Free Clive Derby-Lewis Unconditionally and Immediately

This is happening in South Africa today? I don't believe it. I thought barbarity was a thing of the past. What sort of justice can allow what has happened to Clive Derby Lewis to happen? Irrespective of what has happened since 1993, the lack of medical supervision of any prisoner in any jail in any country cannot be justified under any pretext. Irrespective of what has happened since 1993: Is this sort of behaviour the sort of behaviour that Chris Hani himself would have sanctioned? Today?
2010.
If this state-sannctioned barbarity were to be uncovered in any decent country with decent laws, then Clive Derby Lewis would, if he were found to be in similar circumstances therein, immediately and unconditionally freed.

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There are many Indians who are not corrupt

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India is in a mess and it is a shame. There are many Indians who are not corrupt.

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RAJESH SEHGAL: LIAR OF SHAOXING INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

This is the crux of what happened to me. On the face of it, I received 'smiling' words from the Sehgals. As I have written previously, I pulled out of the negotiations due to the whisper in the mind [intuitive] that all was not right, that I was being played with. Despite my telling Sehgal not to contact me further, he phoned again and again until I relented and re-entered negotiations. It was at this point that Rajesh Sehgal agreed to pre-pay my wife's airfare from Oz to Shaoxing. Yes, even my wife, All those doubters should take note: it is more common than you think for employers to pre-pay return airfares for teachers. You can imagine my doubts and my eagerness to begin the process of building a school. This dichotomy lingered and prodded me into periods of doubt but I persisted with Rajesh and his wife Mini until four days before departure when they let me know I was too old. For the record, Sanguine is correct. I have worked in Zhejiang previously, and at the same old age, and I obtained a Z visa without any problem. At the age of 65! So, this makes Rajesh Sehgal and his wife liars or they themselves have allowed themselves to be duped. But then, why would the Chinese authorities dupe the Sehgals? Nope! The plain truth is that the Sehgals could get a DOS for much less a salary than that contracted with me.

RAJESH SEHGAL: HIS LANGUAGE IS WITHOUT MEANING

This is my point, Turnoi. If anyone cared to look carefully, one can see salaries of RMB26000 for teachers who haven't half ...nay, a tenth of my teaching experience, my knowledge of my language and my ability to excite students in the art of communications. There is a good article in yesterday's Washington Post: Goodbye to English [or words to that effect]. The author laments the death of English in America. Horray! Most of my fellow teachers who emanate from the US have language problems. They know very little of structural English. My fellow Aussies are the same: frankly, quite hopeless. They can't parse a sentence, let alone know what a sentence is. Very few have read any of the standard literature texts; they excel in contemporary street-speak, and this is not conducive to an understanding of our language and how to excite others with language. I wrote a book using street language as direct speech and I was criticised academically for the 'gutter atmosphere' I created. My point again is that I know street talk, but I also know that without structure and definition, language becomes meaningless [literally]. I gather then, if language has become meaningless, that when Rajesh Sehgal tells me something, he is telling me something altogether different from what I believe he is saying or was saying.

RAJESH SEHGAL:QUIRKY PERSON OF SHAOXING INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

Rajesh Sehgal is a business person involved in Shaoxing's textile industry. His wife, Mini, came up with a very good idea to institute an international school for dependants of expatriate employees from countries such as Korea, India etc. This school is to be attached to a larger mainly Chinese school. Rajesh admits of no interest in the formation of the school other than to facilitate education. Once off the ground and running, the school would manage itself, so to speak. At that stage, Rajesh Sehgal's interest in the school would cease. At least that is what Rajesh told me to get me on side. We signed contracts and I have official letter to obtain F visa [Business visa]. I also have the F visa valid for entry until November for 90 days. Rajesh wanted me in Shaoxing in August so as to have my input to marketing material such as promotions with my nomenclature and personal appearances etc. All very standard when starting a school. Then the relationship took on a quirky personality, as if Dr Jekyll had become Mr Hyde. As I have written, four days before due departure date, Rajesh emailed me a Dear John....alas! I am too old ... suddenly I had aged from the previous week. I had to laugh. But what gets me is the fact that Rajesh didn't have enough guts to say he was stabbing me in the back. Imagine my life here at home; the preparations [my wife was to join me in Shaoxing and Rajesh had supplied her also with letter for residence as spouse of F visa holder] had been completed and my large family of five adult children [chadults we call them] and their respective lives ... suddenly ... no warning....all the preparations were to no avail.
What can we do but to warn others [and I have been to China six times as well as other lands] to check, re-check and then doubt all your findings until they become established facts, verified, substantiated and ,,,whatever else you can say.[/big][bold][/bold]
It is an interesting item via Google that from Shaoxing emanates 60% of global Internet malware.

Aussie Muslims have right to wear as they wish

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ADRIAN KEEFE'S NOVEL 'RANE': BASED ON THE STOLEN GENERATIONS

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This is what we have been waiting for ... someone else to do what we should have done ages ago. I will submit my novel RANE which is based on real life events that inspired The Stolen Generations.

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Muslims can cover their bodies without causing me discomfort as I understand Islam. I think it is beholden upon us to discover why Muslims wear hijab; maybe we might begin to understand and to cease fearing the Australian behind the cloth. Remember, non-Catholic Australians feared the Papacy years ago.

Daily Telegraph
20 September 2010

Oz parents need discipline training

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A year or tow in the army might help. Parents have no idea of discipline. In fact, send the parents off to the army for a few weekends.

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Oz and China: Vital Friendship

China is most important to Australia. As we have a sizeable Chinese-Australian population it is only natural that our two countries link together for our mutual benefit. Long live the China Australia connection!

China Daily
18 September 2010

China's Citizens must be respected by China Law

It is important for citizens' expressions of satisfaction and dissatisfaction are to be heard and respected. Are not the laws and the police put into place for the sole purpose of protecting citizens from abuse, whether from the State itself or from private enterprise?

China Daily
18 September 2010

BRITT LAPTHORNE: HORROR MURDER IN CROATIA

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RAJESH SEHGAL, THE CHEAT, AND SHAOXING INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL SCANDAL

I am Australian and I have worked most of my life outside of Oz. I prefer it this way. I have built schools in remote and economically poor lands that ironically burst with precious humanity. It is this precious humanity that draws me into these places. It is the learning of their languages, their ways of thinking and how they manage the earth. Imagine landing in an otherwise unoccupied place where there is no infrastructure and no intrusion of the US, the UN, China or Russia; just a few adventurers keen to help.
But after four decades I decided to move to China where my initial job was at a mere RMB5000 pm. My second job in China really awakened me to the avarice of Chinese in the academic sphere. It was not the laoshi but the 'leaders', that pathetic nomenclature for Communist Party Apparatchiks, who stole enrolment fees from poorly paid rural workers who together managed to send one of two lads from their impoverished village. This woke me up quickly.
After working as DOS in Oman and Bangladesh and China itself I decided that because I am working in China instead of Saudi Arabia or UAE [where salaries are higher than in China] I should not necessarily and automatically downgrade my salary expectations. The profit that franchises such as EF, Webb, Disney et al manage to extract from their businesses is indicative of how capitalism has gripped China by the throat. It has squeezed so hard that the Chinese have been mentally and spiritually starved of their own humanity. Why then should I help these creatures become more obscenely rich?
Rajesh Sehgal of Shaoxing International School contacted me. I didn't apply to run his school. He asked me what my salary expectations were. I told him. RMB20000 plus pre-paid airfares and decent accommodation plus insurance etc and all the things that should go with the job. It suited this charlatan to have me on his books, to be able to publicise my being school principal while he was inviting enrolment from all and sundry. He printed brochures with photos of me and my wife emblazoned brightly. Meanwhile, this surreptitious creep had engaged Gold Star Recruiting's Jim Altrans to advertise for someone else at a much cheaper salary [RMB12000pm] and only three days before my intended departure from Oz to Zhongguo, and after I had emailed him several times, did he enlighten me as to his staggering duplicity.
Age! Bullshit! I was in China earlier in the year, in the same province, with no age hassles to bar me from working on a Z visa.
Rajesh Sehgal cannot disguise his duplicitous nature nor can he hide from his shame.

