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The Netherlands: Muslim [Uighurs] Attack Chinese Embassy (Germany too)

The ummah (worldwide Muslim community) "responds" to the Muslim revolt in China. Has anyone asked the Muslim Uighurs who were released from GITMO for a statement?

DUTCH TO PAY FOR CHINESE EMBASSY REPAIR

HE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - The Dutch government said Tuesday it will pay for repairs to China's embassy in The Hague, which was damaged in a protest against Beijing's crackdown on separatists in Xinjiang province.
Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen apologized to China's top diplomat in the Netherlands for the violence by the protesters, mostly members of the Muslim Uighur ethnic group living in the Netherlands.
"Demonstrating is a basic right, but violence is always unacceptable," Verhagen said.
Verhagen also used his meeting with the diplomat to express his concern at the violence in Xinjiang.
"Unfortunately, information out of the region is very restricted and transparency is very important in this situation," Verhagen said. He urged the Chinese to restore communications with the area and allow foreign journalists to work there.
Police arrested 142 demonstrators Monday when they stoned the embassy and tried to clamber up the railings that surround the building. Most were released late Monday but police kept 39 in cells overnight.
Police cordoned off the area in front of the embassy Tuesday. Many of the building's front windows were smashed.
Also Tuesday, Uighur [Muslims]  and Turkish [Muslims] protesters clashed with police outside the Chinese Embassy in Turkey and threw eggs at the building.
In Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said the Dutch protesters were members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, a group Beijing accuses of having links to al-Qaida. He said the Chinese consulate in Munich, Germany, also was attacked with a Molotov cocktail and slightly damaged.

The Dutch protest came after reports that street battles have killed dozens and injured hundreds in the deadliest ethnic unrest to hit China's western Xinjiang region in decades.
Gheyretjan Rozi of the Dutch Uighur Support Group said Monday's demonstration was peaceful until protesters saw somebody taking photos of them from inside the embassy. Rozi said 450-600 Uighurs live in the Netherlands.

DEADLY RIOTING BY CHINESE MUSLIMS IN CHINA, 156 DEAD NEARLY 1.000 DEAD OR INJURED

UPDATE 11:20 pm: Nearly 1,000 dead or injured as Chinese crush Uighur riots (hat tip Jane)
UPDATE 9:52 pm: VIDEO: Muslims rioting in China

Remember the Chinese Muslims (Uighurs) whom Obama released from GITMO to the beautiful pink beaches of Bermuda (on your dime)? Here are pictures of the Chinese Muslims in Bermuda, on your dime. Their "brothers" in China are violently rioting and destroying.

Excerpts:

"Hundreds of rioters have been arrested, the official Xinhua news agency reported, after rock-throwing Uighur people took to the streets of the regional capital on Sunday, some burning and smashing vehicles and confronting ranks of anti-riot police."

hmmm -rock throwing, car burning, ... just like muslims in "Palestine", Paris, Pakistan, India,

China says 140 dead in Xinjiang riot, blames separatists Yahoo (hat tip Choi)

Deadly Riots Erupt in Western China (hat yip John J)

China (July 6) - Riots and street battles killed at least 140 people in China's western Xinjiang province and injured 828 others in the deadliest ethnic unrest to hit the region in decades. Officials said Monday the death toll was expected to rise. Police sealed off streets in parts of the provincial capital, Urumqi, after discord between ethnic Muslim Uighur people and China's Han majority erupted into violence. Witnesses reported a new, smaller protest Monday in a second city, Kashgar.

[Musim[ Rioters on Sunday overturned barricades, attacked vehicles and houses, and clashed violently with police in Urumqi, according to media and witness accounts. State television aired footage showing protesters attacking and kicking people on the ground. Other people, who appeared to be Han Chinese, sat dazed with blood pouring down their faces.

There was little immediate explanation for how so many people died. The government accused a Uighur [Muslim] businesswoman living in the U.S. of inciting the riots through phone calls and "propaganda" spread on Web sites.

Exile groups said the violence started only after police began cracking down on a peaceful protest demanding justice for two Uighurs killed last month during a fight with Han co-workers at a factory in southern China.

Thousands of people took part in Sunday's disturbance, unlike recent sporadic separatist violence carried out by small groups in Xinjiang. The clashes echoed the violent protest that rocked Tibet last year and left many Tibetan communities living under clamped-down security ever since.

This is NOTHING like the Tibet unrest. The Dalai Lama said that his homeland was in serious peril and called for an investigation into what he called "cultural genocide." Tibet wants to be free; Muslims want to take over.

Tensions between Uighurs [Muslims] and the majority Han Chinese are never far from the surface in Xinjiang, a sprawling region rich in minerals and oil that borders eight Central Asian nations.

Many Uighurs (pronounced WEE-gers) yearn for independence and some militants have waged a sporadic, violent separatist campaign.

Uighurs [Muslims] make up the largest ethnic group in Xinjiang, but not in the capital of Urumqi, which has attracted large numbers of Han Chinese migrants. The city of 2.3 million is now overwhelmingly Chinese — a source of frustration for native Uighurs who say they are being squeezed out.

Kakharman Khozamberdi — leader of a Uighur political movement in Kazakhstan, where the Uighur minority has its largest presence outside China — said machine gun fire was heard all night long....

UPDATE 3:47 pm: Video: Islam in action

From Russina reporting: The situation is -for now - under control (hat tip Choi)

Death toll -as a result of "rioting" (Muslim war inside China) is now 156 with 828 wounded.

Chinese police have arrested 10 (or more) persons whom the authorities consider to be the instigators of the violence and who have connections with (US-based) World Uyghur Congress (WUC) and its leader Rebia KADIR (a woman and that's a muslim name).

Furthermore - China has deemed the "Eastern Turkestan" organization as an extremist group as a terrorist organization, operating within its Uyghur-Autonomous region of Tsin-Tszyan and active in a movement to set up a pan-islamic government, consisting of a number of regional muslim groups (i.e. the central asian area of global dar al islam). The communist Chinese have also linked the "Eastern Turkestan" extremist muslim-supremacist-terror organization with al Qaeda.

Article from RIA Novosti in English on the Uyghur problems and what it means for Russia and the USA

The Russian (who aren't totally PC'd yet) give some truthful analysis on the situation (i.e. Muslims with very large and powerful global backing are responsible)

"There are many possible links apart from the U.S.-based World Uyghur Congress (WUC)."

"Riots broke out in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur province in northwest China, on July 5. They were organized by Uyghurs and were foreseen to claim lives."

"Second, I cannot imagine anyone setting fire to a shop with a lighter. You need at least a canister of gasoline to do that". 

"Like many other similar organizations operating in the United States or any other country, Uyghurs are financed by American NGOs. This is an element of the U.S. policy that has failed, even though the new administration has not yet officially disavowed it".

Besides, leaving such organizations to their own devices could be dangerous, as proved by the example of Al Qaeda."

While it has a Ruskie spin ........... it is more than you'll ever get from Western media.

Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid

Today's fresh hell ............if they knock out our electrical grid, we go from the technological age to the pre-industrial age in a nanosecond.

These occurences must be related.

Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated by Spies WSJ

WASHINGTON -- Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system, according to current and former national-security officials.

The spies came from China, Russia and other countries, these officials said, and were believed to be on a mission to navigate the U.S. electrical system and its controls. The intruders haven't sought to damage the power grid or other key infrastructure, but officials warned they could try during a crisis or war.

"The Chinese have attempted to map our infrastructure, such as the electrical grid," said a senior intelligence official. "So have the Russians."

The espionage appeared pervasive across the U.S. and doesn't target a particular company or region, said a former Department of Homeland Security official. "There are intrusions, and they are growing," the former official said, referring to electrical systems. "There were a lot last year."

Many of the intrusions were detected not by the companies in charge of the infrastructure but by U.S. intelligence agencies, officials said. Intelligence officials worry about cyber attackers taking control of electrical facilities, a nuclear power plant or financial networks via the Internet.

Authorities investigating the intrusions have found software tools left behind that could be used to destroy infrastructure components, the senior intelligence official said. He added, "If we go to war with them, they will try to turn them on."

Officials said water, sewage and other infrastructure systems also were at risk.

"Over the past several years, we have seen cyberattacks against critical infrastructures abroad, and many of our own infrastructures are as vulnerable as their foreign counterparts, " Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair recently told lawmakers. "A number of nations, including Russia and China, can disrupt elements of the U.S. information infrastructure."

Officials cautioned that the motivation of the cyberspies wasn't well understood, and they don't see an immediate danger. China, for example, has little incentive to disrupt the U.S. economy because it relies on American consumers and holds U.S. government debt.

But protecting the electrical grid and other infrastructure is a key part of the Obama administration's cybersecurity review, which is to be completed next week. Under the Bush administration, Congress approved $17 billion in secret funds to protect government networks, according to people familiar with the budget. The Obama administration is weighing whether to expand the program to address vulnerabilities in private computer networks, which would cost billions of dollars more. A senior Pentagon official said Tuesday the Pentagon has spent $100 million in the past six months repairing cyber damage.

Overseas examples show the potential havoc. In 2000, a disgruntled employee rigged a computerized control system at a water-treatment plant in Australia, releasing more than 200,000 gallons of sewage into parks, rivers and the grounds of a Hyatt hotel.

Last year, a senior Central Intelligence Agency official, Tom Donohue, told a meeting of utility company representatives in New Orleans that a cyberattack had taken out power equipment in multiple regions outside the U.S. The outage was followed with extortion demands, he said.

The U.S. electrical grid comprises three separate electric networks, covering the East, the West and Texas. Each includes many thousands of miles of transmission lines, power plants and substations. The flow of power is controlled by local utilities or regional transmission organizations. The growing reliance of utilities on Internet-based communication has increased the vulnerability of control systems to spies and hackers, according to government reports.

The sophistication of the U.S. intrusions -- which extend beyond electric to other key infrastructure systems -- suggests that China and Russia are mainly responsible, according to intelligence officials and cybersecurity specialists. While terrorist groups could develop the ability to penetrate U.S. infrastructure, they don't appear to have yet mounted attacks, these officials say.

CHINESE THREATEN UNARMED US NAVY SHIP, NO. KOREA WARNS US .... THERE'S SOMETHING HAPPENING HERE

Pentagon: Chinese vessels harassed unarmed ship

There's something happening here. What it is ...... is very very clear.  John Jay spoke of it in his essay here - nature hates a vacuum. And Obama is creating that vacuum -
"where the sun recedes. the United States navy will disappear from the Indian ocean and the china sea. The first result of this will emerge in conflict between China and Taiwan, with Taiwan exposed to missile fire from the Chinese mainland. soon, the red Chinese will surmount the obstacle of a 40 miles stretch of ocean, and will invade and occupy Taiwan. Who or what is to stop China from doing this. In the absence of an American navy in the Indian ocean and the South China seas, a power vacuum exists, into which will step a militarily resurgent Japan, and expansion minded China and India. China and India are planning the laying of many “bottoms,” which to you lubbers, means that they are going to build blue water navies. with the presence of the American navy upon the high seas, with over 200 years of warfare and strategic experience, these countries might have been expected to be prudent in their expansion: a country and military force does not step into that sort of context with impunity or without caution, especially given the aggressive posture for battle always exhibited in the U.S. navy, from John Paul Jones to Bull Halsey to Chester Nimitz. where once there would have been every caution exercised, there will only be “irrational exuberance” as the Chinese and the Indians rush in to fill the vacuum."

Pentagon: Chinese vessels harassed unarmed ship

The Associated Press 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon charged Monday that five Chinese ships shadowed and maneuvered dangerously close to a U.S. Navy vessel in an apparent attempt to harass the American crew.

Defense officials in the Obama administration said the incident Sunday followed several days of "increasingly aggressive" acts by Chinese ships in the region. The incident took place in international waters in the South China Sea, about 75 miles south of Hainan Island.

U.S. officials said a protest was to be delivered to Beijing's military attache at a Pentagon meeting Monday.

The USNS Impeccable sprayed one ship with water from fire hoses to force it away. Despite the force of the water, Chinese crew members stripped to their underwear and continued closing within 25 feet, the Defense Department said.

"On March 8, 2009, five Chinese vessels shadowed and aggressively maneuvered in dangerously close proximity to USNS Impeccable, in an apparent coordinated effort to harass the U.S. ocean surveillance ship while it was conducting routine operations in international waters," the Pentagon statement said.

In other developments in the perceived American weakness:

North Korea Warns of War as US, S Korean Drills Begin

Voice of America - ‎1 hour ago‎

By Kurt Achin Several-hundred South Koreans remain stranded in North Korea after the North's decision to cut a military hotline and seal its border to the ...

JJ wrote, "and, though they have neither the foresight nor the intellectual capacity to understand it, they give up the peace won by the blood of patriots the world over, to an inevitable worldwide conflict as new balances of power and influence and strategic dominance are worked out and resolved.  nature abhors a vacuum, and the same may be observed of politics and geo-politics especially, and into the vacuums formerly occupied by the formidable presence of the United States"

Back in November,  Victor Davis Hanson gave an unforgettable speech at Restoration Weekend ...

