It wasn't long ago that private company British medical researchers were hanging out, salivating at the opportunity, waiting for British soldiers to be profoundly injured in Iraq so they could research the use of their new artificial blood products...but it never happened. Sigh. the Iraqis just put their guns in a shed and went home. How can you destroy people like that and at the same time create new medical technologies? The Iraqis...what bastards. Bomb them again. And again. Still, they just went home. What kind of evil enemy is that? We depended on them killing a lot of us so we could make good medicines for the rest of us. What kind of bastards are they?

Australia...Every few repetitive years its always the same...as if no one knows anything...Western politics...its not that hard, is it? A binary system...there are the Right who think that the Individual is most important. There is the Left who think that the collective is most important. For a generally good existence, then you just find the middle place. You know that even the people you give power to aren't the brightest folk in the bunch, not the sharpest shovels in the shed. For Australia, running up to the next elections, Bill Shorten of the Labor party isn't the sharpest shovel for sure...but look at the present Government...what are they?... Scott Morrison, Peter Dutton, who are these people except shit to be shovelled out anyway? Not because they are great Individualists denied their heavenly right to be important, but just because they are a corrupt and appalling government of fucknuckle wanking dickheads who only do us harm. Its not rocket science. If you are an Australian and work for a living, you can't afford the Liberal Party selling everything out as they always do, trying to destroy social progress every day. you can't afford being short changed and fucked in the arse just because you are a decent human being.

the only areas where China has invested more money than the US iarein high technology, quantum computers, & nuclear attack submarines. The US owns the air, China owns the sea. The US navy, whilst plumbing the bottom of the South China Sea, seeking trails of the new Chinese nuclear attack subs, were surprised to find a Chinese sub rose to the surface next to the USAs best technology ship, the Chinese sailors came out on the submarine deck and waved to the Americans, and then the sub descended again to be unfindable within a minute by the best US technology. Then, next day, China offered to sell its old sub technology to the USA, to help them out. China's old technology was made by Huawei.

Border Control at Warringah Airport, Sydney. Just knowing that Tony Abbott is there on Voluntary Community Service for the cavity searches makes me feel a lot safer about National Security, as an Australian. All oiled up, I just hope he doesn't disappear completely up a Bishop's arse.

Noticing that 3 Federal Govt Ministers this week have made their plans to not re-contesting the upcoming Federal Election because they wish to spend more time with their families. That's exactly what Alpha type characters do once they've fought and struggled their bitter way to positions of significance and power, of course...they just go home to be with the kids. Take them to soccer. Australia may not have to have an election this year if the Members of the Government keep going home to be with their kids at the present rate. Just hand over the keys to the Opposition, and start talking about the costs of after school care and kids parties amongst themselves. I wish Peter Dutton would go home...but I would feel sorry for his family I must admit. Imagine having him at home all the time. "We need to stop the toast! If we are going to have any toast it must be toast that we choose to have and have in the manner we choose to have it with the various prescribed condiments." For the sake of your family Peter, you should stay in Canberra. A good few years grumbling in Opposition would be better for everyone.

World Travel used to be, for me, about going somewhere and living there for awhile. It has never been about having a holiday and staying in a nice hotel and looking at stuff on any tour. My travels were about living somewhere else for a medium or long time, going slowly broke, and with heart mind and soul looking out at things. Learning. Being, walking about. So my journeys have been less frequent than those of many Aussie holiday makers around the world, for sure, but having a holiday wasn't really the point. If one is fortunate to be born in Australia and saved a bit, then one doesn't need holidays in exotic places...but rather it is better to actually live there. The hotel I liked most was a 2 star hotel in the Italian Quarter in Paris, mostly because of the lazy big breakfasts, the bowls of warm coffee, the bread, and sharing the tiny lift with an emotional naked large breasted girl who had been thrown out of her room by her beau, and getting to know her, and help her. I gave her my leather jacket...partly because she was cold, but mostly because, naked, she looked so good in it. Much better than I ever looked. Still, I remember the warm bowls of coffee most.

Did you ever notice that just after the Malaysian plane was knocked out of the sky over the South China Sea, that, almost the next day, the PM of Malaysia received a gift of $800,000,000 from the Saudi Royal Family, even though he didn't know them that well, but still, a nice gift is a nice gift...and that the day after that, Mr Obama arrived in Malaysia to offer them a really big favourable military weapons and trade grant? It was on that day that the PM of Malaysia, having studied the data about the plane going missing, noted that the plane had, um, changed directions entirely, for no reason at all, and went to crash itself far away, far far away, thousands of miles away in the sea, where no one was looking.