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The key doesn’t work

Oh I don’t know how he could have got into that

Good luck with finding a place to live

So why did you come here?

I wonder sometimes what it would be like to work for the government

To have the certainty of a job, a mission

To enjoy the spectacle when someone less privileged than you

Less

Connected

Is on the ropes. When you can put them there

Imagine the power of deciding who and what gets the cure

To a disease

That we may well have placed there.

Can you understand?

What rights do the individuals used in the DNA human genome Odyssey

Have to their own DNA?

Are they going to make me, rich and white, healthier?

Can it be used against them?

These are not inconsequential questions

When they took your photo, you thought they might be stealing your soul

Now, I wonder if they are determining who has the right to live.

So glad we got those GlaxoSmithKline shares

A bit of horse trading with Pfizer

Makes it a nice

Cartel.

Drugs. Of course.

Of a certain

Income.

But we’re so

Respectable.

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I don’t think that you thinking that Dow Chemical and Pfizer

What are they doing near naval yards? Do we know what goes on, do the 

I think that’s a bit

You may laugh but I bet

They sign up for it

Do they? The only way…you could get doctors and vets to sign affidavits before every patient to pledging their independence from government

It isn’t government. Technically it is companies so

What if you sued the shareholders? What if you sued the shareholders and made everyone liable for false claims that result in death or injury?

America is lawsuit mad. Couldn’t do it. People would be afraid to

It could be voluntary. You sign a certificate on your wall that says you are not an employee of the government, military or intelligence and you have not received any money to push drugs

Well that is dependent on them agreeing

People could refuse to go to any medical practitioner until he signs it. Revenue will be down

Maybe but you are talking about millions of

You could go to the international court. And argue that the DNA of individuals in third world countries is being used to benefit large pharmaceuticals and that it is is illegal under UN shit what law does the UN have to cover it

Not sure

You’d have to find the law

Find an African lawyer who wants to make sure they get rights to their own cures

It isn’t that easy in biomedical cases, there is the issue of proving that they have used strains of their genetic markers

Can’t you cross examine the scientists?

They probably work for government or the company with non-disclosure

Wrongful death

Still got to have witnesses

Are you telling me not one person will come forward to posit

The Manhattan project baby

Fuck me. Poor Oppenheimer. He looked like a fucking wreck fucking chain smoking

I wonder how many of the Japanese colluded

For god sake

I’m serious

Seriously

They used the Pacific darkies as guinea pigs. I am not sure you can argue with that. More palatable you see, than Japanese fascists

And the Chinese are innocent

The point I am making, is that if you are the school captain, you better make sure that your behaviour is up to scratch

What like barking mad Winston and FDR who carved up the world according to Western

If the Chinese are overusing antibiotics and people are no longer immune to disease, it affects

Well I am sure they wouldn’t mind knocking off a few of their own

But it becomes a disease race, doesn’t it?

Allegedly 

No, Plum Island for

Unverified

Yes. You are right. But how much

Could be red herring

Lyme disease?

Have you seen it?

No. I have not.

Thus antibiotics being sold

Ah the leveller

Precisely. You may be wading into areas that are designed to save you

What like the A bomb? It then becomes a propaganda device as to who is doing what

You aren’t ruled by China in the colonies

Economically or

My point being that in the end, white people endured. That’s you.

Yeah. But disease is tricky. It can be used

I find it difficult to believe that Africa will be suddenly saved by the Christian

Alliances change. You don’t know what the borders will be. Do we know there will be an Africa?

Point taken. It is all so theoretical. I am not sure that helps someone used for medical experiments in

You can’t be serious

I am. They used mind altering substances in the 60’s they can do what they

So you also want an inquiry into drugs used by mentally ill patients

I do. I want a list of the doctors.

Darling, it is too much

No. It is all linked.

You need to focus on Asia.

I will. However, let’s assume there are……what, 6000 people that you could verify that have been used without their knowledge in scientific experiments

You would have to prove that they were being specifically targeted

Easy. I think the number is closer to

You can’t prove it. They went to doctors and were given legitimate drugs approved by the FDA

Until there is a complaint or lawsuit, wrongful death. FDA approved a drug that …look at the GSK payout 

You cannot prove the doctor knew at the time

We can search electronic communications, insufficient clinical trials, bribery 

Possible but you are going to have to find someone stupid enough to

You can and that isn’t counting the people who were operated on without needing

Requirements being what?

Human tissue. I don’t know do I look like I know? Just give me a bit of time.

So what did you do there?

Where? 

On your trip

Oh I just heard more on the islands 

And?

And the same. 

So it was a waste of time

No. A few things fell into place. Historically relevance of positioning. The position still matters. So it seems.