It seems to me that what we're all worried about is what does Barack Obama think about the world at large—when he says that Iran is a small threat, and then he corrects himself and says it's a large threat—when Georgia is invaded by Russia and he tells us first that each side is of equal blame and then he suggests Georgia prompted the entire crisis and then suggests the UN should adjudicate it and then he suggests that when an authoritarian country like Russia tries to destroy a democracy its because of the precedent of an American democracy trying to destroy an authoritarian regime in Iraq.

It's hard to make sense of all this. All I can make sense of is, he has a very different view of the world. This view is anti-platonic. And I say that, not to be condescending, but Plato said that the natural order of the world was chaos, it was war—peace was a parenthesis, it had to be achieved and worked at. I think in the Obama view that men like him that are charismatic, articulate, they can change the world because it's naturally a peaceful thing until people like George Bush rush in and through their stubbornness—"smoke 'em out dead or alive" vernacular—destroys it, but the fact of the matter is the only reason there is any semblance of peace and tranquility in the world today is because in places as diverse as the Aegean, planes over-flying in Greek airspace daily, where there's near fighting on Cypress, or whether we are talking about the Korean Sea and the Philippines and Taiwan and South Korean democracies not going nuclear because the United States is there, or whether Russian ships keep out of Norway every hour—all of that is predicated on the presence of the United States.

To be frank, or to put it a different way, Vladimir Putin doesn't give a damn that Barack Obama is African American. And the Chinese autocrats do not hear very well "hope" and "change"—it doesn't translate to Chinese very well—and the Europeans don't care if he has a nifty jump shot.  All they want to know is half the world are vying to try to take advantage of regional opportunities if the United States is not there to stop mold, and to stop rust, which is the natural organic order of the world. They take advantage of it and our friends are there waiting to see which side to join. All of our friends in Europe know that, and Australia and South America. They don't have deities. Nations don't have deities like Barack Obama, they have interests. And their interests are predicated on who is going to win and who is going to lose. Into that void comes Barack Obama.

UPDATE: Martin at National Terror Alert points out the Russian bombers that flew along the Canadian coastline right before Obama's visit. There is no doubt we are being tested. There is no doubt we are being tested.

CHINA FIRES ON PROTESTERS

Where in G-d's name is the global outrage? Where is the the damn UN?

China Fires On Tibet Protests In Sichuan, Says Self Defence
Bernama - Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia
China police are hunting for 21 suspects from the Lhasa riots and posted Friday the photographs of more than a dozen men on local popular websites. ...

Chinese state news agency says 19 'innocent' died in Lhasa unrest (and thats according to State news agency  so you know it's more.)

BEIJING: China's official news agency says the death toll from anti-Chinese riots in Lhasa has risen to 19, and that 623 people were injured in the unrest.

Xinhua says 18 civilians and one police officer were confirmed dead by Friday night from the unrest in the Tibetan capital earlier this month.

The agency says 241 police officers and 382 civilians were injured.

Chinese Authorities Place 'Wanted' Posters For Tibetan Rioters On ...

Please visit http://www.savetibet.org/ to see a map showing where demonstrations have occurred. You will also find in-depth updates that they are posting daily.

Jews Rally for Tibetans

I love the Jewish people

Jews rally for Tibetan cause

And of course as wolf points out, as Jews we should.

By By Simon Rocker and Simon Griver, Tel Aviv

Jewish campaigners in both the UK and Israel have been showing support for the Tibetan struggle for independence from China.

Some 100 people are reported to have been killed in renewed unrest.

The Tibetan Jewish Youth Exchange has been fundraising to help buy computers for Longsho, the Tibetan youth movement. Marc Bergen, a trustee of the exchange, said: “The fact that we have had Israel since 1948 is a great inspiration to the Tibetan people —as the Dalai Lama himself has pointed out — who are also dreaming and hoping to one day get their own homeland back and are seeking to retain their identity, language and culture in the meantime.”

Demonstrations against the escalating violence have also taken place in Israel. A planned event outside the Tel Aviv Cinematheque last Saturday turned into an impromptu protest against the increasing death toll in Lhasa. Hundreds of demonstrators again turned out on Wednesday outside the Chinese embassy in Tel Aviv.

Ran Natanzon, spokesman for the 1,000-strong Israeli Friends of the Tibetan People, told the JC that the Israeli government must make its voice heard. “The Israeli government must at least express its condemnation of what is happening,” he said. “At the very least, the Chinese ambassador should be called up to the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem and reprimanded.”

Among the protesters were 50 Tibetan students studying agriculture in Israel. But the seven Tibetan exiles in the country who are married to Israelis stayed away for fear of reprisals on their relatives in Tibet, with the exception of Lobsang Yeshi, who lives in Tel Aviv and has called on Israel to boycott this summer’s Olympics in China.

Read it all and be proud.

Killing Protesters in China: GIVES DEADLINE

While the world's deadly obsession with the Jews continues unabated, the Chinese government is killing Tibetans yearning for freedom.  If China sits on the UNSC, can we expect a UNSC resolution? I hope this revolt is infectious and the oppressed of China take to the streets. Economic freedom means nothing without political freedom. Yesterday ...

"....hundreds of monks from sprawling Labrang monastery, shouting and punching the air, marched through the town of Xiahe in northwestern Gansu province. Police fired teargas to disperse protesters brandishing the Tibetan national flag showing snow lions."

Surrender by midnight or pay the penalty, China tells rioters in Tibet Times Online hat tip wolf

Hundreds of Tibetans who rioted in the streets of Lhasa, attacking Han Chinese with knives and rocks and burning shops and homes, must surrender to the Chinese military by midnight tonight (4pm today) or face severe punishment.

Thousands of People’s Liberation Army troops patrolled Lhasa yesterday to restore order in a city where furious Tibetans turned against ethnic Han Chinese and Hui Muslims over the weekend. Young Tibetans stabbed Hans, threw rocks and set fire to Han-owned shops. The violence was spreading quickly to provinces where many Tibetans live.

Casualty figures were confused. Beijing reported that ten people burnt to death in Lhasa and 12 police were seriously wounded. The Dalai Lama, denouncing what he called cultural genocide against Tibetans, said he did not know how many were dead but the toll could reach 80 or 100.

The unrest is the most serious to hit the deeply Buddhist Himalayan region in nearly 20 years. Its rapid spread to other towns on the Roof of the World, where most of the population are ethnic Tibetans, compounds China’s embarrassment just as it is eager to present an image of a stable, united and prosperous nation five months before the Olympics

UPDATE: DEADLINE PASSES

The deadline for Tibetan protesters to surrender to the police has passed, after a quiet day in the city of Lhasa.

China had given demonstrators in the city until midnight (1600 GMT) to give themselves up or face punishment.

Exiled Tibetans said security forces had been rounding up political dissidents and witnesses said there was a heavy police presence on the streets.

UPDATE: Wolf echoes my sentiments, "I personally believe that the Oympics should be cancelled, absurd for an oppressive regime to be hosting this. I think the oppression of the Dali Lama and the Tibetens by China is nothing short of despicable. Where has the UN ever been on this issue and this oppressed people who's land the Chinese confiscated? The money has been thrown and wasted on the so called Palestinian issue for the past 60 years especially post Oslo- on terrorists and is bathed in blood of Jews. Makes me sick. Of course Tibetens don't blow up people, planes and buildings, the Dali Lama is a friend of the Jews and Israel, is a major infidel, preaches peace and non-violence, doesn't have oil and the money to purchase propaganda and hate, so I guess he doesn't fit the bill for major funding, he's not a terrorist!.."

From Times Online: Chinese troops parade handcuffed Tibetan prisoners in trucks

Crushing Tibet

Little said in the international communitay of the latest crushing crackdown by the Chinese governement on those poor Tibetans. At least 80 killed. Why no rush by the UNSC to condemn the violence? No Jews involvedd?   Tibet Protests Spread to Other Provinces - Ed wrote

The poor Tibetans, a truly oppressed and decimated people, have risen up reminding a world that has long since forgotten them of their existence. All of this, as the world turns its attention to China for the upcoming Olympics.  Tibetan bravery in the face of overpowering Chinese strength is inspiring. We will not hear demands for a "proportional" Chinese response. One would expect that within the next day or two the Tibetans will be shut down because of the overwhelming Chinese military response. We will never know the true number of casualties nor what really happened because China has no free press and will not allow unfettered press access. This is an emergency and a humiliation for China. I have a suggestion for China. They should call for a special emergency session of UN Security Council perhaps additionally a meeting of the UN Human Rights Commission.  They need to bring up something/anything regarding the Palestinians - the world's only true victims.  Measures condemning and ostracizing Israel will be passed immediately in order to properly refocus the worlds attention. Otherwise, this thing may really get out of hand.

The other Media Darling, CHINA, TORTURES KIDS

The media, wrong on every issue. Wrong Wrong Wrong

Judith Klinghojfer sent me this on to me: CHILD ABUSE - CHINA

Unesco picture of the year. Caption reads:

Boys hang from a bar for five minutes as part of a physical training exercise at the Gymnastics Hall of the Shanghai University of Sports. The photo was part of Nir Elias's series "Pain Threshold -- Sports Education in China."

What a world.

A New Round of Sanctions! whew

New! Improved!  Sanctions negotiation. Ah, I feel better. All's well that ends well.

GULF PETRO$: What Have We Wrought?

$100 BUCKS A BARREL AND CLIMBING

OIL BONANZA FUNDS GULF INVESTMENT SPREE

Near East meets Far East: the rise of Gulf investment in Asia EIU.com

Gulf-based investors have become increasingly active in Asia in recent years, and the trend looks set to continue over the medium term, according to Near East meets Far East: the rise of Gulf investment in Asia, an Economist Intelligence Unit report sponsored by Arcapita Bank B.S.C.(c). While claims that a "new Silk Road" is emerging that will trump the Gulf's relations with the West look overstated, there is little doubt that the small but substantial portion of petrodollar investment going into the region (estimated at around 10-11% of total Gulf outward investment) will increase significantly over the next five years.

Several trends have underpinned the rising interest from investors in the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) countries in Asian assets:

• Changing investment preferences in the Gulf.
  In previous oil booms most of the billions of dollars in Gulf capital was parked in the international banking system and US treasuries, and the rest invested cautiously in portfolios that tended to favour capital preservation over yield maximisation. Today GCC sovereigns are increasingly managing their own surpluses directly, rather than outsourcing that process. At the same time, the past decade has witnessed rising sophistication in the GCC banking sector and among public and private investors, and deepening integration of emerging markets into the world economy, which have also underpinned a growing appetite among GCC investors for riskier Asian assets.

There's more (click headline)

China seeks 30% increase in Saudi crude supplies Reuters

China has asked for a 30 per cent increase in crude oil imports from Saudi Arabia for 2008 and also aims to raise imports from Iran, partly to feed two new refineries amid steady demand growth, trading sources said yesterday.

Sinopec, Asia's top refiner, wants to increase Saudi crude imports to 600,000 barrels per day (bpd) for next year, up from this year's 460,000 bpd, a trading source close to the supply talks told Reuters.

The supply pact, pending Saudi confirmation, would foster closer energy ties between Beijing and Riyadh, while maintaining the kingdom as China's top oil supplier.

China is keen to secure more long-term fuel supplies while the Saudis are building a refinery in China and looking to invest in a second one.

BURMA: MONK MASSACRE

Beijing and Burma -Goddamn Chicoms are arming the murderers

Burma: Thousands dead in massacre of the monks dumped in the jungle Daily Mail hat tip George

Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta has revealed.

The most senior official to defect so far, Hla Win, said: "Many more people have been killed in recent days than you've heard about. The bodies can be counted in several thousand."

Mr Win, who spoke out as a Swedish diplomat predicted that the revolt has failed, said he fled when he was ordered to take part in a massacre of holy men. He has now reached the border with Thailand.

Slaughter: Executed monks have been dumped in the jungle

Meanwhile, the United Nations special envoy was in Burma's new capital today seeking meetings with the ruling military junta.

Ibrahim Gambari met detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Rangoon yesterday. But he has yet to meet the country's senior generals as he attempts to halt violence against monks and pro-democracy activists.

It is anticipated the meeting will happen tomorrow.

Heavily-armed troops and police flooded the streets of Rangoon during Mr Ibrahim's visit to prevent new protests.

China is key to Myanmar, not UN envoy -John Bolton

Hillary's Chicoms Hack Pentagon

It pays to $leep with Killary and Bill Clinton - the dividends never end. Hillary is on the take for the Chinese,  but it was Bill, in acts of official perfidy, "that may be unparalleled in our nation’s history, Clinton accepted bribes from Red China in the form of illegal political contributions, and in exchange made policy decisions that undermined our national security.
• The Red Chinese military (the so-called People’s Liberation Army, or PLA) is now able to deploy much more accurate nuclear-armed missiles pointed at the United States, in large measure because of policy decisions by President Clinton."

Is it too much to ask for the leader occupying the White House be loyal to America and safeguard and protect this nation?

CHINESE MILITARY HACKED INTO PENTAGON Financial Times hat tip John

The Chinese military hacked into a Pentagon computer network in June in the most successful cyber attack on the US defence department, say American ­officials.

The Pentagon acknowledged shutting down part of a computer system serving the office of Robert Gates, defence secretary, but declined to say who it believed was behind the attack.

