Australia Federal Election approaching

I thought a good Federal Labor ticket would be Penny Wong as PM with Sally McManus as Deputy, and I still think Ms Wong would be best, but Sally McManus has lost a lot of credibility over the past few years doing nothing to progress salary increases for ACTU members in a whole decade, whilst happy to kowtow with the Morrison regime, and, basically, 'corporatising' the ACTU elite...so I'd have to look away from her as being a 'hopeful'. A waste. Sally would have to show some mettle that she hasn't yet displayed at all. A decade is a long time to just hang around building your power base and not delivering anything.

and not delivering anything.

With the subjugation of Mariupol, the Russia will be looking towards both incorporating the Eastern provinces, Donesk etc, and also swinging around to take Odessa, I would expect.

By taking Odessa, the Russians would then control part of the pathway into Transnistria, which is very important. Transnistria is that place without passports or any national control where all the things that shouldn't happen in Europe happen in Europe. The Great Conduit for spies, weapons, trafficking, terror etc from all sides make free use of Transnistria. To off-load the weapons pouring into Ukraine, you use Transnistria to get them out to Africa for sale.

Since my last post in early March about The Ukraine, well, the war continues, as wars tend to do.

Most of the news reports we get here are more like advertising than anything else.

Define the bad guy, dehumanise him, and keep saying we are winning and he is losing, even when he is doing just fine.

That's the Free Media, that's what it does.

UKRAINE & RUSSIA

I think the big problem for Ukraine at the moment is that it probably won't exist soon. Many calls for EURO membership, as usual, and even NATO membership, as always expected. 

Ukraine has tried to use its critical position, and it is certainly in a critical position, to draw funds from both Russia and Europe over the decades and sometimes, like now, everyone gets sick of it. Ukraine needs to restructure its economy so that most of the economy is not bled away in corruption. The 'system' must change.

There is corruption in all states, but Ukraine really has 'made a meal' of it for a long time, playing on Russia's fear of the West, and on the West's fear of Russia to get every bit of money possible to give away to important people through corruption, rather than to actually run a country. It can't pay its Gas Bill to Russia. Germany can. Everyone else can, and Ukraine gets the cheapest gas of anyone. But both Ukraine and Germany still get masses of Russian gas. The Russians haven't turned off the gas...but they do expect Ukraine to pay the debt, and the debt is huge.

Not that I'm judging, but...

I read an article in a today's Melbourne Newspaper by an Andrew Bolt who apparently types up stuff for them on Mondays, and he wrote about us taking the initiative now, and how we should be waging war on China.

He writes with the genius of a 59 year old boy who hasnt learned how to masturbate properly yet. No, Andrew, not your own dick in your own arse, no. No, don't do that. Well, at least try not to.

Not judging at all, just noticing his tremulous vibrant excitement with the sexual-hubritic theme in middle age. Is that a wig? A 'piece'...Just a little one? Just in the centre there? Looks like one to me.

Goodness me, he does stand out from the crowd, even with someone else's hair. Mind you, you hope there aren't many in that crowd, but still, he is a worry.

He looks like many others of his ilk, but he is different. He's mad as fuck. He's even madder than that. He's mad as fucking fuck.

I guess that it's good that profound mental illness has totally lost its stigma at least in Melbourne on Mondays. Well done Newspaper Editors...Yep, THAT'S real diversity.

February, 23rd , 2022

January Meeting between Mr Putin and Mr Xie.

Putin:

"I'm going to take Ukraine. I have to. They won't pay their gas bill."

Xie:

"Oh, Duh! It's pretty obvious you guys are on the move. Look Vlad, can you do it after the Winter Olympics?"

Putin:

"Sure, but it has to be February, or the Thaw slows everything down. Too muddy then. Awful trudging."

Xie:

"Can you hold off til, say, have you got a calendar, ah, let's see...can you not invade before Wednesday the 23rd?"

Putin: "The 23rd it is. Early AM. Shock and Awe. Ukraine time."

Xie: "As needs be. I bet you're shittin' your pants worried about Australia's response."

Putin: "Who? Hahahahaha. Oh, yeah, the Fat Lobster People."

Xie: "How long do you think it'll take?"

Putin: "Oh, about 3 days, I reckon."

Xie: "What then?"

Putin: "Pax Russia. Peace in our time, for a long time. I'll go horse riding. It's what I do."

The soon coming Australia Government Election

Federally, at the coming election, I'd like to see a Government that had a capacity to build consensus for Australia to achieve worthy goals as a country.

I'd like to see more importance given to the Social Cost to the people, the Real Commonwealth, than to the Economic Costs to a few billionaires and media moguls.

I'd like to see the Great and Small Religions have a far lesser role in determinations regarding a definition of a healthy modern human society.

I think Federal Elections should only happen every 5 years and on a definite date each time to lessen the crazy pork-barrelling of gifts to pressure groups just prior to elections, and to enable a longer term plan for the country where those who introduce changes are held responsible for their work. Thus, accountability in the short-medium term.

I have no great pride in the Australian Labor Party, especially the current one, but Labor does have a historical social capacity to improve lives. The Liberals have a history of tearing down things and wanting the Market to solve problems that are not of the Market.

I would like to see a strong reinforcement of Award Conditions rather than what is happening with this awful desperate atrocious demeaning gig-notion of an economy.

I would appreciate a Government that did good things overall to the benefit of the most people. I would appreciate a Government that did these things conscientiously, quietly, and without having any leader needing to have a daily press meeting espousing and marketing themselves every day.

I would appreciate a leadership that was far more about the consensus of, say, a Caucus of 5 reasonably intelligent well informed people rather than the populist barking of one.

I would like to see Penny Wong as Prime Minister. Smart, considered, somewhat bureaucratic, not in your face every day, and genuinely honest.

So, I would hope for a Labor victory this year. Not for what Labor is just now, but for what it could be. I know what a Liberal Government will be: Day after the election, should they win: well, no, economically, we can't give anyone wage rises, especially nurses, there are too many of them and they're too expensive....with the payroll going to Business Leaders living in New York and London.