Not a good thing to happen

I bought some security light/video device from an Australian owned company in Townsville way back in November last year. It cost $100.

Didn't arrive. I enquired in December...well, there's been some delay...oh, well, yeah, okay.

I've tried to contact them since but there's been no reply at all.

As its now the end of January and someone nicked my bicycle from a spot under which the security light was supposed to be...I bought another very similar device from another company. Maybe not Australian owned, but who cares, when the Oz doesn't deliver or even acknowledge the issue?

The Name of the Townsville Based Company that can't supply or reply is:

Review: Telstra Internet Fiber Direct to the Home Set Up/ 5 G with instant 4 G Back Up. We've now had it in the new home for about 6 weeks, and I must admit, its kind of woeful compared with the more primitive set up we had at Craigieburn. Its slower and, mind you, somehow it costs us more. One computer, one smart TV kind of okay, but no hope of adding on a tablet etc as it can't/won't connect for a long long long time. Dare I try to contact Telstra? An interesting World Communications Super Company in that they are so advanced that there's no one there when you phone them. They should really replace the shonky music and ads, as you are waiting interminably, with the sound of crickets in a field at night.

Update The Ukraine

More 'news' from the Ukrainian Military Advertising Folk noting huge land gains by their brave forces.

I do tend to doubt that completely.

I think Russia has made the gains it wished to make, has incorporated those Eastern provinces into formal Russian Law, & so has achieved its goal: a strong buffer zone to prevent further Western threat and intimidation. The Russian job now is just to enforce the new borders between itself and what remains of Ukraine. 300,000 Russian army conscripts can do that.

Russia will loosen its tenacious grip on the Southern Ports, (whilst keeping The Crimea for good until Ukraine pays its 20 billion euro gas bill- well in arrears now), as a negotiation tool in a month or two.

Germany will seek diplomatic ends, as the peace maker about to go broke, and the rest of Europe will comply.

The USA will be sidelined, but will put on their usual lying/winning face, in regards to the matter before winter grips Europe, and Russian gas flows again, just in time, especially for Germany.

Most of the stockpile of US and European weapons in the Ukraine will continue be sold off at great profit for the Ukrainian elite to unstable African regimes, as they are doing now.

Peace will come about this way for Europe.

There will be strife in Africa to come, for sure, though...but who in the West cares about Africa? Only China cares about Africa in the present age.

In the meantime, the Western Journalists will stay in their comfortable hotels in Ukrainian cities, and just be taken out on day trips by the Ukrainian Advertising executives, to be told the news and to photograph stuff, and report with serious demeanours how Ukraine is actually winning, far away from anywhere or anyone dangerous, before it gets too cold there, and it will get cold.

China and Poverty

I haven't ever been jealous of other people's possessions, houses, cars etc. I am fortunate that I have always had a little money, which, to me, is essential and is much like oxygen. One does not need a lot, but enough to live with.
I think in any world recession/depression the problem is that a great majority of folk will not have enough, whilst those who have plenty will still demand plenty, and even more.
This is when it will get nasty, and, for good reason.
When you look back a little time, at what was called the Arab Spring, where many countries demonstrated and rebelled against their governments, it was not because of a high calling to American democracy or even representation, it was simply that as money got tight, the ruling class still had to have their growing share...and took it, and the rest of the people had, really, no food.
When you look back further at, say, the Tiananmen rebellion in China, in the capital, Beijing, it wasn't about a rising need for democracy at all, no matter how the West paints that time. It was simply that the price of cooking oil became too high for people to afford, and the huge money went into the pockets of corrupt folk in both government and emerging private industry.
I think the Chinese have learned well that people must be considered in any social equation. The Chinese people remain capable of the biggest bloodiest most horrific revolution ever, anytime, and one that has no endpoint and no resolution, one that would pretty well doom the world back to the stone age, unless the needs of people are considered. I'm sure the government of China is well aware of this. Because of this at-home awareness of consequences, I expect China and the people of China, will do okay in these darkening times.

Wyndham Plumbing, here in Melton, did a great job...Fast, quality, economical.

Wyndham Plumbing Group, Melton Victoria

As for our plumbing issues, we've decided to employ a company called Wyndham Plumbing Group, rather than try again with the Scottish shyster fellow who dropped by the other day. Wyndham is coming on Thursday. Their job is to fix 1: a leaking tap connection to the washing machine, and 2: a washer issue in one of the shower taps. I can't do that due to not having the skillset nor any of the tools.
We have paid them $130 to turn up... sometime that day...and await their diagnostic skills and fast repairs. I will be sure to well publicise their work.

Our Coward Journalists

Our Cowards in Journalism

Independent information from Ukraine notes that 70% of all American and UK and European weapons are not getting to the war front at all but are being sold off to Ukraine Government suppliers to mostly African countries in various states of despair and forment.

Ukraine has always been like that. It remains the most corrupt state in Europe and the West totally supports it in this form. It its the conduit in Europe of weapons, drugs and child sex trafficking.

It isn't possible at the moment for Western media to report anything much as the reporters are staying in nice hotels far from the action, and then being taken on whats called Dog & Pony shows by Ukrainian managers for occasional photo opportunities to inspire hate for their brother Russians. 

They are doing a great job. Zelensky and his marketers can not do anything bad or wrong, nor have they ever done anything like that. When has there ever been a critical statement? Is that realistic? Hmmm.

It is the nature of human beings to be somewhat cowards in the face of war, even when they have the job of being 'war correspondents'. Both cowards, and careerists, more intent of validating their 'wartime experiences' for audiences at home and for their future career progression, whilst sweating it out in nice hotels, waiting to be handed today's news by their Ukrainian managers over a nice breakfast.

Journalism has been like this for some time now, since the US noticed what free journalists would actually report in Vietnam, if allowed to. This was devastating to the 'war effort', to have truth come into it at all. Everything must be imbedded and controlled. Journalists have been willingly shut down and milk fed ever since in all the various wars.

True, Truth is the first victim in any conflict. Whilst the war goes on, the big money is being made by the weapons sellers in Ukraine, very important folk in the government, and in weaponising many African dictatorships for the present and future.

I do not support Ukraine in this matter. I am disgusted that Australian funds are being given freely to such high flying shysters, and that such shysters are being totally protected by 'real' journalists.