Football Is Fixed is a banned blog in China - although the great wall came down for a few days in March, over 1.3 billion people are denied access to our assessment of the corruption that underpins the great game of football.
Much of the malicious hacking that we respond to also emanates from the People's Republic of China.
Furthermore, the broker who disappeared with our trading winnings in May is also Chinese.
And, he is directly linked to some of the key underground operators in the Far East who game the illusion of European football.
One World. One Dream.
Censorship and Corruption.
In China as in Europe.
Harmony.
The Opening Ceremony for the Beijing Olympics existed as an artform - a real-time Koyaanisqatsi.
Koyaanisqatsi visually explored the different aspects of the relationship between humans, nature and technology and, within a nationalist template, the Opening Ceremony achieved a similar reality.
The leadership of the world is passing over to an altogether more impressive culture.
At a level of the masses, that would be...
Shame about Darfur and Tibet, really.
In our extensive dealings with China and the Chinese, this is a recurrent theme - astonishing people, autocratic power.
The most talented traders and market makers in the global football betting markets are all Chinese.
Think about that for a moment.
These characters have analysed and modelled a sport from an entirely different culture, they have developed extensive ways of gaming these markets against any strategy of their European competitors, they know more than any of you, professionals and amateurs alike, about the intricacies of the global markets.
My favourite Chinese trader is unequivocal in his dismissal of the Westerners, describing all investment banks as "shit" and the English bookmakers as "idiotic mafia".
China isn't Communist. Just as the Soviet Union wasn't Communist.
Marx was writing before the political economy had produced its full range of economic atrocities. But that is his only excuse. By placing the analysis of the capitalist mode of production at the centre of his thesis, Marx ensured that workers were unable to think of themselves as existing under any other sign than that of production.
"...Marxism assists the ruse of capitalism. It convinces men that they are alienated by the sale of their labour power; hence, it censors the much more radical hypothesis that they do not have to be labour power" - Jean Baudrillard.
Both China and the Soviet Union represent(ed) the same model of government as that offered by our own 'democracies' - that is, a state-based economic system.
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