Don't give up on hope. I thank Scott McNeil for his dual live FB cast last night. Scott also has a FB page. It won't be the last, and I hope to use it with others abroad. It only works with iPhones atm. I'm overcoming tonsillitis. I had thought it a cold and treated it like that, but when I stopped the treatments it hit with a vengeance. Two weeks without work in telesales and I even cancelled an evening of classes as tutor. My landlord suggested (he is a friend) that if I die, I might choose to buy a couple of iPhone x's and leave it to him. After all, I'd never have to pay for it. But, I'm intending to live. No live casts until next Monday, when I should have my voice back. But my will will provide for him, his family, and my daughter. They aren't worth much now, but my published books are my estate. I have lost everything else.

My landlord is among many things, a Vietnamese Refugee. He and his family kindly allow me to stay at rent a pensioner can afford. It is a privilege for me to work with his young children on enrichment work for school. But I also get to hear about Vietnamese history. The terrible corruption that exists in Vietnam at the moment overshadows a rich and beautiful landscape. Vietnamese invented fish sauce, which is pretty much found in fish oil capsules sold by vitamin hucksters. The monsoonal weather, or poor mountain farming communities have bred a hardy people, such that three Chinese invasions, three Mongol invasions and numerous Cambodian invasions all failed over time. Because of the climate (hot and wet during monsoons) the people have developed food that is fresh and tasty. In modern times, Europeans, like the French have left their culinary mark too.

Things are happening around the world. A year since Trump was elected President by an overwhelming number of electoral colleges. Denialists like Hillary Clinton are trying to get Trump removed from office because of things done under Obama. Trump has been very effective as President, and the US has a plan that will repay her debt. That will change the world for the better. NJ and Virginia have predictably gone back to Democrat control after the conservative Virginian failed to back Trump. NJ had two terms of Christie. Conservatives need to stand for something if they are to be as effective as Trump. Remember when the establishment dissed Trump but the Tea Party with Sarah Palin's influence embraced him? Things are working fine.

Malcolm Turnbull and Julie Bishop each endorsed Hillary Clinton. It looks increasingly likely there is a constitutional crisis and an election may have to be called soon. Bizarrely, as soon as that happens, every single member under question will have disavowed dual citizenship and will be free to campaign in their seats. This highlights the absurdity of the High Court Ruling which places a greater emphasis on foreign governments than Australia's national one, and so an Aboriginal Australian (such as myself by reputed ethnicity, but not culture) might be barred from serving in parliament.