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Leaders of China, S Korea and Japan meet in Seoul
Post Date: 2015-11-03 05:42:15 by A Pole
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The leaders of South Korea, China and Japan have held their first summit in more than three years, setting aside historical animosities and territorial disputes to focus on shared security and trade concerns. [...] Japan and China have been gradually resuming exchanges following 2012 tensions over the control of disputed islands in the East China Sea. The rift began healing after diplomats agreed to restart contacts last November when Chinese President Xi Jinping briefly met and shook hands with Abe. [...] "I think it's very meaningful for the leaders of the three countries have gathered at the same place," Park said at the start of Sunday's meeting, according to ...
America's Stake in Vietnam
Post Date: 2015-11-01 14:54:36 by nativist nationalist
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It is a genuine pleasure to be here today at this vital Conference on the future of Vietnam, and America's stake in that new nation, sponsored by the American Friends of Vietnam, an organization of which I am proud to be a member. Your meeting today at a time when political events concerning Vietnam are approaching a climax, both in that country and in our own Congress, is most timely. Your topic and deliberations, which emphasize the promise of the future more than the failures of the past, are most constructive. I can assure you that the Congress of the United States will give considerable weight to your findings and recommendations; and I extend to all of you who have made the effort ...
First on CNN: Trump slams Obama over ground troops in Syria
Post Date: 2015-11-01 08:41:31 by buckeroo
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Norfolk, Virginia (CNN)—Donald Trump on Saturday knocked President Barack Obama's decision to deploy fewer than 50 Special Operations forces on the ground in Syria, suggesting the strategy is a half-measure. "I think we have a president who just doesn't know what he's doing," Trump told CNN. "You either do it or you don't do it. Fifty people. He puts 50 people." Trump did not say whether he would deploy more troops to Syria as president, but simply said, "You either do it or you don't do it." The remarks are the first time Trump has reacted to Obama's decision to deploy fewer than 50 Special Operations forces to Syria, which the ...
How Did President Bush leave Iraq
Post Date: 2015-10-31 09:30:26 by no gnu taxes
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With ISIS now running the whole region after the blunders of the Kenyan, it might be helpful to remember how Bush left Iraq: ***************************** 3/17/2009 In most ways, the news from Iraq couldn't be better. People there feel more secure, and are more committed to democracy, than ever. Is it possible that President Bush was right after all? A poll of average Iraqis conducted by ABC News, the BBC and Japan's NHK shows significant progress on virtually all fronts. Yet, we've heard nary a peep about it from anyone. Some 85% of respondents said their neighborhood security was good, vs. 62% a year ago and just 43% in August of 2007. And 52% said security had gotten ...
Should We Fight for the Spratlys? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-10-30 11:45:46 by nativist nationalist
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Trailed by two Chinese warships, the guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen sailed inside the 12-nautical-mile limit of Subi Reef, a man-made island China claims as her national territory. Beijing protested. Says China: Subi Reef and the Spratly Island chain, in a South China Sea that carries half of the world’s seaborne trade, are as much ours as the Aleutians are yours. Beijing’s claim to the Spratlys is being contested by Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines and Taiwan. While Hanoi and Manila have occupied islets and built structures to back their claims, the Chinese have been more aggressive. They have occupied rocks and reefs with troops, dredged and expanded them ...
China's big chess move against the U.S.: Latin America
Post Date: 2015-10-29 14:10:02 by nativist nationalist
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China is making friends right under America's nose. Latin America is China's latest business buddy. Chinese banks increased investments in Latin America by 71% last year, and the country plans to double its trade volume with the Central and South American region over the next decade. This comes as U.S. power in the Americas is starting to erode. U.S. cash is actually fleeing the region as investors see better deals at home or elsewhere. China doesn't appear as worried about the short-term. "What we're looking at is not simply an economic play. It's an economic play that also has political and strategic undertones," says Ilan Berman, vice president of the ...
