John Fitzpatrick. About New China, the Koreas, Myanmar, Thailand, and also about Japanese and Chinese writers and poets. The main emphasis is on North Asia and the political tectonics of this very important, powerful, and many-peopled area.
Wednesday, 6 September 2023
Australian Referendum
Monday, 14 August 2023
Dang, I've been banned from a facebook site for repeating the news I heard on Sky News!
Damn, my comments here have been Banned from the Voice Yes/No facebook page....for 5 days. I think it might have been the reference to the comment about the mushroom vegetable dehydrator, as a warning to other husbands, but don't blame me. I saw that on Sky News. I thought it was true, like everything else on Sky!
Referendumb, Australia
Wednesday, 19 July 2023
Commonwealth Games
Victoria cancelling the Commonwealth Games
Cluster Bombs for the Ukraine?
Wednesday, Washing Day, and the clothes are on the line, as ordained in the Holy Scripts of Yore and Elders.
I saw the common blackbird this morning, tooling about in the garden. So, good to see.
As I was hanging out the washing I thought about The Ukraine getting a lot of cluster bombs from the USA.
Now, Cluster Bombs are really awful things, hundreds of little bomblets, many of which go off, and many don't. Many just lie there for ten, 20 years waiting for a child to step on them, then Boom! No legs!...as still happens every day now in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, from the bad old days of American penetrative imperialism.
Cluster Bombs are a real Cluster Fuck that defines true hatred for an enemy, and their children, in a very real and abiding way. You can't just go and pick up the ones that don't go off. Why? Because then they go off!
Odd that the Ukrainian President, our Hero, will be dropping them on the Ukraine, itself, his own beloved countryside, and his very own loved peoples, but only where the Russian soldiers and the Ukrainian Folk who like Russia, who live there as the Majority. All those troublesome Eastern Provinces he's been trying to neutralise and effectively 'sterilise' for many years.
Kind of shows the true Mettle of the Man... who is beginning to make Mr Putin look like a bit of a humanitarian in comparison.
Dropping cluster bombs on your own people, even if those folk don't really like you, is not a good idea. That blood and shattered bone in the present and in the generations to come, doesn't come out in the wash. That's a real War Crime. That's a real and hateful Cunt Act.