But it wasn’t clear

Nothing is clear

Except 

Well it is hard to talk about the same thing for six years. I mean unless you get an inside ASEAN briefing and that would make Syriana look like

Supposition 

C’mon 

While we perch offshore 

Precisely my point 

How is Greater Sunrise going?

shrugs 

Cambodia?

Hard to say. I am not there. I could be a strategic suppository.

Can’t you get your hands on some memo?

Sure. Whether it would be accurate is another thing.

Do you need to bring the Catholic thing up again? 

No. It was just a point. It is like non-Western states always blaming the Yanks. I don’t think the Yanks are the reason some sections of South East Asia are slowly rebuilding 

There was a currency crisis

Yes. But in the end you either rule cleverly and disperse funds adequately or you don’t

I’m not sure the Iranians 

Please. Between the Mullahs and our Priests. The great human condition. Blaming the externals. 

Diversional. 

Yeah

You’ve done your fair share. 

It was accurate. Anyway, it is simply the reality of poverty that is offensive. 

So you claim

You try it 

No you first

I wonder if you can claim technological discrimination 

Possibly 

My inability to view first hand strategic matters with the imprimatur of military experts makes me feel there is technological discrimination. Do you think you have to join the club?

Probably. 

Can you have alternative view points and be elevated? 

Depending on political necessity. I think it bores you anyway.  

Not when you see people breathing in black dust. Filthy fucking oceans in some parts

Well then you have to thank the technological gods for creating work that reduces that possibility

But populates us with wealthy Silicon Valley types that make me feel inferior. Little pricks.

You complain about the cool class my friend but they are the ones that lead everyone to salvation. 

Hmm. No fucking Antarctic voyage for me. I will not watch Penguins in the new world die out. That’s if they’re not eaten. Speaking of which, the Arctic meet is coming up. 

Heading over? 

Thinking about it. Another fucking essay on the Northern route. What I want to know is, once we’re all overpopulated where will we all go on holiday? 

We’ll look after our parents and worship Roman gods 

Makes you wish for a cult led by a charismatic outsider

And therein lies the appeal 

Jesus dressed up as Ned Kelly. That would be a national holiday in Mexico.

You’d offend everyone. Mostly Kelly’s.

Wouldn’t be a tribe you’d mess with 

No. If there was a box on the census, majority of this lot would pick it under spiritual affiliation. 

You couldn’t argue with it

Do over the Roman flavour in an instant

I wonder if they have a course in some butt-fuck Ivy League joint about anti-institutionalism in this part of town 

It’s a Phd with a lot of practical assessment. Subtle gradations that take years to decipher. You’d have to know the tonal variations and upward inflections

You make it sound romantic and almost empiric. May I suggest a regional bank?

Careful about talking strategy these days. 

Someone might accuse you of treason. 

Which is why I might as well rip right through to it, the Yemen thing, the Palestinian settlements, the fawning Bibi love, the 24 hour blabbers that cannot tell you one single reason why there would be a big fucking ship lurking off the coast of buttsville, the reason why we’d sit through an ASEAN briefing if it had all been decided in the big community love fest, the angelic little discussions of impoverished refugees like a trophy wife that affords you new unparalleled access to the pearly gates, the anointed fervour awaiting everyone who can trash talk their white neighbour but love the little darkie penned up for a lifetime thing to escape economic disenchantment or even but probably flee the pure boredom of it all, a fucking unholy wade through the murky waters of slight coin desperate to just keep some distance between you and the rest of it. 

Ah but the cleanliness of it. 

The pure white lines of an architectural masterpiece, a holiday in Nepal, the return to the chaos of chubby little children and long legged teenagers sullenly refuting your access to talent or even reason to exist per se. 

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the wars were a blur of interests, made up names that hide strategic imperatives that ordinary people are too simple to understand. 

Iraq, Syria: while the Western world talks of ‘logic’ ‘international order’ and demos, there is no clear picture as to what these wars are for.

You can only conclude perhaps they have something to do with Russia.

Perhaps they have something to do with new energy corridors. Perhaps they have something to do with military projection. Private interests, financial security, global venture capitalism. 

The Guardian has decided to weigh in on Iran’s interests: which was not unfortunate considering that the Shia-Sunni delineation is cited frequently. What this means for the Belt and Road (China) or ‘the East’ – a term I have only recently bothered to acknowledge – isn’t outrageously clear. 

The East. What the hell does that mean? The East. East of where? You mean Japan East or China East or South Korea East? Or Kiribati East? Or PNG East? Or the Boston Red Sox or real estate in an affluent city on the edge of vast prosperity? 

