In Australia, well, Peter Dutton, Minister for Being the Enemy of the Free World and Everything Decent, has launched his first salvo against the current Prime Minister with recent raids by Australian Federal Police and secret services, on the ABC and News Corp. He won't stay quiet. He won't stay lower than the PM. "There can only be One! Sparta!" He actually believes he is the best to lead. He really does...and because of the broken nature of the government, just re-elected, no one can stop him. It will get messy, very expensive, very nasty, and hurt a lot of innocent, like us, people, before he's through...and he may well win.

"It was never my artistic existential burden to be over talented when young, nor in my time in firm bright adulthood, nor in the middling middle age, nor now, in old age, or what I choose to call: my advanced projection. I guess, all in all, I should be grateful that neither fame nor talent has had the opportunity to savagely ruin me at all. Yes, thank you God, for that, and..fuck you too."

The Tiananmen disturbance had far more to do with the population protesting at the ridiculously high price of cooking oil in China than it did with any notion of democracy. Another case where the "anti-China, anti-Other" West trots out feeble and flawed information for political point scoring. Much like during the "Arab Spring" which was not a cry for democracy within various Arab states but rather due to regime financial losses in the 2008 financial meltdown where the price for basic living food items became too expensive due to the needs of the very rich to keep increasing the prices to keep increasing their income no matter what the social or economic reality. The true story of China is best told by China. More Fuel! Jaiyo!

As a fellow Australian very proud of your work in providing some real truth to the real world, thank you for your great work in journalism, Julian Assange, our very bright young Townsville Queensland boy. You did well and beyond all expectation in showing that the truth does actually matter on Earth, and should be told with alacrity. Well done. A Nobel Prize wouldn't go astray, once the Americans have stopped torturing you. Once Australia acknowledges that you are one of the best of us, and actually does something about it. I doubt Townsville or Australia has changed much in your absence at all, even though you changed everything on such a global scale, and not for the money, but for the human truth. Well done, world citizen.

Prince - Somebody's Somebody

I expect the Australian Labor Party will win next Saturday's Federal election by 8-10 seats.

Hmmm.