It was the Clintons!

TAIWAN:Ban Got It Wrong

What is it with the world? Seriously. We treat democracies and free societies  like dirt and we treat dirt, deppots, Islamic theocracies, and dictatorships like democracies and free societies.

Clearly Ban is wrong, Taiwan is NOT part of China. Bit more importantly,  he can't do that. He can't make this declarative statements as if he were the king of the world. Just sayin.

As for the US? We treat our allies like dogmeat. We have lost our will to stand up for America and her partners.

UN Head Criticized for Saying Taiwan Is 'Part of China'

(CNSNews.com) - As Taiwan pursues its campaign for recognition in the international community, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has come under fire for stating that a 1971 U.N. resolution says Taiwan is a part of China.

General Assembly resolution 2758 gave the U.N.'s "China" seat -- held up to that point by the nationalist Republic of China (ROC) government located in Taipei, Taiwan -- to the communist People's Republic of China (PRC) government in Beijing. The resolution did not pass judgment on the status of Taiwan, which Beijing claims as a rebel province.

Thirty-six years after losing its seat, the Taiwanese government last month submitted an application to join the U.N. under the name "Taiwan," having failed on 14 previous occasions when applying under the name "ROC."

Give 'em a seat!

(Applying as the "ROC," Taipei officials said, recalled an earlier era when the nationalist Chinese in Taiwan claimed all of China; now, the application is being made on behalf of a self-governing democracy of 23 million people, altogether independent of China.)

Nonetheless, the U.N. Secretariat rejected the latest application, and in an explanation of the decision, Ban cited resolution 2758.

The resolution, he said, stipulated that "the government of China is the sole and legitimate government and the position of the United Nations is that Taiwan is part of China."

But Ban got it wrong, experts pointed out. While the resolution recognized the PRC as the only legitimate representative of China at the U.N., it "said nothing at all about Taiwan being part of China," noted American Enterprise Institute resident scholar Gary Schmitt in an article posted Monday.

UPDATE: Excellent letter to Editor of the NY from reader Aaron who refers to Taiwan as "Israel to the East." Damn right;

 

Taiwan Appeals to Communists In Its Bid for a Seat at the U.N.'

President Chen is correct that Taiwan is an "independent sovereign nation," which is true regardless if the members of the United Nations recognize it [Foreign, "Taiwan Appeals to Communists in Its Bid for Seat at the U.N.," August 2, 2007].

Rather than continuing her quest to join the Communists, Stalinists, dictators, and members that acquiesce in their thuggery, Taiwan should celebrate the fact that she has achieved more liberty and prosperity on her own than all of the U.N. pet project states have put together.

The more the U.N. isolates and ridicules a country, the better off that country becomes. Just look at Israel, and America for that matter. America shouldn't support Taiwan's membership. We should join with our friends and walk out the door.

AARON SHAFER
New York, N.Y.

MADE IN CHINA: HAZMAT!

What China seems to have forgotten about the marketplace is that the consumer buys products they can rely on. Products that won't kill them, hurt them burn them. That's reasonable.

China never really got the concept of the  individual and working for one's moral value. They were free market whores -- rampant, reckless economic freedom with no political freedom. Sorry folks, ain't gonna work in the long term.

The toothpaste with poison, the buns with cardboard .............. now this? The marketplace will flee from Chinese products. You'll see.

Read (and see the wild pictures) here:

STOP BUYING ANYTHING MADE IN CHINA

At least anything you put in your body. Sheesh.

Beijing steamed buns include cardboard has tip Doda

BEIJING - Chopped cardboard, softened with an industrial chemical and flavored with fatty pork and powdered seasoning, is a main ingredient in batches of steamed buns sold in one Beijing neighborhood, state television said.

Lovely. One way to get your fiber, eh?

The report, aired late Wednesday on China Central Television, highlights the country's problems with food safety despite government efforts to improve the situation.

Countless small, often illegally run operations exist across China and make money cutting corners by using inexpensive ingredients or unsavory substitutes. They are almost impossible to regulate.

State TV's undercover investigation features the shirtless, shorts-clad maker of the buns, called baozi, explaining the contents of the product sold in Beijing's sprawling Chaoyang district.

And toothpaste unless antifreeze is your plaque eliminator;

China Prohibits Poisonous Industrial Solvent in Toothpaste 

New York Times -

China banned manufacturers from making toothpaste with diethylene glycol, a poisonous solvent used in some antifreeze, the state news agency, Xinhua, reported.

China's New Nuke Sub Has US in Sight

Yes, these nukes could reach the US. More of  Bill Clinton's chickens coming home to roast uh roost. I asked a couple of Atlas readers the implications of this google photo. Bottomline? Army Doc sums it up nicely:

1. They can hit us anywhere in the US now with longer range subs and longer range missiles..

2. Sub can go faster and stay out longer with bigger reactor.

3. They don't care that we see that they have it. (usually they keep these things in caves)

4.Thank you Bill Clinton, Bernie Schwartz and the DOE chick for this wonderful piece of technology.

RESEARCHER SPOTS CHINA'S NEW NUCLEAR SUB ON GOOGLE EARTH

A satellite image of China's new nuclear ballistic missile submarine is available on the Google Earth Internet site.

A satellite image of China's new ballistic missile submarine. [See DigitalGlobe images on Google.] FAS.org

One photo is of what is apparently the new Type 094 Jin-class SSBN at the Xiaopingdao base near Dalian, FAS reported.

Rich adds: "Once misconception of most people is that Boomers need to be close to our coastlines to strike us.  This is false.  ICBM's have a long range (approx 5000 miles) which means they can launch and strike our cities from near their coastline (at least the Russians could).  (I don't know how far China's bases are from the US).

China having Nuclear-Powered Boomers means their Navy has become modern.  They will be able to deploy virtually forever and launch from thousands of miles away from our country."

And finally Daryl said, "From 200 miles, they can do better than just read your car license plate number: they can see if your fingernails have been trimmed.

The Chinese Communists are Chinese Nationalists first. They are determined to restore China to its rightful place among nations, #1. And being Communists, they have no regard for human life."

UPDATE: More from Military man:

Check this blog out for more on the very ambitious Chinese Naval program. While all other Navies of the world are pulling back, and reducing construction take a look at what the Chinese are doing.  

These ships aren't necessary for coastal defence: At the minimum, they are to enable the crossing of the Taiwan Straits in support of an invasion of Taiwan. At the maximum, they will allow the Chinese to clear the Pacific of American Naval forces West of the Golden Gate.  

Meanwhile, Blair has destroyed the British Navy.

Perhaps it would be appropriate for this time and age to remove the statue of Nelson from Trafalgar Square and replace it with something less offensive like a burkha shoppe?

CHINA Burps

Our biggest creditor, CHINA, has taken a dive (their market dropped 9% this morning). And taken us along with her. Dow Jones is down 500+ and sliding.
Dow fell 546.02 or $4.3% after near instantaneous 200 point drop.

UPDATE: Bbbbbbbbouncing - picking up a bit - down 364 (mind you it took a 250 drop in two minutes)

UPDATE: Down again (this with curbs in place.) Hovering at -406. Keep your eye on the close. (Sell orders running 5 to 1)

UPDATE: Dow closes down 400. Talking heads spouting various reason for today's precipitous drop  -- "CHINA!," Greenspam's remarks on the impending "recession!," Cheney bomb blast!, and the ugly of uglies "CORRECTION!"

My take on the cause? THE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS. Bwhahahahahhahahaha

Meanwhile the MSM are shepherding the cattle herds to buy, buy, buy.

CHINA EXECUTES MUSLIM "EXTREMIST"

The darling of left, China, deals with Muslims differently than say BUSHchimphitler.  Bill  of WBI has the backstory here. hat tip Rich

MUSLIM EXECUTES MUSLIM "EXTREMIST" Times online

China has executed a Muslim activist for attempting “to split the motherland” and possessing firearms and explosives.

The death by firing squad of Ismail Semed was criticised by human rights groups, who claimed that there was insufficient evidence to justify the sentence.

Semed, an ethnic Uighur, was deported from Pakistan in 2003 and convicted two years later. During his trial he said that he had been forced to sign a confession. He was executed on Thursday in Urumqi, capital of the mainly Muslim region of Xinjiang, northwest China.

Semed’s wife, Buhejer, told Radio Free Asia that she had been informed only on Monday that her husband was to be executed and she was allowed to see him briefly that day.

She said: “It was only for ten minutes, we didn’t have too much time to talk . . . Previously, he had said his leg hurt, and his stomach hurt, and other parts of his body hurt, and that he needed medicine.” He told her to take care of their son and daughter and to make sure they received a good education.

She said: “When the body was transferred to us at the cemetery I saw only one bullet hole, in his heart.”

The charge of attempting to split China stemmed from the allegation that Semed was a founding member of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, outlawed by Beijing as a terrorist group. Turkic-speaking Muslim Uighurs account for 8 million of the 19 million people in Xinjiang and have taken part in several uprisings against Chinese rule.

Nicholas Bequelin, a Hong Kong-based China researcher for Human Rights Watch, said: “The death penalty was widely disproportionate to the alleged crimes . . . his trial did not meet minimum requirements of fairness and due process. We don’t think there was sufficient evidence to condemn him.”

The exile group, the World Uighur Congress, also said the prosecution had presented no credible evidence for a conviction. It said: “His trial, like most Uighur political prisoners’ trials, was not fair.”

China has waged a campaign in recent years against what it says are violent separatists and Islamic extremists attempting to set up an independent “East Turkestan” in Xinjiang, which shares a border with Afghan-istan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia and Mongolia.

 

BEWARE: UN Wants Internet Control

Unease? Color me uneasy at the thought of 1000 "experts." And positively nervous at a UN sponsored anything.

Unease over US role on net control Australian IT
MORE than 1000 internet experts have gathered in Athens for the first UN-sponsored internet governance forum, amid grumbling over the dominant position of the US.

Grumbling? I bet..............hrumph!

Countries such as Iran and China objected to having the internet's technical foundations managed by California's Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a non-profit organisation under tender from the US Department of Commerce.

Iran and China? Ah yes, mecca to freedom loving peoples everywhere. /

The US has resisted attempts to modify the existing framework, warning that change could give more power to regimes that do not allow freedom of speech.

This is a renewed effort of a failed attempt last year to silence truth tellers, wrestle control of the internet away from a free speech America (where there is no control, thank Gd) and shut down the last vestige of free, unfettered opinion worldwide. The internet is the worst thing that ever happened to despots and dictators everywhere.

Oh and btw, WTF does the UN have to do with it?  The internet is America's invention. We shared it with the rest of the world. Play nice killers.

Related: Atlas Shrugs: UN, World Body to Silence the Internet and Blogs ...

UPDATE: First, kill all the bloggers.

Amnesty To Press UN On Blogger Rights WebProNews
A Chinese proposal to force bloggers to register with the government using their real names will be on the minds of United Nations delegates as they discuss various online issues at the Internet Governance Forum to be held in Athens.

I am sure Google has already handed over to China the names of blogspot bloggers.

 

CHINA's EXECUTION BUSES

American media glorifies and adulates about China and  the "Chinese Century." But they never write  about this or this. hat tip David

VIDEO: CHINA'S EXECUTION BUSES

China's Execution Buses Sky News has obtained chilling new evidence of mobile execution buses being used by the Chinese government. It comes less than two years before China hosts the next Olympic Games.

The voiceover in the sky news video speaks of  the "new and inventive" techniques being used by the Chinese to execute large numbers of people.

New? Inventive? Funny but  the idea of that bus looks mighty familiar to me. Very Third Reich, very zyclonB...............it's how they killed the children (ane a great many others.)

China Goes Thermonuclear

The Democrats pick, pick, pick, pick at the national psyche with their tiny but sharp beaks, distracting us from the enemy's march to war. Iran has no intention of halting their uranium  enrichment program and building their nuclear arsenal while one of their great benefactors,  China has gone thermo. It is (if true) a real technological breakthrough..... the kind of things we should be doing more of.
We have to finance the jihad ---  enslave ourselves to terror oil because the left killed nuclear power plants as an alternative to oil (and off shore drilling and ANWAR yada yada yada).

No America is busy debating the finer points of the care and feeding of savages terrorists captured in the act of killing our soldiers and citizens. Sick

CHINA TESTS THERMONUCLEAR FUSION REACTOR

China claims to have carried out a successful first test Thursday on its experimental thermonuclear fusion reactor, state media reported.

The brief Xinhua News Agency report gave no details about the nature of the test or the results.

The test was carried out on a Tokamak fusion device in the eastern Chinese city of Hefei, the report said.

China has been eager to claim progress in the project, said to be the first such reactor in the world.

Wait, wait there's more cuttung edge malevolence coming to a war near you'

Beijing secretly fires lasers to disable US satellites

You can thank Bill Clinton for this too. The STD that keeps on giving.

The hitherto unreported attacks have been kept secret by the Bush administration for fear that it would damage attempts to co-opt China in diplomatic offensives against North Korea and Iran.

Sources told the military affairs publication Defense News that there had been a fierce internal battle within Washington over whether to make the attacks public. In the end, the Pentagon's annual assessment of the growing Chinese military build-up barely mentioned the threat.

