I was always concerned that matters in Asia were controlled by America but with the rise of Trump and the departure of America from this area, I feel some hope. Asia is a matter for Asians, controlled totally by Asians. For this reason, I support Trump in letting go of Asia. Asia was always far too expensive to maintain, and just too far away for America. It was never part of America. Never will be, never can be. Asia is Asia. As the Chinese note...when you look at it...on the numbers...as the Chinese see it, China IS Asia, and I think this is true to the same extent that America IS Canada and Mexico, Central America, and most of South America etc...this is a reality. This is how things are. China IS Asia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia etc. That's really what China is...and China is doing well. It should be enough for America to wield power and might within its own borders, and through Canada, through Mexico and South America etc...that is enough. There needs to be no war or clash of minds or cultures etc. The USA is...America, fundamentally North and South. Asia is Asia, and... China is Asia. And, just yesterday, China and Japan came to some agreement that would have been impossible if America was a powerful country anymore in Asia. China and Japan...wow, these brothers have a lot to work out, and they will work it out a lot better left to themselves and the fate of each other. Even the one Korea is doing better now, North working with South, without America in it at all. This is a good thing. As for me, growing up in a Sydney suburb, working class, not many prospects, my dad being persecuted and unemployable because he was a catholic in Sydney in this days, anyway, I worked as a poetry editor for a decade from 1970 after a good catholic school education, before my publishing company well, we went broke with the new technology and sold out to a tobacco company, Benson & Hedges, and BP Oil, who bought us up to prove their credentials as ... socially aware... so they could acquire government grants...etc in the late 1970s and so... i did nursing/ I am sure it wasn't a good idea, but, at the time, it was an idea. I have liked some of it.

One Ireland.It is interesting to look at things over time. A 'solution' to Irish nationhood was to divide it into 2 states. It hasn't worked, but England didn't care at all about that, until now, and it has to face up to Brexit...now it cares. This is what the English are like. This is how they think. This is what they do. A progressive Europe is far better off free of that garbage. Ireland is one Ireland, pure and simple.

A 2 state solution was never a solution for Palestine. Nor is it a solution for Ireland.

Well, now that the Australian Government lost the recent by-election in the jew-rich area of the east Suburbs of Sydney, they have canned the idea of Jerusalem becoming the site for the Australian Embassy. Who would have guessed that? All that enthusiasm...is instantly gone. Back to reality. That scam didn't work. Next one, Scomo? Attack the Unions. Blame the refugees. The usual suspects, now the jews, as a marketing reference point, didn't come to the party. Blame the Irish.

Well, now that the Australian Government lost the recent by-election in the jew-rich area of the east Suburbs of Sydney, they have canned the idea of Jerusalem becoming the site for the Australian Embassy. Who would have guessed that? All that enthusiasm...is gone. Back to reality. That scam didn't work. Next one?

Mens History of Hair based upon Baldness as the Dominant Gene: In the 70s and 80s it was the Comb-Over. In the 90s the shaven head became de rigeur. Following on into the 21st century, caps + goatees + the shaven head became the thing. It still is, in some places like cairns...goatee + cap...and driving a ute. That's the thing. In the mid 2018s etc you see the preponderance of narrow hipster brimmed hats on balding heads with beards in the 30+ year olds in real life, although, on tv, the toupee still coming in on every channel, with the rich, like Elton John and Trump and Sting etc, paying out millions for harvesting their genital hair to implant upon their heads. I remain with a full harvest of back hair that can be sold to anyone interested in real male beauty. I'm thinking of extensions and..blonde dreadlocks. Best to stop there and not begin to discuss what women do even though it is kind of obvious.

OFFICIAL Somewhere over the Rainbow - Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole