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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (34974)	5/20/2008 4:25:38 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 217588

Mary, they are in the process of doing just that. Until they had the cash, they couldn't do much. Now China has lots of cash. They are already buying votes and political favour across the Pacific Ocean countries. Same in Africa. That's how Britain built the British Empire. It's the way to do it these days. The old idea of Adolf, Hirohito, Genghis and the like of murderous conquest and barbarity is not successful because wealth is increasingly not a matter of territory so much as willingness to perform economic activity. But megalomaniacs can't help themselves and when one is a hammer, one only has two ways of dealing with nails = rip them out or hammer them down. Bribing people to enter within the event horizon could take quite a lot of cash though. Cook Islands can take cash from China and there's no real consequence for Cook Islanders oher than a few new buildings and overseas holidays for the bosses. Taiwan being taken over by China would be a very different matter. I don't want to be posting here though, because with ElM lurking like a Brazilian gangster, ready to shoot me in the back at whim, it's annoying. I'm used to freedom and quite like it. Handing myself over to people like Helen Clark and ElM isn't a good idea. It's best to leave them to their own devices. That's why swarms of people are leaving NZ and NZ is being turned into a criminal cess pool of bludging, kleptocracy, theft, violence and murder. The process from the 1930s to now has been interesting. I have witnessed the last 50 years of decline. Sure, there's progress in some ways, such as CDMA cyberspace, Wi-Fi and optical fibre creeping in. There has been some road construction. There's a lot better technology in hospitals and the quality of Japan's cast off used cars has soared. But the political and economic situation is unpleasant. People have voted for more of the same, so they are getting it, good and hard. They are going to get more too when they realize that loans have to be repaid, with interest. So I think I'll say goodbye now, before ElM gets a chance to shoot me in the back. He can shut the gate AFTER I leave and shoot where I was standing.. Mqurice