China Slave Market for Laowai Laoshi

Talk about slave market for laowai laoshi ... I feel not right when I go to collect my pay and there alongside me, in the queue, is my academic supervisor [Asst Dean] waiting to pick up his paltry salary of RMB2500 while I lick my lips lasciviously as I collect my huge salary. This is the China malady where the white face can pull in more parental suckers for the avaricious meanies who run the institution. In my second term of employment at a China university the Dean and the Communist Party Secretary purposefully over-enrolled students from the typical poor rural climes. That being so, when O Week began, the university had to turn away hundreds of students due to this chicanery. Parents were obviously livid and the police were called in to stop the riot. Months later, the self-same Dean and his Party Apparatchik were arrested, gaoled and stripped of all Party privileges. I was left to run the English show. I demanded and received a tripling of my salary and since then I have never accepted anything lower than my value to the institution.

ALAN JONES: ONE IN A MILLION

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Ivan Milat has more honour than Rajesh Sehgal

Ivan Milat ...serial killer extraordinaire ... Belanglo Forest grave digger ... mate, didn't get your email, otherwise would have replied to such a notorious murderer. How many did you kill, anyway, mate? Anyway, let me bring you up to date about dear little Rajesh Sehgal. He contacted me by email and immediately offered me the job of starting his new school for international primary kids in Shaoxing. He asked me my salary. I told him RMB20000 plus airfare prepaid and accommodation for me and wo de laopo. He came back and offered RMB18000 and I accepted after more haggling. But we had a contract signed and I bought my F visa which was to be changed to Z when in Zhongguo. Then things started to stink...to smell fishy...and a couple of times I demurred about the job but Rajesh Sehgal always came back and convinced me that he was a fabulous fellow and that I could always trust him. But there was that nagging feeling that this bloke was promising things too easily, too quickly and I smelled a rat. Anyway, it is a long story and a week before due to fly out Rajesh booked my flight [he was paying] and told me to pack. Three days before flight time I still hadn't received my ticket and I emailed Rajesh a couple of times until three days before departure he emailed me to say I was too old. I then perused the job pages and saw all the adverts for my job... at a salary of RMB12000.. I even received an email from Jim Altrans of Gold Star Recruiting, advising me to apply for the job I already had. I emailed Rajesh and he bullshitted me ...Oh no, Mr Adrian, that was a mistake. Ho ho ho! Then the email that I was too old. I would have been more impressed were Rajesh to have told me he couldn't afford me. But then Rajesh Sehgal is a liar, a cheat and cannot be trusted. Shaoxing International School ...I wish them luck but with Rajesh Sehgal at the helm, I doubt it.

ALAN JONES: ONE IN A MILLION

Alan Jones is one in a million. Who else can go from Rugby Grand Slam to 2GB and make the transition so smoothly? He's always interesting; he's always clued up on any subject and he'll always check up on what's wrong with our society.

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12 September 2010

Oakeshott loves the stage

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I will play for Manly if there's no one else!

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Hey! I used to live and work in Manly. I'll play if there's no one else! I was a damned good prop in my day a million years ago.

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7 Sept 2010

RAJESH SEHGAL AND SIS SCANDAL

RAJESH SEHGAL AND SIS SCANDAL
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Some months ago, out of the blue, after I had posted my resume on ESLTEACHERSBOARD, Rajesh Sehgal contacted me and without ado offered me the job as Principal/DOS/Administrator of the Shaoxing International School. It's a long story, but I was due to fly to Shaoxing this coming Wednesday, and I had not been given my air flight ticket number by Rajesh. I emailed a few times and eventually, late last night, Rajesh emailed me to inform me that I was too old. After all this time; after months of negotiations; after I had my Business Visa, Rajesh Sehgal decides that I am too old. Suddenly I had become a too old person...suddenly ...
Do not trust Rajesh Sehgal.

Aussie Police Worst THUGS and CRIMINALS

Bring senior police to book. If their lives are scrutinised maybe the lower ranks of the thugs may wake up to themselves. As it stands, anyone who identifies him or herself as police immediately create an atmosphere of threat. This is the nature of our police in that we simply do not like or trust them as a body of people.

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4 September 2010

HOWARD'S LIES HELPED CAUSE THIS INFERNAL CARNAGE IN IRAQ

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RUGBY LEAGUE'S DAVID GALLOP:BLOODY FOOL

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RUGBY LEAGUE'S DAVID GALLOP:BLOODY FOOL

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Oz Local Governments Require Supervision

Posted by Caoimh from Bulldog, New South Wales
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At least with the present set up Councils are ultimately responsible to the State Government. Remove the State and to whom will Councils be responsible? They are autocratic enough as it now stands, without enlarging their arrogance and smug self-satisfaction.

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