Recognition and Reconciliation:Indigenous Times: Have we started on the Reconciliation bit yet? I recall this old matronly type country woman from around Berrima country who was a hundred years old and could clearly recall going out with her Dad and brothers and learning how to shoot Aborigines down by the river, then roll their bodies into the river to get rid of them. It was kind of normal for her, as a child, and being an outside-type true Aussie girl, she got pretty damn good at it too, and at horse riding and the like. As she grew into womanhood, she kept up the practice and improved her aim, and well taught her kids the various skills of shooting, and knowing where they were hiding. She went on and outlived her best friends, her husbands, and all her enemies, and died in her bed in my hospital, painlessly, surrounded by great community love, and enjoying a morphine and midazolam drip between the dry sherries. Funny old world, ain't it? No, as for Karma, no, get real, it just doesn't happen. It's not a human truth at all.

Australian Referendum/ Indigenous Recognition: John Arthur Fitzpatrick 57 m · Shared with Your friends The Division Bell It was sad to hear Noel Pearson describe a life long colleague of his as someone scared and pissing his pants simply because he disagreed with Noel. Noel's capacity to be a bit of a sanctimonius prick is obvious. One got the opinion that this was all a bit of a political power-play with Noel deluding himself into thinking that the referendum had already taken place and that he, somehow, beyond anyone else, had won it. Noel didn't say he thought Stan Grant was pissing his pants when just a bit of the race blowtorch was applied to his belly by riff-raff regarding his somewhat dopey, somewhat weak as piss statements about the recent bizarro Sassenach Coronation. Where was the pipe-bomb? Where was the Continuity in the Struggle? Now, Stan has always been a bit dodgy when it comes to reporting the news. Anything about China in his reporting is usually horribly skewed towards the evil of the Communist Party of China, rather than about trying to actually report any factual news. He has been toe-ing the Morrison line about hate-for-China for years now, simply because he knew Australians are racist and would like what he said. The chooks have come home to roost, Stan. As for the Question we are to answer in the referendum, yes or no, well, still, to me, there are 2 questions in it, and these odd recent convolutions are no way to garner a positive clear and simple outcome. If you believe that the Australian population has the searing intelligence to take apart the Question and realise that no one will be disadvantaged, and it'll all be a great thing, well, then, you're even more moronic than they are. There will always be riff-raff here in Australia, about 10% as the base, but that number easily jumps to 25%++ when anything difficult is up for discussion...and when the economy is failing...about another 20%. And with one major political party out of 2 against the Yes vote... how many percent is that? A fair few, I reckon. Then, of course, are the Hopelessly Woke folk who will cancel the whole thing and not vote at all. That's called being actively 'subversive'. You just have to be a lot smarter than Noel or Stan to move forward with what was a basically good idea, fair recognition ...but now, ohhh, I can't see it passing muster now. Too much flaming diesel on the BBQ now. At first I thought the referendum was a bad idea, then changed my mind to it being a good idea, and, now, well, its a good idea but cant win due to how it is being handled by indigenous groups and equally by the riff-raff. It is more a Division Bell than a Vote. There could well be an unpleasant 'righteous backlash' by the riff raff either way. People are getting very sick of the referendum already. It has lost simplicity. Whatever trust Australians had seems to be failing now.

Ukraine and Russia

News from China re Russia and Ukraine.

The Russians have noted that have no intention of stopping the war until the government of Ukraine changes, and they expect that to happen in July, 2024.

As Zelensky can't be negotiated with, they'll negotiate with his successor, and that new aspiring government.

There's a lot of untapped gas and oil in the Eastern Provinces, heaps that hasn't been able to be extracted due to the long time war-status that goes back at least ten, 15 years.

A joint venture would be best to make those fields profitable for both Russia and Ukraine...perhaps with a Chinese Oil & Gas Company, Sinopec...the biggest oil company on earth, managing the show, a 3 way split, with most shares going equally to Russia and Ukraine, but China will need to be there, managing, and being well compensated, for the sake of general fairness, as both Russia and Ukraine will never trust each other, and both for good reason. They need a permanent profitable mediator.

Apart from that, Russia will keep the Crimea and the Eastern Provinces, and hand back the Southern seaports for the huge Ukrainian world grain trade.

Everyone makes a profit.

Peace is better.

Ukraine wont join the EU or NATO. Too corrupted already. They're not wanted, and for very good reasons.

