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Posted: 30 Jan 2020 at 10:34am |
PT, but this is your country. China the great empire. Did Chairman Mao eat bats?
How do Bats get sold though under Communism? By the bucket? Bat Bucket?
CFB? Commie Fried Bat?
Nah, that would be too Capitalistic for them.
China was being watched over Hong Kong invasion of rights, now its being watched, as, ummm, being a Commie bat basketcase.
And guess what PT, China is THE ISOLATIONIST. If they werent before, they certainly are now.
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Posted: 30 Jan 2020 at 12:33pm |
Hate to agree with Isaac but it is a pretty scummy country
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Posted: 31 Jan 2020 at 10:06am |
Prime examples of how vastly different cultures can be - and why we shouldn’t be forced to all live together..... There’s a reason we have our own countries, and way of life. Visit, holiday, lease even. But own, buy and get citizenship? Human rights in reverse actually
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“Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity? Here where grace is laced with muscle and strength by gentleness confined”
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Posted: 31 Jan 2020 at 4:01pm |
Mark Twain said that if you do this first thing in the morning, you can go through the rest of the day knowing the worst is behind you!
https://www.dudecomedy.net/video?v=wnmpda9mb15
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In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT!
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Posted: 31 Jan 2020 at 4:03pm |
Sister Dot wrote:
Prime examples of how vastly different cultures can be - and why we shouldn’t be forced to all live together..... There’s a reason we have our own countries, and way of life. Visit, holiday, lease even. But own, buy and get citizenship? Human rights in reverse actually |
100% Sis ...
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In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT!
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Posted: 31 Jan 2020 at 7:32pm |
Lordy no ! No non Chinese can get a toe hold in China, ( not that many would want to ), but they are buying up half the world , by "loaning" money for infrastructure etc and moving in when it cant be paid back.
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Posted: 01 Feb 2020 at 8:15pm |
A sickening race in general
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Posted: 01 Feb 2020 at 10:11pm |
Sick bastards. Its a wonder they didnt just eat them.
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Posted: 02 Feb 2020 at 8:01am |
Does anyone know if that is a true story? It comes from a notoriously dishonest disinformation site.
I googled it and can only find The Sun as the source.
The article says that the owners of the 3 animals have not been identified. How do they then know that they were thrown from buildings because they feared they have contracted a virus that there is no evidence is found in those animals?
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Posted: 02 Feb 2020 at 9:39am |
This article is pretty extensive in terms of detail & knowing China, specifics would be hard to come by unless in their language. I do know there are some wonderful rescue workers & a growing number of pet lovers so am not tarring the entire race with the same brush
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Posted: 26 Feb 2020 at 9:00am |
Bit harsh i would have thought ;
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Posted: 26 Feb 2020 at 3:03pm |
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Bit harsh i would have thought ;
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Posted: 05 Mar 2020 at 9:53pm |
Did i mention that if it hadnt been for China's dirty health practices around food THE WORLD WOULD NOT BE EXPERIENCING THE EFFECTS OF CORONAVIRUS...
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Posted: 05 Mar 2020 at 10:08pm |
China is the worst country on the planet, and by a long long way. But I was saying that before Coronavirus.
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Posted: 07 Mar 2020 at 7:38pm |
Great post Dot. So true. So sad.
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Posted: 25 Mar 2020 at 2:47pm |
Mega Chinese wool processor grabs another Victorian farm
SHOW OF CONFIDENCE: Chinese wool magnate, Qingnan Wen, has shown his
confidence in Australian wool and food production by buying another
Victorian farm. China's biggest
buyer of Australian wool is reported to have added to his portfolio of
Victorian farmland with the purchase of the historic Mawallok property
near Beaufort. Qingnan Wen, founder of
Tianyu Wool, bought the historic 2000ha Lal Lal Estate at Yendon near
Ballarat in 2014 which had been held by the Fisken family for six
generations. He then added another 1587 prime hectares with the purchase of Mokanger and Lewana at Cavendish near Hamilton in 2018. RURAL BEAUTY: The historic Mawallok homestead sits in a large English garden including a lake. The properties had been listed for sale at $14 million. Now
he has snapped up Mawallok, about 45 minutes west of Ballarat, which
covers 2348 hectares and has an estimated carrying capacity of 30,000
DSE. The property, which has been owned by
the Mitchell family since 1980, features a 10-bedroom two-storey
heritage-listed homestead set in a 2.5 hectare English garden. The
selling price has not been disclosed but the property went onto the
market with a $25 million price tag last October through selling agents,
Elders Real Estate. Mawallock has
outstanding water supply via spring-fed lakes, multiple bores, numerous
dams and a 231 megalitre irrigation entitlement. The
property was first settled by Alexander Russell in 1847 and was held by
his family until the sale to Stephen and Serena Mitchell.