"After a contentious debate, the White House directed the Pentagon to limit its concern to one line," Defense News said.

UPDATE: Speaking of China, China Confidential has a fascinating post up on this monstrous aggressor

NORTH KOREAN NUKES: The US State Department is plainly worried about China's Stalinist vassal. North Korea's mass murdering Dear Leader Kim Jong-il, one of the world's truly psychotic heads of state, is reportedly bent on conducting an underground nuclear bomb test. His regime is a declared nuclear power, and a menace to the civilized world, but has yet to test a weapon. North Korea depends on China for most of its food and fuel; and the Chinese and North Korean armies are quite close. China will not support any truly tough or meaningful sanctions against its vassal (a country that boasts concentration camps and actual gas chambers, in which whole families have been murdered). Nor will China support tough sanctions against nuclear developing Iran, which has followed China's advice in attempting to buy time for its disputed uranium enrichment program by offering "serious negotiations" to a divided Western world. China's strengthening and deepening ties with Islamist Iran constitute the Communist regime's most important relationship in the Muslim world....

AMERICAN APPEASEMENT: As for the US, it will bend over backwards to avoid public criticism of China over the North Korean and Iranian issues. In fact, Washington will go to great lengths to avoid angering Beijing over any issue now that it seems to be rewarding US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson with a mysterious upward creep in the relative value of China's manipulated currency, the yuan. The fabulously rich former investment banker--he made 70 trips to China as chairman of giant Goldman Sachs--is a fierce advocate of accommodating (appeasing) China's rise. He and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have sidelined the administration's China critics, Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

China Shocked Missiles Sold to Iran in Hezbo Hands

I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here! Captain Renault, Casablanca (quote#14)

I guess China is cribbing from old Hollywood films or they really believe we are incredibly stupid or weak or both.

China says Hezbollah missile link 'not supposed to be possible'

(Kyodo) _ A Chinese official said Tuesday that Chinese regulations should make it "impossible" for a missile China sold to Iran to be passed on to Lebanon's Hezbollah forces as alleged recently, but the official added the case has yet to be investigated and Beijing is paying attention to it.

"According to our regulations, it is impossible to have that kind of situation," Sun Bigan, China's special envoy to the Middle East, told reporters when asked about the allegation the China-sold missile was passed on to Hezbollah who fired it at an Israeli ship.

Yeah, as they are laughing out of their ass.

But when asked if there have been investigations into the allegation, Sun said, "As far as I know, no."

Yeah, as they are laughing out of their ass.

Concerned authorities are "paying great attention" to the issue, Sun added. "The Foreign Ministry is also placing importance on the case."

Yeah, as they are laughing out of their ass.

Sun spoke to reporters after a visit to the Middle East where he called on countries to implement a U.N.-brokered cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel.

Yeah, as they are laughing out of their ass.

IRAN Played US/Israel For Patsys

Over at China Confidential, they lay out the set up;

IRAN WARNED CHINA ABOUT THE MIDEAST WAR

Analysts say terror-sponsoring Iranian officials warned China back in June that war was likely to break out between the Islamist nation's Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, and Israel. The officials, including Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, allegedly discussed the possibility of conflict on the sidelines of the annual Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit meeting.

Iran had observer status at the SCO summit. In the name of regional security and cooperation, the organization--a tool of Chinese foreign policy--groups the Middle Kingdom with Russia and the countries of Central Asia in an emerging, Warsaw Pact-like alliance against the United States.

Ahmadinejad is believed to have told his Chinese hosts that Iran had concluded that the US was preparing a military attack on Iran over the nuclear dispute, and that a preemptive proxy war was necessary to strengthen Tehran's military and political position throughout the region.
[...]
Non-Arab Iran, as China expected, has emerged as the dominant power in the region, uniting Shiites and Sunnis in a common struggle to defeat Israel and drive the US from the Middle East.

Syria, a secular Sunni dictatorship allied with Iran and Hezbollah, has also been strengthened as a result of the war, its influence on the failed Lebanese state remarkably restored.

Meanwhile, on Day One of a flawed United Nations-arranged ceasefire--a deal riddled with loopholes through which Hezbollah can rearm, reposition, and again fire its missiles--the most senior Chinese official in charge of "nuclear nonproliferation issues" flew to Iran.

China's official Xinhua News Agency reported that Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai departed for Tehran Monday to discuss "nuclear issues and other topics of mutual concern" with Iranian officials.

Iran has vowed to continue--and even expand--uranium enrichment, in defiance of a UN Security Council deadline for it to suspend its nuclear activities by August 22 or face the threat of political and economic sanctions. Tehran says its nuclear program is peaceful.

In fact, Iran, as the US and many European countries claim, is moving as fast as it can to develop nuclear weapons. Analysts tell China Confidential that Tehran may be only a month or so away from having a weapon.

Beijing's View: Rice Sidelines Rumsfeld and Cheney

Condi's gross miscalculation of the French is at best --naive, at worst -- America's  complete capitulaton to socialist, commie Eurabia. An historic, missed opportunity. Does she know that the French were lying about her every step of the way?  And they hate her?  And they trash her every chance they get?  They are just one step behind the Palis in mocking her.
Yes, she wants to get along with our "allies" (echoes of John Kerry) but it's no trick to agree with our allies and pursue a failed policy, her job is to wrangle them to stand up to Islamic fascism and stand against moral inversion and equivalency. That is the skill required for her mission as SoS.

The following  is as good an overview of the current world crisis as I have seen from China Confidential;

Regarding the war against Radical Islam and the Mideast peace deal, here's the view from Beijing: (hat tip Andre)

In the United States, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has successfully sidelined Vice President Dick Cheney and defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld. US President George Bush has kept them around out of loyalty, but their power and influence has been dramatically diminished. Rice has her eyes on the Nobel Peace Price. China sees her as a closet foreign policy dove, in contrast with Cheney and Rumsfeld, and a potential friend who has more or less bought into Beijing's peacefully rising party line and the State Department's ridiculous "responsible stakeholder" concept. Our prediction: like former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, she will work for the bipartisan China lobby after leaving State.

In Lebanon, Hezbollah is effectively running the show and about to take over the military, which is 70 percent Shiite. Nothing can stand in the way of Hezbollah's power grab and mainstreaming. The organization's sponsor and paymaster, Iran, has thus won its proxy war with Israel and the US, significantly strengthening Tehran's hand with respect to the nuclear impasse.

In Israel, the government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is on its last legs. His handling of the war was an utter disaster, debunking the myth of Israeli invincibility and damaging Israel's deterrent capabilities to a degree few would have thought possible prior to the war.

At the United Nations, Secretary General Kofi Annan has resurrected himself--at Israel's expense. Like Hezbollah, he showed that he can "stand up" to the US and Israel.

Welcome to the Chinese Century....

UN FAILS, NO North Korea Resolution

Facing the latest North Korean provocation, a divided U.N. Security Council yesterday failed to agree on a Japanese proposed resolution that would declare Pyongyang’s missile launches illegal and impose sanctions on the rogue communist country. [There was alot more going on in Graceland than hootchie cootchie, that's for sure - Atlas]

Sounds like a no brainer.

The usual despotic suspects stood in the way of stopping evil, Russia and China. I shouldn't think we could expect any rational support from two pillars in the axis of evil. I mean, really. North Korea is China's proxy.

“What North Korea did yesterday shows the wisdom and leadership that President Bush displayed in 2001,” American ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton,told reporters yesterday. He was alluding to Washington’s defiance of the ABM treaty, deploying “an effective limited missile defense system to guard against attacks from rogue states and accidental launches.”

   The Bush administration has been “on the right course clearly for the last six years,” Mr. Bolton, an avid supporter of missile defense, said. NYSun

South Korean newspapers and FOX news are reporting that North Korea has at least three more missiles on launch pads and ready for firing.

Photo:

JAPAN’S AND AMERICA’S REPRESENTATIVES Kenzo Oshima, left, Japan’s ambassador to the United Nations, talks to the press after Security Council consultations at U.N. headquarters yesterday, as the American ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, listens. SETH WENIG/AP

UNSC: Military Option Against Korea?

China will never go for it and I have yet to see the UN effect any change for good. It is, at this point, a money grubbing, corrupt, polarizing, dangerous tool of facists, islamics, and communists. Hardly a force for good. Let's watch how this plays out but this is a failed institution (which is partly why things have gotten so out of hand.)

The left is spinning it already as a "non-event" (channeling Madeline _{not so}Bright.) A display of braggodocio as it were. It was Bush's birthday! They were launched in North Korea in  the middle of the night to maximize media exposure in America ! We launched the shiuttle they launched some missiles, yada yada yada. Talk about denial. If we  know anything, it is clear that something awful is foot. Japan knows it. They are most distressed.

North Korea could face a U.N. Security Council resolution Wednesday after test-firing a long-range missile earlier in the day.

The Security Council met at 10 a.m. EDT to discuss Pyongyang's launch of at least seven missiles, including a long-range Taepodong-2 that could in theory reach Alaska, in defiance of the international community.

A Chapter 7 resolution may be discussed at the Security Council meeting. The resolution, which concerns breaches of peace, could open the door to possible military response. It would be "more than a condemnation," U.N. sources told FOX News. 

"This is obviously a very serious matter because of the North Korean provocation," said John Bolton, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. "But this is precisely what the Security Council is designed to handle, and we hope the council will rise to the occasion. FOX NEWS

Related story: North Kea Launches Missile: 'US attack will be met with nuclear war'

China Calls for Sino-Arab-Hamas Axis

This continuing development in the axis of evil is hardly surprising. What is the common thread, the anti-value these countries share? Not one values human life (hat tip Daryl).

China seeks to expand trade, energy ties with Arab world
BEIJING : China called for closer Sino-Arab trade and energy ties as foreign ministers from the region, including the Palestinians' Hamas representative, gathered in Beijing for a two-day forum.

I know all about China's ferocious need for oil supplies but there is more here (Hamas has no oil.)

Super Weapons: The End of the World as we know It

Something for you to chew on while chewing on your Memorial Day ribs;

In futures studies, a technological singularity represents an "event horizon" in the predictability of human technological development past which present models of the future cease to give reliable or accurate answers, following the creation of strong artificial intelligence or the amplification of human intelligence. Futurists predict that after the Singularity, humans as they exist presently will cease to be the dominating force in scientific and technological progress, replaced with posthumans, strong AI, or both, and therefore all models of change based on past trends in human behavior will be obsolete.

From Wikipedia: A posthuman or post-human is a hypothetical future being whose capabilities so radically exceed those of present humans as to be no longer human by current standards. A posthuman can also be described as the creature that results from radical human enhancement. In these ways, the difference between the posthuman and other hypothetical sophisticated non-humans is that a posthuman was once a human, either in its life time or in the life times of some or all of its direct ancestors. More here

Why should you care? Superweapons, that's why. Can American minds grasp the concept of post-nuclear weapons?

In 2003, the Program of International Student Assessment (PISA) assessed the level of knowledge of-not of "super-higher mathematics," and not even that of higher mathematics, but of ordinary mathematics for school pupils of 14, "near the end of mandatory school education." Participating were about 250,000 school pupils of 29 countries, including over 5,000 pupils in more than 250 U.S. schools.

The best results were attained by 5 countries, including South Korea (a non-Western country!) and the worst results by 5 countries, including the U.S., which took 24th place among 29 participating countries, which did not include China, Russia, or Arab countries.

Is there a Super weapon?

Imagine the implications of a weapon that could knock out tanks, ships, and planes as fast as the speed of light. The same technology, with modifications, could disorient and even tranquilize military personnel, rendering them virtually helpless in the battle zone.

For more than 50 years, the threat of nuclear war has riveted the world. With the terror of assured mutual destruction, scientists have been searching for new types of weapons that offer the promise of winning battles without the deadly aftereffects of nuclear weapons. More here

But the very phrase "Mutual Assured Destruction," once widely used, has now been forgotten in the West, and hence the forthcoming possession of nuclear weapons in Iran has become a sufficient cause for a (nuclear) attack on Iran.

Let us recall the mathematical perception before the advent in the West of the "higher mathematics" of Newton and others. Before, numbers had been added, subtracted, multiplied and divided. That had been clear. But differentials or integrals? What on earth were THOSE?

Bearden and Weeks think in terms of "higher geostrategy," which involves new superweapons in China and Russia. But today's U.S. political and military establishment does not understand these weapons – what on earth are they talking about? Militarily and hence politically, the Western countries are becoming backward – "underdeveloped" – while China, in alliance and in cooperation with Russia, is regaining its position of the "Center of the World" ("Middle Kingdom").

At the same time, the U.S. military establishment cannot stop the mouth of its retired Lt. Col. Bearden on the plea that he is insane (of which Einstein was also accused), since his U.S. military research background is impeccable.

Lt. Col. Thomas E. Bearden (U.S. Army, retired) is one of the two U.S. high military officers (the other is Col. Byron Weeks, M.D., U.S. Army, retired) who deal with today's "higher geostrategy," in contrast with the Pentagon, the U.S. government, the CIA and the mainstream media,

all of which deal with a fairytale. More here.

