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Talking Headlines - October 2008

GEORGE BUSH DECKED IN CHINA

October 29th 2008 01:50

There is very little written about how China emerged after the Cultural Revolution, allowing embassies to be opened in their country. The US was two years behind the early ones but not for want of trying. Australia who opened one of the first, aided the US in the diplomatic machinations required for full diplomatic accreditation.

The West was suspicious of China and should have been. Now there is an allaying of China fears and there shouldn’t be. I travelled to China as a press secretary to a deputy prime minister of Australia. We travelled in a Royal Australian Air Force jet loaded with CIA electronic spying gear. It was the same equipment taken into China by the disgraced former president, Richard Nixon.


It was a volatile time and I observed three cultures intermingling. China then showed itself as oppressive and murderous. It is still the same.

My book, Compulsively Murdering Mao, is a watcher’s brief and contains all the elements of the three cultures that will always be at loggerheads. There was then, and there is now, an indulgence of feeling for China; certainly it is reflected in the contracts and agreements that are approved.

The book depths the character of the cultures involved and how they clashed in personal ways. One of the players involved in the physicality of the moment was George Bush senior. He was then the senior representative of the American/China liaison office. He attempted to eject a writer from the Australian embassy despite being a guest at the embassy.

No one would deny the economies of the planet are in for a wild ride and my book refers to the necessary aspects that require examination before negotiations with China’s government commercial institutions are concluded.



Compulsively Murdering Mao is available on Amazon now.

Further details are available on www.billgreenbooks.com


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Our economies have been burnt by post modernism. The financial worlds imagined that there was no such thing as truth. Consequently they loaned money to people who had no capacity to pay the money back. It was such a great postmodern concept: lend them money and sell the bodgy loan on and make money from it. Don't think about it; don't worry about the morality (that doesn't exist in post modernism). And there won't be a continuing narrative following on such an action; so there will be no third act when the curtain comes down on everyone. See, all postmodern.
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DO YOU REALLY WANT CHINA TO SAVE US?

October 21st 2008 02:39
Are we expecting to be saved by China? Will that country keep us from deep recession? So many influential people looking for an economic savior are unaware there are freedoms to be traded: they will be in the hands of a ruthless and murderous regime.

There is only one book that reveals the true, oppressive China and how Chinese bureaucrats corrupt other cultures. In Compulsively Murdering Mao, the author - entering China in a spy plane outfitted with CIA electronic gear to spy on defence communications - dives straight to the heart of the motives of spies from China, the US and Australia.

Compulsively Murdering Mao reveals the true story of three cultures mingling in an attempt to politically and militarily dominate the others, and how, in their blundering (it’s both comic and tragic) they reveal the best and worst of themselves. Compulsively has a fiction layer so the author could avoid legal action when it was first published.

Press secretary Bill Green is accompanying a deputy prime minister into China and is totally ignorant of the CIA mission that is being carried out by Australia’s RAAF. Green discovers he has to protect the deputy prime minister from Australian bureaucrats, the Australian Prime Minister, China’s security organization, that constantly harass the visitors, and America’s CIA who are exploiting the fawning Australian diplomats.

Green has a penchant for the truth, revealing it in disclosure of raw facts, or reporting outrageous humour, lost on those who represent ouR country overseas.
At times Green plays his slapstick hand and in the process assaults a US diplomat who has asked him, an Australian, to leave the Australian embassy in Peking. That US diplomat was George Bush senior, who was to become the head of the CIA and later American president.

Read more about Compulsively Murdering Mao and Bill Green on www.billgreenbooks.com, or purchase it on Amazon.
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ECONOMIC DEPRESSION ON MY MIND

October 18th 2008 22:58
Depression on my mind. No one seems to want to call it as something on the way. I only mention it because the government doesn't know how to handle the bank and market failures. They've promised huge money without a smidgeon of an affect on the economics of the planet. So I guess they've made the wrong move.

Certainly they've made the wrong move in employing the very people who drove the economy into the void to get us out of the void that no one has yet truly depthed.

I've held back on mentioning the depression word because all I know about economics is about the same as our banker leaders.

It's also very strange to me that the money was heaped on the banks and stockbroking firms when we actually have a more serious emergency with our endangered planet and our governments have done exactly nothing. They have employed consultant climate change experts who have been consultants to previous governments who have done nothing. I guess governments are consistent in their responses.
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We need new banking personnel. These people who introduced and oversaw scurrilous mortgage broking techniques, and basically invented subprime - with the rewards they offered for overpriced mortgages - should go. Government shouldn't be listening to the whinging of these opportunists. It was their concepts that ruined our economies.

They were grasping, avaricious and totally prostrate before their goddess of profit. Of course they didn't want to be held responsible for any of the fuck-ups that resulted from their deals.
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US BANKS ON THE NOSE FOR DECADES

October 14th 2008 02:29
US banks will be on the nose for decades. They've been bailed out and yet they're still benefiting from the sale of sub-prime stock. The houses they fraudulently convinced the purchasers to buy - at exorbitant interest rates - are now returned to the banks for re-selling, despite the fact that have been bailed out. They get money twice, and those that have been conned by mortgage brokers who the banks paid more more for sub-prime mortgages with the high interest rates, get nothing despite having lost so much.

Please tell me it is not the case that governments are saving the very wealthy


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Can you recognise a revolution when you see one? Most revolutions have a smidgeon of blood somewhere so the revolutionaries get fired up about injustices and become determined to fight on. This revolution is entirely about economics, you may think. It's about governments socialising the banks of their countries, perhaps?

There is a country that has lived with revolutions and various oppressions and it runs North KOREA's blackmailing of the US and it has now bought into the western banking system in a big way. The Herald Tribune reported that the Bank of China had purchased a 20 percent stake in Rothschild, which means a share of the US Federal Bank (so I've read) and the UK banking system


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HOW AUSTRALIA CONTROLS ITS ARTISTS

October 8th 2008 03:01

Prize-winning novelist, Frank Moorhouse, is right to be concerned about the Australia Council's control of the arts in this country. It's outrageous that they are now controlling how children are to be betrayed in art. PERSECUTING HENSON IS NOT AN OPTION FOR POLITICAL WALLIES. Previously of course their Literature Board despaired at the number of political novels that were to be written by Australian writers and chose not to support them.

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OUR BANKS MUST BE UNSTABLE

October 6th 2008 02:12
Why can't our banks help kick start the economy by passing on the Reserve Banks cut in interest rates tomorrow?

The first reason may be that the private banking system is so unstable that they need the money coming in. This is the Kevin Rudd/Wayne Swann line, and it makes me feel very uncomfortable, for the Reserve Bank is cutting the interest rate to keep money flowing. However the banks appear to be closing down business in a big way which is not exactly the spirit being foisted on us by the Reserve


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RusselL Crowe's solution for the US economy may have raised a few smiles but imagine if it was adopted. A $million for every American and a fraction of the cost of the $trillion bail out.

It would mean of course that everyone could pay off their homes and debts and have dollars to spend. This would easily answer the fears of the Wall Street boys and the Federal treasury that America would stop consuming. THAT SEEMED TO BE THE ONLY REAL FEAR


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