciliation with Japan that doesn't involve a lot of bloodshed. Best for Japan to stay out of it. The 'Grief Response' is an incredibly powerful and vicious thing...and for good reason.