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Robert Dessaix writes elegantly about everything except this millenium's major problem, politics.
He appears to take some pride in not being the sort of writer who is a threat to China.
Dessaix has been denied a visa to China on the grounds of HIV. This is appalling but if he had taken some interest in politics he would have discovered that China is the most brutal of countries (can anyone name another that murders dissenters with such regularity?).
How can this be, he onviously mused? "I am not a threat. I don't write on political issues. I feel I've been spat on."
Don't worry about it Robert I was urinated on in China by several Chinese security bureaucrats in a small room. I felt I was lucky not to have been under house arrest like journalist Anthony Grey. One of the security men who organised the ritual urination was head of China's "secret" secret service, and had supervised Grey's impounding
I'm really glad that Frank Moorhouse took his stand. He showed some guts and understanding.
If you wish to understand China, Australia and America and their chaotic relationships read Compulsively Murdering Mao by Bill Green (Amazon). It was first published as a novel to rave reviews but it's satirical reportage and all the events are true and real, no matter how bizarre they may appear.
In fact Robert shouldn't be so innocent about China, for on publication of the book he interviewed me on the ABC. And there is something of a problem about Australian writing. It is that our literary novelists avoid politics, perhaps because they have a weather eye on government grants. I know I was refused a second senior literary grant because I wouldn't entertain post modernism as a valid discipline for its rules barred it from being so.
This is unashamed promotion of the third edition of my novel, Freud and the Nazis Go Surfing. It was first published a decade or so ago (Pan Macmillan) to rave reviews. It is now available on Amazon.
All its themes are current today. It's not just a half-smart title, but one that represents the world that many people struggle to cope with no matter how tuned in they may imagine themselves to be.
Rachel, a survivor of Hitler's death camps is recovering at a holiday boarding house in a surfing town and fifteen year old Jim discovers how the world has been as he has been growing up. The surf culture he loves becomes incidental as new paths appear. A returned soldier who idolises Nazism and is persecuting Rachel, lights a circles of fires around the town and a terrible game of survival begins.
Jim and his surfing companion Gillian become lovers but how can they make sense of the beauty and terror around them?
THE SCREENPLAY I ADAPTED FROM THE NOVEL WAS CHOSEN FOR WORK SHOPPING AT SUNDANCE, AND WAS SOLD TO AN L.A. PRODUCTION HOUSE. LATER TO ROADSHOW COOTE AND CARROL WHERE IT LANGUISHES IN TURNAROUND.
Strange that Obama is subsidising huge nuclear plants in Georgia while his government is panicking about nuclear waste. The country has been unable to contain it safely. The huge waste facilities in Washington State are leaking into the Columbia River. They have attempted to contain it with single skin steel, double skin steel, ceramics, and even taken the water out of the earth around them and removed the radioactivity, but still the muck leaks into the Columbia River.
My assertion is that America has told Australia to take the planet's nuclear waste. Prime Minister Howard was in secret meetings with the Bush administration in May 2006, and since then former Prime Minister Hawke, known for his astute and profitable lobbying of governments, has been vocal on the idea, as has power minister Martin Ferguson and Australia's sometime UN rep, Gareth Evans.
In the short term it would be profitable to take the planet's waste. We are also the perfect choice, being a nation of passive individuals living in a vast and remote country. However we have to understand that the waste has to be kept for 500,000 years. If we bury it we will forget it. For instance no one knew what the pyramids - only 8,000 years old - were built for. It's only British archaeologists who discovered the why 200 years ago. The pyramids are the oldest buildings built by the human race on the planet.
This means that as countries change governments, people, etc., there will be no memory of burying the stuff, and it will leak. No container will last 500,000 years. Oh and do we expect payment for looking after the stuff for that long?
AND GUESS WHY OBAMA IS COMING TO AUSTRALIA
China's triumphalist attitude has been reflected in this blog for months. The blog has also warned against any statements, figures, or opinions coming out of the dictatorship.
For instance their alleged one and a half trillion dollars spent on a floundering economy was in fact the state spending money on the state, as they would have done anyway. Still the western media fell for it. THEY OVERLOOK THE INJUSTICE THAT PREVAILS IN CORRUPT CHINA AND THE MURDER AND JAILING OF DISSIDENTS
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Despite being unsure of Google's deeper motives they are looking very good in their war against China.
China lies about everything, including their homicidal policies reserved for protesters inside and outside China. They lie about their financial expansion (there is no one testing their figures because they won't allow it
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One of Australia's intelligence organisations is very, very dumb. They have taken the word of Sri Lankan security on the worthiness of Tamil refugees. The UN condemn the Sri Lankan refugee camps and their lack of law and order, and even the way security labels those in the camps non-refugees.
Oh and the Tamils have been oppressed for decades,They've been murdered, terrorised and generally treated as untouchable (Yes, Sri Lanka even had India in to murder the Tamils). Strangely enough the Tamils began to fight back. Earlier they were called freedom fighters by the media
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"Attempted murder" is the charge that should be leveled at the Japanese whaling ship that cut the Sea Shepherd's speed boat in half. To term it just "a vicious attack" as the media is doing is allowing the fleet to up its aggressive behavior.
The Australian government and Peter Garret are displaying their lack of fortitude in not pursuing an act in their waters which is akin to piracy
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Why is the CIA failing? Most operatives were given am education in post-modernism: no person carries more influence, weight,or gravitas than another. There is no such thing as a fact (remember that beauty: if I'm in a room alone am I really in the room?)No observations are valid because they can't be proved because evidence is not necessarily proof.
There is also no such thing as a valid psychological or cerebral characteristic. Need I go further
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The Chinese government has pulled put of its $45 billion natural gas deal that our fawning federal government and its minister Peter Garret took ACCOUNT OF TO HELP DESTROY A PRISTINE REEF AND SEAS north of Broome, to accomodate the shipping of such gas.
This blog predicted that they would pull out for they only wanted the contract to show the world at Copenhagen that they were going natural gas rather than coal. As it turned out the pathetic Copenhagen climate summit didn't require such information
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With the Copenhagen failure we need a vigilant (e) group to take care of our politicians and bureaucrats. Teach them that if we save our endangered species we are saving ourselves. The practice with saving the animals will come in handy when we find ourselves in dire straights. High flown (and failed) economics should not even be considered as an answer for anything to do with the environment. We have to learn to live without our luxuries. Anything more than water, fire, an axe and a rifle is luxury. Our descendants WILL BE LIVING IN THIS style by the end of the century unless we rid ourselves of ignorant leaders (by assailing them with real information). The coal industry requires scotching because we need less power by wearing the right clothing. If it's a cold day you walk around the house in jumpers, overcoats gloves and hats. I've done this for years.
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