Politics is a dirty word

Why do the Americans think they should be the only country allowed to throw missiles around the world?. They have devastated the Middle East but they complain about North Korea's attenpts to protect themselves from US aggression. They still smart from the memory of losing the Korean war, the Vietnam War and for their underwhelming performance in Afghanistan.

RUSSIAN bombers have been flown on a drill through East Asia presumably in response to the regular war games being conducted by the US and South Korea with some participation by Australia and the UK. It's still not clear how effective the US navy is given recent navigational problems which may have been caused by electronic warfare methods which disabled military systems.The US is deploying 100 F35 strike fighters in Souh Korea and Japan even though the planes are not thought to be combat ready. Russia has reportedly established a new division of heavy bombers to patrol the Pacific region. Fifty supersonic Tu-160 bombers have been deployed.They are expected to be replaced by new PAK-DA stealth bombers in 2022.

The $122million postal survey on same-sex marriage in Australia is yet another demonstration of Government waste and inability to make decisions. A 'NO' vote will send a clear message to politicians that they don't understand the Australian population.

War games between the US, South Korea, Australia and the UK may be put on hold after navigational problems with US warships caused two collisions in recent weeks. Ten American sailors are missing and five injured after the guided-missile destroyer USS John S McCain collided with an oil tanker off the coast of Singapore early on Monday .Seven sailors died in June when the USS Fitzgerald was hit by a container ship off Japan. The US navy acknowledged the crashes were caused by poor leadership.If the warships are unable to avoid collisions with unarmed surface ships, they can't be expected to find submarines or survive an encounter with a fully armed warship.

In a joint effort, peace activists in the U.S. and South Korea are calling on people of both countries to demand their presidents call off planned US-South Korean war exercises, and aim for a peaceful solution to the current crisis with North Korea. Authored by former U.S. presidential candidate Jill Stein of the Green Party and South Korean anti-war activists, their online petition urges a “freeze for a freeze” — a freeze on North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs in exchange for a freeze on U.S. military exercises in Korea. North Korea's threat to launch four missiles and crash them in the sea off Guam, may have been an attempt to stop the war games exercise. The Australian Government plans to send ships to participate in the war games.

Australian's are getting heartily sick of the ongoing debate over same sex marriage - to the point that if a plebiscite is finally held, many will vote No even though they don't regard the issue as serious compared with all other problems with our society. The proponents and supporters of the intractable same sex marriage issue seem never to have read - or understood the Shakespearean sonnet: 'Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle’s compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man eve...

US President Donald Trump called Malcolm Turnbull's immigration policies "worse" than his own approach during the infamous phone call between the two in January .A leaked transcript shows a tense exchange Trump told Turnbull that a deal for the US to take on refugees headed for Australia was "ridiculous", "rotten" and "stupid"