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HOME - Kaixin "See China from the Street"

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HOME - Kaixin "See China from the Street"

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HOME - Kaixin "See China from the Street"

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I sit on my verandah, surveying the acres,and wonder aloud,where are the fakirs?To whom can I sell,all of my wheat now?Which markets will takethe fruit of my plough?They say it was needed,it wasn’t a sin.But I sit back and wonderat their hubris and grins.Three hundred million,that’s a mighty big whack.It’d keep me still farm’ntill the bank got it back.And the 600,000 they paid to that jerk?You

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How can a once mighty river be reduced to an environmental nightmare? The original inhabitants of this island managed to look after it for 50,000 years and it was in pristine condition when the British arrived to nick the joint by force of arms and a legal fiction found in the Blackstone Chronicles. Then it has taken just over 200 years to turn the mouth of the river into slurry.The theft of

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The following is with all due acknowledgement to T.S Elliot and the poem ‘Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer’ from the collection ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’. - or should I say‘Tactical Chaps …’.Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz are a very notorious coupleof chaps.As knockabout clowns, quick-change comedians, tight-ropewalkers and acrobatsThey have an extensive reputation. They make their

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Things just don’t seem to change because society, through it’s politicians, are addressing the symptom not the disease.In today’s news: KEVIN Rudd's big idea for this weekend's 2020 Summit is a plan to help working families by setting up a national chain of government-run parent-and-child centres. The AustralianA quote from the Sydney Mornign Herald Article, Aug 2005‘The cost of child care has

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This is an answer by my wife, Zhou Xiaosui. See his comment on the post - 'The Beijing Olympics are an opportunity for the West to positively engage with China. Boycotts and ill-informed, empty rhetoric will destroy that opportunity.'As I have consistently acknowledged, she showed me a new perspective on the issue of China/Tibet and on Chinese history and culture in general. She has told me the

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An Article in On-Line OpinionMy replyWe live in a society which is based on consumption. The economies not only demand it, but require it. The whole focus of society is on how to consume. Lending institutions fall over themselves to facilitate it.You must have it and you must have it now and it must be really really big.Just like your mortgage and your credit card and your care lease and your ……

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Surprise, surprise. This is the legacy of a corrupt financial system under the United States Federal Reserve. Last century the American people, through their elected representatives, gave Wall St the keys to the vault in the 1970’s. Greenspan then untied all the regulatory knots and opened the spigots pouring trillions of dollars into the worlds economies and letting the hedge funds loose.The

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The trouble with the current U.S. Reserve Bank’s solution to everything, socialise the losses, is that the people who created those losses remain in their jobs. The focus has been on the obscene payouts to CEO’s who decimate the value of a company and get a golden handshake. However the real focus should be on the whole senior management structure, indeed the whole company.If a small business

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The Trouble with IslamA muslim’s call for reform in her faithBy Irshad Manji2003 Random House AustraliaA Review After trying to set a context, I have taken selected passages from the book; a book that will help us understand both Islam and Muslims a little better.ContextTo make sense of a series of incidents, humans tend to try to find a grand theme, a meta-narrative, an over-arching theory;

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From the ABC News SiteChinese trade will weather Tibet disagreements:GovtSimon Crean: confident of a constructive trade relationship with China.Related Story: China, Aust to restart free trade talks: Rudd Federal Trade Minister Simon Crean says the Prime Minister has shown the Australian Government can express concerns about Tibet, without affecting the trade relationship with China.http://

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From a forum on On-Line Opinion If 50% of the people weren't dumb then the other 50% couldn't make a quid.The banks exploited ill-educated people who were no doubt bought up by their parents to trust the banks.No-one rang the bell and said that banks had morphed from responsible lending institutions to shonky sales houses for money.Yes, they were dumb to sign such huge mortgages and they wanted

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I really did not want to write any further on the issue of Tibet. My views have well and truly been canvassed.However, I am most interested on a mini-poll of what the readers think about the riots that are happening along the route of the Olympic Flame. I am calling them riots, you may call them protests, others may call them demonstrations.We could address the following questions:There has been

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From Curly and Burly's Ventspot Friday, April 4, 2008A recent commentator on the post Teacher For President wanted to know my opinion on the current candidates for the Presidency. I think it would be more informative to post my political platform, but it is still in the making so I will do the best I can for the moment.What it really comes down to are two basic ideas by early French economist,

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In the last few weeks I have tried to present another perspective to the current protests in Tibet. I have tried to argue my case in a consistent and respectful way. Having presented another perspective, I would now like to suggest a way forward and answer my friend's question, "What would I do about Tibet?"I watched the television coverage of the joint media conference by President George Bush

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An informed Article by Kent Ewing who is a teacher and writer at Hong Kong International School in Asia Times Online calls for more objective coverage of China in general and the current problems in Tibet in particular. He notes the tendency of politicians and the press in both China and the West to revert to stereotype.There is no black hat/white hat. The issues are far too complex for that