Venezuela is running out of cash and selling its gold
Post Date: 2015-10-29 13:48:25 by nativist nationalist
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Venezuela is running out of money fast and has started selling its gold. The cash-strapped country could default by next year when lots of debt payments are due. Venezuela's reserves, which are mostly made up of gold, have fallen sharply this year as the country needs cash to pay off debt and tries to maintain its social welfare programs. Venezuela owes about $15.8 billion in debt payments between now and the end of 2016. But it doesn't have enough to make good on its payments. Venezuela only has $15.2 billion in foreign reserves -- the lowest amount since 2003. A lot of those reserves are in gold. Less than $1 billion of Venezuela's reserves are in cash, and it has a couple ...
WATCH: German Citizens Panic, ‘This Is Our Future’ – As Muslims March Through City
Post Date: 2015-10-28 08:36:40 by cranky
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A new video appears to show Islamists marching in the German city of Hannover while at least two girls look on and express their fears. The video, uploaded to various YouTube channels, has had over 100,000 views and appears to show a march that took place last week. The girls can be heard saying: “I thought I was the only one who’s in a bad mood because of this.” “None of us want this. We’re all scared.” “What is this? How will this be in 100 years?” “This is not my life. It just shows you how many of them are here already.” “Now there’s another 1.5 million who came this year.” “Every year 2-3 million arrive.” ...
Iranian Working at US Defense Contractor Is Sentenced for Spying
Post Date: 2015-10-26 13:07:06 by nativist nationalist
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How stupid did Pratt & Whitney have to be to employ an Iranian engineer? Mozaffar Khazaee was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison for attempting to carry sensitive material about the engines for the U.S. Air Force’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and F-22 Raptor as he left for Iran. He was arrested at the Newark International Airport in January 2014. Khazaee was raised in Iran and entered to this country to attend the University of Oklahoma, later earning a doctorate in mechanical engineering from New Mexico State University. Interestingly, Washington doesn’t mind thousands of foreign students from unfriendly nations studying technology and other useful subjects. Literally ...
Leaders: EU could fall apart over refugee crisis
Post Date: 2015-10-26 11:26:07 by Tooconservative
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The straw which broke the European Union’s back might be the refugee crisis. Things reportedly got pretty tense in Brussels during an energy summit, causing The Guardian to report the EU could completely fall apart. Miro Cerar, the Slovenian prime minister, said the EU was days from collapse as his country buckled under an “unbearable” influx of migrants. “If we do not deliver some immediate and concrete actions on the ground in the next few days and weeks I believe the EU and Europe as a whole will start falling apart,” he said. Werner Faymann, the Austrian chancellor, said Sunday’s meeting would “either consolidate the unity of ...
Paul Ryan's policies kill jobs in his district
Post Date: 2015-10-26 10:08:40 by nativist nationalist
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Paul Ryan’s free-trade policies have just cost the people of his district their jobs. General Electric announced it will close the plant in Ryan’s district that manufactures gas engines and move the operation to Canada. This is fine with Mr. Ryan. He has taken the European Union principle of the free flow of people, goods and capital across borders and adopted it as his own worldview and philosophy. President Obama praised Ryan for his stand on immigration and trade, policies that would make it easier for global corporations to import people or products from overseas without worrying about pesky things called national borders. As chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, ...
The Myth of Basic Science
Post Date: 2015-10-26 10:03:13 by tpaine
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www.wsj.com The Myth of Basic Science Isaac Newton (1642-1727) uses a prism to separate white light into the colors of the spectrum, watched by his Cambridge University roommate John Wickins, right, as rendered in an 1874 print. Innovation is a mysteriously difficult thing to dictate. Technology seems to change by a sort of inexorable, evolutionary progress, which we probably cannot stop—or speed up much either. And it’s not much the product of science. Most technological breakthroughs come from technologists tinkering, not from researchers chasing hypotheses. Heretical as it may sound, “basic science” isn’t nearly as productive of new inventions as we tend to ...
The Times of Israel: Netherlands and Israel, a Marriage of Cannabis
Post Date: 2015-10-26 08:34:55 by Operation 40
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Netherlands and Israel, a Marriage of Cannabis Clifton Flack | The Times of Israel Reporting from a 5 day fact finding mission in the Netherlands exploring the medical cannabis program and the players in the industry, together with Saul Kaye, our CEO and Jason Ryker, our CFO/COO. Since we announced our partnership with Israel’s Cannabis Medical Unit and our subsequent postponement of the CannaTech Summit until March, we find ourselves with the time opportunity to investigate interesting markets and build new international relationships. Our trip began with a walking tour of the tourist Coffeeshops, where legal recreational cannabis is sold ‘legally’. During the week we ...
