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To: TobagoJack who wrote (68659)	11/25/2010 3:27:13 AM
From: Chas.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217713

NK is playing SK, USA, Japan for chumps... Will now receive food, money, promises, 6 party laughs... This suits China well, their backyard.... Obama big pussy incapable of effective FP moves... just another day... chas MQ is very old needs to be humored...

To: TobagoJack who wrote (68659)	11/25/2010 4:43:06 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217713

"No size fixed for Irish bailout yet". There's been no bailout! Press fed a number and Eurocrats expected the market to eat that figure and everything would come back to normal with contagion controlled. Paymaster Germany says: An international financial bailout sought by Ireland is in the works but its size has yet to be determined, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Sunday ... Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan said earlier that Dublin would seek less than 100 billion euros ($137 billion) in what would be the second rescue package for a euro zone country this year reuters.com EPA! was it not Euro 90 billion? Is 50% more now!!!!!!

To: TobagoJack who wrote (68659)	11/25/2010 7:52:00 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217713

You know what your problem is, TJ?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (68659)	11/25/2010 7:54:02 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217713

Here is what is wrong with you, TJ! "move your private-pension fund assets to the state or lose your state pension." You are always, right. That is what appears to be your problem! CONFISCATION! Hungary Follows Argentina in `Nightmare' Pension-Fund Ultimatum "...drive to bring 3 trillion forint ($14.6 billion) of privately managed pension assets under state control to reduce the budget deficit and public debt. Workers who opt against returning to the state system stand to lose 70 percent of their pension claim." bloomberg.com

To: TobagoJack who wrote (68659)	11/25/2010 11:25:42 AM
From: Maurice Winn	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217713

TJ, your confusion appears to arise because of your intense emotional attachment to the rulers of Beijing and being a Good Boy complying with not just their edicts but in true Stockholm Syndrome nature affecting a full-fledged membership character. You certainly have good reason to do that; to maintain cash flow and avoid being arrested and disappeared when landing for one of your many visits to China's non sars zone. I too would be circumspect in my comments in such circumstances. They are trying to do the same thing to Google. "She loves me, she loves me not, she loves me ..." It's hard to keep up with whether the rulers of China love them or not. They are jerking Google around offering a bit of bait to keep them on the line. For the moment, it appears that Google is once again temporarily allowed to operate in China. Thanks for providing that information. You seem to think that everyone on Earth slavishly follows the latest Made in China declarations of megalomania. Some of us are free in a way that the state serfs of China can only imagine. We are not willing to try to play their totalitarian games. Note in your irrational emotional response how you immediately launched to character assassination which is preparatory to actual assassination. Bullies are like that; people who want to use power instead of reason and interactive cognitive trade to establish positions. China functions on totalitarian power not mutual interactive cognitive trade. That's why China can never amount to much. Go on, try it out, write down your criticisms and publish them in Beijing. There are good reasons why you wouldn't, preservation of your neck being top of the list. Google for now is apparently operating both the Hong Kong click and the Made in China method, but no doubt expects to be shut down again any time. It would be wise to be circumspect about investing too much in a place run like that. Of course everywhere is like that to a greater or lesser extent so it's a matter of finding the lesser evil. China's degree of evil has reduced in recent decades but like an alcoholic, relapse could come any time. Meanwhile, there are customers to serve and money to be made. Without becoming a Stockholm Syndrome member, Google is apparently continuing to provide service in China though it's unclear under what approval. That information suggests they have given a stay of execution for a year: < In a concise yet roundabout way, the Chinese government acknowledged on Sunday that it has indeed given the go-ahead for Google to continue operating as an Internet content provider in China. The news of the approval came Friday, when Google--in its own concise yet indirect way--said that the ICP license had been renewed and that it would continue "to provide web search and local products to our users in China." That came as a one-sentence update to a blog post from June 28, some 12 days earlier. On Sunday, Beijing confirmed the renewal this way: the official Chinese government Web site posted an item from the government-run Xinhua news agency citing an unnamed official of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, who said that the result of the ministry's annual checkup on Google was "Approved after Rectification." Technically, the license that was approved was that of Beijing Guxiang Information Technology, the company that operates Google's China site. The previous license was set to expire on June 30, and the Xinhua post said that Beijing Guxiang submitted its application to the Information Ministry on June 29.> I wouldn't want to put too much effort into running a business in a place like that. Grab the short term profits and leave it at that. If customers ask "Will you still provide service next year?" the answer is "Maybe, depending on Beijing's bosses' whims". So customers would be cautious about integrating Google's services into their own businesses lest they stop working a year from now. You claim you were curious about why I would lie. You stuck obsessively with the idea that I was lying rather than simply writing what I thought. Did you manage to learn what "constructive dismissal" means? Google was banned from operating in China. They appear to have a temporary permit to provide some services. My guess is that you were lying about me lying, rather than actually thinking I was lying. It fits the Made in China melamine syndrome where deceit is normal. You are so accustomed to lying that you see it everywhere, like hobgoblins lurking in the dark. You lied about me and continue to lie. Why do you lie? Mqurice