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Posted: 27 Mar 2020 at 2:06pm |
Foreign Investment Board braces for Chinese takeovers of distressed Australian assetsThere is growing concern within the Morrison government about how to
handle foreign takeovers of Australian businesses which have ended up in
financial strife as a result of the outbreak of the coronavirus.The
Foreign Investment Review Board is bracing for attempts by foreign
companies, particularly from China, to take over distressed Australian
businesses and assets. The concern has
sparked calls from Liberal MPs to revisit the criteria for FIRB
approval of foreign acquisitions, including putting a greater emphasis
on company links with foreign governments. While no such cases are
before the FIRB, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has privately expressed
concern about Australian assets ending up in the hands of opportunistic
foreign interests over the coming months when more companies are
expected to fold. The
FIRB is alive to the issue and is preparing for foreign investors to
take more of an interest in Australian companies as economic activity
cools, according to senior government sources. The chair of the
federal parliament's powerful intelligence and security committee,
Liberal MP Andrew Hastie, has also raised the issue directly with the
FIRB. Mr Hastie told The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald
the COVID-19 outbreak had left the Australian business sector
vulnerable to predatory behaviour by "foreign state-owned enterprises
working contrary to our national interest". "More than ever, we need to protect ourselves from geo-strategic moves masquerading as legitimate business," Mr Hastie said. Victorian
Liberal MP Tim Wilson, who also sits on the intelligence and security
committee, said FIRB approval may need to be more broadly interpreted to
keep some businesses and assets from being "preyed upon as an easy out"
during the COVID-19 outbreak. "We can't allow foreign state-owned
enterprises and their business fronts to use COVID-19's economic
carnage as a gateway to swoop distressed businesses and assets," Mr
Wilson said. The current thresholds for referral to the FIRB include $15 million for agricultural land and $60 million for agribusinesses. According to some advocacy groups,
foreign investors could present a valuable lifeline to struggling
Australian companies in the coming months. But each case should be
assessed on its implications for national security, Grattan Institute
executive director John Daley said. "I
can see why people are nervy about telco assets and energy assets ...
but the bulk of assets which are going to be discounted at the moment
are retail businesses, and if someone from China wants to buy a chain of
hairdressers or a retailer, then good luck to them," he said. "Foreign buyers of distressed assets aren't necessarily bad buyers." Utilities providers and hard
infrastructure assets such as ports, would also require special
consideration from the FIRB and policy makers in the event of foreign
interest, Mr Daley said, but there was little evidence of serious
foreign interest yet. In a statement, Treasury said it did not
comment on particular cases it was looking at under the foreign
investment screening regime. "Under
the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act, the Treasurer reviews
foreign investment proposals against the national interest on a
case-by-case basis," the department said.
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Posted: 27 Mar 2020 at 9:35pm |
They are a plague, come here and wipe our lands dry
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Posted: 27 Mar 2020 at 9:43pm |
Whereas the British and Americans were very user friendly and paid alltheir taxes to our society
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Posted: 27 Mar 2020 at 9:45pm |
Voyager, so does that make it right?
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Posted: 29 Mar 2020 at 10:02pm |
Coronavirus: Why China’s government is offering COVID-19 aid relief to other countriesAs
the world crumbles under the coronavirus outbreak, China is making a
massive gesture. But experts say the government has a sinister motive.