There is much I counter (his harsh take on Rumsfeld for example) but politics aside - the idea of genetics, nanotechnology, robotics   entropy, information theory, and moving  towards a technological singularity creates a new future reality with frightening implications;

Bearden's book. Its three "final urgent commentaries" are:

The darkest days in the history of our republic lie immediately ahead of us.

If we are to survive, we shall need the most strenuous and rapid effort in our history, NOW.

God bless and keep America! We pray for its survival.

It is clear that Bearden is not an intellectual anarchist, baiting the establishment. He continues to do what he did in the U.S. Army: Defend America. But defending America requires knowing what superweapons the enemy may have and understanding today's "higher geostrategy."

You and I will have to look more deeply into this .............right now must dash with the kids to a  Memorial Day BBQ where I won't be discussing this as the revelers will absolutely look at me as if I had two heads or more probably see me as something of a  posthuman.

We cannot rely on trial-and-error approaches to deal with existential risks... We need to vastly increase our investment in developing specific defensive technologies... We are at the critical stage today for biotechnology, and we will reach the stage where we need to directly implement defensive technologies for nanotechnology during the late teen years of this century... A self-replicating pathogen, whether biological or nanotechnology based, could destroy our civilization in a matter of days or weeks." - Ray Kurzweil ......More here

Ray Kurzweil justifies his belief in an imminent singularity by an analysis of history from which he concludes that technological progress follows a pattern of exponential growth. He calls this conclusion The Law of Accelerating Returns. He generalizes Moore's law, which describes exponential growth in integrated semiconductor complexity, to include technologies from far before the integrated circuit.

I am sure Israel is all over this (this is so their bailiwick.) And while it all sounds terribly anti-religious  - you can't believe in G-d if you're dead.

Arrested Free Speech in America

Barb writes "Who do we write or contact to fight this?" Indeed, this is America. We are free to disagree, to protest peacefully and express dissent. So why are we taking a page from the Chicoms here?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A heckler from the Falun Gong spiritual movement who disrupted a White House appearance by Chinese President Hu Jintao was charged in federal court on Friday with harassing, intimidating or threatening a foreign official.

A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Washington said the misdemeanor charge carries a penalty of up to six months in jail.

The woman, who entered the White House grounds as a reporter, interrupted a formal arrival ceremony between Hu and President George W. Bush on Thursday and shouted: "President Hu, your days are numbered. President Bush, make him stop persecuting Falun Gong."

The embarrassing episode marred the South Lawn event and created a diplomatic stir. Bush personally apologized to Hu for the incident.

U.S. officials identified the woman as Wang Wenyi, 47, a reporter with The Epoch Times, an English-language publication strongly supportive of the meditation movement that is banned in China.

Spokesman Channing Phillips said she was arrested by the U.S. Secret Service and that the U.S. Attorney's office decided to proceed by filing the federal charge in court. More here

Arrested? Very uncool. Very unamerican. Consider Falun Gong and what she is protesting and this;

There is a horrifying story going around the world: In the northeast of China, thousands of prisoners are being held, so that they can be killed for their organs. The prisoners are practitioners of Falun Gong, the meditation-and-exercise system. The facility at which they are being held — called a "concentration camp" or a "death camp" — is at Sujiatun. Chinese human-rights activists believe that this name should cause the same shudders as Treblinka and the others.

Over at NRO

Of course, "organ-harvesting" is a very familiar story: The PRC has been doing it, with prisoners, for many years. In 2001, the U.S. Congress held hearings on the matter, which caused a sensation. But the sensation died down, as sensations tend to do. Organ-harvesting has gone on, with no negative consequences for the Chinese government.

Organ-selling is a huge business for the Chinese. You can obtain organs in China as you can nowhere else: any type, and very speedily. I also wish to direct you to an article by the tireless Bill Gertz of the Washington Times: here

China and Russia Back Sudan Islamics in Genocide

Can someone please explain to me why we bother doing the diplomatic circle jerk with Russia and China? They are part of the axis of Radical Islamic Evil.
Here is the latest in a long list of disgusting acts of crimes against humanity;

Russia, China oppose sanctions on Sudanese officials over Darfur

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - Russia and China are opposing proposed  United Nations Security Council sanctions against four Sudanese officials over their role in the bloodshed in Sudan's Darfur region, US Ambassador John Bolton said. [love him -Atlas]

Last week the Security Council's sanctions committee began a 48-hour silence procedure which, unless broken by a Council member, would mean approval of sanctions against four unidentified Sudanese officials deemed to be impeding the peace process and violating international human rights law. The procedure ends at 4:00 pm (2000 GMT) Monday.

"We've been advised informally that those delegations (Russia and China) will object under the procedures of the sanctions committee," Bolton told reporters. "In light of that I have asked for a meeting of the Council this afternoon to take up the sanctions issue."

If Bolton wasn't so pragmatic, I'd think him Don Quixote. I mean, really. Next time I see him remind me to ask him, what do you consider a good day?

The sanctions involve an assets freeze and travel restrictions on the four individuals for their alleged role in the Darfur violence, which Washington calls genocide.

The list of four Sudanese officials was submitted more than a year after the Council adopted Resolution 1591, which authorizes measures against people committing atrocities or undermining peace efforts in Sudan's western region.

UN officials are preparing to send peacekeepers to Darfur by the end of the year or at the beginning of 2007 to take over from cash-strapped AU troops, who have failed to restore peace in the vast western Sudanese region.

Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir is strongly opposed to the UN mission.

The combined effect of fighting and a dire humanitarian crisis has left over 500,000 people dead and more than two million displaced, according to some estimates.

Clandestine nuclear deals traced to Sudan  

International investigators and western intelligence have for the first time named Sudan as a major conduit for sophisticated engineering equipment that could be used in nuclear weapons programmes.

Oil-hungry China funds Sudan junta. Almost unnoticed by the outside world, China has become the key player in Sudan's oil industry.

China and Russia engage in joint exercises to strengthen ties.Nearly 10,000 troops have take part in unprecedented joint military exercises here.

Weighed down by the commercial interests of Russia and China and the political allegiances of Islamic and African states, the U.N. Security Council has proceeded at a glacial pace in addressing what the U.N.'s own investigators have called the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Last spring, after two years of bloodshed, it announced meager sanctions that might be applied to individuals responsible for the carnage in Darfur and threatened war criminals with prosecution at the International Criminal Court.

Asserting its diplomatic muscle far beyond the role it has traditionally played, China yesterday blocked a British-American motion at the Security Council to impose targeted sanctions against four Sudanese individuals accused of atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region, where, according to the Bush administration, a genocide is occurring. More here

I wouldn't want these savages on my team, would you. Can we cut out the dog and pony show and start saving some lives for G-d's sake?

UPDATE April 19th: Bolton Presses On With Plan To Halt Darfur Genocide

Iran: Showdown at the Spineless Corral

Oh, to be a fly on the wall here; Condi off to Berlin to meet with the Perm 5

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will sit down with her counterparts from Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany to discuss the deadlocked UN talks on Iran.

The United States confirmed Monday the five permament members of the UN Security Council plus Germany would meet in Berlin on Thursday as efforts continued to hammer out a statement on Iran's nuclear program.

Charles Krauthammer: Today Tehran, Tomorrow the World

Iran: Threatened America with "harm and pain"

VIENNA, Austria Mar 8, 2006 (AP)— Iran threatened the United States with "harm and pain" Wednesday for its role in hauling Tehran before the U.N. Security Council over its disputed nuclear program.

"The United States has the power to cause harm and pain," Iran said a statement meant for delivery at the International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-nation board meeting in Vienna on Iran's refusal to freeze uranium enrichment.

"But the United States is also susceptible to harm and pain. So if that is the path that the U.S. wishes to choose, let the ball roll."

Iran’s secret talks with Iraqi  militants spark fears of proxy war

LAHORE: Iran held secret talks with Shia militant leaders from Iraq and Lebanon only days before the country’s nuclear negotiators threatened America with “harm and pain”, Sunday Telegraph reported. The Iraqi firebrand cleric, Moqtadr al-Sadr and the chief of the armed Shia group Hizbollah in Lebanon, Hassan Nasrallah, held separate consultations with leading officials in Teheran.  

If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves. -- Winston Churchill

Britain pushes for military option to restrain Tehran

I guess Shariah hasn't taken hold yet.
RICHARD BEESTON: BRITAIN PUSHES FOR MILITARY OPTION TO RESTRAIN TEHRAN
I quite agree..............

BRITAIN is pressing for a United Nations resolution that would open the way for punitive sanctions and even the use of force if Iran were to refuse to halt its controversial nuclear programme.

In a confidential letter obtained by The Times, a leading British diplomat outlines a strategy for winning Russian and Chinese support by early summer for a so-called Chapter VII resolution demanding that Iran cease its nuclear activities.

 

If the Government in Tehran refused to comply with such a resolution, the UN Security Council would be legally compelled to enforce it.

The strategy marks a significant hardening of the Government’s position.

Meanwhile,RAN GAVE ISLAMIC JIHAD $ 1.8 MILLION TO KILL ISRAELIS and U.S. OFFICIALS FEAR IRAN IS HELPING AL QAEDA.

Strangely though, Condoleezza Rice confident Russia and China will agree with United States and European Union on pressuing Iran. That, in the face of Russia will not back U.S.-proposed draft statement on Iran - Lavrov(Part 2)

Oh yeah and one more thing, WTF is this?

Iran leader sanctions Iraq talks with US (Reuters)
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday sanctioned talks with the United States on Iraq, saying Iranian officials would tell the U.S. to leave the country.

huh?

UPDATE:China repeats it's in accord with Russia on Iran Reuters

China said on Thursday, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin left Beijing, that Beijing and Moscow are in accord on Iran's nuclear standoff with the West.

Iran Close To Nuclear Fuel Cycle

During the question and answer portion of John Bolton's appearance before the Middle East Forum earlier today, I was tempted to ask when would we say uncle. At what point would America stop the circle jerk with Eurabia and Iran nuclear enablers Russia and China and take preemptive action in Iran.

I didn't. And the reason I didn't was because I knew he wouldn't/couldn't tell me.

Russia and China block UN statement on Iran's nuclear program

UN Council deadlocked on issuing Iran statement

Diplomatic Option Rapidly Fading, Iran Completes 164-Centrifuge Cascade

BREAKING NEWS:

Vital Perspective's sources say that Iran has moved significantly closer to full self-sufficiency in operating a fuel cycle. The IAEA has made it known that Iran has completed the construction of a 164-centrifuge cascade, the minimum necessary for full-scale nuclear-fuel enrichment. While the stalemate in the Security Council continues as a result of Russia's stalling, Iran is moving dangerously closer to the technological point of no return.

UPDATE:  China and Russia Unite in Anti-American Stance During Putin’s Beijing Visit

One Time Communist Rivals Attack Policies of American National Security Strategy; Talk of Oil Pipeline RICHARD SPENCER — The Daily Telegraph

BEIJING — Russia and China marked the arrival of President Putin on a state visit to Beijing yesterday by launching twin attacks on American foreign policy, in a sign of the growing ties between the two former communist rivals.

    Both leaders responded strongly to the American condemnation of their human rights.     America has criticized Russia for hampering democratic development at home and in former Soviet States, and China for its lack of transparency in military spending and its ties to countries with poor human rights records.

    As China emerges from the era when it kept diplomatic silence on most world events, it is increasingly finding itself in the same camp as Russia.

    The European Union has also been disappointed at the joint refusal of Russia and China to join in what it sees as its “middle way” approach to the Iran nuclear issue, with both refusing to countenance the threat of sanctions at the U.N. Security Council. Both have major interests in Iran, and the two countries are thought to coordinate their responses on Middle East policy.

    The two powers also have taken a joint initiative to set up a grouping of Central Asian states such as Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, where America had hoped to boost its influence, called the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

Call me crazy, but if we are waiting on these two sinister members of the Perm 5 (of the Security Council) to assist in the cessation efforts of Iran's nuclear weapon proliferation,  I am afraid we are sadly, greatly, mistaken.

UPDATE: Some U.S. Officials Fear Iran Is Helping Al-Qaeda - Josh Meyer

Russia will not back U.S.-proposed draft statement on Iran - Lavrov(Part 2)

BREAKING NEWS:

Vital Perspective's sources say that Iran has moved significantly closer to full self-sufficiency in operating a fuel cycle. The IAEA has made it known that Iran has completed the construction of a 164-centrifuge cascade, the minimum necessary for full-scale nuclear-fuel enrichment. While the stalemate in the Security Council continues as a result of Russia's stalling, Iran is moving dangerously closer to the technological point of no return.

UPDATE:  China and Russia Unite in Anti-American Stance During Putin’s Beijing Visit

One Time Communist Rivals Attack Policies of American National Security Strategy; Talk of Oil Pipeline RICHARD SPENCER — The Daily Telegraph

BEIJING — Russia and China marked the arrival of President Putin on a state visit to Beijing yesterday by launching twin attacks on American foreign policy, in a sign of the growing ties between the two former communist rivals.

    Both leaders responded strongly to the American condemnation of their human rights.     America has criticized Russia for hampering democratic development at home and in former Soviet States, and China for its lack of transparency in military spending and its ties to countries with poor human rights records.

    As China emerges from the era when it kept diplomatic silence on most world events, it is increasingly finding itself in the same camp as Russia.

