MH370...let's play 'connect the dots'...the plane carrying over 300 passengers, mostly Chinese, is flying from KL to China over the South China Sea where US Navy has been and is still conducting laser-EMP 'pinging' of China's sea, land and air radar defences...to neutralise them... Then the plane gets hit by this and crashes there in the sea. The US Navy cleans up the site.. The facts get delayed and rewritten and the Malaysian PM announces the plane actually turned around for no reason and went over Penang...and then disappeared... Then, it didn't actually do that, but, um, yes, it didn't actually do that but went almost half way round the world and crashed in the only place it couldn't be found... Then Obama arrives in Malaysia and they sign up to a new secret military alliance. Then the Saudi Royal family give the Malaysian PM $890 million as a gift without telling anyone. Now, are the Saudi's very good allies of the USA? Yes. Could the USA have given the Malaysian PM the money? Not directly. It was only the Chinese Secret Service that got the whiff of this pointing to the Malaysian PM as the 'office' where all the info went to...and then an odd story eventually came out of...

world news...PM of Malaysia, who was given US$890 million by the Saudi Royal family, for nothing, at the time the MH370 went a-missing, said he will be returning about US$650 million to the Saudi Royal family, since the gift was discovered by the media...the difference between the $890 million and the $650 million is the amount he has already spent.

The Attorney General of Malaysia finds the PM has no case to answer.

تقدم أستراليا المعرض taqaddam 'usturalia almaerid/ advance australia fair in arabic

Studying the electoral requirements to run as a Senator, I need 100 people (who can vote) to endorse the nomination. Anyone? I will run on the basis of the policy points as noted. 1: Increase Nursing salaries by 100%. 2: Increase penalty rates for all service industry workers by 50%. 3: Note the Australian Defence Force (Army Navy & Air Force) as responsible for preventing and for dealing with natural predictable regular disasters in Australia, thus recalling them from overseas activities and expense. 4: Increase all ADF salaries by 50%. 5: Increasing pensions by 100% 6: Aggressively and fairly tax large corporations. 7: The Death Penalty for CEOS re Corporate Tax Evasion. 8: Grant Indigenous groups with real land ownership and bargaining ability regarding use of land for mining etc, and remove all other supports for Indigenous Australians.

Today's anecdote: 2 Korean brothers, age 10 and 14 came by for their Mandarin lesson and Madam introduced them to her willowy daughter,and they spoke in Mandarin for awhile. During this brief period, the students' eyes glassed over and they began to drool. Up to today they were great students, from now on, excellent students ...having good inspiration to learn this difficult language as well and as fast as possible.

a philosophical quote on parenthood by John Fitzpatrick, 2016: "We move through stages, as parents, at the same speed our children move through their remarkable eclectic developments. At first we are their managers, then later we become their consultants, then we become distant advisers, then we become a buoyant memory...and it is our acceptance of these stages that makes us good parents". The world, as far as I know it, and have known it, has been a good place and remains so...apart from a few Liberal Governments, and apart from Bill Shorten.

I must congratulate, mockingly, the local Murdoch paper The Cairns Post for defying convention and allowing the alcohol industry to write their articles and editorials showing us all in Cairns the virtues of grog. Of course, Cairns has no problem with alcohol, the clubs have no violence, the health benefits of binge drinking are...really good! Well done, The Cairns Post...not too many newspapers have fully crossed the Rubicon between considered reason and social madness so clearly and undaunted. Cheers!