Sunday, August 09, 2009
China Charges Mining Giant with Giant Conspiracy
Click here for the story.Taliban Factions Fighting Each Other
Good news.
Pakistani Taliban are killing each other.
The terrorist group is in turmoil following the death of its leader in a CIA missile strike--which the Taliban denies as having happened.
Click here and here for the stories.
But the Monitor's Tom Peter reports the power vacuum could benefit Al Qaeda.Will Inflation Make Gold the New Global Currency?
Anthony Rowley reports from Tokyo:It's party time again, it seems, in world stock markets and revellers are beginning to sound as though the financial crash and the global recession were nothing more than a pause for breath.
Yet the 'ghost at the banquet' is the gold price which, at near US$1,000 an ounce, is an unwelcome guest to have around just when it seems the good times are ready to roll again.
Even as advanced and emerging equity markets hit their highest level for the year on Monday of this week, the gold price continued its upward climb and reached US$955 an ounce. What's more, even those investment managers who do not normally display a tendency toward hyperbole said it would hit US$2,000 an ounce soon and could go on to reach US$3,000.
So, what is the gold price trying to tell us from the elevated heights where it stands sentinel nowadays over securities markets? Presumably that all is not well with the current state of the world, and that things are not what they may seem to be in the investment universe.
Continue reading here.Typhoon Triggers Mass Evacuations in China
Nearly one million flee....
Worst flooding in Taiwan in 50 years....
Click here for the story.IRGC Demands Mousavi's Arrest and Trial
Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps wants to put Mousavi on trial. Read about it here.
In the meantime, Iran's police chief admits arrested protesters were tortured--click here--as the fascist regime reveals its true face by pressing ahead with a mass show trial.
Those on trial Saturday included a French woman lecturer and Iranian employees of the French and British embassies in Tehran.
The European Union and Britain condemned Iran for putting on trial French lecturer Clotilde Reiss and the two embassy employees.
The Swedish-led EU presidency said actions against one EU country, citizen or embassy staff member are considered an action against the entire bloc. It demanded the detainees be released immediately.
France urged Iran to free Reiss and French embassy employee Nazak Afshar. The French Foreign Ministry said the espionage charges against the two are baseless.
Charged with Espionage
Britain's Forein Office criticized Iran for trying British embassy employee Hossein Rassam, who also faces espionage charges.
Reiss is charged with espionage for gathering information about the protests, taking pictures and sending them abroad. The state-run IRNA news agency says she confessed to her "mistakes."
Rassam also is said to have confessed that he reported news about the unrest to London.
An Iranian correspondent for the U.S. news magazine Newsweek was also among the defendants at Saturday's trial.
More than 100 detainees were brought to court one week ago on charges of organizing mass protests and plotting to overthrow the government.
Iranian authorities have arrested thousands of people in a continuing crackdown on opposition activists and protesters.Kissinger Examines Fallout From Bill Clinton's Rescue Mission to Nuclear-Armed North Korea
Henry Kissinger writes:Amid the widespread relief that American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee have avoided the brutal fate meted out to them by a North Korean court, it may seem captious to consider the long-term implications of President Bill Clinton's trip.
The impulse to save two young women from 12 years of hard labor in a North Korean gulag is powerful. Yet now that this goal has been achieved, we need to balance the emotions of the moment against the precedent for the future.
Continue here.Typhoon Bears Down on China
People along eastern China's coastal region are bracing for Typhoon Morakot, after the storm lashed Taiwan, leaving at least six people dead or missing.
Authorities in China's coastal provinces say about 500,000 people have been evacuated. Schools were closed and flights canceled in the region.
Weather forecasters expect the storm to weaken as it moves inland.
The storm hit Taiwan late Friday. More than half a million homes lost electricity. Roads and air traffic were paralyzed Saturday. Officials say the typhoon caused millions of dollars in agricultural damage.
Before hitting Taiwan, rains and wind from Morakot triggered flash floods in the Philippines, killing 12 people, including three French tourists and two Philippine nationals Thursday.
A landslide Friday killed at least 12 miners and injured many others in northern Luzon, near the city of Baguio.
Typhoons normally strike the Asia-Pacific region between July and September.Global Warm-Mongers Escalate Propaganda War
The earth is cooling, has been for decades; yet, the disinformation drive is intensifying. The new line is that manmade global warming (a myth) is a threat to U.S. national security. Click here for the story.
The hysteria serves several purposes. First, it fuels the crippling cap-and-tax push; second, the scare-mongering diverts attention from the Islamist threat.Saturday, August 08, 2009
A Great Working Class Newspaper is 90 Years Old
In case you missed the anniversary, America's great working/middle class newspaper is 90 years old.
The New York Daily News is the fifth most-widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States. Its circulation was 632,595 as of June 13, 2009.
The first U.S. daily printed in tabloid form, the News was founded in 1919, and as of 2007 is owned and operated by Mortimer Zuckerman. It has won 10 Pulitzer Prizes.
This reporter worked for its (long gone) Sunday Magazine, contributing cover stories on assignment soon after graduating from journalism school.Question of the Day: Apart from Appeasing Rising, Radical Islam, Does the US Have a Foreign Policy?
One wonders: apart from appeasing and attempting to align with right-wing political Islam, also known as Islamism, or radical Islam, does the United States have a foreign policy?
The collapse of the Soviet Union should have ended the Cold War for once and all. Instead, the U.S. seems to have gone out of its way to antagonize Russia in ways that recall both the Cold War and the Great Game, and feed the country's traditional fears of encirclement.
Ditto for U.S. relations with China: U.S. backing for separatist movements in Tibet and Xinjiang has needlessly reinforced Chinese Communist (in name only) Party leaders' suspicions that Washington still seeks China's dismemberment.
Click here for an important article about an issue that both reflects and highlights the sorry state of U.S.-Russian relations.Bolton Predicts Israeli Attack on Iran This Year
Friday, August 07, 2009
Israel Ready for All-Out War with Hezbollah
China Confidential has learned that Israel is prepared to adopt World War II rules of engagement in a new, defensive war against Hitlerian Hezbollah, Iran's Islamist, Lebanese proxy. CNN rules--restraining the military in order to cater to Islamist-leaning pundits and politicians--will no longer be considered.
Comments by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak--click here--should be read in that context.
There will be no more handicapping or hesitating, or second-guessing, sources say.Hamas Launches Longer-Range Rocket
Hitlerian Hamas fired two rockets into the Mediterranean Sea near Gaza on Thursday in order to test a longer-range version of the terrorist group's favorite weapon, the Kassam rocket.
The Islamist group--an Iranian proxy--fired the rockets to test their capabilities, Israel's daily Ma'ariv reported.
The new Kassam reportedly has an increased range and could strike farther into Israel.
Hamas has fired thousands of rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip since 2002, killing and wounding numerous civilians. In a three-week war with Israel last January, Hamas' rockets reached Israeli targets as far away as Beersheva, Yavneh and Kiryat Gat.China Executes Former Beijing Airport Chief
Read about it here.
Rising China is plagued by massive corruption.More Alarming Airbus News
Click here for the latest report.
Too many problems, puzzling developments, near misses--and catastrophic crashes.
Sunday, 9 August 2009
China is accusing Rio Tinto of engaging in giant, six-year, commercial espionage conspiracy.
Updating our earlier report on Typhoon Morakot....
Another Chinese big shot bites the dust. The former airport head was convicted of graft, and executed.
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