    The European Union has also been disappointed at the joint refusal of Russia and China to join in what it sees as its “middle way” approach to the Iran nuclear issue, with both refusing to countenance the threat of sanctions at the U.N. Security Council. Both have major interests in Iran, and the two countries are thought to coordinate their responses on Middle East policy.

    The two powers also have taken a joint initiative to set up a grouping of Central Asian states such as Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, where America had hoped to boost its influence, called the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

Call me crazy, but if we are waiting on these two sinister members of the Perm 5 (of the Security Council) to assist in the cessation efforts of Iran's nuclear weapon proliferation,  I am afraid we are sadly, greatly, mistaken.

UPDATE: Some U.S. Officials Fear Iran Is Helping Al-Qaeda - Josh Meyer

Russia will not back U.S.-proposed draft statement on Iran - Lavrov(Part 2)

IRAN: No Support From Duplicitous China

No Support From China Or Russia on Iran Measure, Washington Post

John R. Bolton, the U.S. ambassador, said he and his European counterparts will continue to press Russia and China to endorse the text Tuesday morning at a meeting of the council's five permanent members. "We're trying to hold the perm five together, but reality is reality and time is an important factor given the Iranians continue to progress towards overcoming their technological difficulties" in developing a nuclear weapon, Bolton said.

Iran Leader: Nuclear Path 'Irreversible'

I can not imagine why we would expect to get any support from the Chicoms, considering they most likely had a hand in helping Iran develop their nuclear technology, thanks again Bubba.

Do we really expect help from a government like this?

CHINA (China Aid Association)
The first trial of the 17 top leaders from a Chinese religious group ended March 3rd, after three-and-a-half days. Inhumane torture, including sexual abuse, was revealed by some defendants during the court trial. CAA learned from a government source that only one relative of each of the 17 defendants was allowed to attend the hearing. One defendant, Mr. Xu, immediately revoked his so-called "confession papers" as soon as the court finished reading the prosecutors interrogation records. He said the listed confessions were signed under enormous torture, when "I would rather die than live." He was hung in the air for five hours after sleep deprivation for five days and nights. Some self-claimed "torture experts" tied his fingers, toes and genitals with wire and then connected the wire to electricity. One defendant was hung in the air with a very thick blanket and then electrified after he got extremely wet.

Iran: It's them or Us. Power is the Only Thing They Understand. That and Tom and Jerry

Iran: Russian, Chinese Officials To Discuss Nuclear Standoff In Tehran

This should  be good, the three evil doers, the three countries responsible for the nuclear standoff are getting to together to "discuss" - translation- to do a jig - to laugh out of their snouts. - Oh to be a fly on the wall at that little kaffe klatch.

So of course it's no wonder that  Russia Still Foresees Iran Nuke Resolution, Uh huh, keep stalling fellas. Got any bridges you wanna sell me?

Iran sets centrifuges to work on uranium Herald Tribune
PARIS:  International nuclear inspectors are expected to report next week that Iran has started producing enriched uranium,European officials said Friday.

Only a month after Tehran defied Europe and the International Atomic Energy Agency and declared that it would restart what it termed "research" on enrichment, it has put 10 centrifuge machines into operation at the vast uranium enrichment plant at Natan

There is no way you can deal rationally with savages. Nyet. So this means what? We have to wait for these barbarians to drop the first nuke? They have made their position perfectly clear. Are we deaf? They are the largest state sponsor of terror. Are we blind? They sponsor Hamas and Hizbollah? Can we not act? The Palestinian Arabs elected Hamas. Having read the Hamas mission statement, isn't the results of that election an out and out  declaration of war?

QUARTET MEMBERS: GIVE HAMAS TIME To do what? Complete Hamastan? Tigerhawk finds Iran's threats comforting, stabilizing in fact here, strangely enough I do too.

You can put any intellectual spin you want on that festering boil. It is what it is. A is A.

Cultural Adviser to Iranian Education Ministry and Member of Interfaith Organization Lectures on Iranian TV:

Tom and Jerry - A Jewish Conspiracy to Improve the Image of Mice, Because Jews Were Termed "Dirty Mice" in Europe here

On February 19, 2006, Iran's Channel 4 covered a film seminar that included a lecture by Professor Hasan Bolkhari.(1) In addition to being a member of the Film Council of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), Bolkhari is a cultural advisor to the Iranian Education Ministry,(2) and active on behalf of interfaith issues.(3)

The following are excerpts from Bokhari's lecture.

TO VIEW THIS MEMRI CLIP, CLICK HERE (uh can I nominate MEMRI for the Nobel Peace Prize? If not perhaps I can chip in for bodyguards...)
   

"Some say that this creation by Walt Disney [sic] will be remembered forever. The Jewish Walt Disney Company gained international fame with this cartoon. It is still shown throughout the world. This cartoon maintains its status because of the cute antics of the cat and mouse - especially the mouse.

"Some say that the main reason for making this very appealing cartoon was to erase a certain derogatory term that was prevalent in Europe."

[...]

"If you study European history, you will see who was the main power in hoarding money and wealth, in the 19th century.  In most cases, it is the Jews. Perhaps that was one of the reasons which caused Hitler to begin the antisemitic trend, and then the extensive propaganda about the crematoria began... Some of this is true. We do not deny all of it.

"Watch Schindler's List. Every Jew was forced to wear yellow star on his clothing. The Jews were degraded and termed 'dirty mice.' Tom and Jerry was made in order to change the Europeans' perception of mice. One of terms used was 'dirty mice.'

"I'd like to tell you that... It should be noted that mice are very cunning...and dirty."

SNOW DAY: HACKTIVISTS ARE HOME

"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul." —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It's a beautiful day..........
The kids are beside themselves, snow day snow day snow day..............New York hit with 26.9 inches --- yowser. It's spectacular though, I am viewing the magnificence of the whiteout  and blogging, ah heaven.
I decided to home school the kids today in Hacktivism. Great piece in today's Wall Street Journal. Taking down

The Great Firewall Of China here

[...] find Freegate, a software program that thwarts the Chinese government's vast system to limit what its citizens see. Freegate -- by connecting computers inside of China to servers in the U.S. -- enables Zivn and others to keep reading and writing to Wikipedia and countless other Web sites.

Behind Freegate is a North Carolina-based Chinese hacker named Bill Xia. He calls it his red pill, a reference to the drug in the "Matrix" movies that vaulted unconscious captives of a totalitarian regime into the real world. Mr. Xia likes to refer to the villainous Agent Smith from the Matrix films, noting that the digital bad guy in sunglasses "guards the Matrix like China's Public Security Bureau guards the Internet."
[....]China also has gotten some U.S. Internet companies to limit the search results they provide or the discussions they host on their Chinese services. A tiny firm Mr. Xia set up to provide and maintain Freegate had to lobby computer-security companies such as Symantec Corp., of Cupertino, Calif., not to treat it as a virus.

In response to China's crackdown, and to restrictions in many Middle Eastern countries as well, a small army has been mustered to defeat them. "Hacktivists," they call themselves.

In other words, Google you can go to hell. The ingenuity of capitalistic mind. I love it. I first reported on this trend and Bill Xia back in January here but Atlas readers already knew that.

Yahoo to Outline Free-Speech Stance

 

DIVEST of GOOGLE STOCK

In light of  alarming events inhibiting the free flow of news and information in China, the most egregious violaters of human rights, Roger Simon calls for divestment. Hear hear

    What to do about the new Axis of Evil?

I'm talking about Yahoo, Microsoft and Google, of course, those three Internet mega-corporations who are actively cooperating with totalitarianism in China.

Google is the latest to prostrate itself before the new emperors.  Timesonline sums it up

go over to Roger's blog here and leave suggestions on how to mount this campaign

... a Google stock divestment campaign.

Everyone who cares about the free-flow of information, about democracy in China, in fact about democracy anywhere, should start selling their Google stock. This should begin most especially with those vast university endowments because academic institutions, of all places, should be most concerned with the censorship of ideas and information. Union pension plans as well should seek to divest as their members should be particularly appalled by the company's restrictive behavior.

I despise GOOGLE for it's terrorist enabling policies here and hate America bias here. Last March Ynet, reported that Google had been running advertisements for the recruitment web site of the terrorist group Hamas, that show up when the word “Hamas” is entered in Arabic: Google advertises Hamas.

And this terror love seems to be endemic to Google, they will include  a Jew-hating site that meets their criteria for being a “news source,” featuring the work of the Jew hating  lunatic Kurt Nimmo: Peace, Earth & Justice News but not one of the best news sources available on the net, LGF? Evil twin google logo from a Typical Joe, here

And YAHOO! was responsible for the Jailing of a Chinese Journalist here. Need I say more?

otay otay, here's more--hold your nose. This from Silicon beat back in October

Google bows to Chinese hegemonic designs

This is really too bad. Google succumbs to Chinese pressure, and lists Taiwan, the less powerful independent country across the Taiwan Strait, as a "province of China" in Google Maps.

As Jeff says, makes you wonder what else Google is doing to win favor with the Chinese.

Taipei Times - archives.

Update: We've read the comments that say Google is doing only the same as the U.S. and many other governments. But hang on. The U.S. State Department's online information on Taiwan at least gives the island its own separate country page. Other online maps simply list the island as ``Taiwan,'' and don't wade into the politics. Taiwan separated from China in 1949 after a civil war, has since been self-governed, and evolved into a stable democracy. So why should Google revert and call Taiwan a province of China? Anyway, here's a good piece (free registration) that runs in the Merc.

I am sure you've noticed I have not and will not carry Google ads..........once they ran ads for Hamas, they were dead.

Google has as its motto "Don't Be Evil" - now that's pathetic.

Over at the Democracy Project, Bruce has an excellent piece Lipscomb: It Didn't Begin With Google ,  “The Real Cost of Google’s Sell-Out To China” in journalism’s main trade paper Editor & Publisher. Read it

“ Isn’t it time Americans and their elected representatives pay more attention to their own cherished freedoms? Aren’t the giant keiretsu companies that control American media too willing to suspend them wherever they interfere with their pursuit of profit?”

Malkin's revised Google logo here, love it

UPDATE JANUARY 27TH; The good news, the rats at Google appear to be suffering;

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com)

Shares of the top search engine have fallen nearly 10 percent in the past week and a half.

Two analysts downgraded Google (Research) to "sell" in the past week, citing valuation.

Some investors are worried about the potential impact of a recent squabble between the federal government and Google. The government has sought information from search engines as part of its attempts to reenact a law to protect minors from online pornography.

The Justice Department has said that several of Google's competitors have cooperated with its request for records. But Google has so far refused to hand over any information, citing privacy concerns. As a result, the Justice Department filed a motion in a U.S. District Court last week demanding that Google turn over random search results.

Finally, Google has also come under fire for launching a version of its site in China which allows the Chinese government to censor search results about topics such as human rights.

All I can say is it couldn't have happened to a shittier group of guys. Keep it up fellas.

DIVEST DIVEST DIVEST! You can't help but notice that Google had no trouble cooperating with the Chi-coms, but refuse to work us (as in  United States)

Want to know more? Go over Pajama Media here.

UPDATE: This is rich

Matt of STUDENTS FOR A FREE TIBET  sent me their jam of Google's logo to reflect the meaning of their partnership with the Chinese government to censor people's access to information inside China.

"Please see Student's for a Free Tibet's blog, Tibet Will Be Free, for some of our criticism and analysis of Google's partnership to spread Chinese propaganda.

We've also launched a campaign calling for Google to end its censorship of searches made through google.cn. Our Action Campaign webpage is here. Please click this link to tell the Google corporate leadership what you think about their hypocritical disdain for the free flow of information inside China."

You go Matt.....kick ass, get names!

 

CONNECTING CHINESE DOTS

Read Dr. Wheeler's latest piece here. It's an eye opener. Excerpt:

It’s an interesting exercise to connect the dots between news stories – especially when the dots are hidden. Take the headline story appearing last Friday, China Gains $60 Billion in Foreign Investment in 2005. Reuters opened the story with this line:

BEIJING (Reuters), January 13, 2006 - China attracted more than $60 billion in foreign direct investment in 2005 for the second year in a row as firms flocked to take advantage of the country's low wages and fast-growing market of 1.3 billion people.

Every news outfit from the Financial Times to the Wall St. Journal to CNN crowed about how “foreign investors” and “multinationals” were pouring their money into China to get a piece of China’s “booming economy.” None of them revealed the story is a sham.

None of them told you that over half of that $60 billion in “foreign investment” is laundered money from China, not foreign investors.

Foreign companies investing in China pay 15% in corporate taxes while domestic companies pay 33%. So Chinese businessmen set up a “foreign” corporation in Hong Kong or some other tax haven and cycle their money through it, saving cumulative billions in the process. The game has been going on for years.

None of these stories told you that Western investment in China has been flat for years. Total Western (Europe-US-Australia-Canada) investment in China was about $6 billion in 1995 and a little over $8 billion in 2004. Last year, 2005, EU countries’ China investment increased by 22% while American investment dropped by 22%.

Chinese FDI from 1995 ($35b) to 2000 ($37b) showed little increase at all. It took off starting in 2000 due to Asian investment (primarily Japan, South Korea, Taiwan) and a tremendous increase in the Chinese money laundry cycle. It doesn’t come from us.

