Planning a Christmas Holiday for us

 Well, overseas isn't possible really.

So planning a drive up the Hume Highway to Canberra and a few days there to look at the Parliament, the Art Gallery, the War Museum and the High Court...and walk around a fair bit and have nice things to eat. Last time we just stayed overnight and everything was shut.

After 4-5 days, then drive homewards stopping in border towns with Victoria to look at house prices and generally relax more...whilst sticking close to the border should Omicron rise up as a big issue, as I expect. Hug the borders...

I thought of the coastal road to Eden, NSW, or thereabouts but the cost of accommodation is a bit high and silly, and, well, when you get there, there's nothing there...we like the Ocean, and we would like to see the Ocean, sure, but we have seen the Ocean before. So we will visit Canberra (even just to see what kind of environment sustains someone like Peter Dutton) and see the Human Institutions important to many, and the Art is very good indeed...and we will see lots of either very dry or very wet sheep enroute.

I see Australia is not sending officials to the Beijing Winter Olympics. Australia can always be depended upon to do the wrong thing.

 Oh dear, what can one say?

Australia, in the fob pocket of the USA. Sad but true. Never variance, never independence. Never thinking. Always, in these matters, Australia just hurts itself to conform to what the USA demands of us.

The Beef Industry is a good example. Because we made outrageous demands that China be seen as a hostile evil state awhile ago, just like North Korea and Iran, rather than our best biggest trading partner, and we demanded that the International Covid Enquiry should have investigated China with the same total-powers as the world Nuclear Authorities - ignore sovereign status, ignore the laws of China, just go in with various experts and control everything... this was demanded by Australia, and no one else. Who, in their right mind would do that to our best trading partner, or any partner? So, China stopped buying Australian beef.

The first country to meet the awaiting huge and profitable demand of selling a lot more beef to China? The USA.

Ridiculous.

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Interesting. Off topic, but interesting. We are looking at a house purchase in Lucifer Street, Balwyn North, Victoria. I wonder what comes with it? Central Heating, I expect.

My favourite conspiracy theory is one that I created myself, after studying the News about that Malaysian flight mh370 Airline that disappeared

 It was flying over the South China Sea enroute to Beijing and was shot down by mistake by the US Navy who were doing active pinging of China's defenses at that time.

A new story that it turned around and flew off to the only area on the planet not under surveillance, down from India, towards Antarctica was invented to cover the shoot down mistake.

The full investigation was handled by the PM of Malaysia. Within the month the US President, Obama, flew to Malaysia and offered a really good trade and military deal to Malaysia that they happily accepted,  and at that same time the Saudi Royal Family gave the Malaysian PM US$800 million as a free gift because he was a nice man.

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