Iran itself projects an image at odds with what is percolating away on the ground: the old Western enemy rhetoric sounds dangerously anachronistic. Besides, it has gas. So, what is the problem exactly? Other than the lungs of some young people breathing in toxic air? 

Didn’t that look like fun

No-one can even slightly discuss the Balkan wars without falling into some mumbo jumbo about religious divides, so what hope is there for clarity on recent conflict? 

The state benefits most from religious wars, it allowing for less legal entanglements or challenges as to legitimate bombing and so forth. Pretty much a win-win for the diplo/politico/scribbler class hoping that if they spend enough time in exotic locales, they will eventually secure a pad in NY, a retreat in Southern China, a beach house in Sydney and a Colorado skiing den. Cue the bilingual children.

I think this heaven so I totally understand. 

Currently we’re soaked in the images and reports from Yemen and Syria: and it would be assumed that it has something to do with Saudi v Shia although ultimately trade trumps all of these, as does strategic positioning. 

Duterte in the Phillipines keeps things colourful but unwieldy in the Asia Pacific – although it is unlikely he is as anti-American as he claims. 

Is he going pro-China for any reason?

Is this a bit of political theatre deliberated on and chucked out to the unsuspecting populace as a way of distracting them from the long story of development and equitable wealth? 

It does allow for the Church to discuss the issue of Thou Shall Not Kill rather than We Shall Discriminate, both homosexuals and women not exactly winners in Church doctrine despite a large proportion of priests over time being both gay and the sons of women. 

It’s sort of like me wishing the Syrian conflict away while not lifting this cellulite mass of humanity out of a bloody chair and into a plane seat. 

Poor bastards. 

And you’re thinking to yourself, why should I be nice when you’ve been so supportive, when you’ve given time and support and shit and the only thing that comes back at you is a liked tweet over confusion? 

Not that it matters. Rapid speed talk and don’t you know so much and it is just a blur a blur and all the right words but in the end it doesn’t mean anything. Terrorism and bombs and injured children and the idea just the thought that they don’t know, they don’t know what is going on. Hilarious. 

I mean I could do it for a few grand. I mean a few hundred grand and the joy of being feted by my in group, the group that carries me forth into the world of importance my grave reflections worthy of a book or two and definitely worth the kudos. 

I’d like to go to a UN party but then again, I might just ask people if Kissinger did a deal you know, try to find out the real rap on the Vietnam thing because that’s what matters to me now, is what happened there, who got what and for what price. 

Some military dude knows this, he has probably known this since he was born because his Dad was in the military or his mother/sister/brother was in intelligence but you know I guess if you don’t know, they’re not going to tell you. 

It’s not a club I’m welcome in which is fucking ridiculous because I am the only one that is interested in their intelligence military strategy theory so pissing me off seems like fucking over a customer who actually buys your crap. 

The point being 

Which sort of sucks. 

At an academic level. 

I’m going deep again I can feel it, something is sucking me back into the historical minutiae wanting to know who did what and why they just bailed and whether Kissinger did a deal because otherwise the story won’t come alive and I won’t know shit and I won’t be able to think about it long and hard and work out which gradation to work with so you can create the atmospheric piece that makes you think of grey, sheets, skin, sweat and a long summer night.

Basically. 

But there is order after all I guess, you’re on top of the pile or down below, none of it really mattering unless you are trying to move between the two worlds and get caught in a moment of despair, a moment of despair about who you are are and what you are and what you want to be. 

But it is all the same shit so doesn’t matter locale if you know what I mean.

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They always go on about the Deer Hunter but why would you watch that unless you wanted blow your brains out that being the point of the movie. 

Will not finish watching in this lifetime.

Good Kill. Sicario. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. 

Maps from overhead and that is probably what goes on, all of us just viewing everything from above thinking that it will guide us like the Stars to the moment of deep illumination. 

Eye in the Sky shit cue the discombobulation. 

But yeah, I think Sicario probably nailed it and I don’t think it was just the fact that Josh Brolin actually behaved like a human being but you know, the moral conundrum at the heart of it all. 

Or maybe it was the soundtrack. 

Scared the fuck out of me. Fucking brilliant. 

But my opinions are not of this lifetime because I could be paid to be on the Footy Show without one university degree, I could be paid millions to talk sport that being my fucking hobby and I will be feted like a God who can Provide while I basically get my arse kicked because I wanted to know the match play for the global shit fest and fuck, they’re not going to let you in unless you sound like a lobotomised fuckwit, a regular bland piece of shit wearing clothes that do not offend and even the thought of it makes me want to wear a cheerleaders outfit to my next interview

through Syria. 

