Apologies, as usual running behind; just returned from trip to Lake Eyre. Couldn't miss the opportunity as flooding may not occur again in my lifetime. A few items of iterest have occurred.
If you didn't sight it in The Age, you might like to look up an article 'Lucky the country that loses the Cup bid'. I am not alone in opposing Australia's cup bid.
Go to www.theage.com.au/opinion/by/richard-tomlinson
Also in The Age, very pertinent in view of the attempted takeeover of the Australian Stock Exchange by the Singapore Government:
http://www.theage.com.au/business/court-of-the-lion-kings-20101029-177fu.html
Eric Ellis in Court of the Lion Kings details how Singapore is just as much a centrally controlled country as China, which is sometimes erroneously still described as Communist.
Amazing how the finance reporters in the media, lackeys of big financial business, describe opposition to the takeover as 'xenophobic'. They haven't yet used the discussion stopper 'racist'.
A correspondent, Peter Myers, has drawn attention to an excellent dissertation by Professor John Mearsheimer: The Gathering Storm: China's Challenge to US Power in Asia. 5 August 2010. Transcript of the fourth annual Michael Hintze Lecture in International Security is available at:
http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=5351
Mearsheimer's lecture pre-dates Hilary Clinton's visit to Australia to re-affirm relationships. It strongly underlines the need.
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