China is supplying millions of masks and other desperately-needed items to struggling governments around the world. The
Chinese Communist Party has flown gloves and protective clothing to
Liberia, sent 100,000 test kits to the Philippines, and sent out a dozen
flights carrying millions of masks and other supplies bound for the
Czech Republic this week. The government has given its assistance
everywhere from western Europe to the Philippines, Pakistan, Sri Lanka,
Iran, Iraq and several African countries. With this aid comes
broad public statements of goodwill. In a recent message to German
Chancellor Angela Merkel, Chinese President Xi Jinping said that "public
health crises pose a common challenge for humanity, and solidarity and
co-operation are the most powerful weapon to tackle them”. “It is
China's traditional virtue to repay goodwill with greater kindness,"
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said, citing an ancient
Confucian saying: "You throw a peach to me, and I give you a white jade
for friendship."
But experts say this isn’t
an altruistic gesture on China’s part. Rather, it’s part of an effort to
reshape the political narrative, and move the country’s tarnished image
to one that’s leading the battle to bring the pandemic under control. Dr Malcolm Davis, Senior Analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy
Institute, told news.com.au Beijing is “very astutely exploiting the
pandemic for its own benefit”. “Nothing with China is pure
altruism,” he said. “China is using the provision of public goods and
soft power to its benefit in this crisis. The virus began in China in
terms of spreading from animals to humans, and rapidly took off from
there, but now that the Chinese government would appear to have it under
control, it’s turning its attention to how it can exploit this
situation to its benefit in terms of geopolitical and geo-strategic
power. “One of the ways it can do that is by playing the good
international citizen and providing all this aid to other countries who
are now entering really tough times with this virus, and Beijing will
reap political rewards from that.” The Chinese government has had an ongoing credibility problem with its own citizens since the outbreak unfolded. Authorities
have been forced to monitor Chinese social media sites to remove floods
of angry comments criticising the government’s handling of the
outbreak, which was initially deemed delayed and reckless. Authorities
actively suppressed information at the virus’ outset, and silenced
those who attempted to speak out about it, prompting global condemnation
of the Chinese Communist Party. But that aside, this also ties into Mr Xi’s long-running vision of placing China at the centre of the world. There
are two important trends playing out right now: the United States is
focusing inward, and Donald Trump – Dr Davis says – is “clearly clueless
about how to handle this crisis”. At the same time, he says Mr Xi
wants to use the pandemic to present China as a benevolent global
leader who is stepping into the leadership vacuum that the US left
behind. “But at the end of the day, China will expect their
assistance will become with benefits, and will expect states to pay
tribute to China in the form of acquiescing to China’s interests in
other areas. There are big geopolitical strings attached to the other
side no matter what.” “If the US is severely weakened, in terms of
long-term economic damage, the Chinese will be tempted to extend in
that situation to their benefit. “We could see China not only
trying to use soft power and the perception of being a provider of
economic goods to try to win global leadership, but also to resolve some
issues with hard power.” In particular, he suggests all eyes
should be on Taiwan once the pandemic is behind us. “I think that if the
Chinese felt that the US simply wasn’t able to respond, because their
economy was shattered … the Chinese might be tempted to make a move
against Taiwan. If the US couldn’t come to Taiwan’s assistance, then
this would further erode US credibility in the eyes of the region.” Julian Ku, a law professor at Hofstra University in New York, said
China also hopes to benefit from a realisation in the West of how
difficult it is to bring the virus under control. “The Chinese
government's failures … will be less harshly viewed in light of the
failures of other governments to respond effectively as well," he said. At
the same time, China is deepening ties with countries that have been
receptive to its outreach as it assumes a larger international role. It
is shipping supplies to Cambodia, whose Prime Minister Hun Sen has been
an outspoken supporter of Mr Xi and even visited him in Beijing last
month as the outbreak raged. “It's not an accident that the heat
map of where Xi Jinping is sending condolences and China is sending N95
masks overlaps pretty closely with those countries that have