Except it would get in the way and I’d get the shits. 

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So you know, you have to go to Syria or Iraq and work out how the maps are changing, see where they have pitched the tents, ignore idiots talking about anthropology like it is some pre-war thing when Russia and China have already upped the ante on the ‘steal the territory’ thing a mighty handy little development that allows anyone to grab anything. 

‘I want PNG’. 

Of course I would want PNG just to shut up the Greek chorus about how dangerous it is, cue the eye roll, and you just want to get lost in a morning there, talk some shit and have fun. 

Yeah, I’d want PNG. Samoa. Fiji. 

Fuck me. 

Now we are talking. 

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It doesn’t really help when people seize territory, it sort of defeats the idea of laws and stuff but then no-one has worked within laws since the Allies went into Kuwait or was it Iraq shit all these wars are just morphing into one. 

I like the planes and stuff and you cannot get me off those military tweets with all the toys, it is just like asking for it because you cannot show me something that can fly and not get me to stand there for hours. 

This is a sort of moral conundrum because you know that’s exactly what they want but at the same time it is sort of like dopamine and part of you knows you should be in that and you are deadly serious because you know because there are things you know and you know that with flying it is just in there. 

You wouldn’t mind if you went down in blaze of glory because shit even for five fucking minutes you were above the houses that line the green carpet, you were not working out how to avoid people and discussions you do not even care about. 

Maybe it would be the ability to just get lost in the mechanics of it all, the split second difference a fast plane and a slow one and marvel at a feat of engineering that you did not do, like the ships and canals, buildings and bridges that come in laughing at your inability to do just that. 

But finally someone would ruin it. Take your love and tell you couldn’t. Make sure you knew that they were watching and really, it wasn’t something in your heart it was something they owned and they owned you, like the surveillance and the snide comments and the snarky asides that propel them into the God Stratosphere, someone above you who Knows Better even though their surveillance is a moral fucking tear that makes them fall to earth, one of those people you shake your head about, incapable of uttering their fucked up deeds because you would then have to admit that it actually happened. 

That violence occurred against you repeatedly and not one turkey did anything about it. 

And sometimes things are so bad you cannot say shit. 

You just walk away and you think, you are on a course of moral fuckdom idiot and I cannot be near you.

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It is a cluster fuck of sadness that eventually just wears you away and then you wake up and move on. Every day. 

You don’t believe that Nelson Mandela wanted to suffer and you sure as hell know that being under ASSK house arrest wouldn’t be as fun as being with your husband and two sons holidaying in the Caribbean.

One day they just got the nod, the touch, that said ‘things are going to be different soon, you’ll be free’ but by that time they were older. 

The old boxer with nothing to give you but a promise that they’d work with change. What else are they going to do? 

I’d be pissed. 

But they know sounding pissed isn’t going to help shit and besides, working for something as against something is def the wrap by the time jail locks have cracked that nut.

And I wonder, did Henry have something to do with ASSK being under house arrest and what did the Love China and the East brigade do about human rights transgressions in those places? You know, the old rule of law that seriously doesn’t seem to apply in Australia because they are too busy talking Roman/Greek/Trojan history to even raise an eyelid to the fact it would be impossible for people to relate to that crap, like wearing those old black serge cloths to mass when you could get yourself some refugee bling, a blackfella motif or African colour me up care of the Australian desert to pull you through, fashion crimes being the least of the problems in that domain. 

The UK is going the old nuclear one-two with China but I dunno. It is making me nervous how expendable the little folk are around here but then again, fuck it, you just run with it whether they like you or not. Whether or not you are liked is clearly not a problem so fuck it, you might as well mouth the hell up.

The point being: if you look the other way, when is the karmic pay off? I mean did old Henry really think ‘well, this will trickle down eventually and China will bank roll East Asia’s rejuvenation’ like some oriental sugar Daddy not realising that the fat on the thigh is going to end up on the face. 

I dunno. 

Never has there been an independence movement that hasn’t been funded by someone with an interest. It would be nice to think that people actually give a shit. 

And besides, I guess it ends up well.

She said. 

Thinking about her sister’s grave.

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I don’t fucking see how you could think that it would be alright to influence politics in another person’s country. 

Yeah, no, I see your point and yes, I think I should be allowed to but should they? For money? 

Oh it is different. They have billions. 

Yeah, I dunno. 

I mean, everyone has influenced everyone’s politics the point would be: where does the corruption stop? Who is going to stop the money train? 

Sure as shit kids wearing their parents clothes and working in a medium that talks unlike any other people I know is sort of not going to be the place where things change. 

I think.

I mean, if you are going to adopt a persona, please remember to change the dial. 