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‘Million-dollar fines for market rorters’, bellows out the headline in The Australian today. The politicians had been asked to do something and they have. They now can point proudly to the pot and say, ‘look what I’ve done, Mum!’. One million dollar fines, almost a house. That’s a lot of money isn’t it?NoTo make 1 millions dollars, you would only have to manipulate approximately 2.857 million BHP

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My wife, Xiaosui, has become very involved in the current issue of Tibet. She asks why people in Australia see it only one way, why they don’t try to understand the Chinese thinking. She says that in China they say that only the person trying on the shoe knows if it fits or not.This issue is undoubtedly complex. It will be solved through dialogue and respect. Not though mistrust and insult. Most

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I came across an Article on the Dow Jones ‘MarketWatch’ website, ‘Bernanke's quiet skipper makes waves’, about the New York Fed President, Timothy Geithner. The man behind the scenes of the Bear-Stearns bailout.He has been involved in most of the financial crisis’s that have hit Wall St since the Mexican Peso crisis. He is obviously a very intelligent and capable man. However, his one domestic

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Australian economist Professor Steve Keen warned about dangerous debt levels long before the US credit crisis hit.In a well reasoned analysis of the current economic dilemma, or can we call it a crisis now, Professor Keen pointed out that at some point the level of debt cannot be increased. He also pointed out that Bernanke gained his reputation as an expert on the Great Depression of the 1930’s.

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It is obscene that the disconnect between reality and financial fiction is impacting on the most vulnerable in society, the aged. People who do not have the time to re-build, people who have lost the power to negotiate their incomes. People who are reliant on the greatest fraud perpetrated on them of this age, the fraud of CPI.Today’s article in The AGE, ‘Housing debt trap his the aged’ clearly

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Tibet It is interesting to compare the history of Tibet with Australia.Tibet had been part of Greater China since 1279. Well, from China’s perspective. Tibet has always begged to differ, but as long as they sent some loot to the Chinese Emperor and were duly obsequious, things rubbed along OK. Tibet had evolved from a warrior state to one of peace, love and monasteries. Monasteries where the

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Those were the first Chinese words I used. I had walked out of the customs area at GuangZhou airport, in January 1007, my first visit to China, and was an obvious mark for the helpful young men who descended on me. One led me off with much gesticulating and obvious heartfelt concern for my well-being. The asking price for helping to negotiate around 60 metres was 100 Yuan. I did not know if that

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Gold cracks $US1,000There will be much written about this, so I may as well add my tuppence worth.There is no mystery as far as I am concerned. The arch villain, A. Greenspan, simply created too much money, de-regulated the financial system and allowed the egregiousgrowth of derivatives. All of which means there is too much money sloshing around.So far it has been everywhere, Jack, and unless all

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Lump sum payments at the whim of opportunistic politicians are nothing more than patronising handouts. When are pensioners to be treated with respect and given a pension that truly reflects the cost of living? Rather than the theft by stealth under the guise of CPI adjustments which do not even come close to compensating for the rising cost of living. Why don't the pollies adjust the pension by

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SMH - To stop the binge, take away rebellionAt what age does the responsibility for raising the children you bought into this world end. Is it 15, 16, 17, 18 …….. ever?? Is it when they leave home, get a job, get married (or partnered)? At what point do we, as parents, say that the job is done, we can let go knowing we have done the best we can.All teenagers have an unshakeable belief that they

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'Racist' hostel ejection made woman want to cryThe Age – ‘The manager of the Mount Theo program, Susie Low, said: "(Ms Ball) said there had been some complaints from the tourists. The Asian backpackers were afraid of Aboriginal people and they would leave if the Aboriginal people did not leave."It is breathtaking that so soon after Sorry Day that such an insult can be delivered to the Australian

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This headline was not a reference to the regulators seating arrangements. No, it was yet another useless flurry to try to regulate the stock market, a prime example of a politician wanting to be seen to be doing something.Yes, it’s Wayne again.Short selling has raised its head as the bogeyman. After all, the people in the market couldn’t have just been greedy or stupid, could they??!! Short

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What the feaking heck do you think the average Chinese worker is thinking? “Oh, so glad to serve you, you condescending prick”, delivered with inscrutable oriental smile.OR, perhaps he/she is thinking, “I get paid nothing so you can swan around the world taking photos of quaint people……………… fluck off!”We in the west moan and groan about human rights, about pollution in China, about how terrible

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Treasurer Wayne tells us to desert the banks if they raise interest rates. You have to wonder, don’t you. I mean, jeez, where, Wayne, do we all bloody well go?? Mrs Gresham at the corner shop may be able to use her tuck shop takings to bankroll me into a house, but I gotta tell you, Wayne, I doubt it. Or, Mr Kleen, from the Wollongong takeaway – you know, the one with the chic white plastic table

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