'I'm sorry': Historic moment Tony Blair FINALLY apologises for Iraq War and admits in TV interview the conflict caused the rise of ISIS
Post Date: 2015-10-25 04:34:01 by Tooconservative
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'I'm sorry': Historic moment Tony Blair FINALLY apologises for Iraq War and admits in TV interview the conflict caused the rise of ISISFormer PM makes the confession after 12 years of refusing to apologiseBlair says he is sorry for his conduct which has now led to 'hell' in IraqSays there is an element of truth that the war caused the rise of ISIS Comes after Lord Blunkett revealed he had challenged Blair about the war Tony Blair has finally said sorry for the Iraq War – and admitted he could be partly to blame for the rise of Islamic State.The extraordinary confession by the former Prime Minister comes after 12 years in which he refused to apologise for ...
Memo To Merkel: “Refugees” = Rape
Post Date: 2015-10-23 10:30:31 by nativist nationalist
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It’s a simple truth but apparently Europe’s elites can’t grasp it: letting Muslim “refugees” into a First World society means epidemic rape. Already, as of three years ago, immigrants, mostly of Muslim descent, were responsible for about 50 percent of the rapes in three Italian cities. [52% of rapes in Rome committed by immigrants, 59% in Milan, 40% in Italy, by Daniel Greenfield, FrontPageMag, December 26, 2012] Now Norway, Sweden, and other nations have also been ravaged by Islamic rapists and even honor killings. [Germany: Muslim father strangled daughter to death in ‘honour killing’ after she shoplifted condoms, by Tom Porter, International Business ...
Hungary’s Viktor Orban Warns Europe That Foreigner Invasion Cannot Continue
Post Date: 2015-10-23 10:23:02 by nativist nationalist
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Prime Minister Orban has been a rare voice of sanity in the mass delusion now afflicting European elites. In July, he remarked that “Europe is at stake… The question now is not only what kind of Europe we Hungarians would like to live in. Rather, will all that we now call Europe exist at all?” Hungary moved to shut its borders from the tsunami of unfriendly foreigners by building a fence in September, which resulted in rioting by the “refugees.” Mr. Orban appeared this week in a meeting in Spain. The clip of his remarks below has a screw-up in the middle, but he ends up with a sensible observation that you can hear: “Europe is not able to accept everyone ...
Vladimir Putin accuses US of backing terrorism in Middle East
Post Date: 2015-10-22 21:23:39 by buckeroo
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Russian president Vladimir Putin launched a stinging attack on US policy in the Middle East on Thursday, accusing Washington of backing terrorism and playing a “double game” in the Middle East. In a speech at the annual gathering of the Valdai Club, a group of Russian and international analysts and politicians, Putin said the US had attempted to use terrorist groups in its own interests. “It’s always hard to play a double game: to declare a fight against terrorists, but at the same time try to use some of them to move the pieces on the Middle Eastern chessboard in your own favour,” said the Russian leader. “There’s no need to play with words and split ...
IRAN GOES DEEP WITH GROUND TROOPS IN SYRIA
Post Date: 2015-10-22 20:21:10 by nativist nationalist
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While the government of Iran is officially denying it has deployed ground troops in Syria, Iranian media is reporting that more than one dozen Islamic Revolution Guard Corps officers have died there in the past three years. Among the most recent four high-ranking casualties was Brigadier General Hossein Hamedani, reportedly killed in fighting near Aleppo. “According to Iranian media, 18 high-ranking IRGC officers have been killed in Syria in the past three years,” writes the BBC. “But the killing of four in just one week – particularly one just before a major offensive – implies that Iran may be more involved in the war than it has previously acknowledged.” ...