demonstrated a willingness to accommodate China," said Daniel Russel, a
former senior US diplomat now with the Asia Society Policy Institute in
New York. Opinions vary on the effectiveness of China's efforts. “It's an open question how far that's going to get … but they're
clearly giving it the old-school try,” Mr Russel said. The Communist
Party's propaganda, he said, has been more successful at home than
abroad. Clive Hamilton, author of “Silent Invasion: China’s
Influence in Australia," said that China has poured enormous resources
into shaping the global discourse in recent years. “It would be a
mistake to underestimate how effective” this “major international
campaign to rewrite the history of the coronavirus" might be, he said. But
Chu Yin, a professor of public administration at the University of
International Relations in Beijing, said China lags the US and Europe in
its understanding of public diplomacy and has always struggled to
convert humanitarian aid into diplomatic returns. “If people
really expect a big boost of China's influence through the aid, it will
be difficult," he said. “In my opinion, let's just take the aid as doing
a good deed, and it would help China's economy if the epidemic
situation in these countries is contained." https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/global/coronavirus-why-chinas-government-is-offering-covid19-aid-relief-to-other-countries/news-story/5c36ea59b6ff46290cd8304830ce2bca?fbclid=IwAR2cDBCUWBY1qYRkxH-fYa-tRMqJNeV4AZns4ds5iVXsyCj2Rs3naQuNcVg
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Posted: 30 Mar 2020 at 12:10pm |
I think they’re going to have to do a lot more than hand out test kits and face masks to gain political power, be owed favours and gain face on the world stage 🙄 People are finally starting to wake up to the vast differences between communist and democratic leadership and way of life. Although Australian Govt seems to see us all as a crash test dummies
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Posted: 30 Mar 2020 at 12:34pm |
There seems to be an unfortunate concurrence between this virus arising, and Chinese New Year celebrations, that have Chinese moving around the world more than any other time of year. One wonders whether that hasn't pushed it out beyond China in a way it might not otherwise have done.
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Posted: 30 Mar 2020 at 12:51pm |
They say it takes 2 weeks for the seasonal flu to infect every country. This being way more virulent would be even quicker.
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Posted: 30 Mar 2020 at 11:21pm |
max manewer wrote:
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Surprised you would post that max. Now, if i had you and pt would have become the attack team. " oh no not our beloved China..." The chinese jetting into Milan, IN ITALY, in January, to work in the clothing factories and to go on holiday, from there, might have done it.....
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Posted: 30 Mar 2020 at 11:38pm |
Coronavirus: Chinese wet markets still operation despite COVID-19Thousands of people have started to flood back into Chinese wet markets, with bats, rabbits and dogs still on offer despite the coronavirus outbreak.As new cases of the coronavirus continue to decline in China, thousands of people have started to flood back into controversial wet markets across the country. The city of Wuhan, which has been considered ground zero for the virus outbreak, has started to reopen after being placed on a strict two-month lockdown. The virus was detected in December and is thought to have originated in a market in the city that sold wild animals for human consumption. A number of animals, including bats and the highly endangered pangolin, have been identified as possible culprits for the virus. The Wuhan Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was shut down in January and in February China declared an immediate and “comprehensive” ban on the trade and consumption of wild animals.But it appears the recent COVID-19 outbreak has done little deter other animal markets across the country from continuing to trade. A medicine seller at a market in Dongguan, southern China, was seen advertising bats, snakes, lizards and toads to assist with common ailments, the Daily Mail reported. “The markets have gone back to operating in exactly the same way as they did before coronavirus,” a correspondent to visited the market told the publication. < id="google_ads__/5129dm.lifestyle/lifestyle/health/healthproblems_5" title="3rd party ad " name="google_ads__/5129dm.lifestyle/lifestyle/health/healthproblems_5" width="1" height="1" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" border="0" -google-container-id="6" -integralas-id-d5ad3b68-a986-8667-a394-c326eb9d6a5b="" -load-complete="true" style="-sizing: border-; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom; width: 