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Octafish

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42. China? The Bush family is into China biz Big Time.

Reply to daredtowork (Reply #11)

Fri Oct 10, 2014, 10:03 AM

Oct 2014

Neil's uncle, Prescott S Bush, Jr., founded the US-China Chamber of Commerce. Middle Kingdom Rainmakers, they call their BFEE chums. Oh So Social, that made money for the Right People.

China blocks New York Times website after story on leader's family wealth.

Gee. Most interesting to see how one capitalist's nation's elite helped a communist nation's get filthy, filthy rich. Turned out it's the same way it's done here: ripping off the workers.

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