The grand cache of weapons Ukraine keeps acquiring will be well desired in many unstable African states. Another very profitable export.

Australia: The Voice Referendum:The Referendum Approaches: As I said, I'm really not sure what The Voice is or means. There's people who make up The Voice, I get that. Who elected them? What do they do? How much do they get paid? Where do they live? How long are they in these positions? Do they get the same superannuation provisions as politicians? Are they politicians? How often do they meet up? Where do they meet up? Normal things you can ask about anyone, yet no answers.

Things Behind The Sun

Melton, Victoria...Local Culture...Dress to Impress. What can you say? It's Culture, its Diversity...its Cheap Wet Pussies at Bar Prices...it's Right Up There...Its Australia in 2023. My god, how we have grown as a Culture, as a Symbol for the World of Diversity, as a People. Time to put on my long black coat and trilby hat, and go nuts... to celebrate the Death of Christ at Easter

 

Here's the True Story of my Casio G Shock Watch. I expect some folk from Melton will be derisive and negative, as is expected, as they don't get out so much, but it is a true story. My wife and daughter and I flew down from Cairns to Melbourne 7 years ago to check out RMIT as daughter wished to do a 3 year degree in Advanced Sound Engineering and Digital Journalism, or something like that. I'd pretty well retired from work, being old. (So, she said YES to the course of studies and we tabulated that it would cost us, as she is a foreign student designation, around $40,000 each year for 3 years..and it did. So, we sold up the Cairns unit and all moved here, and rented, paid for her education, and she went to RMIT and did really well, and I went back to work to help pay for her future.) Her education actually shifted us from the Middle Class in Cairns to the Working Class in Melbourne...less pay, longer hours, everything far more expensive. Our Cairns 3 bedroom apartment with pool and lift and tropical gardens and gated etc, when sold, would buy a small one bedroom unit here. That's Melbourne. Anyway, when we flew down to check out RMIT and Melbourne, I bought a Casio G Shock Watch at Melbourne Airport for about $230. With it I got a 30 page instruction book, and thought, well, I'll just absorb all that. Well, I didn't absorb all that at all. It became an issue when the clocks changed for Day Light Saving and, for the life of me, and studying all the info, I couldn't do it. I took it to 3 watch repairers in Melbourne, and they couldn't change the time back one hour. This is true. In frustration, after finding it after I'd thrown it into the bin, I packed the watch in a small box and posted it to Mr Casio in Japan (Yes, there is a real Mr Casio) with a note saying..."Please, Mr Casio, keep this watch, I don't want it back. I don't want any money. I'd just like you to remember that it's important to design a watch, in future, that makes it easy to adjust the time on the watch, for your future business. I like the watch but I don't want it back." That was that. So, unexpectedly, for me, Mr Casio sent the watch to his Casio Excellence Team in Kyoto and they set the watch on the time it should be for MELBOURNE at that time of year, and then they sent it back to me by secure registered post. Nice people. It came back with a new glass watch face as this had been scratched. I still have it, and twice a year I'm frustrated that no one can change the time on it (except the Kyoto experts). I no longer try watch repairers or experts in Melbourne. Bunch of idiots, I reckon, much like me. I work in mental health in the area of psychology and addiction, and, one time, when interviewing a very dysphoric young man plunging into deep addled drug induced psychosis, I asked "Hey, can you change the time on a Casio watch?" Well, he replied "Yes, I can. Its easy" and he did! Unfortunately we couldn't keep him in the clinic under any health order for very long, so he went home, better than he came in, and my watch-fixer was, alas, lost to me. Eventually, I bought another simpler watch, an analogue Citizen Divers Watch that's quite simple, to use when the Casio can't be adjusted to suit the changes of time. So, that's the real story about my Casio watch, and, as the time changed happened just a few days ago, it is now, once again, this time, keeping the right time again. I love it! Anyway, as it all turned out, with her good RMIT credentials (one of the three Australian Universities that China reckons is actually any good), daughter is a managing executive now of an advertising company in Shanghai, and is zooming off to Scotland soon to do taste testing of Malt Whiskeys to advertise on her Shanghai based TV show. I love her. I'm actually still working with the drug addled and psychotic folk here, at 69, and so there is some angst to the whole story, but, over all, life has been a good story, and, overall the Casio is a good watch to keep.