If the story on China’s “$60 Billion FDI” had revealed these dots, you could easily connect them to an item appearing in yesterday’s (January 18) Wall St. Journal: Unrest in China Begins to Worry Businesses. You would think that the “businesses” in question were foreign ones investing in China, right? But all the WSJ reporters talked about were local Chinese companies worried about the impact of anti-government demonstrations in their area.

It never occurred to the reporters that there might be a connection between “the growing number of large-scale violent protests” the article describes and the 22% drop in US investment in China last year.

Directly below this WSJ article was another: Chinese Personal Savings Reach Record Level. Chinese families put an average of 40% of their yearly income in savings – the world’s highest. The article notes that Chinese “put most of their savings in banks.”

What the article does not note is that most of the banks are broke – that is, they have more uncollectable debts than they have assets and loans. This is because the government forces the banks to constantly loan money to state-owned enterprises (SOEs) which will never be paid back.

There are over a quarter-million SOEs employing over 100 million people. The government has to keep the SOE scheme afloat, and it’s doing so with the private savings of its citizens.

Now come the fun dots. Neal Asbury (author of TTP’s Asbury’s World) is going to love this.

The Beijing government has constructed a shell game called AMCs to try and wiggle out of their bank crisis. The Chicoms created a series of “Asset Management Companies” that take over the banks’ bad debts, giving the banks clean balance sheets, then allow foreign financial institutions to purchase a minority interest.

They are driven to do this because China has become a member of the WTO, the World Trade Organization, which obligates it to open its banking system to foreign competition. This is going to result in two things that will bring satisfaction to Neal’s soul.

The desperate move by the Chicoms to scrub their banks clean with AMCs notwithstanding, starting this year Chinese families and workers will be able to put their savings in foreign and privately owned banks paying good interest, prompting them to take their savings out of banks owned by a government they despise and which pays them little or no interest.

Thus the AMC gambit is in Short Run City, and the state-owned banks are soon to be in more trouble than ever.

And it gets worse.

It’s a Ponzi scheme that holds China together, and when it falls apart, China becomes unglued.

The scheme can’t work for much longer. This dot is one reason: China’s portion of consumption for the entire world is 12% of energy, 25% of aluminum, 28% of steel, 42% of cement – and yet China produces only 4.3% of the world’s total economic output.

This is an astounding ratio of economic inefficiency. It cannot be sustained, yet the ratio is getting worse.

Connect all these Chinese dots and you get a dark picture of collapse and chaos. Maybe the Chicoms will be able to finesse their way out of this picture for a while. But they cannot erase the dots. The dots spell out their doom, a doom which they may delay but will not be able to evade.

Thanks Jack

The Axis of Evil: The Ahmadinejad Doctrine

Iranian Expediency Council Chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani noted the importance of expanding Tehran-Havana relations saying both countries must come together to confront unilateralism of “the big power” -- an obvious reference to the U.S.

In a disquieting development, Castro visited Tehran in November where he given sacred Islamic texts in Spanish and was invited by Iran’s religious leadership to convert to Islam. “We spoke to Castro for several hours and I think we even almost managed to convince him to convert to Islam,” said one source close to the meeting. “Castro is certain that the Cuban people are suffering from a lack of spiritually, and seems interested in Islam, above all the writings of Iranian leader Khomeini,” the source said. More here at Front Page

Malaysian: U.S. Scheming on Iran, Syria 

Pakistan to stand by Iran in case of aggression: Kasuri
 
Head of Egypt's rising political force echoes Iran leader, says Holocaust myth

Kyrgyzstan supports Iran's nuclear activity:
.
Venezuelan President Chavez: “The descendants of the Christ-killers” control the world.

and not to be outdone  Russia, China want talks not sanctions on Iran. Russia will fulfil a $700-million contract for the supply of modern air defences to Iran despite an escalating crisis over Tehran's nuclear programme, Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov has said here.

The "Bush Doctrine" stated plainly that there would be  no distinction between terrorists and those who harbor them, Ahmadinejad has stated his intentions plainly. Who is with him? Get your checklist out. The boil off the Florida Coast is festering.

The Iran Charade, Part II - Charles Krauthammer (Washington Post)

• Britain, France, and Germany admitted that their two years of talks to stop Iran's nuclear weapons program had collapsed. This negotiating exercise, designed as an alternative to the U.S. approach of imposing sanctions on Iran for its violations of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, gave Iran time to harden its nuclear facilities against bombardment, acquire new antiaircraft capacities and clandestinely advance its program.
• Instead of being years away from the point of no return for an Iranian bomb, as we were before we allowed Europe to divert anti-proliferation efforts into transparently useless talks, Iran is probably just months away, and now led by a president who fervently believes in the imminence of the apocalypse.
• Having delayed two years, we now have to deal with a set of fanatical Islamists who we know will not be deterred from pursuing nuclear weapons by any sanctions. Even if we could get real sanctions. Which we will not.
• The Chinese in particular have secured in Iran a source of oil and gas outside the American sphere to feed their growing economy and are quite happy geopolitically to support a rogue power that - like North Korea - threatens, distracts, and diminishes the power of China's chief global rival, the United States.
• The Europeans have no appetite for real sanctions either. A cutoff of investment and high-tech trade from Europe would be a minor irritant to a country of 70 million people with the second-largest oil reserves in the world and with oil at $60 a barrel. It is the Iranians who have the world over a barrel. On Jan. 15, Iran's economy minister warned that Iran would retaliate for any sanctions by cutting its exports to "raise oil prices beyond levels the West expects.

Iran confident of escaping Security Council referral
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said there was only a "weak" chance of his country being referred to the UN Security Council over its disputed nuclear programme.

Pakistan to stand by Iran in case of aggression: Kasuri
 
Head of Egypt's rising political force echoes Iran leader, says Holocaust myth

Kyrgyzstan supports Iran's nuclear activity:
.
Venezuelan President Chavez: “The descendants of the Christ-killers” control the world.

and not to be outdone  Russia, China want talks not sanctions on Iran. Russia will fulfil a $700-million contract for the supply of modern air defences to Iran despite an escalating crisis over Tehran's nuclear programme, Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov has said here.

The "Bush Doctrine" stated plainly that there would be  no distinction between terrorists and those who harbor them, Ahmadinejad has stated his intentions plainly. Who is with him? Get your checklist out. The boil off the Florida Coast is festering.

The Iran Charade, Part II - Charles Krauthammer (Washington Post)

• Britain, France, and Germany admitted that their two years of talks to stop Iran's nuclear weapons program had collapsed. This negotiating exercise, designed as an alternative to the U.S. approach of imposing sanctions on Iran for its violations of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, gave Iran time to harden its nuclear facilities against bombardment, acquire new antiaircraft capacities and clandestinely advance its program.
• Instead of being years away from the point of no return for an Iranian bomb, as we were before we allowed Europe to divert anti-proliferation efforts into transparently useless talks, Iran is probably just months away, and now led by a president who fervently believes in the imminence of the apocalypse.
• Having delayed two years, we now have to deal with a set of fanatical Islamists who we know will not be deterred from pursuing nuclear weapons by any sanctions. Even if we could get real sanctions. Which we will not.
• The Chinese in particular have secured in Iran a source of oil and gas outside the American sphere to feed their growing economy and are quite happy geopolitically to support a rogue power that - like North Korea - threatens, distracts, and diminishes the power of China's chief global rival, the United States.
• The Europeans have no appetite for real sanctions either. A cutoff of investment and high-tech trade from Europe would be a minor irritant to a country of 70 million people with the second-largest oil reserves in the world and with oil at $60 a barrel. It is the Iranians who have the world over a barrel. On Jan. 15, Iran's economy minister warned that Iran would retaliate for any sanctions by cutting its exports to "raise oil prices beyond levels the West expects.

Hey Bill, How far Would you Have Gotten in China?

You oughta be ashamed Bill, you oughta be ashamed. Time Man of the Year my ass........

Backlash over blog block

MICROSOFT is under fire for blocking a prominent Chinese blogger, joining a growing list of US companies helping Beijing curtail free speech. Microsoft Shuts Blog From China Microsoft Corp. has shut down the Internet journal of a Chinese blogger that discussed politically sensitive issues, including a recent strike at a Beijing newspaper.

Islamofascist Sudan Major Conduit for Nuclear Weaponry

All that is essential for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke

Let's talk global mental illness,  shall we?  First off,  the following only proves my theory that any tolerated  evil will lead to many great evils. I have been ranting for a year about the genocide perpetrated on the innocent Sudanese on the part of the Radical Islamic government. Raped, murdered, enslaved. So I know you are not surprised that
Clandestine nuclear deals traced to Sudan
       The Guardian

International investigators and western intelligence have for the first time named Sudan as a major conduit for sophisticated engineering equipment that could be used in nuclear weapons programmes.

Hundreds of millions of pounds of equipment was imported into the African country over a three-year period before the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington in 2001 and has since disappeared, according to Guardian sources.

Western governments, UN detectives and international analysts trying to stem the illicit trade in weapons of mass destruction technology are alarmed by the black market trade.

And who is the great benefactor of the Sudanese Government -why,  CHINA OF COURSE. 
Sender of troops? China!  Hmmmmm. I wonder, where oh where,the Sudanese got the nuclear tech......could it have been Chinagate~?
Another gift from Bill Clinton. The gift that keeps on giving - Bill Clinton ...*spit*

More here from No Pasaran on the free pass the world gives to these murderers, child rapists, enslavers;

As the genocide enters its fourth year, the international community continues to defer to Khartoum, or even to suggest that the regime has reformed 
Both the African Union and the Arab League have chosen the genocidal Sudanese regime to host their upcoming summits

Could there be a clearer indication that African and Arab leaders don't care what happens to Darfur?

And the Congress wouldn't give Condi a lousy 50 mil to keep the AU peackeepers there, losing their lives no less in an attempt to save the innocent. Geez..........

UPDATE: UN scales back presence in Sudan's troubled Darfur region nice move

UPDATE January 6th: UN inspectors to reopen Iran nuclear centres

Technorati Tags: terror, news, Radical, Islam, terror, China, Sudan

China is Barzini

US sanctions Chinese firms over Iran dealings
WASHINGTON: The United States has imposed sanctions on six Chinese state-run firms for selling missiles or chemical weapons-related supplies to Iran, a State Department spokesman said today.
The nine companies were punished for violating the 2000 Iran Non-proliferation Act, designed by Washington to block international aid for what it suspects are Iranian nuclear and chemical weapons programmes.


We know that China got important nuclear technology from Bill Clinton in the Chinagate scandal. We also know that China shared it with North Korea and Iran as a counter balance to America's hyper power. We know that China operates by proxy as Iran does via Syria, Hezbollah, Hamas. We know China funds and supports the Radical Islamic Arab barbarians in the Sudan.

We know China is an adversary.

US boycott targets arms sales to Iran

UPDATE: December 29th :China to supply more nuclear power plants to Pakistan

Darfur Sudan: upsurge in killings of civilians, including children, and rape of women

First go here and get educated. Rape and Sexual Violence continue to be used to terrorize. How long can we allow this to go on?

UN report highlights upsurge in Darfur killings
The Daily Star Lebannon Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:53 PM PST

A monthly UN report on the situation in Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region spotlighted an upsurge in killings of civilians, including children, and rape of women during the month of October. The report by UN chief Kofi Annan, which was unveiled here this week, said that despite government pledges to launch joint military and police patrols on highways to improve security.

Is the UN capable of nothing? Annan is worthless.  This must stop. I don't give a shit about what is or isn't PC or what is in our best interest. This must end. What are we waiting for? For everyone to be murdered? Screw China.

China the winner in Sudan

The rebels in the west have recently been observed or implicated in attacks against each other and international aid workers, not just the government-sponsored Janjaweed militias they claim to be fighting against. An African Union (A.U.) peacekeeping mission to Darfur has been ineffectual at best, a failure by design of the United Nations Security Council at worst. The government has pursued genocide by attrition in Darfur by limiting the access of aid workers, continuing to support the militias, and preventing the planting and harvesting of crops in the region. [See: "Sudan's Changing Map

At the same time, Khartoum has curried favor with Washington by cooperating on intelligence issues and moving forward on the north-south peace accords. China has found a natural partner for resources in Sudan, as sanctions prevent most other countries with the means to do so from investing in Sudan's oil infrastructure.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick stepped into this mess last week. He first met with Darfur's rebel leaders in Kenya hoping to heal their internal divisions, then flew to Sudan to help the new power-sharing government get off the ground. After being walked out on and shouted at, he left Sudan with little progress to announce.

China praises achievements of Sudan's National Congress party
People's Daily
The Communist Party of China (CPC) on Wednesday praised the achievements made by Sudan's National Congress (NC) party under the leadership of the country's President Omar al-Bashir since the NC took power in 1989.

Can you believe that? READ IT AGAIN. China praises Sudan's achievements.

UPDATE November 24 More on "The China Century" [the left is quite is obviously quite enamoured of the China. But America is the evil empire]

The Washington Times (hard copy)11/20 edition

Handing out Bibles in China can get you a 3 year prison sentence.
Julia Duin

Religious prosecution in China has reached such a severe point that distributing Bibles is earning a three year sentence. Cai Zhuohua, 34, a Beiging underground church leader was sentenced on November 8th to three years in prison for distributing Bibles.

