Politics is a dirty word

President Donald Trump’s claims that China is preventing the U.S. from resolving tensions with North Korea by allowing oil to be sent to the country is just empty rhetoric. Of course China sends oil to North Korea – it always has and always will. Trump just can’t get his head around facts! Trump doesn't want a negotiated settlement - he has made it clear from his aggression that he wants war. He seems to have blind belief that America is invincible (because that's what the Generals in the Pentagon tell him.)

Russia has demonstrated its ability for its nuclear bombers to reach virtually any part of the world. The Russian Air Force sent strategic bombers to visit an airport in eastern Indonesia. Two Tupolev Tu-95MS bombers flew from the Amur region, in Russia’s far east, to Frans Kaisiepo Airport in Biak, on the northern coast of Indonesia’s eastern province of Papua. The bombers, which are also missile platforms, were supported by two Ilyushin Il-76MD airlifters that landed at Biak the day before.Those aircraft are often configured as airborne early warning and control units to guide attacks. The Indonesian Air Force, in announcing the visit, said that the bombers were conducting a long-range navigation exercise. It is likely that they were also involved in surveillance and information gathering. the RAAF heightened its readiness but the aircraft did not enter Australian air space. In February this year, a Chinese KJ 200 surveillance plane was seen over Victoria but that did not prompt any...

The future of US President Donald Trump is not very clear. Pundits are not sure if impeachment is the most likely scenario, or if assasination will be his lot. Who is the assassain most likely to be? The CIA is a front runner, followed by North Korea and former KGB operatives as vwell as Iranians, Syrians and Afghanis who suffered US tyranny. There could be any number of disgruntled US citizens and military personnel who suddenly realise that their living standards are falling and they have been dumped on the economic scrap heap.

It's only a matter of time for an American plane to be downed near the Korean peninsula. Two Chinese fighters are reported to have flown within 150 feet of a US navy spy plane. They successfully forced the aircraft away - much to the ire of the US military.

Why does the US persist with its claims that North Korea must give up its nuclear weapons when Trump keeps threatening the country? American behaviour has been bellicose and belligerent and the US is still the only country in the world to have used nuclear weapons in war (and on civilians at that). If America abandons its nuclear weapons, the North Koreans may follow suit, otherwise there is no incentive.

The on-going dual citizenship debacle hitting Federal politicians highlights the need to change the system. Get rid of Federal Parliament – we don’t need it. Australia is over-governed with vast armies of politicians and fat cat bureaucrats. Australians do not elect Prime Ministers, they elect local politicians who get together and appoint a party leader who is automatically Prime Minister if that party has a majority of seats in Parliament. A large part of the problem could be solved by getting rid of political parties. Currently, politicians owe more allegiance to their parties than to the people who elect them. A next step will be to abolish the extravagance of a Federal Parliament with all the costs associated with duplicating Ministers and Departments when each State already has working bureaucracies in place. Let COAG run the country.

Politics hasn't changed much over the years. Politicians still make promises they know they can't keep.This Tommy Trinder song says as much about today's politics as it did about his time. " You can't deny that things today are in a pretty fix. I sometimes think it's time that I went into politics. The government do nothing, and never will I fear. Although they promise plenty, for this is what we hear. Everything will be lovely, lovely by-and-by. Everything will be lovely,w hen the pigs begin to fly