Bill Green

Melbourne, Victoria, AUSTRALIA


Joined April 28th 2008

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Award winning novelist (16 published) and screenwriter (7 optioned or sold). Investigative journalist and designer of RMIT's screenwriting course. Former press secretary and speech writer for dpm.

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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.
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FREUD AND THE NAZIS GO SURFING

February 25th 2010 05:12
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.
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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
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BEWARE OF CHINA IN ALL FIELDS

February 1st 2010 00:34
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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Google's Just War Against China

January 24th 2010 10:34
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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ASIO IS SOOOO DUMB

January 14th 2010 04:45
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 THE CIA FAILS

January 6th 2010 23:33
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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VIGILANTE GROUP FOR COPENHAGEN FAILURES

December 19th 2009 03:34
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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Recent Comments

Comment by Bill Green
on WOTZZZ UP ORBLE???

January 24th 2010 07:11
I felt the "confirmations" were Orble not wanting me to comment. Or is that too paranoid?

Comment by Bill Green
on WOTZZZ UP ORBLE???

January 22nd 2010 07:00
Orble's figures are a bit like China's figures on their financial good times: they're bullshit.

Comment by Bill Green
on WOTZZZ UP ORBLE???

January 21st 2010 07:59
Fog, I think you have to run with all of Orble's figures being inaccurate. Those two that registered zeros were wrong. I visited them. Recently though I attempted to leave a comment and was told I needed more confirmations.

Sometime ago I visited several sites that looked good but found nothing had been posted for months.

Comment by Bill Green
on More Bad News For Global Warmers

January 3rd 2010 01:17
Continuing from above, the three interlude for the Gulf Stream occurred in 2007.

Comment by Bill Green
on More Bad News For Global Warmers

January 3rd 2010 01:16
I only know that Greenland was once green, and that if the Gulf Stream is stopped by the warm current coming down the east coast of Greenland then Europe will freeze. The current from Greenland is warmed by the appropriate climate cycle. According to Earl de Blonville who led five expeditions to Greenland since the early 1980's the Gulf Stream stopped flowing for three days.

Personally I'm a skeptic in that I think scientists should be producing figures to show we haven't passed the climate change trigger.

Comment by Bill Green
on More Bad News For Global Warmers

January 2nd 2010 05:59
And you'd back France's enthusiasm for nuclear power, despite 400 hundred leaks at their plants last year? Of course most were safe leaks.

And who did the study that found carbon dioxide hasn't increased in the atmosphere? Was it the same group who stated (wrongly) that there has been no global warming in the last decade?

Last spring (in Victoria, Australia) we had a heat wave that broke all previous records.

Comment by Bill Green
on OUR SUBHUMAN POLITICIANS

November 11th 2009 22:28
Yes Fog I remember our politicians (Andrew Peacock in particular) being overjoyed at the take over. My problem is that Indonesia is run by the military and they only come from one island in the group, Java. They were also responsible for over 200,000 deaths in East Timor (and Gough went along with that, even encouraged it for the oil.)

Problem with the UN is that Gareth Evans is one of their mouthpieces and he signed an oil deal with Indonesia, leaving East Timor out.

Maybe we should vote in the third party.

Sure open mind, I'm impressed with most of your discussion but I did want to say that the war with Afghanistan is pointless and the west were too frightened to take on Pakistan except by stealth. That way the western media had no idea of the situation.

Sorry open mind but Musharaff received hundreds of millions of dollars to fight the Taliban but he never did (he was frightened of the Taliban). Of course America trained and armed the Taliban to fight the Russians, and arms for Pakistan army - purchased by America - ended up with the Taliban.

Hey, and just what were they sacrificing before the Americans started bombing their civilians. killing their children?

Of course now conventional MEDIA HAVE RECOGNISED that Pakistan is the problem but no one wants to take them on because if they lose the Taliban will be in control of a nuclear state.

Oh, and they didn't do a deal with the Taliban because they wanted American money for their private coffers.

Comment by Bridson
on 'Men Who Star at Goats' #2 Movie Trailer

October 25th 2009 23:47
The CIA experimented in the sixties and seventies with the possibility of killing people with heavy thought. They did in fact put agents in a roomful of goats so they could kill goats with their thoughts. Instead the goats began copulating. Those agents were dismissed on the grounds of being perverted.
Further experiments by the CIA, including their examination of our indigeneous peoples' "bone-pointing ceremony. See "The Devil's Trap ... set to catch friends" by Bill Green (Amazon)