It's no wonder the first thing Bush wanted to do when he got to China is pray with fellow Christians in a church  -Atlas

More from that same Washington Times issue;

Four Arrests are linked to Chinese Spy Ring In USA Bill Gertz

Four persons arrested in Los Angeles are part of a Chinese intelligence-gathering ring, federal investigators said, and the suspects caused serious compromises for 15 years to major US weapons systems, including submarines and warships.

hmmmm 15 years....... I bet Clinton and Chinagate made it really easy for them - Atlas

US intelligence and security officials it could prove to be among the most damaging spy cases since the 1985 of of John A. Walker.
This spy ring has funneled  technology and military secrets to China in the form of discs. Key compromises include sensitive data on Aegsi battle management systems that are at the core US naval destroyers and submarines.

Notice how all over the MSM is all over this story? Bet you have never heard it - Atlas

"I'm asking you to sign this Call to Action to President Bush today and to spread the word to your friends and colleagues. You will be adding your name to an extraordinary list of signers from the American Jewish community.

The UN is useless. Failed Institution Investors Business daily

U.S. Ambassador John Bolton took a hard line on the world body Tuesday, showing exactly why his contentious appointment was so important. 

Bolton, speaking to reporters outside of the General Assembly hall, said the U.N. should delay passage of its $3.6 billion 2006-07 budget until needed reforms have been adopted.

Bolton's candor isn't the usual refined civility -- and often dishonesty -- that's expected of a diplomat. But then that's why we and others were so insistent that Bolton should be assigned to the post of U.S. ambassador to the U.N., even if     President Bush had to make a recess appointment, an alternative that he wisely chose.

Worse than being merely ineffective -- which it unarguably is -- the U.N. is a corrupt organization. The most recent scandal, in which U.N. officials took kickbacks from     Saddam Hussein to game the oil-for-food program, is more of a grand example of institutional U.N. depravity than it is an exception to model behavior.

Lesser-known scandals include at least 150 charges of sexual misconduct, some of it abuse of children, by U.N. staff and peacekeepers across the world.

It is also shameful the way the U.N. has become a club for the privileged and the connected. Are we the only ones who chafe at the injustice of delegates from impoverished and oppressed nations enjoying all the luxuries that New York City has to offer while they do little -- if anything -- to help their countrymen back home?

The pattern of misconduct could at least be overlooked if the U.N. were an effective organization, if it could stop an unjust war every now and then, halt the occasional genocide or save a few thousand from starvation. But it's no more effective at doing these things than the Kenosha, Wis., Moose Lodge chapter.

Noting the U.N.'s fecklessness and the fact that it has yet to genuinely address its shortcomings with the reforms it promised in September, Bolton indicated that the U.S. could look outside the organization in the future when trying to solve problems across the world.

"Americans are a very practical people, and they don't view the U.N. through theological lenses," Bolton said. "They look at it as a competitor in the marketplace for global problem-solving, and if it's successful at solving problems they'll be inclined to use it."

Well, at least many Americans are ready to look beyond the U.N. Some will defend it to the end.

Still others are ready to give up on the U.N., rip the whole anti-American mess from its foundation and pitch it into the East River.

That's not an entirely unreasonable position, nor one held only by marginal groups. The U.N. has gobbled up tens of billions of dollars, yet can scarcely point to any major successes that it's been responsible for.

The thinking that inspired those bumper stickers that read "Get The U.S. Out Of The U.N. And The U.N. Out Of The U.S." is legitimate.

UPDATE: This is incomprehensible

UN Assembly rejects resolution on Sudan human rights
Reuters via Yahoo! News
A U.N. General Assembly panel refused to consider on Wednesday a European-proposed resolution that would have condemned human rights violations in 

Watch out for Barzini China

You gotta love Bush. While China continues to repress and oppress;

China Reportedly Shuts Down Blog
Press Freedom Group Says China Shut Down Celebrated Pro-Democracy Blog. Dissidents have been arrested under vaguely worded national security laws for posting items critical of the government. On its Web site, the radio station described Wang as an "anti-government Chinese intellectual" who used the blog to fight for justice.

Watch Out for China Jerusalem Post
Oed Tyrah|

China is the greatest enemy of the Western economy and society. The world does not yet sense the full power of its peril, but it will soon become apparent.

The Western world will then awaken from the illusions of cooperation and its sophisticated willingness, as it were, to take advantage of China's latent economic potential. Once again it will become evident that the naivet in the world, and in Israel, has been shattered by reality. Israel, which imitates Europe on this matter, courts openings with the Chinese and pays a socioeconomic price of which we have yet to become aware.

China is a dangerous combination of a totalitarian regime overseeing a selectively open economy. This amalgam enables it to build infrastructure for business at a rate that is unknown elsewhere in the world. Concurrently, the Chinese can open or close their economy to the world, according to their moods and interests.

Western Companies under fire over media controls in China
AFP via Yahoo! News
In their quest for profits, Western companies are selling press muzzling equipment to China, censoring their search engines or blog tools and even passing on information that may help reveal the identity of journalists critical of Beijing, media freedom groups say.

So what does Bush want to do when he visits China on his upcoming trip?

"The president will look for an opportunity to worship with Chinese citizens," the official said on condition of anonymity.

Bush seeks church service in China

AFP via Yahoo! News Fri, 11 Nov 2005 4:46 PM PST
US President George W. Bush would like to attend Christian religious services with Chinese worshipers during his upcoming trip to Beijing, a senior US administration official said.

Love him or hate him, you gotta love him. Smart as a whip.

Photo: ink revolution

In a word....WTF? Chinese Sending Troops to Sudan

WTF...........we know the Chinese are backing the Radical Islamic Sudanese government. Guilty of the worst crimes against humanity- slavery, human trafficking, child rape.....against any and all. Arab against Christian, Arab against Arab, Radical Islamist against Moderate Islamist.

So why is China sending "peacekeeping forces" into Sudan? WTF does China know about keeping peace, human rights, freedom? This is not good, not good at all. From the Strategy page;

China has put together a 450 man peacekeeping force for duty in Sudan.  The unit received special training, and the unit will start moving to Sudan in October. China has been much more active in peacekeeping over the last few years, and sees it as a way to become a bigger player in world diplomacy, and gives its troops practical experience. The Sudan operation is particularly important, as Chinese firms are the major operator of Sudanese oil drilling and pumping facilities.

Update: This is what the Chinese are protecting;

Sudan: Leading Sudanese Human Rights Group Targeted by Government, Amnesty International Warns
Amnesty International has learned today that the Sudanese Government has launched legal proceedings against one of the country's leading human rights groups, Sudan Organisation Against Torture (SOAT), in an apparent attempt to silence the organization

It's not every day you hear a U.S. secretary of state say: "I am about the only person they did not rough up." Condoleezza Rice, when she got a glimpse of the dysfunctional, anti-democratic government of Sudan on her last visit. 

These people are animals.......and the Chinese have their backs. When America goes into a country and really saves lives, we are imperialists. When China or Russia or the French go into countries and wreak havoc (ie Ivory Coast) it's "peacekeeping".

UPDATE October 8th,
They are killing  AU peacekeepers. The very same peacekeepers reporting on the heinous crimes being committed by the Sudanese government. What are the odds any Chinese peacekeepers will get killed? I am betting zero............any takers?

Two African Union troops killed in Darfur-spokesman AlertNet Sat, 08 Oct 2005 12:34 PM PDT KHARTOUM, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Two African Union peacekeepers and two civilians were killed in an ambush in Sudan's south Darfur state on Saturday, an AU spokesman said on Saturday.

YAHOO! Under Fire Over Jailing of Chinese Journalist and other News from Around the Malevolent World

               
This is a banner created by the Argentinian blogger Rubén Benedetti as a part of a campaign because of this.

Information supplied by Yahoo ! helped journalist Shi Tao get 10 years in prisonThe text of the verdict in the case of journalist Shi Tao - sentenced in April to 10 years in prison for “divulging state secrets abroad” - shows that Yahoo ! Holdings (Hong Kong) Ltd. provided China’s state security authorities with details that helped to identify and convict him, Reporters Without Borders said today.

“We already knew that Yahoo! collaborates enthusiastically with the Chinese regime in questions of censorship, and now we know it is a Chinese police informant as well,” the press freedom organisation said.

hat tip: Tim P

Anti-Semitism in Arab Media

Al-Watan, September 2, 2005 (Oman)
The Jew is saying to the world: "....I am extending my hand to peace and he does not want!"

French FM asks Israel to allow Palestinians adequate security

Forgo the Syrup the Ipecac,this will induce projectile vomiting

France's foreign minister urged Israel to allow the Palestinian Authority to adequately equip its security forces and ensure Gaza becomes a viable economy after it leaves the territory within days.

Do these frogs have nerve or what?

UN rebuffs China? Look in the Mirror Boy!

How very strange that the UN should rebuff China's insistence to deal with human fights "its own way".
I mean really. Think about it. It seems to me that the United Nations and China share the exact same malevolent idea of "human rights". Between the child raping UN "peacekeeping forces, the graft, the terror supporting UN doesn't seem all that different than the Chinese human rights abuses and exploitation of their own people.

Any world body that considers the Israelis as oppressors and Palis as victims is in for a hell of alot of woe (as is written in the Bible woe to those that call evil good and good evil)

"..... it seems necessary that both Iran and China upgrade their defense and military technology.''

So while the left continues to Blame Bush and count  his  vacation days (by the looks of it, it doesn't appear to be much of a vacation - seems like he's working from the ranch),the world is going to hell in a handbasket while our enemies conspire against us with the most malevolent of intentions.

Here we have China sending a "military delegation from China" to discusss their "mutual enemies"

Iran, China Eye Military Cooperation   

Iran received a military delegation from China, paving the way for cooperation in the defense field, Iran's Mehr News agency reported, citing Brigadier General Nasser Mohammadi Far, the commander of the Iranian army's ground forces.

 

The Chinese delegation is in Iran for talks on ``developing military relations, deepening bilateral ties and paving the way for military cooperation,'' the state-run Iranian news agency said. The press office of China's Ministry of Defense in Beijing declined to comment on the delegation's visit.

`Our mutual enemies possess advanced military technology, and undoubtedly they would rely on this technology in any possible future wars,'' Mehr News quoted Mohammadi Far as saying. ``Therefore, it seems necessary that both Iran and China upgrade their defense and military technology.''

Do not for one second doubt Iran's intentions as evidenced here;

Iran hails Gaza pullout as Palestinian victory
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran on Thursday welcomed Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip after nearly four decades of occupation, state radio reported.

It was China that gave Iran the nuclear technology and we have Bill Clinton to thank for turning over dangerous  nuclear technology to China.

"How did it come about that highly sensitive technical information was given to the Chinese? Why did the president [Clinton] ignore the national security experts who counseled against this deal? What damage has been done to our national security?" Goss asked.

I accused the President of withholding information and covering up the Chinese theft of super-secret W-88 nuclear warhead technology. Those who possess this miniaturization capability can place as many as ten nuclear warheads on a single missile and aim each at a separate target. A W-88 nuclear warhead weighs only 300 pounds but has an explosive capacity ten times that of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. This is perhaps the most serious breach of national security in our lifetimes — more serious than the treachery of Aldrich Ames who betrayed the CIA, and perhaps more serious  than what the Rosenbergs did in delivering nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union 50 years ago.

We now have evidence showing that the Administration knew about the W-88 technology theft in April 1996. But no one in Congress learned about it until early in 1999 when some of the findings of the Cox Committee came to light. It is also true that the President knew China has already aimed intercontinental ballistic missiles at our nation.

BTW Bill Clinton is running for President again using his wife as the beard.

Bill Clinton's plan for World Domination

UPDATE: Pastorius over at the most excellent Internet Journal of Public Policy
has a must read essay on the China-Russia-Iran Alliance. In his  opinion, China and Russia are using Iran as an unaccountable weapon in the same way states like Iran and Saudi Arabia use Al Qaeda as an unaccountable weapon [and Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas].

Why I Love Jack...........

Dr Wheeler gets it right...........................again

WHY CHINA NEEDS TAIWAN TO SURVIVE
Behind The Lines by Dr. Jack Wheeler

2008 is looming large on the world stage, and not just for us here in America-land. Yes, the year looks likely to see the most exciting presidential race in US history, one between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Condoleeza Rice, which Condi will win. (You can get a “Rice2008” bumper sticker at Rice2008 or T-shirt at AmericansForRice )

And yes, the race will electrify the world and gain its rapt attention. Somehow, however, lots of folks in other places will also focus on events of far more personal importance to them – particularly in China and Taiwan.

2008 is the year of Communist China’s coming-out party, when it hosts the Beijing Olympics. The Chicoms intend to use the 2008 Beijing Olympics as did the Nazis in the 1936 Berlin Olympics – as a glorification of their rule and a demand that the world provide it with the prestige it so desperately craves.

2008 is also the year of the next presidential election in Taiwan. After two terms, President Chen Shui-bian cannot run for re-election. How those contending to succeed him will conduct their campaigns may determine the survival of Taiwan – and of China

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