You can all be outraged all the time.

I just don’t think anyone will care. 

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I am going to be airbrushed out of the my family’s history and I don’t mind. I mean, I asked for it. 

Of course I didn’t ask for it and I don’t deserve it but if you know before you arrive somewhere that you are going to be hit with a very large stick and you get hit with that very large fucking stick, you have to wonder. 

I asked for it. I came home. 

I could have just flown in and jetted out and then I wouldn’t have endured the shameless in-house humiliations, I would have been like my Aunt and stayed away and made my cash, been ridiculously generous and kind, worked in my world of acquaintances and old friends, made sure everyone had a birthday present in advance 

Yeah, so I would have been disparaged behind my back for being a stuck-up Princess by certain members who on your death, would feel that your furniture would suit them perfectly even though they never visited you and took to unkind words that they heard mouthed by others, 

a sort of ugly parochialism towards those that are not as real as us this being the real currency in certain parts, the endless competition to be the most down to earth and they will turn on you as quickly as they found a sardonic aside to proffer forth on your return, they being above you and better yet the recipient of information on your every move and you know you will not be back because those black hearts are fucked up spoilt little brats who think because they’re of the country they know shit and own the fucking country and it is like some sort of club, a country club of people who generally believe themselves to know everything in the fucking country with unwritten rules about who is to be respected and they laugh and peal off into little games about shit you silently thinking in about five fucking seconds I am going to punch that spiteful little bitch but they are having the best fun tittering behind your back as you walk from your Aunt’s funeral I kid you fucking not despite it being one of the worst days of your life 

but they have the power because no-one is going to stop them, no-one is going to say shit, there is no line in the sand, and people have been doing this shit for centuries it not being talked about in the Lawson egalitarian chimera because that would be un-Australian although probably only done by people who are desperate for some institutional cred because they now have a small hope of being somebody although what that would mean in a small country town I don’t fucking know because no-one gives a shit if you shit gold bricks so it is clearly in their heads delusional motherfuckers and it generally being people who spend their life trying to move up that greasy pole the rest of us not giving a fat fuck

I’m going to be a refugee for my whole life and if I am thousands of miles away from those people I could not be happier

This is what I think. That and the beauty of universal soleil pay back. 

Wrinkle up ladies! You’re fucked! 

Ha. I’ll be pissing myself. 

‘You cannot be on the front of The Land because you look like A Horse Shit Nails.’

Amen. 

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The point being that in international relations terms, China and Russia have seized territory and you either ignore it or not. 

I mean, if the whole Vietnam thing was an attempt to hose down military power in the USA, who knows, if it was a some bedroom deal about West/East, who would fucking know because it is behind doors and we won’t know which is suckdom of all suckdom worse that not understanding why they have portray Iraq etc as a quagmire when in fact, things have happened, things have moved and they are not going to tell you that so you have to go over and work out who has got what, who got what money in their bank account and what the hell it means for the rest of us. 

This is no small project. 

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So yeah, today is the day and Hillary might actually command some fucking attention in the world.

That was only a few hundred years. 

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When I grow up, I am going to swerk. It is smirking because you are 20 or 30 and you know everything and incredibly cool and your ability to demean other people by virtue of what you know – or don’t – is part of the routine, part of the daily fabric that lends you the ability to soar high. 

Until the glue melts and we use your feathers for doonas.

But swerk away. 

You look like a giant fuckwit with a turd on your shoulder.

Hopefully an illegal immigrant will take your job and you will be rendered useless. 

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So yeah. 

I’ve been thinking about slaves and blackfellas and those that don’t fit in and yeah, maybe it is true. 

Maybe I am just an Outcast and well, I’m proud because that was some fantastic hip hop so, absolutely stoked to win that award.

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I know that if I looked different I think my peculiarities would seem like some quaint little anthropological neatness, a necessary insight into a different race or country, a sign of the loveliness of our difference, a celebration of cultural diversity, my Irish Catholic predispositions like the Russian soakdom, mired in grim portraits but essentially philosophical in natcha.

But fuck. 

I’m white and freckly and no amount of I like walkabout and tunes is going to pull me through this one. 

It’s sad though that unlike others I won’t get the love pay-off, the child and family thing. I guess I am only with another couple of million on that one. So shit. Ha. 

Not even a problem.

The crap we go on with.

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I do feel bad though. I did once push it too far and you know, for the look on his face when I did, when the white on his face just went white I thought. You went too far.

And that’s when I knew. 

Never make some glib aside about someone’s dark family secret. 

You might have your facts wrong or be tearing them up apart with the cut-my-heart-up pain of it. 

Both utterly demeaning and ugly as hell. 

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