1px !imant; height: 1px !imant;"> < id="google_ads__/5129dm.lifestyle/lifestyle/health/healthproblems_7" title="3rd party ad " name="google_ads__/5129dm.lifestyle/lifestyle/health/healthproblems_7" width="1" height="1" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" border="0" -google-container-id="8" -integralas-id-39ef6f65-537f-e69b-8b4d-876f4df7b47a="" -load-complete="true" style="-sizing: border-; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;"> “The only difference is that security guards try to stop anyone taking pictures, which would never have happened before.” Another market in Guilin, in southwest China, was full of cats and dogs crammed into cages in filthy conditions and available for slaughter. Similar markets are seen in various locations across Asia and have long been condemned, not only for their cruel treatment of animals, but for their unhygienic conditions.This isn’t the first virus that has been linked to wet markets, with the SARS outbreak in 2003 also thought to have originated there. A study published in 2007 from researchers at the University of Hong Kong described the culture of eating at these wet markets as a “time bomb” for a new virus. “Coronaviruses are well known to undergo genetic recombination, which may lead to new genotypes and outbreaks,” the paper read. “The presence of a large reservoir of SARS-CoV-like viruses in horseshoe bats, together with the culture of eating exotic mammals in southern China, is a time bomb.” At the peak of the virus outbreak in Wuhan the city was recording thousands of new cases a day. Since then more than 721,000 cases have been confirmed worldwide and the death toll has soared past 33,900. China has now claimed it has been successful in suppressing the virus, with the US and Italy taking over as the countries with the most confirmed cases.https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/coronavirus-chinese-wet-markets-still-operation-despite-covid19/news-story/104a81601ff7b94fec6dae3e158ad0a1
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WHO accused of ‘Chinese propaganda’ after official refuses to acknowledge Taiwan in bizarre interviewThe World Health Organisation is being accused of pushing “Chinese propaganda” after an official refused to acknowledge Taiwan in a bizarre interview.The World Health Organisation is being accused of "carrying China's water" after a senior adviser refused to acknowledge Taiwan during a bizarre interview with a Hong Kong news outlet. Canadian physician Dr Bruce Aylward, an aide to WHO director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom, sat down for a video interview with RTHK about the coronavirus outbreak where he was asked whether the organisation would "consider Taiwan's membership." For several seconds, Dr Aylward sat in silence. "Hello?" the reporter asked. "I'm sorry, I couldn't hear your question, Yvonne," Dr Aylward responded. "Okay, let me repeat the question," she said. "No, that's okay. Let's move to another one then," the WHO official told her. The reporter doubled down, saying she was "curious" to talk about Taiwan as well as the ongoing pandemic, but Dr Aylward quickly hangs up. After calling him again, the reporter asked about what his thoughts were to Taiwan's response to the outbreak. < id="google_ads__/5129dm.lifestyle/lifestyle/health/healthproblems/coronavirus_5" title="3rd party ad " name="google_ads__/5129dm.lifestyle/lifestyle/health/healthproblems/coronavirus_5" width="1" height="1" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" border="0" -google-container-id="6" -integralas-id-c9986c7b-9d62-9357-9fb0-bacee08db32b="" -load-complete="true" style="-sizing: border-; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom; width: 1px !imant; height: 1px !imant;"> < id="google_ads__/5129dm.lifestyle/lifestyle/health/healthproblems/coronavirus_7" title="3rd party ad " name="google_ads__/5129dm.lifestyle/lifestyle/health/healthproblems/coronavirus_7" width="1" height="1" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" border="0" -google-container-id="8" -load-complete="true" -integralas-id-f9689e9e-6519-8611-6d72-f3304ad70c6c="" style="-sizing: border-; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;"> "Well, we've already talked about China," Dr Aylward answered. "And you know, when you look across all the different areas of China, they've actually all done quite a good job."
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Posted: 30 Mar 2020 at 11:46pm |
I see labors Kimberly Kitching agrees with you max re that its "unfortunate" the chinese wernt more forthcoming re info on the virus. And ultimately REALLY saving the world.
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Posted: 30 Mar 2020 at 11:55pm |
I said it was unfortunate the virus came along at Chinese New Year, nothing else.
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