Trump is a poor leader. Yet he hasn't waged major war anywhere so is very unlike Obama, Bush, Clinton etc, going way back to that remarkable man Jimmy Carter. I'm not an American and I do see them as bizarre foreigners in an adolescent ridiculously powerful and greedy culture usually bent on attacking anyone they like...but always only countries that can't fight back. As for Trump, well, if he continues to pull troops out of Europe and Asia, well, that's great! As for being an effective leader within the USA, well, no, he is not good, he is quite bad, but, they elected him and thus deserve him. I expect he will win the election. I feel the same with the remarkable propensity for Americans to have and need guns. If they only kill their own people within their own borders, then, well, that's their own choice and that's their own business.

North Korea and South Korea remain the broken tectonic plate for the world. This remains the only place that one could have a war involving pretty well everyone. The geo-position of the 2 Koreas, between China, Russia, Japan, and the floating USA armada means it is the most sought-after real estate on Earth. This is North East Asia. This is the big time. Israel and Saudi and Palestine fall into profound insignificance in comparison. The religions of both South and North Korea are indeed fascinating. I will write more about both. North Korea is very difficult for the USA to invade, which is why they haven't done it. Any invasion would meet with a huge number of feisty Chinese PLA soldiers arriving first in Pyongyang, followed by Russian soldiers. Then the US would be third to arrive...and then a big face-off between the 3. Not pleasant. This geo-position means North Korea will remain independent for a long time to come. The current Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, educated in Switzerland, is in his thirties and surprisingly has survived in a very cut-throat system by being the 'most cut throating'. He is not positively healthy with a family disposition to diabetes and the cancers. Here is a picture of his sister, Kim Yo Jong, a serious and high ranking politician in the propaganda and agitation department, and his wife, in pink, Ri So Jul. It is believed that Kim Jong Un and his wife have 3 children.

As for coronavirus intelligent restrictions to value and save human life: I see the Americans are revolting. I said that the psyche of that nation can only deal with a two week crisis, then they just just go fucking crazy. Anything longer than 2 weeks and they are terrified...paranoid...vicious and aggressive, and start lashing out. An adolescent addicted-cult of a culture being lead, by their choice, by an infantile freak. No good will come of it.

Krakatoa Volcano Eruption - April, 11, 2020 Wow!

These are remarkable and unheard of Times. It will take awhile, months, before the impact sinks in, and the world of people won't be the same as it was in say December 2019. I wish us all the best and to find value and meaning in relationships with others, or peace in solitude, as either best suits us...perhaps time with others, and time alone. I guess the natural world will be slightly improved with less toxins around for awhile. What we might notice, and I have noticed just recently, is the general quietness of the world when a lot of people are removed from it. The incidental things, quiet journeys with hardly any traffic, quiet walks, quiet parks etc. More birdsong. The damn infernal noise of Melbourne City is greatly reduced in many cases and places. I've noticed that most colleagues are worried about their work wise fate, of course, as am I and my wife, and we expect the times will grow harder as we move into a cold winter here with both corona virus and flu virus needing us for them to live their virus lives. I don't have a lot of faith, well, I don't have any faith or trust at all in our Government, Federally, as I don't think the ideology of Conservatism is useful to humanity at this time, and I think those leaders are ill-equipped in thinking competence about what is best for the people. One just hopes that the arising need may force the Federal Government, belatedly, almost criminally belatedly, to do what is best for the whole, not just their protected friends and their ideologies. I expect they will need to be forced and beaten into Reason. This is the first time I've considered that this really is a new century with problems very much of its own making and solutions, if any, are quite some distance away in time.

Australia, Victoria:Victoria's public exposure sites Sunday, March 8 T20 Cricket World Cup Final, Melbourne Cricket Ground, MCC Members Level 2, between 5:15pm and 11:30pm Myrtle Oval, Macleay Park, North Balwyn between 10:00am and 4:00pm Ramsden Street Oval, Clifton Hill, between 8:30am and 5:00pm Virgin Australia flight VA24 from Los Angeles to Melbourne which arrived at 7:00am Saturday, March 7 Albert Park Hotel between 6:00pm and 10:00pm South Melbourne Market between 2:00pm and 3:00pm Coles Waurn Ponds between 1:00pm and 6:00pm AAMI Park (Rebels vs Lions rugby game) in the evening Ashburton Park, time unsure Virgin Australia flight VA24 from Los Angeles to Melbourne, arrived 7:00am Friday, March 6 Malaysia Airways flight MH0149 from Kuala Lumpur to Melbourne arrived 9:00am Pho Hung Vuong 2 Vietnamese Restaurant in Richmond between 6:00pm and 7:00pm Qantas flight QF94 from Los Angeles to Melbourne arrived 9:40am Coles Waurn Ponds between 8:45am and 10:00am South Melbourne Market between 8:30am and 10:00am Emirates flight EK404 from Singapore to Melbourne arrived at 12:15am Thursday, March 5 Cinema Nova, Carlton, Movie: The Amber Light between 7:30pm and 10:30pm V/Line train from Southern Cross Station to Geelong departing about 5:40pm Tuesday, March 3 Wine by Sam in Seymour between 12:30pm and 3:30pm La Trobe University, Bundoora Campus: March 3 between 9:00am and 12:00pm March 4 between 11:00am and 1:00pm March 5 between 1:00pm and 4:30pm Monday, March 2 Virgin Australia flight VA682 from Perth to Melbourne which arrived at 4:20pm VLine train from Geelong to Southern Cross departing about 5:40pm Metro train from Southern Cross to Camberwell departing between 7:00pm and 7:15pm Toorak Clinic, 575 Malvern Rd, Toorak for patients and staff that attended the clinic any time between March 2 and March 6 United Airlines flight UA0060 from San Francisco to Melbourne arrived 9:30am Singapore Airlines flight SQ237 from Singapore to Melbourne arrived 10:50am Malindo Air flight OD177 from Denpasar to Melbourne arrived 10:50am (Singapore time)

I recall a Kurt Vonnegut novel where the Chinese, because they had such a big population and thus a big food problem, decided to scientifically make themselves smaller, and smaller in size in each generation...thus each needing less food...to the extent they became the size of microbes drifting in the wind...and they drifted across the world and everyone inhaled them...and then they grew colonies inside people. It was a fun story. It had great elements of creative imagination and the essence of western psychotic paranoia about China in it...I like Kurt Vonnegut. He told a damn good story.