579, you're right, especially if you mean affluent, middle-class customers, but how many such customers are there amongst 1.4 billion people ? And this total is growing fast. The time will come when China doesn't need us, at least not as customers.

Joe

doesn't need us, at least not as customers.
First mikk & now Loudmouth, what's with this sudden foresight on OLO ? Is there a wave of enlightenment on the way ? Bloody hope so !

Bruce good to see you have a good nose for war mongering.We have the same conditions that existed pre-WW2 only this time the Corporate Nazis are on our side.

Follow this logic.The Corp elites wanted to destroy the middle classes in the West and have absolute power by giving all the production to China.Now China has all the power,they want to attack it.Who empowered China with the destruction of middle classes in the West? China needs food,energy and resources.The Corporate elites have created this dilemma.Let their children go to war this time.

I have to admit that I believe that in the last 40 years, the parties in Government in both State and Federal, have been controlled by bodies with the intent of destroying both the economy and conditions for our wage working fraternity, There seems to be no rational reason for so many of the decisions that have been made, and I believe most of them have been mainly destructive and for the benefit of foreign countries only. Sure our news papers get good returns for advertisements etc from the mining consortium and the large companies such as Woolworths and Coles, but how do these companies compare when our economy etc is taken into account? The export of our non renewable resources such as coal, iron ore, and other such resources – all of which are non value added – no employment is involved in increasing the value of these resources, and the goods we receive in return, are the same goods we had been manufacturing before the exporting of these resources and the reciprocal imports had started to take place. It doesn't matter at what area of Government decisions at which you look, there is gross corruption or stupidity. We have governments who demand that parents and School teachers must not punish children for bad behaviour, and are amazed when these children commit crimes when young and later as adults. Then We have treasurers who reduce the top tax and can't understand why we get obscene incomes on one hand and high costs of goods and services to go along with them as well as Workers having to forfeit their homes and our economy goes down the drain – of course it must be “Global”, would any lawyer (except for Paul Keating, all Prime Ministers and Treasurers since 1970, have been Lawyers), be that devoid of intelligence or integrity? Certainly, they have all reduced the top tax, which has been THE responsible cause of those obscene incomes and the destruction of the living conditions for our wage earner workers.

Thanks, Arjay, a dose of conspiracy is sometimes refreshing:

"Follow this logic. The Corp elites wanted to destroy the middle classes in the West and have absolute power by giving all the production to China.Now China has all the power,they want to attack it.Who empowered China with the destruction of middle classes in the West? ... "

Yep, the corporate classes have been working with China all along - but who is behind them, I ask you ? Isn't it obviously the Swedes ? Never a trace of evidence, that's how clever they are in covering their tracks! But go back in history and you can find ample evidence that the Swedish elites, manipulating the royal families of Scandinavia and beyond, including our own, have been infiltrating the banks, the various secret services and the trading emporiums around the world, since before the Napoleonic Wars, which incidentally gave them enormous opportunities to weaken the English, German and French monopolies in European trade and production. And this has been going on now for two hundred years ! Two hundred years !

And there is no need to go into detail about the assistance that the Swedish banks gave to the Russian and Chinese revolutionary governments, Arjay. Just take note that they now never criticise Sweden, no matter what it gets up to.

So now, the Swedish elites - under all sorts of guises - are in the box-seat to manipulate the world's most powerful economies. Now they are bank-rolling the Islamists to blow up the twin towers and disrupt world trade.

You might say: where's the evidence ? Exactly ! They hide it so skilfully - they invented mind-traps like IKEA, don't forget - and put on this act of just some dumb guys and naked blondes in saunas. But there are some of us, just a few (I thought Arjay would be one of us) who are a wake-up to their tricks. This may be the last posting I ever make now, but I hope people sit up and take notice, before it is too late.

Joe

A reasonable article from a stable where nothing but 'nags' usually come from.

But one thing is for certain.....any whining and bleating in the street from communists/progressives about "DAMN the US bases on Australian soil" should be seeen for what it is... sedition and pro China treason!