Anti-German Media Demands Germans Who Protest Islamic Takeover On Facebook Be Arrested
Post Date: 2015-10-22 20:15:10 by nativist nationalist
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Supporters of the PEGIDA movement rally in Dresden It’s not enough that German politicians are telling their constituents they need to be replaced by Muslims. Now, the ostensibly German media is actively encouraging the abolition of free speech and government action against people who disagree with them. As you can tell from the tone of the coverage below, even reporters outside Germany are salivating over the possibility of criminalizing dissent. Germany’s top-selling Bild daily Tuesday documented racist vitriol against migrants posted by Facebook users in a double-page newspaper spread, as pressure grows on the social network to eliminate hate speech. On Monday, ...
First on CNN: American killed as hostages rescued in Iraq, sources say
Post Date: 2015-10-22 13:24:19 by redleghunter
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About 70 Kurdish hostages rescued in an operation involving the U.S. military "faced imminent mass execution," the Pentagon said in a statement Thursday. A U.S. service member was killed -- the first American combat death in Iraq since November 2011 -- in the operation at a prison of the Islamist militant group ISIS near Hawija in the northern province of Kirkuk. Click for Full Text!Poster Comment:Thought Zero got us out of Iraq.
Chicoms Ban Golf Club Membership
Post Date: 2015-10-22 10:17:29 by Willie Green
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Golf clubs are often seen by the Chinese public as places where officials cut shady dealsThe Chinese Communist Party has banned all 88 million of its members from joining golf clubs, in its latest update of party discipline rules.Extravagant eating and drinking, and abuse of power, are also formally banned, said Xinhua news agency.The party has in the past warned its officials to refrain from extravagant dinners and purchasing moon cakes using public funds.China has been conducting a strict anti-corruption drive since 2012.The new rule on golf states that members are banned from "obtaining, holding or using membership cards for gyms, clubs, golf clubs, or various other types of ...
An American Defense Worker Writes On Korea, Donald Trump, And His Harvard Korean Questioner
Post Date: 2015-10-21 13:17:57 by nativist nationalist
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Donald Trump is really on to something with his understanding of the National Question. Recently, Donald Trump had an interesting exchange which shows just how ahead in thinking The Donald is about America’s problems than other politicians, especially cuckservatives like Jeb Bush. One of American’s longest-running problems is the situation on the Korean Peninsula. I served in the military in Korea, my father served in the military in Korea, and my father’s uncle served in the US Army during the actual Korean War. The Korean in the video is Joseph Choe, a student at Harvard. I’ve transcribed the important part of the exchange and it is below: You can watch the ...
Netherlands to Muslims: Don’t Come Here Please!
Post Date: 2015-10-21 12:51:50 by nativist nationalist
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Some Hollanders would like these guys to go to Copenhagen, where the nice sign-holding-up weather is nice. Curiously enough, some Dutch people would prefer that Islamic “refugees” move along to Denmark and made a nice little film to about that point. The Dutch apparently think Muslims would be happier in Denmark — so thoughtful of Netherlands folks to care!
Uruguay: Syrian Refugees Complain the Hospitality Is Not Adequate
Post Date: 2015-10-21 12:44:29 by nativist nationalist
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On September 7, Syrians demonstrated in Montevideo with their demands for exit papers to move to a wealthier nation. How many Syrian refugees are too many? For tiny Uruguay (population 3.3 million), that number would be 42. The five Syrian families welcomed into the Uruguay community last year have managed to turn off the entire country with their rude, demanding behavior. (Syrians have similarly made the impression in Europe that they are hard-to- satisfy grifters looking for a handout.) Particularly troublesome has been Merhi Alshebli, a man with one wife and 15 children. He complained that he couldn’t afford to feed his assorted progeny and doused himself with gasoline during a ...
Merkel Desperately Kowtowing to Erdogan
Post Date: 2015-10-21 12:37:56 by nativist nationalist
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From the BBC: Haste for migrant deal shows Merkel under strain Gavin Hewitt Chief correspondent 20 October 2015 In politics you can sometimes gauge the level of panic and fear by the speed with which previously held principles are set aside. So with the migrant crisis. Some open borders have been suspended, governments are contemplating talking to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, long denounced as a brutal dictator, and a deal is being hastily concluded with Turkey, widely held to be an increasingly authoritarian country. … Angela Merkel has called her decision to open Germany’s borders to refugees a “historic challenge” – but she is no longer in ...
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